The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

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lowever, no precedent for such a proceeding. '
the result of the decision will be to leave the nomination
at the 'disposal of the Government on the

of the Deaner

next occasion of a vacancy

Tun DUKE oF BUCKINGIIAM.—This nobleman, at a
meeting of the Buckinghamshire Conservative Association,
- hilst speaking on the subject of the tariff and the
opinions with regard to those mea-
Kes of opinion might have overtaken
s subject, those changes of opinion

declared,
corn laws

(Renewed cheering.) He gave his
votes, and he gave utterance to his opinions, formerly as he
did now, with the perfect conviction in his own mind that
they were founded on honesty and on truth. (Great cheer-
ing.) He had thought it his duty many years ago to record
those opinions, because then as now he took an active part
in doing whatever he humbly could do to further the objects
of the British agriculturist. (Applause.) Those opinions
remained firm and unchanged—those opinions remained un-
altered—and he looked back with regret, and deep regret, to
the passine of the new corn bill and the tariff. (Loud
cheers.) They were measures which he looked upon as being
hostile and dangerous to the interests of the farmer. (Cheers.)

A WIFE STABBED BY HER HUSBAND.—On Tuesday
morning last a journeyman currier, named Winship, living
in Racket-court, Newgate-street, Newcastle, stabbed his

wife in the throat, inflicting a very serious though not dan-
gerous wound. Fortunately the poor woman was conveyed
without loss of time to Mr. Clark's surgery, where she was
attended by Mr. Clark and Mr. Can•. The circumstance
caused a large crowd to assemble in the street, and Inspector
Little having ascertained the cause proceeded to the house,
where he found the prisoner, and, near to him, a knife, with
which a child said the act had been perpetrated. He was
taken before the magistrates at the police office, and was re-
manded for a week. The wife, meanwhile, was conveyed to
to the Infirmary, and is understood to be doing well. Win-
ship is a confirmed drunkard, and has been drinking for the
last fortnight, and this, with the fact that he had for some
time been jealous of his wife, is given as the most probable
cause of the savage assault.

MESMERISM Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YEARS
AGO.—On Friday night last Mr. Roby gave his fourth lec-
ture on tradition, in the room belonging to the Rochdale
Literary and Philosophical Society. The legend was a tale
of " Good Queen Bess :" the hero a Jervis Buckley, of
'Buckley Hall, about a mile from Rochdale, on the Halifax
Road ; and the heroine, a Grace Ashton, of Clegg Hall, an
old building situated about half way between Rochdale and
Littleborough, and something near a hundred yards on the
eastern side of the railway which passes those two places.
The lovers, for such they were, walked out one autumn
evening on the common, leading from Syke to Whitworth,
where th-ey met with "Mother Red Cap," a reputed witch,
at Robin Hood's quoit. It should be observed that there are
to be seen at the present day, on this moor, two rocks of
some tons weight, in the form of a mot (mote or mark) and
quoit. Tradition says, that Robin Hood threw the quoit
from the top of Blackstone Edge, a distance of five miles, at
the mark, within a few yards of which it now lies. The finger
marks on the quoit are yet visible ; and the lecturer declared,
)logists asserted that the quoit is of the stone found
t kind,
Mother
hor-

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presented them