The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

FURNITURE OIL,

Half-pint Bottles Is., Pint Bottles s. 9d.. Quart Bottles, 3s

GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE

This article is recommended to Housekeepers for cleaning
all manner of Gold and Silver Plate, Metal Teapots, Pewter
Measures, Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair Rods, Brass
Plates on Doors, Tin Covers, &c. &c. : with half the usual
labour which is generally required with other preparations
the above Lustre leaves a beautiful polish on the Metal. It
will also be found useful in the Stable department, for clean-
ing Brass-mounted Carriage, Gig, or Coach Harness.—Sold
in Squares at 6d. and Is. each.
ESSENTIAL SALT OF LEMONS.

For taking Iron Moulds, Ink Spots, and other Stains, out
of Linen, Muslin, Lace, &c., and for many other useful pur-
poses.—Price ls. per Box, or three Boxes for 2s. 6d.
MUCH ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR.

A few ChoPs of this Flavour added to Custards, Puddings,
Cakes, Wines, Jellies, &c., communicate a most delicious
taste of Almonds.—Sold in Bottles, with Directions, ls. 6d.
and 3s.

CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER

A teaspoonful may be taken for a dose three times a dad•
in any liquid.
Physicians' and Surgeons' Prescriptions carefully prepared.
Medicine Chests fitted up for sea. Genuine t)rugs and
Chemicals. _ _

An order from persons residing in the country for any of
the above preparations, with a remittance or post-office or-
der, will meet with immediate attention.

THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.—If this notorious per-
sonage is really " abroad," he has not visited Berry-street
in his travels ; for, on passing up that street yesterday, we
perceived the following announcement in a draper's shop-
window :—" .3fens Sox 6 pence each."

CONVICTS IN VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—A letter has been
just received from John Jones, who was tried and sentenced
to be hanged for the attempt to fire Birmingham during the
chartist riots of 1839, but whose sentence was afterwards
commuted to transportation for life. After stating other
sufferings, he says, " What little meat we do have is what is
brought from other colonies, and of the animals that have
died on the passage. The next is our water, which is not fit
for a beast to drink; and then there are our overseers who
are over us, they will not even allow us to stand upright,
nor to turn our heads during the time we are at work, which
is from six o'clock in the morning till half-past five in the
evening. We have our breakfast before we go out in the
morning to work, which is a drop of wheat water and a pound
and a half of brown bread, that serves us the whole day ;
and if it rains all day, we must endure it till it is time to
leave off work, and then we come to our barracks, and when
we are mustered together, we are marched off to bed, which
is a bed of straw, with one blanket and one rug to cover us.
Our shoes, which arc supposed to last us four months, will
not, with the greatest care, last us more than two months ;
then we all go barefoot the remainder of the time. Then
there are the clothes that we wear, which have to last us six
months, they are all off our backs in a deal less time ; and
every morning when we rise from our beds we are in danger
of getting into trouble, as, if it is but the look, it will get us
into trouble and expose us to the severest punishment, as
that is all they look for on purpose to keep us as long as they
can on government's hands, and in the greatest of miserv."
The convict then proceeds to deny his guilt, and calls on his

friends to intercede for a mitigation of his sentence.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Wednesday
week a most extraordinary circumstance occurred between
Workington and Maryport, by which the turnpike-road, for
a considerable distance, was literally strewed with gold I On
the morning of the day above-mentioned a servant man be-
longing to Mr. Walker, of Maryport, was sent to the White-
haven bank to draw the purchase money to pay for an estate
which his master had bought, amounting to £2,800. It ap-
pears, however, that the sum of £2.000 had been paid
through the bank, and consequently, the man received the
sum of £BOO, the whole of which was in sovereigns, care-
fully packed up in brown paper. This amount, in sove-
reigns, being deposited in the saddle bags, the man in-
stantly mounted his horse, and set off on his return home
to Maryport, and was seen on the road proceeding at a
rattling pace. Tile man, however, had no sooner reached
his master's, and had dismounted, than he discovered that
many of the sovereigns were loose in the bags, which had
e
burst, and no less than 238 of them were missing.
l i
messenger immediately began to retrace his journey back
to-
wards Workington, in search of the lost gold, a_
dmnot less
bridge-end, on corning out of Maryport, he found not
than 17 of the sovereigns, lying nearly all together.
Pro-
ceeding onwards, he picked up several moreh
place, and a number of odd ones on
named James Graham found 46 of these
another man named Richard GillA..iat thecar the same
road.n A man
te
sovereigns, and
found 21 ;these were
fr. Walker's servant pro-
ceeded, he heard of a gangAof
pushing each other, and scrambling.ike.
These vagrants, consisting
or► various parts of the turp
men, twe women, and two
of an elderly tnan, two youngarge
quantities of the money, and
children, had picked usp l
places, and on them were found the
and no less than five watches ! They
su
stoutly that the money . was their own ; but they were
argued
custody, and then admitted that they' had picked
weinreotfraxciesd tiossva6riiodu,
taken into
in the road, and said they had given them all
up the money. ..
ing. There:.
❑p. s.tiarlel aofcothnesidpereracbislee portion of
o the money mtss-
ftisovereigns mss-
The man who had charge of the money is very deal'.
We are no aIN
ling ; but through the activity of the police-officers, and the
honesty of other individuals, Mr. Walker's loss is much lese
than could have been calculated on under such otor-aortlinar
circumstances.—Carli3ge /mom at.