The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

enteral iftisrellanv.

, le ,ir-,, Iris rg et-leafage.' Prather, on the very same
evening, the present Premier, Lord John Russell, thought
fit to read to the House of Commons a letter which had been
addressed by him to her Maj-sty, of which the foliowing is an
extract :—"The measures which Sir Robert Peel had in con- In the half-year ending June 30, 1850, the inhabitants
. templation appear to have been—a present suspension of the, of these islands made 31,766,503 journeys,- by rail.
T FROM TUE duti! sof corn—a repeal of the Corn Laws at no remote period A boat, with five men, was capsized off Shetland Isle a
traced: dby a diminution V duties—relief to the occupiers of few days since. They were all drowned.
'and
.from burdens by whifh they are peculiarly affected.. o far A petition to Parliament to compel doctors to write
' their prescriptions in English, and not in Latin, is now
in course of signature. •
A small vessel, manned by seven hands only, which
~. in a peculiarly communicative mord ;- for, besides the lei- left the Tyne the other day, cost eighteen shillings extra
ter of 16th December, 1845, of which the foregoing is an ex- • at the new shipping-office for dues.
tract, he read to the House another epistle, dated the 20th. 1
Mr. Beaufoy, of Lambeth, who has spent £lO,OOO in
informing her Majesty that he had found it impossible to form •
building ragged schools, has just given a fifth-thousand
n .liltiiinistrition. That letter, moreover, contains a sketch a
of what the noble lord had proposed to have dote,' provided it guineas to the City of London School for prizes.
hail been possible to procure the aid of that galaxy of talent I The /lona's Isle steamer was offered for sale on Wed-
with %%bleb he is now surrounded. ' Lord John Russell wend nesday last, at Douglas, but was bought in again by the
have formed his ministry on the basis of is complete free trade , ' company at £5BO.
h 1 corn, to be estab!ished at once, without gradation or delay.: The quantity of water cresses annually sold in the
lie would hove accompanied that proposal with measures of
P •
rieci al markets of London is said to be 14,958.000
,e/ief, to a considerable extent, of the occupiers of land, from P
the burdens to which then are subjected.' bunches. The amount realized by the sale is £13,019.
" Now, we beg the reader distinctly to marl: the character of ; The Prince Albert is again to be fitted out at Aberdeen,
these si-viral admissions made by Sir Robert Peel and by Lord en Ito proceed to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John
John Itussill. 'Hwy were made five years ago—are quite Franklin and his crews.
unequivocal—and demonstrate the opinion of berth, that, in ;
l
A vase containing a bouquet of fragrant flowers, was
font-re. no alterations should be made in the laws which rim- ! d before' •
'wed the Biiinission of foreign grain, without granting to the , p ace Mr. Justice Cresswell on the occasion of
~-cupiers of the soil a relief from their peculiar burdens. his opening the Cumberland assizes.
This a matter which it is very necessery to keep in view, ; A female child, nine months old, was suffocated at Bir-
-mach as we cannot compliment Lord jobts Russel on los ' mingbam, a few days since, by a marble, which had been
given to her as a toy. and which she had put into her mouth.
Miss Burdett Coutts has most kindly offered to pay off
the debt upon the Royal Dock Yard Female Orphan Asy-
lum, at Plymouth, amounting to £Bl, having previously
given a donation of £25.
James Watkins, a private in the 15th Regiment of
Foot, convicted of feloniously setting fire to a military
prison, at Weedon, near Northampton, has been sen-
tenced to ten years' transportation.
On Wednesday a public meeting was held in the me-
tropolis to promote the repeal of all the taxes on know-
ledge, and in particular of the penny stamp on news,

1)-osals.: Lot:4l John Russell is prepared to assent to the opening

7,,r,1:9 On that midi"

(22n(1 January

1840, Lord John

tl p+•rceptiotis. He has an odd way of aiiiiressing
iculinral body as if they were liable for the con-
the rejection or acceptance of certain proposals,

of it, he thought oroder to make to cer

rent —a mode of deal inu w Lich, in our

suitable to a sharp attorney than to a
tatesinan,"

!though the fart of severe pressure upon, and suff,T.r-
xist'oa amongst the aerieultural interest was dis-
v admitted in the Soeeeh from the Throne, the claim
t to any flied relief. worthy of the name,
John and his ii,viss majority in the
Buiwer Lyilon's " My Novel ;" a
view of Mr. Borrow's " Lsvengro ;" a notice

)t. Common?

papers.
A vacancy is about to occur in the wardenship of Dul-
wich College. By the statutes of the college, the candidate
must be of the name of Alleyne or Allen, not less than 21
years of age, and unmarried,
A tinman and bra2ier living at Thirsk, Yorkshire, has
made a copper teakettle out of a farthing, and intends to
send it to the great exhibition. The kettle is tinned
inside, and is complete in every respect.
The Quarter Bridge inn, near Douglas, was completely
gutted by fire on Wednesday. The fire was discovered
about two o'clock in the morning, and three inmates

Two boys named John, one about ten years old and the
bout eight, were found dead on a limekiln, at
Glamorganshire, a few days since, having
been suffocated by the noxious fames from the kilns.
Another batch of female emigrants, forty-one in num-
ber, left Blackwall, on Thursday for Australia. Lady
Emily Dundas. Mrs. Stuart Wortley, and other friends
accompanied them from London to Blackwall.
A serious explosion of gas took dace at Oxford-street,
Birmingham, on Saturday week. The entire front of the
house was blown down, and the ceilings of two stories fell

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down, leaving the house a complete wreck.
The extensive premises of Messrs. Charles Ogleby, and
Company. spermaceti refiners, Lambeth, were on Friday
burned down. The loss amounts to many thousand
pounds. —

THE ScrtNE OF GRAY'S ELEGY.—The sum of X. 350
is yet wanting to complete the necessary repairs and en-
largement of Upton Old Church, which divides the palm
with Stoke Pogis as the edifice that suggested the immor-
tAlines of the poet Gray.
Mr. BrisPall, of Birmingham, has manufactured a very
ingenious clock for the Great Exhibition, which, in addi-
!ion to indicating the hours, shows the month, the day of
the month, and the day of the week, correcting itself in

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £14.435,537 to £14,448,421.
being a difference of £12,884. The paper in actual circu-
lation had increased from £19,775,446 to £20.289,171,
being a difference of £513.725.
Among the objects of interest at the Great Exhibition,
in the Swiss Collection, is a gold pen-holder, with a
diminutive watch at the top of it, indicating not only the
hours, minutes, and seconds, but even the day of the
month.

The Somerset Gazette relates that while a carrier,
named White, was returning from Exeter the other day,
the noise of the whistle at the starting of the train from
the railway station so terrified the horse in his v n that it
started, ran a few yards, and dropped down dead.
A sweep, between 70 and 80 years old, was killed last.
week at Stockton, in the North It ding of Yorkshire. In
the exercise of his occupation lie had climbed to the top
of a chimney, which fell with him and he was killed by the
material. _ _ _

A child, nine years old, a few days ago, picked up and
,at some red wafers which had been sweet out of an oil-

mdon streets, and died a short
by the red lead v

y familiar

afterwards, having I

ieen poisoned

the wafers contained

A committee of English gentlemen has been formed in

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VARIETIES

Calcutta, for the purpose of publishing translations of
good English books into the native languages; and
among the first works that will be issued will be " Robin-

son Crusoe."
At Newcastle assizes. on Saturday, Luke Skelley and
William Skelley were indicted for havine in October, 1849.
shot at John Smith and others, gamekeepers. in the employ
of A. B. Cressweli, Eq., with intent to murder. They
were found guilty and sentenced to ten years' transporta-
tion.

Frown somerse

TRUE.-Mr. Baron Platt, at the Westmoreland assizes,
in a colloquy with an Irish priest, asked. " Why did you

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not stay ind your own country, and rob there ?" Mr.
Serjeant Murphy, with ready wit, answered for his coun-
tryman, "Because, my lord, there's nothing to steal
there." _ _

A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by a
coroner's jury against Mr. Ingham, chairman of the West
Riding magistrates, for not taking proper precautions in
providing a person to watch where his tram-road, for
coal-waggons, crosses the public highway, and where a
little child —;as killed.
The barony of Newbie was sold on Wednesday, in

Ifter considerable competition, for the sum of
£51,000, the upset price being £50,000. The purchaser
is Mr. Mackenzie, partner of Mr. Brassey, the great rail-
way contractor. The preceding proprietor is understood
Mr.

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Edinburgh

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to have paid upwards of £70,000 for the estate
Mackenzie is also the priprietor of Auchenkeoch.
A THIEF IN COURT.—During the proceedings in the
Crown Court, Carlisle, a learned counsellor told. his lord-
_ .

ship that some one had stolen his " Archbold ;" another
dolefully declared his gown had absconded (he suspected
to Newcastle ;) and a third old gentleman went as far as
to hint that his brief had been " cribbed !" This last
was too good a joke to be true.—Carlisle Journal. '
Two men quarrelled and fought in the Northumberland
assize court, last week, while the business wi.s proceeding.

before the judge, and the assailant was given into custody
for several hours, the learned judge observing that there
had been a time when he would have lost his hand for
such contempt of court.
The Duke of Leeds at. his rent-day, recently held at
Hartforth, generously directed that a return of 15 per
rent. should be made upon the half-year's rents duo at
•

Michaelmas, 1850, as had been done upon the half year's
rents due at Lady•day last. Ilis grace had previously
directed notice to be given that he should reduce his rents
10 per cent. from Lady-day, 1850, to Lady-day, 1853.
A "Foreign Conference and Evangelisation Committee"

men, for the purpose of securing

exhibition

religious services and

ment of

A TINY Ging.—Among the many curiosities that will
be displayed at the exhibition, will be a perfect and well-
finished gun, of not more than fourand a half inches long,
and weighing only a quarter of an ounce. It is a single-
barrelled percussion, has all the modern improvements,
and is capable of being loaded and fired with the utmost
accuracy. The stock is of maple, and the barrel is twisted ;
and although the gun is yet in a partially unfinished state,
the various portions of the furniture are to be tastefully
engraved. It is in the lock, hewover, that the greatest
difficulty had to be surmounted. A percussion lock is
composed of no less than fifteen separate pieces, and in
the case of this diminutive specimen, some of those are so
small as to be almost imperceptible without the aid of a

glass. - -
TROOPS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The 74th
Highland regiment, about to proceed from Cork to Gi-
braltar in the Vulcan steamer, is to go immediately to the
Cape, instead of Gibraltar. No other regiment has yet
been ordered to the Cape. As the 74th is to go to the
Cape, it is supposed the 13th Light Infantry, the next
regiment for foreign service, will be ordered to Gibraltar.
The following regiments are now serving at the Cape :
Local Cavalry : Cape Mounted Rifles, 1,183 all ranks.
Local Infantry : 6th regiment, 600 all ranks ; 45th regi-
ment, 1,100 all ranks ; 73rd regiment, 600 all ranks ; 91st
regiment, reserve battalion, 600 all ranks. Total, 2,900
all ranks. Thus the total of Cavalry and Infancy at the
Cape was rather less than 4,000 of all ranks at the com-
mencement of the recent hostilities.
A CHEAP PUBLIC DINNER.—Mr. Abernethy, our har-
bour engineer, is to be entertained at dinner, previous to
leaving Aberdeen ; and as various innkeepers had their
several champions in the committee of management, it
was decided to send specifications to three of the princi-
pal ones, binding them to provide a first•class dinner,
consisting of salmon and everything else that is consi-
dered good at this time of the year ; a bottle of sherry to
every three—" drams" and beer—attendance—a first-
rate band of music—and last, a relish or devil at night ;
and Mr. Douglas of the North of Scotland Hotel was the
successful candidate, at the suit a 33. for each guest.
Surely this is the proper season for entertaining one's
friends handsomely. Competition. after all, is the life of
trade.—North of Scotland Gazelle.
FORCE OF EXAMPLE.—On Friday se'nnight another
attempt was made by a lad about sixteen yea'rs of age,
named John Williams, which, had it not been for the pre-
caution of the druggist, might have been as succesful as
the attempt of the young man, Miller, recorded in our
last. The lad went to the shop of Mr. John Monis,

,Ti.,4;:!51-.7 and asked fora pennyworth of arsenic, but in-
stead of giving him arsenic, the assistant gave him cream
of tartar, and labelled it " poison." The lad went di-
rectly and mixed a portion of the pretended poison in wa-
ter, and drank it. Some persons saw him take it. and
seeing the label in his hand, carried the lad off to the In-
firmary; but, upon inquiry being made, it. was ascertained
that the dose was not such as had been supposed. He
was then taken to the station-house, and upon being
brought before the Mayor the following morning, after
receiving a reprimand, was committed to the house of
correction for three months. In that time, the governor
of the gaol, will administer such antidotes as will, we trust
effectually eradicate all ideas of poisoning from his mind.
—Hereford Journal.
THE CANARY AND THE MousE.—One morning lately.
a lady having gone rather early into an apartment in which
she had a fine canary, and whose cage hung on the nob of
the window shutter, was much surprised to find the bird
sitting asleep in the bottom of the cage, and lying side by
side with a live mouse, also asleep. On raising the window
blind, the mouse squeezed itself through between the
wires of the cage and fled. On examination, the box of
seed was found cleaned out, as well as crumbs, &c. inten-
ded for the canary, hut d iubtless however devoured by
his strange companion. On the following evening, about
half past ten o'clock, while the lady and her husband
were sitting quietly at the fire side, they were still further
astonished at seeing a mouse (no doubt the same one)
climbing nimbly up the shutter, and entering the cage be-
tween two wires. Thinking it might do harm to the bird,
they tried to catch the mouse, but it made its escape as
before. The cage was then suspended from a pail, so
that the mouse could not gain access. Strange to say

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however, on the following morning the canary was found
asleep on the fl )or of the room (the cage door having been
left open), and a piece of potato beside him. Most likely
the mouse had spent the night beside him, and bad a feast

on the pntato.—Glasgow Courier.
ALLEGED PROSPERITY OF THE WORKING CLASSES.—
MEETING OF THE METROPOLITAN TRADES' DELEGATES.

—At a meeting of this important body, representing at
least 200,000 of the working classes of London, held on
Thursday. the following resolution was passed :—" Re-
sclved,—That as the condition of the working classes is
grossly misrepresented by the free-trade advocates, it is
now necessary for the delegates to declare to the country
in the most particular manner the true state of the work-

ing population, which is that of gradual depreciation in
the value of labour, and consequent reduction in the ne-
cessaries and comforts of life; and that a committee be
appointed to prcpare an ac dress declaring their sentiments
in favour of the principles of protection and regulation for
labour." As a fitting pendant to this important resolu-
tion, we give the following extract from an advertisement
which appeared in The Timespf Monday, from the direc-
tors of the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen :—" The com-
mittee are compelled to withdraw their permission to the
tradespeople and ratepayers of St. James's parish to give
written orders for relief to unemployed workpeople. 295
of whom were this day provided with a meal ; hut from
the hordes of labourers flocking to the metropolis in search
of work at the Chrystal Palace and forthcoming Exhibi-
tion. the kitchen is become alarmingly over crowded with
applicants for aid. The funds of the committee being
overdrawn, large numbers of workpeople ,navoidably
must be denied relief; and it is impossible to foresee the
frightful extremes to which the exasperation of unap-
peased hunger may possibly lead." Comment on these
alarming facts is needless.
SINGULAR TRIAL.—A singular trial took place at the
Assizes at Swansea, on Saturday last. Captain Charles
Henry Ackerley, a retired officer in the navy, a man of
good connexions, and well known in London for his
eccentricities. was arraigned for the murder of Matthew
Tingle, a collier. It appeared that the deceased had been
burned by an explosion in a coal pit, and was under the
care of the surgeon of the works, when, on the 12th of
December, Captain Ackerley called at his house in Aber-
dare Valley, and representing that he was instructed to
treat the sufferer mei ically, his directions were obeyed by
the man's attendants. Captain Ackerley having directed
the plasters with which Tingle's wounds had been covered
to be removed, he placed a cloth over the sick man's
face, put a lighted lamp under the cloth near the man's
nose, telling him to breathe as fast as he could through
his nostrils, and ordered the poor fellow's legs and arms
to be violently moved about by the attendants. He next
gave Tingle a pill, and pushed a feather down his throat;
and when this strange treatment produced sickness, Ack-
erley observed, "That, is the gas I am pumping front the
man's stomach." The man got worse from that. time,
and died the next day. Mr. Davies, the surgeon who
had attended .deceased, considered that the prisoner's
treatment accelerated his death. Captain Ackerley, who

conducted his own defence, cross-examined the witnesses
at great length, and in an extraordinary manner. When
called upon to address the jury, he produced a tin lamp,
with an open top, containing a lighted taper, with the
side cut away so as to admit a man's lower jaw, and pro-
ceeded to descant. at great length upon its virtues as a
medical agent. His address. which occupied nearly an
hour, was of the most rambling and incoherent descrip-
tion ; and his notion—or rather delusion—seemed to be
that his treatment had relieved the sick man from an
" atmospheric tonnage" by which he was oppressed.
Mr. Justice Williams summed up with great care, and the
iurv. after ten minutes consultation, deeming the prisoner

insane, returned a verdict of not guilty.
RIOT IN Sussr.x.—A disturbance, which is likely to
lead to a legal investigation took place in the town of
Ristgrinstead on Friday evening. The widow of Mr.
11,.1.;,-, ye.Hertable farmer, in the parish of

Eastgrinstead, laving fallen into misfortunes, was
admitted as an inmate of Sackville College. At her
death, her daughter (Mrs. Jenner, a highly-respectable
person, who, now keeps the charity school of Mrs. Eloper,
.• at.,. of hor mother

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buried according to the usual custom of the English
Church. To this the Rev. Mr. Neale, the warden of the
college, objected, and insisted upon the right of furnish-
neculiarlv.shaned mediseval coffni, a cutain bier, and

a pall bearing the sign of the cross. The relations of the
deceased expostulated with_ the reverend gentleman, and

the college was declared in a

I ingress or egress

are informed, were not even admitted to see the remains
of the deceased. As the funeral procession► moved from
the door, a grandson of Mrs. Aikido snatched the ob-
noxious pall from the coffin, and the corpse was car-
of indignant bystanders. to the
was unscrewed, to .satisfy the

the deceased that the body was in