The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

thief has
THE MURDER NEAR HEBDEN BRIDGE
persons apprehended, Helliwell and Green,

s yet been obtained

has been discovered to
hrow further light on the murder. A reward of £lOO
has been offered by the Home Secretary, and another of
£2O by the turnpike trustees, for the discovery of the

and nothing

murderer

A disease, somewhat akin to that which has overtaken
the potatoes, is manifesting itself strongly amongst the
young woods in Roxburglishire. The larches are.dying
fast, and other descriptions likewise. In the Duke of

BuCeleuch's plantations'in Teviotdale, Eskdale, and Eve(

the havoc is very great, threatening to destroy many
woodlands altogether.

The freedom of the burgh of Inverness was presented
on Thursday last to Lord Gough. In reply to an address
of Provost Simpson, the noble and gallant veteran said
his military successes had been very signally aided by the
valour of Scotchmen, and his first triun

in the field
vas as a Lieutenant of Light Infantry in the 78th High-

landers

A favourite magpie had been accustomed to receive
dainty bits from the mouth of its mistress. The other
day it perched, as usual, on her shoulder, and inserted
its beak between her lips, not, as it proved, to receive,
for, as one good turn deserves another, the grateful bird
an immense green fat caterpillar into the lady's

dropped
mouth !

Henry Denham, who was taken into custody in Lon-
don, on suspicion of being concerned in the outrage and
robbery of Mr. Cureton, of the Brritish Museum, has been
committed for trial for a somewhat similar outrage, in the
open air, upon an artist named Thomas Miller. At pre-
sent there is not much evidence against Denham in the
case of Mr. Cureton.

The Duke of Athol came to fisticuffs the other day with
a young Cantab who vas passing (the duke said trespass-
ing) through Glen Tilt. His Grace also nearly came to
blows with the Provost of Perth, because the latter would
not remove some ladies from seats on the railway plat-
form, to which they had been conducted for the purpose
of welcoming the arrival of the Queen.
PERVERSIONS.—The Church and State Gazette gives
an account of the reception of several late members of
Margaret's Chapel into the Franciscan order of Father
Oakeley's Chapel, at Islington, on the festival of Saint
Francis. They were invested with the habit by a Capu-

chin monk in .a
coarse woollen dress, with a rope round
his waist, a large beard, and bare feet.
A young gentleman named Parke, a pupil of the Rev.
P. Claugliton, rector of Elton, went with a fellow pupil
to the river, on Tuesday afternoon week, for the purpose

, . . .
of shooting water hens. Having killed a bird, which fell
on the opposite bmk of the river, and being unable to
make his dog fetch it, he himself entered the water, but
was swept away by the stream and was drowned.
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On Monday, as the railway train was proceeding be-
tween London and Windsor, a spark from the engine set
on fire the muslin dress of a lady, seated in an open car-
riage in which were about twenty passengers. She was
enveloped in fl --‘t. but t'

Imes in a moment,
monmora ciirraprird i

he prompt assist-
enching them be-
though all her

fore she sustained much

personal injury

garments were destroyeC

- INCENDIARY FIRES.—The Cambridge Chronicle, of
Saturday, contains the particulars of three more incen-
diary fires—two at the village of Stretham, in the Isle of
Ely, and the third at Haddenham. The latter was at the
cottage art shoemaker named Wheeler, who, after giving
a very unsatisfactory account as to the cause of the fire,
left home, and committed suicide by first cutting his
throar, and afterwards throwing himself into a fish-pond,
where his body was found the following morning.
A CHECK TO INCENDIARISM.—CoIoneI Cartwright, of
Floore House, Oxon, has suggested that farmers who in-
sure should have the insurance plates fixed to their rick
yards so as to show the incendiary that he can inflict no
injury even if he should cause the
_whole yard to be con-

He also expresses an opinion that it would bring
more grist to the mill of the insurance companies to have
the insured stock thus distinguished, as the un-insured,
feeling themselves more exposed than their insured neigh.
bours, would insure also.

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ANOTHER GLEN TlLT.—WeregrettolearnthattleDuke
of Rutland's keepers have received instructions to prevent

persons from visiting the celebrated Druidical remains
historically named "the Druids' Pulpit," situate near
Stanedge Pole, Yorkshire, on the plea that it. would dis-
turb the birds. This celebrated spot has been the resort
of antiquaries, naturalists, acid artists for ages, yet now,
forsooth, they are to be warned off, lest they should cause

a few grouse to take wing. Several parties on their way
to the place have been stopped during the last few weeks.
A desperate assault was committed at Bath, on Thurs-
day night, upon the landlord and landlady of the Queen
Square Tavern, by a ruffian named Wallis. He was
quitting the house, and the landlord having insisted on
the payment of his bill, he assaulted him with a razor,
cutting him dreadfully in the head and face. The cries
of the wounded man having brought his wife to his
assistance, Wallis attacked her also, inflicting on her
several severe wounds. The scoundrel was taken into
custody. From a document found in his possession, he
is described as " Ogle Wallis, gentleman, of King-street,
Covent-garden, London." £4 Is. 7d. was found in his
possession.
On Tuesday night the parsonage-house of the Rev. W.
Mudge, at Pertenhall, near Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire,
was burglarious!), broken into by a gang of armed ruffians,
disguised with their shirts over their clothing, and their
faces blackened. The fellows made use of horrid threats,
and having secured the family in one of the upper rooms
proceeded to ransack the premises. The fellows also
regaled themselves with bread, meat, fruit pie, and several
bottles of port wine, carrying off £2OO worth of silver
plate, some money, and a Church Missionary box, which
has since been found in the church-yard broken open and '
rifled of its contents. The thieves effected their entrance
through the larder window.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT EXETER.-011 Monday even-
ing, as the Half Moon omnibus was proceeding to the
railway terminus, with three gentlemen inside (there be-
ing no conductor). a fellow jumped up behind, into the
place which the omnibus conductor usually occupies, and
demanded their fares, alleging that he did so in order to
save confusion at the station, The passengers gave him
sixpence each, when he immediately disappeared. On
their arriving at the station, the driver demanded their
fare, and, on being told of the occurrence, informed them
they had been cheated, there being no conductor to the
'bus. The gentlemen were, therefore, obliged to pay
again.—Devonshire Chronicle.

-THE Two HEROINES.-Sir John Franklin, the hero of
the Arctic expedition. has been twice married. For his
first gallant adventure the late Lady Franklin worked the
standard which he was to plant in the dreary regions of
the North Pole—a deed worthy of a Spartan dame ; but
the courage and fortitude which she displayed in the con-
templation of his departure failed her when the moment
of parting came. She sank under the trial of separation,
and on the very day on which he raised the standard, he
received the intelligence cf her death. The name of the
present Lady Franklin is as " familiar as a household
word" in every bosom in England : she is alike the ob-
ject of our admiration, our sympathy, our hopes, and our
prayers.

JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.—The
announcement made by the Times of the Commissioners
from America representing the Atlantic and Pacific Junc-
tion Company having effected arrangements with our
leading capitalists for accepting at the proper period a
proportionate interest in this project, has been a topic of
conversation during the past week. The Commissioners
were Messrs. White and Vanderbilt, and the houses here
who have entertained the proposal are understood to be
Messrs. Rothschild and Messrs. Baring Brothers, and
other influential parties. Under these circumstances
there is every prospect of the undertaking, when the ne-
cessary surveys shall have been completed, being pushed
to a successful issue. The prospect of England and Ame-
rica joining heart and hand in this wonderful enterprise is
an event of momentous importance, especially since it is
known that the plan of operations will be sanctioned by
both .governments.

COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF THREE MAIDENS.—A
most daring burglary was committed at Mallon Cottage,
situated about a quarter of a mile from Abbotskerswell,
Devon, on Monday evening last. The proprietor was
absent, and had left the care of the house to his three
daughters, who had just retired to bed when they heard a
noise below, as of some persons breaking into the house.
The eldest of them, about 14 years of age, immediately
jumped out of bed, struck a light, which she gave to her
sisters, and arming herself with two pistols, walked down
the stairs followed by her two sisters. On entering the
parlour they found everything in confusion, papers lying
about, and the desk rifled. The burglars fled on the en-
trance of the girl, and the young lady with the pistols
jumped from the parlour window into the lawn and fired
both pistols after them. The thieves had stolen some
money, papers, and plate, but, being eager to get off,
dropped some plate in the lawn, which was recovered
again in the morning. Two suspicious-looking fellows
were begging at the house in the morning, but they have
not yet been apprehended.—Sherborne Journal.
A BURGLAR BEATEN OFF BY A FEMALE.—A southern
paper states, that a young woman, Miss Prior, of Led-
pard Millicent, was aroused from her sleep, at two
o'clock on the morning of yesterday week, by hearing
the breaking of glass in a room adjoining her sleeping
apartment, and almost directly after her bedroom door
' was opened, and at the same moment a glare of light
came in upon her face ; she jumped out of bed and closed
with a man, who gave her a severe blow on the eye,
which laid her prostrate. After a violent struggle with
the miscreant, she gained her footing, and ran to her
bedroom window, opened it, and called out murder
repeatedly. This act of hers appears to have alarmed
the wretch, who ran back to the window by which he
entered the house, and holloaed out, "Jack Francombe."
While he was looking out, Miss Prior ran up behind him,
and, taking him by the heels, threw him head foremost
out of the window, which was about twelve feet from the
ground, where she saw him fall; he got up, bestowed
some dreadful curses upon her, and walked away. The
burglar has since been captured. He is described as "a
labourer, siz feet high, and of most forbidding aspect."