The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

ceived by four or five thonsan'd persons

HYDROPHOBIA.—On Friday, James Oxley, a poor man,
residing in Cook's-place, Clerkenwell, died of hydrophobia,
having been bitten in the arm by a dog four years ago, and
although the lacerated flesh was carefully cut out at the time.

The Wakefield Board of Guardians advertise for two re-
lieving officers, who must devote all their time to the duties
of the office, find sureties to the amount of live hundred
pounds, and be necessarily men of education, at filly pounds
a year each!:
On Friday night, a brass founder of Edinburgh, named
Matthew Cruthers, about fifty years of age, threw himself
from the North Bridge in that town, and expired in about
two minutes after he was taken up. He is supposed to have
committed the rash act in a tit of delirium tremens.
The Ranger, of Peterhead, which arrived a few days ago
from Greenland, with a full cargo of oil, is about to make a
second whaiing voyage, and will sail as soon as possible to
Davis Straits. We believe this is a circumstance unprece-
dented.—Tyne Mercury.

The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of England
during the last month is stated to he ;C11,325,000, showing
an increase of £9,000 as compari.d with the preceding four
weeks, and an increase of £3,942,000 as compared with the
same period last year.
CoLomuciEs or THS \

MST RF.GINIENTS.--The colo-
nelcies of the vacant regitneuts, namely, the 19th, 21st, 46th,
and 48th, have been filled up by the selection of General Sir
Warren Marmaduke Peacocke, Lieutenant-Generals Sir
William Macbean and Sir Robert Arbuthnot. and Major-
General Sir Chatles James Napier, the hero of Hyderabad.

One of Nelson's boatswains, Henry Wyatt, aged 73, died
on Sunday. He had served the greater part of his time on
board the Queen Charlotte, and had been in twenty-five en-
gagements with Nelson. He had been blind for the last
twelve years, and his principal amusement was having the
newspapers read to him by his wife.

DEATH OF Mn. GOULBURN, JUN.—We exceedingly
regret to state that Mr. Henry Goulburn, eldest son of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, expired on Thursday morning
at live o'clock, at the official residence of his father in
Downing-street. Mr. Goulbourn was in the 31st year of his
age.

The Auckland Standard, not half the size of Chambers's
Edinburgh Journal, and more than half occupied by adver-
tisements, is one shilling. It may be useful to mark this
fact, as indicative of the high value of money in New Zealand.
In a late number of this paper, a four-roomed cottage was ad-
vertised to let, at thirty shilliggs per week.

Her Majesty in Council on Saturday was pleased to appoint
the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, and in his absence
the Right Hon. Janus Earl of Dalhousie, President of the
Committee of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations.
Mr. Gladstone and the noble Earl had the honour to kiss
hands on their respective appointments.

A few days ago 32 pigeons, belonging to different persons
at Brussels were let loose at Blois (125 leagues from Brussels),
for the prizes offered by a society in Belgium. Not one of
them arrived on the same day, and on the following day only
one reached Brussels. The owner was declared entitled to
the chief prize.

A correspondent informs us that, yesterday afternoon,
there was an urgent meeting of the members of the Cabinet
at Argyll House, the residence of the Earl of Aberdeen. All
the ministers were present, with the exception of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. That. the meeting was not previ-
ously contemplated is shown by the fact that the Earl of
Ripon was sent for from Putney to assist at the consultation.
Morning' Herald, of yesterday.

Cotherstone, the winner of the late Derby, is heavily en-
gaged. Ile is in the Derby at Newcastle, and in the Gates-
head or Lottery Stakes; at Goodwood, in the Drawing•room,
Gratwieke, and Racing Stakes; in the Doncaster St. Leger,
Foal, and a 200 soy. Sweepstakes. In the Great Yorkshire
Stakes, in the Royal Stakes at Newmarket, and several large
four-year-old Stakes next year.

The tvages of a woman in Dudley, for manufacturing
twelve hundred round.headed hob-nails, are live pence three
farthings; these are made with a hammer, weighing one
pound and a quarter ; each nail receives twelve blows before
it is completed ; and, consequently, the poor woman has to
raise the enormous weight of eighteen thousand pounds in
order to earn that small sum.

A Foot.—A drunken shoemaker, at Skerton, made a firm
resolution, on Monday night last, to drown himself; and in
the presence of a number of spectators plunged into the river
Lune, but, not being out of depth, he suddenly bethought
himself that his temporal affairs were not properly arranged,
and deliberately walked out of the watery grave to bequeath
his old coat to a brother cobbler, when his friends dragged
him home, to the no small amusement of the spectators.-,-
Lancaster Gazette.

A COMMON TO :STA KE.-It is a common, not to say a
vulgar opinion, that everybody must have a surname.' and
consequently some think that her most gracious ;Majesty the
Queen herself had one before marriage, but that the did not
use it, merely because she was a princess as the daughter of
a royal duke, to which some others add the information, that
Guelph was the name !—This is altogether an error.—Lon-
don Paper.
In the county of C

_ __r there is a residence called Bar-
-
dingwood-house, in the pariah of Lawton, from which the
inhabitants every time they go to church pass out of the
province of Canterbury into that of York ; go through two
counties, Staffordshire and Cheshire ; three parishes, Vol.
Stanton. Audlev, and Lawton; three constabularies, Tun-
stall, Chell, and Nantwich ; and the two dioceses of Lichfield
and Chester.

MUILDER.—A labourer of the name of Allan Mair, about
82 years of age, residing at Candyend. near Avonbridge, in
this county, was apprehended last week on a charge of mur-
der. It appears that on the morning of Sunday, the 14th
inst., a quarrel arose between him and an old woman who
lived with him and an old woman who lived with him as his
wife, concerning some trifling circumstance, when he swore
at her and beat her dreadfully on the head, arms, and chest,
with a large stick. The neighbours, hearing her cries, ran
to the spot to render her assistance, but Mair, on learning
their intention, with horrid imprecations, threatened to
shoot any one who should approach. In the morning, how-

ever, information was given to the pollee, who proceeded to
the house, and, finding the woman very ill in bed, imme-
diately took Mair into custody. Her arms and chest were

dreadfully lacerated, and her head bruised, and the injuries
altogether of a nature so severe that she lingered in great
agony till early on Tuesdny morning, when she died. Mair
has been examined by the Sheriff and fully committed to
Stirling gaol on a charge of murder.—Siirling Advertiser.

THE LATE noons.—The heavy fall of rain on Friday last
caused the rivers in this
neighbourhood to swell to an unu-
sual degree. The river Gwilly in particular rose to such a
height, that such an overflow has not taken place before
within the memory of man ; the consequences have been
most calamitous. A man named Thomas Richards in at-
tempting to cross a bridge over the river Gwilly was swept
away by the current and curried a mile down the stream.
His body was afterwards found. Troedyrlul bridge was
greatly iajured, Cwmgwilly mill bridge, being a wooden one
was carried away, and the timber floated down to Glangwilly
bridge, where they got across the arches, and in a few mi-
nutes the water accumulated to such an extent that that
bridge also wins entirely swept away by the mighty torrent,
and not a single vestige was left to denote the place where it
stood. A culvert on the east side of Ahergwilly bridge was
also partially destroyed ; but the bridge firmly withstood the
force of the raging element. Several farmers in the neigh-
bourhood have sustained severe losses. The Amman river,
in the parish of Llangadock, removed stones of four tons
weight with the force Of its waters. On Carrogsawnde com-
mon, near Llangadock, two foot bridges, of considerable
length, were carried away by the Sawdde, whose waters came
down with greater force than in the memory of the oldest in-
lia!,:ant. Timber, of a ton weight, were borne down with
its force. One of the bridges was only erected about six
weeks ago, at the sole expense of a benevolent and philantro-
pie individua?, who does good in private and blushes to find
it fame. In the Usk, 40 sheep were found drowned on the
c onfines of Llanddoysant parish : but whether accidental, or
the wilful act of maliciousness, is yet a mystery.—Carmar-
then Journal.

SPECULATION IN THE CORN TRADE.—Speculation in
foreign wheat is again showing itself, in consequence of the
passed month havin; been wet Who ever heard of a drip-
ping May detroying a crop ? Why, rain in May, followed
by fine weather, is a❑ essential element of a great crop.
When wheat is in flower, or ripe, the plant is, indeed, ex-
tremely delicate, and susceptible of injury from rain ; but un-
til t. " "

len it is extremely hardy, and stands so much badgering
as to have been compared to the cat and its nine lives. The
breadth of wheat is unusually large—the seed was very supe-
rior—the growth at present so thick and luxuriant, though a
little tinged, as only to require suitable weather to yield, per-
haps, the largest crop ever produced in this country. Some
sanguine sparks, the more effectually to delude themselves,
nourish the notion that the. farmers' stocks are exhausting.
Now, what says " The General Agricultural Report for May"
on this subject ?—" In addition to upwards of 700,000 quar-
ters of foreign wheat already in the country, and on the in-
crease, the stocks of wheat in the hands of the farmers arc
more than an average for the time of the year, whilst the
quality is unusually fine ! ! !"—a statement which gains cor-
roboration from the very large supplies last week at Mark-
lane. Not our merchants, but, as last year, mere jobbers
seem to be the prime movers in this dangerouS game—the
parties competing with each other in foreign markets, as at
an auction, which shall pay the highest price. 'Whether the
corn be wanted or not, it is already on the way : should wea-
ther favour the harvest, and it be not wanted, supply will
exceed demand, and ruin again overwhelm the trade.

THE WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY : HURRI-
CANES HAIL. AND THUNDER. STORMS, &c.—From all
parts Of the kingdom complaints of the ungenial weather
have been abundant during the past week. The accounts
from Ireland state that the stock of grain and flour is excee-
dingly low, and already the corn and provision markets are
advancing. Even a partial failure of the crops would be a
great calamity under present circumstances. Very little in-
jury has yet been done; but a week or more of rain might
produce well-grounded alarm. In the district of Ulster the
level lands in the neighbourhood are flooded, and fears are

entertained that the seed in the ground will rot, if the water
be not quickly dried up or carried off. Sithilar accounts are
given from Limerick ; in the west of Ireland all agricultural
operations are at a stand. Cork was on Monday last visited
by a hurricane. In Scotland fears are beginuing to be ex-
pressed of the effects of the present wet and inclement wea-
ther. From all parts of the north we hear of the prevalence
of easterly winds, and cold, wet weather. In the district
surrounding us rain has been almost incessant, with frequent
heavy gales of wind. The crops, however. with the exception
of potatoes, look well and promise abundance. The potatoe
sets have been greatly injured by the wet. On Monday last,
abort three o'clock in the afternoon, Altrincham was visited
by a very severe hailstorm ; the hail stones were of an oval
shape, and nearly as large as marbles. The storm, which
only lasted about a quarter of an hour, has done much dam-
age to the early potato crop. A terrific thunderstorm, ac-
companied with bail and rain, passed over a portion of our
county on Thursday last. At Standish Lower Grounds, a
little more than two miles from Wigan, an oak tree was
struck by the electric fluid, and a portion of it rent away :
one of the top branches was struck off, and the lightning en-
tered-the trunk, and tore away the bark, and a shred of tim-
ber, about ten yards long, loosening the bark round the whole
of the trunk, and making a large hole in the earth, close to
the root of the tree. Six men were standing for shelter a few
yards from the tree, at the time it was struck, but they sus-
tained no injury. At Newton the electric fluid fell on the
railway close to where two of the men were at work. It tore
-up the ground. The men were greatly alarmed, and one of
them much stunned. The quantity of rain that has fallen
within the past month, or from the 2nd of May to the 6th of
June, seems unprecedented for many years. It was not less
than 6'36 inches. The range of the barometer was also great,
being the highest, or 30'184 inch on the 11th of May, and the
lowest, or 29'224 inch. The thermometer was highest on the
2ud of May, being 69 degrees P., and lowest on May 7, when
it stood at 29 degress. These observations 9iere made on
an open space on the grounds at Ghiswick.

ME POTATO CROP.--Rumours of the failure in the crop
of this important article of food having been for some time
current, we have taken a good deal of trouble to ascertain its
extent, in so far as that can be yet known; and, as our in-
quiries have extended to about thirty miles to the west, and
about twenty miles to the east, of Edinburgh, we have no
doubt that the result is fairly applicable to East Lotian,
Mid-Lothian, Linlithgow, and the eastern district of Stir-
lingshire, and at least a considerable portion of Fifeshire.
On some farms, so entire has been the failure, that whole
plantations, of twenty and thirty acres, have been ploughed
up, and the land prepared for being sown with turnips. On
other farms the failure is more partial, extending from a third
to an eighth of the sets. A few farms have as yet escaped ;
and in a few more the planting has been too recently finished
to admit of any opinion being formed on the subject. On
the whole, the already ascertained loss cannot be at less than
from 20 to 25 per cent. of the seed planted. It must not be
supposed, however, that the loss will affect the produce of
the land to anything like that amount. Where whole plan-
tations have been ploughed up, the land will be occu-
pied with turnips ; and, where the failure is partial, many of
the farmers are snaking up the blank by planting new sets
with the dibble. In so far as we have been able tb learn, no
satisfactory cause has yet been assigned for this extensive
loss. The whole of the potatoes grown last year upon an
extensive district we have heard of, were sold for seed, and
in every instance the failure has been complete. On some
lands the sets have simply rotted in the ground, without
showing any symptoms of germination. On others, the eyes
have pushed up to, the surface ; but so sickly, weak, and at-
tenuated, that, in general, they languished and died. In
other cases the sets seemed to possess a greater vegetable
power ; but they were no sooner an inch or two above the
surface than their growth was arrested, and a small tuber,
generally of the size of a sea, sent forth in the top of a stalk,
which thenceforth withered and perished. In this latter
case, nature, on finding herself checked in her appointed pro-
gress, in the desire so constantly manifested to continue the
species, in an expiring effort, sent forth her fuit with a degree
of precocity, which, by accelerating the death of the parent
phut, defeats her own purrse. As the land, however, will
not be unoccupied, the loss will fall rather on the farmer than
on the country ; for although be may raise a smaller quantity
of potatoes, the loss Will in a.con-siderable degree be com-
pensated by the subAitution of turnips, which will augment
the supply of beef.—Observer.

A BREAK-NECK APFAIIi.—On the afternoon of Friday
last, as a gentleman connected with one of the sporting Sun-
pay papers was returning from Windsor to Ascot (where he
had been for information of a sporting nature) in a single-
horse chaise, he unfortunately (if not somewhat clumsily)
drove bang against the turnpike gate (at Blackness, close to
Virginia Water) in endeavouring to " clear" it, causing the
dangling
headlong at
breakage of both the shafts, and throwing out the driver with
ihnisto ditch, with the chaise upon
considerable force into the road. The horse, with the broken
tumbled chaiseheels, galloped off at a furious rate,
him, and broke his neck. The gentleman, who had met with
so narrow an escape, was taken buck 1:
to the George Inn, at
Eton, and reached the office of the paper in safety the same
evening, travelling from Slough to Paddington by the railway.
The horse which belonged to Mr. C. Wise, livery-stable kee-
per. at Eton, was worth between £4O and £5O. The late
Mr. Pierce Egan met with precisely a similar accident; at the
same spot, a few years ago, and upon that occasion his horse
was also killed.

DISGUSTING EX IBITION.—One of those revolting de-
velopments of litiman depravity, which schock those who
have the fear of God before their eyes, by the hardihood
with winch a sinner can venture to dare the judgments of
the .ALMIGIITY, was
perpetrated in the town of Warminster
on Monday last. A man, who keeps a little bread and gro-
eery shop, caused his coffin to be paraded through the streets
to his house, at the broad daylight hour of eleven, this being,
as we understand, a stipulation in the treaty for this encase-
ment of his mortal remains, when the cold hand of death,
whom he assumes to mock, shall lay his iron grasp on this
jester with the King of Terrors. It is said that the pro-
gram me of the exhibition included a delivery of the coffin at
a public-house, where its future occupant was to adjust its
proportions with his living length and breadth, by getting
Into it, and drinking a quart of beer; but the landlord would
not allow the iudecerut exhibition to be perpetrated, and the
coffin passed on. In all human probability it will not be a
lengthened period before this, one of the last requisites of
humanity, will be needed ; but before that day arrives, may
the braggart spirit which has 'so impiously defied Him who
bath the keys of death and hell, repent, and to be ashamed
of a proceeding, in the doing of which belied no sympathisers
—the very poorest shuddering
Gazette. and stigmatising it.-7-Devizes

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

FRIDAY, JUNE 9.—Wind W.N.W. very fresh.
ARRIVED.—Lady Page. Calvert, from Bonny—Ellen German,
Cuniniing. from Laguira—Derwent, Steel, from Barbadoes—Re-
liance, Dunley, ftorn Ceara—lvando, Nichols, from Apalachicola—
Martha Ann, Hill, from Porto Rico—Harriet Rockwell, Briard,
from Mobile—Berwick, Harding; Hero of Sidon, M'Garracher,
Sarah Arssilia, Fletcher, from New Orleans—lndus, from St.
John. N.B.—and Mary, Ilanuaford, from Lisbon.
Cassiopea, Hodgson, from Mauritius, at this port. Off the
Western Islands, spoke the Warman, from Calcutta for Liverpool.

Adams, Halliday, for Maranham, has put back
Elizabeth, NeL,on, from Monile, is on shore near Crosby Point
Acorn, Shepherd, sailed from Rio Janeiro for Liverpool 11th
Aril

Rebecca, Langford, hence at Port Philip
Hesperus. hence at Bonny
Dee, Kirltey. and Sarah Fleming, Walker, hence off Bonny
Jarrow, M•Comb, hence at Africa
Orpheus, hence at Monte Video
Ranger, hence for China, was spoken 22nd April, In lat. 3 N,
long. 21 W

Blake, hence for Quebec, was spoken in lat. 45, long. 29, out
eighteen days

Dernerari, from Calcutta for Liverpool, was spoken 10th May, in
lat. 25. long. 34
Senator, Collins, from Mauritius, at Plymouth
Portia, from Monte Video, off Swanage
Spartan, Spittle, hence at Cove
Havana Packet, Kemp. hence at Falmouth
Agnes, Lamont, from Nassau, off ditto
Canopus, Titheiington, from Calcutta, at Downs
The Flat Ann is on shore near the mouth of the Dee. Crew
Raved by the Point of Ayr lifeboat.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10.—Wind N.W.
ARRIVED.—Jackson, Jackson, from Rio de la Hache—Anna
Margaretha, from Iceland—Agnes Ewing. Reid, from Calcutta—
Adirondack, Hackstatf, and Maryland, Smith, from New Orleans—
Southerner, Palmer, from Charleston—Columbus, Cole, from New
York—Elisha Denison, and Odessa, Vaughan, from Mobile—
Briton, Crosby ; Elizabeth Bentley, and Ellerslie, from St. John,
N.B.—Eleanor Palmer. Harris, from Smyrna—Fencer. Reamare,
from Sicily—Hebe, Thompson, from Gibraltar—June Augusta,
Smith, and Ayrshire, Mackay, from Savannah—and Cumberland,
Power, from Apalachicela.

Ocean, Rands, from Rio de la Hache, at this port, in 45 days,
leaky, and cargo shifted, having been struck by a sea 7th June, off
Kinsale
Charles, Jenkins, and Jasper, Evans, hence at Havre
Emma, Sheridan, hence at Antwerp
Vigilant, lthillyhert, hence at Ostend
Soune, Frohme, and Content, Rimier, hence off Warnemmnde
Liverpool, Eldridge, hence for New York, off the Saltees
Success, hence for Demerara, was spoken Oth May, in lat. 19,
long. 13
Earl Fowls, from Calcutta for Liverpool, was Spoken in lat. 16 S,
long. 4 W

Alert, from Ipswich for Liverpool. at Ramsgate, with loss of
anchors and cables
Ocean Queen, from Batavia, at London
A r:aum, Leitch, from Calcutta, at the Clyde, in 108 days
Lavinia, Downing, from Savannah, at Quebec
WAric ,otto, June B.—The William Ladd, from Mobile for Liver-
pool, was driven on shore yesterday at the entrance of Trarnore
hay, and is expected to go to pieces. Master and two men
drowned. The De Spruit, from Schiedam for Liverpool, was to-
tally wrecked ye terday to the westward of this harbour. Master's
son aud'two men drowned.