The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-07-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GROSS IRREVERENCE.—A case has just been sent by the Bedford Petty Sessions before the Quarter Sessions, arising out of a quarrel at a Baptist Chapel, in which a secession has taken place, and both parties claiming possession, an attempt was made to administer the Lord's Supper in opposition to each other. Patrick Cane, John Hickey, and James M'Ellicott, three Irish labourers most concerned in the killing of Pollceman Chaplin in Lambeth a few weeks ago, were tried at the Central Criminal Court on Friday for the murder. Cane and Hickey were convicted of manslaughter and transported for fourteen years. M'Ellicott was acquitted. The Stamford Mercury says that a man named Matthews, of Waltham, was fined 13s. on Tuesday week, for using a "charm" upon a woman of Scalford, for the purpose of curing the jaundice. The woman declared that doctors could do her no good whatever, and that this man had completely cured her complaint in a very few days. Two men, Luke Blyth, engineman, and Dennis, stoker, on board a tug steamer which was off Hartlepool on Sunday, quarrelled violently about the management of the engine, and fought w.th ferocity. In the scuffle, before the only other person on board could part them, they grappled, and both rolled overboard into the sea : they sank at once, and never rose again. At Doncaster, a few days ago, Jane Pool, fourteen years of age, died very suddenly. An inquest was held on her body, and the jury, having heard medical and other evidence relative to her death, returned a verdict, that the deceased had died by natural causes, but they believed that her death had been greatly accelerated, if not originally caused, by tight lacing. A respectable man, named Bidlake, was run over by a train near Totness, on Tuesday morning. He was lying on the rails, and was subject to fits, but whether he had fallen in one could not be ascertained. The accident occurred at a sudden turn of the line, which prevented the driver seeing the unfortunate man in time to stop the train.  A Hull journal states. that a man named Matthew Reed, residing in the borough of Scarborough, made the following curious return of his •' live stock" to the census collector :—" Matthew Reed, Sanak Reed, son Matthew Reed, thomas Reed, catren Reed, elsebeth Reed, tu poll parrots, tu cats, on Canare, (one canary,) and how many fleas (how many mice) I don't know." The Lady Godiva procession at Coventry took place on Tuesday, and was conducted with unusual splendour, a circumstance to which the favourable state of the weather very materially contributed. It was calculated that there were more than 60,000 persons present, there being, it was believed, at least 30,000 strangers in the town. The procession itself was not far short of a mile in length. The Mayor of Hull has agreed, in compliance with a requisition from 4000 working men, to call a meeting "for the purpose of urging upon the Municipal Corporation, the Corporation of the Trinity-House. and the Dock Company, the necessity of early and adequate reductions of the charges upon shipping and merchandise at that port, so as to correspond with the charges of neighbouring ports."