The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-09-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NEAR SPALDING.— On Friday morning last the inhabitants of this village were by..Lhex.roeport that Miss Mary thrown into a state of alarm Spencer was murdered. The a day rly i: n—a consisting and resided Mary Spencer kept in a small cottage left by her father, pt iwnog .rr0000mm: on the ground-floor, the smaller l'aeiengsteing;efe ,to children the the other as the house and school-room, went, as usual, on Friday morning, at nine o.li decease-i's house, and on opening the door across a form in the school-room, dressed only ;theyer clothes, and a quantity of blood upon the floornightclothes, ran away in terror, and told a neighbour ar.,,lllehad seen. The person, on going to the spot, saw Mary Spencer cer lying across a form as described, and on Mr. Morris, a-su-r-geon, of Gosberton, being called in, he found a wound fromthe right ear under the throat to the chest. about 9 inches in length, and dividing the carotid artery, and pronounced that she must have bled to death. On examining the house, it appeared that a back window adjoining the bed had been broken open, and that the murderer had made an entrance. It is supposed that the deceased in attempting to escape got near the street door, but was pulled back by the monster and stabbed as described. It is supposed that be was alarmed, and then made off. A man named William Himowett, a labourer, was apprehended on Friday night, on Ton, undr the following circumstances :—On the day of the.d discover Mr. Loughlaml, a land surveyor, whilst measuring some land, met a neighbour, and talking about this tragical by takineijent, a labourer (the father of Howett) was sitting tin, might refreshment, and listening to the conversa.out all night " I wonder what Bill's been up to ;he was land immenocliamiti and came home all over blood." Mr. Loughstable, at Y informed Mr. Sooms, a very active coninquest was heidg:"' who took Howett into custody. The atrithe Red Lion Inn, at Quadring, on Saturday, and was ourned to yesterday, (Thursday.) No doubt is entertainerw as. to the guilt of the prisoner. We hear that a clasp knife found upon him with blood upon it. He is deaf and dumb, though quite sane, and about twentysix years of age. The dec wad much respected. easo was forty-one years of age,  ruE Ql/13ENT VISIT TO SCOT!  Wedne  The dinner party a The Queen and Prince Al  Palace on Friday consisted of— lbert, the Duke and Duchess o  urQh Standa  HER MAJESTY * the  DALKEITH  Buccleuch, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Earl and Countess of Morton, Lord Viscount Melville, the Countess of Had dington, Lord Elcho, Lord and Lady John Scott, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Balfour, Sir James Clarke, Miss Paget, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of Eglington, General Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, Mr. Anson, Hon. Miss Dundas, Dr. Welsh, Moderator of last Assembly, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Earl of Liverpool. On Saturday the dinner party were—Lord and Lady Belhaven, the Lord Registrar of Scotland, Hon. Capt. Dundas and Miss Dundas, Sir John Hope, the Lord Advocate, the Officers of the Inniskilling Dragoons. Sunday her Majesty and Prince Albert attended divine service within the palace, when the Rev. E. B. Ramsey, of St. John's Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh, preached from Isaiah al, and the latter part of the 9th verse. A temporary pulpit was fitted up in the dining-room, where divine service was performed on the occasion. In the evening the Duches of Buccleuch drove the Queen through the Park in a low pony phaeton and pair, Prince Albert and the Duke of Buccleuch attended on horseback. They returned to the Palace about seven o'clock. We may add that Sir Robert Peel, with the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool, and Mr. Anson attended divine service in the afternoon, in the parish Church of Dalkeith, when Mr. Duncan, assistant minister of the parish, lectured on the 14th chapter of the Gospel according to John. In the evening Sir Robert and the Earl of Aberdeen took a stroll through the grounds, and issuing out at the Lugton gate, came along the high road into Dalkeith, and courteously returned the salutations of the passengers.