The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

SATURDAY.

On Saturday Mr. Whiteside applied to have certain
amendments made in the postea, by inserting therein that
the jury had been allowed to separate from day to day,
arid by such alterations in the words as would make it
strictly in accordance with the finding of the jury. After
some discussion, the court declared that they would not
hear any motion grounded upon points already decided on.
Sir C. O'Loughlin said that he had fresh points to go
upon. He intended, first, to take a technical objection to
the caption of the indictment, and next he would object to
the first n unts, as bad for duplicity. He would also
object that all the counts were too general and vague.
He prayed the court to allow him until Monday.
The Attorney-General protested against being a party
to any further postponement of the arguments upon an
indictment found so far back as November last. If the
traversers' counsel did not proceed until Monday, it would
be difficult for his learned friend, the Solicitor-General,
in the hurry of sending for books of reference to the
library, to see the accuracy of the authorities which they
might quote.
Sir C. O'Loughlin having undertaken to furnish that
evening a list of the authorities by which he meant to
support his views, the court consented to postpone the
hearing until Monday, (yesterday.)

The total of repeal rent received during last week, in-
cluding £376 from America, was stated to be £6OO.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident
took place in Lisburn, on Wednesday last, in a brewery
there. A man servant and maid, by some mischance fell
into a boiling keeve ; medical aid was immediately on the
spot. The girl expired soon after. The boy still remains
in a dangerous state.—Belfast Chronicle.
CONVICTIONS IN lIIGH LIFE.—Lady Galmoy and
her venerable mother were fined ss. each on Sunday morn-
ing by Mr. Magee, for having been found drunk in Tho-
mas-street the night before, and in default of payment re-
ceived tickets of admission to Grangegorman-lane Peni-
tentiary for 24 hours.—. Dublin Freeman.
EXECUTIONS.—On Saturday, James Hickley, convict-
ed of the murder of Haniy, at Green Hall, and John
Cooke for the murder of Nowlan, at Roscrea, underwent
the last sentence of the law at the front of our county goal.
Hickley was a stout man, apparently about 36 years of
age, was married, and had no children. Cooke was
but a young lad, whose education had been altogether
neglected for he could neither read nor write, and was
scarcely more than twenty. At five minutes past one, the
unfortunate men appeared on the drop, when Hickly de-
clared his innocence of Hanly's murder; that he had
neither hand nor act in it; that he was never concerned
in a robbery nor in the taking of fire-arms ; that he forgave
his unjust prosecutors ; and concluded by saying. " God
be with my company at Newport. Boys pray for us.
May the Lord have mercy on my soul." The unfortu-
nate man ceased to exist without even a struggle. Cooke,
the younger of the two by many years, appeared less firm
than his companion, declared his guilt, and acknowledged
the justice of his sentence, and said that there was no one
else concerned in the murder of Nowlan but himself and
Maylor. And after the drop fell he appeared to suffer
much his body being frequently agitated with convulsive
throes for seven or eight minutes.—Nenagh Guardian.