The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

The Nepaulese ambassadors were entertained at a grand
banquet on Saturday, by the East India Company.
Lords Statdgy, Ashley, and Brougham, were among those
present. -As Bohn as gtace was said, the noble foreigners
retired to the small drawing-room and partook of various
kinds of fruit,• nectarines, peaches, strawberries, &c.•
In the week before last, a diabolical attempt to explode
a mine, by igniting the powder magazine, was made near
Redruth. Providentially the matches, placed in the
keyhole of the floor for this purpose, did not ignite, or
every building in the 'neighbourhood would have been
ruined. The attempt was made after the miners had
left work.

Miss Ann Baldwin, governess in the French Catholic
School,' Gravel-lane, Southwark, has been fined 20s. by
the Southivark Police Magistrate, for excessively pun-
ishing a scholar. William Holland, a child only five
years old, 'misbehaved at chapel; Miss Baldwin beat h
-him
very seriously with a cane, scoring his back from the
neck to the loins. .

Thomas Davies,. one of the detective police officers
employed on the Eastern Counties Railway, is in prison
at Norwich, awaiting his trial, for stealing a parcel con-
taining money in course of transit from Norwich to,Lon-
don, on the 19th ult. He was proved to have paid a£s
note, contained in the parcel, to Moses and Son, of the
Minories, which was the means of his detection.
Bates, a man who has been keeping the Boar's Head
public-house at Reading, is in custody on a charge of
being a returned convict. Bates excited his wife's anger
by his incontinence; in revenge, she informed the police
that her hnsband was, many years ago, convicted of
sheep stealing, and was transported, but managed to
escape to England.
On Saturday last, as Mr, Sibley, schoolmaster at
Highgate, was walking with his pupils near the ponds at
Lower Heath, Hampstead, he was alarmed by the cries
for help of a youth, named Barnes, of Camden Town,
who was bathing. Without removing any of his clothes,
he plunged into the water to save the sinking lad, and
both were drowned.

The "Hudson's Bay Company have discovered that the
colony of Vancouver's Island is suitable for growing hemp.
Specimens of rope roughly made from it have been re-
ceived in. London, and it appears that it will bear a strain
of 21b above the admiralty standard of 841 b. The mate-
rial has also been examined by competent dealers, and its
value estimated at £3O per ton.
On Tuesday week, when the seamen on board the
steamer Ayrshire Lass, plying between Glasgow and
Stranrear, were setting the mainsail, they discovered an
almost completed sparrow's nest in one ot.its folds. The
nest must have been built while the steamer lay at
Girvan, and within four days, as the sail had been used
the previous Friday.
The Lord Mayor of London has issued invitations to
the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, the grand waster,
and the whole of the heads and principal members of the
masonic order in England, to a grand banquet in the
Egyptian-hall of the Mansion-house, on the 28th instant.
They are to appear in the regalia and emblems of the
order. The invitations are said to exceed 500 in number.
Caroline Pereira, an Indian Ayah, has been taken into
custody, and is committed to take her trial for an exten-
sive robbery of silks, jewellery, and fancy articles; from
Dr. Dorward, whose family she accompanied to England.
She is the prosecutor in a case of alleged robbery by two
of her fellow-passengers on the voyage. Some of the
articles she charges them with stealing, appear to have
belonged to Dr. Dorward.
THE WEST INDIA MAIL ROUTE.—OH and from the
2nd of September next, a modification of the present
West India mail route scheme will come into operation.
The steamers will no longer call at Bermuda, but will go
direct, both on the 2nd and I7th of the month, to St.
Thomas and Chagres, returning by the same route.
Branch steamers will convey the mails to and from St.
Thomas and Jamaica, the Mexican Gulf, the Spanish
Main, and the Windwl rd and Leeward Islands.
A further correspondence between Mr. Cobden and
Mr. Garbett, on the subject of the charges against Capt.
Smith, has been published. Mr. Cobden asks Mr.
Garbett if he is not the Garbett convicted, some time ago,
at the Old Bailey, for forgery, and discharged on a
technical point of law ? Mr. Garbett, in reply, asks Mr.
Cobden if he is not a humbug. Also, if he is not the
same Cobden whose bills, in 1845, were offered for dis-
count at forty per cent ? Here the matter ends.

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE.—On Wednesday, a fire of
very considerable magnitude broke out, on premises
occupied by, and the property of, Mr. Dowler, uphol-
sterer, Leamington. Damage was done to the extent of
£30,000, whilst insurance is effected to the amount only
of £5,000. A poor fellow, a stranger to the town, whilst
occupied in directing the hose of one of the engines, was
struck down by an iron pillar, which fell on his head
with tremendous force. He is since dead.
A CENTENARIAN.—Hard work and cider won't kill a
man, that's certain ; for there is an old man residing at
Mark, near Cross, by the name of Peters. who, provided
he lives to the 241 of the present month, will arrive at
the extraordinary age of 101 years. He is able to smoke
his pipe, and drink his glass of gin-and-water or cider,
and converse freely on different subjects. " Cider," the
old man says, " will never injure any man," if so be he
is not afraid of work ; a gallon a-day has often been my
share."—Dorset Chronicle.

Last week Phillip's Fire Annihilator, which has been
four years before the public, was put to a practical test,
under the inspection of the Marquis of Anglesea, Master-
General of the Ordnance, on Plumstead Common. A.
house was fired on purpose to try its efficacy, but the ex-
periment completely failed, and the devouring element
was allowed to have undisturbed possession of its victim,
which was !speedily destroyed. The whole proceeding wag
worked by the patentee's own men, under the inventor's
direction.

AN ODD PUBLIC MEETING. —On Wednesday night
Mr. Mayhew, of comic celebrity, and metropolitan com-
missioner on " the labour and poor" inquiry to the
Morning Chronicle, assembled, at the National Hall,
Holborn, London, all the available costermongers, street
sellers, jugglers, standing patterers, street performers,
flying stationers, and labourers of the great city. The
object was to get from each trade a statement as to their
means of existence. Representatives of each branch of
the nomadic profession made speeches, and the whole
proceedings were very harmonious—and very melancholy.

THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, K.G.—A
very fine monumental statue of this eminent statesman
has just been erected in Westminster Abbey. It occupies
a commanding position in the north transept of the
Cathedral, and is appropriately placed opposite to that of
Mr. Canning. The figure is life size, in the purest white
Carrara marble, and well preserves the noble mien for
which the original was distinguished. The attitude which
the artist has chosen is that of an orator; in one hand is
placed a scroll, on which is inscribed " Peace of Paris,
1814 ;" the other supports the robes of the Garter, which
form flowing draperies round the figure.
A MINISTER KNOCKING HIMSELF OUT OF HIS OWN
PULPIT.—A Sabbath or two ago, in a small church not a
hunired miles from the Solway, a young preacher of
Herculean ability, physical and mental, was approaching
the climax of his Roman bursts of eloquence, when the
front of the pulpit, which had for half an hour been treated
most cruelly, suddenly gave way, and the earnest and
striking preacher (to the great consternation of the
audience, and the still greater horror of the precentor)
was pitched headlone half way up the area of the church.
The preacher escaped with a few slight bruises, but the
poor precentor, we are sorry to state, was severely injured.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE AT USK.—A few days since,
as a woman in humble life was correcting some of her
neigbbours' children for some supposed insult which they
had offered to her own, she was greatly excited while ut-
tering her threats, and, when entering her habitation, the
fell down apparently lifeless, and survived not many
hours. A young man, in the employ of a respectable
grocer in the town, was conversing with the woman a
few minutes before, and, on hearing of the event, he
went to see her after death had taken place; but he was
seized with violent fits, in which he continues at intervals.
He was treated with every kindness by his employer ; but
there being no prospect of his speedy recovery, the young
man has returned to his parents, who reside in Bristol,
and it is supposed that his sufferings will be protracted
for some time.—Bristol Afirroi%

REMOVAL OF A WAREHOUSE.—A remarkable trial of
science—the wholesale removal of a large warehouse—
was achieved last week at Cardiff. Messrs. J. and J.
Grant and Co., the extensive timber merchants, having
lately had occasion to enlarge their premises, found it
necessary to lemove their bonded warehouse a distance of
about 100 feet. Instead of accomplishing the task by
taking the whole asunder, and shifting it stick by stick, in
the old style, the entire pile was the other day at once
removed, with great ease and without extracting a single
nail, by raising the whole warehouse on rollers, and pro-
pelling it by massive chains. Ere this triumph.of scien-
tific skill took place, which astonished all who witnessed
its accomplishment, many wagers were made respecting
the alleged impossibility of effecting what.was so boldly
designsd. The warehouse measures 80 feet long by 50
feet wide, and is 40 feet high.,—Swansea Herald.
SUNDAY LABOUR AT THE POST-OFFlCS.—Deliberately
opposed to the abolition of Sunday labour at the Post-
office, the Times and Morning Chronicle complain of the
Government for its too ready compliance with an address
which they contend, was carried in the house by a sur-
prise, while the members were at dinner. The Morninp
Herald stigmatises their complaint as a " dishonest cry,
the more dishonest, because the opponents of the measure
built their hopes mainly on their chance of bringing on a
-division at this unpropitious hour. " The Government
opposed the motion, and the Government had twenty-
Seven placemen present to vote against it. The Forsters,
Humes, and Cobdens, opposed it, and their little knot of
about twenty haters of cant' watched every opportunity
of throwing out the motion. It was their game, they
thought, to get a division at the dinner-hour, when these
fifty sure votes might be more than half of the members
present. Still more on that night, when 70 members, most
of them supporters of the motion, were drawn away by the
Mansion-house dinner. The opponents played this game,
and were, nevertheless, beaten."

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The bright sunny
weather we are now enjoying has consummated the pro-
mise of spring by the most luxuriant appearance of every
description of agricultural produce, The wheat crops are
all that can be wished for, and every other description of
cereal and leguminous vegetation is in the most healthy
and abundant state. The meadows are full of grass.
Haymaking is now an easy, rapid, and inexpensive pro-
cess, many fine ricks having already been established in
several of the farm-yards of this neighbourhood. Sheep-
shearing has been in active progress, and the clip bas
proved excellent in quality and profuse in supply. Apples
will not yield the prodigious crop at one time anticipated,
but cider will nevertheless be plentiful and cheap. Pears
have very generally suffered from a few frosts. Potatoes
are looking strong, and entirely free from blight or any
other damaging influence. Some samples were sold in
our market,.last Saturday, at 6d. per lb. All other vege-
tables are abundant and cheap. Strawberries will be a
large produce : they were hawked in our streets at 10d.
per quart. The supply came from the Exeter grouudm-
Taunton Courier.

In the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, Bartho-
lomew Keating, a letter-carrier, in the employ of the
General Postoffice, was convicted of having stolen 255
letters, which, it appeared, mostly consisted of notices
from the Commissioners of Inlard Revenue, for the de-
livery of which the prisoner received extra pay, and the
suyposition was that he had kept them back solely to save
himself the trouble of delivering them. He was sen-
tenced to imprisonment and hard labour for one year.—
Another carrier, named Simpson, was sentenced to a
year's imprisonment and hard labour, for a like misde-
meanour.

THE EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY.—It appears that of
the thirty-eight designs for the building of the Great Ex-
hibition of Industry in 1851, submitted by foreigners,
thirty received honourable mention, while of the more
than two hundred contributed by England, Ireland, and.
Scotland, only thirty-eight are so distinguished ; and,
beyond this, it will be noted with dissatisfaction by many,
perhaps, although the dissatisfaction will arise from very
different causes in different minds, that with the exception
of one from London, one from Reading, and one from
Dublin, all the designs which are pointed out as super-
eminently good come from abroad. In the first round of
the fight England has gone down !
WHo IS IT ?—The London correspondent of a local
contemporary says—" Ere many days are over • you
may expect full particulars in the papers of a further
grand smash on the Duke of Buckingham model—the
victim in this instance being also a K.G. of immense no-
minal revenues in different parts of the three kingdoms ;
a functionary in the royal household, though a Tory him-
self, and the brother of a noble northern Irish Tory in the
Commons ; a near relative of the ducal families of Bed-
ford, Hamilton, Manchester, Gordon, and Richmond ;
one of the two individuals (Earl Verulam being the other)
who possess peerages in England, Scotland, and Ireland ;
and, lastly, not yet forty years of age, and a houseless
fugitive from writs and judgments, while half-a-dozen
palaces dangle at the end of his titles in the Court Guide..
SURGICAL OPERATION UPON A LEOPARD. —The
chetah or hunting leopard, recently presented to the
Surrey Zoological Society by the Pacha of Egypt, having
accidentally broken one of its legs during its gambols in
the cage in which it is confined, amputation of the limb
was decided on, and the operation was skilfully performed
on Monday last by Professor Simonds, of the Veterinary
College, Camden Town. Previous to undergoing the
operation the animal was made to inhale chloroform by
applying to its mouth and nostrils a sponge 'moistened
with that liquid, and fastened to the end of a stick. Its
dislike to this part of the process was very loudly
expressed; it, however, soon fell under the influence of
the chloroform, which evidently rendered it totally insen-
sible to suffering, as it lay perfectly motionless and quiet
during the operation, and until its removal from the
operating table, and laced on some clean hay in its den,
when it speedily revived and moved about on its remaining
three legs as though nothing had occurred.
General Jung Bahadoor, the Nepaulese Ambassador, is
becoming a " popular member of the aristocracy." He
attended a review in Hyde-park early in the week, and
manifested high professional satisfaction at the appear-
ance of the soldiers, and the precision and effective air of
their movements. Desiring liberty to testify his pleasure
by some mark of Eastern liberality to the men, he
learned a lesson of English statecraft—that it is against
the rules of our service for a person in the military or
diplomatic services to receive a favour from a foreign
potentate. His excellency received the intimation with
ready wit and tact; acknowledging with graceful flattery
to the officers the satisfaction which he was prevented
from manifesting more substantially to the men. On
Wednesday the General was at the spring festival of the
Scottish Hospital, and made a speech in fluent Nepau-
lese; which was translated by Captain Cavanagh, one of
the gentlemen whom her Majesty has placed at the dis-
posal of the Embassy as escorts and interpreters. The
ambassador and suite, in their picturesque dresses, form
a prominent feature in the large box next to the Queen's,
at her Majesty's Theatre, most opera nights.
LETER FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—A short
time since (says the Court Journal) the rector of a parish
situate in one of the midland counties, having by dint of
much personal exertion obtained subscriptions towards
the restoration and repair of his beautiful church, still
found himself unable to meet ail the claims which the
outlay had occasioned. To supply the deficiency, he
wrote to many persons of wealth and eminence in the
country, politely apologizing for the intrusion, and solicit-
ing their aid. The following is a copy of the reply which
the worthy rector received to the application which he
made to his Grace :—" F. M. the Duke of Wellington
presents his compliments to Mr. —. As Mr.
feels that his letter needs apology, the Duke will say no
more on that subject, but he must add that, as there is
not a church, chapel, glebe-house, school, or even pagoda,
built from the north to the south pole, or within the
utmost limits of the earth, to which he (the Duke of
Wellington) is not called upon to contribute, the Duke is
surprised that Mr. —, having already raised £7,500
towards the restoration of his church, should make ap-
plication to the Duke, who has nothing to say either
to —, or to —shire." Immediately upon the receipt
of the epistle the rev. gentleman was offered five guineas
for the autograph, which he readily accepted, entering the
amount in his subscription-list as the Duke of Welling-
ton's contribution to the fund.

UNROLLING OF A MUMMY.—On Monday, the interest-
ing process of unrolling a mummy was exhibited at the
residence of Londesborough, London, in the presence of
about sixty of his lordship's private friends. Previous to
the operation an explanation was given by Mr. Birch, of
the British Museum, of the history of embalment and the
art of ureparine mummies. Mr. Birch stated that from
the inscription on the outer case (which was in a beautiful
state of preservation, the colours being wonderfully fresh
and vivid) he considered the present mummy to be of the
second class, though a priestess of Isis, as he inferred
from the label, " Anchsehesi," she who lives by Isis, and
of the age of about 700 B.C. These conjectures were fully
confirmed on the unrolling, which disclosed an unusual
quantity of papyrus, bearing a profusion of the hieratic.
or current hand, hieroglyphic characters, descriptive of
the profession of the deceased, whose ritual it constituted,
and innumerable emblems and devices symbolical of the
attributes of her worship. This unwonted amount of
papyrus and writing upon it rendered the specimen of ex-
treme interest in the estimation of those qualified to de-
cipher the characters ; but Dr. Granville—who, while the
unrolling was being proceeded with, gave some :valuable
illustrations of the chemical and mechanical details of
mummy making, said that the priestess had evidently
suffered from the want of judicious governmental control
over the Egyptian undertakers, who had swindled her
relatives by a wholesale use of bitumen, and the conse-
quence was apparent when the bandages were removed,
for the bones were so charred and the muscles so calcined
that the limbs broke off in fragments on the least pressure.
MAKING BIRDS ACT AND THINK.—It was our gratifi-
cation to be present at one of the most graceful and sur-
prising entertainments which we ever witnessed. Made-
moiselle Vandermeersch, a young foreigner of most at-
tractive appearance and manners, being impressed with
the idea that birds may be instructed to the performance
of various acts, indicative of a power in them to appre-
hend what language or other modes of communication
may convey, has devoted herself with wonderful success
to the development of this equally bold and extraordinary
idea. The mystery of so elaborate a tuition sets our
keenest speculation at defiance. But the result is palpa-
ble, Mademoiselle V. having satisfied us that the thing
may be accomplished. The performance takes place in
the young lady's drawing-rooms, and consists of a most
diverting succession of tricks of legerdemain on the cards,
the birds, under her direction and influence, being the
performers. One statement will serve as an illustration.
Mademoiselle asks for a watch, which being handed to her,
the time is noted. She then opens a cage door, calling
by name one of the birds, which, perching upon a long
pack of cards placed edge upwards, „selects and pecks out
with its beak a card having a number corresponding with
the precise hour inscribed on it. In like manner some
marvellous feats are performed with playing cards, one of
the birds selecting from a large pack several cards in suc-
cession which several of the visitors had previously fixed
upon. But by far the most extraordinary feat was that
which.arises from the mention of a given word by a mem-
ber of the company. One of the ladies or gentlemen
present is requested to pronounce a word, not comprising
a double use of any one letter, and one of the little per-
formers immediately forms the word by picking out a
number of cards, each bearing a single letter, until the
whole word is properly spelt. " Chaise" was the word
chosen upon this occasion, and each letter picked out in
due order by the bird, was at the same time assigned to
its proper place in the formation of the word. It would
occupy too much space to dwell upon the details of the
extraordinary feats performed by these " learned" birds.
But it is due to this singularly interesting performer to
say, that a more delightful treat we never before enjoyed.
Globe.

A SINGULAR ESSEX ARTIST.—Our obituary of this
(last) week records the death ofJohn Carter, a self-taught
artist, of extraordinary and unique genius, residing in
Coggeshall. Originally a farming labourer, not to be dis-
tinguished amongst his fellows by any extra talent or
peculiar power of mind, his life sped on, till one day,
being tempted to break the Sabbath, he, with several
companions, went to a rookery with the intention of rob-
bing the nests and securing the young. Carter having
climbed a tree to some height missed his hold, and fell to
ti:e ground with immense force. He was taken up for
dead, but recovered, with the total loss of all vital power
in his limbs ; in fact he was completely paralysed, not
being able to move any part of his body, with the excep-
tion of his neck and head. Thus he remained several
years, helpless and despairing, till an idea took possession
of his mind (always cloudless and unimpaired) that he
could sketch or copy a drawing. Necessary implements
were immediately procured, and, singular as it may seem,
and extraordinary as it may appear, after several trials,
he succeeded in producing groups of dogs, foxes' heads,
and various other figures, most delicately worked, and
most exquisitely finished. The curious reader may inquire
how he accomplished this 1.. simply by means of his
mouth. His sister stood by his side, and, dipping his
pencil in India ink, placed it between his teeth and lips ;
and then, by the motion 'of lips and neck, poor Carter
succeeded in producing the most wonderful specimens of
art. Though for fourteen years Carter was confined to
his bed and paralysed, he was very rarely subjected to
much bodily illness. Persons passing through Cogges-
hall may possibly remember having met a man enveloped
in sheets and wrappers, 13 ing on a couch-chair, and drawn
by two boys. That was Carter, the artist. His works
were not very numerous ; necessarily he could work but
a few hours at a time, and the elaboration of his per-
formances was always a labour of many, many hours, and
attended, (to himself) by much toil and weariness. His
latest productions were " The Head of King Charles the
Martyr," after Vandyke ; and " The Sultan's Daughter."
All Carter's works bear the appearance of line engravings ;
and though many of his early copies are defective, the
majority of his later productions are very beautiful. He
once received the bounty of the late admirable Queen
Dowager, and fully intended, had not death intervened,
to WO prepared a piece worthy of Ilia talents for the

great exhibition of 1851. His end was accelerated by an
unfortunate accident he met with some few days since,
caused by the upsetting of the little vehicle in which he
occasionally rode about to take necessary air and change.
His death was very calm and peaceful ; so let us hope,
" after life'sfitful fever, he sleeps well."—Essex Standard.
CAUTION TO THOSE WHO WISH TO MARRY.—We copy
the following letter from a Hull paper :—Sir,—Pray allow
me a corner of your journal to expose one of the most
unfeeling attempts to ensnare young persons of both sexes,
but more particularly females, which has come under my
notice during many years experience in public life; A few
days ago, an advertisement appeared in a country journal—
and I perceive it is in several of the provincial papers—
inviting all persons who wish to be married, but had not
succeeded in winning partners, to apply for an infallible
recipe to a party whose London address was given in the
advertisement. This valuable advice was offered for the
small price 'of 13d. in postage stamps. A party in this
town was so foolish as to spend 13d. on this adventure,
and received in ieply an envelope enclosing a pamphlet of
seven pages, of the size of children's halfpenny books, and
a note written on both sides of a rough scrap of paper
about four inches square. The M.S. (which I send for
your inspection) read thus :
" Madam,--I inclose you my pamphlet, and should you de-
sire to consult me further, a fee of one shilling and a stamp is
expected, and if you will state your age, appearance, and cir-
cumstances, with the style of gentleman you desire, all can be
arranged with the utmost delicacy and secrecy; and, if guided
by me, I shall guarantee you a handsome husband in a very
short time, possessing all the qualities your heart can desire.
At present I have numbers of officers, merchants, and gentle-
men of fortune ; and marriages of the most promising charac-
ter occur almost daily, through my assistance. Success is
certain. Do not, therefore, allow a little modesty to sacrifice
your future prospects. I intend to remove, but you can see
my address in the papers. Yours, &c. 66 *e ******."

The pamphlet,.atnongst other things, informs the reader
that " both ladies and gentlemen seal their own misery by
an over-due deference to the cold formalities of society, '
and " all that is required to remedy this, is some extensive
mode of introduction between the sexes, and then, mar-
riage will follow as a matter of course." The pamphleteer
adds—" Experience has proved to me that advertising is
infallible in effecting a marriage under any circumstances,
and whether it be ladies or gentlemen, they will find hun-
dreds of the highest respectability ready to respond to the
invitation, in every way suited to their tastes, and whom
they could love with all the fondness of human affection."
Again—" Having great experience in these matters, I shall
be happy to advise with any lady or gentleman, in town or
country, on any difficult point, draw up advertisements,
get it inserted ; arrange for an address in town, and their
letters, by which the nicest secrecy can be preserved."
This migratory " Professor"—for the party assumes that
dignified title—in his closing paragraph says—" Ladies
and gentlemen * * who cannot find a partner suitable
to their tastes and circumstances, should immediately
place themselves under my guidance, and they will be
amply rewarded for the confidence reposed." No doubt
they will, but a fear that some—however mad the experi-
ment—will place themselves under such dangerous gui-
dance, and a desire to warn my fellow-countrymen and
countrywomen of the abyss of misery into which they may
fall, as did the victim of the Red-house Barn a few years
ago, by answering a matrimonial advertisement, must be
the apology for this intrusion.