The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

Nov. 191180,

erneral flUsrellanv.

At York £1,400 has been raised by a bazaar, for ragged
schools.
The Duke of Atholl has been nominated Master of the
Grand Lodge of Masons in Scotland for the ensuing year.
Belmont House, at Portswood, near Southampton, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday night last.
Great excitement prevails in Edinburgh, on the report
of an intention of the Pope to establish a Catholic hierar-
chy in Scotland.
On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Lieut.-General Sir John Grey,
K.C.8., was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Com-
pany's forces on the Bombay establishment.
LODGINGS AND THE EXHIBITION.—The Mayor of Lei-
cester has taken a suite of four mows over a grocer's
shop in King's-road, Chelsea, at the rent of £lOO for the
month of May.
After a long and oblivious silence it appears that Mr.
Robert Owen, the celebrated Socialist, is about to em-
bark in a new periodical to advocate his opinions. He is
in his eightieth year.

Mr. Marshall, who was elected a councillor for St.
Mary's Ward, Carlisle, on Saturday week, was seized
with inflammation of the bowels on Saturday evening,
and at three o'clock on Sunday morning was a corpse.
On Friday morning an explosion took place in a colliery
at Rises, South Wales, by which three men were killed
instantaneously, and eight others severely, some of them
fatally, injured.
In the Times' city article, of Friday, the gold raised in
California up to Sept. last is estimated at £13,000,000.
Of this production, nearly four-fifths have taken place
during the present year.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £16.025,215 to £16,095,516,
being a difference o: £70,301. The paper in actual circu-
lation has decreased from £21,101,602 to £20,594,698,
being a difference of £506,907.
The Goldsmiths' Company have decided to award the
sum of £l,OOO for prizes to be given to those artists of
the craft, of the United Kingdom, who can produce works
of the highest design and merit, in gold and silver plate,
for the Exhibition of 1851.
A NOVELTY.—At the Bristol police-court on Tuesday,
the jurisdiction of which extends over 200,000 inhabi-
tants, there was not a single entry on the police charge
sheets. The circumstance was noticed in terms of com-
mendation by the magistrates present.
Tha Hull Dock Company have announced that all
Packages coming to their docks, intended for the Great
Exhibition, will be admitted free of wharfage rates ; and
that the warehouseing and forwarding of the articles and
goods shall be done at the lowest cost possible.
THE FRIMLEY MORDER.—An appeal to the public on
behalf of Mrs. Holiest, the widow of the late vicar of
Frimley, is made. In addition to the sudden and violent
bereavement she has sustained, the widow of Mr. Holiest
has been left in very narrow circumstances.
Mr. Pennington, a gentleman who for fifteen years past
has filled highly important offices in her Majesty's Trea-
sury, committed suicide on Thursday, in Hyde Park,
near the Crystal Palace, by firing the contents of a
loaded pistol through his head. No cause is assigned for
the act.

A few days since a terrier dog was started from the
Tiverton Branch Railroad Station, at the same time as a
train left for the Junction. The animal soon went ahead
of the engine, and kept in advance, the train proceeding
at its usual speed, for three miles, when he was stopped,
apparently not much fatigued.
A TEMPTING OFFER FOR A COMMAND.—It is confi-
dently reported in military circles that the large sum of
£16,000 has been offered by the Major of a Lancer Regi-
ment, recently quartered here, for the purchase of the
Lieutenant-Colonelcy, and refused after two days' deli-
beration. The highest sum ever given for the purchase
of a step was, we believe, £2o,ooo.—Brighton Gazette.
A successful trial was made a few days ago at Ports-
mouth of a new patent musket, which saves one-third of
the time in priming and loading, and simplifying the drill
exercise. Seventy rounds may be fired in succession
without priming; the caps, being placed in a magazine,
are acted upon by the motion. of drawing out and re-
placing the ramrod.

THE
MAGIC INKSTAND.—In addition to magic stoves
and baths we have now a magic inkstand. It consists of
a composition which readily yields ink when a few drops
of water are poured into the orifice, and is especially
adapted for reporters, surveyors, commercial travellers,
&c., each inkstand containing two years' supply. After
use, it almost immediately becomes dry.
The Medical limes contains a notice by Wm. Hinds,
M.D., of a case of poisoning by the cyanide of potassium,
being, as is supposed, the second case of the kind which
has occurred. The account is interesting, especially with
reference to some of the symptoms and post-mortem ap-
pearances after poisoning by this salt, which do not appear
to be yet well made out.

LUCKY Dm_Am.—The pitmen of Belford Colliery, on
Eroceeding one morning last week to their work, at a
" sink-shaft," found that the rope wrapped raund the
cylinder at the pit-mouth had been cut nearly through in
more places than one. It is reported that the wife of one
of the pitmen told her husband, on leaving for his work,
to examine the rope, for she had dreamed during the night
that the rope had been cut.—Newcastle Journal.
INCENDIARISM IN BUCKS.—On Monday night last the
homestead belonging to a farm occupied by Mr. Benja-
min llawkes, at Stoke Goldington, near Newport Pagnell,
was fired by an incendiary. Eight stacks of wheat, two
or three hayricks, and a quantity of other produce, were
destroyed in a very short time. The labourers in this
parish are receiving from 6s. to 7s. per week wages.
STRIKE AT THE BRYMBO COLLIERY.—Upwards of
eight hundred hands have turned out at the above colliery
for an advance in their wages of 6d. per day ; and no
arrangement appears likely to be come to. Lie strike is
expected to be general throughout the district, the col-
liers of several adjacent pits having turned out. The
work. turn-outs have illtreated several of those who continue to

A NOVEL IMPORTATION.—A correspondent of the
Times states, that on the 4th of November inst., nine
eases were imported into London, in the steam-boat City
of Boulogne, containing 21,000 crucifixes, of different
sizes, from one inch to two feet, several thousand figures
of the Virgin Mary, and a large quantity of prints of
bleeding hearts, &c., besides an immense number of
rosaries, probably in anticipation of a large conversion of
our population to Romanism.

A TIMELY HINT.—It is rumoured that a congregation
meeting not a hundred miles from Cheltenham have inti-
mated to their pastor that the time has now arrived when
Porish tendency can no longer be tolerated. The inti-
mation is also to the effect that if this gentle hint is not
attended to, but the objectionable practices complained
of are still persisted in, it is contemplated by the congre-
gation to sign a roundrobin, declaring their determination
to withdraw from the church altogether.—Chellenham

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 AND THE LONDON PRESS.—
' We have received the second number of a new weekly
journal called the Expositor," which purports to be
"a recorder of inventions, designs, and art manufactures."
It is illustrated by beautifully executed %load cuts, and
will, during this and next year, devote a rarge portion of
its space to illustrating and describing the great exhibi-
tion. It has intelligent correspondents in the provinces
and on the continent, who will from time to time notice
all preparations that are being made in their respective
localities for the great gathering in Hyde Park, &c.
The Darlington Times gives an extract from the will
of a genlernan of that town, lately deceased, in which a
strong wish is expressed that the mourners who may fol-
low him to the grave " be dressed in their ordinary manner
—no hatbands, no crape, or plumes, or black gloves nor
any needless display of white handkerchiefs." It is
added, " I also desire that my widow may not wear
' widow's weeds,' or other outward displa-: of mourning,
which tends more to attract notice from the living, than
show respect for the dead."

. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE By A LADY OF FORTUNE.-011
Thursday an inquest was held at St. Pancras, London, on
Miss Matilda Roberts, eged 25. For the last 15 months
deceased had been rapidly sinking from consumption,
which greatly affected her spirits, so much so that she
threatened suicide. Monday night in the temporary
absence of her nurse she flung herself out of her bed-room
window into the area, a distance of 20 feet, and sustained
concussion of the brain which caused her death.
DISTRESSING DEATH.—OR the evening of Monday
week -Stephen Aston, of Tipton, about fourteen years old,
(who it is stated was training to run a " match for a sum
of money,") while running by way of practice along the
Dudley Road came in contact with a hand-cart, which he
did not observe, the evening being dark, when the unfor-
tunate lad sustained such dreadful injuries in his abdomen
that he expired from the effects early on the following
morning.

COOI:NESS.—WhiIe a man was about to resume his
work on the cliffs at Smedmore, in Dorsetshire, where he
was extracting shale, he jumped so carelessly on to a
particular spot that he lest his equipoise, and fell over
the face of the cliff; but as he toppled over he had the
presence of mind to throw himself as far from the rocks
as possible, and he fell clear upon the beach. The des-
cent was a hundred feet. When his companions hastened
to his aid they found him seated on a rock, coolly en-
deavouring to re-set his knee-joint, which had been dis-
located —that was all.
TUMULT IN BiRMINGHAM.—Father Cook, one of the
Oratorians—an order of monks, of which Mr. Newman is
Father Superior—having died, the body was exhibited in
the chapel attached to the convent. In the present ex-
mPiotusthCoolli Colliery,
ex-
citement of the public mind, great curiosity was evinced
the tnelan-
ntottewnidtninegss
etohneucegreaminona}dm;
iasnsdinnas,
anovtasotneer-nfowudrtalisoseflomtcibkiol,esdea
The RtonminansuCatholicsbecame in
enr
there
theviolent;wesrte i eine tbt anh pet p trmhe hieneepn
od
Ili
i3ti geoe
Jme intention
soon restored order.
SUNDERLAND.
six
o,
—On FA
MondayßFUl, COLLIERY
ino rmorning,
gE, xkri
aboutl LI
eodsoaNn and half-past
NEAR
many others very
was blown to
whether any more bodies are downs
mmccl
thehrueenaci
property
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catastrophe
explosionterabrnstoetylrd,os.of
f iaimbeLootrutor. otodcifckpoprHunter,utl placeyar hcyeaa7rtadh.
It
set HtfAroioortumetgmbheattt
hno time
en,
pits had fallen in in many places, and hadeit
in the
yet
shafts. Twenty-six are
mine, as the
pieces. One horse killed.
one o these 143 every eaul mat have perished,l been
for

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date of the Pontiff of Rome
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that that is so will hare great influence over the minds of afford their countrmen and gritiehers
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is unlawful, the knowledge A company is forming in America, vlu°se mi trips 1, oliotP to
good, and
from
supporting
wise, and
.t prudent men, and may deter them England and America, during the Exhibition „dell
A o 3'
tarian feelingsprinaguid,zsitsev.er might be their personal sec- propose to convey passengers to and red, and ~f lel' '
And further,it be
may thought that, triflin
in regard to an open uestion. board and lodgings for six weeks, for the Sara "
01
punishment would be, persons possessing though
. gthe lays, not quite £2l. ere t'SialtElSie
of cardinals, or the supposed dignity the real dignity THE LATE CHARGE AGAINST n.L.. .to eit• e
bishops tenni '
shrink f of archbishops or Tuesday the property taken by
, rt from the ignominy or ridicule of rell's
the police tro . and
the aarge, Jes
common fine, or a few weeks' imrison ~ a premises in Barbican, pending
returned bi °r' •
ablement. against him at the Mansion-house, was
after thp,
* The article in the Law Times is a
view of the whole of the laws of Englannd and elaborate re- of the Pollee Commissioners. Immediately
Catholics, and is from the pen of George relating to Roman charge of Mr. Sirrell on Tuesday last, on tries r, el
barrister. Harris, Esq., the London charges made against him, 'elessrs•uesvire
, el
solicitors, made application to the Commissio ev, ico
lice for the restoration of the property seizeds,r.ne,
to an interview between Mr. J. G. Lewis and M '
dist tbB
0 sel
the Chief Commissioner; and the result w
aro
property, except Borne few articles for sellieVitseall t°
applied, was on Tuesday taken back from .
Barbican. siect
e time ir,
THE MONSTER GLOBE.—We stated some ,
.srtion ,
that a monster globe was in course of elienslurunaesso
Mr. Wyld, M.P., for the exhibition. Ive es preptlrs
that considerable progress has been made in ie_es of IC.
tion. The mountains will be in relief, the reS7ans the
will be shown in all their dazzling rainbow tint.srosent
excurs
_. ve/
eternal snow-line marked upon the giant seen l',_
ranges. The courses of great rivers wilibue inall'ea I
threads of silver, the known volcanoes will _ water, ar3d
bright red lights ; the proportions of land (-'
t district:, 005,
population to territory, and the great trade
yin, slap
.
lines of commerce, the latter marked by n.l,°, eiS6fre`
in diameter, made on ribs of zinc,
will be observable at a glance. The globe wi!L .8 _ oar
al'
compartments, socketed together with copper% and g
rense of the globe, independent of the staircases
....
leries, will not be less than £4,000. e eloSss' i
THE POISONING AT CONISCLIFFE MOOR ,s. Joh
The mystery connected with the death of Mr' `esettef,_
has been considerably removed by additionatis_cosed I
which also tends to remove suspicion from
tic"
toll hat'
widow. Mary Cleasby, keeper of Conistoa
.4 elf.
states that on the Friday week before the de it '..855 to
Young, he called at the gate and obtaineddaawn'
she obi
drink from the pump. Through a small win etaining °
served him take from his pocket a paper Con
then.
white powder, which he put in the glast,ed thetylli
pumped some water into the glass and swallTe door, sss
tents. He next sat down on a stone at t) al tees;
began to look ill ; he afterwards vomited sever
eased bad
Witness examined the glass from which the dee,
the bot-
tom
een drinking, and discovered a white powder atoweer
,his
of it, which she threw into the fire. Ihs, Phir wiw
described as corresponding in every WOO
4. iras
arsenic. inquesfra
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Thursday, an
age As
held at Lambeth, on the body of EmilY ""•1; a. The
late in the service of Mr. Van Buren, at talce : f the •
deceased formed an attachment to a consteothes yOla
division, who, being already engaged to a", . ja 5P,T,1
female, could only see her as a private friend , raniell
each circl ,r;lne 0.
titully.e .
however, of which, she wrote, on a beau ced"
card, some verses for the officer, which comnSeeneknor;
" You were the first and only one my bosorn e,S'e the
And it is my present prayer to live alone for, )ween" t to rt.%
On Monday last, she left her situation On, inz 90, 5:.,
borough, where the officer was, but, before 00 409. ~
placed on the window-sill a letter, which ran as i% I OW'
the way to Blackfriare-bridge, and,
ceive is ot,
" Dear Madame,—By the time you re e ser . et
be no more. I am, madame, your unllaPP; ioqurv-e
having reach
ston to the
EMILY Norr." The deceased, after learinsee till;
mounted to the top, and plunged head forerno,. the bobcat.
causeway below. The policeman on duty a',. hod ~,,(1
saw her fall, and, on
heroing to her, found g, ,tfice '''
teed in. He lifted up, when she groanea '
sra
expired. • , • fernier eso
A SINGULAR TRAP.—A Glarnorgansaire
ava
.1t
sportsman, sportsman, better known as Billy.velin.tveneseed .1,,
lately returned from America, being much anna"'sesibli",
foxes, rabbits, &c., on his land, determined 04'ar 11150
ting them. He therefore purchased a large Sink int 1,01
head, which took him about three daes r°,,e3 to '°„,,t
ground, and it was so ingeniously constructesh that 0"s/ell
a trap (no doubt a Yankee ingenuity), that anetbiag I
in should be kept there; but, unfortunately,. s otheran
in for some time but a poor fellow vale "0 OP a's
nuts from a tree above, when the branch goo beaeat.
he was precipitated into the trap—Passing fr°s to Illeted•
light to utter darkness. He exerted his lung-e,tricisits
most for some hours, and at length lie wasoising r° of
At the last Neath fair Billy bought thre ' Pr(); for let of
and, on his return home, was offered 17 11; core'uold
them, which he refused, and desirous of beertt etroP-. be
them, he placed them in what coursebe colic few d7ritti
(forgetting the trap); andein the oft,alliis fayo,,,eiti,
had occasion to go and inspect the colts, but Ali Wl' big
was missing. One day, as he was goinF, theretel7ere, tolire,
and passing near the old " cask-tral3e heeing all ill'
great astonishment, beheld the colt, in a -.. hiro ' .--*
quite deal, the cask being too small to adin"oan ore
He had sacrificed his life in the trapper's ovr 0
Cambrian. dis ri f
„ hu sbon „no
A CANDID APPEAL.—A wife, whose •• at- the
undergoing a sentence of trersportation foselit hialtso
years in one of the hulks at Woolwich, haeso,--I your
foltowing consoling letter :—" Dear hus7nes to oat
this opportunity of addressing these fewe leaves 'id°
hoping to find you in good health, as " j ant ge bet'
present, that :k God for it. Dear husband, I for Or and
change my line of life, and I hope it willb„eeirrieth test
ter. I must tell you that lam going to get -,1 100 baso
hope that you will have no objection, far PI) „lit 1° e ill,
you have not behaved to me as a husband eelli'ee tedere's to
advice, and they told me that I had
done; both you and your family have aseuanyr7their
but everybody knows that I never gave Yau to a 5 „other
ill-treat me. I have been to the oversee net eel as gee
ow' 1,3
husband, as I did not expect that you w •,. 00r, call
better il ever C Ake
home again. You need not fret t
eaabou I" or ,_ sta
y, ise
yourself in the least alarmed at what I .be par - esb•
assure you it is true. The overseers of of see Ps eel
going to give the man £lO to take me ant weddinfsliel!
I have invited your brother Robert to the,st es• plea
I wish you was at home to make one arnone yea
~,,,De
tell you—the man's name is Williarn----;id ever -so
I conclude, and still you remain you
not forget me for all that; and if you s,b° ea me' •se-."
where 111 am, I hope you will call and seenate.;l7o2l-
- area/111k, 1
CATHERINE. To William --, Gan}
bas istieri
wich.''—Manchester Spectator. has 'lr'sing
Mr. B. HAWES, Under Colonial Secretareio of es
bate
to the Globe, in reply to a charge againssitv!/sesnaalresq
assisted at a public dinner given to pier- 'ees:a :-"'"Xol
ous to his departure from Rome- "e "s-iseraanl ted ti
long enjoyed the friendship of Cardinal A
eing ere of
0,
was Dr. Wiseman's expectation),
hope long to enjoy it. Upon his first h pectfitlieM
cardinal, and leaving England, under the " know s Dig
residing abroad for many years (which to nlaYesiend of
yin that kof
and mine called upon me, and informeassrne rna‘ra to
Wisernan's friends intended to offer him s"tly invuedoe
thor regard and respect. I was subset; n
gebeecd r° 'tat
the meeting, and I attended it. I was ° the iteee se-
ttle grounds alone upon which I attended
_„.oe, tb_, as
and to say, that if I could be permitted to °,l%!sesereit! tee
spect I entertained, as a Protestant, for pr. prelate Cit test
a most excellent, charitable, and learned
_. ba _ tee
Roman Catholic Church, I was ready to do Ireo, oer
tiog
it was impossible for me to concur in the a rtrbe, 1054ted
resolutions, for very obvious reasons. , i contra' ell
andof 9 d
unanimously acquiesced in my view,
state „iiire ,
my mite of respect to even the Pr' ' ood add seas'
church, whose worth and excellence I kne` or to Pa-eses
and whose; friendship I think it an hn,n2er the ma sins
For the part I took on that occasion, anq Sussed to tl_ der-
which actuated me, I shall not even c0nq5_711%,.." liso,';e9ire
dication. Nor shall I from any fear of "..or 01%00
stood, abate my admiration of good nien,e'etherts
a cornme,
is
to share in the promotion of good works, w" Par
Catholic or Protestant." ~The 'oat
~.c, oi. earl ,
SNAILS AND THE ELECTRIC TELE..'' ives a ~, 3.1.•
correspondent of the Literary Gazette
ug,_,isbo
seexif itt
account of a discovery which has been P lur`e bee
_ldols
Jules Alix in feuilletons of La Freese, PntLee''ssesP7eith
personal communication with M. Alix, I
ti eartirids:iees t'
of the Literary Gazette, obtained full
,pch he. reenters.
details of a very strange phenomenon, „,neew' inenis ot
some length, and also thus epitomizes :--- e3e, neforicte
or discoverers of the alleged marvel arfeat orASSlstwor
the department of the Henault, and a 3.1. -125:rin'ental!r:cries
After many years" observation and exe certain de` ins,
they, it is asserted, have ascertained that
or sYn3l). Wee
tionsch cause of snailsthe possess peculinoar pmatteropertriea
mt hat shswiree
whica w
motion, netic
they may be, the same sensation orseee and leageoiog
acted on in a particular way by gal
vvii.':_, that or 1
our of
influences. Placed in boxes in such a 3Y
the crrat cerr
touched they agitate particular letters, the Ain 0 aso.
only to make snail A give a kick, alio. '
the harkw°°na se'
responding box—which box may be in
_e afoo
America or the deserts of Africa—repeatsVi snailssnai tor
on for every letter of a required word.
.aciolu__,„eniceseiee
of course previously be put in sympatheti
which 0 ssiSla
and the boxes with all their apparatus,
which she ;es
complicated, must be alike. The shock r Si.
in box 2 feels is said to be caused by an elects),r„ ral,'_l. it
netic fluid, carried by the earth with extraaoarer sserosisre
ty, and in a manner unknown to man ; 1 ~"'eeeise• ,ee
is the electric telegraph without the connecting
via. hell e
have often heard of the " snails' iallop,' but At
fsto r
idea it was so fast a pace as this.
A t the village? topbe
POISONING IN LINCOLNSHME.-- Flo ;11..
near Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, Mr.. L'
.dden ',,,,
and his wife were seized with al
~,, isms
Page, a farmer,
breakfast on Thursday moroll3? „tog'
ness shortly after
h 1 e sYnlre bet.
Mrs. Page died in less than an . our ; and t 1
co of
~,
were so clearly indicative of poison as the ei“.11., doSeet,
death, that an inquest was held on the folitowybotb 111•10
Mr. George Smith, a surgeon, who had attende of
bodY to
sufferers, and had subsequently examined the , ontee 4
decease& stated the grounds on which he 11313',.aa be%
the conclusion that white mercury or arsenic.rael), cep
the cause of death ; and his evidence was "thin esd te
firmed by that of another medical witness wsnsith 9`,
sisted in the post mortens examination. Mr's, POP
stated, that some weeks ago he had assisted As
boiling mercury and arsenic for sreeping. ~"4-
cultural purposes, and that a portion of., tell
used was preserved in an iron pot, and °-
granary. He added that after, the death
the conduct of the servant girlie the
house,
into ee
ley, excited his suspicions, awe he gave _e ei 0 e
The constable who had apprehended the gir:•rl, ill'qt
examined, and it appeared from him that the;_lfessieto
diately upon her being arrested, had made a n fed 1 74
this effect :—" Last Saturday my mistress ~-_, worn.of
killed a fowl. I told her I had not. Yesterst!asse 6,0_0
I took some mercury from an iron pot that
tr.°7 aidor:ej
the back door, and put it into the coffee.po tit wa:cf,
think it would have killed her; I only thole.. cote 0(
have made her badly." The girl, who was T. ssutlaid
being interrogated by. the coroner, admitted t_."7rieo,ie
further me'to loci
this confession ; and in answer to fur on
that sho was 17 years old, and had had no reas„or • ag
stress, The jury,* pi
plain, of her master or int .
consultation, returned a act'd ICt Qf " NO'
against Eliza Sigality..