The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

SINGULAR INFATUATION.—A little girl, about 13 years
of age, the daughter of a gentleman of property near
London, has been brought before a London magistrate,
and proved to have been in the regular habit of going
into St. Paul's churchyard at the hour when ladies are
most frequently there, and maliciously cutting pieces out
of their dresses, mantles, and shawls. She was caught
in the fact of thus damaging a velvet mantle worth 16
guineas, and pieces of other rich stuff about five or six
yards square, were found upon her when searched.
ARRIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—The ship Brilliant,
500 tons burden, Mr. Murray, master, arrived in the
Downs on Thursday, from Port Philip, having on board
about two tons and a half of the precious metal, which is
valued nt £217,000. She brings news from the colony. up
to the 21st of January, and reports that by the first of
February the ship Statesman and Aherfoyle would have
sailed with 80,000 ounces of gold. The day the Brilliant
left Port Philip 21 vessels were entering the harbour, most
of them freighted with emigrants from the adjoining
colonies. MINI, diggings had been discovered at the Muddy-
creek and the Hume River, promising as fertile a field as
the most productive spots. The Melbourne Argus of the
17th of January states that up to the 20th of December
163,414 ounces cf gold had arrived at Melbourne and Gee-
long, and 80,000 ounces still remained in the hands of the
diggers, making the total yield up to that date 243,414
ounces, worth £730,242.

FARM MACIIINERY.—_The portable farm-produce
mill, from Mr. Crosskill, of Beverley, which was an-
nounced last week to he tried at Canterbury, on Saturday
last, was worked in afield near the cattle market, in the
presence of many of the leading agriculturists in the neigh-
bourhood. The experiment was very satisfactory ; it
ground oats and beans, and to show what it was capable
of doing, flint stones were ground to fine powder, by put-
ting different kinds of grinding plates in, an operation
which was attested in about fifteen minutes ; and from
which it appears that any substance can be ground, from
flint stones to barley meal. At a private trial at Mr.
Neame's farm on Friday, nt Sellirw, the mill crushed
oats at the rate of 30 bushels per hour, and split beans at
the 'rate of GO bushels per hour, and ground barley
to fine meal at the rate of 8 bushels per hour, besides grind-
ing bones, and crushing flint stones, bricks, &c.—Ken-
fish Gazelle.

LYNCH LAW IN CHELSEA.—The utmost excitement
prevailed. in the neighbourhood of Chelsea and Brompton
during Wednesday and the two preceding days in conse-
quence of the indignation of the neighbours against a
woman named. Cox, residing in Green-street,
Marlbo-
rough-road, who, it was alleged, had caused the death of
her child by putting it on the fire. An inquest had been
held, and though there was not sufficient evidence to im-
plicate the mother, this would not. satisfy the public. On
Monday, at the hour appointed for the funeral to take
place, at St. Luke's, Chelsea, a mob assembled round the
house, who threatened to tear the woman in pieces, if
they could lay hold of her, and it was only under the pro-
tection of a large body of police that the procession was
enabled to reach the church, while the woman on her way
was not only assailed with the most violent expressions
of execration, but. was pelted with stones and filth. The
crowd ultimately became so violent that the clergyman
was obliged to desist from reading the funeral service, and
make the best of hie way from the spot. The woman,
though still under the protection of the police, was assailed
in a similar manner on her way home, and on her gaining
the house the doors were immediately locked. So perilous
at length did her position continue to be that she was
obliged during the night to make her escape from the
house, her furniture having been packed up and deposited
in a stable. Next morning the rage of the mob, on find-
ing that their victim had escaped, knew no bounds, and
they quickly proceeded to wreak their vengeance on the
furniture, which they encountered in a waggon in the
street, and which they ultimately broke into a thousand
pieces. They continued to surround the house during
the night, and even on Wednesday the excitement had
not subsided.