The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

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REGATTA ON. WINDERMERE.—The time fixed upon
for this sport is said to be in the course of next month
(August).
It is said that the Marquess of Londonderry obtained
last year, from his Pensher, Rainton, and Pittington col-
lieries, the large profit of £62,500.
It is announced in a supplement to the London Gazette
of Tuesday, that George Edward Wilson, Esq., of Hever-
sham House, has been appointed sheriff of the county of
Westmoreland.

The Sumerland Times states that the watering places
in that district—Tynemouth, Cullercoats, Newbiggin,
Roker, Croft, Dinsdale, Middleton, and Gilslond—are all
well filled with respectable company.
A new mode of cheap and healthful enjoyment has been
opened to the artizan classes of London. Pleasure trips
on the Paddington Canal, in barges conveniently and or-
namentally fitted up, have become frequent this month.
CARNARVON REGATTA.—This regatta is intended to
take place on the 9th and 10th of August. The prize
list, as usual, is very large, and the amusements will be of
the most interesting and varied description.
The superintendent of the Aylesbury police having be-
come obnoxious to some individuals, they revenged them-
selves by painting his mule—one side yellow and the other
green.
SALMON.—During the past week a great quantity of
salmon, morts, and sprods have been caught upon Milli,-
thorpe sands; they are selling as low as 7d. to Bd. per lb.
fresh caught every day.
Foreign capital in English securities has, it is calm_
lated, been invested to the amount of £22,000,000
consequence of the disturbed state of Europe during 'tire
last eighteen months.
THE CHOLERA.—From the statement of a correspondent
in a provincial paper, it would seem that in several csesp
holera in that district the 5'A
been poisoned,

MADAME SONTAG.—This extraordinary vocalist is an-
nounced to sing in four different languages—ltalian, Ger-
man, French, and English, at a concert to be given in the
concert-room of her Majesty's Theatre. Her Amina last
week was said to be the finest on the stage since Malibran,
and even to eclipse that of Jenny Lind.
At the Oxford Assizes, James Layton, accused of the
murder of his wife on a public road near Banbury, first
by shooting her in the forehead, and then cutting her
throat, was acquitted on the ground of insanity. Several
respectable persons gave evidence that he had long been
considered mad, and on being called upon to plead to the
indictment be replied—" I wish to say, when you make
mention of the word dead, that the woman never died a
natural death, but she dyed some colour; the woman is
alive at the present moment, and I will swear it."
DESPERATE LEAP FROM BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.—On
Thursday evening, a man, apparently about 40 years of
age, but unknown, mounted the bridge and plunged
head foremost into the river. Bull, one of the officers on
the Blackfriars-pier, instantly put off in a boat and rowed
towards the deceased, and having overtaken him put forth
his hand intending to lay hold of the hair of his bead and
pull him into his boat. The tide, however, was running
down very rapidly, and the hair on the man's head being
too short for Bull to hold, the boat was carried over the
man and he immediately afterwards disappeared.
THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.—A despatch has arrived
at the Admiralty, from Sir John Richardson, without any
news of Sir John Franklin. The expedition had traversed
the coast from the Mackenzie and Coppermine River;
but the Esquimaux all declare that no white men had
made their appearance. Unfortunately the ice set in unu-•
sually strong, and prevented the expedition from proceed-
ing beyond Icy Cove, to the north of Cape Kendall, just
as it was on the point of exploring a most int- resting re-
gion. Thus, for the present, all hope is cut off of disco-
vering the lost voyagers. The search for Captain Frank-
lin has brought to light many interesting facts respecting
the inhospitable regions of Arctic America.
CHOLERA AT MERTHYR.—This frightful disease con-
tinues to rage in this locality with unabated virulence,
notwithstanding everything has been done to mitigate it
by the Board of Guardians, the medical staff, and the
authorities generally. The following is the return up to
ten on Wednesday morning, and we are sorry to add that
the disease has not at all decreased since the report was
made up. The extensive preventive measures adopted at
Dowlais were for a long time successful; but the disease
is now raging there with greater virulence, in proportion
to the population, than it has in any othar part of the
district :—Merthyr, total cases from the commencement,
1,238; died, 499. Dowlais, total cases, 222; died. 80.
Aberdare, total cases. 145 ; died 40. Total in the three
places, 1,605 cases, 609 fatal.
REVENGE.—A short time since the incumbent of Bar-
nard Castle, in Yorkshire, gave the eatage of the grass in
the church-yard to a butcher, a respectable young trades-
man, on the condition that it was to be eaten by sheep.
In gratitnde the young man, in a contested election for
churchwardens, exerted himself and polled a great num-
ber of votes for the church candidate. The defeated party
in revenge set the bellman to work, who went round the

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town crying that Mr. D— had on hand a large quantity
of consecrated mutton, which he had fattended in the
church-yard on the bones of their ancestors, and could
consequently let them have it at a reduced price. Cus-
tomers, who did not fear loathsome diseases, were re-
quested to apply early, as the mutton would not keep, in
consequence of the food on which the sheep had been
fattened.

The British skip Sarah Crisp was discovered by the
Emma Sherratt, on her voyage outward to Hong Kong,
teak-laden and water-logged, almost a perfect wreck, her
mast gone, as well as every thing on deck. With much
care nineteen persons in a shocking state of exhaustion
were taken off the wreck. They proved to be Clptain
Taylor, the master ; Mr. Long, the chief mate ; and se-
venteen seamen. Their sufferings had been truly awful.
They had been twenty-seven nights and days on the
wreck, with nothing to subsist on excepting a monkey and
two fishes, and all the water they had was about a couple
of buckets, which they caught with some old canvass.
The second mate and twelve seamen had died from want
of food. The ship's loss was attributed to a plank start-
ing, as she filled in a very short time and turned over on
her side.

NAVIGATION OF RIVERS IN INDTA.—A deputation of
gentlemen, consisting chiefly of merchants connected with
India, and officers in the lion, company's service, had an
interview last week with the deputy chairman of the Hon.
East India Company to impress upon them the import-
ance of opening the cotton districts of the Deccan, and
our newly acquired territory, the Punjaub, by means of
steamboats of an improved construction, to ply on the
rivers, as recommended by Mr. Bourne, R.N. These
vessels are expected to carry a large cargo on a draft of
water not exceeding twelve inches, at a rate of speed, and
with a capability of surmounting shoals and quicksands,
so as to ply night and day without interruption. The
deputation was most favourably received, and it is under-
stood that the subject suggested by them will be brought
under the early consideration of the court of directors.
AN ARRIVAL OF CALIFORNIAN GOLD IN GLASGOW.—
We understand that Messrs. Macallum and Graham, of
Glasgow have received a box of Californian gold, the
first, we believe, that has come to this quarter. The box
is nearly five inches in length and breadth, but little more
than two inches deep, and 14 11-16ths oz. of gold. The
gold is chiefly in flakes, but amongst them are some large
and heavy pieces, evidently in the state in which they have
been taken off the rock. The gold in pieces has the
appearance of having been at one period exposed to the
action of fire, and the rocks in the region from which they
have come have been the subjnr of volcanic action. The
contents of the box estimated at the value of 655. per
ounce, a low price for gold in this state, are worth £4BO.
The ease is a sample of a consignment, per the "Lord
Hardinge" to London, by Messrs. Cross, Hobson, and
Co., of San Francisco, to their friends in Glasgow.—
North British Mail.

CURIOUS DISCOVERY.-A few days since about 30
small bones were found in the wall of the south-west
porch of the parish of St. Mary's Church, Chesterfield.
Singularly enough they were all the same small metatarsa'
(we believe) bone of the human foot. We have no doubt
whatever that in the ages when so much veneration was
paid to the bones of the saints, when they were abstracted
and sold for amulets and curative purposes, that some
story had gone current about the wonders performed by a
bone of this description ; and that some cunning monk
had secreted all he could collect from the sexton ready to
palm them on his credulous visitors as the original
miracle-working relic. He would sell them to strangers
under strict promise of secrecy, and each would go away
to his own home satisfied that he was in possession of that
part of the saint's toe which had been of such wondrous
efficacy. Death or the Reformation may have stopped
him ere he had disposed of all his treasure.—Derby
Mercury.

A NEW SHIPPING SIGNAL.—On Wednesday a newly
invented apparatus for the prevention of collision at sea
during foggy and thick weather, when lights and other
methods now in use are altogether unavailable, was exhi-
bited at Lloyd's Rooms, Royal Exchange. The machine
is the production of a Mr. Wells ; it is extremely portable.
occupying a space about two feet square, and capable of
being worked by one man, who, turning a cog wheel act-
ing on a force pump, produces a volume of sound that will
penetrate several miles distant, which being continuous
satisfactorily marks the position of a vessel. The machine,
which was inspected by numerous merchants, shipowners,
captains, and practical nautical men, was highly approved
of, and it appeared to be the prevailing opinion that all
vessels proceeding to sea should be furnished with one,
not only to prevent similar collisions to that of the Europa
and Charles Bartlett, but also to be used when off a lee
shore, or in distress. _ _ _

FneroeTs.—Accounts from Memel of the sth current
state, that in the course of last month 310 ships had ar-
riveXthere, and of these 130 seeking cargo, which had been
the means of reducing freights. The rates at that date
were—to east coast of England, 3s. 9d., 3s. 7d., 3s. 6d. ;
Grangemouth and Newcastle, 3s. 3d. ; Hull, Lynn, and
Wisbeach, 3s. 9d. ; London, 3s. 9d. per quarter wheat,
17s. and 16s. 6d. per load ; west coast of England, 4s. 6d.;
east coast of Ireland, 4s. 6d. ; Gloucester and Dublin,
4s. 6d. per quarter wheat ; Bristol. Channel, 4s. ld. per
quarter, for a large ship ; Dundee, £275 in the lump, for
a ship of 235 tons register; Kirkaldy, 355. per ton flax ;
Hull, 60s. per standard hundred planks ; Gloucester or
Bristol, 21s. per load, or any other port in the channel,
20s. ; one British ship had been chartered at Odessa for
Britain, on the 2nd, at 51s. 6d. per ton tallow ; other two-.
at 555., and another of 230 tons register at 60s. A Rus-
sian had obtained 475. 6d. to this country. There re-
mained seeking two British ships of about 4,000 quarters
together; one Baltic Russian of 2.000 ; one Mecklen-
burger, and about thirty-five Mediterranean vessels.
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN LONDON.—On Saturday morning,
shortly after two o'clock, a most destructive fire broke
out at the Red Lion Inn, immediately at the rear of the
Queen's Hotel, in Aldersgate-street. The premises are
situate at the corner of Bull and Mouth-street, and were
known as the Lincolnshire, Derby, and Yorkshire House,
King Edward-street, City,-occupied by Mr. Tabernacle,
late of the Surrey Coalhole. The fire was first perceived
by Blomfield, 286 City, who, in passing observed a strong
light in the lower room,, from an opening over the door in
Bull and Mouth-street. He instantly gave the alarm,
when there appeared at the first-floor window the wife
of the occupier, the servant, and the potman. They let
themselves with some difficulty down in a sheet, the
policeman assisting them to the ground. The flames
continued to progress. with fearful violence, and in a few
minutes the fire shot from room to room until the whole
of the premises, from the bottom to the tap, were in a
most dreadful blaze. In a short time the- floors fell in,
and shortly afterwards the roof, the light shed by the fall
of the roof illuminating the whole of the city. Of the
origin of the outbreak nothing could be learned, nor
whether the occupier is insured.
MURDER OF Two CHILDREN BY THEIR UNCLE.—On
Friday week a labourer, named Benjamin Heald, aged 20
years, residing with his parents at Knottingley, York-
shire, took two of his brother's children into the garden
for a walk. After being there a short time he desired the
children to leave the garden, which they manifested a
disinclination to do. He took up a bottle, it is supposed
in a fit of insanity, and beat out the brains of the little
boy, five years old. He immediately afterwards killed the
little girl, three years old, by beating her over the head
with a stick. This dreadful tragedy accomplished, he
went into the house and told his mother that he believed
he had killed the two children, and alleged, with the
greatest apparent coolness, that he had done so because
he was afraid they would come to want. He then left
home and went into the town, his residence being at the
outskirts, and enquired for a surgeon. He was soon taken
into custody, but seemed little concerned, and shortly fell
fast asleep. All the family of the prisoner are remarkably
steady and industrious people, and towards the twa mug.
dered children it appeared that none of them had shown
greater kindness and affection than the prisoner. The
father of the two children lost his wife about six months
ago, and had, with his two children, gone to reside with
his parents, with whom his brother, the prisoner, also
resided.