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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-02-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JIM CROW." On FRIDAY next, the 14th instant, a Variety of Entertaintneitts, fOr the BENEFIT of Mr. T. 1). RICE, and his Last. Appearance but one. Tickets and places for the Boxes may be had of Mr. • BuF.zE,-at the Box-office,. from Eleven, till Three'o'Clock. Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at tfali-Past Eight: BoxeS, 2s, ; Pit ls. ; no Second Price to the Gallery• Doors to, be open at Half-past Six o'Clock, perfortionace commence at. Seven precisely.  shall give insertion on Friday, when we hope to have ' such men as Sturge should meet with any countenance more space at our command. from the manufacturers of Birmingham. It is incomAfter Mr. Holmes had read the documents adverted prehensible to us that they should lend their assistance to above, be proceeded to address the meeting in the in ruining the West India interest. Such conduct following words:— is neither more nor less than an act of commercial " From these statements, gentlemen, I think we may safely suicide. As we have stated on previous occasions, the draw the conclusion, that if suitable arrangements are made, full development of the resources of British Guiana emigrants can be immediately brought here in numbers. alone would furnish the manufacturers of Great Bri"lt has beeh suggested to me that a memorial to the Court fain with , of Policy should be drawn up, praying that court for assistanee in the matter, hut lam of opinon that it is vain to look of !the European states put together. Is it not worth for it from our locatgovernment, and that none of tbebublic while to foster and encourage such a market ? is it money will be granted for the purpose of immigration. ' not positively mischievous to cramp the energies and " This point being decidtd, we must, of necessity, cousi- to frustrate the efforts of those who are labouring to der whence we can draw thefunds necessary to carry through open up such interminable sources of prosperity to this scheme ; and it is evident that no plan will answer, but British trade and commerce ? voluntary contribution. " The liberality of this colony is too well known, to doubt, We have dwelt thus tong upon this subject, because that a sum of money can be readily raised for any foreign we see a Colony capable of sustaining a population of Purpose of charity, in which the sympathies of the colonists
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-06-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DOUBLE MURDER. IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—On the 30th ult. a lengthened investigation took place into the death of Harriet Burton, wife of Charles Burton, huckster, and Mary Ann, his daughter, both of whom were found with their throats cut at Stilton, in the morning of Monday last. At the close of the proceedings a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against Charles Burton, then in custody. Since Monday the miserable man has confessed to the surgeon who attended him the particulars of the sanguinary deed. He said, " I first cut my wife's • throat, when she was between asleep and awake, but finding herself wounded, she jumped out of bed and rushed towards the window, whence she shrieked ' Murder !' I then immediately cut the throat of my little girl, and having done so, I rushed at my wife, and, clasping her round the waist, I repeated the stroke across her neck. She then fell dead at my feet. I then made an attempt upon my own throat, but I was seized before I accomplished my purpose." Upon being questioned as to the cause which induced him to commit the rash act, he said, trouble caused me to contemplate suicide. I intended to destroy myself; but, knowing that I should leave my wife and children in penury, I thought it best that we should all die together." It appears that, on Saturday night, when the unhappy man went to the razor grinder's for the purpose of getting his razor sharpened, he was disappointed in the rtceipt of a sum of money left him by a deceased relative, and, having contracted a few debts, he was fearful he should not be able to discharge them ; hence the awful occurrence. On 'Wednesday he made a will, leaving the whole of his property to his son George, who was absent from home at the time the laud deed was committed.  MELANCHOLY DEATH OF Two
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-06-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—On Friday, an inquest was little of the Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on view of the crow lv of Elizabeth Dav  lY female, who,  that on W—' Mr. Mau  ierself into the waters of the on Saturday fortnight.- It appeared from the  a will be 2 Met  were ordered to b  the deceased to f  bad got upon I heac  commissioners bac  ,iceman it  boat. and  Mr. Wil .minutes after, I heard an alarm, and saw deceased in the loughby's boats, where there are no policemen, no robwater. Before any assistance could be given to her she beries occurred. Mr. Barton asked what had become of sunk. For some time back the deceasedhad been in a the memorial from Mr. Bushel. The Law-clerk : The _ _  P 135.  ate or min Ited t  and, (a  another witness) having a  which she could not get in  to the s  officer on duty to stop her, as  r. I should not know the officer again. The deceased s perfectly sober at the time." Deceased was a married  jody was  he river on  Thursday morning', near the new north docks, and was taken to the dead-house, where it was recognized by_ the  to equalize the ordinary expenditure with the ordinary income of tb His wr  e country  witness, whose testimony we have quoted musician, said that, on th on board of the Prince of kenhead, and  y referred to, he was __ Wales packed, plying to BirIsed come on board apparently in Just as she got on board, she walked pest t to the cam. .r and then jumped  he jury returned a verdict to the effect that troyed herself while labouring under tem Hence tne prominent position he occupied before the meeting. He depicted at length the sufferings and the depression which weighed upon every branch of mercantile affairs. Speculation was at an end—speculation, the lifespring of commerce: He detailed the sufferings which, 1 1  umber w  porary insanit  present
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROBBERY.—James Carr, Jamesßeed, and Henry Green, three bailiffs' followers, were charged/ on Saturday, with having stolen a clock and sofa, value £3 10s., from the house of Mrs. Margaret King,, Hillstreet. In the course of Friday the prisoners, with two other men not in custody, entered Mrs. King's house, and said they had come to levy under a distress warrant; but produced no authority. Mrs. King was astunishen beyond measure. She owed no debt, and could not be le arrears for rent, inasmuch as she is the owner of the house which she occupies. The men threatened that' unless they were paid 17s. 6d. they would distrain upon her goods. She ordered them away. They came bacli., however, shortly afterwards-, and, smashing in the back door, effected a forcible entrance, and took a clock and sofa from the back parlour. These were put into a car, which they had in readiness, conveyed away, and offer cpeolbieeiennlgnenff,ecbtendt hMerrse. fKusiendg itnovionkteerdfetrehe taisllsisht; for sale at Mr. Harris's. in Church-street. On the forcible you not proceed yourself to rebuked the mancabanl eeue leesdanoiotfdrb,aat entrance being effected Mrs. King invoked the asSiSt' ance of a policeman, but he refused to interfere till hO could obtain assistance. Mr. Rushton "Why them. One officer should be a match for five thieves : all thieves are cowards." Some of the bailiff fraternity, but not, it was stated, the prisoners themselves, had been engaged on the previous day by the agent of Mrs. Kill to make a levy on a tenant in Gascoyne-court, who had for a longtime paid her no rent, but given her much abuse' The men were beaten out of the house; and. it is CAT" jectured, although it did not clearly transpire during the hearing in court, that non-payment by the agent of that!, fees had stimutated the felonious proceeding describe' above. They were committed for trial. arrest  Etslrittlls.  Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Brie will preside over the winter assize at Chester on the sth December. A domestic in the employ of Mr. Houseman, at Skertollf Lancaster, committed suicide on Saturday week. She cut her throat, and then threw herself into the canal. „
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-05-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDAL MANIA.—Two inquests have been held this week at Maidstone upon servant girls who had drowned themselves ; and the same crime was attempted by a third, but some passers-by having observed her movements, she was r. scued before life was extinct. One of the girls had been discharged for flirting with her masters's workmen, and the other was of weak intellect.  On Wednesday Captain Paulet Somerset, having completed the term of his sentence of imprisonment. was discharged from the House of Correction, Coldbath.fields. A great number of persons had assembled at the usual hour for the discharge of prisoners to witness his departure, hut they were doomed to be disappointed, for he had left the prison about an hour before that time. It is stated that Father Ignatius proposed to be present at Dr. Cumming's lecture, at Exeter-hall, to-day, and address the audience on " unity," and informed Dr. Cumming of his intention. On hearing of it Cardinal Wiseman, with his usual astuteness, forbade the meeting, and Father Ignatius called again on Dr. Cumming, barefooted, and told him he was not permitted to appear. No. 4 of Mr. R. Oastler's cheap weekly periodical, The Home, contains a very characteristic letter from Mr. J. Jackson of the Fleet-mills, Oulton. Mr. Jackson, like many other free traders, is changing his opinion : he now says, " I believe it will be necessary to make a change in the import duties on corn as well as on flour." Right, John, right; many others, besides you, think the same. A " Monster" National Floral Exhibition, open to all England' is announced to take place at Cheltenham in the course of next month, when £2OO will be delivered in P• rizes No less than three military bands are to be present on the occasion, and the other arrangements for the day will, it is stated, be on a corresponding scale of magnitude.  A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-04-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING of PROPRIETORS of the NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY was held at the Company's Office, in Edinburgh, on the 3rd instant.  The Hon: Lord CUNNINGHAME in the Chair,  A Report by the Directors was read to the tneetini:sbowing that in both departments of the company's business satisfactory progress had been made during the year ending 31st December last. In the Fire Department the premiums col.  were(' curing rue year amounted to £29,038 175., being £2340 lls. 'ld. beyond those of the preceding year. In the Life Department 255 New Policies were issued, insuring .4274.888.--and paving. of Annual Premium, :.R01;11 as _ hPinfr  £23,393 beyond the issues of Abe preceding year. At 311 i December, 1850, the Accumulated Life Fund was £562,549 13s. 2d.. and the Annual Revenue £104,112 Ss. Id. Referring' to- the many modes taken' by Life Assurance Societies to secure public favour, the report stated that this office hat, not been backward in be march of improvement., That the North British was first office in the kingdom which gave the assured the !Ilion of paying a lower ra' eof premium, to secure a pre e sum. It was the first also that relieved is policies fro the clauses against duelling and suicide; when ti ' ---""*.es. and it '  Hein by nerous assignees, and it early adopted a plan of giving a ances on policies to the extent of their surrender value Every facility has been given to parties going abroad ; din all respect it has been the study of the Directors to ake the Policies of the Company as little burthensome and as useful to the assured as possible. •-- in.+ year of the Septennial Period, it may be  Assured to be secured in a prospective Bonus againsit the risk of their not surviving the 31st December .next. A Table of Rates has, therefore,-been prepared, which will enable such as wish it to attain this at a comparatively small expense, yet without prejudice to•tbose who .nay prefer running the risk themselves. A Dividend of Six per Cent., free of Income Tax, was declared payable on Monday next, the:7th instant. The following Shareholders were then elected President, Vice-Presidents, and Directors for the current year :
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-10-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL MURDERS AND SUICIDE BY A FATHER.—A distressing affair occurred on Tuesday morning in Wyndham-road, Camberwell. A man named Faucctt had recently commenced business as a grocer and cheesemonger at the corner of the road. The shop was opened on Tuesday at an early hour, and several customers were served by Faucett. Just previous to breakfast-time he called his wife, and said he wished her to take two letters to the post-office. After a quarter of an hour's absence she returned home, and was surprised to find the shop. door fastened on the inside, and she proceeded to the private door. On knocking, the door after a short time was opened by her eldest child (a girl about nine years of age), from whose throat blood was at the time streaming from two frightful gashes. Upon rushing into the house she was quite paralysed on discovering her youngest child, a boy aged one year and nine months, lying on a bed in the back room of the first floor with his head nearly severed from his body. She then proceeded to the back parlour and discovered another of her children, a girl between four and five years of age, also lying s corpse, a deep wound having been inflicted in her neck. The murderer was found with a wound in the throat from five to Rix inches in length. Before surgical aid could he procured be expired. The eldest girl, who opened the door to her mother, had received two severe wounds, one on each side of the neck, her life haying been preserved only by the desperate resistance she was able to oppose to the attack of the murderer, and the providential return of her mother, whose knock alarmed the wretched man, and thus, for the present at least, saved the life of one of his intended victims. At this moment it was that Faucett rushed into the kitchen, and completed his atrocity by tenriAating his own existence in the manner already described.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-10-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—MITCHEEDEA'N, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Oct. 15.—An outrage of an atrocious character has just been perpetrated here on an inoffensive gatekeeper, named Robert Hartland, and there is reason to believe that the outrage has been committed with a view of preventing the unfortunate man from giving evidence in case of fowl-stealing, to be tried at the Gloucestershire sessions, now being held, and in which one of the parties concerned was implicated. The circumstances of the case are briefly these :—The man Hartland was sitting quietly in his toll-house about 8 o'clock at night, when hearing a noise outside, he went out at the back door, when he was immediately fired upon by one of a gang of men who had assembled in the road. Four balls were lodged in his person, two of them passed quite through his right thigh, a third struck him in the abdomen,and the fourth struck him on the left leg, below the knee. Three surgeons were promptly in attendance,, but they found the unfortunate man in such a state as rendered his recovery hopeless. Five men have been apprehended on the charge. The unfortunate man has been removed to Gloucester Infirmary, where he now lies, and the prisoners have undergone a preliminary examination before the magistrates here, and been remanded for the present. SUICIDE OF A SOLlClTOR.—Considerable excitement prevailed on Sunday morning, in the retired village of Tickill (Yorkshire), in consequence of the determined suicide of Richard Ellison, Esq., solicitor, and chief resident of the place. It appears that during the previous week the unfortunate gentleman had been, from some unexplained cause, labouring under much depression of mind, which at length assumed such an alarming appearance that it was deemed necessary to place a strict watch on his movements, as it was apprehended that he would make an attempt on his life. On Sunday morning he arose in apparently better spirits, and walked in the garden, accompanied as usual by his attendants. After taking exercise for some thane he contrived to elude his watchers' vigilance, and returned to the house unnoticed and alone. His absence was detected almost immediately, and an alarm was raised, which led to the discovery of his body, on the dining-room floor, quite dead. A gloom has been cast over the neighbourhood by this untoward event, as the deceased was highly esteemed for his kindness and generosity to the neighbouring poor.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-06-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TYR'S T.—An _insuetstt has been held on 41!e le `,TirTrer.otur!n named Pratt, aged twenty-two, I.ti.‘ Of line v• one. committed suicide icide by drowning 441./1 MI gar h 'tames in consequence of the drunken "a °See...4B%nd a well to-do trader in Hammerhlettit,tljl'tittelitile! wheenrt.;rictillY ifillaArraeauttedailetesr, 0 andi mdmroevreahlietyr .mad by The 11141)11t141,ne ,:i° 8114 that deceased was seen walking Nlt ,alriti Net. Where she was afterwards discovered floatate ' *its f' aild the followin letter, addressed to her sihoy" l4"''o "in hpocket • ~..,_ ,Isi IN er . li,titt 0 4m for'.°4lr.--Jaates,—Far thelast time I addyess 01W 'V Niltlit -°'ve You, as I do, for the wicked accusations Qtki444,.- elete against me. When I took an oath to you last LI ii.orbeintrOe, and all I said afterwards a lie prompted 4141e,-Ve ,i,„„t, %Ordered. May every wife do her duty as klkt Nt,q, riev , even though she has a drunken husband. 'O4 tlere -et MA ear c tougi, seeyou again,—Your broken-1114 tit, kit it• '''' it. PRATT lt tell a lie 4, reh • 14' 10 he' answo Was dressed in superior mourning, t ett Need hers with evident reluctance, deposed toe th,' the ~ roaster (Mr. Pratt) was jealous of Neeht,tie4lliyeeatdian and executor of Mra. Pratt, but , otl b,. ,to 4:.!:(1tY well together, except when he got 144!t1. ttleXr. /44. The following letter, however, ),T` °°°ckieg con the day of the suicid fully clislieler' de, allse of the poor woman's desperate oeht the r kr Q.41,414,05t dr and itr ea -41. Ntt I have left my husband o'4 st cd by dful eircumusta'Tes •be has accused me of ei d hiSht to .:a frithey, whennl was only seventeen years 01‘tr,Or0,,.e aejae:iag Mr. Nutt the same improper intercourse. 10.110,11 e Lir to , Me bY tie hair, drew my head back, and. 4111‘L4P% wit"iir°4t• He then jumped on me, and tried .1110,1Vbeertil crt •411 hands. I still persisted in my innocence Nee thet:o it, Zra, but, feeling certain he would murder ii kl etti 1. Not, wnat 114. tltlltivb4 .411 e. lon,gh every word I spoke was a lie, that flth hods Iktr-aYirc . Elope God will forgive me for being so VtOsti itol • I felt' khnew not •htof my dear was rig b, O,) h.! I Almon so elpless I did not know what to filkialirAt k °Lit °flay mind, and what I shall do ttow 1 it %t il, NIA" a -nosy.. Accept my lo°e d thanks afomr lip) tl:lll:l2:l4lllltii‘alttharlceetiri.vtliil :for?unlodwYninooeut .. lbgot aawnlyl from ro)";, th,`4 I 4: here Ido not k error aml at suKingston.dis .. Ri.. i;Rttelyiltiir, 411 Will excuse all errorws.ri rite love to Lls'att deerty iti.len, believe me to remain yours most 'l4l ••°e f ' "
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-12-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN "CANADA.who is on the point of being married, intends, it is said,SUICIDE OF A WIFE AND DEATH OF THE to -be dispatched to San Juan to protect American vessels. QUEBEC, Nov. 28.-A somewhat novel "bull" has been A melancholy catastrophe happened at t proceeding to Italy with his bride. recently issued by the prelates of the Roman Catholic The United States steam-ship Humboldt, from South- hied, Drornahair, on the night of Saturday There are unpleasant rumours afloat from Algeria. It ampton on the 26th ult., arrived at New York at two Church. It prohibits the ladies of their communion from is said some of the army have gone over to the Socialists. indulging in the profane amusements of waltzing_and named Michael Gallagher, the steersman of o'clock. a.m. on the sth instant, Kossuth landed at the Lake steamer, and his wife, having taker The proclamation of the Governor of Algeria, declaring Staten Island the same morning, and met with a brilliant polkaing. Ludicrous as such an order may seem in Eng- • the colony in a state of siege, is confirmed by a decree of reception.. He stated that lie was indisposed ; but made land, it is a very serious affair here, and may open the a dispute, it is supposed, arose between the hatter threw herself from the side of the N the President of the Republic. six speeches that day in reply to as many addresses andeyes , of the Roman Catholic ethe 1 a ea - river, upon which the husband leaped after Tait to t r nni 1 then- • The department of the Jura is also declared in a state deputations. . _. cracy under which they live. The ladies of the upper intention of saving her, and both were dri of siege, making 34 out of 86 departments thus situated. The Royal Mail steam-ship America, hence with the classes of French Canadians have been hitherto accusIt is announced that the Minister of the Interior has mails of the 22d ult arrivedat New Yorkat tea '1 k -toured to take their share in all the innocent diversions lagher was a very quiet, steady man. received adhesions and addresses from 21 communes of ' the . ~ which form the passe temps of our winter evenings, and STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TM p.m. on sth instant. NEW Youx.-Application has been made to the Vosges, and from communes, municipal councillors, • - -