The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Several fields of wheat and barley, in the county of
Durham, ate already shot into ear.
The cost of stationery end printine for the two hcenses
of pArliament amounts to nearly £250.000 a year. _ _

William Henry Norman, the eelf-aecusJ.cl thief, has
been sentenced to seven yea-s' transportion.
Saturday was the ninth anniversary of her Majesty's
accesskn to the throne.
In London, on Tuesday, inquests were held on five
persons drowned while bathing.

A man has been killed at Bakewell, by shelterir.g under
a tree during a thunder-storm.
There is no truth in the report of the cholera having
visits d

Thursday last was the anniversary of the victory of
Waterloo.

On Tuesday, a child, four years old, residing with its
parents at Clapham. was killed by a sun-stroke.

Mr. Acker~, M.P., has announced to the ...lectors of
Ludlow that it is no; his intention again to offer himself
as a candidate for their suffrages at the nest election
The total amount of money run for in Great Britain
and Ireland, over 152 different racecourses, in the year
1839, exceeded in value the enormous sum of £143,204.

The total number of bathers during the last werk in the
Serpentine alone were nearly 45,000, out of whom one
lost his life.

At Southampton, on Friday week, a prig:. fight for 30s.
came off between two " navvies," one of whom died on
Saturday from the injuries he received.
In a garden at Worksop there is a pear-tree which a
few weeks ago was laden %id) fruit; the peats have all
fal!en off and the tree is now again covered with blossom.

On Trinity Sunday Mr. Newman was ordained deacon
by Dr. Wiseman. Mr. Newman's wise, it is said, will
enter a convent.

Lemons rose in Mauchester tosixpence each, on Whit-
sun week, in consequence of the extraordinary demand
for Lemonade.

A true bill has been found against Mr. Dunn for per-
jury. committed by swearing in the Court of Bankruptcy
that Miss Burdeit Coutts owed him £100,000!
No less than three separate fires took place in London
between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock on Wednes-
day night.
Duriog the year 1845, the number of pictures imported
into the United Kingdom. according to the return of the
customs, amounted to '4 90] !

On Saturday week, in explosion of gss took place in
New-street, Dunfermline, by which two houses were
blown up and several persons severely injured.
Tne premises of Messrs. Bayley and Son, sailmakers,
Bermondsey-wall, London, were, on Tuesday, com-
pletely gutted by fire. and the stock consumed.
The romantic Miss Smith. whose interesting letters to
Earl Ferrers cr,nited such sensation a short time ago, has
had to pay the sum of £1563 6s. as law expenses.
At the Marylebone 'Wary, on Saturday, a vote of
thanks was passed to Sir Robett Peel fur his zeal arid in-
dustry in carrying the Corn Bill.
The Marquess of Normanby left town on Wednesday
for Florence—not a proof that, in his opinion, there
is much prospect of the Whigs regaining office.
Messrs. Dryden, the great printing machine makers of
London, have set up a machine at the Times office, which
prints the enormous number of 5,670 sheets per hour !

A motion is to be brought forward in the House of
Commons, to-day, by Mr. Spooner, for leave to bring in
a bill for the more effectual suppression of trading in
seduc ion and prostitution.
Two young men were drowned in the river at Wor-
cester last week whilst bathing. One got out of his
depth, and the other, in attempting to rescue him, was
drowned also.
SABBATH OBRERVANCE.—The subscribers of the Clif-
ton Zoological Gardens, at a meeting last week, decided
by a majority of 71 votes to 37, that the gardens should
not be opened to the public on the Sabbath.
FATAL FIGHT.—A pugilistic set to at Buzslem, between
John Voolams and John Simpson, was brought to a sud-
den termination on Saturday, when the former received a
knock-down blow, and instantly expired.
AN EFFECTUAL CURE.—By Ihe ancient laws of Hun-
gary, a man convicted of bigamy was condemned to live
with both wives in the same house. The crime was, in
consequence, extremely rare.
At Lla.igollen, on Sunday, during a thunder storm, the
electric fluid fell in a plantation, which ignited—but for-
tunately there were parties present who commenced dig-
ging round it, and thereby prevented much damage.
A fire originated list week in a shop in London through
a number of patent wax lights, exposed for show in the
front window, becoming ignited from the intense beat of
the sun.

In the Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a verdict of
guilty was recorded against a person named Dew, f, r cor-
ruptly bargaining for an office in the service of the Hon.
East India Co. Two others pleaded guilty.
Joseph Carter, shoemaker, who lately stabbed John
Oddy in the stomach with a knife, was tried on Wednes-
day at the Central Criminal Court, and beug found guilty
of manslaughter, was transported for life.
A boy named Benwell, aged 16, drowned himself last
week, in a pond at Dulwich. after having tied his hands.
and fastened an iron weight, a quarter of a cwt., round
his neck.

Two men have died at Leicester, after suffering most
excruciating agonies. from having been affected with the
glanders, obtained in their coming in contact with a dis-
eased horse.
In the year 1735, a case was decided in the court of
session, from whin it appears that the city of Giasgow,
the seat of a university, was considered too narrow a field
for more than one bookseller.

On Monday, a tradesman in Old-street, London, found
his shop boy (whom he had di,charged), on the roof of
his house, with a large quantity of arsenic on his person,
with ah•ch be doubtless intended to poison the cistern.
He was taken into custody.
SHEEP KILI ED BY LIGIITNING.—On Tuesday week,
two sheep were killed by lightning in a field upon the farm
of Little Swinton, and it is also stated that a sheep was
killed by lightning the same afternoon upon the farm at
Swinton Quarter.—Newcastle .Advertiser.

Two MEN DROWNED.—Some time during the fore-
noon of Sunday week a number of labouring men were
bathing in the Keer on the Warton side, when, for want
of a proper knowledge of the locality, two of the parry
got into deep water and were drowned.—Lancaster paper.
LOCALITIES FOR BIRD'S NESTS.—A correspondent of
a Manchester paper notices the fact of a bird's nest hav-
ing been built in a load of coals, and another in the mouth
of the lion forming the dexter supporter of the royal arms
over Kens'ngton barracks.
Voters in counties trmst send in their claims on or be-
fore the 20th of July ; and voters for cities and boroughs
must pay, on or before the 20th of July. all poor-rates
Ind assessed taxes due for the last twelvemonths next be-
fore the 6th of April last pest.
Farmers are this year obliged to make a considerable
advance in the tate per acre paid for mowing, owing to the
difficulty of obtaining mowers. We hear that in some parts
of Middlesex 7s. per acre is being paid for cutting mesdow
grass, which is 2s. 6d. above the average rate paid last
year.
Gum•STOCKS.—The large number of 13,600 gun-stocks
and 120 stocks for pistols were brought over from Ant-
werp a day or two since by the vessel Tyne, which arrived
off the Tower of London. These stocks are manufac-
tured from the wood of the walnut tree, with which
Belgium abounds.

THE CHOLERA..—It is confidently rumoured in the
best informed medical circles. that the labours of the
Commission of Sanatory Inquiry will be rendered perma-
nent, by the appointment of a Board of Health, to sug-
gest and enforce precautionary measures against the visi-
tation of the Asiatic cholera.—Globe.
DEATH FROM DRINKING COLD WATER.—OD Wed-
nesday, a labouring man. named Thomas Pearson, who
was at work in a hay-field, near Edlington, drank some
cold water, and almost immediately kfterwai ds was vb.
served to reel and-fall down upon the ground. He died
about tel rn nu'es af•erwards.—Doncaster Gazelle.
Owing to a piece of impertinence to the Earl of Stam-
ford the other day, in Dunham Park, the privilege of re-
sort to the park for the public has been already very much
circumscribed, and there is some reason to fear that, ere
lonz, the park will be wholly closed, and the public ex-
cluded.
A gentleman of Yarmouth, who had a pint-and-half
bottle of castor oil, asked his servant to bring it to him,
when he told him it had been used at table for salads, he
having from time to time filled the dinner castors with it,
believing it, from the label, to be intended for that pur-

pose.
IRON SHlPS.—During the last three weeks three iron
vessels were launch, d from the building yard of Mr.
Coutts, at Walker—a large brig and two schooners. Mt
Cowl's has also a number of other vessels nearly ready
for launching on their destined element.—Gateshead Ob-

server.
DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—As five colliers
were descending in a core to their work in a pit near
Cheadle, Stsffordshite, on Monday week, the rope broke
and they were precipitated to the bottom. They .tell up-
wards of 100 feet; three were killed, and the other two
were seriously injured.
The steamers bring, every voyage, considerable quan-
tities of vegetables and fruits from France, Belgium, and
Holland, particularly from the latter country, whence
cherries, melons, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables
now form a principal part cif the cargoes of the numerous
steam vessels which pass between Rotterdam, Ostend,
the French ports, and London.
A SENSIBLE EXPLANATION.—Lord Mount Edg-
cumbe has thought proper to imitate the example of the
Earl of Essex, by the publication of "an apology for
ratting." The noble earl begins by confessing, though in
soft terms. that the measure which he supports is a bad
measure, and ends by acknowledging that the minister for
whose sake he supports it is a bad minister.
John Graham (aged 16), was tried at the Central Cri-
minal Court Sessions, on Thursday, before Mr. Baron
Rolfe, for killing and slaying Thomas Ble%eitt, in Drury-
lane, in London. by shooting him with a pistol, on the
25th of April. - The jury, alter rearing for more than five
hours to consider their verdict, found the prisoner " not
guilty."
ALLEGED ASSASSINATION.—A man of the name of
Hannan, the father of the child who nas been for some
time playing as General Tom Thumb, at the Adelphi
Theatre, is now in custody, charged with attempting to
murder his wife, in Drury-lane, London, on Thursday
night last. The woman had a large cut in her neck, and
she declares her husband stabbed her.
BOILER EXPLOSION.—THREE LIVES LOST.—On
Thursday week, a boiler suddenly exploded in the Tow
Law Iron Works, near Wolsingham, Durham, by which
two men and a boy were killed, and several others more
or less injured. Ile shock of the explosion was felt to a
considerable distance, and thQ, houses around shook. One
half of the boiler was carried several hundred yards from
1
'he place, a,,tl the end •-.)1 it was blown over a house top.
Tne accident was mused by a deficiency of waver, as part
of the boiler wag, red hot. The damage is estimated at
.000.

William Farr, one of the most suree;stal of the Garratt
clan of depredators, has pleaded guilty to four indictments
of railway robberies on the South-Eastern and Birming-
ham lines, prosecuted by Mr. Nash for tae company.
The female Newland, who is included in the same indict-
ments, is to be tried neat sessions.
At thei Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Florence
Leary, aged 44, a t. Dor, was found guilty of pouring boil-
ing water on the stomach of a person named Tuthill, by
which he was severely scalded, and confined seven weeks
to the hospital. lie was sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment, having already been several months in pri-

SUMMARY JtYSTICE.—The penalty of rolling the walks
in the gardens of Hampton Court Palact, for any delin•
quency in plucking the flowers, has been twice enforced
within the last ten days. This regulation, optional to
those wbo wish to avoid legal punishment, has t ad a very
salutary effect in diminishing the offence of purloining the
flowers.—Morning Post.
THE IRON WORKS AND THE HEAT.—Most of the iron
works in the manufacturing disticts have been standing
during the list few days, the beat being so intense that
the puddlers, in particular, cannot work. Several in-
stances have occurred of men being carried our of the
works, having fainted from excessive heat and exhaustion.
—Birmingham Advertiser.

MR. SMITH O'BRten.•—lt is stated by the Morning
Advertiser, that Mr. Smith O'Brien has resolved on dis-
puting the authority of the House of Commons to com-
mit its members for contempt. The form in which the
question is to be tried is, by an action of trespass and
false imprisonment against the public officers of the'
house—the Speaker and Sergeant.at-Arms.
The members of the An►i-Coin Law League will as-
semble in a day or two after the corn bit has received the
royal assent, and will declare that the obj<•ct for which-
they united has been accomplished. They will then, it is
said, announce that no further subscriptions aro required,
and will adjourn the sittings of the league sine die. Sad
news this for the paid agents and sponters up and down
the country.

CHARMS OF MURDER.—A lainful case has occurred at
Sheffield. Some lightermen quarrelled at the White Horse
Inn, at Biggleswade, and a fight between two of them
afterwards was the result. Atter the fight, a young
man of the name of Gray, one of the combatants, was
leaving, when his adversary gave him a brutal kick in the
abdomen, and caused instant death. His bladder was
burst. After killing:him, the brute was about to throw
the body in the locks, but was prevented.
A CURIOUS MEETING.—When Ibrahim Pacha visited
the Socitty of Arts, on Friday, by one of those singular
accidents a hich now and then occur, who should fate pre-
sent as chairman hut Sir Edward Codrington, the man
who knocked the Turk's fleet about their ears at Navarino.
It is possible that Ibrahim may have secretly vented a
" Barikallah," on the occasion, but his natural savoir
faire piloted him very safely through the misadventure,
notwithstanding an unlucky allusion which the gallant
admiral stumbled upon in the first renconfre.
SINGULAR PHENOMENON —OD Tuesday, about half-
past 2 in the after noon. a sudden whirlwind carried away
sevr rat waggon-loads of hay from a field belonging to
Miss Clay, on the t)smaston•road, Dr•rby. The hay was
held suspended in the air for nearly half an hour, and gra-
dually fell, spreading over the neighbouring field: and
gardens. With the exception of this particular locality,
not a breath of air was stirring.—Notts Mercury.—The
Manchester Guardian notices a somewhat similar pheno-
menon in that town.
SUDDEN DEATH BY DRINKING WHILE HEAVED.—•
We last week reported a death caused by drinking too
much water, and we are sorry to record a similar occur-
rence. On Saturday week an Irish labourer, residing in
Love-street, while engaged in hoeing potatoes near Roslin,
on the Greenock road, bad been so thirsty, owing to the
great heat, that he went into a public-house, arid got a
bot.le of porter, but not feeling his thirst quenched, he
next drank half a Scotch pint of bu termilk, which caused
almost instant death.—Renfrete•ahiee Reformer.
IPswicti.—Mr. Rigby Was.-n, who some time since
retired (torn the representation in consequence of engage-
ments entered into by him with the government relative
t., improvements in Westminster, has again addressed the
electors, soliciting their votes at the ensuing election.
Vincent, the Chartist, has also expressed his determina-
tion of contesting the representation of the borough. A
meeting of liberal electors was held a few evenings since,
when it was resolved that they could not consistently sup-
port Mr. Vince,t in the forthcoming struggle.
MRS. FRY'S TESTIMONIAL—On Wednesday, a meet-
ing was held in the Egyptian-hall, for the purpose of
securing a testimonial to the memory of the late Mrs.
Elizabeth Fry. The Bishop of Norwich moved :—" That
this meeting, in common with Mrs. Fry and her fellow-
labourers, the visitors of prisons, have long had to deplore
the want of places of refuge, where penitent prisoners, on
their discharge, may be sheltered from the temptations to
the re-commission of crime, by which, in the shape of
cold, hunger. and evil associations, they are too often suc-
cessfully assailed." The testimonial will, consequently,
consist of the refuge above-named.

NOVEL IMPORTATION FROM HOLLAND. All along
the coast, during the last few days, there has prevailed a
sm,ll of turf smoke ; s circumstance which occasioned
considerable surprise, because the neighbourhood around
us produces but a comparatively small (timothy, and cer-
tainly not enough to produce such an effz-ct. For some
days the phenomenon was regarded as unaccoutrable,
until it was suggested that it came over. from Holland;
the wind lying in the right direction, and the state of the
atmosphere being peculiarly favourable to the floating of
the smoky vapour across the German Ocean.—Yarmouth
Adrertiser.

ON Dirs.—lt is conficl,ntly stated in well.informed
circles, that Her At jest), has expressed her desire that
Sir Robert Peel should not abandon his post. We reso
hear that this has been accompanied with an intimation,
that in any cane, before the resignation of her ministers
will be accepted, there must be an appeal to the country.
We thii:k there is great probability of the truth of these
rumours; and for the last few days the impression has
become prevalent, that after all there will be no immed'ate
change. It is also rumoured, that Her Majesty has ex-
pressed great dissatisfaction, with the manner in which
Lord John Russell failed in the task assigned to him last
December, and there is a strong reluctance to allow of
another attempt to constitute a Whig Cabinet.
INFIDEL ORATORT.—Last week, Lord Brougham, in
rap ying to Lord Stanley, and alluding to Earl Grey,
found occasion to let off the following comparison.
" Here comes a noble lord, after the Whitson holidays
have been a lowed to intervene—after the time of Pente..
c at was fully come—(a laugh) naturally bringing with
him the gift of tongues." (Laughter, and a cry of " Oh.")
Laughter ! Let us hope, for the sake of decency, that
no one on the bishop's bench joined in the acclamation
produced by Lord Brougham's comparison of the ver-
bosity of a conceited Whig, to the descent of the 801 l
Ghost ! At any rate, no one of the prelates got nr. to
rebuke the disgusting profanity of the ex-Chancellor;
their right rev. lordships have something better, wrh!il,s,
to think of.
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ment of orchidaceous plants, consigned for sale trow Rl°
Janeiro.

IBRAHIM PACHA AND HIS DOCTOR'S BILL.--It i 5
generally known that Ibrahim Pacha spent a few month!'
in the south of France, for the benefit of his health, a na
that an eminent medical man, Dr. Lallemant. left lilg
practice for a considerable time to attend on the son °I
Mehemet Ali. Nothing was srran.ted as to the fres of
the salary of the M.D. until two or three days hef°re
lbrabitn Pacha was to leave Paris, and then he sent 50,nv`:
francs (1:2000) to Dr. Lallemant. This sum was to'
considered sa.irfactory by Dr. Lallemant, who had been
building castles with the munificent sum he expected
from the Pacha, and he therefore respectfully submitted
that he considered his fees should be estimated at 200,000,.
francs (X 8000). It was a source of great vexation tv
Ibrahim to have undervalued the services of Dr. Lane;
mant, but yet he did not make up the donation named'
hut sent £4IOO more to the lbarned physic,an, who 'hen
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declared himself satisfied with the total received, videliceo
£6,000.
DR'ADFUL SHIPWRECK IN THE WEST INDIES."-°l4/
HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.—intelligence 4
a distressing nature has conic to hand, announcing t
appalling shipwreck of the Karlscrone, a Swedish Int'lia;
man, in a dread'ul storm off the coast of Matanzas.
appears to have been one of the largest class in the S ''oo
dish mercantile service. I, all, theie were 132 persons co
board, including crew and passengers. The last Otte
touched at was Havannali, where she shipped a valusua,
cargo, and on her departure the intenti.n of her Wildly%
der was to proceed direct to Sweden. On the ronlAo.
of the Ist, when the ship was abreast of the coast of ":eg
taraas, she enc• mitered one of the fiercest hurrioct*is
ever known in that quarter, during the height WithPber
she was capsized, and instantly sank, carrying % of
115 persons. every soul of whom perished. Seventet‘terse
the crew managed to lay nold of one of the ship's cuieelt.
which, as the vessel went down, floated over the ci.
They endured the greatest privation. being without P'd up
slops and water for several days. They were eicifet.2s,
on the sixth day after the deplorable occurence err PI e&
shore long.
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tornado, no fewer than thirteen vessels were drivee
wrecked were the Princess Alice Maude, lost. Among
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the St. Martin, from Liverpool. Both were insured "
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EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON. Admiral bir. tbe
Parker has it is said been a martyr to the gout durertb,,„e*
whole crui,e, and confined to his cabin for half th:oe;o6
and compelled to carry on his observations under
stiff deg ; but, had be known of Blair's Gout and =-•
matic Pills, so serious a calamity
nierice to the public service would have found
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other medicine will afford the least relief in nI6
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colds, Holloway's Pills will almost immediately
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Jolly Robin. end the Siam, off St. Helena
Se., King, Smith, hence at St. Andrew's
Sophia m'Ke, zie, Deane, hence at St. John, N.B.
True Blue, 0 ive, hence at Pictou
Fanny smith Antelope, Rums; and Agitator, Mackie. hence
at Prince Edward Wand
Wallace, Somerson; London, Redhead; Liverpool, M'Kay,
hence at Miramichi

Fisherman, Hoegdoll : Hebe, Billingsly ; and Dit-on, Le Gres-
ley, hence at New Carlisle
Elizabeth Mary Ano, and Marmora. Barnes, hence at Galatz
Poliferno, Premuda, sailed from Venice for this port 28th
May

Lady Sale, Law ; Neptune, R. ichenburg ; Londonderry,
Fin-
lay; Northumbrian Maid; Perseverance, Surridge; and June
Stanley, Young. hence at Cronstet
Evening sta., hence at Richibucto
Ockbrook, and Elizabeth liolde7 nest, from Hull, at ditto
Bst.vus.r, June 15.—The Rambler, (steamer) from Liverpool
for Sligo. struck on the North maiden Rock on Sunday morn.
log a TI remains, with the rock through her starboard bilge,
and 4111 s with the tide. Crew and passengers saved
CaorwszAuz. June s.—The Anne, Hop;•ell, from Liverpool for
this 'port. grounded on I?, lsand, ff the Island of Oesel. but aas
gut ctr atter landing part of her cargo, and has arrived here in
safely. She must be hove down to tepair