The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-13 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

On Wednesday last, Skiddaw and Scawfell Pikes assumed

heir winter_ garb for the first time this season

In the

morning of the abo;e-nameddai,thes;fells appeared clad

a a snowy mantle ; but the ray's'of an autumnal sun scion

tripped them of their snowy habiliments, and exposed their
.agged nakedness to the gaze of the passing traveller, at least
in hour before he had reached his meridian altitude.—Kendal

'llercury,

On Monday four children were playing in the upper room
)f a cottage at Walcot, near Timberland, kept by a person
3an?q. Wood. A boy, seeing a gun lying against the wall,
took it up, and commenced knocking the muzzle of the bar-
rel with a clasp knife, and other children looking at him,
when the gun went off and lodged a double charge of shot in
the abdomen of a fine little girl named Mary Woods, aged
nine years. The little sufferer immediately fell, and after a
few brief struggles expired. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death.—Lincoln Gazette.

THE CHURCH AND THE WESLEYANS.—WE have, on for-
mer occasions, bailed with pleasure the demonstration of a
friendly and Christian union subsisting between members of
the Wesleyan persuasion and the heads of the Protestant
religion ; and we have this week to record another example
of this nature furnished from a body of the same tenets in a
distant land. A deputation of Wesleyan Missionaries in
Newfoundland have presented to the Right Rev. Aubrey
Spencer, the new Bishop, an address agreed to by that body,
expressive of their congratulation at his appointment and
safe arrival, and acknowledging the Established Church as
the " Great stay and support of the Protestant religion."

AGGRESSIVE PROGRESS OF RUSSlA.—Within a period of
64 years the total acquisitions of Russia equalled her whole
European empire before that time. The acquisitions from
Sweden equalled the now kingdom of Sweden • from Poland,
a territory equal to the Austrian empire ; from European
Turkey, a country equal to Prussia, exclusive of the Rhenish
provinces ; from Asiatic Turkey, a territory equal to the
German small states, Rhenish -Prussia, Holland, and Bel-
gium ; from Persia, an extent of country equal to England ;
and from Tartary, a country equal to European Turkey,
Greece, Italy, and the whole of Spain. The Russia frontier
has been advanced by these acquisitions about 700 miles to-
wards Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Paris; 500
miles to Constantinople, 630 miles to Stockholm, and about
1,000 miles to Tehran. The estimated population of Russia
in 1689, at the accession of Peter 1., was 15,000,000 ; at the
accession of Catherine 11., in 1762, it was 25,000,000, and at
her death, in 1796, it was 36,000,000 ; whilst at the death of
Alexander, in 1825, it was 58,000,000.
INTERESTING SCENE.—Monday, the Lord Bishop of
Limerick, accompanied by his chaplain, the Rev. R. Mann-
eel, rector of Castleisland, and the Rev. A. Denny, rector of
Tralee, attended Divine service at Ventry. The congrega-
tion, with the exception of several visiters from England,
was entirely composed of converts from the church of Rome,
in number 250. The service was performed and a sermon
preached in the Irish language by the Rev. Thos. Moriarty,
himself a convert and minister of the congregation. Service
was concluded by his lordship's addressing the congregation,
exhorting them to stand fast in the truth of the Gospel, and
by purity of life and conversation to manifest the sincerity of
their profession. He expressed himself highly gratified with
the evident reality of this important work, and particularly
with the answering of the children in the Sunday school. In
the evening his lordship preached, in his usual impressive
style, to a crowded congregation in Dingle, including
more than 100 converts, inhabitants of the town.—Limerick
Chronicle.

MYLES COVERDALE, TRANSLATOR OF THE WHOLE
BIBLE INTO ENGLISH.—Sunday, Oct. 4, being the 305th
anniversary of the translation of the whole Bible into English
by Myles Coverdale, his remains, which had been exhumed
from the church of St. Bartholemew by the Exchange to make
room for the building of the new Sun Fire Office, and trans-
ferred on the preceding evening to St. Magnus Church by
London-bridge, of which he was formerly rector, were depo-

sited at nine o'clock in the morning against the east wall of
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that church, a part of the old building'in which he preached,
and not pulled down on the rebuilding of the church, after the
fire of London, by Sir Christopher Wren, in a vault, at the
expense of the parish, to whom these precious remains had at
their solicitation been kindly consigned by the Bishop of Lon-
don. The reinterment was strictly private, with the exception

of the presence of the children of the ward schools and some
of the parishioners, to whom a short and appropriate address
on the occasion was made by the rector, the Rev. Thomas
Leigh, A.M.

DROITNICH.—SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—Four years
ago the parish clerk of St. Peter's, in this borough, died,
having been ill and incapacitated from business for three
years previous to his death. During his illness a relation did
the public duties for him ; but his wife, Jane Hale, cleaned
the church, and performed other menial offices. She was in
the habit of undertaking to inter privately in the consecrated
ground the bodies of children prematurely born, and those
who died before baptism, for which she received a fee. A
man, who had lodged in her house for some time, died in
January last, and having by his death lost the chief source of
her livelihood, she proposed to give up housekeeping, and a
sale of her effects was advertised. The company assembled
at the sale were annoyed by a nauseous smell, which led to a
search of the room, in which her father-in-law and uncle took
an active part. Behind a pocket of hops was found the body
of a young child in a coffin. This led to a search of the '
house. A garret was broken open, and there two bodies of
infants in coffins were discovered. The father of one of the
children was present, and recognized the coffin which con-
tained his child, to bury which he had given the woman 2s. 6d.
six or seven years ago. In the same lumber-room were
found a large quantity of sheets and linen, which had been
used by her husband and her lodger, and which had been put
away unwashed, some of the articles having been placed in
water which had remained stagnant and undisturbed. The
value of these articles, now completely rotten, Must ,have
been at least £3O. There were also a ham, a tongue, and va-
rious eatables in the garret. The woman, who was always
noted for being dirty in her person and her house, still re-
mains there, and sleeps on a screen with a mat for a pillow ;
and it is said she has never slept in a bed since the death of
her husband. When spoken to on the subject of the con-
cealed bodies, she said—" I have done no harm to them ; let
every person choose his own, and bury it." The affair has
caused much disgust among the inhabitants of Droitwich.
FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.—The following is the line of
fortification on the right bank of the river :—lt commences
at the western point of Bercy, and cuts the high road to the
chateau, but leaves that building outside. It then crosses
the road from Paris to Charenton a little above the cemetery
of Bercy, passes along the marshes of Bercy and Saint
Mande, crowning the hill which bounds the valley of Fecamp.
It traverses the avenue of St. Mande, near the houses Nos.
31 and 36, cuts the grand avenue of Vincennes at the 180th
tree from the bariere du Team, traverses the marsh to the
Croix St. Simon at the south end of Charonne, passes be-
tween Charonne and Bagnolet, dividing the old park of the
Dukes of Orleans, now converted into a garden, and ascends
the top of the hill, which commands Bagnolet and Charonne
behind the cemetery of Pere-La-chaise. It traverses the
grounds of La Justice, passes the north end of the gardens
of Belleville, at the place called Les Bruyeres, cuts the road
from Belleville to Romanville a little beyond the Place des
Communes. It then descends between the Pre Saint Ger-
vais on the south, and Partin on the north, and reaches the
Pont de Flandres at the north end of La Villette. Here the
line divides into two ; one follows the canal as far as Auber-
villiers and Saint Denis, the other crosses the Plain of Saint
Denis, reaches the Rond Point at La Chapelle, and after-
wards runs to the north of Clignancourt and the Bute de
Montmartre to the Hutte au Garde, and the Rout de la
Revolte, which it follows in a westerly direction, till it reaches
the eastern point of the King's Park at Neuilly. It thence
passes between Neuilly and Les Themes to the Porte Mail-
lot, traverses the Bois de Boulogne in a line parallel to the
alley from the Porte Maillot to La Muette, passes in front
of the garden of La Muette and Ranalagh, and touches the
Seine again at the east end of Auteuil, a little below the Pont
de Grenelle.

MeivsicAL CAT.—However surprising are the feats of
wonderful pigs, learned ponies, remarkable monkeys, and
sagacious dogs, we have a fact to record which will surpass
all such feats hitherto recorded. Mr. Evans, cabinet-maker,
of Newport, is a gentleman of musical talent, and being,
moreover, anxious to perpetuate the musical taste he has
imbibed, he has taken care to teach all his daughters the
" divine art." They are, therefore, all talented vocalists and
performers. The youngest of this musical family, not con-
tent with the whole family being proficient in music, has ac-
tually, of late, been most arduously engaged in tutoring their
five-year old torn cat to play at the piano ; and she has so
far succeeded in her endeavours, that Tom has left off
" mousing," and all predatory habits, and is daily engaged
in the very harmonious pleasure of sitting at the piano,
where he performs two or three airs with wonderful accuracy,
and unmoved gravity. We are informed that he is never
pleased, unless the music-book be placed before him ; but
whether he has " learnt his notes,' our informant sayeth
not.—Welshman.
THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD AT LANCASTER.—The
Marquis of Waterford, with his brother, and some other
scion of noble blood, passed through this town on Monday
evening, for the south. It was not, of course, to be expected
that they would travel like other people, and accordingly a
vehicle of the nature of a coach was honoured by bringing
them from Carlisle, Arrived at the station, our Marquis
called out to his brother, " Holloa ! Bill ! is there any grub
to be got here ?" It appeared there was not, and the lordly
and hungry travellers were directed to the nearest public-
house, the Prince William Henry, where they were soon
supplied with the " grub" they stood in need of. Fortu-
nately the marquis and his friends did not pass a night among
us, and we have not consequently to record any abstraction
of knockers, door hells or door plates, from the houses of our
townsmen.—Lancaster Guardian.

ELECTIONEERING AT NORTH ALLERTON.—On Monday
last, at noon, W. B. Wrightson, Esq., M.P., arrived at Nor-
thallerton, and in a short time afterwards, accompanied by
Capt. Pierse, Mr. Hamilton, and two attorneys, commenced
waiting upon the electors of that borough (resident in the
town). In the evening of that day the chairman of the Hon.
E. Lascelles's committee issued a bill, printed on True Blue,
to the following effect—" Brother Electors, in consequence
of W. B. Wrightson, Esq., having this day commenced a
canvass for the borough, it would appear that a speedy dis-
solution of parliament is expected. I beg therefore to request
that you will withhold all promises of support for the present,
as it is the intention of the Hon. Edwin Lascelles to solicit
the favour of your votes and interest, whenever a dissolution
of parliament shall take place. I am, gentlemen, your's
faithfully, AN ELECTOR." On Tuesday and Wednesday
Mr. Wrightson visited the electors resident in the township,
and also those in the townships of Brompton and Romanby,
which constitute a part of the borough, for the like purpose,
but what success he met with from the farmers and agricul-
turists in his canvass, especially as he voted for the repeal of
the corn-laws, has not transpired.----Leeds Inlelligeneer.
SHOCKING MURDER AT BARNSLEY.—We are sorry this
week to have to record the perpetration of a most foul and
brutal murder, which was committed about seven o'clock on
Monday evening last, on the body of Mr. George Blackburn,
farmer, of Bank Top, near Barnsley, and within a few yards
of his own house. The deceased, a highly respectable man,
who kept a number of mulch cows, and sold milk in Barnsley,
had been in that town collecting his milk accounts, on Mon-
day afternoon ; and, on returning home, about seven o'clock
in the evening, just as he had reached his own yard, two ruf-
fians sprang upon him, knocked him down, and one' of them,
with a large stick, or thick piece of wood, beat him over the
head with the most savage ferocity. While this was going
on, his cries, and the barking of the dog, brought out his wife
and servant in time to see the men in the act of violence •
and their screams were heard by a soldier on duty in the
bar-
rack yard almost close by, who immediately alarmed his com-
rades, and several of them hastened to the spot,—but it was
too late. The villains made off ; the soldiers pursued, but
were unable to overtake them. The unfortunate man, who
was not quite dead, was immediately taken up, and medical
assistance was procured ; but it was to no purpose. His skull
was broken in several places, and various parts of his head
were most dreadfully bruised. He remained in a state of in-
sensibility until two o'clock the next morning, when death
put an end to his sufferings. The unfortunate deceased was
about sixty years of age, was married, but had no family. It
is supposed that the dreadful deed was committed with the in_
tent to rob, but in that the murderers had not succeeded. A
quantity of copper was afterwards picked up but whether it
had been taken from his pockets by the assassins, or had been
shaken out of the victim'
s pockets when attacked, is uncer-
tain. One wound on the head of the unfortunate man ap-
peared to have been made by a large stone which had been
taken from an adjoining wall for that purpose. The scene of
this diabolical act is about three quarters of a mile from the
town on the sheffield road, and opposite the barracks, from
which place it is distant only about a hundred yards. Two
men have been apprehended on suspicion ; and the police are
actively engaged in their enquiries, in order to find out the
guilty Partica,---Doncaster Gazette.

THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. STUART.
fIN MONDAY next, Oct. 19th, will be performed, a
k-1 Dramatic Sketch, originally produced at Drury-Lane
by the late Mr. KEAN, adapted from Massinger, called
THE ROMAN ACTOR;
OR, THE DRAMA'S VINDICATION.

Paris, the'Roman Actor Mr. Stuart.
After which, Shakspere's Tragedy of
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK.
Hamlet.... Mr. Stuart. Polonius.... Mr. Baker.
Queen.... Miss Cleaver. Ophelia.... Mrs. W. H. Bland
A Variety of Singing and Dancing during the Evening.

And to conclude with the Musical Drama of
ROB ROY MACGREGOR ;
OR, AULD LANG SYNE.
Rob Roy .. Mr. Stuart. Bailie Nicol Jarvie.. Mr. Baker
Francis.. Mr. Barker. Dougal.. Mr. Slaiter.

Diana Vernon.. Miss Grant. Helen.. Miss Cleaver.
Tickets of Mr. STUART, 32, Upper Beau-street, Everton ;
and at the Box-office, where places may be taken.

THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS of MODERN
ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Season, from Nine until
Dusk. Admission, Is. Catalogue, is. Season Ticket, ss.
SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy.
Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place, September 14, 1840.