The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

A HUMANE MASTER.

A good:looking young woman, named Ann Warrington,
was placed at the bar under the following circumstances.
Mr. Elsby, of No. 6, Hunter-street, stated that the prisoner
had been in his service for about five or six weeks, and so far
as he or his wife were aware, had conducted herself with
great propriety, up to the period of her leaving them. Yes.
terday (Sunday) morning, she left the house about an hour
and a half before the family rose, taking with her (as she
afterwards admitted to the police officer) a small quantity of
sugar. She went to a cellar in Marble-street, where she was
found in the company of abandoned characters ; and all he
could learn in' explanation of her conduct, was that she had
been induced to leave her place by the seductive representa-
tions of a female, an inmate of the cellar, who had persuaded
her that she might be very comfortable without working.
Mr. Elsby added that his object in bringing her there was
that her father might be made aware of what had taken place,
and that she might be redeemed, if possible, from ruin.
Mr. Rushton signified his commendation of Mr. Elsby's
object, and she was remanded until her father could be
produced. •

The Earl of Ealcarras and Lord Lindsay, since their re-
turn from Scotland, have been passing the autumn at Haigh
Hall, near Wigan, where they intend to remain during the

whole of the Winter.

Mr. Colles, as will be perceived, has acceded to the wishes
expressed by many of his visitors, that he would remain in.
Liverpool another week. The numbers who have been dis-
appointed of obtaining admittance, during the past few days,
will thus have another opportunity of witnessing what Mr.
Colles truly calls his " Magical Novelties."—Albion.

CAPTAIN STACK, OF THE4STH REGIMENT.—This gallant
officer, who, with a few more of his regiment, so bravely re-
pulsed and defeated a multitude of chartist rebels in their
late attack on the civil authorities and military at Newport,
North Wales, is a Tralec man, the son of Mr. Edward Stack,
for many years a very respectable inhabitant of this town,
who, having a very large family of sons and daughters—one
of his younger sons, Richard, (the subject of this article,)
went out a volunteer to join the British army on the continent
in the year 1808, 31 years ago, and has ever since beep en-
gaged in the active service of his king and country. In the
first action in which he was engaged on the continent, Ri-
chard had the good fortune to save the life of his command-
ing officer, at the imminent risk of his own, and Lor his gal-
lant and exemplary conduct on that occasion was immediately
appointed to an ensigncy in the 14th Regiment, with which
corps he went out to India, where he has since served with
distinguished merit in all the arduous campaigns of that tor-
rid climate, until, by length of faithful service, he won his
present rank in the army. We are not aware of the exact
time at which he exchanged into the 45th, but with that regi-
ment he returned to England. The families of Stack were,
centuries ago, possessed of large property in Kerry, honour-
able mention being made of one of them (Maurice Stack) as
a brave soldier in Sir George Carew's history of the Irish
wars, commencing so early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
A respectable portion of the property (Ballycunry) still re-
mains with the elder branch of the family of Kerry, who are
now connected with the noble family of Massey, Lord Cla-
rina, &c.—Limerick Standard.

CURIOUS Biun.—A curious and very interesting bird was
shot by Lord llowick,. in Chevington Wood, a large cover,
belonging to Earl Grey, a few miles to the east of Felton, on
Monday last. It is a mule, or cross between the black-cock
and pheasant, and partakes in nearly an equal degree of the
characters of both. The bill, in size and shape. is
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feathered full half way down in front. The tail is conside-
rably rounded, and about eight inches in length. It pos-
sesses the fine superciliary scarlet comb of the black-cock,
and the region of the eyes is surrounded with a red papillose
skin, but not to the same extent as in the cock pheasant.
The head and neck are of a rich purplish black, with a me-
taltic lustre ;:the breast and under.p3rts arc black, some of
the feathers exhibiting the full characteristic of the pheasant.
The wing coverts are marked like those of the pheasant, but
of a duller colour ; the lower back is of a rich purplish black.
Crosses of this kind are rarely met with in the wild or natu-
ral state, and what renders the present more remarkable is,
that the intercourse has not been between birds belonging to
the tame genus, or species closely related to each other, but
between individuals belonging to groups more widely separa-
ted, and whose affinity is consequently more distant, than it
is between species belonging to the same, or some closely
allied genus, as in the case of the pheasant and domestic
fowl. An old black-cock, it may be remembered, has haunted
the wood for two or three seasons past, but no females have
been sewn for some years. This curious mule (which proved
a male), measured in length two feet one inch and a halt', and
in extent of wing two feet six inches and a half. It is now
placed in the collection of Mr. Selby, at Twizell House.—
Newcastle Journal.

TUE ANTI-CORN-LAW DOCTORS.—WC have just now
good deal of manufacturing distress ; yet we are, we believe,
quite secure in saying that the manufactured goods exported
during the last two years have exceeded the exports of any
former period of the same duration. Why ? The anti-corn-
law doctors will say, because you have been compelled by
deficient harvests to import foreign corn, and thus create
new markets for goods. No, good economists ! If this alone
were the cause of the increase of exports, there would be no
manufacturing distress. The home market must have de-
clined in a greater degree than the foreign market could by
possibility have increased, or there would be no distress.
The truth is, that the home market has declined by reason
of deficient harvests, and as the home market is about ten to
one of the foreign, any increase in the latter affords no sen-
sible relief to the manufacturer. The abundance of British
gold on the foreign exchanges has lately been a subject of ob-
servation, and, strange as it may seem, a subject of complaint
—but of complaint it would not long be a subject. Our
neighbours on the Continent have learned to sink canals and
to construct railways : they can bring to the sea, and, what
is more to their purpose, all through the land the product of
their work-shops, and the coal and other materials necessary
to set these work-shops in motion, and with the water power
which their local circumstances afford, they can set the work-
shops in motion at one-fifth of the cost of our manufactories.
All that they want is the gold now said to be lumbering their
exchanges. A repeal of the corn law would giye them this
gold in a full and constant stream. These are truths which
no man gifted with even the lowest degree of common sense
can conceal from himself. Nevertheless, we find all the mi-
nisterial journals, without any exception clamouring for a
repeal of the corn law. The clamour has failed, and will
fail ; even the misguided chartists have been able to see
through the fraud that would point their vengeance at the
agricultural body. But though- their writing is unsuccessful,
the ministerial writers' purpose is not on that account the
less manifest. They wish to raise a rebellion against the
laws by which the agricultural body are protected, and in the
success of that rebellion to extinguish the aristocracy, with
this additional prospect of gain, that the ministers may, in
the confusion, escape the just punishment of their et
Standard.
A TURE KEY TO ImposTertg.—Last week, a fellow tum-
bled down to all appearance in a fit, about the middle of As-
sembly-street, not very far from the door of a gentleman who
has a hand in the distribution of our Kirk Session funds. No
doubt the fellow thought the Elder's bowels of compassion
" squeezable ;" and having, like a worthy dramatist, observed
all the " unities of time and place" he executed his faint there
and then. Plenty of good Samaritans were about him in a
moment, holding up his head, and doing all the other offices
of simple kindness to an afflicted brother.. It happened that
a medical gentleman at present residing in Duinfries, ob-
served from a window what was going on, and sallied forth
to render assistance. His well-practised and skilful eye saw
iu a moment what was the matter with our poor patient, and
he said he would soon cure him. Forthwith he brought front
his room a tooth key, and pushing the pitying people aside,
he laid hold of the patient's head, saying the only way to cure
him was to draw a tooth. Taking thefellow's head below Ilia
arm, he had the key in his jaw in the twinkling of a bed-post.
Behold a miracle The patient opened his eyes like an ogre
—seized the operator's hand with the most determined
celf-
denial not to be cured—tore the key out of his mouth—sprung
to his feet—and was off like a hatter, before the compassion,
ate Elder got notice of his distress and helped him from the
bag. Our medical friend; with a smile which seemed to say,
" Knowledge is power," left the people in amazement at hie
wonder-working skill, and walked in to breakfast. A man
who has lived as long as he in Lothian-street, Edinburgh, is
up to that sort of trap.—Dumfries Courier.
DESTRUCTION OF A TURNPIKE ROAD.—The excessive
rains by which this and the neighbouring counties have been
inundated for many weeks past are at length effecting the
calamitous results anticipated. The new line of read lead-
ing from Church Stretton to Bishop's Castle was formed at
vast expense by the late Earl of Powis and the neighbouring
landowners, and, in that portion between the Marsh Brook .
and Horderley, is carried, for many hundred yards, along tha
face of a steep rocky eminence called the Broken t..'tones.
For some days previous to Saturday last stones and earth
were perceived to trickle from the sides of the rock, which
considerably interrupted the passage, but no danger was ap-
prehended. Even so late as ten o'clock on Saturday night a
team, with the help of a lantern, passel along the road,
providentially without injury. On the appearance of day-
light, however, an awful scene presented itself : the gpaund
above, for about 901) feet, had slipped and taken with it, into
a valley, the road for the space of 336 feet, by which it hail
stopped the channel of a small brook, and covered the land
of an adjoining tenement, converting the meadows into a
large piece of water, and threatening with destruction the
habitation. A number of persons, however, soon assembled,
and by their united efforts removed part of the hay, and cut
a trench to take off some of the water ; but all idea of re-
placing the road in its former position is already abandoned.
From every appearancelhere will be more avalanches; and
if the large body of water collected should not, through any
chasm, discharge itself,
there are very 'serious fears enter-
tained for the safety of several houses Idtuated on, the mar-
gin of' the stream. The neighbourhood is in great conster-
nation, and numerous visitors are attracted by curiosity's
the spot.—Shrewstnery cAeoniele.