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

ESSENTIAL SALT OF LEMONS

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

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

CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER
A teaspoonful may be taken for a dose three times a day
in any liquid. _

Physicians' and Surgeons' Prescriptions carefully prepared.
Medicine Chests fitted up for sea. Genuine Drugs and
Chemicals.

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

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

CONVICTS IN VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—A letter has been
just received from John Jones, who was tried and sentenced
to be hanged for the attempt to fire Birmingham during the
chartist riots of 1839, but whose sentence was afterwards
commuted to transportation for life. After stating other
sufferings, he says, " What little meat we do have is what is
brought from other colonies, and of the animals that have
died on the passage. The next is our water, which is not fit
for a beast to drink; and then there are our overseers who
are over us, they will not even allow us to stand upright,
nor to turn our heads during the time we are at work, which
is from six o'clock in the morning till half-past five in the
evening. We have our break fast before we go out in the
morning to work, which is a drop of wheat water and a pound
and a half of brown bread, that serves us the whole day ;
and if it rains all day, we must endure it till it is time to
leave off work, and then we come to our barracks, and when
we are mustered together, we are marched off to bed, which
is a bed of straw, with one blanket and one rug to cover us.
Our shoes, which are supposed to last us four months, will
not, with the greatest care, last us more than two months ;
then we all go barefoot the remainder of the time. Then
there are the clothes that we wear, which have to last us six
months, they are all off our backs in a deal less time ; and
every morning when we rise from our beds we are in danger
of getting into trouble, as, if it is but the look, it will get us
into trouble and expose us to the severest punishment, as
that is all they look for on purpose to keep us as long as they
can on government's hands, and in tke greatest of misery."
The convict then proceeds to deny his guilt, and calls on his
friends to intercede for a mitigation of his sentence.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-011 Wednesday
week a most extraordinary circumstance occurred between
Workington and Maryport, by which the turnpike-road, for
a considerable distance, was literally strewed with gold ! On
the morning of the day above-mentioned a servant man be-
longing to Mr. Walker, of Maryport, was sent to the White-
haven bank to draw the purchase money to
which his master had bought, amounting to 419,500, it ap-
pay for an estate
pears, however, that the sum of £2,000 bad been paid
through the bank, and consequently, the man received the
sum of £BOO, the whole of which was in sovereigns, care-
fully packed up in brown paper. This amount, in sove-
reigns, being deposited in the saddle bags, the man in-
stantly mounted his horse, and set off on his return home
to Maryport, and was seen on the road proceeding at a
rattling pace. The man, however, had no sooner reached
his master's, and had dismounted, than he discovered that
many of the sovereigns were loose in the bags, which had
burst, and no less than 238 of them were missing.
messenger immediately began to retrace his journey back thet)-
wards Workington, in search of the lost gold, and art
less
bridge-end, on coming out of Maryport, he found no
than 17 of the sovereigns, lying nearly ""
toge`rhteL
The
Pro-
ceeding onwards, he picked up several more
road.nea A man
same
place, and a number of odd ones
named James Graham found
d 21 ;these 'were
sovereigns and
GeillWealker's servant pro.
another loan named Richard
gathered:near Flimby. As
Ma
'rants who had been seen
ceeded, he heard of a gang y
46 ofotnhueisiethe
ke These vagrants, consisting
on various parts of the turnpike.
men, two women, and two
pushing each other, and scramblingog for the golden treasure
of an elderly man, two yarge
quantities of the money, and
children, had picked up _
s'l
were traced
and on them were found the
sum of
dt heand no less than five watches ! Th •
argued stoutly
honey was their own ; but they were,
takenand that they had picked
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up. There is still
ing. The man who had charge of the money is very deaf.
We are not aware of the precise amount of sovereigns miss-
ing ; but through the activity of the police-officers, and the
honesty of other individuals, Mr. Walker's loss is much less
than could have been calculated on under such extraordinary
eircumstances.—Carli4le Journal.