The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

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Colonel Sibthorp is dangerously ill.
Mrs. Peel, of the Lion and Pheasant Inn, Shrewsbury,
was thrown from her gig on Monday, and killed.
Some of the leading confectioners of Bath haveapplied
to the magistrates for spirit licences, but the bench
declined to grant them.
Among the many victims to the cholera, we record the
name of Henry Hetherington, the well-known publisher
and newsvender, London.
It is proposed to establish " soldiers' gardens" in con-
nection with the several barracks for the recreation of the
men.

An effort is again making at Leeds to induce the Lords
of the Treasury to confer on that town the privileges of a
bonding port.
On Tuesday the Lord Mayor of London entertained the
Count and Countess of Neuilly, and a select party at the
Mansion-house, London.

Sir Aston Key, the eminent surgeon, died at his Londan
residence early on Wednesday, of cholera ; he was taken
ill about noon on the previous day.
On 11Ionday a trout was caught in Windermere Lake,
which measured no less than 25 inches in length, was 153
in girth, and weighed upwards of 8 pounds and a half.
The Duke of Richmond has applied, under the new act,
for authority to disentail the Huntley, Glenlivat, and Kin-
rara estates, and others in the counties of Aberdeen,
Banff, Moray, and Inverness.
The Kendal Mercury claims for that town the honour
of having given birth to the celebrated Charles Dickens,
who first knew the world he has learned to know so well
in a house situated upon the Beast Banks.
A man who was lately ploughing in a field near North-
allerton, turned up a•silver coin rather larger than a shil-
ling, but somewhat thinner, which proved to be a coin of
King Alfred, in a fair state of preservation.
On Saturday a stem of peas was pulled up in the garden
of Mr. Tinkler, of Northallerton. having 61 pods upon it,
and containing no less than 346 peas, in fine condition,
and all fit for use, the proc:uce of one pea.
A conviction was obtained at th, County Court, Pet-
worth, on Friday last, against William Morris, for prac-
tising as an apothecary without the certificate of the
Apothecaries' Company. Penalty £2O and costs.
A boy was found hanging dead in a joiner's shop at
Halifax. It would seem that death was accidental ;as
the boy and his companions had recently been making
foolish experiments on hanging.
A man, named Hughes, residing in Dundalk, was, on
Sunday week, in a quarrel, stabbed by his wife with a
butcher's knife, and killed. She has been committed for
trial.

Mr. Macready has entered into an engagement for four
months at the Haymarket Theatre, and bound himself
finally to leave the stage at the end of it. So says the
London Standard, _

ST. SwiTHll4.—Friday was the fortieth morning after
St. Swithin's Day. The old saying has not held true this
year. The 15th of July was a remarkably fine day, but
there has been scarcely one since quite free from rain.
A FACT.—It is scarcely within the verge of probabi-
lity, but it is nevertheless nn indisputable fact, that on
Tuesday last twelve hundred and a half of fresh herrings
were bought in Douglas for one shilling.—Mona's Herald.
The Duke of Sutherland has found that the closing of
the fishing in his river in Sutherlandshire has increased
amazingly the numbers of salmon, grilse, &c. The pools
are teeming with fish.
On Saturday night a fearful affray took place between
some smugglers and two coast-guardsmen. One of the
latter was so frightfully beaten with sticks t hat his life is
despaired of.
Lient. Halkett, R.N., has projected a plan for saving
the fuel of large steam men-of-war, by drawing the fires
instead of banking them up. The plan is ordered by the
Admiralty to be tested.
The late blockade has caused such an accumulation of
goods at Hamburgh and Hull, that fifteen steamers are
intended to be kept fully employed on that station during
the remainder of the season.

A fine little boy, two years and a-half old, living at
Saxby, Lincolnshire, lost his life last week through drink-
ing some laudanum which his mother had incautiously left
on a table.
Another dreadful murder has been perpetrated in Lon-
don, by a man named Ward. The victim was his wife ;
and it appears that, at the time of the fatal deed, they
were quarrelling.
Joseph Fellows, a sweep, pleaded guilty at the Kidder-
minster Police-court, last week, to trespassing in a planta-
tion belonging to Mr. F. W. Knight, M.P., at Wolverley,
with the intention of taking firewood, and was fined one
penny, and 12s. Gd. costs.
The Sun of Tuesday, devotes another leader, its first,
and occupying upwards of a column, to the defence of
Mrs. James, alias Lola Mantes, alias the Countess of
Lqnsfeldt, alias Mrs. Heald,—against the charge of
bigamy.
Hotel-keepers, shopkeepers, &c., in London and other
places, are being victimised by scoundrels who pass forged
£5 and £lO notes. The notes are well executed, but the
signatures are printed with the rest of the engraving, and
not written.

At Trowbridge, on Friday last, the morning up to nine
o'clock, and the_ evening after six, were devoted to reli-
gious services at the several places of worship " for the
purpose of entreating the mercy of God under the exist-
ing prevalence of cholera."
On Tuesday, whilst shooting on the moors at Abergel-
die with a party, the Hon. Mr. Portman, eldest son of
Lord Portman, was unfortunately struck in the eye by a
shot from one of the party. There is reason to hope that
he is going on favourably.
On Saturday week an idiot-boy named David James,
seized a child, Richard Warner, four years old, on the
banks of the canal from Brecon to Newport, in the parish
of Llanvigan, and threw him into the water, where he
was drowned.
R. Coates completed the arduous task of walking 1,000
half-miles in 1000 successive half-hours on Monday week,
at Birmingham, in the presence of at least 2,000 specta-
tors. lie did not appear much distressed, his feet only
having failed him.
A boy, crossing a footpath near Nottingham, last week,
was pursued by a horse, which knocked him down, hit
him severely in the back, took him up in its teeth, shook
him, and carried him about as a dog would do a rat. The
boy was rescued by some persons who hastened to his
assistance. He was severely hurt.

SCHISM IN THE WESLEYAN BODY.—The three mi-
nisters expelled by the late Conference, have given notice
that it is their purpose, at the earliest possible period, to
lay the whole affair before the religious world, by holding
a public meeting in London. Great dissatisfaction ap-
pears to exist in the "circuits" of the expelled ministers.
THE HARVEST IN ENGLAND.—The weather has been
remarkably fine throughout England during the major
part of the week, and great progress has been made in
reaping; in fact, farmers are so busy with harvest opera-
tions that they have latterly put in a very scanty appear-
ance at the corn markets of their respective localities.
An old man, named William Husband, aged 75, while
attempting to push open a swing-gate on the Perthshore-
road, leading to Norton Church, was caught by the
throat in consequence of the gate falling back upon him,
and was afterwards found hanging by the spars in a kneel-
ing position.
During the thunder storm that lately passed over Yeo-
vil, a thunder bolt fell in South-street, which is said to
have scattered its fiery balls in all directions, illuminating
the streets to such a degree that many persons thought
the houses were on fire. Two persons who were passing
at the time, had their frees slightly scorched.
CHOLERA IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Tuesday,
a gentleman and his son took their seats in the train
at Euston station, and before they had reached Watford
the son was taken ill of cholera, and continued to get
worse till he got to Leighton Buzzard, where he was taken
out of the train, and in ten minutes afterwards died.

STRANGE BIRTH.—A boy in the district of Kirksldy,
who has a passion for chicken-hatching, got a large egg
some time ago from some sailors just come from Alexan-
dria, and placed it under a favourite hen, expecting to get
a large Egyptian fowl ; but his surprise and amazement
may be better conceived than described when he found,
one morninir, a live crocodile. _ _

THE CHOLERA.—During the week, ending Saturday,
there were in England, Scotland, and Wales 5168 cases,
and 2,368 deaths. Of there 1103 deaths were in London
and the vicinity, 216 in Liverpool, 68 in Plymouth, 50 in
Newcastle-under-Lyme, 101 in Dundee, (nearly two-
thirds of all the cases in Scotland,) 29 in Merthyr Tydfil,
and the remainder in other towns.
• CRICKET—KENT V. ALL ENGLAND.—This annual
match was played on Tuesday and Wednesday, at Lord's.
As had been anticipated after the close of the first innings
en both sides, the England eleven were vanquished by an
unusual number of runs, namely 206—the final totals
being, Kent 127 and 277, or 354 ; and England, 48 and
100, or 148.

EFFECT OF WEALTH.—On Friday a commission of
lunacy was held at Hoxton on a maiden iady of high
accomplishments. Her mother also lost her reason on
acquiring a fortune of £40,000. When before the Com-
missioner she said. "You are a liar." Commissioner:
That is not a very lady-like expression.—Miss Fisher:
Perhaps not ; but the Duchess of Beaufort and all the
nobility use it.

Dr. Wolff has published a letter, addressed to English
Protestants, in which he says, " you Protestants would
deserve the reproach of being imbeciles, if you were not to
claim from Louis. Napoleon the release of Father Giacinto
Achilli from the Inquisition." Popery is as persecuting
as ever. In the East she has just imprisoned a British
subject for refusing to idolize the host. Protestants will
surely be awakened shortly.
GROWTH OP Corrow IN INDIA.—We are astonished to
find that the East India Company have resolved not to
carry any further the cultivation of cotton in India. The
reason they assign for this extraordinary proceeding ap-
pears to be that the government of India having shown
that cultivation can be carried on successfully, they have
done enough, and that the rest must be accomplished by
private enterprise.
There are now living within half a mile of Brorns-
grove, Worcestershire, on the Worcester-road, four
children born at one birth, all girls. They are fifteen
months old ; two of them can walk alone, and the other
nearly so. The father is a labouring man, named Lam-
bert. His wife, at her previous confinement, bore him
three children, the whole of whom are also alive, making
seven children within two years.

The execution of Mary Ann Geering for the murder of
her husband by poison, took place at Lewes on Tuesday.
On Thursday the wretched woman confessed to the chap-
lain that she was guilty of the murder of her husband.
and subsequently stated to him that she had also poisoned
:ier sons James and John, who had both died, and that
she afterwards attempted to destroy her son Benjamin by
the same means, but he recovered.

Alexander Brock, residing in High-street, Glasgow, is
in custody, charged with the wilful murder of his wife.
It appears that Brock, who is an engineer, and a steady
man, had given his wife money on Saturday, for family
purposes, and on coming home for dinner, found the fire
out, and nothing provided. He went in search of his
wife, and finding her drunk, knocked her down and kicked
her with such vinlencethat she died almost instantaneously.
The Rev. Mr. Jones, curate of St. Paul's, Covent-
garden, London, refused on Saturday to bury ie body of
the man who was killed a few days previously by jumping
from the roof of a house while attempting to commit a
burglary. The funeral party were kept in the church-
yard until a clergyman, who enier:ains the belief that
no minister has a right to refuse, when called on, to per-
form the service, consented to go through the ceremony.
ALLEGED MURDER.—On Sunday morning, the body
of a man was taken out of the river Lea, and its appear-
ance left no doubt that he had been murdered. From
the dress it is supposed that the deceased was a navigator.
Upon an examination it was discovered that the arms and
legs were tied, together, ar.d were fastened to the left thigh
in such a manner as to preclude all possibility that the
deceased bad committed suicide.

MELANCHOLY DEATH. —On Saturdry, the wife of
Capt. Mitchell, E. 1. C., got up early and went out, as
her husband supposed, for a walk. Not having returned,
he felt uneasy and went in search of her, when he met
some men with a corpse, and on looking at the body
found it to be that of his wife. Whether she was acci-
dentally drowned or otherwise remains enveloped in
mystery. She was 85 years of age, and had been married
only about four months.—Sherborne Journal.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday a heavy shower of
rain fell with great suddenness, and flooded the common
sewers of Edinburgh to an unusual degree. Two boys
who had entered the great sewer in the Cowgate, in search
of stray articles of value, were swept away by the flood,
and carried to the South Beck of Canongate, where one
of them succeeded in escaping by an iron grating, and
obtained assistance for his companion, who was quite ex-
hausted, but recovered soon after his extrication.

A boy, selling newspapers at the railway station at Ely,
was calling out one Saturday evening, " To-day's Times,
gentlemen," upon which a passenger, attempting a wit-
ticism, cried out, " What's the use of to-day's Times?
I'll give you a shilling for to-morrow's ! " The boy im-
mediately handed to him the Sunday Times, •hen the
passenger refused to give more than sixpence; but his
fellow-travellers made him keep his word, and give the
sharp-witted lad a shilling for a sixpenny paper.
Cholera has reached Bath, and created great conster-
nation. The first victims to its ravages have been four
children of a man named Kennard, residing in Russell-
place, Lower Bristol-road. Three other cases have since
occurred. The mother of the man Kennard, who has at-
tended upon her grandchildren during their illness, was
seized, and died in a few hours; and two children living
in the same house in the Wells-road, were taken with the
same symptoms, and died after a few hours' suffering.
LAYING IT oN.—We are told that a Trowbridge minis
ter has had gutty percha piping carried round his chapel,
and connected with a large open funnel in the book-board
of the pulpit, and wherever a deaf hearer sits he has an
ear trumpet attached to the tube, by which he can hear
all that passes. Loving music, and anxious to extend the
enjoyment of it, we have often contemplated the possi-
bility of laying it on to various quarters by means of pipes
from a central producing orchestra. The possibility
seems to be becoming a probability.—The Builder.

ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A HAWK AND A HEN.—On
Sunday, at the Castle on Haughmond Hill, Shrewsbury,
a hen with a brood of chickens were on the greensward,
when a large sparrow hawk pounced down in the midst of
them. Instead of fleeing, as is usual with the hen, when
attacked by a hawk, she boldly flew at him, struck him
on the head, and laid him flat on the ground, as if dead.
The hawk was taken into the house, where it recovered.
His wings were then clipped, and he was turned out, when
the hen again set upon him, and killed him on the spot.

DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT IN LANARKSHIRE.—
An alarming and destructive explosion of fire-damp took
Owe at Mr. Wilson's No. 6 Pit, Wishaw Colliery, on
the 13th inst., at half-past five a.m., by which nine lives
were lost. Some idea may be formed of the strength of
the blast, when we state that both cages, slides. part of
the barring, a portion of the mid-wall, and one man, were
blown up and out of the pit, and carried to a great dis-
tance in the air, and fragments of human flesh and bone
have been gathered at four hundred yards' distance from
the pit.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE AND SUICIDE OF THE
HUSBAND.—On Saturday an inquest was held at the
University College Hospital, London, on view of the body
of George Morton, a painter and glazier, aged 52, and
late of No. 29, Melton-crescent. The deceased and his
wife, a pretty looking woman, aged 27, had been married
in May, but quarrelled and parted in June in consequence
of deceased's violent temper. On Thursday night she
visited him at his request, when a quarrel ensued, and the
next morning he fired a pistol at her, and afterwards
swallowed a quantity of oxalic acid, which produced
almost instant death. The shot from the pistol struck
the wife's shoulder, passing through the dress, and grazing
her ear. The jury returned a verdict of insanity. The
deceased was a sober steady man, but smoked to a fright-
ful extent.

CURE Or A DISORDERED STOMACH, WITH WEAKNESS
AND GENERAL DEBILITY, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—
Mr. M'Kenzie, of Stornoway, a retired officer, who had
spent many years in warm climates, was afflicted with a
disordered stomach, indigestion, and liver complaint, with
complete debility. In his endeavOurs to renovate his con-
stitution, he visited the various watering-places, and ob-
tained the advice of many European physicians of celebrity,
without experiencing relief. Under these circumstances,
Holloway's Pills were recommended to him, and to the
astonishment of all who had witnewd his previous suffer-
ings, he is restored to the most buoyant health, by a course
of this most inestimable medicine.

To THE LADIES.—The powerful influence of the sun
on the skin at this period of the year calls for increased
attention in preserving its delicacy and beauty. The most
pleasing and effectual specific for this desirable object is
ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, so deservedly established in royal
and public favour and estimation. Its application neu-
tralizes the effects of atmosphere, and induces that healthy
action of the microscopic vessels of the skin, by which
its delicacy and beauty are so essentially promoted.
Freckles, tan, spots, pimples, and discolorations fly before
the application of the KALYDOR, and give place to a
healthy smoothness and transparency of complexion.
Ladies travelling or taking out-door exercise will find it
to diffuse a grateful and refreshing feeling. In cases of
sunburn, or stings of insects, its virtues have long beau
acknowledged.—See advt.