The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

AN EYPLICIT ADDRESS.—One day last week a letter
passed the Hereford post-office with the following singular
address :—" For that girl I don't no her name they cals the
galoper' and lives somewhere in Bowsey-lane Hereford Here-
fordshire. Shurs don't give this to any girl but that girl."
The letter reached its destination, the fair one for whom it was
intended:being known by this soubriquet to the police.
ON Monday, after an existence of many centuries, the once
renowned fair of St. Bartholomew expired. No proclamation
took place, nor was the ancient court of pied poudre for the
hearing and determining disputes arising in the fair held; the
" Saints' Bell," in Old St. Bartholomew's Church, which has
for time immemorial sounded only on the proclamation of the
fair, was silent, and its occupation is now gone.
CURIOSITIES OF LIFE ASSULANCE.—A correspondent of
a contemporary says :—We have a company professing so
high an idea of homoeopathic principles, that it stipulates, pro-
vided the assured be treated homoeopathically, that five per
cent. be deducted from the premiums. There is also a com-
pany where parties attending to assure their lives have the
advantage of a reading room and refreshments—an excellent
arrangement, for after sandwiches and sherry one feels less
inclined to dispute the rate of premium, even if it be a little
high.
Mn. BETTS, of the firm of Peto, Brassy, and Betts, states
respecting the Crimea, that since the formation of the line it
has been doubled, and is now being effectually drained and
ballasted for the winter work. General Simpson, in reply to
Lord Panmure's inquiries as to the condition of the line on
the 19th ult., states :—" The present railway is on the best
site that can be obtained, and when effectually drained and
ballasted. which is being done, will be quite free from floods."
Lord Panmure has sent out 150 more carriages, to replace
those which have been in constant work, as they require it
from time to time.
RAILWAY CAPITAL.—It appears from a return recently
issued that the 103 bills promoted by railway companies in the
late session of Parliament were for raising £21,605,796, in-
cluding £5,048,288 on loan; but only 77 of them received the
Royal Assent, authorising the raising of £15,851,486, of which
£4,504,938 is to be raised on loan. In the session of 1854 it
was proposed to raise £26,919,551 for railway purposes, but
Parliament granted powers to raise £14,096,234, including
£3,320,159 on loan. In the session of 1853, powers were
sought to raise £38,493,119 by various railway bills, but only
£19,131,674 of that amount was authorised to be raised, in-
cluding £4,223,398 on loan ; and in the session of 1852 powers
were sought by railway companies to raise £14,714,635, but
only £8,471,687 of that amount was authorised to be raised.
Powers were sought by railway companies in the four sessions
above mentioned to raise in the aggregate £101,733,081, but
of this amount £57,551,051 was authorised to be raised, being
not much more than half the amount for which powers were
sought.
STATISTICS OF ICE.—It is just fifty years since the idea of
dispensing ice to the southern latitudes entered the brain of a
Boston merchant, Mr. Tudor. It was a thoroughly worthy
notion of a solid man of that city of notions. For twenty
years considerable disappointment, with various success, at-
tended his efforts, but ultimately his persistency and activity
furnished the southern States and the West Indies with the
frozen delicacy, and a lucrative business opened up. In 1834
the East Indies and Brazil became his business clients. Other
large houses engaged in the ice farming in Massachusetts and
New York, and at present the value of the ice farms of these
States fully equals, if it does not exceed, the value of the rice
crop of Georgia. Boston chiefly supplies the southern parts
with ice, and in its ice-home there were 300,000 tons stored
last year:- In New York nearly the entire crop of ice is used
at home. In Boston there are between 2,000 and 3,000 per-
sons employed in the business season. In New York the
amounfirlricasllie exportation is little. About 9,000 per-
, sons are employed in the entire States by ice, and it is com-
puted that a capital of over $6,000,000 is invested in
New York Daily Times.
FARMERS AND THEIR SERVANTS.—A case of some im-
portance to agriculturists and others engaging servants was
tried at the Bridport and Beaminster Division Petty Sessions,
held at Beaminster on Monday last week. The party sum-
moned in this case was Frederick Clarke, charged with leaving
the service of Mr. Richard Garland, of Hyde Farm, near Brid-
port. The defendant was a hardy lad, apparently about 16
years old, and hacl worked for the plaintiff some years. On
the 11th of August he left the service of Mr. Garland, without
notice, and on the following Monday was engaged by another
farther. Being in the midst of harvest, the lad's service was
valuable, and he therefore summoned him. Mr. Garland
admitted that when he engaged him he took him as a weekly
servant, and agreed.to pay him so much a week; he had not
considered it necessary to tell him that he should expect a
week's notice on his leaving, as he thought that both master
and man were legally compelled to give and receive a week's
notice. The bench, however, decided that the lad completed
his contract every Saturday night, and his employer could not
compel him to return on the Monday. On the other hand,
the farmer may summarily dismiss the man on the Monday
morning without notice, and without there being any claim on
him for compensation. If, however, there be a boncifide agree-
ment to give and receive a week's notice, that is a contract of
another nature. The case, therefore, was dismissed.
THE NEW GOVERNOR or ADELAIDE.—The most interest-
ing event that has lately transpired in this colony during the
last three weeks has been the arrival of his Excellency Sir
Richard Graves M`Donnell, our newly-appointed governor.
We announced in our last summary that Mr. Beresford, his
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had reached Melbourne in the mail packet Blue Jacket, and
was daily expected in Adelaide. His Excellency embarked
for Port Adelaide on board the screw steamer Burnt Burra,
on the 19th of May. The unusually long time that elapsed
without any tidings of this vessel tended to create considerable
uneasiness as to its safety, the more so as it was known that
gales, equal if not greater in violence than any ever known
before on the coast, had been blowing continuously for several
days. On Thursday, June 7, however, the signal for a steamer
in sight was hoisted at the signal station, and great was the
clearly made out to be the Burra Burra. She ' reached the
port about sunset, and came to anchor amid the cheers and
rejoicings of the inhabitants there. Her long passage had
been owing, as was expected, to the boisterous weather en-
countered, especially on the South Australian coast. On the
25th of May she was off the sea mouth of the Murray, when,
a slight accident happening to her machinery, and being short
of fuel, she bore up under canvass for Portland, which port
was reached on the 2d of June. A fresh supply of coals was
laid in there, and she left on the 4th of June, reaching Port
Adelaide, as before stated, on the 7th of June. Sir Richard
M`Donnell remained on board all .night. On the following
morning he landed, when he met with a hearty reception,
and was afterwards installed in due form.—South Australian
Re#ister of June 23.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—The select committee of the
Lords, to inquire into the best mode of obtaining accurate
agricultural statistics from all parts of the kingdom, have re-
ported that, in consequence of the want of these statistics,
great inconvenience and injury has been sustained by all
classes, because we have never known what quantity of foreign
grain we should annually require for home consumption.
France, Holland, Belgium, and the United States, had more
or less perfectly organised systems for obtaining this informa-
tion ; and, from time to time, such statistics had been col-
lected from some of the English counties, successfully, by the
inspectors of the Poor-law Board. As regards England and
Wales, the committee recommended that the officers of the
various unions should be employed, once a year, to deliver and
collect schedules, in which should be enumerated the average
under each description of crop, an accurate return of stock
(cattle), and an approximate estimate of the produce of the
harvest. The schedules having been collected, it is proposed
that they should be classified by each union, and returned to
the Poor-law Board, for a national table to be compiled from
them. With regard to Scotland, it is proposed to leave the
matter entirely in the hands of the Highland Society, as here-
tofore ; and, in Ireland, the existing machinery of the con-
stabulary, under the superintendence of the Irish Registrar-
General, is recommended to remain in force. A bill to em-
power these recommendations to be carried out is proposed to
be introduced into parliament during the ensuing session.

THE TICHBORNE DOLE.—The family 'of. Tichborne date
their possession of the present patrimony, the manor of Tich-
borne, so far back as 200 years before the Conquest. When
the Lady Mabella, worn out with age and infirmity, was lying
on her deathbed, she besought her loving husband, as her last
request, that he would grant her the means of leaving behind
her a charitable bequest, in a dole of bread to be distributed
to all who should apply for it annually on the Feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sir Roger, her
husband, readily acceded to the request, by promising the pro-
duce of as much land as she could go over in the vicinity of
the park while a certain brand or billet war burning, sup-
posing that, from her long infirmity (for sh sad been bed-
ridden some years), she would be able to go round a small
portion only of his property. The venerable dame, however,
ordered her attendants to convey her to the corner of the park,
where, being deposited on the ground, she seemed to receive a
renovation of strength, and, to the surprise of her anxious and
admiring lord, who began to wonder where this pilgrimage
might end, she crawled round several rich and goodly acres.
The field which was the scene of Lady Mabella's ectra-
ordinary feat retains the name of "Crawls" to this -day.
It is situated near the entrance of the park, and contains
an area of 23 acres. Her task being completed, she was
reconveyed to her chamber, and, summoning her family
to her bedside, predicted its prosperity while the annual dole
existed, and left her malediction on any of her descendants
who should ever be so mean or covetous as to discontinue or
divert it, prophesying that when such should happen the old
house would fall and the family name would become extinct
from the failure of heirs male, and that this would be foretold
by a generation of seven sons being followed immediately
after by a generation of seven daughters and no son. The
custom thus founded in the reign of Henry H., continued to
be observed for centuries ; and the 25th of March became the
annual festive day of the family. It was not until the middle
of the last century that the custom was abused; when, under
pretence of attending Tichborne Dole, vagabonds, gipsies, and
idlers of every description assembled from all quarters, pilfer-
ing throughout the neighbourhood ; and, at last, the gentry
and magistrates complaining, it was discontinued in 1796.
Singularly enough, the baronet of the day had seven sons ;
and, when he was succeeded by the eldest, there appeared a
generation of seven daughters, and the apparent fulfimeut of
the prophecy was completed by the change of the name of the
late baronet to Doughty, under the will of his kinswoman.—
Winchester Observer.
SIR JAHEB GRAILA.II.—Sir James Graham is neither more
nor less than a political infidel. The apostle of inconsistency,
he wants the only quality which can redeem that creed. Un-
like Canning or Peel—who although inconsistent were yet
great—it is impossible to detect in the long career of Graham
that element of real consistency which characterises a true
statesman. No man can fail to discern the noble sympathies
of Canning, even when he was following the chariot-wheels of
Eldon, or to recognise Peel's principles of free-trade in his
very measures to secure protection. Without the dignity of
character or the scope of mind to originate a policy, Sir James
Graham has been by turns everything, according to the
humour of the chief whom for the moment he was content to
follow. • His is not the mind to be possessed by a great idea,
the wisdom of which, if he could only see it realised, he would
willingly consent that the future should vindicate. No; Sir
James Graham is a statesman without a policy, and, like the
shallow stock jobber in Capel-court, his judgment is ruled by
the rumour of the hour. With a base passion for power,
heightened by a singular talent for administration (for all
men delight to do that which they do well), conjoined with a
mischievous indiscretion in the exercise of power more worthy
of a schoolboy than a statesman, he is continually bringing
unpopularity on himself and confusion on his colleagues.
With a fixed determination to defend every
.act of his ad-
ministration, and to crush, if possible, any individual who
attempts to question it, lie indulges in a boldness of assertion,
which, though it would be admirable on the stage, becomes
loathsome in the House of Commons. Let not Sir James
suppose that his assertions as to the blockade of the Black
Sea and the death of Captain Christie are yet forgotten.—
Daily News.