The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-07 00:00:00

?111 LIVERPOOL. STANDARD.

WHAT NEXT I—At the Hull public baths there is on
the side appropriated to females an excellent plunge bath,
called the Jewess's bath, and intended solely, we under-
stand, for the use of persons of the Hebrew nation.
Mrs. Thornton, wife of a respectable man at Bangor,
drowned herself last week during a fit of insanity. She
kissed her little boy before leaving the house, and gave
him the keys.
A labourer at Barking, in Essex, was on Tuesday week
shot while kneeling on his bed by a man named Rison,
who fired with a duck gun through the window. The
wounded man is not expected to recover.
Anna Maria Anson, who some months since figured
away at Cheltenham as Lady Whyatville, was the other
day committed from Wandsworth, charged with victimi-
zing a great number of lodginghouse-keepers.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land had increased from £16.629,601 to £16,646,835,
being a difference of £17,234. The paper in actual circu-
lation had decreased from £21,494,075 to £21,484,248,
being a difference of £9,827.
Mr. J. H. Horn Twizell, eldest son of J. T. Wawn,
Esq., M.P. for South Shields, fell into the North Tyne
whilst fishing, on Saturday last, and was drowned. It is
supposed he was attacked with a fit of apoplexy, to which
he was subject.
According to current report the poet Tennyson will be
elevated to the laureateship. The Athenceum objects that
the emoluments of the post should be bestowed upon a
writer already receiving a pension of £3OO per annum,
and possessed of no unequalled genius.
NOVEL USE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—On
Wednesday the following announcement was posted on
the window of the Electric Telegraph Office, Stockport :
" The Queen delivered of a Prince at eight this morning
by Electric Telegraph."
On Thursday week, as Mr. Thomas, druggist, at
Menai Bridge, was making some chemical experiments,
for the manufacturing of detonating powder, in a wedge-
wood mortar, the ingredients exploded, and shattered the
mortar, jars, windows, &c. He himself was so injured
that he died soon after from loss of blood.
Lady Franklin's expedition, under the direction of Com-
mander Codrington Forsyth, is being put on foot with all
dispatch, and contributions are being raised to secure the
necessary funds. It is estimated that £4,000 will be re-
quired, and towards this sum Lady Franklin has given
£1,000; Messrs. Levesque, Dollond, and W. Franklin,
£lOO each ; Mr. Green, the eminent shipowner, £5O.
A lady bought a shawl last week at a shop in the Quad-
rant, paying for it 30s. When she got home she found
the shawl had been changed for one with at least half a
dozen holes in it. She took it back and received another,
which was not worth more than 125., the people of the
shop treating her with great insolence. She applied to a
magistrate, but he had no power to grant her any redress.
SHOCKING EVENT.—On Saturday last Thomas Bon-
ham, aged fifteen, son of Mr. Robert Bonham, butcher,
Waddon, Oxfordshire, took up a gun belonging to his
father, placed a percussion can on it, and was walking out
of the shop or slaughterhouse when the gun (a very old
and imperfect piece) exploded, and the contents went
completely through the head of his sister Mary, aged
thirteen, who was a few yards before her brother.
FATAL EXPLOSION.—The Lestwithiel powder-works,
at Herod's Foot, five miles west of Liskeard, exploded on
Friday night week. There were in store three or four
tons of gunpowder, which went off in three different
explosions. The premises were blown to pieces, and the
bodies of the two watchers, Pengelly and Truscott, since-
ingly mutilated. Cottages, a quarter of a mile distant,
are said to have been unroofed and the walls damaged.
FREE TRADE IN DUNDEE.—The Dundee Courier
states, as one instance out of many of the injurious effects
of free trade upon the shopkeepers, that a respectable
tailor and clothier (a staunch Reformer and Free-trader,
by the way), stated lately that he usually disposed of 130
to 160 topcoats to farmers and country people, but this
season be had only sold three, whilst the old ones sent
in to be repaired were beyond precedent ! Such is an
illustration of the actual effects of free trade.
A LUCKY HOUSE.—There is a very lucky house in
G—t D—k-street, at Newport, Monmouthshire, from
which, during the past nine years, no less than ten young
ladies, bearing no relationship to each other, have pro-
ceeded, on fine mornings, to the Hymeneal altar, with the
men of their choice. Numerous unmarried members of
the delectable sex have been induced by their mammas to
inquire for lodgings from the last " lucky lady."—Mon-
mouth Merlin.
A young man at Bath hastily married a blooming lass,
whom he believed to be pure as she looked. While in
full enjoyment of his honeymoon, the relieving officer of
the Bath union conveyed to him four chubby boys,
pledges of the damsel's former promiscuous amours. The
young husband was unwilling to receive this ready-made
family, but an appeal to the guardians was unsuccessful,
and he has been compelled to provide for his wife's unex-
pected gifts beneath the roof which she shares with him.
MURDER BY RICH BEGGARS.—A mother and daugh-
ter, both beggars, at Belper, have been committed for the
murder of a child, ten days old, of which the young
woman is mother. The child was found huddled in the
earth, beneath some paving stones. On searching the
house of these mendicants, the constable, to his great
surprise, found secreted in a hole the sum of £53 3s. in
gold and silver ; in another hole, £lO ss. 9d. ; and in
another, nearly half a hundredweight of pence and half-
pence

The important operation of extirpation of the breast
was performed on Monday, the 22d ult., upon a poor
woman named Moodie, residing at Thackley, near Idle,
by William Field, Esq., surgeon, of Dudley Hill, who has
secured a well-earned reputation by the number and uni-
form success of his surgical operations. The operation
was performed in rather less than three minutes, and the
tumour, a very large and malignant one, was taken away
while the patient was under the influence of chloroform.
The patient is now nearly well.
THE GLASS TRADE.—The crown-glass trade, once so
flourishing on the Tyne, is now perfectly paralysed.
There are some twenty crown-glass houses on the Tyne,
in which there were formerly manufactured from 15,000
to 20,000 " tables" weekly. At present there are only
three houses in operation—and even this small number is
far from being fully employed. The broad-glass manu-
facture, so successfully carried on by the late firm of Sir
M. W. Ridley and Co., has ceased, and the whole of the
large manufactory is entirely closed. The glass trade has
fallen a victim to Peel's tariff.

THE PERIWINKLE TRADE.—It would hardly be sup-
posed that so trifling an article of consumption as peri-
winkles could form a matter of extensive traffic ; but so it
is. Sometimes as many as 50 or 60 tons of these little
shells are brought at a time to our quay from the island of
Kervera, opposite Oban, where they abound, and are ga-
thered by the poor people, who get 6d. a bushel for col-
lecting them. From this they are shipped to Liverpool,
and thence by rail to London, to satisfy the insatiable
maw of the modern Babylonians. Very few are retained
here in transit, as the popular taste for " whilks and
buckies" is not so strongly marked in our population,
and better profits are consequently obtained in London,
even after paying so much sea and land carriage.—Glas-
gow paper.

COLONEL SIBTHORP.—The Era, in reply to a corre-
spondent, gives the following particulars respecting the
eccentric colonel :—" Colonel Sibthorp's country seat is
Canwick-hall, about half a mile from Lincoln. He sel-
dom visits it, and when he does it is only for one or two
days at a time. It has been asserted that he is prevented
from spending a lengthened period at Canwick owing to
the numerous parties who, on every opportunity, solicit
his bounty, saying they have lost a horse, cow, pig, &c.
The colonel's generosity is proverbial, and it is therefore
to be regretted that l►e should be so severely taxed when-
ever ho visits Lincolnshire. As one instance of his libe-
rality, we may mention that, last week, he attended a
meeting in the Guildhall, Lincoln, called by the Mayor
to promote the projected great exhibition in 1851. The
colonel stated his reasons for refusing to subscribe to the
local fund, but then wrote out a cheque for £lOO, which
he gave to the Mayor to distribute amongst the poorer
classes in Lincoln, without regard to sectarian or political
feeling."

FREAKS OF MR. WOMEWELL'S ELEPHANT. —OR
Thursday, Mr. Wombwell's elephant caused some con-
sternation at Castle Edward Colliery, near Sunderland.
Symptoms of an outbreak had appeared in his journey
from Hartlepool, inasmuch as some difficulty was expe-
rienced in preventing him doing injury to the horses that
helped him to draw the caravan. Once loosened, how-
ever, from harness, the huge animal instantly cleared his
way of horses, caravan, and every obstruction, animate
and inanimate. The pitmen's henroosts, and such like,
were crushed like eggshells, and it became a task of diffi-
culty to catch and secure the animal. Ropes were passed
around his trunk and legs, stones were thrown, and guns
fired at him, but for some time with no other effect than
to intensify his exasperation. At last he was thrown
down, and then, finding himself foiled, throughout the
evening, he rang his bell for nuts and gingerbread with
the greatest good humour. The next morning, on remov-
ing to Seaham Harbour, the same scene was repeated,
but mingled with greater cause of alarm. When brought
to be harnessed, he gave proof that he would much rather
break his caravan to pieces than draw it. The greatest
alarm prevailed amongst the observers, lest some of the
caravans should be so damaged as to allow animals per-
haps even more prone to do mischief than the elephant
to escape. Although this was nearly the case on one or
two occasions, yet nothing so serious came to pass, and
the premises were finally cleared of the strange visitor and
his companions.

T H E

REWARD

0 F

We must allow it would be very hard
If industry were kept from its reward,
But those who labour in their proper sphere,
And patiently toil on and persevere,
Will soon or late a sure reward obtain
For all their hours of anxious care and pain.
'Tis net at once that men to fame arise,
The road to eminence through trouble lies ;
By action springing from a studious thought
The elements of true success are wrought,
By dauntless energy and manly will,
By wise designs and well directed skill,
By strength of purpose boldly to oppose
The machinations of defaming foes:
Merit awhile may live within the shade,
But in due time its price is surely paid.
In every science, and in every trade,
We find some men for eminence are made;
No matter how their compeers strive and try,
'Tis all in vain—they quickly pass them by;
Their application, never at a loss,
Enables them all obstacles to cross;
4,rs
In all p nits, in every grade and state
Some en appear as destined to be great.
So AM, nobly striving in his trade,
own success and high renown has made,
, ohe has proudly pass'd his rivals by
With power that seem'd all efforts to defy;
Fearless of all, he still went boldly on,
Until the height which now he holds was won;
Ever undaunted in the public cause,
He daily seeks new means to gain applause;
Thus from all classes has be eam'd regard,
And industry bath reap'd its just reward.

A Footisti GIRL.—On the departure of a detachment
of the 81st from Scarborough to Berwick, a girl, who had
lost her heart to one of the soldiers, proceeded by the
same train ; but, being detected at York, she was given
over to a police-officer, who was directed to send her to
her friends at Scarborough. She declared that she would
never return to them, struggled frantically, and rent the
air with her shrieks. On being placed in a train for Scar-
borough, she declared that the moment the train departed
she would throw herself from the window. A railway
porter was thereupon placed in the carriage with her, and
he had actually many times to struggle violently with her
to prevent the execution of her threat.
A THIEF IN A BEDCHAMBER. One of the Leeds
papers of Saturday last states that at Devizes, on Sunday
night week, Mrs. Wells, of the Swan inn' while in bed,
felt a hand touch her face, and, waking her husband,
caused him, much against his will, to rise and see if some
stranger was not in the room. He struck a lucifer-match
and lighted a candle, when he found a man secreted be-
hind a dress. He thrashed the thief so vigorously that,
notwithstanding his cries for mercy, he rendered him
nearly insensible, after which he handed him to a police-
officer. The fellow had, but a week before, at another
inn, secured a purse in the night by secreting himself in a
bed-room, and it is supposed that he was about to take
Mrs. Well's purse from beneath her pillow when he put
his hand on her face.
STRANGE COINCIDENCE.—A very unusual occurrence
took place in Rutherglen Church on Sunday, which is
thus narrated to us by a gentleman who was present :
" In the afternoon, two men pretty well up in years ap-
peared in the bench' of the parish church, each with his
tenth child, for baptism. In ' the bench,' at the same
time, and for the same purpose, were a young couple,
with their first child. Here is the singular part of the
story. The child of the young couple was the first grand-
child of the two elder men—one of the old men being the
father of the youthful mother—the other the parent of the
young father. Thus, at the same time, were there in
' the bench' two granafathers and two grandmothers, with
the son-in-law in daughter-in-law, while two uncles and
a niece were being baptised. The children of the old men
were boys ; the child of the young couple a girl."—Glas-
gow Herald.
THE IRON TRADE.—The little that has been done in
this trade during the past fortnight has been of an unusu-
ally lifeless character. Prices remain much the same as
at quarter-day, and the orders which were supposed to be
withheld on that occasion with a view to turn the scale in
favour of lower rates, are still not forthcoming ; so that
either that object is not yet considered impracticable, or
these assumed requirements are not of a very urgent
description—if, indeed, they existed at all in any other
shape than the fanciful figments of philosophising specu-
lators. We are also sorry to learn that the local con-
sumption of the district, which up to the present time
has escaped the general depression. is now considerably
shortening, in consequence of a relaxation in the de-
mand for most of our principal articles of manufacture.
In the wrought nail trade around Dudley this falling-off
is reported to be so extensive that it has been considered
necessary to issue notices for a further abatement of the
miserable wages hitherto given, and the operatives are
refusing to work at the reduction.—Birmingham Gazette..
NEGRO SEAMEN AT CHARLESTON.—Some interest
and curiosity has been excited in London by the particu-
lars of a case which has come before the Thames police-
court. Mr. Waddington, the master of the barque Mary
Ann, was summoned for non-payment of wages to a negro
seaman. The ground of refusal was that the complain-
ant, who is a British subject, hart been taken out of the
ship at Charleston by the authorities there because he was
a coloured man, and imprisoned for two months in the
common gaol, to prevent him having any communication
with the slave population, and that he had been charged
£2O by the sheriff for the maintenance of the seaman
while he was in gaol. Mr, Yardley, after expressing his
surprise at such an outrage on the liberty of the subject,
said the wages must be paid, notwithstanding the man had
been taken to prison and the expenses incurred, because
there was no stipulation in the articles to exempt the ship
from the liability. The captain demurred to payment.
He said, " I cannot go back to any slave-holding state in
America ; if I do my ship will be scuttled or the mast
taken out." He took his papers, and as he was going
said " D—n it, I wish we were all slaves,—seamen,
magistrates, and all." An order for the payment of
£ll 14s. 6d., after giving the captain credit for advances,
was made.
ADELAIDE MEMORIAL.—We are gratified to perceive,
that an energetic effort is now making in Landon to pro-
vide means to establish an institution for providing the
orphan daughters of naval and marine officers with the
means of obtaining a suitable education, and of establishing
themselves in such positions in life as may enable them
to secure a respectable maintenance. The idea of form-
ing the institution at the present time has originated from
a desire to give a practical tendency to the variety of pro-
posals which have been suggested for memorials of the
late Queen Dowager. A liberal subscription has been
entered into, and a great number of the nobility and lead-
ing naval officers have signified their warm approval of
the work. An influential ladies' committee has been
formed in London, and we sincerely hope that the good
work will soon be brought to a prosperous completion.
The admirers of the late good Queen Dowager—the wife
and widow of a sailor—could not more satisfactorily show
their esteem and affection for her majesty than by liberally
contributing to this fund. " A Sailor's Widow," writing
to the Nautical Magazine, says—" At the present mo-
ment there are two heart-rending cases, which I may
bring forward in proof of the urgent necessity of some
such effort, as that I now earnestly recommend to the
attention of the benevolent and patriotic. The first, is
that of the four orphan daughters of a post captain; the
second, that of the six orphan daughters of a lieutenant
of the Royal Navy, both fathers having died of cholera,
and left their motherless children entirely destitute, with-
out even the means of obtaining that education which
might enable them hereafter to help themselves."
A SAILOR HUNT.—The Shield's Gazette states, that
an American sailor, at Sunderland, who had been taken
to the station-house for disorderly conduct in the streets,
" suddenly sprung out into the yard, and leaped over the
iron rails. At that moment he was seized by the collar
by Serjeant Grey, who was, however, unable to hold this
wild son of Neptune. The latter suddenly tumbled a

summerset, and fell from a height of forty.' feet to the
ground below. He got up immediately and leaped over
the wall, into the Pann-road. The serjeant ran after him
down the Pann steps and came close upon him, but he
ran at full speed through Mr. Hutchinson's shipbuilding
yard, and dashed into the river, followed by the serjeant,
who was obliged to return, however, the watery element
being unsuitable to a land policeman. Jack then swam
towards the north side of the river, and Serjeant Grey
went to the quay and hailed the river police-boat. The
summons was promptly obeyed, the serjeant got on board,
and they gave full chase to the swimmer, who suddenly
whirled about in the water, swam towards the bridge, and
making for the south side, got between a vessel and the
quay, when one of the river policemen tried to catch him
with the boat-hook. Jack's inexpressibles gave way and
he dashed off again, and they after him in full chase.
When nearly overtaken, Jack dived under a boat, and
when rising again to the surface he was fairly hooked by
the jacket, pulled into the boat, and conveyed to the
shore : he then walked quietly to the station-house. On
his arrival he seemed much exhausted with his strange
adventure, and the superintendent kindly administered
some restoratives to him. Shortly afterwards he was
quite recovered, when a number of his messmates came
and claimed him, and his ship being upon a tide sail, poor
Jack was set at liberty."

AWFUL TRAGEDY.—Stafford and the neighbourhood
were on Tuesday alarmed by a report, which turned out

quite correct, of a most tragical event having taken place
at Ingestre, the seat of Earl Talbot. It appears that Mr.
Yarker, head gamekeeper to Earl Talbot, who was re-
covering from an attack of delirium tremens, was attended
by Walter Murray, the person who was placed in charge
of him by the advice of his medical adviser, Mr. Waddell,
of Stafford, who had repeatedly given instructions that
any weapon with which he could possibly do any injury
should be cautiously kept from him, and also that he
should be strictly watched. It appears, however, that
Murray, who is an underkeeper, about six o'clock on
Tuesday evening, incautiously allowed Yarker to take out

a gun, in company with him: for the purpose of shooting
jackdaws. After they had proceeded about a mile from
the house Yarker shot Murray with a bullet ; Yarker
then returned home, leaving his victim dead in a kind of

tower or temple. The servant girl was in the kitchen
when Yarker arrived there, taking tea, with an infant in
her arms ; he opened the door and shot her dead through
the head, the child falling unhurt to the ground. Yar-
ker's sister, who is the widow of a medical gentleman,
was in the small apartment, not more than three yards

from him ; he levelled the gun at her, and she shifting
her position he lowered his gun from his shoulder ; again
levelled it and fired; she distinctly saw the flash, and
immediately moved her head, and escaped with two shots
in the face ; Yarker then ran from the house and escaped
into the wood with his gun unloaded. His wife who was
in the yard followed him. In about ten minutes from

this tinie, Yarker's sister heard the report of a gun, and
in about two minutes afterwards the report of another.
Mr. Waddell, the surgeon, was immediately sent for

from Stafford, and on his arrival at the scene found Yar-
ker and his wife lying about five yards distant from each

other, Mrs. )(faker having been shot through the heart,
and the upper part of Yarker's head entirely blown off,
taking with it nearly the whole of the contents of the

INDUS T R Y

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COLUMN.

We recollect seeing, some time back, in a London pa-
per, a suggestion respecting the use of ornamental shrubs
for the formation of hedges in gardens. It has often oc-
curred to us that this idea is worth carrying out, and
would lead to desirable results. Why should we confine
ourselves to the two or three plants of which hedges are
now so generally formed. They have qualities, it is true,
which are not easily surpassed; but a little examination
will speedily shew that a very great number are equally
available, and infinitely more beautiful. Holly, privet,
and yew, are the shrubs usually employed, and being
evergreen, and very patient of heavy pruning, will always
be preferred where a compact wall-like hedge is required,
and ornament is only a secondary object; but there are
many situations where an evergreen hedge is not essential ;
for instance, when surrounding a summer flower-garden,
might not the hedge be made to harmonise with the
flowers in the border. Cydonia Japonica makes an ex-
cellent hedge; and if the light rose-coloured variety is
mixed with the scarlet, the effect in spring is very pretty.
Long, twiggy things, such as Deutzia scabra, are appa-
rently unfitted for this purpose, but only in appearance,
for if a few stakes are driven at short intervals, and the
. twigs carefully trained through them, a complete lattice-
work of leaves and flowers may be formed. This may be
again varied by selecting plants of a different growth, and
different times of flowering ; thus, Deutzia scabra, Spirea
Douglasii, and Weigela roses' would harmonise very well ;
and by a careful use of the knife, a few tyings
of bast, and a few iron stakes, might be formed
into a very pretty fence. The Mahonias are occa-
sionally used, and are sure of being more general,
for their appearance is very fine, whether we view them
in flower, in fruit, or merely clothed in their rich foliage.
Several of the thrberises are also available, particularly
B. dulcis ; its habit, if headed down in time, is compact, and
its sharp thorns render it imperviousto rabbits. We have
seen a very pretty garden hedge of rosemary ; and in a
sheltered situation what could be more striking and beau-
tiful than one formed with Garrya elliptica, whose my-
riads of catkins, 7 or 8 inches in length, would have a
most unique appearance ? Buxus Balearicus, the double-
flowered gorse, Hibiscus, Syriacus, and its numerous va-
rieties, would all, under good management, form highly
ornamental hedge shrubs. Cotoneaster microphyla has
been tried with great success. Leycesteria formosa is
very manageable ; several species of Cistus would make
gorgeous hedges, and many more might be named ; but,
be it understood, none of these plants will do where la-
bour is scarce, for they must be carefully managed, and
not kept with the shears or bill-hook. To the amateur
with small space they offer an increase to his pleasures.