The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE

The contract of Messrs. Webb, for the foundation of the
hew Royal Exchange, was finished on Thursday evening, and
the Gresham committee met yesterday, at one o'clock, to
receive tenders for the second contract, which is for the com-
pletion of-the whole of the edifice.
Fourteen of the principal builders of London had, as we
formerly stated, been applied to, and it was also determined
that each tender should contain two prices ; the one being
for executing the mason's work with the best Portland stone;
the other the additional price for using magnesian limestone,
similar to that introduced at the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons.

The amounts of the several tenders were as follow :
September, 1841.
Tenders. Portland. Mag. Limest
Thomas Jackson.
Baker and Sons
Henry and John Lee
Samuel Grimsdall
Grissell and Peto
Piper and Co
John Jay..
John and Joseph Little
Webb and Co.
Joseph Bennett
Bridger and Co 131,519 138,660
William Cubitt
Nicholas Winsland
H. Ward and Co.

The tender of Mr. Thomas Jackson was, of course, ac-
cepted. The whole of the works are to be completed by
Midsummer, 18-14.—Herald of' Thursday.

THE MURDER NEAR STOKESLEY, IN 1830.

Thomas Grundy, the man committed as an accessory with
Goldsbrough, charged as the principal in this revolting
crime, terminated his existence by strangling himself soon
after his being received at York Castle. A coroner's inquest
was held on, the following day (Thursday week), when the
jury returned a verdict that the deceased feloniously and
wilfully destroyed himself, being at the time in a sound
state of mind.
The coroner then issued his warrant for the interment of
the body between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at
night, within twenty-four hours after the finding of the ver-
dict, in some churchyard or usual place, without Christian
burial.

The deceased was interred the same night, about ten
o'clock, in the cemetery.
The murdered man, whose bones were found as before
detailed, was a weaver, named Huntley, and resided at Eagle-
cliff, near Yarm ; in June, 1830, he received about £6O or
£7O, bequeated to him, and which lie was known to have on
his person the day of his mysterious disappearance. The
discovery of the remains, and the circumstance of some but-
tons being found with them, which were recognised as simi-
lar to those worn by Huntley at the time of his disappear-
ance, renewed the suspicions formerly entertained of his be-
ing murdered, and the magistrates in the division immedi-
ately took measures for unravelling.the mystery. Bills were
put out, offering a reward of £lOO, with her majesty's free
pardon to any person concerned in the murder, except the
actual perpetrator, who should give evidence. The police-
officers used great vigilance in collecting all the facts that
were at this distant period to be ascertained, and ultimately,
the suicide, Grundy, then living at Hutton Rudby, made
some important disclosures, which induced them to appre-
hend the prisoner, Robert Goldsbrough, who formerly re-
sided in the neighbourhood, but left about 1832, when he
went to Barnsley, at which place he has been located up to
the present time.
The substance of the disclosure made by Grundy is under-
stood to be, that Goldsbrough employed him to go to a wood
near Craythorne, where they found a sack containing a hu-
man body, which Goldsbrough told him was the body of
Huntley, whom he had shot on the precedink day. Grundy
became agitated and alarmed at this discovery, and, accord-
ing to his own account, he ran away, leaving Goldsbrough
with the body, within about a yard of the spot where it has
so recently been found underground. That Huntley was
murdered, and that the skeleton which is found is the remains
of the unfortunate man, there can be no doubt; but the sui-
cide of Grundy has, if possible, rendered the affair still more
mysterious.

The prisoner Goldsbrough has made a statement, in which
he asserts that on the Thursday previous to the Friday spoken
of, Huntley came to him, and they went and sat down in
Wearbank Wood. Huntley took out his money, and asked
prisoner what was the reason Mr. Garbutt, of N arm, had not
given him the whole of the money which he had belonging to
him. Huntley was no scholar, and prisoner told him the
reason : he then pressed witness to go to America with him,
which he declined doing, as he had two children, whom lie
thought it was his duty to support. He saw him again on
Saturday, and he went to Stokesley with him. On the
Thursday following he saw Huntley again : he pressed pri-
soner to go to America with him ; but he would not. Hunt-
ley sold his weaver's loom to George Garneby, and that night
prisoner shook hands with Huntley, and never saw him more.
The prisoner then declared his innocence, and had nothing
more to say than that his life was sold.

WHAT'S IN A NAME ?—The New York papers talk of the
'auccesss of a Dr. Feuchtwanger in destroying vermin, an art
which they call scolicotozzleology.

A piece of Egyptian antiquity has recently been brought to
light. It is a grand tableau, or picture, discovered in the
tombs of Beni Hassan, near Cairo, representing the arrival
of Joseph's brethren in Egypt. Joseph, in the costume of an
officer of State, appears in the act of presenting his brethren
to a viceroy of the reigning sovereign, in whose tombs the
tableau was found.

THE GREAT ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS.--The present
Arkwright is the son of Sir Richard. He has an income de-
rivable from estates worth, perhaps, £400,000, which he
manages himself without any steward or agent. Mr. Strut,
the also is the son of Sir Richard's old partner, who
is, I believe, still alive, and of a very advanced age. The
good fortune of this gentleman, who was originally brought
up in Sir Richard's family, is narrated thus :—The thread
wound round the bobbin after its being spun, used to ride
over the end of the bobbin or reel and break. It slipt or
slided over, and Mr. A. could not readily remedy the defect.
Strut was walking one day with him when the latter said to
Strut, " If you could but find out the way to make this con-
cern work batter, I would make a man of you. You shall
in
stantly
inquired a share in the business." " How much ?"
inquired Strut of his master. The amount was immediately
mentioned, and Strut being satisfied, at the same time rely-
ing
most implicitly upon Arkwright's honour, took out of his
pocket a piece of chalk, and proceeded to chalk over first one
bobbin and then another, and so on to twenty bobbins, so
that the thread could not pass or slide over the surface so
treated, and kept therefore in its proper place. Arkwright
law this, and admired its simplicity, and desired Strut to do
the whole ; which being accomplished, Arkwright completed
his bargain by giving him a share in the concern, and treating
him thenceforward as his partner. On another occasion
Strut was asked to remedy another defect in the machinery,
connected with the ravelling of the thread or webb. Strut
asked for a pair of scissors, cut off a bit of the flap of his
own coat, made a small round washer with a hole in the
centre, placed it under the wheel, and thus prevented its
vibration, by which the ravelling of the thread was occasi-
oned—a glaring and injurious defect in every species of cot-
ton manufacture. The old gentleman, who is in possession
of his faculties, is said to be anxious to dispose of the whole
of his prodigious concern, which affords employment to
nearly all the hands in Belper and Milford. He, lam told,
will be satisfied with a moderate sum, and leave, as a bonus,
£lOO,OOO of the purchase-money to be for use in the con-
cern for some years, at the smallest rate of interest for it,
and without interference on his part. Such are the men who
rise from nothing by dint of genius of some sort or another,
coupled with skill, assiduity, industry, mechanism, ability,
and above all, " honesty."— Granville's Spas of England.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE DAGUEREOTYPE.—The urgency
with which the artists of Paris have demanded from M.
Daguerre information respecting his discovery, announced by
us some months ago, appears to have forced a communica-
tion from him earlier than he would, himself, have chosen to
make it—his experiments not being complete. M. Arrago,
at the sitting of the 28th ult., explained to the academy the
new principle of which the discovery consists. The history
and description of the discovery is as follows :—Abandoning
the search in which so .many have been engaged, after some
fresh substance more sensitive to the action of light than
those hitherto employed, M. Daguerre submitted his plate,
merely washed with iodine, in the ordinary manner, to the
influence of electricity ; and found that it had attained such
an excessive degree of sensibility, that no mechanism exists
sufficiently rapid in its action to expose it uniformly to the
impression of light—that is, a plate so electrified and placed
in the camera obscura undergoes, during the one unappre-
ciated moment occupied in opening and shutting the dia-
phragm which covers the objective glass, such varied degrees
of impression, that the portion first brought into contact with
the light is already too profoundly marked ere it can touch
the latter portions. The result is a confused and a clouded
image. To meet the difficulty, M. Daguerre states that he
has employed a substance (which, however, he does not
name) less sensitive than the ordinary combination of iodine
with silver; aud, in the next, instead of subjecting his plate
to the continued action of the electric fluid, he admits the
intervention of this mysterious agent for a single instant
only. In more precise terms, the plate so prepared and dis-
posed in the camera, may be exposed, without injury, to the
action of the light for a certain time; and to communicate to
it the exquisite sensibility in question, a single electric spark
suffices, after-which, the plate resuming its inertness, time
is afforded to withdraw it from the influence of the light, and
the operation is complete. It is not easy to imagine the
artistic effects which will result from this remarkable disco-
very ; from the rapid action of the electric spark, vast as
assemblages of men, in the moment of animation and impulse
may be caught for eternity, with the gesture of the moment
in the limbs, and its expression on the lips of each. ' History
may be written, by picture, even while its deeds are acting;
and nature, in her subtlest movement, be painted by herself.
M. Daguerre, however, is not satisfied with such results as
he has yet obtained ; and in yielding to the demand for his
secret, has declined confirming it by his specimens, he
has succeeded in making them perfect. Meantime, the im-
portant part of his communication is the scientific phenome-
non itself—this wonderful effect of electricity on the chemical
combination, exposed to the action of the rays of light.—
Athenaton.