The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

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DEPARTURE OF SIR CHARLES BAGOT FOR CANApA.--
On Wednesday her Majesty's steamer Styx, ComeniAore
Vidal, sailed from Portsmouth, with Sir• Charles Bagot and
suite, for Canada.

We have good teason to believe that the French Govern-
ment has resolved immediately to withdraw six sail of the
line from the Mediterranean, and to lay them up at Brest.—
Times.

Th.. creditors of Messrs. Price, Jones, and Edwards, late
bankers in Shrewsbury, met on Monday to declare a dividend
under the bankruptcy, when one of Gs. Bd. in the pound
was declared, payable in about a fortnight from that day.
The amount of proved debt is £87,770 ; the assets in the
hands of the assignees amount to about £29,000.
It is understood that the delay which has taken place in
filling up the new Vice-Chancellorship, under the act of last
session for the better administration of justice, has arisen
from the circumstance of the gentleman for whom the judg-
ship is destined being absent on the Continent. The ap-
pointment has been offered to Mr. Knight Bruce, and there
is no doubt that he will be Mr. Wigram's colleague.
IMPORTANT INVENTION IN LACE MACHINERY.—COUSi-
derabIe numbers of our mechanics, during the last few days,
have been gratified and astonished by the inspection of a
novel arrangement of mechanical movement, which is appli-
cable to all kinds of lace machinery. The object is to dis-
pense with large wheels, drums, chains, plates, and many
other contrivances that are in use at present, to enable the
proprietors of lavo machines to alter their fabrics with as
little trouble and as small a cost as possible.
RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUSTICE BUSHE.—It is ru-
moured in well-informed circles that the Chief Justice of
the Queen's Bench has tendered his resignation, and that his
office will be offered to Mr. Pennefather, the Solicitor-Ge-
neral, who is abroad. In the event of his acceptance, Ser-
geant Jackson is likely to succeed to the office of the Solici-
tor-General, and either Mr. Litton or Mr. West to the ser-
geantcy. It is generally believed that Mr. Blackburue will
remain stationary.—Dublin Evening Packet.

11 <tam Ay STATISTICS.--.The number of persons who
have travelled by the different English railways upon which
duty to government has been paid, between 7th September
and 4th October, is 68,809, the amount of duty £2407 17s sd,
and the number of miles traversed 4,623,113. The amount
of duty paid upon railway traffic, we understand, already
exceeds considerably the amount of duty which was paid
upon horses before the railway system came into operation.

The Shropshire conservatives intend celebrating the return
of the twelve conservative members connected with that
county, by a grand festival on the 12th of next month, at
Shrewsbury. The banquet will be on a very extended scale,
and the Earl of Powis has consented to preside, and the no-
minators and seconders of the successful candidates at the
recent election are to officiate as vice-presidents. The whole
of the members have accepted invitations to be present on
the occasion.

We can state upon authority, that an audience given by the
Lord Lieutenant, late this afternoon, at the Castle, to Mr.
Edward Pennefather, the honour of Lord Chief Justice of
the Queen's Bench was conferred upon that gentleman in the
most complimentary manner. Mr. Bushe sent in his resig-
nation yesterday, but he will not finally retire until the second
day of Term. Mr. Sergeant Jackson is to be the Solicitor-
General, and Mr. West the Sergeant.—Dublin Evening Mail
of Friday.

LORD ELDON'S PROPHETIC WORDS.--The emphatic
words of the venerable Earl of Eldon ought to be recollected
by every Protestant ; they are indelibly fixed on our mind :
—" From the moment that the bill passed, the state would
no longer have a Protestant king and a Protestant parlia-
ment. When these dangers shall have arrived, I shall have
been consigned to the urn, the sepulchre, and mortality ;
but that they will arrive I have no more doubt than I yet
continue to exist." Who can doubt but that he was a true
prophet, and that the fulfilment is speedily approaching, if
the Lord, in his mercy, does not raise. up a deliverer, who
will place civil and religious liberty on a safe, solid, and du-
rable basis ?

FALL OF THE ROOF OF A MlLL.—most Of our local
readers will remember the spacious mill erected by Messrs.
Marshall and Co., flax spinners, at Holbeck, in which the
great Radical Reform meeting was held in the early part of
the present year, before the machinery was fixed up in it.
This mill was erected on a novel principle ; it covers nearly
two acres of ground, but it is only one story high, having a
flat roof, covered with asphalte, with the intention of having
a garden thereon. We regret to have to state that during
the high wind which blew in the night of Sunday last, namely
about three o'clock on Monday morning, two of the arches
which support the roof fell in with a tremendous crash.—
Leeds Intelligencer.

On Thursday an extraordinary accident happened through
a cat to a child, the daughter of a person named Foley, re-
siding at New-street, New-cut, Lambeth. The mother had
occasion to go out on an errand, and shut the door of the
bed-room, leaving the child in bed. A cat was underneath
the bedstead, the end of which was close to the fender at the
tire-place. Soon after Mrs. Foley had left the house,,.an
alarm was raised that the house was on tire, and it was soon
discovered that the room was in flames, arising from a fire
proceeding from the bedclothes. The child was in imminent
danger, but it was got out. A surgeon was called in, and
every assistance rendered to the unfortunate sufferer, who
was burnt in a dreadful manner; there are but slight hopes
of its recovery. The accident is supposed to haVe arisen from
the cat having got under the fire-place, and hot cinders falling
upon it, in its fright it leaped on the bed and set fire to the
bedding.
A DAY'S SIIOOTING.—A short time since, a well-known
sporting lawyer applied to the Marquis of Exeter for
leave to have a day's shooting, which was, with some re-
luctance. granted, upon which the expectant sportsman
promised to the associates of his choice, lots of game on his
return. The happy day having arrived, our hero set forth
on his expedition, and found the keeper and his assistants
waiting ; and, after a good day's sport, night broke in upon
his labours, and he prepared to take his departure, having
bagged twenty-seven brace of patridges, and eight brace of
hares. Having fee'd the keeper, the assistant, and helper,
&c., which in all amounted to 355. he desired the keeper to
see the game properly placed in his gig. The keeper, with a
smile, said, " Pack the game up, sir? I thought you knew !"
—" Knew what ?" said the astonished lawyer. The keeper
hereupon produced a letter, and, after winking to his assistant,
handed it to the sporting lawyer, for his perusal, who
read—" Permit Mr. —, to have a day's shooting, in the
usual way." "Well," exclaimed our hero, " have I not shot
in the usual way? Does bis lordship take me for a poacher?"
To which the keeper replied, " that when his lordship per-
mitted any gentleman to shoot over his land, he allowed them
to carry off only one brace of birds and a hare, as he sold
the rest." Thus was thiS eminent gentleman minus,
" gratuitous," powder, shot, turnpikes, &c. &c., and laughed
at into the bargain by the persons to whom lie bad promised
" lots of game."—Cambridge paper.
DIABOLICAL ACT.—At Malmesbury Special Sessions, on
the 7th instant, Robert Bassett, a railway policeman, in-
formed the bench, on oath, that, being on duty, stationed at
Ninety, on Sunday, the 3d instant, he passed the down mail
Great Western Railway train from London, through the
station, all right, at midnight. At two o'clock on Monday
morning the up mail train came in sight, and he put the sig-
nals for her all right at the station ; but he found directly
that she threw her steam off ; he heard a loud crash up the
line from where he stood, and ran down towards them, a
distance of nearly a mile and a half from the station. Before
he arrived the drivers had put back, to see what they had run
over; and had commenced to put the steam on again, and
passed him gently, and ordered him to go down the line to
see what impediment remained, they having picked up, and
got with them, a copper dome, or cap, belonging to an old
engine, which stood on the siding. Witness went on, and
found three transoms, a lot of stone, and one length of metal,
on the up line ; which metal, by the concussion, had been
cut in two ; the stones had been partly knocked off by the
engine guard, and the remainder were ground down under
the engine. The wooden transoms were very much split and
cut about; they were laid across the railway ; one of them
had been cut in the centre. The engine had kept driving it
for a space of tifty yards from the place where it had been
laid. The witness found it cut in two ; the other part was
forced above a foot into the bank, at some distance •, witness
understood it had belonged to the Vesta engine. As soon as
witness had cleared all the obstructions on that line he turned
to the down line, to see if that was correct. There he found
that three very large stones had been laid upon it ; one was
cut asunder, and the others ground in pieces, one of them
weighing nearly a quarter of a hundred weight ; and a couple
of transoms were found cut in pieces similar to the others.
After calling the constable whose beat it occurred on, we
looked about for footmarks, and found the prints of two
persons round about the Vesta engine, and the materials
which lay near it.—John Brown, of Minety, was charged
with being concerned in the above offence. A considerable
mass of evidence was adduced against him, but the ma-
gistrates did not think it strong enough to warrant a com-
mittal; and the prisoner, who denied the charge, but acknow-
ledged that he was on the railway on the Sunday evening,
was dismissed.

Sunday evening a sermon was preached at the parish church
of St. Sepulchre, Snowhill, by the Rev. T. Dale, Vicar of
St. Bride's, in aid of the funds for erecting ten additional
churches, with parsonage-houses and schools, in the populous
district of Bethall-green. The reverend preacher took his
text from the sth and 7th verses of the 95th psalm—" 0
1,

come, let us worship and bow down ; let us kneel before the
Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the sheep
of his pasture." In the course of an eloquent appeal to the
congregation the reverend gentleman stated that the parish
of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, contained a population of
more than 70,000 souls, with church accommodatiOn for
5,000, and only one national school. The amount required
for the erection and endowment of the ten district churches
has been estimated at £75,000. Upwards of £60,000 have
been already raised, and the committee have good hope of
the realisation of the full amount in a very, short period. The
church on this occasion was crowded in every part, and the
collection made at the doors after the service amounted to
nearly £6O. Among the subscriptions lately announced are
several munificent donations .—one of £6,000, from the Rev.
J. W. and his sister, by the Bishop of London ; a person
signing himself " Commercial Prosperity," £2,000; and
one under the signature of " A successful Emigrant of for-
mer Days," £lOOO. The firm of Banbury, Buxton, and Co.,
the brewers, of Mile-end, have also presented the committee
with £lOOO.

SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED LOVE.—On Thursday after-
noon, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Adam
and Eve, High-street, Hoxton Old Town, on the body of
Sarah Bygrave, a beautiful girl, aged 18, niece of Mr. Hol-
loway, the landlord of the above house, who destroyed her-
self under the following circumstances:—A neighbour said,
that on the Tuesday preceding he bad seen deceased sus-
pended by a cord to a beam in the skittle-ground of Mr.
Holloway, and immediately cut her down, when she was
found quite dead. He had been informed by one of his
lodgers that, about one o'clock the same morning, she was
awoke by hearing a stifled cry of " Dick, Dick, save me,
save me." Mr. Henry Holloway, the deceased's uncle, said
his niece had lived with him for the last nine months, and
had enjoyed the best of health and spirits until a fortnight
hack, when a young man with whom she had been acquainted
in Northampton called upon her. He slept in the house
that night, and left on the following morning. Since then
he had noticed a great change in her, and her mind wan-
dered so much at times that she was not conscious of what
she
was doing. She was often in tears, and complained very
much of her head. The same morning that she parted from
theo rung man she was overheard asking him "if he intended
He h(w9itZus)
!, wry her," to which he replied, ~ No, Ido not."
on Monday night, shallsa never see me more," was the rejoinder.
r bed-roore. w her last alive a few minutes before twelve -
heSilfter the house was closed, going towards
and got into the
g.g ;her father was months back the deceased e-
skeitrst have partially retraced her steps,
ground by a side door. Eighteen
and her father were both thrown
out of a ;
s killed on the spot, and she had
her right arm broken. lenanotths after her mother died of
misunderstandingecame dependent on a bro-
ther, broken heart, and she
she
elf between him
ther, but in consequence of a
to,at the deceased destroyed her-
e t and came to reside
evidence
to marry her, of
tvivnitdiltihliemy.oulingismopairtilioanlluwdaesdoi
bell' through the refusal of the young
whom she was dotingly fond. Other inence of a similar
nature having been given, the jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity.