The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

and over we

trowsers and a canvass frock, with a comforter round his*". to the grave in a very few months after her birth. With! WRECK OF THE SHIP HANOVER AND THE BARQUE
neck: he had on a pair of half-boots newly half-soled, 'the exception of two visits to Germany, one in the year:•ELlzA SWIFT.—On the 9th ult. -the ship Hanover, of
with tips on the heels; and he had a penny-piece and an 1822, and the other in 1825, it cannot be said that the Bath, (U. 5.,) Captain Rogers, from Cadiz, with salt,
'• - ---1,-f The body is much disfigured, and - life of the Duchess of Clarence was much varied. struck on Pond Island Bar, and went to pieces in about
. Since her marriage twelve years had elapsed and her twenty minutes. All hands, 17 in number, perished. On
Yours very truly, , Royal Highness was still Duchess of Clarence ; on the. the 20th of October the barque Eliza Swift, D. A. Nye
EDWARD JENKINS., 26th of June, 1830, she became Queen of England. Hergmaster, from New York to New Orleans, dragged her
v Point, near Carlingford, Louth, .;,.position was changed, but the rectitude and gentleness of anchors in a gale off the Great Isaac, and, in spire of
Ireland, Dec. Ist, 1849. her character underwent no alteration. The amount of Revery exertion, was driven on the island. The whole of

,erred to-morrow

- her duties and the sphere of her influence were vastly ;the Crew and passengel.
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•K
MEETING OF THE PCLTTECHNIC SOCIETY.—A nume- . enlarged ; a great income was placed at her disposal.the island ; but a heavy sea oven,—
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rows monthly meeting of this society took place last night, ~..' From this period may be dated the commencement of the X2O of their number, of whom 11, including
at the Royal Institution. Mr. Thomas Mellner, the pre- . toil, the ladies and a baby belonging to one of them, were drowns: care, and the disappointments from which royalty%
sident, in the chair. After some preliminary business, „ never wholly escapes. She, like her predecessors, soon :Amongst those lost we observe one—Charles Robinson
§ EXPLOSION OF Two STEAMERS.—.
the discussion on Mr. Homer's paper on cast iron, t practically understood how " uneasy lies the head that cabin boy, Liverpool.
girders for railway and other bridges, (postponed from the '4 wears a crown;" but her Majesty and King William were
last meeting) was resumed. Mr. Boult said he did s! not formally crowned for more than a year after their, explosion took place at New Orleans on the
not 'agree with Mr. Horner in his preference of.s: accession. That ceremony took place on the Bth of Sep-_,S ultimo, the 15th the Louisiana, bound to St. Louis,
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cast iron for girders over other material. Mr. Horner'.: tember, 1831. It was observed that her Majesty never ' about to start from her wharf, having burst both her
explained that he had made no preference of cast 'appeared to greater advantage than at that memorable boilers, shattering her to atoms, and also damaging the
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iron, but merely endeavoured to show the best and ceremony—never displayed more of the grace and dignity`.' steamers Storm and Boston, which were lying alongside.
most approved forms of them,_''
where they could be pro-.;`which usually marked her deportment than in that vene-W The Louisiana was crowded with passengers, as were
perly and safely introduced.—Mr.John Grantham, though rable cathedral where the potentates of Fngland and their,
both the other boats. By the latest intelligence, the
he preferred wrought iron girders, nevertheless approved ' consorts have been invested with the outward and visible deaths were estimated at 200, with many wounded. Up-
of many of Mr. Horner's ideas on cast iron.—A paper signs of regal power at the commencement of almost every wards of fifty bodies had been picked up, and the quay,
was read in behalf of the Vulcan Machine Company's ap- reign since the foundation of the monarchy. It was some ,as it appeared, strewn with the dead and dying, and with
paratus for sweeping chimnies.—Mr. Heron presented a- time before this great national ceremony, and with scarcely ' scattered fragments of human bodies, presented an awful
drawing of a ship mounted on three wheels, for navigating any interval after the Queen had practically submitted to spectacle. The captain of the Louisiana (Lennon.) had
smooth water ; also, an ingenious ship pump, for pumping;; the " golden yoke of sovereignty," that her Majesty been held to bail in 8000 dollars. Another steamer, the
out of a vessel when the valves of the ordinary pump are proceeded to form her household. Belle, blew up on the 17th ultimo, between New Orleans
choked, and another ship-pump, which, in place of valves, The discussion of such subjects now would throw very
lifts the water by the turning of fans, similar to the screw = little light upon the personal character of that Princer
propellers. whose benign presence and gentle sympathy w;il
PREVENTION OF BOILER EXPLOSION. —Mr. Arthur again—as was their wont—.lT.-;-.- "

, including several ladies, gained
sweat off

A terrible steamboat

killed, and others more or less wounded.
Loss OF THE STEAMER EUDORA.—This vessel, from
bs ofabjectieNew York to Rio Janeiro and San Francisco, went on
lone as ardshore on the night of the 16th ultimo, on Ludlam Reach.
,e May. By the last accounts she was discharg-
argo through the surf. At first it was hoped
be saved, with the assistance of the steam

Dunn delivered

a lecture last evening, at the Concert-

poverty or strog,re,ling merit

Still it

was not

elson-street, on the means of preventing ex-
oilers. A good many mechanics were nrp-

lowager's character' near C
a kind parent. era ing her

Durably dev

oy diagrams, analp--------- •
demonstrated by a working model. The lecturer did not" children.
he mail lett, wouia
claim any new theory, but merely the appliance of grin- On the 20th of June, 1837, Queen Adelaide became a%t
1 prow:any areag ner up, ii :am pre-
the death of the King she found frequent change of resi- WRECK OF THE PACKET-SHIP TUSCARORA.—We cipals already well known. In order to show the im., widow. During the last seven or eight years her health— 'viously got off. She was valued at 50,000 dollars, and
portance that exists for adopting every possible means to never good—has been rapidly declining ; and even before.. her cargo at 2,000 dollars, insured in Wall-street.
avoid these ealamities, the lecturer quoted some American .
re-
statistics, from which it appeared, that in the Unitedl dente necessary to the preservation of life. Soon after Bret to learn that this fine packet-ship, one of Messrs.
States, from 1816 to 1848 inclusive, more than 4,606 per- her accession to the throne she visited her relatives in' Brown, Shipley and Co.'s Liverpool and Philadelphia
sons were kiiled or wounded from casualties of this de i,•-- Germany, on that occasion travelling incognita under the line, went ashore on the morning of the 16th ulti—
scription. . ,

le subject was i

ustratec

roness, if it shoulc

so express,

Wpurnp;but-the storm which set in on the before

The appliance of the well-known principles to
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title of Duchess of Lancaster • and as well as before as" -mile south of Indian River, and within forty yards of the
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a novel purpose spoken of, is simply the introduction of, during her widowhood, she hadl been more accustomed to ,:- beach, at low water mark. She was on her outward
the electric telegraph to act as a signal carrier from the F migration than even the most restless members of the, voyage, and had 450 passengers on board, all of whom
boiler to the counting-counting, or elsewhere on the pre- .. Jiigher and wealthier classes in this country, for to her -,t were landed in safety, by means of ropes passed to the
raises on which it may be situated. By this ingenious %repeated variation of abode had long been a matter more_:, shore. A steam-tug was promptly sent to her aid, and it
appliance the boiler is made to register its own temperature. g" of necessity than of choice. Her Majesty has visited not; was expected she would be got off without much damage.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—PABLO FANQUE'S EQUES-
only many parts of England and the continent, but also • A despatch, however, dated 6 p.m., 18th ultimo, repre-
TRIANTROUPE.—This company continues to draw crowded tne islands of Madeira and Malta ; at the latter place the ••• sents her as having changed her position, and bilged,
houses, and more than equals the talent of the first which _AChurch of Valetta was founded and endowed by her with ten feet water in the hold. The passengers were
Mr. Fanque introduced to us. Madame Macarte is one ofipious munificence. She likewise contributed to almost ~:proceeding to Philadelphia by the steam-boat. We have
the finest equestrians as yet before the public; and every public charity, and to the funds of nearly all the 4the following decisive telegraphic account from Phila.
amongst the other members of the troupe deserving of ;societies engaged in the advancement of religion ; and it
,3* delphia on the 19th :—" The Tuscarora has been aban-
especial notice are Mr. Milner and his " petite son," would prove no easy task to discover any useful institution :4doned, and her main and mizen masts cut away. Capt.
whose gymnastic feats are wonderful. which had not the benefit of her liberal aid. ;'Turley arrived at Lewes about four o'clock in the after-
The Bishops of Norwich, Landaff, and Madras, were It was the practice also of her Majesty to subscribe noon, and will remain there. The crew have left the vessel
respectively consecrated, on Saturday, to their several,; ((
largely to all the charities in every place where she hap- 01; by means of a rope fastened to the shore from the foremast."
Dioceses. ...pened even for a while to reside, especially to those of the ' The following is an extract of a letter from Capt. Turley,
The Rev. P. Strong, a clergyman at Colchester, died ,-parish or St. Mvrtin, in which her town mansion stands-4" describing the disaster :—" For three days previous to our
on Wednesday evening, whilst reading prayers with his 4. a dwelling the portals of which opened once in every , misfortune we were beating off the Capes, when the wind
family. He had just commenced the Lord's prayer when. London season to receive, but not long to resain their : hauled to the eastward. At 9 p.m., sounded in 16 fa-
be fell in an apoplectic fit. ' royal owner, for the state of her health forbade her spend-' thorns ; half-past nine, 15 fathoms; at 10 p.m., 13 fa-
The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, accompanied by ing much time in London. The latter part of her life:l thorns. I then hauled the ship up by the wind, heading
Viscount Viscountess Brackley, and other members of was one long disease, and it is no idle repetition of a ":- north, and made a light bearing N.W. Went aloft to see
their family, arrived in Belgrave.square on Friday, from: tereadbara formulary to say that she bore her painful ma-
iit, and felt sure it was the Lightship : stood on until we
Worsley Hall, en route for Hatchford Park. Lordrltladies " with Christian fortitude." For had more need of Ic3uld see it from the deck. From the appearance all
Brackley's health is much improved. that virtue, for few have been so severely tried. During '.pronounced it the Lightship. I then hove the ship to,
The Oxford Agricultural Association was, on Saturday, the last two or three modths her Majesty was so grie. 44 with signals hoisted for a pilot. I did not wish to get any
dissolved by resolution, in coesequence of the difference vously indisposed as hardly ever to have quitted her pri- ' iurther to the westward, as the wind was E i'v v
of opinion among the landlords and the tenant-far vete apartments. Shortly before she expired all suffering ' long night before us. 1-1.-u -
mers, - - a 4
C n, 111 l n 4 ... •

-pasttwe

no signs

' - seemed to cease.
.., ...,.., witilUllb autering tne ~
ermg themselves not properly represented f'
''‘. '--$ 3,"-->f:,",,,rf.sl•%e-- ,-,$:1•:.„• ,-:-, ,•-.4#.,:4::,-#,,,*4,0--..: ~,,A ation of the sails, as I did not want to go more than four
in the society. The funds in hand, £440, it was resolved '''' • - -* -
,
should be handed to the Radcliffe Infirmary. POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY. miles per hour. At half-past one, while walking the
A committee of shareholders has been formed at Man
'•deck, I saw the breakers. I put the helm to starbord,
-
Chester, at a meeting held on Thursday last, at which a and braced up. The ship flew to, and struck : let go the BAREFACED ROBBERY.—A man named Andrew Malta- larbord anchor; she gave a heavy surge, and parted the
resolution was passed to the effect, that the present posi-o ley-. and two others were charged with having stolen a
tion of the Sheffield Railway Company requires the ("..half-barrel of ale from the open street on Saturday last.. the chain, and fell off, head on the beach."
adoption of measures for effecting a thorough and unre-tA SAFETY OF THE PASSENGERS OF THE SHIP SAMOSET
police-officer observed a man (not in custody) going —Nine of the passengers by the above ill fated vessel,
stricted inquiry into its affairs.
~ along Frederick-street at half-past ten with a large jug of 4wrecked on her voyage to San Francisca:and who were
At a concert given by Henry Russell at York, ori.'•-
t ale, and asked him where he had got it. The reply was "„u to have been lost, having left her in an open
Wednesday, the audience were very riotous in conse- . that he had bon It it at a neighbouring public.house, and boat, were picked up after severe sufferings, and safely
quence of the vocalist having some time since promised to i he was allowed to go along. Shortly afterwards another s
;landed at Monterey.
give a concert for a charitable institution in the town. It he
(the prisoner named) was seen with a like cargo, -. PARTIAL RETURN OF THE CHOLERA.—Great excite-
seems, however, that the promise has not been fulfilled, '
,:and on being questioned his answers excited such suspi.s° ment has been caused by the reappearance of the cholera
merely because no committee has been formed to maket cion that he was detained. Upon inquiry, it was found $-
on the Missisippi River. The steamer Constitution had
the necessary arrangements.
that while a Mr. Ridley, a publican in Park-lane, was ,
t arrived at St. Louis from New Orleans, having had 30
11/EC VINCULA FEREMUS ?—To classify under one , getting some barrels and half-batrels of ale into his cellar, $ eases on board, 17 of which had proved fatal on the pass-
head disorders the most incongruous and even opposite—,
F: from the street, one of the half-barrels was rolled away .cage. The steamer James Hewitt had also several cases,
to disturb the timid and the nervous by false alarms—to ' • t • Fiendstr where the delinquent
v parties cour inr
*`and been prohibited from landing by the authorities, The
lull the really afflicted with false hopes—and to deceive .:
and their began to appropriate thecontents, contents, ;iisease has also made its appearance again at Vicksburg.
all by promises the most extravagant and absurd—as it is
the';-•in jugs, mugs, cans, tubs, &c., some of them freely regal- •,44 RECIPROCITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
the chief characteristic of the medical adventurer of :. ing themselves in the meantime. There was no evidence CANADA.—The* Herald for Europe says .—" Mr. Henry
present day, so it forms one of the most painful subjects against the two prisoners not named, and they were dice
#
, Moyle, bearer of despatches from Lord Elgin to the Bri-
of contemplation that can present itself to the eye of -charged. Mullaley, who was seen rolling the barrel by a 4. fish government, arrived in this city a day or two since,
those who scan over the advertisements which crowd the boy, was committed to gaol for two months.
• , and leaves by the first vessel for England. Mr. Moyle is
columns of the newspapers of our time. Among the STEALING BUTTER.—A woman named Jane Johnson likewise entrusted with a memorial to the ministry, on
many medicines obtruding themselves upon our attention, was committed for trial, charged with having, on Satur- the subject of a reciprocal tariff between the United States
it is some relief, however, to find one at least which 'day, stolen from the shop of Mr. Thomas Lace, in Mann- '' and Canada, signed by several men of influence in Canada,
(while its proprietor avoids those gross inconsistencies
-• street, (Toxteth-park,) 121 b. of butter. She had before
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.' among whom are large landed proprietors and agricultu-
that, with but very few exceptions, disfigure all others) 4been imprisoned for a like attempt to butter her bread on rists. The object of the memorial is twofold. The me-
is sanctioned and employed by the most distinguished both sides at other people's expense.
• morialists ask, first, that the British government will en-
practitioners, as well as the most eminent and enlightened STEALING Two GOLD RINGS.—A girl named Jane , deavour to form a treaty with the United States, by which
individuals of the age, who have honoured with theirt,'Parr, was committed for two months for stealing from a:,
favour and confidence the Compound Antibilious Pills of.* ,-; free trade between Canada and this country will be se-
lady named Parry, who keeps a shop in Scotland-road, '-
Mr. Cockle, the gentleman above alluded to. dand in it be granted, then that British
- cure ;
two gold rings, one of whico only was found upon her. .... ,
GALVANISM.—The application of Galvanism as a medi-
ROBBING A GENTLEMAN'S SERVANT.—A man named -
cal agent appears to be all the rage in the metropolis. Its Peter Daly,' was committed for three months, for having, , , •
great a duty as Canadian wheat and flour are subjected to
professors have played the very deuce with the Cold-imported into States. This is asked
on being
..
on Sat drobbedservantyouth, named Wetherell,
nr ay, a
water Doctors, for the Medical Galvanists pretend toas a matter of justice and equity, because the Canadian
of his purse, containing £4, in a house in Sir Thomas's- ''' farmer is deprivedofthe b'l* ' d his produce to
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accomplish fully as much as the Hydropathists ; and as in wigs, while the complainant was in bed asleep.
b •ld•
the cold water treatment is, without doubt, a very disc_ r market, several months in the year, in consequence of the
POCKET-PICKING.—John Grumley, for picking the poc- ,
greeable one, whilst the galvanic treatment has nothing ofCanadian because, also, if he
• closing the seaports, and
ket of John Massey of a handkerchief, in Byrom- street, twos=
disagreeable about it, patients now generally resort to the
York markets, he is
sends his flour and wheat to the New
months.—Mary Brogan, for picking the pokcct of Matthew
latter. Mr. W. H. Heise may be considered the leader sends
to pay a heavy duty."
e.,,Sullivan, in Dale-street, like time.—John Hannigan, for
in this new branch of medical science, for who ever heard =• attempting to pick a lady's pocket, in St. John's Market,,-
of galvanic rings, galvanic bracelets, garters, bands, &c '
NEW YORK, MONDAY, Nov. 19,-6 P. M.
*, three months.
COTTON--There was but little done to-day, from the fact
before he made galvanism so popular ? If galvanism be '
,-- . . • that holders are unwilling to submitt to the reduction claimed
as powerful a remedial agent as it is pretended to be, the : Incredible as it may appear, a ripe strawberry was
,; by buyers. On 'change, 400 bales were reported sold;
ship-
thanks of the invalid public are due to Mr. Heise, and to actually gathered yesterday week, in the garden of a gee- quern ly, a parcel of 300 bales New Orleans were taken for h-
him alone, for it ; for without his extraordinary improve -t tleman residing at Ashfield-terrace, near Oxton.
A inent. Stock in the city, in all hands, estimated at 50,000 bales.
ments in the galvanic apparatus, the applications of gal- i,l, EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet-' We quote :
vanism would be worse than useless. That Mr. Heise ing of the Board of Examiners held on Tuesday, Mr. ' LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.
Mobile 4- N. gleans,and
ranks high as a Medical Galvanist is evident from the Thomas Edward Marsh, late chief mate of the Alfred, of •
Uplands. Florida. Texas.
fact that the most eminent physicians of the metropolis Glasgow, was examined and found qualified for a second. • Inferior
invariably recommend their patients to him, where they class master's certificate. Ordinary —to 91 —to 9i —to Ui
think galvanism will be of service.—Morning Chronicle. LIST OF CABIN . PASSENGERS PER " WEST POINT " . GOOd Ordinar •-
Punch calculates, and records the calculation in his 4 CAPTAIN W. Sr. ALLEN, FROM NEW YORK IN SEVEN- ,
' Middling 1
" Pocket Book," that out of 100 persons who pass you one TEEN DAYS.—Mr. Hollins, Lady, Nurse and three chit- Good Middling —to 102 —to 11 —to 11
Middlin., Fair
their way to the City, you may be sure that 90 are going .4, dren ; Mr. Bolton, Lady and three children ; Miss Ryder; - Fair
in search of money, and that 80 of them will not get any- Miss Dawbarn ; Miss Sybbps ; Mr... J. Lydam ; Mr. ; Fully fair —to 111- None. —to 12
thing. n ,
Percival, of the British arm and Dr.
Gibson • Captain y, 4. Good fair —
to 112 None. to 12
Sar cant AN OLD ELECTION LAW.—The sth chapter of the Ist g .- Fineto 112 None. None.*
FREIGHTS.—For Cotton to Liverpool id. was demanded ; for
statute of COLLISION IN THE RIVER.--On
Westminster, passed 3d Edward I. 1276, is con. 3 DEATH FROM A
.Tours.
;;: ordin • arrivals, Four continued to be taken at 25., and Wheat
cise. " Because elections ought to be free, the king corn- ..day, as a Dutch galliot, while proceeding to sea, and was - ordinary
for Liverpool direct at 255.
6d. ; Tobacco was
proved very
mandeth, upon grievous forfeiture, that no great man . upon a wind i. h h off the magazines, she was run into by a. The veatberinclement, accompanied with wind
[haut honime], or o , . • : t • d
other neither by force of arms, nor by - schooner, by w lic er mammas was canoe away, and and rain, which continued throughout the day, and checked all
menaces, shall disturb any, to make free election." in the crash, the leg of a seaman, Ary Neilmote,,,out-door
7,, named business. The cotton market continued heavy, and
-' 'n to the indisposition of holders to concede the reduction
INDIANS.—On our way we met i was broken. He was taken to the hospital, where he diet 5
LONGEVITY OF THE
?nwipiices demanded by buyers, sales were limited, which in-
Johanna, an old woman a hundred years of age. She ,4, on Sunday.
, eluded, however, a lot for shipment. The flour market was more
was leading two children by the hand,—probably her great IMPORTANT
FROM PARIS.—The Moniteur of Sunda buoyant for
all :ands, with more doing in good to pure and ex-
grea - ld usW contain
t grandchildren Our reverend conductor to .
d.
• s a telegraphic dispatch from Algeria, of the 29th ~• nil brands. Further sales of Canadian were made in bond, at
twl'ich Colm,pl 1-1,,..,,-,. :__ , . v., . . , .... _. . s_._ -, . .
'II, and sales
-hat she had lived to see four or five generations ; but he ultimo. accord mg o . . ,
There was
elieves there arc .1.--'" . ..

ontdbie7aturuars TULL, oumnern oranas continued du,were limited. There was but little doing in wheat.
-,,nians in this tribe have witnessed ,16th, fallen on the Arabs at —n"eutu7 n
Oueada:Died
there R y ew flouras
a fi.av
iars a somewhatmount
0 f sales,
afilrens:ear
t,
sonie demand for milling, but the terms of holders were above
as many as six, and hence he infers their age to be from five leagues south of Zaatcha, and had killed 200 men, . their views. There was a good demand for the East, a f
xedi
a hundred and forty to a hundred and sixty years. The taken 3,000 camels; 15,000 sheep, and immense booty, their
demand for distilling, &c., and sales, especiallywolf
mixed
absence of excitement and passion in their way of life, and that they burned their tents and such things as they "bweltrrieey7c•erttpyatfer.eelityn mpoardke.
together with their simple fare, seems greatly t 9 favour could not carry away. Several chiefs bad surrendered, • while meal was steady. There was no material change in rye,
this longevity.—Prince Adalbert's Travels, and the effect would be to hasten the-tall of Zaatcha.