The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mrs. Holland, the authoress, died the week before last..
Henceforth English letters to Belgium will only be
charged eightpence, and newspapers are to go free.
The gallant Sir R aiert Sale, G.C. B. the hero of Jella-
lahad, has left t,,wn to resume his military duties in India.
The Duke of Devonshire has contributed £lOO to the
Father Mathew fund.
The Socirty of Innkeepers, London, refused, last week,
to drink the health of the present lord mayor.
JERSEY.—Mr. Carus Wilson has rejected the offer of
the Royal Court to liberate him on his own bail.
PARLIAMENT.—At a privy council meeting on Thurs-
day, parliament was further prorogued to the 4th of Feb.
Sir Henry Pottinger. Bart., was, last week, by command
of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy
Council, and took his place at the Board.
The sub.,cripti,•n to the Rowland Hill testimonial dosed
on Saturday. The amount collected considerably ex-
ceeds .£lO.OOO.
One hundred and two fat cattle were, last week, im-
ported into Hull by the steamers from Hamburg.. The
Emerald Isle, from Rotterdam, also brought 62 sheep.
Five thousand eight hundred and ninety-four p-cks of
onions were, list week, brought into Hull, from Rot-
terdam.

The mayoralty of Tiverton, Devonshire, was this year
was offrred to a man who can neither read nor write. He
had, however, the good sen-e to decline the honour.
A yi.ung lady named Gulliver, daughter of Thomas
Gulliver, Esq., of Bloxliam, committed suicide last week,
by drowning herself in a mill-dam near Banbury.
The Bank of England have given notice that they
will lend money on approved Bills of Exchange at 21 per
cent.

The vestry of Leeds have given £l.OOO, realized by
selling land to a railway company, to purchase garden al-
lotments for the poor.
On Saturday week. John Hobert, coachman to the
Earl of Haddington, was found, with his skull fractured,
lying in the park. A young man named Hannah is
pected.

- Sir James Williams, of Edwinsford, has set the liberal
example in this county, of giving hid ten n's permission
to kill game on their lands, or of inviting any qualified
person they think proper to do so.—Welshman.

DANGEROUS EMPLOYMENT.—The history of Eyam
records the number and mines of forty-one persons, who
have been killed in the mines of that village in little more
than a century. The d.-epest lead mine in Derbyshire is
in Eyam Edge—the " New Engine," nearly 160 fathoms.

" LIVES OP THE ENGLISH SAINTS."—The series of
little works continues in much the same spirit as it com-
menced ; the writers, if there is any d•ffrrence, seeming to
get rather more Popish as they get older.—Tablet, a Ro-
man Catholic paper.

AN ATTORNEY TRANSPORTED.—On Thursday, at the
Central Criminal Court, London, Mr. Bleadon, the at-
torney, was sentenced to sev:n years' transportation, for
having obtained half-a-crown and a pint of wine under
false pretences. The convict was excessively astonished.
A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Saturday night last. Mr.
Green, gamekeeper to J. S. Leacher, Esq., of South
Weald, was wounded by a gun shot. in an attempt to
apprehend a poacher, who escaned_ Mr. Green lies in a
dangerous state.—Essex

HYDROPHOBIA.—A man. who was bitten by a dog,
supposed to be mad, in September last, died last week,
in the d spensary at Wrexham, under all the symptoms
of hydrophobia. Two other men and a girl were bitten
by the same dog. They are under medical treatment.

Mr. Bro sn. a partner of the well known medical prac-
titioner, Mr. Tupper, is about to be united to Miss Me-
redith, who for many years has resided with Miss Burdett
Coutts. This intended alliance has given rise to a report
of the wealthy heiress being about to be married.

Mrs. B 1 mother of the Bishop of Londo died
on Tuesday, at Bury St. Edmunds. His lordship was
exuected in his native town to officiate at the re-opening
of St. Mary's Church. Strange and melancholy to say,
his arrival took place at the moment of dissoludon.
' A man named Cogger pleaded guilty at the Maidstone
Assizes, on Wednesday, of havi. g practised as an attor-
ney at the Maidstone Qqatter Sessions without being duly
qmdified or adm tted to practice in that capacity. Judg-
ment was postponed.

FREE•CHURCH COLLEGE.—Dr. Welch, in a letter,
has announced that he has rbtained £19,000 for this ob-
ject from nintlf en subscribers of £l,OOO each. £20.000
was the sum required, and there is no doubt it wi I he
immediately raised. The College is to be in Edinburgh.
Mr. Parsons, the popular dissenting minister of B Ilan
chapel, Vl le-end.road, unfortunately met with his death
on Friday by fslling down the stairs of his house, when
his bead came in contact with some flower-pots and was
so severely cut as to render medical aid unavailing. He
was only 47 years old.
On Thursday Miss Ellen Richardson, the daughter of
a physician at Brentwood, was held to bail on the charge
of stealing two long hs of a piece of Bros de Naples, the
property of a linen draper at Brentwood, part of some
goods which bad been sent to her lather's house for in-
spection.

On Tuesday I,st an inquest was held at Stockport, on
the body of Eliza Jones, who had beet, killed by her
husband on the previous day.l She was in a delicate state
of health, was the mother of six children (two of whom
only are living), and was far advanced in pregnancy. She
was 34 years of age. The husband has been committed
on a charge of manslaughter.
STRIKE OF THE FISHERMEN.—No fewer than sixty
fishing smacks, belonging to Barking, in Essex, are, at
this moment, lying in the river. a little below Woolwich,
their crews having brought them home from sea, and
struck work. The demands of the men are fnr increased
wages and shorter voynrs. Their present rate of wages is,
men 14s. a week, and mates 16s. They want this to be
advanced 2s. in each case, and the time of 'absence to be
limited to one month.

A Pam? FORrbdeee Tr
at
at
g madet Hocluisihri
(of
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ermev
peoorsastli interestingtcotrsotsfft full
iel
(Eliq7evs;rriYanhaOs
of documents, which have not been examined for these
39 years. Among them are original doeumentsconcerning
the revolutions of 1719, 1772, and 1789. Most of the
documents are written, and some elegantly b fund, and
several have silver clasps. Geyer's third volume of the
papers of Gustavus causes some sensation.
" BETTER TO BE BORN FORTUNATE THAN IiTCH."
It is currently reported at Sleaford. and we believe cos•
rectly so, that a well known millwright (a working man)
of that place, by a recent decision in the High Court of
Chancery, immediately comes into the possession of a
large e►tate near London, of the annual value of £13,000,
as well as arreaas of rent for the same for the last twenty
years. amounting, of course, to the sum of £260,000.=
Lincolnshire Chronicle.
THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE ATWOLVERHAMPTON.—
On Friday, Mr. John Sheriff, Mr. Hildretb, Mrs. Hild-
reth, and Miss Jane Railton, were again brought up ;
and after a few preliminary proceedings, Miss Railton
was fully committed to take her trial for concealing the
birth as principal, and Mrs. Hildretb, Mr. Hildreth, and
Mr. Sheriff, as accessaries. Thee were admitted to bail.
A second clay ge was preferred against Mr. Sherriff, tor
feloniously administering drugs for the purpose of bring-
ing about abortion. Miss Railton was admitted as evi-
dence against him ; and be was committed also on this
charge to take his trial at the assizes. Bail was accepted.
FATHER M ATH EW.—We are told that Father Mathew
is in difficulties. And not one word more can we obtain.
How he fell into difficulties; for what cause, or to what
extent, we are never told. He may be in debt for £5OO,
or for £20,000. He mar have merely become security
for some friend in a bond for £lOOO, or he may have
undertaken to build a new Popish crithedral to the tune of
£50,000. Never before, PO far as we can recollect, were
the public called upon to subscribe to an object without
having she sliehtest information furnished them, even as
to the sum rt gourd !

and on Monday ‘2, ships were
EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL OF SHIPPING AT LON-
DON.—On :Pant the Custom-house. They were from China,
, America, Archangel, France, St. Petersburgh,
Hamburgh,dtNen;ey Dantsic, indeed nearly all parts of the world.
produce has caused a
Last we:k the average arrivals were about 30 a day. Tie
eimmpojeolyismeennut.tribAer
loafrgmeeflneehtavoef
vbeesesnelasblheatioaolbso-
geffreeactt aocftsivuicthy aat vasttbeint Pu7totalntihnoUfse, and at the vaii, us
outwards.
dock,btitiniieuanlint,red

Dee. 3. 1841

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-011 sday night, shortly a ter
twelve o'clock, the warehouse of Messrs. Wits :nand Co.,
of Arundel-law, Sheffield, o anufacturers, was discovered
to be on fire. The fire was discovered about a quarter;
past twelve o'clock at night. With all the exr.i,ins
of
the police and firemen, under the direction of Mr. RaYn°r,
it was nearly six o'clock in the wornitig before the re-
mainder of the property could be considered in a state of
safety., The whole of the extensive warehouse, to vibieli
dpeoerttrineo
yeodf h ,
thete
outer walls,
hs,e tvifire
tij
the
es
sctrerni fie ntietde
re is e a
,en,titt;vell;
standint.

instead of wanting work, have now more than they ate in'
dined to execute. This and s;milar cases are the result
er
THE IRON TRADE .—The men in Stourbridge diatri.cnt,
of the improved condition ot • the iron trade.
activitybranch of
prevailsw hi h which, tuhptihoey
tyexecnetp exception. r
F.
,olefnziul
the
:nrgilretnes.te_e_rset
getting better wages, and, consequently, many of theta
are disposed to do less work. We believe there is not
of
iron work in this district now standing, and the price
iron, iron, of almost every deectiptien, has advanced since
/17
last quarter-day, and has still a tendency upwards.-oer
tester paper,
,•
THE COAL-MINERS —Various circumsteneeg 160,
have recently come to our knowledge, iee indicated
rt. to indica
intention on the part of the -Lanca-hire Colliers' Volute
to cause a general strike ere long ; and we propose to
notice a few facts connected with that agitation which l,
now so industriously fomented amongst the body ofe'nod
ing colliers, with the view of making the publicacco)3intLie
feature of this agitation is the proposal by the
with the object 01 this intended strike. The ren arksuif
coats,miners
by
yo theircont
contracting
employersand to
diminishing
force a rigethiel stuhpep
ily)rice eve °
tot he
public, and then to allow the coal-miners to shave t
them the profite which would re ult from this artifice!
scarcity and consequent de .roe-s of an article which, s'
this season of the year, may be termed a prime necessl
of life. It may be said that we are not fairly repre'en`:
ing the views and objects of the coal-miners ; and 01
they have no intention either to induce, or, by a r"Tin
strike, to coerce the masters into a general combinatlett
for the avowed object of making and keeping coals deer.
Manchester Guardian.
THE LIFE OF AN OUTCAST.—A boy, named Virstleg;
who draws crowds together it. the streets of Lon em,
l
standing owhis head on the -pike cf an iron railmg, tcea
on Saturday, at Marlborough-street, charged with slo'
ing on his head on the railing. of St. James's Chute
He expressed a great dread of the workhouse, and said he
preferred a prison ; and on being a-ked by the Magistrates
how many times be hod been in prison, be hue replied:"...
"Ted yer worship the whole lot. First of all Ig it sett
days in Coldbath fields for begging. Ven I come out
gave up that dodge, and stole a penny loaf, and got a fort'
night at the mill. Next, me and my partner stole sntea
horranges, and the beak gray a month apiece at Tothill-
fields. Arter that got seven days fir jumping Jim Crow'
Arter that two months, cos a pleasmaa cotched me by this
scruff of my neck, and I hey a stone. at him, not mi-see,
him and hit a boy behind a slap on the nose. Next so'
three veeks at Horsernonger, for notink as I know
Arter that 305., or three veeks at the New Prison, f'r
breaking 'cinders, cos they chucked water over me; sad
that's all, except this here. which is either Brixton or the
verkhus, vot yer vership pleases."—This history of con-
victions was given without the slightest hesita ion, an
as a matter of course. Mr. Hardwick gave the boy thecl
option of making his election between a prison warn e'
Marylebong workhouse, as he appeared to have.a settle-
ment in that parish. The boy, after a short pause, de-
cided on giving the prison another trial.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.— During Sunday week a robber 9
took place at the bank of Messrs Rogers. Oldine. and
Co., St. Clement's-lane, and notes and gold to the awe"'
Of £40,000 were stolen. It appears that the money "9
deposited in the iron safe; and, as usual, a clerk was ap-
pointed to witch over its safety during the day, and an°'
'her clerk to perform the like duty during the night.. One
of the partners remaining at home on Sunday, the day
clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours, vale!
wa., granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening the
other clerk came, and remained during the night; hot
when business wes resumed on Mrneae, and the iron paie
opened with the ordin try key, it was fueled entirely emetY;
and yet no force whatever had been used to rid the che,c
of its valuable contents. Of course, all is coejeciure
upon the subject. Notes to the amount of £35.000 have
been stopped at the Bank. It is a remarkable circumstance
connected w th this robbery, that on the morning ot M 0";
day, when it was first discovered, there was no exteinl
appearances from which suspicion could be entertained
upon entering the office that any robbery had been perpe-
trated, or atremi tat robbery had been made. Every thing
was in its accustomed order; the iron safe in which the
cash arid securities wet,• regularly deposited was locked,
arid the iron chest in white it was usual to deposit the
master-key of the safe, to which there were two locks'
was also secure. A large handbill was issued on Monday:
containing, the particulars of the stolen Bat k of England
notes, which amount altogether to' £40,710. Of ttifse
hank notes there ate 168 for £5, 40 for £lO, 37 for .E2O,
10 for £3O, 12 for £49. 9 1 r £53, 10 for £100,5 for £2OO,
1 for £5OO, and 35 'or £lOOO. The handbill states that
further particulars of the bills of exchanee will be etli
Hatred, and that whoever give su information as Wu..
lead to the apprehensi. n of the guilty patty or parties, °:,
either of them, and recovery of the property, or any or:
thereof, shall receive £3,000 reward, or a part therrart
proportionate to the sum which shall be recovered. f
THE CORN TRADE.—The arrivals in the Thameseut
wheat since the last market-day have been again lerge,
as the principal quantity of them is from Spalding, Bus'
ton, and otner places of shipment in Cambridgeshire and
Linc,loshire, the Mark-lame enrn-fectora have recsiv,d
but little, if any, benefit from this circumstance. These
wheats have been purchased under the new Sir Robert Peel
principle of commerce at the ports of shipment, as being
the cheapest markets, at prices below mediocrity, by the
London town millets, and therefore commissions of mid-
dlemen have Bien saved on there transactions. These
gentlemen, following out this modern system of com-
merce, as FOOll as they have converted into town-made
fleur there wheats of north country growth, will most iv':
tut-filly send their manufacture for sale into the dearest
market, which is always found by them in the Britiaii me-
tropolis, because there, and nowhere else, are the Prices ,
of fancy of household bread regulated and fixed by the
millers themselves. Whilst, therefore, the farmers of Lin-
colnshire and of' Cambridgeshire are receiving for their
wheats prices scarcely equal to the expenses of the pr()
duction, even on new and on alluvial soila, the inhabitants
of this populous metropolis receive not the slightest
fit from the depressed prices ut which British wheats are
now selling everywhere throughout the united kingdom.
From all quarters the intelligence received in Loodoil
within these last few days, is far from being favourable to
the British agricultural interest. From many of the coon'
try markets inferior qualities of the last wheat crop sou
ruinously haw prices are universal subjects of corny's°
whilst from abroad, purchases ot uncommonly fine foreign
wheats are weekly now announced for shipment to this
country, as soon as the navigation becomes practicable'
As scarcely any old wheat of British growth remains, is
this country, if the corn trade was now in a wholesome
and in a natural state, a prospect at all events of better
times, after the conclusion of this most unfortunate year'
would at present cheer the spirits ot our wheat farmers;
but with little short of half a million of quarters of foreig°
wheat already bonded in this country. arid with the cer-
tainty of large importations from the Baltic, from the Me-
diterranean, from the Canada., and from the. United States
of teorth America. as soon as shipments can be made With
safety to the cargoes, little chance indeed exist of more
prosperous times. It is perfectly unnecessary her.• for us
even to ailude to the condition of the great mass of the
agricultural labourers, for it will be difficult indeed, under
further depression in the core trade, to render it worse
than it now is.—Me. rainy Post.

e:attt d2l,
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—Perhaps one of the most aft
fecting suicidal tragedies that has happened in the metro-
polis for many years occurred on Monday at, a very earl,'
hour.hari
ea s dwelling
sDo
ru) kaentdt
Ea nu az,c,be
eo
tuhn tiavni;
No. 9, Raven-row, Mile end, viz., the self dest,uetion
hams, aged 22, lovers, from the eff-cis of prussic aria'
Charles
Du tf a Mr.
It appears that for upwards of n;ne years the unit), taw°
young pereotis who have fallen a sacrifice by their own
hands were closely attached to each other, and were nol
known to have quarrelled. On Sundae attern,on they ba
tea at Mr. Dackett's house, and took their departure at
about halt-past five o'clock, at the same time stating 00,1
they were going to church; at which period they seeme,
in excellent spirits.- The evening wore on, and OW'
o'clock having arrived, the usual time for their rea'
having passed, the family became somewhat alarmed'
Soon afterwards two brothers of the ill-fated girl visited
Mr. Duckett, and inqu'red if his son or their si-ter
been seen, ate having rot made her appearance, and th:
lateness of the hour induced them to think that they ha
met with some accident. Unpleasant feelings of alai
were then felt by all. Messengers were despatched
round the vicinity in search of them, but without avail
At last, b-tween one and two o'clock, whilst Mr. Durice'tl
was searching about the house, in the hope of Midis!,
some letter which would mention where they were rai,e;
be discovered that la's son's bed-room was fastened on t"
inside, the key being in the door, It being surmised tbs
he bad returned unknown to the family, and retired to
rest, the door wee broken open, and there, perhaps, ono
o
of the most saddening scenes that could be imagined wo
presented to a parent. The bodies of the young couP
were stretched on the bed, life having been extinct sPeri
rently for some time, with their arms round each' otheYb
neck. Cups were found on each of their sides, will,
smelt of r nissic acid, as also two bottles on the rotl,
piece, which had contained that deadly poison. nt
Dacre, a surgeon of Mile-end-toad, was promptly qo
for, who pronounced them to have expired from "14
effective poison. As the bodies lay, it appears they rale
have sat on the end of the bed when they committed !",.,
act, and fallen back. The poor girl's features were
prepossessing. "It is our last wish that this letterowi
delivered into the hands of the above lady. Such is F,/
final request, and whosoever may find this, we or,lY toe
may give the same to her."—E. W., C. U. D. cb
handwriting is that of the young man, and displays 10,1141
firmness, being clear in the extreme. The borders ,;95
apparently been inked by one of them ; the letter
sealed with black was, with the following motto;ea
Absence pains but cannot altar." No idea can be form
0,
by the families of the deceased of the cause of the 'idle
rable occurrence.' Their parents move in the 11,1,,5is
ranks of society. The letter addressed to Miss Char,7er.
was found to contain two ep,st les both addres-ed tt
One was a piece of poetry in twenty•fonr verses. ,titen
title is, "The Last Lay of Two Broken Heath-; wr,lbitt
and composed by C. U. D."
The letter states, ,d be
ere she (Miss C.) had received that epistle they w 01,1!,,,
in the sweet sleep of death. Fate had marred his 10'",or
this world. He was prepared to leave it, and shet
al'
whom he had lived had told him, ' If you die with", of
you will be my murderer,' and to use the words of 'o
J3tie Grey, ' Death had no he rors. ' Both product
had deep black borders round them.