The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

TIEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Dtstritt P.MS.

Manchester was visited by a terrific thunder storm on
Thursday. Several buildings were struck by .the electric
fluid, and respectively sustained considerable damage.
DEATH FROM A SHOT AT CHESTER RAcr,so,--A gdtitle-
man from London received in his eye a ball discharged by
a man who was practising rifle-shooting at Chester Races.
The gentleman applied for medical relief and was advised
to return home, as the case would require long and care-
ful attention. He has since died from the effects of the
wound.

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GOOD COLLECTIONS.—On Sunday week, after sermons
at St. Ann's Church, Manchester, by the- Rev. H. W.
M'Grath, the sum of £l9O was collected in aid of the
schools. On the same day, at Christ Church, Salford,
£290 was obtained after sermons by the Rev, Stowell,
for the schoolsOf his church. What practical proofs that
the evangelical members of the church are deeplT alive to
the importance of Christian education.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.--In our obituary of this
day we record the death of an old inhabitantof this town,
Mrs. Kemp, of Church-street, the circumstances of whose
birth and descent forcibly illustrate the old adage, that
" truth is stranger than fiction." Mrs. Kemp was the
daughter of Mr, Bradley, a tailor and draper, ,in Preston,
by the eldest daughter of the Hon. Francis North, after-
wards Lord North, and subsequently created Earl of
Guilford, and, of course, sister of Frederick, Lord North,
for many years prime minister to King George the Third,
and on the death of his father, the first earl; the second
peer of that title. Frederick, Lord North, and his sister,
the heroine of our story, were both deprived of maternal
care when they most required it, and both were consigned
to the same foster-mother during their infancy. The
early days of the high born lady to whom,we have alluded
were spent under the roof of her mother's immediate
relatives, near Grosvenor-square, London,. where she re-
ceived an education suitable to the position in society she
appeared designed to fill. At twelve or fourteen years of
age she became an inmate of Bushy-house, Middlesex,
the then residence of the Earl of Halifax, whose daugh-
ters, the Ladies Montague, watched over her young wo-
manhood with anxious solicitude. The Earl of Halifax
being at that time (1748) one of the Lords of the Admi-
ralty, was in the habit of being waited upon in matters
appertaining to his office, by a young man named Brett,
nephew of Sir William Smith, a London merchant, who
offered her his hand. Mr. Brett, though respectably con-
nected, and having good worldly prospects before him,
was, nevertheless, not considered of suitable station to
espouse the daughter of a peer,. and she was therefore
sent down to Preston, to break off the acquaintance.
After remaining here some weeks, under the care of two
ladies, named Astley, whose father was mayor at that
time, and lived at the entrance to Chapel-walks, Fisher-
gate, she received an intimation that Mr. Brett, supposing
she had gone to France, had set out in quest of her, and
had been drowned in crossing from Dover to Calais.
Believing the statement, and much distressed in her mind
at the supposed sad event, she immediately returned to
London, and related her trouble to her foster-mother,
observing, at the same time, that as her friends had de-
prived her of the object of her warmest affections, she
would accept the first offer that was made to her. Her
foster-mother having a nephew then lodging with her,
from Preston, with a view to improvement in his business,
she communicated to him what the unhappy lady had
stated. He made- her an offer accordingly, and in three
days they were married at Keith's Chapel, May-fair.
This nephew was Mr. Bradley, tailor and draper, of this
town ; and the daughter of one of the proudest aristo-
cratic families:of the empire :became the wife of a Pres-
ton tradesman ! A few months afterwards the young
couple quitted London, and she became the mistress of
the identical house in Fishergate, formerly occupied, far
many years, by the late Mr. Taylor, seedsman, which de-
scended to her husband on the death of his father, and
where she gave birth to twelve children, six of whom
(daughters) have died within the last sixteen years, the
last of them this very week, in Preston. Harsh and un-
forgiving as it may appear, it is yet the fact, that this
marriage (imprudent, certainly, under the circumstances)
for ever cut her off from her former friends and connec-
tions, not one of whom ever exchanged a single word

and who accidentally met her in London

Lord titrar

father of the late Earl of Derby, who then represented
the county, and resided occasionally at the family man-
sion, in Church:street, also recognised her after she had
become a resident in Preston. He had known her when
a girl, living with her relatives, near his own residence,
when in London, and evinced his sympathy at her altered

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position by becoming a customer to her husband, and re-
commending his friends to follow his example. With
these exceptions, and now and then a small present, sent

Strange, she was completely severed from and neglected
by her own noble relatives, and sank into the grave about
1790, at the age of sixty-two, having, about five years
bofore, lost her husband by death, and, subsequently, be-
come so reduced in circumstances as to be compelled to
part with her jewellery, among which was a valuable ring,
given her by Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, who
married ter cousin. Her ashes were consigned to their
last resting-place in the burial ground of the Preston
Parish Church. Mr. Brett, her "first-love," it mcty be
added, rose to eminence in point of position, having be-

io one o

the Admiralty, during the coalition ministry of ' Lord
North and Mr. Fox, in 1783, but, it is understood, died
unmarried,—probably out of respect for the lady, whom
an affectionate regard on the part of her well-meaning
friends had deprived him of, owing to his then inferior
station in life.—Preston Chronicle.

iginrra I illfilttiiAltD.

There is at present a large group of spots on the sun's
They will be visible for some days.

The Times newsp2per of Monday (two double sheets)
contains upwards of two thousand advertisements!
Jenny Lind arrived at Dover on Tuesday, and sailed for
Calais on Wednesday, en route for Paris.
The shares of the York Union Bank, of which Mr.
Hudson is managing director, have declined from £l9 to
under £l3, since the railway investigations commenced.

During afire which occurred on Saturday last at Bas-
singbourne, Cambridgeshire, nearly 300 fowls were burned
to death.

Mary Ann Geering, of Guestling, near Hastings. has
been committed for trial charged with having poisoned her
husband and two of her children. _ _

A woman at Nottingham has been taken into custody,
iarged with attempting to poison an illegitimate child of

her husband's,

The Town Council of Doncaster, at a meeting held on
Wednesday week, voted 1,000 sovs. to the race fund for
the next meeting.

Mr. Baillie Barrie, one of the magistrates for Forfar,
has committed suicide by drowning himself. He wa;
walking out with his sister when he leaped into the
water, and could not be-rescued before life was extinct.
At the recent distribution of Mrs. Parke's Bowyer
Gallery Collection of Works of Art, the Bowyer bible
valued at £3,000. fell to the lot of Mr. John Saxon, of
Greenscombe, Somersetshire.

The infant'child of a cabinet maker living at Canter-
bury, died last week, in consequence of its parents per-
sisting in trying hydropathy as a cure for an affection of
the lungs, under which it laboured.
Two Hull whalers, the William Ward, 295 tons, and
The Pledge, 31 tons, have been wrecked. The crews,

after suffering greatly, were saved. Many of the ships
engaged in the Greenland trade are stove in by the ice.
Charles James Monk, Esq., son of the Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol, arrived at Southampton on Wednes-
day last, from his travels in Greece, Egypt, and Syria,
after an absence from England of above a year and a half.
A POLICEMAN KILLED AT BRISTOL.—On Friday a
coroner's inquest was held at Bristol on the body of a
policeman named Pym, who met his death in consequence
of an attack made upon him by two soldiers of the 15th
Regiment, on the 3d instant.

STRANGE FIELD SPORTSMEN.—On Friday, the Bos-
jesmen were sent. into a field opposite Mr. Pott's house,
Park-lane, Manchester. They enjoyed themselves in

feet, and gazitig atthe.buildings

An extraordinary attack has been made by a cat in a
house a few miles from Moffat. An infant was left in a
cradle with a large cat ; no sooner had the mother quitted
the house than the cat sprang upon the child and tore it
in such a way that it died soon after.

The town of Dudley is likely to have a good free school
through the liberality of the late Mr. D. Parsons of that
town. That gentleman bequeathed £lO,OOO, to be paid
after the death of his sister, for establishing and support-
ing a school for the education of poor boys and girls.

A few days ago a young woman, after suffering from
cholera 24 bours, apparently died at Brokeboy. He;
friends placed her in the coffin, and they were on the
point of carrying the body to the churchyard, w:ien she
rose from her narrow tenement, burst asunder her cere-
ments, and formed one of the living assemblage.
On Monday week, while a railway train was proceeding
to Perth, a person was seen on the line making the ffsaal
signal to stop, which was instantly obeyed by the engine-
driver. On being eagerly askec. what was wrong, the
person who caused the delay coolly answered, •` Nothing,"
as he merely wanted a lift into the town.
From the hour of six, a.m., of Saturday, the engines
and firemen of the London Brigade were kept in conti-
nued movement, there being, during that period, not
fewer than nine alarming fires in various parts of the
metropolitan district. There were no lives lost. The
damage done to property is very considerable.
A severe and fatal epidemic, supposed to be the cholera,
has broken out amongst the paupers of the Keynsham
union, Somerset, and up to Wednesday last no less than
ten deaths occurred, irrespective of cases which have been
successfully treated by the medical officers, or are still in
course of treatment.
On Monday, a brutal fight between two navvies, after
the Lancashire fashion, took plac3 at Bowling, near
Bradford. One of them was kicked in the belly by his
assailant,- and, when both were down, again kicked in'the
breast and on the head. He died next day. The sur-
vivor has been committed for manslaughter.
A Brighton beggar lately quarrelled with his begging
letter writer respecting the division of 15s. which the for-
mer had obtained by means of the latter's moving epistles ;
and the writer became so furiously enraged that he
smashed"all the furniture of the lodging-house where they
lived. The police interfered, and conveyed the fellow be-
fore the magistrates, who committed him to' the house of
.correction.
At the thirteenth anniversary of the Fistula Infirmary,
it was announced that Mr. B. Bond Cabbel(who was ab-
sent from illness), on hearing that the society could not
'meet-with a suitable site for an intended{ new' erection of
their hospital, had offered them for the-purpose a gift of
land worth nearly £4,000 in the parish of St. Andrew's,
Holborn. The new building will be•named the St. An--
I ilrerea Hospital for Diseases of Lower:lntestines.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE.—The vessel, Success, arrived
in London, from Adelaide, Australia, has brought 2,539
bags of wheat,. the production of that distant colony.
The same vessel brought 10',116 bags of copper ore, 127
casks of tallow, and a general. cargo of Australian pro-
duce.

The town. and neighbourhood of Doncaster were visited
by a short but severe storm of thunder and lightning,
between siz and: seven on Monday evening last. At
Rossington, Mr. R. V. Jennings, farmer, had two valu-
able cart horses killed. Two of the farming lads who
were in the stable at the time, were knocked down by the
concussion of the air.

EXTRAVAGANCE AT OXFORM-A conference was held
at Oxford, on Monday week, between a deputation of the
Oxford Trailing Association and the leading college tutors,
on the subject of the long credit given to undergraduates,
and the means of checking their extravagance. The
tradesmen seemed disinclined to adopt the -ready money
system recommended by the tutors, and, in fact, there
seems to be a strollg feeling amongst them in favour of
long credits, and, oecourse, high prices.
Two men:have been taken into custody at Rotherham,
for selling what purported to be " An Account of the
dreadful Assassination of Emily Sandford, by Rush's son
James."' The paper purported to have been copied from
a telegraphic dispatch, and stated that young Rush had
invited his victim to the new residence of his family, and
that her brains had been beaten out with a poker, and
that she died instantaneously. The whole story was false,
and the two." flying stationers" will be punished.
A NEW INGENUITY IN SMUGGLING. -An unusual

A, eaSe of Dutch butter, in the usual size ro:

was entered for duty, and the officers of the Customs
opened. it to ascertain the contents, which to all appearance
was_ satisfactory ; but upon piercing one of the rolls the
instrument was obstructed by some hard substance, and.,
on, the -officers cutting into the butter, found a small tin
canister of tobacco embedded in each roll. There were
in all about lOCt rolls.

On Monday, during a tempest which passed over Cam-
bridgeshire and Suffolk, while a flock of sheep, containing
about 14 score, near Bury St. Edmund'

were returning

to the fold they rested under an ash tree during the rain.
21 of the animals were killed on the spot by the electric
fluid, and one was nearly dead ; the others got away, and
appeared to have received little injury, thongh some. of
them had their coats singed.. The tree received only
partial damage, its trunk having about six inches of bark
all the way down stripped off, and a few of the arms
slightly barked.
AN ELECTRIC WATCHMAN.—Mr. Petrie's ingenious
mode of protecting premises by the aid of electric shocks,
as first suggested in The Builder, is about to be applied,
it appears, to an extensive factory at West Ham. The
battery will be a very powerful one, and will effect the
two-fold object of ringing a large alarm-bell, and prostrat-
ing all who may attempt to enter the premises.. The ap-
plication of such an apparatus is suitable for banking-
houses, or the mansions of the nobility and gentry,
and may be applied to ono room or the whole
dwelling.—The Builder.
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.—WC are informed that Major-
General Brotherton will receive the cclonelcy of the 15th
Hussars, rendered vacant by the death of Sir Robert
Thomas Wilson. We understand that bent—General
Sir George Anson is to succeed the late Six Edward Paget
as Governor of Chelsea Hospital. We hear that Major-
General Sir Joseph Thackwell, who, commanded the
cavalry at Chillianwallah, is to be appointed a Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath. Major-General Whish,
who also distinguished himself in the recent Indian cam-
paign, is to be appointed a Knight Companion of the

Bath, and Colonel Colin Campbell, of the 98th Regiment,
is to receive the same appointment as the last-mentioned
officer. The 59th Regiment of Foot has received orders
to embark for China; 5 officers and 130 men are to em-
bark in a few days for Hong Kong.—Globe.

POTATO GROWING.—It may interest the experimenta-
lists in potato growing to know that Count Le Lieur, of
Ville sur Acre, a French gentleman of great horticultural
eiperience, has hit upon a plan of stopping the disease,
which he assures us has produced the best results. He
plants in a greenhouse the soundest potatoes he can find;

with a ball of earth, and transfer red to the

open ground, not later if possible than the month of June.
These plants produce, he says, perfectly sound tubers in
the course of the autumn ; and the Count assures us that
such tubers, if used for seed in the following year, produce
a crop entirely free from disease. This is ono of the few

Chronicle,

RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—On Tuesday evening, the
annual general meeting of this society was held at Exeter-

was numerously a

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nd feeling manner. He trusted the Ragged SChool
Union was about to take its place among the best and
greatest religious societies of that vast metropolis. In
spite of the difficulties and obstacles that had stood in
the way, while only four years ago they numbered their

now maintained 82 schools, the greater number of them
in connection with the union. Of these 30 were held in
the day, and 50 in the evening; and 15,000 poor neglected
children partook of their benefits. But they must not
stop there, but proceed vigorously. He ended by a most

appeal in behalf of the furtherance of the great
work, The report was most favourable. Many of the
children had been sent at their own desire to our colonies
at the public expense, and were likely to be
in life. The report was agreed t

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