The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-22 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Henry Wright, Norwich. wine-mercht.nt.
Thomas Knight, Gilheit-street, Oxford-street, London, corn-
chandler.
Stephen Godson, Mincing-lane, London, wine-merchant •
William Bailey, Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. London, currier.
Samuel Roberts, Farrington-street, London ,floor cloth manufacturer
William James Potter, Little Compton-street, Soho, London, vii.
tualler.
William Avling. Great Portland-street, Marylebone, chemist.
James Seaber, Newmarket, scrivener.
Joseph Wrigley. Manchester, fustian manufacturer.
Robert Hides, Chesterfield; Derbyshire, grocer.
Samuel Hider, Brighton, builder.
DIVIDENDS.

October 9, J. Weeks, Lime-street, London, hide-dealer—Oct. 9, R.
Vaughan, London, coffeehouse-keeper—Oct. 9, R. Pullen, Leeds, dyer
—Oct. 9, .1, ii. Hutchinson, London. victualler—Oct. 2, J. Watson,
London, baker—Nov. 19, J. Carter, London, woollen-warehouseman
—Ocl, R. B. Hogg, innior, Armley, Leeds, cloth-manufacturer—Ost,
10, %%, I'. Crewe, Newcastle-under-Lyme, surgeon—Oct. 12, .1. and
W. Robinson, Burslem, Staffordshire, common-brewers—Oct. 13, G.
Brown, Marlborough, ironmonger—Oct. 9, J. Wright, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, jeweller—Oct. 9, C. Ryland, Birmingham, iron-merchant
—Oct. 15, J. Edwards, Brxnnaawr, Llanelly—Oct. 15, I'. Hatton,
Heaton Norris, Lancashire, innkeeper.

CERTIFICATES
To be granted, unless MEuse be shown to the contrary on or before the
9th day of October.
J. Clayton,. Bux.tori,, Derbyshire, draper—J. Strongman, junior,
London, Rout-factor—V. Emmett, London, pin-maker—C. and C.
Wood, London. printbrs—J. Noble, Cumberland-row, Westgate,.
Northumberland, shipowner—C. H. Nicolas, Westminster, blacking-
manufacturer—W. Owen, Manchester. glass-dealer—T. Jones, Little
Newport-street, London, trimming-seller.

A LEECH BURROWING IN THE HUMAN THIGH.—Dr. Roe
of Cavan, mentioned a curious case of this nature at the Dublin
meeting. He said that he was called some time back to visit
the daughter of a farmer residing at Drum, in the county of Ca-
van; the girl had been attacked several days previously with in-
flammation of the thigh, and at the time of his arrival was labour-
ing under severe symptomatic fever, with delirium. The thigh
was tense, red, and shining, enlarged to nearly twice its natural
size, and extremely painful. No cause could be assigned for the
disease, and he was informed that until the occurrence of the pre-
sent attack she had always enjoyed excellent health. Having
ascertained the existence of a collection of matter under the fas-
cia, he made an incision, and evacuated a bowlful of pus, mixed
with what he considered to be clots of blood. His attention was.
not directed to the contents of the abscess at that time ; besides,
the room was dark, and he was anxious to give vent to the pus
as quickly as possible, as the patient was extremely restless. On
emptying the matter from the bowl on a clean flag outside the
door, the girl's mother was surprised to find among it a leach, a,
coiled up, quite alive, and moving actively. She immediately
brought the leech to him, and it continued to live for several
days afterwards. On inquiring minutely into the history of the
case, he found that some days before she first complained of the
limb she had been gathering water-creases in a ditch; and had
felt hurt in or about the ankle of the inflamed limb, but did net
pay much attention to it at the time. On examining the ankle,
he found a triangular cicatrix, such as that which might be pro-
duced by a leech-bite. fact would seem to prove that such
animals can.enter, burrow in, and preserve' their 7 itality in the
soft parts of the human body. A member asked whether Dr.
Roe meant to state that he did not know any other way in which
it could enter. The animal in question was what is called a
horse-leech, and which is generally found in ditches and stand
tug pools.—Medical Gazette.
LOVE IN A CHEST.—One of the strangest examinations ever
heard of took place at the town-clerk's office, in this city, on
Saturday last. Benjamiu Curtis is a servant of Mr. Heanley-.
of Branstoufeu, and had formerly been fellow-servant with'a
girl, who, it seems, had become strongly attached to him. Dur-
ing the last week the girl was observed lingering about Mr.
Heanley's premises, and some suspicions as to the nature of her
connexion with Curtis were awakened. At length a female
servant of Mr. Heanley found her one day under Curtis's bed.
The strange girl, however, hid herself, and could not be found,
on other residents of the house being fetched up stairs. No
further discovery was made until Friday last, when a rumbling
being beard in Curtis's bet-chamber, IVlr. Heanley ran up
stairs, but could see nothing, nor obtain any answer to his calls. '
The same noise being renewed ere Mr. Heanley reached the
buttons of the stairs, he again ascended, and seeing a chest
move, he laid his hand on it, and knocked, and was answered
by a tow moan. -Curtis was just at that mbinent returned Trout
Lincoln, whither his master had despatched him in the morning
on business. Mr. Heanley called him up stairs, and he imme-
diately unlocked the chest, where lay the foolish but pitiable
girl, half dead with suffocation. Curtis immediately made con-
fession that he had locked the girl up, at her own request, in the
morning, on receiving his master's orders for Lincoln—the
erring fair,one's fear of discovery being so strong as to over-
' come all dread of the risk of suffocation. She had been for
twelve hours crowded into a space three feet long, and one fook
and a half wide. Her age is but nineteen, and her stature not
giant-like. T. the latter consideration, iu a great degree, the
preservation of her existence in such an unusual love prison, is,
no doubt, to be attributed. The girl was sent home,, after re-.
I ceiving suitable censure from the magistrates.— I.4.incoin Mercury.

BANK OP ENGLAND.—A General Court of Proprietors of
Bank Stock was held on Thursday in the Court Room, for the
purpose of declaring a dividend for the current year. The go-
vernor stated that the Court of Directors had proposed a divi-
dend of four per cent. on the half-year ending 10th of October
next.—Mr. Selwyn wished to ask whether the profits of the con-
cern, which had accrued in the last half-year, exceeded or fell
short of the amount that wnuld be required to pay the dividends
which become due on the 10th of October ?--The governor said,
having anticipated that the question would be put, he was pre-,
pared to answer it. The dividend was made up by taking
r 19,000 from the" Rest" (the reserved funds of the corporation),
which on the 31st of Augu=t was :C2,740,041; and this, added to
£12,000 taken for the dividend in April last, made £31,000.—
the whole deficiency up to the 31st ult. This he deemed a very
trifling reduction of profit, particularly when it was considered
that in this the first year of the new charter coining into opera-
tion, no less than E. 120,000 had been deducted from the amount
they had before received for the management of the pub-
lic debt from government. This shows that the concerns
of the bank were prosperous; and the directors therefore
recommended that the present dividend should be continued.
The statement that the bank had received a sum of v.15,000„6 3
composition for the losses sustained through Fanntleroy, was
cheered by the proprietors, under the persuasion that it was so
much added to the current profits of the half-veur; but it wag
afterwards stated, in answer to questions put, that it neither
formed part of the dividend nor of the " Rest," but had been
set off against a stun estimated as the probable loss by Faun:le-
toy, to which it was not quite equal. The total loss by Faunt-
leroy was E:360,000. and of this £.250,000 was written off as irre-
coverable. The difference between these two sums is £llO,OOO,
exclusive of any accumulation of interest, and the bank having
now accepted £95,000 as a composition or final dividend, it fel-,
lows that there isa further loss of £13,000, at least, to be placed
to the debt of the nex,t half year, and which is, of course, a fur-
ther diminution of the " rest." After a few more observations
from different proprietors, the motion for a dividend o four_per
cent. was agreed to. It was stated that warrants for the divi-
dend would be ready and paid on the 12th of next month. Mr.
M•othew Marshall has been appointed chief cashier to the Bahlt
of England, in the mom of the late Mr. Thomas Rippon.