The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The town of Keswick is now lighted with gas.
Last week, Mr. W. Finch, solicitor, Worcester, fell
into the canal, in a state of intoxication, and was drowned.
BRICKS.—The amount of duty paid in England upon
bricks in 1814 was £135,730. In 1845, it was £558,415.
Charles Donking Esq., has recently sent £l,OOO to the
Secretary of the London Philanthropic Society.
A registration has been effected by a firm in London,
of " an instrument for holding up ladies dresses."
A box containing watches worth £2OO was stolen from
be Eastern C9unties Railway last week.
THE READING MURDER.—At the Reading assizes on
Wednesday, William Spicer was tried for the murder of
his wife in August last, found guilty and sentenced to death.
Three men were suffocated at some chymical Works,
East Greenwich, on Saturday week, by the fumes of a
chymical preparation.
NOVEL POSTAGE.—On Sbrove-Tuesday, a tradesman
of Monmouth sent presents of six pancakes to some
nephews and neices, through the post•ofce.

The late Mr. Gaily Knight has bequeathed his Firbeck
property, consisting of the house and upwards of 1,200
acres of land, after the death of his wife, to the Ecclesias-
tical Commissioners, to be applied by them to charitable
uses.

The managers of a London Amphitheatrehave so offended
against decency, as to prepare a piece for the stage en-
titled " The battle of ilfoodkee, and death of the hero Sir
Robert Sale."

The other day, a farmer's lad, at Wigmore, lay down
among some straw. A man who required some of it,
threw a pike to another, which entered the poor boy's
eye and killed him on the spot.
Within the last two years and a half, there have been
upwards of. eleven thousand persons sent from the Peni-
tentiary Prison, Millbank, to endure their several sen-
tenzes of transportation.
At a meeting of the Birmingham Plate and Crown
Glass Company, on Wednesday, it was resolved to in-
crease the capital, for the purpose of carrying them on
more effectually.
At a numerous meeting held lately at York, a petition
to parliament for the prevention of the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors on Sunday, and a memorial to the Queen,
were unanimously adopted.
EXTENSIVE FAILURE.—There was a report in London,
on Thursday, that Mr. Spottiswoode, the Queen's printer,
who has been largely concerned in railway speculations,
had failed, and that his liabilities exceed £600,000.
WAR WITH AMERICA.—English underwriters have al-
ready introduced a clause into their policies, stating that
they do not ensure against capture, or destruction by an
enemy.

On Wednesday night the corn-mill of Messrs. Fer-
nandes, at Wakefield, was destroyed by fire, along with a
large quantity of wheat, flour, &c. The loss is estimated
at £l,OOO, all insured.
On Friday, at a general meeting of the proprietors of
the E. I. C., thanks werelunanimously passed, with strong
expressions of approbation to the officers and mea in the
Indian army for the brilliant victories achieved on the
bank of the Sutlej.
On Saturday week a lady was safely delivered of a
child in a railway carriage on the Worthing and Brighton
Railway. On the arrival at the terminus the lady was
wrapped in blankets and conveyed to her residence, and
is going on favourably ; but the infant has since died.
BANKRUPTCY.—The number of bankrupts during the
last year amounted to 1,025, comprising nearly all trades
and professions. The highest number was that of victu-
allers, which was 63, and the lowest, attorneys, there be-
ing one only. The only business excepted from the bank-
rupt's list was that of undertakers.
EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday a hive of bees belong-
ing to Mr. John Hall, maltster, Over-Monnow, in Here-
ford, swarmed and were safely hived. This singular cir-
cumstance occurred about two o'clock in the day, and is
a further proof of the extraordinary mildness of the sea-
son.

Her Majesty's Theatre opened on Wednesday. The
performance was Verdi's " Nabucodonosor." The house
looked very gorgeous in its new dress. The debutantes,
Mesdemoiselles Sanchioli and Corbari were well received.
Mr. Lumley, and the new conductor, Mr. Balfe, came in
for a share of the applause, and everything passed off as
a first night should do.
On Monday last, Mr. John Shaw, an American mer-
chant, residing in London, committed suicide ,by cutting
his throat. The deceased, who was married only two
months ago, had been for some time in a low way, which
was attributed to his fears of losing considerable pro-
perty in Hudson's Bay and other parts of North Ame-
rica, in the event of war with that country.
DEATH FROM EXTRACTING A TOOTH.—A few days
ago, Mr. Rowling, of John-street, Tottenham-court-road,
died in consequence of the extraction of a tooth. It ap-
pears that he fastened some silk round a tooth, it being
decayed, and a friend of his extracted it by pulling it
violently. The consequence was, that a small blood-
vessel was ruptured, which no surgical aid could stop.
The deceased was only twenty-six years of age.
IMPORTANT FACT.—It was etated by Dr. Guy, before
a parliamentary committee, that heat, not moisture, is the
chief cause of sickness: that in London in 1842, the maxi-
mum disease was in August (the warmest month), the
minimum in January. In accordance with this fact, the
Zoological Society of London have lately exposed their car-
niverous animals to the open air in the place of continuing
them in artificially heated dens, the result being an im-
proved state of health mid fewer deaths.
The Grand Jury at the Manchester Borough Sessions,
on Tuesday week, made a presentment to the effect that
" very great facilities and inducements are offs-red for the
committing cf felonies, from the indiscriminate practice
of pawnbrokers lending money on new property, by way
of pledge, without exercising a vigilant inquiry as to the
mode by which the pledging parties received possession of
such property, in many cases obviously dishonestly ob-
tained."

SIR JOHN Ross.—ln consequence of the unfortunate
bankruptcy of Sir John Ross, so well known as the ex-
plorer of the Arctic Regions, his appointment as Consul-
General at Stockholm has been rescinded. The salary
attached to the office was £550 per annum. His bank-
ruptcy is attributed to his connexion with the London
and Dublin Trades' Bank, of which he was Deputy-
Chairman, and being called upon to pay his quota of loss
to the shareholders. -

FATAL AFFRAY.—On Friday week, two poor labour-
ers, named Boucher and Oldfield, employed at Enville,
near Kidderminster, quarrelled while at dinner together,
and a scuffle ensued, which ended in the death of Oldfield,
who was stabbed by the other. Both bad the knives with
which they were eating their dinners in their hands. The
wounded man died almost immediately. Boucher gave
himself up to the police. The coroner's jury returned a
a verdict of " manslaughter" against him, and he was
committed for trial.
SIR ROBERT SALE AT BALING.—The hero of Jellala- ,
bad was, in his boyish days, a pupil at the celebrated gram-
mar-school at Ealing, under Dr. Nicholas. On a pane of
glass in one of the windows lie had scratched his name,
which has often been an object of interest with the alumni
of the establishment. A curious coincidence connects this
memorial and the man—the former continued in safety
amid school perils until a few weeks since, when, about
the period of Sir Robert Sale's death, the pane was un-
fortunately broken, and thus memorial and man may be
said to have perished together.
A young leopardess escaped the other day from the
Clifton Zoological Gardens, and created a good deal of
alarm before it was secured. The most marvellous thing
that occurred during the time it was at large, was to a
poor lame beggar man —" A poor sailor, your honour "
who came limping up with that characteristic shuffling
step which seems to belong peculiarly to the craft. He
was warned of the approach of the leopardess, when his
lameness was instantaneously cured, the shuffling step
disappeared, and he bolted at a pace that would not have
discredited a first-rate pedestrian.
CAUTION TO NURSES.—On Sunday, during divine ser-
vice, the nurse at the rectory of St. Olaves, London,
placed the rector's youngest daughter, aged 21 months,
on the sill of an attic casement window, and was in the
act of playing with her there, when the fastening gave
way, and in an instant she was precipitated on to the
paved yard below, a depth of 45 feet. On being taken up
the little girl was found perfectly sensible, and it is hoped
that she has sustained no internal injury, butthat through
the providential mercy of God she will escape with the
minor evil of severe contusions and a broken thigh.
LAUNCH OF AN IRON STEAM-SHIP.-011 Saturday last,
Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare launched from their build-
ing-yard, at Blackwall, a fine iron steam-ship of 800 tons,
for the Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
She is to be fitted with engines by Penn and Co., of 360-
horse poiver, and is guaranteed under a heavy penalty, by
the builders to the company, to be the fastest sea-going
steam-vessel afloat. She is intended, it is said, to be pla-
ced on the line between Alexandria and Marseilles, for ac-
celerating the Indian mails, and it is expected w ill do the
whole distance in five days, which will bring Egypt and
London within eight days post of each other.

DRUNKENNESS AND CRISCE.—At the Newcastle as-
sizes, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, on Saturday last, a
prisoner who had pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary,
urged in his justification that be had been in the army 19
years, and th,t the burglary was committed while he was
under the influence of liquor. The judge remarked that
that was an aggravatign rather than a justification of
the crime; and added that three-fourths of the crime
committed in this wintry was committed under the in• I.
fluence of liquor. Ile verily believed that nothing would
tend snore to make the people of this country moral, and
to make the ccurts ofjustice empty sinecures, than to ab-
stain from excessive drinking.
GRATIFYING ACKNOWLEDGMENT.—Sir R. H. Inglis,
in the coarse of the debate, on Monday, en the vote of
thanks of the House of Commons to the Indian army,
said that in the announcement which Sir H. Hardinge
made to the president and council of the victory he and
his brave army had achieved, Sir Henry begged of Eng-
land and India to remember to what that triumph was
owing ; that it had been gained, not by his arm, nor by
the respect in which that arm was borne; but by that
" other arm " and that other " right hand," and " the
light of that countenance," to which all success and all
adversity was alike attributable. He (Sir R. Inglis) took
advantage of these phrases of Sir Henry's to recognise Him i
who is the giver of all victory.
RIOT AND MURDER.—On Sunday week the labourers
on the Hawick branch of the North British Railway, as-
sembled to the number of about 1,200, armed with blud-
geons, &c., and demanded from the custody of the police
two "navies" who had been taken into custody. They
broke open the cells, and liberated the men, and were re-
turning in triumph along the road, when they met the
I district constable, named Pace, whom they savagely at-
tacked, and one of them laid his skull open with a pick-
axe. He died from the injuries the same afternoon.
Thirteen of the rioters were apprehended. On Tuesday
they again assembled in large numbers, and set fire to
row after row of the temporary huts of the liish labourers.
the wretched inmates being compelled to fly. Several
parties received serious injuries. The origin of the out-
break is said to have been, that the Scotch labourers on
the line were determined to drive the Irish altogether
from it.
A MELANCHOLY TALE.—About the beginning of De-
cember last, Mrs. John BroWn, wife of the farmer at
Murray's-hall, near Stirling, was seized with malignant
fever, and died about the middle of the month ; the female
servant next took ill, and has lingered on till now, but
there are some hopes of her recovery ; the eldest boy, aged
12 years, was next seized, and died on the Bth February ;
by this time the father had been prostrated by the same
fell disease ; and during his illness a second boy, the only
other member of the family, aged nine years, was also
seized and died on the 12th February. Before this last
sad event the father was understood to be gradually reco-
vering, but since that he sunk every day, and died on
Wednesday ; and in addition, a sister of the servant, who
had come to assist during her illness, has also been seized,
and died on Saturday last ; and thus within about two
months
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