The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

THE RUN ON THE BANKS.—The following remarks of
the Liverpool Standard, in reference to its own town and
the country at large, are so sound and correct and so ap-
plicable to the present crisis, that we commend them to
perusal. [Our contemporary here gives the article which
we published last week in a second edition, and which we
reprint to-day.] These remarks are peculiarly applicable
to our own city and county, where there has been a re-
markable absence of speculation. In Bristol and its vici-
nity we are only suflering partially, and that from the in-
direct influence of other commercial towns less favourably
situated. Confidence, however, is the basis of credit, and
the withdrawal of any portion of that confidence propor-
tionally aggravates the severity of a monetary crisis like
the present. From the absence of speculation above
alluded to, and the stability and prudent management of
our banks and leading mercantile firms, the inhabitants
of this city and neighbourhood have every reason to con-
gratulate themselves ; and here we may escape the pres-
sure and its consequences, if they will only continue to
act on the sound advice of our Liverpool contemporary.
If the public individually withdraw and hoard their money
from groundless alarm, they lose the advantage which it
would yield to them and to others at a time when money
is in general demand. As soon as the receivers and dis-
tributors of capital perceive this disposition on the part
of the public, they necessarily begin to act on the defen-
sive, and refuse the usual accommodation. What a pic-
ture does the Liverpool Standard give, when it states—
" We have authenticated information of one of our banks,
which, if necessary, is prepared to pay back the whole of
its depositors' money to-day ; and we have little doubt
that others are, if not altogether, at least nearly as well
situated." Fo wonder, then, that the trade of Liverpool
is stagnant fcr want of pecuniary accommodation.—Bris-
tol Mirror.

CGARGE O INFANTICIDE.—An inquest was held on
Saturday before Mr. Currie, on view of the body of a
new-born male child. Mary Ann Walmsley, a widow,
residing at 84, Upper Pitt-street, said that about seven
weeks ago a young woman, named Charnock, came to
live with her as servant. In about a fortnight afterwards,
witness observed an alteration in her person, and told her
that if she (Jane) were a married Woman, she should say
she was in the family way. The reply was, that it was '
the want of a pair of stays that she looked such a figure,
and that she was not so stout when she left home. She
went out the same evening, and bought a pair of stays.
On Thursday afternoon last, she complained of being ill,
and was told to go to bed, which she did. She remained
in bed that day and night. On the following morning,
witness took her up some tea, and she then said she was
much better. That forenoon she came down to the
kitchen. Witness went-up to her room, and was surprised
to find the bed made. Witness, surprised at this, and on
turning down the clothes, missed the sheets. Witness
then called her, and told her she suspected something
wrong. She also asked her what she had done with the
sheets. She said she had marked theM, and taken them
off the bed, and put them into a cradle in the room. Wit-
ness then asked her if she had had a child, and she made
no reply. She next asked if she had murdered it, and
she replied that she had not. Witness went up stairs,
and found the sheets, soiled, in the cradle. Mr. Moore,
surgeon, was sent for. He examined the young woman,
and said she had been delivered. He questioned her, but
she was seized with a fit and muld not reply. The sur-
geon and witness then made a search in the room, and at
the back of the bed found the body of a male child, tied
up in a pair of old stays. A police-officer was sent for,
and took her into custody. The daughter of the witness
said she had also suspected the prisoner of being in the
family way, and accused her of it, but she denied it. She
corroborated, as did another witness, the principal facts
stated.—The prisoner was not in court, being yet too
poorly to be removed.—Mr. Moore, surgeon, who had
been called in, said he was present when the body of the
child was first found. It was a male child of about eight
months old. He had since made a post mortem examina-
tion. The umbilical cord had been cut but not tied. At
the external root of the neck he found a dark green spot
of about 14 inch in diameter, with an abrasion of the
skin—presenting a slough y appearance. On dividing the
skin he found eccymosis (or great extravasation of the
blood) under the skin. From the appearance of the heart,
lungs, and connecting vessels, he had no doubt but that
the child had been born alive, and that the cause of death
was pressure upon the windpipe, producing suffocation.
He was also of opinion, from the appearance of the spot
on the neck, that the pressure was effected by the fingers,
or some blunt instrument. The pressure might possibly
have been occasioned during parturition, but not by the
act of parturition.—The coroner addressed the jury, stat-
ing the law of the case, and they immediately returned a
verdict of "wilful murder" against the mother, who will
be committed to Kirkdale as soon as she can be removed,
previous to being tried at the next assizes.
SHIPWRECK OF A LIVERPOOL VESSEL.—The barque
Lord Wenlock, Captain Charles Caine, 656 tons register,
belonging to Mr. Reuben Hemmingway, of Liverpool,
left Bonny, on the coast of Africa, on the 14th of July,
bound to Liverpool, with a cargo of 700 tons of neat palm
oil, worth about £25,000. She had a crew of 31 hands,
and one passenger, Mr. Alexander M`Millan, of Scotland.
The Lord Wenlock touched at Fernando Po on the 18th
of July, and nothing remarkable occurred on the passage
home until the night of the Ist of October, when the ship
was overtaken by a tremendous storm from the westward,
veering round to the north-east and east, which, about
two o'clock in the morning of the 2d instant, in lat. 48 5
N., long, 18 25 W., off the south coast of Ireland, carried
away the ship's foremast and maintopgallantmast, and
damaged the head of the mainmast. At seven o'clock the
mainmast went by the board, carrying the mizenmast with
it, and disabling the weather pump. The ship was now
leaky, completely dismasted, and became entirely unma-
nageable. Every effort was ineffectually made to keep
her head to tho wind. She rolled incessantly, and the sea
washed over her like a half-tide rock. Her loose spars
wery flying about the decks, and the casks of oil in the
hold broke adrift and got started. All her boats were, one
after the other, washed away, and the water casks stove
in. In this unfortunate condition, the pumps constantly
going, with no fresh water, and their only provisions some
biscuit and a small cask of wine, the weakened crew con-
tinued until Sunday, when, from among several ships
observed, one vessel, a brig, of about 200 tons, though
sufficiently near to see them, did not or would not do so,
and the crew of the forlorn barque became heartstricken,
and it was with great difficulty Captain Caine could induce
them to continue their work at the pump on their poor
allowance of three glasses of wine each daily. Providen-
tially, on Tuesday, the sth, the barque Volant, Captain
M‘Murchy, five days from Liverpool, belonging to, and
hound for, St. Andrew's, in British North America, bore
down, about nine o'clock in the morning, towards the
famishing men, and at great risk sent a boat to their
rescue. The sea was on so strong that the boat durst not
come near, for fear of being stove; and the crew of the
Lord Wenlock were thus, to save their lives, compelled
to leap from the wreck and swim, or be hauled by ropes
to the boat. At the time the Volant hove in sight there
were 34 feet of water in the hold, and at twelve o'clock,
when they finally abandoned the wreck, the water in her
had increased to 5 feet. In all probability she went to
pieces the same night, when it blew a heavy gale. Besides
their lives they could only save the chronometers, ship's
papers, and a portmanteau. Captain M`Murchy treated
the hapless crew of the Lord Wenlock with every conside-
ration. On Sunday, the 10th, they fell in with the Dutch
ship Zeeman's Hoop, bound from Batavia to Amsterdam.
Her commander supplied the Volant with provisions for
the increase to her crew, and received Captain Caine, his
mate, passenger, and six hands on board the Zeeman's
Hoop. These nine, after receiving the kindest treatment
from the hospitable Dutchman, were put into a pilot boat
in the English Channel on the morning of the 19th, and
the same day safely landed at Plymouth, whence those
requiring such aid will be sent to their homes by the local
branch of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society established
there.
NEWLY-INVENTED TRAVELLING CARRIAGE, REQUIR-
ING NEITHER STEAM NOR HORSE POWER.—There is
now exhibiting at. the Music-hall, in Bold-street, a
newly-invented carriage, constructed to travel on common
roads at the rate of ten miles an hour, the propelling of
which is entirely effected by machinery within the body of
the carriage itself, neither horse nor steam power being
requisite. It is the invention of Mr. Farzies, of Preston,
for which he has recently obtained a patent. The vehicle,
which has an exceedingly neat appearance, is of the size
of an ordinary carriage. The machinery is situated in the
front part of the carriage, but being enclosed, is not at all
seen when the carriage is in motion, the vehicle moving
along as if from no apparent cause.. The propelling power
is obtained by the working of a cylinder traddle-wheel,
which acts in connexion with a number of be` el cog-
wheels, producing both power and speed at the driver's
pleasure. The mode of working the cylinder wheel resem-
bles that of the tread-mill, but the general construction
of the machinery renders this part of the labour very light
and sirdple-; so- mifdli -So, indeed, that we learn one person
may conduct the propelling of the carriage for a distance
of thirty or forty miles, without incurring fatigue. There
are also a number of breaks'by which the carriage may be
easily stopped, or the pace slackened at pleasure. In the
upper part of the machinery there is a kind of rudder, by
means of which the carriage is steered or thrown to either
side of the road which may be requisite, and any other
vehicle may be passed or met with the same ease and
facility as with an ordinary carriage drawn by horses.
This is effected by what we have described as the rudder
being connected by iron rods with the fore-wheels and
axles, by means of which they are turned to the right or
left, as required, the carriage at once following in the same
direction. The ease with which the carriage is worked
may be imagined when we state that the same person who
works the cylindrical wheel can, without any difficulty,
also attend to the steerage department. The driver is
placed so as to have a full view before him ; and the front
of the carriage being open for that purpose, he has a clear
sight of any approaching vehicles. The axles and wheels
are made upon an entirely new principle, the sole inven-
tion also of the patentee. In the construction of the
machinery the inventor has had regard to the difficulty of
so arranging the propelling power as to meet the obstacles
of steep ascents. From the manner in which the carriage
works, this point seems to be successfully accomplished.
We have minutely inspected the exhibition, and whilst we
were present, the carriage ascended an incline of three
inches in a yard with apparent ease. There is, however,
greater difficulty in ascending an incline than in travel-
ling on a level, and the speed is consequently not so
great in the former as in the latter case. This singular
invention, which we learn, has engaged the attention of
the patentee for many years, is one of great curiosity,
and seems to render it exceedingly probable that, at no
distant day, it will be available for practical purposes.
Indeed, Indeed, we cannot see any reason why it should not be
so,. more especially for cab or omnibus purposes. The
model carriage, now exhibiting, will carry twelve persons,
and we understand that the machinery is. adapted for the
construction of different descriptions of vehicles, of either
a larger or less size. It has been visited by great num-
bers of spectators, and will, doubtless, for some time, be
an object of great attraction to the curious. We recom-
mend our readers to have a peep at this interesting aid to
locomotion.