The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

•
The Cobden Testimonial has reached 162,000.
The import duty on wheat is now 9.. per quarter.
Sir W. (late Colonel) Verner bas been restored to the
—commission of the peace. • -.
Twenty houses are to be pulled down in order to en-
large Smithfield market.
No less than 84 800 cheese were brought in one vessel,
which arrived in the Thames from El olland on Friday.
Six million dollars, collected from the different ports in
South America, arrived at Gosport, last week, by her
Majesty's ship America
With the exception of one estate, the county of Suther-
land, with 24.000 inhabitants, entirely belongs to the Duke
Of Sutherlwid. •

Lords Stanhope, Love!, Holland, Gage, and Denman
have signed a protest against the second reading of the
Sugar Dutics Bill.
The Duke of Marlborough has contradicted " the absurd
statements in the public journals," relative to his being
,danger .usly ill.

Great want of re/Wettih:a been felt both in England and
Scotland. Irish reapers
threeave got from 3s. W. to ss. Gd.
per day; and in addition
pints of ale each.
The failure of the apple'
crop
a great increase in the price
ienoperefordshire has led to
der,
wbich, the present seasoc, is expect
ce
yd. the supply of
of be very limited.
THE BRITISH QUEEN.—The hulkthis unfortunate
ship, we learn from the Brussels journals, was recently
towed to Tamese, preparatory to being broken up

Mr. Newman is about to pay a long visit to Rome,
with the view of completing his preparation for the priest-
hood.

A. man, named Parker, died on Monday in London
Hospital, and several other persons are seriously i 1, from
eating pies made of poisonous berries, sold by country-
men in the streets as bilberries. _

One mas was killed last week, and several others seri-
ously injured, bp the falling of a temporary wooden frame-
work on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, at the via-
duct near Randal.

OLD PORT.—The submarine adventurers employed on
the wreck of the Ahergavenny, off Weymouth, brought
up, the other day, a bottle• of port wine in tine preserva-
tion. It has lain at the bottom of the sea forty-one years.
FALL OF THREE HOUSES.-00 Wednesday, three
small hou,es in tine Mint, Southwark, which have been
built upwards of three hunched years, tumbled down in
one mass of ruin. Fortunately no lives were lost.

Envelopes should not be used for letters acknowledging
the receipt of money. An entire sheet of paper should be
used, as the postmark must be on to constitute a legal
proof of payment.
PERVERSION OF A WITOLE FAMILY.—Dr. Duke, of
Hasti gs, with his lady, and all the rnemb rs of his fa-
mily, has, during the last few days, conformed to the
Homan Catholic Church.

On Thursday, in the metropolis, there was a general
rise in the price of bread to the amount of one haltpcnny
in the qintritern loaf ' • the highest price is now, conse-
quently, 9 1., and the lovre,t 6d.
At the present time there is so much foreign flour, duty
paid, in the port of London. as o.ay most abundantly
supply the inhabitants of the metropolis with bread luring
the next six months, without the assistance cif one quar-
ter of Br fish wheat, or otie sack of British-made flour.
It has been proposed that an Eng ish nobleman should
reside at Rome, in the recognised quality of ambassador,
and tht,r, on the part of his Holiness, a nuncio should be
accredited to London. The negotiations with Rome are,
at present, it is said, conducted by a Catholic priest.
Mrs. La Fontrieg, of Wirnpole-street, Cavendish-square,
had a reticule cut from her arm, between Temple- bar arid
St. Clement's church-yard, on Wednesday atteroootr, con-
taining £307, which she had just received in Fleet-street
for the rent of houses.

POTATOES FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—A ship ar-
rived in the London Docks from Hobart Town, called the
North Briton, has brought 4228 bags of wheat. 243 bags
of flour, and, among a variety of other articles, 20 baskets
of potatoes, the production of that distant colony.
It was announced in the Commons, on Monday week,
that the great statue of the Duke is, after all, to be put on
the arch, but only for three weeks on trial. If it looks
well it is to stay; but if her Majesty's government, "ad-
vised by competent persons," are displeased with the
general eff,ct, it will come down.
Hannah Barker, aged 21 years, was on Thursday last
sentenced from the Central Criminal Court Sessions to
be transported for ten years, having been found guilty on
an indictment charging her with administering a quantity
of oxalic acid to her husband, with intent to murder him.
At public dinner given in Durham on Tuesday to Mr.
Bright, M.P. for that city, that gentleman declined to
stand again as a candidate for the representation of the
borough. It is said that the Manchester people will in-
vite him to become a candidate for that town in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Cobden.

TH E DAGENHAM MURDER.—The three persons ar-
rested on suspicion of being c..,ncerned in the murder of
the policeman at Dagenham were liberated on Saturday,
no case whatever havdag, been shown against them ; and it
appearing that all the statements made by the boy \Velch
were totally unfounded.
On Thursday week, some reapers working on the farm
of Mr. John Bloomfield, of Little Stonhani, entered upon
a wager as to the quantity of work they could perform,
but such was the extreme heat that three of them fell
down from exhaustion. two of whom died on the spot,
and a third lies, it is said, without hopes of recovery.
In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Contagious
Diseases Prevention Bill passed through committee, the
Marquis of Lansdowne stating that th- bill was not intro-
duced to provide especially against cholera, but generally
against all disorders connected with want of proper clean-
liness and similar causes of disease.

DEATH BY FLY-WATER.—Mrs. Barfoot, of Westham,
Essex, incautiously lett some `' fly-water," a composition
for killine flies, within the reach of her infant daughter.
The liquid was sweet, and,the child moistened with it
some bead she was eating. She soon sickened, and died
within twelve hours. The n other was ignorant of the
poisonous nature of the mixture.
ANDOVER UNION COMMITTEE.—CLOSE OF THE IN-
QUIRY.—TiIiS committee, whose inquiries have been pro-
tracted for so long a period, on Monday evening brought
their labours (as tar as the reception of evidence is con-
cerned) to a close. They have since reported to the
house, and the purport of the report will ne found else-
where.

DEPOSITORS IN SAVINGS-BANKS.—II is shown by a
return just issued, that on the 20th of November last,
there were in number 1,062.930 depositors, and in amount
£30,718.868, in savings-banks. Of the number, 1,041,194
were individual depositors, and the amount £29,814,455.
The remainder of the money was deposited by charitable
institutions and friendly societies.
A new claimant as heir.at-law to " Jemmy Wood,"
the celebrated Gloucester banktr, having appeared, the
case was tried on Saturday week at Gloucester, and ter-
minated by the jury stopping the pioceedings, they being
unanimously of opinion that the claimant had not made
out his pedigree, and recorded the verdict for the defen-
dant. A city case on the same point was tried the same
day, and with a similar result.
Tnm SCREW versus PADDLES.—The Rattler and Alec-
to were lashed tom:oer. ancl_qaclt _tried to ..ao a-head at
the bighetit pressure the engines could with satiety be
worked at, when the superiority of the screw was proved
in towing the paddle-wheel steamer backward. The Rat-
tler and the Polyphemus are to be tried in a similar man.
ner ; and, from the above experiment, it is believed that
the result will be the same.

MELANCHOLY FACT.—An insane woman was brought
before the magistrates on Wednesday, when the Mayor,
in the course of some observations, remarked that
there was not a single vacant place in any of the asylums
at York, Lincoln, Hull, or Hessle. It seems therefore
that this dreadful malady is rapidly increasing, the acco-
modations for the insane having until a very recent pe-
riod been amply sufficient.—Hull Packet.
INGENIOUS FRAUDS.—An elderly man, named James
Wright, was committed for trial from Worship-street Po-
lice-court, on Monday, charged with having obtained se-
veral parcels, at the different metropolitan railway sta-
tion., by means of forging orders. These orders pur-
ported to be signed by persons to whom goods were con-
signed ; and the part of the case that ptqzles the police is
bow Wright could have obtained the extensive and varied
information on which his operations were based.
THE PENNY- A-M ILE SYSTEM.—Amongst the new
projects of the day is one of an omnibus company to com-
pete with the penny boats. &c., on the river. It is pro-
posed to raise 10,000 shares of £2 each ; 100 omnibuses to
be put. on the roads. The company has been duly regis-
tered. and amongst the startling statistics.of the road it is
stated that the net profit on one omnibus is, if half full,
£175 3s. 6d ; two-thirds full, £375 3s. 6d.; full £721 3s.
6d per cent. per annum.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON DRUNKENNESS.—
When the Duke of Wellington was examined before the
Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject of
military punishments, he gave the following pithy answer
to a question on military drunkenness. Lord Wharn-
cliffe inquired, "Is drunkenness the great parent crime
in the British army, in your opinion?" The answer of
the great captain was given in a single word ; it was,
" INVARIABLY." Comment i. here superfluous.
The two bills to abolish deodands and compensate the

families of persons killed by accidents, which were re- I
ferred to a select committee. have just been issued as
amended. Deodands and the forfeiture of chattels are to
cease on the 12th of September next. There are seven
clauses in the second bill, by which it is proposed that an
action may be maintainable against any person causing
eeath through neglect. &c., notwithstanding the death of
the person injured. The act is to have immediate opera-
tion. and not to extend to Scotland.
UNFOUNDED REPORT OF VAN AMBURGH'S DEATH.
—By letters received by M r.Wallett, the clown at Astley's,
from Boston. United States, it appears that there is not
the slightest foundation for the report that Van Amburgh,
the famous brute tamer, had been destroyed by a tigress
at Voonsuckett, Rhode Island, while endeavouring at the
request of a young lady to take away some meat which
the beast was about to devour. The story is a pure fabri-
cation, invented to bring a newspaper into notoriety.
Van Amburgh was reported to be in good health, and
making a very successful tour.—Sun of Saturdoy.
John Davies. the mate on board the Citizen " A' steam-
boat, on the Thames, whilst trying to disengage a mop
from a hain at the hull of the boat, on Saturday week, lost
his balance, fell overboard, and was drowned. de was

45 years of age, and has left a wife and eight children.
On the same day, Richard Lewis, the• engine driver of
the Citizen " D" steam boat, was engaged, unknown to
the master, in one of the paddle.boxes, when the order to
" go on" was given, and the poor fellow's brains were in-
stantly dashed out, and his lifeless body fell into the
Th mes.

Mr. Cobden bas lived to sup with royalty. We learn
(says the Manchester Guardian) that Mr. Cobden, on his
way to Paris, received an invitation to dine with the King
at the Chateau d'Eu : and he accordingly joined the fa-
mily dinner party at the chateau, where he was most gra-
ciously and cordially received by the King, the Queen,
and Madame Adelaide. We understand, the same autho-
rity continues, that his Majesty (who speaks English per-
fectly well) showed an intimate knowledge of the pro-
ceedings of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and of the re-
cent struggle for the repeal of the corn-laws.
CtrußT•mArcrtAL.—Her Majesty's pleasure has been
announced respecting the court-martial on gunner and
driver Richard Gilbertson, at Woolwich. The sentence
of the court finding him guilty of the several charges has
been confirmed, and a- a general bad character be has
been sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of 365 days,
eighty-four of which are to be solitary, divided into six
periods of fourteen days each, arid the remainder with
hard labour, and furthermore that he be placed under
stoppages not exceeding two-thirds of his daily pay to
the amount of 4d., the value of one round of carbine
ball ammunition.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a frightful na-
ture occurred at Navenby, on the 23d ultimo, to a boy
about ten years of age, nephew to Mr. J. Rollitt. By
some mischance, he was precipitated from a loft of bay,
and in falling was caught by one of the prongs of a com-
mon hay-fork, which entered the back and lower part of
the head, and came out at the top completely transfixing
and suspending him. The fork was with considerable
difficulty extracted by two men in the field, who took
home the poor youth to all appearances dead. In a short
time reaction took place. The boy is now fast getting bet-
ter, after using the means which surgical aid suggested,
and though he has lost a considerable portion of his brains,
exhibits no proof that his intellect is at all impaired,-..
Stamford and Lincoln Mercury,

MURDER IN WAILWICKSHIRE.—WiIIiaIII Cave, a far-
mer, of Hornton, in Warwickshire, has been committed
to take his trial for the murder of Hannah Tredwell. The
prisoner is a married man, with a wife and family. He
had carried on an illicit intercourse with deceased, who
was about forty years old, and had had several children
by him. She frequently importuned him for money, and
waited for him with that intent on the morning of the
murder. A quarrel ensued between them, and he shot
her in the neck with his gun. Her body was found lying
in an unfrequented pathway which is cut between two
hills. _ _ _

STRANGE ACCIDENT.—The wife of Mr. Strutt, the
sexton of St. Peter's parish, Colchester, had a narrow
escape from death on Sunday week, by accidentally swal-
lowing a wasp with some beer which she was drinking.
The insect in passing down her throat stung it severely,
without, however, leaving its sting in the wound; fortu-
nately the windpipe escaped uninjured, or death must
have ensued, but it renewed its attacks upon the stomach,
occasioning great pain; medical tii was soon procured,
and a powerful emetic providentially effected speedy dis-
lodgment of the wasp, though it was alive and vigorous
when ejected from the stomach.—Essex Standard.
PAUPER BURIALS.—Our readers will remember the
great sensation caused throughout the country by an in-
structional letter to churchwardens from the Poor-law
Commissioners, (acting upon the opinion of Mr. Coode),
that the "excessive" charge for tolling the bell at the
funeral of paupers could not be allowed : it is right now
to state that, from evidence given before the committee of
the House of Commons, it appears that Sir T. F. Lewis,
one of the commissioners, was no party to any such pro-
ceeding. He said—" My objection was to the horribly
offensive regulation, that the poor pauper was not to have
the bell tolled at his funeral. I was not aware that Mr.
Coode had been consulted on the subject. But I think
Mr. Chadwick (the Secretary) deliberately and intention-
ally withheld those regulations from me, and had them
submitted in my absence."
At the Appleby Assizes, last week, a most atrocious
case, which excited a great sensation in the neighbourhood
at the time of its occurrence, came on for trial. The ac-
cused were four young men, the eldest being only twenty-
one, railway " navies." The victims of the outrage were
two young ladies, Miss Jane Dover and Miss Elizabeth
Dover, the sisters of a gentleman who occupies a farm at
Scarside, near Shap ; they reside there with their widowed
mother. On the 19th April last, the ladies had been to
visit a married sister, and were returning in the evening,
while it was yet light, along a bridle-path, leading from
the Shap-road to their borne. At about a quarter of a
mile from the house they were accosted and assaulted by
the prisoners, and detained for hours the victims of re-
peated violences. The charge was fully established ; the
jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty, and the
criminals were sentenced to be transported fog life.
EGG LAW.—A scmewhat ludicrous exhibition of this
mode of procedure was witnessed in Stamford butter
market, on Friday last, and which was inflicted upon a
female vendor of eggs—one of those who visit this market
evidently with the intention of defrauding the public.
This honest woman, it appears, had stood in the market
that day with a basket of putrid eggs, part of which she
succeeded in palming off at the usual market price,
hoping, no doubt, to get clear off before the purchasers
fuund out their mistake; but she bad good reason to la-
ment her dishonesty ; for before she could make her exit
her enraged customers returned, and, possessing them-
selves of the remainder of her ware. pelted her with them
so lustily that she was obliged to retreat into a trades-
man's shop close by to avoid a further infliction of this not
very agreeable punishment, which has doubtless taught
her that, after all, honesty is the best policy."—Lineoln-
shire Chronicle.

SINGULAR DEATH.—On Wednesday, a retired sailor,
71 years of age named Adam Kinghorn, was drowned un-
der circumstances of a novel and extraordinary kind. It
appears that the deceased went into a reser/air in connex-
ion with a mill at Cowden, Dalkeith, for the twofold pur-
pose of bathing and of displaying to a number of boys
some aquatic feats. After going through a variety of
dextrous evolutions, I,e put his feet to the ground, where
they sunk into the clay, soil, or mud, and were held fast,
the water being S 9 deep as to reach about an inch above
the crown of his head. The boys stood on the margin of
the pool gazing with undivided attention, thinking that
this was a preparatory attitude to the performance of
another feat. They continued to stare' for fully half an
hour, till some persons of more advanced age were at-
tracted to the spot, whose suspicions were awakened, and
by whom the poor man was dragged on shore a corpse.—
Scotsman.
WITNESSES' EXPENSES.—At the Bristol assizes, last
week, an amusing incident occurred, exhibiting the right
of witnesses to demand their expenses before giving evi-
dence. In the course of a trial, an old woman, named
Bowles, was called upon to give evidence. The moment
she entered the box she desired to know who was to pay
her for her trouble? Mr. Justice Erle said the woman
must look to the attorney who subpoenaed her; and she
had a perfect right to the money if she chose to demand
it. The witness replied that she had been in attendance
six days, and her claim was 2s. 6d. a-day, and she would
rather be paid before she gave evidence. His lordship
smiled, and said, " Well, you have a right to say so. '
The attorney gave her a sovereign, upon which she deli-
berately took her purse from her pocket and delivered to
him 55., the amount of the change. The coolness and
presence of mind displayed by the old lady excited a great
do al of laughter.
THE SALT TRADE TO INDIA.—At a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce of the White Salt Trade, at North-
wich, on the 13th inst., this resolution was passed :—" It
being highly desirable for the interests of the salt trade of
this country, that the Indian markets, (whose annual con-
emeartiew-ie- at least 2M1,000 to 890.000 tone,) should be
fairly opened for the admission of British manufactured
salt, which can be supplied of a far purer qual ty, and at
lower rates, than that produced under the East India
Company's system,—resolved : that each salt manufactu-
rer, in Cheshire and Worcestershire, be requested to use
his interest to abolish amonopoly so injurious:to the in-
terests of the salt trade of England." It was also resolved :
"That as the admission of British salt into India inti-
mately affects not only the price, but also the supply, of
Bengal sugars, the various merchants and associated
bodies should be corresponded with upon the subject."—
A general meeting of the salt trade of England is to be
held at Northwich, on the 31st instant.
A BLIND MAN FRANTIC.—At the Leeds Court House,
on Monday week, a blind mendicant, named Thomas
Philips, was charged by police officer Best with various
acts of violence of an aggravated nature. On Sunday af-
ternoon while under the excitement of intoxication, he
seized hold of an aged woman, in Marsh•lane, and ac-
tually bit a piece out of her arm. He also drew out a
knife, and several parties very narrowly escaped being
stabbed by him. His conduct attracted a large number
of persons, who, however, dreaded to approach him ; but
at length he was boldly seized by a young man present,
and given into custody. It was not without difficulty that
he was conducted to the police-office ; and in doing so,
the policeman's coat was literally torn to pieces. The
magistrates fined him £5 and costs, and in default of pay-
ment he was committed to Wakefield House of Correction
for two months. On hearing the punishment be would
have to undergo, he prayed loudly for mercy, and evinced
great agony of feeling at the condition in which he was
placed.
POISONOUS BERRIES.—John Hollands, an old Cam-
bridge man, an herb gatherer, was charged last week, at
the Thames Police-court, with causing the deaths of
Thomas Parker and Samuel Jones, by selling the berries
of deadly nightshade as " nettle berries," which the de-
ceased eating, died. Several persons came forward and
deposed that they had also bought berries from the pri-
soner, and were dangerously ill after eating them. T, e
prisoner, who said he bought the berries of a man near the
Elephant and Castle, and was not aware of their danger,
ous properties, was remanded for a week. The magistrate
remarked that one of ordinary acuteness, who was in the
habit of collecting herbs, and partidularly a countryman,
ought to know the dangerous properties of berries of the
deadly nightshade. He directed the police to ascertain
whether the prisoner was in the, practice of supplying
herbs to the herbalists and others, and whether he had
been in the habit of selling the deadly nightshade as
nightshade. If he had done so the case might assume a
new aspect.
DEATH OF SIR CHARLES WETHERELL.—We regret
to announce the decease of the above venerable and dis-
tinguished lawyer. Sir Charles expired on Monday
evening, at five o'clock, at Preston Hall, near Maidstone,
whither, it will be recollected, he was conveyed imme-
diately after the accident, which has resulted in his death.
Sir Charles was the son of the late Dr. Wetherell, Master
of University College, Oxford, and was born in .1770.
Having undergone the necessary tuition, under the gui-
dance of his father and other able men, he became a dewy
of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he pursued his stu-
dies with unceasing ardour and perseverance, and pro-
ceeded to the degree of B.A. about 1790. On leaving the
University he came to London, and entered himself a
student of the Inner Temple, of which society he has for
many years past been a bencber. He studied the equity
branch of his profession, and after having kept his terms
was called to the bar about 1794. His practice was at first
inconsiderable, but he suffered no pecuniary inconvenience
from this circumstance, in consequence of receiving a
handsome paternal allowance. On the death of his fa-
ther he came into a very large fortune, but, nevertheless,
continued his attendance at court, and exerted himself
very earnestly in the prosecution of his profession. His
first employment of importance was in the year 1818,
when Preston, Thistlewood. Hooper, and others were
indicted for high treason. The counsel for the prisoners
were Wetherell. Copley, and Holt, and upon this occasion
the deceased distinguished himself by the delivery of a
speech of great force and eloquence, in which he so se-
verely censured the conduct of government in employing
spies, that the Earl of Liverpool. who was present, i--;.,said
to have been visibly incensed. The talent and boldness,
however, displayed by Mr. Wetherell were alone remem-
bered, and on the promotion of Sir John Copley to the
Attorney-Generalship, the former was appointed Solicitor-
General. About this time be received the honour of
knighthood and came into parliament, where be took
every opportunity of putting himself forward as a debater
and supporter of the government. At this time the tar-
diness of the Court of Chancery was constantly the sub-
ject of remark, and whenever the name of Lord Chancellor
Eldon was brought forward in debate, Sir Charles was
immediately upon his lees as his ardent defender. On
Sir John Copley being appointed Master of the Rolls, Sir
Charles became Attorney-General, which office he resigned
on the formation of a ministry by Mr. Canning. He was,
however, reinstated by the Duke of Wellington, but was
subsequently dismissed on account of his refusal to sup.
port, or even to draw the bill for the relief of the catholics,
to whose claims he was a vehement opponent. Sir Charles
has invariably maintained tory principles, and at Bristol,
of which city he has for many years been the recorder,
about the period of the passing of the reform bill, his
po-
litical tenets had well nigh been fatal to his personal
safety. The riots in that city, and narrow escape of the
• learned knight from the fury of a licentious mob, must
still be fresh in tbe recollectlon of our readers.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.