The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF A CHILD BY HIS FATHER.— last this town was thrown into a state of excitement by a rt. port that a little boy, about II years of age, named William Brain, had been poisoned by his own father, who is a gentle man's servant out of place. Unhappily the rumour was tr well founded; the man had been taken into custody, and body of his child discovered in a barn, situated on the I don .road. The circumstance was immediately made kr to Mr. E. Eagles, the coroner for the county, who ord, post fnorten; examination of the body of the child to be and on Thursday morning an inquest was held. nesses were examined, from whose evidence it appear Brain had administered arsenic to the child. Brain one of the witnesses, " I have taken some poison and 1 gave my child some ; I thought of dying tr He added, that the child had lost his money. Tb turned a verdict of wilful murder against the priso' Brain. He was then committed to take his trial at th assizes. We understand that his wife is living, but sh, been an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum for some time Abridged from the Bedford Mercury.  ie Jury re: er, Jame  We regret to learn that another fatal accident happened on the North Midland Railway, on Wednesday, at the same place as that on the previous Sunday, namely, Ambergate, near Belper, in Derbyshire. Two workmen, in the employ of a railway contractor, were walking► on the line, when they saw a train coming laden with coke ; to get out of the way of this train, they unfortunately stepped upon the parallel line of rails, not perceiving that at the same moment a pilot engine was passing in the opposite direction ; before it was possible to stop the engine, the men were both knocked down ; one of them was killed on the spot, and the other had his skull fractured, and is not likely to recover.—Dou. caster Gazette.  Quilp offers me this plac . ~ _ ,  WHY STRIVE WITH FATE!— which he says he can assure me,- ,„..._ thoughtful silence, and telling off the circumsta position, one by one, upon his fingers; " Fred, wt. have taken my affidavit, would not have heard of such backs Quilp to my astonishment, and urges me to take —staggerer, number one. My aunt in the country stq supplies, and writes me an affectionate note to say sh made a new will, and left me out of it—staggerer, ran two. No money ; no credit ; no support from Fred, seems to turn steady all at once ; notice to quit the old h ings—staggerers, three, four, five, and six. Under an cumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a agent. No man knocks himself down ; if his destiny kno him down, his destiny must pick him up again. Then I very glad that mine has brought all this upon itself, an, shall be as careless as I can,.and make myself quite at kol in spite of it. So go on my buck," said Mr. Swiveller, taki his leave of the ceiling with a significant nod, "and let us s which of us will be tired first.' Dismissing the subject of 11 downfall with these reflections, which were no doubt vet profound, and are indeed not altogether unknown in certai systems of moral philosophy, Mr. Swiveller shook off his de spondency, and assumed the cheerful ease of an irresponsibh clerk.--Master Humphrey's Clock.