The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-26 00:00:00

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donkeys he of course included the commissioners. He
afterwards followed up this hit Aciy an appeal tolhe bench
on behalf of his clients, an,/ finally gained his cause.
M. ROBELL7SON GLADSTONE. it would appear, has
received a letter from his friend, Mr. Cobden, on the
Turkish question. The member for the West-Riding,
says :—" Many thanks for your, tract upon non-interven-
tion in the affairs of Turkey ; .and still mare -for your
courage in signing a paper containing so much eammon
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THEATRE-ROYAL.—This theatre will be opened on
Monday next, Mr. Charles Matthews appearing for five
nights in his principal Lyceum parts.

THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. Joint GIBBON.
The articles of plate subscribed for by the members of the
Rev. John Gibson's congregation, at Gerston Church,
were presented to him on Saturday, by a deputation.
LOWNDES vice GORST.—We understand that an early
Gazette will contain the Queen's license empowering E.
Gorst, Esq. , of this town, to take the name of " Lowndes."
In pursuance of this license, Mr. Gorst and his eldest son
will immediately assume the name of Lowndes ; but his
daughters and younger sons will still retain their present
surname.—Preston Guardian.

AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION.—Six vessels have taken
their departure from Liverpool, for the Australian ports,
during the week. There are now three ships loading at
Liverpool for Adelaide, of an aggregate tonnage of 1,102 ;
seventeen for Melbourne, 9,888 tons ; one for Moreton
Bay, 1,309 tons; one for Port Philip, 1,040 tons; and
six for Sydney, of an aggregate tonnage of 3,599.

PILOT BILL.—The following notices of motion have
been given :—Mr. Horsfall, to move the following amend-
ments : In clause 10, after the word " mate," in lines 32,
35, and 39, insert, "of any coasting ship or vessel."
Mr. Liddell, in the event of Mr. Horsfall's amendment
being rejected, to move, "That the port of Liverpool be
exempted from the provisions of the said clause."

THE ARGENTINA.—The new steam-ship Argentina,
belonging to the South American Steam Navigation Com-
pany, made a most satisfactory trial trip to Holyhead and
back on Thursday, when she accomplished a speed of
fourteen knots. She is now taking coals and stores on
board, and will proceed on her voyage to Lisbon and
Brazils to-morrow.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The British and North
American mail steamship Niagara, Lang, commander,
took her departure hence for Boston, on Saturday, at
eleven, a.m., with 15G passengers and a very full cargo on
board, besides the usual mails. The Baltic, which will
take her departure to-morrow (Wednesday), carries about
700 tens of goods, the rate of freight, which has been
raised £1 since the Ist instant, being £5.
AN ACCIDENT occurred on the London and North-
western line on Thursday morning. The mail train from
the north to London, which left Wigan at eighteen
minutes past four, had for its guard a man named Thomas
Barlow. It should have stopped at Crewe, but the breaks
were not put on as usual on its entering the station. This
led to a search for the guard who was not at the break
wheel, and he was discovered dead on the top of one of
the carriages. From appearances it was concluded that
he had come in contact with one of the arches over the
lino near Hartford.—Wigan Time&
PREPARING FOR THE CREnctl.—A curious case Came
before the County Court on Friday. The plaintiff was
W. Booth, teacher of elocution, Wesley-street, and the
defendant James Battersby, gentleman, residing at Hope-
place. The action was brought to recover the sum of
three guineas, for instruction given to the defendant in
the art of elocution. The plaintiff said the defendant was
the son of a gentleman of great wealth, and, having just
come from college, he desired to take lessons in elocution.
The defendant told him his father was very rich, and
money was of no moment'; he was reading with a clergy-
man, to whom he paid xth- per month, and he was shortly
to be ordained. 'He wished to go tlttough the church
service with him. The defendant agreed with him to
take lessons on his'ustal terms of three guineas per.quar.
ter, and he bad given him a quarter's instruction, for
which he made the present claim. his honour, after
hearing the evidence, said the plaikiff was entitled to his
claim. It was quite :clear the defendant had mistaken
15s. in a class forns. private lessons.

THE BLACttURN ReCTOHY LANDS.—Our readers will
remember that memorials respecting these lands, (which
have been recently enfranchised,' were, some few weeks
since, forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Earl of Aberdeen, and the Eishop of Manchester. The
purport of these memorials 'as, that the consideration
money to'beipaid, or any increased value to he-obtained
from the en'franchisement of so much valuable property,
-should be appropriated to •church purposes within the
town or palish of Blackburn, rather than go to swell the
general revenues of the -ecclesiastical commissioners!
Acknowledgments hive been received from the parties to
whom 'the memorials were addressed—those from the
archbishep and the premier of a more formal character ;
but the reply from the Bishop of Manchester expresses a
most lively interest in the -views of the memorialists. At
his lordship's request, adeputation, which -consisted of
the Rev. Thomas' Sharpies, M. A., Thomas Dugdale,
'Esq., 'john Baynes, Es,q., and J. Turner Hopwood, Esq.,
attended at the registry in St. James's—Nnere, Manches-
ter, last week, on which occasion his lordship entered
very fully into the business, and after having given a
detailed history•of the rectory of Blackburn, and shown
the legal bearing of various acts of 'Parliament affecting
thlt‘trestion at issue, concluded by expressing a confident
opinion that Blackburn had not only a moral and equi-
table claim to consideration, but one which the courts of
law would enforee.--;.£lackburn Standavd.

LEAVING Kirrs-''wrrir THE 'PeucE.—in consequence
of numerous applications received from 'the inhabitants,
and in order to afford the accommodation desired, the
watch committee at Manchester have made arrangements
under which the keys of their premises may be deposited
for safety by night at any of the principal police stations,
in -consideration of the payment of 41 per annum. At
each place- there will be fitted up a place to receive boxes
-of different sizes, something similar to the pigeon-holes
for letters at the post-office, and each .person depositing
the keys will be provided with a box, at- a cost not exceed-
ing2s26d., on which he mill be required to place a lock,
so-that the keys may 'be locac'l up in the box before beinr
left at the police atation ; he will also be furnished with a
ticket, on which will be placed a distinguishing figure to
-correspond with a similar figure, whiola will be placed on
the box, as well as in a registry book,and it will be nec,.s-
eery for the messenger who is sent for the keys to produce
that ticket. In the event of fire in any depositor's pre-
mises, the police would break open the box, in order to
obtain access, by means of the keys, and such premises
would be taken charge of by the police until properly deli-
vered over to the proprietors. The watch committee have
also made arrangernerns, that any persons who may have
found keys may leave them at any of the police stations,
when the finding the same will be notified by " route" at
every police station, 80 that any person who has lost his
keys may, on inquiry at any of the stations, ascertain
whether they have been found and left in charge of the
police.—Manchester Guardian.

GRANGE OF Ain. AND CLIMATE.-It has been ',seer-
tained that consumption is a very common disease among
the resident inhabitants of many of those places to which
invalids from this country frequently resort. This shows
that the advantage derived is dependent more upon the
excitement of travelling, and the change of habit end
scene, than upon any curative power of climate. The
selecticn of a suitable climate is a subject which could
not be briefly touched .upon with advantage. I shall
only therefore observe that the change to more distant
places-is adapted chiefly- to those in whom tubercular
isstage, or very perfectly arrested,
adndeatsheatismin an earlyostofth the advantages of change may be more
safely attained, by more -delicate invalids, in removing
from one part of the eauntry to another. There is
scarcely any point, in reference to the treatment of this
disease, .on which t'

he medical man is called to give an
opinion, of greater importance to the comfort of the
patient than that of change of climate; and I believe that
much injury-is often done hp-the removal of patients, who
would have been better at borne. In deciding whether a
change should be made, and what change would he
advisable, there are many points which should be care.
fully considered—the condition of the patient, the stage
and extent of the local disease, the period of the year,
and the effects of-previous treatment.' When the disease
has been arrested, a change of sir and climate will often
stimulate the constitutional powers, and enable them to
carry forward the improvement, after the remedial >means
by which it had been accomplished have ceased Pc be of
further service. On the other hand, where there-is-much
d sorganisation of one or both lungs, and the disease
appears still to be advancing, so that the patient must
necessarily, during winter, keep chiefly in the house,• the
comforts of home and the society of friends will be often
found more valuable than a change to a slightly milder
climate. In those advanced cases, where there is reason
to believe that the disease will steadily advance in spite of
any treatment, the patient should not, on Any account,
be removed from home.—Dr. Turnbull-x:1 the Progress
offmprovement in the 7'reaftment of consumption.

le of the most

FATAL GAS EXPLOSION' AT BOOTLE
sericus explosions that has ever occurred in this neighbour-
hood took place at Bootle-village, about bait past three
o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, and resulted in the
total destruction of the Bun Inn, the death of one man,
and the infliction of severe injuries on two other persons.
Tie promises were in the occupation of Me. Edward
Ashcroft, and consisted of two houses joined together,
one of them very old, the other erected during the last
twelve months. Both belonged to the Earl of Derby.
For some days a strong smell of gas had been perceived
on the premises, and some men from the Gasworks were
searching out the leak at the time of the explosion. They
lad dug a trench in front of the house,. I
qinz hare the
ma'n, and had discovered a fracture, which they tempo-
rarily staunched. Two of the men, John Jones and
Joseph Lowe, had then gone into the cellar with, it -is
supposed, a light to examine the state of the metre, when
suddenly a terrific explosion occurred--blowing out the
windows, shattering the old part of the house, and laying
the new part of It completely in ruins. At the time of
the dreadful occurrence, in addition to the two gas men,
the only inmates were Mrs. Ashcroft and tbe servant
girl, Mr. Ashcroft being absent from home arranging for
the funeral of a brother. The servant girl, who happened
to be in one of the upper rooms of the old part of the
house, presented herself eta window, and safely descended
by a ladder, much , frightened, of course, but unhurt.
ifrs. Ashcroft was found lying under the cellar stairs,
her body, in a great measure, protected by an angle in
the flooring resting upon one of the barrels. The spirit
niece had to be cut away before she could be rescued.
When taken out she was insensible, but was restored in
a few minutes. She is much bruited about the head and
body, but the wounds are not of a dangerous character.
Of the two men in the cellar, Jones was brought out quite
dead, having been killed by the heavy mass of bricks and
rubbish which had fallen upon him. Lowe was recovered,
much bruised and burned, and with a fractured leg. He
was conveyed to the Northern Hospital. All the spirits
in the house at the time have been lost, but the greater
partion of the ale was safely recovered. The value of the
stock, furniture, and buildings destroyed is roughly esti-
mated at £l,OOO. On Thursday, an inquest was held on
the body of the unfortunate man Jones, before C. E.
Driffield, Esq., the county coroner. After the various
witnesses bad given their evidence, the officer who had
been sent to inquire after the state of Mrs. Ashcroft re-
turned with the information that there was a little alter-
ation for the better, but that, in her present state, it was
impossible to obtain any evidence from her. One of the
jurymen having also stated that the man in the Northern
Hospital was progressing favourably, the coroner said he
would leave directions that, if circumstances required it,
the depositions of Mrs. Ashcroft should be taken by a
magistrate ; and that, as the state of the man in the
hospital would make it necessary for them to adjourn for
a longer period than a week, he would adjourn the further
inquiry for two weeks, namely, until Thursday, the 4th
of August. The jury then retired. We understand that
Mrs. Ashcroft is still in a dangerous state. She was,
previous to the accident enceinte, and we are sorry to
lesp that I initionnisge took place on Wednesday.

26, 1853.

GENERAL N

Tnu ARAlY.—Orders have been issued to remove two
regiments from the army at the Cape of Good Hope—the
First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade under Colonel Buller,
and the Twelfth Lancers under Colonel Pole. The former
return to England ; the latter go on to India to relieve
the Fifteenth Light Dragoons.
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AlEmnyrors.:—At a sale of autographs, on Saturday,
" the original act of national insurrection under Prince
Rakozy, at the commencement cf the eighteenth century,
with about two hundred signatures of senators and nobles,
in the Hungarian language," sold for £9O. An autograph
of Richard Cromwell for £5 12s. 6d. A letter of the
Duke of Wellington, containing thirty-three pages, £33.
THE Westminster Review was lately, at the request of
a member, withdrar•n from the reading-room of the
Bristol Athenreum, on account of its alleged anti-Christian
sentiments. There being, however, a party who wished
to see it restored, the directors of the institution sub-
mitted the question to the votes of the subscribers, and
the Review was expelled by 294 members against 277.

A FATAL FLASII.—The tower of Hereford church was
struck with lightning during a thunder-storm on Tuesday,
and while a marriage was being celebrated by the vicar.
Two women and two little girls, spectators, were struck
with the lightning ; one of the little girls being badly
burnt and her limbs paralysed. It is said that the whole
party were more or less injured by the lightning.

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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, while two
boys, aged 10 and 12 v, ars, were, either at play or in
search of nests, at the North Cliff, in Camborne. Corn-
wall, they were observed by persons not far off to fall
over. No time was lost in hurrying to the spot, but it
was found that they were both killed. Their bodies were
dreadfully cut and bruised, and they were at once taken
to their homes in an open cart. The mother of one of
the boys, named Bond, is said to be in a state of destitu-
tion, and the deceased was the only child out of six who
was able to earn anything. The father had left the poor
mother and family to enter the army.
CHILD MURDER.—At the Lewes assize, on Tuesday,
Caroline Sherwood, aced 23, was indicted for the wilful
murder of her illegitimate child. The child had been
placed out by the prisoner, who was servant in a family
at 'Brighton, in the care of another person. The prisoner
called and took her child out one wet evening iu March,
and the next morning it was found dead with a ligature
tied tightly round its throat. The child's frock, very wet
and muddy, was found in the prisoner's box. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner, having re-
ceived sentence of death, was carried from the dock in a
state of insensibility.

STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.—At the adjourned meeting of
the Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, it
was stated that the homeward voyage of the Melbourne
had exceeded the expectations of the board. The prin-
ciple upon which the Victoria had been despatched—
namely, the economising of fuel and using the screw-pro-
peller merely as an auxiliary power—would prove whether
such voyages could be made with profit to the proprietors.
The delay of the Melbourne would leave that vessel a
charge to the company. There was a balance against the
company of £7351 ls. 6-1. and a further sum of £5673
17s. 10d., making £13,024 19s. 4d. The report was
adopted

THE CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST RAILWAY
DIRECTORS.—At the York assize, Harry Stephen Thomp-
son, George Hicks Seymour, and Samuel Priestman, di-
rectors of the North Midland Railway, were charged, on
the verdict of the jury at the inquest, with the man-
slaughter of John Thomson and Josiah Sykes, an engine-
driver and stoker, whose deaths bad been caused by the
engine running ciff the rails, owing, it was stated, to the
defective condition of the permanent way. The grand
jury ignored the bill, by the direction of Mr. Justice
Erle, and the counsel for the prosecution admitting that
the directors were not the parties criminally responsible,
the prisoners were formally acquitted.
THE LAST OF THE STUARTS.—A mad woman, named
Mary Stuart, was brought up at Bow-street, on Monday,
charged with breaking windows, and creating a disturbance
at the residence of Lord Palmerston, in Carlton-gardens.
The prisoner said the Home Secretary ought to do some-
thing for her, for she was one of the descendants of the
unhappy race of Stuarts—her great grandfather was
Prince Charles Stuart; but she had been cruelly deprived
of her dignity and station, and had only succeeded to a
workhouse or a lunatic-asylum. She had been on a pre-
vious occasion, for breaking Sir James Graham's windows,
sent to Hanwell, but was no more mad then than she was
new. Mr. Hall had no doubt of her madness on the
Stuart question, and committed her to the care of St.
Martin's workhouse.
THE SOAP DUTY.—The taking off the duty on soap
was attended with some ceremony in the manufactories of
Messrs. Thomas, Tripp, and Thomas, and Messrs. Cox
and Shaw, Bristol. At four o'clock in the morning, the
Excise officers attended and removed the partitions, took
off the locks, &c., which before cramped the manufac-
turer's enterprise, when the cannons, which had all been
ready loaded in the yard, were fired off, and the workmen,
crowding to the gates, gave three cheers for the first load
of free soap that passed out. Messrs. Cox and Shaw's
men hung up, in two rows, the old locks, and under
them the keys which had so long kept them in awe, and
over these trophies they suspended the old Act of Parlia-
ment, now a dead letter. Soap, however, is dearer than
it has been for a long time, owing to an increase in the
price of the raw material.

THE LONDON CAB A.cr.—The new net for the regula.
tion of: London cabs has led to many disputes with the
cab.d\rivers ; but it seems in some instances they hare

adopted a passive revenge for the injury they consider in-
flicted upon them by the new act. On Tuesday night,
after the rising of the house, when there was a great
deman for cabs in Palace-yard, the entire stand drove off,
utteri• 3g jeers against the hon. gentlemen who wished to
engag a them. " Yer wants to ride for sixpence, does ye?"
says o ne. "Let 'em walk," said another; and so the
members were compelled to find their way home as they
best ( :ould. On Wednesday night, while the rain was
falling ; with incessant violence, and people from the theatres
and o ther places of public amusement were anxiously
seekin g refuge in a hackney-cab, the drivers amused them-
selves in parading their empty vehicles up and down the
Strati( I and other thoroughfares, deaf alike to threats and
entree ties."

Cur ;Joys RELIC.-At the meeting of the Archaeological
Instal ate, amongst hundreds of splendid curiosities exhi-
bited, may be mentioned :—" A small alabaster box or
vase, e legantly shaped, with a lid, brought from an Eyp•
tian to nib by Mr. Curzon, illustrates the well-known text,
St. Ma tthew xxvi. 7 ; such vases were employed by the
Egypti. Ins for holding ointment, and the present specimen
contain a the ointment originally placed in it about 50 years
8.c., a date therefore more remote than the action of
Mary 115 tagdalen, described in the Gospel. Another curious
mement o of Mr. Curzon's Eaitern travels consists of a
walking. .stick of the wood of a tree planted in the valley
of Mow It Sinai, close to the Christian convent, which is
said to h ave sprung from the wand of Moses, there planted
after the division of the waters of the Red Sea. The tree
is jealous. ly guarded. and'kept sacred from all intrusion by
the Syrian^ monks, but Mr. Curzon was fortunate enough
to obtain t sapling."

'COMMEI terAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.—The first stone
of the edi 6ce intended for schools for the orphan and
necessitous children of commercial travellers was laid on
Wednesday with the accustomed forms. The estate
purchased t )r. the Schools is at Pinner, near the Pinner
station, anti' the site seems well selected as regards
salubrity and'. the beauty of the locality. The ceremony
was perform, Id by John Masteman, Esq., M.P., in the
absence of Prince Albert from obvious cdusei. The
company after wards partook of a cold collation, and the
chairman, in proposing " Prosperity to the Commercial
Travellers' Sch ools," touched upon the advantages to be
derived from Lb e spread of education, and spoke of the
commercial trav •ellers as a most intelligent and respectable
class. The bod y consisted, he said, of 30,000, and he
could not say ho.‘ many children. The architects of the
proposed building- are Messrs. Lane and Ordish. It will
no doubt be wort hp of their reputation and of the pur-
pose for which it is to be erected. The institution, it is
to be hoped, will be well supported
F FIVE CONVICT Lt

ESCAPE:. ATlCS.—Considerable
alarm has been felt by the inh4 :ants of Fisherton, Wilts,
owing to the escape of five convict lunatics from the
asylum of Dr. Finch on Saturday night. Soon after one
of the keepers had retired to rest on Saturday night be
was attacked by five of the inmates, some of whom held

im by the threat, ruhile others knelt on him and corn.

:pletely overpowered Lim. After making him secure, and
preventing his access to the pull of the alarm bell, they
obtained possession of the necessary keys, some of which
they placed in the locks on the outside of the doors lead-
ing to the wards occupied by the other keepers, thus pre-
venting the possibility of their being unlccked from the
inside. They then effected their escape from the ward,
taking with them all-the clothes on which they could lay
their-hands, and one of them carried away a coat belon;-
ing to -the keeper. It was some time after they had
quitted the establishment before an alarm was made by
others af the lunatics, but when the escape of the five was
made known to the officials, information was immediately
sent to all the police-stations in the neighbourhood, and
the country was scoured in every direction, and two of
the number-were captured—,one in a field of barley be•
longing to Mr. Harding, and the other at Cholderton,
about nine miles from the asylum.

NUNNERIES ;IN ENGLAND,— A serious dispute has
Arisen between the Lady Abbess of the convent at Taunton
and the relations of a nun in the establishment. The
young lady's name is Knight, and her parents belong to
an old Romanist family of Axminster. Some time since,
the young lady sustained an accident, for which it became
necessary to call in medical advice; and the person selected
to attend her was a self-styled homoeopathic doctor, for-
merly " a pastrycook or ba.cer." Eventually, intelligence
had to be conveyed to the parents that their child had
been strieken with insanity, and the parents became
anxious that their daughter should have more efficient
medical aid. This, however, the Lady Abbess, Father
Jenkins, the confessor, and the homoeopathic doctor,
sturdily opposed ; and it came out on the occasion that the
growth of the young lady's insanity had been for a long
time past well known in the establishment, whilst the
facts connected with the same had been kept from the
knowledge of her friends until the shrieks of the maniac
nperewvednotecdtorhewramsa
at
tadlast
y from being
allowedopen air exercise, and advised that, for that purpose, the
patient should be removed to a convent at Bristol, and if
no improvement should take place there, tothe convent
of the Abbe Macs, Bruges. Thesearra9gements the Lady
t to longer
attend concealed
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Knight,
who recommended an entire change of treatment, with
Abbess again vehemently opposed, by her own
claiming
control to send the sister to the convent of Benedictines,
returned
at Menin, in Belgium. The ladr's family decided to
appeal to the Bishop, and her brother, Mr. Knight, was
on the road to Bristol for that purpose, when Father Jen-
kins, the confessor, somewhat "abruptly and imperatively'
induce intercepted
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with him to the convent. The Lady Abbess persisted in
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is said, in SO doing, considerable obstruction and insult
from two fathers of the convent, Messrs. Jenkins and
Ailfullesi.
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