The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

Dec. 22, ISA

Nine hundred geese, several weighing 151bs. each, 200 THE LADY FAVERSHAM.—SeveraI operations have re-
turkeys, and 50 ducks, altogether six tons weight, were cently been undertaken to blow up this vessel, which has
forwarded on Monday and Tuesday last from Spalding long obstructed the navigation of the Tyne. On Wednes-
for the London Christmas market. Every day this week day the operations were most successful. The main deck
quantities of poultry , almost as large, have been sent to of the vessel was raised three feet nearer the surface of
the metropolis. the water than before the discharges were applied, so
NOVEL SPORTING.—A few days since two gentlemen amply was their action directed under the bilge of the
were near the Meikle Rock, between Avoch and Fort- vessel. The massive iron kneei were divided by the force
rose, Rossshire, with a Newfoundland dog. Seeing a fish of the explosions as if by a knife, and the mainmast has
in the water, they fired at and wounded it. The dog set been recovered with the exception of three or four feet at
off in pursuit, and the contest was keenly kept up, the the bottom. The divers have been engaged during the
fish and dog diving in every direction; but the fish was week in fishing up the wreck, large portions of which
captured at last, and dragged ashore. It proved to be a have been brought to the surface. 'I he destruction of the
fox shark, and measured five feet in length. vesse I has been roost complete.
" GUN Tow" APPLIED TO BLASTING.—A gentleman, MR. NEWMAN.—A correspondent of the Daily Newt,
who has been a manufacturer of gunpowder in the west of writing from Rome, under date Dec. sth, says—" I have
Scotland for the last twenty years, has been successful in noticed the melaectioly death of Colonel Bryan's daugh-
several experiments with gun tow and gun sawdust, for ter. The solemn dirge and requiem which was held yes-
blasting purposes. A perfectly satisfactory trial was terday in the church of Irish Franciscans, St Isidoro,
made, on Tuesday, at the Lady Mill Quarry, in the pre was attended by several hundred British visitors, besides
sense of Professor Penny and a number of other scientific the young lady's kinsfolk, of the princely houses of Do-
gentlemen. One of the experiments was with a bore of rig, Parriphili, and Borghese. Towards the termination of
3 feet 4 inches, and 2- diameter, charged with 11 ozs tow the sorrowful ceremonial, at a pause in the liturgy, there
and cotton, mixed (41bs. of gunpowder would be required), 'arose in the body of the church a person in ecclesiastical
and which brought down about 13 or 15 tons in weight— costume, of pensive and careworn aspect, who, standing
the effect is represented as " splendid." near the coffin, addressed himself to speak His voice was
MESMERISM APPLIED TO TOOTH DRAWING.—We low at first, so that few heard till it gradually filled the
witnessed, the other day, the extraction of a tooth from a church, and it was understood to be a simple recital of the
young woman, who underwent the operation while in the unostentatious virtues of the deceased ; but soon came
mesmeric sleep. The tooth, which was a large one, and words of more impressive import, and a whisper went
its lower part quite fresh, did not yield till after a wrench, round that the unexpected speaker on the occasion was the
which would have caused most intense agony to any Rev. Mr. Newman, late of Oxford. To the thousands
waking subject. The girl's countenance, however, did who have perused his printed sermons delivered in Angli-
not undergo the slightest change, and no indication of can pulpits it would be difficult to convey a notion of his
sensibility was given. She slept on after the operation manner on the present occasion, it being the first time that
was concluded, and when awakened in a few minutes, did he delivered himself of an extemporaneous unpremeditated
not seem to be for for some time aware that the tooth had discourse."
been extracted.—Northern Warder. THE FROST IN LONDON.—The river on Thursday,
SUICIDE or MAJOR R. F. FAMES.—On Wednesday, above bridge, presented a singular appe'rance, owing to
Major Richard Fairfax Eames, late of the 47th foot, the immense pieces of ice that were drifted up with the
Madras army, shot himself through the heart, at an hotel tide. This has proved exceedingly disastrous to per-
in London, where he had been staying. He had retired sons who obtain their living at the water side. The
from the service, having been an invalid on account of an frost has been so intense that it has been found necessary
affection of the brain. A letter to a friend was found in to keep fires in all the tire stations, to prevent the works
his bed-room, commencing—" From insinuations and of the engines from freezing. After passing Vauxhall-
inuendos thrown out at various times that I have sacri- bridge there was no clear water to be seen, and the steam-
ficed my honour and reputation in some way or the other, boats had to make their way as best they cou'd through
why I know not. I find this world no longer worth living the masses of ice, which are not yet very dangerous op-
in, and throw oft the mortal and become an immortal." ponents, by reason of their want of substance. At Chelsea
A public meeting was held on Tuesday evening, at the several of the piers became blocked in, together with the
Princess's Concert-room, Oxford-street, fur the purpose boats lying alongside ; and in the latter part of the after-
of " investigating the frightful case of death from starve- noon the Citizen boats were unable to perform their
tion of Louisa Mordaunt, from cruel neglect of the Board downward trips. Battersea-bridge had very few of its
of Guardians, and also to take into consideration the dis- arches open to navigation, and the few craft that ventured
gusting rules of uncleanliness in Marylehone workhouse." through could with difficulty reach Wandsworth. This
The chair was taken by Benjamin B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., place, with the Fulham marshes and osier beds, has always
who denounced the present poor. law system in the most been a favourite resort in severe weather for wild fowl,
indignant terms ; and all the speakers spoke in the and since Sunday last a very large number have been seen
severest language of the heartlessness of the guardians. in the neighbourhood. Many wild geese, ducks, and sea-
Strong resolutions were unanimously passed, and the gulls have been shot by parties from boats, and on Tues.
poor-law bitterly reprobated by all the speakers.
day no less than three brace of wild ducks were shot in
LIGHTNING.—On Sunday morning we. k, about eight less than two hours.
o'clock, Polminnick Cottage, near Penzance, was con- EFFECT OF SHOT UPON IRON STEAMERS.—A para.
siderably injured by lightning. The electric fluid first graph, on the effects of shot upon our war steamers, has
struck the chimney-stacks, which were completely de- gone the round of the papers, stating that the splinters
stroyed, and, descending the chimney, demolished the
from shot on iron ships are so much larger than those
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impediment to its course—the ceilings, skirtings, floor, story apocryphal, "from its most vain and impotent eon-
paper, &c., being considerably injured, and no fewer than clusion;" for we know something of British tars, and
fifty-four panes of glass, with portions of the window- that but few, very few of them, would be determined or
frames, were forced out, the fragments having been hurled deterred by the probability of personal danger in their
to a great aistance. choice of a ship. The result of our inquiries tends to con-
BRUTAL EXHIBITION.—The Leeds Intelligencer says, firm our opini ns. We are told, that on the experiments
that a fight for the honour of championship of the light recently made at Woolwich, of the effect of shot on iron,
weights, and for the sum of £4OO, was decided on Tues- a gentleman remarked to Sir G. Cockburn that bethought
day, in a field on this site of Norwich. The combatants the iron splintered. Sir George treated the matter lightly,
were the renowned Johnny Walker, and a newer aspirant, saying, that in the first action he wi's in, splinters from
named Sirnmonds. The men have been for some time in the first shot fired knocked down nice men. Now, we
active training, and considerable sums were pending the believe, that if Sir George had been of opinion that splin-
result. Contrary to expectation, the fight was of very ters from iron exceeded, or were more dangerous than
short duration, as in the fourteenth round, and in thirty- those from wood, he would have freely and openly de-
one minutes, Simmonds, losing his temper, fastened his Glared it; besides, we remember that the same cry was
teeth into the shouider of Walker, by which act he was raised against the use of teak timber when it was intro-
immediately declared the loser, amidst the execrations of duced in the royal navy. The Cornwallis frigate
was the
the assembled multitude. first frigate built of teak. In 1808 she was 'commanded
THE BARNARD CASTLE MURDERS.—The trial of by the present Admiral Pellew, and he andk the present
George Barker, John Breckon, and Thom3s Routledge Admiral Troubridge recollect, we have no doubt, the talk
Raine, charged with the murder of Joseph Yates and Ca- about danger from splinters from teak-built ships of war.
th-rine Raine, at Startfortb, in August, 18-15, commenced Mesers. Ditchburn and Mare very fairly offer to set the
at York, on Monday morning, and extended over Tues- question at rest : they say they will permit one of their
day and Wednesday. They were accused of throwing the iron ships to be filled with paper figures, the size of men,
two deceased over the bridge into the river Tees. The to be fired at with shot as often as may be agreed on.
two charges were taken separately, the prisoners being The splinters from iron, and their effect, would, by this
first tried for the murder of Yates, and on the evening of means, he fairly tested, and the question decided.—Nau-
Wednesday the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. The tical Standard.
other charge was nut pressed, the evidence being the same
'FOR THE SHORT
cordingly record, d.
as in the former case, and a verdict of not guilty was ac- Ma. OASTLF.R S CONSECRATION
TIME MOVEMENT.—The time, place, and manner of Mr.
to the cause - the factory children
tying on in
consecration o.
For some time past a gang of swindlers have been car-
Oastler's
were thus defined by that gentleman in his speech at the
London a system of fraud by offering to di
s- Short Time Meeting—" He had been forty-
count bills, and to advance money in other ways. Cir-
culars have been frequently sent to country tradesmen, five years living in a manufacturing district, and although
he had heard of the sufferings of the blacks in the West
who have been duped in many instances. In their pros-
pectuses, they have given various names and addresses, and Indies, and had been enthusiastic in the cause of their
emancipation, he had never given himself the trouble to
have been pretended to be actuated by the highest mo-
tives, with a desire to act secretly—for the advantage of know that there was a factory slave in England. And
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their customers. Persons who have been cheated, or on how was he converted ? It so happened that he was one
whom attempts have been made, have apt lied to the city
night a visitor at the house of Mr. John Wood, of Bowl-
magistrates; and shoals of letters have been received
ing Hall, Bradford. He was the largest manufacturer of
from the country respecting the proceedings of the gang;
worsted in the world, and be said— Mr. Oastler, I won-
but as yet they have kept clear of the meshes of the law,
der that, with all your philanthropy and zeal for the eman-
AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY.—About a week or ten cipation of the Blacks, you never turn your attention to
the factories.' Why, what is there to do there?' Do
days ago, an aged woman, who, during a long widowhood
" "No I know nothing not. you know.? , about the fac-
had kept a very small public-house nearly opposite the
tones—what is the matter.' hy; the system we carry
military barracks here, took ill and died. She lived
rather penuriously, hut this was generally believed to be on here at Bradford is the most awful that can be imagined ;
in consequence of her poverty—being apparently at all we work children, some only five years of age, in every
times somewhat straitened in circumstances. After death mill in Bradford, from six in the morning till seven in the
her depositories and coffers were of course inspected by evening, allowing only thirty minutes for dinner—that is,
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her relations, when, we believe, to the surprise of every 12 hours. In my own mills I give them ten minutes
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one of them—at all events to her neighbours—her wealth, s all. There are mills where they work
more, but that
chiefly
to no less a sum than in bank notes, but £
arty in
Constitu-
in silver, was found to I said, 'lt is impossible. Human na-
amount 14 hours a day. '
ture can never endure it.' `Well, but,' said he, they
tional.
do endure it.' No time was allowed for play or religious
Considerable apprehension exists amongst the relatives instruction. At four o'clock the next morning, as Mr.
and connexions of the seamen engaged in the expedition Oastler was going off he was informed by the servant that
of the Erebus and Terror, which sailed from the Tnames in Mr. Wood requested an interview with him. I went,
June last year, under the command of Sir John Franklin continued Mr. Oastler, into the bedroom. Mr. Wood,
and Captain Crozier, and many anxious applications have sitting up in the bed, had a small table by his bedside.
lately been made to the Admiralty on the subject. No Two wax candles were burning, and between them was
tidings have been received since last December, when placed God's holy word. He was reading it. omy
friend,' said he, before you go, I want you to give me
from information obtained from Esquimaux, and conveyed
to the Danish settlements in Greenland, opposite Discyour solemn pledge teat you will endeavour to get these
oe
poor factory children emancipated. Their condition is so
Island, and thence overland, the expedition was preparing
heavy on my mind that I cannot rest, and every word I
to winter in Gilbert's Sound. The last whaler for the
r
season has returned without bringing any intelligence, lead in this sacred book is like an arrow to my soul.'
and from all accounts this, their second winter in the ice,
There was a
and didpieture of a penitent millowner. I did give
promise him from that moment to
has set in at the north with great severity. [The Lite-
him my hand,
nary Gazette says that all fears on the subject are ground-
endeavour to emancipate the factory slave."
less.] DISSATISFACTION AMONG ELECTORS.—The anxiety
SNOW STORM.—On Friday week, a heavy fall of snow and restlessness which has shown itself of late on the sub-
commenced in all parts of the United Kingdom and ject of the dreaded establishment of the Romish Church
continued, more or less, for the next three or four, days. in Ireland is evidently increasing. Very recently there
Northward of York, the snow was regularly from one to has been a correspondence on these points between Sir
two feet thick on Sunday, and as there was a brisk wind, John Duckworth and some of his constituents at Exeter;
much of the snow was drifted to the depth of from four a letter to the electors of East Worcestershire, by the Rev.
to ten feet in the northern part of the county of Durham, R. B. Hone, of Hales Owen • and a discussion between
in Northumberland, and Westmoreland. Not only the Mr. Walker and some of the electors of Reading. Sir John
common highways, but also the railways, were rendered Duckworth, with a tenacity which many would show
impassable on Sunday and Monday; but large forces of under like circumstances, rejected the idea of "pledging
men having been got to clear the rails, not much detention himself." All he would say vas, that he had been born
has since taken place. In many parts between Carlisle and bred a Protestant, and hoped ever to remain one; and
and Edinburgh the snow lies to the depth of eight or nine with this answer his constituents were forced to content
feet, and the moors of Westmoreland and Cumberland themselves as they could. The Reading case differs a
are quite impassable. The fall has also been very heavy little in point of form, but not much in point of substance.
in Wales. As the snow was accompanied by a severe frost, Mr. Walter, being one of the principal landowners of the
the weather was truly winterly—forming, indeed, one of the neighbourhood, has been invited to stand for that town.
old fashioned, seasonable (not to say poetical) introduc- But immediately the Protestant pledge interferes with his
tions to Christmas which many of the present generation prospects, and he loudly complains of it. He urges, with
have scarcely before experienced. great earnestness, the impropriety and injustice of the
Pledging system, and plainly avows that the
demand forms
THE MERRY 'WIVES OP GLASGOW.—A short time ago
s obstacle to his becoming a candidate. Yet Mr.
the wife of a grocer in the vicinity of the High-street be. Walteraseriou himself,
tie wort , uses language
came the object of attention to a gentleman named Mr. .. ~
which, fair interpreted, implies
. At length he began to think he had made the de- , 13' all that the Protestants
sired impression upon the heart of the fair dame, and be require. He says, " I would willingly pledge myself to
proposed and obtained her consent to name an evening the maintenance of all the great fundamental principles of
when they should meet finally to adjust matters for their the British Constitution." What does any one require
departure to a distance. Tbe night accordingly arrived, beyond this? Beyond this, we mean, when fairly inter-
the couple met, and every thing seemed propitious for the preted. The British Constitution contains, among its
enterprise. It was considered prudent, however, to post- fundamental principles, an Established Church, and that
pone leaving the city till a later hour, and in the meantime a church protesting against Rome. The British Consti-
tution excludes a Romanist from the throne and from the
it was resolved to have something comfortable. 'rhe effect
of the gentleman's potations was to consign him to the
office of Lord Chancellor. It forbids any intercourse be-
arms of Morpheus, when the treacherous Delilah, previ-
tween the Government of England and the court of Rome.
ously prepared for action, cut off one of his whiskers, and What do we want then from Sir John Duckworth, Mr.
bared most completely one side of his head, rubbed his Walter, or any other candidate, but a hearty adherence to
face with a strong solution of nitrate of silver, and then this protest ? Only let men honestly declare that they
made her escape. Next day, Mr. appeared like a adopt and concur in the declarations of the Church of
" blue devil," but the cause of the wonderous change be- England concerning the Papacy and the Romish system,
ginning to be gossipped about in the locality, he has dia- and they cannot, without the greatest possible incon-
appeared.—Glasgow Arous. sistency, proceed to establish and endow this Antichriatian
ALLEGED DEATH FROM STARVATION.—GROSS NE-
system by votes in Parliament.—Record.
GLECT of RELIEVING OFFICERS.—On Friday, an in- A HOAX ret LONDON.—A repetition of the not very
quest was held in Hull on the body of Bryan Verey, a brilliant practical joke originated by Theodore Hook, was
youth. The coroner, in opening the case, said that the stupidly played off last week upon a stationer named Rus-
e:Anse of the death was yet unknown to him ; but should sell, of Nos. 79 and 80, Aliergate-street. Precisely at
it appear by the evidence that any one was to blame, the five o'clock on Wednesday evening last, seven hairdress-
jury would, by an expression of their opinion, exercise a era entered Mr. Russell's shop, followed by three other
considerable moral influence. The jury, on viewing the persons, each carrying a wig. Upon inquiring their bu-
body were horror-struck at the fearful spectacle presented sines!, Mr. Russell was informed that they had been or-
to them. Deceased lived in a narrow dirty passage, at dered to attend at that hour, to dress the family's hair.
the further end of which be and his sister occupied a lower Before sufficient time had elapsed to tell the parties that
room. The apartment is but six feet by nine. The small they had been hoaxed, in stepped a butcher's man, with a
window admitted both the wind and the rain. The body tray filled with legs of pork, and sundry other joints of
lay on a miserable straw mattress on same chairs, and was meat ; the man had no sooner placed his tray on the coun-
attenuated and shrivelled to an almost inconceivable deter, than a fish-monger brought in a stock of fish, and
gree, and covered in places with ulcerated sores. The two wine merchants followed, each having a couple of
whole form suggested the idea of a skeleton barely covered hampers of wine on their backs. Mr. Russell having ex-
with skin. The jury returned the following verdict:— plained to the people that he knew nothing whatever of
" The jury have no doubt that death has been occasioned the affair, and that the orders must have been given by
by the disease which the boy Brian Verey was labouring some evil-minded persons, in came a gentleman who an.
under. But it is also their opinion that his death has nounced himself as a corn extractor, and who stated that
been accelerated by the gross neglect of the relieving he had been hired to attend at five o'clock, to operate
officer of the Sculcoates Union." upon Mr. Russell's corns. A number of pastrycooks
InoN.—The English iron market has been rather ani- were the next who entered the shop, each bringing an im-
mated during the week, owing to the Great Northern mense number of custards, tarts, jellies, &c., but judge of
Railway Company having closed for about 45,000 tons of the surprise of every one in the place when the next arri-
rails, out of 75,000 tons, for which they advertised. The val was announced. It consisted of five beautiful car-
contracts were taken by two eminent Welsh houses, at a riages, each drawn by two horses, the coachman and foot-
price equal to £9 12s. to £9 15s. at the works in Wales. man elegantly attired in livery. The crowd, when the
It is reported the directors of the company were willing carriages drew up was very great, and it required the see-
to have closed for the remaining 30,000 tons at the above vices of the police to keep a space for the duped trades-
rates. In Staffordshire and Welsh pig-iron a very good men to pass to and fro. Whilst the tradesmen were con-
business has been done during the week, at full prices; doling each other, as a finale to the whole, in came five
and owing to the large orders now in the market for rail- chimney sweeps, who stated that they had been ordered to
way chairs, there is no doubt an extensive demand will attend with all possible expedition to extinguish Mr.
take place ere long both for Welsh and Staffordshire pigs. Russell's chimney, which they understood had taken fire.
Scotch pig-iron has been in good demand, and several It took Mr. Russell nearly the whole of the night to an-
sales made during the week, at prices varying from 725. swer the many parties who had been so imposed upon.
to 745., according to numbers. Swedish iron and steel The following night (Thursday), five piand forte tuners
are firm at quotations. English copper and tin remain waited upon the same gentleman, and stated that they bad
unaltered. Bence and Straits are in fair request at quo- been hired to tune Mr. Russell's instruments. A car-
, tations. English lead firm. Speller for spring delivery riage and pair were also brought, as the coachman said, to
has been sold at £l9, and on the spot £l9 12s. Gd. has take the family to the theatre. A great number of other
been paid. As the navigation is now closed, and our stock tradesmen were served out in a similar manner, and un-
reduced to about 2000 tons, there is no doubt higher prices fortunately the police have not been able as yet to trace
will be realised.—Mining Journal. out the guilty parties.—. Daily News,