The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

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A NOVEL APPLICATION.—At a recent sitting of the
Cheltenham police-court, an application was made to the
magistrates to put down a fashion which it was said had
become a positive nuisance—namely, the unnecessary
length of ladies' dresses. As they swept along the street
they raised the dust in a most disagreeable manner, and

in such quantities as to spoil shopkeepers' goods. The
magistrates said they had no power over either pavements

or petticoats ; a
an appeal to fir

rid that the only remedy could be had by
Town Commissioners, or to the ladies

dresses

tinguished position among the tragic performers that once
adorned the national theatres, expired last Tuesday, at her
residence in Chelsea, where she had for several years taken
up her abode. Mrs. Egerton formed a portion of the
Kemble school, and was contemporaneous with Mrs.
Siddons, Miss O'Neil, Mrs. Bartley, Mrs. Powell, &c.
Her father was the Rev. Peter Fisher, Rector of Torring-
ton, Devonshire, where the deceased lady was born 1782.
Her introduction to the stage was as early as the year
1803, at the Bath Theatre, where the late Mr. Egerton,
her future husband, was an actor also.
THE BIGAMIST BARRISTER.—Henry A. Browne, the
barrister, who was convicted and sentenced to transporta-
tion for bigamy, has been for a considerable time extremely
ill, and was removed from Smithfield to Kilmainham gaol,
dangerr. Tlo medical
his
liattendant,fe,
if
longer
aenyd,
fcoerrteihfieandgteo otfheai

requested a medical board to sit on tne case. 'Lie uuttru
confirmed Doctor Roney's report, and an order has been
made to allow him at once to quit the kingdom, and enter
into large security for his non-return to it. He is stated
to be most seriously ill, a general break-up of constitution,
which can only be restored by a mild and warm climate

editorial senatorship, has but little consolation for its
despairing and deluded protec-
'es. He maintains, how-
ever, that the failures, up tob Friday night, amount to
but £1,200,000, though the general belief is they are
full two millions ; says that the Baltic and Continental
houses are untouched by these losses, which fall ex-
clusively on A- firr. ' l'.eause of the re-

_merican chiefly DeL.—
fusal of acceptances to drafts from that quarter, drawn

gone toga far greater extent but for the Barings undertak-
ing to protect these drafts on behalf of Prime, Ward, and
Co., of New York, whose endorsements they bear. The
oracle emphatically contradicts the rumours that have

,dnesday of further failures, and espe-

cially of a large house in

that'many additional extensive smashes are reported from
Ireland, beyond_those alluded to in the letter of the great

establishment of Leslie and Alexander, who tumbl

Monday, to the surprise of every one. Mr. Wilson winds
up by an authoritative and emphatic assurance that.
though the grain crops promise to be excellent, there will
not be a potato to be had after next Guy Fawke's day, for
the mealy esculant of that name, which we now eat, is
merely a summer vegetable, as, owing to the want of con-
fidence in their keeping, not three-eighths of the usual
quantity have been sown, and that, consequently, a dish
of floury Alurphie will be an unattainable accompani-

news this, and well calculated to impair one's digestion
long before the end of December, were it not that the
people fortunately remember, that the Economist, with

bility is not among his attributes
WHICH IS THE DUPE ?—An a

cal imposture came before the Marlborough-street magis-
trate on Wednesday. Leoline de Villars, a handsome
young French girl, dressed in full opera costume, was
al manufacturing establishments near Aberdeen
summoned by Benjamin Ellam for detaining his portrait,
ye undertaken to supply the food of their operatives at his velvet cap, his two walking-canes, his ring, and his
silk handkerchief. The complainant, a short person, of
heaper rate, and of better quality, than they themselves very juvenile and simple appearance, stated that on Sun-
procure. From 2,000 to 3,000 people are daily fed on day evening a friend and himself were taking an evening
; plan. The cost for breakfast and dinner, including stroll down Regent-street, when they met the defendant
ad, is lid. per meal; and the arrangements are so and her sister, who nodded invitingly to them. Not un-
aplete that 400 persons are breakfasted or dined in 20 derstanding French himself, he deputed his friend to do
50 gallons of barley-broth, the following the introductory part of the business ; and as the young

ire the ingredient

Saunders's News

431bs. of meat, 281bs. bark

peas, and vegetables to the value of 2s. or 2s. 6d. The himself and friend to see them to their residence at No.
masters supply fuel, utensils, &c., and after these items, 30, Foley-place, with permission to call the following
the culinary experiment itself supporting. The cause of evening. He took counsel with his friend on the subject,
the institution was the distance which the workers had to and they came to the unanimous conclusion that their new
go for meals, the poverty of their diet, and constant acquaintances were girls of unblemished character, dis-
inability to labour. _
tinguished birth, and very possibly large fortune. They
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EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—A few days ago, Mr. I kept their appointment ; and several visits followed, Mr.
Drake, an ironmonger, in Caledonian-terrace, Battle- Ellam representing himself to be a nephew of the Duke
bridge, was counting bank-notes and gold, when some per- of Wellington, dating his letters from the Horse Guards,
sons came into the shop for goods. In his hurry he left and signing them with the aristocratic " Ellam." The
fnur Rank-nf-England £5 notes on the counter. and in a rtrilingranhv of the following euistle did not, however, say

few minutes after he missed them. Knowing their num- much for his education :—"tommander-in:Chief's Ace,
bers and dates, he gave direction at the Bank to have their Horse-Guards, July 20. My dear Leoline,—ln anser to
payment stopped. In a day or two after he received a your noble letter, I must with honor address you thus.
note, stating that the writer had the money, and that if he- But I feer you doubt me being a gentleman of birth ; but
would leave out ten sovereigns, he would call and exchange I give you my_ honor I'm of respectable famely, not to
...

for them two of the notes. Upon the following day, in say noble ; and I have a noble hart, anu that, my deerest,
Mr. Drake's absence, five sturdy-looking fellows walked is all I require from you. Ido not know who and what
up to the door, where three of them remained, while the you are, as I don't understand your native language suffi
other two went to the counter where Mrs. Drake was cient to understand what you speak off. My deer Leoline,
standing, and, showing her two of the notes, demanded I pray thee, if though do understand my language, that
five sovereigns. Greatly alarmed, she handed them the you will tell me this night all your feelings. If though
five sovereigns, and they gave her two of the notes, pro- doo not love me, speek freely and then I must—oh, fatle
mising to call soon with the other two. The fellows then word !—endever to forget. But still remembor this will
walked away, and have never been heard of since. This be a hevvy task, for I may forgit for a time, but for hever
took place about one o'clock in the day, in one of the most —oh, imposable ; for though hest made an impression on
crowded thoroughfares in London. my hart that can never be blotted out by the hands of
SINGULAR CONFRSSION.—An extraordinary case came human beings. Dear Leoline, I fear you are not hapy in
on for hearing on Thursday before the magistrates at Bir- England. I hope and trust in heavens that you will this
mingham, namely, the confession of a man that he had night let me know all your hart and ankititties. Dear girl,
been a participator in an attempt to upset a train on the I'm not very rich, but I've got enough to live in the stile
Midland Railway two years ago. On Monday evening a you see me in ; and after a short time I shall be better off
man named John Gardiner, who was drinking in a public- in money affairs. But that's not my object. I look for
house with some of his companions, expressed a wish to your hart to make me hapy. As for my friend, I must
speak with one of them, as lie had something on his mind. tell you he is a gentleman ; but if you can speak English,
On going to the door Gardiner confessed that on the night as I heer you can, I trust you will let me know your hart,
of the 4th of August, 1845, he had, along with another if worthy such a noble one. I bid adue till this evening.
man, deliberately endeavoured to overturn a passenger Kiss sister Esther for me. Ever, ever, ever, and ever,
train on the Midland Railway. He expressed a wish to your ELLAM. —Something, however excited thesuspicion
be taken into custody, and a constable was sent for. The of the friends, and, on watching, they found that the
substance of his confession was, that on the night in ques- elegant foreigners were not quite what they ought to be.
tion, he and a man (since dead) went to a spot on the line The enraged dupe forthwith rushes to a police-office, to
not far from Birmingham, and put bricks on the rail, at reclaim the presents he had made, and, if possible, to
four or five inches apart, and a few feet further on they obtain repayment of £4O he had lent in hard cash to the
placed a hurdle, They hid themselves by, the railway till faithless Leoline, to pay the custom duties on her property
the mail train came up, which they expected would be lying in bond. On being questioned -by the magistrate, it
thrown off the rails and upset. It was not upset, bow- turns out the noble Elam is an under-clerk to Messrs.
ever, and they ran off. They had no motive, except the Swaine, the saddlers, who, to add to his misfortune, claim
gratification of a love of mischief. The prisoner was fully the canes as their property. Mr. Hardwick, seeing it was
committesl to the sessions, , a case 'of ratitug deception,, di misses, the complaint.,