The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The new screw for tl.e Great Britain steam-ship weighs
seven tons.

The English dwarf, Tom Thumb, is to ride Carter's
Mammoth horse at Ast ey's.
A s) lendid service of elate Ills been rresented to Mr.
Githart, the first manag.er of the first joint•stock bank in
London.

'I he East India Company have granted £lOO a-year to
Master Charles Nott, until he attains the age of 18, for
his education.

KEEPING A FEROCIOUS DOG.—In a case at Lincoln,
a person was fined £25 for keeping a ferocious dog, which
attacked and bit the plaintiff, a journeyman smith.
At Iluotingdon assizes, on Friday, Eliza Mayeock, a
stout surly-looking girl of twenty-one, was convicted of
maliciously setting fire to three stacks of corn, hay, &c.
Amateur playing seems to be the fashion. It is ex-
t-nding itself to railway engineers, who have resolved to
have a performance at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle.
The carpenters and joiners of Leeds have given notice
of their intention to strike on the Gth April, unless their
wages are advanced 2s. per week.
On Thursday a youth aged 17, at Bulmer, Yorkshire,
was struck by lightning and instantaneously killed. His
face, neck, and body were much scorched.
Five men have been committed for trial at Maidstone
for a murderous attack on a policeman. They wounded
him` so severely that he died shortly afterwards.
Birmingham and the populous towns adjacent have
been for the last four months constantly and plentifully
supplied with good potatoes.
FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Wednesday, a prize fight
came off at lilyth, between two men named Reily and
Ch=ghorn, which proved fatal to the former.
By a Treasury Order, bottled strong beer may now be
exported .on drawback, in cases containing two dozen
quart or two dozen pint bottles, provided the quatiti:y ex-
ported at any one time be not less than thirty-six gallons.
There are building at this time onahe banks of the river
Wear 83 ships, and 14 more laying in the river fitting out.
and for sale; making a total of 97, many of which are of
large burden.
Captain Reynolds, Mr. Hunt, a surgeon, and Cornelius
Saix, Frenchman, have been committed for trial, at Can-
terbury, charged with robbing Joseph Hogg of £45, after
easing him of about £250 at unlimited 100.
The home consumption of foreign spirits in 1814 was
3,237,4 A, and in 1845, 3.544,000 imperial gallons, show-
ing an increase last year over the previous year of 306,544
gallons.

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The committee appointed to inquire into the present
condilion of the Nottingham lace makers, state, " Three
hundred men are out of work, three hundred women and
fire hundred children want bread."

The sum of £15,000 ha' been bequeathed to the Phre-
nological Society of Edit burgh. by the late Dr. Robert-
son, of Paris, who died in 1810, and who had taken a
wartri interest in the subject for nearly thirty years.
Mr. Twyford, for many years a magistrate at the Chief
Police-Court, in Bow-street, has resigned his office, and
lite.reaignution has been accepted. Mr. Henry, of the
Lambeth Police-cnurt, has.been appointed to succeed him.

AVROctous ASSAULT.—At Oxford, James Stevens,
48, was sentenced to transportation for life, for a criminal
assault on his own daughter, aged 10 years. There was
another agai❑st the scoundrel, for a like offence upon an
elder daughter, which was not tried.
The nett income of the Property and Income Tax, as
appears by a Parliamentary paper, published on Friday,
was, in the year ending the 5:11 April, 1844, in Great
Bri,ain £5,372 7536. 12s. 61d. ; and in the year ending
'the sth April last £5,303.521. IGs.
INCREDIBLE CRIME.—AI Durham, on Saturday, V;olet
Crawford, for pouring boiling hot water into her husband's
ear whilst asleep, whereby he continued in great danger
for above a month, was sentenced to be confined in gaol
for two years ; three weeks solitary.
On Saturday, in • Islington, London, a lady named
James, hung herself in her bed room. The cause as-
signed is that her husband refused to pay for liquors
which she was in the habit of getting daily, in revenge
for which she destroyed herself.
There have been terrible floods in Cumberland, and
Westmorland. The rivers Eden, Eamont, Lowther,
Peteril, and other streams have overflowed their banks,
in consequence of the late heavy rains, and committed
great destruction, washing away houses, cattle, &c., and
flooding all the country through which they flow.
DISTURBANCES AT CAMBRIDGE.—For several nights,
at the early part of last week, disturbances took place be-
tween the townsmen and the gownsmen, so that it was
unsafe for the latter to walk the streets after dusk. Se-
veral serious injuries were sustained on both sides, and
special constables have been sworn in to keep the peace.
Tns: EVANGELICAL ALLI.NCE.—At a meeting a few
days since of the heads of the Free Church of Scotland,
the majority of the speakers expressed themselves strongly
against the alliance, and those who were favourable to it
engaged not to do anything to commit the Free Church as
a body.
AMUSING PRECAUTION.—On Wednesday week, two
old ladies travelling from Exeter to London took care,
much to the amusement of their fellow-travellers, to sup-
ply themselves with lanterns, bought expressly for the
purpose, the candles of which were duly lighted on their
approach to the var:ous tunnels.

The house of an elderly lady, residing in London, wl o
lived in a wretched state of misery and filth, has been re-
cently searched, and found to contain in gold, notes, and
other property, upwards of £6,000. A commission of
lunacy found the old lady of unsound mind ; her lunacy
took the form of accumulation.

On Tuesday week, a laundry.mlid, named Sarah Ro-
berts, in the house of Lord Mostyn, at Pengwern, was
found at the pump in the yard, burnt to death. It is sup-
posed that. when her clothes caught fire, she ran to the
pump to extinguish the flames, in which, unfortunately,
she did not 'succeed.

THE HOP TRADE.—The annual hop dinner took place
on Wednesday. The sweepstakes for the last year was
won by Mr. Brigland. The betting for the present year
was in favour of from £160,000 to £1 70.000. In the sweep-
stakes the numbers ranged from £75,000 to £235,000.—
Maidstone Journal.

EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—At a meeting of the Lon-
don division of the provisional committee, held on Tues-
day, upwards of sixty 'ministers and laymen of the esta-
blished church, and the Wesleyan, congregational, and
other evangelical churches, were admitted as members or
corresponding members,—in the number, his Grace the
Duke of Manchester.
SUICIDE.—On Monday morning, a gentleman, named
Lamb, a Lyndon merchant. who had been in Lodgings
on the King's-road for rather more than a week, cut his
throat with a razor, and died instantly. It appears that
the unfortunate gentleman, who had been in a low des-
ponding way, left his wife in bed, and retired to an ante-
room to commit the act of self-destruction.
Great alarm was occasioned among the congregation of
the Scotch Church, Birmingham, on Sunday morning
weak, in consequence of the floor sinking several inches.
The children screamed, and the utmost terror pervaded
sill in the body of the dispel, but it has since appeared
that there was no real danger. The minister found it ne-
cessary to dismiss the congregation at once.
The Marquis of Downshire has subscribed £1,200 to
the funds of a new Fever II ospital, which has been erected
it Hillsborough, chiefly at the cost of the Downshire fa-
mily. The noble Marquis has also promised a liberal
annual subscript'on to the corporation, constituted by the
Act of George 111., for establishing fever hospitals in
Ireland.

INVOLUNTARY TRIP.—A small boat was picked up off
than one day last week, having some boys on board.
They bad been amusing themselves with the boar at
Stonehavert, and drifted out to sea. After tossing upon
the waves f r a considerable time, without food and with-
out oars, until they were nearly exhausted, they were for-
tunately observed and rescued.—Montrose Review.
on his way home, hearing a boy crying cigars,
BUYING ONE'S OWN.—A small shopkeeper at Bristol,
penny,"" three a
made a bar gain fora lot, provided on trying them
they suited him. Ile bought a pennyworth, and went for
a light ; but on his return missed the vendor. On reaching
home, he discovered that three boxes of cigars had been
stolen from his own window ; and his mortification was
heightened on finding that, instead of a penny, he had
given half-a-crown to the thief for three "real Havanners."

THE OYSTER FISHERY.—The Jersey oyster fishery is
now proceeding joyously, and immense quantities of this
highly-prized species of shell-fish are dispatched weekly to
London. Early last week nearly 200 boats left the har-
bour of Gorey on fishing cruises, and fully half that num-
ber had returned by the end of the week heavily laden.—
The charge to the merchants is only 4s. a tub, which is
considerably less than the usual price at this season.—
Jersey Times.
We learn from the Plymouth Herald, that amputation
at the hip joint has been successfully performed on a man
at the South Devon Hospital. "The arterial compressor
was employ. .d on the occasion, and the operation was per-
formed on the plan recommended in the memoir on the
subject, recently published, in a minute and a half, whilst
the late Sir A. Cooper, the boldest operator perhaps of
of his day, took thirty-five inutes, and afterwards con-
sidered it the haealest day's work almost that he or his
patient had ever undergone."
POTATOES.—We learn from several correspondents
that in their respective localities, the stocks of potatoes
on hand are still considerable, considering the period of
the year. From Doncaster, a communication states—" It
is a significant fact, thatat our market on Saturday last,
there was a more abundant supply of good sound pota-
toes, both for seed and consumption, than has been seen
here for years. They were selling at very moderate
prices." In Leeds there is a good supply, and prices are
falling.—Leeds paper.
FATAL. ACCIDENT FROM FIRE ARMS.—On Thursday,
William Robinsor, blacksmith, Alnwick, on cleaning his
gun, took the barrel out of the stock, drew the shot and
part of the powder. He then put the barrel into his
mouth, and blew to ascertain if all the powder was out,
when it is supposed some of the grains had been blown
out of the touch-hole, and ignited at the candle, firing the
remainder in the barrel, by which the inside of his mouth
and the skull were much shattered; he died about four
o'clock the next morning.—Newcastle Guardian.
LARGE WATER-WHEEL.—At the Field Mill, near
Mansfield, a new water-wheel has been erected by Mr.
Kirkland. for the Duke of Portland, for the use of his
tenants, Messrs. Richard Greenbalgh and Sons. The
work reflects great credit on the engineer. The wheel
measures 40 feet in diameter, and is ll feet broad ; and
the weieht of metal used in its construction was about 70
tons. The water is laid on at two levels, conducted in
lirge iron pipes, and the power is computed to be equal to
that of fifty horses. It drives the whole of the machinery
of that extensise factory.
MURDER.—At the assizes at Aylesbury, on Thursday
week, before Mr. Baron Alderson, a man, named Francis
Fleet, a. farm servant, was found guilty of murder, in
having caused the death of Ann Ray, at Dunton, Oxford•
shire, by administering to her two crrachtns of corrosive
sublimate. It appeared that the prisoner administered
the poison for the purpose of causing abortion,. the de-
ceased being pregnant to him. The jury recommended
the prisoner to mercy. The learned judge sentenced him
to be banged. A reprieve has since been received for the
isoner.

The army estimates 14itl before Parliament show us that
an increlse is to be made to our land forces of 8,06 u men,
exclusive of those employed in the East Indies. The to-
tal amount of money asked for is .£6,082.901, beirman in-
cretbe of £103,629 over la-t vesr. An additional 1,000 in
men is added to the force in India. The number of men
in England, on the Ist of January last, was 29,568; Ire-
land, 19,631; in our colonies, 37.170; and in India,
26,505 ; making, with recruiting parties, a gland total of
113,577 ; and as the establishment is now to be 123,100
men, we consequently require 2.523 men to be recrui,ed
for, beside the supply requisite to make up for the recent
ss in India.

RAPIDIry IN EQUIPPING A LINE-OR-BATTLE SHIP.
One of the greatest achievements in nautical affairs of late
years is that which has been per‘ormed by the mew of her
majesty's ship Rodney in the rigging and perfecting for
sea a line-of-battle ship in the almost incredible space of
little more than 48 hours. The Bellerophon, 78, on Mon-
day last, was a mere hull, without. spars, stores, or arma-
ment ; and on Wednesday, at mid-day, she was all ataunt,
and left harbour for Spithead, a perfect man-of-war,
ready for sea. This is certainly a triumph of the skill and
energy of British officers and British seamen . His royal
highness Prince Albert embarked from Osborne-house in
the Fairy steam yacht, and proceeded to Spithead to view
the Be lerophon.
It would appear that ere long the Atlantic Ocean will
be traversed by steamers so as to make the communication
at least weekly. A contr,ct has beer, entered into by the
Government of the United States with the Ocean Steam
Navigation Company, chattered in New York, for the esta-
blishment of a line of steam ships, to run between New
York and Europe. A vessel is to take her departure
twice in each month, for Cowes and Bremen. The Govern-
ment is to pay 400.000 this. per annum for the conveyance
of the mail,&c. The vessels are to be not less than 1400
tons burthen, and they are to make their voyages with
speed, not less than that of the British and North Ameri-
can line. The arrangements for building are in active pro-
gress, and it is expected that the first will be ready to
start on the Ist of January, 1847.
THE PROSPECT OF THE NEXT CROP OF POTATOES.—
" We wish we could say to our readers—there is not so
much cause for alarm concerning the next potato crop,
and the anticipations of its pending ruin are unfounded.
On the contrary, every new fact which comes to light
renders the danger more apparent, and we must repeat
our warning that there is no certainty that any English
or Irish potatoes will be fit for seed. That some will prove
good is very probable ; we do not in the least doubt that
many persons will have sound crops ; but in the present
state of our knowledge it is quite impossible to say who,
because sound sets cannot be distinguished from un-
sound ones, and therefore the cultic !lion of the panto is
literally reduced to a 'rime. of chance."—Gard,ners'
Chronicle.
CURIOUS DEATH—On Monday week, a boy, aced 12,
who had been in the habit of visiting a quack doctor,
_named Jones, at Bilston, for
.the purpose of advice, on
one of his visits. asked Jones to give him a small syringe,
which Jones accordingly did. The boy, on his way home,
put the syringe into a pool of water, and afterwards in-
jected the water down his throat. He also used his teeth
for the purpose of unwrapping the worsted which was
fastened round the syringe. Soon afterwards his mouth
became it,flamed, and he went to Jones for advice. Jones
told him that he could do nothing for him, nor could any
one else. The boy lingered a few weeks, and then died
from mortification of the mouth and throat. It appears
that the syringe had been used for medical purposes, and
it is believed that some part of the matter remaining upon
it produced the mortification.

Professor Johnston, at the adjourned monthly meeting I
of the Agricultural Association. I.2Jinburch, list week,
in reference to the assertion of Professor Lindley, " that
diseased sets of potatoes will produce diseased crops,"
stated that that was an opinion which he considered
stronger than the circumstances warranted. He pro-
ceeded to show that the opinion of Professor Lindley was
founded upon potatoes which had been forced, and which
gloved unsound like the sets. But the circumstances of
potatoes grown in the hot atmosphere and fermenting
soil of a forcing-house were widely different from those
subjected to the open air. As to seed, Professor John-
ston said that the variety of potatoes called "cups," if
sound, although from a diseased district, would be less
likely to fail than sound buffs, flit reds, or lumpers,
brought from a district in which no di: ease had hitherto
appeared.
THE DEATH OF " PUBLIEOLA."—This oracle of the
seditious and the infidel, who is less well-known to public
fame or infamy by his real name of " David Williams."
is, as we learn from the public papers, dead. His peri-
odical preparations of social and religious poison appeared
weekly in one of the Sunday journals, and were eagerly
read by the agricultural and manufacturing population.
The responsibility incurred is awful to contemplate. The
character of the man who so recklessly incurred it may
be learned from a single circumstance. He had been for-
merly in a Government office (we believe in an Audit-
office) : but for some offence, which we will not stop to
particularise, he was compelled to resign his situation.
He soon after became a public writer under the above de-
signation. On being asked by a friend how he was getting
on, the astounding reply was—" Excellently ! Blas-
phemy sells so well !" Such are the republican and athe-
istical teachers of millions !—Church and Slale Gazelle.
CHILD MURDER..—Margaret Stoker, aged 23, a sim-
ple-looking country girl, was tried before Mr. Just!ce
Patteson, at the Durham Assizes, yesterday week. on en
indictment charging her with the wilful murder of her fe-
male bastard child, aged 14 months, at Pittington Hall
Garth, in November last, by drowning it. The prisoner
was defended by Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, who attempted
to prove that she was not conscious, at the time of her
putting the child to death, that she was doing a wicked
and an immoral act. It seemed that she was in a good
deal of distress, owing to the father of the child having
neglected to pay towards its maintenance, her step-mother
having turned her out, and the overseers of the poor hav-
ing refused to give her relief. The jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty, with the
strongest recommendation to mercy. His lordship pas=
bed sentence of death. The t risnner was then removed
from the bar, shrieking violently.
DISSENSIONS AMONG THEJews.--A "disruption,"
aays a new religious paper called the Balance," has taken
place among the Jews of London, which promises to be
-productive of momentous results. It appears that for
some time past a feeling has been growing up among the
more enlightened and liberal of the English Jews that
very great reform ought to be made in the ritual of the
synagogue, and that they are not bound to abide by the
interpretations given by the rabbis, but are at liberty to
put their own construction on difficult passages. As a
necessary consequence they repudiate the authority of the
Talmud, and resolve to acknowledge no other standard of
truth than the law and the prophets. The result has
been, that great division, have occurred among the Jew-
jab congregations in the metropolis. A number of the
seceders have opened a new synagogue for themselves in
Burton-street. where they steadily meet for worship. Mr.
Goldswid, and several of the most influential persons be-
longing to the Jewish persuasion, have joined the new
sect." . _ _

The approaching Birmingham Triennial Musical Festi-
val, which is fixed to take place in the last wet k of Aug-
nAt next, is already beginning to excite the attention of
the musical public, as one of the most prominent points
of intertst of the present year. Her most gracious Ma-
jesty has bt en pleased to place herself at the head of the
list of patrons, which is also honoured with the names of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert and Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager. We understand that the committee are
indefatigable in making engagements and arrangements
worthy of the occasion, and, amongst others, that they
have confided the vrformances to the immedia'e direc-
torship of Dr. F. Meudelsshon Bartholdy and M. Mos-
cheles—musicians, whose learning and rare tact as con-
ductors are good earnest that the determination to have
the best music performed in the best possible manner, will
be firmly carried out. A new work by Dr. F. Mendels-
sohn Baitholdy will form one of the leading features on
the occasion ; and we trust to be able, ere long, to an-
nounce such a selection, both of music and executive ta-
lent, as will mark the forthcoming meeting as one of the
most successful that has yet taken place.

March 17, fga

TROOPS FOR INDIA.—The Duke of Wellington hos
expressed it as his opinion that, in justice to regiments of
the line, the Cu trds ought not to remain entirely free
from foreign service particularly as their field tactics were
acknowledged to be so superior. The battallions in ques-
tion have sinee c,ived intimation that they will not be
placed on the India:. batta just yet. The destination of
the 24th Foot has been altered from New South Wales to
India. The 47th (Lanc,sl,ire) bead-quarters at Chester
will replace the 24th at Cork.

FAT-AL BOILER ExPLostoN.—On Wednesday night?
the boiler at Brook's Foundry, Halifax, exploded with
terrific effect. The premises were in the occupati.in of
Mr. BettielL Hanson, who, it appears, being dissatisfied
with the speed of the nigine, found fault with a boy em-
ployed there, for not ;keeping up the steam sufficiently,
and fired up himself, using some very strong expressions.
He had just retired from the fire-place to speak to the
book-keeper, Mr. John Tayler, when the explosion took
place. Ti.e boiler was a circular or cylindrical one, with
flat ends, 9 feet ling and 3't. gin. in diameter. The end
next the fire-place was forced completely out, and broken
in two at the rivets; half of it was projected to a distance
of 28 feet; the other half had not been fouad. It is
supposed that the half first mentioned had struck Mr.
Hanson and Mr. Taylor. The latter was dead when
found, his bead smashed to pieces, his thigh broken, and
the bone protruding through his clothes. Mr. Hanson
was alive when fuund ; he was much disfigured, having
been extensively scalded by steam or hot water; and be
only lived twenty minutes.

POPISH APPROVAL OF, AND INVITATION TO, Da.
Pusr,Y.—ln tt;e ,aay of testimony to the imperative ne-
nessity of auricular confession as a remedy for national
corruptions Dr. l'usey's sermon is full of value. " Every-
where around (he truly says) our crowded cities, our
mines, our manufactories, are one wide desolation, often.
except on the suspension of punishment, the types of hell."
(P. 65.) Again : he has no doubt that, " humanly speak-
ing, in most cases, early confession would, by the blessing
of God, hare saved (hardened sinners) from their sin and
misery." (Preface. p. siii.) Let Dr. Pusey read the
fate of his own well-intentioned but utterly chimerical
schemes in a married clergy, in a secularised hierarchy, la
a pampered Establishment—let him candidly admit the
real cause of the disease, thcugh it make out against his
cause—let him attack the evil at its root, not ..ontent him-
self with lopping off the decayed branches. This he can-
not do where he is; but he knows where he may do it.
Why will he linger among the children and sit solitary, to
whom nature hits given the spirit of a hero, arid the
strength of a giant ? Why waste his time in building
card-houses, and his breath in intl ding bubbles, who so
plainly is n-narked vitt for a great work in an evil time?--'
Tubb t (Roman Catholic paper).

LONDON GAZET7E.-TUESDAY, MARCH 10.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED

W. F. and R. Brand. Wigan, Lancashire, linen and woollen
drapers—J. B. Robeit?. and E. Chzetham, Sheffield, stockbro-
kers—haw brothers, Leeds. machine rnakers—Higg anti Boy-
ke:t. Liverpool, slaters—J. Travis and Co.. Coupe and Leech,
Ltrica,hire, woollen printers—J. Hopwood and Co., Barnsleir
Yorkshire, coal master.—G. Grim'ey and W. I. irkby, Notting'
ham. hoot manof cturers—Perry and Latew,rd, Wolv:,rhaulP-
ton, citi.ch builders—T. :Aleph ird and 'l'. Pye, Snelton, neat
Nottingham, lace makers—Donaldson and Dixon, Mark-lane.