The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-03-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRO! PRISON.—In the earl a man named George Hawes, a native of part of last month (and connected with an extensive gat, Cheshunt, Bucks who had been apprehended with five g of sheep-stealers), stealing upwards of 30 shppp from tLthers, charged with oroke through the roof of Windsorit,nournood or clear away. At the time of his esc• gaol, and got cover him but his night shirt and theape he had nothing to off his bed, the whole of his clothes hrug he had taken from from him by the gaoler, for the better aving been taken awaY upon his being locked up for the ni 1 security of the prisoner he was brought before the bench of 't. Yesterday morning Larkins, an active local constable ofmagistrates at Eton by apprehended him at Plymouth. It that district, who had upon his escape first made his appeared that the fellow assisted by some notorious way to Slough, where be was which enabled him to proceed characters with clothes and money, train to London. The n the same night by the lugguagename, in the 67th Regimexnt morning he enlisted, in his own after remaining there four e of Foot, in the 'metropolis, and at Plymouth, where he ur days was sent to join the regiment stable on Sunday Inutil. was taken into custody by the constalast, just as the troops were leaving the church to proceedut'g o the barracks He was yesterday sent by the Eton bench of magistrates ;la custody to Amersham, whence he will be fully committed to Aylesbury gaol to take his trial with the rest of the gang at the ensuing'assizes for the county of Bucks. He was attired yesterday in his military uniform, and appears about 20 years of age. SAVAGE SUPERSTITION•—Of all the superstitions which still linger in the Highlands, there is none so heartless, cruel, barbarous, and degradingnone so baneful and distressing in its consequences, none so insulting to humanity, and none so disgraceful to professing Christians, as that which relates to suicide, actual or supposed. A very striking instance of this sort of superstition was lately displayed at the farinstead of Hilton, near Tain. A poor, sickly, unattended, helpless woman, went out to fetch water from a neighbouring well, or pool, for her children, who were lying ill of a fever ; ,c hile at the pool, which is quite shallow, she was suddenly seized with vertigo, or a fit of fainting; she unfortunately tell forward into the water, and, there being no help at "hand, she was either suffocated or drowned. This, according to the most trustworthy report, would be teensy clusion arrived at by any jury of intelligent men. Now, iad of sympathising with the distracted husband, his aged and bedridden father, and his sick and motherless children, the nighbours stood shrinking and loathingly aloof from them eir agony. Mr. Munro, the farmer of Hilton, whose conduct with re_ spect to this sad case was honourable alike to his heed and his heart, used all his influence to obtain a decent Christian burial for the unfortunate. deceased, but in vain. Ignorance and prejudice at once decided that she was a suicide • and superstition and bigotry cried " Away with her to the 'Morrich Mor !"—the damp, dreary, and dismal border of thy_ Fain Frith, where, on the day of judgment, a multitude of so-called suicides may start up, to give their testjeami,, the intelligence, charity, and humanity of the "` Holy 'l7 to of Ross." This disgrafill affair, however, hating and come to the knowledge of the rain authorities, they veil ordered the body to be clisintered and examined by: properly medicalmen, who, after a careful consideration two of all • cumstances, reported that, in their opinion this the ma " accidental death by drowning." The f was a case corpse decently coftined, and interred in the c was then the ruined chapel of St. Dutl • anta h d ius,—joha -, A, e- to .s, ts. Aurnal.