The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

Tyshire, which we de-

a poor, aged, in

man named Samuel Poppet, was thrown into the _
his own cottage, and a fire made on his breast, where,.
Tl, has resulted in the death of the victim, after
weeks of unparralled suffering ; the flesh of his body,
-ck to below the stomach, being so much consu-
action of the heart and stomach was visible.

flames, in

consume hir

from the II(
med that tt

and the bowels exposed. No motive can be assigned for
this wanton cruelty, except the plunderers were disappointed
of their prey,—a considerable sum of money which the old
man possessed being so concealed amongst a parcel of rags
that the thiefs could

Strong suspicio❑ attaches

to a gang of vagabonds who fortunately are now in custody
—Chester Courant. .

MURDER.—On the night of Wedn
instant, a young man named Brock
village of Tuam, wit

lay last, the 15th

Is twice fired at in th
We ar

a four miles of Strokestown

sorry to say that both took effect, and immediate death was

son for the committal
assigned

the result. It is difficult to assign a r
of this murder, and we understand the most feasit

is, that he had got ti
changed to an adjoin
Esq., of Rathtnile

He was

ant to R. ]rein

ords in this. county

;ice, and his murder has excited con.
we

charactc
siderable alarm and horror in the neighbourly
sincerely hope that the perpetrators of this dreadful outra

may be discovered, and that the r
exertion in bringing them to justice
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday se'nnigl
Newtown Mill, near -Melrose, having observe(

-Boyle Gazott,

t the miller of

water• in the darn suddenly diminish, went to a lar
enclosed pond, situate by the road side, where tl
placed, to ascertain the cause. For this purpos

luice is

in a dung-fork, when to his astonishment and horror, I
drew up the body of a little girl, the daugh

named Jane Mein, who resides in the
the daughter of Adam Thompson, L
her mother, on bearing of the occurr

:r of a person
Another girl,

and expressed her apprehension that her child had shared 111,
same fate. Unfortunately her fears were too well founded
for the next moment the lifeless body of her offspring wa
dragged to the side. The two little girls, who were insepa

ruble companions, had, while playing together, fallen unob
served into the pond, which is of cDasiderable depth, and wet
drowned.—Caledonian Mercury.

TEMPERANCE MARINE
spectus of a new company
advertisement in the Londwi

£23 each

company as stated i

.ro of underwrit

new to London, but not new to
America, where the plan has be
eminently successful. Evidence has been submitted to par
liament, and select committees have reported in its favour
that a very large proportion of losses at sea arise, either di
rectly or indirectly, from the use of ardent spirits. Sir Ed•
I Codrington, Admiral Brenton, Mr. C. Purnell, the
Liverpool, the lion. Capt. Rous, and mans

id, or to

nd found to t

Dockmaster

;toted to

parliament that a very large proportion of all the I
are occasioned from this cause alone ; taking, however, the

.s at sea

losses so occasioned at but 20 per cent. of the whole, it is
clear that a system which allows (say) 5 per cent, a bonus to
the proprietors of all the insured vessels or cargoes, navigated
under temperance regulations, on safe return voyages, must
add to the ordinary profits of underwriting to the extent at

least of 15 per cent. in addition
THE REPEALERS.—These g
Sabbath by a repeal demonstrai
Trim, where 30,000. persons,

entry have been violating the
ion on the last Lord's day in
headed by numerous Popish

. .
at a political meeting of
1.P., in the chair; and

priests, are stated to haw
the morning, with Henry Grattan
what Mr. O'Connell terms a " str
wards, graced by the presence of the P

❑op of Meath

al treason was

B—y
a " strong dinner" we understand that
strong as well as the fare. One Lew feature seems to b(
anxiously put forward at the recent repeal statements of the

rent—via., —_ ,utions from Presbyterians and min
Protestants are beginning to flow in more freely.
place too much faith in these representation 3, but they
strongly asserted. At all events the rent increases : that o
the week is £351 Os. Bd., being above seven hundred pound
in the fortnight last past. Again we ask, are our governor
asleep ? Is impunity to be the reward of treason, seditio/
and crime, henceforth? Is danger to be steadily winked
till it becomes no longer danger but dismay ? Truly,
things are permitted to go on in the'
soon be time for the Prote,..-

contrii

We don't

present track, it wi

of Ireland to anticipate th
corning anarchy by the formation of a provincial associatio

of some sort.—Dublin
M'NAUGHTEv

ffect of example, in

Tring I

has been found to bi

natics from comr

derabie, lr w,
the lives of r

n in the
co, unquestionably a lunatic, was hanged for the
Mr. Perceral, and from that time until Mil, not

ler and s

been mos

o or three years

asTnife political assassination was perpetrated in this coun-
try, throughout the most exciting and troubled times that
have long been known in England. Oxford was acquitted
for his late attempt on the Queen, on the ground of insanity,
though with a very doubtful propriety ; and other similar at-
tempts almost immediately, followed. Not a week had elap-

"
serf;o-m---the trial of M'Naughten, for the murder of 'Mr
Drummond, and his acquittal on the ground of insanity, ere
another madman openly threatened the lives of her Majesty
and Sir IL Peel; and that of Mr. Goulburn was menaced by
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...._ _
a person for whom, had he put his threats into execution,
the plea of insanity would probably have been set up.—Lan-