The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The journeymen painters of Hull have succeeded in ob-
taining 245. a week.

On Tuesday, a boy was drowned in the river Medlock
whilst bathing..
The first steam-boat that has yet ventured upon any of
the English lakes, was launched on Windermere a few
days ago.

DEATH. ON THE WEDOING-DAY.—AH old gentleman
at Glossop who was married on Monday last, died on the
same evening.

Helen Williams, aged. five years, died last week, at
Hendrebach, Carnarvonshire, in consequence of eating
the root of fool's parsley, which she found in the fields►
On Monday, the chemical works of Mr. M'lntosb,
at Grangemouth, Glasgow, were destroyed by fire, and a
man named Bell perished in the flames.

The Earl of Cork, who for some time has been suffer-
ing from cataract, was recently operated upon, and some
hopes are entertained of a restoration of sight.
On Monday last, at Nottingham, a young man was
raaana'ng down the charge of a gun when it went off, and
drove the ramrod through his face and head. No hope
is entertained of his recovery.

The man committed recently, for driving a cart against
the Duke of Wellington, and, who was committed for a
month, had the penalty paid at the instance of his grace,
and has since been set at liberty.

The steam-ship Helen M`Gregor performed the passage
from Cronstadt to Hull, including six hours at Copen-
hagen, in 1363 hours.
Mr. Owen, a pink saucer maker, in Goswell•road, Lon-
don, has been killed through testing the essential oil of
almonds by the taste.
Three boys were drowned in the river at Greenock, on
Wednesday, by the upsetting of a boat, as is supposed, for
the gig in which they embarked was found ashore, split
from stein to stern.

It is now said that Mr. Hoyle, the Heigbington sur-
geon, who was supposed to have died by violence, or
committed suicide, has only given " leg-bail" to his
creditors.

Three boys, of the ages of 16, 14, and 11, in the em-
ployment of Mr. Morley, news-agent, London, left their
home last week, and have not since been heard of. It is
believed they went to bathe, and were drowned.
A person, named George James Morell, died in Lon-
don last week of drunkenness, in his 32d year. Ile was
accustomed to swallow a gill of ardent spirits at a draught ;
and ten quarts of ale a day was his ordinary allowanze I
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Tuesday, while a large body of
Odd Fellows were in attendance at St. Charles's Church,
Plymouth (having had a public procession) the secretary
of the Pride of Devon Lodge was taken ill, and died al-
most immediately.
THE LATE FATAL FlRE.—Miss King, the young lady
in whose apartment the late fatal fire at Raggart's Hotel
commenced, is the Miss King who was personated, some
three or four years ago, in Bristol. by the notorious Miss
Bryers, when Mr. Woolley, .a Bristol merchant, was
made a laughing-stock for the whole country.
It is a singular coincidence that J. Brown. Esq., clerk
to the magistrates of Newcastle-on-Tyne, T. Swinburne,
Esq., clerk of the magistrates of Gateshead, and J. Kid-
son, Esq., clerk to the magistrates of Sunderland—three
adjoining towns—should all have died in the course of last
week.

A ROYAL PLEADER.—The Duke of Brunswick, in an
action brought last week in the. Sheriffs Court against the
proprietors of the Lancaster Guardian for a libel, con-
ducted his own case, and that so eloquently and skilfully
as to falsify the proverb which says that " the man who is
his own lawyer has a fool for his client." The jury
awarded him £2OO damages.
The Nottingham Review gives a circumstantial account
of the recovery of a horse-dealer, named Richard Fowler,
of Mansfield, by the aid of electricity, after he had swal-
lowed two ounces of laudanum, and had been by the
poison reduced to a state of stupor that had all the appear-
ance of death. The stomach-pump and other means
were tried without avail.

SEASONABLE PROSPECTS.—FnIit of all kinds, grasses,
wheats, and vegetation generally promise abundant crops.
In some districts, however, wheats have suffered from
the long drought at the early part of the year, and in
other localites considerable damage has been done by the
overflowing of rivers, &c., at the early part of the last
month. Hops do not promise to be so good as they
were last year.—Leeds paper.
DR. LARDNER.—This gentleman has, it is stated, left
New York for Havre, en route fur the metropolis, with
his wife (Mrs. Heaviside) and two children. The return
of Dr. L. to Europe, it is said, has been occasioned by a
summons issued by the House of Lords, commanding
the appearance of l\lrs L., in order to testify in regard
to some property amounting, according to the Amelicnn
prints, to about 200,000 dols., which she claims in her
own right.
MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE. —On Saturday, two
boys, named Corner and Read, each fourteen years of
age—the one residing at Whaligoe, and the other at Sar-
clet—met their death at different places, but under simi-
lar circumstances. Both had gone to the precipitous cliffs
in their respective neighbourhoods, for the purpose of ga-
thering sea birds' eggs; and, both had, no doubt by
missing their feet or losing their hold, fallen over the
precipices and were killed. —John 0' Groat Journal.

THE LATE DUEL.—DEATII OF Mit. SETON.—Mr.
Seton appeared to he going on very comfortably after the
operation of Saturday, until Sunday night, or rather
Monday morning, about two o'clock, when a decided
change for the worse took place. It soon became evi-
dent that be could not long survive, and about 7 o'clock
on Tuesday evening Mrs. Seton took leave of him, as
also did his sister and mother. He appeared quite sensi-
ble until within five minutes of his death, which took
place without a struggle before eight the same evening.

On Wednesday there was an aggregate meeting of Pro-
testants in Exeter Hall, London, presided over by the
Earl of Winchelsea for the purpose of addressing a
" memorial (why not a remonstrance ?) to the Queen,
imploring her Majesty to withhold her Royal assent from
the Mavnooth Endowment Bill, until, by a dissolution of
Parliament she shall have given her loyal people an op-
portunity of pronouncing their deliberate judgment upon
such a momentous change in the fundamental principles
of the British Constitution." This is the right course.
Reach the Throne; and compel the Queen's Ministers
to put into her Majesty's mouth a refusal of the prayer
of the memorial, and her reasons for so refusing.

A TALE OF Woll.—On Thursday a respectable young
person, calling herself Mary Ann Salisbury, was charged
at Lambeth•street police-office, with having attempted to
commit suicide, on the pre eding night. It appeared that
she was about to throw herself off London Bridge, and
entreated a person who held her back to let her effect her
purpose. She stated to the magistrate that she had been
induced to leave her father's house at Bath (a boot and
shoemaker inextensivebusiness, and a dissenting preacher)
with a young man, who when in London, accomplished
her ruin, having first stupified her with some liquid, and
robbed her of a gold watch and £2O in money. He had
broken his promise of marriage, and said he should com-
mit suicide, advising her to do the same. The magistrate
placed her under the protection of the police.

PUNISHMENT OF CLERGYMEN.—A correspondent of
the Times publishes the following scale ;of ecclesiastical
punishments recently awarded by competent authority :
The Hon. and Rev. F. S.' Monckton, for indecent con-
duct with the females of his family, " especially Sarah
Huggins"—suspension from office, not from emolument,
for one year, without costs, by the sentence of the Bishop
of London.—The Rev. J. Jones, for adultery—suspension
from office and from emolument for two years, with costs,
by the sentence of the Court of Arches.—The Rev. H. E.
Head, for declaring the baptismal service to be not free
from erroneous and strange doctrine, contrary to the 39
Articles, and such as a clergyman is pledged to " banish
and drive away"—suspension from office and from emolu-
ment for three yeas, with costs, by the sentence of the
Court of Arches. Thus it appears that an offence against
the baptismal service is visited by the ecclesiastical au-
thorities with far greater severity than an offence against
the decalogue.
MIXED MARRIAGES.—MEMORIAL TO THE POPE.—
The Roman Catholic aristocracy are at present very busy
in getting up a memorial to the Pope from the English
Roman Catholic aristocracy, on the subject of the last
two or three refusals of the marriage benediction to Ro-
man Catholics of station marrying Protestants without
guarantee taken for the children. The last case is that
of a lady who cannot marry, it seems, unless in the Pro-
testant Church, as her friends have discovered that not a
rescript from Rome is to be had, to sanction a marriage
of which the progeny are not to be Roman Catholics.
The principal areument of the gentry in thus appealing
to the Pope is, that " they, his Holiness's faithful, &c.."
have failed to discover at what period it was that the
Church of Rome departed from the laudable practice of
the " primitive church" in this respect. They quote the
lives of the saints; e. g., of St. Monica, St. Helen, and
so forth. They humbly submit that it is very hard that
they cannot marry Protestants, whereas the Christians,
and much better Christians than they ever were or will
be, of the " primitive " time were allowed to marry Pa-
gans.—Tablet (Roman Catholic paper).

The REPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.—The new
slave-trade abolition treaty, concluded between this coun-
try and France, has been published. Its leading principle
has already transpired, namely, that France and England
are to establish, within the shortest possible period, upon
the western coast of Africa, a naval force composed of not
less than 26 cruisers, steam and sail, which force shall act
in concert for the suppression of the slave trade. The line
of coast placed under the surveillance of these armaments
extends from Cape Verd to the 26th deg. 30 min. of me-
ridional latitude. The treaty consists of ten articles,
which provide for the manner in which the respective
commanders of the joint forces shall exercise their func-
tions, and for various contingencies. The moment France
is ready to commence operations, a not fication to that
effect will be made to the English government, when the
two contracting parties will make known by a public de-
claration that the present convention is upon the point of
being put into execution ; and in six months afterwards
the operations are to commence. The treaty is concluded
for ten years, during which the treaties of 1831 and 1833
shall be suspended. In the course of the fifth year, how-
ever, the high contracting power shall consult anew and
decide, according to circumstances, if it be expedient either
to renew all or part of the treaties of 1831 and 1832, or to
modify or abrogate, all or part, of the present treaty.

ELECTRIC SHOCK.—During the storm of thunder on
Tuesday, the electric stroke was received on the premises
of B. M. Fnakes, Esq. Entering the apex of the granary
gable, the fluid dished about the tiles and mortar, and
passed through the wall into the interior, carrying a piece
ofhoard across the chamber do vn to the foot of the
ladder on the ground floor ; pasting along a bell-wire to
the hell-pull at the entrance gate, and causing the bell to
ring, it splintered the heavy oak gate-post to within afoot
of the ground'. The inside of the granary smoked much,
and had a strong sulphurous smell. The groom, who
was in the yard with a wheelbarrow, was thrown from the
latter by the shock, and four pigeons on the roof of the
Town-Hall were burled into the street. Providentially
no life was lost or any injured, although many were thrown
down.—Essex Standard.
MURDER OF AN OFFICER AND EIGHT MEN OF THE
WASP BY THE CREW OF A SLAVER.—A most distress-
ing circumstance has occurred in the African squadron.
The Wasp, 18, Commander S. El. Usher, took a prize,
which was sent to Sierra Leone, to be condemned. On
her way this prise fell in with and took another slaver;
the lieutenant in command still keeping charge of the first
vessel, put a midshipman, named Harmer, with eight men,
into the other. The vessels then separated. Unfortu-
nately, Mr. Harmer allowed a strong party of the slave
crew to remain out of irons, and at night they rose and
murdered every Englishman on board ; and, when day-
light broke, exchanged signals with, and fired at, the
other prize, and then bore away. In a day or two after-
wards she fell in with the Star, 6, Commander Dunlop,
who took her, and brought the whole of her murderous
piratical crew to Ascension. The villains will shortly be
sent to England.
REGISTER r REGISTER ! REGISTER!—" The battle of
the Constitution must be fought in the Registration
Courts," are the memorable words of Sr Robert Peel.
Let owe Conservative friends not lose sight of them, but
act nobly up to their import. The very greatest exer-
tions are making by the radicals. This example must
not 132 lost sight of by the Conservatives. It is their
duty to commence work in right good earnest, so that
they may be able to foil the base attempts of the Anti-
Corn-Law League to swamp the constituency. Conser-
vatism was triumphant at the last election mainly through
the perseverance and united exertions of Conservatives
in the Registration Courts ; and, to render the same tri-
umphant at the next election. not a step must be missed
for placing all true and good Conservatives, who are duly
qualified, on the register. These efforts must be made
before the 20th of July, and, considering the importance
and amount of the work to be done, no time must be lost
in commencing.

EXTRAORDINARY DESTRUCTION OF WASPS.—The
Earl of Traquair has for several years past given a liberal
reward to the children in the neighbourhood for destroying
those destructive insects, during the months of April and
to the middle of May, as it is understood that at that pe-
riod every wasp is the parent of a whole nest, amounting
to some thousands. Those noxious creatures are un-
usually numerous this season, as the following account
will show. The chi►dren, about fifty in number, attended
at Traquair House with their spoil every Saturday, where
they were counted by his lordship's gardener, and each
one paid so much per dozen. The following has been the
result :-26th April, 756 dozen, weighing 2lb. loz. ; 3d
May, 114 dozen, weight 6oz. ; 10th May, 591 dozen,
weight 2i oz. ; 17th May, 6431 dozen, weight 113 oz.
Total 1,573 dozen, weight 41b. 91 oz. ; making the incre-
dible number of 18.876 wasps' nests destroyed in four
weeks, and in one parish. It may be presumed, if each
of these had been allowed to multiply, however favourable
the season may prove, there would be little fruit or honey
left for miles round.—Caledonian Mercury.

WESTMORELAND AND CUMBFRLAND YEOMANRY
CAVALRY.—A correspondent writng to us from Penrith
says,—" This day (June 4th) I have felt much pleasure in
witnessing the exercises and evolutions of this truly splen-
did regiment. It consists of six troops, under the com-
mand of Col. Hasel. Although it is the morbid fashion
of the day to revile these local corps, I assure you a more
noble and soldierlike appearance than was presented to-day
it is impossible to conceive. No body of regulars could be
more imposing, either in their evolutions, the fineness of
the men, the splendour of the uniform, or the superiority
of the equipments. Unpopular as the idea may seem, my
notion is, that if ever such a means of domestic defence
were needed, a regiment like this stalwart northern array
would rather astonish some of the less vigorous southerns.
A few weeks ago I was present at a review of the Salopian
cavalry at Ellesmere; and, as compared with the West-
moreland and Cumberland, they were as a disable d fishing
smack to one of your A 1 crafts. I was peculiarly pleased
with the Kendal troop, under the command, I believe, of
Capt. Heddall.
PARLIAMENTARY DlvlsioNs.—The only member for
this county who voted against the second reading of the
Irish Colleges Bill, was Mr. Greenall, M. P., for Wigan.
In its lam there voted Lord Sandon, J. Ireland Black-
burne, Dr. Bowring, J. Brotherton, E. Cardwell, J.
Talbot Clifton, Sir G. Clifton, W. Sharman Cranford,
Lord F. Egerton, W. Entwisle, W. Fielden, T. Greene,
J. Wilson Patten, M. Philips, and C. Standish. The
following were absent. Sir Howard Douglas, J. Hornby,
J. Fielden, General Johnson, P. Ainsworth, C. Hindley,
R. Walker, G. Marton, T. Milner Gibson, and Sir H.
Fleetwood. On the motion of Mr. Ward, for the appoint-
ment of a select committee to enquire into the " peculiar
burthens" upon land the following voted in its favour ;
Sir George Strickland, Dr. Bowring. J. Brotherton, W.
Sharman Crawford, T. Milner Gibson, C. Hindley, M.
Phillias, and R. Walker. Against it were Lord Sandon,
J. Talbot Clifton, E. Cardwell, J. Ireland Blackburne,
P. Greenall, T. Greene, J. Wilson Patten.—Among the
absentees were Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, G. Marton, C.
Standish, P. Ainsworth, W. Feilden, J. Fielden, General
Johnson. J. Horriby, W. Entwisle, Lord F. Egerton,
and Sir Howard Douglas.
JUSTIFICATION OF THE OPPOSITION TO MAYNOOTH.
—A Roman Catholic peer, Lord Beaumont, in the debate
of Monday night, gave the strongest justification which
we have beard of the efforts which have been made joy the
opponents of the bill. He said, that "if they redly be-
lieved the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church to be
as they described, their toleration would be a crime."
Most earnestly do the opponents of the measure eve
the doctrines of the lioinan Catholic Church to bM- rit-
ually as well as temporally evil in the highest degree, and
they therefore consider it to be their most urgent duty to
set their faces against any measure, proceed from whatever
quarter it may, which may encourage and spread those
doctrines. But the belief of the evil tendency of the Ro-
man Catholic doctrines is not confined to the opponents
of the Maynooth Bill. Even the supporters of the mea-
sure join, to a greater or less extent, in that belief. The
Earl of Hardwicke said, in the very hearing of Lord
Beaumont, on Tuesday night, " that there was much in
the dogmas taught at Maynooth which he abhorred"—
and yet the Earl of Hardwicke, and other legislators
making similar professions, can find it in their consciences
to advocate the propriety of voting away an increased
grant of public money for the purpose of giving greater
effect to the teaching of the dogmas of their " abhorrence."
Truly we are fallen on strange and lax days.
CHILD DESERTION.—On Monday, a well-dressed
young woman left a beantiful infant, with a letter, on the
step of the door of No. 74, Lower Grosvenor-street—a
house occupied at present by the lion. William Lucas
Rous, having previously knocked and rung at the door.
When the butler opened the door and found what had
been deposited there, he made the circumstance known
to Mr. Roue. to whom the letter was directed. The
letter was as follows :—" Mr. Rous, I have had no an-
swer to the letter of yesterday; therefore I leave your
child. The last thing I did for him I gave him the breast,
and then fell on my knees and implored heaven to pro-
tect him. If my feeble limbs will support me so far,
I am now point- to No. 40, Little-street. I have eaten
the last piece of bread, and drank the last draught of
water that shall enter my lips, till I have seen both him and
you. 1 die in peace with you and all the world. May
God, my Saviour, protect my child! SARAH FULCHER.'
A police-constable was sent for, and the child and the
letter directed to be taken to the watch-house. When
asked by Mr. Maltby why she bad left the child at the
residence of Mr. Rous, she said she was ready to swear
that Mr. Rotas was the father. She bad been in the ser-
vice of Mrs. Rous, as lady's maid, at Worsted-house,
Norfolk. She was seduced by Mr. Rous, and the result
of the intercourse was the child, now ten months old,
which she had left on the step of Mr. Rous's door. Mr.
Maltby said the regular course was to proceed by sum-
mons against the alleged father, and accordingly a summons
was issued for Tuesday against Mr. Rous.
MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.--The Birmingham
Journal narrates the loss and recovery of a child under
extraordinary circumstances. Tne child was two years
and a half old, and belonged to an Irish couple named
Ronan. When lost, search was made in vain for it, and
six days elapsed without any hope of recovery. At last
as two young men, who lived in the house adjoining an
empty tenement, were retiring to rest, one of them thought
he heard faint cries. They got up, and proceeded into the
empty house. In an attic adjoining their own room, they
found, huddled op in the corner, the poor little creature,
so sadly changed in appearance that it could scarcely be
recognised. On seeing two persons approaching with
lights' half dressed, the child screamed with fright, but it
was speedily quieted, when it eagerly asked for water.
On the Romans being apprised that their little girl was
found, the mother could not at first believe that the ema-
ciated little creature befOre her was their own long lost
child. Of this, however. the overjoyed parents were soon
reassured. On undressing her, the little creature's back
and sides were found quite sore and bruised from lying on
the hard boards, and her feet were swelled from the
pressure of her boots, and they were also bruised in va-
rious places. She complained sadly of pains in her
stomach. caused by her long and dreary fast, not a morsel
of food having been tasted by her for six days and nights !
It appears that on straying from its mother's door, it fell
into the open cellar of the empty house without any one
being aware of the circumstance. It was probably stunned
by the full (as it has a severe cut on the forehead), and
was thus prevented from crying out for help. On reco-
vering itself, it crept from the cellar up stairs, and from
the lower rooms into the attic, on reaching which it closed
the door, which shut so closely, that the child became a
prisoner in the solitary apartment.
CLASSIC SCULPTURE.—The perfections attained by the
nations of classic antiquity in the arts, especially that of
sculpture, is too well known and appreciated to require
further eulogium at the present day. We may however
cease to wonder at the excellence thus attained, when we
learn the extent to which it was practised, since we find.
it recorded by an ancient svriter that the number of stetees
at Rome exceeded that of its living inhabitants. It is
well known that the master-pieces of Greek and Roman
skill have constantly supplied modern artists with models
and examples; and we have recently beet. much struck
with the adaptation of a beautiful specimen of ancient art,
by those distinguished artists Messrs. Perkins and Bacon,
who, for the protection of an article of deserved celebrity
—the KALYDOR, prepared by Messrs. ROWLAND and
SON, of Hatton-garden--have produced a label depicting
a classic group of eminent grace and beauty, a farther
description of which appears in our advertising columns.