The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

Dee. 14, is 46.

JUPITER AND HIS MOONS.-11ECE will be a beautifat
and interesting grouping of the moons of Jupiter on the
evening of the 30th of December, at 16m. after 7, mean
time, when all will appear to the westward of their pri-
mary, in rare and close companionship ; the second and
fourth moon occupying a position nearly parallel with the
belts, and once his diameter from his limb ; the first and
third parrallel with his equator, and distant two and three
diameters. Owing to the rapid and now opposite motioa
of the first and second satellites, this convocation of
worlds will be of short duration, and the beautiful group
will separate. The belts of Jupiter, which fur a series of
years have exhibited marked inequalities of distinctness,
this year are strong and well defined.

HONOURABLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AN Elision.
—The Rev. Hobart Seymour, of Bath, has addressed a
letter to the London Guardian, acknowledging that the

statement which be made at a public meeting against Mr.
Phillips, (as to the proceedings of the Church of Rome,)
grounded on a letter from Mr. P. to Mr. Merewether.
shown to him by the latter in 1837, and the production of
which, he (Mr. S.) called for through that journal, was,
not justified by the letter produced, which was dated ira
1830. Mr. Seymour says he believed the letter shows
was written in 1837, and accepting the letter of 1830,a3i
now publishes!, as the only one written by Mr. Phillips to,
Mr. Merewether, (who was a stranger to him, Mr. Sep.,
mour,) it did not present the faintest resemblance to his
recollections of the other, upon• which he had made the
statement. Thus much, he adds, is due to Mr. Phillips,
and also to himself, as showing that he spoke at the time
in the integrity of his heart, and the then deep convictions
of his mind.

CROWDING OF BURIAL GROUNDS-.—ln the year 1525,
the parish of" St. Martin" was, as its name implies, "in
the Fields." In the above year, litirteen bodies were
buried in the parish. In 1526, fourteen were buried. In
1527,• iwenty-tteo were buried. In 1528, thirteen were
buried. The examination of the sextons' books, com-
menced in the year 1691, would, as tending to elncidate
my ralbject, be both interesting and ivaportant. The
burial-ground of this parish, situate on the western- side
of Drury-lane, contains 10,080 superficial feet.
period of ten years, 315 adult bodies, and no more, might
have been buried there, or at the rate of 32 perannum r
By an official return, it appears that in one year, 565
bodies were disposed of between the above-named `burial..
ground (?), the one at Camden Town, and' the vaulty'
under St. Martin's Church. There is little- room tier
doubt, that on an average three hundred and fifteen bow
dies, instead of thirty-two, have been interred yearly in
the burial-ground in Drury-lane.—Mr. Walker's-Lecture.

THE FOOTPAD IN PETTICOATS.—We have received
reports, from various quarters, of a " Madge Wildfire,'
who had been seen on the outskirts of Gateshecd, south
and west, and has attacked various individuals w;th felo-
nious intent. A. young man named Cout, who lives-at
the Low Fell, relates, that he was returning home after
dusk, and got to that part of the road which lies oTrposite,
to the residence of Wm. Wylam, Esq. of Cramer a_lykes
when the woman came up to him, and presented a pistol
at his head, at the same time demanding his bundle. He.
hesitated to comply, and received a blow on the face with
the butt end, to quicken his deliberations. He then held
out the bundle; but when she was about to take it, ycartg
Cout, being a strappinglad, struck ber on the side of the'
head and knocked her down. Clapping a whistle to her
mouth she sounded an alarm, and four fillows came to.
her assistance. Cout, however, who retained his bundler+
got clear off, and never ran faster home in his life than on
this occasion. The suspicion is that ' the woman' is a=
man in masquerade:7octeshead •Observer.

One of tile Model Lodging-houses in Newton-street,
Holborn, his been open for the reception of women.
The inmates are principally servants out of place, persons
who obtain a livelihood by needlework and artificial
flower-making, clear-starchers, and workers in fancy'
paper, &c. The accommodation is far superior to what
might be expected, and the greatest order prevails
throughout the establishment. Each lodge is provided
with a separate bed. On the basement there is a kitchen,
with every requisite for cooking, a good fire, and two
boilers, with water boiling every morning by seven
o'clock. Round the kitchen are small cupboards, with
different locks; one of these is appropriated to the use of
each lodger. On the ground floor is a work room for
persons at needle-work ; there is also a washing-room,
with every convenience. The charge is ls. Gd. a week.
As this system has been found to•work well, the pro-
moters intend to construct similar establishments in all
neighbourhoods where the industrious portion of the poor
reside.— Globe.
THE CATTLE FATTERS V. THE FEEDERS OF THE
POOR.—Already glimpses are caught of that returning
self conviction which precedes the abandonment of a favo-
rite folly. Already landlords are found asking one another
whether they have been pursuing a wise policy in giving
great rewards for fat beasts, and small ones for hungry
workmen ; and whether they should not at least reverse
the conditions of their bounty, even if they do not abolish
its pure obnoxious form. At the Taunton agricultural
meeting Sir T. Lethbridge, not having the fear of his bro-
ther squires before his eyes, boldly told them they were
going too far, " in putting useless fat on lean bones."
" It did no good to any body ; it was indulging a fancy.
A friend of mine who had two oxen here last year was
told to take them home and fatten them ; and he could
have kept ten men for what those two oxen had cost him.
And where was the money ? On the animals' backs ; and
it must be all pulled off again before people could eat the
meat. It must go into the fryingpan or the soap-maker's
boiler; and what better are they for that? See if
,you
can't do something better for the peer man than this.
THE METROPOLIWAN GRAVE YARDS.—Burial places,
long over-charged with dead, are yet in full operation.
lutlivlOttals, totally Olbrtgaidlug tne :reams of the public,
bury, or pretend to bury, the dead in places utterly in-
capable of containing the numbers entrusted to their
charge, amounting, in some burying-grounds, to thirty on
a Sunday alone. The mortality of the metropolis, at the
present computation of 52,000 annually, will in five years
be 269,000. The lowest possible period that should be
allowed for the destruction of the human body in graves,
would be five years. An acre of ground contains 43,560
square feet. If we divide this by '62, the number of square
feet required for a single adult interment, we shall have
1,361 as the number of spaces left for graves in an acre of
ground. If the burying-grounds in London, some of
which have been in use for centuries, contain only 80
acres, portions of which have been pre-occupied by monu-
ments, tombs, headstones, and otherwise, this space would
receive and givaburial to nearly 109,000 bodies,—a calcu-
lation which would leave, during any given five years, the
mortality, as above stated, being 52,000 per annum,
151,000 bodies to be disposed of or, in other words, unin-
terred I—Mr. Walker's Leclum..
The private accounts received within the last few days
from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland give a much
more gloomy picture of the state of the population,
arising from want, than anything which has yet appeared
in the publ:o journals. The Highlanders and Islanders
of Scotland have always been as dependant on their po.
tato crops for subsistence as the Irish peasantry, end, in
many districts the failure cf.-that crop has, this rissan,
been greater than even in Ireland. In Long Island, one
of the largest islands in the Highlands, where the average
crop of potatoes is supposed to be about 140,000 bushels,
not 2,000 bushels could be found at this moment. The
population are consequently plunged into a state of the
deepertdestitution. It is a fact which has been ascer-
tained by a commission sent northwards by the. Free
Church, that whole families remain entire days without
tasting a morsel of food of any kind. One of the Free
Church ministers having recently been called toloaptizen
child, found that not one or the family, consisting of
eight persons, bad tasted food of any kind for twenty-
four hours ; and yet, amidst all their extreme privations,
the Highland peasantry never suffer a murmur of com-
plaint to escape their lips; nor is crime of any. kind
known amongst them. '
WHOLESALE WINDOW SMASHING.-021, Saturday
week three young_ fellows, the eldest of whom was not
more than 21 years of age, named John and Henry
Goulden, brothers, and Charles Todd, the two former of
whom have passed the last five years either in the work-
house or the county pison, were convicted at Eton of
having demolished 323 squares of glass in the day-room
of the workhouse. The two Gooldens admitted they had
broken the windows with broom-handles, because the
things their food was served out in were in a filthy state.
The offeders, not being able to pay the amount of da-
mage and costs, were each sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment and hard labour. Henry. Goulden ba4 been
previously convicted seven times, and Todd six times,
before the Eton bench of magistrates, far similar offences
committed in the union workhouse.- Two other inmates
of the union-house, Laura Beasley and Barbara Fountain,
were charged with having broken ns squares of glass, in
a similar manner, in another part of the building. It
appeared that the girls had been set to scour the floor,
and that, by way of _variety, they set-to and broke the
windows with their mops and scrubbing-brushes. They
veers both ordered to pay the amount of damages and
costs. In default, they were sentenced to six weeks'
hard labour in the House of Correction at Aylesbury.
•
YORKSHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.—The trials at these
Assizes commenced, at York, yesterday week, before
Mr. Justice Cresswell, and Mr. Justice V. Williams.
The former, in charging the Grand Jury, remarked that
the calendar was heavy, there being nearly 140 prisoners,
many of them charged with weighty offences. He found
by the calendar, that many of the prisoners were wholly
uneducated, and many were but slightly educated ; and
hoped that by increased exertions, in educating the rising
generation, an amendment in the moral habits would take
place. The following were some of the cases tried.—
James Cauley was found guilty of having, along with
others, violently assaulted Richard Haigh, at Sandal
Magna, and robbed him of money,—death was recorded
against him. David Todd, a man who had been sen-
tenced to transportation for life, and who was found at
large in this country, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to the same punishments. His lordship ordered £2O to
be awarded to the person who discovered and caused the
prosecution of the prisoner. George Adamson, aged
only 16, was charged with having administered poison to
Ann Bramah, Lydia Bramab, Thomas Bramab, and Al-
fred Bramab, with intent to kill them, the wife and chil-
dren of a tailor and draper, in Wood-street, Wakefield.
The prisoner was an apprentice to Mr. Bramah, who on
the 12th of October went out to hear a lecture, leaving
the family and the prisoner in the house. The latter was
employed cleaning out the grate. One of the girls made
some porridge for supper, and poured it out on plates.
Prisoner said he had eaten an apple and would want bat
little. Mrs. Bramab, therefore, gave him the smallest
plate, of which be took but a small :portion and went to
bed. Soon after all the others were taken ill, the symp-
toms being violent reaching, and vomiting, &c. A.
surgeon was called in, and his efforts were happily suc-
cessful. The boy was also very ill. Upon an analysis,
arsenic was detected. The prisoner made several ad-
missions, stating that he had-put about a tobacco pipe-
full into the porridge. The prisoner, who said the ad-
missions were falsely made, on the suggestion of a Mr.
Foster, a friend of the Bramah family, was found guilty,
but recommended to mercy on account of his Totttk.--
Sentence deferred,