The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-13 00:00:00

THE T.TVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

LIBERAL EXCLUSIVENESS.—Yot a single Conservative
has been placed on the finance. committee of the York
corporation ! ! And Mr. Alderman Bowntree, very inno-
cently said, it was all right, as there was no party feeling
in the council ! ! !—Yorkshire Gazette.
SVEFOCATION.—A remarkable case occurred at Elsecar,
near Barnsley, last week, a woman, her two children,
and a lodger in the house, having been destroyed by the
escape of fumes of cyanide of potassium into the house
during the night time from an adjjicent blast furnace.
THE O'CONNOE SWINDLE. —At the Lord Justices'

Court, on Saturday, the official managers appointed to
wind up the affairs of the National Land Company, were
appointed to execute conveyances orthe several allotments
of the O'Connerville estate at Ri&mansworth, in Hert-
fordshire, to the allottees, in the place and stead of Mr. F.
O'Connor, who had been found a lunatic
CAPTAIN WARNER, so well known for his invention of
what was popularly termed the "long range," died sud-
denly last week, having been a day previously in the ap-
parent enjoyment of health. It appears that recently
Captain Warner was very sanguine of coming to some
arrangement with the Turkish Government for the use of
his invention; and whether the excitement arising from
this expectation had any connexiortwith his sudden death
is not known.

SHARPERS IN A RAILWAY The &c.—No fewer
than six "schools" or gangs of London sharpers have been
making the tour of Scotland this autumn, and playing at
thimbles, cards, and other fraudulent games, to entrap
the unwary, both in railway trains,. and at fairs, markets,
and other places of public resort.. Their tricks are sup-
ported by great skill and address, and there is reason to
believe that their visit has proved a very lucrative one.—
Scotsman.

DEATH PROM THE BITE OP A Rix.—An inquest was
held on Friday, at Bristol, on the body of John Thomas
Barry, aged six months. A fortnight ago the mother was
awoke by the cries of the infant, and, on lighting a candle,
she found that the child had been. bitten by a rat just
under the right eye. There were marks remaining of the
rat's claws and teeth, and also a great quantity of blood.
The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased died from
injuries occasioned by the bite of a rat."
ACCIDENT TO TWO BISHOPS.—th Friday, as the Bishop
of Natal and Graham's Town were proceeding to Caddesdon
Palace, to meet a party at the Bishop of Oxford's, the
carriage was upset near Wheatley, and the right rev.
brethren were extricated from their perilous situation by
being helped out through the window, as the door could
not be opened. Their lordships sustained no injury, and
as the Bishop of Oxford's corriage, returning also from
Oxford, reached the spot shortly after the accident, their
lordships were enabled to proceed to their destination
without much delay.
Times INROADS ON Tiir BRNClL—During the last
four years great changes have taken place among the
judges of our Supreme Court. We believe that so many
appointments to the bench have not occurred within so
short a period since the commencement of the Court in
1552. No fewer than nine judges have taken their seats
on the bench since the beginning of the year 1850, in
place of the following seven members of the Court, viz.,
Lord President Boyle, Lords Jeffrey, Dundrennan, Mac-
kenzie, Moncreiff, Anderson, and Fullerton, who have
been removed by death ; and two other judges, viz., Lords
Medwyn and Cunninghame, who have resigned.—Scottish
Record.

Coax OF A PBERAGB.-A parliamentary return has
been printed of the persons to whom, and for what
ser-
vices, the sum of £420, charged in the civil contingencies
for 1852, was Paid, and the names of the several persons
receiving the same for the patent creating General Lord
Fitzroy Somerset a baron of the United Kingdom. The
Crown-office charges amounted to £390. 15s. 4d., and the
authority for the same-is stated " ancient usage." Of
that sum £150.25. went to the Stamp-office.; £1.04. 6s. 10d.
to the Royal Household. Some of the items are curious.
The payment to the Lord Chancellor, Great Seal fee, is
£2. 6s. Bd.; the Clerk of the Hanaper has £24. 13s. 4d. ;
the deputy, £l. ls. ; the Lord Chancellor's pursebearer
£5. ss. ; the porter to the Great Seal, £l. ls.; gentlemen
to ditto, £0 ; sealer, £l. 2s. 6d. ; deputy ditto, 10s. qd. ;
Chaffwax, -R.l. 2s. 6d. ; deputy ditto, 10s. 6d. ; principal
Usher of Scotland, £6. 13s. 6d. ; Scotch heralds, £l6 ;
English ditto, £36; Earl-Marshal, £5; Garter-King-at-
Arms, £2O, and the gold emblazoned skin and boxes to
hold the patent and seal. cost £9. The Patent-office
charges amounted to £29. 18s. 6d. By the Attorney-
General, £2O, for approving, settling, and signing the
Queen's v.-arrant for her Majesty's signature, according to
" ancient usage." By the Clerk of the Patents, to the
Attorney-General, Al. 7s. 6d., by " ancient usage," and
£l. 10s. stamp duty on warrant. By the engrossing-clerk,
is., for engrossing the warrant and for parchment.
In this manner £420 was expended in the creation of a
Baron of the United Kingdom.
BRISTOL POULTRY Snow.-The annual show of poultry
for Bristol and the West of England in connexion with
the Bristol Agricultural Association was held on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday, at the Great Western Railway
terminus. The attendance each day was very large. The
liberal premiums offered attracted exhibitors from all parts
of the kingdom. Judging from the prices affixed to the
pens, the rage for Cochin China fowls seems to be as great
as ever. One pen of four birds was labelled £lOO, and
several other pens wese respectively m alted £3O, £4O, and
£5O. There was a good supply of turkeys, ducks, geese, &c.
TRACT DISTRIBUTING.-On Tuesday, a deputation
from the committee of the Society for Irish Church Mis-
sions to the Itomanists waited, by appointment, upon
Viscount Palmerston, the Home Secretary, for the purpose
of presenting the memorial of the society, praying for an
inquiry into the circumstances which have lately taken
place in Dublin in reference to the decision of Mr. Hugh
O'Callaghan, the police magistrate, in the case of William
Smith ; and also into the instructions given by Colonel
Browne to the police inspectors in the matter of the placard
exlabltetl In front of the society's office in Rutland-square.
The members of the deputation were -viscount 'Alford,
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, G.C,8., Hon. A. Kinnaird,
M.P., Admiral Hope, C. 8., Colonel Alexander, Mr. John
Beckett, Rev. R. Rickersteth, Rev. E. Auriol, Rev. H. H.
Beamish, Mr. John Bridges, Rev. C. J. Goodhart, Captain
Kelly, Rev. Dr. Armstrong, Rev. Thos. Nolan, Rev. M. M.
Preston, Rev. A. J. Ram, and the Rev. W. Marrable. The
memorial was signed by the Duke of Manchester, presi-
dent of the society, and forty-five of the vice-presidents
and members of the committee. The Hon. A. Kinnaird,
M.P., introduced the deputation to his lordship, and the
Rev. Mr. Bickersteth explained the circumstances under
which Smith, for offering a handbill to Mr. O'Brennan,
was ordered by Mr. O'Callaghan to enter into recognisances
to be of good behaviour, and read the closing paragraph of
the memorial, which was as follows : -" Your memorialists
humbly pray that your lordship will institute an inquiry
into the circumstances which have lately taken place in
Dublin, in reference to the decision of Hugh O'Callaghan,
Esq., the police magistrate, in the case of William Smith,
for a constructive assault ; and also into the instructions
given by Colonel Browne, commanding the metropolitan
police of Dublin, to his inspectors, in the matter of the
placards recently exhibited in front of the Society for Irish
Church Missions to the Roman Catholics in Rutland-
square. A conversation ensued, during the course of
which Lord Palmerston observed :-" I think it is absurd
to say that a man distributing things of that sort is com-
mitting, or likely to commit, a breach of the peace. The
breach of the peace is committed by those who may be
made angry by it, and who cannot keep their temper."
Ultimately he was understood to say that he would inquire
into it. Tlie deputation then withdreW.

CADVRRTISRMENT.I
DAYLIGHT REFLECTORS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Slll,—l sin instructed by M. AUBIN CHAPPUIS, the
Proprietor of the Patent Reflector Factory, 10, St. Mary-axe,
London, to request the insertion of the following statement,
the greatest part of which has already appeared in several of
the London and of the country newspapers, namely, Times,
Daily News, Advertiser, Observer, Athemeum, Builder, 6.e. •
Having performed this duty, I feel confident the Liverpool
public will very soon detect on which side there is truth,
right, and might.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
E. BENOIST,
Manager of the Patent Reflector Branch Establishment,
6, Old Postoffice-place.
Liverpool, 26th November, 1853.