The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

An Order in Council, recently issued, directs that the
six minor canons of Westminster Abbey shall each in
future receive an annual stipend of £l5O.

On Thursday last, workmen commenced taking up the
old pavement in the Old Shambles, Preston, and they are
now busily engaged in preparing for the wooden blocks.
The staff of the League, with Mr. Cobden at its head,
left Manchester on Saturday morning for Salisbury, to
meddle with the election there.

WIGAN MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The triumph of the
Conservatives in this borough is again complete. Con-
servatives, 10 ; Radicals, 0.

THAMES NAVIGATION.—There landed and embarked
during the summer, at the Red House-pier, Battersea-
fields, 121,237 persons, besides children in arms.
Mr. Peter Nichol, of the Leazes, Newcastle, bird-fan-
cier, has this year made the novel importation of two
hundred of that handsome bird, the Goldfinch.

James Chadwick, Esq., elected Boroughreeve of Man-
chester, on the 18th October, having refused to serve, has
been fined £5O, and Wm. Wanklyn, Esq., elected in his

THE TEA TRADE, Oct. 30.—The deliveries last treek
were rather smaller, being 438,5091 b. The trade since the
conclusion of the public sales has been quiet, at the re-
duced prices then established.

Last week, Master S. L. Hilton, aged fifteen, a student
at the Military College, Sandhurst, was killed by a blow
on the head, received from a fellow• student, when flourish.
ing his stick at play, in the game of hockey.
THE BOY JONES.—The boy Jones, who so often broke
into Buckingham Palace, is on board the Warspite.
Having lately attempted to desert, he was detected, and
received a severe flogging.

The principal Banks in Newcastle-upon-Tyne have re-
duced their rate of discount on bills not having more than
three months to run to four per cent ; and their rate of
interest on deposits to two and a half per cent.
THE LATE GALES.—Four bodies from some of the
wrecks on the Southport coast were washed up on Mon-
day night last. One of the vessels was a coaster from
Ireland.

The first cabinet dinner since the prorogation of parlia-
ment, which was to have taken place at the residence of
Sir James Graham, in Hill-street, Berkeley Square, on
Wednesday next, is postponed until Wednesday the 15th.
The last stone of the tower of the new Royal Exchange,
London, was set by the contractor on Monday last, on
which occasion all the workmen were entertained, and
some bottles of champagne were drunk at the top of the
scaffold, in honour to such completion.

We are gratified in being able to state that her Majesty's
Custom-house officers at this port have been more busily
engaged during the last 15 or 20 days than for several
years past. The increased activity is more especially ob-
servable in the import trade.—Hull Herald.
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.—The week before last the
trial of twenty-two thieves, for the perpetration of no less
than fifty-seven robberies, took place in Paris. They
were found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour at the
hulks for periods var3ing from thirty years to four years.
A few days ago. Mr. Beaumont, a highly respectable
solicitor, at Warrington, forwarded a £lOO note in the
course of business, and, as it has never reached its desti-
nation, it is supposed that it has been lost in the Liver-
pol Postoffice.—Chester Chronicle.
The Bombay Times, of the 29th of July just come to
hand, contains a curious and elaborate calculation, made
by one of the Hindoo pupils of the Elphinstone College,
in which, not only the absurdity, but the impossibility, of
Mr. Henson's aerial ship, is mathematically demonstrated.

The stock of bullion held by the Bank of England dur-
ing the four weeks ending the 14th of October was
£12,086,000, showing a decrease of £164,000, as compared
with the preceding month ; and an increase of £2,285,000
as compared with the corresponding period of last year.
THE SLAVE TRADING CASE.—On Monday last Mr. Zu-
luetta was again brought up, and after the examination of se-
veral witnesses, wbo gave the prisoner a most excellent
character, and the summing up of Mr. Justice Maule,
the jury after a consultation of nearly two hours found
the prisoner not guilty, an announcement which was re-
ceived with loud clapping of hands, which could with dif-
ficulty be suppressed.

Lloyd's Shipping List contains fearful evidence of the
destruction to life and property caused by the late gales.
Not less than sixty total or partial wrecks are recorded
under date October 28 and 29, and the loss of life, though
nat yet ascertained with accuracy, will we fear prove to be
great.

FOUR MEN DROWNED.—IsIay, OCt. 23.—0 n Friday
night last, four young men, belonging to Bowrnore, were
drowned in Lochindaul. They were out at the fishing all
day, and towards evening the wind being south-west, blew
very high, and it seems that the boat, when comiag home,
was upset.

KENDAL ELECTION.—The contest for this Borough is
expected to be a close one, the canvass of Mr. G. Ben-
tinck, the Conservative candidate, being a very favourable
one, and the Quaker electors of Kendal being a good deal
annoyed at the exposure of Mr. Warburton's electioneer-
ing tricks at Bridport.
The reports of the Municpal Elections in various parts
of the country, show that, generally speaking, much less
interest is taken in these contests, than used to be the
case. In some instances however, much spirit has been
displayed ; and the Conservatives have been the victors
in the majority of cases.
On Wednesday, while the great bell of the cathedral of
Notre Dame was being rung, the clapper gave way, and
the enormous mass fell down through two floors of the
tower and lodged at the third. Three persons were in-
jured, and one of them, a ringer named Mazarin, so much
so in the head, by a splinter from the scaffolding, that it
was necessary to carry him immediately into the hospital
of the Hotel Dieu.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 3.—Our raw sugar
market continues with animation ; and purchases are
only made for immediate purposes, but we have no alte-
ration to notice in prices, which continue steady at from
565. to 675. from very low brown to good bright grocery
descriptions. Average price of sugar, Oct. 31, is 345. lid.
per cwt.

It is not generally known that Mr. Cobden, M.P., re•
ceived his education at an academy at Bowes, for the
" board, clothing, and tuition" of young gentlemen, kept
by the late Mr. Clarkson, where he gave promise of con-
siderable talent. The Bowes schools have since been im-
mortalised in the faithful and graphic narrative of
" Nicholas Nickleby" from the pen of Mr. Dickens.
EXTENSIVE FIRE.-At midnight on Thursday, the
Roodee Paper Mill, near Chester, was discovered to be on
fire. In an hour the whole front range was in one con-
tinuous flame, and the mill with a large quantity of paper
was destroyed, but the foundry adjoining was saved. The
damage is estimated at several thousand pounds, but the
property is insured.

A poor mechanic at Bristol, of the name of Bacon, has
nvented a pump and fire-engine, which, for compactness
and power, is unique. It draws water at 22 feet from the
surface, and throws to a great distance. Its cost is about
£2O, and it possesses an hydraulic power equal to a large
engine worth £l7O or £lBO. An experiment was made
last week in the presence of several scientific men, and
gave satisfaction.

FATAL EXPLOSION.—On Friday week a terrific explo-
sion took place at the manufactory of Mr. J. Merr ix, at
Birmingham, an occasional maker of fireworks. No cause
a n be assigned for it, but Mr. Merrix, his wife and assist-
ants, were engdged in making those articles at the time.
Nine persons were conveyed to the hospital, and three of
these, including a son of Mr. Merrix are already dead,
and the lives of others despaired of.
On Wednesday, being the commencement of the regu-
lar hunting season of her Majesty's staghounds, there was
a brilliant meeting at Salthill. Upwards of two hundred
horsemen were present, among whom were the Noble
Master of the Buckhounds, Viscount Seaham, and many
of the officers of the Life and Foot Guards, General
Wemyss, and a number of gentlemen from town, who
came with their horses, by the Great Western Railway.

THE PEGASUS.—An application for a rule calling upon
the coroner of Berwick-upon-Tweed to return into court
the inquisition which had been held before him on the
body of a person named William Milne, one of those
drowned in the late wreck of the Pegasus on Holy Island,
was made at the Bail Court, London, on Tuesday. The
object was, that the inquisition might be quashed, upon
several grounds which were stated. The application was
granted.

FORGERY.—Mr. Thomas Walker, an attorney residing
at Dewsbury, near Wakefield, has been committed fur
trial at the York assizes,charged with having twice forged
the signature of Mr. M. B. Bere, one of the commission.
ers of the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, to a pro-
tecting order given to an insolvent who had employed the
prisoner to get him through the Leeds District Court of
Bankruptcy, and for which the latter had given the pri-
soner a sum of money in advance.—London paper.
REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—The brother of the late King
of Hayti appeared before the Lord Mayor, last week, to
ask his influence with the press and the public to procure
him charitable relief. His brother had left him funds in
the Bank of England, which his brother's Queen and
widow had carried off to Turin. He had married a rich
lady in Hayti, whose property was destroyed by the late
earthquake, as his own influence was by the insurrection
which followed, and he had no resource but an appeal to
charity.

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.-011
Tuesday evening a young lady, named Clarina Graham,
twenty-two years of age, committed suicide by cutting her
throat, at her residence, 94, Beresford-street, Walworth.
road. The deceased was living with two sisters and two
nephews/ Her mother had recently died, and her father
was abroad. The loss of one parent, and the absence of
the other, together with a reduced station in life, are sup-
posed to have led to the commission of the melancholy
act.

THE ROBBERY OF A CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND.—
On Wednesday, at the Central Criminal Court, London,
Isaac Bridgman and John White Bridgman, his son, were
indicted for stealing a body from the burial-ground at-
tached to St. John's Chapel, in West-street, Walworth.
The elder prisoner was the Minister of the chapel, and
the younger one, h's son, who was 17 years of age, and
was studying for the medical profession. The elder pri-
soner was acquitted, and the younger one was sentenced
to twelve months imprisonment.

WILL OF ALDERMAN WOOD.-The will and codicil of
Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, late M.P. for the City of
London, have just been proved in Doctors' Commons, by
B. Wood, Esq. (the brother), and W. P. Wood, Esq. (the
son), the executors. The deceased gives to his wife,
Dame Maria Wood, the furniture, plate, pictures, china.
carriages, wines, spirits, and £5OO per annum for life,
He directs £20,000 to be invested in the funds, and the
interest to be paid to the Rev. J. P. Wood. The pro-
perty is sworn under £70,000.

DEATH OF LORD RODNEY.—We have to announce the
death of Lord Rodney. The noble lord expired at Ber-
rington-hall, his seat in Herefordshire, on Monday last.
The deceased was second son of George, second Lord
Rodney, and brother of the late peer, whom he succeeded
in 1841. He was horn on the 12th of April, 1794, and
was unmarried. The title now devolves upon his nephew,
Robert Dennett Rodney, son of the Hon. Captain Robert
Rodney, Lieutenant in the Scots Fusileer Guards, born
in May, 1820.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday evening week, a most
melancholy accident happened to three men in the employ
of Mr. Butt, of Pertwood Farm, Wilts, attended with the
loss of two lives and a third person much injured. On
,descending a hill with a waggon, about three miles from
Mere, the driver, walking by the side of his horses, stum-
bled and fell. The other two immediately leaped out of
the waggon to his rescue, and were knocked down and
killed on the spot. The driver saved his life, but with
broken limbs.

SALISBURY, Nov. 3.—A public meeting was held here
yesterday, to further the project of a railway communica-
tion between Salisbury and London, by means of a branch
line, to join the South-Western Railway, at Bishopstoke.
The statements submitted to the meeting were of a satis-
factory character, and an estimate prepared by Mr. Locke
fixed the co,t of the line at less than £250,000, whereas a
former estimate when a similar project was in contennpla_
tion, was put at £400,000. The meeting was unanimous
in support of the measure.

MURDER.—A murder was committed in this town on
Thursday afternoon. Between 2 and 3 o'clock, a report
got abroad that Mr. Wilson, wife of Thomas Wilson,
spirit-dealer, Springkell-street, had died very suddenly
under suspicious circumstances. The report unhappily
proves correct, as it is rumoured that her throat presents
marks of strangulation ; and her husband, on whom the
suspicion rests, and who, we beleive, made no attempt to
escape, was immediately committed to prisou. The un-
happy woman was seen at the shop-door a few minutes
before she met her untimely fate.—Greenock Advertiser.
Loss OF THE FRANCIS, OF LONDON.-011 the 29th
ult., the brig Francis, of London, Joseph Parker, master,
of 135 tons register, and six men, at four p.m., was found
to be in a sinking state about thirty-five miles off Tyne-
mouth, the greater part of her ballast washed away, and
pumps choked. At nine a.m. the brig Esk, of Newcastle,
hove in sight. At ten a.m. she hoisted a signal of dis-
tress ; got the long-boat out, and the whole of the crew,
at great risk of life, went on board the Esk. The Francis
shortly after went down in about 50 fathoms water, every
effort to save her having failed.
ROYAL PATRONAGE OF THE PRESS.—On Saturday
last, while the engine was being attached to the train at
Paddington, the following incident occurred :—Her Ma-
jesty, on seating herself in the royal saloon, perceived at
some distance a person who is privileged to attend the
terminus with newspapers, and directed that he might be
called, for the purpose of procuring one. Much amuse-
ment was created by the reluctance of the man to approach
royalty ; he was literally forced along, to within ten yards
of the saloon door, where he stood stock still. Some of
the papers were then pulled from a large stock he had
under his arm, and presented to the Queen, from which
her Majesty selected a sporting paper and another.-ob-
server.

THE SELF-PRIMING GUN.—Messrs. Needham. the
gun makers, of 26, Piccadilly, London, have recently ob-
tained a patent for an improvement in percussion locks,
by which the caps are, by the motion of the lock, placed
at once, and without the trouble of putting them on the
nipple, as in common percussion locks, with the fingers,
n a small cavity beneath where the nipple generally is,
and there held fast till exploded on pulling the trigger,
The contrivance further provides, that directly one cap is.
exploded it is forced from its cavity, and another cap in-
stantly takes its place. The caps are contained in a
hollow groove along the side of the stock, which grove is
covered with a small plate of brass, which does not in-
crease the bulk nor render the stock unsightly. The
groove holds sixty caps. which lie in it in such a way
that it is an impossibility for them to stick in or block up
the passage to the lock, and there is a small and simple
instrument to feed or replenish the groove or reservoir
when empty.

SALE OF Two ISLANDS.—On Tuesday two islands,
named Rasey and Bona, situated in the Hebrides, were
sold by auction at the Auction Mart. They were for many
years the property of the M'Leods, of Rasay, and com-
prise about 18,000 acres. The net value of the estate, in-
cluding the mines and the timber, was about £73,000.
There were 52 farms, the rent arising from which was
about £1,200. They were capable of rapid improvement,
in consequence of the facilities of communication from
them to the metropolis, the journey now being completed
in less than 36 hours. The estate was put up at 20,000
guineas, and eventually knocked down at 35,000 guineas.
MURDER IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—On Saturday
week, a man by the name of Thomas Cowley, of Baldwin,
who has for twelve months betrayed symptoms of aberra-
tion of mind, murdered his wife in the following man-
f ner :—lt appeared that on that day be was about leaving
home as usual, when his wife followed and endeavoured
to prevail on him to return, and on his approach to her
he took up a large stone and threw it with such violence
at her head as to cruse an extensive fracture of the skull,
of which the unfortunate woman died on Tuesday morn-
ing last. On Wednesday an inquest sat upon the body,
when the jury brought in a verdict of " Wilful murder
against Thomas Cowley."—Manx Sun.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP RATTLER.—A trial trip has
been made in the Thames of this vessel, which has been
fitted with Smith's Screw Propellor, when some of The
Lords of the Admiralty and Captains of the Navy, as well
as scientific men accompanied her. The result was highly
satisfactory as to the powers of the screw as a propellor;
and the advantages of its application to war-steamers were
admitted as allowing a whole broadside of guns, in addi-
tion to two long ones generally now placed on steamers'
decks, to be carried. This is the first ship of war to
which the screw has been applied. The arrangement of
the machinery, size of screw, &c., have been made under
the directions of Mr. Brunel.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY. —We understand that the
workmen employed in pulling down an old dwelling-house
at Gotham, in this county, to their great surprise, found
the probate copy of the will of a man named Burrows,
who had resided there many years ago, he having owned
the property. It was found stuck between two walls in
the staircase. This same property has been long held by
Earl Howe, in consequence of the inability of the parties
to make any title to the same; but it is now conceived
that his lordship will, upon a pedigree being produced,
and the title of the heir-at-law established (who, we hear,
resides in Nottingham), readily relinquish the possession.
—Nottingham Journal.
CURIOUS REMEDY.—A few days ago, a carrier's horse
having got disabled and become useless, from a sprain or
luxation, its owner resolved on finishing its career, and
accordingly it was taken to the jetty at the pier, and corn-
tufted to the "vasty deep." In place of submitting to
be carried to sea, the animal speedily gc.t to land, and was
subjected to a second plunge from the jetty, from which
it again came to land, but completely restored in its dis-
ordered limb. The horse was then taken to its old quar-
ters, and has since wrought as well as ever. It is proba-
ble that the efforts which the horse made in swimming
reduced the dislocation, but as to the real cure, we must
refer it to the learned in such matters.—Rosshire Adver-
tiser.

The village of Cotherstone, which is situated in a pic-
turesque and romantic part of Teesdale, a little below the
junction of the Baulder with the Tees, and so long famed
for its very rich cheeses, and for the custom which is said
to have prevailed there of " christening calves ;" and lat-
terly for having supplied the name of Mr. Bowes's tamed
race-horse ; is now rapidly rising into notice as a colony
of the Society of Friends. A. number of Quakers have
been long settled there, who chiefly follow the simple and
rural occupation of agriculture ; now it is becoming the
abode of numbers of wealthy members of that religious
body on retiring from business. At present a very elegant
mansion in the Gothic style of architecture is erecting on
the banks of the Baulder, for Francis Gibson, banker of
Saffron Walden, Essex.

AGRICULTURAL FIRES IN SURREY.—There were three
instances of incediarism raging at one time on Thursday
night the 2d. The first was at Park Farm, occupied by
Mr. Harwood. Very soon after another farm-yard, very
near the former and in the same occupation, burst out in
a blaze, and one of the engines was sent in that direction,
but so rapid was the combustion that the whole was soon
in flames, and several horses and hogs perished. The
same evening a large barn close to the public-house at
East Clandon was on fire, and application made at Guild-
ford for the engines, which could not be complied with,
as all of them were away at the two first mentioned fires.
There can be no doubt as to the character of these fires,
there was one last week about half a mile from the two
first-mentioned, and an attempt the week befora.
FLOOD IN THE IRWELL.—On Saturday evening week,
in consequence of the heavy rain, the water in the river
Irwell rose to a considerable height above its ordinary
level, and came down with such force as to wash away a
stage erected by Messrs. Pauling and Henfrey, contrac-
tors, at Hunt's-bank, Manchester. The balks forming
the stage floated down the river in one raft, with great
velocity and force, and came in contact with one of the
uprights supporting the temporary foot-bridge at the end
of Bridge-street, communicating with Salford. The re-
sult of the concussion was, that the upright or supporter
was broken in two near the middle, leaving the bridge
unsupported for about sixty feet ; but, in consequence of
the precautions taken, no person was suffered to pass over
the bridge. Another wooden temporary bridge is to be
immediately erected, and the loss to the contractors will
be about £2OO.

WEgLEYAN COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.—The Special
Committee appointed by Conference to consider the subject
of day schools, was summoned to meet in London on
Tuesday last. We perceive from the fifth report of the
Wesleyan Committee on Education, presented to the last
Conference by the able secretary, the Rev. Robert New-
ton, that the day schools of the Wesleyans, as well as
their Sunday schools, are yearly on the increase. The
following is the return :—Boys' Day Schools, 141 ; Girls'
Day Schools, 121 ; Infant Schools, 28 ; making a total of
290 Day Schools, with 20,804 Scholars ; and 3797 Sunday
Schools, with 401,383 Scholars; making a grand total of
4037 Schools, with 422,187 Scholars. The whole present-
ing the following summary, viz.:—
Increase of Day Schools
Increase of Sunday Schools ....... . 242

Total Increase of Schools

Increase of Day Scholars....
Increase of Sunday Scholars

2,271
23,383

Total Increase of Scholars

25,654

Loss OF FOUR LIVES.—We regret we have this weot
to record another serious accident on the Humber. On
Monday night last, the ship Andromache, Hunter, of this
port, having arrived in the Humber from Quebec, with a
cargo of timber and deals, during the heavy squall swung
across the current—capsized, and, falling on her larboard
beam ends, engulphed the mate, steward, and seven of the
crew in their berths under the hatches. A foreigner,
named Henry Horsens, went over with the ship, and was
not seen again ; a similar fate attended the steward, who
is supposed to have been washed out of the cabin window,
as he got out of his berth. Some men afterwards boarded
the wreck, proceeded to cut through the starboard side of
the forecastle deck, almost the only part then above wa-
ter; and, by this means, seven men were extricated from
their perilous situation in the forecastle ; but the eighth,
a youth of sixteen, named George Revell, was unhappily
drowned in his berth before the assistance from the Bee
arrived. The wreck, being timber laden, retained the
same position until about nine o'clock the next morning,
wher, having been in some degree moved by a river boat,
it righted ; and, being taken in tow by the Eagle, steam-
tug, was brought safely into port with comparatively less
damage than could have been expected. It was then
found that the mate, Charles Ross, aged 35, and the
youth, George Revell, 16 years, had been drowned in their
berths.—Hull Rockingham.
PRESENT STATE OF THE IRON TRADE.—The furnaces
stated in the following paper have been blown in since the
25th of September, and if about six more are added to
this number, it will include all that are likely to be put in
operation in Staffordshire until some further and consid-
erable improvement takes place in the price of iron. It
will be no slight temptation that will induce parties to
incur the expense of opening the mines which the recent
pressure on the trade has had the effect of shutting up.
The make of iron in South Staffordshire is not likely to be,
therefore, materially increased. The late advance is well
supported, and the demand appears sound and free from
any speculative character ; indeed, some of the stocks
which have been recently purchased with this object are
being re-sold for consumption :

FURNACES IN SOUTH STAFFORDSIRE BLOWN IN SINCE

Name of Work.
Shut end ...
Shut end ...
Brettell-lane
Woodside ..
Withymoor.
Crookhay
Wednesbury
Darlaston

Weekly
make.