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

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DENUNCIATION.—A London Popish periodical has pub-
lished at length the names, trades, and residences of the
twelve jurors lately empanelled on the trial of Dr. New-
man for a libel on Dr. Achilli.
A NEW DocK is to be erected for London on the
Plaistow marshes, adjoining the North Woolwich Railway.
The area of water accommodation will be upwards of 90
acres, together with a mile of wharfage room.

THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL has given the name of
Melpomene to the new planet discovered by Mr. Hind
on the 24th June. This planet is one of the nearest to
us of the group between Mars and Jupiter, the period of
1269 days, which places it between Flora

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and Victoria

DAMAGES FOR THE Loss OF A HussA's:D.—At the
Edinburgh Jury Court, last week, Mrs. Janet Donald, or
Eadie, obtained a verdict of £lOO for herself, and of £2OO
for her children, as compensation for the death of her hus-
band, who had been killed in the pit of the Barton's Hill
Coal Company, at Dykehead, owing to its unsafe condition.

THE Scorristi MOORS.—The most recent accounts
concur in the opinion that, from the Dan to the Beersheba
- Scottish sportsman's territory—from Argyll to the
—the opening of the campaign, whether as regards
strength of the game, promises to be
_ toe most successful of recent years.—Edinburgh
Couivnt.

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ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY A SURGEON.—At the
Wells assizes, on Monday, Mr. Thomas Bourne was in-
dicted for the manslaughter of Ann Norkes, at Wellon,
near Bath, on the 21st of June. The accused was a sur-
geon who attended the deceased in her confinement, and
was charged with mistreatment or neglect. After a trial
of twelve hours, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

THE GALE.-0a Thursday most disastrous accounts
were received in London from the several coast-guard sta-
tions on the south and west coasts. The gale is described
as fearful, and such as has not been experienced in the
channel for many years, with a most tremendous sea.
Numerous casualties have occurred, and several lives have
been lost. The accounts from other places- on the coast
are equally disastrous.
A HINT TO CREDITORS IN GENERAL.—A new way to
obtain the payment of old debts has been discovered by a
shoeniaker in the midland counties. Having to deal with
a debtor as difficult as the Jew in Ivanhoe, Crispin ex-
posed the bill in his window, simply omitting the debtor's
name, but appending a notice that if the money was not
forthcoming by a fixed day, the name would be filled in.
The ruse succeeded.

REMARKABLE METEOR AT ABERDEEN.—About half-
past four o'clock on Friday morning a very brilliant me-
teor was seen descending from the zenith slowly to the
north. it was in size about half the apparent magnitude
of the moon, of a bright white in the centre, and purplish
blue towards the side. It was visible about twenty seconds.
and burst into fragments like a rocket on approaching the
horizon.—Aberdeen Herald,
ESCAPE OF FOUR CONVICTS.—Three of the convicts
on board the hospital ship for convicts at Woolwich
jumped overboard on Tuesday night, and swam on shore
at Hog-lane, where one of them was apprehended at the
time he came on shore, and another a short time after.
Tha othar convict manaped to vet clear away and hag
not since been retaken. A. convict also escdped Irom the
Royal Arsenal, but he was soon recaptured.
DISCOVERY OF STOLEN "PLATE.—The water having
been let out at Engine-bridge, near Head-weir, Exeter, a
number of boys were engaged, on Wednesday, searching
for fish in the leat, when one of them found a quantity of
silver plate, supposed to be a portion of that stolen some
months since at Knowstone Church, and for which Elias
Harris was sentenced to transportation for ten years st
the March assizes of the present year.

WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—Twenty emigrants
met a watery grave off the shores of Cape Gaspe, while on
a passage to Quebec, on the 22nd of July. The ship, the
Trusty, of Scarborough, in a fot ran on a rock. In spite
of the captain's orders, 20 of the 200 emigrants got into a
boat, which was immediately swamped. The other emi-
grants were assisted by two ships, who conveyed them
from their perilous situation after eight hours' suffering.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE FROM LIGHTNING.—During the
heavy storms of thunder and lightning, accompanied with
rain and hail, which swept over the locality of Colchester
and neighbourhood on Tuesday last, the extensive farm
premises in the occupation of Mr. Saml. Bloomfield Blyth,
of Langham, were struck by the electric fluid, and totally
consumed in a very short space of time. We understand
that the loss of property is estimated at .£2.000.

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BETTING- OFFICES.—A correspondent of the Times
says :—" I was passing a low betting-office near the Mid-
dlesex Hospital on Thursday night, and observed (what I
have not before remarked);women frequenting the place.
If our maid-servants take to the vice of gambling, which
these dens afford a facility for, what a prospect of domestic
bliss we shall have. Especially the more lucky folks who
are going out of town, and must leave their homes to the
care of their servants."

SPARROW, who was tried last spring for the Frome
murder, but afterwards convicted of burglaries and sen-
tenced to 25 years transportation, and Bird, another
burglar, broke out of Wells gaol on Monday night. Tbey
were :heavily ironed, but they contrived to make a hole
through the wall with part of a pair of tongs which they
had broken from a pair chained to the fire-place of the
cell in which they were confined. The fellows were re-
captured next day.

HINT FOR TOURISTS.—On the night of Sunday se'n-
night, about ten o'clock, a gentleman staying at the Castle
Inn, Wigmore, Herefordshire, retired to rest. As he was
undressing a shilling accidentally dropped out of his waist-
coat pocket, and rolled under the bed. He lifted the
valance to look for it, when, to his surprise,•he found there
concealed an Irishwoman. He drew her from her hiding-
place, and she was taken on the following morning before
Colonel Colvin, and sentenced to one month's imprison-
ment under the Vagrant Ad.—Hereford Journal.

THE Acnii.Li ro:NEWMAN CASE.—A correspondent of
the Daily News says that a circular letter from Cardinal
Wiseman was read on Sunday week at all the Roman
Catholic chapels in London, requesting the congregations
to contribute towards the expenses of the late trial. The
means to be used for carrying out this object are left to
the discretion of the priests, and in most places a collection
was to be made after each of the services of Sunday last.
The letter states that Dr. Newman's expenses amount to
£7,500, and that of this £2,500 has been already collected.

A TEAM OF HORSES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—OR
the 10th inst., when ploughing on the farm of Mr. Thos.
Jones, of Singleborough, Bucks, a team of three ,horses
were by the electric fluid struck to the ground, where
they laid as if dead for some time. Their mouths were
cold, and they were motionless. Samuel Ridgway, the
ploughman, was also knocked down, but was not seriously
injured. William Harrup, the driver, escaped. On the
horses somewhat recovering and endeavouring to get up
they fell down several times. It was some time before
they could walk home.

THE SWORD TURNED INTO ,THE SICKLE.—SO great is
the scarcity of hands in West Sussex, owing to emigration
and other causes, that the farmers, unable to procure the
means of housing their crops, have applied to the com-
manding-officer of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who, on
condition that his men did not compete with agricultural
labourers, but only supplied their places where vacant,
consented to allow his men to wield the sickle in place of
the sword. Two of the farmers of Bosham, Mr. Edward
Wyatt and Mr. Holloway, engaged a score each of the
Fusilier Guards, and, with their assistance, have com-
pleted the in-gathering of the sheaves and stacked them
for winter thrashing. The harvest southward of the South
Downs is always the earliest in the kingdom.

THE AMERICAN FISHERIES DispirrE. The Leeds
Chamber of Commerce held a special general meeting on
Saturday, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
present state of our relations with the United States of
America; the meeting was attended by some of the lead.
ing merchants of the borough. The general feeling, in
the first instance, appeared to be that the Chamber should
memorialize Her Majesty's Government, expressing deep
concern at the menacing aspect of the question, and the
danger to peace likely to spring from the disputed fisher-
ies ; and praying that every means may be used to bring
about amicable relations, and to prevent a collision be-
tween the vessels of war of the two countries. Some of
the American merchants present, however, expressed an
opinion that the state of affairs was really far less mena.
cing than was generally supposed ; and one of these gentle-
' men said that his private correspondence satisfied him that
there was no real danger to peace, the great outcry made
having been originated in the United States for political.
purposes. In order to enable the Chamber to possess it-
self of the advices by the following day's American steam-
er, the meeting was adjourned to Thursday next, the se-
cretary being, in the meantime, instructed to:communicate
with the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liver•
pool, Bradford, Hull, Glasgow, &c.