The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

GENERAL NIISCELLAN Y.

The Glasgow cotton spinners have agreed to raise the
wages of their workmen ten per cent.
A butcher was killed on Monday in the New Cut, Lon-
don, by his knife slipping out of his mouth and sticking
in his abdomen.
A ferry-boat was run down off Woolwich, by the Wa-
terman steamer, on Friday, when two men were unfortu-
nately drowned, and two others seriously injured.
The Marquis of Londonderry has been defeated in an
attempt to increase the police of the county of Durham.
The magistrates were against it.

At the rresent period there are only three prisons in
the metropolis for debtors, and the whole number does
not exceed 300 persons.

The river Ayle, at Westport, rose last week above eighty
feet beyond its usual level, and the current became so
strong as to sweep away hay, turf, oats, and even cabins.
At Hereford, 413 heads of families have signed a de-
claration to countenance those shops which close at early
hours, and discountenance the others.

Richard Leach, a sawyer, has been committed for trial
charg,•cl with attempting to destroy the, timber vard, &c.
cf Mr. GrAatn. a builder, at Wilton, on the Ilih instant.
The theatre at Beccles, built, a few years since, at an
expense of £2,000, is about to be crniverLed into a corn
exchanze.

About 5,000 acres of Dartmoor have been purchased by
a company, who have already fenced and drained part of
it, and calculAe on lating the whole at 10s. per acre.
Hitherto the Find has been waste.

Oa Tuesday la,t, two men were killed, and another
seriously injured by the fa!ling of an immense mass of
rock and earth, upwards of 10►00 •ons vv,!glit, at a quarry
near As ton-under-Lyne.
On Thursiay dVelibig vtAz, Mr. Richard Cobuss, of
Cobb-stteet, Ash, in Kent, was snot dead by a concealed
assassin, supposed to have been his own 'lon, George, a
youth of n;nete.cn, who is in cu tody.
Lord Eldon his s.:tit a clonition of £2OO to the coin-
m'ttee for providing baths and wash-houses for the work-
ing CiaS3tX, and several of the London bankers have an-
nounced their intention of giving large donations.
WINTER. AgRIZES —lt iA now definitiv ly fixed that
a winter gaol delivery shall take place in many parts of
the kingdom, but it is believed that the subsidiary arrange-
tnents will not be made till the beginning of term.

THE FIRST LOCOMOTrit.---J/ISt forty years ngo, Mr.
TreTethick, a rainmg tmrineer, constructed the first loco-
motive engine at Merthv r xnd ppplied it success-
fully to the traction of coal and coke.--c'on6rian.
At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, the Ron.
W. Ross 'rouchet was tried for firing at the proprietor of
a Shooting Gallery in Holborn, and acquitted on the plea
of insanity.

The Norgiern Star newspan:T hitherto published in
Leeds, is abcut to be romoved to Londoa, to he issued
there ; hut whether under the same title, which will then
be a misnomer, cr under score new name, we have not
heard.

The greatest activity almost ever known now e7.ists is
the coal trade, no less than 290 ships' cargo having been
purchased at last Tuesday's coal market in Lon I,n, The
average number of ships' cargoes sold previously being
Only from thirty to fifty.—Newcastle Journal.
Mr. Sergeant Bompas, who died suddenlv a short time
since, left a widow and a large in somewhat in-
dittet ent circumstances ; but his professional brethren is.
teemed him so highly that a subscription was entered into
for the ben-tit of his family, to which Sir Thomas Wilde
contributed the princely sum of 1,000 guineas.

CIDER. AND PERRY.—TiIeSe liquors will be very cheap,
this year, in Fletefordsliire, nod on the banks of the
Severn, from \Voices:ET to Chepstow. The crops of
apples and pears are much larger than last year : ls. to
ls. 6d. per bushel is now the price fur good apples at
Hereford and Ledbury.

Washing-tub excursions appear to be increasing in fa•
your amongst the Jack-pudding fraternity. The Dun?fties
Courier states, that, on Friday week, the clown of Cook's
Circus took a voyage down the Nith in a vessel of the
above description, drawn by four geese, in the presence
of a large concourse of people.
A HORSE BUYER FROM THE "CELESTIAL EMPIRE I"
—Last week, at the Howden horse fair, the greatest per-
haps in Eng:and, among those present, strange as it may
appear, there.was a buyer from the Emperor of China, in
the person of one of his subjects, attvnded by an inter-
preter.

LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night week, a
young woman named !Jester Tilly, the daughter of a
farmer living at Ashley-hill, Stapleton, de'troyed herself
by jiamping into a pool of water in her father's orchard.
The unhappy girl had been forbidden her father's house
in consequence of her keeping company with a young
man, whom her parent did not approve.
Mr. Clark, manager of the extensive works of Messrs.
Monteith and Co., of Ba-rowfield, Glasgow, 11::s made a
discitvery in the art of calico printing, which is likely to
produce most important results in that trade, almost in
the semi ratio as the invention of hot blast produced in
the iron trade. Mr. Clark has secured a patent for the
invention.

EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—A gentleman's servant, in
London, out of a situation, who had been out on Monday
evening with some friends, and having cnteted into play
at cards, bad lost between £4 and £5, returned to his
lodgings between one and two o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing much intoxicated, and cut his throat. H e was removed
to the hospital without hopes of recovery.
CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last a mrst
calamitous explosio❑ of fire-damp took ',lace In a coal-
pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at the Five Ways, liow!ey
Regis. The number of persons at work in the pit at the
time is and rstood to have been sevente.Al or eig.hteen,
and of these no less than eleven have fallen victims to this
lamentable occurrence.

THE LEIGH PEntinon. —A man named John Leigh,
claimant ro the estates of the Lord Leigh at Stoneleign,
Warwickshire, and thirty of his followers have
been held to bail by the Magistrates of Leamington for a
riot and a3s.ault, in having broken in the panels of a door,
and taken foreitle possession of Stoneleigh Abbey on
Monday morning last.

Monday being the thirty-ninth anniversary of the
memorable battle of Trafalgar, a nunster of naval offi-
cers, who had been in the engagement dined together, at
the Naval Club (louse, St. James's-square, London, in
romnemoration of the day. At Greenwich Hospital the
tars enaged were regaled with an excellent dinner. a
pint of porter, and a shilling to each man.

A VETERAN' CORONER.—At an inquest at Yeovil, on
Saturday, Mr. R. P. Caines remarked that in the course
of his coronership be had held no less thau 3800 inquests.
He had been a coroner nearly 28 years, and during the
last seven years alone he had travelled 36,766 miles,
giving an average, of 5252 miles per year. He had paid
in turnpikes during then even years a sum very attic short
of X9O.

INCONSOLABLE.--It is stated, that the Quoen has
ordered a pension of £3O to be granted to the widow of
Walker, the artilleryman, who was killed by the discharge
of a cannon on the King's Bastion, at Portsmouth ; and
Louis Phißippe has also expressed an intention of pro-
viding for the woman. It is feared, however, that she
may not survive to enjoy the pension ' • she remained in-
sensible from the Monday until Saturday week.
THE BELGIUM TARIFF.—A very serious increase has
been made by the Belgian government, in the duties upon
silk and cotton manufactures, and also upon machines im-
ported into that country. The effect will probably be, to
drive the manufactures of Manchester out of the Belgian
markets, and to have them replaced by the manufactures
of Rouen and Mulhausen. The whole measure is one of
the utmost hostility to Englund.
PASSING HALF-NOTES.—At the London Mansion-
house, on Friday, three cutlers appeared before Sir Peter
Laurie and exposed an ingenious system by which they
had been swindled out of portions of their property. Par-
ties from Southampton had, it apper re 1, sent them let-
ters, enclosing the halves of stolen Bank of England notes
end ordering goods to the full amount of the enclosure,
and, when the goods were ftrwarcled, the remaining halves
were never remitted.

EXPORTATION OF METALS.—The official returns of
our exportations during the last two yews exhibit a great
increase in the lest over the present one. In the article
of metals, embracing iron and steel, copper, brass, end
tin, we eapot ted in the year ending sth September, 1843,
to nil amount of £3,405,568, and in the same period
ended sth September, 1814, £1,136,984, showing an in-
crease in the present year of upwards of seven hundred
and thirty thousand pounds.
COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A very general strike has taken
place amongst the colliers et Otbury, for a raise of 6d.
per day. On Monday last, at a very early hour, they
congrtg,ted in crowds of about 150 persons, and went to
the different pits to prevent those willing to work from
going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most
of the men at play. On Tuesday morning their intentions
were frustrated by the very active measures resorted to.
—Wolverhampton Chronicle.

NEW POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Mr. Bowen, an old cor-
respondent of the Times, has established the revolting
fact, that in cne of the new workhouses erected in this
Christian country, (in the Bridgewater Union.) females—
one of them with an infant at li,tr breast—have been set to
break stones as a labour suited to their age and sex, and
have been afterwards sentenced to three weeks' hard la-
bour in the House of Cot rcction, in consequence of their
refusal to submit to such cruet and degrading task-work.

REVISING-BARRISTERS.—The duties of the revising-
barristers for the revision of the lists of voters for the
present year arc drawing to a close. The first revision,
in the year 1833, cost upwards of 4;30,000 in payments
to the banisters anii for their expenses ; but under the
Registration of Voters' Act their charges were limited to
20U guineas each. It appears that the payment to the
barristers, including their expenses, now amounts to the
fixed yearly sum of £14,700. More appeals are expected
to the Court. of Common Pleas in the present than
occurred in the preceding revision.

The New Brazilian Tariff levies duties of 40 per cent.
on carpeting, earthenware, glass, paper, and ready-made
clothing ; 25 per cent, t n brass, copper, iron, lead, tin,
steel and leather ; 20 per cent. on handkerchiefs of linen,
cambric, or cotton lace, thread, or silk ; and 30 per cent.
on all articles not enumerated, which of courser include
nearly all kinds of cotton, woollen, linen, and ahk manu-
factures, and it is said that those goods are to be taken at
their estimated value and 10 per cent. additional. The
Government is authorised to lay aUttional duties on the
goods of any nations which subject the proluce of Brazil
to a higher duty than similar produce of other countries.
SUICIDE OF AN OLD .SPORTSMAN.—O❑ Monday night
an inquest was held at Lewisham, Kent, upon the body of
Charles Merton, aged 76, who was found dead, hanging
from a rafter in a barn belonging to a gentleman named
Russell, rrsiding at Lee. It appears that the deceased
was formerly huntsman to the Earl of Derby, and that
subsequently he kept the Derby Arms Inn, Croydon, the
Magpie Inn, on Hounslow Heath, and latterly was land-
lord of the Leaping Bar, Blackfriars-road, where he was
robbed by his housekeeper of a considerable sum of money,
since which he had involved himself in a lawatit, which
ended in his ruin. Of late he had become very eccentric
and strange in his manner.

DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—Mr. Welles, on Friday
held an inquest on the body of a man named Hill, who
had died in Marylebone. His widow stated, that after
having pawned every article they possessed, she was com-
pelled, he being too ill to work, to apply for parochial
relief, but it was refused her, and he died from actual
want (it appeared) in a ft w days afterwards. The coroner
declared he could s,e the to a. woman herself was literally
starving at that very moment. She said her children
(four in number) were in a similar state. Some medicine
had been given to her husband, but they were told that if
they applied again for relief they would be " passed" to
their parish, which they did not desire, as their only
chance of employment was where they were,