The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

RUMOURED CAPTURE OF DOBSON, THE MURDERER.
Yesterday night Mr. Leach, the constable of Hudders-
field, came to Halifax with the glad news (which we hope

there is

From liisstatement it would appear that

iry reason to bel

bcurhood.—Halifax Guardian

Satur-

MATCH FOR ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.—ID a match
for the above sum, p.p., which came off at Newmarket on
Saturday, Lord George Bentinck's Captain Cook (S. Ro-
gers)beat Mr. Sainsburv's
.Chotornion (Mann). 7to 4

the bushes, and beaten in a canter by I 5 lengths. The
trainer of Chortonion incurred a penalty by riding with
the horses i❑ the early part of the race.

Asa further and gratifying proof of the improvement
in this country, we are happy to state that great activity
prevails at this time at the Great Western Cotton Factory,
hi this city, to meet the demand for piece goods in the
Irish, Northern, and London markets, where the fabrics
of the above company are much in request. Between
1700 and 1800 hands are not only fully employed at the
Works, but they are also obliged to pursue their opera-
tions during part of the night.2Brislol Journal.
Some of Galileo's manuscripts, presumed to have been
lost or burnt by order of the Inquisition, have been found
at Florence, among the archives of the Palazzo Pitti. The
Foreign Quarterly Review says :—" The manuscripts be-
sides being objects of curiosity, are likely to be useful to
astronomical science, inasmuch as they contain informa-
tion respecting the eclipses of former tiones,—a course of
the satellites of Jupiter, subjects to which Galilee directed
great attention."

LATE CARLISLE BANK.—The creditors of Messrs.
Forster and Co., bankers, Carlisle, will be glad to learn
that a further dividend is expected early in the ensuing
year. The estate has already paid 12s. in the pound ;
and it was stated to the Commissioner at the Newcastle
District Bankruptcy Court, that by Whitsuntide the
whole of the estate uncollected will be realised, and a
further sum of about £15,000 will be divided among the
creditors.

On Monday the Earl of Lincoln, accompanied by Mr.
Brnnel and Mr. Cubitt, inspected the Middlesex side of
the river, from Vauxhall Bridge to Battersea Bridge, to
ascertain the most eligible plan for the embankment of the
river. Mr. Brunel was provided with the levels and plans
that he had lately made at the request of government.
There will be a carriage road alongside the river from
Battersea Bridge to the two Houses of Parliament.—
Globe.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—Quarterly average of the weekly
liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the
15th day of July to the 7th day of October, 1843, both in-
clusive :

ASSETS

LIABILITIES
Circulation .... £19,561,000 I Securities
Deposits 11,466,000 1 Bullion..

£31,027,000

£22,193,000
12,078,000

£34,271,000

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.—The direc-
tors of this bank have this week made a call for 30s. per
share, amounting altogether to £6 10s. per share on
25,000 shares, every shilling of which is lost. The total
loss in this concern is more than £3oo.ooo—indeed, with
interest much exceeds that sum. The entire liabilities
are now reduced to £71,000. When the bank stopped
payment, they exceeded £1,400.000. The suspension
took place in June, 1840.

THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAMER.—Between six and
seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, during the height of
the storm, as the British Queen steamer was at the tail of
the bank, on her passage across from Greenock to Helens-
burgh, it was found that she was making so much water
as to render a continuance of the •oyage dangerous, and
she was immediately put about fur Greenock Harbour.
All the passengers, together with the crew, were landed in
safety, and in a moment or two after the vessel sank. The
chief cause of the accident is supposed to have been the
Queen's coming against a small rock.—Scotch Reformers'
Gazette.

A THIEF HUNTED OUT.—Mr. Higgins, of Misterton,
having been informed, on Sunday se'nnight, by his shep-
herd, that one of his fat sheep had been stolen during the
night, immediately took his dog, a remarkably good one,
of the sheep breed, to the fold, and the dog struck off the
scent, and ran in a straight direction to the shepherd's
house, where a part of the_ mangled sheep was found.
Mr. Higgins at once charged his shepherd and another
man who resides with him (and whose clothes he disco-
vered were bloody) with the theft. They were both fully
committed to Taunton gaol to take their trial at the next
assizes.—Somerset County Gazette.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE HUMDER.—SIX
LIVES LOST.—On Tuesday night, about ten or eleven
o'clock, the Three Sisters, Maltby, master, was lying at
anchor off Sunk Island, when she was run down by the
fishing smack William and Richard, Hodge, master, dur-
ing a dark night and stormy weather. The master and
mate of the Three sisters succeeded in saving their lives
by clinging to the William and Richard as it was passing
over their keel, but we regret to state that Maltby's wife,
who was on deck at the time, and his five children, who
were in the cabin, all perished.—Hull Packet.
FALSE REGISTRATIONS OF DEATHS.—It has recently
been discovered that a system of fraud has been carried on
to a great extent in the metropolis by a set of designing
persons who have falsely registered the deaths of individuals
who may be pensioners of the East India Co., or annuitants
of other public companies, in order that they might obtain
the usual gratuity given for information of their deaths,
and also, in many of the alleged cases, representing that
the deceased persons had left large and destitute families,
which has led to the granting of some allowance, either
for the immediate support of the survivors, or on account
of the supposed funeral expenses.

An application was made on Saturday week, to the ma-
gistrates at the Mansion House, London, on behalf of the
unfortunate Duke of Normandy and bis wife and family
of eight children. The duke is now confined for debt in
Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and both he and his family are
starving. It was stated that the unfortunate man's claim
as dauphin of France is undoubted, and that the strength
of it was the cause that the French government repudiated
him. Alderman Johnson ordered some assistance to be
rendered from the poor box, and requested the reporters
to publish the application, in the hope that the public
would voluntarily assist the unfortunate prisoner.
COMMITTAL OF A DISSENTING MINISTER AND HIS
SON, FOR BODY STEALING.—On Thursday last, the Rev.
Isaac Bridgeman, the Minister of a Dissenting Chapel at
Walworth, whose case has been several times before the
Court, was finally examined, with his son, a medical pupil,
before Mr. Cottingham, at the Union Hall Police Office,
on a charge of having removed the coffin and dead body
of the late Mr. Tawney from the burial-ground of Mr.
Bridgeman's chapel. Both the defendants were held to
bail for their appearance to take their trials at the next
Old Bailey Sessions for the misdemeanour.—Leeds paper.
APPROACH OF WINTER.—On Tuesday morning, Ri-
vington Pike and the hills adjacent, appeared to be thickly
co7ered with snow. The Welsh hills also wear the ap-
pearance of winter. At Burton last week, and on Mon-
day at Ulverston, there were heavy falls of snow. In
Scotland the excessive rains and boisterous winds have
also been succeeded by cold dry winds and occasionally
severe frost and snow. The country generally begins to
wear a wintry aspect. The Westmoreland hills are co-
vered with snow, and the grouse shooters have in conse-
quence forsaken their employment.

BELL AND STEEPLE.—The law adviser of the Irish
government bas given an opinion, that there is no law to
prevent the erection of bells in Roman Catholic chapels
in Ireland. In England, there is a law which grants to-
leration to Roman Catholic priests on certain conditions ;
but there is an express reservation, that those immunities
shall not be enjoyed by priests who worship in buildings
having a bell and steeple. We believe it is this enactment
which prevents a striking clock being placed under the
steeple of the Roman Catholic Chapel in Cookridge-street,
in Leeds.—Leeds Intelligencer.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT :TO LORD SHERBOURNE.—We
regret to hear that a serious accident occurred to Lord
Sherbone on Saturday morning last. His lordship was
riding out, accompanied by Mr. William Harvey, of Brad-
well-grove, and the Hon. John Dutton, when his horse
suddenly shied and plunged furiously, by which his lord-
ship was thrown with violence to the ground, breaking his
collar-bone and two ribs. Messengers were immediately
despatched for surgical assistance, which was promptly
rendered, and we are happy to hear, by the latest accounts
from Sherborne, that his lordship is progressing, though
but slowly, towards recovery.—Chellenham Chronicle,
THE BANK OF MANCHESTER.—There was a meeting
on Friday of the proprietors of this bank, when a report
was read. It appears that there are still liabilities to the
amount of about £400,000, and that to meet this another
call of £2 per share will be necessary, and a call for that
sum was agreed upon. Mr. Burdekin, as it already ap-
pears, took with him about £lO,OOO of the funds of the
bank. The present call is caused by the winding up of
several large accounts, much more unfavourably than was
anticipated, especially those of Hiltons, of Darwen, and
Joseph Raleigh, of Manchester, with which concerns the
bank was a creditor for nearly £200,000. The proprietors
will thus lose nearly, if not altogether, one million sterling.
FIRE AT SUTTON HALL—On Saturday morning last
about nine o'clock, flames were observed to issue from a
barn, forming part of the farm buildings adjoining Sutton
Hall, the mansion of Joseph White, Esq., near Chester.
An engine was obtained from Hooton, and messengers
were dispatched to Chester for further assistance. Mr.
Hill, with the Fire Police and their powerful engine, be-
longing to this city, set off at a q-uarter past ten o'clock
and arrived at Sutton, a distance of eight miles, in 25
minutes. So rapid had been the progress of the devas-
tating element, that the whole of the farm buildings,
ataining a quantity of wheat and oats, were destroyed ;
cheese, after a good deal of exertion, was saved ; and
efforts of the Chester Police successfully prevented

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A LITTLE BOY POISONED AT PLAY.—OD Sunday last
some little boys were playing together near Wakefield,
when two of them, called Willian Spawforth and James
Wood, the one aged 12 and the other 10 produced a
liquor in a small bottle, which they called Spanish juice.
water, and poured some of it down Francis Lumb's throat.
Spawforth's grandmother having left home for the day,
he took the opportunity of searching her cupboard for a
file, when a playfellow who was with him, found a bottle
containing oil of vitriol used for dyeing silks, which he
tasted, and finding that it blistered his l►ps offered it to
other lads apparently for a joke, telling them it was
Spanish juice water. The unfortunate deceased, more
confiding than the rest, swallowed a small quantity, and
although every effort was used to destroy the effect of
the poison, he died the following morning. The deceased
was about five years of age. The two lads were appre-
hended and remained in custody till the Coroner's in-
quest, when a verdict being returned of " Died from tak-
ing oil of Vitriol not knowing what it was," they were
liberated.

DEBBY CLUB Fort LADIES!—The present rage for
speculation on the turf, and the great success which has
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DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED.
TWO FISHING-BOATS LOST.—MONTROSE. Oct. 11.—It
is our painful duty to record the loss of eight fishermen
belonging to Ferryden, this morning, between two and
three o'clock, about 18 miles off the land, in consequence
of the wind, which was gently at N.E. by N. having, in
an instant, chopped round to S., whence it blew with ter-
rific fury, and capsized two fishing-boats, from which
five men out of six belonging to the first, were rescued by
another boat which was close by at the time ; but the se-
cond crew, consisting of seven individuals, all met a
watery grave. They have left nineteen orphan child-
ren and fourwidows. In the last mentioned boat was
James West, master, his son, and a young man, who was
to be married next week to West's daughter,

NARROW ESCAPES.—On Monday evening, the lfith
of October, during a severe gale from the south-west, the
smack Yeoman's Glory, belonging to Mr. Gill, M.P.,
Plymouth, went to Mevagissey Bay for shelter. Having
no ballast on board, her crew possessed little control over
her, and she unfortunately ran into the fishing-boat Mary,
However, the fluke of the smack's anchor hooked the
boat's gunwale and enabled the owner, John Andrew,
aged 63, and his mate, Thomas Lee, 78, to get out just
before she went down. The smack conveyed the poor
men to Plymouth the next morning, when they were re-
ceived by the officers of that useful institution, the Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society. On the even..
ing of the 17th John Andrew, who is a a stranger to Ply.
mouth, fell over the Custom-house quay, but the tide
being low, the water reached only to his waist, and he
thus escaped death by drowning a second time in twenty_
four hours.

GALVANIC ELECTRICITY.—The .galvanic apparatus
made by Messrs Kemp, of the South-bridge, was on Fri-
nay last again successfully asplied to the simultaneous
ignition of a number of shots for the purpose of disinte-
grating a large mass of stone in the quarry of Rosyth
Castle, about two miles above the Queensferry. The shots
were arranged in a line along a ledge of rock 70 feet long,
9 feet broad, and between 7 and 8 feet thick. Being loaded
with moderate charges of gunpowder, and connected by
the conducting wires with a large and powerful galvanic
battery, and all the other preliminary preparations effected,
immediately on completing the galvanic circle, 11 shots,
which had been charged with about 351 b. of gunpowder,
were instantaneously fired, and so great was the concen-
trated power of the simultaneous explosions, that the
whole mass in front of the bores was instantly separated
from contiguous rock ; the separated portion containing a
mass of not less than 3,780 cubic feet of stone, and weigh-
ing upwards of 260 tons.—Edinburgh Witness.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE ON LONDON BRIDGE.--OD
Thursday afternoon a most desperate attempt at suicide
was made at London-bridge, by a soldier belonging for-
merly to the Royal Artillery. He precipitated himself
head foremost from the parapet. In his descent he came
with his breast first against the buttress of the bridge, and
fell into the water, nearly into a boat which was passing
at the time, in which was a custom-house officer. The
soldier rose to the surface, and was immediately seized by
the person in the boat, and brought ashore. He was
taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, when lie was able to
state that his name was John O'Brien, and that he for-
merly belonged to the 7th battalion of the Royal Artil-
lery, but that ten days since he was discharged for mis-
conduct. He was immediately examined by the surgeon,
who discovered that his breast-bone was broken, and that
his face was greatly contused. On Thursday evening he
was in a state of delirium, and was not expected to live
through the night.

WHAT Is THE. END OF CORN-LAW AGITATION.—The
following very happy exposition of the fraudulent fallacies
of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers, was lately made by a
noble lord at an agricultural meeting in Suffolk—Lord
Rendlesharn—who so justly represents one of the divisions
of that county. His remarks were to this effect :—" I
cannot for the life of me understand to what end the corn
law agitation is directed. Is it to raise the price of corn, or
is it to reduce it ? If it be the object to raise the price of
corn, where is the gain to the manufacturer? If it be the
object to reduce the price, why tell the farmers that free
trade will undoubtedly give them a higher price for their
corn, and their labourers better wages? If the price of
corn be raised upon one class, it must clearly be raised
upon all. How are the labourers to gain except at the
expense of the farmers, and how are the farmers to gain
at the cost of the community ; and how are manufacturers
to gain and thing by a free trade in corn, if the effect of
such change is to benefit the farmer and to raise the price
of corn !"

JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AN PACIFIC OCEANS.
—The contract entered into by the Barings, of London,
with the republic of New Grenada, for the construction of
a ship canal across the isthmus of Darien, provides for
ceding to the company the line for the projected work,
with 80,000 acres of land interior. These princely mer-
chants do not appear in this transaction as the agents of
the British government officially ; but they are British
subjects, protected by the government, and, doubtless,
many important advantages will be secured to Great Bri-
tain, both political and commercial, by the completion of
the vast work here projected. The completion of a ship
canal between the two oceans thus projected will mark an
era in the world's age. The event will stand forth to give
a distinctive character to the century. It is to be a five
years' work to endure for ever. The wh-'.e aspect of com-
merce will be changed by it. It will accelerate the revo-
lution now going on in China more rapidly and more
thorougly than all the force of British armament, and not
there only will it work changes, but in all Polynesia and
Australasia, and the western coasts of South America,
which are uow reached by doubling Cape Horn.—Balti-
more paper.

DREADFUL CALAMITY.—CROMER, OCT. 11.—This
morning, at about one o'clock, a gale suddenly rose, and
at two it increased to a perfect hurricane. In the after-
noon of yesterday, as the weather was exceedingly fine
and calm, a number of fishing boats, each containing a
crew of four or five men, left Cromer in search of fish,
and, as the elements were highly favourable, there is no
doubt they went off to a gre.t distance, for in such cases
they often push their voyage to an extent of forty or fifty
miles. Many of these boats are open and undecked, and
not more than twenty feet long, and the largest afford but
very slight protection against the weather or other casu-
alties. This morning none of the number that went out
were in sight, and, up to the present hour, two o'clock,
p.m., nothing has been seen or heard of them. There is
one melancholy exception—a boat which contained five
men has been washed ashore at Backton. near Minsley ;
one body only has been found, and there is not the least
doubt but that the whole crew have found a watery grave.
One poor fellow has left a wife and six children. It is
difficult to ascertain the number of boats absent, but it is
commonly said about twelve or fourteen. Their fate is,
of course, doubtful, but very serious apprehensions are
entertained on account of them. Some vessels are in
sight, and one, apparently a large brig, has a signal of
distress (a flag in her main rigging) flying. Messengers
are sent out along the coast, and it is feared dreadful ac-
counts will be brought in in the morning. A vessel, the
Friendship, from Goole, laden with chalk, has also come
ashore at the same place, with a smaller kind of craft
called a billybuoy, which was run ashore, and the mate, a
Cromer man, lost his life.

PRINCE ALBERT'S FARM.—Some two or three years
since the Prince Consort purchased of the executors of
his late Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester an im-
mense tract of land, extending over several thousands of
acres, consisting principally of heath land, in the immediate
vicinity of Bagshot, with a farm attached, known as the
Rapley Farm. Upon this extensive property it is the in-
tention of his Royal Highness to try the experiment of
breeding and rearing the blackcock, or cock of the woods,
which is extremely plentiful in various parts of Scotland.
The splendid live birds which were forwarded to the
Prince as a present from the Duke of Hamilton about two
months ago have been sent to his Royal Highness's do-
mains at Bagshot, where there is every probability that
the experiment of rearing and breeding them will be as
successful as can be desired. The blackcocks which were
presented to the Prince were bred by the Duke of Hamil-
ton upon his Grace's estate in the Isle of Arrac, in the
Frith of Clyde. On Monday afternoon, immediately after
luncheon, her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle
in a carriage and four for Swinley, about three miles from
Bagshot, where the saddle horses had been previously
sent from Windsor, and the Queen and the Prince pro-
ceeded from thence to Rapley on horseback, and rode over
a considerable portion of his Royal Highness's property.
The game was found to be extremely abundant, especially
hares, not a gun having been fired on the Prince's estate
during the season. Her Majesty and the Prince returned
to Swinley, and from thence to the Castle in the royal
carriage and four. It is the intention of Prince Albert
to inclose and cultivate a considerable portion of his large
property in the neighbourhood of Bagshot.
Two INFANTS DRUGGED TO DEATH BY A SERVANT.
—On Saturday evening last, a young mother was deprived
of two young-children by the culpable, and indeed crimi-
nal, conduct of a servant. Tie facts are shortly these :
Mrs. Rogers, of Bangor-street, Carnarvon, wife of Mr.
Rogers. commercial traveller, being engaged in the shop,
had entrusted her two female infant children, one eighteen,
and the other four months old, to her two female domes-
tics, and, in the course of the night was much alarmed by
one of them being in strong convulsions, and the other
in a dying state. Medical aid was called in, and the ser-
vants subjected to a rigid examination, when one of them
named Ellen Griffith, in whose charge the children were
more immediately placed, stated that she had given to
them a small portion of gin, in order to make them sleep,
and that was all the explanation that could be extorted
from her. In the course of the night both the children
died. On an investigation before the Coroner, it turned
out that the girl Griffith, in order to keep the children
quiet, had given them nearly a pennyworth of laudanum,
which she had purchased of a druggist. The .jury re-
turned a verdict of manslaughter agatnst Ellen Griffith
and she was committed to the county gaol to take her trial
at the next assizes. Circumstances have transpired, in
connection with this event, to establish that the practice
of servantA drugging infants committted to their charge,
prevails to a very great extent in Carnarvon, and the
neighbourhood, and particularly on Saturday nights, the
usual time for courting, according to the custom of the
country. One druggist made the degrading confession,
that he generally dispensed laudanum to fifty or sixty ser.
'mit girls on a Saturday night.

LEICESTERSHIRE.—SIIEARSLEY MURDER—it will be
in the recollection of our readers that a person named Mes-
senger, hitherto residing at this place, and moving in a

,ossessed of
trial at the

that the body was not discovered until the reaping o

the corn was let to some Irishmen, who, going over it,
found the head of a man dreadfully mangled, and the
body in a ditch about three yards otT. Several petitions
for bail having been forwarded to the II ome-effice, the
magistrates assembled in quarter-sessions on Tuesday last,

received a communication; therefrom, authoriziot,
accept bail to the amount of £2,ooo—viz., the prisoner
himself in £l,OOO, and four sureties in £250 each, with
24 hours' notice.

them to

STRANGE DISCOVERY.—A short time ago two human
skeletons were found by persons engrged in digging the
foundations of some houses in Gallowsacre.lane, Clifton,
and consigned to the custody of a medical gentleman.
Conjecture was busy as to who the parties could have