The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

OUR COMMERCIAL PROGRESS.—The import of, raw ROBBERY or FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS.—On Saturday cotton into this country in the year 1710 was only forenoon, a very daring and dexterous robbery was effected
715,0081b5. ; in 1845 it was 659,584,4771b5, The price of in the Union Bank, Ingram-street. Donald Campbell,
a pound of cotton yarn in 1787 was one pound eighteen the porter at the bank, had been out collecting bills in
shillings; in 1842 it was two shillings and ninepence. In the customary way, and had received payment of a bill of
1787 there were only forty-one cotton-mills in Lancashire. £5OO, the money consisting of five £lOO notes of the
In the year 1838 there were in the same county one thou- Clydesdale Banking Company. With this sum he re-
sand one hundred and eighty-seven, (sixty-two of which, turned to the bank, which at the time was much crowded.
however, were empty.) The contrast presented by this and after enclosing the notes in a pass-book, threw them
statement is rendered greater when we consider that over the counter, to Mr. M'Arthur, one of the tellers,
factories in 1787 were in many instances one-tenth less in who was at the time actively engaged with other business.
size than at the latter period. The number of persons About twenty minutes are said to have elapsed from the
male and female, employed in cotton factories in Lance- time of the pass-book being thrown upon the counter
shire in the year 1846 was 201,573. In the year 1782 a until it was taken up by the teller, when, strange to re-
panic was created in Manchester in consequence of 7012 late, the pass-book was found to contain no money of any
bales of cotton being imported between the months of description whatever. It was not said whether the por—
December and April. During one week, in February of ter kept his eyes upon the book during the whole time it
1844, 109,000 bales were sold in Liverpool. The year lay upon the table, or at what distance from him it was
1776-7 was the era of the first cotton-mill in the towns of thrown ; but certainly the notes were found to have been
Preston and Staley-bridge.—ln 1825 Preston had 40 and abstracted ; and the thief and property are still undis-
Staley-bridge 22. The capital supposed to be sunk in covered.—Glasgow Herald.
cotton-mills in 1832 was £10,600,000. It was estimated BORDER MARRIAGES.—A host of candidates has arisen
that the quantity of flour used in the manufacturing of for the vacant post of priest of Lamberton Toll, and their
cotton goods in the same year was 215,824 barrels of announcements to a discerning public have formed the
1261b5., or 176,256 loads of 2401b5. each, the average of staple of the circulating literature of the week. The va-
each loom being 41bs. per week. rious styles of these documents are highly entertaining-.
COMPARATIVE SMALLNESS OF THE ENGLISH ARMY. One gentleman courtly informs the matrimonial world
—The Times of Friday commences an article on the that "he has succeeded" to the office of the late Mr.
English army, as follows :—" No persons but the disciples Collins. Another, with a genius for puzzles, has tor-
of the New League will be astonished at being reminded tured the word " matrimony" into thirty-two different
that the English army is not only, as compared with the positions—the matrimony he dispenses, we fear, will often
population from which it is drawn, one of the smallest in be solved as easily as his puzzle. A third, who dates
Europe, but that also it is hardly equal to the multifarious from Walkergate-lane, takes up very high ground. He
and varied duties which are imposed upon it. An army also " has much pleasure in intimating that he has sue-
of 113, or 115,000 men, which is the largest number that ceeded to the office of Mr. Collins, deceased. The legis-
ours amounts to, after we have deducted its East Indian lature of the country have acknowledged its legality by
contingents, is not a very great force to protect, or—if our their inability to alter the present mode of celebrating
Manchester friends prefer the phrase—to cow a population marriages on the borders. Many of those now occupying
of 28,000,000 ; nor can it be reasonably supposed to be high places in the country will, no doubt, feel a reluctance
equal to the defence of colonial possessions which consi- to interfere with that system which enabled them to be-
derably exceed the area of all Europe in extent. Holland, come at once the husband of a fair maiden and of a rich
with less than 3,000,000 of inhabitants, has an army of inheritance." This is a shrewd genius, not easily to be
40,000 men ; Belgium, with her 6,000,000, has an army put down, and well acquainted with the political and re-
'of 100,000 men ; France, with 35,000.000, has an army ligious bearings of the question. His practice, we should
which, if it does not exceed, does not fall short of, 400.000 fancy, will be confined chiefly to the higher classes. The
men. If the home population were taken as the sole lucky dog, whom he makes the husband at once of a
basis of military strength, the army of England should " fair maiden and a rich inheritance," will be sure to re-
be, according to one of these computations, 460,000 ; compense handsomely so sensible and argumentative a
according to another, 285,000. But if national wealth priest. We should not wonder, too, to see the marriages
were to be taken as the measure of military preparation, at St. George's, Hanover-square, fill off, and a trip to
what an accession would this require to the existing esta- Lamberton Toll become quite fashionable. He should
blishments of Great Britain." distribute his cards extensively among the aristocracy.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—On Monday, one of the The vulgar herd of candidates will take their chance
most extraordinary escapes from a prison that we have among the couples without " rich inheritances."
heard of, occurred at the New Prison at Wakefield, when THE DOINGS OF POPERY.—The slow-going English
a waterman of the name of Temple, and a native of Bris- Roman Catholics of the old school are, I hear, frightecl
tol, had so matured his plans of escape that the officers from their propriety by the rapidity of proceeding adopted
and warders of the establishment had not the slightest by the zeal of the recent converts, backed by the Italian
suspicion of what was about to take place, or even what Monks and Jesuits—and above all, seconded oy the abili-
was taking place when the convict made his escape. It ties, the resources, and untiring energies which the
appears that Temple was transported from the assizes " Bishop of Melipotamus" is bringing to bear on the
lately held at York, and that his sentence was for 14 or 15 cause of " the propagation of the faith" in Great Britain.
years. He had a hand-loom in his cell, with which he wove The soirees which I some time since alluded to are still canvass. With this canvass, and the material from held once a week at the episcopal residence in Golden.
which he wove, he made a rope. He also took some square, when the metropolitan saloons are thronged by
iron bars from his loom, and with these he succeeded in an assemblage of talent and eminence such as, I nnder-
forcing out the two iron bars which went across his cell stand, could hardly be met with at the abode of any other
window. Watchmen are engaged nightly in pacing their ecclesiastic in Europe. Nor is this surprising, considering
different beats in the prison yard, and right underneath the fame of the host, and the facilities with which the
the prisoner's cell window a watchman passed every privilege of entree'is to be obtained, an introduction from.
quarter of an hour. He says that at five o'clock in the any acquaintance of the bishop's being sufficient to ensure
morning the prisoner was in his cell. The watchman did the stranger not only a polite but even a cordial reception.
his duty there is no doubt, for he regularly touched the Would I could add that these reunions were confined to
" peg clock" every quarter of an hour. After the pri- those whose character and creed would make them the
soner had made his rope, thrust out the iron bars of his fitting guests of an avowed and unflinching opponent of
cell window, and plucked up all his courage, he had to our Protestant Church. But unless report speak very
squeeze himself through the window-hole, which is a untruly, there are hut too many occasional, aye and cul-
-1 small aperture of 7 inches by 15. He is about 30 years stant visitors at Golden-square, to whom their guardian.
of age, and inclined to be corpulent, and how he squeezed spirit might justly whisper, " what doest thou here,
through such a small opening is very surprising, and more Elijah ?" Some may condemn these disclosures ; but it
surprising still that he was not discovered, seeing the fur- is better that the whole extent of our danger should be
ther difficulties he had to contend with. The difficulties known, by the insidious advances of the foe being duly
were something of this kind,—the ken of the watchmen chronicled. For the work of " perversion" is still going
and warders to evade, a very high wall to get over,—and on. An undergraduate of Cambridge, and two more
all these things to be done without noise. English clergymen, are among the last reported cases of
ROMANTIC GENEROSITY.—Some 25 or 30 years ago the deplorable mania—one of them an incumbent of ad-
there resided in London an old sergeant of artillery. This vanced age. At Clapham, the order of Redemptorists,
person in the course of his duties, by some means or who have lately established' themselves there, are putting
other, had been brought into frequent contact with Sir forth immense exertions to obtain proselytes, and are
Francis Burdett, who had conceived a high opinion of the causing proportionote alarm among the friends of evan-
sergeant, and with that homeliness and good nature which gelical truth, who have long made that locality their fa-
distinguished him throughout life, the hon. baronet had vourite settlement. The Romish services and sermons at
been accustomed to treat the worthy sergeant with great Clapham, as well as at St. George's, are attended by vast
kindness and familiarity. One morning Sir Francis throngs, on whom the extraordinary eloquence of one of
chanced to meet his humble friend in the street, and ob- their preachers, Father Petcherine (himself a convert
serving him to be a little more anxious than usual, kindly from and once a priest of the Grmco-Russian Church)
said to him, " Well, N—, what are you about ! You are tells with thrilling effect, and has already produced its
looking duller than usual, has anything happened ?" fruits in the conversion of more than a dozen young men,
"Nothing very particular, your honour," was the reply, not to mention females, of some of the leading Protestant
only my wife has got a son this morning, and—and— families. One of their converts, a young man the heir to
Sir Francis, now that I think of it, and if you have no a property of several thousands a-year, is at present, it is
objections, I should like to name him after you." understood, undergoing the process of noviceship, preps-
" Surely, surely," said the amiable old gentleman; "and ratory to devoting himself with all his wealth to the ser-
remember. N—, when lie grows up, to bring me in mind vice of the order. The Monastery situate near the Cora-
of this—perhaps I may be able to do something for the mon is furnished with a large bell, which causes, I hear,
boy." The ceremony of baptism over, at which Sir Fran- much annoyance to the peaceable inhabitants of the vici-
cis appeared as godfather, nothing more is said to have nity, by ringing out at most unseasonable hours for matins.
passed at the time. The hon. baronet in the course of It is even stated that a petition to parliament is in course
years was gathered to his fathers, as was also the old ser- of preparation at Clapham against these troublesome in-
geant. The boy meanwhile had been sent to sea, and by traders ' • and truly it would be hard to say why Protes-
application and good conduct had been promoted to the tants should be annoyed by such Popish bell-ringing, in a
situation of mate in a merchant vessel. A few weeks country whose laws confine the right of having and using
ago, while in Liverpool, the young man saw what he bells to the National Church.—London correspondent of
thought a good opportunity of purchasing half a vessel on (Word Herald.
his own account; but not being possessed of sufficient GOLD IN WALES.—About 900 yards north-east of the
means he wrote to his friends in Edinburgh to inquire if West Cwn-heisian is the East Cwm-heisian mine, situate
they could assist in the purchase. The idea now occurred on a group of 14 large and powerful lodes, or veins,
to one of the young man's brothers that he might take it having many different bearings—the prevailing one being
upon him to make Sir Francis's heiress aware of the for- north-west and south-east, which intersect each other
mer promise of her father, and a letter was accordingly within a distance of about 200 yards. As might be ex-
sent to Miss Burdett Coutts, detailing the circumstances, petted, under such favourable circumstances, very rich
and enclosing the young man's certificates of character. results have been obtained.; the veins contain highly
The reply to this note was received in town last week, argentiferous lead ores, potter's lead, blende, iron, and
and was couched in that magnificent style for which the arsenical pyrites, all of which ara mixed with gold. The
lady has become celebrated. It contained no vain words, mine was originally opened as a lead mine, but a small but a bank cheque for no less a sum than £l,OOO. How- quantity of very rich auriferous ore being found within a
ever extraordinary this story may appear, we have good few feet of the surface, yielding from 7to 16 ozs. of gold
authority for stating it as a literal fact.—Edinburgh News. per ton of ore, induced an inquiry, whether the present
DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—On Monday last, a respect- intention of working for lead should not be abandoned.
able gentleman attended at the Westminster police-office, At first the discovery of gold was considered to be more
and told the magistrate that a man and his wife, who had curious than valuable; but, on further examination, large
been brought up very genteelly, had encountered great quantities of the tinstone, and ores taken from the veins
reverses, and came with their family to lodge in a house at distant points, gave valuable results in gold. The
belonging to the applicant in York-street, Westminster. owner then determined to have the mine opened to an
For a short time they endeavoured to procure a subsist- extent which should set the question at rest, as to whether
ence, the mother by knitting worsted cuffs, and the father, it were really to be considered a gold or a lead mine. To
who had been a schoolmaster, by writing small labels for this end, a shaft was sunk to the depth of 30 yards, many
shop windows; both of which two of their children dis- fathoms of levels were driven, and several hundred tons
posed of in the streets : but the slender profit derived from of ore raised from the workings. For a distance of 200
these sources was totally inadequate to supply the wants yards which has been explored, the masses of mineral,
of their children, and, to fill up their cup of misery, both formed by the falling together of so many veins, is up.
were taken ill a few days ago, and were unable longer to wards of ,40 feet in width, and is found to be of equal
assist, in the slightest degree, themselves or children. dimensions in depth. Beyond the intersection, both east
Death had that morning released the poor man from his and west, the veins radiate, and are from 3to 20 feet in
sufferings, and the picture their abode presented at that width, extending from three-quarters to one mile in length,
moment was frightful. Further information of the within the limits of the setts. The result of the foregoing
wretched condition of the family was given, and the ma- operations has been, to prove that wherever the veins
gistrate directed inquiry to be made by the police who have been opened, they are found to contain gold, both
4nnnrl th..t i .44:- L_ _1

LUUMI I LIISL In a noisome attic lay the deceased sufferer in
his clothes as he had expired ; by his side his stricken
wife, who was weeping convulsively. She was lying upon
a miserably dirty mattress, and appeared for some time
unconscious of the chief usher's presence. She appeared
very ill, and articulated feebly ; and, in reply to an in-
quiry from the usher, stated that some time ago they had
had a little relief from the narish. but of late had been

in depth and length, and that every kind of mineral con-
tained in them is mixed with gold. The whole mass of
the veins must be wrought for gold as the primary object,
and the lead and silver-lead ores will be obtained at the
same time, without extra cost. The gold is remarkably
pure, and free from alloy, and will average in value £4
per ounce, or 2d. per grain. In order to prove the value
of the ore raised, an experiment was tried on "^ f

reluctant to apply for any assistance, hoping that some
favourable change might occur in their circumstances.
The whole of the furniture the attic contained consisted
of one broken chair, a form, and an old table, with the
mattress before alluded to, upon which the woman was
stretched, without a morsel of rug or bed covering of any
description, Her children—pictures of squalid misery—
were sitting near her. There was no covering of any
description to shield the children from the inclemency of
the weather, and their whole stock of ar
the clothes they had on. The ushe

attu tons oi
it, fairly broken from all parts of the mines. The whole
quantity was concentrated into 101 tons of washed ore,
containing 84,487 grains of gold, or 176 ounces troy,
giving an average of 16 ounces and a fraction per ton of
washed ore, or 281 grains of gold per ton of raw ore ; and
by carefully picking out the waste and slate from the raw
ore, before it was pulverised, it was found that the average
might be raised to more than 350 grains per ton. Mining
Journal
f SEnious CASE OF BIGAMY.—On Thursday Henry

eldest child that they had had no food of any description
on Sunday, and that for some days previously the only
thing that had passed her father's lips was weak tea or
cold water, a small jug of which was found in the wretched
apartment, and there appeared but little doubt that he
had died from starvation. The deceased and his wife had
been both very well brought up, and the husband, who is
described as the son of an eminent solicitor named Wil-
liams, possessed some talent as an author and an artist.
Food and clothing were provided for the sufferers, who
are progressing slowly.
THE ROBBERY OF THE MAIL BAG, BETWEEN BRISTOL

Mamma ryite, a solicitor, who practised some fourteen
years ago in Norfolk, but who had latterly resided in
Liverpool, in the employment of Messrs. Lowndes and
Co., solicitors, of that town, was brought before the
County Magistrates, on a charge of bigamy. In 1824,,
while living in Norfolk, he became acquainted with Miss
Emma Roberson Howlett, of Marsham, a young lady of
most respectable connexions, to whom he was married on
the 4th August, 1824. He lived with her, but not very
happily, up to the year 1838, when he was tried for for-
gery at Norwich, and sentenced to fifteen years' transpor-
tation. His ill-health and other circumstances procured

AND EXETER.—It appears that Poole (the late guard) and
his supposed accomplice did not enter the train at Exeter,
but proceeded by private conveyance to Laira. the western
extremity of the line, probably to avoid the recognition
of Poole by the servants at the station. The other pri-
soner still persists in refusing to give his name. The first
witness called at the last examination was Mr. Henry
Lee, of Bristol, who came down nearly to Exeter in the

ioi mut u commutation 01 tnat sentence, and he was
liberated after an imprisonment of two years. Immedi-
ately after his release he left the city, and his wife never
saw him again. Having obtained a situation as assistant
clerk to the Magistrates at Stourbridge, he was accus-
tomed to visit this city frequently, and thus became
acquainted with Miss Moss, third daughter of Mr. Moss,
of Great Malvern, a young lady of very great personal
A •

train, from which the letters were abst'racted, on the 2nd
of January. His evidence only went to show that, while
waiting for the train at the Bristol Station, he saw Poole
and the anonymous accused in close conversation on the
platform. They retired, when observed, under an arch-
way, and continued to talk in whispers. When the book-
ing office was opened, Poole appeared anxious to conceal
his face from the clerks, and the other man obtained two
first-class tickets. The dress which he described Poole as

attractions, to whom, after paying his addresses for some
twelve months, he was married at Claines, on the 12th of
March, 1844. They lived together about two years, when,
in consequence of the exhaustion of his finances, she was
obliged to return home to her father's house. Some time
afteriVarus, he sent for her to London, where he very
shortly deserted her in a most heartless manner. Since
that time he had been lost sight of, but the fact of his prior
marriage became known to Miss Moss's family, and in-
quiries were made about him. He was at last accidentally
discovered in Liverpool by one of the unfortunate lady's
own sisters, who was standing with the lady of the house
where she resided, when a letter from Pyke was handed
to the latter, offering to take part of her house as lodgings ;
and giving the names of his employers as referees. As
soon as his place of abode was known at Worcester, and
the necessary informations could be sworn, a warrant for
his apprehension was placed in the hands of Mr. Lloyd,
D.C.C., who proceeded to Liverpool and had an inter-
view with his employers, solicitors of the highest standing
in that town. They were amazed at the intelligence
which Mr. Lloyd brought to them, and seemed not a little
sorry at being obliged to part with a servant who had
been so exceedingly useful to them, and in whom they'
had always placed the greatest confidence as a man of
honour. Pyke was not at the office when Mr. Lloyd
called, and that gentleman proceeded to his lodgings,
where he found him sitting at his table with a couple of
decanters of wine before him. When Mr. Lloyd told
him his errand he seemed thunderstruck, but said he
should give Mr. L. no trouble, and begged him so to
comport himself as to spare the feelings of a lady who was
living with him, and of whom he took an affectionate
parting, telling her that pressing business required his
absence from home for a few days. Since he has been
apprehended he has manifested the deepest distress and
misery of mind, but has in no way attempted to deny the
truth of the charge brought against him. Indeed that
would be quite useless as the proofs of his milteare;com-
plete. He made no sort of defence, and.was ful.rgicsm-•
witted for trial at the ensuing March Asti;bl.-i7 Wm first
wife had no family by him ; his second4las 'one child.—
Worcester Journal.

wearing was similar to that found on him. Three other
witnesses identified the accused. Mrs. Elworthy, a
lodging-house keeper at Plymouth, stated that Poole had
lodged with her about six weeks in last May and June.
She had often seen his handkerchiefs, and the one pro-
duced (that in which the parcels and letters were found
on the night of the prisoner's apprehension) was very
similar in colour to one of his, but she was unable to
swear to it. The next witness was Langley, a sergeant of
the metropolitan detective police, who had been brought
down to identify Poole's accomplice. He said that the
prisoner's name was Robert Nightingale ; and that he
had known him for eight or nine years, but bad lost sight
of him for a year and a half. Both prisoners (and Night-
ingale in particular) seemed completely unnerved by this
testimony. The mayor of Exeter then formally committed
them for trial. In spite of the active search which has
been made in Bristol, and on the line, not a tittle of the
property stolen from the up-train has been yet found.
The claims for lost property which continue to flow in at
the post-office are enormous. Several robberies have
lately been committed on the Great Western Railway. A
few months ago, the company's strong box at Paddington,
was broken open and cash to the amount of £2,000 was
taken. On searching Poole's house, no documents have
been found by the police, nor scarcely a scrap of paper,
but on his person were several 1 0 U's for £2O, £5O, and
£75. The passage from the first class carriage to the
post-office tender, while the train was in motion, must
have been hazardous in the extreme Poole, however,
when a guard, used to boast of being able to leap from a
train at full speed, which feats it is said, he frequently
accomplished.