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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  Sir Robert Peel completed the 58th year of his age on Thursday.  Mr. R. Cooke, a surgeon, was on Friday, in London, sentenced to seven years' transportation` for bigamy. A Society is just formed in London, called " The Society for Promoting Church Music." A ship has just left the Clyde, for the West Indies, with a cargo of metal coffins.  By a recent Treasury order British spirits may be bottled in bond for export under certain regulations. On Sunday morning week, a fresh-grown mushroom was gathered by the way-side, near Preston. A fine butterfly was seen near Bath the last week in January.—Another was caught near Liverpool. The personal estate of the late Isaac Cohen, Esq„ in England, is sworn under £300,000. On Sunday, through the upsetting of a boat at Yarmouth, three persons were drowned. In the horrible case, at Greenwich, the chemists have found large quantities of arsenic in the body of the child. _ •  On Tuesday a fine lively infant was found in a basket in the Hyde Park, London. The number of converts to Romanism from the upper ranks of society, during the last few months, now exceeds one hundred. Nearly forty are clergymen.  On Friday week a poor man at Kirkcudbright committed suicide by hanging himself, in consequence of having had a quarrel with his daughter, a worthless character. The Post-office authorities have discovered that spurious postage stamps, to 'a considerable amount, have been issued in London.  During the performances at the City of London Theatre on Tuesday night, a man named Briton was killed by the fall of a cannon, and another seriously injured. On Thursday, Augustus Hopeton, of Holloway, aged 14, was accidentally shot by his younger brother, while firing at sparrows in their father's garden. Within the last week the Trent has again overflowed its banks, and laid a vast extent of land under water, the marshes having been covered for miles. The associated mill-owners of Manchester propose, on Sir Robert Peel's measure becoming law, to reduce the hours of factory labour from twelve to eleven.—Daily News.  A spot is now traversing the sun's disc, which is estimated to be 26,000 miles broad, and to cover an area of 1,062,282,000 square miles, more than five times the number of square miles on the surface of our globe.  A sad accident occurred at Messrs. Black well's Furnaces, near Dudley, on Sunday evening week, by the falling in of the roof of the casting-house, whereby one man was killed in endeavouring to rescue his son.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  Sir Robert Peel completed the 58th year of his age on Thursday. Mr. R. Cooke, a surgeon, was on Friday, in London, sentenced to seven years' transportation' for bigamy. A Society is just formed in London, called " The Society for Promoting Church Music." A ship has just left the Clyde, for the West Indies, with a cargo of metal coffins.  By a recent Treasury order British spirits may be bottled in bond for export under certain regulations. On Sunday morning week, a fresh-grown mushroom was gathered by the way-side, near Preston. A fine butterfly was seen near Bath the last week in January.—Another was caught near Liverpool. The personal estate of the late Isaac Cohen, Esq., in England, is sworn under £300,000. On Sunday, through the upsetting of a boat at Yarmouth, three persons were drowned. In the horrible case, at Greenwich, the chemists have found large quantities of arsenic in the body of the child. On Tuesday a fine lively infant was found in a basket in the Hyde Park, London. The number of converts to Romanism from the upper ranks of society, during the last few months, now exceeds one hundred. Nearly forty are clergymen. On Friday week a poor man at Kirkcudbright committed suicide by hanging himself, in consequence of having had a quarrel with his daughter, a worthless character. The Post-office authorities have discovered that spurious postage stamps, to a considerable amount, have been issued in London.  During the performances at the City of London Theatre on Tuesday night, a man named Briton was killed by the fall of a cannon, and another seriously injured. On Thursday, Augustus Hopeton, of Holloway, aged 14, was accidentally shot by his younger brother, while firing at sparrows in their father's garden. Within the last week the Trent has -gain overflowed its banks, and laid a vast extent of land under water, the marshes having been covered for miles.  The associated mill-owners of Manchester propose, on Sir Robert Peel's measure becoming law, to reduce the hours of factory labour from twelve to eleven.—Daily News.  A spot is now traversing the sun's disc, which is estimated to be 26,000 miles broad, and to cover an area of 1,062,282.000 square miles, more than five times the number of square miles on the surface of our globe. _  A sad accident occurred at Messrs. Black well's Furnaces, near Dudley, on Sunday evening week, by the falling in of the roof of the casting-house, whereby one man was killed in endeavouring to rescue his son.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  Sir Robert Peel completed the 58th year of his age on Thursday. Mr. R. Cooke, a surgeon, was on Friday, in London, sentenced to seven years' transportation' for bigamy. A Society is just formed in London; called " The So. ciety for Promoting Church Music." A ship has just left the Clyde, for the West Indies, with a cargo of metal coffins. By a recent Treasury order British spirits may be bottled in bond for export under certain regulations. On Sunday morning week, a fresh-grown mushroom was gathered by the way-side, near Preston. A fine butterfly was seen near Bath the last week in January.—Another was caught near Liverpool. The personal estate of the late Isaac Cohen, Esq., in England, is sworn under £300,000. On Sunday, through the upsetting of a boat at Yarmouth, three persons were drowned. In the horrible case, at Greenwich, the chemists have found large quantities of arsenic in the body of the child. On Tuesday a fine lively infant was found in a basket in the Hyde Park, London. The number of converts to Romanism from the upper ranks of society, during the last few months, now exceeds one hundred. Nearly forty are clergymen. On Friday week a poor man at Kirkcudbright committed suicide by hanging himself, in consequence of having had a quarrel with his daughter, a worthless character. The Post-office authorities have discovered that spurious postage stamps, to a considerable amount, have been issued in London. During the performances at the yof London Theatre on Tuesday night, a man named Briton was killed by the fall of a cannon, and another seriously injured. On Thursday, Augustus Hopeton, of Holloway, aged 14, was accidentally shot by his younger brother, while firing at sparrows in their father's garden. Within the last week the Trent has ,gain overflowed its banks, and laid a vast extent of land under water, the marshes having been covered for miles. The associated mill-owners of Manchester propose, on Sir Robert Peel's measure becoming law, to reduce the hours of factory labour from twelve to eleven.—Daily News.  A spot is now traversing the sun's disc, which is estimated to be 26,000 miles broad, and to cover an area of 1,062,282.000 sqlvire miles, more than five times the number of square miles on the surface of our globe. A sad accident occurred at Messrs. Black well's Furnaces, near Dudley, on Sunday evening week, by the falling in of the 'roof of the casting-house, whereby one man was killed in endeavouring to rescue his son.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-12-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GUN-COTTON.--We were present on Saturday at the Such a concert as this is but rarely given in Liverpool; rock-blasting by gun-cotton, in the quarry behind the but our townsmen have only to award it that meed of en- Necropolis, and we were truly astonished at its tremencouragement to which, from its intrinsic merits, it is well does powers. The unwedgeable and solid whin rock was entitled, to ensure for themselves a succession of, if pos- split by it as quietly and instantly as if it had been a soft sible, even stronger attract;ons, and at cheaper rates.— myrtle. What would a bale of cotton not do, when a The beginning must once be made, and. the present expe- small quantity (stuffed into a bore six inches by one and a riment, in which no expense has been spared to produce half) was capable of such effects? It would blow up a gratification, must decide the continuance of the plan. little city.—Glasilow Constitutional. Such concerts are now being given with great success at A pe: son of the name of Francis Olifiero has been cornthe Metropolitan Literary Institutions, and as the Liver- mitted to take his trial in London, charged with having pool Collegiate Institution has great resources at its com- obtained, by false pretences, diamond jewellery of the value mend, the undertaking will, no doubt, fully realize the of £5OO and upwards, from Mr. Linnet, wholesale jewelhopes of its projectors. ler, Bloomsbury-square. The prisoner pretended that he was commissioned by the Queen and Prince Albert to get them some brooches and rings ; but his tale turned out to be untrue, and he went and pledged the articles which he obtained from the prosecutor. On Tuesday, a young woman attempted to commit suicide in a coffee-house in Kent-road; London, by pouring laudanum into the cup of coffee with which she was served.' The landlady, who guessed her intention, took the cup away under the pretence of putting some sugar in it, and substituted another. The wretched creature, after some conversation with her hostess, confessed her intention. Her misery, she sad, had been brought on through her husband enlisting. She was taken to her home, Great Wild-street.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SIIICIDE.—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 pair of 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, be left the inn with the girl, and was seen with her in a field,near the river Witham. Mary Ilill 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 person whom they pulled out of the river. From various other circumstances detailed at the inquests, little doubt can be 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 was felo de se.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—On Sunday week the inhabitants of Everton, near East Retford and the neighbourhood, were thrown into a state of excitement and regret by learning that the Rev. Robert Cock, the respected curate of the former place, had, on the morning of that day, in a moment of temporary insanity, put a period to his existence by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. The deceased gentleman was a native of Stamford Bridge, near York, and was 45 years of age. In due course he became curate of a small parish in Yorkshire. About 10 years ago he married the daughter of the late vicar of Feliskirk, near Thirsk, by whom he had several children, only one of whom survives him. He was afterwards curate of Tickhill, where he resided till last summer, highly respected by his parishioners for his zeal as a minister, and his general character as a man, giving, at the same time, the most perfect satisfaction to his vicar. Towards the latter part of his r-' ',try there 1.  :e, iowever, some evil-disposed person set afloat au unfounded rumour that he was frequently intoxicated, which coming to his knowledge, and knowing the charge to beuntrue, had so serious an effect on his constitution, that his friends believe, (and the evidence at the inquest tends to corroborate that belief,) that it laid the foundation for that state of nervous excitability, involving temporary aberration of mind, which prompted him to commit self-destruction. It appears the reverend gentleman rose and dressed at his usual hour, but appeared to belabouring under some unpleasant sensation ; he paced about, went into the kitchen, kissed his only child, bid it good bye, then took it into -ther roc-- ' it r ' --- and "  ano Jun, plum, on his knee, and immediately applying a pistol to his own head, discharged its contents into his right temple, and fell dead.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-03-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN THROUGH JEALOUSY, AND SUICIDE OF HER LOVER.—On Saturday an inquest was held at Mile-end, Old Town, London, on view of the body of John Warren, aged 20, a young man of respectable connections, residing in the neighbourhood, who committed self-destruction by drowning himself in the Regent's Canal—a young woman, named Caroline Beale, about 18 years of age, having committed a similar act near the spot at which the deceased was found. The deceased and the young woman had, a few months ago, formed an acquaintance, which resulted in a strong attachment to each other, and they were to have- been married at Easter. On Sunday week they were to have taken tea with an acquaintance of the young woman's, named Amelia Bane, where the deceased went, according to his appointment. Caroline Beale did not arrive till some time after, when she remarked to him that she knew he bad been taking tea with Amelia, and that if he preferred her she would have nothing to do with him. She was in a very excited state, and left the house ; deceased followed her, when she accompanied him a short distance back, but she ran away, and the same night her body was found in the canal, search having been made for it in consequence of her bonnet and shawl being found on a stone by the water-side. The young man, on being informed of the melancholy event, was thrown into a state of great dis(ress, avowing his determination not to survive the girl, and requested to be buried in the same grave. He was, in consequence, strictly watched. On Saturday evening, however, his bat and coat were discovered on the same stone upon which Caroline Beale's bonnet and shawl were found, and shortly afterwards his body was dragged from the water, and attempt to restore animation proved fruitless. They will bo buried in the same grave.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-03-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN THROUGH JEALOUSY, AND SUICIDE OF HER LOVER.—On Saturday an inquest was held at Mile-end, Old Town, London, on view of the body of John Warren, aged 20, a young man of respectable connections, residing in the neighbourhood, who committed self-destruction by drowning himself in the Regent's Canal—a young woman, named Caroline Beale, about 18 years of age, having committed a similar act near the spot at which the deceased was found. The deceased and the young woman had, a few months ago, formed an acquaintance, which resulted in a strong attachment to each other, and they were to have .been married at Eaver. On Sunday week they were to  have taken tea with an acquaintance of the young woman's, named Amelia Bane, where the deceased went, according to his appointment. Caroline Beale did not arrive till some time after, when she remarked to him that she knew he bad been taking tea with Amelia, and that if he preferred her she would have nothing to do with him. She was in a very excited state, and left the house ; deceased followed her, when she accompanied him a short distance back, but the ran away, and the same night her body was found in the canal, search having been made for it in con sequence of her bonnet and shawl being found on a stone by the water-side. The young man, on being informed of the melancholy event, was thrown into a state of great distress, avowing his determination not to survive, the girl; and requested to be buried in the sam*grave. He was, in consequence, strictly watched. On Saturday evening, however, his hat and coat were discovered on the same stone upon which Caroline Beale's bonnet and idtriazgledweftroemfotuhned, water,and afterwardsashnodratltytempttorestore body animation fruitless. They will be buried in the same grave. idrrylatn was  ALTERATION IN THE DAYS OF SAILING  PHILADELPHIA LINE OF PACKETS • I  Sailing on the 12th of every Month.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-03-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FREE TRADE IS SUICIDE ON THE PART OF MR. COBDEN AND THE WEAVI4:IIS.  (From the Scotch Reformers' Gazette.) On the rrinciple of "hear both sides," we give Mr.lsaac Buchanan's explanation of, how FREE TRADE IS SUICIDE ON THE PART OF DJR• COBDEN AND THE WEAVERS, being now satisfied of Mr. Buchanan's honesty of purpose, and that his single object is to have that legislation which will give the greatest amount of emglopment to the labourer in Canada. He thinks that the same legislation that reduces the amount of labour in Canada will reduce the amount ofiemployment in the mother country, and he objects to free trade, as tending to lessen the amount of employment for the poor in this country as well a; in Canada  The following, from a London paper, is from Mr. Buchanan's pen : In a former number it was shown that free trade must necessarily, in its very nature, lose us the colonies, because, the principle of protection abandoned, the colonial system (which is a mere branch of it) fells also, or, what is to our mind far worse (and could only ►ast a year or two), the colonies become a drag on the empire, hating ceased to benefit the mother country in any way after they have thrown off the Imperial Parliament's right to legislate for their trade, and commenced free trade with all the world.  But we argue for the retention of the colonies only, because it is the interest of England. We hold that it were better tor England to lose her colonies, magnificent though these be, than to forbear &dog anything which is shown to be clearly in favour of the oppressed population in this country. Though we before pointed out that the adoption of free trade would necessarily lose the colonies (whose markets there is no reason for us going to the expense of defending, unless our manufactures are protected there), we do not pretend to argue that, to save the colnlies, for their own sake alone, should prevent us adopting free trade in England, if the greater and more itum.ecli,te interests of the mother country would be advanced thereby. Far, however, from this being the case, we view free trade as tending to reduce the extent of our own manufactures, to degrade the condition of our manufacturers, and thus to secure for the aristocracy by-and-bye a monopoly of political power in England, as rendering it in character more an agricultural country than at present! In fact, we view that free trade is suicide on the part of Mr. Cobden and the weavers. We cannot suppose any way by which Sir Itcbert Peel has secured the support of those independent members of the aristocracy, who are favourable to his measure, in the face of the scorn of their friends and the inward contempt of their former political adversaries, but by their seeing it to be the ultimate interest of
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-03-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ACCESSION OF FORTUNE.--A labourer, named Barber, in the Portsmouth dock-yard, has been declared heir to a fortune of upwards of £30,000 by virtue of the decision of the lord chancellor.  .3 17s. 9d. The force consists of 4,749 men, viz., one inspecting superintendent, 18 superintendents, 114 inspectors, 485 serjeants, and 4,131 constables.  hares in DrurF-lan 1. 60. and 59 guineas eact  Theatre  They realized respectively The return on these shares  was formerly £l5 per annum ; it is now £4. The execution of Ralph Joicey, for the murder of his father, took place on Tuesday, at Morpeth: He met his fate with great firmness, and on the previous day commit ted to writing an ample confession  Last weel;', in 13;adford-street Circus, Birwineham, Mr. Chapman was performing on the slack rope, when he missed his hold, and fell to the ground with a tremendous crash, suffering a fracture of the thigh bone. An additional lieutenant-colonel is to be added to each regiment about to be augmented, and it is also intended that instead of an acting staff tct the reserve battalions, as hitherto, an adjutant and a quarter master will be commissioned.  Tom Thumb is acting at the Lyceum, showing off his preposterous littleness by sitting in an ogre's shoe, get-.  out of a nutshell, and a  He waddles from th  iaring from under  age; half hid in two or  three moderate sized bouqt The Birmingham Advertiser gives an account of the appalling death of a poor girl, named Ellen Moran, who was killed in consequence of the machinery of a mill not being boxed off as the act requires. This is the second victim from the same cause within a fortnight. On Tuesday last, a cutler, named John Harper, 45 years of age, committed suicide at Sheffield, by taking After be had taken the fatal drug, he went to n-hall, asked to see the Mayor, and gave infor I mation of v • Munn  R.—Early on Sunday morning last, a murder was perpetrated in a low public-house in London. A vounc man named Jennings, unaer the impression that tl  woman of the name of Mary Murray had robbed him of a shilling, struck her several blows of which she died in a few minutes. Jennings is in custody An iron market place has just b  seen constructed at the  Phoenix Iron Works, Glasgow, measuring 108 feet long, 60 feet wide, and surrounded by a verandah 12 feet wide, supported by handsome fluted columns. It is intended for Honduras, and is constructed of iron.