The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-05-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PHYSICIAI,  AND SURGEON  11^PEFCRI PTION  ACCURATELY PREPARI FAMILY AND 05.0.4 AtEDlew CIIE  FITTED UP,  .aie save by water ; neither carriage nor horse being able to drag or flounder through the deep miry ground by which it is at that season, as it were, entrenched. Houston is seventy or eighty miles inland, (a long distance within the " nslrrow strip,") and yet Mr. Kennedy says, that " persons will be quite safe by retiring fifty or To " retire" to Houston in summer  y inaccess  sixty miles inland." is exactly the same yard to see his own grave dug. Take newly arrived emigrants on the average, and not two in ten would survive twelve months. Perhaps, after all, the best proof that can be adduced in evidence of the essential and radical unhealthiness of the country that " requires no physicians," is to be found in the fnllnscinrr enrinna Get !—The  _ ermed such, is common enough in Galveston, as many a limping hero and heroine there can well attest. Should an individual chance, especially during the burning summer months, to knock off, or graze by accident, any portion of the skin of the hands or legs— Farts most liable to such petty disorders—parts most liable to such petty disustera—the chances ate sure to be of verymuchjn fi.ivour of the injury, however slight, be nd eventually  I henc  4p thHt ii  maica, and absconded with tl hn is a man of dark cor appeared to be about 26 wears  ie customs o im of £750, The prisoner, w pinion and well•dressed  age. He was defended by Nit. Davenport. Beard being sworn, stated thnt in the year 1840 he was ac landing•waiter in the customs devartment, Kingstr maica, and at that time the prisoner was a clerk Customs, Two nr three dno. .Frpr .6.. 1.  was missed. Witness believed that the prisoner was the man who committed the robbery; he knew him well, and he recollected that at the time be was in the set vice of the Customs, he went by the name of  prisoner was remandcd tha  nquiries migh  be made in  ,ondon. On Friday  a letter was read in town to the effect that the Customs would not prosecute, as they should have to send the prisoner to Jamaica for trial, and as it might be difficult to procure a conviction, as the circumstances occurred eight years ago, and some of the necessary witnesses might nct be forthcoming. He will, however, be tried in London for robbing his late employer, Mr. Hoof, the railway con •eautur, ul tilt aunt VI AV, Vll oaturuay, um prisoner was brought up again, when,• by Mr. Rushton's orders, he was given up to a London Inspector of Police, who bad come down. At the prisoner's lodgings in Pitt-street, the sum of £2O, and a large bundle of tr scripts were found, which were taken possessi of the manuscripts, which, if put in type, v tolerably-sized pamphlet, was entitled " The Trag the Knive and the Dupe,  i form a  nd was in the prisoner' The scene is laid in one of the loves  handwriting  quarters orthe metropolis, and the piece is made to end in the murder of the Dupe. The prisoner descril  author  that he was a native of Birmingham, and that he had come to Liverpool sfter having attended the Cheiter races. He was a " smart man," apparently about twent eight years of age. He can read and write manner, and held his situation in Mr. Hoc_ ment about two months. Jr is said that, in tl bills of indictment 1 time to time been found against bin],  of America. sf  n a superior