The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

INCENDIARY FlRE.—Five large wheat stacks, and some
of the outbuildings of Kentwood Farm, at Tilehurst, have
been destroyed by an incendiary fire. The damage done
to the property, which is insured, is estimated at £2,000.
SINGUEAR DISCOVERY.—Workmen have been recently
repairing the interior arches of Durham Cathedral. In
the thickness of the transept arches they have found a
fire-place, and chimney of large proportions.
CHILD STEALING.—At the Chelmsford quarter ses-
siong, on Friday, a girl, aged thirteen, was sentenced to
seven years' transportation for stealing a little girl three
years old, which she had been intrusted to nurse.
It is said that the late Professor M'Cullagh was pre-
paring an edition of Butler's " Analogy," confirming the
original arguments in favour of revelation by the modern
discoveries of science.

Last week, after.a harvest supper at Grantown, Inver-
nessshire, the whole of the shearers (20) were taken ill,
and still lie in a dangerous state. It is supposed that some
one must -have poisoned the food.
Owing to the pressure of the money market, the ship-
builders of Sunderland have proposed to reduce the wages
of their carpenters from 275. to 245. per week. A strike
is the consequence. •
A circumstance, with reference to the high rate of
interest, has been made known in the city. A number
of eight months' bills have been sent over to Holland,
discounted there at, the rate of four per cent., and the
proceeds promptly received in gold by one of the steamers.
On Sunday morning week, a most desperate affray took
place near Devizes between the Marquis of Ailesbury's
keepers and some poachers, and which has since termi-
nated fatally to one of the latter. A verdict of " justi-
fiable homicide " was returned at the inquest.
The Custom-house officers finding thirty bottles of
brandy on board a yacht, belonging to Mr. Oliver, have
seized it. The owner considered himself entitled as a
member of the R.Y.C. to have on board such a quantity
of spirits.
The oaks throughout England are said to have borne an
unusual quantity of acorns this year, and it has been sug-
gested that farmers should cause these acorns to be ga-
thered.for the food of their pigs, as the crop of potatoes is
so scanty.
A Norfolk paper states that the Mayor of Yarmouth
celebrated the Thanksgiving-day on Sunday fortnight, by
giving a sumptuous collation to upwards of 400 of his
friends in the Town-hall after church ! Toasts being
given ! !
A colony of Highlanders, amounting to about 1,000,
have purchased two entire townships in Marion county,
lowa. They take their own mechanics and artisans with
them, and have selected the site for a town. About 3,000
more are expected to join them next spring.
A meeting of Mr. Peter Borthwick's creditors took
place last week, when it was agreed among them that he
should set aside £1,500 per annum for their benefit. He
was described as a barrister, and his insolvency is attri-
buted to election expenses. . .

The Duke of Marlborough has caused an official circular
to be sent to his tenantry, giving them leave to destroy
hares and rabbits on their farms by any means except
guns. For this concession he expects they will preserve
the winged game, for which he reserves to himself the
exclusive right.
A diabolical letter was received by the mayor of Roches-
ter on Monday morning, couched in abusive and disgrace-
ful terms, and ending with the recommendation to insure
his life, as well as his house, warning him that both were
in danger. A similar disgraceful epistle was sent to Capt.
Baker.

The fog was so dense in London on Tuesday evening,
that foot passengers required to be provided with torches,
and the omnibuses, cabs, and other carriages, though fur-
nished with lights, were forced to proceed at a very slow
pace, as otherwise they were continually in danger of
running against each other.
A most alarming fire broke out on Friday, in the ex-
tensive premises of Messrs. John Black and Co., rope and
sail makers, at Lancefield, near Glasgow. The value of
the stock destroyed is estimated at £3.000, and that of
the buildings at between £3,000 and £4,000 ; but we are
glad to learn that both are insured.
A letter from Lord Cloncurry was read by the Lord
Mayor, at the Mansion-house Police-office, on Monday,
detailing the tricks of agents for foreign lotteries, and
showing that they frequently sold fabricated tickets, and
that if English holders happened to draw a prize, the
illegality of the purchase was pleaded against papment.
The Morning Post states that orders have been given
at the Woolwich dockyard to prepare the Plover schooner
to sail in search Of Sir John Franklin, if within the
next ten or twelve days the government shall receive no
intelligence of that officer and his exploring expedition to
the arctic regions.
MORTALITY OF CHILDREN.—Not fewer than 140 chil-
dren have died in Doliglas since the Ist of October. Mora
than thirty-seven that attended the Infant School in
North John-street have died within a few months. This
great mortality is caused chiefly by scarletina, which has
been equally prevalent and fatal in England.—Manx
Liberal.

On Thursday, Dr. Bowring, 111. P. was proceeding in a
gig with his brother to the Bridged Ironworks, Gloces-
tershire, of which they are proprietors, when, in a narrow
secluded lane, they were attacked by three armed men,
who robbed them of £l,OOO, which they were taking to
pay wages. Two of the scoundrels have been appre-
hended, with £7OO in their possession. One of the ruffians
shot the horse dead, to prevent any alarm being given.
The Nottingham Journal states that a singular fraud
has been successfully attempted by some lace-workers,
who have given to cotton the appearance of silk. The silk
thread is dissolved by a mechanical process, and after the
cotton thread has been drawn through the solution thus
obtained, it has the gloss and appearance of silk thread,
from which the eye cannot distinguish it.
The Mornzny Post says that the applications made at
the present time at the Treasury Chambers, by persons
anxious to obtain appointments to vacant offices in the gift
of the government, are so numerous, that it has actually
been deemed requisite to station some policemen or door-
keepers in the passages or avenues, in order to restrain
the impetuous ardour of the numerous expectants.
An importation of eight packages of potatoes has taken
place in a vessel which arrived in London from Lima, the
produce of South America. It will be recollected that
we had occasion, about twelve months since, to notice one
or two arrivals of this vegetable from that quarter of the
globe, but none have heretofore taken place during the
present year.
The Birkenhead iron steam-transport, Commander
Ingram, is ordered to be expedited, by extra exertions on
the part of the dockyard men, as her services are required
without delay to proceed to Plymouth, ship meal for
Cork, and 60 riggers from that dockyard for Pembroke,
whence she proceeds to Cork to discharge her cargo of
meal, thence to Kinsale, and embark troops for Bristol.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—On Thursday,
a court of directors was held at the East India House,
when the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie was sworn in
as Governor-General of India. His lordship afterwards
dined with the directors at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, when they were honoured with the company of
her Majesty's ministers and many other distinguished
personages.
EXTENSIVE FORGERY IN LONDON.—OH Thursday,
information was received at the Mansion House, that an
eminent banking-house in Lombard-street had been de-
frauded of £1,360, by means of a forgery. The parties,
it is supposed to lull suspicion, obtained the money in
notes to a large amount, one being for £l,OOO, No. 85,9430,
January 1, 1847. The Forresters have obtained a clue to
the guilty parties.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Monday
last, William Ashcroft, alias Jameson, a respectably-
dressed man, aged 39, described in the calendar as a coop-
er, was indicted for unlawfully placing large stones upon
the Eastern Counties Railway, so as to endanger the safety
of persons travelling by and upon the said railway. The
prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned
for two years.
IMPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS.—The monthly return of
the Commissioners of her ,Majesty's Customs gives the
following as the quantity imported into the United King-
dom in the month ended 10th October, 1847 :—Total of
corn and grain, 1,169,804 bushels; total meal and flour,
1,639,255 cwt. Of the former, 390,870 bushels were of
wheat; and of the latter, 959,090 cwt. were of wheat-
, meal or flour.

John Ward, a youth of nineteen, has killed himself for
love. A young woman to whom he was deeply attached
died. Ward was much affected. A few days since he was
Missed from his employment, and was found at his home,
near Gravel-lane, Southwark, suffering the greatest agony
from arsenic which he had swallowed. In his pocket a
paper was discovered containing these words, " I cannot
live in this world any longer without my dear Elizabeth,
so place me in the grave with her.—John Ward.
A public meeting was held in London on Wednesday,
to found an asylum in which idiots might be kept and
educated. The Lord Mayor presided ; among the speakers
were the Rev. Mr. Champneys, Mr. George Thompson,
M.P., Mr. David Wire. Mr. ohn Wilkes, Chairman of
the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, And several medical gen-
tlemen. Sir Charles Forbes began the subscription by
sending a donation of a hundred guineas, and other gen-
tlemen sent promises of support.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A person in busi-
ness died lately at Glasgow, whose life was insured for
£30.000. immediately after his death this sum was laid
claim to by three families, consisting each of a wife and
children ; and what is singular, the one family seems not
to have been cognisant of the other. Each marriage was
celebrated by clergymen in the city, and the wives have
been maintained in a respectable manner. He was in the
habit of living at a time in each house successively.
HARD PUSHED.—The Times of Thursday, in replying
to a speech of Lord Winchelsea on the cheerless pros-
pects of the country, indulges in the following most im-
probable retrospect. " The fact that we have been
obliged to pay for our corn in gold is owing to the exist-
ing want of a full and free exchange of commodities—a
want which we owe, and shall owe for some time, to the
old system of mutual prohibitions. Had the foreigner
found us a regular customer for his corn, he would have
become a regular customer for our manufactures."
STATUES.—A proposal from Mr. Mlles to erect a
statue of Nelson in Norwich has been accepted. The
statue is to be seven feet high, and to cost 700 guineas.
The bishop is interesting himself in favour of the project.
The same artist has been selected by the Board of Ord-
nance to execute the full length of the Duke of Welling-
ton, to be placed in the Tower of London. In Edinburgh,
twenty-four Waverley figures are still required to com-
plete the Scott monument. Another Waverley ball is to
be got up to raise the sum required, £lOOO.—The Builder.
THE MODEL PENNY.—On Wednesday the new model
penny was issued from the mint for circulation, and a
number of men who obtained a' quantity made a plentiful
harvest by retailing them at twopence and threepence
each. They are a very neat coin, about the size of a
farthing, the centre being formed of silver, having on the
right side a profile of her Majesty, and on the obverse
the Roman numeral 1., surrounded with a rim of copper,
I inscribed " The Model Penny." Five-shilling pieces,
with gold centres and silver riw WIC %LOC ain Niu-
ciple, lc MBAR 941