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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-06-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LATE EARL OF ESSEX.—The will of the Earl of Essex has been just proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctors' Commons, by Mr. John Drummond, the sole executor. The property of the noble earl has been sworn under the value of £120,000; this, of course, does not include the freehold estates. The Dowager Countess of Essex, late Miss Stephens, whose marriage with the earl took place about two years since, derives an annuity of £3OOO a-year under this will, a legacy of £lO,OOO, and the furniture of the house in Cashiobury Park, The house and furniture in Belgrave-square are bequeathed to her absolutely, by a codicil lately made. The residue of this property is directed to be laid out in purchase of freehold estates, and the rents arising from the same to go in the same manner as is directed by his said will—namely, to his nephew, the present earl, and the heirs male of his body for ever. The will is extremely long, being written upon no less than 40 sheets of paper, and occuying 22 skins of parchment. The freeholds are of great value. The Dowager Countess is, in addition to the above, entitled by the last codicil to all monies in the bankers' hands, and monies out at interest, or upon mortgages, above the value of £3OOO. The sum of £5OOO was settled upon her on her marriage with the late earl. SUICIDE AT NEW Youx.—Mr, Shultz, a bill broker, Committed suicide, at New York, at the close of the last month. The event had caused quite a sensation in the monetary circles of that city. The following account of his business habits and engagements is copied from the Daily Express.:—" The defalcations of Mr. Shultz, the broker, are to a much larger amount than was supposed. He had resided here since 1838, and, being a German by birth, well skilled in business, and of the most gentlemanly manners, had acquired an uncommon degree of confidence. He became a large bill broker, and by almost every packet negociated a very large amount of bills. By the packet of Saturday the amount of bills purchased were large. Confidence was such in him that drawers without hesitation gave him their bills, and depended on him to procure the proceeds of the purcha§es, and return the amount. Heretofore all his operations of this kind had been settled with promptness and fidelity : these, however, bythis packet. were not paid or settled. It turns out, that his habits of life were such that he had become exceedingly embarrassed, and the funds he received from the purchasers of bills he appropriated to pay over to his own creditors, insteadof paying it to those to whom it belonged. It is now feared, that bills which have gone out, by previous packets, are not genuine ; but of this, however, nothing is positively known. His present defalcations are stated to be about thirty thousand dollars."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-11-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE.—An extraordinary instance of selfdestruction by a female occurred on Monday at Little Stretton, in this county. Miss Mary Arm Bridgman, a remarkably beautiful young woipan, twenty-two years of age, the daughter of a highly respectable widow residing in that village, had been for some time in rather a delicate state of health, but not so much so as to cause any alarm ; she had been attended by a most respectable medical man residing at Stretton, who had prescribed for her, and she was much better. On the morning of that day the young lady's mother was superintending a brewing at her house, when she observed Miss Bridgman writing on the back of a letter and tearing it up and throwing it in the fire ; this did not excite any suspicion, but about nine o'clock in the morning she came into the house, and not seeing her daughter there, her attention was drawn to a scrap of paper, on which was written—" Farewell for ever." She immediately went to look for her in the garden, where she was horror struck at finding her daughter in a reclining position, with a gun, which had been. discharged, in her hand, and a pool of blood near her : she was quite dead. It appeared she had taken off her right boot for the greater facility of discharging the gun, the muzzle of which she had placed just above her right ear, and the charge of shot had passed quite through her head, making an orifice of the size of the muzzle of the gun on each aide of the head. No cause can be assigned for the dreadful act, other than that which the coroner's jury, after patiently investigating the case, found by their verdict of " temporary insanity."— Salopian Journal. FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—We are truly happy in having it in our power to announce the arrival here this morning of her Majesty's packet Swift, Lieut. Welch, from Mexico, as most parties, particularly those connected with her, had begun to have serious apprehensions for her safety, she having been due upwards of a month; her chief detention occurred between Tampico and the Havannah, from a prevalence of easterly winds at the time prevailing. She left Vera Cruz on the 17th September, Tampico 23d, and the Havannah on the 20th October, bringing on freight £138,340 in dollars and other specie, and left at Vera Cruz her Majesty's ships Cleopatra and Rover. The packet lost one man at the Havannah from fever, where, from its continuance, with but slight abatement, it was still causing considerable alarm. No political news has reached by this conveyance, her dates being antecedent to those which have already arrived. Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieut. Croke, had passed the Havannah for Vera Cruz prior to the 20th October.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-10-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Tuesday last, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Mr. Eli Munn, surgeon, of Moon-street. Miss Jane Munn, a daughter of the deceased, said,—" About ten o'clock on Monday morning I went into deceased's bedroom, when I saw him lying on his back on the floor, with kis throat coat, and there was blood flowing from his neck. I instantly ran down stairs, and went into the parlour to my brothers, and we all went up stairs immediately, and found he was quite dead. A neighbour came in who fetched a surgeon. The razor now produced was in the right hand of the deceased. The deceased was sixty-six years old, and has been labouring under a disease of body for some time, the pain of which caused him sometimes to be delirious. I saw him in his bedroom about eight o'clock yesterday morning, and he then appeared to be quite insensible and delirious. I asked him two or three questions, and he answered me quite opposite." Eli Wadham Munn, son of the deceased, said,— " Yesterday morning, I was sitting below-stairs writing a letter, when the last witness came screaming down stairs, and told me my father had cut his throat. I went up stairs immediately, and found him in the way described by her. A doctor was called to deceased, but he could do nothing, as he was quite dead. Deceased has laboured under a very aggravated case of stricture for many years, the pain arising from which frequently drove him frantic. He often expressed a wish, whilst labouring under a paroxysm of pain, that God would ease him of his sufferings, or else he was quite ready to destroy himself." The jury found a verdict to the effect that the deceased had inflicted a wound on his neck; of which he died, he labouring at the time under temporary insanity.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-04-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROBERTSON. THE following are among the advantages of this Society : lst.—The security of an ample Assurance Fund, besides the subscribed Capital.  2dly.—For young and middle-aged lives the LOWEST RATES OF PREMIUMS that entitle the assured to participate in the profits. 3dly.—Three-fourths of the profits divided every fifth year among those who have been Assured four years on the equal scale of premiums. The bonus declared in 1834 averaged £l6 per cent. on the premiums then paid ; and the bonus awarded in 1839, on the average, is equal to £3l per cent. on the premiums received during the last five years. 4thly.—Assurers may have the bonus applied to increase the sum assured, or in reduction of future premiums, either for the remainder of life or for the next five years only. sthly.—Policies granted without any charge to the Assured beyond the stamp duty. 6thly.—An option given to Assurers, on the increasing scale of rates, after the lapse of any number of years, to commute the future increasing premium by an equivalent equal annual one for the remainder of life, and thereafter to participate in the profits. The same advantages are applicable to Assurers on the decreasing scale of rates. 7thly.—Policies on the lives of parties dying by suicide, duelling, or by the hands of justice, not void as respects the interests of persons to whom they may have been legally assigned. Bthly.—No extra charge for residence in any part of Europe, nor for proceeding to any port (in a decked, sailing, or steam vessel) between Brest and the Elbe. Licenses are granted to go to any part of the world upon terms proportionate to the risks.  9thly.—Whole-life Policies on the equal scale of premium purchaseable after four years. Lapsed Policies revived on favourable terms to the Assured. *** AU Assurances effected ;on the equal scale of rates during the year 1839 will participate in the next division of profits. By order of the Board of Directors, T. 0. COOPER, Agent.  ELLIS'S SPLENDID SODA WATER, Significantly styled, " Boiling Water, Cold as Ice." BETTER conceived in the emphatic eloquence of Lord Byron : " Ring for your valet, bid him quickly bring Some Hock and SODA WATER, then you'll know A pleasure worthy Xerxes, the great King : For not the best sherbet sublimed with snow, Nor the first sparkle of the desert spring, Nor Burgundy, in all its sunset glow, Can vie with draughts of Hock and
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-06-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EDERICK TRENCH, K.C.H.,  Each Portrait may be purchased scpar Proofs on India paper Proofs Small folio Subscribers' Names, for both Works, of w be published, received by Messrs. DAME an Regent-street, London ; and Messrs. LACE a Standard-Office, Liverpool, where the whole of may be seen. Each copy will be delivered in t scribed for.  The long continuance of dry weather appears t nihilated what hopes of an apple-crop t' left.—Bristol Journal. Lady Hawarden, who is stated by a mot to have died at`.Toulouse on Mond well and in excellent spirits at the fete, in the Regent's Park, on Saturc  Many of our inhabitants are signing Bath postmaster, requesting him not to ters, &c. on the sabbath, except in cases gency. On Sunday next the subjc several of the pulpits of this cit  important cm  ientione  ,--Bath Gazette.  Some stranger, an IriShman we press sively placarding the walls of our city, o lost favourite dog, and in order that there may be in recognising the animal, he states in that the dog answers to the name of —Glasgow Chronicle.  icuous characters  ,queen," a.  is deaf  EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE:—On Wednesday morning Robt. Barrett, a clog and patter.-maker, Drake-street, -Rochdale, put an end to his life by nearly cutting his head off With his stock knife, with which he cuts his 'clog -soleS:-. He had been at work a few minutes previous to the time he was found. His head was attached to his body only by a small portion of his neck. He was•upwards of 59 years Of age.•  ELECTIONtERIN G.—The Inverne:z.l Courier according 'to 'present prospects, neither 'Lavern( Ross-zhire will he contested at the.next election liable that Mr. Trail! will again contest Caitlin George ..sinclair. The Inverness burghs tested on the conservative interest by Mr: 3 Scatwell.-Elyin Courant:
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-06-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ASCOT-HEATH RACES-FRIDAY. Wassily Welliky, , hence for St. Petersburg, at Baltic Port Peep at the sun, and wait for you. stranger, who for the first time enters the Prussian capital, but the nervous system becomes the victim of sloth-ennui, Liberty, Robertson, and Aletta Elizabeth, De Jone, hence at Riga By maids and matrons, by old and young, from the side of Charlottenburg. Situated in a dead level, hypochondriasis, indigestion, afflict those unhappy mortals, Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for three-year old colts. Old Hugo, Binder, hence at Swinemunde Paul Frederick, Fenger, hence at Copenhagen By rich and poor our praise is sung ; and overshadowed •by plantations and groves, Berlin is com- who not seldom put an end to their miserable existence by mile. Three subs. - British Queen, Turner, hence at Bremen And the blind man sighs pletely hidden from you till you have passed the barrier ; suicide. Let the man who depends for subsistence upon the Mr. Thornhill's Euclid walked over. Dorothea„ Schwerdtman, hence at Brake When his sightless eyes when you are introduced all at once to a scene, of the gorge- toil of his muscles or of his brain console himself by pon- The Wokingham Stakes of five sovs. each, for three-yr-olds Manco, Nichells, from New Orleans and Virginia, off Cape Clear ; lie turns to the spot where our perfumes rise. ous magnificence of which, no one, till he shall have thus dering on these facts ; and let those who are independent of There is not a garden, the country through, made acquaintance with it, may hope to form a conception. labour recollect that man is a social being, and that the and upwards (handicap). The last three-quarters of the New Mile. Seventeen subs. Clear, by light easterly winds reports that a great nuinber of vessels are detained about Cape Briton, Rogers, hence for Gaspee, at the Cove : master ill Where they plant not violets, white and blue ; Your carriage having:passed beneath the span of the gateway, Creator has ordained that useful exertion is essential to Lord Exeter's Alemdar, 4 yrs., Bst. Illbs. (Darling) 1 Emma Graham, Ferguson, from Oporto, off Cove By princely hall, which, not being arched, produces a twofold striking effect, individual happiness.-Curtis on Health. Captain Williamson's The Drama, 3 yrs., 7st. 111bs. .... 2 Sophia, Lindgard, from Bahia, at Trieste And cottage small- .. halts at the barrier guard-house, and so enables you to look A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-02-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

STRANGE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—About two o'clock The afterpiece—a one act farce—has not been quite so on Thursday morning one of the city police, in passing long before the public as the comedy. It is a clever and along King William-street, London, was startled by ob- amusing brochure, in which Mr. Nightingale (Mr. Dudley serving a body of fire suddenly burst from a man's mouth, Costello)—we borrow the outline which we find ready prewho was standing at the corner of the street. The officer pared to our hands in the columns of a Manchester con. ran forward to ascertain the cause, and discovered the temporary—is a peevish dyspeptic, who keeps a diary of party to be a Frenchman, and that he had attempted self. his ailments and their treatment. IraVing refused his destruction by the following mode of procedure :—lt niece Rosins (Miss Fanny Young) to an overtalking appears that having withdrawn the yoke of an egg, he had barrister, Mr. Gabblewig (Mr. Charles Dickens), the inserted three ounces of gunpowder, and, placing this in I lover is despondent. till he finds that uncle and niece are his mouth, ignited the same with a fuzee. His mouth and I coming to the same inn at Malvern. They arrive; and throat were greatly burnt, but otherwise he escaped ma- the dyspeptic is immediately beset by a country actor terial injury. He was immediately conveyed to Guy's named Slap, alias Mr. Formiville (Mr. Mark Lemon), Hospital, where he was searched. The only articles found who, disguised as a medical man, endeavours to wheedle on him were a large canister of powder and a box of him into buying his nostrums. Gabblewig, discovering fuzees. He gave his name as Henri Rengree, belonging the tricks of Slap, his quondam brother Thespian, circumto Aix.la-Chapelle, and was by trade a watchmaker and vents him by assuming in succession five different diejeweller. He remains in the hospital under the surveil- i guises, and at length wins the pretty Rosina from he lance of the police, churlish uncle, by proving that hie termagant wife (Slap'
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-08-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—On Monday night an accident occurred at Bullfield. on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, by which severe injuries were inflicted upon several of the passengers ; and in one case they have terminated fatally. The man who has for some time attended the points, and to this signal, was Lee Bancroft, a man about forty years of age, who has borne the character of being a steady and careful servant. The train to which the accident occurred was the last train between Liverpool and Manchester, consisting of about sixteen carriages. Bancroft having left his post, and there being no indication announced by the signal light, the passenger train ran into a goods train, the effect of which was to smash three third-class carriages, which were next the engine, and to inflict a series of injuries upon upwards of a score of persons. Bancroft had clearly acted in disobedience to his orders, and of this, when his attention had been called to it, he would appetr to have been conscious, for about twelve o'clock his wife and another woman found that he had committed suicide in his cabin, by suspending himself with a neckerchief from one of the nails. On the following night, as the Government train, which passes Bolton at eight o'clock, was proceeding to Liverpool, about a mile distant beyond the Wigan Station, one of the valves of the engine burst, which disabled the machinery from working. The sudden stoppage caused considerable alarm and dismay among the passengers. No personal injuries were sustained. The accident on Monday night resulted on Thursday morning in the death of one of the passengers, a boy named Richard Greenhalgh. An inquest was held on the bodies of Greenhalgh and Lee Bancroft, the pointsman, on Thursday afternoon, when the circumstances of the accident having been detailed in evidence, and it appearing that Greenhalgh had died from a blow received in the collision, which had ruptured the uretha, the jury returned in his case a verdict of " manslaughter" against Bancroft, and in Bancroft's case of " temporary insanity."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-10-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TAKE HOLLOWAY'S PILLS TO CURE ASTHMATICAL COMPLAINTS, OLD COUGHS, AND AFFECTIONS OF THE CHEST.—The extraordinary efficac f these invaluable pills in the cure of complaints a ing the chest, whether aiOng from asthma, old c Is, or occasional colds, is now so well attested by berg of persons, both at home  and abroad, that hay een cured by their use, that Holloway's Pills have ccome the most popular remedy for . few doses will remove the phlegm, re such diseases  lieve the op scion of the chest, and thereby produce a healthy a on of the lungs : to assist in perfecting the cure, lowayr4 OintMent should be rubbed into the ches very night.  physical, 135  The worn  a of the male  enumerated :—Domestic grief, 7 ; unfaithfulness or intemperance of wife, 7; dread of poverty, 7; want of employment, 6 ; reverse of fortune, loss of property, &c., 12 ; loss of wife or children, 3 ; disappointed affection, 3 unhappiness at home, 1; erroneous views in religion sudden shocks,  frights. &  29; jealous  _ . . over anxiety, -2 • sudden loss of sevqral cows, 1; regret for a theft, 1 ; suicide of a brother, 1 ; over excitement at " Great Exhibition, 1. On this head &wan *l. iron) desertion or i  -usage of  husband, 13 ; loss of husband, children, parents, &c.-, 14 ; domestic grief, poverty, &c., 10 ; shock on information of sudden death of relative, 6; disappointed affection, 15; seduction and neglect, 6 ; through reading the trial of Mannings, the murderers, 1 ; beguilement by advertisement into a brothel, 1 ; father's profligacy, 1 ; erroneous views of religion, 1; despondency on quitting service of long duration, 2 • accidental poisoning of a daughter, 1 ; omission in a bill, 1 ; fright, 14 ; loss of property, 3 ; overindulgence of parents, 1. Education—read and write, males, 171—females, 275 ; read only, males, 63—females. 1.15 ; no education, males, 79—females, 183. Religion— Church of England, mates, 238—females, 414; Roman Catholic, males, 35—females, 74 ; dissenters, males, 96— females, 162 ; unknown, males, 32—females, 79.  T''
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-06-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE IN PARIS.—An umbrella maker residing in the section des Arts et Metiers, went on Sunday to the Commissary of Police, and said that he felt some alarm in consequence of his brother, who was of very eccentric character, and his wife, employed by him, not having come for two days to the shop to work. The commissary went to the residence of the couple, Rue Chapon, 62. The door was broken open, and the brother and his wife were found lying dead. Both were in their night dresses. The husband was on the floor by the side of a pan of charcoal ; the wife was in the bed. A written paper found on the table stated that they had voluntarily put an end to their existence, because they could not agree. But as the body of the man was warm, whilst that of the wife was quite cold, the commissary suspected that the man had first murdered the woman and then committed suicide. A search was made, and a pair of pistols, loaded and cocked, were found in a drawer, as was also a paper containing opium. A glass containing a little wine, with which opium had evidently been mixed, was also discovered. In addition to this, there were marks and scratches on the woman's throat, and on the chin was a large bruise, corresponding to a blow from the butt end of one of the pistols. A medical man who was called in declared, moreover, that the female must have been dead for more than twenty-four hours. A neighbour stated that on the previous evening she heard the two deceased quarrelling violently ; that the woman had cried, " I insist that you let me out, or I will break open the door i" that this had been followed by cries and meanings ; that then there was the noise as of a human body falling, and that afterwards all was silent. It is supposed that the man had made the woman drink the poisoned wine by threatening to shoot her. Some hours after she was dead, he had no doubt lighted the charcoal, and laid himself down by her side. To account for his being found on the floor, it is assumed that when nearly suffocated he got up with the intention of opening the window, but that it was too late, The two deceased had only been married a month, and the female was not more than nineteen years of age.