The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

sales of Mahogany thissinontl
sels-3 from St. Domin

The arriv
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Mr. Labouchere are to be raised to the peerage.
Mr. Augustus Holman, merchant, of Leeds, has been
sentenced to fifteen years' transportation for four distinct
cases of forgery.

Jonn Caal Hot;house and

A man named Charles Hicks, living in Lc
tempted on Saturday to murder a woman with
has cohabited, and who is known as Mary

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forcing her to swallow vitriolic acid

A few days ago some strawberries were gathered from
the garden of Mr. Henry Burns, of Cockermouth, six of
which weighed six ounces, and one of them an ounce and
a half, and measured seven inches round.
At Stafford assizes, a young man named William
Chadwick, was found guilty of the wilful murder of
Samuel Tunnicliffe, great uncle of his wife, by adminis-
tering poison to him. On his death the nrisoner and hie

wife entered into possession of his property
sentenced to be hung without hope of mercy.

He was

AND MURDER.—On Friday at Edinburgh, a
man named Bennison, was convicted of this double crime.
He married his first wife in 1838, and his second a year
after. With these women he alternately lived for short
periods; and in April last he poisonedibis second wife,
whose maiden name was Jane Hamilton. He was sen-
tenced to death without the smallest hope of mercy.
Cuarovs CASE.—At Bodmin assizes, on Saturday, Sir
Samuel Spry, Bart., late high sheriff of the county, was
indicted for an assault on Mr. F

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ne, the editor of the

WeBt Briton newspaper, in which appeared some severe
reflections on the conduct of the defendant, who had pre-
sided at a Protectionist meeting. The editor was soundly
horsewhipped by the baronet for the remarks. The judge
said that nn

yuLjury found the defendant
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be brought
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up for judgment next term.
ARRIVAL OF THU CITY OF GLASGOW.—The screw
steam-ship City of Glasgow, Captain Mathews, arrived at
Glasgow on Sunday morning, from New York, after a tine
passage of fourteen days twelve hours. She brought
eighty-seven passengers, who speak in high terms of the
qualifications of the vessel in her completion of a rapid
and delightful voyage. It is a remarkable and curious
coincidence that this noble vessel should have performed
her passages with such singular regularit
from New York occupying fourteen days
her last voyage from Glasgow was fourteen days

x hours; whilst

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out, am 1 fourteen days twelve hours home.
Agt sufferers ine r
eseveral emigrants
from h
the Griffith
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toe°'3o
on Lake Erie w r
who sailed from Liverpool for America last spring.
T
party
consisted of Mr. Thomas Hooper, his wife, and
csheuaen
threet'nmehildren, formerly living near Blakeney ; Mr. Henry
Pridaatlfi' his wife, and daughter, nearly grown up, formerly
of O elds House, near I..,edbury ; Mr.
Albert Humpidge,
a young man, son of Mr. Humpidge, farmer, of Taynton,
in this county, and Miss Lydia Humpidge, daughter of
Mr. Humpidge, lately living near Newent, and who went
to America last year. They set out from New York to-
gether from the interior, (for Medina county, we believe,)
and were proceeding in the Griffith steamer, on Lake Erie,
near Cleveland, when the vessel took fire, and 300 lives
were lost, and amongst t'iem the whole of the above
party, with the exception of Mr. Friday.