The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-21 00:00:00

ROYAL CLEMENCY.—On Thursda
was transmitted from the Home-office, communicating to
the Governor of Newgate her Majesty's gracious desire
that the execution, ordered to take place yesterday, of the
German convicted at the last session of the Central
Criminal Court of the wilful murder of one of his own
countrymen, should be respited until her Majesty's further
pleasure should be known.

A RELIC OF THE PEGASUS.—The Journal des Debals
states, that a few days since a bottle was found on the
coast of Holland, containing a slip of paper, on which
was written—" Pegasus steamer to Fern Islands, night
of Wednesday, July 19th, 1843. In great distress; struck
upon hidden rocks. On board fifty-five persons, vessel
must go down, and no Grace Darling." In giving the last
two words the editor translates the first (Grace) " safety"
(salul .1) not aware that they referred to the intrepid girl
now unhappily no more.
WILL OF THOMAS DU BurssoN.—This celebrated
merchant has by his will, on half a sheet of note-paper in
his own handwriting, disposed of the enormous sum of
£lll,OOO among his wife and children, in the following
manner, viz.—to his wife £31,000, to his daughter Eliza-
beth £25,000, to his daughter Lucy £25,000, and to his
son James the whole of his business, and £30,000, re-
commending him to employ " great care, strict attention,
absolute industry, and economy," towards improiing it.
The probate bears a stamp of £l,soo.—Britannia.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—EarIy on Wednesday
morning, the Messrs. Ritchie, father and two sons, fish-
ers, while following their usual occupation, left the quay
at Irvine in their boat, and proceeded to the bay, where
they spent a considerable time in fishing. A smart breeze
springing up, they steered homeward, and when about
reaching the bar-mouth the boat swamped, and, melan-
choly to relate, the whole crew perished, except the eldest
son, who providentialy got hold of an oar, to which he
adhered till some fearless seamen rescued him from a
watery grave.—Glasgow paper.
A MURRAIN.—As a proof of the alarming nature of
the disease among cattle and of its extent in our neigh-
bourhood. we may state—and we have the statement on
unquestionable authority—that in a district of eight or
ten miles round Derby, the loss of cattle from the cause
has been something like £2OOO within the last year or 15
months. Of course, the whole loss cannot be ascertained ;
but we have seen a list of 227 head of cattle lost by the
disease during this time, belonging to farmers residing
near us, which, valued at £8 each, is pretty nearly this
sum.—Derby Mercury.
THE INDIAN MAILS.—The mails from India, China,
&c., due by the Great Liverpool, arrived at the General
Post-office on the afternoon of yesterday week, via' South-
ampton. They were contained in sixty-five boxes, and
the number of letters alone exceeded 50,000. By great
exertions the London portion of them were delivered in
the course of the evening. A. great number of letters,
washed ashore from the wreck of the Memnon, have been
received by these mails, and most of them distributed.
Several, however, are so defaced by the sea-water, as to
render their delivery impossible,
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.—Sir F. Goodricke, at Cler-
mont Lodge, Norfolk, last week, entertained the Earl of
Cardigan, Lord Macdonald, Lord Maidstone, the Hon.
Captain Spencer, Mr. Payne, and Mr. Hungerford. The
party, consisting of seven guns, killed—November Bth,
252 pheasants, 438 hares, 107 rabbits. 13 partridges, 2
woodcocks ; total, 812. November 9th-331 pheasants,
305 bares, 162 rabbits, 3 partridges, 3 woodcocks; total,
804. November 10th-235 pheasants, 441 hares, 110
rabbits, 4 partridges, two woodcocks • total, 792. Total
818 pheasants, 1,184 hares, 379 rabbits, 20 partridges, 7
woodcocks. Grand total, 2,408 iu three days.

FIRES AT BIRMINGHAM.—About one o'clock on
Thursday week intelligence was received in Birmingham
of a fire at Yardley Mill, about three miles distant, and
which, on the arrival of the fire engines, proved to be of a
serious character, the mill and its contents being nearly
consumed. The mill is occupied as a water corn mill by
Mr. Wardhaugh, and the total loss will he about £600.--
On Wednesday last an alarming and destructive fire broke
out in the shopping connected with the premises of Mr.
Turley, japanner, Hospital. street, and which, from the
inflammable nature of the contents, very soon involved a
great destruction of property, probably to the extent of
£3OOO.

SINGULAR REMAINS OF ANTIQUITV.—SOnIe curious
remains of the footsteps of reptiles and unknown animals
have repeatedly been brought to light in the excavations of
the sandstone in Storeton Quarry, Cheshire. They are
literally casts from the impressions made by the reptiles
in the soft clay over which they walked. Two remark-
able fine specimens of these interesting remains of a for-
mer world may be seen in the possession of Mr. Deck, of
King's Parade, whose visit to the quarry this summer in
search of them was most successful. They are, we un-
derstand. purchased to add to the already beautiful col-
lection of geological curiosities belonging to the Univer-
sity.—Cambridge Chronicle.
THE LATE DUEL.—On Friday last, Inspector Aggs,
who, as it will be remembered, conducted in so efficient a
manner the inquiry relative to the death of the late
lamented Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, entered the Mary-
lebone police-court, and addressing the sitting magistrate,
Mr. Long, before whom the case had been gone into, in-
formed him that Lieutenant Munro and Lieutenant Grant
would surrender to take their trials at the next session of
the Central Criminal Court. Lieutenant Grant was the
first who gave notice to Mr. Maule, the solicitor to the
Treasury, of his intention to stand his trial, and shortly
after he had done so, Lieutenant Munro made a com-
munication to the same quarter to the like effect.
CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—In excavating a sewer in East-
lane, Walworth, and when the workmen had got near to
the Walworth-road, they discovered the remains of some
old building, which for a long time defied the power of
their pickaxes and shovels. At last they were enabled to
cut through about four feet of brickwork, and arrived at
the depth they had to go. The wall is supposed to be the
remains of Sir William Walworth's house, which, at the
time he was Lord Mayor, stood in the fields apart from
any other house. The wall extends nearly 50 yards up
East-lane. Sir William Walworth will be well remem-
bered for the part he took against Wat Tyler in the reign
of Richard 11., when he struck the blacksmith with, it is
said, the very mace which is now on show-days carried in
the Lord Mayor's state carriage.
A PANIC AMONG THE PATRONS OF THE TURF.—As a
set-off to the sweeping reforms which have recently been
effected on the turf by the exclusion of notorious default-
ers from places which they had sullied by their frauds,
certain " honourable members of the law" have put their
wits to work to find a " Roland for an Oliver," and we
hear that, on competent legal authority, qui tam actions
have been commenced against noblemen and gentlemen
of distinction, under the 9th Anne, c. 14, to recover pe-
nalties for " gambling," i.e. for winning money on the
turf to the amount of £30,000. The speculators have
gone at high game, and have marked down Lord Egling-
toun, Lord G. Bentinck, Col. Peel, Mr. Greville, cum
niullis aliis, whose winnings they expect to bag threefold.
—Berkshire Chronicle.

A SLAVE FROM THE LAND OF LIBERTY.--A run-
away slave, belonging to an American vessel that lay out
in the Penrath roads last week, was found secreted on
board a Waterford brig in the Bute docks, which he had
entered some weeks previous as an able seaman. A
strong patty of the American ship's crew, having ascer-
tained his place of retreat, entered the brig and forcibly
bore off the unfortunate slave. Neither remonstrance
nor resistance was offered on the occasion, and the Yan-
kee trader having conveyed the poor fellow on board, im-
mmediately set sail for his destination. The captured
slave was an excellent seaman, and bore upon his per-
son many and severe marks of his helpless condition, and
the brutality of his task-masters. [lt is a disgrace to the
people of Cardiff to have allowed this poor fellow to be
re-captured and dragged back by his tormentors from the
sanctuary of the British soil.]

STY BARROW CRAG, ULLSWATRR.—ThiS stupendous
cobble crag, so well known, and so greatly admired by
all tourists and geologists for its rugged barrenness, its
romantic grandeur, and wood and water scenery, either
on the night of Wednesday week or early on Thursday
morning, felt the first convulsive shock, and part of it
was shivered on the narrow pass in the public road lead-
ing from Penrith to Patterdale, when the Patterdale post-
man went past on the forenoon of Thursday. During
the time, however that he was at Patterdale, another more
severe convulsion had taken place, so that the road was
impassable from the large masses of rock which had fallen,
and he was obliged to return to Patterdale with his gig,
and find his way back to Penrith by traversing the higher
part of the mountain on foot. Since then the largest
block,, which were of immense size, have been rolled
down the mighty steep, on the opposite side of the road,
into the lake of Ullswater, which, at that place, is the
deepest part of it. This singular convulsion of Stybar-
row Crag has given rise to much excitement in that part
of Westmoreland.
THE PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER.—The last stone of
the lighthouse tower, at the western end of this stupen-
dous sea barrier, was set on Tuesday week by the Rear-
Admiral Superintendent of the dock-yard, Sir Samuel
Pym, K.C.8., who proceeded to the spot, accompanied
by his secretary, Mr. Dent, and his flag-lieutenant, Mr.
Potbury. Captai❑ Milne, of the Caledonia, 120, was also
present. The tower is 122 feet in height from the level of
the bottom of the sea, and 56 feet from the level surface
of the breakwater. It is composed of 31 courses of large
blocks of dressed granite, the first of which was laid by
the late superintendent of the dock-yard, Vice-Admiral
Warren, on the 22nd Feb- 1841. TY lighthour is

_ -iruary,
divided into five stories, in which are an oil-room. a store
room, a dwelling-room, a bed-room, and a watch-room.
It has 14 windows, seven of which are in the watch-room,
the frames being constructed of bell-metal, as are also the
outer doors. The lantern is the only thing now necessary
to complete it for service, which it is expected will be
ready to be brought into use early in the next year, when
it will supersede the old light vessel, which has been
moored in the Sound ever since 1815.

GUANO AS A MANURE.—As every information con-
nected with this new manure is now of the utmost im-
portance to the agriculturist, we have much pleasure in
laying before our readers the following details of an ex-

The produce of an acre of meadow
own with guano, in April, 1842, at the rat
.e. adding nine Winchester Bushels of asl
mw,l value of the laud, 20s. per acr

t Carl

e of 3 cwt

!s in mix-
In 1842,

no produce

of the same quality, without any man

7)4 ston

of hay ; increased weight of hay, 14
he same plot of ground produced,

in 1843, wi
total incre

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