The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Bey of Tunis has forwarded to the Queen a present
of several horses, lions, and other animals.
On Saturday, a little boy was suffocated in a chimney,
at Limerick, which lie bad been employed to sweep.
Mr. Wm. Chambers, of Edinburgh, is now said to be
the author of "The Vestiges of Creation."
On Tuesday last peaches and nectarines, with a profu-
sion of cherries and strawberries, was offered in Covent-
garden Market.
On Tuesday her Majesty and her Royal Comort, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
lett Claremont in an open carriage and four, escorted by
a party of the 7111 Hu.sars, for town.
DONCASTER.—The inhabitants of this town are endea-
vouring by petition to get enrolled amongst the list of par-
liamentary boroughs. Mr. E. Denison has eiven notice of
a motion in parliament, with a view to such object.
On Saturday, Captain Duff, resident magistrate in
Roscommon, was accidentally killed by the kick of a
horse. The gallant officer had been several years in the
army,on Ta
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with, a young man, who
is of unsound mind, attacked his aged father, and beat
his skull in with a clock weight. `the old man died on
the following night.

SUICIDE.—On Monday, a man named Crooks, 57 years
of age, a widower with six children, laid himself deitbe-
rately across the rails on the Sheffield and Manchester
line, as a tra n was approaching, and was literally cut in
pieces.
No less than 109 gentlemen have: been gazetted as cor-
nets and ensigns in the army dthing-the preceding month.
31 only of whom have purchased theircommissions. The
promotions froPs the ranks have also been numerous.
On Thursday, two gentlemen were taken before Alder-
man Gibbs, and remanded, relative to the issue of urgedscrip in the Buckinghamshire Railway. They lad hsd
J.:680 advanced on 1000 shares, the scrip fur which was
attervvards discovered to be forged.
At Penrith cattle fair, Mr. William Armstrong lest
bank notes and bills to the amount of £990. nil were
found by a yoeman named Hetherington, who gut them
proclaimed by the town crier, and received a shilling am a
reward of his honesty.

Mr. Charles Dickens, like many other great men, is
about to seek relaxation repose, and sundry other com-,
forts, on the continent. It is to he hoped that the publitr
will profit more largely by this sojourn than they did by
Mr. Dickens's trip to Italy.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR MARTYRDOM.—Mr.
lon 13,owne, M.P. for Mayo, has intimated that he wax.
at certain periods attendi railway committees, although
he must give a great dea of tn.uble, owing to his igno-
rance of engineering and railroads, but that he will NOT
attend during the sittings of the House of Commons.
The King of the French has written an autograph letter
to Sir Robert Peel, expressing his Majesty's acknowledg-
ments for the kind and handsome manner in which the
right hon. baronet had proposed the toast of his Ma-
jesty's health at the late civic banquet given by the Lord
Mayor of London.

Ma. O'CONNELL'S CONSISTENCY !—On Thursday
evening week, at Exeler-hall, Mr. O'Connell made a
speech in favour of a resolution for the abolition of capital
punishment. He made another speech the same evening
at the Crown and Anchor, in which be declared "that the
red hand of God was against murder," and that " he who
shed blood deserved that his blood should be shed."
A cu. ious shipment was made a few days since from our
quays. It consisted of a quantity of screened gravel, in
sacks, to be laid down in a gentleman's garden at Valparaiso.
It is remarkable that whilst this shipment of gravel for one
part of America was going on at Poole, a vessel fr,en ano-
ther part of the same continent was discharging at Liver-
pool a cargo of white gravel just imported.—Poole Herald.
hum' GRAIN AND OATMEAL.—It appears by a par-
liamentary return that there were imported into Great
Britain, from Ireland, from the sth of March to the sth
of April, 1846—wheat, 19,540 quarters ; barley, 10,148
quarters ; oats, 80,803 quarters; wheatmeal, or flour,
89 048 cwt. ; oatmeal, 50,360 cwt. This does not look
like " famine in Ireland."

The Daily News will appear on and after the Ist June
at the reduced price of 21d. Report states its new pro-
prietor to be Mr. Railway Hudson : we believe, however,
that this is incorrect, and that the paper is, or is about to
be, the property of a gentleman who already is proprietor
of the leading weekly literary journal, under whose auspi—
ces it is likely to lose its irreligious tone, and to deserve
more success than it has hitherto met with.

The Rev. J. R. Stephens, who figured some years ago
with so much effect as an opponent of the new poor laws,
is now settled down as a farmer between Ashton and
Oldham, and was, a few days ago, sworn in as bead
constable in the township in which he resides, before the
magistrate who signed his committal to gaol four or five
years since, on the charge of a political offence at Hyde,
for which he was tried at Chester before Mr. Justice
Patteson, and convicted.
ADVICE TO O'BRIEN.—Go to Nathan's. Hire—the
Repeal Association will, of course, come down with the
needful—hire a regular stage Irishman's dress. Let there
be no crown to your hat, no end to the holes in your
breeches; swathe hay-bands round your limbs ; stick a
dudeen in your mouth, grasp a shillelagh in your hand,
enter the house with a caper, a howl, and a twirl of the
oaken towel; invite Sir James Graham to "thraydefon the
tails or your coat," and then, Oh Paddy Smith O'Brien,
instead o' speaking the words, sing the " Groves of
Blarney !"
IMPORTATION OF GREEN GINGER.—On Thursday,
sale of 74 casks of green ginger, in a recent and even
growing state, brought by the Severn steamer from Ja-
maica, took place at Monument Yard, at the average
price of 30s. per cwt. The novelty of the article attracted
a considerable attendance of buyers, as it was the first
that had been introduced into this country, and the ma-
jority of lots were sold to wine makers, chemists, and
some of the most eminent tavern-keepers, in the city, as
well as to horticulturists, in order to experiment upon its
cultivation here.—Morning Post.
THE IRISH REPEAL THRONE.—Mr. O'Connell exhi.
bits the signs of a sudden and rapid change in his health;
he is getting more infirm, so much so as to have lost every
trace of that hale vigour which made the record of his
age no more than a foil to his aspect. His gait is now
excessively slow—not with deliberate dignity, but with
evident incapacity for speed. His very features have
shrunken, and his voice, once so loud and large in volume,
has became so weak that at a public meeting, on Wed-
nesday, lie was saluted with unaccustomed cries to " speak
up"; and was so saluted in vain.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.—On Tuesday evening, about 7
o'clock. a brick maker, named Wm. Luff, residing in Peter-
street, Westminster, a district chiefly inhabited by a very
criminal populaion, quarrelled with a young woman who
has lived with him for some time as his wife, and, after
beating her most horribly with a poker while he hauled
her by the hair round the room, he threw her out of a
two-pair window into a paved yard. She was picked up.
senseless and bleeding, with her face so dreadfully muti-
lated that not a feature of her face could be distinguished.
Even the thieves and other had characters who infest the
neighbourhood were so horrified at the brutality of Luff,
that they detained him until a policeman took him into
custody.
A KNOTTY POINT arose on Thursday before the Court
of Queen's Bench, in a case where a man had brought
an action of ej etmetit against his own wife to recover pos-
session of premises held over. A verdict having been had
for the plaintiff, a rule was subsequently granted for a neW
trial, on the ground that a husband could not maintain an
action against his wife. Defendant's counsel on Thursday
shewed cause against the rule, and amongst other causes
adduced was the following :—viz., that " the real plaintiff
in this kind of action was not the husband, but the imagi-
nary personage called John Doe' between, whom and the.
,defendantit was impossible that the relation of husband
and wife could exist, as John did not exist himself."
Plaintiff's counsel retorted, that if John was not the hus-
band of his client, it was equally certain that lie never
gave her notice to quit. Bewildeted amongst its own fic-
liens, the court took time to consider the case.
TUN CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN.—When Sir
Harry Smith was a child six years of age his father had a
horse to sell. The animal was so thoroughly vicious that
when a purchaser appeared no one dared to meant biro.
On one occasion a military officer went over to Whittlesee
to view this redoubtable steed ; and, wishing to see its
paces, be requested the man who led it to jump up en'
go through the process of a walk, a trot, and a gallop. As
the man evinced a very prudent reluctance to perform the
required act of equestrianism. little Harry, who was pre"
sent, declared that he could manage the horse, hole;
been on its back before. His father had faith both in 1)11
word and abiLty, and Master Harry got his " leg LIP'
and managed his charger like a young Alexander on soo-
ther
Bucephalus. It was this act of courage that, throuit
the officer who witnessed it, led to Harry Smith's entering
into the army ; and truly the good people of Whittlesea
maw well be proud of the day.
FORD TITIIE CASE.—The long litigated case of Knight'
clerk, v. the Metquis of Waterford, in respect to tdi
tithes in the parish of Ford, came beore the Court et
Exchequer on Tuesday last, Sir Frederick Pollock, Cbier
Baron, presiding. The substantial question was, whethfif
the tithes of the manor of Ford belonged to the plaint',
as rector, or to the defendant as lord of the manor, tea
a payment of £lO yer annum to the rector ; the CO
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having heard the arguments on two or three previ,,,13.0
days during the term, now pronounced its judgment. 4.
application on behalf' of the plaintiff was for a new 11.14 d;
and the court thought the application should be granted
upon the ground that the peyment of a specific go,n'iae
money, for airy-three years before the passing or
.er
Limitation Act (3 and 4 Wm. IV, c. 27) did not uo,"0
the peculiar circumstances of this ca'er the defendant
himself claiming a right to sueh tithes in consideratiloo
such payment, amount to a modus. discharge, or esemP
from paymer.t of tithes to the rector. O . this point
mein was of opinion that there had been a misdireetio°e,
Mr. Baron Rolfe' at the trial at Newcastle upon-TY"
and three must, therefore, be a new trial.
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The COAL TRADE 01, ENGLAND.—Enghnd pee- ofie
the richest veins of coal, both as regards qualitY tale
quantity. They form a line from south-west to tectl
west. In Niel humberland and Durham, from thel.; of
to the Tree, coal abounds; at Whitehaven, in the bi'reoot
Cumberland, in Yorkshire, and in Laecashire. Thereof
abundant mines are in Wales. The consumption 0
(Asti
o
in England and in exportation is to great, that it ht
been asked if the mines would not he exhausted; "era!
cording to calculations made ha prop, rion to the Pr 000
consumption, they could not be exhausted under io is
years. The year'y con,umptiiin in Great Brits
20,000.000 to 21,000.000 tons. The experta ion Wm' ; is
in the following proportions :—ln 1830. 505,421 telet
1832, 588.440 tons; in 1831, 621.256 tons ; 047'
1,101,0(10 tons; in 1838, 1.413 800 tons; i"
1,621,301) tons ; in 1842. 2,120,000 tons; and flrOen,ool-1
2,410.000 tons. The number of mines exceeds oY;iii4e,
English coal is to be had in every part of the,celio,
world : there are deposits at Rio Janeiro, ar 0
Archangel, and at Constantinople —alininp./crmrni;o(l),,
THE ROYAL VICTORIA STEAM :!..111P•--Nv° 1 Y
roYn eer
opportunity, the other day. of inspecting the .%
toria steam ship, et Pr rt Carlisle. She has jt.):000e00(
gone considerable improvtarnents in her hull an
nery, also in the painting arid deeoratieg Of her ev'heorct
which we do not speak in too flattering term' d fetir,x•
say that they are now very elegem indeed, 8()e teohlo
'great credit upon the parties who ex, cuted h
We were also gratified to barn that great ado°, str,tr
been gained by the substitution of tubular boilers' ir drej
of thirty-five tons having been effected, by t„berteped,
nisbed weight and the smaller supply of tc'tti;oo;eore
by these than by the bo hers of the old descriP no'
the space in the afterhold is increased so es „lc, fps
stowage for that amount of extra weight of genvecollfota
The speed of the vessel has also been very age be bed,
creased. On Friday last she perform' d the v°' sooners;
Annan Water Foot to Liverpool in 91 houre'o'or Ceodia
nearly 100 fat sheep 40 fat cattle, besides a h .01 06
cargo on board. We are proud in having Wi:446OW
vessel belonging to this port, and we hearttlet.ets'
_companycariis
coOltlO the
EQUITY COURT, FRIDAY.—CHUDD etraecloa!
leevJeoruyr
This was an application for an in unction totet. or.
defendant, a turniture-broker, Queen-et:1;0. che.itt th,;
success in prosecuting their u""
trom making or selling any iron doors, s fattlof
boxes, in imitation of those made by theh !4' ej
well-known iron box and lock maker. ,10,,
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Churchyard, London. Affidavits were rereeo pure 0000
the plaintiff, showing that iron safes had u„ rob., 5000
from the defendant, which were repret.eniond th'off. 000
by the plaintiff, but at a much less cot'bo olsi° for te,
safes were of a very it& rior quality, and affotititheeqbe
there.), subjected to much inj-ry.
phisadiriiio:l3.o;bsof
defendant eenied tha• the sn'es, when '
preset) el to he n areitecture.l by the wiree-tity, „to
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contradicted the stateihe os ne.de hY, by the Or .00
thought there wrs i,ot suffic;ent Hike" The orwscipivoi
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