The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

le Hon. Edwacil Sexton Perry was sued last week for
' - of £2OO, which he had agreed to

on started back froM there, for the empty 'dog-

black-haired like Him—and he was very ang
of me. and sprung out to get at me. Dickens's Neu

(From the Quarterly Review.)

Having carried our readers to the Highlands

, we must

at the risk of being somewhat episodicil, request that on
their return south, they will accompany us to Falkirk

Moor on the .second Monday or Tnesdliy in either Sep-
tember or October. They will there witness a scene to
which certainly Great Britain, perhaps even the whole
world, does not afford a parallel.
_On the Monday morn-

ing they will see the arrival on this flat and open moor of
flock after flock, to perhaps the average number of 1000
in each, of sheep—some black-faced with horns, some
white-faced and polled—the individuals of each flock be-
ing, however, remarkably uniform in size and character.
They will probably observe that the flocks arrive in pairs,
the first being a draft of wethers, and the second of ewes

from the same farm. bacn noel( wilt ne attended by two
or three men, and at least as many dogs. They take up
their respective stations on the moor without confusion,
and stand in perfect quietude in round little clumps,
which are separated from each. other by only a few yards.
The dogs are the main guardians, and though they are
generally lying down and licking their travel-worn feet,
no unruly animal who breaks the ranks escapes their vi-
gilance, but is instantly recovered. Among the shepherds,
friendly recognitions are taking place ; the hand and the
mull are freely offered and accented, and the news from
Ben Nevis, Dunvegan, Brahan, Jura, John o'Groats, and
the Lewis is cowmnnicated in a singularly soft language,
strange to southern ears. R e doubt whether we do not
much underrate the whole number of sheep thus collected
at 100,000. Mr. Paterson, Mr. Sellers, Mr. Kennedy,
and Mr. Cameron, of Corachoilie, will each have several
thousands on the ground. We have heard that this last
patriarch has 50,000 head of cattle and sheep on his seve-
ral farms. The greater part of the sheep arein the hands
of their respective breeders, though no inconsiderable
number have been purchased without being seen at the
Inverness wool fair, by dealers who are perfectly well ac-
quainted with the qualities of every largo flock. Soon
after the groups have been collected in the manner which
we have described, a large number of agricultural-looking
gentlemen on horseback and on foot begin to move among
them ; these are partly southern dealers, but more gene-
rally the large turnip growers from the east coast of
Scotland and from the northern and eastern counties of

pay ror a vionn by Liarnerms. Toe violin had once be-
longed to Paganini, and £l,OOO had been refused for it.
The jury found for the plaintiff for the full amount
claimed.

The Megoera, an iron steam frigate, was launched at
Blackwall on Tuesday. Among the company were Mr.
W. Brown. M. P., and Mrs. Brown,`, and Mr. A. Henry.
M. P. She is to carry 14 guns, is 1400 tons burden, and
and will be propelled by the screw, with engines of 350 horse
at the sight polfer._The screw is to be more than 13 feet in diameter

On Saturday week, a blind man at Yeovil, Somerset,
made a desperate attempt to kill his father, mother, sister
and brother whilst they were asleep in bed, by stabbing
them with a trout spear. He is supposed to be mad.
The woman is in a dangerous state, but the others are
going on favorably.
A DuaL.—ln the Times of Friday there is a challenge
to Lord Brougham, from " Giscomo Manzoni," an Italian
gentleman, the minister of finance to the Roman Re-
public, who states that, as he has been " grossly insulted"
by that nobleman and his companions, it is his intention
" to have a duel to repair his own and his country's
honour." The letter, however, turns out to be a forgery.
On Wednesday week, a lighted candle carried by a boy
came in contact with the gas evolved from the coals which
formed the cargo of a vessel lying at Cardiff, and a violent
explosion immediately ensued. Two boys were severely
burned, and the mate was blown to a considerable height,
whence he fell into the water, receiving such injuries that
he was thrown into a state of insensibility. _ _

A remarkable feature has presented itself in the Oat
trade, as regards Ireland, the supplies from which country
to the English market have entirely ceased ; and instead
of an " Export trade" in this article, an " linvort trade"
seems likely to be the order of the day, as a cargo of fine
oats, intended for mealing, is now being shipped at Lon-
don for Limerick ! !

CURIOSITY.—On the 14th instant as James Moore, of
Armathwaite, was breaking stones he found on splitting
a large piece of rock that it contained several pieces of
fine gold. These stones were taken from the blue rock,
commonly called the " Back Bone of the Earth," near to
Armathwaite Bay, and are the property of the Earl of
Lon sdale.— Carlisle Patriot. _ _

FREE TRADE AMONG THE UPHOLSTERERS.—A highly
respectable cabinet-maker and upholsterer of this county
has recently been compelled, from the influx of articles
of French manufacture. to reduce the number of his
workmen from 50 to 25. Among those discharged are
several who, a year or two ago, loudly clamoured for free
trade ; and now that they have obtained it, they would
as loudly clamour to get rid of it.—Devizes Gazette.
A family living in the parish of Kirkmichael, Dumfries-
shire, were last week seized with violent illness, from having
used for cooking rain water, which had been collected in a
barrel that had previously contained a poisonous mixture
for smearing sheep. Surgical aid was, however, imme-
diately procured, and the sufferers speedily became con-
valescent, though at one time the lives of several were u
imminent danger.

A BILIOUS COMPEAINT WITH INDIGESTION OF THREE
YEARS' STANDING CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.-Mr.
C. Williams, of Dungannon, had been suffering for three
years with a severe bilious complaint, aecompanied with
bad digestion and a constant expectoration of phlegm ;
his afflictions from these disordets were so great,. that for
-I,ts together, it was impossible for him to lie on a bed.

All the medicines he had taken failed to give him relief,
he therefore determined on giving Holloway's Pills-a
and,he was soon gratified with the result, for this valuable

medicine speedily improved his powers of digestion, re-
moved the excess of bile, and re-established him in perfect
health.

While a gentleman was returning home on Horseback
from Brecon fair, an attempt was made to stophim by
two women, who placed themselves on their hands and
knees across the road, while five or six men ranged them-
selves at the wayside. The rider, who saw that their
intention was to rob him, instantly spurred his horse,
leaned over the crouching women, and galloped or, leaving
the footpads astonished at the failure of their trick.

CONSUMPTION OF LEAF GOLD BY BOOKBINDERS,
Some idea may be formed of the extent of the London
bookbinding trade in the 191-h century, when we state
that the weekly consumption of leaf gold, enriching the
exterior of books, amounts to about 3,600,000 square
inches ; and that the weight of paper shavings sold an-
nually by the London binders, cut off the edges of books,
amounts to 320 tons.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.-An interesting correspon-
dence is published in the American papers between Lady
Franklin and Mr. J. M. Clayton, Secretary of State,
respecting the Arctic expedition. The American govern-
ment promised with alacrity " that every effort will be
made to lay the subject before our whalers, and induce our
whalers to undertake the work for which the British
government have offered so high a reward."
A DREADFUL ACCIDENT occurred at the Lantwit
Varde Colliery, near Treforest, Haverfordwest, on Satur-
day week, by which seven lives were lost. It appears that
the regular machinery being out of order, the men con-
trary to the instructions of the engineer, got into the
basket for the purposeof being lowered into the pit, and
were precipitated to the bottom of the pit, nearly one
hundred yards deep.

On the instant, died at the Wells Lunatic Asylum,
where he had for some time been an inmate, Mr. Joseph
Merchant, late of the King's Arms Inn, Shepton Mallet.
Nearly three years since he was in the act of skinning a
rabbit, when a man who was holding it let it slip, and Ir 3,
in endeavouring to. save it from falling, cut the cords of
his wrist, which brought on the fatal malady of which he
died. He is most deservedly regretted.
An attempt is making in Shrewsbury to revive the
ancient pageant of the " show" in that town. Among
the subscribers are Lords Hill and Berwick, Hon. T.
Kenyon, and Sir A. Corbet, Bart. Many gentlemen of
the county are anxious to resuscitate an ancient festival,
which began before the reign of Henry IV., and is the only
holiday in the year which falls to the lot of the industrious
artisans of Shrewsbury.

On Sunday week, three of the workpeople employed in
the Star Mill, near Keswick, emptied a quantity of poison-
ous dye into a trout stream, known as Powe Beck, and in
less than half an hour not a fish was left alive in the stream,
for the space of more than a mile. Between 15 and 20
stone weight of the poisoned trout were carried away by
the poachers for their own use and for sale ; and many
other dead fish were floating on the water.

Two men have been taken into custody at Rotherham,
fnr selling what purported to he "lin account of the
dreadful Assassination of Emily Sandford, by Rush's son
James." The paper purported to have hcen copied from
a telegraphic dispatch, and stated that young Rush had
invited his victim to the new residence of his family, and
that her brains had been beaten. out with a poker,-and
that she died instantaneously. The whole story was
false, and the two " flying stationers" will be punished.
SWEEPING MORTALITY.—The obituary of the Banff-
shire Journal contains the following terrible instance of
mortality in a single family :—" Died, at Middlehill,
Monquhitter, of malignant scarlet fever, on 20th February,
Mary, aged 6 ; on 25th February, Helen, aged 14 ; on
27th February, Isabel, aged 12; on Ist March, James,
aged 4 ; on 7th March, Jane, aged 2 ; on 10th March,
Ann, aged 10 ; on 29th March, George, aged 8, children
of Wm. Beaton, farmer there.
The annual meeting of the friends and supporters of
the Anti-Slavery Society was held at the Hall of Com-
merce, Threadneedle-street, on Monday, Mr. a W.
Alexander presiding. The report gave the following
returns of the slave population n: various parts of the
world :—United States, 3,095,000 ; Brazil, 3,250,000 ;
Spanish Colonies, 900,000 ; Dutch Colonies, 85,000 ;
South American Republics, 140,000; African settlements,
20,000 ; giving a total of 7,500,000 slaves still existing in
various places. Several speakers addressed the meeting,
among whom was the Rev. A. Crummell, a coloured cler-
gyman, from the United States.
A CHURCH WILFULLY FIRED.- --On Tuesday morning
an attempt was made by some scoundrel to set fire to
Buckfastleigh Church, Dover. Happily the fire was dis-
covered in time to prevent the accomplishment of the dia-
bolical purpose. By extraordinary exertions the fire Wit*
got under just at the time it had communicated with the
roof. The vestry is entirely buant down ; the roof of the
north aisle is also much injured and burnt, as also the
flooring at the altar. The chest in the vestry, containing
old records and various documents belonging to the parish,
is entirely destroyed. The church is situated on an emi-
nence, in a sequestered spot, about half a mile from the
town, and was newly seated and much improved about
three years since, at a cost of about £lOOO.

THE STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS.—It must be grati-
fying to Mr. Baron Rolfe, and the jury empanelled on
Rush's trial, to be informed that the only I.nk wanting
to complete the chain of evidence against the murderer
was found on Saturday morning by the servants of Mr.
Rush, jun., at Potash-farm, on turning over a dungheap
in an outhouse where the horses take shelter from the
weather. It is a bell-mouthed double-barrelled blunder-
buss, and the ramrod found at Stanfield-hall on the night
of the murder of Messrs. Jermy fits it exactly. Mr.
Field, a celebrated gunmaker in London, has written to
the Times to say that he has seon this blunderbuss, and
that he distinctly remembers selling the article, on the
13th July last, to a man exactly answering the description
of Rush. This fact supplies the only circumstance want-
ing to complete the chain of evidence,

and watchers o
ton

Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., at a meeting respecting burials
in towns, stated the following fact :—A lady having died,
her body was placed in a coffin, upon which was nailed a
plate, describing her virtues, age, and station in life. The
nails fastening the plate were unfortunately so long that
they passed through the wood and lead of the coffin,
which caused the effluvia of the body to escape; and the
gas Droved of so noxious a nature, that four of the de-
ceased daughters who inhaled it while pining over the
coffin, died within a fortnight afterwards.

POPISH TOMBSTONES IN PROTESTANT CHIT RC lIYARDS.
—The Tablet makes a great boast of the erection in the
Churchyard of itoss, in Herefordshire, of a ton b-stone
bearing the following inscription :—" Of your cbai
for the soul of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of J. W. r
Counsell. She died April 16, 1848, aged 28 years." The
inscription appears in the first instance to have been in-
advertently admitted, and all the efforts of the clergyman
to get it altered have, according to the Tablet, proved
ineffectual.

rity pray

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTION OF ENVELOPES.—A
patented machine has been put in operation at Birming-
ham for the manufacture of letter-envelopes, the number

produced by which in complete form is most astonishing.
Supposing it to be turned by manual labour, one man,
with the aid of three or four young girls or boys to gather
the envelopes, would, it is calculated, by its means, be
able to manufacture from 30,000 to 35,000 in an ordinary
working day, the paper being cut. beforehand ; while a
expert "

e average,

the cutting,

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is La, VIUG
stamped upon them at the point where the seal usually
placed.
__

THE HULL AND HAMBURG!! TRADE.—We are glad to
learn, from a Hull paper, that measures have been adopted
to re-open the trade between that port and Hamburgh,
even though the blockade should remain in force. Joseph
Gee, Esq., and Win. 13. Brownlow, Esq., have signed
contracts with the postmaster-general, by which five tine
steamers, belonging to Gee and Co., and an equal num-
ber belonging to Brownlow and Co., are constituted royal
mail steamers, and empowered to carry the royal mail bags
between the two ports. Another is to be added, and all
of them will be enabled to convey goods and passengers.
The advantage to Hull will be great, and a steamer will
run between the two places every day. The route is also
the most dire& for communication with those portions of
the continent having the greatest traffic. In one year the
Hull and Hamburgh steamers alone conveyed 150,000
letters and 6000 newspapers, giving a revenue of about
£5OOO.

EXTRAORDINARY RESTITUTION.—The Exeter Gazette
quotes the following curious circumstance, from the ar-
chives of the Exeter cathedral library :—ln arranging the
fasciculi of the Exon Domesday in their proper order, Mr.
Barnes had the mortification of observing that at page 233 a
singleleaf had been abstracted, which he recorded, in 1810.
Subsequent to this period, Mr. Trevelyan called to see
the Domesday, and upon the book being opened, pro-
duced from his pocket a leaf, which exactly supplied the
previous hiatus in the record. The leaf, it appeared, came
into the possession of Mr. Trevelyan by descent from his
ancestor, Dean Willoughby, who in the time of Henry
VIII. was the Dean of Exeter, and doubtless he it was
who abstracted this identical leaf, either from curiosity or
a less venial motive. That must, however, be esteemed
a most fortunate accident, whereby a leaf lost in the time
of the Reformation has thus been restored in our own,
having the effect, moreover, of rendering perfect one of
the most interesting historical documents in existence.
SHOCKING CASE.—On Friday week a young woman,
named Elizabeth Bailey, aged 23, and unmarried, of
Mansfield, died of a miscarriage, having on the previous
day communicated to the surgeon employed. that she had
been subjected to certain foul practices. The nature of
these was explained by a companion, who said she had
known the deceased 13 years. About three weeks ago
the deceased asksd her to go with her to a man that
" cured" all women in her condition. Witness tried to
persuade her not ; but she said that if she would not go
with her she would get somebody else to do so. Witness
then consented. On Tuesday they went to the house of
John Sansome. They knocked at the door, and Sansome
came. Deceased described her situation, and said, " You
know what I come for." He did not reply, but con-
ducted them to a bed-room, where he performed an
operation upon her. Deceased asked how much it was to
be, and he replied " Seven shillings." The money was
paid and the two women then went home. The deceased,
after suffering great pain, died as stated above. The
magistrates have committed Sansome to take his trial for
the offence.

STRANGE CREDULITY.—A man called Wakem, a far-
mer of Ca!stock, aeplied to the magistrates, at Tavistock,
on Monday under the following circumstances : It appears
that his wife is afflicted with fits, and on Thursday evening
two tipsy women undertook to perform a perfect cure ;
hut to enable them to do so it was necessary to see a cer-
tain quantity of money. The good easy man immediately
complied with their request, and produced two £5 notes
and 39 sovereigns, and the whole was carefully wrapped
up in a piece of paper and placed on the table. The good
man was then desired to get a handkerchief to place th±
packet in, and whilst he turned to do th;,
managed to substitute a parcel similar in app.
the one lie left, and on the handkerchief being
the packet was placed in it, and then put in a box, and
locked, with the positive injunctions that it was notto be
opened until the following Monday. It should be stated
that the gipsies said Mrs. Wakem was "-overlooked,"
and added that they would come again on Monday, when
the evil being who was the cause of her suffering would be
seen near the fire-place. All this was swallowed by the
credulous farmer, and be was anxious for Monday t

roducet

arrive, but at length he began to have some misgivings
about the matter, and on Sunday he opened the box and
the packet, and found, instead of his £49-sterling, just
alout 25 half-pence.—Western Luminary.
FATAL EFFECTS OF QUACKERY.—T

" On SaturcL

,e Leeds Mer-
cury says,
_—ay a report spread through Hud-
dersfield that a young woman had been poisoned by a
quack doctor, which, on inquiry, received full confirma-
tisn. A young Irishwoman, named Ann Flanigan, who
was residing with her brother in a cellar- dwellinz in Man-

chester-street, had been troubled a short time with a
scrofulous sore on her band, and being anxious to have it
removed consulted an itinerant dealer in quack medicines,
who recommended her to send to the

as works for a

quantity of tar-water. This she did on Thum,
week (getting water from which chemists extract ammo-
nia), and on Friday, about noon, the pretended doctor
again appeared, bringing with him a powder, which he
mixed with the water, placed the mixture in a bottle,
charged half-a-crown for it, and ordered the hand to be
poulticed that night and the mixture taken in the morn-
ing, and the hand, he said, would "ail" nothing in two or
three days. His directions were attended to ; and in about
seven minutes after the dose had been swallowed the
young woman was a corpse. Medical attendance was im-
mediately procured, but all efforts to restore animation
were unavailing. An inquest was held over the body the
same evening, which was adjourned to give an opportu-
nity for a post mortem examination of the body. The
quack, on hearing the result of his treatment, left the
town without ceremony.
SERIOUS AF

ay evening

A.Y WITH Po A c Ens .—The gamekeeper
Matthew Bell, Esq., M.P., of Woolsing-
near Newcastle, were out on the night of Friday
week, when they heard the report of guns in a plantation
near the house. They immediately proceeded to the
spot, when they discovered four men armed with guns,
and having a large dog with them. The keeper and
watchers went up at once to the men, and called on them
to surrender, when the latter cried out " stand off, or
we'll fire; rnd they placed themselves back to back, and
presented their guns to the keeper and his assistants, who,
nothing daunted, dashed forward, when two of the men
fired, one at a dog which the keeper had with him, which
was wounded in the leg. the other at Mr. Bell's coachman,
who is an old Waterloo man. The latter fortunately
turned the barrel of the gun a little on one side, which
saved his life, as the whole of the charge passed through
both sides of his jacket, which was open at the time, A
third gun missed fire. Notwithstanding the shot fired at
him the coachmen seized the poacher's gun anti got him
down on the ground, when he felt for his knife, and said
" I will very soon settle you." In the meantime th
other poachers made a most violent assault on the game
keeper and h.

assistants, whereby the keeper w

„Aced about the back, and two of
~:a cut about the head and face with the
poacher's guns. Notwithstanding the resis

a other men
iarrels of the

the poachers, three out of the four were taken, and all the
guns; on the men were found six
A MISER'S ADVENTURE

parish of St. Hilar

.t Woodstock, in the
inhabitants were lately

Cornwall, t

roused from their slumbers by an alarm of fire, and it was
found that a small cottage, the property, and until re-
cently, the residence of an apparently poor but industrious
labourer, was discovered to be on firs; and in a short
time the whole building became a mass of fire, and every

mation was sent to the proprietor, who lived a short dis-
tance from the scene of destruction. On receiving the
intelligence, he, exhibited the greatest alarm, hastened to