The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. TroHope continues to lie dangerously ill at the house
of her brother, Mr. Milton, in the Fulham-road.
At her majesty's slate ball, on Monday night, the majority
of the senior female nobility appeared in plumes, and the
juniors with wreaths of roses and other flowers.
In Russia potatoes are little liked by the peasantry, who
prefer gourds and cabbages; and at inns the potatoe is rarely
served, unless particularly asked for.
It is the Queen's intention to give two more halls at Buck-
ingham Palace, the one on the nineteenth, and the other on
the thirteeeth of July.
The foundation stones of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar-
nock, and Ayr Railway Bridges, were laid with masonic
honours at Longford and Maress's Bridge, on Thursday.—
Scortidi Guardian.
Accounts from all parts of the country speak of the wheat
crop as prodigiously improved within the last fortnight; and
that it is every where coming into ear most propitiously.
CORONATION SA USA GES.—Ata ham and beef shop window,
in Little Russel-street, Covt-nt-garden, a paper is exhibited,
on which is written " royal coronation sausages to be had
within—the largest ever made..
In addition to the other persons disappointed of peerages
on the late occasion is the Hon. C. Cavendish, whom the
whigs dared not elevate, knowing full well that his seat for
East Sussex would immediately devolve upon a conservative.
CORONATION A BIWA n.--Tbe Hotel Meurice, at Paris, was
brilliantly illuminated on Thursday night in honour of the
coronation of the Queen of England. In the centre was a
beautiful transparency bearing the arms of her Majesty.
All the English vessels in the port of Havre, and the houses
of several English residents in the town, displayed the British
flag on Friday, in honour of the coronation of Queen Victoria.
PoeuLA rry.—lt does not seem that on the day of
the coronation any one of her Majesty's ministers received
the slightest token of admiration from man, woman, or child.
Sweden, according to a recent traveller, may be styled "the
land of strawberries. They are offered on the road whilst you
travel ; their smell and sight greet you on every table; in
fact, they are the only fruit I have noticed in the country."
Kentucky is the strong hold of the marvellous. The latest
wonder from that aparter'relates to a native who can imitate
the cock-crow with so much skill as to cause the sun to rise
two hours before his time.
MAIDSTONE ELRCTIOPI.—The petition presented on Satur-
day to the House of Commons, regarding the last Maidstone
election; was against the return of Mr. Fector ; and it was
ordered to be considered, by ballot•for an election committee,
on the 17th of July.
RAI LWA 1801 the first act of parliament passed for
the construction of a public railway. Since that time nearly
2(X) have followed it; and among these enterprises are three,
of which alone the estimated cost—and they are expected to•
be finished during the present season—amounts to about
nine millions sterling!—Quarterly Review.
" Was the Baroness Lehzen at the coronation ?" Thii
question has been put to us in every possible shape. The
baroness was in the abbey, and sat with Lady John Russell,
the Hon. C. Murray being their gallant escort.—The Aye.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal Of Eng-
land, who stood at the Queen's right hand during the corona-
tion, was almost the only nobleman in London who did, not
illuminate his mansion. His house was distinguished from
all others by being in total darkness. Loyalty and propriety
united !—The Age.
One of the most. costly and splendid bammercloths dis-
played on Thursday week, at the coronation of her Majesty,''
was that of the Earl of Derby. It was composed of
.super-
fine scarlet broad cloth, with festoons and bows of blue cloth.
The ends, tassels, and trimmings, were of real silver. The
centre contained the crest and coronet of the noble earl richly
embroidered.
We are told that Mr. George Ilayter, previously to the
coronation, received her Majesty's command to paint a pit-
ture of the grand and imposing ceremony upon the most
important scale, including portraits of the most illustrious
personages engaged in the ceremonial. Mr. Hayter, we
understand, was in the Lord Chamberlain's box, and took
numerous sketches during the. progress of the ceremony.—
Morning Herald.

HAY.—Great breadths of grass are now cut in almost every
part of the country, and, generally speaking, the crops are
much more abundant than teas expected; but the unsettled
state of the weather has been very much against, their con-
version into good hay. Strange to say, hay-making near
London, which used to commence with May day, is this year
more backward than in any part of the country.

THE INDIAN .JUGGLERS' SECRET DISCOVERED.—LieDI

Hutton observes, that the snakes which the Indian jugglers
handle with impunity are drugged with opium, which renders
them quiet and harmless. "1 he effects of the drug will not
wear off for a fortnight or three weeks. This fact Lieut. H.
ascertained by personal experience; a drugged snake which
he had purchased having, had the lapse of three weeks, flown
at him unexpectedly and nearly strangled him.—Osiental
Herald.

A Sunday paper has the following paragraph published as
a leading article:—" Lord Brougham was not at the corona-
tion. His lordship went to Lord Essex to beg a day's ti.hing
at Cashiobury, which favour Lord Essex denied."— Query:
was the noble lora fearful lest nis noble and learned friend,
having of late tidied so extensively in " troubled waters,"
might disturb the peaceful pools of Cashiobury ? However
this may be, Lord Brougham, it must be admitted, possesses
few, if any of the qualities attributed by old Izaak Walton
to " the brothers of the angle."

BRUSSELS, JUNE 25.—A dreadful accident occurred on the
22d in the coal mines in the vicinity of Deraing, by an ex-
plosion of fire datnp. About fifty unhappy workman are
said to have been killed. Ninety•nine workmen had gone
down into the mine when the explosion took place; fifty-six
have been taken out dead, seven ate more' Or less severely
wounded. The loan has been contracterl for at 73M with the
deduction, however; of the ,usual,. commission. Their
jesties have sent MOO francs for the relatives 'of the workmen
who lost their lives in the late accident.

.
A Sunday paper, in allusion to {lie finenes s'of the weather
on Thursday says, "For the weathee„LOrdMilbourne has
to thank the conservatives; for
.4'the e'iii-onalitm; had beki
celebrated on the day first pro'posed for it, it woad have
been wretched in the extreme." And the same, journal, in.
reference to the very different reception_expefirnced by. the
Duke of Wellington and Lord ribbeY,-
adds, " Her Majesty must herself 'haie 'seen the wonderful
between the reception by her peciple of the Lion of England
and the Lamb of Pimlico."
• • .
One of the few drawbacks upon the pleasures of the (lay on
Thursday, was one of those street nuisances, an enormous
placard of a Sunday newspaper carried about on men's
• shoulders, to the great annoyance and disgust of every body,
announcing that one Mister "Publicola" would, in the next
number of that "astonishing paper, prove, a la Lord Fitz-
william, that coronation ceremonies are "useless and blas-
phemous." The astonishing paper in question is the property
of a magistrate of the city of London; but were the public
to set. its face against all that is vulgar and mischievous, the
circulation of the paper in question would soon be greatly
curtailed, we guess.—Moraing Herald.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASE.—EXTRAMIDINABY
FERENcE BETWEEN TDE CLAIM AND AWAND.—A court of
compensation was heldat Colchester on Saturday, to deter-
mine the sum to be paid to Lord Western by the Eastern
Counties Railway Company for land required by the com-
pany, and for injuries done to his lordship's estate by the
passage of the railway through it. The total amount of his
lordship's claim was 1:13,369; the award of- the jury 1:2519 !
His lordship demanded 110,C00 for the deterioration which
his estate would sustain by the railway ; but the jury awarded
nothing for this part of Ole claim. Mr. Skjeant Talfourd
and Mr. Knox appeared for the claimant ; Sir William Fol-
lett (who was specially retained with a fee of 3(X) guineas)
and Mr. Austin for the company.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—A considerable degree
of excitement has been caused amongst the fashionables at
the West-end, in consequence of the discovery of an elope-
ment from the house of a lady of fortune, in York-place,
Upper Baker-street, Portman-square. The fair fugitive is
the youngest daughter of Mrs. —, and it appears, from the
most diligent inquiries made in the neighbourhood, that the

lady in piestion, %%Ito is no more than 18 years of age, and
possessed of property to a large amount, was observed to
quit home by the street door, at an early hour on Monday
morning last, and that the footman, a smart young fellow,
made his exit by the back door, leading into- the adjoining
mews, having previously packed into a hackney-coach, in
waiting at the entrance, sundiy hampers, boxes, &c., which
he brought from the house; the vehicle then started off, awl
in the course of a kw hours Miss
missing. Inquiries were immediately instituted, and it was
at length ascertained that the knight of the shoulder-knot
had been indissolubly united to his " ladve fair" at Shore-
ditch Church. It is said that the bride will, in a few years,
come into. possession of a very large fortune. '

What solemn trifling is it for a House of Commons, sitting
from October to the dog-days, and then determining tolniet-
pone nearly all that they ought to have done!
By letters lately received from India, it appeers, that Lord,"
Elphinstone had been suffering from fever caught in an -
cursion up the Neilgherry Hills, but in consequence of the
proinpt attention of Dr. Birch, of the company's service, his „.
lordship bad quite recovered when the accounts left. ,
Parliamentary electors in eitiesand boroughs,entitledunder
the Reform Act, will losetheir votes for the next year, nnlese... •
they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant, all the pear,
rates (and window tax, if any) payable front them in respect,
of their premises previously to the 6th of April last. Connty,....
voters must send in their claims by the' oth of July instant,. ;
Me. CHAR LES KEA M.—A deputation of gentlemen. from
Waterford waited. on Saturday on Mr. Charles Kean, ter
present apiece of plate which had been voted to him by his
friends and admirers in that city. The silver vase contained
the following inscription :—" Presented to Charles. Kettit„,
Esq., as a token of esteem for his private character and art-, •.• •
mirution of his talents, by a few friends inlet native city of
Waterford." •
CORONATION BLUNDER.—The following laughebleoccut-
rence happened at a small town in Worcesterehire.. A- Orin-
ter having been applied to, to print a notice for closing thO
shops, &c., for the day of the coronation, by some mistake;..',„
purposely or accidentally made, the letter C Wee lint` in place
of 5, which made it read as follow! :—" Notice is hereby
given that all the-tradespeople haveagreed not to open tlietr'''"4".
chops on the coronation day. 'Phis, of course, was an un-'
lucky announcement for many when the roast beef antic/eat...
pudding came in view.— Warwick Advertiser.
ROSES.—Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, Herefordshiree,.
one of the most extensive growers of, roses.m.England,
that it is necessary to remove roses every, three. years crew
the spots they have occupied,. in order to prevent.their degas
nerating. Ile finds, indeed, froneeanerience, without advert-
ing to the principle of the d.eterioratien of, the ,;gig, the rose. „. - •
tree roots looie the smaller fibre hy.which they feed ;
.andthis, • .„ -
we have nui donbiJibecatise theseamalliamta are starved by
the exhaustion of nutriment in -the S.A. poisoned by exere-
mentitious contamina, or
EDS O%—A report hasbeens-arrent,fousome timeliest-I,f
a declaration of independence havinghean.made by Mehemet
Ali; the Pasha of.ft:gtidss,,At creeeni,the,„ only forindatien,
for it appears to befirstovhatelf,the world keinwaalresnlv,
that the pasha is deitirena-.4,,establitihing; hie independesten,'
Of Turkey; and next, that he.has.:rsce\raly imotinded, the cons
sults from the differentj';uroce`aafetwersi reAidt•nt ggYltt,
as to the degree Whic4flassl..lwete likely.teetspproteavete
.
remain quiescent-tinder su eT cka prisetling on.bis prams- This
is a very differe,4,etepirgoaidepleretion of ,indecertdenee,;
and it is obvious,, that'ao..far,,fsem..,-leedirsirdn such, a revisit,
iasnore likely to Pita* impedimenta, initiltt-WOYsof it
otherwise. • ) ,r •
LANCASTER ,AN D.P kasToN Ti A /1.3,41%4,-,EllllPrlttildlly,l/Itit,
the day of the coronation; -the' first StOile'eNteadadtleeittGalz '
"gate, on the Roe of this railway, was laid by Mr. Alfred Jee,
.the resident engineer; the.contractors andmanyuthera-being
ptesent. A number of Victoria Medals, kin rk prereted by.
some gentlemen of the beighbnittlim aeierdeittistfed tinder;
neath the stone. This viaduct, which crosses the river Cons .
dor and the road at Galgate, will be one of,the largest, works
on the line, and is to cOnsiet; rif six arches; sashshirty • feet
span, and between forty arid fifty feet high. It is to be httilt
entirely of stone. The other worksat this end of.therlfrii'lie
proceeding with great activity ; -and a comitieneement has
also been made near Preston.—Luneaster Guardian.
'rim SULTAN'S LETTER or CONGRATuLATIDIC—A 'ab-
ject which has excited no inconsiderable talk in the court
circles is the " letter of felicitation" forwarded by thesUltan
to her Majesty on. the Occasion of 'her coronation. It
remarkable document in its' formatidsitlialinee}-Let firewies
. seated to us es being about thirty-six inches ,itT length. and •
between three and four inches broad; the penmanship is
very careful and elegant, bearing in the margin the signature
of the Sultan, with all the titles of the very highitind puissant
Seignior, which from time immemorial have appertained to
the principal. representatiie• of the Offoman court: The
paper is of a very fine manufacture, approaching to vellum
in appearance. This letter was put in en, enseloee, geld, .
sealed with the armorial bearings Of the Sultan, and the
whole enclosed in a crimson glottis sachet art- trag,aorriewhat
resembling a lady's small reticule. It is richly: embroidered,
in gold, and a tassel and string of peculiar" beauty et,undo
facture complete this unique billet dous,"•• -7•,,st•IVA ,
PROTECTION or LIFE VltosiFlET.,—.AMOlTg•tWitt,erpis‘
tents newly issued is one for communicating alarm in crewel(
tire occurring in a building, of very great Sinspliciir and
merit. It is founded upon, the principle-of theexpatta4rm'nf 107
metals by heats, by which the slightest` increase ofteMpera-,,-7i10;„
tore causes an elongsdion. Thisinieerint of isitittil,
so usefully applied tar the .thertnometer,,bstVothavvrialammisii;4
mere philosophical toy, is here brought into ter:Vogel:l
great advantage-upian humanity, .ifie'iiiittectr o I aria
preservation of property. • The elongation of,nemetartiesber' -s-"te
.
disengages a spring, by which a bell is rung with anflintent...;,..„,„
noise to alarm the whole of the inmates of ahouse in the ease ,
of a very slight Increase of temperature,' which:mai tint hes
regulated to 70 degrees; so than an alarnewillitegtveneyen ,
while the flames are yet dormant, and in Sidedent titne to •
take steps for extinguishingthein:AninYeoliousbf .
is doubly valuable from the fact of the inertneas,ef ell means •,
for saving life or prqperty after the flames heVe attainerrnanelt
height.
Coen FOR THE Iliceue.—Last week, during
~,„
which set up a sea sufficient to turn the 'stomachs of the
greater part of the landsmen- passenger* on beikrirotie -or '• •
the Forth ferry steamers, one-gentleman was seized with a
tit of hiccupping, so violent and distresiing that he excited
the sympathy of all the- passengers, and.the-iliterif of Many.
of them.. A Mr. P-----, from Ctipar, -steerage pea.. , • •
senger, observing 'this, undertook to remove the annoying
canse,of distress. Makingup, he•loOked the' `sitffefing.lit—
tletoan broadly and signihcantly in the face; atithaskedAitif
very emphatically whether be was riot the person:whis' he
had seen tried for house--breaking at Glisgoti•
1822 ? A blow on the face, which sent
and
reetiniseitste tint ,hei Te..s
'deck, was the unexpected consequence, more extended „
hostilities threatened to be theresult of the kind intefifFrineof -
the interrogator. The. passengers, however,, interfered' and
explained, and matters were speedily cleared' ugi. The
hiccup had instantly and entirely disippeared,'ind the late „
patient, before leaving the steamer, suitably.„eapreasedble
gratitude for the relief that had been administet*d.' 31y, P. ' •
is, we believe, inure thann-ever convinced of thaPhifenteffi-' ,
racy of his medicine, but sees that caution tom=
served during the first symptoms of the convalestOiee • inanis. . „.
tested by the patient.—Glasgow Herald. ,
THE POTATO CROP.---Partial. failures in theli6tato-criri-Fr'--
have begun again to exhibit themselves, but nOt
.to the etc- ,
tent experienced two years ago. The cause still Appears a . .
mystery; but it improbable that more eases Mai be',ettribated - •
to the two highly,- pulverized and desiccated atate'rifi theaeils
than to any defects of vegetative powers in the;Clent itself; .
and farmers 'should he as loath to cover peteloe'lieta
with hot sun-dried earth, as they formerly wereVilurnitseiresar's
and snow under the furrows. The dry earth patitrallv;
ing the. juices out of the sets, instead et atforiliitg pert
succour ,• and the reason why whole potatoreetrecen -bilitutritersosal.ss,
than (il ones is the protection from dratight„efforded
skiti, until moisture is supplied by rain nr
Farmers, have been in the habit of delaying'-the putting huffs' l'stiia''
their potato's crop, that the ground may be well cleansed 5tf6„,,,,,„„,
weeds; but while they have looked forward to the succeding
crop,, that of the
„present year may have licsessidetietiovaterf.,.
NVlien we -hear of a failure in one field while theaame:seedit „de sa,
•has flourished -an adjoining one; a'differenee'bi diftereet
parts of the same field planted indifferent dayti,lar pven
different parts of the same day, we,sheuld ingeirei into the; r.,..
different states of the soil at those times, or how Many `ours
the opened farrow had been exposed to thotryiileinnitoie4-
of the ntinosphere before it was closed. in
.tirson..theiseellse,
When"on the '2sth of May last, the soil Of the hedge:few, lit'
Uuderskiddaw, was observed in a very dry Merl' lihntti Vibe' 'l' ",-I.*'l'-
planted with potatoes preparatory to plant ipgvff rnsicks,,itt-,,,55-. .#1 •
the sprieg, it nits, agreeable to the foregoing observations,
predicted that the potatoes would tint succeed; andlirtise - • .""
appearances seem to countermine the pretlietien,--4'atrief.4,s', . ..,
FRENCH REPUBLICAN YIEW OF THE CoIIONaTtO,N,--7,,The
National declares itself seized with stupor it the details Of
Queen Victoria's coronation, which, from its ostentation, and. '•"
enormous and sterile prodigality, appears to this, journal •ttt,f. • .
in
have resembled a ceremonial to commeorete. the aeeession*
of the Great Mogul, or the deification ,of -anthuliatediViriity,
rather than the official installation of the 'head,of a Jessie- .
tentative monarchy. The dense population of <tendon
crowding to ,witness -the: pastiage laif•the.- royal iatice,ye,litet
pressed between en interminablefile.of gilded..caerieges„,
whose splendours insulted their abject misery, and, the hri
gades of police driving back Atlve'thrortg,, are' terhiltai'tel'hy'Th
the National to the idtotie natives e(Hinclostan,„,ettnientliust
for the honour 'of beink ciatihed 'to death under the wheels of
their idol Juggernaut's car. lir.thire",ekchtifriCt-h# Nte-,
tional—"is t his 'I. he Ihitisk eationosr pristollifsite ititelliglences,ie,,,,. •
and its liberty-tro-hatighty- in' its relations with. foretell „
powers ! opulence of-the threerkitigrlods artsfof ',-
embassies of Europe,.concent rated ,betweena double
the British populace, kneeling with servility before its mas-
ters! The most impethotis derit'deiatis jOinfreg
nalia of monarchical idolatry! ;,,cr„Cetteelt courtolress, -
"greeted by the ironical grimaces of his colleagues in the .
House of Commons. and offeoarthe'llial it his grit=
tesque disguise! Not one wordeef, proteatetion—not one, • .
word of blame—from the organs of public npinion; nay, so
far from such manifestations, the appenran'ct'olithe of th64' '
organs (the Sun), printed in letters of gold, bequeath, to •
posterity a shining testimony of its transports of loyalty!
What can be thought of the reasoning' faculties of a people
for whom such vulgar absurdities' are subjects of national •
pride and exaltation." •
THE MURDER AT LAMBETH.—It will be recollected that
a pair of lavender-coloured men's kid gloves, Marked on the
inside." S. K. 1t.," in capital letters, were producc.d.at Union .
Hall on the examination of HubbartL and whiChgloves were .
alleged to have been found in Eliza UrietworWeltitlrootn 6'll'
the meriting of the discovery of the murder, ,The Klover,in -
question were semirigid to have been left behind ,by the
stranger who accompanied the deceased lOmi front' the' -
Strand Theatre; and-within the last . few (ue Inspector , .
.Field, by dint' of inquiry, has ascertained that the-Mentical,..
glovei were sent by a inover livingitflrielrest end 'of the'
town to be cleaned at the shop of a person who is in the habit ,
of cleaning gloves forsthe manufacturers, and Oft this sae- -
curred a short time preVirmsly to the`26th-tit'llfay, *hen the
murder was committed.
.Upon inquirseisf.theintrunfacturer,,,;
he informed the inspector that he had received the gloves.
marked " S. K. R." from a isenaernini to clean, -and 'tipon
the inspector calling upon-this latter person, ise;Thisniseausealw. , ..•
' os
gloves belonged to him, and in accounting for his havlng,-1
or mislaid them,
young
sa
itngwiodmtlat
ainll:.e holiawpaisreanceqult
uariinlre:i.ei:ai'eocirtnEiiiitt:
ai
Grei(mt ihmvoootel, aand oil leaving her left his glevesbehind him hy:
mistake. He then said that the imly way he could account
for their having been found in Griniwnod's .room,en• the •
morning of the discovery of the murder was, :thet.liklemale •
companion, hieing acquainted with her, must hei7e left them.
there. The individual nientioned,.whose name-it would. not ' •
be proper as yet to lay before the public, is in an extstieiee.„, ,
way of business, and declares that he was never in Grim-
wood's house in his life, neither was he at all acquainted ,
with her. It is proper here to mention that in person he does ~
not at all resemble the description of the man spoken of by
the witnesses at the inquest, as baring accompanied. Grim-
wood home from the Strand Theatre.. It is the intention. of
the magistrates to investigate the circumstance minutety.
DREADrut. IMUrtor.R.—On Monday evening last •ti4vii
lage of Charlhury, Oxfordshire, was thrown into, a ;slate:: ott • , =
excitement and alarm by a report that James Trottner, s.
young man living at Charlbury, had been shot by Robert
Chapman, Lord Dillon's gamekeeper, and was then is ing ry s
at a place called Harbridge Bottom. A nomber,of Centime „„7,•
repaired to the spot, where the poor fellew Was,foUnd-fo
quite dead, the shot having passed through-Iris arm ,•anti
his side. At a short distance Chapman was, standing with
the gun in his hands, and was taken into c'ustod'y and ' '
to Charlbury. On the following- morning an inquest:. was
held on the body by Mr. James Westell, coroner, ,and
investigation cont iuued I hrouultotit the day, and ended in •
the committal of Chapman to Oxford gaol lite wilful murder.', •
It appeared from the examination of the. different .witnesses
that the deceased haul called on one of them (Richard Clay-
don) in the morning, and asked hen to accompany: him in.-, •
!tic evening rabbit shooting; accordingly he, with, a young .!.
tnan named Widow', accompanied the deceased to the spot ' •
where the dreadful occurrence happened. „',l'he deceased.- ~
with his twn companions, were standing in the road about 8
o'clock, waiting fur some rabbits coming out of the wood,
when Chapman, the keeper, came up to them ,with a double-
barrelled gun in his hands, and asked them what they did
there, .slaving told hint, he used most abusive language,
and said if lie saw hint (meaning the deceased) shoot a raft- •
bit, be would blow his brains out—a threat he repeated more .
than once. His gun (a percussion one) at. this period had
no caps on. The altercation was renewed,-arld whilst stands
ing; together in the road, Chapman retired a•few paces, raised •
his gun, and fired. Th., stagg;ered-a few paces and-.
fell, and must have died instantly; the ..o:intents, passing- •
through and lacerating his heart. 11,e..btts.a .wife, and, we..
believe, aiarge family—Bucks Gazeite.