The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

Mr. O'Connor has again become the purchaser of the
estate at Worcester for £1,5,050, and paid a further deposit
of £l5O. It is therefore presumed that he intendtto c2.p3-
pieta the purchase, and to locate a Chartist settlement on
that land.

BRISTOL.—During the eight months ending the 30th
ult., as compared with the corresponding period of last
year, the increase in the number of ships arrived at the
port of Bristol was 157, being 412 against 255. The in-
crease in the tonnage was 24,267 tons.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Wednesday the auction
rooms of Messrs. Rushworth and Jarvis, Saville-row, Old
Burlington-street, were burglariously entered, and a large
quantity of silver plate, valued at upwards of £5OO, car-
ried off.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—In the garden at Llandaff
Court were lately grown two remarkably fine cucumbers,
which were closely attached to each other from end to
end. They were exactly of the same size, and distin-
guished by precisely the same peculiarities of structure.
The lake districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland
almost literally swarm with tourists, scores of whom have
climbed to the summit of Skiddaw, and the " mighty
Helvellyn." The principal inns at Ambleside, Keswick,
and other places, are full of company.
Several genial showers have fallen since our last and
have so refreshed vegetation that the country every where
looks luxuriant. A good deal of grass has been cut, and
hay in some forward places gathered in. Potatoes 2ook
well, and the general harvest promises to be abundant.—
Newcastle Journal.

Lord Palmerston had the gratification, on Thursday, of
appearing at the Old Bailey. to give an account of his
diplomatic dealings with the Sicilian Government. His
lordship found the witness-box a less easy position than
his usual place at Westminster.
PURE CHARITY.—A short time since a gentleman
called at Messrs. Hallett's, the bankers, London, and
left £5O in aid of the funds of the Western Dispensary,
simply leaving the title of an " Unknown Governor." A
similar instance of unostentatious charity occurred in the
spring of 1847, and was doubtless the act of the same
benevolent person.
The roof of Hutton Bouvillo Church, near Northaller-
ton, which had been in a precarious state for some time,
fell down on Wednesday, with a tremendous-crash, break-
ing the pews to atoms. A man and a boy were injured.
A number of men engaged in making a new roof had
been in the church a few minutes before. The church
was built about the middle of the fourteenth century.
During the excavation of the South Docks, at Sunder-
land, a spring of water, strongly impregnated with sulphur
and saline substances, has been discovered. It gushes
out of the rock at the bottom of the dock, in three strong
feeders, near the south-east corner, and may be distin-
guished from a number of small salt springs in its neigh-
bourhood, by a dark-coloured deposit which it leaves.

THE CHOLERA IN SOUTH WALES AND THE WEST.—..
This scourge still exists in South Wales. Last week, the
authorities of the little town of Hay called a public'
meeting, with the purpose of taking all practical precau-
tions to prevent the threatened visitation to their com-
munity. Amongst other preventives, it was resolved to put
in operation all the powers conferred by the Sanatory Act.
THE IRON TRADE.—In the neighbourhood of Dudley,
notice was generally given on Saturday last for a reduc-
tion on the thick coal colliers of 6d. per day, and on the
thin mine 3d. per day, which will bring their wages to 3s.
and 2s. 3d. per day. Many furnaces in the district are
blown out, and others are being blown out. Pigs have
been sold for £2 12s, 6d. The price of the best hot-air
pigs is about £3.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—a fatal accident occurred
on Sunday, at Lydney, Gloucestershire. Nine young
men having taken a small boat, for the purpose of an ex-
cursion on the Severn, they had not proceeded far when
the boat upset, the wind being very high, and precipi-
tated the whole of them into the water, only one of whom
escaped a watery grave. We have not heard of more
than two of the bodies being recovered.
The deaths from the cholera in the metropolis during
the past week have been rather numerous, but in almost
every instance the cases have resulted from the abodes of
the victims having been in unwholesome localities. Christ-
church parish, Blackfriar's-road, and the Penitentiary at
Millbank. have exhibited special evidence of the cholera
having been generated from the notorious unhealthiness
of those parts of the town.
MELANCHOLY EFFECT OF PASSION.—The Birming-
ham Journal mentions that, on Saturday week, at Lye
Waste, a man named Brettell struck his son•- across the
throat with a redhot iron, and inflicted so deep a wound
that it was thought the youth would have died from loss
of blood;, but a surgeon who was summoned succeeded
in stopping the bleeding, and it is to "oe hoped that the
sufferer will recover. _ _

DEATH FROM FIRE ARMS.—A few days since Mr.
Wm. Watt, a yonng gentleman who had just completed
his education in England, and whose father is possessed of
a large property in the West Indies, where he resides, Lad
been out at Farndon, near Chester, with a loaded double-
barrelled gun, and on attempting to get into a cart on the
highway, he slipped backwards and the barrels went off,
one of them lodgine its contents in his thigh. Mortifi—
cation ensued, and Mr. Watt died on Monday.
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday last, William Mor-
gan, aged 23, took arsenic, at Ystradowen, and died in
thirty-six hours from its effects. Medical assistance was
unavailing. The cause of this shocking act was his attach-
ment to a young woman, who would not accept of his
love. He took the fatal draught to the door of her resi-
dence, where he swallowed it. He attempted some time
ago to hang himself in her presence, but was cut down
just in time to save his, life.—Cambrian.
SUDDEN DEATH:—OG Monday Mr. Thomas Umbers,
an extensive agriculturist at Wappenbury, in Warwick-
shire, expired from Cholera. The deceased had been to
London on Tuesday week to attend the meeting of the
Protectionists in Drury lane Theatre, and on his return
on the following day complained of slight indisposition.
He followed his usual occupations about his farm, how-
ever, without further notice being taken of the matter ;
and on Sunday week he was seized with violent illness.
SINGULAR DEATHS.—A man named Marriner, belong-
ing to Chatham dock-yard, while employed repairing a
leather strap, pricked the forefinger of his left hand with
an awl, which in three or four days caused mortification
of the arm, and killed the, man. Two or three days pre-
vious to Marriner pricking his finger, his daughter pricked
her finger with a neee le, and while in attendance on her
father, the finger caught- the infection from him, which
also turned to mortification, and she died the very day her
father was buried.
" PENNY BANK."—A% society under this designation
has been recently adopted in Greenock, where, in a popu-
lation of 40,000, from 5000 depositors £llO6 17s. 4d. was
collected in 191 days. The object of these institutions is
to afford an opportunity for the weekly and daily deposit
of the smaller sums of money, payable at the end of every
year. The " penny" bank is open every evening, for the
reception of sums from M. to is., and the cash is daily
deposited in the Savings' Bank, in the names of five
responsible persons.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—Two boys, Vaughan and
Haines, had been to Alphington fair on Wendesday, and
returned to Exeter early next morning in company with a
girl. They went into a house in one of the back streets,
and took a bottle from a shelf which they supposed con-
tained wine or spirits, but which was filled with a poi-
sonous mixture far gout. Each of them drank from the
bottle, and Haines died from the effects of it the following
morning, Vaughan is not expected to recover; but the
girl sustained no injury.—Devon Luminary.
DISTRESS IN HULL.—A, meeting convened by the
mayor was held in Hull, last week, to adopt means to
relieve the great distress existing in the town, in conse-
quence of the Danish blockade. In one part of the town
only, 2,195 workmen were out of employment, and on,
these were dependent 8,780 wives and children. One of
the speakers said that he believed there were as many as
6,000 men in the town without permanent employment,.
and that during forty years he had not known trade so
bad. The mayor headed a subscription list with £5O.
SUSPECTED MURDER,—Considerable interest has been
created this week in the Isle of Man, by an inquest held
at Castletown, Isle of Man, upon the body of Elizabeth
Ferguson. The jury found that she died from violence,
" and from the previous ill-treatment the deceased had
received from her husband, we suspect him to be the cause
of her death." A young woman, named Catherine Sayle,
who was a witness at the inquest, has been committed to
Castle Rushen, on a charge of perjury. It is alleged that
the husband of the deceased had formed an improper
intimacy with her.
BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—During the last
few days several men, under the direction of the, Trinity
Board, have been employed on the Goodwin, about mid-
sand. It appears the object is to force, by means of
atmospheric pressure, several lengths of cylindrical iron
tubes into the sand until some solid material is arrived at ;
each length of tube is about 10 feet long and 2* in diame-
ter ; but although six lengths securely fastened have been
made to penetrate a depth of about 60 feet beneath the
surface, no foundation has yet been reached. It is in con-
templation, as soon as a substratum sufficiently firm is
found, to place several tubes of similar dimensions at
approximate distances, and to erect a beacon thereupon.
REMONSTRANCE COOLLY REMONSTRATED.—A gentle-
man residing not many miles from Exeter, finding that
the diminution of his wood pile continued after his fires
were out, he lay awake one night in order to obtain, if
possible, some clue to the mystery. At an hour when all
" honest folks should have been in bed," hearing an ope-
rator at work in the yard, he cautiously raised his chamber
window, and saw a lazy neighbour endeavouring to get a
large log into his wheelbarrow. " You're a pretty fellow,"
said the owner, " to come here and steal my wood while
lam asleep." " Yes," replied the thief, " and I suppose
you would stay up there and see me break my back with.
lifting before you'd offer to come down and help me !"
INTERESTING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.—Some
doubt having been entertained, whether the maize plant,
which grows almost spontaneously in tropical climates,
could be successfully cultivated in this country, an expe-
riment upon a small scale has been made within the orna-
mental enclosure in St. James's-park. The seed was put
in on the 24th of May last, and,' though for some time
retarded by easterly winds, the young shoots came up
well. Host/ever, when the plants, began to feel the cheer-
ing influences of light and air and a hotter sun, the suc-
cess of the experiment was abundantly testified by the
vigorous aspect of the little crop. It was inspected on
Saturday, by several gentlemen interested in agriculture,
all of whom expressed their astonishment at the rapid
progress made within 45 days, the greater number of the
plants having grown one inch every day since the present
sultry weather set in. The spot selected was not favour-
able to the experiment, being close to a nursery of young
trees and flowering shrubs, which, in a great degree,
tended to deprive the plants of the benefits of light, sun,
and air. It is calculated that 30 acres of maize would be
worth £4OO, if the soil be of an average quality and pro-
perly drained. The cultivation of maize has been deemed
of so much importance by the Council of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of England, that two very able papers
have already been published in the society's journal,
explanatory of the properties of this plant, and pointing
1 out the best system of culture,

SINGITSAR STORY OF A bba.—A shnit time ago,
One collie-dog was sent by a shepherd, near Jeantown, to
a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Inverness. One
night last week, the dog was safely seen at his kennel at
ten o'clock. and the next forenoon he was shot close by
his old master's house, near Jeantown, on the West
Coast, by a person who most unluckily thought the dog
was mad, perhaps from its travel-stained aspect. The
poor dog had thus travelled during the night and morning,
over hills, dales, and rivers, a distance of fully sixty miles,
in its eager anxiety to be once again at his old master's
hearth.

AN UNWELCOME STRANGER. —During the present
season of incubation, a cuckoo deposited its egg in the
nest of a water-wagtail, in a tree adjoining Walton Abbey.
When the egg was hatched, the young cuckoo soon out-
grew the more tiny occupants of the nest-, whom it soon
ejected. It was not long before the young cuckoo grew
too big for the nest, and had to find shelter in the boughs
of a tree. The old wagtails are found constantly em-
ployed in providing meat for their monster adopted off-
spring, and will have to continue so until it is able to join
the parent birds, and take its flight to some warmer
region.
ALLEGED EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOLD DUST.—
A very long inquiry took place at the Lambeth Police-
office, on Friday, in reference to a charge preferred by a
German, named William Degenhardt, who is suspected of
having stolen gold dust and other property to the amount
of £2,500, belonging to the Marmato Mining Company,
in New Grenada, and other places, with which concern
the defendant had been connected in a confidential capa-
city, for some years, at a very liberal salary. The principal
witness was Mr. Poules, of Bank-buildings, one of the
proprietors of the said company, whose suspicions had
been raised against the defendant's honesty, after he had
quitted his situation, from having discovered that he had
paid duty at the custom-house in Carthagena, upon a
large quantity of gold dust, of which it was alleged he
could not have become honestly possessed. The police-
officer who visited the defendant's lodgings in West.
square, found and took possession of property in English
bank-notes and gold, and in gold dust, &c.,, to the value
of more than £lOOO. The result of the inquiry was the
holding the defendant to bail, in his own recognizance, to
be in attendance' on a future day.
A " BUSTLE."--We have often heard of ladies bustles
being made of curious materials, but seldom of sitch ex-
traordinary stuff as the following incident discloses :—On
Saturday, a female was preparing to leave for Liverpool
by the steamer Tynwald, and at the same time was de-
sirous of conveying along with her a portion of the
"elixir of life," hoping to exult on reaching her destine-
tion at the adroit manner in which she had done " the
otherwise too vigilant officers. Being up to a " thing or
two," a bladder or some such skin was procured to con--
tain the " fire water," as the Hotentots term it, which
she intended to smuggle. The " apparatus " being pre-
pared and all ready, the operation of affixing it to its
proper site was the next undertaking, and her ladyship
submitted to the performance with the greatest "sang
froid ; but ere the rearing of the tender thought " was
completed an unlucky pin, intended to fasten the spirited
article to the lady's under-clothes, strayed from its pre-
scribed limits and entered the distillery a /a Jack Shep-
pard, when lo ! mirabile dietu I " oh, horrible, horrible,
most horrible !" Madame more resembled a gardener's
watering can, or street besprinkling cart, than the help-
mate of man ; and continued spouting brandy until all
was expended.—Manx Liberal.
A MYSTERY SUPPOSED TO BE EXPLAINED.—Forty
years ago,• a boy disappeared from the farm-house of
Northrigg, parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire,- then occupied
by a man named Alston ; and his whereabout has remained
a mystery ever since. Suspicion, at the time, fell upon
Alston, the boy's master, which led to an investigation
by the proper authorities, but nothing to ciminate him
was elicited. Time rolled on, and the affair was almost
forgotten, but' received new light last week by, the dis-
covery of a human skeleton on the neighbouring farm of
Stanhill. Some workmen, while cutting a drain in a
moss on the above farm, came upon some bones;, at the
depth of three feet, wrapped in a chequered blanket. Dr.
Grossart, of Whitburn, visited the spot, and is of opinion
that the skeleton is that of a person not come to maturity.
The blanket that' enveloped the bones is just as fresh as
the day it was laid in the moss. The bones are dark
coloured, inclining to brown, and, from their lighthess
and elasticity, must' have lost their earthy salts. Large
pieces of adipocere were found adhering to several of the
large bones. Although there is no direct evidence, this
is probably the remains of the lost boy.—Correspondent:
of Glasgow Citizen.
GterrA PERCHA Tutritra,—A series of interesting ex,-
periments has just been concluded at the Birmingham
Water-works, relative to the strength of gutta percha
tubing, with a view'to its applicability for the conveyance-
of water. The experiments were made, under the direc-'
tion of Mr. H. Rofe, engineer, upon tubes of three-
quarters of an inch diameter, and one-eighth thick of
gutta percha. These were-attached to the iron main, and
subjected for two months to -a pressure of 200 feet head
of water without being in the slightest degree deterio-
rated, In order to ascertain, if possible, the maximum
strength of the tubes, they were connected with the water
company's hydraulic proofing pump, the regular load of
which is 2501b5. in the square inch. At this point they
were unaffected, and the pump was worked up to 3371b5.,
but to the astonishment of evtry. one the tubes still re-
mained perfect. It was then proposed to work the pump
up to 300, but it was found that the lever of the valve
would bear no more weight. The utmost power of the
hydraulic pump could not burst the tubes. The gutta
percha being slightly elastic- allowed the tubes to become
a little expanded by the extraordinary pressure which was
applied, but on its withdrawal they resumed their former
size.

TRICKS CF A MONKEY.—On Saturday night last, when
police-constable Jeffrey returned to his. dwelling in the
Gallowgate, Glasgow, he found his children in a state of
excessive alarm from the pranks of what they considered
a vicious little old man, who had stealthily entered the
house, and taken possession • of, the cupboard, in which
he was smashing all the crockery. The policeman
approached cautiously, with his stick in his hand, to de-
mand from the wicked old fellow the reason why he
despoiled his goods and gear, but at this• moment a cup
and saucer flew past his head. Making a vigorous charge,
however, he dislodged the intruder, which was no other
than a sportive monkey, and was only captured after in-
finite trouble, by being chased into a closet.. The officer
having secured the monkey, carried him to the police-
office, where he preferred a charge against him of reckless
and malicious conduct, and: claimed damages ; but while
he was making the charge, the mischievous brute sprung
from the table and rang the bell which alarms the fire-
man. In fact, it is long since any prisoner has created
so- much stir in the police buildings. He still remains in
custody, but whether or no he will be brought before the
magistrate, we have not heard. No owner has 3et turned
up ; but the policeman insists that the monkey's person
he detained till he is paid for his broken crockery.—
Glasgow Herald.
INCREASE OF PAUPERISM.—The report of the English
Poor Law Commissioners very plainly shows the state and
condition of this country at this time, and in the year
1846. Within that time the increase of the able-bodied
paupers generally, taking all classes, was-not less than 41
per cent. The report of the commissioners shows within
that time an increase in the expenses of the poor amount-
ing to not less than 25 per cent., and the report further
shows that the number of able-bodied poor relieved in the
quarter ending Lady-day, 1846, was 382;487, while the
number of able-bodied poor relieved in the quarter ending
Lady-day, 1848, was 686,338, while the number of poor
of all classes relieved in the quarter ending Lady-day,
1846, was 1,332,080, and that in the quarter ending Lady-
day, 1848, was 1,878.,531. From the same authentic
statements it appears, that the expenditure for the relief
of the poor for the year ending Lady-day, 1846, was
£4,954,204, and that.for the year ending Lady-day, 1848,
appears to be £6,110a64. I venture to think that, with
such facts as these before me, I was excusable—nay, fully
justified—in bringing such a motion as thin before the
house. When we find that within the short period of
three years the increase of the able bodied poor has arisen
to the height of 74mer cent., I say That the state of the
country does demand an inquiry by this house of Parlia-
ment.—Mr. Disraeli's Speech.
JUDAISM.—The new West London Synagogue, in
Margaret-street,.Cavendish-square, was consecrated on
Monday week, according to the Jewish ceremonial law,
by the Rev. W. Marks. It appears that the congre-
gation of this synagogue was formed about seven years.
ago by some of the leading men of the Jewish persuasion, _
with the view.of introducing into the synagogue worship
various ameliorations strenuously resisted by O..her syna-
gogues. From the year 1842 until the present period
this new congregation met for divine service at a syna-
gogue in Burton-street, consecrated for that pnrpose.
The increasing number of congregants, however, becom-
ing too large for the locality, a more spacious edifice has
been erected, the foundation stone having been laid by
Baron de Goldsmid, June sth, 1848. We are further in-
formed, that in the year 1841 a bull of excommunication
was extorted by the late Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herschel,.then
in hisaixty-sixth year and on his death-bed, against the
West, of London Synagogue of British Jews. The
grounds for this proceeding were, that the members of
the new synagogue had expunged from their ritual such
portions as owed their origin to scenes of persecution;
that they had omitted all Talmudic and Mesnaic passages
as being contrary to the sacred character of prayer ; and
that they had determined to draw a line of demarcation
between the festivals pronounced hallowed by the Scrip-
tures and those which were superadded by the Rabbins.
WRITEHAVEN.—The port of Whitehaven seems to be
rising rapidly. It has long enjoyed a high reputation for
the export of its own abundant and valuable productions
—coals, iron-ore, stone, and lime. Since the opening of
the Whitehaven,Junction Railway it has gradually opened
its extensive facilities to other and distant districts. The
result is, that there are now sent hither weekly from New-
castle-upon-Tyne immense quantities of glass, to be for-
warded to Dublin and other Irish ports, and to places
upon the western coast of England. This route has been
found the, best between Holland and Ireland. During
the past week, consequently, a large cargo of Dutch
cheese, which had been landed at Leith, and brought by
the Caledonian Railway to Carlisle, and thence sent on to
this town, has been received here, and re-shipped, prin-
cipally for the Isle of Man, In return for the goods thus
brought from the eastern coast for export, Whitehaven
receives, by way of import, large numbers of cattle by
almost every steam-ship that arrives from Ireland ; the
hold and deck being generally as well stocked as they can
be, consistent with safety. And towards the end of last
week, we observed on the quay an enormous consignment
of packed goods, sent hither from Liverpool, to be for-
warded by rail to Sunderland. We have also large
quantities of greens and other fresh vegetables, sent from
Ireland, which find a rapid, and, a profitable sale • thus
maintaining an interchange of mutual advantages between
the people of the two countries, One of the beneficial
effects of this increase in the trade of Whitehaven has
been a considerable improvement in the weekly receipts
of the railway in connexion with the port.—Cumberland
Fame('