The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1852

TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIPS.—The United States
Mail steam-ship Atlantic, West, commander, steamed
hence for New York on Wednesday, with 112 passengers,
among whom were the Bateman children, and a very full
car

bo.—The screw steam-ship City of Manchester, Leitch,
commander, left the Mersey on the same day for Phila-
delphia, with 170 cabin and 200 steerage passengers, and

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lightning then appears to have passed down the brickwork
into the back room below, where the frame work of the
window was also much damaged. James Dowd, a labourer,
at work in this room, was struck by the lightning and
killed on the spot. In the second house, which the light-
ning appears to have entered by one of the windows, pass-
ing, as in the other one, through the brick work into the
room below, the framework of the windows is greatly in-

A house, which the light-
mug also entered by the front bedroom window as before,
passing down to the window below, theplasterand woodwork
were displaced, and a man named John Travis, a plasterer's
labourer, 60 years of age, who was here at work, was killed
c-ntly. The fourth house appears to have entirely es-
In the fifth the lightning entered as in those
'^ccribed, taking the same course and in-
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, ~spears to have fiist struck a piece of timber which
projected above the ceiling of the top story, and passed
through the centre of the wall to the ground, for this piece
of wood is split in two in several places, and the wall on
either side is displaced all theway. A large piece of skirting-
board was displaced from the landing above the staircase
and thrown below. William Griffiths, a joiner, was at
work in the back room, and although there are no traces
of lightning in this room, he was found lying insensible in
the corner. He has since recovered. The seventh house,
a shop, appears to have escaped without injury. In the
eighth house, the last in the row, Mrs. Elizabeth Fletcher,
wife of Mr. Joseph Fletcher, of 32, Porter-street, who
owns the property, was standing in the door way, was
struck by the lightning, and was for some time in a state
approaching insensibility. Two men who were on the
ground floor, William Gleave, a carter, aged 32, and
Thomas Crossley, aged 18, were killed on the spot. A
boy named Robert Whitworth was also struck by the
lightning in the seventh house. The electric fluid struck
the house of Mr. Hilton Sevill, in Trafford Park-view,
Eccles New-road, and set fire to one of the beds and bed.
ding. On the alarm caused by the shock subsiding, the
fire was discovered and speedily extinguished.

GENERAL NEWS.

JOHNNY BROOME, the boxer, who absconded from his
bail at the late Sussex assizes, has been apprehended at
Brussels.

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EXPORTATION OF SILVER COINAGE TO AUSTRALIA.—
The demands at the Bank of England, the Royal Mint,
andthecity and west-end banking-houses for silver coinage
(sixpences, shillings, florins, half-crowns, and five-shilling
pieces) have been very numerous within the last few
weeks. One party, it is said, having been able to obtain
to the amount of -£lO,OOO, which has been shipped off,
consigned to their agents at Port Philip and Geelong, as
there exists a very great scarcity of silver bullion in the
city, and the Bank of England-will not accommodate one
person with more than £5OO of silver currency at a time,
so great is the demand at present for exportation.
FOUR MEN STRUCK WITH LIGHTNING.—On the after-
noon of Tuesday last, John Blaby, John Brandrick, James
Coegins, and George Hickman, workmen in the employ
of Sir H. Peyton, Bart., of Swift's-house, Bicester, were,
in the farm stable, in which they had taken shelter during
a storm, struck by lightning. All were knocked down ;
Coggins and Hickman were but slightly injured. Bran-
drick was shaken, and is suffering from the effects. Blaby
is seriously injured, and fears are entertained as to his re-
covery. The electric fluid struck him on the head, burn-
ing a hole in, and setting his " shanty," which he had on,
on fire, went down his cheek, completely taking off his
whisker, to his breast, and down the arm to the elbow,
where it burnt a holc in his coat. His face is distorted,
he is scorched, and it is feared that the brain and chest
are injured by the lightning.

A PARTY OF PLEASURE FOR AUSTRALIA.—Among the
passengers who went out to Australia in the mail steamer
Formosa, which left Southampton on Saturday week, were
two gentlemen of that town, who went out in her on plea-
sure, and intend returning to England immediately. One
of the gentlemen took his wife with him ; the other only
made up his mind to go in her a day or two before she
sailed, and as soon as he did so went and paid his 90
guineas for a first class berth. Fancy men going on a
pleasure trip to the antipodes, and getting to the end of
their voyage in 10 weeks ! Truly we live in an age of mrr-
vels. The fact that is just mentioned is of considerable
significance, as it shows that people are beginning to think
that a voyage to Australia is no very great effort after all.
Next year, when the Australiasian and Pacific Company's
steamers begin to run between Panama and Sydney, a man
with a six months' holiday and £3OO in his pocket may go
round the world and live splendidly the whole of the way.
If any one had prognosticated such a thing a century ago
he would havebeen placed in a madhouse.
SUDDEN DEATH OF VICE-CHANCELLOR
-PARKER.

We regret to have to announce the death of Sir James
Parker. one of the Vice-Chancellors of England. which
took place last Friday night, at his country seat. Rothley
Temple, Leicestershire. To the public the event was sud-
den, but we understand that it was not altogether unex-
pected by his more immediate friends, as his disease had
been the source of considerable anxiety to them for some
time past. He bad been ailing for about nine months
past, and on the first day on which he took his seat as
Vice-Chancellor had premonitory symptoms of angina
pectoris, of which he has died. He consulted Dr. Wat-
son in November last, and had also consulted Dr. Latham
and Dr. Williams. He was under the care of Dr. Wat-
son when he left London for Rothley Temple, about a
week ago. He had been advised to refrain from exercise,
and on reaching Leicestershire placed himself in the
hands of Mr. Macaulay, an eminent medical practitioner,
of Leicester. Mr. Macaulay saw him the last time alive
on Friday morning, when he took a somewhat serious
view of his case; and shortly before 12 o'clock on the
night of that day his malady returned, for which he had
recourse to some other medicine, and his death was almost
instantaneous. Lady Parker was with him at the time of
the attack which proved fatal, and Mr. Barrow, a surgeon
living at Rothley, and Mr. Macaulay were immediately
summoned to the Temple, but too late for their services
to be of any avail. He was 51 years of age.

FOREIGN CATTLE.--The following arrivals of foreign

cattle have taken place in one day from the Continental
States. The steam-ship Neptnnd, from Tonningen, has
brought 246 head of oxen and cows, and 158 sheep ; the
Tiger, from Tonningen, 239 head of oxen and cows, andll24
sheep ; the William Penn, from Nieu Diep, 58 head of
oxen and cows. 42 calves, and 112 sheep ; the Lion from
Harlinien, 162 head of oxen and cows, 38 calves, 577
sheep, 15 lambs, 2 horses, and 350 pigs ; the Giraffe, from
Rotterdam, 132 head of horned cattle, 600 sheep, and 296
lambs ; the Ranger, from Bremen, 83 head of oxen and
cows ; the Adonis, from Rotterdam, 89 head of oxen and
cows, 44 calves, 632 sheep, and 155 lambs ; the Magnet,
from Amsterdam, 62 oxen and cows, 1 calf, and 985 sheep ;
the Stad Dordrecht, from Dordt, 79 head of horned cattle,
304 sheep, 15 calves. and 107 lambs ; and the Rainbow,
from Rotterdam, 149 calves; the whole the produce of
Holland, Denmark, and the Hanseatic States. The whole
of the above arrivals of foreign cattle took place in the port
of Landon alone on Monday last. The returns of the im-
portation of live stock from abroad during the last week
show a great increase on previous supplies of this nature ;
but it is believed that the number brought on the first day
of the present week, amounting collectively to 1,150 oxen
and cows, 4,552 sheep, 573 lambs, 350 pigs, and 289 calves,
makir a total of 6,914 head of stock. has never been
equalled' in extent since the first, introduction of foreign
cattle into this country.

MR. BARON PLATT AND A WELLSTOWN-COUNCILLOR.
—As Mr. Baron Platt was on his way to Wells from
Bridgewater on Wednesday evening week, for the purpose
of opening the assize commission, the axle of the carriage
broke before he had proceeded far from the latter place.
Mr. Wm. Fry, a respectable gentleman of Wells, happened
to be passing, and seeing the very slow pace the carriage
was proceeding at. the following interesting dialogue took
place :—Mr. W. Fry : Sir, you are proceeding at a very
slow pace.—Baron Platt : Yes ; there's an accident with
the carriage. Are you bound for Wells ?—Mr. Fry : Yes,
sir.—Baron Platt : Will you take a letter to the sheriff for
me ?—Mr. Fry : Yes, or a verbal message ; and, more
than that, either of you are welcome to part of my gig,
provided you have no luggage.—Baron Platt : You are a
good sort of a fellow, and I will accept your kind offer :
Tue otny utigptge 1 IlatVG wit, La LLL, -
Mr. Fry began to find out to whom he had been discours-
ing so freely, and apologised for not having used that
courtesy which was due to the learned baron.) Baron
Platt then accompanied Mr. Fry, discoursing very good
humouredly and pleasantly until arriving at Glastonbury,
when a carriage and four was ordered to take his lordship
to Wells, where the sheriff's cortge had been waiting a
considerable time to escort him to the Town-hall. Upon
the Town-council waiting as usual upon the Judge at his
lodgings to present an address to him, Mr. Fry was recog.
nised by the learned Baron and thanked for his kindness.
A STRANGE ADVENTURE..--Abollt four months ago a
young man from Lincoln, named Bealby, took a house and
shop in High-street, Boston, and furnished and fitted it
up as for a grocer. On Good Friday he married a respec-
tableOilshy, and brought her to his new
or three days, he proposed to his wife
home. female
After from
two Spilsby,
that, before they opened shop, they should visit some re-
lations of his in Scotland. She assented, and he took her
to Liverpool. On arriving there he secured a passage for
himself and wife for New York, and having sailed, half the
voyage was made before the wife discovered the imposi-
tion. The smallpox, the measles, and the ship fever broke
out on board, and the husband was attacked with the first
and the wife with the last. On landing at New York, the
husband, instead of engaging in any business, lived in idle-
ness, till all his money was expended. He then deter-
mined on proceeding to California, but his wife having no
faith in him, refused to accompany him, and decided on
returning to England. To accomplish this, having no
funds, she donned a garb that would ensure her from insult
and obtained an engagement as cook's mate on board a
vessel bound for Old England. (The cook himself was a
man of colour.) She reached her destination without ac-
cident, in the exclusive possession of her secret, a few days
since. Her steps were immediately directed homeward,
and the last 57 miles she travelled on foot, doing it in
twenty-nine hours, passing through Boston about ten
o'clock on Sunday night, in her sailor's attire, and arriv-
ing at Spilsby, the home of her parents, at two o'clock on
Monday mot ning.—Starnford Mercury.

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ORANGE
PROCESSIONISTS.
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We have in another part of our pap
the course taken by the majority of the Ora
Liverpool to prevent their procession, which was inter
to have taken place on Thursday last. On the me

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trates announc►ng
allowed to walk, the officers of the aide
took steps to inform the whole of thei-
as the result, only a portion of three
attempt, and were, without much diffict

lodges