The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE,

Lancashire and Yorkshire, 68iici ; Leeds Northern, Fifths,
f pin.; London and North Westerns, 107#; Midland, 68;
North Westerns, 6} 11-16.

WIND AND WEATHER REPORT,

London, wind S.S.W., fine ; Leicester and Bristol S.W.,
cloudy; Plymouth, S.W., fine ; Tamworth, S.W., very
cloudy; Newcastle, S.W., rain; Edinburgh, S.W., unsettled;
Sunderland, S.W. cloudy; Berwick, S.W., Hull, S.W., and
Darlington, S., fine ; Derby, S., cloudy; Nottingham and
Gloucester, S., rain; Bridlington, W., fine; Haverfordwest,
N.W., clear; York, N.W., cloudy; Perth, E.S.E., much
rain Scarborough, S.E., very fine.

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Urania, from St. John's; Earl of Elgin, from Callao—at
Deal,3lst instant.

POISONOUS SWNNTMEATS.— On Tuesday, an inquest
was held in Bethnal-green, on the body of a girl, aged 13,
who had been in the habit of eating an excess of sweets,
and who died on Saturday last from mortification of the
stomach, which was shown by the medical evidence to
have been caused by the poisonous ingredients used in
colouring some sweets, of which deceased had largely par-
taken. )Terdict accordingly.

A BRUTAL HUSBAND.-At Carlisle, a wretch, named
Hetherington, has been committed for trial, charged with
inflicting serious' bodily injuries upon his wife. The case
is one of the most gross brutality,, and the injuries inflic-
ted upon the unfortunate woman were of such a nature
as to render it necessary that- her examination should be
taken upon Oath at the •time of. the offence, lest She
should die. They are :too revolting to be mentioned in
detail. . •

RUDE luncrzn.v.-7-A farm servant in the neighbour-
hood of Greenock was saved from suffocation, a few days
since, in a very original manner. A bone having stuck in
her throat (hiring dinner, and none of the family being
able to get it extracted, her master called in the assistance
of a farmer who was passing by. The latter fastened a
string round a piece of meat, and the girl with great
effort having managed to swallow it, he rapidly jerked it
out again, and the bone along with it.

TERRIFIC THUNDER-STOR3I AND LOSS OF LIFE.—
The neighbourhood of Exeter and other parts of Devon-
shire were on Wednesday visited with a heavy storm of
thunder and lightnini,.accompanied with torrents of rain,
and many serious accidents were caused by it. A man was
killed by, the, lightningat Heavitree, and a woman at
Ilfracombe. Thirty-one sheep were struck dead under a
tree at Honiton. At Halberton, near Collnmpton, 17
sheep were destroyed by the lightning, while two cows
were killed in a field on the Toßsham-road. At Shobrook
12 sheep were-also killed.
DISTRESSING ACCIDEkT.-A young lady named Lewis,
a boarding-school-keeper 'at Nailsworth, Gloucestershire,
was killed a few nights aico at Avening, when retnrning
from Malmesbury. She had been to fetch two pupils, and
was riding in a dogcart, driven by a gentleman named
Hunt. He accidentally dropped the reins, and the horse
ran away; he jumped from the vehicle to get to its head,
and was stunned. The deceased made the children jump
out; one of them was slightly injured, but the other
escaped unhurt. She then sprang out herself, but so
violent was her fall, that she fractured her jawbone in two
places, and was otherwise so severely injured that she
died in a short time afterwards.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. A corres-
pondent of the Dublin Weekly Telegraph writes from
Rome : I hear from Florence that it is expected Lord
Normanby, who has been long residing in a beautiful villa
near that capital, will shortly be appointed to succeed Sir
Henry Bulwer, as English minister for Tuscany, and that
the sequel to that nomination will be the accrediting of
our representative at Rome. How and after what pre-
liminaries such arrangement is to be effected between the
English cabinet and the Vatican I have no authority for
reporting. Lord Normanby, it is asserted, may be in
Rome, thus officially recognised, as early as the ensuing
winter."

ONovnair rN EDUCIT/ON.—A writer in the Examiner
lately saw an apparently blind man looking with much
apparent interest at the prints in a shop window in town.
Why, my friend," said he, " it seems you are not blind. '
Blind ! no, thank God, your honour," replied the man,
" I have my blessed sight as well as another." " Then
why do yea go about led by a dog with a string ?" asked
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