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

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►STEAM TO CANADA.—Steps are being taken to estab-
lish a line of steamers between Montreal and Cfiasgow.
The plan is to construct three iron steamers of 1600 tons
measurement, capable each of carrying 6000 barrels of
flour, or an equivalent amount of freight, with accommo-
dations for 75 first-class and 75 second-class passengers.
The steamers are to cost abcut £30,000 each.
A gardener named Roberts, who was shooting rabbits
in company with his brother and some other persons, at
Exwick, Devonshire. lasr week, asked his brother to hand
a gun to him from the other side of a thicket. His bro-
ther handed him the gun, after uncocking it, bat the
cock was caught by a branch, and the gun went off,
shooting Roberts dead on the spot.
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.—A French newspaper
has an article headed " Civilization Britannique, ' in
which the treatment of the poor workhouse girl, Jane
Wilbred, by Mr. and Mrs. Sloane, was presented to our
lively neighbours as a fair specimen of the household
arrangements prevalent in England. Unfortunately it
turns out that Mrs. Sloane, formerly Mademoiselle
Devaux, is a Frenchwoman.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT CUMNOR, BERKS.—On Tuesday
a fire, supposed to be the act of some dastardly incendiary,
broke out on Lower Whitley Farm, in the parish of
Cumnor, the property of Lord Abingdon, occupied by Mr.
Haines, and consumed three large wheat ricks, a hay
rick, a stack of straw, a barn with its contents, about thirty
quarters of beans, and another barn filled with wheat
straw. Mr. Haines is fully insured.
HUNTING ON THE RAILWAY.—Last week, a stag-
turned out by Baron Rothschild, followed by about 30
couples of hounds, jumped on to the railway near Ched-
dington, and dashed along the cutting in the direction of
Tring, at a time when both the up and down mails were
due. The hounds were called off the line prior to either
of the trains coming up. The stag, however, was unfor-
tunately cut to pieces.—Bucks Chronicle.
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF BUCKINGHAM AND THE
MARQUIS OF CHANDOS.—The year has commenced in
this town with a troubled horizon—the town council and
the Marquis of Chandos have got into a disagreeable affair,
that has set the place in agitation ; the former being
locked out of the Town-hall, the latter denying that the
corporation is of matter of right entitled to the use of it
without paying quit rent. The dispute is expected to wax
warm, and call for legal aid.—Banbury Guardian.
The contractors for the " Palace of Industry," the last
new name for the Exhibition of 1851, have been allowed
a month extra to complete their work, in consequence of
additions made in gallery space, to the extent of nearly
one mile in length, by twenty-four feet in width, and two
large spaces, with clumps of trees, which it was at first

proposed should not be included within the building, and
which were to be occupied by the second and third class
refreshment spaces, have now been brought within the
limits of the edifice.

MADNESS AND BAN KRUPTCY.—On Saturday, Mr.
Hamber, the messenger to the Court of Bankruptcy, re-
ported to the court that a bankrupt, named Ephraim
Godbolt, had died raving mad that morning. Ephraim
and George Godbolt were builders and carpenters, at 14
and 15, College-walk, Chelsea, and on Thursday last were
made bankrupts, for a debt due to Mr. Joseph Lambert,
merchant, Pimlico Wharf. Notices of adjudication were
served upon the bankrupts on Friday evening. The bank-
rupt, Ephraim Godbojt, had previously laboured under
ill-h ealth; and the fact of having been made a bankrupt
produced such a shock upon the nervous system, that he
expired in a state of raving madness on Saturday morn-
ing.—Morning Chronicle.

EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE MEASURES.—At the quar-
terly meeting of the Bristol Town-council, held on Wed-
nesday, it was resolved that an inquiry should be made
into the duties and emoluments of the office of " corn-
meter" in that city. It appeared that owing to the
removal of the restrictions on the importation of foreign
corn, and more especially from the freeing of the port of
Bristol from the monopoly which had so long injured it,
this office, which in 1833 only brought in to the holder
£l3 a year, last year in net proceeds produced £471, the
real amount collected being £942; but half of this was
paid to the parties employed in measuring the corn. The
sum charged is Is. per 100 bushels on foreign importations,
showing an enormous increase in the shipping trade of the
port in this particular branch of commerce.

- A CURIOSITY.—The ship William and Ann, ofLondon,
388 tons, which cleared at St. John's, N. 8., on-the 30th
of November, for Grimsby, is quite a curiosity in her way,
being upwards of ninety-one years old. She was built on
the river Thames in 1759, and was employed for upwards
of half a century as a bomb ship in the British navy. She
carried out General Wolfe to Quebec, and was employed
in that part of the world during the troubles that followed.
At the taking of Copenhagen she was also present, as well
as at the siege of Gibraltar, where her mainmast was shot
away. After the taking of the fort, her mainmast was
replaced by the venerable flag staff of the fortress, which
had stood proof against so many shots. She was repaired
at Leith some years since, and has been employed nearly
forty years in the Greenland whale fishery. The present
master states that her timbers are quite sound even yet.
ANOWEER DARING BURGLARY NEAR FRIMLEY.—On
Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the mansion of
the Misses Farncombe, called Downland House, near
Uckfield, Sussex, was broken into by seven armed men,
whose faces were disguised with nightcaps and crape.
The fellows secured the ladies and their servants in one
of the upper rooms, and whilst some of them kept guard
the others proceeded to ransack the premises. They re-
mained in the house nearly two hours, regaling them-
selves with ham, cheese, bread, wine, and porter, when
they took their departure, vetting clear off with their
booty, consisting of silver plate, value £2OO ; two gold
watches, a quantity of costly jewellery, gold snuff boxes,
tee. ; one £lO and seventeen £5 Bank of England notes;
and about £5O in gold and silver. A reward of £5O is
offered for the discovery of the robbers. This daring
burglary was committed at no great distance from Frirn-
ley, where the Rev. Mr. Holiest was so recently murdered.
The Times, in taking farewell of the old year, calls it a
year of funerals, and cannot omit the opportunity of pass-
ing a glance at the many great names living and,flourish-
ing a twelvemonth since. and now added to history ;

" We have already alluded to Sir Robert Peel, Louis
and President Taylor. We must add the Duke of
Cambridge; the Emperor of China, our antagonist in the

opium war ; the American statesman, Calhoun ; the
Prussian Minister, Count Brandenburg ; the Queen of the
Belgians-;- the Duke of Palmella ; the Vice-Chancellor of
England, the Recorder of London, the Chief Justice
Doherty, Wordsworth, Jeffrey, and Bowles ; Miss Jane
Porter ; Wyatt, the sculptor ; Sir Martin A. Shee ; Fraser
Tytler, the historian ; the elder Brunel •, James Smith,
the agriculturist ' • Neander, the German theologian ; poor
Waghorn, of the Overland Route; and many other names,
respectable in this age, and venerable, perhaps, in the
ages to come."

FIGHT BETWEEN A HAWK AND PARTRIDGES.—A
few days since as a tenant of Mr. Biagdon's, of Donning-
ton, was engaged in one of his grounds he disturbed a
brace of partridges, one of which, after a short flight,
alighted under the hedge-row in the same field, and the
other topping the fence for a moment disappeared, when
a hawk almost as instantaneously was s

eti to poise and
drop over the same spot where the first bird had fallen.
A fight immediately ensued, which had scarcely com-
menced when the other bird came to the rescue, and with
e boldly took sides against their powerful enemy,
after a few rounds of hard fighting, actually

retreated a couple of yards, when again returning he re-
newed the contest, but seeing he was watched, a second
time made a more distant retreat. One of the partridges
then took wing, the remaining bird-being picked up quite
dead, with a deep wound on its breast, an inch in length
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The hawk tor _ was again seen to hover over
the battle field, but missing its prey.finally decamped.—
Gloucester Chronicle.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-^A' public ball was on
Tuesday night given at Cramond. and conspicuous among
the brilliant throng was the lady of Mr. Alexander Cadell,
of Cramond ironworks. Shortly after midnight Mrs. Ca-
dell, accompanied by two maids, with two of the children,
proceeded homewards ; and, in order to, shorten the dis-
tance she had to traverse, took a by-path passing along
the brink of a mill-lade, falling into the river Almond.
The night was dark, and the water was, from the previous
rains, considerably swollen. Mrs. Cadell was walking
briskly along the side of the lade, when, in the impene-
trable darkness, she suddenly, stumbled, and was in an
instant precipitated into the stream. One of the servants
was close at her heels, and ,Mrs. Cadell, in her first strug-
gles in the water, managed to get hold of the foot of the
child, with which the girl was accompanied ; but the lat-

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The girl shrieked for assistance, but no one was near, and
the unfortunate lady was allowed to struggle helplessly is
the turgid stream, till she was carried far beyond the
reach of all human aid.—Caledonian Mercury.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.-011 Monday last
William Henry Marshall, a butler out of place, mada-an
unsuccessful attempt to murder his wife, at Brighton, and

immediately afterwards cut his throat with a ra'zor' us-
ing his death almost instantaneously. The deceased had
uence of being out of a situa-

tion, and his .vrife had been under apprehensions that
_he

would destroy himself. At three o'clock on Monday
morning the deceased came home almost in a state of nu-
dity ; and upon knocking at the door, he said, in reply to
a question why he returned in such a state, " To kill you,"
and suiting the action to the word, he seized:her by the
shoulders, and then grasped her throat. Nearly naked as

she was, she rushedinto the street, followed by her hus-
band, who caught her in the middle of the road. They
there struggled together till she fell, and he upon her.
She raised a cry of " Police," and a lodger that of " Mur-
der and thieves,"' and the wife then effected her escape.
As she ran off she saw a razor in his hand, and he having
raised himself, again fell. She then returned to him, and
found the blood gushing from a large gash in his throat,
and a razor lying beside him. He died very soon after-
wards. At the inquest held on the body, the jury returned
a verdict of " temporary insanity."
Those who contemplate on the multitude of railroads—
the intensity of steam power—the improvements in the
mechanical, manufacturing, and agricultural knowledge of
our countrymen, may truly exclaim, This • an Age of
Wanders. But it is not in the ensive affairs only
that society is rapidly advaue. , the art of medicine puts
in its claim for a share i educing the general ameliora-
tion. Diseases wh. , only a few years ago were most
alarming, are n subdued, or rendered easy of cure—the
small-pox I Hated by the philosophy of a Jenner, and
the g not feared, seeing there is a speedy remedy in
Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR FE-
MALE COMPLAINTS.—Women at different periods of life
are subject to conlo ints which require a Reculiar_medi-
eine to remove, and it is now an establisl that there
is none SD suitable as Holloway's, their purifying
qualities render them invalu o the maiden, the mo-
ther, and the middle ag , ey are searching, cleansing,
and yet invigoratin that females of all ages may take
them with pqrf safety ; and it is truly astonfshing to
find the b t that is derived by taking a few doses,'
which s ily move every species of irregularity in the
system, and establish health on a firm basis.