The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

scaffold with a very firm
ale, but, b

eyond that, be-

trayed no emotion or fear. It was observed, however,
that as the executioner was adjusting the rope, a shivering
ssed his frame, while his chest heaved convul-

spasm cr

After being suspended the usual time, the body

was cut down.
THE TEA TRADE, DEC. 31.—The deliveries of the
year are estimated at 41,000,0001b5. for home consump-
tion, and 5,000,0001b5. for exportation, showing an in-
crease on home consumption of about 1,750,0001b5., and
on exportation of 1,000,0001h5. The stock on hand is
estimated at 39,500,0001h5. for the United Kingdom,
against 37,500,0001b5. at this time last year, and the pre-
sent price of Congou is Ild. per lb. against Is. to ls. id.
at the close of last year. A roost experienced party, sum-
ming up the transactions of the year, gives these figures,
which are, however, not official. The lowest quotation
of Congou was, in September, 9d. to 9d. per lb.

ATTEMPT TO AssAs
nl-.—On Friday last an attempt was made tc
Charles Louis de Bourbon, commonly called the Duke of
Normandy, who professes to be the son of Louis XVI.
and rightful heir to the French throne. It is alleged that
his life has been twice before attempted. The duke oc-
cupies a large mansion, called Mulgrave-house, and he
has placed himself at the head of a company of artisans,
with whom he occupies himself in manufacturing novel
instruments of warfare. He was employed in a lathe in
Isis workshop, on Thursday evening, when a gun, or
blunderbuss was find through the window opposite which
he was sitting. It was subsequently found that the bul-
let had passed within on inch or two of his head and
through the hoards at his hack into the kitchen garden.
A BOY SHOT.—At the petty sessions for the north di-
vision of Aylesford, on Friday week, Charles Rand and
George Blake, two boys aged 14 and 12 years, were char-
ged with shooting William White, aged 13, on Christmas
Day. Blake and Rand, who had a gun with them, were
quarrelling with White, when the latter kicked Blake, on
which Rand said to Blake, who was carrying the gun,
" You had better shout him." At this White became
alarmed, and ran off; and when he had proceeded about
two or three rods, Blake fired and hit him, lodged 23 No.
3 shot in his head, none of which could then be extracted,
and, in consequence, the prisoners were remanded until
Friday, when they were brought before the magistrates,
and again remanded, as the surgeon's evidence leads to
the conclusion that it will terminate fatally.
ACCIDENTS ON THE Ica.—On Christmas morning,
three boys, two of them brothers, named Eaglestone,
sons of a tailor at Wardlington, the third named Green,
were drowned by the breaking of the ice on which they
were sliding, in the neighbourhood of Banbury. On Fri-
day, the 10th ult., whilst a number of persons were as-em-
bled on Chetwynd Pool, situated in the park of the High
Sheriff of Shropshire, four young ladies were immersed
by the sudden breaking of the ice, and one of them, Miss
Chalmers, aged 23, was drowned. A boy, named Strettili,
was drowned the other day, whilst sliding on the Lancas-
ter canal, near Garstang. At South Queen's-ferry, Scot-
land, on Friday week last, three boys, who had gone on a
quarry pond to slide, were let in hi, the breaking of the

DUKE OF NORMAN-

ssassinate

ice, and drowned

'ItOFF.SSION A 1

return to the census of 1841, under the head " clerical
profession." contains 14,613 clergymen and 8,930 minis_
ters and clergymen. The number of barristers, advocates.
and conveyancers, was 2,373 ; attorneys, solicitors,