The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

ASSAULT

Mrs. Parkinson, who combined in her person the twofold
quality of being mistress of a lodging-house, and " governor
of her husband's affairs," and who stated she belonged to
Liverpool, though she had been but lately imported from
Donegall, " the blessed country that gave her birth," was ac-
cused of doing serious daMage to the person of Mrs. Cane,
her next-door neighbour, residing in Dickinson-street, by
striking her with an iron pot.
Mrs. Cane stepped forward in frqnt of the magistrates'
desk, and began to detail her woes, when she was interrupted
by the prisoner, whose physiognomy exhibited prima facie
evidence of her being non compos mends—for, no sooner had
she heard her antagonist's voice than she made preparations
for a fresh attack, and threatened to " blow her brains out."
It was now seem to be impossible to examine the witnesses
while the prisoner was present, and she was taken out of court
during the examination. Several wrtnesses proven the charge
of striking Mrs. Cane with an iron pot, also that she had
brokers five panes of glass in complainant's windows.

The prisoner was ordered to pa'y 10s. for ti;;;;;;;ult, and
Gs. 4d. daruages.

On leaving the bar, she swore vengeance upon her adver-
sary, which caused her to be brought up a second time and
admonished from the bench.
PURLOINING TIMBER.
John Beresford, for stealing several pieces of timber from
a. bowling warehouse in Seel-street, was sentenced to one
month' S imprisonment.

THE Min.—The crop is this year a total failure. Only
a few grounds give promise 'of an average iirowth, and the
most favorable are gradually going back. The duty is down
to £30,000, and even a lower rate is backed with slight odds.
—Kentish Gazette.

We perceive that Lord Segrave, at a dinner held on Satui
day, observed that " there never was a more ridiculous meo
sure proposed than thepenny postage." His lordship is ei

,titled to praise for his honesty, but will his ministerial friends
thank him for it.--Gloucester Chronicle.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton landed at .Marseilles last
week from Athens, and intended, after a sojourn of three
days, to go to Paris. The noble lord and lady may be ex-
pected in this country next week, after.an absence of nearly
twelve months.

SEAFORD.—A fishing boat broughtlipwards of 800 macke-
rel on shore on Tuesday last, which were offered for sale at
the rate of six for a shilling.--Sussex Express.

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CHARITABLE BEQUEST.—Ovring to the exertions of Wm.
p. Mathews, Esq., the legacy of £lOOO, bequeathed in the
year 1828, y the late Right Hon. Robert Ward, for the
endowment and support of a school at 13angor, to educate
Irish boys in mathematics and navigation, to enable them to
sail vessels to foreign ports, has been recovered and invested ;
the principal at present exceeds £l5OO, government three
per cent consols.---Dublin Evening Post.
The unfortunate gentleman who last week lost his life by
setting the bed-clothes on fire, at Southampton, was Mr.
Elliot, uncle of the Earl of Errol. The deceased was an
elderly gentleman, and had been reading in bed previously
to the accident ; but, falling off to sleep, the accident occurred
which cost him his life. He was awoke by the pain which
the burning clothes around his body occasioned him ; but he
was so dreadfully burnt, that he expired in two hours after-

STEAM-SHIP EARL or lIARDWICKE.—The Earlof Hard•
wicke East Indiaman, of 1000 tons, belonging to Messis
Green, of Blaekwall, and bound to Bengal. arrived on Thurs
day from the river. This ship is fitted with a steam-engine

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of 30 horse power, intended to propel her iii light. airs and
calms, with paddle-wheels so arranged that they can be un-
shipped or shipped in a short space of time. She has also a
very ample, contrivance on board, by which the wheels can be
disengaged from the engine in one minute, whenever the ves-
sel is to use her canvas only. The space occupied by her
boilers and engine is very small, being 24 feet in length and
10 feet width of the main deck, between the fore and main
hatchway, the whole enclosed between decks, no part going
into the hold, nor above deck. This engine of 30 horse power
propels her, in calm and smooth water, five knots, and her
consumption of fuel is three tons in 24 hours; she draws
seventeen feet of water, and is fall of passengers, troops,
and cargo. On Saturday, the Bth inst. this ship left the
East India Docks with a large party of naval and scien-
tific gentlemen to witness the action of the engine. She
worked her engine down to Gravesend, but owing to the wind
coming in brisk from the east, she had the assistance of a
small tug ; the wind lay dead an end, but she ran down to
Gravesend in. two hours and a half, going at the rate of six
knots through the water, with all her yards square ; upon
heaving round at the end of Gravesend-wash the tug was
cast off; and she steamed up to the town again by her own
engine, at the rate of four knots, on a strong ebb tide. On
Mnridav, at noon, she weighed anchor, light sirs W.S.W.,
steamed down to the Nore light in three hours by her own
engine, and arrived at Spithead at 3 50 p.m., on Thursday,
the 13th, beating the Wellington (which she passed on Mon-
day night) by twelve hours. The steam-engine was ;,f most
essential service, working upwards of forty hours. There
can be little doubt but auxiliary steam must soon be adopted
in our men-of-war, the space occupied by the machinery
being only the same amount as that formerly occupied for a
cable tier.—Hampshire Telegraph. . - ' ”