The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

THE REV. MR. HOUSTON, a minister of the Established
Church in Glasgow, has been "libelled" for the too pre-
valent crime of drunkenness.

DESERTIONS FROM AN AUSTRALIAN SHlP.—Captain
E. T. Browne, commander of an Australian passenger
ship, the Chowringee, was summoned at Thames Police
Court,London , onTuesday, lay three of his seamen for wages.-
On arriving at Port Philip, the hands, 41 in number, des
serted, leaving the captain with only the three mates, •
the carpenter, and a boy ; the ship was detained four
months by want of hands, and at last the captain had to
pay, in advance, for every ordinary seaman £3O, and six
able seamen £5O, and £55 for the run home. The wages
thus paid to seamen and labourers in the port amounted
to £1,200, and the captain, after exhausting the funds re-
ceived from passengers, had to borrow money in the
colony at from 12 to 15 per cent. The complainants who
had deserted were received back, forgiven the penalties
they had incurred, and received £3O to come back with
the ship. They now alleged that. the £3O bore no rela-
tion to their wages, but was simply a douceur. The
magistrate dismissed the summons.
To THE LADIES.—We beg to direct the attention of our
fair readers to the following special advantages possessed
by the " GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH"—advantages
(particularly with lace and other fine fabrics) which every
lady can appreciate; and in proof of which advantages we
have no less an authority than that of the laundress of
her Majesty, Queen Victoria :—Her Majesty's laundress
states, in a testimonial granted to Mr. Wotherspoon, the
ma• ufacturer of the Glenfield Patent Starch," that no-
other kind than that made by him, and called the Glen-
field Patent Starch, is used in the Royal Laundry." It
requires no boiling; and is perfectly free from ail impuri-
ties. Being used in a more fluid state than any other
kind of starch, it can be applied with greater ft eility,
greater cleanliness, and more perfect uniformity ; and
from its extreme fluidity it goes further. In this alone, is
a saving to the consumer of 25 per cent. It is manufac-
tured by a peculiar process, known only to
the manufac_
turer, whereby every
injurious ingredient is excluded ; it
imparts to the clothes a clearness, colour, and beautiful
gloss,
hitherto quite unexampled, which advantages are
dampness of weather
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facts to our readers, as we are convinced that all we have
advanced is borne out satisfactorily, by tl
thpoefrm time.
.eleven follow-
itestimonials, which we think •
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any one who is desirous of el • a .opting improvements in the
important household operation of dressing laces,
&c., to
Majesty to use the Glenfield HStarch :—" From the laundress
to
the Queen ; the Lady Mayoress of Lon-
don ; , the laundress of the Right Hon. the Countess of
Eglinton,
lady of the late Viceroy of Ireland ; the laun-
dress of the Most Noble the Illarchioness of Breadalbane ;_
the laundress of the Right Hon. the Countess of Dart-
mouth ; the laundress of the lady of Lieut.-General Sir
Harry Smith, Bart.; the lady of Wm. Chambers, Efq,,
of Glenormiston, one of the publishers of C'hambcve
Edinburgh Journal; the matron of that excellent institu-
tion, the Manchester Female Asylum ; from Watts' Laun-
dry, Brighton, (where about sixty hands are daily em-
ployed ;) from several hundreds of the principal grocers in
London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds,
Halifax, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow ; and spe-
cially noticed by the Jury of the Great Exhibition, 1851."
Some parties have attempted to deceive the public by
labelling their worthless materials closely to resemble the
Gienfield Patent Starch, so as the unwary might be de-
ceived thereby, and not discover their mistake until they
put it to practical use, when it is then too late. We would
remind the ladies to caution those they send to purchase
starch to ask for the Glenfield Patent Starch, and further
to observe if the name of the manufacturer, R. WOTHER.
SPOON, 40, Dunlop-street, Glasgow, is on each packet, as
without that none is genuine.