The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STAVDARD.

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There is more timber at present in Leith than ever since
it was a port.
There are no fewer than one hundred and eleven inns
in the small town of Durham.
A petrified ham is said to have been excavated, within
the last few days, at Robin Hood's Hill, near Gloucester.
The Rev. Mr. Jephson, curate of Dr. Hook, of Leeds,
has been received into the Church of Rome, along with
his wife and two children.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, George
Snell, shoemaker, was found guilty of sedition. Many
parties will be tried this week for the same offence.
The body of a new-born female child was found a few
days since floating in the river Tees, near Middleton-one-
Row, sewed up in a wrapper. The child aas born alive.
John Pritchard has been committed to take his trial for
the murder of John Rowland, the watcher at the works
Britannia-bridge, near Bangor.
Viscount Arbuthnot, who stands charged with forgery,
and is finally reported to the House of Lords as " not to
be found," is supposed to have escaped to America.
At the sale at Stowe, on Tuesday, a bust of Prior, the
poet, an exquisite work by Roubilliac, was bought by Sir R.
Peel for 130 guineas.
The salary of a Poor Law inspector is £7OO a year, with
one guinea per day travelling expenses.
The jury on the coroner's inquest in the case of Swaine,
murdered by some Irish labourers, have returned a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder against some persons unknown."
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against
Maria Lightfoot, of Brierly Hill, for the murder of her
husband by administering poison to him.
A Coroner's Jury has found that the late fire at Albany-
street, London, was occasioned by an explosion of gas,
but there was no evidence to show how the gas had
escaped.
Au explosion took place on Saturday, on board the
Yarmouth steamer, Earl of Liverpool, by which two of
the mechanics were scalded to death, but the passengers
escaped.
On Tuesday, a large hay-stack, containing about 26
tons, near Nottingham, was ignited by lightning. The
electric fluid completely perforated the stack. Water was
poured on the hay, and most of it was spoiled.
The swindler who pretended to marry a respectable
Sunderland girl has been committed for trial. The man
who acted as priest was a comrogue of the pretended
bridegroom.
A monument, consisting of a most massy centre tablet,
18 feet broad, and supported on either side by smaller
ones, is about to be erected in the Southern Cemetery,
Edinburgh, at the grave of Dr. Chaln.ers.
In the course of a single day, at the beginning of last
week, there arrived in London no fewer than 89 vessels
wholly or partly laden with foreign corn ; and the total
quantity of grain imported on that day is estimated to
have exceeded 50,000 quarters.
The Sherhorne Journal records an inquest, at Branksca
Castle, on Sir Augustus John Foster, Batt., P. 8., G.C.H.,
aged 68, who, whilst labouring under a disease of the
heart and lungs, which produced delirium, cut his throat
with a razor.

The Newspapers published in the Channel Islands are
for the future to be charged with postage, when trans-
mitted into this country. No fewer than 20,000 impres.
sions of a paper published in the. Channel Islands have
been forwarded here.

Though the sale at Stowe appears to realise on an
average about £2OOO per day, some of the articles are dis-
posed of at a great sacrifice. A magnificent clock, which
cost the late Duke of Buckingham 1000 guineas, was sold
on Thursday for £5l. _ .

On Saturday, a public meeting of the inhabitants of
Chelmsford was held, for the purpose of erecting a statue
to the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in that his native
town, when nearly £lOO was subscribed in a few minutes
by about 20 individuals, as the commencement of a fund
for that object.
At the hotel, Crewe, on Monday morning, a waiter for
the station refreshment-room, a female unknown in that
part of the country, was found dead in her bedroom, hav-
ing nearly severed her head off with a common dinner
knife. She had only been a short time in Mr. Edward's
employ, and had conducted herself with great propriety.
A large party of young persons engaged a phaeton, on
Tuesday, for a jaunt to Bath. The horse ran off, and a
young lady, Miss Bartlett, jumped out, and was so much
injured that she soon expired. Several others were
seriously hurt, all the party having leaped -from their
seats.

So strong a hold has the genius of superstition among
the peasantry of South Wales, tha a woman at Carnar-
von, recently bitten by a mad dog, was sent to the church-
yard of St. Edrin's to eat the grass. which, it is believed,
has the peculiar property of being an antidote to hydro-
phobia.

CHEERING NEWS ABOUT THE POTATOE-CROP.—A
statement is going the round of the papers to the effect
that in one part of the country a person on examining a
potatoe-crop found that it was full of disease; he went in
ten days after and saw that it was entirely gone! Accord-
ing to this ingenious piece of intelligence the best way
will be to leave the disorder alone—perhaps, like Sir Abel
Handy's fire, it will go off of itself.
JULLIEN'S BANKRUPTCY.—This bankrupt has obtained
his certificate. The debts now are £12,000. His attor-
ney had advanced him money at the rascally rate of 60
per cent. ! One of his ruinous speculations was engaging
Mddle. Dorus Gras at £2OOO for only a short time. One
item of his personal expenses was £lBOO for presents to
his musicians in a year and a quarter.

THE KING OF -THE BELGIAN'S ANNUITY.—The ac-
counts of the trustees of the King of the
srAtiao T.- annum received from
regard to the annuity of
crew. britaia, haVe been published, from which it appears
that the annual expense of keeping up Claremont, to-
gether with certain pensions and salaries, amounts to
about £14,000, leaving a balance of £36,000, which is
regularly paid into the Exchequer.
On Sunday last a party of Irish reapers took their seats
in a train travelling on the North Midland- Railway from
Rotheram to Masbro'. Not having provided themselves
with the usual tickets they thought they might as well get
out before the train stopped. This they effected when the
train was near Normanton. The engineer pulled up, how-
ever, and guards, station men, and passengers followed in
hot pursuit after the Irishmen. Several of them were
taken, and next day were fined heavily by a magistrate.
REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.-011 Sunday, a child
of Mr. Edgar, tea-dealer, about two years old, having been
taken by her sister into the attic, fell out of the window, a
height of full 30 feet, upon the pebble pavement below,
and was taken up quite insensible ; but was found to have
sustained no fracture, and appears likely very soon to re-
cover. It is supposed that her clothes acted as a para-
chute to break the force of the fall, and that she alighted
on her side.—Bury Post.
A few days since, a waggoner unluckily caused his horse
to back his waggon into a quickset hedge, at Horsemon-
den, in Kent, and thus upset three hives of bees, which
immediately attacked their disturbers with such fury, that
the waggoner was forced to cover his head with a sack,
and some labourers hastily fled into the neighbouring field ;
but the horse, which could neither flee nor shelter itself,
was so dreadfully stung, that it was with difficulty that its
life was preserved.
MONEY ORDERS.—The following notice has been
issued by the authorities at the post-office : 1. 'The ad-
vices of money orders granted on the chief office must
hereafter be transmitted to that office separate from all
other advices, and in order to insure this, care must be
taken to tie them up securely in a distinct packet. In
granting money orders, and in advising the same, one
christian name in full for either the payer or the remitter
will henceforward be sufficient instead of all the christian
names being furnished_in full:as hitherto required.
The trades' union of the Britannia metal smiths of
Sheffield has hired eleven acres of land at Gleadless Com-
mon, for the purpose of employing such of its members
as have no work, and arc consequently dependent on the
funds of the union. The wages allowed to the men are
14s. a-week, and 6d. a-week for each child under 13 years
of age, and the rent paid for the land, with two cottages
and outbuildings, is £l3 • but it is hoped that the ex-
penses will be defrayed by the sale of the produce in a
shop at Sheffield.
It is said that property of the Duke of Buckingham to
the amount of about eighteen thousand a year cannot be
sold. Neither the Duke nor his son has the power of
cutting off the Chandos entail, and by the proper sale of
the other portion of the property, and consequent saving
of interest and insurance, it is declared, by persons com-
petent to judge, that twelve thousand a year can be saved
to the family during the duke's life. Can it be said that
the marquis, upon coming to the dukedom with thirty
thousand a year, will be utterly destitute and a beggar ?

Two timber-merchants of. ;ling have been committed
for trial, charged with stealing timber from the New
Forest. One of the workmen, who was in the habit of
going into the Forest for timber, was asked; "Do you
then help yourself to any Umber you find there ?" The
answer was, " I take what I think is the right timber."
No wonder the Royal Forest will not repay the expenses
of management. Theliatier seized in the different yards
of the forest, and on shipboard in Southampton Water,
is said to exceed in value £6,000.
A young married woman, named Sarah Burgess, aged
twenty-three, in Blackfriar's-road, London, who, atter
three years of happy wedded life, was so hurt at some
reflections cast upon her character by a young man who
had known her in the country, that, though her husband
made every attempt to convince her that he did not believe
the story, took the opportunity on Friday night, while he
was asleep upon a chair, and suddenly rushed to the win-
dow, opened it, and leaped out. She was picked up im-
mediately, still breathing, but she died in a few minutes,
her skull having been frightfully fractured by the fall.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed
herself while in a state of unsound mind, caused by
slanderous imputations.
MARKED' SALINION. The North ern Warder states
that one of the first or spent salmon, marked several
years ago by Lord Glenlyon, now Duke of Athol, was
caught on Friday morning at Bathopburn, on the Tav,
below Perth. It was a fine fish, weighing sixteen pounds
six ounces, having a metal engraved, " Duke of Athol,
Dunkeld, No. 128," fastened by a copper wire round its
This,. adds the Warder, proves to a demonstration
that spent salmon, after depositing their spawn on the
gravelly beds of our rivers during the close months, seek
their way back again to the sea, their rich pasture and
feeding ground.
NOVEL APPLICATION OF GLASS.—A glass manufac-
engaged in the ma-
golwass dooes, the ntuurfiacngtufirrenoi,f eat
pßaiirrinoitogmhaarnifiacreentn
frame-
work of which is, of •course, wood. On either
side are two pilasters composed of crystal glass, fluted
with gold. The lower panels are of silvered glass, each
ornamented by a centre star, richly cut. The upper panel
is of the large dimensions of four *feet by two and a half,
and is of plate glass, with an etched border. The upper
portion of the dooi way is inlaid with richly. cut glass, and
the entablature is composed of crystal and plain glass.
The whole is surmounted by .a large shell, and on either
hand are vases wiei flowers, &c. The ditnvusions.9f,the
work are seventeen feet by ten.

The Mitchel Club in London was formally dissolved on
Friday night.
NOVEL IMPOICTATION.—By the Growler, arrived at
Cork, from New York, heavily laden with Indian corn,
are two cases of American Chairs !

During a thunder storm at Oldham, on Tuesday, one of
three children playing in a cellar was struck dead by the
electric fluid, which appeared to have come down the
chimney.
On Tuesday, Jas. Smith, the man suspected of the murder
the woman at Shaw-hill Common, as mentioned last week,
was tried for the assault on the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Ever-
leigh, on Tuesday, at Devizes assizes. The charge was
for assaulting " with intent to kill and murder," and the
evidence showed that the attack was of a more ferocious
kind than at first reported. The fellow was hunted down
by Mr. liaddo and h;s servants, and when that gentleman
attempted to seize him he defended himself with more
stones. While he was in custody he said that he
knocked the woman down. The verdict was " guilty,"
and the sentence seven years' transportation.
TRADE OF BRISTOL.—Our Bristol contemporaries are
in high spirits about the state of trade at their port. The
transfer of the docks to the corporation will be carried
out during the present month as settled by the act of
Parliament. The receipts continue to increase ; the
excess over the corresponding months of last year (dating
from the Ist of May) being nearly £3OOO. During Jan.
to April, in 1848, 169.917 tons of shipping entered the
port, against 142,817 in 1847, being an increase of 27,100
tons, or 15} per cent. The improvement during the same
period in the coasting trade is remarkable, namely, from
92,443 tons to 104,900, being an increase of 12,457 tons.
Seventeen vessels laden with sugar are daily expected for
one firm alone. The port is full of large class ships.

FELINE TENDERNESS.—A curious -circumstance oc-
curred at Wincombe House, Shaftesbury, the residence
of Mrs. Gordon, a few days since. It appears the servants
were removing some straw, and found a nest of young
rats, which, as a matter of course they destroyed, or in-
tended to do so ; however, one of them more fortunate
than its fellows, was not quite killed, and is now alive. A
cat who was watching the proceedings, 'it seems, seeing
the young rat move, took it up in her mouth and carried
it to the stable, where she has two kittens ; she placed the
rat in the nest. where the warmth soon revived it; and
where it is now enjoying the paternal care of the cat in an
equal degree with her own offspring!—Salisbury Herald.
A NEW TRICK.—It appears that some people are going
about plundering the provincial magistracy and police
authorities by representing themselves to be police officers
in pursuit of a chartist delinquent, or a detachment en
route to bring deserters to head-quarters. On Saturday
Mr. J. Jacombs, of Coventry, was duped of £2 12s. 6d.
by a fellow who said he was an inspector of police from
Weedon in pursuit of a prisoner, and who found himself
suddenly without funds; and G. H. Packe, Esq., justice
of the peace at Lincoln, of £2 by three fellows who were
dressed in the uniform of the artillery, and pretended they
were carrying forward a prisoner, one of the party actually
having his wrists in handcuffs to help the deception. A
verdict of £5O has also been offered far their discovery.
TEIE STOWE BED.—This magnificent lot was sold at
Stowe on Thursday. It was described as " magnificently
carved and gilt, with yellow silk tabaret curtains and hang-
ings, the linings of crimson silk, the canopy with a net-
work of gold, and rich scrolls at the angles ; the columns
formed as Roman fasces ; at the head are the arms of
Chandos embroidered ; with two hair matresses, a wool
mattress, a down bolster, two down pillows, a Marseilles
quilt, and a white satin quilted cover." This magnificent
piece of furniture, which was furnished to the duke re-
gardless of cost, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to
Stowe, was bought by Mr. Walesby, of Northampton,
after a languid bidding, for the inadequate sum of 86
guineas. The bedsteps sold for 20 guineas.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Friday, as two ladies
were riding out in a retired lane, at Mattishall Burgh,
they observed a cow running towards them in a state of
great excitement and apparently mad. On its approach,
they discovered a child attached to its tail by the hair,
which was wound round its body. Assistance being ren-
dered the cow was secured. The child, was, however,
found to be quite dead. The body was muchl bruised,
and the bead cut and battered in a dreadful manner. An
inquest was held on the body on Saturday, when it ap-
peared, from the evidence of a child five or six years old,
who was near the' spot at the time of the occurrence, that
the deceased (whose name was Thomas Ireson, aged ten
years, son of a labourer residing in the parish) had tied
the cow's tail, which had a great length of hair, round his
body, saying that he was going to have a swing, and the
cow started off, dragging the deceased after it—Norfolk
Chronicle.

At the Lent Assizes, held at Salisbury, in 1847, a re-
spectable-looking man was indicted for sacrilege, to which,
with tears in his eyes and symptoms of the deepest con-
trition, he pleaded guilty. So completely did his appear-
ance and the piteous story he told enlist the sympathy of
the court—for he belonged. he said, to a high family,
whom he would not for the whole world should know of
the crime he had been induced to commit—that; believing
his sincerity, the judge let him off with a light sentence ;
and a number of well-disposed people who heard the case
afterwards made a subscription, and started him from
Fisherton gaol with a tolerable pocketful of cash. At the
Wells Assizes, last week, the same fellow, who gave his
name as Lefevre, was again brought up on a similar
charge, with similar tears in his eyes, and the same piteous
story on his lips. In this case he was sentenced to four
months' imprisonment.
INSTRUCTION OF THE BLIND.—We have received a
pamphlet entitled "An Examination of the Embossed
Systems, adopted in the United Kingdom, for Educating
the Blind ; by George A. Hughes, Professor of General
Instruction, including Music, Thoroughsass, and Musical
Writing, for the Sightless." The author is blind. The
following extract from Mr. Hughes's pamphlet will afford
some idea of the system :—" Hughes' System " for in-
structing the blind in spelling, reading, writing, cipher-
ing, music, and musical writing, on common writing
paper, by simple raised characters, which are as plain to
the touch of, the blind, as those formed with the pen are
to the sight ; they are producible on paper with the hand,
by means of an ivory instrument as simply constructed as
an ordinary pencil-case, being equally as small and light,
which, with the aid of a formula to guide the hand from
line to line in writing, or the various positions of the notes
in music, will enable the blind, whether so from birth or
otherwise, infant or adult, to emancipate themselves from
the mental darkness into which too many of them have
unhappily fallen ; mainly from not having hitherto had
any efficient mode sufficiently expeditious for the purpose
of impressing ideas on paper, and prosecuting their studies
when alone. The alphabet is composed of two distinct
signs—a small dot and a large or rough one, which being
combined and methodically arranged, in relative positions,
so as to prevent confusion, represent all letters, punctua-
tion marks, figures, musical notes, &c., &c."
Two EXTRAORDINARY FEATS.—On Monday, a large
concourse of persons assembled on the Woodstock-road,
to witness the performance of two extraordinary feats,
undertaken by the two celebrated pedestrians, Coates and
Makepeace. The first feat was to pick up with the mouth,
50 eggs, placed one yard apart, to throw a side summerset
with each egg in the mouth, and complete the whole in
twenty minutes. The eggs were placed in a straight line
on the road, and as each one was picked up, it was dropped
into a basket, placed near the first egg. This feat was
very cleverly performed by Coates, in 161 minutes, being
31 minutes less than the time stipulated. After an inter-
val of about half an hour, Makepeace the pedestrian,
commenced the second feat, which was to run a mile,
walk a mile, wheel a barrow a mile, trundle a hoop a
mile, walk backwards a mile, hop 100 yards. and leap
over 50 hurdles, 10 yards apart, completing the seven
feats in one hour. This feat, which taxed a man's strength
and endurance to an extraordinary degree, was performed
with much ease and skill, although not quite within the
specified time, by a few minutes, but this was entirely
owing to the difficulty there was in keeping a clear course,
for the spectators pressed so close to the pedestrian, that
at times his progress and pace were much interfered with.

SERVED RIGHT.—A married man, living oear
Leeds, was lately wooing a buxom widow, who, hearing
of her suitor's true character, determined on being re-
venged. Accordingly one night she invited him to tea,
and scarcely had he finished his first cup, when, upon a
signal from the widow, he was pounced upon by some of
her female neighbours and acquaintances whom she had
let into the secret. The first step was to throW a rope
round him and pinion his arms. A copious supply of
gas tar and feathers was then brought, and the former
was poured on the head and shoulders of the luckless
wight, uho was afterwards profusely bedecked with
plumage, so that when his relentless assailants had
finished their operations he presented a most unusual
spectacle, and might easily have been mistaken for some
mad Indian fakir. His hat was also well stuck with
feathers, and in this strange plight he was most mercilessly
turned out of the widow's domicile, to brave the loud
laughs and jeering of scores of-ispectators. What made
the matter worse,- he had considerable difficulty in making
his way out of the square, a barricade having been erected
for the purpose of confining him. At last, however, he
was fortunate enough to obtain the protection of a police-
man, who took him to the Court-house, and he was there
suffered to divest himself of his disagreeable outward
habiliments, and for that of a goose to assume the com-
plexion of a man ; but whether he will venture again to
appear in the character of a "farmer of substance," and
to give way to his amatory propensities is more than
doubtful.
CHARGE OF FORGERY.—On Wednesday the charge of
forgery brought against Mr. G. W. Dumbell, of Douglas,
Isle of Man was gone into before a crowded court.
The charge' consists in the alteration of the date
of a mortgage deed for £l2OO whereby it is alleged that
the claim under a prior mortgage was defeated. The pri-
soner is a solicitor and a member of the House of Keys.
Mr. Deemster Heywood took his seat at eleven o'clock,
and the Court having been " fenced" in the usual form,
his Honour ordered the coroner to bring in the prisoner.
Mr. Dumbell accordingly made his appearance shortly af-
t?rwards, in custody of the officer, and was permitted to
take his seat behind the bar, and near his counsel, one of
whom sat beside him during the day. On entering the
court several of his friends shook hands with him very
cordially. The Attorney-General for the island, Mr.
Ogden, appeared for the prosecution ; Messrs. Blcwitt,
Stephen, and James Gell, for the prisoner. The follow-
ing special jurymen answered to their names :—Robert
Roskell, Joseph Roskell, William Smith, told Alexander
Steele. J. S. Shaw and John Stephen, who did not ap-
pear, were fined £lO each, and the Attorney-General hav-
ing prayed a tales, William Stowell mid William Woods
were called, and both having answered, the jury were
sworn. The Attorney-Gene-n:1 then opened the case, and
proceeded to call witnesses, whose examination, and the
reading of various documents, owing to the very diletory
mode of proceeding adopted, the evidence of ever: witness
being taken. down at length by an officer, and dam read
over again, occupied the court till eight o'clock, when one
of till; jur3-incti (Mr.:Smith) was taken ill and obliged to
retire. After the lapse of about half an hour the court
adjourned. The case occupied all next day, when the
defendant was at once acquitted, amidst the congratula-
tions of his friends.
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A boat containing thirteen men was upset., last week,
on the Tay, at Perth, and six of the poor fellows were
drowned.

A WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—A few days ago a glass-blower
of Hunslet, whilst in a state of intoxication, trespassed on
the line of railway which forms the junction between the
Midland and Leeds and Bradford stations, in Leeds ; and
although called to by the engine-driver, was so stupified
that he was knocked down by the engine, and the whole
train passed over him. When picked up by the points-
man, he had received no further injury than the blow from
the engine.

A COUNTRYMAN PUZZLED.—Two gentlemen angling
in the Thames at Newham lately, could not agree upon
the appearance of one of their favourite baits, the horse
fly, and they agreed to refer the question to a rustic whom
they saw ploughing at a little distance—" Whoy," said
Hodge, with some astonishment, "Nog, dr'at it; I never
seed a horse fly, but I once seed a cow fall down a pre-
cipice."
RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA.—Mines are discovered in
many places, but quicksilver is to enrich California be-
yond all other mines. There is one now in operation be-
longing to Barron, Forbes, and Co., an English house in.
Mexico. The workmen at this mine have only the com-
mon try-pots, a few picks and crow-bars, and for a few
days past have bottled off 300 dollars per day. I presume
the expenses are less than one quarter. The ore is sim-
ple rock, mostly of a red coloar ; is merely broken and
heated, producing one fourth its weight in pure metal.
By dropping a pinch of it on a hot iron, covering it with
a ter-cup two minutes, the cup is covered with the smoke.
This being rubbed carefully by the fingers, in some cases,
produced a globule of the size of a small pea. Almost
the same expense and labour employed in Pennsylvania,
in obtaining a ton of iron, will obtain a ton of quicksilver
in California. Neither you nor your readers are expected
to believe this most incredible story ; yet, such is the fact.
The quicksilver obtained at the Forbes mines, in one
week will pay for the machinery. When the expected
works from Europe reach this country, the tons of quick-
silver will show for itself. Many other valuable mineral
deposits have been discovered at San Jose de Guadaloupe,
in the northern part of Upper California. Quicksilver,
silver, and zinc, appear to be most abundant. The quick-
silver ore yields upon an average about fourteen per cent. ;
silver about fifty per cent. ; and zinc about eighty per
cent. As to gold, it is said that several mines containing
precious metal exist in these parts ; I have seen none ex-
tracted.