The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

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Two sermons were preached on Sunday, in Birmingham,
" On the merciful and kind treatment of all dumb animals,
but more especially that of the horse," by the appoint-
ment of the governors of the Free Grammar School of King
Edward VI., in Birmingham, of trustees under the will of
the late Thomas Ingram, Esq.
A. POLITICAL EYE TO BUSINESS.—When Mr. Denison
was- speaking at Barnsley, a worthy knight of the " three
balls rose up, and began to ask the honourable gentleman
several questions. A cheerful-faced linen-weaver, who
was standing at the edge of the crowd, hearing him, called
out—" Don't yo pledge yersen, Mestur Denison, to that
pop-shop chap, watever yo do." This excited consider-
able laughter

;ht ago, a

THE BArux BEWITCHED.—About a fortnit,
South Shields matron, having a child whose growth was
stopped by the witches, resorted to a charm to release her
offspring tram their spite. A sheep's heart was procured,
and stuck full of " bran new " pins, while a darning nee-
dle was thrust through the centre. It was then put down
to the fire at the witching hour of midnight, and the child
was held at a little distance, and its mother read the Bible
until it (the heart, not the " babby " or the Bible) was
burnt to a cinder. The charm so far has had no percep-
tible effect ; but the good woman says she is not surprised,
for she fell asleep while she was reading .the Song of
Solomon !—Newcastle Journal.
MURDER.—A shocking murder was committed on

at the village of Broughton. near Pershore,
Worcestershire. A young girl, named Mary Ann Stai.o
qQnt by her aunt, Mrs. Richards, to a huckster'-
e a few articles. Having bought
wantee she left the shop about five o'cis.
and proceeded homewards, having to_ pa

Tuesday

what si

to ourchas

lc in the eveni

frequented road. She never arrived home, and nothing
was heard of her until the next evening, when a little
boy, named Turvey, discovered her lying dead in a ditch,
with her basket of groceries lying near her. On lifting
up the body it was found that the girl's bonnet was cut
through, and her skull fractured by a blow from some
heavy instrument. Suspicion has fallen upon a man
named Robert Pulley.
STARTLING INTRUSION.—The Perthshire Advertiser
states that a publican and farmer were, on Saturday
week, gravely conversing in a stable, at Newburgh, on
the probability of the house being haunted by evil spirits,
when an ox, which had been startled by a horse, arid had
run madly through the town, sprang from an elevation on
to the roof of the building which instantly gave way be-
, neath his weight, and ,his hinder quarters fell through,
r scaring the poor fellows below nearly out of their wits ;
I for they believed that -- ' the de ....bich they

ANOTHER. ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT CARDIFF.—OR
Tuesday, the town of Cardiff was again the scene of
another diabolical attempt at murder. The victim on
this occasion was an Irish woman. It appears that she
had been fetching sand down by the wharfs, rnd whilst
returning with it about three o'clock p.m. some one sud-
denly pounced upon her from behind and stabbed her
under the right arm with some sharp instrument—proba-
bly a knife. The poor thing is considered out of danger.
No clue can be had of the villain.
A CONFESSION.—On Friday much amusement was-
caused in the Westminster County Court by the candid
confession of a lawyer's clerk that lie had told a lip. It
appeared that when the summms was left at the office of
the defendant in John-street, Adelphi, the clerk told the
officer that his master was in Paris, and had been there
for six weeks. The plaintiff-swore positively that on the
mornitur the summons was served he saw the defendant. go
into his office.—The Judge (to the clerk) : Then you told
the officer who served the summons an untruth, when you
told him your master was in Paris ? Clerk (with great
sang froid) : Yes, it is not an unu_ual thing to tell an un-
truth in an attorney's office.—Judge : Then your master
will have to pay the money on the Ist of January.
DEGRADING FEAT OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—At the
magistrates' offiu, Bristol, on the 25th ult., John Need
and Charles Churchill, two officers of the Rifles, were
charged with willfully breaking a marble slab from the
Portland-square, and with
's from oppo-
I was also

door of

PhiPippart,

breaking down a porti.on of the iron rail►
site a void house in Cave-street. John N

from the house of

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charged with steal..,
Mr. M'Dowall, Queen-square. The evidence on this
nightly frolic having been gone through, the mayor said
it was a case which the magistrates felt bound to send
before a jury ; they would, however, take bail; the de-
fendant's own in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each.
Mr. M'llowall expressed great reluctance to prosecute,

ates said hemuit

INGENIOUS FRAUD.—Another specimen of ingenious
fraud has been discovered at the Bank of England. A
few days ago a note for £3OOO was presented for payment.
The inspector examined it, found it genuine, looked to
the numbers of the stopped notes, and seeing that the
note presented was not among them, two £5OO notes
were given in exchange, for which gold was procured
almost immediately. On the following day it was dis-
covered that the leading figure of the number had been
dexterously changed, and that 94825 was altered to 04825.

It required the eye of a el
and as no blame can be a

ymist to detect the change;
ttached to the inspector, we
reduced by the amount paid

in error. The note thus sent in formed one of a series
of which a bank clerk was defrauded a few years ago.
FALSE LIGHTS.—The Times of Monday has a trium-
phant article upon some supposed recovery in the cotton
trade, as proved by an increase in the exports of cotton
goods. We are not aware of the amount of this increase,
or of the description of the goods exported,—a matter of
some importance, for, if the increase is principally in

cotton twist,
n ftr4ll,llPnllll.

d not in cotton cloth, it is -t1

e reverse of

mg
of cotton, which employs men, is on the increase in the

labour, is exported. The exportation of twist is hut the
next step to the exp?rtation, of the raw material (cotton

nanufacturi.

industry