The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-11-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING SIIICIDE.—A wool dealer, named John Smith, residing at Charlton, committed suicide by hanging himself to a bacon rack at his mother's house, a few minutes after he Lad spoken to her. He had been reading newspaper shortly before, and paid particular attention to that which related to the Mannings, wondering what their feelings were on trial, and what they would be when they came to the scaffold.—Gloucestershire Chronicle.  SHOCKING OccuRRENcE.7On Sunday. a hog pig, the  property of Mr. John Boardman, Deptford, rubbed open  the sty door and made its way into the parlour, where it attacked a male infant, about five months old, lying asleep in the cradle. The cries of the child alarmed Mrs. Boardman, who, with much difficulty, beat off the beast, which also bit her severely on the leg. The child was shockingly lacerated, the left foot being entirely gnawed off. It is not expected to survive. It is a fact well worth recording, with respect to the public art of thanksgiving, that during the week on one especial day of which nearly the entire nation knelt to acknowledge mercies that were hardly merited—during that week the rate of mortality, for London alone, was lower than it has been (luring the corresponding week of any year since registrations of death have been a portion of our law. We record, and have pleasure in recording, a simple fact, our authority for which is the report of the Registrar-General.  The cases of harrowing distress depicted by the special Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, in the metropolitan districts, (and now pu'rlishing alternately in that journal with articles on the manufacturing and agricultural districts,) are exciting a considerable amount of sympathy, every article appearing with ktters appended from anonymous writers, and handing to the Correspondent sums to be distributed by him for the relief of the destitute objects whose situations he is the means of laying before the public. How far cholera may be said to identify itself with sewerage, may be decided by facts. The deputy-registrar of the North Leeds district deposes as follows :—" The cholera pays no respect to sewerage. Those localities, as York-street and Marsh-lane, which have cost the town thousands of pounds in drainage, have been the scenes of its most malignant ravages; whilst in the adjoining district, which lies nearly level with the river, and will scarcely admit of any sewerage, I have not beard of a single case of cholera."  A mishap of a very serious kind occurred on Monday, connected with the operation of lowering the great hydraulic machine from the summit of the pier at Menai Straits. The capstan gang, nine or ten in number, seized with a panic, suffered themselves to be overpowered; and the consequence was most serious injury to two of the men—one being dreadfully bruised. about the head, the other having sustained compound fracture of the thigh. The tide being favourable, the poor fellows were taken in a boat to Caernarvon hospital. The press went to the bottom, and will have to be fished up again. On Wednesday a public meeting was held at Farringdon Hall, King's Arms-yard, Snow-hill, " for the purpose of adopting addresses of sympathy to the Citizen Ledru-Rollin and his compatriots, who have just been sentenced to transportation isor life for having attempted to save the Roman Republic from destruction, France from dishonour, and European freedom from the conspiracy of the enemies of human progression." Mr. Petty was in the chair. Mr. Harney, whose contest with Lord Palmerston for Tiverton will be remembered, Mr. O'Brien, and others of the Radicals were the chief speakers.  Mr. Campling, the chief constable of Essex, has died from gun-shot wounds inflicted as he was entering his own house at Saffron Walden. On the night of the 31st October. Mr. Campling was parting from a friend, and had turned to the street door, when a gun was discharged from the opposite side of the road, and many shots entered his legs. The assassin was not discovered at the time. Mr. Campling had suffered such a shock from the wounds that amputation could not be resorted to, and he survived only a few days. A man, named Benjamin Pettit, has been arrested on suspicion.  The Rev. Mr. Rowe, chaplain of the Horsemongerlane Gaol, has written a letter to exculpate himself from the charge of giving the communion to Mrs. Manning. It was at her own earnest desire, which he discouraged. and only yielded after insisting wish great plainness of speech on every portion of the exhortations in the communion service. He adds that the female prisoner always showed herself anxious to receive spiritual instruction, and did net admit. that she held the opinions ascribed to her by her husband. He therefore thought he could only warn her solemnly of an act which might be an aggravation of guilt and judgment to the communicant. The Leeds Mercury says that considerable excitement has occurred at Ackworth, in consequence of the Rev. Mr. Kenworthy refusing to allow the corpse of a young lady, the daughter of J. Gully, E,q., of Ackworth park, to be carried into the church because she was a Roman Catholic. A former branch of the iamily lay buried in the churchyard, hut. in consequence of the refusal, Ackworth-park being contiguous to the churchyard, a spot was selected as near as possible to the place where the other members of the family had been buried ; and this being by a Roman Catholic clergyman set apart as a place of sepulture, the remains of Miss Gully were deposited there on Thursday morning last, according to the rites of the church in whose faith she died.