The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

Till LIVIIPOOL gTANDARIL

Two old-established banks at Wrexham—Kenrick's and
Lloyd's—have suspended payment.
A clerk in the branch of the British Linen Company's
Bank at Carluke, Lanarkshire, has absconded with nearly
£l,OOO of the company's cash.
A correspondent of the Times states the amount of the
loss which his firm has sustained by light gold, during the
last six years, at £875 ss.
The Jersey Times mentions that French cows are often
introduced into Jersey, and afterwards shipped to England
as cows of the true Alderney breed.
A Durham paper states that the caverns at Hepshead
are to be explored, and remarks that important geological
discoveries will probably be made.
Two swindlers, Mrs. Green, an assumed widow, and
Mr. Cross, her brother, have been cheating the trades-
men of Cheltenham to a great extent.
A dove, which for about forty years had been the re-
tainer of a family residing on Montague-hill, Bristol, died
of old age on 21st ult.
The Birmingham Journal says that the young noble-
man who has married a young lady of humble rank of
life, living at Cambridge, is the Earl of Stamford and
Warrington.
A destructive fire took place on Friday, at the coach
and harness manufactory of Mr. Angus, Newcastle-on-
Tyne. The premises were destroyed, and the loss is
estimated at several thousand pounds.
It is said that Mr. John O'Connell has obtained a situ-
ation in the house of a London mercantile firm ; and that
M. Guizot has been appointed to an office in connexion
with the library of a noble English family.
EXPENSES OF PROSECUTION.—It transpired at a magis-
trates'meeting, at Kendal, on Saturday week, that the
cost to the county of the case of stealing a fishing rod at
Ambleside, was £32.
At the Staffordshire sessions, last week, it was formally
decided that a widow is not a single woman, and a thief
got off in consequence of such a misdescription of the
owner of stolen goods.
On Saturday two men were committed for trial at
Chobham, Surrey, charged with incendiarism. The pri-
soners acknowledged their guilt, and their intention to
have committed several acts.

On the 13th Inst. Mr. W. Milbanke Huskisson, nephew
of the celebrated statesman, died at Greenwich. He was
a clerk in the Foreign office, and like his uncle shewed
much soundness of intellect and aptitude for business.
On Saturday week an old gentleman named Naylor, of
weak intellect, wandered on the Leeds and Dewsbury
railway in the evening, and being overtaken by a train
was unfortunately killed.

At Messrs. Horne's, in Whitechapel, London, there is
an engine working under the combined influence of steam
and chloroform,—combination which the best engineering
authorities state to possess many great advantages.
A few days since a servant girl, who was washing her
hands in her master's kitchen, at Kirby-le-Soken, Essex,
found a half-sovereign imbedded in the soap. into which it
had evidently fallen during the process of manufacture.
On Saturday last, a Bradford barge, which was lying a
little below the confluence of the rivers Aire and Calder,
was sunk by the flood, and the master had the grief of
seeing his wife and two children drowned before his eyes.
The " British Association for relieving distress in Ire-
land and Scotland" have published their accounts.
They acknowledge to have received £603,535, three-
fourths of which was appropriated to Ireland.
As the Rev. William Smart, of the first United Pres.
byterian congregation, Linlithgow, was on his way to the
pulpit, on Sunday week, he suddenly fell in the street,
and before he could be carried to a house he expired.
A nephew of Mr. Cobden, M.P.. named Rogers, disap-
peared from his situation and home in London a few days
ago, and no intelligence has since been received of him.
He was a steady youth, seventeen years of age.
There is now no doubt that Jenny Lind will appear this
season at her Majesty's Theatre. She had resolved to
appear no more on the stage, but has been induced to
continue for another season.

The cholera is abating at Glasgow ; 342 cases and 137
deaths only are reported. In London and the vicinity a
slight increase has been produced by the dispersion of the
Tooting patients, but the progress of the calamity is
arrested.

SOUP KITCHEN EXTRAORDINARY.—On soup days, at
the West Riding house of correction, the spare soup is
given away to any poor people who have a mind to fetch
it. We understand numbers will avail themselves of the
above gift at this trying season.—Wakefield Journal.
A MODEL WATER COMPANY.—A water company in
Sunderland supplies 400 poor families, gratis, with ser-
vice pipes and water-taps in their houses, and with an un-
limited supply of water at the rate of one penny per
week.

Dr. Lloyd Williams, for upwards of thirty years medi-
cal officer of the Denbighshire Infirmary, has had his own
portrait and that of his lady presented to him. The pub-
lic subscription for the purpose realised upwards of 200
guineas._

The Rev. John G. Lonsdale, son of the Bisbop of
Lichfield, has been appointed Secretary of the National
Society, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev.
W. J. Kennedy, who is now one of the Government
Inspectors of Schools.
At the Plymouth Yacht Club fancy dress ball, on Wed-
nesday last, the entrance was lighted by wax candles,
placed in the muzzles of a row of muskets all up the grand
staircase. The muskets bristled with bayonets, and had
a glittering and beautiful appearance.
Commander Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, and late of
the Daring, 12-gun brig, who distinguished himself by
passing a most remarkable examination for the rank of
Lieutenant when in the Excellent, has been promoted to
the rank of Post-Captain.
On Tuesday night, a servant of the Earl of- Stamford
saw a man pick up what he supposed to be a couple of
hares, in a field :war the earl's seat at Enville. The ser-
vant ran after the suspected poacher, seized the animals,
and hastened to the gamekeeper's lodge, where he dis-
covered that he had captured two cats.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTII.—On Sunday, the 13th in-
stant, a most extraordinary lusus naturce took place in
Rochester-row, Westminster, where the wife of a shoe-
maker, named Wright, was delivered of five children
(boys) at a birth. The children are dead, but are per-
fectly formed.

On Wednesday the extensive grocery and drapery shop
of Mr. Spackman, at Corsham, near Bath, were destroyed
by fire, and unfortunately, after the fire, Mr. Spackman's
dead body was found near a chimney stack, his head re-
clining on his hand, as if be had been overpowered by
suffocation.

At the Longford sessions, a fellow was sentenced to
seven years' transportation for swindling a respectable
but most simple widow of money, under pretence that he
was her dead husband and was then " in the fairies," and
threatening that he and the fairies would " make para-
bles" (!) of the children if it were not forthcoming.
MORMONISM AND CARLIFORNIAISM.—On Wednes-
day, several families, comprising twenty-three individuals,
left Louth, Lincolnshire, for Liverpool, on their way to
California. They say the " Mormon gatherings" are not
the attraction, and we believe that this is the case with at
least some of them, for it has long since been their inten-
tion to emigrate to this land of promise.

NOVEL MODE OF SLIDING.—.At Chepstow, during the
recent frost, some boys established, in Beaufort-square,
slides, which the " navvies" improved upon, by procuring
the loan of some frying pans, and seating themselves in
them, holding the handles in front by way of rudders,
thus merrily they sailed over the land, amid loud shouts
and plaudits from the by-standers.
DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.—On Monday, a man named
Probert, who had been drinking at Brecon, proceeded
home across the mountains, and was found next morning
sitting amongst the snow on a heap of stones a few yards
from the road. It is supposed that becoming drowsy from
the combined effects of the cold and the beer, he had sat
down, and falling asleep, had been frozen to death.
MUNIFICENT DONATIONS. —The treasurer of the
Gloucester Magdalen Asylum, and of the Gloucester
Infirmary, has received for the benefit of the former in-
stitution a transfer receipt of X5OO 34- per cent., and for
the benefit of the latter a transfer receipt of £2OOO 31
per cent., being in each case the munificent donation of
William Page Wood, Esq., one of the members for
Oxford.

A number of persons have lately been drowned at the
docks at Hartlepool, and on Thursday evening Mr. W.
J. Vollum, mayor of that town, after enjoying the society
of a few select friends at his own -house, took a
walk down to the docks, where it is supposed he had fallen
over the quay, within a quarter of an hour of leaving his
own dwelling, as his hat was picked up floating in the
Victoria Dock, about half-past ten o'clock, half an hour
after he had left home.

Some persons who were assembled on the cliffs at Ska-
eheraw, near Aberdeen. on Monday week, were anxiously

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watching some fishing boats returning home in order to
escape a rising storm, when, on nearing the shore, one of
the boats was struck by a heavy sea, which almost
swamped her. An old man named Masson, one of whose
sons was in the boat, shrieked " they're a' gone," fell
back, and instantly expired; but the boat reached the
land in safety.

POWERS OF THE BLIND. Passing through Temple
Sowerby, in Westmoreland (says Southey), I was shown
a man perfectly blind, and blind from his infancy. Fowell
was his name. This man's chief amusement was fishing
on the wild and uneven banks of the river Eden, and up
the different streams and tarns among the mountains. He
had an intimate friend, likewise stone-blind, a dexterous
card-player, who knew every gate and stile far and near
throughout the country. These two often coursed toge-
ther, and the people, here as everywhere fond of the mar-
vellous, affirm that they were the best beaters up of game
in the country.

The rapid and progressive increase of poor rates in
Scotland is causing alarm. The expenditure for the year
1844-5 was £258,814; the year 1845-6, £306,044: and
the year 1846-7, £435,367. The report for 1847-8 will be
laid before Parliament next month, and in it it is calcula-
ted that the expenditure will be £550,000. In 1847 the
assessment was at the rate of £4 13s. sd. per cent. on the
annual value of the real property of the country, or nearly
td. per head of the population, according to the last
census. In 1847 the registered poor amounted to 85,971;
casual poor, to 60,399 ; total, 146,370, or nearly one in
eighteen of the population, provided there be no repetition
in the cases set down as casual poor.
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The National Club have added to the already large debt
of gratitude the nation owes them by issuing the following
appropriate form of petition :—" That your petitioners
have understood that a measure for the endowment of
the Roman Catholic Priesthood in Ireland is likely to be
submitted to your Honourable House,—That your peti-
tioners, believing the public support of a religious system
opposed to the Word of God to be a grievous national sin,
and the establishment by law of the popish priesthood in
this country to be utterly at variance with the principles
of the British Constitution, most earnestly implore your
Honourable House not to give countenance to such
measure." The same patriotic body have also, issued
another form of petition on a cognate subject, namely, in
behalf of the schools in connexion with. the Protestant
Church in Ireland—the only schools in. the kingdom 0-,-
cluded from Government aid..

A MINER UNDER GROUND FOR SEVEN DAYS.—A
miner, named John Edwards, aged 24, employed at the
Plymouth Works, Merthyr, missed his way in coming out
of the level on Tuesday se'nnight, and was not heard of
until Wednesday morning in the following week, when a
party of his fellow-workmen went in search of him. They
found him in some old workings, His feet were blistered
by walking to and fro endeavouring to find his way out ;
and he was in that dreary- and unwholesome place without
having anything to eat or drink for that long period. He
is in a fair way of recovery. He lost his light, aid had no
matches with him.
SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—NearIy three months ago, we
mentioned the capture in the town of Hull, of a chimney
sweep, named Sunman, and also the apprehension in Lin-
colnshire of a companion of his, upon a charge of hawing
committed a most brutal and unmanly act, viz., that of
having pursued a lonely milk maid into a field at Winter-
ton, near Barton-upon-Humber, about six o'clock in the
evening of a cold day towards the latter end of the month.
of October, and then and there stripped her of every ar-
ticle of clothing, and then stood over her while they com-
pelled her to go through the whole of her work, that of
milking four cows. The men have since been tried, and
sentenced to seven years transportation.
BURIAL OF A WOMAN IN THE CLYDE.—On New
Year's-day, the wife of a boatman, who plies a dung-boat
on the Clyde, went on board and remained till the follow-
ing day with her husband, when she became ill, as he
alleges, and died of cholera. He went on shore in the
neighbourhood of Park, and attempted to dig a hole to
bury her, but in consequence of the frost did not succeed,
and instead of applying to the parish authorities. he tied a
large stone to one of the woman's arms, and threw the
corpse into the Clyde. The fiscal at Paisley having got
notice of the barbarous transaction, caused a search to be
made, and, after three days' work, in which the searchers
were assisted by the husband, the body was found. The
man was liberated in consequence of the surgeons report-
ing that the woman died of cholera.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—At Guildhall, on Monday, a
young man, named Frederic Jacques, living at Hoxton,
was charged with being off Blackfriars-bridge, with intent
to destroy himself. The evidence against the prisoner was
to the effect that on the preceding night he was seen
stooping down in one of the recesses of the bridge, with
his hat off and a cord about his neck, to the other end of
which a brickbat was attached. The rope was immediately
cut, and on being asked why he could contemplate so rash
an act, he burst into tears and said, " Oh ! don't ask me."
A letter was found in his pocket-book, addressed to his
wife, pleading distress, in which he concluded by telling
her, that by the time she received it her wretched husband
would be no more. The magistrates ordered that the
prisoner be retained in custody for a couple of days, in
order that the state of his mind might be reported on,
and also that he might be seen by the chaplain.
ALLEGED FORGERY AT LEEDS.—On Friday, at Leeds,
William Smith, late of the firm of Burton, Smith, and
Co., in that town, and also of the firm of Burton. Colman,
and Co., Manchester, was charged before two magistrates
with having forged a bill of exchange for £7O. The hear-
ing of the case excited great interest. Mr. Burton and
Mr. Smith are both respectlbly connected at Leeds. The
prosecutor was Joseph Jubb, of Batley, cloth manufac-
turer. He said he sold to the prisoner, in August last,
cloth to the amount of £126, and received a bill at three
months for £7O, in part of £126 ; that the bill was dis-
honoured, and he believed it to be a forgery. It purpor-
ted to be drawn by Burton, Smith, and Co., Manchester.
No such firm as the last could be found. The evidence
as to who wrote the bill was very contradictory. It was
ordered that the depositions should be taken in writing,
and the prisoner, until the case should be decide 1, was
admitted to bail, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in
£lOO each from day to day.

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the St.
Katharine's Docks was held on Tuesday. The general
balance in favour of the company on the Ist of January
last was £88,980 19s. 3d., and the balance brought
forward on the Ist of the present year was £92,364 6s.
10d., showing an increase of £3,383 7s. 7d. ; and the
gross earnings of the company were, during the past year,
£235,696 10x. 5d., and the expenses less the charge for
interest, £132,549 10s. I Id. ; left applicable to dividend
' in the six months ended December last( £37,394 2s. 10d. ;
of which sum the directors recommended that dividends
should be declared of 2 per cent. for the half-year ending
the 31st of December last, and that the property tax
thereon be defrayed by the company. The dividend would
amount to £36,075 ss. 9d., when there would remain a
sum of £1,318 17s. ld. to be added to the "rest," which
would increase the amount thereof to £56,289 ls. ld.
THE DRAMA.—We gave in our last a paragraph from a
Gloucester paper, which commented in strong terms on
an alleged determination of the Rev. Mr. Close, of Chel-
tenham, to oppose the handing over of the receipts of a
theatrical performance to the Cheltenham Hospital. The
Times of Wednesday remarked pointedly on this state-
ment, and in consequence the Rev. Mr. Close has denied
that there is one word of truth in it The rev.
gentleman adds, in his letter to the Times,—" I
am perfectly innocent of every charge which you have
brought against me ! Neither in public nor in private
have I threatened to withdraw my support from the Chel-
tenham Hospital if the directors received the proceeds of
the projected amateur theatrical amusements in the As-
sembly-rooms, nor had I ever the slightest intention of
doing so. On the contrary, scruples having arisen in the
minds of some persons on this very point, I attended a
board of the hospital, and ascertained that while they
would not refuse the proceeds of the proposed theatricals,
the project had never been mooted in the board, nor had
they any connexion with it."

SURPRISING ESCAPE.—On Monday evening last, as a
young lad, in the employment of Mr. Wilson, baker, Par-
tick, was engaged watering a horse and cart belonging to
his employer at the customary place in the river Kelvin,
near the bridge at the Patrick mills, he was floated away
by the force of the current, and carried down the stream
into the Clyde. Fortunately the cart kept above water •,
the horse swam for his life, and the youth had sufficient
presence of mind, notwithstanding the darkness of the
night, to retain his seat, and hold fast by the reins. On
finding the perilous nature of his situation, it seems he
shouted lustily for assistance, but no one seems to have
beard his cries until the horse, cart, and driver went down
to the water as far as the silk mill below the village of
Govan, where the watchman of the works, hearing the
shouts of the boy, put off a boat to his aid, and succeeded
in rescuing him from a watery grave. In the dark, the
horse and cart went out of sight, and the parties who
brought the boy to land naturally imagined that the horse
was lost : judge of the astonishment of Mr. Wilson, how-
ever, on going down the river next morning, expecting to
find only the remains of his horse and vehicle, to discover
his gallant steed by the edge of the river alive and hearty.

The beast had evidently reached the bank with much ex-
ertion, but had sustained no serious damage.—Glasgow
Chronicle.

SHIPWRECK AT CARDIGAN BAR, AND Loss OF TEN
LIVES.—On Thursday, the 11th inst. it blew a violent
gale from the north-west. About 3 p.m. a large brig was
seen to run into the breakers. The vessel was ascertained
to be the Agnes Lee, of North Shields, John Clarence,
master, bound from Alexandria, with wheat. She left
the Cove of Cork on Tuesday morning last. The sea
beating very high, no boat could go out to render assis-
tance, although several attempts were made. There is no
life-boat at Cardigan. The crew launched the jolly-boat,
which was filled with eleven of the crew, captain, wife,
and child, one of the crew taking to the rigging. The
boat swamped after leaving the vessel. The fishermen,
boatmen, and others on the shore, joined hands, and
went into the water at the risk of their lives, and saved
four of the unfortunate individuals. When brought on
shore they were quite insensible. The hoc

the crew and the infant child were washed ashore, one of
the parties saved being the mate, a native of Cork, named
John Fortune. The night of Thursday being very dark
and boisterous, no boat could go out. On Friday morn-
ing they put off, and found the man in the rigging, in a
very exhausted state. The body of the captain's wife and
one of the crew were washed on shore on Friday, one
body on Saturday, and three on Sunday, leaving only the
body of the captain to come ashore.
ADVERTISING FOR A CLERK.-At the Thames Police

Office last week, W. H. Johnson,desCr&dasan
tioneer, was charged with obtaining £2O under false pre-
tences from John Cash.—The complainant stated that
having some time since seen an advertisement for a clerk,
with reference to the prisoner, he waited upon him, when
Mr. Johnson entertained his application, but said it
would be necessary that he should lodge £2O as security,
which sum he deposited with the defendant, and he was
installed as clerk to the prisoner. The office of the de-
fendant, who had not occupied it more than a twelve-
month, was hung round with showy posters of sales which
had taken place more than four years ago, the object

,
evidently being to exhibit the appearance of a vast quan-
tity of business. On going to do duty at the office, wit-
ness found another young man also acting as clerk, and
perceiving that there was no business even for one, his
suspicions were excited. The other young man told him
that he was to lodge £25 as security for the moneys
likely to pass through his bands, but after days and weeks
passing, and no money coming in, the other young man
left. Finding that there was nothing to do, and not re-
ceiving and salary, witness demanded back his money, to
which the prisoner coldly replied " Why, how do you
think I get my living ? I get it just by taking in such
fools as you are." The prosecutor had made some com-
promise in the matter, and the prisoner was therefore
discharged. _

The amount of damage done by the fire at Lincoln's-
Inn, noticed in our last, was nearly £20,000. Most of it

was insured. The premises were built in 1666, immedi-
ately after the great fire in London. For several days the
ruins were literally crowded with barristers and solicitors,
who were working like common labourers in removing the
burnt timbers and searching the rubbish for the remains

of deeds and other documents ; every scrap of paper that
could be found was carefully preserved and removed to a
place of safe custody. The several parties by so doing
ran great risk. Some idea of the importance attached to
the documents contained in the building may be formed
from the fact of one of the gentlemen holding chambers
in the premises having offered £lOOO to any one who

would mount the fire-escape, enter one of the front cham-
bers, and bring out a small parcel lying in one of the
drawers. The fire, however, had made too much progress
for any one to do so with safety, and there is no doubt
that those documents have been destroyed. During
Friday the work of clearing the ruins was continued, and
towards the evening the firemen, under the direction of
head-engineer Loder, succeeded in turning up a parch-
ment package, not in the least degree injured, which,
upon examination, proved to be the deeds of an estate,
left in Messrs. Jones, Bennett, and Bateman's care,
amounting to £27,000. A mortgage deed of £lO,OOO has
also been recovered quite uninjured, and another of
£12,000 has been found in the ruins, together with a
vast number of smaller amounts. The whole of the
original wills, also left with the same firm, have likewise
'been recovered from the rubbish, and securities involving
some thousand pounds' worth of property have been
taken from the basement and ground floors, where they
had fallen from the upper part of the house.