The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

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put up her right arm, and the knife was buried in it instead
1
of her throat : they then hurled the unfortunate old woman
down on the floor, and seizing a spare bed which was in the
room, placed it over her to smother her, upon which she
said she would give them her pocket, and again implored
them to spare her lift'. The ruffian, however, with a bitter
sath, declared that they had put her there to murder her,
and that they were determined to do•so. One of them
then jumped upon the bed, and kept pressing his knees into
her bowels until she became senseless. Atter which they
proceeded to rifle the house of an antique silver watch, four
gold rings, sonic breast pins and brooches, some sheets, and
other articles, having burst open the drawers and boxes;
after which they left the house, thinking their victim was
dead, but in order to put an end to her if any life should
still be remaining they placed a large and heavy box upon the
bed under which she lay. Most providentially, however,
after some hours, Mrs. limit recovered her senses, and after
considerable difficulty, having succeeded in extricating her-
self from under the bed, crawled down stairs, and gave the
alarm, and upon the arrive! of a Mrs. Cam, the wife of a
neighbouring farmer, she was found in a most exhausted state
in the kitchen, in almost perfect nudity, with the exception
of a blanket which was wrapped round her. Medical aid
was immediately sent for, and the poor woman still lies in a

very precarious state.
In the course of the night she was alarmed by bearing a
noise sof some persons breaking into the house, and, hav-
ing got out of bed and opened the window, looked out, and
saw three men in the garden, under her bed room window,
endeavouring to force open the shutters. She then demanded
what they wanted, and shrieked out " Murder !" In reply,
they swore at her, and, seizing some large stones, hurled
them at her with all their might, as also a water-jar which
was standing at the door. Being bruised and cut by the blows
of the stones, she retired from the font window, and went
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and went io another window, where she again tried to give
ati:eslaielacrionulbdy. l.ocalling
ri out "murder! several times, as loudly
this window also she was driven back by
large stones thrown at her. During the whole of this
period two of the burglars continued their attempts to
force the window,
openand having at length succeeded,
one of them got through it, and let in the two others by

the door.
Superintendent Ililcott, of the county of Gloucester police.
immediately set an inquiry on foot; and from Mrs. Hunt';
description, Sergeant Ireland, in the course of the Sunday
afternoon, succeeded in apprehending the three men, and
found in the pocket of llama; Watkins a penknife, as
had de-cribed. They were yesterday afternoon examined
the cottage before Mr. Ireland, a county magistrate, and
and id
h icing been brought to the poor women's bedside en-
tified by her, tc, re committed for trial. The old lady was
completely covered with bruises, and the marks of her blood
were distinctly visible on the window-sills of both the wio_
them to proceed front some of the law_
ere heard
dows. It is remarkable that her cries of murder w
distinctly by a shepherd living at a distance of a quarter of a
in a
night brawl, he took no further notice. Illislec,lbiat Ctuel)ristfutlhe neighbout hood who were engaged
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i distance
hinted
tstiej:t osft
banish_hai
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the clattering of two rival blacksmiths preva.ilreedipoytatueoa,eahnO
A nervous old Yankee, whose lire was mnaptirtisiist mwpiiaisigezr,,ha buireriebadsl
thent to remove, by the offer of n liberal pecaniary
sat ion. When the money wasp aid down, he kindly cieinaqrrendf
what neighbourhood they intended to remove to.
‘B7‘. :rsl'rWhy,s;o tu i Tour
iiSr:T"!itri.lel2l npelline'oehrudie2coljstlnr:ty!scini;olata:Yr
ti'diisisteeliye,aal_di: grindcondemned
t; eoiieuinexile modesv
dinegimariortinn.fronltlielis
rights of a citizen, and forfeited all kinds of property.
but, if no fine was nnePd"sgd, its
mtoaosktearss- n
Sen-
tence of relegation removed the person to aiacmer,totai
from Rome;
•Tihtat 1
other right. Deportation was invent] y Augustu,s,
the severest kind of banishment. Tie en!
away in chains. stripped of all property, and confined to some
island or inhospitable pilce.♦
Louts MoLnsivonni s AccOUT OF DENMARK
_
ambassador complained of it to King Will
is a book
that dans, one of his Danish Majesty's subjects had taken
England,dwiti'
author's
head. would
upon comp .
which' may be alw
Ding
ff,
is,ftrheea
cannot do," replied William, " but, if you please I will tell
hint what yon say, and he shall put it in the next edition of
such libertir..snsist•iitihartehelakKeirni
Isis hook.''— The 1)brIor.
discovered
in the ground excavated_ for the northeru railroad
ANTILWATUAN ritlZE.—There has just leen
Prhoifi. t. The
Danish
railroad, between
S. Leo d'Essevens and Montalaire, a girole of solid gold,
rought to imitate a cord, having a hook at each end. The
weight of this object is 342 grammes,i,, and the gold is valued
weight
at 8801. It was found within ..1 feet of the surface, and no
other article was discovered near it. M. II aubigaut, mem_
ber of the eouneil•general of
_the Oise, paid the workmen
it up to him, th
Beauvais t° having it
deposited either in the Museum of or the Biblio-
of Paris. It is supposed to belong to the Gail_
cheque Royale
• d about Julius Crew s time.
fish perro ,
handsomely for giving
The quantity o f brie
ks made in
BRICKi.-- Great Britain
• • Iby the excise; but, no duty being charged
as registese(liPon
no account of thequantity
aeni in Ireland, we have . , land
there. The number made in Eng and Scotland resoe,
litrerent periods within the present cent '
tively, at t i ury, has
seen as follows : , 1
5 291 789
1802 .. 698,596.901 • • '- ' S• • 713.888,743
950,547,173 .. 11,i6,5,552 ..
1811 .• 969,312,755
1821 .. 899,173.510 .. 14,1)52,590 .. 913,231,100
1831 .. 1,125,462.408 .. 27,586,173
..
1,153,048,581
18 .. 1,427,472,263 .. 27,,411,87:1_ • • 1,454,884,137
9 1 569 020,952 .. 42,287,634 .. 1,611,288,585
18393 .• , • 7 821 599
1840 .. 1,677,811,131 .. 4 , , .. 1,725,632,M
.1841 .. , , ,
1 423 794 267 .. 38,463,308 .. 1,462,257,575
• rise observable in the later years is, no doub
The great MCC , • 1 .
it se incr.:lse of manufactori -t,
owing in greate":- to
tu
tion of railroads Ind es, and very
recently f° the "Ist' ''carried on 'f
other public
to a ar •
w'
nail have,.eu . s ,
greater extent
works,
•naily in land than in . cotland. It will be
Prol"" ' 1 of bricks in Great Britain has more seen
that the annua use than
wesent century and that
doubled within the 1
~:
• t of this Mews., has occurred since 1821, the
greater par and 1810 having
difference between that year
._ been more than
800,000,000, early
or is .
90 per cent.—Porter's Progress of
thl'shed
3d rot just in I •
MURDER
the Nation,
'WUHAN ACCOON'i OF THE OF slit .w.
MACNAUGOTEN•— We take the following from the Calcutta
Star of the Bttt April. It is the conclusion of a letter written
of the Alf:hail chiefs at Cabool to his friend and •
by one sin-
I at Candahar, shortly after the murder of the
ritual advisers detailing the exa • • •
envoy. The writer, after _ , ,Luatton of the Bala
Ilissar by the English, and several proceedings in conse-
of the Affghans, says, ' The united chiefs, in reply
puence to his Majesty, '•
to this, sent another message.,o
to
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50
stating that
they now had lost from 00 men, as martyrs in
' -"the had '.O
the cause of Islam, t intl. )'applied to his Majesty in
the commencement to le: d theinee_and he their king, which
Dffer lie had declined. 1 hat tl Barukzyas had thereup 1
taken the whole onus of the affair upon themselves, and hador
srought it thus far to a happy aceirmplishment. That the
Baruksyes toot now be considered to have supreme autho
• • the councils of the Afore nobles, but -
ity in, nevertheless
his si • •
f his Majesty wished to pr neerity, the_ w ,
iiig to give him the trial. Let the Cab
remy
aienre wil-
'or a couple of days, and let the king send a party of histet
nett to attack the cantonments; let him thus sacrifice 10101
run as a set...off to their thousands, and they would then
rust burn, and cordially unite with him. The king declined
icceding to this, but gave up his son, the Prince Shahpoor,
ts a hostage into the hands of Ameen Oolah Khan, saving
hat if he (the king) were found to intrigue against them, or
o act in ally way contrary to their interests, they would be
at liberty to do as they chose with his son. The king fur-
ther observed that he was at present afraid to come not of
the citadel. The chief agreed to this, and took Shabpoor,
and placed him in the hands of Atneen Oolah Khan. The.
Shah thus remained in the Bala ilissar, arid the chiefs in-
vested the place, allowing with ingress er or egress to
one. A fer t ;is the envoy had divers cona ' • any
munications with
Malromel Akhrbar Khan.
He gave him six lacs of ropes s
on account of the expense of the " Mel '' itnattee, out of
which sum Mahntned Akhbar Khan raised .0.)(1 horse nd
1000 toot. The envoy had now further is.
with Malts= •d Akhbar Khan, and
is
sz corn, umnictiletioni
hint three lacs of rupees on tnhetollowisr:t cotroulit'''ll ° ;f..
Majesty to terrain as king, and Malionsegd Akhbar Khan to
be his minist r, the f sadly of tie latter being allowed to re-
turn hrn liia. Te envoy also reu'red that Os am of
Ameeno Oolah Khan,h with Sikuedsr Khan and Abdool Salem
••The chic's
Khan, should be given up to lent as hostages.
ljzeem Khan
sent Mahomed Sudeeq Khali, son of Mahorocd ,
__a_ of his promises,
to the envoy, saying dial they sere doabst. /
• 'II d and scaled
and requiring the terms ofcurivention to be gig
ust
~,es
as
re_
by him, after which they
"id 1 ;'lve uptthleisi own" sal and
quires!. The envoy sealed the paper
wit
1 'rt.! . t ua • Sirda
delivered it up to them. On the evening or a
_?, _ r
Mahomed Aktssr Khan, Mostla Monied', Khooda Uns
Khan,with tour other peopleith,
Khan, arid Mahomed Shah ,
went to the bank of the tiler. and sent to t.se envoy to beg
that Inc would come out arid arrange the details of the affair.
Tile envoy, accompanied by Trevor, Lawrent e, and Macken-
zie, in all four people, dune and met Malsomed Akhbar.
They sat down on the bank of the river, and dimcussed all the
points of the conventin. The sirstar Nanlast said to the
envoy—
envoy was alarmed at these words, and rose up trom where
be was sitting. Alahouled A klibur seized bins by the hands.
,aying, '' I cannot allow you to return to the cantonments."
ll'he sirdar wished to carry trim -off alive, bu
hit was uoa
It, b lle
and
; at
ant he drewa doable-barrelled pistol from sos •
lischarged both barrels at the envoy, after which Ire struck
dm two or three Wows withsword, and the envoy was
bus killed on the spot. Moat' Mouse:n at the same time
illesl Trevor, and IA1140'1(41 and Mackenzie were both
sized and carried uff alive. Skinner and Conolly, together
rich another officer of rank, had been detaisted for some time
seriously in 11Iahorned Aklibar Khthanere's house e
b, an
odies d they no
tok the other two new issistives .Th of tl.‘l‘er
avoy and Trevor were after this hung up in the public 1-
tar. Subsequently to this, the chiefs main )a-
, i met, and con-
rred with the five officers who were in Mahomed Akhbar 's
souse, a fresh agreement was forayed, to the effect that with
he exception of four guns, everything should be
i
he Affgbans. The officers these terms
agreed to given up t 0
."

BURGLARY ANV AT MPTED MURDER NEAR
TO

burglary was
RdlasriTongi.,,
Early on Sunday morning a mosßt
effected at Conham, about five miles from this
house of an elderly lady named Mary Hunt, whir
is, at the
in a romantic glen near the side of the river Fr • situate
back of the Lon. Tunnel of the Great Western Railway,e, at the
be-
tween Bristol and 6 Bath. It appears that the victim
outrage, Mrs. Mary Hunt, who is nearly 70 years of of
this
age
has lived inAhe cottage which was the scene of the ' outrage
from the days of her childhood, it being her own
property.
She has never married, and in her youthful days followed
the business of a monthly nurse, by which occupation shee' is
supposed to have accumulated some property, which it was
thought was kept in money by her in the house; and indeed
the appearance of the cottage when I visited it yesterday
afternoon betokened a state 01 comfort which would lead one
to suppose that the occupier was well off. The old lady,
whose habits are, it appears, eccentric, resided alone in the
cottage, and, being a woman of strong mind, never mani_
tested the slightest fears of her safety ; and indeed the cot-
tage, (which is most romantically situate) although in a
solitary spot, and in the midst of a portion of the country
which is inhabited by a very lawless description of people,
is protected in a measure by the river on the one side, and
by the tunnel on the other.
Ott Saturday night Mrs. Hunt did not retire to bed until
between ten and eleven o'clock, having remained up beyond
her usual time to give house room and shelter from the rain
to a little boy. the son of the ferryman who puts a boat across
tile river near her cottage. Previously to her going to bed
she carefully fastened the door and windows of the house
there being no one in the cottage but herself.
Upon seeing the ruffians getting through the window, Mrs.
Hunt ran and barred and bolted the door at the foot of the
staircase, and retired into her own bedroom, which she also
locked and bolted. The thieves, however, with a crow-bar
which they had with them, forced both these doors, and as
the unfortunate woman continued to shriek " murder," the
moment they entered her bedroom, one of them seized her by
the throat and nearly stran.led her. They then deliberately
pulled out some Lucifer matches, which they had with them,
ignited them, and lit the candle which was in the room, which
gave her an opportunity of observing their countenauces, and
she lino:ltaly knew them to be three men residing at Crew's
Hole, on the other side of the river, of the namess of Robert
Watkins, Isaac Watkins, and Thomas Watkins. They then
demanded her money, and upon her replying that she had
none, they swore with tremendous oaths they woufp rip her
up, and having' cut her up into pound pieces, would fling her
body into the flood (the river). She then begged them to
spare -her life, saying she had no money, upon which Thomas
Watkins demanded her pocket, and swore she should die,
for that when they came into the house they came with the
intention to butcher her, and he pulled out a penknife,
with which he attempted to cut her throat, but luckily she