The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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FOREIGN HAY.-108 bundles of hay hays reached
London from Rotterdam.
The ship carpenters of Whitehaven are still on strike
for an advance of wages.
It is understood that Baring Brothers, of London, have
taken £50,000 in Panama railway stock.
It is proposed to constitute a line of steam service be-
tween Aberdeen and St. Petersburgh.
Destitution to a considerable extent at this moment
prevails in SAye, Lewis, and other islands.
The Queen has given a pension of £lOO a year to Mrs.
Bessy Moore, wife of the celebrated poet Thomas Moore.
A farm at North Side, Isle of Man, which formerly
was rented at 455. per sere, has been let a few days since
at 255.

On Saturday, the new Danish loan of £BOO,OOO was
announced in the city. Only £300,000 will be raised in
England.

A cheque for £5O has just been received from the Duke
of Wellington towards completing Wellington parish
church.

The French academy has awarded a medal to Mr.
Hind, of London, for the discovery of the planets Iris and

The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company have decided on issuing no more
spirits to their seamen.
Cappinahane, neariLimerick, once the splendid residence
of Mr. Mason, has been taken for an auxiliary work-
house, by the Newcastle Guardians.
Thursday week completed the 63d year of " the Duke's
entry into the army," he baying been gazetted to his first
commission as ensign, 73d regiment, 7th March, 1787.
EARLY SWARM.—During the fine warm sun of the 7th
inst., a large swarm of bees were safely hived in the gar-
den of Mr. John Wright, near Northallerton.
Illicit distillation appears once more prevalent in various
districts of the north of Scotland, and seizures of malt and
stills are frequently made.
Green peas, of fine quality, are still imported into
London from Portugal. A quantity were purchased for
her Majesty's table.
A robin redbreast's nest, containing one egg, was last
week discovered in the neighbourhood of Dykelands, near
Ulverston.
Three cadets of the Royal Military Academy, at Wool-
wich, have been dismissed, and six others are under close
arrest, for fagging the young cadets.
The poor-rates and local taxes of Sunderland average
17s. 10d. in the pound, whilst those of the city of Durham,
only a dozen miles off, amount to only 3s. 44-d.
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION FOR 1851.—We regret to
hear that little more than £20,000 have as yet been sub-
scribed to meet the expenses, estimated at £150,000.
A recent advertisement in the Times, containing the
names of influential persons favourable to the total ces-
sation of labour in the Post-office on the Sabbath, cost
upwards of £lOO.
PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—The anniversary fes-
tival of this laudable institution is fixed for Wednesday,
May 8, on which occasion F. Y. Peel, Esq., M.P.. the son
of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., has consented to preside.
Several custom-house officers, holding subordinate
situations as weighers, have been detected in systemati-
cally abstracting quantities of tobacco from the London
docks.
The Queen and Prince Albert forwarded the munificent
donation of 100 guineas, in aid of the funds of the in-
tended new hospital for the diseases of the chest, at Vic-
toria Part
A

rat was killed in a granary at Perth recently, mea-
suring nineteen inches in length from his nose to tail-tip,
twelve and a half inches from the point of the nose to its
haunches, and nine inches round the body.
The National Society for the Abolition of Burials in
Towns has presented a petition praying Parliament to
pass an act for the formation of national cemeteries far
removed from human dwellin2s.
ON DlT.—That the hero of the East, Major Edwardes,
is likely to lead to the altar the beautiful and accom-
plished Miss Selwin, who is intimately related to, and re-
siding with, Dr. Grant, of Richmond Hill, London.
Three men recently apprehended for attempting to pass
forged notes at Brighton, pleaded guilty at the assizes at
Lewes on Wednesday. They were sentenced to trans-
portation for life.

On Saturday the new fifty-gun frigate Nankin was
•a from the Woolwich Dock-yard. She was

ned,in the presenceof an immens,

multitude, by

,ughter of
On Wedr

y morning, two men were killed, and a
y wounded by the unexpected explosion of
t in a tunnel near Cork on the Southern and

third dan germ]

The extensive farm of Knock, a mile and a half from
Paisley, was lately let on a grain rent of two bolls of
wheat per acre, which, at the last fiars, would be some
- about 30s. per acre—what was wont to be let at
On Wednesday the Palace of Holyrood was the scene

of unusual bustle-, cause

to elect two representatives to the House of
peers chosen to fill the vacant places were
of Airlie and Lord Blantyre.

A very interesting piece of biography is announced for
immediate publication by that popular writer, the Rev.
Erskine Neale, whose _Life Book of a Labourer and

It is no le

zes wiii oe in the recollection of most readers
than a Life of the Duke of Kent.

excitement prevails
_in
_the- neighbourhood of

riolywen, in consequence of the discovery of several rich
veins of lead ore on the properties of the honourable Mr.
Mostvn and Viscount Fielding ; the latter of Ross-hall,
near Shrewsbury.
Her Majesty's Theatre was opened on Tuesday last.
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mayer s opera or " Medea" was performed, with Parodi
in the chief part. A new ballet, called "Les Metamor-
phoses," was produced, Carlotta Grisi undertaking the
principal character.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £17,125,860 to £17,133,356,
being a difference of £7496. The paper in actual circu-
lation had decreased from £20,104,581 to £19,923,049,
being a difference of £118,532.
A female, two or three inches taller than six feet, lately
arrived in Aberdeen from Inverness, and obtained em-
ployment at one of the public works. Large crowds now
regularly assemble on the street between her lodgings and
-he passes and re-passes to

her meals
The Lord Mayor of London has sent invitations to the
mayors of 133 towns in England (Liverpool, of course,
included), 13 in Scotland, and 8 in Ireland, to dine with
Prince Albert on Thursday next. The object is to pro-
mote, as far as possible, the exhibition of 1851, besides
being an evidence of municipal hospitality.
FEW DISTUREANCE.—Ahother instance of this kind
occurred in Cheltenham parish church, on Sunday morn-
ing. Just as service was commencing, a man named Wil-
liam Frederick Parker, attempted to thrust himself into a
pew, and in consequence of being frustrated, he became
disorderly, and was given in charge to the police.
A fatal occurrence has occurred at Bourton-on-the- Hill,
near Stow, to a servant residing with Mr. Phillips, of the
above place ; being up at night, waiting for her master,
she was found in the cellar so shockingly burned that death
put an end to her sufferings in a day or two. By what
means, or for what reason, she found her way into the
cellar is unknown.
The proposed submarine telegraph between Dover and
Calais, conceded to Messrs. Brett and Co. by the French
government, is approaching completion. The tower for
the battery, officers, and general works at Dover is
nearly erected, and the isolated wires are in a forward
state of progress, and are expected to be sunk across the
channel in the course of the next month.
The Kendal Mercury says that a few weeks since the
minister of a church in a secluded dale allowed a stranger,
whom he supposed to be a young ordained clergyman, to
preach in his stead. It has since been discovered that
the preacher is not in holy orders, and the consequence
has been that the parties have been indicted to appear in
the ecclesiastical court.
On Thursday, the 7th instant, an animated debate took
place between the Rev. Dr. Cumming and Dr. Faa, the
Roman Catholic priest, lately come to Barnet. The meet-
ings were crowded, especially in the evening; at least one
thousand persons must have been in the hall, besides hun-
dreds who could not obtain admittance.
The Rev. A. I. Hanmer, a Puseyite clergyman, informs
" the inhabitants of Tiverton" that, " in consequence of
a change which has gradually established itself in his
opinions, his ministerial connexion with them is now
ceasing." Whether his new opinions be well founded or
mistaken, his conviction of their truth is strong ; and he
is consequently bound, he says, to act accordingly.
Lord Bateman, a young nobleman, owner of extensive
estates, in Herefordshire andNorthamptonshire, is making
considerable improvements in his cottage property, by
rebuilding the cottages on a convenient and healthy plan
and adding a garden of a quarter of an acre to each. He
is building schools for the children, and a few days ago be
addressed his Northamptonshire cottage tenants on his
future plans.
A Banffshire journal relates a curious anecdote of a
horse. Its rider having dropped his cane, alighted, and
away sped the horse. Being lame, the owner could not
arrest his flight, and, therefore, dragged himself slowly
homeward. Suddenly, after the lapse of half an hour,
back came the horse, alone, trotted close to its master,
submissively stood still until he had remounted, and then
cheerily cantered homewards at full speed.
ARSON.—At Lincoln assizes, yesterday week, Edward
Whitfield, a youth, indicted for setting fire to a straw
stack and cow hovel, on the sth of January, on the pre-
mises of Mr. William Dolby, at Swayfield, was sentenced
to 15 years transportation ; and John Plummer, 22, in-
dicted for having set fire to a house and several stacks, at
Market Deeping, on the 18th September, was sentenced
to be transported for seven years.
Frederick Watmough, said to be an illegitimate son of
the late Duke of St. Albans, has had to enter into recog-
nizances to keep the peace in consequence of sending
threatening letters to Mr. Harrison, the secretary to the
Duchess of St. Albans. It appeared that the allowance
of £lOO a year, which had been paid him during his
father's lifetime, had been discontinued by the duchess,
and that he was in great distress.
SHEEP WORRYING.—On Thursday night week, a
flock of sheep were on a ley on the farm of Mr. Robo-
tham, in a field by the side of the canal, in the neighbour-
hood of Macclesfield. On the following morning, some
were found dead, and others with their legs and skin
lacerated ; all of them having been more or less bitten by
some dog. Nineteen of the sheep have died from the
injuries received, and ten others had their legs broken.
FISHING FOR RATS.—A new branch of industry has
sprung up in Newcastle.% Juvenile disciples of Isaak
Walton—the shade of the old angler frowns upon us
while we write—may be seen in the streets, patiently re-
posing by the side of a grate, with a line and baited hook
in the sewer, to catch rats. Their prey are sold to the
jackals of the rat hunters, men who keep hundreds of rats
in store, and sell them to sportsmen.—Gateshead Ob.
pryer.

f PAUPER IRISH.—At Cardiff police-court, last week,
Benjamin M'Carthy, master of the Helen and Ann, of
Kinsale, was charged with bringing over in a vessel laden
with pit wood from Kinsale, some sixty miserable Irish,
which he landed at Penarth. There was not accommoda-
tion for ten persons on board, and all the passengers were
in a deplorable condition, without food or comforts of any
kind. The magistrates convicted defendant in the penalty
of £lO and costs.
SUDDEN TRANSFORMATION OF AN UNITARIAN.—An
Unitarian preacher in the metropolis, a Mr. Linwood, has
caused considerable scandal among his congregation, by
having suddenly declared himself a Trinitarian, and be-
come the editor of a publication " devoted ennestly and
perseveringly to the upholding of high evangelical princi-
ples, and uprooting the principles of which Mr. Linwood
had been, for a considerable time, the strenuous public
advocate."
BANQUET TO MAJOR EDWARDES, C.B.—This day
(Tuesday) will be a gala day in Shrewsbury, when the
Shropshire hero will make his triumphal entry into the
chief town of his native county. A procession will meet
the gallant soldier at Lord Hill's column, consisting of
the mayor, members of the corporation, yeomanry ca-
valry, oddfellows, &c.. &c. It is supposed the Major will
make his entree on horseback. The public banquet will
take place at the Music-hall.
WHOLESALE ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Thursday,
at the Court of Inland Revenue, Joseph Gibson, No. 65i.
Hatfield-street, Lambeth, was charged, on several infor-
mations, with having unlicensed stills in his possession,
and with carrying on the trade of illicit distillation. The
officers stated that the utensils found on the premises
were capable of producing 26,000 gallons of spirits annu-
ally. the duty on which would amount to £lO,OOO. The
defendant was amerced in the full penalty of £l2OO, and
the seizure was condemned.

SUPPOSED MURDER.—On Monday, William Campbell,
a miner, at Grasswater, between Cumnock and Muirkirk,
was found dead near that place. He is believed to have
been murdered by an Irish labourer, with whom he was
drinking pretty freely on the previous night. There were
several cuts on his head, and apparently a great struggle
had ensued between them, near the place where last seen
together. It is supposed that the body was dragged into
a bourne, where it was found. The Irishman is in cus-
tody.—.Ayr Advertiser.

One night last week a poor woman at Burwell, Cam-
bridgeshire, dreamed that her child was dead, and that
the funeral was taking place; that she followed it to its
last resting-place, and standing by its grave in the chapel-
yard, heard the minister perform his sad task. In the
agony of her fright she suddenly awoke, and looked at the
child. It appeared in a tranquil sleep, but on touching it,
to ascertain if it was so, she discovered that the vital
spark had fled. The infant was quite well when it was
put to bed.

SINGULAR CASE OP HYDROPHOBIA.—A considerable
time ago, a young girl near this town had a cut in her
hlnd, which she permitted the house dog to lick with his
tongue—a very prevalent custom among children. Some
time thereafter, the dog went mad, and was immediately
killed ; but, within these few days, the girl was also
seized with the same dreadful malady, and after suffering
severely, sometimes requiring the united strength of two
or three people to keep her in bed, she fell into convul-
sions, and shortly after died.—Aberdeen Journal.
FIRE CAUSED BY A CAT.-0/1 the 27th ult. a fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Thomas Maw, of Bol-
ton Westgate, which was ascertained afterwards to have
originated thus. Their cat is in the habit of sitting in the
fender, and on the night in question, a cinder fell out of
the fire upon poor puss's back ; she being unable to get it
off rushed out of the house and into the barn, where rub-
bing amongst the straw, it fell off and ignited the straw.
The barn was soon in flames ; but owing to the prompt
assistance of the neighbours, the fire was got out, but not
until damage to the amount of £lO was sustained.—Hull
paper.

At Chelmsford assizes, Hitchcock, a young fellow who
had before been convicted of felony, was found guilty of
firing a farm at Braintree, whereby a lerge amount of
property was destroyed. The sentence was fourteen years'
transportation, for which the impudent culprit thanked
the judge. Mary Savell, a woman of thirty-one, was
tried for firing a stack of oats' at Great Chishall. Last
year the grand jury ignored the bill against the woman,
and she was discharged ; she thought this was the same
as an acquittal, and she avowed her guilt ; this led to her
second arrest, and the present trial. She was convicted.
Sentence, seven years' transportation.
PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENCES.-ThrOllgh The Times,
"a surgeon" discloses somewhat novel attempts made by
the police to associate the medical profession in a system
of espionage. A circular was left at his house, stating
that a family accused of a robbery in Kent was supposed
to be in his neighbourhood, the wife of one thief being
near her confinement ; and he was invited to give infor-
mation if he should be summoned "

o her aid

geon very properly declines. and he denounces the en-
oachrnent on professional privilege. A little reflection
will confirm his right to object, and, it is to be hoped, stop
this attempt to obtain police auxiliaries.
EXTENSIVE RODBERIES OF PLATE AND JEWELS.—On
Friday week intelligence of the fnllnwino•

Luc may, was receivea o
the police:—From Thomas Dawson, Esq., Norland-street,y jewels, value £250 ; from Norris, Esq., Bedford-place,
silver plate, value £2OO ; from Alfred Jones, Esq., Lower
Grosvenor-street, silver plate, value £80; from 86, Cam-
den-road-villas, silver plate, value £B5 ; from Mr. Prit.
chard, Tavistock-street, seven £5 Bank of England notes;
from the Egremont Hotel, Brighton, jewels, value £190;
and from the house of Mr. Edward Turrock Luis, Staf-
fordshire, £3OO in gold.

THEEXECUTIONER AND HIS MOTHER.—We mentioned
last week, that Calcraft, the ,
executioner was summoned

ucluzu one SlLring magistrate, at Worship-street, for refus-
ing to support his mother, 73 years old. It was shown
that he was in the weekly receipt of a guinea from the
corporation of London, and that, in addition, he followed
the business of a shoemaker. In defence, he pleaded want
of trade and physical debility, so great that he could not
pull his coat off or put it on without help, and that other
members of the family were better off than he. The ma-
gistrate, however, made an order on him for the weekly
payment of three shillings, amid the protestations of Cal-
craft that the order might be made, but it would be of no
avail. He however took his mother away with him.
A KEEN SPORTSMAN.—A Nottingham paper states that
during the height of the gale a few days ago, a poacher
was seen with his gun, watching the river side, about six
o'clock in the evening, on the Scaftworth side of the river,
opposite Scrooby. Presently he was observed by a person
on the lookout to shoot at a wild duck as it was flying past.
The shot !ook effect, but the bird unfortunately fell into
the river Idle, on the opposite side. The man seeing de-
lay was dangerous, immediately stripped, and in a very
short time swam across and succeeded in gaining posses-
sion of his prize. He then took to the river again, with
the duck in his mouth, for his clothes and his gun, and
reached the opposite bank in safety. The watcher not
being an expert swimmer, durst not follow, and the man
got clear off with his booty.
CHARGE OF STEALING £l4OO. —At the Manssion-
house, London, on Monday, Walter Watts, the lessee
of the Olympic Theatre, was charged with having stolen
a cheque for £l4OO. The prisoner had been a clerk in
the Globe Insurance Office, and is suspected to have stolen
therefrom the cheque in question (which was on Glyn and
Co.), and to have proceeded at once to another bank—the
London and Westminster—where he paid in the money
to his own account. A good deal of mystery hangs over
the affair, from the fact that the prisoner acted so openly,
had been since the time constantly in his usual places of
business, and had surrendered voluntarily when he heard
there was a warrant out against him ; but it having been
deposed that he paid the money into the bank on his own
account, he was remanded for the production of other
witnesses. Some of the London papers mention rumours
to the effect that the prisoner has committed frauds on
this office to the extent of uywards of £BO,OOO.

The system of "great circle sailing," by which consi-
derable distances are saved in making long voyages east or
west, especially towards the poles, is simply dependant on
the principle of the shortest distance between any two
points on the earth's surface, being that described by a
line which, if continued, wouldoform a circle dividing the
globe into two equal parts. For instance, in sailing from
the Land's End to the north-east of Newfoundland in the
same parallel, a due westerly course would be much longer
than might be made by describing a course to the north,
as a continuation of the former would produce a circle
dividing the globe into two unequal parts. The saving of
distance by this method obviously diminishes on approach-
ing- the equator, to the south of which of course the curve
takes an opposite direction. The system, however, requir-
ing a constant variation of the ship's course is not a!ways
adopted. but is very valuable to understand for long voyages
in high latitudes particularly.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—On Thursday, a very hand-
some brig, 265 tons, was launched at Aberdeen. She has
been bought by the Admiralty, and named The Lady
Franklin. She is to proceed immediately in search of Sir
John Franklin.—On Friday, Mr. Green, the aeronaut,
forwarded nine balloons to the expedition about to sail in
search of Sir John Franklin. Lady Franklin had pre-
viously been in communication with Mr. Green on the
subject. On Monday an experiment was made in the
presence of her ladyship, Mr. Holland, M.P., and others,
at the house of Mr. Green, with a balloon containing 32
packets, consisting of 3,000 slips of silk and paper, which
were to be detached at the rate of one every five minutes.
The balloon was between five and six feet in diameter,
and was filled with hydrogen gas. After the balloon had
proceeded a short distance, the packets began to be libe-
rated at short intervals. It took a southwestern direc-
tion, and some of the packets were picked up at Chiches-
ter. The balloon then proceeded towards the Channel.
Mr. Green has forwarded to the commanders some appa-
ratus for generating the gas.

CONVERTS TO ROME.—The Record newspaper pub-
lishes, conspicuously, a communication from a corre-
spondent, stating that two daughters of the late Rev. 11.
D. Leeves, agent to the British and Foreign Bible So-
ciety, and chaplain to the British Minister at Naples. were
publicly admitted into the Church of Rome by the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Malta, on Saturday, the 2nd instant.
One of these ladies is said by this writer to have been a
governess in the family of Dr. Pusey. The Record cor-
respondent adds—" A grand mass was celebrated in ho-
nour of the event on the day on which these young ladies
were admitted into the Romish Church. It seems that
they went to the Bishop of Gibraltar on the previous
week, demanding of him the right of confessing and of
plenary absolution from him. The Bishop replied that,
as a servant of Christ and Bishop of the Church, he was
quite prepared to receive any statement they were desirous
of making for the relief of conscience; and, as far as ab-
solution was concerned, he was, on due proof of repent..
ance on their part, willing to pronounce a declaratory
absolution, but nothing more. Indeed the Bishop is un--
derstood to have spoken to them in a judicious, sensible,
and truly scriptural manner, but they have fallen into the
been duly
snare with their eyes open, and after having
and faithfully warned."