The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS,

The establirtlio.ent of a Roman Catholic Guild, at York,
has caused a diyision among the Roman Catholics of that
city. R. 11. Anderson, Esq., who has always taken a pro-
minent part in the affairs of the church; has addressed a let-
ter to the editor of the Yorkshire Gazette, denouncing the
proceedings as a revival of superstitions of by-gone ages,
and as calculated to " render the [Roman] Catholics of this
country objects of ridicule and contempt." Mr. Anderson
sees that the mummery of popery will disgust every rational
mind.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY:—The half-yearly
meeting of this company was held on the 30th March
last. The receipts of the company exhibit an increase of
£5765 19s. 9d. over the expenditure, and the report of the
directors appeared to give very general satisfaction to the
shareholders who, as well as the public at large, are to be
congratulated on the prospect of the only link now wanting
to connect Bristol and the south of England more nearly
with the north, being now supplied.
On Wednesday, the 31st ult., a serious accident took place
near Islay House, the seat of W. F. Campbell, Esq,' M.P.,
for Argyllshire. Mr. John Murdoch, the principal game-
keeper, and an assistant, were shooting at barnacles, and
while they were creeping along among the rocks, Mr. Mur-
doch in front, the assistant fired, when the ball, which hit a
rock, rebounded, and struck Mr. Murdoch above the eye
with such force as nearly to cause his death. Indeed, very
little hope is yet entertained of his recovery.—Caledonian
Mercury.
A CURIOUS TRlF.—About nine o'clock on Monday even-
ing last, a boy, who is ari apprentice to one of the men em-
ployed in the engine shed at the Manchester station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway, got upon an engine which
had just come with a luggage train from Leeds, and had been
left by the engineman in an improper state, the steam not
having been let off. Probably, riot understanding the engine,
the boy set it in motion, and it darted forward, broke through
the wall of the shed, and fell a height of about twenty feet
into the field below, where it was deeply embedded in clay.
It lay there until about six o'clock on Tuesday morning,
when it was got out, and it appeared that the damage done
to it was very trifling, probably nut amounting to more than
£25. The boy got off the engine no one knows how, and
has not since been heard of. Both he and the fireman are,
we believe, amenable to Lord Seymour's act for the regula-
tion of railways.—Manchester Guardian.

MANSLAUGHTER IN YORIC.—On Friday last, a dreadful
case of Manslaughter occurred at York ; deriving its principal
horror, however, from the circumstances of the victim rather
than the violence of the criminal. It appears that the de-
ceased, John Charles Warren, a commercial traveller for a
house at Wolverhampton, after drinking to intoxication at
the Star Inn, in Stonegate, went with a Mr. Monkman. so-
licitor, to a house of ill-fame; on the road to which they
were assaulted by two'ulip, on-6of whom felled deceased, and
left him in the street. He, however, was not so much the
worse, apparently, but that he got up and went to the house
in question, where he staid all night. About nine the next
morning the girl with whom he had slept gave an alarm that
he was dying c, • but he lingered until about twelve o'clock. A
man named Wm. Plewes was sworn to as being the man who
struck deceased ; and the surgeon having deposed that death
was caused by the injuries received on the head, Plewes was
committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes for man-
slaugter.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon a
young man of the name of Zachariah Gage expired at Guy's
Hospital, from the effects of falling into a vat of boiling oil,
at Messrs. Langton's oil-warehouse, in Newington-butts. It
appeared that he was engaged, on the evening previous to
his death, in minding the oil, when his foot slipped, and he
tumbled into the vat, which was so full that it was beyond
his depth, and the unfortunate man was compelled to swim
about to save himself from drowning. His cries soon brought
same men in the warehouse to his assistance, who quickly
extricated him in an almost lifeless state, and his clothes
were got 'offwith all expedition, when the flesh was found to
be hanging in long strips from the neck downwards. He
was wrapped in a sheet, Laid brought away to the hospitsl, in
the most indescribable agony, but quite sensible, in which
state he remained till the following afternoon at 3 o'clock,
when death put an end to his sufferings.

Belvidere, and Eliza, hence at Charleston
T. P. Cope, and Rob Roy, hence at Philadelphia
Nicholas Biddle; Sobieski; New York, Cropper; Siddons, Cobb,
and Niagara, Cole, hence at New York
Anne It Jaue, Cocks, hence at Berbice
Thistle, from the Clyde, at Demerara gth March
Celt, from Batavia, at ditto, 10th; cargo rum
Parker, Risien, from Demerara for Liverpool, would not sail
until 6th April
Athuria, Ashbridge, from China, at Manilla
Henry Grayson, Penrice, hence at Malta
Release, Curtis, hence at Gibraltar
Heroine, Blythe, hence at Lisbon

Pens. Felix, Solitra, hence at Oporto
A ship, apparently British, laden with cotton, was fallen in with
on the southern edge of the Gulf, burnt to the water's edge, by
the Clyde, arrived at Wilmington 22nd March
•

Caledonia, (steamer) from Halifax, at this port; brings no uew
of the President

Lord Seaton, from New Orleans, at this port
British Queen, (steamer) from Portsmouth, at Halifax 30th
March, with paddle floats taken away, having encountered very
boisterous weather, and sailed for New York 31st March

Clinton; Joseph Cunard; Asia; Oseola ; Leopard; Tarquin
Michigan; Deucalion, Howes; Parthenon, Woodbury; Cornet
Bute, and Thistle, Elder, hence at New Orleans

Agenoria ; Bowditch; Majestic; Ilottinger, and Rajah, Bangs,
hence at Mobile

Prince of Waterloo, hence at Savannah
Harriet & Jessie, hence off Charleston
Henry Leeds, for Mobile, off Tortugas 13th ultimo
Diamond, Rees, from Demerara, at St. Vincent, with loss of top
masts, bound to Liverpool
Barrels of flour, with the appearance of having been burnt it
some vessel on fire, were passed in lat. 36 30, long. 73.