The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

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A cowslip gathered a few days ago near Stamford
bore 77 pips on one stem.
A considerable depth of -now full at Barnsley on Mon-
day. awl lay on the ground for some time.
Ann Merritt, under sentence adeath for poisoning her
hutbknd at. Hackney. is to be transported for life.
A quantity of " dried geese" have been recently im-
ported into London from the Hanseatic States.
Many gentlemen's villas are being erected near Douglas,
Isle of Man.
The first. stone of the Wolverhampton Corn Exchange
will be laid en Wednesday. by G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq.
Si RANGE OCCUPATION.— a 0 i in portation has just taken
--place-of a parcel of hot seflush from Hamburg. The flesh
is dried and salted.
The health of the Duke of Rutland has been this week
the subject of alarm amongst his ftiendst and continues to
excite much anxiety.
Mr. o:oven, of Wykey, Shroashire, jumped out of a
railway carriage, near the station. last week. He received
such ii.juries as to cause his death.
The celebrated chapel, called Charlotte Chapel, Pimlico,
bas been purchased, it. is said. by the Tractarians, and
will he tratt-lortm d after their peculiar fashion.
A B.- rkshire paper says that the wife of an artisan, living
at Wargrave, has built with her own hands an excellent
brick. oven.
The Cholera Prayer, which nobody ever read except in
the newspApers, where it appeared for nothing, cost close
on £750 p-in ins !
The Free Church of Stornaway, Rosshire, has been
destroyed by tire. It was capable of accommodating
fifteen hundred people.
The ship Charlotte Jane. arrived in London from Can-
ton and the Cape of Good Hope has brought from the
former place 272 slabs of granite.
Mr. Tanner, of Buckholt, Notts, has lost nearly 220
sheep which had eaten sprouted corn, the seeds of which
had peen steeped in a solution of arsenic.
On Tuesday. Nlountjoy, the veteran pedestrian, accom-
plished the feat of walking 108 miles in 24 hours, with a
minute and a half to snare.
Major-General Sir W. Napier has published in Maga a
note. prote.ting against being supposed to have written his
history " on Whig principles God save the mark !"
On Sunday last, at Newport, Monmouthshire, an infant
nine months old rolled off a bed into a pan filled with
water, and was drowned therein.
A woodcock's nest, containing four eggs, with the hen
sittine was discovered last week in a plantation in Rich-
mond Park, and on Saturday the young birds were hatched.
On Friday week, the body of Margar t Hill. a single
woman, who had been seduced under promise of marriage,
was fotind stare ing in an upright position in a pit near
Leigh, with her dead child tied to her.
A person living at. Redditch, Worcestershire, keeps a
rabbit .in a pen much hilested-with mice, but as soon as
the little vermin make their appearance, the rabbit, with
cat-like vigilance, nounces unon and destroys them.
Upwards of 14,000 crows have been recently destroyed
by the farmers in the plantations in the vicinity of Sugiis-
maldie, with the view to stop their terrible ravages of the
young crops.
Upwards of two hundred and fifty abandoned women
were simultaneously stizud by the police of Glasgow, on
Wednesday night, in order to detect a robbery committed
by a person of that class.
Mr. Hunt, a ine merchant, of Bath, was killed on
Thursday, by being thrown from his gig, with which the
horse ran away. Another gentleman was in the gig, but
he contrived to keep his seat.
The Glasgow magistrates ere at present, under the
powers conferred on them by their lute police act, waging
war against the nuisance of writing indecent language on
the walls and doors of buildings.

Mr. Jos-•ph Clayton, one of the Doncaster Town Coun-
cil, fell last week from the top of a ladder, while inspect-
ing' some repairs at his dwelling-house. He pitched upon
his head, and only survived a few hours.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received the sum
of £283 7s. 10d., sent to him anonymously, "as cash re-
ceived in error in an old settled public account." He
will pay the amount into the Exchequer.
At the rent audit of the Marquis of Lansdowne, held
last week. a reduction of ten percent. was made upon the
rents. His lordship has riven directions fo4 a fresh sur-
vey of the whole of his Wiltshire estates.
EXTRAORDINARY BLAST--At the Silver Mine Lime
Works, Linlithgowshire, 3700 tons of stones were recently
raised at one blast; The quantity of powder used was 5
cwts.—Glasgow Mail.

A project is now on foot to hold a grand national regatta
•on the Like Windvrmere, the Queen of Lakes, at which
the Cambridge, Oxford, and other clubs are expected to
contend.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Mr.
Edward Kenealley, a barrister, was found guilty of an
aggravated assault on his natural son, aged six years.
Bentetice was deferred.

THE POWER OF STEAM.—On Wednesday, at half-past
two p.m., the London morning papers of that day were
received in Paris; and the Paris papers of Wednesday
were received in London, at six a.m, on Thursday.
A Cortiosrry ie MAY.—A gentleman in the neigh.
• bourhood of Lasswade, Edinbutgh, on the occasion of
the storm last week, rolled the snow in his garden into a
ball four feet in diameter.
Mr. John Bloom, of Ompton, Notts, was last Sunday
asked in church, he being about to become the husband
of a widow aged 71 years, who has three times previously
been married. The bridegroom is in his 92d year.
A sheep which had gained many prizes, and which had
never been shorn, died last week with seven years' fleece
on its back. The wool measured 25 inches in length, and
when shorn weighed 44 lbs.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has 'decreased from £16,646,835 to £16,573,331.,
being a difference of 73,505. The paper in actual circula-
tion has decreased from £21,484,248 to £21,337,326.,
being a difference of £146,922.
On Monday, a labourer named Thomas Mitchell, was
at work about a quarter of a mile below the Loughborough
station, when he stepped out of the way of a train, and
was knocked down by another on the other line. He
died in a very short time.
A few weeks ago, a child of Mr: Utley, mason, of Tad-
caster, Yorkshire, swallowed a coffee bean, which lodged
in its throat. It caused the discharge of much blood,
and, although the child at first was very fleshy, it became
a mere skeleton; -and died on Monday week.
The Perthshire Advertiser states, that, on the Ist of
May, the pondS around that. city were coated with ice ;
and adds, "The magnificent landscape which lies before
a spectator standing on the bridge of Perth is bounded on
the north by mountains still capped with snow."
At Worship-street Police-court, on Monday, Amelia
Gill, alias Shield; a young woman of lady-like appear-
ance, and statcd to be the daughter of a person holding a
situation in a government office, was committed for trial,
charged with extensive shoplifting.
Last week a blind horse fell through the roof of a
joiner's shop, in Fisliguard, Pembrokeshire, descending
through the upper story, and alighting on the ground
floor unhurt. A road, which runs at the back of the
,house, at that part is higher than the roof.
During a fight, arising out of a public-house squabble,
at Shrivenham,' Berks, one of the combatants, 'William
Bobey, after fighting an hour and a half, received a fatal
blow. The other man, Thomas llarman, and the two
seconds, have been committed for manslaughter.
' A. Dorsetahire paper relates that on Sunday week, at a
village about six miles s uth-west of Salisbury, a labour-
ing man, who regularly attends church, rose in the morn-
ing, went hedging on the downs, worked all day, as usual,
and brought home at his back a bundle of fuel, without
discovering that it was Sunday. until he met some person
of the village who asked him where he had been.
FLY.—THE CROP.—The continued cold weather is hav-
ing a very destructive effect upon the wheat crops in the
fens. The ravages of the wire worm are daily upon the
Increase, which nothing but a change from the severely
cold weather we have lately endured can stay. Many
pieces of wheat, which a few weeks ago looked most pro-
mising, are being ploughed up, and potatoes planted.—
Pnibridge Chronicle.

COMPENSATION TO A PROTECTIONIST.—The dispute
between his Grace the Duke ot Bedford and his tenant,
Mr. Bennett, has been settled, by the Duke taking the
farm off his tenant's hands, and paying £6351 lls. 4d., as
compensation for .the capital which Mr. Bennett had ex-
pended upon it.
There has been a slight rally in the various corn markets
this week, but it may be feared that, in the face of conti-
nued heavy importations from abroad, it will not be long
maintained. The general average price of wheat for the
week ending May 4th is only .£1 16s. 11d. per quarter,
barley £1 25., and oats 14s. 7d.
ANOTHER SAVINGS BANK DEFAULTER.—The Myer-
ston Advertiser, of Thursday, announces that the trustees
of the Savings Bank in that town, have discovered a de-
falcation to the amount of £B2B in the accounts of the
actuary. No loss will, however, accrue to the depositors,
as the bond of the actuary :s for £BOO.
WOOTTON BAssErr.—On Friday, Wm. Heal, best
known by the name of Corporal Heal, (having served in
the militia during the long French war,) buried his fourth
wife. It is very remarkable that his two brothers and
himself have married eleven wives! They are now widow-
ers, and each in anticipation of another venture.
A boy named Taylor died at Barkby Thore, Leicester-
shire, a few days since, from tetanus, superinduced by a
harrow tine piercing through his boot into his great toe,
close to the nail. The wound speedily healed, and six
weeks had elapsed before any symptoms of tetanus ap-
peared.
A contemporary says that the vegetables from Holland
were, until recently, sent over in immense wooden boxes,
and that these boxes accumulated so fast that they were
sold for firewood. To prevent this sacrifice it is said that
this sort of agricultural produce is now sent over in
coffins, which are sold to the undertakers.
A SNOWBALL IN MAY.—On Sunday last, the mail
from the north was delayed nearly a full hour, in conse-
quence of the obstruction which the train met with from
snow. The carriages on their arrival at Preston were
partially whitened on their tops with snow flakes, and one
of the porters at the station was enabled to collect a snow-
ball—a rather curious phenomenon in May.
A most splendid hall, to be used as a library and music
room, is being erected in the cloisters, Durham. It will
he nearly two hundred feet in length by twenty-four in
breadth, and when completed it will be the, largest hall in
the kingdom. It occupies the site of the Dormitory,
which was last occupied by the Rev. Dr. Wellesley and
family.
KIRBY LONSDALE SPRING FAlR.—This fair, 89 usual,
was held on Holy Thursd y; and although the show of
cattle was uncommonly large, a very great majority of the
animals were sad witnesses of the scarcity ot provender.
and could only be parted with at a reduction of full 30s.
per head upon the prices obtained at Kendal fair. The
few cattle that were in good condition fetched better
prices, and were easily disposed of.
THE WEATHER ROUND EDINBURGII.—The weather
for these some days has been very cold for the season,
but generally dry—Saturday night, however, was an ex-
ception. In the course of that night there was a consi-
derable fall of snow, and on Sunday morning Arthur's
Seat and the Pe.,tlands appeared in winter's covering;
and even on Tuesday white spots were to be seen in the
hollows of the hills.

The mansion built by Inigo Jones for Sir Godfrey
Kneller' where he resided many years, is to be sold by
auction by Mr. Robins, on the 16th inst. The house is
described among the curiosities of London, and although
of ancient date, is substantial, giving strong evidence of
the abundance of materials used in former times. Mr.
Sams, the well-known antiquarian, has long been the
tenant. His collection of Etruscan ware is supposed to
be the rarest in this country.
The Roman Catholic Tablet reproves Miss Sellon for
refusing to accept Lord Campbell's donations. True
Catholics would have taken the money and asked no ques-
tions. " Miss Sellon, if she had been a Roman Catholic
nun, would have humbly received the charity, even if the
donor had been Turk or Atheist, and, in return, without
any hypocritical humility about 11,r being unworthy to
pray for him—would continually have invoked God's
blessing upon him."
The Admiralty have disposed of the two iron stearin-
packets, the Celebrated Llewellyn, by Miller and Raven-
hill, and the St. Columba, by Laird, fur £20,000 each.
and both ships have been paid off at Holyhead. The
company have also hired the iron steam-packet Caradoc,
by Symonds, for a short time. The Fire Queen and Ot-
ter, extra vessels, have returned to Portsmouth and Chat-
ham to be paid off; and the Banshee, wooden vessel of
the Lewellyn, has been ordered to Chatham to be refitted
for the Mediterranean service.

The coroner's jury, in the case of the supposed mur-
der at Clapham, have returned the following verdict :
" That the said Sarah Snelling was found dead under very
mysterious circumstances; hut there were n) marks of
violence or discolouration on the body, nor any trace of
poison. That the body had been opened and examined
by a properly qualified medical man, together with an
analysis of the stomach and bowels, but that there was
no conclusive evidence to the jury as to the cause of de.
ceased's death."

MUNIFICENT DONATION.—Mr. Robert Bentley has
paid into the hands of Mr. J. Aldred, the greave of the
feoffees of Rotherham, the munificent donation of £2,500,
the interest to be annually divided between the poor and
deserving persons resident in the township of Rotherham ;
and a further sum of £soo—the interest of £4OO for the
Dispensary, and the interest of £lOO to the Wesleyan
Benevolent Society. Last week Mr. Bentley gave dona-
tions of £3OO to the Sheffield and Rotherham Licensed
Victuallers' Asylum fund. £2OO to the Sheffield Infirmary,
and £5O to the Sheffield Public Dispensary.
SUNDAY LABOUR AT TUE POST-OFFICE.—The Morn-
ing Herald takes advantaee of the admission in the offi-
cial minutes of the post-office, that the collection and dis-
tribution of letters on Sunday " is liable to no objection
on the part of the Post-office," it the public desire it, and
that even the stoppage of the mailbags on Sundays
"would be comparatively harmless with respect to all
towns situated within 200 or 250 miles of London," to
ask why to that extent Sunday labour should not be at
once abolished ; expressing at the same time its willing-
ness to let the necessities of the great towns in Scotland
and Ireland stand over for subsequent discussion.
Alexander Moir, baker, was charged at the Old Bailey
on Thursday last, with the murder of his wife by striking
and cutting her. Several witnesses deposed to the brutal
treatment of the prisoner towards his wife, and especially
to the savage assault which caused her death. The pri-
soner's counsel. Mr. Ballantine, said that it was impossi-
ble to defend the conduct of the prisoner; but that the
evidence did not hear out the charge of murder. The
jury were of the same opinion, and returned a verdict of
manslaughter. Baron Alderson, in passing sentence,
commented very strongly on the ferocity of the prisoner's
disposition towards his wife, and sentenced him to trans-
portation for life.
SHOCKING MURDER.—On Thursday, at the village of
Auchterarder, Perth, a Mr. Jack, a farmer in Gleneagles,
after attending the market which was held during the
day, went into the house of Mrs. Drummond, his sister,
with whom a brother of Jack's also lodges; and there
some words took place between the two brothers, regard-
ing some family matters which had never been satisfac-
torily settled : when on a sudden, during the dispute,
Jack pulled a spring-dagger from his pocket, rushed upon
his' brother, and stabbed him to the heart. The unfor-
tunate man only survived four or five minutes. Jack
was, a number of years ago, confined for some time in a
lunatic asylum.

NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.—The scientific world
has been in a state-of commotion during the whole week,
in consequence of the publication of the discovery of the
long sought-for secret of the fusion an I crystallisation of
carbon. The Sorbonne has been crowded for the last few
days to behold the result of this discovery in the shape of
a tolerably sized diamond of great luitre, which M. Des-
prezti the happy discoverer, submits to the examination
of every chemist or savant who chooses to visit him. He
declares that so long ago as last autumn he had succeeded
in producing the diamond, but in such minute particles as
to be visible through the microscope, and, fearful of rais-
ing irony and suspicion, he had kept the secret until, by
dint of repeated experiments and great labour, he had
completed the one he now offers to public view. The
diamond produced is of the quality known in the east as
the black diamond, one single specimen of which was sold
by Prince Rostoff to the late Duke of York for the sum
of twelve thousand pounds !—Paris correspondent of the
Atlas.

THE GLASS MAKERS, on the Tyne and Wear, the
largest glass district in England and its locality, on its
first introduction, are now, we learn from an authentic
source, in the most reduced condition. Men who earned
from 303. to 355, per :week, and not unfrequently more,
previous to the• free-trade tariff, are now but too happy to
be employed breaking stones on the highway at ls. per
day, to keep their families from starving or out of the
workhouse. Our informant lately from that district has,
during the severities of the late winter, seen many scores
of them so employed. The glass of Bohemia, France,
and Germany is introduced into the London market at.
ten per cent. cheaper than it can be manufactured in Eng-
land. The plate glass alone is that only able hitherto to
sustain the cheap and ill-paid labourer of foreign States.
This, we are afraid, is but an indication of the fate of the
workmen of other British trades—all fast sinking to the
same ruin—till the cotton-maker himself may be included
in the common ruin, though for a brief time he may he
secured behind the barrier of his giant machinery. The
glass trade of this district is in the same unsatisfactory
condition.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BILIOUS ATTACK, IN-
DIGESTION, AND FLATULENCY CURED ' OLLOWAY'S
FlLLS.—Kbairatee Khan, a native c lant of Patna, in
the East Indies, suffered for y from bile, indigestion,
and flatulency; and althou e consulted the most
neat surgeons in the pro • co, yet he derived no benefit
from their treatment, t gradually became more debili-
tated. Having on ay a severer attack than usual, he
aetfrenined to t olloway's Pills, and this fine medicine,
which has ained such high repute throughout the
world, v oon reinstated him in perfect health, and in
gratitude for the benefit he desires this wonderful cure
may be made public.

A LADY'S DILEMMA.—In looking over the " Corres-
pondence" of some of our more fashionable papers, it
will be perceived that most of the " Answers" relate to
complaints on the part of the fairer half of creation, re-
specting the ravages which atmospheric influe es
with the complexion. In lieu of bloom a eauty they
expiate on a long train of personal disfigurations, in the
shape of pimples, tan, freckles,, arc.—eruptive horrors,
all ! And what is a lady to do 4h this dilemma ? She has
her bane: where is she to look for her antidote? Why,
it is " before her," in Re ilands' Kalydor—a mild, sooth-
ing extirpator of all.4mpurities of the skin ; prepared
from the choicest exotics of a balsamic nature; utterly
free from minerar substances ; harmless in its compo-
nents ;•grateful:in.its.effects. It neutralizes•atmoseheric
extremes, and promotes the healthy action of the micros-
copic vessel(; arid thus—
" Adds to beauty all the charms of health!"
—See AdverNement.