The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

DOMESTIC.

THREE PERSONS DROWNED.—On Monday ryeaiien gi
i'l, a_
melancholy loss of life occurred in Dover 84,7,1 ... ar t y con-
setting of a small pleasure-boat, or punt.
0, ke'r Lughters,
sisted of a Mrs. Bentley, of Preston, two E_Lliew pi Mrs.
a young gentleman, said to be
wtehre innereharge of the
Bentley, and the two men who
The young man and
boat, named Fox and Lewishta7
having been picked up by n
edlsbhing smack.
th
ga
apples
hasraermriavienddeinr otbfetThehapraaretsy
hrought over by the Sophia.
The letters from the
the A
Another
eei rls
cargo were
0.. f
i pine
dnoow n_ ,
the number being -Bahamas state that the natives are
quite enthusiastic now the British have taken up the
trade, since the Americans, who were the sole purchasers
beat them down in prices. The pine-
trees in the
before, cannot
West Indies it appears only bear for three
years,
and then the natives root them up to make room
for other plantations.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, July 19.—We have ex-
perienced a very good demand since our last report both
from the refiners and grocers, and which have been met
by the importers, a fair amount of business has been
transacted at rather improved rates on those current last
week. The sales comprise 650 hogsheads and tierces
West India, at from 555. to 655. for very dark brown to
good grocery ; 200 bags Bengal, at from 60s. to 665. for
yellow and low white, and 600 mats Mauritius at from
575. to 60s. for fine brown to middling grocery.—ln rum
the transactions amount to about 100 puncheons Jarnaicas
as steady prices. Gazetted average price of sugar, July
18, is 325. 2d. per cwt.

July 23, 1841.

AWFUL FULFILMENT OF A BAD WISH.—On Sun.
day week, Harriet Milwood, a middle-aged female, wilt,
with her husband kept a large toy stall at Fairlop fair,
and who had been in the habit of going to different fail
to follow the same orcupation, drank to such dkdegA as to
become mu-la intoxicated. Her husband and herself had,
in consequence, same words, when the latter declared obe
would step on the g• ound no longer, and managed to get
into a light cart ior the ourpose of going home. When'
about to drive away, her husband, who had suffered much'
from her conduct during the evening, exclaimed, with
much fervour, " I wish you may break your neck before
you get home." The wretched woman took no notice of
the observation, nor did she make acy reply, but she had
not driven more than 200 yards when she tumbled out of
the vehicle, and, falling with considerable fo-ce on het
head, actually broke her neck, and in a few minutes was
a corpse.

PLATP: GLASS.—There is perhaps no branch of manu•
facture in which the operatives are more fully employed
than are the workmen of the plate Blass establishmenter
and in particular at St. Helen's. These concerns present
at the mo,reot a most favourable and cheering contrast to,
the state of things at that place some two years ago. At
that period some concerns were at a dead lock, whilst
ollwrs were only partially employed. At present a veil
different s"ene indeed presents itself. All is bustle and,
activity, orders' it is said, are pouring in much quicker
than they can he executed; indeed, at some works, if
report says truly, they have orders in store which will'
take months to execute. It is impossible to c,nyey W
those who did not happen to witness it, an idea of the dis-
tress that pervaded the district during the depression O 1
trade in 1841-2, and it is equally difficult to convey an ides
of its present c impara,iyely cheeriegposition now that 111!"'
the glass works are fully employed, and the late strike Ov;
the colliers at an end.

A WEDDING SLIP.—A gentleman and lady, both of:
Garstang, the former 74, and the latter nearly the same,
having made up their minds to take each other for better
and worse, upon going to the registrar's office, to tie the
fatal knot, met with the following mishap :—The m•tet
having finished his t.sk of repeating what he was told,
the lady was to follow; but, upon hearing her name
called out by the re,:istrar, she declared, that a mistake
had been made, and that this was not her real name-
The circum,tance of basing changed it twice before, un•
dcr similar circumstances, had led, we presume, to tbis
mistake. This blunder supped the proceedings at once,
and a new entry had to be made and the usual time to
elapse; but the parties adjourned to the inn and enjoyed
themselves with the good things provided for them. A
few days after, however, another offer was made by a
firmer, upwards of eighty, and duly accepted ; and in-
stead of waling two or three weeks for her old suitor, the
lady embraced the latest offer, and the new match was
duly confirmed by license, without further delay, at the
parish church, Garstang, last Monday.
THE BRADFORDPOPISH URDER.—A t the York

cn Friday, Thomas Rogan (25), John O'Brian
(23), Daniel Donovan (32), Wm. Quin (37), and Daniel
Power (35), were charged with the wilful murder of Ben-
j;Jmin Gott, by casting and throwing him down upon the
ground. and striking and kicking him on the sides and
stomach, at Bradford, on the 27th of May last, inflicting
various bruises and wounds, whereof the said Benjamin
Gott died on the 29th of the same month. Alter a pa-
tient hearing of the case, which lasted the whole day, the
jury, after half an hour's deliberat'on, returned with $
verdict of manslaughter against all the five prisoners.
Sentence was deferred. It mar be remembered that the
unfortunate deceased was a member of a band cf
musi-
cians engaged by an Orange Lodge at Bradford. who were
walking quietly along, playing the Battle of the Boyne,
when they were set upon by the prisoners and others,
who so shamefully abused them, that. Gott died in conse-
quen.,e, and two or three of the other musicians were se-
riously injured, and their instruments were dashed to
atoms.

ENLARGEMENT OF THE BRISTOL DOCKS.--At a spe-
cial meeting of the Town Council of Bristol, on Mon-
day, a report from Mr. Brunel, relative to the ccntem-
plated enlargement of the south entrance lock of Cum-
berland Basin, was submitted. Mr. Brunel is of opinion,
that to commence a thorough repair of the lock would be
the same thing as its re-construction. The expense of
widening it will only, he thinks, entail an extra cost of
about £5,000. The expense of a lock, 52 feet wide and
240 feet in length. will be £22,000, and this will be arnpll
sufficient for all the ordinary steam-boats employed in the
Irish trade. It was stated that the masonry is in a Yell
derective state, both as to the barking and facing, and
also that the fronting had been separated from the bank-
ing nearly 18 inches, Some discussion occurred as to the
impropriety of limiting the increase to 52 feet. Most Of
the royal navy steamers, it was contended by the object-
ors, were 60, 61, or 62 feet wide, and all those were now
thought to be rather too narrow. Fifty-two feet would
not admit such a vessel as the Great Western in sea-going
trim. Ultimately, however, the recommendation of Mr.
Brunel was agreed to.
PEERAGE STATISTICS.—Within the last three years a
considerable decrease has occurred among the hereditary
honours of the country. The dukedoms of Sussex and
Dorset ; the Irish marquisate of Wellesley ; the earldoms
of Plymouth, Ludlow, and O'Neill; the Engli,h baronies
of Rolle, Wellesley, Lynedoch, 'Wallace, Ludlow, Fits-
gerald, and Sydenham ; the baronetcies of Bt uce, Cowan
Crowie, Hannay, Johnstone, Mackenzie. Macnatthte
Rae, and Rowley. have Leconte extinct. The earldom of
Mansfield Gf 1793 has merged into that of 1776-
viscounty of Ferrand has united with that of Massareene ;
the Englishbarony of Arden with• Lovell And Holland ,
the Irish barony of Arden with the earldorn-bf -Itgtriont);
the barony of Duncannon with the earldom of Besbo-
rough. During the same period the earldom of A ber-
gavenny, the viscounty of Hereford, the baronies of Rod-
ney, Berwick, Fitzgerald, and Congleton, have descended
to clerical posses: ors. The viscounty of Hill is the only
elevation ; the barony of Lowther, now merged in the
earldom of Lonsdale, the only addition to the ministerial
party in the upper house; whilst Sir John Pirie is the
only baronet created since September, 1841. By the de-
mise of the last Earl of Plymouth, the barony of Wind-
sor has fallen into abeyance between the sisters of the
sixth earl, the Marchioness of Downshire and Lady 11-
Clive, wife of the Hon. R. 11. Clive, M.P., for South"
Salop.—Standard.

ELOPEMENT TO GRETNA-GREEN.—On Thursday last,
Lieutenant Leeson, nephew to Lurd Milltown, and young-
e,t son of the late Hon. Mr. Leeson, of the Thorn, near
Penrith, Cumberland. who is on leave of absence from his
regiment, which is in the East Indies, eloped to Gretna-
green, with Miss Laura Bristow, a daughter of John
Charles Bristow, Esq., of Ensemere-hill, Ullswater,
Westmoreland, and over whose head sixteen summers
have scarcely flown. It appears that this young officer
had 1 iid his plans fcr the accomplishment of the siege of
Ensernere-hill with great skill. Wednesday last was the
day in which lee intended to have stormed the works, but
the garrison having doubtless been apprised of his inten-
tions, manned the walls so well all that day and night,
'bat the besieger thought it right not to commence opera-
tions at that time. Next morning, however, the besieged+
thinking all safe, made a sortie, and set sal up the lak6
of Ullswater to Paterdale, taking the young lady with
them. The besieger was not aware of this, and the be-
sie/ed had nearly made a safe retre;it into the garrison
again; but one of the gallant officer s sharpshooters lac
concealed among the brushwood, who seized the fair prise,
and away she was taken to her betrothed, A ho was waiting
at a short distance with coach and four, and off the young
officer went with his booty. Pursuit was iu vain ; the
fugitives soon pissed over the six-and-twenty miles to
Gretna-green, were married.
BRITISH SHIPPING.—The East India and China AS'
sociation have published their comparative statement of
the number of British ships, with tonnage, entered in'
wards and cleared outwards from and to places within the
limits of the East India Company's charter, from the Ist
of January to the 30th of June, in the years 1843 and
1844. The statement of vessels entered inwards show's
, that the number arriving at the port of London during
that period was an increase of ten vessels, with 6,081
tonnage, compared with 1843, there being 280 vessels!,
with 116,632 tonnage, in the former six months, and 27'
vessels, with 110'548 tonnage, in the latter six months'
In the case of Liverpool, the increase was only tWO
vessels, with 710 tonnage, the number of vessels arriving
in the first six months of 1843 being 85, with 36,321 ton:
nage, and in the same period of 1844, 87, with 37,03'
tonnage. The ports of Bristol and Hull show an increao;
of five vessels, with 1,915 tonnage, the number in 1714
having been 9, with 2,982 tonnage; and in 1844, 14, WY
4,197 tonnage. The Clyde and other ports show a augii
crease of two vessels, with 2,046 tonnage, 27, with 9,°,1
tonnage, having arrived in 1843, while in 1844, 25 arrisl.."
with 7,822 tonnage. A general revision of the envier
ward shows a total increase in the first six tlinnt I°4li
1844 over the same period of 1843 of 15 vessels arrivall°'
6,663 tonnage. 'I he chief increase has been in ths
an.s:
of vessels from China, Singapore, the Philippeinseamisei
and New South Wales, while there has "
time
been a considerable decrease
show an increase in the
cutta. The clearances outwardss
•
with 1843, the epa ed
tonnage, in 1844,
monthscompared
being 233 vessels, with 47
numbers in the six
vessels,
with 79,914 tonnage. er'
tonnage, and 195 •_ Litna
the large increase of 87 vessels, with 30,07"
pool shows
mbers bein 117 toe'
tonnair, the nu g vessels, with 45,371 .0
and 0
1843, 2 4 vessels, arrivals at the port of London of3B vessels, with 12,545
in the arrivalstt from Cal-
page with 75,761 tonnage, .3.1.
1844. Bristol, also shows an increase of 17 vessels, vrlls
4,155 tonnage, only 1, with 367 tonnage, having e'rri:o4'
in the first six months of 1843, whereas 18, with
-I
tonnage, arrived in the first six months of 1844. T
Clyde and other ports show an increase of 10 vesavgi
with a decrease of 555 tonnage, the arrivals in the aq
six months of 1844 being 89 vessels, with 28,947 toneega
and in the first six months of 1843 79 vessels, with 221"--,
tonnage. A general review of the clearances shwabis
total increase in the first six months of 1844 over g 6.
same period in 1813 of 153 vessels, with 46,902 teliselii
The increase includes 44 vessels for Calcutta, 15 0,6, for
for Bombay, 24 vessels for the Mauritius, 87 vesee:dtlr
the Cape of Good Hope, and 5 vessels for the Pe_..t
Seas. In the clearances for New South Wales the fly--
decrease of 20 vessels is to be noticed.
THE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds pro
yes
to promote or reproduce the hair, few have surviv.eul tee
in name, Whilst ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, Wld ,se$
putation already unparallelled, is still on the incre!..olo
public estimation ; which fact, together with innuT°:ogie
testimonials in the possession of the proprietors errs
cient cient to satisfy the most incredulous as to its 59v,.. Ott
I virtues so repeatedly shown in restoring, pres,errnisr. oor,
beautifying the human hair. In dressing the na...oile
thing can equal the effects of " Rowland's Macassarn„„p.
on either natural or artificial hair, rendering it soogie.
rably soft that it will lie in any direction : it
Pirtistrs 4
beautiful flowing curls, and, by the transcendent g , jt
imparts, renders the head dress truly enchanting
preserves the coiffure in the heated atmosphere of !leertto
room, and neutralizes the effects of a damp attnor*
or violent exercise.—See advt.

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