The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

THE BOY JONES.—The boy Jones, of palace-entering
notoriety, who it will be remembered

, was some yea

shipped no board the Warspite as a boy of the second
class, did not come home in her, but was transferred to
the Inconstant shortly before the Warspite's leaving. He
had then attained the rating of an ordinary seaman. At
climbing he had no superior in the Warspite; on one
occasion he climbed to the main truck, and seating him-
elf there, threw off his hat, jacket, and shirt, and !fling
_
He is represented as well conducted, and
ering the time he has been at

them on deck

very good seaman, consid

MANSLAUGHTER OF A HIGHWATM
nesday last, a large 'number of the neighbouring villagers
were congregated in Margate, celebrating the festival of a
benevolent society ; James Sutton, a person of respectable
connexions, being of the number. About half-past ten,
as John Price, a carrier, was returning home, 'Sutton
leaped from behind a hedge, and demanded his watch. A
struggle ensued, and Sutton was so much injured that be
died in a few hours. The coroner's jury, after a l-ngth-
ened consultation, returned a verdict of " manslaughter"
against Price, considering the violence more than neces-
sary.

N.—On Wed-

A SAGACIOUS HORSE.—On Monday week, while some
half-a-dozen of carters were returning from Dunkeld to
Perth, they halted at Bankfoot to take a dram, and drank
till they were all in a beastly state of intoxication. They
were helped into their carts, and resumed their journey,
trusting entirely to the sagacity of their horses. One of
the batch having awoke from a confused sleep, attempted
to stop his horse, and finding himself unable, had the te-
merity to throw himself before the wheel, but the noble
animal, as if aware of his danger, shoved him aside
1^ - '--'AI of tbP

Imoved on, leaving the greatest anti's,. two to find
his way home the best way be could.—Edinburgh Regis.

A DANISH INDIANIAN RUN DOWN..--
o'clock on Monday night, as one of Mr. Green'

boa afte

's first-

class ships, the Seringapatam, was running down Channel,
in charge of a pilot, on her way to Portsmouth, bound to
the East Indies, she came into collision with the Herrick,
Danish East Indiaman, cutting her down amid ships to
the water's edge. The crew of the latter had just time to
escape on board the Seringapatam, when the masts went
by the board, and she turned bottom up. The Seringa-
patam had her bowsprit carried away, and sustained so
much damage that•she was obliged to return to Blackwall
to have her defects made good.

A MUSICAL Ben.—The last novelty from Germany is
a musical bed, which receives the weary body and imme-

.d that by means

zrn,,:c,aic in Bohemia, and is so constrt .
of hidden mechanism, pressure upon the bed causes a soft
and gentle air of Auber to be played, which continues long
enough to lull the most wakeful to sleep. At the head is
a clock, the hand of which being placed at the hour
the sleeper wishes to rise, when the time arriveF, the
bed plays a march of Spontini, with drums and cymbals,
and, in short, with noise enough to rouse the seven
-,---Thirs mug tie Vera oecomes tnererore the rte ptus
ultra for the wakeful as well as the sluewish.

EXPENSE ON THE POOR-LAW COD&ISSION.—It ap-
pears from a parliamentary return just published -that
eleven commissions were issued in 1840, and fifteen since
that time. The total expense of the poor-law commission
in England and Ireland, by salaries of the officers (whose

names and situations are set forth), is stated at £31,129
18s. The expense of the commission in the year 1842,
1843, 1844, and 1845 is given as follows :—£33,799 12s.
Gd. in England, and £20,653 59. 2d. in Ireland ;. £31,925
3d. in England, and £21,608 ss. 2d. in Ireland ;
1-- .cfs 0- in n: T-

d,. ss. un. in Engtand, anu ,is. 2d in 1,
and ; and £30,394 Os. sd. in England, and £18,334 6
3d. in Ireland.

BLACK RAIN.—A most extraordinary storm of black
rain fell in the northern part of Worcestershire on Wed-
nesday week, and excited the greatest alarm. For two
hours, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; this extraordinary shower
lasted, and the pools, water-courses, and even the Severn
itself, were completely turned black. The storm extended
over Abberley, Dunley, Stourport, and Bewdley, to the
great alarm of the inhabitants of those places, the air be-
ing during that time completely black. Our informant
(says the Worcestershire Guardian), who describes this
singular phenomenon, states that the rain had a smell as
o► soot and paint mixed, and that any article dipped into
it was blackened. We give this information as we have
received it; it is possible that the rain was charged with
the sooty impurities of the Dudley coal field, which sur-
rounds the districts where the rain fell.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday week five men were
engaged landing some large blocks of marble from a barge
by means of a crane at a wharf close to Vauxhall-bridge,
London. A large block of marble, two tons in weight,
bad just been fixed to the crane, and the men were in the
act of raising it, when the platform on which they stood;
which projects about twelve feet over the river, and six-
teen above it, suddenly gave way, and they were precipi-
tated some into the river and others into the barge. They
were immediately conveyed to the Westminster Hospital,
where they met with prompt attention. One poor fellow
was dead, a second had his thigh so frightfully lacerated
and smashed that in spite of all the remedies used he died
in half an hour; a third had so severe a compound frac-
ture that it is feared amputation will be necessary ; and
the other two are in such a dangerous condition from in-
ternal injuries, that there is little hope of their recovery.

CUSTOMS REVENUE, 1845.—The following (derived
from par:iamentary papers) is the net produce of the prin-
cipal items of customs re,ienne in-the-year ended January
5, 1846:—Butter, £265,017; cheese, £l4O 567; coffee,
£697,220; corn, meal, and flour, 4355,320; currants,
£244,050; molasses (treacle), £167,237; raisins, £156,093;
silk manufactures, 4323,185; rum, £1,145,899; brandy,
£1,187,761; sugar, 43,228.849, exclusive of £345,620 for
Ireland; tea, £4,109;446, besides £723,904 fir Ireland;
tobacco and snuff, £3,274'961. besides 4927,P 9 for Ire-
land ; foreign wine, 41,711,718, besides £179,519 for Ire-
land; deals, battens, &c. 4606.359; timber not sawn,
split, or dressed. £381,158.. Total net produce of customs
duties inwards, in Great Britain, £19,275,313; Ireland,
42,319,512.

PLACES REGISTERED. FOR THE CELEBRATION OF
MARRIAGES —From a parliamentary return just printed.
we find that on the 31st December last the number of
places of religious worship in England and Wales.,regis-
tered for the celebration of marriages, was 2,467, of which
'43 are in Middlesex, 220 in Yorkshire, and 236 in Lan-
_ Classed by religious denominations, s.are fo-
.gn churches, 78 Calvinistic methodists, 267 Armenian
methodists, 195 presbyterians, 599 baptists, and 970 inde-
pendents or congregationalists. In Lancashire the regis-
tered places of worship for marriages, are thus classed de-
nominationally :—Church of Scotland, 3; united secessi-
on
er i 3 a
;
t defined,erian s andll
independentsunitarians,
or 13 ; presby-
n
con-
giegationalists,
G 3; particular or Calvinistic bapti=ts, 10;
general or Arminian baptists, 1 ; baptists not otherwise
th fined, 14 ; Wesleyan methodists, 11 ; new connexion
do., 6; primitive do., 3 ; Wesleyan methodist association.
t Englishot h ePrreigsbeY
8 ; independent inethodists, 1 ; Welsh Calvinistic metho-
dists, 2; Lady Huntingdon's connexion, 3; Roman Ca-
tholics, 71 ; New Jerusalem church, 6 ; Christian Israel-
ites, 1 ; evangelical friends, 1, ; undescribed or of deno-
minations not previously specified, 5 ; total number of
buildings registered in this county, 236.

cashire

CAKES, 45:7C. OF INDIAN CORN FLOUR..—Johnny Cake :
Indian flour or meal scalded, and the dough rolled or
pressed out to half an inch in thickness ;: (looked one side
at a time in front of the fire on a sheet of tin, a plate, or
any material of suitable shape.—Pone Cake: Stir into
one quart of new milk three eggs, sugar to the taste, and
as much Indian flour as will make a moderately stiff bat-
ter, to which add a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda dis-
solved in a little warm milk, and a little lemon peel, or
any other flavouring article. May be baked in tins or
moulds.—lndian Cup' Cake Two cups of Indian and
one of wheat flour, or in that proportion ; mado into a

thin l=atter with milk, eggs, and a little salt ; cooked on a
bakestone.—lndian Cake: Three quarters of a pound of
white Indian flour, three quarters of a pound of white su-
gar, half a pound of butter worked to a cream, and six
eggs, make a very delicious cake.—lndian Crumpets :
Indian flour scald,-.4, and after being made into a thin
batter with eggs and milk, are cooked on a bakestone
same as wheat flour crumpets ; a little carbonate of soda
or barm may be added.—lndian Muffins :. Pour boiling

water into a quart of Indian flair and reduce
batter; when cooled a little, add a table spoonful of h
two eggs well beaten, and a tea spoonful of sal'
a warm place to rise for two hours ; the:-
low tins in a quick oven.
QUARTERLY TABLES Or MORTALITY.—ThCSB tables
for the quarter ending March 31. 1846, have just been
published by authority of the Registrar General. The
returns are obtained from 115 districts, sub divided into
576 sub•districts. Thirty-four districts are placed under
the metropolis, and the remaining Si districts comprise.
with some agricultural districts, the principal towns and
cities of England. The population was 6,579,693 in 1841;
43,768 deaths were registered in the It-
(ending March 31). This number is less I
the number (49,874) registered in the wit
1815. If the increase of the population (of
cent annually) be taken into account, the
also be found to have been less in the lasZ wint
ht precious This marke,.
tion of the mortality occur ain more than two thirds of

atty of the ei

an,
set it in

bake it in shal-

t winter quarter

y 5,16 than
Rr quarter of
;bout 1.74 per

roortahts

the districts from -which returns ata procure
most obvious in the metropolis, in tk

western divisions. In the districts of V
sion alone, of England, the
higher than in the winte

er than in

but is

,e northern divi-

s of 1844 and 184

s consid

d by the registrars to

; and this is
szarlatina is

Tyr.ecnouth, and C

The m

was considerably above the averk, _
of 1838, 1810, 1841, and 1845—and much

n the winter quarters

n the wit

ers of 1843, 1
On

ow the aver-
and 1846
Saturday

REIOCKING OCCURRENCE
t twetit

last a young woman,

trternoon
Id, threw

four yea

her three children from Battersea-bridge into the Thames.
The wretched woman was seen to go upon the bridge with
an infant in her arms, and accompanied by a little 0.1
about four years old, and a boy about seven. When she
got to the middle of the bridge she walked to and fro a
tew yards in a hurried manner, and then threw the chil-
dren one after the other over the railings into the river,
and was getting over the balustrades herself when she «as
prevented doing so by the passers-by, who gave her into
custody. At the station•house she stated her name to be
Eliza Clark, her ace twenty-four years; that she was the
wife of William Clark, a journeyman painter, livino. at
No. 7, Cumberland-street, Msrlboreugh-road, Chelsea,
and that the children were her own. During the time oc-
cupied by the above
on the river to sal'

rtunate OA(

uccessful in o

which were
cid.)