The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

Ten smiths, and six smiths' apprentices were added to the
establishment in the Plymouth Dock-yard last week.
An awful instance of sudden death occurred on Saturday
night, at the Pelham Arms Ihn, Lewes. The barmaid was
engaged serving some customers, in apparently good health
and spirits, when she suddenly made an exclamation, fell
down, and expired before any assistance could be tendered.

A Downy.—Purity of heart, is, of all others, the most
elevated of virtues. A Greek maid, being asked what fortune
she would bring her husband, answered, " I will bring him
what is mere valuable than any treasure—a heart unspotted,
and that virtue %about a stain, which was all that descended
to me from my parents."
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PRINCELY bONATION.—Mr. Stultz, the celebrated tailor,
has contributed the munificient sum of £5560, together with
a large plot of ground for the erection of a comfortable and
permanent house of thirty-three pensioners, (with their
wives,) of the institution, " for the relief of aged and de-
cayed journeymen tailors."

The King of Prussia is stated to have had a splendid tent
of cast-iron frame-work, which cost nearly 40,000 francs,
made at Berlin, for the camp of Silesia, with a view to g
in it a dinner and other entertainments to the officers

WitLIANGTos MEnAL.—Mr. Pistrucci, chief medallist
to the Queen, has just executed a very beautiful medal of
the Duke of Wellington in gold, silver, and bronze. The
front presents a highly-finished likeness of the hero of Wa-
terloo, surrounded by the words " Field Marshal, Arthur
Duke of Wellington;" the reverse bears an heroic helmet,
on which are represented the three military virtues—Pru-
dence, Force, and Charity. Beneath are the British lion and
the Genius of Britain holding a trophy in his right hand,
and seated on a seahorse. Round it are inscribed the words
" Nova cantamus tropas."

AGAVE GEMINIFLORA.—We understand that there is at
present in full bloom in the conservatory at Wynnstay, a
splendid specimen of this rare and beautiful variety of Ame-
rican aloe, the flower, stem or spike of which is nearly 20
feet high, 15 feet of which is covered with flower ; it has
attained this height in the short space of six weeks, having
first shown its flower stem on the 15th July.
HARvEsT.—The wheat harvest in the Fylde has become
general, and a considerable quantity would, ere this, have
been reaped, if the weather had been ff.vourable. During
the past week, the weather has been very unfavourable for
the harvest, one day being fair, and another wet, and another
sultry, and thereby causing great apprehension as to the
soundness of the grain. The oats are coming on fast.—
Lancaster Guardian.

EXTRAORDINARY PIKE. —OR Monday last, as Mr.
Cooper, of Spring-gardens, and Mr. Pollard, were fishing
in the river, near Sandall, the former gentleman hooked an
exceedingly fine jack-pike, a yard and four inches in length,
fifteen inches round the middle, and weighing upwards of
thirteen pounds.—Doncaster Chronicle.
A very shocking occurence took place in Lisburn on Tues-
day evening last. A man named William Boomer, a black-
smith, and his son, a tine young lad about seventeen years of
age, had some angry words in the forge, where I.oth worked,
when in a moment of irritation the former seized a small bar
of nailrod iron, and struck the boy so severely on the lower
part of the chest, that the instrument passed obliquely in the
direction of the lungs, and caused death in a few minutes.

SUDDEN DEATII.—On Saturday last, E. J. Smythe, Esq.,
eldest son of Sir E. J. Smythe, Bart., of Acton Burnall
Hall, in the county of Salop, expired in a manner awfully
sudden. Whilst riding with the respected baronet and
others after a buck in the park, he was suddenly seized with
illness, fell back from his horse and expired before medical

aid could be procured.
We have received an unpleasant piece of intelligence from
Brussels. Mr. Alanian, who (on a smaller scale) was to
Mexico what Mr. Cockerill was to Belgium, has stopped
payment; his failure is for 7,000,000 f. or 8,000,000 f. This
event is calculated to paralyze the endeavours to establish
manufactories in Mexico, of which he was the principal in-
strument.

BRUSSELS, AUGUST 26.—A terrible storm of thunder and
lightning, with hail and rain, passed over Ostend on the 23d
inst. in the evening. The lightning struck the barracks of
Hazegrass, and did some damage to the roof. It set fire to
the mainsail of a ship entering the harbour, but did no other
damage to it. It also set fire to a mill in the neighbourhood,
which, however, was soon extinguished.
EXPENDITURE OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD FOR 1840.—
Bread £2,350; butter, bacon, cheese and eggs, £5,150;
milk and cream, £1,500; butchers' meat, £10,000; poultry,
£4,250; fish, £2,180; grocery, £5,000; oilery, £1,850;
fruit and confectionery, £1,980 ; vegetables, £520 ; wine,
£5,250 ; liquors, &c., £2,000 ; ale and beer, £3,000 ; wax
candles, £2,150; tallow candles, £750; lamps, £4,950;
fuel, £6,980; stationery, £870; turnery, £400; braziery,
£950 ; china, glass, &c., £1,576 , linen, £2,504 ; washing of
table and other linen, £3,2.50 ; plate, £355. Total annual
expenditure of the royal household, £69,765.
REPRIEVE.—The execution of Patrick Woods, who was
convicted at the Armagh assizes of the barbarous murder of
Mr. Powell, has been deferred by the Lord Lieutenant, until
the point raised in the convict's favour by Mr. Napier shall
have been duly argued and decided.
A GOOD DAy's SPORT.—Mr. John M`Hardy, head fo-
rester to the Duke of Leeds, in Mar Forest, killed the fol-
lowing varieties of game in one day (Friday, the 20th ult.):--
A hart (royal), roe•deer, blue hare, ptarmigan, grouse, black
cock, common hare, wild duck, snipe, teal. .ziberdeen paper.
Two LIVES LOST.—RAMSGATE, AUG. 30.—Yesterday
(Sunday) morning, about ten o'clock, a melancholy and fatal
catastrophe happened in the Sandwich river, by the upsetting
of a boat, whereby two young men unfortunately lost their
lives—one named Samuel Smith, belonging to this place,
(Ramsgate,) a baker ; and the other named Edward Thomas,
of Oxney, Gloucestershire, an attorney. John Smith (bro-
ther to the deceased Samuel Smith) and Jeremiah Sandwell,
were also in the boat when it was upset ; but they were for-
tunately picked up by several persons that came in boats to
their assistance. The bodies of the deceased had not yet
been found.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTACHMENT BETWBEN
few.days ago a lad, who was employed by a farmer at Peck-
ham to shoot birds in his corn-field, shot a wood-pigeon; on
reaching the spot where the bird fell, he was surprised at
finding another, hovering close to the wounded one ; he took
up the dead bird and carried it in his hand some distance,
closely attended by the other bird, sometimes following him
and sometimes going before, and (to use the lad's own ex-
pression) " making quite a fuss about him." On reaching
the fieldgate the lad stopped to re-load his gun, placing the
dead bird on the gate post, when the other pigeon flew to the
side of his lifeless companion, and, without the slightest at-
tempt to escape, quietly suffered itself to be secured by the
boy. The bird was brought home, and put into a small room,
where shortly after it was found dead. It is now stuffed, and
in the possession of the writer.—Standard.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —On Thursday last, a
labourer at work in the cutting upon the Eastern Counties
line of railway at Brentwood, was unfortunately killed. He
WAS engaged, with several other men, in undermining a
portion of earth, preparatory to a fall, and notice of its descent
was given by the man stationed for that purpose, when all
his companions got away, but the poor man in question stood
looking as if paralysed and unable to move. The earth in
consequence fell upon him, and literally dashed his brains
out. Nearly a hundred of his companions stood by at the
time unable to render him any assistance.—Esser Herald,
JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.—
The great natural advantage of Guatemala is, the all but
ready-made connection of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The great Lake of Nicaragua, having an average depth of 15
fathoms, is within 16 miles of the Pacific; the only known
outlet of this inland sea is the river San Juan, navigable for
'craft drawing four feet water, to the Atlantic Ocean, in
despite of rapids, and capable of being improved for the
passage of ships. At present no commerce is carried on
upon this remarkable line of navigation ; it might almost be
said that nothing floats upon it. As soon, however, as a
settled country and stable government can give security to
commerce and capitalists, it is easy to see that this water-
line will be the scat of an extensive transit trade ; whether it
will ever answer the full expectations of sanguine men, and
supersede Cape Horn, is, as regards coarse and bulky com-
modities, very questionable.
SHIP STRUCK BY LIGHTNING—FATAL ACCIDENT.—The
following is an extract of a letter from Charleston, (South
Carolina,) dated August 11 :—" The British ship Jane and
Barbary, Captain Colman, lying here, was struck by light-
ning on the sth instant. The first mate, William Leakee,
was killed, and the second mate and two of the crew severer :
but not dangerously, injured. The fluid passed down the
mizenmast, and through the cabin and deck, shattering the
cabin, compasses, and every thing in the steward's room.
The mate was sitting at the companion door when he was
killed. lie was about 30 years of age, and his melancholy
death was much lamented by Captain Colman and crew. This
is the second vessel that has been struck by lightning at the
same wharf within the last fortnight, the electric fluid being
attracted, it is generally supposed, by the iron unloading here
for the new railway."
AFFLICTIVE VISITATION.—At the late meeting of the
British Association at Plymouth, Dr. Fowler gave an account
of a young woman now in Rotberhite workhouse, who has
the threefold infirmity of being deaf, dumb, and blind. The
unfortunate individual, who is about twenty years of age, was
born deaf and dumb, and blinded by small-pox, when about
three years old. She does not hear the loudest efforts of the
voice, but starts on a poker hung by a string against her ear
being struck against a grate. Touch is the only sense by
which others can communicate with her, or which she em-
ploys ill examining objects and persons, and though she pos-
sesses both taste and smell, she never appears to have used
them. Until within two or three years since her existence
appeared to be merely animal, but then a marked difference
took place in her habits, and she became as attentive to her
dress and personal decorum as any other girl of her age. She
feels her way without a guide to every part of the workhouse.
recognises all its inmates by the feel of their hands, makes
her bed, and sews not only plain work but even the more in-
tricate parts of dress. She is very tenacious of what she
deems her own, and was much pleased with a shilling which
was put into her hand, smiling, curtseying, and feeling it ea-
gerly for some time after.
Wuseson, Sept. I.—An accident of an alarming nature
took place to-day in the middle and lower ward of the Castle.
A party had jest alighted from an open carriage, and the
horses' heads turned towards the town, when they became
restive, and kicked and plunged frightfully in the narrow
part of the entrance by the Norman-gate ; at last setting off
at fnll speed, the carriage came in contact with a projecting
wall which divides the middle from the lower ward, and the
poll, bar, and traces having broken, they were freed from the
overturned carriage, and pursued their mad career down the
hill towards King Henry the VIII. gateway, against which
they
dashed themselves, and were at once brought to the
ground. For a few seconds it was thought they were both
killed, so violent was the shock ; they are, however, not so
much hurt as was expected, nor is the damage done to the
carriage so great as the rapid pace, the continuous tnrningof
the road, and the many obstructions liable to be met with in
it, would lead us to conclude. Most fortunately the road
was free from parties, and no further accident occurred.
BANKRUPTCIES IN . PARlS.—During the last year there
were 41,467 causes heard before the Tribunal of Commerce,
Paris, to 31,750 of which there had been no appearance,
8,918 were decided on argument, 540 were adjourned for
consent of parties, 175 were still pending, and the remainder
were struck out of the list : 806 bankruptcies were declared
during the same period. The investigation of those bank-
ruptcies required 3435 meetings of creditors, from which the
following facts had been elicited :—That the greater part of
those failures were caused by too great a competition amongst
shopkeeperi, for which reason the profits arising from
othertr
trade were so insignificant, that, after paying r
expenses, there remained scarcely any fund for
the
The president remarked, that the more considerable failures
were caused by over-trading and excessive desire for specurentc arne
creditors.

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NOVEL MODE OF SWINDLING.—The police have received
information that a well-dressed wan had recently succeeded,
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in many instances, in committing tlie following frauds t—liis
usual method of proceeding to enter an hotel or tavern
waiter
guarantee
late,at night, accompanied by a dashingly-dressed female, and
then inquire for the bead waiter.
that he has come Dana'r a spree, but that, having forgotten
If he lends himl Z 1 or £5 till the following
his purse at home, being in want of cash, he has deter-
s,, says it is a family relic of considerable-
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LITERARY NOTICES

Fraser's Magazine for• September.
isting period Regina comes with a double relish,
over the leaves with considerable avidity to dis-
r some racy touches of crushing but good-humoured ex-
me of the political quacks who now agitate
is head will be perused, not without
is exposure of the doings of the dissent-
rile objects of the confer-

ulation with s

riment, a lud

Alanclies.