The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

MORE *UNCLE TONIISM.—A lady of one of the first
families of Brooklyn recently gave birth to two negro babies.
A MONSTER GRAY TROUT, five pounds.fourteen oz. in
weight. was caught in Windermere on Thursday last.
AN INDIAN PAPER states that a sum of £20,000 has
been granted for church building purposes in the Punjab.
Two Cuxcizevs have been hatched from ono egg at
the George Hotel, Kilmarnock.
OPEN-AIR PREACHING has been commenced for the
summer season in Glasgow with great vigour.
THE PAISLEY Journal informs us, that that seat of
the shawl manufacture is in an exceedingly prosperous
condition.
THE Times publishes many letters generally headed
" Suburban Grievance," complaining that post letters
are delivered later than ever, since the "acceleration."
AN IRISHMAN at Selby poisoned himself last Tuesday,
by taking a decoction of milk and tobacco, which he sup-
posed would cure the ague.
AN IRON AND GLASS BAZAAR or market-hall is about
to be erected in Candleriggs-street, Glasgow. It will
extend about 200 feet.
EXPORTS or WOOLLENS—In 1552 the declared value
of British woollen manufacture and woollen yarn exported
was, £10,161,074.
MILTON IN JAPAN.—Among the collection of Japanese
articles in the Dublin Exhibition there is a medallion
head in papier mache, over which appear in bold Roman
capitals the words " Jean Milton."
MANY SCOTCH RESIDENTS IN ENGLAND will learn
with regret that William Barr, Esq., of Drums, sheriff-
clerk for Renfrewshire, expired at Paisley on Friday
afternoon last. He was born at Paisley in 1787.
SOME VILE MISCREANT last week put arsenic in the
water set aside for ten horses, belonging to Mr. Kemp, of
Swaby, Lincolnshire; eight of the horses died immediately
and one since. The other is under medical treatment.
AN IMPUDENT SPARROW, at Paisley, the other day,
took possession of a swallow's nest, when the ejected bird
went for some of its companions, with the assistance of
whom the intruder was expelled.
MT. SIMON MACGREGOR, the oldest short-hand writer
in Scotland, died a few days ago in the Royal Infirmary,
Edinburgh. He set out in life as a reporter on the
Morning Herald.
THE Edinburgh Witness informs us that the Calton
Hill has been proposed as the site of the Great Scottish
Industrial Exhibition of 1854. A contractor has expressed
his readiness to execute the work at an expense of £12,000.
SHERIFF SKENE, on the complaint of a Mr. Buchanan,
has fined the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company
in 205., for not enforcing the regulation against smoking.
The sheriff said the nuisance must be put down, or a
special carriage set aside for the smokers.
THE PRIZE of one hundred guineas, offered by the
Associate Institution, for the best essay on the laws re-
specting the protection of women, has been awarded to
James Edward Davis, Esq., barrister-at-law, of the Ox-
ford circuit. The adjudicators were the Bishop of Oxford,
Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, and Mr. Roundell Palmer.
MESSRS. TOD AND MACGREGOR, of Glasgow, the
well-known engineers, have just contracted to have their
shipbuilding-yard covered with glass—an idea derived
from the Crystal Palace. The cost will be about £2.000.
The New York, the new vessel for the Glasgow and New
York Steam-ship Company, will be the first ship launched
from under this crystal-palace.
SCRIPTURAL MUSEUMS.—In the Lamp and the
Lantern, a recent production of Dr. Jas. Hamilton, the
following suggestion occurs :—" Would it not be good, if
in large towns there could be collected a Scriptural
Museum ? Would not such an institution be an invalu-
able acquisition to ministers, and teachers, and students ?
Might it not furnish excellent materials for many a po-
pular lecture ? And could there be a better treat for good
scholars in our Sabbath-schools than a walk through its
galleries ?"

A PRECOCIOUS CABIN 1301".—Last week a miniature
copy of an extraordinary youth fell into the hands of the
River Tyne Police. His name is Alexander Hallonbury,
aged 12 years, the cabin boy of the Helios, a Russian
vessel then waiting in the Tyne for America. The lad
had run off from the vessel, and was captured by the
police, who overtook him at Middlesborough. This ex-
traordinary child is a native of 'Wiburg, and has been at
sea since he was nine years of age. His father died when
the boy was 10 weeks old. In his short but eventful life
the boy has visited Seville, Cadiz, London, Leghorn,
Falmouth, and the Tyne, and made a long trading voyage
in a schooner to the Sea of Azoff. He was never at school
in his life, notwithstanding which he can talk five lan-
guages—English fluently, and writes a good steady hand.
He can read an English newspaper without any difficulty.
His mother is a Fin, and can talk six languages ; he learnt
four from her, but the English he picked up in London,
while his vessel was in a graving dock repairing. The
captain of the vessel has no fault to find with the boy,
except, as north country mothers would say, that " he is
hempy and mischievous," and defies the cook and steward,
his chief, who is no linguist. He has gone off with the
vessel to America.—Newcastle Chronicle.

BRUTAL MURDER.---A most savage murder was corn-
mitted at Glasgow on Sunday morning week. Two ship-
carpenters, Alexander Boyd and James Law, were induced
by some loose women to enter a low den in the New
Vennel, kept by Helen Blackwood, where they were
drugged and stripped of their clothes by the woman and
her parmour, Hans Macfarlane, assisted by another
woman, Mary Hamilton. Boyd, being a powerful man,
was, it appears, not quite insensible, and tried to call for
the police, when he was dragged to the window and tossed
overhead foremost from a height of three stories, or about
twenty-six feet. He fell heavily on the back of his head,
by which the skull was extensively fractured, and death
instantaneous. The den in which this bloody tragedy was
acted is only eight feet in length by six feet four inches in
breadth; and it happened that, in addition to the perpe-
trators and the two ship-carpenters, there were present
two destitute boys, the one aged fourteen and the other
ten, who, from some acquaintance with Blackwood, had
got shelter in the place and lay under the bed. These
boys, the presence of whom must have been forgotten for
the moment, witnessed all that took place ; and, more-
over, some women, who suspected that unfair play was
going on, also observed what was in progress inside
through a chinck in the door ; and when Boyd was
thrown out of the window gave the alarm, and after a
chase the three prisoners were taken into custody. Law
was found quite insensible, and, on recovering, totally ig-
norant of everything that had taken place.
WALKING UNDER WATER.—Among the marvels of
the day must be reckoned M. de Saint Simon Sicard's in-
vention of an apparatus which permits the possessor to
take a half hour's promenade at the bottom of a river, and
there occupy himself as fancy suggests. M. Grandchamp
made a public experiment the other day, and remained 35
minutes at the bottom of the Seine. A little improve-
ment in the apparatus will, it is probable, greatly extend
its capacity. A complete clothing of caoutchouc from
head to foot, including helmit and sock, allows the
wearer to descend below the water without danger of con-
tact ; the helmet has a valve which allows the air to escape
at the moment of submersion ; and no sooner is this sub-
mersion complete than the pressure of the water closes the
valve hermetically. A provision of air to be inspired is
carried in a box, placed like a hump in the back of the
cuirass of caoutchouc. This box has a tube which carries
the air into the helmet, in order that the breathing may
take place without effort ; and a little stopcock enables
the distribution of air to be regulated at pleasure. No
sooner is there a difficulty of breathing than a signal is
given, and the experimenter is brought to the surface once
more.— The Leader.

1 JANE OF CAIRNARGET.—A STRANGE STORY.—The
Aberdeen Free Press relates a remarkable story of a Scot-
tish matron, named Jane Mc Irvine, of Cairnarget, parish
of Glass. A report arose in Jane's neighbourhood detri-
mental to her good name. The " fama " was taken up
and inquired into by the minister and Kirk Session of the
Free Church in Glass. In obedience to their summons,
Jane appeared in the Session, but after examination of
witnesses no charge could be established against her.
Some of the witnesses even declared that they believed
she led " a very religious life." The evil report, how-
ever, did not die away, and the Moderator brought before
a subsequent meeting something to Jane's prejudice.
Like one conscious of innocence, and feeling aggrieved,
Jane challenged investigation, and wished her character
cleared. This not being done to her satisfaction, she
appealed to the Presbytery, and from the Presbytery,
whose decision did not suit her, she appealed to the Free
Synod of Moray. The case was discussed in the Synod,
with closed doors. Jane appeared in propria persona,
duly furnished with all the requisite apparatus of extracts
and papers, and pled her own cause. It is said that she
there made a speech three quarters of an hour long. Two
motions were made in the Synod, but the one which was
carried did not so completely clear her as she wished, and
she appealed to the General Assembly. She accordingly
made her way to Edinburgh—appeared personally in the
Committee of Bills, got her papers printed, took her place
at the bar of the Assembly, ready to argue her own cause.
Very prudently the case was referred to a select committee
and fully considered, and the report given in by the con-
vener of the committee was entirely favourable to Jane.
Bravo ! Jane of Cairnarget. You fought the Kirk Session
of Glass; you fought the Presbytery of Strathbogie ; you
fought the Synod of Moray ; and, though the odds were
against you, you have vanquished them all in the Free
Assembly. This ecclesiastical heroine is a person in the
humbler ranks of life—of about 40 years of age—and
modest and respectable in her appearance. At the bar of
the Augrably she appeared cousideraWy agitated.

THE LION HUNTER, Ronallyn Gordon Cumming, Esq.'
passed through Ayr on Saturday, for Wigtownshire, on a
sporting excursion.
ENORMOUS SKATE.—The Banff Journal says tr7/11hat.
it!
skate was brought ashore at Buckle last week ca
measured nine feet in length and nearly five feet in breadth.
JENNY LIND, according to the Dresden Echo, is to
appear again on the stage—in the heroine's part in Gota
schmidt's (her husband's) Tochterlein,or Little Daughter:
TYRANNY.—A new Imperial ukase has been published
in Poland, prohibiting Jewish women from wearing false
hair. Several have been punished for contravention.
To MEND IRON POTS.—Mix finely-sifted lime vnt,'.
some white of eggs, till a thin kind of paste is formed'
add some iron filings. Apply, this to the fracture,
and the vessel will be found to be nearly as sound-as ever.
THE SUSPENSION is announced of Mr. Arthur A.
Homersham, in the English wool trade. The amount a
liabilities has not been stated, but it is supposed to be
about £30,000.
tiStr
ENGRAVING REVOLUTIONISED.—A Swedish ar
Carleman, has made a discovery, which he calls phut°'
chromography. By this new application of photogralM
he is enabled to take from 300 to 400 copies per day.
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=THE ANCIENT PUNISHMENT of the stocks has bee
revived at Runcorn. Last week a " drunk and disordeciyo.
was exposed at the Town- hall in the stocks for four 120,11 Li
and was only released when it began to rain heavily. Yu'
crowds honoured the poor wight with their countenance's
PETERBOROUGH ELECTION.—Mr. George Hatatee."o
Whalley, who was unseated by the Peterborough electled
committee, upon the ground that he, by his agents,
been guilty of bribery, has again become a candidate for
the representation of that city. a
RAILWAY UNION.—We hear that the London Ile
Northwestern and Midland Railway Companies will PI?:
bably be worked under a joint management next malt,'"
and the total traffic receipts given weekly in one month.
Morning Herald.
OTTAWA COUNTY, Upper Canada, has been desolated
by a conflagration, which swept the county from the Deer
River to within a short distance of Bounechere
The fire ravaged the country for 450 square miles, bur.
ing towns, villages, and farms, in its disastrous course..
A HAUNTED HOUSE.—A strange moaning noise re'
cently alarmed the inmates of a house at Lincoln, and
it lasted for some hours they began to think that tb
house was haunted. They then called in the parish clerk,
who speedily discovered that the sounds proceeded from
the chimney, and removed the bag of shavings with whic,„
the chimney had been stuffed, when a pigeon nearly
stifled with soot came down.
THE RUSSIAN FLEET.—A correspondent in Paris says
that a Russian agent has been in treaty for the purchase
of the Humboldt and the Franklin, two Americs°
steamers plying between New York and Havre. The
agent has offered the company 4,750,0001. for them. Tfl9
not stated that that offer has been accepted, but as the
Russian fleet in the Black Sea is in want of steamers, it iS
thought that the purchase will be concluded.
ACCIDENT AT A WEDDING PARTY.—On Tuesday last
a servant in the goods department of the Manchester a,"
Sheffield Railway Company, at Oxspring Station, wt.!
formed one of a wedding party that was proceeding k"
Penistone Church, in attempting to get into one of tha
carriages as the train was moving, stumbled, and fell upori
the rails, and the wheels of the carriages passed over 10
legs, and cut them completely off.—Leeds Intelligencer•
FEVER AT CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—An extraordinary
meeting of the governors has been held at the hospital, le
consequence of the scarlet fever having made its appearance
amongst the inmates, when it was decided to issue circa'
lars to the friends of the boys, desiring them to take their
children away for the present. One master (the Rea.
Mr. Collingwood) and two boys are dead, and eighty b0)11
are ill with the disease.
STAMP DUTIES ON MARINE INSURANCE.--A retnt°
procured by Lord John Russell, shows, that in 1842 tbe,.
amount of revenue derived from stamp duties on marine
insurances was £193,788 12s. The largest sumfin the 109'
twenty-two years was received in 1839, when it was
£296,343 19s. Bd. The greatest amount of tonnage be-
longing to the United Kingdom in the last twenty.tif°
years was in last year, when it reached 3,698,004.
THE BEGGING PRIESTS.—The individual, who, in ar.
fiance of the law, styles himself " Nicholas, by the
Divine Mercy, of the Holy Roman Church, by the
of St. Pudentiana Cardinal Priest, and Archbishop °
Westminister," has issued a second Pastoral, in which be
" enjoins that on Sunday, the feast of the Sacred Heart,
after the reading of his Pastoral Letter, a collection be
made at the offertory of every Mass, for the Catholl
Poor-School Committee, in every Church and Chapel
his diocese."

RAILWAY CooKneo.—Last week a spark from the
engine of a goods train on the Scottish Midland Railifq
set fire to a sheet covering a truck laden with tone!.
beef, mutton, and pork for the London market. The liry
was not extinguished until the meat was considerablt
singed and scorched, and it was deemed expedient to eel'
it by public roup at Perth. The buyers not only got the
best meat at less than half-price, but some of it roasted
for the table.—Scotsman.
CURIOUS FACT.-4 dog crab was caught among the"
rocks near the Haven at Tynemouth, last week, with
sixpence firmly grown into the external shell of the back.
The men who obtained this curiosity broke the shell in
order to secure the money. The only way by which the
presence of the sixpence can be accounted for is by sell'
posing that during the annual production of the new shellt
the crab had lain with the newly formed pellum on the
coin, which had adhered to the skin by this means, and
eventually became firmly fixed in the place in which it
was found.—Newcastle Chronicle.
NEWSPAPER STAMPS.—The Government have deter-
mined to adhere to their proposal as to the duty of six-
pence on advertisements; but they have consented tO
make a modification in relation to the stamp duty 00
newspapers. In place of the proposal to permit a supple-
ment, consisting altogether of advertisements, to be pew"
lished free, the following is the new plan :
For every sheet or piece of paper whereon any news- X S. d'
paper shall be printed, containing on one side a
superficies not exceeding 1,530 inches, (the present
limit,) a duty of 0 0 1
For one supplement to such newspaper, and printed
as such, containing, on one site a superficies not
exceeding 765 inches, (the present limit of the id.
supplement stamp)
But it shall be lawful to print any such newspaper and
supplement in two sheets of any other proportions
than named above, provided the aggregate size is not
more than 2,295 inches, or in one single sheet of that
size •

For any further additional supplement, and printed
as such, not exceeding 1,148 inches, or half of the
aggregate of 2,295 inches
And there is to be no restriction of any kind whatever 011,
to the contents of the supplements, which may consist
wholly of news, or partly of news and partly of advertise'
ments, as may be most convenient.

INSTANTANEOUS FLOWERING OF PLANTS.—M.
Her-
bert,a gentleman who has recently arrived from France, or.
Saturday exhibited to a few ladies and gentlemen o,`'
method of causing plants to blow almost instantaneously'
plants selected—a group of geraniums and a rose 07'
—were planted in two rather deep boxes of garden mould'
previously previously prepared with some chemical manure, e 01;
were then covered with glass shades. Mr. Herbert nest
proceeded to pour over the roots, from a small watering'
pot, a chemical mixture, which uniting with the ins
gredients already in the earth caused a great heat, as wag
shown by an intense steam or vapour which was evolved
within the shades, and allowed to some extent to escaPe
through a small hole in the top, which at first was kePt
closed. The effect upon the geraniums was certanif
almost instantaneous, the buds begining to burst in shoot
five or six minutes, and the plants being in full blooni
within ten minutes, when the blossoms were gathered bf
M. Herbert and distributed amongst the ladies present.
With the rose tree the exhibitor was less fortunate, 31.
Herbert explaining that it had only been in his possession
about half or three quarters of an hour, and he had there'
fore not had sufficient time to prepare for the experimeatj
thereby evincing that it occupies more time than wool
appear to the casual observer to be the case.
RHUBARB.—The proper time to make the preserve 111"
about mid-season of gathering the rhubarb ; it is cut into
2-inch pieces, well boiled for half an hour or so, and OA
sugar is added in proportion of llb. of sugar to Ilb. of
rhubarb ; it is then boiled half an hour longer, adding,'
small proportion of any of the three marmalades. o'6
preserve, when well made, is equal to the finest green:
gage plum, and much more wholesome. As to making
a fine sparkling champagne of rhubarb stalks, the proper_
time is after the roots have just done growing, the stein'
become much more acid, contain less water, and COI';
sequently are in a much riper state; round London ti'';
happens in August. The stalks are gathered, and smashed
and bruised in tubs, then water is added ; after steeping
for three or four days, it is strained off, and sugar put t°.
it; lump is best, if you prefer the wine to be clear. It l'
then put into the casks, and there it ferments for a fort'
night or so. It can then be either left in the cask fors
time or bottled off at once, and can be used the nest
summer ; a finer or more wholesome wine cannot possibly
be than this is. Before bottling off, a small quantity °I
white or brown brandy may be added to it. I havedrani‘
this champagne, and no one can tell it from real grape
champagne of the south of Europe, in comparison wit
which rhubarb wine costs nothing. In pulling out tai
cork it effervesces and sparkles most beautifully. Wba
will rhubarb not make ?—Gardeners' Chronicle. d
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. The t,io'e
quarterly general meeting of this society was held at the
Freemason's Tavern on Wednesday. There was re
numerous attendance. Amongst the leading men:iv%
present were Lord Viscount Ranelagh, Lord Alfred 1.
Churchill, Mr. Booker, M.P., Mr. Ray, Mr. Maitlanmei
Mr. Steven, Mr. Stracey, Mr. Evens Bennett, Colon
Abdy, the Rev. Dr. Worthington, &c. Viscous,
Ranelagh presided. The report of the executive CO!Ta
mittee stated that upwards of 4,500 shares had been i 5540,
during nine months, representing a capital of £2ss,ures
on which £35,000 have been paid. The number of 0,1.09
on the Order of Rights is 870. The number of es;ree
bought is ten, of which one has been allotted, and t'tats
are ready for allotment. Since their last report digs
executive committee had purchased four estates for 00
tribution amongst member:, of the society, namel,Y. rest
at Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire; two, at Pi'Aeef
Hill, in West Kent ; Oatlands Grange, at Weybrina
West Surrey ; and four, the Round Hill at Brightoo.o.
East Sussex. The Ealing Rectory estate had been °or
pletely allotted, and building operations would il!tase
diately commence. The allotment of the Putney e:ee,
would take place on the 20th, and that of the Wood-gl'2o
Tottenham, as well as of the Leeds estates, on tile•oese
of July. So great had been the increase of the bust,,ao
of the society, that the committee had been forced to in
much larger premises adjoining their present offiee'sed
std Norfolk-street. In conclusion, the committee trot
that they had been enabled, by surrendering a CO
for the purchase of an estate, to effect a very advantttogl
arrangement, by which the amount of nearly
profit had been realised to the society. The atarese
gave some statistical details in illustration of the Prlcere
of the society. In the first quarter thewarsecaenipitarpc:oriat
£6,486 ls. 6d. ; in the second, £10,779 ss. 6d. ansfaafts
the third, £15,163 3s. 9d., so that there
in the ratio of about £5,000 in each quarter. ThentooX
was adopted by acclamation. A public drawing._ when
place for right of choice on the society's estateEa_at 21
43 shares were drawn, and it was announcet;do
would be placed on the Order of Rights bY seer noble
the evening the executive committee entertain a‘tp; vice-
chairman and Colonel Brownlow Knox, ALP.. Green"
chairman, at dinner at the Crown and Sceptre.a bs, altia
wide, Lord Alfred Churchill presided,u.t..celni;er,
Booker, M.P. We understand that a p
celebrate the extraordinary success of the Sy_';be--chor
take place on the oth of July ; Lord Ranelagh 3"u

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