The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-02 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

The weather has undergone a most unfavourable change;
it has been raining heavily several hours, and promises to be
Qi lang continuance.
There are only two plates for decision, Captain Gardnnr's
c by Rowton, out of Bustle, having received from Mr.
Rogers's b c by Zinganee, out of Dirce, in a match for 1(k),
h ft, three quarters of a mile, and Mr. Thornhill's b c by
ErniWY*, out of Bravura, from Lord Suffield's Alan ; 200,
► ft. T.Y.C.

A match for 200. h ft, is made for to-morrow between Lord
Bzetar's Romania, Sit 71b, and the Duke of Richmond's
Bulwark, ist 71b. T.Y.C.
The Duke of Richmond receives in the Gunton Stakes on
Saturday.

Tinplates are not of sufficient interest to call for an express.

GOODWOOD RACRS.—The following► valuable stakes close
and name here at the end of this meeting:-
1839.
Levant, Drawing Room, Racing, and Molacomb Stakes.
There are at present nine subs to the first, 19 to the second,
sight to the next, and 10 to the other ; but a large increase
is expected to each.

18-10.
Drawing Room, now yearlings, with (at present) 19 subs
Nassau (late Rush) Stakes for fillies now yearlings, with 1
sobs; and Racing Stakes, now yearlings, with 12 subs.
18-11.

Sweepstakes of 303 soya each, h ft, for horses now year-
lings; 11 subs.
There can be no doubt that the nominations will exceed
those made at any previous meeting.

A cluster of hazel nuts was last week plucked from its pa-
rent stem in a wood near Urswick, in Furness, which con-
tained the astonishing number of thirty-four, all of tolerable
size, and each containing a good kernel.—Lancaster paper.
The Sun says that the housekeeper at Cleveland-house,
Lord Durham's town residence, has :-eceived instructions by
kis lordship's aid-de-camp, Mr. Cavendish, to have the man-
sion ready for the reception of the family by the latter cud of
the year.

Toss Dianta's Houss.—The dramatist had a horse which
he called "Graphs." " What a silly nomen," said Oxberr).
"Not at all," said Torii; fur when I bought him, it was Buy-
a-Graphy ; when I mounted I was l'op-o-Graphy ; and when
I want him to trot its Gee-ho-Graphy.
FACTS Foe FISHERMEN.—More salmon have been taken
in the Wye this season than for many years past. In former
years very few persons took more than Bor 10 fish; but this
vear the well-known fishing blacksmith has taken with the
fly 75 salmon between Glasbury and Builth, and a gentle-
man residing on the banks of the Wye has caught upwards
of 50. The writer of this article saw 17 fish taken at two
hauls. If this beautiful river was protected from the poach-
ers, it would become one of the best frequented by anglers in
the United Kingdom. At the Hay, at the Three Cocks.
Glasbury, and at Builth, and Ithayader, excellent inns offer
the most comfortable accommodation for anglers, with very
moderate charges.— Worcester Journat.
&mous CASE OF STAnBtNG.—On Sunday morning last,
about eleven o'clock, a man named Philip Tone was lighting
with another, in Rae-street, Huline, when a person named
Thomas Eddlestone, who is a stranger in Huline, and is sup-
posed, to come from Liverpool, went up with an intention to
separate them, upon which Tone drew a knife, and stabbed
Eddlestone in the right side ; the blade closed, and cut Tone's
hand, but he opened it, and again stabbed Eddlestone, in-
itcting a wound about an inch and a half wide, in his right
side. Just at this time, Alcock, the deputy-constable of
Hulme, along with the church-wardens, who were going their
rounds, came up; and Alcock, with some difficulty, secured
Tone, and took him into custody. Eddlestone was taken to
Mr. Sinclair, the surgeon, who dressed his wounds; and he
was removed in a coach to his lodgings, in John-street, Sal-
ford, where Mr. Sinclair now attends him. Tone was brought
np at the New Bailey on Monday, when Alcock stated the
above facts, and produced a certificate from Mr. Sinclair, that
Eddlestone could not be removed without danger. He also
produced the knife, which he took from the prisoner when he
apprehended him : the blade was what is commonly termed
" a stick blade," and was about two inches and a half long,
and pointed.—The prisoner, who is quite a young man, said,
in his defence. that Eddlestoue set a dug at him. He was re-
manded till Wednesday (this day).—.llanclierter Guardian.
Tuts ELICTRICAL Ezi..—Some highly interesting facts
will shortly be made public, the result of a series of experi-
ments upon the living specimen of the electric eel (Gymno-
tus slectricus), which was brought to this country from the
Amason, a few months since. On Monday last, Dr. Fara-
day, in the presence of Professors Daniell, Owen, Wheat-
stone, and others, succeeded in obtaining from it the electric
spark; and one of the party, who had the temerity to grasp
the creature with both hands, had his curiosity satisfied with
a-shock, which, it he were before incredulous, must have
most effectually removed all doubts as to (the electric proper-
ties of the animal. The electricity appears to be of the most
intense character, being communicated by simply immersing
the hands in the vessel of water containing the eel. By one
shock not only was the needle of a galvanometer deflected,
but chemical action and magnetic induction obtained. When
this ichthyological rarity was first exhibited, at a meeting of
the Zoological Society, by the gentleman who brought it
over, and in whose possession it had then been a considerable
time, he stated that it ought entirely to he kept without food.
Judging, however, from the very unceremonious manner in
which we saw an intruder, in the shape of a live gudgeon,
disposed of, we should almost be inclined to question the
philosophy of his recommendation.—Atheneum.

Several paragraphs are in circulation containing com-
plaints of incivility on the part of the servants of the rail-
way companies, and of other grievances. A prompt remedy,
we are assured. is easily attainable by any aggrieved party
who will take the trouble to forward to tbe directors any well-
grounded complaint. Every servant has a distinct number
on his dress, by which he may be identified ; and the direc-
tors are anxious to prevent very means 'of dissatisfaction,
and to promote the comfort and convenience of travellers as
far as possible.—Birminghain Gazette.
The extraordinary clock on Cornhill still continues to at-
tract great attention, and the shop window of Mr. Cox
Savory's clock department is much crowded with the curious.
The general impression appears to be that the unseen power
by which the hands are moved is magnetic. The bands are
placed in the centre of a perfectly transparent pane of glass,
and no mechanical power appears to pass through the glass
to the hands, although they continue in motion, and denote
the hour very accurately. The means by which they are
moved is a complete mechanical puzzle. Several clock-
makers have been asked, but they do not appear to be at all
aware by what power the effect is accomplished.
Qvassitc.—Facing the promontory of Quebec, the St. Law-
rence is less than a mile in breadth, though it expands to
several miles on each side. The protnontory on which the
city is built is formed by a junction of the river St. Charles
with the St. Lawrence. It received its present name from
the discoverer, Jaques Cartier, in 1535, in consequence of
bEe pilot exclaiming (in bad French) when he first saw Cape
ihaawadi " Que &ec .' what a beak !

Bread is so low in Virginia, that many poor families can
not raise it up.

THE GREAT WESTERN.—This vessel sailed again for New
York at three p. m. on Saturday, with a heavy swell and
wind against her, blowing strongly S.S.W. 'There are 117
passengers; amongst them Judge Crane, and, as report says,
Signor Hervio Nano, the demon dwarf, and his lady. Im-
portant despdtches from government for Lord Durham,
Governor-General of the Canadas, were brought on board
by a messenger at the moment of sailing, and committed to
the special care of Lieut. Hoskins, lt.N., the commander of
the Great Western. There is a very valuable cargo of goods
(120 or 130 tuns) in the Great 'Western, a large number of
boxes filled with silks, the debentures on which, from one
house in London, amounted to £3OO and upwards, and a
great quantity of Manchester goods in hales, one house in
that place having paid the company 1;200 freight. She
carries also nearly 5000 letters, and a large number of news-
papers.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRASS INSTRUMENTS.._.' e have lately
seen and heard some brass instruments, constructed on a
principle which promises to enlarge their powers and extend
their usefulness to a much greater degree than any former at-
tempts have been able to accomplish. The limited scale of
the trumpet and horn have materially circumscribed their
employment in modern orchestral writing ; and the impossi-
bility of their following a composer rapidly from key to key,
has still further limited their agency. In the time of Purcell
and Handell, the trumpet was a prominent orchestral and
solo instrument; but this character it has wholly lost. Se-
veral attempts have been made to overcome this defect, by
the employment of keys and valves; but these have all changed
the tone of the instrument to which they were applied, and
deprived the trumpet of its martial and spirit-stirring charac-
ter. The present invention may he described as a method of
instantly shortening or lengthening the tube of the trumpet, •
horn, and trombone, or any other brass instrument. The me-
chanism is beautiful and simple; and the first impression, on
seeing it, is that of astonishitent that it should have escaped
all former inventors. When applied to the trumpet, it ena-
bles the performer to produce every semitone, front the bottom
to the top of the instrument, in rapid succession, with all the
freedom and fulness of tone of the common trumpet; the key
of the instrument being as completely changed as if a crook
was put on or off. The same remarks equally apply to the
horn; in which the notes out of the scale are now produced
by inserting the hand into the bell of the instruent, aro') thus,
of necessity, changing and injuring its tone. In the improved
horn, all these notes are easily produced, and a perfect equa-
lity and richness of tone secured. To the performer on the
trombone this invention is invaluable, as it will give to his
execution both precision and rapidity unattainable on the
common slide-trombone. It is obvious that a discovery so
important will effect a considerable change and extension of
the employment of brass instruments in orchestras as well as
military bands. The improved instruments have been tried,
and their immediate adoption decided on, by the queen's pri-
vate band, and by nearly all the bands of the Household
Brigade. The inventor of this beautiful piece of mechanism
is a Mr. John Shaw. of Glossop, in Derbyshire; and we are
induced to give it all the publicity in our power, nut only fur
its intrinsic importance, but because of the modest and un-
pretending manner in which it was introduced to our notice.
—Spectator.

NovEL MonE OF STEALING.—A young woman, named
Alice Caffery, was brought up at the New Bailey on Monday
last, charged with stealing under the following circum-
stances :—A little girl, about 10 years of age, living with
Mr. Tothasan, who keeps the King public-house, in Oldham-
street, stated that, on Friday mot fling, a woman came and
asked for change for half-a-crown, and for a glass of beer,
both of which she got, and went away without giving her the
half-crown. On riday night, the prisoner came and played
the same trick; and on Saturday at noon, she came agairi,
and asked for some biscuits, and change for half-a-crown;
but witness then informed her master, who ran after the pri-
soner, and took her into custody. Hindley the officer, stated
that, when the prisoner was given into his custody, he
searched her pockets, and found three halfpenny-worths of
snuff and a pennyworth of tea ; and, as she said she had
bought the tea at a shop in Swan-street, he took her to the
shop, and the mistress said she had asked for a pennyworth
of tea and change for a crown, which were got for her, when
she took up the tea and the change, and was about to walk
off with them, but on being told that she had not given them
the crown, said, " Oh, then, I don't want change."—The
prisoner, who had nothing to say in her defence, was com-
mitted for one month.—Manchester Guardian.
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT NORTHWlcH.—Several labourers
having been regularly employed by Messrs. Asbtons, to clear
away the rubbish since the melancholy catastrophe of the
failing-in of their rock pit, in hopes of exricating from the
ruins the bodies of three men, who were known to be
buried underneath; on Thursday forenoon they succeeded
in getting out, at a depth of twenty yards from the surface,
Joshua Tomkinson, and on the day following, Friday, they
also got out the bodies of William Rayner and Thomas
Bates. It is still suspected that a man, a stranger, who was
serving the bricklayers on the premises when the fall took
place, or a short time before, is amongst the ruins, as he has
been missing, it is stated, ever since. Should this man for-
tunately prove safe, then the whole of the bodies will, have
been recovered, after considerable fatigue and personal risk,
from the still falling in earth. The chasm is truly terrific to
look upon.—Chester Courant.
THE LATE FIRE AT Ilaaftow.—The fire, it has been as-
certained, was occasioned by the overheating of a hot air
• stove, which, it appears, was intended to heat all the rooms
of the extensive buildings. It was first heated on Saturday
last, when the flues were found to be very hot, and it was not
again used until Monday. It is supposed that the heat must
have ignited some of the light wood of the partition of one of
the rooms, which had for some time been kept closed, as it
was from that room that the flames first burst forth. The
whole of the front buildings occupied by Mr. Colenzo, being
composed of lath and plaster only, was soon one body of fire;
and had not the corridor communicating with the new build-
ing in the rear been cut away, they also must have been
consumed, the stables adjoining to them,- belonging to Dr.
Wordsworth, being much damaged.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COAL MINE.—On Thursday last,
the roof in one of the coal-pits, belonging to Mr. Knowles,
at Darcy Lever, partially gave way, and fell upon a man
named John Bullough, who was working near the place.
His fellow-workmen got to hint almost immediately after-
wards, but he was quite dead. An inquest was held on the
body on Saturday, when the jury returned a verdict of " Ac-
cidental death,"
SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY.—It is intended
by the directors to open this line of railway on -Wednesday
next (this day), on which occasion the first train will start
from Sheffield at ten o'clock in the forenoon. A public
breakfast will take place at Rotherham in the forenoon ;
and at five in the afternoon there will be a public dinner at
the Tontine Inn, Sheffield, on the return of the train. Only
one side of the line will be then completed, the other being
now in a state of great forwardness.—Doncaster Gazette.
INTERESTING TO GEOLOGISTS.—We stated in our las
publication, that the heavy rains which fell last week caused
the river Ribble to overflow its banks. Near to the Widows,
the residence of R. Pilkingtoo, Esq., a huge tree was washed
on shore; it measured fourteen yards in length, and about
ten feet in girth, the girth being nearly uniform ; the tree must
therefore, when " a dweller of the forest," have been of im-
mense dimensions. 'The wood was quite in a state of de-
composition, and has doubtless been embedded in the sands
for many years—perhaps ages.—Preston Chronicle.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The schooner Waterlily has ar
rived from the Mediterranean, bearing despatches from he
Majesty, the Queen Dowager, which were sent from he
' Majesty's ship Hastings, on the 10th instant, then 50 mile
S.E. by E. of the Rock of Lisbon. We have much pleasur
in beirig able to state, that her Majesty was iu the enjoymen
of good health, and had suffered very little during her voy
age.—Court Gazette.
WINDSOR, OCT. 28.—Her Majesty attended divine service
this morning at the Chapel Royal, St. George. The Rev.
Mr. Proby (canon in residence) preached an excellent ser-
mon front the 3d verse of the 2d chapter of Genesis, "Ana
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that
in it be hail rested front all his work which God created and
made." The noblemen and gentlemen of the royal house-
hold in waiting on her Majesty appeared in the Windsor
uniform. Her Majesty walked for an hour on the terrace of
the castle this afternoon a ith a large party, including Lady
Littleton, Lady Charlotte Copley, the Ladies Paget, Viscount
Melbourne, Earl of Uxbridge,_ Viscount Falkland, Earl of
Surrey, Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Hon. Col. Cavendish,
and the Hon. C. A. Murray.
STATE OF THE HosIERY TRADE.—The demand for use-
ful gocds for the home trade continues steady, and the glove
and fancy trades are brisk. The whole market is decidedly
better. The large sales of colonial wools in London, during
the past week, have gone off well, at an advance of front 2d.
to 3d. tier lb. Low combing wools are in more request at an
acisaass of price, and wether skin is very scarce, and fetches
high prices.—Leicester Chronicle.
DESTRUCTIVE SToRM IN LONDON —One of the most yin-
lent storms of wind that has been experienced in the metro-
polis and its vicinity for some years, came on on Monday
morning about two o'clock, and continued with unabated
violence, till past four o'clock. The wind blew Irons the
west, and immense destruction has been done to property
exposed to its violence. Chimney pots were blown down,
houses were partially unroofed, walls levelled, and trees up-
rooted in all directions. Several persons have been injured.
We have not heard of any lives having been sacrificed. The
loss at sea, we fear, mind have been dreadful.
RADICAL DEMONSTRATION.—The radicals of Bolton, ac-
cording to public announcement, were to meet Feargus
O'Connor and the Rev. J. R. Stephens, at the Moses Gate
Railway Station, Farnworth, at half-past six o'clock last
evening, to escort them into the town by torch-light, to a
public meeting convened for the purpose of appointing a de-
legate to the " National Convention !"
CAUTION TO AUCTIONEERS.—At Killarney sessions, an
• auctioneer proceeded for the amount of a lot sold by him.
Defendant demurred that the lot did not belong to the gen-
tleman whose effects were advertised for sale, and upon the
faith of which he had bid, but that the auctioneer had
introdeced it amongst the other and better articles. The
process was dismissed by the court.— Limerick Chronicle.
THE CASE OF STARRING AT ROCHDALE'.—Dearden, who
was stabbed by the colliers, is still alive, but with very slen-
der hopes of recovery. 'l'he prisoners were brought before
the magistrates on Monday, and again remanded. Mr.
Chadwick, the magistrate, took Dearden's depositions on
the day after he was wounded, when the man swore that he
heard one of the colliers call out to the other, "D
—n him !
kill him, he is only an old soldier."—Manchester Guardian.
The Staffordshire Advertiser of Saturday states that an ar
rangement has been come to between,,the promoters of the
proposed Extension Railway to Rugby, and the Grand Junc-
tion Company, by which that company is to become jointly
interested with the Manchester and Birmingham Company
in the railway.
An incident, which will throw, at least, for some time, cold
water over the coquetting between the King of the Barricade
and the Autocrat of the Russias, is the (reported) approach
ing marriage of the Duke de Leuchtenberg (the only remain.
ing son of Eugene Beauharnois) with the Princess Alexan-s
drina, eldest daughter of the emperor.
UNLICENSED SPORTSWoMEN.—A few days ago a lady wa
caught shooting near Leon, in company with her husban
and two other sportsmen, who were furnished with licenses
but, as she was not provided with this authorisation, she wa
condemned to pay a fine of 33 francs, and forfeit her fowling
piece, or redeem it by paying the additional sum of 50 francs

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STATE OF Tit Ans.—The speculative demand for cotton
at Liverpool, which has revived with great animation this
week, has rendered the market here very unsettled. The
holders of yarn are not generally willing to sell at former
prices; and the buyers, who feel no confidence in the main-
tenance of the recent advance in cotton, are equally unwil-
ling to give higher rates. The business done, we believe,
was chiefly at a slight advance in water twist, and at pre-
vious prices for mule. In goods there was little or no change.
Printing cloth, especially 27-inch, continues in good demand.
—Manchester Guardian.

THE ITINERANT HARDWAREMAN.—The following is a
scrap from an article under this title, by Alfred Crowquil, in
Sherwood's Miscellany :—" The next article be offered was a
brass chamber candlestick, with snuffers and extinguisher.
'There's an out-and-outer,' cried he, bright enough to light
you to bed without a candle—aint it ashiner. In six months
you may save the price of it in soap, fuller's earth, and plais-
ter. For the dish will prevent the grease from falling on the
floor, and the light from breaking your shins against the
bed-posts. Why there's actually brass enough in it to make a
warmping-pan, or give a bashful man the countenance of a
Yorksbireman ! If any young woman is about to set up house-
keeping, she shall have a fur 2s. At soy rate, 'tis dirt cheap
as an ornament for eighteen pence! Eighteen pence! Why,
the security is worth the money; for if any lady has a bus-
band addicted to liquor, she has only to stick a candle in it,
go to sleep, and leave the brute to see himself to bed when-
ever be pleases! It has such a convenient nozzle, too, that
a long six or a rushlight will equally suit. Only eighteen-
pence, ma'am ! Thank ye. Your husband will-thank yon,
too, depend on't, and you'll both go to bed lighter for it.'