The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

ICANADAi
RZION

Wheat
arl ey
ST alt .
Oats .
Rye . •
Beans
PeRSC

Qrs.! 1573 266
419:
15
3'
02,4
3.2
Qr 3
Qrs. 5716 85J
Qrs.
Qrs.l 35 1

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Shelled Barley . Qrs.r
Endian Corn ...
Rapeseed ..... Qrs.)
Oatmeal . • •.: Loads 1272
F... Sacks 801
Flour •. ..
Ditto . ....... Brls.

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Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qr,
ey, qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats, qrs. ; Pease,
meal, Ids.; Flour. sacks bris.

S. ; Oat-

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley, —qrs.; Oats, 35
qrs.; pease, ,Irs ;
Beaus, qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oat-
meal, Ids.; Flour, sacks, 6 tols.--Ireland. Wheat, 652
qrs. ; Barley, gm; Pease, qrs.; Rye, 25 qrs.; Indian
Corn, qrs. r Oatmeal, Ids.; Flour, ISO sacks, 10 brls.
Coastwise. Wheat, id 9 qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt, 1 qr. ;
Oats, —qrs ; Kye, qrs. ; Beans. qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ;
Indian Corn, .
qrs.; oatmeal, 5 Ids.; Flour, 50 sacks 75

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Jtm_eye3.,.1::53:3,1.
Wheat 475. Ild. 1 Barley 275. d. 1 Oats .. Bs. Od. It
Beans-275. lod. 1 Pease.. 295. Id,
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 475, 14.1 Barley 275. Ili. Oats.. 17s. 6d.
Beans.. 265. I Id. Pease.. 28s. Bd. 295, Id
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Duty on Foreign Grain, Re. this week.
Wheat 203.0 d. I Barley 9s. Odi. I Oats .. . Bs. Od. I Bye_ 11,. 6d
Beaus Its. 6a. Pease.. 11s. 6d.. Ind-Corn Os. Od. Flour 12s.0aci
Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
,
Wheat.....ss. Od. I Parlei.. 2s. Od. I Oats .. 2s. ed. I Rye ls. od
Beans..3i. ud I Pease.. 35.0 d. I Indian Corn.. os. Od. I Flour 3s oct
00l Averages, week ending May 30, 1843.
Liverp
Wheat.l
3. Od.
Barley. [ Oats.
2 Beans. Pease.
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I:lPrrisc:es. **
: sls. sd. 315. 4d. i 17$. 4d. Os. Od, n
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COTTON MARKET.-TIIREE O'CLOCK. -
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A quiet Cotton market to-day ; 4,000 bales sold at fair
market prices, without any animation.
The weekly sales are 24,700 bales, 1,000 of them on spe_
enlation, and 1,000 for export. The import this week
reiches 7.8,890 bales (reported') and several cotton ships are

Up to-day

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR
BRISTOL.

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followed
. BRISTOL, MONDAY.
.
Early on Sunday morning a most daring burglary w
effected at Conham, about five nines from this city, at was '
, which it was
house of an elderly lady named 11Iary Hunt, which is situate,
in a romantic glen near the side obfytwhheicrhiveorurposnioe,h astheis
tllev!rsoiutesde ; and indeed
back of the Long Tunnel of the Great \Western Railway, be the
tween Bristol and Bath. It appears that the victim of this
old
outrage, Mrs. Mary Hunt, who is nearly 70 Years of age
alone in the
has lived in the cottage which was the Scher of the outra 4
from die days of her childhood, it being own oertg.
She has never married, and in her youthful days
the buSiness of a monthly nurse,
supposed to have accumulated sone piopfrty,
it yesterday
would lead
tthheouagpbitiewaraasnkeePotfintlmieToetYtabgya hwe-brebr',
lady,oue
taof tesrunpopoonseb etthoaktentehde aosetacatpe reli. .comfort foar;l
well
whichoff.
cottage, and, being a woman of strong mind, „eve
man.
whose habits are, it appears, eccentric,- resided
tested the slightest fears of her safety ; and indeed the cot:
tage, (which is 'most romantically sitin.te) although ja
solitary spot, and in the undst of a portion of the
country
which is inhabited by a very lawless description of
__ people
is protected in a measure by the river on the
(me aide, and
by the tuuuel on the other.
at Saturday eight Mrs. Hunt did not retire to bed until
between ten and eleven o'clock, having remained up beyond
her usual time to give house room and shelter from the rain
to a little boy. The son of the ferryman who puts a boat across
the 'river near her cottage. Previously to her going -to bed
she carefully fastened the door and windows of the house
there being no one in the cottage hot herself.
U seeing • the ruffians getting through the window, Mrs.
Huntpon ran and barred and bolted the door at the foot of the
, and retired into her own bedroom, which she also
staircase
locked and bolted. The thieves, however, with a crow-bar
which they had with them, forced both these doors, and as
the unfortunate woman continued to shriek "murder," the
moment they entered her bedroom, one of them seized her by
They then deliberately •
the throat and nearly strangled her.
pulled out some lucifer matches, which they had with them,
ignited them, and lit the candle,
which was in the room, A N hich
gave her an opportunity of observing their countenances, and
she instantly knew them to be three men residing at Crew's
Hole, on the other side of the river, of the nomess of Robert
Watkins, Isaac Watkins, and Thomas Watkins. They then
demanded her money, and upon her replying that she had
none, they swore with tremendous oaths they woufp rip her
up, and havin, cut her up into pound pieces, would fling her
body into thellood (the river). She then begged then, to
spare her life,. sging she had no money, upon which Thomas
Watkins demanded her pocket, and swore she should die,
for that when they cane into the house they came with the
intention to butcher tier, and he pulled out a penknife,
with
which the attempted to cut her throat, but luckily she
outer up i her right arm, and the knife was buried in it instead
h throat: they then hurled the unfortunate old Woman
down on the floor, end seizing a ,spare bed which was in the
room, placed it over her to smother her, upon which she
said she would give them her pocket, and again implored '
them to spare lied life. The ruffian, however, with a bitter
sath, declared that they had put her there to murder her,
and
that they were determined to do•iii. One of them
then jumped upon the bed, and kept pressing his knees into
her boWels until she became senseless. After' which they
proceeded to rifle the house of an antique silver watch, tour
gold rims, some breast piiis mid brooches, some sheets, and
other articles, havieg burst
.open the drawers and boxes ;
after which they left the house, thinking their victim was
dead, but in order to put an end. to her if any life should_
still be remaining they placed a large and heavy box upon the'
bed under which she lay. Most providentially, however,
after some hours, Mrs. Hunt recovered her senses, and after
considerable difficulty, having succeeded in extricating her-
self frornunder the bed, crawled down stairs, and gave the
alarm, and upon the arrival of a Mrs. Cam, the wife
of
ueighbouring farmer; she was found in a. most exhausted statea
in the kitchen, in althost perfect nudity, with the exec
of a blanket which was wrapped round bete Medical aid
was immediately sent for, and the poor woman still lies • aid
very precarious siatc. in a
In the course of the night she was alarmed by hearing
us of some persons breaking into the house, dud, a
d•
ot out of bed and opened the window, looked ()Litt hay-'
three men in the garden, under her bed room window,
endeavouring to force open the strutters. She then demandedw
what they %voided, and shrieked out " Murder !" In reply,
tiny swore at her, and, seizing some large stone:, hulled
them at her with
the d all
oor. theirßein nnghtg
bruised and cut
as also a w
by tater-jarhe blows
which
was standing at
of the stones,
she retired from the font window, and went
and went io another window, where she again tried t • o ive
the alarm by calling out "murder !" sever l •
a times, as
as she could. From this window also she was driven back loudly
large stones thrown at her. Duri the l ' ' . this
og w mle of this
period two of the burglars continued their
force open the window, lengthattempts to
and baying at
one of them got through it, and let in succeeded,
the door

. Superintendent Hilcott, of the county of Gloucestcr,Police,
itntnediately set an inquiry on foot; and from Mrs. Hunt's
descriptiore, Sergeant Ireland, in the course of the Sunday
afternoon, 'sutceeded in apprehending the three men, and
n
foud in the pket 'of "Thmas Watins a enknife, as she
had de?cribed.oc They wereo
yesterdayk afternopon examined at
the cottage befoie Mr. Ireland, a county magistrate, and
having been brought to the pour woman's bedside and iden-
tified by her, were committed for, trial. The old lardy
blood-
completely covered with bruises, an'd.the marks of
ihte
ebw.nv.l
were distinctly visible on the windoW-eills of WO e he
heardi
dows. It is remarkable that ber cries of murder w r
ed from some of the la w-
mile, buc supposing them to proce
distinctly by a shepherd living at a distance of a
engaged in a
quarter of a
less characters of the neighbourhood who were
night brawl, he took no further notice.

ANTIQUARIAN PRlZR.—There has use been discovered
in the ground excavated for the northern railroad,
between
S. Lett d'Essevens and Montalaire, a girdle of solid gold,
wrought to its a cord, having a hook at eachend.. The
weight.of this object is 342 grammes, and the gold is valued
at 8301 It was found within 2t feet of the surface, and no
other article was discovered near it. M. ,Ilaubigaut, mem_
her of the council-general of the Oise, paid the workmen
handsomely for giving it up to him, with a view to having it
deposited either in the Musearn of Beauvais or the Biblio-
theque Royale of Paris. It is supposed to belong to the Gau-.
lish period, about Julius Creene* .7...._ , :
i.
namely --e ilium, relrgagio, end
BnsististEs.r.--The Romans llnd dive modes of °anis.-
ing a man from his country,
&porton°. The person condemned to exile lost all the
rights of a citizen, and forfeited all kinds of property. sen-
tence of relegation removed wagvson to a certain distanc •
from Rowe ; but, if no fine imposed, it took away n''
other right. Deportation was invented by Augustus; it- waso
the severest kind of banishu3ent. The culprit was hurried
away in chains, stripped of all property, and confined to some
island or inhospitable plact.