The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

TUBULAR LIFE-RAFT.—This raft is the invention of
Mr. Parratt, of the Treasury, and is termed the "Tubular
Life-raft." When shut up it assumes the appearance of
THE METROPOLIS was visited by a heavy thunderstorm a flat-bottomed boat, occupying about the space of a long-
early on Wednesday morning, which did some damage. boat on board ship. A keel, or rather a platform, below
BANK OF ENGLAND.—John Oliver Hanson, Esq., was the boat is connected to a spar above by means of a central
elected director of the bank on Wednesday, in the room pivot through the boat, and three stauncheons at each
Sir John Pelly, deceased. end. The keel and spar revolve on rollers, and are,
COPPER ORE FROM AUSTRALIA.—The very large quan.. therefore, easily placed athwart midships. Four wings
tity of 1100 tons weight of copper ore has been brought by are then hauled out to the end of the keel, thus forming
a vessel from Adelaide, Australia, consigned to order. a square. Each wing contains a large tube of vulcanised
SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENT. Arr. Charles Miles, a rubber, inflated by means of an air-pump at eithe,
brother of Mr. P. W. S. Miles, late ALP. for Bristol, has the boat. The wings carry out a surface of netting, anc
had his hand shattered very badly by the bursting of his which netting also extends on the exterior of the tubes.
gun. The thumb has since been amputated. The boat also contains lockers for provisions. It is
scarcely necessary to add, that when the machine is pro-
ANOTHER COMMITTEE has been nominated by the perly unfolded and inflated, a large number of persons
Admiralty for the purpose of inquiry into, and reporting could be safely placed until assistance could be rendered
on, the merits of all vessels propelled by screw- in case of a shipwreck. A square space, covered, prevents
it capsizing, and the tubes are of such a magnitude that
Notice of the formation the boat cannot sink, even when filled with water.—
ed on Monday at the Morning Herald.
CHANGING

r end of

machinery

CRYSTAL PALACE IN PARI

of a company for this purpose was not

ion Stock Exchange

shares of £4 e

of which a sac

£520,000, in 13D,000 _ FORTUNE.—During the early part of the
proportion are to be week it was reported in this city that a young man named
Hugh Belfrage, a private in the 4th Light Drar,-
stationed at Norwich, had become entitled to P

allotted in Englani

JUMPING OFF SIIAKSPEARE'S CLIFF.--A few days
ago, a soldier, while in a state of temporary insanity,
named Edward Dunn. a private of the 30th depot, leaped individual
from Shakspeare's Cliff, at Dover, and was dashed to land, and
pieces, presenting a revolting spectacle when taken up

fortun

e death of a relative

princely
of the

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appears that between 30 and 40 years ago an
uncle of his father, who was a silk mercer or silk dyer,
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in the West Indies. There he

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AN INFANT, three months old, was literally roasted i left
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t Bromsgrove, one day last week
the child is named Dudley. and having occasion to leave the heir at law, but, as he understood that the pr opert
her home, placed the infant in a chair before the fire—so
close, it seems, as to cause the poor little creature to be had been principally acquired in the slave trade, he dc
roasted alive ! dined upon conscientious grounds to apply for it, con-
sidering that good could not come of money so obtained.
THE EARL OF CARLISLE AT A WRESTLING MATCH.— The property was, under those circumstances, taken pos-
The Earl of Carlisle was present at the Talkin Tarn session of by the authorities, in whose hands it has con-
Regatta, Cumberland, the other day, and at the close of tinned ever since, and it is now supposed to amount to
a wrestling match for £l2, gave £2 to the victor. At the about half-a-million. Hugh Belfrage, the dragoon, is
suggestion of a bystander, he bestowed a similar sum on the heir at law, his father being dead ; and a professional
the vanquished. gentleman has intimated to him his willingness to lend
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.—The French Minister of

The mother of

fortune, and

20 yea]

rs ago he

m his assistance in recovering the property

Police has ordered that Frenchmen landing in the Englisi
islands of the Channel with passports obtained in France
must procure the visa of the French Vice-consul of Jersey.

ORDINARY CASE C

HYDROCEPH

,us.—The
on Wed-

-coroner for Middlesex held an inquest

t which the

shall not be allowed to land on the

esday, at Camden-town,

g the death of Joseph

French coast

Devine, a lad aged 1

was found in

FRAUDS UPON THE NOBILITT.—Captain J. Turner, Regent's-canai on Sunday. The deceased had gone to
alias Corfield, of the 77th Regiment. was apprehended on the canal to fill a kettle, and, being seized by a fit, he fell
Saturday by Horsford, one of the officers of the Mendicity in and was drowned. Mr. Robinson, senior surgeon of
Society, on a charge of obtaining money by means of the St. Pancras Infirmary, had made a post mortem ex-
false and fraudulent representations from Lord Saltoun, amination of the body, which showed that death had been
Lord Panmure, and other noblemen. produced by drowning. The head was of such extraordi-

THE s_ ..a Service Gazette says, "We are glad to nary magnitude that he would give its dimensions
hear that the Admiralty have suspended the works of measured 27+ inches in circumference, /7-:. "
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ships building as mere sailing vessels. The Hannibal, 90, the top from ear to ear, 19 inches from the nape of the
and Emerald, 50, building at Deptford, hare had the neck up the centre of the back over the crown to the
hands employed upon them taken off, and, it is reported, junction with the eyebrows, and 11 inches from one
that they are to be converted into screw-ships." parietal bone to the other. The skull was as thin as that
of a child two years old, and the bones were open like
DEATH OF A CONTEMPORARY OF DR. JOHNSON.—Last those of an infant, never having closed. When punctured
week Mrs. Phiiip Valiance, an old lady, aged 88, long upwards of five pints of water escaped from it, and the sub-
resident in Brighton, died in London. She remembered stance of the brain itself weighed nibs. Witt-
and often spoke of seeing Dr. Johnson with Mr. and Mrs. ,
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Thrale, promenading the Steine, as well as the celebrated
and beautiful Lady Sarah Lennox, afterwards Bunbury,
and subsequently Napier.
MARY ANNE WiLsoN, an elderly person of very lady-
like appearance and address, who was stated to be the
widow of a captain in the East India Company's service,
is in custody in London, charged with cutting her throat
with the intention of committing suicide. She had walked
all the way from Devonshire, and was in a destitute con-

inches across

the ex-

ception of the c
the axe of 32, it was the largest head he had ever seen or
heard of.

MADAME POITEVIN descended from her ball
means of a parachute on Monday afternoon without acci-

non by

ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION.--It is stated that Mr.
Page, the government architect, contemplates the em-
ployment of electricity in lighting up the suspension
bridge now in progress at Chelsea—four elegant towers
intended to receive the lamps appearing in the design.
Some late experiments have tended to adapt the principle
of the electric lamp to the purposes of illumination.
SUICIDE ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—On
Wednesday morning, the body of a man was found dread-
fully mutilated on the North-Western Railwf.y, near
Harrow. The unfortunate man must have experienced
some difficulty in getting on the line, which at this spot
is well guarded. It is conjectured that he laid himself
across the rails, and that several trains passed over him.
A. PIGEON was found on Wednesday morning, on the
roof of the Bank of England, with a scroll of paper tied
round its neck, and the following inscription upon it :
"Adorable Sacharina, before this winged messenger reaches
you, I shall be no more. Witness this writing in my own
blood." These words wero written in a round and legible
but not formed hand, with what appeared to be blood.
THE. KING OF SWEDEN AND THE GRAND LODGE OF
SCOTLAND.—No less a person than Oscar, King of Swe-
den. has sent an address to the Grand Lodge of Freema-
sons of Scotland, on receipt of a diploma of honorary
member of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. This is. he
says, the first instance of such a distinction haying been
conferred upon any person in his country. He speaks of
Freemasonry in a highly laudatory strain.

THE CLEOPATRA sailed from Plymouth, on Wednesday
last, for Australia. She had 185 passengers, a number of
whom were German Jews, Frenchmen, and Scotch
farmers. She had also a full cargo of British manufac-
tured goods, and the large amount of £155,000 specie,
£BO,OOO of which is for Port Phillip or Adelaide, at the
option of the owners of the ship. Mr. Robert M'Kean,
one of the owners, has gone out with the Cleopatra.
GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.—The ship Vanguard, arrived
in the London docks from Geelong and Melbourne, has
brought 2d packages of gold dust, consigned to order ;
and the vessel Johnstone, arrived on the same day from
Sydney, has brought 27 packages of gold dust, consigned
to sundry houses in the metropolis. The St. Vincent,
arrived from Sydney, has brought one case and two boxes
of gold dust, consigned to order.

MRS. HOLLOWAY, wife of Mr. Thomas Holloway, the
celebrated inventor of ointment and pills, of 244, Strand,
London, was robbed at the London-bridge Railway Sta-
tion, a few days ago, of her purse, containing a £5O note,
No. 48,620, four sovereigns, and some silver. Mr. Hol-
loway has taken such steps as will, in all probability, pre-
vent the thief enjoying his booty,—a large reward has
been offered.

EXTRAORDINARY MUSHROOM.—On Saturday evening
last, John Twibey, a stonemason of Conisbro', gathered
in a field in the occupation of Mr. Dunbill, of Conisbro'
Parks, a mushroom, measuring 2 ft. 91 in. in circumfe-
rence, and 1 foot in its longest diameter, and weighing
1 lb. 13 oz. It was an irregular figure, having grown in a
field which had been pared, with its sides confined betwixt
two sods.—Doncaster Chronicle,

RICHARD COCK, a private in the Coldstream Guards,
aged only twenty, having obtained furlough, paid his fa-
ther a visit at Thurston, in Suffolk, and then went to see
a young woman to whom he was much attached. She,
however, declined the interview, and he returned to his
father's orchard and hung himself to an apple-tree, where
he was found by his father on going to gather some nuts.
The jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and he was bu-
ried in the cross roads.

DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—OR Tuesday, a thunder-
storm of unexampled severity burst over the town of
Lewes. The lightning is described as awfully vivid, the
thunder was a succession of cracks, and a deluge of rain
followed, A poor boy who had been tending sheep on
the Spittal-hill, Ashcombe, was found dead. His body
was blackened all over ; his clothes were wrenched from
his back, and the hobnails drawn from his boots.
It is conjectured that the lightning was attracted by the
metal end of his shepherd's crook, acting as a conductor,
for the staff bore marks of the passage of the fluid.
FORBIDDING THE BANNS.—OD Sunday morning last,
during divine service in the church of Sleaford, and
shortly after the Rev. R. Yerburgh had published the
banns of marriage, a stout rosy-faced lass rose in the
midst of the congregation, and forbade from further pub-
lication the banns of marriage between herself and a cer-
tain Thomas Reet. It seems the " ladye fair" had two
admirers, but the one who caused the publication of the
banns not being the favourite, she took the above extra-
ordinary mode of preventing her own marriage.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.

A FATAL DRAUGHT.—On the morning of Sunday
last the wife of Mr. 'William Tudhope, merchant, Coat-
bridge, had occasion to use vitriol for purposes connected
with her household affairs, but by some incaution or
neglect the cup which contained the burning liquid hap-
pened to fail within the reach of her child. a sprightly
little boy of three years of age, who unperceived caught
hold of the cup, swallowed its contents, and was instantly
seized with the most excruciating internal pains, the
effect of which on the minds of those who witnessed the
agonising cries and throes of the child will not soon be
forgotten. Medical aid was speedily in attendance, and
every effort made to relieve the little sufferer, but pro-
longed existence was only that of misery without the
prospect of ultimate recovery, for the little boy expired
the following day.—Glasgow Constitutional.

A STORY OF FORTUNE.—We have been informed that
a young man, who left Paisley about three years ago to
push his fortune in Australia, has within these few days
returned home. On entering his mother's dwelling he
found her engaged winding weft on weaver's pirns. After
mutual greetings on the happy meeting, the son told his
mother to cast by her pirn wheel. " Na, na, Jamie,"
said she, " I'll no east by my pirn wheel till 1 ken o'
something better." " Wed," said Jamie, " look at this,"
at the same time producing a bank cheque for £lO,OOO,
the produce of his industry at the Australian gold dig-
gings. We give the story as we have heard it, but have
no means of verifying its accuracy ; still it is not more
astonishing than the news we hear every day of the gold-
bearing fertility of those auriferous regions.--North
British Mail.

THE KOH-I-NOOR.—The re-cutting of this gem, which
is unique in its kind, was finished on Tuesday last ; and
the expectations of Mr. Fedder, the Jewish artist who
undertook this responsible task, have been fully realized,
and the misgivings of the scientific gentlemen who
questioned the final success refuted. It is unsurpassed by
any other diamond above ground, in shape, lustre, and
beauty. Her Majesty the Queen inspected the two smaller
diamonds before her departure to Balmoral, and graciously
expressed the high satisfaction she felt at the brilliancy
and beauty given them by the new process. We anticipate
that her satisfaction will be heightened on beholding the
" mountain of light," which is to shed its lustre on the
illustrious lady, who shines gloriously in rank and virtue.
We are given to understand that it will be set either in the
crown, or form an ornament to adorn the Queen.
COURT INIARTIAL.--SENTENCE OF DEATH.—.A. Court-
martial was held at Portsmouth on Thursday, on board
the Victory, flag-ship, in that harbour, to try William
Alexander Williams, alias William Bigg, a gunner in the
Royal Marine Artillery, for having, on the morning of the
31st of July, whilst serving on board the Dauntless,
igate, the ship being then at sea, assaulted and
Ir. Joseph Oliver, gunner on board the latter, his
enior officer, being on duty at the time. It appeared
that the prisoner was in irons at the time, for having on a
former occasion used mutinous and abusive language to-
wards Mr. Oliver, the charge having been preferredagainst
him by that gentleman, and that while Mr. Oliver's back
was

tcarn-f

rned, the prisoner, without any provocation at the
moment, struck him a blow under the ear. The facts
having been clearly proved, the Court sentenced the pri-
soner to be hanged on board the Dauntless. The Court
was then dissolved.