The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

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The number of barrels of beer exported in 1847 amounted
to 132,357, against 137,270 in 1846, and 165,152 in 1845.
Four thousand juvenile paupers from the different unions
in Ireland, and ten thousand from England, are to be sent
to Australia this year. •
.

One of the new German papers gravely states, that the
original object of the Alien Bill was to deport Lord
Brougham on his becoming a citizen of France.
General Cooke, second in command of the United States
army in the recent Mexican war, arrived at Cheltenham
last week. The gallant general is a native of Gloucester.
A vessel which has arrived in London from Singapore,
has brought 4,966 blocks, and 415 packages of gutta
percha. . . . _ _

A SIGN OF DEPRESSION.—The Bristol Mzrror of
Saturday says, `• A birds nest was this week found snugly
built in one of the cranes on our quays !"
The paper mills at Ipswich, employing two hundred
hands, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at £20,000.

In a London establishment employing a hundred men,
the annual loss from their wasting Monday in drinking is
110 less than £1,820. _ _

HONOUR FOR BATH !-A Bath paper " understands"
that " Lola Montes" received her education at the school
of the late Miss Aldridge, in that city.
At Hull, last week, a child three years old, having a
piece of burning wood in her hand, set fire to the frock of
a little girl who was employed cleaning a grate. The
latter was so severely burned that she died in a few hours.

" The Queen's drive," at Edinburgh, has at length been
completed. It measures nearly three miles and a half,
and encircles the romantic and beautiful localities of
Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs.
Lady Mary Murray, wife of Sir James Murray, has be-
queathed to Middlesex Hospital the sum of £lO,OOO for
the purpose of building and endowing a new ward in the
hospital, to be called the " Murray Ward."
On Friday, a pipe from a boiler on the premises of
Messrs. Dakin and Co., tea-dealers, St. Paul's Church-
yard, London, exploded, and Mr. Dakin was struck vio-
lently on the forehead and immediately killed.
It may be mentioned as a fact worthy record, that from
£12,000 to £13,000 in gold are transmitted weekly to Hol-
land, Frizeland chiefly, in payment for cattle, butter, and
other provisions.
EMIGRATION.—The numbers who embarked in Eu rope
in 1847 for Canada was 98,006—viz., from England, 32,228;
from Ireland, 54,329 ; from Scotland, 3752 ; and from
Germany, 7697. Of the whole number, 91,882 were
steerage passengers.
The clerical committee appointed to adopt measures res-
pecting burials in cities and towns, has nominated twenty
clergymen and twenty laymen from among whom Lord
Morpeth is to appoint a committee for the purpose of
finally suppressing burials in cities and towns.
CURIOUS BUT TRUE.—Near the brick kilns, called
Pen iston's, on the Salisbury and Bishopstoke line, a lark
is now sitting very composedly on three eggs, exactly
under one of the metals over which a train Passes every
hour.

The Highland Destitution Board have forwarded to the
poorer districts of the Highlands, for cultivation, cabbage
plants, 445,000; green plants, 445,000 ! early turnip c,ed,
4,400 ounces ; late turnip seed, 8,800 ounces ; S., „
turnip seed, 8,800 ounces; carrot seed, 4,400 ounc,2-.
LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE.—A young farmer at -
don, a few days since lent a female fortune-teller w
rule the planets in order to tell his fortune. The won-
has
never been seen since, and the farmer " curses
stars" daily.
The Lancaster Guardian says that the Lords of the Ad-
miralty have given their consent to the construction of an
embankment from the Cartmel side of the Ulverston Sands
to the Back Scarrs, a distance of about three quarters of a
mile.

Mr. Feargus O'Connor, in a speech at Nottingham, on
Easter Monday. said, " He had created the mind—he had
ordered the mind—and to him must be left, in a great
measure, the future direction o f the mind—of the working
classes."

The Gateshead Observer says that a young gentleman
residing in London travels to Newcastle every Saturday,
in order to visit the fair one whose bewitching charms
have enslaved his heart, and returns to London in time
for business on Monday.

The widow of Shirley, the murdered gamekeepei at
Raby Castle, has lately given birth to a posthumous sou,'
at Raby, and the Duke of Cleveland has conferred upon
her an ample annuity, and undertaken to attend to the
interests of her three children.

A treasury warrant, published in the Gazette modifies
the regulations • respecting books and pamphlets sent by
post, in so far that henceforth the senders are allowed to
write on any leaf of any book, or on the binding thereof,
provided that all the writing be on the same page of the
book, or corresponding portion of the binding.
The Times, in recommending emigration under govern-
ment auspices, says, " Six weeks and as many pounds
suffice to plant the poor peasant where neither title-deeds,
nor mortgages, nor judgment-bonds, nor county cess,
nor standing water, shall interfere with his axe or his
spade."
- As the Rev. E. D. Tinling, inspector of schools for the
western countries. was driving a small four-wheel carriage
containing his wife and a servant through the streets
of Exeter, the horse became restive and upset the vehicle,
when the whole party were thrown out, and Mrs. Tinling
was so much injured that her life is in great danger.
At the Llanerchymedd petty sessions, last week, before
the Hon. W. C. Stanley, Agnes Williams, an old woman
aged 84, preferred a charge of assault against two persons.
She was attended by her father, a man of 106 years of age,
who called the old dame his " girl," and said she should
not be put upon.
There are now in England alone 260 mechanics' insti-
tutions in active operation, besides about 400 which were
in abeyance on account of the state of trade in some dis
tricts . In these 260 institutions the average number of
members is 2221, and the total number of persons recei-
ving education from them being 58,109. There are also
about fifty smaller institutions, furnishing lectures and
libraries, averaging 150 members each ; the total number
altogether being 65,609.
DECAY OF DISSENTING COLLEGES.--A plan is in agi-
tation for consolidating Coward, Homerton, Cheshunt,
and Highbury Colleges. The proposal reveals various
facts connected with these institutions, to wit, that the in-
struction imparted in them is found inefficient ; that it is
too expensive, amounting to £lOO per annum for each
student; that the number of students in all the four col-•
leges together does not much exceed sixty ; and that they
were all four in debt, while the subscriptions for their sup-
port are falling off.

THE SIBTHOEP Aratsuouszs.—The range of Bede
houses erected at the expense of the Reverend Richard
Waldo Sibthorp, near Lincoln, is now completed, and
ready for the reception of 14 inmates, who, it is stated,
will have £2 each given them on entrance, and afterwards
ss. per week, with two tons of coal and a new cloak every
year.
THE SCOTCH EGG TRADE.—Considerably more than
3,500 dozen, or 42,000 eggs, were shipped here on Tues-
day per steamer. It is now an undoubted fact that more
money is at present annually brought into this country by
the exportation of eggs than the entire rental of the coun-
try amounted to considerably less than 100 years ago.
John 0' Groat's Journal.

Trade in Barnard Castle is deplorable, and there is no
sign of improvement. To meet the emergency the Poor-
law Commissioners have granted the guardians of the
Teesdale Union an out-door labour order. Already up-
wards of seventy able-bodied men, many of them with
large families, have applied for employment under the
order, and several have been set to work.
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On Saturday,:the roof of a thrashing mill on the farm of
Rodenlaw, near Edinburgh. was discovered to be on fire,
and before the flames could be extinguished a considerable
portion of the farm buildings was destroyed. The confla-
gration is thought to have been caused by a spark from a
locomotive engine on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway,
being carried by the wind to the roof, which was thatched
with straw.

A dreadful accident has lately occurred at Hever, Kent.
A person of the name of Dawes, who was in a barn with a
gun, where a person was thrashing, was told to shoot at
a rat ; and it appears, that in pulling the gun over the
back, or rack, by the muzzle, the piece by some means
went off, and the whole contents of the charge were
lodged in his body. The poor sufferer expired in about an
hour after the accident.

On Monday week, an unfortunate man, who was well
known to the metropolitan police as an amateur thief-
taker, was brought up before Mr. Hall for assaulting his
wife, and fined 405., or in default committed for a month.
The unfortunate man, who had only a few days before
been sworn in a special constable, committed suicide in
his cell by fastening his handkerchief through the air en-
trance over the door. He was, after a very short time,
discovered by Mr. Tyrrell, the gaoler, quite dead.
Some London thieves have lately profitably practised a
novel fraud, by dressing themselves in leathern aprons,
calling at the houses of gentlemen whom they have seen
leave home, and saying that they have been ordered to
fetch a pair of boots to be stretched. The unsuspecting
servants choose the newest boots, as the most likely to
need stretching; and the masters find, on their return
home that during their absence their best boots have
vanished for ever.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A young man, 20 years of age,
attempted to destroy himself by firing a loaded pistol at
his breast, in the Portugal Hotel Tap, Fleet-street, Lon-
don. He had had a quarrel with his brother, who had
requested an officer to take him into custody, for using
threats towards him. The moment he observed the, officers
he discharged a pistol at his left silk, but the bullet had
passed throught his waistcoat and eirt, and only grazed
his skin. He was taken before a magistrate and com-
mitted to prison.
A gentleman, from Sunderland, on a piscatory visit to
the Coquet, commenced fishing, a few days ago, a little
below the Thrum Mill, Rothbury, and, in one hour and
forty-one minutes, killed, with fly, twelve dozen and
seven trouts, and three salmon trouts, averaging in weight
one pound eleven ounces each, and twelve of the trouts
weighed twenty-one pounds three ounces. Angling in
the northern streams has been excellent during the whole
of the past month, large quantities of fish, in most ex-
cellent condition, having been taken daily.
£6,000 BANK ROBBERY AT BRlGG.—lnformation has
been received of the absconding of Mr. Thomas Silvester,
the manager of the Brigg Branch of the Lincoln and Lind-
sey Bank, taking with him upwards of £6,000 in gold,
Bank of England notes, and country bank notes payable
in London. On leaving Brigg he stated that he was go-
ing to see a friend in a neighboaring village of Thoresway,
but he is suspected to have gone direct to one of the
principal shipping ports, and to have left the country.
The bank holds security for the greater part of the
mount abstracted.—Hull Herald.
SHOWING TEMPER TOO SOON.—A couple who intended
to be married went to a church not a hundred miles from
Spalding, and the clergyman not arriving quite so early as
they expected, the intended bride asked her loving spouse
" what o'clock it was ?" when he roughly and loudly an-
swered, " What is that to you ?" "Oh ! indeed, sir !"
said she, " is it so ? what will it be by-and-by ?" and im-
mediately left him. At the door she met the clergyman,
and told him "he need not give himself any further
trouble, for she would not be married."—Cheltenham
Chronicle.

A HINT FOR THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—The
British Banner, a " most respectable " organ of Dissent,
lately established, in commenting on the recent refusal of
the Vestry of St. Luke's parish to continue the payment
of the organist and other " Church allowances," thus ex-
presses the " fraternal " feelings of Dissenters towards the
Church :—" There is something in the system of Church-
manship that blinds the mind and sears the conscience,
rendering its subjects alike indifferent to justice, and in-
sensible to shame ! Happy they who have not partaken
of its sins and are not stricken with its plagues !
" LIVE AND LET LlVE."—Last week, a lady in Hull,
not a mile from Christ Church, sent for a painter to paint
the inside of her room window. In doing this he con-
trived to break the window cord. A joiner was then sent
for to replace it, but the said joiner, during the operation,
broke two squares of glass. The glazier was then sent for,
and while he was putting in the squares actually broke the
window frame. Of course the joiner's services were again
required, who then made a finish of the JOD. Now,
although this may appear at first sight like a string of
coincidences, still, when we call to mind the events of the
rate French revolution, it strikes us forcibly that the work-
men in England, as well as in France, must be imbibing
the principles of fraternity.—Hull Packet.
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SINGULAR CASE OF SWALLOWING A NEEDLE.—SOMe
time in September last, Mr, James Harker, of Kendal,
upon a visit to London, while partaking of some boiled
chicken at dinner, felt a pricking sensation in his throat,
which he could only account for by supposing that he had
just swallowed a small bone of some kind, or a fragment
of one. The obstruction appeared at first to remain where
it had fixed, and for some time Mr. Harker felt inconve-
nienced by it, but at length the matter was forgotten.
About a week or two ago, however, the circumstance was
recalled in a very singular manner, by a needle, nearly
two inches long, making its way out of the flesh of his
thigh, whither it had worked itself during the eight months
that had elapsed since the accident above related, when,
of course, the dangerous little implement had been uncon-
sciously swallowed by Mr. Harken—Westmoreland Gaz.
THE " PIKE " TRADE IN BRADFORD.—The pike trade
is brisker than the worsted trade with us in Bradford. A
specimen of what Mr. Mitchell calls the " queen of wea-
pons " was brought to our office the other day, the work-
manship of one Isaac Jevison, of Adelaide-street, Man-
chester-road, who. it seems, drives a roaring trade in this
line at present. Jevison at first took to the trade stealth-
ily, as if he had been engaged in some contraband trade,
but now he is less guarded, and has two men constantly
employed in the manufacture. He suits all sorts of cus-
tomers,—he has pikes for the lower, middle, and upper
classes of pike-fanciers, serving them out respectively at
6d., 12d., and 18d. each, according to quality. Pretty ex-
tensive consignments have been made from his armoury
within the last few weeks, to various parts of the town
and neighbourhood. So it would appear that the demand
for this offensive weapon is pretty extensive, among cer-
tain portions of the working classes.—Bradford Observer.

'THE TRIAL OF THE GLASGOW RIOTERS.—On Wednes-
day the exculpatory proofs were proceeded with, after which
Lord Medwyn summed up the evidence at great length.
The jury then retired, and after an absence of about three
quarters of an hour returned a verdict finding all the
panels guilty of mobbing and rioting as libelled. Lord
Medwyn intimated that the Court would delay sentence
until a later period of the assizes. On Thursday the
.'ourt resumed its sittings, when James Campbell, John
Gallater, John Lafferty, David Dears Muir, and John
Docherty were brought up on a similar charge as in the
preceding case. They pleaded " Not Guilty."' The evi-
dence against the accused was of the same character as in
the former indictment; the exculpatory evidence was to
the generally good character of the accused. Lord Mac-
kenzie summed up at great length • and the jury, after
having retired for an hour and a half, returned a unanim-
ous verdict, finding Campbell, Gallater, and Rafferty
guilty of mobbing and rioting ; Muir and Docherty guilty
in terms of their own confession, but recommending Muir
to the mercy of the court. Sentence was delayed. Dur-
ing the sitting of the Court on Friday, the rioters received
their sentences—one to 18 years' transportation, 3 to ten
years, and 5 to two years' imprisonment.
- GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The fifth
anniversary festival was held on Wednesday evening at
the London Tavern. The society had been founded in
1843. Its objects are to provide temporary assistance to
governesses in distress ; to afford annuities to aged go-
vernesses, by election, out of a fund provided for that
purpose; the establishment of a provident fund, for the
purchase of annuities upon government security ; the pro-
vision of a home for governesses in the intervals between
their engagements; the establishment of a system of re-
gistration free of expense, and of a college for governesses
with classes and certificates of qualification ; and lastly. to
afford them the benefits of the asylum. It was stated
that the ladies' committee had during the past year inves-
tigated 1,719 applications for temporary relief, and bad
made grants to the amount of £2,245. The amount of
stock invested for the purchase of election annuities was
upwards of £14,000, securing annuities for ever for twenty
governesses. Nearly four hundred ladies had contracted
for provident annuities, and had thus been enabled to in-
vest safely upwards of £33,000. A house had been pur-
chased and furnished in Harley-street, where in the last
two years 200 governesses had found a temporary home.
About 2,500 governesses bad been registered there since
the branch had been commenced in 1845, and 1,250 pro-
vided with situations without any charge. The asylum
was to be erected immediately. The college bore Her
Majesty's name, and enrolled amongst its professors some
of the most distinguished men in the literary world.
Many certificates had already been given after examina-
tion, and classes would shortly be commenced on all the
subjects of female education. It was announced that a
fancy fair would be held on the 6th and 7th of June next,
on behalf of the building and endowment fund of the aged
asylum, in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
A-SEVERE ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM CURED BY HOL-
LOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mrs. Baillie a vinter,
at Oban, had suffered during the last tw. - w fre-
quent attacks of rheumatism, whi • • t her in a state of
great debility ; in April last th • . :ins were most excruciat-
ing, neither medicine or . • .ical aid afforded any relief
until she used Hollowa '. 'ills and Ointment, when these
valuable remedies i . short time restored her to perfect
.health and stre . Holloway's Ointment and Pills are
efficacious i • ses of gout, contracted or stiff joints, glan-
dular s . 'rigs, tumours and unnatural enlargements ;
they • perseverance may be always used with the most
complete success.

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO JOHN PEILE, ESQ.—The
subscription lately entered into in Whitehaven by the
friends of John Peile, Esq., for the purpose of presenting
that highly respectable gentleman with a piece of plate, as
a testimony of respect and esteem,-on his, retiring from
the important office of chief colliery agent to the Earl of
Lonsdale, was closed some time ago, since which the
amount has been expended by the committee, agreeably
to the original intention of the promoters of the measure,
in the purchase of a splendid service of plate. Upon the
occasion of presenting this testimonial of respect, a few
days ago, Mr. Peile was invited to meet the subscribers at
dinner, at the Black Lion Hotel, Whitehaven. The
company assembled was very numerous and respectable ;
the Rev. John Jenkins acting as chairman on the occa-
sion, and Richard Armitstead, Esq., officiating as vice.
The Rev. Chairman, at the close of an excellent address,
presented the plate (value £350) to Mr. Peile, a compli-
ment which that gentleman acknowledged in appropriate
terms. The Rev. Dr. Peile, master of Repton School
(and formerly of the Royal Institution, in this town), the
highly accomplished son of Mr. Peile, and other gentle-
men, addressed the company in the course of the after-
dinner proceedings, which were agreeably prolonged until
a somewhat late hour.

FEARGUS O'CONNOR AND THE CHARTIST LEADERS.-
We perceive by a report of the proceedings of the
National Convention that some of the delegates are
falling foul of Mr. O'Connor. The latter had, however,
first fallen very foul of some of them. In the Northern
Star of the 22nd ult.. he warned the Chartists that their
National Assembly was illegal, adding,—" I bore, and
without a murmur, the indiscretion and the folly of some
members of the late convention, and my reward was the
payment of £l5O towards the payment of their expenses.
Will you just imagine men getting up at public meetings
in London, and announcing that they were prepared for
battle ! You remember how Parson Stevens was pre-
pared ; how Peter Bussey was prepared ; and you know
what has become of these valiant heroes."—ln the Star
of the 29th ult. Mr. O'Connor defended the use of this
language, declaring,—" I hold the man in utter contempt
who was capable of holding one language in the conven-
tion, and another language out of the convention ; and
what will you say to a delegate of that convention, after
having elicited the boundless cheers of an excited audi-
ence by an exciting speech, saying to another delegate of
that convention, on their way home,—` DID YOU HEAR
THE D-D FOOLS HOW THEY CHEERED ME ?7 " The
capitals are Mr. O'Connor's. We place these extracts
before our readers as explanatory of the cause for which,
as one of the speakers at the convention said, Mr. O'Con-
nor is to be " hurled to death, so that he should neN er be
able to show his face among the people again." The
quarrel is " a very pretty quarrel " as it stands.
BILL SWINDLING.—An application was made at Lam-
beth, on Wednesday, by the Superintendent of the
Camberwell division of police. to Mr. Ellis, for his advice
as to the best means of bringing to justice a set of bill
swindlers residing in Villa street, Albany-road, in his
district. The first application made to the Superintend-
ent was by a tradesman in Greenock, who was in want of
£2OO, and to whom the sharpers under the name of
" J. H. Taylor and C 0.," had, after the receipt of a post-
office order for £lO commission, sent two bills of ex-
change, the one for £l2l 165., and the other for £B3 4s.
Both bills purported to be drawn by J. H. Keith, Brigh-
ton, and accepted by Thomas Butcher, commission-agent,
Camberwell New-road, and made payable at the Com-
mercial Bank of London. The bills were discounted by
the Western Banking Company, and some days before
they became due, the tradesman at Greenock forwarded
to the firm four notes for £5O each, and one for £5. A
receipt for the money came to hand, but a post or two
after brought another letter from Messrs. J. and H. Tay-
lor expressing their regret, owing to a gross mistake by
one of their clerks, his money had been taken for another
person's bill, but declaring that as soon as they were in
funds they should release his bills, which at that time
remained protested in the hands f the banker. The
Western Banking Company became urgent for the
payment of the bills, and the Greenock tradesman was
compelled to settle with the firm. The next communica-
tion which the Superintendent mentioned was from a
tradesman in Newry, who, being more cautious, escaped
unhurt. The inspector produced a lithographic circular
from the parties, signed J. C. Hall and Co., offering to
remit for a commission of 5 per cent. bills to the amount
of £5OO and upwards, drawn and endorsed by one or two
respectable parties, and to take saleable goods at a fair
F market price for a commission when bills to the amount
of £5OO were requested. Several most respectable bills,
in amount from £5O to £550, at three, four, and six
months' date, accepted by merchants and endorsed by
several parties, were stated to be on hand ready for nego-
tiation. The Superintendent had found out a house in
Villa-street, Albany-road, Camberwell, to which a num-
ber of letters were directed through the Post-office, to
Taylor and Co. Anderson and Co., Hill and Co., Mackay
and Co., and D. D. and Co., and taken in there. The
door was always attended by a female, who said they
resided there, but were from home at the time; and to a
person calling fifty times a day she gave the same answer.
He had also ascertained that latterly the letters addressed
to this house were taken to No. 3, Wilmot-place, Old
Kent-road, which was occupied by a Capt. Rutledge, who
was well known in the neighbourhood as a bill discounter.
Mr. Elliott directed the officer not to lose sight of the
matter, but to follow up his inquiries ; and in the mean-
time, the publicity which the disclosure now made would
obtain, would have the good effect of placing the public
upon their guard.