The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

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LIEUTENANTS.—The Earl of Se

Lieutenant of the county. has sie.ned the commissions o
T. Miller, Esq., of Preston, and T. Ainsw.irth, jun., Esq.

of`sackbarrow, as deput

-lieutenants

The names-of the

following gentlemen have also been submitted to the
Queen, and receivel her Majesty's approval

Colonel the Hon. J. Linds,

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'G. Stapleton, Ditton-grove; Sir j. P. Kay Shuttlevvorth,
Bart., Gawthorp-hall ; J. Pilkington, Esq., M.P., Black-
burn; R. A. Thicknesse, Esq., M.P., Beach-hill, Wigan ;
Gilbert Greenall, Esq.. M.P., Walton-hall, Warrington ;
Thomas Littledale, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool ; C. R.
Jacson, Esq., Barton-lodge; W. J. Garnett,-Esq., Bless-
dale Tower; B. Heywood Jones, Esq., Lark-bill, Liver-
pool ; M. Ainslie, Esq. Grizedal . e-hall ; H. de Trafford,
Esq., Trafford-park; F. S. Gerard, Esq., Aspull-house ;
J. S. Entwistle, Esq., of 'Foxholes; S. H. Thompson,
Esq.. Thingwall-hall; E. E. Ciavton, Esq., Carr.hail ;
Jon. Peel, Esq.. Knowlmere ; and R. H. liorreys, Esq.,
Davyhulme-hall.

LIVES LOST.—On Friday, about two o'clortk, p.m., an
explosion of a steam-boiler took place at the cotton-mill
of Mr. George Holgate, Tinsley-gate, Burnley. The
whole of the fire and an immense quantity of water was
discharged, without a moment's warning. into the midst
of the workmen, four of whom were killed, and several
others seriously injured. Their names are, William
Winterbottom, warper, dead, left a widow, but no family. ;
William Townson, '(an aged man.) weaver, dead, left a
family, hut not dependant; -John Thornton, weaver,
dead, left a widow and six children ; George Whitaker,
mechanic, a fine youth of sixteen, dead; George Whita-
ker, warper, mach injured, recovery doubtful ; Samuel
Bracewell, smith, William'Watson, overlooker. Robert
Heys, weaver, Peter Robinson. weaver, Richard Jackson,
weaver, and Richard Pilkington, mason, scalded, but not
dangerously. No 'blame-seems to be attached to any one,
as the boiler appeared to be in good working order. The
cause of the exploSion will, • no doubt, be inquired into
when the coroner's jury proceed to an examination of the
case.

CHARGE OF FORGING AN ACCEPTANCE TO A BILL
OF EXCHANGE.—At the Police-court on Saturday, a
respectable-looking man, named Joseph Thompson, was
charged with having forged the acceptance to a bill of es-
change for £4O. It appeared the prisoner had kept a
public-house in the neighbourhood of St. Anne-street
and, being indebted to-11r.'Fazakerley, timber
he gave him a bill drawn by himself, and purporting to be
accepted by David Holden. On the bill becoming due it
was dishonoured. and, on inquiry being made, Holden
denied that he 'had ever accepted the bill, and declared

'-merchant,

When

signature to the acceptance to be a forgery
this discovery was made the prisoner was at Lancaster,
passing through the Insolvent Debtors' Court. He was
dis Charged from custody at Lancaster on Friday, and im.
o I mediately apprehended by Johnson, of the detective

police. on a charge of forgery. The prisoner persevered
in stating. ti:at the signature to the acceptance was Hel-
den's. He was committed for trial at the assizes. Thomp-
son, at the time of his apprehension, had his passage to
Australia in the. Great 'Britain, which sailed whilst 1:e .was
under examination, paid for. His luggage was also on
board.

HEALTH CcrArmr-rTge..—At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, complaint 'being made of a nuisance in Crown-
street, the engineer explained that tenders had been ac-
cepted for a sewer which would drain the neighbourhood,
and to a great extent remove the nuisance complained of.
A letter was read complaining of an annoyance to the
congregation of St. 'Silas's Church, caused by vehicles
passing over the stone •pavement. After some conversa-
tion, it was agreed to lay down wheelers in the centre of
the street for the passage of vehicles. The medieai
officer reported that'for the week ending the 14th instant,
the deaths registered were 267. As compared with the
previous week there was a decrease of 19, and an increase
of 33 as compared with the same week of the preceding
four years, exclusive ~cf the cholera mortality of 1849.
Nearly one-third of the mortality was from bowel com-
plaints. the deaths from diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera
being 87. From other diseases of the zymotic class there
were 41 deaths, of which there were from meazles, 12 ;
scarlatina, 12; typhus,•"6'(9 less than in the previous week);
smallpox (unvaccinated), 1. A licensed victualler and
another individual in good circumstances, aged respect
tively 32 and 34, died from delirium tremens. Of the
total number of deaths 191 were children, and 76 were
adults.

SUICIDE BY A NEITLY-MARRIED WOMAN.—On Sa-
turday an inquest was commenced before Mr. P. 'E.
Curry, the borough coroner, on the body of El'zabeth
Charters, aged seventeen years. It appeared that the
deceased was the daughter of Mr. Joseph Allen, who keeps
a public-house in Regent-road, and was married about
nine weeks ago, to the mate of a ship. The husband of
the deceased sailed a few weeks ago for Sydney, and since
his departnre she seemed much fretted and very low-
spirited. On Thursday evening she went out to walk in
company with a friend, and whilst out she called at the
shop of Mr. Henry, druggist, Great Howard-street, and
purchased an ounce of laudanum and some lozenges. She
then returned home and went to bed rather earlier than
usual, as she complained cf having headache. Shortly
after twelve o'clock the servant retired to rest, and found
that she was sleeping heavily; she did not, however, dis-
turb her. The servant rose at her usual hour, and, the
deceased not being up, whenbreakfast was ready she was
sent up to call her, and found deceased dead. A surgeon
was immediately sent for, but all efforts were useless, as
she had been dead for some time. After hearing the evi-
dence in the case, the inquest was adjourned till yester-
day (Monday), to allow time for a p9st mortem examina-
tion to be made, when the:jury returned a verdict of
"temporary insanity."

MODEL LODGING HO'CrSE LIVERPOOL.—Through night, a young man, about twenty years of age, residing in
the praiseworthy exertions of Mr. Chaffers, of the Royal Sheffield, took an illegitimate child (for whose support he
Bank, four individuals—Messrs..Samuel and Jas. Holme, I had been summoned to pay a sum of money) to a wood
-Mr. M'Cormick, and Mr. Brassev—have generously con- near the town, where he cut its head off, and threw it
tributed £5O each towards furnishing premises in Great some distance from the body. He then returned to Shef-
Oxford-street North, which are already. in a state of for- field, and called the child's mother out of the Mechanics'
wardness as a lodging-house for single men. It will Institution in a bye street, where he attempted to cut her
accommodate more than thirty inmates. Each lodger
throat. Being foiled by her screaming, he ran away, and
- -
will be provided not only with a separate bed, but a small attacked another woman, who got from him. In
enclosed space, affording that privacy so obviously deli-
the course of the night, he gave himself up to a watch=
Table, both on moral and religious grounds. Besides
man, whom he informed of the murder of the child, which
apartments for the superintendent, there will be a corn- was discovered in the place he mentioned early in the
mon sitting parlour, kitchen, smoking-room, place for morning-
washing, with hot and cold bath; and for these accom- FEARML GUN ACCIDENT.—A fearful gun accident
modations the charge will be only 2a. 43. per week. The occurred at 'Steeple Claydon. Bucks, on Tuesday last.
object of such a lodging. house is not only to afford cern- Mr. Somersett, surgeon, had borrowed a gun of a neigh-
fort to the few individuals who may be -fortunate enough hour, for a day's rabbiting, nod was trying it in the house,
•to avail themselves of these advantages, but to show to when it exploded, lodging the contents in the thigh of
-those persons who occupy the ordinary class of lodgings, Mrs. Somersett. The limb was dreadfully lacerated, and
that their present accommodations may be improved • to the blood-vessels were totally destroyed. Amputation
-beget in them habits of cleanliness and propriety, andi a has been performed, and hopes of the lady's recovery are
taste for the comforts which they have a right to enjoy ; entertained. It appears that on borrowing the gun Mr.
and to demonstrate to builders and the owners of cottage Somersett was informed that it was " all right ;" but, on
property, that such lodging-houses are net only self- blowing down it, he found an obstruction in the barrel,
supporting, but remunerative, and may be multiplied and, thinking it was some trifling lodgment in the nipple,
throughout the town with advantage to themselves, and to remove it put on a cap to drive it out, and sent the
as a good investment for capitalists. hammer down, whereupon the explosion ensued. Mrs.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on Thurs- Somersett has a numerous family.
day, a letter was read from Mr. Christopher Dogherty, in- A SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENT.—The Nassau bal.
timating that he would withdraw his tender for excavating loon, with the veteran aeronaut Green, ascended on Tues.
the foundations of the warehouses on the north quay of day, for scientific objects, from Vauxhall-gardens, Lon-
the Stanley Dock, on account of an error in his tender. don, under the superintendence of the Kew committee of '
After some conversation the letter was referred to the the council of the British Association. The balloon was
committee of works to make inquiry, but without power provided with double sets of suitable instruments, in
to dismiss the contract. A memorial was read, signed by •charge of Mr. Welsh and Mr. Nicklin, of the Kew Ob.
135 shopkeepers and others carrying on various businesses servatory. The ascent took place at 10 minutes before 4
in the vicinity of theproposed new docksat Wapping, wish- p.m., and the descent, with great ease and security, at 25
ing to know whether the trust could relieve them from the minutes past 5 p.m„ at Swavesey, N.W of Cambridge,
difficulties under which they laboured from the present the balloon having travelled nearly 60 miles in 1 hour and
state of the locality ; their business was injured, and there 35 minutes. The height attained was about 19,300 feet,
was no probability of the works being proceeded with. and at that elevation the temperature was 7 deg. Fahren-
The Chairman said that the committee were most anxious heit, or 25 deg. below the freezing point. A second
to proceed, but difficulties had come in the way which ascent is expected to take place in the course of the
they could not control ; the committee could not do any: month.

thing for them.—A letter: was read from M'Ciune and Loss OF LIFE BY FIRE.—The Plymouth Journal of
Tamplin, calling attention to the necessity of some larger Thursday says :—" 'We regret to have to state that, about
cranes at the north docks ;it was referred to the harbour- half .past two this morning, a fire broke out in a house
master's committee. The Chairman suggested that yes- situate in Vauxhall-place, Vauxhall-street, whereby three
sels might go into the Sandon Dock, where there was a persons were burnt to death. It appears that Mr. Bing-
-50-ton crane.—The Chairman intimated that it was about don, who is a brickmnker, was at work at some distance,
the time when they made their annual excursion to exa- and his wife went to bed, leaving the candle burning. It
mine the telegraph stations, &c. Considering the con- is supposed that the candle by some accident caught the
nection between the dock committee and the corporate bed-clothes, and set them on fire, which soon spread over
estate, he thought it would only be an act of courtesy to the room. Airs. Blagdon and her two children (a boy and
invite the members of council to accompany them.—The a girl) were in bed together, and, when the policeman
suggestion met with unanimous approval, and it was went into the room, the woman was lying partly out of
agreed they should proceed as far as Puffin Island, return. bed, as if she had made an effort to get out of the room,
ing the same day. The day fixed was Thursday next, the and the smoke overpowering her strength, she fell back
usual weekly meeting to be adjourned to the following suffocated. The woman is 33 years of age, the boy three
day. The
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was
then Preclede4 witil• years old, and the infant twelve months old.

LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Protectionists of this important
county having achieved an unprecedented triumph in the
return of the whole of the thirteen county and borough
members on Protectionist principles ; some gentlemen
at Boston have had a medal struck in commemoration of
the event. It is a very beautiful work of art ; the obverse
bears an appropriate inscription, and the arms of the four
county members, quartered on a shield ; and the reverse
bears an inscription stating the reason of the medal being
struck, and the names of the thirteen members. The
election of [852 is the first occasion since 1688, in which
Lincolnshire (especially the north division) has freed itself
from Liberal domination.

TREMENDOUS THUNDERSTORM.—On Tlesday night
the metropolis was visited by a terrible storm of thunder
and lightning. About 20 minutes before 12 o'clock a
frightful clap of thunder burst over the city, st
as to rouse those w

ho were asleep, and to cause the greatest
consternation among those awake or in the street. The
shock over St. Bartholomew's-close, London, was so great
that people rushed out of their houses in dismay, each ex-
pecting that their neighbour's house was down or that the
old church had fallen. The shock was so tremendous that
the very houses vibrated as though by a shock of earth-
quake, and to an extent to alto. the action of the clocks.
There is very little doubt that an aerolite fell in the vicinity
of the church, for, as Mrs, Smith, the wife of an artificial

flower-stamp maker, in Cloth fair, adjoining the church,
was closing the window, she was struck back, and was
rendered almost senseless by the sulphuric vapour. The
storm, as respects London, appears to have extended its
fury over this spot, as soon after, the peals of thunder and
lightning gradually diminished.

THE LA PLATA left Southampton, on Tuesday, with
the West Indian and Pacific mails. She had on board
1,380 tons of coal:, the largest quantity of fuel perhaps
ever taken on board a steamer, It is estimated that the
coal of the West India Company used at home and
I stations avera,,-- a ton-

Foreign

aces 305. .. Some idea may be formed
from this of the enormous expense of working a monster
steamer, as the cost of fuel of the La Plata on her voyage
from Southampton to St. Thomas will scarcely be less
than £2.000. Mr. Napier, the maker of the engines of
the La Piata, has offered to wager £5,000 that she will
make the voyage to St. Thomas in twelve days. and that
her engine power is sufficient to take her there in ten
days. The distance between Southampton and St. Tho-
mas is near 3.700 miles, which is 700 miles farther than
the distance between Liverpool and New York. The
engines of the La Plata register the revolutions of the
paddle-wheels on a disc similar to that on a gas meter.
Opposite to the disc a timepiece is placed to show the cele-
rity of the revolutions.

HORRIBLE MUTILATION AND DEATH.—Otte Of the

most dreadful cases of mutilation and death ever recorded

has occurred in Leeds. It appears that on Saturday last
a man named Thomas Nicholson, aged 48. an engineman
at the brewery of Messrs. Spenr, was tending the machine
for grinding malt-. During the nrorning he was missed
for two hours; it was not, homever, snpposed that any-
thing was amiss until a person entering the grinding room
(where deceased had been employed alone), observed a
Portion of Nicholson's body whirling round the shaft, and
the room like a slaughter-house. The machine was as
speedily as possible stopped. It was then found that both
Nicholson's feet had been cut off, that his left arm was
torn from the body by the shoulder joint, and that his

right arm, legs, and body were frightfully mangled. It
is unnecessary to add that he was quite dead, and had
been so for some time, it being probable that the mutila-
ted remains had been whirling round the shaft for two
hours. It is supposed he had been caught by the jacket
and got amongst the machinery.
PLATE ROBBERY. A FRUIT OF THE BETTING
OFFICES. —At Marylebone police office, London, on
Monday, John Hoilingshed was charged with having
stolen a quantity of silver plate, of the value of £l3O. the
Property of his master, James Tilyer Blunt, Esq., of No.
3, Dorset-square. The prosecutor, who had made an
arrangement to look over his plate on Saturday, previous
to his going out of town, found, on the afternoon of that
day, that the prisoner had absconded, and immediately
after missed his plate. The prisoner subsequently gave
himself up to a police constable at Hammersmith, ac-
knowledging the robbery. Fourteen pawnbrokers were
in attendance, bringing with them the articles upon which
they had advanced money to the prisoner. The property
consisted of massive spoons, forks, ladles, candlesticks,
waiters, &c., the whole of which was identified by the
prosecutor as being his property. The prisoner expressed
great contrition, and it was intimated that he would be
committed for trial. While the prisoner was being con-
veyed from Hammersmith to Molyneux station-house he
told the officer, who did not, however, state it in his
evidence before the magistrate, that betting upon races
had brought him into all this trouble.

CURIOSITIES OF PARLIAMENT.—MT. DOd'9 Parlia-
mentary Companion reveals many curious facts respecting
the composition of the new House of Commons. It
might be expected that untitled squires, large landed
proprietors, and persons of independent fortune would
form the bulk of the assembly ; but so far from this being
the case, there are only 154 persons who can be strictly
referred to such a category. The number of individuals
who possess some sort of title is, however, considerable,
and many of these are also persons of fortune : thus the
baronets amount to 66, and the sons of peers to 106,
while there are only three city knights. The pervading
element proceeds from the professional and mercantile
classes ; and amongst them the lawyers have secured a
lion's share. There is the large number of 101 barristers
and 18 attorneys returned. Of merchants, manufacturers,
and wholesale dealers, there are 29, and to these classes
may also be added 20 bankers and 2 brewers ; while of
occupations more sparingly represented we may mention
1 architect,_ James Bell ; 1 builder, William Cubitt ; 3

engineers, Messrs. Locke, Stephenson, and Peto ; three
medical men, Messrs. Hume, Brady. and Michel. An
exact estimate can scarcely be formed of the railway in-
fluence, but 11 magnates of that interest are certainly
present in the persons of Messrs. Glyn, Hudson, Wad-
dington, Laing, M'Gregor, Chaplin, H. Browne, Cobbold,
Coffin, Hawkins, Stephenson, and Ricardo. Smaller
directors and endless shareholders will be found among
all classes in the House. The army is fully represented
by 67 of its members. while the navy can only count 13.
The Irish perrs present in the Lower House are Earl
Annesley, Viscounts Barrington, Galway, Monek, and
Palmerston, and Lord Hotham, who constitute a. clear
addition to the representative Peers sitting in the House
of Lords.

THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS.—The Prince of
Wales has arrived off the Wight.. with 35.000 ounces of
gold, worth in this market £140,000. The dates from
Sydney by this arrival extend to the 9th May. The
Duchess of Northumberland had sailed with 4.594 ounces
on the 23d April, and the Johnstone with 9,099 ounces on
the 6th May. With reference to the actual yield of the
Australian gold fields during the year, (twelve months
having just expired since the first discovery of the precious
metal in those colonies,) the Sydney Morning Herald
affords-the following valuable statement :

ounces.
Exported from Sydney to the Bth May.. 393,794
Estimated to he now lying in harbour .. 50,000
Estimated in banks and private hands in
town

Estimated at mines

40,000
20,000

Making a total of ........ 503,794
From which deduct the amount received
from Victoria.

148,061

Leaves thA production of New
South Wales for the, year at ..

Exported from Melbourne to 23d April.. G 68,682
Estimated in banks and private hands at
that port ..
Estimated at the mines

50,000
50,000

768,68:i

Making the total produce of the two'colonies in
the twelve months.. . .
Taken at its intrinsic value of £4 per ounce, we have•here
an aggregate of £4,497,660. According to the last ac-
counts, £311,000 worth of the precious metal had arrived
at Adelaide by overland escort from the Mount Alexander
diggings; so that we have a grand total of full 4,800,000
sterling as the result of the first year's operations, con-
ducted, as is well known, under great disadvantages. The
sale of licenses in New South Wales up to the end of
March had produced £46,171, and in Victoria £74,079.
The escort fees in the former province for the same pe-
riod amounted to £4,310; and in the latter, £8,124.—
Daily News.
Tent HARVEST.—We learn from a correspondent, who
has this week visited the large agricultural district of East
Glocestershire, West Worcestershire, and Herefordshire,
the prospects of the harvest in that district. The crops
are generally very heavy, and, although there is a good
deal of wheat partially spoilt by mildew and spirting,
which will cause some of the samples to be inferior in
quality, there is reason to believe that the harvest will be
an average one, and that, while there will be some wheat
spoilt, the loss to the farmer will be remedied by the
slightly increased value of the residue. Should the
weather, however, prove wet again, the farmers must
suffer, as the wheat will then be very inferior, and the
foreigner will come in and successfully compete with the
home grower. There is one peculiar feature in the pre-
sent harvest worthy of note, i.e., a general want of labour.
For the last half-century there has not been so great a
scarcity of labour as at the present time, and the labour-
ers are doing better than at any time within remembrance.
The cost of reaping per acre in Worcestershire has hitherto
been 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d. an acre, and at the commencement
of harvest operations this year that price was given. It
was soon found, however, that men were not to be had;
that, from some cause or other, those who usually visited
the agricultural districts at this season to assist in har-
vesting failed in making their annual appearance. The
result is that labour is greatly enhanced in value, and
farmers in some parts of Worcestershire are at this mo-
ment giving from 12s. to 21s. per acre for reaping, while
many cannot get help at any price, and are obliged to
suspend harvesting operations, while the ripened corn is
dropping from the stalks. The weather maintains its
stormy character. There was another terrific thunder.
storm, with deinees of rain, on Tuesday evening along
the chain of the Malvern-hills forming the division of the
counties Worcester, Hereford, and Glocester. At New-
ham, in the lower part of Glocestershire, a woman was
killed by the lightning. At Newent, in the same district,
the rain carried the soil from some meadows in an ava-
lanche into the ternpike-road, blocking it up and render-
ing it impassable. At Malvern Wells the rain descended
in sheets, flooding the roads as a river, and forming a
channel through ploughed fields. Houses were flooded,
and much damage was done. At Great Malvern the rain
filled the cellars, stables, Sze., and, pouring into the
churchyard at the foot of the hill, carried soil and silt in-
to the church, the water entering at the north door and
running through the whole length of the beautiful abbey
church into the chancel. Thunder-storms were also fly- I
ing about next day (Wednesday).—Times.

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