The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

ORDNANCE SURVEY.—The Ordnance Survey of the
county of Avr is to proceed forthwith. A party of Sappers
and Miners have already arrived in Ayr for that purpose.
THE CARLO ALBERTO, a 50-gun frigate, built for the
the Sardinian government, was, on Tuesday last, launched on
Tyne.
MR. F. Rose, of Cornmarket-street, late churchwarden
of St. Martin's, has been presented by the parishioners
with a handsome silver-mounted pipe, as a mark of respect
for his services during the past year !—Oxford Chronicle.
MISS ELIZA CRABTREE, a maiden lady, with an in-
come of £7 per week, died lately at Walton, Surrey.
The evidence at the inquest disclosed the fact that she
frequently drank two or three pints of gin per day.
THE PLYMOUTH DOCKS.—Three of the caissons con-
ttructed by Messrs. Grissell, of London, for closing the
basins and docks in the new government steam-yard at
ICeybam, were floated on Tuesday into their respective
Positions, They are found to answer admirably.
BRITISH SHIPPING•.—A return has just been issued,
1,3, order of the House of Lords, of British ships employed
In the trade of the United Kingdom, in the year 1852,
Inpared with the year 1851. In 1851, there were 18,184
toiPs employed, of 3,360,935 tonnage, and 141,937 men
were eseeleyee ; while in 1852, the vessels numbered
1-7;819, the tonnage 3.380,884, and the men employed,
exclusive of masters, 159,563.
A BRUTE.—A supposed case of starvation of a boy
%bout twelve years old, named Horatio Truman, has been
Undergoine investigation at Basford, Notts. The father
of the boy is a waiter at an inn in the neighbourhood, and
Ives in the habit of leaving his young and motherless
!tipsily for weeks together without food. The boy was
brought to the workhoUse in an exhausted state, and died
two days after. A verdict of manslaughter was returned
against the father.
e FACTS FOR NATURI,_LISTS.—There is to be seen at the
farm of Braco two young hares suckled by a cat, and
t
eneded with all the care of a mother, thus controverting
benser of nateree and at the same place, two Of six
Lit which survived for six weeks without food, shut up
e noi:t-b°"e-theTheir four companions were dead, but
healthy.r tjana are strutting about the barn-peed quite
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3eCCIDENT. On Saturday,
fjotewP in utterY, a workman, met with his death under the
eroevongdi a cn•cumstances :—The men employed in the
-1‘ them , eerie,
Public-house near Eaves'-lane, on the Great
a few miles from Newark, had left their
the una inted to cross the line. While on the line
express train came up, and the deceased was struck by
the blifrer, the train passing over him. The body was
torn into upwards of 150 pieces, not one, save his head,
being larger than a man's hand,
I'vrt QUACK DOCTORS, named Coates and Campbell,
Wereleeied in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, and sentenced
to thie months' imprisonment, with hard labour. They
kriell themselves professors in their hills, and represented
themselveias able to cure all manner of diseases. They
Were in the habit of visiting the tweets and villages in the
'eirthbourhood of Edinburgh, and for their boxes and
phials charged as high as live shillings, driving a pretty
risk trade. A suspicious purchaser submitted one of
.:Lne phials for analysis, and ihe'result induced him to give
enfornnation to the authorities. Cod-liver oil, soap, and
I:hubarb were the chief ingredients of which the mixtures
were composed.
_, Erie:Geri-Tr-se ARCITITS:CTURE.—An amusing in.
atanCe of the mistakes which are likely to arise from the
adoption of ecclesiastical architecture by Dissenters in the
t eonstruction
Tof eheir meeting-houses, occurred on Sunda
varetaewheesk.rhnrnyhe Bishop df Winchester was proceeding to
sermon it a church in Hackney, when
his lordship'-s coachman pulled up at a new gothic edifice,
,tietler the be, means•unnatural supposition that it was
_(11 church- The Bishop had alighted, and was about-to
eater The it was discovered to be a meeting-house—a
es.undtog, f much more church-like appearance
(weever, o
than the .parish church itself, at which, in due ticrte,"his
lordshipA arrived.
her Itteme. PA-nee:T.—A patient was recently admitted
and° the
infirmary attDurham who, some time pretiorrily
the
elseesieere.had' had -ane of his legs amputated between
atiele end, -knee in so unsatisfactory a man:eel—as to
leQuire a 'further operation. He said he was sure they
Zicn!id cut his leg at the Infirmary just as it should 'be, for.
bs it dangled about, and quite bothered
kit lie/I:ought if a few inches were taken off he would be
21 tight- While his wishes were being complied with he
Enough, and after theoperation was completed-said it was
FPicr•when they-were at work not to make a good job of
itch nil he -would gladly have had them take 'tit' a few
es snore. He is now doing well, and is !perfectly
eatisfied with the result.—Durham Chronielie.
14""Nrtiorr OCCURRENCE. A young -married
Own orn an, in the last-stage of consumption, purposed going
Tuesday
by trainsfrom Southampton to Wimborn, the
latter
0 'being her restive place. She sat in thevaiting-
oin-cf the-Southampton railway station until most before
thetrain started, with her husband and nurse. When
ax!ae e
time arrived ferher to get into the railway carriage,
was unable; her extreme illness, to Trek from
ete:i7 g-room -to the platform, and a railway porter
to . her -up to -carte, her. Whileh in his arms- she sud-
ythteherapirelevap
denly died before •he could re
The Slight excitement occasioned b
'starting by train snapped the
,slewnidtr threadcarriage.
The
istnealifeiealelssasbsiusrtadneene,
beekaelich her
life was .benuid. • `Tbe porter,
lhureiedhack to theereaiting-roorn, andi Was-procured, but it was useless.
AND INK PCRTRAIT OF SANE SLTCY:,--iie may
be icout five feet nine in height ; is stout, broad chested
and a finely-proportioned man,a gdoroectrewdayinortbe-
the
sable,' likes 'judge and a gentleman ; h shady
side. effifty ; hair thin and white as snow; false-somewhat
Davy, florid, end ,whiskerless ; eyes small and smart—
tot Dealing much show usually, but with a wicked twinkle
itrtke,corner, which'frequently, in conversation, flashes
loco:piercing trillianoy. Quiet and self-sustained in con.
Veirsation, he seems to be somewhat dull, and not at all
given-to let out his-rich fund of humour; but in visiting
thesvarious public burdings on Tuesday, in company with
the mayor and other gentlemen, whilst the-rest talked
atiel- stared superficieile about, the ponderous lick gene-
tal-7 erPropriated some one of the Liverpool gentlemen
to himself, and went leisurely round, attentively listening
to the account of everything that attracted his elention.
s ExTiteentereerty• OiRCUMSTANCE.--A most distress-
Lng event, arising from experimeatalising on the recently-
discovered moving power of animal magnetiernehas hap-
pened to Young lady residing in Sussex-placeeOld Kent-
lead• ;It appears that; ;n common with many others, she
e'
°,rineff one of a parteeto test the truth of the leering
91 a table isy means of-this agency, and in doing so the
;usual way .was adopted of compressing the I-meets, or,
et,-'2,ther, doubling them towards the palm of the hands.
n reineyin
bad become' .
them, shees-as horror-stricken to-find they
tee tablefixed in the, position she had placed them on
sacea' a"
solsen her endeavours, up to the present -time, to
.hetn•have been unavailing. To prevent the hails
ting the
palms of her hands, her medical advieers
cha.ansvebct dreerieidevethein to he covered with cotton-wool. She
canneeen retie and St. Thomas's hospitals, and they
her. Increie:ble as this may appear, we
in etzvt"ch for-its truth •
assad we would caution theTtfelic,
ameure, to he careful to indulging in this apparently
-se'ess amusement. Sun.
RaurZOw AssußA.):(,frzs.—The Goyernment'Bill,
103 hefore'Parliarnent, has been printed. It contains
and clauses :—" A land register-office is to be established,
es Proper buildings provided. A registrar and assistant-
iceerrees are to-be appointed. The whole of Erigland,is
divided • into districts-for the registration of pro-
Pert e
his Y.timearben registration is to commence under
44,nieaoure is to be published in the London Gozetze
Afteraft elle time-specified,
egisenation assuranc of land executed
the er
temmencement of res may be registered
I,,Ye ftePositeag the original or a copy of the document, and
4 =making ,roper entries. Wills affecting lands at law
nequity Ikt -England are to be registered, and indices
zit to be kept. An index, to be called ' The Index to
47,r4truptS and Insolvents.' is to be:kept at the register-
°e for the whole .of England. It; is provided that
`''sileances anthorised to be registered are to be void as
rainst purchasers, unless -registered. Regulations are to
',sel:lade under the act, and the Treasury is to fix the fees
be taken. The new law is not to effect any copyhold
'estates, nor shares in companies," &c.
CIRCUXSTANCE.—The Lincolnshire Chro.
relates that a Mrs. Wilkinson, of Eenesbury, near
.Neot's letel lost her sight 25 years ago, not-
tt e comp /
ie"ee ending the best medical aid. Abut six weeks
earl( she accidentally fell down stairs. Fortunately she
asustained no injury from the fail, but the-chock nem-
trined by it seems to have led to the recovery of her
-.lht-te'—" A day or two after this accident occarred, Mrs.
t.nerlkinesen fancied she could see a little, and so stated to
iZo
_husker d, At first he was naturally enough inclined
zidooLebtelie fact •, but her sight daily grew better, and she
;,nabled to distinguish colours, and to see pretty
bets of heeioe of Mrs. Wilkinson and the different:Min-
yfierzacer:thefamily may be well. imereisee d. A sQII4 23
has just been enabled to look upon for the
Tug vt
smis.are Put e"n• STORE FEVER.—Distinguished per-
lanthropist, 44'etimes to strange uses. Some city phi-
aereiee in d a,sBing that Mrs. Stowe had been of great
bethought lerte---°g large assemblages at Exeter Hall,
gregat ions Th4eelf‘
_ehist week of using her to draw a con-
etuersttaaintm" that
benefit of a eertai
.the of Saturday was " authorised
church we lade would be present next day at a
here the Primate would preach for the
t° know, by who *o
charity. Authorised, one would like
Archbishop oe /.4" The Ragged School Union, the
parish ? elloterburee or the clergyman of the
at ingenioi. h,sa
e he idea
eelieorress.'s "as since been carried a step further
tc.org his gging-letter-writer, who took to sub-
aPPiiesitions for assistance with the au-
chool Unionnae at full length. The experiment met, how-
•-•° with suceess than it deserved. The Ragged
Wes detected an Ned a large collection—the impostor
THE . sent to gaol.—Guardian.
Alice
Alo , R. In the
part of Chancer 6TYNT S .a..tASIKRTIPTCY•'--
PLiCation on Monday, last week, a special ap-
_ e , was made on behalf of Mr. Moetyn, to. stay. the
reos rtion of an advertisement in the Gazetteof adjudication
, bankruptcy, until after the 30th of the present month.
Ir. Mostyn, it
which atsh stated, was the owner of certain =arty upon
lieder thP 7 w ere was a colliery. The act of bank-
ukeY on hlc the adjudication had proceeded was
e 2nd section of the Bankrupt Law Consolida-
te Aet, which provides that any judgment creditor of a
Leraler may call upon his
debtor for payment of his debt,
"d if within seven days he does not either pay, secure,
or co
hips, niPound such debt, it shall be deemed an act of
exruptcy. The debt in thepresent instance oft the
Petitioning creditor was on a bond
upon which a judgment had gitzenn some y earse. The e evidence that Mr. Mostyn had ever been a trader
fas, that he formerly owned a vessel, which he employed
ilr the purpose of carrying the coal from his colliery, and
e,tines when not so engaged, used for other purposes.
c the time, however, that the judgment had been obtained
eainst him he had erased to be the owner of the vessel;
end it was, therefore, contended, that as he was not a
trader at that time, the before-mentioned 72nd section of
the Bankrupt Act did not apply, notwithstanding that he
!fight have been a trader at the time the debt was con-
I-acted. The Lord Chancellor ordered the matter to
stand over until Friday.

BURNING OF A THEATRE.—On Tuesday afternoon,
the Adelphi Theatre, Broughton-street, Edinburgh, was
completely destroyed by fire, the progress of which was
so rapid that in little more than an hour after it was dis-
covered there was nothing left but the bare walls. The
building was almost wholly insured.
DISSENTING PROGRESS.—One of the strange signs of
the times was a petition presented in the House of Com-
mons, on Friday night, by Mr. Mall, from certain mem-
bers of a Baptist Meeting-house at Hayton, for repeal of
all enactments for the religious observance of the Lord's
Day. This is an illustration of the extent to which some
dissenters would carry out the principle of state non-
interference in religious matters.—Churchman.
THE JEW BILL.—A deputation waited on Lord John
Russell, on Saturday week, respecting the admission of
Jews to Parliament. His lordship sent au apology for
not seeing them ; and intimated that it was not the in-
tention of Government to introduce any other bill this
year. He was waiting for Lord Lyndhurst's bill, which
at present he had not read.
MR. GVPSON, the aeronaut, was tried at the Middlesex
sessions, on Tuesday, on a charge of having stolen some
pewter pots. As the evidence tended to show that he
had been labouring for some time under insanity, and
took the pots under the impression that he was going
shortly to drink with Louis Napoleon, the judge allowed
his friends to take him away.

CONTLAGRATION.—On Thursday morning a fire broke
out in a large timber yard, in Birmingham, and did ex-
tensive damage, in consequence of there being only three
firemen to work the engines. The police greatly exerted
themselves, and succeeded at length in extinguishing the
'conflagration, which creared some stir, for large fires in
Birmingham are of rare occurrence.
AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM COMPANY.—The
adjourned meeting took place on Monday, when a report
was presented, containing a further correspondence with
the Government on the question of the contract, and the
preliminary recommendations of the board for taking the
sense of the proprietors respecting an arrangement with
the General Screw Company. The Government, it was
intimated, adhere to their determination of withdrawing
the contract, but abstain from enforcing a genalty. The
directors are to report further as to the other matter.
A HARD CASE.—Mr. James Halls Henry, surgeon of
the Star, was tried on Thursday at Plymeuth, on a charge
of drunkenness. He had taken a couple of glasses of
champagne at luncheon with some friends on board, and
this had so excited a constitution much tried by hard
service in the tropics, that his commending officer prose-
cuted him for drunkenness. It was proved that he was a
thorough gentleman and officer, and usually a very tem-
perate man. Tie was, however, found guilty, and (almost
to the consternation of every one in the court) dismissed
the service.

AN ABANDENED CHARACTOR..-Mr. George Thomas
Heldman, a solicitor, residing in Nichols-square, Hack-
ney-road, was brought up en a warrant, at Worship-
street, on Thursday, charged with having deserted his.
wife and seven children, whohad since become chatwiible
to the parisii of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. The defen-
dant, about fourteen months' since, formed an acquaint-
ance with an actress at a minor theatre, and soon
afterwards deserted his wife and children. The actress,
it was -ascertained, was in the habit of wearing the gold
watch and chain which had been taken from the wife.
'The defendant soon came to ruin, and his family to the
parish. Mr. Hammill said that he considered it to be a
-very gross case, and he had no hesitation in ordering the
defendant to be committed for three months to the House
of-Correction.

RAILWAY ACCMCNT : VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.
--Another verdict of manslaughter has been returned by
'a'jury against the directors of a railway as the primary
cause of accident. On Saturday week, Charles Caning, a
porter on the South-western line at the Farnham station,
was run over and killed by an extraoreinary train, in
which were the Hon. F. Scott, M.P., chairman of the
company, and 'Mr. Beattie, the locomotive superintendent
of the line, making a survey. It appears-that an ordinary
train was due at the time, and no notice having been
given of the survey train, it was mistaken for the ordinary
train, and, instead of stopping, passed the station, which
was laid down by the coroner as the primary cause of the
accident, though the actual cause was the poor man's foot
slipping as he was running by some fencing to get on the
platform and meet the ordinary train, due at the time.
The jury found a verdict of manslaughter against the
Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., and Mr. Beattie.
THE HITcALAYA SCREW STEAM-SS-IP, for the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company, built at'Messrs. C. J. Mare
and Co.'s establishment, London, was launched on
Tuesday. The Himalaya was commenced in November,
1851, and pier length between perpendiculars is 340 feet,
breadth',lt feet 2 inches, depth of hold 34 feet 9 inches,
and she is of 3,550 tons burthen, with engines of 700
horse power. She was originally intended to have paddle.
wheeis,^with engines of 1,200 horse power; but subse.
quently it was decided that she should be fitted with a
screw propeller and engines of 700 horse power. Her
accommodation will be for 400 cabin passengers, carrying
500 tons measurement of goods, and 1,200 tons of fuel.
She is- to have an entire outfit of "Trotman's improved
Porter's anchors. She has three decks, and the upper-
most two will mount an armanent of 50 guns, namely,—
Upper fleck, 20 guns, 22-pounders, 8 feet long; 1 gun,
68-pounder, 10 feet 6 inches long. Main deck, 16 guns,
32-pounders, 9 feet 6 inches lone ;'l4 guns, 68-pounders,
9 feet long. The Jason, of 2,600 tons, belonging to the
General Screw Steam-shipping Company, will be launched
from the same establishment neat week, to be followed
successively by three others of similar tonnage.

NVE-9TERN DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
—A meeting of the subscribers and friends of this charity
was held at the rooms of the Dispensary, Charlotte-street,
Fitzrcr--square, on Tuesday, the.24th instant, the Rev.
Canon Dale, •the president of the institution, in the
chair. The report of the committee stated, that during
the eighteen months' existence of the Dispensary a large
amount of good had been effected 1 that although the
diseases generally known by the term scorbutic, are sup-
posed to be incurable, yet, out 0f'442 petients admitted,
192 Ire 4 already been discharged cured, 44 benefited, and
the remainder, with very few exceptions, were advancing
as rapidly towards recovery as possible under the chronic
character and protracted duration of the disease. Not
one case had been discharged as incurable. The medical
gentlemen present, seven or eight in number, all spoke
in high terms of the satisfaction they felt at this result,
and complimented Mr. Hunt, the surgeon to the institu-
tion, for his perseverance and success. They likewise
expressed their regret that an institution so useful to the
afflicted poor, and so promising for the improvement of a
neglected branch of medical science,. was not better sup-
ported by the public. It was resolved that the report be
printed and widely circulated.

GRAND ORANGE PROCESSION AND TIE RESTORATION
OF THE' PARISH CHURCH, BRADFOUD, YORKSHIRE.—
The annual procession of Loyal Orangemen, of the Brad-
ford district, to the parish church, took place on Sunday,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The brethren having met
in large wambers at the Nelson Inn, .proceeded from
there. with the Rev. Dr. Burnet, the vicar, and grand
chaplain of ',:he order, at their head., tc the parish church.
On entering the ancient edifice, the national anthem was
performed 4.:pon the organ, and divine service opened
with suitablesprayers for the occasion. At ti conclusion
of this and other portions of the moining service, the
esteemed vicar ascended the pulpit, and prea6ed a most
powerful and.-eloquent sermon from 2d Timothy, iii., 1 :
" This know., also, that in the last days •,perilous times
shall come.'" ,At the end of the discourse the reverend
gentleman alluded to the noble and generous-effort now
making by the,Orangemen of Bradford, towards the re.
storation of the parish church, and announced, that their
subscriptions towards that desirable ohri,ct, the accom-
plishment he so much cherished and desired, amounted
to £125, and the.oubscriptions were still going. on. He
conffratulated the brethren on their noble efforts, whose
exertions and generosity convinced him that they were
determined practically to carry out their Loyal thange
principle.—Orange.aiad Protestant Banner.

ATTEMPTED MURDER. AT ExurEtt.—The inhabitants
cf Exeter were greatlKalarmed on Tuesday, by a report
that a person had been murdered near the city. ,en
Dionday, a labouring man was gathering sticks in a copse,
about a quarter of a mile beyond the Cowley-bridge Inn,
which is about two miles•from the city, when he found a
man lying on the ground,in a state of insensibility. The
blood was still nosing from numerous wounds on the
head and face. He was a small man, of middle stature,
evidently a foreigner, and apparently a Jew pedlar.
When found, a carpet-bag and box were slung across his
shoulders, the former being ,partly under him, and the
latter resting upon his shoulder. The carpet-bag did
not appear to have been touched, but the leather fasten-
ings of the box seemed to hays been undone. It was
full of beads, and it would seem that, when the ruffians
found its.contents were of so little value, they thought it
not worth their while to take -them. The proofs of
evidence ate exceedingly clear, and 'leave no doubts upon
the minds of the police. When the man was found, a
piece of timtee was lying across his-legs. There was also
a pool of blood near the spot, as well .as a large and sharp
stone with hair,and blood on both sides of it. There is
little hope of his recovery.

THE CAMP AT.CHOBEIAM.—The formation of a military
camp, though in other countries a regular:incident of the
summer, is in England so strange an occurrence as to
create universal, interest and curiosity. In the course of
a few weeks 10,000 British soldiers will be actually mus-
tered together in martial order within a short distance of
tte metropolis. These troops are to be encamped—that
is to say, they are to .proceed, as it were upon ;field ser-
vice, to take up their position on a certain geaund, to
carry ,111 a soldier's necessaries along with them, to sleep
in tents, and to go through as many of the incidents of a
real campaign as can be imitated in this species of duty.
Many of the scientific operations of war, too, will be
practised at the camp. There will be mimic sieges, sham
fights, nocturnal surprises, the construction of pontoon
bridges, and the passage of the army over sheets of water,
while every branch of the service will send its represen-
tatives to the rendezvous. It is not, however, for mere
amusement's sake that this design has been imagined.
Its first, and, indeed, its sole object, is to communicate
au efficiency to our defensive preparations by the experi-
ment of actual practice. It is literally " mihta ry exer-
cise" on a large and practical scale. The forceintended
to move into the camp next month will consist of four
regiments of cavalry, including guardsmen, dragoons,
and light dragoons, three battalions of foot guards, five
regiments of the line, the rifle brigade, several batteries
of artillery, and a detachment of engineers. The diffi-
culties which have been already encountered or foreseen
are exceedingly interesting, and in themselves furnish the
best justification for the experiment. The first apprehen-
sions appear to have been felt for the horses, of which
some 1,500 or 2,000 will be in the camp. So little are
our cavalry stables calculated to keep horses fit for ser-
vice that fears are really entertained respecting the effects
of five weeks' duty upon them, especially " the valuable
animals belonging to the Household Brigade ;" and, as
there will be no doors to the camp stables, the horses of
these regiments are now being gradually acclimatised to
an evening atmosphere by the windows of the barrack
stables being opened every night. Reflections of some
interest will be excited in those who can remember the
last encampment in these parts. it was in 1798, at a
time when the assemblage of a large French army for an
unknown destination was alarming the people of England,
that Bagshot-heath was selected as one of the places at
which 4 military force might he stationed.