The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

/iISCELLANEOt

DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT.—On Wednesday .11
)f the elephants in the menagerie of Mr, Wombwell

now ex-
posed to

)ibiting in Leeds, died. It was a female, and
ie about thirty years of an.e. The cause of death ,is not

tisfactorily explained. It has been sold to the Leeds Philo-
sophical Society for £2O. The hide weighed 5 cwt.—Hali-
fax Guardian.

THE POISONING CASE AT STOCKPORT.—TweIve of the
judges met on Saturday last, in the Exchequer Chamber, and
after hearing the arguments of Mr. We'shy in favour of the
objection, and Mr. Townsend in support of the indictment,
unanimously decided that the indictment was correct, and

the prisoner, Robert Sandy, therefore now stands convicted
of murder, and will receive sentence at the next Chester

FORGED EXCHEQUER BILLS.—The Oxford Herald says:
—" Two cases of great hardship have come to our know-
ledce ; one is that of an individual, whose little fortune of
£4,000 was vested in these bills, the whole of which, upon
examination, were pronounced to be forgeries ; the other
was the case of a person who held £lB,OOO worth of Exche-
quer Bills, when, upon inspection, 16 out of the 18 were pro-
nounced to be spurious.
Mr. Kennedy, the editor of the Hull Advertiser, is going
nderstand, in the employment of government, to
d will,

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stowed on Captain Elliot, of
mpanied by Mrs. Kennedy, he
in the Acadia royal mail
Hull Packet.

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consul in that country

sailed from Liverpool cu Friday
steamer, for the United State
BRUSSELS, Nov. 20.—.
dreadful catastrophe, occasioned
mines of P. Felix (Hainault

News reached here last night of a
_ an explosion in the coal
aof depth of 1,450 feet. A
persons were soon at work to clear away the mass

unbling earth, &e., that choked the entrance to the
A young engineer, who was first on the spot, ren-
all the assistance in his power, exhibiting a great cool-

ness. He succeeded, with the aid of a miner, In abstracting
four dead bodies, and five wounded men ; but, alas ! 29
miners are supposed to be under the earth, whether living or

dead is not know

MIGRATIO

c and powerful association is now

of formation,Thaving-for its object the establish-
ment of an extensive and national system of emigration to
our North American colonies. An object so beneficial to
the poorer classes of this country, and so conducive to the
general trade and prosperity of the empire, cannot fail to
meet with general co-operation. But this association is also
supported by a union with the baronets of Scotland and
Nova Scotia, whose territorial claims on the ancient pro-
vince of Nova Scotia will thus, it is anticipated, be made not
only available to themselves, but beneficial to the distresssd
population of these kingdoms.
Triz Lr CKY LIVING.—(From a Correspondent.)—The
vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest, near York, in the presen-
tation of his Grace the Archbishop, has gained this appella-
tion from the very extraordinary fact that there are no less
than eight successive vicars now alive, every one of whom is
a dignitary of the church. These fortunate individuals are
Dr. Webber, Dean of Ripon ; lion. E. Rice, Dean of Glou-
cester; the Rev. Archdeacon Harcourt, the Bishop of St.
Asaph ; Hon. G. Pellew, Dean of Norwich ; Hon. H. How-
ard, Dean of Lichfield; the Rev. H. Dixon, Canon of York
and Ripon; and the present incumbent, the Rev. S. Creyke,
recently appointed to a canonry at York.
Lord Nugent, disappointed of a seat in the legislature,
sought and readily obtained from the stern patriots of Mary-
lebone—who dearly love a lord—a seat in the Anti-Corn
League. His lordship's good taste has, however, at last in-
duced him to withdraw from an assembly, the staple argu-
ments of which were abuse and slander of his nearest relative.
Unable to become the mentor of the league, Lord Nugent
now threatens to become its censor ; his lordship appears
wishful to persue what is termed an independent course; but
it is to be apprehended that the noble lord will continue to
realise Mr. Canning's joke, by still exhibiting an enormous
breach of neutrality.

in prozies

NOVEL APPLICATION OF THE DAGUERROTYPE.—The
French police have availed themselves of the expedition and
accuracy of this mode of taking likenesses. As soon as a
great or notorious criminal falls into their hands, they take
his likeness by means of the Daguerreotype, and send copies
of it to the several agents of police ; so that, if he should
escape from one charge, he may, if accused of another, in a
different part of France, be easily recognised as an old
offender. Certainly M. Daguerre never contemplated such
an application of his type. Les agent de police, as they are
called, are much indebted to him.
IMPORTANT TO TOLLGATE KEEPERS.—John Alston,
keeper of the Netherfield tollgate, Westmoreland, appeared
before the magistrates at the Town-hall, Kendal, on Friday,
to answer a charge laid by the post-office inspector for de-
taining the mail on the sth of October last at the tollbar.
Mr. Pearson, of Kirkby Lonsdale, appeared on behalf of
Alston, and Mr. Dunn on behalf of the post-office. The
case was gone into at considerable length, and, after a patient
consideration of several apparently conflicting acts of parlia-
ment, Alston was convicted of the charge and ordered to pay
a fine, mitigated:l/4)n account of the slight nature of the of-
fence, to one farthing, together with costs.
IMPORTANT TO TAILORS,—A curious trial, illustrating one
of the absurdities which still remain unrepealed on the statute-
book, occurred in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday.
A tailor, named Goodman, had brought an action for goods
sold and delivered against a person of the name of Moran.
The latter, probably under the counsel of some attorney of
" sharp practice," pleaded that the buttons were illegitimate,
and the button-holes breaches of the law, supporting his plea
by a statute of George I. passed in 1722, and still remaining
on the books, by which it is made nnlawful for any person to
use or wear buttons made or bound with cloth, &c., "or of
any staff whereof cloths or wearing garments are usually
made," under penalty of forfeiting 40s. for every dozen of
such buttons worn. The plaintiff's counsel obtained a rule
nisi on the ground that the act was not directed against
tai-
lors making, but against persons wearing, unlawful buttons ;
and this important button case, which naturally recalls the
proposal of the facetious author of " Tristram Shandy," to
write a chapter on button-holes, will have to be decided with
due gravity in the Court of Queen's Bench. The act was
probably passed to protect the metal button manufacturers ;
but since that time a statute of George IV. has repealed the
law against the importation of buttons from abroad.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On the night of the 7th instant,
Anne Carolan, widow of Joseph Carolan, who has been for
years addicted to intemperance, went to bed, as usual, with
her daughter, a girl of thirteen or fourteen years of age, and
the servant maid ; and some time during the night she got
up and dressed herself unperceived, procured a hank of yarn,
put the noose of one end round her neck, and the other she
attached to the crook or crane of the kitchen fire-place,
which was not more than about four feet from the ground ;
and finding that that height would not suit her purpose, so
determined was she upon committing the rash act she had
meditated, that she very ingeniously bethought herself of
twisting or twirling her body around until she shortened the
hank of yarn ; and not finding that to answer, she contracted
her legs until she succeeded in her diabolical purpose. The
servant girl awoke some time before daylight, and, on miss-
ing her mistress out of bed, gave the alarm to the neigh-
bours, who found her in the situation described, quite dead,
with the under part of her clothes and portions of her body
burned. The jury found that the deceased died from stran-
gulation and hanging whilst labouring under temporary in-
sanity. The coroner ordered the police to have the body of
the deceased interred after sunset, without benefit of clergy.
—Drogheda Joarnal.
AN ArFnAl.- WITH SMUGGLERS.—The Me'morial of Pau
relates that, a few days ago, a brigadier of gendarmery,
named Gasquet, and one of his men, Hias, were on the
watch for smugglers near Mascuru, when they saw eleven
men, all armed with bludgeons, and nine of them carrying
packs, advancing by the road. Nothwithstanding the supe-
riority of numbers, the two gendarmes determined to do their
duty, and, advancing towards the band, summoned them to
lay down their burdens. This being refused, the gendarmes
proceeded to make a seizure, and Gasquet received a severe
blow with a bludgeon. He returned this with a shot from
his carbine and a lunge with his bayonet, but, being severely
beaten about the body, and wounded in the leg, and at the
same time believing that his comrade was killed, he con-
trived to escape into a wood, and thence made his way back
to the village. Hias fought with great obstinacy until he was
disarmed, and had no more means of defence, when he made
a feint and fell as if killed. The smugglers, believing him
dead, moved off, but on second thoughts retraced their steps,
and determined to hang him on a tree In terrorem. Hias,
however, had contrived to drag himself into concealment
among some rocks, and thus saved himself from his intended
fate. Although the gendarmes fired only two shots; one of
the smugglers was killed, and two wounded in the shoulder.
All the survivors have since been captured, and are now in
custody.

SERIOUS OUTRAGE.—On the night of Thursday last,
about nine o'clock, as James Musgrave and Wm. Roberts,
two gamewatchers, in the employ of the Marquis of West-
minster, were on the look-out for poachers, in the noble
Marquis's carriage drive, near Pulford Lodge, they saw two
men pass by, and go up the drive towards Eaton, whom they
suspected, from their appearance, were either going to shoot
or set nets for game. They did not then say anything to
them, but in the course of about an hour and a half, the
same two men returned, in company with a third person.
Two of them carried a sack ; and the watchers suspecting
that they had been poaching, immediately went up to them,
and demanded who they were, and what they had got in their
sacks. One of the men then threw his sack on the ground,
and succeeded in snaking his escape. Another allowed him-
self to be quietly captured by Musgrave ; but the third, who
is a very powerful man, immediately attacked the other
watcher, Wm. Roberts, with a large stick. The latter de-
fended himself with a gun, as well as he was able, against his
more athletic adversary, and a tremendous light ensued, in
the course of which the combatants were completely satu-
rated with blood. The poacher was now getting the advan-
tage, and severely beating the keeper about the head, when
the joint cries of himself and his comrades, attracted to the
spot two other watchers, Wm. Hurst, jun. and James Dry-
land, by whom Roberts was eventually secured. The men
were then taken into custody, and on examining the sacks,
they were found to contain eleven turkeys, which were sub-
sequently ascertained to have been stolen from Mr. John
Snelson's, farmer, of Poulton, on the same night. We are
sorry to say, that Wm. Roberts, the watcher, lies in a very
dangerous state. The prisoners have been fully committed
for trial.—Chester Courant.

SUICIDE OF A WEST INDIAN MEIICHANT.—On Friday
morning last, at half-past eleven o'clock, an inquest was ta-
ken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the house, No. 9, Grove-
road, St. John's-wood, London, on view of the body of
Grogan Mitchell, Esq., aged 64, a gentleman of independent
fortune, resident as above, who committed suicide by shoot-
ing himself. Mrs. Margaret Nelson deposed that she lived
near Cuckfield, in Sussex. Deceased was her uncle. He
had for twenty-eight years been a West India merchant, and
during that time resided at Tobago. About ten years ago,
having amassed a large fortune, he retired, and coming over
to England, had since resided in that house. Witness had
been staying there since Tuesday week last, and she then
came in consequence of having received anote from deceased,
requesting her to do so, and informing her that his female
servant had hung herself. On her arrival she ascertained
that the inquest on the body of the young woman was just
concluded. Deceased then appeared very much hurt at what
had occurred, but seemed in his usual health. He was very
much of eted with asthma, and could scarcely breathe, and
one whole night since she had been there he was so bad that
he sat up in an arm-chair by the side of the fire. On Tues-
day evening last, at which time he appeared perfectly collected,
he made some alteration in a paper which she understood to
be a will he had made some years ago, which he said peo-
ple ought always to do when they were in good health. She
then, at his request, signed her name to it in two places, and
he afterwards sent for two other persons, who also signed
it. About ten minutes past eleven o'clock she was in bed,
when some thing falling heavy, which
sloe did notw
nthe house, but which the servant,
who slept in the same room with her, felt positive was, and
said she was afraid it was deceased fallen out of bed. Wit-
at
think
i
Wit-
ness accordinglyalarmed r
was edi by
hurried to his room, and, on entering, was
horror-struck at finding him lying on the floor weltering in
his blood. Having raised an alarm, a policeman entered, and
a surgeon was sent for, who found that deceased had shot
himself, and was quite dead. Witness last saw deceased
alive at ten o'clock that night, at which time he was in bed,
and in answer to her question as to whether he felt comfort-
able, he said, " Yes." Witness did not know that deceased
was possessed of a pistol. She had never heard him threa-
ten to destroy himself. On Monday deceased told witness
that, when half asleep and awake, strange fancies came into
his head. The same night be was bled. Other evidence
having been addi.ced,
thejury after a lengthened discussion,
returned a verdict," That deceased was found dead of certain
mortal injuries inflicted on himself with a pistol, and, at the
time of the suicide, he was insane."