The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

OF A NUN INTO THE ORDER OF THE

RECEPTION

SISTERS OF

MERCY

—On Monday, the ceremony of in-
vesting a young lady with the veil and holy habit of the
Sisters of Mercy took place in the Trinity Chapel of the
Convent, Dock-head, Bermondsey, in the presence of a
large number of the English Roman Catholic clergy and
laity. Miss Graham, the lady who took the veil, is about
20 years of age, and a member of a highly respectable fa-
mily in St. John's Wood. It is said that the young lady
has provided munificently for the pecuniary wants of the
Convent. Dr. Griffiths, the Roman Catholic bishop of
the London district, officiated.
THE ALLEGED DEATH FROM FLOGGING, AT HOUNS-
LOW.—The inquest on Patrick Frederick White, the
soldier of the 7th Hussars whose death is alleged to have
been occasioned by the infliction of,severe corporal pu-
nishment, was resumed on Monday, before Mr. Wakley,
M.P. Several surgeons were examined as to the cause of
death. The army surgeons and one civilian agreed that
death had resulted from inflammation of the pleura and
of the lining membrane of the heart. Mr. Erasmus
Wilson, a civilian, attributed death, though in a remote
degree, to the effects of the flogging. The inquest was
again adjourned.
RAILWAY LABOURERS.—We understand that /the fol-
lowing is a correct list of the different labourers em-
ployed on the different railways now in course of forma-
tion in Mid-Lothian :—On the Hawick branch of the
North British Railway, at the Lothian Bridge section,

285; Newton Loan, 140; Kirkhill, 70; Gorebildge, 500;
Cricbton Moss, 750; Half-la-Kell, 400; Borthwick,
110; Catcune, 70—in all, 2,325. Of these upwards of
1300 are Scotchmen, 1000 Irishmen, and only about 20
Englishmen. On the Caledonian Railway, at Slateford,
196 ; Riccarton, 123 ; Briggs, 28 ; and Kirknewton, 302
—in all, 649. Of these there are 300 Scotchrnen, the
same number of Irishmen, and only about 30 English-

FOREIGN COMPETITION.—We understand that serious
apprehensions are entertained by the glass manufacturers
in this district (Birmingham) that a certain portion of
their trade trust must give way to foreign competition.
Several Belgian travellers have lately offered for sale
wine-glasses and tumblors at the merchants' warehouses
in this town at from 2.3 to 35 per cent. cheaper than the
same description of articles can be produced in this coun-
try. The same disadvantage to a still greater extent is
apprehended with respect to ornamental glass. In the
manufacture of articles requiring a great amount of en-
graving and cutting, the disadvantages against the British
manufacturer are said to be very decided ; but in the
manufacture of plate-glass there is little to be feared.—

Aria's Gazette.
DEPLORABLE OCCURRENCE—CAUTION.—A kitchen-
maid in the service of Mr. Snead, farmer, of Bridge Sollars
has been a victim of the very foolish practice of using fire-
arms in play. On Friday week last, the girl and a servant
lad were chasing each other round the tables, and he know-
ing that she was frightened at a gun, pOinted it at her,
thinking it was unloaded, when unfortunately the- gun
dropped from his hand upon the table, went off, and the
poor creature, who was on the opposite side, received the
charge of bird-shot in her face. Her mouth and tongue
were very seriously injured, and she was rendered com-
pletely blind. Mr. Giles, surgeon, is attending her, and
we are induced to hope that she will recover, there is diffi-
culty in getting at accurate information.
At the Nottingham Assizes, on Friday, before Mr.
Justice Coleridge, in the case of the Queen v. Lord Bar-
borough and others, an indictment for a' conspiracy to
prevent the engineers and surveyors of the Midland Rail-
way Company making surveys upon the highway in the
neighbourhood of Lord Harborough's estate, and making
assaults upon different parties, a verdict of Not Guilty

Atilt. 4, 1546.

A GENTLEMAN ABDUOrED BY HIS OWN
At the Lincoln assizes 'last week, Ann Westmoreland,
Francis Wright, Samuel Fletcher, and Richard Thorpe,
were indicted for having forcibly abducted Mr. Brownlow
Tollor Westmoreland, the husband of the first defendant,
from Bourne, on the 23d of April, and with carrying him
off against his will and consent. The complainant is a
gentleman of private fortune, dis tautly related to several
noble families, residing at Bourne, having lived twenty
years separated from his wife, to whom he mode an allow-
ance of £lOO a-year, and £5O for his only daughter, mar-
ried to the defendant Francis Wright. On the morning
in question, as he was walking from 'lig residence to make

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