The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-14 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

There is said to be no less a sum than two millions and a
lalf spent annually in gin in the metropolis. To how many
:housands would this afford health and happiness if laid out
in raiment and food.

THE CENTENARY FUND.—The Watchman states that the
subscriptions'of which information has been forwarded to the
secretaries, amount to £225,000, and that the sum actually
received by the treasurers exceeds £llO,OOO.
Five clusters of dark spots are now traversing the sun's
disc; two of which are particularly large, and should the
weather clear up, they will present a fine appearance, for the
telescope.
We understand that the Hon. G. Cavendish, one of the
members for Derbyshire, will move, and Sir W. Somerville,
Bart. member for Drogheda, will second, the address to her
majesty on the rayal speech at the opening of the ensuing
session.—Globe.

A new organ for Exeter Hall has just been completed, at
an expense of from £l,BOO to £2,000. It is the largest in
London, and next in size to those of York and Birmingham.
It has two double diapasons, one of wood, the other of metal,
and a Posanne double trumpet, 16 feet high.
The two counties of Denbigh and Merioneth will no longer
be placed under one lord-lieutenant, but each will have a
lord-lieutenant to itself. We have heard Lord Dinorben
mentioned as likely to be lord-lieutenant of one of the coun-
ties.—Ministerial Paper.
A machine has lately been introduced on the extensive
works of Mr. James Hunt, of Bowden Hill, near Chipsen-
ham, for making bricks, which has excited much curiosity.
The cylinders revolve about once a minute, making in the
course of each revolution about thirty-two bricks.— Taunton
Journal.

The workmen on the Grand Junction Railway, have turned
up near the Crewe station, on Sir John Chetwode's property,
a fossil tooth and part of a thigh bone of some immense ani-
mal. The tooth is perfect, and weighs seven pounds : the
mean diameter of the thigh bone is 17 inches.
On Wednesday, the extension of the police, to a circle of
from ten to twelve miles round the metropolis, commenced
at Hendon, Barnet, Croydon, Woolwich, Hounslow, Rom-
ford, and other places. The new force is composed of a por-
tion of experienced men from the various divisions of the
metropolitan force.
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Dr. Gregory, of the Small Pox Hospital, in a note to the
Editor of the Medical Gazette, states that the penny postage
will have a most remarkable effect upon the practice of vac-
cination, asit will hring to the door of every medical man in
the.country a vaccine-lymph from various sources at the
, .
,mall charge of one penny.
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ACCIDENT TO THE EARL
.OF LrcifFlELn.Yesterday
(Friday) the Right Hon. the Earl of Lichfield, while enjoy-
the sports of the field at Ranton Abbey, received a spent
shot in.the:ey.e. The circumstance occasioning considerable
.alagm,.,tk►e attendance of. Dr. Knight and Mr. Hughes was
reque'sted, and we are happy to report that the shot was rea-
dily extraCted, and not the slightest ill Consequence is ex-
pected to follOw.---Staffordshire Gazette.

A MONKEY FINED FOR AN ASSAULT.-011 Thursday, as
one of the Norwich city officers was collecting the fees for
the shows on the castle ditches, , a, monkey suddenly jumped
on his shoulder, and bit his ear until it bled. The proprie-
tor of the beast was summoned before the corporation magis-
trate, and was fined 6s. and costs, the fact being thus enter-
ed :—" Assault by a monkey on a policeman. Defendant
fined," 84c.—Norfolk Chronicle.

A HINT TO NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS IN ARREARS.—
One of the subscribers to the Bristol Mercury, residing at a
distance, lately forwarded its proprietors a.letter, inclosing
ten shillings and tenpence, for half a year's papers, in hard
cash, viz., half a sovereign, sixpence, and a fourpenny bit—
the whole of which, with the, letter, weighing less than half
an ounce, was charged at the rate of 4d. only ! The cost,
under the old system, would have been 2s. 9d.
The liberals of Devonport, finding that they have no chance
against the conservative candidate unless one of their men
retires, and the whole of their support be given to the other,
the united committees of Messrs. Tufnell and Leach have
resolved to submit Their respective interests to a ballot of the
electors, the one having the least support to withdraw, and
use his exertions in favour of the other.

NEW PEERS.-It is rumoured among the whips that Sir
Peter Hesketh Fleetwcod, the member for Preston ; Sir Wm.
Somerville, Bart., M.P. for Drogheda, and Sir W. L. Tre-
lawny, whO has recently received the lord lieutenancy of
Cornwall, will be elevated to the peerage on the occasion of
the Queen's marriage. It is also reported that Sir J. Guest,
M.P., is likely to be created 'a peer, but that is not spoken
of positively.

PROSPERITY OF THE WEAR.—NO less than 310 vessels

have been built and registered at Sunderland during the past
year, exclusive (of 40 in the tide surveyor's list, which are
completed, and only require to he measured and certified.
On an average, there is a launch on the Wear nearly every
day in the year! Is there, then, any part in the world that
can compete with Sunderland in ship-building? And be it
recollected, the vessels are chiefly of a large description—a
great number of them from 300 to 600 tons burden.—Gates-
head Observer.

FORGERY IN PARISH REGISTERS.—The churchwardens
of Wolverhampton collegiate church have recently detected
numerous forgeries in the parish registers, and been much
occupied in giving that strict investigation to the subject
which its serious importance to the community demanded.
It seems that, about five years ago, a person of the name of
Baddelay, or Bodily, died without known representatives,
upon which his property escheated to the crown ; and that,
to authenticate the pedigree of some persons petitioning the
Lords of the Treasury as the next-of-kin to the deceased, it
was necessary to produce several certificates of birth, mar-
riages, &c. Several of such supposed proofs were found to
have been entirely interpolated in the register, or the names
of other persons altered to suit the case. The church-
wardens were unable to trace these forgeries to the guilty
parties • but we are happy to learn, that they have now a
clue which is likely to enable them to attain that object. In
other instances of interpolation, the churchwardens were for-
tunately able to detect the person committing the offence,
and to correct the register accordingly.—Wolverhampton
paper. _ _

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LONDON BILL OF MORTALITY.—The " General Bill of
the Christenings and Burials within the City of London and
Bills of Mortality, from December 11, 1838, to Dec. 10,
1839," presents the following results :—Christened, Males,
9,455; Females, 9,564 ; total, 19,019. Buried, Males, 8,406;
Females, 8,279 ; total, 16,685. Of the number buried were :
—Under two years of age, 4,371'; two and under five years,
2,035 ; five and under ten, 893 ; ten and under twenty, 657 ;
twenty and under thirty, 1,170; thirty and under forty, 1,486;
forty and under fifty, 1,660 ; fifty and under sixty, 1,434 ;
sixty and under seventy, 1,475' severity and under eighty,
1,089 ; eighty and under ninety, 377 ; ninety and under one
hundred, 47 ; one hundred and four, 1.

A MAN OF MANY TRADES.—A correspondent informs
us that there is a wonderful individual now residing in the
good and pretty village of Leyland, who is engaged in, and
professes to be a proficient at, all the following trades and
mysteries :-1, clock and watch cleaner : 2, plumber and
glazier ; 3, engine tenter or fireman ; 4, fiddle manufacturer ;
5, painter and gilder ; 6, engraver ; 7, bricklayer ; 8, plas-
nerer ; 9, white washer ; -10, tinman ; 11, butcher ; 12, finger
and slater ; 13, smoke-jack cleaner ; 14, flue oven builder ;
15, crofter ; 16, joiner ; 17, blacksmith ; 18, machine re-
pairer; 19, stone-mason ; 20, millwright. Really, this miracu-
lous person must be a second Chritchton.—Preston Pilot.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE INTENDED FESTIVITIES AT
VALE ROYAL, CHESHIRE.—The annual festivities at Vale
Royal, the baronial residence of the hospitable and exeellent
Lord and Lady Delamere, were to have taken place during
the last week. They were to consist of a grand ball, a
masquerade, and other amusements, to which the elite of the
county were invited. The most extensive arrangements
were in forwardness for the gratification and comfort of the
guests, when the joy of the family was turned into sorrow by
the intelligence of the lamented demise of her ladyship's bro-
ther, Sir Watkin Williams W ynn, and the preparations were,
of course, immediately suspended. The ball and banquet
were this year to have been on a scale of unexampled splen-
dour, and a full house was expected.
LECTURES BY THE REV. DR. SCORESBY.—On Thursday
evening, the 2d instant, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby delivered, in
the parish church of Bradford, the first of a course of monthly
lectures on the truth of the Bible. The lectures will be
given on the first Thursday evening in each succeeding
month. The rev. gentleman proposed four questions as the
topics to be discussed, in his lectures :-Ist. Is there anything
in the condition of man that requires a revelation? 2nd. Is
the revelation of the Bible adapted to such requirement?
3rd. Does the Bible evince any indication of an origin differ-
ent from that of other books? and 4th. Are the subject,
matter, and doctrines of the Bible in consistence with the
character revealed by creation of the Creator? The first
lecture was devoted to the treatment of the first question,
and was pretty well attended.—Leeds httelligencer.

Her Majesty is expected to lay the foundation stone of the
new houses of parliament shortly after her marriage.

MORTALITY AMONG THE PEERS DURING 1839.—
During the past year 14 peers have died, namely, 3 dukes,
the Dukes of Buckingham, Bedford, and Argyll; 6 earls, the
Earls of Zetland, Caledon, Essex, Lauderdale, Mount Edge-
cumbe, and Kingston ; and five barons, Lords Howden, St.
Helens, De Roos, Walsingharn, and Rendlesham.. Of the
above, only one peerage is extinct, that is Lord St. Helens.
The Earl of Carnwath, Viscount Dufferin, and Lord Lang-
ford, all of the peerage of Ireland, have also descended to the
tomb during the past year. Only four members of the House
of Commons have died during the Same time, :namely, Lord
W. Bentiuck, Viscount Clements, Sir J. Dunlop, Bart. and
Mr. M. ?med.
REFORM CABINET'S CHIEF GLORY.—That this Poor-
Law Amendment Act meanwhile should be, as we sometimes
Bear it named, the " chief glory" of a Reform Cabinet, be-
tokens, one would image, rather a scarcity of glory there. To
say to the poor, ye shall cat the bread of affliction and drink
'the water of affliction, and be very miserable while here, re-
quired
not so much a stretch of heroic faculty in any sense,
as due toughness of bowels. If paupers are made miserable,
paupers will needs decline in multitude. It is a secret known
to all ratcatchers ; stop up the granary-crevices, afflict with
continual mewing, alarm, and going off of traps, your " charge-
able labourers" disappear, and cease from the establishment.
A still briefer method is that of arsenic ; perhaps even me
milder, when otherwise permissible. Rats and paupers cams '
be abolished : the human faculty was from of old adequate to,
grind them down, slowly or at once, and needed no ghost or
Reform Ministry to teach it.—Chartism, by Mr. Carlyle.
OWENISM.—Last Saturday and Monday evenings, the
talented and indefatigable Mr. Brindley, delivered two lee-
tures in the large room adjoining time Northgate Hotel, Hali-
fax, against the Infidel principles set forth by Mr. Robert •
Owen, which were both numerously and respectably attended,
and in the exposure of which Mr. Brindley was throughout -,

vociferously cheered by the audience. In the placard put
forth by Mr. Brindley, he challenged any Socialist or ac-
credited agent of Socialism to discussion ; but, at the first,
lecture no one attempted to come forwards to refute him in:
any one point which he advanced. At the conclusion, how-
ever, of the second lecture, a poor simple fellow,,known by
the name of Mad Dick, well known as a Chartist and So-
cialist in the neighbourhood, mounted the platform, and be-
began to speak, but the first half dozen words he uttered.
were of such a disgusting nature that the audience would no
longer hear hint. He was led away out of the room. A vote
of thanks Was then unanimously passed to Mr.. Brindley for
the excellent lectures given by him in exposure of " Owen's

icentious system of Atheism.—Leeds Intelliyencer.

CURIOUS CASE.—The following matter came to light in
the course of an examination last week before the magistrates

at Exeter. A very respectable woman, of the ludicrous age
of some two or three and thirty, appeared before the Bencb,
and, producing a neat white cloth with something bundled
up in it, placed it deliberately before their worships, and,
proceeding with some show of caution at first, which yielded
to a quicker movement as preparation begat nervous anxiety,
she at len4th unfolded to the view of their worships a deca-
pitated goose. Great was the surprise of the administrators
of the law as they saw the bird lying prostrate before them,
the lady not having yet broken silence, nor introduced the
bird with any show of customary ceremony. The feelings of
the lady were, however, too sensitive to be ceremonious, and

so she plunged at once into a narrative of fact to the follow- 1
ing effect :—" Your worships, I went to market last Friday,
to buy a goose for Sunday's dinner; I saw one which took
my fancy, from the very young head it had ; I asked the
price, and the man agreed to take ss. 6d. for it, having re-
fused is. all day ; I bought it, took it home, prepared it for
cookery, intending to have a preliminary dish of the giblets ;
but, alas ! no sooner did I come to the neck, than I found
that this young head had been fastened to an old shoulder—
the head, possessing all the marks of youth and tenderness,
was actually sewn on to a shrivelled elderly neck. I was
amazed ; I could not account for this circumstance ; I knew
that they sow their fields in the country, but never heard
that they sewed their geese—not knowing what improvements
might have taken in agriculture, I determined to try the gib-
lets, and not to let the circumstance prejudice me against the
goose. I did so ; I boiled the giblets. The head was done
beautiful in an hour, but all the rest took three hours and a
half." Finding this to be the case, she wisely abstained from
trying her hand on the goose itself. .and now stood a claimant
for justice against the false rustic who had thus beguiled her
of her judgment. The Bench listened with astonishment to

her narrative, and forthwith lent her a peace-officer to sum-
mon the man into their presence. He was found at a stall
in the market, and speedily made his appearance. The case
was now gone into finally, and the plaintiff averred that he
had warranted the goose young—she always judged by the
head, and that was decidedly young. The defendant said he

was a native of Zeal MonajhOrum-, and the
.practice in their
country was to kill the geese by chopping :off the heads of
them; and when they brought them to the market it was
their practice to sew them on again. He affirmed that it
was the invariable practice at Zeal—that he was an honest.
man never before a magistrate in his life, and incapable of
doing such a deed by way of deceiving the public!. The Bench
gave him a grave caution ; the magistrates shakily, their
heads at the protestations of innocence which he made ; and
he having returned the money, and taken back the goose,
minus the young head. and the old giblets, the fair plaintiff
left, much comforted with the result.—Western Times.

OPIUM sCossesiens..—A correspondent of the Leeds
Mercury says " that in the county of Lincoln opium eaters
are quite common, and the consumption of that drug is la-
mentably on the increase. It is the practice in this part 01
Yorkshire (Knaresborough) not • to sell the article without
knowing the party, or what it is going to be used for ; but in
Lincolnshire the solid opium is kept weighed by all druggists
in pennyworths, drachms, and half drachms, and sold al
commonly as Epsom salts, without making any inquiry ; and
it forms a leading article with the trade. I have heard it re-
marked by people well able to judge that you may calculate
that every fourth customer who enters a druggist's shop in
Lincoln wants either opium, laudanum, or Godfrey's cordial
the two last are prepared from opium. . Its sale is chiefly
amongst the lower order of people, though many respectable
people may be included. The quantity they get accustornol,
to take is almost incredible ; one young woman whom I served
for three years never took less than 30 grains every night ; one
man could (and did when he could get it) take six ounces.
of laudanum every day. In consequence of the stoppage of
the opium trade with China the price has fallen in this coup'
try from to Ils 6d a pound, which lam afraid will
crease the consumption. 1 aus not aware how far it is alfeady
spread, but the whole of Lincolnshire appears stroller
tainted with it.
A PARALLEL—Nothing can exceed the wrath of a pick'
pocket, should he happen to find.that his own art has been
practised upon himself. He not only seems to think that
his monopoly in " cly-faking," asthefashionablelanguarre of
the day terms his profession, has been grossly infringed; bbilt
'he-cries out so lustily against the villainy of the world, that
a green-horn would imagine him and his " pals" to be the
only honest men left in it. He is not, however, without
rival in his hypocrisy. Your whig is even his superior at it,
*hen he finds that he has been served out with his own sauce.
For instance,. what a roar of indignation did the Chronicle
indulge in yesterday, because whig influence has been some-
what damaged in Scotland by the creation of a few tory life-
renters ! " Fire and faggots," it exclaims, " are we bonng
fide people AO be robbed of our supremacy in this way
The Chronicle should be reminded, as it does not choose to,
remember, who first set the example, and taught the art of
faggoting. flow often, and in how many counties, has the
Earl Fitzwilliam been convicted of faggoting, so gross as to
have earned the sobriquet of the Milton Woodman .? Is that
remarkable case forgotten in which a lawyer at Bedford was
commissioned to cut as many faggots oft an estate of the
Duke of Bedford's as would swamp the county of Hunting'
ton, so as to secure it for Lord John himself—has that es-
caped the memory of the grumbler against tory machine-
tions ? These are •not solitary instances—they are merely
examples of what the whigs have been at in every English
county at all accessible to them, since they found by the
second election, after the Reform Bill, that their footing in
them was not a jot better than it was before. Those wile
live in glass houses should not throw stones at other people's
windows. If the tories hare here and there fortified them'
selves by the creation of votes, it might justly be called a
fair reprisal and act of self-defence. Bnt it is somethilif
more. Grimaldi returning home one night was stopped and
robbed of his watch in Islington-fields. He followed the
footpad, and adroitly abstracted from his pocket the watch
back again. The rascal had the impudence to complain to $
magistrate that some villain had picked his.pocket. Gri-
inaldf came forward and acknowledged' the 'offence. It is
needless to say how the case ended.—Morning Herald.
Fox HUNTING IN WILTSHIRE.—" A subscriber" (front
whom we should be glad to hear again) writes to us as fol'
lows :—During the last month, North Wiltshire has rivalled
Leicestershire in the sports of the field, her vales and rich
meadows maintaining the well-known fact, that the richer
the pasture the sweeter the scent. We have seen an English
Prince of true English character, like his reverend grand'
father, enjoying the chase in a truly English spirit, riding as
straight as the best of them, sometimes leading the Wiltshire
yeoman, as a crow would fly over his farm—as often follow'
ing him half smothered in dirt across its deep lanes, accost'
panied by some of the first sportsmen in the kingdom, whora
not even the broad waters of the swollen Avon can turn froal,
their course. We have seen several swimming neck also,
neck, after the impetuous pack, whose gallant daring, and
unerring nostrils will not give poor. Reynard a chance, by 81r
lution in the rapid stream, of washing away the scent which Is
so fatal to him. Each day, with the Duke of Beaufort
hounds, the game has been found within ten minutes of el'
tering the covert, and the sport has.been invariably good'
Lord Moreton has had some brilliant runs. Amongst others
may be enumerated oneon Saturday, the 28th ult., at Charl'
ton Park. A fox was found immediately, which gave a bed' .
liant run of about 25 minutes, over one of the sweetest cools.'
tries in the world, and was killed in Shipton Wood. J4'
second fox was found in Keene's Wood, which gave rise to
,a
severe run of about two hours and a half in large circles In
the Braydon country, and neither hope nor rider could well
wish for a harder day. Mr. Horlock's hounds met on Thurs•
doy, the 2d instant. at the Hillocks Windmill, but did sot
find till a quarter before one o'clock, Avhen, alter drawin6,
the grassy and scentless covert of Hanmore for about $
quarter of an hour, a few hounds were observed gathering
near the boundary hedge. " A part of the pack are away,
cried their indefatigable huntsman, who was not above A
minute or two in getting the body of the pack well up with
them. The fox broke towards the down ; and after running
about two miles through stiff enclosures, passing Whyrr
coppice, Richardson coppice, Berwick Bassett village, and
Winterbourne Bassett, he then made over Hackpen Down t°,
Dean Bottom. Here he was viewed by the whole pack and
most of the field ; and, after running for about a mile and s
half in view without any tailing amongst the hounds, he teas
fairly run down in a ploughed field beneath Barbary Wilt
A few yards further, the body of the pack were at his brash
—with only one check of about two minutes, affording 11;
opportunity of admiring a judicious cast. The run lasted 4
minutes, and from point to point was absent seven miles'
For the last ten minutes the pace was at the top speed of the
fastest.—Bath Chronicle.
A FABLE.—An old gentleman, of good sense and estate,:
presented to his neighbours the melancholy spectacle of Os'
being able to exert the one for the proper control of tb;
other. On every hand he was tormented and eaten up 14%.
rascally a set of servants as ever ruined a good master ;
steward was a knave, his gamekeeper a poacher, the groonl
stole his corn, the butler emptied his bins ; and his establish.:
went, in short, was one continued scene of " high life below:
stairs." Every year did Squire John resolve to make a de;
house of the whole gang ; but from time to time the prude
resolve was overruled by a cousin Patrick, who had lived w
him so long that Squire John did not well know how b.:
should live without him• Pat was aware of this weakness
the old gentleman, as well as that he was fond of " peace an
quietness ;" and, as the scamps were necessary to his plea,
sures,' acted accordingly- Whenever the old gentleman talks
ed of sending the worthless crew to the right about, pa
swore that they were the honestest set of fellows in existence:
and that if they were turned out, he would turn out
while the knaves, on the other hand, daily dinned the 0
gentleman's ears with what an orderly and affectionate erei;
ture Pat was as long as he had his own way, but with what r
devil he would be if they, his chosen friends, were no I°l4:e
present to keep him in humour ! Between them and his _,l°
of " peace and quietness," the old gentleman was bambow;
led to live on a life of torment, to himself, and of ridicule_a
the world, when one decided assertion of his authority worlo
have rid him of his harpies, .and have brought Pat to 7,,
senses. This is.all a feble, it, may be said;: but inlitatoll.
mine, good JonN Bisee,..the fable might as well have bes;
told of you. It was a sort of :Ilia tranquillity which, I,,,tce
you, the old gentleman enjoyed, you,,
more for than it is worth ; ands' putting "the comparison 1:1
other way; are uotsyou, in like fashime with taus, bullied
O'Connell, plundered .by, the, whigs, ,and-.laughed at by cd
Edrope for yotiieasinisr,Siiicly. the fable well, ancl
will be at no trouble to extract from it a moral, and a
ample one,—Morning Herald.

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