The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES.

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Majesty and Her Royal Children, the distinguished Pa-
tronage of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and many of the
Nobility, the Physiciansto the Queen, and the most eminent of
the Faculty.
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EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Saturday last, at the London
Mansion House, Lieut. Peregrine Bower, R.N., and who is one
of the Admiralty agents of one of the snail packets plying be-
tween Liverpool and Dublin, was charged with forging a will,
purporting to be made by his brother in China, and was at-
tested by John Bell and John Wood. The prisoner made a
claim as sole legatee, and represented himself as John Wood,
and signed the name of the latter. One of the witnesses de-
posed that at the time he personatedJohn Wood he was dressed
as a common sailor, and appeared to have a great deal more
hair upon his face than lie had at present. A paper was then
produced, which was found in the possession of the prisoner,
and which, after his apprehension, he endeavoured to destroy ;
on this paper some one had been practising the signature of
John Wood, The case wao adjourned.

On Saturday, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, a motion was
made to dissolve an injunction granted against the captain and
assignee of a Liverpool firm, to restrain the delivery up of the
cargo of cotton of the ship Charlotte. The matter is to stand
over for a few days.
THE "UNITED IRISIIMAN."—The first number of the war
party has made its appearance; and it is quite up lo the mark
of the most devoted disciple of bloodshed and blunderbusses.
The United Irishman opens with a letter bearing the signature
of " John Mitchell," and addressed to Lord Clarendon. The
conclusion of the letter is as follows : " In plain English, my
lord earl, the deep and irreconcileable disaffection of this people
to all British laws, law-givers, and law administrators, shall
find a voice. That holy hatred of foreign dominion which
nerved our noble predecessors 50 years ago for the dungeon,
the field, or the gallows (though of late years it has worn a vile
nisi prius gown, and snivelled somewhat in courts of law and
on spouting platforms), still lives, thank God! and glows as
tierce and hot as ever. To educate that holy hatred, to make
it know itself and avow itself, and at last fill itself full, I hereby.
devote the columns of the United Irishman." Among the con-
tributors to the war-journal is the celebrated Father Kenyon,
of Templederry, who, it .is presumed, finds the Nation too
lukewarm in the cause he espouses.
FATAL EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM.—A melancholy accident
has just occurred in Aberdeen from the habitual use of chloro-
form. The facts are these :—Arthur Walker, a young man in
the employ of Messrs. Souter and Shepherd, wholesale drug-
gists, having occasionally to weigh out a portion of the chloro-
form, was so exhilarated under the effects of the vapour that
escaped, that he was tempted to use it upon his pocket
handkerchief as though it were eau de Cologne, until a
habit was formed which became a species of intoxication.
On Tuesday last he was left in the warehouse with a.younger
boy, and about mid-day having to weigh an ounce of chloroform
to order, could not resist the opportunity of inhaling a dose.
Having got very exc it ed,h is companion was alarmed, and know-
ing that he got violent, when any attempt was made to remove
him in such a state, lie was pleased to see him' lay his head
quietly down on his arms resting on the table. He was in this
state when the principal clerk entered the warehouse, and on
his father being called, it was found, as he lifted his head, that
life was gone. Though the jugular vein in his neck was opened,
110 blood came. The deceased was in his 19th year.