The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-07-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ORANGEMEN.—On Tuesday, the Orangemen of the Halifax district held an interesting festival. They assembled in Sowerby-street about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, each wearing an orange ribbon, with a blue. rosette, round his neck, and having on white gloves. They afterwards walked in procession, and had a grand banquet. Mr. W. Mynn, of cricketing celebrity, eloped last week with the daughter of a respectable man named Jeury, who resides at Maidstone. The father pursued the fugitives to a place called Surbiton, where he overtook them, and recovered his daughter. How DID IT HAPPEN ?—The parish clerk of Kirkby Lonsdale when digging a grave last week, found a coffin with the lid loose and filled with shavings, but no body in it. It has caused some excitement in the neighbourhood. The coffin was one that had been interred about ten years ago. The committee of the Bible Society having, by a majority of 24 votes against 21, ordered that the meetings of the society shall be opened in future with reading of the Scriptures and with prayer, Mr. Brandram, the clerical secretary, has determined to retire, under the impression that the proposed change will lead to endless divisions. The total amount subscribed for Emily Sandford was £983 13s. 3d., of which £553 ss. 6d. has been expended in providing for the wants of herself and her brother, inclusive of £6O given by her desire to members of her own family. The balance (£427 7s. 9d.) remaining to be remitted as may hereafter be deemed advisable.  A woman named Rebecca Smith, wife of a labourer, at Westbury, Wilts, has been committed for trial charged with the wilful murder of her infant child by poisoning. The prisoner has been married 18 years, and has given birth to eleven children, all of whom, except the eldest, died in infancy. Amongst the guests, with Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at the banquet of the Lord Mayor of London, (Sir James Duke) on Wednesday last, were—the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, Earl of Harrowby, Earl of Lincoln, LDrd and Lady Wharncliffe. Sir James Graham, and the Right Hon. G. Stuart Wortley, M.P. Two serious fires broke out in Hull during the past week. The first in a bed-room of the Sykes's Head Inn, had nearly proved fatal to three invalided soldiers, who slept in the room. The second fire, in the cooperage of a person named Smith, damaged property to the amount of £4OO. A few days ago, while an aged woman, named Thompson, of Ryall, Northumberland, was proceeding through a field to a well, she was suddenly attacked by one of a herd of Irish cattle grazing in the field. The heifer rushed upon her, and after tossing her, gored her so severely that she died a few days afterwards. A " crow's nest" has just been completed on the tower of Gloucester Cathedral, for the purpose of taking observations for the survey of the river Severn. The scaffolding is raised to a considerable height above the tower of the cathedral, and is surmounted by a small house or cot, which is reached by means of a long ladder. On Wednesday, the coroner for Surrey, stated at an inquest, that he had received an official document from the Secretary of State, giving orders that in all cases of cholera occurring in union workhouses, prisons, &c., he (the coroner) was to hold inquests upon the bodies, and to report accordingly to the government authorities the result of the same.  Many bones of the megatherium, myloden, and other extinct animals, were lately found in Southwark, near one of the railways which traverse the borough, and were sold to a bone grinder, from whose hands a geologist rescued several hundredweights of these interesting remains of ancient creation, though a large quantity had already been ground into manure.