The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

500 to 10 agst Zanoni. 50 to 1 agst Scalteen, and 500 to
5 agst Cabin Boy. Offers to back the field agst twenty,
The following is a summary of the offers made :

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.-A maid-servant, at Great Bar-
sted, who was, recently, a principal witness against a
thief, was, on Friday week, in the dead of night, induced
by the false representations of some ruffians outside to go
down stairs, half-dressed, and open the door. The ruffians
the
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her out, cut off all her hair, and, after heating and
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ripro ,retiiio)t lnte:er , charged
" knocking her about," left her insensible. It is believed
--"n obtaining money under false pretences, by represent-
ing that he was -
of the Ladies' A
the widows and orphan" of those who perishedinreilbnieehftalipldff
President, was tried on Monni.nn last, before the High
Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh. Alt was proved that
he had been before tried for forgery and .`,else uttering.
The jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to be
transported for ten years.
TAXATION.-The Dublin Mail says that they learn
from authentic sources of information that it is not in
the contemplation of ministers to make any reduction in
taxation, with the exception of tea. It is added that cir-
curnetances of a very suspicious nature hare occurred at
Chnbonrg, and that a proposition will be made to parlia-
ment to appropriate the surplus revenue in coast defences
and fortifications, so as to guard against surprise under
any possible event; and to ensure the protection of the
yards, arsenals, and merchant navy.
THE DRVN/tARD•-Mr. Wakley says that he lately held an inquest upon a lady inordinately given to drink.
Her medical attendants informed her husband that else
could not live without drink, but that drink would kill
her. The husband, of the two evil's, chose what appeared;'
to him the lesser, as it secured tohim peace, and gave her
what drink she desired. In two months she drank 137
bottles of port wine and brandy, exclesive of malt liquors.
She, shortly afterwards, was seized with mortal sickness,
and such was her craving for drink, even in the agonies
of death, that her attendants were compelled to keep con-
stantly in her mouth a rag saturated with brandy.
A CHILD KILLED BY A TART.-On Friday wee*, an
inquest was held upon a little child about two yeara of
age, named Esther Nash, who met her death in the most
singular manner. George Nash, bricklayer, father of the
deceased, deposed that on Christmas Day his wife baked
some tarts in an oven by the side of the grate. He took
some of them our, and was setting them on the table,
when one of the children jumped up and knocked them
out of his hand. One of the tarts fell upon the deceased,
and burnt her upon the face and chest very seriously..
Mr. Bodger, surgeon, was sent for, and ht prescribed the
usual remedies, without effect ; the child grew worse, and
eventually died from the injuries on the following Wed-
nesday.-Northampton Mercury.
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The house of Rothschild, of London, was robbed the
other day at Paris, of upwards of £5OOO sterling.
whatever
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title of Baron Metcalfe, of Fern Hill.
Dickens' " Chimes," is published at five shillings ; the
trade has subscribed for 17,000 copies !
Christ's Hospital educates and boards about 1,200 boys,
the cost being at £25 per annum each, or £30,000.
A notice from the Bank of England to discount at 221_, bywto litc4beyeal s' transportation.
MISERABLE REMUNERATION.-On Thursday a roan'
per cent. till April 11, was issued on Thursday. was brought up at the Clerkenwell Police-court, chard
The mails for the Mediterranean and India were des- with neglecting to support his wife. The prisoner said
patched from Southampton yesterday. he was by trade a tailor, and his pension being altogether There have been 25 fewer rainy days in 1844 than in inadequate to support himself and child, he was obliged
the preceding year, and 22 fewer than the average of the to work. He could get nothing to do but army clothing ;• nine preceding years. and the want of constant employment even at that, ill
health, and the scanty remuneration, occasioned his fall-
fro into arrears with the parish.--'r. Corn- be : The army
A prisoner confined in Hertford Gaol, last week, cut off
three of his fingers, in the hope of being thereby exempted , .. .
clothing is not so badly paid for ash the slopwork of some
m the tread-mill.
of our London shops.-Prisoner: Welle I don't think,
Dr. ire ere
new church, in Edinburgh, was opened your worship, a man could be much less profitably em-
on Sunday week, when a collection, amounting to con- ployed than in working seven hours for 6d.-Mr.Combe:
siderably more than £7OO, was made. Seven hours for 6d. !-Prisoner : Yes, seven hours for
The horse and jockey, public-house, Bath, was de- 6d., and find all your own trimmings. 'lt will take a man
stroyed by fire on Wednesday last, and Mrs. Ann Cross, seven hours to make a pair of army trousers, and you get
a bed-ridden old lady, aged 78, was burnt to death. only 6d. for them, It will take a man 12 hours' of hard
A boy, fonrte et years old, hung himself, on Friday, at work to make a jscket ; yet you must make it and find
Douglas, Isle of Man, in consequence of having been the trimmings out of Is.
corrected for some inattention. COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The " Medical Times " an-
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by a nounces, "on authority beyond suspicion," the following coroner's jury, at Tipton, against Thompson. an engineer, modifications in the charter recently granted. 1. All
for causing, by negligence, the death of a lad, who was members, now and for the future, of 10 or 15 years'
killed by the explosion of a boiler. standing, whether practising pharmacy or not, are to be
Odn
fellows ipso facto, and to have the plenary power of elect-
aning the governing body of the college. 2. Gentlemen
nig a quantity of sulphuric acid at his own works, and Practising midwifery will be eligible to he on the council,
died the following morning. emFbrirdaaidye last,rer, m Mr.at :Manchester,
ties
r Schwabe, silk
committed
suicide manufacturer
by tak _
which in future is always to be composed of a certain
number of gentlemen practising in that department of the
A number of American booksellers, publishers and au-
thorn have profession. 3. The court of examiners will be partially
, presented our distinguished countrywoman, composed of surgeon-accoucheurs ; and examinations in
Miss Jane Porter, with an arm-chair, as a token of their midwilery will form for the future an integral part of the
esteem.
surgical candidate's examinations. 4. Some new ar range-
On Wednesday, John Clements, a wool-stapler, of merits will be proposed, by which will be removed the
Little George-street, Bermondsey, attempted to murder barrier whirls now prevents surgeons practising pharmacy
his wife by cutting her throat, and afterwards destroyed from ever sitting on the council. 5. The fellows will take
himself, in a fit of insanity. seniority in the order of their standing as members of the
Four workmen were killed last week, in the Ludworth college ; and may propose, without reference to any list
of precedence, any eligible member as candidate, to fill.
Pit, Durham, in consequence of the corf in which they
were being drawn out of the pit slipping off the hook by ens vacancies in the council.
which it was attached to the rope. LEGACIES BY A PAUPER.-A man named Lewis, who
MORE MONEY FROM CHIN A.-The Pelican sloop, 16, had been nearly a quarter of a century an inmate of the
Commander Phillip Justice, arrived at Portsmouth on workhouse of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, some time
Se back became possessed of funded property amounting to
a
£3OO and upwards, which had been left him by a relative;
amounting
another
to
a m (lion instalment taolfmdeanitlar of
s. the Chi-
usnedianydeemy etniiitnyga last,maa with
i
but he found himself so comfortable in the poor-house,
he preferred remaining there, as every member of his
The
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family was dead, and he handed over his dividends to the
parish authorities for his support, the maximum allowed'
carry it against Mr. Aarago, Mr. Murphy, and all the
other weather prophets. i for such purposes being Is. 7d. a week. In the month of
The Morning Herald, states, that " the present pope is ' December last he died, previously to which he made a
known to have returned thanks upon his knees, for the will, bequeathing the following sums to the different
summons to Sir Robert Peel to assume the government parish officers t-The sum of £lO to the chairman of the
of this country, in the autumn of 1834."
is
.the matron, £5 to the chief clerk, and smaller sums to
board of guardians, £5 to the deputy-chairman, £1 to
A few days since, a girl fifteen years old died in se, each of the, guardians (24 in number,) £lO to the master
minor officers, £lO to the clerk of the guardians and
Bartholomew's Hospital, from fever brought on by the of the workhouse, and a similar sum to his wife, who
hand in consequence of having
1 smaller sums to inferior officers in the workhouse'th
e
six Mr. Bainbridge, being appointedresidi
tee. He refused to leave a mite to any of hilsacrYnmpa-
p beena
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LIFE.-
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nions.
persons on board perished.
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Americann down
ship
Olive
lsaixndp,ebr persona,
thenantlive Branch, when five of the
Mr. Samuel Bailey, a respectable trimming manufac- A SAILOR'S BELIEF IN NELSON.-Amongst the many
stra
turer, Macclesfield, who was understood to be in ember-
tam
tamed in this world, perhaps the-following, entertained
rassed circumstances, committed suicide, on Monday, at
his own residence, in a fit of temporary insanity. the other day by an enlightened " hero of Trafalgar,"
may be deemed not the least singular. This veteran de-,
The SUEZ MAILS.-The arrangements for the convey- fender of his country, who resides not a day's journey
ance of the mails between Suez and Calcutta have not from Brampton, haying on a late occasion submitted to
been concluded ; and as there will be no vessel at Suez the grievous penalty of a broken limb, from having in-
on or about the 6th February, as was expected, much Bulged in his beloved " grog," found himself by the Gala-
miry laid has been experienced. ruby " laid up," as he expressed it, with the dreary pros-
A company has been formed in Sunderland for the pur- pect before him of remaining so' for some time to come.
pose of applying steam in the coal trade between that The clergyman of the parish, hearing of the accident, paid •
port and London. The capital will be £20,000 in 1,000 the unhappy tar a visit in his distress, hoping to impart a
shares of .£2O each, and it is calculated that large profits little spiritual consolation, and, by a timely rebuke, in-
will be realised. duce the erring sufferer to abandon a habit that had been
IMPORTS OF CATTLE IN 1844.-The total number of the cause of his present misfortune. The worthy minister,
beasts and sheep imported into the United Kingdom, du- after pointing out the dangers of intemperance, and ex-
ring the year ending Dec. 31, 1844, was beasts, 4,495 • pressing his abhorrence of its debasing nature, began to
sheep, 2,603 : of these were imported direct into Hull wind,up,by an emphatic delivery of the scriptural warning
that ' No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of heaven"
1,690 beasts and 775 sheep.
when he was hastily interrupted by the indignant sailor in
WHALES ON SHORE.-Upwards of 160 whales were an excited voice, exclaiming, " Aye; but, sir, Lord Nel-
driven ashore last week at Sandwich Bay, South ere
an
said as how a man as had done his dul would et to
naldshay, and Orkney, and are to be disposed of by pub- heaven !" It was in vain the astonished clergyman as-
lic roue. This capture will be worth several hundred sured him that what he had just now quoted was from a
pounds to the parties concerned.-Glasgow Guardian. far higher authority than that of Lord. Nelson. The
REVENUE on SCOTLAND.-The net produce of the ancient contemporary and disciple of the "Admiral Duke"
revenue in Scotland, for the year ending Jan. sth, 1845, persisting to declare that he " didn't wish for an autho-
was £5,145,563 ; whereas, in the previous year, it was rity higher than Lord Nelson !"
only £4,675,943 ; showing an increase on last year of £45,563. The At henceum of Saturday gives the particulars of a •
most wonderful discovery for making an almost instan-
ADM INISTERING CANTH kRIDES.-Two youths, sons taneous fac-simile of any engraving or printed page. In .
of tradesmen, were ordered to find bail, on Thursday last, 1841, a fac-simile was made of four pages of the At he- _
at Worship-street Police-office, for administering a po- nreurn at Berlin, so perfect that it could not be detected;
tent and almost fatal dose of this medicine to a Mrs. from the original. "We now learn that the discoverer
Coles, wife of a salesman in Spitalfields. was M. Baldermus, now of Berlin, and that the process.
A few days since a labourer at Nottingham was feeding 1 has been communicated to Mr. Woods, of Barge-yard.
a straw-cotter, worked by horse-power, when his hand
Chambers, Bucklersburv, The original to be copied is
I
unfortunately became entangled with the fodder between . prepared by peculiar chemical means, and pressed in tight_
c
the rollers, and before the horses could be stopped, it wasontact with metallic plates, whereby a reversed fac-simile
entirely severed, piece after piece, from his arm. The
well. is obtained; and after the metallic plates have been pre-
poor fellow is going 1
i pared by a second process (which. prevents the adnerence
on
i of ink on the blank spaces,) the impression is inked up
The match at chess between Mr. Staunton and M. St.
with rollers, and printed from in the usual manner of sur-
Amant has been postponed, indefinitely, on account of
face printing. Eventually, the proprietors are sanguine
the continued indisposition of the former gentleman. He,
of being able to print from cylindrical surfaces, and con-
however, proposes to play in London at some future day,
sequently produce an unlimited number in a short time.
the best of twenty-one :games, staking £l5O to M. St.
Both sides of a newspaper can be transferred simulta-
Amant's .CIOO.
neously on contiguous cylinders. Nothing can exceed
Mr. Crowley, the father of Crowley who was lately the ease, the elegance, and rapidity of the whole operation.
captured at Chester, and who now awaits his trial for tine The specimen worked off for us, a page of I: Illustration,
wilful murder of his father's servant by shooting hm, Journal Universel, was produced in less than a quarter of
died a short time ago. It is said the shock he experi- an hour from the first preparation. In, fact, allowing
enced, on learning that his ill-fated son was taken, was seven or eight minutes for the absorption of a diluted acid,
so severe as ultimately to cause his death. the thing is done as quickly as two sheets of paper can be Mr. Samuel Garness, a poor-law guardian, at Ross, his ; successfully placed on a plate of zinc, pissed under the
son, Thomas Garness, Thomas Lewis, and Edward Tour- I roller, and again withdrawn." 'file origirnil and the fac-
.
ney, have been committed to gaol, on a charge of man- simile may be seen at the altheninum office: slaughter. They They forcibly removed an old woman, named M eiebants 4;
BANKRUPTCY ANALYSIS FOR 1844. inary Jones, to the Ross Union Workhouse, when she apothecaries 9, attorneys 8, auctioneers7-Ale
9, bakers fcluttnn..
was lying ill, and it is said that the ill-usage and exposure kers 4, booksellers 10. boot and shoe makers 10, brewers -
to cold facilitated her death. 8, brickmakers 3, brokers 8, builders 44, butchers 14, ca-
A number of tenants of kitchens, in the parish of St. binet makers 11, cancel printers 4; carpenters 21, ce,tpet•
Mary-le-Strand have been ejected under the 'provisions manufacturers 4, cattle dealers 7, cheesernongers 6,,chy-
of the New Metropolitan Building Act, which prohibits mists and druggists 15, clothiers 5, cloth manufacturers
the letting of kitchens or cellars as residences, unless 4, cloth merchants 2, coach makers 5, coach and omnibus
properly drained and ventilated. Many of these wretched proprietors 5. coal merchants LI, commission agents 10,
abodes. were only approached by cellar flaps from the contractors-(road, railway, and gas) 3, cooks and confec-
street, and were without windows. tioners 4, corn merchants and dealers 17, cotton, manufac-
turers 3, colliers 10, cutlers 3, dairymen 3, dealers 15,
MARY GALLOP.-The furniture of the poor man
Gallop, who was poisoned recently by his daughter at earthenware dealers 3, eating and coffee house keepers 3,
engineers 6, engravers 2, farmers 7, flannel makers 2,
Crewe, was sold this week, and in one piece of furniture,
nuitmerehants 4, furriers 4, glass merchants 3, grocers
-somewhat resembling a family chest of drawers,-fast- r-
eced by a secret spring, was found £l5O. This was the ?-3 (tatters,nfd 6, horse dealers 8, hosiers 4, innkeepers 22,
money for which, in all probability, the unfortunate girl ireo
ioun ers 11, ironmongers 19, jewellers 7, lacemen 3,
at ier sellers 3, lime burners 2, linen drapers 23, linen.
took her father's life, in order to effect a marriage with 1
her lover. manufacturers 2, livery stable keepers 7, lodging house
, keepers 5, machinists 2, maltsters 7, market gardeners 2,
IGNITION OF GUANO AT SEA.-A 111111 paper states mercers 2, merchants 38, millers 10, milliners 3, money
that a vessel laden with guano from ichaboe, shipped a scriveners 5,. musical instrument makers 2, nail manufac-
quantity of salt water, in consequence of striking on the turers 2, oil merchants 3 painters 2, paper hangers 2, pa-
combustion.
and that the water caused almost instantaneous per makers 3,pawnbrokers' - andglaziers
3, plumbers l3,
combustion. The crew took to the boat, but they had printers 5, •
printsellers 2, provision merchants 4, saddlers
scarcely done so when a tremendous explosion of the gas 13, sail cloth manufacturers 3, ship brokers 3, ship own.
engendered by the partially fired guano blew the stern out et 7, shipwrights 4, silk manufacturers 4, silk throwsters
of the vessel, which then filled and sank in deep water.
, silversmiths , soap makers 2, stationers 12, straw
'4
A PRESENT FROM THE POPE To O'CONNELL.-A con- bonnet manufacturers 2, surgeons 13, tailors 28, tallow
respondent of the Standard, under the signature of "au chandlers 7, tanners 3, tea dealers 8, timber merchants 3,
Inquirer," says-" There appears to be a singular incon. tobacconists 4, toymen 2, trimming makers 2, upholster-
sistency between the Papal letter which is now published, era 9, victuallers 47, warehousemen 10, watchmakers 4,
and tire fact of Pope Gregory xara, having within these wheelwrights 1, wine and spirit merchants 36, woollen
very few years sent the present of a gold cross and medal drapers 8, woollen manufacturers 3, woolstaplers 2, worS-
to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Can any person give an ex- ted manufacturers 3, worsted spinners 3, various 76. Total
lik!anation of this ?" ' 1,064.

CHESTER CUP.
• -
33 to I agst WitteSOU ken)•
35 1 Ratan (;alien)
40 1
40 1 Trueboy
90 --- 1 Porto Bello
50 1 Rowena
50 1 -- Barricade (taken)
50 1 Zanoni (taken)
50 1 Counsellor
50 1 Scalteen (taken)
500 1') Old Ireland (take 500 to 7)
500 8 April Noddy
100 1 The Cure
100 1 Cabin Boy (taken)

SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB
MEETING.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, JAN. 15 and 16.
TILE SCARISBRICK Cur.—Mr. Dickenson's Dressma-
ker beat Tyrant, and won the cup.
THE FLEETWOOD CUP.—Mr. Robinson's Phoebe beat
Clasher; and Mr. Deakin's Derwent brat Cumberland in
the third ties, when the gentlemen named divided the cup.
THE CHURCH TOWN STAKES.—Mr. Bennett's Lin-
colnshire beat Butterfly; and Mr. R. B. Bennett's Staf-
fordshire heat Signora.
THE CLARET STAKES.—Mr. Robinson's Rocket beat
Harkaway, and won.

THE CHAMPAGNE STAKES.-Mr. T. Bennett's Ellen
beat Bolivar, and won.

THE PORT STAKES.—Mr. Robinson's Empress beat
Robin Hood, and won.

ALTCAR COURSING MEETING, JANUARY 16.
TIES OF THE RIDGWAY CUP.—MT. Garvin's Gambler
beat Canto, and won.

THE SKFTON CUP.—Mr. Ridgway's Rowena beat Ti-
tania, and won.

MOLYNEUX PLATE.-Mr. Taylor's Testy beat Spree,
and won.

CROXTETH PURSE.—Mr. Swan's Sparks of Fire beat
Salute, and won.

ALTCAR STAKES.—Mr. Graham's Long-long-ago beat
Ifton, and won.
WEST DERBY STAKES.—Mr. Ball's Burgundy beat
Hector, and won.
LANCASHIRE STAKES.—Mr. Segar's Doctor beat
Rattan, and won.

THE CHRISTMAS Box.—Mr. Matthews' Primrose beat
Barnaby Rudge, and won.
THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT.—Mr. Bourne's Legacy beat
Monsoon, and won.

Stewards—W. G. Unsworth, E. Garvin, B. Edwards,
and J. Arderne, &qrs. Judge—Mr. A. Dalzell.

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