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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-10-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Monday, a shocking murder and suicide was perpetrated by a female servant, named Jane Coffin, aged 17 years, in the service of Mr. Thomas Elliott, Cannon-street-road, London. The family consisted of the father and mother, two children—a girl, aged four years, and a boy eighteen months old—and the girl Collin. The children, with the girl, had gone to rest on the Sunday night without the occurrence of anything to suggest the faintest presentiment of that which was to happen. On Monday morning the girl failed to come down as usual to her domestic duty ; her mistress, however, concluded that she had overslept her accustomed hour. The eldest child came down stairs, and said that Jane (the servant) had been heating little Billy, her brother. Directly afterwards Mrs. Elliott went up stairs to the children's bed-room. The servant-girl was not there, and, on turning down the bed-clothes, the mother was horror-struck on discovering her child to be quite dead, and apparently from violence, fer there were several bruises on its body. She raised an alarm, and her husband proceeded to the bedroom, and on his way met the servant-girl close to the parlour-door, or on the stairs, and asked her what was the matter, to which she made no answer. Mr. Elliott, on discovering the lifeless body of his child. went for Mr. Taynton, a surgeon, who examined the child, and pronounced that it had been dead for some time, There were two bruises on the back, and the body was much swollen, leading to the suspicion that poison had been administered. After the father had in some measure recovered from his alarm, he proceeded in search of the summoning-officer of Mile-end Old Town. Upon his return, he made inquiries after the servant-girl, who had disappeared directly after the child was found. Search was made in all directions, and after every room and closet had been looked into, Sarah Eltham, a lodger, ascended into the loft over the top rooms, where she found the girl weltering in her blood, which issued from two wounds in her throat. The girl had twisted her apron-strings tightly round her neck, and also cut her throat with a razor, and was quite dead. The girl was the illegitimate daughter of a poor woman, who is married to a labouring man, and went with the children on Sunday afternoon to her mother, and left about six o'clock in the evening. She appeared very attentive to the children, was very cheerful, and did not exhibit any symptoms of eccentricity or mental derangement.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-09-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT BATH.—Considerable excitement has been occasioned in Bath, during the last few days, by the disappearance of a young woman, who, it is believed, has committed suicide, in consequence of disappointed affections. A young woman, aged 21, named Ellen Foster, a widow, having one child, had formed an acquaintance with a tailor named Samuel Newman, living on St. James's-parade, and had attended his wife in an illness which resulted in death a few months ago. Newman, having a young family, continued to employ Foster in the management of his household affairs. In this way the young woman became strongly attached to Newman ; and, though her feelings do not seem to have been reciprocated, yet she was betrayed. Newman had formed an engagement with another woman. Foster threatened to drown herself. She went to Newman's ; and, to induce her to return, Newman, at the request of her father, accompanied her home, and remained there until a late hour. But a few minutes after he had quitted the house, . and parted with her, she overtook him, apparently a state of frenzy, anti pressed herself on his notice. Thinking to pacify her, he walked with her to the bank of. the River Avon, intending to conduct her along the towingpath to her father's house; but while they were conversing, as Newman states, the unhappy woman suddenly seized him in an affectionate manner, and made an effort as if to drag him into the river, but he escaped from her grasp, and she sprang into the water. The mystery has since been cleared up by the discovery of the body near the Twerton Weirs, and an inquest has been held on it by the deputycoroner, at satitn a stateheDolpl of advanceddnlnn,\-e ston, decomposition.near Bath. T The e replies of Newman to the coroner and jury as to why he did not do something to prevent her breaking from him to jump into the river were not satisfactory. Newman said he had beard her repeatedly say that she would destroy herself. Police-constable Barnett corroborated the statement of Newman as to his meeting him after deceased had plunged into the river. Newman seemed very anxious for her rescue. They returned with the drags in a few minutes and commenced a search, but could not find the -.v/Ilan was in liquor at the time. Some other ring been adduced, the coroner brie fly remarked upon it, and said lie thought it did not fix any charge upon Newman as to the actual cause of death. any jury returned an open verdict of " Found drowned,"  body. . evidence
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-07-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTENIPTED SUICIDE. —A shabbily-dressed but respectable-looking woman was brought before Mr. Mansfield, on Wednesday, charged with having attempted to drown herself. The unfortunate woman had plunged into the Salthouse Dock en Saturday evening, but was conveyed to the Northern Hospital in time to save her life. Her name is Johanna Glashoff, a native of Cork, but latterly had resided in London, supporting herself by her needle. Her husband is abroad ; and the only friend remaining to her is her father, an inmate of Chelsea Hos' She had parted with almost all her clothes, and, in despair, soual.t- "Tr. Mansfield directed ;nto the case, and,  at furthe  Duld he made  ING CHALLENGE  .—The  challenges the shipbuilders of with cargo on board, from a n China, and back. One ship  id to be named within a  s to be modelled, commanded, ,izens of the United States and  To be entit  ed to rank  to accidents, or to any  e to build the  name : ti  1,200 American registered  asurement which shall b  for short weight or over-si7A Messrs. Barin rs.—DANTEI  BACON, pre Bannerman," •Capt  of Gabr  those of his predecessor. 2nd. That the treasurer be required to enter into a bond, to the satisfaction of the i Dock Committee, in the sum of £lO,OOO, for the faithful performance of the duties and responsibilities of the office. 3rd. That the salary of the new treasurer be £750 per annum, and that in the appointment of the• new treasurer it be made a stipulation that no retiring allowance be expected.-4th. That the retiring treasurer (Mr. Withers) be allowed a donation of £l,OOO, or a retiring pension of £2OO per annum, at his option.—The first, second, and third recommendations were adopted ; and, after a discussion, in which Mr. Molyneux spoke highly of Mr. Withers' services, it was agreed that it should be left optional whether Mr. Withers took £l,OOO in one sum, or £2OO per annum.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-04-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LOVE IN LINCOLN.—A love-stricken swain, who is an ostler at one of the city public houses, and who, it appears, could not bear the "pangs of despised love," precipitated himself into the Foss-dyke, near Pywipe Inn, last Sunday. The enamoured currycomber of horses saw the lady of his affections triumphantly led off by a rival groom. Instead of taking Ovid's advice, to appear cold as ice though Etna should boil within his bosom, he gave loose to jealousy, until it raged with volcanic fury. The old physicians say that labour, diet, exercise, and cornbatings with it, will gradually eradicate the passions; but the vanity of the ostler was too irreparably wounded to permit him to submit to the slow process of cure and retaliatory contempt : he determined, like Mr. Mantalini, to make "a body" of himself, and end his woes by a plunge in the cold unclassical Fossdyke. In he leaped as nimbly as Leander plunged in t;.e Hellespont. Lydia, Macedon, Spain, and Crete had each its Lethe, or river of forgetfulness, but no one- ever dreamt that the waters of the Fossdyke were gifted with the love-curative power, and could impart forgetfulness : this lover's leap has, however, demonstrated the fact, for no sooner had the ostler got in than be scrambled out again perfectly restored.—Lincolnshire paper. HORRIBLE MURDER OF Two,.CHILDRE'S", AND SUICIDE  Details of Lost.-2d Queen's Regiment : Ensign Boyland, the bandmaster, corporal, and 34 men; 12th Regiment : 55 men ; 12th Lancers : Cornet Roll-, one serjeant, 3 men; 43.1 Light Infantry : 3 men; 60 Rifles : one corporal, 29 men ; 73d Regiment : Lieutenant Robinson, Lieutenant Booth, 53 men ; 6th Regiment : Ensign Medford, 49 men; 74th Highlanders: Major Seaton, Ensign Russell, 2 corporals, 46 men ; 91st Regiment : one serjeant, one corporal, 42 men ; the passenger, Andrew White, a servant.—Of the crew, 54 officers and men were saved, and 6 marines.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-11-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.  It is stated in the latest accounts from, Africa, that all the troops destined for the expedition to Constantine were to have assembled at Sena before the 25th of October, and to commence their march at four o'clock on the morning of the Ist of November. The Duke de Nemours having embarked at the opening of the campaign.—Courtier Francais. The Sardinian government has just reduced the custom duties on the importation of the infeiior sorts of corn, dried vegetables, and other farinaceous food.—Ccmstitutionnel. A letter of the 17th ult from Cadiz announces the arrival at that putt of three French ships of the line and two brigs, which, with the ships already there, form a squadron of seven vessels-. The director of the museum at Kerteb, a town in the Crimea' on the Black sea, lately discovered an ancient tomb, of oblong shape, formed of very large hewn stones without any cement, containing a species of coffin in Cyprus wood, enclosing a bronze urn, with the cover firmly soldered on, in which were the remains of burnt bones. Near the urn were two broken vases of alabaster, which probably contained odoriferous essences as used by the Greeks at their funerals. The shape of the urn, which has three handles, and is in fine preservation, makes it of high interest and value. It is not perhaps possible to fix its precise date, but there is every reason to believe, from the form and construction of the tomb, that it goes as far back as the first colonization of this country by the Greeks—that is, 150 years before Christ. Some days ago two young meat Clermont Ferraud, noted n, for their dissolute habits, were overheard holding a conversation, in which one of them appeared to be endeavouring to dissuade the other from committing suicide. He did not prevail, for the report of a pistol was immediately afterwards heard, and the most resolute of the two was found with parts of both his jaws and the roof of his mouth blown away. He was carried to the Hotel Dieu, still breathing, but in a hopeless s_l7.te. His companion had fled, but its a few hours afterwards the police received infor'nation that a similar event had taken place at the Bughes, and 00 going to the spot found him totally lifeless. - Another suicide has lately occurred at Marseilles. A Jewish merchant had been married for several years, and had a child two years old. The union was at first perfectly happy, but, from unaccountable surmises, the wife became jealous of the husband, and adopted such a line of conduct towards him that he became alarmed for his life, and sued for a separation. In the meantime he obtained a license to carry pistols for self-defence. The judgment of separation was pronounced, and was about to be served upon the wife, when she and her child were both • found dead, the infatuated woman having committed murder and suicide by means of the fumes of charcoal..  We find in. the German papo:s that Charles X. had passed in
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-03-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—On Yesterday week a young man named trionysins • Hindle, a licensed hawker, and who al.() kept .a tap in Hood-street, was brought up to the police-office, before Mr. Hall, charged with having stolen a qnantitv of knives, the property of Mr. Cheshire,.of Rose-hill. Notice of the robbery was sent round to all the pawnbrokers, and about a moot h afterwards the knives were sent to Mr. Doyle, pawnbroker, to pledge, by Mr. Ainsworth, of the White Bear Inn, in Dale-street, who had purchased them of the prisoner, and the prisoner seas by that meanstraced and the robbery brought fully home to him, and he was committed to take his trial for t he offence, and sent till the sessions to K.irkdale. On taking hint to Kirkdale the turnkey, on searching him, discovered a knife concealed in the waistband of his trowsers, which was taken from. him. One of the prisoners in Kirkdale, named Howarth, deposed to the prisoner. going up to him in the prison yard and asking him where the barber was. and afterwards where his razors were, as he wanted shaving. The then got supper together, and afterwards were walking arm in arm.together, when I-lindle took up a knife front the stone tables and laid it down again once or twice; at length he retained it in his left hand, and, walking before him about ten yards, he saw him cutting his throat. Ile rushed to him and attempted to stop the bleeding, but fell sick, and Hindle then wheeled round and fell. He gave an alarm, and two of the turnkeys immediately came and carried the prisoner into the lodge. The unfortunate man, it appears, had told this witness that if he had had knife on Sunday he would have cut his throat in l3ridewell. The priSoner had expressed to others of the prisoners his intention to cut his throat. The knife in the yard belonged to the yardsmau, and had been lent one of the prisoners to cut his corns. An inquest was h. id on the body on Thursday last, and the above facts deposed to. Mi. Chalmers, surgeon, deposed to examining the body, and finding a cut across the throat, extending about four inches, and an inch deep, which had completely divided the larynx. The july returned a verdict of J'elo de se, '  THE DEICE OF LANCASTER'S BovroN IrEomArif7.7--The Bolton Troop of this regiment arse►nbled in Bradford-square, 'on.Tuesday morning, in drill order, for eight. day's'. and officers and men looked extremely well, wearing new clothing, copied from the uniform of the th►rd Dragoon Guards, which has a pleasing and sheOry appearance.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-03-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRANCIS.EGERTON'S motion, by a majority of 307 to 243. This.vote' we consider as decisive of the fate of Ireland ! So far as• the House of Commons is concerned, it is resolved to delegate the power, political and municipal, in that country to the priests. GOD knows they .but the present maSterofhltahvee i satisfied with the large share they possess. fle and they airll at,complete ascendancy., the extirpation of the protestants,,and the confiscation of churcti property. This is as Clear,as .the sun at noon day.. They _want the tithes first and the rent afterwards, and both they will have unless'the peoPle of England be roused from their slumbers, and put an end to priestcraft and popery altogether. .  And it is at this moment, when ruin is staring them in the face, that theloyal,orangemen of Ireland are called upon to suppress their societies, sever the bonds of their union, and allow themselves to be, cut off in detail They' are called upon to disperse when they ought. to be standing to their arms. They are denounced by star-chamber mandates, when their enerniekare gaining fresh strength and new strongholds.  Had the corporations been .'swept away altogether and no triumph given to eitherparty, we might have admitted' the policy of. suppressing- orange lodges ; but now that the protestants are to be deprived. of all power and influence in Ireland, we cannot see how they can obey the resolutions of the House of Commons without committing something like an act of suicide. This, however, is for their most serious consideration, for we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the measures now in progress, if carried into full effects : must inevitably plunge Ireland into all the horrors of a civil war. We solemnly declare that we cannot perceive how this great calamity can be averted if the counsels of O'CONNELL are listened to, and the schemes of Lord JOHN lIIJSSELL are much longer contenanced by such totijoFiliet;  How the conservatives Cfttlle iti exhibit such A paucity of numbers on this otedgioti ttitixt hereafter be explained by them to their eatistitueuts, There are at least 320
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-12-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EASTER IN 1845.—There is a discrepancy between the In the year ending on the 2d November, 1844, it seems calendar and the calculations in the almanacs' with refer.. the number of bankruptcies was 1,064. Last year, the ence to Easter Sunday, next year. The instructions in number was 1,169 ; and in the preceding year, 1,373. the prayer-book, given to find Easter, say, that if the full On Tuesday week, Thomas Smith, a bookseller, of 2, ; moon that comes next after the 21st of Maros, fall upon a Sunda . Easter Sunda shall not be at Stndy,but King-street, Tower Hill, Landon, committed suicide by the one yafter it. Now, in 1845, the fullth moon thatacomes placing a pan of burning charcoal in his bedroom. next after the 21st of March, is on Sunday the 23d, at On Wednesday last, Burgess was committed for trial at some mi: utes past eight in the evening • and yet that the Central Criminal Couxt, for his late robbery of the same Sunday, the 23d, is Easter Sunday, though,' accordBank of England. ing to the rules laid down, it sould be Sunday the 30th. The corporation of London have voted the freedom of The short explanation of this may be thus given, from an the city, together with a silver cup, value 100 guineas, to elaborate article in the Companion to the Almanac for Sir Robert Sale, and a similar grant to Sir W. Nott. 1845, where the curious on the subject will find it treated Mary Gallop, convicted the week before last, at (;has- at great length. One part of the reason of the discreter, of the murder of her father, has made a full ccnfes- pancy between the Easter of 1845 and that of the calension of her guilt, and appears sincerely penitent. dar is. that " the British legislature misunderstood the The lighthouse on Goodwin is now above high-water definition of Easter, used in the rules which they adopted, thinking that it depended upon the full moon; whereas mark; and may be expected to be illuminated by the Ist it depends upon the fourteenth day of the moon, the day of January next. The light is to be a pale blue. of new moon being counted as the fit. On Thursday, a boy named Birch, aged 14, was killed never happens before the fifteenth da ya of this reck Now full moon oning. at Chiswick, by the discharge of a gun which his brother The other part of the reason of this discrepancy is, that and his cousin were struggling to obtain from him, in a the legislature supposed the moon of the calendar to be dispute as to who was to fire it. the same as the moon of the heavens, which neither is John Wall, charged with attempting to poison his sis- nor was intended to be the case : the moon of the calenter, mother, and brother, at Leicester, was discharged on dar being not only made to vary from the moon of the Monday last, the evidence being insufficient to bring the heavens for conven'ence of calculation, but also to precharge home to him. vent Easter Day from falling on the day of the Jewish
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-12-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  Mr. Walsh, a solicitor of Oxford, was thrown out of his gig, on Saturday night, and killed.  In England the proportion of illegitimate children is 20 to every 10,000 of the populati an, and in Wales, 43. Yesterday week four lives were lost by the overturning of a vessel in the river Parrott, just below Bridgewater. In the year ending on the 2d November, 1844, it seems the number of bankruptcies was 1,064. Last year. the number was 1,169 ; and in the preceding year, 1,373. On Tuesday week, Thomas Smith, a bookseller, of 2, King-street, Tower Hill, Landon, committed suicide by placing a pan of burning charcoal in his bedroom. On Wednesday last, Burgess was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Couxt, for his late robbery of the Bank of Eng!and.  , The corporation of London have voted the freedom of I the city, together with a silver cup, value 100 guineas, to 1 Sir Robert Sale, and a similar grant to Sir W. Nott. Mary Gallop, convicted the week before last, at Chester, of the murder of her father, has made a full =ales/sion of her guilt, and appears sincerely penitent. The lighthouse on Goodwin is now above high-water mark; and may be expected to be illuminated by the Ist of January next. The light is to be a pale blue. On Thursday, a boy named Birch, aged 14, was killed at Chiswick, by the discharge of a gun which his brother and his cousin were struggling to obtain from him, in a dispute as to who was to fire it. ,  John Wall, charged with attempting to poison his sister, mother, and brother, at Leicester, was discharged on Monday last, the evidence being insufficient to bring the charge home to him.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-04-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PRINCES-STREET, Leicester-square.-Your Family is now in a state of excitement unbearable. Your attention is called to an advertisement in Wednesday's Morning Advertiser, headed " A body found drowned at Deptford ;" after your avowal to your friend as to what you might do, he has been to see the decomposed remains, accompanied by others; the features are gone, but there are marks on the arm, so that unless they hear from you to-day it will satisry them that the remains are those of their misguided relative, and steps will be taken to place them in the family vault, as they cannot bear the idea of a pauper funeral.  This, too, is a record of ruin; but, apparently, of ruin brought about by worse than mere folly or cowardly yielding to misfortune. Here may be some noble intellect wrecked by dissipation; the hope of some distinguished circle, voluntarily embracing an outcast's lot, arid looking forward, at the end of the long vista of crime which he has entered, to a suicide's grave. Are they, indeed, his decomposed remains over which affection has vainly bent, in some river-side hovel, or parish charnel-house, in the effort to trace, so long after " Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers," the resemblance of the once loved brother or cherished son ? Is it over his corpse that the sable plumes have waved—that the church's prayers have been said, amidst the pomp of mourning, and the family vault has closed ; or does some nameless child of misery mingle his ashes there with those of the weal by, the proud, or the far descended? We know not. The world, which is not comprised within tha• now mourning family circle, will perhaps never know whether the erring one sleeps there, or has returned, a penitent, to his father's mansion. A privately-acted tragedy, this, upon which no public audience shall sit in judgment. Enough, however, upon this class of advertisements. Turn we next to one of a more business-lise character, which contains, nevertheless, its own peculiar teachings.