The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Of 590 SOLDIERS stationed at Gateshead barracks, not
one was seized with cholera during the late fatal outbreak
in the district.

NEWBY PARR has been purchased from Mr. Hudson,
for £190,000, on behalf of Viscount Downe, already a
large landed proprietor in Yorkshire.
THE MIDLAND COUNTIES POULTRY Snow.—The en-
tries closed on the 29th October, and numbered 362 pens,
amounting to upwards of one thousand birds. There are,
we understand, entries in every class and section.
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. took place on Wednesday in
the premises of Mr. Woodin, firework maker, Shadwell,
and Mrs. Woodin and a boy were so seriously burned that
their lives are despaired of.
A PROVIDENT MOUSE.—In an allotment garden at
Loughborough, the other day, there was found a mouse's
nest, in which were 181 broad beans and an onion, stowed
there, undoubtedly, as food for the approaching winter.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The winter session was
opened on Tuesday, by Principal Lee, who delivered an
able and learned inaugural discourse, which was heard
with much attention by a numerous assemblage.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.
THE LONDON NECROPOLIS is about to be begun at
Guildford, the commoners having been arranged with and
paid £15,000 for their rights, which they valued at
£22,000. Lord Onslow is also arranged with for 2,118
acres for the cemetery.
PRICE OF BREAD.—On Monday the bakers throughout
the metropolis again raised the price of the 41b loaf one-
halfpenny. The first-rate bakers at the West-end, who
have been charging 112 d., now charge is. to ls. Old. for
the best, the second rate from 91d. to 10d. per 41b. Many
of what are called " cheap bakers" charge Bd. to 9d.
MARRIAGE PORTIONS.—On Wednesday the trustees of
Archbishop Laud's and Theodore Randue's charity met at
the Town-hall, Windsor, and elected eight young maidens
as the recipients of the marriage portions provided by the
benevolence of Archbishop Laud and Mr. Randue, two
centuries ago.
A CASE FOR ARBITRATION.—We think it might be
fairly expected of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and the
Peace Society, that they should offer their services to ar-
range terms, on peace principles, between the turn-outs
of Lancashire and their employers. The opportunity ought
certainly not to be let slip.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
THE ELECTRIC Loom.—lt is stated in the Piedmontese
Gazette that one of the first manufacturers of Lyons, M.
Bezon, having visited Turin expressly to examine Cheva-
lier Bonelli's new invention of an electric loom, has again
set out for Lyons with drawings, and a description of the
apparatus, which he is to present to the Chamber of Com-
merce of that city, together with his report on the inven-
tion, of which he has expressed the highest approbation.
SCOTCH LAW.—The wife of a musician, in Edinburgh,
eloped with a foreign flute-player in his band. The in-
jured husband commenced proceedings for a divorce,
whereupon the wife sued him for alimony pendente lite.
The sheriff awarded her 12s. per week, for non-payment
of which her husband was sent to prison. As the poor
musician had no means of support, he made in his turn
application for aliment from his creditor ; and the sheriff
this time awArded him eightpence per day.
AN AMERICAN BISHOP ON ENGLISH MORALS.—MT.,
Caswall states that in conversing with the Bishop of Con-
necticut, and comparing the morals of the agricultural
parts of our southern counties with those of Connecticut,
as described by the bishop, he had reason to be ashamed
for our agricultural poor :—" A few statistics respecting
unmarried mothers and disgraceful marriages among this
class, fairly horrified the worthy prelate ; and he stated
that such things were unknown within his diocese equally
among churchmen and among dissenters."
THE BELLOT TESTIMONIA L.—A densely-crowded meet-
ing was held ( n Friday, at Willis.' Rooms, to carry out. the
above object. Sir Roderick Murchison presided ; and Sir
James Graham, with a number of gentlemen of eminence,
were present. Resolutions were passed for erecting a
statue to Lieutenant Bellot's memory at Greenwich Hos-
pital, and for investing the surplus of the subscriptions for
the benefit of his family. The sub-committee were in-
structed to render the subscriptions general throughout
the kingdom. Subscriptions exceeding £l,OOO were
announced, the list including the names of several mem-
bers of the Cabinet.

DISGRACEFUL PaosEcuTroy.—At Wakefield Quarter
Sessions, last week, Isabella Heuland, head woman in the
milliner's shop of Thomas Searle, was tried for having
stolen a handful or two of " clippings," which she had
given away to the assistants in the shop. She was in
London. upon her master's business, when this serious
offence was discovered, and a police-officer was sent from
Wakefield to apprehend her ! The value of the goods was
a mere nothing, and the chairman stopped the case as
soon as the prosecutor had given his evidence, believing
that there was no ease. The decision was received with
applause by a crowded court.
LUMLEY v. GYN.—The curious case of " Lumley v. Gye"
is still pending, and will be tried at the sittings after the
ensuing Michaelmas Term. It is an action against Mr.
Gye for inducing Miss Johanna Wagner to break her al-
leged contract with Mr. Lumley, who lays his damages at
£30,000. The principal witnesses, including Mis Wagner
herself, being beyond the regular jurisdiction of the
English courts, a commission has been issued to take their
evidence at Berlin, where their examination will be con-
ducted by English counsel, through the medium of an in-
terpreter. Mr. Hayward, Q,,C., has been named sole com-
missioner, and will discharge the duties of a judge at a
nisi prius trial. The commission was to be opened at
Berlin on the '7th inst.

CLERICAL VOTES.—At the late registrations for the
city of Gloucester, objectuM was made by the liberals to
the votes of the Very Rev. the Dean, and the Revs. Sir J.
H. Seymour, Bart., Edward Binkes, and H. Wetherell,
canons of the cathedral, on the score of their paying no
rates. It appears that the dean and canons have been in
the habit, from " time immemorial," of paying a " dona-
tion" of £lO annually in lien of the poor-rate, which is
entered pre rata against their names in the parish book.
The objectors contended this did not amount to being
rated. This was the third or fourth occasion on which
the same question has been raised ; and it was again deter-
mined by 'the revising barrister that the votes were valid,
inasmuch as the parties objected to paid all rates de-
manded of them. •

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW FOB 1853 will be
held, as usual, at the Baker-street Bazaar, Portman-square,
London, and will commence on Tuesday, the 6th of De-
cember. The 'beasts are to be arranged in nineteen classes,
according to their respective breeds, and for each of the
four classes of the Devon, Hereford, and short-horn breeds,
prizes to the amount of £l2O will be awarded ; to the
Welsh, Scoteh, /mid Irish breeds, £l5 ; to other pure
breeds, under certain restrictions, £2O ; and for cross or
mixed breeds, £3O ; malting the total amount of sums to
be paid in prizes for approved cattle £425. The prizes
for sheep amount to £lB5, while £45 will be adjudged to
the best pigs shown, thus making the total in money
prizes amount to £655, with five gold and five silver
medals.

AFFECTING SCENE.—On Tuesday se'nnight the carate
of St. Margaret's, Westminster, officiated in the morning,
it being the festivalof St. Luke; whilst engaged in the
service, his wife was seized with cholera, and died in the
short space of thirty hours. On the following Sunday,
the same gentleman preached a funeral sermon over the
remains of his wife, and took his text from Ezekiel, xxiv.,
15 to 19. " Also the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying, ' Son of man, behold I take away from thee the
desire of thine eyes with a stroke, yet neither shalt thou
mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run. Forbear to
cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of
thine head upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet,
and cover not thy lips, and -eat not the bread of men.' So
I spake unto the people in the morning, and in the
evening my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was
commanded, and the people said unto me, ' Wilt thou not
tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so ?'"
From this text he preached a most impressive sermon;
there was scarcely a dry eye in the church, and the may.
one who seemed perfectly unmoved was the preacher him-
self, such was the complete command which he possessed
over the expression of Ins own feelings, necessarily acute.
EXTRAORDINARY DECEPTION.--A man and his wife,
named Airley, flax-spinners, were living at Garngad-hill,
Glasgow, and also another family named M`Donald. The
Airleys were childless, the wife being some years older
than the husband, who was nevertheless very anxious to
'be blessed with a child. Some time ago Mrs. Airley
quitted her flax-spinning, and set -herself to attend to her
domestic arrangements, which included an occasional
Application to sundry trifles of baby-linen—shadows of
animportant coming event Which was to fulfil her hus-
band's wishes. On the, evening of Wednesday, Mrs.
itirdley, who had been out all day, returned, accompanied
byu midwife ; and when the husband came home from his
work, "a thumping boy, with its eyes open, the picture of
its -poor dear father," was put into `his arms. Meanwhile
the 11`Donalds, who had been absent at work all day,
returned in the evening, and found that their son, a boy
of five weeks old, had suddenly disappeared. A female
acquaintance had been loitering about the house all day,
fondled the child, fed it with a spoon, and finally, in the
dusk of the evening, disappeared with it. Immediately
after an infant had been seen by two men lying under a
hedge in field, but a woman came up, claimed it, and
carried it off. The M`Donalds immediately applied to the
authorities, by whose assistance the missing child was
traced to the Airleys, and, while the happy husband was
making merry with his neighbours over the birth of his
supposed firstborn, 'the police-officers came in, accompanied
by a medical man, who declared the young stranger to be
at least five weeks old, and the birth a hoax. The child
was therefore restored to its mother, and the pretended
mother taken off to Dtison• The real mother of the child
has been prostrated 011 a bed of sickness, in a state Ap-
proaching to raving madness, ever since her boy was first
missed, raising terrific screams on any attempt to remove
her child from her close embrace.

A RELIGIOUS MssnicaNr.—Cambridge at this mo-
ment is full of vagrants of all sizes and all ages. Irish,
Scotch, French, Swiss, German., and English to boot, are
to be met with, levying contributions ou the charitable
public, and every artifice is resorted to by the mendicants
to evade the law. Amongst the most " gentlemanly" of
these beggars is a Mr. Ross, who makes the following
petition : The petition of Donald Boss, servant of God,
unto the nobles in London. Your petitioner humbly
showeth, asketh, and telleth the reward which shall be
given at the last great day of judgment, That I went
forth to France last past winter to preach and to teach the
things which Christ the Son of God commanded his dis-
ciples to preach and to teach to all nations, having his
word for my rule. I could not go through the course of
learning in college perfectly, because I am poor, In France
I was cast into prison on the last past Bth day of March,
and brought out of prison on the last past 6th day of July,
and leave was given me by the French Government to
come to England; leave was rejected me to go forth from
France to Spain, according to the command of Christ,
because I am poor. Your petitioner humbly asketh your
compassion on me, who am poor, and seeketh anything
your compassion moveth you, nobles, to give me, which
shall ever be remembered by me, and Christ the King
shall remember it, when he shall come in his glory, and all
the holy angels with him ; when he shall sit on the throne
of his glory, the King shall say, ' Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done
it unto me.' The reward shall be given, then is life eternal
—St. Matthew, 26th chapter. Your humble petitioner
shall ever pray. I am, Nobles in London, your humble
servant, DONALD Rosa, Servant of God."—Other docu-
ments, equally "religious," were found upon Ross when
he was apprehended. We trust that the really benevolent
will not encourage these kind of impotors,—Catnbridge
Chronick,