The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-27 00:00:00

TILE OAKS

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The only betting we beard after the races was 5 to 2 agst
Lord Jersey's Adela filly, and 3 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's
Dil-bar.

Our columns exhibit a striking proof that the value of
land is on the ascendant, since the great result accomplished
ten days since by Mr. George Robins, in the sale of the
Brandestall Hall estate, to which we referred, producing at
thirty years' purchase, on a rack rental, 30,000 guineas. He
has announced to-day, of land only, at least £300,000 in
value. Morning Post.

From the best information, received by the last mail from
Hamburgh, the loss to the principal fire offices in London
is—X3oo,ooo sterling, £200,000, £lso,ooo—a sum much
greater than was at first anticipated, but which will be paid in
the course of this week. The losses of the Hamburgh fire
office and the Prussian fire office in Hamburgh -are much
heavier than the above.—Sun.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—An affray took place at Han-
worth, near Hounslow, on Sunday evening, originating in it
pot-house quarrel, between two brothers named Stores, in
which one was severely stabbed in the back and abdomen.
The sufferer is still alive, although in considerable danger,
and his brother bas been committed to await the result of bis
crime. The prisoner, it appears, was a man of violent and
irritable temper, while his brother was remarkable for his
meek and inoffensive disposition.
On Thursday, Robert gmith, late teller in the Glasgow and
Ship Bank, and James Wishart, wine and spirit merchant,
Glasgow, were tried at the High Court of Justiciary, Edin-
burgh, for feloniously stealing large quantities of bank notes,
gold, &C., amounting in all to £10,715 ss. Bd., the property
of the Glasgow and Ship Banking Company. The jury re-
turned a verdict of not proven in the case of Wishart, but
found Smith guilty, and he was sentenced to transportation
for 14 years.

By an act of parliament, passed five years ago, the survey..
ors of highways, where there are no turnpike trusts, are corn..
pelled to put up direction posts, and state the distance to each
of the nearest villages to which the road leads.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL
te AcCIDENT.—It ls this day
premature end of Edward
county,which melancholy
and distressing occurrence
ii
h
this
took place on the evening of Tues_
our
Carey, painful
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q., duty
of wi t o u
nfin record
d, the
accidentalt he
i dnisstcahnatr,
gl a
en
of phliasnftotoi
nngo-np
iheis ce_o
twhe
il demesne,contents by
f
theper-
pendicular
in the hollow of the left cheek in
direction through the brain and lodged in the roof
charge entered
of the skull.— Wexford paper.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, May 21.--The good bur-
gesses of Newcastle-under-Lyme entertain the most sanguine
hopes that the motion for the new writ to be brought on in
the House of Commons this evening will be successful, and
that the vacancy recently created by the disqualification of
Mr. Harris will be speedily filled up by the return of a true-
hearted conservative. Mr. Miller, one of the former con-
servative members for the borough, improperly defeated by
bribery at the last general election, declines for the present
to offer himself as a candidate, and it is understood that Mr.
and late me Colquhounmber , the son of the Lord Registrar of Scotland,
for the Kilmarnock district, thß
writ be issued, will offer himself in that interest. NLeirrtp
Mr. Harris nor any other gentleman professing "llu'a
opinions has yet been named as a candidate for the vacant
seat.

RAILWAY TRAVELLING ON THE CONTINENT.—" In the
present state of the continent," says the Brussels Gtl-
alluding to the accident on the Paris and Versailles
eenb
Rail-
way, " it may be well to observe that there have —,
*r 18,30 to De-
veyed on the Belgian lines of railway from o'ol of this great
ember, 1841, 11,702,676 travellers, and thatcotuaai railway ac-
number only two persons have perished
cidents. The distance passed over in Be c
iiking in all a total
bYI 'juin was in 1840,
295,296 leagues, and in in 1841, 362,157, 19
and in 1831, 154,136,
1
657,4531eague5. On the St. Germs
number in 1840 was 126,746 Versailles line the
eaguesi'ves for the comparison
1,000,000 of leagues
giving 282,609 leagues in all. T g
ort of passengers almost
rant of these lines."
in the two countries a distance
for the two years, and
'a since the opening
amounting to 21,006,00" n„.. Payne held an inquest on
DREADFUL StIICIDEt..----,..
S Bartholomews Hospital, on the
Tuesday evening, at This
aged 35, alias Anne Johnson. 'rise
body of Anne Turn
ther, a
witnesses proved that for the last
united testimony
°deceased had lived in a state of adultery
sixteen years the
W lliam Johnson, whose name
ed 1 Snow-hill She she as-
with a man
at Not Cock-lane' : .; , would at •
in-
sumed,
of about a tu
At the . remain in that
in-
tervals
than a week. expiration of
state for more
from food, and that time
habit to abstainto observe a dull
it was her
silence towards all her acquaintance moody the effects of the mtance for three or
, or until
liquor had gone. She
four days,
from one of her fits of drunk
recovered
and
the usual symptoms the drunkenness on Sunday
week last,
d on Thursday evening last, littlebur subsequent days
of one of the lodgers, found deceasedl' girl, the daughter
herehe bad taken means t in bed about two hours
s odestroy herself. She bad, in
drew at the same time across h oils—viz., two razors which sbe
wound, and a large ca • throat, and inflicted a jagged
rvine knife
withwhich
self in the abdomen, and -
ceased was remark b caused the bowels to protrude. De-
a cleft ' spilling the blood from nin her habits, and had, to avoid
tiow into a tub she the wounds on the floor, allowed it to
died in the hospital had placed for the purpose. She
'inanity." on Sunday lag.—Verdict, " Temporary