The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

)ARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

GEN-BR.

IL INTELLIGENCI

INCREASE OF ATTORNEYS.—There are 131 applications
to be made in Michaeh Term by persons to be admitted

SALE'S OF POULTRY.—In Aylesbury, the sale of ducks
realises £15,000 a year. In Norfolk and Cambridge the
small farmers pay their rents with the produ
poultry.
LIE FOUNDATION STONE of the monument about to be
erected to the memory of Dr. Moir, of Musselburgh
(Delta) was laid on Tuesday, at the end of Bridge-street
in that town

FATAL PAssioN.—On Friday William Appleby, an in-
mate of the Wolverhampton workhouse, quarrelled with
another inmate, and worked himself into a violent fit of
passion, during which he fell down, and instantly expired.
TRIAL BY JURY.—It appears from an official document
just issued, that out of 474,149 plaints entered in the
County Courts last year, in only 796 causes was the
assistance of a jury required; out of which in 404 of the
causes the verdicts were in favour of the parties requiring
a jury to be summoned.
A FEDERAL UNION of the British North American
colonies, it is said, is engaging the attention of British
statesmen, Lord Elgin, late Governor-General of Canada,
being actively engaged in the movement. It is said that
the Federal Union, when effected, is to be presided over by
a Viceroy, but that each province will have the privilege
of electing its own Governor.—Nova Scotia paper.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL NESMAM.—Admiral Christopher
John Williams Nesham died on the Rh instant, at Ex-
mouth, at the advanced age of 95 years. He entered the
navy in January, 1782, as first-class volunteer, on board
the Juno, frigate, and in June in the following year was
present as midshipman in the action fought between Sir
Edward Hughes and M. de Suffrein, of Cuddalore. Ad-
miral Nesham received the War Medal in 1849, with two
bars for Camperdown and Martinique.
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Foomsu FREAK.—On Tuesday, Mr. D. Thomas, of
Newcastle, took his boat, the Faugh-a-Ballag,h, and en-
deavoured to go over the falls above Newcastle-Emlyn
bridge, in the river Tivy, which had swollen very much
on account of the late heavy rains. As he was in the act
of going over the falls his boat was upset; he, however,
succeeded in getting on the bottom of it, and was carried
in this manner some way down the river, when the boat
stuck on a piece of rock, and Mr. Thomas safely landed.

NIVERSITY.-

OUR FtriußE SEAMEN.—Seamen and boys under train-
ing are now sent out every week for gun and general
exercise, cruising between the Nore and the Mouse. A
target being placed at a distance of six hundred yards
from mid-channel, the boys are engaged as helmsmen,
leadsmen, and captains of the gun (an eighteen-pounder)
in turn. Their progress in gunnery is the admiration of
their officers. On repeated occasions the target has been
shot away by the second shot laid by the boy gunners.

THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF GLA.SGONV
The Conservative Association, at a crowd
on Tuesday night, in the College, came to a resolution
pledging themselves to re-elect the Earl of Eglinton to the
Lord Rectorship. Great hopes are entertained by his

LONDON IND SOUTH-WESTERN ilkiLwAir.'-'—The direc-
tors recommend that the application to parliament in the
next session shall be for powers to construct, within five
years from the passinc, of the act, a single line of railway
from Dorchester to Exeter, to be there connected with
the Bristol and Exeter, and the Exeter and Credition
lines, with land for a double line. The Company's en-
gineer Is of opinion that a single line of rtAllway from
Dorchester to Exeter, with land for a double line, and
With proper stations and gliclings, may be constructed for
£700,000, and that a connection with the Exeter and
Credition and Bristol and Exeter lines may be completed
for £lOO,OOO.

supporters of the success of Mr. Tennyson.— Citizen.
THE Sa EIGLE.—We have just seen a most splendid
specimen of the sea eagle, which was caught the other day
in a trap at Strathgarve. The extended wings measured
7 feet 9 inches ; length of body 3 feet 2 inches ; weight 15
pounds ; the outstretched claws covered as large an extent
as a man's hand. Who would not go a journey to see such
a noble fellow hooking a salmon from the lake, and carry-
ing it on his broad pinions to his home among the cliffs ?

Inverness Courier.
Two HUNDRED MILES IN A QUARTER Or AN HOUR.—
Mr. Richardson has satisfied our capitalists that it is
entirely practicable to build an atmospheric tube from New
York to Boston (200 miles) through which mail bags or
parcels of any description may be regularly, certainly, and
safely sent in fifteen minutes. He has perfectly obviated
the most apparent difficulty, which consisted in the colli-
sion of the parcel despatched on reaching its termination.
This he has accomplished by the counter pressure, arising
from the elasticity of unexhausted air, thereby reducing the
shock until it becomes absolutely imperceptible. A con-
siderable part of the stock for the building of this mail
tube has already been subscribed.—Times' Correspondent.
FOREIGN CRIMINALS IN PARlS.—Amongst the natives
of foreign countries arrested for crime of some kind or
other in Paris during the last year (1852), there were only
thirty-three natives of Great Britain—a very small num-
ber indeed, when the large number of English who visited
and resided in that capital is taken into account; and
which, as compared with the proportion of natives of other
countries arrested for crime, gives us no cause to be ashamed
of our national character. Of other foreigners arrested,
the following numbers are given : Belgians, 441; Saxon
Germans, 314; • Hollanders, 136 ; Prussians, 106 ; Swiss,
104 ; Italians, 84 ; Bavarians, 65 ; Austrians, 39 ; Poles, 36 ;
Spaniards, 29 • Hessians, Hungarians, Danes, of each 16 ;
Swedes, 14 ; Persians, 5 ; Egyptians and Greeks, of each 2;
and one Turk.

PHYSICAL DEGERmartincr IN PurstriA..—The last bal-
letings for recruits, or relief men, for the Prussian active
army, have disclosed some remarlible and interesting
facts, which show a falfing off in the City of Berlin in the
height, health, an 'conformation of "the male population.
It appears from 'the statistical tables, that 10,323 adults,
between the ages'of 20 and 214, were liable to ball,* for
the classes of 1'853; of which number 946, or about one-
tenth, were retired for the contingent. But if 'the
10.323 above mentioned, 4,957 or nearly half, were acclarea
unfit for service ; and when the ballot took place, 2,19'0ut
of the quota of 946, or nearly -.TA per cent., were 'rejected
from physical defect or shortirtature.
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS.—OR Wednesday the following
extraordinary explosion occurred in the dwelling:house of
Mr. J. B. Buckstone, in .Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East,
adjoining the Haymarket theatre. For some time pa.4t
a number of men have been repairing and painting it.
They tiperienced a strong smell, as if the gas were
escaping, when one of the men who was standing•oni
board'swung about midway between the flooring and the
ceiling drew a congreve match across the .upper part of
the van, when a loud explosion took place.. The windows
wert forced out, three the painters at work hall their
clothes set on fire, 'and a number of vessels containing
turpentine and oil were soon in a blaze. The screams of
the -men brought assistance to the spot, and after some
trouble the flames were extinguished. It was then 'found
that the three men 'were much burnt, two •so seriously
that it was deemed prudent to remove them to the
'Charing-cross Hospital.
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Auftiisr on t §-orinkr.—A case came before the Court
nf Queen's Bench ?last week, in which 'a writ of habeas
icorpus had been issued by Mr. Justice Crompton, direct-
ing the keeper of Stafford gaol to 'bring up the body of
,one Eggington, in order that he might •be discharged,
upon the ground that he had been:illegally arrested, as he
was taken upon a Sunday. The gaoler, in his return,
stated that, after the prisoner's arrest, a 'second warrant
had been issued by the justices of Liehfield, under which
he was now detained. Mr. Gray contended that the return
was no answer to the writ, as the gaoler could not take
advantage of the illegal custody of the prisoner to detain
him under a new warrant. Mr. Pashley, in support of the
return, submitted that, as the prisoner had been arrested
and kept in custody in consequence of his alleged illegal
detention of certain books and -papers, the dharge against
him was of a criminal, and not of a civil, nature, and he
was, therefore, 'not privileged from arrest on a Sunday.
Mr. Cole, on the part of the Town Council of Lichfield,
which had instituted the proceedings against the prisoner,
also supported the return. Lord Campbell was of opinion
that the prisoner ought to be discharged, on the ground
that the commitment was not for any indictable offence,
and, therefore, the warrant under Which he was arrested
ought not to have been executed on a Sunaday. It
necessarily followed that the detention under the second
warrant was illegal, the arrest under the first warrant
having been illegal. The other learned judges concurred.
Rule absolute for a habeas corpus.
SUICIDES IN PARlS.—Suicides in Paris continue to be
frequent. One, which occurred on Thursday, was attended
with singular circumstances. A young man, M. Augustus
D---, living in the Rue St. Denis, employed in a mer-
cantile firm, did not appear at his office at the usual hour.
His employer went to see after him, and learned from the
concierge that he had gone out shortly before finely
dressed. The following morning he again absented him-
self from his duty, and his employer went again to seek
after him. The concierge told him that he was in his
own room. He went up, but received 'no reply to his
knocks. The employer then sent for the youth's father,
and the door was opened. He was found lying dead in
the bed—he had committed suicide by means of the
fumes of charcoal. A letter, addressed to his father, left
open on a table, requested that no attempt should be
made to discover his reason for committing suicide—it
was, he said, a secret, and should die with him. It turned
out, on inquiry that, after leaving home grandly dressed,
he went to pay visits to all his friends. They asked him
if he were engaged to figure in any important ceremony,
since he was so fine ; but he gaily answered, Oh, dear,
no! The whim of going to see all my friends seized me,
and I am come to shake your hand !" In the evening he
went to his café, -and played at cards as gaily as usual
until ten o'clock. He then went to a hairdresser's shop,
and had his hair cut and dressed. On going home, he
carefully pasted paper ,over the crevices of the door, win-
dows, &e., of his room, to prevent the entrance of the
'slightest portion of air ; and he then lighted the pass of
'charcoal which he had previously prepared.—Another
young man, a shopman employed in a linen-draper's
establishment, also committed suicide the same day by
means of charcoal in his 'lodgings in the Rue Blanche.
To prevent any pain lie stupified himself by drinking the
liquor produced by boiling down a quantity of poppies.—

PUBLIC HEALTIL—LEAD, COPPER, OR ZINC PIPES.—
The minister of commerce, agriculture, and public works
in France, has just issued a circular to all prefects, calling
upon them to put a stop to the use of lead, copper, or zinc
pipes in breweries. The minister in his circular states
that " experience proves that beer, by simple contact with
lead, takes up an appreciable quantity of the metal, and
thus acquires poisonous properties." Leaden pipes are not
only used in breweries, but a custom has arisen in taverns,
and in houses where wine is sold, of using a small pump,
which communicates with the barrels in the cellar by
means of a leaden pipe. The use of the pipe in this
instance is peculiarly objectionable, inasmuch as the action
of the pump is at intervals only. A whole family was
poisoned by using for some time a pump of this kind for
drawing up their 'ordinary consumption of wine.—Journal
of the Society of Arts

.—ln Midsummer, last year, a
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Tiin Bun/firma MIIRDER.—The inquiry into the cir-
cumstances attending this dreadful tragedy having been
•adjourned from Friday until ten o'clock on Tuesday
morning, at that hour the proceedings were, for the third
time, resumed before Mr. Chearsley, the coroner, and a
highly respectable jury, at the Mile-house, a small hostel-
rie on the Old Bath-road, about one mile from the
Maidenhead station of the Great Western railway, and
half that distance from the scene of the murder—the Old
Abbey farm. Moses Hatto, the young man charged with
being concerned in the inhuman deed, has remained in
custody at the Eton lock-up since Friday. He made no
.allusion to the murder in his conversation with the
officers appointed to watch him, nor has his manner dis-
closed any ,thing calculated to fix with certainty the
dreadful crime upon him. Inspector Langley, of the
London detective police, has succeeded in tracing Hatto
to have gone to the Maidenhead railway station on the
Monday night after the murder, between ten and eleven
o'clock, for the alleged purpose of inquiring for a parcel
which he says he ,expected. To go there he used one of
his master's saddle horses ; and it is now conjectured
that while absent he may have taken opportunity to dis-
pose in some manlier of the missing property or any
other articles the possession of which might infer a
guilty knowledge. It is a lamentable fact that every
opportunity seems to have been given the murderer to
escape. Although within twenty miles of the metropolis,
and four of the royal borough of Windsor, news of the
tragedy occurring on Tuesday night did not reach either
place until the following Thnrsday. It is not too much
to say, therefore, that all the intervening time might have
been devoted by the guilty party to destroy the traces of
his crime. The removal of the prisoner on Tuesday
morning occasioned considerable excitement in Eton and
the neighbourhood. He WAS conveyed handcuffed in a
light chaise cart, between the superintendents of the Eton
and Slough police. The route through the village of
Burn
oidedha
, mAbbest
yatePoef the i
Farm
.was
habitants
purposely
the district, who, it is said, are so satisfied of Hatto's
avoided,
dg
guilt that, if set down amongst them, he could not topaethte tbexcited e
pos-
sibly escape "lynching." Hatto is a man of small sta-
ture, but of well-knit frame, with a countenance rather
pleasing than otherwise. On reaching the Mile-house he
got out of the police cart with a light step, and held his
manacled hands aloft with an expression of bravado. The
jury having answered to their names, several further
circumstances of a minute and comparatively trifling na-
ture in themselves—the principal of which was the finding
of some spots of blood on Hatto's hat—were deposed to
by the witnesses. on their re-examination. From the
evidence it appeared, that if the prisoner had been in his
own room (as he avers he was) during the perpetration of
the horrid deed, he could not have avoided hearing the
struggling, scuffling, and running, which it was but too
apparent, had preceded the close of the fearful tragedy. It
is also said that he had made overtures of affection to the
victim of the barbarity, which she rejected, as coming
from one in an inferior position of life to her own. After
all the witnesses had been examined, and the coroner had
summed up, the room was cleared, and after a lapse of
about ten minutes, on the court being re-opened, the fore-
man announced that the jury were unanimous in finding
a verdict of wilful murder against Moses Hatto. The
verdict appeared to have been anticipated by the majority
of those present, and it was stated that the prisoner ma-
nifested no surprise on the fact being communicated to
him. The usual warrant of committal having been pre-
pared by Mr. Chearsley, Hatto was conveyed, in custody
of superintendents 13YmingtOn and Thomas, to AyiesbarY
gaol, there to await his trial at the ensuing assizes.

REVERSE Or FORTUNE
merchant fitted Out a v
bourne, he being owner of both ship and cargo. She
carried out a number of passengers, and among the crew
was a poor boy who was taken out free for his labour,
When the'vessel arrived at Melbourne the owner sold the
Icargo, -and shortly afterwards the vessel, and remitted
the proceeds to his friends at home. This poor boy got
employment in one of the uumerons lighters that ply be-
tween the large emigrant ships and Melbourne, carrying
cargo, a very profitable trade, and he last week remitted
£lO of his savings, accompanied by a letter, in which he
.says, " I am well employed, and saving money. You
may, perhaps, be awsre that the ship I came by was sold
here, and the owner is driving a cart through Melbourne;
the captain is employed as a labourer about the wharfs;
while a young gentleman, a relative of the owner, is cur-
rying a hod in a brick-store."—North British Mail.
'EXTRA ORDINAIRY TRINSA CTION. —An extraordinary
transaction took place on Wednesday week, at the Red
Lion Inn, in this town. Two travelling hawkers, with
their wives, and some other persons, were drinking toge-
ther, when the conversation turned upon the proceedings
at the fair on 'the previous Monday, and the merits and
qualifications of the men's wives became also the subject
of discussion. The debate was waning strong, when a man,
who formed 'one of the company, apparently enamoured
with the appearance of the women, expressed a wish to
purchase them. The husbands at once assented to the
proposition, and a bargain was struck. The price fixed for
one was a, and for the other 10s. The money was in-
stantly paid by the buyer, and so far as he was concerned
thelnatecr was settled. ie parties continued to sit and
enjoy themselves, but at length their husbands deemed it
necessary to take their leave of the town. At this point,
however, a most langhable scene occurred. The women
declared they were not beasts, and would not be
sold es such, and determined to follow their hus-
bands. The purchaser .asserted they were his property,
and he would stick to them. The women, however, were
resolute, and the man, finding that he was in a fair way
of losing them, wished to withdraw his bargain. Tot this
the husbands would not agree, and they departed, heir
wives taking care to follow them, leaving the buyer a
poorer but a wiser man.—Cheltenham Journal.
DEATII BY EATING Morse's-HOOD FOR HORSERADISII.
—Considerable•exeitement has been created in Bristol by
a case of poisoning of a somewhat extraordinary descrip-
tion. Some time .since Mr. Joseph Russell, a wine mer-
chant at Bristol, died, bequeathing, among other legacies,
'one to a distant relative, named also Joseph Russell, a
bookseller, residing at Chard, Somersetshire, and who
came to Bristol respecting it. On Sunday he dined with
one of his brothers, a coachmaker resident in Bristol, and
partook of some roast beef, he being in excellent health.
As he remarked that roast beef was nothing without
horseradish, his brother's wife stated that there were some
horseradish roots in the garden, and the servant was sent
to dig up one. The root was scraped in the usual manner,
dressed with vinegar, and placed on the table ; both his
brother and the deceased partook of it. Soon after dinner,
Joseph Russell complained of a peculiar tingling sensation
in his hands and arms, and this feeling rapidly increased
till he said he felt it creeping round his neck. He rapidly
sank, and died in about an hour afterwards. The other
brother, who had taken much less of the supposed horse-
radish, was much affected, bat is now recovering. On an
examination it was found the root was the aconitum
napellus (wolf's =bane, or monk's-hood), which, particularly
at this season of the year, strongly resembles horseradish,
but which is a strong narcotic poison. We believe we are
right in stating that this is only the second case known of
a person having been thus poisoned. The other and first
case is recorded by Dr. Pereira.
BALDERDASH OF RELIC WORSHIP.—The following
specimen of rhapsodical and blasphemous trash is from
the sermon of Dr. Wiseman at Amiens, on the occasion of
the " translation" of the relics of St. Theodosia :—" Along
those obscure corridors, in those mysterious caverns, of
, the catacombs of St. Hermes, I hear resounding, but with
sweeter accents far, that same powerful voice which shall
one day raise the dead from the depth of their graves :
Consurge, consurge, executere de pulvere, converge
solve vincula colli tui, captina, ilia Sion. ' Arise, arise,
shake thyself from that sacred dust in which thou hast
reposed for fifteen hundred years in the arms of that
affectionate mother, the eternal depository of the faith and
its faithful witnesses. Break, daughter of Amiens, the
bonds of thy sweet captivity in the land of thy former
enemies. Bid adieu to thy blessed companions in the
dormitories of the just ; for consecrated hands have sought
and received thy sacred ashes, and borne them back with
joy and love to thy native soil Come Theodosia, come to
gladden us by thy presence, but come likewise to our help,
in order that our triumph may be worthy of thee. Display
thy power, that is, the power of Jesus Christ, which mani-
fested itself even in the ashes of His martyrs. Call
together then, in thy name, an assemblage of venerated
bishops, who form a majestic procession in honour of thy
holy remains. Cause them to assemble, not only from
our dear France and from Belgium, countries so fruitful
in ecclesiastical virtues ; but also from Ireland, ever faith-
ful to her God and her faith, despite ages of suffering and
persecution ; and from England, still struggling with the
powers of the world; from the western shores of Guada-
loupe ; from the centre of Asia; from the extreme limits
of eastern Siam ; from the bounds of that vast ocean
which the fleets of the ancient world never visited, but
where, nevertheless, the banner of the cross has been
planted by the intrepid missionaries of France on the
summit of their highest mountains. Call the pastors of
the church, and they will obey thy voice."
LOVE AND DEATIL—An event of a most painful and
melancholy nature has just occurred in a small village in
Cornwall. A young woman respectably connected, named
Ellen Macartney, by trade a milliner and dressmaker, was
engaged to a young man about her own age, named
Thomas Hardy Aldis, who was an assistant to a provision
dealer in a town a few miles distant. The courtship—
which is described as having been an uninterrupted source
of happiness, and which appears to have given the utmost
satisfaction to the friends on both sides—had extended
over a period of something under seven years, and both
the sued and the suitor having saved a sufficient sum of
money to commence house furnishing, and to set up in
a business as a small grocer and provision dealer, an early
day was named for their nuptials. A house was looked
at and approved of—wedding garments were examined
and chosen—friends of the bride from a distance were
invited and promised to come—the license was applied for
and obtained—cards, gloves, dresses, bridecake, everything
arrived as ordered, and "all went happy as a marriage bell."
The father of the betrothed was to give her away at church
—her brother was to officiate as groomsman, and the sister
of Aldis was bespoken as bridesmaid. The young couple
were greatly respected, and everybody looked forward to
the day that should unite until death those who through
life had been so faithful and so true. The fated day arrived.
The sun shone joyously out, and the village gossips were
up betimes to record every circumstance connected with
the interesting event. Half-past seven o'clock came, but
no bridegroom—" How late he was, an uncommon • thing
for him." Ellen's uncle, a neighbouring farmer, alighted
at the door, and taking the bride aside, pressed into her
hands a bank note for 201. Eight o'clock was here, but
What could be the matter ? Had not
no bridegroom—"
some one better go in quest of him ?" A messenger hurried
in from the church to say the clergyman was waiting.
Hope had given way to anxiety—now anxiety was sup-
planted by fear. " Something very serious must have
taken place--what could it be ?" A strange presentiment
took possession of all present. He had been murdered or
was ill. But in the latter case, " some one would have been
sent to say so." All was mystery and disappointment.
There was no alternative,the ceremony "must be deferred,"
and then came on that anxious yearning which maketh
the heart sick. The symbols of married bliss were hastily
laid aside, and an envoy, the girl's uncle, started to ascertain
the cause of the truant's absence, In about three hours
he returned to the residence of his niece, with the intelli-
gence that Aldis had left his employer's house at six o'clock
that morning, since which time nothing had either been
seen or heard of him. The day wore on heavily, and no
tidings were received of the "lost one." The next day
came and went, and yet not a line, not a word arrived to
clear up the extraordinary and unaccountable mystery. .
Ellen, all this while, had been growing paler and paler I
still. Like Rachel, she refused to be comforted. Food
was spurned ; she secluded herself in her room, and wept
such tears as are known only to the angels, and those who,
like her, have been compelled to drink of that bitter cup
whose ingredients are unto death. Early on the morning
of the fourth day from that on which the marriage was
appointed to take place, poor Ellen Macartney was found
cold and lifeless floating upon the top of a mill-dam, a few
yards from her own door—a photographic miniature of
her lover suspended round her neck ! Nothing has yet
been heard of Aldis. The village is hi a state of the-
greatest excitement—Hull Advertiser.