The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

MASSLAUGHTER.-011 Monday, an inquiry firtiff Cite,
into before Mr. Baker, Finsbury, on view of the body d
William Dean, aged 22, a plasterer, whose death was
caused by his wife, Anne Dean, having struck him on the
hand with a fork, while quarrelling. The wound inflamed
and caused death.- The post mortem examination showed
that there was an abscess formed under the wound, which
hat! led to the inflammation and the fever had caused
death. The fury returned a verdict of manslaughter
against Anne Dead, who was committed to Newgate.
LADY HIINTINGTOWgn.."-O0 Tuesday Mr. Huddle-
stone, a barrister, addressed the tnegistrate to whom the
female who stated herself to be Lady Huntingtower had
previously applied, and stated that. though the female in
question had cohabited with Lord Huntingtower, there
was no foundation for her claim to share his title. Her
name was Mrs. Langford, and she had received assistance
from Lady Dysart, notwithstanding her assertions to the
contrary. Until she improperly assumed the title of
Lady Huntingtower, she had received a due measure of
support from his lordship's family.
THE HOWICK FARMS.—The Newcastle Journal says
that Earl Grey has been compelled to let his farms of
Ulgham Grange and Fernev Beds, which had hitherto
been let as one farm to Mr. kalph Fenwick for £B2O a-
year, the former at £4OO a-year, and the latter at £lBO,
he agreeing to pay for £5O worth of manure at the railway
station. The reduction upon these farms amounts to no
less than £240 a-year, or about thirty per cent., and the
locality enjoys the advantage of being contiguous to a
railway station, and within easy distance of several good

markets.
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGES.—Tt appears that persons
from country parishes are not unftequently mu-tried in
this city, clandestinely, by having apartments which they
never occupy. A correspondent integrals us that a notice
has been lately issued by the bishop to the clergy of the
city, calling their attention to the practice, " in order
that in every instance when parties unknown to you
apply to be married, or to have their banns published,
you may make strict inquiry about them, with a view of
ascertaining whether they have lately arrived in your
parish, and whether they have been actual residents for
the time required by law."—Norfolk Chronick.
A CHILD ATTACKED BY A COCK.—One day last week,
a fine cock, of the silver pheasant breed, entered the yard
adjoining the gas works, at Yeadon. While there, a child
of Mr. Bedford, attracted by its beautiful feathers, gave
chase to the animal, which immediately turned on it:s pur-
suer, and seizing him by the nose, struck his spur into
the temple and cheek of the little fellow with such force
that one of them was left imbedded in the cheek-bone,
nearly an inch in depth. The secretary of the works,
hearing the screams of the little sufferer, rushed out and
beheld them both on the ground stri-ting for the mastery.
He removed the pugnacious fowl and 'withdrew the spur
from the child's cheek, which he retains as a memento of
this remarkable circumstance. Happily, with the excep-
tion of the wound, a slight swelling is the only inconve-
nience from which the child suffers.—Leeelslntelligencer.
A VILLAGE CHANGING ITS NAME.—rn riding through
a remote and usually, we are told, very quiet village of the
Isle of Axholme,-a few days ago, we were astonished to
see every thing in confusion—women screaming, children
shouting, and mea'fighting. " What's the name of this
place ?" said we ttoa gaping rustic. " Wily, yesterday
we called it Allthorpe," answered bumpkin, " but 1
reckon to day it ram be Alldrunk." Upon inquiring
farther we found that some of the farmers had been dis-
tributing drink after delivering their potatoes, and then
the labourers being prinied,adjourned to the public-house
to load. And now mark the fruits of a single day's in-
toxication in one small village. One man was drowned
in the course of the ' • two were fighting until
they beat each other black and blue ; the mother of one
of them had her nose broken in trying to dafend him ;
another went home and flogged his wife ; and another
tumbled over the stile into the churchyard, and-cut open
his head against the figs, _

BANK of Eetoeee.ene-The return for the week ending
on the 22d instant, gives the following changes compared
with the previous week. In the department efeietne the
notes in circulation had'increased £3,865, which bad been
produced by an increase of £3,865 in the gold, coin or
bullion, the silver bullion- remaining unaltered'. On the
debit side of the banking department the rest had de.
creased £52,908, the public deposits • had increased
£452,530, the private deposits had increased £73844, and
the seven-day and other post bills had decreased £66,854,
making the total of the liabilities £36,003,841.. On the
credit side the government securities remain unaltered;
the other securities had increased £247,257, the notes had
increased £201,180, and the gold and silver coin had de-
creased £41,829; which equalised the account. The bul-
lion in both departments of the bank had decreased from
£14,473,501 to £14,435-;537, being a difference of £37,964.
The paper in actual circulation had decreased from
£20,039,615 to £19,775,446; being a difference of
£264,169.
Rosina Herbert, the person who was before the public
in October last, convicted of pawning shirts she was en-
trusted to make up, and for whom various benevolent
persons forwarded contributions to the magistrates to the
amount of £45, which were however, by the advice of
Mr. Yardley, transmitted-to the poor-box fund in. con-
sequence of her having been previously convicted of a
similar offence in 1849—other charitable persons,. on the
statement of the Times,-considering the prisoner harshly
dealt with, sending donations through other sources, to
the amount of £2O, which was paid over to her in No-
vember and December—was on Tuesday accused at the
Thames police-office of • pawning a number of blouses
eat -usted to her to be made up, and was remanded till
Monday, when it appeared the work had been entrusted
to her by a woman nearly as poor as herself out of
charity, Mr. Yardley, .after severely lecturing her for
her ingratitude, and asking what had become of the £2O
in so short a space of time,. but without getting any
reply, fined her £s—committing her in defaulfor two
months to the House of Correction.
SENDING Bowes POST.—On and after the first of
March printed books,. mar nines, reviews and e pam-
phlets, (whether British, colonial, or foreign,) may be
transmitted by the post between the United Kingdom and
the British West ladies, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Hong
Kong, (via Southampton,) Malta, (ditto,) Gibraltar,
(ditto), at the following reduced rates of postage, via.:—
For each packet not exceeding elb in weight, 6d.;: ditto,
exceeding elb. and not exceeding 11b., ls.; ditto, exceed-
ing Ilb. and not exceeding 21b, 2s. ; ditto, exceeding 21b.
and not exceeding 31b., 35.., and so on, increasing Is. for
every additional pound or fraction of a pound. Provided,
however, that the following conditions be carefully ob-
served :—Every such packet must be sent without a cover
or in a cover open at the ends or sides. It must contain
a single volume only. It must not exceed two feet in
length, breadth, width, or depth. It must have no
writing or marks upon the cover, or its contents, except
the name and address of the person to whom it may be
sent. The postage must be prepaid in full, by .fixing out-
side the packet or its cover the proper number of stamps.
If any of the above conditions be violated, the packet
must be charged• as a letter.
INTERESTING AUTOGRAPHS.—A small collection of
autographs was sold on Friday, by Messrs. .Puttick and
Simpson, the well-known auctioneers of Piccadilly. Lot
5, a short but good letter of Beethoven, sold for £2 12s.
Lot 9, a letter of Edmund Burke, on the Catholic ques-
tion, sold for £2.-Is. Lot 25, a letter of S., T. Coleridge
sold for £1 153. Lot 60, a parcel of letters of Dr Philip
Doddridge, many of which were in whole, or in part,
published, sold for £l3. Lot 148, forty-eight official
letters, signed by Marshal Nev., sold for £5. Lot 160, a
letter of Pope sold for £1 12s. Lot lat, a signature of
Archbishop Angus, who married the widow of James IV.
of Scotland, sold for £1 2s. Lot 182, a signature of the
Regent Morton, sold for £1 lls. 6d. ; and the next lot, a
signature of Cardinal Beatoun, sold for the same sum.
Lot 186-was perhaps the most interesting lot in the sale,
being the original declaration of James 111., the " Old
Pretender," addressed to the people of England, shortly
before the attempted invasion by Prince Charles Edward,
The document was signed by James 1.11. in two places; it
sold for £ll, and it is to be regretted it was not bought-
for the national collection. Lot 137, a letter of the "
Pretendcr," but not on any matteref interest, £3 ss.
INSURANCE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—It has been.
stated that the various insurance companies have freed
extraordinary high rates of premium for the insurance of
the articles in the Crystal Palace. They would, there-
fore, appear to assume, that the risk is proportionately,
great. Now probably no building in the world is better
protected against fire. A sin: inch pipe will run round
the outside of the building, with 16 branches into-the in-.
tenor, by which, with one length of hose, and without a
fire-engine, the whole area will be under control. Eyery
one knows that a small quantity of water at hand is suffi-
cient to extinguish a fire at the commencement ;, and as
the water will be always. on the main, there will be no
risk of a fire spreading. Under these circumstances, we
would suggest that the exhibitors should form a Mutual
Insurance Fund, which would amount to. a sufficiently
large sum to cover all- risks, whilst the amount—after
deducting the expenses of the management, which would
be very slight—would be divided amongst the subscribers
at the conclusion of the exhibition.—Msohanical Gaz.
CHARTULARY Or THE MONASTERY OF, PAISLEY.—By
the efforts of Provost Philips, the old chartulary of the
burgh has been recovered and brought to town within
the last few days. It is a folio volume of vellum, con-
taining 123 leaves, well written and quite legible, begin-
ning the 2d of December, 1489, and ending the 29th of
August, 1547. It contains 183 charters in. Latin and lin
Scotch ; 130 of these are for burgbal lands, and 51 for
outfield lands in the burgh. Two. charters to John Stew-
ard, of Woodsyd, and one charter to Robert Sympill,
Master of Sympill, of the office of Justieiar and Baillie of
the hail regality of Paisley, besides tacks, licenses to sell,
and precepts for infeftment, appondment of vicars, and.
presentations to churches. The charters are granted by
the Abbots George Schaw, Robert Stewart, and Jelin
Hamilton. It is not known, how this volume has been
withdrawn for such a length of time from the archives of
the town, and its recovery may he regarded with impor-
tance by those interested in the history of the locality.—
Glasgow Chronicle.
THE " GUN WIFE" OF CALLANDER.—An old woman
died at Callender last week known by the appellation
of " The Gun Wife." This name arose from her having
in her possession a large gun, no less than seven feet in
length, said to have belonged to the celebrated " Rob
Roy," also a dirk and aporran-molach, and a number of
other articles, said to have belonged to Highland chiefs of
olden times. Before she took up her residence at Cal.
lender, she dwelt in a small hut on the side of Loch Lo-
mond, where she had a sighboard stuck to the top of a long
polo, announcing " Great curiosities to be seen within."
Doubtless she had a vast number of visitors during the
summer months, as she used to divert strangers by going
through a number of frolics, dancing, singing,e4e. Three
hours before she expired, she said she was worth more than
£lOO sterling ; and desired her last " will and testament"
to be drawn out. A certain longheaded villager under-
took the task. It afterwards turned out, however, that
the whole was " bungled," the will being, in the eye of
the law, not woeth a straw,—so, OM it is likely the law-
yers will have to vipend some of the old woman's powder
In trying 119 W 14 Old gun. lop, "Aoot—Sterling Jogrnal,
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