The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARI).

The Great Western Cotton Company, at Bristol, are ADDRESS TO TUE QUEEN FRUM THE DEAF AND DUMB
about immediately to extend their operations very consi- COLLEGE.—During the short stay of the royal party, last
derably by the erection of much additional machinery—in week, at the Rugby station, J. F. Ledsam, Esq., one of
the weaving department—to meet increased demand. I the directors of the r ilway, was requested b; Mr. Bing-
A pin, upwards of an inch in length, was discovered in ham, the principal of the College of the Deaf and Dumb,
a hen's egg, at Mr. Clark's, Gale Cottage, near Keswick, to present the following memorial, prepared by his pupils :
one morning last week. The egg had been boiled for " Most Gracious Sovereign,—May it please your Majesty,—
breakfast, and on severing a piece off one end, the pin was We, the pupils of the Co" of the W.** -- . ~.‘ml). Rugby

discovered standing perpendicularly in its centre

with every respect and obedience. wish your most Gracious
Majesty a safe arrival at your destination. On your way, the
plaudits of thousands of your Majesty's subj?cts will greet
your ear, hut none will be more loyal than we, to whom God,
in his infinite wisdom, has denied speech and hearing.—We

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND

AND FRANCE.-All operations connected with this un-
dertaking are now suspended till the spring. The inter-
val will be employed in manufac'urinz the wire cables

completed by- May.
During the evening of Wednesday week, the mail cart
which conveys the Wolverhampton letters to Birmingham
was robbed when near Bilston. A strap attached to one
of the bags was cut, and the bag, which contained £3OOO

" Oct. 11, 1850."

SINGULAR EXPERIMENT WITH A FILTER.—A grocer
and dealer in British wines, residing in Ipswich, was so
fully satisfied with a recently- purchased filter in purifying
urposes, that he

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imaginable, being divested of all its original colour and
flavour. He was quite incensed at the destructive powers
of Ihe filter, and ran off in a rage to the tradesman from
whom lie purchased it, expressing his dissatisfaction at
such a species of imposition upon the public, as the filters
would destroy the best wine in the kingdom, of which be
had ocular demonstration. He insisted upon returning
the filter, and receiving back his money. The tradesman,

however, persuaded him to retain his purchase and apply
it to its legitimate purpose in future.
A NOVEL DINNER.—A curious case was heard before
the :sitting magistrates at Sunderland, on Monday last,
and is thus related by our Sunderland contemporary :

Ellen Brydon was charged by Andrew Brydon with having
assaulted him. The partie3 are ma❑ and wife, and have
been married seven years. Having lately differed on ac-

count of the wife having pawned her husband's clothes for
drink, the defendant put an advertisement into the Sun-
derland Herald stating that he would not be answerable
for any debt that his wife might contract for the future.
At this his wife became enraged, and when her husband

came come to ainner, on rise aay tee aavertisement ap-
peared, he found the cloth laid on the table, and a clean
plate with the Sunderland Herald neatly folded and laid
upon it so as to show the advertisement. The hungry
and astonished husband looked aghast, but rallying again,
delivered a lecture to his spouse. who returned the com-
pliment with interest, and seized his cap and walloped
him round the floor. She then took a knife and flourished
it over his head, on which he turned her to the door.
The prisoner said she had been ill-used by her husband,
who had been two years and seventeen weeks out of work,
during which time she had kept him.—Fined one shilling
and costs, or seven days' imprisonment.
EXTRAORDINARY DOINGS ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.
—At the Thames Police-office, on Wednesday, Captain
Robert Prede, master of the ship Governor M' Donald,
appeared to an assault summons, issued by one of his
crew, named David Isbasta. The complainant stated that
whilst the vessel was at Cameroon, off the coast of Africa,
Farmer, the mate, accused him of stealing some spirits,
on which the captain handed him and another man named
Bainbridge, who was charged with a similar offence, over
to King Bill, the savage monarch of the island, and they
were chained to a tree for three weeks, suffering all kinds
of privations and indignities. Bainbridge sickened and
sank under the treatment; but witness, being of a more
robust constitution, survived. He saw King Bill every
clay, and his Majesty promised to interfere in his behalf;
but, knowing him to be a man-eater. witness would wil-
lingly dispense with his visits ; and it was not until Bain-
bridge died that witness was sent back to the ship. The
magistrate having asked how he knew that the King was
a man-eater, the complainan replied that there were two
other vessels from Liverpool lying alongside, which had
only two or three whites on board ; and one of the cap-
tains having offended the King, his Majesty, who spoke
very good English, threatened to eat him. (Laughter.)
The defendant was remanded.
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO ROB AND MURDER BY MEANS
OF CHLOROFORM.—KendaI has been thrown into a state
of the greatest excitement and alarm by the report that
an attempt had been made on Sunday night, by a man
who had secreted himself under a bed in Shaw's Tempe-
rance Hotel, to rob and murder, by the agency of chloro-
form. a gentleman lodging in the house. It appears that
the Rev. Lachlan M'lntosh had taken up his quarters on
Sunday night, at Shaw's Temperance Hotel, in that town.
Mr. Wlntosh, who had retired to bvd about nine o'clock,
was awoke about twelve by a man attempting to suffocate
him by means of a rag steeped in chloroform. Mr.
M'lntosh, who is an elderly man, struggled desperately
with his assailant; but, whether from the fumes of the
chloroform, or the terrible disadvantage at which he was
taken by his midnight assailant, he felt himself fast fail-
ing, when his cries of " Help !—murder !" roused the
house. When Mr. Shaw, of the Temperance Hotel,
made his way into the room, the intended victim was
almost powerless, and the assassin, or robber, was lying
- pon the bedding, which had fallen upon the floor in the
ff.

Ben, —, apparently sound asleep. On being roughly
shaken, the latter professed that he had long been a
sleep-walker, and appeared to be astonished to find him-
self where he was. 'A policeman was sent for, and the
man was taken into custody.
INTERESTING OPERATION AT THE GLASGOW EYE
INFIRMARY.—Much interest was last week excited by
the case of a man in whose left eye a living parasitic ani-
mal (cysticercus) existed, and could be seen to move be-
hind the transparent part, or the cornea of the eye. This,
though only the sixth case of the kind on record, is the
second which has occurred at the Glasgow Eye Infirmary
within the last two years. The last example was in a
girl, who was successfully operated on by Dr. Mackenzie.
and who, after the removal ,tf the parasite from the eye,
enjoyed perfect vision. The subject of the present notice
having been made acquainted with the nature of his dis-
ease, and the good result of the former case, chose to come
down from England to put himself under the care of Dr.
Mackenzie, who on Saturday extracted the offending ani-
mal from his eye, and has also dismissed him quite well,
the eye presenting no appearance of ever having been
operated on at all. The animal in question has a neck
about a third of an inch long, formed of rings, somewhat
after the fashion of a tapeworm, and bearing a curious
head armed with suckers. Its other end is a transparent
bag, about one-eighth of an inch in diameter, the wavy
motions of which were beautifully seen in front of the pu-
pil. The whole subject of the entrance of parasitic ani-
mals into the living body is obscure;. but there seems lit-
tle reason to doubt that the germs must enter the blood,
and in this way be carried to those parts of the body where
they become developed. It is not improbable that the
eating the flesh of animals inhabited by such parasites,
" measly" pork, for instance, may be one means of in-
troducing them into man.—North British Mail.
THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE RECEIVING HER MA-
JESTY.—By some means or other, the party assembled
on Thursday evening to receive her Majesty, at the Mea-
dowbank or " Queen's" Station, had become of that pecu-
liarly varied description which is politely designated as
being more " numerous than select." An incident, how-
ever, soon occurred, which in the materials it afforded
for the ludicrous, amply repaid those who really felt they
had the privilege of being present for arty inconvenience
they might feel on account of their juxtaposition to their
more uncouth neighbours. An old lady, whose appear-
ance indicated that she had been previously fortified, both
internally and externally, for all the rigours of an October
evening, advanced, with umbrella in hand, towards the
front of the platform, and espying some less fortunate
female friend among a group whose heads were peering
above the wall on the opposite side of the railway, pro-
ceeded to descant in no very refined language on the ex-
cellence of her then position. She seemed to be the verit-
able Mrs. Jones, who had, as usual, forgotten herself
entirely among the congregation of grand folks who were
about her; and in a loud shrill tone of voice, with admi-
rable patois logic, she endeavoured to enforce on her
female acquaintance not only the excellence of her situa-
tion, but also the advisability of the aforesaid friend
leaving the place where she stood, and coming over to the
platform. A universal titter was instantly heard, and
there is no question that if the good dame had been
allowed to proceed for a little time longer, the risible
muscles of the spectators would soon have been in active
play. As it was, however, Sheriff Gordon, somewhat
fluttered, at once ordered a policeman to do his duty, and
240 odd had the satisfaction of removing the old lady to
a more convenient place—she all the while being lost in
the most unspeakable amazement as to what was the real
nature of her offence.—North British Mail.

THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.—The first of these
performances took place at her Majesty's Theatre, Lon-
don, on Tuesday night. They had excited great expecta-
tion, and the house (the promenade part of it especially)
was crowded to excess. The interior of the theatre, as
fitted up for these concerts, presents a very gay and
pleasing coup d'ceil. The plan is similar to that intro-
duced by Jullien at Drury-lane. The pit and stage form
an immense promenade, being connected by two short
flights of steps on each side of the orchestra, which is
erected on the stage, and entirely surrounded by the pro-
menade. The pit, in front of the orchestra, being the
best part of the promenade for hearing, is of course the
most crowded. On Tuesday the audience was inconve-
niently numerous, and there was great confusion. Be-
sides this, there were no great novelties either in the
singers or the music selected, and matters went badly.
The second of the series, on Wednesday night, was
hardly more successful. One London paper says that
it cannot discover the " nationality " of the concerts.
With the single exception of the name of Rowland,
which is appended to a very well-known work of by
no means an obscure composer (Mayseder, op. 40), no
English composer appeared in the programme. The
Morning Chronicle says : —"The lion of the evening
was young Heinrich Werner, the pianist. The tri-
umphs which this little prodigy has won in the highest
circles have expanded with his last night's display. It is
perhaps due to the modern facility of intercommunication
that, at the age of nine years and some months, this
genius has reaped his laurels from so wide a field. He
has played before the dilettanti of Norwich, where, the
Philharmonic Society elected him an ordinary member;
and her Majesty has listened approvingly while his tiny
fingers grappled with the difficulties of Liszt and Wit.
mers. 'Wonderful as is the courage of the little B'eeth.
oven,' as he has been called, his grasp of hand is unequal,
to the conceptions of the hecato-dactylic Liszt. In every
range of the art, he exhibits a depth of perception 4
science, and feeling, waiting only for physical maturity/to,
enable him to reach the heights of excellence."

AMPUTATION AGAIN. PREVENTED BY HOILOW'AY'4
OINTMENT AND PILli9.---EXlnl.ot of a letter from Mr. B.

Smith, 65, Chap,l-street, Dublin, dated March 13;1850
" To Professor Holloway,—Dear sir, I ,think it only my
duty to inform you and•the public_ortlie wonderful cure
your Ointment and liills have effected on me. For three
years I had a dreadfutiliy• mid in my leg. I tried all the
most eminent oft the ulty in this city, hut to no par-
pose ; they infer me that nothing could save my life
probe
brit amputee I was then advised by a celebrated doc-
tor, to use, our remedies, which, in a brisfiperiod. her."ded
zny leme gilAßraado it as stroni 48 it formerly. vras2"
--,7.

SINGULAR CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—About
seven o'clock last Sunday evening a young man presented
himself at the door of the vicarage, Brightlingsea, and
asked for some victuals and a night's lodgings, and he
refused to leave till his requirements were satisfied. The
expostulations of the servants being ineffectual in dis-
missing the visitor, the vicar (the Rev. Dr. Coils) came
forward and remonstrated with the fellow, who, however,
remained firm to his resolution ; and the rev, gentleman
was at length necessitated to forcibly eject him from the
house. About five o'clock the next morning a man,
answering his description was observed leaving the premi-
ses, and from subsequent investigation it was pretty evi-
dent he had located himself for the night in Dr. Coll's
carriage. On Monday, by the rev. gentleman's direc-
tions, a young labourer from Frating, named John Clary,
was apprehended at Brightlingsea, and being taken to the
vicarage was recognised both by Dr. Coils and his ser-
vant as the party who had been there the night before
It was subsequently f

wever, that both had been
I mistaken in their identity ; for, on the prisoner beine

chester

several of

oeen at home on
the Sunday night. Clary was accordingly taken before a
magistrate and discharged, and the rev. gentleman re-
compensed Clary for the mistake.

having

•MURDER BY .POISONING.—A great deal.of painful ex-
citement has been created in the vicinity of Ponttryhed-
fendigaed, South Wales, in consequence of the death of
an elderly lady of highly respectable family connexions,
named Ann Jones, under circumstances which leave no
doubt that her death was produced by the administration
of arsenic ; and the excitement has been 'further increased
by the apprehension of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, daughter-
in-law of the deceased, on suspicion of being the mur-
deress. The deceased lady, who was a person of respect-
able family and connexion, had resided at Blonderben,
and for some time her eldest son, Mr. Thomas Jones, to-
gether with his wife (the accused) and their five children,
had been living in the same house with her. During the
year 1846 the deceased lady's brother died, leaving pro-
perty to a considerable amount, and bequeathing to her,
among others, a legacy of £l,OOO. This sum Mrs. Jones

it at her bankers at Aherystwith on her account. Instead
of fulfilling her instructions he paid in the money in his
own name, and made use of some portion of it. for his own
purposes. This being discovered, Mrs. Jones commenced
a suit for its recovery, and succeeded in getting a verdict.
The son then, without saying anything to his family, went
off to America, and his wife and family went to live with
his mother, and according to all account, did not treat the
old lady very kindly.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Letters to the Admiralty
from the parties to whom the relics of bones, piece of rope
&c., found by Mr. Snow, of the Prince Albert, at Cape
Riley, have been published, giving the reasons for the
conclusion at which they had arrived, that they were con-
nected with the missing Franklin expedition. The follow-
ing paragraph from the letter of Sir Edward Parry gives
the chief point of interest :—" I would submtt to your
lordships what appears to me the most probable conclu-
sion—namely, that Sir John Franklin's ships, having
reached this neighbourhood on the way out in 1845, and
being stopped there for a time by the stale of the ice (as
I was, and as we know the present searching expeditions
have been), a couple of boats may have been detached
from each ship to land at Cape Riley to make the usual
observations, collect specimens, and examine the coast—a
common occurrence in all such expeditions. If detained
for a night, each boat's crew may have pitched its own
tent, and one for the officers, making five in all. The
only circumstance which I cannot explain (supposing the
encampment to have been formed by Sir John Franklin's
people) is, the large size of the tents, which Mr. Snow
has just described to us as twelve feet in diameter and
upwards, and which is certainly very large for tents gene-
rally used on such occasions. This may, in part, perhaps
be explained by the stones being thrown from the centre,
and the circle thus considerably enlarged when striking
the tents."
THE LAW OF PATENTS.—CharIes Dickens's House-
hold Words has taken up this matter. Under the title
of " A poor man's tale of a patent," a little history is
given of the proceedings, and the vexations, annoyances,
and expenses attendant on the process. with the amount
of each particular item, the result being an immense
expense and the loss of six weeks' time. The tale, after
reciting a number of expenses, concludes thus :—" But I
hadn't nigh done yet. The Queen's bill was to be
taken to the Signet-office in Somerset.house, Strand,
where the stamp shop is. The Clerk of the Signet made
` a Signet bill for the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal ;' I
paid him £4 7s. The Clerk of the Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal made 'a Privy Seal Bill for the Lord uhan-
cellor ;' I paid him £4 2s. The Privy Seal Bill was
handed over to the Clerk of the Patents, who engrossed
the aforesaid; I paid him £5 17s. Bd. ; at the same time
I paid stamp-duty for the patent, in one lump £3O. I
next paid him for ' boxes for the patent,' 9s. 6d. Note.—
Thomas Joy would have made the same at a profit for
Is. 6d. I next paid `fees to the Deputy, the Lord Chan-
cellor's Purse-bearer,' £2 2s. I next paid fees to the
Clerk of the Hanaper,' 10s. I next paid to the Lord
Chancellor again, £1 lls. 6d. Last of all, I paid • fees
to the Deputy-sealer and Deputy Chaff Wax, 10s. 6d. I
have lodged at Thomas Joy's over six weeks, and the
unopposed patent for my invention, for England only,
had cost me £96 7s. Bd. If I had taken it out for the
United Kingdom, it would have cost me more than £300."
THE UNPROTECTED STATE OF THE COUNTRY DIS-
TRICTS.—The Morning chronicle animadverts upon
what it calls " the enormous absurdity and injustice of a
law that makes it discretionary with any body of men,
whether their neighbours shall or shall not enjoy the ele-
mentary benefits of civilization and government :"
" The question which these Surrey magistrates are about
to investigate and report upon is neither more nor less than
this—Shall the inhabitants of the county receive the pro-
tection of the State in return for the allegiance which they
render to her Majesty, and for the taxes which they pay
into the Exchequer ? We venture to doubt whether this
is a question that ought, in any case, to be referred to a
body of men who can in no sense be said to represent the
trading and industrious classes- of the community—and,
we may add, whose wealth gives them facililies for self-
protection which may somewhat impair the keenness of
their sympathies with their less favoured fellow-citizens.
It may be all very well for gentlemen to dispense with
the services of a police, when they can conveniently afford
to sleep, like one of the Surrey magistrates, with " six-
barrelled revolving pistols under their pillows," or when
they have whole regiments of butlers, coachmen, grooms,
and gardeners, ready to do police duty for them at a mo-
ment's notice. But these succedanea for a constabulary
force are luxuries not readily accessible to the mass of the
community; and a Government which sends its tax-
gatherers to poor people's houses, should never suffer it
to be a matter of chance whether their earnings are safe
from the depredator, and their persons from the assassin."
THE HEIGHT OF PRUDENCE.—A man of respectable
appearance paid a visit to the Gorbals Police-office on Sa-
turday, with the view of making a satisfactory arrange-
ment in case of any contingency that might arise. Agrave,
sober, decent-looking person he was, and as a preliminary
to his business, he handed in a note to the following pur-
port :—" Sir,—Being a stranger, and having cause to ap-
prehend death by apoplexy, should my remains be carried
to your office, please to employ a respectable undertaker
to place them in a plain coffin, enclosed in a box of inch
boards, and direct it —, care of the Session Clerk of
Prestonkirk, East Lothian. Also to put my watch and
chain into either my box or trunk, that lie at the railway
station terminus from Paisley ; and to send these things,
with the keys apart, all by the railway, directed to
who will pay all expenses in the affair, and oblige, sir,
yours, respectfully." The lieutenant on duty, after a pe-
rusal of this singular epistle, scanned the bearer atten•
tively and then put the question, " Was be mad ?" He
received for reply, that however mad-like the proceeding
might seem, it did not originate in such a cause ; and was
then edified by an explanation of how " uncomfortable"
it would be to be interred in any graveyard of Gorbals
The advice to apply to the inspector of the parish in re-
gard to the circumstance he rejected, as he did not like to
come in contact with such parties. After a long colloquy,
the officer began to discover that he could not do better
than fall in with the hallucination under which the man
suffered, and with that view recommenced him to get a
label conveying his wishes suspended about his neck, so
that go where he might he would have something like a
certainty that his desire would be respected. The advice
was gratefully received, and will, we presume. be acted on
—Glasgow Chronicle

THE_ BRUTE CREATION AND MESMERISM.—The cur-
rent number of the Zoist contains three instances of
mesmeric effect produced upon animals by the ordinary
process of manipulation. This is a new branch of the
mesmeric science, and as such is entitled to some notice.
The first case is communicated by the Duke of Marlbo-
rough, who, in 1843, operated upon a yard-dog "so savage
and ferocious no one dare approach him, and in three
minutes had him fast asleep, his last sigh being a deep
growl." His grace afterwards operated upon another
savage watch-dog at Blenheim, and " in about fifteen
minutes he ran into his kennel and hid his eyes from the
manipulating process—growling, snarling, and barking
most furiously, notwithstanding." The duke then went
to work again, the dog being ten times more furious than
before, and in 45 minutes " had him so quiet, oppressed,
and stupid, that he dropped his nose several times in the
mud around his kennel, and kept shutting and opening
his eyes." The Rev. T. Bartlett, of Kingstone, near
Canterbury, furnishes the second case, and tells how, in
the autumn of 1837, when descending a mountain in
Westmoreland, a bellowing bull approached the fence
which confined him in the roadside field, and evidently
wanted to cultivate a closer acquaintance with the rev.
gentleman. Mr. Bartlett, apprehensive that the bull
might leap the fence, and declining the chance of being
fixed upon the horns of a dilemma, approached the excited
animal (being of course on the right side of the hedge)
and " looked him steadily in the face."- In about a mi-
nute, says the possessor of the charming power, "a twin-
kling of the eyelids arose, very similar to that of a human
subject at an early stage of mesmeric influence. After,_
apnrodbtahbely
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quiet, minutes,aatdheaepypeesa
hand of a
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movable as if he had been chiselled by the .
state to his position ofperfect iminovabil
"lltYcowuld not but
manipulator) indeed most striking.
sculptor." The transition from his proviouassl
bull was now past,
Y(adedxscittleide
feel thankful that all: danger from the
' "- The third and last case. .
is that of
clasosed
stop to wake him..
her cow Ailsie, whose
upon greradautoalblYe
Miss Martineau, who operated' andwho, like her mistress,
functiona were suspendedi
" Miss Martineau, however,
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and after looking at his fixed form fora few minutes more,
war;
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stoheexmceoeudnintagint,haantditdimdinghott
whose faith in this science
choking, and all in a flame of fever,.
for breath, tuivering,
and her mouth and nostrils dry."'
with her eyes starting
had
after being cured,a relapse certainly, but
The cow,
her Cumbrian man servant exclaimed that " Ailsiat 1138-
rceumltyovien mdeoaulnintaginwl,thmlaincharmraelcwurehoawcoaws
0,
Miss Martineau set tuwork again with such effect, that
fain to, P. Wde" like I"