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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-12-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHIPWRECKS AT WHITBY.—On Sunday and Monday last a very severe storm arose along the north-east cost, and tne following vessels have been wrecked or stranded : —The Victoria, of Newcastle, 115 tons, on shore near Upgang ; crew saved in their own boat, but in a very exhausted state, The schooner Sisters, of Ramsgate, drove on the sands and became a wreck ; crew saved in their own boat. The brig White, of Sunderland, 205 tons, a total wreck ; crew saved by the life-boat. The whole of the vessels were coal laden.  A traveller, named Dowdeswell, for Mr. John Vernon, a wine merchant at Towcester, shot his wife on Thursday night with one pistol, and committed suicide with a second. The house being closed the following morning an entrance was effected, and the bodies found lying on the floor, and a child of two years old crying upstairs. Mrs. Dowdeswell was for some years a waitress at the Talbot, and was greatly respected. Less than two years ago she was married under circnmstances not calculated to promise a happy wedded life, and it is said that her husband has frequently treated her with great brutality. GAs.—A meeting was held in London on Thursday, to consider the proposal of the city gas companies to reduce the price of gas to 4s, per 1,000 cubic feet, and a proposal of a newly-formed company to supply it at a maximum price of 45., with an obligation to reduce to 3s. 6d., and ultimately to 35., so soon as an increased consumption will justify them in doing hO. Mr. C. Pearson said that he had ascertained that gas of the first brilliancy could be manufactured in London (and if in London, certainly in Liverpool) as 3s. per 1,000 feet. A unanimous resolution was passed to support the new company.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-10-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.-011 We bleSday last the examination for the fluff Scholarship at this school terminated in the election of Mr. W. Rees, as first both in classics and mathematics. In the first branch, however, he was only fourteen marks above Mr. R. Duckworth, with whose papers, as well as with Mr. Byrth's, Mr. J. Price, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, the classical examiner, expressed himself much pleased. Mr. Duckworth's name was bracketted with Mr. Byrth's, on the general result ; but as neither the first of these young gentlemen nor Mr. Rees are proceeding yet to college, the scholarship will be filled by Mr. Byrth, who is already resident at Brasenose College, Oxford. The mathematical examiner was Mr. H. Weir, M.N., late scholat:of Caius College, Cambridge. Mr. W. Glen and Mr. Preston were honourably mentioned for mathematics, and Mr. M`Cheane for classics TRAGEDY AT WAVERTREE  —On Saturday week an  inquest was held on the bodies of Catherine Carnall, housemaid to Francis Hollins, Esq., of Cow-lane, and of an infant child to which she had given birth, and which she had buried in the privy, thereafter committing suicide by taking a quantity of vitriol. It appeared that she had confessed to Mr. Hollins the birth and the disposal as above-mentioned, of the child, and that the disclosure so excited her that she rushed out of the house, ran to the edge of a pond, and was about making a plunge in the water, when her master, who had pursued her, prevented her from doing so, brought her back, and confined her in his own parlour. She was afterwards allowed to enter a closet to fetch an apple, when she took a bottle of vitriol, from the shelf, and swallowed a portion of the contents, which caused her death. The jury returned a verdict, with reference to the child, to the effect that there was not sufficient evidence to tell whether the child bad been born dead or alive ; and with reference to the mother, a verdict of " temporary insanity" was returned.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-04-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  Almost immediately after the cessation of the late storm in Dublin, glaziers' wages rose to fifteen shillings per day, and glass to more than ten times its ordinary value. On Tuesday evening a magnificent and numerously attended soiree was given to the Messrs. Beers in Dublin. The Rev. W. Fry, grand,chaplain to the Orange Institution was in the chair.  A Galviayto;;Coai ncillor and poor-law guardian lost several of his teeth from the liktws of a guest, at his table last week. in a dispute about the gentility of their respective families'!  L=dp was at Rio 291 at Bahia 29 @291 ____ at Pernambuco 284.  • The extension of the East Coast Railway at Demerara was opened on the 14th March. Only 112 steamboats were blown up on the western waters during the year 1849—that's all.—Poston Pilot. A letter from Nantes of the Lsth inst. announces the loss of the mail boat between Bello Isle and Quiberon, with 14 passengers and crew.  On SundaylVee—li, William Sheadau was arrested in the act of picking pockets in the Dominican Chapel; Limerick, during the celebration of mass- The policeman found twenty-six handkerchiefs on the prisoner. William Murphy was hanged at Cork on Tuesday for murder. He made a declaration in Irish, which was interpreted by the Very Rev. Thomas Barry, amounting to a full confession of the murder, and expressive of the deepest penitence. A search was made for seditious papers in a ,eLub-room at Cork, An Monday night. A number of persons, chiefly tradesmen, were found assembled, and their names were taken by tbe police, and the document found ati3on them, and printed as seditious by the local conservative journal, was headed " Democracy all over the world," and addressed .to Nationalists of Cork,"  About nine o'clock on Tuesday night, a farmer named Spearman,,who resided near New Birmingham, was waylaid on the road nearly midway between that village and Ballingarry, and shot dead on the spot. Although the scene of the tragedy was a: public thoroughfare, the body lay on the ground without any notice of the occurrence being conveyed to the authorities till the middle of the next day.  It is asserted in the .Dublin Nation, on the authority of " a sure source in Australia, that Smith O'Brien is held.in close and solitary confinement by the English authorities.; forbidden all intercourse with his fellow exiles; attended by turnkeys who are under strict orders not to exchange a syllable with him ; visited by his gaoler at midnight:; and subject to ail the systematic and killing espionage of a Prussian or Austrian state prison." Two soldiers of the 74th Regiment, stationed at Clonmel, committed suicide. The first-named, William Williams, a native of Sligo, shot himself through the head on Monday. The horror of this occurrence had scarcely subsided, when on the following morning, whilst the men were on parade, another private of the same regiment, a Scotchman, named Duncan Love, by trade a tailor, also drove a musket-ball through his skull. Both were of weak intellect, through drink.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-06-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LOVE, MURDER, AND SUICIDE.—The following tragical incidents are related in the French papers :—About three years ago a tradesman, inhabiting the Quartier Breda, destroyed himself in a fit of desperation, after having written a letter in which he declared that his reason for making away with himself was that he could not survive the knowledge'of his dishonour. .A thousand reports were current at the time as to the precise cause which led to the catastrophe. When the husband was dead a liaison sprung up, and was almost publicly acknowledged between his widow and a young man in the neighbourhood, but satiety was soon followed by coldness and scenes of reproach, caused by the jealousy of the widow, whose lover seemed to neglect her more and more every day. The intimacy between them still continued, however, notwithstanding the clouds which so frequently disturbed its course, and the young man was accustomed to take his meals almost daily at the house of his mistress. On Thursday last he had dined there as usual, when, having scarcely risen from table, he was seized with burning pains and vomitings, sufficiently alarming in their character to cause the assistance of a medical man to be called in. Immediately on his arrival, at the first examination of the patient's countenance and of the substances vomited by him, the man of science suipected the case to be one of poisoning. His treatment was that usually resorted to in such cases ; 'but in spite of the promptitute and energy of the measures adopted the patient expired, accusing his mistress of the deed. As for the individual in question, as soon as the first symptoms of poison appeared, she became completely wild, and when her lover was dead she appeared struck with terror, shut herself up in her apartment, and refused all assistance or consolation. She remained thus secluded during two days, when suddenly the neighbours heard proceeding from her lodging the sound of an exploded fire:-arm. The doors were broken open. and the commissary of police summoned. On his arrival all that was found was a lifeless corpse. The unfortunate woman had shot herself through the heart with the same pistol with which three years ago her wretched husband hid terminated his existence.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-09-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT TROY.—The American papers contain accounts of an awful event which had occurred on the 21st ult., at the St. Charles Hotel, Troy. A respectable-looking man and woman, about 30 years old, stopped at the hotel, as travellers. Next morning they did not make their appearance, and about ten o'clock the landlord, who thought the silence which reigned in their bedroom strange, went to the door and knocked. No answer being returned, he opened a small window over the doer, when a horrid spectacle was presented. Both man and woman were dead. The bodies, the clothes, and the bed were covered with blood, 2nelithe throats of both were cut, that a the man being horribly mutilated. An eye-witness thus describes the sight :—The scene presented in the bedroom was one we shall not attempt to describe. A more ghastly and horrible spectacle the mind cannot conceive. Both were in their ordinary night-clothes. The woman was in the front part of the bed, her head resting on the arm, and partially on the bosom, of her companion. The gash in the throat was not deep, and the blood had dropped beneath, so that little was on her person. Her countenance was pallid, and marked by a serenity amounting almost to a smile. She bad evidently moved only very slightly after the cut was made, and then in the struggles of death. She was of the middle size in height, hardly ordinarily robust, and apparently aged about thirty years. By her side on the right lay Caldwell, the most horrid object that the eyes ever beheld. He was tall, muscular, well-formed, large head, features strongly marked, and the lower part of his face covered with heavy whiskers. The gash in his throat had severed and laid bare his windpipe, and he had bled most profusely. His face, hands, and breast were covered with blood, and his hair and whiskers were clotted together with it. Judging from the position of his limbs, his contortions must have been long and severe. By his right side was found a razor, covered with blood, and also the case. From letters and papers found in the room it appears that the man was Wm. Caldwell, of Whitehall, where he has a father hying in respectable circumstances. The woman was the wife of a Mr. Van Winkle, of Williarnsbury, from whom she eloped with Caldwell. The letters showed that the parties had committed premeditated and deliberate suicide, having evidently lard themselves on the bed and cut their throats.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-03-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE CASE OF ALLEGED INCENDIARISM AT EXETER. re .iude —On Wednesday last Mr. Samuel Foote, who is now ; s te confined in the city prison, awaiting his trial on the charge ao-us of setting his house on fire, attempted to commit suicide. said He tied his silk neckerchief tightly round his neck, and, atie- by fastening one end of it to the window frame of his not, untess cell, attempted to strangle himself. He was discovered i when life was almost extinct, cut down, and by proper means restored. A carter who was proceeding towards the neighbourhood of Wigton, on Friday week, with two horses and carts, imprudently attempted to cross the river Waver, at I fling the Lesson Hall ford, although the stream was much of swollen at the time. Before he reached the middle of al the river, the horses and carts were floated away by the s om ' current ; and it was with much difficulty that some perf ' sons, who chanced to be at hand, succeeded in rescuing him and one of the horses ; the other horse was drowned. limit .1 R cart The extent and importance of the Alkali Trade of the tic ;ht o i Tyne may be inferred from the subjoined statistics. The G; mete upon his chest. annual consumption of salt is 42,000 tons ; sulphur 1 -,e, Hermann steamer arrived off Bowes on Friday, 14,000 tons ; nitrate of soda 1,100 tons ; coals 80.000 OM and proceeded to Bremen after landing the mails and chaldrona ; coke 40,000 chaldrons ; timber 700 keels. The f passengers. She left New York on the 20th Januaay, commercial product of these materials is about 37,000 f t Her late arrival is owing to bad coals. tons of crystals of soda ; 20.510 tons of alkali ; 1,500 tons of bicarbonate of soda ; and 2,000 tons of chloride of Mr. Allan Glen, a citizen of Glasgow for half a c-ntury, OW who died last week, has left the greater part of his fortune, lime. Direct employment, too, is given to nearly three ; I amounting to nearly £20,000, for the endowment of two thousand. met schools in Glasgow. ero
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-12-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRENCH TRAGEDY. Great sensation has been mused in the department of the Charente by the arrest last week of the Countess du S— and of the cure of the commune of St. Germain, on the charge of having poisoned the servant of the latter, in order to prevent her from revealing the adulterous connexion which existed between them. The body of the servant, which the cure lad caused to be buried with great haste, has been dug up and poison discovered in it. When the Count du S—, Ja:ghly horsoutsoLl. anon, Lcord of kilo horrible aocuoation against his wife. he proposed to her that they should both commit suicide, and should make their child, aged eight, die with them. The Countess consented. A pan of charcoal was lighted, and the three fastened themselves in a eose room. 'When, however, the father saw his son struggling in the agonies of death, his courage failed him, and he broke the window for air. Medical assistance having been promptly afforded, all three recovered. The Countess and her clerical paramour were lodged in the gaol of Anemileme, to await their trial for the alleged murder.—Galignani's Messenger. _ .  MURDER i s NEW Yorac: A brutal murder has been perpetrated at New York, in the dwelling of Mr. Charles R. Rousson, porter-house, Day-street. A Swede, named Henry Carnal, who had been slightly acquainted with Mr. Rousson and his sons, called upon them in a very distressed condition, apparently for want of funds, and Mr. Rousson gave .him a dinner, and, when night came, also gave him a bed, with his two sips, Charles and Lewis. About half-past three o'clock in the morning, while all in the house were soundly sleeping, Carnal rose and plunged a dirk knife into theneck and side of Charles, inflicting two frightful wounds, and then attacked Lewis with the same weapon, giving a deep gash in the abdomen. By this time the father was aroused by the shrieks of Ins sons, and when hastening into the room where they were, the assassin met him, and with a powerful thrust and gash cut his throat from ear to ear. Carnal then ran to the rear of the house and jumped out of the window to escape. hut, fortunately for the community, he fell into a deep area, and injured himself so severely that he could mot get out, and was found there by the police. The father of the two wounded men, when he received the deadly blow from the hands of Carnal, instantly ran into the street, followee by his son Varies, who caught him in his arms. Mr. Rousson only lived about a quarter of an hour, and his wounded sons were taken to the third ward station-house. Charles may recover, but Lewis cannot, and his injuries are internal and very dangerous. Tile object of Carnal was to get hold of a sum of money which he knew the inmates had in their possession. The prisoner, when arrested, denied that he had committed the deed, and said he was also attacked.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-10-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE BY A CLERGYMAN.—On Thursday, the Rev. John Wilson, of London, a gentleman aged 69, who had been residing at Malvern, was found lying on the ground under the window of his bed-room. a distance of 14 feet. He died on Sunday. He suffered under depression of spirits, and had received two letters containing unwelcome intelligence.— Worcester Chronicle. . The following remarkable advertisement appeared in the Times, of Tuesday week :—" The Lost Son.—Should any family of consideration be still mourning the loss of a son not yet of age, who in his wilfulness left his father's  protection some time since, they are earnestly requested lv to Mr. W. F. Ramsey's library and reading' &c.  rooms,  A New London whaler has invented a mode of taking whales which pr3mises a greater safety in their capture. He fires a harpoon,_ with a line attached, out of a gun, as  accurately, it is said, as a musket-ball  not a the-o'retical deduction, but has bee  tried with p  fect success. He has also made a valuable improvement on the lance, whereby it can be fired out of the same gun  hick is used for the.harpoon  EXPELLED WESLEYAN 11TrictsTrns.—The subn on behalf of the R  and Griffit  zentlemen The title "  mounted to £3,300, and each of  as been presented with a cheque for £l,lOO, expelled"_isalso to be dropped, the people  recognising thc Manchestc  hers. At Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Bristol,  nasW Exeter,  a num eron:  The town of Penrith was a scene of excitement on Tuesday last, that being the day appointed for the magistrates to decide, if possible, the dispute between Lord Brougham and the party of watchers who had interfered vent his lordship's fishers from fishing in the  assault  17. John RobsOn, one of and fined five pounds;  THE RULING PASS!  ,N STR  us cha  Thomas Gundry  ho was well known as a copper miner gave directions before his decease, which lately toot place. that his remains should be deposited on a coppe lode, which he stated ran through the churchyard o  Perranuthnoe. The sexton, it appears, found the iden tical spot, and dug the grave upon the copper lode ex tending thence from Wheal Trebarvah mine.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-01-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING STORY.—A fine interesting girl, aged seven years, the eldest daughter of Mr. James Lockwood, of Gully Hole, having been left alone in the house with Mr. John Wortley, bar-keeper, her grandfather, at Snittlegate, near Holmfirth, on Tuesday week, received such injuries at his hands as to leave no probable hopes of her recovery. It appears that Wortley has, for some time past, exhibited symptoms of derangement of mind, and had more than once attempted suicide. On the day abovementioned, his wife, having occasion to be absent from home for a short time, left Wortley and the grandchild in the house together. The presumption is, from all that can be ascertained relative to the tragedy, that shortly after his wife's departure the poor desponding wretch again essayed self-destruction, and that, being checked by the little girl, as on a former occasion, he at once determined to silence her. For this purpose (having first locked the door) he armed himself with the poker, and with this weapon he struck the poor unoffending girl repeated and savage strokes over the head. This continued until a cartdriver, passing by, heard screams, and the sound of heavy blows, which induced him to pause and listen at the barhouse door. Being convinced that foul work was being enacted, Ile at once hurried to an adjoining house (the Junction Inn), and assistance having been procured, the doors were promptly burst open. A shocking spectacle presented itself. The old man, with an insane glare, stood brandishing the bloody weapon of his cruelty over the now almost lifeless body of his victim. Medical assistance, however, was immediately sought and procured, and up to Friday morning the poor little innocent still lived. Of her ultimate recovery, however, no reasonable hope can be entertained. Wortley seemed to be decidedly insane.— HaUfax Guardian.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-02-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.  GREECE  RAPIENZA.—Letters from Athens of the 28th and 31st ult.'contain news of the highest importance. Sir Thos. Wyse and Admiral Parker are inexorable in their demands, which the government of Greece are determined to resist. The instructions of Lord Palmerston to coerce thp latter to yield to the claims made by England have eibited the most bitter feelings of hatred against the British Cabinet, while, on the other hand, the people are rallying around their King, and offering him their services and .their property against the violence and oppression by which his Majesty is now surrounded. The opposition members in the Chamber warmly espouse the con(Met of the government, and the whole of the officers of the Greek army have renounced their pay, so long as his Majesty shall be engaged in the present struggle. Two of the Greek islands have been seized by Admiral Parker.  A seditious movement has broken out at Palermo ; it was at once suppressed. Lola Montes left Cadiz a few days ago on board an English steamer, to proceed, it was supposed, to England. Letters received from Bahia of the 18th December state that yellow fever (of which that city had hitherto been entirely free) was very prevalent, and the mortality exceedingly great, particularly among foreigners. Little tragedies occur occasionally in California. A recent journal chronicles an inquest :—" Also, in Happy Valley, on the body of a Portuguese, who committed suicide by running a sword through his neck !" -A duel lately occurred at Madrid between two young ladies ; one was ultimately shot in the leg ; and the combat ceased pro. tem.; finally, a reconciliation was effected by the gallant senhor, whose charms had evoked the discdrd.  Three prisoners, in attempting to escape from the Conciergerie, Paris, tried to burn a hole through the ceiling, and caused such a fire, that only for its timely discovery, not only the prison but the courts of law might have been destroyed. _