The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn . . . Qrs.
Rapeseed

Oatmeal
Flout ..
Ditto .. .

Loads 7671
Sacks 478
. Brls.

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Oats,
Soo loads; Flour, sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, 8 qrs.; Oats, 75 qrs. ; Pease,— qrs. ,
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Flour, 933 barrels.—lreland. Wheat, 806
qrs. ; Flour, 73 sacks, barrels.—Coastwise. Wheat. 155 qrs. ;
Barley, 114 qrs. ; Malt, 94 qrs. ; Oats, 53 qrs. ; Beans,
qrs.; Pease, 12 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 20 Ids. ; Flour, 85 sacks, 267
barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week endinsgN.R
:!v.y6e,..1386480..
7d
Wheat.. 625. Id. Barley 345. gd. I Oats.. 22a. d
Beans.. 435. 7d. Pease.. 435. 4d.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 635. Od. I Barley.. 355. 10d. 1 Oats.. 235. sd. I Rye.. 365. 5d

445. sd. I Pease.. 435. 2d

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat 235.8 d. Barley 9s. 4d. I Oats .... 12s. 3d. I Rye.. 1 ss. 6d.
I
Beans, 3s. 6d. Pease.. ss. Od. Ind. Corn 9s. 4d Flourl4s. 2td

Liverpool Averages, week ending 10th November, 1840.
1 Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Pease.
884 28 534
• 19s. 10d. Os. Od. Os. Od

7d. 1 245. od

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND
GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.-TWO LIVES LOST.

BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY MORNING.
•
(From our own Correspondent.)
At a few minutes before six o'clock on Tuesday evening,
a locomotive engine, once well known at the Vauxhall Sta-
tion, Grand Junction Railway, as Dr. Church's engine, while
standing over an ash-pit at the Bromsgrove Station, blew up
with a terrific explosion. The following is an official account
of the melancholy accident .---The engine in question had
been made by Dr. Church, of Birmingham, for some time,
and, at his request, allowed to be tried on the Grand Junc-
tion Railway. On this trial it was found difficult to raise the
steam quickly, and Dr. Church had it back again to remedy
the defect. Last week, a friend of Dr. Church applied to
the directors of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to
allow another trial to be made on their line, to which they
consented, subject to an examination of the engine by the en-
gineer of locomotives. It was examined by him and his fore-
man, and reported favourably of; and the steam was got up
on Tuesday for the first time, and the engine made
several trips on the line without any loads attached,
and worked apparently very well. About six o'clock
on Tuesday night, another trial was about to be made,
when the engine blew up with a tremendous explosion.
Scarf, a very careful driver in the employ of the company
with Rutherford, the foreman to the engineer of locomo-
tives, were upon the engine, with a man in the employ as the
proprietor of the engine, and one more person. Poor Scarf
was killed instantaneously, and Rutherford so much injured
that he expired yesterday (Wednesday) morning, whilst two
other men were severely scalded. The cause of the explosion
is at present unknown. The engine had no load attached,
and was standing still when the explosion took place. Ru-
therford has left a wife and three children to deplore his
loss.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER

JONES if

LITTLER

This was an action for slanderous words, tried before Baron
Rolfe at the last assizes for Liverpool, when a verdict was re-
turned for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages.
Mr. Kelly now moved to enter a nonsuit, or for a new
trial, upon the ground that the evidence Was not sufficient to
sustain a verdict. According to the learned counsel's state-
ment, the plaintiff was a brewer, and had lately been elected
a town-councillor for the borough of Liverpool. The de-
fendant disapproved of the plaintiff's election, and at a meet-
ing which took place after a coursing match, used the slan-
derous words which formed the foundation for the action.
The words charged the plaintiff with being a rogue, having
been compelled to leave Westmoreland for dishonesty, and
having been in a sponging-house within a fortnight for debt.
The defendant was asked whether he meant to apply his ob-
servations to Mr. Jones, the brewer, of Rosehill, and he
said, " Yes, it is him." It was objected to at the trial, that
as the words were not actionable in themselves, it was
necessary to prove the averment in the declaration that the
words were spoken not only of the plaintiff, but of and con-
cerning the plaintiff in his trade as a brewer; and that it did
not appear that the language used had any reference to the
plaintiff's trade. The learned judge, however, thought that
as an imputation was made as to the plaintiff's solvency, and
it appeared that he was in trade, it was impossible for the
jury not to infer that the slanderous words were used con-
cerning the plaintiff in his trade. lie gave the defendant's
counsel leave, however, to take the opinion of the court on
the question, and this motion was accordingly made.
Mr. Baron Parke thought there was no ground for enter-
ing a nonsuit, but that the learned judge ought to have left
it to a jury to say whether the words were spoken of the
plaintiff in his trade as brewer, and as this question had not
been left to the jury, the defendant was entitled to a rule for
a new trial.

The other Barons concurring, a rule nisi for a new trial
was granted.

DEATH OF THE PRINCESS BORGHESE.—Our Paris cor-
respondent writes, that intelligence was received in Paris, on
Friday, of the death, at Rome, of the Princess Borghese,
daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury.—Morning Post. The
late princess (before her marriage the Lady Gwendaline-
Catherine Talbot) was in her 23d year, having been born
Dec. 3, 1817, was married to the Prince of Sulmona, eldest
son of the Italian Prince I3orghese, May 11th, 1835, and in
July of the present year presented him with a son and heir to
the principality and estates.

PRACTICAL
qoax.—About a fortnight ago; two young
men, in connection with a railway, in this town, came to the
determination of having a little bit of amusement at other
people's expense ; and, in order to do so, it was arranged
that one of them should profess to be newly married ; the
bride elect, according to previous agreement, countenancing
the statement as true. A week of the feigned honeymoon
passed in joyous hilarity, and the shopmates of the mock-
bridegroom were enjoying the thoughts of a glorious " tuck
out," which they were promised, in the shape of a supper,
at a well-known public-house, in the Market-place. The
well remembered night came, and each, " big with expect-
ancy," prepared for rendering ample justice to the respective
joints promised for the occasion, viz—Roast beef, mutton,
fouls of all kinds, soups, pies, tarts, &c., to conclude with
the luxury of custards, cream-cheese, &c. Several of the
invited guests:took the trouble, in the course of the day, to
call at the inn, to make full and satisfactory enquiries, as to
the precise time the cloth would be laid, and as to the pro-
gress of the culinary department. The parties, who were all
punctual to the time, had very successfully polished their
swarthy faces, and were eloquently lavish in their praises to
their liberal host, wishing him and his good lady all the joys
and comforts of a wedded life,. and universal prosperity to
their succeeding generation. Several gallons of John Barley-
corn were toasted away in this manner, when the sententious
waiter (Ann) announced, with due gravity, " supper-is on
the table, gentlemen, leading the way to the room where
was spread out their repast, carefully and warmly covered up
with dishes. All parties appeared good humoured—eyes that
sometimes appeared dull, now sparkled with vivacity—thcie
was a beaming smile upon each countenance like the sun
suddenly laughing from behind a summer's 'cloud, and a
looker-on might easily perceive from their preparations and
appearance, that their respective appetites where whetted to
the bent. Each one took his chair with an air of imposing
complacency ; and those gentlemen who had kindly consented
to carve, began to make sundry preliminaries, such as turning
up the cuffs of their coats, and stretching out their arms as
if determined to have full sweep and freedom in their carving
operations. At length the covers were duly removed, when,
lo ! what a ghastly appearance presented itself to their asto-
nished vision. Prom the sunshine of June, they suddenly
sunk back into the bleak gloom of December;--one unvaried
mess of water-porridge and buttermilk met their withering
gaze, and all was in a moment—chaos. The disconsolate
expeptants threw plates, &e., in all directions, and some of
them departed uttering sundry. unpleasant remarks upon the
diagiaceful joke played upon them, others determined to
rnakp the " best of a bad job," plastering the faces of those
around them with the porridge, while the party who brought
thenl together richly relished the joke, by peeping through
the window from the outside, during the novel anti-epicurean
scene.--Preston Chronicle.