The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

MENAI LIGHT-HOUSE.—A light is now exhibited in the
tower at the north-end entrance of Menai Straits, from sun-
rise tb sun-set. It is visible from N.W. W. seaward to the
opposite point of the compass, except where the intervention
of Puffin Island eclipses it. It is a stationary light, of a red
Colour.
THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY FESTIVAL—II is said that the
proceeds of the late festival amount to £5OOO.
Bochsa has started on a provincial tour, accompanied by
Cinti Damareau, Curioni, and Giubilei, as vocalists. He
has secured the services of Doebler at 60 guineas per week.
Thalberg intends to pay another visit to London next year.
He afterwards proposes to go to St. Petersburgh, and then
retire from the profession.
Another rise of five per cent, in wages has taken place in
the iron works throughout Wales, being the third increase,
amounting to nearly 25 per cent, within the last 12 months.
It is rumoured that a new and distinct uniform will be
given to the deputy-lieutenants of counties; the uniform
they now wear is entirely military.
Mr. William Cotton was elected, on Wednesday, a Direc-
tor of the Bank of England, in the place of the late Mr.
Mellish.

Six persons were killed at Coryton, a village about seven
miles from Tavistock, by the bursting of a cannon which one
of them was firing on the 28th.
It is said that the exportation of machinery for flax and
woollen manufactures by way of Hull to the Continent is very
great, and continually increasing.
INSANlTY.—According to Parliamentary returns, says Sir
W. Ellis, "there are in England 12,668 pauper lunatics; and
the insane alone, including the different classes of society,
cannot be estimated at fewer than 10,000;" that is to say,
about one person in every twelve hundred!
BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON RAILWAY.—We hear that the
10th of September is the day fixed for opening the whole of
the railway line between this town and London.—Birming-
ham Advertiser.
PEDESTRIAN ISM.—On Tuesday, a person named John
Dicks, a travellina timber merchant, undertook, for a small
wager, at Hoyland, near Barnsley, to gather 101 stones, a
yard a-part, in fifty minutes, which task he accomplished in
forty-six minutes; and on Monday, be ran from Hoyland to
Sheffield Old Church, and back again, a distance of twenty
miles, in two hours and fifty minutes.
SPIRITED CONDUCT OF A. LAD.—As a young lass, about
15 or 16 years of age, was returning home from the corona-
tion festivities on Thursday evening, it being then about 12
o'clock, on her entering the Ellaud wood, about 250 yards
from the toll-bar, she was seized by an elderly, but athletic,
Irishman, who was actually tearing her clothes from her per-
son, and partly by threats—partly by persuasion—was endea-
vouring to inveigle her to the water-side for the most in-
famous purpose. Her screams brought to her assistance a.
young man about 20 years old, who, without considering the
personal disparity between himself and his opponent, with a
single blow of his fist levelled the brutal ravisher to the
ground, where he pummelled him severely, and then taking
the lass under his protection, conducted her safely to the re-
sidence of her parents at Elland Edge. We understand the
name of this spirited youth is Hulke, the son of a wood-
turner, residing at Huddersfield.— Leeds Intelligencer.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 4.—A public dinner, on a scale un-
precedented in this city, was given to Mr. H. I'. Hope, its
excellent Conservative representative, yesterday, in order to
mark the sense which the electors entertain of the treatment
he has experienced from the Gloucester liberals, in vexati-
ously petitioning against his return, and to prove their at-
tachment to the principles which he maintains. The festi-
val was held in an appropriate and picturesque situation
near the city, under an immense tent, and the arrangements
were most perfect. The reception of Mr. Hope was enthu-
siastic in the extreme. Nearly 1,000 persons, mostly electors,
were present; and a determination was evinced to return two
Conservatives at the next election, which can be done with
perfect ease. This course the " Liberals" have provoked.
W. Cother, Esq., presided; Mr. Hope, Mr. Baker, Mr.
Tyre, Mr. Hallewell, and several other gentlemen spoke with
much force and effect. The increase of Conservative feeling
in this city is scarcely paralleled.
SHARSPEARE.—A novelty, we understand, is shortly to be
fertheonsing, at the English Opera-house, which is likely to
create a great sensation. This novelty is neither more nor
less than a dramatic sketch, which is said to be written by a
direct descendant of Shakspeare. The period of this drama
is in the reign of Elizabeth. 'The immortal bard is introduced,
and the author of the sketch, whose name is stated to be
William Shakspeare, is to personate the character of his great
ancestor. We understand, that, only a few days ago, Mr.
Shakspeare addressed a letter to Mr. Peake, the manager of
the English Opera-house, stating the fact of his having
written the drama in question, and expressing his desire to
perform the principal part himself. Ihe name alone had a
charm sufficient to induce Mr. P. to wait upon the stranger,
to hear him read his drama, and the result is, that the public
will shortly have an opportunity of forming an opinion of its
Merits, and of the author, as an actor. Mr. Shakspeare's
person is said to be good, and his voice melodious : the form
of the brow, and the general features, are also said to bear
$ strong resemblance to the various busts of his illustrious
ancestos.—London Paper.
A PRESENT FROM A KING TO A QUEEN.—We were
favoured, yesterday, with a sight of the truly beautiful Vic-
toria hat, manufactured by Carl King, and intended to he
presented to the young Queen of England. It is now com-
pleted, after a labour of three months, and Mr. King intends
to send it out in the return voyage of the Sirius, to show
Britannia's Queen what Yankee girls can do. James Gordon
Bennett, Esq., is to be specially delegated to present it to
her Majesty in person. The hat is made of June grass which
grew at Franklin, Massachusetts. This grass springs up
about June, in uncultivated fields, and shoots out about four
or five top blades. These latter are plucked whilst very
young, dried, bleached, and braided as soon as possible, and
they form the finest braid in the world. This hat contains
320 yards of braid; there are four stitches to an inch ; con-
sequently, the hat contains 46,080 stitches : it occupied three
months in perfecting, and will be sent to the Queen without
trimming.—New York Paper.
" SEARCHING THE WlLL."—Lesley, the man whose frauds
upon Dulton, an ignorant countryman, living in the neigh.
bourbood of Warrington, have already been related under
this title, wagon Tuesday tried at Knutsford, for obtaining
money under false pretences, and sentenced to transportation
for seven years, the full term allowed by the act,
PROTESTANT CONFEDERATION.—The anniversary meet-
ing of the membevs of that loyal and constitutional body of
our countrymen—the Grand Protestant Confederation, took
place on Monday last at Sheffield, in the Lodge, so ably and
respectably presided over by Brother Joseph Holmes. De-
putations attended from Warrington, Rochdale, Bury,
Atherton, Prescot, Eccleston, and other towns in the county
of Lancaster. The general business of the grand lodge was
transacted, and the most satisfactory reports were received
from all parts of the kingdom of the prosperity of the institu-
tion, and the accession of members. The nature and objects
of the society being the support of our glorious constitution
in church and state, it is not to be wondered at that it should
thus be so rapidly and permanently on the increase. The
principles which guide, and the feelings that actuate its
members in the discharge of their duty, namely, loyalty and
attachment to our excellent reformed religion and throne
based upon it, conform and strengthen those impressions
which lead to an unabated attention to their support and pre.
serration.
"JUSTICE" OF THE DISSENTERS.—The dissenting organs
before the House of Com-
of the newspaper press are already declaiming against the
to prevent vestry meetings
the Vestries in Churches Bill nosy
MORS. The object of this bill is
in parishes where the population exceeds one thousand from
being held in the vestries of churches, and since the bill came
from the Lords, clauses have been added to it, authorising
the inhabitants, if they shall see fit, to erect other places
• convenient for the purpose of parochial meetings out of a rate
to be laid for that purpose, or out of the poor rates. This
measure is complained of as interfering with the scruples of
the dissenters; and on what ground does the reader think ?
Because, forsootb, this is a measure to obviate the scruples
of churchmen, and because the funds to be raised for the pur-
kese will in some measure have to be paid by dissenters.
Why, do these ingrates already forget that churchmen, who
pay three times as much in poor rates as the dissenters, have
in this ratio to contribute to the relief of the "scruples" of
the dissenters in the Registration and Marriage Acts, all the
local expenses of which are defrayed out of the poor-rates!
Let this fact be borne in mind, and then it will be difficult to
affirm that there is any hardship in the proposed plan.
Leeds Intelligencer.
SEDUCTION.—In the county court yesterday week, an ac-
tion was brought by a man named Taylor, from Gale, a town-
ship between Bury and Rochdale, to recover damages from
%young man, named Edward Kershaw, for the seduction of
' Sarah Taylor, his daughter. Mr. Green appeared for the
,P''n Ma and Mr. Wilkins for the defence. It appeared that
the plaintiff's daughter and the defendant were both em-
ployed it the print works of Mr. Holt, and that about two
Tem ark he commencedpaying his addresses to her. The
malt of °relation .the birth of a child in March last;
Kt. months before which was
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