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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-05-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  The Duke of Wellington completes his seventy-seN  r on Friday  At a weddiiig party in Sc—oTrand, thd other day, one of the gtieBta unknowingly ate a piece of opium and died in  consequence  A boy, nine years old. has banged himself at Shoreditch because his mother refused to give him a half-penny to buy a ball. The foundation stone of a new Roman Catholic Church the estimated cost of which is £ll,OOO, was laid at Burnley last week.  A youtig labouring man named Henry Cook committed suicide last week at Holdfast, near Upton, on Severn, by taking arsenic. He was said to be in love. The statement that a noble Viscount, a relative of a highly esteemed Evangelical minister in London, was  about to leave the Anglican church and join the Roman communion, has been denied on authority. The well-known Clara Seyton, who has been for some time past giving lectures in this and other towns, was before the London Insolvent Court on Thursday. The case was adjourned. Keying, the high commissioner to the Emperor of China, has requested Sir T. Cochrane to record his name as a donor of 900 dollars (about £190) to the Seaman's Floating Hospital. The money has been paid. Captain Hamilton, of Port Glasgow, has bequeathed the sum of twenty thousand pounds to the Free Church, to be divided between the sustentation fund and the missionary schemes of the Free Church. A London newspaper informs its readers that " an additional number of sentinels are to be placed is Hyde Park, to prevent the robberies which happened last winter."  Much curiosity was excited in Covent Garden Market, on Monday, by the appearance of two pecks of French green peas for sale, and for which the vender demanded £2 10s.  On Saturday week, William Somerville, one of the po:emen on the Caledonian Railway, while attemotine to  quell a disturbance, was killed in the most barbaro.us manner, near Lockerbie, by the railway labourers.  On Thursday, the Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, and Cleveland, and the Earl of Lonsdale, had audiences of the Queen at Buckingham Palace, to present addresses against the repeal of the corn laws.  -On Sunday, the inmates of Mallow Workhouse not only refused to eat the Indian meal, but rose up en masse and denounced those who had introduced it. The riot was such that the police bad to be sent for.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-05-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE UNDER SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCES.—On Sunday morning a young woman, named Mary Done, servant to Mr. John Palin, butcher, Trafalgar-street, committed suicide under the following circumstances : The deceased, who was about 19 years of age, was servant in the family of Mr. Palin, who had on several occasions missed sums of money, which he could not account for, and for the abstraction of which he had begun to entertain suspicions of the deceased ; but nothing of a very confirmatory character occurred till Saturday. On that day, having to pay a sum of money, he went to a repository in which he had lodged £32, principally in silver, when he found a very large deficiency, On this discovery he asked the servant if she knew anything about it ; but she denied all knowledge of it. Subsequently, however, under the belief that the police were to be employed in investigating the matter, the deceased confessed that she had taken a portion of the missing money ; but would not confess what she had done with it. A search was instituted, and, after much trouble, the sum of £2O, all in silver, was found secreted in the chimney of Mr. Palin's brother's bed room. It was then resolved by Mr. Palin, that Mary Done should be sent over to her relatives in Chester, as he did not wish to expose her. Overcome by the sense of shame, and the dread of discovery, it would appear the unfortunate girl committed nuclide. She was found lying dead in the pantry adjoining Mr. Palin's kitchen. A rope was found attached to a hook in a beam, the other end, which had broken off, being about her neck, which was dislocated. She was quite dead. No other cause could be assigned for the rash act. An inquest will be held on the body this day.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-05-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE. 'UNDER SINGULAR CIRCIIMSTANCES.—On Sunday morning a young woman, named Mary Done, servant to Mr. John Palin, butcher, Trafalgar-street, committed. suicide under the following circumstances : The deecased, who was about 19 years of age, was servant in the family of Mr. Palin, who had on several occasions missed sums of money, which he could. not account for, and fbr the abstraction of which he had begun to entertain suspicions of the deceased • but nothing of a very confirmatory character occurred till Saturday. On that day, having to pay a sum of money, he went to a repository in which he had lodged £32, principally in silver, when he found a very large deficiency, On this discovery he asked the servant if she knew anything about it ; but she denied all knowledge of it. Subsequently, however, under the belief that the police were to be employed in investigating the matter, the deceased confessed that she had taken a portion of the missing money ; but would not confess what she had done with it. A search was instituted, and, after much trouble, the sum of £2O, all in silver, was found secreted in the chimney of Mr. Palin's brother's bed room. It was then resolved by Mr. Palin, that Mary Done should be sent over to her relatives in Chester, as he did not wish to expose her. Overcome by the sense of shame, and the dread of discovery, it would appear the unfortunate girl committed suidide. She was found lying dead in the pantry adjoining Mr. Palin's kitchen. A rope was found attached to a hook in a beam, the other end, which had broken off, being about her neck, which was dislocated. She was quite dead. No other cause could be assigned for the rash act. An inquest will be held on the body this day.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-01-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ELECTION.—The election for a member of parliament for East Gloucestershire, in the room of the Duke of Beaufort, took place on Monday, last week. The candidates were Sir M. H. H. Beach, a Conservative, and Mr. Edw. Holland, a Radical. The show of hands was in favour of the latter, but at the close of the poll, which took place on Thursday, the numbers were—Sir M. H. Beach, 3,363 ; Mr. Holland, 2,344 ; majority, 1,019. D4pwlcED.—On Saturday night last, Hugh lirCroney, from Londonderry, who was about to return to Ireland by the steamer Blenheim, fell into the water at the south-east corner of the Clarence Dock. He was seized before he sunk, but died in the receiving-house from the effects of the exposure.—Yesterday forenoon, the body of a man unknown, was found in the canal lock, Great Howardstreet, and taken to the dead-house. It was there identified by the mate of the Westmoreland, lying in the Prince's Dock, to be his captain. He had last seen him on Saturday evening.  EMANCIPATION PROM TUE RAZOR! " WHY SHAVE?" —Under this title, Mr. Dickens has published a very interesting and talented article, as a dissuasive from shaving—sheaving the injury done to the chest, the teeth, the nerves, the appearance, and in fact the constitution, from man's depriving himself of the protection nature has afforded for this part of his frame. It appears to us quitt as rational that man should shave his head or his eyebrows as his chin and his lip. Where nature (that is, the God of nature) has placed the protection, depend upon it it is required, and man acts to his own injury and in defiance of nature's laws to remove that protection. We earnestly commend Mr. Dickens's article to the attention of our readers.—Correspondent. - - -  SlllClDES.—Yesterday morning, a watch finisher named James Chambers, 57 years of age, and lodging at the house of Mr. J. W. Jones, Luke-street, Toxteth-park, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were awakened about four o'clock, by a heavy fall in the lobby leading from deceased's bed-room to his work. shop, and on obtaining a light found Chambers lying bleeding with an extensive wound in his neck, the jugular vein having been quite cut through. The police were called in, and also a surgeon from the dispensary, but in a few minutes life was extinct. Deceased had been drinking heavily since Christmas, and had been threatened with the consequences of keeping watches which had been sent to him to repair.—On Thursday last, George Walker, 38 years of age, a cabinet-maker and dealer in joiners' tooLs, residing in No. 5, Headlane-buildings, Ranelagh-place, hung himself behind his bed-room door, whilst labouring under delirium tremens..
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-01-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE NEW REFORM- BILL.  Men dangers which threaten the very existence of the Coalition Administration have served to divert public attention from the pet scheme of Lord Jousr RcisELL to unsettle the Constitution by a new Reform Bill, though so little is it dreaded that even Conservatives have more to gain than lose by any change which should really give the franchise into the hands of the people. This could only be effected by enlarging the county constituencies at the cost of the pocket boroughs of the Whigs, and the result -would be an accession of Conservative members to the House of Commons, and the restoration of the great (Aces of state into the hands of statesmen and men of honour, in the place of political tricksters. The truth is every day becoming more apparent,that the public opinion of intelligent Englishmen is essentially Conservative. The election for East Glouees4-yershire has shown it by a triumphant majority of more than a thousand. Liverpool, the most important constituency in the empire, has amply demonstrated, on two occasions. Even the city of London, with all its drawbacks of the purchased votes of longshore men, has improved in tone, which accounts for the refusal of Lord Jolts. RUSSELL to accept the office that was vacated by Lord PALMERSTON, as his re-election would have been more than doubtful. No change in the representative system could have been acceptable to the country, or reconcileable with Radical professions, unless -the franchise had been extended over a wider surface. It would have realised to the letter the claims of Liberals, and virtually have extinguished them as a party. It would have been an act of Roman virtue, deserving the plaudits of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S friends, because it would have been ostensibly a concession to democracy, while it would, in reality, have been a political suicide, for which Conservatives only should have been grateful. Lord Jowl( RvssELL, however, has no such virtue ; mean in mind, as in person, his cause has ever been a crooked one ; parliamentary tact has been his chief weapon, and his exercise 4of it on this occasion would be a vain attempt to persuade the legislature that the House of Commons would ;be improved by an addition to the representatives of the dwellers in the back streets and blind alleys of the manufacturing towns. It is better, therefore, that the Ministers should retire before another session be wasted in idle discussion on impossible projects ; and if Reform ix really desirable—which is open to question—it will be accomplished far more satisfactorily by a Conservative Government. There is, however, ample business to occupy the attention of the legislature in measures of real importance to the welfare of the country. Its foreign relations, as well as its colonial and domestic policy, afford abundance of means for discussion, with far more prospect of beneficial results, than any schemes which can be desired to suit the political expediency of the expiring faction.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-01-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE NEW REFORM BILL.  Tam dangers whieh threaten the very existence of the Coalition Administration have served to divert public attention from the pet scheme of Lord Jonx Russum. -to unsettle the Constitution by a new Reform Bill, though so little is it dreaded that even Conservatives have more to gain than lose by any change which should really give the franchise into the hands of the people. This could only be effected by enlarging the county constituencies at the cost of the pocket boroughs of the Whigs, and the result would be an accession of Conservative members to the House of Commons, and the restoration of the great offices of state into the hands of statesmen and men of lonour, in the place of political tricksters. The truth is every day becoming more apparent,that the public opinion of intelligent Englishmen is essentially Conservative. The election for East Gloucestershire has shown it by a triumphant majority of more than a thousand. Liverpool, the most important constituency in the empire, has amply demonstrated, on two occasions. Even the city of London, with all its drawbacks of the purchased votes of longshore men, has improved in tone, which accounts for the xefusal of Lord Joux RUSSELL to accept the office that was vacated by Lord PALMERSTON, as his re-election would have been more than doubtful. No change in the representative system could have been acceptable to the country, or reconcileable with Radical professions, unless the franchise had been extended over a wider surface. It would have realised to the letter the claims of Liberals, :and virtually have extinguished them as a party. It would have been an act of Roman virtue, deserving the -plaudits of Lord Joux RussELL's friends, because it would have been ostensibly a concession to democracy, while it would, in reality, have been a political suicide, for which Conservatives only should have been grateful. Lord Joux Russuvr,, however, has no such virtue ; mean in mind, as in person, his cause has ever been a crooked one; parliamentary tact has been his chief weapon, and his exercise Wit on this occasion would be a vain attempt to persuade the legislature that the House of Commons would ;be improved by an addition to the representatives of the dwellers in the back streets and blind alleys of the -manufacturing towns. It is better, therefore, that the Ministers should retire before another session be wasted in idle discussion on impossible projects; and if Reform be really desirable—which is open to question—it will be accomplished far more satisfactorily by a Conservative -Government. There is, however, ample business to occupy the attention of the legislature in measures of real importance to the welfare of the country. Its foreign relations, as well as its colonial and domestic policy, afford abundance of means for discussion, with far more prospect of beneficial results, than any schemes which can be desired to suit the political expediency of the expiring faction.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-01-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DROWNED.—On Saturday night last, Hugh M'Croney, from Londonderry, who was about to return to Ireland by the steamer Blenheim, fell into the water at the south-east corner of the Clarence Dock. He was seized before he sunk, but died in the receiving-house from the effects of the exposure.—Yesterday forenoon, the body of a man unknown, was found in the canal lock, Great Howardstreet, and taken to the dead-house. It was there identified by the mate of the Westmoreland, lying in the Prince's Dock, to be his captain. He had last seen him on Saw' day evening. EMANCIPATION PROM THE RAZOR ! " WEEP SHAVE ?" —Under this title, Mr. Dickens has published a very interesting and talented article, as a dissuasive from shaving—shewing the injury done to the chest, the teeth, the nerves, the appearance, and in fact the constitution, from man's depriving himself of the protection nature has afforded for this part of his frame. It appears to us quite as rational that man should shave his head or his eyebrows as his chin and his lip. Where nature (that is, the God of nature) has placed the protection, depend upon it it is required, and man acts to his own injury and in defiance of nature's laws to remove that protection. We earnestly commend Mr. Dickens's article to the attention of our readers.—Correspondent.  SUlClDES.—Yesterday morning, a watch finisher named James Chambers, 57 years of age, and lodging at the house of Mr. J. W. Jones, Luke-street, Toxteth-park, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were awakened about four o'clock, by a heavy fall in the lobby leading from deceased's bed-room to his work• shop, and on obtaining a light found Chambers lying bleeding with an extensive wound in his neck, the jugular vein having been quite cut through. The police were called in, and also a surgeon from the dispensary, but in a few minutes life was extinct. Deceased had been drinking heavily since Christmas, and had been threatened with the consequences of keeping watches which had been sent to him to repair.—On Thursday last, George Walker, 38 years of age, a cabinet-maker and dealer in joiners' tools, residing in No. 5, Headlane-buildings, Ranelagh-place, Ihung himself behind his bed-room door, whilst labouring under delirium tremens..
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-04-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRISH CATTLE.-An account of the number of live Cat- sung; as was also " How beautiful are the feet of them The proceedings of the Markets, Education, Gaol and- ;:4,ioitie About midnight on Tuesday a fire broke out in our churches, applied for relief before the Board of Mary Carroll, an old offender, with being concerned in to the gaols and penitentiaries. 6. It has made at least tle exported from Ireland to Great Britain having been . that preach the gospel." We perceive that, on Tuesday, ' House of Correction, and the Town-hall Establishment . tol, eehre's room belonging to elessrs. Major and John- Guardians. He stated that he only received fourpence working an extensive private still in Norman-street, in 1,000 maniacs. 7. It has instigated to the commission of moved for by Mr. Horsfall, the Inspector-Gerseral of Im- , the eta proximo, the same artistes advertise a performance Committee, were confirmed ; a recommendation of the it'l latZisraildine* yard Brunswick Dock. Owing to the each Sunday for blowing the organ, and sixpence for this town. The still was fitted up in a most artful man- 1,500 murders. 8. It has caused 2,000 persons to commit Ports and Exports reports that there being no official ' consisting of selections from the music of Handel and last-named committee, to increase the wages of the porters t, ilee - s , Mozart. ~, 16)8es . nature of the contents, the whole of the digging an ordinary grave ! When the grave was a " big ner, and a very considerable trade had been carried on, suicide. 9. It has burnt or otherwise destroyed property reeord of the coasting trades lie ha.s framed a return at the Tovi-n-hall from 20s. to 21s. per week, being orderect are' '''aily• iewieth the engine-room and other buildings, were 'un," he got tenpence for his task. He sometimes had two there being at least 150 gallons of wash in preparation to the amount of $10,000,000. 10. It has made 200,000 chiefly from market and shipping reports, and he states i
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-04-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CATTLE.-An account of the number of live cat- sung; as was also " How beautiful are the feet of them , The proceedings of the Markets Education, Gaol and. ' t ee tit • ; Vet ree raldnight on Tuesday a fire broke out in our churches, applied for relief before the Board of Mary Carroll, an old offender, with being concented in to the gaols and penitentiaries, 6. et has made at least tle exPorted from Ireland to Great Britain having been , that preach the gospel." We perceive that, on TuesdaO, House of Correction, and the To'wn-hall Establish ment' nil4,atunileetil belonging to Messrs. Major and Johu- Guardians. He stated that he Only received fourpence working an extensive private still in Norman-street, in 1,000 maniacs. 7. It has instigated to the commissiori of moved for hy Mr• Horsfall, the Inspector-General of Im- : the 9th proximo, the same artistes advertise a performance Committee, were confirmed ; a recommendation of the n, te 4 g Yard Brunswick Dock. Owing to the each Sunday for blowiug the organ, and sixpence for this town. The still was fitted up in a most artful man- 1,500 murders. 8. It has caused 2,000 persons to commit Ports and EaPorts reports that there being no official ' , consisting of seleCtions from the music of Handel and last-named committee, to increase the w n• Nle atar ' 1 Mozart. ages of the porters nie all te eof the contents, the whole of the digging an ordinary grave ! When the grave was a " big ner, and a very considerable trade had been carried on, suicide. 9. It has burnt or otherwise destroyed property record of the coasting trade, he has framed a return at the Town-hall from 20s. to 21s. per week, being ordered.4 p.-4;sese. engine-room and other buildings, were 'un," he got tenpence for his task. He sometimes had two there being at least 150 gallons of wash in preparation to the amount of $10,000,000. 10, It has made 200,000 chiefly from market and shipping reports, and he states .
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-03-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY FORGERY.—DR. GARDINER'S CASE. This case is as remarkable as any recorded in the Causes Caebres. A large sum had been appropriated by Congress, under the treaty of peace with Mexico, to pay-off the claims of American citizens, who, at various times, had suffered injury at the hands of the Mexican authorities. A special commission was appointed to examine these claims, and Dr. Gardiner came forward with documents to prove that he had been the owner of a valuable mine in the department of San Luis Potosi, and that the Mexicans had broken up his mining establishment, causing him a loss of some half-million of dollars. The commission awarded him, if not the whole, a larger sum, as we believe, than was given to any other single claimant. He got the money, paid his counsel a large part of it, and with the rest was a rich man. Soon after this he went to Europe, and while he was there the suspicion became so strong:that his whole claim was a fraud, that an injunction was laid on a considerable portion of the money which he had left in bank at Washington. He returned, and was indicted about three years and a-half ago. He was first tried under the indictment about a year since:; but that trial resulted in the disagreement of the jury. The evidemo against him was procured by commissions sent to Mexico expressly for the purpose. It was conclusive ; the papers on which his claim had been prosecuted before the Indemnity Commissioners were proved to have been for the most part forgeries of a gross character; and it was shown that the mine he claimed to have lost had never had an existence. Still his case was managed with ability, and the evidence he furnished on the trial was such as to stagger and divide the jury on the question of his guilt. We believe, however, that in the interim additional proofs were obtained, which no longer left the possibility of a doubt, and which not only resulted in the verdict rendered, but in the infliction of the law's extremest penalty by the court. The next stage in the drama was his suicide —a terrible confession of the justness of his sentence, an awful blow to the friends who had stood by him through the prosecution.—New York Tribune.