The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

A further clearance of timber from the Stowe domain is
about to be made. No less than one thousand oak trees
are now offered for sale by private contract.
Mr. Peto, M.P., has, it is stated, purchased Lord Suf-
feld's estate at Middleton, for £200,000. This gentleman
is a considerable contractor on the Great Northern Rail-
way.

A company has begun to sink a shaft for ironstone
within a quarter of a mile of Ulverston, and samples of
ore of a similar quality to that raised from the Egremont
mines have already been obtained.
Her Majesty has been pleased to confer upon Sir Geo.
Grey the dignity of a G.C.8., and the official announce-
ment is likely to appear in the Gazette. Sir George will
be the second civilian who has received this honour; the
first being Lord Palmerston.

The Chester and Holyhead Company's fine boat
" Scotia," made her passage, on Thursday, from Holy-
head to Kingstown, without reckoning difference of time,
in three:hours and twenty-four minutes. The Kish was
made in three hours.
At Lincoln Assizes, on Monday, John Parker was tried
for shooting his father. There was'no doubt that he had
killed the father, but he declared that it was by accident
while handling a gun, and as there was no assignable
motive for a murder, the Jury acquitted him.
Humphrey and Ellis, youths of eighteen, were indicted
at Bristol for setting fire to a barn at Breneely, which was
consumed. with produce worth £5OO. The farmer had
ordered Humphrey off his grounds. The chief witness
was a convicted felon, who stated that he heard the pri-
soners propose to make the fire; they wanted him to
assist. Both were convicted, and sentenced to fifteen
years' transportation.

Mr. Grange, a farmer of Waddon Chase, in Bucking-
hamshire, has ploughed up a gold deposit. As he was
breahing up soil that had been woodland for centuries, he
turned up a number of cubes of gold, of the value of £3OO
or more. They are claimed by the lord of the manor,

and a coroner's jury is to hold an inquest of treasure-trove.
MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Monday, Col.
Woolridge, of Cleeveland House, left his residence about
noon ; and in the evening his body was discovered in the
pond at Marl-hill. The deceased had been unsettled in
his mind for several months, owing to an injury of the
head, occasioned by a railway accident.—Cheltenham
Chronicle.

GRATIFYING FACTS !—Since Monday, the 26th inst.,
102 vessels have reported their cargoes from foreign parts
at our Custom House, out of which only 12 are British
vessels. English farmers may take comfort from the fol-
lowing additional fact :—" The quantity of grain upon

hich.duty has been p

1 at this

_
exceeds forty
DISGRACEFUL SCENE

ousand quar
—A

ays ago, a le

wife and infant child, the former with a- halter round her
neck, through the Merry Hill turnpike, and disposed of
them to the woman's uncle for sixpence, amidst the cheers
and ribald jests of a crowd of idlers. The woman went
off with her new husband with much complacency, but
the whole scene occasioned the utmost disgust.—Worces-
ter Journal.
ALLEGED POlSONlNG.—Considerable alarm has been

the report that a number of persons had been poisoned
through using adulterated :flour. It is said that by the
carelessness of a miller a quantity of bleaching salt wa,
substituted for alum. A great number of person
used this flour have been seized with pains in the bow&
accomnanied with ---3 -

the tongue

MURDER, AND ATTEMPT TO BURN THE BODY.—On
Thursday, Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Elephant and
Castle, St. Pancras-road, London, on the body of a newly_
born child that was found in a half-burned state, floating
o❑ the water of the Grand Junction Canal. Mr. Robin-
son, house surgeon to the workhouse, gave it as his opi-
nion the deceased had been murdered, and that the mur-
derers had attempted to destroy the body by fire, but that
dreading that the smell would lead to the discovery of the
murder, the parties who committed it threw the body into
the canal. Verdict—" Murder against some person or
persons unknown."
THE FOLLOWING THE LEADER FREAK IN SHEEP.—
On the last fortnight fair day in Kendal, as Mr. James
Thompson, butcher, Stramongate, was driving a flock of
had bought .t Spittal Farm,
one of the sheep suddenly
leaped over the parapet of the hrid
beep followed, and then a t

n fine sheep,

over Stramongate Brid

into the ri

he whole
fter their companions, if they had

flock would hilve
not been, with some difficulty, prevented from carrying
ut the sequacious propensities common to the woolly
it from the bridge to the river is at least
er was deep enough
)therwise must have

twenty feet, and fortunat
the animals' neck ,
been broken. One of them swam boldly to the north
side of the river, and the other two to a bank of shilloch,
which formed a sort of island in tie middle of the river
whence they were got out with some trouble
were of the mountain breed.— Westv.

whic

The sheep

land Gazette.
me-

ATAL QUARREL BET
holy and fatal event
pntrolled passion, ha

IWO BROTHERS

resulting from the indulgence of
just occurred at Leeds. On Sa-
five o'clock, two brothers,

turday morning week, about
Win. Proctor and Thomas Pi

tor. farm labourers—ti:

Drtner twent

'-one years of age and the latter eigh

quarrelled whilst they were-dressing in their'father's
house, at Hunslet, to go to their daily labour. The
younger brother not getting ready so soon as the elder
one thought he ought to do, the latter used some abusive
language, and eventually struck his brother two or three
times. Being a great deal irritated, the younger brother
with his pocket-knife made a severe attack upon the elder
one, inflicting a deep wound irt his neck, and cutting the
jugular vein. The sufferer, in a very hopeless state, was
immediately taken to the Leeds General Infirmary, where

he expired next da)
RAGGED SCHOOL
for 1848 shows that thes
service to the state," " Ora
mittals during

Thcs. Proctor is in custody:
—The report of the Aberdeen prison

tutions have "done some
rd of the decrease of com-

year h

taken place amongst
juvenile prisoners not exceeding twelve years of age."
The decrease of this class of criminals—namely, those
aged twelve years and under—has been remarkable.
There were committed in 1843, 53 ; 1844, 41 ; 1845, 49 ;
1846, 28 ; 1847, 27; 1848, 19. The Governor, in his last
report, has expressed the hope, " that that class of pri-
soners will ere long cease to be found in a prison." In
reference to the figures quoted, he now adds :—" Here,
then, we have the number reduced, in the course of six
years, from 53 to 19, being nearly two-thirds. And if
any one deem it necessary to ask what has produced such
a change, I would just say to him, Go to the Industrial
Schools of the town, and you will get a satisfactory
answer imprinted on the happy faces of hundreds of
children, who are there receiving a moral, religious, and
industrial education ; and who, but for these schools,
would have been trained to be occupants of the prison
cells and pests of society.' "
NOVELTY IN STEAM NAVIGATION.—An iron steam-
vessel, of beautiful model and new construction, has just
been built by Messrs. T. and W. Pim, of this town, upon
a plan invented and supplied by Mr. Leetham, of York,
the managing owner. She is designed for the Hull and
York trade,—both for goods and passengers, and the ob-
jects sought to be obtained have been speed, large capa-
city both of cabin and hold, with the least agitation of
the water when she is in motion. Her length over all is
83 feet, and breadth of beam, including the paddle-boxes,
21 feet. In the York trade, the paddles of the favourite
boats have always been narrow, although the diameter of
the paddle has always been great in proportion to the size
of the vessel. The hull is divided into five water-tight
compartments—the foremost of which is an extremely
capacious cabin, the second contains the furnaces and
boilers, the third is the hold, the fourth is the engine.
room, and the fifth contains the after-cabin, &c. The
paddles being placed in the " run" of the vessel, it is ex-
pected that this will to a very considerable degree, if not
entirely, abolish the " back water," which has hitherto
proved so detrimental to the banks of rivers and canals.
The paddles and paddle-boxes being included in the gene-
ral breadth of the vessel, ber hold and foreparts are as
wide as the engine-room and paddles put together.— Hull
Advertiser.

DESTRUCTION OF THE OLYMPIC THEATRE.—One of
the most rapidly destructive conflagrations that has occur-
red in the metropolis since the burning of Astley's Thea-
tre, about ten years since, broke out on Thursday evening,

demolition of the Royal Olympic Theatre. and the partial
destruction of upwards of a dozen other buildings. Re-
specting the origin of the calamity, nothing can at present
be accurately stated. One of the men employed in the
theatre stater; that the gas was lighted, and that the green
curtain came in contact with the flame, and before he had
time to pull it down, the flames shot like lightning into
the machinery of the stage, and extended with equal
swiftness through the front of the house. The perform-
ances which were to have taken place were The Rent Day,
Time Tries All, and other pieces. The theatre was to
have opened on Easter Monday for the legitimate drama,
by Mr. Farren, who was to appear in concert with Mrs.
Nisbett. The theatre was insured in the County Fire
Office, but nothing belonging to Mr. Davidson, the lessee,
or any of the actors was insured for a single farthing, and
not one " property," scene, or anything else which the
theatre contained, was saved, except the dresses for the
night. The houses burned in Craven Buildings were on
the Craven Estate, which is insured in the Westminster
Fire Office, but most of the occupants, who have been
deprived of their furniture, &c., were uninsured.
EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.—The ship Madawaska,
of Liverpool, G. M`Kennel. master, a private ship bound
for. Sydney, arrived at Plymouth on Friday week, having

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embarked many of her passengers in London. On Sun-
day week, while heaving her anchors with a fair wind, and
her sails set, a small shore boat reached her, in which

were two men and one woman. One of the men had
come from London in her, and had taken and paid the
passage money for the other man and woman, but so near
were they being left behind that they only reached as the
anchor broke ground, and proceeded immediately to sea.
On Monday morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, two
respectable men arrived at Plymouth by the early train,
one of whom represented himself as the husband of the
woman, with his friend, in pursuit of his wife, and the
property of which he had been robbed, amounting to
betwee❑ £1,500 and £l,BOO. The wife, it seems, had
eloped with the clerk, a young man who had been in the
husband's employ for four or five years, and of whom the
husband had taken leave at Gravesend, having made him

a small presentin—monCy,anci-many, things necessary for
his. i
voyage. The deception on the part of both was car-
ped on with the greatest secrecy, the wife, t seems, hav-
ing dined with her husband and four children on the
Saturday; but she, on the same evening, went out, and
never returned. From information and inquiries, the
lady's drawers were searched, when it was found that all
her clothes were taken. The distracted husband and his
friend immediately left by the mail train for this place,
where they arrived, to have their suspicions confirmed.
The principals in this unhappy affair are of the Jewish
persuasion. The distressed husband returned by the first
train to London, to consult his professional and other
friends on the best means of recovering his property, if
not his wife, to whom he had been married nineteen
years.