The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—George Clarke, one of the metropolitan police, a division of which has lately been extended into the royal districts of Ess-x, was murdered on the morning of Tuesday week, while on his beat —a desolate and unfrequented road near Dagenham. Ho was met by the inspector at one o'clock that morning, but was reported absent at three, and his continued disappearance excited considerable alarm. Search was made, and late on Friday evening his body was found lying in a ditch about a quarter of a mile from the road, in a potato field, where he could have no business except in the pursuit of some person. A policeman's staff was first found, and then his cutlass sticking in the hedge. His throat was cut in several places, and there was a deep cat ,t the back of his neck, extending t- tk-  the spine. The forefinger of his left hand was also cut through. The struggle with the deceased must have been of a de.iperate nature, the corn being trodden down ten or twelve yards round where the body lay, and when it was disc veered a large quantity of wheat was found grasped in the right hand. The deceased had not been robbed, and his money and watch were safe. He is said to have been a quiet and inoffensive man, and had not long been in the neighbourhood. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday afternoon, when such evidence was offered as is expected to lead to the apprehension of the murderers, but the particulars are not published lest the ends of justice might be frustrated. It is supposed that he was mistaken for another officer, who had made himself obnoxious, by his vigilance, to the low characters of the neighbourhood.. On Saturday, another of the officers of the same division was killed as he was returning on horseback from Fairlop fair.  GcrTATro v.—William WilberfPrce began life as a country gentleman, with an income of £12,000 a year. He toiled through more than thirty Sears of Parliamentary strife, payil,g largely, year by year, the expenses of his warfare with slavery; and died at last, having just witnessed the triumph of the cause to which he had sacrificed his life and fortune, and having just said his last acre! An offer was made to him, at the close of his career, to purchase for him, by a private subscription, a new estate, as the gift of the grateful British people. The offer was thankfully bat firmly declined; though he who refused it had to take shelter under the roof of his son's parsonage. John Howard spent his life and fortune in endeavouring to improve the condition  THE WAGES OF  of the most degraded portion of Europe's denizens—the inhabitants of prisons. John Owen gave up the best portion of his days in forming and establishing upon a broad foundation of society, whose benefits will extend unto—yea, through—" age of ages"—the British and Foreign Bible Society. Josiah Pratt spent his life and  his strength in rearing an institution which has caused, highly and will cause to a far greater extent, " the wilderness to blossom as the rose," and the heathen to " stretch forth h suocfcetshsefuot oppressed Missionary Society. Michael Thomas Saddler engaged,teir hands a unto God "—the life's woot"Th e in nt h e cause factory operatives, and spent his life and strength in en— deavouring to obtain, and in some degree did relaxation in the slavish system of toil b  obtain, a hich they  were ground down ; and to turn to the Eiiihas on whom the mantle of this Elijah has fallen—Lord Ashley, and " Honebt John Fielden," are carrying on, con ansore, that work of true benevolence. These all toiled, or are toiling, without fee or reward of a pecuniary character,  and without expectation of any return for their labours, beyond that glorious and indestructible satisfaction which must inevitably result from doing good. how different is it with the agitation of the Leaguers! They have toiled for the benefit of their own class—the millocrats and moneyed capitalists—a class who are able to pay largely for success; and now, as a specimen of the wages of agitation, M. George Wilson is to receive, as a "testimonial," ten thousand pounds, and Mr. Richard Cobden ono hundred thousand ! !—Herald,