The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDATtit

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The grounds of the Brighton Pavilion were on Monday
opened to the public.
Herrings, at the Isle of Man, are now selling at 32 to
to 34 fora shilling.
The colliers of Monmouthshire have resumed work and
the " strike" may be said to be at an end.
Mrs. Lloyd, wife of the Rev. J. Lloyd, Baptist minis-
ter at St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, was accidentally shot
by her husband on Friday week, whilst he was cleaning a
double-barrelled gun.
Lord Castlereagh has contradicted in strong language
the alleged admission of his lady into the Roman Catholic
Church.

Messrs. Newell and Co. of Gateshead, have just made
a wire rope of the great length of 14,100 feet and weighing
upwards of 22 tons.
A musician belonging to the Lyceum theatre, Lon-
don, poisoned himself last week with opium. Ho was
living apart from his wife and family.
All arrangements are completed for erecting a building,
on a site of the Rolls estate, sufficiently large to contain
the uublic records and archives.

At the meeting of the New Zealand Company on
Thursday, Mr. Aglionby, M.P. announced that the com-
pany was ready to resign the charter to government.
Lord Wharncliffe has procured the services of a medical
man for his village of Wortley, and, in order to keep him
on the spot, pays him £5O a year, and finds him a house
rent free.

The Hermann steamer, from New York, en route to
Bremen and the Baltic, arrived at Cowes on Friday. Her
dates are only one day later than those brought by the
America.

Two shares in the London, Leith, Edinburgh, and Glas-
gow Shipping Company, put up to sale, did not find a pur-
chaser. In London the brig Fortitude, 191 tons, built at
Cochin in 1845, sold for £l,lOO
A railway guard of the name of William Walker, aged
32, having charge of a train from Salford to Accrington,
was on Monday last killed by his head coming in contact
with a wooden bridge on the line.
The Spanish government has, through its agent here,
entered into a contract with an eminent Glasgow firm for
building two first-rate steam vessels of 800 horse power ;
they are intended to run from Cadiz to Cuba and back as
mail packets.
The visitors in the Lake District at the present moment
are not so numerous as for some years past at this period
of the season. At Keswick and Ambleside the sojourners
have hitherto found ample accommodation at the inns,
and very few, if any, private lodgings are consequently
occupied.,

OPENING OF A NEW DOCK AT HULL.—On Wednesday:
the Victoria Dock was opened at Hull, with the ceremonies
usual on such occasions. This new dock itself comprises
12a. 2r. 13p. ; the half-tide basin, 3a.; the outer basin,
when completed, will enclose an area of 2a, 3r. ; and the
drypool basin, la. 20p.
THE RIOT AT DUNFERMLINE.—The alarming riot at
Dunfermline, an account of which we gave in our paper
last week, happily passed off without coming to any seri-
ous termination—the presence of the military, and the
energetic measures taken by the authorities and others on
the spot, having prevented the serious consequences which
many anticipated would ensue from the violence exhibited
by both parties of the mob.
A lady named Mrs. Martin, widow of the late respected
Mr. Martin, formerly keeper of the Gate Helmsley
A.ylum, was killed on Saturday at the railway station,
York, by a train passing over her. She had been taking
a walk outside the city walls, and was crossing the rail.
way on her way home when the train came up, knocked
her down, and completely cut her in two, separating the
head and shoulders from the rest of the body.
An extraordinary case has just occurred at Newark, of a
boy, aged only seven years, deliberately and wilfully
walking into the river Trent, and drowning himself. He
was the son of a Mr. John Hanson, a waterman, a re-
spectable man, living at Millgate. The boy, it appears,
had frequently complained to his schoolmates of his
mother beating him, and the day before his death he
cried and said she had been flogging him, and that if she
did it again he would drown himself.

MURDER.—On Wednesday, the police discovered Mr.
Joseph Warren, of Earl's Warren, near Northampton,
insensible, lying under a beech tree near a hedge. He
never stirred after he was found, but groaned once, and
died immediately. No noise had been heard in that di-
rection since he was last seen ; there was no blood, no
indications of a struggle having taken place, and but very
trifling appearances of external injury. His waistcoat
was unbuttoned, his dress disordered, and his trousers
pockets rifled, one of them being cut out. A description
having been obtained of a female with whom he had been
seen, she was apprehended the same night. The Jury,
at the inquest, returned a verdict of " wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown."
ORANGEISM.—On Monday the members of the Pro-
testant Association of Loyal Orangemen held their annual
meeting, at Bilston, in Staffordshire. Between 50 and 60
representatives of the brotherhood from various places in
Great Britain, were assembled together on this occasion
for the purpose of solemn deliberation upon the proceed-
ings of the past and the prospects of the future. The
condition of the brotherhood was found to be most en-
couraging, an increase of no less than 2000 members
having-taken place during the year. It was quite appa-
rent that the middle classes—the tradesmen, artizans, and
mechanics—who are well disposed to the ancient consti-
tution of this country, based upon the union of Church
and State, are beginning more extensively to appreciate
the principles of Orangeism. In the present year a still
greater accession of members is anticipated. The repre-
sentati'es from this neighbourhood were the Rev. S.
Fenton, (Grand Chaglain of the order,) and Mr. R. Mar-
tin. The Rev. Dr. Burnet was present, and delivered an
able address to the members. During the day petitions
were adopted against the bill for the admission of Jews to
Parlitunent, and also against the government Factory
Bill.
A HUSBAND POISONED BY lIIS WIFE.—The neigh-
bourhood of Coolpit Heath, near Bristol, has recently
been thrown into a state of considerable excitement, in
consequence of the mysterious death of a man named
Thomas Harris (known also by the name of Cottle). a
hatter, residing in that locality. It appears that his wife
was in the habit of hawking confectionery about the coun-
try, but having, as is supposed, formed an improper inti-
macy with a person called Curtis, a shoemaker, she and
the deceased had led a very uncomfortable life for some
time past. The deceased, who had previously been ill for
some little time, died on the 30th of April last. The man
Curtis was seen at the house on the day of the husband's
death, and in about three weeks afterwards he married the
widow. The circumstances caused much suspicion, and
on Saturday week after the body had been exhumed, a
coroner's inquest was held. It was proved that arsenic
was present in the body, and that that poison had been
purchased by the wife. A verdict of wilful murder was
returned against her, and she was committed to the assizes.
She is sixty years of age, and her deceased husband was
sixty-two.
A DESPEPATE LOVER.—A novel and somewhat ro-
mantic scene occurred at the York Railway station on
Thursday morning. A detachment of the 81st Regiment
of Foot has been stationed for some time at Scarborough,
and orders having been received from the War-office for
their removal to Berwick, the light company left Scar-
borough by an early train yesterday week, and arrived at
York between ten and eleven o'clock. A young girl,
seventeen years of age, whose heart had been stolen by
the charms of one of the soldiers, was a passenger in the
train, She having taken her fare at Scarborough with the
determination of following the devoted object of her
affections wheresoever he should go. By some means or
other the designs of our heroine became known, and she
was consequently introduced to a policeman, who in-
formed her that she could not proceed any further, but
must forthwith return to Scarborough to her friends.
The unwelcome intelligence threw the poor deluded girl
into a paroxysm of grief, and she screamed and shrieked
most loudly. Recovering a little from the excitement of
the moment, the infatuated girl declared in an emphatic
manner her determination to accompany her lover to
Berwick, and used all her energies to effect that object.
Seeing that the girl was desperate, " physical force" was
brought into requisition, and she was placed in another
train, Which was then about to proceed to Scarborough.
She screamed and shrieked louder than before, exclaim-
ing that as soon as the carriages attained their full speed
she would jump out of the window, and thus destroy •
herself. It was therefore deemed expedient for the girl
that some one should take charge of her, and one of the
railway porters went in the same carriage with her. On
the road the porter's task was rather unpleasant, as he
had often forcibly to hold his charge upon her seat.—
Doncaster Gazelle.

SINGULAR ANECDOTE OF THREE FOXES..--Mr. Cape,
Cockermouth, has had three foxes sent to him as a pre-
sent from a friend in -Yorkshire, and of such importance
or value were the "varmint" considered that the gentleman
sent his keeper with them in order to be satisfied of their
careful transit and safe delivery. On arriving at Cocker-
mouth Mr. C. resolved to treat them to as dainty a sup-
per as it is presumed they would have enjoyed if at large
and in their own county, and accordingly procured for
them a fine young Spanish rabbit, which was forthwith
introduced into their presence, but instead of being seized
by the neck, after their fashion of grappling with a lamb
or a goose, it was received with kindness and correspond-
ingly treated. The rabbit pricked up its ears and hopped
about, manifestly unconscious of the dangerous customers
of which it had become the associate. The foxes, how-
ever, manifested no unkindly feeling, and from Friday
last up to Monday morning the whole party—foxes and
rabbit, were located and fed in the same apartment, and
all appeared contented and happy. During the time they
were thus living together, many scores of persons paid a
visit to their domicile, and expressed their astonishment
at the goodly feeling and evident contentment which
prevailed amongst them. The foxes were on Monday
morning despatched to Brayton Hall, as a present to one
of Sir Wilfred Lawson's sons.—Westmorland Gazette.
THE TEETH.—HOW often do we find the human face
divine disfigured by neglecting the chiefest of its orna-
ments, and the breath made disagreeable to companions
by non-attention to the Teeth ! Though per in their
structure and composition, to keep the ' a pure and
healthy state requires some little tro e ; and if those
who are blessed with well-formed t knew how soon
decay steals into the mouth, m ing unsightly what
otherwise are delightful to echo' , and designating un-
healthiness by the impurity the breath, they would
spare no expense to chase ay these fatal blemishes.
But although most ladies careful, and even particular,
in these delicate matters yet few are sufficiently aware of
the imperative neeessi of avoiding all noxious or mineral
substances of an aer. nature, and of which the greater
part of the cheap ooth-powders of the present day are
composed. It is ighly satisfactory to point out Messrs.
Rowland? Odo o, or Pearl Dentifrice, as a preparation
free from all i ' rious elements, and eminently calculated
to embellish d preserve the dental structure, to impart
a grateful grsnce to the breath, and to embellish am)
perpetua". he gems of the =Who—court Journal,

THE ASSAULT ON HER MAJESTY.—On Friday, Robert
Pate was again examined at the Home Office, and com-
mitted to Newgate to take his trial for an assault and
misdemeanour upon Her Majesty.
Last week, a banker's parcel containing £6OO in notes,
posted from Messrs. Stevenson and Co., bankers, Stafford,
was stolen, and no clue to the thief has yet been obtained.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Among the boats which
left the Stennis station, in Northmaving, on the 10th ult.,
two have not returned, and all hope of their safety is at an
end, by which 13 lives are lost, and upwards of 20 children
left fatherless, and several aged parents without support.
—Edinburgh Post.
A physical force Chartist, who refused to give his name,
was charged at one of the metropolitan police offices with
inciting others to assist him in a plan to set fire to all the
ladies' dresses in that part of Kensington-gardens where
the crowd (mostly of ladies) assembles to hear be band.
OCCUPATION OF A JUDGE'S SON.—At the Strand
Theatre the story of Alcestis has been turned into a
burlesque with considerable talent by a son of Sir Thomas
Talfourd, and his work was produced last night. He has
followed pretty closely the outline of Euripides' tragedy,
and hence his piece does not abound in strong burlesque
situations. His great strength is shown in his dialogue,
which is bristling throughout with puns, some of which
are remarkably good. Of the use of popular melodies in
works of this kind Mr. Talfourd has a keen perception.
The piece was received with the loudest plaudits, and the
author being called walked across the stage.
AN INTERESTING RAILWAY Flx.—The half-past
seven up-train, heavily laden with passengers, was stuck
fast in the Blackheath Tunnel upwards of three-quarters
of an hour, on Sunday night, there not being sufficient
steam power to move it backwards or forwards. The
horror of the passengers while thus fixed and enveloped
in darkness may be imagined but not described, the more
especially as the whistles of the two next trains were heard;
but express messengers gave notice of the accident, and
thus prevented a lamentable loss of life, which would
otherwise have occurred. Another engine had to be put
on before the train was extricated.

A child aged two years, son of Mrs. James, of Bradwell
Wharf, Oxford, fell into a well near her residence, and
would probably have been drowned but for the heroic
conduct of its mother, who, on hearing from the servant
that her offspring was in the well, jumped in, took the
boy up, and supported him and herself by clinging to the
wall till a ladder was procured, when both were brought
from their perilous position.
SUICIDE OF A CLEILGYMAN.—A few days since the
Rev. William Gaskett, curate of Bigthorp, Norfolk. aged
52, entered King's College llospital, for the purpose of
undergoing the operation of lithotomy. On Friday it
was intimated to him that the operation would be soon
performed, when he appeared willing to undergo it. In
the evening the porter found the unfortunate gentleman
hanging, and quite dead, in a closet.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN OWEN STANLEY.—The Royal
Geographical Society has lost one of its most esteemed
members. By a letter just received from Sydney, New
South Wales, the sudden death of Captain Owen Stanley,
R.N., (son of the late Bishop of Norwich,) is announced.
Captain Stanley has been several years actively employed
in surveying the dangerous seas between Australia and
the Indian isles, accounts of which have from time to
time reached the Admiralty.
SINGULAR PHENOMENON. About three months
since, Mr. Steel, draper, Blyth, bad the pavement in front
of his shop relaid with flagstones, and in the course of
last week, one of them was observed to be higher than
the others. This was more observed on subsequent days,
until Friday, when it was raised an inch and a half out of
the ground, and several persons were nearly thrown down
by it. A mason was sent for to ascertain the cause, when
it was discovered, on the removal of the stone, that three
large mushrooms were growing under it, and had evidently
lifted it out of its place. The mushrooms were seen by
several persons who had witnessed the phenomenon. The
length of the stone was 21 inches, breadth 121, thickness
4 inches, and weight nearly six stones. Newcastle
Journal.

SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—The Synod of St.
Andrew's, Dunkeld, and Dumblane, met at St. Andrew's
on the 19th ultimo. Mr. Wordsworth moved that the
Synod " concur with the bishops in their condemnation
of the Prayer Book put forth by the bishop of the diocese,"
on the ground that it ignores English uses, and tends to
create a prejudice against the Scottish Church as not
being in communion with the English. The usage of re-
servation of the elements he regarded as contrary to the
Thirty-nine Articles. On a division, there were—For the
bishop's Prayer Book, 5; against it, 10. The dean de-
clined to vote against his father. Mr. Wordsworth then
moved that the clergy who hereafter used the bishop's
edition of the Prayer Book should be proceeded against
canonically. After a hot discussion, the motion was
carried by a majority of 11 to 5. The minority declared
their intention to enter a protest against the whole pro-
ceedings of the synod as unconstitutional, unjustifiable,
and schismatical.

A WONDROUS VOLUME.—The Second Volume of The
Family Friend, just published, contains the following
extraordinary amount of matter :—Botany (papers), 6, il-
lustrated: Carving, 2, illustrated; Chess, Games, 12,—
Problems, illustrated, 12, edited by the celebrated lIERR
HARRIVITZ ; Etiquette (papers), 6; Garde • 6; His-
tory—Aunt Mary's Lectures, 6 ; Musi Seven original
copyright pieces, by DUGGAN, LEE, NLEY, and Score;
Natural History (papers) 6, illustr' ed; Needlework, 12
copyright Designs by the cele, ated MRS. WARREN,
illustrated; Patchwork, 12 de- gns for combination pat-
terns, illustrated; Pastime, .me hundreds of Enigmas,
Conundrums, Charades, • c., including the celebrated
Prize Enigmas, Poetry, • pieces ; Receipts in Cookery,
Medicine, &c., (all ed) 300; Science, Grandfather
Whitehead,s Lectur - to Little-Folk, 6, illustrated;
Miscellaneous arti. es, 111 ; Editorial Answers to Inter-
esting Questions 400. Total number of articles, 915 ;
total number o • wood engravings, 144 ; total of pages,
380 ; handsom y bound in cloth gilt, and embellished by
a fine steel e raving, price 2s. 6d. The excellent cha-
racter of this work has already gained for it the enormous
circulation of 75,000. Vols. I. and 11., price 2s. 6d.
each, may be had of any bookseller.
THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS for the month, and
for five months, ending sth June, have just been issued.
The annexed summary shows the total amounts under
the various heads :—The total declared value of exports
for the month last past is £5,959,949, whilst for the cor-
responding months in 1848 and 1849 they were respectively
£3,704,783 and £4,355,326. For the five months of the
present year the gross amount is set down at £26,027,948,
and for the corresponding months in 1848 and 1849 they
appear £18,944,644 and £21,191,973 respectively. The
total importation of coffee, for the last month, was
7,677,7351bs , against 5,801,7101b5. in the corresponding
month of 1848; and 8,569,305 lbs. in 1849; whilst in the
same period there were entered for home consumption
respectively 2,924,7951b5.. 2,996,4161b5., and 2,905,9981b5.
Unrefined sugar shows an importation of 523,296 cwt.
for the present year, whilst for 1848 and 1849 the figures
stood respectively 601,627 cwt. and 703,426 cwt. ; the quan-
tities taken for home consumption during the same
months being for 1850, 456,672 cwt. ; for 1848, 511,282
cwt. ; and 1849, 470,414 cwt. In wines of various de-
scriptions the importations for the past month amounted
to 996,661 gallons ; for the months in 1848 and 1849 they
were respectively 708,195 galls. and 630,012 galls. The
quantities entered for home consumption in the same
period were in 1850, 606,237 galls, 1848, 544,950 galls. ;
and 1849, 548,144 galls. Of spirits, including rum,
brandy, and Geneva, there were imported during the
present year 558,573 galls. ; for the corresponding months
in 1848 and 1849 the figures were 1,077,442 galls. and
830,564 galls. The quantities taken for home consump-
tion during the same period were 372,023 galls., 294,887
galls., and 350,388 galls respectively.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CALCULATOR.—There is a Ger-
man, at present residing in London, whose calculating
powers seem to outbid those of the celebrated George
Bidder. At the Institute of Actuaries the evening was
occupied by the appearance of a gentleman named Daze.
The first question asked him was the product of a number,
consisting of five figures by another number of figures,
and the correct answer was given almost instantaneously.
The ballotting balls, which had just been used for the ad-
mission of new members, were thrown from the box loose
upon the table, and Herr Daze, after taking a single
glance, and then turning away, declared the total num-
ber to be sixty-eight, which proved to be correct when
the balls were counted and returned to the box. It
should be remarked in this case that some were lying
nearer together than others, and that they would appear to
an ordinary spectator to be so confused as to puzzle an
experienced calculator how to avoid reckoning some of
them twice. He then gave the product of two numbers
to twelve figures, multiplied it by seven, and repeated the
latter product backwards without an error in any figure.
He was then asked the cube of 427, which was correctly
given, 95,443,993, almost instantaneously. He will
divide a number by another consisting of two or three
figures, and will write down the answer at once in one
line without any apparent intermediate process. In as
rapid a manner he gave the factors to 7,421, namely,
41,181 ; but it would take up too much time to state all
the surprising proofs of this singular gift of calculation.
We may merely mention, an one instance, that he multi-
plied a number consisting of twelve figures by another
number of twelve figures, and gave the product correct in
ono minute and three-quarters.
THE SCOTTISH FETE.—On Monday the second annual
"gathering" of the members of the Highland and Scot-
tish Societies took place in Lord Holland's park, at Not-
ting-bill, on the occasion of a grand national fete, similar,
in all its leading characteristics, to that of the preceding
year. The sports commenced with a competition in
archery, the prize being open to all England, Ireland, and
Scotland : the games which followed in succession were
those of running, leaping, throwing the hammer, putting
the stone, tossing the caber (a long pole resembling a pop-
lar shorn of its branches), broadsword exercise, sword and
target opposed to the bayonet, sword dance, reels, strath-
speys, and performances on the Highland bagpipes. The
hammer to be thrown weighed 141b5., and the winner of
the prize in this competition hurled the instrument to a
distance of 92 feet 2 inches. A wrestling match between
two soldiers of the Scotch Fusiliers, named Chalmers and
Edgar, then took place, and her Majesty seemed greatly
amused at the dexterity of the combatants. A combat
took place between Bombardier Kelly and Leon Gille-
mend, French professor of sword exercise, the former
using a bayonet and the latter a sword and target. There
was much speculation as to the result. The combat was
carried on with great determination upon either side, but
it was apparent that the bayonet man would have little
chance against the wielder of the sword in a bout of a
more serious description. He received four hits in suc-
cession, whilst his opponent came off completely un-
scathed. The sports terminated on Tuesday. In archery
the successful competitors were nearly all Englishmen.
The prizes in broadsword exercise were awarded to Cor-
poral Sutton, Corporal Jackson, and Corporal Venn. In
broadsword and target exercise as against the bayonet to
Corporal Major Astling, Corporal Venn, and Monsieur
Leon (lillemand. [These interesting combatants will ap-
pear at the Zoological Gardens this evening and to-
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