The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

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On Monday last, a woman was gored to death by a
cow, on the Leeds and Bradford Railway.
The Birkenhead, Driver and Cyclops, steam-frigates,
have received orders for preparation for sea, and were got
ready in the short space of sixteen hours.
At York assizes, on T.,ursday, James Bland, a special
constable, was found guilty of not assisting in the preven-
tion of riot and rescue. Sentence deferred.

The wheat harvest is general in the neighbourhood of
Taunton ; the ears are heavy, and the straw of good qua-
lity. Barley and oats are fine, and will yield a good crop.
The total number of persons who emigrated from the
United Kingdom daring the year 1817, was 258,270. The

number is twice as great as that of any previous year.
A plan is in agitation for conducting sea-water, by
means of pipes, on the Brighton Railway, to a vast batn-

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ing reservoir on the south side of London:
The Tablet (a Roman Catholic journal) announces that
the Hon. Miss Methuen, daughter of Lord Methuen, has
become a Roman Catholic.

Sarah Stubbs and her sister were last week acquitted at
York Assizes of the charge of having killed their father at
Harrogate.
The Rev. Thomas Wilson, of Bath, has destroyed him-
self by shooting himself with a pistol. He was only 38
years of age, and his mind had been affected for some

weeks.
LACE DRESS FOR THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.—The
Nottingham Review states that a lace dress is now making
by Mr. Reckless, of that town, which is intended as a pre-
sent from her Majesty to the Empress of Russia.
Two parrots have been received from South Australia,
the first importation of such birds from that country.
They are no larger than a canary, and their colours are
peculiarly brilliant and various.
On Tuesday it was discovered that a letter, containing
nearly £600,000, in notes and bills of exchange, had been
abstracted while in course of transit through the London
Post-office.

The result of a long and anxious perusal of the public
journals for the last few months is the discovery that six of
the leading Chartists and Confederates are named respec-
tively Duffy, Cuffy, Ruffv, Looney, Mooney, and Rooney.
At the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, William
Hetherton, blacksmith, was convicted of culpable homi-
cide, in causing the death of his wife, by beating and
kicking her, and was sentenced to transportation for life.
On Saturday the Royal Assent was given by commission
to no fewer than seventy public and private Acts of Par-
liament ! Thus it appears that whatever else England
stands in need of. she has no lack of law and taxes.
The East-India Company have granted a pension of
£lOO per annum, for life, to Lieut. Waghorn, R.N., as an
acknowledgment for the services he has rendered the cause
of steam communication between this country and India.
The Tablet, in a bitter article against education at Ox-
ford University, quotes the account of the cheering of the
ladies under various denominations by the undergraduates
at the late commemoration as a proof of the great demo-
ralisation among the students !
On Sunday week two young men and two young women
were overturned in a wherry they were rowing to Kew,
which, from the swollen state of the tide and want of ex-
rience, was unmanageable. All four were drowned, and
the bodies of the young women have not been recovered.
A boy fell into the Tweed the other day, and was
drowning, when a cow in a meadow bellowed loudly, and
ran to and fro in so strange a manner that those at hand
were attracted to the spor, and the poor little fellow was
taken out of the water. He became insensible immediately,
and died shortly afterwards.
On Saturday Messrs. Bentley obtained an injunction
from the Vice-Chancellor to restrain the proprietors of
the London Journal from publishing certain numbers of
their work containing extracts from Sir E. L. Bulwer's
new romance of Harold, the copyright of which they had
purchased for £1,600
Manifold symptoms of a revival of trade are manifested
among the iron works in Wales. We hear that several of
the leading ironmasters have received considerable orders
recently, which are now proceeding with much satisfaction
and confidence. At Cwinbrain iron works a large order
for 1000 tons of rails has been executed within the last
three weeks.
FOUR LIVES LOST.—On Sunday morning, a wherry,
containing two young men and two females, ran agains,
a barge moored on the Middlesex side of the river, near
Putney-bridge. The boat immediately upset, and all
four were immersed in the river, and carried under the
barge. Several boats put off to their assistance, but
without any effect.
NOVEL WAGER.— Two gentlemen in high life have ar-
ranged a wager of 1000 guineas, that one of them shall
sell one million boxes of lucifer matches in the space of
tn-o years, and not sell more than four boxes for one
penny, and not exceed more than sixpenny-worth to any
one individual ; to commence on the 24th day of July,
1848, at Cork, and finish in Hull, 24th July, 1850.
PRICE OF BREAD IN THE METROPOLIS.—On Thursday
the bakers of the west end, and the second-rate ones
throughout the metropolis generally, rose the price of the
41b. loaf id. The best bread is now charged ncl. to 81. ;
second quality, Thd ; some, however, only charge 5%d. and
6d., weighed on delivery ; good household bread is at sd.
The cause of this rudden rise is not stated.
THE CHARTIST TRlALS.—Upwards of fifty prisoners
were arraigned in batches, at York Assizes, on Friday,
for riots, rescue, and drilling, at Bradford and Bingley.
Some pleaded guilty, and were discharged on entering
into their own recognisances to keep the peace for two
years, and to appear for judgment when called upon.
Others traversed till next assizes, and one was acquitted.
A man named Shearer was brought before the Wake-
field magistrates, on Monday, charged with a murder
which occurred two years ago. The jury, at an inquest
on the body, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder,"
against Shearer and another man, both of whom ab-
sconded. The prisoner was remanded, and the case is be-

ing, inquired into.
M. Ole Bull, the celebrated Norwegian violinist, is now
working as a journeyman in the manufactory of M. Vuil-
laume, a Parisian musical instrument maker, in the hope
of being enabled to make a violin that shall equal the tones
of those made by the celebrated Stradivarius, of Cremona,
and for this purpose he has brought from Norway wood
more than 200 years old.
Her Majesty, as a parting gift to the inhabitants of
Brighton, has presented them with the Royal Chapel
organ, which was built by Lincoln. It is the intention of
the commissioners to put the instrument in the Assembly
Room in the Town Hall. The Lord Chamberlain was
applied to for the Pavilion clock, but that was refused,
and the organ given instead. The Pavilion is completely
dismantled. _ _

Gurrn PERCHA.—The importations of this newly-in-
troduced article of merchandise continue to take place in
large quantities. A vessel arrived in the docks from
Singapore, has brought 10,902 blocks of gutta percha as a
portion of her cargo. The importation of the article tak-
ing place in blocks renders it applicable for the manufac-
ture of constables' staves or any other purposes to which
it can be applied.
MANSLAUGHTER.-011 Monday Mast a number of per-
sons were engaged at hay-making at Messrs. Walkers',
the Bower Farm, on the Blackmore Park estate, when
some quarrelling took place, a man named Ganderton, who
is a Romanist, had been frequently teased on that sub-
ject. At length he became so exasperated that, being on
the top of a rick, he threw his pike at a man named Fisher,
and the prongs penetrating his head, he died on the spot.—
Worcester Journal.
DREADFUL FIRE.—Two FIREMEN KILLED.—On Fri-
day morning, about half-past four, a most disastrous fire
broke out in the extensive biscuit factory of Messrs. Law-
ford and Westrupp, New Crane, High-street, Wapping,
London. Floor after floor were soon in flames, and when
the whole building was in one burning mass, the roof tell
in with a fearful crash, burying two firemen, named
Pearcy and Hancock, and Mackey, the engineer, was also
much injured
The Nottingham Journal states that a few days since
three men wished to cross the Trent at the Radcliffe Ferry,
but as they only possessed 2d. while the fare was ld. each,
one of them undertook to swim over the river, while his
companions, to whom lie entrusted his clothes, crossed in
the ferry boat. At first the swimmer seemed likely to at-
tain the opposite bank with ease, but at length the strength
of the current carried him into a deep hole, where he was
drowned before assistance could be rendered to him.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On the 14th ult., as Mr.
Thomas Babb, of Caverswall, near Uttoxeter, was return-
ing home, between eight and nine o'clock, in a gig, with
his daughter, a little girl five years old, when descending
the hill between Bromshall and Loxley, it is supposed his
horse, a very spirited one, shied at a bush in the road, and
ran up a sloping hank, which overturned the gig, and
threw them out. When found, Mr, Babb was quite dead,
with the wheel of the vehicle upon his throat ; but the
little girl escaped unhurt.
NOVEL DINNER PARTY.—So favourable has been the
opinion entertained r y the respectable inhabitants of the
parish of Camberwell of the general conduct of the police
force doing duty in that parish, that a subscription was
set on foot for the purpose of testifying their approval in
some substantial manner. A fund was in a short time
collected, and the sanction of the commissioners having
been obtained through the Rev. Mr. Lilly, on Wednesday
72 constables and serjeants, with Mr. Superintendent
Robinson and Inspector Campbell (who were specially
invited), sat down to a most substantial dinner. The
chair was filled by Mr. Cull, a gentleman of large pro-
perty in the neighbourhood, with the Rev. Mr. Lilly on
his right, and Dr. Flower and Mr. Wilson, the church-
wardens, and other gentlemen on his left.
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TheThursday,balance-sheet—
with Mr. Jullien
with a total of £27,634, showed a • lamentable state of
affairs, for hardly anything appeared likely to be realised
for the benefit of the creditors. The cost for the repair,
alteration, and decoration of Drury-lane Theatre, the ex-
pense of the Grand Opera, and that of the equestrian
company, formed a total of £30,584 ; while the receipts
for the grand opera were only £9825, and for the Cirque
National £5687. Mr. Commissioner Fane censured the
course of the bankrupt. Mr. Jullien said he had offered,
before he was made a bankrupt, to pay his creditors as
fast as his professional gains would permit ; and he now
protested that he would not return to his country until he
had paid every shilling. The bankrupt passed.