The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

enteral liflisrellany.

Up to Friday no rain had fallen in the neighbourhood
of Leeds. _ _

Wm. Tomkins was on Thursday convicted at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court of the murder of Maria Eddor on the
15th of April last, and sentenced to death.
Bets have been offered in London that the price of
wheat will range below 30s. per quarter by November
next.

At Haverhill, Suffolk, Hannah Bowyer has been com-
mitted for trial, charged with the murder of her illegiti-
mate child, aged two and a half years, by administering
poison.
An explosion of fire-damp took place on Wednesday,
at the coal-pits of Messrs. John Russell and Co., Rises,
Newport, SouthtWales. Three persons lost their lives,
and several others were seriously injured.
During the thunder storm at Worcester, a few days
since, an oak of considerable dimensions was struck by
the lightning, and the branches were all cut from the
trunk, which was shivered to shreds in a singular manner.
Last week, an unanimous determination in favour of
early closing was arrived at amongst the metropolitan
ironmongers, to terminate business at seven o'clock in the
evening.
Saxton, a lacemaker of Nottingham, has been killed by
a very simple accident. As he stood talking in one of the
streets at night, a man ran against him ; Saxton fell, his
head struck the ground, and the concussion proved fatal.
On Sunday week three lads left Scarborough in an open
boat, and have not yet been heard of. It is most proba-
ble that the boat upset, and that the unfortunate lads have
been drowned.
At the sale of the pictures of the late Mr. Wells, in
London. on Friday, Wilkie's celebrated picture, Distrain-
ing for Rent, was purchased by Mr. W. Wells, nephew
of the deceased, for 1,050 guineas. The Duke of Cleve-
land had nearly obtained it for 1,000 guineas.
Lieut.-General Sir C. Napier landed on Tuesday at
Portsmouth, from India. He was received with all due
honour by the mayor, corporation, and inhabitants of the
town, the band of the 17th regiment playing, " See the
conquering hero comes."
The committee for getting up a " Public Order Memo-
rial," in commemoration of the 10th April, have deter-
mined to abandon the design, and, after the expenses
have been defrayed, the subscriptions (including £lOOO
from her Majesty and the Royal Family) will be returned.
A QUERY.—Mr. Feargus O'Connor's Land Allotment
Society now numbers 100,000 heads of families. Out of
all this number some one hundred and sixty have found a
refuge on the O'Connor estates in four or five years.
' Query—How long will it take him to " locate" the re-
maining 99,840 ?
THE CONVICTS ANNETTE MEYERS AND MARY ANN
HUNT.—These criminals, who have so long been confined
under sentence of death in Newgate, were yesterday re-
moved to Tothill Fields prison, where they are to under-
go: two years' imprisonment, and then to be transported
fcir life.

On Wednesday, a terrific thunder storm occurred at
Whittlesea, and the spire of the church was struck. The
south-west pinnacle was rent from top to bottom, and
must be taken down, and it is feared that the spire will
have sustained extensive damage. The spire was one of
the handsomest in England.
On Thursday, at the Glasgow High Court of Justiciary,
David Gibson, a doctor of medicine, was tried for culpable
homicide, in granting a false certificate as to the state of
health of a prisoner. He was found not guilty, and the
verdict was received with marks of satisfaction by all
present, and Dr. Gibson was highly congratulated.
The stupendous works of the new steam-basin at Ports-
mouth, having been completed, the Admiralty have de-
cided upon a formal opening of this great national under-
taking on the 25th instant. It is confidently expected
that her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
will honour the ceremony with this presence.
In the rough plate glass manufacture, an improvement
or simplification has been patented by Mr. Jas. Hartley,
of Sunderland, viz.,—the transfer of the molten " metal"
by ladling directly from the melting-pot to the table,
without the use of a cistern or a second heating. The
plates so made are then annealed by piling, as for crown
and sheet glass, and not with the usual costly furnaces.
It is reported that the Bank of England is now in pos-
session, through the sheriff of the county of Glamorgan,
of all the property at Cwmavon copper-works, which they
hold for a debt of upwards of £276,000. All the men in
the governor and company's employ in their copper-works
at Landore, near Swansea, have been discharged.—
Welshman.
A trifle, called The Fast Man, by Mr. Albert Smith,
was produced at the Lyceum, on Thursday. It was an
attempt to represent the reckless, disreputable shifts of a
London scamp, " a fast man," contrasted with the habits
of his friend, a person of an opposite description. These
personages, Jack Stunner and Simpson Slowcoach, were
acted by Buckstone and C. Mathews.
A most respectable body of London merchants, bankers,
and traders,—including the Barings, the Gurneys, the
Hankeys, the Souths, the Hoares, the Robartses, and
other city magnates—has summoned a public meeting, at
the London Tavern for Saturday the 27th instant, " of all
persons desirous of upholding the system of free labc,ur in
the British colonial possessions, and of preventing this
country from becoming, dependent for its supply of sugar
and coffee upon, the extension of cultivation 17/ means of
slavery and tits, slave trade."'

The sale of Mr. John A. Ballantyne's library took place
in Edinburgh, on Saturday. The catalogue included the
proof sheets of several of the " Waverley Novels." The
manuscript of the " Black Dwarf" brought twenty-eight
guineas ; Sir Walter's proofs of his " Life of Napoleon,"
nine volumes, were sold for forty-five guineas ; and twelve
volumes of proof of the " Waverley Novels ". fetched

forty-one guineas.
MRLANCHOLY SIIICIDE.—On Friday week, the inha-
bitants of Hazelbnry Briant were much shocked on being
informed that a lad, named Bellamy, about 14 years of
age, had committed suicide. It appears that the boy's
mother is dead, and that his father is of intemperate
habits, from which circumstances the lad had suffered
many privations. He committed the act by repairing to
a neighbouring orchard, and there suspended himself to

a tree till life became extinct.
META] we IRONING SLIPPER.—An invention of this
description has been lately patented by a Mr. Sloman, of
St. Martin's lane, London. It is made of iron, with a
highly-polished surface, and imparts a beautiful glass to
the articles when ironed : its superiority over every other
plan is undeniable. The most delicate texture cannot be
soiled, neither can the slipper szorch or stick (so prevalent
with the common flat-iron) to any fabric during the pro-
cess of ironing. These advantages cannot fail in recom-
mending it to all those who study the saving of time, la-

bour, and expense.
MARIOLOGY AND THE "MAY MEETINGS."—The last
number of the Tablet suggests to all Catholics—" that it
would be an act of great devotion worthy to observe this
month (May), in honour of the mother of God, that there
may be some attempt at reparation for the outrageous in-
sults to which she is annually liable in the frantic meet-
ings of Exeter Hall. How they" (the protestants) "came
to choose this month for their revels we krow not, whe-

ther by accident or by a special suggestion of the evil one;
but, it is surely our duty to do what we can to counteract
their efforts, by special devotion this month, to the help
of Christians and the Mother of Divine Grace."
ALLEGED FAILURE OF THE GREENLAND FISHERY.—
The Hull Advertiser publishes a letter from Lerwick, an-
nouncing the arrival of the smack Pledge, which brings "k
very discouraging news from the seal fishery. The coun-
try has been full of Bay ice during the whole season, in
which most of the ships were beset, but are liberated :t
again. Twenty sail, all empty, were beset in the ice from
the 9th April to the 20th, in lat. 71 40 N. One Dutch 7?-0,
ship has been lost in Johnny Main, nine of the crew
saved. Strong easterly winds prevailed during the sea-
son.
There was. however, a report of the Commerce hay- g.
inccaught 500 seals, and the Traveller 1000.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—An action Or e.
breach of promise of marriage was tried in the Court of
Common Pleas, on Tuesday. The plaintiff was a spin- :
ster, trading as a milliner, in Camden-town, London,
under the name of Mrs. Black, of about forty years of

age, and the defendant a Mr. Carr, a clerk to the-Eastern
Counties Railway Company. His plea was fraud; that
the lady had inveigled him by false pretences ; that she
had a child living ; and that she had lived a long time as
mistress to a nobleman, the son of a duke. The state-
ment was not denied, and it was further represented that
the fair one had brought an action against the nobleman,
and obtained £3OO as hush money on the day of trial.
The jury benevolently gave damages to the extent of one

farthing.
Or Monday afternoon, between three and four o'clock,
a fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Messrs.
Cook, Sons, and Co., warehousemen, &c., of St. Paul's
Churchyard, London. The premises are of considerable •
magnitude. Owing to the timely assistance of the work- -
men on the premises, however, the damage was confined
to the destruction of 25 cotton dress pieces, some waistcoat
pieces, and the demolition of 18 squares of glass. In
making his return to the Insurance offices, Mr. Braidwood -
gives the following :—" Cause of Fire.—A linen curtain, :
which hung before the top floor back window, took fire at
the open part of the window first. The window faces the _
south, and, being higher than the opposite buildings, is
completely exposed to the sun." The firm is insured in :
eleven of the principal fire offices in London and the

country.
A SISTER'S AFFECTION.—By the Cornwall steamer,
on Tuesday, a young man from Scilly, named William
Mumford, proceeded to Bristol, and it was his intention
to have immediately gone on to London by the train to
which the accident happened at Shrivenham. On Sun-
day, intelligence reached Scilly of what had taken place, -
and a rumour was circulated there that young Mumford
was amongst the wounded. His sister, about 19 years of
age, exhibited the most intense mental suffering, and de
termined upon crossing the water to Penzance, thence to
proceed to the scene of the accident. There being no
pilot boat in the harbour, an open boat, a six-oared gig,
was engaged ; and in the night, did this young lady cross
from Scilly to the Land's End. From Land's End she
proceeded to Penzance, where she was informed that her
brother had arrived safely in London.—Cornwall Gazette.
THUNDER STORM.—On Sunday week, a fearful thunder
storm raged at Bridgnorth, during which the lightning
struck an empty house, and the electricity entered by
the chimney, and after forcing away the skirting boards
in the bed-room, entered that of the house adjoining,
where it carried a bonnet and a bonnet box into another
room, where they were burnt to a cinder. It then de-
scended into the kitchen, and passing between the mother
and a child, entered the clock case, and completely melted
the works. It then ascended the roof, which was com-
posed of slates ; after traversing which it descended on the
outside of the house and struck down three men who were
sheltering under the porch, one of whom, named Bright,
was severely burnt and otherwise injured, his one arm
being sadly bbattered, although the coat eletve le not in
the least injured. The two others are but slightly hurt,
and all are going on well.
THE CORN TRADE.—There are some curious statistics
respecting the corn trade for the last few weeks that would
scarcely have been expected by the public. The duty on
the exportation of foreign wheat has been is. a quarter,
and on other grains In proportion, and next weed will be
at Bs. In spite of this high rate, nearly all the corn and
flour arriving from abroad has been entered for home con-
sumption, although the consignees or owners have the
option of storing it until it could come out on the first of
February free of duty, or until it was required for foreign
consumption. The amount thus received into consump-
tion in England has been more than one hundred thou-
sand quarters a week, whilst no more than five thousand
quarters per week of the supply are placed in the ware-
houses of the several ports of arrival. These large im-
portations have taken place already, although the trade
is not yet fully open from the north.
RELIEF OF THE UNEMPLOYED.—DECISION OF THE

WEST-RIDING MAGISTRATES.—It is with great pleasure
that we are enabled this week to state that the condition
of the unemployed in these manufacturing districts has
recently engaged the earnest attention and obtained the
warm sympathies of the magistrates of the West Riding.
At the Intermediate Sessions for the West Riding held at
the Court House, Bradford, yesterday, the subject was
discussed in the private room of the magistrates. The
discussion was, of course, a private one, but it will be a
sufficient token of its general character for us to state,
that the magistrates came to an unanimous determination
to forward a memorial to her Majesty's ministers, urging
the propriety of some very extended measure of relief,
and also recommending that under the exigency of the
occasion the Poor Law Guardians of each Union should
be empowed to grant Out-door Relief to those whose
partial employment is insufficient to provide them with
the ordinary necessaries of life.—Halifax Guardian.
The supposed perpetrators of the Swansea murder have
been apprehended ; one of them, Thomas Martin, was
apprehended under very remarkable circumstances. The
police, while scouring the country, had their attention di-
rected to a wood by an extraordinary number of crows
hovering round one of the trees, at the same time they
were making an unusual noise. The offices imagined
that probably some one was concealed in the tree, and on
going to ascertain whether such was the case or not, they
found the man concealed in a bosh near the tree. From
the state of his clothes it was quite apparent that he had
been washing them, to remove the marks of blood.
Patrick Leary, Michael Leary, William Norris, and John
Norris, were all apprehended in the neighbourhood of
Cambridge. Patrick Leary, on being identified by a man
the police took along with them, said, " I suppose you
want me ; lam willing to go. lam willing to suffer for
what I have done." The prisoners, upon being searched
at the police station, were found to have marks of blood
upon their clothing.
Mr. Adderley, M.P., the son-in-law of Lord Leigh, has
addressed a letter to the editor of Aris's Birmingham
Gazette, relative to the alleged murder at Stoneleigh Ab-
bey, in which he states that Barnett and other witnesses
examined at Warwick, will be prosecuted fcir perjury ;
and it is now asserted at Kenilworth and the neighbour-
hood of Stoneleigh that Proud and others, said to have
been murdered and buried in the foundationS of the bridge
which crosses the Avon, in the park, will be produced in
propriis personis as witnesses for the prosecution. Proud
is 'said to be living in London. The Birmingham Journal
asserts that the end sought to be gained by bringing for-
ward this foul accusation has reference to the recovery of
a stone, supposed to be built in the abutment of a bridge.
It is asserted that some of the family monuments were re-
moved from Stoneleigh Church, and placed under the
foundation of the bridge, and it is generally believed that
the charge of murder was made to obtain permission
(which, under any other circumstances, would not be
granted) for the destruction of the fabric, and recovery of
the monument, if such ever existed. The bridge alluded
to, under which it is alleged the bodies were deposited, is
over the Avon, and situated on the footway between Ken-
ilworth and Stoneleigh. It will be seen from a paragraph
elsewhere that some important disclosures with reference
to this case were made at our Police-court on Friday.
CHINESE JUNK.—There is not, perhaps, a more inter-
esting exhibition in the vicinity of London than the Chi-
nese Junk, which is now in the East India Docks, having
performed a voyage from China to this country with a
Chinese crew, under the conduct of Captain Kellett. This
voyage, which was by the western route, not a little aston-
ished the crew, who were merely accustomed to river
navigation, and had no notion of losing sight of land. The
junk, with all its equipments, warlike, ornamental, and
religious, with its odd-looking Chinese crew, and with.
Captain Kellett himself, who is ready to explain the mi-
nutest details, is now open to public view. One step
across the planks, and you are in the midst of a Chinese
world—you have quitted the Thames for the vicinity of
Canton. Brilliant colours shine upon the spectator from
every side with all the formless gaiety which is peculiar to
the Chinese Gaudy shields, as weapons of defence, hang
along the deck— and jinjalls, a hybrid race between can-
non and arquebusses, threaten on each side. If you would
take a more concentrated view of Chinese existence. the
grand saloon is fitted, up as a sort of museum, with all
sorts of curiosities ; or you may turn into a neat little cha-
pel containing the idols which those serious Orientals who
lounge about the deck are in the habit of worshiping. To
those who are curious in nsval architecture, the construc-
tion of the vessel, which is on a principle totally different
from that of any European ship, will afford an inexhaus-
tible subject of interest. On the occasion of her Majesty's
visit on Tuesday, China satin, was spreed in every part of
the vessel to receive the foot of Royalty.--Times.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-THIS DAY.
We have had more animation in the Stock Exchange this
morning. There are many good buying orders in the market,
with very little stock to supply them. The subjoined list of
business done shews a slight advance upon yesterday's prices :
—Oswestrys, 7d dis., preference 24 pm. ; Cheshire Junction,
74 dis. • Dover No. 4,2 a dis. ; Greenocks, 15f ; Leeds sths,
dis.; London stock, 133 i; Manchester and Birmingham 4-
shares, 21 pm.; Sheffield preference, pm.; Midland 4-shares,
41- dis., stock 107 i; North Staffords, 2 dis. ; North Union B,
140; Berwick new, 14 pm., preference ; Derby stock, si
Thirsk new, 20; London 4-shares, 2,4 pm.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-THIS DAY.
The entries into this port, during the week ending yesterday,
furnish a moderate supply of Wheat, Oats, and Floor coastwise
and from Ireland, but hale thence of other produce; the only
imports worth naming from abroad comprising 25,958 quarters
of Indian Corn, with 1230 barrels Indian Corn Meal, against
21,844 quarters of the former, and 7249 barrels of the latter ex-
ported within the same time, almost wholly to Ireland.
At our market this morning the Wheat trade fully supported
the prices of Friday, hut the demand was by no means so lively.
Flour was 6d. per sack and fid. per barrel dearer than on this
day week, but the advance was not freely paid.
In Barley and Malt no variation.
Beans and Pease were rather dearer, and in somewhat more
request.
Oats were in moderate request at late prices.
ls. per load dearer.
Indian Corn attracted more attention than any other article
of the trade, and continued to meet an active demand for Ire-
land, at an advance of fully 4s. per qr. upon the rates of this
day week.
Corn Meal obtained 14s. to 14s. 6d. pe barrel.

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PRINCE ALBERT AND THE PRINCE OF WALES CRICK-
ETERS.—It is the intention of her Majesty and her Royal
Consort to have the Prince of Wales initiated in the
arts and mysteries" of the healthful and manly pastime
of cricket, and it may be presumed that in the course of
the season " the sire and the son" will be frequently seen
entering the field " bat in hand," from the fact of 111. r.
Robert Dark, the cricket bat, ball, &c. manufacturer, at
Lord's Cricket Ground, having recently executed orders
by ." royal command." A very handsomely fitted up
rosewood case, containing bats, balls, stumps, india-
rubber gloves, and other " appurtenances " for both
Prince Albert and the young Prince, has been despatched
to Buckingham Palace ; and in the case were also draw-
ings of the five positions at cricket.
RIGHT TO THE SOIL.—" John Noakes" has sent us s
pamphlet touching "The Right of the Aristocracy to the
Soil," in which he comes to the comfortable conclusion
that he has "really as much right to Woburn Abbey and
Russell Square as Francis Russell, commonly called the
Duke of Bedford." But why should John single out the
Duke ? Before he can get a verdict for a rood of ground
he must show his right to Snig's End as well as to Woburn
Abbey—to Feargus O'Connor's farm as well as to Francis
Russell's. It is not the right of " the aristocracy" only,
but of the commonality also, that he must put in issue..
Bill Snooks and the Duke of Bedford hold their land by--
the same right ; and John Noakes only seeks to prejudice
the populace in his favour, when he would make them
believe that •` Russell Square" is more peculiarly in ques-
tion than the estate of the "National Land Company."
We wonder to see the name of a respectable publisher to
so rascally a pamphlet.— Gateshead Observer.
DISTURBANCES IN LElCESTER.—Leicester was the
scene of rather serious disturbances on Monday and Tues-
day. The board of guardians of the poor of the Leices-
ter union issued a notice on Saturday to the effect that on
and after Monday, the 15th inst., the hours of labour in
the workhouse for stone breakers, &c., would be increased
by two hours and a half per day. The men refused to
accede to these terms, and went through the town in a
body to ask alms. At a late hour at night several hun-
dreds of men and a great number of women and children
assembled opposite the relieving-office in Rutland-street,
and became very riotous. They broke down a quantity
of wooden palings, and demolished the windows of the
office, and elsewhere. The Mayor, J. Biggs, Esq., read
the Riot Act, and the borough police force, aided by about
150 pensioners, who were called out about midnight, and
a number of special constables, went to disperse the mob,
and a collision ensued. One policeman, Sergeant Smith,_
was very seriously injured. On the other side, many heads
were broken, and a man named Shipman, a needle-maker
was so much hurt that it was thought for several hours he
could not recover. He was still suffering very severely
from the injuries he received on Wednesday. One woman
was wounded in the back by a pensioner's bayonet. The
disturbances continued with a more or less effect until
Wednesday, when the town was restored to its customary
state,
CHARTIST INTERRUPTIONS.—The recently expressed
determination of the Chartist body to interpose at all
meetings held for the purpose of ameliorating the condi-
tion of the labouring classes, was carried into effect with
some success on Monday, at the Queen's Concert-rooms,
Hanover-square, London. , The meeting to be held was
that of the Church of England self-supporting Village
Society. At the time of meeting about 150 Chartists had
assembled, when the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Radstock, &c.; and a large num-
ber of clergymen and gentlemen assembled, and were in-
formed by the hall-keeper that it would be prudent to
postpone the meeting, as he had heard, upon good autho-
rity, that riotous conduct on the part of the Chartists was
anticipated. The noblemen and gentlemen then retired
to a private room, and after being there some minutes the
leaders of the Chartists present demanded admission, fol-
lowed by about eighty other persons. One was deputed
to ascertain whether they were to be admitted to the
meeting, all being in possession-of tickets procured in the
manner prescribed by advertisement. The Rev. Mr.
Brown said they did not intend to hold the meeting. The
Bishop of Norwich then moved that the meeting should
be postponed, and the suggestion of the right rev. prelate
having been acceded to, several noblemen and gentlemen
retired. The Chartists dropped off one by one; but it
was understood that they were to hold a meeting in the
evening for the purpose, to use their own phraseology,
"of concerting measures for upsetting Prince Albert's
meeting on Thursday." [At a subsequent period some
of the leaders of the mob were brought up at the Marl-
borough-street Police-office, charged with attempting to
force themselves into the meeting, and were required to
give bail for their good behaviour for three months.]