The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Several locusts have been taken as far north as Helms-
dale, in Sutherhindshire.
Mr. Allen, the architect, destroyed himself last week
by shooting himself wi'h a pistol.
On the 22cl ult. a splendid Roman Catholic chapel was
opened at Skenfrith, Monmouthshire.
UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE —The London Gazelle of
Tuesday contains but three notices of bankruptcy.
During the night of Wednesday not fewer than five se-
rious fires occurred in various parts of the metro; ohs.
OtkTinugetsodn, nearayan Sheffield.ewßoman Catholic chapel was opened
at Eci
A Greenock print declares, concerning a certain Perth
sculptor, that, " not a touch of his chisel but has subse-
quently touched a heart."
The Duke cf Wellington, it is said, will shortly go to
the islands of Guernsey and Jersey to inspect the fortifi-
cations of those dependencies.
The Royal Agricultural Society of Guernsey have for-
warded to her Majesty two beautiful cows, of the breed so
celebrated in that island.
John Hilliard hasbeen sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment and bird labour for causing the deaths of two
children by selling them poisonous berries.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by the
coroner's jury, at Bath, against two boys who, in a frolic,
pushed a female down from the step of a door.
Sir Charles Wetherell's personal estate has just been
administered to by Lady Wetherell, and a stamp duty
paid on £250,000.
The segregate amount of the Cobden testimonial is
now £75,000, of which Manchester has contributed
£28,000.
The import duty on wheat is now Bs. per quarter. As
prices are still on the advance; the duty will doubtless
fall still lower.
Abundance of mackerel have been caught lately on the
Welsh coasts. They have been sold at Bangor eighteen
for sixpence, and at Beaumaris thirty for sixpence.
A young lady, named Pratt, aged 21, residing with her
uncle, in London, died on Saturday week, from the effects
of laudanum, which she bad taken to procure sleep.
At Harefield, Middlesex, on Saturday, two canal boat-
men quarrelled and fought. One of them on attempting
to rise to renew the contest fell backwards on the grass,
and died in a few minutes. _ _

Parliament is not to be summoned in November. The
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland strongly urged its assembling,
but the majority of the cabinet overruled his lordship's
decition.
Sir Montagu John Chomeley, Bart., will be the new
candidate for Lincolnshire' and the bon bart will be sup-
ported by the influence of the Earl of Yarborough and
the Duke of St. Alban's. •
Another cabinet council was held on Friday, at the
official residence of Lord John Russell in Downing-street.
Previous to the council, several of the ministers had in-
terviews with the n. ble lord.
The. London sheriff's inauguration dinner took place on
Wednesday evening. Lord John Russell was present and
made a brief speech in reference to the distress in Ireland,
and the want of general education.
On Sunday week Mr. E. Jones, tailor and draper, of
the village of Gresford, put an end to his existence by
shooting himself with a horse pistol. He bad been in a
desponding state of mind for some time.
There are now in the port of Douglas no fewer than
195 vessels ; 73 of which are of large tonnage, varying
from 500 to 50 tons, and the remaining 122 are employed
in the herring fishery.
Mr. Halliday opened his new hotel, Fort Anne,
Douglas, Isle of man, on Tuesday, with a splendid ball.
About 150 were present, among whom were, the Earl of
Orkney, Lord Ranelagb, the Hon. Miss Jones, &c.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Friday the 41b
loaf of wheaten bread was raised to Bd. by the cheap
bakers, and M. by the best bakers throughout the me-

tropolis.
On thursdaY'morning Mr. George Child, the superin-
tendent of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway, put a
period to his existence by hanging himself, at his resi-
dence, near the Rochester terminus.
The Firefly, 220 horse-power, and the Shearwater, 160
horse-power, are employed on the west coast of Scotland
in consequence of the distress now prevalent there. Ad-
ditional vessels will be granted by the Admiralty, if re-
quired.
A Welsh paper states that, at Waingbrolch, Mon-
mouthshire, a deadly warfare has been raging among the
bees and wasps, whole clouds of them, to an immense ex-
tent, contending together in the air, completely covering
the ground with killed and wounded.
Mr. Blunt, of St. Luke's, type-founder, one of the
large creditors against a printer named .Masson, of
Bethnal-green, who had become bankrupt, applied, last
Saturday, to be appointed assignee, but was rejected,
because he professed himself an atheist.
Lord Met Calf, it is stated, was unknown to Sir Robert
Peel when he was promoted to the Governor-Generalship
of Canada, and he met the late Premier by. accident in an
ante-room at Windsor Castle, where the strangers were
respectively awaiting an audience of the Queen.
Many). of the farmers of Dorgetshire and Somersetsbire
have commenced the autumn planting of potatoes, in ac-
cordance with the recommendation of many agriculturists
and eminent chemists. who assert that this is the best, if
not the only method of checking the prevailing disease.
A drunken man was found in the streets of Leeds, last
week with the body of a dead women in his arms. The
deceased was a prostitute, and being in company with the
man, dropped down dead, from the effects of a disease of
the heart.
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RENT Oar FARMS.—The Duke of Richmond has int'
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mated to his Scottish tenants that he is willing, since the
repeal of the Corn-laws, to take their leases off their
bands at Martinmas next, and to remunerate them for
improvements.
DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—SIB LIVES LOST.
—On Monday morning a dreadful accident from explosion
of fire damp, whereby six lives have been lost, occurred
at a pit connected with the Clyde Iron Works, Glasgow.
About four o'clock on Monday morning., five men and a
boy went down in the course of their ordinary occupations,
and immediately on the lights which they carried coming
in contact with the foul air, the explosion took place, by
which the whole have been deprivet(of life.

I, Mrs. Wilson, aged 60 years, the wife of Thos. Wilson,
park-keeper, Carr-house, at Staintan, near Tickhill. was
killed by the accidental discharge of a loaded gun which
she was removing in her own house on Saturday. She

died instantly.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, last Saturday,
a barrister at the Temple was indicted for an indecent
assault on a girl, in Hyde-park. It transpired that the
whole charge was a fabrication, having been concocted by
the mother of the girl!
The Wellington statue was on Tuesday removed from
Mr. Wyatt's studio, in the Harrow Road, to the site
selected for its reception, temporary or. permanent, as the
case may be, at the triumphal arch, Hyde Park Corner.
The removal was accomplished without any accident.
The match at chess between Mr. Staunton and Mr.
Harrwitz is virtually decided. In the 19th game Mr. S.
gave the pawn and two moves, and yet won in admirable
style. Thus the English player has in point of fact car-
ried the day, having won two matches out of three.
The scullers' contest between Thomas Coombes (the
brother of the champion of the Thames) and Frederick
Lett, of Lambeth, for £SU,-came off on Wednesday after-
noon, and resulted in favour of Coombee, who won by

about 250 yards.
Throughout the Isle of Man the crops may now be said
to be safely housed. Wheat and barley are said to be
average crop 3 ;: but oats are extremely deficient and light
in weieht. Grass was never more abundant at this

season, and turnips are good every where. PotatLes, as

a mattzr of course, are very bad.
A child, named George Chapman, on Wednesday week,
was found hanging from a beam in an out-house at Dray-
cott, Cheddar. He had wished to visit Draycott fair that
morning, but was requested by his parents first to bait
the horse. He was afterwards observed crying, and with-
in a short time was discovered hanging, and quite dead.
The harvest•home of the hop-pickers has been gene-
rally celebrated in Herefordshire, and it is a pleasing sight
to witness waggon-loads of industrious women and girls
returning from the scene of their labours with hop-poles

for flag-staffs, and handkerchiefs for colours floating in
the breeze.

A few days since, two butchers, at Cambridge, depo-
sited stakes of £l5 aside. who could scald, dress,

and clean two 10-stone pigs in the best style, in the short-
est space of time, to be declared t'ae winner. The pigs
were killed in fifteen minutes and ten seconds by the
gainer of the wager.
ROBBERY.—On Tuesday information was received of a
foreign gentleman having been robbed of a green leather

rocket book, containing, among other property, numerous
Dutch bank notes to the value of nearly .Esllo, whilst
travelling, between eight and nine o'clock. in a second
class carriage of the Londo❑ and Blackwall Railway.
PRODIGIOUS TREE.—The largest piece of oak timber
ever seen in Brecon passed through that town last week.
It contained 230 feet of timber ; two carriages broke ander
its weight, and it was at length conveyed on rollers over
the pitching of the streets, by the united efforts of sixteen
hors's and a number of men.

THE PHEASANT SEASON commenced on Thursday, and
he London markets, and many of the principal poulterers

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exhirdted pheasants for sale, although they were scarce and
insufficient for the demand. Prime young birds made
from 6s. to 7s. and Bs. a brace, and small and inferior

ditto sold at 53. and a brace.

The Baron de Bode, whose claims on the British
Government were to the amount of nearly a million ster

ling, suddenly fell and expired on Friday. The baron
was in.his seventieth year, and has left three sons. His
death is supposed to have been accelerated by anxiety
consquent on the prosecution of his claims.
On the 24th ult., two men, named Lowther and Atkin-
son; had a fight at Ulverstone, when the latter was shortly
after found dead, No bruises could be found on him,
and as the surgeon said that death had been caused through
congestion of blood on the brain, by means of much ex-
ci,ement and the influence of liquor, Lowther was ac-
quitted.
It is said that despatches from Ireland, received in Lon-
don on Thursday, were calculated ta give great uneasiness
to the government. There is evidently a spirit of violence
and outrage abroad, which must be repressed in the com-
mencement, at whatever cost, or evils of the greatest
magnitude to the people themselves will eventually spring
from its indulgence.
MIRACULOUS OCCURRENCE.—Asa labourer, employed
at a fartn.called " Lloyd Jack," near Aberystwith, was
about to carry a mow of barley, and whilst lifting it, the
mow was suddenly struck by lightning, and immediately'
ignited, and entirely consumed; fortunately, the man was
uninjured by the electric fluid, but his escape was most
providential.
THE PICTON MONUMENT.—A stranger passing by this
melancholy-looking affair on the Pembroke mail, ex-
claimed, " Well ! I never saw a lime-kiln in the middle
of a turnpike-road before !" It was not a bad guess, for
it looks more like that than anything else. The Monu-
ment truly is like a man's character : it is easier to pull
it to pieces than to set it right again.—Hereford Journal.
The Daily News intimates that, in a few days, des-
patches of letters and newspapers will be more frequent,
and deliveries More numerous than they now are, both in
town and in the provinces, so that the letters to and from
the north of England, and those to and from Ireland and
Scotland, are to be accelerated. Extra post offices are
already appointed in many towns and villages. Fees of
all kinds are to be abolished eventually.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.—On Friday week the
Commissioners of the Admiralty decided upon tenders
sent in for the supply of salted beef and pork for the use of
the navy. The quantities required were unusually large
—12.000 tierces of beef, and 18,000 tierces of pork. All
the latter was taxen, but only 8,000 tierces of the former.
The beef is to be delivered at £7 Is., and the latter at
£7 133. per tierce.
BALLOON ADVENTIIIMI—The great Nassau Balloon,

nil:tea with gas, was, on Friday, fastened to a barge and
towed along the Thames, from Cremorne Gardens, where
it ascended with seven persons in the car, amid a drench-
ing rain. It was carried towards Essex, and at seven
o'clock descended in a field at Leytonstone. The large
machine, by permission of Mr. Perkins, the proprietor,
was lashed by Mr. Green to a tree with its body of gas,
the aeronaut having revolved to make a continental voy-
age with his friends, if the weather proved favourable.
On Tuesday evening a collision took place in Kiogroad,
between the Herald and Phoenix steamers, and Sir Wm.
Symonds was knocked overboard, and given up as lost by
every one on board; but during the night an express ar-
rived from Clevedon, that he was safe. The tide had car-
ried him down as far as Clevedon, when he came in con-
tact with a boat, which had been at Weston-super-Mare
Regatta, and was making into Clevedon. Sir Wil-
liam caught hold of the bowsprit, and was provi-
dentially saved. The distance which he floated was
about r.ine miles!
The morning papers of Saturday week describe a bril-
liant meteor which lighted up the atmosphere of London
with an intense glare the preceding night. It vassed from
north to south, and was like a glel;,e of fire. It left behind
a bright luminous train, which divided into two parts, and
gradually passed from a bright phosphoric white to a dull
red. The larger portion assumed a serpentine appearance,
which sona changed into a semi-circular one, and perfectly
resembled a cluster of minute stars, gradually becoming
fainter and fainter, until, after a lapse of nearly five mi-
nutes, it quite vanished.
ELECTION or LORD MAYOR —Tuesday being Mi-
chaelmas Day, agreeable to ancient custom a Common
Ilan was held, for the election of Chief Magistrate for
the City of London during the ensuing year. Alderman
Wood and Sir G. Carroll were declared nominated by the
majority of those present for the selection of the Court.
of Aldermen; a poll was then demanded in favor of
Alderman Hooper, for the purpose of testing the, feelings
of the livery towards Mr. Wood, which was appointed to
take place during the next seven days. At the close of
the poll, on Saturday, the numbers were, for Alderman
Wood, 1248; Alderman Carroll, 858; and Alderman
Hooper, 260. The poll will finally close to-day at four
o'clock.
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE PSG TANKARD.—At the
meeting of the British Archaeological Association at Glou-
cester, lately, a paper was read entitled, " The Gloucester-
shire Peg Tankard." The carvings on this ancient drink-
ing cup are exquisite, bearing three or four distinct alle-
gories, representing the seasons, the seve4 deadly sins, &c ,
elaborately carved on the outside. The particulars in
connexion with this ancient cup are very curious. It ap-
pears that an act was passed for the purpose.of abating
drunkenness, and it was ordained that all drinking cups at
taverns shoud have pegs placed at certain distances,
beyond which peg no man should drink at one draught,
under pain of severe punishment. It was suggested that
the well-known sayings of "taken down a peg," "a peg
'too low," and "he is getting on peg by peg," originated
from these cups.
TIIE POTATO CROP.—Amidst the unfavourable synap-
tows which present themselves in many quarters, in
reference to the supply of food, it is satisfactory to receive
additional evidence, thet, in this country at least, the de-
struction of the potato crop proves decidedly less serious
than it was supposed to be. We gave, in a recent publi-
cation, the statements of Dr. Lindley, to the effect that
the destruction of the tubers was by no means commen-
surate with the diseased appearance of the stalks and
foliage. We now present to our readers the following
statement from a gentleman who haslaken great pains to
make himself acquainted with the facts :—" Within the
last month, I have been into thirty or forty potato fields
in Wiltshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Middle-
sex, &c., and have bad the potatoes dug up and washed
before my eyes. From those which appeared diseased, I
cut away the diseased part, and the result of my investi-
gation leaves a perfect conviction on my mind, that not
one-fourth part of the potato crop is destroyed. In nay
inquiries, until I went myself into the examination, I
met with nothing but the grossest exaggeration. In re-
ference :o eine field near the Swinton toll-bar, I had been
informed that the whole of the potatoes were destroyed.
On examining into the matter myself, I found the very
reverse to be the fact. There were very few injured. The
man who was digging them up said, ' he did not think
there were any bad ones at all. They were only rather
small.".' We have not as yet beard any similar state-
ments as t3,the condition of the potato crop in Ireland ;
but as the weather during the month of September was as
favourable in that country as in England, we trust that
similar effects will have been produced by it, and that
something like a third, or possibly half, a crop may be
saved, which will prove a great alleviation of the evils ex-
perienced and anticipated in that country.-2lfanchester
Guardian.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS,—BAD DIGES-
TION.—WONDERFUL CURE.—T. Gardiner, .E.,q 9,
Brown-street, Grovenor-square, declares that he had
been under four of the most eminent physicians, ',besides
five of the greatest surgeons in London. He suffered
from a distended st9macb, bad digestion, settled pains in
the chest, was very nervous, and greatly debilitated, and
scarcely able to walk a hundred yards. Not deriving the
least relief from the faculty, be set about rubbing large
quantities of Holloway's Ointment into the chest, and
took Holloway's Pills night after night and morning, which
effectually restored him to perfect health and vigour in
the short space of three weeks.

INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.-- From the report we
learn that in the metropolis, on spaces of ground which
do not exceed 203 acres, closely surrounded bythe abodes
of the living, layer upon layer, each consisting of a popu-
lation numerically equivalent to a large army of 20,000
adults, and nearly 30,000 youths and children, is every
year imperfectly interred! Within the period of existence
of the present generation, upwards of a million of dead
must have been interred in these same spaces.—Medical
Gazette.

CONFIRMED PAIIPERS.—On Friday, eight able-bodied
young men, but extremely filthy, were charged at the
Southwark Police-court with creating a disturbance in
Christchurch workhOuse, and refusing to work after re-
ceiving food and lodging. The case presented the usual
circumstances ; the prisoners were admitted to the
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prisons. They were committed to Brixton, some for
fourteen and some for forty-two days.
GAS—We have this week had an opportunity of inspect-
ing an apparatus, for the manufacture of gas, on a small
scale, made by Mr. Sarson, brazier and gas-fitter. St.
Nicholas•street, for lighting his own premises ; and it is
of a most compact and simple construction. Mr. Sarson
informs us that he can make gas at 2a. fid. per 1000 feet ;
hod as he intends supplying the surplus heat for warming
his warehouse and workshops with hot water, and at the
same time taking into consideration the circumstance of
doing the cookery, baking, roasting, &c., for his family
with the same fire, the cost will not exceed ls. 6d per
1000 feet. The gas producsd is of excellent quality ; and
the apparatus, which is simply and easily managed, may
be purchased at a small expense.—Leicester
CURIOUS AFFAlR.—Yesterday week an inquest was
held on the body of a man named Marsden, at Wolviston,
Durham. A post mortem examination had been made,
but nothing could be discovered to satisfy the jury as to
the immediate cause of death,'but it was thought it bad
been caused by something poisonous taken at the mouth
of a deleterious nature, possibly miasma. The locality
of the premises has been examined, and it seems perfectly
healthy, being open to the green in the village, and there
being nothing there likely to cause disease. The whole of
Marsden's family, six in number, have been during the
last three weeks wasting away, and reduced to perfect
skeletons. Four children, including, the deceased, have
died, and the parents ate now lying in a very precarious
state. All of the family bad been sick at intervals, and
dreadfully convulsed, and have been similarly effiieted.
FALL OF A 'MANUFACTORY, AND LOSS OF LIFE.--
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing the inhabitants of Burfield were alarmed by a loud
crash, followed by cri-s for aid, occasioned by the falling
in of a building used as a rope mat manufactory. The
building c,inisted of one large room on the basement,
and another immediately over it. From 10 to 15 persons
were usually employed in the upper room. In therrar of
the factory is a plot of ground, which bas been excavated
to a considerable depth for building purposes, and the
wall of the manufactory next to the excavated ground
having given way, nearly the whole building fell into the
hollow. The bodies of a man and a girl, both quitedead,
were afterwards dug out of the ruins. It has been ascer-
tained that there were eleven persons at work in the ma-
nufactory when the accident occurred—namely, four men,
three women, and four children. Nine out of the num-
ber are more or less injured.
PARLIAMENT AND THE MINISTRY.—An impression
is still abroad that Parliament will be summoned for the
despatch of business early in November. Reports are
also afloat that Sir Robert Peel's recal to Windsor to
meet Lord John Russell was an attempt to patch up
some kind of coalition which shall bring the late Premier
back to office. " There is," says the Standard, in
italics, "an intrigue in urogrecs, by which Sir Robert
is, if possible, to be jerked back into office." "In this
conspiracy," adds the Dublin Evening Packet, " we are
told some of the present Ministry, though not all, are
implicated, and Peel's immediate friends are so confident
of success, that they boast of his being Prime Minister on
the Ist March next, if not before. We give this rumour
merely for what it may be worth, not setting much value
upon it; but it is right to add that .the Standard vouches
its accuracy in every respect." Nor do we set much
value upon it, and therefore we say nothing further
about it.

"GET OFF THE GRASS!"—A. MISTAKE.-011 Sunday
afternoon, during the time the private gardens and the •
eastern terrace at Windsor were open to the public. Lord
J. Russell, one of her Majesty's guests, walked from the
terrace, and was proceeding across the grass in the Home-
park, towards the iron gates, opposite to the Long-walk,
a portion of the Royal domains from which the public are
excluded. His lordship had proceeded some distance
before he was noticed by one of the Castle policemen, who
seeing a stranger, as he supposed, on forbidden ground,
sang out with stentorian voice, " Halloo, you, sir! come
back and get off the grass.! Come back, you sir !" Lord
John immediately got off the grass and returned back
towards the York and Lancaster Towers. By the time
his lordship had got to within some thirty or forty paces
of the policeman the officer found out his mistake, having
been informed that the offending party was a person in
the suite of some of her Majesty's visitors. He then
called out to Lord John, who had evidently been taken
by surprise, You may go on ; you are all right enough!"
His lordship, smiling at the by-standers, then retraced
his steps, and pursued his walk across the park towards
the avenue of trees leading to the Waterloo-gate.
THE EARL OF RIPON AND THE REV. MR. CROW.
THER.—The Nottingham Journal publishes an explana-
tory statement of the correspondence between these par-
ties, which has been made public, and the purport of
which we have. already given. That paper says that Mr.
Newton (the gentleman about whom the caution was
given' is the principal promoter of dissent in the parish
of Danston, and also mentions several other circumstances
by which Mr. Newton had rendered himself obnoxious to
the Earl. The " covered cart" which his lordship offered
to Mr. Crowther, was the one used by the late Lord
Goderich, and is still used by members of the Ripon
family on their country jaunts. " But," adds our con-
temporary, "the DONEE, ? the po,r animal without which
i all the wit would have been lost ! The car and horses
were at the disposal of Mr. and Mrs. Crowther, at any
time: but Mrs. Crowther longed for tle donkey, and it
I was inaccessible. It was an ancient peifsioner of Lady
Ripon's, turned out to spend its last days in quiet, having
been the faithful though unromantic servant of her Lady-
ship for nearly thirty years. It was deemed too old for
regular work, and could not be lent like the horses and
the car ; but Mrs. Crowther was an invalid, and she fan-
cies best to ride on this quiet old donkey. Some enquiry
was necessary before the old pet could be thus emploied:
this was granted at Mrs. Crowther's especial wish, and it
was in reply to that desire that Lord Ripon's much abused,
but really kind-hearted letter was written."

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. 700 tons, 350 horse power,
Is intended to sail from Liverpool for Belfast,
(With or without a Pilot,)
Thursday, the Bth October, at 11f o'clock Evening.
Monday, the 12th October, at 4 o'clock Afternoon.
Thursday, the 15th October, at 7 o'clock Evening.
Monday, the 19th October, at 10 o'clock Evening.
Thursday, the 22d October, at 111 o'clock Evening.
Monday, the 26th October, at 12 o'clock Night.
Thursday, the 29th October, at 6 o'clock Evening.
Leaving Belfast for Liverpool on WEDNESDAYS and SATUR-
DAYS. LANGTRYS and Co..
20, Water-street, Liverpool.