The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Bey of Tunis has forwarded to the Queen a present
of several horses, lions, and other animals.
On Saturday, a little boy was suffocated in a chimney,
at Limerick, which he had been employed to sweep.
Mr. Wm. Chambers, of Edinburgh, is now said to be
the author of "The Vestiges of Creation." _

On Tuesday last peaches and nectarines, with a profu-
sion of cherries and strawberries, was offered in Covent-
garden Market.
On Tuesday her Majesty and her Royal Consort, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
left Claremont in an open carriage and four, escorted by
a party of the 7th Hussars, for town.
DONCASTER.—The inhabitants of this town are endea-
vouring by petition to get enrolled amongst the list ol par-
liamentary borouehs• Mr. E. Denison has given notice of
a motion in parliament, with a view to such object.
On Saturday, Captain Duff, resident magistrate in
Roscommon, was accidentally killed by the kick of a
horse. The gallant officer had been several years in the
army, and had seen much service.
On Tuesday last, at Kirk Bramwith, a young man, who
is of unsound mind, attacked his aged father, and beat
his skull in with a dock weight. lhe old man died on
the following night.

StrictnE.--On Monday, a man named Crooks, 57 years
of age, a widower with six children, laid hims.if delibe-
rately across the rails on the Sheffi-Id and Manchester
line, as a tra n was apprcaching, and was literally cut in
pieces.
No less than 109 gentlemen have' been
preceding month.
been gazetted as cor-
nets and ensigns in the army during-the
31 only of whom have parchased the eommi,,sions. The
promotiou from the ranks have also been numerous.
On Thursday, two gentlemen were taken before Alder-
man Gibbs, and remanded, relative to the i-s.ue of krged
scrip in the Buckinghamshire Railway. They lad had
£6BO advanced on 1000 shares, the scrip for which was
afterwards discovered to be forged.
At Penrith cattle fair, Air. William Armstrong lost
bank notes and bills to the amount of £9OO. Thf y were
found by a yoeman named Hetherington, who got them
pri:claimed by the town crier, and received a shilling as a
reward of his honesty.

May 12, 1846.

Mr. Charles Dickens, like many other great 'men, is
about to seek relaxation repose, and sundry other com-
forts, on the continent. It is to he hoped that the public
will profit more largely by this sojourn than they did by
Mr. Dickens's trip to Italy.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR MARTYRDOM.—MF. Dil-
lon Browne, M.P. for Mayo, has intimated that he mutt.
at certain periods attend! railway committees, although
he must give a great dea of tr“uhle, owing to his igno-
rance of engineering and railroads, but that he will NOT
attend during the sittings of the House of Commons.
The King of the French has written an autograph letter
to Sir Robert Peel, expressing his Majesty's acknowledg-
ments for the kind and handsome manner in which the
right bon. baronet bad proposed the toast of his Ma-
jesty's health at the late civic banquet given by the Lord,
Mayor of London.

MR. O'CONNELL'S CONSISTENCY !-011 Thursday
evening week, at Exeter-hall, Mr. O'Connell made a
speech in favour of a resolution for the abolition of capital
punishment. He made another speech the same evening
at the Crown and Anchor, in which be declared "that the
red hand of God was against murder," and that " he who
shed blood deser, ed that his blood should be shed."
A cu, ions shipment was made a few days since from our
quays. It consisted of a quantity of screened gravel, in
sacks, to be laid down in a gentleman's garden at Valparaiso.
It is remarkable that whilst this shipment of gravel for one
part of America was going on at Poole, a vessel from ano-
ther part of the same continent was discharging at Liver-
pool a cargo of white gravel just imported.—Poole Herald.
IRISH GRAIN AND OATMEAL.—It appears by a par-
liamentary return that there were imported into Great
Britain, from Ireland, from the sth of March to the sth
of April, 1846—wheat, 19,540 quarters; barley, 10,148
quarters ; oats, 80,803 quarters; wheatmeal, or flour,
89.048 cwt. ; oatmeal, 50,360 cwt. This does not look
like " famine in Ireland."
The Daily News will appear on and after the Ist June
at the reruced price of 24d. Report states its new pro-
prietor to be Mr. Railway Hudson : we believe, however,
that this is incorrect, and that the paper is, or is about to
be, the property of a gentleman who already is proprietor
of the leading weekly literary journal, under whose auspi-
ces it is likely to lose its irreligious tone, and to deserve
more success than it has hitherto met with.
The Rev. J. R. Stephens, who figured some years ago
with so much effect as an opponent of the new poor laws,
is now settled
_down as a farmer between Ashton and
Oldham, and was, a few days ago, sworn in as head
constable in the township in which tie resides, before the
magistrate who signed his committal to gaol four or five
years since, on the charge of a political offence at Hyde,
for which he was tried at Chester before Mr. Justice
Patteson, and convicted.

ADVICE TO O'BRIEW.—GO to Nathan's. Hire—the
Repeal A-soeiation wilt, of course, come down with the
needful—hire a regular stage Irishman's dress. Let there
be no crown to your hat, no end to the holes in your
breeches; swathe hay-bands round your limbs; stick a
dudeen in your mouth, grasp a shillelagh in your hand,
enter the house with a caper, a howl, and a twirl of the
oaken towel ; invite Sir James Graham to ''thraydefon the
tails or your coat," and then, Oh Paddy Smith O'Brien,
ito.tead o' speaking the words, sing the " Groves of
Blarney !"

IMPORTATION OF GREEN GINGER.—On Thursday, a
sale of 74 casks of green ginger, in a recent and even-
growing state, brought by the Severn steamer from Ja-
maica, took place at Monumeot Yard, at the average
price of 30s. per cwt. The novelty of the article attracted
a considerable attendance of buyers, as it was the first•
that had been introduced into this country, and the ma-
jority of lots were sold to wine makers, chemists, and'
some of the most eminent tavern-keepers, in the city, ae
well as to horticulturists, in order to experiment upon ite
cultivation here.—Morning Pose.
THE IRISH REPII.AL THRONE.—Mr. O'Connell exhi-
bits the silos of a sudden and rapid change in his health;
he is getting more infirm, so much so as to have lost every
trace of that hale vigour which made the record of his
age no more than a foil to his aspect. His gait is now
excessively slow—not with deliberate dignity, but with
evident incapacity for speed. His very features have
shrunken, and his voice. once so loud and large in volume,
has become so weak that at a public meeting, on Wed-
nesday, he was saluted with unaccustomed cries to "speak
up"; anti was so saluted in vain.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.—On Tuestlav evening, about 7
o'clock. a brickmaker, named Wm. Luff. residing in Peter-
street, Westminster, a district chiefly inhabited by a very
criminal population, quarrelled with a young woman who
has lived with him for some time as his wife, and, after
beating her most horribly with a poker while he hauled
her by the hail• round the room, he threw her out of a
two-pair window into a paved yard. She was picked up,
senseless and bleeding, with her face so dreadfully muti-
lated that not a femme of her face could be distinguished.•
Even the thieves and other had characters who infest the
neighbourhood were so horrifit d at the brutality of Luff,
that they detained lirn until a policeman took him into
custody.

A KNOTTY POINT arose on Thursday before the Court
of Queen's Bench, in a case where a man bad brought
an action of ej ctmerit against his own wife to recover pos-
session of premises held over. A verdict having been had
for the plaintiff, a rule was subsequently granted for a new
trial, on the ground that a husband could not maintain an
action against his wife. Defendant's counsel on Thursday
spewed cause against the rule, and an onest other causes
adduced was the following :—viz., that " the real plaintiff
in this kind of action was not the husband, but the imagi-
nary personage called John Doe, between whom and the
defendant it tens impossible that the relation of htliba.,"l,
and wife could exist, as John did not exist himseif.
Plaintiff's counsel tetorted, that if John wbs not the hus-
band of his client, it was equally certain that he never
gave her notice to quit. Bewildered amongst its own fic-
tions, the court took time to consider the rase.
THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN.—When Sir
Harry Smith was a child six years of age his father had a
horse to sell. The animal was so thoroughly vicious that
when a purchaser appeared no one dared to mount him.
On one occasion a mi.itary officer went over to Whittlesea
to view this redoubtable steed ; and, wishing to see its
paces, he requested the man who lid it to jump up and
go through the process of a walk, a trot, and a gallop. As
the man t-vitic: d a very prudent reluctance to perform the
required act of equestrianism, little Harry, who was pre-'
sent, declared that he could manage the horse, baying
been on its back before. His father had faith both in 1)11.
word and ability, arid Master Harty got his " leg up,
and managed his charger like a young Alexander on ano-
ther Bucephalus. It was this act of courage th,A, throng°
the officer who witnessed it, led to Harry Smith's entering
into the army ; and truly the good people of Whittles°
mar well he proud of the day.

FORD TITHE CASE.—The long litigated case of Knight+.
clerk, v. the Marquis of Waterford, in respect to the,
tith,s in the parish of Ford, came be'ore the Court er,
Exchequer on Tuesday last. Sir Frederick Pollock, Chief
Baron, presiding. The substantial question was, whether
the tithes of the manor of Ford belonged to the plaintiff
as rector. or to the defendant as lord of the manor, upon
a payment of £4O yer annum to the rector : the court
having heard the arguments on two or three previon!
days doling the term. now pronounced its judgment. Th!
application on behalf of the plaintiff was for a new it'll'
and the court thought the application should be grantee',
upon the ground that the payment of a specifjcpunl
money, for sixty-three years before the passing of Pr
Limitation Act (3 and 4 Wm. IV, c. 27) did not undet
the peculiar circumstances of this case, the detention(
himself claiming a right to sueli tithes in consideration.
such payment, amount to a modus, discharge, or exemPtle
from payment of tithes to the rector. 0,, this point the
court was of (minion that there had been a misdirection
Mr. Baron Rolfe' at the trial at Newcastle upon-Tyner
anti th,re must, therefore, be a new trial.
THE COAL TRADE OF ENGLAND.—ff.nglAnd poSsegel
the richest veins of coal, both as regards quality 81,..
quantity. They form a line from south-west to fifirt;(l
west. In Nerthuinberland and Durham, from the Tsce-of
to the Tees, coal abounds; at Whitehaven, in the hills.g
Cumberland, in Yu, kshire, and in Lancashire. The reed
abundant mines are in Wales. The consumption of teit
in England and in exportation is so great, that it has o
been asked if the mines would not be exhausted; hut,o4
cording to calculations made ire proportion to the Pre 5110
consumption, they could not be exhausted under
.1 fig
years. The vear'y eon-umption in Great Brittnnileci
20,000.000 to 21,000,000 tons. The exporbeion inert's: in
in the Gdfowing proportions:—in 1830, 505,421 tott:;o6,
1832. 588,440 tons; in 1834, 621,256 torts; in it 00,
1,1111,0110 torts ; in 1838, 1.413.800 tons ; i"
1,621.300 tons; in 1842, 2,120,000 tons; and in 000.
2,410,000 tons. The number of mines exceeds 5;:\;.-P`l
Raatiah carat is fn ilt3ei in facfsryr port pf th'. at
world : there are deposits at Rio Janeiro, at Wort
Archangel, and at Constantinople. —Mining Jettrn 110
TnE 110YAL VICTORIA STEAM SHIP.—We il
opportunity, the other day, of inspecting the Royal nor-
toria steam ship, at Pert Carlisle. She has just u
gone censiderable improvements in her hull and 1110,0
nery, also in the painting andkdecorating of her caliien fl 6.
which we do not speak in too flattering terms rake'
say that they are now very elegant indeed, and 0,0r1t•
great credit upon the parties who executed thc ~e has
We were also gratified to learn that great advant%ayieo
been gained by the substitution of tubular boilers. !! direia
of thirty-five tons having been effected, by thelraratire,i
nished weight and the smaller supply of water t"
by these than by the boilers of the old descripti?%/farq
the space in the afterhold is increased so ss tel code.
stowage for that arneunt of extra weight of genera. ,it.
The speed of the vessel ha. also been very materia'
creased. On Friday last she perform. d the veYegield had
Annan Water Foot to Liverpool in 91- hours, "oefia
nearly 100 fat sheep 40 fat cattle, besides a lieBo,- g4enrL
cargo on hoard. We are proud in having such a ;I'o the
vessel belonging to this port, and we heartilYiertskinr
n
company every success in prosecuting their "
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—Carlisle Jrurnal. SOt2Je: the
F•aulrY COURT, FRIDAY.—CHUBB wato,oo,
This was an application for an injunction to re Lone a
defendant, a furniture-broker, Queen-street,
evetsfthe.
from making or selling any iron doors, safesinietiff'o
boxes, in imitation of those made by the c,t, re of
well-known iron box and lock maker, in 'behalf ea
Churchyard, London. Affidavits were read o"„urebuede
the plaintiff, showing that iron safes had been be 'Soh
from the defendant, which were represenlfa_,; thst,e 00-
by the plaintiff, but at a much less cost, "" wen" the
safes were of a very inferior quality, and Ifs fasit for;re-
thereby subjected to much injary. The affii;',id heel-The
defendant eenied that the safes, when sold, in' 404. who
presented to be n anufactuted by the I':ir,,,,Fses tie
Vice-Chancellor said there appeared to be w'iiiii,tift..offto
contradicted the stateme s made by the .11),,
thought there was not sufficient alleged by
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only f.atin_oes
enable him to intetoere y junction. The the Wl.:00
would be to send the case to a jnry, wherß., whierost,
would be suljected that cross-, xan.iflffnintionoo At
reasonab'y sure to bring out the truth. aer'
therefore, stand over, with liberty to b '6 in the
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