The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF A CHILD BY HIS FATHER.last this town was thrown into a state of excitement i. port that a little boy, about II years of age, named IN Brain, had been poisoned by his own father,' who is a g man's servant out of place. Unhappily the rnmour w well founded ; the man had been taken into custody, at body of his child discovered in a barn, situated on the don .road. The circumstance was immediately made k to Mr. E. Eagles, the coroner for the county, who orde post marten: examination of the body of the child to be and on Thursday morning an inquest was held. Severn. nesses were examined, from whose evidence it appeared Brain had administered arsenic to the child. Brain sa one of the witnesses, " I have taken some poison in 3 and 1 gave my child some ; I thought of dying togeth He added, that the child had lost his money. The jur turned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner, Ja Brain: He was then committed to take his trial at the assizes. We understand that his wife is living, but she been an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum for some tim Abridged from the Bedford Mercury. We regret to learn that another fatal accident happened the North :Midland Railway, on Wednesday, at the sa place as that on the previous Sunday, namely, Anibergs near'Belper, in Derbyshire. Two workmen, in the employ a railway contractor, were walking on the line, when tt saw a train coming laden with coke ; to get out of the of this train,' they unfortunately stepped upon the pars' line of rails, not perceiving that at the same moment a pi engine was passing in the opposite direction ; before it v possible to stop the engine, the men were both knocl, down ; one of them was killed on the spot, and the otl had his skull fractured, and is not likely to recover.—Di caster Gazette.  -On V  WHY STRIVE %VITT! FATE!— which he says be can assure me, thoughtful silence, and telling off the circus's, position, one by one, -upon his fingers ; .'Fred, , have taken my affidavit, would not have heard of sue backs Quilp to my astonishment, and urges me to ta, —staggerer, number one. My aunt in the country s, supplies, and writes me an affectionate note to say made a new will, and left sue out of it—staggerer, si, two. No money ; no credit ; no support from Fred, seems to turn steady all at once ; notice to quit the old h ings—staggerers, three, four, five, and six. Under an cumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a fa agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knock him down, his 'destiny must pick him up again. The" I'u. very glad that mine has brought all this upon itself, and I shall be as careless as I can, and make myself quite at limo in spite of it. So go on my buck," said 11r. Swivellei., taik; his leave of the ceiling with a significant nod, "and let u, which of us will be tired first." Dismissing the subjee, downfall with these reflections, which were no doe' prof •  ` Quilp offers me th  ound, and are indeed not altogether unknown systems of moral philosophy, Mr. Swireller shook spondency, and assumed the cheerful ease of an irr clerk.—Master Humphrey's Clock.  -