The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Ilaydon FUnd subscription has now reached £2200.
In the eastern parts of England the potato failure has
not been near so general as was anticipated.
The import duty on wheat is now 4s. per quarter, the
lowest rate of duty under the present corn-law.

Mr. M. Short is appointed Police Magistrate, in the
room of Mr. Bond, deceased.
There is no truth in the report that Mr. Tennyson
D'Evncourt has conformed to the Romish faith.
Mr.Wombwea had a severe loss at Leicester a few days
since, by the death of a rare animal, the chimpanzee.
ENORMOUS PRICE OF POTATOES.—Potatoes were sold
in the Bath market on Saturday week at one guinea a sack.
Tait's Magazine is in the market, the publisher retiring
full of honours, although certainly not in years.
Lord Palmerston has appointed to a clerkship, in the
Foreign-office a son of the Rev, Dr. Wolff.

A vessel arrived last week in the London Dock, bring-
ing from the States 500 tons of ice and 8 boxes of peaches
—the latter a very novel article of import from America.
A large factory in Macclesfield bas, according to the
Macclesfield' Courier, commenced short hours for the
workmen, and others are expected jo.follovv.
At this moment, there are 100 vessels of different sizes
on the stocks at Sunderland, and two or three on an ave-
rage are launcFed daily.

At an inquest held last week, in London, it appeared
that an infant died from the mother's destitution, the
breast faiting to supply it with nourishment.

Several sea swallows were hovering over Cambridge for
several days last week which is considered an indication
of very rough weather.

The Brilann'.a says that Lord Dalhousie regards his
appointment, as governor of Bombay, as extremely im-
probable.
The price of potatoes fell considerably at Sheffield, on
Tuesday, and the crop of that vegetable in the neighbour-
hood of that town, will turn out better than anticipated.
CAUTION TO NURSES,—A child, five days old, died at
Bath, last week, from two drops of laudanum being ad-
ministered to it by its nurse.
A GAY BIRD.-Mr. Jay, tbe well-known dissenting
preacher of Bath, at the age of seventy-seven, has just
married a lady with a fortune of thirty thousand pounds!
—Globe.

THE NEEDLE TRADE.—Th needle-pointers and the
manufacturers of Redditch are still at variance, and the
latter have resolved upon the decisive measure of em-
ploying machinery to supersede entirely the practice of
hand-pointing, so injurious to life.
The varnish-house attached to the floor-cloth manufac-
tory in Kennington-lane, opposite the Lambeth Po!ice-
court, was consumed by fire on Friday night. There
were 500 gallons of varnish in the building, and the
blaze was tremendous.

In throwing a basket of cinders in a furnace at New-
port a workman overbalanced himself, and fell into the
glowing mass : in three minutes, notwithstanding that the
blast was immediately stopped, not a particle of the un-
fortunate man remained !

An inquest was held last week at Carnarvon, on a pauper
who died from neglect. He was compelled to lie on a
mass of putrid straw, swarming with maggots, and having
no covering but such as the charity of a fellow-pauper
afforded.

DURHAM.—Lord Adolphus Vane, who, with Lord and
Lady Seaham, visited Durham on Wednesday, addressed
the inhabitants from the Rose and Crown Inn, and
" trusted that he would shortly be more closely connected
with the city."

An inquest was held at Hammersmith on Monday, on
the body of Eliza Rogers, aged 47, who died through
visiting ber father's grave, which she was in the habit of
doing at night, in very inclement weather, and scarcely
clad.

GRATITUDE OF POSTERITY.—The last pension granted
by Sir R. Peel is thus described in the pension list :
" £25 per annum to John Lloyd, in consideration of the
services rendered by his ancestors to King Charles 11. in
his escape after the battle of Worcester."
CHESS.—The chess match between Mr. Staunton and
Mr. Harwitz, after a struggle of nea►ly six weeks' dura-
tion, has terminated in favour of the English player. Mr.
Staunton gained the whole of the games in which he gave
no odds, and the majority of those wherein he gave the
very large odds of a pawn and two moves.
FOREIGN WINE.—It is stated in a parliamentry docu-
ment, that in the year ending on the sth of January last,
of foreign wine, 8,469,776 gallons were imported. On
6,987,555 gallons the duty was paid, and 1,612,519 gallons
were exported. On the sth of January the wine in ware-
house under bond numbered 10,230,946 gallons.
THE FIRST SNOW.—The Ochills were on Wednesday
clad around their summits with snow. In 1836 snow was
seen on the Grampians on the 3d of September.—Edin-
burgh Advertiser. Skiddaw, Helvellyn, and Scawfell
have all been capped with snow within the past week.—
Cumberland Paequet.

On Wednesday, a number of omnibuses commenced
running between the Bank and Paddington and interme-
diate stations, for the conveyance of passengers at the
low rate of one penny per mile. Several mere also started
from the Strand to Paddington, the charge being two-
pence the, entire distance.

MAGISTERIAL WlT.—The special constables for the
ensuing year were sworn in yesterday. Among them
were a majority of the newspaper proprieters of this city,
with their reporters and clerks, which caused Mr. New-
man to remark that " they may he truly called the press
gang !" One- of the " press gang" instantly replied,
" An old joke for a New-man."—Bristol Journal.

THE Poon. LAW COMMISSION.—In 1844-5, according
to a Parliamentary paper, the Poor Law Commission cost
£53,000, £52,770 in 1845-6, and £59,200 in 1846-7. In
the present year £6500 was required for auditors at
Unions, £15,000 for schoolmastes, and £40,000 for medical
relief. These sums were not asked for in the preceding
years.
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The first effects of the bill .that lately passed through
Parliament were shown last week, by the procession of a
Roman Catholic Guild through Radford. The procession
was headed by cross bearers, singing " the Litany of the
Blessed Virgin." The late relaxation of the laws against
the Roman Catholics will make these attempts at seduc-
tion of the people not unfrequent.
On Wednesday week, two boys. aged ten and eleven
years, employed at the colliery of Mr. Whalley, in Pem-
berton, hooked the basket to the chain, at the bottom of
the pit. in order to ascend the shaft, and when about 20
yards from the top, one of the hooks gave way, and they
were both precipitated to the bottom and literally dashed
to pieces.

SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Monday
night five keepers employed by Lord Wharncliffe met eight
or nine poachers in a field near Wortley, in pursuit of
game on Lord Wbarncliffe's preserves. A desperate com-
bat ensued. One keeper got his leg broken ; the shoulder
of another was dislocated and his fingers smashed ; a third
lost a piece of his ear ; and all five were well thrashed.
The poachers escaped.
FLOODS IN WARWICKSHIRE.—SO incessant has been
the rain in the neighbourhood of Rugby during the last
three days, that the river overflowed its banks to such an
extent on Sunday week as to completely flood the mea-
dows, whilst the turnpike-road, leading from Rugby to
North Kilworth, was flooded to such a depth at St. Tho-
mas's Cross as to render travelling a matter of consider-
able danger.
COPPER ORE FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The Cam-
brian of Saturday announces the arrival of a second cargo
of copper ore from this important colony, by the Malcolm,
which had arrived at Swansea from Port Adelaide, laden
with a fall' cargo of rich ore, consigned to Mr. Francis.
The Cambrian adds, " We are much pleased at this, and
anticipate a greatly increasing trade in that branch, as
several large vessels have been recently chartered at the
colony direct for this port." _ _

ATTEMPT TO SET FIRE TO A MILL AT LEEDS.—A
young man, named John Joseph Hall, is now in custody
at Leeds, charged with having wilfully attempted to fire
the flax-mill of Messrs. Ines and Atkinson, one of -the
largest in the town. On Tuesday circumstances of a
strongly suspicious character were stated before the ma-
gistrates, and the prisoner was remanded. He is ap-
prenticed as a clerk in the above firm, and apparently, is
not more than sixteen or seventeen years of age.

The Farmer's Journal joins issue with the Romish
clergy in charging the Irish famine on the government !
Of course, the national prayer ought to have been to call
down the maledictions of heaven on the Peelers and the
Whigs. One would scarcely expect to find such blas-
phemy, in one sense, as this, and nonsense in another, in
an English newspaper; placing in squabbling contention
—a Divine Providence—the Times—and rotten potatoes !
What next, if this be the oracle of the farmers ?
IMPORTANCE OF LLOYD'S. The vast resources of
Lloyd's establishment to merchants, shipowners, under-
writers, and others in maritime affairs. may be easily
gathered from the fact that on Monday there were re-
ceived no less than fifty-seven British and Irish manu-
scrip shipping lists, with fifty-eight foreign ditto, together
with newspapers to the same extent. This is not by any
means a solitary instance of the receipt of so vast a mass
of shipping and mercantile intelligence in one day.
THREE HUNDRED POUNDS STOLEN.—On Tuesday
night or Wednesday morning, a daring robbery was com-
mitted at Birdcourt, Walbrook. The robbery was effected
by opening the door of the room on the second floor, in
the occupation of Mr. Needle, the landlord of the house,
which is let out in offices, and the thieves succeeded in
carrying off a brass-bound mahogany writing desk, upon
which was a brass plate, engraved with Mr. Needle's
initials, " W.N.," and which contained notes and gold to
the amount of £3OO, as also valuable memoranda.
A NIGHT ON A ROCK.—During the stormy weather last
week, a clergyman at Scarborough set out with the inten-
tion of walking to Filey by the sands and rocks. Having
got a considerable distance, he found it impracticable to
proceed further, and attempted to return ; but the tide
had flowed so high he could not succeed. Finding him-
self surrounded by water, he took up a position, where he
remained during a bitter cold and stormy night ; and,
although thus exposed, returned safe to his lodgings the
next day about noon.—Hull Packet.

CURIOUS FACT.—A rather singular scene may be wit-
nessed at the provision shop of Messrs. Harris and
Bowers, in Mealcheapen-street, Worcester. A spider has
descended from the ceiling, and taken up a pea out of a
bowl of dried peas, which happened to be placed under his
domicile. The fly-destroying insect must have first glu-
tenized the pea, and then ascended, on a slender fibre,
leaving some second one connected with it. The spider is
now gradually drawing up the pea, at the rate of an inch
or, two•a-day. The spider and his handywork are held
sacred from vulgar touch.

REMARKABLE EicAPE.--On Wednesday, while a wo-
man of the name of Christie was hanging out clothes from
a window at Laurie's close, Leith, she lost her balance and
fell to the ground, a height of four stories, when singu-
larly enough she sustained so little injury as to be able to
return to her house without assistance. In her descent,
she came in contact with and broke the poles that had
been extended from all the other windows below for drying
clothes, which must have broken the force of her fall, and
thereby saved her life.—Scottish Herald.

G. S. Kenrick, Esq., an eminent iron founder at West
Bromwich. devotes much of his time and wealth, to the
promotion of the Temperance Reformation. This gentle-
man employs four or five agents to travel though the
neighbouring counties, disseminating a knowledge of the
principles be so warmly espouses, and he also conducts a
monthly periodical—the Temperance Gazelle, of which
about 4,000 capies are circulated. The Grand Junction
Railway Company have granted a free passage to any of
these agents on the line between Birmingham to Crewe at
any time.

NOVEL CASE.—On Monday one of the debtors in OUT
gaol died, and the gaoler has been placed in an awkward
position as to what he shall do with the body, it being the
opinion of some of the most eminent legal men here; that
if the gaoler delivers up the body, he will be answerable
for the debt. Cases have been cited where the debt had
to be collected before the body could be buried ; but
whether in this case they think, the poor felicity having
paid the debt of nature is to get off free without paying
his creditors, is likely to furnish employment for clever
men to decide the case.—Norwich Advertiser.
The unfortunate gentleman who attacked Mr. Parker in
a mail train from Derby is Mr. Markham Osborne. A
letter from the surgeon in attendance on Mr. Osborne
makes it appear that he was under the influence of deli-
rium previous to an attack of brain fever, which he is now
confined with. He had remained out all Monday night
after leaping from the train, and was brought to Kensing-
ton workhouse, and thence removed to his own house.
His servant, who was in a second-class carriage, on the
arrival of the train at the station in town, was surprised to
find only his master's clothes and watch, which he had left
in the carriage.

THE LATE GALES.-The packets laden with cattle
from Holland have had a fearful time of it. One Dutch
sailing vessel, the Drie Gezusters, from Harlingen, out of
109 cows and 280 sheep, had the large number of 52 of
the, former and 130 of the latter description of cattle
perished on board, in consequence of the boisterous weather
experienced during the passage, and the length of time
she was at sea. The whole were, and we believe for the
first time, landed at Gravesend, which is considered to be
within the port of London, with all possible despatch, in
order to prevent further loss to the owners.

FREE TRADE FALLACIES-.—A• fiction of universal be-
lief, and which is working much mischief, viz., " that the
more corn England imports from foreign countries the
more manufactures will she export in return," is a fallacy.
The Quarterly Review proves it to be so by the returns of
the Board of Trade to both Houses of Parliament. There
we have it demonstrated that those countries which sup-
ply us with the largest quantities of corn and provisions
take from us the smallest quantities of British manufac-
tures, and that this ratio is kept up in every season, the
fact being that, as their exports increase, our exports
. .

diminish
GAME.

—On Tuesday, Sir Henry Hesketh, Bart., and
three or four friends, enjoyed a day's sporting in the park,
at Rufford-hall, and during the day destroyed 446 head of
game, made up as follow :-267 hares, 51 rabbits, 125
pheasants, 1 partridge, 1 woodcock, and 1 owl. The same
party went out on Wednesday, and shot over the worthy
baronet's land at Holmswood ; and although the day's de-
struction was not so numerically great as that of the pre-
ceding one, it must have made a tolerable thinning in the
stock of game on the farms, the number of heads amount-
ing to 289, of which there were 152 hares, 45 rabbits, 84
pheasants, 5 partridges, 1 woodcock, and 2 snipes ' • thus
making a gross total destroyed in the two days of 735 head.
The inquiry at Clavering as to the deaths of several
children, the offspring of Sarah Chesham, terminated on
Friday. The result was, a verdict of wilful murder
against the mother. It was clearly established that the
deceased children had died from the effects of poison.
Up to Saturday night, the 17th of January, 1845, both
Joseph and John Chesham were in perfect health. On
that night and during the whole of Sunday the groans of
the children were heard by one Deards in the adjoining

hause, and it was inferred that whatever was administereu
.
to the deceased children for supper that night contained
the poison of which they had died. There was no direct
evidence to show that Sarah Chesham had prepared the
poisoned supper, and, through the unwillingness and eva-
sion of certain witnesses, she was not satisfactorily con-
nected with the purchase of arsenic. Still the jury were
satisfied.

SINGULAR CONTROVERSY.—The gentlemen of the
long robe are about to be engaged upon a subject exceed-
ingly fertile in all that is required to bring forth legal ta-
lent. About six or seven years since the Emperor of
Russia sent out an order to India for five of the most ela-

borate Cashmere shawls that the oriental looms are capa-
ble of producing, without limit to time or cost. In IVtay
last the package arrived, but through some error, five
pairs were sent instead of five single shawls. In this di-
lemma the consignee sold the five duplicate shawls to
Mr. George Smith, of Ludgate-hill, with an understand-
ing . I

_ _la they should not be copies. _!ie designs, how-
ever, appear to have possessed charms too powerful for
the shawl-dealer to withstand ; the consequence is, that
the patterns of the royal bijous, of three or four hundred
pounds each, are now before the public, in imitation ma-
"-qure, at f t-`wet"

outset.- Ave to . Ave pounds, with alterations
which were considered sufficient by Mr. Smith, but which

as every one must be in the state of our home trade, after
the triumph of Free-trade principles, it is something to
have to point at somebody that is likely to be benefitted
thereby. According to recent advices from the Haven..
nab, great joy has been manifested at the passing of the
Sugar Duties Bill. The town was illuminated upon the
arrival of the news, and as slave produce is now admis-
sible in England, there has been quite a fever of demand
in the slave market. Prices rose 25 per cent. ; and a boy,
fourteen years of age, with good muscles, will now
(thanks to the Whig Government) bring readily 400 dol-
lars. This rise in prices must retard for awhile the re-
duction we all expected in the prices of sugar. But as

twelve new slay

3s are about to be fitted out to pro

trade which England now fosters and

of a few thousand fresh Africans (and the consequent
murder of eight or ten thousand in that process, and in
the middle passage,) we shall at last get our sugar a little

cheaper

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, an accident
took place near Shoreditch Church, London, by which
four persons met with most serious injuries. It appears
that the Rev. Richard Cruttwell, Rector of Spexhall, near
Wickham Market (who had been on a visit to the
tr

ietropolis,) was driving a spirited horse in a chaise along
he Old-street-road. At the.corner of Hoston Old Town
he horse took fright at a railway carriage placed on a
ruck... The rev. gentleman used all his endeavours to re
strain the animal, but without effect ; he dashed mad'y
forward until the chaise came i❑ violent collision with a

cart laden with bricks, literally smashing the chaise to
pieces, the Rev. Mr. Cruttwell being thrown with fearfu
violence to the ground ; the horse, finding himself disen-
gaged, rushed on, and in its progress knocked down an
aged woman residing in the Shoreditch Almshouses, and
a little child, both of whom were much hurt. A man en-
deavouring to stop the frightened animal, was also
knocked down and severely injured ; as also the waterman
of the Shoreditch rank, who received a severe contusion
of the left eye, and his arm and leg severely injured. The
horse then ran on to the pavement and smashed several
nganea of algae in the A lhinn nfrop_hrinca aria etnrl+;snroarl

its career until it was secured in the burial ground of
Shoreditch Church, which fortunately happened to be
open. On the Rev. Mr. Cruttwell being picked up he
appeared to be insensible, and it was found that his collar
bone and two of his ribs were broken.

MURDER AND SIIICIDE.—From two inquests which
have been held at Sleaford and Little Gonerby, near
Grantham, Lincolnshire, it appears that a singular mur-
der has been committed on a girl named Mary Hill, by a
man named George Healy, who afterwards poisoned him-
self. The girl had been residing some days at the house
of Healy's father, and was to have been married to Healy
in a few days ; but on Thursday, the Bth instant, she un-
expectedly left. On the same evening Healy left his fa-
ther's house, for the purpose of following her, and it ap-
pears that he succeeded in borrowing a pair of handcuffs,
and a constable's staff. On the Friday night, he arrived
at a public house, in Grantham, in company with Mary
Hill, who was handcuffed, and whom he asserted to be
his prisoner. He declared that she had committed a rob-
bery at Gonerby, and that he was taking her to the office
of the magistrates' clerk. On Saturday morning, be left
the inn with the girl, and was seen with her in a field,near
the river Witham. Mary Ilill was never again seen alive;
but on the 15th instant her body was found in the river.
On the evening of Sunday the 11th instant Healy, who
was completely wet through, came to a beer shop at New
Sleaford, where he passed that night and the following
day ; but on the Monday morning he was found dead in
his bed, from the effects of a dose of laudanum which he
had taken. During his stay at this place, some boatmen
recognised him as a person whom they pulled out of the
river. From various other circumstances detailed at the
inquests, little doubt can be entertained that Healy
drowned the girl Hill in the Witham, and attempted to
drown himself ; but that having been rescued from the
river, he had recourse to poison. The juries returned
verdicts, that Mary Hill had been found drowned, and
that George Healy was felo de se.
PROPOSED OPENING OF THE PORTS.—We cannot,
says the Halifax Guardian, see the propriety of the pre-
sent agitation to abolish the low duty now chargeable on
foreign corn. True, provisions are high, and corn not so
plentiful as it ought to be. True, also, that there is
reason for alarm at the renewed potato blight, more parti-
cularly as regards Ireland. But the duty is now only 4s.
per quarter. And it is not likely to rise, we fear, for
some time to come. It behoves the government, there-
fore, to think seriously before it abandons a duty which
may be necessary to maintain the balance of next year's
income and expenditure. If by removing the duty the
nation could get its wheat 4s. a quarter cheaper, that
would only be robbing Peter to pay Paul. But will the
opening of the ports have that effect? Is it not, on the
contrary, much more likely that the speculator and the
foreigner will quietly pocket whatever amount of duty
the British Government chooses to forego? The present
high prices of provisions do not seem themselves to be
justified by any well grounded prospect of dearth. The
potato disease has again most mysteriously stayed its ra-
vages. The recent wheat harvest is admitted to have been
an average one. Whilst in the great wheat exporting
counties we hear of none of that dearth and scarcity
which the Times in its leading articles affirms. Thus on
Monday the Times declared—" The harvests of Europe
are insufficient for the exigencies of Europe. France is
straightened even more than ourselves. Austria is bid-
ding against us in the marts of the Mediterranean.
Odessa is well-nigh drained." Whereas the Sun of
Thursday states that on the 18th ult. at this very drained
port of Odessa there were 150 vessels loading from
350,000 to 400,000 quarters of wheat for Italy and France
—that after these- had been shipped there would remain
about 150,000 quarters available for exportation from last
year's harvest—and that this year's crop " would be suffi-
ciently abundant to allow of large further exports."
Whilst from America the only limit to the amount of our
, exports seems to be the difficulty of finding shipping.