The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-31 00:00:00

COTTON MARKET.—THREE o'CLoct:

ANTICIPATION.--MT. O'Connell, it appears, has an.
nounced the commencement of the erection of a bnilding,
which is to serve for the Irish houses of parliament, after the
repeal! Of course there is to be a subscription—so that Mr.
O'Connell is really not doing so foolish a thing as might be
at first supposed.
ARREST OF A, MURDERER.—STRANGE COINCIDENCE.—
On the 7th instant, heed-constable David Rankin, stationed
at Dromore, near Omagh, in the county of Tyrone, arrested
a man passing through Dromore, on suspicion of being the
man charged in the Hue and .Cry with the murder of John
Dawson, at Ayr, in Scotland, in the month of November
last. The person said his name was William Smith, tanner,
from Dublin. lle was fully committed to Omagh gaol, but
was discharged on the 17th instant, by order of Chief Justice
Doherty. On leaving the prison, however, so strong was
the head-constable's conviction that the man was the person
described as the murder, that he again arrested.him, and had
him a second time committed. This was most fortunate for
the ends of justice, as that very night a peace-officer arrived
from Scotland, and out of thirty-four prisoners turned out
in the gaol yard next morning, in the prison dress, the officer
at once identified the man so strangely arrested, as the per-
son charged with the murder. His name is William Murphy,
a native of the county of Kildare. We understand £lOO
reward was offered for this man's apprebension.—Derry
Standard.

HYDROPHOBIA.—Last week a terrier went marl in Rom
ford, Essex, and bit a man and nearly twenty dogs. The
terrier then went away towards Havering-atte-Bower, and,
having there entered Mr: Robinson's grounds, bit four of his
dogs who were lying on the lawn. Two of these were of
considerable value, one a magnificent setter of the late Duke
of Gordon's breed : the other, a favourite retriever, both ac-
customed to live in the house. It is a remarkable circum-
stance, that the retriever, a powerful bitch, who if attacked
by a strange dog was very fierce, yet when bitten severely by
this terrier made no attempt to retaliate, but uttered a most
extraordinary howl, and slunk away to the shrubbery, from
which place she could hardly be coaxed away, as if instinct
told her that her hour was come. The terrier, after doing
this mischief, curled himself up under a shrub and dozed,
as dogs in this state do, after a paroxyism. One of the ser-
•ants shot him, and Mr. Robinson's dogs, which were bitten,
have since been all killed. If dogs, like terriers and the
half-bred brutes that carmen teach to yap and snap on the
top of their carts, become rabid, they are fearfully destruc-
tive ; whilst dogs whose instinct has been modified, and who
have been taught neither to bark nor bite, (as setters) very
rarely do much damage when mad. It is a strange doctrine
of English law, that if (as happened recently) a man passing
a cart in a ►►arrow street is bitten on the ear by a dog on the
cart, the man can have no redress against the owner of the
dog unless he can prove that the dog is accustomed to bite
men.