The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 51s 7d I Barley 33s
.2d 1 Oats 18s Od. I Rye 32s scl

Beans.. 295. 7d. j Pease.. 30s. Bd.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &e. this week.
wheatlgs Od I Barley 5s Od I Oats .. . Bs Od Rye.. 105 6d
Beans lls 6d I Pease.. 105 6d I Ind. Corn Os Od 1 Flour lls 54d
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Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. Os. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. od. I Rye.. Is 6d
Beans 3s. Od I Pease 2s. 6d. I Ind. Corn os. od. Flour .. Os 7id
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Liverpool Averages, week ending Ferbnary 13, 1844.
Wheat, 1852 qrs., price 51s. 7d. Oats, 47 qrs., price 18s Od.
Barley, 150 quarters, price 35s ud.

On Saturday last, about two o'clock in the afternoon,
G. Gardiner, of Stretton-upon-Dunsrnore, absconded with
Jane Page, daughter of Mr. W. Page, farmer, of Stretton,
from Miss Kimberley's school, situate at High-street,
Warwick. George Gardiner is about 23 years of age,
and Jane Page is about 13.—Standard.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, Charles Ed-
monds, aged 24, the young man who attempted to dis-
charge a loaded pistol at a pretty young widow named
Matilda Potter, because she refused to accept him as a
lover, was convicted of the offence, and sentenced to 15
years' transportation.
At Bow-street, on Friday, William Lardner, who stated
himself to be a brother of Dr. Dionysius Lardner, was
charged with uttering incoherent language about " the
Prince." He said it was but the " effervescence of the
moment." A legal friend whom he summoned declined
to take charge of him, and he was sent to the St. Martin's
Workhouse tor safe custody.

A string of valuable hor-es, 112 in num.-
at Northallerton fair for the London ma, , con•
vexed to its destination by railAay, on Sa•ur• I ny
special train. They oecupied 35 vans, and a t,t hid
a novel appearance as it shot along at the r ,te t-f 20
miles an hour.—Hull Packet.
A CRACK SHOT.—Mr. Bennett, a young tteriikrnan,
a few days ago, on Plumstead-common, Keto, tnith-rtook
for a wager, to hit 140 penny pieces with a nistni, r-,rowit
up by another individual ; which teat, to the asro,,ish-
went of a number of sporting characters present. tie ac-
complished, without missing a single piece, but with the
ball from the piece doubling the pennies up.
DESTRUCTION Or A SPINNING MILL BY FIRE.—On
Monday evening, between six and eight o'clock. the spin-
ning mill belonging to Mr. Brown Auchterai der, Perth•
shire, was completely destroyed by fire. The fire is
supposed to have originated from the stove being over-
heated. Scarcely any thing was saved. Mr. Brown had
the machinery and part of the stock insured.—Scotch
Paper.

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ACCIDENT TO EXCAVATORS.—On Thursday. at noon,
the earth of a sewer in Upper Grosvenor-street, Grosve-
nor-sq., London, fell in upon five men working below. Two
escaped ; three were buried under the mass. After con.
siderahle exertion the men were extricated from their
perilous situation, and conveyed by the police, on
stretchers, to St. George's Hospital. They are all ex-
pected to recover.

VALENTINE'S DAY.—On Wednesday last, the London
twopenny-post letter-carriers were regaled, at the instance
of the Postmaster-General, according to annual custom,
with beef and bread. As there are upon that day, accord-
ing to the official returns, upwards of 150,000 additional
letters passing through the chief office alone, the men are
furnished with refreshment at the public cost, to save
time in the delivery.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—Some time ago the float-
ing lamp, at Blackwall-pier, having been, as usual at
night, moored with the bude light at a little distance from
the other, an individual walking towards the light fell
into the river and was drowned. This person's life was
insured, it is said, for about £l,OOO, and the office has
given the company notice, that it will expect them to pay
the loss the office sustains by the man's premature death.
—Railway Magazine.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Feb. 16.—A1l descriptions
of raw sugar continue in good demand, and rather better
than 600 hogsheads West India have been sold during the
week at from 60s. to 71s. for low brown to fine chrystal-
ised Deirberaras ; 2,000 mats Mauritius and a few retail
parcels of Bengals have also been disposed of at from 61s.
to 695., and which rates establish an advance of Is. per
cwt. on previous rates. Nothing done in molasses. Ga-
zetted average price of sugar, Feb. 13, is 355. 3:ld. per
cwt.

SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING.—A meeting took place
at Bridgwater, on Friday, for the purpose of forming an
agricultural protection society for the county of Somerset.
The meeting was convened by the High Sheriff. The
radicals of that town and Taunton, with an auxiliary force
from Bristol, aided by the railway, mustered in great
force, and succeeded in carrying an amendment in favor
of the Anti-Corn-Law League. This is, we believe, the
first reverse the agriculturists have experienced. Loud
will be the crowings of the League press.
SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On
Wednesday evening, on the arrival of the train which
leaves Preston at' 6.30 at the station in Bolton, it was
found that one of the passengers in the first-class carriage
was dead. The body was immediately removed to the
waiting-room of that station, where medical aid was pro.
cured,,but it was unavailing. On examination of the ar-
ticles in the pockets of the deceased, it was discos ered
that his name vv,is Abraham Levi Cohen, that he resided
at Hamburgh, was a Jew, and had several acquaintances
in Manchester.

SINGLLAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening Mr.
Payne held an inquest at the City Arms, Hunter-street,
Southwark, on William Birch, aged 49, a costermonger,
residing in Noel-court. On Monday might he was sitting
by the fireside eating beef taken from some peasoup, when
a large piece stuck in his throat. A woman who was in
the room getting his tea ready, seeing him endeavouring
to dislodge something, and observing him turn black in
the face, sent off immediately for a surgeon. Nearl y
every surgeon sent for was from home, and more than an
hour elapsed before he was seen by one—he was then
quite dead.

FATAL OCCURRENCE AT LOCHMADEN.—On Tuesday
several young persons having incautiously ventured upon
the ice on the Kirk Loch, for the purpose of skating and
amusement, it unfortunately gave way, when no less than
five of them were precipitated into the water, three of
whom, melancholy to relate, were drowned, the other two
having with great difficulty succeeded in getting out.
The unfortunate youths that have perished are, a son of
Mr. Paterson, of Locharbriggs, a boarder at the public
school here, a son of William Gibson, slater, and the
other a son of Mr. William Harkness, and a brother of
the two lads who were saved.—Dumfries Standard.
THE TIMES AND THE FIXED DUTY.—The Times is
now advocating a fixed duty, but no longer ago than the
23rd January, 1834, this same Times denounced its pre-
sent hobby in the following unsparing and unequivocal
manner :—" The peculiar grievance of the present impost
may be that it is uncertain, deceitful, and ill-framed, even
for its ostensible purpose; but as to a fixed' duty, it is
neither more nor less than a fixed evil—a fixed discourage-
ment of manufactures—a fixed robbery of the consumer
by the producer—a fixed bounty upon foreign industry,
to the detriment of British—a fixed aggravation of the
burden of the poor laws—a fixed monopoly of subsistence
against the hungry multitude."

Two LIVES LosT.—A most distressing accident oc-
curred at Johnston on Sabbath last. It appears that
soue boys were amusing themselves on the brink of.a
deep quarry-pit sligntry rrozen over, -which is situated
near to the old bridge of Johnston. The bonnet of one
of the boys was thrown by a playfellow upon the ice, and
its owner ventured upon the frail fabric with a view to
recover it, when the ice gave way, and the little fellow
dropped into the water. One of his companions, in en-
deavouring to rescue him, also fell into the deep pool,
and, before effectual assistance could be procured, both
boys sunk below the surface, and perished. We under-
stand that, while endeavouring to recover the bodies, a
man all but fell a victim to his exertions for that end.—
Glasgow paper.
THE LATE FATAL DUEL.—On Monday, Capt. Grant
surrendered to take his trial, as second to Lieut. Munro
in the late fatal duel. He was then indicted for aiding
Lieut. Munro in firing a pistol whereby Col. Fawcett was
shot. The trial was fixed to take place on
Wednesday, and Capt. Grant was conveyed to Newgate,
in custody of an officer. On Wednesday, Captain Grant
was placed at the bar. The Attorney-General stated the
case and said, if the jury believed he was present with the
criminal intention imputed to him in the indictment, it
would be their duty to find him guilty. The evidence de-
tailing the circumstances attending the duel having been
gone through, proving Captain Grant to have been pre-
sent, Mr. Wilkins addressed the court for the defence.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of
not guilty.
THE CIRCULATION OF GOLD.—The following is the
amount of gold coin tendered at the Bank of. England,
together with the amount rejected as light, during the
several years specified :
Amount tendered. Amount rejected.
1836 ..... X 6,427,749 £ 637,565
1837
1838 8,042,733 1,655,201
1839
1840
1841
1842 to } 6,214 439 2,067,091
June 2a ,

We have here a total, tendered at the bank, during six
years and a half, of £59,880,971, while, during a period
of more than twelve years, the amount issued and circu-
lating, in the hands of. the public, was only £30,000,000.

LANCASTER ASSIZE.—The commission for the north
ern division of this county was opened, at Lancaster, on
Saturday last. The circumstances of the Spring Assizes
for Lancaster opening so early as the 17th of February is
considered a novelty, and no little dissatisfaction
has been expressed at the inconvenience to which parties
in civil actions have been subjected by the arrangement.
The following is an analysis of the calendar :—Burglary,
1 ; attempting to poison, with intent to murder, 1;
bigamy, 3 ; manslaughter, 1 ; stealing, 8 ; offences against
the Mint, 2; cutting and wounding, 1: forgery, 1; and
fraud 1. Mr. Justice Wightinan will, this morning, com-
mence the crown business, and, when that is concluded,
will proceed with the civil business. It is expected that
the assizes will terminate on Wednesday or Thursday
next. Tne next commission to be opened for the North-
ern Circuit is that for Westmoreland, at Appleby, on the
22nd instant.

FIRE AT SCARISBRICK.—On Friday evening last, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, a fire broke dut in the farm
buildings of Mr. Thomas Grimshaw, tenant to Charles
Scarisbrick, Esq. The servant-lad had been in one of
stables with a candle, and immediately after the straw
caught fire. The lad gave the alarm and ran away. Mr.
Grimshaw's eldest son rushed into the stable and got the
horses out, their tails being only a little singed. Grim-
shaw's hands and face were severely burnt. The fire
spread to the barn adjoining the stable, which contained
a quantity of wheat in the sheaf, valued at £7O. Ten
tons of straw, part of a bay of oats, and forty bushels of
wheat in sacks, two cart loads of oats, and one of wheat,
much damaged, were saved ; also part of the straw and
two sacks of wheat; the remainder was all destroyed, to-
gether with the stable and barn. The other outhouses
adjoining were saved by the strenuous exertions of the
firemen, and a few others.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—We very much regret
to announce that the Duke of Wellington, on Wednesday
evening, about six o'clock, had another attack of the dis-
order under which he has so long laboured. Upon his
arrival at Apsley-house, he was observed to fall down
upon the neck of h s horse. Two gentlemen passing ran
to his assistance, and he was conveyed in their arms into
Apsley-house. The noble duke was in a state of total
unconsciousness; but we are happy to find that the attack
was only temporary, and that he was able to be pre-
sent at the adjourned debate in the House of Lords.—Sun.
[The duke has contradicted this statement in the
paperfol-
lowing characteristic letter :]
if the editor will
be.
" London, Feb. 16, 1844.
" Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his
s,oI complimentstk wikind
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been in better health for the last twenty years thin
present. He was not on horseoack on Wednesday.
truth in a paragraph of The Times newspaper, of the I6th
headed " The Duke of Wellington." The duke
'illCial instant,
antti tto and returned from the Horse-Guards on foot
ittrongb the streets, followed by his groom with his horse,
which was not roKinted on that day,"

FORGERY.—Lar,e jilt. are exteosively posted in tiris
city and ne,ghbdurtiood, ~fr'r ng a reward tit .E2Ott for the
apprehension of With,tia Sanders and Lydia Sanders, hill
wife, who kcnr a tishrnori;er's shop in Broad-street,
ll.istol, unt I shout the 29 h of last D,cetotier, when
ab-corithil Tit, y are chio.cti with ben concerti,'" '"
the will I or,:eries which are n w under investigation before
the Lord 1-I:ty,r of London; and Lydia Sanders is sus-
. peered as being the party who personated Miss Emig
Slack in the first discovered case.— Bath Chronicle.
1111sERs.-- Ali inquest was held on the 27th ult. in the
pat ish of Lanivet, on the body of Mary Tinny, found dead
in bed. On the jury proceeding to view the body, its
emaciated appearance created a feeling of horror in the
minds of all. The corpse was literally all skin and bone,
and the poor creature had scarcely any coverinl ; just
withid her reach were two cold potatoes, and a broken
cup of dirty water. Deceased had lived with her brother
for the last twenty years, during all which time neither °l',
theta had tasted any animal food, except at harvest ; but
they had lived on barley, potatoes, and warm water raised
together : they had never even tasted a drop of tea, Del-
ther had they spoken to any of the parish. They refused
to work for any one in the parish, but they worked in the
adjoining parish of Lanhydrock. There was found under
the bode, after the woman's death, a bag of sovereigns;
and in different parts of the room was concealed a quan-
tity of silver, chiefly in halt-crowns.—West of England
Conservative.

THE Iftistr DEBATE.—On Thursday evening, white
Mr. Borthwick was speaking, it being dinner time, maul
hon. members left the house, and the numbers on both
sides gradually diminished, until there were at one time
only thirty-two members present, the Opposition benches
being almost wholly deserted. There was an evident disc
position to count out. Two or three hon. members were
observed furtively to reckon hands. The hon. member
for Lambeth (Mr. Hawes) detected what was going for-
ward, and hastened across the floor of the house as fast as
decorum would permit, and having passed the door, rats
down the passage and lobby as quickly as his legs could
carry him, and gave the alarm to some Opposition mem-
bers who were standing below the bar of the House of
Lords, and listening to Lord Haddington. The prompt
attention of some of them to the summons saved from
the ignominious fate of a " count-out" the motion of the
noble lord the member for the city of London, who was
himself absent; and, strange to say, tbere were not half-
a dozen Irish Opposition members present.
DEATH or LORD SIDMOUTH.—This nobleman died on
Thursday last, at the White Lodge, Richmond-park, in
the 87th
th ymeeaorrofthn twelve
haisage,Henyrey.Ars beforeddiurgto his
iNsriscou death
LordntSid
Sidmouth resigned a pension of £3,000 per annum, which
was secured to him by law, and which he might have re-
tained to his last hours; but which. feeling that, from al-
tered circumstances, be no longer required, he thought
it right to relinquish. He had eradually withdrawn from
all public employments, and almost even from honorary
office. From the High Stewardship of Westminster he
retired three or four years ago, and latterly retained only
the situations of one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity*
House, one of the Governors of the Charter House, one
of the Benchers of Lincoln's-inn, and Deputy-Ranger of
Richmond-park. He was Speaker of the House of Com-
mons from May, 1789, to March, 1801 ; First Lord of the'
Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, from March,
1801, to May, 1804 ; Lord President of the Council, I805';'
Lord Privy Seal, 1806 ; and Secretary of State for the
Home Department, from 1812 to 1822.
LORD STANLEY THINKING OF THE DERBY.—The-
Globe of Saturday states that, in the course of Lord Stan-
ley's,
speech, on Friday night, the noble lord afforded-
much amusement to a crowded house by one of those slips
into which the most cool and deliberate speakers are oc-
casionally betrayed, but which Lord Stanley, notwith--
standing Me ardent and impetuous style of his delivery,
seldom commits. The noble lord was about to read an
affidavit made by William
,Kemmis, the Crown solicitor,
respecting the striking out of the Roman Catholics from
the jury panel : " It is signed," said Lord Stanley, " by
William Kemmis, Clerk of the Course," instead of Clerk
of the Crown. The idea suggested was, that the Derby
was uppermost in the noble lord's mind, and therefore
tripped unconsciously from his tongue. The laughter of
the house did not induce his lordship to suspect the cause
of the merriment; and, supposing it resulted from some
error in the power or authority he had ascribed to the
officer by whom the document had been signed, he said,
" I understand that is an error, and that the Clerk of the
Crown was not competent to sign it. However, the error
is not a very serious one." He proceeded with his speech
without knowing the precise way by which he had pro-
voked the cacchinnatians of the crowded benches.

THE BITER, BIT.—On Friday last two young men who
were riding in a light spring-cart upon the London-road,
at Rocky-hill, on passing a countryman leading a spirited
cart-horse, one of them made a cut with his whip at the
horse, which broke away from the man, and went gallop-
ing on the road, followed by the young men, who were
enjoying in anticipation the fun of driving the cart-horse
a mile or two on the road, and the countryman having to
follow them ; but, an unexpected event marred their sport
—the cart-horse turned suddenly up the first cross-road,
and the young men, who were looking back with great
glee, had not the power of preventing their own horse
from following, an unlucky post, however, being in the
way, a collision took place, the horse was thrown down,
the cart overturned, and the young men pitched out, one
upon his shoulder, and the other upon his head, in the
hard-road. Getting up again with sundry " oh's" and
" ah's " and groaning with pain, they now begged as-
sistance from the countryman, who was not such a sim-
pleton as they had imagined. " No, my lads," said he,
" if it had been an accident, I'd helped ye willingly, but
you've only to thank yourselves for your own folly."--
Maidstone Journal.

A MAN. WORRIED' DY A LEOPARD. OD Sunda,
utmarttervvitriv ,Acimment-- vras nausea to
DO%-
ton, by a report that the keeper at the menagerie and
museum of the Star Inn, had been worried by one of the
leopards. It appears, that the unfortunate man, whose
name is Matthew Ferguson, was seen going up to the
menagerie, about half-past seven o'clock on Sunday inur-
ing by one of the waiters. About half-past eight, another
man, who assists in cleaning the room on a Sunday morn-
ing, went into the managerie, and was alone a considerable
time. The keeper not making his appearance, he went
down stairs with the intention of looking for him, but
was informed by the waiter that he saw him come in about
halt-past seven ; it was now about half-past nine o'clock.
The waiter went into the menagerie to look for Ferguson:
he found his jacket and hat in the usual place; and, his
attention being called to.the cages of the leopards, by the
female jumping from a ledge at the top, he observed the
unfortunate man lying dead in the den of the male leopard,
and literally weltering in his blood. The body was found
to be dreadfully mangled about the throat, and the scalp
of the head was nearly torn off. He must have been
seized by the throat, and killed almost instantaneously;
for, had he given an alarm, he must have been heard by
the waiter in the room below. How be came to go into
the den to the leopard can only be conjectured. Fergu-
son was in the habit, for a long time, of caressing the
male, it is thought that he must have gone into the cage
with the intention of teaching the animal some tricks,
after the fashion of Carter and Van Amburgh, as he had
a whip with him, and had carefully fastened the door on
going in.

LIBERATION of MR. oAsTLEß.—Yesterday week,
Mr. Oastler was liberated from his three years and a
quarter's confinement in the Fleet and Queen's prisons.
On the morning of that day, Mr. Joshua Pollard and Mr.
Walker, of Bradford, and Mr. Scholefield, of Raistrick,
near Halifax, went to the proper office, and paid nearly
£3,300. This sum includes about £6OO. for costs, inte-
rest, and sheriff's expenses. Mr. Thornhill has, there-
fore, received the uttermost farthing, and the prisoner,
as we have said, has been locked up three years and a
quarter. The subscription amounts to about £2,500.
Mr. Oastler was conducted to the "Committee-room,
where Lord Feversham and several noblemen and gentle-
men were assembled. He was congratulated by Lord Fe-
versham on his liberation, and when hose to respond,
his feelings for some minutes overcame his powers of
utterance. He began by thanking his friends for their
unexampled kindness, but his words would ill express the
gratitude which swelled his bosom. Ever since he had
know,, anything of principles, he had looked upon the-
British constitution as founded upon God's own book..
He had regarded the church and the state as essentially.
united ; he had regarded a national church, for a national
worship of Almighty God, as a state necessity, as well as
a state's duty ; he had deemed the rights of the crown as
sacred as the rights of the people; and the privileges of
the aristocracy as part and parcel of the public freedom.
I am now," said he, " once more a free man. That
freedom, my lord and gentlemen, I owe to you, and to
those in the country who have broken my bonds. You
have paid dearly, very dearly, for my liberty • but I go
forth with a determination to prove, God willing, that I
am worth the purchase." (Enthusiastic cheering.)
MR. O'CoNNELL.—During the whole of Thursdar
various rumours were afloat in the metropolis respecting
the arrival of Mr. O'Connell. At four o'clock a mob
(composed of several hundred persons), consisting princi-
pally of Irish day-labourers, took its station immediately
facing the entrance of the House of Commons. They
were evidently placed there to receive Mr. O'Connell. In
the interior of the house all was bustle and excitement on
the opposition benches. The ministerial side of the house
was well filled. All the members of the government were
in their places, and the strangers' gallery was crammed,.
At a quarter past five several members entered, and all
eyes appeared directed towards the door. In a minute
afterwards Mr. O'Connell came in, The hon. member,
marched up the body of the houso amidst the cheering of
a few hon. gentlemen on the opposition benches. The
cheering was anything but general. Mr. Huma, Dr.
Bowring, Captain Layard, and Lord Clements did their
best to welcome the " Great Liberator," but, alas ! Mr.
O'Connell must have been sadly mortified. The cheering
was confined to some fifteen or twenty hon. members
with powerful lungs, Dr. Bowring and Mr. Hume taking
the lead. Mr. O'Connell sat in his usual position, by
Dr. Bowring. A short time after sitting down Mr. 1-lun26
advanced, shook Mr. O'Connell heartily by the hand, and
entered into conversation with him. Mr. O'Connell
looked pale, and his spirits are far from buoyant, although
he did his best to appear the " gayest of the throng.
As a proof that this noisy mob was got up for the mere
purpose of creating a sensation in the streets, and that
they knew little and cared less for this " base and brutal''
idol of the whigs, we may state that a party of them mis-
took Sir Robert Peel and his brother Colonel Peel for the
persons whom they were hired to cheer, and exalted their
sweet voices loudly in their favour, as those two gentlemen
walked into the outer lobby of the House of Commons.
After his vociferous supporters had escorted Mr. O'Con-
nell into the house, and were on their return home, they
met the Duke of Wellington, and turned back with him
to the House of Lords, cheering him loudly all the ticno:;
On his dismounting from his horse, they gave him
loud and long buzza. and then, as " the fun" seemed to h 0
to their re44.etive domes.over, separated quietly

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