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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-05-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POPE—  • What can ennoble fools, or sots, or cowards? Alas! nut all the blood of all the Howards ! 'Now, reader, be pleased to turn back with us to the " oath" with Which we set out. A short reviewal of the circumstances connected with it may possibly throw some light upon the mental turnings and windings, the shifts, falsehoods, and subterfuges, of modern popery, the same we contend at this day as it ever was since fraud took refuge under the cloak of the christian religion. 'The Irish Caliban, it would appear, has. taken two oaths. By the one, under the most solemn, formal, and legal sanctions, he swears never as a member of parliament to. interfere ►with the property, rights, or privileges of the ,church of England, as by law established,  at the time he took the oath. By the other, which is sims  ply a vow, for it can hardly be called an oath, for it is cot an oath in law, he has sworn before the image of some saint, or some piece of wood representing a saint, or some piece of stone or plaster of Paris called a saint that he will give no satisfaction to any man whom he may insult; or, in other words, having committed a motal murder, he will not take the risk, as under the law,- of being !lain by the next of blood—the avenger of the slain: That these two oaths have been taken by O'CoNNELL wilt not be denied. The one we have established in evidence ; the other is confessed. Now which of these oaths does O'CONNELL think the most binding? We must infer this from his conduct. The one which protectshis worthless carcass he observes with the strictest rigour. The other which imposes upon him a solemn duty to the public helisregards. He will not violate that which he has made voluntarily before some stock or stone, because were he to relax in obeying the self imposed restraint, he would have to answer for innumerable,,deliberate, ft.nd unpardonable insults offered to parties a million times more respectable than himself. No, he keeps that pagan self-prctecting vow most holy. But the other, which relates to the duties he owes to society, the obligations he is under to his King, the engagements he has made with Protestants and with the people of England, he treats lightly as if it were not at all binding upon his conscience. To protect O'CONNELL he will swear lustily and keep his oath sacredly. To protect the, protestant church he will swear still more. positively, but:the keeping of the same is quite another question. In short, he observes the voluntary oath, and violates the legal one.  How Tong, protestants of England ! will it be before your eyes are opened to the ;perfidy, the baseness, the fraud, and the sacrilege of conduct like this? ' How long will 'you sleep as if you- were in your graves ? M. DUPIN, when ,he travelled through England, bearing vvith'him letters of royal introduction from
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-04-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SAVE THEIR COUNTRY. We are not of those who despond, black though the clouds be, and wild the roar of the leveller, the infidel, and the incendiary. In the worst of times PROVIDENCE has given us a saviour and an avenger. Our institutions may be rended, may totter, and some of them may fall. We may be beaten at our outposts as we have been before. The enemy may carry trench after trench, and reach the ramparts; but in the citadel we shall be secure, there to recruit our strength. and thence to issue out in terrible and indomitable force against the divided and famished legions quarrelling and destroying each other under our walls. The time for this, however, is not come, as regaids England; and we hope it is not near at hand as concerns Ireland. If so, so much the better. That island has .not yet received FULL JUSTICE at the hands of insulted England. She may before long. We have endured her caprices and her insults—her menaces and her perfidies—her !loons of rapacity and her nights of blood—for a series of years without applying 'the proper remedy. The day will come when offended justice will demand itS vic• tims, and when crimes that—reach high heaven' and stain the earth, and mock christianity, and turn liberty and law and concession into ridicule, must be met with the red and the heavy hand. She has been the spoiled child of Great Britain. We have endeavoured to civilize her, but like the Indian who has tasted the " Fire Spirit," we have made her drunk. Her savage inhabitants, dulled into unconscious recklessness by the power of priestcraft, and incapable of understanding the responsibilities which attach to crime, and seeing in murder, abduction, robbery, and manslaughter, no sin censured by the priest, or condemned by the word of GOD, which they are not suffered to look into,-these people— the popish peasantry of Ireland—have had no limits to their atrocious invasions of the righta of property, or the means by which they might accomplish the most cruel and infamous ends. This, we admit, has been the fault of the imperial parliament and the people of gpeand. We have given the organs of the popish priestszredit for their professions and protestations which were insincere. We have dealt honestly with them when they were imposing upon us. We were silly enough to recognise their averments as facts. We encouraged and assisted them when they were slandering and betraying us. We called them friends, in the largeness of our beneficence, when they were imagining all contrivances for our injury and destruction. We were feeding them when they were robbing us; and raising them to stations of honour and distinction when they-had actually planned their designs for dissolving the union, and severing Ireland from the British empire. In one word—and we it reluctantly —the Duke of WELLINGTON yielded at the very moment, and for avowed reasons, which should have made him more resolute and unbending than ever in refusing their demands ! But that was in the wane of the unhappy reign of
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-03-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GERMANY.—The following account is given as a proof of the misery occasioned by scarcity of food in Hungary : —" The misery which prevails in Hungary is such, that  acts of horror  been committee  as are not to  surpassed in accounts of cities famished by a long sere. A workman at Pesth, being no longer able to provide for his numerous family, walked with two of his children to the banks of the Danube, and threw the youngest into the stream ; but his anguish at seeing it struggle for its life in the waters, impelled him to jump in to endeavour to save it. The child that was left on the bank uttered cries of distress, and said that he would not ask again for bread if they would but save his father. The man was saved, but  the child he had thrown in was drowned. The. unhappy man has been imprisoned, and the authorities have taken charge of his family."  nearly 40,000 dollars in all, and the same energetic movement is going forward in Boston, Albany, Utica, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, New Orleans, &c. It is impossible for us to give every instance of individual charity in the various cities. We shall endeavour to keep the run of contributions in this city, and eventually we hope to receive from the relief committee frill lists of all the donations made in the city and neighbourhood for Ireland and Scotland. At the city of Newark, New Jersey, a meeting has been held, 1,500 dollars subscribed, and measures adopted to send out a ship laden with grain to the Irish poor. Mr. H. H. Grinnel,  in Irellin-d  Lt his own  setited ton county, New York. A lady in this city has sent 1000 dollars to the relief committee, but she modestly withholds her name. The New York relief ship Victor, now loading at this city, was chartered some time ago, when freights were cheap, by Messrs. Dutilh and Cousineri, who cheerfully transferred their favourable bargain to the re-11  lief committee. At Cincinnati, Ohio, 3,000 dollars wsrc subscribed in one evening, and committees appointed to increase the sum. At New Bedford, Massachusetts, Mr. Rotch, jnn., gave 400 dollars, and Mr. G. Howland, 300 dollars ; ad Mr. L. 'Loris, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 500 dollars. Rochester has contributed 1,000 dollars. The Catholic Church at Boston has contributed 5,387 dollars.—New York Sun, Feb. 24.  Unless out-door relief be speedily administered by men who feel, for the people, Ireland must become one great grave-yard for famine's victims.—Newry Examiner The Central Relief Committ  f the -Society of Friends .eceiyed, by the Cambria, the handsome sum of £7,000, contributed by the Society in America, for the relief of  MURDER IN Tfip COUNTY KILKENNY,—A letter re: c-eived in this town this morning states that Mr. Prim, a pay-clerk, together with one of the constabulary, were murdered yesterday morning at Kells, county Kilkenny.  —Dublin :Evening Herald of Tuesday.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-07-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.— An adjourned special meeting of this company was held at Herbut's Hotel, London, on Saturday,—Mr. W. T. Matthews in the chair. The Chairman stated that the company had not succeeded in arranging their differences, and Mr. Mozley detailed the whole course Of the proceedings and their present position. In pursuance of their rights, therefore, they must take steps to obtain possession  July 27, 1847.  her stomach the prisoner threw away, although cautioned bu a neighbour not to do so, but to save it, as it was important for the doctor to see it. On the day after the death of the deceased, the prisoner gave to the surgeon a, piece of pancake, which she said was of the same that the deceased had eaten of, and had been given to her child, but which, on analysis, afforded no traces whatever of poison. The stomach of the deceased was, on a post mortem examination, removed by Mr. Mexon, and Mr. Paterson, of Brigg, and was found to be very considerably inflamed. There were small yellowish white spots, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a. small pea, which, on being subjected to the various chemical tests enumerated, gave every known evidence of the presence of arsenic. Besides these spots on the mem ' brane the deposit at the llottom of the vessel in which the stomach was placed, was similarly analysed, and gave the like results. The ash-heap, where the prisoner had thrown the matter vomited by the deceased, was also carefully examined ; the appearance of partially digested farinaceous food, such as a pancake would furnish, was found, and removed ; being subject to the same tests, the presence of arsenic was in like manner indisputably proved.—After an ingenious speech from Mr. Mil— ner on the prisoner's behalf, in which he argued the absence of all motive and the want of sufficient evidence, his Lordship very minutely called the jury's attention to the various circumstances bearing upon the case as against the prisoner. After an hour's deliberation, they returned a verdict of Guilty.—Mr. Baron Rolfe said that it was impossible to have come to any other conclusion than that at which they had arrived ; how many murders the prisoner had been guilty of was only known to her self and to Him in whose presence she would in a few. days appear. He had undoubted- evidence before him that this was not the only murder of which she had been guilty. He should not stop to enquire what motive could have inchiced her, but would exhort her to employ to the best, the short period of life which' yet remained to her on earth. His Lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form.—During the whole .of the trial the wretched woman • appeared perfectly unmoved by the awful situation in which she was placed, and when the sentence of death had been passed upon her she made a curtesy to the judge, and left the dock with a light and easy step. The execution is fixed for Friday next, bat it is believed the wretched criminal is enciente, in which case the execution will be postponed.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-07-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER.—AbOnt two years and a dread suspense and dire forboding, he had the unspeakfr. Henry Williams, a solicitor, was conveyed able pleasure of observing, at a great distance below him, one -night in a cab, insensible, and covered with six figures wending their way up a distant shoulder of the Afterwards he died. At the inquest, hill. Their steps seemed directed towards him ; and soon 'kland, a man who had put the de- he became sure of this, as he observed they carried a someAnd attended him home, were ex- thing which he could not at first make out : it turned ild be learned of the manner in out to be a large coil of rope. One of the six was let down 11, his death. The immediate by his fellows with the rope round his body. He fastened blow over the eye with a I an end round the almost sinking wanderer,. and he was An open verdict was returned ; and immediately. hoisted up in safety, and conducted by his more was then ascertained respecting the matter. deliverers to the farm-house, where the greatest attention '4eight, on Tuesday last, John Ramsden, a (" even as that of a mother's house ") was paid him by ..n, appeared at the Bagnigge Wells Police-sta- the good people there. He states that the good matron atoxicated, and surrendered himself as the mur- of this hospitable dwelling burst into tears when she saw of Mr. Williams ; and gave a circumstantial account him safe within their threshold. After a short rest, and the matter : he hit the man on the head with a stick ; partaking of such refreshment as he could, he got a cart Ae was in company with Strickland ; since the crime he to convey him back to the place of his departure. The had had no peace. Ramsay was brought before the melancholy fate of Mr.. Starr, the one now narrated, as Clerkenwell magistrate on Wednesday. Inspector Pmny well as the experience of many other parties, shows the A stated that Rarriay's wife had told him that she had been great danger of attempting these difficult ascents without ) kitchen-maid to the Duke of Wellington, and saved some a guide. However cool and collected an individual may i money ; she married Ramsay, and they opened a shop at be (and no one could he more so than the gentleman 11QW. Somers Town ; her husband became acquainted with Wil- spoken of), the first approach of danger brings with it a -4 through him they were brought to ruin and state of doubt ill suited to surmount a danger wholly unThe prisoner declined making any remark anticipated and entirely new. All former experience is trate ; and he was remanded for a week. A good for nothing; and every step iii the direction of supm. saw him at the station, and, declared that lie was posed relief, only adds to the accumulating difficulties.-prom a Correspondent.  but on tl  d into the vehiel  ut now Williar  'eared to have beet'  But at ir  3 iioi 1  . ham baiikruptcy 1 to the mars'
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-09-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER BY A GENTLEMAN OF PROPERTY.—On Tuesday information was received by Mr. William Baker, deputy-coroner for the eastern division, of the county of Middlesex, of the death of a man named Lewis Mugford, occasioned by a wound on the jugular vein, inflicted by his master, Mr. Thomas Mackintosh Davidson, a gentleman of property, residing at Clay-hill, Tottenham. The circumstances have excited a painful sensation in the neighbourhood. It appeared that Mr. Davidson, who was formerly a member of the bar, and was entitled to a large property which was in. chancery, had been for many years past suffering under mental derangement. He had resided about- eleven years at "Clay-hill, Tottenhain, which was in the occupation of a gentleman of the name of Holmes, and was under the care of the unfortunate man, Lewis Mugford. On Friday afternoon two female servants and Mugford, between one and two o'clock, were at dinner in the kitchen, when Mr. Davidson entered, and took a knife away. He was immediately followed by Mugford,, who came up with him in another room. Almost imme. diately a scuffle was heard, upon which Mrs. Holmes, who was in the parlour, proceeded to the room, where she saw Mugford struck in the throat by Mr. Davidson, with the knife. Mugford, upon receiving the wound, rushed into the kitchen, and through the yard (the blood flowing in a stream from his throat) into the road, where he fell down and died hr a few minutes. Mr. Davidson. remains in surveillance at his own residence. The sergeants subsequently found that the unhappy maniac, who is totally unconscious of 'the act he has committed, had replaced the knife on the table from whence he had taken.it. For several previous years Mr. Davidson never showed any signs of an intention to do mischief, and was allowed the liberty of the grounds, being only watched by the domestics.RicE,--Every family ought immediately to he in possession of a penny pamphlet, advertised in our paper..today, showing the various uses and easy preparation of rice as a nutritious article of daily food, and proving it to be cheaper than any other. The never-failing effects of Blair 's Gout and Rheumatic Pills in curing every description of gout and rheumatism, have secured to them a celebrity unequalled by any medicine of past or present times. They not only give relief in a few hours, where the patient has been driven nearly to madness by the excruciating tortures of this disease, but restore to perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. They are equally speedy and Certain in rheumatism, either chronic or acute, lumbugo, sciatica. pains in the head or face, and indeed for every rheumatic or gouty affection in fact, such has been the rapidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this medicine, that it has astonished all who have taken it ; and there is scarcely a city, town, or village in the kingdom but contains many grateful evidences of its benign influence. Sold by all medicine vendors. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Observe the name " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, of Blythswood, accompanied by a fine young boy, a son, about six years of age, and attended by a coachman and footman, were returning in a carriage and pair from a visit to Mr. Douglas, of Mains, near Milngavie, and while crossing a wooden bridge over the Forth and Clyde canal, at Temple lock, near Garscube, the horses shyed; and the carriage coming forcibly against the wooden railing of the bridge, it was broken, and carriage, horses, and the whole party precipitated into the water. In the dreadful circumstances of the moment, with the high walls of the canal upon each side, Mr. Campbell, with great presence of mind, sustained Mrs. Campbell until ropes were thrown to them, and by which they held on until rescued. With grief we have to state that their boy was drowned. The difficulty of procuring assistance may be imagined when we mention that Mr. Campbell had to support himself and his lady by the rope until the water was let out of a higher lock to raise them up to the top of the lock wall where they were immersed. The horses were drowned, and the carriage broken to pieces. Mr. and Mrs, Campbell, by some means or other, managed to get out at the carriage window, or door, but their son, who was seated beyond them, went down with the vehicle. The servants; being outside, escaped with comparative ease. The body of the boy was afterwards found.—Glasgow Paper: _  A STRANGE SToiY.—A man has been committed to take his trial at Stafford assizes, under the following circumstances :—He has for some time past had to contribute a certain sum towards the support of an illegitimate child. A few nights ago he met its mother, and promised that if she would destroy their offspring, ie would immediately marry her. She promised compliance, went home for the child, and returned with it to the spot where the villain awaited her, and then hastened from him in the direction of a coal-pit, which he indicated as the one where the fatal act was to be consummated. In-a few minutes she returned to him without the child, and urged him to leave the country with her, and fulfil his promise of marriage. But he pleaded an immediate engagement, and promised if she would await his return a few minutes, he would rejoin her to fly the country with her, and make her his wife. half an hour having elapsed, the young woman left the spot, hastening to the place where she had left her infant sleeping in safety, having only seemed to fall in with the views of the miscreant in order to obtain the fulfilment of his promise. She then hastened home, and, as she was making preparations for bed, was alarmed by a loud rapping at the door, and the appearance of two police-officers in company with her soi-disant lover, who charged the young woman with the murder of her child. The child, however, was produced safe and sound, and the miscreant, who saw that his infernal plans had been foiled, was him. self detained in custody.  MR. O'