The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

COLONEL SIR WM. REID has succeeded in introducing
the Assam silkworm into Malta.
Loan STANLEY, M.P., has offered to contribute £3OO
for the erection of public baths and washhouses at King's
Lynn—of which borough he is the representative—on con-
dition that the town council contributes an equal sum to
the same object.
TIGHT LACING.—A young girl, named Mary Britton,
servant in a miller's family of the name of Hall, of Walm-
gate, has -died through wearing a pair of stays belonging
to Miss Ann Hall, which were very strong, and tightly
a ced, so as to induce a sudden attack of apoplexy.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.—As some evidence of the
preparations now considered necessary for the commence-
ment of war, in the event of its been unavoidable, it may
be mentioned that the government, having advertised for
tenders for the supply of 50,000 gallons of rnm, five ten-
ders were made on Thursday week, and all were accepted,
making in all 250,000 gallons.
THE REPRESENTATION OP NORTH DDRHAM.--It is
generally thought in Durham that Lord Adolphus Vane
will be brought forward by the Tories to represent the
vacant seat in the northern division of the county, caused
by the elevation of his brother, Lord Seaham, to the Upper
House. The register has been carefully watched by the
Liberals during the last two years, so that it is probable
there will be a contest.

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SERIOUS FIRE AT SHREWSBURY.-011 Wednesday
night, the timber yard of Mr. Chime, Shrewsbury, caught
fire, and property to the value of nearly £3,000 was de-
stroyed. Several thousand persons assembled, and used
such exertions to extinguish the fire and to save the
timber that the flames did not communicate to the adjoin-
ing houses.
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.--011 Thursday,
the police authorities of the metropolis received a commu-
nication from the friends of Mr. T. H. Walsh, the surgeon,
of Worcester, whose mysterious disappearance from the
Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, led to the
belief that he had been waylaid and murdered, and whose
friends, labouring under that impression, offered a reward
of £5O for his discovery, announcing that he had been
found, all safe, in one of the southern counties.
LONGEVITY.—The death of one of the oldest inhabitants
of liethnal- 'ereen occurred in the infirm ward of the work-
hettse of that parish on Wednesday. The deceased, Jane
Green, had been an inmate of the workhouse for many
years ; she had now a numerous family, her youngest
daughter being now upwards of seventy years. Her
' faculties weep all perfect, and her sight so good that she
could read any ordinary print, even without the assistance
of spectacles, and enjoyed good health to the last, though
lately she has been confined to her bed. She was in her
104th year.
A Sr. PETERSBURG NEWSPAPER entertains its readers
with a picture by no means flattering to our merchant
navy, intended to show that it cannot supply good sailors
to our belligerent fleets. It seems, according to this
authority, that our wrecks are increasing with enormous
rapidity, because our merchant seamen, behind as well as
before the mast, are utterly and incurably addicted to
drunkenness ; and, as a proof of the prevalence of this
vice, it is mentioned that "the earth fuel which the Eng-
lish people are obliged to burn for want of the pine
forests with which Russia is blessed" was for a whole
month enormously increased in price in consequence of
the sailors employed in the coasting trade having given
themselves up to gin.
A Farnnevere DEA.7II has happened to a bricklayer,
named Henry Smith, while engaged on some repairs at
the Stanton Iron-works. He was standing on a gas-
burner over one of the furnaces, when the burner broke,
.mlll' he fell into the furnace, which was partly full of molten
metal. Quantities of water were instantly poured into
the furnace ; the unfortunate man was seen in a stooping
,posture with his hands and his feet in the liquid metal.
lkfter the lapse of two hours and a half a part of the
shrivelled trunk of a man was drawn out-of the furnace
by means of a rake. The dreadful occurrence put an end
to work for the day ; the strongest and most courageous
men were seen 'crying like children when all chance of
saving their comrade was gone. The people immediately
subscribed £2e for his family.
LAW OF S'ETTLEMENT.—In the year ending at Lady*.
day, 1853, noless than 10,032 persons were removed from
various parishes in England and Wales, under orders of
removal obtained by the peor-law authorities, on the
ground that their settlement-was elsewhere. The expense
of the orders and removal, without including the cost of
relief before removal, was £13,640. There were, besides,
383 orders made for the removal of'Scoteh paupers, and
ofb otuhte2,E4oong,lisoot
4,823 forthe removal of Irish. It does mot appear how
many persons were included in these orders. But these
refigurinzasd,ofonroptarsihshowes
vt,telaWa population
(nearly a seventh of the kingdom) have omitted to make
returns. number
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GENERAL HAYNAU S CORPSE.—A most extraordinary
account has reached us in a private letter from Vienna to
a high personage here,-and has been the talk of our salons
for the last few days. It appears that -the circumstances
of the death of Generalliaynau presented a phenomenon
of the most awful kind on record. For many days after
death the warmth of life yet lingered in the right arm
' and left leg of the corpse, which remained limp and moist,
1. even bleeding slightly when pricked. No delusion, not-
withstanding, could be maintained as to the reality of .
I.-death, for the other parts of the body were completely
mortified, and interment became necessary before the two
limbs above mentioned had become either stiff or cold.
The writer of the letter mentioned that this strange cir-
cumstance had produced the greatest awe in the minds of
, those who witnessed it, and that the emperor had been so
impressed with it, that his physicians had forbidden the
M. subject to be alluded to in his presence. Query, can the
above singular statement be verified? It was copied from
a-French paper, immediately after the decease of General
Haynau was knownin Paris.—Notes area Queries.
PUBLIC DECENCY,AND THE PUBLIC PRESS.—WithOut
assuming to be censors of our contemporaries, and espe-
' eially repudiating any prudish pretensions to superior
(
virtue or morality, we yet think there is one subject on
' which the conductors of the newspaper press of England
would do well to reflect—we allude to -the reports of pro-
ceedings in the police and other courts of law. Within
the last fortnight, cases combining every conceivable
• ingredient of impurity, filth, corruption, and indecency,
have been investigatedeand by the daily -papers faithfully,
we may almost say verbatim reported. On the part of
the magistrate there was a disgusting, yet necessary, duty
to perform :he has to' bring crime to punishment. The
press also has its duty tc discharge. Rightly understood,
and faithfully and discreetly carried out-the office of the
journalist is lofty and honourable. It is -to instruct the
ignorant, to encourage the good, to protect-the weak, and,
above•all, to unmask and brand vice, when the crime or
the offender is beyond the reach of law. set, to do this,
is it necessary to report literally the evidence of panders,
and to recount with disgusting exactitude the iniquities
of the 'brothel ? Occasionelly one may read in the leading
articles -of .a newspaper an eloquent discourse,.which would
do honour to the pulpit, denouncing the immorality of the
cheap publications of the day, and calling the attention of
the policeeto the indecent prints in Holywell-street. Turn
to the prince reports of the same paper, and the-reader will
see pruriency which Holywell-street cannot surpass.
" Change pieces, handy-dandy, which is the justice—which
the thief ?" It is easy• to urn that the press must faith-
fully report the proceedings of courts of justice; but .a
report can be faithful without being minute. For our
own part, live confess we cannotsee any difference in effect
between publishing to the last particular accounts of vice ,
that have actually occurred, .and inventing imaginary
scenes of impurity, to acquire wealth by corrupting the
minds of the ignorant.— The Prfts.
SHOCKING DEATH OP AN AN_A_LYTICAL CHEMIST.—
The death of Mr. dames Haywood, teacher of chemistry eit
tthe Wesleyan College, Sheffield, occurred on Thursday
morning, under most distressi and melancholy eircum
stances. On the previous evening, • .about six o'clock, Mr.
,
Haywood was engaged in the laboratory at the college,
ng -
preparing for his lecture to the .pupils that evening, and
it was necessary for him to pour into a phial a quantity of
sulphuric acid containede:n a large bottle in a hamper. It
appears that the hamper was getting worn out, and Mr.
Haywood incautiously lifted up the bottle by itself, when
water,ibroke the glass and ran on Mr. Haywood's clothes.
the Old contained in the bottle, being much heavier than
A quantity of the acid also fell upon the dress of a boy, a
pupil at the college, who was assisting lime and burnt
through-lug clothes ; but as the lad was rushing out of the
place to get some water, he was seized l.iy one of the
and held him
for about twenty minutes while he was pumped on:with
teachers, who tore off his burning clothes,
cold water. By these means, and in consequence of the
fresh air which he inhaled, the boy escaped with a few
burns, and is snow considered out of danger. It fared
differently, however, with Mr. Haywood. 011 finding
that the bottle tad broken, he let it fall ; and at the same
time,he fell forward on the floor. lie inflicted a deep gash
in his hand with part of the broken bottle. From this
time Mr. Haywood appears to have lost his usual presence
of mind, and instead of holding his breath and escaping
from the room instantly, he lay for some moments inhal-
ing the deadly fumes of the poisonous liquid. After re-
mamingsome time in the laboratory, breathing an atmos-
phere charged with the exhalations of the acid, he was at
con-
dition to his home, where he lingered Wilds death, which
length taken away and conveyed in a very distressing
occurred about five o'clock on the following morning.
Mr. Haywood was au analytical chemist of great celebrity,
and occupied &distinguished place as a public lecturer on
chemistry, as applied to agricultural science as well as
to manufactures.
THE LATE CHRISTOPHER SHAW ROE, ESQ.—A painful
gloom was cast over the inhabitants of this borough gene-
rally, on Tuesday morning last, by the sudden death of
Christopher Shaw Roe, Esq., Summer-hill, [near Maccles-
field. He transacted business in the town on Monday,
apparently in good health, and retired to rest that night
without the least symptom of indisposition. Early next
morning, however, lie was found to be in a state of fatal
lethargy. Medical assistance was immediately obtained ;
but all that the best professional skill could bring to bear
upon his case was of no avail. He never even rallied so
far as to exhibit the least sign of consciousness, and in a
few hours he expired without a struggle. The removal
of this good man has made a serious gap in our commu-
nity. Disinclined, from constitutional peculiarities, to
take that lead in society which so often distinguishes men
of showy parts, he was one who unostentatiously fulfilled,
with the most conscientious integrity, the duties of his
station ' • and by all who knew him he was acknow-
ledged to be a man of sterling worth and unbounded
kindness of heart. As the patron of Christ Church, with
its subordinate appliances of daily and Sunday schools,
&,c., his loss will be severely felt. To the prosperity of
these he was keenly alive. We believe that we are under
the mark when he say, that within the last twenty years
he has expended upon them not less than 2,7,000; and
we know that, shortly before his death, he had made
arrangements for an outlay of at least £5OO upon the
sacred edifice built and endowed by his grandfather. His
attachment to the Church of England was fervent, and
his loyalty enthusiastic. We need hardly add, that in
his political opinions he was an inflexible supporter of the
Protestant Constitution in Church and State. But a
better tribute to his memory, than any we could pro-
nounce, will be found among the poor. Of these, it may
be said truly, that, " when the ear heard him it blessed
him, and when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him—
the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon
him, and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy."
Many a cottage latch was lifted and many a threshold
crossed by him when the world saw nothing of the
ministry of mercy, nor even the left hand }mew what the
right hand did.—Maeclesfield Courier,