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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-01-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO MR. HATCH'', ST. ANNE'S WARD.  Yesterday evening, a meeting was held at Mr. Clegg] Pontack Inn, Christian-street, of the most influen members of St. Anne's Ward, for the purpose of present ing to Mr. Oliver Hatch, several valuable pieces of plate for his services as secretary of the conservative commit in St. Anne's Ward. After an excellent dinner, the m interesting portion of the evening was commenced b the Chairman, Mr. Parker, giving the health of the Queen and the usual loyal toasts, which were drank with all t honours.  Mr. PARKER gave next—" Our glorious Constitution in Church and State." The next toast was the toast o the evening—"the Health of Mr. Oliver Hatch." N' Parker paid a very high compliment to Mr. Hatch, fo his services as a leading member of the committee of ward, and then proceeded to present—which he did very touching and appropriate language—a very neatly' designed piece of plate to Mr. Hatch, which was acknovr ledged by that gentleman in very feeling terms. Amongst the company present we observed Mr. J. Bar nett (vice-chairman), Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. G. H. Hors fall, Mr. Woodruff, &c.  It has been settled that the Bishop of Manchester, and not Dr. Hampden will take the vacant seat on the epis' copal bench in the House of Lords.  The Times authoritatively contradicts a report which has been industriously circulated, that Prince Albert labouring under a disease of the lungs. Abd-el-Kader and the Duke d'Aumale have met, and the ex: sultan presented the duke with his horse as atoken, of gratitude, which the duke received "as an homag tendered to France, and a sign of oblivion of the past.' At the Limerick Special Session, on Friday, a man named Dee was convicted of the murder of a farmer named Nornan, who occupied some land from which the murderer had been dispossessed for non-payment of rent, This is the second capital conviction at this special session, and several parties have been transported for life. f It is a singular fact that the opposition to the Bishoe Manchester is the first occasion in which the election of ° bishop has been opposed since the days of Archbishop Laud, whose nomination of Bishop Montague to the seen' Hereford, we believe, was opposed by the Puritans. The opposer then not having his objections set forth in writing was refused a hearing by the commissioners. On Saturday, Patrick Rid was executed at York for, the triple murder at Mirielgl. More than thirty thousand persons were present. On his appearance on the scaffold he seemed perfectly resigned to his fare, though his coon' tenance was deadly pale. He was attended by a Romani Catholic priest, and just before the fatal bolt was remove he said to the officers around him, " M'Cabe is entirelf innocent ; no other person in the world had anything o°_, do with it." Owing to the looseness of the rope, it wn" two minutes before the unhappy man ceased to be any vulsed and the world closed on him for ever. GuANo.—The import of guano into this port in • 1846
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-01-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PRESENTATION OF PLATE  TO MR. HAT 4,  ST. ANNE'S WARD  Yesterday evening, a meeting was held at Mr. Cleget Pontack Inn, Christian-street, of the most influential' members of St. Anne's Ward, for the purpose of present? ing to Mr. Oliver Hatch, several valuable pieces of platef for his services as secretary of the conservative committee; in St. Anne's Ward: After an excellent dinner, the most, interesting portion of the evening was commenced bl the Chairman, Mr. Parker, giving the health of the Queer' and the usual loyal toasts, which were drank with all 00' honours.  Mr. PARKER gave next—" Our glorious Constitutiolk in Church and State." The next toast was the toast of the evening—" the Health of Mr. Oliver Hatch." Mr' Parker paid a very high compliment to Mr. Hatch, for his services as a leading member of the committee of hi° ward, and then proceeded to present—which he did id very touching and appropriate language—a very neatly' designed piece of plate to M. Hatch, which was acknovr' ledged by that gentleman in very feeling terms. Amongst the company present we observed Mr. J. Bar" nett (vice-chairman), Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. G. H. Hors' fall, Mr. Woodruff, &c.  It has been settled that the Bishop of Manchester, and not Dr. Hampden will take the vacant seat on the epis' coal bench in the House of Lords.  The Times authoritatively contradicts a report which has been industriously circulated, that Prince Albert ig labouring under a disease of the lungs. Abd-el-Kader and the Duke d'Aumale have met, and the ex-sultan presented the duke with his horse as a token of gratitude, which the duke received "as an homaig tendered to France, and a sign of oblivion of the past.' At the Limerick Special Session,. murder on Friday, of a a rna named Dee was convicted of the• farmer f named Nornan, who occupied some land from which 04 murderer had been dispossessed for non-payment of rent. This is the second capital conviction at this special session' and several parties have been transported for life. It is a singular fact that the opposition to the BishoP ° f Manchester is the first occasion irrwhich the election of 5 bishop has been opposed since the days of ArchbishoPe Laud, whose nomination of Bishop Montague to the seeol Hereford, we believe, was opposed by the Puritans. opposer then not having his objections set forth in writing was refused a hearing by the commissioners. On Saturday, Patrick Reid was executed at York for the triple murder at Mirfield. Mbre than thirty thousand persons were present. On his appearance on the seaffol he seemed perfectly resigned to his fate, though his coat' tenance was deadly pale. He was attended by a Roman Catholic priest, and just before the fatal bolt was removt he said to the officers around him, " M'Cabe is entirm innocent ; no other person in the world had anything ' do with it." Owing to the looseness of the rope, it lc two minutes before the unhappy man ceased to be cos' vulsed and the world closed on him for ever.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-02-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE INUNDATED COAL MINES.—The progress of pumping is going on satisfactorily, and many of the pro prietors are making preparations to commence working their upper mines. At the Patricroft Colliery they have reduced the water to within about two yards of the ' four feet mine."  An obelisk, sixty-four feet high, has been erected as a monument to Newton, by the Rev. Charles Tumor, in the park of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, near the hamlet of Woolsthorpe, where the philosopher was born, and in the parish where he learned the rudiments of education at a small day school. The inquest on the bodies of the two men who were killed some weeks ago by the fall of a building at the Euston-square station, was brought to a close on Thursday; when the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, accompanied with the expression of their opinion that due caution had not been i--1 "- 4, aj d latel g Yu aor a ;rye. • e ave the particulars of the murder of an illegitimate child at Bath, by its mother, a respectable young woman, named Strickland, who, having delivered herself, threw her offspring out of a window, thereby causing its death. She has since been committed to prison, charged with wilful murder. It is rumoured that the child was the offspring of a son of a nobleman at present staying at Bath.  A tall young man hired a horse and phaeton, on Wednesday, at Mr. Tucker's livery stable, London. Mr. T.'s servant accompanied the man, who drove down the Essexroad instead of the direction mentioned, and on reaching Upton-lane, Rumford, sent the latter across the road upon a trumped-up message, and then made off with the horse and phaeton with all possible speed, and has not since been heard of.  The Lord Mayor of London has declined to allow a procession of twenty thousand persons, connected with British shipping, through the city of London to Buckingham Palace, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen not to consent o the repeal of our Navigation Laws, but in pursuance of his lordship's recommendation, the memorialists will proceed from Shadwell to Westminster in a large steamer. The windows of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's banking house, and of Messrs. Mullens, Marshall, and Co., in Lombard-street, London, have been wilfully smashed during the last few days by women, who commit this outrage for the purpose of being committed to prison, the damage done amounting at least at £3O. The object the offenders have is, we are sorry to say, in this inclement weather to gain imprisonment. Slebech new church, Pembrokeshire, was consecrated on Thursday last by the Bishop of St. David's, in the presence of a very numerous assembly of the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood. The Baron de Rutzen has expended £lO,OOO in the.erection of this church, in addition to the amount raised by the parish, and it may be considered to be one of the finest edifices in the principality.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-07-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1851.  would feel it in their own case to be a horrible sin, such as none but an Infidel or Devil in human shape would commit, it would be, as far as the priest's power went, spiritual murder. It is, therefore, as unlikely as murder. The Catholic priest would feel it as great a sin to withhold his intention as Mr. Minton to commit murder.  This I say as far as the priest is concerned ; for if we grant it actually to have ever taken place as Mr. M. supposes, still even then after all malevolence could not secure the death of its victim ; for, in default of the ordinary means, God would assuredly provide for the person's salvation by conferring the grace necessary in some extraordinary way. If Mr. Minton wishes to see more evidently the inconsequence of his argument, let him consider the case of a judge obliged to trust witnesses when their veracity involves the life or death of the accused. How can a judge decide except he takes for granted that men of good character will not perjure themselves ? It is a maxim without which society could not exist, that every man is presumed to speak the truth unless he is a notorious liar; and even then he is believed, unless his interest lies another way. I may propose to Mr. Minton the following syllogism in answer to his :  Since my cook may mean to poison me. If, on the one hand, I believe in the honest intention of my cook, I may be poisoned; If, on the other hand, I do not believe him, I must starve; Therefore-1 must either be poisoned or starve. And now I will only add, in conclusion, that if what I have said seem to Mr. Minton insufficient to meet the difficulties he has raised—difficulties to which all human action are necessarily incidental—l must refer him to a celebrated divine of his own Church, the learned Mr. Hooker, in whose great work on Ecclesiastical Polity ;book v. cap. Lvi 11, sec. 3,) he will find these words with reference to the intention of the Minister in the Sacraments:—  "Furthermore, because definitions are to express but the most immediate and nearest parts of nature, whereas other principles farther off, although not specified in defining, are notwithstanding in nature implied and presupposed, we must note that inasmuch as sacraments are actions religious and mystical, which nature they have not, unless they proceed from a serious meaning, and what every man's private mind is, as we cannot know, so neither are we bound to examine; therefore always in these cases the known intent of the Church generally doth suffice ; and where the contrary is not manifest, we may presume that he which outwardly doth the work hath inwardly the purpose of the Church of God. . _ _  Hoping you will excuse the length of this letter, I am, sir, your obedient servant,
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-04-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXECUTION 01. THE FRIMLEY MURDERERS.—OnWednesday, Levi Harwood and Samuel Jones were executed at Horsmonger-lane gaol, for the murder of the Rev. G. Holiest at Frimley. On the previous night. Jones made a full confession of the (teed to the chaplain, declaring every word that Hiram Smith had said to be true : " There were in the room at the time of the murder, Smith, myself, and Levi Harwood. I held Mrs. Holiest round the waist. had a pistol in my hand, and might have shot her, but never intended to do it. Levi Harwood was the man that rushed at Mr. Holiest. I believe that Mr. Holiest was stooping to pick up the poker, and that Levi Harwood was the man who fired the shot." He said with emphasis, "I am certain of that. The account given by Sm ith of what took. place in the room is quite true ; and Mrs. Holiest is mistaken in swearing as to her belief thatit was Levi Harwood who held her, as it was me. The bag of money was taken from a chest of drawers, or a little table down stairs. On the Sund-y night, when at the Rose and Crown, I took the penny token (that which was sworn to on the trial as having been taken from Frimley parsonage.)" It was not till the morning of the execution that Levi Harwood admitted the truth of what Jones had said, adding, however, "What was done was never in' tended to be done." Before the last. service, Jones expressed a hope that Harwood did not feel displeased at his making any confession. Harwood said, " Not the least. ; I forgive everybody." The two men shook hands. Both were in tears. At the foot of the gallows they trembled, and were much moved. The chaplain distinctly asked each prisoner if he felt any comforting assurance that he would find mercy at the hands of the Redeemer; and they immediately, and apparently with firmne-s. said they did. They put out their hands as well as they could to all around them, saying that they had been kindly treated, and then mounted the scaffold. They struggled so hard after the bolt was withdrawn, that the hangman had to-pull their legs. Hiram Smith, the informer, is still in prison, and was present at the condemned sermon, appeering care-worn and dejected, and at that time in far more mental pain than his associates. Samuel Harwood who is in charge for the Ucfikeld burglary, on the evidence of Ja mes Hamilton , an approver, has been again remanded ; another man, John Isaacs, said to have connected with the Uckfield, Frimlev, and several other burglaries, having been apprehended at Frome. . .  The Franklie:steam-ship, Captain Wooton, arrived in Cowes Roads on Friday, from New York. She left that port on the sth instant. A coal merchant was, on. Saturday, fined £lO5 for supplying 25 tons of coats at Buckingham Palace under weight. Paul Robinson, of Chesterfield, a well known politician of Conservative principles, was found drowned on Satur- assizes. day night in the canal, near Lockford Works. The Farelereet
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-12-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VERY EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—One of the most extraordinary cases ever brought before a criminal court, has just been tried by the Court of Assizes of the Ile-et-Vilaine. The prisoner was a female, named Helene Jegado, who for several years past has been a servant in different families of the department. She stood at the bar charged with several e.efts committed since the year 1846, and with seven murders by arsenic in 1850; but the evidence sheaved that, although only seven cases had been selected as more recent, and therefore more easy of proof, not less than 43 persons had been poisoned by her with arsenic. The victims were either her masters or mistresses, or fellow-servants, who had incurred her hatred. In some cases no motive of interest or hatred could be assigned. The prisoner appeared to have been actuated by a thirst for destruction, and to have taken pleasure in witnessing the agonies of her victims. The suddenness of the deaths in the families where she was a servant excited great sensation, but for a long time no suspicion as to the cause, for the murderess appeared to be very religious ; she attended in many instances with apparent solicitude on the persons whom she poisoned, and so successful was her hypocrisy that even the deaths of the mother and another relative of a physician in whose family she lived raised no suspicion of poison in his mind. The frequency of deaths, however, in the families by whom she was successsively engaged, excited a suspicion among the peasantry that there was something in her nature fatal to those who were near her, and it was customary with them to say that her liver was white, it being believed in that part of France that persons who are dangerous have white livers. The prisoner herself frequently exclaimed after the death of a victim, " How unhappy I am ; wherever Igo death follows me." The cases on which she was brought to trial were established by the evidence beyond the possibility of doubt. The prisoner throughout the trial, which lasted ten days, constantly declared that she was innocent, and seemed to anticipate an acquittal on account of there being no proof of her having had arsenic in her possession. It was proved, however, that in one of the families in which she was a servant some years ago, there was a large quantity of arsenic, which was not locked up, and that it had suddenly disappeared. This arsenic had, without doubt, been t aken by the prisoner, and had served for the commission of the successive murders. The only defence set up for her was founded on phrenological principles. It was contended that the organs of hypocrisy and destructiveness were developed to a degree which overpowered the moral faculties, and that although it would be unsafe to leave her at large, she ought not to be condemned to capital punishment ; the peculiarity of her organisation rendering her rather an object of pity. This defence failed entirely, and the jury having delivered a verdict, without extenuating circumstances, the court condemned her to death.—Galignani's Messenger.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-01-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  -...--..  Lord Gough has arrived in Dublin from Broekly-park: The Messrs. Birch, the eminent distillers of Roscrea, ,ve converted their distillery into flax mills, and have t on foot a subscription to establish a flax society in  their locality NoVEI  A strolling beggar in this city a child about 14 years old, to Monsieur  BARGAIN  to be trained in equ  rian feats. The  ther received the sum of 2s. in consideration of the wound caused to his paternal feelings.—Cork Examiner. Fh,e Cork Examiner says that a speculator in the menuflax has arrived in the south, but that he will 1,000 acres of well-grown flax him for the next two years, as a cond  insist c  ing in the enterprise  ing secured to ion of his embark Threatening  notices have been posted in the neigh  hourhood of Keady, ordering the tenantry in that pari of the couu to nay no rent till what they consider " a pro-11 have been made. The  per valuati  of Lynch law is threat  and bailiffs  3 on refractory agents  ntice boys of Derry  ,o, as we stated last  ieek, have been summoned before the magistrate.. been liberated on finding two sureties of £5 each. lemeanour under the Proces,. uuc it is not expected that there will be any prosecution, though the accused are determined to be either  were chargcd with mis.,  'quitted or condemned. The Hon. and Rev. A. Per  al, one of her Majesty's present chaplains, some time since published a pamphlet one object of which is to prove that Ireland is the of the Apocalypse, and that the Virgin Mary was in the top of Tara Hill, in the county of Meath. v%  remains lie, abet  specified nur  articular b  site Of the celebrated Lia I  interred  py the core  Stone of Dest  which crowned the summit of the hill. THE REFORMATION IN THE WEST OF IREL  Rev. E. has concluded all the preliminaries for the purchase of the Island of Achill from Sir Richard O'Donnell, subject to a rent to Lord Sligo. The colony  .rd Nar  of Achill will thus be extended over a tract of country hitherto much neglected, and the labour of the missionary be considerably increased, The Bishop of Tuam has opened a subscription list, for the purpose of erectinz ten churches in -the wilds of Connemara. His lordship has  already received donations pounds.  amounting to several thousand  A very barbarous murder was perpetrated at a place called Lisatunny, near Nenagh, in the county of Tipperary, on Sunday night. The victim was an inoffensive man named Morgan Donhue, the caretaker of Mr. Francis Byron • he lived alone in his cottage, and his body was found on the kitchen floor on Monday morning, with the bead frightfully shattered from blows by a heavy piece of iron which lay near. A person named Ringrose, who had been his predecessor in office, and had been dismissed for ill conduct, has been arrested on suspicion. Some spots of blood were found on the prisoner's clothes.