The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

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On Valentine's day 40,750 letters more than the ordi-
nary averi.ge passed through the London post-office.
Last year there were 10,000 tons more shipping built in
Sunderland than in 1849, and 15,000 more than in 1848.
It has been determined that the usual triennial musical
festival should be this year given at Norwich.
The King Consort of Portugal, accompanied by his two
sons, intends visiting London during the exhibition.
The fireman, so severely injured by the explosion of
the steamer on the Clyde, has since died.
No fewer than sixteen persons were on board the brig
Laurel, run down on the Clyde, and they all perished.
On Monday night, two poor men, who took refuge on a
limekiln near Colligan, Dungarvan, were burnt to death.
Nearly £B,OOO, out of £lO,OOO required to secure Mr.
Eaton's legacy of £5,000, has already been subscribed in
aid of the extension of the Bristol General Infirmary.
For the office of clerk to the Worcester County Gaol,
the salary of which is only fifty guineas per annum, there
were no fewer than seventy-five candidates.
A young female of the name of Turner, of York,
drowned herself in the river Ouse last week, through
being disappointed in love.
A correspondent of the Morning Post, writing from
Bognor, in Sussex, says that the note of the cuckoo has
already been heard in that neighbourhood.
Great distress prevails at present amongst the weavers
of Carlisle. The number of unemployed is 531 ; partially
employed, 1300; fully employed, 21.
The hens of Egypt now lay eggs for the Londoners.
Thirteen casks were lately landed at Southampton from
Alexandria.

An Orange Lodge was opened in Birmingham on
Thursday last, under a warrant granted some years sitce
by the Duke of Cumberland, grand master.
Mr. Macready has purchased some property in Dorset-
shire, and it is his intention to make that county his place
of retirement.
The Gloucester Journal says that a respectable grocer
in Coteford has suddenly left his business, and fled across
the Atlantic, through a disappointment in love.
The ladies of Gateshead have nearly completed their
liberal subscriptions for a gold chain and badge to be worn
by the Mayor of the borough.
Miss Cooke, well known for her charitable gifts in
Cheltenham, is no more. It is said that the bulk of her
property goes to the Society for the Conversion of the
Jews.

A commercial traveller was robbed, tv few days since,
in Glasgow, of £7OO in notes and eighteen sovereigns, in
a house of ill fame. The whole of the notes have since
been found buried in a saw pit.
ADULTERATED COFFEE.—A sum of £1,500 has been
subscribed by merchants interested in colonial coffee, for
the prosecution of grocers and others adulterating coffee
with other substances than chicory.—Shipping Gazette.
The screw-steamer European has made another very
rapid passage between Glasgow and London. With
occasional head winds she accomplished the run to Graves-
end in 73 hours.
On Wednesday evening, a lady and gentleman were
locked up in the medal room of the British l‘ilnseum,
where they had to remain until one o'clock next morning,
when a search was instituted by their anxious friends.
Messrs. Gardner and Urquhart, of London, have sus-
pended payment, with liabilities to the extent of about
£50,000. The firm was connected with the East India
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THE LATE ELOPEMENT WITH " THE HON. MISS
LUMLEY."-At the Nottingham Board of Guardians, on
Tuesday, the first name on the relief list was Catherine
Oldershaw, entered as follows :—Catherine Oldershaw,
aged 25, abode Carpenter's Arms; able-bodied ' • in dis-
tress, her husband, Robert Oldershaw, having deserted
her."

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—The agriculturists in this
vicinity are in a very preairious condition ; many of the
small holders in the clay parishes of Kirton, Wellow. and
Laxton are very likely to give up their cottages in the
spring, being unable in their present condition to pay
rents and taxes. In the south portion of the parish of
Edwinstowe many of the small freeholders are but scantily
supported.—Doncaster Gazelle.

RIOT AT Hum..—A serious fracas took place on Tues-
day morning, between a lage body of sailors and the police
of the town. The sailors had assembled to prevent the
sai►ng of a vessel called the Minstrel, her crew having
signed articles for wages according to the new Marine Act.
One of the police was dangerously hurt and not expected
to live, and several others were more or less injured. Six
sailors were taken prisoners.
The sailors of Shields have nearly arranged their differ-
ences. A large public meeting of seamen was held at
South Shields on Thursday, above 1000 men being pre-
sent, when the whole of the deputies who had seen at the
interview urged on the meeting to allow the ships to go,
and adopt every constitutional means, by petitioning and
otherwise, to procure a redress of their grievances. The
majority of the meeting seemed favourable to this project.
A Roman correspondent of the Times states, that in
addition to the chair of St. Peter at Rome, there is in the
Church of St. Peter at Venice another chair, reported to
have belonged to St. Peter, and brought from Antioch,
whereon is carved, in the Arabic language, in Cuphic
characters, " There is but one Gad, and Mahomet is his
prophet;' together with a long inscription in the same
language ; and that this latter is, in all probability, the
chair to which Lady Morgan's story refers.
GLANDEFM—A horse-dealer at Toppisfield recently
bought a glandered horse for a few shillings. As it was a
good-looking animal he endeavoured twee!! it as sound,
hut fell a melancholy victim to his wickedness. Hastily
wiping its nostrils as a customer appeared;• some of the
contaminated matter was absorbed by a scratch on his
hared. The poisow spread with wonderful rapidity, and he
died in a few hours in great agony. He has left a widow
and five children.—Dttutfrits paper.
GIBING A STICX,—MT. l-loulston, an elder* man, of
Gatehouse, was on Sunday week accosted, while walking
in a lonely place, by a rough-looking fellow, who asked
him for his stick. Mr. Houlston refused to gite it, of
course ; upon which the ruffian said, "Then I'll take it."
He attempted to put his threat in execution, hit Mr.
Houlston unexpectedly knocked him down, and' then
thrashed him soundly ; a mode of giving the stick which
the scoundrel had not anticipated.

Ann Al`l36noghue, a Sligo woman, cohabiting with
Patrick Ganley, while recently rodging with him, at Ehil-
don, in the house of Willinm frvine, asked him to marry
her. He said'he never wonkl. She took off her bonnets,
a couple of haidkerchiefs, and'a pair of stockings, all of
which she placed upon the fire; Then, kissing her para.,
mour, and forgiving him all the ill he had done her, she,
left the house, and was no more seen until Sunday last,
when she was found, at Chapel-row, hanging from a tree,
dead.—Hull Adv?riiser.

A NOVEL PLEA.—OiI Tuesday, at the Criminal Court,
a man, named Wishart, was found guilty of a felony, and
a former conviction was proved against him. The novelty
of the case was his plea in mitigation-of punishment. He
entreated the court to " deal leniently with him, and give
him a short imprisonment, as he was particularly anxious
to see the Great Exhisition !"—and if' the court did that,
he would strive to become a better member of society.
The appeal had no effect on the recorder, who thought
him " a dangerous man," and sentenced him to seven
years' transportation.
SUNDAY DESECRATION.-011 SUllaar;whilst the mem-
bers of the Free Church congregation at Minnyhive were
Aing to church, a party of gentlemen (?) drove past
in a drag at a ye) y rapid rate. Some of them had guns
in their hands, with which they fired at and killed several
cows, and one of them flourished a trumpet, which be
sounded frequently. Such a wanton outrage upon the
feelings of the inhabitants of the district would probably
be more effectually met by a social than a legal punish-
ment, though it undoubtedly richly deserves-both.—Dum-
fries Courier.

DANGERS OF GOING ASTRAY IN THE HIGHLANDS.—A
cripple from Kentalen, near Balchullish, a few nights ago
was travelling through Glendaror. The night being dark
and stormy, he got entirely bewildered; and having once
gone off the road, he could not regain it ; and while thus
wandering, he suddenly got immersed to the arms in a
deep bog, from which he could not extricate himself. In
this perilous situation he had the presence of mind to
contrive to keep from farther sinking, by laying his crutch
across his breast, till his cries of distress were heard, and
brought two women, carrying home faggots, to his assist-
ance, who threw in the end of one of their ropes, which
he caught, and was drawn with some difficulty to terra-
firma, and taken to the nearest house, where he was kindly
attended to.—Perth Courier.
THE SUPPOSED CASE OF POISONING AT TODMORDEN.
--The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs? Cooper, the
late wife of Mr. Cooper, of Stanfield-hall, Todmorden,
(whose apprehension on a charge of murder was narrated
last week,) was held at Elton. near York, on Monday,
when the result of the analysation was announced. The
stomach of the deceased was found to be free from all
poison, and death had resulted from natural causes. Mr.
Cooper on Tuesday was discharged from custody ; but on
application the magistrates declined to make any order
respecting the letters in the custody of the police, which
are of an extraordinary character, and show that months
before his wife's death he was preparing for her successor.
These and other facts gave rise to suspicions and to his
apprehension.

NIVW SHERIFFS.--011 the 11th of February, the fol-
lowing gentlemen were appointed to this office for their
respective counties
YORK:MITRE .—The Hon. Payan Dawnar, of Beningbrough
Hall.
Li NCOLIiSIi I RE.—Sir Charles Henry John Anderson, of Lea,
Bart.
NORFOLItic—Sir Willoughby Jones, of Cranther Hall, Bart.
NOTTING IRE —John Franklin, of Gonalston, Esq.
DtrunAm.—Robert Henry Allan, of Blackwell Hall, Esq.

ANGLESEY.--Thomas Owen, Tyddyn Glan-y-mor. Esq.-
BRECONSH I ItE.—Robert Raikes, Treberfield, Esq.
CARNARVONt.HI'RE.—John Williams, Hafodyllan, Esq.'
CA RDIGANSH rim—Erhest Augustus Vaughan, Earl of Lis-
burne, Ciosswood.
DENIIIGHSH I RE.—T. Hughes, Astrad Hall, Denbigh, Esq.
1,131 M-sit IRE.—Wilsoll' Jones, Hartsheath Park, Esq.
AIIOTHER RIOT' Alf BARHAM UNION WORKHOUSE.—
A. second very serious riot took place at this workhouse
on Sunday evening week. After supper, a large body of
men commenced smashing the furniture and partitions.
They drove back the goVernor and police who interposed,
broke the windows, ransacked the provision store* ate
up the previsions, drank the wine, and let flow the beer.
Having refreshed themselves thus, they committed fresh
destruction,. stripped the roof of its tiles, broke the doors,
and burned the governor's account-books. They were in
full possession of the building five hours. At length, a
sufficient force having been collected, an entrance to the
house was effected by battering-open the door, and thirty-
five of the most active of the rioters were taken into cus-
tody. Several of them have been examined before a
magistrate, and have been committed to Ipswich for trial.
GUTTA PERCiI'A WATER-PIL=E'.—A gutta percha pipe of
two and a half inches calibre, and lOW feet in length, has
been laid down for conveying the croton water to Black-
well's Island, Neva York. The line extends from the foot
of Seventynintli-s!aeet to the iciand, the depth of the
'water varying from thirty to seven feet. The engineer
first arranged his pipe in one length upon the island, and
formed a line of th:tty boats, well manned, across the
river. He then gave his order at the commencement of
stick water, and the end of the pipewas drawn across the
river by men upon the opposite shore, and was taken up
b-r the men in the boats, and one hundred and ten anchors,
each weighing thirty-two pounds each, were attached to
thepipe, being ten feet apart. By word of command the
men in the boats lowered at each point, to suit the inequa-
lities-in the bed of the river, as ascertained by previous
survey. This was all accomplished in seven and one-half
minutes, without accident.—New Yorkpaper.
A Fax KILLED IN A C YTTAGE.—On Friday, the 31st
ult., Earl Pitawilliam's hounds met at Norwood, in the
neighbourhood of Peterborough, and soon after found a
fox at Belharn Wood, when a fine race took place. Rey-
npri, keeping the lead over hill and dale-for an hour and
twenty=five minutes, at length ran through the farm-yard
of Mr. Jahn Rowell, at Longthorpe, proceeded down the
village, and completed his course by bolting into the cot-
tage of Mrs. Mews. The affrighted woman, who was
washing at the time, ran up stairs into the chamber, and
Reynard After her. The fox, however, immediately ran
down again, and the hounds coming in at the time, he
tried to get up the chimney, but was pulledsdown by the
pack, and killed under the fire-grate. Carter, the hunts-
man, was up in time to secure thehead and brush. Lady
Charlotte Fitzwilliam was " in at the death," and Earl
Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Aboyne were close at hand.
Mrs. Melva? furniture, tubs, and clothes, were scattered
about the room and much damaged, but handsome com-
pensation has been made.

A VILLA IN.—At Lambeth Police-office, yesterda) week,
Mr. W. G. Smith, a surgeon in-very good practice, and
residing at sfli Vauxhall-walk, was brought up on a war-
rant, and placed at the bar before the Hon. G, C. Norton,
on a charge of assaulting Mary Ann- Han, a girl 13 years
of age. The case occupied up Bards of two hours in its
investigation, and the evidence, the greater portion of
which was unfit for publication, disclosed scenes of the
most disgusting profligacy that can well be conceived.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is nearly 60:years old,
and a married,man, but separated from his wife,. had in
his confidence two little strumpets-named Ockingden and
Macklallin, with whom he was on terms of profligate in-
timacy ; and those persons he induced to invite to his
house a number of girls whose ages ranged from 16 to 18
years. Once within his reach, the prisoner commenced
by plying his 7ictims with wine or spirits, principally gin,
and by these means, and stating he :Mould require their
services in assisting to clean up the house, he soon ef-
fected his purpose. and the names of seven or oiht were
mentioned whom he had thus succeeded to ruin. Of the
number, one cf the procuresses, Ockingden,. and two of
the girls, Hail and Horne, were examined at considerable
length, and their testimony as to the prisoner's frightful
profligacy was perfectly conclusive. In the course of the
proceedings Mr: Norton exclaimed, .that in the whole
course of many years' magisterial- duty it had not been
his misfortune to hear disclosed such a scene of abomina-
ble profligacy,as that related, and which made one doubt
whether we lived in a civilised or barbarous-state of soci-
ety. An application was made to admit the prisoner to
bail, but it was refused, Mr. Norton remarking, that he
never knew of a case in which the accused wag less enti-
tled to any favour.

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