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

safe."

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They walked on a few paces—at No. 4 they stopped.
" I am now at home."
" So am I."
" Oh, my goodness!" cried the domino ; " you are Mr.
Popjoy ! I know you now—oh, goodness !"
The mist from Popjoy's eyes began to clear away. He
suddenly recognised the voice, which so far had been well
disguised. It was that of his landlady's maid servant !
" Sir,', slid the girl, solemnly, " you are a man of
honour—l beg you to be secret.
" And I--have I—zounds !—I shall remove to-morrow."
That ball and supper cost poor Popjoy nearly four pounds
ten.

A young man named Brook was twice fired at in the village
of Tuam, within four miles of Strekestown, on the night of
Wednesday last, and immediate death was the result.
LORD HUNTINGTOWER.—An application was made be-
fore the Court of Review, on Wednesday, to annul the fiat
against this nobleman, as he was not a trader. The judge
rejected the application with costs.
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THE WELSH COLLIERIES.—The summary conviction of
the men at Cardiff on Saturday appears to have had a bene-
ficial effect in Glamorganshire, many of the men having gone
to work without obstruction. In Monmouthshire, however,
things remain in nearly the same state. On Saturday a
large meeting was held near Blackwood, at which the men
came to the determination still to stand out. No breach of
the peace has, however, occurred.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—The Jamaica papers last
received mention rather a cnrious circumstance, which hap-
pened to a gentleman of Kingston a few days since. He
coughed up a bone, nearly an inch long, which he had acci-
dentally swallowed while supping beef soup, upwards of two
years ago. Every effort was made at the time, both by the
medical faculty and the English metropolis, to relieve the
patient; but what was denied to science in this instance,
nature herself has now performed.
MONOMANIAC.—On Tuesday, at one of the London po-
lice-offices, Charles Dowie, the journeyman shoemaker, who
is labouring under the delusion that some passage in Cham-
bers' Edinburgh Journal, reflecting upon his grandfather,
prevents the master shoemakers from giving him work, was
put to the bar. He said his object in wishing to see Mr.
Chambers was to chastise him for calling his grandfather an
idiot. Dr. M'Murdo gave a certificate of the prisoner's in-
sanity, and he was removed to a place of safety.

The Queen of the French has suggested to 14 ladies, at the
head of whom are the royal princesses and the Countess of
Montalivet, the pleasing task of getting up a quantity of
works in embroidery of various sorts, to be sold for the bene-
fit of the sufferers of Guadaloupe. Those works, %hen
finished, are to be exposed in the gallery of the Palais Royal,
on the first floor, and will be afterwards sold. Ladies ap-
pointed by her Majesty will preside at the different stalls,
and the sale, it is supposed, will commence on the 18th of
next month.

ESCAPE FROM A FILTHY DEATH.—About eleven o'clock
on Monday night the inmates of the Blue Lion lodging-
house, Field-lane, London, were greatly alarmed by dread-
ful groans proceeding from the lower part of the premises,
and on going into the privy they perceived a man's hands
and a portion of his head emerging above the soil, the other
parts of his body being completely immersed therein. They
immediately set about extricating the poor fellow, who ap-
peared almost exhausted, and in the course of a few seconds
he was partially got out when the unfortunate man was
doomed to a second immersion, the persons who had pulled
him up being unable to retain their bold. An alarm was
now given, and some policemen extricated the poor fellow
from his disagreeable position. He had fallen into the soil
whilst in a fit.

ELOPEMENT OV A YOUNG LADY FROM LIEGE, BELGIUM.
—On Wednesday, information was received at the several
metropolitan police-offices of the elopement of a young lady,
about 20 years of age, from the house of her parents, residing
at Liege, in Belgium. The gentleman with whom she quit-
ted her parental roof is a young man, about 25 years of age,
named Giles Hinton, Esq., M.A., of 'Worcester College,
Oxon, and formerly a resident at Gloucester or its neigh-
bourhood. It appears that the young lady left her father's
house on Friday last, about half-past eleven o'clock in tile
forenoon, and it was soon afterwards ascertained that the
fugitives had taken their departure for England in the Ge-
neral Steam Navigation Company's vessel Sir Edward Banks,
which vessel arrived in the Thames on the following day
(Saturday) at two o'clock, but all trace of them since their
landing has been lost. The friends of the lady arrived in
London soon afterwards in pursuit ; and large placards, de-
scribing the personal appearance of Mr. Hinton, as also that
of the young lady, in a very minute style, were on Wednes-
, day extensively posted about the metropolis, offering a re-
, ward to any person who would discover their present abode,
and communications have been made to several old and ex-
perienced officers on the subject. The placards style the
affair " The abduction of a young English lady, a minor,
from the house of her parents. '

TABLE OF MORTALITY.—The following table, which
shows the proportion of deaths that occurred during the year
1812, in London, and in each of the under-mentioned manu-
facturing towns, will probably be interesting to our rea
aders
nn:—
Deaths per .
Population by the in every 1,000 of
Census of 1841. the population.
1,870,727
107,140
99,175
66,032
85,672

Towns.
London
Huddersfield ...
Halifax
Wigan .
Stockport
Rochdale
Bradford ......
Bury.
Birmingham
Derby
Preston
Nottingham
Walsall
Leeds
Salford.
Leicester .
Coventry
Wolverhampton
11Ianchester
Liverpool.
acclesfield

60,577 ..
132.164 ..
77,496 ..
131,187 ..
35.015 ..
77,189 ..
53,080 ..
34,273 ..
168,667 ..
70,228 .
50,932 .
31,028 .
80,722 .
192,401 .
223,054 .
56,018 .

SUPPOSED MURDER AT READING.—Much excitement
has been occasioned in Reading during the last few days by
the mysterious circumstances attending the death of an aged
man named Samuel Steers, who was found drowned in the
Kennett, with his legs tied, and one of his pockets turned
out, on Tuesday night. Deceased was a carpenter, and had
lived in Reading nearly the whole of his life, his sober and
industrious habits, as well as his general good character,
ha% ing rendered him much respected. At about seven o'clock
on Tuesday evening he left home, previously telling his wife
he was going to Mr. Ings, a collector of pew rents, to pay
for the last quarter's sittings at Trinity Church, which
amounted to 10s. 6d., and of which lie then had a bill in his
hands ; he added, that he should also call on one of the offi.
cers of a benefit club, of which he was the auditor, on his
way, but he should be back in time for supper. A few mi-
nutes past seven he called at the Globe lun, Horn-street,
where the Club meetings were held, and after waiting about
ten minutes went out again, appearing in good spirits, as
usual. He was afterwards seen by a third party near Kates-
grove-lane, at the bottom of the street, going in the direction
of Mr. Ing's house. A few minutes after nine o'clock, how-
ever, the same evening, he was met in Mill-lane by a man
employed at the mill, who states that he was then going
towards How-street. From this time he was never seen un-
til taken out of the water (at half-past nine), near Victoria-
wharf, about half-a-mile distant from the mill-stream, where
he was discovered by some bargemen in the employ of Messrs.
Drewe, floating in the water. On being taken out and ex-
amined by Mr. Houlton, superintendent of police, he had
nothing in his pockets, one of which had been turned inside
out, and his legs were tied together with a piece of car-twine.
There were no external marks of violence, except a slight
bruise under the left eye, a small cut under the chin, and two
slight grazes inside the upper and lower lips, occasioned (in
the opinion of the surgeon) by their being pressed against th
i
teeth. Early on Wednesday morning a labouring man dis-
covered the hat and apron of deceased concealed n a dung-
hill near the Jack of Newbury public-house, on the side of
the mill-stream. The apron and string were cut asunder,
and some blood stains were on the former. On hound round,
near the dunghill, some other spots of blom.were f, and
also several screws and keys which bad been in the old man's
pocket, and some halfpence. Glob.