The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1853.

GENERAL NEWS.

DURING the past year the total number of fires in Lon-
don was 923.

THE AMERICAN MINISTER visited many of the manu-
factories at Birmingham while there last week.
MR. ROEBUCK, M.P., is now undergoing the cold
water cure at Dr. Gully's establishment at Malvern.
Joni,/ WILLIAMS, the eighth victim to the Oxford rail-
way accident, died, on Monday, in the Radcliffe Infirmary.
A VALUABLE BED OF IRONSTONE has been discovered
in Kirkgate, the busiest streetin Leeds, by someexcavators.
MESSRS. CAIRD AND CO., engineers, Greenock, have
advanced the wages of their labourers one shilling per
week.
MR. H. BROWN, M.P., has given notice of a motion,
in the House of Commons, with respect to railway acci-
dents.

OF THE NUMBER of 968 deaths of Roman Catholic
children in Glasgow, last year, 253 were the result of
small-pox.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA has conferred the order of
merit in the arts and sciences on the Right Hon. Babington
Macauley.
RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P., has promised to pre-
side at the annual soiree of the Mechanics' Institution at
Holmfirth.
THE SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY has been blocked
up near Perth, by a landslip, the snow from the mountains
having melted.
MISS PENNELL, Massachusetts, has been appointed
professor of the Latin language and literature in Antioch
College, Ohio.
THE CULLODEN AND ROTHESAY CASTLE STEAMERS
are being repaired at Dumbarton, and fitted for the Aus-
tralian coasting trade.

ELI CROWTHER, a clerk in the Leeds postoffice, is in
custody, charged with stealing a letter containing a £5
Bank of England note.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—At the half-yearly meeting;
held on Friday, a dividend of £2 12s. per cent. for the
half-year was declared.
THE EARL OF TYRCONNEL died very suddenly on Tues-
day last from apoplexy, at his seat, Kiplin Hall, near Cat-
terick, in his 63d year.
THE blacksmiths, farriers, and cartwrights of Greenock,
have agreed to shut their places of business on Saturday
afternoons, at two o'clock.
Miss GLYN gave readings lately, from " Anthony and
Cleopatra," before the inmates of the Edinburgh Royal
ilyfutii fur the Insane.
GENERAL ROSAS, the ex-dictator of Buenos Ayres, has
just taken Rockstone House, in the Polygon, Southamp-
ton, for a limited period.
W. WARNER, jun., Esq., ex-mayor of Wolverhamp-
ton, gave a dinner, on Friday last, to the borough police
force, to the number of 37.

SUPPLIES FOR THE DIGGINGS.—An order has been
received at Perth for 800 tons of oatmeal, and 500 pairs of
miner's boots, for Melbourne.
THE RECTOR OF WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, has offered
three prizes for essays by working men, on the best way to
improve the labouring classes.
THE SCOTTISH BURNS'S CLUBS have been holding
their anniversary meetings—the 25th of January being
the birthday of the national bard.
MR. PETO, M.P., having purchased the building of the
Diorama, in Regent's-park, for a Baptist Chapel, the con-
tents were last week put up for sale.
AT GLASGOW, on Saturday week, a boiler burst in the
establishment of Messrs. Forrest and Co., killing a watch-
man, and shattering the building to pieces.
A THIEF made his way to the dressing-room of Drury.
lane Theatre, one day last week, and stole some of the
performers' clothes, while they were on the stage.
MR. CHARLES BAILLIE, deputy-advocate, will proba-
bly be appointed sheriff of Stirling, vacant by the ap-
pointment of Mr. Handyside as solicitor-general.
JOSEPH CALLACHAN, aged 20 years, a convict from
Glasgow, under sentence of transportation for seven years,
committed suicide on Sunday week in Millbank prison.
PRICE OF ICE.—Amongst the various articles that have
advanced in price through the weather, is ice, which has
risen from 14s. a ton to 18s. per cwt., within four:months.
DEFENCES OF DOVER--Two more companies of the
Royal Artillery will be shortly added to the two now sta-
tioned in this garrison, and 240 guns will be shortly
mounted.
THE EARL OF ZETLAND, whose countess is a teetotaler,
has engaged a teetotal lecturer to labour amongst the men
employed in his iron and stone works, at Marsk, near
Red car.
THE Inverness Courier says that the hills all around
are covered with snow, and so heavy was the fall between
Blair Atholl and Dalnacardoch, that the mail northwards
stuck fast.

THOMAS DAILEY, butcher, Low Verne!, Greenock, for
cruelly and wickedly wounding a cat with a knife, was
fined at the sheriff's court, last week, in the sum of
10s. 6d., besides costs.
ARTHUR TAYLOR, shipcarpenter, aged 79 years of age,
fell into the hold of a vessel at Port Glasgow on Monday,
and sustained a fracture of the skull. He expired almost
immediately.
WHALES descend perpendicularly from 4,200 to 4,800
feet ; at the latter depth a large whale would have to sus-
tain the pressure of 211,200 tons distributed over its
entire surface.
The Times of Friday contains the following singular
advertisement :—" Corruption's dead ; the victory is ours.
Virtue no longer of Vice shall pardon beg. Incorrup-
tible.—E. J. W."

AT GREENocx. on Tuesday evening, a girl, eleven
years old, was feeding a little infant six months old, when
the child exhibited symptoms of choking, and expired in
a few minutes.

CAUTION.—The proprietor of a brewery at Newcastle
has incurred a penalty of £2OO for using barley instead of
malt to colour his beer, and another of £5OO for attempting
to bribe an Excise-officer.
A DISABLED SOLDIER NAMED BISSETT, belonging to
Plymouth, who worked his way out to Australia, has sent
home £lOO to his mother, and is about to return himself
with 100 ounces of gold.
TAE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.—The Pope has conferred
the dignity of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pius
IX. upon the young Earl of Shrewsbury, who is now at
Rome.—Dublin Telegraph.
THE BODY OF A WOMAN, supposed to have been mur-
dered, has been found in the Avon, about seven miles
from Bristol. She has been identified as the wife of a
corporal of the 48th regiment.
INCONSEQUENCE OF THEIR RECENT STRIKE, the sailors
belonging to Maryport and Harrington have obtained an
advance of half a guinea per voyage to Dublin and back.
They now receive four guineas.
AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the Ayrshire So-
ciety, held on Tuesday, in Glasgow, in honour of the
birthday of Burns, Lord Eglinton presided, and Sir James
Campbell filled the croupier's chair.
HORRIBLE BRUTALITY.—At Glasgow, on Saturday,
some miscreants set fire to an unfortunate woman, who,
in a state of intoxication, had taken refuge in a common
staircase. Three persons are in custody.
A FIREMAN on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
has been apprehended on a charge of stealing £6O from a
luggage van. He was spending money profusely in a pub-
lic-house at the time of his apprehension.
A POST-OFFICE DEFAULTER.—Some consternation has
been caused at the General Post-office, owing to an offi-
cial, in the receipt of between £5OO and £6OO a year,
having been detected in committing frauds.
Trig BOILER of a locomotive burst with great violence at
the Newcastle station of the York and Berwick Railway,
on the afternoon of Sunday week. The only person seri-
ously injured was the driver of another engine.
LORD J. RUSSELL has instructed Mr. Drummond Hay,
consul-general at Tangiers, to use his best endeavours to
induce the government to remove obstructions to the de-
velopment of our trade with the empire of Morocco.
THE REV. EDWARD J. CHAPLIN, one of the Fellows
of Magdalen College, Oxford, was on Monday last week
found dead in bed. By the evidence given at the coroner's
inquest there was no doubt that he died of apoplexy.
THE Lancet gives a startling account of the result of
its analysis of divers pots of preserves. Copper was de-
tected in large quantities in the case of green gages, the
fruit entirely owed its colour to the presence of that metal.
THE Brechin Advertiser announces the fact, that a
greater number of salmon have been seen in that neigh-
bourhood of late than was ever done before in the memory
of the " oldest inhabitant." A brilliant season is ex-
pected.

SUCH has been the mildness of the season, that in the
kitchen gardens of the Marquis of Bath, at Longleat-
house, a second crop of apples and pears has been pro-
duced. Three weeks ago strawberries might be seen in
the open air.
THE LEEDS MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONAND LITERARY
SOCIETY has flourished to such an extent that it was pro-
posed, at the annual meeting on Monday week, to erect a
proper suite of rooms, at a cost of £lO,OOO. There are
2,166 members and subscribers.
AT THE ELECTION OF A SEXTON for the parish of St.
Peter, Derby, last week, the poll was kept open for three
days ! Then only did the Mayor's candidate withdraw,
seeing that it was useless to prolong the fight longer
against the vicar and his supporters.
A LITTLE BOY, son of a farmer at Upper Newton, near
Pontesbury, has perished in a singular way. He got into
a bin with a dog to hunt mice ; while poking about with
a stick, he caused a sack of corn to fall upon himself, and
his head was forced down between his knees.
A CHANGE.—About twenty years ago a young man
entered London almost penniless, having travelled from
Providence, U.S. in search of his fortune. He obtained
an engagement in a mercantile house. the principal of
which has recently died and left him £50,000.
SOME SCOTCH GENTLEMEN have taken umbrage at
the disposition of the Scottish portion of the royal arms,
in the standards displayed in Edinburgh, and have appealed
to the Earl of Kinnoul—Lord Lyon King of Arms. The
Times in a leading article laughs at their patriotic plaint.
THE DUNFERMLINE CORRESPONDENT of the Fife
Herald says—," There is a man in Grange Bank, who has
regularly fallen down a stair every Hansel Monday since
the Reform Bill times (1831). He has received his cus-
tomary tumble this year, too, but his neck is not broken
yet."

THE WAX-WORK EximmoN in Shoreditch, London,
the property of Mr. Peter Bianchi, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire on Monday morning. The loss must be
at least £l,OOO. Mrs. Bianchi, an old woman of 72 years,
threw herself out of her bedroom window, and was fear-
fully injured.

THE COAST DEFENCES.—Magazines are orderel to be
constructed on the Gosport lines, as also on the Hilsea
lines, and a strong gateway is forming on the latter, on
one of the old sites. Some earth-works will be speedily
thrown up at Gomer-pond, Browndown, preparatory to
the erection of a permanent fort. The martello towers
on the Sussex coast are to receive an armament forthwith.
8.-Portsmouth Times.

THE "FAST" YOUNG MEN.—It iS rumoured in Lin-
coln that one of the ring-and-chain-ornamented clerks in
the Great Northern Railway Station in this city, has sud.
denly decamped from his employment, leaving a very
serious defalcation in his cash accounts.—Lincolnshire
Chronicle.
THE GREAT CORN SWINDLE.—At the Mansion-house,
on Tuesday, Robert Ferdinand Pries was committed on
the first charge made against him, of having feloniously
forged accountable receipts for goods, namely, 7313 quar-
ters of wheat, and uttered the same, knowing them to be
forgeries ; other charges have yet to be completed.
JANET KEDDIE, OR JOHNSTONE, a woman residing at
Cupar-Fife, on Tuesday evening, brutally murdered her
own child, a boy five or six years of age, in a drunken
frenzy. She had been drinking for some days, and, irri-
tated at the poor boy's refusal to go for more whiskey, she
strangled him. Her husband is a book distributor.

A FEARFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT, which occurred at
New Cottam Pit, Derbyshire, on Friday morning last,
caused the loss of seven lives. As the men were being
lowered, the ring linking the chain to the wire rope
snapped asunder, and they were all dashed to the bottom
of the shaft. Except in one case death was immediate.
A DARK PICTURE OF NEWCASTLE.—The Newcastle

Chronicle thus describes this "canny town :"—" Our
alleys are swarming with thieves, our finest streets are
infested by beggars, and barricaded by hawkers of small-
wares, the lamps are worse lighted, the streets worse kept,
and the whole town more disorderly than most other towns
of the same importance in other parts of the kingdom !"
A SANGUINARY AFFRAY took place between several
Irishmen, at Lkeston, Derbyshire, on the morning of
Sunday week. William Bowskill, a framework knitter,
and a native of the village, was assaulted by the party
without the smallest provocation, and brutally murdered.
One of the party struck the unoffending man with a rail;
he was also struck with a poker, and lastly he was felled
with a coal hammer.
SMOKING IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—At Dartford
petty sessions, William Curtis Edmonds, a gentleman, was
fined 10s. and costs for smoking in the South-Eastern
Railway carriages. He was the holder of a first-class
annual ticket, and had been in the constant habit of
smoking. The company, however, have determined to
put a stop to the practice, and, after giving him warning,
made him the first example.
WAR WITH THE CAFFRES.—At the Mansion-house,
London, on Monday, a dispute was adjusted between two
Caffres and Mr. Simpson, of the Cremorne Garden

had been engaged to perform at the rate of " a cow a
month," and to be taken back after a certain period to
their own country. They imagined that it was to be " a
wL;oh io moro valuable, but the contrary was
ultimately' made clear to them, as also the undertaking
that they should be sent back to Africa.

LAMENTABLE DEATH.—The only son of Mr. Wittom,
of Ramsey, died at Eaton Socon, on Saturday week, from
the effect of a wound caused by a schoolfellow, who in a
joke intended throwing a piece of bread which he bad in
his hand, together with a knife (being at lunch). By
accident the knife slipped out of his hand, and penetrated
the artery of the thigh, which bled much at first, but was
stopped shortly after ; but, subsequently breaking loose
again, the boy bled to death.
ALARMING MORTALiTY.—A low fever has broken out
at Croydon, according to the medical men, produced by
the unhealthy state of the weal her. In many cases it
has proved fatal, and is spreading so fast as to raise a
panic in the town. A very searching inquiry is going on
by the General Board of Health. Dr. Southwood Smith
and other eminent medical gentlemen have visited the
town, and there can be no doubt that the mortality has
been caused by the defective drainage, especial), in the'
upper part of the town.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Saturday morning, one of
the servants in Stratheden House, the mansion of the
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, at
Knightsbridge, made a desperate attempt at self-destruc-
tion, by cutting her throat with a table-knife. She was
removed to St. George's Hospital, where, from the very
dangerous character of her wound, her recovery is
doubtful. This horrible mode of self-destruction has of
late become very prevalent among suicides, as there are
four cases of the same nature at present in the above hos-
pital, viz., two men and two women.
INFatincreac.—Tvro shocking cases of child murder
are reported. At Agar town, London, an infant was found
in a garden crushed to a mummy, it is supposed by placing
it between two boards, and pressing it with heavy weights.
The other case is that of Eliza Pallinger, a girl only 15,
residing in the midst of a den of wretchedness, at No. 3,
Claren-place, Camberwell, who has been committed for
the murder of her new-born infant. On hearing of which,
and having its paternity disputed by another man, the re-
puted father, James Brown, aged 40, committed suicide
by cutting his throat.

ELOPEMENT.—Much excitement has been caused in
the neighbourhood of Stourbridge, by the elopement of a
medical man in the neighbourhood with the daughter of a
highly respectable glass manufacturer of that district. The
male delinquent has long enjoyed an excellent practice,
is married, and has a family of four young children. The
lady, who is only eighteen, was visiting a relative in Bir-
mingham, and on Friday se'nnight, under pretence of
visiting a friend, left the house, and was not heard of
until her father received, on Wednesday morning, a letter
from her, dated Lisgard, Ireland, expressing her determi-
nation to continue with her seducer, and that a search
after them would be fruitless.

A CHILD OF MYSTERY.—Some time since a lady called
at a house in Halifax, closely veiled, and desired to be
provided with lodgings for a short time. She was accom-
modated, and at midnight gave birth to a child ; but
managed, even during the most trying period, to keep
herself so closely veiled that even the doctor who attended
her would not be able again to identify her. Soon after,
she left for the south of England, first liberally paying for
what expense she had incurred, and promising to send 4s.
a week for the support of the child. The money has since
been regularly forwarded, but no tidings has since been
received of the lady, although every effort has been made
to communicate with her, as the child is dying.
THE BOTTLE QUESTION.—On Tuesday last, at the
Sunbury Petty Sessions, John Wayte, of the Angel and
Crown Hotel, Staines, was summoned before the magis-
trates, to answer an information by Mr. Gregg, inspector
of weights and measures, for having sold a certain quan-
tity of beer, as and for one quart and one pint, and in the
sale thereof did use certain vessels or measures other than
those authorized by law, the quart being deficient 12
ounces 14 drachms, and the pint 6 ounces and 7 drachms
deficient. The case was argued for nearly three hours,
when the magistrates retired, and, after a short absence.
returned into court, when Colonel Wood (the chairman)
said the court was unanimously of opinion that the infor-
mation had been sustained, and convicted Mr. Wayte in
the penalty of 40s. and costs.

A FRAUDULENT ATTORNEY'.—A Case of impudent
fraud was brought to light in the Nisi Prius Court,
London, on Monday, lust week. Mr. Smith was
the executor of Mr. Torkington, a creditor on the
estate in Chancery of a bankrupt, named Thrapp, for £35.
Last year a final decree was made by the court to pay all
the creditors in full. Mr. Chandler, an attorney, heard
of the order through " the office of the official assignee,"
and offered to obtain the money for Smith, paying him
£3O, and retaining the remainder as costs. This was
assented to ; but some time after the plaintiff learnt that
interest had been paid on the whole time the debt re •
mained unpaid, amounting to upwards of £2O. On ap-
plying to Chandler he admitted as much, but asserted be
had bought the debt for £3O. This Smith denied, and
sued for the amount, which a jury immediately gave him,
Baron Platt twice declaring it a most impudent fisted.
INDIA MAILS.—The Government having concluded a
new contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na-
vigation Company, for the conveyance of mails, by
packet, rid Southampton, to Malta, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, and China, twice in every month, instead of once,
as heretofore, mails for the above-mentioned places, as
well as for Gibraltar and the lonian Islands, will in future
be despatched from London, by the route of Southamp-
ton, on the morning of the 4th as well as on the morning
of the 20th of each month. Mails for India, &c. (including
China) will also be made up, for transmission rid Mar-
seilles, on the evening of the Bth and 24th of every month.
When the 4th or 20th falls on Sunday, the mails, via"
Southampton, will be made up in London on the previous
evening ; and when the Bth or the 24th of the month falls
on Sunday, the mails, rid Marseilles, will be made up in
London on the evening of the following day.
SHOCKING BRUTALITY.—At the district petty sessions
at Devises, John Webb, Market Lavington, was charged
by Mr. Stratton, of Gore-farm, with cruelly Musing his
four children, the eldest of whom is only eleven years of
age. The poor children had recently lost their mother,
and since her death they had been entirely at the mercy
of a drunken father. An intelligent, pretty looking girl,
about eight years of age, in a very timid manner, said
that her father, night after night, had come home drunk,
taken her out of her bed, beaten her, and thrown her
across the room. Their grandmother had seen the bed-
clothes on which they had hin saturated with blood.
The magistrates considered that the defendant was unfit
to have the care of his own children, and as he was not
disposed to allow any portion of the income he received
for their maintenance, they required him to find two sure-
ties of £lOO each, in addition to his own surety of £2OO,
to keep the peace. As the sureties were not forthcoming
he was committed in default. While in prison his income
will be applied to the maintenance of his children.

gffCHINA FOWLS PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN.—By the
last steamer from the United States, a cage of very choice
domestic fowls was brought to Queen Victoria, a present
from George P. Burnham. Esq., of Boston, Mass. The
consignment embraced nine beautiful birds, two males,
and seven pullets, bred from stock imported by Mr.
Burnham direct from China. The fowls are seven and
eight months old, but are of mammoth proportions and
exquisite plumage—light silvery grey bodies, approaching
white, delicately traced and pencilled with bin,lc upon the
neck hackles and tips of the wings and tails. The parent
stock weigh at maturity upwards of 23 lbs. the pair, while
their form, notwithstanding this great weight, is unexcep-
tionable. They possess all the rotundity and beauty of
the Dorking fowl ; and, at the same age, nearly double
the weight of the latter. They are denominated Grey
Shanghaes, (in contradistinction to the Red or Yellow
Shanghaes,) and are considered in America the finest of all
the great Chinese varieties. That they are a distinct race
is evident from the accuracy with which they breed, and
the very close similarity that is shown amongst them ;
the whole of these birds being almost precisely alike in
form, plumage, and general characteristics. They are
said to be the most prolific of all the Chinese fowls. At
the time of their shipment these birds weighed about 20
lbs. the pair.
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HYDROPHOBIA.—The Banffshire Journal relates the
particulars of the ravages committed in a sheepfold in
that neighbourhood by a dog in a rabid state. He bit
several, killing four on the spot, and attacking the master,
was himself killed. Afterwards seven others of the sheep
which had been bitten exhibited the signs of hydrophobia,
and were shortly afterwards obliged to be killed.
OUTRAGE ON THE HULL RAILWAY.—Mrs. Duffill, of
Beverley, who was robbed and thrown out of the carriage
of a train last week, between that town and Hull, has died
from the injuries received. At the magisterial investiga-
tion, on Saturday, when Holliday, a cowkeeper, was
brought up on the charge, a porter, who was standing a
little way ahead of the train, stated that he saw Mrs. Duffill
put her head out of the carriage and call " Thief, thief."
The next moment a hand was put to the handle of the
door, which flew open, and Mrs. Duffill either jumped,
fell, or was thrown out. She was insensible, and con-
tinued so until her death on Monday morning about eight
o'clock. AV hen the train was slackening speed, on ap-
proaching Beverley: a man was seen to jump out of the
carriage and run oft, It was not known at the time who it
was, but Holliday was subsequently apprehended.

THE MADIAI PERSECUTION.—A great meeting of the
Protestant Alliance, on behalf of the Madiais, was held
on Tuesday at Exeter-hall, presided over by the Lord
Mayor. The chief speakers were the Earl of Cavan
and Mr. Baptist Noel. His lordship, who was one of the
deputation to Florence, stated that the mind of Frar!..
cesco Madiai was at times affected by his solitary Impri-
sonment. Ho had asked to be allowed the ticking of a
watch, or anything to relieve it, but was refused. Three
resolutions were adopted—first, expressing the indigna-
tion and regret of the meeting at Christians being im-
mured in dungeons for reading and distributing the Wale;
secondly, conveying the thanks of the meeting to the
Earls of Roden and Cavan, and Captain Trotter, for act-
ing as a deputation to Florence, and urging the govern-
ment to take the matter up by withdrawing its represen-
tative from Tuscany ; thirdly, adopting petitions to the
Queen for the repeal of the endowment of Maynooth,
and a commission of inquiry into all nunneries and con-
vents.

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