The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

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were at the railway station, Gateshead,
off to the south, and in the centre of one of them he
pounced upcn a large grey hen. Delighted with him -
cess, he drew forth the prize, and, hastily un,,
he eagerly immersed his fingers in the liquor, and tr
ferring it to his mouth, found. to his mortification
the great amusement of the spectators,
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DARING BURGLARY..—EarIy on Friday morning, three
burglars effected an entrance into the house of the Hon
Miss Ann Bristow, Sandbanks-house, Hailsham, Sussex
by breaking through the lawn window. The fellow
were armed with bludgeons and pistols, and having corn.
pelled Miss Bristow and her two female servants, the only
occupants of the house, to arise from their beds, the]
commenced ransacking the house, one keeping the watcl
over the affrighted women. They secured about £2O(
worth of silver plate. Being disappointed at not finding
money, they made use of horrible imprecations, threat.
ening to murder them. They helped themselves to gin
rum, and brandy, eating a large plum cake, eventual':
going off, and getting clear away with their booty.
INDIAN MANUFACTURES.—Preparations for the India
contribution to the great Exhibition of the Works c
Industry of all Nations are already begun. ft T.
remarkable manufactures in Western India
damasks ; blackwood furniture, and open cai
inlaid work of ivory, coloured woods, and metal,
work, especially in agates, jaspers, and cornelians ;
work ; arms,—hows, arrows, swords, shields, and m..
locks." And many others have been prepared. Et,
province of India ought to send its own peculiar manufac
tures, and some specimens of its industry. They will fore
no insignificant addition even to the grand spectacle whic
will be presented, and many of the rude machines of tl
natives will be found to be as remarkable for their ing
nuity as the more perfect contrivances of European
ficers.—Allens Overland Mail.
EXPERIMENTAL BALLOONS FOR ARCTIC
A few days ago an experimental balloon,
the view of distributing messages in the Arctic .
the hope of informing Sir John Franklin or ar,.
party of the exertions being made to relieve him, vt,
off from the Admiralty about noon. The lower pa.
the balloon was picked up in a meadow in Rotherhithe
at a quarter before two o'clock, and the paper attachr
to it, containing an intimation that a reward would
given to the finder on presenting it to the Admirr
The man who picked it up brought it to Whitehall
received the sum of £3. The lucky recipient we
George Dickens, and had a medal for serving in the
horse, frigate, in the action with the Badder Zaffer, L
1808. The upper part of the balloon was picked up by
another man at Charlton.
Robert Curtis Burd and Sarah, his
committed for trial for the wilful mure
Parsons, a girl of fifteen. It will be remembered the
prisoners occupied a lone farm house at Gawland, in the
parish of Buckland Bewer, Devon, and obtained the '
ceased from the workhouse as a servant. Her 7.
examination after her death, was found covered witl,
wounds, lacerations, and abcesses ; and on her head the
marks of more than one blow sufficient to cause death by
an instrument produced in court and described as—" A
strong stick of about a foot in length, to which were
fastened eighteen sharp stout leather thongs, about two
feet long. This formidable scourge was capable of in-
flicting the most cruel laceration, as bad as the army whip,
and worso than the cow-hide of the American slave-
owners." The mob were ready to tear the prisoners in
pieces as they were conveyed 1,

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PROHIBITION.•—• The followir

EXTRAORDINARY
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village of Ha' r'eNvooi

" In consequence of the continued
ctice of overcrowding and taking lodgers into the cot-
tages upon the Harewood Estate, more especially within
the village of Harewood, contrary to the express agree-
ments and regulations ; notice is hereby given, that any
cottager, being a tenant of the Earl of Harewood, who
shall, from the date hereof, take in any lodger, or whose
son or daughter shall marry and bring home to the cot-
tage, wife or husband, without having previously ob-
tained permission from the Earl of Harewood, shall
receive notice to quit, which notice will be strictly
enforced ; and, if in the employment of the said Earl, shall
be discharged.—William Maughan, agent. January 15th,
1850. Harrison, printer, Leeds."--[The noble earl must
have been studying Miss Martineau of late, This is one
of her schemes for preventing an excess of population.]
NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. G. THOMPSON, M.P.—On
Tuesday morning, about six o'clock, the inmates of the
Craven Ar
"ms Hotel, Coventry, were alarmed by the cry
of " fire, which, upon inquiry, was found to proceed
from the room occupied by Mr. George Thompson, M.P.
for the Tower Hamlets, who had been lecturing the pre-
vious evening upon financial reform at St. Mary's Hall.
It appears that the hon. gentleman, on retiring to his
apartment for the night, had probably put the candle by
his bedside for the purpose of reading, when he uninten-
tionally fell asleep, and did not awake until ho found
himself enveloped in flames. Sir Joshua Walmsiey,
M.P. for Bolton, who slept in the adjoining room, hear-
ing a disturbance, hastily rushed out on the landing, and,
to his horror, discovered flames issuing from the room
occupied by Mr. Thompson. We are happy to state,
however, that the hon. gentleman escaped without injury,
and also that the house and furniture are fully insured in
the West of England Insurance Company. The loss is
estimated at £lOO.
LONG-STANDING DEBT LICWIDATED.---AbAtli 20 years
ago a small dealer in Dumfriesshire, at the time of his
death, stood, no matter where, indebted to a shopkeeper
£lO 15s. But as the deceased's affairs, however well-
intentioned, had got a little into confusion, the debt men-
tioned was forgiven as bad, if not forgotten, for a quarter
of a century. Judge, then, of our informant's surprise
when a respectable female called on him a few days ago,
and requested to know " bow much a certain relation of
her's stood in his books ?" This question our friend
could not answer at the time ; in fact, he had entirely for-
gotten the transaction ; but as the lady promised to call
again, he referred to old-dated memoranda, and on the
second visit produced a bill for the amount n'•-•

and found the money instantly forthcoming. Pleased
beyond measure the shopkeeper wished to restrict his
claim to the even money, £10; while his visitor talked so
strongly of the interest due, that it was with the greatest
reluctance she at last accepted a crown of discount in
name of luckpenny.—Dumfries Courier.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LAMBETH.—A fire of a most
destructive character broke out in the timber yard of Mr.
George Myers, Ordnance-wharf, Belvidere-road, early on
Thursday morning, which completely destroyed his offi-
ces, saw-milts, workshops, and stables containing four
horses. The efforts of the firemen were unable to stop
the progress of the flames which extended to the patent
india-rubber web warehouse and manufactory of Messrs.
Nickels and Co., in Guildford-street, and these were
burnt down and their contents wholly destroyed. In a
short time the backs of houses, Nos. 7 to 12 inclusive, in
York-road, caught fire, and were nearly eestroyed. The
back-front of a number of houses in Belvidere-road were
also much injured. The flames were not subdued till
noon. Mr. Myers and Messrs. Nickels and Co.'s pre-
mises were insured, as were also some of the houses partly
destroyed. There are some very painful circumstances
in connexion with this calamity. Of all the workmen
employed by Mr. Myers, not one has saved a single tool,
and there are upwards of fifty men who have lost property
of this description to an amount varying from £8 to £l2.
The total amount of property destroyed is estimated at
upwards of £50,000, and the insurances aro stated to fall
short of that sum by about £12,000.

YOUNG HOPEFUL.-At Lambeth Police-office, on Fri-
day, Rowland Benjamin Green, a beardless stripling of
19, but who appeared much younger,. was placed before
Mr. Norton, on a charge of obtaining £4 on false pre-
J, and also stealing an accordion of the value of 30s.
. Margetson, a gentleman residing in Prospect-place,
Peckham-rye, deposed that on the lOth of December last
the prisoner called on him with a note, which purported
to have been written by his mother, requesting the loan
of £4 or £5 for a few days. The mother being a tenant
of his, and a respectable woman, he (Mr. Margetson)
gave the prisoner a £5 note, for which he had given a re-
ceipt in the note itself. Some days after he discovered
that Mrs. Green knew nothing of the transaction. On
this the prisoner was taken into custody. Prisoner : I
told my mother I had got the money from Mr. Margetson.
Mr. Norton : Yes ; but that was after you got it by false
representations. Prisoner : Yes, sir, it was after I got
the money. Mr. Norton : Are the articles to which the
duplicates found on you refer, your own property ? Pri-
soner : No, sir. Some of them belong to my wife. Mr.
Norton : Wife ! why, how old are you ? Prisoner:
Nineteen, sir. Mr. Gunn, (the magistrate's clerk) : I
think the clergyman who married such a boy ought to be
ashamed of himself. Mr. Norton : How long have you
been married ? Prisoner : About six months. Mr. Nor-
ton : To whom did the horse and gig found in your pos-
session belong ? Prisoner : Ohl that I hired. I was to
pay twelve shillings for it, for the afternoon's ride. Mr.
Norton : Well, upon my word, you am it hopeful youth.
I shall remand you until Thursday.