The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

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monial„ reaches above £83,000. The sum remitted fi
India, up to June last, was £20,000, mak

£103,0(

THE REV. T. ATKINS has
of bail, for repeating his libel in th.
letter on the Rec. Dr. Cursham, cica
defendant, it will be remembered, was
for a similar offence at the recent assi

sham, vicar
of Mans
-. held to 1

DR UMLANEIG CASTLE, Dumfriesshire, the Duke (
Buccleuch's hospitable seat, will be fall of distinguishe
visitants the first week in the ensuing month. Thei
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince
Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, and also, we believe, the Duke of Cambridge, wi
—ill remain a for

honour their graces with
night. - -

-THE QUEEN'S COUNTENANCE OF THE NAVY.—Anoth
Royal Prince is intended as a sailor, if we may draw as
favourable inference to assist at such a conclusion from tl
fact of her Majesty having ordered a sailor-boy's outfit f
his Royal Highness Prince Arthur. The illustrious Prin
is only three years and three months old, and is godson
the late Duke of Wellington.—Hampshire Advertiser.
THE DEPARTURES FOR THE AUSTRALIAN COLONI
during th' .ast week from the port of Loma.-- -

Lilt
considerable increase. They have comprised altogt,
vessels--10 of which are for Port Philip, with an aggrt
gate burthen of 3,942 tons; three to Sydney, with
aggregate burthen of 2,173 tons; one to New Zealan
540 tons; one to Adelaide of 450 tons; one to Laun
of 385 tons; and one to Hobart Town of 347 tons.
total capacity was consequently 7,839 tons.
FATAL SLEEPWALKING.—In London, on the morning
of Wednesday last, the captain of a Newcastle brig lost his
life in a fit of somnambulism. Deceased had for years
been subject to this habit, and on the morning named he
rose, dressed himself, and set out from his house in Brom-
ley-street, Commercial-road East, towards the basin of the
canal. He was observed walking along, in an apparently
dozing state, and was seen to turn down a yard leading to
one of the wharves. In a few minutes there was an alarm
that a man was in the water, but before assistance arrived
he had disappeared, and it was not till after some time
that the body was taken out. Deceased bad on his person
at the time £2l in notes and gold, some silver, a watch,
gold chain, and tooth-pick.
THE INVEXTOR Or THE FIRE ANNIHILATOR, Mr. W.
H. Phillips, was brought before the magistrates in London,

.her 17

r, with ai
Zealand o

to Launceston
Their

on Thiirctai, charged with creating a dist
office of the Fire Annihilator Company

struck at the secretary, who asked him to leave the room
Defendant declared that he would not move without beh4
put out, and he took up something with which he delibe
rately broke the window. He then got his legs out at th
window. This strange conduct was explained by the fa,
that, although the defendant had ceased two year-

concern, his name had beer

over to keep the peace.
INDIAN RAILWAY.—A prospectus has been issued of a
new Bombay - railway, to be called the Bombay, Baroda,
and Central India Railway Company, with a capital of
24,600,000, in £2O shares. The principal object is to con-
nect Bombay with Agra, so as ultimately to forma junction
with the Bengal line, and thus open an uninterrupted
route from Bombay to Calcutta, but it is also proposed to
construct a line from 'Surat into the cotton districts of
Candeish and Berar and the coal districts of the Nerbudda.
The -main features of the scheme having heen approved by
the Governor-General, the India-house, it is stated, have
authorised the company to make the requisite surveys, and
have guaranteed the expenses that may be incurred for
that purpose.
THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT to SELL AN INDIAN CADET-
SHIP.--At the Mansion-house, London, on Thursday, the
Lord Mayor-gave his decision in the matter of the charge
preferred by the 'East India Company against Mr. Norman
Wilkinson, who was alleged to have been concerned, with
a person whose name is unknown, in trafficking for an
appointment in the gift of the East India Company. The
Lord Mayor's decision was that, as there was no evidence
that the transaction charged as an offence took place in the
city of London, he had no jurisdiction, and should therefore
dismiss the case. Mr. Clarkson then applied to the Lord
Mayor to commit Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for refusing
to disclose the name of the person who had made the offer
of a cadetship to Mr. Norman Wilkinson ; but the Lord
Mayor rejected the application, on the ground that the
wording of the statute, on which Mr. Clarkson relied, did
not give him 'the power. The summons against Mr.
Norman Wilkinson was then dismissed.
ROBBERY OP A JEWELLER'S SHOP IN DERBT.-011
Wednesday morning it was discovered that Mr. Pearce's
shop, in St. Peter's-street, had been robbed to a great ex-
tent of watches, rings, and other valuable jewellery. A
man who was sweeping the street between five and six
o'clock in the morning, discovered one of the shutters of
the window in a position in which it ought not to be. He
alarmed the inmates of the house, and, on their looking
into the affair, they discovered that the shutter had been
forcibly removed from its fastenings, the window (plate
glass) had been broken at the corner, and a great number
of gold and silver watches, rings, and other valuable
jewellery had been extracted. The robbery had been
effected with considerable adroitness, as a large glass was

and this had been removed, and
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placed over the rings
placed on its side, and
hung was much bent, to admit of their being taken from
it. A case of brooches, not of the most expensive kind,
was left. The thieves evidently had carefully selected that
part of the window containing the most valuable class of
goods.—Upwards of £4.00 worth of jewellery was stolen.
THE PLOUGH SUPERSEDED.-Mr. Mechi, in a letter to
the Times, says :—" Since the trial of implements at my
' gathering' I have received from one of our North Ameri-
can colonies the model of a newly-invented machine, which,
by a happy and most simple combination of horse and
steam power, will—and I pledge my agricultural reputa-
tion for it—not only deeply, cheaply, and efficiently culti-
vate and pulverize the soil, but at the same time sow the
seed and leave all in, a finished condition. It will also, by
a simple inversion, cut and gather the corn without any
rake or other complication ; while both in cultivation and
harvesting its operation will be continuous and without
stoppage. The inventor and his machine have, by the
government of the district, been placed under my charge
and guidance. I have therefore, on public grounds, and
considering the vast importance of the invention in. a na-
tional point of view, advised the inventor to grant licenses
for its manufacture at a very moderate royalty, to the
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or inferiorit
P of the kingdom, so that our agriculturalists may De
secured by competition against trionoNlY y,
while the Inventor will benefit in proportion to the appre-
ciation of its meits. I shall call together a meeting of the
various implement-makers, and in due time my practical
friends of the old school (who must now consider me quite
insane) will have an opportunity on my farm of forming
their own conclusions. I may venture to state generally
that the implement when complete will about twenty to
twenty-four cwt., will require a pair of horses, and will
represent the power of about eight to twelve, er more, real
horses. The implement for digging will require one man
and one boy only, including the management of the steam-
engine ; in reaping, the same, with the addition of three

men to bind as the corn fa
will be carried on the machine
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN GOODMAN'S
FIELDS.—On 'Wednesday a dreadful and deliberate mur-

) their arms,

The . men

der was perpetrated npOn a married female, named Ca-
therine .Mobbs, aged forty-six, by her husband, Nathaniel
Mobbs, • aged forty.three, a _ wine _ cooper and porter, re-

siding at 'Goodman's-fields, Minories, who afterwards cut
his own throat with a table-knife. Mobbs had been in
the service of Messrs. Walter Howell and Hale, wholesale
wine merchants, but for some time past he has been lead-
ing a life of dissipation, and while intoxicated he would
return home in a state of excitement, and cruelly ill-treat
his wife. They had a family of four children, two boys
and two girls, the eldest being about ten years of age.
Mobbs went out in the morning, and returned about half-
past one in the afternoon, apparently quite sober, and
told the children to go out and play, About three o'clock
one of the landlord's daughters, who was sitting in the
front parlour, heard a cry of " Murder," which was ac-
companied by a desperate struggling noise in the first
floor room. The girl went on to the stairs to listen, when
she met Mrs. Mobbs rushing down with a frightful wound
in the front of her neck. Her hands were covered with
blood, and her dress was also saturated with gore.
Mrs. Mobbs reached the front of the house, and fell on
to the stone pavement, where several neighbours, who had
'been attracted to the spot, raised her up, and placed her in
a chair, while several persons ran for medical assistance.
By this time a young man, named John Readen, came to
the house and was asked by one of the family to go uP
stairs, and see where Mobbs was. The man was lying in
a corner of the room, with a severe wound in the throat.
There were two knives, besmeared with blood, lying on
the table, and a piece of grindstone, on which Mobbs had
sharpened the weapons. The room was in a state of great
confusion, as if the deceased and the wretched man had
struggled together for several minutes. Two medical gen-
tlemen were soon in attendance, and no time was lost by
them in temporarily dressing their wounds, after which
they were conveyed to the London Hospital ; but the fe-
male expired as she was being taken into the surgery.
The man was sensible. As he was being carried to the
cab he exclaimed, " I did it, I did it." Mobbs, who was a
most desperate character, and was called in the neighbour-
hood, among the lower class of persons, " General Haynau,"
is in a fair way of recovery.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS have effected an ex-
traordinary cure of frightful bruises on the neck and back.—
Henry Tolman, residing at the Sandhill tollgate, Launceston,
Van Diemen's Land, states in a letter addressed to the pro-
prietor of the Cornwall Chronicle, that whilst at work in the
bush a tree fell upon him and wounded Lim in a shocking
manner; the back of his neck anti the parts
,ioiliou,otmhies
loins
exhibited one mass of frightful bruises.
time
various remedies were tried without benerflitt,d,riti.t by usi
lie was per-
ng
Holloway's ointment and pills for pc o
fectly cured and enabled to resume his•pork.
. " For 'inwards of nine
FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HrAil:jr—we, of IVinchmore Hill,
years, (writes Mr. Thomas
Middlesex,) I have experieesn..coeudsiche efficacy of this excellent
been attlictiendduwcietdh head-
ache dt 0-
medicine. I had long Pr I
ache arid indigestion ; but
sa having
I now inform you that a
make a trial of Frampton'. L'i
few doses gave me great mite; and during
any outer
long period
of time I have taken them in preference to other medi-
cine; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a '
better state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills.
I beg farther to add, that this medicine is in general use by
my family, and we know of nothing to equal it." In any
case wliere an aperient medicine is required, they need only
be tried to be universally adopted. Sold by all medicine
vendors, Price is. lid. per box. See the name of " Thomas
Front, 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp.
FRENCH LANGITAOR.—MODS. L. P. PLUMTOT. at the re-
quest of several large families, has determined to introduce
Ladies of all ages to any of the fifteen different Classes di-
rected by him, in Six respectable Educational Establishments
for Young Ladies,
eadeileasa,aonotfli all gradations,
terms as the Pupils themselves.
Mons. P. b
nradations, from beginners in the
French Alphabet to the Pupils capable not only of understand •
ing very well the Classic Works used by him, (the same as
adopted in the best Educational Establishments in Paris')
but also capable of speaking and writing correctly the French
Language. Each Lady has the option of remaining in the
different classes one, two, or three hours twice a-week. Gen-
tlemen, of all ages, may be introduced also Into several Es-
tablishments for Young Gentlemen, on the same terms as the
Pupils. Prospectuses, with Directions as to each Establish-
ment, Terms, and many Testimoniais from Ladies, Clergy-
men, and Gentlemen who have learned the French Language
upon Mons. P.'s new system during the last ten years, may
be had at any tittle, at the Professor's Residence. Mons. P.
is at hometyery_day from-Half-past One to Two in the After-
noon. No. 45, UPPER PARLIAMENT-STRUT.. .Private Les-
sons for Ladies or' Gentlemer4 at the Professor's Residence,
at the Pupils' Residence. or by Correspondence u usual.
The next Quarter COMmenCeS On the let of October.

1 Atlantic
i Light; at

abreast of
Rho

Fairy v

channel, to I
attained by

hour. Considering

ation. Refreshments were provided during

Crewe; of the

liberal s

Duke-stye

•er being

r. J. P.
to the

Kiaux Fairy and the New Company," was drunk, and the
toast was responded to by Mr. Corkhill, of Ramsey.i who
proposed " The Health of the Builder." 3lr. Laird, in
responding, spoke in high terms of the straightforward
and generous conduct of the new company, who had re-
posed in him every confidence. He also alluded to the
South American Steam Navigation Company, and said
that he had become a convert to the belief that screw
steamers were much preferable to those of the paddle for
long voyages, as they were more ecconomical. The healths
of Messrs. Fawcett and Preston was also drunk. The
Manz Fairy landed her company at Seacombe slip shortly
before seven o'clock, and was afterwards taken into the
Birkenhead dock, to have her painting, &c., completed.
Her commander, Captain Dixon, was lately chief officer of
the Mona's Queen, and is a gentleman of much experience
in the trade between this port and the Isle of Man. The
prospects of the new company are said to be very
promising, the tradesmen of Ramsey having entered into
an agreement for five years, to ship their goods exclu-
sively by the Manx Fairy, and we understand nearly all, if
not the whole of the shares in the company have been
i
taken up. It s confidently erpected that, under favour-
-.. the voyp- • --..n. Liverpool and

able circumstances, __ _ oetwet
Ramsey will be performed in less than
was remarked on her trial trip, that al__
and was almost entirely free from vibration

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