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

enteral fßisrtilany.

The Wesleyan fund for the relief of the prevailing dis-
tress has reached £15,000.

Mr. J. Bradshaw, M.P. for Canterbury, died on Thurs-
day, in London, after a long and painful illness.
Four of the prisoners for the Abingdon malt robbery
have been transported, and three imprisoned.
The Spynx steam-sloop was floated off her bed of rocks
at the back of the Isle of Wight on Wednesday.
A tumour :near a cow's udder was opened by a veteri-

Lar, auc

inner fork, comp

cep a pirt of one prong, was taken out.
On the morning of Sunday, a whole cloud of black flies
continued for many hours to move onwards at a consider-
able height over the harbours of the Isle of Man.

The operatives of Hull have established a proprietary
mill for grinding their own corn, and a similar one is
about to be provided at Lincoln.
Major Beniowski was committed for trial at Bow-street
on Wednesday, for assaulting Mr. D. Urquhart, whom he

SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY

—Geo. Os

ideston

Two men were killed, on Sunday morning, by the ex-
osion of a still at the chymieal works of Mr. Astley, at

A large three-masted ship was seen on fire on Tuesday
evening, between Westland Point and Lundy Island.
She was burnt to the water's edge and then disappeared.

At her Majesty's Theatre, On Thursday, tliO profits
were £1,300, which will be added to the Scotch and Irish
relief fund.

• By a recent case at the Hammersmith police-court, it
appeared that a French teacher in that village, gave les-
sons, cheaper than his neighbours, by employing 40 young
Frenchmen at 6d a day and their dinner.
• A dreadful accident occurred, on Thursday night, on the
Hull and Bridlington Railway, by which two unfortunate
men lost their lives. The two men, it is said, were tres-
passing on the line returning from their work at a farm.
TEMPORARY TEMPERANCE.—Certain members of the

'egation, Rothesay, have re-

solved to-'use 110 intoxicating liquors during the continu-
ance of the present famine.—Edinburgh TVitness.
A fraud has lately been practised by the American mil-
lers when grinding maize of Indian corn for shipment.
The fraud consists in grinding the corn and cob together
and then kiln-drying and regrinding the produce.
On Saturday evening, the shop of Mr. Cool.
smith, Norwich, was robbed, and fifty gold watches, with
a quantity of plate, of the total value of £l5OO or £2OOO
taken away. The perpetrators have not been found.
A new patent slip-way, for taking on vessels to repair,
has been constructed on an entirely improved principle,
in the building yard of Messrs. Scrafton and Co., ship.
builders, Middlesbro'.
At Stockton, on Sunday last, three children of the name
of Simpson were buried at one time, and on Wednesday
the fourth and last surviving child of this family was con-.
signed to its last resting place.
A correspondent of the Dumfries Herald says that
black particles are so numerous in the air, that for miles,
in Wigtownshire, the sheep are as black as in the park,
near large manufacturing towns in England.

Per, silver-

At a Meeting of the shipowners of the port of Sunder-
land, held on Friday, resolutions condemnatory of inter-
ference with the Navigation laws were passed with only
one dissentient voice—that of Mr. Joshua Wilson, who
made a speech in support of free-trade in everything.
Ti' Dundee Advertiser records, to the horror of all

1 lie A.ol4,,Lucc
concerned, the discovery by a shopkeeper at Kirrielnuir,
of the corpse of a negro child in a cask of treacle,—the
greater part of the sweet thus seasoned having been con-
sumed by his customers.

—OnS-tinday, in the Thames, off Old Haven, about ten
miles below Tilbury Fort, on the east side, a fine schooner
of about
.100 tons burden was run down by a powerful

le crew and two pa

Ilgers were

vernor of Guernsey, was upset lately, in the endeavour of

inian to .avoid running over an old woman

his Excellency bad

was not seriously injured. The General has since corn-
mended the coachman for•his conduct.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE BY A GIRL.—On Saturday, a
girl, twelve yeArs of age, named Margaret Roberts, the
eldest of eight. children, the daughter of a gardener at
-mmitted suicide by 0-

- —rown-
Rowton .Shrewsbury, co
ing. She was labouring under abscess of the ear, which
doubtles affected her brain.
The dispute between Clasper and Maddison, as to
which of them was entitled to the stakes in a skiff-match
on the Tyne some .months since, has at length been ar-
ranged by the payment of the stakes to Clasper, together
with the costs of the law-suit against the party in posses-
sion for withholding them..
Robert Kerr, master mariner, was found guilty at the
Central Criminal Court sessions, on Thursday last, on an
dictment. qck -q of

.him with stealing two package
diamonds, value •£3,300, the property of John AVM
and others,. upon the high seas, within the iurisdietic

IRISH PAUPERS.-It appears from a report made to
the guardians of Leeds, at their last weekly sitting, that
the number of Irish poor relieved at the vagrant office in
that town, during the week ending on the 28th February,
1846, was only 14, and of Scotch poor, 16 ; but that in
the corresponding week of the present year, the number
of Irish poor relieved was 236, and of Scotch poor, 9.
SINGULAR INTERPRETATION OF LAW.-At the Read.
ing petty sessions last week, a married woman named
Mary Egerton, who had taken a hare from a wire in
which it had been snared 1337 her husband, and conveyed
it home, was discharged bk.the Magistrates from all penal
consequences, upon the ground that, as the statute only
related to male offenders, the information against a female
could not be sustained.

NON-LIABILITY OF A CLERGYMAN TO PAY TOLL.-At
Worcester, the Rev. T. L. Wheeler summoned Thomas
Norman, the keeper of the Broadwas-gate, for taking toll
from him on the previous Sunday, as he was proceeding
to perform his duty at Cotheridge, of which parish he is
curate. A large majority of the magistrates declared in
favour of the exemption, and fined the defendant in the
nominal sum of is. and costs.

LOAN OF Emir MILLIoNs.—Orr Tuesday, at the
Treasury Chambers, in the presence of Lord John Russell
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baron Rothschild
and Mr. Baring were declared the highest bidders for the
loan, their terms being jointly 891, that Is £B9 10s. for
£lOO stock in the three per cent. consols. The 'contract
was accordingly entered. into between them and the
Government.

HOLYHEAD.—On Friday, on the motion of Lord San-
don, a return was ordered by the House of Commons,
stowing the name of the engineer whose plan for the Na-
tional Asylum Harbour at Holyhead has been finally ap-
proved of by her Majesty's government, with a copy of
such plan, the estimated cost of the same, and where such
plan rs now deposited, together with the names of such
engineers or nautical men as have been consulted and have
approved of the same.
EDINfftTRGH, MARCH I.—The food riots at Wick and
Thurso have turned out much more serious than any simi-
lar disturbances that have yet taken place in other parts
of the country, A collision has occurred between the
military and the people ; happily, no loss of life has en-
sued ; but two persons have been severely wounded, one
of whom, at the moment of his being struck, was in the
very act of endeavouring to avoid the mob and get out of
the reach of the soldiers.
At the Assizes- at Newcastle, on Friday, before Mr. Ba-
ron Rolfe, James- Welch was found guilty of the murder
of Thomas Proud, and sentenced to death. The deceased
had quarrelled with his murderer, in consequence of some

insults offered by him (Welch) to a female at a christen-
ing. Welch left the party, and afterwards returned and
t,;. Tvifh a Qt;01, 1a,..4Qp atahhod him

twice with a knife, after which the poor man lived only a
few minutes.

At the same Assizes, on Saturday, Grorge Matthews
was found guilty of the murder of Daniel' Hives, at Long
Benton, near Newcastle. Both parties were " navvies,"
and had had a quarrel, and deceased followed Matthews
for the purpose of gliding him into custody, when the
murderer turned round and stabbed Hives,in the thigh,
about an inch and a half from the abdomen. He died
almost instantaneously. Matthews was found guilty, and
sentenced to death.
STAG HUNT ON A RATLWAY
Surrey Staz-hounds met' at S

—On Tuesday last, the

.tton at r

noble buck was uncarted. After some hard running the
stag came to the South Western Railway, and leaping the
&nee, wen at a tremendous,pace, along the lime towards

-At this moment

the express up-train was coming at forty miles per hour ;
three of the dogs that were on the up-rail were cut to
pieces, and two others had their legs smashed. The stag
escaped uninjured, and was finally run down at Barnes.

EiPORT OF CORN TO FRANCE.—A vessel arrived in the
Thames at the commencement of the past week from a
port on the Lincolnshire coast, with a cargo of corn,
which was intended for the London market, but which,
on its arrival, was immediately bought up, and, without
beinz landed there, exported to France. This, at the pre-
sent time, is a remarkable, although probably• by no
means an isolated instance of the anomalous varieties of

()Hood both with respect to the sister isle and this country

INSTALLATION OF A FRENCH LODGE OF FREEMASON

—On Tuesday night, a very grand ceremonial took place
at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's
Inn Fields, being the installation of the first French
Freemasons' lodge in England. At the request of a. con-
siderable number of the brethren of the craft, natives, of
France, a warrant for the installation of the lodge was
granted by the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, the most
worshipful grand master of England; and the ceremonies
were conducted upon a very grand scale.
CRACOW.—A very important meeting was held on
Tuesday, at Freemason's-hall, to petition the crown on
the late annexation of Cracow to the Austrian dominions.
The Marquis of Northampton took the chair. Letters
were read from a number of distinguished noblemen and
gentlemen, expressing their cordial concurrence in the ob-
ject ofthe meeting. Resolutions were proposed and sup-
ported' by I-

tzwilliam, Lord Wharneliffe, Sir- E.
todrington, the Earl of Arundel, Lord Beaumont, Mr.
M. D: Hill, Mr. D. Urquhart, Sir Henry Varney,. the
Lord Mayor, Mr. Beales, Sir C. Napier, Mr. J. S. Buck-
ingham, Captain Jablionski, and Lord Dudley Stuart.

SILTMU-LEAD ORE.-Two valuable parcels of silver-
lead ore have been discharged this week in the river
Thames. The vessel has been in the port of London. for

about three weeks, but the ore could t'l.o-ii,e"r;;O;;;Iii
of oats had been first unloaded, the ore being at

allowed ere the •captain can

Idled to clear his vessel

The oats were from and

RoialMining Company's mines, and consigned to ILlul
lins, Brothers, and Co., smelters, London.

EXTENSIVE SLIP AT SHAKSPERE'S, CLIP}
has suffered from another of those falls which, since the
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, measuring 47,131 yards, and supposed to con-

.—Thin cliff

thin about 48,000 ton's of chalk, sealed 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 searca cu. tile geolo-
gist. A smaller fall of about 10,000 cubic yards has since
occurred.—Dover paper.
ILIPORTATION OF CATTLE, &E.—The total number
of oxen, bulls, and cows imported into Great Britain

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

etween

(except in so far as the article of ec•rll is concerned) has
of necessity been discontinued. The foregoing return,
therefore, has been framed from non.-cfficiat documents,

collected at the ports of exportation, and consisting, tor
the most part, of printed marketund. shipping reports.
A LADY AND A BAILIFF.—A sheriff's officer, named
Felton, who had been in search of a Miss Crossingham, of
Ongar, Essex, during the last four months, on Thursday
succeeded by stratagem in arresting her at her own house.
He then left her in charge of his assistant while he went
for a chaise ; but the lady prisoner having obtained per-
mission of the officer to go. to her room, immediately
jumped out of the winalighted upon the roof of
an ou t
thouse, h descended upon a waterbutt in the
adjoining yard, and made her escape. The officer and

others gave the view halloo. acrol
but could not succeed in capturin

the garden and fields,
the fair and fleet fugi-

,—Local paper

- - _
DISTURBANCES IN COTLAND....—A correspondent of
the John o' Groat Journal, writing from Thurso, 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

100 special constables hive been sworn in, and everything
assumes a most threatening aspect. We have too much
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
was placed on the brae, and that the feelings of the people
continue wound up to the greatest pitch. Assemblages at

night are frequent, and threatenings ot violence are
severed in. The peaceable inhabitants are kept in a state
terror from these manifestations.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.— .._ Aiursday, a yowl
man, ninamed ~Hannah awson, cut er throat
home, Queen-street, DLeeds. A young

surgeon wa

called in immediately,
nouncecl her dead, and left her. She was then laid upon
a bed up stairs, uncovered, in readiness for a coroner's
jury to view her body. After the lapse of about an hour,
one of the Leeds policemen, who was passing, asked, out
'osity, to see the " deceased." 1-fia

of cu.. nis wish was com-
plied with, and the policeman proceeded up stairs, and
found her actually breathing. Another surgeon was called
in ; she was then removed to the Infirmary, and was on
Friday very satisfactorily recovering. Had the policeman's
curiosity not led him to desire to see the unfortunate fe-
male, she would no doubt, in her exposed state, have been
starved to death, if she had not expired from loss of blood.
—Leeds Mercury.

CORN STATISTICS.—Accounts of wheat, wheat flour
&c., imported into the united kingdo.m_in the year 1846

&e., have been laid before the Hoiise of Commons on the
motion of Mr. Trotter. The total quantity of wheat im-
ported into the united kingdom during *he year 184('
,

owing

March 9, ISI/.

A DEPLORABLE MURDER AND SUICIDE has been COnt.
mitted at Broughton, a village about seven miles from
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, and in
the evening he sent his wife to a public-house to fetch
some beer. During her absence he seized their sleeping
infant, four months old, from its cradle, enveloped it in a
shawl, and hurried out of the house. A search was insti-
tuted, and, and in a horse-pond, at a short distance, the
coat of a man was seen on the surface of the water. Ad-
ditional aid was called, and then it was found that MF-
tin and his child (the latter firmly clasped in his arms)
were drowned. The man had apparently committed' he
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, as
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 was
looked over, and all was believed to be right ; but Miss
Leven's suspicions not being entirely allayed, two hours
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 as
practicable, she was sent to the Western Police-office,
where some small articles of property, belonging to Miss
Leven, were found in her possession. Her name is Mary
Smith, and she is only aliont twelve years of age.
SELLING POISONOUS ROOTS.—An old nian, named
Thomas Lord, was remanded from the Worship-street
Police Court, on Wednesday, charged with offering poi-
sonous roots for sale. As Mr. Imray, an herbalist,. was
waiting for an omnibus in Whitechapel, on Tuesday even-
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 atonic and alterative"decoction. Mr.
Imray's professional knowledge enabled him to detect
that the roots were of white briony or hellebore, a decoc-
tion of which, made and taken as prescribed by the pri-•
soner, would certainly destroy life. The prisoner had in,
his basket about twenty pounds weight of these roots,
sufficient, Mr. Imray said, to poison w whole district,
Mr. Imray recognised in Lord a person he had cautioned
some months ago against selling thesekroots ; and, beliei-
ing him to be dangerous, he gave him into custody. The
case will undergo a full investigation on,Wednesday.
.SABBATH DESECRATION.—III the court and fashion-
able news of last week's London papers; we find the fol-
lowing notices thus set forth :
"Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dachess of Cam-
bridge entertained a select party to dinner on Sunda y last at
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 calf attention to the practice, in order to show
how futile are the exertions of pious ministers and active
laymen to obtain a better observance of the Sabbath so
long as " select parties " and " distinguished. circles "
are tolerated by; royalty and nobility on the Lord's day.
The worldly minded in the less wealthy ranks of society
seize upon such examples as a ready excuse for their own
transgressions inthe eyes of this world; but how will the
excuse avail withe him who has said, " Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."

THE REV. H. BrAINT ON THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL
PENALTIES.—" Wlioso sheddeth man's blood, byi man
shall his blood be shied, forin the image of God made-He
man." Here is an express command of God, which;like
marriage and the Sabbath, anticipated the ceremonial
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 diffi-
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 has
but one course—to listen and to obey. It is not for him,
to affect more feeling than his Creator. God has com—
manded, and, doubtless, some wise and merciful purpose,•
though we know it Rot, has inspired that command ; and:
we are not to inquire why does God order; but what does
God order ? Happy .the mind that is brought into this.
state of subordination to the will of the Almighty, that,
upon this, as upon every.subject, it requires only to have'
that will distinctly pointed. out, to listen, to receive, and:
to obey it.

LIBERATION OF A CON-V./CT.—George Sands, who was
tried at the Lancaster assiaes 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 to
doubts of the credibility .of the witnesses in his favour,
was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' transporta-
tion. The prisoner was embarked in the China, convict-
ship, for conveyance to, Bermuda, when a petition vv,as
forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, asserting the innocence of the prisoner, and offering
to produce further evidence than had been brought for-
ward at his trial. Sir James Graham' ordered, his removal
from the convict ship until the charge was investigated,
and Mr. Duncombe having recently taken up the case,
the friends of the prisoner were able to produce evidence
which was perfectly satisfactory to Sir George Grey, who
consequently granted the prisoner a special pardon, and
he was liberated, on Thursday, after being nearly twelve
months on board the hulks, and employed as a convict i 0

I.IIC v. VUUN len .uockyard. While employed one day og
the coal depot for :supplying steam- vessels,
.he jumpe
overboard, witii the intention of drou:uint, loit

any Said

iourned Quarter Sessi

F Hoßsza.--At se% ad"
t the Shire lineegthmforil.

in the county, was indicttd for having killed by the most
cruel process of suffocation, a gelding, the property of Mr.
Thomas Stock, a respectable farmer, living at East Han-
ningfield, a small village a; few miles from Chelmsford.
Since the prisoner's commitment, it has been satisfactorilf
ascertained that he has been carrying- on the atrocious
system for a considerable .time.. lie was in the habit of
buying dead horses for. the London markets, and in no

less than 24 instances has he been known to be the first to
call, and eventually buy-dead cattle, that up to their death
had been in a fine and healthy condition. Many of these

were of a valuable description, and the mode he adopted
to destroy them was to choke up their nostrils with hay
bands, and firmly tie up their jaws with ropes. The poor
things would fall to the ground from exhaustion, and, on
expiring, he would remove the hayandropes,_and then

:e was dis-

Stock's gelding by a la-
large was clearly proven
d to transportation for

covered in the act of M
bourer named Mason. The
against him, and he was sentenc,

SCARCITY or EGGS.—The scarcity of eggs which nosy'
prevails, and the consequent high price which they fetch,
are now a subject of general complaint amongst house-
keepers ; and it is a common case that these essential ar-

tides of the cuisine " cannot be got for love or money•
The scarcity is easily accounted for—it is one of the many
evils flowing from the famine in Ireland. In former years
there was a very large importation of eggs from that'
country, but latterly the item "boxes of eggs" has almost,
isaPPeared from the lists of imports at Bristol:
_
entirely d
and Liverpool.
The Irish peasantry have been obliged-
to kill their poultry
-
for food, or to sell them to purchase'
it. The superabundaneeof
poultry, which in consequence'
has been brought to market, has kept down its price, but
on the other hand, it has had the ereetiaottef
rinhearesabseiteign ;' ;
price of eggs ; and the scarcity of the
gravated by the unprofitableuess of keeping fowls dart
the existing high prices of grain. One of the'vealera- `"
eggs in this town, who has hitherto imported many thou-
sands monthly, is now quite unable to obtain an adequete
supply, although he has searched every direction for IT.!

and, in fact, his "occupation's gone."' For some year 3
past the inportation of eggs from France has also-been e°
- ' '—- - - - "•:ig, .- d £30,000. annually ; but
:he eXport."ali oa
n. s 1
omf 1
ei arg g tot ot
it, he
no sc
e has e which cal n afflict our own land,
host
entirely ceased'
THE " WANDERING MINSTREL, DON JIJAN DO
VEGA.-At a meeting of the electors of Westminster,
favourable to the return, of Mr. C. Cochrane,. held 00
Monday night, at, the
iCnoteoharanleen,
gothnenbeeldngextpnitarCnoraadtivitoceennd
oHtfo.ehaiepDmrereratiytila,lifneeen,,teAarcuf;
alluded to some letters which i.---- -
the Sun, askin- -' -

iether Mr. Cochrane is the petron who:
some years since, made a tour through Sussex and Kew
as Don Juan de Vega, a Spanish minstrel?. He said, itl
reply, that he made a tour.on.behalf of the distresse!'
Spanish emigrants, and that he wrote a,description of hog

. a a very young man. He felt sorry for havillis
written that which in mature years h 6 felt was hot right'
With regard to the object for which he made the tour, be
begged to inform the meeting that ha had received a vote
of thanks from
.the Spanish Ambassador, and .from

highest classes in Spain ; and in 1844, when he was 8,1;
Madrid, the Queen Regent thanked him for what he had
done for her poor emigrant subjects. Au elector—" The
is another very serious charge against you—that during
your tour you collected a great deal of wealth.. Now,
what I want to know is, what was done with the funds
collected. Mr. Cochrane—" I have not the least objec-
tion to state. The funds were very small—l believe
between £5O and £6o—all of which I, immediately O 1
my return to London, divided amongst the distresses"
Spanish emigrahts."
A SOUND REASON FOR Nr.-

--n NOT :TOLERATING
Mr. Finch made the following remarks in the Rouse 1.)
Commons last week on Mr. Watson's New Roman Oz