The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Nisbett has retired from the stage.
DECLINE OF THE DRAM A.—The Gloucester Theatre
is advertised to be let as a warehouse.

Alderman Gibbs was, on Saturday last, chosen Lord
Mayor of London.
Lord Sandon presided at the dinner of the North Staf-
fordshire Agricultural Association, at Stone, on Thursday;
and made an admirable speech.

Mignionette kept from flowering for a year becomes a
shrubby plant and perennial, it is also much more power-
ful as to scent.

DEATH OF A FEMALE OPIUM EATER.—Charlotte
Williams, of Ilorsleydown, died the other day in Guy's
Hospital, from excess of " the insane root."
It is a novel fact, that Newgate does not contain a sin-
gle convict under sentence of transportation. Such a
circumstance has not occurred for a century past.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ROWLAND HILL.—The amount
of subscriptions already advertised amounts to 49,000,
but several returns have not yet been received.

In many extensive districts, says the Times, it is found,
by taking the several villages, that they have not nearly
so many farmers as when the Doomsday Book was com-
piled.

A FREE-CHURCH SHIP.--The Free Church of Scot-
land have just launched a vessel called the Breadalbane,
which is destined to sail throughout the Highland lake
districts as a " moveable church."

Some days back. Mr Mossop, of the Lowdore Inn, at the
head of Keswick Lake, took a hive of bees, from which
he obtained not lfss than five stone weight of excellent
honey Carlisle Patriot.

On Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, a boat with two
young men belonging to the smack Leech, of Cardigan, in
returning over the bar from the bay, at Newport, Pem-
brokeshire, sunk, and both were drowned.
Mr. Sidney, tea merchant, one of the sheriffs elect of
the city of London, was, on Thursday, unanimously elected
Alderman for Billingsgate Ward, in place of Alderman
Brown, who has been appointed City Chamberlain.

THE THREE HUNDREDTH ASCENT OF MR. GREEN.—
On Wednesday evening last, Mr. Charles Green ascended
in his small balloon, the Albion, from the grounds of the
Stepney Gas Works.

The election of a Chief Rabbi of the Jews in England,
in place of the late Dr. liirschell, is expected to take
place this month. Four Continental Chief Rabbis are
candidates.

SUPERSTITION.—At the village of Ombersley. in Wor-
cestershire, last week, it was stated at the inquest on a
child seventeen days old by the mother, that she did not
send for a doctor to see the child, beta woman "charmed"
it. That was all that was done to it.

FOREIGN CATTLE.—The imports since our last have
been by the Leeds, on Friday, 35 head of horned cattle,
and by the Emerald Isle, on Sunday, 64 sheep. By the
Helen M'Gregor, on the same day, 30 fine Holstein oze ;
and by the Transit, on Wednesday, 27 of the same race.
Hull Packet.

Madame Taglioni is said to have accepted an engage—
ment in the United States for one year • 10,000/. being
secured to the fair sylphide, with profitable contingencies
of a much larger sum. With this tour La Sylphide takes
leave of the stage, and settles down for life at her villa on
the banks of the Lake of Como.

FIRST COMMITTAL UNDER THE CONVENTION BE-
TWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—At tile Mansion
House, last week, Jacques Besset, who, under the firm of
Prixener and Co., general merchants, 73, Fenchurch-
street, was charged, under the law of France, with the
offence of fraudulent bankruptcy, was committed pre-
paratory to being sent to France.
" BILLS" AND " NOTES."—It is understood that at
the Court of Bank of England Directors, held on Thurs-
day, a resolution was passed, so clearly defining the
meaning of the words " and " note," as to render
all future misunderstanding impossible. By this resolu.
tion, it seems, in all cases where the drawer is the dis-
counter, the document is to be called a " note," and in
all other cases it is to be called a "bill."—Times.
FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—In consequence of
the large supply of wheat and flour at Mark-lane on
Monday, and a general tendency to a decline in prices on
Tuesday, the bakers throughout the metropolis fell the
best bread to 7d. per 41b. loaf, and the second quality to
6d. In Blackfriars-road, the New-cut, Whitechapel,
Westminster, and other populous parts, many of them
only charge std. for the 41b., weighed on delivery, and
excellent bread.

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday last Mr.
Newman, son of a wealthy official of India, being in a
wherry, on the Thames, with a young lady, the daughter
of a tavernkeeper, attempted to kiss her, which she re-
sisted, whereby the boat was overset. Newman and a
male friend contrived to reach the bank, but the young
lady sunk and did not reappear. She had consented to
take a walk with Newman and his friend, the former being
intimate with her family.
A MAN TORN TO PIECES BY A HORSE.—A man named
Murphy, on Monday, was killed by a stallion near Kill,
county Waterford. The man was turning off the high
road into the field, to make a shcrt cut, though advised
to turn back, or else he might be killed by a wild horse
he should have to pass. Fatally for himself he trod the
" forbidden ground." Ie four hours after his body was
found torn to pieces. The horse's hoofs and mouth were
encrusted with the blood of his victim.
PROTEST AGAINST THE STATE BY THE POPISH SHAM
HIERARCHY AND PRIESTS.—Signed by one archbishop
and by twelve or thirteen bishops, backed by six hundred
priests, a protest has appeared in the Popish papers re-
pudiating the authority of the State over the Romish hier-
archy and priesthood. A supplemental list, we are told,
will appear with other signatures; and whether the result
shall show that the Romish priesthood is divided on this
question, or whether they all follow the Archbishop, of
Tuam in the long run, the document is " a great fact."
WARD OF POILTSOICEN.—The election of an Alderman
for this Ward of the City of London, vice Mr. Thomas
Johnson, resigned, commenced on Wednesday. The can-
didates were Mr. F. G. Moon, one of the present Sheriffs,
and Mr. David Salomons, an ex-Sheriff. Mr. Salomons
had the show of hands, and Mr. Moon demanded a poll.
Mr. Salomons was, some nine years ago, elected an Alder-
man, but refused to sign the declaration, " on the true
faith of a Christian," be being a Jew, and Alderman
Humphrey obtained the gown. At the close of the poll on
Friday, Mr. Salomons was returned by a majority of 32.

A bell-ringer at Newington Church, near Sandgate,
Kent, has been killed by the bell he was ringing. It
turned over, and drew him up to the ceiling of the belfry,
where his head struck with such violence that he died in
half-an-hour.E
It is calculated, that a few years ago there were about
1,200 persons in the Lci.d3n prisons for deft, and there
are now somewhere about 360. By two parliamentary
returns (one printe 1 in May last, and the otl e- subse-
quently) it appears that there were in the United King-
dom 3,352 persons confined fir debt, of wl number
1,487 were incarcerated for sums, exclusive of costs, of
under £lO !
STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATIS.—Last week, as Mrs.
Tregear, of Devonport, was cleaning a fish, one of the
bones stuck in her fore-finger: It was immediately ex-
tracted, and little notice taken of the occurrence. At the
end of two days, however, she felt the most excruciating
pain, when it was found that mortification had com-
menced, and death put an end to her sufferings before the
close of the week. She was 74 years of age.—Exeter
Gazette.

SWINDLING.—Last week several of the tradesmen of
Glasgow were taken in by a respectable looking person,
who represented himself to be from Macintosh and Co.,
the eminent London waterproof manufacturers, and who
succeeded in extracting various sums of money by the
sale and delivery of an article which be said was capable
of rendering cloth of all kinds waterproof, and by the
promise of an agency for the article. When he had taken
his departure the liquid which he left was examined and
found to he nothing better than coloured water.
DISTRESSING DEPRIVATION.—A daughter of Mr. S.
Stephens, smith, of Llandilo fawr town, named Anne,
aged ten years, died after a few hours' illness on Sunday,
the Ist instant, at ten o'clock ; also Thomas, a son, aged
three years, at three o'clock of the same day; and on the
day following, Monday the 2d instant, David, another
son, aged six years. On Wednesday the three were all
buried in the same grave in Llandilo church-yard. Thus
suddenly Mr. Stephens was deprived of all his children,
who a few hours previous were pictures of innocence and
health.--Cambrian.

FATAL HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Thursday evening
week, as James Barrowclougb, of Barrowford, gardener,
was returning from Preston, about eight o'clock, he.was
attacked on entering into Blackburn by two men, who
savagely beat and robbed him of eleven shillings and six-
pence. A man and woman coming up, the villains made
off. The sufferer aas assisted to a public-house. On the
following morning he made his way home to near Colne,
with much difficulty. He continued in a dreadful state of
suffering until Thursday afternoon last, when he expired.
—Blackburn Standard.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.-011 Wednesday, the quar-
terly general meeting of the proprietors of East India
stock was held, when the annuity of £l,OOO to Sir W.
Nott was confirmed. Mr. Poynderpostponed his motion
for abrogating the annual payment of £6,000 to the temple
of Juggernaut, in consequence of a representation from
the chairman that despatches had been received from
India, which were under the consideration of the direc-
tors, and he (the chairman) expected that a favourable
statement would be made to the court of proprietors upon
the subject.

AFFLICTING BEREAVEMENT.—A short time ago Mrs.
Nelson, of Enfield, brought home a boy seven years old
she had had at the Bluccoat School, Hertford, for change
of air, after having had scarletina and measles. Only ten
days after his return his two younger brothers were seized
with scarletina and putrid sore throats ; the elder of the
two, after a few days' illness, died on Thursday, the
younger on Friday, and the Bluecoat boy on the Saturday
of the same week—having been seized by typhus. fever;
they were all interred in one grave. Thus, in one short
week, was Mrs. Nelson deprived of all her boys.

A HINT.—The following singular advertisement ap-
peared in the Ayr Advertiser of Thursday :—" Adver-
tisement.—Two English ladies, after three months'
residence in Ayr, find it quite impossible to continue
longer peaceably in the town, without giving a detailed
account of what they are, who they are, and where they
come from. However gratifying it might be to the bene-
volent inhabitants of Ayr, the ladies would consider it
by far too great condescension on their part to do so.
Does the boasted hospitality cf Scotland co )sist in de-
teriorating the character of its visitants. Let us hope
that this is a single instance.—Ayr, Sept. 18, 1844."

PADDLE FLOATS.--Two iron steamers, for the Ardros-
san and Fleetwood stations, have been constructed by
Messrs. Tod and M'Gregor, of Glasgow; they are six
hundred tons burden, with engines of three hundred
horse power, the chief feature being that the paddle floats
of one are solid, and the other divided. A trial was
made to test their capabilities, the result being that the
solid float was declared in point of speed superior to the
divided one. A an entertainment which followed, many
statements were made, by Mr. M'Gregor and others, in
favour of iron boats—that they were of cheaper construc-
tions, would not burn, would not take dry-rot, and, when
built in compartments, would not sink.

VAN AMI3URGH'S ELEPHANT.—WhiIe at Canterbury
this sagacious animal gave another proof of its well-known
capability of feeling and resenting insults. One of the
musicians attached to the company had frequently amused
himself in annoying the elephant by pelting it in the ear
and eye, and most sensitive parts, with small pellets, and
he had frequently been warned that the beast would find
an opportunity of retaliating. So it happened. One day
last week the elephant suddenly lifted up his assailant
with his trunk to a considerable height in the air, to-
gether withhis musical instrument and book, then suddenly
dropped the astonished trumpter, who fell with consider-
able violence to the ground. Fortunately no bones were
broken.—Kent Herald.

A NOVEL WATER PARTY.—A singular feat was OR
Monday succe,sfully performed on the Thames, between
Vauxhall and Westminster bridges. Mr. Barry, one of
the clowns at Astley's Theatre, had announced his inten-
tion of sailing from Vauxhall to Westminster in a wash-
ing tub drawn by two geese. At about half-past three
o'clock Mr. Barry, in his clown's dress, and accompanied
by several of his friends, arrived at the bridge, and all
things being prepared, he stepped into his tub and pro-
ceeded on his " voyage." The tide being in his favour he
went along smoothly enough, and he had but little diffi-
culty in making the geese swim in the proper course. An
immense number of boats accompanied this strange water
party, so that the intrepid voyageur was in no danger of
drowning. Mr. Barry disembarked at Westminster-
bridge.

FIRE AND Loss OF Two LIVES.—About five o'clock
on Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the house of
Magdalene Stewart, a widow, residing in Blyth's Close,
Edinburgh, which caused her death, and also that of a
man named Thomas Todd, aged 55, a mason, who lodged
with her. Todd came home about one o'clock much
the worse of drink, along with a mark named Cairney,
also a lodger in the house. They found M s. Stewart
sitting by the fire quite drunk. They retired to bed, and
about a quarter to five o'clock, Cairney was awakened by
a sense of suffocation, and gave the alarm. When the
police entered the house Todd was found lying on the
bed, and was taken to the Infirmary where he died in a
short time. Mrs. Stewart was found in the kitchen
burnt to a cinder.

NOVEL. EXHIBITION AT A THEATRE.—At the Theatre,
Market Drayton, on Friday last, was witnessed a per-
formance of an unusual character. The building, which
has latterly been unoccupied, was stored with wheat, the
produce of the late harvest ; and on the day mentioned
four men and a lad were engaged in thrashing it, with a
hand machine. It was turned apparently with ease by
two men the other two being engaged one in feeding the
machine and the other in clearing away the straw ; all of
whom in rotation changed their parts in the performance,
the lad continuing in the character of supplier to the
feeder. The machine, which is the invention of Barrett
and Co., of Reading, did its work to the admiration of
all the company present, and in the day thrashed upwards
of fifty bushels. The adoption of such machines would
insure to the farmer good thrashing without the suppres-
sion of manual labour.

EFFECT OF LIGHTNING UPON THE BRAIN.--A re-
markable case, illustrating the powerful effect of this
agent upon the nervous system, is detailed in the last
number of the Lancet. The patient, a young lady, was
seated, in the country, at an open window, contemplat-
ing the hotrors of a thunder-storm, when she was sud-
denly struck by a flash of li4htning. Transient insensi-
bility was produced, followed by a violent fit of hysteria,
intense headache, tic doloureux, dropping of the eyelids,
and sickness, which existed nith little intermission for
several moments. The patient, however, ultimately re-
covered, the stroke not being sufficiently powerful to
annihilate at once the functions o f the brain. and produce
sudden death. An instance like this should operate as a
warning to those who wilfully neglect the means of safety
when placed within their reach.

THE STONYHURST JUBILEE.—Fifty years have elapsed
since the fathers of the Society of Jesuits, flying from Leige
in consequence of the severe proscriptions of the French
revolution, came into England and established themselves
in Stonyhurst, in the ancient mansion of the Sherburnes.
On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday week, the jubilee
of this event was commemorated at the College with
great solemnity and rejoicing. A numerous body of the
fathers of the order assembled from the different missions
to celebrate the feast, and many gentlemen who had re-
ceived their education there came to particivate in the
festive demonstration. Among the visitors may be enu-
merated the Cliffords, the Tempests, the Maxwells, the
Lomaxes, the Middletons, Ferral Caddell, Esq., James
Hunloke. Esq., J. F. Anderton Esq , Jos. Bushell, Esq.,
&c. G. Lambert Clifford, Esq., the last student at Leige,
and the first at Stonyhurst, was also one of the party.
Four bullocks, two score of sheep, and eight lambs were
killed on this festive occasion.

ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY.—On Thursday last arrived
in Falmouth harbour the Lord Bruce brig, Captain Poole,
with a cargo of sugar from Pernambuco. A few mornings
after the Lord Bruce left Pernambuco, a very fine Bango
black lad, about 18 or 20 years of age, made his appear-
ance on deck. to the no small surprise of the captain and
crew of the Lord Bruce. 1-1 eis not able to speak a single
word of English, but talks the Portuguese language toler-
ably well, from which we learn that he was a slave, and
had been brought to the Brazils, in a slaver, from a far
distant country. It appears he, with many other slaves,
had been sent off to the Lord Bruce with barges of sugar,
and again returned on shore, and the night previous to
the sailing of the vessel, he stole a craft peculiar to the
South Americans, called a catamaran, taking with him a
tolerable stock of provisions, and some very good clothes,
and came on board, and stowed himself away, unobserved,
amongst the cargo, and did not make his appearance until
he knew the vessel was so far 'at sea, that there was no
chance of his being sent back again; thus effecting his
escape from slavery. The captain treated him with every
possible kindness, but as the poor fellow. seems rather un-
fit for sea, be will be thrown on the Parish of Falmouth,
until some means can be adopted to get him to provide
for himself.—Deronport Independent.