The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-10 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER Dxc. S.—The depression in this market
continues without the slightest relief, and prices of goods
and yarn generally continue gradually to decline. There is
some demand for very low counts of water twist for the
Levant, and perhaps a little more inquiry for good 27-inch
printing cloth for the United States ; but generally the
market is exceedingly flat, and sales are effected with diffi-
culty, even at lower prices. We regret to hear, that the last
advices from New South Wales announce a number of
serious failures at Sydney, where business is represented as
being in a most wretched condition. There has also been a
failure of a Brazilian house at Rio, the engagements of which
are from £30,000 to £40,000; and we regret to learn, that a
portion of the loss will fall upon houses in this town.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 6.—There has been
a better demand for flannels to-day, but no improvement in
prices. The wool market still remains dull, and prices
stationary.

HUDERSFIELD MARKET, DEC. 7.—This was a more ani-
mated market than for some weeks past, there being more
buyers than usual. The demand was very varied ; but
orders were exceedingly small, and prices drooping, or, at
any rate, not improved. In fancy goods, a few favoured
articles are doing well; but the great mass of tradesmen
have to struggle hard against the almost unparalleled long
depression in the staple articles. Wools are firm in price ;
and warehouse business is a fair average for the season.

The Great Western has crossed and re-crossed the Atlan-
tic for three years without once missing her day or meeting
the slightest accident.
SHOCKING DEATH OF THE HON. LUCY FORTESCUE.—
WC have to record the melancholy death of this lady, which
took place at Brighton on Friday morning last, in consequence
of injuries caused by her clothes taking fire. The circum-
stances under which it took place will be gathered from the
following evidence, which was given at an inquest on the
body, held at the City of Hereford Inn, Brighton, on Satur-
day, before Mr. J. F. Gell, coroner, and a respectable jury :
Sarah Cooper deposed—l was maid to the deceased, who re-
sided in Charlotte-street, Brighton. She was a single lady,
and was in her 78th year. On Thursday morning, the 23d
of November, between 9 and 10 o'clock, I had dressed her
all but her upper garments, and then left her, and retired into
an adjoining room, as was my custom, until she washed. In
about half an hour I heard a noise as of the stamping of feet.
I opened the door immediately, and found the deceased in
the middle of the room enveloped in flames. I went up to
her and got a carpet and put it over her, and then rang the
bell. I screamed loudly. The two female servants and the
nurse came up immediately. The servants threw water upon
her and extinguished the flames, after which we put her to
bed. I then discovered that her left arm and thigh, and
round her throat, were much burnt. She was not able to
speak much. She asked me how it happened, but I was un-
able to tell her. There was a fire in the room, but there was
no guard on it. The flames appeared to me to have caught
the lower part of her clothes. Medical assistance was imme-
diately obtained, but she died about half-past two o'clock on
the night of Thursday. I had been accustomed to leave her
in her room with a fire in it. I had left her gown before the
fire to warm it. Mr. R. P._ Phillpotts, surgeon, Devonshire-
place,' Brighton, deposed—l was called upon to attend the
deceased on the morning of Tuesday, the 23d ult., in conse-
quence of her having been burnt. Being out, my assistant
went before me. On my arrival I found him dressing wounds
of considerable magnitude on the left arm of the deceased.
Her chin, throat, and left thigh were also very much burnt.
I continued to attend her up to her death. She died of fever,
the consequence of injuries to the skin from the burning.
She was unable to give any account as to how it happened.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Accidental
death." The deceased was sister to the late and aunt to the
present Lord Fortescue.—Standard.

DEATHS AT, LEIGH SINTON FROM POISON.—The inquest
on Thomas Jones, the father of the unfortunate children
whose deaths were mentioned in our last, was held before
Mr. Hughes, on Wednesday, and adjourned to Friday, on
which day the investigation terminated. The following de-
tail of particulars in the history of this remarkable and tragic
occurrence completely overturns the hypothesis of the cause
of death given in the preceding account, and irrefragably
proves that this lamentable loss of life has ensued from
poison—that poison being arsenic, and coming in the way of
the doomed family in a manner which, though purely acci-
dental, will we hope operate as a terrible warning against,
we must say, the very culpable negligence with which it ap-
pears that great quantities of this most deadly poison are
suffered to lie exposed about farm-house. Mr. Pierpoint
stated, that from his first view of the body, he was of opinion
that the man had died from the effects of arsenic, and that
the description given by the other surgeons of the symptoms
under which he laboured, strengthened that opinion. After
the post mortem examination, that gentleman, along with
Mr. Morison, went t 9 the chamber where Ann Jones, the
mother, was lying, and, after some time had passed in mak-
ing inquiries, she expressed a desire that the nurses should
presentleave t h room.e
being
Messrs.wh t c h
Pierpoint having done, and the only parties
and Morison, the ailing
woman's father, and her little boy, the fifth sufferer, but who
is now convalescent, she said that a thing had occurred to
her in the last night which she had forgotten to tell the
doctor (meaning Mr. Morison) in the morning, which was
that her husband bad brought home from his master's an
old watering pan. There was a number of rags filling up
the holes in the bottom. She had washed the pan and drawn
the water used in the house on Monday and Tuesday in it
from the well ; it was now lying in the well, the string hav-
ing broke, and she was afraid it was in such pans they mixed
the arsenic for the seed wheat. The poor woman, in reply
to further inquiries, stated that she had found something
adhering to the bottom of the pan, like bean meal. Having
obtained this clue to the appalling calamity, no time was lost in
searching the well ; in it the old watering pan was discovered,
and Mr. Rowberry, who manages Mr. Essex's sowing, being
on the jury, at once identified the pan as one in which for
years he had mixed the arsenic for the seed wheat liquor,
but which he had laid aside last year as worn out. The
mother of the ill-fated family still lives, but remains
dangerously ill. We are glad however to say that one life,
that of the boy, may now be considered safe from this fright-
ful visitation ; and we earnestly entreat the attention of
farmers to the necessity which this fatal history shows of
their dealing more carefully with so mortal a poison than it
appears they are now in the habit of doing.

1-.1u..---Pergous tha middlci and upper
ranks of life would do well to look over them wardrobes at
the present inclement season, and see if anything can be
found which !nigh; be spared for the use of the poor.

ALARMING IMPOR.TATION.--The Francis Smith arrived
at London from Whampoa and St. Helena, with a cargo of
tea, silk, and other articles, brings no fewer than " three
thousand two hundred Penang lawyers!"

A BAIT TO CATCH THE SCRUPULOUS.— A company of
strolling players, at the bottom of their bills of fare which
they circulated in the town of Ampthill during this week,
had the singular words attached to the bottom, " Strict
attention to morality !"—Bedford Mercury.
THE liter: CROPS.—WC are sorry to learn that the rice
crops in the vicinity of Calcutta will prove a failure this
season if we have no rain within a few days. This will in-
deed be a calamity to the poor ryots, a calamity which we
sincerely pray may be averted by the interposition of an all-
wise providence.—Calcutta Christian Advocate.
EXPORTATION OF IRISH PAUPERS.—On Saturday morn-
ing, at eight o'clock, the St. George Steam-packet .Com-
pany's steam-ship Jupiter sailed from her moorings off the
Alderman-stairs, Lower East Smithfield, for Cork, with
nearly 3110 Irish paupers—men, women, and children—hud-
dled together upon deck. Most of the wretched group were
from, it was said, several union workhouses at Chelsea, and
the western parishes of the metropolis.—Standard.
IGNORANCE AND CRIME.—From the New Bailey Calen-
der, for the present month, we perceive that, of 181 persons
to be tried for felony, there are 87 who can neither read nor
write, 47 who can read imperfectly, 42 read and write imper-
fectly, 1 reads well, 1 writes well, and 3 whose attainments
are not specified. Of the 23 to be tried for misdemeanor, 5
can neither read nor write. 9 can read and write imperfectly,
5 read imperfectly, 3 read and write well, and 1 concerning
whose literary acquirements nothing is stated.

FLOATING FILE ENGINES.—Mr. Ward called the atten-
tion of the town-council, at the meeting on Wednesday, to
the propriety of establishing a floating fire-engine at this
port. Since then we have learned from our Sunderland con-
temporary, the Norther Times, that a floating fire-engine,
built by Messrs. Tilly, London, was exhibited fur trial, by
being put into operation on the river Wear, on Thursday
se'nnight. It is the property of the shipowners, but its use,
we understand, will not be confined to the shipping alone.
Its utility in cases of fires in the town was fully evinced on
that occasion, by the pipes having been led up Russell-street,
and the water thrown over the houses on the south side of
High-street—a height of upwards of 120 feet. Hull Times.
DREADFUL FLOOD.—We cannot recollect a more tem-
pestuous night, since the Gth of January, 1839, than that of
last evening. During the day the rain came down heavily,
accompanied by frequent gusts of wind. As the evening
advanced, a very strong gale aroce from the south-east. To-
wards 8 o'clock, the flat of the city became inundated with
a flood, caused by high tides and the great fall of rain during
the day. A river flowed through the principal streets ; and
in many houses on Hammond's Marsh the water was four
feet deep at least. The flood completely subsided at nine
o'clock. The rain descended in torrents during the whole
of last night, and the greater part of this morning. We
have not received any reports of casualities from our sea-
port correspondents, which leads us to entertain a hope that
the gale was confined to our city.—Cork Examiner of Friday.

SUICIDE IN CONSEQUENCE OF DESTITUTION.-011 Tues-
day week, a poor man, named Samuel Ogden, put a period to
his existence by a dose of opium, under circumstances which
induce the belief that he was rendered insane by destitution.
He resided at No. 3, Fairfield-court, Grey-street, Charlton-
upon-Medlock, and had been unable to procure employment,
except a few trifling jobs, for the last twelve months. He
had sold all his furniture, in order to procure subsistence :
and for the last two months, he had not even a bed to lie on.
In consequence of this, he had not, during that period, taken
of his cloths day or night. He slept at night on the bare
laths of his bedstead, with nothing but a coverlid over him ;
and had been frequently without food for three days in suc-
cession.

TOKEN OE RESPECT TO MARS HUISH, ESQ.—We under-
derstand that a valuable and very handsome memorial is about
to be presented to Mr. Huish, as a mark of the admiration
and respect in which he was held while connected, as Secretary
with the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway. The
memorial is the workmanship of Mr. James Muirhead,
jeweller, Buchanan-street, and it does him infinite credit. It
is an elegant silver stand for a clock, the base being in the form
of a tripod, richly chased with scrolls of the rose, the thistle,
and the shamrock, and the arms of Glasgow, Paisley, and
Greenock, with suitable inscriptions engraver' thereon. On
the plinth are two beautiful modelled figures, representing
the godesses Pomona and Flora, supporting an elabrotely
chased wreath of silver scrolls and leaves, in the centre of
which is a patent lever clock, with a very chaste gold dial, the
whole being covered with a glass shade. The design is ex-
ceedingly beautiful, and the matter altogether does much
honour to all concerned.—Glasgow Paper
THE WEST INDIES.—We learn that the Duke of Wellington
has directed his attention of late to the condition of the regi-
ments which occupy West India stations, and the causes of the
mortality to which from time to time they are subjected.
His Grace appears to attribute the evil very much to the un-
healthy situations of the different barracks, and the inadequacy
of the buildings themselves to protect the men against the
influence of the climate. The results are said to be the con-
coction of a plan for the fabrication of cast-iron barracks,
which shall be sent out in pieces from this country, as was
the case with Napoleon's house at longwood. These huts
will have numerous advantages over the brick and morter
houses ; not the least obvious of which is, that they will be
as moveable as a camp. What an extraordinary mind is that
which notices every real evil in every department of the state,
and devises a remedy for it !—John Bull.

BURGLARY AND MURDER.—An old man, upwards of 70
years of age, named Adams, residing near the Windmill,
Walsall, was brutally murdered by a party of burglars on the
night of Tuesday last. The unfortunate deceased derived a
small income from several houses; and it is supposed that
the circumstance of his having collected his rents a day or
two before the deed was perpetrated instigated the murderers
to their diabolical act. They effected an entrance to his
house through the roof of a low brewhouse ; but the noise
they made having disturbed him, he made resistance with a
stable fork, the bloody appearance of which indicated that
one or more of his assailants were severely gored by its prongs.
A woman living in the adjoining prethises heard the noise
and saw the men, (who are said to be four,) and by calling
out to them caused them to decamp, leaving their aged vic-
tim so deeply injured by their violence that he died on the
following (lay. The ruffians were disappointed of the expected
booty, the deceased having deposited his money, £lO, in the
bank on the previous day. We understand that a person
named Johns, in the employ of Mr. Edward Swift, was
taken into custody on suspicion on Thursday evening, having
upon his person or premises a pistol corresponding with one
which the murderers bad left upon the premises of the de-
ceased.—Staffordshire Examiner of Saturday,
EXTENSIVE ADULTERATION OF GINGER.—On Tuesday
week, Mr. Harding, solicitor, applied to D. Maude, Esq.,
at the Borough Court, for a summons against Mr. Edward
Lee, of No. 5, Gaylor-street, Oldham-road, to answer a
charge of selling ginger adulterated with gypsum, or plaster
of Paris. A specimen of the adulterated ginger was pro-
duced by Inspector Irwin, and was said to be much heavier
than the genuine article. Mr. Harding stated that Mr. Lee
had been in the habit of sending to the School Mills a quan-
tity of ginger to be ground, and at the same time a quantity
of plaster of Paris to be mixed with the ginger. The case to
which the attention of the court was called occurred on the
17th of November, when he sent down half a hundred weight
of ginger to be ground. He afterwards brought about three
quarters of a hundred weight of gypsum for the purpose of
mixing with the ginger. The proprietors of the mill informed
him that they could not allow this. However, he mixed the
deleterious substance with the ginger, and took it away. The
proportions of the mixture were half a hundred weight of
ginger and three quarters of a hundred weight of plaster of
Paris. Other ingredients were added to restore the colour
and strength. Mr. Maude said this was a criminal case, and
a bill of indictment would be preferred against Lee at the
quarter sessions.—Manchester Guardian.
THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING ROBBED.-011 the night of
Saturday last, a poor industrious labourer was proceeding
homewards over Kelvedon Common, with the produce of his
earnings, lls, when he encountered four fellows, with more
impudence than honesty, who plundered him of the whole of
his earthly treasure. Misfortune made the poor fellow elo-
quent, and he so strongly represented the evils of an empty
cupboard and a supperless home, that he touched even the
seared heart of hardened guilt, and one of the villains directed
his companion with an oath to refund a shilling of the booty.
This was done ; the shilling was handed to the labourer. On
reaching his cottage he flung down the coin upon the table,
exclaiming to her who had taken him for ever and aye, with
11 s or without—" There is all I have to give you of my week's
earnings," when lo ! plebian silver, as if by a touch of the
philosopher's stone, was changed into aristocratic gold ; and
there lay a real sovereign. The fact was, the thief had been
so accustomed to dip his hands into other people's pockets
that he kept rather a loose account of hii own, and by a lucky
mistake he handed over a sovereign instead of a shilling,
leaving a balance of 9s in favour of honest Hodge.—Chelms-
ford Chronicle.

' ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT or PRISON BY PRISONERS
CONFINED IN PRESTON.—On Wednesday last, an ingeni-
ously and deliberately formed plan for breaking out of the
house of correction in this town was detected in the follow-
ing manner :—lt appears that one of the prisoners, by name
Peter Howarth, had lost a handkerchief, supposed to have
been stolen by another prisoner. On search being made for
it, a curiously constructed rope was discovered concealed
under a board in the privy, so placed that unless special
search bad been made for that or some other article, it was
most likely to have escaped observation. The rope had been
constructed by this artful device : some of the prisoners had
been supplied by their friends with some new worsted stock-
ings, and these had been unravelled and re-constructed into
a rope of several feet length, and of sufficient strength to have
held a horse. Some spikes, supposed to have been thrown
over the wall by the accomplices of some of the prisoners,
had been bent and fastened to the end of the rope to form a
grapnel. The intention had evidently been to throw the rope
over the wall of the prison yard, aud, by this mean*, to climb
over the wall for that Purpose. Doubtless, had is not been
for the accidental search after the handkerchief. the scheme
would sooner or later have succeeded. We believe, so far
as we can gather, the opinion entertained by the officers is,
that the intention was to take the opportunity of their being
engaged on Thursday, at the sessions, to make the attempt.
Preston Chronicle.

VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A MEDICAL
OFFICER OF THE BOLTON UNION.-011 Friday last, in the
forenoon, an inquest was held at the house of Mr. A. Hardie,
the Lord Nelson Tavern, Derby-street, Bolton, before Mr.
Taylor, borough coroner, on the body of Margaret Heywood,
single woman, who died in Great Bolton workhouse, on Wed-
nesday last. Deceased had been fumigated in a sulphur, or,
as it was commonly called, brimstone, vapour-bath, on the
16th ult., and although quite healthy at the time, she had
been unwell ever since, complaining of pain in the left side,
and of heat and obstruction in the urinal passages. She had
alto a cough, and said all her teeth were loose. The jury
assembled at ten o'clock in the morning ; adjourned between
two and three o'clock to four in the afternoon, and, in the
meantime, an examination of the body was made by Mr. J.
M. Robinson, who, in his evidence, attributed the death of
deceased to inflammation of the lungs, followed by effusion of
water in the chest. The disease, in a portion of the lungs
and the pleura, was of long standing. Some of the appear-
ances were of more recent formation, and might be occasioned
by sudden transition from a hot room to a cold one, or even
by a common cold. The apparatus seemed to him to be well
calculated for the purpose to which it had been applied, and
he knew that sulpur baths were in daily use for such pur-
poses among all classes: Mr. J. H. Browne appeared at
the adjourned inquest, and cross-examined the witnesses.
At a quarter to seven the room was cleared of all but the
jury, and after they had been in discussion about an hour,
they returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Mr.
Heap, the medical officer. Deceased was 43 years of age and
of weak intellect.

TRADING IN PATRIOTISM.—I know a family—not indeed
in this village, but in a town of some commercial importance
--who, whenever business becomes dull, contrive to get up
some patriotic display either in the way of a public meeting
or a public dinner ; or, mayhap, a collectivn towards the
" repeal rent." The shrewd people of that good town, how-
ever, remark, that immediately after these flourishes there is
always a new importation of goods to the houses of these
patriots, or a new puff in the shop-windows, or at the shop-
door— " Best and Cheapest Jamaica Sugar," " New Seeds,"
" Fresh-ground Coffee," &c. It is then, of course, ru-
moured about that there are no goods like Mr. ---'s, " the
true friend of O'Connell and Ireland."—From the Rea. Jae.
Birmingham's recent Letter to the Dublin Monitor.