The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-10-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A LADY.—On morning, shortly after eight o'clock, as the superirret,, die of the Royal Humane Society was proceeding 01°-;dis' north bank of the Serpentine river, he saw, at so red tance from him, a well-dressed woman, who aPrtbef°l be divesting herself of her outside garments, anu, 0", he could get up to her she rushed towards the wa`e:ipor' uttering a loud shriek, threw herself into the deel'e'..icre' of the river, and immediately sank. An alarm was n''o or and one of the watermen pushed off in a boat, and a hot riving at the spot, caught hold of the woman by of her head, just as she was going down the secon She was speedily conveyed to the receiving-house, "toe the usual remedies were resorted to, and after soon she was so far recovered as to inform the superime. OP' that her name was Newell, that her friends were n "roll respectable, and that the cause of her attempting the act wan that her lover had proved unfaithful to BAPTISM OF A MAN ATTACKED WITH Coor-11▪ 00; Much excitement was aroused in Haverfordwest on •Itteo, day last, in consequence of its being publicly ratp° to' that the death of a man, named George Thoins.'s,; the been caused by his being baptised that morning 01"iii0g Priory Mill leet, according to the creed of the sect joll themselves " The Latter-day Saints," by Brotheroce Thomas, a mason in this town, who fills the O. " priest" in that denomination. The deceased, tatthe stated, was labouring under an attack of choleraibeeo time the rite was administered, and that be Tbotu ale urged or forced to receive it by his brother., of the poor fellow having occurred soon afterwalit coroner, Mr. James Owen, very properly consider" de9o: duty to have a public inquiry into the cause cf his p th' when, these facts being "Thati by evitien che,,j jury returned a verdict, the deceased died co';f lera, his death being accelerated by immersion necl, water by John Thomas, at the request of the (Wes-Welshman. A lel CHURCHYARDS IN THE PLAGUE OF 1066", ntio.„y the plague at the above period raged violently in resets if we compare it with the present disease and 'Ai 01,,"0 amount of population, it was much less fatal. ,sp time there were no other sanitory commissioners i magistrates, and yet there is one of their rneasureP respect to their places of sepulture, not undersercv:otej notice. It may be premised that the London"esr dates its beginning at that period, No. 1 having °Pried t.'d on the 16th November, 1665, and it was then stk.' si Oxford Gazette, the Court having removed to wof,tl'6, on account of the plague. In the 16th nurober,66o,s Oxford Gazette, published on the Bth of January', '4oot„ it states that " such persons who shall have oeca'oos`o resort to Westminster will do so with more safetYcr/j count of the care of the Right. Hon. the Lord ;o'l°ll and the rest of the Justices of the Peace for the 'twit:, liberty of Westminster, who have given orders, boo). the bedding and other goods in the several infected off be well aired, the rooms all new whited, and the yards to be covered with earth to o feet high." 1„4:4C C PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE COUNTESS OF FELT'S BAlL.—Summonses have been issued 058 fethhr bail of the Countess of Landsfelt, Messrs. Daylei :lc and son, attorneys, of Notting-hill, to be hear the Id Marlboroug.h-street, court, on Wednesday next, .10,,t fendants being called upon to show cause why thet: bgeri not pay over to the crown the sum of £5OO encarsace,o the amount of their recognizance for the aPPe'llsttr Mrs. Heald, Countess of Landsfelt, to answer a, not hot bigamy. The proceedings, it is understood, a°,.ties,;sh pend on the co-operation of the prosecuting Poeoel,ol take place as a matter of course, the Receiver- r to 'tll/ Mr. Wray, requiring the money to be paid or,eAco act, on behalf of the crown, in default whereof he '1;c0 ~"c course pointed out in the 45th section of the l'°o re? which indicates the way the amount of estreateit isll,oll nizances may be recovered before a magistrate. ofr• oo generally understood that Mrs. Heald declines;ber the chance of a trial, and, therefore, nothing ft i 5 C'ol be done in the case as far as the charge of bigatifed cerned. It is reported that the bail have amount for which they became responsible. „....0040'e DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND Loss OF