The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

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Among the special constables sworn in London, last
week, was Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
Lady Macnaghten, wife of the Ambassador murdered at
Cabool, arrived at Southampton, on Thursday.
Of the sixty prisoners taken up at Glasgow for being
concerned in the late riots, twenty were convicted thieves.
Lord John Russell has received the design of the new
two-shilling piece from Mr. Wyon, and has submitted
the same to the Queen, who has approved of it.
CHLOROFORM.—It appears, by experiments made at
the Bicetre, Paris, that inhalations of chloroform induce
fits of epilepsy in-those persons liable to such visitations.
There is no truth in the report that the poet Words-
worth is in a state of imbecility. His intellect is as clear
Red vigorous as ever.
CHINESE JUNK KEYING.—This extraordinary vessel,
so long expected to arrive, reached the Thames on Mon-
day.

A memorial to Lord John Russell to stop all Sabbath
Post-office work in the provinces, has been signed by
upwards of 600 male heads of families in Bedford.

Of 106,000 emigrants who lately crossed the Atlantic
for America, 6,000 died during the voyage, 4,100 on their
arrival, and 5,200 were sent to the hospital ; and of those
who settled in the towns, 1,900 died.
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states that
tobacco stalks, which may be bought on the continent at
12s. per cwt., are, when landed in England, worth £lB,
and truly observes that no fiscal regulations can stand
against a profit of £3OOO per cent. to the smuggler.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—Henceforth the system of
electing the governor and deputy-governor by rotation is
to be abandoned, and methods are also to be adopted to
give a somewhat more public character to the ordinary
elections for directors.

A very heavy thunder storm passed to the east of Sun-
derland on Wednesday. The thunder was very loud and
protracted. The morning had been very wet, but the
afternoon was fine and calm, and no rain fell after the
thunder.

Turnips continue so plentiful in North Northumberland
and Tweedside, that the farmers are not only taking in
sheep to eat them off the land, free of charge, but, they
are finding the shepherd and his dog with provisions and
lodgings without cost.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Saturday night last, a
Mr. John Kingham, of Birmingham, who had arrived at
Gloucester that day, was in company in the evening with
a woman of questionable character, who contrived to ease
him of bank notes to the amount of £7OO.
There was not a single prisoner for trial at the late
Merionethshire assizes, a fact which testifies strongly in
favour of Welsh morality ; and there was not a single
cause in the paper, a fact which bears equally strong wit-
ness to Welsh wisdom.
AN OBSTINATE CONSCIENCE.—A Mr. John Deferne,
formerly a respectable tradesman in Leeds, was commit-
ted for a contempt to the Queen's Bench prison in March,
1812, and is now its inmate, having been incarcerated 36
years, his conscience not allowing him to make a state-
ment that would at any time restore him to liberty.
THEATRICALS EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week the Bath
theatre was despoiled of itg_prnperties to aconsiderable
fatfditg tfietartiaes enumerated were " A countryman's
-‘0 curly wig," and " A pair of blue coarse trousers,
women's szze . . . .

The Observer, of Sunday, c ontains a statement that
rumours are circulation in the county of Lincoln that Dr.
Willis, formerly one of the physicians to George 111.,
who died in 1835, leaving a fortune of £300,000 was poi-
soned. It is said that a servant of the deceased recently
confessed, on his deathbed, that he poisoned the doctor.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—On Friday, at the Mary-
lebone Police-court, the Earl of Kingston, a peer of the
realm, was committed on a charge of having indecently
assaulted a young man. The magistrate said he would
take bail, the prisoner in £5OOO, and two sureties in
£2500 each.

William Jones and Lewis Fleming, engine driver and
stoker in the service of the South Western Railway, were
tried at Islington, on Wednesday, for having, through
negligence, caused the death of David Markland, engine
driver, at the late accident near the Woking Station.
They were both acquitted.
The stoppage of the Grantham bank of Messrs. Kew-
ney and King was announced on Monday. It was a bank
of issue, established in 1812, and the fixed limit of its
circulation was £19,401. Its outstanding notes, however,
according to the last returns, amounted only to £17,382.
Messrs. Barclay and Co. were the London agents, but
they sustain no loss.

The colliers are still stopping out unemployed, with
results to themselves and families, as well as to Newport
and neighbourhood, of still largely augmented wretched-
ness and depression. Very many weeks have now elapsed
since the commencement of this unhappy strike, and one
would fancy, in all conscience, that all concerned had
had quite enough of it.

ENGLISH REFUGEES FROM FRANCE.—The Mayor of
Plymouth has received a communication from Port Admi-
ral Sir John West, stating that when occasion shall arise
at Plymouth for providing a temporary asylum for English
artizans, refugees from France, Her Majesty's ship Tyne,
26, will be removed from Hamoaze to Catwater, and there
placed entirely under the control of the municipal autho-
rities.

On Monday, an inquest was held in London on the
widow of Mahomed Sidkay, who was Turkish ambassador
in England, in 1811, and who died here in that year,
leaving his family in very necessitous circumstances. The
deceased, whose death was caused by injuries inflicted by
a cab that ran over her, was in the receipt of an allowance
of 3s. a week from the parish of Marylebone : and her
daughter is now a servant in London.
DISCOVERY OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—Lady Franklin
has issued a notice offering a reward of 20001. with a view
of inducing any whaling ship which resorts to Davis's
Straits or Baffin's Bay, to make search for the expedition
under the command of Sir John Franklin. Her :adyship's
notice stipulates that search shall be made in those ports
which are not in the scope of the expedition sent out by
government.

- In June, 1847, Adelaide Bell, aged 18, prosecuted to
conviction her master, a beer-shop keeper, whom she
charged with having committed a rape upon her, and who
was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. In con-
sequence of his friends doubting the truth of the girl's
story, they made inquiries into her character, which led
to her conviction for perjury, and she was a few days ago
sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
Sir William Gossett, sergeant at arms of the House of
Commons, died at eleven o'clock on Monday morning at
his country residence, Charlton Grove, near Woolwich.
The deceased gentleman had been indisposed some time,
and his illness was much aggravated by an accident which
happened to him some time since, when he was knocked
down and run over by a cab, which broke his leg, and
since then the deceased has not been in attendance at the
House of Commons, we believe, more than once or twice.
At Lewes Assizes, on Thursday, John Goldspink, the
footman who concealed himself under a bedstead, and
when discovered by Mrs. Fulcher, his mistress, a lady
living at Brighton, violently assailed her, was indicted
for an attempt to murder her or do her grievous bodily
harm. The Lord Chief Justice did not think the evidence
bore out the charge, and the man was convicted of an
assault only. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for
twelve months.

At Hanham, the family of Mr. Jumlett, clock and
watch maker, have been thrown into great distress by the
careless use of firearms. A charged fowling-piece was
left in Mr. Jumlett's bed-room, into which two of his
children, one aged fourteen, the other two, wandered,
when the former took up the gun, and aiming it at his
brother, said, " I'll shoot you,, * Scarcely had he said so
before the piece exploded, and its contents passed through
the child's head.
THE WELSH EDUCATION COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS.
—At a large and important meeting held in the market-
place, Aberdare, on Friday se'nnight, resolutions con-
demnatory of the report of Mr. Commissioner Symons,
and of the details furnished to the commissioners by the
Rev. James Hughes, rector of Llanhilleth, as unfair,
garbled, and ungenerous, were agreed to. Commodious as
is the market-place, it was not half large enough to ac-
commodate the whole of the vast number of persons who
flocked to the meeting.
A meeting was held in the Mayor's Chamber, at Dur-
ham, on Friday evening, for the establishment of an
Athenaeum in that city. Professor Johnston, the origin-
ator of the project, occupied the chair. The object of the
society is the establishment of a reading-room, for news-
papers and periodicals' the formation,of a library, and the
delivery of public lectures. The establishment of the
society is more especially intended for the middle classes.
The constitution of the society was adopted,. and officers
elected the Rey. Dr. Gilly, is president.-