The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

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GENERAL NEWS

A " -MONSTER BLAST" at Furness granite quarry in
Scotland, in which three tons of Gunpowder were -ex-
ploded by galvanic agency, detached at once 7000 or 8000
tons of rock.

THE LONDON TRINITY HOUSE have built a steam
yacht, the Irene, expressly for speed. On her first trial
she ran 174 knots an hour, and is believed to be the fastest
steamer afloat.

MR. MARTIN, a cattle-dealer at Earlstoun, near Mel-
rose, has died under the influence of chloroform. adminis-
tered to him by medical men for the purpose of destroy-
ing some ulcers by caustic.

MELANCHOLY CIRCUNISTANCE.—Mr. Griffiths, one of
the lately expelled preachers of the Wesleyan connection,
being mentally deranged. has been placed in a lunatic
asylum.—Devonshire Chronicle.

A CIRCULAR has been issued by the heads of the
Liberal party, suggesting that it would not be desirable
to offer• any factious opposition to the present government
on the meeting of Parliament, but to wait the announce-
ment of their measures.

nue ling in-.= font to.b igg unget,,
seventeen inches and a half in girth, and weighing eleven
pounds and a quarter, considered the finest that has been
taken for many years, was caught last week with the rod
at the foot of Windermere lake.

A P.A./ 1., 1 IIIG

PARTIES TO A SUIT IN CHANCERY.—It is enacted by
the 43d section of the new act. 15th and 16th Victoria,
cap. 86, that the practice of the Court of Chancery, of
setting down a cause merely on an objection for want of
parties to a suit, shall be abolished.

COUNTY RATES.—By a provision in the new County
Rates Act it is enacted that all business relating to the
assessment and application of county rates must be trans-
acted publicly and in open court, and no order is to be
binding unless made publicly and in open court.
JURY PROCESS ABOLISHED.—On the 24th instant,
when the Common Law Procedure Act will come into
force, the several writs of venire facial, juratores. and
distringas juratores or habeas corpora juratorum, and the
entry jurota ponitur iu respectu, will be abolished.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES was rowed for
on Thursday, according to announcement, by Coombes
and Cole. The former had no chance whatever after the
first few strokes, and Cole won as he pleased. The
winner weighed 9 stone 71b., and Coombes 51b less.
DEAD RABBITS.—The custom-house authoriles have
decided that dead rabbits (which were excluded from the
tariff of Sir Robert Peel) are poultry. and as such are
subject to five per cent ad valorem duty. If they had
been treated as dead meat they would have been admitted
duty free.

PEDESTRIANISM.—A clerk at Glasgow, of slight build
and not vet twenty-one years of age, recently walked
from Glasgow to Dundee, a distance of 84 miles, in little
more than 23 hours. He started at a quarter past one
o'clock on Sunday morning, and arrived in Dundee soon
after midnight. Elated by the feat, he offers for a wager
to walk 90 miles within 24 hours.

CAPTAIN WARNER has offered to prove to Mr. Ad-
derl.i, Lord Combermere, and Sir Harry Smith, that
within two months after his arrival at the Cape he could,
by means of his inventions, so perfectly terminate the
Kaffir war that we should never again hear of any attacks
from Sandilli or any other chief. Perhaps this is pre-
liminary to a renewal of the offer made to and rejected by
the late government.

AN UNFORTUNATE.—The Melbourne mail steamer,
having made good her defects, was to have sailed on Wed-
nesday for her destination, but in getting under weigh in
Hamoaze, Plymouth, with the ebb tide., she ran between
two hulks, and fouled one of them. She carried away
her jibboom, catheads, and anchor, let her chain cable
run out, broke the boat davits, and did other damage,
which will cause further detention to the ship.

COMMITTAL OF AN EX-SOLICITOR AT LEEDS.-11
person named James Shillito, educated for the legal pro-
fession, w•as brought before the Leeds justices on Mon-
day week, charged with obtaining money under false
pretences. He had, on the pretence that he was a prac-
tising attorney, obtained £2 from a labouring man, to
defend an action for debt, for which he had done nothing
whatever. He was committed for trial.

COFFEE AND COICORY.—A circular has just been
issued by Messrs. Barry and Co., ehicory.dealers, in
which the following remarkable passace occurs :—" One
pound of chicory, at the cost of 6d., will produce a better
infusion than two pounds of coffee, at the cost of 2s. Bd.
to 35." If this is true, the Derby government have done
more to benefit the poor man than their predecessors did
the whole time they were in office.—Glasgow Consti-
tutional.

THE LARGEST MERCHANT-SHIP IN THE WORLD.—
Mr. M'lCay, of East Boston. is now at work upon a
clipper-ship, which will surpass, in size and sharpness,
every merchant-ship now afloat or known to be in the
course of construction. She will be 300 feet long, have
50 feet breadth of beam, 28 feet (tenth of hold, with three
decks, and will register over 3000 tons. She will be
diagonally braced with iron, and built, in every par-
ticular, equal to the best of ocean steamers. Her model.
in point of beauty. is the wonder and admiration of all
who have seen it. She will have four masts, with Forbes's
rig. Mr. M'lCav builds her on his own account, and will
sail her, too, if he does not sell her.—Boston paper.
RIGHTS OF MEN.—A correspondent who signs himself
" Henpecked" gives the following case as a ground for
insisting on the rights of men. He says :—" I am a
married man, with an extremely jealous wife. I have
been very wrongfully accused of kissing the maidservant.
lam perfectly innocent both of the fact and intention.
The servant is openly accused by my wife, and indignantly
hurls back the accusation ; nevertheless, these suspicions
are uttered by my wife to every inquirer as to the snvant's
character. The maid cannot obtain a situation in conse-
quence, and she brings an action for defamation of
character. The Tife being in law femme covert, I must he
named as one of the defendants in the action, and I must
suffer in comfort, in character, and in pocket. 'What has
become of the rights of men ?"

THE CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION. —The Canterbury
Association ceased its colonising functions and its land
sales in this country on the 30th of September. The cir-
cumstances which have led to this unfortunate result are,
first, a misunderstanding with her Majesty's Govern-
ment; and, secondly, with the directors of the New Zea-
land Company, to whom they are largely indebted. The
committee of . the Canterbury Association, feeling them-
selves placed in a difficult position, have endeavoured to
transfer their functions to the Colonial Legislature. Her
Majesty's Government, however, refused to allow this,
without a settlement of the claims of the Crown and the
New Zealand Company on the other funds of the associa-
tion. The demands made are considered by the Canter-
bury Association to be unjust, and there appears at pre-
sent. no hope of terminating the dispute, except by the
most summary proceedings on the part of her Majesty's
Government, or an action at common law between the
company and the association.—Morning Herald.
SINGULAR DEATHS OF THREE PERSONS.—On Tues-
day Mr. Payne held inquests, at St. Thomas's Hospital,
on the bodies of three persons whose aggregate ages were
234 years. The first was on Richard Harris. aged 78, who
had been an inmate of St George's Workhouse. South-
wark, but used to accompany his master, Mr. Robinson,
to the Borough Market, with a truck, to bring home vege-
tables. On Monday he went as usual, for the purpose,
and fell down dead in the market from disease of the heart.
Verdict, " Accidental death ;" The next was on Mary
Holloway, aged 76. On Saturday evening, when her
granddaughter was out, she accidentally set her apron on
fire ; and was so dreadfully burnt that she expired on Mon-
day. Verdict, "Accidental death." The third inquest
was on John Saddler, axed 80. He lived with his daughter
in Gainsford-street, Horselydown, and on Monday was
seen floating in St. Mary Ovary Dock ' • hut as no one saw
him go in, it was unaccountable how he got there. He
was not dead when carried to the hospital, but died soon
after his admission. Verdict, " Found drowned."
THE YACHT AMERICA AND THE VOLANTE.—Lord de
Blaquiere, the owner of the yacht America, states that,
although his yacht has been in constant use since Sept.,
1851, he has not received a single challenge from English
yacht builders or owners, though many English yachts
have been altered to her shape. Under these circum-
stances, he challenges the yachts of all countries, America
excepted, not exceeding the America in tonnage, to sail
with his yacht, for a sum not less than £5OO, and not
more than £l,OOO, on any day and in any place, in short,
over any course (the inside of the Isle of Wight excepted)
that would give scope for testing the sailing qualities of
the America and her opponents, under all points, in a
nine-knot breeze. This challenge to be open until the
15th November, but not beyond that day, as the America

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