The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-27 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lout) RECTOR.—An answer has been received from Sir
James Graham, expressing his acceptance of the office of
Lord, Rector of our University. His installation will take place
some day during next moot h.—Glasyow Courier.

VARIETY OF THE GENUS Homo.—One of the cheap pe-
riodicals gravely informs its readers that Toulouse is a large
town—containing about sixty thousand inhabitants built en-
tirely of bricks.
As some cf our contemporaries have ajleged that parliament
will meet for the despatch of business in the early part of the
ensuing month, we inav state that the prorogation will be ex-
tended from the 4th of *December to the usual period.—Morn-

big Chronicle.
The works on the Great Western Railway. near Reading,
continue to be at a total stand-still. Some of the labourers
are begging about the streets of that town, .and others have
left, to obtain work elsewhere.
The bridges constructed by the Southampton Railway Com-
pany across the Great Western Road at Worthing, near Ba-
singstoke, gave way last week for the second time, to the
imminent danger and annoyance of travellers.
Our readers will perceive, by referring to our city article,
that a report has been in circulation-to-day, that Earl Spencer
is likely to succeed Lord Durham in Canada. We are not
aware vs hat foundation there may be for such a report, but
we believe the appointment is one that would be hailed with
satisfaction by almost every party.—Courier, Thursday.
PRESTON AND LANCASTER RAILW A Y.—The operations on
this line of railway are proceeding with great activity, and, so
far as the work has proceeded, every thing has been highly
favourable. A great number of men are at work, and the
respective contractors are sparing no pains to advance this

works with all possible rapidity.
A tradesman in the country tendered an account in which
was the following item; and, considering the job, his charge
was certainly moderate :—"To hanging wickets and myself,
seven hours, ss. fid."-

Two duelists having exchanged shots without effect, one of
the seconds interfered, and proposed that the parties should
shake hands. - To this the other second objected as unneces-
sary, •` For," said he, "their hands have been shaking this
half hour."

BAPTISMAL NAMES OF THE SECOND SON OF THE KING
AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL—Dom Louis Felippe, Maria
Fernando, Pedro de Alcantara, Antonio, Miguel, Rafael,
Gabriel Geuzaga, Xavier Francisco de Assis, Joao, Augusto,
Julio, Vulfando de Bragauia de Bourbon Saxe Coburg

Gotha.:
18.39 there will be only two eclipses, both
of the bun • the first, visible at Greenwich, a partial eclipse
only, which begins March 15, 3h. 20m. 4s. Greatest phase,
3h. 53m. 3s. Ends, 411. dot. 4.5. The second, on the 2d Sep-
tember, invisible at Greenwich.
The General Steam Nayigation Company's steam ship
Rainbow arrived hoes Antwerp at six o'clock on Thursday
morning, having made the passage iu 18 hours, although the
strong head winds anti thick Weather she encountered ma-
terially impeded her speed —Mitrving Herald.
The Antwerp Company's timber-built steam-ship Antwerp
arrived on Thursday morning off the Tower, having made
her passage in 20 hours, notwithstanding the haziness of the
weather.

On Sunday last the lieges of a town in North Durham
were astonished and somewhat scandalized by
,a loud peal
from the bellman; and, pricking up their ears, they beard
the following amusing and most mysterious cry :—" Lost ! a
woman! about fifty years owld; with a black stray hat, a
black goon, and a 'daddy shad. \Vheiver hez fund hur,and
wull Ining bur here, mull be rewarded for their trubble."—
Preston Pilot.
p.moNEy AND FRIENDS.—There is (said \Vilberfooce) a
vile and base sentiment cnrrent amongst men of the world,
that if you wish to preserve a friend pal must guard against
having any pecuniary transactions with him; but it is a
caution altogether unworthy of a Christian.
Viscount Melbotnne gave the first cabinet dinner this sea-
son on Wednesday evening, at his residence in South-street.
The ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hob-
house, Lord Holland, Mr. I'oulett Thompson, and Viscount
How ick.

MANCHESTER OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY.—On
Monday evening last, there waa a public meeting of conser-
vatives held at Mr. Sidebotham's, Bull's Head, New Isling-
ton, and an Operative Conservative Society formed for dis-
tricts No. 1,2, 3, 4. The meeting consisted of all grades of
politicians, and was addressed by Messrs. Atkinson, English,
Holt, and several others.. Upwards of one hundred persons
were present.—Manchester Guardiau.
THE HORW ICH MURDER.—We understand that the mur-
derer, whoever he be, is not supposed to have obtained so
much booty as was at first conjectured; Mr. Jardino having
met the deceased on the previous Wednesday, and then re-
ceived from him nearly the wholelamoppr of hiscoltections
up to that day ; so that the whole of the money in his pos-
session had been collected between Wednesday and Friday,
and would not, it is stated, exceed £s.—Manchester Guardian.
EXTRAORDIN ARV CA SE.—A most extraordinary medical
case is reported, by the Hanuu Gazette, as having recently
occurred at Berlin, where a Polish countess, who had, ever
since the death of her husband, experienced frequent pains
in the chest, was put under the careint Dr. Von Graffe, by
whom it was ultimately decided, that amputation of one of
the breasts was necessary. The operation Was performed,
when there was discovered in the breast a perfectly formed
fcetus of several months.

BRADFORD OPERATIVE CoNSERVATIVE SoCIETY.—The
second anniversary of this society is fast approaching, when
the members contemplate dining together, and when, we have
no doubt, we shall hear a very flattering account of the pro-
gress of the cause of conservatism in Bradford. We are
enabled to state as a fact, that many operative voters, who
have heretofore espoused the muck "liberal" cause, are al-
ready beginning to change their views: some of them have
declared their intention to vote Blue, instead of Yellow, as
formerly, at the next election. The ortheoming annivesary
will be a high treat, and we beg to bespeak for it the attention
of the neighbouring conservative gentry.—Leeds Intelligencer.
The French papers annonnce the death of the Duc de
Fitzjames' from apoplexy, in Normandy, and also that of the
celebrated physician Broussais. who expired at Vitry on the
17th. Brousrais was born at St. Maloes in 1772, served as
surgeon in the navy for several years, and followed the army
in the same capacity through most of the eampaiguF. After
1815 he settlea Pari, wt., re his life end labours are well
known. Edward, Duc do Fi:zjanies, was great great grand.
son of the Duke of Lerwick, natural son of James 11. Ile
was born its 1776, and was first gentleman of- the chamber to
Chatles X.'
TicKLING TO DEATH !-.--The process of tickling to death,
of which we have before had an instance, has been recently
renewed at Brignolles, in the Var, where a man, named
Reboul, applied it to his second wife. It appears, that, after
seizing her with one hand, he with the other, tickled her
violently at the bottom of her feet, and on tit: knees and
ribs, until he threw her into a high state of irritation, and then
he'd her with her head downwards and her feet in the air,
with the intent of proddeing a congestion of the brain. 'Phis
he had dons several times, but, upon the last occasion, she
was save d by the coining in of her neighbours, who were et-
tiacted by her cries. Reboul was taken into custody, and it
is suspected that be got rid of his first wife by these means,
as he had, previous to this attempt, told his present wife, that
he knew lito,v-to dispose of any person without compromising
himself, —Galignani.
GIDDINESS NOT FELT IN A BALLOON.—I was at a
friend's chambers, which are on a second floor; and, looking
down front an open window into the garden, (the sill of the
window being rather low,) 1 became giddy, and was obliged
to retire from it! At an elevation of twenty-seven hundred
feet, I looked down upon St. Paul's—that is to say, from
about eight times its own height—layers of smoke, like thin
clouds, hanging just above the swell of the dome, and not
the slightest inconvenience of the kind vou expect did I, or
aux of my travelling companions, setter front our exalted
position ! This is a curious fact ; but a fact it is, which, 1
doubt not, will be corroborated by every person who has
made trial of its—Poole's Crotchets is the Air.
MEntco;Bor NIG* SOCIETY.—The first meeting for the
season was held on Wednesday evening. 1)r. Sigmund com-
menced by delivering; a lecture on the cultivation of the tea
plant. The learned professor, after adverting to the mystery
in which the system of the Chinese in preparing tea had been
for some centuries enveloped, proceeded to explain its cul-
ture. It appeared that when the time fer picking the finest
sorts of tea arrived, the labourers employed were compelled
to avoid gross food, and adopt the purest diet; and, more-
(Mr, that they performed the operation in gloves. The
authorities quoted showed that this extreme delicacy was for
the purpose of preventing the slightest injury to the leaf from
the breath or skin. It would he well if this example of clean-
liness was followed by the tea dealers of England. The Chi-
nese who could afford it drank their tea strong; and they
had a proverb by which the poverty of the individual was im-
plied who "drinks weak tea and eats insipid rice." . Samples
were exhibited of every variety of tea imported into this
country and the continent. Among other varieties there
were some fine specimens of the Pekoe used in Russia, the
caravan teas," whirl) are brought overland through Kiachta,
and the ‘• flowqua's Mixture tea.". That the Hung Merchants
used not generally to deliver for exportation their finest sorts
there was no doubt, for it was proved by the fact that since
the opening of the trade many new varieties had been brought
to England, and amongst others he would mention the
"• Howqua's Mixture," which had now become a standard
tea in this country. The China tea plant had a fine and fra-
grant aroma, and differed in the form of its blossoms from
the lately discovered Assam tea shrub. The learned pro-
fessor ably illustrated his observations by elegant paintings,
the property of Mrs. Morrison, the widow of the late cele-
brated missionary, Dr. Morrison. 13' The above report
appeared in the "Morning Post" and "Morning Chronicle"
of 20th November.
DARING RoBBERY, AND CAPTURE OF THE THIEVES.—On
Friday evening week some thieves entered the house of
Colonel Kaye, in the Royal Crescent, Bath, and took from
thence a quantity of jewellery, consisting of diatnonds, pearls,
and watches, Ev.c., amounting to the value of £3,000. The
robbery is supposed to have taken place about eight o'clock
in the evening. Colonel and Mrs. Kaye left their residence
about that time to attend an evening party, several servants
remaining in the house, and the discovery took place imme-
diately on their return home before midnight. Information
being promptly given at the police station, Hall, a very clever
officer, acting on sonic
previous intelligence, that if any lob-
-
hery should occur, similar to those which had been so daringly
executed in Bath for several previous winters, that the booty
would probably be sent to Birmingham instead of London,
immediately sent off two of the must active of the police es-
tablishment to Bristol. On arriving in that city, one of them,
standing at the door of an inn in Wine-street, for the purpose
of observation, saw one, who he had reason to suspect be-
longed to the party, coming towards the inn, attended by a
porter, bearing a carpet-hag, Keeping a strict watch on the
further procceedings of this individual, he found that he had
ordered a bed, and deposited other baggage at an inn called
the Plume of Feathers. He was seen shortly after to leave
the house, and get into a hackney-coach. From the driver of
the coach, information was obtained that he had got into a
gig, waiting for him on the Gloucester road, where he had
been joined by two others, and proceeded at a rapid rate in
that direction. The officers, now certain that they were on
the right scent, looked about for the speediest means of pur-
suit, and, finding a stage-coach about to start in the same di-
rection, immediately acquainted the coachman with the ne-
cessity for expedition, followed so quickly'that they arrived
at the door of au inn, about six miles from Bristol in a few
minutes after the gig, which was standing in a shed near the
inn, had deposited the party. - After some resistance two were
captured, and the third succeeded in making his escape, but
not with the booty; for the whole of the valuables stolen on
the previous night from Colonel Kaye were found concealed
in the pocket of a Mackintosh cape: The robbers were then
secured by being handcuffed, one on each side of Perry, the
strongest of the officers, whilst the other undertook to drive
them back to Bristol in their 'awn Whenatfiheyohuaid pro-
ceeded some miles. one of the thieves made a desperate effort
to attempt to throw himsellout of the vehicle, du' .d
pro-
bably have succeeded but for the prompt assistance rendered
by a young gentleman, who was fortunately at hand, and
was summoned in the queen's name to aid the officers. They
were then secured by one being fastened to each officer, and
compelling one pair to walk, whilst the
to hepßturto
nisgf;enatnledmthane
drove the gig containing the other, back
robbers were sagely bstaed in-Bath prison on Saturday night.
The eaminatiim, which took place on Monday, was private,
for the purpose of sechritig the third; and, from what tran-
spired, there is little doubt but there will be a full discovery
of the gang of housebreakers who have committed so many
daring robberies in Bath for the last three years, so as seri-
ously to frighten some of the elderly inhabitants into a reso-
lution to leave the place, if they still cs,ntinued undetected.
Many very curious implements used in housebreaking, Ste.,
were found in the boxes left at the Plume of Feathers, in
Bristol,