The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.—At the
weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, held in the Corn-
Exchange on Monday last, Mr. O'Connell stated, that on
that day fortnight he would take the chair at the meeting of
the Association as Lord Mayor of Dublin, and that in the
next session of parliament he would present a petition from
the corporation in favour of a repeal of the union !
A paragraph has gone the round of all, or nearly all, the
opposition papers, stating that Sir Robert Peel had directed
all the children to be turned out of his school at Tamworth,
whose parents had signed the memorable Tamworth petition !
It is needless to say that the whole is a radical misrepresenta-
tion. However, it is only due to Sir Robert l'eel to state
that the master of the school, Mr. Savage, has written a let-
ter, in which he says, " there is not the slightest shadow of
an excuse for such a falsehood. No boy has been discharged
from the school for many months, nor have I spoken to any
of them on the subject of the petition." When will a radical
learn to speak the truth ?
People in business ought to be on their guard against certain
parties in Liverpool, who are at present attempting to get
possession of goods of various descriptions, on the pretence
of being a firm in respectable business in that town. More
than one instance has come to our knowledge in which they
have ordered goods from houses in Glasgow and other parts
of Scotland ; but, on inquiry being made, it has been disco-
vered that they are totally unknown in Liverpool. There
can be little doubt that a parcel of swindlers are here at
work ; and we would therefore advise our readers to be
careful as to orders which may be received from unknown
parties in Liverpool.—Glasgow Herald.
DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.—SIX LIVES LOST.—OR Fri-
day morning intelligence was received at Lloyd's, that on
Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, during a heavy
gale from W.N.W., the smack Josephine, Captain Gallien,
from London for Cherbourg, in ballast, in running for Rye
harbour, struck on the bar ; every exertion was made by the
coast-guard to get her into the harbour, but all their efforts
to do so proved ineffectual, and about two o'clock next morn-
ing (Thursday) she was abandoned by the captain, a passen-
ger, and part of the coast-guard. There were six left on the
wreck, who could not leave in consequence of the unfortu-
nate swamping of the pilot-boat—viz., three of the coast-
guard, named James, Neville, and Looira, two of the crew,
and the pilot, George Rubie, belonging to Rye, who were all
drowned.

THE MURDER IN EASTCHEAP.—From inquiries made on
Friday, of some of the friends of the late Mr. Burdon, the
landlord of the King's Head, id Eastcheap, respecting the
state of Mrs. Blakesley, we regret to state that she is in so
bad a condition that serious fears are entertained of her ulti-
mate recovery. It is also now feared, notwithstanding that
the wound inflicted on her was healed outwardly, that the
knife penetrated much further into her side than was at first
anticipated. She is still under the care of Dr. English, who
daily attends upon her. The next session of the Central
Criminal Court commences on Monday, and the trial of the
wretched man, Blakesley, is fixed to take place on Friday
next.—Morning Herald,

MELAI4CHOLY SUDDEN DEATH.-011 Wedpesday morn-
ing last, as Mr. M'Alister,.oierseer at the Hereford Times
newspaper, was proceeding to the office, he saw a man
strike a cow with a stick between the horns and about the
nose, causing the blood to flow from the nostrils of the
animal. Such was the effect it had upon Mr. M'Alister,
that after relating the circumstance at the office, he became
suddenly ill, and exclaimed to the persons engaged with him
"I am dying !" A surgeon was immediately sent for and he
was conveyed home, s here be died about two o'clock. The
cause of his death was congealment of blood at the heart,
caused no doubt from seeing the poor animal ill used. Mr.
M'Alister was very timid of cows, generally going out of his
wav to avoid passing them during fair days at Hereford.

INCENDIARY FlRES.—Several incendiary fires have taken
place in South Warwickshire during the past week. On
Wednesday morning, about seven o'clock, a fire broke out in
a stubble rick belonging to a farmer at Radbrook, near Strat-
ford-on-Avon. When this was extinguished, a long range
of cowsheds on the opposite side of the house was observed
on fire, but it was soon put out.—On the same day the same
buildings were seen to be in flames, and the whole, together
with a rick of beans, were quickly destroyed.—A day or two
aster this another fire occurred in a calf pen adjoining the
cowhouses, where one of the previous fires broke out. Some
combustible materials were discovered after the fire was ex-
tinguished. Several other fires took place in quick succes-
sion on the same premises, under circumstances which leave
no doubt that they were each and all the acts of an incen-

diary.
DESCRIPTION OE A CHIMNEY BUILDING AT ST. ROL-
LOX CHEMICAL WORKS, GLASGOW.—The chimney is
founded upon a bed of solid sandstone rock, twenty feet be-
low the surface of the ground. The diameter of the outer
chimney is fifty feet at the foundation, forty feet diameter at
the surface of the ground, and will diminish one unbroken
curved line of batter to a diameter of fourteen feet six inches,
when it will have attained an altitude of from four hundred
and twenty to four hundred and thirty feet. The inner
chimney is tecylinder of sixteen feet diameter, rising perpen-
dicularly to a height of two hundred and sixty feet. The inner
chimney is unconnected with the outer one, but comes very
near in contact at its termination, allowing only space for the
expansion arising from the temperature. The flues from the
various parts of the extensive works are introduced into the
inner chimney through four circular apertures, each seven
feet six inches diameter; both chimneys are built with brick ;
between the sandstone rock and the brick footings there is a
layer of concrete, four feet thick, composed of small broken
whinstone and cement. The bricks used are from Heath-
field Brick Works, and are of a very superior description,
being a composition of common clay and fire clay, containing
a small portion of iron ore. The top of the chimney will be
coped with granite. The works were begun in June last,
and are now carried up to a hight of one hundred and fifty
feet. The workmen and materials are raised by a steam
engine, and the rapidity with which the operations have
hitherto been conducted, reflect great credit upon the con-
tractor, Mr. D. M'lntyre. The works must be suspended
during the winter months, but will be resumed early next
spring, and will be finished during the summer. The chim-
ney, when completed, will be elevated upwards of six hundred
and six feet above high water level at the Broomielaw ; and
will be an object of magnificent simplicity, and present to
the traveller a landmark of collossal dimensions.—Glasgow
paper.
THE MURDER AT RINGMER.—A young man, named
Steadman, has been apprehended at Watford, charged with
the murder of Hannah Devonshire, which happened so far
back as the year 1838—viz., three years ago, the particulars
of which have appeared in our journal. The circumstances
are as follows :—Stephen Steadman has been working for a
Mr. Rogers, a highly-respectable tradesman in the town of
Watford, in the ironmongery' trade, &c., in whose service
he lived as a smith, and had been in that capacity for nearly
a year and a half. He was taken into custody by Superin-
tendent Fagan, of the London police, and Inspector Pye, of
the Watford division of Hertfordshire rural police, and from
Watford was conveyed to Lewes, a spot adjacent to the
scene of the murder. It also appears that, upon being taken
into custody by the superintendent, &c., that he confessed
that bad company had brought him into it, and added that
he would make a full confession before the magistrates. His
conduct ever since he has been engaged in the service of Mr.
Rodgers has been that of a very steady man. He was ad-
vised, when taken into custody, to say nothing relating to
the case to the policeman. His employer said to him, at the
same time, " Prove yourself innocent, and I will immedi-
ately take you back into my service." On Sunday last, an
account which appeared in the morning papers of Saturday
last relative to the transaction was read to him when he was
observed immediately to leave the room. He was in a short
period to have been married to a highly-respectable girl
residing in the neighbourhood of Watford. It would appear
from what was stated by the prisoner after his apprehension,
that the affair originated in a drunken frolic, but whether
such is the case, or no remains to be elicited by the magi-
strates of Lewes, before whom he has shortly to appear.
The canvass preparatory to the election of Town-councillors
on the first of November is going on admirably. Day after
day have we increased reason to hope that the approaching
struggle will put the finishing stroke to the radical dynasty
in the borough of Cambridge. No more snug "family par-
ties—no more town-clerkships for one hungry liberal, clerk-
ships of the peach for a second, and coronerships for a third
—no more " loaves and fishes" to partake of with an appe-
tite voracious and indiscrininating—no more piquant quarrels
with a tory university—ten days hence, we do most heartily
believe, the last lingering hopes of a return of blessings so
dearly cherished, yet so scandalously abused, will have quitted
the liberals for ever. Their doom is sealed. For five years
were they rampant in their monopoly of power and profit,
pledges, so free from factious
and then who strutted with so insolent an air—who so grand
in
motives,h i s ownan
readycdonscoeicta,rseofulof
thewithpublic p
money, (teste the town-
clerk job,) as your liberal town-councillor; Last year the
tide was at full ; but 'ere another fortnight shall have joined
the past we predict the current will have changed its course
and be flowing peacefully along the old channel of conserva-
tism.—Cambridge Chronicle.

PRAISEWORTHY EXAMPLE.—We have much satisfaction
and
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of Willersey, Glouces-
tershire, a hard-working labourer, named William Collett.
reared up a large family in habits of honest industry.
Disease and old age at length visited the old man, and for a
long period before his death he was totally unable to work
for a livelihood. He died five or six years ago at an ad-
vanced age, and, owing to his long illness, considerably in
debt. A kind-hearted neighbour, Mr. Benjamin Burrows,
was a creditor to the amount of £l2 for absolute necessaries.
The deceased left an infirm widow totally destitute. Some
of their children were married, but their means, as common
labourers, were very limited, and barely sufficient for the
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of their
' narrowness families, at low
support of themselves and their families. Four daughters
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circumstances, these excellent children have not only con-
tributed to the support of their aged mother since their
father's decease, but, stimulated by honest pride, they put
Notwithstanding,infauners however,
their mites together, from time to time, until they realized
sufficient to pay the father's creditors in full. Many little
indulgencies, and not a few comforts must these self-denying
children have foregone to enable them to accomplish their
object. But they could not rest until they had testified as
well their respect to the memory of their deceased parrnt, as
their gratitude to his humane creditors by discharging their
father's debts.