The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

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EXTRAVAGANCE IN HIGH LINE.-Mr. R. A. Bethell,
aged twenty-four, son of the Solicitor-General, appeared
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of debts amounting to £12,000, principally incurred by
losses in gaming-houses and in betting on the turf. His
father had paid all his tradesmen's bills, and had offered
£3,000 as a compromise among the gambling creditors;
but some of the latter refused to accept the offer.

A HUSBAND-IN-LAW.—A member of the bar says, that
some time ago, a rough customer, or rather client, came
into his office, and began to state his case in rather an
abrupt manner. " Sir, I have come to you for advice.
I'm a husband-in-law !" " A what ?" spoke out the learned
counsel. " Husband-in-law, sir !" " I have never seen
that defined among the domestic relations." "Don't you
know what a husband-in-law, is ? Sir, you're no lawyer ;
you're an ignoramus ! lam a husband-in•law, but not in
fact, sir; my wife's run off."

PLAIN SPEAKING.-At the Wellingborough county
court, the other day, held before J. W. Wing, Esq., judge,
a grocer at Kettering sued three or four labouring men for
moneS, lent. His Honour expressed his indignation at the
system pursued by the plaintiff, and addressing the grocer
in the sternest tones, said, " Mr. Wright, I consider you
the most detestable nuisance within twenty miles of the
place —your system is extortion and robbery from beginning
pounded, and shall

send it to the revenue officers, as it appears to me to be
fraudulently drawn up. I reckon yours a system of fraud,
and shall use my influence with the government to get it
done away with ; and (addressing the audience in court)
I caution you all to beware of him, and shun him as you
would a viper."
CAI-Tios.7—An attempted imposition on houses in the

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person

assuming the name of Raymond beg written from Genoa
tip English firms, stating he was about to semi them
cargoes of 'oil and other goods. For these he forwarded
fictitious bills of lading, and meanwhile, on the pretext of
covering expenses, drew bills for small amounts. Before
accepting them, however, the houses on this side of course
made the necessary inquiries, and they have also obtained
telegraphic intelligence from Genoa that no such person
was known there. The scheme in consequence has hll w o y
failed, but it may possibly be tried on other firms and
from some new quarter.

A ROCRITE NOTICE.—Mr. William Pike, formerly of
Birkenhead, has addressed the following letter to the
Mayo Constitution :—" Glendarary, Newport, Mayo, 15th
December, 1854. Sir,—Some of the English and other
papers contain a paragraph which states, that I have re-
ceived a threatening Rockite notice for having turned
Roman Catholics off my land, on account of their re-
ligion.' For the threatening letter itself, or the coward
who penned it, I care not ; nor shall it influence me in
any way. As to turning out tenants, I have only to say
that, up to this time, I never have ejected either Protes-
tant or Roman Catholic, although I have had in my
possession for two years an injunction by which I might
have turned out eighty-four families. I certainly shall
eject some of the worst characters, who have ever been
ready to listen to bad advisers, and who contaminate the
neighbourhood in which they reside."
CHRISTMAS GlN.—From a very seasonable and elabo-
rate report of the Analytical Sanitary Commission, in the
last and a preceding number of the Lancet, it appears
that, out of 38 samples purchased in various parts of the
metropolis, and submitted to a severe test, most of them
contained combined sulphates ; that seven contained
cayenne pepper in very large quantities, so that the
syrupy extract left on evaporation possessed a burning and
fiery taste. The quantity of sugar in gin ranged from
little more than 3oz. to upwards of 13oz. per gallon. It is
added that in no case was sulphuric acid detected in the
London gin, though, on the authority of Dr. Muspratt, it
existed in large quantities in the Plymouth gin. On re-
ference to the tables published by the Analytical Com-
mission, it appears that the largest quantity of adulte-
rations exists in the " vile compound" sold in the
neighbourhood of barracks and markets, such as Knights-
bridge, and Westminster, and Smithfield, and White-
chapel. The report states that it is impossible to son-
ceive a more scandalous adulteration of gin than cayenne
pepper or grains of paradise, sulphuric acid, and sulphate
of zinc, or, as it is commonly called, white vitriol, or white
copperas, which, it is stated, is very common, the intro-
duction into the stomach of raw spirit being sufficiently
destructive without the addition of such acrid substances
as those mentioned.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Saturday an inquest
was held on the body of Susannah Hudson, who had met
with her death under the following singular circum-
stances :—lnspector Scott, of the Liverpool police-force,
deposed that, about four o'clock on the morning of the
12th instant, he was in the neighbourhood of Clayton-
square, when he heard the cry of " Murder" proceed from
No. 19, Cases-street, au eating and lodging-house kept by
William Court. He proceeded to the house, when he per-
ceived a young woman at the fourth storey window, with
her back towards him, apparently in the act of jumping
out of the window. He called to her not to jump, when
she turned round and exclaimed, " But I will jump out."
She threw herself into the street. He tried to break her
fall, in doing which he was himself severely bruised. On
lifting the woman up he found that her leg was broken.
She appeared to be very much in liquor. He asked her

why she had done so rash an act, and she replied

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some one was going to kill her." He asked her who was
going to kill her, and she said, " She did not know." She
had fallen from a height of about thirty-five feet. After
some time he succeeded in obtaining an entrance into the
house, and on going up stairs he found a man in the room
from which the deceased had jumped.
_Witness was cer-
.

__lid he kept the house, No. 19, Cases-street, which
was called the " A la Mode Dining-room." He was also
waiter at the Queen's Hotel,where his duties detained him
every day from morning till night, The deceased and a
man engaged lodgings at his house on Saturday week, re-
presenting themselves as man and wife ; and that they
were about to emigrate to Australia. They had a quantity
of 'amaze, which was ticketed for " Australia." On the

morning of the 12th, witness was alarmed by some one
knocking at the door, and on getting up he found that
the woman had jumped out of the window. The man
who was with her had since left the house. He was a

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policeman. He