The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

EXTENSIVB FAILURE.—We are concerned to an-
nounce the stoppage of an eminent mercantile firm in
this neighbourhood—that of Edward Rawson, Esq., of
Ash Grove. The extent of the liabilities it is said amount
to nearly £2oo,ooo.—Halifax Guardian.
The Morning Advertiser states, that in the event of a
dissolution of parliament, Sir Robt. Peel will be so!icited
by We free trade party:in the City of London to,allow
himself to be put in nomination, jointly with Lord John
Russell, to_represent that constituency.
The Hyderabad prize money has been fixed at £400,000.
Sir C. Napier's share will be one-sixteenth, or £25,000:
as there were but two lieutenant-colonels, seven majors,
nine captains, and twenty-two subalterns, at Meanee, their
respective shares will be handsome.

Whilst the Mammoth Horse was exhibiting at the
Egyptian Hall, on Thursday, the flooring gave way, and
the horse's hind legs went into the apartrnentunderneath.
The horse plunged tremendously, but was got up at length
with but few injuries.

A young lady, aged 16', residing in Wigmore-street,
London, was attacked with most violent convulsive fits,
for upwards of two hours, on the return home of a brother
whom she had believed dead for the last three years, -and
on recovery from her fit she had lost the power of articu-
lation, and is seemingly
CORN-LAWS.—Mr. Labouchere, ,M.P. for Taunton,
has published a letter to his constituents, in which he
slys he was formerly in favour of .4 fixed duty, but that
the progress of events has extinguished all chance of such
an arrangement. He declares that he will now vote for
the total repeal of the Corn-laws.

- The Rev: W. Marshall, a clergyman of the Established
Church, was last week 'received into the Roman Catholic
communion at Oscott. Mr. Marshall was Curate of
Archdeacon R. Wilberforce, and is the second person of
the same name who has lately left the establishment.—

A subscription has been. commenced for the purpose of
erecting a monument to the memory of Sir T. F. Buxton,
Bart., in Westminster Abbey ; to be placed with those to
the memory of Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Granville Sharp,
and Mr. Zachary Macaulay,. as recording his labours in
coniunction with tbose distingOishe'd individuals.
At the annual meeting of the Yeovil Agricultural So-
ciety last week neither of the county members (T. D. Ac-
land and F. H. Dickinson, Esqrs.) could obtain a hearing
in consequence of their not baying supported agricultural
protection to the satisfaction of their constituents. The
meeting was.tbro.uglkout a scene of complete confusion.
A few days back, according to the Birmingham Gazette,
the postman in the neighbourhood of Great Barr, found a
man bleeding on his
,back. in a ditch, and during his re-
moval to a neighbouring public-house, he expired. The
man is believed to have been robbed and murdered. The
affair is undergoing.investigation.
NOVEL IDEA.—One of the established companies, 4ith
express powers at.their command, peremptorily refused to
the promoters of a competing line an express train for their
deposits to town. Not to be outwitted, they hired an un-
dertaker's hearse, placed plans, sections. and clerk inside,
and despatched it by special train to town."
On Friday morning week, Robert A. Davison, tsq.,
solicitor, of Sunderland,' and clerk to the trustees of the
county f Durham turnpikes, committed suicide by hang-
ing himself in his greenhouse. He had lately been inat-
tentive to business, but beyond' any compunction he may
have felt on this ground, no cause can be assigned for this
deplorable occurrence. _ _ _

Another man has died of the effects of the explosion of
the boiler at. Sunderland, and one or two more 'are in
danger. The explosion was of tremendous violence : for
hundreds of yards in every direction, bricks, pieces of
iron, and other articles, were carried through the air ;
while enormous portions of the boiler were borne to a less
distance. _

---fIIACT ARIAN !—Where shall we find a confessed Trac-
tarian ? We never met one yet. Is Dr. Hook, a Trac-
tarian, or Mr. Dodsworth, or Mr. Blunt, the purifier of
the parish of Helstone, or the. Bishop of Exeter ? By no
means. They are various specimens, in their own esteem,
or, at least, by their own declarations, of what sober and
orthodox members of Oa church ought to be.
CONSUMPTION OF WHISKEY.—From a statement made
by Captain Cameron, at quarter sessions, it appears that
no less than upwards of 6000 gallons of whiskey were per-
mitted to Dingwall in the six months from April to Oc-
tober last. The population of Dingwall, by last census,
being 1732, this would give about three gallons and a half
in the half year to each inhabitant.

A few days ago, a fisherman, named Gillarn, met with a
singular accident, which has occasioned the loss of his
arm. It appears that a dog fish became entangled in his
net, and in removing it his finger was priCked by the back-
bone of the fish. A few days afterwards his hand began to
get painful and swelled; and on Saturday he was obliged
to undergo amputation of the arm.—Brighton Gazette

Mr. Cayley has addressed a second, and our readers
may easily suppose a well reasoned letter to Lord John
Russell. Alluding to the faggot voters system of the
League, he very justly says that it " shows the distrust
the anti-corn-law party evince of constituencies and of
their own creation." To be sure, bow could they hope to
get through their dirty work but by the aid of their own
creatures. _ _

FORBIDDING BAN DM—A singular incident occurred in
the psrish church, Preston, on Sunday week. When the
banns of marriage were published, a female rose, and in a
loud voice forbade the marriage of a couple whose names
had just been read over by the curate. She pleaded, with
tears in her eyes, that he had paid his addresses to her for
three years, and had now deserted her to marry another
person. The plea, of course, could not be enter-
tained.

THE MIDLAND MANSLAUGHTER CASE.—Five bills
have been found, by the Grand Jury, at the present
Yorkshire Gaol delivery, against Thomas Wheatley, late
engine-driver on the Midland Railway, for the man-
slaughter of Mr. Commissioner Boteler, and Policeman
Stubby, of Leeds"; and the trials were to be heard yester-
day (Monday.) Wheatley has not yet surrendered, but
it is expected that he would deliver himself into custody
yesterday, at the opening of the court.
A Cow's AFFECTION FOR HER OFFSPRING.—At the
late fire at Ellington a valuable cow had calved the night
before, and when the flames had reached the place, she,
with another cow, was let out, but the door being open
she returned to the calf; twice again she left it, and en-
deavoured to get the calf to follow her, but the little
animal refused to do so, and on her last return the smoke
and fume had become so strong as to overpower her, and
she fell beside her young one, and both were burnt to
death.—Bury Post.
PEDESTRIANISM. The celebrated runner, named
Maxfield, known in sporting circles as the " North
Star," having been matched to run eleven miles within
an hour, the event came off on Friday close to the village
of Longford. The stakes amounted to £6O. The match
was performed over one mile of ground, out and in.
The man started in healthy condition. The rough state
of the road, however, in consequence of the thaw after
the recent frost, was decidedly against him. He lost the
match, but only by five seconds.
A MAYOR'S ttEmusEEArrox.—At a meeting of the
Tiverton Town-council last week, in consequence of the
demand of a salary from J. G. Tucker, Esq., mayor,
(which no other mayor has done since the municipal act
passed), it was carried by a majority of one, that five
pounds I should be allowed him for his services during
his year in office. We understand it is not to be taken
from the borough-rate, but raised by voluntary contribu-
tions ; and the overplus to be placed in the mayor's box
for casual expenses during his worship's mayoralty.—
Exeter Post. _ _ _ . .

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday, a young girl,
named Tomlinson, a servant belonging to Mr. Parton,
brewer, Birtt,ingham, put an end to her existence by
hanging herself from the rail of her bedstead. Shortly
alter the discovery of the unfortunate girl, and while the
neighbourhood was in a state of considerable excitement
about her unhappy fate, an elderly woman, named Mal-
lard, who lived in the yard adjoining that in which Tom-
linson had destroyed herself, very deliberately procured a
cord, and, as if under the influence of some suicidal sym-
pathy, suspended herself from the staircase of her house.
Her daughter, however, fortunately entered the place at
the moment, and cut her down before life was extinct.
GROSS IGNORANCE.—Some few weeks since a mys-
terious robbery took place of sixteen sovereigns, from the
house of a respectable widow, a farmer, residing within a
mile of Over Church. The police were sent for, and
their investigation seemed to be crowned with the dis-
covery of the delinquent, when lo ! it was found out by
them, that, not satisfied with their measures, the cre-
dulous old lady had been advised by some friend(?) to
consult with, and had actually gone to " a wise man"
living at Bctley. This imposter (who it is hoped will ere
long be brought to justice) desired his tool to look into a
pail of water, and afterwards into a charmed looking-
glass, where he told her she would see the face of the
thief. And she now actually declares that she saw, both
in the pail of water and in the looking-glass, the face of a
relative, " whom she had all along suspected !"—Chester
Courant.
EXTRAORDINARY RIGA TIDE.—The highest tide
known for the last 25 years occurred in the Thames on
Thursday night and Friday morning, and we are sorry to
state that the destruction o; property on both sides of the
river has been enormous. The tide influencing the Wan-
dle, caused the latter to rise to an almost unprecedented
extent. The water covered the plain, and the charge-
room and cells in the station-house were six inches deep
in water. At Putney the tide committed great ravages,
and so great was the body of water in the cellars of the
Bell tavern, that Mr. Avis, the landlorn, was obliged to
en-ploy the parish engine. At Fulham the water rose so
high, that the Bishop of London's grounds were flooded.
The churchyard was under water. The fires on the
ground floor of the Swan were extinguished ; and the wa-
ter flowed to the King's Arms, a distance of a quarter of
a mile. Immense quantities of timber and casks were
floated away.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—A man named II ichd. Sheane,
one of the Bath city police, took his place on Monday
evening at the Bristol station of the Great Western Rail-
way, to proceed to Bath by the mail train. Soon after
the train started, both he and a boy who accompanied him
fell asleep, and were carried some distance beyond their
destination before either awoke. The rushing noise of
the engine in the box tunnel aroused the man from his

slutnbers, and he then dis Covered teat he bad ridden some
rifileA fu►ther than he wished. His first impression was,
that the train would stop at Corsham. but it was not so.
Onwards he was carried at the rate of forty or fifty miles
an hour. He at last nnened the door of the carriage,

on the btep, mad

a spring, an!.

the'boy, and immediate search was made for him, but he
could at first nowhere be found. lie states that be re-
collects nothing but corning in •iolent contact ullh some-

..1..A VW II 6,1i1 UC C upputcs iv .c ,
lay he does not,lsnnw; but on_ recd ering hts senses he
crawled to a house close at hand, where he was lodged for'
the night., -.The next morning be was well enough to walk
into Cdesham to a medical man, when it was found that,
besides being much cut and bruised, his shoulder was dis-
located.