The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

It appears by a parliamentary return, that in 1942 the
profits of the London Gazette amounted to £10,532 6s. 6d.
The York Minster great bell is to be ordered forthwith.
The amount of subscriptions exceed £17,000.
ANOTHER FOREIGN MANURE.—A vessel is now taking
culm from Swansea to Barbadoes, for the purpose of
burning the coral there into lime for export.
An offer has been made to have London letters deli-
vered in Newcastle in twelve hours and a half from the
time of their leaving the metropolis.
Although great industry has been used to obtain signa-
tures to a petition in favour of Barber, the will forger,
only six names have been appended.
At the Grinshill Quarry, near Shrewsbury, the week
before last, between two and three thousand tons of stone
and earth fell with a crash that was heard three or four
miles round. Fortunately the quarrymen were absent.
Lieutenant Cuddy, one of the seconds in the late fatal
duel, has published a letter, in which he flatly contradicts
several of the statements of Mr. Munro respecting the
late Col. Fawcett.

The cradle for taking the Great Britain through the
dock-gut is fast approaching completion, and the projec-
tors have no doubt of being able to carry her safely into
deep water.
At the late Eton montem, two youths drew the swords
which they are permitted to wear during that festival, and,
while playfully fencing. one. whose name is Fox, received
the point of his fellow-pupil's sword in his right eye, the
sight of which is entirely destroyed.

On Sunday afternoon a fire took place at the Queen's
Ferry, about six miles from Chester, by which an exten-
sive warehouse, stable, four fine horses, and a large quan-
tity of other property, have been entirely destroyed. The
estimated damage is about £3,000.
A very elegant piece of plate, weighing upwards of five
hundred ounces, purchased by subscription of numerous
noblemen and members of the theatrical profession, was
on Wednesday last, presented to Mr. Bunn, in the saloon
of Drury-lane Theatre.

THE LATE LORD DURHAM.—The Durham Advertiser
states that active preparations have been begun for erect-
ing a handsome monument to the late Lord Durham on
Pensher-hill; a building imitated from the Temple of
Theseus, at least seventy feet in height, and visible from
a great part of the surrounding country.
BEAR'S GREASE.—AII the brown, black, and white
bears in the world would scarcely yield a month's supply
of genuine grease for the polar consumption of Great
Britain. To " slaughter a bear" is a byword among bar-
bers for opening a bladder of lard I—Mysteries of Lon-
don.

Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co., the bankers, have
put down their names for £lOO towards the national fund
which the Chartists are about to raise for the purpose of
purchasing an estate for Mr. Thomas Duncombe, as a tes-
timonial of their sense of his services to their cause, both
in and out of parliament.—Sun.
KILMARNOCK BURGHS.—On Tuesday last the voting
for these-burghs took place, when at the close the num-
bers were—for the Hon. Mr. Bouverie, 389 ; Mr. Prinsep,
379; Mr. Vincent, 98. Mr. Bouverie was therefore
elected. Mr. Prinsep, the conservative candidate, Only
came forward a day or two prior to the poll, or he would
certainly have been returned.
Mr. Moon, of Lancaster, has lately paid a second divi-
dend of a quarter of a farthing in the pound.—Mr. May-
hew, of Camberwell, has paiu a halfpenny in the pound ;
and in another case the creditors have received five-
eighths of a penny !—ln the case of Clarke, Mitchell, and
Co., of Leicester, the creditors, who have received nothing,
will probably have to pay the expenses of the commission.
A curious proposal was made in the course of the last
week to some of the principal Life Assurance Companies.
It was for an insurance upon the life of the late Mr.
Crockford for four days only from the day on which it
was proposed, so as to carry the risk over the Derby.
The proposal was declined ; but had it been accepted, the
insurers would have suffered no loss, Mr. Crockford hav-
ing lived six days.
GAMING AT RACES.—A letter was received on Thurs-
day morning by the Mayor of Windsor, from Sir James
Graham, stating that it was the determination of her
Majesty's government to suppress every description of
gaming at the various race-courses throughout the king-
dom, and calling upon the authorities of Windsor to
render all the aid in their power during the ensuing races
at Ascot.

HONOURABLE CONDUCT.—Mr. Ward, of Honduras
Wharf, who stopped payment some years ago, and paid
10s. in the pound, having through his exertions recovered
himself in business, has lately called his creditors toge-
ther and paid the remaining 100. So highly gratified were
these parties with the honourable conduct of Mr. Ward,
that, at a dinner which they gave him on Wednesday last
at the Brunswick Hotel, Blackwall, they presented him
with a piece of plate valued at 100 guineas.
SUSPICIOUS CASE.—On Tuesday night some neigh-
bours of Charlotte Hall, wife of a plasterer, at "Wimble-
don, heard screams of murder. Next morning the poor
woman was f,und apparently strangled in her bed, and
the husband had absconded. An inquest was held on the
case on Wednesday, when• it was concluded that the un-
fortunate woman had died from natural causes, and a ver-
dict accordingly was returned. The police are, however,
still on the look out for the husband.

THE PITMEN OF THE NORTH.—The pitmen have not
yet returned to their work ; and the colliery owners are
gradually obtaining fresh men to supply their places. We
are informed that certain disclosures, implicating the con-
duct of the executive, are about to be made, the effect of
which will probably be to break up the union, or at all
events to give those a good excuse for withdrawing from
its ranks, and we believe the number is not small who are
heartily sick and tired of the strike.—Newcastle Adver-
tiser.

It is rather a remarkable coincidence, that the late Go-
vernor-General of India, Lord Ellenborough and his suc-
cessor in that distinguished appointnent, Sir Henry
Hardinge, Bart., K.C.8., are both brothers-in-law of the
Marquis of Londonderry. Lord Ellenborough married,
in 1816, Lady Octavia Stewart, who died in 1819, sister of
the Marquis of Londonderry ; and Sir Henry Hardinge
married in 1821, Lady Emily Jane James, widow of J.
James, Esq., also sister to the Marquis of Londonderry.
GAMBLING BOOTHS.—The report of the committee of
the House of Commons on the laws respecting gaming,
which- was presented on Monday, recommends that all
gambling booths on race courses should be entirely and
universally put down. As Mr. Manners Sutton, the
Under-secretary for the home department, was a member
of that committee, we have no doubt that the gambling
booths and tables at Epsom, like the recent simultaneous
entrance of the 17 gaming-houses in the neighbourhood of
St. James's-street, arose out of the inquiries and recom-
me dations of the committee.
THE DERBY AND LEGER LOTTERIES.—It is the in-
tention of Government to adopt measures for the imme-
diate suppression of the above speculations. Arrange-
ments are about being made with the magistracy to carry
this intention of the Government into effect; for which
purpose the police authorities will receive instructions to
give notice to publicans that if they, for the future, per-
mit " lotteries" or " sweepstakes" to be held, they will
not only subject themselves to heavy penalties, but by
permitting them to take place on their premises, such an
illegal proceeding will endanger the licences of their
respective houses.—lllorning paper.
RAISINC., THE WIND.—A most ingenious act of impo-
sition, attended with a forgery upon a highly-respectable
solicitors' firm in the City, was enacted a few days since
in the legal neighbourhood t f Lincoln's-Inn. It appears
some rogue, " learned in the law," prepared a fictitious
case in the usual terms of legal technicality, and which
was duly endorsed " Case far the opinion of Mr. Bethell
—two guineas." The names of certain clients of Mr.
Bethell, as usual, at the bottom of the " case," and a
cheque- fcr £lO, purporting to be drawn by them upon
Messrs. Lubbock, the bankers, was presented to the clerk,
who, unsuspicious of fraud, at once handed over the dif-
ference between the fee and the £lO. Upon the check
being presented for payment the forgery was at once dis-
covered.

TILE SLAVE TRADE.—The Rapid, 10-gun brigantine,
doubts of the safety of which have lately been expressed,
was left by the Rattlesnake, on the 25th March, refitting
at the Island of Ascension—all well. She had been ac-
tively employed on the African coast. On the 15th Fe-
bruary, she captured, with her boats, a Spanish slaver in
the river Bimbia. The boots had to sustain a long fire of
nnusquetry, but courageously boarded her. One man was
killed and two wounded. The Rapid has been on the
coast for two years, during which she has captured seven
slave vessels, containing 1,288 slaves. The description
given of one of these vessels, from the poor creatures, men
women and children, being stowed together in a bulk, is
horrifying. Several were found dead. All the other ves-
sels captured were more or less in the same condition.

- .
office, the other day, Mark Noed, a gold-cutter, was
SHOCKING BARBARITY.—At the Clerkenwell Police-
committed for trial, charged with brutally flogging, starv-
ing, and otherwise maltreating his illegitimate son, a boy
of fourteen. The instrument of punishment was a clumsy
stick, two feet long, with six knotted India• rubber cords
fastened to the end of it ; and the boy had been kept tied
r
up in a darkened room, and fed on bread and water
pter
days together. The boy was desired to remove t P
the back,
ing was presented to the court. The wholecov_red
with
from the neck to the hips, was literally._ e
hoi r the left side
stripes and coagulated blood.
The we;-marks of the lash
part of his dress, and in doing so a spectacle tort.uiheshoc
was contused ; there were two orttber
ON SHAD
FTEhLeLsb.o_y
of
father, being asked what
having told his story, the brteacharge,
replied, with great
he had to say in reply to: s is perfectly true ; but, in
and knots on the lower part
indifference, " What he E Y
all he got. '
my opinion, he deserves
put a period to his existence by cutting
SUICIDE BY A vOAC
Passenger on the London mail-coach
who was aP" ' •
aafbteoruntoeoingiliatsmt,ialersefsrpoemetaKbelen-dloalo:tihneg getitle-going southwards, ,
It appears,that, when the mail arrived at the
his throat.
bill on ShapFells, on the north side of the Hucks
steep. ,--. II PASSEfNGhERaOb
public- 0 ,
gentle-
man said that he would walk down the hill behind the
mOnanThuhrsudsacy
coach, and get up again on changing horses at the Hucks.
The horses being changed, and the mail ready for a start,
he did not come up. However, he was seen to go a little
off the road, not far from the public-house, when a person
was sent to the place, and, lamentable to relate, the gen-
tleman was found in a sand hole a short distance from the
read, weltering in his blood, with his throat cut almost
from ear to ear. As a matter of course, the mail drove
on, and be was removed to the II uck s, where he lingered
in great agony for little more than two hours, when life
became extinct. On searching his pockets a few invoices
of one Andrew Gibson, whisky distiller, Paisley, were
found.

June 4, 1844.

FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday week, about
six o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out in the house
of Mr. Brown, oilman, No. 69, Selby-street, at Hull.
The county and parish engines were speedily on the spot,
but there was a scarcity of water for sometime, and the
fire rapidly spread to Nos. 68 and 70, the property of Mr.
Banks and Mr. Walker, but it was happily got under
about seven o'clock. We regret to say that the wife of
Mr. Brown perished in the fire. Nos. 68 and 69 are en-
tirely, and No. 70 parti dly, gutted. Very little of the
furniture, stock, &c., were saved. None of the houses
are insured. No conjecture can be formed as to the origin
of the fire.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE CHARITY CHM..
DREN AT ST. PAUL'S. —On Thursday the imposing assem-
blage of the charity children of the city and metropolitan
districts took place in St. Paul's Cathedral, it being the
anniversary meeting. It was most ❑umerously and
fashionably attended, and amongst those present were the
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, and most of the civic
officers. Fortunately, although the early part of the day
was lowering, it cleared up, and a fine afternoon followed.
Besides a number of the fashionable world, many foreign-
ers of distinction were present, but the vast arena on
which the children were placed was the chief object of
attraction. In number they were supposed to be not less
than 7000, and their neat and healthy appearance was
generally remarked upon. The anniversary sermon was
preached by the Bishop of St. David's.

COMMUNICATION NvTii THE EAST.—The Peninsula
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received
a letter from the Lords of the Admiralty, stating that go-
vernment have determined that the India overland Mail
via Southampton shell for the future leave that place on
the 3d of every month, and that the mail via Marseilles
shall leave London on the 7th of every month. The half-
yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company was
held on Wednesday last, when a dividend at the rate of
7 per cent. per annum was declared. A satisfactory in-
crease in receipts is reported, and the undivided profits of
the concern, after providing £lB,OOO for the payment re-
commended, and reserving £lB,OOO for the payment re-
commended, and reserving £B,OOO for anticipated repairs,
are stated to amount to £58,000. It appears the direc-
tors have lately been enabled to reduce the rates of insu-
rance on the Company's floating property in Europe from
£6 to £5 ss. per cent.
SEA WATER CONVERTED INTO FRESH.—The St-
George, Sydney mail packet, sailed on Thursday from the
London docks. Among the many conveniences provided
for the passengers by this splendid ship is Clark's patent
apparatus for procuring fresh water from salt water, pro-
ducing about three gallons per hour perfectly pure and
tasteless, but not vapid--in fact quite as fresh as that
usually consumed on shore. The difficulties which for-
merly laid in the way of the use of distilled water were-
-Ist, the accumulation of salt in the still; 2nd, the brack-
ish water mechanically carried by the steam from the still
to the condenser; and 3rd, the vapid taste of water con-
densed in a close vessel like the ordinary worm. The first
object is accomplished by drawing the salt water from the
still or boiler before a large per centage of salt is held in
solution. The second is accomplished by passing the
steam through close air cylinders having a surface of
fresh water. The third is effected by condensing the steam
in a vessel open to the external atmosphere by which the
water becomes as it were aerated.—MercantileJournal.

EXECUTION OF WILLIAM CROUCH.—afr Monday
mornin.g, at eight o'clock. William Crouch suffered the
extreme penalty of the law in front of the gaol at New-
gate, having been convicted at the last sessions of the Cen-
tral Criminal Court of the murder of his wife. He ex-
pressed himself fully conscious of the enormity of his
crime, and added, that he had tried to exhibit by outward
signs the sincerity of that repentance which he felt in-
wardly, but that he could not do so. At five minutes to
eight, all being in readiness, the procession moved from
the press-room, through the chapel yard, towards the
scaffold ; the rev. ordinary read the impressive service for
the burial of the dead. There could not have been i'ess
than ten thousand persons present. Within a very few
seconds of his arrival on the scaffold, Calcraft had com-
pleted the awful preparations ; and, having drawn a cap
over the wretched man's face, retired. The Rev. Mr-
Davis, who had continued reading the burial service, was
in the act of repeating the Lord's Prayer, the prisoner
joining fervently with him, when the signal was given, the'
drop fell, and in a few moments Crouch had ceased to'
exist.

THE VALUE OIrAMERICAN PROPERTY.—On Tuesdayr
at the Auction Mart, a territorial property, known as the'

" Town-hall" estate, situate in Marylaran:thdwhe,ei.tUphrniaisiotlendieireSrtaantaeoso,,:,,:::
North America, and consisting of 12,470 acres of land,
was offered for sale by auction. It was described as being
only 17 days' journey from England, being bounded by
the Chesapeake and. Ohio Canal, the Baltimore and Ohio
Railway, and the river Potomac on the south, and on the
north by the great turnpike road from Baltimore and
Washington to the Western States. Among its recom-
mendations, there were stated to be on the property, to-
bacco, houses, iron and coal mines, sulphur springs,
highly charged with white sulphur, &c., and the soil could
grow wheat, barley, tobacco, the white, black, and rock
oak, some nearly 200 feet high; white, yellow, and red
pines, some 120 feet high ; dyeing and medicinal plants,
sugar, &c. There was a communication with all the prin-
cipal towns, and two mails, with four other coaches, pass
through the estate. The auctioneer, on putting up the
lot, observed that the sale was an experiment, to try if its
England an American state could find a sale. The, auc-
tioneer put the question three times, without success, when
the estate was repudiated.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.--On the morning
of the 12th ult., about two o'clock, the keeper of the
Kinnardhead Lighthouse was attracted by a noise of some
one knocking at the door of the house, and who turned
out to be a shipwrecked seaman in a wet and exhausted
state. After his necessities were provided for, he stated
that his name was Alexander Hutchinson, and that his
vessel, the Eliza, of Kirkcudbright, bound from Liverpool
to Dundee, with salt, struck on a rock on the 9th instant,
in passing through the Pentland Firth, in a fog. They
attempted to cross the Moray Firth working the pumps,
but the water at length came above the cabin floor, and
they determined to abandon her. In putting the boat
out, the rope slipped, and she went adrift. Upon this
the crew (four men) jumped overboard, leaving on board
a boy, who was unable to swim. Hutchinson alone
reached the boat, the rest all perishing—and the vessel
went down about half an hour after.. He could render 00
assistance as there were no oars, and the boat drifted to-
wards the shore, which he saw in the afternoon. At night
the wind changed, and, afraid of being drifted off again,
he jumped in and swam to the shore—about half a mile-
which he reached at midnight, and keeping the light in
view reached the Lighthouse. The names of the crew
lost are John M`Ritchie, master, Thomas Smith, mate,
James Ross, seaman, and John Mackenzie, cabin boy.
PROTECTION OF YOUNG FEMALES.—A petition pre-
sented to the House of Lords by the Bishop of Exeter, for
the suppression of seduction and prostitution, is accom-
panied by a great variety of documentary evidence, show-
ing the necessity of protecting innocent females from the
in'quitous practices of persons who trade in their destruc-
tion. Among others it is stated that the society fronl
whence the petition comes indicted a brothel keeper, and
were in a condition to prove that she allowed an in,divt-
dual a considerable salary, together with his travelling
expenses, for supplying her house with young females-
This he chiefly (lid by going into the cou❑try and hiring
them, frequently with the consent of their parents, under
pretence of procuring for them some respectable service
of occupation in London. On their arrival in town they
were taken to the house of the brothel keeper, where their
ruin was effected. The brothel keeper was indicted, but,
hearing of the indictment, she absconded, and is now living
on the fruits of her iniquity at Boulogne. The society
also state, that a woman, residing in Great Titchfield-
street, was the ostensible proprietress of six infamous
houses in various districts of the metropolis. This person►
in connexion with other means of providing her houses
with victims, established an agency on the road between
Slough and Windsor, on the line of the Great Western
Railway. She hired and furnished a house, and placed
her own sisteirgel:ibloopiutlr,ohto withow aa
sfi
for her
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principal
caitpnoadle nebgsrtaosgtblegi
establishment?
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leaving
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which was in Great Titohfield-street.
fwrohmolethdaitabnoeli At length the
the notice of the magistrates of Eton, from whose inqui-
ries it appeared that the young women were sent front.
Slough to the house in Titchfield-street, in which girls 01
the first class were kept, where their ruin was effected;
after a time, they were sent to another house of a lower
grade, and from one house to another, till, soon after
lowest walks of vice and misery. It is generall t0nq.,,,,
stood that very considerable sums, even from £2o£luu
are frequently given for the opportunity ofp .iiipoelarttiyn
helpless victims.
ABDUCTION.—A singular case of abduction came on
for hearing at the Brentford Petty Sessions oa ris
broughtk ri d a y
farmer's-
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G. Willavyse, an extensive .
from whose employ he.
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su lotn.
Ihyena bysecaortsi doe
old.
. withseo
at 9s. per week and lodging. On tli
as farm servant,
declarede
that all that
young lady were found in lodgings at Brentford. l',l
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value of the articles was considerable as his daughter ha-
Mnaanni
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Willavyseissev wholeprisoner,
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a,
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removed the
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discovered their absence, heaware°
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Miss Jane Willavyse was then called in.. She is a nr;
looking girl, and about fifteen years of age. She gave uet
evidence with reluctance. It was elicited from her qi..l
having consented to elope with the prisoner, she had To
midnight, on the night in question, quitted her father,_
house by means of herbedchamberwindow, and descerl,
her own free consent'
ed by a ladder, which had been placed for her by the Pr,,,r
soner, bringing with her, of her own accord, the proPer."4
the prisoner was accused of stealing. They started
,!'',t
foot to Maidenhead, where they arrived in the early Pio
of the morning, and rested themselves. They then t"0";,,
that neither of them were in possession of a farthing, '„5
money, and were compelled to pledge some of her clotar4
to procure refreshments. Being fearful of discoverYth'e
Maidenhead, they returned to Brentford, walking all the
the
way, upwards of twenty miles, and took a lodging at es
Drum. While at Brentford, they supported themsett a
by pledging various artich a, but the prisoner had Pas.
situation to go to on Monday, as a farm servant, at "1,
a week, at a tarmer's in the neighbourhood of Brentfor,!,
Mr. Mollie, the magistrate, said, after tho evidences;
Miss Willavyse, the charge of felony could not be r"._t,,
tented; and he suggested to Mr. Willavyse the propriee
5. ,c,
as his daughter was so young, and matters had g°",,cr,
far, of arranging the affair. Mr,. Willavyse, korley
.
refused to adopt the suggestion. Search ci sthh (eviwai7et rig:
bfmhte hsAusseuli. 'l,s sert_e.