The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

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THE DEPART

RES FOR TUE AeSTRALI.A.," COLOfiIE

.g the past week from the port of London show
Aisiderable increase. They have comprised altogether
vessels-10 of which are for Port Philip, with an agg
gate burthen of 3,942 tons; three to Sydney, with
b.,..14 of 9. 17R tons: one to New Zealand

ons; one to Adelaide of 450 tons;
5 tons; and one to Hobart Town of 347

to Launeesta
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total capacity was consequently 7,839 tons.
FATAL SLEEPWALKING.—III London, on the mornir
of Wednesday last, the captain of a Newcastle brig lost h
;,, fl A 4 ~,,,,norramligm. Deceased had for yea

to this habit, and on the rt?

rose, dressed himself, and set out from his
ley-street, Commercial-road East, towards

ling named hE

canal. He was observed walking along, in an appaTenti,
dozing state, and was seen to turn down a yard leading t
one of the wharves. In a few minutes there was an al?sr

he had disappeared, and it was not till after some tin
that the body was taken out. Deceased had on his persl
at the time £2l in notes and gold, some silver, a watc

INVERTOR OP TICE FIRE ANICI

Mr. W
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H. 'labs, was brought before the ra
on Thurday, charged with creating

struck at the secretary, who asked him to leave the roon
Defendant declared that he would not move without bein
put out, and he took up something with which he delibe
rately broke the window. He then got his legs out at th
window. This strange conduct was explained by the fac
that, although the defendant had ceased two years ago t

have any connexion with the concern, his naive had bey
mixed up with some late prospectuses. He was bow
over to keep the peace.

INDIAN RAILWAY.—A prospectus has been issued of a
new .Bombay railway, to be called the Bombay, Baroda,
_ _

and Central India Railway Company, with a capital of
£4,500,000, in £2O shares. The principal object is to con-
nect Bombay with Agra, so as ultimately to form a junction
with the Bengal line, and thus open an uninterrupted
route from Bombay to Calcutta, but it is also proposed to

construct a line from Surat into the cotton districts of
Candeish and Berar and the coal districts of the Nerbudda.
The main features of the scheme having been approved by
the Governor-General, the India-house, it is stated, have
authorised the company to make the requisite surveys, and
have guaranteed the expenses that may be incurred for
that purpose.
Tux ALLEGED ATTEMPT to SELL AN INDIAN CADET-
sarp.—At the Mansion-house, London, on Thursday, the
Lord Mayor gave his decision in the matter of the charge
preferred by the East India Company against Mr. Norman
Wilkinson, who was alleged to have been concerned, with
a person whose name is unknown, in trafficking for an
appointment in the gift of the East India Company. The
Lord Mayor's decision was that, as there was no evidence
that the transaction charged as an offence took place in the
city of Londott, he had no jurisdiction, and should therefore
dismiss the case. Mr. Clarkson then applied to the Lord
Mayor to commit Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for refusing
to disclose the name of the person who had made the offer
of a cadetship to Mr. Norman Wilkinson ; but the Lord
Mayor rejected the application, on the ground that the
wording of the statute, on which Mr. Clarkson relied, did
not give him 'the power. The summons against Mr.
Norman Wilkinson was then dismissed.

ROBBERY OF A JEWELLER'S SHOP IN DRRBY.

Wednesday morning it was discovered thatil;:Warce';
shop, in St. Peter's-street, had been robbed to a great ex-
tent of watches, rings, and other valuable jewellery. A
man who was sweeping the street between five and six
o'clock in the morning, discovered one of the shutters of
the window in a position in which it ought not to be. He
alarmed the inmates of the house, and, on their looking
into the affair, they discovered that the shutter had been
forcibly removed from its fastenings, the window (plate
glass) had been broken at the corner, and a great number
of gold and silver watches, rings, and other valuable
jewellery had been extracted. The robbery had been
effected with considerable adroitness, as a large glass was
placed over the rings, and this had been removed, and
placed on its side, and the bar on which the watches were
hung was much bent, to admit of their being taken from
it. A case of brooches, not of the most expensive kind,
was left. The thieves evidently had carefully selected that
part of the window containing the most valuable class of
goods.—Upwards of &MOO worth of jewellery was stolen.

THE PLOUGH SUPERSEDED.-31r. Meclii, in a letter to
the Times, says :—" Since the trial of implements at my
gathering' I have received from one of our North Ameri-
can colonies the model of a newly-invented machine, which,
by a happy and most simple combination of horse and
steam power, will—and I pledge my agricultural reputa-
tion for it—not only deeply, cheaply, and efficiently culti-
vate and pulverize the soil, but at the same time sow the
seed and leave all in a finished condition. It will also, by
a simple inversion, cut and gather the corn without any
rake or other complication ; while both in cultivation and
harvesting its operation will be continuous and without
stoppage. The inventor and his machine have, by the
government of the district, been placed under my charge
and guidance. I have therefore, on public grounds, and
considering the vast importance of the invention in a na-
tional point of view, advised the inventor to grant licenses

for its manufacture, at a very moderate royalty, to the
most eminent agricultural implement makers in various
parts of the kingdom, so that our agriculturalists may be
secured by competition against monopoly or inferiority,
while the inventor will benefit in proportion to the appre-
ciation of its meits. I shall call together a meeting of the
various implement-makers, and in due time my practical
friends of the old school (who must now consider me quite
insane) will have an opportunity on my farm of forming
their own conclusions. I may venture to state generally
that the implement when complete will about twenty to
twenty-four cwt., will require a pair of horses, and will
represent the power of about eight to twelve, or more, real

horses. The implement for digging will require one man
and one boy only, including the management of the steam-
engine; in reaping, the same, with the addition of three
men to bind as the corn falls into their arms. The men
will be carried on the machine.

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN GOODMAN'S
FIELDS.—On Wednesday a dreadful and deliberate mur-
der was perpetrated upon a married female, named Ca-
therine Mobbs, aged forty-six, by her husband, Nathaniel
Mobbs, aged forty.three, a wine cooper and porter, re-
siding at Goodman's-fields, Minories, who afterwards cut
his own throat with a table-knife. Mobbs had been in
the service of Messrs. Walter Howell and Hale, wholesale
wine merchants, but for some time past he has been lead-
ing a life of dissipation, and while intoxicated he would
return home in a state of excitement, and cruelly ill-treat
his wife. They had a family of four children, two boys
and two girls, the eldest being about ten years of age.
Mobbs went out in the morning, and returned about half-
past one in the afternoon, apparently quite sober, and
told the children to go out and play, About three o'clock
one of the landlord's daughters, who was sitting in the
front parlour, heard a cry of " Murder," which was ac-
companied by a desperate struggling noise in the first
floor room. The girl went on to the stairs to listen, when
she met Mrs. Mobbs rushing down with a frightful wound
in the front of her neck. Her hands were covered with
blood, and her dress was also saturated with gore.
Mrs. Mobbs reached the front of the house, and fell on
to the stone pavement, where several neighbours, who had
been attracted to the spot, raised her up, and placed her in
a chair, while several persons ran for medical assistance.
By this time a young man, named John Readen, came to
the house and was asked by one of the family to go up
stairs, and see where Mobbs was. The man was lying in
a corner of the room, with a severe wound in the throat.
There were two knives, besmeared with blood, lying on
the table, and a ,dstone, on which Mobbs hue

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sharpened the weapons. The room was in a state of great
confusion, as if the deceased and the wretched man had
struggled together for several minutes. Two medical gen-
tlemen were soon in attendance, and no time was lost by
them in temporarily dressing their wounds, after which
they were conveyed to the London Hospital ; but the fe-
male expired as she was being taken into the surgery.
The man was sensible. As he was being carried to the
cab he exclaimed, ” I did it, I did it." Mobbs, who was a
most desperate character, and was called in the neighbour-
hood, among the lower class of persons, "General Haynau,"
is in a fair way of recovery.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS have effected an ex-
traordinary cure of frightful bruises on the neck and back.—
Henry Tolman, residing at the Sandhi!! tollgate, Launceston,
Van Diemen's .and, states in a letter addressed to the pro-
prietor of the Cornwall Chronicle, that whilst at work in the
bush a tree fell upon him and wounded him in a
this
loinsshocking
exhibited one mass of frightful bruises. 4r
manner; the back of his neck and the parts_aoboo
For some time
various remedies were tried without benefi., but by using
brief period, he was per-
fHolloway'scty
cured ointment
and o
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enabled
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FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HFALTFI.—" For upwards of nine
to resume fora
his work.
years, (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore Hill,
Middlesex,) I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent
medicine. I had long previously been afflicted with head-
ache and indigestion ; but a friend having induced me to
make a trial of Frampton's Pills, I now inform you that a
few doses gave me great relief ; and during this long period
of time I have taken them in preference to any other medi-
cine; and I have the happiness of saying that I never bad a
better state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills.
I beg further to add, that this medicine is in general use 133 -
my family, and we know of nothing to equal it." In any
case where an aperent dicine is required, they need only
be tried to be universally adopted. Sold 'by all medicine
vendors, Price Is. lid. per box. See the name of "Thomas
Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp.
FRENCH LANGITAGE.—Mons. L. P. PLIIMTOT, at the re-
quest of several large families, has determined to introduce
Ladies of all ages to any of the fifteen different Classes di-
rected by him, in Six respectable Educational Establishments
for Young Ladies, on the same terms asthe Pupils themselves.
Mons. P. has classes of all gradations, from beginners in the
French Alphabet to the Pupils capable not only of understand •
ing very well the Classic Works used by him, (the same as
adopted in !the best. Educational Establishments in Peris,)
but also capable of speaking and writing correctly the French
Language. Each Lady has the option of remaining in the
different classes one, two, or three hours twice a-week. Gen-
tlemen, of all ages, may be introduced also into several Es-
tablishments for Young Gentlemen, on the same terms as the
Pupils. Prospectuses, with Directions as to each Establish-
ment, Terms, and many Testimonials from Ladies, Clergy-
men, and Gentlemen who have learned the French Language
upon Mons. P.'s new system during the last ten years, may
be had at any time. at the Professor's Residence. Mons. P.
is at home every day
from Half-past One to Two in the After-
noon. No. 45, UPPER PARLIAMENT-STREET. Private Les-
sons for Ladies or Gentlemen, at the Professor's Residence,
at the Pupils' Residence, or by Correspondence as usual.
Tin /Mt quarter commences on the Ist of October.