The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-04-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AT A PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION.—Saturday night week was observed by the tenantry of G. Lort Phillips, Esq., for the celebration of that gentleman coming into the Laurenny estate, Haverfordwest, upon the decease of Sir William Owen Barlow, Bart. On that occasion Mr. Phillips gave away several barrels of ale at the little village of Rosemarket, and the event was signalised with bonfires, fireworks, and other demonstrations of joy. The novelty of the scene caused a great number of persons to assemble, and amongst the number was the unfortunate deceased, Mr. Stevens, a respectable farmer-at Westburyhill, and William Jones, the person charged with the murder, who is styled a shipwright. Mr. Stevens, with some other parties, retired to the New Inn, to partake of a social glass, free from the noise and tumult which pre vailed on the grounds. The prisoner came into the room where the deceased was, several times during the evening. About twelve o'clock the deceased and a gentleman named Barron left the house together, in order to go home. They had barely proceeded twelve yards on their journey when the deceased received a tremendous blow from the prisoner, who had evidently been lying in wait for him, which felled him to the ground, and be never spoke afterwards. He lingered in the most excruciating agony until the following day, when he died. Jones was -taken into custody, and the coroners jury the next day reterned a verdict of wilful murder against him. The cause that prompted the prisoner to take away the life of an unoffeading man i 3 enve'oped in mystery. He states that the deceased struck him first, but that was disproved by those who saw the fatal blow given. THE HOUSE Tax.—The following is the resolution to bo proposed in committee on the Assessed Taxes Act by the Chancellor of the Exchequer :—" That the duties granted by the Act 48 Geo. UT., c. 55, and now payable in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Theed and in Scotland, respectively, upon a welling-houses, and levied and assessed according to the number of windows or lights therein, as set forth in the schedule marked (A) to the said Act annexed, shall be levied and assessed upon inhabited dwelling-houses in and throughout Great Britain, according to the annuc.l value thereof, in the manner following—for every inhabited dwelling-house, which, with the household and other offices, yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged, is or shall be worth the rent of £2O or upwards by the year ; where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person in trade, who shall expose to sale, and sell any goods, wares, or merchandise in any shop or warehouse, being part of the same dwelling-house, and in the front, and on the ground or basement story thereof. And also, where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine, or other liquors, although the room or rooms thereof, in-which any such liquors  shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed, shall not bo such shop or warehouse as aforesaid. And also, where any such dwelling-house shall be a farm-house occupied by a tenant, and bona fide used for the purpose of husbandry only, there shall he charged for every 11 twenty shillings of the annual value of any such dwellinghouse, the sum of sixpence. And where any such dwelling-house shall not be occupied and used for any such purpose and in manner aforesaid, there shall be charged for every twenty shillings of the annual value thereof, the sum of ninepence."