The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-11 00:00:00

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Prichard duly elected

—The following communication has been
Murray, inspector of taxes here :—" Stamps
Taxes, Edinburgh, Nov. 4, 1842. Sir,—Referring to
'7s of 27th and 28th ultimo, and preceding letters on the
ame subject to which they relate, and having referred to
he board the questions contained in these letters for their
opinion, I am now enabled to acquaint you that tenants are
not authorised to deduct the income tax from their rents un-
til they have paid it, nor are the owners of lands subject to
annuities entitled to deduct the tax from such annuities until
they have allowed the same ; but I have to observe that, in
the case of interest on a bond, it is otherwise, as the debtor is
entitled, on payment of the interest, to retain thereout 7d. in
the pound, although he may not at the time have paid the
tax : I am also to inform you the board are of opinion that
the duty can be deducted only on such portions of the inter-
est and and annuities as shall have accrued feom the sth of
April last to the day of payment.---I am, sir, your most
obedient servant, THOMAS PENDER. Charles H. Murray,
Esq., inspector of taxes, Glasgow.—Glasgow Herald.

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rWO PERSONS POISONED AT GUYHURN, NEAR Was-
cEl.—A very serious case of poisoning occurred onSun-
-,t Guyhirn. It appears that a man of the name of
zgh, a shoemaker, his wife, a grandchild, and
a little girl, the daughter of a neighbour, sat down to dinner
composed of a piece of pork, with a pudding baked under it ;
they had hardly finished eating of the pudding before they
were all seized with a violent vomiting. A messenger was
immediately despatched to Wisbech for medical assistance,
Ind Mr. W. 011ard was promptly in attendance, who admi-
-,lies and left them apparent'y
.4in sent for, the man and
woman being taken much worse, but before he could arrive
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the woman was in such a state as
ible hopes of her recovery ; she expired
pain about one hour after Mr. 011ard had left. The

ere examined on Tuesday, when the state of the
tomach left no doubt as to the fact of their having taken
ome mineral poison. A very respectable jury met on Tues-

day; after having examined three or four witnesses, which
occupied until six at night, the inquest was adjourned until
Thursday. Various rumours are afloat of a suspicious cha-
racter against one or two parties, bat we refrain from stating
names. The children were very ill after partaking of the
pudding, but we are happy to say they are now out of danger.

CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—Some days ago a young woman
called at a respectable house in St. Patrick's-square, offering
small wares to sell, and, telling one of the servants that her
mother was in the Infirmary very ill, begged a little tea and
sugar for her. These the servant said she had not to give,
s by strong implorings, was persuaded to give
hich was standing in the kitchen.
n returned, and told the servant
If had been taken to the police-
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money to relieve her sister, they must all
-court, where, if the truth was told, the
iarged with robbing her master of the bot-

le. By working upon the poor girl's fears in this way, arid
.epeatedlyfeturning, she contrived to wring at different times

m her, along with two gowns and a shawl.
g satisfied with this, she afterwards got two
gowns and a petticoat from the girl's fellow-servant. Getting
tired, however, of this continued draining, the sufferer at
length told the family the whole circumstances, who home-
- to the police, and the two swindlers were
y apprehended, one wearing a tartan gown, the pro-
perty of one of the girls. Pawn-tickets for other parts of the
property were also found, and the two were locked up for
further examination. Their names are Margaret M'Queen
and Mary Goodwin, the latter of whom is known as an old
offender, and practised a similar trick upon a servant in Cla-
rence-street some time ago, from whom she extracted upwards
of 20s.—Caledonian Mercury.
Mr. William Hone, the well-known author of the Every-
Day Book, and other popular works, died on Sunday last at
his house in Grove-place, Tottenham, after a long illness any
much suffering, which he bore with the most exemplary
patience. In early life he was celebrated as one of the first

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satirical writers of the day ; his " Political House that Jack
built" went through upwards of fifty editions ; and it is said,
that by illustrating this and similar works the fame of George
Cruikshank was first established. By putting one of his
satires into the form of the Liturgy of the Church of Eng-
land, he was prosecuted for blasphemy ; and his trial before
Lord Ellenborough, which lasted three days, and in which
he successfully defended himself in person, with the greatest
ability, may be considered one of the causes celebres of this
country. When Dr. Stodart established the paper, now ex-
tinct, called the New Times, Mr. Hone published an admir-
able burlesque of it, in the form of a newspaper, called the
Slap at Slop, by which he gave a nickname to, and effectually
demolished. that very frothy and pompous person. Having
abandoned his career as a satirist, he appeared in later years
as the editor of the Every-Day Book, the Year-Book, and
the Table-Book, three works, all on • the same principle of
giving antiquarian information in a popular form, and all ex-
hibiting the indefatigable perseverance and research of Mr.
Hone. The Every-Day Book, in which the information
given is connected with the days in the year, may be con-
sidered as a standard library book. Towards the close of
his life, he became one of the conductors of the Patriot
newspaper, and in this situation he continued till increasing
infirmity, occasioned not so much by years as by the unre-
mitting labours of his life, caused him to retire from every
active pursuit.

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOV ERY, AND REMARKABLE CASE
OF FRAUD.—Considerable sensation has been created in
consequence of the discovery of a piece of villany and fraud,

vice to say, is but of rare occurrence in a com-
mercial city. Our readers will recollect that, between three
and four years ago, one of the tellers in a bank in town, on
balancing up the transactions of the day, found himself minus
of upwards of one thousand pounds, The occurrence, at the
rise to a good deal of speculation, as it was evi-
parties who were acquainted with the teller, and
good character he possessed, that he must have
given the money in mistake to some one„ when making pay.
meats in the course of business. No one, in fact, had the
most distant thought that he was guilty of making away with
it. The question, then, was, who had got the money, and
notwithstanding that every means were used, no trace could
be had, and after a time the search was abandoned as hope-
less. The consequence was, that the sureties had to pay up
the sum missing to the Bank, and the matter may have been
said to be forgotten till about the middle of last week, when,
as we are informed, two individuals who formerly carried on
business together in Glasgow, but who are at present bank-
rupts, having been drinking with some friends, had a dispute
which becoming violent, both parties retorted on each other
in the most abusive manner, and latterly it came out that
they, or one of them, in course of business with the Bank
referred to, had, by a mistake on the part of the teller, got
one thousand pounds more than belonged to them, that, in
fact, they had got the sum which the teller fOund himself
deficient of. This occurrence was instantly communicated
to the Bank, and immediate steps were taken to apprehend
the parties referred to. One of them was secured the follow-
ing day, but the other has since left town. It is thought'
however, from the clue that has been got of his movements,
that he is by this time in the custody of one of our most
active criminal officers, who has been dispatched in pursuit
of him. At present, and for obvious reasons, we decline
giving names and the additional particulars with which we
have been furnished.—Glasgow paper.

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RESULTS OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.-At Worcester,
the elections were not contested in either of the five wards,
with the exception of that of All Saints, where Messrs. A.
Cameron, J. B. Read, and Josiah Stallard (Conservatives)
unsuccessfully opposed the Radical nominees, Messrs. Price,
Webb, and Sill. At Cambridge, the Conservatives gained
two; but the Radicals have succeeded in electing a discharged
policeman ! At Bury, St. Edmunds, and Colchester, all
Conservatives. At Coventry, the Conservatives have gained
one. At Canterbury, the Conservatives carried the day
triumphantly. At Dover, 5 Conservatives, 1 Liberal. At
Harwich, the Liberals have been completely defeated. At
Lichfield, 6 Conservatives. At Ludlow, the Conservatives
headed the poll. At Wallingford, 3 Conservatives, 1 Liberal.
At Windsor, and at Wisbeach, 5 Conservativea, 1 Liberal.
At York, 8 Conservatives, 4 Liberals—a gain of one to the
former. At Preston, 10 Conservatives, 2' Liberals. At
Stockport, the Conservatives have gained one. At Stafford,
4 Liberals, 2 Conservatives. At Walsall, the Conservatives
have gained two. At 'Warwick, the Conservatives have also
gained two by immense majorities. At Guilford, 4 Conser-
vatives. At Lancaster, 4 Conservatives, 2 Liberals. At
Leicester, the Conservatives have gained 3. At Nottingham,

the Conservatires have gained 5, carrying 9 candidates out
of 14. At Tamworth, both parties equal. At Leeds, the
Conservatives have returned 9 (a gain of 3), the Whigs 6, and
the Chartists 2. At Birmingham, the " complete suffrage"

men seem to have been in the ascendancy—the Conservatives
did' not trouble themselves. At Wigan, all Conservatives.
At Kendal, the Conservatives have gained one. At Bridport,
4 Liberals, 2 Conservatives. At Great Yarmouth, all Li-
- - At Southampton, the Liberals only contested one
iAga, 4 tSbrewsbury, and at Wells, all Con -
Conservatives, 2 Liberals. At
fore, the Conservatives did not inter-
fere in the election. At Exeter, all the Conservatives were
returned by overwhelming majorities. At Devonport, 11 of
the 12 Conservatives who contested the different wards were
triumphantly returned, and only one Liberal. .
HORRIBLE INFANTICIDES.—We have this week the
painful duty of recording a case of long-continued and in-
human depravity almost unp ,ralleled in the annals of crime.
It appears that a woman named Frances Bennett, residing
at Ruardeanhill, in the Forest of Dean, being very ill, and
not wishing to die with the undivulged guilt of murder upo
ated to the Rev. Henry Formb
)ut twelve months

and and succeeded

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her conscience,

curate of Ruardean, that

ago she be

named Thos. Yapp with whom
s been cohabiting for' about eight or ten years, which
1, after it had lived a few days, she destroyed by poison-
ing it, after which she and Yapp buried it beneath the pave-
ment of the brewhouse. The wretched woman further added
that she had been the mother of five children by the same
man, all of whorn she had murdered at their birth, and, With
Yapp's assistance had buried their bodies at separate spots
beneath the floor of the brewhouse, and near a barn adjoining
her cottage. These horrid confessions seemed, from their
unexampled atrocity, to be more like the ravings of delirium
than truth; but upon information being given to the police,
and a search being made in the spots indicated by the un-
natural woman, the skeletons of her six murdered offspring
were all found and stamped truth upon a tale too horrid else
for belief. Upon this Yapp. was taken into custody, and a
policeman, we believe, remained to take ch,irge of the woman,
who repeated her confession to her sister and afterwards to
the policeman, Fowler. The facts were intimated to J. Cook,
Esq., and a warrant was issued for summoning a jury to
hold an inquest. By this time, however, the woman, Fran-
ces Bennett, had recovered in a measure her hardihood of
character, and on the inquest, which was held on Tuesday
last, she positively denied that she had ever given birth to
any children, except to two which she bore to her late hus-
band, and which were alive now, and she strongly persisted
that she had never made any communication such as that
above stated, either to her sister, to the policeman Fowler,
or to the clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Formby. The latter
gentleman was examined by the coroner, and deposed as
above ; and he further admitted that the woman had subse-
quently made further disclosures and confessions to him, but
as they were made to him in his spiritual capacity, he must
decline to divulge them. After, without effect, endeavouring
to prevail upon Mr. Formby to state all that the woman had
told him, and after unavailing remonstrances against the
withholding of evidence, the coroner left the point as it stood,
and passed on to the examination of the sister to Francis
Bennett, whose evidence was to the effect, that, on Saturday,
the 29th of October she was with her sister, who had been in
a weak state of health for some time, and had been confined

to her bed about a week ; that, before Mr. Formby called,
her sister made an alarm, and exclaimed that she would have

her dead children dug up and buried in the churchyard.
She said that, immediately after the infants were born, she
held them under water till they were dead, and then she and
Yapp buried them. She added that the last of the six child-
ren was not served in this way, but lived for two days ; that
it was weakly, and she gave it some arsenic and it died; that
Yapp was very sorry when he found that this child was dead,
and said he would not have lost it for £5O ; and that they
both together buried the child in the brewhouse. At this
stage of the proceedings it was thought advisable to adjourn
the inquiry, in order to afford opportunity for further and
more deliberate inquiry into the circumstances of the myste-
rious and very extraordinary case, and the inquest was accor-
dingly adjourned till Wednesday, the 9th instant.—Gloucester
Chronicle.