The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Four men were drowned in Falmouth roadstead yes-
terr'ay week, by the upsetting of a boat.
Up/vards of 1,000 acres of land, planted with potatoes,
are lying in a putrescent state at Savinton, near Ilminster.
The Romanists are building a magnificent convent and
school at Derby, and the Jesuits and Sisters of Charity
are constantly perambulating the town.
A correspondent of the Record states that Mr. New-
man was admitted , at Oxford, into the Itomish Communion
by Dr. Gentili, an Italian Jesuit. _

Sir John de Beauvoir has retired from the contest for
the borough of Windsor, and the struggle will therefore be
between Mr. J. Walter and Col. Reid.

At the Weyhill (Hampshire) sheep fair, 200,000 sheep
were penned, and prices were from ss. to 7s. higher than
the fair last year.
A sloop, laden with apples, from Jersey to Aberdeen,
was completely wrecked off the latter port last week, and
a boy aged 13 was washed overboard.
It is said that an action has been commenced by Caunt
to recover back his stake of £2OO from the stakeholders
in the late fight for the championship.
A drunken man, on Wednesday night, committed sui-
cide by placing his head on the rail of the Midland R►ail-
way, so that the engine literally cut it off.
Mons. Jobard, a Belgian, has invented a process for
procuring gas, equal to that from coals, from oil and
water.

Thorwalsden's beautiful statue of Lord Byron has ar-
rived at Trinity, Cambridge, and will be put up in the
college library very shortly.
Ladies, not content with speculating in railway shares,
have now begun to attend public meetings of the proprie-
tors.—Gateshead Observer.

Two cases of defalcation, one of rather a serious charac-
ter, have been discovered in the Bristol Post-office
James Patton, a respectable young farmer, has lately
been poisoned at Kilmore, by his father and mother-in-law
who have absconded.

Miss Christiana Weller, whose progress as a pianiste
has been so remarkably rapid. is about to exchange music
for matrimony, by giving her hand to a gentleman of for-
tune, a friend of the inimitable " Boz."
It is stated, that at the next meeting of barristers going
the Oxford circuit, a motion is to be made for rescinding
the offensive resolution adopted by that body against the
press.

PENSIONERS.—The local companies are to parade for
drill and exercise on Monday and Tuesday, the 27th and
28th instant, and on the latter day will be inspected by
the Major-General of the district.
TIM NEW MARRIAGE ACT.—Tile first notice of a
marriage to be performed by the registrar himself without
any religious ceremony was given in the Tralee Board-
room, on Tuesday last. The parties are John Gentleman
and Ellen Gibson, both of Tralee.
On Tuesday, a man in II yde-park, London, deliberately
blew out his brains. His name is Elliott, and his resi•
dence is Portchester-terrace, Bayswater. A large quan-
tity of papers connected with several railways in different
parts of the kingdom was found in his pockets.
A handcuffed des,rter, from the 2Gth Regiment, in the
custody of two soldiers, leaped from a Glasgow Rai:way
carriage on Monday last, at the time it was going at the
rate of 25 miles an hour, and succeeded in effecting his
escape. . _ _

destruct've fire broke out on Tuesday evening, on
the premises of Air. Bates, Nottingham, used as frame-
smiths' shops, wLich entirely destroyed the building, and
property estimated at from £l2OO to £l4OO. The build-
ing only was insured.

_
A young lady, named Davies, was picked up at the
village of Byford, near Hereford, yesterday week, insensi-
ble and bathed in blood. She is supposed to have been
shot by a young gentleman whose suit she rejected. She
lies in a precarious state.

Several parties were fined £5 each at Airdrie, near
Glasgow, last week, for employing females in pits. It is
understood that a number of females are still in the pits
round Airdrie, but from the active measures now taken it
is hoped the illegal practice will be put down.

On Monday morning, as a labourer, named Thomas
Holt, was attempting to get on a train on the Brandling
junction Railway, whilst in motion, he slipped his hold,
and fal upon the rails. The carriages passed over him,
nearly severing his legs from his body. He died in a few
hours afterwards.

On Thursday morning, as Mr. Dasevi, the eminent ar-
chitect, in company with the dean and a minor canon, was
inspecting some aherations in the belfry of Ely cathedral,
his foot slipped, and he fell through a hole in the floor to
the beams below, and on being picked up life was found
to be extinct.

A LADY TIIIEF.—A " lady " named Harding, a widow,
has been committed by the magistrates at Brentwood, on
a charge of purloining a quantity of lace from the shop of
a silk-mercer at that place. When apprehended she had
on her person upwards of .£8,903 in Bank of England
notes and in India bonds.

On Tuesday morning, while an engine driver, named
Saunderson, was cleaning an engine at the Carlisle sta •
tion in Newcastle-on-Tyne, another engine came in col-
lision with the one he was superintending. and, owing to
his being in a stooping posture, crushed his head so se-
verely as to cause instantaneous death.

As two sawyers, employed in the -building yard of
Messrs. Turnbull and Co., t•f Stockton, were engaged in
ripping up a piece of elm tirnher, they discovered, con-
cealed in a hollow place, a bird's nest i❑ a perfect stite,
containing several eggs. The latter, on exposure to the
air, were so brittle as to crumble to pieces on being
handed for examination.

On Wednesday, the pupils in Dr. Cowan's academy, at
Sunderland, went to the een bench to bathe. They were
thirty-eight in number and were accompanied by four
teachers. Three boys—two named Baird (brothers), and
the other Leny—were swept out of their depth by a strong
sea. Every exertion was made to save them, but the ebb
current swept them away, and they were drowned; and,
melancholy to say, one of the teachers, named Special!,
was lost in endeavouring to save them. The Bairds were
the elder sons of Sir David Baird, of Newbyth, N. 8.,
and were respectively 16 and 17 years of age.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The Bank of England, on
Thursday, issued a notice " that the minimum rate of
interest it; London for bills and notes discounted at the
bank be £3 per cent , such bills and notes not having
more than 95 days to run." Among the monied interest
this step meets general approval. For some time money
has been in sufficient demand to enable the capitalists to
make greater profit in the employment of it, had not the
low rate fixed by the Bank of England proved an obsta-
cle. It is supposed by many that the rise in the interest
of money will not stop at this point, on the ground that
the bank lately limited their period of accommodation to
one month, and that this month has not yet expired.
Mr. Macready, who made his re-appearance on the
London stage at the Princess's Theatre, in the character
of Hamlet, on Saturday last, met with a tartest enthusias-
tic reception. The theatre was crowded in every part,
and hundreds who could not get admission bad ro go
away. With regard to Mr. Macready's acting, the Times
observes—" If the question be asked whether Mr. Mac-
ready_'s vigour is in the least mpiired during his three
years' absence from our stage, the answer is, not a whit.
He never plated Hamlet with more fire, with a display of
more inexhaustible resources, with more art covered by
the semblance of perfect spontaneity, than last night."
EXPORTATION OF HORSES.—The selection of horses
made by the equerry to the King of Denmark, for his
Majesty's harness stud, were shipped on Thursday for
Hatnburgh. The lot comprised t.o brood mares in foal,
and the following noted entire horses :—Young Spencer,
by Spencer, late the property of Mr. John Hewitt, of
Hull, purchased for 370 guineas ; Slashing Harry, bred
by Mr. Maisel., of Rise ; Regulator, a Cleveland horse
Ostwick, purchased for 400 guineas, of Mr. West, of
Crowle—Biy Chilton—Young Defence, with others, and
Grand Turk, bought for the baron at 5,0 guineas by Mr.
Riby Nicholson, who also shipped twelve tine coaching
mares on his account by the same vessel.—Hull Packet.

NEW OSCILLATING STEAM• LNGINE.—Mr. William
Bickle, of Halle Foundry, Cornwall, has succeeded in
grt ally simplifying the ecnstruction of the oscillating
cylinder engine. The steam enters through one side of
the tumbler on the cylinder, and leaves on the other; and
the oscillating motion of the cylinder arena and closes
the induction and eduction valves al ernately other
valves, eccentrics, and their gear, are entirely dispensed
with, and the engine assumes a tom the most simple, yet
highly efficieut in practice. A cock is fixed beneath the
cylinder, by which the speed is regulated, and which cock
also serves to reverse the motion by admitting the steam
at the other ride of the cylinder ; this ei gine is, therefore
admirably adapted for sreani-beats, whims, or other pur-
poses where reverse motion is often required.
WARLIKE PR EPARATIONS.—A large auamentation in
the number of at tiratis and labourers iu ali our dockyards
will take place immediately. No less than 426 edditicnal
are ordered to be entered in th;s dockyard, viz; 150
shipvrt ights, 36 joiners, 22 caulkers, 38 smith, 100 lebour-
ers, 42 sawyers, and 38 ropemakers' labourers. The
ropemakers are also to be augmented, and several stout
boys are to be admitted to this department. With the
increased force lour large war steamers are to be built.
These vessels, we are informed, will be got off the stocks
with all possible despatch. A daily report is ordered to
be made of the state of the advanced thirty sail of the
line ; and all stores not perishable, and furniture not
liable to deteriorate by being afloat, ere to be put onboard
as convenient. Fortifications for a more efficient protection
of Portsrcoulh harbour, and the approaches thereto, are
about to be erected.—Hampshire Telegraph.
WOOD Comm.—The Customs Commissioners have
given notice that there is no objection to the delivery of
deals, exceeding 21 feet in length, in the same manner as
fir timber. upon an entry being passed for a given quan-
tity, specifying the number in loads, the locker on the
part of the revenue taking care to deliver to the extent of
that quantity only, ohs( rving to endorse the number and
contents of each deal on the back of the order, and to
carry forward any small surplus in the delivery (not ex-
ceeding the contents of one deal) to the subsequent order,
until the whole parcel be delivered. And the commis-
sioners having further bad under their notice a report
from the principal officers, as to the directions which it
may be necessary to issue with a view to give effect to
the Treasury order recently issued approving of the frac-
tional part, of a foot less than three inches being rejected
in future in measuring deals in hulk ; the surveyors gen-
eral having submitted that the officers may be informed in
the measurement of deals, battens, &c., in bulk, in future
the fractional parts of a foot less than three inches, in
taking the leog h of the piles, are to be rejected, in con-
formity with the existing practice observed with respect
to deals, &c., exceeding 21 feet measured singly ; and
further that, where the pile consists of low gseat hundred
deals or planks, or of six great hundred deals or battens
and upwards, the fractional parts of a foot less than three
inches are also to he rejected itt taking the diresnsioo2
the width and height.—it has been resolved by the board,
that these reversl propositions and recomuendati, us are
approved, and directions have been issued to the revenue
tfficers accordingly.

The Dublin Evening Post gives currency to 1,, of
rumour about a misunderstanding between the Da't_d
Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, and says bothb
the
tendered their resignations to her MejeetYr whic with
Queen peremptorily refused. Of course there is no
in these reports, though a local paper was foolish coal's
to give tbe most implicit credit to them. et p y eCh,'
MARINE SIGNAL LAMP.—At the Cornwa.• rt
Mc Society last week, the judges reported on Mr. Gl'"e'ad
the
for more than 500 times without sensibly diced!).
that 16
Economical Marine Signal Light, that it bad been used
cotton interwoven with the metallic wire wick ;
oa
would give a bright light for nearly ten minutes ; tae tar"
being replenished with about one table spoonful of
or
pentine, it would burn for an equal length of 6e:ire's of
nearly so; and if fed at intervals with small quanitone,
turpentine, it might beirept burning any length of 'Rd
to her majesty's ships, and Mr. Gilbert's
The Judges had caused a Blue light, such as are applied be
Lamps
stone,
burned simultaneously, and at a considerable di rii:bei
from each other, as well as from the place viewed. fir
are of opinion that the lamp is equal in intensitY,
were "0.
superior in duration, to the former. Tenflig•
hts
hibited in a wet and windy night. Its superiority is IP'
shown by the great facility of ignition.
--We all
SECESSION FROM THE ANGLICAN CEIVRCII. berg
now enabled to mention the names of all those roare•
of the University of Oxford who have been received ,
the Roman Catholic Church in the course of the last fier
days. They are:—The Rev. J. H. Newman, (3.,13,"
low of Oriel College. The Rev. —Santos, 14',TES•
Brasenose College. The Rev. —Bowles, M•Ar• L' a, 0(
eter College. The Rev. Ambrose St. John, Stuur e-
ter College ; and Alb, ny Christie, Esq.,.M.A.,
Christ Church. J. D. Dalgairns, Esq , M.A. of "I
Oriel College. It is stated confidently that other clergre.
men, also members of the University of Oxford, are pre
paring to take a similar step. We understand rthattsolia
reception of Air. Newman into the Roman "a- To
Church took place at Littlemor 3.1" e.— °ruing post.
Post says, in a subsequent number, " We have al-, the
for adding to the list of recent converts to Roma 1119""
author.
name of Mr. Leicester S.F. Buckingham, the •ed 111"
Memoirs of M ,rY Queen of Scots,' who was recelv, hag
to the Romish Church at Oscott about the end 01
month '

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IRON TRADE Or SCOTLAND.—The Glasgow
has a long article on this subject with reference ","
railways, the facts of which may be found particular
teresting at this period. In October, 1836, Din,e (151'the
ago, pig. iron was quoted at £6 10s. per ton. In ID`,l,lotb
price in Liverpool was £4 12s. Gd., but it fell i11,;,-tch
places, until a large quantity was sol by one larite':",,t or
house at £1 10s. per ton. This was the extreme pot-fed,
retrogression, from which the trade gradually recc/ef*the
by an increasing demand in the ordinary business e'r of
country. Two good harvests had left a large atnoue• 0,
spare capital in the country, which the holders were the
willing to place in foreign investments. The report el su -a
committee of the Board of Trade threw speculators ber,
actual consumers upon the iron market. In SePtera,btt
1844, pig iron was readily sold for £2 10s. Since 6_,
date £6 per ton has been paid for Scotch pig; but theu"..
mand again decreased, and prices receded to
half that sum. During the weeks when the harrest.l,
in peril the variations in the price of iron were cei'l.l:,.; it
able, but it kept on advancing until 14 days ago, v"`"
fell to £4 Ils. per ton.
F- less Os;

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6'TEEPLE-CIIASE EXTRAORDINARY.—On
of Tuesday a chase of a novel description cccurred ea
Chelmsford, between a man named Charles Brooks:sra
police-constable Catchpole, who proceeded to Bo° or,
house for the purpose of apprehending him under a 'coot
rant for stealing a quantity of potatoes ; and the ca,es, at
his going so early was that Brooks had set the Pone'ro,
defiance during the last fortnicht, apparently having 5% of
thing within him which gave notice of the apPo3c, to
those (to him) unwelcome visitors, and enabled
get out at the back as the police entered the front of , to
house. Such being the case, Catchpole determia°4.
"take time by the forelock," and go before daYbreibis
On arriving near the house he saw his man run 00t,° the
own house with nothing but his night dress on, in'°,3 to
house of a man named County. Catchpole went
the back of the house, but as he went in Brooks ran full
11
just as he had risen from his bed, and proceeded at the
speed down the lane, across the London road, eler,
railway, into Writtle-park, and from thence to ""`"last
Baker's, at Writtle, near which place the policearaow ~;ab
sight of him, being encumbered with a great coat, d,
prevented him keeping up with Brooks.—Essex Standariu
A BEWITCHED DISH.—An ordinary earthenware dbiosot
purchased at the Cambrian Pottery, in this town'g i-diat
sixteen months ago, by Mr. Williams, a tailor, re:sn ai
in Goat-street, has excited a considerable patttria%
cut iosity in the minds of some of our townspeople
the past week. It appears that, a short time
st
great number of crystalized substances, having "'ewes
pearance of flowers, or miniature mushrooms, ~the
obasredr_vgeadzteod grow out of
oteheorditswn,o breaking throug" to
grew tob
co
extent} of an inch, but were aacidentally broken• 191faee
are now budding forth, covering nearly the whole selnoo
of the dish. The taste is very simil tr to that of e°T;
salt. The oldest and most experiencsd in°l°—,,%o
engaged in the manufacture of earthenware in this oaf
do not remember witnessing such appearances 00 peg
previous occasion. The general impression in the,u.Pbat
region of this town is, that it is a " bewitched dish' 'able
we opine that chemists, upon analization, would he, oil
to account for these curious appearances by the aeciuteupd
presence of some chemical ingredient not usually I° 0,
in the materials from which such articles are 1718°
factured.— Cambrian

Ii
than accounted for by two important con
THE II EVEN °R.—The decrease on the quarter is
was in this quarter last year that about sCBCIO.OOO was e_ r_
on the import of foreign corn, raising the quarterly %0,
toms toms to the unusual sum of six millions. This Year' se
fortunately for the Exchequer, wi eat has not rise!
off
quite a starvation price, so there is very little to 'e`.bie
against that large item. As this is the most notices
feature in the present table, we will shortly return t"sioo
The other explanatory circumstance is the great retines,e,
of the sugar duties, computed at £1,700,000 in the Yo`lar
and therefore not less than £500,000 on this portico's°
siderations.
quarter, assuming the quantity imported to be the 5 0(
as last year. For the reduction or entire abolitlpowe
other duties, including that on cotton. we may set der.
Probably more than a loss of £lOO,OOO on the eua'oer
These three sums amount to £1,400,000, which by ei
dead reckoning ought to be the loss under the be 4
customs alone. The actual loss is only £1,154,4');e5e
above stated. The difference, therefore, between 1, se
two sums, being about £250,000, may be set down tie'rtse
much increase in the revenue from our regular jut of
and may be fairly ascribed to the increased proSPe"
the country.
, Tt
STATUES IN THE NEW MUSES OF PARLIA—xft 0f
We copy the following extract from the fourth rePeraee
the Commissioners of the Fine Arts :—" We are ateverl
erepared to recommend that statues of Marlborough
Nelson he placed in Sr. Stephen's Porch ; and that
tues of Selden. Flameden, Lord Falklarri. Lord Clor
don. Lord Somers, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Chat be
Lord Mansfield, Burke, Fox. Pitt, and Greflan'ner
placed in St. Stephen's Hall. We have further tr° leer,
pose that the following Ore artists. viz., Wm• 'hose
Marshall, John Bell, and John Henry Foley, %ere
works in the last exhibition in Westminster hialletionS
considered by us to he entttled to especial commends
be at once commissioned to pie pare medeis for thr`bera,
the aforesaid statues, viz., the eta rtes of liampdent, ei
Falkland, and Lord Clarendon ; and the eserettl" ;;as
such statues be alloted to the said artists respeeti""miess
Vise may hereafter decide. We have further to pre, :
yent
that £2OOO of public money be eranted on 'lc(' al
towards the pamen, of such works." We learn fee sef
letter from Sir 'James Gre ham to Mr. Fast lake, thet I the
Mejesty has direct, d the Lords Ceneeissioneie 0 are
Treasury to subrnit to parliament an estimate for tl'e;ess
of .t2Ol 0 en account, towards the pat men? of V e eSPCIs'
of statue's of Hampden, Lord Falkland, and Lord
reriden." ;oh
TP_EEXPERiMENTALSQUADRON.—ThoNear A 6,1% of
in ht. re port of the per'erteatices of the :ever& el°)Viestli
the experimental squadron, which arrived it, :re ea
Sound in the 10th, rays,—" A go' d trial was ce inu
en the Ist inst., by the Que., n, Can, pus, Alle'.°'reilr
Vaneetard in chase of tee ring. bud. r all eta'', IV
and part topmast and topgallant s,udditig_sails; bit,
foe, which came on three hours titter, plevelit, tirliireat
being taken to ascertain the exact result. 'fix aint
however, gained en her. Yen will be pleased to 8'4;1 ellS
their Lordships that we have reel sense splendid
jib as heavy a press of sail as mold well be °Tested
One beginning with close-rsefel topsails and
if ,bled
esiurses, topgallant masts struck •; the next undir ;
reefed topsails, an another under douele- rested 10 . 00
and all these against a Ilea- y head sea. lif the lat,
the 7th instant, the day after the heaviest gale, the .4 0
nes beat the ehele fleet. Nothing could be more ea 0,
all the trial than the Queen and Albion. who neveroo°
peered to strain anything ; inde.d all the set °Ol6
proved themselves such fine vessels as to he ivc•fent'
of being distressed by press of sail. except the St tic' tbo
I am satisfied with the result of the trials. t"-eeitt
Queen is the hest ship, the Albion and flochteY,berkf'
Canopus and Vanguard much alike, Trafalgar *ea'
but slow ; St. Viticent leewardy and crank. 4 Ile
MEERSCHAUM.—This elegant mineral, which Pt:40114
come into such extensive use for smoking, is psr'rir,
found in the peninsula of Herecleotee, in Asia Yuint)eole'
generally lies at a depth of from fifteen to twentY'aweil
in gravelly and clayey soil, overlying the rock: of t.b„l
near the coasts on the sea of Azot, form OM riyOrP-0
loftiest precipices in the Crimea. It is found in wee
strata, in detached patches, and is soon worked 0' lower
the natives sink another pit at a distance, sad ‘1 fr°4
is found is again worked cut in a similar manneri, eseis'a
its extreme lightness when dry, it obtained ed,
name of Keff, Kit (sea froth). It is much estseerpciestil
extensively used by the ladies of the harem for 01,00(
their hair. A small portion only of the quantietYe backs
allowed to be exported, and this is carried on tneijor.
camels across the immense deserts of Asia 'gee is tee
emits a saliferous tfflorescence while &el"! 'tieecle,"fer
markable fir its absorbent qualities. It is. I°
°
latter quality which renders it so valuable a! [Airn ig
smoking ; and, to prevent the vapour alsherd,
through the entire substance, after the outwt,.ll. s, serweedi
carved, it is boiled in wax—the interior is then
and the howl polished. A great many of the 0:1,, eisc,•
now scld in London ate faulty, and though .dio"
are concealed by the wax—useless—niode rate Cot (an °if
in perfect condition, still bear a big Prip,te 0010
nothing Hie wl:at they did a few years op P_A web "'es,
if proved by smoking, until the outside is tillTh*ooi.
oil of tobacco, giving it an agreeable metiled
Mining Journal.

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TUESDAY, CCTOBER 21, 1845.
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