The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

PAINFUL CASE.—A Dissenting print relates the fol-
lowing circumstances alleged to have taken place at a
recent interment at Bishop's Stortfort. A woman having
died in childbirth, and her infant shortly after, both
bodies were placed in the same coffin. The usual service
having been read in Church, the undertaker informed the
Clergyman that there were two bodies in the coffin, and,
on the question being put, that the child was unbaptized.
Upon this the clergyman is stated to have said, " then I
cannot read the service till the infant is removed ; " in
consequence of which, the narrative adds, the coffin had
to be re-opened, and the corpse of the infant placed in a
box hastily constructed, which was deposited upon the
coffin of the mother after the service had been read over it.
REVOLT OF CONVICTS AT NEWGATE.-011 Wednesday
it was discovered that the convicts in one of the wards in
Newgate, were in a state of mutiny, and had barricaded
the only entrance into the ward, and had threatened the
life of any official who should attempt to enter. A large
body of police was called in, and proceeded to the ward in
question, and upon the door being unlocked the barricade
that had been formed was forced in, and the turnkeys.
with twelve men of the police and the inspector, entered.
They found twelve young men, from about 18 to 25 years
of age; standing in a line against the wall with their hands
behind, apparently handcuffed, but this was found not to
be the case. Without a word being said the police col-
lared each his man, and they were taken into another
ward. Nothing has transpired as to the cause of this
outbreak. After they had been removed the ward was
examined, when it was found that the bedsteads and other
articles of furniture were destroyed, the mattresses and
counterpanes rolled up, and so blended together in the
barricade as to show that a determined resistance was
originally intended. The whole of the glass in the window
frames was broken.
PAYMENT OF DEBTS OUT OF REAL ESTATE.—A bill to
amend the Ist of William IV. has passed the House of
Lords, and has been printed by order of the Commons.
Its object is to render liable the real estate of a deceased
debtor to the payment of his debts. This important pro-
vision is couched in the following words That the
said herein recited provision in the said act shall extend,
and is hereby extended, to any case in which any lands,
tenements, or hereditaments of any deceased person shall,
by descent, or otherwise than by devise, be vested in the
heir of such person, subject to an executory devise over in
favour of a person or persons not ascertained, and in any
such case it shall be lawful for the court mentioned in the
said recited provision to direct such heir, although an in-
fant, or if such heir be more than one person, then any
one co-heir, although an infant, to convey the estate or
interest of the deceased person, in any such lands, &c.. in
such manner as the said court shall think proper, and
every such conveyance shall be effectual, as if the heir or
person who shall execute the same were absolutely enti-
tled at law or in equity to the estate or interest so to be
conveyed,and, if an infant, were of full age."

At Leith a party of individuals, consisting of four men
and five women had been freely indulging' in intoxicating
liquors throughout the whole of the night, from Saturday
evening to Sunday morning, when, about five o'clock,
they determined to proceed to Inchkeith by boat, though
in a state of intoxication, for the purpose of spending the
day. When they had got about half-a-mile from land,
and near the Martello Tower, a quarrel originatedbetween
two of the party, a struggle ensued, when the others in-
terfered. No sooner had they risen from their seats than
a preponderance of weight having been thrown on one
side, the boat suddenly capsized, and the whole of the
party were suddenly plunged into the water. The terrific
screams that rent the air attracted the attention of the
crew of a boat belonging to a foreign vessel, who hastened
to the rescue, and succeeded in saving two of the men,
and a third saved his life by swimming to the shore.
Several individuals on the quay having observed the awful
catastrophe, immediately launched a boat and proceeded
to the spot, but only succeeded in picking up two of the
women after they were dead. The other four sank to
rise no more, and thus no less than six individuals—one
man, a seaman, and five women, of known abandoned
character—have been suddenly launched into eternity.
The event formed a topic of awful warning from most of
the pulpits of the following day.
THE PRIVILEGE OF A LADY PATRONEES.—At the
Mansion House, on Saturday, J. Harding, job coachman,
was charged with horsewhipping the Marquis of Drogheda,
on the 7th inst., on his way to the Spitalfields ball, at
Drury-lane Theatre. His Lordship was going to the ball
in his carriage with his lady, who was one of the patro-
nesses, and meeting with an obstruction in Long-acre,
from the carriage driven by Harding, he showed him the
patronesses' ticket, which ought to cause other carriages
to give place ; but as the defendant paid no attention to
this, his Lordship got out of his carriage, and after speak-
ing to a gentleman inside that driven by the defendant,
took hold of the reins in order to turn the horses, upon
which the defendant lashed him severely with his whip.—
Superintendent Pearse said that the patronesses were
allowed to pass on showing their privilege tickets, but
none of his men knew anything of the assault complained
of. as they were not near at the time it happened.—Mr.
Jardine said he would be very sorry to allow his servant
to use a whip in the manner stated, but he mu'it confess
that his Lordship acted very indiscreetly in laying hold
of the reins, particularly as there was no proof that the
defendant knew anything of the pass ticket. It was very
reasonable to suppose that the defendant considered no
one had a right to touch the reins of his carriage, and he
must dismiss the summons.

A ROMANCE OF THE FOREST.—On Sunday, the down
train which left the Eastern Counties Railway at a quarter
to three, was unusually crowded, and a large number of
persons arriving too late for tickets, entered the carriages
without them, purposing to pay upon getting out. Amongst
the third-class passengers a seaman attracted some atten-
tion by his violent gesticulations and impatience, several
times declaring that the train was off the line. Upon ar-
riving at Forest Gate, the seaman forced his way through
the hooking-office, left the main road, proceeded towards
the forest, partially undressing himself as he went along.
It subsequently transpired that his name was Andrew
Milson, that he had escaped from his friends, who were
about taking him by the branch line to Edmonton, that
within the last few weeks he had returned from Bermuda,
and that the death of his wife and child on the passage,
had affected his mind so much that he had several times
attempted selfdestruction. His father and brother hav-
ing traced him to Forest Gate, proceeded in search of him,
and he was eventually discovered walking in the forest,
near Wanstead, in a state of nudity, paving placed his
clothes upon the trees. After some difficulty, he was
secured, dressed, and brought to town. On reaching
home it was found that he had either lost or been robbed
of £26. During Monday, however, he declared that he
left it in the forest, and his statement ultimately proved
correct. On Tuesday his brother proceeded to the place
where he had left his clothes, and after a short search
found the bag amongst some furze, containing the whole
amount missing.—London paper.
THE SUBTERRANEAN FIRE NEAR SHEFFIELD.—SOMO

account of this fire appeared in a former impression. A
correspondent of the Sheffield Independent gives some
further particulars. He says :—" Old people whom I
have known well remembered a fire, which was burning
under the Red Hill and adjacent elds, near a century
since. Some of them who were living since the modern
outbreak, fully believed this fire.to be nothing but a con-
tinuation of the former one. Be this as it may, it is
certain that for about thirty years past the fire has been
undermining the ground on which many of the habita-
tions stand. Sometimes, for the space of a year or more,
various individual houses have been so dreadfully filled
with black or choke damp, that it has been impossible to
breathe unless the door was kept wide open. Many of
the cellars have been closed for years. About twenty
years since a portion of the street sank immediately after
a loaded waggon had passed over the spot, exposing the
hollow on which the people walked and dwelt. During
one considerable period the water drawn from the prin-
cipal well of the village, came up, not warm merely, but
positively hot. From fifteen to twenty-five years ago,
both in winter and summer, as soon as the evening closed
in, flames were seen to issue from various fissures in par-
ticular fields and gardens. A few years since, an old
farm-house and outbuildings had suffered so much, by
being undermined, that it was deemed advisable to take
them quite down, and the materials were made use of in
the building of two neat cottages. These were erected
on ground where it was thought the fire had long done its
worst, and where the new buildings would stand safely.
Though not more than six or eight years since, the cot-
tages are tumbling down, one of them having been al-
ready prudently abandoned by its inhabitants."
DESTRUCTIVETHUNDEASTORM IN LINCOLNSHIRE AND
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—A storm which is thought to have
been the most awful which has been witnessed in this part
of England since May, 1802, passed near Stamford from
the south-west on Friday evening; the 14th instant, but
did not fall in the town. At Peterboro', the Deepings,
Crowland, and onwards towards Boston and Wisbech,
much damage was done in the fields. At Pinchbeck, Mr.
Colvin, constable, had his crops of beans, potatoes, and
garden fruit cut to pieces, and 150 squares of glass in his
house destroyed : altogether his loss is to the amount of
£lOO. In the Independent chapel, at the same place, 70
squares of glass were broken. In Gosberton Fen a wag-
gon load of hag belonging to Mr. Woodthorpe was ig-
nited, and with the waggon nearly wholly consumed.
Three of his sons, and two horses attached to the waggon,
were thrown down by a shock and stunned, but happily
recovered, although it was feared the eldest son was
killed, as lie lay insensible for some time. Mr. John Dods
had a horse killed, near the church. In Whaplode Drove
much damage was done ; and at Billingboro' many trees
and much corn were prostrated. At Chesterton, and places
within some distance, nearly all the farmers were visited
in their fields ; the glass broken at Orton Hall is said to
amount to 800 panes ; the orchards of Mr. Head, at Al-
walton, were stripped not only of their fruit, but of the
boughs of the trees ; Mr. Watts, at the Cabin, had many
windows broken, and several acres of cropping destroyed,
the hail cutting off the ears of corn as if with a sey.the ;
Mrs. Boor, of Sibson, had a field of barley much injured
near Elton, whilst in the contiguous parish of VI ansford
the storm was scarcely felt, and only a few drops of rain
fell ; (Mrs. Boor's loss is said to be to the extent of £200;
a house was struck by lightning and burnt down at Wel-
don ; at Bulwick a labourer was knocked off a load of hay
and had his shoulder broken ; Mr. Yorke, of Thrapston,
had a good horse killed ; on the North Road, near East
Retford, some trees were shattered and fell on the road;
and at South Retford, a stack of chimneys on a house
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were demolished, and other injury done. In the neigh-
Moore, at Whitehall, North-brink, setting the tree on
fire, and killing a ewe and a lamb which were standing
close to it. A fire-ball entered the house of Mr. John
Jealous, farmer, in Parson-drove, bursting through the
roof, displacing the tiles, entering the attic, forcing its
passage through the chambers beneath, and descending
into the parlour, where it expended itself on the mantel-
piece, smashing the ornaments ranged for show.—A si-
milar freak was played off by a fire-ball in the house of
Mrs. Smith, of St. Edmund's.—The storm raged with
violence for several hours, and during its continuance
there was a considerable fall of rain, hail, and ice.