The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

THE COURT.-SUNDAY

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a carriage airing along
the Marine-parade to Kemp Town. Major-General Sir Ed-
ward Bowater accompanied the carriage on horseback.
The Prince of \Vales was taken into the balcony, as also
the grounds of the Pavilion, for an airing this morning.
Her Malesty and Prince Albert walked this morning in the
gardens of the Pavilion.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine worship
in the lioyal Chapel. In the royal pew were the Duchess of
Kent, Viscount Hawarden, the Countess of Dunmore, the
Hon. Miss Stanley, and the Hon. Miss Devereux. The
whole of the service was performed by the Rev. J. S. M.
Anderson, chaplain in ordinary to her Majesty, who preached
a sermon from Luke xxii. ver. 13.
The choir sang the Ist verse of the 139th psalm, and an
anthem from the 103 d psalm, by Mozart.
The Duchess of Kent. attended by Lady Fanny Howard,
took a carriage airing this afternoon.
His Excellency Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese am-
bassador, took his departure from the Pavilion, this morn-
ing, for London.
The Princess Royal was taken out for a carriage airing at
one o'clock. _ _

Her Majesty and Prince Albert drove out in a pony.
phaeton, this afternoon, attended by outriders in the royal
livery. Two other carriages followed, one containing the
Duchess of Kent, the Duke Ferdinand, the Princess Atreus-
tus and Leopold, and the other contained the Hon. Miss
Stanley, the Hon. Miss Devereux, Lady Fanny Howard, and
the Countess of Dunmore. . . . __ .

Colonel Buckley, equerry in waiting to her Majesty, at-
tended on horseback. From the fineness of the day the cliffs
presented the appearance of Hyde Park.
The royal dinner party this evening comprised the Duchess
of Kent, Duke Ferdinand, the Princes Augustus and Paul
Leopold of Saxe Coburg, Viscount Hawarden, the Countess
of Dunmore, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Miss Deve-
reux, the Hon. Miss Stanley, Baroness Lehzen, Baron Stock-
mar, Sir George Cowper, Le Capitaine Count de Dagenfeld
Schomberg, Le Capitaine de Zaitsch, Colonel Buckley,
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Dr.
Praetorius, and the Hon. Mr. Murray.

MURDER FROM POISONING IN NOTTINGHAM,

NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 2.—A dreadful case of murder
has just been inquired into and adjudicated upon by a coro-
ner's jury in Nottingham. It appears that a coal higgler,
named Robinson, living about two miles from Nottingham,
was in the constant habit of attending the market, and as
constantly was he intoxicated. In his drunken sprees he
would visit houses of ill-fame, and on Saturday week he
was decoyed into a notorious house in Bel'founders%
yard, while he was drunk. He there produced about
twenty-five shillings in money, which the man and his wife
who kept the house determined to get, and they there-
fore sent the servant girl out for some laudanum to mix
with his liquor, and send him to sleep. Twopennyworth was
administered, but it did not have the desired effect, and more
was fetched and given to him, which completely stupified
him, and he was then robbed by these harpies, and turned
into the street, where he lay for some time, till some passers-
by found him, and laid him in a stable, from whence on being
removed he died almost immediately.

An inquest was held on the body, which was adjourned
three different times, but the final conclusion was a verdict
of " Wilful murder" against Benjamin Hurd and his wife,
and the servant who fetched the laudanum. The guilty par-
ties, immediately on hearing of the death of Robinson, packed
up their household effects and hastily decamped • and al-
though the police have been very vigilant after them, they
have not as yet been able to detect them. It is clearly proved
by the surgeons that the laudanum had been the cause of
death, while a wilful and bad intent was likewise proved
against the parties. They cannot long escape justice.