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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—There were 14 members present—Mr. J. Holmes in the chair. The business generally was of but minor importance. On the bill being read relative to the water carts, Mr. Procter observed that these vehicles were miserably horsed.—Mr. Higgins complained that no report had yet been brought up by the Water Committee appointed to watch the progress of the works. A large sum had been paid, and no notice had been taken of it. He urged that a report should be presented by the commitee that day fortnight. Mr. Kaye said that Mr. Simpson could supply as much information as the committee by a formal report.—Mr. Gladstone called attention to the dangerous state of Dale Street, by parties not driving on the right side.—Mr. Lawrence said the bye-law would be printed and enforced.—Mr. Walthew hoped they would also enforce a penalty on persons throwing orange peel on the footwalks.—lt was agreed that the report handed in by Mr. Walthew, relative to the the streets and sanitary condition of West Derby, should be printed. WEST DERBY UrsiioN.—The usual weekly meeting of this body took place on Tuesday. It appeared that there was in the treasurer's hands a balance in favour of the union of £378 ss. 3d. The sum of £1233 2s. 9d. was ordered to be paid to the county treasurer for county rates, on or before the 22rd of February. A note from the bailiff of the coroner of the borough, addressed to the chief assistant overseer of West Derby, was read by that officer to the board, stating that, on Thursday, 22nd instant, the bodies of two newly born female infants were found within that township. In the first case a verdict of wilful murder had been returned against some person or persons unknown, but in the second nothing could be affirmed as to the cause of death. The report of the visiting committee of the workhouse was read by the chairman, from which it appeared that every department of the establishment was in a very satisfactory condition. On the motion of Mr. Smith, the clerk read the minutes of the proceedings, and report of the committee of the board on the subject of the two schemes proposed by the Poor Law Comilassioners for the administration of relief to out-door poor throughout the union. These schemes proposed to divide the union into three several districts, to each of which is to be appointed a relieving officer. The committee, which was of the whole Board, after a lengthened discussion, resolved in favour of the schemes generally, proposing only to unite the two less populous districts, and to place the relief of them under their experienced officer, Mr. Tristram, heretofore the sole relieving officer of the whole union. Some discussion ensued, but it was ultimately decided to adopt the scheme as it was proposed by the commissioners, without alteration.  About ten o'clock, on Thursday night, Capt. M'Corrigan, of the ship Thistle, lying in the Queen's Dock, fell into the dock, and, notwithstanding he was got out in a short time, life was extinct.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER IN NOTTINGRAMSAIRE.-011 Saturday night week, a carrier, named Robinson, was murdered on the road be ween Nottingham and Mansfield. He, .was accompanied by a man named Shepherd, whom be requested  to drive his wageon for a short time while he stopped at a puhlic-house. Shepherd did so; but arrived at Mansfield without having been overtaken by Robinson, and immediately communicated the fact to the latte..'s when a search was instituted, and deceased's body was found at a short distance from the road with several  wounds upon the head and trunk. Some money was found in his pockets, but it is supposed that he must have been possessed of a larger sum when murdered. No clue has been found by which the murderers can be traced ; though at the inquest, spots of blood had been found on Shepherd's jacket and smockfrock, a circumstance for which he accounted by saying that he had fought a fellow-servant on Thursday. He entered into recognizances to appeal when called upon, and the inquiry was then adjourned. A REAL Du EL.—A. contemporary thus describes what he calls " an affair of honour," and which he states came di near this city last week :—" Some altercation took place between two gentlemen at Plymouth, on Nlorlay, tie 15th of June. The rumour which has reached our ears is to this effect :—That over a glass of wine some allusion was made by one of the patties, which was taken as a personal affront, and resented on the instant by a glass of wine being thrown in the face of the offender. This led to a hostile message, and it was arranged that a meeting should take place at Exeter on the succeeding (last) 'Tuesday. Accordingly, the parties met, each attended by his friend. Being placed on the ground, the first fire was de The party who  mately amicably settled at a dinner which followed this hazardous affair. We know the parties, but decline stating any names." [No doubt the murder will out.]— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. MURDER AT KIN ETON,  —An atron, a market  town half-way between Banbury and Stratford-uponAvon. The deceased, William Chater, was a blacksmith nod machine-maker, living at a village called Conthrouke, and doing well in the world, being possessed of about a dozen cottages, all tenanted. He is represented, bow' "" •  ever, to have been a man of very quarrelsome and litigious disposition, often engaged in disputes before the local magistrates with his workmen and others, some of whom have been known to threaten him, and it has been conjectured that to some such cause his death may be attributed. It appears that on Wednesday sennight.he went to the town of Kineton, about two miles from which he resided, and that he left in the evening for the purpose of returning, being somewhat in liquor. About midnight, however, his body was found by the roadside, with several desperate wounds on his head, and the traces of a hard struggle about the spot where he lay. An inquest has been held, and the jury have found a verdict of " Wiltul murder against some person or persons unknown."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-08-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LIVERPOOL SUMMER ASSIZES, 1846 CROWN COURT.  THE Commissions for holding these Assizes will be opened at LIVERPOOLy on Saturday, the Fifteenth day of  The Trials of Prisoners, and of Persons committed and subsequently toiled, are to proceed in the .order in which the names of the part'e 3 indicted appear in the Sheriff's Calendar, unless where the Court shall- otherwise direct.  The Cases will be Classed in the Calender as follows ; and the names of the Prisoners and. Persons so bailed as aforesaid, will be arranged in each Class. according -to the dates of their re spective 'Commitments, except that priority will in general be given to Cases within the First Class, where the attendance of iNledical c r Surgical Witnesses is required.  1. Cases not included in any of the following Classes 2. Mint Cases.  anches 3. Murders (excep ter and Liverpool,) 4. Cases from the Borough of Manchester 5. Cases from the Borough of Liverpool. 6. Misdemeanours, in respect of which Costs are not allowable.  Where one or more of several Persons charged with a joint offence shall have been committed, and the other or others admitted to bail, or committed after the publication of the Calendar, the Trials are to proceed in the same order as if the Person or Persons so admitted to bail, or committed after the publication of the Calendar had been committed at the same time with the others. The Trials of other Persons committed after the publication  of the Calender, or admitted to bail in the first instance for Felony,„ or for Alisiemepoursin respect of which Costs are _ _  allowable, (except those from the-Boroughs of Manchester and Liverpool) will be proceeded with immediately before the cases comprised in Class 4 ; the excepted Cases from the Borough of Manchester will he taken immediately after the Cases coin • prised in the last-mentioned Class; and the excepted Cases from the Borough of Liverpool will be taken immediately after the Cases comprised in Class 5. The Prosecutors and Witnesses in Cases within the first three Classes are required to be in attendance on Monday, the Seventeenth day of August, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon ; and in all other Cases on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day of August, at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon.  Tile Court will sit for the dispatch of business eith day at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon, except on Monday, the Seventeenth day of August, and on that day at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon.  The foregoing Regulations will be strictly enforced, and no Costs will be allowed to Parties making default in the obsen, A Trial Paper shewing the arrangement of the Business for each day, will be posted at the doors.of the. Crown Court andin the Crown Office.  fr. Justice IV  SHUTTLEWORTH, Clerk of the Cr  'own Office, Preston, July 17th, 1846  LADIES  BEWARE OF SUMMER THOUGH the Season is delightful, 1 the scorchi-- -e "-skin a spec  of inflammation, whiCh, upon sibsiding, leaf permanent stain of inveterate Tar, or Sprinkles of FR EC K L  ;coloration inclining Assuming one of th  forms of
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND MR. COBDEN.  (From the London Record.) We cannot but think that Sir Robert Peel might have paid a compliment to Mr. Cobden, without doing it in such a manner as might seem to approve of the constitution of the League, and of the system of its agitation, as is the reasonable inference from the right hon. baronet's speech of Monday night. When Lord Anglesea was recalled from Ireland, and said in his parting address to the Romanists, that his advice was " Agitate, Agitate, Agitate," every man of sense denounced the filly of the exhortation, coming from the lips of a retiring Viceroy, and only palliated his conduct by the recollection that he was fitter to charge at the head of a regiment of hussars than to govern a nation. But Sir Robert Peel must be regarded in a very different aspect, and we cannot but feel that his panegyric is fitted to stimulate the ambition of future agitators, and to call into existence a new swarm of would-be Richard Cobdens.  It cannot be forgotten that Sir Robert Peel at one time entertained a very different opinion of Mr. Cobden, and thought that he did not always "appeal to reason." No one can overlook the fact that when Mr. Drummond was aFsassinated by one who designed the bullet for Sir Robert Peel, the premier spoke in such a manner of Mr. Cobden's addresses to the great Anti-Corn• law meetings, as seemed to intimate that Mr. Cobden was morally responsible for the attempted murder. Great was Mr. Cobden's indignation, but so unsatisfactory was Sir Robert Peel's explanation of his meaning, that it was not until che present session that Mr. Cobden expressed himself satisfied, that the imputation was withdrawn.  But it is not to any private feeling between Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden, that we now look. We look to the fact that Mr. Cobden, not by appeals to reason merely, but by a powerful organization, meant to overawe the legislature, has for many years laboured to carry the repeal of the Corn-laws. Could the creation of fictitious votes be styled "an appeal to rea,o.l ?" Could the preparations on foot for supplanting the county constituencies be regarded as an "appeal to reason ?" We regret that Sir Robert Peel should have used such language in regard to Mr. Cobden, although we are free to admit the great talents, the indefatigable industry, and the comparative moderation of that eminent agitator. We admit that amongst agitators he is entitled to a high place, but still he was an agitator. And it would have been quite as suitable if Sir Robert Peel, as he has now concluded his labours in favour of the abolition of the Corn-laws with a panegyric on Richard Cobden, bad closed his great effort on behalf of Roman Catholic Emancipation with a laboured panegyric on Daniel O'Connell. Richard Cobden and Daniel O'Connell are both unconstitutional agitators, although we freely admit that as between them, the palm of truth, integrity, and principle, must be awarded, net to theselfish, blustering, equivocating mendicant of Ireland, but to the more selfdenying and truth-telling Leaguer of Stockport.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HER OWN REQUEST.—The following curious case of murder occurred 14tely in a small village, in Wurtemburg:—Adam Gayring, shepherd, a man of sixty-four years of age, of honest and upright dealings, loved and respected by all who knew him, presented himself, on the Bth instant, before the  authorities of Meidenheim, and stated calmly' that he had just killed his wife. .His declaration was immediately taken, as follows :—'lly wife,' he said, ' as every one knows, has been suffering for a long time from illness, and at times the pains she had to endure were such as to affect her reason ; she latterly gave up a'l hopes of recovery, and continually repeated, that not only was 'fife torment to her, but that she feared that if I died before her, she would be reduced to misery. This morning, after we had read together the 4th chapter of the Book of Judges, (they were devoutpeople, and read the Bible every day.) she requested me to drive a nail into her temple, as Jael did to. Sisera, as such a death seemed to her short and easy, and would put an end to her sufferings; she said she forgave me beforeband for the act, of which she absolved me before God and man. A nail, she said, would not cause a great hemorrhage, and would cause but a alight wound. 'As soon as 4 am dead,' she added, 4 you can close the wound, put me on a clean cap, and no one will know anything at all about it.' After long resistance (continued Gayring) I gave way to the wishes of my wife. I took a nail and began to drive it into her left temple with a hammer, but the nail was too weak, and the point, instead of entering. flattened itself on the bone. I then .took a small drill, but was equally unsuccessful. My wife grew impatient, and requested me to kill her at once with the hammer, which I did accordingly, by knocking inthe skull. The body of my wife is at my house, where you can examine it at your leisure.' The magistrate immediately proceeded to the house with a medical man, and Gayring ,under a strong guard. They found the body  On the left temple there were two wounds, and the right side of the skull was knocked in as low down as the temple. Beside the bed was a table, on which was a:Bible, the nail, drill, and hammer alluded to. ' On the ground was a basin of water, in which the mur derer, according to his own declaration, washed his hands before presenting himself to the authorities. Gayring is now in prison.; -Le is perfectly calm, and convinced that he acted well in fulfilling the wishes of his wife, by putting an end to her.4ufferings. Some Wurtemhurg papers state, that the inhabitants of the village of Gussenstadt, where the murder was committed, left their work as soon 's V— beard - mure _aey - of tno der, and spent the day in the church, fasting and praying for the soul of the departed.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND M. COBDEN,  (From the Lyndon Record.)  We cannot but think that Sir Robert Peel might have paid a compliment to Mr. Cobden, without doing it in such a manner as might seem to approve of the constitution of the League, and of the system of its agitation, as is the reasonable inference from the right hon. baronet's speech of Monday night. When Lord Anglesea was recalled from Ireland, and said in his parting address to the Romanists, that his advice was " Agitate, Agitate, Agitate," every n  denounced the folly of the  c exhortation. con.ir  his conduct he was fitter to charge at the  ips of a retiring Viceroy: and only palliat  of sense 'rout the  ,y the recoil  bead of a regiment of hussars than to govern a nation. But Sir Robert Peel must be regarded in a very different aspect, and we cannot but feel that his panegyric is fitted to stimulate the ambition of future agitators. and to cal into existence a new swarm of would-be Richard Cobdens.  It cannot be forgotten that Sir Robert Peel at one time  a very di  )bden, and  thought that he did not always " appeal to rea._ No, one can overlook the fact that when Mr. Drummond was assassinated by one who designed the bullet far Sir Robert Peel, the premier spoke in such a manner of Mr. Cobden's addresses to the great Anti-Coru.law meetingsras seemed to intimate that Mr. Cobden was morally responsible for the attempted murder. Great was Mr. Collerr's indignation, but so unsatisfactory was Sir Robert Peei's explanation of his meaning, that it was not until the rresent session that Mr. Cobden expressed himself satisfied, that the imputation was withdrawn. But it is not to any private feeling between' Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden, that we now look. We look to the fact that Mr. Cobden, not by appeals to reason merely, but by a powerful organization, meant to overawe the- legislature,. has for many years laboured to carry'the repeal of the Corn-laws. Could the creation of fictitious vote& be styled "an appeal to rew=oa ?" Could the preparations on foot for supplanting the county constituencies be regarded as an "appeal to reason ?" _  Mre regret that Sir Robert Peel should have used stach language in regard to Mr. Cobden, although we are free to admit the great talents, the indefatigable industry, and the comparative moderation of that eminent agitator. We admit that amongst agitators he is entitled to a high place, but still he was an agitator. And it would have been quite as suitable if Sir Robert Peel, as he has now concluded his labours in favour of the abolition of the Corn-laws with a panegyric on Richard Cobden, bad closed his great effort on behalf of Roman Catholic  Emancipation with a laboured panegyric on Daniel O'Connell. Richard Cobden and Daniel O'Connell are both unconstitutional agitat-irs, although we freely admit that as between them, the palm of truth, integrity, and principle, must be awarded, not to the selfish, blustering, equivocating mendicant of Ireland, but to the more selfdenying and truth-telling Leaguer of Stockport.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-06-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENTLCNIEN THIEVES.—ShortIy before I left Wile°, s roobed near Puebla. The robbers all had ss and bearing of gentlemen. When the operation -^ve's and trunks of the pai.engers was ,bbers said to them—" Gentlemen, I suppose that we are rubbers by 'en, (somos caballeros.) but we 'ate, and that ha: forced upon 'moding you, for which we  we would ns! b  , in Mexico, some of them .itic character. The case of :xecu'ed a few years since, is aracter deeply dramatT. I will they were told to me : 'f he Swiss a street of St. Cosme. About twelve le o'clock in the daytime, a carriage drove up to his and three men got out, one in the dress of a priest-re admiqed by the porter, and the door closed, ,y immediately seized arid gagged (din, went into ^,l robbed and murdered the consul. The discovery of the murderers Arms a metal a small piece of blue cloth attached to it, was found clenched in the fingers of the murdered d which he had torn from the coat of one of the Suspicion at last rested upon a soldier, who was 're money than he cud account for. His -arched, and the coat from which the butHe aas convicted, ,st confidence upon a pardon, trite aid-de-camp of President He was brought out to _,,y taken his seat on the fatal laced around his neck, and the r.hen he .aid—" Hold I will who are my complices—Colonel Yanes is the V' The execution was suspended, and on searching use of Yam's, a correspondence in cipher was diswhich fully established his guilt in this and other Yanes was the naramonr of a woman in Mexico  dents of a c  fly sketch ther  :be for the  bastion v'•`  3en torn was fo lied with the u  a Colonel Y  about to be turn  i there  early related to one whose word wai law, and whose over her relative was known to be very great, and upon that reliance was placed for a pardon, at least ; but she was not disposed to bust to that, and let her lover aufftr the disgrace of conviction—she went to the ju&e  infl-uer  whom the cipher had been deposited, which furnished the evidence of the guilt of Yanes, and offered him a large bribe to give it up. Hz was. an honest man and an upright judge—he s'ernly refused the britie, and firmly resisted the menaces of this powerful woman. In a day or two he died suddenly, as all supposed, of poison. A successor was appointed of principles less stern, who accepted.the bribe, and promised to destroy the paper ; but when, in confession to his priest, he disclosed his corrupt :ond.uct, the worthy man prevailed upon him, if he had tot destroyed the paper, not to do so, and he did not. 'arses, in the meantime, was informed that this evidence 'ould not be produced against him, and that t' e prosecum would rest entirely upon the testimony of his accom. ice. Upon the trial, with the hab:tuat air of command an officer, and the habitual rear and submission of the moron soldier, Yanes browbeat and ronfu-ed his accuser such a degree, that he felt secure of an acquittal. At moment the fatal paper was produced, and he was demned and executed. His not less guilty paramour aides in the city of Mexico.—Recollections of Mexico.  still s