The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

TRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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The Commissioners for the improvement of the Severn
navigation have resolved to apply to Parliament to raise
£50,000 additional, to erect a loch and weir at Tewkes-
bury, and to carry out the plan proposed by Mr.Cubitt.

On Sunday week, a well-known bailiff, named George
Haigh, gave himself up at Halifax, for having set fire to
some buildings at Southowram, belonging to James Wo-
unersley. He said—" I had got a little beerified that
Saturday forenoon. I was going to set my brother John's
premises on fire, not this man's. I never intended it."
The prisoner has been committed.
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At the General Quarter Sessions at Peterborough, on
saturday, Stephen Aveling, whose family connexions in
the county are of the highest respectability, was found
guilty of uttering a forged cheque for the sum of £283,
upon the brnk of Messrs. Gurney, Penkover, and Co., to
the account of Daniel Fry, Esq., of Elm. He was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment.
The Lord Bishop of the Diocese has addressed a letter
to the incumbent of the parishes in the city of Bristol,
requesting them to preach sermons on behalf of the Bris-
tol Infirmary, on the ground that " the probable visita-
tion of the Asiatic cholera, seems to render it most desi-
rable that this excellent charity should possess ample
means for dispensing its healing benefits among the poorer
classes of the city and neighbourhood."
At the quarter sessions, Durham, last week, John New-
ton was charged with unlawfully having set fire to a quan-
tity of tobacco (lighted his pipe) in a coal. pit at Monk-
wearmouth, thereby endangering lives. This was the
first indictment for the offence charged ; and the prisoner
pleaded guilty, on an understanding come to between the
should be lit-

tie more than nominal.
FATAL EFFECTS OF PROSPERITY
labouring man. residing at Little Loi

.7-Lately, a poor

humble means would allow, having come into possession
of property, took to dissipation, ruined himself, sold all
his effects, and deserted his wife. His wife went in search

of him, but all her wanderings being fruitless, life became
a burden to her ; and on Thursday night she destroyed

ierself by poison, at a lodging:bouse, at Ely

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THE LATE LORD GEORGE- BENTINCK.—At a meeting
held at Mansfield, on Thursday, the high sheriff of the
county of Nottingham in the chair, it was unanimously
resolved to commemorate the memory of the above noble-
man in a manner to be determined upon, and a subscrip-
tion will be forthwith opened for the purpose. The
Duke of Newcastle, Earl Manvers, Viscount Galway,
M.P., and other noblemen, were present.
On 'Wednesday week, the eldest son of the master of

ig himself
de what is

that the powder was too damp.tO ignite, and therefore
sprinkled from a powder flask a litttle. dry powder over
the " devil," which then caugh fire, exploded, and shat-

SUICIDE OF A LADY.—On Tuesday, at Portsmouth, r,a
Miss Pettit, a young lady of 30 years of age, put an end
to her existence at an early hour by cutting her throat

with a carving knife. The unfortunate lad' had lately
formed an attachment to a young gentleman, and which,
not promising that result she hoped for, preyed on her
mind and produced temporary insanity ; and a verdict in
accordance with these facts was returned.

The CL , at the Second October Meeting
at Newmarket, were won, on Tuesday last, by Col. Peel's
Da'cia. Colonel Peel's Taffrail was second, and Mr. J.
Knight's Gaffer Green was third. The following 21 also

Collingwood. Dulcet, Buscot Buck, Lanesborough, Yard-
ley, Forest Deer. Bridle, The Moor, Psalmsinger, Geral-
dine, Serenade, Fern, Camphine, Lola Montez, Keraun,
Backbiter, Maid of my Soul, Tophana, Ulysses.
The North British Mail gives an animated description
of a chase by some policemen, at Stockwell-bridge, after
a boy who had stolen some clothes, and having plunged
into the water made his way to the centre pier of the
bridge, where he resisted all entreaties to surrender him-
self ; and it was not till after the police had floundered
for some time up to their waists in water, to the amuse-

ment of numbeis on the banks, that they succeed&

A Wesleyan minister, stationed by the last Conference
at Redruth, in Cornwall, has been superseded by the
President, for persisting in wearing his beard. The rev.
gentleman says, in a letter to the Wesleyan newspaper,
" For many years I have been convinced of the absurdity
of the fashion which requires a man to appear dissatisfied
with nature (to adopt en idea of Diogenes) for making
him a man instead of a woman; and I had been made
sensible by experience, that the practice alluded to was
seriously injurious in a physical sense, especially to minis-
ters."

WHALE AND COD FISHERY.—The Seaflower, Captain
Smith, arrived at Hull on Saturday last, from the Davis's
Straits cod fishery, with the very fair cargo of 12,000 cod,
3 tons of halibut, and about 4 tons of cod liver oil.—
Intelligence was oh Wednesday received by the Horn,
Sturrock master, arrived from the Davis's Straits whale
fishery, that the total catch of the fifteen British vessels
engaged in the fishery was 54 fish, or about 680 tons of
oil, averaging about three fish per ship. The Horn had
four fish, or 50 tuns of oil.

JUVENILE CRIME.—A child pleaded guilty at the Middl-
esex sessions, on Wednesday, of having stolen a sixpence
belonging to its father. The learned judge said the pa-
rents of the child were, he was informed, most dissipated,
and had, no doubt, got up this charge to relieve themselvess
of its maintenance. He was very much surprised (we
share his surprise) that police magistrates should send
such a ettse to that court. Ilia lordchip contonocci tno
child to one hour's imprisonment, and severely repri-
manded the mother.
SUDDEN DEATH AT A FUNERAL. —The funeral of
James Dickinson, Esq., of Rosehurst, Pannall, near Har-
rogate, took place on Monday, in the Methodist Old
Chapel burial ground at Leeds. As the funeral cortege
entered the town of Leeds it was joined by several friends
of the deceased ; amongst others by an elderly man,
named Christopher Boshell, who had been some 50 years
in the service of the firm with which deceased had been
connected. Boshell walked to the chapel, and whilst
eand:ng during the reading of the burial service, he was
seized with a fit and died almost instantly.
DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.—EarIy on Thursday morn-
ing a woman named Isabella Adams, or Honeyman,
lately resident at Liberton Tower, was found in an insen-
sible condition near Inch-gate, in the parish of Liberton.
She was removed to the infirmary a short time afterwards,
but only survived a few hours. The deceased was in
Edinburgh the previous night, and it is conjectured that
she bad been seized with illness on her way home, and
having been unable to proceed further had lain down on
the road, and became insensible from her exposure during
the night, which was extremely cold.

An old lady of Somers-town has proved more than a
match for a robber. On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Fanny
Morgan found Edward Marney in the parlour of her
nephew's house in the Polygon, with two boxes under
his arm. She asked what he wanted ;on which he struck
the candle out of her hand, but she seized him by the
collar and shouted for aid.. Marney made for the street
door, buffeting Mrs. Morgan ; but she kept her hold, and
got the door open, continuing to call out; and at last the
depredator was secured by neighbours. Marney is a con-
victed thief. He has been committed.
DISEASE AMONG SHEEP.—A conviction under the
recent act for preventing the spread of contagion among
sheep took place at the Guildhall. Norwich, on Tuesday,
before a bench of magistrates. Mr. Betts, a cattle-dealer,
was the person against whom the information had been
laid ; he having offered some sheep for sale in Norwich
market before they had recovered from the effects of in-
noculation. As the defendant did not seem to be aware
of the penalties he incurred, he was only fined £2 and
costs ; the magistrates saying that future cases would be
much more severely dealt with.

THE PEAR OF CONTAGION.—On Tuesday a communi-
cation was received at Lloyd's, that on the night of the
20th instant the Isabella of Blyth, Hiron master, from
Charleston, in Scotland, got on the bar of Hartlepool.
A Hartlepool pilot proceeded to her assistance. On hail-
ing the vessel his first question was, had they any sick on
board ? The master replied, two. Immediately on hear-
ing this, notwithstanding the danger of the vessel, he'
made for shore to consult the Custom-house authorities
as to whether he should board her; he did not return
again till 2 a.m. on the 21st, when the Isabella had
dragged her anchors, and the heavy sea beat her up on
the beach, the crew and pilot being with much difficulty
saved by the life-boat. _ _ _

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the She-
riff's Court, London, on Thursday, an action was brought
by Kate Burgess against Charles Nash, to recover com-
pensation for a breach of marriage contract. The damages
were laid at £lOOO. It appeared that the parties were
introduced to each other in 1841; the plaintiff, aged 20,
was a young lady of considerable personal attractions, an
orphan. and resided with her relatives in Hertfordshire ;
the defendant, aged 31, had been the owner of consider-
able landed property in Gloucestershire, and was then
carrying on business as a corn dealer. The intimacy be-
tween the parties continued for several years, up to 1846,
when the defendant was married to a Miss Jacobs. The
jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £l5O.
H. Bramwell, a surgeon, has been remanded at the
Mansion-house, London, on a charge of polygamy under
circumstances of great atrocity. Three cases were stated,
and more are expected to be proved against him. He
married Elizabeth Tinley in 1843, Emily Rose in 1847,
and Hannah Amelia Bland in September of this year.
The second case was that of a girl of fifteen, whose affec-
tions he gained while she was a passenger in the ship of
which he was surgeon on his way to Calcutta, where they
were married on their arrival, Bramwell having obtained
the mother's consent by representing that he was a man
of family, and that his father had recently died, leaving
him £5,000, £3,000 of which he offered to settle upon his
wife, and caused all the deeds to be drawn up accord-
ingly. On their return to this country he abandoned her
while at an hotel at Liverpool. at which town he had
married his last-mentioned wife, with whom he had been
living up to Saturday, when he was taken prisoner.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.—The late heavy rains have
caused the \Talley of the Stour, from Ashford to Rams-
gate, to be flooded, occasioning great loss and damage to
the inhabitants. On Friday, the 21st, about noon, the
inhabitants of the west end of Canterbury were alarmed
by a cry of " the water is rising," and almost before they
could get their goods removed up stairs, the lower rooms
were inundated. Near the ancient west gate the water
poured over into a new street called St. Peter's place, con-
sisting of neat cottages, and continued to rise for twelve
hours, the only mode of approach being by carts and
boats, the inconvenience and suffering to the poor inhabi-
tante:being very great, as few of them were provided with
any stock of food or fuel. Carts were employed all day in
removing the poor people and their furniture, and sundry
casualties occurred. The flood has not been known to
rise to such a height for the last 70 years. The water in
the Stour in the city was raised about eight feet. conse-
quently immersing all the lower parts of the town. The
valley of the Stour for forty miles was flooded from hill to
hill, presenting the appearance of a vast navigable river
far exceeding the Thames or Medway.