The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

cavalry regiments, both
ior 12,000, at the price

heavy and light. The contract is
of £25 per horse for the light ea-

•
valry, and £2B for the heavy troops,—cuirassiers, carabi-
' ---,nos, artillery, &c. Before they are sent off
- -vamined by experienced regi-

veers, dragoons, artillery, Sct
they will be thoroughly

mental veterinary snrg,

3f the French army, who

come over to this country for that purpose. In conse-
quence of this demand there is scarcely a vessel that
arrives from Ireland which does not bring over from 30 to
50 horses of the very best breeds for this particular ser-
vice.—Times.

days ago, in the columns of a London paper:—" To
Elderly Gentlemen. A young lady of highly respectable
connexions, rather.above the middle height, of an amiable

disposition, agreeable temper, &c., is desirous of forming
a matrimonial engagement with a gentleman (from deci-
ded preference) some twenty or thirty years her senior.
To one of sensible mind, whose tastes and disposition
resemble her own. and who could conscientiously, having
no fortune of her own, offer her to share with him the

refinements an

uxuries of

ife in exchange

ful society and undivided affection of a confiding wife,
this advertisement, which is of no common character,

may be appreciated, but it will require an explanation
before it can lose tse truly unfeminine cast it must ac-
quire in the eyes of its readers. It is requested no gen-
tleman under fifty, and none from idle curiosity, will

made and courted, and inviolable secrecy imposed and
relied on ere an interview be granted. Address, with
real name, &c."
SHOCKING MURDER IN ESSEX.—An inquest was held

at Itomford on Friday, on the body of a female child, four
years of age, named Elizabeth Plail, whose throat was cut
by its own mother on Wednesday, under most extraordi-
nary circumstances. On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Plail
was seen, through the window of her house, to take up a
razor from the table, and call the child to her, and, taking
it in her lap, to cut it across the throat from the right ear
round to the left. She then chucked the child up nearly
as high as the ceiling, and rolled it down again upon the
floor, under the sofa. She then tossed the razor at it,
and went and sat down on the sofa. She pulled the child
from under the sofa, and took it up a second time, and
threw it up again to the ceiling, and then it rolled behind
the door. She afterwards came out into the yard at the
back of the hou

Id called to one of the witnesses,
" Bill, Bill, fetch a policeman, for I have killed Margaret."
She was described as having been passionately fond of the

child, almost worshipping-it, and as being unhappy and
diseased in her mind, a medical gentleman having attended
her for hypochondria, which he ascribed to a diseased
liver, during the last fortnight. There is no doubt of her
insanity.

BURIED AND RETURNED AGAIN.—The Sun supplies
what it calls " a suspicious case :—Early in the year 1842,
when the cholera was mowing clown a plentiful harvest in
Glasgow, Mr. —, a clerk in the employment of a well•
known firm in that city, complained one evening of symp-
toms which seemed to give him some uneasiness as to
his fate. Next day be was later than usual in appearing
at his desk, and just as his employers were about to send
to his home to inquire into the cause of his detention, his
brother called to inform them that he had been taken ill
over night with the cholera ; that he had died at an early
hour that morning, and was already buried. Cases of
this kind were so common that no further question was
asked. Shortly after his death, his employers discovered
that he had embezzled money belonging to them, to a
considerable amount, although the precise amount of his
peculations could not be readily ascertained, owing to the
ingenious manner in which he had (to use a railway
phrase) "cooked" his accounts. Some property which
he had left behind him was applied to make good his de-
falcations, to the amount of £1,500 ; but there was rea-
son to believe that the total sum misappropriated by him
considerably exceeded that amount. Immediately after
his death, his brother deposited £l,OOO in notes with a
Scotch bank. It was known to those familiar to him
that the deceased brother was very fond of new notes,
for which he always exchanged old ones whenever an op-
portunity afforded. This occurred eighteen months ago.
On Sunday, the Ist instant, a man, with overgrown
whiskers and portentous moustache, appeared in the
church, a shDrt distance from the pew occupied by the
family in question. Service had scarcely commenced,
when this personage observed the two boys whom the de-
ceased had taught, whispering earnestly to each other,
with their attention rivetted upon him. He no sooner
observed this than he became very uneasy, and after the
first psalm had been sung, closed his book, and walked
out of the church. Since that time he has neither been
seen nor heard of. It is thought that this must have
been the presumed victim of cholera, and what has been
buried as a substitute for his body is about to be sub-
jected to an exhumation.—[The Glasgow papers, which
ought to be well informed, throw discredit on this story.]