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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-09-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO GALLERY.---An accident occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Cast e, on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of °""IP and of exquisite workmanship, weighing several hundreds of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling, at about Th 15 feet from the floor. ese magnificent pieces of fur; niture, which, it is said, cast from £2,000 to X3:,000 each are considered to be the- most rich and beautiful specimens in this country. While one of the workmen was ern agedrmounted on the top of a high flight of steps, In preparing..the chandelier at the western end for lighting, the whole mass gave way, and fell on the floor-with a tremendous crash, and breezing into a thousand pieces Of the several circles of cut plate glass, upon which were elaborately, engraved the star, garter, and motto of the order of the garter, not one escaped—the whole were smashed t,atoms. The man on the steps fortunately' escaped. The chandelier, it is stated, weigheimpwarde of seven mitt  committedh e Ea dxgi m"' eak! msenei TpeNei suicide afi theSt Hi:Ea °ha' arlz:Osfp. as.—On r kOnitStradbroke, isSasupposedtu r dnaay we dei :Eke:as:4 sequence of the annoyance he experienced from the fre, quent acts of poaching committed on his lordship's Preserves. E-orn• the relative positions in which the body aa nn dd placedthe gun his werefoo tfouupnodn, itth ew eo nu dl seemdof tthose stehatbe rushes liind.pbsi au ed aceh, ar emlsainn occasionednhe ri sa ,br ntyoos tuehtnihsa, enable him, cfiid ee ohhf some of th....rushes across the two triggers of 1111 neighbourhood of Henham Park was again astonished held by the self-destruction of a man named Cruxey, Irvo ha the position: of superintendent of keepers, horses, ?d .. dogs, connected with the Earl of Stradbroke ment on that estate. This unfortunate man 'sshr on Sunday afternoon in his c-wn house on the Park' estate, servant.scarcely twenty-four hours after the death of his:fellow* ad
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-09-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ACCIDENT TN THE WATERLOO GALLERT.—AR accident occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Castle, on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of omit; and of exquisite workmanship, weighing several hundEnce of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling,at,'Fir.. 15 feet from the -Nor. These magnificent pieces °I each, niture, which, it is said, co:A from'-£2;000 to £3,000 . are considered to'be the most rich and beautiful specimens in this country. While one of the workmen was envaged, mounted on the top of a high flight of steps, in preparing the chandelier at the western end for lighting, the whole mass game way, and fell on the floor with a tremendous crash, and breaking into a thousand pieces. Of the several circles of cut plate elass,-upon which were elaborately engraved the star, garter,. and motto of the order of the garter, not one escaped— the whole were smashed to atoms. The man on the- steps fortunately escaped. The chandelier, it is stated,-weighed, upwards of seven cwt. EXTRAORDINARI3SuICIDES.-011 Saturday week the head gamekeeper of the Earl of Stradbroke, named Easy, committed suicide at Henham Park,it is supposed in consequence of the annoyance be experienced from the freqwent acts of poaching committed on his-lordship's preserves. From the relative positions in, which the hod,' and the gun were found, it would seem that he had fixed some of the rushes across the two triggers of: his- piece, and placed his foot upon the end of those rushes in such amanner as to enable him, having put the end of barrels in his mouth, to- fire off the gun! Tie excitement occasioned by this suicide had barely subsided, when the neighbourhood of Henham Park was again astonished by the self-destruction of a man named Cruxey, who held the position of superintendent of keepers, horses, and dogs, connected with the Earl of Stradbroke'ci establishment on that estate. This unfortunate man shot himself on Sunday afternoon in his own house on the Park estate, scarcely twenty-four hauls after the death: of his-fellow servant.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROYAL ASSENT.—The royal assent was given, ,e, commission, to the following bills :—The Batik Cber're.' Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Exemption, Dissentelo Chapels, Isle of Man Customs Duties, Education of o, Poor, &c., County Rates, Militia Ballot Suspenol°o: Stock. in-Trade Assessment, Vagrants' Removal, Via pike Acts Continuance, Parishes in Scotland, Prisensike Scotland, Loan Societies in Ireland, arid the TuroP 1,. Acts Continuance in Ireland Bills; also to the Edinbrtrcg; Leith, and Granton, Ashton-under-Lyrae, master, Mr. and Liverpool, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and iv'''. 4, nSoU:i, ea,nda d t.e: Chester, ,TGaffar,V)kailiek,,EGasltaesrgnowU,naionnd, j.oaontdborind.g Delahole and Rock Railway Bills; and several other miii latelyA E D complained TO PLE AsE .against h °int haes nLo Litchfield, c,. hpllfia yee rol idsa te, yito whitewash the moon with a pot of 11111-,110 esit,hhead no right to pay the complainant 104,4 jobs," said Litchfield, " such as stain. Mr. Chambers coll comenel I aas nuec oi, u gatepostfsubn bills. l Chambers, d me the other Sunday, when I vli/ns-tld of pio d Wellingborough, o f hisengagement. Thomas for turn su to oc 1 hispE . work.oi to the time he left. my dinner, to cut a Bath brick into mutton choos.: riot fry them in a four-wheel waggon at Vishuvious ;,1' it e likely I can do them there conjuration tricks.' re, complaint was discharged, and Litchfield ordered to otbi the evening of Tuesday last, Dorm, Straken, an aged widow residing at Barnard Castle, 'creham, subject to a despondency of mind, after heLrritil% vious attemut at suicide, received an order for en: obe the Union Workhouse at Barnard Castle. but 9- bee seemed so much better her friends delayed takieoged 0 there. About the time above mentioned she Pend 011 party of hay makers in a field by the river Tees, a 5001 e. being questioned, stated she was going for a walk: ,r, Abpsuspicion was excited, and a boy sent to watch n't.oie IP, just came up to witness her leaping into a deep 0., the Old Boat pool, opposite Eggliston Abbey. 740 out dragged to land with a net hook, and when tne. VP moved a little. Means were used to restore be ' jobs fruitlessly. A
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-11-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1844. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING,  BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, J 1N0.4, ST. Gsonos's CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL • Orders and Adertisements firer received by Messrs. Newton and Co , Warwick-square ; Bker and White, Fleet-street, Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell, Chancery-lane; Charles Barker, Bircbin-lane ; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill; Manden Hammond, e 7, Lombard-street; Mitchell, 8, Red Lioll. court, Fleet-street; Lewis and Lowe, 3, Castle-court, Cornhill; at the London Commercial Cotiee-house, Mincing-lane) at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; Chapter Cm' fee house, Paternoster.row ; North and South American Coffee house, Threadneedle-street ; Parsons, g, Ave.Marts' lane, London; Johnston and Co.. Eden Quay, Dublin; Wheeler, Exchange-street, and C. H. Lewis, Market-street. Manchester; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth, Booksellers,: Warrington; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston; and Wright sou Dain, Herald-office, Birmingham, Terms of Subscription for this paper :—On credits one year, £1 3s. ; half-year, 1I s. 61—If paid Ili advance—one year £1 18.; half-year, 108. 661.   844.  LORS OF THOSE URTICU iblicly advr suppoq at large,' recedented sted " innulate our difference sentatives, led to the alenostp. rticular ,ye always tovinshiP plans have OA r own all'kg agaiot ntimatelf ct besotr, e Tostetb ;ry ad van'  at will yon purpose of ening the park, t° and a fi64 lane~ ngr he natural iniqueoc, granted roduce ci in the ty ey • od tows t° o do-41" Ives ; a total as rePre - than a' hew your )1119 COlll‘  matd this c lee, ao to nveteta% is resolui as rolled an he m world, oR ant, .D.  d suicide tot out o  ant situ' nortber.ri Years' I°  ,hursclai ur colo.Zr,oppl. records 4--I'll/ci P I ec: ;jells°  is li°lll, LOUS VS' furlOngS ?,Vi inn'  _' - - . . '."  mford-Oweng, -Robert garrY, Abra, ierick--London r, front nodore, wey.  eing oil cables.  bore is  of an g e g. 7 -h Oct. mPanl Lking 9 . Oa Sinca' enldri" a fore'
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-11-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER,  KILMARNOCK.  These unfortunate persons were old inhabitants of Bbiti; mingham. Mr. Joseph Barker was 61 years of age, to wife was somewhat younger. They resided, previo",orr, leaving Birmingham, at No. 54, Vittoria-street. fiefs Barker was born at Preston in Lancashire, from v." 1.0.. town he married for his second wife the partner of 1340.. mantic but melancholy exit. He had resided in '1 ed.. chester, London, Malta, and several parts of the e,°.,,i.. nent, being at one time most extensively engaged in 1700 ness as a foreign merchant. At the burning of Me;:forhe estimated his loss at £500,000 ; from that time b' ship• tunes were reversed. His first wife died on board a iro His only child, a son, on whose memory he appeared, he entered the service of Mr. Samuel Kempson, floor d 8, dote, also died when 21 years of age. Six years a.,gc"ioth manufacturer, Constitution-hill, where he rem e A ainntere— chief clerk and traveller until May last, when he e also into partnership with Mr. James Archer, who erred in nufacturers. In the arrangements there been with Mr. Kempson, and the firm was oPII „na vies m'iemperwhen, two months ago, he left home, as he '''.--nothing Summer-lane, as James Archer and Co., table-o_1%;" to disturb the equanimity of his proverbially ev_e,ehim ; and He appeared on excellent terms with all arour " el le to his to partner, on a visit to Manchester, there was t eircurnindicate the fearful resolve to which subsequen. a. stances lead us to suppose he had made up were going to see a relation at a distance, hisn' Id they On leaving their house they told the servantslguld be back in eight or nine days. When he Paartned andd from Mr,. bless Yell' Archer he shook hands heartily, saying, " --, that he Archer ;" and it was observed by Mr. Areuest-fterwards turned away and seemed affected. It It discharged every tradesman's bill agains. when he left found that he had, previous to his del:Trttur'rtee.s, was supposed that he had about £4O on him. wu` there was • t of view have Birmingham. In a pecunia oin embarrassment, and we heir met as we can ascertain, any of then' ' to the mystery met with no satisfactory solution self-destruction, habits and man' Mr. Barker was of most gentlemanly b, and German ners, speaking fluently the Italian, French, regard and languages; and of kindly disposition,_ associated in business and in love in those with whom he assooal woman of much amis. private life. Mrs. Barker was highly accomplished, and a bility and suavity of manner, proficient in music. upon Mr. Barker was an oldThe gold watch found and the knife was a present from fashioned family relic, . Mr. Kernson's emplo friend, in . Kemp . na young and esteemedtheknife led to the identity of then The description of o the firm. and seeing the London papers, M,.r. happy deceased. t Kilmarnock to identitY the parties. Archer sent his foreman over o  Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commander of the Princess Royal, Liverpool and Glasgow steamer, hag been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE FISHERIES.—Large quantities of mackerel continue to be brought in daily. They have been sold aA low as Bs. per 100, and retailed in the street 10 And 12 a shilling. Last Friday morning upwards of 50,000 were landed.—Brlghton Paper.  On Tuesday last, during the sale ofthe surplus proper' y of the Northern and Eastern Hallway Company, Mr. Ralph, a gentleman of fortune, entered the room, and was proceeding to a seat, when he tell down and expit ed. Toe lip ther sale was immediately postpi.ned. Mr. John Grove, a large landowner in the neighbourhood of Ayle.bury, last week sent his tenant-tatmers their half- early receipts, at the same time telling them not to trouble themselves in sending the money, but to keep it in their pockets. At a meeting of " the soap trade" of Glasgow and Paisley, last week, it was unanimously agreed to advance the price of soap to the follow►ng rates per cwr. :—White, 53.. ; pale, 485.; second, or bright, 465.; yellow, 42s.— Edinburgh Paper.  It is said thit a new use has been discovered in the article guano, which /as never antieipat'-d. Hitherto it has been merely looked upon as applicable t' agricultural purposes, but now the rumour g.,es Ibbt it may be employed in the manufacture of a certain colour. Works for a new harbour at Aberdeen have been contracted for by Messrs. Oldham, builders and rai'way contractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is £99,660. When completed, the new harbour will be one of the most commodious in the kingdom.  A d'scovery was made at Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning, that a man employed in the upholstery department of the Lord Chamberlain's office had committed suicide in one of the store-rooms'. The deceased was of regular and sober habits, and the cause which led to the sad catastrophe was unknown.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE IN THE RIVER.—About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, a respectable man narsted Felix Em, alias Felix Martin, who had just arrived from Genoa, represented himself to be a native of France, and had paid £l5 for his passage from Liverpool to Quebec, in the barque China, shot himself through the head with a loaded pistol, while in the state room of that vessel. Very little is known of the deceased and that little has been gleaned from the evidence of a person named Wagstaffe, who had bean interpreting for him since he arrived in Liverpool, Wagstaffe states that there w•is an evident anxiety upon his part to conceal himself from public observation, a ,c 1 that with this view he changed hislodgirizs four times in the short suttee of ten days. He had a considerable amount of property on his person ; for instanec, a gold watch, a diamond ring, a silver snuff-box, a gold pair of spectacles, and two small bags containing doubloons to the amount of £lOOO. The whole of this property together with three large trunks of wearing apparel. were found in his state room on board the China. A letter written in French, found in one of his pockets. and addie4sed to Monsieur Felix, of Genoa, was transla•ed by Wagst•ge; but it turned out to be one of a private and family nature, written to the deceased by his sister, Pauline Nasset, and enclosing him a lock of her hair, as proof of her sincere affection. An inquest was held upon the body Tuesdav, and, by adjournment, yesterday, and a verdict of fel° de se was return-d. The whole of the property wit now revert to the crown. The deffased wa s interred at ten o'clock last night in the parish ground, but, 1 , of course, without the rights of Christian burial. The president of one of the Jewish societies made an application to have him interred in their burial graborouliutarldm,d.eastnot firhoenrie the hs everyef fact' e so u hisf n tot, abelieveg etehua t chi rectwi sc in ;lite, sbruatel the thsaeidachteowfaps ac(d)rhoenree rtredfcutsleydtothteh ea pporlolitsiinonn,s auifi d in such cases.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE FISHERIES.—Large quantities of mackerel continue to be brought in daily. They have been sold a• low as Bs. per 100, and ►etailed in the street 10 and 12 a shilling. La-t Friday morning upwards of 50,000 were landed.—Brighlon Paper. On Tuesday last, during the sale of the surplus properly of the N, rthern and Eastern Hallway Company, Mr. Ralph, a gentleman or tot tune, entered the room, and was proceeding to a seat, when he tell down and expired. Toe blither sale was immediately post pi ned. Mr. John Groves, a lar4e landowner in the neighbourhood of Ayle bury, last week sent his tenant-tartners their half-)early receipts, at the same time telkig them no! 10 trouble themselves in sending the money, but to keep it in their pockets. At a meeting of " the soap trade" of Glt.gow and Paisley, last weak, it was unanimously agreed to advance the price of soap to the following rates per cwt. :—White, 53-. ; pale, 485.; second, or br,gbt, 465.; yellaw, 42s.— Edinburgh Paper. It is said that a new use has been discovered in the article guano, which was never anticipated. Hitherto it has been merely looked upon as applicable t i agricultural purposes, but now the tumour goes that it may be em• vloyed in the manufacture of a certain colour. Works for a new harbour at Aberdeen have been contracted for by Messrs. Oldham, builders and rid way contractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is £99,C60. Wi.en corrinteteit, the new harbour will be one of the most commodious in the kingdom.  A dacovery was made at Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning, that a man en p'oved in the upholstery det artutent a the Lord Chamberlain's office had committed suicide in one of the store-rooms. The deceased was of regular and sober habits, and the cau,e which led to the sad catastrophe was unknown.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A COURIER OF THE KING OF HANOVIII. —Whilst the steam-ship Caledonia was on her last passal to Hatnburgh, the greatest sensation was produced amongst the passengers by the following melancholy oc." currence :—On board was a Mr. T. Italphs, courier to Hanoverian Majesty, the bearer of despatches from ber. Majesty to his royal master. He left St. James's Palace on the night of last Friday week, and proceeded on boartlf but owing to some unexplained cause he would never 111 with the chief cabin passengers, but preferred living a% conversing with those in the forepart of the vessel. nine o'clock in the evening the steamer anchored at the Stade, and shortly afterwards he partook of a glass 0 brandy and water with the steward. Soon after 'V° o'clock on the following morning the vessel got alder weigh, and proceeded up the river on her way to Hanii burgh, when the man was missed. The mate then We° in search of him, and having gone to the door of the TIP ter-closet, and finding it locked on the inside, and receig; ing no answer to his knocking, with the assistance of sailor, broke it open, and found Mr. ltalphs a corpse, b; throat being frightfully cut in several places. The unholy man had evidently first cut himself with his right hart" and finding the wound ineffectual, had infl cted another gash on the other side of his throat, and death not follovr; ing so speedily as he desired, it was apparent that he ha' sat down on the seat and bled to death. A piece of paPer.: ' on which the following was written, was found in 131' pockets :—" Take care of my child, for Thomas Italp101" his last request ; Frankland and Churchill have been the cause of this. God bless you all."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-03-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning about eight o'clock, the inhabitants of Caistor we thrown into the greatest consternation by the diSCNot pariso, and rector or too adjoining vdtago,or FtoW v. uhatadt cijie.R.eitvt.edGgsourizceidjeVutt7e.r, peculiarly eteddi svtrieeassr:43:etl: cutnstances. Mr. Watson was a gentleman of very *"• fined mind, and so extremely sensitive to even the pearance of injury or disrespect, as to exhibit, when utta!: excitement or trouble, strong marks of mental aberratten, him to Some monthswrite a agoletNtier in consequencet so n's morbid Mr. l slight, to the wife of one of his parishioners at Rothw.“ which letter was made the subject of coo,plaint to 11: «' arson's ibi of sensibilities some Bishop, and led to the issuing of a commission of ingTq under the Church Discipline Act. On Friday week tot % commission was executed, and the commissioners repos; ed—not on the innocence or culpability of Mr. Wats°,,ei ,sf there ofH appeared wasthatpea rea weredtphrteioymbaef iaachinoe uo case its) ehz the :ojnurddergurersgt—tri :bar: ne cvmcee:l: tglrYai adding, however, to their return the fact, that Mr. ""3,e and infirmity of mind. This cloud, over a reputati: which had hitherto been unsullied, was too much for 34,),; Watson's sensitive mind to hear. On the SaturdaY P 4 sv(r)oe sas itoonb, egaeltiz etdh.e betterTh e unfortunate n . '' previous distress hail settled into despondency, aud P e expressed fears that the affair would, to use his own Or; seven o'clock on Sundae morning, rose from his and, in his diessing-govin and slippers, went into D'a gTehnettseemfaetat stLeudt sitting.roorn, where he appears to have loaded a gun 490 discharged its contents into his mouth. His skull s'ij dreadfully shattered, and i.e was found, as before s:atet about eight o'clock, of course qui,e dead. The coroner] jury came to a nnanitnous vet di That the deceits': had d,stroyed himself while labouring te,der mental rti rangement.” Mr. Watson was 44 years of Hew Presented to the vicarage or Caistor, by the Rev. W. (now Dr.) Pook, Prebendary of Caistor, in 1833, an'l the rectory of Rothwell, by Lord Yarborough, in 1835* the
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISTRESS.—About four o'clock on Thursday morning an Irishman, named John Greaves, who resided in a cellar in Small-street, Stockport, rose from his bed, smoked his pipe, and went out to the privy, where he was found, about an hour afterwards, suspended by a rope to a beam. He was quite dead when found. It is said to be distress which reduced him to commit the rash act. He had to borrow money on the previous evening to purchase a meal for the family, which consisted of himself, a wife, and three daughters, the youngest about 15 years of age ; and probably rose, not knowing how to meet with another meal. The cellar in which he resided presented a horrid picture of distress. The whole of the furniture consisted of two chairs, one stool, a small table, a tub, and one small bed, not fit for a human being to repose on, and this for five individuals to sleep upon. He left Ireland about three months ago, since . which time lie has been travelling about the country with his harvesting, or performing any work they could meet with, till about eight or nine days ago, when they settled in Stockport.  The Illustrated Shakspere. Part 17. London : R. Tyas,  Paternoster-row. This part contains the conclusion of Cgmbeline and the commencement of Taming the Shrew. It is a sufficient encomium on the part to say that it is fully equal to those which have preceded it. The engravings are remarkably spirited and appropriate.  The Devil on Two, Sticks. Part 5. London : Joseph  Thomas, Finch-lane. This spirited translation of the admirable work of Le Sage is proceeding admirably. The illustrations by Tony Johannot are exceedingly characteristic. These alone are worth the whole price of the work.  Foreign Loans, or Valuable Information to all connected with the Republic of Chili. London : Longman and Co. Liverpool : Willan and Son. This pamphlet is from the pen of Mr. Sutcliffe, the retired Governor of the Islands of Juan Fernandez. It contains a mass of useful information on the subject of the South American Loans, and especially of the financial resources of Chili, all of which appears to be well authenticated. We re. commend this work to the notice of all who have had themis. fortune to dabble in foreign securities. Some of its 4isclo. sures are extremely curious and instructive.