The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS

MR. WILLIAM CLAPHAM, of Hatfield, near Hornsel,
has a shearling sheep which was clipped last week, and
yielded no less than 171bs. of wool.
Mu. HORSMAN, late M.P. for Cockermouth. has
started as a cadidate for the representation of Stroud,
vacant by the elevation of Lord Moreton to the House of
Lords.

THE ANNUAL SPEECHES were delivered in the Upper
School at Eton College, on Wednesday. before a large and
distinguished audience. Prince Albert and the Prince of
Wales were present on the cccasion.
A YOUNG CUMBERLAND POET, of the name of Bigg.,
is about to be introduced to public notice by George Gil-
fillan, of Dundee, to whom the young Lake-poet has
submitted a mass of unpublished MSS., the greater part
of which are said to be of great merit.

TROOPS FROM THE CAPE.—Lieutenant General the
Hon. Sir George Cathcart, commanding the forces at the
Cape of Good Hope, has communicated to the authorities
at home that he can now spare the 12th Lancers and
three regimenst of infantry.
MR. J. E. FULLER, an attorney at Birmingham, who
gave permission to a barber to use his name as an at-
torney for 15s. a-week, was on Monday sentenced by
Mr. Justice Elle to three months' imprisonment ; but on
an application from the defendant, the sentence was
altered to striking his name off the rolls.
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BRIBERY.—Before the Cambridge bribery commission,
some of the witnesses acknowledged that they had Fe-
ceived £lO, and others £5, to vote. After the election
one of the agents passed the house of a voter, accom-
panied by a veiled female, who gave him an envelope
containing two £5 notes.
A GRATIFYING EXCHANGE.—TWO hampers—one of
cod liver oil, the other of claret—recently entrusted to the
Eastern Counties Railway, suffered a change of address on
the road, and were cross-delivered. The doctor's patients,
who got the claret, are said to have been more gratified
than the gentleman's friends who got the oil.
THE ELECTRIC CLOCK.—Mr. Futvoye, of Regent-
street, London, having at length succeeded in obtaining
the sanction of the Commissioners of the Woods and
Forests for the erection of this clock, has spiritedly placed
it at the corner of Beak-street, where it is not only an
object of general attraction, but of great public utility.
It was to the perfecting of this clock that Mr. Bain devoted
his genius and labour for so many years.
THE POEMS OF ALEXANDER SMITH. we are happy
to perceive, have been republished in Boston and New
York ; and the leading journals of the New World are
loud in the poet's praise. The Rev. George Gilfillan, of
Dundee, in a paper in the current part of flogg's In-
structor, states that the " Life-Drama" was first put
into his hands in a rude state in the April of 1851.

DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH COTTLE.-011 Tuesday even-
ing Mr. Joseph Cottle expired at his residence, Firfield-
house, Knowle, near Bristol, in his 84th year. Many, no
doubt, are familiar with his name as the early friend of
Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey. He was exten-
sively known by his own literary labours, and throughout

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his long life was greatly honoured and loved for his distin-
guished personal worth by all who had the privilege of
his acquaintance.

COFFEE AND CHlCORY.—ltappears, from areturn lately
printed of the number of prosecutions instituted for the
adulteration of coffee and the illegal use of chicory,
under the respective treasury orders of August 3, 1852,
and Feb. 25, 1853, that the results are as follows :
Under the former there were 1,063 inspections, 50 seizures,
prosecutions nil, other proceedings 6 ; under the latter,
1,884 inspections, no seizures, 94 prosecutions, and 135
other proceedings !
OATLANDS GRANGE.—The vi3itors to the CUSP at
Chobham, in changing trains at Weybricige, will perceive
a beautiful ravine of overhanging plantations close to the
station. Over this ravine is the well-known Oatlands
Grange, forming formerly a portion of the domain of the
Duke of York. The Grange has just been bought for the
Conservative Land Society for distribution amongst the
members. The estate commands a magnificent view of St.
Ann's-hill, the residence of Charles James Fox, Chertsey,
Windsor Castle, &c. The late King of the French is
buried at Weybridge, which is within three quarters of an
hour's distance from town by the South-Western Railway.
MODERN ORTHODOXY.—A tea-meeting was held at
Derby a few days ago, as an ovation to a Mr. Corbin, an
Independent teacher, on his leaving that town, at which
the Rev. W. F. Wilkinson, Vicar .of St.. Werburgh's,.

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and fully recognise his Churchmanship and Church-
membership, and that I esteem him not only as a member
of the Church of Christ, but as a minister of that Church
by an ordination as valid as my own."
DISASTERS IN THE PACIFIC.—The San Francisco.
Herald sums up the marine losses in the Pacific waters,
during the last three years, as follow :—The City of Pitts-
burg, burnt in Valparaiso, 6200,000 ; the North Ame-
rica, wrecked on the Mexicau coast, .6200,000 the In-
dependence, wrecked on Isla de Margarita, 6100,000;.
the Tennessee, wrecked in Indian Cove, £200,000 ; the
GLneral Warren, wrecked on the Oregon coast, 450,000;
the Pioneer, wrecked in San Simeon Bay, .875,000 ; the
Eudora. wrecked on the Oregon ceast, 4'50,000 ; the
Corn. Preble, wrecked on the Oregon coast, 43'50,000.
This estimate shows at least a loss of 5925,000, to say
nothing of the loss of life which has been sustained.
STRANGE FRAUD.—At Clerkenwell police-court, Mr.
James Palmer, of the London Gas Company, was charged
with assaulting Mr. Firmin William Potts, of the Im-
perial Gas Company, competing bodies. The quarrel
originated in the attempt of the plaintiff to gauge the
quantity of gas fraudulently obtained by the London Gas-
Company, through secretly tapping the pipes of the rival
company, the Imperial. By an ingeniously contrived
and delicate apparatus, the amount of gas thus obtained
had been estimated as worth at least £l,OOO. The in-,
strument was broken in the assault. The Imperial had
charged the other company at the Queen's Bench.
EXPENSES OF A SUIT IN CHANCERY. —On Saturday week
the case relating to the will of Mr. Day, the blacking ma-
nufacturer, came on before the Lords Justices, upon, e
question of payment of costs. It appeared that under Mi..
Day's will there were twenty-three persons who were en-
titled to small annuities, and many others entitled to share
in the residuary estate, and nearly all these claimants
upon the property had throughout the suit, which was in-
stituted to administer the will, appeared by different
counsel and different solicitors. An objection was raised
to the payment of separate costs, when it appeared that
the expenses of the suit, before it even came on for hear-
ing, amounted to £70,000. The court left it to the
different parties to consider whether they could all agree-
amongst themselves to be represented by one solicitor.
In case no such arrangement could be come to, the
question would be disposed of on following Friday.
A SIMPLE REMEDY.—To persons having the care of
steam-engines, the following from the Lawrenceburg
Register may be available :—" Mr. Ira Hill has informed
us that he has accidentally made a valuable discovery, by
which the deposition of lime upon steam boilers may be
obviated. Two or three shovels of sawdust are thrown
into the boiler, after which process he states he never had
any difficulty from lime, although using- water strongly
impregnated with it. He has always found the inside of
his I oilers as smooth as if just oiled. Whether the lime
attaches itself to the floating particles of sawdust, instead
of the boiler, or whether the tanic acid in the oak sawdust
forms a salt with the lime which will not attach itself to

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iron, remains to be explained. The sawdust was placed
in the boiler for the purpose of stopping a leak. The
experiment is cheap and easily tried."—NewYorkTribune.
THE QUEEN'S TEN.—THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.—
The Queen's pavilion was taken out of store at Woolwich
on Tuesday. and has been set up on Greenhill, a place
within the boundaries of the garrison. The pavilion has
not been used, it is said, since the visit of Queen
Charlotte, but it is now to be put in good condition here,
previous to its being taken to Chobham-common, and
erected there, as it is intended that her Majesty, Prince
Albert, the commander-in-chief, and the master-general
of the ordnance will be present on several occasions to
witness the encampment and evolutions, reviews, and
sham fights which will take place to instruct the troops
in the duties that would be expected of them in actual
warfare, and a large supply of blank cartridge will be
issued for that purpose. The Queen's pavilion is 60 feet
long by about 15 broad, with two entrances covered over,
one at the east and one at the west end, each about 20
feet in length, making a total length of about 100 feet.
The roof in front and back is supported on eight arches,
the two centre arches being large, and the three arches
on each aide of the two centre arches being of smaller
dimensions. The canvas can be thrown open from any
or the whole of the arches to afford an uninterrupted
view in front and in the rear, and the flooring is composed
of timber frames, formed of deal, about 5 feet long by 4
feet broad, for the convenience of being carried on wag-
gons. The marquee for the master-general was also bet
up on Greenhill, but it has been taken down and for-
warded to the place of encampment on Chohham-common.

SHOCKING CASE OF POISONING.—On Thursday great
consternation was created in Belper by a rumour that a
family named Flewitt, living in the Cluster-buildings,
were poisoned. It appears that the moment the father
had finished his last course at dinner, which was rice.
pudding, he complained of sickness, and was obliged to
remove hastily from the table. Scarcely had he got out
of the house before three of his children and a young man
named Sheldon were also seized with sickness and vomit—
ing. They became very alarmed, and the mother ran
into a neighbour's house and informed them that she be-
lieved the whole family were poisoned.
She immediately
ran for medical assistance, and, on her return, was found
to be suffering from the same cause. None of the family
could give any account of what kind of poison they
had taken, except a girl about twelve years of age, who
said she saw something like flour in the sugar her mother
used in making the pudding. From this it was thought
to be arsenic, although they all denied having it in the
house. Sheldon, working in the same shop with Flewitt,
has been in the habit of taking his dinner to his house
pudding, which was of a different kind,
in exchange for
her share of the rice one, which she accepted.
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some and the morning the parties
were poisoned he went to Flewitt's house in his working
in the evening, when she expired. After some
;, Mr. H. Meiley, the coroner, ordered the im-
mediate apprehension of Sheldon. It appears that lastweck
'\eldon asked the master dyer at Messrs. Ward's, Bel-
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place where-the sugar was kept. It also appears that he
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a short time ago, he said he would do away with