The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

Nine hundred geese, several weighing 151bs. each, 200 THE LADY Paysages/sm.—Several operations have re-
turkeys, and 50 ducks, altogether six tons weight, were centlY been undertaken to blow up this vessel, which has
forwarded on Monday and Tuesday last from Spalding long obstructed the navigation of the Tyne. On Wednes-
Eleven thousand barrels of oats were exported from for the London Christmas market. Every day this week day the operations were most successful. The main deck
Limerick last week to England and Scotland. quantities of poultry , almost as large, have been sent to of the vessel was raised three feet nearer the surface of
It is said that Government have determined to shorten the metropolis. the water than before the discharges were applied, so
the term of the soldier's enlistment to ten years. NOVEL SPORTING.—A few days since two gentlemen amply was their action directed under the bilge of the
Dr. List, the celebrated economist, has committed sui- were near the Meikle Rock, between Avoch and Fort- vessel. The massive iron knees were divided by the force
ride, by shooting himself with a pocket pistol. rose, Rossshire, with a Newfoundland dog. Seeing a fish of the explosions as if by a knife, and the mainmast has
During twenty-four hours, on Thursday, no less than in the water, they fired at and wounded it. The dog set been recovered with the exception of three or four feet at
twelve fires occurred in various parts of the metropolis. off in pursuit, and the contest was keenly kept up, the the bottom. The divers have been engaged during the
Lord Ashley, it is stated, declines coming forward to fish and dog diving in every direction; but the fish was week in fishing up the wreck, large portions of which
contest the representation of the city of Bath at the gene- captured at last, and dragged ashore. It proved to be a have been brought to the surface. Ihe destruction of the
ral election. fox shark, and measured five feet in length. vessel has been most complete.
The story of Lord Tweedale's marriage being null and " GUN Tow" APPLIED TO BLASTING.—A gentleman, MR. NEWMAN.—A correspondent of the Daily News,
void, from a previous contract entered into with another who has been a manufacturer of gunpowder in the west of writing from Rome, under date Dec. sth, says—" I have
lady in Scotland, is a fabrication. Scotland for the last twenty years, has been successful in noticed the melaticholy death of Colonel Bryan's daugh-
W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P., has generously returned several experiments with gun tow and gun sawdust, for ter. The solemn dirge and requiem which was held yes-
half the amount of mats to his tenants occupying garden blasting purposes. A perfectly satisfactory Hie! was terday in the church of Irish Franciscans, St. Isidoro,
land, in consequence of the failure in the potato crops. made, on Tuesday, at the Lady Mill Qu irry, in the pre was attended by several hundred British visitors, besides
A pension of £lOO a-year has been offered by the go- settee of Professor Penny and a number of other scientific the young lady's kinsfolk, o! the princely houses of Do-
vermeent to Father Mathew ! !!—" The force of humbug gentlemen. One of the experiments was with a bore of ria, Pamphili. and Borghese. Towards the termination of
can no further go." 3 feet 4 inches, and 21 diameter, charged with 11 ozs tow the sorrowful ceremonial. at a pause in the liturgy, there
Triennial stakes on the turf are beginning to spread, and cotton, mixed (41bs. of gunpowder would be required), arose in the body of the church a person in ecclesiastical
and in a few years will be found in the programme of and which brought down about 13 or 15 tons in weight— costume, of pensive and careworn aspect, who, standing
every respectable meeting in the kingdom. the effect is represented as "splendid." near the coffin, addressed himself to speak His voice was
A Cantab has admitted, in a letter to The Times, that MESMERISM APPLIED TO TOOTH DRAWING.—We low at first, so that few heard till it gradually filled the
his charge against a proctor, of arresting a young lady, witnessed, the other day, the extraction of a tooth from a church, and it was understood to be a simple recital of the
was only founded on a general rumour to that effect. young woman, who underwent the operation while in the unostentatious virtues of the deceased ; but soon came
Mr. Carman, son of the late Mr. Cannan, official mesmeric sleep. The tooth, which was a large one, and words of more impressive import, and a whisper went
assignee, is appointed to fill the same berth in the place its lower part quite fresh, did not yield till after a wrench, round that the unexpected speaker on the occasion was the
of the late Mr. Alsager. which would have caused most intense agony to any Rev. Mr. Newman, late of Oxford. To the thousands
Flixton-hall. Suffolk, the seat of Robert Shafto Adair, waking subject. The girl's countenance, however, did who have perused his printed sermons delivered in Angli-
was on Saturday night destroyed by fire, occasioned by not undergo the slightest change, and no indication of can pulpits it would be difficult to convey a notion of his
the overbeating of a flue The damage is estimated at sensibility was given. She slept on after the operation manner on the present occasion, it being the first time that
£30.000, and a part only was insured. was concluded, and when awakened in a few minutes, did he delivered himself of an extemporaneous unpremeditated
The Duke of Richmond has signified his wish to have not seem to be for for some time aware that the tooth had discourse."
the money subscribed tor his testimonial, used as the been extracted.—Northern Warder. THE FROST IN LONDON.—The river on Thursday.
foundation of an institution for the relief of farmers re- SUICIDE OF MAJOR R. F. EAMES —On Wednesday, above bridge, presented a singular appearance, owing to
duced by adverse circumstances. Major Richard Fairfax Eames, late of the 47th foot, the immense pieces of ice that were drifted up with the
A WARNING.—Sir Edward Buiwer Lytton's new no- Madras army, shot himself through the heart, at an hotel tide. This has proved exceedingly disastrous to per-
vel, " Lucretia; or, the Children of Night," is generally in London, where he had been staying. He had retired sons who obtain their living at the water aide. The
pronounced to be a disgrace to the writer, and a shame to from the service, having been an invalid on account of an frost has been so intense that it has been found necessary
us all. affection of the brain. A letter to a friend was found in to keep fires in all the fire stations, to prevent the works
Herrings caught at Brighton in the morning are sold in his bed-room, commencing—" From insinuations and of the engines from freezing. After passing Vauxhall-
the Midland Counties in the afternoon! at the rate of inuendos thrown out at various times that I have sacri- bridge there was no clear water to be seen, and the steam-
from twenty to tweuty.five for a shilling, or at a reduction ficed my honour and reputation in some way or the other, boats had to make their way as best they could through
of 200 per cent. why I know not. I find this world no longer worth living the masses of ice, which are not yet very dangerous op-
A report has been circulated that it is the intention of in, and throw off the mortal and become an immortal." ponents, by reason of their want of substance. At Chelsea
Government, in the next session of Parliament, to abolish A public meeting was held on Tuesday evening, at the several of the piers became blocked in, together with the
the window tax, and raise the property tax to five per Princess's Concert-room, Oxford-street, for the purpose boats lying alongside ; and in the latter part of the after-
cent., leaving the income tax untouched. of " investigating the frightful case of death from srarva- noon the Citizen .boats were unable to perform their
Lord John Russell has announced that he cannot, of tion of Louisa Mordannt, from cruel neglect of the Board downward trips. Battersea-bridge had very few of its
his own act, continue the pension granted to the now de- of Guardians, and also to take into consideration the dis- arches open to navigation, and the few craft that ventured
ceased widow of Mr. Hood to the children. An applica- gusting rules of uncleanliness in Marylebone workhouse." through could with difficulty reach Wandsworth. This
tion must be made to Parliament. The chair was taken by Benjamin B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., place, with the Fulham marshes and osier beds, has always
PRICE OF CORN.—The prices of wheat and other kinds who denounced the present pOOO law system in the most been a favourite resort in severe weather for wild fowl, •
of grain advanced at all the leading markets last week. indignant terms ; and all the speakers spoke in the and since Sunday last a very large number have been seen
Wheat rose from 4s. to ss. per quarter at Wakefield mar- severest language of the heartlessness of the guardians. in the neighbourhood. Many wild geese, ducks, and sea-
ket on Friday. i Strong resolutions were unanimously passed, and the gulls have been shot by parties from boats, and on Tues.
On Saturday morning week, about one o'clock, the poor-law bitterly reltrobated by all the speakers. day no less than three brace of wild ducks were shot in
United Secession Church, Pellockshaws, was discovered LIGHTNING.—On Sunday morning ae k, about eight less than two hours.
to be on fire, and was entirely consumed. We understand o'clock, Polminnick Cottage, near Penzance, was con- EFFECT OF SHOT UPON IRON STEAMERS.--A pars-
the church was insured with the Sun Fire Insurance Co. siderably injured by lightning. The electric fluid first graph, on the effects of shot upon our war steamers, has
for £BOO. struck the chimney-stacks, which were completely de- gone the round of the papers, stating that the splinters
Notwithstanding the high prices of provisions gene- stroyed, and, descending the chimney, demolished the
;eon
war
tll
view,refu we to enthteornginhtour
to
the
rally, yet poultry and game is now selling in London at mantle-pier. It was then attracted by the bell-wire,
of wood,
vessels.th that
low,the a
on lorsfi w
, from shot on iron ships are so much larger than those
unusually low prices. Pheasants are being sold at 4s. a along which it ran from room to room, destroying every b
brace ; hares at Is. 6d. each ; geese at 3s. each ; and impediment to its course—the ceilings, skirtings, floor, story apocryphal, "from its most vain and impotent con-
fowls at 3a. a couple. paper, &c., being considerably injured, and no fewer than elusions" for we know something of British tars, and
A. military board having recently been appointed by the fifty-four panes of glass, with portions of the window- that but few, very few of them, would be determined or
Commander-in-Chief, to consider the present allowances frames, were forced out, the fragments having been hurled deterred by the probability of personal danger in their
of fuel to the army, and the issues having been considered to a great ctistance. choice of a ship. The result of our inquiries tends to con-
insufficient, the War-office has ordered that the present BRUTAL EXHIBITION.—Tire Leeds intelligencer says, firm our opini, ns. We are told, that on the experiments
quantity of fuel shall be increased one third. that a fight for the honour of championship of the light recently made at Woolwich, of the effect of shot on iron,
Two brothers, Frenchmen, master and mate of a St. weights, and for the sum of £4OO, was decided on Toes- a gentleman remarked to Sir G. Cockburn that he thought
Maio vessel, have perished in the Tvne by suffocation, in day, in a field on this side of Norwich. The combatants
consequence of having placed a pan of lighted coals in the were the renowned Johnny Walker, and a newer aspirant, the iron splintered. Sir George treated the matter lightly,
saying, that in the first action he was in, splinters (rot's
cabin where they slept; the only ventilation being a bro-
named Simmonds. The men have been for some time in the first shot fired knocked down nine men. Now, we
ken pane of glass. active training, and considerable sums were pending the believe, that if Sir George had been of opinion that splin-
Zirac TRADE —The smelting and manufacture of zinc result. Contrary to expectation, the fight was of very ters from iron exceeded, or were more dangerous than
is becoming an important trade in Belgium. During the short duration, as ii, the fourteenth round, and in thirty- those from wood, he would have freely and openly de-
last ten years the progress made in this branch of mane- one minutes, Sirnmonds, losing his temper, fastened his Glared it; besides, we remember that the same cry waS
facture has been extraordinary. The borders of the river teeth into the shou,der of Walker, by which act he was raised against the use of teak timber when it was intro-
Meuse produce large quantities of the ore.— The Builder. immediately declared the loser, amidst the execrations of duced in the royal navy. The Cornwallis frigate was the
AN EARLY LAMB —On Tuesday, the 17th instant, a the assembled multitude. first frigate built of teak. In 1808, she was :commanded
ewe, belonging to Sir George Musgrave, Bart., of Eden- THE BARNARD CASTLE MURDERS.—The trial of by the present Admiral Pellew, and he and the present
hall, weaned a fine lamb on the snow, and the mother and George Barker, John Breckon, and Thomas Routledge Admiral Troubridge recollect, we have no doubt, the talk
her offspring are doing well. Several more are daily ex- Raine, charged with the murder of Joseph Yates and Ca- about danger from splinters from teak-built ships of war.
pected.—Carlisle paper. therine Raine, at Startforth, in August, 1845, commenced Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare very fairly offer to set the
Professor Schonbein communicated to the Academie at York, on Monday morning, and extended over Tues- question at rest : they say they will permit one of their
des Sciences, on the 23d November, that his gun cotton day and Wednesday. They were accused of throwing the iron ships to be filled with paper figures, the size of men,
is not prepared by the same process as the explosive cot- two deceased over the bridge into the river Tees. The to be fired at with shot as often as may be agreed on.
ton which has hitherto been experimented with so gene- two charges were taken separately, the prisoners being The splinters from iron, and their effect, would, by this
;ER'S CONSECRATION FOR
rally. first tried for the murder of Yates, and on the evening of means, he fairly teeted, and the question decided.—Nau-
At Blackburn, on Monday night, a fine lioness, which Wednesday the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. The
ENT.—The time, place, and mTanlinEerSonf Mr.
has been in Mr. Wombwell's possession, we believe, for other charge was not 'messed, the evidence being ihe same
s°n:cAvoasrEnTdsmecration to the cause oi the factory children
some years, gave birth to three fine cubs, two of which, aeosridninthoeyfroeremoerdr,cda.se, and a verdict of not guilty was ac-
iTnielsAlrsiletEaSite.hirvia'us defined by that gentleman in his speech at the
with their mother, are " doing as well as can be ex-
pected."
.. . Short Time Meeting—" He had been forty-
Morgan,Mr Charles Wye Williams, of Liverpool, and Mr. For some time past a gang of swindlers have been car-
rying on in London a system of fraud by offering to dis- we
yaeda
heardrs nvmogf
the
ea manufacturing
f he d istric t ,
iann d
the although
w est
secretary of the General Association of Steam Wakefield Sh •
Ship-owners, had an interview with the Earl of Clasen- count bills, and to advance money in other ways. Cir-
culars have been frequently sent to country tradesmen,
don, on Thursday, at the office of the Board of Trade, in
fihlnevedbies, and had been sufferingsenthuostitc in the blackscause of their
who have been duped in many instances. In their pros-
emancipation, he had never given himself the trouble to
reference to the Steam Navigation Act. pectuses, they have given various names and addresses, and
WEST INDIA PINEAPPLES.—The attempt made to have been pretended to be actuated by the highest mo-
know that there was a factory slave in England. And
import pineapples from the West Indies throughout the tives, with a desire to act secretly—for the advantage of
year has every proepect of being realised, and a parcel by their customers. Persons aho have been cheated, or on how was he converted ? It so happened that he was one
night. a visitor at the house of Mr. John Wood, of Bowl-
the Tay brings this tropical fruit in time for use in whom attempts have been made, have applied to the city
mg Hall, Bradford. He was the largest manufacturer of
England at Christmas. magis•rates ; and shoals of letters have been received
worsted in the world, and. be said—' Mr. Oastler, I won-
On Monday night a daring burglary was attempted in from the country respecting the proceedings of the gang;
der that, with all your philanthropy and zeal for the e.
Mr. Bailey's premises, Norwich. The burglars being de- but as yet they have kept clear of the meshes of the law,
cipation of the Blacks, you never turn your atten,tiomparintoo-
tected by Mr. Bailey's sons, an affray ensued, and one of AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY.—About a week Or ten
the men was shot, but not killed. He was conveyed to the the factories.' Why, what is there to do there ?
days ago, an aged woman, who, during a long widowhood
not. you know.?" " No, I know nothing about the fac-
hospital on the same night, where he now lies in a tees- had kept a very small public-house nearly opposite the
nous state. military barracks here, took ill and died. She lived tories—what is the matter?' .'Why, the system we carry
ten minutes
tiess,
on here at Bradfordhldro is the most awful that can be imagined S
,some only Eve years of
.age, in every
Sum. ROBBERIES.—The London papers contain se- rather penuriously, hut this was generally believed to be
veral reports of robberies at bakers' shops, by individuals in consequence of her poverty—being apparently at all
:rhioonrußr
scr.adfolrndnroy from six in the morning till seven in the
emeent - altavrin onotywnthimrty-illrsmin;tivete
in an apparent state of destitution. On Tuesday a simi- times aornewbat seraitened insircumstarices. .A__ter death
tar, practice was ttauptra by twv mcia Wily vlbltctt thy atop her deposltories and coffers were of course inspected by , "g-' g .
f°thredminntee
of Mr. Squires, confectioner, of High-street, each taking her relations, when, we believe, to the surprise of every .wl2l
a loaf. They were handed into the charge of the police. one of them—at all events to her neighbours—her wealth, more, but that is all. There are mills where they work
The following announcement appeared among the mar- chiefly in bank notes, but partly in silver, was found to 14 hours a day.l eaid, 'lt is impossible. Human na-
riages in the papers last week :—" On the 2nd of August amount to no less a sum than £9lo.—Perth Constitu- tore can never . .he,
endure it. " Well, but ' said ' they
last, at the British Ambassy, Paris, by the late Bishop tional. do endure it.' No time was allowed for play or religious
Luscombe, Dr. Lardner, to Mary, only daughter of Col. Considerable apprehension exists amongst the relatives instruction. At four o'clock the next morning, as Mr:
Spicer, late of the 12th Lancers; the marriage having been and connexions of the seamen engaged in the expedition Oastler was going off he was informed by the servant that
previously solemnized in the United States." of the Erebus and Terror, which sailed from the Tnames in Mr. Wood requested an interview with him. I went.
To MAKE STRONG TEA.—It is not generally known June last year, under the command of Sir John FranklinOastler, into the bedroom. Mr. Wood,
continued Mr.
that the way to make good tea is, first to pour in tire boil- and Captain Crozier, and many anxious applications have sitting up in the bed, had a small table by his bedside.
ing hot water into the pot, and then to put in the tea, not lately been made to the Admiralty on the subject. No Two wax candles were burning, and between them was
mixing it at all. The reason is obvious, for the hottest tidings have been received since last December, when placed God's holy word. He was reading it. '0 my
water is on the top, where the steam rises, then the tea is from information obtained from Esquimaux, and conveyed friend,' said he, ' before you go, I want you to give use
better infused, and the flavour drawn out more properly. to the Danish settlements in Greenland, opposite Discoe your solemn pledge teat you will endeavour to get these
The demolition of the ornamental colonnade forming Island, and thence overland, the expedition was preparing poor factory children emancipated. Their condition is se
the front of the south wing of Buckingham Palace was to winter in Gilbert's Sound. The last whaler for the heavy on my mind that I cannot rest, and every word,
commenced on Saturday ; from which point the new wing season has returned without bringing any intelligence. lead in this sacred book is like an arrow to my so
iv
begins. The excavations for both wings fronting St. and from all accounts this, their second winter in the ice, There was a picture of a penitent millowner. I did give
James's Park are complete, and the foundations are al- has set in at the north with great severity. [The Lite-him my ' .
hand and did ' him from • promise that moment to
ready laid. rary Gazette says that all fears on the subject are ground- endeavour to emancipate the factory slave."
A dinner was given to Captain Pechell, M.P., by the less.] DISSATISFACTION AMONG ELECTORS.—The anxiety
guardians of Brighton, on Monday, at the Old Ship, by SNOW STORM.—On Friday week, a heavy fall of snow and restlessneis which has shown itself of late on the sub-
way of testimonial for his exertions in opposing the efforts commenced in all parts of the United Kingdom, and ject of the dreaded establishment of the Romish Church
of the Poor Law Commissioners to control the parochial continued, more or less, for the next three or four days. in Ireland is evidently increasing. Very recently there '
affairs of Brighton, and his opposition to the New Poor Northward of York, the snow was regularly from one to has been a correspondence on these points between Sir
Law in general. two feet thick on Sunday, and as there was a brisk wind, John Duckworth and some of his constituents at Exeter:
An Irish labourer, named Owen Murray, died in Lon- much of the snow was drifted to the depth of from four a letter to the electors of East Worcestershire, by the Rev
don on Monday last, from suffocation, produced from in- to ten feet in the northern part of the county of Durham, R. B. Hone, of Hales Owen ; and a discussion between
flammation of the larynx, superinduced by a piece of bone in Northumberland, and Westmoreland. Not only the Mr. Walker and some of the electors of Reading. Sir John
which he had swallowed, His life might have been saved common highways, but also the railways, were rendered Duckworth, with a tenacity which many would show
had he consented to the performance of an operation for impassable on Sunday and Monday; but large forces of under like circumstances, rejected the idea of "pledging
the extraction of the bone. men having been got to clear the rails, not much detention himself." All be would say vas, that he bad been born
SACRILEGE.—During the night of Friday se'nnight the has since taken place. In many parts between Carlisle and bred a Protestant, and hoped ever to remain one ; and
parish church at Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, was and Edinburgh the snow lies to the depth of eight or nine with this answer his constituents were forced to content
broken into, and a quantity of black cloth, the hanging feet, and the moors of Westmoreland and Cumberland themselves as they could. The Reading case differs s
of the pulpit, and other articles, were stolen therefrom. are quite impassable. The fall has also been very heavy little in point of form, but not much in point of substance-
A reward of £lO has been offered for the apprehension of in Wales. As the snow was accompanied by a severe frost, Mr. Walter, being one of the principal landowners of the
the offenders. the weather was truly winterly—forming, indeed, one of the neighbourhood, has been invited to stand for that town.
A rencontre took place between the gamekeepers and old fashioned, seasonable (not to say poetical) introduc- But immediately the Protestant pledge interferes with his
watchers of the Marquis of Anglesey, and Josiah Spode, tions to Christmas which many of the present generation prospects, and he loudly complains of it. He urges, with
Esq., of Armitage Hall, near Rugeley, and a determined have scarcely before experienced. great earnestness, the impropriety and injustice of the
gang of poachers, from twelve to fifteen in number, in ademand forms
THE MERRY WIVES OP GLASGOW.—A short time ago pledging system, and plainly avows that the _
ar.
preserve on the Armitage Hall estate, on Monday night a serious obstacle to his becoming a candidate. Yet M
b
the wife of a grocer in the vicinity of the High-streete-
lite. After a desperate conflict, in which one of the .Walter himself, like Sir J. Duckworth, useslanguage
attention gentleman named Mr.
came the object of to a
keepers was severely wounded, and a poacher shot through
.which, fairly interpreted, implies all that the Protestants
At length he began to think he had made the de-.
the thigh, five of the offenders were secured. " I wouldwillingly pledge myself
require. He says, wou
On Tuesday morning a daring robbery was committed
heart of the fair dame, and he
sired impression upon the
the maintenance of all the great fundamental principles of
Proposed and obtained her consent to name an evening
at Messrs. Cox, Savory and Co.'s, 54, Cornhill. It ap- the British Constitution." `V V hat does any one require
pwrhen they should meet finally to adjust matters for their
pears that the shopman, according to custom, opened the beyond Cais ? Beyond this, we
departure to a distance. The night accordingly arrived, mean, when fairly inter
shortly before eight, and then locking up the door,
the couple met, and every thing seemed propitious for the ' preted. The British Constitution contains, among its
went to breakfast. It was during his absence that
thieves contrived to enter the shop, and swept off trays , .
enterprise. It was considered prudent, however, to post-that
fundamental principles, an Established Church, and .
containing no less than 149 gold and silver watches, of Ipone leaving the city till a later hour, and in the meantime British rou-
st church protesting against Rome. The Co
the value of nearly £lOOO. it was resolved to have something comfortable. The effect tution excludes a Romanist from the throne and from the
The anticipated contest for the representation of East to
of the gentleman's potations was to consign him the office of Lord Chancellor. It forbids any intercourse be-
t the Governmentof England and the court of Rome-
ween e
Worcestershire, it is understood, will not take place. A arms of . Morpheus, when the treacherous Delilah, previ- What do we want . then from Sir John Duckworth, Mr'
conference between the supporters of Captain Rushout ously prepared for action, cut off one of his whiskers, anddh rice t°
and of Mr. J. H. H. Foley was held at Worcester oncompletely one side of his head, rubbed his
leered
withmost .
..Walter, or any other candidate, but a hearty a ere
this protest ? Only let men honestly declare that the!,
face a strong solution of nitrate of silver, and then
Saturday, when it was arranged that no opposition should- adopt and concur in the declarations of the Church ce
p like a
be offered to Captain Rushout on this occasion, and that , made her esca e. Next day, Mr. appealed e England concerning the Papacy and the Romish system,
i hl d vil '' but the cause of the vronderous change be-
at the next election none shall be given to the return of - l.le e , • and they cannot, without the greatest possible inceo:
Mr. Foley. ginning to be gossipped about in the locality, he has dis-
sistency, proceed to establish and endow this Antichristuo'
appeared.—Glasgow Argus.
A boy, named James Lawrence, aged fifteen, has been system by votes in Parliament.—Record.
DEATH ' N
ALLEGED FROM STARVATION.—GROSS E•
committed to Hertford gaol, for shooting another boy,
GLECT OF RELIEVING OFFICERS.—On Friday, an in- A HOAX rer LoterioN.—A repetition of the not Wl_
named George Tomlin. It seems that the prisoner was
held in !lullthe body of Bryan Verey, brilliant practical joke originated by Theodore Hook, as
quest was on
keeping birds en a farm at Hoo, near Lord Deere's park,
outh. The Russ
coroner, in opening the case, said that the stupidly played off last week upon a stationer named ~
when Lawrence said he would shoot his companion. Tom-
ycause of the death was yet unknown to him ; but should sell, of Nos. 79 and 80, Aldergate-street. Precisely al
lin ran away frightened, and the prisoner then fired at i
rby the evidence that any one was to blame, the five o'clock on Wednesday evening last, seven hairdreses
him : the gun was charged with peas, some of which pe- juryt appea r
would, by an expression
days. so far into his back as to cause his death in three
eonsiderable moral hifluence. The jury, on viewing the persons, each carrying a wig. Upon inquiring their lett'
days. body were horror-struck at the fearful spectacle presented siness, Mr. Russell was informed that they had been or'
NOVEL IMPORTATION.—There is now a regular supply
of rabbits imported twice a week from Ostend, in which to them. Deceased lived in a narrow dirty passage, at dered to attend at that hour, to dress the family's hair;
the poulterers of the metropolis are doing a brisk trade.
the further end of which he and his sister occupied a lower Before sufficient time had elapsed to tell the parties tbs;
The prices vary from 60. to Bd. per lb. They are in ge- room. The apartment is but six feet by nine. The small , they had been hoaxed, in stepped a butcher's man, with r
neral much larger, but inferior in flavour to our rabbits.
window admitted both the wind and the rain. The body tray filled with legs of pork, and sundry other joints °
pout- The extent of the trade may be supposed by one .
i lay on a miserable straw mattress on same chairs, and was meat ; the man had no sooner placed his tray on the cOO%
terer in Holborn importing 50 dozen weekly. The nom-
attenuated and shrivelled to an almost inconceivable deter, than a fish-monger brought in a stock of 'fish, soel
her of geese, ducks, and wild water fowl imported is daily
gree, and covered in places with ulcerated sores. The two wine merchants followed, each having a couple :
whole form suggested the idea of a skeleton barely covered hampers of wine on their backs. Mr. Russell having e'a
late Sir Wet kia w Wynn, on his coming of age, in I ,
i
on the increase.
A GOOD DINNER.—At an entertainment given by the
with skin. The jury returned the following verdict:— plained to the people that he knew nothing whatever f_
70. The jury have no doubt that death has been occasioned ' the affair, and that the orders must have been given b 9
,by the disease which the boy Brian Verey was labouring some evil-minded persons, in came a gentleman who eat
15,000 people tined inWynnstay park. Among the items ,
t under. But it is also their opinion that his death has nounced himself as a corn extractor, and who stated tiro
consumed we: e _ ', 'rallocks, 50 large hogs, 60 calves, 80
by the gross neglect of the relieving he had been hired to attend at five o'clock, to opera
been accelerated
sheep, 18 lambs, ;.,'' aareeys,t 0 quarts of shrimps, 80 bar-ol‘•
officer of the Sculcoates Union." I upon Mr. Russell's corns. A number of pastryco.
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eels of pickled oysters, 166 barns, 18,000 eggs, 150 gallons
InoN.—The English iron market has been rather ani- were the next who entered the shop, each bringing an 10(
of milk, 80 quarts of cream, 70 hogsheads of ale, and 120
mated during the week, owing to the Great Northern mense number of custards; tarts, jellies, &a., but judge e
dozen of wine, besides bread, cheese, vegetables, spices,
Railway Company having closed for about 45,000 tons of the surprise of every one in the place when the next ail:,
&c.,e &c., in abundance. rails, out of 75,000 tons, for which they advertised. The vat was announced. It consisted of five beautiful ca'.,
DEATH FROM STARVATION.—An inquest was held on
contracts were taken by two eminent Welsh houses, at a riages, each drawn by two horses, the coachman and foot.,
Monday in Melton Mowbray, on the body of a man un-
price equal to £9 12s. to £9 15s. at the works in Wales. man elegantly attired in livery. The crowd, when °if,
known. It appeared that on Sunday morning last, two
It is rorted the directors of the company were willing carriages drew up was very great, and it required the o,e„
men, named Bilson and Bakewell, went into a hovel about
body of
a mile from Melton, when they observed the dead to have closed for the remaining 30.000 tons at the above vices of the police to keep a space for the duped tree',
rates. In Staffordshire and Welsh pig-iron a very good men to pass to and fro. Whilst the tradesmen were collo
a man lying behind a board in one corner of hovel,theere,
business has been done during the week, at full prices ; doling each other, as a finale to the whole, in came
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quite stiff and cold. From the evidence of Mr.rt id
died fromg and owing to the large orders now in the market for rail- chimney sweeps, who stated that they had been ordereese
surgeon, it appeared that the poor man had—
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starvation, a few hours before his body was found. -wa chairs, there is no doubt an extensive demand will attend with all possible expedition to extinguish ti
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takeplace l both f W 1 h and Staffordshire pigs. Russell's chimney, which they understood had taken °' ,
ere ongor e s
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Scotch pig-iron has been in good demand, and several It took Mr. Russell nearly the whole of the night to e,
As a proof of the intensity
of the frost we have a little
sales made during the week, at prices varying swer many
fact to record, which is in itself a very curious circum-
a garden, to according
745.,
to numbers. Swedish iron and steel The following night (Thursday), five piano forte tuti`ol
stance. On Monday week, two gentlemen in .
at the foot of Stramongate observed a blackbird fluttering are firm at quotations. English copper
and tin remain waited upon the same gentleman, and stated that they b „
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found unaltered. Banca and Straits are in fair request at quo- been hired to tune Mr. Russell's instruments. A., 0510
on the branch of a tree, and on approaching it theyranch
that the poor creature was fast attached to the .
.byEnglish lead firm. S lt for spring delivery riage and pair were also brought, as the coachman said' r
Cations.Rations.rm. pe .er the
the frost, and they. were without
not able to liberate itbeen has sold £l9, and the aof £l9 12s. 6d. has I take the family to the theatre. A. great number of 00,
at on p
d
they were been paid. As the navigation is now closed, and our stock tradesmen were served out in a similar manner, and e
breaking off the twig. it was sometime before
b 2000 tons, there is no doubt higher prices fortunately the police have not been able as yet to 0
reducedto a out
enabled to restore its warmth so that it could avail itself _
will be realised.—Mining Journal. out the guilty parties.—Daily News.
of its timely rescue.—Kendal Mercury.

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