The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

been raised by ti

in the several per
from a hand press, which had been given

ns wirc

impression of the new press was laid on by Dr.
M. P., and was taken off by Dr. Bateman, of the
Office, London, in the presence of a !-
friends; after which about 200 ladie.

ge numter of
gentlemen sat

down to luncheon, under the presidency of Dr.
Lees, a teetotal lecturer. In the evening of the someday,
about 500 persons, of both sexes, took tea together, in the
saloon of the Music-hall, in Leeds, at which Dr. Bow.
714,P., Dr. Batemen, and other gentlemen attended.

ring, iv

A PRETENDER EXPOSED.—A most extraordinary
scene occurred on Thursday evening at the City of Lon-
don Literary and Scientific Institution. A gentleman
(Mr. O'G,) who styled himself " B.A. M.D." was en-
gaged by the managers to deliver two lectures on the
" Use and Study of History." lie delivered the first of
these lectures on Wednesday the 24th ult., and as many
of the members discovered "a marvellous coincidence"
between that and the introductory lectures of Mr. Me
Cullagh on the same subject, two of the committee, with
tdhoewnseci‘riert.ari‘y of the
lecuiiag
hs institutionork
la
st wereev inducedeninz,to ascertaint o bring
the correctness of their surmises. They then found that
the lecture he was delivering was a literal transcript front
one contained in the work before mentioned. At its con-
clusion he was charged by the secretary with the servile
plagiarism he had endeavoured to impose on the mem-
bers. This he faintly denied, and im!xtueddieianteeel,ytimilandee.whuie
le had been highly
"'• ^^
hboyfthrehicoomi. Mirt'ienre hof'Sussex Hall, wherehe
had delivered le the samecture some time previously.
The or . ..

lost in t.

be precincts of

ficers of the institution can verify these facts.

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—George Clarke, one of
the metropolitan police, a division of which has lately
been extended into the royal districts of Ess'x, was mur-
dered on the morning of Tuesday week, while on his beat
—a desolute and unfrequented road near Dagenham. Ha
was met by the inspector at one o'clock that morning,
• - iis-

appearance excited considerable alarm. search was
made, and late on Friday evening his body was found ly-
ing in a ditch about a quarter of a mile from the road, in
a potato field, where he could have no business except in
the pursuit of some person. A policeman's s-aff was first
und, and then his cutlass st;- ,e

—gs sucking in ..dge. His
throat was cut in several places, and there was a deep cut
at the back of his neck, extending to the spine. The
forefinger of his left hand was alsp cut through. The
struggle with the deceased must have been of a desperate
nature, the corn being trodden down ten or twelve yards
the body lay, and when it was discovered it

round where

its money

and watch were safe

He is said to hay

n a quiet and

inoffensive man, and had not long been in
hood. An inquest was held upon the floc

ghbour-

Saturday

afternoon, when such evidence was

to lead to the apprehension of the murderer
ticulars are not published lest the ends of
be frustrated. It is supposed that he was

but the par—
t tice might
aistaken for

ourhood.

ame division
back from Fairlop

be rfprce

than thirty
year_ by