The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

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The Washington, steam-Lip, which left New York on
the 14th instant, arrived at Southampton on Friday.
A destructive fire broke out in Lynn, Norfolk on Tues-
day last, and destroyed property to the amount of £5OOO.
The flax-mill of Messrs Fletcher, at Townhead, Glas-
gow, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is above £3OOO.
The Duke of Newcastle t 3 estate of tido& comprising
about 14,000 acres, was sold on Tuesday for £105,000.
During the last ten years no fewer than 182 persons
have lost their lives, in consequence of explosions in the
collieries within two miles of Barnsley.
Three clergymen of Glasgow have begun to preach in
the open air on Sundays, and are said to have had nume-
rous and attentive audiences.

A PROLIFIC WlF2.—The wife of Win. Salisbury, la-
bourer, of this village, has given birtn to three girls.—
Coventry Herald.

The West India mail steamer Parana, 2,250 tons,
building at Messrs. Wigram's yard, near Southampton,
is to be launched to-morrow.
By the Earl of Carlisle's bill on the Church Building
Act, which has passed the Lords, churchwardens of pa-
rishes will be empowered to apportion pews for the accom-
modation of the deserving poor.
It is expected that the Great Grimsby Docks will be
opened in March, when it is expected that the steLmers
now plying between Hull and Hamburg will be trans-
ferred to Grimsby.
The steam-ship Amazon was launched at Blackwell on
Saturday. She is intended for the West India Mail
service, and is the largest wooden steamer ever built in
England, being 2966 tons burden.
A vessel lately strived in the Thames from St. Vin-
cent's, has brought thirty-one bales of cotton, and
another, from Barbadoes, four bales of cotton, the growth
of these Wands.

The Boulogne .Advertiser announces the death of the
Rev. Thomas Harvey, whose differences with the Bishop
of London have occupied the public attention for some
years past.
On Wednesday the foundation-stone of an hospital
intended for the reception of patients labouring under
diseases of the chest was laid by Prince Albert, in the
presence of a big lily -respectable assemblage of spectators.
Letters from Odessa and Galatz, state that large ptiv-
chases of wheat and Indian corn, particularly the latter,
have been recently made by Greek houses in anticipation
of the wants of this country, which are no longer likely 'to
be supplied by France.
We are requested to state that every English subject
will be henceforth admitted into the Prussian dominions
upon showing a passport from the competent British
authorities, without any visa of a Prussian Legation or
Consulate, as was hitherto required.
Mr. Yeates, a gentleman who has been sixty years in
the United States, is now on a visit to Nunery, in Cum-
berland. Ile left home when fourteen years old, and finds
only two of his old acquaintances alive. lie is brother to
the late Major Aglionby, M.P. for East Cumberland.
A preliminary meeting was held at Captain Gladstone's,
R.N., in Eaton-square, on Saturday last, to take into
consideration a scheme proposed by Viscota Ingestrie, for
converting private houses into improved dwellings for the

poor.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £13.925,874 to £14,198,360, be-
ing a difference of £272,486. The paper in actual circu-
lation has increased from £19,910,349 to £19,973,872,
being a difference of £33.523.
A few days since W. B. Gwyn, Esq., a magistrate for
Carmarthen, was trying to enter an outhouse on horse-
back, when he struck his head against the lintel of the
door and fractured his spinal bone. He suffered dread-
fully for some hours, and then expired.
The Bristol papers state that Mrs. Woodward, wife cf
the late Incumbent of St. James's in that town, with all
her children, were received into the Roman Catholic
Church on Friday. The lady in question is the daughter
of tip; Rev. Cunninghatre, of Harrow-on-the-Hill.
GROSS IRREVERENCE.—A case has just been sent by
the Bedford Petty Sessions before the Quarter Sessions,
arising out of a quarrel at a Baptist Chapel, in which a
secession has taken place, and both parties claiming
possession, an attempt was made to administer the Lord's
Supper in opposition to each other.
Patrick Cane, John Hickey, and James M'Ellicott,
three Irish labourers most concerned in the killing of Po-
llceman Chaplin in Lambeth a few weeks ago, were tried
at the Central Criminal Court on Friday for the murder.
Cane and Hickey were convicted of manslaughter and
transported for fourteen years. M'Ellicott was acquitted.
The Stamford Mercury says that a man named Mat-
thews, of Waltham, was fined 13s. on Tuesday week, for
using a "charm" upon a woman of Scalford, for the pur-
pose of curing the jaundice. The woman declared that
doctors could do her no good whatever, and that this man
had completely cured her complaint in a very few days.
Two men, Luke Blyth, engineman, and Dennis, stoker,
on board a tug steamer which was off Hartlepool on Sun-
day, quarrelled violently about the management of the
engine, and fought w.th ferocity. In the scuffle, before
the only other person on board could part them, they
grappled, and both rolled overboard into the sea : they
sank at once, and never rose again.
At Doncaster, a few days ago, Jane Pool, fourteen years
of age, died very suddenly. An inquest was held on her
body, and the jury, having heard medical and other evi-
dence relative to her death, returned a verdict, that the
deceased had died by natural causes, but they believed
that her death had been greatly accelerated, if not
originally caused, by tight lacing.
A respectable man, named Bidlake, was run over by a
train near Totness, on Tuesday morning. He was lying
on the rails, and was subject to fits, but whether he had
fallen in one could not be ascertained. The accident oc-
curred at a sudden turn of the line, which prevented the
driver seeing the unfortunate man in time to stop the
train.

A Hull journal states. that a man named Matthew
Reed, residing in the borough of Scarborough, made the
following curious return of his •' live stock" to the
census collector :—" Matthew Reed, Sanak Reed, son
Matthew Reed, thomas Reed, catren Reed, elsebeth
Reed, tu poll parrots, tu cats, on Canare, (one canary,)
and how many fleas (how many mice) I don't know."
The Lady Godiva procession at Coventry took place on
Tuesday, and was conducted with unusual splendour, a
circumstance to which the favourable state of the weather
very materially contributed. It was calculated that there
were more than 60,000 persons present, there being, it
was believed, at least 30,000 strangers in the town. The
procession itself was not far short of a mile in length.
The Mayor of Hull has agreed, in compliance with a
requisition from 4000 working men, to call a meeting "for
the purpose of urging upon the Municipal Corporation,
the Corporation of the Trinity-House. and the Dock
Company, the necessity of early and adequate reductions
of the charges upon shipping and merchandise at that
port, so as to correspond with the charges of neighbouring
ports."

BALLOON LOST.—On Monday last there was an ascent
with Mr. Hampton. in his balloon " The Erin-go-Bragh,"
from Batty's Royal Hippodrome. Kensington ' • but, pre-
viously, Mr. Batty, to try the Effect, had a balloon made
in the shape of a full grown horse with a man attached ;
it ascended with a string to it, but unfortunately the
string broke, and the balloon, man, and horse were lost,
and have not been heard of since.
The notes of the Bromsgrove Bank (Rufford, Biggs,
and C 0.,) and of the Stourbridge Bank (Ruffords and
Wragge,) were refused payment on Thursday, at their
London agents, with the answer, "No effects." Their
respective circulation is not large, the authorised issue of
the former being £16,790, and of the latter £17,295.
Mr. Rufford is a member for the city of Worcester, and
chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
railway.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday as Mr. Edward
Barley Clayton, a gentleman of fortune, was riding in
Dean-street, Park-lane, Landon, a cab came suddenly
driving round a corner. The shaft struck the unfortunate
deceased in the groin, which it entered, and he was
forced completely out of his saddle, and thrown on the
kerb of the pavement. The shaft was broken with the
concussion. lie was in great pain, which continued till
his death.
A BOY'S HEA n CUT OFF.—A little boy. named Thomas
(son of David Thomas, otherwise " Dai Calchwr," of
Neatb Abbey), met with a shocking death at the Aber-
dylais tin works, on Thursday. The lad was at work as
usual, when he inadvertently came within reach of the
merciless clip of the immense shears used for cutting tin,
and worked by steam power. In an instant the poor boy's
head was severed from his body, and rolled like a ball
along the floor !—Swansea Herald.
On Saturday week, Mr. Evans, druggist. of Narberth,
near Pembroke, was preparing some furniture-paste. His
wife, in attempting to lift it off the fire, set the whole in a
blaze. Her dress coming in contact with the flames,
caught fire, and she ran into the yard. Mr. Evansjumped
through the window to her assistance, and in doing so
dislocated his ankle, and fractured the small bone of his
right leg. Mrs. Evans was much burnt, and her condi-
tion is precarious.
A disturbance took place on Sunday at St. Dunstan's
Church, Stepney, in consequence of the rector, the Rev.
Mr. Lee refusing to allow the Rev. S. G.
I Poole, who had been elected afternoon preacher, the
pulpit. After prayers had been read, and while Mr.
Poole had gone into the vestry to change his surplice, the
rector himself ascended the pulpit ; a great part of the
congregation immediately rose and began to leave the
church, and when the rector attempted to spe;:k, he was
met by loud cries of " No Puseyism," " No Popery."
The remainder of the congregation then broke up amid
great confusion.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS.—WHiIiII the last three
seeks, Dr. Moses, of Cockfield, Durham, and Dr. Adam-
thwaite, of Stanhope. in the same county. both medical
men, were thrown from their horses, and so seriously
injured that they were unable to speak afterwards. On
Friday last, as Mr. Joseph Helmer, surgeon, was riding
from Cutherstone to Romaldkirk, near Barnard Castle,
his horse became restive, and plunged so violently as at
last to fall back with great violence on the rider. He was
not discovered for a quarter of an hour, when he was
taken to an adjoining house. Ile was dreadfully bruised
and shaken, but is expected, fortunately, to recover.
The following is a copy of an advertisement of a painful
character which appeared in the Times of Saturday last :
—" John, your agonized parents entreat you to Return
Home immediately • ere many days it may be too late to
save your mother. :is regards the cause of your leaving,
all will be well. Communicate, if but a line. Do not
destroy your sister, who at present is ignorant of the
cause of your absence." The following mysterious ad-
vertisement appeared in the Times of Saturday last:—
"To B. J. C., Greenwich.—Every means have been at-
tempted, every chance traced ; the boldest steps taken,
the greatest hopes raised. These last have appeared at
intervals. but of course you could not snderstand. ..C5OO
will now be given this week for an explanation by letter,
and the same next week for a final explanation in words.
Why ask for a letter And then not accept it ?--E. S.—
. Noe-ember last,