The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

favourite son

The Rev. Canon Bowles, one of our own poets,
and whose controversy with Byron may be recollected by
many, died at Salisbury on the 7th inst., at the advanced
age of 89.

-On Tuesday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a
fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Carpenter, Moss's-
alley, London, by which Mrs. Carpenter, wife of the
owner of the property, lost her life.
The inhabitants of Malvern formally resolved, at a
public meeting held on Tuesday last, that the town should
not be lighted with gas, on the ground that it might be a
nuisance to the visitors.
Nearly all the provincial journals notice every week the
departure of numbers of respectable farmers and others

on their way to America and other places, to seek the
" protection which is denied them here.
The bodies of various persons, men, women, and
children, have been cast up. during the week, by the sea
on the coast near the scene of the disastrous wreck of the
Royal Adelaide.

The death of a young female in the Agapemone, or
Abode of Love, near Bristol, has occasioned much ex-
citement, but it appears that she died of an affprtinn of

Sir E. Knatchbull has closed, for three years, his im-
mense and magnificent mansion at Mersimm Hatch, in
Kent, his diminished rent-roll not allowing him to keep
it up.

Major Richard Henry Tolson, who had been a prisoner
'le Queen's Bench. Prison for upwards of eighteen
was on Friday discharged by order of the Insolvent

rs' Court

x, a drunken labourer, hung h

on Sunday last. He left behind him a piece.
of paper, referring to a verse in the Proverbs, which de-
clares that the drunkard shall come to poverty.
The Rev. Edward Roberts, curate of Kingswood, near
Bristol, has been presented by that congregation,:on his
-fence of the curacy at Hales Owen. near Birming-
, with a splendidly bound copy of Scott's Bible, in
six volumes.
A cuckoo made his appearance near Dorchester on the
3rd instant, an unusually early arrival ; the well-known
cry of this bird, according to Bewick, not being commonly
heard before the middle of April, and ceasing at the end
of June.
A second detachment of the ein;---- '

....grants selected by Mr.
bert's committee departed on Wednesday by
- bound to Port Adelaide and Sidney. The
of about 30 young women, nearly all of

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the apprehension of the Rev. Thomas Smeeton, chars
with the embezzlement of £2,000 belonging to the share-
holders
of the Suffolk Building Company, in connection
with which he held a re,-

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At Exeter, on Tuesday. week, Captain Elwes, late of return from Newport, where she had been to purchase
the 12th Foot, was thrown from his horse and fell heavily
sge When she was missed a vigorous search was in-
upon ; and on examining a wood adjoining the Bassal-
arm and another the thigh, from which injuries he died upon some iron rails, one of which penetrated the right titutoods
leg road her body was found in a dreadfully mangled state.
on the following Saturday. The jaw-bones were fractured, and the eyes literally
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While Captain Grant, R.N., was hunting, on Saturday knocked in E
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WOMY" PRINCIPLE.—e observe in the
week, with
with him into the a
wood. He came Essex Union Foxhoundsin con , his
tact with a horse galloped
Hereford Journal a notice of a petition to Parliament
by which his neck was dislocated, and he died almost ,
from the guardians of the union praying that, in conse-
immediately. quence of agricultural distress and the poor 1,--

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A cow, the property of Mrs. H. Jones, of Blainddol, being now thoroughly understood, they may be relieved
from the " grievous imposition" of paying £101,914 per
died lately, and after it was opened two calves were found
in a state of decomposition, and two snakes, measuring annum out of the taxes to the poor law staff at Somerset
upwards of twenty inches in length, were discovered be- House. They trge that this heavy expense may at
tween the calves.— Carnarvon Herald. least be greatly reduced, if not entirely abolished.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eno While a man named White was killing a pig at Brid-
land-
has decreased from £17,078.935 to. X 16,935,762, lington, Yorkshire, last week, he was annoyed by some
" '143,173. The paper in actual sir- boys, and threw an old besom at them. in order to drive