The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Metcalf is improving since his arrival in London.
Primroses were gathered the other day, in the neigh-
bourhood of Doncaster.
The G•eat Western Railway Company have subscribed
£3OO to the Ascot Race Fund.
Upwards of 600 sail of vessels put into Milford Haven
for shelter during the late gals.
The Oxford and Cambridge Review has an article by
Lord John Manners, advocating free trade.
MINING IN FURNESS.—A valuable discovery of it on
ore has recently been made on a range of bills called
Ricket Hills, by Messrs.'rown and Rawlinson, of Dalton.
The Rev. W. Gresley has pronounced the glorious re.
volution of 1688 to be a transaction, "false in principle
and pernicious in its results !"
It is generally believed that in the event of a dissolution
of Parliament, John Bowes, Esq., does not intend again
to offer his services to the electors of South Durham.
his said that Mr. Cardwell, at present Secretary to the
Treasury, is to succeed Mr. Hope, as Under-Secretary to
the Colonies.
A fine dish of white currants was gathered on Christ-
mas-day in the garden of William Ford, Esq., of Yeo,
near Yealhampton.
The wheat plants are looking very promising, and there
has seldom been a better prospect at Christmas for the
ensuing harvest than this year. •
Mr. S. E. Cayley, M.P., says :—" That a duty of 15s.
per quarter on wheat only adds one farthing and 1-16th
to the price of a quartern loaf."
On Saturday evening a young author, Mr. J. Christian
Ross, destroyed himself at a coffee-house in Aldergate-
street, by taking prussic acid, in consequence of the re-
jection of one of his articles by a popular magazine.
A " High Change," similar to those of London, Liver-
pool, and Manchester, has lately been erected at Bristol,
which has heretofore been deficient in this convenience for
merchants.
The driver of the Portpatrick and Dumfries mail having
slipped, the other day, as he was about to mount his box,
the horses started off without attendant, and ran upwards
of three miles without accident.
The good service pension of £3OO per annum, which re-
verted to the Admiralty on the death of Admiral Sir C.
Rowley, Bart., is conferred on William Hotham, G.C.8.,
Admiral of the White.
On Thursday last a chi oney was blown down at Bal-
last Hills, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The bricks fell
through the roof and killed an infant that was sleeping in
a cradle.
A short time since a dog, at Cardiff, seeing his portrait
exhibited to some gentlemen, sprung at the painting in a
rage, and, before he could be prevented, partially defaced
it

An American ship arrived in St. Katherine's Docks,
last week, with a large cargo of potatoes from the Uuited
States. The potatoes appear to be of excellent size and
quality.
It is a curious circumstance, that, during the five days
that Lord John Russell was supposed to be in power, not
a voice was raised in the " famine cry," nor a word said
upon the " potatoe disease."
The duty on the importation of foreign wheat has this
week advanced to 15s. per quarter. The grain markets,
generally, have become animated, and prices have ad-
vanced in a moderate degree.
QUICK JUSTICE.—In the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-
square, London, on Friday, at the commencement, the
Jury were sorn four times, four causes tried, and four
verdicts recorded in twenty minutes.
The Reverend Librarian of Lambeth Palace, Mr.
Maitland. at one time acquired the soubriqpet of the
Clerical Fox-hunter, from his zeal to pick out every error
to be found in the ponderous volumes of the holiest
martyrologist.
Mr. Pugin, the Romish architect, lives at Ramsgate,
near to the spot where St. Austin is said to have first set
his foot on English ground. He has commenced, at an
estimated cost of £lO,OOO, the erection on this spot
.of a
church, school, and cloister.
NOVEL IDEA OF INDIFENDENCE.—The English
Churchman, in announcing itself to be " in an indepen-
dent position," suggests to its subscribers the doubling of
their annual subscription, by which means, it says, " the
loss on the paper would be entirely got rid of.
STOVES IN CrauncnEs.—On Sunday week Stanwix
church was nearly burnt down, owing to the fire in the
stove communicating with the woodwork of the pews. The
pulpit, with several pews in the neighbourhood, was de-
stroyed, and the organ materially injured.
Dr. Polli, of Milan, known to the medical world by his
remarkable researches on the blood, has just communi-
cated to the Scientific Congress at Naples, a proceeding
to render salt water drinkable by means of electricity.—

Medical Times.
A well-sinker has bcen suffocated at Market Weston,
by incautiously descending a well without having first
tested the state of the air by means of a candle. In the
course of the previous hour a stratum of carbonic acid gas
had formed for a depth of thirty feet; and as soon as he
went down, the man fell senseless.
Lord Lyttleton has sent circulars to his tenants caution-
ing them against disposing of their corn at injurious prices,
arid offering such accommodation as may be necessary to
enable them to hold their stocks. The noble lord says

that the present reduced price of whear 15
the recent political chang:s, but that prices are certain to
to up again ; and if his tenants cannot pay their rents now
due, they have only to apply to his agent, and time will be
afforded to enable them to retain their corn until the
markets resume their former stability.

Ile resu

MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—The Duke of Buccl.euch
will succeed the late Lord Wharncliffe as President of the

Council. Lord Ellenborough will return to office as First
Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Haddington has accepted
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the Privy Seal in rooniof the Duke of Iticcleuch.—Ti;nes.
AMAZING UNANIMITY.—The Leeds Mercury states
that in the village of Quarmby, near Huddersfield, there
are twenty-four houses and seventeen county voters, al:

of whom signed the requisition of Lord Morpeth. So it
seems the very stones cry out to be represented by his

Lordship.
Great Protectionist meetings have been held during the
week, in Sussex, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Es-
sex, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, and other
parts of the country. At a meeting at Chichester on Wed-
nesday, the Times newspaper was gibbeted and burnt, in
presence of the chairman, the Duke of Richmond !
Men are collecting their thoughts after the alarm of a
Whig-Radical Government, and with such symptoms of
returning confidence, that the Three per cents. have risen
from 92 to 95k, in the short space of nine days ; a testi-
mony to the confidence which the fundholders lately
placed in a free-trade Government.—Morning Herald.
DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE MILL NEAR KENDAL.—
On Saturday night last the neighbourhood of Kendal was
visited with a severe gale of wind and rain, which effected
the almost entire destruction of a very large and extensive
mill at Scarrs Foot, near the above town, the property of
G. and J. Braithwaite, manufacturers, which was in the
course of erection.

LORD GREY.—It appears that one strong expression
was omitted in Mr. Macaulay's letter, which appeared in
our last, relative to these noblemen. It is said that the
original letter contained some very strong expressions of
Mr. Macaulay towards Earl Grey ; one sentence particu-
larly was to the effect that the noble lord, in Mr. M.'s
opinion, is "the most arrogant, most capricious, and
most wayward of mankind."
EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY AND PASSlON.—Yesterday
week, a woman named Thorpe died at Bradford from the
effects of arsenic. The deceased had quarrelled with her
husband on Thursday, on a slight matter, and went to
live with her brother-in-law. On Saturday morning a
meddling neighbour told her a tale of her husband's infi-
delity, and in a fit of passion she procured the poison,
and died soon after taking it.
A MAN SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR A WILD DUCK.—On
the night of Tuesday a person named Gooderson, while in
his fowling skiff in Cowbit Wash, fired at what he consi-
dered to be a group of birds ; but was horror-struck when
he discovered as the object of his aim his old comrade
Jackson, who, like himself, was in pursuit of birds but
faint hopes are entertained of poor Jackson's recovery.—
Lincoln Chronicle.

THE BIRDS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—This collection,
which belongs to the Ornithological Society, at the pre-
sent time contains upwards of three hundred birds„ in-
cluding twenty-one species, and fifty-one distinct varieties.
Although some of the specimens occasionally wander to
some distance, but comparatively few are lost, as they
generally return, even after a long absence, the secluded
plantations and islands being quite congenial to their
habits.

How TO MAKE A CHURCH.—A service took place on
Tuesday, D comber 23d, in the Adelphi Chapel, Hackney-
road, to organise a Christian Church in this newly-erected
place of worship. After suitable exhortation and prayer,
the members received the right hand of fellowship, and
were recognised and declared to be a Church of Christ.
The recognition was then confirmed by a participation in
the ordinance of the Lord's Supper with the ministers
and members of other Churches.—Nonconformist.
SUICIDES OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—On Saturday
week Col. Gurwood, the distinguished officer and author
of " The Wellington Dispatches," destroyed himself at
Brighton by cutting his throat with a razor. The medical
gentleman gave it as his opinion that the act was induced
by the relaxation of the nerves consequent on the comple-
tion of the work above referred to, and on which the mind
of the deceased was intently fixed.—The last intelligence
from India details the distressing suicide by poison of
Ensign Wm. Miles of the sth regiment Bombay Light
Infantry (Native.)
PROBABLE INCREASE OF THE INCOMIC-TAX.—We
hear on good authority that orders have been issued from
the Treasury for official returns to be made of the res-
pective amounts that would be realised by the different
heads of " lands," " professions," " salaries," &c., on an
income tax of five per cent. instead of the present rate of
sevenpence in the pound. This would seem to countenance
the rumour that it is in contemplation to charge some
branches of local taxation on the Consolidated Fund.—
Britannia. [This, it will be remembered, corroborates
pro touts our announcement of last week. The New-
castle Journal seems to think our information will be
found correct ]

NOVEL INTERMENT CASE.—On Monday last, pursu-
ant to advice given by counsel. the Board of Guardians
caused the child, to which the Vicar of Leigh bad refused
interment, to be prssented at the church-yard for burial.
An order had been served on the vicar, and on his refus-
ing, notice of intention tc bury the corpse was served on
the vicar, the clerk, and the sextoness. Several hundreds
of persons assembled on Monday afternoon to witness the
proceedings, and at four o'clock the funeral procession
arrived, and, as was expected, found the gates locked, and
their admission refused. They stood at the gates half an
hour with the child, and afterwards returned to Bedford
with the corpse.

POISONING—A man named Farrer, a butcher, near
Tadcaster, died on Sunday week very suddenly. He was
out at dinner with his sister,'Mrs. Prout, and, before the
cloth was removed, Mr. and Mrs. Prout, Mr. Farrar, and
other members of the family became alarmingly ill. Me-
dical assistance was promptly obtained, and in the case of
the several individuals of Mr. Prout's family the treat-
ment was successful in averting any immediate fatal re-
sult. Mr. Farrar died in two hours from the time he sat
down to dinner. It appears that a boy had been sent in-
to the garden for some horseradish, and in mistake ga-
thered some portion of the root known as Monk's Hood,
with which strong poison the gravy had become impreg-
nated.—Leeds Paper.

CURIOUS.—WhiIe a gentleman was looking at the
salmon essaying to pass Powick weir the other day, his
dog (a bitch of the Newfoundland breed) discovered a
very curious magazine. She began scratching and sniff-
ing violently at a rat-hole situate under a beam at the ex-
tremity of the weir, and some couple of yards from the
water ; guessing there was something extraordinary there,
it was examined, when it was found to contain nineteen
lamperns all alive and in good order, which some fisher-
men insisted had been stored there by the rats. As the
water had not reached the spot for a long time previous,
the lamperns clearly had been carried there by some
means, and the fishermen say that the rats are continually
in the habit of robbing their putcheons.—Hereford
Paper.
SOMNAMBULISM REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.—
About five o'clock on Friday morning as constable Parry
was on duty near Eign-brook Chapel, in this city, he
heard something fall heavily, and immediately made
search, and in the street, close under the shop-window of
Mr. Algood, discovered what he thought was the body of
a man with nothing on but his night-dress. Upon raising
it up, however, he found that it was an aged female, in a
state of utter insensibility, or as he at first thought quite
dead. She was taken into the house, and placed in a bed,
and it transpired that her name was Mrs. Evans, and her
age between 70 and 80 years. The solution of the occur-
rence is, that she had risen in her sleep, and that, getting
out of the window, she first fell upon the ledge of the
shop-window of the house where she lodged, which broke
her descent to the ground, a height of many feet, or she
would certainly have been killed. We are happy to learn
that Mrs. Evans is going on favourably.—Hereford Jour-
nal. _ .

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DICKENS'S NEWSPAPER.—The first number of the
Daily News will appear in a fortnight. Its peculiar feature
will be, that the literary body, so long second to the com-
mercial in the daily press, will be in the foreground.
They are committing a great mistake in avowedly starting
on the extreme Liberal interest. Bradbury and Evans r
are the proprietors. Dickens, it is now said, will not be
the editor, as stated .in a paragraph going the rounds of
the press, but Foster, the literary editor of the Examiner.
They have decided on giving their reporters seven instead
of five guineas a week, for their annual engagements.
The proprietors of the Morning Herald, which has lately
been drawing an enormous revenue from advertisements,
the price of the column formerly £l2, being now £3O,
intimated the other day, to their Bombay and Calcutta
correspondents, the increase of their salaries from £l2O,
which is paid the former. to £4OO, and from £lOO, the sa-
lary of the latter, to £3OO per annum. The foreign cor-
respondents of the morning journals are paid from five to
ten guineas a week ; and the express India mail, fort-
nightly, stands the Times and Herald each £BOO a month.
The principal editor is paid at the rate of 30 guineas a
week, and the subs., of which there are six or seven to
each paper, (not to speak of the managing editor, whose
services are recompensed with 12 guineas per week,) re-
ceive from eight to ten guineas weekly. The parlia-
mentary reporters to each paper ♦ary from sixteen to
twenty, at the salary above stated, irrespectively of
which there are nine law reporters, at from three to five
guineas a week, nine others who attend the police offices,
at no fixed salaries, besides supernumeraries, who pick
up a trifle in the aesident and ooeurrence line.
BANKRUPTCY.—The total number of bankruptcies that
have occurred in and up to a late period of the expiring
year is, 1,028 and, it appears that there were 7 apothe-
caries, 1 attorney, 9 auctioneers. 7 bakers, 5 beersellers,
18 booksellers, 21 shoemakers, 14 brewers, 11 brick-
layers and reasons, 3 brickmakers, 18 brokers, 33 builders
19 butchers, 15 cabinet-makers, 4 calico printers. 10 car-
penters, 1 carpet manufacturer, 7 carriers and carmen, 3
carvers and gilder', 8 cattle-dealers, 7 cheesemongers, 21
druggists, 2 clothiers, 2 cloth manufacturers, 1 cloth
merchant, 3 coach makers, 3 coach and omnibus pro-
prietors, 19 coal merchants, 18 commission agents, 2 con-
tractors, 1 cook and confectioner, 15 corn merchants, 6
cotton manufacturers, 2 cotton spinners, 12 curriers, 3
cutlers, 4 dairymen, 5 dealers, 33 drapers, 11 dyers, 3
earthenware dealers, 3 coffee-house keepers, 9 engineers,
1 engraver, 8 farmers, 4 farriers, 4 fell-mongers, 2 fish-
mongers, 2 fruiterers, 6 glass merchants, 59 grocers, 6
hatters, 11 hosiers, 44 innkeepers, 8 ironfounders, 14
ironmongers, 2 jewellers, 2 lacemen, 3 leather sellers, 1
limeburner, 18 linen drapers, 1 livery-stable-keeper, 1
lodging• housekeeper, 7 machinists, 5 maltsellers, 2 mar-
ket gardeners, 4 mercers, 40 merchants, 4 milliners, 8
m'llers, 6 money-scriveners, 5 musical instrument makers,
8 oil and colourmen, 5 painters, 4 paperhangers, 6 paper
makers, 1 pawn broker, 20 plumbers and glaziers, 8 prin-
ters, 2 print and musicsellers, 8 provision dealers, 2 sad-
dlers, 1 sailcloth manufacturer, 3 shipb okers, 3 ship-
owners, 3 shipwrights, 4 silk manufacturers, 3 smiths, 1
soapmaker, 9 stationers, 6 surgeons and dentists, 16 tail-
ors, 4 tallowchandlers, 11 teadealers, 5 timber-merchants,
2 tobacconists, 3 trimming-makers. 9 upholsterers, 63
victuallers, 12
_warehousemen, 8 watchmakers, 4 wharf-
fingers, 5 wheelwrights, 36 wine and spirit-merchants, 3
woollen-drapers, 7 woollen-manufacturers, 1 woolstapler,
3 worsted-manufacturers, 1 worsted-spinner, and 57 of
various occupations.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Sunday, a tailor named
Porter, at Bradford, entered his father's house, on a bed
in which lay his sister, who had only been ten minutes de-
livered of a child; he dragged his sister from the bed, and
threw her into the street, where she was found by the
watchman, who had her immediately conveyed to bed
again. The watchman was alarmed by the smell of burn-
ing, and he hastened up stairs and found that the priso-
ner had broken open a box, and had taken from thence
his sister's and child's clothing, and put them on the fire,
from which in burning they had fallen on the hearthstone,
He then went down stairs and took up a chair, which he
raised for the purpose of striking his sister as she lay on
the bed, when his father struck him with a hammer and
felled him, he was then secured and taken to the lock-up.
—Leeds paper.
YACHT CLUBS.—Mr. James Knight, secretary of the
Royal Southern Yacht Club, proposes a magnificent re-
view of all the yacht clubs in the kingdom, to take place
before her Majesty, off the Isle of Wight, in the yachting
months of 1846. Of its magnificence some idea may be
form td from the fact being that there are more than 11
clubs, commanding a force exceeding fire hundred yachts,
and as the statistics of such a force may be interesting to
the lovers of aquatic amusements, we may conclude by lay-
ing the following particulars before our readers :
No. of No. No. No. Principally

Distinction of Clubs. Yachts. Tons. Men. Guns.Brasinli.
Royal Yacht Squadron 102 9000 1600 400 from 2to 9
Royal Thames Yacht Club 146 4400 540 220 from to 6
Royal Western Yacht Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6
Royal Southern Yacht Club 67 2800 350 230 from Ito 9
Royal Victoria Yacht Club 38 3200 420 250 from 2to 6
Royal Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 no 40 from to 4
Royal Cork Yacht Club
Royal Mersey Yacht Club
Royal Northern Yacht Club
Royal Eastern Yacht Club
Royal Kingstown Yacht Club 29 1380 230 70 from Ito 6

Deduct about 1-6th for the

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621 29250 4380 1810

same Yachts belonging to
different Clubs, you will
have a grand total of .... 530 25000 3900 1500
The seamen are exclusive of masters, cooks, and stew-
ards, which would give at least 800, in addition to the
foregoing numbers. The. wages alone for the masters and
seamen exceed £120,000 per annum, and the intrinsic
value of the yachts, with their armament complete, is
more than three quarters of a million of money.
THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—Considerable discussion took
place last week between the Times and Morning Herald
as to whether the route via Marseilles or Trieste is the
most,9xpeditious, the Herald having on the last occasion,
by the former route, outstripped its contemporaries. The
Herald gives the following explanation as to its arrange-
ments :—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser-
vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's
project for conveying the Indian Mail via Germany—
offered, no doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for
bringing the Times' despatches, and with the hope of
receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon
proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the
Trieste route was the shortest, by running as rapid an
express as possible from Suez via Marseilles. The only
difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from
Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty
we wrote to the French Government, stating our intention,
asking the favour that one of the usual passenger steam-
boats trading between Alexandria and Marseilles might
be placed at our disposal, and offering to pay all expenses
incurred in that service. The French Government hav-
ing considered our proposition, answered that they could
not comply with our request, but, to show their desire to
afford every possible assistance in accomplishing an object
of so much importance to England as‘the expediting the
conveyance of the Indian Mail, they had determined upon
placing at our disposal a French war-steamer, which
could convey our agent to Egypt to arrange the express
from Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which ves-
sel the French Government could not possibly receive any
pecuniary remuneration, but they expected that a copy
of the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered
to the Government in Paris as soon as our courier ar-
rived there.

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A WOMAN EATEN BY
RATS.—On Friday week, Mr. Jewison, Coroner, held an
inquest at Tong, on view of the body of Sarah Holds-
worth, a woman 84 years of age, who was found dead in
her house. The old woman resided in a hovel somewhere
in the neighbourhood of Dudley Hill, and though so far
advanced in life resided alone. For two days previous to
her death she had been confined to bed, having no one to
attend on her but a step-son nearly as old as herself. On
Wednesday night, at eight, be left her in bed, and re-
tired for the night ; next morning he found her laid on
the floor dead, and presenting a most horrible spectacle.
Her right eye was nearly eaten out, her left eye was eaten,
her forehead and nose were gnarled, and the edges of a
sore on one arm had also been gnawed. It appeared that
the residence of the deceased was infested by rats, which
had become so bold that they had on former occasions
actualy eaten the old woman's chemise as she lay in bed,
likewise her other clothing and the bed clothes, into holes.
To keep them from attacking her person she had been ac-
customed, as was the case on Wednesday night, to have
alstick laid on the bed. Nothing bad been heard in the
night in her cottage. It is believed that the vermin, more
ravenous than usual, had attacked her as she lay, and
that to escape them she made an effort too great for her
feeble state, a fit had come on, of which she died, but
that the rats made their horrid feast before life was ex-
tinct. The unfortunate old woman was in the receipt of
3s. a-week relief from the union, and but a short time
ago it was sought to take her to the workhouse, but her
opposition was so great that the relieving officer was
obliged to desist. She paid 6d. a-week rent for her hovel,
and when found had 6s. 7d., which she bad saved up to
pay her rent. In connection with this little hoard a
simple but affecting incident was related. On Wednes-
day her step-son, who appears to have been a tender,
affectionate nurse, gave her some some tea without sugar
or milk, and a piece of dry, coarse bread. The poor old
woman said she could like something nice, the addition of
milk and sugar to her tea, and of butter to her bread,
would probably have been quite a luxury ; but though so
ill not a word was said of dipping into the rent fund.