The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the youthful
Royal Family and the Court, remain at Windsor Castle.
Her Majesty will hold Drawing Rooms, at St. James's
Palace, on Thursday the 15th April, and Thursday the
27th of May, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day.
On Thursday Lord John Russell arrived on a visit to
her Majesty.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Lord
Alfred Paget, fourth surviving son of the Marquis of An-
glesey, to Miss Cecilia Wyndham, second daughter of the
Countess of Listowel, was solemnized at St. James's
Church, London, on Thursday last. After the ceremony
the Countess of Listowel gave a superb dejeuner at King-
ston House, in celebration of the happy event. The
bride's jointure is said to amount to nearly £lOO,OOO.
The illness of the Duke of Portland, father of Lord
George Bentinck, is believed to be a fatal one—no very

improbable surprise, seeing that his Grace is in his 79th
year. His death would make no change in the political
position or title of the protectionist leader, the heir to the
Dukedom being the Marquis of Titchfield, now forty-
seven years old, but quite unknown to fame as a party
man. Gossip assigns Lord George the inheritance of
most of the unentailed Ayrshire property of his father
consequent on his relinquishment of the turf and his de-
votion to politics.

It is said that the Bank of France has already made
'arrangements for the repayment to Messrs. Baring and
Co. of the loan of £BOO,OOO, due at the end of the present
month, by credits upon St. Petersburg, and it is antici-
pqted in some quarters that some of the gold then may
find its way back to England through that operation.
It is stated that the ministers were to assemble in town,
yesterday, for the purpose of considering the proposition
made by the Irish landlords, for an extensive scheme of
emigration. Some of the ministers, it is said, are very
favourably disposed towards it; but it is not expected to
be adopted.
A trotting-match, for one thousand guineas, was de-
cided on Friday near Maidenhead. A Manchester horse
had set the time for ten miles at thirty-five minutes four
seconds. A mare, called The Wonder, performed the
distance in thirty-four minutes ten seconds, thus beating
the Manchester time by fifty-five seconds.
The Poet Laureate, William Wordsworth, Esq., has
just been on a short visit to Bristol and Bath. During
his brief sojourn, he daily perambulated the most at-
tractive localities ; the poet also inspected the remains of
" Cannynge's chapel," on the premises of Mr. iefferies,
Redcliff-street.

A man has been killed, in a strange manner, at'Cherry
Willingham, in Lincolnshire. He was walking behind a
cart, which a boy was driving; in the vehicle the man
had placed a loaded gun, the muzzle pointing backwards ;
the jolting of the cart discharged the gun, and the con-
tents lodged in the man's body.
It is rernarkabli,that of the many women just tried on
assize circuits for the murder of their infant children:, not
one was declared guilty. Perhaps there never wa-
riod when, owing to accidents by fire and the carelessness,
or something worse, of mothers, so much destrUction of
infant life took place as at present.
The opponents of the Government education scheme
at Bristol held a large meeting in the (late) Sbcialist
Hall, Broadmead, on Thursday evening. They are in a
sad plight, for their organ, the radical Bristol Mercury,
has completely deserted them on this question, and given
in its unqualified adhesion to the Cabinet.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Dennis
Cronin was acquitted of the charge of manslaughter, in
having caused the death of a female by administering a
certain noxious compound. The defendant is a physician
in good practice in London, and his trial caused much
excitement among the faculty.
AMERICAN FLOUR.—The vessel Lady Hilda, arrived in
the London docks from Barbadoes, brought, in addi-
tion to a cargo of West India sugar, 100 barrels of Ameri-
can flour. This is the first occasion, to our knowledge, of
the arrival of American flour from one of the West India
Islands.—London, Times.
Mr. Savile Ogle, it appears, does not intend to retire
from the representation of South Northumberland at the
ensuing general election, as has been rumoured. It is
understood, however, that the step was contemplated, 'but
is not to be carried out in consequence. we are glad to
state, of the improved state of the honourable member's
health.

REFUSAL TO WORK.—At the Newport (Monmouth-
shire) police-office, two Irishmen, John Murphy and J.
Barry, one of them from Skibbereen, who had been
granted an asylum in the workhouse, were last week
convicted of cursing and swearing, and refusing to work.
They were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour
in Usk gaol.
THE IRISH IN SOUTH WALES.—Swansea, Cardiff,
Newport, and other places on the line of the South Wales
Railway, are overrun with distressed people from Ireland,
who leave fever in the track of their perambulations
through the rural districts. They generally travel in
troops of ten or twelve, and few of the women appear to
have bonnets ; many are barefooted.
The mortality amongst lambs in Herefordshire during
the present season, has been of serious consequence.
One farmer has lost as many as 100, and another 90. It
is remarkable that whilst this has been going on in Here-
fordshire, in the southern counties of England the lamb-
ing season has been particularly favourable, healthy, and
prolific.
VERY LITTLE CHANGE.—It is announced that the
Theatre at Aberystwith, has been purchased and con-
verted into a Popish Chapel. The change will scarcely
be perceptible in the performances now to take place, and
those formerly under theatrical management, only the
mummery and tinsel will be more showy and melodra-
matic in the hands of the Priests. _ _

Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, has addressed a
letter to the visiting magistrates of the various gaols, in
the country, acquainting them that, "in consequence of
the suspension of the transportation of male convicts to Van
Dieman's Land, it will be requisite to make immediate
provision for the confinement and employment, in this
country, of a great number of such offenders."

PARENTAL AFFLICTION.—The following appeared as
an advertisement in the second column of the first page of
the Times of Wednesday last :—" R. P. B.—My dear
child, write to me without delay, as your father is very ill
on account of your absence, and I am almost distracted.
If you wish to live from home I will send you your clothes
and money for your need, if you will send to me. If not,
you will break my heart.—M. B."
TAME BIRDS.—At the Rectory, Llanfoist, the Rev.
James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden, where
may be seen several robins and chaffinches, the worthy
rector making it a daily practice of feeding them ; and he
'has so successfully trained them, that the moment he
enters the lawn, they will immediately come to his call,
and fly, each in its turn, to the number of six or eight,
into the hand to be fed.

AWFUL VISITATION ON A WEDDING-DAY.--LUCY
Loomes, aged 22, died at No. 14, Baltic-street, Old-
street, London, where she was about to spend the honey-
moon. It appeared that she was married on Tuesday, to
a young Iran of respectable connections, at Spa-fields
Chapel ; afterwards they walked about the streets, when,
in the course of the afternoon, she complained of being
ill. On reaching home she became so bad that a surgeon
was sent for. Life, however, soon became extinct. _ _

Letters fretri Scotland advise of a most extraordinary
event. The load-lieutenant of a Scottish county, and a
member ofthe Eitt tch peerage, has suddenly absconded,
leaving behind in a mass of bills and securities bearing
the forged namts of his own son and other-relatives. The
signatures have been repudiated by the respective parties.
It is repotted that large amounts of charity funds are in-
volved in the wreck of the party in question.—DailyNews
At Fareliam, on Tuesday, Charles W2lfe, a footman in
the service of Mr. W. Thresher, was committed for trial
for attempting to murder his fellow-servant, a young.wo.
man named Elizabeth Ayling. The prisoner made no de-
fence. It appeared from the evidence that he followed
the prosecutrix into her room, there struck her on the
head, and then attempted to kill her with a razor. The
prisoner afterwards attempted to cut his own throat.
From one portion of the evidence it would appear he was
ncited by j ealousy.
REDUCTION IN THE DUTIES OF FOREIGN TIMBER,
&c.—From Thursday last the duties on foreign timber and
deals undergo the following reduction :—Timber from
£1 ss. to £1 the load of 50 cubic feet ; deals from £1 12s.
to £1 ditto ; staves from £1 Bs. to £1 3s. the great hun-
dred of 120 pieces ; handspikes over 7 feet from £2 to
£1 12s. ditto ; handspikes under 7 feet from £1 to 16s.
ditto ; lathwood from £1 to 16s. the fathom ; and deals of
iall lengths, thickness, and breadth 20 per cent. on the
great hundred of 120 pieces. _
CORN-LADEN SHIPS.—From a return, just published,
of the number of ships, laden with foreign corn, entered
inwards in the year ended sth January, 1847, we learn
(says the Standard) that the grain and flour imported in
a pe- 1 17 70 British ships was—

Grain, quarters
Flour and meal, cwts
Grain and flour imported in 2927 Foreign ships

1,348,529
816,858

Grain, quarters
Flour and meal, cwts,

1,744,506
1,938,948

YORKSHIRE BARRISTERS.—A barrister of the Northern
Circuit had occasion to attend the Reading Assizes, the
other day, in the capacity of a witness in a horse case.
The learned judge (Maule) suggested that barristers gene-
rally were not supposed to know much of the merits of
horses. The witness thereupon replied—" But your
lordship must recollect that lam a Yorkshireman." To
this the Counsel engaged in the cause added, " Yes, my
lord, the Yorkshire barristers know a great deal more
about horses than they do about law."
MR. JUSTICE MAULE'S LAST.—The accommodation
for the judges at the Reading Assizes is extremely meagre.
Mr. Justice Maule reminded the authorities of this the
other day, in rather a humorous manner. Coming into

which the judge carries in his hand, his lordship cast his
eye above and around, but saw no place convenient for
the deposit of the judicial "tile." His lordship, turning
round to the under-sheriff, addressed him in a loud tone
of voice—" Mr. Under-sheriff," said he, "take my hat
back to my lodging, there seems to be no room for it
here."

On Sunday se'nnight, during the morning service at
Powick Church, a young lady was observed to be in a
fainting condition, and the same symptoms also imme-
diately afterwards affected others of the congregation, to
the number of about twenty. They were conveyed into
the open air and to the adjoining houses, and after some
time and trouble, they all recovered, having apparently
suffered severely from incipient suffocation. It was found
on investigation, that the alarming occurrence was caused
by the sulphureous vapour evolved in the process of
combustion from the cake used for the purpose of warm-
ing the building.
THE NEW COMET.—This object, discovered on Feb. 6,
has, during the last 20 days, been visible to the naked eye
in the constellation Andromeda, shining as a star of the
fourth magnitude, with a tail extending, on March 20,
about four degrees from the nucleus. On the 30th of
March, at noon, it was calculated that the comet was dis-
tant from the sun four times his apparent diameter, and
nearly south-west his centre. The perihelion passage
took place about 6 o'clock in the evening. The diameter
of the cometic nebulosity is about 65,000 miles, and that
of the more condensed central part 8000 ; the tail extends
more than 5,000,000 miles from the head.
THE IRON TRADE.—It has been resolved by the iron-
masters of the Birmingham district to maintain the pre-
sent prices of iron during the ensuing quarter. At Dud-
ley, on Tuesday, it was resolved to resist any further
attempts on the part of the men to exact an advance in
the existing rate of wages, the present rates bearing a
ratio to the price of iron very much in favour of the
workmen. At Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, the
meeting was well attended. It was reported that iron
is at present in great demand, and many good orders on
hand. There was consequently no attempt to reduce the
prizes, which stand as follow :—Pig iron, £5 to £5 10s. ;
railway iron, £lO 10s. ; and bar, £lO.
THE FACTORY BILL.—Lord Ashley has addressed a
letter to the short-time committees of the counties of
Lancaster, Chester, and York, in which he says—" It is
impossible that I should omit to congratulate you on the
glorious victory obtained by your friends, yesterday, in
the division on the Factory Bill, when a majority of 78
affirmed the limitation of labour to ten hours in the day,
66 members only having been found to vote against it.
We cannot be sufficiently thankful to Almighty God for
this important progress towards the full attainment of a
measure so indispensably necessary to the moral and phy-
sical welfare of yourselves and your children."

SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A SNIPE.—A dead snipe
was found lately in one of the Castle meads by Mr. W.
C. Tisoe. It had evidently been starved to death with
food in its beak. The upper part of its long bill was
jammed into a piece of hollow reed about an inch long,
and in the lower part of the bill towards the point was en-
closed a small beetle. The bird had no doubt been

boring into the reed for the beetle, and the stump of a
reed had broken, leaving a portion fitting so tightly round
the upper part of the bill as not to be removed by any

efforts the bird could make. The bird has been stuffed
by Mr. Knight with the beetle within, and the reed

In a minute of the Privy Council recently issued it is j around its bill, as a curiosity.—Hertford Mercury.
said, alluding to the proposed measure of goverment edu- The Kent and Essex wharf was burnt to the ground on
cation, " The Committee of Privy Council will not hold Monday ; it formed part of a row of wharves situated on
themselves precluded from making provision for Roman the upper side of London-bridge, and immediately in
Catholic children by new measures, if they shall deem it front of the new and extensive range of warehouses erected
advisable. This reservation only tells us what we knew a few years hack by Alderman Humphery, M.P. It was
before—that the present government, like the last, is dis- principally used as a receiving house by the vessels en-
posed to make grants or otherwise give aid to Romanists gaged in the coasting trade of Kent-and Essex, and as a
whenever they can find an opportunity. Our present bu- depot for the produce of those counties intended for the
siness, however, is with the present measure. London market. The wharf was the property and in the
TREMENDOUS GALE.—On Thursday last, it blew a occupation of Alderman Humphery. The whole of the
perfect hurricane on the west coast of Scotland, which buildings and their contents were destroyed to the
was particularly felt in the Firth of Forth. We are in- amount, it is supposed, of £15,000. They were only
formed that the powerful steamers on the Burntisland partially insured. The fire is supposed to have originated
ferry made the whole of the usual passages to Granton from spontaneous combustion.
Pier, &c., taking a little longer time, with the exception It must have been a proud day for the Marquis of
of the six o'clock boat, the funnel of which was blown Anglesea and Field Marshal Grosvenor, when the Duke
down, and in consequence of the accident the steamer put of Wellington, attended by the Head Quarter Staff, pre-
into Kirkcaldy, and lay there all night. We understand sented to those two veteran officers the batons so de-
that no passage was made during the day at the Queen's servedly bestowed upon them by their Sovereign in the
ferry.—Edinburgh Gazette. last Brevet. Only one feeling of regret is associated with
Sir Robert Peel, in his speech against the factory bill, this gratifying event—the absence of Field Marshal Sir
said he knew ten persons at least who were now worth George Nugent, whose advanced age and indisposition
£lOO,OOO each, who at one time had only 20s. to 30s a prevented his attendance to receive a similar reward for
week. [The right hon. baronet's own father's case pre- his past meritorious services. We sincerely trust, how-
sented quite as strong an instance as those alluded to, of ever, that he will soon be sufficiently recovered to come
the acquisition of great wealth by individuals who were at to town for that purpose ; and we are certain that the
one time in comparatively straitened pecuniary circum- Commander-in-Chief participates in our wish.—United
stances; his predecessor, who became the great builder up Service Gazette.
of the family, having actually' worked over-time, at the COST OF THE GENERAL SURVEYS.—Among the Par-
cutting department of a calico printer, to provide himself liamentary returns lately issued was a very singular
with funds to procure the first watch he had ever the pride one containing an item of most startling magnitude. It
orrivilege to wear.] is entitled, " Abstract of the aggregate amount paid in
PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OE GRAIN FROM TURKEY. each year on account of the survey of counties and the
—Official intelligence has reached this country stating trigonometrical surveys ; distinguishing the amount for
that in six weeks from the March, owing to information England, Ireland and Scotland, since the commencement
received by the Ottoman government that the interior of in 1791, up to January 1847, and the total amount for
the country will have to suffer from the scarcity of grain, each kingdom and for the United Kingdom." And under
the exportation of grain from the ports of Adrianople, the head of Ireland we find the prodigious sum of £Bl7,
Tilistria, Nidisi, Canini, Avlonio, Delvino, Sirhala, Ro- 512. 14s. 61d. as the cost of the survey, and the engraving,
dosto, Salonica, Pachalic of Broussa, Sarouhan, Aiden, I and printing, though the first expence was not incurred
Corria, Trebivonde, Castamoum, Nicomedia, and Smyrna, till the year 1825 ! Out of this there has been received
will be prohibited—the delay of six weeks being fixed in no account of maps and surveys sold to the public, nearly
order that parties who were under contract to receive £25,500, better than one-third of the latter amount being
freights at any of these ports may be enabled to execute derivable from the railway mania of 1844-5.
them. AN UNITARIAN SAGE.—Amongst the reasons given by
EMIGRATION.—A memorial, numerously signed by in- an Unitarian minister at Warwick, for protesting against
fluential peers and gentlemen, was presented to Lord the national fast, the following is at least a curious one,
John Russell on Wednesday week. The main propositions ; viz.:—" Because setting apart a week-day for this useless
which it embodies, and to which those who have signed purpose is a complete loss to the productive industry of
it consider themselves pledged, are, first, the necessity of 1 this country at a time when such loss can least be spared ;
systematic colonization, on a very large scale, from Ire- i• and because the day will be spent by thousands in feasting
land to Canada, and of the assistance of the state to pro= ' and idle dissipation, rather, than in fasting and humilia-
mote it ; secondly, the necessity of making religious pro- ' lion." This serio-comic person ends his protest with the
vision for the emigrants; thirdly, the advantage of enlist- following counsel :—" If the day must be set apart from
ing private enterprise, in the form of agency,,to carry out the ordinary duties of, life, I should advise my friends to
the plan, and, fourthly, a willingness to accept ,an income observe it in mental improvement, social enjoyment, and
and property tax for the purpose of defraying the cost of healthful and refreshing exercises for the body.' Accord-
the emigration.. . , ing to this pseudo shepherd of the people, it is useless to
AF.ROSTATION.—On Monday week Mr.Gypson ascended order a fast, because thousands will spend the day so
from London in his new improved balloon, accompanied reenmw...-.A.,1
by Mr. Coxwell. The flight was continued for 'sixty
miles to Sandhurst, in Kent, where a safe descent was
effected, near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the
illustrious astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross
the Channel, but a shift of the wind suggested the pru-
dence of altering their original determination. Lady Hers-
chel and some of her family having witnessed the descent,
Mr. Gypson and Mr. Coxwell were induced to pay their
respects to the distinguished observers of the aerial cha-
riot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been hos-
pitably received, the merits and probable utility of aeros-
tation were discussed with enthusiasm and with conside-
rable competency and knowledge of the science on the
part, of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers at one
period of their lengthy journey attained an elevstion of
three miles, and some ingenious machinery, invented by
Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the balloon without loss
of_Eas or.ballast, was worked with advantage.
TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH AT LEEDS.--A corres-
pondent of the Daily News says :—" A change seems to
have come over the spirit of the dream of the people of
Leeds. Wednesday was the day appointed for the annual
election of churchwardens for the parish of Leeds, and
although, for the last fifteen or eighteen years, the church..
wardens of the- parish have been either Dissenters, com-
monly so called, or persons more decidedly opposed to the
interests of the church as an institution connected with
the state, the parishioners have at length elected by an
overwhelming majority the entire body of the church-
wardens from the decided friends of the church. Before
the votes were taken, one of the inhabitants urged very
strongly upon the parishioners assembled the propriety of
electing as churchwardens persons who would be opposed
to levying a church-rate, as, according to the late decision
of Lord Denman, a majority of the churchwardens, and a
minority of the vestry, could lay a church-rate, as if it
were required, in opposition_to the wishes of a majority, of
the parishioners. To this it was replied thatetnhseerseof wouldthe
be no more necessity to lay a church-rate now than there
(Ihadurbeielennoftordethfrea3,luesdt dozen years, yceoanrsg,regatastiho,
enexp and w
hich the
churchwardens were legally bound to provide for by a rate
or otherwise, scarcely exceed £2O. The proposer of the
opposition list demanded a poll, which the Vicar said he
would grant if he should receive a satisfactory guarantee
for the expenses before four o'clock in the afternoon.

bservec

and other corn-

be so minded, he tells tbem it wi]
by indulging in social enjoyment
fortable matters genial to Socinianism !
:MIGRATION.—In the course of his speech on the Fac-
tories bill, Sir R. Peel observed that the noble lord, the
member for Lynn, was now a great advocate for the con-
struction of railways—that system of locomotion which
was extending itself both in England and on the Conti-
nent. The greater that extension, the more would the
means be facilitated of free egress.for the skilled manu-
facturers and artizans of this country -to- the receipt of
higher wages abroad: The prejudices of the English arti-
zan to removal from his home, were fast declining from
the English character. He read of higher wages abroad—
he read, further, that the ancient hostility to an English-
man was no more felt or encouraged—he found lie could
reach Rouen, or any other place in France, in twelve or
fourteen hours, and these facts, together with a feeling
partly of curiosity and partly a hope of gain, ought all to
operate upon the House of Commons as reasons why it
could not continue to control English labour as formerly
when locomotion. was difficult., and when prejudices ex-
isted and prevailed. _ _

DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED MYSTERIOUS MURDER
COMMITTED ELEVEN YEARS SlNCE.—Saturday week's Go-
vernment Police Gazette contains the particulars of a
supposed murder, under most mysterious circumstances,
committed eleven years since. In the month of August,
1836, a mare was found tied in.a coppice at Sedgberrow,
Worcestershire. She was of the following description,
via., dark brown with switch tail, star in the forehead,
long in the-back, about fifteen hands high, three or four
years old, and a fast trotter. She bad on a bridle and
saddle, the latter a good one, with two new stirrup leathers
and girths attached, Maker's name on the saddle, "C.
Reeve, 3-lalmsbury."' . In .consequence of human bones
having been recently. discovered near to where the mare
was found, it is thought that the owner of the mare was
murdered, and that. he was a dealer. A person suspected
of the murder has given away an antique double-linked
silver watch chain, and affixed to the chain is a watchkey,
in the body of which is curiously worked in silver the
figitre of a man, seated on a barrel, smoking a pipe. It
is believed that the chain and key belonged to the de-
ceased, and every endeavour is being made to ascertain
who that individual was.