The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

TIC I.4IVtIPOOL STANDARD.

A CORPORATION IN A FlX.—Ruthin Corporation, on
proceeding to the Town Hall to elect a Mayor for the bo-
rough, found themselves on the wrong side of the door,
having been regularly barred out, the keys being in the
safe custody of the Hon. Frederick West, at Ruthin
Castle, who, it appears, has a lien on the building.
BRISTOL DOCKS.—During the present session of Parlia-
ment an Act will be applied for, to enable the Dock
Company at Bristol to lease, or convey, to the corpora-
tion of that city, all their rights, original or appurtenant,
connected with, or incidental to, the dock property of
that port. And, also, an application will be made for
authority to take such measures for improving the naviga-
tion of the Severn, as may seem expedient.
Before the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, the
corporation of Kendal did not contribute a farthing to-
wards the expense of watching the town, and an average
yearly sum of £6OO was taken from the poor-rate, under
the name of constable-rate ; but the reformed corporation
defrays the whole expense of the police, as its revenues,
though not increased, are more economically adminis-
tered.

The fine new East. Indiaman, Lady Ken❑m ay, beloning
to the representative (an only daughter) of the late Thos.
Ward, Esq., of London, was totally abandoned by her
crew in the Bay of Biscay, in a sinking condition, on
Wednesday week. She was commanded by Captain
Enery, and her first officer was Mr. Richard Walsh. She
left Bombay on the 21st of June, bound to London, laden
with a cargo of £210,000., consisting of Indian silks, crapes,
Cashmere shawls, gums, spices, rice, &c.
The master printers and compositors of London have
agreed to submit any differences that may arise between
them to a tribunal of their own choosing, viz. :—That a
committee of reference be appointed, consisting of twelve
mister printers of not less than five years' standing, (six
to be chosen by the compositors,) for the purpose of set-
tling any disputes relative to work which might arise ;
and that if any member of the committee of reference
should be a party concerned in any dispute, such person
should, after a statement of his case, withdraw.
A lamentable gun accident occurred in the neighbour-
hood of Newnham, Gloucestershire, a few days since.
Mr. Bird, surgeon, of that town, went out on that day for
a little sport, in company with his two sons, of the ages of
eight and ten years. Being about to give some instruc-
tions, he placed his own gun, for a moment, in the hand of
one of his little boys, when the charge immediately ex-
ploded into the hand of the one child, and passed into the
head of his little brother, who was standing close to the
muzzle, and was killed on the spot.
ARRIVAL OF Two ESQIJIM AUX AT lIITLL.-011 Satur-
day last, the Truelove, Captain Parker, arrived at this port
from Davis' Straits, with 6 fish, 85 tons of oil. She also
brought over two Esquimaux, man and wife, from the
western land of Davis' Straits. It is now several years
since we had any of this race in this town before, and ne-
ver, we understand, were any brought from the western
coast. Their respective ages are, the male 17, and the fe-
male 15, and they were married about a fortnight before
they left their native shores.—Hull Packet.

Seven Ash trees have sprung from the tomb of Lady
Anne Grimston, in 'the churchyard of Tewin, in Hereford-
shire; and as it is difficult to divine how the trees, which
have now attained a great size, could have forced their
way through the solid masonry of the tomb, the neigh-
bouring peasants account for the circumstance by asserting
that Lady Anne who died more than a century since, was
an unbeliever in Christianity, and was wont to say that
" if the sacred book was true, seven ash trees would grow
out of her tomb."

STOPPAGE OF WEAVING ESTABLISHMENTS.—TWO or
three extensive hand-loom weaving establishments in
Glasgow ceased working during last week; and, inconse-
quence, several thousand workmen were thrown out of
employment. Other stoppages are expected soon. In
Paisley it has been ascertained, on strict inquiry, that the
unemployed amount to 1,699, and the number of their de-
pendents are roundly estimated as above 3,000. As the
Scotch poor-law provides no relief for able-bodied la-
bourers. the augmentation of this class is exciting much
local anxiety. Fever there, too, is assuming a form more
than ordinarily malignant. The mortality is increasing.
EXTENSIVE FORGERY OF BANK NOTES.—A gentle-
manly-looking man, of the name of Wm. Green, has been
committed for .trial at the Bath assizes, on a charge of
having, in connexion with other persons not in custody,
been concerned in a wholesale forgery of £5 bank notes of
the North Wilts Banking Company, purporting to be
issued from the branch bank at Chippenham. To what
extent the forgery has been carried, it is impossible to say
at present, but nearly £l,OOO worth have been discovered;
and it is suspected that a great number of the notes have
been sent to London, as well as to various towns and vil-
lages round Bath and Bristol.
STOCK EXCHANGE FRAUD.—An inquiry has been com-
menced before the Committee of the London Stock Ex-
change, relating to the receipt of an express from Paris,.
which turns out to have brought fabricated intelligence.
Acting upon the news so received, several of the members
of the house operated, and as their bargains produced-
some fluctuation, they have been called upon to account
for the manner in which they dealt, and to furnish the
particulars of their transactions. As yet no satisfactory
progress has been made in discovering the author of the
fraud, but it is anticipated that the officers commissioned
to follow up the business are on the right scent.
ETHERISATION SUPERSEDED.—Professor Simpson, of
Edinburgh, has, in the trichloride of formyle, discovered
an agent which more rapidly, pleasantly, and without
communicating any offensive odour to the clothes of the
patient, produces entire insensibility: No inhaler or in-
strument of any kind is necessary. A few drops put on
a handkerchief and thus applied to the mouth and nostrils
produces the desired effect in a few seconds. Last week
Professor Simpson brought his discovery before the
Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh.—[Two cases
of parties operated on at the Southern Hospital, whilst
under the influence of this.agent, will be found noticed in
another column.'
A CHANGE.—We are now enabled to state, on the best
authority, the almost incredible fact that no less than
seven thousand new accounts have been opened in the
transfer books of the banks for stock of various kinds,
but Consols chiefly, since the month of July—and this
number, in addition to those inscribed in the books before.
The small capitalists, or, as generally expressed, the
public, have been beforehand therefore with their more
aristocratic leaders of the higher order, and of the Stock
Exchange and banking interests as well. They have been
purchasers when greater people were sellers. They have
been buying in the cheapest market, from 79i to 841,
whilst others who had bought in the dearest, say at 95,
have been selling in the worst market.—Daily News.
The brig Rebecca, Captain Simpson, arrived in Clyde
on Tuesday last, with six of the sufferers of the wreck of
the ship Amity, of Liverpool, taken off by the schooner
Jenny Lind. These poor men were three days and nights
in the mizen chains, without food. The river bailie very
kindly gave admission to two of them into the Royal In-
firmary, their feet being badly frost-bitten, and the men
had to be conveyed in a coach. The other four have been
assisted and forwarded by the Shipwrecked Mariner's
Society to Liverpool. We cannot but feel thankful to the
whole of the Liverpool and Glasgow Steam Packet Com-
panies for their kindness in assisting the good endeavours
of this society, by granting all shipwrecked mariners a free
passage in their steamers.—Glasgow Constitutional.
NOVEL MODE OF CATCHING OWLS.—A curious cir-
cumstance occurred on the Birmingham and Gloucester
Railway on Friday. The mail train had shortly passed
the Spetchley station, travelling at the rate of about forty
miles an hour, when a singular-looking bird alighted on
the steam dome of the engine, and remained there as if
transfixed. Fox, the engine-driver, after recovering from
his astonishment, succeeded in capturing it, when it was
found to be a beautiful yellow owl. It had doubtless been
attracted by the brilliant brass of the dome, and, fasci-
nated by the glare of light and the rapidity of the train,
bad been unable to resume its flight. The guard brought
it with him to Birmingham perfectly uninjured.—Bir-
mingham Journal.

CHARGE OF ARSON AT NOTTINGHAM.—On Monday
last, William Harris Spicer, aged 21, was taken before
the Mayor on the charga of arson. Mr. J. Howell, a
bookseller, stated that the prisoner was insured in the
Manchester office, and he had reason to believe had been
guilty of setting fire so his premises, and prayed a remand
till Friday. The magistrates acceded to the request.
The case excited great interest. Spicer seems to have
been little known in the town ; he was supposed to have
been a single man, but about two months ago he eloped
with a young lady, 17 years of age, from Manchester, and
was married to her ; on obtaining her majority she will
be entitled to a handsome property . Had it not been for
the exertions of the police, the two houses next to that of
the prisoner must have been burnt, the partitions being
very defective.
COPPER COINS.—The coin hawked about the City, and.
called " the model penny," appears to have been mis-
taken by some parties for a genuine coin issued from the
Mint. Such, however, is not the case. It is simply a
speculation of some ingenious parties, who make a profit
from their manufacture by retailing these pennies at two-
pence each. We believe there is no idea of adopting a
coinage consisting of two metals, united like those in the
model penny, where the centre represents a small silver
coin surrounded by a rim of copper. It may appear al-
most unnecessary to notice the circumstance, but for its
being publickly stated that "five-shilling pieces, with gold
centres and silver rims, are about being issued" by the
makers of the model penny; and it may therefore be
useful to let the public know that Government have
nothing whatever to do with the issue.

THE EARL AND THE FARMER.—A farmer called on
Earl Fitzwilliam, and complained that, in his hunting ex-
cursions with his hounds, he had trodden down a field of
wheat so as to do it damage. The earl told him that if he
would procure him an estimate of the loss he would pay it.
The man informed him that he had done so already, and
it was believed the damage would be £5O. The earl paid it.
But, as the spring came on, the wheat which had been
trodden down grew up and became the best in the field.
The farmer honestly returned the £5O. " Ah," said the
earl, " this is what I like. This is as it ought to be be-
tween man and man." After making some inquiries
about his family, the earl went into another room, and re-
turning, gave the man a check for one hundred pounds, ,
saying, Take care of this, and when your eldest son is
of age, present it to him, and tell him the occasion that
produced it."—Leicester Mercury. -
FORGERY OF BANK-NOTES.--A gentlemanly-looking
man, named Wm. Theophilus Greene, who is supposed
to have been passing- forged notes purporting to be the
notes of the North Wilts Banking Company, in the city
of Bath and the neighbourhood, to a very great extent,
has been committed to the prison of Bath on three charges
of passing £5 notes to tradesmen. His plan was to pur-
chase goods at various shops, and tender £5 notes for
Wyment, obtaining the difference in gold or silver.
hen taken to gaol he was searched by Mr. Pike, the
governor, who found on him 15 notes for £5 each, pur-
porting to be of the North Wilts Bank, all of which were
forgeries, and also £24 in gold and £5 in silver. He.will
be tried at the next assizes. Two persons, who are sup-
posed to be his confederates, have been endeavouring to
pass similarly forged notes at Devizes, but have nut yet
been apprehended. •

COMBAT BETWEEN A PARTRIDGE AND A COCK.—A
few days ago, Mr. J. Bailey, farmer, near Brough, heard
the cry of a partridge which appeared to be in dis tress.
He bent his steps towards the spot from whence it pro-
ceeded, when to his astonishment he beheld a barn-door
cock and the partridge in close and bloody combat, the
former having overcome his less powerful antagonist,
whose cries were utterly disregarded by him, for he con-
tinued picking and flapping at it with all the vengeance
imaginable, until Mr. Bailey took the exhausted bird up
into his hands.— Westmoreland Gazette.
THE THREE CONJIMORS.—At the bottom shaft of the
Dolcoath Mine (one of the deepest known), Professors
Airey, Whewell, and Sedgwick were desirous to try some
'experiments where they could swing the pendulum at a
great depth, and also at a considerable elevation, and had
their_apparatus lowered to the bottom of the shaft, and,
after spending a portion of two or three days there, it was
packed up in an iron bucket, or kibble, with shavings,
into which a spark from a miner's candle must have fallen;
for, when midway up the shaft, the shavings took fire, the
rope was burned, the bucket fell to, the bottom, and the
apparatus was destroyed. The miners declared that
nothing could have burned the rope but the devil, and
that the three professors must be magicians. The day
after there was a violent storm, and the miners were over-
heard saying, they were quite sure it WCS owing to those
men that had been underground ; and one said that it
must by the little 'un, (Professor Airey), because he .seed
him standing with his back against the churchyard !
Mining Journal.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—An inquest was held
yesterday week, at Sunderland, on view of the body of
John Davey, sailor, aged 32 years. It appears that the
deceased, on the 7th of August last, whilst his vessel (the
brig Belt) was lying in Bugsby's Hole, in the Thames,
administered some medicine to a dog about seven weeks
old, belonging to his master, and that, whilst giving the
medicine, one of the animal's teeth caught deceased's fin-
ger nail, and scratched it. The finger bled a little, but
beyond washing the wound with brandy, no further notice
was taken of it. It healed the next day, and the dog died
a few hours after the medicine was given. On Tuesday-
morning, the 9th instant, (the vessel being then at Sun-
derland,) deceased was taken ill, and a surgeon attended'
him : on the following morning he exhibited great fear
on water or coffee being presented to him, and such other
symptoms, as left no doubt on the minds of the medical
gentlemen who attended him that he was labouring under
hydrophobia. He lingered in great agony till the Friday
following, when death terminated his sufferings. Verdict,
died from hydrophobia.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SHOPWOMAN.—On Tues-
day, at Marylebone police-office, London, Ann Simons,.
Benjamin Simons, (her father,) and Mr. Hickman, (a mer-
chant having chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where
the female prisoner visited him,) were further examined
on the charge of stealing or receiving goods, worth
from £2OOO to £3OOO, the property of Messrs. Marshall
and Co., silkmercers, Vere-street, Oxford-street. After
some corroborative evidence, the prisoners were remanded
for the completion of the depositions till Wednesday, when
evidence was given by Mr. Hickman's servants that the
girl was in the habit of visiting their master at his cham-
bers in Lincoln's-inn-fields, generally arriving in a cab,
and bringing with her dresses, jewellery, &c., which she
deposited in drawers of which she kept the key, and that
she had frequent opportunities of doing so without his
knowledge. The several depositions taken at former exa-
minations having been read over, the prisoners were com-
mitted for trial.—Mr. Hickman is under bail, himself in
£5OO, and two sureties in £250 each, to appear at the
Sessions.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell, of Blythswood, accompanied by a fine
young boy, a son, about six years of age, and attended by
a coachman and footman, were returning in a carriage
and pair from a visit to Mr. Douglas, of Mains, near
Milngavie, and while crossing a wooden bridge over the
Forth and Clyde canal, at Temple lock, near Garscube,
the horses shyed; and the carriage coming forcibly against
the wooden railing of the bridge, it was broken, and car-
riage, horses, and the whole party precipitated into the
water. In the dreadful circumstances of the moment,
with the high walls of the canal upon each side, Mr.
Campbell, with great presence of mind, sustained Mrs.
Campbell until ropes were thrown to them, and by which
they held on until rescued. With grief we have to state
that their boy was drowned. The difficulty of procuring
assistance may be imagined when we mention that Mr.
Campbell had to support himself and his lady by the rope
until the water was let out of a higher lock to raise them
up to the top of the lock wall where they were immersed.
The horses were drowned, and the carriage broken to
pieces. Mr. and Mrs, Campbell, by some means or other,
managed to get out at the carriage window, or door, but
their son, who was seated beyond them, went down with
the vehicle. The servants; being outside, escaped with
comparative ease. The body of the boy was afterwards
found.—Glasgow Paper: _

A STRANGE SToiY.—A man has been committed to
take his trial at Stafford assizes, under the following cir-
cumstances :—He has for some time past had to contribute
a certain sum towards the support of an illegitimate child.
A few nights ago he met its mother, and promised that if
she would destroy their offspring, ie would immediately
marry her. She promised compliance, went home for the
child, and returned with it to the spot where the villain
awaited her, and then hastened from him in the direction
of a coal-pit, which he indicated as the one where the
fatal act was to be consummated. In-a few minutes she re-
turned to him without the child, and urged him to leave
the country with her, and fulfil his promise of marriage.
But he pleaded an immediate engagement, and promised if
she would await his return a few minutes, he would rejoin
her to fly the country with her, and make her his wife.
half an hour having elapsed, the young woman left the
spot, hastening to the place where she had left her infant
sleeping in safety, having only seemed to fall in with the
views of the miscreant in order to obtain the fulfilment of
his promise. She then hastened home, and, as she was
making preparations for bed, was alarmed by a loud rap-
ping at the door, and the appearance of two police-officers
in company with her soi-disant lover, who charged the
young woman with the murder of her child. The child,
however, was produced safe and sound, and the miscreant,
who saw that his infernal plans had been foiled, was him.
self detained in custody.

MR. O'CONNOR AND HIS LAND SCHEME.—We have
it then, at length, admitted by Mr. O'Connor, though not
until he has been fairly badgered out of the fact, that a
large portion of the deficiency, amounting in eight
months to no less a sum than three thousand and thirty-
five pounds, which exists between the amount acknowledged
in the Northern Star as received from the local secreta-
ries, and that actually carried to their account with the
treasurer, by the general secretary—is, in truth, spent in
patronage and salaries, instead of being employed by him
in the purchase of land. When writing on this subject,
in an article in our journal of the 29th of December,
1846, the Star acknowledged to have received on account
of the Land Company £176 6s. 5d., the general secre-
tary passed to the debit of the treasurer no more than
£BO 13s. 10d. What became of the remaining £9B 12s 7d ?
Now here is Mr. O'Connor's answer, in his own words,
copied from the Star of the 6th instant :—" Why, Tom-
kins, though fool, it went to pay the expenses of fifty
delegates from all parts of England, Scotland, and Wales,
that assembled at Birmingham. Oh 1 Tomkins thought
they came here for nothing ! Why, d—n thee, thou
fool, baint they all working men, and where dos't think
they get money to run about the country ?" There then
is the registered fact, under Mr. O'Connor's own hand,
that within a fraction of £lOO, the contribution of
forty-two-acre shareholders, was spent at once in pay-
ment of the charges of a journey of pleasure for fifty of
his retainers to Birmingham; a reward for past services,
and a retaining fee for future ones.—Nottingham Mer-
cury.

CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEAL.—Another case, illustra-
tive of the want of a Criminal Court of Appeal in this
country, has just been made public. An attorney's clerk
in Stafford, named Thomas Whalley, was, at the last
spring assizes, tried on a charge of rape upon a married
woman, named Rotchell. He was found guilty by the
jury, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation by the
judge. The known bad character of the prosecutrix, the
improbability of her story, and the fact of three witnesses
distinctly swearing that at the very time the offence was
alleged to have been committed, the prisoner was in his
own house, surrounded by his own family, caused the ver-
dict of the jury and the sentence of the judge to be re-
garded with almost universal dissatisfaction. The prose-
cutrix admitted, on cross-examination, that she had, a
year or two previously, been convicted of robbing her
master, and had suffered six months' imprisonment for
that offence. She also admitted that—though the place
in which she alleged the offence to have been committed
was close to the road side, and near to several houses—
she raised no outcry for assistance. Farther, she admit-
ted that immediately after the alleged rape she went to
the prisoner's house, where she saw him, and discharged
a debt for which on that morning he had threatened to
seize her goods. She then went on to sap, that "on
leaving the prisoner's house she said to him, Mr. Whal-
ley, my husband has paid you a good deal of money, and
now you shall pay him a good deal more.' Having made
this threat, she left, and on the next morning went with
her husband before a magistrate, and made the charge."
The husband has since been convicted of felony, and is
now in prison. The evidence of the prosecutrix was not
confirmed in any material point by any witness.
ST. BERS.—On the night of Saturday last, an attempt
was made to destroy the beautiful inn, lately erected near
to the Po-bridge, in the above village, which, as yet, is
unoccupied. The miscreant, in order to effect his diabo-
lical purpose, collected from the various apartments of
the house as well as the yard adjoining, a heap of chips
and wood, which he piled together in one of the lower
rooms, and set them on fire. Fortunately, however, no
injury was done, except to the mantelpiece, and the floor-.
ing of the room above : this is owing, no doubt, to the
want of vent being given to the air, by the door being
closed, in order, doubtless, to avoid detection, as well as
more effectually to accomplish the fiend-like task. On
Sunday night the proprietor, Mr. T. Tyson, of this town,
obtained the services of the village constable, who, with
one or two others took his turn to watch the premises.
About ten minutes before the time arrived for resigning
his post to the next watcher, the villain hurled several
large stones at his (the constable's) windows, and demo-
lished three or four panes, besides endangering the life of
his mother, an elderly woman, and a youth, who narrowly
escaped being struck by a stone, which might have laid
him lifeless on the floor. The frequent assaults, and acts
of daring robbery, that are constantly perpetrated in this
village, are most appalling. It is only a few weeks ago
that a violent assault was made on an old woman ; and a
young man had his pocket picked by a ruffian, in the
open street, who coolly pinioned his arms and extracted
his purse, containing a large sum of money. A bill,offering
a reward for the apprehension of the offender, was placed
in the window of the post-office, which, we are informed,
was quickly removed by some one, soon after it was put
up, by smashing in a pane of glass, in order the more
readily to obtain it. If this state of things be allowed to
continue, respectable persons will soon be afraid to reoido
I in the village,--Whitekoren Herald,

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—On Thursday week,
Campbeltown was visited by a strong gale from the south-
east ; and about ten o'clock at night, while exceedingly
dark, Messrs. Malcolm M`Millan, master of the schooner
Widnes, of Liverpool, and Lachlan M'lsaac, late sheriff-
clerk deputy of this district, both natives of Campbeltown,
when proceeding to the vessel commarded by the former,
which was at the time lying alongside the pier, were un-
fortunately drowned. It has not been distinctly aster'
tained how the accident occurred, but on the following
morning, the body of Captain M`Millan was found on the
opposite beach, fully a quarter of a mile distant, and later
in the day that of Mr. M'lsaac, close to the quay ; final
which it is inferred that Capt. M`Millan, who was
powerful swimmer, had endeavoured to 'save his cony
panion, and being unsuccessful, was thereafter deceived
by the lights on the opposite shore, which it appears he
attempted to reach, but was too much exhausted. They
were both unmarried.—Edinburgh Paper.
BALA.—AWFUL VISITATION.—In a case which cam°
before the Judge of the County Court, held at this place,
on Friday, the 12th instant, the wife of the plaintiff in the
cause was a material, if not the only witness, but her evi'
dente and manner of givingit having excited considerable
doubt, the attorney for the defendant (Mr. Gilbertson) in
discharge of his duty for his client, cross-examined the
witness at some length, and finding that she could not ex-
plain satisfactorily the circumstances to which she had
sworn, she clenched her evidence by saying with consider-
able warmth, " that she wished she might not leave the
court alive if what she had stated was not correct." In
few minutes she was taken between two neighbours to the
house of her daughter residing in the town,. and early on
the following morning she expired in great agony. Tho
event has instilled awe in the most thoughtless of the
spectators ; and it is hoped that the circumstance rag
prevent the growth of perjury which in many instance
had become most glaring, and proved the inaptness of the
law to our Welsh mountaineers, which allows parties to
give evidence in their own cases.

NORTH OF ENGLAND .1;371,4"T STOCK BANK...—The
directors of this bank have issued an address to the share-
holders, from which we learn that the first call produced
£37,434 15s. 9d., and the second, £28,115 13s. lld,r
together, £75,550 9s. Bd. A considerable portion of tr.
second call consisted of transfers of loans previously me,
by the shareholders, so that the benefit derived from'
was very limited. Between now and Christmas, engage'
ments will have to be met to the amount of £15,000;
about £12,000 of which are to be yet raised, by loans or
otherwise. Another call is not deemed advisable in the
existing circumstances of the district. "It therefore
rests with the shareholders," the directors observe is'
conclusion, "whether they will aid the directors in their
laborious and most onerous duties, and carry out engage-
ments of vast magnitude and importance both to the
welfare of the proprietary and the public, by coming for-
ward at once with aid to the extent named, or allow the
affairs of the concern to pass into bankruptcy—a course
that cannot be thought of without a fearful dread of its
most ruinous consequences to every party connected with
the bank." The district committees met the directors
on Friday last, when resolutions were unanimously
adopted, expressing the desirableness of allowing the
affairs of the establishment to be wound up under the
management of the directors, and calling upon the share-
holders to assist in carrying out this object, by making
advances to the bank upon loan notes. The parties
present pledged themselves to pursue the course recom-
mended to the sharehalders generally.
DARING BURGLARY NEAR ASHBOURNE.—Onthe night
of Saturday last, a most daring burglary was effected on
the premises. of Mr. Brough, a respectable farmer, re-
siding at Alsop-in-the-Dale, about six. miles from Ash'
bourne. It appears that on the night in question, the
mother of Mr. Brough, who resides at Langley, and who
was on a visit to her son, slept in a bed in one of the
front rooms; and her daughter, who keeps house for Mr-
Brough, slept along with her, although it was not usual
for her. About one or two o'clock, Miss Brough was
awoke by a strange noise, as of some person closing the
bedroom door, which had not been fastened. She awoke
her mother, and exclaimed,—" Mother,there's some per-
son in the room !" She had then sufficient courage to
get out of bed and go to a particular place in the room,
where property to a very considerable amount was depo-
sited. Having satisfied herself that this was perfectly se'
cure, she returned to bed, and heard little or nothing fur-
ther. Upon the Sunday morning, when the servant got
up and had gone into the stack-yard, he found the pock'
eta of Mrs. Brough lying there. He returned to the
house and called his master, who, on examining the
pockets, found that a purse, containing half-a-sovereign
and nine shillings in silver, had been extracted ; bur the
empty purse was found at some little distance. The
thieves had left behind in the pockets two handkerchiefs,
a pocket book with memorandums, and a pair of valuable
spectacles. The burglars gained an entrance into the
house by placing a ladder, which they had taken from the
stack, against the staircase window, over the front cloh ro'
At present; no clue has been found to the discovery of , *
guilty party.—Derby Advertiser.
(1 ,nbrie,
....
DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK. —The barque a
Captain Lash, of Gloucester, from Quebec, has been
wrecked. On the 24th October she was struck by a trf"
mendous sea, which laid the vessel on her side.-
Captain
Lash hesitated for a moment whether to out away the
mainmast, being anxious to see if the vessel would right
-
herself without mutilation, but finding this to be hopeless,
he gave the order to cut away ; but, before this could be
done, a frightful wave was seen rolling towards thempand
he called out to the crew to make themselves fast. The
wave came on, broke over the disabled vessel, and when it
passed by, it was found that the captain, two seamen,
named Giles Frape, of Frampton, and Robert Collins, of
Pill, and an apprentice named Charles Lane, of Birming-
ham, had all been washed away, and were never more
seen. Another apprentice, Thomas Berwick, had a nar-
row and almost miraculous escape from sharing the butt
fate. He was in the cabin when it filled with water' d
springing through the window into the open sea, he saved
himself by swimming, and succeeded at length in regaining
the vessel. The wretched survivors—fourteen in number
—succeeded in cutting away the mast, and the vessel.
righted. Here they remained on a water-logged wreelctlili
the middle of the ocean, latitude 49 N, long. 29, expose;
still to a high wind and heavy squall, for four days nun
nights, until midnight of the 28th October, when, (abseil"
ing a sail in the distance, they held up firebrands as a air'
nal of distress, and this attracted the attention of the
strange vessel, which proved to be the William and Marl'
Captain Allen, who very humanely took the crew front
the wreck, treated them with great kindness, and brought
them with him to Colchester, whence on Thursday
_,_his''
they arrived in Gloucester, with the exception of .1111'
Bayley, the mate, who has been placed in Colchester lies'
pital where we are happy to hear he is doing well.
DITDDON SANDS.-We are sorry to have to place tie/
record another of those melancholy events—the loss 0
life upon Duddon Sands—which are of such frequent ee:
currence upon that dangerous estuary. It appears OP
Mr. W. Postlethwaite, manager of the Winna-end Slate
Quarry, in Kirby, left home with a view of going to Mil'
lom on business, and as the crossing of the sands wet
an almost deily occurrence with him, he preferred the
course to going round, though the flow of fresh water
upon the sands, from the late heavy rains, was unusualli
great. On the same morning a carrier from Millom at-
tempted to cross, but he soon discovered that the sands
were•flooded to such a depth as to completely cut off all
hopes of his getting to the opposite side, and he there'
fore turned back before it was too late. Mr. Postleth-
waite, however, was less fortunate. It appears that- Mr.
Postlethwaite was seen upon the sands by two fishermen
named Bell, but they were at two great a distance to
render any assistance, but had it been otherwise it is
more than probably that their exertions would have been
unavailing, owing to the depth and impetuosity with
which the fresh water was rushing down to the sea. Fri
'''
the sudden disappearance of Mr. Postlethwaite and
horse, there seems to be no doubt but both were precil**,
tated down one of those dangerous breaks, at a depth ec;
not less than 20 feet, caused by the flooded state of t'l4
river. The horse presently rose, feet uppermost, an
made its way to the side of the sands on which it he::
entered, and was at Backside again, Mr. Postlethwaite '
residence, within an hour after it had left, with the saddle
under its belly. This circumstance gave rise to feel
apprehensions, and, after the tide had receded, search
was made, but in vain, until Wednesday, when the corpse
of the unfortunate gentleman was discovered on the Cum"
berland side of the sands, near Hot Barrow. The
.un-
fortunate deceased was in the full vigour of life,-32 yea'
1 of age,—and connected with a family of the highest re,",
spectability, long resident in Kirby Ireleth.—Cumberlaiw
Pacquet.
SIMPSON'S PATENT SUBMERGED PROPELLER.--°1;
Monday an experimental steam trip of a highly interesting
character was made in a small steam boat named the
Albion, of 20-horse power, to test the working of a nevi
method of propelling steam boats, the invention of Nl'
Simpson. The new propellers consist of wheels acting
horizontally or vertically, in a case entirely underneath
Alert
surrounded water. Those used in the Albion are construct_
with four plain leaves or floats, fixed on a vertical
surrounded by the case. This case is a concentric circle,
rendered eccentric by its position with relation to 0,
wheel, which it exceeds in size sufficiently to give effeeb
to the centrifugal action of the water. The three problems'
of the most effective method of supply, the delivery, and
above all the best direction of the course of the water'
appear to have been solved with great ingenuity by Of
patentee. The principle of the invention may, indeed'
more briefly be stated to consist in the ejectment of :
column of water in a parallel line with that of the vessel';
motion, which column acts against the water outside the
vessel. The patentee's theory is, that as the wings of 5
bird act upon the air, which is beaten back as the bir
flies onward, so these two submerged columns 'act
powerful water wings, beating back the denser mass 0
water with invisible but irresistible force. Nothing
assuredly can be more beautiful than the noiseless an.,
mysterious motion of Mr. Simpson's boat. There is 9::
entire absence of all surface swell, and the vessel steal
rapidly through the water as if propelled by some magie''',l
and invisible agency. The Earl of Dundonald was please'
to express a high opinion of the value of the inventiolci
more particularly in propelling boats upon canals 04
narrow rivers, and his Lordship further. expressed a wt'„
to see the new submerged propeller adapted to his oW',,
new tubular engines and boilers. We ought to mentinii
that, by a beautiful contrivance, the case is construerf,
to change its position on the wheel being reversed, whet
it assumes the same form as for going a-head, and tr,
wheel and case perform the same office as before with VP
greatest precision. The diameter of the submerged P
peller wheels of the Albion is only 24 inches, and In
wheels necessary to be' used in a boat of 300 or 400_ f_tiwii
burthen would not exceed *inches in diameter. *MG,
one of the most extraordinary features of the insentl"„iiti
the diameter of paddlewheels employed in the steam-hhe
of similar tonnage being now nearly as many feet. ".ti
invention is one that cannot fail to attract the attentto
of the scientific world, and the general opinion was ttlie
the uninterrupted course of experiments conducted by _4
patentee with indefatigable perseverance had at lenl4l
perfected his invention and left nothing to be desired
ensure its ancetss,

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