The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

The Assizes for the county of Chester commence on Sa-
turday, the sth of August, before Baron Gurney and Baron
Rolfe.

The decisign of fir 17. Follett, Sir Frederick pollookl and
Mr. Waddington, that unstainped pro'xies 'are illegal, should
ee genPrally known, as involving an extensive principle, af-
cting alike all public companies whore voting by proxy is
admitted.

We understand that an action will be tried at the approach-
ing assizes for Durham, which is causing great interest in the
world, being brought by a well-known contributor to a popu-
lar sporting periodical, who is a magistrate for the county of
Durham, against the members of the Derwent and Prudhoe
hunt, for trespassing upon his estate in pursuit of a fox.
Eminent counsel have been engaged both on the part of
" Black Diamond" and the hunt. —Tyne Mercury.
In the Bail pourt on Friday, Mr. qregory withdrew a plea
of "not guilty,"'and pleaded "guilty," to an indiptment for
a series of libels in the Satirist, which YieFe taken cumula-
tively to imply that the Duke was the tnurde'rer of Eliza
Grimwood. The language of the defendaties counsel was
very humble and deprecatory : Mr.' Sergeant Talfourd, for
the Duke of Brunswick, disclaimed all coinpromise, and left
the case tp the conrt. Sentenpe wgscieferred,
Wiii, GAN. Dp.ll,!i,ity.—:-.Tbp Prci Chancellor has
determined to establish a winter gent delivery to obviate the
inconvenience and frequently injustice which has long been
complained of in keeping prisoners confined during the long
interval between the summer and spring assizes. It is gene-
rally understood that the ant), of going the circuits at the
proposed new assizes will be assigaga to the judges of the
common pleas, who, from the paucity of business in their
courts, have more time at their hands than the pther learned
judges. Sir James Graham announced in the House of
Commons on Friday, that a gaol delivery Will take place in
December next, to be continued annually,

Commander W. H. Hall, bite of the Nemesis, has been
appointed Commander of the Victoria and Albert yacht.
This is the new steamer intended for the use of her Majesty.
ANOTHER CONVERT TO POPERY.---A sister of the Rev.
Mr. Bowles, curate to Mr. Newman at Littlemoor, has
joined the Church of Rome, and submitted to be rebaptised
sub condilione.

Dr. Wordsworth, head master of Harrow school, has just
been publishing, by way of aid and incentive to church ex-
tension, a little pamphlet of a few pages, containing, in the
tree{;, H nrillon of pz:eactietl at
ponstantinoPle'soing fOteen build eti 'ye'a
A publican, named Hall, residing in Caw
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_ ..,t, North
hields, had a quarrel with his wire on Friday evening week.
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ue mull, H. states, got up tile crumney, where he stuck
fast, and before masons could remove any of the stones to
secure his release, he was suffocated.
A- LUCKY PoncuAsa.—lt is said that a

;eunine Rubens,

subject. " The triumph of Christianity." was knocked down
at Sheffield, a few weeks ago, for Is. 9d., and that 350 gui-
neas have since been offered for it and refused by the fortu-
nate holder, Mr. Sawyer, wine and spirit merchant.

Ctutc4 TnAyEt,t,tN9 STIcAO.-7-Three gentlemen; who
had been taking an wurston in Germany, left Magdeburg
on Saturday the 17th, and arrived in Manchester on Tuesday
the 20th instant, at noon, a distance of above 700 miles, or
nearly at the rate of 10 miles per hour, including stoppages.

• • 0
CAUTION TO PARTIES RECEIVING EIALP-NOTES.—Par-
ties who receive half-notes should be exceedingly careful to
join together the two halves of the same note. In a case
which has recently occurred, where the wrong halves had
been joined, the Bank of England cancelled both the notes,
and refused to pay either of them.

INFLUENZA.—Same idea may be formed of the extent of
influenza at present in this city, frum the circumstance of the
daily number pf new applicantq to nnfir ingtitiatinn

Lu ue pula
MeOth-street, belt); increased from the usuala ver
or fifty to above one hundred (luring thelastwee

age. of forty

—Dubliis

SUICIDE

URDER A.._ .—The following shocking alai
took place on Thursday evening at Greenwich. Mr. Farmer
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menpres, in passing
near Douglity's-court, Roan street, about six o'clock, was
called to, in urgent terms, bpa man at a window, and on
going up stairs and entering the room he saw with surprise.
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amounting to horror, two persons lying on the floor with
their throats cut, so much so that their heads were nearly
severed. flc raised them from the floor, holding them so as
to prevent a greater effusion of blood. The floor
was then
nearly saturated. Dr. Iceeble was sent for, but on viewing.
the bodies he
.pronounced life to be extinct, and said that
the wounds were of such a mortal nature That death" must
have been instantaneous. It has not yet been distinctly
ascertained what led to the alarm in the first instance, but it
appears that a little girl, about nine
years old, rushed into an
adjoining room and said her father was cutting her
-
throat ; but although the mother's