The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE SLIP AT SIIAKSPERE'

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time of our honoured bard, have lessened its altitude.
Early on Monday, a surface of chalk, 254 feet in height,
extending to a length of 353 feet on the eastern face, 15
feet thick, measdring 47,131 yards, and supposed to con-
tain about 48,000 tons of chalk, scaled of, and fell to the
base. From a fog at the time, the slip was not seen, but
the noise of the fall was heard at a long distance. .This
recent fall will, doubtless, repay the search of the geolo-
gist.- A smaller fall of about 10,000 cubic yards has since
occurred.—Dover paper.
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE, &c. The total number
of oxen, bulls, and cows imported into Great Britain
from Ireland, from sth July, 1846, to sth Jan, 1847, was
137,704 ; of calves, 4257 ; of sheep and lambs, 191,467,
and of swine, 203,224. Since the year 1825, when the
trade between Great Britain and Ireland was placed under
coasting regulations, the official record of the interchange
of produce and manufactures between the two countries
(except in so far as the article of corn is concerned) has
of necessity been discontinued. The foregoing return,
therefore, has been framed from non-official documents,
collected at the ports of exportation, and consisting, for
the most part, of printed market and shipping reports.
A LADY AND A BAILIFF.—A sheriff's officer, named
Felton, who had been in search of a Miss Crossinfham, of
Ongar, Essex, during the last four months, on 'I hursday
succeeded by stratagem in arresting her at her own house.
He then left her in charge of his assistant while lie went

for a chaise; but the lady prisoner flaying ouramed per-
mission of the officer to go to her room, immediately
jumped out of the window, and alighted upon the roof of
an outhouse, thence descended upon a watcrbutt in the
adjoining yard, and made her escape. The officer and
others gave the view halloo across the garden and fields,
but could not succeed in capturing the fair and fleet fugi-
tive.—Local paper.
DISTURBANCES IN SCOTLAND.—A corres

pondent 'of

the John o' Groat Journal, writing from Thin:so, says :---
"We have had lamentable disturbances here. The popu-
lation have blocked up the road to the river with two
small sloops ; one of them was taken up to-night. They
have also planted a ten-pounder on the brae-head. About
100 special constables have been sworn in

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cause to fear serious consequences, unless by some means
or other peace be restored." We have learned, in addi-
tion to the above, that on Wednesday evening another gun
•ae, and that the feelings of the people
the greatest pitch. Assemblages at

!larch 9, 141.

A DEPLORABLE MURDER Ai'4i SUICIDE leas been cO
mitted at Broughton, a village about seven miles fro 2
Newark, on the Lincolnshire side. John Martin, a la'
bouring bricklayer, who had been married only a yeAr;
had been rather low-spirited on the previous day, snail,
the evening he sent his wife to a public-house to fete"
some beer. During her absence he seized their sleepig
infant, four months old, from its cradle, enveloped it IS ,1
shawl, and hurried out of the house. A search was inst.
tuted, and, and in a horse-pond, at a short distance, t-
he
coat of a man was seen on the surface of the water. A°
ditional aid was called, and then it was found that Mar;
tin and his child (the latter firmly clasped in his angle/
were drowned. The man had apparently committed.the
act under the influence of temporary madness, and at the
inquest a verdict to that effect was returned.
HOUSEBREAKING BY FEMALES.—On Saturday night
about nine o'clock, Miss Leven, who resides at Meadow'
bank, Patrick, on returning from Glasgow, was astonished
to see a light in the back part of the premises, when, es
she was aware, no person could have gained admission to
the house in a legitimate manner. She opened the door,
however but she had only got a step or two within the
lobby, when a girl rushed past her and made her escape'
She then alarmed the neighbours, and the house WO
looked over, and all was believed to be right ; but Miss
Leven's suspicions not being entirely allayed, two hour'
afterwards, when about to retire for the night, she began
to examine the room, and on lifting up the curtain, there
she found another girl hid under the bed. As soon a°
practicable, she was sent to the Western Police-office,
where some small articles of property, belonging to Mil°
Leven, were found in her possession. Her name is Mari
Smith, and she is only about twelve years of age.
SELLING POISONOUS ROOTS.—An old man, parsed
Thomas Lord, was remanded from the Worship-street
Police Court, on Wednesday, charged with offering 1)°i"
sonous roots for sale. As Mr. Imray, an herbalist, we
waiting for an omnibus in Whitechapel, on Tuesday eves-
ing, Lord came up to him and asked him to buy some
roots that he called English gentian, and which he recom-
mended for making a tonic and alterative decoction. Igr:
Imray's professional knowledge enabled him to detect
that the roots were of white briony or hellebore, a decsq-
tion of which, made and taken as prescribed liy the pa:
soner' would certainly destroy life. The prisoner had 19
his kulsket about twenty pounds weight of these tootg,
sufficient, Mr. Imray said, to poison a whole district;
Mr. Imray recognised in Lord a person he had cautioned
some months ago against selling these roots ; T
and, belieL,
ing him to be dangerous, he gave him into custody. ""
case will undergo a full investigation on e dnesday..
SABBATH DESECRATION.-111 the couWrt and fasniou
able news of last week's 'London papers, we find the fol-
lowing notices thus set forth :
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cant'
bridge entertained a select party to dinner on Sunday last sr
Cambridge House."
" Lord and Lady Brougham received a distinguished circle to,
dinner on Sunday evening at their mansion in Grafton-street-'
These are not extracted on account of their novelty, for,
we much regret to say, they are of weekly occurrence ;
but we call attention to the practice, in order to ahoy
how futile are the exertions of pions ministers and active
laymen to obtain a better observance of the Sabbath ap,
long as "select parties" and "distinguished circles'
are tolerated by royalty and nobility on the Lord's dal*
The worldly minded in the less wealthy ranks of society
seize upon such examples as a ready excuse for their oval
transgressions in the eyes of this world ; but how will the
excuse avail with him who has said, " Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
THE REV. H. BLUNT ON THE ABOLITION OF CAPITA'',
PENALTIES.—" Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by me
shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He
man." Here is an express command of God, which, like,
marriage and the Sabbath, anticipated the ceremorda'
law, and therefore was certainly not abrogated when that
necessarily passed away : and however, in these later
times, feeling may overpower obedience, it would be-dif6"
cult to show a more express or binding obligation than
this command conveys :—" Whoso sheddeth man's blood'
by man shall his blood be shed." In such cases man ha°
but one course—to listen and to obey. It is not for hint
to affect more feeling than his Creator. God has corn'
manded, and, doubtless, some wise and merciful purpose;
though we know it Rot, has inspired that command ; an
we are not to inquire why does God order; but what dons_
God order ? Happy the mind that is brought into this
state of subordination to the will of the Almighty, tbl
upon this, as upon every subject, it requires only to hall
that will distinctly pointed out, to listen, to receive, and
to obey it.

LIBERATION OF A CONVICT.—George Sands, who 104
tried at the Lancaster assizes in the early part of last year'
for hiring a horse and chaise and subsequently selling
them, and failing at the time to prove an alibi, owing t°
doubts of the credibility of the witnesses in his favor''
was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' transports'
tion. The prisoner was embarked in the China, convict
ship, for conveyance to Bermuda, when a petition No',ary
forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Dep
ment, asserting the innocence of the prisoner, and offering
to produce further evidence than had been brought for;
ward at his trial. Sir James Grahain ordered his remote
from the convict ship until the charge was investigated'
and Mr. Duncombe having recently taken up the cose.t
the friends of the prisoner were able to produce eviden'fr
which was perfectly satisfactory to Sir George Grey,
consequently granted the prisoner a special pardon, 0,
he was liberated, on Thursday, after being nearly tweq;
months on board the hulks, and employed as a convict
the Woolwich Dockyard. While employed one daY__:o
the coal dealt for supplying steam vessels, he juniPp
overboard, with the intention of drowning himself, bum
anysimilar
LE BunKING Pp noßs,
was saved, and a gtriet,wateh kept over him to pre-
Aattempts.
ad-
journed Quarter Sessions, at the Shire'S— eiroAor-,
on Thursday week, Edw. Bentley,C
. At theliEs'—r A
knaci(erman
in the county, was indicted for having ki known
lled a
t), 'the nlO4
process of suffocation. a relding, the t- of

perry of W
a respectable farmer, living at East Hal'
...gneld, a small village a few miles from Chelmsford'
Since the prisoner's commitment, it has been satisfactor.o_:
ascertained that he has been carrying on the atrocio%
system for a considerable time. He was in the habit ;
buying dead horses for the London markets, and in 11.
less than 24 instances has he been known to be the first It
call, and eventually buy dead cattle, that up to their death
had been in a fine and healthy condition. Many of the:A
were of a valuable description, and the mode he'adopt
to destroy them was to choke up their nostrils with b5l
hands, and firmly tie up their jaws with ropes. The Pc°r
things would fall to the ground from exhaustion, and, o''
expiring, he would remove the hay and ropes,
and the°
call upon the owner to buy the dead bodies. He was air
covered in the act of killing Mr. Stock's gelding by a ti
bourer named Mason. The charge was clearly prov
against him, and he was sentenced to transportation ft°.
15 years.

SCARCITY OF EGGS.—The scarcity of eggs which n°l(
prevails, and the consequent high price which they fetcoo
are now a subject of general complaint amongst hotoe'
keepers ; and it is a common case that these essential 0,1
tides of the cuisine " cannot be got for love or money'.
The scarcity is easily accounted for—it is one of the intilll
evils flowing from the famine in Ireland. In former yeah
there was a very large importation of eggs from that
country, but latterly the item " boxes of eggs" has alnin
entirely disappeared from the lists of imports at.Beisto
and Liverpool. The Irish peasantry have been obliged
to kill 0.-• --Anse

(heir poultry for food, or to sell them to purca; _
it. The superabundance of poultry,
has been brought to market, has kept down its price,
on the other hand, it has had the effect. of increasing
price of eggs ; and the scarcity of the latter has been ft?
gravated by the unprofitableness of keeping fowls
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which in consequent
the existing high prices of grain. one of- ti deor-o,
eggs in this town, who has hithertoimperted mans '''S)
to
sands monthly, is now quite unable to obtain an adeclo.
supply, although he has searched every direction for 1
and, in fact, his "occupation's gone. For some Yeati
past the inportatiou of eggs from France has also been ,us
large, that the duty has averaged X 30,000 annually; "

the exportation of eggs thence has almost entirely ceage%*
TILE " WANDERING MIN'STREL," DON JUAN
VEGA.—At a meeting of the electors of Westminster'
favourable to .the return of Mr. C. Cochrane, held
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Monday night, at the Craven Head,
in ane,
Cochrane, on being introduced to the meeting, enter
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the Sun, asking whether Mr.— Cochrane isl-curial the person vol
some years since, made a tour through Sussex and ge%
as Don Juan de Vega, a Spanish minstrel ? He said,
reply, that he mad a tour on behalf of the distres
Spanish emigrants, and that he wrote a description of pi;
tour, when a very young man. He felt sorry for havl7
written that which in InatiirP years he felt was not rig:.

'd to the object for which he m