The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

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4/711ENTLEMEN and FAMILIES
will meet with a comfortable HOME, and h
attention paid to their wants, at Mrs. MORLEY'
MERCIAL LODGING-HOUSE, 28, KING-STIi.T,
Cheapside, near the Guildhall.
Bed and Breakfast Two and Sixpence.

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STAMMERING REMOVED ON EXPERIMENTAL
AND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES.
MR. STAFFORD begs most respectfully to announce to
the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and the Public ge-
nerally, that he purposes making a short professional stay in
LIVERPOOL. Mr. S. flatters himself that the celebrity
which he acquired during his for Mer residence in this town,
together with his personal and practical experience during
the last TWENTY YEARS, will justify him in asserting, that
he will not undertake any case where success may appear
doubtful, of which he can determine at the first interview.
Operations and medicine ought to be strictly avoided, where
there is no organic defect.
Mr. Stafford's references are of the highest reepeetabilitty.
31, Russell-street, Liverpool.

UST ARRIVED, and will be landed this day, 50 Barrels
Jof SHADDOCKS and FORBIDDEN FRUIT, at J.
MIDDLEWOOD'S FAMILY FRUIT WAREHOUSE,
6, PARICER-STREBT, near Church-street. J. M. recom-
mends an early application for the Fruit selected for Pre-
serving, &c. He has also just received a fresh supply of the
fine high-flavoured American Pippins, which he will sell in
Barrels, Halves, and Quarters ; also, a quantity of Sweet
Pot, or Summer Oranges, Pomegranates, Tafilat Dates,
Spanish Melons, &c. ; and is constantly supplied with Kent
Walnuts, Filberts, and Cob Nuts ; his Raisins, in boxes and
cartoons, will be found of very superior quality ; new Jordan
and Shell Almonds, French sill Portugal Plums, new Figs,
with every Fruit in season, of the best quality ; Spanish and
Portugal Grapes, in large and small packages, in the best
preservation for keeping ; also, Hambro Ditto, for Desserts ;
Preserved Quinces, Pears, &c. &c. ; with an assortment of
Marmalades, Jams and Jellies, Olives, Pickles, Sauces, &c. ;
also, a few Boxes of fine Portugal Onions.
J. M. will pledge himself to sell every choice Fruit under
any Establishment in Town ; and he also engages to supply,
from his own Establishment, every Article in his advertise-
ment—an unusual thing with advertisers. The Public are
aware his Family Fruit Warehouse has been established, for
the sale of choice Fruits, and Patronised by the Nobility
generally in the surrounding Counties, for upwards of thirty

years.
East India Preserved Ginger, in original packages ; best
Jamaica Ditto and Limes, in jars lib. and upwards.

DEAFNESS CURED.
MRS. GARDNER, AURIST, from London, has the
honour respectfully to announce, that in consequence
of the numerous applications which have been made to her,
for an extension of the period to which Abe had intended to
limit her stay in Liverpool, Mrs. G. has made arrangements
so that she may be consulted on all Diseases of the Ear for a
abort time longer, at 73, ESNS/JAW-STREET.
*The success which has attended ,her practice during the
list fourteen years, in various pats of the United Kingdom
and on the Continent, having, 1.05, its innocence and efficacy,
insured her the confidence octhe public and the patronage
of the Faculty (as attested le certificates both oral and do-
cumentary), any further comment on her part is unnecessary,
and she merely begs it to be borne in mind that, in cases
beyond the reach of art, her opinion may be obtained (per-
sonally) without the usual fee. . .

The late Dr. G.'s Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology,
and Diseases of the Ear, may be had at her residence, as
usual.

Extract from the report of the East London Institution for

the Cure of Deafness.:—
" Upwards of 200 cases have been cured during the last
six months, and we have no hesitation in avowing that our
success may be mainly attributed to our having, in most
instances, discontinued the dangerous system of operating,
and our having adopted Mrs. Gardner's new mode of treat-
ment by external applications."

DUTY ON GUANO.—The Lords of the Treasury have
ordered that guano (the new manure) shall be admitted at ss.
a ton customs' duty.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the
last weekly returns of 34 railways, 1,232 miles in length,
given in our present number, will, we believe, be of interest:
—Number of passengers on 20 railways, 160,977, conse-
quently, the total for the week must be above £400,000. The
receipts for passengers on 34 railways, £47,514 ls. 11d. ;
ditto for goods on 25 railways, £17,110 13s. 6d. ; total,
£64,624 15s. sd. This is an average of 1..524 per mile per
week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate of more
than £3,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000 of passen-
gers.—Railway Magazine.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF DURHAM.—We exceed-
ingly regret to state that letters have been received in town
this morning, announcing the melancholy intelligence of the
demise of the Countess of Durham. Her ladyship died at
Genoa, on Friday, the 26th of November, from the effects of
a violent cough and sore throat, of about 14 days' duration.
The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Earl Grey, and
sister to Lord Howick, and has left behind her four children.
She was in the 45th year of her age. The venerable Earl
Grey, who is at present at Howick House, we regret to hear
is suffering under severe indisposition.—Standard.

HER MAJESTY.—On Saturday morning, shortly after 12
o'clock, her Majesty and suite left Buckingham Palace in
four carriages, for the Chapel Royal, St. James's, when her
Majesty was churched. Divine service was perforated by
the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishop of
London, the Sub-Dean (Dr. Sleath), and the Rev. Dr. Wes-
ley. There were also present His Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies in Waiting, Maids
of Honour, Viscount Hawarden, Lord George Lennox, &c.
We are happy to state that the Queen is in excellent health.

TELEGRAPH PROM LONDON TO DOVER.—The London
terminus at the end of Toolev-street, London-bridge, of the
telegraphic communication between London and Dover has
just been finished, and the whole line will be opened in a
few days. The intermediate stations are situated on elevated
spots, on Forest-hill, Peckham-rye, Knockhoit, Beeches,
Wrotham ; Blue Bell-hill, Chatham ; Isle of Sheppy,
Whitstable, Herne-bay, Minster, Broadstairs, and Deal.
The establishment of such a line of communication will be of
the greatest advantage to the mercantile world, as a ship's
arrival off the coast can be telegraphed to the owners in five
minutes. An experiment was made a few days ago, on the
line between Holyhead and Liverpool, when eighteen seconds
only elapsed while a message was conveyed a distance of up-
wards of seventy miles.
Messrs. P;okford and Co., the well-known earners, in
order to meet their very • extensive and largely-increasing
business, have recently erected, on a very considerable scale,
at a cost of about £20,000, premises adapted to their trade,
in close proximity to the London and Birmingham Railway,
and connected therewith by a junction line at Camden Town.
The whole was designed by Lewis Cubitt, Esq., and com-
pleted under his supervision. The arrangements are of the
most perfect and unique character, and the building is more
vast and extensive than any other in England.
STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening last, a
very serious occurrence took place on the river off Rother-
hithe, by the running down of a waterman's skiff by the
Orwell, Wing, master, on her voyage from Ipswich, to Lon-
don. Two persons were drowned, several others were much
injured, and the boat was stove in and rendered a complete
wreck. The two who were drowned were John Catlin, a
a butcher, and John Catlin, his sou, aged nine.—London
Times.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—Loss of, FOUR OF THE
STROMA PILOTS.—The following is an extract from the let-
ter dated " Huna, Pentland Firth, Nov. 27th :"—" It is my
painful duty to inform you of the loss of four of the Stroma
pilots in the Pentland Firth, on Friday morning, the 19th
instant. They were cited upon a sherifrs warrant to appear
at Buswick, South Ronaldshay, to give evidence in an inves-
tigation at present going on before the sheriff of Orkney.
They left Stroma early in the morning, the weather at the
time favourable, but a good deal of sea running in the Firth,
although it could not be perceived from the island. When
near South Ronaldshay, between the Barth Head and the
Lowther Rock, about a mile from the shore, a sea filled the
boat, which immediately swamped, and the four unfortunate
men met with a watery grave. The heartrending circum-
stance was witnessed by persons on the shore ; but it was
impossible to render any assistance, as no boat could leave
upon the day in question, the wind being dead on shore, al-
though the Caithness mail-boat made Buswick in compara-
tive safety in about an hour and a half afterwards; but by
that time the swell had greatly diminished."

• The trial of Beaumont Smith, so far as the circumstances
attending it, has taken people in the city greatly by surprise,
and more still the discharge, or presumed discharge of Ra-
pallo. Not because that person may not be, and must be
accepted as being, innocent of implication in the mal-prac-
tices.of Smith, but because it cannot be understood on what
ground, consistently with the result, he should have been ap-
prehended and incarcerated. Again, Smith after pleading
guilty states that he has made a full disclosure of all particu-
lars and persons (substantially) connected with these nefari-
ous Exchequer frauds and forgeries. This confession after
being laid before the judge was given up, and remains in the
'possession of Mr. Maule, solicitor to the Treasury. People
naturally ask what next ? Are there no parties taken into
'custody, no prosecutions instituted in consequence? If
Smith's confession may be believed, he had accomplices ;
accomplices more guilty than himself; accomplices who re-
.. ceived and monopolised all the gains flagitiously made by
those tainted Exchequer issues, by which the convict avers
he never benetitted to the extent of one farthing received, or
participated in, or was cognisant of, any of the stock or other
gambling speculations to which the proceeds were devoted ;
where then are, and who, everybody asks, these accomplices,
and why are they still at large ? It seems clear that other
proceedings are in progress, or meditated, at the Treasury,
and that some explanation on the subject must shortly be
made public. In the mean time it is difficult to say how far
the claims of innocent holders may be affected by the extra-
ordinary turn which the trial has taken.—Morning Hetald.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday morning last,
the inhabitants of this town were thrown into a state of me-
lancholy excitement by a report that Mr. Nathan Shellard,
butcher, of Monnow-street, had drowned himself in the river
Monnow. Mr.. Shellard had been very lately set at liberty
from the Lunatic Asylum at Nllitchurch, since which, he
had buried his wife, the loss of whom, no doubt, pressed
heavily on a mind scarcely restored to sanity. He was ob-
served to be very low spirited all day on Saturday, and early
on Sunday morning his son, a youth about nineteen, missed
him out of bed, he got up immediately, but could find no
trace of his father, who had dressed himself and gone out ;
at length, being led to the river, which runs at the back of
Iklonnow-street, by the dog, and footsteps being very clearly
traceed down to the river without any track back again, it
wss generally supposed he had thrown himself in ; the dog
went to the very point of the bank where the footsteps were
discernible, as though he had there lost the scent of his mas-
ter. Boats were immediately provided and persons were
dragging the whole of the day, but the river was so much
swollen by the late rains that it was a mere chance of finding
the body. The river still continues very high, and all at-
tempts to find the body have hitherto proved unsuccessful.
Sisour,Aa CASE OF ELOPEIIENT.—On Wednesday last
an application was made for the interference of the police of
Reading, under the following circumstances :—A respectable
man, living on his own property in the neighbourhood of
Basingstoke, whose name we suppress to avoid unnecessary
publicity, observed some time ago, that there appeared to be
a better understanding between his only daughter and his
groom than was proper in their relativesuroc succeeding e apositions,tos
youngrfteohfroetruen fortune
of
dis-
charged. lady having the expectatioirihoef
from £15,000 to £20,000. r
charged. Last Wednesday morning, however, the young
lady was missing ; and an alarm being given, it was found that
the groom, his brother, and the inamorata had tied about
four o'clock in the morning, in a cart. The parents pro-
ceeded in their chaise to heading, and on the Bath road
about a mile and a half from the town, theysemeetdtititeletrhis hioorrse::
turning in the humble vehicle. The father iz
and, though told by the ex-groom that the lady was wife,
he insisted on their going with hhmm to Reading. Upon their
arrival at the Horse and Jockey
The brother tried to
the police were sent for, and
there ensued a most tremendous row.
escape, the groom claimed his bride, the mother scolded
her
the
daughter, and the daughter most undutifu
il slappe
face. At length the contending parties adjourned to the
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police-office, the fugitives being consigned to duranc
first it was thought that the case was one of abduction, but
it turned out that the lady was one month over the age of
sixteen, which took the case so far out of court. It had
previously been ascertained that the parties were married on
Wednesday morning, at St. Giles's church, by bans, but there
are several irregularities connected with the marriage which
nuder it invalid.—Berkshire Taper.