The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

Jan. 80, 1844.

GE\ERAI. NIISCELLAN

The Marquis of Westminster has subscribed £lOO to the
National Education Society.
DEATH OF Mr. HOBLER•—We regret to state that the
venerable Mr. Hobler, who was clerk to the Mansion-
house for 54 years, died on Tuesday, at his residence in
Queen's-row, Pentonville. He was in his 80th year.
Lord John Manners and others, members of the Young
England party, are about to establish a monastery at
Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, where there are the ruins
of an abbey capable of restoration.—Watchman.
The Globe mentions a confident report that the charter
of the Bank of England is about to be renewed by govern-
bent, of which the Times and Morning Herald speak in
terms of discredit.
It appears, from a parliamentary paper, that there is an
increase in the importation of sherry last year of 4,217
butts; the importation being, in 18-12, 25,096 butts, and
in the year just ended, 29,313.
Mr. Messenger, a farmer at Loughborough, who was in
custody some time ago, suspected of the murder of one of
his labourers, named James Garner, has been re-arrested
in consequence of some additional information being re-
ceived by the magistrates.
The intention which the daily papers for a time enter-
tained of raising the price of their journals from sd. to
6d. is abandoned ; the new proprietor of the Morning
Herald, now only an earlier edition of the Standard, was
the recusant party.
INDIA NEws.—On Wednesday a ballot was taken at
the East India House for the election of a director in the
room of William Stanley Clarke, Esq., deceased. At six
o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scru-
tineers, who reported that the election had fallen on Major
James Oliphant.
Mr. Thomas Harper King, an Undergraduate of Exeter
College, Oxford, has joined the Church of Rome. This is
the second member of Exeter College who has turned Ro-
manist within the last six months, and the seventeenth
victim of Mr. Newman's efforts to unprotestantize the
Church of England.

NEW BELLS FOR YORK MINSTER.—In accordance
with the munificent bequest of the late Dr. Beckwith of
York, the Minster Restoration Committee have directed
an eminent bell founder (Mears, of London) to complete
a peal of twelve musical bells ; the tenor bell to be 53 cwt.,
in the grand key of C.
James Hargreave, Esq., of Leeds, has generously for-
warded through the Rev. John Bowers £l,OOO, to aid in
the great and pressing emergency of the Wesleyan Mis-
sionary Society's affairs. This is Mr. Hargreaves second
donation of £l,OOO towards the same object. The same
benevolent individual was a subscriber to the Centenary
fund of £l,OOO.

An extraordinary investigation has been going on before
the Magistrates at Wolverhampton, during the last few
days. relative to a revolting charge brought against one
Caroline Harris, a midwife, who it is alleged has been
keeping a house for the reception of pregnant females
du-
ring the time of their confinement, and that for a pecuni-
ary consideration the children were destroyed by her. The
details of this case are of a horrible nature.

PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—By a parlia-
mentary paper of last session it appears that from the
year 1826 to 1842 there were registered no fewer than 9557
private hanks and 985 joint-stock banks. From 1841 to
1842 the number of the former was 311, and of the latter
118. The Yorkshire District Bank had in January, 1842,
1000 partners, and the Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank 1113, the largest number at the period mentioned.

THE HADDOCK FISHERY.—During the last two or
three months immense quantities of haddocks have been
caught off Peel, and our market during that period has
been daily supplied with unusual quantities of this excel-
lent fish. Within the last fortnight they have greatly in-
creased in size ; and we yesterday saw several in our mar-
ket, which, upon being put into the scale, weighed eight,
nine, and ten pounds each.—Merna's Herald.

ADVANCE OF COLLIERS' WAGES.—On Friday last,
the colliers in the employ of the Earl of Balcarres, re-
turned to their work at an advance of 2s. per score on the
getting of King coal and cannel in the High and Aspull
mines, and is. per score on drifts, 6d. per score on pillars,
and Is. per yard for cutting, at the Arley mines. All the
other colliers in his lordship's employ have, we are in-
formed, received a proportionate advance of wages.
IRON STEAMERS FOR THE NAVY.—The Lords of the
Admiralty have ordered six iron steam-vessels to be built
by contract; they have accepted the tender of Messrs.
Napier, of Glasgow, for three with engines and boilers,
and Ditchbien and Mayer are to construct the like num-
ber with their engines and boilers. The engines are to be
ready and on board by the beginning of August. Nothing
definite is known as to the service for which they are
Intended.

TORN-OUT OF COLLIERS.—The colliers employed at
the Poynton, Worth, and Norbury collieries, near Stock-
Port, turned out for an advance of wages on Saturday
evening last. For some weeks past a spirit of dissatis-
faction had been exhibited amongst them, and considera-
ble less coal than usual had been got, so that the "banks"
were empty. In consequence of this proceeding, several
cotton-mills in Stockport were obliged to stop for coals
on Wednesday.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday afternoon
child, named Joseph Bowden, four years old, sustained
the following shocking accident :—The poor little fellow
had run out of the house, 6, William-street, Lisson-
grove, and began climbing up the wheel of a chaise just
at the moment the horse was started off; the consequence
Was his legs became entangled with the spokes of the
wheel, and before be could be released both legs were
fractured, and he was otherwise much i njure d.— Standard.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—George Wharton, the
oldest man in'Yorkshire, who formerly lived at Laver.
ton, but who for some years has resided at Nlasham
Moor Heads, in th.: North Riding of that county, died
?1:1 Monday last, having attained the patriarchal age of
112 years. Till within a few days of his death he re-
tained the use of most of his faculties, and the vivacity of
his spirits, the rightliness of his person, and the piety
of his mind will be remembered by those who visited
him in his cot.

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PEDESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY.—J. Perry, the
American
walk black, who undertook at Ripon some time ago
to 1250 miles, viz ,1+ miles per hour, fot a thousand
successive hours, comPleted his arduous undertaking on
wfalked a
Tuesday morning last, at nine o'clock. He afterwards
Mile and a quarter extra, accompanied by a band
cl Music. He appeared equally as stout and in as good
feat,
at the completion as at the commencement of the
f!at. No wager was depending, for he left his remunera-
tion to the generosity of the public.
THE TEA TRADE, Jan. 22.—The deliveries of tea last
week rather increased—being 549,7751 b. There have been
Public sales of about 56,000 packages in progress since
this day week, and they terminated to-day. A moderate
proportion only has found buyers, but more sold towards
the close on Friday, viz., 6,300 out of 8,960 packages, and
altogether 28,000 packages have been disposed of. The
inferior qualities of congou have averaged rather lower,
but fine have risen. Green, best sorts, have been at full
rates generally.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—During a violent
thunder-storm, a fishing-boat, belonging to Midyell, in
the Shetland Islands, was struck by lightning. The elec-
tric fluid came down the mast, which it tore into shivers,
and melted a watch in the pocket of a man who was sitting
close by the side of the mast, without injuring him. Not
only was the man altogether unhurt, but his clothes were
also uninjured ; and he was not aware of what had taken
place until on taking out his watch he found it all fused
into one mass.—Jameson's Journal.
GREAT WEALTH.--Within this month have died Mr.
Milnes and Mr. Beswick, of Burnage, about two miles
from Rochdale, who, it is said, have left behind them
above £200,000. The first has bequeathed £150,000, two-
thirds of which goes to a nephew at Wardle, and the re-
mainder to distant relations. Mr. Beswick, whose age
was 91 years, was buried on Thursday last, and is the
person to whom Mr. Fildes, of Rochdale, left £60,000
about three years ago. These fortunes were made under
the corn law system, now so much decried by wealthy
manufacturers.
The agricultural movement is extending and increasing
So fast, that even the Morning Chronicle is obliged to
admit, that "it really appears to get on a little." At
Northampton, on Tuesday, nearly 1800 occupiers of land
met, and a large sum was subscribed in the rooms; which
it. is expected will be made £6OOO for that county alone.
The Duke of Buccleuch, a member of the Cabinet, sent
£lOO. On Wednesday, a meeting of more than 600 agri-
culturists was held at Warwick, and a large subscription
entered into. Mr. Bolton King, formerly the whig can-
didate for Warwick, attended, and gave his support to the
movement.

ANTI-LEAGUE AGITATION.—A meeting was held at
Maidstone on Thursday, for the purpose of forming an
association of the West Kent farmers to resist by all con-
stitutional means the progress of the Anti-Corn Law
League. Lord Strangford, Sir E. Filmer, M.P., Mr. J.
S. Douglas, M.P., Sir J. Croft, Sir E. Dering, and a
large gathering of the gentlemen of the county, with about
200 tenant farmers, were present. Lord Strangford took
the chair. The resolutions, which were of the ordinary
characterwere proposed and received with every token
of enthusiasm, and not less than £6OO was collected in the
room,
LIEUTENANT MUNRO.—An accredited agent on the
Dart of Lieut. Munro has been three or four times at the
Horse Guards, to know the feeling of the Commander-
in-Chief towards his principal, and the answer which he
has invariably received is, that when his present leave of
absence expires, his Grace will consider him as " absent
without leave,"
wither; and remove him from the service alto-
an application for an extended leave of absence
Was met with a blunt refusal. In this dilemma, then,
stands the accused duellist : he will either lose the price
of his commission, the regulation value heir)... £1,600, or
'ave to take his chance of a
trial.—Correspondent of the
Wanapshire Independent.—[Since this it is well known
that Lieut. Munro has been superseded.]
~he supplement to Willich's Tithe Commutation Ta-
°less has just appeared, which gives the annual average
?rices of wheat, barley, and oats in England and Wales
!!otn, 1790 to 1843. From the table thus iven it pers Fait the highest price of wheat during that periodap wasa in
1812, when it ruled at 1265. 6d. per quarter, and that the
lowest price was in 1839, when it ruled at 395. 4d. per
ruarter. The following are the average prices of wheat,
barley, and oats for the last seven years :
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
s. d, s. d. s. d.
55 10 .. 30 4 .. 23 1
64 7 .. 31 5 .. 22 5
70 8 .. 39 6 .. 25 11
66 4 .. 36 5 .. 25 8
64 4 .. 32 10 . • 22 5
57 3 .. 27 6 .. 19 3
50 1 „ 29 6 18 4

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