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

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—Aware of your readiness to do good, induces me to
trespass on your valuable columns.

A CASE OF REAL DISTRESS.
A man who has been a faithful clerk to a concern in this
town for about 26 years, had the misfortune to sign a bond
for glass. Owing to the delinquency of the principal, pro-
ceedings are being taken to compel him to pay a mitigated
penalty of fifty pounds. The poor man has a large family,
and not the means to pay the amount. To prevent his fur-
niture being sold, a subscription has been set on foot, and
by your giving publicity to the good intentions of his friends,
I have no doubt success will attend their exertions.
April 15, 1841. CHARITY.
Subscriptions will be received at the STANDARD Office.

MARCH OF INTELLECT.—Yesterday morning, a bill was
pasted on the shop-door of a radical printer at the corner of
Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, with the following written
thereon :—" We have shut up the shop. We have all gone
to take a holiday. Go thou and do likewise."

THE CONVICT MISTER.—A defence has been published
which Mister had prepared for himself shortly after his com-
mitment to the county gaol, before he knew whether his re-
latives would furnish him with the means of employing
counsel or not—in regard to which it has been observed that
" The only point which Mister makes, and which his coun-
sel omitted to put, is—that no blood was found on his bed-
room window, which must have been opened to have allowed
the razor to be thrown from it ; and the inference attempted
to be drawn from this circumstance is, that the spot of blood
on Mister's window curtain is no proof of Mister's guilt, for
the band that was bloody enough to leave the trace on the
curtain must have communicated some mark to the window-
frame." It is well known that the convict did not scruple
broadly to throw the guilt upon another person, of whose in-
nocence there never was a shadow of doubt, and whom the
wretched convict's atrocious crime has reduced to the most
deplorable condition of humanity. Alluding to this, a con-
temporary says—" The person aimed at is Mr. Cooke, the
landlord of the Angel Inn, and who is now, unhappily an
inmate of an asylum in Gloucestershire. To say nothing of
the evidence of his wife, that he was in bed with her when
the first alarm was given, and did not get up till Mackreth's
cries for help, after breaking the second pane of glass, were
a time uttered—to say nothing of his conduct after he did get
up, which was obviously that of an innocent and humane
man—and to say nothing of the thousand reasons why he
should not, and the absence of any one imaginable reason
why he should have committed the act, Macreth's testimony
shows that he could not have committed it. Mackreth, after
he received the first wound, felt a hand on his face and struck
it off—the. hand could not have been the one that held the
weapon. Macreth, before he received the second wound,
was pulled back by a hand, which also could not have held
I the weapon. Mr. Cooke has but one arm, and this Mister
knew, for we find him metioning that peculiarity of the land-
lords to the parties fishing in the Teme, near Ludford Bridge,
on the evening of the 19th. Mr. Cooke's most melancholy
bereavement of reason may have been, in a great measure
superinduced by the appalling spectacle that presented itself
when he met Macreth, and by the apprehension, working on
a nervous temperament, that the catastrophe would destroy
the custom of his house."

QUICKEST PASSAGE FROM LONDON TO BOULOGNE.—
Bou LOGNE, APRIL 10.—This day, at a quarter before noon,
the Magnet had absolutely landed her passengers on our
quay, after a passage of no more than nine hours and 40 mi-
nutes from London, allowing for the difference of London
and Boulogne time 11 minutes. The Magnet is a fine vessel,
and the quickest it. the Boulogne trade ; but all who are
in the habit of making the passage, and are competent to
form a judgment upon such matters, ascribe her rapid trips
in a great degree to the admirable seamanship of her com-
mander Captain Robert Stock, a gentleman no less distin-
guished by his urbanity and attention to his passengers, than
by his indefatigable care and professional skill.
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT BY FIRE•ARMS.—A fine youth,
named Jones, a grandson of Mrs. Humphreys, of Trepenal,
near Llanymynech, was at a neighbouring blacksmith's shop,
on the sth inst., when one of the men proceeded to clean an
old gun. Not being able to unscrew the breech when placed
in a vice, the thoughtless fellow thrust the barrel into the
fire without first examining it, and the consequences were
dreadful. The piece was heavily charged with large shot—it
immediately exploded, and the poor boy received the penter
part of the contents in his left breast and shoulder. Our
readers may judge of the consternation and horror of those
individuals who were present, and of others in the neighbour-
hood who came to their assistance. The sufferer was car-
ried to the nearest house, and surgical assistance obtained as
early as possible, and in a day or two a somewhat favourable
opinion was pronounced on the case, 4,,d it gives us much
pleasure to find that up to yesterday the boy was going on
well. Should he survive, his escape and recovery may be
considered most miraculous.

EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—EarIy in
the morning of Good Friday, Birkenhead presented a most
extraordinary appearance. The town was literally thronged
with individuals who crossed at every ferry, almost all of
whom appeared to wend their way to the railway station.
The desire of the Liverpool public to obtain a glance at the
" anciente citie" of Chester, and walk round its venerable
walls, was so great that up to half-past two o'clock more than
three thousand individuals left Birkenhead by trains, and
upwards of seven hundred arrived from Chester. By the
trains to and from Birkenhead up to six o'clock, seven hun-
dred and eleven more persons had passed along the line. So
great was the demand for conveyances, and so determined
were the people to satisfy their curiosity, and enjoy the day,
that they willingly submitted to jump into horse-boxes,
waggons for the conveyance of goods, or any other vehicle
that could be procured. From this specimen of the vast
transit on the first holyday since the opening of the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, we conceive that the directors
must immediately " set their wits to work" to provide
suitable accommodation for the conveyance of passengers on
summer days of " cloudless sky," and especially during the
Chester race week. The number of individuals in Chester
was so great, that two extra trains were sent down after six
o'clock ; by the first, consisting of twenty-four carriages of
every description, five hundred and fifty-nine persons arrived
at Birkenhead ; and by the second, five hundred and fifty-
eight ; and up to the arrival of the last train in Birkenhead,
no less than six thousand had passed on the line during the
day.

A PRUDENT WIFE AND A STRON:G APRON.—Mrs. W.,
consort and help-mate of Mr. \V. merchant, of New York,
was a very economical woman, anCI, if her eulogist was not
mistaken, had a very strong apron. The circumstance, nar-
rated by the friend of Mrs. W., was as follows :—Mr. W.
was a merchant in affluent circumstances, did a very heavy
business, and conducted all his affairs with the utmost regu-
larity. Every department of business was completely sys-
tematised; even family expenditures were restricted to regular
daily appropriations, and no surer is a sailing master of a ship
to make his observation, work his traverse, and ascertain his
exact latitude and longitude every noon, than was Mr. W.
to have all his accounts nicely balanced, and ascertain his
exact whereabouts in business every night. But as wise,
prudent, and punctilious as he was, he could not withstand
the temptation to overtrading during one of the great paper
expansions; and when the revulsion came, he found himself
embarrassed beyond all efforts to extricate himself. He had
stood firm as a rock while many of the most reputable houses
tumbled to ruins around him, but he could not collect money
due to him from his best customers, and there was one re-
maining note of 10,000 dollars that would fall due in a few days,
and he could devise no way to meet it. The notice came from
the bank, but three days remained, and every resource failed.
The first of these three days was as fruitlessly spent in try-
ing to force a sale of goods. Nobody had money to lend—
nobody had money to purchase goods at any price. Failure
presented itself with all its frightfulness. The last day of
grace arrived, and horror was depicted in his countenance.
Mrs. W., knew nothing of his troubles, and on perceiving
him evidently in great distress of mind, she insisted on
knowing what was the cause of his trouble. It was folly to
conceal his ruin from her, and he condescended to make he
acquainted with the cause of her misery. " How much
,
she inquired, " will save you from failure ?" " Ten _.
the
sand dollars," he replied, " will pay my last note in
bank ; but sufferfor for want of this I must su the
theenefit
gb drace of
having my note protested, assign my property
the
world as a
of my creditors, and suffer my name to
"why
to
hy
bless me, my
bankrupt." "Is this all," said she, '
that sum without going
dear Mr. W., I can supply you with
hear the question which
out of the house." Not waiting
to hear
up stairs, and in less
he was preparing to ask, she. tripped
telling the story, she returned
time than I have occupied ina..
in
change,
which
she
with 17,000 dollars, in he,rea apron,s 11
few r from her daily allowance of
had saved within
a Nhoyheard the recital of the circum-
market money.
Adlof‘'Mrs. W., were highly delighted with
stance by the friend
it, save one
sharp-nosed slab-sided YankLe, who would not
believe, though an angel had told it, till he had applied the
g to it, to ascertain its probability. As he
test of
figures
calculation, and was in the act of returning
finished his
l burst into a roarof his
pencil to his pocket, le . laughter. All
were turned upon him, and the narrator demanded
eyes
what he meant by such uncivil deportment. " Nothing at
all, stranger," said the calculator, " only I was thinkin'
what a tarnal strong apron that etc woman must have had on
to bring 17,000 dollars worth of change down stairs. I've
cyphered it out on this here paper, and it will weigh jist half
a ton, if there ain't a tingle. copper among the whole On't*"—
Mdfctio Rep tlblican.

ring day I sent for, arid received a visit from
at which was present the doctor, incognito.
s then about the age of fourscore, and her
ithered and so wild," that she might well
d one of the " weird sisters" in Macbeth.
my ankle, she observed that the sprain was
; but she would cure it in fifteen minutes.
me in what manner the doctor had treated
hen I mentioned the leeches, she held up
I much astonished, and exclaimed, in her
" Fat kind of a doctor can lie be that pits
n?" I could not resist smiling as I glanced
r. Incognito, when this remark was made.
mind of objection to the leeches was, that
limb. She then pulled a small box from
ing a sort of ointment, and said, that if I
t, I might furnish her with common po-
I answered, that I was entirely in her
t her presc

3e and operate as she thought
ler ointment .was then applied to the outside, or
lb, from the knee down to the foot. She
y her two hands on the right side of my
nuscles with her thumbs, lifting the one
uccession, advancing

ser ; and thus, in alternat

, easing the pressure, which was
proportional augmentation of pain (though
i comparison to the torture inflicted by my
igth she gave me a smart twitch or squeeze
:r which, she called to me to " Get up and
got up at hers command, and walked across
t pain, and with ease, although I felt my leg
d from its having never been used for eleven
naployed in this cure did not exceed sixteen
" :znd, the doctor, sat mute and
when he beheld me strutting about on the

,d my worthy f

-o a-shooting

old lady when I might venture to
answered, " The morn, if you like, you may
elds ; but beware of the hard steens, such as. you
the streets of Aberdeen ; for a knock of one of
heel might undee what I have deen." I went
and, having duly observed the precaution thus
never again suffered from my sprain.

me, Mrs. Stuart said she had instructed
,e same art, and concluded by observing,
say I am a witch, but the witches and I
y dee naething but ill, I dee naething but
rry to add, that the venerable lady died

as complied with your request. lam no doctor ;
s high respect for the medical profession, and I
t and advancing improvements in
I pretend not to give a scientific
which, you will readily

stated facts

on my memory

+TCE IN REAL LIFE

ng details are as strange as they are true. In
rood of Gloucester, a young lady, of highly
nections, has experienced a series of rederses
heart's best affection seldom equalled. A
e station in sodiety, became by accident
le maiden to whom we allude, and their
iecoming reciprocal, the. day was fixed for their
ich was to have taken place in the city of Glouces-
tably with this arrangement, and as the match was
one, her parent parted with a lucrative business
entry, on which she and her mother lived in re-
y and comfort, and went to Gloucester, intending
The day for the celebration of the wedding ar-
, alas ! the bridegroom came not ; his parents had
ily forbidden the match, and he was already, by
ivance, on the seas, bound for Jamaica. A letter
e poor girl, but to confirm her fears ; his parents'
d been withheld, and he had suddenly left the sea-
in the west of England, where he resided, not a
,ut an unhappy lover. Time passed, and industry
of the hapless girl but ill supplied the loss of the
'e independence herself and family had left when
to the city of Gloucester, with the views, and in-
hopes to which we have alluded, and, though
heart, she cheerfully succeeded in helping to sup-
lecrepit mother and aunt in comfort. Time, the
ener of affliction, had many a long day cast its
hadow over the great event of her life, and no-
. had been heard of her absent lover, till a week or
hen to her astonishment and delight, she received
m him, breathing the devotedness of constant at-
,nd vows of unaltered affection, not the less wei-
gh wafted across the seas. Another and another
egging forgiveness for the former apparent neglect
another, the last accompanied by the consent of
s of the absent one. The poor girl's hopes were
et point of anxiety, when she received a still more
pistle, assuring her that her lover had landed at
and was hastening to perform his neglected pro-
day was looked forward to with delight; it came
it the dark tidings of the grave—her lover had
:nly seized with illness the night before his &par-
e city of Gloucester ;—he was a corpse before the
As a melancholy satisfaction to the poor disap-
-1., the mother of the intended bridegroom visited
iately, when his mother confessed that her son had
antary exile, and would have remained so, had not
s, whom he loved and respected, given their con-
union ; after frequent communications, his parents
,nd he instantly quitted Jamaica to claim-the hand
love ; hastening to meet her, death ruthlessly ar-
progress before he had been many hours on his
re. As a proof of the sincerity of his attachment,
in the hour of dissolution, bequeathed to his bride
o.—Hereford Times.

with t

RDEROUS ATTACK UPON A SOUTH SEA
WHALER.

iay Gazette we learn the particulars of a deeply
aurderous attack made upon the crew of the
of London, by the natives of " Ho Ho," a
o, one of the Nicobar Islands, on the 23d of
ppears the Pilot, which left Timor in the
ad on her return anchored off the islands of
I of December, for the purpose of re-
freshments, when several natives
inoes, and returned to the shore in
On the following
fitting and watering the
nt on shore with two boys to trade
en kept passing between the ship and
z at each visit some of the natives on board
for barter, and from their manner, and the
rms about their oers

ly and peaceable manne

ted. Ti

nothing hostile was
and and third mates and a party who
xere, however, attacked by the natives,
.d at the first onset, by a spear through
ed to the ground. One of the men named
►e Malay language, on his expostu-
tacked and killed in the same man-
and another man named Barb,
but they, with the remainder of the

the third mat

loat and pts-hed off for the ship. When
hey found her in the possession of the

who appeared on deck armed with the crew's whale-
lances, cutting spades, &c. Finding any attempt to
ossession of the ship would be fruitless, they pulled
ea, pursued by several canoes, from which they
and were on the sea among the islands until the
cember. When off Chrowry they discovered a
'er daylight, and at eight o'clock were received on
'ajesty's ship Cruizer, The cruizer arrived in
on the 31st, and found the Pilot plundered of
'ier masts end standing rigging alone being left,
;abin, and berths marked strongly with blood,
gin some of the remaining crew had met their
c the Cruizer then were sent on shore to
...ich were found to be
n from the ship, including
vy articles; which having
ng clear that the natives
, twelve in numbe'•

her M

le whole of

er, wer

some at the huts inatinesto;e;
)ng to the Pilot, showing that

suffered arc not known.
..03pore in charge of a lieute_
e t,ruizer. .I.llc i.au.l, cargo, and inventory reco-
valued between five and six thousand pounds.

ied to

INGULAR FACT.—A minister of the Presbyterian
lately visiting one of his parishioners, was thus ac-
ir," said he, " I am perhaps able to tell
t another of your flock could. I.have
years in the same house, out of which I
decently buried fifteen corpses, have had twelve children
cised, and have married four wives." What added to the
t of the narrative was, that his fourth wife, who was sit-
E; by. immediately said—" And I think, from the delicate
to of my health, you have a good chance for a fifth !"

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ly self what