The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-08 00:00:00

AN. EXCELLENT SHOT.—At Morrell Green, Takeley,
Essex, a few days since, Wilkins, gamekeeper to W.
F. Maitland, Esq., was challenged to shoot at and mark
ninety-nine potatoes out of one hundred thrown up,for a
wager of a sovereign. The potatoes were tossed straight
up into the air as high as a person could reasonably throw
with great exertion. 'Wilkins hit ninety-eight, and thirty
tunes he marked two potatoes each time. He performed
this clever undertaking with a double-barrelled gun.
Much to the surprise of the congregation attending
divine service in the parish church of Stepney, the doors
of the sacred building were found closed on Sunday after-
noon last. A notice which was posted last Sunday on the
doors informed the parishioners that the Bishop of London
had requested Mr. Poole, the lecturer elect, to abstain
from preaching for the present, a request which that gen-
tleman complied with.
In the Consistory Court last week an application was
made for a faculty to disinter the body of a female who
committed suicide in London on the 30th of May last,
under the supposition that she was a Miss Pope, who
quitted her home at Dover on the 6th of that month, being
of very eccentric habits. The security of some trust pro-
perty in which she was concerned was involved in the
proof of her identity. A faculty was granted.
On Friday, in the committee of the House of Lords on
the bill of the Great Northern Railway Company for com-
munication with Grimsby Harbour, an extensive dealer
in the London fish market stated that, by means of the
railway communication between London and Grimsby, he
had received 8,000 lobsters that morning, and sold them
for the supply of the metropolis, the cargo leaving Grimsby
at eight p.m. and arriving in London at four a.m.
Devizes and the neighbourhood were visited, last week,
by a most destructive storm. Several persons were struck
by the electric fluid and seriously injured. Two sheep were
killed. The corn crops were damaged to a lamentable
extent, the wheat, in many instances, being laid prostrate.
It is said that three farmers have lost £l,BOO. Numerous
buildings were moe or less injured, and many large trees
were torn up by the roots. Some of the hailstones which
fell were more than four inches in circumference.
THE LATE CURATES OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH.—
On Sunday, the Rev. F. S. Barff, 8.A., and the Rev. T.
Dykes, 8.A., who recently resigned their office as curates
in the Holy Trinity Church, were admitted into the
Romish communion, and received the sacrament in the
Roman Catholic Chapel, Jarratt-street, from the hands
of the Rev. Mr. Mottler. No public avowal of the
change in their principles was made by the rev. perverts,
neither was there any reference made to it in the sermons
preached on that day.—Hull Packet.
THREE SUNS !—About half-past 5 o'clock on the
morning of Saturday week, the parish clerk of White
Ladies Aston was passing along the road leading from
Aston to Pershore, when his attention was directed by an
acquaintance whom he met to the remarkable appearance
of the sun. At that particular time the sun seemed to be
tripled, the real sun in the centre being brilliant as usual,
with one on each side equidistant but duller, apparently
20 feet apart from the centre. This singular optical illu-
sion continued for some time.—Worcester Journal.
RAPACITY OF A CUCKOO.--A few days ago, a workman
of Mr. Harrold. the builder, employed at the baths,
observed a blackbird chased into a hovel by one of those
monotonous heralds of summer ' • and after watching for
some time, he followed them, when he found the poor
blackbird dead, with her ovarium, or egg bag, ripped up,
and quite emptied of its contents. When such facts as
these become more generally known, Master Cuckoo will
bear even a worse character than the one he gives of him-
sel f.—Leicester Mercury.
The corn markets throughout the country have been in
a very depressed state during the present week, and prices
have receded fully two shillings a quarter upon wheat.
The advance previously obtained is, therefore nearly
beaten down again. What else could be expected under
the influence of fine weather, free trade, and large impor-
tations from all parts of the world ? It is assumed by
many experienced persons that, in the event of the coming
harvest lant and '1

_mg aouno. _. we,. secured, the price of
wheat before the expiration of the present year will be
nearer thirty than forty shillings a quarter.
DUNMOW GAMMON OF BACON.—After the lapse of
10) years this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a
couple in good circumstances, as farmers, at Felsted, Es-
sex, named Murrell, but, failing to obtain it from the
lord of the manor, the inhabitants of Dunmow have pro-
cured one by subscription, which will be presented to
them, instead of the lord's, on their taking the usual
oaths, at Broomhills, near Dunrnow, on Wednesday, the
16th July. The couple will drive on to the ground
(escorted by a band of tnusicl in their own carriage and
horses. A large number of persons are expected to con-
gregate to witness the ceremony.
A CHILD ATTACKED BY A RAT.---Early in the morning
of Sunday week, a man living in Stirling was awakened
by the loud cries of one of his children, an infant of ten-
der years ; and on rising to ascertain ie cause, he found
the child's lip streaming with blood, without any visible
means of how the wound had been inflicted. After hav-
ing applied a wet cloth to the cut, the parent again re-
tired to rest, but was soon re-awakened by the loud
screams of his child. On hurriedly rising, and throwing
the bed-clothes from the infant, a large rat suddenly
sprang from beneath, when it was found that the arm of
the child had been severely bitten by the vermin, which
unfortunately succeeded in making its escape.—Stirling
Journal.

BALLASTING WITH WATER.—The principle of ballast-
ing vessels with water instead of by the ordinary means
has been successfully carried out in the brig Benton,
which was purchased expressly to test the practicability
of the plan, which is the invention of Dr. White, of this
town, who bought the vessel and fitted it with the appa-
ratus at his own expense. The project is one calculated
to effect an immense saving of both time and money, and
the result of the experiment with the Benton unquestion-
ably demonstrates its practicability. The water, which
is admitted through an aperture in the bottom of the ves-
sel, is encased in bags, and is discharged through the
same aperture by means of an improved patent pump,
which, in this case, according to the account of Mr.
Storey, the mster of the vessel, worked admirable.—New-
castle Journal. .

An accident of a most heart-rending description oc-
curred at Aberdare, on Monday evening, by which four
lives have been sacrificed and several persons injured. It
appeared that a tram, laden with iron, which had been
placed near one of the pits belonging to the Gadlys
Company, by some means became detached from the
fastening by which it was secured. The result was that
the waggon was precipitated down the slight declivity, and
dashed into the midst of part of the procession, then on
its way to Abernant House, that portion of the road being
very narrow, and the people consequently, closely wedged
together. Some of the sufferers were dreadfully mutilated,
many of them having limbs, &c., completely crushed.
The majority of the injured parties were young persons.
The man in charge of the truck was taken into custody by
P. S. Parsons.
THE TENNESSEE REPEATING RlFLE.—Within the
last fortnight Lord Ranelagh, and a number of scientific
gentlemen, have witnessed experiments with small arms
at Chelsea, but none of the rifles experimented with come
up to the Tennessee repeating rifle, which is described in
the following manner by an American paper:—" By merely
pulling the trigger, the rifle is loaded and discharged, and
as there is a magazine of powder, balls, and caps attached,
from which the rifle is supplied, the only limit to the
number of successive discharges is the size of the maga-
zine. The rifle can, therefore, be loaded and fired from
one to a thousand times in succession, or more, and this
as rapidly as the trigger can be pulled, which is ordinarily
about forty times in a minute. Aside from its wonderful
execution, it is safer and better to handle than the com-
mon rifle. What a terrible front a regiment of men,
armed and drilled with these rifles, would present."
POPISH SCHEMES.—A " Working Man's Institution"
has been set on foot in the Borough, by a Mr. Bennett,
which is intended as " the commencement. of a general
association of the Catholic labouring classes in London,"
for aiding other, and the labouring classes generally, in
procuring employment, and for assisting strangers and
others, whether male or female, who have no homes of
their own, in finding respectable lodgings. The institu-
tion is also intended to " afford facilities for instruction
and rational amusement, by encouraging meetings of Ca-
tholic societies for the working classes ;" singing and in.
nocent games are to take place, and "zealous Catholic
gentlemen" are expected to give lectures ; reading-rooms
supplied with all Catholic newspapers arid periodicals, and
with the daily London papers. and a district library are to
form part of the institution. Combined with it is a coffee
and dining-room, and a soup-kitchen, both selling at re-
duced prices.
BE CAREFUL OF LOVE-LETTERS.—We give this advice
in consequence of a pocket-book, now in the Police-office,
containing a great number of billet doux, all sent to a young
man, who, by some mistake, lost the precious treasure in
a garden on the west side of the High-street, under the
cloud of night. He seems to have no fewer than four
sweethearts all desperately in love with him, each breathing
out her very soul in the warmest expressions of tenderness
and affection ; every epistle, as usual, ending with a
" yours till death separate us." One has suspicion that
she is forsaken—another sets a tryst—and a third desires
her letter to be burned—and all four seem ready to die.
Poor creatures, we pity them, for none of them can have
a true lover in such a gallant ; nor can he feel true love
himself, for divided love was never happy. By the ad-
dresses to the letters it would appear that this amorous
swain is a farm-servant betwixt this and Stonehaven, and
we would advise our rural maids to bunt him down and
duck him in the nearest burn. Let our fair friend "M.
T." especially look to this.—Montrose Standard.
ESCAPE OF A CARRIER PIGEON FROM THE FRANKLIN
EXPEDITION.—SeveraI carrier pigeons were placed on
board the Prince Albert, for the purpose of transmitting
intelligence. One of these escaped at Stromness, just as
the ship was putting to sea; but it found its way on
board again, as appears from a note from Mr. Kennedy,
which he threw overboard in a bottle, and which has been
picked at Rapness, Westray, one of the northernmost of
the Orkney Islands. A correspondent of the John
O'Groat's Journal says :—" In your paper of the 13th
instant I reported the escape of one of the carrier pigeons
from the discovery vessel Prince Albert, an hour bofore
she sailed for her intended destination. The following
letter was written by Mr. Kennedy to A. J. Wylie, Esq.,
Writer, Stromness, off Hoy Sound, 3rd June, 5 P.M,
and picked up at Rapness, Island of Westray, Bth June,
by Mr. J. Scatter, Inspector of the Poor, and forwarded
here. The following is a copy of the letter :—' Discovery
Ship Prince Albert, off Hoy Sound, 3rd June, 1851,
i 5
a.m--The carrier pigeon that escaped at Stromness s
gain safe on board. It joined us immediately after the
pilot-boat left us, and it is now with its sister. Lady
Ross.—WILLIAM KENNEDY, commanding Lady Frank-
lin's Private Arctic Expedition.—P.o, Any person finding
this will do an act of kindness by sending it to A. J. Wylie,
Esq., Writer, Stromness, Mr. Wylie eV please give
petice to Lady Franklin."

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

MILITARY RIOT IN EDINBURGH.—The Lord Provost
of Edinburgh had an interview on Friday with the Right
Hon. the Secretary at War regarding the conduct of the
33d Regiment in the late riots between that corps and
the police. In connection with this, we may state that
the soldiers of the 33d Regiment were yesterday permit-
ted to quit the Castle for the first time since Wednesday
last, where Mr. Sheriff Gordon requested that they should
be confined till the excitement subsided, and that in the
evening we observed an officer, with a serjeant, corporal,
and 20 men, patrolling the High-street till half-past
when the soldiers had all returned to barracks, besides
several smaller detachments in charge of non-commis-
sioned officers, for the purpose of preventing any fresh
outbreaks. Such duty must be very irksome and dis-
agreeable to the officers ; but we hope it may have the
effect of impressing those under their command with a
more corre.lt sense of their duties than they evinced du-
ring the recent disturbances.—Edinburgh Witness.
THE FORCE OF HABIT.—On Thursday week, Mary
Ann Lane, a young woman, convicted of felony at the
January Quarter Sessions, was examined before the Bed-
ford magistrates, on a charge of stealing a silk handker-
chief, a shawl, pin, and a pair of cuffs, the property of the
assistant matron of the prison. Her term of imprison-
ment having expired, she resumed her own dress, and was
taking her departure, but on emerging from the prison
door the chief constable immediately took her into cus-
tody. In her bustle was found a piece of rag sewn up in
the form of a parcel, containing the articles named, with
is. 6d. in silver, and a cap : a piece of black tape was
found tied round her person. The assistant matron
stated she missed half-a-crown from her bedroom, a short
time ago, and had not recovered it. It appears the pri-
soner had occasionally been employed in the assistant
matron's room, and that, when committed on the former
occasion, 11d. was all the money found upon her. She
was again committed for trial.
WILD BOAR HUNT.—Some nine or ten months since,
Captain Russell, who is in the employ of the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, sent his father,
Mr. Russell, of Stonehouse, a very fine wild boar, which
was shortly afterwards accepted by the Right Hon. the
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. Better quarters than are to
be had on his lordship's grounds could not be found in
England, but there was one quality in them deficient,
and that was liberty. So last week the stranger broke
down all the barriers, and emancipating himself, revelled
in the luxurious scenery of this lovely domain. However,
in securing his own liberty, he had very much circum-
scribed that of the earl's family, and of those numerous
visitors who are allowed to traverse in quiet these cele-
brated grounds To prevent the continuance of this
obstruction became an object of imperative necessity ;
and a sufficient number of men being gathered together,
the earl and countess and their family were out to witness
the capture. The wild boar being thus hunted and
hemmed in on all sides, rushed down one of the slopes,
and tossing himself over the steep cliffs which face the
Sound, was speedily and effectually disabled, having
sacrificed his life rather than lose his much-coveted
liberty.— West of England Conservative.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S TENANTRY.—A memo rito
Sir James Graham, Bart., from his tenantry in Cumber-
land, praying for a reduction of rent in proportion to the
fall in the price of agricultural produce brought about by
the course of legislation of which the Rt. Hon. Baronet
was a prominent supporter, was lately passed round for
signature. This document was transmitted to Sir James
on Saturday last ; it bore the names of all the tenants
except four. Sir James was not long in returning an
answer, which was in his usual mixture of the cold and
scornful. He says, in effect, that those who are dissatis-
fied with presents arrangements may quit their holdings
in twenty days, as he can readily let them ! They have,
one and all, freely laid out their money and exercised their
personal skill for the improvements of the property, and
were led to believe that they would he met half way in
all that they did. This is their reward : " Dare you rebel?
Dare you set up your judgment against mine ?—Begone
The tie of years is severed. There are tenants ready to
step into your shoes. T want no lectures about legisla-
tion; my rent ! my rent ! or you quit at once." This is
in the spirit of modern liberality and free-trade. " Every
one for himself in this world"—Alderman Brooks. Sir
James Graham, Mr. Cobden, Earl Grey, and all the rest
of the Manchester school.
TICKLING SALMON AND BASKETING FLOUNDERS.—In
some of the narrow rivers situated on the Hampshire coast,
especially such as are in juxtaposition with the New Forest,
the poachers exercise their furtive occupation in various
ways. At this particular season of the year they watch
for the young salmon, coming up to enter the freshes, and
they have a very effectual mode of capturing these fish, by
entering the deep holes into which they retire during the
day, and discovering their immediate haunts. They com-
mence tickling the creatures w'tli their fingers, until they
are safely lodged in a handnet carried by the poachers for
the occasion. So dexterous are these persons in the
practice of kidnapping salmon after this fashion that
scarcely one fish out of twenty escapes their mesmeric
process. in catching flounders the men are furnished
with broad-mouthed, deep baskets, having holes at the
top" of them to admit the hand and arm through. With
these implements the captors enter the river when the
tide is out, and continue impelling them to the bottom of
the water over the grass and weeds, where the flounders
lie. The latter are secured within the basket, when they
are removed by introducing the hand within the holes at
the top. Some hundreds of these fish, as well as eels,
may thus be taken in the course of a few hours, where the
use of the net is unprivileged.
HON CRIMINALS ARE MADE.—About six weeks since,
amidst the falling of a tremendous shower of rain, our ears
were greeted by the plaintive voice of a child singing
" There is no more work for Poor Uncle Ned." On
being desired to come in, a dripping, shoeless little
wanderer presented a mild benignant face, lit up with in-
telligence, and an eye that flashed with noble enthusiasm.
His story was soon told : father was a hatter, who did not
work ; and mother sent him out to beg, and beat him if
lie did not carry home money enough. A fortnight after,
we met the poor little fellow again in the Low-street,
North Shields, in a wretched plight. His mother, in one
of her drunken fits, had struck him with some heavy in-
strument on the head, and inflicted a frightful wound.
He was pale and weak, and his shirt steeped in blood.
Again for a fortnight we saw him not, but having ascer-
tained from the police that his mother was in gaol, and he
in the workhouse, we went to see him. There he was
with his head healed, but still wearing the bloody shirt.
The reason assigned for keeping him in this plight was,
that he was not brought in the regular way, and was only
kept there until his mother should come for him, to take
him away once more to vagrancy, theft, or martyrdom—
to be hated, beaten, starved, corrupted, hunted by the
police, sent to a penal settlement,—lost in body and soul.
Will no kind hand be put forth to rescue this poor boy
fiom so wretched a state ?—Shields Gazette.
THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT NORWICH.--On Monday
morning, having procured dogs, the police proceeded to
search the fields and hedges in the suburbs of Norwich.
The result was the discovery of intestines, lungs, and a
portion of the viscera. They were ordered to be at once
placed in a solution of chloride of lime, and were found to
be in a very decomposed state, and to have been chopped
up into pieces of about three inches in length. This was
evidently not the work of a medical man, for the purpose
of scientific examination. These portions were originally
found in a sewer-gully in Bishopgate-street ; here they
were taken by a labouring man, ignorant of their nature,
and thrown upon a dungheap. Dr. Copeman gave it as
his opinion that the lungs were those of a healthy person.
The officers also succeeded in recovering several more
pieces of flesh, one of which was upwards of a pound in
weight. These are declared by the medical gentlemen to
whom the case has been referred to be portions of the
same body. It should also be stated that near the dung..
heap in Bishopgate-street were found several pieces of
linen and woollen fabrics stained with blood, all of which
have been carefully preserved by the superintendent of
police. The next step taken was to have the river Yare
and all its tributaries carefully dragged, the result of
which was the discovery of a black velvet bonnet, evi-
dently the property of a person in a respectable sphere of
life. In a field where several large pieces of flesh had been
found, and to which the especial attention of the police
had been directed, a discovery of a very important charac-
ter was made at a late hour on Monday evening. During
the day a body of men were set to mow down the grass,
and, in doing so, their scythes came in contact with a
hard substance, which they found to be the thigh bone of
a human being. The circumstance was immediately re-
ported to the superintendent of the city police, and Dr.
Copeman was called upon to examine it. He found that
the flesh had been torn away from the bone, and that the
bone itself had been sawn nearly through with a rough in-
strument. This part of the body was found at a place
called Hellesden, near St. Augustine's Gate, in the imme-
diate neighbourhood of Norwich, and in an entirely oppo-
site direction to that from which other portions have been
taken. During the whole of Monday and Tuesday pieces
of flesh were brought into the city station-house, by per-
sons who are conducting the search, all of which the sur-
geons at once declare to be portions of the same body.
They are placed in spirits of wine for preservation. It
has been clearly established that the murdered woman,
whoever she may be, was not an inhabitant of the city of
Norwich at the time of her death. It has also been satis-
factorily ascertained that the work has not been that of a
" resurrectionist," for it is established on the clearest
medical testimony that the body has never been interred.
It has also been proved to the satisfaction of the surgeons
that the person, portions of whom have been found, died
by violence, the hands being clenched and the toes con-
tracted, which would not have been the case in death
from natural causes. As soon as any identifiable portion of
the body shall be found, an inquest will be opened by the
coroner. These already discovered are incapable of iden-
tification. On Tuesday a young man, named Eaton, was
brought before the mayor charged with being an accessory
of the murder. The precise nature of the examination did
not transpire, as the inquiry was of a private character.
After hearing the evidence of a man named Garrard, to
whom it appears the prisoner had made some statement,
the magistrates did not feel themselves justified in detain-
ing the man Eaton. He was, therefore, discharged; but
it is understood that he will remain under the strict sur-
veillance of the police, in case anything else material
should transpire.

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