The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

etneral I,lFlisrtliativ.

The Jewish Chronicle denies the alleged conversion of
Baron Rothschild to Chris'ianity.

The Doncaster Chronicle, of Friday, contains twenty
sales of extensive farming stocks.
The rumour that the Duchess of Kent has joined the
Church of Rome has been contradieted by Lord Howden.

The South Shields Police have just been supplied with
gutta percha caps ; a light and elegant article of dress.
Arrangements are making for opening a fifth Orange
Ledge in Shrewsbury.
The number who r.ttended the Assize Ball at York, /on
Monday evening was nineteen.
A sixpence of the reign of King Edward the First, in
good preservation, was turned up a few days ago in the
garden of Mr. Appleby, builder, Barnard Castle.

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- A child was killed in Southwark on Wednesday by the
falling of a coping stone upon its head, from the front of
the Tailors' Arms public-house, Gravel-lane.
The Lord Chancellor has placed Mr. T. Latimer, editor
of the Western Times, on the commission of the peace
for the city of Exeter.
Jane Wilbred who suffered so much from the barbarity
of the Sloanes, has had nearly £3OO subscribed for her.
It is intended to place her in a situation of respectability.
Large quantities of Egyptian wheat are now selling in
the Thames at 235. a quarter, it is thin-skinned, and pro-
duces good sound dry flour.

Thei:e is living at Diss an extraordinary child of more
than a year old, weighing less than five pounds—the
weight of a good chicken !
At the York assizes, on Wednesday, John Firth was
acquitted of the charge of murdering his brother by shoot-
ing him.
The Bristol Town Council have resolved to establish
a market at Clifton ; the estimated expense of the site and
building is £5OOO.
The executors of the late Sir M. A. Shea, President of
the Royal Academy, intend to sell his works by auction
during the present month.

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The lunatics in the Gloucester County Asylum were
indulged with a visit to Wombwell's Menagerie last week,
and conducted themselves very well.
It is stated that in connection with the Wesleyan re-
formers there are 48 chapels, 78 local preachers, 151
leaders, and 2298 members.
The quarterly statement of the 'Wesleyan Conference,
just published, strikes out the names of sixteen preachers,
for their adherence to the reform movement.

Two highly-respectable and well-educated members of
the Roman Catholic Church, renounced the errors of
PoperV at Holy Trinity Church, Amblecote, Worcester-
shire, a few days since.
The Birminghomfournal says that a gentleman living at
Broseley possesses a tobacco-pipe bearing the date of
1695, and made at Broseley, which is said to be the first
place where tobacco-pipes were manufactured in England.
Mr. Jackman, of Houndaller Farm, has sold to Mr.
Pearless, of Taunton, five acres of wheat, to bo delivered
at the Tiverton Station, at the ruinous price of 2s. per
bushel.—Exeter Post.

Two men were killed and several others injured by an
explosion of fire-damp in Hey's colliery, Ashton-under-
Lyne, on Monday last. The explosion was caused by a
young man foolishly taking off the top of his lamp when
the lamp was lighted.
Mr. G. Norman, agent to the Duke of Rutland, has de-
nied altogether the report mentioned a few days since in
7'he Times, that the estates of his grace " have just un-
dergone a revaluation, and the result of it, as currently
reported, is generally an increased rental."
A few days since, a serpent at the Zoological Gardens,
Clifton, ate a fowl, and afterwards swallowed the drugget,
which served for his bed, and which measured two yards
and a half long by one wide ; nor does he seem the worse
for his meal.

Last week one man was transported for life, one for
fifteen years, four for ten years, one to two years, and
four to eighteen months' imprisonment for poaching and
so severely injuring a gamekeeper that his life was de-
spaired of for some time.
A paragraph is going the round of the papers stating
that Lord Courtney, heir to the Earldom of Devon, fags
hard as a poor-law secretary, giving a portion of his
salary to the creditors of his father, and banishing wine
and other luxuries from his house.
At the inquest held on Mr. Russell, Mr. Wakley ob-
served that in all his experience he never knew such an
extraordinary number of sudden deaths as at the present
time. In two days (Monday and Tuesday) he had re-
ceived at his office no less than thirty-one notices of
sudden deaths.
On Thursday the Lord Mayor of York presented, on
behalf of the subscribers, to Mr. John Duncan, editor of
the Yorkshireman newspaper, a purse of about sixty gui-
neas and an elegant silver snuff-box, for his independent
conduct in the management of that newspaper. and espe-
cially for his fearless exposure of some railway directors.
General Sir Charles Napier arrived in London on
Wednesday, having travelled from Dover by the South-
Eastern Railway. The gallant general stopped for a short
time at Folkestone, where his family are residing. Oa
his arrival at the London-bridge terminus the railway
officials greeted the veteran with three hearty cheers.
SINGLE TENANTRY.—It is a curious fact that of all
Lord Dinorben's tenantry in thecounties of Anglesey
and Carnarvon there is not a married pair; all are single,
either old maids, bachelors, widows, or widowers, together
wimth,
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At the Yorkshire spring assizes during the past week,
the grand jury ignored the bill for manslaughter against
Joshua Ingham. EA:I. magistrate of the county and
chairman of one of the West !tiding sessions.

A married woman living near Winchester was last week
crushed to death between two trees, one of which had
been just cut down by her husband, and fell across the
other, against which she was leaning at the time.
The Ipswich Express says that within 21 weeks of last
year a rat-catcher, named Pooley, sold at a single public-
house in the town no fewer than 11,465 rats, for the pur-
pose of "rat-pitting." The authorities of the town have
since put a stop to the " sport," but during those twenty-
one weeks Pooley received for his rats no less a sum than
£253 Os. Ild.

CHIIDLEIGH.—Sir Robert Newman having recently
ordered the rabbits on his property to be destroyed, up-
wards of 1400 have been killed in a very short time on
Mr. Reed's estate, at Ashcombe. As it is calculated that
seven rabbits consume quite as much as two sheep, the-
advantages from the more general destruction of " the
little varmint" cannot well be imagined.— Exeter paper.
SETTING THE THAMES ON FIRE.—The eccentric but
talented Dr. Crofts, of Coventry, intends at the coming
exhibition, to set the Thames on fire in reality. It ap-
pears that he has invented a composition to make water
blaze on the application of flame, and will experimentalise
on a portion of the Thames, and at the same time explain
his invention for the benefit or amusement of ne public.
At the York assizes, on Monday, Samuel Firth, one of
the partners in an extensive cotton mill at Helifax, and
Joseph Halliwell, engine-tender, were indicted for man.
slatghter. The circumstances out of which arose the
charge of gross negligence on the part of the prisoners,
causing the death of 12 persons, are familiar to our rea-
ders. The jury found the prisoners not guilty.
Lord Bexley's will has just been proved at Doctors'
Commons, by which all his personal property, sworn
under £120,000, has been bequeathed to his nieces, the
Misses Parry and Mrs. Thornton. Footscray- place,
along with his other valuable estates in Kent and Glou_
cestershire, have been left to his nephew, Arthur Vansit-
tart, Esq., of Shottesbrook Park, Berkshire.
The conscientious cause of dissent is at sixe,
in Sunderland. More than one Conventicle congre
are by the ears, and the pious strife seems not likel3
soon allayed. These good Christians, can with ha

and sevens
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eye, see a mote in the Established Church, -.-
marvellously blind to the beam in their own religion*

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communities

At the half.yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
Bank of England OR Thursday, a dividend at the rate of
4 per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax, was
unanimously agreed to in accordance with the recom-
mendation of the directors. The profits on the business
of the past half-year had exceeded by £32,000 those of
the previous half-year, and the directors were able to
tarry a sum of £12.775 to the rest.

ROBBERY BY THE AID OF CHLOROFORM.—On Wed-
nesday, at the Middlesex Sessions, Mary Ann Mavne was
convicted of stealing a purse and nine sovereigns from the
person of John Evenson. It was supposed that the pri-
soner had used chloroform to produce insensibility, and
Mr. Sergeant Adams postponed passing sentence until he
could obtain a professional opinion on the point ; should
such prove to be the fact, he said he would most assuredly
sentence her to transportation.
THE CASE OF THE BIRDS.—At the Exeter assizes on
Wednesday, Robert Courtice and Sarah Bird, who have
been long in custody on the charge of ill-treating their
parish apprentice, were brought before Mr. Baron Martin,
to receive the sentence of Mr. Russell Gurney, by whom
they were tried. They were sentenced to 16 months'
further imprisonment, with leave granted to send affida-
vits on their own behalf to the secretary of state, in hope
of a mitigation of punishment.
Great excitement has been occasioned at Gorfield, near
Wisbeach, by the poisoning of Mrs. John Dearlove, the
wife of an extensive farmer, Suspicion has fallen on a
female servant, who had been exasperated by the means
adopted by her mistress to rouse her in the morning. Oa
one occasion Mrs. Dearlove threw a basin of water over
her in bed, and on another pulled the bed clothes off. It
is supposed the girl was impelled to the act by a spirit of
revenge.

SWANSEA. DOCKS.—The Marquis of Worcester visited
these docks on Monday, accompanied by his solicitor,
Mr. F. Hooper. At the request of a deputation. which
waited upon him for the purpose, his lordship, after a
careful examination of the plans, consented to take the
office of Chairman of the Dock Company, stating that no
efforts should be wanting on his part to put the works
into progress this spring. It is understood that his lord•
ship's subscription as a shareholder will be augmented to
£lO,OOO.

A HIGHLANDER'S MISADVENTURE.—A Highlander
had occasion to locate himself for one night lately in
Perth, where he procured very comfortable lodgings.
Being shown into a carpeted bedroom which was lighted
with gas, Donald slipped off his clothes, blew out the gas,
went to bed, and shortly afterwards was nearly suffocated
with the (to him) unaccountable smell which pervaded the
room. Fortunately the landlady discovered the cause,
and had the gas properly stopped, or the result might have
been serious.—Scotch paper.

NOVEL CONTRIBUTION. —On Sunday evening last
during the course of a collection in St. Oswald's Church,
Durham, a walnut of the ordinary size, and apparently
whole and sound. was dropped into one of the plates.
On dividing the shell in the usual way, was found—not
the ordinary kernel—but an outer rind of white paper,
inside of which was another layer of the same material;
inside of that another ; inside of that another; and, in-
side of all two £5 notes, compressed into the smallest
dimensions, and enclosing a slip of paper with the words
" a nut for the vicar to crack," written upon it.
FLIGHT OF A CARRIER PIGEON.—The instinct of the
carrier pigeon has often been exemplified in a manner to
excite astonishment. Almost as singular a case as has
ever been brought under notice occurred on Saturday
week. Some weeks since, Mr. Martin, who was formerly
gamekeeper to W. Stirling Crawfurd, Esq., of Calder,
removed to Farnley-hall, in Yorkshire, taking with hire
some birds of the Antwerp breed. On Saturday week
one of these pigeons reappeared at Calder, carrying be-
tween the claws of the feet an egg, which, rather than
suffer to be placed amongst strangers, had been conveyed
in that fashion from beyond Leeds. It was slightly broken.
TRIAL FOR MURDER.—Eliza Smalley, who mixed with
the breakfast of her mistress, Frances Page, a farmer's
wife, some of the arsenical solution used by farmers to
soak wheat-seed, has been tried at Lincoln. It will be
recollected that the girl admitted the administration of the
poison ; but declared that she only did it to make her
mistress poorly, in revenge for cruelty. Mr. Justice
Coleridge told the jury that if the girl purposed to injure
her mistress, and by mishap caused her death, it would be
murder; but if she purposed only to annoy or inconveni-
ence her mistress, and by mishap caused death, the crime
would be manslaughter. Verdict, " Manslaughter."
Sentence, fifteen years' transportation.
A CHILD BURIED ALIVE BY ITS MOTHER.—A single
woman, named Clarke, is in custody at Wingfield, Suffolk,
charged with burying alive her infant, six weeks old, in a
meadow. It was found about six inches under the ground.
After being remanded she made the following confession :

—" I was fearful that the young man who -promised to
marry me would not do it if lie knew that I had a child,
and I, in consequence, was anxious to get rid of it. I had.
not entertained the slightest notion of murdering my child
until T came out of one of our neighbours' cottages, where
I saw a spade standing outside the cottage. I took up
the spade. went into the meadow, dug a hole, and laid
my child in. I then covered the child over with earth ;
and, to stifle its screams, I stamped upon the sod. When
the child was covered up with the earth I heard it cry.
I then sat down upon the place where I bad buried it,
and in a short time after I went home."
CHICORY.—The Lancet of Saturday completes the
exposure of the chicory question, by a detail of the ex-
tent to which this article of adulterated. Out of thirty-
four samples of chicory obtained horn retail and whole-
sale dealers nearly half were mixed with other materials,
such as roasted beans, burnt corn, and acorns. Con-
siderable quantities of sand or grit were also found, but
these were supposed to have been caused by the dirty
state of the roots, although there is abundant reason to
apprehend that earthy and mineral substances are not un-
frequently used. Carrot, parsnip, mangold-wurzel, dog-
biscuits, a kind of burnt sugar, known as " black jack,"
and a worthless, if not pernicious, article from Egypt,
supposed to be lupine-seed, are also largely introduced,
eighty tons of the latter having been offered within
the last few days by a Scotch house at less than lid. per
lb.—a price, however, which will hardly enable it to com-
pete with acorns, of which 500 tons were recently tendered
to one firm at something below three farthings a pound.

ANOTHER FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.—The neigh-
bourhood of Glasgow is obtaining a most painful amount
of notoriety for the frequency and extent of its accidents
on land and water. On 'Wednesday night the boiler of
the engine attached to the flax-spinning works of Mes.irs.
Finlay son, in the village of Johnstone, exploded, by which
eight men and boys were instantly deprived of life. It is
believed that the works had been temporarily suspended
while the work people were taking some refreshment ;
but, meanwhile, the engineman had kept the safety-valve
fully loaded, the consequence of which was a tremendous
explosion. The persons who were killed had been smok-
ing or resting themselves in the fire-room. A lare portion
of the building was blown down ; and while exertions
were making to rescue the sufferers from the ruins, it was
discovered that the mill itself was on fire. This was
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ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A strange tra-
gedy was enacted in this town yesterday (Friday). Be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon the in-
habitants of Blenheim-square were alarmed by the report
that Mrs. Widdop, wife of Joseph Widdop, gardener, who
occupied the lodge at the top of Well Close-place, Black-
man-lane, had been shot. On hearing the report Thomas
Kay, cowkeeper, proceeded to Widdop's house, on enter-
ing which he found a man named Thomas Scott, a white-
smith, with a small pistol in his hand. Mr. Kay closed
the door and went towards the window outside, but before
he reached it be heard the report of a pistol. He then
looked through de window and saw Scott fall on the floor.
Before Mr. Kay got there Mrs. Widdop had fled from
the house of her husband to that of Mrs. Wales, Bien-
heim-squree, and stated that she had been fired at by the
man Scott. She was examined by a surgeon, who found
that she had been wounded on the left side by a ball. The
ball fell from her dress when she was examined. It had
penetrated her clothes, and appeared to have come in con-
tact with a bone of her stays. The skin beneath was
broken, and it is supposed that she may have
fractured, but no serious consequences are apprehended.
Her fall, was found by Mr.
Her assailant, after he was seen rieldenad er .
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John Rhodes, collector, sitting on the house floor, bleed.
ing from a pistol shot wound in his side. He was asked
by Mr. Rhodes what he had been doing, but he made no
reply. Wm. Hales, policeman, who was on the spot
soon after the alarm was given, procured a coach and had
Scott conveyed to the Infirmary, where he 110Vf lies under
treatment.—Leeds intelligencer,

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