The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

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standing. His attention was attracted, his gallantry was
roused, and he courtecusly descended, off ring his arm,
Ind led the feeble old lady up to the landin7. Little did
le know the sex of the lady. 'We are positively assured
the was Richard O'Gorman—that he was among the
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SECOND EDITLJN.

Standard Office, _Eleven o'clock

ANOTHER FATAL COLLISION

py the following from the Underwriters' Room
" The Cosmopolitan, Maxwell, from Liverpool to Africa
and St. Lawrence, Brown, from Liverpool to New York

were in contact on Sunday, about 25 miles S.W. of Ho-
lyhead. The crew of the Cosmopolitan, except one man
drowned, got on board the St. Lawrence, which afterwards

put into Kingstown, with damage to cutwater and loss of
ibboom. Captain Maxwell reports that Captain Brown
refused to let him have a boat to return to the Cosmopo-

Titan, -to see the condition she was in.'

FATAL EXPLOSION

(FROM A CORR

E'ONDENT.)

An explosion of fire-damp happened yesterday (Mon-
day) morning, at Mr. Wood's coal-pit. Hindlev, (close
to the road leading to Leigh,) which caused the death of
three persons. Three others are dreadfully burnt, and
one of them not expected to recover. The real cause of

the•damp taking lire is unknown, but some people sup-
pose it was occasioned by a collier lighting his pipe out

s safety lamps. Every person about the
pit-mouth is in such confusion, that it is next to impos-

of one of Davy'

sible to ascertain further particulars,

SENTENCES ON THE RIOTERS

CROWN COURT.-THIS DAY

This morning Mr. Justice CRESSWELL sentenced John
Flyn, James Downey, James Mooney, Owen Gunn, and

rch, to fifteen months' imprisonment. It will

be seen from our assize report, that the prisoners. were

convicted yesterday of riot and assault at Newtc

Omni

The body of a new-born female chili

.o*, sewed up in a wrapper
John Pritchard has been c

the watcher at tl

Britannia-bridge, near-B

viseouut Arbuthnot, who
)rted to the Hou

is char

f a 3 "not t

and is final
be found," -is supposed to ha
At the sale at Stowe, on Tiles(
poet, an exquisite work by Roubilliac, was bought
Peel for 130 guineas
The salary o

Poor Law inspect

guinea per day travelling expense

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murder of her

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one firm alone
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The Mitchel Club in London was formally dissolved on
Friday night.
NovEL IMPORTATION.-By the Growler, arrived at
Cork, from New York, heavily laden with Indian corn,
are two cases of American Chairs !

During a thunder storm at Oldham, on Tuesday, one of
three children playing in a cellar was struck dead by the
electric fluid, which appeared to have come down the
chimney.

On Tuesday, Jas. Smith , the man suspected of the murder
the woman at Shaw-hill Common, as mentioned last week,
was tried for the assault on the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Ever-
leigh, on Tuesday, at Devizes assizes. The charge was
for assaulting " with intent to kill and murder," and the
evidence showed that the attack was of a more ferocious
kind than at first reported. The fellow was hunted down
by Mr. 'Gadd() and his servants, and when that gentletnat,
attempted to seize him he defended himself with more
stones. While he was in custody he said that he
knocked the woman down. The verdict was " guilty,"
and the sentence seven years' transportation.
TRADE OF BRISTOL.-Our Bristol contemporaries are
in high spirits about the state of trade at their port. 'The
Iran i-fer of the docks to the corporation will be carried
out during the present month as settled by the act of
Parliament. The receipts continue to increase ; the
excess over the corresponding months of last year (dating
from the Ist of May) being nearly £3OOO. During Jan.
to April, in 1848, 169.917 tons of shipping entered the
port, against 142,817 in 1847, being an increase of 27,100
tons, or 151 per cent. The improvement during the same
period in the coasting trade is remarkable, namely, from
92,443 tons to 104,900, being an increase of 12,457 tons.
laden with sugar are daily expected for
The port is full of large class ships.
A curious circumstance oc-
, S;taftesbury, the residence
since. It appears the servants
removing some straw, and found a nest of young

rats, which, as a matter of course they destroyed, or in-
tended to do so; however, one of them more fortunate
than its fellows, was not quite killed, and is now alive. A
cat who was watching the proceedings, it seem

seeing

he young rat move, took it up in he; mouth and carried
t t 9 the stable, where she has two kittens ; she placed the

at the angl