The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

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DIRECT LONDON V AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.--A
'l4oPromise of the suits in Chancery against the directors
of this railway, formerly known as Remington's line, has
het been made by the official manager, with the concur-
"floe of the master, under the powers of the act of narlia.
condition being that certain directors
i of another company, called Ras.
'ay over £16,000 to the official

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ThAnsvtarorr SANDS.—d;, Wednesday evt
accident occurred on the Ulverston Sands.
Jonathan Caddy, meltster, Green-hank, r
was returning from Ulverston market with a horse and
illuandri, between 8 and 9 o'clock on the night above
entioned, ha bad by some means, after crossing the
;111annel, lost his way, although the guide accompanied

will come it

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'ear Cartmel

Black Scars. The horse and sbandry
►ere found near to Meanhouse on Thursday; but up to
rridaY roornine no account of the body had been heard of.

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MOST SINGULAR CASES OF SUDDEN DEATHS.—Ciii
Wednesday Mrs. Haggard, of Swindon, was seized with a
sudden illness of a very serious character. She continued
in the same state, speechless and motionless, until Sunday
morning, when she expired. Fox, a neighbour, who
had been sitting up with her, and was present at her
death, on coming down stairs complained of illness. She
was immediately remov.ql to her own house, where she
zpired in a few minutes. Both persons were aged, and
it ii somewhat remarkable that. some forty year's since
Mrs. Fox officiated as bride's maid at Mts. Haggard's
Path Journal

UNIQUE QUALIFIOATION OF A MUNICIPAL CANDI-
DATE.—An extraordinary feat of strength was performed
in the streets of Gloucester last. Wednesday. One of the
unsuccessful candidates for the honour of representing the
south ward in the city council having undertaken for a
heavy wager to carry a sack of wheat, weighing 224 lbs.,
from the Market House, Bastgate-street, to Barton-street
turnpike, performed the task on that day in little more
than ten minutes, amidst the cheers of his numerous
friends, who, no doubt, considered the feat as one clearly
entitling the performer to full municipal honours. Here-
Etter, we presume, we may look for corporate races to be
given to the swift, and municipal battles to the strong."—

Cloucesler Chronicle.
SENDING THREATENING LETTERS TO LORD JOHN
RUSSELL.--At the Bow-street police-office, on Saturday,
Frederick Mundell, formerly a lieutenant in the army,
was brought up on a warrant, charged with sending letters
to the prime minister, containing threats of personal
vio-
Mr. W. Law, the private secretary of Lord John
.resell, produced a letter dated the 23d ultimo, and ad-
,ressed to his lordship. The terms of the letter were very
violent and incoherent; but, although the writer com-
plained of having been treated with malice and cruelty,
the nature of his real or fancied injury did not appear.
The threat was contained in the following passage :—" I
warn you, by the living God, that if you force me to pass
the Rubicon, no trifling concession will appease my out-
raged feelings," &c. A police inspector stated that this
letter was in the prisoner's writing, and added that when
he was searched he laid a razor, which he took from his
pocket, on the table, saying "There's a razor will cut
Lord John Russell's throat." This statement was cor-
roborated, and the prisoner, who conducted himself with
great violence and excitement during the hearing of the
t•A•

twelve months, and in default committed.
COLLISION OF VESSELS.—In the new Steam Navigation
Act, which came into force on Thursday, there are several
provisions with respect to lights to be carried for guarding
against the collision of vessels. The Admiralty is to make
regulations as to the exhibition of lights by vessels, which
regulations are to be made public, and all existing regula-
tions on the subject are to continue until revoked. A
penalty, not exceeding £2O, is to he imposed for a non-
observance of the regulations. Rules are made by section
27 to prevent collisions, which are to be observed under a
penalty of £2O. In case a collision occurs through a non-
observance of the rules, the owners are not to be entitled
to compensation

, except the circumstances justified a de-
parture from the rule. " And in case any damage to
person or property be sustained in consequence of the non-
observance of any of the said rules, the same shall in all
courts of justice be deemed, in the absence of proof to the
contrary, to have been occasioned by the wilful default of
the master or other person having the charge of such vessel,
and such master or other person shall, unless it appears to
the court before which the case is tried that the circum-
stances of the case were such as to justify a departure from
the rule, be subject in all proceedings, whether civil or
criminal, to the legal consequences of such default."
CANTaiattuay. COLOI4ISTS.—A meeting of ladies and

gentlemen intending to proceed shortly to the Canterbury
Settlement, New Zealand, was held at the Society's
office, Adelphi, London, on Thursday last, under the
presidency of Mr. Self, a member of the council. The
chairman stated that the recent information from the
colony was of the most satisfactory kind. The Labuan,
the Bangalore, and the Dominion, laden with between

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kmerican reaper, but we lean

from our enterprisingneigh
who is and has for some time

,our, Mr,

.osskill, of Beverle

past been busy making two
have

that very many tenant-farmers
[ready ordered these reapers, so as to secure their delivery
time for next harvest. The m anufacture of the American
_capers has given rise to legal disputes among several
makers, and we have seen a very honourable announce-
ment made by Mr. Crosskill, respecting Hussey's im-
proved American reaping machines. It appears that Mr.
Crosskill very properly recognised the claims of Mr. Hus-
sey for the introduction of his reaping machine, and hence

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The Caffre war costs England £120,000 a month
valuable colony this.
The late Lord Blaquiere bequeathed the bulk of his
property to his housekeeper.
An extensive illicit distillery has been discovered by
the revenue officers in the island of Arran in the Clyde.

The Rev. S. B. Mawwood, cnaplain of St. George's
Hospital, London, was found dead in bed, on Thursday
morning. He is supposed to have died of apoplexy.
The Swansea Herald states that, on Thursday week,
a dredgeboat was upset off Porteinon, and that the four
men who formed the crew were all drowned. _

An enormous skate, which measured nine feet in length,
and six feet in breadth, and weighed nearly 300 lbs., was
caught a few days since, off Aherdour, Fifeshire.
Three men, named James Ellis, Edward Marshall, and
John Green, are in custody in Leeds, charged with the
forgery of votes on the Yorkshire Banking Company.

the'Preston Chronicle relates that, ou Sunday week, a
cow belonging to Mr. Dewhurst, Mason House, ingot
produced a calf which was altogether tailless.
The "natural gas," generated in Chat Moss, has been
applied to the driving of a steam engine on the Barton.
grange farm, used for the thrashing of wheat.
The Alhenceum of Saturday says, that " there can be
no doubt whatever of Mr. Spencer being the discoverer of

the electrotype."
A Doncaster paper says that the millers in the neigh.
bourhood of Caistor were recently compelled by want of
wind to stop grinding for several weeks.
newspaper, printed in the Cherokee language and
3, and said to be edited with spirit and ability,
is now published among the Cherokee Indians.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis Forbes, of Boharm. is to be the
Moderator of the next General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland.
A. despatch was received at Vienna the other day from
London, via the submarine telegraph, in three hours and
a half.

The Birmingham Gazette announces that the Birming-
ham tr;ennial musical festival will be held on the 7th Sep-
tember next, and three following days, under the most

promising auspices.
The electric telegraph is now used in St. George's
Hospital. London, for the purpose of transmitting the

wards.
The inquest upon the thirteen unfortunate miners who
lost their lives by the recent colliery explosion at Wigan
has resulted in a verdict of " death from accidental
causes."
Mr. Thomas Burns, aged 38, son of a respectable medi-
cal practitioner at Dundee, fell among the machinery of
the Dundee steamer in the Thames, on Saturday week,
while in a state of intoxication, and was nearly cut in two.
The mint of Strasburgh is at present coining a consi-
derable amount of money for the Swiss government. As
many as from 300,000 to 330,000 pieces a-day have been

struck off.
It is said that the late Mr. Turner, the celebrated
painter, has left £200,000 to found an institution for
relieving artists ; and has bequeathed most of his pictures
to embellish the building to be erected for the purpose.
Last week Earl Fitzwilliam presented each labourer and
workman on his estate, 1,300 in number, with 61bs. of
beef and 6d. Eight beasts were slaughtered, and the total
quantity of beef given away was 630 stones.
A horrible crime was committed lately at Hospenthal,
canton of Uri. Two brothers murdered their aunt, aged
70, in the expectation of finding money in her possession.
Both of them were almost im mediately afterwards arrested.
On the evening of Monday last the wife of Mr. David
Bell, servant to Mr. Wilson, farmer, Dalenich, by Mark-
inch, gave birth to two daughters and a son, and the
mother and " bairns" are doing well.— Fifeshire Journal.
There are at present only four policemen in the Exhibi-
tion building• No idea can yet be formed of the time when
the building will be so fa cleared out as to admit the pub-
tiac. niaee. at all events, for another week.

TUESDAY, J iNITA_RY

&hipping fit:ettigritrt

6. 1852.

John Hermann, fix
July, in lat. 1 N
burg, 14th Oct
for Rotterdan:
Moulmein, for
Pastor, from L
long. 22 W—loni

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TUESDAY, DZCEMBER 30.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W., light.
ARRlVED.—Wakefield, from Quebec—Sea Nymph, Wright,
Patras —lda Derendina, Hensema, Amsterdam, and Mazeppa
Cadiz

SA T LED.—Emma Graham, Ferguson, for Monte Video—Jane,
Cowling, Naples—Pirate (s.s.), Ri• chic, Constantinople—Nil
Desperandum, Swaffin, Zante—John, Achison, Charleston—
Meanais, Allaiee, Nantes.

Lady Mary. Potter, hence at Newfoundland.
Sir Edmund Head, hence at Bordeaux.
Charles, Rosseau. hence at Newfoundland.
Lucia, from St. John's, N.B. at Deal 20th instant.
Hedwig Charlotte, Berien, sailed from Marseilles for this
port 20th Oetober.
Surprise, and Orantes (s.s.), sailed from Malta for this port
20th December.
The Australian packet-ship Martin Luther, which sailed
hence for Port Philip. on the 7th ult., was spoken off the
Azores, all well, after a fine run thence of seven days,
Shannon, from Calcutta—Cr, say, from Cuddalore—Scots-
man, from Santa Martha—Swift. from St. Andrew's, N.B.—
Effort, from Quebec—all at Gravesend.

QUEBEC, Dec. 12.—The Aberdeen, on shore opposite Hamcm-
racks. has been surveyed, is much damaged, lies in a very bad
situation, and may be carried away in the ice.
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. Dec. B.—The Liscard, Guth-
rie, from Quebec for Liverpool. sprung a leak 29th Nov., be-
came water-logged, snd was abandoned. The crew were saved,

and arrived here.
DOVER, Dec. 28.—The Laconia, from St. John. N. 8.. arrived
off here to-day, with the crew of the ship Ottawa, of Water-
ford, taken from her the 6th Dec., in lat. 32, long. 53, the ship
being waterlogged. Mem.—The Ottawa, Welch, cleared at St.
John's, N.B. for Waterford 25th Nov.

WEDNESDAY

DEC. 31.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W., light,
ARRlVED.—Eurharis, Clemenceau, from Monte Video—
Commodore (a.), Little. Havre.
SA ILE D,—Charles Chaioner. Thompson, and Ashland, Stone
for New Orleans—Atalanta, Greaves, Rio Grande—Jas. Brown
Howes, and City of Manchester (s.s.), Philadelphia.

Grecian (s.s.). Hardie, hence for Constantinople at Malta.
Ann Porter, Hunter. from Cs 11RO. off Queenstown.
Presian (s.s.), from Constantinople at Malta, and sailed for
this port.
La Jeune Caroline, Jongbloed, hence for Antwerp, at Fal-
mouth.
Dobson, Johnson, from Iquique for Glasgow; Orwell, Camp-
bell, from PrinceyAlarUstand for thitport ; and Mahtoree,
INVERNESS, Dec. 28.—The-YellitV,"liiincan. from Liverpool
for Newcastle, which sprung a leak, and bad to discharge up-
wards of 100 tons of salt at Tobermory, still lies in the Canal
Basin, near Inverness.
H ALSINGIFO as, Dec. W.—The vessel which was off this place,
6th November, bottom upwards. has been got into a place of
safety, near Sveahorg, and there righted. She is supposed to
be the Paragon, Adams.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 17.—The Norma, Liebertz, from
Kerte]) for Queenstown or Falmouth. has arrived here with
loss of sails. &c., and making four inches water per hour. A
barque, supposed to be British, was dismasted, 13th Dec., off
the Coast of Chili, but was riding safely yesterday.

long. 22 W—Ser
lat. 9 N., 1
22d Nov—

garde F. C. Dick.son—Tennant

Manchester, merchants

ARRIVED
New Orlean
SAILED

Simpson,

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VESSELS SPOKE

,Imihnein,
.27th I

long. 129 It—Loreng. from Batavia, for Ham-
in lat. 35 S., long. 22 K—Jacobs, from Batavia,
in lat. 26 8., long. 6 E—Lyme Regis, from
London, 3d Nov., in let. 12 S., long. 11 W—Bo❑

ion, for Rio Grande, 16th
ia, of New Bedford, 16th

in lat. 8 N.,
or, from London, for Sydney, 17th Nov., its
ong. 23 W—Calypso. from St. Jago, for Kio Grande,
Bellona, hence for Demerara. 26th Nov., in lat. 22 N.,
V—Marie Emilie. from Buenos Ayres. for Falmouth,

de Verwatching,
Digby, henc, for

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—Pegasus, hence f
—Rubens. hence t

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