The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-08-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DINNER TO SIR ROBERT SALE AND SIB. "W. NOTT.—• On Wednesday evening the Court of Directors of the India Company gave an entertainment, in their characteristic style of magnificence and sumptuous hospitality, to celebrate the return to their native land of those two  distinguished officers, whose achievements have stood so proudly prominent during the late Affghan war. It was an occasion worthy of the distinguished purpose to which it was dedicated, and nothing could be more gratifying than to witness this eminent association of merchant princes assembled to hail, with a welcome worthy of them, two of their glorious veterans, on their return from that distant empire which their skill and valour so powerfully contributed to defend. Unfortunately, indisposition, the consequence of severe and harassing campaigning, prevented Sir W. Nott from attending to receive personally the high compliment which it was intended he should share. Amongst the ladies in the gallery were Ladies Sale and Nott, the former being accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Sturt. Their presence was hailed with repeated bursts of acclamation ; indeed the least allusion to the heroic conduct of the former lady was, during the evening, the signal for renewed plaudits. The dinner took place at the London Tavern. The Chairman of the East India Company presided. Amongst the distinguished guests we noticed the Earl of Ripon, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord G. Somerset, Lord Eliot, Sir R. Peel, Sir G. Murray, &c. The company  consisted of about 150. MURDER IN MANCItESTER.—A woman, named Jane Millins, 52 years of age, was barbarously murdered between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock, on Wednesday morning, in Bradshaw-street, Hulme, Manchester. It appears that she was married, and that her husband is living. In the house with them lodged a machine-maker, named George Evans, who, for the last few days, appeared idling and loitering about. On Wednesday morning, Millins went to his work and left Evans in bed. When be came back to his dinner, at 12 o'clock, he found the front door fast, and upon forcing it open discovered the dead body of his wife lying upon the floor. She had evidently been dragged from the front room into the kitchen? her head bad literally been smashed to pieces with an iron instrument, since found on the premises, and made something in the form of a life-preserver, with a large iron knob at the end. The supposed murderer, Evans, who is a native of Bristol, made his escape, taking with him all the money in the house, and a box of wearing apparel belonging to another lodger. His father is a cooper at Bristol, and his connexions are decent working people. He left Manchester shortly after the murder by the Liverpool train. He was taken Into custody on Thursday morning, at 2 o'clock, by nspector Anders, in a street near the Clarence Dock. Anders took his prisoner to the Police-office, High-street, where he detained him till the following morning. He then left by the seven o'clock train for Manchester. Whilst sitting in the Police-office here, in the middle of the night, the prisoner killed a mouse which wasp layinhge t thane theutmostlevity, remarkedanotherthoseprisoner.Thedoesthein a