The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

MR. G. P. R. JAMES has just written his seventieth
novel ! It bears the name of Pequinillo.
THE PARISH OF ST. MARTIN'S-IN.THE-FIELDS has
levied a rate to promote emigration.
CAPTAIN HAWKEY, of the Royal Marines, placed upon
half-pay in consequence of the fracas with Lieutenant
Swain, of the same corps, has purchased a commission in
a cavalry regiment.

BROOME, THE PUGILIST, who did not surrender to his
bail an a charge of card-cheating, was captured at Lewes
a few days since, and lodged in gaol, where he will have
to remain until the spring assizes.

THE BOAT RACE ON THE THAMES. between Thomas
Coombes, of Vauxhall-bridge, and Philip Chandler, of
Milibank, for £5O, came off on Monday, and was most
spiritedly contested throughout. Coombes won by two
lengths.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION COM-
PANY.—On Thursday, the Master in Chancery, Sir G.
Rose, declared a call of £65 per share on the holders of
shares, to discharge the liabilities, estimated by Mr.
Hutton, the official manager, to amount to £72,000.

THE C AFFRE WAR.--in 1848 there was voted £1,100,000
on account of the Caffre war ; and on the 29th of June
last the treasury ordered the balance, amounting to
£21,291 15s. ld., to be transferred from the Commissa-
riat chest account to the Exchequer account at the Bank
of England.
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AN- ESTATE, containing between 400 and 500 acres of
land, situate at Horfield, two miles from Bristol. has just
been bought by Mr. Cobden, Sir Joshua Walmsley, and
another anti-corn-law leaguer, for the purpose of creating
about 1000 40s. freeholds in West Gloucestershire.--
2110 Herald. _

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A SWARNI OF BEES attacked a terrier dog at Highfield
Cottage, Holmer, near Hereford, last week. The poor
animal, maddened by pain, rushed into a field of beans,
but it was a considerable time before he succeeded in
rubbing his enemies off, when he was dipped in a pool of
water. All efforts to save him proved ineffectual ; the
sufferer died in a few hours afterwards.
JAMES, the man who was convicted last week at the
Lewes assizes for cheating at cards at Brighton, used to
travel regularly in the Southampton and Alexandrian mail
packets as a first-class passenger, and paid his fare and
got a handsome living by card playing with the passengers
on board. It appears that when taken into custody he
had in his pockets implements for robbing jewellers' shops.
A GIPSY, going through Sheffield last week, was ac-
costed by a man, who inquired if he wanted a child. The
gipsy said he did, and forthwith the hard-hearted father
fetched from his house a fine little boy, and handed him
over to the tender mercies of the stranger. A while af-
terwards the mother came home, and, learning what had
transpired, became almost frantic. Instant pursuit was
made, tend the child was fortunately recovered.

DEATIIS OF PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS.—Among
the many alterations made by the Common Lsw Proce-
dure Act, which will take effect on the 24th of October, is
one to the effect that the death of a plaintiff or defendant
shall not cause an action to abate, but it may be continued
as set forth in the statute.

NEW NATIONAL GALL
those likely to know, tl

s rumoured amongst

at a certain comic artist

nction with
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nowned for his political caricatures, in co
an extensive builder at Pimlico, is actually makin
at the request of ?he authorities, for the proposeC
Gallery. Can this be true ? and if so, what are the archi-
tects about, to allow first a gardener, and then a carica-
turist to supersede them ?—The Builder.

National

TOBACCO.—By a parliamentary return we fi ad that, in
1849, the quantity of unmanufactured stemmed tobacco
entered for homo consumption, in the United Kingdom,
was 27,480,666 lbs., and quantities imported, 42,098,126
lbs. In 1850, for home consumption, 27,538,104 lbs. ;
imported. 35,162,099 lbs. In 1851, for home consump-
tion, 27.853,253 lbs. ; imported, 31,049,654 lbs. In the
first quarter of 1852, for home consumption, 7,343.580
lbs. ; imported, 2,541,011 lbs. The imports, it wilt be
seen, have been considerably decreasing.
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Mona GoLn.—We have been informed, upon credible
authority, that yesterday a quantity of gold quartz was
discovered between Hadleigh and Boxford. It appears
that a labourer was employed digging up Friar's-bill,
when, seeing something glitter, his attention was directed
to what he had raised. He took a large portion to a sil-
versmith's shop, when it was tested, and found to contain
pure gold. The report of such a discovery threw the
town of Hadleigh into commotion ; and a general rus.
was made to the " diggings "

Jouip'zu

ACTION FOR LIBEL.-At Warwick
nesday, Henry Cox Brown, an escaped negro s
may be remembered in Liverpool by his panorama illus-
trative of American slavery, brought an action for libel
against the proprietor of the "Wolverhampton Herald.
The article complained of denounced his panorama and
explanatory lectures as gross and palpable exaggerations.
The plaintiff alleged that his receipts fell off immediately
after this libel, although he had been receiving previously
from £6O to £7O per week. The jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff—damages, £lOO.

:es, en Wed

TILE WESLEY AN CONFE
Wednesday, at the conference now sitting

:RENCE AT SHEFFIELD.-'

at Sheffield,

Dr. Hannah retired from the presidency of the Wesleyan
Methodist Conference, and was succeeded by the Rev.
John Scott. The Rev. John Farrar was re-appointed as
secretary of the conference. The second place in the
nomination for both offices fell to the lot of Dr. Alder.
The Rev. S. D. Waddy had nine votes ; the Rev. John
Lomas, thirty-two ; the Rev. Dr. Alder, sixty-two ; and
the Rev. John Scott, ono hundred and sixty. In the
office of secretary the Rev. John Farrar had two hundred
and thirty votes.

WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.—We (Cork Consti-
tution) have been favoured with an extract of a letter
from Australia, conveying the following very melancholy
intelligence :—" We have had news of —'s arrival out.
The ship, the Isabella Watson, was wrecked on Port Phi-
lip Head—missed stays and struck. stern on, on a sunken

The first boat, filled with young married
was swamped, and all lost. The rest held on by the ves-
sel, and were all saved. Mrs. -- would not go in the
boat, and escaped the sad fate of those who did. The sur-
vivors hoped to recover most of their property." The
Isabella Watson sailed from Plymouth about November
last, with respectable passengers only.

TAE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN.
—This return comprises the births and deaths registered
by 2,190 registrars in all the districts of England during
the spring quarter ending June 30th, 1852; and the mar-
riages in more than 12,000 churches or chapels, about

3,228 registered places of worship unconnected with the
Established Church, and 623 superintendent registrar's
offices, in the quarter that ended March 31st, 1852. The
return of marriages is not complete ; but the defects are
inconsiderable, and approximate numbers have been sup-
plied from the records of previous years. The general
results of the return are not unsatisfactory ; the marriages
exceed the average number, the births are above, the
deaths are but slightly above the average of the seasons..

SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT ST. VINCENT'S
ROCKS, CLIFTON.—An accident of a very shocking kind,
and which resulted in the death of a respectably-connected
youth named Cliffe, occurred on Friday, near Bristol.
Mr. Cliffe, accompanied by a younger brother, had been
walking on the banks of the Avon, and contemplating
the beautiful scenery which there so plentifully abounds,
when, upon coming near the round point, Mr. Cliffe be-
ing anxous, it is believed, to gather some wild flowers,
ascended the rocks, which rise with considerable perpen-
dicularity towards Leigh down. Mr. Cliffe had got with
safety to a considerable height on the cliff, and was at-
tempting to clamber much higher, when his foot gave
way and he was precipitated to the bottom. He was
conveyed to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, but he died
almost immediately.

A BID FOR POPULARITY.—At a political dinner given
at Carlisle on Monday last, Sir J. Graham delivered the
following bit of " soft sawder :"—" Now as to the ques-
tion of the spread of democracy. A short time after Lord
Derby's and his colleagues' accession to power, we have
Lord Derby talking of the extreme danger of the
spread of the democratic influence. (Hear, hear.) I have
no such great alarm at the spread of democracy. I have
seen the conduct of the electors of Carlisle. (Loud cheer-
ing.) I have seen the behaviour of the people of Carlisle.
(Renewed cheering.) 1 have witnessed the conduct of
the electors of Carlisle, and also of the non electors
(cheers), during this contest, and whatever apprehensions
I may have had of the increase of democratic power they
have been much mitigated by what I have seen !" (Loud
cheers.)

SINGULAR ROBBERY.—At the Norfolk assizes, on
Tuesday, Robert. Barber, who was foreman of the jury
before whom the notorious Rush was tried, was charged
with having stolen a watch-chain, the property of Dennis
Taylor, of Dies, silversmith. A girl named Suan Dent
had been sent by Mr. Taylor to the Greyhound Inn, with
a gold Albert chain in a paper parcel, directed to Mr.
Vyse, of Topham. who had ordered it to be sent there for
him. The girl Dent took the parcel in mistake to the
Crown, and gave it to the cook, telling her it was for Mr.
Vyse; the cook took it into a room where the prisoner
(whom she did not know) was sitting, and asked him if
the parcel was for him, to which he replied in the affirma-
tive, and took it and went away with it in his possession.
The prisoner was in liquor at the time. The jury found
him guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Sentence
deferred.

THREE PILOTS DROWNED.—lnformation has been
received at the Trinity House, Newcastle, of the loss of
three pilots belonging to Shields, while off Whitby, on the
morning of the 26th, in oae of their cobles. A Danish
sloop, named the Anne Mararitha, was coming along the
Yorkshire coast to the Tyne, when be was haile3 by the
pilots, who desired to go on board. The sloop was
steered by a boy, and was carrying a large square sail.
By some awkwardness on the part of the boy at the helm
of the sloop, while the coble was coming alongside her
mast got entangled with the sloop's bowsprit, and she was
upset. Before the sloop could be wore round, the three
men in the eoble had perished. The coble, there is every
reason to believe, is No. 94, belonging to South Shields,
and the names of the men drowned, Robert Stephenson,
William Young, and Matthew Young.
A FEROCIOUS VIRAGO.—A woman, named Mary Phil-
lips, was brought before Mr. M'Ey ncourt, at the Worship-
street Police-office, London, on Wednesday, charged
with perpetrating a succession of most inhuman assaults.
The prisoner was unmercifully beating a child, when a
respectable married woman, named Arnold, interfered,
upon which Phillips rushed on her, beat her most savagely
with her fists, and ended by tearing the ear-rings from
the lobes of her ears. She then attacked a woman, named
Smith, so severely that the poor woman was afterwards
taken to the London Hospital. The infuriated wretch
then got a knife out of her house, and, as a third woman
was endeavouring to pinion her from behind, she suc-
ceeded in inflicting a severe wound on the woman's arm.
A policeman had great difficulty in securing her. In de-
fault of paying a fine of £5, she was committed for two
months.

SINGULAR CASE.—At the Stafford assizes, on Tuesday,
John Williamson was tried for setting fire to a house and
office at Westbromwich, with the intent to injure and
defraud Job Haines. The prisoner had been the cash-
keeper of extensive collieries for many years, and had
been allowed to control the cash unchecked for a long
period. Suddenly his employer, Mr. Haines, informed
him that he should expect a full statement of the accounts
to be furnished. The prisoner's office was contiguous to
his house, but there was no internal communication.
Shortly before the time for producing the balance sheet,
he represented that the books were destroyed by fire.
There were some signs of fire, which had been traced
from the house to the office ; but the course appeared
very unnatural. It was shown that the prisoner had, in
one instance, systematically omitted from quarter to
quarter to give a customer credit for some hundreds of
pounds. The learned judge considered the charge had
not been proved, and a verdict of not guilty was returned.

NEW UNIVERSAL COIN.—We have now before us a
specimen of a new universal coin, designed to facilitate
the system of exchanges amongst the different civilized
nations of the world, and which, if adopted, would cer-
tainly tend materially to put an end to the confusion
about the currency of various places, of which every tra-
veller has had such annoying experience. The designer
of it is a gentleman well known in the scientific world for
his politico-economic essays on many important subjects,
Professor Neilson Hancock, and the coin is executed,
with very great taste and skill, by Messrs. Allen and
Moore, of Birmingham. Without diagrams it is not easy
to give an exact
idea of it, but the description may be thus
given. The coin is of silver, containing 37 parts of that
metal to 3 parts of copper. Its weight is one ounce troy,
and its value, in the coin of Great Britain and Ireland, is
ss. 2d. The weight is expressed in English, German and
French, on one side, and on the reverse, the proportions
of the two metals in the same languages. Its value, in
the existing currencies of twelve countries, is likewise
stamped on it thus :—England, ss. ; America, ,S-1
19 three-fifth cent s ; France, 6 francs 39 centimes; Na-
ples, 1 ducat 60 grani ; Austria, 2 florins 27 three-fifths
kreutzer ; Prussia, 1 thaler 21 two-thirds silber grosschen.
On the reverse :—Spain, a 1 5 reals 28 marvadis ; Portu-
gal. 1 milreis 711 reis ; Russia, 1 rouble 68 copecs ; Hol-
land, 2 gulden 99 cents. ; Ilindostan, 2 rupees, 10 annas,
10 picc ; Chinese, 7 mace, 8 canclareens 4 four-fifth cash.
There is no device of any sort, if we except a very minute
representation of the terrestrial globe, which hardly
deserves the name ; and it is a plain, unpretending, but
thoroughly useful
serve the purposes for which it
has been designed. On
piece of money, and well calculated to
the continent of Europe, especially, it would be desirable
to have such a coinage, in lieu of the miserably depreci.
ated currency now so general there.— Cork Paper.

THE CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF HOLLOWAY'S OINT-
MENTsociety and medical men, both at home and abroad, speak
AND PILLS ARE DAILY ATTESTED.—AII ranks of
of these incomparable Tedicineerin the most flattering
terms, and assert that in the severest cases of chronic
ulcers, those even which were considered incurable, Hol-
loway's Ointment has been truly efficacious, when used ;
and there is no disputing the fact that Holloway's Pills
are the hest family medicine ever known or tried. These
admirable remedies will cure bad legs, however invete-
rately diseased ; likewise rheumatic affections, glandular
swellings, and the most obstinate cases of scurvy, scrofula,
or king's evil,