The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

DEATH OF SIR P. MALcomu, o.C.B.—The distinguished
officer expired on Friday, at., East Lodge; Enfield, Sir
Pulteney Malcolm was promoted to the rank of Admiral of
the Blue on the 10th of January, 1837. He was a Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and a Grand Cross of
the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Mr. Legrand, a French chemist, has lately discovered that
gold levigated to an impalpable powder, and combined with
sodium, possesses in a very high degree the property of re-
storating vital strength, and of increasing the activity of the
organs of digestion and nourishment. Quwre—Whether in
the shape of sovereigns or Napoleons its virtues would not be
quite as effectual ?
DRAINING THE LAKE OF lIAARLEM.—We learn that the
estates of Holland have declared thqmselves favourable to
the project for draining the Lake of Haarlem, and, consi-
dering the importance of such an undertaking, have granted
the sum of £60,000 per annum for ten years, each of the two
parts of the province (North and South Holland) to contri-
bute equally.
ENKE'S COMET.—It is expected that the comet of Enke
will be visible in this country during several months in the
ensuing autumn. On the Ist of August it will pass the meri-
dian about five hours A.M. at an elevation of 60 degrees; on
the first of September at 3h. 45m. at an elevation of 67 de-
grees. From the end of September to the middle of Novem-
ber it will be continually above the horizon in this country,
and after that hour it will proceed rapidly towards the south,
and be invisible towards the end of the year.

A commission of lunacy was held at the Swan Inn, Wal-
ham Green, last week, to inquire into the state of mind of
Lady Seymour, widow of Sir William Seymour, formerly a
Judge in India. Evidence was given that proved Lady Sey-
mour to have been occasionally insane; but, when produced
before the Commissioners, her answers were so pertinent and
proper, and her • behaviour so calm, that the jury would not
give a final verdict without further evidence; and the inquiry
was adjourned.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—The crier of Sherstone Magna
gave notice to the tradesmen of the town on the 21st ult.
that W. Sherbourne, carpenter, would not be answerable for
any debts contracted by his wife. On the same day Mr. Cox,
grocer, on- behalf- Of the- tradesmen -of Sherstone, cried the
following, the proper functionary being from home at the
time:—" Notice is hereby given, that we, the tradesmen of
this parish, are wilhog to trust the wife of W. Sherborne to
anv,ainonnt,- -so long as she is separated from her husband."
—lpswich Journal.

A handsome young Roman and a beautiful Nuuus- Tu.catt
lady had been living together for some time at Perpignan in
such sweet harmony that they were believed to be a new-
married couple in the honeymoon. Not many mornings
since their telicitious union was rudely broken by the hands
of an officer of justice, who seized the supposed bride and
placed her in a convent to await the arrival of her father;
and her.supposed husband, who is said to have taken previ-
ously another woman for his wife, and to be himself the
rather of a family, was ordered off into Italy.

M tRFIELD.—The contractors for making the Manchester
and Leeds Railway through this village are beginning their
operations. This with the canal being drawn off, for the pur-
pose of being cleaned out ;
.and the farmers being busy in the
hayfield causes all labourers to be pretty well employed at
present. It is supposed the railway will cause a good deal of
work for the next three years, especially to masons, as it will
cross the river at three several places, and one of the bridges
will have to be a large, one, spanning over two mill goits and
the road as well as the river at Ledgard Bridge. •

The ministerial scribes have broadly hinted, as an indirect
apology for the " shabb" batch of -Coronation Peers, that
another opportunity of repairing the deficiences will shortly
occur. The event alluded to, it is not difficult to divine, has
reference to the Nuptials of our youthful Queen. The sub-
ject is one of great delicacy, but the merest tyro in politics
cannot fail to perceive that, as a matter of state Policy a con-
sort will, at no distant period, be selected for her Majesty.
We pray most sincerely that this may not be under the influ-
ence of the present scandalous Ministry.

A FLOCK OF CUSTOMERS.—A ludicrous scene was wit-
nessed on Wednesday morning at a fashionable shop at Ald-
gate, London. A sock of sheep, which was attended by
several drovers, as with one consent, entered the shop, and
dispersed themselves in different parts of the premises. The
ladies screamed ; the shopmen, evidently afraid of their pretty
persons, were almost as frightened as the females; while the
crowd without greatly enjoyed the (for a considerable time)
vuin efforts of the drivers to eject the intruders.

STEAM-BOAT DISASTERS IN AMERICA.—In the last re-
ceived American papers, other steam-boat disasters are re-
corded. The North St. Louis split her steam pipe, scalded a
number of persons, and caused a negro woman to be drowned.
The steamer Muscoyee had been sunk. The Tomichichi burst
her boiler, and injured a number of persons. The Beaver had
met with a similar misfortune; and the Varen,ies had been
destroyed by fire. The loss of life by the Pulaska proves hap-
pily less than was at first supposed. In all, 59 lives were
known to have been saved out of those on board, all of whom
were at first said to have perished.
COLLIERY ACEIDENT.-011 Saturday last, as two persons
were engaged in a basket, midway down the shaft of one of
Mr. Ashall's coal pits, raising the pump trees, some stones
accidently fell from the sides of the pit, and struck one of
them with such force as to knock him out of the basket, and
he fell to the bottom. There were about twelve Yards of
water in the pit, and about three hours elapsed before he could
be extricated. He was consequently brought up dead. Qn
Monday, an inquest was held, before Mr. Rogerson, on the
body, when a verdict of Accidental Death was returned.
The deceased's name was George Bramwell, and he was 48
y ears of age.—Wigan Gazette. "
WOMAN DROWNED BY HER HUSBAND.—OD Sunday after-
noon, au Irishman and his wife, were walkingaiong the banks
of the Union Canal, when the man was observed to give his
wife several unmerciful blows, and then to thrust her into
the water. The alarm was instantly given, and the fellow,
after a most obstinate resistance, was seized. A young lad,
a baker, dragged the unfortunate woman from the water, but
the spark of life was extinguished, She is reported to have
been a pleasant-looking girl, about eighteen years of age;
and what makes her death more to be lamented, she was far
advanced in pregnancy. Her unfeeling husband is now a
prisoner in Falkirk steeple.—Stirling Observer.
A KIND, HUSBAND.—A lady went the other day into a
shop in the Rue Richelieu to buy a Cachmere shawl, and,
having a. ranged the price, took from her purse a bank note,
and was in the act of handing it over to the cashier's counter,
near the door, when a man, who had been observed watching
her at the shot; door, rushed in, struck the lady, and snatch-
ing the note from her hand, exclaimed, " I have already for-
bidden you• to buy a shawl; but will watch you, and you
shall not have one." He then 'went out of the shop, and the
lady fainted away. On her revival, the master of the shop
,began to condole with her on this scene of violence. and re-
gi etted that she had so brutal a husband. "My husband !"
cried the lady; " I never saw the man before!" It turned
out that she had been robbed ; pursuit was instantly made
after the audacious rogue, but it was all in vain; he had got
clear off.—Paris paper.
THE UNIVERSITIES.—The Oxford Herald, animadverting
on Lord Rodnor's last rabid, but harmless, attack on the
Universities, says—" We submit Maynooth to his lordship's
notice : Maynooth has a strict monopoly—a regulation of its'
system is, therefore, of public concern. Maynooth receives
£9tloo. per annum from the public, without yielding one
farthing in return—a regulation of its system by parliament
is, therefore, matter of right. Maynooth teaches treason,
persecution, impurity, and perjury, in the volumes of Dens,
Devoti, and Ligori—a regulation of its system is, therefore,
a case of clear necessity. But Lord Radnor will not touch
Mayne oth—not he. Maynooth teaches rebellion, and the
Radicalism' professed by his lordship is a branch of that
science, though it may be but an auxiliary and subordinate
branch."

STABBMG.-011 Monday, at Hyde, before Thomas Ash-
ton Esq. James Fidler, a well-known desperate character,
aged 75, was committed to Kirkdale, for stabbing Joseph
Booth on Thursday night. It appeared that the parties live
at Denton, and Booth, who' hail formerly been a constable,
was called upon to quell a disturbance which was proceeding
between Fidler and his landlord, when the brutal attack was
made upon him by Fidler. The knife with which the injury
was inflicted is about 6in. long in the blade, and from the
handle tapers to a point and very sharp; in fact, a weapon
only calculated for so murderous a purpose. The wound,
which was inflicted near the groin, and is in depth about 2in.
is likely to cost Booth his life, as he now lies without any
hope of recovery. The prisoner has before absconded for a
similar offence, and was out of this country for a number of
years.—Stockport Advel tise,.
STRANGE MISTAKE.—A short time ago, a porter conveyed
to a well-known horticulturist, living a couple of leagues from
Amsterdam, a barrel of herrings. M. Van D. was so much
pleased with the arrival of the savoury supply that he not
only gave the bearer a piece of silver, but added one of the
herrings to make his breakfast upon. The man, in going
away, observed on the ledge of a window a quantity of roots
in a state of germination, which he took for onions thrown
away, but which he fancied would make a good accompani-
ment to his fish. He therefore took a handful of them, and
sat himself down to make his meal. He was eating and
grumbling at the want of flavour in his onions, when M. Van
D. came to him half furious, seized him by the throat, and
accused him of stealing and eating his tulip roots, worth £lOO.
a piece. The poor fellow could only plead his totalignorance
of botany, and the enraged amateur was obliged to let him go
with curses long andAleep at his indiscriminating appetite.
A PRACTICAL JOKE.—On Friday last, a party front this
town having spent the day at Dunham, were met coming out
of the Park by the driver of the vehicle which brought them,
with a request to allow him to return with them as soon as
possible ; producing as a reason a note from agentleman who
resides near Cburchgate, requesting a coach to be at Gatley
at eight o'clock, to take some ladies to his house. A young
gentleman in a frolic, stuck the note in the next tree. The
consequence was. that, when the driver, after having brought
his party home and returned to Gatley, had just shipped his
cargo there, another coach was seen driving up to the door,
the Jehu of which, producing the note which had been left
on the tree, and which by the way of carrying out the prin-
ciple, it is supposed the next passer by had it conveyed to a
person who let out coaches at Altringham, intimated that he
was come for the ladies. The Stockport driver was as much
astonished to see his note in the hands of the rival coachee
as the latter was chargrined at driving his empty coach home
again ; with nothing for tolls and fee, but the pleasure of his
twelve miles ride.—Stockport Advertiser.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RA ILWAY.—The "works of
this great undertaking, at Northallerton and its vicinity, are
now in full progress. The cutting down of the Castle-hills
furnish immense materials for erecting the lofty mounds and
batteries, and filling up all vacancies in making the perfect
level of the line for a very great distance to the southwards,
towards North Otteringtou. From the circumstance of Ro-
man, Danish, and Saxon coins having frequently been dug
up in former excavations, the expectations of the antiquarian
(with respect to coins) has so far been disappointed, none in
this undertaking having yet been found; but nut so in other
respects, for the excavators in cutting through the walls and
foundations at the foot of this ancient Roman station, have
met with several curious pieces of stone, one in particular,
in a high state of preservation when found, being the upper
part of a votive altar, with inscriptions upon it; but unfor-
tunately, like other stones of great antiquity, and equally
interesting, it was soon demolished by the workmen, to fill
up the vacancies on the north end of the first railway-bridge.
Leeds Intelligencer.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT RHYL.—A fatal and very
melancholy accident happened at Rhyl on Tuesday morning
last. The eldest son of the Rev. Win. Nunn, of this town,
a young man about 17 years of age, went to bathe about six
o'clock in the morning; and his sister occupied another
bathing machine, at some distance from him. When Miss
Nunn had finished bathing. and was about returning to her
machine, she saw her brother in the water, apparently not in
the slightest danger ; but, after she had dressed, and left the
machine she was surprised at not seeing anything of him.
After a little delay, she knocked at the door of the machine
which he had used, and which had been again drawn upon
the beach in the usual manner; but not receiving any reply,
she opened the door, and was horror-struck on seeing that
his cloths were there, but that he was missing. It was but
too apparent; that in some way or other, he had sunk beneath
Pell attempt!, to save his life,were nerfeetly use-
ane as not . that his
,less t ..ar the place whe?e he had last
.cident happened, nobody could
seven:, persons were on the beach, no one
disappearance ; and it could only be con-
teat he had inadvertently walked out of his depth
k.tor he could not swim). This melancholy event produced,
as may be supposed, a very painful sensation amongst the
numerous visitors at Rhyl; and bathing was almost entirely
suspended for two or three days. The unfortunate young
man was to be huried at Rhyl yesterday.—Manchester Guar-
dian, Saturday.

Private letters from Greece state that King Otho labours
under aberration of mind.

Of feather's, the yearly importation into England from Ire-
and reaches the amount of £500,000.

The present Duke of Leeds, late Marquis of Carmarthen,
was recently summoned to the House of Peers, under the
title of Baron Osborne.

A magistrate was taken into custody at Ballindine Petty
Sessions, Mayo, last week, for threatening a hostile message
to his colleague on the Bench.

The lessee of Unthank Colliery has received an order from
the Russian Government, for 20,000 tons of coal, which are
now shipping at Berwick.
Though ministers have got rid of Lord Durham himself for
a season, his ghost seems to haunt them incessantly in both
houses of parliament.
A grand conservative festival took place alo Shaftesbury
last week, to celebrate the return of Captain Matthew for that
borough.
The St. George Steam:Packet Company's new steam-ship
Tiger, arrived at Hamburg from Hull on Monday, having
performed the voyage in 35 hours.
We are happy to be able to state, that the last accounts of
r. Baron Rolland are favourable.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
We hear that the 10th of September is the day fixed for
the opening the whole of the London and Birmingham rail-
way.—Railway Times

We have good authority for stating, that Sir John Keane
has requested to be recalled from his command at Bombay,
his health being indifferent.--Morning Chronicle.

The municipal council of.Dieppe have voted 3,000 francs
for prizes to be given for swimming, rowing, and sailing
snatches, which are to take place in the course of next month.

So numerous were the departures from London the week
after the coronation, that, independent of passengers by public
carriages, forty-two private gentlemen's carriages were con-
veyed to Birmingham by the railway in one day. •
FIRE AT GLOCCESTER.—An alarming fire broke out abou
one o'clock on Tuesday morning last at Gloucester, on the
premises of Mr. Hughes, draper, in Northgate-street. The
property is consumed is stated to be £6OOO, two• thirds of which
amount is uninsured

LONGEVITY.—The following is a copy of an entry in the
register of baptisms in the Collegiate church of Manchester—
" July 6, 1665. Elizabeth, daughter to Francis Lyndley, of
Manchester, Esq., whose mother, grandmother, great grand.
mother, and grandmother's grandmother, were all born, and
are now living, in the said parish."

MAIDSTONE ELECTION.—The committee appointed to try
the merits Oftha rtatifinn aprainct tha return of Mr. Feetnr, fnr
Maidstone, assembled on Thursday, and after hearing coun-
sel, came to the resolution that the petition was "frivolous
and vexatious," a decision which saddles the petitioners with
costs.

POSTAGE COMM trTEE:—We understand that the committee
appointed by the house of commons to consider the rate of
postage, decided on Wednesday, by a majority of one, to re-
commend a uniform rate of 2d for each letter, in all cases
except to those to which the present penny post applies ; those
to continue on their present footing.
On Wednesday morning a number of engineers and di-
rectors belonging to the London and Birmingham railroad
made an experimental journey from Denbigh Hall to the
town of Kilsby, through the enormous tunnel leading to
Kilsby. The journey was made for the purpose of trying the
solidity of the road. The distance from Denbigh Hall to
Kilsby is ten miles.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Eighty-one barristers dined to-
gether at the York Tavern, last Saturday, and we bear that
there are about one hundred and forty barristers at the North-
ern bar.— Leeds Intelligencer.
BRlrtsui AssociATioN.—Great preparations are making in
Newcastle for the meeting of this association. The corpora-
tion permits the use of all the public buildings over which
they have any control during the week.
CAUTION To BANKRUPTS.—On Wednesday last, Mr. James
Wallwork, formerly druggist and ironmonger, of Chowbent,
was committed, by the commissioners, to the New Bailey
prison, for not complying with the bankrupt laws.—Wigan
paper.

A letter from Alexandria of the 27th ult. states that a fire
had broken out in Cairo on the 23d, and consumed upwards
of 600 houses. The quarter inhabited by the Franks had
been almost entirely destroyed.

A truly appalling statement is going the rounds of the
American papers, showing that, in little more than two years,
there have been 3,300 victims who perished through the ex-
plosions and burnings of steam-boats. The number for 1838
already exceeds 1000 !
Lord Durham's family at Quebec consists of the Countess
Viscount Lambton, Lady Mary Lambton, Lady Emily
Lambton, and Lady Alice Lambton. The Countess appear's
almost daily in an open carriage, and his Excellency on
horseback.

It was generally stated in and about the house of commons
yesterday evening, that the present session will not conclude
until the 20th of August. If so, the two houses will have con-
tinued sitting for nearly nine months.—Globe.
Twenty-seven large cases containing machinery used in
the manufacture of linen, and which were attempted to be ex-
ported to Rotterdam, were seized by the comptroller of her
Majesty's Customs, Stockton, a few days ago.
Hoe DUTY FOR 18.38.—0 n Thursday last, the annual meet-
ing of the hop-growers, factors, &c., took place at the horse-
shoes, Lower Hardres, near Canterbury, when the estimated
duty (old) on the present year's growing crop was laid at
£l7s,ooo,—Canterbury Weekly Journal.
LONGEVITY.—There is now living in the Manchester work-
house, Elizabeth, daughter ofJames Barnes, who, as appears
from the parish register, was baptized on the 4th of Septem-
ber, 1738. She is consequently one hundred and one years
of age.
The citadel of Antwerp is completely armed; the works
added to strengthen the fortifications proceed rapidly. We
have remarked that a small advanced post which is before the
citadel and commands the Schelde is armed, with 12 cannon
and 12 howitzers. This artillery is ready to act.—Morning
Herald.

SUICIDE AT WAKEFIELD.—On Monday evening week, an
inquest was held at the Black Horse Inn, Wakefield, before
Thomas Lee, Esq., on the body of Mary Black, bookkeeper,
to Mr. Scorby, ironmonger, of that town, who destroyed
herself on the Sunday previous by cutting her throat with a
razor. She had been in a dejected state of mind for some
time past. The jury returned a verdict of insanity.

COACH ACCIDENT.—A terrible accident occurred to the
Leeds, and London Courier coach yesterday morning, which
was overturned by coming in contact with the Express, about
five miles from the former place,- while descending Lofthouse
Hill, without locking the wheels. Several passengers were
hurt, and one lady was not expected to survive the day.
Such is the report that has reached us, but we cannot vouch
for its perfect accuracy.—Bradibrd Herald, Thursday.
The United Service Gazette of the 7th of May, received on
Tuesday from Madras, mentions the miraculous escape of the
Hon. Captain Osborne, who, when tiger shooting, fell in
with three tigers, which so alarmed the elephant upon which
the Captain was riding, that he literally shook the rider off
his back upon one of the tigers, and strangeto say, he escaped
by the whole three tigers taking fright and running away.
Marshal Soult has been heard to declare that the English,
having been unable to take away his life in the field, seem de-
termined to kill him with kindness.

The wheats, it is now generally admitted, have recently
improved to an extent hardly credible, and will in many
places be fit for the sickle in a fortnight or three weeks. •

An old lady, remarkable for her confused idea of the mean-
ing of words, described a clear summer evening thus :—" It
was a beautiful bright night—the moon made every thing as
light as a cork.—New York Mirror.

WONDERFUL, IF TRUE.—On Thursday last a young man
named Wilson, of Boston, undertook, for a trifling wager, to
walk fourteen miles within two hours, which he accomplished
with apparent ease.—Boston Ber aid.

KESWICK.—A new School-house is about to be erected at
Keswick. Mr. Wilson Jackson, of Armboth, has given the
ground for the site and Mr. John Crosthwaite, of Liverpool,
merchant, son of Mr. John Crosthwaite, of Great Brathwaite,
means to endow the school.—Carlisle Patriot.
A REAL JONATHAN.—An old eccentric clerk in Philadel-
phia, after writing several letters, laid his pen down, and
having occasion to write again, took up his finger instead of
his pen, nor did he discover his error until he began to
mend it.

THE IMPOSTOR THOMS.—Some of this deluding maniac's
disciples affirm that the ghost of their late leader has appeared
in the vicinity of his death-scene. They assert that having
voluntarily relinquished his connection with the flesh he can-
not until the lapse of a certain number of moons, again be-
come a sojourner upon earth!
The undertakers of the Glasgow, Greenock, and Paisley
Railway, have commenced operations briskly at Roslin, and
at the west end of Port-Glasgow. The work going on in the
meantime is cutting and embanking: but the other depart-
ments of the undertaking are expected to be proceeded with
immediately.—Scottish Guardian.
LARGE PINES.—Last week Mr. J. Boothroyd, gardener to
the Rev. T. C. Heade, of Frickley Hall, near Doncaster,
sent six pines of the extraordinary weight of 461bs to London,
for the grand entertainment which was given at the Guildhall,
on Friday, to the foreign ambassadors. The heaviest weighed
Sibs lloz, and the least 61bs lloz —Yorkshireman.
The Seyssel Asphaltum Company, at its own cost, has
made a wooden pavement on the Quay Lamande, at Havre.
The system is to lay down fir timber in pieces of the size of
ordinary pavement, tarred up to six or seven inches at the
sides; when properly placed, they are coated and cemented
together with boiling bitumen.
THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.--BV a happy fraterniza-
tion of letters, the French title of this revolutionary peer,
with his baptismal initial-prefixed, reads anagramaticatly
into the merit on which his claim to promotion was founded
and allowed—thus--C. Marquis de Normanby runs 13v an
easy transposition into " Acquired by Romanism."—D-üblin
Evening
It-,-appears that Lord Ward means to enter upon the sports
of the held in the coming season with great spirit. His lord-
ship has commenced by taking one of the most celebrated
grouse countries in the nortb,.extending over 10,000 acres;
and a retinue of keepers, &c., are now being engaged against
the opening campaign.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
THE WEATHEIL—During
,the past week, with the excep-
tion of Friday, the weather has been very gloomy with frc-
quent showers of heavy rain; in consequence the hay harves
has been materially impeded in its progress, much grass
having been cut. 'l' he potato crop in several places is a
failure; wheat will scarcely prove an average crop; other
grains are looking well; and there is every prospect of abun-
dant crops.—Carlisle Patriot.

LORD BROUGHAM'S BEER BILL.—It proposes the total
repeal )af the original bill, and enacts " that any person may,
without any license whatever, sell by retail any beer, ale,
porter, cider, or perry, in any shop or house, provided that
the said liquors shall not be consumed upon the premises
wherein or whereon they are sold, or in any outhouse or
other building, or shed or tent, or summer-house, or arbour,
or on any garden, or ground, or curtillage occupied along
with the said premises.."
EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN.—A woman died in Italy in
1835 or 6, aged 142; she had been blessed with eight hus-
bands. the last of whom survived her.
LATEST ABSENCE OF AIIND CASE.—We have been told
that a lady dropped herself into the postoffice instead of the
letter, and did not discover the mistake until the clerk asked
her whether she was single or not ?—Arnericart paper, of
course.

NEW ARRANGEMENT.—A western schoolmaster has the
following sentence in round text upon his door:—" No lick-
ing the schoolmaster in the holidays."
HEYWOOD,—Between 30 and 40 years since, the trade
followed here was fustian weaving by the hand-loom—now
there is not a weaver of that description in the town, the
work being now woven by steam.—Bolton Chronicle.
David Patterson, a parish schoolmaster, was tried on Tues-
day last, at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, and
found guilty of " :!ulpable homicide ;" for having taken one
of his scholars, named John Forrest, by the hair of his head,
and swung him round the room, by which his back came into
violent contact with a form, the injuries from which produced
death in the course of a few days. The prisoner was sen-
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
Captain Burnes had a difficult game to play at Kabool,
where he has been some time resident, but has at length suc-
ceeded completely against the Russian emissary, who had
gained a considerable ascendancy over the mind of Dost Ma-
homed by his exaggerated promises of support. Matters
came to an issue, and the Russian envoy was dismissed the
city, and British influence is again paramount.—Morning.
Chronicle.