The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

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I HARWOOD AND HARWOOD CHAPEL

Harwo)d is the name of a small district in the upper-
most part of the parish of Middleton-in-Teesdale, and
lying at the south-western extremity of the county of
Durham. It is not, strictly speaking, a part M Teesdale,
but is rather a dale by itself, having its own stream or
-44-which is a tributary of the r- \t

into tha,
:en I river about midway between its two great falls, Caldron
ate Snout and High Force. The country around is by nn

37, means without attractions of its own. The twc falls just
1/3 mentioned are among the finest in England. Teesdsle is
;d_ well known as a most excellent field for botanists, while
Id the Tee. itself and its tributary streams abound with fish.
Only a few years ago it was almost entirely shut out from
clog no roads passahle by carriages of any
It is now, however, intersected by a most
1- constructed fourteen or fifteen years ago,
ly done much to change the character of
The population may be, about 300, all of them

world, 1

Tiption

excellent roa
h has alrea

the pia

nd. They are a kind-hearted
)1e and prirnitiv,e in their man-

L C:1 90 a

_ .
~,, rue interests of either the proprietors or the died. W '•` _ a ckle apri,isi ~,..,
Jow Ihen the poor child was dead, the 4,1
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public ; an opinion which has heen justified by events. In '
body to the bad: of the house and poured water on it, in
deference to what appeared to be the wishes of the public
ten tr
the hope of bringin i• it to life again. The man is a drun-
we were willing to try the experiment, but an experience
till t
ken bad character, 6and has been in the habit of using his
of two years has convinced us that the former price must
at difficulty and wife and child very cruelly.
be returned to, and that at an early period. The first
of their occupation,
body-of a young woman named Ann Kelly,
number of the Courier contained 152,720 letters, whilst The dead4ll that they had to was last week taken out of the Grand Junction Canal,
that of the present week contains 642,313 ; more than
-ace till within .• times North Wharf Road. It appeared that her lover, a per-
Tour the number in the first paper."
_ iast 40 year 3, was a very small chapei, a;i3ut 26 feet
' son named Barton, had appointed to meet her on Sunday
long, and little more than half the breadth. A small We entirely concur with our contemporary in his de- night, ite keep his appointment, and she after-
pulpit stood by the door, which was in the middle of the ductions. We ourselves were also induced to adopt the wards found him in a beer-shop. Some words ensued,
south wall, and the seats were placed around the pulpit.
and on leaving him she gave her umbrella to a boy,
cheap system •; and the result has equally proved to us
In this humble edifice the inhabitants of the Dale assem-
desiring him to tell her father that she wished to be buried
bled for worship. They had no minister, for there was . that it is impossible to pursue it, consistently with either Iby the side of her brother, and threw herself off the rail-
no endowment, and they were quite unable to support the vigorous prosecution of our editorial duties, as re- way bridge into the canal. Verdict, Temporary I9sa-
Yet it did not occur to them to leave gards the public, our own interests as tradesmen, or a Barton has since been affected by fits of a
A schoolmaster was sup- proper regarde to those of individuals connected with the
nicl, and on Sunday he
—. 1.„ literary and other departments of our establishment.

Th
Punted at a distance of from eight to ten miles fromey ',h church, their resort to which, till the forma-

as a work of gr

1, from the natu

were hut ill qualified to
y this defi,iency of the !Leans of

one themsel

the church of their

nay.

ported among them by their land!,
read the prayers of the rhu,eh a

ndine Asquith, an accomplished foreign rogue

ach was t

een forty and fifty years ago

At this tim
1

very singular man was the schoolmaster. Alts name wa.
George Carpendale, a person of a very respectable family,
a brother of his being a clergyman at Armagh, connected,
it is believed, with the Cathedral there.. In his early life,
however, George had led a dissolute life, and had been
—..sed as a sailor. After being- at sea for some years
as unfit for service, on account of his

Calera! I+lfsrillanv.

Lord Gough is to receive a step in the peerage, and will
be immediately created a viscount of the United Kingdom.
On Whit Monday, 17,370 persons visited the British

IMprE
he was disc
wounds. I

Museum

The early potatoes about Do

Ridinz,where he r

N years
I school

.nd by 11

teaching a school of his own. By
fell vacant, and he was appointed master. It appears tt
even at this period his follies had not entirely ceased. foi

A child, fiGen months old, died last week in London,
after an illness of two days, caused by swallowing 44 per-

cussion caps
On Thursday, a drunken fellow leaped over London
have

very snort time after his appointment he colfected toie-il;e"r
as much money as he could, and suddenly decamped,
leaving a wife whom he had married in Baldersdale and
an infant daughter to the care of the parish. Strangely
enough, one of the tenants in the highest part of the dale
had occasion soon after to go to London, and there one
day to their mutual surprise met Carpendale in the
street. On being reproached for his unfaithfulness, he
enquired whether the situation was still vacant, and if so,
whether he might return. He was told that no suc-
cessor bad been appointed, and was advised to try whe-
ther he could be reinstated. He consented to do so, and
being restored to his place, continued ever after to con-
duct himself with great steadiness and Propriety. This
continued for some years, till Bishop Barrington being
informed of the destitution of Harwood, ancithe steady
attention of the schoolmaster to his duties, was induced
to ordain him. The Earl of Darlington, to whom the
whole of the little vale belonged, and who bad a small
shooting box there, allowed him £4O a year as school-
master and curate. Now, when it woo tn hn

ne could swim, out, ..
been drowned bad he not been assisted by a Waterman.
Three hundred houses of ill-fame have been suppressed
in the metropolis by the exertions of the Society for the
Protection of Young Women.
On Sunday week an elderly gentleman was struck
dead, whilst crossing the fields from Bromley to Lewis-
ham, by a " coup de soleil" or sun stroke.
A gentleman, named Edward Gilbert, of Peterborough,
cut his throat at Stockton-on-Tees, on Wednesday night.
It is supposed that some unfortunate railway speculations
induced the unfortunate gentleman to destroy himself.
The registrar-general of deaths calculates that during
the prevalence of influenza in the year 1847 no fewer than
500,000 persons were attacked by the complaint in Lon-
don alone.

Among the deaths enumerated in the Lor don regis-
trar's report is that of a woman, thirty-four years of age,
who is stated to have died of " exhaustion from grief"
after an illness of five months.

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minister, the little chapel- and
Everything, enlarged and
Everything, as may he Stionnqpri

.Jowager, with the munificence worthy of
uow of a Sailor King, has intimated her intention to
contribute the sum of £420 now wanting to complete the

dormitory of the London Sailors' Home.
On Thursday, a jockey, after " sweating," returned to
his home at Horndean, Hants. He was so completely
exhausted as to render it necessary that he should be
placed in bed. He never rallied, and was soon after a
corpse.

THE COAST GUARD.—The Commissioners of the Cus-
toms have given directions for the discontinuance of the
mounted coat guard, and the sale of a large number of
horses, which have been used in the service on the part
of the Crown, is announced to tako place.
Some parties hawked ducks about London last week,
which on being plucked were found to have a pound and
a half of sand each artfully stuffed in both sides of the
breasts, under the ' • • • -

kin, giving them the appearance of
s and weight.

FREE TRADE NEWS FOR HOOP MAKERS.—An exten-
sive trade is now opened out in Dutch hoops, which are
delivered in England at little more than one half the
price of London hoops, and are found to answer the pur-
pose equally as well. Upwards of 15,000 bundles were
landed at Newcastle in one week from Dutch vessels.
AVOIDING A PARISH.—At Huddersfield, 75 members
of a society have taken an eighty-acre field for spade cul-
tivation. Whenever any members are out of work they
receive a ticket for six or twelve days' work, and are thu3
prevented going on the parish. There are three such
societies in the town.

Monday morning, as John and William Tamplin, bro-
thers, were proceeding in a sailing boat down the
in order to pursue their daily avocation o

Severn

when near a dangerous reef called the Lloyd, off Beachley,
the boat struck on a rock, and immediately capsized, when
both the unfortunate men were drowned.

he Birmingham Journal relat

s that a short time

on the

playing

vy cztUll/11.1
1, stumbled and fell upon a large nail, which inflicted
nd on the child's forehead that he died on

so deep a wc.
Saturday week.
A girl nine years old was playing a few clays since in a
field, used as a cricket ground at Ilkesten, Derbyshire,
while the ground was being rolled with a heavy stone rol-
ler, drawn by horses. In some way which cannot be
explained, the child got under the roller, which passed
over her body, and killed her on the spot.
The cholera has broken out again with increased vio-
lence in the village of Keynsham. Since Saturday, five
individuals have died, and on Wednesday last there were
eleven cases of confirmed cholera under treatment, besides

a great many patients suffering from diarrhoea and affec-
tions of the bowels. There are no cases in the workhouse
now.

RELIC OF POPERY.-Til the course of the recent resto-
ration of the Norman Church of Stoke Charity, near
Winchester, an antique sculpture, representing a bishop
celebrating mass, holding the host in one hand and the
chalice in the other, and above him the Deity, attended
by angels, was found concealed in a niche in the chancel,
which had been bricked up.
ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING.—A man, named Thos.
Bell, lately died at Nuneaton, under suspicious circum-
stances, which led to a post mortem examination of the
body, when it was found the deceased had been poisoned.
It has since been discovered that a few days previous to
his death his wife purchased a quantity of arsenic, and
she is now in custody charged with the murder of her
husband.

THE LATE Mn. NrcnoLsoN.—ft is said that when this
unfortunate gentleman, who was Mr. Hudson's brother-
in-law, went out and committed the melancholy act which
terminated his life, he left on his desk a note containing
the following singular passage, Jeremiah, chap. xvii. v. 11.:
" As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not,
so he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leave them
in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool."
Mn. JOHN FIELDEN.—Mr. Charles Hindley announces
in the public papers the death of Mr. John Fielden.
Addressing the working men of Great Britain, and the
manufacturing districts particularly, Mr. Hindley says :
"My friends, you have sustained a great loss. Your
friend, John Fielden, is no more. He died on Monday,
May 28. While we lament his loss, let us improve by his
example. In everything for your real welfare, believe me
truly yours, CHARLES lIINDLEY, LOTRIOH, May 31,1849.9'
The effects of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, which
furnished his house in St. James's-square before he was
elected President of France, were sold by auction on
Monday and Tuesday. There were 208 lots. Lot 43 was
a piece of Cobelin tapestry. said to have been the pro-
perty of the Emperor Napoleon ; it sold for 200 guineas.
A grand chimney-piece of Egyptian granite sold for 300
guineas. There were several paintings by Venetian and
French artists—one by David, which brought 100 guineas.
At the cottage residence of Mr. Browning, Underwood,
near Idle, there is a private letter-box affixed to the outer
door, which, during the temporary absence of the family,
has been taken possession of by a little bird of the wag-
tail species, which has found its way through the aper-
ture, and built its nest there, and in which it has depo-
sited its egg daily for nearly a fortnight past, although it
has suffered repeated annoyance by the insertion of let-
ters and papers.

The last returns of corn and flour imported show that
we are now importing more than 500,000 qrs. per month,'
or above 6,000,000 in the year. And this influx is wholly
irrespective of the country's wants. Let the next harvest
be as abundant as possible,—let there be no need what-
ever for a single bushel of corn to be imported, still these
6,000,000, or probably an increasing quantity. will still
flow in, and, by inevitable consequence, will glut and
depress the markets, and produce an unnatural reduction
of prices.

THE EX-KING OF THE FRENCH.—Louis Philippe has
not been talked of much, lately. You have heard of his
poverty and his debts. I have now in my possession the
most indisputable evidence that he is still the richest pri-
vate individual in the known world. His agent in New
York, M. Lafarg, has bought for him in houses, stocks,
shares, &c., property producing an annual income of
above ten millions of francs. It is perfectly useless for
any of his friends to deny this fact, perfectly well known
on the New York Exchange.—Paris Correspondent of the
Glasgow Mail.

PRESENTATION TO ELIZA CHESTNEY.—At the anni-
versary meeting of the " Female Servants' Home Society,
for the Encouragement of Faithful Female Servants,"
held at Exeter-hall, afew days since, it was unanimously
resolved that a Bible be presented to Eliza Chestney, in
testimony of their approbation of her conduct in connex-
ion with the late tragic events at Stanfield-ball, and that
the sum of one pound be given to the fund now raising in
her behalf, with an expression of regret that the funds of
the society would not allow them to contribute a larger
amount.

HIDDEN TREASURE.—Some time since, a brig, now
called the Carleton, was purchased at a public sale in the
London Dock, by Mr. Scott, a lighterman, for £750.
After undergoing some repairs at the New Crane Wharf,
Wapping, the vessel put to sea under Captain Bacon, who
became part owner. She had to put in at Hartlepool, and
whilst undergoing some repairs to the interior part of the
bulk head, 16,000 Spanish dollars were found secreted in a
place purposely hollowed out for the precious ceposit.
How or by whom it was placed there it is impossible to
tell. Captain Bacon's first voyage in the Carleton proved
a very successful one. The vessel is said to have been en.
gaol as a slaver off the coast of Guinea.