The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THIRTY-THREE DIFFERENT MODES OF VOIDING LAWS, PROMISES, AND p. 363,) promises in five modes, iOnAelle'vHeSn!moßdyest,h(evroull.el propounded laws may be made void i (Vol. 111., p. 297,) vows in seven modes, (Vol. IV., p. 129,) and OATHS IN TEN MODES, (VOl. IV., p. 214.) So much for the morality of Maynooth, and the veracity of Mr. Daniel O'Connell.  tentione a  1 intentione jur  juratur  Romances are a dangerous recreation. 'Tis like dining every day on sweetmeats ; it palls your appetite for wholesome food, and at length makes you hate the sweetmeats too.  MISCELLANEOUS  Arthur Henry, son of Mr. W. Brown, of Brentwood, a youth little more than ten years of age, but of great musical promise. has been appointed organist to the new church, at Brentwood.  The value of the plate, paintings, furniture, and other prorty saved from the fire at Wynyard Park, is said to be 10,000. The total loss is estimated at £70,000, and there ,w seems to be no doubt of the distressing fact that the  and the re way for gc  Since the opening of the Hartlepool and Stockton railway, nt opening of the Great North of England railis and merchandize, great quantities of fish are v daily sent from Hartlepool to Darlington, and forwarded the latter railway for York, Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, xnchester, and Birmingham.  of timber imported into the port of Sun for the year ending on the sth of last January was loads. The quantity imported last year into the Unite dom of Great Britain and Ireland was 818,299 loads ; the quantity imported at this port exceeded a twer, that of the whole kingdom.  FATAL  —lt is  intimate the untimely fate of the Rev  :ere regret we have to Thomas Win:chic,  late minister of the parish of Clunie, in this county be recollected that he voluntarily demitted his  charge, between two and three years ago, for the purpose of going abroad. He was drowned on the Ist July last, in consequence of the upsetting of a boat in the Kiapara River, on the west coast of New Zealand,-while the ship Anna Watson, with which he was a passenger, lay wind-bound on her voyage from Sydney to the day of Islands. Mr. M`Ritchie was in the thirty-sixth year of his age.—Perth Constitutional.  A French paper called the Audience contains a letter from a private correspondent, dated Gibralter, the 28th ult., which states that an opulent British merchant, named James Boxwell, long resident there, had been tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, on circumstantial evidence, and that on the way to execution the convict saw in the crowd another Englishman named John Keats, who bad been active in collecting evidence against him. The convict expressed a desire to die in peace with all mankind, and to pardon this person, whom he considered his greatest enemy. When the convict reached the scaffold, the executioner was preparing to execute the sentence of the law, when a voice was heard in the crowd exclaiming—" It is I that am guilty, and not the convict." This exclamation was made by John Keats. He confessed that it was he who had carried off James Boxwell's daughter ; that he had cut off her hair duaing her sleep, and stolen one of her dresses, which lie had steeped in blood ; and that the generous pardon granted 'to him by this victim bad caused. him to reflect on the enormity of his crime. The executioner immediately withdrew the rope from the convict's neck, and the cap from his face, -when it  was discovered that he was dead from the effects of terror. The atrocious John Keats was ,conducted to prison amidst the execrations of the populace, who wished to tear him to  •