The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-03-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GROSS NEGLIGENCE.—On Saturday morning last the wife of a foundry-luau in Ipswich, left her child of ten months old in a wicker chair, within a foot of a blazing wood fire, whilst she went out to gossip with a neighbour, and on her return the chair was on fire, the clothes of the infant were burnt off, Awl the little sufferer wag reduced to a cinder,  A COMPLIMENT —At the Durham assizes, Mr. Justice Cresswell, in sentencing Edward Harper. fora criminal assault at Barnard Castle, observed that the prisoner was a fair specimen of the people belonging to Barnard Castle, which was a perfect sink of profligacy and crime. A gang of burglars, who for some time infested the county of Anglesea, have just been apprehended and committed for trial. One personated :a Hungarian refugee, and another is charged with having murdered a man by stabbing him. The shipwrights of South Shields resumed work on Monday, having come to an arrangement with their employers. In coming to this arrangement they have acted independently of the shipwrights of other parts of the Tyne and Wear, and in spite of their remonstrances. While a maidservant, named Stirling, was cleaning a window on the second storey of a house in Monteithrow, Glasgow, on Saturday week, she overbalanced herself, fell on the pavement beneath, and was so severely injured that she died a few hours afterwards. At an inquest, held at Bristol, on Monday, on the body of a young lady named Whitney, the surgeon who made the post mortem examination stated that there was no visible cause of death except from the compression of the stomach and v;seera by tight lacing. On Tuesday afternoon a young woman, seventeen years of age, threw herself from the window of an uninhabited room on the sixth story of a house in Canongate, Edinburgh, and was killed on the spot. The deceased was addicted to drinking to excess. The Lords of the Treasury have given directions for the free delivery to the Bible Society of three bales of German Testaments and Psalms ; and also three cases of Hungarian, Bohemian, and Servian Bibles and Testaments.  On Tuesday week at Okamoor, Staffordshire, while a young man named Whiston was working at a lathe driven by a waterwheel, the loose ends of his neckerchief were caught upon the revolving drill, and he was strangled, as he was unable to extricate himself or to give an alarm. When the last stone was placed on the top of the spire of St. James's Church, Devonport, the clergyman, architect, builders, workmen, and others, partook of luncheon on a platform erected around the topstone, at a height of 150 feet from the ground. An alarming fire broke out in Norwich on Sunday evening at the printing-office of the Norwich Mercury. Fortunately, the steam-engine and machinery were but little injured, but a considerable quantity of type was destroyed. The proprietors were insured. The supposed damage is about £2,000. _ _ _ _  Six men were transported for life at Lewes assizes, on Wednesday, for burglariously breaking into the house of the Misses Farncombe, and stealing money and other valuables amounting to 4300. A woman was sentenced to fourteen years transportation for feloniously receiving the same.