The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The e,sc•-ise authorities have issued a detailed -notice
upon the subject of the adulteration of-tea, tobacco, and
other leading articles of consumption,'-which it is hoped
wilt secure the public to a greater extent than ,at present
from the shameful practices of a few unscrupulousdealers.
DREADFUL ACCIIXENT IN ScOrLANI).—On Saturday
week, us a number of labourers were-engaged in the for-
mation of a new road from Alyth to".Glenshce, in For-
farshire, a high bank under which they were working
gave way, and buried most of the party alive. Five of
them were extricated totally lifeless,.whilst a sixth was so
shockingly bruised,that but slight 'hopes are entertained
of his recovery. Two of those killed were contractors,
and two were Irish labourers from',Dundee, where they
have left destitute widows and families.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday "Mary
Furtley, a married -woman, aged 36 was committed for
the wilftil murder of George Farley, her infant sou, and
sentencedto death, by Mr. Justice Mottle, without -hope
of mercy. The unhappy mother being in a state of desti-
tution' after working at shirt-making at led. per shirt,
threw herself into the canal on the 10th of March, along
with her child. She was taken out and with much.diffi-
culty recovered;,batthe child, which was observed to slip
from her grasp was :quite dead. They will hardly•hang
the wretched mother under such circumstances as these.
THE GALVANIC TELEGRAPH.—The first intelligence
of the arrival ,o 1 his Royal Highness «Prince Albert in
England from Germany, on Thursday week, was com-
municated to her Majesty at WindsoreCastle, by means
of the galvanic telegraph on the line of the Great Western
Railway. Within, one minute of the-arrival of his royal
highness at the Paddington terminus, the -information bad
reached Slough, at which station a special messenger was
stationed by command of the Queen, and who proceeded
with the intelligence to the Castle, where he arrived in
. .

eight minutes and a half from the time of his leaving
Slough.
LORD FRANKFORT AGAIN !—A suit, in the nature of
an appeal from the Consistory Court of London, has just
been decided, In which this notorious personage and Lady
Frankfort were the appellants and respondents. The
former objected to the decision of the court below, which,
on the ground of adultery committed by him, had allotted
permanent alimony
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£550 as alimony pending suit, and £BOO pe- annum as
etfiapoheinrttsiatanlesd.beedlinutegawttc"eaVisproved that his lordship's income of
£15,000 a year only yielded him £2,500 to £3,000 a year ;
and the Arches Coort decided, under the circumstances,
that the alimony of £sso.pendente tile should have been
£550 per annum, and not for the four months only during
which the suit lasted ; and the permanent alimony was
correctly fixed at £BOO per aneurn.
MURDEROUS ATTACK AND EXTRAORDINARY D--
FENCE.—In the township of Dilworth, some eight or ten
miles from Preston, there is a house known by the name
of Cuckoo-hall, which is occupied by two brothers, Rich-
ard and Edward Hubbersty, the only other inmate being
a housekeeper. On Tuesday night last, at twelve o'clock,
Richard Hobbersty was woke from sleep by the barking
of the dog. The watchfulness of the animal had been ex-
cited by the sudden bursting open of the door, and the
entrance of three strange men. Richard Hubbersty went
down stairs,and was instantly set upon by the three ruffi •
ans. Being .a powerful man, though fifty-six years old,
he returned with interest the blows dealt to him by the
assailants, calling to his brother for assistance. The
brother, who is sixty-two years old, went down, and a
fierce battle ensued, the assassailants dealing heavy blows
with heavy instruments which they carried, cutting and
bruising the heads and arms of the brothers severely, and
occasionally igniting lucjfer matches to direct their nt-
tacks. At lentil Richard Hubbersty obtained possession
of a crow-bar from one of the villains, and they were with
difficulty expelled, and the door forcibly closed upon
them, But the men returued to renew the attack, and
complete their intended work of plunder or murder, or
both, or perish in the attempt; and they again forced the
door and gained admission into the house, and commenc-
ed, and continued till the worn-out strength of the Linke
berstys compelled them to express their readiness to give
up all the money they possessed or any other property
that might be demanded. The money in the house
amounted to £5, with which the robbers, sorely against
their will were obliged to rest satisfied. From the quan-
tity of blood, and the marks about the door, terrible
blows must have been dealt on both sides, and the ruffians
must have suffered severely. The heads of the two bro-
thers are dreadfully cut, and they are bruised over their
entire bodies. Cuckoo-hall, the scene of this san-
guinary outrage, is situate about three miles from
Longridge, and belongse in os
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, who,tcl
being men of supposed rather penurious habits, were, no
stock
of expected to be
of ready money than was met with.

FIRST LIGHTING OF LONDON.—AIIIIO 1416 Sir Henry
Barton, being mayor, ordained lantborns and lights to be
bung out on the winter evenings, betwixt Alinlliowtide
and Candlonas.—Mwery LondinvoiiB.

CORRESPONDENCE.

WILLIAM RATHBONE'S MOB-ORATORY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sia,—One of the -most pitiful illustrations of the viper
gnawing the file, it has ever been my lot to witness, took
place in this town last week. Here it is in the Chroni-
cle's report of Mr. William Rathbone's speech at the
Free Trade Banquet on Friday evening:—
" The young men of Liverpool have, however, done
their duty ; but I must say, so far as we are all concerned,
that the town has not done its duty to itself. (Hear,
hear.) It has been wrapped up in monopoly, and under
the influence of those who would monopolise even heaven
itself. (Cheers.) Gel,tlemen have told us to-night of
the ignorance of other places, but I can tell them we have
ignorance in Liverpool, ay, and in the pulpit, teo, even
though it he occupied by M'Neile. (Obi oh.) We have
had quoted in the pulpit Russell's history, • and been
gravely told that it was Lord John Russell's history.
(Hear, and oh! ola!)"

Liverpool has not done its duty to itself! In other
words, it has become Conservative. Hinc dice lachrymce.
But who is to blame for this ? M'Neile, of course. And
accordingly the galled jade, unable to conceal the sore,
proceeds with an essay at detraction. The charge is igno.
ranee, and the instance a notable one. Mr. M'Neile, it
seems, could not read the author's name on the title-page
of a book he quoted from, but ascribed it to a different
author! This is beyond doubt a degree of ignorance in
the reverend divine which the Liverpool public were not
prepared for. It would seem from the notices of the re-
porter that even Mr. Rathbone's free trade audience could
not swallow this, but instead of cheering as before,
groaned " Oh, oh," at the orator. It would seem fur-
ther that Mr. Rathbone himself did not believe it; for
then, instead of saying, there is ignorance in the pulpit,
" even though" it beoccupied by M'Neile, he would have
said because it is occupied by M'Neile.
It has been well sa'd, concerning envy, that like the
scorpion, it turns from a brilliant fire, and if closely sur-
rounded by such a fire, it turns in upon itself and stings
itself. An image of Rathbone ! He cannot bear
M`Neile's brilliancy : he turns away from it : he meets it
again on evtry side : he is surrounded by it to distrac-
tion : in the madness of mortification he stings himself.
Alas, poor scorpion ! Alas, pale envy ! Alas, poor Will
Rathbone.

1. am, of you, Mr. Editor, and others, on both sides,
AN OBSERVER.