The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

Anp.mst 29. 1S (Si

A boat containing thirteen men was upset, last week.
ln the Tay, at Perth, and six of the poor fellows were -
drowned.
OnTueHsdahyen
A WONDERFUL ESCAFE.—A few days ago a glass-blower Princess
of Hunslet, whilst in a state of intoxication, trespassed on Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and Princess Alice,'
•he line of railway which forms the junction between the
ed the regatta at Cowes.
otihoehe Queenaccom anda niedP ir)yin thece Albert,rrinee
,ole;
te
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Midland and Leeds and Bradford stations, in Leeds ; and The Court still remains at Osborne, and&hough called to by the engine-driver, was so stupified has received several distinguished visitors within. If pi
that he was knocked down by the engine, and the whole few days, but the weather has not been favoutnoidi
train passed over him. When picked up by the points- out-door recreation. On Friday the Queen wania
(nail, be had received no further injury than the blow from privy council at Osborne. - n Sad,
the engine. her 31t,81
Her MLjesty intends to embark at Woolwich 0.
cot
A COUNTRYMAN PuzzLED.—Two gentlemen angling day next, on board the royal yacht. for her annua.l.
_'etp
n the Thames at Newham lately, could not agree upon sion to Scotland. The royal party will proceed cres
he appearance P‘ c 0 ' • favourite '

COURT AND FASHION.

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.. __ ~t one of .neir _ gaits, the horse Aberdeen, and thence travel, in the royal carriage
ly, and they agreed to refer the question to a rustic whom Balmoral, the Scottish residence of royalty. r 1,50
They saw ploughing at a little distance—" Whoy," said MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage (I,_` 318:.
Hodge, with some astonishment, "Nos, dr'at it; I never Caroline Amelia Grosvenor, fourth daughter of the
seed a horse fly, but I once seed a cow fall down a pre- quis and Marchioness of Westminster, and the
cipice."
RESOURCES OF CALlFouNrA.—Mines are discovered in solemnised
many places, hut quicksilver is to enrich California be- Hanover-square. The ceremony was perfortne so
iellmianmisedHeonnryTLueesigdhay, ellatslets,t
astonst.ofGLeoorrade,ls,eiu,Alabutyrcot,,
yond all other mines. There is one now in operation be- Gr_ce the Archbishop of Canterbury. The bade longing. to Barron; Forbes, and Co., an English house in attended by the ladies Octavia and Agnes Grosvenor, S
or,
or
-.. A s LI
Mexico. The workmen at this mine have. V nnlv the enm_ T. 4. = -vr;....., n,_..,_ , ..

... . ..... - ....., —,., ~, ~,,,,- a.......s Victoria Charlotte Grosvenor, her coustn• it;l7,e, D!
mon try-pots, a few picks and crow-bars, and for a few tuous entertainment was given at
Grosvenor I"_ 00
days past have bottled off 300 dollars per day. I presume the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, t_ugatch.
the expenses are less than one quarter. The ore is sim- party. The bride and bridegroom ,
left town f(lhil
pie rock, mostly of a red coloar ;is merely broken and ford-park, the Earl of Ellesmere's seat, near L'o"tan
heated, producing one fourth its weight in pure metal. pass the honeymoon.
By dropping a cinch of it. nn n hnt ;,,n, ----,..._ :, _:-._

—, ... „,.. ~..,,, . paatt.i.t vi it. MI L. IlUt, iron, covering it vvi..
a ter-cup two minutes, the cup is covered with the smoke
This being rubbed carefully by the fingers, in some cases,
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produced a globule of the size of a small pea. Almost
the same expense and labour employed in Pennsylvania, On Tuesday the Archbishop of Canterbury 113 an
terview with Lord John Russell in Downing-street: iet!ro
in obtaining a ton of iron, will obtain a ton of quicksilver The Gazette contains an order from the Eedescolate,
in California. Neither you nor your readers are expected Commissioners for the division of Prescot, liacns.
to believe this most incredible story; yet, such is the fact. into two distinct parishes for ecclesiastieal purio-e,lOlOl
The quicksilver obtained at the Forbes mines, in one The Queen and Prince Albert have contributed tie
tie
week will pay for the machinery. When the expected the intended church at York Town, for the bene
,_,...0 sjo works from Europe reach this country, the tons of quick- Royal Military College. The Queen Dowager 3'
silver will show for itself. Many other valuable mineral given £5O. f St,
deposits have been discovered at San Jose de Guadaloupe,
in the northern part of Upper California. ,
silver, and zinc, appear to be most abundant. The quick- day. This district was constituted upwards of
.E.Yli;tolid
JuTdeh,eStirrissttosit,onweaosflaaidnebwy cAhrucricwheafcoorntlTiehodrisptro,i_ncutTreybel
silver ore yields upon an average about fourteen per cent.; ago under Sir Robert Peel's Endowment Act. it, `Of S',
silver about fifty per cent. ; and zinc about eighty per from one of the poorest parts of the out-parish t les,
cent. As to gold, it is said that several mines containing Philip and Jacob, and contains a population 0, 3
precious metal exist in these parts ; I have seen none ex, 5,000 persons.
tracted.
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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

TS OF TIII

] LATI

STORM

LAW .I.N7IE,'LLIG_LYCE,

A. hurricane visited the neighbourhood of Peterhead, on
'n coast of Scotland, on Saturday morning week.
d that upwards of 100 lives have been lost.
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WESTERN CIRCUIT—.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and a S
---Q —Mr. Cockbur

LSRJSTOL,

AUGUST 2)
{peciid jrytbe
in operourt

t is st

SCOTT t

case, stated that this was an issue directed lt)' 'e 'MI
tl
Ituout 'iou herring-hoats, each manned by crews of five or
of Queen's Bench to try the question whQther a Coertoi
ob
six persons, were known to be off the coast. in the course
warrant of attorney given by the plaintiff had l'e,earaiY',
of Friday evening. On night setting in a furious gale
tamed by fraud. The plaintiff was an officer in t1,)6., rer
arose, the wind blowing from the S.S.W. At daybreak a
and et the early part of this year be was with l'ilthcg
distressing scene presented itself : the beach was sirewn
with the bodies of the fishermen and the wrecks of their ment at Norwich, and the case arose out of one °motel
transactions which had now unfortunately becenifteroej"
fishing-boats. Many of the boats have been swamped
of almost daily occurrence—he meant what '''' pi'w
with all hands, and it is supposed about 70 boats have
bill stealing. There existed in the metropolis as ergathee
been destroyed.
The accounts from Wick and other seaport towns on gang who obtained their subsistence entirely blereall:
means; they obtained bills from the unwary n',' 0 di,',;
the opposite shores of Murray Frith are very disastrous.
lour by the fraudulent pretence of getting "ehe bi'''
It appears that the storm overtook the fishermen when
counted, and for which tlo, ...,,•14.. —1,,, ~nce t
at sea, about two o'clock in the morning, and there beine•

never received a shilling.
A verdict was rettnned for the plaintiff 8.151°5 lime

upwards of a thousand boats exposed to the fury of the
elements, many of them well laden with herrings, the loss could not be otherwise than great. At the break of day the I diate
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RAILWAY AFFAIRS

~.,—. ..., ....c.atly zi.rewcu wan wreck. At the port of
Wick finir or five boats' crews perished within sight of
f
their relatives and friends, and altogether more than fifty
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fishermen were drowned within a short distance of the The Windsor, Staines and South-WeAern I,°lloyso
harbour. At all the other ports along the coast wrecks opened last week. for
loy 4,
have been cast ashore. and at the date of the last accounts The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead 1121 l'o-,,,
no true estimate could be formed of the actual loss of life the week ending August 19th, was £2,212 13s. Pio P
that had been occasioned by the storm. One thing ap- office for the conveyance of mails, and toll. itideft,
pears certain, that by the gale of Friday morning 200 fish- Shrewsbury and Chester Railway company not 01" S o
ott
et-men have perished, about 150 boats have been wrecked, The dispute between the enginemen of the tight to
;ped
and taking into account the value of the nets and other Western Railway and the directors has been br°
fishing gear, as well as the herrings destroyed, £20,000 an amicable settlement and the men have rettl-
would not cover the damage done by this awful gale. work.
At Stonehaven several fishing boats with their SD R.E7SDURV AND CIIESTEr

e ttO
~ER RAILWAY. , S.
_L'e lost. and much damage was done to the mon), 01 keying the last arch of the Dee Vi: °, u'oresell'
boats. At Johnshaven similar calamities occurred ; vale of Llangollen, look place on Friday, in the r t',;
,wo boats were upset and eight persons drowned. of the directors and their friends. The length t
The gale on the east coast of Northumberland caused unrivalled viaduct is 1508 the height 147 feoec, feerei
considerable loss to the herring fishermen, several being number of arches 19; and the span of each arch e'do
obliged to abandon their nets ; and we have to add the . DREADFUL RAILWAY FIRE. Shortly after tad the
loss of the lives of three fishermen who belonged to New- on Thursday morning, a dreadful fire haPPTecieefer
'f biggin, and who were caught in the storm, and, it is sup- Charlton station of the West Kent Railway. "
posed, in their attempt to tower the sail, the boat wna ahnut I non

By five all PA
0°
~ „„,,, wja,, was t/Ut) Ul, i,uuu in. number, were saved. -
upset and they were drowned. The boat was seen the ceased, but the loss will be at least 43,1100•
following morning bottom up. could be ascertained for the calamity. 9° Per
he fot A house was destroyed on Monday in Queen's-place, RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—It appears that of - t
cad be
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. A sons killed and 99 injured, on all the railways °P_Anfr, t.„
tall stack of chimneys was blown down, and . fallinc, upon public traffic in Great Britain and Ireland, chT,ose:n

tile rum carrieu it away, and torcect down every floor, de- half-year ending 20th June, 1848, there were—V,il•°`'i
molishing the whole of the furniture, and nearly killing a gers killed, and 60 injured from causes beyond tlo tile
child, the only person in the house at the time. control; 5 passengers killed, and 2 injured, owing
t 61'
The Wyvern yacht, a noble schooner of 205 tons, the own misconduct or want of caution. _. O. _0
property of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, was FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon' pogo,
caught in gale off Etembridge, near Portsmouth, on Mon- o'clock, an accident occurred on the Lancaster anu,i, toonA
dea re
.y 0
day afternoon_ in whirh Qh. 1..1- near[
- .
-lainmast„.hutwon railway, the result of which was almost instant '

,e cup sne was competin for at the time. His Grace of the passengers, and serious injury to several
and the Duchess were on board at the time, and his Grace mixed train left the Preston station at four ou'
had a narrow escape from the falling mast and gear, being Lancaster ; at the Bay Horse station (about 'ls 001'
on the after ladder at the time. rs
from Lancaster) it stopped to let passenge d ja
On Wednesday. a portion of the town of Over Darwen Whilst the station-keeper and guard were engaged en
was inundated by the bursting of a reservoir, known as reeving luggage, to the dismay of all, a train wus,
the Bold-venture Lodge, by which the cotton mill of preaching on the same line at a truly fearful rat`ipnii°
Shnry.,l, anti (''n_ is - The res. ~ *l,l. pr...a 1,„ • , • ,