The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-01-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WANTS AND CA PA BILITIES.—We are never SO mods tenlated to moralize as after a perusal of the advertising columns of the Times. There is something intensely pathetic in many of the Whs which exhale from the damp surface of that broadsheet. hat hope can be held out to a " respectable young woman without followers?" who is so unreasonable as to desire a situation "as nursery maid where there is no infant ?" Or, to a "respectable strong youth," who will only be satisfied with the office .of "light porter?" Both must pine unheeded, unless they agree to meet and sigh to each other. They are, indeed, "two for a.pair." The following we are inclined to think rather suspicious :—" A lady of 30 years of age is desirous of meeting with a situation as useful companion. She is naturally cheerful, and, to an invalid, flatters herself she would be an acquisition." Dear creature ! who would find in his heart to shut the door in her face?' We fear, however, she has no chance against the experience of a widow. " Wanted, by a respectable widow, age about 36, and free from every incumlnanee, 11 situation to superintend the concerns of a widower. To one who has a family, she flatters herself she would be an acquisition," &c. Who doubts it? We will back the widow for a rump and dozen they are man and wife in a month. These widows ! Here is another:—"A widow lady, of most respectable connexions, wishes for a situation to manage the domesticestablishment of a widower or single gentleman_ She feels confident of giving satisfaction?' This is plain en7n!gli ; but there is another still plainer. The noose matrimonial danees in every sentence. "A widow, respectably connected, wishes a situation as housekeeper to a single gentleman or widovrer. She flatters herself she would be found an acquisition, as she is competent, and would not object, to superintend the education of the younger branches of his family." What ! not of the " single gentleman's?' Oh, fie !—Tait's MagazineMURDER.—Thursday night an atrocious murder was committed in the New Vennel, High-street, on the body of a poor man, named Niel Adams, a waiver, under circumstances of rather a peculiar and mysterious character. It appears that the deceased on the night before mentioned, had been partaking somewhat freely of spirituous liquors with a fellow workman, in the same street where the murder was perpetrated, anal that in returning home, and within a kw paces of his• own dwelling, he had been assaulted by some person who had iuticted a violent blow on the head of the deceased with a heavy stick ear bludgeon, which almost instantly proved fatal, as his lifeless body was shortly afterwards found weltering in its blood, at apparently the same spot where he had been assaulted. The deceased, it is believed, had no money on him at the time; but it would appear, that the perpetrator of the crime had carried off the hat worn by the unfortunate man, and left his own in its stead, as an old hat was found lying near the bady. No satis- • factory trace has as yet, we are given tounderstansf, been found of the assassin ; but an individual of the name of Sutherland, a labourer, who had been observed by the watchme . • -in about the spot on the night in question, was seen ' a 31,143 u. lar in High-street, with. the deceased's hat on hi: • .{an,.fs; being questioned as to how the hat came into eg.' ...---essie,q-,/,44e.); immediately took it off, and left the shop, fr... -, •IiImprod(11, c ceeded to a broker's stall on the Bell o' the B e : ''Whe lsv..--1) 0.1 4" chased a bonnet, with which he has since a e . , ~„,r,Arae eit ,„,..t has left a widow in a state of mental deran .a. ' qu 1 c.f on her melancholy bereavement, and six Of .. -.. toicltriacrfii. 4 1 .his fearful eatastrophe--Gtasgstv Courier- msf 4, .. : ;, - . .. _ n \4., . , '4' f .--' •'M 4