The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

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GENERAL NEW WS.

COMPULSORY VACCINATION.-T 1

to extend and make compulsory the
tion has just been published. There are 13 provisions in
the bill, and several schedules of forms. It is proposed
to enact that the father or mother of every child '
England or Wales after the Ist of August,
within three months after birth, causc, it to be taken ti
the medical officer of the place and vaccinated, unless the
same shall have been previously vaccinated by some
qualified medical practitioner. Penalties are to be en-
forced for non-compliance with the act.
CORKCUTTERS' STRIKE.—On Wednesday between 400
and 500 journeymen corkcutters, in London, turned out
for an advance of wages. This strike will be severely felt
by the employers, being the most busy time of the year.
In the afternoon the strike hands held a meeting, when
they expressed their determination of not returning to
work until their demands were complied with, alleging
as a reason the increase in the price of provisions, and
that their landlords had raised the rents of their rooms on
that account.

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BETTING HOUSES.—The bill for the suppression of bet-
ting-bouses has been printed. The penalty on any per-
son keeping a house for the purpose of betting with other
persons, is £lOO, or imprisonment for six months, with or
without hard labour ; on persons receiving money on con-
dition of paying money on the event of any bet, £5O, or
three months' imprisonment ; and for cxhibitina placards
or otherwise advertising betting-houses, a penalty of £3O,
or two months' imprisonment. Magistrates and the
Police Commissioners are to be empowered to order a
search of suspected houses.

SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—As the Great
Western express train which started on Monday from Ox-
ford to London, about a quarter of an hour late, was rush-
ing on at upwards of sixty miles an hour, the crank axle
of the engine broke, by which the whole machinery was
thrown out of order, and the wheels, unable to turn round,
ran sliding along the rails at a fearful pace, in imminent
danger of breaking and throwing the train over. The
wheels, however, stood the strain, and after proceeding in
this way about a mile, the train was brought to a stand
without any accident.

STRIKE or THE Hum. PoLICE.—An agitation has been
going on for some time past in Hull, to obtain an advance
of their wages, from 18s. sd. and 16s. sd. a-week to 21s.
sd. and 19s. 501. The Watch Committee have refused to
accede to the request, and the consequence is, that about
30 of the men hare resigned, and about 50 refuse to do
duty, but will not resign. The Watch Committee sat
on Saturday week, to receive applications for the vacant
situations, but they had not a single applicant
labourers not being willing to work seven days a-week for
2s. 6d. per day. Letters have been despatched for men
to Nianchester and other large towns, as well as to the
villages in this neighbourhood.

A MODERN MlRACLE.—Recently Cardinal Wiseman
preached in St. Aloysius's, Somers Town. In the course
of his remarks he said, " Within the last few days it has
been my happiness to verify, in one of the religious com-
munities of the Benedictine convent of this city, the in-
stantaneous aed perfect cure of a religieuse, who for six
years and a half never left her bed, who was pronounced
by every medical man who had seen her to have been in-
curable for life, being affected with disease in her bones,
and who, at the devotions to the sacred heart of Jesus, rose
whole, and without a vestige even in outward marks of
that complaint which existed for that long period."
AN ECCENTRIC CRARACTER.—The Suffolk Chronicle
relates the death of a Miss Mary Finch, aged 49, of Risk-
inghall. She had for the last six years lived alone, and a
leg of pork, which she was known to have bought about
leas found in the house at the time of her
eaShaekoept six or seven cats, which she sometimes
death.f ou y" g
locked np in a room for many days without food.
Although she had sufficient property, she had not allowed
herself common necessaries, and her end was hastened
from want. Six years ago an aunt left her about £4OO,
but she world never go after it, nor would she take it
when offered to her. It is stated that about ten years
aTo, a day was fixed for her being married, that the dress
and wedding cake were provided, but the gentleman dis-
appointed her, and the dress and cake still remain in
the house.

AN UNFORTUNATE Lot ER.--On Sunday a clockmaker,
who had for some time paid his addresses to a lovely
daughter of a wealthy chimney-sweeper, thought to con-
summate his happiness by making her his wife. The
staff' of Trinity Church were in attendance ; the spruce
gallant, with punctuality equal to one of his own clocks,
arrived in a cab at the residence of his " lady love," but
on entering the house was met in a manner well calculated
to cool the ardour of any man not over head and ears in
love. The mother, not thinking him a suitable match
for her daughter, had locked her up in her chamber, and
herself received the gallant bridegroom with " warmth."
All the earnest entreaties of her would-be son-in-law
were of no avail.. She was obdurate, and an interview
was positively denied. 'Wearied with his perseverance,
mamma lost her temper, seized the poor bewildered lover
by the neck, and, with determined and masculine energy,
turned him out of the-house.—Durham Chronicle.

A. CHURCH FAiumic.—On Sunday an interesting occur-
rence took place in the church at Temple Sowerby, con-
nected with the family of Abram Lowthian, the village
tailor. -61 d Abram, who was many years the parish clerk
there, but who had-resigned the office to one of his sons,
gave out the psalms-; old Mrs. Lowthian was an attentive
hearer-; the Rev. John Lowthian, vicar of Wharton,
Winsford, Cheshire, his eldest son, was the clergyman
who preached; Abram, the second son, played the violon-
cello and joined in the singing; Christopher, the third
son, was parish -clerk, and two other sons and two daugh-
ters formed part of the choir. The church was crowded
to excess, all the -friends and old companions of the rev.
gentleman, whols on a visit to his native village, flocked
thither to hear'"John Lovrthian" preach. Old Abram
has brought up a' family of twelve children, six sons ald
six daughters, all of whom are now living, with the ex-
ception of a son, who died young abroad six years since.
Abram never had anything but what he worked for with
his own hands.—Ccrlisle Patriot.
RAALIVAT TRKFFIC.—The traffic -returns of railways
in the United-Kingdom amounted, for 'the week ending
16th July, to-£352.939, and for the corresponding period
r,
Coast,
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and
of last year to £M2,586, showing an increase of £50.353,
I€.lor per cent. The increase on the 'Eastern Counties
£RsaFial76ay; amountedth greatt o X l
London and.North-Western, to £4i457; on the London,
£96; and on the South-Western to £3,323;
andßßthri eai ;who aneti other eal
innSde yineti;
ahSCet United Kingdom amounted to
£192,214 ; and for the corresponding period of 1852 to
£164,439' shearing an increase 0ft:077775 in the receipts
•oftheselines, -which, added to the increase on the
metropolitan lines -cf £22,578, makes the total increase
£5O-353 over the corresponding week of 1852. The total
receipts from then Ist January to the 16th July amounted
to £8.677,664; for the corresponding period of 1852,
£7,722,9d2; showing an increase of Z 54,762, or 12.3
per cent. over the-corresponding period of 1852.

NAVAL Review.—A review of the' leet now assembled
at Spithead has been fixed for this day., dependent upon
the state of the weather, the Queen's health, and foreign
taifunaeie, 12e.„Tilie following's a list of the force to be collected:—
Duke of Wellingten;-.131 guns, screw three-decker ; Nep-
guns, sailing three-decker.; -Waterloo, 120
tuns, sailing three-decker; Queen, li6 guns, sailing
three-decker; St. Jean d'Acre, 101 guns, screw two
decker; Agamemirepilil Runs, screw two-decker; Prince
Regent. 90 guns, sailing two-decker; London, 90 guns,
two.decker; Blenheim, 60 guns, screw two-decker ;
Ilegue,o guns, screw two-decker; Edinburgh, 59 guns,
screw two-decker; Ajax, 58 guns, screw •two-decker;
Impkrieuse, 50 guns, screw-frigate; Arrogant, 48 guns,
screw-frigate; Sybille, 40 guns, sailing-frigate; Amphion,
31 guns. screw-frigate; Tribune, 30 guns, screw-frigate;
Sidon, 22 -guns. paddle-frigate; Highfiyer.2l guns, screw-
frigate; Terrible, 21 guns, paddle-frigate ; -Odin, 16
guns, paddle-frigate ; Enceunter,l4 guns, screw-corvette;
Leopard, 12 guns, paddle-frigate; Desperate, 8 guns,
screw-corvette ; Berner:mite. 6 guns, paddle-sloop ; Vesu-
vius, 6 guns, paddle-sloop; Banshee, 2 gurts,express-boat.
EXTRAOELQINAILY PROCKEDINGS.—We hear that on
Saturday last Mr. Ackroyd, of Stourbridge, and Mr.
George Rebineon, solicitor, of this town, while com-
paring a list of the proprietary of the Shrewshury and
Birmingham Railway. Company with the transfer books,
made discoveries 'of a nature which induced them to
have the books sealed up, god which, it is -said, are
likely to cause a further resort to legal proceedings.
,On Monday morning, Mr. Gesell, who is a director -of
the company. Mr. R. Scott. Mr. Ackroyd, Mr. Coliia,
and Mr. G. Robinson met at the company's offices, and
demanded that the books should be delivered to them, as
they said, for further examination. Mr. Hill, Mr. Joseph
Walker, and Mr. Knox were, we hear, at the offices in
the course of the morning ; and the-further inspection of
the books was refused-by Mr. -I(ncm, no order from the
board of directors for that purpose having been obtaiined,
and without this order the inspection could not, it was
alleged, .be permitted. In consequence Mr. Geach and
his friends sent for Mr. -Hunter, foreman to Messrs.
Chubb and Sons (who required a writtenindemnity), and
,directed him to open the safe: containing the key of the
closet in which the books were -kept. This was done, and
the safe containing the bode; opened. The books were
at first deposited with the police, but afterwards trans-
mitted to ,Landon. Colonel Hogg and .some of his
officers were called in, iu order to prevent any breach of
the peace. This remarkable proceeding has given occa-
sion for many rumours.-IVolveriesanpion Vhrtazicle.
ELOPEMENT.—We noticed last week that an officer of
the 35th regiment had run off with the wife of a baronet,
residing in the4iorth of Devon, under circumstances of a
very dhgraceful &exacter. There is no doubt of the
truth of the statement; the officer is Captain Berkeley,
of the above-named reeirnent, and his -unfortunate com-
panion in guilt Lady Wrey, wife of Sir Bourchier Wrey.
It appears that this man is now with his regiment, and
still wearing Her Majesty's uniform, though it is currently
reported that he will be obliged to leave the army ; and
the lady, it is said. is in London. Sir Bourchier Wrey,
Bart., has recently been staying at his marine residence
in Barnstaple. For some few weeks past Captain Berke-
ley, of the 35th, son of Sir George Berkeley, had been
visiting at the house of the honourable baronet, whose
hearty hospitality is only surpassed by his high-minded and
unsuspecting candour. This town became agitated on
Friday with the startling and painful intelligence that this
guest of the honourable baronet's—the man who had been
receiving his hospitalities—bad taken the opportunity of
domestic intercourse thus afforded to him to draw from
her conjugal duty the wife of his friend; that she had, in
fact, that morning eloped with her paramour. They
drove off, it would appear. about half-past one on that
morning to Barnstaple, and from thence to the Tiverton
station of the Great Western Railway. Their course
from this point we are not curious to trace. That this
lady should have left in such a manner, and for such a
man, a home replete with all the earthly good that earthly
wealth can furnish, a husband dotingly fond of her, and
without the shadow of the causes usually assigned in such
cases, is an aberration of conduct only to be charitably
covered by a verdict of temporary insanity. Report says
that already has the dreadful hallucination passed away,
and reconciliation sought. We give, of course, simply
report, but it is highly probable that such is the case, as
we know that such must be the course the moment the
mind recovers its equilibrium. Sir Bourchier returned
thatunmenningtoTawatockCourt.—ExelerFlYin9 Post,