The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

ND

skENE

L

Rees, tr

COUNTY-

according to a return to the Housc
of Commons (just published), there was in England anc
Wales £4,533,234 12s. 112dr expended since 1820 out ol
the county-rates on gaols, houses of correction, and prisons

and on lunatic asilumi. On lunatic asylun
penditure alone was £1,982,375 16s. ON
A STRIKI

A correspond

AMONG FAN3iEREI
forms us that the whole of the occupiers of lands within
the extensive parish of Elkstone, near Cirencester, are
about to decline their holdings, and the whole of the
stock and implements are already and about to be brought
to the hammer.—Morning Herald.

ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DITTY.—The duty on at-
torneys' certificates will become due on the 16th Decem-
ber, when the new duty of £9 in Loudon instead of £l2
when admitted for three years and upwards, will be levied,
and £4 10s. when not so long admitted. In the country,
instead of £9 a year, the duty in future will be £6 ad-
mitted for three years, and £3 for a lesi period.
THE NEW YORK Exrtinitiox.—By way of making
the Crystal Palace pay at New York, it has been opened
as an evening promenade, with music. The building is
illuminated with 5,000 gaslights, which appear to have
somewhat revived its attraction. Still the shares have
gone down another ten dollars—originally 175, they now
stand at 70.

FORTIFICA.TIOn or DovEu.—The works at the citadel,
western heights, will soon be commenced, the Board of
Ordnance having accepted the tender of a gentleman from
Woolwich. There are extensive works going on also at
the castle, which, with those in progress at Hythe and.
Deal, will give employment to a great number of our arti-
sans and labourers throughout tke ensuil
_Dover Chronict

winter.—

Ma. WISE, THE AMERICAN AERONAUT, proposes to
take advantage of an air current from the west to the east,
and 'establish a line of balloons between the United
States and Europe. True, they cannot return by the same
rwit,p_ hut Mr_ is at arotalrif. • f.harP is

he says, nothing to prevent them going forward, and reach-

lng home by going clean tomdm the world ! He tmde
takes to circumaeronatit globe at $3,000 each trip.

OF THE DESCENDENTS OF FIELD-MARSHAL I
P fiat-mina. rprprif hoc strma....ri

sons of the Prussian 'hero are dead ; the youngest died
without issue ; but or the elder there is a son left, who
has married an Austiian lady of the family of Larish, and
lives on his large estates near Troppau, in Silesia. fie
has succeeded, by great agricultural enterprise, in re-
cruiting the squandered riches of his grandfather. Another
grandson of Eluiher, Gustaph, is married to a rich Pug-
lish lady, and lives mostly near the Rhine.
JUVENILE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—:A:boy, ten years of
age, has thrown himself from the third story of a house at
Burbage, in Leicestershire,. apparently with a sUicidal
intent. He had repeatedly run away 'From schA.; when
his mother took him back the last time, he was sent up-
stairs to hisledroom; and after his mother had gone, he
flung himself from the window. He received a compound
fracture of 'one of his thighs, severely sprain. edlis wrist,
and knocked out several teeth.
SUDDE'N DEATH.—The Rev. Thomas SilveSter, vicar of
Buckingham, was on Monday night found' ying insensible
in a street of that town. He 'was conveyed home, and
medicallid procured, but he did not *rally' or speak, and
death 'ensued in a few hours. The dedeased gentleman
had halt taking tea and spenbhig the 'evenhig with Dr.
Southarn, whose residence he left at abonflen o'clock for
his home, about half a mile distant. In about half an
hour` he was found on the vv-ay, as above stated.
WEMONITES AT WESTUN,SIIPER-MAVE.—The disciples
of See Smith were on Tuesday summalilyejected from the
fashionable watering-place of Westonsuper-Mare, near
Biisbol_A "regular down-easter," -accompanied by a

loral," harangued a concourse of people on the beieb,
la they were met in crux hg arguments by several clergy-
men and others. After patiently heating both sides, the
qisteners rushed upon the bnposturs and drove them com-
-Pletely out of the town. The affatrereated considerable
'excitement, and, but for the police avd a few advocates of
'•free discussion, serious ,consequences -might have resulted
'to the Mormonites.

PLAYING Ciniss.-4n the new stamp act (16 and 1/7
Viet., cap. 59) which will take 'efftct in a few days, there
is a provision to prevent the evasion of the duty on playing
cards. It has been customary to•cut the corners off cards
as described in the act, and to milt the ace of spades on
which the duty was impressed, siting the same as waste.
It is deemed expedient to prevent such a practice, and it
is enacted, that no playing cards, except such as shall 'be
bond fide spoiled, and renderedmnfit, shall be deemed to
be waste cards; and no playing,eards except waste Caltis
sold, be sold otherwise than in packs, each pack containing
fifty-two, including an ace of-spades duly stamped. For
exposing for sale cards other' Ilan described, a penalty of
£lO is to be imposed, and £2O on a manufacturer selling
such cards. The raids maybe seized by any officer .of the
Inland Revenue.

• DISTRESSING- ACCIDNIVT.-4A casualty of rather a pnin-
ful nature occurred on the estt.te of Alva on Thursday last:
On the afternoon of that day, Mr. Charles Cardwell—at
present residing 'with his' hitther, the President of the,
Board of Trade, at Alva linut.e—was enjoying himself in
the sports of the field, in the course of which, and -while
in a field on the banks of 'the Devon, near a place .called;
Chapelhaugh, he aimed at and killed a young leveret ; but',
on the instant that the guwcvas fired, the gamekeeper on
the estate, who accompunida Mr. Cardwell, made his ap-
pearance, and received part of the shot in his arm, side,
and face, one of the pelletwentering the right eye. Medi-
cal assistance was immediately obtained, and the game-
keeper still lies in a preciii.ms condition, although is
thought he is yet likely to-recover. As may be imagined,
the mental anxiety of Mr. Cardwell, who has been' the
innocent cacuse of the occurrence, is very great.—Faikittk
Herald.

CARRYING NIATTNRB.-I"ERY FAR.—A party of ladies
• and gentlemen, atnountingin all to eleven persons, arrival
at Berwick by the North. British railway on Saturday,
whence they praoeeded-inahree carriages to the plains of
Flodden. They had withlthem an infant of three or four
months old, and thei:Joject of their visit appeared to be to
have this infant baptized *Ali the waters flowing through
the field of Flodden. They-were accompanied by a clergy-
man, reported to belong.to`taasgow. The ceremony being
.roncluded, they returnedato Berwick and left again by
• railway for Edinburgh. The principals of the party were
laxeported to be Americans, and the father of the child is
said to have discovered ;that some of his ancestors were
amain with James IV. at tbebattle of Flodden. Hence his
iTdesire to have his chilth.baptized at that memorable
locality, and which had induced him to come from New
' York. At all events, he-.stated to some of the persons
I • whose services were engaged that he had travelled 3,000
Miles for the purpose.—Edireaurgh Adverhser.
CHASE AND CAFTDRE Ora CREW OF FRENCH SMUG-
Gn Bs.—The
magistrates t,f Lowestoft were engaged' last
wed in investigating one Of the largest seizures that has
been made on the coast for twenty
d
The crew of
of which will amount to upwards of i
years, the
the prize money
a French lugger, called the Abcndance, of Dunkirk, Alfred
Philippe Morin, master, were charged with being found on
boarththat vessel, which bad stowed in her 120 bales Of
I. contraband tobacco, svithin thelimits of that port. A few
mornings since, at daybre4a the coast guard had their
attention drawn to a lumaer about half a mile outside the
Holm Sand. As the morning advanced and got lighter,
she stood further off, and continued standing on and off.
At first-she was supposed to ho a fashing lugger, but her
strange anovements soon exeiteclaatspicion, and it was de-
termined. to go out after her. Lieutenant Joachim, the
senior offer, and several men pressed into their service a
-steam-tug, and an exciting chase soon ensued after the
mysterious. raft. After several hears"' run she was come
up with, !nal boarded, and then they.discovered the bales
of tobacco. The master, being ;interpreted, said that he
took the tol4eco from a vessel at sea, Which had too heavy
a cargo, aud,which, according to the laws of France, they
bad a right ito do. The bench decided that they'must
convict themeach in the penalty of 4100; or to be impri-
soned. until, tJe fines were paid; but as it was possible
that some of the defendants might not knOW exactly what
they were doing, they would sead a -recommendation to
the government-on their behalf.
WIEB-Snavort a IN LEEDS.--Early Vunday morn-
ing:week a sieketing case of wife-slaughter occurred in
Leeds, when a „young woman, six mouths advanced in.
Pregnancy, fella victim to her huthand'ahratality, who
is an Irishman named Michael Reynolds, al,hawker of
mats. On the ,ssturday evening, after partaking of
supper, theywent As the Fleece Inn, adjacent, tvad there
Micheal became thearorse .for liquor and struck. 'his wife.
Between twelve andame o'clock in the morning sloe went
home, followed by her husband and an acquaintance. Here
the husband made some advances towards a reconciliation,
but, upon being tell that he had acted very differently:
before strangers in a publie-house, he struck her -in the
face with a piece of whalebone, and subsequently with his
fist. He followed this up by seizing her by the nape of
the neck and flinging her, face downwards, upon the floor.
She fell upon her hands and knees, and, while ill 'this
position, he kie_ked her with ;terrible force in a tender part
of the person, ruptining important vessels and tearing
open the flesh frightfully. .She rose, clasped her hands,
, shrieked, "•Murder I" begged ,for a doctor to be fetched,
sank upon the floor, which was deluged with blood, and
JR about 20 minutes, before the arrival of medical aid, she
:was a corpse. Reynolds, who had thus been guilty of a
doable murder, as soon as he saw the fatal fruits of his
•bautality, fled. A coroner's inquest was held on the body
of the unfortunate woman, and a verdict of " Manslaughter"
against Michael Reynolds was returned.
EXTSAORDINARX CIIANGE OF F,ORMINI3.—A sailor who
has just become the sudden possessor, of property amount-
I ing to £,0,000, is a Seotchman, named 'Thomas Black, and
has lately been doing duty as a petty officer on board her
Majesty's aliip Leander, now lying in Plymouth Sound:
It appears that he is connected, with a highly respectable
family in Perthshire, was well educated, and intended by
his parents far one of the learned professions. Seventeen
years ago, however, he ran from home and entered the
naval service, doing duty as a common sailor, and, having
acquired some reputation as a mariner, he was advanced
to the rank of a petty officer. This was his position when,
about nine months ago, an advertisement appeared in the
Times, informing Thomas Black, if he were still alive,.
that by communicating with certain parties therein
named he would hear of something to his advantage.
Thomas Black, however, did not read the Times, and for
months remained in ignorance of the " something," which
his next of kin were beginning to be afraid they would
be obliged to appropriate to their own use and benefit.
Luckily for Black, however, he one day entered into con-
versation with a footman, whom he met accidentally at
the Cove of Cork, and who had heard from another ser-
vant some particulars touching the lost heir to the Perth-
shire estates. The result was, that Black made his exis-
tence known in the proper quarter, and after the lapse of
a few months his claims were recognised, and he succeeded
in obtaining his discharge from naval servitude, on the
arrival of the Leander at the port of Plymouth from New
York, which took place a few days ago. The lucky sailor
and his friend, Lieutenant Barnard, R.N., are now in
Scotland, adjusting the preliminaries.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS HAVE CURED A PALPITATION OF
THE HEART AND SHORTNESS OF BEEATH.—I. Word, of the
Ist European Bengal Fusiliers, Lahore, had suffered for three
years from a palpitation of the beast, great difficulty of
breathing, a diseased liver, and an overflow of blood to the
chest to such a degree that be vomited considerable quanti-
ties. His case was considered hopeless, having baffled the
skill of several eminent medical men, who gave him up as
past all human aid: Whilst lingering in this condition, be
Was advised to try Holloway's pills, and solely by their means
he has been eff6ctually cured, and 'his health completely re.
Of tlibli4Cd.