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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  The import duty on wheat is now 53. A testimonial of £3,000 has been subscribed for Mr. Waghorn, the discoverer of the overland route. 'I he Rambler steamer, which struck on the Maiden Rocks, Ireland, will prove a complete wreck. On Saturday week, a flock of 74 sheep were killed by lightning near Priddy, in Somersetshire. In London, there were lately 996.000 females to 878,000 males, or an excess of 118.000 ladies. The personal estate of the late Col the Hon. F. G. Howard has been valued for probate duty at £120,000.  On Thursday, Ibrahim Paella paid a visit to Woolwich, and was much interested with everything he saw. The abandonment of the proxy system in the House of Lords is now considered a necessary act of reform. The Duke of Sutherland has subscribed £2OO to the fund for the family of Mr. Haydon.  Upwards of 78,000 quarters of wheat and 4000 of oats were liberated at Hull last week. At Preston, upwards of 30,000 quarters of wheat were also taken out. On Thursday, a boy, named Joseph Wood, aged 14, whilst sculling a boat in the river,Feryd, Flintsbire, fell overboard and was drowned.  A handle of the coffin that contained the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots, was sold at the sale of the curiosities of W. Upcott. Esq., for two guineas. The father of Major-General Littler kept a grocer's shop at Nantwich, in which town the late Lord Kenyon served his articles to an attorney. Three men were killed in the most shocking manner, on Saturday week, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, by the train of waggons getting off the rails. Mr. Marsh, the celebrated chemist of Woolwich, and inventor of the test for arsenic now generally used in medical jurisprudence, died on Sunday week. Fresh herrings are now plentiful in Douglas market, and of prime quality. The price in retail for the last few days has been from 14 to 20 for a shilling.  A worthy contemporary records, under the head of domestic intelligence, nothing but births, deaths, and marriages. A man of the world, that !o editor  Mr. R. Greig, recently appointed midshipman on board the Dido, at Sheerness, committed suicide with a pistol on Thursday.  A bull, and a pigeon which, at the moment, happened to be flying over it, were both killed by the electric fluid, on the farm of Mr. John Proud, at Car House, near Durham, during the thunder-storm of Thursday week. Lieutenant William Peel, the son of Sir Robert Peel, has been promoted to the rank of commander in the royal navy. His lieutenant's commission was dated on the 13th of May, 1844. In the year 1844, the number of public-houses and beer-shops in England and Wales was 93,606, and in that year alone no less than 147 public•houses and 272 beershops were added to the previous number.  John Edwards, who is upwards of 107 years of age, and lives in a cottage on the Wilton-road, near Salisbury, was, on Thursday week, observed at work in a hay-field near his residence.  Forty new bishonrics were created during the Pontificate of Gregory
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-11-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DUCHESS MADE AMENABLE TO THE GAME LAWS. —lt will be in the recollection of our readers that a paragraph in the papers recently announced that the Duke of Marlborough was accompanied in a shooting excursion by his lately married duchess, and that the latter personally took part in the amusement of the day, and with her own hand killed several head of game. Of the fact there is, we apprehend, no doubt • but it has been followed up by consequences little apprehended at the time. Informations, it would seem, have been lodged against the duchess for shooting without a licence. It is supposed that this unusual step, which if followed up must in all probability lead to a conviction, bas been adopted in retaliation for some severe measures recently taken by the duke to punish certain trespassers upon his manorial rights.—Britannia.  A WHOLE CORPORATION DEFUNCT !—II Is the op nion of legal men that the Town Council of Worcester has virtually committed an act of felo de se, and has no longer an existence, in consequence of the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Mayor not having been duly filled up within ten days, as required by the act. By, this neglect, which occurred before the recent annual election, the number of Councillors fixed by law was incomplete, and consequently the acts of the remainder are null and void.  On Saturday, at the Croydon Police-court, a fortune teller, named Siddens, was charged with obtaining considerable sums of money from a young and attractive lady, named Elizabeth Markby Dodd, by means of fraudulent pretences. The prisoner informed her that a young man named Anderson, in the East India College, Addiscombe, bad fallen in love with her ; and, strengthening the belief by the most artful means, such as the presentation of dresses, billels-doux, &c., succeeded in obtaining from het considerable sums of money. The infatuation was carried ED far that the young lady left home clandestinely, accompanied by the prisoner, to go to India to marry her unknown lover. They were stopped at Dover. The magistrates were of opinion, however, that the evidence did not support the charge, and the prisoner was discharged. The Editor of the Salopian Journal has published circular marked " Private and confidential," from one of the recent lecturers of the Anti corn-law League, in which he explains the objects of the " Liberal Registration Offices," After a somewhat inflated flourish about " the exhaustion of the septennial cycle," which•will render a general election necessary, this document continues—" It becomes essential to the interests of the liberal party that they should be able to form some estimate of their actual position in the various counties and boroughs at the date of the commencement of the present revision of the register, and of. the results of that revision with reference to the state of parties. I shall feel much obliged therefore by the inter position of your kind offices to procure for me such information as you possess or can obtain on this subject, in reference to the borough of Bridgenorth."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDES.—On Sunday week, Mr. R. Preece, brewer, Worcester, hung himself in his cellar.—On the same day Mr. John Shawcross, who kept the Shears public-house, at Newt v. as found dead in a field near to that place, under c rcumttances leading to the belief that he had laid violent hands upon himself.—On Monday, Ellen Hope, a fine y v. cman, belenging to the former town, threw herself into the canal, and was drowned. She had been disappointed in love.—On Tuesday, a man of the name of Baynes, employed at the Crown and Anchor Inn, Ripon, committed suicide by cutting his throat.—On Tuesday last, George Archell, farmer, of Frome, destroyed himself by poison ; and on the same day, a young woman daughter of a tailor in the latter town, drowned herself. The provincial papers of last week give many similar melancholy instances of self destruction.  A public meeting was held in London, on Tuesday, to adopt measures for the purpose of relieving the distress occasioned by the fire at St. John's, Newfoundland. The large room of the London Tavern, in which the meeting was held, was filled. Amongst those present were Lord Sandon, Sir H. Douglas, the Bishop of Jamaica, Capt. the Hon. F. Maule, R. N.; Capt. Prescott, late governor of Newfoundland. Upwards of £3,000 was subscribed at the meeting. - A fatal accident occurred in the implement yard of the Royal Agricultural Society's exhibition at Newcastle on Friday. Crosskill's steam thrashing machine was at work under the superintendence of the judges, when suddenly it broke with a tremendous noise, and the fragments of wood and metal were thrown in all directions. One of these struck a labourer named Swanston over the right eye, fracturing his skull. He fell senseless to the ground, and in the course of a few moments expired. From a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, in London, by the Rev. \Vm. Arthur, the startling yet indisputable fact is made evident, that if we decide according to numbers, Paganism must be pronounced to be the religion of the British Empire. Mr. " more  " There are in it," says ... Arthur, Pagans than Mahoceedans and Christians of both names, The numerical order of the four great religious distinctions prevailing in the empire is, first, Paganism ; second, Mohamedanism ; third, Protestantism ; fourth, Romanism."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WORD FOR THE PRESS.-Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, and Mr. John Walter, the principal proprietor of the Times, are to stand, it is said, on the liberal interest for Reading, at the next general election. The learned serjeant as an author, and the worthy proprietor as a patron of type in another form—both, or either, as book or newspaper producers—ought to be the most acceptable candidates to Reading men. Surcings.—On Sunday week, Mr. R. Preece, brewer, Worcester, hung himself in his cellar.—On the same day Mr. John Shawcross, who kept the. Shears public-house, at Newo,o, was found dead in a field near to that place, under circum,tances leading to the belief that be had laid violent hands upon himself.—On Monday, Ellen Hope, a fine young woman, belenging to the former town, threw herself into the canal, and was drowned. She had been disappointed in love.—On Tuesday, a man of the name of Baynes, employed at the Crown and Anchor Inn, Ripon, committed suicide by cutting his throat.—On Tuesday last, George Archell, farmer, of Frome, destroyed himself by poison ; and on the same day, a young woman daughter of a tailor in the latter town, drowned herself. The provincial papers of last week give many similar melancholy instances of self destruction.  A public meeting was held in London, on Tuesday, to adopt measures for the purpose of relieving the distress occasioned by the fire at St. John's, Newfoundland. The large room of the London Tavern, in which the meeting was held, was filled. Amongst those present were Lord Sandon, Sir ;H. Douglas, the Bishop of Jamaica, Capt. the Hon. F. Maule, R. N.,'Capt. Prescott, late governor of Newfoundland. Upwards of £3,000 was subscribed at the meeting. A fatal accident occurred in the implement yard of the Royal Agricultural Society's exhibition at Newcastle on Friday. Crosskill's steam thrashing machine was at work under the superintendence of the judges, when suddenly it broke with a tremendous noise, and the fragments of wood and metal were thrown in all directions. One of these struck a labourer named Swanston over the right eye, fracturing his skull. He fell senseless to the ground, and in the course of a few moments expired. From a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, in London, by the Rev. Wm. Arthur, the startling yet indisputable fact is made evident, that if we decide according to numbers, Paganism must be pronounced to be the religion of the British Empire. " There are in it," says Mr. Arthur, " more Pagans than Mahomedans and Christians of both names. The numerical order of the four great religious distinctions prevailing in the empire is, first, Paganism; second, Mohamedanism ; third, Protestantism ; fourth, Romanism."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-07-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDES.—On Sunday week, Mr. R. Preece, brewer, Worcester, hung himself in his cellar.—On the same day Mr. John Shawcross, who, kept the Shears public-house, at 1•1,,,,C, as found dead in a field near to that place, un ter eircumttances leading to the belief that he had laid vi dent hands upon himself.—On Monday, Ellen Hope, a fine young unman, belenging to the farmer town, threw herself into the canal, and was drowned. She had been disappointed in love.—On Tuesday, a man of the name of Baynes. employed at the Crown and Anchor Inn, Ripon, committed suicide by cutting his throat.—On Tuesday last, George Archell, farmer, of Frome, destroyed himself by poison ; and on the same day, a young woman daughter of a tailor in the latter town, drowned herself. The provincial papers of last week give many similar melancholy instances of self destruction.  A public meeting was held in London, on Tuesday, to adopt measures for the purpose of relieving the distress occasioned by the fire at St. John's, Newfoundland. The large room of the London Tavern, in which the meeting was held, was filled. Amongst those present were Lord Sandon, Sir 'H. Douglas, the Bishop of Jamaica, Capt. the Hon. F. Motile, R. N.,'Capt. Prescott, late governor of Newfoundland. Upwards of £3,000 was subscribed at the meeting. A fatal accident occurred in the implement yard of the Royal Agricultural Society's exhibition at Newcastle on Friday. Crosskill's steam thrashing machine was at work under the superintendence of the judges, when suddenly it broke with a tremendous noise, and the fragments of wood and metal were thrown in all directions. One of these struck a labourer named Swanston over the right eye, fracturing his skull. He fell senseless to the ground, and in the course of a few moments expired. From a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, in London, by the Rev. Wm. Arthur, the startling yet indisputable fact is made evident, that if we decide according to numbers, Paganism must be pronounced to be the religion of the British Empire. " There are in it," says Mr. Arthur, " more Pagans than Mahomedans and Christians of both names. The numerical order of the four great religious distinctions prevailing in the empire is, first, Paganism ; second, Mohamedanism ; third, Protestantism; fourth, Romanism."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WHOLESALE POACHING.—The trains of the Whitehaven Junction between Workington and Harrington, destroy numbers of hares, which get upon the line from the adjoining preserves of Henry Curwen, Esq., thus enabling the gate-keepers to participate in the luxury of an occasional dish of hare soup. A cask of treacle was, in May last, delivered by mistake with some casks of liquid manure. The labourers mingled it with compost and applied it to turnips, and a splendid crop has been the result. The railway official who committed the blunder arrived just as the unctuous fluid was running auroad in a bed of dung. Letters dated Trieste, 28th ult., state that on that day an estafette had arrived in that port from London, supposed to be from the British government, with orders to buy up all the Indian Corn at that place and at Alexandria, together with all the peas, beans, and all the other lentils to be had there. The new Mariners' Church near the London Dock, the foundation stone of which was laid by the Prince Albert in the early part of the summer, is rapidly approaching completion, and the rapidity with which the structure has been raised has surprised every one. The tower and spire are finished. O❑ Wednesday, the tide of the river Thames rose to an alarming height, causing a serious destruction of property situate in all the low-lying cellars and warehouses near the water-side. At Bankside and Lambeth the loss of property is very great. The flood is mainly attributed to the boisterous state of the weather. On Tuesday evening week, Robert Scurfield, Esq., well known as a most extensive shipowner and very wealthy inhabitant of Sunderland, committed suicide, by hanging himself. One statement assigns the fatal act to a morbid apprehension of poverty, which, notwithstanding his great wealth, had recently haunted his imagination. By an explosion of sulphur at the coal-pit of the late Mr. Horton, Lyttleton-hall,West Bromwich, on Saturday week, three men lost their lives, and seven others were dreadfully burned, their bodies in some parts being literally roasted by the flame and blackened by the clouds of vapour. _ _ _
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TUE NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW UNION.—A preliminary meeting was held at St. Alban's on Thursday, to consider a plan for eneouragirg the working classes to save themselves from the new Poor Law system by means of a National Anti-Poor-Law Provident and Benevolent Union. It was understood that such a plan would be proposed •by Mr. Cabbed, M.P., who, it will be recollected, was returned to Parliament for that borough in August last, as "an unc.onpromising opponent of the Poor Law," and avowing that he " wool.' look especially to the interests of the poor, their education, and their moral improvement." The meeting was held in the court-room of the Town-hall, and was attended by a number of the tradesmen and inhabitants of St. Alban's, and by many working men ; at least 200 persons were present, and listened with great interest to the proceedings frJm first to last. The Mayor (Mr. Kentish) presided. There was a dinner at the Town-hall in the evening, at which about 200 gentlemen sat down, the Mayor again presiding, and having Mr. Cabbell on his right. It was stated that Mr. Cabbell would start the Anti-Poor-Law Union with a subsc:iption of 1000 guineas. DOUBLE SUlClDE.—Considerable sensation has been created in the vicinity of St. Mary Otters, Devon, by the following dreadful occurrence, by which the deaths of twq factory girls, both young women, were involved. On Friday week the deceased Mary Ann Olderidge, aged twenty-six, and Jane Smith, were visited by a man of indifferent character, of whom Olderidge contrived to possess herself of half-a-crown to get some l'quor with, and never.returned, the other deceased following her. The man subs-quently meeting with them, he threatened toexpose them to their employer if they did not immediately return him his half-crown. Not having sufficient to make up the required sum ; the threat appeared to operate ,so powerfully on their minds, that they purchased 3d. worth of arsenic, with which they resolved to destroy themselves. They then resumed their work at the factory, and on leaving at night went to a public-house, where they mixed the poison in some cider, and drank it. Olderidge died in dreadful agony on Wednesday, and Smith followed in twenty-four hours after. An inquest was held on the bodies, when the jury returned a verdict of •' Felo de se." Both were interred without Christian rites, in the burial ground of the parish church. AN OBIGINAL LETTER Or
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-09-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DAY TICKET.—A romantic young lady, residing not 100 miles from Bourn, contrived, a few days ago, with the assistance of a little absence of mind, to make more of one of these railway indulgences, and to enjoy a greater amount of locomotion on one day's fare, than commonly falls to any one's lot. With no luggage (hear this, ladies!) and little more cash than was just needful for " the day ticket," our heroine left Peterborough, and in due time arrived in London, where ices, and something quite new from Madame T—'s, in Regent-street, contributed to exhaust the small resources of her purse; hut " the day ticket" is all right—•' I shall get comfortably to Peterborough to a late tea." The train leaves Eustonsquare, and our heroine, charmed with the day, composes herself with a novel and a first-class carriage for Peterborough. On they go, and night arrives ; the train, too, arrives at a station. "Is this Peterborough ?" " This is Rugby, ma'am." Alas, 'teas too true! the virtuous hero of the novel was about to commit suicide when the train divided at Wolverton, and our heroine was at Rugby ! Here, from the state of her exchequer, she was obliged to repose on the sofa in the " ladies' waitingroom" till the morning. With promises from the guard that she should really be conveyed to Peterborough forthwith, and that " the day ticket" should, owing to the mistake, still be the passport, our heroine starts once more ; and now, in place of the nova!l hero, she meets with a must agreeable gentleman fellow-traveller—a real hero—who soon becomes more interesting than even the martyr at Wolverton the preceding day. Conversation progresses—so does the train ; till during a pause caused perhaps by the introduction of some vulgar porter's head into the carriage, the lady "fears they must be near Peterborough by this time." " Peterborough, my dear madam ! I am afraid you have made a mistake," said her companio i ; and in the fulness of his topographical information he tells her that she is at Watford, only some 18 or 20 miles from London, again ! Such was verily the ca,e, and serious misgivings aro-e as t r the remaining and oft-tried virtues of " the day ticket ;" but it still held good. and, with one more effort, Peterborough is at last reached in safety, and our heroine lives to tell the tale.—Stamford Mercury. NhiNDiLsoinv's"
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-05-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  The Duke of Wellington completed his seventy•seyenth year on Friday. At a wedding party in Scotland, the other day, one of the guests unknowingly ate a piece of 'opium and died in consequence.  A boy, nine years old, has banged himself at Shoreditch because his mother refused to give him a half-penny to buy a ball. The foundation stone of a new Roman Catholic Church the estimated cost of which is £ll,OOO, was laid at Burnley last week.  A young labouring man named Henry Cook committed suicide last week at itoldfast, near Upton, on Severn, by taking arsenic. He was said to be in love. The statement that a noble Viscount, a relative of a highly esteemed Evangelical minister in London, was about to leave the Anglican church and join the Roman communion, has been denied on authority. The weil-known Clara Seyton, who has been for some time past giving lectures in this and other towns, was before the London Insolvent Court on Thursday. The case was adjourned. Keying, the high commissioner to the Emperor of China, has requested Sir T. Cochrane to record his name as a donor of 900 dollars (about £190) to the Seaman's Floating Hospital. The money has been paid. Captain Hamilton, of Port Glasgow, has bequeathed the sum of twenty thousand pounds to the Free Church, to be divided between the sustentation fund and the missionary schemes of the Free Church. A London newspaper informs its readers that " an additional number of sentinels are to be placed in Hyde Park, to prevent the robberies which happened last win! ter."  Much curiosity was excited in Covent Garden Market, on Monday, by the appearance of two pecks of French green peas for sale, and for which the vender demanded £2 10s.  On Saturday week, William Somerville, one of the policemen on the Caledonian Railway, while attempting to quell a disturbance, was.killed in the most barbarous manner, near Lockerbie, by the railway labourers. On Thursday, the Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, and Cleveland, and the Earl of Lonsdale, had audiences of the Queen at Buckingham Palace, to present addresses against the repeal of the corn laws. On Sunday, the inmates of Mallow Workhouse not only refused to eat the Indian meal, but rose up (ft masse and denounced those who had introduced it. The riot was such that the police had to be sent for.