The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

TO THE BURGESSES OF No. 16, OR NORTH
TOXTETH PARK WARD.

GENTLEMEN,
ITRUST that you will accept the expression of my warm
thanks for the honour you have proffered in soliciting me
to become your CANDIDATE at the ensuing ;Municipal
Election. I should, indeed, be most ungrateful if I did not
bear in mind that from many, very many, portions this
Ward I have received testimonials of confidence and records
of thanks.

Gentlemen, I am aware that all possible honourable means
have been used upon former occasions to defeat what your
partiality has caused me legitimately to aspire to—viz, that
of taking a part in the onerous duties of your Town Council ;
but after the many proofs I have had of your kindness and
good opinion, I rely with confidence upon receiving your
support on the present occasion.
I am firmly persuaded that Conservative principles are ne-
cessary to the welfare of the country ; yet I shall always Le
ready to advance all measures which are clearly calculated to
promote the welfare of the Town of Liverpool, and, at the
same time, resist any innovation having for its object the
overthrow of our venerable institutions.
I shall support that system of Education in which the reli-
gious as well as secular instruction of the children is attended
to, and where that instruction is based upon the sacred
Scriptures.

Gentlemen, in conclusion, I must reiterate that if I am placed
by your indefatigable exertions in the responsible position
which you contemplate bestowing upon me, you may be as-
sured that I will use my best endeavours to forward your in-
terests in every way within my power.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obliged and obedient servant,
JOHN SHEPPARD.
161, Mill-street, October 18, 1842.

Two parties have been arrested for the murder of Mr.
Broomhead, (sickle and reaping-hook manufacturer, Shef-
field,) in October last, at Bicester, Oxfordshire.
BOY KILLED BY HIS FATHER.—The neighbourhood of
Feeney, near Dungiven, was much alarmed last week by a
report that Michael Devine had, by unmerciful treatment,
caused the death of his son, a fine boy, about 12 years of age.
Shortly after the death of the boy a report reached the
county coroner, Mr. D. Gailey, and Mr. James Stevenson,
justice of the peace, Ashpark, who held an inquest on the
body. It appeared that the father of the deceased had for a
length of time been in the habit of beating him and the other
members of hiS family in the most inhuman manner, and
that to escape his violence they had frequently to seek refuge
in some of the neighbouring houses. He had lately so
brutally abused the deceased, that he was forced to go to the
house of a man named Wllheeney, where he lingered for a
few days, and afterwards died. The coroner committed the
unhappy man (who, it is said, is labouring under insanity) to
owl, to await his trial at the ensuing assizes.—Beffast Whig.

ADIATREPSIA.—The Emperor Caligula valued himself par-
ticularly upon what he called his adiatrepsia, meaning the
indifference with which he could be a spectator of bloodshed
and tortures; and he professed himself satisfied that the in-
fant daughter of Ctesonia was his own child, because her
efforts were directed to scratch out the eyes of all who nursed
or played with her. —Dion Cassius: Suelonius ; Josephus,

MANAGERIAL COMPLIMENTr—.4I violinist of the name of
Richards, a man of extreme vanity, but of very limited
abilities, led the band at Drury Lane in the time of Garrick.
Feeling hurt that the great actor had never once praised his
performance, he one day, in company, ventured to address
him with, " Though, sir, you are flattered so much, you never
yourself to condescend to flitter any one." " No, sir." re-
plied Garrick, " not even you. But, instead of flattery,
accept ray sincerity : for, in the hearing of this good company,
I pronounce you to be a regular rude, rough, rugeed rasper. '
DESPERATE OUTRAGE—Two PERSONS KILLED.—On
Sunday evening last a dance was held in the house of a man
named John Reynolds, about four miles from Mobil!, where
a vast number of persons had assembled. The amusemei t
had continued for some time, when suddenly the doors were
forced in by a large body of men, armed with bludgeons,
who commenced a savage attack upon the dancers. The
Jesuit was, that a lad, named Michael M'Cabe, was killed
on the spot, and several others severely beaten. On the
report reaching aloha!, Sir W. W. Lynar was promptly on
the spot, with a strong force of constabulary under Sub-
Inspector Bannan ; but sought in vain to get any informa-
tion on the subject of the outrage, as the people appeared
but too anxious to conceal the perpetrators. An inquest
was held on Monday, and a verdict returned accordingly.
This was scarcely over when the coroner was called on to
hold another inquest on the body of Margaret Ryan, a young
woman about twenty years of age, who was also at the dance,
and came by her death from concussion of the brain, re-
ceived in consequence of her having fallen during the attack
made on the dancers at Reynolds's. Many reports are afloat
as to the cause of the outrage, but nothing has transpired as
vet that could in any way account for this fatal affair.--Boyle
Gazelle.

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SNIPE SHOOTING N
I • I.3EI:4GAL.—About one month after
the cessation of the periodical rains, the rice fields literally
swarm with snipe. A person cannot advance six steps at a
time without flushing one or more of the above birds, and
they vary greatly in the species. There is the common snipe,
the solitary ditto, the crested, and the painted snipe. The
latter is, as to its plumage, a most beautiful bit d, and is the
most delicate of the whole family of the " grallm," save and
excepting the woodcock of this and more northern countries.
It is usual for a party of six or seven sportsmen,
.Kith double-barrelled guns, to take the field at daybreak, and
shoot befote the sun is well up. If they are good shots, they
will not reckon it any sport if they do not bring home 60 9r
equipped
70 couple. It may be guessed that the wading up to ()rite
as
knees in mud and water for upwards of four hours is not
very comfortable. occupation, but the sportman
give
thato activelyengaged in his pursuit that he has no time. to e.
feel-
ing a consideration. As soon as the
r"ind are seen
dry, the snipes, one and all, desert the
fields,tbbles are filled
no more till the following year, but. the s u
of
the
rice g givods become
with quail which latter retire on their part on the fall
rem.