The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

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A. LADY'S DESCRIPTION OF A BATTLE.—Just as I left
Austrian camp, a movement became perceptible
tong the Hungarians, which I knew was preparatory to

a general assault. I was not deceived, for I had not pro-
ceeded more than half way on my return to Ikman, when
I heard the first cannon-shot, which give the signal for
the sanguinary and murderous strife between the unequal
foes. This was the great battle of Murr— the first pitched
field in the Hungarian war of freedom, in which the cause
of liberty received so severe a blow, that nothing hut t"e
most desperate bravery and heroic firmness could have re-
trieved it. Perczel had been directed to bold the moun-
tain passes, and retard the march of the Austrians, until
Gorgey should arrive with his corps, when the junction of
the two would have given them sufficient force to justify a
battle ; but he had mistaken his orders, and, instead of
keeping to the heights, had descended, and, under a false
impression of the enemy's numbers, had attacked them
without waiting for any reinforcements. We ascended a
hill by the way, from which we could plainly see the two
armies, and even distinguish the several regiments, when-
ever the smoke was swept away for a short time by the
breeze. The thunder of the cannon was fearful, and ap-
peared to grow more furious every moment. The battle
seemed to approach continually nearer to us. We hurried
forward, therefore, to Ikman, where we found the whole

population assembled round the church, in order to hear
the accounts, which some, who had ascended the tower,
gave from time to time of the progress of the conflict. The
excitement of the crowd was truly painful ; it was easy to
see that they wished the Hungarians to he victorious.
Some wept, and some shouted, as if to encourage their
champions, whilst others prayed aloud, " 0, God of llun-
gory, grant the victory to our brave countrymen. Let
this village be destroyed, if it please thee, but save our
soldiers from defeat." I ascended the tower myself, and
obtained a position on one of the pinnacles, from which I
could plainly discern the movement of the two armies. To
those who have never seen large multitudes of men en-
yof social gaged in deadly cord

has ex-

re plenti-
I, and the
!es of the

Jenny Lind is said to possess £150,000 in the funds.
Dicken's Dornbey and Son has been translated into
Russian. and published at St. Petersburgh.
A turnkey of Coventry gaol has been sentenced to 14
years' transportation, for aiding a prisoner to escape.
The London Papers advertise the Sixteenth thousand
of Dr. Cumming's Sermon before the Queen at Balmoral.
The Times states that the man who represents himself
as the last survivor of Cook's voyages, is an impostor.
A great quantity of jewellery was stolen from a shop in
Bristol the week before last.
The Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday very properly
publi shed the name of a patty who had forwarded a fabri-
cated notice of a birth for insertion in that paper.
The Rev. Mr. Langley, formerly a Unitarian preacher,
at Ashton-under-Lyne, was found drowned in the canal
near that town.
Lieut. Clemison, of the 21st Regt. was killed at Glas-
gow last week, by being thrown from his horse just as he
was mounting it.
Nearly 4,000,000-quarters of corn have been shipped at
Naples for England during the past year, and freights con-
tinued high.
Lady Massey Stanley has caused a fat bullock to be
slaughtered, and the beef, together with a quantity of warm
clothing, to be distributed amongst the poor in the vicinity
of Haggerston.
On Monday night there was a grand tee-total demon-
stration at Exeter-hall, at which nine working-men
related their experience in favour of the system of total
abstinence.
On Thursday last, a poor blind woman, named Light,
residing on the Bail, at Folkstone, in attempting to
swallow an oyster, was suffocated, the oyster being too
large to pass down her throat.
Six of the burglars engaged in the robbery at Misses
Farncombe, of Downlauds, have been apprehended. with
part of the stolen property in their possession. Two of
them have been identified by the butler.
At Abingdon sessions, last week, a well-dressed young
man, named Dace, a teacher of music, was sentenced to
transportation for life for stealing a gold pencil case. He
had been previously twice convicted of felony.
The Postmaster- General has given orders that all the
town receiving-houses in the kingdom shall resume re-
ceiving registered letters, a practice which had for some

time ceased.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert have jointly presented
to the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress the
sum of £203 towards the almshouses for indigent
foreigners.
An old man, 85 years of age, named Edward Pritchard,
farmer, residing at Pwllangau, near Holyhead, has put a
period to his existence by hanging himself to a tree at the
back of his own house.
A lunatic gentleman gave himself into custody in Lon-
don, on Wednesday, stating that he had absconded from
Montreal, where he had embezzled, from a bank, upwards
of £7OO. He is very respectably connected, and was
soon liberated.
At a meeting of the Saint Pancras board of guardians,
last Tuesday, the master's report stated that a girl, aged
17, who had been 12 years in the workhouse, left the
house in consequence of her having suddenly come into
possession of £1,750.
A storm and flood of unprecedented height occurred
at Carlisle, Penrith, Appleby, and the neighbourhood, on
Now Year's-day. We are glad to learn, however, that the
damage caused by the inundation has been much than
might have been expected from its magnitude.
Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal, of the Ist instant,
contains a long account of festive proceedings at Oswestry
on the occasion of the presentation of plate, purchased by
subscriptions amounting to £258 45., to Peploe Cart-
wright, Esq.
The corporation of King's College Hospital propose to
introduce a measure in the ensuing session enabling them
to hold lands for the purposes of the college, for providing
sites for the hospital, for approaches thereto, and for
pulling down the present buildings.
A letter from the master of a vessel newly arrived in the
Thames from South Wales, mentions, that the Bright-
man, of London, was taking in a cargo at Sydney, for Ca-
lifornia, consisting of ready-made coffins, which were
filled with bottled beer
One of the prisoners in the Queen's Prison, London,
it would be impossible to de- has been confined there since 1812. His name is Dufrene,
cribe the sensations with which I looked upon the awful and he was committed to prison by the Commissioners of
..cone. The two armies were drawn up in nearly parallel Bankruptcy for not satisfactorily answering questions
lines, and from each there issued a continued stream of about his books of account.
fire, which was all the more dreadful from being partially The bullion in both departments of the Bank has de-
obscured by the smoke, that rolled upwards heavily, and creased from £14,963,681 to £14,830,118, being a differ-
formed a dark canopy above the infuriated combatants. ence of £133,563. The paper in actual circulation had
The wind occasionally swept away the sulphureous clouds, increased from £19.825,901 to £20,286,251, being a dif-
and revealed the straight lines of soldiers, like stone walls ference of £460,350.
—immoveable and brilliant with fire : but the thick black THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—SO great is the influx of
vapour soon again hid them from our view. From time people expected to be from the midland districts to wit-
to time we observed bodies of horsemen issue from out of ness the exhibition during May and the following months,
the clouds of smoke, and rush up to the opposing columns; that the Midland Railway Company are building 100 new
sometimes they penetrated through them, and at others carriages for the conveyance of passengers.
they were received with a frightful discharge of cannon, Punch, in his Almanac, represents an omnibus as family
before which they were swept back like dust. This con- lodgings in the forthcoming Exhibition time. This is his
tinned for about an hour, without any perceptible change fun ; but a party of American gentlemen have bought a
having taken place in the relative positions of the two ar- ship to visit the Exhibition, and mean to live in it and
lilies. We then noticed that, at each end of the Austrian give parties during their stay in the metropolis, or rather
line, the stream of fire was advancing, and the whole line on the Thames.
assuming a concave form, whilst the Hungarian line was Last week a woman, named Borthwick, and her daugh-
withdrawing at the corresponding points, and the line be- ter, were charged before the sheriff with attempting to
coming convex. After a little time, the two seemed to extort money from a gentleman in Edinburgh. It ap-
mingle together in undietinguishable confusion ; the roll- peered thai, the prisoners!accused the gentleman of being
ins of the musketry, and the thundering of the cannon, the father of twins, and on this plea, which was entirely
became indescribably furious, and they began gradually to false, they were convicted and sentenced to eight months'
relax, until at length the booming of the artillery alone imprisonment each.
was heard at distant intervals, and then it ceased altoge- FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—On 'Wednesday afternoon a
ther. The battle was lost and won. The Hungarians, young man of the name of Robinson (son of Mr. Robin-
out of eight thousand men which they had brought into son, of the Royal Oak Inn, Itchen), with two compani-
the field, lost one-half in killed, wounded, and prisoners. ons, went out in a sailing boat from Four Posts, near
The other half had been completely surrounded, and had Southampton, but had not proceeded far before they were
cut their way through the enemy. It was this heroic and overtaken by a violent storm, when the boat upset, and all
successful attempt which had kindled up afresh the vivid- three were drowned.
ness of the firing towards the close of the battle, and A vagrant prisoner at Market Rasen last week destroyed
which gave the Hungarians the claim of superior valour, his old tattered clothes, and remained in his cell quite
though victory had declared on the side the Austrians. naked, thinking the authorities would give him a better
The remains of our little army retreated to the mountains, suit. The gaoler, however, cut a hole in an old sack,
where they had an opportunity of reposing and recruiting and, putting it over his head, two other holes were cut
themselves, after this hard-fought and disastrous day.— for his arms, and in this guise he was taken before a=-
Baroness non Beck's Personal Adventures in Hungary, gistrate, who committed him to prison.