The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-16 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1852

WILLIAM BAKER, aged fifteen, the son of a baker in
Molyneux-street, Bryanstone.square, London, has been
committed for fratricide, having killed hisyounger brother
in a fit of passion, by stabbing him in the side with a table.
knife. •

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.—Three very. handsome little
machines for stamping newspapers are now in use at
Somerset.house, London. These ingenious inventions
will, attended by two children, stamp 18,000 newspapers
daily.
THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB intend, on the day of the
Duke's funeral, to devote the whole of their splendid
house to the service of the ladies. Six hundred and thirty
will be invited, and a breakfast will be provided on the
occasion.

TRINITY COLLEGE, GLENALMOND.—At the annual
meeting of the council, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart.,
was elected a member of council, to supply the vacancy
caused by the death of Sir John Gladstone, Bart., and
the Hon. J. C. Talbot.

ROBBERY.—Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Littlepage, sisters,
who formerly kept a school at Cheltenham, have been
committed for trial at Tewkesbury, for stealing a large
quantity of plate, the property of Mr. Maxwell, of Kener-
ton Priory, of which place they had the charge.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday Major-general Thos.
Fenn Addison, aged 80 years, was found dead in his bed,
at the Green Dragon Hotel, Bishopsgate-street, London,
where he had been in the habit of residing during his
visits to the metropolis from his provincial residence.
THE. LATE GALE.—At the lowest estimate, not less
than 100 seamen have perished by the dreadful gale which
prevailed last week, and the destruction of property is
also necessarily very great. Seven bodies have been
washed ashore near Sunderland, and remain with nobody
to claim them.

THE TOWER of a new church, St. Jude's, Moorfield's,
near Sheffield, built under Sir R. Peel's Act, fell down on
Sunday, eestroying the entire building with the exception
of the outer walls, the arches, the clerestory roof, &c., of
the cha eel, and its aisles, and doing damage to the
amount of XBOO.

THE " MARTYR" BLum.—About 300 German refugees
met on Tuesday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, to com-
memorate the " martyrdom" of Robert Blum, who was
executed after the taking of Vienna. The chair was taken
by Herr Ruge, who was supported by Johannes Ronge,
and several other foreigners.

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.—Her Majesty's Government
have given permission to the Crystal Palace Company to
remove this interesting relic of antiquity from its resting
place near Alexandria, hut subject to the condition that,
if the Palace ceased to be used for the purpose contem-
plated, the Government may resume possession.

AN INSOLVENT M.P.—The ease of William Seymour
Blackstone, late M.P. for Wallineford, was called on in
the Insolvent Debtors' Court, before Mr. Commissioner
Tom-, on Friday week, hut the insolvent did not answer.
Numerous creditors appeared to oppose Mr. Blackstone,
and as he did not appear his protection was withdrawn.

HYDROPHOBIA.—About ten months ago, a woman,
named Margaret M'Grevy, residing at Carlisle, was bitten
by a dog supposed to be mad. She recovered and ap-
peared to be quite well, but about a fortnight ago she be-
came ill, foamed at the mouth, snapped at people who
came near her, and died suffering all the horrible agonies
of hydrophobia.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—On Thursday, at Gloucester, a
sawyer named Ayres, at Mr. Essie's saw mills, which are
worked by powerful steam machinery, while carrying a
bulk of timber to feed the mills, stumbled, and fell upon
one of the revolving saws, which in a moment tore
through his chest, pierced his vitals, and cut him to.the
backbone, almost dividing him in two.
CONVERSIONS.—Fifty-eight more persons have re-
nounced Popery in St. Paul's, Bermondsey, since the last
Published account—viz., 15th September last. Several of
these last converts are well-educated persons, amongst
them two ladies, one had been a pervert to Popery. it
may be added that great numbers more are meditating
their withdrawal from the Popish community.—Record.

LAUNcR.—The Australian Company's screw-steamer
Adelaide was launched, at Millwall, on Friday. She has
been built by Mr. Scott Russell, on the wave-line prin-
ciple. Her length is 288 feet, breadth 38 feet, depth 27
feet; tonnacze 1,800. The Adelaide has four masts. She
is constructed with fifteen water.tight compartments, and
has four enzines and four boilers. She was launched all
standing.. The Adelaide was built under the supervision
of Mr. Brunel.

WITHDRAWAL or THE MAIL PACKETS BETWEEN
CEYLON AND THE MAURITIUS.—The mail packet, which
has been for some time employed by the government of
the Mauritius in the conveyance of mails between Ceylon
and that colony, having now been withdrawn, letters, &c.,
transmitted to the Mauritius by the Overland Mail can
only be despatched from Ceylon as opportunities offer.
All letters and newspapers for the Mauritius will be for-
warded by the direct packet, via the Cape of Good Hope,
unless specially directed to be otherwise sent.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—In a private letter from
Captain Kellett to a gentleman .in London, he states that
when at the mouth of Wellington Channel, be and his
officers saw a great number of birds perched on what
turned out on examination to be square pieces of whale
blubber, which were drifting out of the Channel. They
bore every appearance of having been cut from the animal.
Captain Kellett came to the conclusion that the Prince
Albert was close at hand ; but that ship was at the time
in Regent's Inlet. The blubber must, therefore, have
been cut either by Esquimaux or by Franklin's party.

LOSING A BABY.—A few evenings since, as a young
couple, residing in a village not far from Walton-on-the-
Naze, were leaving the house of a friend, where they bad
been spending the evening, their sleeping baby was duly
wrapped in flannels and shawls and laid in apparently
comfortable quarters at the back of the cart. The parents
jogged home, no doubt congratulating themselves upon
the fancied security of their little charzc ; when, on going
round to the back of the cart, the tail-board was found
to have fallen off, and the baby was gone. Their serious
alarm was not of long duration, for two gentlemen travel-
ling the same road had picked up the lost one, and had
the pleasure of restoring it unhurt to its anxious parents.
—Essex Standard.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S MODEL GuN.—The new
Master-general, Baron Raglan, has presented the Prince
of Wales, as a birth-day gift, with a model of a 6-pound
fieldpiece. It is upon a scale of two inches to the foot;
length, 10 inches ; bore, 6i tenths ; weight of powder, 2
drachms ; weight of metal, 6 lb. On the body of the gun
is engraved the Queen's initials. " V. R.." surmounted
by the crown, on the " chase of flight." The coronet and
plumes of feathers are most beautifully executed. The
carriage is constructed of the finest wood in the royal car-
riage department, and is one of the finest models that
ever left the Royal Arsenal. Ihe model is taken from a
6-pounder brass field piece, 6 feet in length ; weight,
about 6 60. ; and acknowledged to be the most service-
able and prettiest brass fieldpiece used in the British
service.

A GHOST AT BLACKLEY.—The gossips of Blackley, and
the great authority of that village, the policeman, assert
that a " boggart," or ghost, has made its appearance in
the house of a clogger, named William Whitehead. it
first gave a token of its presence by cackling like a hen.
Sometimes it moans like the whistle of a railway engine
and, when any of the family stand on a certain flagstone
in the back kitchen, it screams like a child. After a de-
monstration of this kind, on one occasion, Whitehead
removed the stone, and, after digging a short time, he
found a cream jug full of lime and bones. A few days
ago, it is said, the kettle, full of boiling water, was re-
moved from the fire to the middle of the house floor.
Some of the villagers, who state that the house has been
haunted eighty-five years, are of opinion that it is " Old
Shaw's wife."