The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

THE tiVERPOOL STANDARD.

CURIOUS CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DUKE
OF WELLINGTON.

A Kent contemporary furnishes us with a. remarkable
correspondence that has taken place between Mr. Wad-
dington, surgeon of Margate, and his Grace the Duke of
Wellington, respecting a whale caught on the Long Stnd
a short time since. The circumstances out of which it
arose are thus stated :—"The Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports' officers having claimed, and sold by auction for
£6O, the whale lately captured, alive, upon the Long
Sand, and towed into Margate Bay by the crew of the
Liberty lugger, the novel case was, at their request, re-
spectfully submitted by Mr. Waddington to his Grace the
Duke of Wellington. The three principal points sub-
mitted to the consideration of the Lord Warden of the
Cinque Ports were-Ist. That a whale was not a ' royal
fish,' but a mammiferous animal, having warm red blood,
in common with birds. 2ndly. That it was a denizen of
the deep, and had never been the property of any one.
3rdly. That it was taken alive, and at considerable risk to
the lives and property of the captors." To this the Lord
Warden refers the mariners to the Court of the Admi-
ralty of the Cinque Ports. Mr. Waddington again writes,
stating that that court had awarded the captors £2B 125.,
a moiety of £57 45., less £2 16s. expenses for sale and
printing. Mr. Waddington again writes, urging his
Grace to take the case of the poor mariners who captured
the whale into his consideration, expressing a hope that
in kindness and charity his Grace would forego his claim
upon the monster of the deep. To this appeal his Grace
thus snappishly replies—

" The duke is not aware that a Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons has any relation with the Court of Admiralty of the
Cinque Ports. The Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports,
after inquiry, decreed that the whale brought into Margate be-
longed to the Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports ;
and further that out of the proceeds the sum of .e2B 12s. was to
be paid to the salvors or finders, which sum has been paid to
those men in conformity with the decree. The remainder of
the proceeds, after paving the charges, is at the disposal of the
Lord Warden ; and the Duke of Wellington will take the liberty
of disposing of the same without consulting the opinion of Mr.
Waddington."

The reply of Mr. Waddington to this rebuff is very
dignified, and must have made the iron duke smart a
little. He says—

" I assumed not any relation with your Grace's jurisdiction :
I did but appeal to the great ane.. powerful in behalf of the
friendless and poor. My professional designation showed that
I am not a lawyer; and if, when considering the law of reason
and humanity only, I misapprehended the law of the courts, I
might have reckoned on being spared your Grace's repulse.
To this, however, I must submit, as mightier men have been
obliged to do; consoling myself as well I may, in the integrity
of my purpose."

In Trentham pool, Staffordshire, a few day's ago,
" trimmers" were laid at night by the keeper for pike,
and in the morning -a pike and a heron were found se-
cured to one of them. It is supposed that the pike first
took the bait, and swallowed the hook and that the
heron afterwards seized the pike, and in tearing out the
entrails encountered the hook.
A balloon of a new form was, it appears, inflated at the
gas works, Kennington-oval, on Friday last, and after-
wards ascended with its inventor, a Mr. Bell, from that
place on the evening of the same day. It reached the
earth again safely at High Layer, in Essex, but in its
descent a man named Frederick Clark, who was attempt-
ing to render assistance, was killed by the grapnel.
A London paper states that Prince Albert has recently
sent an exceedingly able and valuable paper to the Royal
Agricultural Society of England on " The Sewerage of
Towns," in which his royal highness developes a plan for
filtering the sewers at convenient intervals, thus accumu-
lating in convenient tanks a rich and valuable manure,
and liberating the water from all mechanical admixture of
impurity.
WHO WOULDN'T BE A PRISONER ?—At the Town
Council meeting at York last week, the gaol finance com-
mittee reported that it cost Ils. per week to maintain
each prisoner, whilst the children in the ragged school
only cost lJd. per day. What ! a prisoner live at the
rate of Ils. per week. There are many poor families who
have not as much to pay all their demands. Well may
we have so many depredations committed. A lodging for
a month or two in a " first-rate boarding-house" does
not present itself every day.
RE-ISSUE OF THE FLORIN.—The Master of the Mint
announced, on Monday last, that the florin would shortly
be re-issued, with the addition of those words (recognising
the Supreme Being, and the supremacy of the Queen in
these realms,) which that Popish Minister had omitted.
He also announced a large issue of silver threepences.
This small coin will greatly facilitate the convenience of
" change!' But it will behove parties receiving small
silver change to be on the look out to avoid receiving
threepenny for fourpenny pieces.
A SOLDIER ROLLED TO DEATH.—On Monday morn-
ing, about seven o'clock, a party of soldiers belonging to
the 28th Regiment, at Portsmouth, having been on
fatigue on South Sea Common, were returning to quar-
ters, drawing after them a very large iron roller charged
with iron shot, when, in descending the road to the centre
of the glacis at a rapid pace to escape the rain at the time
falling, one of the men fell, and in an instant the pon-
derous machine passed over the unfortunate fellow, whose
head and body were so fearfully crushed that instanta-
neous death resulted.

It appears that the celebrated authoress Miss Jane
Porter was born in Durham. Her baptismal register
occurs in the books of St. Mary-le-Bow, in that city.
Her mother was a Miss Blenkinsop, the daughter of a
member of the choir of the cathedral, whose grave and
tombstone are in the burial yard attached to St. Oswald's
Church. Mr. Porter, father of the deceased lady, was
interred in the same churchyard. Maternally, we believe,
Miss Porter was connected with the family of John
Adamson, Esq., of Newcastle.
LORD BROUGHAM IN A NEW DRESS.—At Tuesday
evening's sitting of the House of Lords, Lord Brougham
startled their lordships from their propriety by entering
the House dressed in white silk stockings, blue breeches,
and a frock coat. The noble and learned lord kept the
House in a state of excitement by moving his legs about
admiringly in all directions—the more grave and reverend
of their lordships evidently feeling alarm lest his eccentric
lordship should take it into his head to dance a pas seul
on the woolsack, round which he gyrated like one under
the influence of some irresistible fascination.

Amongst the persons who applied to Mr. Elliott at the
Lambeth Police Office for relief from the funds in the
poor-box was an aged and feeble woman of ladylike man-
ners, and her case was found to be so deserving that Mr.
Elliott ordered her £5 from the poor-box. The appli-
cant, it appeared, is the granddaughter of the celebrated
John Robertson, author of " Elements of Navigation," a
work that has done more for the improvement of the
British navy and British sailors than any work that has
ever been published ; but who, like many other distin-
guished writers, had, in 1776, left his daughter totally
unprovided for.

POSITION or THE NEW COMET IN JUNE.—From
note published by M. Hind, the eminent astronomer, it
appears, that during the next fortnight the track of the
comet lately discovered by a continental explorer will be
nearly parallel to a line joining the stars called 31 (Psi)
and 15 (A) in Draco, the comet being always about two
degrees nearer to the pole than this line, and moving
towards the latter star. At the end of June it will enter
Bootes, and, subsequently, traverse the whole length of
this constellation, passing most likely about a degree
west of the bright star Arcturu near the middle of July.
It will be finally lost on the confines of Virgo and Hydra,
shortly before the perihelion pas sage, on the Ist August.
PROSPECTS OF THE GRAIN MARKETS.—The prices
of corn are not rising, but falling ; and, should the
weather continue favourable, and the country be blessed
with an average harvest, it is deemed highly probable
that wheat will fall to 30s. per quarter. The quantity of
foreign grain and flour imported and entered for con-
sumption during four weeks in the month of May con-
sisted of 1,007,469 quarters of wheat and 109,372 cwt. of
flour, making in the whole more than one million of qrs.
of foreign grain during the month ! In presence of such
a fast, we care not a rush for the assertions of those that
affirm that the foreigner cannot send his corn to England
at present prices without a loss. He does send it ; and,
if he wants to turn his produce into money, he must send
it to England—as this is the only country in the world
which will receive it.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the
National Society for educating the poor in church princi-
ples, was held on Wednesday, at Westminster, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury in the chair. The Archbishop of
York, and many of the right reverend prelates were also
present. The report presented no feature of remarkable
interest, and the principal business of the meeting was in-
troduced by a resolution proposed by the Rev. G. A.
Denison, which reiterated the displeasure already ex-
pressed by the committee of the National Society at the
proceedings of the committee of Privy Council on Educa-
tion. This resolution was seconded by Lord John Man-
ners. An amendment was moved by the Rev. H. Hughes,
and supported by, among others, Mr. Page Wood, M.P.,
but the original motion was, after some warm debating,
carried by a large majority.
Miss Sinclair, a lady living at Leopold Place, Edin-
burgh, was awakened during the night by a noise in her
bedroom ; and she found a young man standing by her
bedside, with a pistol in one hand and a candle in the
other. his face disguised by a plaister of rouge. He de-
manded ten pounds. Miss Sinclair said she had not the
money ; and on her niece, a little girl, corroborating this,
the ruffian presented the pistol at her. He then ordered
the lady to show him the plate-chest, and made her rise
in her night-clothes. While looking for the keys of the
chest, she noticed that the door-key was outside the
bedroom; in a moment she sprang through, and locked
the robber in ; then hastened into the street and raised
an alarm. When assistance came, it was found that the
burglar had escaped at the back of the house, descending
to the ground by means of a pipe. He carried off a
watch and guard • chain.
FRIGHTFUL THUNDER-STORM AT PENRITH.—A most
awful storm of thunder passed over the country (Thursday
week) by Penrith and Deere. At Penrith a cow belonging
to Mr. Joseph Proud, was killed by lightning. At Deere,
during the funeral of Mr. John Ellwood, the people were
driven from the grave side into the church, and while
there the lighthing came through the chancel window, car-
ried away the books, went out at the other end of the
church, and knocked down the chimney top of an adjoin-
ing cottage. In the course of a few seconds another light-
ning shaft entered the said cottage by the door, knocked
four people down senseless, went out at the window and
took with it a large portion of the window sill. A little
girl ran out to give the alarm, and those who had taken
refuge in the church proceeded to the cottage. The four
people were dead to all appearance, but in the course of
an hour they began to recover.
THREE SUNS IN THE HEAVENS.—A celestial pheno-
menon of rather remarkable nature was observed here on
Monday evening last. Between the hours of half-past
five and half-past seven o'clock there were three suns
shining in the firmament, the true sun in the centre, and
a mock sun on each side of him ; all the three were in a
line parallel to the horizon. The suns were surmounted
with a circular halo, like a faint rainbow, and to a specta-
tor in Perth a slightly arched and very remarkable cloud
stretched from Moncreiffe-hill to Birnam-hill, and seemed
to rest on each of these elevations. The far background
of the suns seemed to be composed of dark silver, from
which grotesque clouds towered aloft in bold relief, their
edges burnished with radiance from the triple lumi-
naries. At one time the most northerly of the false suns
appeared brighter and better defined than the true one.
The beautiful but substantial vision had passed quite
away before eight o'clock, leaving not a wreck behind.—
Perthshire Advertiser.

AGGRAVATED HOMICIDE.—On Monday evening, a man
of the name of Samuel Law was killed in a beerhouse at
Sheffield, under circumstances of gross atrocity. He was
a slater by trade, 39 years of age, and lived in a locality
called " Back Fields." During the day he was drinking
in the company of a disreputable woman of the name of
Lydia Robinson. At five o'clock in the afternoon they
were at a low beerhouse in Sims Croft, kept by a woman.
of the name of Hannah Bates, where a quarrel ensued be-
tween Law and four young men. One young man, in a
great rage, leapt upon a table, swearing that he would
" Jump Law's b—y entrails out." Suiting the action to
the word, he immediately leapt with all his weight upon
Law's breast. The suddenness and force of the contu-
sion caused the blood to rush from the prostrate man's
mouth and nostrils, imparting such a tremendous shock
to his entire system that he died almost instantly without
uttering a word. Bernard Housley, a steel melter, living
in Ward-street, was soon after apprehended at a tavern
on a charge of being concerned in the diabolical act. The
other three are well known to the police.
FEARFUL COLLISION IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—
LOSS OF A LARGE SHlP.—About five o'clock yesterday
(Friday) morning, as the Brilliant steamer, from Hayle,
was proceeding up channel, when about three miles North
West of Ilfracombe, she spoke the barque Glenlyon, out-
ward bound from Cardiff, and laden with coals. The
master of that vessel reported that, on Wednesday morn-
ing, between twelve and two o'clock, he came in collision
with a large vessel, name unknown, bound from Valpa-
raiso to Swansea, laden with copper ore. Both ships at
the time were laying well up on their respective courses,
and being on opposite tacks, they came into collision
with such fearful force, that the vessel from Valparaiso
sunk before three o'clock. The crew betook themselves
to their boats, and, after tossing about for some time,
were picked up by a small steamer, and taken into Swan-
sea. As for the Glenlyon she was herself almost a total
wreck. She lost her three masts, bowsprit, and the
whole of her standing and running rigging, whilst her
larboard bulwarks and bow were completely stove in.
It is very satisfactory to be able to state that, so far as we
could learn,, there have been no lives lost —Bristol

CURIOUS FACT IN NATURAL HISTORY.c-zlii the
month of November last, Mr. C. Aukland, Betwell-
street, Chesterfield, sold a hen pigeon of the tumbler
breed to a person residing at Whittington Moor. About
seven days ago she returned, her domicile having in the
interval been converted .into a rabbit cote, and found five
young rabbits which had been born a few days previously ;
these she adopted as her own offspring, and has ever
since sat upon and nursed them, refusing to allow the
mother to approach the nest in her presence.
ORANGEISM.—The anniversary of the lodges belong-
ing to the Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orange-
men in the Bradford district, was celebrated on Sunday
week. In the morning, a procession of more than 500
members proceeded to the Bradford Parish Church, being
joined, when they arrived at the vicarage in Leeds-road,
by the Rev, Dr. Burnet, as a member of the order, who
was attired in full canonicals. On arriving at the church
the organ played the national anthem ; and on their re-
turning the old bells rang a merry. peal. Dr. Burnet
preached an appropriate and able sermon from Jude, 3rd
verse. The rev. doctor enforced the duty of Orangemen
contending for the faith once delivered to the saints, and
showed that the principles and professions of Orangeism
inculcated not only loyalty, order, and attachment to the
laws and constitution of the realm, but likewise constant
devotedness to works of charity, mercy, and brotherly
love. The brethren left the church in the order in which
they went. A large number subsequently dined at the
Moulders' Arms, Sticker-lane.

ADULTERATIONS.-It is not very agreeable to read the
accounts that occasionally come before us of the nasty
stuff which certain of her Majesty's subjects are com-
pelled to eat and drink. In the House of Commons, a
great fuss has been made about the adulteration of coffee.
We are told that a good-looking compound is made up of
a small portion of genuine coffee, a good deal of chicory,
refuse ship-biscuit, damaged bean-flour, rope-yarns, rad-
dle, and soot to deepen the colour. Filthy stuff, certainly ;
yet one may escape it by buying coffee whole. But how
will the Londoners manage about their milk ? A me.li-
cal gentleman has published a book upon the horrible
practices of the London milkmen. Chalk and water are
innocent things, and happy is the Londoner who gets off
with such harmless and pleasant additions to his morning's
meal. London milk has very little indeed to do with
cows it is made of bullocks' brains, soft water, whiting,
and the scrapings of raw hides, coloured (if you will insist
on cream) with a little of the thing called annatto : the
thicker your cream, the more bullock's brains are you
treated to.

ROMISH BLASPHEMY.—The Tablet boasts of a" patron-
age" as illustrious—we cannot say more illustrious, for it
places the Virgin and the Godhead on a parity—as that of
the " Four Archbishops." About to multiply its periods
of publication, it thus announces its intention :—ln about
three or four weeks, on a day to be fixed very shortly, the
first number of the Evening Tablet, will—please God and
our blessed Lady—be published. On this the Evening
Herald remarks :—Here is no " wet " popery, but a
frank, a fearless prominence accorded to its most offensive
and vulnerable doctrines. " Our blessed Lady " takes her
seat upon the throne of Omnipotence and wields a veto
upon the decrees of the Trinity ' Well, no wonder that
the organs of popery should unmask thus daringly the
features of their idol when they find so cordial and
genuine. a zeal in act as well as profession among their
partizans. After all, good may come of it. This open
association of a creature with the Being who gave her
birth and pronounced her, as he pronounced others,
" blessed," cannot but revolt the reflecting, and compel
them to consider whether it is meet and warrantable. For
our parts, we always think it better to have absurd things
propounded plainly than insinuated secretly.
DISCOVERY OF A MURDER COMMITTED ELEVEN
YEARS SINCE.—The Otley correspondent of the Leeds
Intelligencer gives the following account of the discovery
of a murder committed eleven years ago :—On Saturday
last, as some men were digging for peat on Roggan or
Rocking Moor, an extensive and barren waste, situate in
the forest, about 13 miles from Otley, they found the
body of a man in a state of decay, with his clothes on,
just under the surface, and covered over with ling, which
had been cut from the common for that purpose. The
remains were conveyed to the Gate Inn, West End, when
an inquest was held on Sunday before Mr. Brown, of
Skipton—verdict not known. On Monday the remains
were buried in Fewston Church-yard. We understand
that about eleven years ago a man of the name of Carlin
was missing, and, as no intelligence could be had of him,
a man named Jonathan Bland, in whose company Carlin
was last seen, was strongly suspected of having used foul
play towards the missing man. Bland and Carlin were at
that time in partnership as cattle-dealers. Bland ac-
counted for Carlin's absence by stating that he had gone
to America. The body found on Saturday hasbeen iden-
•tified by several persons, from the dress and other little
things found in the pockets of the clothes, to be that of
the man Carlin. Jonathan Bland has been apprehended.
THE ASSYRIAN RESEARCHES.—CoIoneI Williams, her
Majesty's boundary ccrnmissioner, who has lost no oppor-
tunity of supporting Mr. Layard in his operations, occu-
pies his spare time at the present moment at Workah, an
immense ruin with of Babylon. He had previously dis-
patched Mr. Loftus, the naturalist attached to his diplo-
matic mission, accompanied by a young gentleman (son
of the late Mr. Churchill, acting as interpreter), with the
caravan of mules and horses by the way of the Mesopo-
tamian deserts, and these explorers have been fortunate
enough to discover entire mines of antiquities, consisting
of bricks with very perfect inscriptions, which cannot
fail to throw considerable light upon the period of history
to which the city, to whose previous existence they bear
testimony, belong. In addition to this, they discovered
coffins of glazed earthenware, out of which they took
armlets and anklets, furnished with inscriptions in a very
perfect state. From these it is probable that information
as to the burial ceremonies of the dead may be collected,
in illustration not only of their domestic life, but also of
their religious ceremonies connected with the final desti-
nation of body and soul. In the short space of three days,
Mr. Loftus (by the assistance of Arab excavators) had
collected from these mounds sixty very curious relics, the
most important of which consisted in armlets, anklets,
arrow heads, bronze and clay statuettes, bracelets, and a
sword : and, in addition to them, innumerable inscrip-
tions. On his return to head-quarters, whither Mr. Lof-
tus considered himself bound to proceed, to obtain an ex-
tension of leave, in order to revisit the scene of his suc-
cessful labours, he loaded his mules with some fragments
of a statue in black basalt, all of which will be transmitted
to England with Layard's third exportation of Assyrian
marbles.
ARREST OF A RUNAWAY PARTNER.—The Constitu-
tionnel publishes the following communication from Lille :
" An arrest has taken place in this town under somewhat
extraordinary circumstances. One of the four partners
of a banking-house in London had one fine day been
found missing, and, together with him, the funds in the
strong box, amounting to the enormous sum of £125,000.
He had taken refuge in Belgium, and his place of retreat
was known. Either because it was easier to arrest him in
France, or because there was danger in seizing him in his
own quarters, a plan, by which he should be drawn to
Lille, was imagined and executed, though not without
trouble by the three injured partners. The delinquent had
been on terms of intimacy with a woman employed in his
establishment. This woman was gained over. She wrote
to her former paramour that she could not longer live
without him, that she was about to quit England, and
that he must meet her at Lille, where a letter addressed
poste restante would indicate the hotel to which she had
repaired. The three partners, reckoned greatly upon the
success of their stratagem, took a special steamboat on
Saturday evening and performed a rapid voyage, which
cost them nearly £4O. At four o'clock in the morning
they arrived at Lille, where they secured the assistance of
the police, in case their prey should have taken the bait.
They placed themselves in ambush near the post-office,
one of them taking up his position within that establish-
ment, two others at M. Barrat's, a hairdresser, opposite
the Rue Marais, and the police at the cabaret of the Cave
of St. Paul. They were not long in suspense, for at 11
o'clock precisely the expected delinquent, not suspecting
any treason, on stepping out of the train, proceeded im-
mediately towards the Rue Marais. We shall not depict
his astonishment at seeing himself suddenly surrounded
by those whom he could now look upon as his most for-
midable enemies. He perceived at once that resistance
was useless, and accompanied the police to the lock-up-
house, where he will remain confined until he is despatched
to England, where he will have to answer for his delin-
quency."
ELOPEMENT.—The ancient little town of H—, in the
Lake district, celebrated in the last generation for the
excellence of its grammar school, from which proceeded
some of the best scholars of the day, was on Wednesday
thrown into a state of much excitement by an event that
affords abundant food for the gossips thereof, in the form
of that most piquant of all dishes to them—an elopement, '
the principals in which aro the only daughter of the cler-
gyman and a disciple of Esculapius, some time practising
in the town and neighbourhood, but a native of the Emer-
ald isle. It appears that the young lady was first missed
at the usual breakfast hour, and, on the maid being sent
to her bed-room, she, on knocking, received no answer,
and on entering she found that the young lady was not
there, and that her bed had not been occupied. Inquiries
were immediately instituted by the distracted parent in
town, but she was not to be found, and it was soon disco-
vered that Mr. L— was missing also, and when such
was known the conclusion was at once jumped to that the
twain had flown on the wings of love to that shrine of
Hymen so enchanting to young ladies in general—
" Gretna," a route taken by so many of those with whom
" the course of true love runs not smooth" at home.
Directly this discovery was made, post horses were ordered,
and as soon as possible two parties were off in pursuit
northward as fast as horses and wheels would carry them.
It appears, however, that the enamoured couple had a
good start, having crossed Windermere during the night,
and taking a conveyance had arrived at Oxenholme Sta-
tion, (the junction of the Kendal and Windermere with
the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway,) for at the early hour
1 of six they were seen by a gentleman returning from Lan-
caster, taking their places in the train proceeding north-
ward, and who knowing them, more than suspected the
place of their destination. The pursuers arrived too late
at the hymeneal goal, for the marriage had taken place.
The happy couple, however, were encountered on their
return southward, and were induced to proceed home,
where a scene of no little violence was enacted, and the
lady, we understand, was placed under restraint; but
whether a reconciliation has since ensued our informant
does not say.—Preston Guardian.
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