The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Hull corporation have, very properly, provided for
the public a cheap tepid bath.
Ibrahim Pacha, it is said, will remain in England until
the 20th July.

On Wedne.dly, a young man was killed at Holbeeh.
Yorkshire, by the splitting of the grindstone, at which he
was workinr, into a thousand pieces.
Two lb tie girls, of Dewsbury, were drowned in the
river Colder last week. They were reaching down the
bank of the river for a flower, ano fell in.
111 r. Alderman Challis and R. W. Kenyard, Esq.' were
elected sheriffs of London for the ensuing year, on Wed-
nesday last,

The great rowing match botween Newell and Clasper,
for £2OO, at Newcastle-noon-Tyne, came off on Monday.
Newell won easily, brine 200 yards ahead of his opponent.
On Sunday morning last, three of the crew of the brig
Bernard Castle. far St. PeterQhtira, were drowned, in
Leith roads, by the upsetting of a boat.
On Wednesday, the steam-ship Victory arrived at the
St. Katharine steam-packet wharf, from St. Petersburg,
with specie amounting to £200,0(10.
On the 15th ins ant, George and William Jones, sons of
Mr. Henry Jones. of the Gaol, Doisrelley, were drowned
whilst bathing. They were 14 and 16 years of age.
In the year ended the sth of .Linuary last, the number
of bricks made in Pneland and Waies was 1,820,415.017.
and the duty paid £558 323 2-. 4 1.. and in Scotland
57,321.716, and the duty £17,775 7d.
A few years ago plate glass was sold at 123. per foot
At that prim the demand was 5,000 feet per week. It is
now sold at 6s. per foot, and the demand per week is
40.000 feet.

The dry-house of Ilothes Bleschfield. Fifeshire, was
struck by lightning last we-k, awl before help could be
procured, it w;:s burnt to the ground. Only a few bun-
dles-of yarn were saved.

A drily paper says that the Duke of Buccleuch has just
had erected, on a farm of which his Grace is landlord,
a set of cottages after a new style, each containing four
apartments, having two stories, and designed for one

On Sunday week fon:- yonng men (three brothers named
Travis and another Westall) were drowned in the river
Tees, near Hartlepool, by the upsetting cif a yacht, which
struck on a sandb,nk. The Travis's belonged to a re-
spretable f4mily in Durham.
Mr. A nstey, the li °man Catholic barrister, of London,
has given it as his opinion that the imprisonment of Mr.
W. S. O'Brien was illegal, a.td that he has cause of action
against the Speaker and Serjeant of the House of Com-
mons.

ASTONNFITNO EXPEDITION.—Last week, the Morn-
ing Herald of Wedoes lay, enn'aining a report of the de-
bates up to that rimming, was the same evening deliv?red
in Rotterdam in time for re-publicrion in the journals of
that city !

In Birmirgham, nearly £7OOO has been subscribed for
establishing two sets of baths. A•rangetnents are in
progress for laying the first stone with great eclat; and it
is hoped that Prince Albert will perform that ceremony on
his way south from Liverpool.
A bill is before Parliament for the regulation of steam-
vessd,', which contains some useful clauses. All steam-
ships built after the first of next January must be built in
com . tits, be sufficiently provided with boats, and
1,,y es to obviate *danger as far as possible.
t tit Siinday Dr. Ullathorne was consecrated at the
R man Cath I c Church, Coventry, by Dr. Briggs, as-
si red by p Wareing, of the Pastern district, and
B ,hop Griffi t., of the London district. Dr. Wiseman,
pr. ;Oen. of Osse't Collage, preached on the occasion.
The lake-disttict of Cumberland and Westmorland is
teemilg with tour's s, all the inns and lodging-houses at
Ambleside and K->ssick being full to °vet flowing The
floating Wand on Derwentwater, which was last seen in
1842, now appears again above the surface to a consider-
able extent, and forms a very attractive object to visitors.

The Privy Council have confirmed the decision of the
Admiralty Court, which awarded £18,050 against the
owners of the Iron Dake steamer, which cone into colli-
sion with a brig some time since in the Channel, when
the brig sunk.

EARLY MAaatAGEs.—Durinrr, the examination of a
bankrupt of the Jewish persuasion, in the Exeter Bank-
ruptcy-court, the bankrupt's father said Jewish persons
were married very early. Be himself married at four-
teen.

CAUTION TO WORKMEN.—At the Westminster Police-
court, on Tuesday, Charles S,lith, a journeyman farrier,
was committed to the House of Correction for one month,
for having left the employment of Mr. Gillingham, a ve-
terinary surgeon at Chelsea, without notice, and going to
work elsewhere.

IBRAHIM PACHA.—His highness returned from Belfast
to Liverpool on Tuesday, and reached London on Wed-
nesday, via Birmingham, and the same evening he paid a
visit to the Reform Club, where was present Sir Charles
Napier, whom his highness recognised as an old acquaint-
ance, and greeted very cordially.
_ _ .

At the Frome fair, on Tuesday week, a fight took
place between two men named Williams and Wiggans,
which was wound up by Williams stabbing his opponent
in the neck. The jugular vein was cut through. Death,
of course, immediately ensued. Williams has been com-
mitted for trial.

FEARFUL CALAMITY.—On Thursday, a building at
Robert-Town was struck with lightning, and almost coin-
pletely demolished, while there were thirty-six gig Is at
work occupied in card making. All of them were more
or less scorched by the electric fluid, and the lives of
several are considered in great danger.—Leeds paper.
Mr. Samuel Butler, chemist, aged 23, residing at 4,
Cheapside, London, put a period to his existence on Sa-
turday morning last, by swallowing prussic acid. A
morbid depression of spirits had been for some time super-
induced in consequence of apprehensions he entertained
he should not be united to the object of his affections.
A bridle bit, under the appropriate rittne of "The Iron
Duke," has been invented. Its peculiarity consists
chiefly in its not being placed in the horse's mouth, and
with it a lady, or even a child, can manage any horse. It
does not injure the mouth at all, and is very highly spoken
of.

The plan for building a model lod4ing•house in St.
Giles's meets with great acceptance. The Duke of Suther-
land. the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Earl of
Harrowhy, the Earl of Cadogan, the Countess of Pem-
broke, the Marquis Cholmondeley, and Lord Teign-
mouth have sent donations.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, William
Manfield was convicted of having thrown Elinbe' h Pul-
len, with whom he cohabited, out of the window into the
street, with intent to murder her. It will be remembered
that the poor woman, wishing to screen her brutal para-
mour, said that she threw herself out of the window.
The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life.
SALE OF CROCKFORD'S.—On Tuesday. the St. .Limes's
Club-house, better known as Crockfurd's, was sold by
auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, by order of the
executors of Mr. Crockford, for the sum of £2,900. It
was held on lease, of which 32 years were unexpired, sub-
ject to a yearly rent of £l4OO. It was said at the sale that
the decorations alone of the building cost the late pro-
prietor £l4OO. . _

The financier Wyndham has written to the Times, ex-
claiming aga'nir. injury to his character by the statements
in the newspapers, and offering to give bills for the sums
he owes at Windsor and elsewhere: he also enclosed a
letter purporting to have been written by Nlessrs. Hey-
wood, the Liverpool bankers, informing Mr. Wyndham
that he is "at liberty to check to the extent of £3900,"
on the security of an uncle. On inquiry the Times found
his letter to be fictitious.

A FIELD ON FIRE.—The conflagration of the Prairies
in America is of frequent occurrence • it is but seldom we
hear of such an accident in England. On Wednesday,
one of the Lammas fields was observed to be in a state of
ignition, (there was fortunately no hay in the field,) and
the flame spread with the rapidity of wild fire in every
direction ; but after scorching the ground to the extent of
above an acre, it went out of itself. Some hundreds of
persons assembled to witness the novel sight. We have
ben informed that the grass has been partially burnt in
several fields adjoining the Midland line, owing to sparks
falling upon R.—Nottingham Journal.

DEATHS THROUGH lEXCESSIVE HEAT.—CAUTION TO
MOWERS.—At six o'clock on Thursday evening, James
Grime, who was mowing, and bad been the greatest part
of the day without his shirt, in a meadow, near Bury, was
taken suddenly ill, and removed to a. public•house near,
where he was immediately attended by a surgeon, but he
died the same night. He was a very sober, steady man,
45 years of age.—At seven o'clock the same evening,
another man, named William Whittaker, a native of Dar-
wen, was mowing, and had been all day in a field at Tot-
tington, was taken ill, and removed to a relation's house,
where medical assistance was rendered, but he died the
same evening, at eight o'clock. He was GO years of age,
and has left a wife and six children.—Leeds Intellipencer.
DISAPPEARANCE OF THREE HOUSES.—A. very ex-
traordinary circumstance took place yesterday se'nnight,
at Hateley Heath, West Bromwich—the total" and imme.
diate disappearance of -three houses, in c ,esequence of
the thick coal having been got from under therci some
time since. The houses were inhabited, but, fortunately,
no lives were lost. About half-pagt eight o'clock. the
middle of one of the houses suddenly fell in ; an alarm
was given, and as soon as the people could get out, the
whole of the buildings immediately sank down with a
great crash, the tops of the houses bring five or six yards
below the level of the surface, covered with the earth
which•had fallen in around them. The unfortunate occu-
pants of the houses have lost the whole of their property.
—Birminiham Gazette.

JOSEPH ADY.—At the Central Criminal Court, on
Monday, Joseph Ady was charged with having obtained a
sovereign from Mr. Hornsby, with intent to defraud him
thereof. Mr. Ballantvne, on behalf of the prisoner, said
that the indictment must fall to the ground. as at the bot-
tom of every receipt were the words, " if no benefit is
derived by the parties from the information, the money
shall be returned if applied for." The prosecutor had
not applied for the money, therefore the charge of fraud
had not been proved. The Common Serjeant concurred
in the same view of the case, and he directed the jury to
acquit the prisoner. After he was liberated, Joseph came
back and claimed the " deliverance" of his money held by
the officer. The Common Serjeant said in cases of this
sort it was usual to give the money to the prosecutor. He
(Ady) might bring his action (laughter).
THUNDER STORMS.—On Monday evening week there
was another partial thunder storm in Cumberland and
Westmoreland. The flashes of lightning were rapid,
forked and vivid, and the peals of thunder remarkably
loud, and near at hand. A very heavy rain began to fall
about eight o'clock in the evening, and continued to do so
during the whole of Monday night. and all the day on
Tuesday, and the greater part of Wednesday. The storms
on Thursday and Friday week did a great deal of damage,
and we add the following further particulars to those we
published in our last :—A poor woman belonging to Pen-
rith, named Mary Boak, who was on the road home from
Carlisle with a cart load of coals, was struck down at the
village of Carleton, near Carlisle, and was taken up in a
senseless state. It was thought that she was dead, and
had been struck by the electric fluid. In a short time,
however, she showed symptons of animation, and has
come so far round as to say that she was not injured by
the lightning, but that she fell from the oppressive effects
of a sunbeam stroke. This woman is likely to recover.
In the mansion and gardens of Mr. E. W. Hasell, Dale-
main, upwards of 350 panes of glass were smashed ; and
in the woods adjoining, some scores of large timber trees
were shivered to pieces. At various other places windows
were broken and trees splintered. A number of railway
labourers on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, who had
sheltered themselves from the storm, under the bridge
which crosses the Keswick-road, near Pcorith, miracu-
lously escaped destruction. The men had piled up their
shovels on the one side of the arch, whilst they stood on
the other side. The flashes of lightning were so rapid and
powerful, and being attracted by the metal, the shovels
were made to fly and move about in all directions, and
had the men not instantly made their escape there can be
no doubt that many of them would have been killed. The
present continued rain has made a most wonderful im-
provement to the crops of every description, and the rapid
progress of growth is the most surprising ever known.
Mr. Joseph Fenton, of the Ling-tutas farm, near Pen-
rith, sowed a field of turnips on Wednesday, and on the
Friday morning the turnips had sprung up, and were vi-
sible along the stetches, having been in the ground only
about 70 hours. The wheat crops era in the ear, and
those with the barley and oats are thick on the ground,
and are looking well and thriving. Turnip and potato
crops are doing well, and the hay harvest has commenced
and the crops ere very heavy.
THE JURY LOTTERY.—A man is walking at ni ht in a
crowded thonsughfare with a pistol in his p cket ; a wo-
man pushes him accidentally, whereupon some words
ensue ; the man forthwith produces the pistol, and
threatens to shoot the woman; she, on her side, threatens
to give him in charge, and he runs away. Immediately
afterwards, within a few yards of the scene of the preceding
quarrel, the same man, with the same pistol, shows one
of the passengers in the street, who dies of the wound.
He is put upon his trial for manslaugh•er, and his defence
is, that the pistol went off by accident. He explains the
•possession of the weapon by saying that he was going to a
i
shooting gallery, and he accounts for having it in his
hand by a desire to uncock it, to prevent mischief. The
e istory,reu ma isttad
naccfr acquit him.
this
case Now, we do not
malice; had there been a suspicion of this, the charge, of
course, should have been one of murder. But we do
jpurreyte believe
tehvaet his
se
pretend that there was the most convincing proof of gross

negligence, and of the mostpruinsopnaerdlism,a,whine iscadrffyerceinnZ:ic
others.ttotil:trhoheenge6dietwlitfh
people. playing with a loaded
to
ts
need to go further than this, and the case may be rested
nth safetyArml
noc foanf
ests
confesses
on the confession. The question then is, whether or not
the shooting a roan under sta3h circumstances is a trivial
There is no
matter. The law was perfec'lv well explained by Baron
i Rolfe n his summing up :—" If a I erson having a deadly
weapon in his possession makes u-e of it in a negligent
and careless manner, and death ensues in cr.m.equence. the
offence is manslaughter." Is it possible that any unpre_
Jodiced person can deny that this definition embraces the
circumstances of Blewitt's case? Is it. or is it not, negli-
gent and careless to be uncoAing a loaded pistol in such a
plan as Drury-lane, at night, in the midst of a crowd ?
We do not speak of the vagary of presenting it to the wo-
man who pushed against him in the first instance. That
makes the case plainer; but as the prisoner did not shoot
her, the jury perhaps thought she had nothing to do with
the matter. To us. however, it appears quite enough that
he Was playing with a loaded weapon at all in such a place,
at such a time; for this he ought to have been punished,
and the jury ought to have found him guilty. With the
degree of punishment they had nothing to do ; no doubt
the judge would have duly proportioned it to the offence.
In acquitting him they hate set a very a dangerous pi--
cedent, and one for which society will not be much inclined
to thank them.—Times.

Protectionists

Const.rvative

Whigs.
Vacant
Tellers
Speaker

THE POPE IN PURGATORY!
( From the Cork C.nstitution.)
" He was wounded for our tran,gressions, be 1°11:
bruised for our iciquities ; the chastisement of our Pee,:c,
was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed":"";
says the prophet. "The blood of Jesus Ch, ist.his SonA
cleanseth us from all sin" says the Apostle. " Wasll
us from our sins in his own blood," says the same ApoSti,
"The very God of peace sanctity you wholly," prays apt
other Apostle. "Sanctify them through thy trtamj
prays the Lord of Apostles but Lord and Apostle aed
themn
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out ue nit
which
of hPri cte:heriagt
held, and nPseto:sv:keAt:
tot y she is unable to decide : but if in, she is coming,A3
his aid with all " the pomp and circumstance" with v"-ca
she is wont to astour d and impress !he eyes of ignorall
and credulity. In the London Morning Post of Tae
we read the following : preht
"Tog LATE POPE.—A issued by the
Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Vol
don District, to the clergy at the various churches gad
chapels throughout the metropolis and its environs, T-
read from the pulpits on Sunday morning last. :After eel
holing, in terms of eulogy and gratulation to his exalts
virtues, and yet to his exceeding meekness and low,' des
of spirits in the conduct of the vast and important diejeep
which had been entrusted to his charge during 4 " acti-
years he had filled the Papal chair, it xhorted the hale to
tors, with reference to the purity of soul indisperisambare
an immediate union with the AlmiAty, and to the f the
nossibilitv (according to the doctrine and belief ° iris
Roman Catholic Church) of his Avferiny the minor ebi
in
of purgatory, to offer up their ,2st ardent prayers bt-
o behalf and for his speedy release from the place fP a
nishment, and his union with God. It was furtheraßeeiv
by the bishop that a solemn equiern and diree• Ow
grated on Friday next at the pripdpal metroolitan.,_ooo
pet in Mnorfields, and the whole of the Roman ttebatt
clergy in the metropolis and throughout the sabot ieriCS/
counties have been ordered to attend in their full e_ most
r bes and other costume. It is expected to be:great
extraordinary arid gorgeous sight : bur, from tbf„ce gi'
number of ele,gy who will attend, and the prefelc,,",, the
ven to subscribers to the chapel, or, in other ws9nhofjp-,
holders and renters of pews and the higher cl is r;,, be of
dividuals in the distribution tickets, it will probably
with
a very exclusive nature." favOUr st
We do not wonder that the Bible is in no
afar
anyuch
a church which imposes on her people huld t;
variance with the teaching of our Saviour. One. _
long perusing its pages before be met with ty!Ytu.:rual,,
resembled this. Often as disciples and at'estinsfralitOtt
never read of their praying for deliverance from ru,Le to
andpi c
place
of
fenretshteaynds ant of puntsuvom-
pain. poefaeknojofydmelemartt,ure, it is of.d.
_pa.rnti..and 0,