The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mu. COBDEN ( says the Yorkshirenzan) has not the shadow
of a chance of being again returned for the West Riding.

Six young men were drowned on Wednesday morning by
he upsetting of•a Worthing fishing-boat,-about 20 miles from

Ramsgate.
A LARGE number of spurious crown pieces are in circula-
tion. They are of the date of 1819, and are exceedingly good

THE Bishop of Lincoln is announced to have a new work in
the press, with the title, " The Church of Christ during the

first Three Centuries."

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A STRENUOUS effort is about being made by the friends of
Mr. Bates to procure a commutation or remission of his sen-
tence of fourteen years' transportation, by means of a memo-
rial in his favour, to be addressed to Her Majesty.
A numoun of a division in the Great Western railway
board of directors, and a threat of resignation of an influential
member ( Mr. Walpole, the chairman), if a dividend was re-
cammended for the current half-year, is rife in many quarters,

and believed.— Herapath.
GEORGE SMITH has been sentenced to a year's imprison-
ment for fraudulently obtaining the " Queen's shilling," on
three separate occasions, by alleging each time that he had
never enlisted before. Another man, William Webb, has re-
ceived sentence of six months' imprisonment for falsely enlist-
ing as a single man, being married.
THE PATRIOTIC PIIND.—The weekly report of the com-
mittee for the administration of the Patriotic Fund states,
that the numbers at present receiving relief from the fund
are—widows, 2,526; children, 3,104; and orphans, who have
lost both parents, 97. The amount of subscriptions to the

fund now ;miles-the large sum of £1,291,296.
THE PURITY OF THE BALLoT-Box.—John Rhodes was ar-

rested in Baltimore for voting on Mr. Gammen's papers ;
Gammen was arrested for lending them to Rhodes, and then
voting on them himself. This is no uncommon thing. It was
done in Philadelphia recently, and has been a frequent prac-
ticein New York and elsewhere.
Joni CocEcßorr, a notorious character, better known as
" Happy Jack," has died, at Rotherham, from the bursting of a
blood-vessel, brought on by intense love of drink. On a former
occasion, a keg of gin having burst at the .Hasbro' station, he
and two companions drank such an enormous quantity that
his companions died, and he was only saved by the use of the
stomach pump and other remedies.
MR. JAMES PEARSON, corn miller, of Sams Mill, Horton,
near Bradford, was robbed, on Tuesday evening, of £260, con-
sisting of bank notes, a cheque, and £47 in gold, while on his
way from Bradford to his own residence. The robbers attacked
him with bludgeons, and left him on the ground in a state of
insensibility. Three men have been apprehended by the Brad-
ford police on suspicion of being the thieves.

Da. GRIFFTTII, the prosecutor of Strahan, Paul, and Bates,
is, it is said, very wealthy, As a young man, he distinguished
himself at Cambridge, and after launching into life was for-
tunate to form a matrimonial alliance with a Miss Barker,
the only child of the Rev. Mr. Barker, who had amassed a for-
tune of nearly £200,000 as a merchant, previous to his entering
into holy orders.
A NOVEMBER Foa.—The whole of London was enveloped
in a dense fog on Thursday morning, and it extended to most
of the suburban districts. It is the first the metropolis has
seen during the present month, which has become proverbial
for fogs ; and as half of November has gone, the Londoners
consider themselves tolerably fortunate. Fogs at this time of
year are generally considered as precursors of severe frosts.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.-Mr. Chas.Mosely, of Dalston,
a clerk in the Bank of England, has committed suicide, under
the impression left upon his mind by a dream, to the effect
that officers were in pursuit of him for forgeries upon the
bank. He mentioned the dream to his wife, who tried to
cheer him, but he had a similar dream on the following night,
and under its influence he rushed down stairs and ripped his
abdomen open with a carving-knife. He died in about three
hours afterwards.

AN INQUIET was held by the Sunderland magistrates last
week, under the new Merchant Shipping Act, into the cir-
cumstances of the stranding of the brig Brenda, one of those
which were driven ashore by the late gale. It was proved
beyond doubt that the master, a Mr. Bell, was "roaring
drunk" at the time, unable to give orders, and behaving with
the greatest violence. The depositions were forwarded to the
Board of Trade, and meanwhile the master's certificate has
been suspended. _

WAGES OF AGRICULTURAL SERVANTS.—The annual " sta-
tutes," or hirings of farm servants, have just commenced in
the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Wakefield statutes were
held on Monday, and the Doncaster statutes on Tuesday. There
was a pretty good attendance of servants at both places, and
hiring was very brisk, the demand for farming men being
greater than the supply. Wages ruled high, the best hands
obtaining from £l5 to £22; boys, £5 to ES ; girls, from £7 to
£lO.
DIE Gazette contains a copyright convention between her
Majesty and the King of Prussia, extending the copyright
convention of 184.6, to all books published in countries which
may join the convention, and exported through the countries
included in the first convention, viz.:—Prussia, Saxony, Saxe-
Weimer, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, Brunswick, Anhalt-Dessau-Gothen, Auhalt-Bernburg,
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen or
Reuss. The new convention also extends protection to trans-

latious.
WRAr •OUR, lIOSPITALS Altu Douso.—We find it stated
in the appeal lately put forth by the committee of manage-
ment of King's College Hospital, London, that in the year
1854 s there were entered on the hospital books 27,691 patients ;
and that since the year 1839, when the hospital was first
opened, no less than 282,705 patieuts'have been admitted to
the benefits of the charity, of whom 17,943 _were in-patients,
259,2350r5t-patients, and 5,627 poor married women attended
at their own homes. Let us assume that other hospitals, in
proportion to their means, are doing as much as this unen-
dowed hospital ; and what a large idea do we not obtain of
the benefits conferred on the poor by hospitals ; and what
claims on the liberality of the really charitable do not these
noble inetitutions put forth?
RAILWAY LAWS.—Last week;at Dumbarton, Mr. Andrew
Grierson, of Edinburgh, claimed damages from the Dumbar-
tonshire Railway Company, for detention caused by them
while en a journey from Lochlomond to Edinburgh, on Satur-
day, the 15th of September last. It was Balloch fair-day ;
and in consequence of the difficulty experienced in getting the
immense number of passengers packed into the carriages, the
6.30 p.m. train did not leave Balloch station till 7.10 p.m. The
steamer from Bowling was, consequently, that much behind its
usualtime in getting up to the Broomielaw, and the "pursuer,"
in place-of proceeding ou to Edinburgh that evening, found
all the trains started, and was compelled to remain in Glasgow
till Monday morning. He now raised an action to recover
LI 7s. 6d. for outlay, and £2 12s. for professional charges,
inconvenience, and anoyauce. The defence of the company
was, that their time table only stated trains would " not
start before" the hours therein mentioned, and they were not,
therefore, responsible for the delay. The sheriff, however,
overruled this objection, and found the company liable for
Li 75..6d., the pursuer's travelling expenses.
HOPE TOR THE CONSUMPTIVE.—Dr. Maddock, of Curzon-
temedr eet,ie:; nocilipiendotrnno,dttassetedacgledeariroeclfyteloy shownnisnutmo
pi
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consumption,
lungshnispauiibd libschyure dseuwtphoperukrdsaistteihoaanste,
very frequently effect the absorption of tuberculous deposits
n the
even after-ulceration has commenced. 'From the accumulated
mass of facts which the author has presented to the public of
the value of this simple and efficacious mode of reaching, and
locally acting on, the seat of disease, no reasonable doubt can
be entertained that it will form a new era in the treatment
of all affections of the respiratory organs. In France, Ger-
many, and America, Dr. Maddoek's remedial agents are being
most extensively and successfully adopted. In the latter
country they have caused a perfect firore among the profes-
sion.—Ligerary Review.
THE RIGHT TO KEEP ANIMALS.—A case was tried in
the Exeter County Court on Tuesday, ." Abraham v. Minty,"
to test the right of persons to keep animals, which, by crow-
ing and barking, prove an annoyance to their neighbours.
The defendant kept a dog for the protection of his premises,
and also reared poultry. The allegation on the part of the
plaintiff was that he suffered annoyance from the barking of
the dog,and particularly from the loud and incessant crowing
of a bantam fowl, which crowed six or seven times in the
coarse of a minute. The damages for this annoyance were
laid at LL The judge, Mr. J. Tyrrell, held that persons in
towns and villages had no right to keep animals which an-
noyed their neighbours, but at the same time the latter must
not be too exacting. No one would complain of an occasional
bark or crow, but he thought that no reasonable biped would
require to crow 150 times in 25 minutes, and that no reason-
able person was bound to put up with so much crowing. He,
therefore, inflicted the nominal penalty of is. for the crowing
in the month of September, and said that an action might be
broUght for the crowing uf every day in the year.
How TALLOW COMES PROM Russxm.—On Wednesday, a
~case ocenred at the Southwark police-court, which shows the
laeility with which tallow comes from Russia to England,
during the present rigorous blockade in the Baltic and Black
Sea :—Edward Chandler, a labourer at Mark Brown's suffer-
ance wharf, Tooley-street, was, charged with stealing there-
Iron a quantity of Russian tallow.—Mr. Coinbe asked who
the:tallow belonged to ?-one of the owners of Mark Brown's
wharf, said the tallow had just arrived from Russia, consigned
to an English firm, and it was being unloaded at their wharf
tobe'bonded for the owners.—Mr. Combe ; How does it come
from Russia when all her ports are blockaded and the war is
proceeding ?—Wharfinger: it comes through Prussia, your
worship. The tallow in question came from Memel in a
Dutch,vegsel.—Mr. Combe What part of Russia does this
tallow come from ?—Wharfinger: From St. Petersburg. It
is there sold by the merchants on English account to the care
of a :Prussian firm, who conveys it through Russia and Prussia
to Memel, where it is publicly shipped to England. Not only
tallow ,comes in the market largely from Russia, but henip,
fax, dyewoods, &c. The robbery was proved and the prisoner
sentenced to tr,vo 'months' hard' labour in the house of cor-
rection.

FATAL COLLUSION AT SEA.—A collision involving the loss
of six lives has been reported at Lloyd's by the Dutch steamer
Stadt Dordrecht, captain Stuit, which has arrived in the
Thames from Dordt. The steamer left the Pool on her usual
return voyage on the evening of the 7th instant. On the
following morning, between two and three o'clock, she was
pursuing her course to the westward of the Kentish Knock,
the weather being somewhat misty and dark, when a fishing
lugger was observed a short distance ahead. The helm was
shifted in the hope of clearing her, but her stem caught the
lugger and she was run down. As quickly as, possible the
steamer brought up and put back,and it was discovered that the
vessel had sunk, but that the crew, eight in all, floated on the
nets which had got entangled with the broken mast, which
assisted in their buoyancy. The crew of the steamer endea-
voured to rescue the fishermen by throwing them ropes and
oars ; the darkness of the morning, however, and the sea
which was running, with other circumstances, greatly frus-
trated the attempts to save all the lives. After some ditpulty
the master (William Heather) and one of the men (Richard.
Wells) succeeded in laying hold of the ropes, and in an ex-
hausted condition were dragged on board the steamer, which
continued to cruise about the spot for some time in the hopes
of picking up the others. Their cries,
.however, gradually
died away, and the poor creatures, six in all, perished.
Their names were, Alfred Heather and George Heather,
brothers of the master ; 'William Belton, who has left a
widow and large family ; Benjamin Wheeler; a young man
named Ball, and an apprentice. The smack was then ascer-
tained to be the Ocean Queen, of Worthing. At the time of
the occurrence the men were in the act of taking in their
nets ; 10,000 fish were already on board, and there were five
nets remaining to be got in. To add to the loss; there was
some cash on board the lugger. The survivors received every
kindness on board the steamer, and were taken on to Dordt,
where they made a statement of the catastrophe to the
authorities, None of the bodies have yet been picked up.