The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

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No fewer than 114 foreign vessels arrived at London on
Monday.
The venerable king of the Gipsy tribe, Will Faa, died
in Scotland last week at the advanced age of 96.
The town of Keswick was lighted with gas on Thursday
night for the first time.
‘Victoria-Septibus Cab" is the name of a new four-
wheeled cab, made to carry seven persons, which has
been brought out in London.
A correspondent of the Caledonian Mercury says, the
whole story about the loss of letters addressed to her
Majesty is without any foundation in truth.
The experiment of employing gas for lighting Hartle-
pool lighthouse has been made, and the result has been
completely successful.
The Queen Dowager has sent a donation of £lO for the
benefit of the children of the late favourite vocalist,
Madame Albertazzi.
Mrs. Fay, the unfortunate woman who was confined in
a water-closet by her husband, died at the hospital in
Glasgow on Wednesday.
The inhabitants of Staindrop, Durham, are contem-
plating lighting the village with gas. If decided upon, a
tank will be sunk in a suitable place to light Raby Castle
as well as the village.
Mr. Humphrey Brown, M.P., has purchased the Tewks-
bury Theatre, for the purpose of converting it into a silk
throwsting manufactory manufactory, which will employ
about sixty hands.
It is said that the gentleman who engaged Jenny Lind
to sing in Scotland, got alarmed when she was taken ill at
Edinburgh, and actually insured her life for £lOOO for six
weeks.

At the Bloomsbury County Court, on Thursday, Cross,
a master sweep, obtained judgment for £6 and costs
against the Duke of Brunswick, for sweeping his chim-

neys.
SUSPECTED POISONING.—The body of James Cooper,
a puddler at Dudley, has been disinterred, suspicions
arising principally from his dying declarations existing as
to the cause of death. A woman with whom he cohabited

is suspected.
On Saturday the new wing at Buckingham Palace, and
the marble arch, built by George the Fourth, at a cost of
several thousand pounds, will be demolished in the course
of a few days, and the materials sold to defray the expense
incurred in building the new wing.
A few days ago, as Mr. Edwards, surgeon, of Ingate-
, stone, Essex, was returning from a professional visit, his
horse suddenly shied, and bounding from the road, struck
, his head against a tree with such force that it instantly
dropped dead. Mr. Edwards escaped unhurt.
Earl Devon is in the prospect of a speedy release from
all the pecuniary obligations which were entailed on the
property by the late Earl—an act having been passed to
enable the trustees to sell the Irish estate, which is valued'
at £300,000, and will pay everybody.
Hon.—Hop-picking having generally been brought to
a close, a better estimate can be made of the yield, the
result of which is evident in the enhanced rate of duty, it
being now laid at from £lBO,OOO to £l9o,ooo.—Kentish
Observer.
At a late sale of books, the auctioneer put up " Drew's
Essay on Souls," which was knocked down to a shoe-
maker, who very innocently, but to the great amusement
of the crowded room, asked the auctioneer if "he had
any more works on shoemaking to sell."
The Lords of the Treasury have given official notice
that they can apply no sum to the sinking fund this year
in reduction of the National Debt This is the first time
for six years that this has happened, and is another beauti-
ful specimen of the results of free trade.
A YOUNG RoGuE.—A lad, a mere child, was committed
to Wakefield House of Correction, on Monday, by the
Bradford magistrates. The young scoundrel got a girl
to personate some children, and by that means obtained
their wages.
Such is the immense quantity of nuts this year, that a
woodman in this neighbourhood is, feeding his pigs upon
them, driving them into the wood for the day, and bring-
ing them home with aching jaws at night.—Norwich
Post.
APPALLING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday Mr. Samuel
Whiteway, banker, of Teignmouth, was shooting in the
neighbourhood of Chudleigh. Mr. Whiteway had just
fired one of the barrels and was in the act of reloading,
when the other barrel went off, and the charge passed up
wards through his head, causing instantaneous death.
The Durham Chronicle mentions the exit of Mr. Chas.
Isaac Humble, recently a member of the firm of Milbourn
and Humble, sharebrokers of that town, after having
committed numerous and daring forgeries. His forgeries
have been committed chiefly upon his relatives and family
connections. They amount to £lO,OOO.
The Cambridge Advertiser mentions that a brickmaker
(a brick) wagered to mould 700 bricks in an hour. When
the hour had expired he was moulding the 702 d, " but
was so much exhausted in strength that a pea thrown
against him with force might almost have knocked him
down.
DEATHS FROM IMPURE AIR.—On Tuesday last, two
infants died at Hackney, London, aged respectively, two
years and eleven weeks. The verdict at the inquest was,
that death was caused "by the noxious and poisonous
vapours arising from a stagnant and exposed sewer in the
neighbourhood of their residence.
The Duke of Northumberland entertains projects of
extensive improvements of his large property, and he
intends (as a commencement) to offer his tenantry a more
permanent tenure of their farms, by granting leases on
corn rents, based upon and varying with the averages of
the Tithe Commutation Act.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, when the
colliers proceeded to their work in a pit in the precincts
of Airdrie, they found lying at the bottom the mangled-
bodies of three young men. The deceased were trades-
men belonging to Calder Bank, and had been drinking on
the preceding night. There is little reason to doubt that
they stumbled down tbepitbyaccident.—Glasgow Herald.
The York Courant states that at the funeral of the
Rev. T. Billington, the Roman Catholic priest of that
city, the shops of the inhabitants were closed out of re-
spect to his memory, and the tenor bell of the Cathedral
was tolled. The Dean of York, also, in his sermon in
the Minster, paid a high tribute to the character of the
deceased as a Christian clergyman.
The Morning Herald and Morning Chronicle pub-
lished, on Saturday, a circumstantial account of an awful
triple murder, alledged to have been committed at Foot's
Cray, in the county of Kent. It was stated that a re-
spectably conducted female and her two children had been
murdered by a gentleman of fortune. There is not a
word of truth in the statement.
CHARITY.—A gentleman residing at Hackney, but who
declined giving his name, presented, on Friday, 10s. to
the magistrate at Worship-street Police-office, for charit-
able purposes, and expressed a hope that his example
would be extensively followed by those who disapproved,
like himself, of the proposed public collection of subscrip-
tions in the churches on the day appointed for the general
thanksgiving.
THREE CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Wednes-
day week, a hut occupied by a man named Roberts, near
Beattock, on the Caledonian Railway, was burnt to the
ground. Three children of Roberts', who were sleeping
in the loft, were burnt to death. The fire is supposed to
have been occasioned by a candle, which the mother was
carrying whilst she was intoxicated, coming in contact
with the bedclothes.
SALMON JUBILEE.--The first jubilee year to salmon
ever known in Scotland is now begun. The Duke of
Sutherland, in all his fine rivers in Ross and Sutherland,
of which his grace is sole proprietor, has issued orders that
no fish shall be taken above the influence of the tideway,
either by net or the angler's rod, until the Ist of February,
1849 ; thus giving the salmon undisturbed rest and pos-
session for eighteen months of their own domain.
At a meeting, last week, at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, E. S.
Chandos Pole, Esq., offered to pay the passage out to In-
dia for any man who should stand up to claim his liberal
offer; and, though no one then answered his challenge,
we doubt not that the glove is still on the ground, and may
yet be taken up by any one who desires to try his strength
in so noble a contest.
The inquiry into the cases of poisoning at Ely has ter-
minated in a verdict of " deaths from poison administered
by some person unknown." The investigation was a very
protracted one, the principal evidence being that of Mrs.
Young and her husband, who both proved the finding of
a paper containing a white substance like arsenic near
the fire-place, which Barnes (the accused person, and the
mother-in-law of Mrs. Young) caused to be burnt.
A school for gipsies was opened at Farnham, on Tues.
day. It is intended for the education of orphan gipsy
children, and for the children of those gipsies who have
large families. All will here be taught to read and write.
The girls will be trained to the various household duties,
and fitted to go out to service; the boys will be carefully
instructed, and, when arrived at a proper age, apprenticed
to some useful trade. The building is capable of accom-
modating twenty-four children, but as yet rooms are pre-
pared only for the reception of twelve.
An explosion of gas took place at Walsall Church, on
Sunday evening after divine service, when a beadle named
Lunn was dreadfully shattered and mangled to death. It
appears, that for some weeks past an escape of gas had
taken place under one of the churchwarden's pews, and
Lunn had gone to the spot with a lighted candle immedi-
ately after the congregation departed, and the gas coming
in contact with the flame, the explosion resulted. The
damage done is estimated at upwards of £l,OOO.
THE CHINESE JUNK.—It must be some time before
the Chinese junk, Keying, can reach this country, for it
appears that she has been seized in America. The Chi-
nese siilors, to the number of twenty-six, not having been
paid their wages, have arrested the vessel, and Mr. Lord,
their advocate, pleaded for them before the civil court of
the district. The court decided in favour of the crew,
maintained the seizure, ordered the sale of the vessel, and
condemned the captain to pay each man one to two hun-
dred dollars, according to rank.
POACHING AND CRUELTY.—Yesterday night week four
men went poaching upon the Brin Hall estate, in posses-
sion of Sir John Gerard, when they were met by one of
the assistant keepers. who was instantly seized, and stuffed
head foremost up a drain, after which they drove a stake
between his legs that he could not get out, his body being
wedged fast in the drain. He remained in this predica-
ment until discovered by a man early in the morning,
who heard his moans, and got him out in an exhausted
state.
THE CLERGYMAN AND SCEPTIC.—" If we are to live
after death, why don't we have some certain knowledge
of it ? " said a sceptic to a clergyman. " Why didn't
you have some knowledge of this world before you came
into it," was the reply.
THE LAITY.—See here, a blind and unlearned man
judging more rightly of divine things than the whole
learned council of the Pharisees : whence we learn that
we are not always to be led by the authority of councils,
popes, or bishops ; and that it is not absurd for laymen
sometimes to vary from their opinions, these overseers
being sometimes guilty of great oversights.—Poynder'o
Literary .Ertrack.

Daring the past week a beautiful gothic window of
stained glass has been placed in the chancel of the parish
church of Belton, by the Hon. and Rev. R. Cust, as a
tribute to the memory of the Dowager Countess Brown-
low. The window, which is extremely lofty ( 10ft. 6in. in
height, and 6ft. lin breadth), consists of three compart-
ments, representing the following subjects :—Our Saviour
raising Lazarus, the widow's son, and the daughter of
Jairus from the dead.
On Monday a shocking murder was committed at Bir-
mingham, by a Welshman, named Matthew Davies, keep-
ing an eating-house in Moor-street. He had for a long
time ill-treated his wife, who threatened to exhibit articles
of the peace against him, as she had been obliged to do
more than once. It appears'that she had threatened to
do so on the day in question, when he declared he would
put a stop to her doing so altogether, and, seizing a carv-
ing-knife, nearly severed her head' from her body. The
murderer is in custody.
TESTIMONY OF A JUDGE IN FAVOUR OF WOMEN.—III
a trial at the Ayr assizes of a man who had cruelly mal-
treated his wife, for which he is to be punished by banish-
ment for seven years, Lord Cockburn remarked inciden-
tally, that it was a fact as disgraceful to the male sex •as
it was honourable to the female, that during all his long
experience, he had never once met with an instance of a
wife who had been abused and maltreated by her hus-
band, even to the point of death, who did not, when
placed in the witness-box against him, greatly understate
his treatment and her injuries, in order to shield him, her

husband, from
_punishment.
THE LATE MURDER AT CARLISLE.—DEATH OF THE

MURDERER.—We last week gave the particulars of the
inquest upon the body of Mary Hanlin, the wife of Peter
Hanlin, a travelling "potter," who died from certain
wounds inflicted on her head by her husband, on the 25th
ult. The proceedings before the coroner were terminated
with a verdict of wilful murder against Hanlin. He was
at that time in gaol suffering from erysipelas, produced by
a blow which it was believed had been given to him in a
scuffle to ascertain which was "the better man. The
symptoms gradually assumed a more dangerous form, and
have since terminated fatally.
AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday, Mr. Joseph
Histon, of Spring Gardens, near Dudley, nailmaster, and
his wife, fell out respecting a son of Mr. Histon by a for-
mer wife, and after a violent altercation they proceeded to
blows, when Mrs. H. at length struck her husband with
her clenched fist near the temple, arid he instantly fell to

the ground. When picked up: he was found to be'insensi-
hie, and soon afterwards exp►red. Mrs. H., upon dis-
covering the fatal act she had committed, was in the most
bitter distress, and has remained in that state ever since.
The parties are respectable, the deceased being possessed
of some houses and other property, and they have always
lived upon good terms. The deceased was in his 50th
year.
IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.—The usual
quarterly meetings of the ironmasters of South Stafford-
shire and Shropshire have been held. The attendance of
all interested in the trade was numerous, and the opinions

gathered from those variously concerned tend only to the
conclusion that the general condition of this branch of
incldstry is satisfactory as contrasted with the general
commerce of the country. The orders for iron, both
home and foreign, are considerable, without being exces-
sive ; but at least abundantly so to enable the ironmasters
to abide by the resolve at their preliminary meeting to
maintain existing prices. These are, for the best Staf-
fordshire bars, £lO per ton ; for pigs, the figures will
range from £4 15s. to £5 55., according to their quality.
PROGRESS OF POPERY.—We copy the following from a
radical paper :—" At an immense meeting of Roman Ca-
tholics held on Monday night for the purpose of express-
ing sympathy with the Pope in his present struggles
against Austrian aggression, the reverend parish priest of
the city of London, Dr. Moore, one of Dr. Wiseman's
intimate friends, and believed to enjoy the vicar-general's
unlimited confidence, told his flock that within the pre-
vious forty-eight hours he had been specially favoured and
honoured with a perusal of private letters just then re-
ceived from Rome, and he believed he could in the most
confident manner assure them that the occupant of St.
Peter's chair had sealed the mandate for Dr. Wiseman's
elevation to the Archbishopric of Westminster. Dr.
Wiseman will be an Archbishop, and it is not improbable
that the Rev. Dr. Moore will be Dean of Westminster."
The Tablet, in reviewing a volume of sermons by H.
Edward Manning, M.A., Archdeacon of Chichester, says
—" The heart and affections of the writer are with us
(the Romanists) and with our Church. The amiable
writer urges the necessity of confession with great energy
—with a consciousness of that necessity and of its advan-
tages. The archdeacon (adds the Tablet) is not in his
true place; his feelings and affections, the instincts of his
whole nature, guide him to the (Romish) Church. He
comes, as it were. 'to the very door of tl • Church (of
Rome), and yet will 'not enter in and see there realised.
what he labours to describe and almost succeeds. Upon
the whole, we are glad to see these sermons. The earnest
mind that conceived them must feel that there is no cor-
respondence between itself and the syet,em in which, it
moves. "
ALARMING RIOT.—On Tuesday, the town of Hamilton
was thrown into a state of indiscribable alarm. Sdrae
hundreds of navigators turned out and actually took lave-
less possession of it. They filled the streets, brandishing
clubs, picks, &c., broke windows, assaulted every Scotch
person they could meet with, jumped, yelled, and alto-
gether frightened for their lives the peaceable inhabitants
'of the usual quiet town. All the shops were shut, and
the shutters put on. A gentleman, a J.P., who was for-
merly a magistrate, got a gig and drove up to the barracks,
where a portion of the Ist Royals are presently lying, and
they immediately accompanied him. Mr. Sheriff Veitch,
and the procurator Fiscal, were speedily at the scene.,
The riot act was read by a magistrate. A number of pri-
-1 soners were apprehended, but the mob is not quiet.—
Glasgow Herald.
I USEFUL AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT.—At the Peter-
borough Agricultural Show, on the 4th inst., there was an
unusually large show of implements and stock, and 'six
out of the eight prizes were awarded to Mr. W. P. Stan-
ley ; the one of £lO, open to all England, was awarded to
his steam generator, for cooking linseed, chaff, and vege-
tables for feeding cattle. Its principle and objects are thus
described by the maker :—" The linseed compound tub
has a graduated scale affixed, by which the weight of water
may be at once seen; a jet of steam is introduced, which-
stirs the liquid more effectually than it can be done by
hand, and so economises superintendence, that in place of
two men or boys only one is necessary. By merely turn-
ing the steam-cock off or on, the boiling is carried on tnore
or less rapidly at pleasure. The same tub answers for
steaming chaff, potatoes, carrots, and all roots, and for
boiling water even for domestic purposes ; forty to eighty
1 gallons may be boiled by it in twenty-five minutes."
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE FROM SHAME.—An inquest
was recently held at Munsorrel, on the body of Sarah
Thompson, aged thirteen years. The deceased got into
an apple tree in the garden ; she was seen by an elder
sister, who requested her to get down, and offered her
assistance. In attempting to reach the ground she
slipped backwards, and hung by one leg from a bough.
She was released from this perilous situation by two men,
who were at work in a shop close by, and they remained
a few minutes in consequence of the deceased appearing
in an unconscious state. After they had left the deceased
ran away, without speaking, towards a deep pond, which
had once been worked as a stone quarry. Her sister,
hearing a splash, ran to the water, and saw her sister in
the pond, waving her hands. She went in the water and
caught hold of her. The two men who had before as-
sisted her from the apple-tree rescued the elder sister,
but the younger one perished.—Leeds Intelligencer.
TREMENDOUS GAM—Since Wednesday morning, we
have experienced a violent gale from N.E. to S.E., accom-
panied with rain ; and a fearful sea has been and still is
running on our bar. At daylight on Thursday morning,
two brigs were observed in the offing, which proved to be
the Patriot of Aberdeen, Captain Leask, from Riga to
this port for orders, with flax, and the Prompt, of Seaton
Sluice, Captain Lodge, from Archangel to Newcastle with
tallow. The Patriot, as she approached the angry surge,
was stranded on the beach ' • and the Prompt came ashore
almost at the same spot. The life boat followed the un-
fortunate vessels, and was happily the instrument of
rescuing them from imminent danger. In this laudable
effort, the success of which was hailed by acclamation by
a vast multitude collected on the sands, Mr. John Taylor,
of the smack Vivid (Leith trader), Mr. David Sutherland,
and others, particularly distinguished themselves. The
poor fellows, about twenty in number, were immediately
supplied with warm clothing and refreshments at the
Life Boat Establishment—an institution of which has just
reason to be proud.—Montrose Review.
WONDERFUL PRESERVATION OF HUMAN LIFE.—On
Saturday morning, a man employed in the excavation of
the railway tunnel under Standedge, near this town, was
completely immured in the bowels of the earth by a large
" shoot" of earth having taken place. Such was the
quantity of earth that fell, that though a great number of
men were employed to clear it away, and they continued
to work night and day, in " shifts" of three hours' dura-
tion, it was Monday afternoon before they got to the poor
fellow, when, surprising to say, he was found alive. Alto-
gether he was found to be immured in the place, with a
sufficient space to move about, but with no food to eat,
for six hours ! When the workmen engaged in his libe-
-1 ration had proceeded a considerable way, they found the
poor sufferer had contributed all his power to his own
liberation,, having• with a large hammer, the only, instru-
ment he had, perforated through the mass of earth some
three or four yards.—So intense was his mental agony,
that he could form no judgment of the period which had
elapsed since he was so suddenly shut out from the world ;
but on seeing his master, he tremblingly asked if it was
Saturday night. Hot blankets were immediately at hand,
and he was wrapped in them and taken to the nearest
house, and a surgeon immediately attended ; and it is
hoped the rescued from the grave will soon revive.—Leeds
Intelligencer.
PHYSICAL VERSUS MORAL.—Whether the physical
'wants should be remedied through the moral, or the moral
through the physical. has been a question which has oc-
cupied the attention of philosophers and philanthropists
for centuries. Without attempting to decide the ques-
tion, there can be no doubt that when the physical condi-
tion is impaired it demands the first attention. For in-
stance, a person whilst suffering from an acute attack of
gout would be unable to appreciate the sublimest les-
sons of philosophy, even though enunciated by the
divine Plato. How much more welcome to the sufferer
would be a box of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, so
efficacious in eradicating the distressing malady.
IMPORTANT FAMILY MEDlClNE.—Frampton's Pill of
Health effectually relieves the stomach and bowels by
gentle relaxation, without griping or prostration of
strength. They remove head-ache, sickness, dizziness,
pains in the chest, &c. ; are highly grateful to the stomach,
promote digestion, create appetite, relieve languor and de-
pression of spirits ; while, to those of a full habit and free
livers, who are continually suffering from drowsiness,
heaviness, and singing ;n the head and ears, they offered..
vantages that will not fail to be appreciated. Sold by A
venders of medicines. Price Is. lid. per box. See. the
name of " Thomas Prout, 229. Strand. London,' On the
government stamp,

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