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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TRIAL OF ANNETTE MEYERS FOR THE MURDER OF HENRY DUCKER.—On Friday at the Old Bailey, Annette Moyers was put on her trial for the murder of Henry Decker,. a soldier in the Coldstream Guards. She appeared hut little Agitated *hen she took her place in the dock. but became more affected as the trial proceeded. It is unnecessary to re-state the evidence. She was-found guilty, The jury strongly recommended her to • mercy, on account of the extraordinary provocation she received. The judges then. pct on their black caps, and the Chief Baron passed sentence of death in the u •ual form. The prisoner was then removed from the dock without, uttering a word. She looked very pale, and was seated during the trial, and kept her handkerchief to her face nearly the whole time, and appeared to be crying. ' A HEALTHY ThsTitlCT.—The parish of Romaldkirk, North Yorkshire, is the largest in extent in the kingdom, with the exception of one other. It contains a population of 2379 persons, and within its wide circuit are the town' ships of Cotherstone (from which Mr. Bowes' celebrated ' rare horse received its name) and Mickleton, which has likewise given a name to that gentleman's racer, the • Mickleto-n Maki. For the last six months only, sixteen deaths have taken place, and not a single case of irillitenza or fever has occurred. Amongst the deaths were very old people:—one died at the age of 101, another 94, another 92'. another 84, and two 79. Although-sanatory regulations are required in many parts of the- country, our friends in the district, we have named appear free from all disease, and to die only of sheer °Haire. WILL OF THE LATE EARL OF H nnowfiy.:---Ptohate of the will of the late Right Honourable Dudley Earl of Harrowbv. of Sanflon-hall. Stafford, and Grosvenorsquare, London, was granted on the Ist instant, to his son, the present Earl of Harowby, (heretofore Viscount Sandon,) the acting executor, a power being reserved to his son, the Honourable Granville Dudley Ryder, to prove the stone hereafter, being also an executor named in the will, which bears date the 10th of July, 1840. The personal property was estimated for duty at £60,000. The manor and lordship .of Harrowby, in Linaolushire, and all his messuages„ tenements, and hereditaments, with -the lands and wools in H trrowby, Somersby, Grantham, and Rapsley. all in Lincolnshire. his linalship has d.vised and bequeathed to his son the Earl of Harrowhy, sal  two contingent annuities of £2OO each to, two of hi  daughter 4  THE APPROACHING Comm—The following particulars respecting the portentous visitant of the soar system were delivered by Mr. H. Althana, before the Hackney Literary and Scientific Institution, at the Mermaid Assembly ooms. •The last appearance of this eccentric stranger took place on the 511 of March, 1556. From the left wing of the sign Virgo, it passed by the constellation Bootes,- and ascendA to the northern pole of the ecliptic ; thence, by Andromeda, it came to the northern Fish, where is was lost. In its middle course it was most.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-08-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FnmAy. On the motion for going into committee en the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill, some discussion took place, in which Mr. SPOONER' Sir J. TYRRELL, Mr. NEWDEOATE, Lord J. RUSSELL, and Sir R. INoLts, took part; but eventually the committee was resumed without a division, and the remaining clauses of the bill were agreed to.  name of Thomas, alto was some time ago transported. Two years after his transportation she married the prisoner, but this marriage was null and void, because Thomas was still living, and also because the prisoner was himself a married man at the time he contracted marriage with the deceased. She (the deceased) lived with the prisoner as his wife for some time, and then certain disputes having occurred between them, she left him and proceeaed to London. There, she visited her married sister, but she shortly after returned to Manchester, in order to pursue her own occupation, that of working at the Hanover mills. She was frequently importuned by the prisoner to go and live with him again, but she declined the offer. About halfpast five o'c ock on the morning of the 25th of June, she was on her way to the mills, and when she had got to Stevenson_ square,. a witness named Murray saw her in company with the prisoner. Some quarrelling was then taking place between them. She was angry, but he was comparatively calm. They went on until they got to the corner of Friday-street, and there she was beard to say to the prisoner " If you don't leave me I will alarm the neighbourhood." The prisoner said to her " You mean to die, do you?" He then took a pistol from his pocket. She ran, and he followed her. She screamed, and several persons were attracted by the screams. He pulled the trigger of the pistol, and snapped it at her, but it did net go off the first time. He then caught her by the clothes, and turned her head round towards him; he then fired the pistol; the bullet passed through her brain, and in a very few minutes afterwards she was a corpse. He was taken into• custody on the instant. He appeared at the time perfectly cool, sober, and collected, but the smell of drink was upon him. He put the pistol quietly in his pocket,„and said, " I loved the woman and I will die forher." To another person he said, " I am quite satisfied with what I have done." He then took out another loaded pistol, with which he said he intended to "exterminate" himself, had he not been so suddenly apprehended. About seventeen days before the murder, lie went to the Hanovermills, and asked to see the deceased, but she having declined to leave her work, he said, "If ever man had woman's life, 1 will have hers." He then pulled out a pistol, and said, "This is the weapon that will do it. Two loaded pistols having been found upon his person at that time, lie was taken before the magistrates, but he was shortly after discharged, and the pistols were restored to him, and in about a fortnight afterwards he put his many threats into execution, by shooting the unfortunate female through the head. prisoner was found guilty.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MAN FOR IRISH MURDERERS.  Mr. Armitage Moore, the agent to Lord Annesley, was lately travelling in the county of Cavan for the obnoxious purpose of collecting rent. When near Baker's-bridge, he was attacked by two ruffians, but providentially escaped with his life. Four days afterwards he called a meeting of the Drumlane tenantry at his office. in Cavan. at which two hundred of them presented themselves. He then addressed to them a speech which seems to have produced a vivid effect upon his audience. After detailing the circumstances of the attack, Mr. Moore proceeds thus :1 " These fellows were your emissaries, paid by you, and acting under your orders. You imagined that by murdering me, and sending me into eternity with all my sins upon my head, you would not have to pay your rents. But you were mistaken. You did this after my living ten years with you, and spending upwards of £lO,OOO amongst you. I advanced you loans out of my own pocket of from £5 to £35 each—is not this true ? (Several voices— 'ltis ; it is.') Was it for this you sought to murder me ? Or was it for procuring an abatement of 50 per cent. upon your last two years' rent ? I went amongst you in your distress, more like a pedlar than anybody else, distributing blankets and giving clothes to your children—and was it for this you sought to murder me. I purchased meal in large quantities when it was dear and gave it out to you —the most of it for nothing—and some, to those whom I thought able to pay, at half-price, the greatest part of which money has never been repaid me—l ask you, was it for this you thought to murder me ? A great many voices cried out Shame ! shame !" It is every word true ;' You were always a kind landlord to us, &c. One voice louder than the rest exclaimed, By G—, it is a shame ! and Mr. Moore tells nothing but the truth !' " After rebuking their ingratitude he appeals to their fears in the following terms :—" Now, I tell you, I will go down amongst you; but for the future I will go armed, yes, to the teeth, and compel you to pay your rent. And I tell you further, you shall never get one shilling allowance until you drag that ruffian to justice. You have him secreted, and you know where he is. * * * * * That disgraceful and murderous act was concocted in your Rib' bon Lodges at night, when honest men should be sleeping in their beds. If von want to shoot me, give me a chance for my life and I will stand out before you. I will face the bullet of any man, only let him give me a man's chance. You had your men ready and you hired them. One of them you have at present covered : now, unless you bring forward this fellow and deliver him into the hands of the authorities, I will put every one of these decrees into force before twenty-four hours. I am now ready to receive rent from- those amongst you who are ready to pay." from: Mr. Moore then retired into the office; some few followed, apparently to settle their accounts, but the majority went away without paying.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-12-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PHONETIC SPELLING.—The amount of ignorance and armed, with intent to beat down all resistance, to kill the consequent misery and crime, which prevails in our coma- police or other respectable persons who might interfere to try, has called the attention of the whole nation to devise prevent their purposes, and some man at one end of the means for reducing it. After trying the punishing system crowd kills another, those at the other end would be for years. men have at last perceived that the preventive guilty of murder though they knew nothing about it ; and is the most effectual, and educational establishments for the only difference would probably he, that the parties the poor are consequently rising fast over the country. who did not commit the act would not be so severely The reports of the commissimiers sent by government to punished. Still all would be guilty, and liable to the examine their efficiency, is, however, very discouraging. same punishment. But inasmuch as that depended upon While we know that one-half of our population is unable the circumstance that all must have the common purpose to write, and one-third unable to read, it is' melancholy to and common intent, they ought to see how far the cornfind it stated by Mr. Mosely, in reference to 217 schools mon intent of the whole 'Tilly went, because it would be of the midland district examined by him, that one-half of unjust to visit all with punishment when some had gone the. children leave the schools, and are absorbed into the beyond the original intent of all. His Lordship then relabouring community of the country, not being able to ferred to a case tried before him in the year 1839, which read or write. An attempt is now being made to strike was for the murder of a policeman in Liverpool, and on at the cause of this deplorable result of etiaritahle efforts that occasion he stated what he conceived to be the law to increase the knowledge of our labouring poor. The of the case which subsequent reflection had not caused him cause is simply the great difficulties which they experience to alter. The jury, he thought very properly, found all in learning to read, owing to the absurdities and complex- guilty of manslaughter only, they believing that the mob ities of our present mode of spelling, to some of which on that occasion only contemplated giving the constable we intend referring at a future period. A system of spell- a severe beating. In the ease to come bcfor,-.0.ing has been devised by MeSsrs. Isaac Pitman and Alex- Jury however, a deadly weanon John Ellis."!A_P  one man  being t  _ . h will render the acquisition it ‘ias murder in any case, if usei of a task, and brief instead Lordship then read the following This system has been alreatlylso the case, which formed part of his c found so many supporters, that we the trial of Inspector Ross :  are inst  of insufferably long far. developed, and t  Tinted in  nice with  r Ying 01 SBCCe  em intere,t.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-09-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WAS 15.155- iu first-named, 14 were by special license, 17,135 were by license, 92,995 by bans, 1,862 by Superintendent Regis' trar's certificate, and 18,503 "not stated by which of the foregoing forms." Of the marriages not according to the established church, there were in registered places of worship, 10,693 (of which, 3,027 were in Roman Catholic chapels, and 7,669 in the chapels of other denominations); 4,167 in Superintendent Registrar's office, 68 Quakers, and 224 Jews. In 1846 the number of men married who were not of age was 6,313 ;of women, 20,001. The widowers who re-married were 18,343 ; the widows, 12,128: The men who, being unable to write their own names, signed with marks, were 47,488, the women not less than 70,145. The age at which the greatest number of marriages takes place, both of men and women, is from 20 to 25 years. Then 20,519 bachelors married the same unit ber of spinsters ; 871 bachelors married widows ; 1,970 widowers married spinsters ; 996 widowers married widows. Three women were led to the altar betwean the mature age of 75 and 80; two between 70 and 4 (whereof one found a partner of a less age than 30), an five between 65 and 70. Of the men 20 were married between 65 and 70 ; seven between 70 and 75 (one oi•, whom married a woman of a less age than 25) ; and four between 75 and 80 years of age. Two CHILDREN KILLED BY AN INSANE WOMAN On Wednesday, the inhabitants of Willenhall, a large manufacturing parish, three miles from Wolverhampton' were alarmed by a report that a woman named Maria ' Jones, wife of Enoch Jones, whimseyman at a pit, 10'"" killed her own child, Edwin, a boy 18 months old, also a niece 12 years of age, by cutting their throats. ,;" seemed that Mrs. Jones had been attacked with a religv ous monomania, and it was deemed necessary to place her in the lunatic ward of the Wolverhampton workhouse. She was removed thence on Wednesday morning last, at the instance of two female relatives, apparently better. According to a statement which she made, the morning' after the occurrence, to Abbott, the governor of the workhouse, she sent her niece with the baby to bed before eight o'clock, and retired to rest herself shore/ after, but could not sleep, and the thought came into her head that she must kill her child, as it would be damned, owing to its having been christened by a Roman Catholic clergyman. She then got up and sought for a razor ; hut• not finding one, took a black-handled knife, sharpened it on a steel, proceeded up stairs, cut the girl's throat from ear to ear, and afterwards completely severed the child! head from its body. She then raised an alarm that sh' had murdered the children, and endeavoured to cut her own throat, but only inflicted a slight wound. Although at times she seems tolerably composed, yet at other elti ments she bitterly reproaches herself, and has endeavon7, to strangle herself, and threatened to kill the pers„"watching her. She and her husband were in very CO fortable circumstances, and religious frenzy alone see`"" to have prompted her. A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-05-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE.--A young farmer at Hindon, a few days since lent a female fortune-teller £B, to rule the planets in order to tell his fortune. The woman has never been seen since, and the farmer " curses his stars" daily. The Lancaster Guardian says that the Lords of the Admiralty have given their consent to the construction of an embankment from the Cartmel side of the Ulverston Sands to the Back Scarrs, a distance of about three quarters of a mile.  Mr. Feargus O'Connor, in a speech at Nottingham, on Easter Monday, said, " lie had created the mind—he had ordered the mind—and to him must be left, in a great measure, the future direction o f the mind—of the working classes."  The Gateshead Observer says that a young gentleman residing in London travels to Newcastle every Saturday, in order to visit the fair one whose bewitching charms have enslaved his heart, and returns to London in time for business on Monday.  The widow of Shirley, the murdered gamekeeper at Raby Castle, has lately given birth to a posthumous son, at Raby, and the Duke of Cleveland has conferred upon her an ample annuity, and undertaken to attend •to the interests of her three children.  A treasury warrant, published in the Gazette modifies the regulations respecting books and pamphlets sent by post, in so far that henceforth the senders are allowed to write nn any leaf of any hook, or on the binding thereof, provided that all the writing be on the same page of the book, or corresponding portion of the binding. The Times, in recommending emigration under government auspices, says, " Six weeks and as many pounds suffice to plant the poor peasant where neither title-deeds, nor mortgages, nor judgment-bonds, nor county cess, nor standing water, shall interfere with his axe or his spade." As the Rev. E. D. Tinling, inspector of schools for the western countries, was driving a small four-wheel carriage containing his wife and a servant through the streets of Exeter, the horse became restive and upset the vehicle, when the whole party were thrown out, and Mrs. Tinling was so much injured that her life is in great danger. At the Llanerchymedd petty sessions, last week, before the Hon. W. C. Stanley, -Agnes Williams, an old woman aged S 4, preferred a charge of assault against two persons. She was attended by her father, a man of 106 years of age, who called the old dame his " girl," and said she should not be put upon. There are now in England alone 260 mechanics' institutions in active operation, besides about 400 which were in abeyance on account of the state of trade in some districts . In these 260 institutions the average number of members is 222, and the total number of persons receiving education from them being 58,109. There are also about fifty smaller institutions, furnishing lectures and libraries, averaging 150 members each ; the total number altogether being 65,609.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-01-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE DUCHESS OF BORDEAUX.—The Romish clergy, to whom the government of July had made so many advances and concessions, have chosen to elevate the pregnancy of the Duchess to the importance of a political event. The following document is now universally diffused, which we republish at the risk of profanation : " Forty pra era to the Holy Virgin to implore God to perpetuate the race of St. Louis. " 0 Lord, have mercy upon us ! Jesus, listen to us ! Jesus, hear us ! Holy Spirit, have mercy upon us! Holy and faithful Trinity, have mercy upon us! " Holy Mary, mother of Jesus, pray for us! St. Michael, St. Denis, St. Remy, St. Louis, patrons and protectors of France, pray for us !  . " St. Anne, pray for her! St. Clotilde, pray for her ! St. Radegonde, pray for her ! St. Bathilde, &c., pray for her !  "By our Lady of Loretto. hear her, 0 Lord ! By our Lady of Liessa, accomplish her desires and complete her joy, 0 Lord ! By our Lady of Paris, realize, 0 Lord, our wishes and her hopes ! " Remember, 0 pious Virgin Mary, your former mercies in favour of France; and, as formerly, cause our prayers to your Divine Son to be crowned with complete success  PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN MARY  " Holy Virgin. 0 Divine Mary, Mother of our Divine Saviour ! we, full of the recollections of your former goodmess, bumply prostrate at your feet, have recourse to your maternal heart in order to implore you to solicit from Jesus Christ, your Son, a mercy on behalf of France, which you have so well loved ; by your fecundity, so agreeable to God, induce him to revive the stem of St. Louis. for the honour of His holy name, the glory of religion, tho salvation of France, and the happiness and freedom of the people, and the perpetuity of the reign of our very Christian kings. Amen. " Three paters and three ayes  r—French Paper  IRELAND  A large crowd of hungry people broke the windows and tried to enter some bread shops at Kilkenny, on Tuesday. but a troop of soldiers soon dispersed them. An unfortunate woman, whilst suffering from derangement, murdered her husband whilst asleep, with a hatchet, at Killahara, in Tipperary, on Monday. On Friday week no less than one hundred and two half-starved creatures were committed to gaol at Galway, for stealing turnips, or the like articles of food. On the 13th instant, John Tracey, of Loughmore, during a paroxysm of insanity caused by fever, strangled his wife to death. At Clare Special Commission, two men named Butler and Hourigan have been convicted of the murder of Peter Cleary. They reeeived the announcement of their doom with apparent indifference. The Irish estates of the Duke of Buckingham are to be sold by auction in April next. They are of coasiderable extent, comprising no less than 25,000-statute acres, and are situate in the counties of Westmeath, Clare, Longford, and the Queen's County.