The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

A boy only ten years of age, belonging to the commune of
Clercy, near Troyes, is in custody upon a charge of wilful
murder, by throwing into the river and drowning a playmate,
only six years old, who had offended him.
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It appears, from a report of a case which came before the
Lord Mayor of London, that the consuls of foreign states
have agreed to refuse relief to sailors in distress of their re-
spective countries, when they arrive in England as sailors on
board an English vessel.
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On Monday afternoon, whilst a man named Abraham
Simpson sat on a plank, employed in repairing the shaft of
the engine-pit at Dudley Hill, Bradford, an explosion of fire
damp took place, by which he was blown to near the pit
mouth, and then fell back again to the bottom of the shaft,
a depth of from sixty to seventy yards, by which lie was
literally smashed to pieces.
Whole villages, including the rich as well as the poor, are
emigrating from Germany to North America. Three of
those in Upper Hesse have, within these few months, been
entirely abandoned, and several in Rhenish Prussia are pre-
paring to follow the example. A short time ago the whole
population of one of these villages passed through Mentz on
its way to America, accompanied by its pastor and school-
master.
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The registrar-general of births, marriages, and deaths, has
ascertained from the returns of the late census that the mean
duration of life in the two districts, towns and rural places,
differs by nearly 17 years ; the average of life being 55 years
in the country. and only 38 in the towhs. The density of
the population in the country districts referred to compared
with that in the towns is as 10 to 2-12 ; the mortality as 100
to 144.

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Captain Fisher, R.N., the principal harbour master, has
been instructed to clear the Thames, near Gravesend, of the
obstruction made by the sinking of the collier Vesper, about
eighteen months ago, near the town of Gravesend. The
means he intends to try consist of certain experiments by
the galvanic process, and the operations will, it is expected,
commence in the ensuing week.

SINGULAR. CIRCUMSTANCE.—A circumstance of a very
extraordinary nature occurred at Dam Head, in Quermore,
on Friday last. Mr. W. Fox, who resides at Dam Head,
discovered a nest of young rabbits in one of his fields, and
brought them home to his sons. Next morning, the lads
went to visit their rabbits, when, to their astonishment, they
found their cat, an animal of the short-tail species, lying
amongst the brood, and acting towards their. the part of a
mother. What renders the circumstance yet more singular
is, that the old cat has a brood of kittens of her own, which
she has actually forsaken, and regularly suckles the rabbits,
and has fairly transferred her affections to them.
IMPORTANT TO TIMBER MERCHANTS.—The Commis-
sioners of the Customs have, with reference to the contem-
plated alteration in the timber duties, issued an order to their
collectors and comptrollers, at ports where regular bonding
timber yards and poeds have not already been provided, di-
recting them to acquaint the merchants engaged in that
trade, that they are ready to receive applications as to tem-
porary arrangements for bonding colonial timber and other
wood goods imported to the 10th Oct. next. This will ena-
ble the timber merchants to import cargoes previously, and
hold them in bond, subject to the low rate of duty, if not
taken out for home use before the proposed tariff becomes
law.
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Huron, hence for New York, was spoken 22nd May. ill lat. 46,
long, 23
Castries, Elliot, from London, at St. Lucia
Sir C. Campbell, Williamson, sailed from Charente for Liverpool
2gth May
Susan, Alictt, hence at St. Pcterrburg
Tom Roberts, Samuel, and Janet Hay, Peterron, hence at Riga
G. Palmer, Clutterbuck, and Tally Ho, Row, hence at Hamburg
Lima, Towns, from Bahia, at London
Albion, Maughon, from Odessa at Cove
Frederick Wilhelm, Schutt, from Danzic for Liverpool, at Pen-
zance.

SUNDAY, JUNE s.—Wind N.N.W. light.

Mtarvan.—Janet & Catherine, Sutter. and Hoatelina,
from Barletta.

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SAILE D. —Athena, White, for Calcutta —Alice, AllW3'l, fcr Barba-
does—Eliza hick, Davies, for Hayti—Fenella, Smardon, for Gib-
raltar—Ellen Brooks, Hamilton, for New Orleans—Consbrook,
Pollock, for Quebec—and Elia, Muniatequi, for Olesuind.

Vesta,.hence for Odessa, off Trafalgar
Iligginson, Hogg, and Dove, Collins, hence at Barbadoes
Sawbridge, hence at Palermo
Marys, from Belfast for Quebec, was spoken in lat. 42, long. 23
Irlam. Morpliew, sailed from Barbadoes for Liverpool 2nd May.
George IV, Cornelius, sailed from Palermo 19th April, and Jane,
Ridley, 30th April, both for Liverpool