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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-02-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VIII., the monasteries were dissolved, and the then existing revenues of these bodies were transferred chiefly into the hands of rapacious laymen ;—and he then gives a table of what the Russells and Howards derived from such transfer, naming the Abbeys, &c., apportioned to each, and by which table we see the Duke of Bedford gained £150,000 per annum, and the Duke of Norfolk £25,000 per annum! That many lay impropriators are now deriving large incomes from Church revenues there can be no doubt. We hope for the sake of the country, success may attend the exertions of the Committee we have named, and that proper regard will be shewn to the wants of the really pious working clergy.  theCosmpepeaieraltciveemtmrainssqiuerMsglected in the bishopric of Team, what is the answer to by an application to that Court for a mandamus. H that grave charge ? Simply, that the neglect is altogether third objection was, that if opposition had been made to Lamb, the first of th.- p,eneTrvenadeeistttihege.count,ios in which to be attributed to the obstinacy of the government in re- the proceedings of the Court at the confirmation, and if town meat mar,- 'fusing to place the entire control of the national schools, it was to he COPtded that the Court had not competent year, was exhibited at the New- property and all, in the hand's of the priests ! "Is your jurisdiction to refuse to hear the opposers, remedy might .--c.c, Limerick, onFriday, •lordship aware," be asks, "that it was the instruction of have been obtained under the provisions of the Church The P-ev, 3. Moore, incumbent of Mulaghfad, near his Holiness that the property of the national schools, re- Discipline Act. Certainly the Court of Queen's Bench —olskillen, committed suicide on Friday week, by cutting sorted to chiefly by Catholics, should be vested in the had no more right or authority to inquire into and try his throat. He was one of the most benevolent men living. Catholic pastors ?" The instruction, however, not hay- this case than it had to try offences which clearly came It is said that the Government have two cases of altar ing been complied with, though proceeding from what is under the decision of the Ecclesiastical Courts. And denunciation, by Roman Catholic clergymen, on their audaciously called the supreme authority of the Pope"— his fourth and last objection was, that under the whott supreme in Ireland !—Dr. M` Hale would have no connec- of the circumstances of the present case- there was no tion whatever with the national system, and accordingly ground whatever to justify that Court in granting a lost no time in establishing seminaries of his own. mandamus. The Solicitor-General followed on the same side, as
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-06-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ESCAPE OF A BURGLAR.—On the night of the 14th instant, a prisoner named Alexander Worral, contrived to make his escape from Kirkdale Gaol, whither he had been committed for trial at the assizes, by Mr. H. L. Trafford, for a burglary committed in Salford a short time ago. So apprehensive is he of being transported, if found guilty on trial, that since his committal to Kirkdale he has tried (but unsuccessfully of course) to commit suicide by hanging himself. Cotton is now so much depressed that prices of the most current qualities of American are 8 to 10 ney cent under the lowest point ever before reached. Mobile low middling cotton can be bought to-day at 3id. per pound, (about £7 per bale,) and so moderate are the charges in this port that the expense of holding it for twelve months, including interest upon purchase money at 5 per cent., brokerages, warehouse rent, fire insurance, &c., will only be a small fraction over Id. per pound, and the cost even then will still be within the lowest price of any former period.  The half-yearly examination of the infants of the south Church of England schools, Cornwallis-street, took place on Friday evening last, before a numerous assembly, including the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, of St. Jude's, the Rev. H. Carpenter, of St. Michael's, &c. The children acquitted themselves most admirably, and reflected the greatest credit on Mr. Clark, the master. The Rev. Dr. Carpenter, in a short address, at the conclusion, remarked that he had visited many infant schools previously, and had been highly delighted, but that, till the present occasion, he had thought it an impossibility for infants to attain to such proficiency, as he had just witnessed in those before him. The Scripture lesson and Geography, in connection with history, met with the most decided masks of approbation from all present. The proceedings of the evening were enlivened by several pieces (including one to the " Prince of Wales"), sung by the teachers in training at the school, in a manner which did honour to the exertions of their music master, Mr. Taylor.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-06-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BURGLAR.—On the night of the 14th instant, a prisoner named Alexander W43rral, contrived to make his escape from Kirkdale Gaol, whither he had been committed for trial at the assizes, by Mr. H. L. Trafford, for a burglary committed in Salford a short time ago. So apprehensive is he of being transported, if found guilty on trial, that since his committal to Kirkdale he has tried (but unsuccessfully of course) to commit suicide by hanging himself. Cotton is now so much depressed that prices of the most current qualities of American are 8 to 10 per cent under the lowest point ever before reach€d. Mobile low middling cotton can be bought to-day at Md. per pound, (about £7 per bale,) and so moderate are the charges in this port that the expense of holding it for twelve months, including interest upon purchase money at 5 per cent., brokerages, warehouse rent, fire insurance, &c., will only be a small fraction over 4d. per pound, and the cost even then will still be within the lowest price of any former period.  The half-yearly examination of the infants of the south Church of England schools, Cornwallis-street, took place on Friday evening last, before a numerous assembly, including the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, of St. Jude's, the Rev. H. Carpenter, of St. Michael's, &c. The children acquitted themselves most admirably, and reflected the greatest credit on Mr. Clark, the master. The Rev. Dr. Carpenter, in a short address, at the conclusion, remarked that he had visited many infant schools previously, and had been highly delighted, but that, till the present occasion, he had thought it an impossibility for infants to attain to such proficiency, as he had just witnessed in those before him. The Scripture lesson and Geography, in connection with history, met with the most decided masks of approbation from all present. The proceedings of the evening were enlivened by several pieces (including one to the " Prince of Wales"), sung by the teachers in training at the school, in a manner which did honour to the exertions of their music master, Mr. Taylor.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-06-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ESCAPE OF A BURGLAR.—On the night of the 14th instant, a prisoner named Alexander Worral, contrived to make his escape from Kirkdale Gaol, whither he had been committed for trial at the assizes, by Mr. H. L. Trafford, for a burglary committed in Saliord a short time ago. So apprehensive is he of being transported, if found guilty on trial, that since his committal to Kirkdale he has tried (but unsuccessfully of course) to commit suicide by hanging himself. Cotton is now so much depressed that prices of the most current qualities of American are 8 to 10 per cent under the lowest point ever before reached. Mobile low middling cotton can be bought to-day at 31sd. per pound, (about £7 per bale,) and so mOderate-ilie-tlie charges in this port that the expense of holding it for twelve months, including interest upon purchase money at 5 per cent., brokerages, warehouse rent, fire insurance, &c., will only be a small fraction over d. per pound, and the cost even then will still be within the lowest price of any former period.  --The half-yearly examination of the infants of theth ace on of England schools, Cornwallis-street, took 'Face on Friday evening last, before a numerous assembly, including the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, of St. Jude's, the Rev. H. Carpenter, of St. Michael's, &c. The children acquitted themselves most admirably, and reflected the greatest credit on Mr. Clark, the master. The Rev. Dr. Carpenter, in a short address, at the conclusion, remarked that he had visited many infant schools previously, and had been highly delighted, but that, till the present occasion, he had thought it an impossibility for infants to attain to such proficiency, as he had just witnessed in those before him. The Scripture lesson and Geography, in connection with history, met with the most decided masks of approbation from all present. The proceedings of the evening were enlivened by several pieces (including one to the " Prince of Wales"), sung by the teachers in training at the school, in a manner which did honour to the exertions of their music master, Mr. Taylor.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE IN DEANE-STREET.—On Friday mornin obtained connected with his escape from Liver- either the Linnicean or the natural system, who know the these warehouses were a novelty in , Mr. Daniel Glover, an earthenware dealer, in Deane- pool. When he had obtained intelligence of the fact, he name and habitat of every plant within a day's walk from committee had to contend with ma street, and having a stall in the Pedlars' Market, was crossed over to Birkenhead, walked to Bebbington, and, their dwellings; who steal the holiday of a day or two and against the opposition of almost found suspended by the neck in one of the upper bed- by means of railway and coach, reached South Wales, when any particular plant should be in flower, and the management of them. Let a mai rooms of his dwelling. For the last six months deceased where he was for weeks housed and fed by his Welsh tying up their simple food in their pocket handker- sant with the up-town warehouses, had given himself up to habits of intemperance. On friends, very many of whom, particularly amongst the chief's, set off with single purpose to fetch home the when be came to these warehouses, ar Thursday night he retired to rest with his wife at an early sporting gentry, he could number. He obtained the in- humble-looking. weed. There .are entomologists, who much that would be beneficial in I hour, being then in a state of intoxication -, he rose at timacy and esteem of the Welshmen of the turf in days of may be seen with a rude looking net, ready. to catch other warehouses. The ex ense of nel half-past seven the following morning, and after remain- yore, when he was in such comfortable circumstances as to any winged insect, or a kind of dredge, with which vastly increased inconsequencep of the ing down about an hour, returned up stairs. As he did be able to keep a pair of hunters, and to be a betting man they rake the green and slimy pools ; practical, shrewd, to contend with from the warehous, not again come down, Mrs. Glover went to his room to on grand stands ; and in his adversity they had not forgot- hard-working men, who pore _oosr-eriseyerty enew specimen owners, the merchants, the brokers, ascertain the cause, and was horror stricken on beholding ten him. The chase—we do not mean of the hunters, but with real scient!fie.delig t. N it h and common and thhedcaers andeve. rhY inldividual. her husband suspended to one of the bed posts, quite of the Liverpool detective force—was very hot after him at more obvious divisions of entomology botany that a been watchedwit alynx eye; ai dead. Turner, a market constable, and a man named Birmingham and in Wales ; and indeed, if our memory alone attracttheseearnest seekers after knowledge. Per- lay an error was detected, then came Brag, were called in and cut the body down. serve us aright, so determined were the detectives to arrest hips it may be owing to the great annual town-holiday of dock estate. He thought it would 1 Miss
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE EDINBURGH CHARTISTS.—The jury have acquitted John Grant of sedition, and found Robert Hamilton and Henry Ranken guilty. 'I he convict Barber, who was sentenced to transportation for life, for being an accessory to forging a will, has been granted a free pardon. Seven fine sheep, which had strayed on the North British Railway, near West Barns, were killed by a passing train on Sunday week. Last week a child, three years old, was choked to death at Sheffield, by a piece of raw turnip, which had been given it to eat. A fishing smack was wrecked at Cellardyke, Fifeshire, on Friday week, and the crew, eight in number, were drowned. The cold has brought immense shoals of herrings to the coast. At Brighton the nets enclosed in one day from eighty to ninety thousand. Professor Owen, of the College of Surgeons, has given his opinion that the " great sea serpent," respecting which so much has been said and written lately, is a seal. Charles Anthony Dean, the inventor of the diving apparatus, committed suicide in London last week, by cutting his throat with a razor. Intense study had turned his brain. _ _ _  The female Esquimaux, who recently arrived with her husband in this country, died on the 23d of June, whilst returning in a vessel to Davis Straits. She was interred with Christian burial at Frow Island. DANISH CAvrLE.—The vessel Eider arrived at "lhe  Brunswick-wharf,BracTwall, from Tonningen, has !nought the large number of 198 oxen and cows, consigned to order, the produce of Denmark. The Governor, the Chaplain, and the Wardswoman of the Hull gaol have been dismissed from their res pective offices, on the recommendation of Mr. Hill, her Majesty's inspector of prisons, for neglect of duty. Mr. Robt. Chambers, the writer and publisher, was _  proposed for Lord Provost of Edinburgh, but rejected by the electing body nn account of peculiarities in his theological opinions. A Scotch paper mentions that on Friday two fishermen belonging to a St. Andrews' fishing boat, who were indulging in some rough play while their craft was at sea, fell overboard and were drowned.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-09-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DEEP SEA FISHING.—The Aberdeen Herald says— " We may hope that the devastating storm which visited this coast on Saturday week will leave other traces besides wailings for loss of life, and lamentations for wreck of property. A powerful joint-stock company introducing decked vessels, paying marked attention to barometrical indications of foul weather, and enforcing the use of lifepreservers, would soon have their example widely followed ; and, besides being thus the means of greatly reducing the risk of life, they might, under judicious mercantile management, and by taking full advantage of the increased facilities of communication with the interior of the country, exhibit a degree of activity in their trade, and an amount of profit on their investments, which, of themselves, independent altogether of the inducement offered to other parties, would prove a great national benefit. That the attempt to improve the condition of our fishing population must be made from above or without will be evident to every person who knows anything of their situation, character, and disposition. They have not means to build a better class of sea-boats ; and if they had, they would not use them. To provide themselves with life-preservers, or any other contrivance for securing a chance of escape in case of wreck, they never think of. Although constantly on the sea, hardly one of them cans ; and it has been remarked, as a piece of increasing ingenuity, that in the late storm some few of them seized the bladders used for buoying up the nets, and rode ashore with them. As for the barometer, so far from consulting it, they actually dislike it. One of them lately remarked, in reference to the one at the port of Aberdeen, that there never had been good weather since it was put up ! In everything else they are equally prejudiced and bigoted, and nothing short of coercion, or some influence neariy approaching to it, is likely to drive them from their selfinjurious and suicidal habits."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-12-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR.---On Monday so'nnight, John Langley, Esq., attorney, of Harringtonplace, Bath, committed suicide in his private office by firing a loaded pistol into his mouth. The unfortunate gentleman, who was advanced in years, was in no pecuniary difficulties, and no cause beyond that of nervous despondency can be assigned for the dreadful act.  IT' I Baxter deservin_ of a bishopric. '` And what ailed the old blockhead, then," cried Jeffreys, " that he did not take it ?" His fury now rose to madness. He called Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than ° justice to whip each villain through the whole city. . • • Baxter himself attempted to put in a word ; tn but the Chief Justice drowned all expostulation in a torrent of ribaldry and invective, mingled with scraps of Hudibras. "My Lord," said the old man, " I have been much blamed by Dissenters for speaking respectfully of a bishops." " Baxter for bishops," cried the judge, "that's merry conceit indeed. I know what you mean by bishops; rascals like yourself. Kidderminster bishops, factious e 4 snivelling Presbyterians." Again Baxter essayed to speak, and again Jeffreys bellowed,—" Richard,. Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison the court ? ; to Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou bast written books  slippers, observed, " If you please. sir, I have brought you a pair, but they are master's and he is rather particular." " Particular : Nonsense ! where's the brandy. ter  As a means of reform, a member of the Town Council of Durham, at a meeting ►ast week, said he would keep down the increase of the nefarious, low, filthy, and dirty public houses. In Durham, he said, they had 120 or 130 public•houses open already for the reception of guests, and every means was used to induce young men of the lower and middle orders of life to go to these places.  .nd-wa " He never leaves out the spirits, sir; he always keeps the key himself, sir, in his own pocket." " He must be a deuced odd sort of fellow, then : send him here immediately." " Master is dressing, sir; he will be down directly," was the reply ; and accordingly, after the lapse of a few minutes, Mr. - made his appearance, in full evening  On Sunday week, Nehemiah Smith, son of the late King of the Gipsies, died in his tent by the side of the road leading from Kislingbury to Gayton, in which neighbourhood he was well known. He had been ill sometime, but, although advised by a medical gentleman to go to a more comfortable abode, lie refused to be removed. On Wednesday week he was buried in Kislingbury churchyard. A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-10-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A LADY.—On Tuesday, at Portsmouth, r,a Miss Pettit, a young lady of 30 years of age, put an end to her existence at an early hour by cutting her throat  with a carving knife. The unfortunate lad' had lately formed an attachment to a young gentleman, and which, not promising that result she hoped for, preyed on her mind and produced temporary insanity ; and a verdict in accordance with these facts was returned.  The CL , at the Second October Meeting at Newmarket, were won, on Tuesday last, by Col. Peel's Da'cia. Colonel Peel's Taffrail was second, and Mr. J. Knight's Gaffer Green was third. The following 21 also  Collingwood. Dulcet, Buscot Buck, Lanesborough, Yardley, Forest Deer. Bridle, The Moor, Psalmsinger, Geraldine, Serenade, Fern, Camphine, Lola Montez, Keraun, Backbiter, Maid of my Soul, Tophana, Ulysses. The North British Mail gives an animated description of a chase by some policemen, at Stockwell-bridge, after a boy who had stolen some clothes, and having plunged into the water made his way to the centre pier of the bridge, where he resisted all entreaties to surrender himself ; and it was not till after the police had floundered for some time up to their waists in water, to the amuse ment of numbeis on the banks, that they succeed&  A Wesleyan minister, stationed by the last Conference at Redruth, in Cornwall, has been superseded by the President, for persisting in wearing his beard. The rev. gentleman says, in a letter to the Wesleyan newspaper, " For many years I have been convinced of the absurdity of the fashion which requires a man to appear dissatisfied with nature (to adopt en idea of Diogenes) for making him a man instead of a woman; and I had been made sensible by experience, that the practice alluded to was seriously injurious in a physical sense, especially to ministers."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-10-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MUNIFICENT GIFTS. Gyetn:ge Horroc s, Esq., of . phrases,) and the present has been deemed a formidhble body, leave it beyohd question that Mr. Wag- had received notice to remove the steamer Great Britain : scenes of thoughtless levity and giddy dissipation ; from and Mrs. Cardwell, the lady of our member. We .are Preston, has presented the sum of £5OO to the Bible Sostaff will be returned with a triumphant majority. they expressed themselves perfectly willing to remove her, the crowds of idlers who with vaunting show exhibited glad to say that the sum of £230 9s. Bd. was realized. ciety. and £5OO to the Jubilee Fund of the Church Misfavourable opportunity for pushing the conspiracy DREADFUL SUICIDE -A dreadful act was committed but hoped the Dock Committee would defray the neces- themselves in the world, to where the lowly invalid lay His Lordship. during his stay in this neighbourhood, sionary Society. to open warfare. We prophecy that, like all other on Thursday night last: at a public-house in Shaw's-brow. sary eipenses ; they likewise wished for some rechiction languishing in illness, in poverty, and, perhaps, in dirt,- was the guest of Win. Brown, Esq. . attempts to repeal the Irish Union, this also will A discharged soldier, named William Myers, about 40 on the dock dues for the future. The Solicitor had given yet uttering no com I . t • • t'll p ain ~ no repining, no curse; s 1 •-• - GREAT FA reuRE.---We regret to have to notice a-failure of large amount, that of Messrs. S. A. Butterworth recoil upon the heads of the repealers. years of age, came to the house on Saturday week, and it as his opinion that the committee alight remove the holding fast to his confidence in God ; still blessing