The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

On Thursday, Dr. Bowring, M.P., was proceeding in a
gig with his brother to the Bridgend Ironworks, Gloces-

hey were at

by three armed men,

who robbed them 'of £l,OO
pay wages. _ Two of the F.

hendee, with £7OO in their possession. One of the ruffians
shot the horse dead, to prevent any alarm being given.
The Nottingham Journal states that a singular fraud
has been successfully attempted by some lace-workers,
who have given to cotton the appearance of silk. The silk
thread is dissolved by a mechanical process, and after the
cotton thread has been drawn through the solution thus
obtained, it has the gloss and appearance of silk thread,

from which the eye Cannot distinguish it
The Mornzng Post says that the appl

the present tir

at the Treasury C6a.mbers, by person

of the government, are so numerous, that it has actually
been deemed requisite to station some policemen or door-
keepers in the passages or avenues, in order to restrain
the impetuous ardour of the numerous expectants.
An importation of eight packages of potatoes has taken
place in a vessel which arrived in London from Lirna,,the
produce of South America. It will be .recollected that
we had occasion, about twelve months since, to notice one
or two arrivals of this vegetable from that quarter of the
globe, but none have heretofore taken place during the
present year.
The Birkenhead iron steam-transport, Commander
Ingram, is ordered to be expedited, by extra exertions on
the part of the dockyard men, as her services are required
without delay to proceed to Plymouth, ship meal for
Cork, and 60 riggers from that dockyard for Pembroke,
whence she proceeds to Cork to discharge her cargo of
meal, thence to Kinsale, and embark troops for Bristol.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—On Thursday,
a court of directors was held at the East India House,
when the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie was sworn. in
as Governor-General of India. His lordship afterwards
dined with the directors at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, when they were honoured with the company of
her Majesty's ministers and many other distinguished
personages.

EXTENSIVE FORGERY IN LONDON.—On Thursday,
information was received at the Mansion House, that an
eminent banking-house in Lombard-street had been de-
frauded of £1,360, by means of a forgery. The parties,
it is supposed to lull suspicion, obtained the money in
notes to a large amount, one being for £l,OOO, No. 85,950,
January 1, 1847. The Forresters have obtained a clue to
the guilty parties.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Monday
last, William Ashcroft, alias Jameson, a respectably-
dressed man, aged 39, described in the calendar as a coop-
er, was indicted for unlawfully placing large stones upon
the Eastern Counties Railway, so as to endanger the safety
of persons travelling by and upon the said railway. The
prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned
for two years.
IMPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS.—The monthly return of
the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs gives the
following as the quantity imported into the United King-
dom in the month ended 10th October, 1847 :—Total of
corn and grain, 1,169,804 bushels; total meal and flour,
1,639,255 cwt. Of the former, 390,870 bushels were of
wheat ; and of the latter, 959,090 cwt. were of wheat-
meal or flour.
John. Ward, a youth of nineteen, has killed himself for
love. A young woman to whom he was deeply attached
died. Ward was much affected. A few days since he was
missed from his employment, and was found at his home,
near Gravel-lane, Southwark, suffering the greatest agony
from arsenic which he had swallowed. In his pocket a
paper was discovered containing these words, " I cannot
live in this world any longer without my dear Elizabeth,
so place me in the grave with her.—John Ward.
A. public meeting was held in London on Wednesday,
to found an asylum in which idiots might be kept and
educated. The Lord Mayor presided ; among the speakers
were the Rev. Mr. Champneys, Mr. George Thompson,
M.P., Mr. David Wire. Mr. John Wilkes, Chairman of
the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, and several medical gen-
tlemen. Sir Charles Forbes began the subscription by
sending a donation of a hundred guineas, and other gen-
tlemen sent promises of support.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A person in busi-
ness died lately at Glasgow, whose life was insured for
X 30.000. Immediately after his death this sum was laid
claim to by three families, consisting each of a wife and
children ; and what is singular, the one family seems not
to have been cognisant of the other. Each marriage was
celebrated by clergymen in the city, and the wives have
been maintained in a respectable manner. He was in the
habit of living at a time in each house successively.
HARD PUSHED.—The Times of Thursday, in replying
to a speech of Lord Winchelsea on the cheerless pros-
pects of the country, indulges in the following most im-
probable retrospect. " The fact that we have been
obliged to pay for our corn in gold is owing to the exist-
ing want of a full and free exchange of commodities—a
want which we owe, and shall owe for some time, to the
old system of mutual prohibitions. Had the foreigner
found us a regular customer for his corn, he would have
become a regular customer for our manufactures."
STATUES.—A proposal from Mr. Milnes to erect a
statue of Nelson in Norwich has been accepted. The
statue is to be seven feet high, and to cost 700 guineas.
The bishop is interesting himself in favour of the project.
The same artist has been selected by the Board of Ord-
nance to execute the full length of the Duke of Welling-
ton, to be placed in the Tower of London. In Edinburgh,
twenty-four Waverley figures are still required to com-
plete the Scott monument. Another Waverley ball is to
be got up to raise the sum required, £looo. The Builder.
THE MODEL PENNY.—On Wednesday the new model
penny was issued from the mint for circulation, and a
number of men who obtained a quantity made a plentiful
harvest by retailing them at twopence and threepence
each. They are a very neat coin, about the size of a
farthing, the centre being formed of silver, having on the
right side a profile of her Majesty, and on the obverse
the Roman numeral 1., surrounded with a rim of copper,
inscribed " The Model Penny." Five-shilling pieces,
with gold centres and silver rims, made on the same prin-
ciple, are coming out,