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The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-09-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PRODUCE.—The markets during the week presented few changes worthy of note. TO-DAY, the Sugar market kept quiet, the sales since Friday being confined to 600 bags Cossipore, at 41s. 3d. per cwt. Nothing has taken place in Molasses. An extensive demand has appeared for Rum, the transactions, including Saturday's sales, reaching 900 puns., chiefly Demerara, at rather better prices. There is nothing to notice in Coffee. Some little business in Tea, partially of a speculative character, has resulted from the telegraphic despatch in anticipation of the Overland Mail ; the lower descriptions of Congou have been saleable at former nominal prices. The Bengal Rice offered by Auction this morning was not sold.  Wool --During the latter part of the past week the market was quiet, and very little business 'to report in the article : prices remain without change. There have been several inquiries for East India and good Peruvian ; stocks of the Litter are very meagre, but of the former a few sales have been made at full rates. A large assortment of this description Is held over for the next public sales, which commence here on the 4th proximo. There have also been several inquiries for Smyrna Wodl ; but stocks of this class are very small, and held above their relative value. Imports for the week, 2,987 bales, viz.: 1,502 East India ; 109 Australian ; 705 West Coast of America ; 308 Mediterranean Ports ; 257 Portugal ; 63 Scotch ; and 43 Irish.  A NonwEenew Gnirnuninf, named Sascold, who had taken lodgings in Nelson-square, Blackfriars.road, London, committed suicide by placing a loaded piitol in his mouth, and discharging the contents through his p,knll. . _  A Vaisns.x TlAtrintuz..iii-Mtutha .Tfarri/on, who is 91 years of age, is now harvesting for Mr. John Scales, of Grange, near Barnsley, as gatherer. The wonderful old woman is in the field by seven o'clock in the morning, as sprightly as a lark, and braves the toil and heat of the day as stoutly as the beat of her youngeefellow-workers. Martha,has now i)cell bireetilag for dalt—Litfir; Intelliyencer.  ST.
The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-12-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Saturday an inquest was held on the body of Susannah Hudson, who had met with her death under the following singular circumstances :—lnspector Scott, of the Liverpool police-force, deposed that, about four o'clock on the morning of the 12th instant, he was in the neighbourhood of Claytonsquare, when he heard the cry of " Murder" proceed from No. 19, Cases-street, au eating and lodging-house kept by William Court. He proceeded to the house, when he perceived a young woman at the fourth storey window, with her back towards him, apparently in the act of jumping out of the window. He called to her not to jump, when she turned round and exclaimed, " But I will jump out." She threw herself into the street. He tried to break her fall, in doing which he was himself severely bruised. On lifting the woman up he found that her leg was broken. She appeared to be very much in liquor. He asked her  why she had done so rash an act, and she replied  _ some one was going to kill her." He asked her who was going to kill her, and she said, " She did not know." She had fallen from a height of about thirty-five feet. After some time he succeeded in obtaining an entrance into the house, and on going up stairs he found a man in the room from which the deceased had jumped. _Witness was cer.  __lid he kept the house, No. 19, Cases-street, which was called the " A la Mode Dining-room." He was also waiter at the Queen's Hotel,where his duties detained him every day from morning till night, The deceased and a man engaged lodgings at his house on Saturday week, representing themselves as man and wife ; and that they were about to emigrate to Australia. They had a quantity of 'amaze, which was ticketed for " Australia." On the  morning of the 12th, witness was alarmed by some one knocking at the door, and on getting up he found that the woman had jumped out of the window. The man who was with her had since left the house. He was a  tt.Farrell said she lodged at the hous,  of the las  Remembered  e deceased and a mai Red lodgings as man an(  policeman. He
The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-12-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Saturday an inquest was held on the body of Susannah Hudson, who had met with her death under the following singular circumstances :—lnspector Scott, of the Liverpool police-force, deposed that, about four o'clock on the morning of the 12th instant, he was in the neighbourhood of Claytonsquare, when he heard the cry of " Murder" proceed from No. 19, Cases-street, an eating and lodging-hduse kept by William Court. He proceeded to the house, when he perceived a young woman at the fourth storey window, with her back towards him, apparently in the act of jumping out of the window. He called to her not to jump, when she turned round and exclaimed, " But I will jump out." She threw herself into the street. He tried to break her fall, in doing which he was himself severely bruised, On lifting the woman up he found that her leg was broken.  why she had done so rash an act, and she replied, " That some one was going to kill her." He asked her who was going to kill her, and she said, " She did not know." She  some time he succeeded in obtaining au entrance into the house, and on going up stairs he found a man in the room from which the deceased had jumped. Witness was certain that the deceased jumped out of the window.—Wm. Court said he kept the house, No. 19, Cases-street, which was called the "A la Mode Dining-room." He was also  waiter at the Queen's Hotel,where his duties detained  11 night, The deceased and a s house on Saturday week, re presenting themselves as man and wife ; and that they were about to emigrate to Australia. They had aviantity of luggage, which was ticketed for " Australia." On the morning of the 12th, witness was alarmed by some one knocking at the door, and on getting up he found that  who w Glouc(  th her had since left the hou hire man, and had told witness  of the las'  Remembered  se, and engaged  He was a  at his name t the house  as man  both tipsy every day  brought hot then, and g  went tc
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-08-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.  Dingenes, one of the most successful rivals to Punch, has ceased to exist.  A RAILWAY is to be made from the Danube to the Austrian frontiers in the Buckowina. A RABBIT'S leg was found in the stomach of a ling which was caught, a few days ago, by a Caithnesshire fishing-boat.  POSTAGE LIBELS of the value of 10d. will no longer be issued. The following are the labels now in use :—Penny labels, twopenny ditto, fonrpenny ditto, sixpenny ditto, and shilling ditto. ONE in every six of the men, women, and children of Newcastle is a pauper, and the total number of paupers in the town exceeds 16,000. -  THERE has been a serious affray at Reading between the Royal Bucks Militia, quartered in that town, and the police. One of the police has received two or three bayonet wounds, and several others are seriously injured.  - Ma. RICHARD COTTALL, an American gentleman of hidependent fortune, aged 30, died in London on Wednesday from the effects of an overdose of acetate of morphia. A coroner's jury found that there was no evidence to prove whether deceased had committed suicide or not. THE East India Company want tenders, on Wednesday, for the transport of 110 tons of dead weight, and 130 tons of measurable goods, to Madras ; also, for about twenty marine boys to Bombay, to embark between the 15th and 29th of September. LADIES of different classes of society in St. Petersburg have formed themselves into a society for the succour of widows and orphans of officers and soldiers employed in the defence of the capital and the shores of the Baltic. Ax Aor, which received the royal assent on Tuesday, alters the property qualification for officers of militia. The qualifications now are :--Colonel, £6OO a-year ; lieut.-colonel, £4OO ; major, £300; and captain, £2OO. The qualifications are not to apply to the city of London nor to the city of Edinburgh militia. - - -
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-10-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE REGISTRATION.—The Conservative Land Society has this year been again successful in establishing their claims for the freehold franchise on behalf of their members, both in Middlesex and Hertfordshire. AN EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE was committed at Huddersfield, on Tuesday. J. W. Fell, whose father is a chemist at Heckmondwike, was formerly assistant to Mr. Churchyard, chemist, Dorking, Surrey. He made the acquaintance of Eliza, daughter of Mr. Latter, draper, of that town, and, representing himself as being of a higher station in life than he was, persuaded the young lady, who is 22 years of age, to visit his parents, saying they had written for him to come home, and to bring "Lizzy " with him. With her father's consent, theymet at the railway station, Dorking, where Mr. Fell obtained a form Miss Latter, with which he paid the railway fares to Huddersfield—first-class the whole distance. They arrived at Huddersfield at 8 25 p.m., and proceeded in a cab to the house of Mr. Fell's cousin, who is a chemist, in King-street. When on their way he requested Miss Latter to look at some fireworks, which she did, and it is supposed he siezed that opportunity of taking poison, as they had then only a few yards to go. When the cab door was opened, he was, however, unable to descend, and the driver, with the aid of a passer-by, carried him into Mr. Fell's house, where in seven minutes he expired. A messenger was sent for Mr. Greenwood, surgeon, who immediately attended, but his skill was of no avail. On a search being made, a 1 oz. phial, which had contained prussic acid, was discovered on the seat of the cab. The body was taken to the Bull and Mouth Inn, where Mr. Ingram held an inquest upon it, when a verdict of "Temporary insanity" was returned. The poison must have been procured by deceased from the shop of his present employer, Mr. Tomlinsom, Lincoln, as he had no opportunity of obtaining any during the journey.  -
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-07-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MENDACIOCTS RI:TINIAN RIIMOIJIL—A correspondentof ttat philo-Russian print, the Indipenaance, gives currency to the disgraceful rumourthas Lord Raglan "committed suicide (!) on account of the failure of the 18th."  THE BA:Nx OF 'ENGLAND have purchased for their Westend branch establishment the mansion of the Marquis of Anglesea (Uxbridge House,) in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly,, for a sum of £45,000 or £47,000. PRINCE NAPOLEON has caused an application 'to be made to different railway companies to 'induce them to organize pleasure trains at reduced prices,in order to bring a number o/Visitors-to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition.  IN the course of the excavations' which have for some time been goingson at " Macbeth's Castle," on Duniinane Hill, three human skulls have been exhumed, and alsoa small coin bearing-someindistinct tracings as of armorial-bearings. IT is officially announced 'that the sum of money hitherto annually devoted to the celebration of the Napoleon fete of the 15th of August, will this year be consecrated to the relief of the families of those who "have fallen;in the Pact. I:It.ARICOTT, Napoleon's last medicaluttendant atSt. Helena, and for whom the Emperor cherished ,a strong affection, has just died, aged 84,. Napoleon died hOding Dr. Arnot* right hand.  aE Commune of 'San Quisino, in Piedmont, 'has just :devoted itself to the Holy Virgin by a legal conveyance in good and due form, "-In presence ,of us, the notary lliorelli and the witnesses ofthis deed, dtz:.' THE Island of Inchkeith has been examined cby Colonel Marryat, R.A., and Colonel Gordon, R.E., with-the view of determining the sites of two forts, to be situate and -constructed as to infilade' the channels of the Forth on either side.  PRINCE GIIIILChaS forced his daughter to eiltera'nunnery, to which place she was escorted by a large-body of soldiers. She is generally believed to have been the~ cause of aline' which lately took place at .Jassy, in which'the son Of the Hospodar was killed by =Austrian officer. THE Archbishop of Toledo has protested against the execu tion in :ills diocese of the law for the sale of eccksiastical property; but the government has disreigardedthe protest, and has placed an armed force-at the disposal of the commissioner charged to effect the sale. TEE •Sieele says that the fetes in celebration .of the Queen's visit to Paris will begin oil August 1, and last a fortnight. They will =include at the Parc of Versailles a, bal,aux flambeaux, which will drive into the shade all rejoicings of the 'kind it•was so frequently the scene of-in the days' of 'the Grand Monarque. The Bristol Times is informed that it is not an unlisted' practice with some of the quay " imps" of that city for one of them to purposely fall into the water, and two or three of his companions to jump into the rescue, and thus secure both the benefit of the Humane Society's award and the Inver/of a swim during the present oppressively warm weather. Ilanfritinasx
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-08-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FIANCE.—A Paris correspondent says that, as the moment of Queen Victoria's visit to Paris draws near, crowds of English from all parts of the globe are pouring into Paris. " The streets, gardens, cafes, squares, museums, are thronged with Englishmen. Englishmen take possession of the orchestra stalls, and the restaurants ; and it is almost impossible to find any one you can speak to in the midst of this frightful dash of English, Scotch, and Irish patois, the jargon of the Welsh mixing with the broken gibberish of the people from London. Upon the walls you see nothing but English bills posted up. English spoken here ;' there is not a shop where you do not read this charitable notice. You enter, and find that they speak English by signs ! London is no lon7er in Hyde-park, in Regent-street, in Beigrave-square, nor Greenwich, but at the Tuileries, upon the Boulevards, and at the Champs ElyS6e,S." SUICIDE OF A GnaL.—On Tuesday, the body of a female, twelve years of age, was found in the River Nene, near Peterborough-bridge. It was identified as that of Alice, daughter of Mr. Green, tailor, of Newton, Peterborough. At the coroner's inquest, John Jackson, an intelligent lad. thirteen years.of age, deposed that lie had known the deceased all his life. He was with her on Monday afternoon, with his sister and two other girls about the same age, in Gibson's garden. The clock struck a quarter to ten as witness and deceased went together as far as a shop near the Corn Exchange, where the deceased asked witness whether he was going home. He said yes, and asked her if she was. Shereplied " she dare not, as her mother swore she would kill her." Witness took hold of her hand to persuade her. She sat down on the slabs, and. said, "she thought she should go and drown herself." Witness asked her how she liked the fireworks, when she said, "Don't speak to anybody when they are miserable." That was all that passed. Witness turned down Queen-street to go home, and the deceased got up and walked down St. Johnstreet, and he SAW no more of her. Henry Jauncery, constable, saw the deceased on the bridge about ten o'clock on Monday night, and asked her what she did there ; and, receiving no reply, said to her "You're not going to drown yourself, are you ?" She said, "No, sir," and went away. The coroner explained the law in the case to the jury, who returned a verdict that "the deceased drowned herself through fear."— Stamford Mercury.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-07-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COMMITTEE.—At the usual meeting, on Thursday, Mr. Dover presiding, the Medical Officer represented that the mortality of the borough was lower in the week ending on Saturday than in any week of the preceding twenty months. The total deaths were 170, the average of the same week of the preceding seven years 228.—A tender from George Ravenscroft for sewering Harrington-streei, Bell-street, Fisher-street, •&c., at a cost of £1039, was referred ; a tender of Jame Jones for sewering Water-street and King-street-lane. West Derby, was accepted ; also a tender from John Hankin, for similar work in Fairdloughlane.—ln accordance with ,a notice of motion previously given, Mr. Dover proposed an increase in the salary of Mr. Davies, the duty 'borough engineer. Mr. Beckwith saw no grounds for the proposed advance, and stated that in 1846 Mr. Davies had an advance to £2OO, in 1860 he was advanced to £3OO, and in 1853 to £350 per annum. Mr. Johnson moved that the salary of Mr. Davies be advanced to £4OO per annum. Mr. Beckwith would oppose it not only there but in the council. Same conversation took place, and after a suggestion that the subject be referred, the committee, without coming to a division, allowed the matter to drop.— The Law-clerk informed the committee that Sir Benjamin Hall had declined to proceed further with his Public Health Bill. With regard to the alleged encroachments by the Dock Committee at Wapping, he had forwarded to their secretary .a copy of the resolution passed •by the Health Committee, but had not received any official answer. Some desultory conversation took place upon the subject. Mr. Halhead suggested a resolution referring•certain understood arrangements as to the land, &c., to the surveyor of the two trusts, but no decision was come to upon it.—This being the whole of the business, the Board adjourned. TEE DUKE of CAMBRIDGE is to be immediately appointed Generalissimo of the Foreign Legion. -Suictnn.—On Thursday afternoon, a gentleman named Thomas Wilson committed suicide, at Eastley's Hotel, Southampton-street, Strand, London, by shooting himself with a pistol. A letter was found in the room, directed to Mr. David Wilson, Belfast ; which contained, also, a request that his portmanteau should be sent to Miss Wilson,Victoria-street, Belfast.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-12-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BERRIDGE. Under the delusive impression referred to, BERRIDGE wrote several threatening letters to Mr. BRowN, and ultimately he resolved to shoot him in his pulpit, inti. mating to Mr. BROWN his intention of so doing. In proof that he meant to do what he threatened, he entered the church provided with balls and percussion caps, and likewise  kNIMMININNINIIMM  9~  with a bag, which be had brought from his inn in mistake for his own, which latter was, on examination, found to contain a loaded Minie pistol. This induced the Reverend Gentleman to have the dangerous delusionist placed under restraint, and, as already stated, he pleaded guilty to the charge, when his counsel admitted that .there was not the slightest ground for the delusion under which the prisoner laboured. The prisoner himself expressed a different opinion from that stated by his counsel, therebY showing that his delusion still existed. The judge; lioivever; Mr.* jiiitke EELS, appears- to think he' knows theicase better than either of them ; for after remarking that he seemed rational on every other subject, exhorted him to exert himself to overcome the miserable delusion whichhe was labouring. With this exhortation be dismissed BERRIDGE on securities that he would be surrendered for sentence in the event of making any other attempt to injure the Rev. Mr. BROWN, or even threaten to do so. Small consolation this, truly, to Mr. Bnowsr, who is thus merely assured that he is not to be threatened any more, and that if any mischief is meant towards him, it will manifest itself without warning. Another instance of judicial singularity has just been afforded by Mr. Justice.COLERIDGE, in the case of Lieutenant AUSTEN, the dismissed Governor of Birmingham Gaol, who was convicted of various acts of cruelty to EDWARD ANDREWS, a prisoner, which terminated in the latter committing suicide. Several other suicides had also, it appeared, resulted from the cruel system of discipline pursued by
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1856-02-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING AFFAIR IN SIITHERLANDSHIRE. —We find in the North British Daily Mail an account of some extraordinary proceedings near Thurso, Sutherlaudshire. A young woman committed suicide, and the body was found in the river. A question arose where to place the body until a coffin could be got ready for the interment. The Free Church minister commanded that the body should be taken to the parish church, as the only proper place for it. On the other hand, the minister of that church demurred to the proceeding, especially as there was an empty storehouse near the very place where the body was found ;. or if it was thought that a church was more desirable, the suggestion arose that it ought to be the church where the deceased herself worshipped when alive, and that, as already stated, was not the parish church, but the Free Church of the district. This, however, would not do for the Free Church party. They proceeded to acts of violence. They broke open one of the windows of the parish church, and thrust in the body of the suicide : and, not contented with this, they placed it, streaming with blood, on the communion table of the parish church, where it lay till the following day, greatly to the dismay, if not horror, of all the members of the Established Church in that place.  PRINTING A NEWSPAPER IN THE WOODS !—We are doing what, perhaps, has never been done in the United States before : we are printing the Wisconsin Mirror in the woods —not a dwelling except our own within half-a-mile of us, and only one within a mile ! The forest oaks bang over our office and dwelling, the deer and rabbits are shy around us, and the partridges and quails seek our acquaintance by venturing nearer and nearer our doors. The noble Wisconsin is bearing onward its immense burdens of ice, majestically and silently, within sight of our windows ; and the snowcapped hills, covered %1 ith scattered oaks and pines, peer up in the distance. There is romance and reality in all this, and we feel almost willing to publish a paper iu such a location just for the excitement of the thing. But most of the romance is soon to be spoiled. Already several dwellings are in progress near us, and before many weeks they are to be occupied by enterprising neighbours ; and, when spring and summer shall come, we expect such a clatter of axes and spades, and trowels and saws and hammers, that we shall hardly be able to write our editorials without introducing more or less of the confusion. The fact is, we expect a large village—yea, a city—to grow up rapidly around us ; and that is why we are here—printing in the woods !—Wisconsin Mirror, Jan. 1.  Loss OF