The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-10 00:00:00

ives were lost by the

boiler explo-

sion at Halifax

Her Majesty has sent £5O to the fund now raising for
Mrs. Holiest.

It has been decided that the monument of Lord Jeffrey
should be a work of sculpture.

an inn at Walsall

Bet Ween Cork and London steamers are conveying
butter at one penny per firkin, and eggs at three pence
per box !
The fine estate of Brooksby has been bought by Mr.
Jones Lloyd, the wealthy banker. The purchase money
is said to be £75,000.
It is reported that a

disagreement has taken place be-
tween the Rev. W. Griffith, " one of the expelled," and
the Wesleyan Reform Committee.
; Mr. Robert Gilfillan, of Leith, the well-known author
of several beautiful songs in the Scottish dialect, died of a
fit of apoplexy, in his office, on Wednesday.
Mrs. Margaret Shepherd, a widow, of Ousby, whilst
labouring under an attack of delirium, arising from typhus
fever, threw herself into a well, and was drowned.

The solicitors of Sheffield, in addition to closing their
offices at seven o'clock every evening, have passed a reso-
lution that the law offices of the town shall be closed on
Saturdays at two o'clock.

The Secretary of the Waterford and Limerick Railway,
Mr. Saunders, was drowned on Sunday night week, by
falling accidentally into the sea from the steamer at
Holyhead.

On Friday evening, as the Bishop of Rochester was
posting from London to Danbury Palace, a leathern
portmanteau, which was strapped on the top of the car-
riaee. wag cut away ...A.PArried off.
An unfortunate collision took place, on Friday week, in
the harbour of Kingstown, between a trawler and a small
herring boat; the trawler instantly sunk, by which two of
her crew were drowned.
The Marquis of Westminster, at his recent audit, gene-
rously remitted 25 per cent. to his tenants on the Fonthill
estates; and the Earl of Pembroke and Earl Nelson
have each returned 15 per cent. to their tenants.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, London, on Thursday,
a female was committed to Middlesex HoUse of Correc-

tion for twelve calendar months, for perjury in a county
court suit in which she was plaintiff.
A special meeting of the Hull Guardian Society was
held on Tuesday, to consider the propriety of co-operating
with the Hull Chamber of Commerce, in obtaining a re-
duction of the port charges in Hull.
London was enveloped in a dense fog on Friday.
Steam-boats on the river were stopped, railway travelling
was impeded, and the general business of the metropolis
was conducted by artificial light.
Cockermouth Church was insured for £2OOO. A com-
mercial traveller wa§ lying dangerously ill, when he heard
of the fire, and on his recovery presented £5O for the re-
building of the Church, as a thank offering to Almighty
God.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has decreased from £16,220,443 to £16,002,871. be-
ing a difference of £210,572. The paper in actual cir-
culation has decreased from £19,877,074 to £19,782,856,
being a difference of £4,218.
The Glasgow papers state that certain seceders from the
independent church under the pastoral care of Dr. Ward-
law, are erecting a chapel in the cathedral style, which
will hold but 700 persons, yet will cost the immense sum
of £lO,OOO.

Three valuable milch cows were lately stolen from Pol-
msdie Park, near Glasgow, by a constable of the Gorbals
police force, named Rennie, who has since been appre-
hended, and who has admitted stealing the cows, which
he sold at Hamilton.

The United States mail steamer Washington, Captain
Floyd, arrived off Cowes at eight o'clock on Thursday
evening, and sent her mails for England and France to
Southampton. Her news has been anticipated by the
Africa.

A NEW LIGHT.—The Mining Journal says, that im-
provements in lighting, of an extraordinary character,
are in course of being practically tested, and_ which pro-
mise to realise results of a most remarkable nature, both
with respect to economy and great facility of production.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE IN HYDE-PARK.--The Times
states that there is now no room for doubt that this struc-
ture will be completed before the close of the year. On
Thursday, the Royal Commission held its first sitting
within the Crystal Palace, and was presided over by Prince
Albert, who minutely examined the works, and expressed
himself greatly pleased with the progress made.
Two men, named Baker and Ellis, quarrelled in an ale-
house at Drayton, Norfolk, on Monday week, and agreed
to fight for a stake of £1 a side. In the fight Ellis was
so severely beaten that he died the same night ; and at
the inquest on his body, a verdict of manslaughter was
returned against Baker and the four seconds, who have not
yet been apprehended.

- No fewer than three additional chapels in connexion
with the Roman Catholic Church are in progress of erec-
tion in Glasgow. In addition to these erections the Roman
Catholic body in Glasgow have, by the purchase of Dal-
keith House, possessed themselves of an edifice which in
the beginning of 1851 is to be opened as a college for the
education of young men intended for the priesthood.
The Rev. John Fenwick, proctor of the University of
Cambridge, was on Tuesday last fined £l, and two of his
assistants 10s. each, for an assault upon Miss Emma
Thomr son, daughter of a respectable cowkeeper at Cam-
bridge. The apprehension of " lewd women " is one of
the duties of the proctors of the university, and in this
case a mistake was made.

INTENDED LITERARY RETREAT.—The Athetzceurn
states that Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer proposes to write a
play to be acted by the company of amateurs:who usually
play under the managerial direction of Mr, Dickens, the
proceeds to form the germ of a fund for a certain number
of houses to be further endowed for literary men and
artists, and for whose erection Sir Edward will himself
give in fee ground on his estate in Hertfordshire.

At Eden- Hall, Cumberland, on MOUcial;eek, two
boys, named Graham and Peacock, the former thirteen
and the latter eleven years old, obtained possession of a
loaded gun, which was used for shooting rats, and had
been left in a yard. They went to a field for the purpose
of shooting birds, and Graham was preparing to fire at
some pigeons, when the gun went off and shot Peacock
dead on the spot.
On Sunday night week, as Mr. W. Bleaymire, solicitor,
was riding to Penrith in a gib, a loud crack of thunder so
alarmed the horse that it ran off at a tremendous pace,
and the gig came in contact with a bridge over the river
Eden, and Mr. B. was pitched into the river, and fell a
depth of GO feet. He was carried down the river a long
way, but ultimately escaped. The horse was standing at
the toll-gate, but the gig was much injured, the shafts
being torn off.
A "BLACK DIAMOND" FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
—An extraordinary piece of thick coal, weighing from five
to six tons, has been cut and dressed by Joseph Cockney,
the butty, at Mr. Round's Trividale Colliery, Tipton.
The coal is of circular shape, six feet high, six feet diame-
ter, and eighteen feet in circumference ; the surface is
remarkably smooth, and as bright as a looking glass. It
is intended to forward it for the exhibition, on the trolley,
or waggon, as it now stands, with the tackle used iu rais-
ing it, picks, &c., complete.

head, open his mouth, and put mud into it ; he then
dipped his head under the water, holding his mouth open.
He then got him and trod him down ; after that be got
off him and ran away up the lane opposite." The jury
delivered a verdict of wilful murder against Wm. Wood,
who is in custody in Chelmsford gaol on the charge of
spent the I poaching.

up stairs to his wife, who was standing by the fireside;
he made some trifling remarks about a cap which she had
on, and then attempted to cut her throat, Mrs. Waters
had the presence of mind to keep her chin upon her
breast, and received the cuts across it. In the struggle
they both fell, when he repeated the attempt, and would
have succeeded had not her outcries alarmed her father
and brother, who ran to her assistance. Besides the cuts
on her chin, her hands had been frightfully mutilated,
and one of her fingers had been cut off. The unhappy
man was conveyed to an asylum at Northwood, where h
died two or three days after, having re -
from the time he entered. At the

"used to. take food

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ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A MANIAC.-Mr. Thomas the tr:
Waters, of Wrington, Somersetshire, who had been for W°
some time labouring under great mental excitement, words
attempted to assassinate his wife under the following cir- title,
cumstances :—Having procured a cheese knife, which he Punch
sharpened on a stone, he locked the house door, and went the di
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