The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

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Mr. Miall was introduced to the electors of Rochdale
on Tuesday as a candidate for the representation at the
next general election. The only question put to him was
to ascertain his sentiments on currency, but the worthy
gentleman candidly confessed his ignorance on the ques-
tion.

Dr. IL Shelton Mackenzie, official assignee of the Man-
chester Court of Bankruptcy, has disobeyed the orders of
the court in keeping more money under his control than
allowed. Mr. Commissioner Skirrow has interfered, and
threatens to bring the whole case before the Loid Chan-
cellor.

THE MURDER NEAR LEIGH.—The adjourned inquest in
this case was held on Friday. when the only additional
evidence was that of Green, the beer-house keeper, who
was the last man that saw the deceased George Green be his murder, but who says he left him on the Canal
Bridge, and satisfactorily accounts for his presence else-
where during the remainder of the night. The jury found
a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or per-
sons unknown." The police have taken into custody a
man named Thomas Hilton, a silk weaver. This man has
been a poacher, and bears a very bad character; but the
evidence against him at present is merely of a suspicious
character.

Doinestfr.

The primrose changing, or, as gardeners term it, snort-
ing into the polyanthus, is not at all an uncommon occur-
rence. There is evidence that the primrose, polyanthus,
cowslip, and oxlip, are only varieties of the same species.
There is no doubt that the soil has great influence over
the change.

THE TINWALD MIIRDER.—The trial of Wm. Laurie,
shoemaker, took place at Edinburgh on Friday and Sa-
turday last. The prisoner was indicted for rape and the
murder, on the 27th November last, on the road leading
to Kirkland Village, Dumfriesshire, of Barbara Hamilton,
wife of John Hamilton, farm servant, Kirkland. The
jury found the prisoner guilty of the crime of rape, the
charge of murder not proven, and he was sentenced to be
transported beyond the seas for the period of his natural
life.

An immense demonstration in favour of the principles
of protection to native industry took place in Ipswich on
Friday, when upwards of 600 persons, including several
of the principal landowners, very many of the clergy, and
the most influential merchants, tradesmen, and yeomen
of the county of Suffolk, assembled at a public dinner in
the Corn Exchange, which was tastefully and elegantly
decorated with blue and white cloth, and numerous ban-
ners inscribed with mottos appropriate to the occasion.
Mr. E. S. Gooch, M.P. for East Suffolk, presided as
chairman ; the vice chair being filled by Mr. J. C. Cob-
bold, M.P. for the borough of Ipswich.
THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY.—On Friday, William
Pamplin, the man who stands charged with being con-,
cerned in the late gold-dust robbery, was brought up be-
fore the magistrates IA Winchester, for re-examination.
Mr. Crombie having intimated that he should apply for
,another remand, called the landlady of the Eagle Tavern,
for the purpose of corroborating the evidence of the rail-
way porters as to the prisoner having been in Winchester
on the night of Thursday, the Bth instant. She distinctly
deposed to the prisoner having come into the tap-room on
the evening in question, and drunk a pint of beer, when
he had two bags with him, which were rather long than
broad. Edwards, the porter, came in after him. Having
paid for his beer, he went away, taking the bags with him.
She was perfectly certain that he was the man. The land-
lady's daughter gave similar testimony. They had both
seen the prisoner subsequently in the gaol, and identified
him as the man. The prisoner was remanded.
ACCIDENT AT A MENAGERIE.—The scene of the tra-
gical death of the Lion Queen, a few years since, has now
become one of serious injury, if not ultimately the cause
of death, to another individual. At Chatham, on Thurs-
day night. between nine and ten o'clock, when Womb-
well's menagerie was filled with company, whilst Thos.
Stone, a black man, enjoying the title of " the young
Indian Prince," was engaged in performing with the
large elephant, the animal, either by design or accident,
pressed Stone against the bars of the den, by which he
received severe injury of the scalp, had four of his ribs,
the right arm, and a collar bone broken, and he now lies
in a very precarious state. At the time of the accident
the animal was in the act of taking off and replacing the
hat of his keeper, and it is imagined that it had been
irritated by some of the company, and hence the cause
of the injury. It appears that Stone's instructions were
to remain outside the animal's den, but this injunction '
he neglected.

STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The Rev. Edgell
Wyatt Edgell in the chair. Mr. T. J. Brown, the assis-
tant secretary, read a paper on the National Debts and
Revenues in proportion to the population and extent of
area of the various states of Europe. The data of this
paper were obtained from the Almanac de Gotha, a work
by Oberhausen ; Reden's Statistical Journal, Ritter's
Statistical Geography, another by Richter, and the Con-
versation Lexicon, published at Leipsic by Brochausen.
The total amount of debt borne by the fifty-eight Euro-
pean states was shown to be £1,753,278,127, of which the
eight republics sustain three-twentieths, and the mo-
narchies the remaining seven-twentieths.: Every geo-
graphical square mile in Europe is burthened with an
average of £9,740 of the public debt, Hamburg sustaining
the maximum of debt in proportion to its area, and Russia
and Turkey the minimum, and in proportion to the popu-
lation of Europe an average of £6 15s. per head was indi-
cated, in this case, the Netherlands sustaining the maxi-
mum and Russia the minimum. The revenues of the
European states yield a total of £207,301,752, of which
£53,386,293 is derived from the republics, and £153,915,459
or three-fourths, from the monarchies, Spain holding the
worst position as regards the amount of revenue opposed
to the national debt, the interest upon which, at five per
cent., would consume the whole revenue, whilst Prussia
requires only a fourteenth of its revenue to be so applied.
The paper was purely statistical, and proved that it is not
the amount of debt that undermines the states' credit,but
the want of the natural resources to cover the required
interests.

THE BURNING COLLIERY, CLACKMANNANSHIRE.
The mine is supposed originally to have been set on fire
by some persons distilling illicit whiskey in the goaf ;
shortly after which it rapidly extended, and threatened the
destruction of the entire coal-field. A sum of £16,000
was expended in surrounding the fire with a puddle wall,
to prevent its extending to other workings. It took five
years in building, during which the men were frequently
driven back, and obliged to commence further off.
During this period,. nine men and three women fell a
sacrifice from falls of roof, shutting them in, and the fire
overwhelming them before they were extricated. One
unfortunate girl was completely roasted, as it were, by a
slow fire ; and when found, and they took hold of her, it
came off like the wing of a roasted fowl. The wall re-
quired constant attendance, and the Earl of Mansfield
expended about £2OO a-year in keeping it in repair and
continual watching, as there was constant danger of the
fire breaking into the other parts of the mine. It would
have been thought that the fire thus bottled up should
have gone out for want of air; but, being only twenty
fathoms from the surface, it obtained it through crevices
in the strata, and leakage in the wall, sufficient to keep
up a sulky, smouldering, and volcanic-like existence—
sometimes quiet, sometimes more fierce. It is now
happily, entirely and efficiently extinguished. The Times
of Thursday, in describing the experiments, says :—" In
the midst of the fire, Mr. J. Mather seemed to be in his
element ; on one occasion, he came up out of the pit with
a burning coal sticking in his, cap. We have all heard of
a feather in one's cap; but a burning coal is somewhat
new." We mention this remark in the Times to lead to
another characteristic anecdote observed at the same time.
The Government Inspector who went down to tho experi-
ment, and who is a Roman Catholic, said to Mr. Mather at
tLe time when he decided on going down and breaking
into the burning waste, " It is my duty to report to my
government in case of loss of life. This was said more
in jest than in earnest. Mr. Mather remarked in the
same spirit—" If Mr. Gurney will stand by, and blow
wind behind me, I will go to the gates of purgatory and
grin through the bars. Tell this to your Government
and the Pope: they may possibly send for me, as offering
the best way to put an end to the agitation." Many a
true word is spoken in jest.