The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

On Friday, the 21st, a man of the name of John
Cooper, near Dariven, was killed by the electric fluid.
In the last two years, 1842 and 1843, the sums of
£2,008 and £1,605 respectively were derived from the
sale of certain parliamentary papers as " waste paper. "
Three young men, named Kent, Wellens, and Taylor,
were drowned whilst bathing in the Rochdale Canal on
Sunday evening week.
On Thursday morning last, a strange gentleman, who
had taken a bed at a tavern, in London, was found to have
poisoned himself with prussic acid. The name of
" Rowe" was marked on his shirt collar.

HULL DOCKS' BILL.—The report of the committee on
this bill was considered, and its amendments were agreed
to, on Monday, in the House of Commons. The bill was
thereupon ordered to be engrossed.
Last year a pair of swallows built their nest beneath a
paddle-box of the steamer Clarence, which plies between
Annan, Waterfoot and Carlisle. This year they have
built again in the same singular situation.
A bird has built its nest in the key-hole of the principal
entrance of the gardens at Croxteth this season. The
young ones, six in number, took wing last week but one.
This is the third season that the same bird has taken up
its abode in the above place.
A soldier, while swimming in the Thames, the other
day, frequently, in sport, called out that he was drowning.
He was at length really seized with the cramp, but his
comrades, thinking he was still hoaxing them, paid no
attention to his cries, and he was drowned.
THE WELLINGTON BANNER.—The tri-coloured ban-
ner by which the Duke of Wellington bolds Strathfield-
saye, was, on the 18th ultimo, duly presented at Windsor
Castle, and placed in the Guard Chamber over the bust of
his grace by Chantry. This is the twenty-ninth banner
received at Windsor Castle since the battle of Waterloo.
KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME.—Her Majesty has been
pleased to express, through Sir Henry Wheatley, Keeper
of the Privy Purse, her desire that several hundreds of
the forthcoming series of " Knight's Weekly Volume"
shall be added to the libraries lately established at all the
palaces.
SINGULAR RECOVERY OF A WATCH.—About nine
months ago, Mr. John Sykes, of Wakefield, was shoott.ig
on a farm belonging to his father at Austonley, when he
lost his gold watch. He offered a reward for its recovery,
but without success. A few days ago a person found the
watch hanging in a hedge, where, no doubt, it had hung
ever since it was lost.

GUANO Trtmou.—During the past week this port has
sent out three ships—the Integrity, Johnston, of 489 tons;
the James and Thomas, Forest, of 383 tons ; and La
Bonne Mere, Dove—for Ichaboe. The Atwick, of 341
t ms, and the Indus, are preparing to follow. These will
make twelve ships from Hull, ten of which are gone to
load the precious manure.—Hull Herald.
LADIES IN THE STOCKS.—On Saturday, market-day
at Newport in this county, the atten►ion of Her Majesty's
lieges was attracted to the Town-hall, in consequence of
the stocks being occupied by two young ladies, Miss
Ann Bullock, and Miss Harris, who with a gentleman,
named Jones, alias Girdler, had the pleasure of rusticating
in the above enviable position for six hours.—Shrewsbury
Chronicle.

GUANO.—The West India Islands do not appear to
oiler a market for this now important article of commerce,
as the following fact affords sufficient proof:—" The brig
Lerwick, Captain Jones, arrived at Cork on the 23rd
instant, with a cargo of African guano, having been to
Barbadoes, and remained there four days, without being
able to dispose of it, at, it is presumed, remunerating
prices. "

Roe and Blatchford, the Isle of Wight bankers, passed
their final examination on Friday at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, when the proof of the Lie of Wight Joint Stock
Bank for £63,000 was admitted against each of the sepa-
rate estates of the bankrupts; it appearing that when Sir
Richard Bassett died, the firm was insolvent, and was
nevertheless carried on by the bankrupts till they fated
with a deficiency of £60,000 or £70,000.
QUICK TRAVELLING—The splendid new coach, Quick-
silver, from Edinburgh to Newcastle, in uninterupted
communication with the Newcastle and London Railway
(just opened,) by Darlington, in one day, on 'Wednesday
performed her first journey from Newcastle to Edinburgh
in nine•and-a-half hours, with the. greatest ease, safety,
and comfort, and having a full complement of passengers,
thus anticipating the London mail by nearly four hours.—
Glasgow Courier•
STATISTICS OF CAB-DRIVERS, &C.—From some docu-
ments recently prepared for the Home Missionary So-
ciety, it appears that there are in the metropolis 347
watermen employed upon the various cab-stands, 1,793
omnibus conductors, 1,662 drivers of cabs, and 4,546
drivers of hickney-coaches and omnibusses, making a
total of 8,348 men, or, with their families, 20,000 persons
living by the conveyance of passengers in and around
London.

POST-OFFICE EMBEZZLEMENT.—On the morning of
Thursday, Miss Sarah Kay, late the receiver of letters at
the Glossop Road branch Post-office, in Sheffield, under-
went an examination at the Town-hall of that place, and
was fully committed to York Castle for trial on three
charges of stealing letters, one containing tyro marked half
sovereigns, another containing a silk handkerchief, and
the third a piece of bride-cake. The punishment for this
offence is transportation for life.

SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Since the second reading of
the Dissenters' Chapels Bill in the House of Commons,
the trustees of Dean-row (Unitarian) Chapel have held a
meeting, which was attended by several very wealthy and
influential gentlemen of the neighbourhood. They have
determined on making a school-room from one end of
the chapel, altering the galleries, and thoroughly repair-
ing the building and premises throughout. They have
ample funds at their disposal.—Stockport paper.
EXTENSION OF THE COTTON TRADE.—We have now
almost weekly to report fresh extensions of the cotton
trade in this town. This week Messrs. W. Shaw & Co.,
corn-dealers, have p rchaaed about 5000 yards of land,
belonging to the Greenbank estate, on which to erect a
weaving shed, and, probably, hereafter a mill. Mr. J.
Paley is about taking down buildings adjoining the works,
and extending them considerably. We hear of another
party about erecting a new null.—Preston Guardian,
Radical paper.

THE Loss OF THE MANCHESTER.—By the Vivid
steamer, which arrived on Tuesday evening from Hull,
we ascertained that the Transit steamer made that port
on Monday from the scene of the late heart-rending oc-
currence, and the additional particulars brought by her
confirm the melancholy fact that not a life was saved.
When the Transit left the Elbe on Saturday, the wreck
of the Manchester could be seen to the northward of the
harbour, but the crew were unable to gain any tidings of
any bodies being washed ashore.—Morning Chronicle.
MANCHESTER THEATRICAL RELIEF FUND. —The
fund for the relief of the sufferers by the destruction of
the Manchester Theatre-lioyal amounted, on Thursday
last, to £761. The salaries of the company were paid in
full from the time of the conflagration to the opening of
the Circus; the artisans were paid for the loss of their
tools, and the orchestra for the loss of their instruments;
after which a surplus of £370 remained, which was dis-
tributed, on Saturday, among the theatrical corps and
those necessary servants of the theatre who are wholly
dependant upon it.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—There are at all the sta-
tions of the Ayrshire Railway shifts or switches, placed
betwixt the two rails for the purpose of removing carriages
from one rail to the other. Under the shaft of Lochwin-
noch station, a bird of the " wagtail " species has built a
nest, and is now sitting on five eggs. Although there is
scarcely an hour in the day that there is not a train pass-
ing over it, and the wheels of the engine and carriages
running within two or three inches of the resting place of
the little bird, it goes in and out as fearlessly as if it were
out of the reach of danger.—Wealern Watchman.
DREADFUL FIRE.—An alarming fire broke out on
Sunday morning at Boston. Lincolnshire, in the oil and
colour warehouse of Mr. Stator. Shortly afterwards a
violent explosion took place, a quantity of gunpowder
upon the premises (about 100 lb.) having ignited. At this
time the whole of Mr. Slator's house was a mass of flames ;
the effect of the explosion was to blowout the whole of the
front. A large corn warehouse in. Spain-lane next took
'fire, and became a prey to the flames, together with the
offices of Mr. Lewins and their timber-yard. The amount
of property destroyed is estimated at £lO,OOO.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 28.—We have a
steady sugar market; the transactions since our last are
not large, owing to the buyers having previously supplied
themselves, but about 400 hhds. have found buyers at the
previous currency. Brown 565. to 575. ; middling 58s. to
605.; good and fine 61s. to 675. In Bengals and Mauri-
tius a moderate business has been done at the quotations.
Rum is not in mtifh demand, but the samples of those
parcels lately arrived are not yet ready for the market.
Molasses very dull. Gazetted average price of sugar,
June 25, is 345. 4k.d. per cwt.
EFFECTUAL METHOD OF PRESERVING FURS, &C.
FROM MOTHS.—Wash the fur on both sides with a
mixture of twelve grains of Corrosive Sublime dissolved
in half-a-pint of Spirits of Wine. To make it dissolve
more readily, the corrosive sublime should be reduced to
powder in a marble mortar. If the moths have harboured
in the lining-wool of muffs, it must be replaced by new
wool that has been well saturated with the above prepar-
ation. The mixture is colourless, and will re t injure the
most delicate fur, feathers, or woollen art cles of any kind.
The same method of treatment is also efficacious for the
preservation of stuffed specimens in natural history.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—An old man named Thomas
Archibald, aged 84, together with his wife, aged 81 years,
who had resided for a long period in the neighbourhood
of Ballagarahan, in this Island, died on the same day,
having buffeted the storms of life together, as than and
wife, for the long periud of 60 years. These aged pil-
grims, who had so long " clamb'd the hill tegither,"
" slept tegither at the foot," were not divided even in
death. They were " waked" in the same room, con-
veyed in the same vehicle, and finally interred in the same
grave in Peel churchyard, in presence of a large concourse
of spectators.—Manx Liberal.
SUICIDE BY A YOUNG GIRL.—On Tuesday last Emma
French, a very lively girl, aged fifteen, drowned herself in
the Grand Junction Canal, near Kensal Newtown. The
deceased was in the habit of saying she would drown her-
self when corrected for a fault. She called on her sister
on Monday, and told her she was going to drown herself,
and on the following day she wrote the following letter to
her mother : " Good-bye, mother : I have drowned my-
self by the house. Pray take me out; I am dead. My
dear mother, good-bye." Her body was found in the
canal, behind her mother's house, on Wednesday morning.
She had left her bonnet and shawl in the adjoining hedge.
POPERY IN BRISTOL.—The Roman Catholic Chapel,
which has been for many years in progress of building,
near Meridian-place, Clifton, and is still unfinished, is
now offered to the best bidder, together with a small chapel
adjacent, used for some time as a Roman Catholic place
of worship, and other premises and land. We very much
doubt if the purchase of St. Mary's Chapel, on the Quay,
and the premises in Brunswick-square, intended as a
house for ' Sisters of Mercy," has been in either instance
completed. We hear glowing accounts of the progress of
Popery elsewhere ; but certainly in Bristol and its neigh-
bourhood it is at a stand-still, if not retrograding.—Bria-
tol Journal. _ _

THE MYSTERIOUS POISONINGS.—An inquest has been
held on the bodies of the aged couple, living at the village
of Long Sutton, near Wisbeach, who as stated in our last,
had died from the effects of arsenic. At the inquiry it
was clearly proved that the poison had been put into the.
tea-kettle by a strange woman who entered the house
p d—
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e
while Mrs. Crosby was preparing the breakfast, and who
requested permission to rest herself for a short time,
which was granted. The woman has not been discovered,
although a reward has been offered for her apprehension.
The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict
" that the deceased persons came by their deaths from
poison, administered by some person or persoxoninssoounner-
known."
FATAL OceunOCCURRENCE.—On Friday last, a very melan-
choly accident took place at the Barregarroo Mines, in
the parish of Michael, whereby three men lost their lives,
two of whom have left wives andlaargfteerfawrnarildises.ex
The
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reached the bottom, than he was almost instantly y ren-
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Manx _Liberal.

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IMPORTS OF FRUIT.—The Princess Victoria steamer
from Antwerp, on Monday morning, landed 542 baskets
of cherries, averaging 501bs. each, making a total of about
27,2001b5. ; she also landed 20 baskets of fine white cur-
rants. The Emerald Isle, Rotterdam steamer, the same
morning landed 933 baskets of the same fruit, averaging
251bs. per basket, and making, with the Princess's supply,
upwards of 50,0001b5., which were immediately distributed
amongst the buyers from the West Riding and Lancashire.
This supply is ten times the amount of the preceding
week. The fruit is in extraordinary fine condition, and
appeared, on examination, to be entirely free from un-
soundness and waste. The Emerald Isle brought a fur-
ther consignment of 635 bushel-hampers of new potatoes.
—Hull Herald.

July 2, 1844.

MILITARY AFFRAY AT GATESHE AD.—A serious affray
took place at Gateshead on Sunday week. It originated
in a common public-house quarrel, which led to the ap-
prehension of a soldier belonging to the 37th Regiment.
This proceeding had irritated a number of his comrades
who assembled in Gateshead at a subsequent period of the
day, and made an attack upon some of the police much is
the same way as the recent attack was made in Leeds.
The matter was fully invi stigutvd by the magistrates at
the Gateshead Town-hall on Tuesday last, when fill
soldiers, and a civilian named Weymss, were each con-
victed in a penalty of £5. In default of payment, to be
imprisoned two months in Durham Gaol.
ACCIDENT IN THE RIVER LEA.—On Wednesday three
inquests were held before the Middlesex coroner on the
remains of three youths who were drowned in the Lea,
close to the Eastern Counties Railway, on H. Waldock.
aged 17, who had gone to bathe with his brother, and
having got out of his depth was drowned ; on G. S. Shaw,
aged 12, and Alfred Frear, aged 11, sons of respectable
tradesmen in Whitechapel. They had gone to walk Oe
the banks, and when about to return home, Shaw slid
down the bank to wash his boots, in doing which he fell
in. Frear courageously jumped to his assistance, and
each grasped the other so firmly that they perishPd in each
other's arms. The drags were procured, but the bodies
were not found for an hour and a half. Verdict, " acci-
dental."

NUPTIAL FESTIVITIES.—Tuesday last was a gay and
happy festival at Acton, and the whole district was one
scene of rejoicing, as on that morning Wilbraham Tolle-
rnache, Esq., led to the hymeneal altar, Miss Torokinson,
of Dorfold Hall. On leaving the church the flower girls
preceded the bride and bridegroom, and scattered the
path with roses. The bells of the church rang out merli
peals, and the party returned to the Hall amidst the same
demonstrations of enthusiasm as greeted their arrival.
The children of the National School. about 200 of both
sexes, were plentifully regaled in their school room with
buns, wines, &c. No demonstration which could in aril
way mark the respect in which the wo.thy pair are held,
was omitted ; and a general feeling of good will, and warm
expressions of esteem, were the distinguishing charae.
teristics of the joyous proceedings.
The Hampshire Independent has a strange memoir of
a halt-brother of Sir Edward Knatchbull, who was exe-
cuted in February last, for a murder, at Sydney, in New
South Wales. John Knatchbull, a son of the
late Sir
Edward, by a second marriaze was transported in 1824,
for a robbery at Vauxhall Gardens, under the assumed
name of John Fitch. He was always of violent temper;
and when he ro‘e from the rank of midshipman, having
early entered the navy, to the commander of a ten-gun
brig, his conduct was so tyrannical that he was brought to
a court martial, cashiered, and declared incompetent to
hold any commission in the King's service. He then
associated with the most profligate. By a pretended
marriage he succeeded in seducing the daughter of a city
merchant ; having previously made similar victims at
Bermuda. Halifax, and New York. In 1825 be arrived

at Sydney ; and soon obtained a ticket of leave, having
apprehended several runaways. who, from information
subsequen'ly received, no doubt, were instigated to the
crime by Knatchbull himself. In 1831 he was banished to
Norfolk Island for seven years, for forgery; after which
he returned to Sydney. He was ultimately executed for
the murder of Mrs. Jamieson ' • the motive to his crime
having been a small amount of property which the unfor-
tunate woman possessed, and which was found on the
murderer's person.

The King of Saxony, after visiting Cambridge, arrived
at Chesterfield on Slturday week, and visited Hardwicke
Hall. proceeding on to Bakewell. On Sunday the King
and his suite attended service at the Earl of Newburgh'e
chapel, and afterwards visited Chatsworth, spending seven
hours in an inspection of the Duke of Devonshire's cele-
brated conservatory. They, then proceeded to Haddon
Hall, and having viewed that beautiful and unique struc-
ture, returned to the Rutland Arms, at Bakewell, where
they again passed the night. On Monday the King of
Saxony visited Buxton and afterwards Castleton, and went
through the caverns and minutely inspected the wonders
of that extraordinary locality. His Majesty then pro-
ceeded on to Matlock. sleeping at the Old Bath Hotel.
On Tuesday the King visited the Museums at Matlock
Bath, and then passed on to the railwaf station at Derby,
proceeding by train to Birmingham, where horses were
ordered to be in readiness to take bim to the Soho manu-
factory. From Birmingham his Majesty proceeded to
Warwick Castle. On Wednesday evening his Majesty
arrived at Leamington, and on the following morning
viewed the town, soon after which his Majesty departed
for Oxford, via Stratford-on-Avon and Blenheim. His
Majesty arrived at Oxford on Friday, and was conducted
by the Vice-Chancellor over the colleges, libraries, &c.
His Majesty took his departure from Oxford on Saturday.

THE MORALITY OF THE TURF.—In the Court of
Exchequer, on Tuesday last, an action for an assault was
tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe. Mr. Wood, a sporting
man, sought to recover damages for having been forcibly
ejected from the Grand Stand at Doncaster, during the
races last year. The action was brought against Lead-
bitter, the well known London police officer, but it was
defended with the sanction of the jockey club, by the
Earl of Eglintoun, the steward of the races, under whose
directions the ejection took place. It seems that the
plaintiff purchased for a guinea a ticket to the Grand
Stand, but shortly after he had been admitted he was de-
sired to withdraw by Leadbitter, acting under the direc-
tions of Lord Eglintoun, and on the plaintiff's refusal he
was gently handed out by the officer, which constituted
the alleged assault. It appeared that the plaintiff was
what is called a " defaulter" on the turf, and before the
Derby Race, in 1841, he had solicited authority from a
person named Harker to bet for him on commission.
That authority was given, and before the races plaintiff
wrote to say that he had backed Coronation in several
heavy bets with some of the leading men on the turf; but
when, contrary to his expectation, Coronation had won
the race, he confessed that he bad not made such bets.

If Coronation had lost, the plaintiff would have pocketed
a large sum without risk at the expense of Harker. The
jury found a verdict for the defendant, on the plea of jus-
tification.

SUICIDE OF A COURIER OF THE KING OF HANOVER.

—Whilst the steam-ship Caledonia was on her last passage
to Harnburgb, the greatest sensation was produced
amongst the passengers by the following melancholy oc-
currence :—On board was a Mr. T. Ralphs, courier to his
Hanoverian Majesty, the beater of despatches from her
Majesty to his royal master. He left St. James's Palace
on the night of last Friday week, and proceeded on board,
but owing to some unexplained cause he would never mit
with the chief cabin passengers, but preferred living and
conversing with those in the forepart of the vessel. At
nine o'clock in the evening the steamer anchored at the
Stade, and shortly afterwards be partook of a glass of
brandy and water with the steward. Soon after :two
o'clock on the following morning the vessel got under
weigh, and proceeded up the river on her way to Ham-
burgh, when the man was missed. The mate then went
in search of him, and having gone to the door of the wa-
ter-closet, and finding it locked on the inside, and receiv-
ing no answer to his knocking, with the assistance of
sailor, broke it open, and found Mr. Ralphs a corpse, his
throat being frightfully cut in several places. The unhappl
man had evidently first cut himself with his right hand,
and finding the wound ineffectual, had infi cted another
gash on the other side of his throat, and death not follow-
ing so speedily as he desired, it was apparent that he had
sat down on the seat and bled to death. A piece of paper,
on which the following was written, was found in hie
pockets :—" Take care of my child, for Thomas Ralphs,
his last request ; Frankland and Churchill have been the
cause of this. God bless you all."

BREAD IN PARIS AND LONDON.—The style of doing
business in this country is vastly different to what it is in
France, and over the Continent generally, and, as we
suppose the paid agitators of the League must get some-
thing else to agitate upon, we should recommend them to
look into this matter, if they are really solicitous, as they
profess to he, for the interests of the operatives and the
poorer classes of society. It would be new and about as
useful as their present object. What we allude to has
been repeatedly displayed in the reports from Paris of the
prices of corn, flour, and bread, relatively to the prices in
this country. These tables are to this effect, that while
the price of wheat in London market may be ten per cent.
higher than that of Paris, the price of flour is twenty per
cent. higher, and of bread thirty per cent. higher in the
former than in the latter capital. And it would thus
appear, that to whatever causes the different relative prices
them whether
wthh
of bread in the two markets is tube attributed, the blame,
if blame there be, of the price being higher in England
than in France, is attributable but in a moderate degree
to the corn growers, while the profits of millers and bakers
in this country constitute the chief part of the difference
complained of. If the gentlemen of the League possess
that
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or the baker. We shall venture to saw, however, the
League will not agitate in the matter. Millers and bakers
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are on a par with themse yes, and enjoy their sympathl
in the profits they realize, however high those may be.
It is the aristocracy they fix upon as their game. But
so far, at least, they have shown themselves
their level. wofully under
eethmerilltehre,

ARRIVALS OF GUANO.—Two cargoes of this fertilizer,
the property of Messrs. Banks of Haddineton, have ar-
rived at the port of Berwick within the last few days;
one, per the Clifton, from Ichaboe. and the other, per tile
Leo, from Chincha, or the Bug Islands. The captain of
the latter states that he loaded his vessel (about 420 tons)
in 48 hours, the guano lying as thick as 300 feet; and
that, had it not been for the trouble of stowing, it might
have been done in four or five hours. The guano was
conveyed to the hold of the vessel by means of canvas'
hose. The Bug Islands are three in number, about 15
miles off Pisco, in lat. 14 23 S., long. 76 13. There is°
rock in the centre of the middle island, which is half
mile in diameter. The rock stands as a sort of landmark
in the ocean. The rock appeared to be a kind of whiten-
ed boulder, so hard that the crew were unable to procure
a fragment of it. The captain visited only two of the
islands, and states that the air was very strongly impreg
nated with ammonia. The coast of Peru abounds wit!'
the article. He describes labour in general to be plenty
ful, and to be had at about 3s. a day English moneL;
but he had to wait a month for his turn, as there were 30
vessels there. The population is principally a mixed race
of Spaniards and Pet uvians, speaking Spanish, and,
in
the present undisturbed state of the country, fond 9'
plunder. The captain of the Clifton says that on
arrival at Ichaboe the vessels that were then loading had
appointed a commodore,
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dore,thatthe allotmentnefoot
poefr
man,guano and
that eachvessel
that it took him two months to load. The island is only
three quarters of a mile in circumference, and when tbe.
Clifton left there were fifty vessels loading, the allotmen'
for each
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by these vessels.—Berwick Warder.