The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-02-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PAUPER'S " EFFECTS."—In a late return, made to the Banff Parochial Board, by a party applying for parochial aid, the household property of which he was possessed was stated to be of the value of " 20." During a public-house brawl at Ruthin, John Lewis struck Thomas Thomas so severe a blow on the head with a poker, that he died shortly after, and the assailant has been committed on the charge of wilful murder. On Tuesday morning last, Mr. Samuel H. Turner, formerly a very respectable druggist in Scarbro', was found suspended to a tree in a plantation near Breckon Farm, in the township of Ayton. A boat, in which were William M'Gammon and his wife, went adrift from Leith, on Saturday week, and was not picked up until next morning, when the unwilling passengers were found in a very exhausted state.  Fiftesn full-grown herrings' which appeared to have been recently swallowed, were lately taken out of the inside of a cod by a cook in a gentleman's family in Edinburgh.  A-woman named Kelly accidentally fell head foremost into a midden at Preston, on Wednesday, and was buried up to her waist ; but some neighbours succeeded in rescuing her before she was suffocated. The Society of Dealers in Newspapers have presented a unanimous vote of thanks to the proprietors of the Spectator and John Bull newspapers, in consequence of their discontinuing a Sunday edition of their journals. Perplexed by the question, " what is England to do with her rogues ?" the Morning Post hesitatingly suggests the expedient of "founding some new penal colony on ground yet unbroken by the Anglo-Saxon spade." The ex-king of the French, with his consort and family, and attended by a large suite, have taken up their residence at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond. The intention of his ex-majesty is to remain in Richmond till Easter.  While the wife of a cattle dealer living at Barnby Dun, Yorkshire, was milking a cow in a stall on Thursday week, the cow suddenly kicked her into an adjoining stall, where she fell, and sustained so severe a concussion of the brain that she died in the course of a few minutes.  An honest industrious man, living on Castle-hill, Holywell, has three sons, named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; Abednego was baptised last Sunday week. Should he have three more he is to call them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  The mayor and magistrates of Kendal have formally requested the inhabitants in no case to offer relief to strolling beggars, their benevolence being in a majority of cases grossly abused, and tending to encourage the recipients in a lazy and plundering course of life. The first of a new line of screw-ships, from Glasgow to New York, starts in March. These vessels are of a large capacity, and will afford great facilities for emigration. So far as experience goes, the voyage will generally be made in from 22 to 26 days.  The Rev. James Bromley, a Wesleyan minister, who is stationed at Bath, having received notice of trial at a special district meeting, on account of three letters that he has published on the subject of conference discipline, was suspended from the ministry last week.