The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-04-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TME GALVANIC TELEGRAPH.—The first intelligence of the arrival of his Royal Highness Prince Albert in England from Germany, on Thursday week, was communicated to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, by means of the galvanic telegraph on the line of the Great Western Railway. Within one minute of the arrival of his royal highness at the Paddington terminus, the information had reached Slough, at which station a special messenger was stationed by command of the Queen, and who proceeded with the intelligence to the Castle, where he arrived in eight minutes and a half from the time of his leaving Slough. LORD FRANKFORT AGAIN !—A suit, in the nature of an appeal from the Consistory Court of London, has just been decided, in which this notorious personage and Lady Frankfort were the appellants and respondents. The former objected to the decision of the court below. which, on the ground of adultery committed by him, had allotted £550 as alimony pending suit, and £BOO pe: annum as permanent alimony; and the latter objected also to these sums as being too small, considering that she had to support and educate their two children, one of them heir to the title. It was proved that his lordship's income of £15,000 a year only yielded him £2,500 to £3,000 a year; and the Arches' Court decided, under the circumstances, that the alimony of £550 pendeute tile should have been £550 per annum, and not for the four months only during which the suit heated ; and the permanent alimony was correctly fixed at £BOO per annum. MURDEROUS ATTACK AND EXTRAORDINARY DEFENeE.—In the township of Dilworth, some eight or ten miles from Preston, there is a house known by the name of Cuckoo-hall, which is occupied by two brothers, Richard and Edward Hubbersty, the only other inmate being a housekeeper. On Tuesday night last, at twelve o'clock, Richard Hobbersty was woke from sleep by the barking of the dog. The watchfulness of the animal had been excited by the sudden bursting open of the door, and the entrance of three strange men. Richard Hubbersty went down stairs, and was instantly set upon by the three ruffi • ans. Being a powerful man, though fifty-six years old, he returned with interest the blows dealt to him by the assailants, calling to his brother for assistance. The brother, who is sixty-two years old, went dewu, and a fierce battle ensued, the assassailants dealing heavy blows with heavy instruments which they carried, cutting and bruising the heads and arms of the brothers severely, and occasionally igniting Lucifer matches to direct their attacks. At lenth Richard Hubbersty obtained possession of a crow-bar from one of the villains, and they were with difficulty expelled, and the door forcibly closed upon them, But the men returned to renew the attack, and complete their intended work of plunder or murder, or both, or perish in the attempt ; and they again forced the door and gained admission into the house, and commenced, and continued till the worn-out strength of the Hub. berstys compelled them to express their readiness to give up all the money they possessed or any other property i that might be demanded. The money n the house amounted to £5, with which the robbers, sorely against their will were obliged to rest satisfied. From the quantity of blood, and the marks about the door, terrible blows must have been dealt on both sides, and the ruffians must have suffered severely. The heads of the two brothers are dreadfully cut, and they are bruised over their entire bodies. Cuckoo-hall, the scene of this sanguinary outrage, is situate about three miles from Longridge, and belongs to the brothers Hubbertsty, who, being men of supposed rather penurious habits, were, no doubt, expected to be in possession of a much larger stock of ready money than was met with.