The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

was attended by a procession of .107 relatives and others

—On Sunday

IGNITION BY THI4 HEAT OF THE SUN
morning last, about 10 or 11 o'clock, a tarpauline was
lying spread abroad in a meadow at Willsley, in the
occupation of Mr. John Wt ston, in readiness for covering
a hay-rick should it be wanted, when it was observed to
have caught fire, from the heat of the sun, in several
places. Incredible as this may appear, it u; a fact. The
tarpauline is rendered utterly useless, being burnt nearly
all over_ It was thrown into a nand. and the fire thus

put out. It is supposed the ignition was caused

something in the oil with which the tarpauline
dressed.—Maidstone J0u,2201.
SIMPLE FILTERING VESSEL.—On a small scale, an
efficient filtering vessel may be formed of a common gar-
den-pot, well burnt, and with holes in the bottom; the
lower part to be filled with round pebbles, then some
smaller pebbles, then some coarse sand, and finally a
stratum of pounded charcoal, three or four inches thick;
the use, in large filters of broken shells interspersed be-
tween the gravel and sand, is a great improvement, inas-
much as the fragments being flat overlap each other, and
counteract the tendency of the sand to settle amongst the
gravel, thus preserving a free percolation through the
lower strata.

DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF LODGING-110USES.—At
an inquest in Bolton, last week, on the body of an, infant,
the mother. in the course of her statement as to the cause
of the child's death (convulsions), said there were three

he room w

. .
pied by men, and she, in the absence of her busband,
sleeping in the same room. The coroner seemed some-
what startled on hearing this, and no less so, when Mr.
Finnegan, the police officer, assurea him it was a mere
trifle, for he knew one lodging-house in which there were
fourteen beds in one room ! men and women sleeping in
ibern as circumstances might justify.
FALL or. RAIN.—The following is stated in The
Bail It r to I-e annual fall of raid at different places in
Gr.:4 Britain and elsewhere :

Inches

Bombay
Cal lit la
Vera Crw.!
Plymouth
Lancaster
Rome

82
81
63 8
44
39-714

Liverpool..
Chatsworth
Edinburgh
London....
Glasgow •

Dover

39 I Paris . . ...
37.52 I Petersburg
36.919 Uleaborg .
I
36-140

Dumfries ..
Manchester

corresponding period of 1845, we find that the outward
tonnage has increased 9,015 tons, being the difference be-
tween 184,371 tons in 1845 and 203 386 tons in 1846. The
outward entries from London in 1845 were 104,216 tons,
against 119,291 tons in 1846; from Liverpool, 57,586 tons
in 1845, against 60,219 tons in 18-16; and from all the
other ports, 32 5E9 tons in 1845, against 33,876 ;n 1846.
The inward tonnage has increased this year 6.952 tons,
being the difference between 202.032 tons in 1845. and
2C8,984 tons in 1846. Of these amounts. London absorbs
Incheß- nearly three-fourths, her entries inwards in 1845 amount-
. 34-119 ing to 147,663 tons, again 4 148.926 tons in 1846; the
• 27-664 entries in Liverpool were 47,417 tons in 1845. and
_ . 24.5 50 338 tons in 1846 ; and in all the other ports were 6,952
23.10 tons in 1845, against 9,720 tons in 1846. The following
. 2l-331 are the ports and places comprised in the returns : namely,
▪ 19-9 Calcutta, Madras, Bombs ,China, Ceylon, Singapore,
• 17-5 Penang. Phillinine I-lands,y Siam, Java, SumAtra, Arabia,
.
Hope, and the South Seas.

THE DUKE I/N A WHIG CABINET.—It is said that the
very queer positina at the Duke of Wellington, as mem-
ber of the Whig sdoinistrotion, is attributable to a be-
nevolent wish, on the part of her Majesty, not to interfere
with the private hobbies of her distinguished subject.
Out of office, the Duke woad be unable to complete the
admirable series of letters, of which so many are now in
the hands of autograph hunters, stating that " the Duke
of Well,ngton is Commander-in• Chief of the Army.
,atterst
of the

office of Commander-in Chief, or of office altogether, and
the stereotyped excuse for non-interference, who can say
what knotty points the well known sagacity of the con-
queror of Napoleon might have been called upon to solve.
PRESENTATION OF A PRINTING NAEPI/NE.—Ort
Monday last, the ceremony of presenting .1 steam printing
Mr. Joseph Barker, a well-known Unitarian
took place at New Wortley. The press was
£4OO, and had been raised by the subscriptions
who admired the principles which he advotated

press to

ued at

press, which I

. ,
religious friends some years ago. The sheet for the fifst
impression of the new press was laid on by Dr. &wring,
M.P., and was taken off by Dr. Bateman, of the Excise
Office, London, in the presence of a large number of
friends ; after which about 200 ladies and gentlemen sat
down to luncheon, under the presidency of Dr. F. R.
Lees, a teetotal lecturer. In the evening of the same day,
about 500 persons, of both sexes, took tea together, in the
saloon of the Music-hall, in Leeds, at which Dr. Bow-.
ring, M.P., Dr. Batemen, and other gentlemen attended.

A PRETENDER EXPOSED.—A most extraordinary
scene occurred on Thursday evening at the City of Lon..
don Literary and t:•:cientifi7. Institution. A gentleman
(Mr. O'G,) who styled himself " B.A. M.D." was en-
gaged by the managers to deliver two lectures on the
Use and Study of History." He delivered the first of
these lectures on Wednesday the 24th ult., and as many
of the members discovered " a marvellous coincidence"
between that and the introductory lectures of Mr. Mc
Cullagh on the same subject, two of the committee, with
the secretary of the institution were induced to bring
down Mr. McCullagh's work last evening, to ascertain
the correctness of their surmises. They then found that
the lecture he was delivering was a literal transcript from
one contained in the work before mentioned. At its con-
clusion he was charged by the secretary with the servile
plagiarism he had endeavoured to impose on the mem-
bers. This he faintly denied, and immediately made hie
xit, pursued by forty or fifty of his audience, till be war

was
tne precincts of Islington. He bad been highly
recommended by the committee of Susses Hall, where ho

naa uenverea tne same lecture some time previously.
The officers of the institution can verify these facts.
MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—George Clarke, one of
the metropolitan police, a division of which has lately
been extended into the royal districts of Ess-x, was mur-
dered on the morning of Tuesday week, while on his beat
—a desolate and unfrequented road near Dagenham. Ho
was met by the inspector at one o'clock that morning,
but was reported absent at three, and his continued dis-
appearance excited considerable alarm. Search was
made, and late on Friday evening his body was found ly-
ing in a ditch about a quarter of a mile from the road, in
a potato field, where he could have no business except in
the pursuit of some person. A policeman's staff was first
found, and then his cutlass sticking in the hedge. His
throat was cut in several places, and there was a deep cat
,t the back of his neck, extending t- tk- -

the spine. The
forefinger of his left hand was also cut through. The
struggle with the deceased must have been of a de.iperate
nature, the corn being trodden down ten or twelve yards
round where the body lay, and when it was disc veered a
large quantity of wheat was found grasped in the right
hand. The deceased had not been robbed, and his money
and watch were safe. He is said to have been a quiet and
inoffensive man, and had not long been in the neighbour-
hood. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday
afternoon, when such evidence was offered as is expected
to lead to the apprehension of the murderers, but the par-
ticulars are not published lest the ends of justice might
be frustrated. It is supposed that he was mistaken for
another officer, who had made himself obnoxious, by his
vigilance, to the low characters of the neighbourhood..
On Saturday, another of the officers of the same division
was killed as he was returning on horseback from Fairlop
fair.

GcrTATro v.—William WilberfPrce
began life as a country gentleman, with an income of
£12,000 a year. He toiled through more than thirty
Sears of Parliamentary strife, payil,g largely, year by
year, the expenses of his warfare with slavery; and died
at last, having just witnessed the triumph of the cause to
which he had sacrificed his life and fortune, and having
just said his last acre! An offer was made to him, at the
close of his career, to purchase for him, by a private sub-
scription, a new estate, as the gift of the grateful British
people. The offer was thankfully bat firmly declined;
though he who refused it had to take shelter under the
roof of his son's parsonage. John Howard spent his
life and fortune in endeavouring to improve the condition

THE WAGES OF

of the most degraded portion of Europe's denizens—the
inhabitants of prisons. John Owen gave up the best
portion of his days in forming and establishing upon a
broad foundation of society, whose benefits will extend
unto—yea, through—" age of ages"—the British and
Foreign Bible Society. Josiah Pratt spent his life and

his strength in rearing an institution which has caused,
highly
and will cause to a far greater extent, " the wilderness to
blossom as the rose," and the heathen to " stretch forth
h
suocfcetshsefuot
oppressed
Missionary Society. Michael Thomas Saddler en-
gaged,teir hands
a unto God "—the
life's
woot"Th e
in
nt h
e cause
factory operatives, and spent his life and strength in en—
deavouring to obtain, and in some degree did
relaxation in the slavish system of toil b

obtain, a
hich they

were ground down ; and to turn to the Eiiihas on whom
the mantle of this Elijah has fallen—Lord Ashley, and
" Honebt John Fielden," are carrying on, con ansore,
that work of true benevolence. These all toiled, or are
toiling, without fee or reward of a pecuniary character,

and without expectation of any return for their labours,
beyond that glorious and indestructible satisfaction which
must inevitably result from doing good. how different
is it with the agitation of the Leaguers! They have
toiled for the benefit of their own class—the millocrats
and moneyed capitalists—a class who are able to pay
largely for success; and now, as a specimen of the wages
of agitation, M. George Wilson is to receive, as a "testi-
monial," ten thousand pounds, and Mr. Richard Cobden
ono hundred thousand ! !—Herald,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The assizes commenced at York on Friday,

The London Gazette of Tuesday announces the ap-
pointment of T. J, Knowles, Eq., as a Deputy Lieu-
tenant for the county palatine of Lancaster.
In consequence of illness
circuit,Mir.JusticaendCmolerr.idsgeeri
W- -J- 6.—Not' has been given thaf
ewaniltl
not be able to take the
Gaselee has been appointed to take his place.

'at Stoke
INCEIESTER, ,ULY
assizes,Captain floiraWkkiletiyngwiilnl
astlarureelndLeireuttoentaanktesheiastotriii:
Bay, Gosport, ahout 14 months ago.— Globe.
The late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was to have
pronounced judgment in the case of the crown jewels of
Hanover on Monday, a cave that has now been several
years pending, anti that probably his death will postpone
the arrangement of for an indifinite time.