The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-08-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday afternoon geon : and before giving up hope, one of them broke the and blade of a penknife in the attempt to make an opening in much excitement prevailed in the quiet neighbourhood of time the side of the chest. After they had exhausted themselves Tottenham, in consequence of a gentleman, supposed to th an by unavailing shouts and cries, which were not heard on be a foreigner of distinction, having committed suicide. wit- earth, they all joined in prayer to the hearer and answerer The unfortunate man was observed by several labourers that of prayer. This is the last circumstance which the sur- running towards the river Lea. The men, suspecting his elves viving sufferer recollects, as he soon afterwards became • • insensible. To account for no noise being heard, or no pockets two intention, followed after, but the deceased, on reaching the edge of the river, instantly drew out of his pistols, and, firing one at his head, fell backwards into the one being within call, it may be mentioned that the wood river. The body was recovered shortly afterwards, but yard in which the stable is situated is locked up early on the Saturday afternoon, and is not again entered till Ar-- life was found to be quite extinct  as has been already stated  when the  over him  with watches anc  considerable quantity were found in the  d on Wed  day mor  ,ed in and a cuted  erntral  mein 1,1 nesday morning, that a lady of title, long notorious as a speculator, would prove a defaulter to some amount ; before,the close of business, however, the matter was said I to have been arranged. The gambling of married women  The Times, the Economist, the Weekly Chronicle, Northern Star, the Lancet, and some other periodical are now represented in Parliament. At Worcester, on Tuesday, a young girl named Jar Steel was accidentally shot dead by her sweetheart, whi he was cleaning the touch-hole of a loaded gun with a ph  aily, a rare  iccurrence on ti  it Stock Ex )rOkers who lend  Ives to the disrepu  A Norwich auctioneer advertises the sale of twentyseven inns, public-houses, and beer-shops in one day, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Connor, Miss Bonifase, of Shopwick, near Chichester, has insolent  mbled on board the Victory at Portsmouth, to try John Agincourt, for having been  Mr. Burnaby, midshipman of  the extraordinary number of 106 ears or stem  John Thompson, convicted at the Cumberland Assizes of the wilful murder of his wife by poison, was hanged at the City of Carlisle, on Saturday week. _  forecastle watch. The court found the prisoner guilty-, I.sentenced him to be hanged by the neck at the yardof one of her Majesty's ships. This sentence, which  v.... v. vv.-. ./ • it was the strict duty of the court to pass on the prisoner, will not be carried into effect, but will be commuted to " such other punishment" (transportation for life, per Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby has been appointed to th command in the Pacific, to succeed Sir George Seymout  and will hoist his flag in the Asia, 84 guns, at Sheerness. naps) as Her ....lv.,Y ..."Y P.a.v ~-, ~..v::. The organ factory of Mr. J. Walker, No. 27, Frances- THE LATE FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN Two