The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

Mrs. Wilson, aged 60 years, the wife of Thos. Wilson,
park-keeper, Carr-house, at Stainton, near Tickhill, was
killed by the accidental• discharge of a loaded gun which
she was removing in her own house on Saturday. She
died instantly.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, last Saturday,
a barrister at the Temple was indicted for an indecent
assault on a girl, in Hyde-park. It transpired that the
whole charge was a fabrication, having been concocted by
the mother of the girl!
The Wellington statue was on Tuesday removed from
Mr. Wyatt's studio, in the Harrow Road, to the site
selected for its reception, temporary or permanent, as the
case may be, at the triumphal arch, Hyde Park Corner.
The removal was accomplished without any accident.
The match at chess between Mr. Staunton and Mr.
Harrwitz is virtually deoided. In the 19th game Mr. S.
gave the Dawn and two moves, and yet won in admirable
style. Thus the English player has in point of fact car-.
Tied the day, having won two matches out of three.
The scullers'. contest between Thomas Coombes (the
brother of the champion of the Thames) and Frederick
Lett, of Lambeth, for £5O, came off on Wednesday after-
noon, and resulted in favour of Coombes, who won by
about 250 yards.

Throughout the Isle of Man the crops may now be said
to be safely housed. Wheat and barley are said to be
average crops ; but oats are extremely d-ficient and light
in weight. Grass was never more abundant at thi3
season, and turnips are good every where. Potat es, as
a mattor of course, are very bad.

A child, named George Chapman, on Wednesday week,
was found hanging from a beam in an out-house at Dray-
cott, Cheddar, He had wished to visit Draycott fair that
morning, but was requested by his 'parents first to bait
the horse. He was afterwards observed crying, and with-
in a short time was discovered hanging, and quite dead.
The harvest-home of the hop-pickers has been gene-
rally celebrated in Herefordshire, and it is a pleasing sight
to witness wacgon-loads of industrious women and girls-
returning from the scene of their labours with hop-poles
for flag-staffs, and handkerchiefs for colours floating in
the breeze.

A few days since, two butchers, at Cambridge, depo-
sited stakes of £l5 aside. He who could scald, dress,
and clean two 10-stone pigs in the best style, in the short-
est space of time, to bedeelared tl)e winner. The pigs
were killed in fifteen minutes and ten seconds by the

gainer of the water

110 BBERY.-

On Ttlesday information was received of a

rocket book, containing, among other property, numerous
Dutch bank notes to the value of nearly 1:590, whilst
travelling, between eight and nine o'clock, in a second
class carriage of the London and Blackwall Railway.

Puonicious.TßV-13.—Tbe largest piece of oak timber
ever seen in Brecon passed through that town last week.
It contained 230 feet of timber ; two carriages broke under
its weight, and it was at length conveyed on rollers over
the pitching of the streets, by the united efforts of sixteen
hors-s and a number of men.
THE PREASANT SEASON commenced on Thur
the London markets, and many of the principal poulterers
exhihited pheasants for sale, although they were-scarce and
insufficient for the demand. Prime young birds made
from (is. to 7s. and Bs. a brace, and small and inferior

day, and

INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.— From the report wM
learn that in the metropolis, on spaces of ground which
do not exceed 203 acres, chsely surrounded by the abodes
of the living, lacer upon layer, each consisting of a popu-
lation numerically equivalent to a large army of 20,000
adults, and nearly 30,000 youths arid children, is every
year imperfectly interred ! Within the period of existence
of the present generation, upwards of a trillion of dead
must have been interred in these same spaces.-11-ledical
Gazelle.

CONFIRMI/D. PAUPERS.-011 Friday, eight able-bodied.
young men, but extremely filthy, were charged at the
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work in the morning. It appeared that they belonged to a
class who spent their whole lives in workhouses anti
prisons. They were committed to Brixton, some for
fourteen and some for forty-two days.
GAS—WC have this week had an opportunity of inspect-
ing an apparatus, for the mai-a-facture of gas, on a small
scale, made by Mr. Sarson, bra.zier and Ras-fitter, St.
Nicholas street, for lighting his own premises ; and it is
of a most compact and simple construction. Mr. Sarson
informs us that he can make gas-at 2s. 6d. per 1000 feet ;
and as he intends supplying the surplus heat for warming
his warehouse and workshops. with hot water, and at the
same time taking into consideration the circumstance of
doing the cookery, baking, ro-sting, &c., for his
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with the same fire, the cost will not exceed h
1000 feet. The gas produced is of excellent quality

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the apparatus, which is simply and easily managed, may
be purchased at a small expense.—Leicester Jt,urnal.
Cuale.us AFFAlR.—Yesterday week an inquest was
hold on the body of a man named Marsden, at Wolviston,
Durham. A post mortem examination had been made,
but nothing could be discsvered to satisfy the jury as to
the immediate cause of death, but it was thought it had
been caused by something, poisonous taken at the mouth
of a deleterious nature, possibly miasma. The locality
of the premises has bean examined, and it seems perfectly
healthy, heing open to•the green in the village, and there
being nothing there likely to cause disease. The whole of
Marsden's family, six b number, have been during the
last three weeks wasting away, and reduced to perfect
skeletons. Four children, including the deceased, have
died, and the parents ate now lyin

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FALL OF A MAZiUFACTORY, AND Los
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing the inhabitants of Burfield were alarmed by a loud
crash, followed by, cri-s for aid, occasioned by the felling
in of a building used as a rope mat manufactory. The
building consisted of one large room on the basement,
and another immediately over it. From 10 to 15 persons
were usually employed in the upper room. In the rear of
the fac'ory is. a plot of ground, which Las been excavated
to a considerable depth for building purposes. and the
wall of the manufactory next to the excavated ground
having given way, nearly the whole building fell into the
hollow. The bodies of a man and a girl, bosh quite dead,
were afterwards dug out of the ruins. It has been aster,
tained that there were eleven persons at work in ihe ma-
nufactory when the accident occurred—namely. four men.

LIFE.-

Nine out oftlienum

The Baron de Bode, whose claims on the British three women, and four children.
Government were to the amount of nearly a million ster ber are more or less injured.
ling, suddenly fell and expired on Friday. Toe baron PARLIAMENT AND THE MINISTRY.—An impression
was in his seventieth year, and has left three sons. His is still abroad that Parliament will be summoned for the
death is supposed to have been accelerated by anxiety despatch of business early in November. Reports are
consquent on the prosecution of his claims. also afloat that Sir Robert Pet-l's recal to Windsor to
On the 24th ult., two men, named Lowther and Atkin- meet Lord John Russell was an attempt to pitch up
son, had a fight at Ulverstone, when the latter was shortly some kind of coalition which shall bring the late Premier
after found dead, No bruises could be found on him. back to office. " There is," says the Slondard, in
and as the surgoirsaid that death had been caused through italics, "an intrigue in proows, by which Sir Robert
congestion of hlood on the brain, by means of much ex- is, if possible, to be jerked bock into "In this
ci'emeut and the influence of liquor, Lowther was ac- conspiracy," adds th Dublin Evening Packet, "we are
quitted. told some of the present, Ministry, though not all. are
It is said that despatches from Ireland, received in Lon- implicated, and Peel's immediate friends are so confident
don on Thur,clay, were calculated to give great uneasiness of success, that they boast of his beim Prime Minister on
to the government. There is evidently a spirit of violence the Ist March next, if not before. We give thi. --
and outrage abroad, which must be repressed in the coo- merely for what it may be worth, nut setti-

rumour

g much value

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it upon it; but it is right to add that the Standard vouches
g its accuracy in every respect." Nor do we set much

upon it, and therefore we

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say nothing further