The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

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was contained in a glass case, and, since its purchasb
the sale of the Duchess-Dowager of Portland's effects in
1786 by the Duke, of Chandos, has been deposited in the

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This relic

manuscript library at Stowe.

NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.--The ceremonial of
consecrating a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Western
District, in the room of Dr. Ullathorne, translated to the
See of the Midland Provinces, took place at St. Mary's
Chapel, Bristol, on Sunday last, when the Rev. Joseph
Wm. Henderson, D.D., was duly installed to the vacant
episcopate. The Hog. Mr. Clifford, son of Lord Clifford,
and a student at Prior Park, preparatory to his taking holy
orders. officiated as master of the ceremonies.
On the evening of Monday week, Mr. Brown, a farmer,
living at Nether Place, Dumfriesshire, went into a field to
fetch home his bull, which had been fighting during the
day with a neighbour's bull, and which had become so fu-
rious that the herd-boy was afraid to drive him. The
animal at first seemed to obey his master, but suddenly
turned round, attacked Mr. Brown, threw him on the
ground, and gored him so severely that he died two hours
afterwards.

SCHOOLMASTERS IN THE COLONlES.—Government
has just dispatched several members of the scholastic
profession, male and female (principally men and their
wives,) to establish primary schools in the Mauritius.
Before starting they received £l2O to provide the neces-
sary outfit, and on landing in the colony they are to have
£25 to defray immediate expences. Their salary com-
mencing at £BO, is to gradually increase to £2OO per

annum
The Quadrant Colonnade, in Regent-street, London,
that exquisite specimen of what a prince regent can do
when he takes to architecture, was pulled down on Mon-
day week, and the removal of the materials has been going
on since. They have been purchased for railway purposes.
The cast-iron pillars, 145 in number, realised £2900. The
total cost of this alteration is estimated at £3900, to be
defrayed by the sale of the old materials, and by a rate on
the inhabitants.

APPREHENSION OF " WAT TYLER," NEAR BRADFORD.
—This notable personage, Isaac Jefferson, the chartist
blacksmith, so famous in the annals of Bradford chartism,
was apprehended early on Wednesday morning, at a
lonely place called Swilling, on the borders of the
parishes of Halifax and Bradford. He was pounced upon
whilst sleeping, and, seeing himself overpowered, without
friends in this moment of need, and without a chance of
escape, he quietly yielded himself.
On Tuesday week, the family of a man named Law-
rence, living at Eastry, Kent. were treated to some sloes,
which had been preserved in sugar since last autumn, and
of which Lawrence himself, his wife, and his wife's sister
and brother partook, all of whom, shortly afterwardsrbe-
came very sick. vomited much, and were violently purged,
in which state they continued some time,. totally incapa-
pable of assisting one another, and it ended in the death
of one of the children, which took place the following
day.

EMIGRATION OF POOR PERSONS.—By an act which
passed on the 4th inst. it is provided by the sth section (11
and 12 Vie., cap. 110) that the guardians• of any union or
parish may, with the order of the Poor Law Board, and in
conformity with the regulations they make respecting the
emigration of poor persons. render assistance in the emi-
gration of poor parsons irremoveable and chargeable, and
charge the cost upon the common fund of the union or
parish where there is no union.
NOVEL CRICKET MATCII.—On Monday a cricket
match for a purse of sovereigns, between eleven one-armed
and eleven one-legged pensioners, belonging to Greenwich
Hospital, took place in a field at the back of the Priory,
Lewisham, Ken'. The novelty of the match attracted a
great many spectators. The result of the play was
slightly in favour of the one legs, whose facilities for
bowling and batting overbalanced the running capabilities
of their opponents.

A CHE.DiICAL MODE Or EZECTMENT.—At Bow-street,
on Saturday,. J. Dolby, chemist, of 280, btrand, appeared
to answer a complaint preferred against him by Mr. E.
Wild, a wood engraver, residing in the same house, for
having exposed a chemical preparation close to his room
at the top of the house, by which the health of his wife
and children was dangerously affected. The plan was
resorted to in order to get rid of a troublesome tenant.
The prisoner was fined for the offence.
At the Clerkenwell police-office, the other day, Edwin
Fox was charged with an attempt to steal a watch from the
shop of Mr. King, Goswell-street. The rogue was caught
in a trap. In consequence of previous attempts at rob-
bery. Mr. Kifig's shop door had been made to fasten with
a spring when any person entered. Fox pretended he
wanted to buy a watch, and got it into his hand ; he then
attempted to open the door to make off with it, but the
spring baffled him, and though he threw snuff into Mr.
King's eyes, he was captured and committed for trial.
FIRST APPLICATION TO GOVERNMENT UNDER THE
NEW PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.—The mortality at the port
of Whitehaven, being at the rate of 42 in every 1,000
CtikkAor th A ocemarition obi, 11 %Chin, gacsamwdliankg to
of 1 41), the inhabitants determined last week to present
a memorial to Lord Morpeth, calling for the interposition
of the commissioners appointed to give effect to the provi-
sions to the new sanitary act. The inhabitants are look-
ing forward with interest to the anticipated official visit of
the government inspector.
Jenny Lind performed, on Thursday, at the Theatre
Royal, Hull, in the opera of Sonnambula. Yesterday
she appeared at York, in a concert ; on Wednesday,
the 20th instant, at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, in the
opera of Sonnambula ; on Saturday, the 23d, in a morn-
ing concert at Edinburgh, and on the following Monday
in the opera of Sonnambula. She will then perform at
Glasgow, in the two operas of Sonnambula and the Figlia
del Reggimento ; and on the 11th of October will appear
at Dublin. After performing there four nights, she will
return to England.

A poor woman, named Anderton, met with her death
on Monday, at Stitchford, a few miles south of Birming-
ham. It appears that she and her son were about to pro-
ceed by the up train to London, and for that purpose she
took her place at the station in question. The noise of a
train approaching caused her to run out of the station-
room and cross the line, supposing it to be the train by
which she was about to proceed to town. Unhappily it
proved to be the express down train, by which, on at-
tempting to cross the line she was instantly knocked down
and killed on the spot.
THE HERRING FISHERY.—The " takes" within the
past week have ben unprecedented for the last twenty
years at least, both as respects the profusion and the
quality of the fish. Our fishery this year will be worth
£60,000 at the lowest estimate, and by moderate calcula-
tion not less than £6OOO has this week been netted from
the deep. The bustle and animation in the harbour and
on our quays, has been quite enlivening, and both the
Fleetwood and Liverpool packets have taken heavy car-
goes each trip for the English fishmongers and curers.
The current price to the curers and fresh buyers was ss. a
mease, and to small purchasers Is. 3d. per hundred of six
—Manx Liberal.

GIITTA PERCHA ON THE MONUMENT.—This novel
material, so famed for its utility, has lately risen to an
extraordinary elevation in the metropolis, having reached
even to the top of the Monument, from whence the visitor
to that noted column may look upon a gutta percha tube
one hundred and ninety feet in length, three inches in
diameter, and one quarter of an inch thick. This tube
passes up the centre of the Monument from its base to the
gallery, at which point it is upheld by a flange also made
of gutta percha. It is intended for the conveyance of
water, and is, we understand, highly approved by the
civic authorities, being light in weight and economic in
Price.

Continued fine weather has enabled the farmers to
cut nearly all the wheat in this district, and on the best
lands there is not a stock left in the fields, the whole hav-
ing been secured in fine condition. Oats and beans are
rather late in some places, but, the oat crop is being
rapidly cut, and will in another week or ten days be all
safe, should the weather continue fine. Further enqui-
ries confirm the opinion already expressed that the bulk
is large, the yield good, and the sample fully an average
one. About one-half of the wheat exhibited in our mar-
ket on Saturday, was of the new crcrprana
that a finer sample, or one in better condition, was never
seen for the first of the season. Many of the samples
weighed 63Ibs. and some as high as 661bs. per bushel,—
Newcastle Journal.

THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—At Warwick, on Monday, Mr.
W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, applied to Geo.
Cotten Greenway, Esq., one of the Coroners of the coun-
ty, to appoint a day to hear evidence, in order to induce
him to grant a warrant for search after the bodies alleged
at the county petty sessions in May last to have been bu-
ried under the new bridge, in Stoneleigh Park, upwards
of 30 years ago. The Coroner said in case the body was
known to have been buried, any coroner would be justi-
fied in having it exhumei, if suspicious circumstances
arose, in order that the cause of death might be satisfac-
torily ascertained ; but he did not think the duties of a
coroner extended to a search after bodies, whose inter-
ment rested merely on suspicion ; the application was,
therefore, refused. An application had previously been
made to Mr. Seymour, a coroner, acting in another divi-
sion of the county, but he refused to interfere, Stoneleigh
Abbey being out of his district. This was represented, to
be merely a preliminary step to further proceedings.
One of the new wrought iron bowstring bridges, con-
structed for the Blackwall extension line, has been tested
at the works of Fox, Henderson, and Co., at Smethwick,
near Birmingham, in the presence of Mr. Muntz, M.P.,
Captain Simmons, and other railway officers. The bridge,
as erected on an open space near the London works, pre-
sented a clear space of 120 feet between the bearings. It
is constructed entirely of wrought iron, and consists of an
arch of boiler plates and angle iron, tied across at the
ends by horizontal bars, the tie being cemented with the
arch by vertical standards, and by a double system of di-
agonals, which have the effect of distributing over the
whole curve of the arch the action of weights placed on or
passing over any part of the bridge. The ribs are adapted
for large spans in cases where either headway is of im-
portance, or where sufficient abutment cannot be obtained
without a great outlay. The ribs are supported in such a
manner as to allow not only for expansion and contrac-
tion, but also for motion under a heavy weight. On this
occasion the bridge was loaded with 240 tons of rails and
bars, double the load which the bridge can under any
circumstances be required to bear. The trial gave satis-
faction to all concerned.

MAN VERSUS STEAM.—On Tuesday evening a COmical
adventure was witnessed near Bedwas Church—a race
between Mr. John Jones and the locomotive called
" Bute"—distance three hundred yards, for a sovereign
a side. It wa3 won by the former, by about twenty
yards.

I- FASHION kBLE LUCIFER MATCH DEALERS.—
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by dozens selling lucifer matches. A country correspon-
dent of the Cambridge Chronicle states that the place

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who dispensed with kid gloves a box of lucifers to all whc
were disposed to buy at the small charge of one penny.
He was the unknown nobleman who has undertaken to
sell some millions of boxes of lucifers before he eats his
Christmas dinner.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The Premier arrived at Glas-
gow from Greenock, on Wednesday, accompanied by Lady
Russell. His lordship drove to the Star Hotel, where he
was visited by Mr. Hastie, M.P., the Lord Provost of
the City. Lord John saw no other visitors, and, indeed,
very few persons were aware of his arrival. A committee
of the unemployed were anxious to have an interview
with his lordship, in order to present a memorial for re-
lief, by an advance for emigration, or otherwise • but
they failed to discover where he was temporarily lodged.
His lordship and family departed in a compartment of a
first-class railway-carriage for Perth by the half-past one
o'clock afternoon train.
M. Louis Blanc has published a letter in the Times, in
reply to an•article in.which the little gentleman's princi-
ples were pretty freely commented on. M. Louis Blanc's
defence is divided into two sections—one of which is devo-
ted to the refutation of a particular charge respecting his
responsibility for the ateliers nationaux ; and the other
to the exculpation of his general doctrines from the liabi-
lities with which they have been visited. Under the first
of these heads he alleges that the ateliers nationaux re-
cently suppressed were in no sense of his creation ; that
M. Marie established, and M. Emile Thomas directed
them ; and that, in point of fact, they were employed to
counterbalance an embodiment of his own influence in
another quarter.
OTTER HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week, James
Lomax, Esq., of Allsprings, near Blackburn, took (by
the kind invitation of the Earl of Harewood) his cele-
brated pack of Otter hounds to Harewood House. They
flung off on Wednesday, at Harewood-bridge, and a
short distance up the river Wharfe they got on to the
" drag" of an otter, which they presently found, and swam
him for eight hours that day without securing their game,
and had to be called off. On Thursday morning, they
threw off at the bridge again, and found the otter at
Arthington Mill. They swam him again for eight hours
and a half, and at last killed him in the moonlight, after
one of the severest hunts that ever was seen. The otter
weighed 24} pounds.
PRICE OF PAINTINGS.—At the sale of paintings at
Stowe, on Friday, " Sybilla Persica," from the Orleans
gallery, by Domenechino, fetched 690 guineas. A burgo-
master, in a black dress, by Rembrandt, sold for 810
guineas. The finding of Moses, by Salvator Rosa, (six
feet seven inches by four feet,) was sold for 1,000 guineas.
Philip baptising the eunuch, by Cuyp, was sold for 1,470'
guineas. The great feature of the day, however, was
" The unmerciful servant brought before his Lord," by
Rembr_ ndt. The size of the picture was seven feet by
five feet ten inches. The first bidding was 1,000 guineas.
On this the next advance was 50 guineas; from 1,600
guineas it went. at one bidding, to 2,000 guineas ; and,
after a somewhat languid competition, was ultimately
knocked down to Mr. Mawson at 2,200 guineas.
USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.—A writer in a weekly
medical journal, who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and
1834, suggests a very simple, and, asp he asserts, a very
valuable prevention against the susceptibility of the disease.
The weakened state of the stomach, he says, which pre-
disposes to cholera, is so decidedly obviated by eating
freely of common salt to our meals, that it is believed that
three-fourths of the cases which would otherwise occur
may be prevented by this simple addition to our food.
The writer recommends for an adult the ninth of an ounce
(about a small teaspoonful) three times a day, at break-
fast, dinner, tea, or supper. It may be eaten with fish,
animal food, poultry, game, bread, toast,. or bread and
butter. The same beneficial result is not obtained with
salt meats, broths, soups, &c., in which salt is dissolved ;
because, by the action of the heat, or long admixture of
the salt with other matter, a change is produced in its pro-
perties, and the preventive power, with reference to this
particular use of it, destroyed..
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, GREEN PARK.—The new
residence for the Earl of Ellesmere was long talked of:
the carcase is now completed ; the chimneys are being
capped, the carving cleaned off. The situation is one of
the finest in the metropolis,—the view from the state
rooms of the new house, over the park and towards Buck-
ingham Palace, is perfectly beautiful. The plan approaches
a square ; the south front is 142 feet 6 inches, from east to
west ; and the west front, 122 feet, from north to south :
and there are two small courts within the mass to aid in
lighting the various apartments. The south elevation
differs from the west in having no projections of the front
wall. Vases surmount the dies of the balustrade. The
entrance-porch, not yet built, will be in the centre, and
be surmounted at the angles by similar vases. The whole
of these fronts, and part of each of the other fronts, are
faced with Portland stone. In examining the interior of
the building, when finished, one point will particularly
force itself on the attention, and that is the care which
has been taken so to elan it, that the freedom of access to
his fine gallery of pictures, which Lord Ellesmere pro-
poses to grant the public, may not be interfered with by
the private requirements of the liberal owner.—The
A 3.24.24.-

THE SMOKE NUISANCE AND SMOKE CONSUMERS AT
HALIFAX.— Messrs. Crossley, of Dean Clough, to pre-
vent the nuisance of smoke, have adopted " Samuel Hall's
self-fuel-supplying and smoke consuming furnace," which
principally consists in an inclined fire-grate, composed of
a large namber of distinct parallel bars, moved at the up-
per end by a series of eccentrics turned by a revolving
shaft. The longest motion of these eccentrics is given
alternately to bundles of about twelve bars ; but during
this motion every third bar also traverses an inch more or
less than the two adjacent to it; thus affording an addi-
tional preventative against the formation of clinkers. But
as these hindrances to complete smoke-prevention can
never be entirely avoided, provision is made for their fall-
ing' into a chamber at the lower end of the furnace, a fire-
brick shelf being interposed, with an inclination the re-
verse of that of the fire-grate, so as effectually to burn
anything that will burn, before it is finally cast amongst
the useless scoriae of the clinker-chamber. The regular
motion and inclination of the fire-grate affords a means of
self-feeding, without the aid of any extra wheels or cylin-
ders ; and the front of the furnace is formed of three up.
right plates, with spaces for the admission of air between
them, which not only keep the front of the furnace cool,
but also afford an easy method of regulating the admis-
sion of air. The patentee sets forth eight advantages of
this furnace, many of which are also claimed by other pa-
tents. Its peculiar advantages, however, seem to us to be,
first, that as there are no joints to work in the heated
part of the bars, and no friction except at the ends, the
fire-grate is likely to be more durable ; secondly, that
there is little or no waste of power in giving motion to
the furnace ; and thirdly, that the supply of coals, of air,
and of speed, is very easily regulated.—Hal fax Guardian.
THE POISONINGS.—The cases of poisoning in Essex
are still under investigation. The case to which the au-
thorities are now directing their attention is that of a per-
son named Nathaniel Button, formerly a resident in the
parish of Ramsey, who died on the 30th of September,
1846, a few days after the death of Mary May's first hus.
band, about whom also some suspicion exists. The
authorities, not having the power of exhuming the body,
have transmitted to the coroner a quantity of evidence,
in order that he may take the necessary steps for investi-
gating the matter. The next case is relative to a person
named Palmer' resident in Ramsey, who died shortly
after Button. Almost immediately after his death Mrs.
Palmer left Ramsey, accompanied by a man with whom
she had long been intimate. The town of Great Holland
in the Tendering Union has also, it is suspected, been the
scene of one, if not more, of these dreadful poisonings.
From tile investigation which has taken place, it appears
that a man named Brudger died suddenly some time since
in great agony, having been well and at his work until
within a few hours of his death. Two other cases are un-
der consideration—one in the parish of Tendering, and
another in the parish of Bradfield. In the former the
keeper of a beer-shop, named Brown, is the subject of in-
quiry, and in the latter the body of a person named Gop,
who there is little doubt was poisoned, is to be exhumed.
In the investigation of these cases it has been ascertained
that most, if not all, owe their origin to the existence of
what are in this part of the country called " Death Clubs."
A person (man or Woman) enters one of these clubs,
„A.-, 4—, cr.., of 7d. per quarter, at the same time
appointing a nominee, at whose death the subscribing
party receives £lO or £B, according to the number of per-
sons enrolled. In addition to this subscription each
member pays 6d. extra on the death of any nominee.
Mrs. Southgate vas a member of one of these clubs.
Mrs. Button was also a member, and received £B, on the
death of her husband.

MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM WATER.—WO were
much pleased with a descriptive lecture at the Polytechnic
Institution, accompanied by a working model of a new
hydro-carbon gas apparatus, patented by Mr. Stephen
White, for the manufacture of gas from water and com-
mon tar, or resin, &c. The apparatus consists of three
retorts placed in a stove, two of which are filled with char-
coal and thin pieces of iron, and the other with iron chains,
hanging from a centre bar. The first two retorts are for
the decomposition of water, which is regularly supplied
by means of a syphon pipe, through and into the centre of
the retort ; the water, in passing through the heated ma-
terial, becomes converted into pure hydrogen and proxide
of carbon. It then passes into the third retort, to receive
its dose of bi-carburet of hydrogen, which is prepared
from common tar, resin, or similar substances, passing,
or dropping, on the red hot chain, from a syphon tube,
which regulates its supply. This causes the tar, or melted
resin, to throw off an abundance of bi-carburet of hydro-
gen gas. The gasss being mixed in this manner, are im-
mediately conveyed into the gasometer for use, without
any purifying vessels whatever, none being required. The
great advantagcs arising from this invention appear to be
the small, simple, and cheap apparatus required, and the
beautiful, clear and bright light produced, surpassing the
ordinary coal gas ; also, its perfect purity, being free from
any nuisance in its manufacture, and, above all, so pure
and innoxious, that it may be burnt in any private room,
without the least ill effects or smoke resulting from it.
The apparatus may be used, and the gas made, in any
private mansions, churches, or manufactoriel, and on any
scale, from 5 to 1,000 lights or more, as well as for cities
and towns. This gas can be made and supplied at a price
considerably less than that of coal gas. Thus we see ac-
complished the foretelling of that eminent chemist and
philosopher, the late Sir Humphrey Davy, " that at some
future time gas would be generated from water for general
purposes, surpassing coal gas in brilliancy and purity."
—Mining Journal,