The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

A new material, termed taffetas rut

others are in deep vandyke ed
printed tarlatan€

Pounces,

id with gimp or braid; .1

mouss-elines de soie grenadin
r skirt of white silk, the core

ribbon. For all thick materials the
others are wide fulled into a wristband and showing tl
bouillons of the white sleeve below, or with cuffs turned I
back 'a la Louis XV., finished with a plisse of ribbon.

are tight;

votes have been made in Paris of white taffetas, but very
simple in style, merely closing with gimp buttons; light

necessary in out-door toilette, and the lace shawl of the
morning must often be replaced for an evening promenade
by a wadded cloak, closing to the throat with pelerine,
and long ends crossing in front; many r
frills, having wreaths of flowers, b

are wits

material ; the mantelets form a shawl behind, and the
ends in front are short; many are of black figured net,
trimmed with lace of embroidered muslin ; those of taffe-
tas glace have trimmings of the same material; ecru,
green, glace, with white, dark blue, lilac, and currant, are
favourite colours.

To bonnets, all the lightest materials are now in request;
thedentelle paille is particularly so ; bonnets of crin and

bon, velou'W or check
th large
&(

flowers; marine ones, ehesnut
c. Some bonnets of dentelle
ht-pnlnnypd silk_ with ninkpd

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ie due on the mortgagee, and was lodged in Ilcliester
gaol. The cause having been tried at the Lent Assizes in
1825, a verdict was given against Harvey for £826 10s.,
and he has ever since been retained a prisoner, although
the judgment has never been revived by any of the repre-
sentatives of the deceased plaintiff. In Easter term last,
Mr. Edwards benevolently moved the Queen's Bench
Court for Harvey's discharge, there being no legal detain-
ing creditor, and on the 25th of May the rule for his dis-
charge was made absolute. Thus, after 23 years' impri-
sonment, during 19 years of which he had been a recipient
of the gaol allowance, this unfortunate man is now at
liberty ! It is alleged that upon a fair account, a consider-
able balance would be shown to be due to Harvey from
the representatives of the mortgagee, and proceedings are
to be adopted accordingly.
DEATH OF A NOTORIOUS ENGLISH OUTLAW IN
AMERICA.—Recent Vermont papers chronicle the death
in the village of Brattlebro, in that State, under rather
curious circumstances, of one of the most reckless and
successful highwaymen that ever ranked in the annals of
crime, and upon whose head the English Government,
thirty-five years ago, set an enormous price. Doherty
alias Captain Thunderbolt, was Irish. During his last
illness he refused to have his clothes removed, and when
he was sensible that his recovery was impossible he bar-
gained with two men to bury him in them. The curiosity
of the neighbours was aroused by this singular request.
Desiring that their fellow-citizen should have a decent
bthuericallo,tthliteny
g interferedfromthecaofrtpesrehtihsedyedceisaesoevpearned on
d a r t
once.ei n o v in
theg
cause of his singular desire. A withered leg exhibited
shot marks, and his neck a sea which together with a
cork heel, identified him as being' the notorious highway-
man Thunderbolt. On his person a loaded pistol and a
dirk were found; among his effects, carefully packed
away in sawdust and concealed, arms, watches, diamonds,
rings, and other jewellery to an immense value ; and it
appeared that, in order to make his person more portly,
so as to prevent recognition, he had worn for years three
suits of clothes at the same time. The shrivelled leg Was
covered with cloths to increase its apparent size to that of
progress." the other. The discovery of the far-famed robber, ea
the Vermont papers, in the person of the individual who
A large porpoise, or sea-hog, measuring about 12 feet
had for some thirty years resided quietly in their midst,
in length, and weighing 120 stones, was caught in the ri-
and who had been known to many as the " eccentric
ver Ouse, at Kilpinpike, near Howden, on Thursday, the
Scotch doctor," in whose prescriptions they had the most
24th ult.
Leigh Hunt has received a highly-complimentary exalted faith, made a considerable stir among the people
Mr.
of the village in which he had so long lived.—. American
letter from Lord John. Russell, with the announcement
that the queen had bestowed a pension of £2OO a-year on
A WEALTHY AND EXTENSIVE F
—Near to the town- of Mere, Wilts, we were struck
FARMER OF WlLT-
the veteran author.—Dottglas Jerrold's Newspaper. paper.
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Six new companies will be immediately added to the 911 •
at beholding the fine crops, the excellent order the fields
'corps of Royal Marines, and fully officered with a captain
appeared to be in, the low neat cut hedges or fences, and
and two sabalterns in each company. Two field officers
the immense quantity of oxen, cows, and sheep grazingwill also be added to the strength of the Royal Marine
in the meadows : and this led to an inquiry to whom
forces. those rich, broad fields belonged. To Sir H. R. Hoare,
The bricks charged annually with duty in England and,
the_rich banker, of. Fleet-street, London. was the readY,
Scotland alone (in Ireland there is no duty on bricks) are
reply, whose seat is about three miles from Mere, and
upwards of 150,000,000, yielding a revenue of £440,000.
Tne malt tax alone yields a net duty of £5,000,000: paper seven from Wincanton, who himself has the following
yields a net duty of £7,000,000; soap yields upwards of seven farms in his own hands :—Shirton Knoyle, Colc,at,
£950,000 ; and British spirits upwards of £5,000,000. Hill grounds, Brenham Lodge, Top Lane, and Search
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.—The House of Commons Farm ; altogether containing between three and four
determined on Thursday night, by a large majority, to thousand acres of land, once so poor and considered sc
proceed with the bill in committee, and some ofy,
the unproductive that every farmer in the old school failed iii
most important clauses were afterwards agreed to. Several getting their living from the farms they occupied ; hence
Mr. Hoare, one after the other, was driven to make the
members expressed their regret that the metropolis had
best of such land, or suffer it to be still less useful if over'
been excluded from the operation of the bill. run with weeds. He therefore hired farm-bailiffs, pa:
FALL OF A GRAIN LOFT.—Some days ago, one of
chased horses, and every necessary implement of hes.,
the lofts of a granary at Craigie gave way, and fell to the
bandr : employed at least.lso labourers, keeping betwce'
ground floor with all its accumulated treasures, in one
seventy and eighty horses, giving constant work to woot
promiscuous uproar. We believe more granaries through- men, bricklayers, and thus more than .-4,r,t
out the country have fallen within the last six months
men through him have constant emplopment, winter uv
than during the previous sixty years—certainly no proof
summer, wet or dry, at good wages; the lowest anaoePt
e perdu e t
iwo ei.ie k
in, l a somebtohue having
.t o
present His eol labourerscottages
ge is 12s.
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Perth Advertiser. ptdhaaeyds
The daughter of a surgeon residing in London was ac-
let to his :YP"
cidentallv poisoned on Tuesday last. She was in the ha- to 40s. per annum, with large gardens, right of corairlq
bit of taking ginger-beer and soda-water, which she fla-
or pasturage,remrsldatafnrodmsll-%
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voured with essence of lemon ; but she unfortunrtely mis- enabling some to keep a cow or two, and
the winter fatten two or three pigs. Mr. Hoare hinls,,,
took a bottle containing essential oil of bitter almonds for
as many cows in milk at one time as yield him tol",
the phial containing the essence of lemon, and expired in has
a few minutes after she had swallowed the poisoned in each week fourteen to sixteen pounds of good butted
has seventy calves weaning and fattening at one time, t
draught. iv.,
A singular mode of preparing medicines appears to in the winter at least fifty beasts stalled ; when fat
ot,
have been recently adopted in France by covering the are sold generally to beast-dealers in the neighbourho v,
most nauseous descriptions of them with sugar in a . con- some of these beasts frequently reaching the enornitfoluit
fectioned and highly-finished state, so as to represent Eu- weight of from sixty to eighty score pounds each. Adis'`
lums and comfits, and to deceive any person as to
-. Quality and real substance. Quantities of one third only is grazing land; he has never less t•tir
1000 sheep and 600 ewes for breeding, of the pure Solver
down breed ; nearly 1000 acres of this very land•was never
ml i '-'4 for use
considered to be worth more than ls. per acre for 1;0,
-, Oa annum. When Mr. Hoare had it first in his Poe'
all son, the occupiers then thinking three to four sack:silt-Ig,
acre of wheat a good field, now, by cultivation, drainarea
ctii
valland P.
acres of wheat grown last year on this very ore-
and manuring, it would let for 30s. an acre ; fivull ~,,
ducing on an average from ten to eleven sacks per__oo4
)e'
This gentleman lets off a large breadth of land to far' and
el lit
in the neighbourhood, giving every encourageolewainiC
ea in p.
assistance to those who will follow in his plans, byv_...., 0-
them money, finding drain-tiles, and rendering e
reithen
sistance they may reasonably ask, and even snore
they expect ; not raising the rent as extra manthe °ldol
leads some to adopt, but granting long leases at Those
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Mr. C. R. Wold, a con-
that all the alarm which
Arctic adventurers is

was provisioned for
when he sailed no one contem-
i him earlier than October or Novem-
me unforeseen accident should compel
,rising Behring's
)f August, or in September or October,

his success earlier than January
re is, therefore, no cause as yet
His absence has not yet equalled

exist at the present moment more reason for
n than there was when the expedition sailed.
laving heard from Sir John is to be looked upon

low terms to induce muse unuer
not blinded to prejudice soon do well, the self-w
ignorant are soon compelled to leap c.---Homy.

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