The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-11-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN CUMBERLAND.—On Saturday cvening last, about seven o'clock, as Joseph Little, of Iloueliton, was returning home, atter attending the Hemp. ton fair, three men and a boy sprang from the hedge-side, a short distance beyond the lode gate at the entrance to Rickerby Holme, and knocking him down, rifled his pockets, and abstracted 4s. 6d. in silver, aft w coppers. and a handkerchief. Ile feueht with the robbers as well as he could, but with such odds against him, was, of course, easily overpowered. When he was attempting to use his stick, one of them, finding all other attempts so wrest it from him faultless, pulled out a knife, and smashed his thumb nearly in two. The fellows then, hearing two men approaching decamped—in which direction Little was unable to perceive, owing to the darkness of the night. With the assistance of two men who came up to him, he succeeded in walking to the Boot Inn, Houghton, whence lie was conveyed home, in a cart, in a faint and exhausted state. Medical assistance was procured with as little delay as possib!e, and every means used to avert dangerous consequences. The unfortunate man believes he can identify the man who maltreated him, who, as well, as his companions, spoke an Irish brogue ; but no trace of them has as yet been obtained.— Carlisle Journal. SINGULAR ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHlLD.—Great excitement has prevailed in the neialibourhood of Merthyr since the 18th inst., in consequenCe of the following diabolical attempt to murder a child having been made by a single woman, named Ann Williams,mother of the infant. It appears that on the 17th inst. Daniel Davies, one of the gamekeepers to William Craveshaw, Esq. whilst going his round at a place called Gornos, on his master's estate, had his attention attracted by a noise, which he at first imagined proceeded from a. hare in a trap, but  on paying more attenttim, he found it to be the c°if of a child.. He looked round, and, after some SO he discovered a portion of a child's dress protrall from a rabbit hole, which was covered up with Int 4 and leaves. On removing the rubb sh, he found, in the hole, head foremost, a fine infant child, about weeks old. It was crying strongly, and its limbs We', black and blue with cold. He immediately took the Pn; child out, and handed it over to Mrs. Haryard, the of the head keeper, who took it home, gave it a In"—, bath, and by other kind treatment, saved its life. In ,letei oration having been given to the police, they 89certai q n that a young female had left Dowlais on the Tuestil morning, having a child with her. The child found 111; it ing been shown to her late landlady, she identified .„, having been the one the female left with. Search 1101; been made in all directions for this party, she was, length apprehended by police-constable Rees, st Glyn Cywr, near Bridgend. Upon the constable informing 10 of the nature of the charge against her, she pretended _ know nothing about the affair, but on her way hackle Merthyr she admitted that she placed the child in rabbit warren, and said her reason for so doing Was t'd she had no means to support it. The prisoner 01 that the child must have been left exposed in the hole t le. whole of one night and the greater portion of two dar She was fully committed to take her trial.