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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-02-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Friday, a mat named Barry, surgical instrument maker, Finsbury, and his wife were found dead in bed weltering in their blood. The only parties residing in the house were the man Barry and his wife, and their youngest son, a lad, about fifteen years of age. The wretched man had been absent on business the greater part of the day, and on his return home, about ten o'clock at night, after sitting a short time in the parlour, in company with his wife, with whom he appeared to be on the best of terms, he told her to go up stairs to bed and that he would soon follow her. The woman complied with his wish, and the husband remained a considerable time after, apparently asleep in a chair by the side of the fire ; but on being roused by his son, who urged him to retire to rest, he started up, with a look of Peculiar wildness in his eves, and wishing him a hasty grod night, repaired to his sleeping apartment. Shortly afterwards the son also went to bed in a room on the story above, and on awaking at nine o'clock the following morning and proceeding down stairs, he was surprised to find that neither of his parents had yet risen. He went up to their bed-room for the purpose of calling them, but received no answer, and finding that the door was locked on the inside, his fears became greatly excited, and on looking through the keyhole he was horror-struck at discovering that the upper part of the sheets and bed which stood close against the window were completely saturated with blood. He instantly hastened in a state of extreme  terror to the next house, which was occupied by his two elder brothers, and on apprising them of what he had just witnessed they ran back with him and burst open the bed•room door, where they found their parents extended side by side on the bed, with their throats cut in a horrible manner, and both of them apparently lifeless. A surgeon  was sent for, but it was tonna that they had been dead some hours. They made a minute examination of the room in which the shocking occurrence bad taken place, and on searching the floor at the foot of the bed found two razors, both of them open and covered with blood, one lying close to the foot of the left foot post of the bedstead, and the other between the opposite valiance and the wall adjoining the window. Beside the spot where the first razor was discovered the officers found a chair, on which was placed an open razor-case, greatly discoloured with the recent impressions of bloody fingers; and it was, therefore, supposed that after cutting his wife's throat with one of the razors, the wretched man had returned to the case for the second weapon, and getting into bed with it, afterwards destroyed himself in the same manner. From the unruffled appearance of the bedclothes, and the placid expression of the unfortunate woman's countenance, it was likewise manifested that she kid not been disturbed by her husband's movements, and that he must have murdered her in her sleep.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-04-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FALL IN THE PR',CE OF BREAD.—OR Wednesday the bakers in the borough of Southwark and neighbourhood lowered the price of the 41b. to 4d. and 44., and in some places as low as 3d. The demand was in consequence much greater than the supply. At the annual dinner of the Tailors' Benevolent Society, the chairman, Mr. Sheriff Syd:.ey, said Mr. Steitz had contributed the munificent sum of £14,000 towards the society, and bad offered to give another piece of 1 nd as soon as the society should have funds enough to build larger almshouses. A beautiful specimen of fossil oak has been dug out of the embankment at the cut leading from the new quay to the railway station, North Shields. by one of the workmen engaged in repairing the wall. It was at a depth of 32 feet below the surface, and forms part of the top of the main trunk of the tree. During the past twelve months, one hundred labourers and sixteen noblemen and persons of property committed suicide. Of the labourers seventy nine hanged themselves, and the noblemen and persons of property generally put a period to their existence with guns or sharp instruments. Hannah Levy, a young woman in her twenty-second year, living in Weymouth-street, New Kent road, has been accidentally poisoned by swallowing prussic acid. Two bottles of medicine were sent to her by a druggist, the labels of the two were misplaced; and the girl poisoned herself by drinking in wrong quantities a medicine containing the acid. A verdict of " Accidental Death" has been returned by a coroner's jury. A numerous meeting was held at Guildhall, Norwich, the other day, the Mayor in the chair, to consider the means of arresting the prevailing epidemic diseases, and alleviating the sufferings of the poor. The most distressing details were given, and resolutions were passed, urging the adoption of sanitary measures by the Magistrates and Paving Commissioners, and for raising a subscription to cleanse the houses and provide clothing, &c. CoNvicTs.—An abstract of returns of the number of convicts confined in prison throughout the United Kingdom, under sentence of transportation, &c., informs us that there are altogether 2,397 convicts immured within the prisons of the three kingdoms, of whom 1,969 are males, and 428 females. Toe number of convicts whose health rendered them unfit to be removed amounts to 133, of Whom 86 were males and 47 females. In England and Wales there are 2,053 convicts in prison, in Scotland 71, and in Ireland 273.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-12-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE- LEAGUE AND THE PROPOSED WHIG MINISTRY I states that a new preliminary announcement of a new —The Earl of Clarendon, elder brother of the Hon. I Great Independent London, Birmingham, Manchester, P. Villiers, was to have been President of the Board and Liverpool Direct Railway, was a curiosity hardly.to Trade in Lord John Russell's administration ; and t° be looked for, as an addition to the customary mirth rf vice-presidecy was offered to Mr. Cobden. this merry season. At the moment, of all others, when On Saturday a maiden lady named Galen, aged the battered wrecks of former schemes, with the like in years, residing in Baham-street, Camden-town, cote posing titles, are being scattered about in all directions, mitted suicide by stabbing herself in the body and eV it will hardly he credited that any one should come for- from fear of becoming blind. She had been treublei ward, in sober earnest, to launch a new venture of the with sore eyes for some years, and was an eccentri' kind. It is, however, no joke of ours, at least. The ad- character. vertisement, signed by "A. Wennell, secretary ; offices, On Friday week, an appalling explosion of fire data' 32, Ely-place, Holborn." literally appeared in the Herald, took place at Toftshaw Bottom Pit, at Hunsworth, , -.1-ristmas Day. "The names of an influential Dirac- property of the Bowling Company, by which no awe' Lion" are promised as forthcoming shortly ; "in the than five individuals, including a father and his two Boos mean time" (delicious hint)! " application for shares, one a child only six years old, have lost their lives. 11' &c.," may be made to Mr. Wennell, as aforesaid. accident resulted from one of the deceased having Son. " Capital, Four Millions. Deposit, £2 2s !!" trary to orders used a candle instead of a Davy lamp.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-01-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NEW GUANO ISLAND.—Letters have been received in Leith, mentioning the discovery of an island, named " Nalagar," where guano is said to abound from four to seven yards in depth, and covering an area of about eight acres.  An asthmatic patient, complaining bitterly of the long prevalence of a north-east wind, said he wished it had the same property as the great American aloe—only to blow once in a hundred years. On Wednesday last, Sir George Lament, chairman of the London Mercantile Committee on Postage, handed to Mr. Rowland Hill the sum of £lO,OOO, as " part of the amount raised" towards the national testimonial.  During the performance of a pantomime at Astley's, on Monday, one of the sopernuweraries, who wore a truss for rupture, was thrown down by one of the clown's tricks, and so much injured that h' died the following morning. The Nottingham Journal records an inquest on a child poisoned with laudanum by its grandmother, in mistake for syrup of rhubarb ; another on a child which had drunk its mother's laudanum in ignorance of its nature. By the death of Earl St. Germains a vacancy is occasioned in the representation of East Cornwall, by the promotion of Lord Elliot to that title. His Lordship will also retire from the secretaryship of Ireland. At Plymouth, one day last week, Mr. Jones, the head keeper of the Breakwater lighthouse, was unfortunately washed off that structure by an immense wave and was drowned.  DEATH FROM EXCESS OF Joy.—On Friday se'nnight a poor woman, at Eastbourne, who kept a little shop and was behind in her payments, was so overjoyed at their settlement, by a benevolent lady, that she went into a fit, and shortly expired. Charles Skipworth, aged 22, who was tried and convicted at the last Lincoln Assizes for setting fire to a wheat stack at Swaby, the property of Mr. E. Enderby, and sentenced by Mr. Justice Matteson to transportation for life, committed suicide last week in Milbank prison. John Brill, accused upon his own admissions to a fellow i risoner in Coldbath Fields' prison, of a murder at Ruislip, eight years ago, underwent an examination at Uxbridge, on Monday, when a variety of corroborative evidence was adduced, and he was committed for trial. Two years ago, there were five paupers receiving relief in the Lichfield Union, all of whom had served the office of sheriff. One of them was ruined by law, another by extravagance, and two by drunkenness ; theififth was bile who " never could get forward,"  time. The limitation creates a trained body, by which l
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-09-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 9, 1845  " Give us two deficient harvests," inwardly chuckled the hirelings and members of the League, as, a fortnight ago, they watched the falling rain, and contemplated the ruin of crops and of farmers. " Give us two deficient harvests and the corn laws are repealed !" A beneficent Providence has stept in to avert the calamity upon which this result was to hang. We are not destined this year to suffer the famine which was to goad England into frenzy and political and social suicide. But is the doom of British agriculture any the less resolved upon and rapidly approaching ? We suspect that it is not. There are signs and portents skewing themselves which convince us that that event is impending over us ; and we now turn to inquire from what quarter it is to come, and what should be the course to be pursued by sensible men for their own protection, and that of their country, against the certain calamity which would occur if the blow should fall upon them when unprepared. But, first, as to the grounds of such convictions. In the Times, of Monday last, appeared an article, which, if not put forth as a feeler by authority, is, in our minds, a far more certain indication of the probable course to be taken by Sir Robert Peel's government, with respect to the question of agricultural protection, than if it had appeared in any of the hack journals which assume to speak under his immediate inspiration. After congratulating the country upon its fortunate escape from the disastrous results which would have followed a bad harvest, and quoting, with approbation of its wisdom, the warning conveyed by Lord John Russell to Ministers in the late session, in the annunciation of the fact, that, to provide against such a contingency, we had only, in the last week of July, 430,594 quarters of wheat in bond, or only one week's supply for the consumption of England, the Tim---r"'"  PRIEST T,EY'S CONCENTRATED FLUID EXTRACT  SARSAPARILLA, WHICH is so universally recommended by the faculty, and which has been proved the most safe and effective remedy for all diseases of the Skin, such as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive_ZDiseases, Secondary Symptoms, &c., arising from a diseased state of the System at large ; for removing Blotches, yittPles, &c. from the Face, it stands pre.eminent..,tfe Fluid Extract possesses the advantages of portabilj, and of keeping in any Cli mate. Prepared and So only by JOHN PRIESTLEY, No. 52, Lord-street, Liverpool.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-01-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THOMAS CHE.%  January 4. 1845."  The convicts then joined the other prisoners at the usual prayers in the ch apel, after which they were re• conducted to their cells, where they breakfasted. Stew's stepfather and uncle then came to see him, and were with him some time. Evans sang several hymns during the morning, and was incessant in his devotional exercises. About half-past eleven the prisoners left their cells for the last time, and were taken into the chapel, where they. received the sacrament. Stew appeared very much affected, but Evans was astonishingly firm. The mournful procession then proceeded from the chapel to the press-room ; the Rev, R. Appleton walked first, reading portions of the burial service; Stew came next, frequently answering " amen " at the end of the prayers, and occasionally wiping his eyes. Evans followed with a firm step, and a most unyielding demeanour. On reaching the press-room they were pinioned and their hands tied. During this time Stew appeared to pray very earnestly, while Evans maintained his former demeanour. Evans had expressed a wish to address the multitude, but as it was feared Stew's courage might fail in the interim, he was induced to abandon it it. Both the men walked firmly up the short ascent to the fatal scaffold. Evans was taken first, and the rope being adjusted, Stew followed. The preparations were completed with the most astonishing celerity, and at twelve o'clock precisely " the fatal bolt was withdrawn, and the culprits were launched into eternity." Evans was violently convulsed for many minutes, and seemed to suffer muck. Stew appeared to die instantaneously, without the slightest struggle. The wound in his throat by which he had attempted to commit suicide, was scarcely healed, and when the drop fell a thick stream of blood gushed from the re-opened °gash, and ran down his breast.  At one o'clock, the bodies of the unfortunate culprits were taken down.  Mr. Bally, of Manchester, the celebrated modeller, was in attendance, and took casts of the features of the culprits. The crowd which assembled to witness the execution was not so numerous as is usual on those dreadful occasions, and the people behaved with great order and decency.  iDuring the--year just closed, 8191 been laid by the police-officers of the tions of the dock and town by-laws.  FALLS INTO TILE RIVEF  uay, a  fell into the sou
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-07-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AWFUL DISPENSATION.—A terrible thunder storm, London. B. Bridge into the river, and nearly pulled another person accompanied with a deluge of rain, which flooded the Frazer Renshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portover with him. The body was swept away by the tide. lower parts of the town, and did immense damage, oc- man-square, London. The annual conference of the miners was held at New- curred at Nottingham, on Monday last. It extended to Edward J. Hilton, E-q., banker, Faversham, Kent. castle-on-Tyne, last week, when the general tendency of Bridgford and other places, where barns and other farm blush Hornby, Esq.. Ribby Hall, Lancashire. the speeches was to recommend another strike on the buildings heve been overthrown, the wheat and barley E. R. Langworthy, Esq. Manchester. ground that they have now the prospect of support out of crops are battered down, and hay in great quantities has John Lawrie, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, London. James Lees, Esq., Manchester. a consolidated fund. been washed away. The following awful circumstance, , Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, London. The advantage of the new muskets now used in the however, occurred at Nottinghami :—Amongst the pies Thonays Markland, Esq., Mabfield, Manchester. who sought shelter in the Won's Head public-house army over the old ones formerly in use, is most fully de-P. Constable Maxwell, Esq., the Grove, Richmond. was a man, 22 years of age, named Greenwood, lace. Out of a thousand of the new musketsßalph Naters, maker. Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ' This young man employed himself tried for some time for four days, the caps having been previ-William Nicol, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Edin--ater over night, not one missed fire. in ridiculing the fears of the company. His conduct, at burgh and Glosgow llailway. first, characterised by extreme levity, degenerated into On 'CV, dnesd ay, Captain C. J. Fox, of the ship Reliance, B. Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, profanity. He used the name of the Deity in a most awfrom Buenos Ayres to London, c nirnired suicide near London. Gravesend by shooting himself. It is supposed that some f-ul manner,. and profane gestures he was defying the Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester. malicious reports spread about him preyed upon, anu its elects, when a vivid flash oflorked Joseph Paxton, Esq., Chatsworth, Derbyshire. , electric, fluid and lightning entered the room, and the next moment he was , lying speechless on the ground. He was taken up and ( 01. Raws'orne, Penwortham Priory, Lancashire. 'William Richardson, Esq., Charlotte-street, Bedford placed on a couch : for some time theYlhought him dead ; square, London. but in about an hour sensibility returned. The first ex- Edward Riddell, Esq., Cheeseburne Grange, Northuinpression he used on recovering his speech was, "God for- berland. give me." The man still remains blind. Salis Schwabe, Esq., Manchester.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-05-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF LORD JAMES BERESFORD CONFIRMED.  Yesterday morning, the ship Tigris, Captain Symons, arrived in the West India Import Dock, from Colombo, which place she left on the 20th December; Cape of Good Hope, February 28; and St. Helena, March 15. In consequence of a report which appeared in the papers, on Friday,' that Lord James Beresford, of the 10th hussars, had committed suicide on board that vessel, being on his passage to England, and which painful intelligenee had not reached his lordship's noble relations, and being therefore generally discredited, our reporter proceeded to the West India Docks yesterday afternoon for the purpose of making inquiries on board the Tigris relative to the reported suicide of his lordship (brother to the Marquis of Waterford), and he found that the report was unfortunately too true. It appears that Lord James Beresford, who was only in the 26th year of his age, embarked passenger on board the Tigris for England, and that it was remarked at the time, and at a subsequent period during the voage, that his lordship appeared to be labouring under slight symptoms of insanity, and that his servant was in consequence ordered to pay more than usual care to his lordship, which he did. On the night of Tuesday, the 27th April, his lordship was in his own cabin, and did not evince to the servant or to the passengers during the day anything particularly remarkable in his usually somewhat eccentric manners. The servant, before going to lie down in his settee for the night, went to his lordship's cabin for the purpose of inquiring whether his lordship needed any further attendance that evening, and having repeatedly knocked at his state-room door without receiving any answer, the servant opened it, and discovered the cabin floor partly covered with blood, and on proceeding to the watercloset adjoining the apartment, he found his master (Lord James Beresford) reclining over the seat, with his head nearly severed from his body, and quite dead. The rash act was committed with a razor, and so determined had been his lordship to effect his dreadful purpose that only a small portion of skin at the back part of the neck attached the head to the body. The alarm having been instantly given, the utmost consternation prevailed among the passengers (27 in corpse bpa e o f btheeyon thou nmcdebrteshr the power of ant hdecrew s hoifp ;11 aubnmudt a pnnaasyisdeattemptAfterapt tht aeo cr moe snatsnougrl el t:ldti coe Lord James Beresfordfwas, with great solemnity, consigned hasto a cgrreaavtee ding rtehaet ag briyesfs of andt dh torceesasna. m oTnhgi s l t hea mneonbtlaeble relativesevent of the deceased and the fashionable world generally.— Observer.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-05-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF LORD JAMES BERESFORD CONFIRMED.  Yesterday morning, the ship Tigris, Captain Symons, arrived in the West India Import Dock, from Colombo, which place she left on the 20th December; Cape of Good Hope, February 28; and St. Helena, March 15. In consequence of a report which appeared in the papers, on Friday, that Lord James Beresford, of the 10th hussars, had committed suicide on board that vessel, being on his passage to England, and which painful intelligence had not reached his lordship's noble relations, and being therefore generally discredited, our repdrter proceeded to the West India Docks yesterday afternoon for the purpose of making inouiries on board the Tigris relative to the reported suicide of his lordship (brother to the Marquis of Waterford), and be found that the report was unfortunately too true. It appears that Lord James Beresford, who was only in the 26th year of his age, embarked passenger on board the Tigris for England, and that it was remarked at the time, and at a subsequent period during the voage, that his lordship appeared to be labouring under slight symptoms of insanity, and that his servant was in consequence ordered to pay more than usual care to his lordship, which he did. On the night of Tuesday, the 27th April, his lordship was in his own cabin, and did not evince to the servant or to the passengers during the day anything particularly remarkable in his usually somewhat eccentric manners. The servant, before going to lie down in his settee for the night, went to his lordship's cabin for the purpose of inquiring whether his lordship needed any further attendance that evening, and having repeatedly knocked at his state-room door without receiving any answer, the servant opened it, and discovered the cabin floor partly covered with blood, and on proceeding to the watercloset adjoining the apartment, he found his master (Lord James Beresford) reclining over the seat, with his head nearly severed from his body, and quite dead. The rash act was committed with a razor, and so determined had been his lordship to effect his dreadful purpose that only a small portion of skin at the back part of the neck attached the head to the body. The alarm having been instantly given, the utmost consternation prevailed among the passengers (27 in t t eAmf After toa consultationrestore ys beyond theer ) paonwde crew r e ofw ; but a officers of the ship and passengers, the mangled corpse of Lord James Beresfordiwas, with great solemnity, consigned to a grave in the abyss of the ocean. This lamentable event human anayid a. has created great grief and distress among the noble relatives of the deceased and the fashionable world generally.— Observer.