The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

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The East Tndia Company has, subscribed £5OO for the
great exhibition in 1851.

- On Saturday week, at Atherton Colliery, an explosion
took place by which five men were killed.
GAS.—The Doncaster Gas Company has consented to
reduce the price of gas from 4s-74. to 4s. 2d.
Several horses, imported from Sydney, have been sold
in London, the best for 60, and the worst for £37.
Ths Scotch papers announce that a hearse has recently
been introduced into the Orkneys for the first time.
While the average price of wheat in London is about
40s. per quarter, the average in Scotland is little above
30s.

An annuity, equal to what he received while in connec-
tion with the conference, has been presented to the Rev.
James Everett..

A few weeks ago a clergyman in Bath bought at a pre-
tended sale of " confiscated goods" articles to the amount
of £l2.lwhich did not cost .£301"

SPOTS ON THE SUN.—A large group of spots can be
discerned with the naked eye upon the sun's disc, a little
after sunrise, and a little before sunset.
A brother of Ireland's Duke is about to be married to
the widow of a person, whose father, from being a pedlar,
placed four of his boys in Parliament.

A screw steamer, intended for the trade between Ham-
burgh and New York, was launched at Hull on Thursday.
Her length over all is 245 feet. She will carry 48,000
cubic feet of goods.

The inhabitants of Leeds have press nted Dr. Wesley
with a very excellent portrait of himself, on his leaving the
town, on being appointed organist at Winchester Cathe-
dral.

At Shrewsbury, during the late gales, large pieces of
stone were blown off the column erected to the late Lord
Hill, at that part of the column on which the statue
eau 's.

The Common Council of London have adjourned a
long discussion, on a motion of one of the members,.that
the court should subscribe £lOOO towards the great
exhibition in 1851..

The taxes on the Times amount to rather more than
£16,000 a year for the paper, £60,000 a year for the
stamps, and £19,000 &year for the advertisements.;: total,
£95,000 a year.

VALENTINE'S DAT.—Thursday was a very busy day at
the London Post-office, upwards of 22,000 letters above
the ordinary daily average, making a total of upwards of
108,000 having bees delivered.
Lord Cole, eldest son of the Earl of Enniskillen, who
with his parents lately went to London to have a surgical
cperation performed for removal of polypus in the nose,
is not expected to survive.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Ste-
phenson, Esq., to be one of her Majesty's Commissioners
for the promotion of the Works of Industry of all Na-
tions to be held in the year 1851.

The day after the recent storm the body of an elderly
lady named Brabrook was found in the canal at Hackney,
and there seems no doubt that she was forced into the
water by the violence of the wind.
SIGNS or THE TIMES.—In the Shrewsbury Journal of
Wednesday last, there is a great number of sales and re-
tirements of large stock fermers announced ; and also of
"farms to Let."
The Town Council of Edinburgh have petitioned Per-
liament for the abolition of stamp receipts on all sums
under £lOO, and, failing this, the adoption of a system of
penny receipt stamps for all sums above £5, and under
£lOO.

A Nottingham paper notes the case of a man " born to
misfortune." Thrice his legs were broken, twice his feet
were crushed, and ultimately one foot was amputated ex-
cept the heel. Friends subsequently purchased for him a
patent foot; but recently he again fell and broke his leg.
A public meeting was held at Oxford on Friday for the
establishment of public baths and washhouses. Most of
the heads of colleges were present ; the Vice-Chancellor
and the Mayor presided. Mr. P. B. Duncan, of Bath,
has subscribed £5OO, and it is estimated that the erections
will cost £3,000.

The Gardener's Chronicle states, that in a place in-
fested with rats, one of the fraternity was recently caught,
clothed in scarlet, and then set free. The little red-coat
bolted into the midst of his friends, and inspired them
with terror ; and ultimately the rest took to irrevocable
flight._ _

-Ori Tuesday afternoon a bunted stag entered Camden-
town and mare for the metropolis, followed by Mr. Benn's
stag hounds, the huntsman, and one jaded horseman.
He passed through several streets, and darted into Messrs.
Prices' grate manufactory, thence into the house, where
he was secured.

THE REVENUE.—The most shrewd and cautious cal-
culators expect that, on the sth April, the balance in
favour of the public will amount to little short of £3,000,000
sterling. The public deposits in the Bank of England to
the credit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer have
increased during the last week by more than half a million.
A MAD BRUTE.—The Inverness Aervertiser records the
barbarity of a sailor, who threw his wife naked into the
street,. dragged his eldest daughter by the legs from a bed,
wherein eight days before she had been confined, threw
her into the street in a state of nudity, and subsequently
marched about the village with firearms in his hands.
THE NORTH-WEST EXPEDITION.—The government
have selected for service in the Arctic expedition of Cap-
tain Austin, C. 8., the two screw steam vessels Free Trade
and Eider. They are good, strong, wholesome vessels,
with good stowage, and of excellent machinery, each of
60-horse power. The Free Trade is daily expected from
the Mediterranean.
THE LEAD TRADE.—in our last number we announced
the rise that was anticipated in this trade; at the same
time we mentioned that merchants would not export under
an advance of 20s. per ton. This has been acceded to by
the buyers ; and, during the present week, in the north of
of England, the prices obtained have been £lB per fodder
for common lead, and £l9 for the refined.
The Times, of Thursday last, contains a copy of a cir-
cular memorandum, relative to the reduction of the army,
which is to take place from the 31st of. March next.
The circular is dated " Horse Guards, Feb. 6th," and is
signed by "John Macdonald, Adjutant General." The
intended reduction, we learn from this circular, will
amount to 3,680, rank and file.
A young Frenchwoman, who came from Boulogne on
Wednesday week, and who appeared to be in a very in-
teresting situation, was safely delivered by two female
searchers of the customs of no less than four gallons of
brandy, which was stowed in sixteen bladders, and
fully disposed in her petticoat, which was auspenUcl to
her shoulders by braces.

A WEASEL'S LARDER.—TaIk of catching a weasel
asleep, one was napped in a hole in a field near New-
market, on Tuesday. When drawn out, his larder was
found to contain twenty-five larks, four fieldfares, two
redwings, one partridge, and four mice.
FALL OF THE CLIFF NEAR DOVER.—On Wednesday
week, owing to the sudden thaw, a tremendous fall of the
cliff occurred between St. Margaret's and Kingsdown.
It is supposed that some thousand tons of chalk have
fallen; the road is entirely blocked up, being buried for a
considerable distance from 20 to 30 feet, and the chalk
extending from the base of the cliff to many feet below
high water mark.
BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—Four men at Bradford have been
committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter of a
drunken Irishwoman. The men met her in a public-
house a few evenings since, and after she got tipsy they
tumbled her up and down the room, and then carried her
out and took her through some fields, and were guilty of
the most revolting conduct, and then left her senseless
and helpless, Next morning she was found lying dead in
a field.
SINGULAR CAUSE or FIRE.—A family residing at
Driffield, in Yorkshire, on Sunday evening week, on re-
turning from chapel, was alarmed to find a fire in the
chambers, and that the bed hangings and several articles
of wearing apparel had been consumed. A spark had
been carried up the chimney and alighted upon some
straw with which the chamber chimney was closed. The
straw had ignited and fallen on the floor, and then set the
bed and other things on fire.
On Saturday, at the Mansion-house,. London, before
Alderman Gibbs, a mercantile case of some importance
was decided. A portion of the ship's crew deserted on
the Pacific coast; and the commanding officer offered
higher wages to induce. the remaining men to navigate
the. ship. On arrival home, the owners repudiated the
contract, pleading the duty of the sailors tonavigate the
ship without higher wages. Alderman Gibbs decided in
favour of the seamen's extra claims.
At the Surrey sessions, a police constable, named Wild,
one of the most active detective men in the M. division,
who had been the means of transporting 20, and summa-
rily convicting 100 persons for robbing their employers,
was himself convicted of stealing twenty-seven rabbit
skins, from a warehouse he was engaged to watch, and
sentenced to six months' hard labour. He had thrown
the skins-from the premises into a burial ground,. from
which he afterwards removed them.
An instructive table of dividends paid by the leading
London mercantile firms that failed in 1847-48 has just
been issued: as an appendix to the Commercial Crisis,
and brings down the gross amount distributed among
creditors to the end of December last. The results pre-
sent a most lamentable history :—Five of the houses have
paid 20s. in the pound ; others only 10s. or 125.; while
in some cases-dividends of 3d. and ed. in the pound have
alone been realised.

HONESTY RhWARDED.—It appears the number of arti.
des returned by, the 67 cabs employed at the Euston-
square station for the past year, is 331, consisting chicfik4
of carpet-bags, wrappers, coats, umbrellas, and money..
Of the articles 115 were claimed by the owners; the
remainder has been deposited at the excise office, accord-
ing to law. The finance committee of.the London and
North-Western Company have given, "as a mark of the
directors' approval of their conduct," a gratuity to twelve
of the men who returned money paid to them in mistake.

EXTRAORDINARY- RUN OF EAMPERN43.—An immense
number of these delicious fish have recently been taken
in the Severn. One of the largest runs which heve been
known for many years past occurred last week, when a
vast quantity were taken in various parts of the river.
To give an idea of the number captured, itcan be vouched
for that at least 50,000 were caught, in the course of two
nights, at Holt Weir, principally by some of the Wor-
cester fishermen. One of them caught 20,000 in his own
putcheons. They are now selling at 2s. 6d. per hundred.
A brilliant meteor, presenting the appearance of a body
of flame, passing towards the northwest, was seen by se-
veral persons in the neighbourhood of London on Mon-
day night last, shortly after eleven o'clock. It gave a
great light and burst like a rocket, a peal of thunder en-
•suing. The sky was cloudless at the time. The meteor
was seen at Upholland, Nottingham, Leicester, Stamford,
Birmingham, &c. At some places no noise was heard,
whilst at others, when, the meteor burst, a low, rumbling
saund was heard, and the houses and furniture were per-
ceptibly shaken.

hYDROPHOBIA.—About six weeks ago, a married wo-
man named Cooper, in Aberdeenshire, when walking
along the road was bitten by a dog. It is stated that the
same dog bit another woman near Pennan. and, exhibit-
ing symptoms of madness, was shot. On Wednesday,
Mrs. Cooper was taken ill, the fearful malady soon pre-
sented itself, she continued in great agony, and perfectly
conscious of her dreadful state till Saturday,. when death
terminated her sufferings. Medical aid alleviated the
paroxysms, but could not remove the complaint. The
other woman has been taken ill of the same dreadful
malady.

SHAMEFUL DESECRATION.—The judges and serjeants
who .ordinarily dine at Serjeant's Inn, London, once a
week in term time, dine in what was the consecrated
chapel of the institution,—they use the old commu-
nion-table as a part of their sideboard,—the old cup
and other pieces of plate belonging to the communion-
service, are banded about with rose-water and as a bread-
basket, &c., &c., for their ordinary meals ; and all this
not because these learned personages are driven to any
emergency for want of a-dining-room, inasmuch .as they
have another capital roam which they use on state occa-
sions.—Record.

The Ship Caroline, from London, arrived at Adelaide
in September. Amongst the passengers was a person
whose proper name is Thomas Powell, but wha shipped
himself in the name of Thomas Richards. It seems that
having been one of the principal witnesses against the
English Chartists, the English Government have secretly
provided him with the necessary funds for removing him-
self and his family to this colony. Another passenger,
named John Morley, from Ashford, Kent, jumped over-
board on the 22nd of May. It was said that he had
parted from his friends in anger, and having been subject
to bitter compunctions,his remorse became insupportable.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—Great consternation was created
at the county gaol at Taunton last Thursday evening,
owing to a most frightful case of suicide, committed by a
lad 16 years of age, named William Hounsell; who it
appears had been committed for two months' imprison-
ment for absconding from the Chard Union. On the day
above mentioned, he threw himself headlong under the
wheel of the treadmill, which was then being worked by
eighteen men. On being extricated life was quite extinct.
The deceased frequently expressed his determined resolu-
tion not to again return to the union, preferring rather to
terminate his existence in prison.—Sherboros Journal.
MUNIFICENT FOUNDATION OF A RAGGED.SCHOOL.—
Some short time back the friends of a ragged• school, who
had fitted up one the arches of the South Western Rail-
way, near Lambeth-walk, London, as a place of instruc-
tion for poor ragged children, applied to Mr. Beaufoy,
the eminent distiller, of South Lambeth, to subscribe
towards a fund to erect a suitable edifice. Mr. Beaufoy
so far complied with their request that, at his sole ex-
pense, he has erected, in Doughty-street, Lambeth, at a
cost of upwards of £3OOO, a magnificent building, cover-
ing an area of 1230 square yards, calculated to afford ample
room for the instruction of 1000 children.
REGULATION. OF PUBLIC-HOUSES.—The proprietor of
the Saloon, Piccadilly, was summoned a few days ago, for
knowingly permitting a certain class of females to " meet
and remain" in his house. It was admitted that there
was no drunkenness, disorder, or gaming going forwards.
Mr. Bingham took time to consider his judgment, which
he gave on Monday, against the defendant. He considered
that a clause in stat. 2 and 3 Vic. c. 37, s. 44, was intended
to prevent abandoned women from assembling and re-
maining in public-houses, for purposes of refreshment,
and inflicted a fine of £3 on the proprietor, in order to
enable him to appeal to a higher tribunal.
A MAX ROASTED.—The Sherborne Journal says :—A
small farmer named Edward Allen was drinking in the
house of his tenant, a man named Paul Hill. Hill had
purchased a quantity of cider of Allen, who had given them
a bucket full or two over, and a party of seven or eight
persons were merry making over the apple juice. Some
of the party proposed to send for tobacco, and asked Allen
for money, which he refused. In order to compel him to.
pay his portion, they blocked up the chimney corner in
which he was sitting, and heaped fresh fuel on the fire,
keeping him there for about two hours, and literally roast-
ing him. When the poor fellow essayed to get off his
small clothes, the skin of his legs came off with his gar-
meats, and he now lies in a very dangerous state.
WHOLESALE SACRILEGE NEAR RlPON.—During the
night of Wednesday, the 30th ult., the parish church at
Kirkby Malzeard was forcibly entered by thieves, who
broke open a large iron safe in the vestry, and carried
away seven or eight bottles of wine. The Methodist New

Connexion Chapel, at the same place, was also entered by
one of the windows, but the depredators, after ransacking
the building, decamped without booty. On the same
night, the church at Grewelthorpe, about two miles from
Kirkby Malzeard, was broken into, but nothing taken
away. Similar visits were paid to the Wesleyan Metho-
dist chapel and the new school-house in the same village,
where the thieves were more successful. At the former
place, they abstracted about 40s. in silver.

THE " AGAPEMONE."—The sudden advance in this
town, from the Rowbarton road on Thursday last, of an
unusually dashing travelling equipage, attracted much at-
tention. A handsome carriage and four, with postillions
preceded by a horseman and followed by two other ser-
vants on horseback in white linen riding coats, accom-
panied by a couple of bloodhounds, arrested the earnest
attention of wayfarers. In the carriage were seated an
elderly gentleman and a middle aged female, and'on the
seat behind were a male and female attendant. It soon
transpired that this ostentatiously vulgar exhibition be-
longed to the meretricious Agapemone or Princite estab-
lishment, at Charlinch ; the principal of which (Prince)
had come into Taunton, to claim possession of some
papers, belonging to a wealthy farmer at Othery, who,
having deserted his wife end children, had lately become

an inmate of the "Abode of Love !! ! The papers were
properly refused, oy the silly dupe's professional adviser.
—Taunton Courier.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—ACCOFCIiOZ to
the Builder, nothing has been done to a very large
portion of the building for the last four years. " There it

stands in carcass, just—as it did four years ago ! The first
contract, commenced ten years since, and which was to
have been completed in three years. is positively not yet
wound up. In the Commons' lobby the scaffolding is
standing exactly as it was 18 months ago, and there are
no orders yet given for building it. In the Commons' li-
brary there had not been a man at work for the last two
or three years until last week, when three or four joiners
were sent in to take down some pedestal presses which
had been put up. Our readers who understand these
things will laugh when we tell them that the whole num-
ber of joiners now employed on the building is 30, The
House, of Commons has been standing still for six months.
The Commons' refreshment-room, again, is exactly, what
it was one year and a half ago, and as it win be one year
and a half hence, unless the Commons Ulewelves permit
it to proceed."