The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VITRIOL TIIROWING.—A Cork paper of Saturday contains an account of twn eases of atrocious and cowardly assaults, by throwing sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), in the faces of two per suns in the course-of one day. The first was that of Mr. Harty, the proprietor of a bakery, who, when his assailant entered his shop, was writing on a desk inclusea by a wooden railing. These rails fortunately intercepted some of the corrosive fluid, but a sufficient quantity reached his face to occasion him great torture and very serious injury. The second victim was Mr. Herrick,also a baker, who, while standing at his own door, had a quantity of vitriol thrown in his face, by a man who passed. him with etin saucepan in his hand. In . Herrick's case serious apprehensions are entertained that he wilt lose the sight of both his eyes. The offenders, in both instanees,,haye escaped from justice. [At the assizes lately held in this place, Ann, Marrow was tried and found guilty of a similar offence; but tliejAulge, Just 03 vndal, reserved-this cane for'the opinion of the judges, as tn-wheiher it is puniihable nudes LOW Ellenhorough's.act.L. If it. be not an offence punishable by that statute, the sooner it is brought within its provisions the better, fur there .is no possibility of guarding against attacks of this nafure.l • ...•, Mee uett or a Sox BY HIS ATIIEIt.-011 Friday morning, Mr. Stanynoneht, the proprietor of a public library and.newspaper office, Edgcware-road, London. murdered his eldest sun, a lad about nine years of age, by fracturing his skull with a boot jack. Mr. Stanynotight after the commission of the act, inflicted a frightful wuuud on his own breast with a large clasp knife, which, however, did not destroy him. On the previous evening he took his son, of whom he was very fond, to see an exhibition of the " Parisian. Infernal Machine." This sight, operating upon a mind almost reduced to a state of aberration, appears to have been the immediate cause of this melancholy catastrophe. Lord NVestern, who has been paying his annual 'visit to Buxton, was lately attacked by so severe a fit of illness, as to render the immediate proisssi(nat assistance of Sir Charles Scuds inure and Mr. Flint indiseensable. His lordship was fur sotue days consdered in much* danger, but by accounts which reached us yesterday, we are happy to say that he is in a state of convalescence. Ecc La s.—This annual wake, degenerated from a pious motive and a useful custom to a veason of insane revelry, commenced sin Monday. It attracted from this town droves of people, the well dressed, the shabby genteel, the genteel vulgar and the vularly genteel, with all the tag-rag and bob-tail .of light carts on springs, and heavy carts minus the springs. Eccles is famed far and near for those barbaric abominations called bull baits, of which we can never hope to see an end until their promoters are made to take the place of the dogs, and the bullowner to endure the torture inflicted on his hapless beast. It is hard to say wherein consists the attraction of an English bullbait. In Spain they manage things indifferently, but here the sole pleasure. consists in seeing a fine animal tethered in a small rink the floor a puddle, dashed with spots of blood and ltant ; a circle of human brutes, grim-visaged, and unpitying, stand cursing and howling around him ; two ur three of the same species keeping the ring—one nearly naked, and both having most probably rolled in the mud from head to heel-, their hair, (such as they had) skin, and clothes caked with mud, and their eyes peered from mud sockets. Therestands the majestic animal, with a round compact flank, a deep and strung shoulder, and a white dewlap tinged with blood, blood trickling down one cheek from a wound beneath the eve, and his right ear is bleeding and ragged with the teeth of the dogs, one moment he tosses his head above the crowd and takes a snuffof the cool air, the next his forehead is to the ground, his horns set and his eve upon the dog. It runs at its antagonist, and flying eight yards above his head falls with both its fore legs broken ; another comes and its thigh is smashed; a third takes the ball by the bleeding ear, hut the indignant beast sends it from his teeth and tramples it under foot. Such are the feats of this game-bull. Would that right had always the power to repel oetrage.— Manchester Chronicle.  _  imptriat Vartiamtat.