The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

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VERY OF IMMENSE TREASUILE.—Advices from
In that the jewels and riches of the Temple of the
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ear the Ceiro des Pasco.

TH ILLNESS OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER..--The continued
illness of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the ca
ously worded but still alarming, bulletins which are daily
issued, have created general apprehensions that Her Ma.
jesty is in a state which justifies serious apprehensions for
the result. We have reason to believe that such is really the
case. The symptoms indicative of disease of the lungs, to
obtain relief from which Her Majesty visited Germany for
the benefit of her native air two or three years since, with
considerable benefit, ',lave again manifested themselves in a
more decided form. The accessions of fever and the fre-
quent recurrence of a distressing cough, preventing sleep, so
essential to the exhausted patient, have reduced Her Ma-
jesty's system to a state of extreme debilitude. 'We do not
make this statement on slight grounds, and shall be happy,
on the same authority on which we make it, to announce a
favourable ehange.—Evening paper.

Colonel Monroe Edwards has distinguished himself in a
manner to render him an object of interest on both sides of
the Atlantic. Therefore, we have throw together the follow-
ing facts in relation to his past lite, deeds, and misdoings :
Monroe Edwards is a man about 32 years of age, about five
feet seven inches and a half in height, rather well made, but
not very stout built, a sharp, keen, restless, voluptuous eye,
rather a low forehead, and is something of a coxcomb in his
dress. He was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, where his
father resided till recently. His father's name, we believe,
was Amos Russell Edwards. The old gentleman removed
some two or three years since to Texas, where he died soon
after. Of the early life of young Monroe Edwards we have
been able to learn but very little, except the rumour of a
forgery of his father's name for a trilling amount, and the
seduction of a young lady who was at a boarding-school in
Kentucky, and who has still a living victim of her shame to
nurse and take care of. There are other rumours of forgeries
of his in earlier life, but they want authentication. It was
after all the hard fighting in Texas was over, and after it was
well ascertained that there was no longer any danger to any
one who visited that country, that Monroe Edwards con-
descended to honour it with his presence. Of course he lo-
cated himself near the seat of government, and, with funds
furnished him by his father, continued to make quite a pas-
sable appearance in tolerably good society there for a time.
After the death of his father he evinced signs of wildness and
dissipation, which he had before contrived to keep hidden
from sight. One of these was an attempt to seduce a young
lady in Houston, which nearly cost him his life. Failing in
this he took up with a negro wench, and at last, by some
means, bought a black girl, 14 or 15 years of age, debauched
her, taught her the English language, and christened her Kitty
Clover. After this, finding himself getting low in funds, lie
forged the title deeds to a valuable estate in Texas, and forged
a conveyance of the same to some person for about ten thou-
sand dollars. In this manoeuvre he was detected, and for
this ha was held to bail, and whilst under bail, as we are in-
formed, made his escape from Texas, carrying the black girl,
Kitty Clover, along with him, dressed in boy's clothes. On
his return from Texas, he stayed some time in New Orleans,
where he was suspected also of a small forgery on one of the
banks, and more than suspected of a liaison with his land-
lord's wife. For these little foibles he felt himself under the
disagreeable necessity of removing his quarters, and soon
made the best of his way up the river to Cincinnati. Here
an entirely new idea seemed to strike him. He resolved to
work on the feelings of the abolitionists, and feeling desirous
of travelling to Europe he determined to do so, if possible, at
their expense. For this purpose, he manumitted the black
girl, Kitty Clover. He also caused a statement to be pub-
lished in some of the western papers, that Colonel Monroe
Edwards had manumitted two hundred of his slaves in Ken-
tucky, and this act of apparent liberality was trumpeted
forth in all the papers on the northern seaboard, and made
the subject of laudatory comment at all the abolition lectures
in this and other cities and towns, and Colonel Edwards
himself held up as a burning and shining light among the
woolly heads, and a noble examble for all others to follow.
His bait having taken remarkably well, the Colonel the came
on to this place, put up at the City Hotel, and lived in fine
style with his black boy; who, by the bye, was Kitty Clover
still. Soon after he came here he introduced himself to Lewis
Tappan as the Colonel Edwards who had liberated 200 slaves
in the west ; and he also introduced Kitty Clover to Lewis
as his black Tom, who had a twin-sister in New Orleans so
like him that when the two were together nobody could tell
which from which. Lewis was highly delighted at the inter-
view, took Edwards and the wench round all the abolition
circles of the city, and introduced them to a great number
of decent white ladies and sympathising gentlemen. All
this was very well while it lasted, and went no further. But
by and by the colonel (though where and how he obtained
the title of colonel nobody knows), talked of an act of great
injustice committed by the Texian government as he said,
in keeping some slaves brought direct from Africa, in viola-
tion of the laws of nations in relation thereto. He said he
was going to England to prevail on the British government
to make a demand of those slaves. and so forth. He also
hinted at being employed as a delegate from the Abolition
Society of this city to that of London to see into the case.
Finding that his hints were not sufficiently plain or readily
acted upon, he came out boldly, and asked for a loan of a
sum of money from the society of five thousand dollars, for
the purpose of proceeding to England to settle the business.
The reason he adduced for wanting so large a sum was the
necessity of keeping a carriage and making a first-rate up-
petirance. This modest request startled Lewis Tappan, who
then wrote to Cincinnati, and found out that no 200 slaves
had been liberated by the colonel. He wrote to Edwards,
who replied back angrily ; two or three sharp notes passed ;
the colonel demanded all his letters back ; but Lewis,
who keeps an office for looking after everybody's busi-
ness but his own, thought they might come into use
some day, and kept them. The colonel then raised the wind
somehow, and went to England in one of the Boston steamers,
taking Kitty Clover along with him. In London he forged let-
ters to Lord Brougham, Dan O'Connell, Earl Spencer, and
others, in the name of Daniel Webster, &c. He also forged
the names of Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Forsyth two letters of
introduction. From Brougham he got nothing ; from Dan
—the cunning Dan—he got £lO or £20., on the strength of
his affection for the negroes, one of whom was then with child
by him. From Earl Spencer he got £250.
After lie arrived here it appears he went south to Phila-
delphia. The girl, Kitty Glover, lay at our Almshouse, and
then followed him to Philadelphia with his and her child.
He is suspected of committing other forgeries before those
in August, on Brown, Brothers, and Co., and Fletcher and
Alexander, and Co. ; but these are all that can be positively
traced to him at present. The particulars of the two forger-
ies, and the method by which he was arrested, we have al-
ready stated in detail. But there is one very singular fact
which has not been stated. The letter which was sent to
him describing the funds forwarded for Fletcher and Co.,
was dated August 28th, and addressed to Alexandria, D.C.
He got this money August 30th ; and on the Bth of Septem-
ber he or some one bought a bill of exchange on Loudon for
Colonel Monroe Edwards, from the house of Prime, Ward,
and King, here, on Baring and Co., London, for £255, the
exact sum he borrowed of Lord Spencer. The bill of ese-
change was found in his trunk. This would appear as if the
fellow really had some spark of sensibility left in his heart ;
and his apparent desire to provide for the miserable wretch
he had seduced, and his mulatto child, caused him to remain
in Philadelphia, over Friday and Saturday. He intended to
go west and south on Saturday. He was arrested on Satur-
day. Had he gone he never would have been arrested.

There is a vacancy in the representation of Dublin Uni-
versity, in consequence of the elevation of Mr. Lefroy to a
judgeship.
FALL OF CHALK ON THE BRIGIITON RA ILWAY.—A great
deal of excitement was caused in the City on Thursday morn-
ing, by the statement that during the night a large fall of chalk
had taken place at the Merstham cutting, about eighteen miles
from London, which at present impedes the traffic ; but it
was expected in the course of the day a passage would be
made for the trains. Fortunately the discovery was made in
sufficient time to inform the conductors of both the up anti
down trains, and not the least accident, therefore, occurred
beyond the falling of the chalk.
CAPTAIN Ewor —We turn with reluctance to an unfor-
tunate individual, the chief author of the Chinese war, and
the grand manager of our inconclusive operations—who has
perhaps by this time slunk into England. Captain Elliot is
sufficiently punished by finding himself here, and he may
read the opinion which his countrymen and the history of his
country have passed upon him in the countenance of the first
Englishman he meets. It is not often that a man, whose for-
tune it has been to act in the name of England, has failed so
signally to accomplish the great ends for which the force of
this nation was placed in his grasp ; but the late superinten-
dent found the bolts too heavy for him. Nevertheless, while
the Emperor of China either saws his disgraced slaves in
halves or transports them beyond the celestial confines of the
flowery land, Lord Palmerstonprea has, with true consideration
for fallen greatness,
last of the Elliots in thePred an appropriate retreat for the
republichy the oo
lrdersetx.apse.o p upon pleni-
potentiary was outwitted lat e
earth
we trust he may be more fortunate in his negotiations with
the newest.

FIRE AT THE TOWER.—Our contemporary. the Dublin
Evening Packet, contains a curious statement, to the effect,
"that the Rev. Sir HARCOURT LEES, Bart., distinctly
stated, on information peculiarly his own, and which he has
repeatedly declared had never yet deceived him, that the
next attempt at fire after those on the Houses of Parliament,
the' Royal Exchange, &c., would be directed against the
Tower." This production was many months since published
in the columns of the Evening Packet, and, at all events,
furnishes a coincidence not a little curious.

MENAI STRAITS.—A meeting was held on Wednesday
week, at Bangor, to form a company, consisting exclusively
of persons connected with the counties of Anglesey and Car-
narvon, for the purpose of purchasing the iron steamer
Glow-worm, to ply between Liverpool and the Meuai Straits.
The design is to establish a proprietary closely connected
with the Principality. It was decided to purchase the Glow-
worm for £6,500, but only 64 £25 shares were taken on
Wednesday. Of these 20 were assigned to Mr. Assheton
Smith, the present owner of the Glow-worm, 12 to the Hon.
D. Pennant, 8 to Sir Richard Bulkeley, and 4 to Mr. Bul-
keley Hughes, M.P.

On Tuesday night an inquest was held, at Cambridge, on
the body of Abner Richard Harrison, Esq., an undergraduate
of Queen's College, in that University, who was drowned on
the morning of that day in the river near Jesus Green Sluice.
Deceased was rowing in a " funny," and, owing to the strong
current caused by the flood, his boat became unmanageable ;
he jumped out, and was carried over the water-fall. The
jury returned a verdict of "accidental death," deodand on
the boat 40s. ; and at the same time expressing a hope that
the letters of boats would be more cautious in letting their
boats when the state of the river rendered its navigation
perilous. The deceased was a native of Leeds.
DUST MAHOMED.—We are sorry to hear that Dost Ma-
homed is labouring under a severe attack of fever, and is
reported to have been delirious the greater part of yesterday.
Many of the persons composing the suite of the Ex-Ameer,
together with his son, Hyder Khan, have also suffered from
the same cause. The climate of Bengal at this unhealthy
season appears to be as little congenial to the Affghan con-
stitution as to that of Europeans. No casualty has yet oc-
curred, and we hope that the Dost will soon be able to take
his departure for Loodianah, as he intended bfore his ill-
ness. He-has not yet, however, exhausted the " sights" of
the city of palaces, one other exhibition, at least, of the
powers of European science being in preparation to astonish
him. As it is one in which the very elements are subjected
to our controul, and likewise one of the greatest triumphs of
recent times, we trust he will be able to witness it.—Calcutta
Star.

INFLUENCE OF CONSERVATISM ON TRADE.—For the
last thirty years Dublin was never so full at this period of the
year as it is at the present. There is bustle in our streets,
business in our shops—the labourer at the loom in full
employment, and the manufacturer of every description is
busily engaged in making preparations for the approaching
season. Houses of the first class are in great request—the
rents we learn from the brokers have advanced twenty-five
per cent—those long uninhabited are cleaning up—several
families are coming to town, and we shall reaily have " a
winter in Dublin" worthy of a great city, and suited in every
way to the metropolis of a kingdom. The blessings of a good
government—one based on moderation and firmness—the
presence of a splendid court, conducted with brilliancy and
magnificence, and the restoration of peace and the re-estab-
lishment of order—the sure effect of an impartial but vigorous
administration of the laws—combine in rendering the Vice-
loyalty of Lord de Grey one of happy omen to Ireland—the
first that affords the hope of security to life and property.—
Dublin Evening Mail.
The Times has been so cruel as to rob the ex-ministerial
party of their only English grievance—a grievance upon
which they have been feasting for the last fortnight. This
grievance is the appointment of Lord Heytesbury to the va-
cant governorship of the Isle of Wight, with a salary of fif-
teen hundred pounds a-year. The appointment is not to be
disputed, but the Times shows, by an extract from the patent
of the noble governor, that the salary is altogether a gratui-
tous addition of the liberal journals : for Lord Heytesbury is
to derive no salary ftom the dignity—not fifteen hundred
pounds per annum, nor even fifteen pence, in the shape of
salary, perquisite, or any other shape. When the grievance
was first brought forward the liberal journals called upon the
public, in a fine tone of indignation, to receive Lord Heytes-
bury's appointment as a specimen of the system of govern-
ment pursued by Sir Robert Peel's administration. We sup-
pose that the specimen is equally faithful, whatever quality it
represents ; and we therefore think that our contemporaries,
now that the truth is known, are called upon to render their
applause as zealously to Sir Robert, for the surrender of
£l5OO a-year, as they directed their reproaches against him
when they erroneously believed that he had retained it.

Loss OF LIFE TUROUGII READING IN BED.—Between
two and three yesterday morning the inmates of 8, Hereford-
terrace, Mile-end-road, were roused from their beds by the
screams of a female, and a strong suffocating smell of fire,
when flames were observed coming from under the door of a
back bed-room inhabited by a widow lady, name Sarah Ash-
ton. The landlord having procured the assistance of a
neighbour named Barnet, the bed-room door was opened,
when a horrid spectacle presented itself, the poor woman
being seated on the edge of the bed with her night clothes all
in flames, which had communicated to the bed clothes and
curtains. By the courage of the landlady, who burnt her
hands severely in the act, the lady was dragged out of the
room; when, water hiving been thrown on the flames, her
person was found to be in some parts almost burnt to a
cinder. She was instantly conveyed to the London Hospital.
The fire was extinguished by the inmates and the neighbours.
The unfortunate woman lingered only about three hours after
being conveyed to the hospital. It appeared that the de-
acneadsepda,rtbiecinnlgaralylownhee them other woman,
inmates were retired to bed,
, was much addicted to reading,
of which she had been cautioned by the landlady ; and as the
remains of a book was discovered, it is extremely probable
that the fire originated through this dangerous custom, al-
though the origin could not be strictly ascertained. The
deceased was about 25 years of age, and had been a widow a
few years.

ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS, AND NARROW ESCAPE
FROM DEATH.--Between the hours of five and six o'clock
on Tuesday evening last, a considerable degree of excitement
was occasioned in this town by the sudden explosion of gas
in the Baptist Chapel, Oak-street, which had involved not
only the total destruction of the edifice itself, a remarkably
neat and only very recently erected building, but the loss of
human life. The circumstances, connected with the occur-
rence are as follow :—On the evening alluded to, a man
named Argyle, whose duty is to light the chapel before the
commencement of Divine Service, proceeded with a lighted
candle to the meter, which was enclosed in a wooden case,
immediately under one of the staircases leading to the gal-
lery, for the purpose of turning on the gas, when, on open-
ing the door of the case, a frightful explosion of the gas im-
mediately
tookand
s place,
which the staircase was literally
blown fragments thrown to all parts of the
building, in their progress breaking several of the windows
and window-frames. By the concussion the poor fellow was
thrown against one of the pews with great violence, but most
providentially escaped with only a few bruises and a severely
burnt face. The explosion was so loud and terrific as to
bring several persons immediately to the spot, whose houses
were shook to the foundation by the force of the concussion,
to whose prompt exertions the rescuing of the whole pile of
building, which in the immediate vicinity of the meter was
enveloped in a flame of gas, may be ascribed. The damage,
we are glad to learn, is not very extensive, and the injuries
inflicted by it on the man not of a serious nature. We have
not been able to ascertain correctly to whom blame is attri-
butable for not securing the escape of gas from the meter.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT BY GUNPOWER.-011 Sunday
morning last, at the early hour of three o'clock, an accident
of a serious nature occurred in a cottage situate in a yard
behind the Black Lion Inn, in Upperhead-row, Hudders-
field, which might have been attended with consequences of
a fearful nature. It appears that about the time specified,
a lad named Collingwood, more familiarly known as Billy
Wood, aged about 19 years, was, with two others, one a
mere boy, engaged in the dangerous occupation of manufac-
turing squibs, and other fireworks, intended for sale for the
sth of November, Collingwood and the boy had fallen asleep,
the other young man having left the room for a few moments,
and on his return found the room in flames, an explosion
having taken place in his absence, but how it originated we
have been unable to ascertain. Collingwood had fallen asleep
over the table on which it is stated there were but six gross
of squibs, &c., &c., ready filled. The windows were nearly
all blown out ; the curtains and a quantity of clean linen
which was in the room were burnt. Collingwood is most
severely burnt about the arms and head. The boy, who was
awakened by the explosion, endeavoured to rouse Colling-
wood, but, strange to say he did not succeed, and therefore
made his own escape into the yard. The flooring of the
room above was much burnt, but providentially not burnt
through, as it is stated that in the upper room there were
above twenty pounds more of gunpowder, which, bad it ex-
ploded, would in all human probability have thrown down
the high chimney of Mr. Joseph Lockwood's factory, to
which the cottage adjoins, and the devastation would have
been immense.