The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Both Mr, D'lsraeli and Mr. Ferrand have, subscribed
ts the Dunoombe testimoniall the former £lO.
It is said that two crowned heads—the Kings of Bava-
ria and Denmark—have subscribed the teetotal pledge.
Ih Chester Castle, on Sams:lay last, a prisoner named
Thomas Leech hung himself ih his cell.
Ten valuable horses, worth from £lOO to £l5O each,
were lost from the Queen of Scotland steam-ship, during
a storm, on her last voyage from Hull to Hamburg.

The quantity of the blue pill' alone lately shipped at
once for South America by one drysaltery house, in Lon-
don, amounted to six tons.
During thervrhole of last week not a single commitment
was made out by the Birmingham magistrates—a circum-
stance that has not occurred for 357 ears.
THE; Dr...AGEE AT BatsTor..—The Bristol: Liberal
Association, who ape tools of the League, have objected
to everyieonservative freeman, (possessing no other qua-
lification,) in number about 1900.

The ditty on the importation of foreign wheat last
week advanced to 20s. per qaarter—the maximum
amount at which it will, in all probability, remain for a
considerable time.

The body of a newly-born infant was found last week
in a yacanti piece of ground in the parish of Bethnal
Green, with a piece of broad tape round its neak, with
which it had b3en strangled.
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Mr. Williara.llarvey, of Bedleston, Aberdeenshire,,has
given the-sum of 1:6,500 for the prarpose of founding an
institution for the education of the deaf and dumb;: and
another for-the reclaiming of femalds of dissolute-habits,
disposed to abandon their wretched mode of life.
Richard Robinson, a boy eleven years of age, was a few
days ago fitted £lO, at Wandsworth,. and in default of
payment sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, fore hav-
ing placed e piece of wood across ttre, rails of the- South
Western Railway at Wimbledon.

The Borough Compter, London, is at• present wholly
untenantad, except by the keeper, turnkey, and matron ;
the whole o 6 the prisoners who were in custody, upon ex-
ecutions for debts under £2O, having obtained their dis-
charge, under the provisions of the new insolvency,act.
The Perth and Dunkeld stage-coach caught :fist on
'Wednesday from the friction of the wheels. The:coach,
which burned for some time unperceived, the passengers
at last descending amid clouds of smoke, was rendered
useless...
A selection from the University sermons of August
Tholuck, DID_ professor of theology, and preacher in the
University of Halle, has just aneared, translated from
the German by the Lady Adeliza Manners, sister of
Lord John Manners.

It is a curious fact that in some counties more labour-
ers are employed under than 9,the surface of the earth.
In Durham there are nearly twice as many miners as la-
bourers employed in cultivating the soil. The letal num-
ber of agricultural labourers An Great Britain of both
sexes is 1,138,563.

Counts Leslie, of Balquhain,, the representative of one
of the oldest families in the county of Aba,.deen, died
suddenly, yesterday sen'night, at his seat ef Fetternear,
owing to having incautiously taken a draught of cold
water when overheated with ;;be sports of tho. field. His
age was 24.

Tim STABBING CASE AT. WEAVERING,—We lament
to state, that this shocking case, of which we gave an ac-
count in our last, has terminated fatally, the unfortunate
object of his brother's fury having expired,after living in
great agony. At a coroner's inquest a verdict of wilful
murder was returned.

RtniAL DEMISE.—A EW days since, died, near Beau-
lieu, Joseph Lee, the acknowledged monarch of that
mysterious class of people the Gipsies., He was a native
of Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, antl, was, it is said,
in his 86th year. He is reported to, have died worth a
great deal of money.

QUOITS.—A match, was played, on Wednesday, on
Woodhouse Moor, for. £lO aside,, between Simeon
Walker, of Rastrick,, and John Briggs, of Armley, the
best of two games, with quoits 111hs. the pair, distance
eighteen yards. Ebel' party has been triumphant in‘
former contests, but this time Walker proved the victor,
getting forty-seven casts to his opponents twenty-three.
DEATH CAUSEEABY BATHING, WHILE IN A STATE al,
PERSPIRATION.—On Sunday, the 25th ult., Mr. James
Thomas, of Truro,,walked pretty quickly to the sea-shore,
and while in a state of perspiration, plunged into the
water. He was afterwards seized with shivering, and ul-
timately became so ill as to require medical assistance ;
on Monday morning last, he expired, in his 55th y2ar-
FIRE AT HOIIE MILLS, WREXHAM.—On Saturday
morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out in IV3essrs. J.
H. and It. C. Rawlins' Eaper-mills, which, in litsle more
than two hours, were entirely destroyed. By this unfor-
tunate occurrence we regret to hear that a considerable
number of bands will be deprived of employment, , ina
district already much distressed from the suspensionin
the iron trade. The owners are, we understand, fully
insured.

FALL, IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.--111 consequence of
the favourable accounts received from the agricultural
districts of the promising and abundant state of the
harvest, the price of wheat at Mark-lane has fallen last
week Is. to 2s. per quarter in first quality, and 4s. to ss.
per quarter on second qualities. The best Kent, Essex,
Norfolk,and Suffolk wheat is 395. to 565. per quarter; flour,
fine, 40s. to 459. ; and seconds, 3.95. to 40s. per sack, in
London. The bakers of the metropolis have reduced the
41b. loaf to 61d.
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EXECUTION.—On Wednesday, at Taunton, Joel Fisher,
underwent the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder
of his wife, at Weston-super-Mare, in June last. He
died in a very repentant state. It seems almost incredi-
ble, but it is nevertheless true, that several applications
were made to the governor of the prison by persons
afflicted with the king's evil and rheumatism for permis-
sion for the hand of the dead man to be rubbed over the
parts affected, with the idea that they would be cured. It
need hardly be added that the applications were refused.
RATHER STRANGE.—On Friday week, a sportsman,
from Kinross, discharged both barrels at a covey of
grouse, on the hill immediately above Ledlation, in Or-
well parish. The covey was dispersed, and one poor bird
was observed to take the direction of an invisible wire
fence, erecting within less than 300 yards from the spot,
with which it came in contact when on full flight, and,
strange to say, the head was at once dissevered from the
body, the later being found fully three yards distant fcoo3
the other,—Halifax Guardian.,

Sept. 10, 1841.

NAUTICAL ADVENTURE.—As E. Watson Lloyd, Esq-
was returning to Parkgate in the yawl Horatio, on Tues-
day last, on falling in with the Fairy, John Lloyd Jones,
Esq., a salute was fired from the Horatio, when, unfortu-
nately, one of the brass cannons burst into splinters with
a tremendous explosion. The sails were much cut by the
fragments, but although nine persons were standing by'
when the gun was fired, we are happy to state that no one
received the slightest injury.—Chester Courant.
A distressing event took place on Monday in the neigh-
bourhood of Wrexham. Four men were being lowered
into the pit of the Cheshire Vron Colliery, Brymbo, near
' Wrexham, the property of Mr. Moulson, when an explo-
sion of fire-damp took place. The shock was so great that
the poor men were blown into the air. The body of one
of them was picked up in four pieces, the other three were
taken up quite dead. At the time twenty-eight men were
employed in one part of the pit, several of whom are
dreadfully burnt, and are not likely to recover.
A great
SUSPECTED MURDER AT SMIDDYHAUGH.—L.
sensation has been excited in this village and the ne'g"-
bourhood by the mysterious disappearance and recent dis-
covery of a woman belonging to this place. She has bald
missing for nearly three weeks, and no trace of her conic'
be discovered until Thursday last, when her dead hod)"
was found in a field of oats, and in a state of decoy/Post'
tion. She has had several illegitimate children, and 301
circumstances connected with her course of life, combine;
with others, lead to strong suspicions as to the manner t.
her death. That it has been by violence of some sort, via
believe there is little doubt. —Perth Paper.
frAIS
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By tpe --
which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six o'clock,
reaching Ayr at 'half-past eight, a parcel arrived, consist-
ing of a white willow basket, with the lid closely sew
down. As there is no delivery after that hour, the basket
was put along with other articles in the goods office, where
it remained all night. This morning the porter proceede
to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds, thought he
felt something stirring in the basket, and on lifting the,
corner of the lid, discovered that his charge was a fencar
child ! The case is under investigation by the author',
ties.—Ayr Advertiser, Tuesday.
FOREIGN PROVISIONS.—On Wednesday a sale of ~,,ja3„;
qprovedual
ity.
. American The s
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btoouotk4p2lse.cpe
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first lot was 975 hams from New York, of fair
quantity of 3,025 hams from the same place spit)
The pork, which was a remarkably good article,faonYroe.:3lB7l°,
salt, and apparently well filled, fetched 30s. per
whilst 100 kegs of ox tongues, good and well flavoured,
produced at the rate of ls. 11d. to 2s. each. The Brooked
beef, very fair, sold for 395. per cwt., rand 150 half barrel/
of family beef, apparently well fed and sound meat bat
rather too highly salted to please the majority of Engrich
eaters, found ready purchasers at 40s. per cwt. ; the sail,
sages fetched 9d per lb., and the undressed turtle ss-
pound'.
THE BANE OF ENGLAND AND THE RAVE OP INTO:
EST.—The directors of the Bank of England havelock
taken a' step which seems to have caused some astonish'
ment amongst those who theeght that the separation of
the functions of banking and' issuing would cause a pres:.
sure on the money market ant/ tend to raise the rate of
interest c they have reduced the rate of discount on three
months' bills from four to two-and-a-half per cent. le.
deed, we presume the directors will now proceed to eta'
ploy the funds of the banking department in precisely the:
same manner as the funds of other banking establisholeT:
are employedrand will compete in the money market for
bills, like other capitalists ; leaving the regulations of thn
issuing department to govern the amount of notes is 044
culation.
NARROW EsiAPE OF A CHILD ET THE SAGACITY' 01
A HORSE.—On Saturday week a young child had a more°
escape for its life; and was miraculously saved by the a!:
gacity of a horse: The child happened to be playing t
the street at the west end of Kirkaldr, when two Car'
were passing under the charge of one man, he sitting ..11d
:
the foremost cart, and holding the other horse by the'
halter, a space being between the two. The child Layiat
run in before the hindmost horse, and the horse observinia,
the perilous condition of the child, refused to go forward'
and, though repeatedly urged by its less observant driver'
rather than do so, and prove the death of the child, whil
would have been inevitable, he fell down oea his kness an
lay till a young woman, who observed the perilous position
of the child, rushed out of her master's house and snatched
up the child before the-lazy driver had left his seat in he.
t
cart, or any other person came to its rescue. The
was carried to its mother unhurt.—Edinburgh payer.
ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO GALLERY.---An
acci-
dent occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Cast e,
on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of °""IP
and of exquisite workmanship, weighing several hundreds
of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling, at about
Th 15 feet from the floor. ese magnificent pieces of fur;
niture, which, it is said, cast from £2,000 to X3:,000 each
are considered to be the- most rich and beautiful speci-
mens in this country. While one of the workmen
was
ern agedrmounted on the top of a high flight of steps, In
preparing..the chandelier at the western end for lighting,
the whole mass gave way, and fell on the floor-with a tre-
mendous crash, and breezing into a thousand pieces
Of the several circles of cut plate glass, upon which were
elaborately, engraved the star, garter, and motto of the
order of the garter, not one escaped—the whole were
smashed t,atoms. The man on the steps fortunately'
escaped. The chandelier, it is stated, weigheimpwarde
of seven mitt

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dei :Eke:as:4
sequence of the annoyance he experienced from the fre,
quent acts of poaching committed on his lordship's Pre-
serves. E-orn• the relative positions in which the
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some of th....rushes across the two triggers of 1111
neighbourhood of Henham Park was again astonished
held
by
the self-destruction of a man named Cruxey, Irvo ha
the position: of superintendent of keepers, horses, ?d
..
dogs, connected with the Earl of Stradbroke
ment on that estate. This unfortunate man 'sshr
on Sunday afternoon in his c-wn house on the Park' estate,
servant.scarcely twenty-four hours after the death of his:fellow*
ad
LORD STANLEY.—It will 5D seen from our parliamenr:
Legr put
tnsubsided,the The
end
excitement,° 1
whenh ebar'
thetary report that Lord Stanley bas accepted the Chilte
Par"
Hundreds,_ and- withdrawn from the Lower House of
liament. His withdrawal from the scene of histriuniPht
and from the walls which have long echoed with,his bn
liant eloquence, and the enthusiastic cheers of his adr°lr,
ing and astonished hearers, is only preparatory to hie: ,
ae
moral to the House of Peers. Lord Stanley retains ";.t
seals of the Colonial office, and his seat in the- Cabineol
and howerm severely his loss-may be felt in the Iloneebe
Commons, his entrance into the House of Peers Ennet", of
hailed witly-universal satisfaction. Indeed, the via°"„so
speakers on the Government benches in the Upper 11°'10,
has been strongly manifested since the death of the, o,
mented Lord Fitzgerald, the absence of Lord tilled
borough, and the frequen(-.- indisposition of the Eatre'er,
Ripon.—lt will be remembered that Lord Stanley's at
the present Earl of Derby. was also called to the e.
House, by the title -of Baron Bickerstaff, during the 'e'r,
time f the preceding earl; and as the title became
tinct on his succeeding to the Earldom, no furthera'
tion was ultimately made to the House of Lords.
THE GAME LAWS.—The Leeds Times states that tb
suicides of Lord Stradbroke's gamekeepers ;noticedt—,,
where) were occasioned through fear of his lordsu4a
anger that such extensive depredations should have roe
allowed. among his preserves as have lately thinned to
number of his pheasants, &c. There are other reeerhich
a similar effect, showing that the anxiety of mind nes
ended in these unfortunate men destroying therosetol,
was caused by their solicitude about the game the)?
to preserve. It is not long since anothegamekeeiliao
this same Lord Stradbroke was murdered by iinec'irts-
and, if our, memory: serves us aright, several transPeheer
Lions beyond the seas were the consequence. Look, t-tbe'
at the loss of life, the misery, and the expense t°.,el,
public, that this single landlord's game may be prese'oe
Lot it be held in -mind that, during the last ten Yestif
some 30 gamekeepers have been murdered, and as Toe,
poachers hanged for the murders—that in one lor
namely 1843, 30,-persons were transported, and 4,500 lava
$
victed and sentenced to fine and imprisonment in P-0
alone, for infringements of the game laws—that thetheir
of prosecuting,,the " criminals," and in maintaining my
families when, thrown upon the parish, amounts aanct
to not less than £lOO,OOO sterling, not to speak „"ortea
immense cost of maintaining these who are tran,,,srt, 50"
beyond the seas, nor of the wreck and ruin of vily-le6l,
happiness to, tens of thousands, nor of the brutal f.„iniv"
vengeful feelings engendered, and the desperate &los;
who are brought into existence and fostered by thes3otesr
and who shall say but that they are one of the Or5 werC
curses °tour land, and ought,, without delay, (0,10
from off oar statute-book fbr over ? estia%
WITCHCRAFT IN 1844.—N0t long since ihe :de te.hl,6e
place-of the dead at Phillack, near Hoyle, was. made
-
scene of transactions which, would have blaek,e°t aefei
darkest ignorance of bygone ages. It appeav l'l,lBaet
tt
eel persons afflicted with disease, and who, for of tb-a
moral courage, would not submit to the directions plie
medical advisers, very readily caught hold of and ael:teac.°t.
every nostrum that gossips made known. Ell, Olt
proving that the boasted: remedies were of no sealer
imaginations were put to the utmost stretch, in old
they might avoid the only method by which they tbeA
cured. Fortunately-, a blazing light shot aerTi;sipat`-a
darkened way, and their gloomyreflections were,u_ocaneek,
by its brilliancy. It was a revelation ; and they ei,,` out
frd
their ignorance, bccause they did not sooner "
tine
cause of their malady. To believe that they were ce.
was only the work of a moment, but to discoed- 2, joe_it.
who could break the spell was not so easily acc.°Tnrg theta
Every thought and action was centered in aitai,"„ated,e to
darling object. Finally, their wish was consunliebteorght
a scatterer of witch spells stalked forth from., fraP.;as
whom they disclosed every incident of their lives, dav7o
with uncertainty as tending to good or evil. 'l,llthe 01'0
chosen, the dreaded hour of midnight fixed, tow_ „afaet.s.tr
of the silent clod of all that once was living was but
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