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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  On Saturday, at Leith, the Leith Candle Company's premises were totally consumed by an accidental fire. A reprieve has been received for the convict condemned at York for arson.  His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Commander•inChief of the Army, has promoted several sergeant-majors to be cornets in other regiments, without purchase. Thomas Staite, the same-keeper, who was so dreadfully beaten ;n an affray with poachers at Croome, on the 21st instant, his since died.  Eight miners were killed on Monday last, in a colliery at Kingswinfor:l, by the breaking of a rope by which they were descending. Wm. Howell, Walter Howell, and Israel Shipley, who lie under sentence of death, at Ipswich, for murder, have been respited till the 25th instant. A pension has been conferred upon Mr. Thomas Hood, the author of, amongst other things, " The Song of the Shirt."  The Phoenix, steam-sloop, of about 800 tons, is now in the East India Dock, substituting a propeller screw for the paddles she has hitherto worked with. On Thursday week, a young man, 18 years of age, named Young, met his death, near Bristol, by his gun going off whilst he was drawing it through a hedge. On Sunday week, two stoves heated with charred-wood having been placed in the church at Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire, the fumes so overcame tho congregation that about twenty of them fainted. The Black Boy Pit, near Bishop Auckland, fired on Monday ; there were upwards of 200 men and boys down at the time. They were all got out alive, but many of them very much burnt. Mr. Griffiths, boottnaker, of Chester, has received from Windsor Castle a check for £5, in payment of a pair of beautiful miniature boots, which Ile forwarded for the acceptance of the Prince of Wales. Lord Ashley has transmitted £llO to Scotlan'l, to be distributed among those women who have been thrown out of employment by the operation of the Mines and Collieries Act.  At Windsor Theatre, on Monday evening, Mrs. Flume, 63 years of age, the wife of a journeyman cutler, residing at Eton, met with her death by accidentally falling over the gallery into the pit. Wm. Oliver and his wife, who lived in a miserable cottage at Ashford, near Staines, being reduced to a state of almost utt-r destitution, committed suicide on Tuesday morning lest, by taking poison. THE HEROINE OF MATAGortnA.—The subscription for this deserving old woman now amounts to a sum sufficient to secure her £3O a-year for life, with a few pounds over to set up house with.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  On Saturday, at Leith, the Leith Candle Company's premises were totally consumed by an accidental fire. A reprieve has been received for the convict condemned at York for arson.  His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Commander-inChief of the Army, has promoted several sergeant-majors to be comets in other regiments, without purchase.  Thomas Staite, the game-keeper, who was so dreadfully beaten in an affray with poachers at Croome, on the 21st instant, has since died.  Eight miners were killed on Monday last, in a colliery at Kineswinford, by the breaking of a rope by which they were descending.  Wm. Howell, Walter Howell, and Israel Shipley, who lie under sentence of death, at Ipswich, for murder, have been respit( d till the 25th instant.  A pension has been confe'rred upon Mr. Thomas Hood, the author of, amongst other things, " The Song of the Shirt."  The Phoenix, steam-sloop, of about 800 tons, is now in ,he East India Dock, substituting a propeller screw for ,he paddles she has hitherto worked with.  On Thursday week, a young man, 18 years of age, named Young, met his death, near Bristol, by his gun going off whilst he was drawing it through a hedge. On Sunday week, two stoves heated with charred-wood having been placed in the church at Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire, the fumes so overcame the congregation that about twenty of them fainted.  The Black Boy Pit, near Bishop Auckland, fired on Monday ; there were upwards of 200 men and boys down at the time. They were all got out alive, but many of them very much burnt.  Mr. Griffiths, bootmaker, of Chester, has received from Windsor Castle a check for £5, in payment of a pair of beautiful miniature boots, which he forwarded for the acceptance of the Prince of Wales. Lord Ashley has transmitted £llO to Scotland, to be distributed among those women who have been thrown out of employment by the operation of the Mines and Collieries Act.  At Windsor Theatre, on Monday evening, Mrs. Flume, 63 years of age, the wife of a journeyman cutler, residing at Eton, met with her death by accidentally falling over the gallery into the pit. Wm. Oliver and his wife, who lived in a miserable cot tage at Ashford, near Staines, being reduced to a state of almost uttc-r destitution, committed suicide on Tuesday morning last, by taking poison.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  On Saturday, at Leith, the Leith Candle Company's premises were totally consumed by an accidental fire. A reprieve has been received for the convict condemned at York for arson.  His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Commander-inChief of the Army, has promoted several sergeant-majors to be comets in other regiments, without purchase.  Thomas Staite, the game-keeper, who was so dreadfully beaten in an affray with poachers at Croome, on the 21st instant, has since died.  Eight miners were killed on Monday last, in a colliery at Kingswinford, by the breaking of a rope by which they were descending.  Wm. Howell, Walter Howell, and Israel Shipley, who lie under sentence of death, at Ipswich, for murder, have been respited till the 25th instant.  A pension has been conferred upon Mr. Thomas Hood, the author of, amongst other things, " The Song of the Shirt."  The Phoenix, steam-sloop, of about 800 tons, is now in ,he East India Dock, substituting a propeller screw for ,he paddles she has hitherto worked with.  On Thursday week, a young man, 18 years of age, named Young, met his death, near Bristol, by his gun going off whilst he was drawing it through a hedge. On Sunday week, two stoves heated with charred-wood having been placed in the church at Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire, the fumes so overcame the congregation that about twenty of them fainted. The Black Boy Pit, near Bishop Auckland, fired on Monday ; there were upwards of 200 men and boys down at the time. They were all got out alive, but many of them very much burnt. Mr. Griffiths, bootmaker, of Chester, has received from Windsor Castle a check for £5, in payment of a pair of beautiful miniature boots, which he forwarded for the acceptance of the Prince of Wales. Lord Ashley has transmitted £llO to Scotlawl, to be distributed among th ose women who have been thrown out of employment by the operation of the Mines and Collieries Act.  At Windsor Theatre, on Monday evening, Mrs. Hume, 63 years of age, the wife of a journeyman cutler, residing at Eton, met with her death by accidentally falling over the gallery into the pit. Wm. Oliver and his wife, who lived in a miserable cottage at Ashford, near Staines, being reduced to a state of almost utt, r destitution, committed suicide on Tuesday morning last, by taking poison.
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 named 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 been interpreting for him since he arrived in Liverpool, Wagstaffe states that there was an evident anxiety upon his part to conceal himself from public observation, and that with this view he changed his lodgings four times in the short space 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 addressed to Monsieur Felix, of Genoa, was translated by Wagstaffe ; 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 a proof of her sincere affection. An inquest lir, a ia,aea Id pon the body on Tuesday, and, by adjournment, was esterday, rights of Christian burial. was interred at ten o'clock last night in the parish ground, ucytrwsoeifi,lf wen/oiotwhd out taveetihwteat toss the crown. TThheay wd icoelaes eodf The president of one of the Jewish societies made an bathnuedt, pa roovfep verdict application to have him interred in their burial ground, as there is every reason to believe that he was an Israelite, from the fact of his having been circumcised ; but the coroner refused the application, and said he was bound to adhere strictly to the provisions of the act of parliament in such cases.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE IN THE MINER.—About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, a respectable man named Felix Em, alias Felix Martin, who had just arrived from Genoa, represented himself to be a native of France, and had paid £l5 fir 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 be=en gleaned from the evidence of a person named Wagstaffe, who had been interpreting for him since he arrived in Liverpool, Wagstaffe states that there was an evident anxiety upon his part to conceal himself from public observation, ruorl that with this view he changed his lodgings four times in the short soace 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 properly 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 addressed to Monsieur Felix, of Genoa, was translated by Wagstaffe; 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 a proof of her sincere affection. An inquest was held upon the body on Tuesday, and, by adjournment, yesterday, and a verdict of felo de se was returned. The wholaeso,l the property will now revert to the crown. Thehd eg.o n d , was interred at ten o'clock la 4 night in the p but, of president) f cou course, e, of onew rh of the h the Jewish erights round. as gr iaapl: Plication to have him interred in their hum g an Israelite, e fact of his having been circumcised ; but the fenTmonetrhrefu.ed the application, and said he was bound to soocierCiels'rmiaBrtalisda-ne there is every reason to believe that he was adhere strictly to the provisions of the act of parliament in such cases.  Docx
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 as low as Bs. per 100, and retailed in the street 10 and 12 a shilling. Last Friday morning upwards of 50,000 were landed.—Brighton Paper. On Tuesday last, during the sale of the surplus property of the Northern and Eastern Railway Company, Mr. Ralph, a gentleman of fortune, entered the room, and was proceeding to a seat, when he fell down and expired. The further sale was immediately postponed. Mr. John Groves, a large landowner in the neigbbourhood of Aylesbury, last week sent his tenant-farmers their half-yearly 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 following rates per cwt. :—White, 535. ; pale, 485.; second, or bright, 465.; yellow, 425. 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 to agricultural purposes, but ❑ow the rumour goes that it may be employed in the manufacture of a certai❑ colour. Works for a new harbour at Aberdeen have been contracted for by Messrs. Oldham, builders and railway contractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is £99,660. When completed, the new harbour will be one of the most commodious in the kingdom. A discovery 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)

THE FISHERIES.—Large quantities of mackerel continue to be brought in daily. They have been sold as low as Bs. per 100, and retailed in the street 10 and 12 a shilling. La-t Friday morning upwards of 50,000 were landed.—Brithlon Paper.  On Tuesday last, during the sale of the surplus property of the N( rthern and Eastern Hallway Company, Mr. Ralph, A gentleman or fortune, entered the room, and was proceeding to a seat. when he tell down and expired. Tue fun ther sale was immediately postvned. -  -r • . Mr. John Groveq, a large landowner in the neighbourhood of .kyle-bury, I.st week sent his tenant-farmers their half-dearly 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 following rates per cwt. :—White, 53-.; pale, 4 48, second, or bright, 465.; yellow, 425. 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 to agricultural purposes, but now the rumour goes that 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 railway contractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is £99,660. When completed, the new harbour will be one of the most commodious in the kingdom.  A discovery was made at Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning, that a man em ployed 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. — 1844-02-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. JOHN GARDNER, MINISTER OF THE SCOTCH CHURCH, BIRKENHEAD.—On the evening of the 31st ult. after the usual services of the Congregational Weekly Prayer Meeting, which was conducted by the Rev. Josias Wlson, of Belfast, a purse, containing 120' guineas, was presented, in the name of the congregation, as a mark of their regard and esteem for their respected minister. John Barbour, Esq., one of the elders of the congregation, through whom the gift was presented to Mr. Gardner, addressed him and the congregation in a speech embodying sentiments of respect and affection, and characterised by the best spirit, good taste, and indicative of devoted attachment to the great principles of the Gospel. The Rev. Mr. Gardner, in reply to Mr. Barbour, expressed his grateful sense of the kindness which he had always experienced on the part of thememhers of his congregation. SUICIDES IN LrvisuPooL.—On Friday two inquests were held before the borough coroner, on the bodies of persons who had terminated their existence with sharp instruments. It appeared from the evidence in the first case that, on going into the bed-room of Henry Hickson, a warehouseman, 28 or 30 years of age, who lived its Tenterden-street, he was found lying on his back on the floor, with his throat cut, and a bloody razor close beside him. The wound was rather better than three inches is length, and the wind pipe had been partially severed.— In the second case, a cork cutter, of the name of James Gorman, was found lying in the vicinity of the Clarence Dock on Thursday night; and on going up to him it was ascertained that he had been just after cutting his throat with a knife, covered with blood, which he held in his hand. The wound was about an inch and a half in length, and the windpipe in this case also had been partially severed. He was a very passionate man, addicted to drinking, and when in liquor, he appeared as-if he had lost his senses. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned in both cases.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A COURIER OF THE KING OF HANOVER.  —Whilst the steam-ship Caledonia was on her last passage to Harnburgb, the greatest sensation was produced amongst the passengers by the following melancholy occurrence :—On board was a Mr. T. Ralphs, courier to his Hanoverian Majesty, the beater of despatches from her Majesty to his royal master. He left St. James's Palace on the night of last Friday week, and proceeded on board, but owing to some unexplained cause he would never mit with the chief cabin passengers, but preferred living and conversing with those in the forepart of the vessel. At nine o'clock in the evening the steamer anchored at the Stade, and shortly afterwards be partook of a glass of brandy and water with the steward. Soon after :two o'clock on the following morning the vessel got under weigh, and proceeded up the river on her way to Hamburgh, when the man was missed. The mate then went in search of him, and having gone to the door of the water-closet, and finding it locked on the inside, and receiving no answer to his knocking, with the assistance of sailor, broke it open, and found Mr. Ralphs a corpse, his throat being frightfully cut in several places. The unhappl man had evidently first cut himself with his right hand, and finding the wound ineffectual, had infi cted another gash on the other side of his throat, and death not following so speedily as he desired, it was apparent that he had sat down on the seat and bled to death. A piece of paper, on which the following was written, was found in hie pockets :—" Take care of my child, for Thomas Ralphs, his last request ; Frankland and Churchill have been the cause of this. God bless you all."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-01-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMBROSE LACE,  DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED.  MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, PALL MALL, LONDON.  CAPITAL, £500,000. THIS Office is provided with very accurat y constructed Tables, by which it can Assu RE EASED LIVES on Equitable Terms. The Extra Premium discontinue n restoration of the Assured to permanent health. Larger Annuities granted on unsound, than on sound Lives, the Premium being equal ; or an equal Annuity for a smaller Premium, the amount varying with the particular disease. This advantage in favour of Invalids is not conceded by other Offices.  Members of CONSUMPTIVE FAMILIES assured at Equitable Hates.  HEALTHY LIVES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most other Offices.  Policies of twelve months' standing are not affected by Suicide, Duelling. 8(c.; and Assigned Policies are valid from the date of the Policy, should death ensue from any of these causes.  F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary.  LIVERPOOL AGENTS: OCTAVIUS WATERHOUSE, 1, Oldhall-street. A. HIGGINSON, Esq., 1, Mornington Terrace.  DISTRICT AGENTS : Blackburn—Mr. J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church-street. Bolton-le-Moors—J. Taylor, Esq., Coroner. Carlisle—John Reed Donald, Esq., Solicitor. Clitheroe—James Garstang, Esq., Surgeon. Lancaster—Mr. Y. Welch, Sharebroker, Penny-street. Leeds—Messrs. J. and H. Richardson, Solicitors. {J. Beetham, Esq., 3, Cross-street, MarketManchester street, and Mr. C. Pennington, 70, Hardman-street, Deansgate. Newcastle-on-Tyne—Anthony Atkinson and Co., 43, Sandhill. Penrith—S. Evens, Esq., Cumberland Union Bank. Preston—W. 0. Jones, Esq., 25, Frenchwood-street. Rotherham—Wm. Fretwell Hoyle, Esq., Solicitor. Sheffield—Mr. W. Spencer, Accountant, Fargate. Stockton-on-Tees—Me. J. R. Harding, Chemist, Highstreet. / i -  tle-6 .  Now ready, price 4d., to be continued, No. 1 (for January) of THE CHURCHMAN'S MONTHLY , COMPANION ; a new Religious Magazin, for general Reading. CONTENTS :—Religious Worship-p Resurrection— An English Sacrament Sunday—A dotes of Admiral Sir A. Ball—The Norman Boy—Reverence of God's Ordinances—Sermon for All Saints' Day—Andrew Jones— An Irish " Hedge School"—Letter from Paris to Two little Girls—Moses and the Egyptians—The chief Butler's Dream.  Edited by the Rev.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-06-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING BARBARITY.—At the Clerkenwell Policecommitted for trial, charged with brutally flogging, starving, and otherwise maltreating his illegitimate son, a boy of fourteen. The instrument of punishment was a clumsy stick, two feet long, with six knotted India• rubber cords fastened to the end of it ; and the boy had been kept tied r up in a darkened room, and fed on bread and water pter days together. The boy was desired to remove t P the back, ing was presented to the court. The wholecov_red with from the neck to the hips, was literally._ e hoi r the left side stripes and coagulated blood. The we;-marks of the lash part of his dress, and in doing so a spectacle tort.uiheshoc was contused ; there were two orttber ON SHAD FTEhLeLsb.o_y of father, being asked what having told his story, the brteacharge, replied, with great he had to say in reply to: s is perfectly true ; but, in and knots on the lower part indifference, " What he E Y all he got. ' my opinion, he deserves put a period to his existence by cutting SUICIDE BY A vOAC Passenger on the London mail-coach who was aP" ' • aafbteoruntoeoingiliatsmt,ialersefsrpoemetaKbelen-dloalo:tihneg getitle-going southwards, , It appears,that, when the mail arrived at the his throat. bill on ShapFells, on the north side of the Hucks steep. ,--. II PASSEfNGhERaOb public- 0 , gentleman said that he would walk down the hill behind the mOnanThuhrsudsacy coach, and get up again on changing horses at the Hucks. The horses being changed, and the mail ready for a start, he did not come up. However, he was seen to go a little off the road, not far from the public-house, when a person was sent to the place, and, lamentable to relate, the gentleman was found in a sand hole a short distance from the read, weltering in his blood, with his throat cut almost from ear to ear. As a matter of course, the mail drove on, and be was removed to the II uck s, where he lingered in great agony for little more than two hours, when life became extinct. On searching his pockets a few invoices of one Andrew Gibson, whisky distiller, Paisley, were found.  June 4, 1844.  FIRE AND Loss OF