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

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narrow escape from being shot.
THE OAK HAS WoN.—When the ash-t

before the oak, a wet summer usually follows
the oak-tree opens its leaf before.the ash, a d

usually follow.
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The oak is first this yea:

SS IN BRADFORD

of the poo:

that One in seven of every man, woman, and child, in the
township of Bradford is receiving parochial relief. One
relieving-officer, Mr. Booth, has 1200 families on his book.
The members of the Carlton Club, adopting the noble
example set by our most gracious Sovereign, have directed
that, during the existing se,
flour be used in that club.
At the recent lettings of gra

arcity, none but the

lands in the neighbour-

hood of Cardigan, by -auction, the rentals haN

,blyincreasedupOn that of the previous years ; the com-

petition for the same being very great
MISTAKEN MERCY

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day, at the Old Bailey, for stabbing his own mother, and
endangering her life. He pleaded intoxication, and cense-
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s CONCERT IN LONDON

EXTRAORDINARY Es c APE.—On Thursday night a wager'
boat was run into by a steamer on the Thames, a!).(1 cut
right in two. The rower, on seeing the impossibility of
clearing the steamer, had the presence of mind to jump
from the boat before the steamer struck her, and dive
completely under it, coming up on the other side unhurt..
HIGH PRICE OF WHEAT.—At Reading market on Sa-
turday last, 36 quarters of wheat, the property of Mr.
Crawshay, the extensive Welsh ironmaster, and grown on
his estate at Caversham, near Reading, realized the enor-
mous and almost unprecedented price of 120 s. per quarter.
The parcel was bought on speculation.
NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING.—A large number of
penny-pieces are in circulation in Birmingham and the
neighbourhood, on which is stamped, in prominent cha-
racters, a recommendation to purchase a certain cheap
periodical. We would advise the perpetrators of this act
of disfigurement of the current coin to beware of the Mint
authorities.

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

THE CROPS.—AII the provincial papers speak in high
terms of the growing crops. The following are speci-
mens :—ln the Fylde the corn looks well, and kitchen
gardens are flourishing. In Shropshire " the appearance
of the wheat and barley crops is indicative of a profuse
harvest." In Kent " the beautiful warm showers have
put a new face on the country, and all the crops pro-
mise abundance. The early potatoes look healthy."
So much foreign grain has been stored at Perth this
winter, that granary room is hardly to be had, and im-
porters are re-shipping to other ports partly from want of
the necessary accomodation. Glasgow is similarly situated,
and some who had sent cargoes thither, and found no sale,
are intending to re-ship them to the Baltic, where prices
are fifty per cent higher than when originally put on
board.

A CONTRAST.—In November, 1834, the price of a
bushel of flour in this city was 6s. 6d. ;—on Monday,
May 17, 1847, it was seventeen shillings ! Very shortly,
we regret to add, the price will probably range between
20s. and 30s. per bushel.—As a proof of the laudable de-
sire in Hereford to economise in the smallest things, we
may notice that we have seen handbills affixed to the
walls, not with paste, but skewers.—Hereford Journal.
The London Dock Company has lately opened another
stack of warehouses with vaults beneath, at the western
end of the docks, nearest to the city. They have been
built at a cost of about £BO,OOO, and combine light, space,
and convenience of all kinds for the transaction of busi-
ness. The arches of the vaults are supported by iron
columns, and have a light and roomy appearance, whilst
they are so far from the water side as to be effectually free
from' damp.

FOREIGN CORN.—The number of vessels which arrived
at the port of London during the past week from ports
in Europe, laden with grain, was 95, the cargoes of which

were mainly wheat and oats, and were from the following
European States, viz. Holland, Denmark, Prussia, France
(Marselles), Sweden, Hanover, Oldenburgh. Malta,
Mecklenburgh. and some others, the principal of which,
however, were from the Hanoverian dominions, Denmark,
and Prussia. . .

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

ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF ONE-SIDED CONSCIENTIOUS-
ness.—In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Wil-
liams opposed the adoption of the Report of the Commit-
tee of Supply, on the ground that the amount voted for
the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commission (X 3,450),
being for the benefit of the church, ought not to be paid
out of the public purse. The hon. member forgot to state,
that this sum became due owing to the state interfering
with the revenues of the church. But Mr. Brotherton
reminded him, that if the public were thus paying £3,000
for the Ecclesiastical Commission, the churchpaidX36,ooo
for registering births, deaths, and marriages, a measure
adopted for the benefit of dissenters? Nevertheless, eight
members voted with Mr. Williams.

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

staiitaneous explosion. Six of the unfortunate -persons
who were at work in the pit were killed on the spot, and
two others were got out alive and conveyed to the Leeds
Infirmary, one of whom has since died.
DEATH OF A BOY FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—On
Saturday week, a boy named John Hall, aged nine years
and five months, was amusing himself with other boys in
front of the office of Messrs. Ridley and Thompson, spi-
rit merchants, Newcastle, but causing some annoyance to
those in the office, they were ordered away. Unfortu-

nately, as an inducement to, them to go away, a glass of

rum was given to each of them, when they deP.arted. The
deceased, however, returned again, and asking for some
more drink, a bottle containing rum was given to him by
a traveller for the firm, and the boy applying the bottle
to his mouth, drank nearly the whole of the contents.
After leaving the office he was overcome with the liquor
and fell down, and was taken up quite insensible, con-
veyed home, and put to bed, where lie died on Monday,
without having spoken in the interval. A verdict of
manslaughter has been returned against the traveller.
A WEALTHY PAUPER•—On the 19th instant, a labour-
ing man named John Jarmy, and his wife, were admitted
as in-door paupers at the Wangford union-house at Ship-

rate apartments to exchange their- own clothing for that
of the union, attended by the usual officials. The matron,
who was present with the woman, observing that her
pockets were very heavy, asked what they contained, to
which she replied, " Only a few rags" ' • but this not sa-
tisfying Mrs. Hammond, she examined the contents, and

2 45., consisting

silver • i

knowledged deposits in the Norwich Savings Bank to the
amount of £l6O, making a total of £292 4s. ! There
were found, also nine silver tea-spoons, a table-spoon,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The attractions of Jenny
Lind continue undiminished, or rather to increase. Thin
speaks the Morning Post of Wednesday thereon, and of
her general characteristics !—" The day before yesterday,
before the office doors were opened, a crowd had assem-
hw fi,nrirs n - A_ A

au. iu Lumr CLIUTL to get nrst served
they broke the glass door. Not only from all parts of the
country, but from the continent, persons are constantly
arriving to witness the performances of the great vocalist ;
nor can they accomplish the object of their journey at
once, so difficult is it to obtain a seat of any kind. The
sensation the fair Swede excites is in no wise extraordinary
when we reflect that she has all the sweetness of Sontag,
with far more vocal power, and all the dramatic energy of
the great Malibran, with the advantages over the latter that

she never exaggerates feeling, and that her voice, insteau
of being a beautiful contralto forced into an unequal so-
prano, is throughout even, round, clear, and bell-toned."
1 1

Mr. Coban

ing well known in Liverpool, the following paragraph from
the Times, London paper, will be perused with interest
by many of his friends :—This entertainment attracted an
overflowing audience last night to the Hanover Rooms.
The concert-giver is a pianist of the modern school, unit-
ing considerable mechanical pretensions with a style and

taste peculiarly his own. He played several phantasias of
his composition, the most remarkable of which was a pot-
pourri called The Greek Revolution, an essay combining
the fragmentary plan of the ancient Battle of Prague with
executive difficulties that Rotzwara never dreamed of.
Mr. Cohan was quite at home in these pieces, and was re-
warded by liberal applause. lie further distinguished
himself by a very able performance of one of Beethoven's
violin sonatas, in which he enjoyed the valuable co-oper-
ation of Mr. Blagrove ; and also in the exposition of an
adagio and scherzo from a MS. sonata composed by him-

self, and written with a better purpose than- the faiitasais
of which we have spoken. A vaaiety of vocal pieces sus-
tained by the talents of Misses Birch, Dolby, and Rans-
ford, Messrs. Hart, and John Parry, completed the ;pro-
gramme, which appeared to give general satisfaction."
CONTINUED DISTURBANCES IN SOMERSETSHIRE:—

)od riots, which originated at

May 25, 1847.

CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.—The Directors
the South-Eastern Steam-ship Company intend to rug
one of their splendid vessels between Folkstone and St.
Valery. The object in view appears to be the saving of
forty miles by diligence from Boulogne to Abbeville, the
port of St. Valery being only twelve miles from the
Abbeville railway station, and the distance by sea from
Folkstone to St. Valery, about fifty miles ; thus Paris
would be reached in less time than either by Brighton and.
Dieppe or Folkstone and Boulogne.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH3.—On Sunday last the wife of
a poor labouring man, named Godfrey Butterworth, of
Wike Common, was delivered of three fine girls. The
names selected were Faith, Hope, and Charity, and they
were the same day duly registered by Robert Broughton,
registrar for the district. The children are all doing well.
On the 12th February, 1846, the same woman had twins
(two fine boys), which were called Joseph and Benjamin ;
so that in little more than 15 months she has brought her
husband five children, all of them born alive, but the two,
boys afterwards died.—Leeds paper.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ST. VINCENT.—This perfect
120 gun ship left Portsmouth harbour at eleven o'clock
on Saturday, for Spithead. She was taken in tow by the
Centaur steam-frigate ; and when off Blockhouse beach,
one of the hawsers broke, and left the St. Vincent nearly
unmanageable, but by promptly letting go an anchor she
was saved from getting on shore, although it was thought
she did touch the ground. The officers of the dockyard
and pilots did not deem it prudent, with the wind S.W.,
and a critical point of the tide, to run the risk of taking
her out ; she was anchored ahead of the Victory, and
soon after warped in safety to her former berth. If she
had hung for a very short time, the most disastrous conse-
quences must have ensued, as the ebb tide soon began to
make with great force ; and as she was between Point
Beach and Blockhouse when she touched, she must, from
her great size and draught of water, have turned over on
her side, and been damaged for ever. It is reported that
the tides will not admit of her going out of harbour for a
fortnight.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—THE SOOTY JENNY LIND !--""
The Quarry Walk, Shrewsbury, has been crowded- every
night during the past week to listen to the sweet and
brilliant strains of the spirit of Jenny Lind, which it is
reported pours forth most eloquent music from the yew
tree at the skirt of the plantation under the residence of
Mr. Badger, on Kingsland, opposite the Quarry Centre
Walk. We (Shropshire Conservative) regret, howeve.ro
to state, that the lovers of nature's music have met with a
sore disappointment, as last night, about a quarter past
eleven o'clock, when nearly 800 persons were present
drinking the luscious strains from the immortal warbler,
a cough was heard, and something, in colour approaching
his Satanic majesty, seen to move ; when lo ! a little
sweep was brought forth with a Whitechapel Birdcatcher'S
whi-tle in his tiny fist, with which instrument he had
been for several evenings beguiling the proud SalopianS
from their convivial parties, and beds. This has given a
quietus to a contemplated " Nightingale Club," which was
in the course of formation by the Choral Society.
THE GUN CoTToN.—As all conjecture as to the nature
of this immensely powerful agent has now been set at rest
by the publicity of the specification of the patent, any
official facts with reference to its actual utility must prove
of interest. A course of experiments, to test its relative
strength with the very best Ordnance gunpowder, have
just taken place at the Holyhead Mountain, Anglesea;
the Holland Slate Quarries, Penrhyn ; and the result
shows that the saving by the use of the gun cotton is at
least 30 per cent. ; added to which is the great advantage,
that the miners, by its means, are enabled to obtain the
most enormous blocks, and this with little or no waste.
In an official report which appears in the Mining Jour-
nal of Saturday week, it appears that a " huge mass of 60
tons weight was gently pushed from its firmly bound bed
by the explosion of only eight ounces of cotton, and that
no splintering of the slate took place, which greatly as-
tonished the workmen." To obtain blocks of slater
alone, of such immense size, will in itself effect a vast
amount of good; that material being in great and
in-
creasing demand, even at its present price, for articles of
building, of furniture and works of luxury and the arts.
USEFUL RECIPES.—The following are recipes and in-
struction which are at the present time extensively used,
and with great advantage and economy, in the town and
neighbourhood of Carlisle, and were furnished by Mr. J-
D. Carr of that town :—Plain .boiled hominy, or,lndiaa
corn shelled : Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a cloth,
allowing plenty of room to swell, and boil three hours.
This pudding may be eaten with sugar and melted butter
or treacle sauce. One pound of hominy will make e
pudding sufficient, as a meal, for five or six persons, at a
cost of not more than 2d., when Indian corn is selling
from 565. to 60s. per quarter.—Hominy milk : Soak half
a pound of crushed hominy in water twelve hours, and
then boil it in milk over a slow fire two hours. It must
be about the consistence of rice milk when brought to
table.—Rice hominy pudding : Mix the hominy, which,_
has been previously boiled, either in milk or water, with
eggs, a little sugar and nutmeg, a little suet, and with or
without currants and raisins, as preferred. Tie up in g
basin, and boil two hours. It is excellent either boiled
or baked.—To prepare hominy as a vegetable, boil whet
hominy in plenty of water four hoUrs, and strain its
through a culander for the table. This is a beautify
looking dish, and forms an excellent substitute for potty
toes. Equal parts of Indian and English flour make ex'
cellent household bread and cakes.

RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—On Tuesday a very mune-
rously attended meeting of the above society was held at
the Hanover-square Rooms, when Lord Ashley took the
chair. Amongst the number on the platform were the
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnear, the Hon. W. Cowper,
M.P., the Right Hon, Fox Maule, the Hon. and Rev..
Baptist Noel, and a number of
clergymen. The noble
Lord briefly, but very 1 paay.+;
cally, addressed the meet—
ing.em The report stated.that there were 16 schools opal
I daily, morning and afternoon, 33 opon on the Sabbse*
is used in the pit caused an almost in- mornmorning-^r*-- -,ri

_5, afternoon, and evening ; .44 buildings co,"rel:t
g schools of both sexes, which are situated in the log
and most wretched localities of London. The total nl.l.—a
ber in these are about 5,000 children of both sexest,ill's
456 teachers. A special fund had been established lor
school of industry or juvenile refuge, in one of the 111( Po
wretched and low localities in Westminster, to whicli
lady in the first instance subscribed £2OO, and subsei
quently £3OO, with a view under the latter donation c'
receiving 50 girls. A legacy of £2OO had been- bequeathed
by Mr. Strut Avery, of the University Club. The reP°
was adopted. The financial statement showed the re.
t— -g

ceipts to be for the past, year £824 6s. 10d., leaving.
balance of £172 18s. 11d. The special fund for the
.1° e,
nile refuge fund, £857, which,bafter defraying all a,
penses, and a contingent fund of £3OO, left a balance °'
£2Ol 13s. 7d.
as
THE

MIRFIELD MIIRDERS.—The local magistrates ri,„,
police officers are strenuously exerting themselves to an.
cover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed of blo_7
which occurred there on Wednesday week, and the full
ticulars of which appeared in the Standard of TuesdaY•
present there are two men in custody, on suspicion
being concerned in the three murders. These two per,
sons in custody are both Irishmen, hawkers of pots, re,
siding a few miles from Mirfield. One of them
Micb ' `alt r of r the othr

ichael iii t.,abe, about forty-one years of age ,
is Patrick Reed ; about twenty-One. They were boa;
seen in the neighbourhood of the house of the decease°
Mr. Wraith about the time when the murders must have
been committed, and it is said that a strong chain of cir"
cumstantial evidence will be adduced against them at the
,•oner's inquest, which is expected to be resumed at the
Dart of the present week. The remains of tr.