The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

LAUNCH OF THE CADIZ.—On Saturday afternoon
week there was launched from the ship-building yard of
Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, on the Clyde, a fine iron
screw-steamer, named the Cadiz, intended for the Pen-
insular and Oriental Company's trade. The Cadiz is
fully 1,000 tons burthen, with engines 260 horse-power.
The Douro, for the same company, and of the same size,
will be ready in about three weeks. The keel and frames
of the Majestic Simla, also for the Peninsular and Orien-
tal Company, are partly up. She will be thirty feet
longer than the Great Britain, and more than 3,000 tons
burthen, with screw and horse power to correspond.
ELECTION COMMITTEES.—In the past week Sir Edward
Colebrooke and Mr. Mills have been unseated for Tame-
ton, and Mr. Taylor for Tynemonth. Mr. Keogh, for
Athlone, Mr. Aglionby, for Cockermouth, Sir Joshua
Walmsley, for Leicester, and Sir Thomas Herber, for
Dartmouth, have been declared duly elected. The com-
mittees appointed to sit are the following :—This day,
19th April, Berwick-on-Tweed, Hereford (City), Hereford
(County), :Maidstone; Wednesday, 20th April, Knares-
•borough ' • Tuesday, 3d May, Plymouth, Dublin (City),
Dublin (County), Londonderry ; Wednesday, 4th May,
Cork, Catlaw (County), Ennis. With many more to come.
SHOPLIFTING IN SOUTHAMPTON.—Three porters be-
longing to the South-Western R iiiway Company, appre-
hended a few days since for robbery at the Southampton
terminus, have been committed for trial. The South-
Western Railway have had to pay £3OO during the last few
months in consequence of robberies supposed to have been
effected at the Southampton terminus. Two Lor.don
thieves, concerned in taking a parcel of stolen goods, con-
sisting of silk handkerchiefs and stockings, to the South:
ampton terminus, to be forwarded to a London fence, have
also been committed for trial. Several Southampton
tradesmen have identified the property and the thieves,
as persons who have been in their shops, and have sworn
that after the latter left the stolen goods were missing.
EXPERIMENTAL SUICIDE.—An extraordinary act of
accidental suicide was perpetrated on Friday, at Messrs.
Coutts' banking-house, in the Strand. A father and son,
named Jones, were engaged in whitewashing one of the
rooms, when the father left for a short period in the mid-
dle of the day, and, on his return, discovered his son a
corpse, suspended by the neck from a line attached to a
pane of glass used for ventilating purposes in the window.
The line merely passed under the chin and at the back of
the ears, without encircling the neck, and as the feet were
upon the ground and the knees within two inches of it,
it appears very remarkable that the deceased, if inclined
only to try the effect of experimental hanging, failed in-
saving himself. However, animation was suspended, and
although the body was warm when removed to Charing-
cross Hospital, all attempts at resuscitation proved fruit-
less. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
A BELLIGERENT ATTORNEY.—In the court of Queen's
Bench, on Saturday, a rule was arplied for on behalf of
Mr. Rolt, Q.C., calling upon Mr. John Maynard Clayton,
an attorney, to show cause why a criminal information
should not be filed against him. Mr. Rolt, in conducting
a defence to a suit in Chancery, stated his belief that the
proceedings were instituted for the mere purpose of ob-
taining casts, and that they were of a vexatious character,
and could not produce any substantial benefit to the
plaintiff himself. The Vice-Chancellor, in deciding upon-, - -
the case, expressed his opinion that it was a vexatious and
unprecedented application. •Mr. Maynard, who was the
plaintiff's attorney, took offence at the language used by
Mr. Rolt, and called upon him to apologise. Mr. Rolt
answered that he had stated no more than, in his pro-
fessional capacity, he was justified in doing. Mr. May-
nard, upon this, sent a friend to Mr. Rolt with a formal
challenge, and requested him also to name a friend. Mr.
Rolt said the only friend he should apply to would be the
nearest magistrate. After this, Mr. Rolt received a letter
from Mr. Maynard, couched in very offensive language,
and thereupon the present proceedings were taken against
Mr. Maynard. The court granted the rule.
ECONOMY AND UTILITY.—In addressing our readers
this Week, we are desirous of bringing under their notice
a peculiarly useful article of daily consumption, which is
intimately connected with the comfort and well-being of
families. You are aware that adulteratiorr of many
articles is, unhappily, by no means uncoremon. Amongst
other articles which have been lately expoied by chemists
and other competent judges, vre: observe that the useful
article, Starch, has had tts'aar of exposure. You can-
not fail to perceive th,atit is your interest, in making pur-
chases of starch, patronise that kind which has ob-
tained au establi ed and well-merited reputation. It is
clear that who fine linens and laces are to be finished in
a superior n ner, that starch of superior quality must
be used. Ve have, therefore, the most unfeigned
pleasure in recommending our fcir readers to use the
Glenfield Patent Starch, and no other, for the following
very conclusive reasons :—1 st. nat it is used in her Ma-
jesty's laundry, where the laundress in her testimonial to
the manufacturer of the Glenfield Starch distinctly says,
that it is the beet she has ever used. 2d. We could quote
ten similar testimonials from the laundresses of the prin-
cipal nobility, besides from many of the leading gentry
tud many public institutions ; also, from 1500 of the
principal grocers in the three Kingdoms, declaring that
it pleases their customers better than any other they ever
had. With these very satisfactory reasons, we leave it to
oar fair readers to make a trial of the Glenfield Patent
Starch and prove it for themselves. We see it is for sale
by most of the shopkeepers in the town.
A BUCCANEER IN THE CLYDE IN 1853.—The Greenock
Htrald of Thursday last relates a good story of a bold
buccaneer, on a small scale, who was lately lodged in limbo
there. He had a little crazy, sailing, craft, in whio.elsiet
used to make raids or excursions Arough the
Highlands, on pretence of dealing in delf• He
withw as
assisted by two boys. He used to return from these
-
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a general cargo of every conceivable t c
of wood, eggs, shell-fish, braxy, bones,
ihriodne the impression
conceivable
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was that he was driving a trade in a primitive fashion by
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buccaneer
valued
dould -be found looking for her six
means of barter. But stohrisiessawfeetryebweheihspoeurleddnaohtr
boaedngthaiant
the creeks of the Gael with his rotten craft,
l
.Ms`Toaogugrert his two lost
if our
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waTnould leave Greenock harbour in
intolaeoalsunbEdsa,lB'tPmnh:e:v3filcr:rsratildvi g.l csY of his flogcaki buccaneer went
return at day-break from the
lost favourite hens,Hoer
with a cargo of broom. He made
thesent icri erth duskseixd
excursions
ofst
otehn evening,
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The small
because the cutting of
broom was forbid
him ; hut a circumstance small value of the article he
carried made people wonder
camheo wou itt
thatwould e x
prelacionmeseanlsie.
He was observed early one morning, on the opposite
shore, after having shipped a quantit of broom, surrep-
titiously
dragging a something on board, which proved to
be a ram from an adjoining field. He set sail for Greenock,
but found he was hotly pursued. Knowing that to come
into the harbour would bo certain detection, he hastily
attached the horns of the ram to his anchor, and casting
anchor in the offing, lighted his pipe, and coolly awaited
his pursuers. They came, searched the vessel, and find-
ing no sheep on board, concluded it was a mistake,
occasioned by the grey of the morning, and left the bucca-
neer chuckling a laugh at their expense. Scarcely were
they gone when the anchor and booty were lifted; and
the mutton did not eat ranch the worse for the ehort im-
mersion in salt water.