The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

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THE LIVERroot STANDARD.

A correspondent of the Times states; that,-on Thurs-
day, he attended a public religious service which was
advertised to take place in St. George's Catholic Church,
Southwark. He put a shilling upon the plate, but was
informed that a charge of one shilling each was made for
admission. This he refused to pay, and after waiting a
quarter of an hour was allowed to enter. When inside,
another plate was presented for more money. All other
comers were similarly treated.

Shortly before the Queen left Balmoral, a poor Irish-
woman was found near the Bridge of Cally, who, with the
exception of the sea passage, had walked all the way from
Mayo, Ireland, with a view to intercede with her Majesty
for the pardon of her son, who was lying under sentence
of seven years' transportation for uttering base coin. As
she related that on her arrival at Balmoral the guards had
taken the petition from her, and sent her off without see-
ing the Queen, she sighed heavily, and then trudged on
towards Blairgowrie.

THE POPISH "BISHOP OP BIRMINGHAM.—A Birming-
ham paper contains the following announcement :--4‘
understand that on Sunday next the Right Rev. Dr.
Ullathorne will be enthroned at the Cathedral in this
town, as Lord Bishop of Birmingham. on which occasion
a Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated by his Lordship
and a sermon preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Newman,
Superior of the Oratorians. The See assigned to Dr.
Ullathorne, includes the counties of Warwick, Worcester,
Stafford, Berks, and Oxford, with the acministration of
Nottingham."

MUSICAL BELLOWS.—Mr. John Heard, of Chittleham-
holt, Devon, has constructed a very curious piece of
mechanism for the Exhibition of 1851, which consists of
a pair of bellows. While blowing the fire the tune of "God
Save the Queen" will be played, and immediately the
operator ceases to blow the music will stop. It is first
intended for the exhibition, and at its close to be presented
to the Queen. Mr. Heard is self taught; he has built a
great number of organs for' parish churches, besides
making a number of piano fortes, musical clocks, &c.
LYING IN BED FOR FORTY YEARS.—Considerably
above forty years ago, a yeoman of this neighbourhood
got entangled in the meshes of the tender passion, and
suffered disappointment. Having taken to bed at that
time, he has kept it ever since; neither threats nor en.
treaties ever once inducing him to leave it. His health is
uninjured; he eats well ; is conscious of all that is being
done around him, and enjoying a small competency, be
resolves to end his days where he has so ingloriously im-
mured himself for nearly half a century.—Bradford
Observer.
THE PUGILISTIC DUKE

—ln the course of the present
eh criers have been turning the

week o

hero of Glen Tilt to profitable account. They have been
bawling, night after night, through our streets, lanes, and

closes, the high-sounding name of the Duke of Atholl as
haVing fought " a great pitch battle with a Cambridge
student, in Glen Tilt, for £5Ol a side." Many thousand
persons in Glasgow, who read no newspapers, and know
little of passing events, have thus heard of the duke for
the first time in their lives, as a redoubtable champion of
the "ring."--Glasgow Citizen.
MURDER OF AN OLD WOMAN.—A fear days ago an
aged woman, named Elizabeth Barnard, was found lying
in a ditch under a wall, nearly opposite the Wesleyan
Chapel, at Haverfordwest. When found she was in a
very prostrate state, and her person bore marks of con-
siderable violence. She was removed to a neighbouring
tavern, where it soon became evident that she had re-
ceived severe injury of the spine and other parts of her
person, and notwithstanding the attentions of a surgeon,
she continued to grow worse and died. A woman had
been taken up on suspicion and an inquest held, but no-
thing satisfactory transpired.
PROFESSOR AYTOUN'S BALLADS.—These fine and spi-
rit-stirring lyrics, it seems, are becoming the subjects of
popular exposition among our neighbours on the other
side of the Tweed. The Midland Counties' Herald, of
the 17th instant, records that,—" on Tuesday evening, the
Rev. Hugh Hutton delivered a lecture on Professor Ay-
toun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' to a very atten-
tive and very interested audience of the friends of the
Polytechnic Institution at Birmingham. The lecturer
illustrated his subject by reading, with great taste and
effect, several of the pieces in the Professor's volume, such
as the ' Death of Norval.' Graham of Dundee,' and others,
and concluded with ' Charles Edward's Lament,' amidst
great applause.. .

REMORSE OF CONSCIENCE.—Thomas Cash, a singular
looking Character, was charged at Sunderland on Tuesday,
with having stolen a horse at Houghton-le-Spring.. It
appears that while the officer was on duty at midnight on
Monday, the prisoner came to him and told him the fol.
lowing story :—He said he bad been to Houghton feast,
on leaving which he stole a horse, which he sold. While
asleep in a lodging-house, he had a fearful dream :. he
thought lie had received sentence of death for horse-
stealing, and that he was led forth to be executed, amid
all the grim paraphernalia of death : he thought he beard
the last benediction of the priest, and felt the iron hand
of Jack Ketch meting the- fatal noose around his neck.
He awoke with affright from this terrible dream, and
rushing out of the lodging-house, lie insisted on the first
he met taking

police-office. _ him into:custody.
DR.' WISEMAN.—It is a well-known fact that the late
Mr. Taylor, in whose cemetery at Weybridke are de-
posited the remains of Louis Philippe, was induced on
his deathbed, or his bed of sickness, to disinherit his son
and leave his large property of nigh £3,000 a year to this
very Dr. or Cardinal Wiseman. Tt is therefore not
merely our consciences that we have to defend againstthe
Papal legate, but our purses, the fortunes of English
families, the independent- condition of the land, and the
people upon it. Cardinal Wiseman is now a frreign
prince; his allegiance and his duty bind him to a foreign
state far more than to that of England, as he has proved
:n his ,hibition to his curates to pray for the Queen
e, and

yet thiL .oreign prince is coming amongst us to exer-
cise large temporal authority, in the interest, not of
England, but of an Italian sovereignty.—Daily News.
A PARADOX".—It may sound paradoxical to say so, but
it is, nevertheless, true, that railways are tending to recall
that state of things which stage coaches and posting
brought to an end ; and 1750 and 1850, like two extremes,
will be not unlikely to touch.each other in the point of
desolate highways and rampant footpads. To take a fa-
miliar example, we may point to the town and district of
Hounslow. More vehicles, probably, passed and re.
passed between this place and the metropolis in the year
1800 than at the present moment. It was once the
chosen scene of highwayman's exploits ; but the improved
facilities of travelling gradually brought our great western
route into such hourly use that robbers were actually
shouldered from the road by honest men. Upwards of a
thousand coach horses were stalled, it was said, in the
town of Hounslow some twelve or fifteen years ago.
There are now, probably, not ten, and the consequence is
that grass grows lig ain on the Bath Road as it did in the
days of Jonathan Wild.—Tirnea.
AN OPULENT CROSSING SWEEPER.—On Wednesday,
Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Marylebone Work-
house on the body of Andrew Riley, an aged crossing-
sweeper, who had for many years officiated at the corner
of Baker-street, Portman-square, and whose ready wit
and quaint replies had gained him many friends amongst
the residents of the neighbourhood. It appeared that on
Thursday last, while pursuing his avocations, he was
knocked down by a four-wheeled cab, and sustained inju-
ries which in the end proved fatal. He had succeeded,
in his crossing, an old man who had amassed a large for-
tune. Riley himself resided at a lodging-house in Hen-
rietta-street, Manchester-square, where lie occupied the
best apartments. He frequet tly boasted of his wealth,
and was wont upon grand occasions to regale his comrades

with the best of everything. He is stated to have paid a
heavy sum for the goodwill of the crossing. which, how-
ever, amply remunerated him for his outlay. The verdict
was "accidental death."

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—On Tuesday
morning, one of the largest silversmiths in the Strand
was robbed to the amount of between £2,000 and £3,C00.
The property stolen was of the most valuable nature, con-
sisting of diamonds of the most costly description, and
other precious stones, rings, and watches. The house in
which the robbery was committed is that of Messrs.
Chapman and Williams, the large silversmiths and jewel-
lers, on the 1.4 t-hand side of Craven-street. Plate was
no doubt the desideratum of the robbers, but the removal
of it from the front shop to an inner shop foisted the bur-
glars of their intended booty. The premises were proba-
bly broken into about three o'clock, but how the entry
was effected there is nothing to show. The whole of the
plunder might be carried off in a man's pocket. The
robbery was first discovered about seven o'clock, when
the shopman came, and, to nis astonishment, he disco-
vered the right-hand door ajar. He pushed it open, and
found the carpet and the chairs all moved, and every
thing in disorder in the shop. In a very short time the
loss was discovered.

MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY.--Within the last few days
Mrs. Lingham, a married lady, residing with her husband
at No. 21, Lacy-terrace, Penton-place, Walworth, close
to the principal entrance to the Surrey-gardens, disco-
vered that she had been plundered of Bank of England
notes to the amount of £350, and the robbery and ab-
straction of the property seems involved in the greatest
possible mystery. It appears, from the information con-
veyed to the police, that in thp month of April, 1849, Mr.
and Mrs. Lingham sold out property in the funds amount-
ing to £BOO, and each took £4OO. Mrs. Lingham placed
her portion in a cash-box, which she locked up in a
drawer in her bed-room. From time to time since that
period she added to the stock, so that by the time the
robbery was committed the whole should have amounted
to at least £6OO. When about to make the last deposit,
Mrs. Lingham thought the bulk of notes had diminished,
and this circumstance induced her to count it, when, to
her great consternation, she found £350 missing. There
is another singular circumstance connected with the rob-
bery, and that is, that from a book in which Mrs. Ling_
had the amount and numbers of the notes entered two
leaves were torn out, and by this means all trace of the
missing notes is destroyed.

BURGLARIES.—Three burglars attempted the other
night to enter a farm about a mile and a quarter
from Witham ; two of the county police had seen them
approach, and while one waited on the road to the place
the other followed the robbers; for more than an hour
the latter observed the unsuccessful efforts of the thieves
to effect an entry. At last they gave up the matter as a
" bad job," and moved off. The policeman followed, and
seized one; the others ran off; but one returned when
the officer threatened to shoot him. The second consta-
ble now came up, and the two robbers were secured and
taken to the farm. They have since been taken to prison.
—Five burglaries are reported in the neighbourhood of
Swansea. Subsequently, Superintendent Sadler, of Swan-
sea, encountered three men with bundles; he arrested
them, and found that the bundles contained the plunder
of the houses.—During Sunday night the rectory of
Pelenhall, in Bedfordshire, the residence of the Rev.
James Madges, was entered by thieves, who carried off
plate and other articles valued at £2OO.—A reward of
£lOO, with a pardon to any accomplice who will turn
approver, is advertised for the discovery of a gang of
burglars who robbed New House,' in the parish of North.
fleet, a mile from Gravesend, on the morning of the 24th
ultimo.

A NEW FIRE ALARVIC—A new and ingenious contri-
vance for giving alarm in case of fire has•been invented,
which consists of a series of gutta percha strings, intended
to be so fixed throughout a house that they shall commu-
nicate with a bell attached to the outer door. They are
made to intersect each other in various directions, and
are so adjusted that the application of fire to any part of
them will cause them to break, and make the bell ring.
POISONING.-Mr. George Young, farmer, of Conis-
cliffe Moor House, about three miles from Darlington,
was taken suddenly ill one night in the early part of the
month of September last, and was attended by Dr. Jack-
son and Dr. Peacock, both of Darlington. They found
him labouring under severe pains in the bowels, accom-
panied by violent retching and sickness, and his symptoms
continued increasing in violence until the following night,
when he died. Both doctors were present at his death,
and. Dr. Jackson entertained suspicions that poison had

been administered to the deceased, and intimated his fears
on the subject to Dr. Peacock. Deceased was, however,
buried. He has since been exhumed, and the presence of
arsenic detected in his stomach.
RAILWAY AND OMNIBUS REVENUES.—Tt will scarcely
be credited that the threepenny fares of the Bayswater
omnibuses produce a larger mileage revenue than the
London and North-Western Railway. Yet such is the
fact. A few figures will explain it. There are 41 omni-
buses on the Bayswater-road. Their average receipt is
£2 10s. each per day. That amounts to about £717 per
week from the 41 omnibuses. As the length of the road
which they traverse is about seven miles, this makes a
mileage receipt of about £lo2—a receipt which the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway does not average. It
should be remembered that we only take into account the
traffic on the road from the Bayswater omnibuses alone.
If we took into account what all the other omnibuses
which travel on the same road produced, the receipts
would be infinitely higher.—Herapatie: Journal.
THE MURDER AT BRENTWOOD.—The funeral of Jael
Denny, the victim of the above horrible tragedy, took
place on Saturday afternoon in the churchyard of the vil-
lage of Doddinghurst, distant about two miles and a half
from the cottage in which the deceased's parents reside.
The ceremony was conducted in the most private manner
possible. A small knot of villagers had assembled to
witness the interment, but there was no indication of
vulgar curiosity on the part of any person present. On
the contrary, all the spectators appeared painfully im-
pressed with the melancholy occasion. The Vicar, the
Rev. W. Manley, read the funeral service. The friends
of the deceased, especially her sister, as well as most of
the byestanders, were painfully affected, and the scene al-
together was of a very melancholy character.
EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION.—Mr. David Ellis,
who was in business some years since at Haverhill, Suf-
folk, became a bankrupt, paying his creditors 4s. 10d. in
the pound. Having gained his certificate, he determined
to seek in a foreign land to recruit his lost capital, and for
that purpose proceeded to Australia, where he at once
embarked in mercantile transactions, and prosperously
rose to a high degree of eminence by his straightforward
and sterling character, until he had accumulated a capital
by which he retired to England upon a handsome compe-
tency. His first and most laudable act, on his return,
was to summon his creditors, and pay the remaining ba-
lance of 15s. 2d. to each and all of his creditors or their
representatives, together with interest on their respective
debts ; and on Thursday, the Iflth instant, a large gather-
ing took place at the Cross Keys Inn, Chelmsford, where
a sumptuous dinner was provided, we believe, at the sole
expense of Mr. Ellis, who invited all his creditors and
several of his friends to partake of his hospitality.
THE POPE'S CLAIMS.—The Pope has just issued what
he foolishly calls an " Apostolical Letter " which has
been published in the London papers. He begins with
these words :—" The power of governing the universal
church, entrusted by our Lord Jesus Christ to the
Roman Pontiff, in the person of St. Peter, Prince of the
Apostles, nag maintained for centuries in the Apostolic
See the admirable solicitude with which he watches over
the welfare of the Catholic religion in all the earth, and
provides with zeal for its progress;"—and ends thus:—
" We decree that this apostolic letter shall never be taxed
with subreptice or obreptice, nor be protested for default
either of intention or any defect whatever, but always be
valid and firm, and hold good to all intents and purposes,
notwithstanding the general apostolic edicts which have
emanated from synodal, provincial, or universal councils,
the special sanctions as well as the rights of former sees
in England, missions apostolic. vicarages constituted in
the progress of time—notwithstanding, in one word, all
things contrary whatsoever. 'We likewise decree that all
vhich may be done to the contrary by one, knowing or

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enorant, in the name of any authority whatever,_ shall be
without force. We decree that copies of this letter, signed
he a notary public shall be everywhere binding.” Pro-
testants will surely have their eyes opened soon.
CARRIER PIGLONS FROM THE ARCTIC REGIONS.—We
have learned from a private source that on Friday last
two of the carrier pigeons taken by Sir John Ross when
he left the port of Ayr, and, some of which were to be
spatched home in the event of his either finding Sir
John Franklin or being frozen in, arrived at Ayr, finding
their way at once to the dove-cote which they occupied
previous to being taken away. The birds arrived within
a short time of each other; but neither of them, we re-
gret to be informed, conveyed anything in the shape of a
letter or note of any kind. One of them, indeed, which
may have had some document attached, was found to be
considerably mutilated—its legs having apparently been
shot away. The time they were liberwed by Sir John
Ross is of course uncertain, but taking into considera-
tion the well-known powers of flight possessed by the
carrier-pigeon, it cannot have been very long since they
they left our gallant countrymen. We do not recollect
any parallel to it. The distance the creatures must have
traversed cannot he far short of 2,000 miles. Sir John
Ross, we believe, took five pigeons with him, which
were stated in the last accounts received of him to have
been at that time all alive, so that there are still three to
be accounted for.—North British Mail.
THE NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE.—III 1650 Master
Beaumont came amongst them with £30,000 in his
pocket, but he went away with empty saddle bags, so
unprofitable was the coal trade at that period. But still the
trade bad gone on increasing. In 1665 they had the first
record of the whole vend, which it appeared was 660,000
tons at that period ; in 1800 the export coastwise was
2.381,986 tons; in 1825 it was 3,309,386 tons; and in
1849 it was 5,610,058 tons. The over-sea vend was, in
1803, 138,089 tons; in 1826 it amounted to 178,544 tons ;
and in 1849 it was 1,862,551 tons. The aggregate was, in
1830, 1.320,074 tons, and in 1825, 3.487,930 tons, in 1849
7.472,609 tons. So that there had been an increase since
1800 in coals shipped coastwise of 3,228,062 tons, which
was equivalent to 135 per cent. ; and in the oversea trade
of 1,724,462 tons, which was equivalent to 966 per cent.
In the aggregate there had been an increase of 4,952,524
tons, which was equivalent to 196 per cent. Thero was
no doubt the over-sea vend might be considerably in-
creased by the equalization of the duty paid in France.
A committee was directing its attention to the subject.
Very great pains had been taken in the matter by their
honourable member Mr. Bell, and atso by Mr. Foster,
the able member for Berwick, who had attended Lord
Palmerston, and also the French Minister, with the view
of obtaining an equalization of the duties, and he hoped
their exertions would prove successful. The chairman
had said the coal trade was in a state of great depression.
He believed it never was in so bad a state before. For
five years it had been continually getting worse ' • whether
it would get better or not he could not tell, but it de-
pended entirely upon themselves.—Speech of 111 r, Tay-
lor at Newcastle last week.

WHO SHOULD EMIGRATE TO CALIFORNIA ?—The
Times correspondent writes :—" I wish to say a word on
the subject of emigration from England. The English
don't appear to have interested themselves actively in
California, from which some other countries have already
reaped a rich harvest. This is manifest from the fact that
none of our first or second class mercantile firms have
established branch houses here. Then again, the people
wh,) find their way here are chiefly of the wrong class. I
regret to see a great many young men in the capacity of
clerks arriving. This is no place for them. They arrive
with little money, and the necessaries of life being enor-
mously dear, they spend their slender means in a short
time, and being unfit for manual labour their fate is very
wretched. Scores of them have tried the " diggins," but
always failed, most from want of stamina, and some from
want of perseverance. The merchants being chiefly Ame-
rican, their clerks are naturally enough most frequently
their countrymen. Then such houses as have been esta-
blished on South American and Mexican connexions are
branches translated from those countries, and they have
brought their clerks with them ; besides, their clerks to
be efficient, must know the Spanish language. All these
things are serious drawbacks to an Englishman arriving
in search of a situation, We want capital and thews and
sinews here—strong working men and tradesmen, brick-
layers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and all clases of artisans.
With industry and economy they will all do well, and
some will make fortunes. They have nothing to fear.
Should trade fail them, yet with *health alone remaining,
they have the road to independence open to them in the
mines. This is no visionary prospect or fancy &latch;
those who tried it a year ago are now here to verify my
remarks."

MATRIMONIAL HOAX.—About a week or two ago, a
draper in Edinburgh, a widower, thought proper to ad-
vertise for a wife, either a young lady or widow, giving as
his reason for such a mode of procedure want of time to
mix in society, and look out for a wife in the usual man-
ner • but of course one with some capital was to have the
preference, which, likely enough, was the only obstacle to
his getting a wife in the " usual manner." The adver-
tisement was answered by a gentleman in this city, who
introduced himself as a young widow of twenty-five,
having no family, and having £l4O a year, derived from
bank stock, besides some property which belonged to her
late husband. The bait took—the fair widow's applica-
tion was dnly answered, the only one out of thirty that
had been paid any attention to, as the widower himself
said, and a meeting appointed to take place in Glassford-
street here, when all preliminaries were to be arranged.
The meeting was duly kept by the widower; not so 'with
the widow though. In place of her, some thirty of the
other sex who were in the secret were at the place of
meating, enjoying a hearty laugh at the widower's ex-
pense, who was kept impatiently walking about for fully
half an hour. prominently displaying the sign of recog-
nition—viz., the fair one's letter in one hand and his
gloves in the other, in vain looking for a similar recogni-
tion from the several females who passed him. Ladies
in want of husbands should be particularly on their guard
in answerinz such advertisements, as the result of this
one proved that it was the money not the wife he was
after, as he in his advertisements said applications would
he received for, and then either answered or returned.
The lady's letter was not in his hands two days when it
was replied to, so tl at in this case the £l4O a year proved
too tempting an offer to be resisted, and the advertiser for
a wife deserving of a hardei punishment than the vain
chase he bad after the visionary moneyed widow. His
name is well enough known, but the originators of the
hoax do not wish to be too severe on him ; perhaps this
notice will serve as a sufficient warning to WM kw the
future.- .Glavoto Paper.