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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-04-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ECLIPSE.—There will be an annular eclipee of the sun on Saturday, the 25th instant, partially visible at Greenwich. It will commence at 5h.32 m. afternoon ; middle, 6h. 14 m. afternoon ; and end 6 h. 4 m. afternoon.  On " all-fool's day," a poor Irishman inquired at the office of the Glasgow Citizen for a copy of the paper containing the account of the passing of the repeal act, and the triumphant entry of O'Connell into Dublin Yesterday week, the freedom of the city of London was voted unanimously, in gold boxes worth 100 guineas each, to Sir H. Hardinge, Sir H. Gough, and Sir H. Smith, the heroes of the war in the Sutlej, and also to MajorGeneral Pollock.  Mr. S. R. Brooking, of St. John's Wood, having died of injuries received by a fall from his horse, his wife was inconsolable,--insisted on bleeping in the same bed with the corpse of her husband, and in the morning was found dead by his side. Mr. Edward Lawes Pym (who was removed from the list of lieutenants of the Royal Marines, and who was acquitted, at the last Winchester assizes, for being concerned in the duel at Gosport, in which Mr. Seton lost his life), has been restored to his former rank in that corps. At Bodmin assizes, Mary Pearce, post-mistress at Stratton, was sentenced to seven years _transportation. She had taken postage stamps off letters which passed through her hands, and these stamps she had placed on letters for which the people paid her postage. Mr. Hudson, painter, of Douglas, Isle of Man, lost hi: life last week by jumping from the paddle-box of the King Orry steamer, and missing his footing, as she was leaving the pier at Douglas. The brother of Mr. Hudson committed suicide the same week by cutting his throat.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—From two inquests which have been held at " Sleaford and Little Gonerby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, it. appears that a singular murder has been committed on a girl named Mary Hill, by a man named George. Healy, who afterwards poisoned himself. The girl had been residing some days at the house of Healy's father, and was to have been married to Healy in a few days ; but on Thursday, the Bth instant, she unexpectedly left. On the same evening Healy left his father's house, for the purpose of following her, and it appears that he succeeded in borrowing a pairuf handcuffs, and a constable's staff. On the Friday night, he arrived at a public house, in Grantham, in company with Mary Hill, who was handcuffed, and whom • he asserted to be his prisoner. He declared that she had committed a robbery at Gonerby, and that he was taking her to the office of the magistrates' clerk. On Saturday morning, he left the inn with the girl, and was seen with her in a field-,near the river Witham. Mary Hill was never again seen.alive; but on the 15th instant her body was found in the river. On the evening of Sunday the 11th instant Healy, who was completely wet through, came to a beer shop at New Sleaford, where he passed that night and the following day ; but on the Monday morning he was found dead in his bed, from the effects of a dose of laudanum which he had taken. During his stay at this place, some boatmen recognised him as a perscn whom they pulled out of the river. From various other circumstances detailed at the inquests, little doubt can he entertained that Healy drowned the girl Hill in the Witham, and attempted to drown himself ; but that having been rescued from the river, he had recourse to poison. The juries returned verdicts, that Mary Hill had been found drowned, and that George Healy la:safe/a de se.  •.•
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-06-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TOWN-CLERK read the two clauses (60 and 61,) of the public at large. (Hear, hear.) meeting took place on Tuesday last. It was sorted there place at the Collegiate Institution. The body of the spa- the bill,—the first to the effect that the trustees of the Mr. RATH BONE said that it had been generally underwas in the hands of t,e treasurer the sum of £1393 75.. cious Lecture-hall was occupied as usual, on the occasion, docks were required, within two years from the expiration stood that the warehouse-owners had left the whole matTwo letters were read from the poor-lew commissioners, by the pupils the galleries, to the very topmost row, of the present session of parliament, to apply for an act ter in his (Mr. Moore's) hands. (Hear, and a laugh.) one relating to the existing regulations of the union were densely crowded with ladies and gentlemen. The to enable them to build warehouses upon and around the Mr. AloomE said that some had chosen to say so, but house, with regard to inmates occasionally leaving the chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Conybeare, the quays of all the docks, made or being made; and that the worehouse_owners had too much discretion to commi taken. house, and the other on the prevalent difficulty in this Principal of the Institution ; and on his right we noticed teey should not proceed with the construction of the their opinions to writing. He concluded by repeating hi neighbourhood of disposing of lunatics, the asylums being the Rev. Mr. Brown (the Vice-principal), the Rev. Dr. Wapping Dock, or any other, to the east of King's Dock, suggestion that the bill with the two clauses should b strong pieces e. ...__ fully occupied. Mr. Bettis was appointed assistant re- Flume, the Rev. Mr. Cox, and others of the head masters. vntii such act have been obtained:—and the second clause lieving officer, at the same s ilvry as that which he lately On his left sat the Rev. Rector Brookes, the Rev. Hush is to the effect—that no warehouses shall be pulled down received. Tenders were received for the supply of provi. M'Neile, Josies Booker, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Es.q., by the trustees except such as may be required for im- of the bill should remive the confirmation of the Council, The MAYOR then put the motion that the acceptance thr_felree to the ground, w sions, &c. for the ensuing quarter. and a number of other clergymen and gentlemen. proving or widening any street or streets, authorized by which was agreed to, the only open dissentient being Mr. SUICIDE BY POISON AT WEST DERBY .—On Wed- The proceedings hiving been opened by the audience this act to be formed or widened, until the, warehouses on Birkett, who exclaimed "No !" nesday week, a person named Thomas Hay, a labourer singing the venite, with the accompaniment of the organ, ail the quays of the Albert Dock, as well those under con.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-05-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BURIED ALIVE AT ITOYLAKE.-011 Monday at was held at oylake, before Henry Churt on' 11:"9, on the 13,,dy or A young woman, eighteen years of age, named Margaret D ury, who met her death under the following ei,cumst'd yes :—The deceased was nursegirl to John Esq , and on Saturday went out amongst the sand hill, with two of her master's children for the purpose of enjoying the fresh air. Amongst the hills she came to a ep tt where some of the sand had been excavated, and crept into the hole whilst the children were Plarng about. Site was shortly after missing, and the children having given an alarm, the body of the poor girl was discovered about en hour after, under a large quantity of sand, quite dead. The jury found a verdict of " accidental death."  SUICIDE OF SUPERINTENDENT RIrING.—On Mon. day week. William Henry Riding, one of the superintenients of the Liverpool police force, committed suicide by taking poison. He resided at Seacombe; and on Thursday an inquest was held on the body, at the Oddfellows' Arms, before 11. Churton, Esq., the coroner fcr the county of Chester, arid a highly respectable jury. Prom the evidence, it appeared that the deceased on the day of his death called upon a druggist in Para ise-street, Liverpool, and succeeded in procuring sixpetinyworth of laudanum, under the pretence that it was for the cure of tooth ache ; and that, atter returning home, he said he would en; in l have a glass of water, and went to bed, his wife Liverpool. On her return, about half-fast six o'clock, she went with a servant into his bedroom. and on is:ceing a glass exclaimed that he had taken poison. He ungered from the effects until about half-past nine, when death ensued. It was given in evidence' that he was in the habit of drinking, and was embarrassed in his peenarY affairs. A verdict was returned, that the deceased tsd •-• committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-06-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-09-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RUNNING OFF WITH MONEY.—lit the Pol'  has received a notice of ta  s Chest  yesterday, a man named Michael Ker., having, on Saturday, run off with four sovereigns ant half-crowns, which had been placed on the counter r house of Mr. Pugh, publican, No. 8, Waterloo-rr change for a £5 note, to a man named Lawrencr who, at the time, had gone within to r: was pursued, stopped, and finally taken t Massey.  wascommitte  gilt his  paragraph had appears beatenin thean o o th t m isi,nteianhCvti aeinßnitgiPg. :00:oft fhiEttaThht. byo yi neei gr hu tn men t hi se butmat - t ci cnen steog us et state, behalf b y the latter Seacombe ter club, that they played in the sec not finished, the Olympus having only nine *— with three wickets to go down.—The O. pool) play the conquering match with the , to-morrow, (Wednesday,) at St. Helene; wicks pitched at half-past ten. ROBBERY AND SUICIDE,—On Friday morning young woman, named Elizabeth Wilson, servant o' work in the employ of Mr. Ledger, nak Rotherhithe, committed suicide by hat, Fourndsoemr ethteime°lpiZti,uMr. ccasions, missed a good de dhg eienrr a hr mya dcircumstances s premises,:—o money from his cash box, and the abstracaic sovereigns and half sovereigns at last 1-quent, that he marked his money a, the thief, but without success. seed cake was missed, and on s found in the girl's box, to, coins, and other articles which Ledger then sent for her mother, appeared greatly excited. On her mother was sought for and could not be found for some . last she was discovered at the rear of the premise pended by the neck to a rope made fast to a beam was immediately cut down, but lite was quite exti: surgeon who was called in said she had been dead an hour. The deceased was 19 years of asP
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-06-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—We gave last week some particulars of a distressing affair at, Durham. We stated that Mr. Goole, the superintendent of police at Dutham, had shot at his wife and made a violent attack on Mr. Scruton, the Deputy•clerk of the Peace. (of whom he was jealous, as the witness stated,) and afterwards attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife. The woman died on Monday, and at the inquest a verdict of manslaughter was returned against her husband. It appears that some time since Gould was wounded in the bead, and ever since has been of a very jealous disposition, though there does not appear to have been the slightest ground fur his suspicion.  Three travelling potters have been committed to Northampton Castle, for robbing Mr. Watertield, butcher, on the highway nf-ar Stamford. They belonged to one of those gangs of traveling potters who trarerse many parts of the kingdom like gipsies, which Wordsworth has so well described in his " Peter Bell." The sum of £145  10,.xious qualities  103. i❑ gold and silver coin was found in their camp, and is supposed to have been the produce of other robberies. They only got ss. Gd. by the robbery for which they are committed.  114.4 complaint arose out of the system of em  The Hon. Mr. Grimston, of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, stationed at Windsor, while bathing in the Thames, in the immediate vicinity of that town, iu company with the Earl of Caledon, on the morning of Saturday week, in taking what is termed a" header" from the bank, struck his head with fearful violence against either a large stone or the ragged trunk of a tree at the bottom, rendering him apparently lifeless. He, however, was got out of the water by the Earl of Caledon, and though his life was in great danger be is now recovering.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-10-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  Four men were drowned in Falmouth roadstead yesterr'ay week, by the upsetting of a boat. Up/vards of 1,000 acres of land, planted with potatoes, are lying in a putrescent state at Savinton, near Ilminster. The Romanists are building a magnificent convent and school at Derby, and the Jesuits and Sisters of Charity are constantly perambulating the town. A correspondent of the Record states that Mr. Newman was admitted , at Oxford, into the Itomish Communion by Dr. Gentili, an Italian Jesuit. _  Sir John de Beauvoir has retired from the contest for the borough of Windsor, and the struggle will therefore be between Mr. J. Walter and Col. Reid.  At the Weyhill (Hampshire) sheep fair, 200,000 sheep were penned, and prices were from ss. to 7s. higher than the fair last year. A sloop, laden with apples, from Jersey to Aberdeen, was completely wrecked off the latter port last week, and a boy aged 13 was washed overboard. It is said that an action has been commenced by Caunt to recover back his stake of £2OO from the stakeholders in the late fight for the championship. A drunken man, on Wednesday night, committed suicide by placing his head on the rail of the Midland R►ailway, so that the engine literally cut it off. Mons. Jobard, a Belgian, has invented a process for procuring gas, equal to that from coals, from oil and water.  Thorwalsden's beautiful statue of Lord Byron has arrived at Trinity, Cambridge, and will be put up in the college library very shortly. Ladies, not content with speculating in railway shares, have now begun to attend public meetings of the proprietors.—Gateshead Observer.  Two cases of defalcation, one of rather a serious character, have been discovered in the Bristol Post-office James Patton, a respectable young farmer, has lately been poisoned at Kilmore, by his father and mother-in-law who have absconded.  Miss Christiana Weller, whose progress as a pianiste has been so remarkably rapid. is about to exchange music for matrimony, by giving her hand to a gentleman of fortune, a friend of the inimitable " Boz." It is stated, that at the next meeting of barristers going the Oxford circuit, a motion is to be made for rescinding the offensive resolution adopted by that body against the press.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-05-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday last, a r En,ciervd ,i woman, named Rusbworth, at Huddersfield..'i, 110; her infant, six months old, by cutting its Or° V" afterwards destroyed herself by the same means; for poor woman had been in a desponding state of tvi° some time, owing to her depressed circumstances' t, the At the Oxford Union held on Thursday night lasi o'o debate on want of confidence in Sir Robert Peeper; brought to a close, having lasted for four nights• appeared in favour of the motion 39 • against it, 63;feelP giving a majority of 24 in favour of Sir Robert  " Let them remember that they would leave Trinity College in the enjoyment of a paramount predominance in the education of the country. From its vast territory, being possessed of about 300,000 Irish acres; from Me great wealth of its fellows, the senior fellows being worth, without exaggeration, £2OOO a-year; from the great sccial position which the fellows enjoyed as the result of thnea • I  h were required  r the attaiument of  ••• atlllvCl,lty ; [r( hers of Parliament, one of them ha Reform Bill, Trinity College must,  WO tneru g been given bitTe  njoy ermanent superiority over any other institution ;v and as long as That predominance lasted so long would it be useless for them to expect that the Catholic people of Ireland would be reconciled to that establishment."  Poor Trinity then must fall next, if Sir Robert Peel continues to be guided in his Irish policy by the dictation of Messrs. Wyse and Shiel » but even this foundation of our Protestant forefathers is not to be our last sacrifice.  remarKs tne same authority, had said !hat his difficulty was Ireland. He (Mr. Sheil would say that it lay not in Ireland, but in THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH ; a difficulty which encumbered him at every step, and which was thrown out as an obstacle of every wise and liberal measure which he propounded for the benefit of the country." Yes, the Protestant Church is not beyond the scope of Rome's contemplations; and when the day of her fall shall have come; when the mass is performed in her time-honoured structures, and her faithful ministry are silenced by the fiat of the proud aggressor, what has England more to do in Ireland, or England's monarch more, save to pluck from her diadem that bright gem, the sovereignty of Ireland; to hand it over to thekeeping of Rome, and hide her diminished glory from the contempt of the world ?  government.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-06-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LAWYER'S FIRST BRIEF.—" Thoq great first cause, least understood." So says Horace Twiss.  Moore, the poet, is about to write the biography of his facetious friend, the late Rev. Sydney Smith. So numerous have been the accidents on the wood pavement in the Strand, London, that the paving commissioners have given orders to have it taken up. A man named John Graham is now in custody in Carlisle gaol, on the charge of poisoning his aged father and his wife.  • Th,3 Kentish Observer states, that a dragoon officer committed suicide the other day in consequence of losses un the Derby.  The Marqu's of Westminster, it is said, has purchased the celebrated Fonthill estate, formerly the property of Mr. Beckford.  Richard Christopher, an old man of seventy-five, has been held to bail at Abergavenny, for a manslaughter committed twenty years ago.  The proxies of Lord Enniskillen, Skelmersdale, and Mayo, were entered to be given against the Maynooth bill. By some accident they were not given. A steam-packet which arrived at Hull from Rotterdam, on Saturday, brought 71 live oxen, 1,000 fowls, and 30 baskets of cucumbers ;And fruit.  The Builder states that the project to throw a tube of sheet-iron across the Menai Straits has been abandoned. Two strong bridges are to be built instead.  On Tuesday, there was a sale of 2,000 pine apples in London, which had been brought over by the Trent steamer from Nassau, in the Bahamas, in excellent condition. They sold from 2s. to ss. each.  On Monday evening John Hickman, aged 28, who had been for some time past. employed as a scene-shifter at the Theatre Itoyul Birmingham, was killed on the stage by the falling of the scene-roller.  An antidote for arsenic has been discovered by Dr. Bunsen in the hydrated peroxide of iron—a simple preparation, and one which ought to have a place on the shelves of every druggist in the kingdom. Prince Henry, third son of William 11., King of Holland, nrrived in Leith Roads, on Thursday week, in a frigate of sixty-eight guns, and spent three or four days in inspecting Auld Reekie. A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-08-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHIP LINTIN, FROM BOMBAY.—The ship LinCaptain Gillman, arrived here on Wednesday evenalter a voyage of only one hundred and eleven days .",ta Bombay. The passengers, nine in number, and lekitut children, have addressed an elegant complimentary Ater to the captain. pit'„t the meeting of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Cornon Tuesday, a dividend of 5 per cent. was deea, payable on the Ist instant. A resolution was also peed, calling the attention of the directors to the prop„etY of providing, for the ensuing summer, a first-rate propsteamer for the Dublin, Douglas, and Whitehaven tio4r. Dixon, chairman of the Wine and Spirit Associaei Liverpool, and Mr. Moore, of Bristol, had an inter-10 oh Tuesday with the Chancellor of the 'Exchequer I,q; the Chairman of the Board of Customs. The depnwas accompanisd by Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir 800 Douglas, Bart., M.P., and the Hon. H. F. ''keley. Ollin n Saturday night, a female named Reynolds, residing ja6?.,o,gwood-street, attempted to commit suicide, by bit;',ll ' g into the canal, from Chisenhale bridge. She lt sri'kuowever taken out before life was extinct. She uted the cause of her committing the rash act to the tn' a morsel of food siehness of her husban ce nd ; Friday last. and said that she had not ." lltiac Manchester Parks Committee have offered two Sss'si one of fifty guineas, and the other of twenty-five tes",sess, for the best and second best set of plans, with ken,ates for the laying-out, &c., of the three sites already 4rissed for the Manchester Parks, viz. : the Endham ' estate at Harpurhey •, the Bradford Park, Bradford ; the La;k Hill and Walness Park, Salford. s fat }sssaturday a porter named Al `Carthy was committed if 4'Bl by Mr. Rushton, on a charge of stealing a trunk Atilrearins 'apparel, the property of Miss Ellison, of :rY-strZet, Birkenhead. The prisoner had been engaged h;4rry the trunk from the railway station to the pierhead. 'he Prisoner lived in Thomas-street, and was apprehended tos4c he had time to make away with any portion of the tits of the trunk. Itte,„.w ROmtsti