The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

Nay 25, 1847.

EXTRAORDINARY Esc Ant.-011 Thursday night a wager
boat was run into by a steamer on the Thames, and cut
right in two. The rower, on seeing the impossibility of
clearing the steamer, had the presence of mind to jump
from the boat before the steamer struck her, and dive
completely under it, coming up on the other side unhurt.
HIGH PRICE OF WHEAT.—At Reading market on Sa-
turday last, 36 quarters of wheat, the property of Mr.
Crawshay, the extensive Welsh ironmaster, and grown on
his estate at Caversham, near Reading, realized the enor-
mous and almost unprecedented price of 120 s. per quarter.
The parcel was bought on speculation.
Niw MODE OF ADVERTISING.—A large number of
penny-pieces are in circulation in Birmingham and the
neighbourhood, on which is stamped, in prominent cha-
racters, a recommendation to purchase a certain cheap
periodical. We would advise the perpetrators of this act
of disfigurement of the current coin to beware of the Mint
authorities.

CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.—The Directors
the South-Eastern Steam-ship Company intend to rue
one of their splendid vessels between Folkstone and St.
Valery. The object in view appears to be the saving of
forty miles by diligence from Boulogne to Abbeville, the
port of St. Valery being only twelve miles from the
Abbeville railway station, and the distance by sea from.
Folkstone to St. Valery, about fifty miles ; thus Paris
would be reached in less time than either by Brighton and
Dieppe or Folkstone and Boulogne.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTHS.—On Sunday last the wife of
a poor labouring man, named Godfrey Butterworth, of
Wike Common, was delivered of three fine girls. The
names selected were Faith, Hope, and Charity, and they
were the same day duly registered by Robert Broughton,
registrar for the district. The children are all doing well.
On the 12th February, 1846, the same woman had twins
(two fine boys), which were called Joseph and Benjamin ;
so that in little more than 15 months she has brought her
husband five children, all of them born alive, but the two
boys afterwards died.—Leeds paper.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ST. VINCENT.—This perfect
120 gun ship left Portsmouth harbour at eleven o'clock
on Saturday, for Spithead. She was taken in tow by the
Centaur steam-frigate • and when off Blockhouse beach,
one of the hawsers broke, and left the St. Vincent nearly
unmanageable, but by promptly letting go an anchor she
was saved from getting on shore, although it was thought
she did touch the ground. The officers of the dockyard
and pilots did not deem it prudent, with the wind S.W.,
and a critical point of the tide, to run the risk of taking
her out ; she was anchored ahead of the Victory, and
soon after warped in safety to her former berth. If she

The members of the Senior United Service Club gave a
splendid entertainment at the club-house in Pall-mall, on
Tuesday, to Major-General Sir Henry Smith, to celebrate
the return of that gallant officer to his native country,
after his arduous services in the East Indies. Lieutenant
General Sir Andrew F. Barnard, G.C.B. and G.C.H.,
presided, and Earl Waldegrave occupied the vice-chair.
The Inverness Courier, of Tuesday, contains a detail of
the loss by fire of a bark at sea, and eleven lives lost,
when off the Western Isles. Several others were dread-
fully burnt, but escaped in a boat. The crew were
Americans, bound to Leith. The accident was caused by
a candle falling on some dry oakum while drawing some
rum.

Tim CROPS.—AII the provincial papers speak in high
terms of the growing crops. The following are speci-
mens :—ln the Fylde the corn looks well, and kitchen
gardens are flourishing. In Shropshire " the appearance
of the wheat and barley crops is indicative of a profuse
harvest." In Kent " the beautiful warm showers have

had hung for a very short time, the most disastrous conse-
quences must have ensued, as the ebb tide soon began to
make with great force ; and as she was between Point
Beach and Blockhouse when she touched, she must, front
her great size and draught of water, have turned over on
her side, and been damaged for ever. It is reported that

put a new face on the country, and all the crops pro-
mise abundance. The early potatoes look healthy."
So much foreign grain has been stored at Perth this
winter, that granary room is hardly to be had, and im-
porters are re-shipping to other ports partly from want of
the necessary accomodation. Glasgow is similarly situated,
and some who had sent cargoes thither, and found no sale,
are intending to re-ship them to the Baltic, where prices
are fifty per cent higher than when originally put on
board.

the tides will not admit of her going out of harbour for a
fortnight.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—THE SOOTT JENNY LIND !
The Quarry Walk, Shrewsbury, has been crowded every
night during the past week to listen to the sweet and
brilliant strains of the spirit of Jenny Lind, which it is
reported pours forth most eloquent music from the yew
tree at the skirt of the plantation under the residence of
Mr. Badger, on Kingsland, opposite the Quarry Centre
Walk. We (Shropshire Conservative) regret, however,

A CONTRAST.-In November, 1831, the price of a
bushel of flour in this city was Gs. Gd. ;—on Monday,
May 17, 1847, it was seventeen shillings ! Very shortly,
we regret to add, the price will probably range between
20s. and 30s. per bushel.—As a proof of the laudable de-
sire in Hereford to economise in the smallest things, we
may notice that we have seen handbills affixed to the

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to state, that. the lovers of nature's music have met with a
sore disappointment, as last night, about a quarter past
eleven o clock, when nearly 800 persons were present
drinking the luscious strains from the immortal warbler,
a cough was heard, and something, in colour approaching
his Satanic majesty, seen to move; when lo !! a little
weep was brought forth with a Whitechapel Birdcatcl. _ _

wails, not with paste, but skewers.—Hereford Journal.
The London Dock Company has lately opened another
stack of warehouses with vaults beneath, at the western
end of the docks, nearest to the city. They have been
built at a cost of about £BO,OOO, and combine light, space,
and convenience of all kinds for the transaction of busi-
ness. The arches of the vaults are supported by iron
columns, and have a light and roomy appearance, whilst
they are so far from the water side as to be effectually free

a yr nnechar _ner's
whistle in his tiny fist, with which instrument he had.
been for several evenings beguiling the proud Salopians
from their convivial parties, and beds. This has given a,
quietus to a contemplated " Nightingale Club," which•waa
in the course of formation by the Choral Society.
THE GuN CoTToN.—As all conjecture as to the nature-
of this immensely powerful agent has now been set at rest
by the publicity of the specification of the patent, any-
official facts with reference to its actual utility must prove

from damp.
FOREIGN CORN.—The number of vessels which arrived
at the port of London during the past week from ports
in Europe, laden with grain, was 95, the cargoes of which
were mainly wheat and oats, and were from the following
European States, viz. Holland, Denmark, Prussia, France
(Marselles), Sweden, Hanover, Oldenburgh. Malta,
Mecklenburgh. and some others, the principal of which,
however, were from the Hanoverian dominions, Denmark,
and Prussia.

of interest. A course of experiments, to test its relatives
strength with the very best Ordnance gunpowder, have
just taken place at the Holyhead Mountain, Anglesea ;
the Holland Slate Quarries, Penrhyn ; and the result
shows that the saving by the use of the gun cotton is at
least 30 per cent. ; added to which is the great advantage,
that the miners, by its means, are enabled to obtain the
most enormous blocks, and this with little or no waste.
In an official report which appears in the Mining Jour-
nal of Saturday week, it appears that a f` huge mass of 60

THE INDIAN WAR.—A package has arrived in the East
India Docks directed to Lord Hardinge, the Governor-

tons weight was gently ptished from its firmly bound bed
by the explosion of only eight ounces of cotton, and that

General of India, containing a bedstead and hangings,
and also a quantity of Indian armour, the former of which
is a present to His Excellency from the Maharajah Dhu-
leep Sing, and the latter has been taken in the late en-
gagement with the Sikhs; the whole of which will be de-
livered for or on account of his lordship, by the special di-
rections of the Treasury, duty free.
THE SHIPMENT OF GOLD.—The quantity of gold taken
out on Wednesday by the American steamer was £190,000,
but it was not taken from the bank, but had been received
from Paris by an eminent continental banking firm here,
to be shipped on French account—no doubt as the most
profitable remittance which they are able to make in pay-
ment of the corn, &c. which they are receiving in such
large quanties from the United States. It is understood,
also, that the bullion in the bank is daily augmenting; and
that it cannot now be much below £lo,ooo,ooo.—Morning
Chronicle.

no splintering of the slate took place, which greatly as-
tonished the workmen." To obtain blocks of slate,
alone, of such immense size, will in itself effect a vast
amount of good; that material being in great and in-
creasing demand, even at its present price, for articles of
building, of furniture and works of luxury and the arts.
USEFUL RECIPES.—The following are recipes and in-
struction which are at the present time extensively used,
and with great advantage and economy, in the town and
neighbourhood of Carlisle, and were furnished by Mr. J.
D. Carr, of that town :—Plain boiled hominy, or Indian
corn shelled : Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a cloth,
allowing plenty of room to swell, and boil three hours.
This pudding may be eaten with sugar and melted butter
or treacle sauce. One pound of hominy will make a
pudding sufficient, as a meal, for five or six persons, at a
cost of not more than 2d., when Indian corn is selling
from 565. to 60s. per quarter.—Hominy milk Soak half

ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF ONE-SIDED CONSCIENTIOUS-
-In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Wil-

a pound of crushed hominy in water twelve hours, and
then boil it in milk over a slow fire two hours. It must

Rams opposed the adoption of the Report of the Commit-
tee of Supply, on the ground that the amount voted for
the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commission (X 3,450),
being for the benefit of the church, ought not to be paid
out of the public purse. The hon. member forgot to state,
that this sum became due owing to the state interfering
with the revenues of the church. But Mr. Brotherton
reminded him, that if the public were thus paying £3,000
for the Ecclesiastical Commission, the church paid X 36,000
for registering births, deaths, and marriages, .a measure
adopted for the benefit of dissenters ? Nevertheless, eigl.t
members voted with Mr. Williams.
DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.—SEVEN

be about the consistence of rice milk when brought to
table.—Rice hominy pudding : Mix the hominy, which
has been previously boiled, either in milk or water, with.
eggs, a little sugar and nutmeg, a little suet, and with or
without currants and raisins, as preferred. Tie up in a
basin, and boil two hours. It is excellent either boiled
or baked.—To prepare hominy as a vegetable, boil whole
hominy plenty of water four hours, and strain it
through a culander for the table. This is a beautiful
looking dish, and forms an excellent substitute for pota-
toes. Equal parts of Indian and English flour make ex-
cellent household bread and cakes.
RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.--011 Tuesday a very nume-

LIVES LOST.—Yesterday morning week, a terrific explo-
sion of fire-damp occurred at a colliery belonging to
Messrs. Harding and Co., New Hall, Beeston, about
two miles from Leeds, by which seven individuals have
lost their lives, and another has received injuries from
which he is not expected to recover. The explosion took
place about nine o'clock. The miners in the course of
their labours broke into an old pit, from which the con-
fined and inflammable gas issued, and this communica-
ting with the lights used in the_ pit caused an almost in-

rously attended meeting of the above society was held at
the Hanover-square Rooms, when Lord Milky took the
chair. Amongst the number on the platform were the
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnear, the Hon. W. Cowper,
M.P., the Right Hon, Fox Maule, the Hon- han
Baptist Noel, and a number of clergymen' T
Lord briefly, but very emphatically, addressed the meet-
ing. The report stated that there were 16 ho oep It
daily, morning and afternoon, 33 opon on the Sabbath,
s oe noble
c
morning, afternoon, and evening ; 44 buildings con
in

stantaneous explosion. Six of the unfortunate persons
who were at work in the pit were killed on the spot, and
two others were got out alive and conveyed to the Leeds
Infirmary, one of whom has since died,
DEATH OF A BOY FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING

schOols of both sexes, which are situated in the lowest
and most wretched localities of London. The total num-
ber in these are about 5,000 children of both sexes, and
456 teachers. A special fund had been established for a
school of industry or juvenile refuge, in one of the most

Saturday week, a boy named John Hall, aged nine years wretched and low localities in Westminster, to vhiciia
and five months, was amusing himself with other boys in lady in the first instance subscribed £2OO, and sabse-
front of the office of Messrs. Ridley and Thompson, spi- quently £3OO, with a view under the latter donation of
rit merchants, Newcastle, but causing some annoyance to receiving 50 girls. A legacy of £2OO had been bequeathed
those in the office, they were ordered away. Unfortu- by Mr. Strut Avery, of the University Club. The report
nately, as an inducement to them to go away, a glass of was adopted. The financial statement showed the re-
rum was given to each of.them, when they departed. The ceipts to be for the past year £824 6s. 10d., leaving a
deceased, however, returned again, and asking for some balance of £172 18s. lid. The special fund for the juve-.
more drink, a bottle containing rum was given to him by nile refuge fund, £857, which, after defraying all ex-
a traveller for the firm, and the boy applying the bottle penses, and a contingent fund of £3OO, left a balance of
to his mouth, drank nearly the whole of the contents. £2Ol 13s. 7d.
After leaving the office he was overcome with the liquor THE MIRFIELD MURDERS.—The local magistrates and
and fell down, and was taken up quite insensible, con. police officers are strenuously exerting themselves to dis-
veyed home, and put to bed, where he died on Monday, cover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed 'of blood
without having spoken in the interval. A verdict of which occurred there on Wednesday week, and the full par-
manslaughter has been returned against the traveller. ticulars of which appeared in the Siandardof Tuesday. At
A WEALTHY PAUPER.—On the 19th instant, a labour- present there are two men in custody, on suspicion of
ing man named John Jarmy, and his wife, were admitted being concerned in the three murders. These two per-
as in-door paupers at the Wangford union-house at Ship- sons in custody are both Irishmen, hawkers of pots, re-
siding a few miles from Mirfield. One of them is
meadow, and, as is customary, they were taken to sena-
rate apartments to exchange their own clothing for that Michael M'Cabe, about forty-one years of age; the other
is Patrick Reed ; about twenty-one. They were both
of the union, attended by the usual officials. The matron,
seen in the neighbourhood of the house of the deceased
who was present with the woman, observing that her Mr. Wraith about the time when the murders must have
pockets were very heavy, asked what they contained, to
which she replied, " Only a few rags" ; but this not sa-
been committed, and it is said that a strong chain of cir-
tisfying Mrs. Hammond, she examined the contents, and cumstantial evidence will be adduced against them at the
found sewed up in different parcels £132 45., consisting coroner's inquest, which is expected to be resumedat
of 111 sovereigns, and the remainder in silver ; there latter part of the present week. The remains of the
were also three savings-bank books, in which were ac-
deceased Mr. and Mrs. Wraith were interred in one
knowledged deposits in the Norwich Savings Bank to the grave, and those of their unfortunate servant maid, Caro
amount of £l6O, making a total of £292 4s. ! There line Ellis, in another on Saturday, amidst a large con..
were found also nine silver tea-spoons, a table-spoon, purse of spectators. It is not true, as reported in some
and a pair of sugar-tongs.—lpswich Express. journals, that the mother of Ellis died suddenly in conse..
quence of the news that her daughter was murdered hay-
HER MAJESTY'ing
S THEATRE.—The attractions of Jenny been communicated to her
Lind
eaks continu
_Me undim
Postinished, or
W rather to increase. Thus her illness arising from the shock' She, however, is very ill,
to her nervous system by,
sp the orning ofWednesday thereon, and of the awful death which has befallen her child.
her general characteristics !—" The day before yesterday, FURTHER NOVELTIES IN GLASS.—Sir Robert Peel's
before the office doors were opened, a crowd had assem- anticipations of the extended use of glass appear to.be on
bled before them, and in their effort to get first served theda way towards a completel fulfilment. Only the other
they broke the glass door. Not only from all parts of the the Builder, to add a new
country, but from the continent, persons are constantly graceya tportolpieospalianwoa-sfomrtaedeby covering the key natas .with
arriving to witness the performances of the great vocalist; varicoloured glass; and other projects, such as. the- con-.
nor can they accomplish the object of their journey at duction of illuminative gas through pipes of glass, with
once, so difficult is it to obtain a seat of any kind. The ground and closely-fitted jointings, have been suggested
sensation the fair Swede excites is in no wise extraordinary through the same medium.. It now appears, however,
when we reflect that she has all the sweetness of Sontag, that not only milk-pans (yielding, by the bye, an addi,
with far more vocal power, and all the dramatic energy of tional crop of cream, it is said) and cream-pots, jars, and
the great Malibran, with the advantages over the latter that flower pots, tiles, grape-glasses, and various other horti-
she never exaggerates feeling, and that her voice, instead cultural and floricultural utensils are already made of
of being a beautiful contralto forced into an unequal so-" glass, but even also such unlikely implements as rolling-
prano, is throughout even, round, clear, and bell-toned. pins, and a heterogeneous list of other manufactures
MR. COHAN'S CONCERT IN LONDON.—Mr. Cohan be- hitherto usually wrought in wood, or clay, or metal. Bee-
log well known in Liverpool. the following paragraph from glasses, too, and propagating-glasses, seed protectors, &c.,
the Times, London paper, will be perused with interest are now made of this useful and elegant, as.well as cheap
by many of his friends :—This entertainment attracted an material, which scarcely requires the establishment of
overflowing audience last night to the Hanover Rooms. anything like truth in a recent report of the discovery of
The concert-giver is a pianist of the modern school, unit- a mode of rendering it malleable, in order to constitute
ing considerable mechanical pretensions with a style and it a most formidable antagonist and substitute for all
taste peculiarly his own. He played several phantasias of kinds of manufaCture, not only in metal, and wood, and
his composition, the most remarkable of which was a pot- ,clay, but in other materials, including gve.c., silk an 4 :
pourri called The Greek Revolution, an essay combining worsted—for we may add, what may not be known to
the fragmentary plan of the ancient Battle of Prague with some of our readers, that beautiful fabrics, even as it is,
executive difficulties that Rotzwara never dreamed of. have been actually woven with a mixture of threads of
Mr. Cohan was quite at home in these pieces, and was re- coloured glass and silk.
warded by liberal applause. He further distinguished ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—One of the rural police al),
himself by a very able performance of one of Beethoven's prehended a young Irishman on Friday, the 7th instaety.
violin sonatas, in which lie enjoyed the valuable co-oper- stealing some shirts from a farmhouse at Craignish, where
ation of Mr. Blagrove ; and also in the exposition of an he had lodged the night previous. He gave his name_ an.
adagio and scherzo from a MS. sonata composed by him- Tom M`Lean, from near Derry ; but on his'wav Here,
self, and written with a better purpose than the fantasais en route, to Inverary, gave hints of hisintention to change
of which we have spoken. A vaaiety of vocal pieces sus- both name and sex, and actually proved to be a lady in
tained by the talents of Misses Birch, Dolby, and Rans- tights; and, from her own statement is the same Ann
ford, Messrs. Hart, and John Parry, completed the pro- M.Lean, from near Derry, who followed her " soldiet
gramme, which appeared to give general satisfaction."
laddie" from that place to Glasgow in male attire—got en-
CONTINUED DISTURBANCES IN SOMERSETSHIRE.—
listed in the same regiment; but on her sex being disco-
We regret to state that the food riots, which originated at vered was sent to the right-about ;on which she took to
Taunton, appear to be spreading over the county of Somer-
work in and about Glasgow, and on the harvest-field.,, &c
set. At Glastonbury symptoms of incipient disturbances and ultimately joined the Cambria, steamer,
.in which she
have manifested themselves, and though, fortunately, the twice crossed the Atlantic as cook ; but on the last home-
mischief was confined to stopping bread carts, the occur- ward bound. passage she was sent before the mast, in con-
rences are too ominous to be lightly regarded. The cart sequence of which she left the ship, and found her way to
uarter, and engaged herself to a countryman of hag
of Mr. Collins, baker, of Wetton-mill, was stopped on this q
Tuesday while delivering bread in the High-street, and the own, who is in th.z stoneware trade, with whom she served
driver had to return home at once with his vehicle. On in the threefold capacity of cartman, boatman, or basket-
the previous day, the bread cart of Mr. Puddy was stopped man, and sharing her 'bed with the other boys. Weary-
at Ashcott, and the driver desired to dispose of his bread ing of this life also, she decamped, in the absence of both
at Bd. per quartern' with which command he was obliged master and. mistress, taking with her a well-stored basket
to comply. At Coker, a village a few miles distant from of glasses., which she sold at low prices through the
Yeovil, a disorderly mob smashed in the windows of an country, till she perished the pack. She then enlisted at
inoffensive baker named Podger, and here the affair be- Inverar-y, where, after a night's carouse and good lodgings,
came so serious that a magistrate (Mr. Batten) was called the party found themselves minus their recruit in tne
from his bed at a late hour, and considered it necessary morning, she having managed to make her:escape, but has
to swear in a number of special constables. At Taunton liciw been apprehended for the above tfieft. She Peg
the disturbances were renewed on Monday, and the pen- over her history since she adopted the tights (now twelve
sioners charged the mob with fixed bayonets. Three men months) without a blush, and -with the greatest fluency-
named Stone, Valiance, and Brake, have been committ/„d She is rather a good-looking boy, five feet six inches high,
to gaol for trial, the two former charged with partici•Jat- ruddy complexion, with jet black locks, about nineteen
ing in the disturbances, and the latter with obstrdain, years of age. Irish Tom turning out a girl, has created a
the pensioners. At Yeovil some apprehensions of dis- great deal of merriment and astonishment here, particn:
turbances was felt, the more especially as large_ gangs ,:d larly to her old master and mistress, with whom be was.:
railway labourers are at work in the irainecila' f great favourite for the six weeks he lived Yfith th"1:1. -
the town. *.e vg'!' o , .
Adtnburgh Regis(er,