The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

CHARACTER OF A CORPORATION.—Speaking of the
Town Council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Newcastle
Advertiser says—" Glance over the reports of the pro-
ceedings of the year, and you will find never-ending dis-
cussions about matters which business-minded men would
quietly settle in a very short time, and perfect indifference
to questions of real social importance." This unenviable
character of a Whig-Radical corporation at Newcastle
would appropriately apply to other Whig-Radical Town
Councils.

On Friday, Mr. Deffell, aged seventy, a West India
merchant, head of the firms of J. H. Deffell and Co., and
John Deffell and Son, went into an apothecary's shop, in
London, and, pretending to be a doctor, induced the
young man to let him have a bottle of prussic acid. He
gave it a jerk, which sprinkled a quantity over his face,
and, it is supposed, he swallowed a few drops. He died
ten minutes afterwards. It appears that he had been con-
siderably distressed at the pressure of the times, but he
was not at all in embarrassed circumstances.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Last week, a gentleman tra-
velling by the Birmingham• train which arrives at Rugby
at 2 a,m., had been sleeping, after which he awoke under
the impression that one of the passengers had insulted
his wife, and the gentleman became so excited that he
threw open the door of the carriage and precipitated him-
self on the line. By a miraculous intervention he escaped
with the infliction of a few bruises, and arrived at the
station shortly after the departure of the train. He de-
scribed himself to be the captain of a vessel lying in one
of the docks in London.

VERY LIKE A WHALE !—A rumour has been rife in this
town that it is her Majesty's intention to take up her
abode amongst us for a portion of the summer season.
Castle Mona has been named as the residence chosen for
the future occupation of royalty ; and it is said a person
high in authority has been lately inspecting the premises
for his royal mistress. The determination of the queen to
reside in this island is said to have been come to from the
representations made by her Majesty's physicians as to
the enervating nature of the air of the Isle of Wight, and
its consequent unfitness for their royal patient. —Manx
Liberal.

SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COM-
PANY'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—II is known that in July,
1846, the Hudson's Bay Company despatched an expedi-
tion of thirteen persons from Fort Churchill, in Hudson's
Bay, under the command of Dr. John Rae, for the purpose
of surveying the unexplored portion of the Arctic Coast,
at the north-eastern angle of the American continent.
This expedition has now returned, after having traced the
coast all the way from the Lord Mayor's Bay, of Sir John
Ross, to within a few miles of the Straits of the Fury and
the Hecla, thus proving Sir John Ross to have been cor-
rect in stating Boothia Felix to be a Peninsula.
LIBEL.—Mr. Alfred Ormonde, the publisher of a
weekly paper at Douglas, called the Manx Cat, has been
found guilty of a libel on Mr. John Duggan.—Mr. Far-
ghar, publisher of the Mona's Herald, has been convicted
of libelling Mr. Dumbell, an advocate of the Manx bar.
The offence was the insertion of a letter in the Herald,
charging the plaintiff with fraud and incompetency. The
defendant proved that he was ignorant of the insertion of
the letter in his paper, and that he published an apology
as soon as he discovered it. The defendant, Fargher, was
sentenced to three months imprisonment, and to pay a
fine of fifty pounds and all costs. We have not heard
the sentence in the other case. _ _

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FATAL CASE OF STABBING.—An awful event occurred
on the night of Tuesday, on the public highway in the
township of Bowling, near Bradford. Two men, both in
liquor, met, a few angry words passed between them, a
fight and a scuffle ensued, and one stabbed the other to
the heart with a pocket-knife, which caused the poor fel-
low's death in a few minutes afterwards. The unhappy
victim was James Hudson. The man w'to stabbed him
is Thomas Ridehalgh, a stonemason. The deceased has
left a wife and four children, and Ridehalgh a wife and
one child. The deceased was about 20 years of age, and
the prisoner is 27. A verdict of wilful murder has been
returned against Ridehalgh.

On Monday, at the Mansion-house, a gentleman ap-
peared before the Lord Mayor, and cautioned the public
against a Pole by whom he had been taken in. The Pole,
who hawked jewellery, had sold a watch to the gentleman
in question, representing he was an agent for a company
who did not require immediate payment, but would be
satisfied to receive it at the rate of a trifle per week or
month, as most suitable to the convenience of his custo-
mers. Under these circumstances, a watch was left with
the applicant which was worth no more than £4, or at the
most £4 10s.' and the Pole departed gratified at the, sale.
No more was heard of him until about three weeks since,
when the purchaser was astonished at receiving a London
lawyer's letter for the sum of twelve guineas, and imme-
diately afterwards the copy of a writ. _ _

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN BRISTOL.—Dur-
ing the past week, for the first time probably since the
Reformation, two Roman Catholic missionaries (Jesuits,
we believe) have preached three times daily to crowded
congregations of all denominations, at the various Roman
Catholic chapels in our city, devoting themselves between
the hours of service to the examination of the school
children. It may fairly be presumed that the greater
proportion of these audiences went to indulge a natural
but dangerous feeling of curiosity. The Roman Catho-
lics assert that between 40 and 50 conversions have been
the fruits of these missions. It is said that one of the
Italian missionaries alluded to above, was the principal
instrument in the conversion of the celebrated Mr. New-
man.—Bristol Journal.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Friday, an inquest was
held nt Shepton Mallet, on the body of Dinah White, an
interesting-looking young person, occupying the situation
of ladies' maid, in the family of A. C. Phipps, Esq. It
appeared in evidence, that she had been about to be mar-
ried to a young man living in the same town, after a court-
ship of upwards of three years. All the preparations for
the wedding had been made, when, without any reason
being assigned, the above individual discontinued his
visits, and formed a matrimonial connection with some
other girl. This circumstance had such an effect on the
mind of the girl that her faculties became quite unsettled ;
and, in a fit of temporary derangement, she cut her throat
with one of Mr. Phipps's razors. She was quite dead
.when found.
THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE IN REAL LIFE.—On
Thursday, a magpie flew in at the open window of a
dressihg-room at Skene House, and ingeniously contrived
to pick a ring, belonging to Lady Agnes Duff, from the
upright stalk of a ring stand, and fly off with it in its bill.
Lady Agnes's maid, who was alone in the room at the
time, and witnessed the theft, without being able to pre-
vent it, was filled with consternation. The ring she knew
was a valuable one—worth 40 guineas—and she naturally
feared that the story of the magpie would hardly be ac-
cepted as a satisfactory account of its disappearance. A
workman, to whom she communicated the alarm, had
seen the bird fly out, and observed that it first perched on
the top of a rack of wood. By great good fortune, they
found, on going to the place, that the ring bad been
dropped, and was lying on the ground.—Aberdeen Herald.
The Strand is likely to become another Paternoster-row
for publishers. The celebrated house " over against Ca-
therine-street in the Strand," originally Jacob Tonson's,
afterwards Andrew Millar's—then the elder Cadell's
(Millar's apprentice), and lastly the younger Cadell's,—is
again a bookseller's shop. Messrs. W. and R. Chambers,
rcnyerin;
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bridge,—inhoef Oagxefeoeryd—or rthreatobexrfoardbrapnucbliii
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scattered among a variety of booksellers ; but Mr. Par-
ker's " new branch shop " will, of course, concentrate
the business.

THE BANK RETURNS, The Morning Herald of
Saturday, says " The ' other securities' in the hands
of the Bank of England have increased to the large
sum of £20,409,897. In October, 1846, this item stood
at £12,175,968. Two effects, then, have been produced
by the late operations of the Bank. By making money
scarce, it has disabled bankers and brokers from carrying
on their business in the usual manner; and has com-
pelled multitudes to come to its shop. At the same time,
under the sanction of the Government, it raises the rate
of interest to eight per cent. And this is ordered by the
Government, under the advice of the Bank Directors
themselves, and of Mr. Jones Loyd ; persons who are
above all thers deeply interested in raising the value of
money ! And now let the result be observed. First, the
public is cruelly harassed, by being deprived of the usual
accommodation. But see how the Bank itself fares : In
October, 1846, it had twelve millions of Stock, Bills of
Exchange, &c., paying it an interest of 4 or 5 per cent.,
or £500,000 or £600,000. It now holds twenty millions
of these other securities ;'—which, at the prescribed rate
of eight per cent., will pay it the enormous revenue of
£1.600,000 per annum."
THE CHOLERA.—The following extract from the work
of one who has had the greatest experience in cases of
cholera perhaps of any man living, may be useful at the
present moment ; it is from the work of Dr. Searle, late
of the East India Company's Madras Establishment, on
Cholera, &c. :—" Remedy in Prevention :—From the
force of circumstances in which some persons are placed,
in despite of their best endeavours to prevent them, de-
rangements of health will, nevertheless, take place ; in
which case, in the majority of instances, the following
pills will be found a most excellent remedy :—Calomel
Socotrine aloes, and Castile soap, of each twenty grains,
made into twelve pills. One taken at bedtime for an
adult person for one, two, or three nights, or the half of
one reduced to powder and mixed with a little jelly for a
child, will reduce the secretion of bile, and tend thereby
to purify the blood, open the bowels, and excite all the
functions ; and in thus acting, will, with suitable absti-
nence, materially prevent the accession of cholera or any
disease ; and further, should it fail in so doing, it will,
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FAILURES IN SCOTLAND.—The failure of Campbell,
of Islay, (reported on Friday) would have been severely
felt by the Glasgow banks, but they hold securities upon
mwaoyre for
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his estates, which are not entailed, and of far greater va-
lue than his liabilities, which are about £600,000. A no-
tion prevails that dr. Campbell was connected with a
large house of the same name in Glasgow, which is erro-
neous, as he was altogether disconnected with commercial
affairs. His stoppage is caused by investments in land,
shire speculations, and expensive style of living. Being a
near kinsman of the Duke of Argyle, he maintained a
" tail " in proportion to his relationship with his grace,
which was both great and expensive. It is reported that
a noble lord residing in Lanarkshire has also suspended
payment. His liabilities are not stated, but he is known
tole connected with some very extensive distilleries, and
held shares in several railways connected with his part of
the country. A baronet, also residing in Lanarkshire,
figures in the list of bankrupts as a timber merchant,
namely, Sir Wyndham Carmichel Anstruther, who in-
herited, only a few years since, a fine estate yielding a
large income. It thus appears that the Scotch aristocracy
are suffering from the seyerity of the tiple§ Mil WI their
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