The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

PROPERTY TAX, CLAIMS OF EXEMPTION.—It is
im-
portant that it should be known that persons entitled to
exemption as not possessing incomes of £l5O a year, and
who desire to claim repayment of property tax, for any of
the three years to the sth of April, 1851, must forward
their claims to the surveyors of taxes for the districts in
which they respectively reside, on or before the 10th of
October next, otherwise the claims will not be admitted.
ROMANTIC SELF-DEVOTION.--Karl Schurtz, a former
pupil of Professor Kinkel, who with most untiring devo-
tion at length succeeded in liberating the latter from his
close confinement in the Prussian fortress of Spandau,
has been recognised near the Rhine,in female habiliments.
Schurtz, animated by the hope of turning it eventually to
the liberation of his beloved teacher, learnt the trade of a
blacksmith, and afterwards apprenticed himself to the
smith employed in Spandau. Alter upwards of a year's
time he in this manner accomplished his aim, at the
peril of his own life.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning an
accident of a most frightful character took place on the
premises of Mr. Keatley,soap manufacturer, Bermondsey,
to a man named John Murphy. The unfortunate man
was engaged, with other workmen in the manufactory, in
preparing a large quantity of boiling ley, and while walk-
ing across a plank on the side of a copper he slipped, and
fell into the boiling liquid. His screams soon brought his
companions to his assistance, and with considerable diffi-
culty he was extricated in a most shocking condition, being
scalded to a fearful extent.

FRUITS OF FREE TRADE IN CORN, AND THE SUS-
PENSION CF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—There arrived
in Falmouth harbour on Sunday, twenty vessels to await
orders, all charged with foreign corn, and one of them—a
Russian ship—having no less than 21,248 Winchester
bushels of wheat, the freight of which is 10d. per bushel.
Of these 20 vessels. 16 are foreigners—four only are
English. This has been about the usual proportion of
arrivals of English and foreign vessels during the past
twelve months. Will our blind legislators desist from
their present course, or will they wait until the British
farmer and the British shipowner are ruined ?
A COSTLY DISPUTE ABOUT A PORTRAIT.—In 1849,
Mr. Snare exhibited, having previously exhibited in Lon-
don and other places, an alleged portrait of Charles I. by
Velasquez. The trustees of the Earl of Fife seized upon
the portrait, which they stated had been stolen from their
collection. After keeping it for some time they returned
it ; and this week Mr. Snare recovered from them, in the
Edinburgh Court of Session, £lOOO for the loss occasion-
ed by the retention. Among the witnesses examined
were Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.A., Mr. Boner, R.A.
and Mr. Harvey, R.A., who gave it as their opinion that
the picture was not a genuine Velasquez.

MISS SELLON'S SISTERS OF MERCY.—The sisterhood
appear to have now fully established themselves in Bris-
tol ; for, in addition to the house in Harford's-court,
they have recently taken the large residence in Park-row,
adjoining that of J. Howell, Esq., J.P. This makes the
fourth place which they have taken in the city and neigh-
bourhood of Bristol, viz., the house in Park-row, the
house in Harford's.court, two rooms in Lower College-
green, and a house in Brislington. Park-row wonld seem
to be their head-quarters, as sleeping accommodation for
twelve sisters has been prepared there. It is said that
Miss Sellon's father and some friends recently visited her
in Bristol, for the purpose of inducing her to return to
her family (who are of the highest rank and respectability),
but their efforts were unavailing.—Bristol Journal.
TIIE PEACE CONGRESS.—An assemblage of persons
calling themselves a Peace Congress, has filled Exeter-
hall two or three days this week. The annual concourse
appears to increase in quantity, but not in quality. The
lions present were few, and, when trotted out, refused to
roar. In fact, with the exception of the distinguished
savant who filled the chair, Mr. Cobden seems to have
had it all to himself. Far be it from us to let fall a dispa-
raging word against persons who think it worth while to
meet and declaim against wooden soldiers and penny
trumpets in the peaceablest metropolis of the peaceablest
age which the world has ever seen. If the practice of
international duelling can be put down by such harmless
means, so much the better. A meeting of a more purpose-
like sort, for promoting missionary enterprise and erecting
a bishopric in Borneo, was held at the Hanover-square
rooms on Thursday.—London Guardian.
DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM.—On Tucsclay last one
of those fearful hailstorms, accompanied with thunder and
lightning, which have lately proved so destructive in vari-
ous parts of the country, broke immediately over the
boundary line between the counties of Nottingham and
Derby, on the Erewash line of railway. Shortly after 3
o'clock in the afternoon two heavy clouds, one from the
south and the other from the south-east, met apparently
just over the village of Sawley, and immediately after-
wards large hailstones, mingled with heavy drops of rain,
fell in torrents, deluging the streets, and beating down
the crops in the neighbourhood. Four yearling calves,
the property of Mr. Parkinson, were killed by a flash of
lightning ; and the electric fluid, passing down the chim-
ney of a cottage, shattered to splinters some bedsteads
that stood in the corner of a room, broke all the windows
in the place, and caused other considerable damage. At
the neighbouring villages of Sandiacre, Breaston, and
Wilsthorpe, the storm was equally violent, five cows, also
the property of Mr. Parkinson, being killed. At Draycot
the lightning killed a fat cow belonging to Mr. Timson,
and a vivid flash darting down a chimney in the house of
Mr. Smith, butcher, set a bed on fire. At Sandiacre, 9
acres of grass land, never before under water, were inun-
dated ; and at Stapleford a valuale young cow, belonging
to Mr. Burton, farmer, was destroyed by lightning. At
Cuckney, near Worksop, a village some miles further in
the north, a servant employed by Mr. G. Swift, of Nor-
ton, was holding her hand on the door-latch of Mr.
Smith's house, when she was struck by the electric fluid ;
she became insensible, arid was unable to speak until the
following morning, hut is now partially recovered. On
the London-road, near Cavendish-bridge, a horse, which
was drawing a chaise containing a lady and gentleman,
was struck by lightning, its eye was burst, and its forelegs
were broken. The animal was immediately shot ; the
persons in the chaise sustained no injury. The water in
the Trent, near Long Eaton, rose three feet during the
storm, but subsided to its former level soon after the rain
and hail had ceased falling.
THE EASTWOOD MURDER.—Sarah Barber, the woman
condemned to be executed to-morrow (Wednesday)
morning, the 6th inst., in front of the County Gaol,
Nottingham, for wilfully poisoning her husband, Joseph
Barber, on the 24th of March last, since her condemna-
tion has become extremely penitent, and appears disposed
to confess to the crime with which she is charged.
Indeed, it is understood that already she has divulged
some particulars, sufficient to satisfy her prosecutors and
the jury as to the correctness of their conclusions ; but.
the precise nature of these disclosures, as well as of any
others that may subsequently be made, will, by command
of the High Sheriff, be kept strictly secret until after the
execution. The chaplain to the gaol (the Rev. W. But-
ler) and the Rev. H. W. Plumptre, rector of Eastwood,
the parish in which the culprit has passed the greater
part of her life, are in constant attendance upon her, and
by their exhortations to repentance and scriptural teach-
ings appear already to have wrought a marked change in
her behaviour. Previously she was frivolous in her man-
ner, and extremely indecent in her language, in conse-
quence of which, previous to her trial, she was placed in a
solitary cell. The unfortunate woman, who is but 23
years old, has passed through a strangely varied existence
from the time she was a child ; nevertheless, she is good-
looking, and her manners appear prepossessing. She has
ever been remarkable for her unusual stature, her gaol
admeasurement now being slightly over 6 feet 11inch.
It having been by mistake announced that the execution
would take place on last Wednesday, instead of to mor-
row, and this having been copied into the newspapers, thou-
' sands of the people of Nottingham on Tuesday afternoon
thronged the front of the county gaol, where they re-
' mained till nearly midnight, in spite of all the efforts of
the police to disperse them, or persuade them to go home.
The early train on Wednesday brought into the townmany others from a distance, all boomed to disappoint-
ment. No female has been hanged ip Nottingham since
1802, and only two others during the .esstairy previous,
consequently the excitement in anticipatson pt: the event
is very great, and grave fears ars? ,entertained as to the
,consequences to some of the matitiude from th.g vast
' te.Amd that will no doAi.blt Assemble 00 pccasion.

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A-striking instance of the results of competition in rail-
ways hasjust occurred in Leeds, Where the Midland and
Great `Northern are struggling in a most extraordinary
manner'for the exhibition traffic. The consequence is,
that on 'Tuesday the third-class fares from Leeds to Lon-
don and back were only 4s. 6d. by the Great Northern,
and ss. by the Midland, with a prospect of a still further
reduction, each company having announced its determi-
nation to be sixpence lower than its competitor.

*JENNY LIND AND THE " HIGHEA LAW."—A friend
has handed us a private letter, received from a correspon-
dent in Boston, in which we find an anecdote in the his-
tory of the fair songstress that shows her to belong to the
"higher law" school of moralists. The correspondent
writes :—" Every day I hear something new of Jenny
Lind, which increases my admiration of her. A Swedish
captain, a pious man, who went with me to her concert
last evening, told me that when she was last at Stockholm
she was required to sing on the Sabbath, at the King's
palace, on the occasion of some great but not religious
festival. She refused, and the King called personally
upon her ( in itself a high honour), and as her sovereign
commanded her attendance. Her reply was worthy of
herself,—' There is a higher King, sire, to whom T owe
my first allegiance,' and she peremptorily refused to be
present. God be praised for her pure and exalted ex-
ample.—Springfield (U. S.) Republican.
NEW ACT RELATING TO LANDLORD AND TENANT.—
A new act came into force on Thursday last (14th and
15th Victoria, chap. 25), to improve the law of landlord
and tenant in relation to emblements, to growing crops
seized in execution, and to agricultural tenants' fixtures.
It enacts that, on the determination of leases or tenan-
cies under tenant for life, &c., instead of claims to emble.
ments, the tenant should continue to hold and occupy
such farms or lands until the expiration of the current
year. Growing crops of the tenant seized and sold undqg
an execution shall, in default of sufficient goods and chat-
tels of the tenant, be liable for the accruing rent ; " not-
withstanding any bargain and sale, or assignment, which
may have been made or executed, of such growing crops,
by any such sheriff or other officer." A tenant may re-
move the buildings and fixtures erected by him on a
farm, unless the landlord shall elect to take them. Fur-
ther, it is provided that on a tenant quitting the place,
leaving the tythe rent charge unpaid. the landlord may
pay the same, and recover it from the first named tenant
as if it were a simple contract debt. The act, which is
not to extend to Scotland, contains five clauses.
Mas. HICKS.—The forcible removal of the vendors of
cakes and other small luxuries from Hyde-park, ordered
by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, when con-
templating the Exhibition, has been an occasion of much
distress to many of the poor people who had long sub-
sisted on the trade. Among others was a Mrs. Hicks, of
the " White Cottage," whose history is somewhat re-
markable. About a century ago her grandfather assisted
in extricating George 11. from the Serpentine, and, as a
reward for this service, he was permitted to have a stand
in the Park, which he kept for sixty-nine years. Her
father occupied the stand forty-nine years, after which
she came into possession of it. She had been allowed to
erect the " White Cottage," from which, after many
struggles to remain, she was finally ejected in November
last. The Commissioners agreed to allow her ss. a week
for twelve months. Reduced to extremities, she has of
late been attempting to hawk her eatables in a basket near
the Crystal Palace, for which violation of the new stand-
ing order she was, on Wednesday last, brought up at
Marlborough-street. The poor old lady told a piteous
story of her losses, and was only with much difficulty made
to comprehend that she had done wrong. On her reluct-
ant promise not again to sell cakes in the Park she was
liberated.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
--An accident of a very shocking character, by which an
unfortunate man was literally decapitated, occurred on the
London and South-western Railway on Thursday after-
noon, within a short distance of the spot where the poor
fellow was killed on Friday week. From inquiries made,
it appears that on that portion of the railway lying between
the Vauxhall station and the goods deceit at Nine Elms,
a number of men have been ern ployedinrefixing or examin-
ing the plates. Among the number was a man who was
called "Butcher." and while he was attending to his
dutics on Thursday afternoon the 2.25 p.m. train came
down the line. The engine-driver having given the signal,
the man stepped from the down to the up line, and the
train passed along without doing any mischief, when almost
instantaneously afterwards an up-train was perceived
within a few yards of the man. The engine-driver at once
sounded the whistle, and the guards applied the breaks
vigorously, hoping to stop the train, but it was found
impossible, and the engine struck the man with such
violence as to throw him across the metals, when the
wheels of the locomotive and carriages passed over his
body, literally decapitating him, and covering that portion
of the line with blood. The passengers in the train who
witnessed the occurrence were most painfully excited. The
deceased has left a widow and two children to deplore his
untimely end.

THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The appearance of
this apartment has been considerably improved since the
last occasion upon which the house sat there, and it has
now a splendid appearance. No amount of decoration
can, however, atone for the mutilation of the noble cham-
ber by the deprivation of half of the windows, and the
concealment of the beautiful archwork which formed the
end of the hall. The ugly new roof which accomplishes
these two purposes has been ornamented with shields,
painted into compartments, and with smaller shields
affixed at the crossings of the wood-work, and a gilded
and coloured row of similar adornments, with the bearings
of these kingdoms, runs along above the windows. What
is left of these latter has been filled with coloured glass,
on which are largely blazoned the arms of our principal
cities and boroughs. The galleries have been widened,
and a more compact appearance has thereby been given to
the house. The seats for the members are now perma-
nently fitted up with dark green seats and backs, and the
curious little pens which stood near the members' entrance
have been exchanged for comfortable looking benches.
The two tints which strike the eye upon entering the
house are the dark brown panelling and the dark green of
the long rows of seats ; the general effect, therefore, is
very sombre, but not unpleasing. There do not appear at
present to be any arrangements for lighting the chamber
artificially. It is just to state that the object for which
so much of the architectural beauty of the hall has been
sacrificed appears to have been obtained, and that the
voices of the speakers are nearly as audible as in the plain-
looking, but, acoustically considered, excellently con-
structed building at present in use.—Morning Chronicle.

SANITARY REFORM A VITAL QUESTION.—That we
should find even now, as we do, " educated" persons
scoffing at the requirements of sanitary- science, and
denying all belief in the„ importance of the subject,
affords a striking example of the strength of prejudice
and ignorance. The insidious destroyers of life are not
visible, and so they are permitted to roam abroad, and all
the pain, misery, death, and guilt which they produce are
ascribed to " Providence :" the saving of life and sor-
row effected by caging them is not immediately obvious,
and therefore it is denied. Yet the evidences are so
numerous and powerful that there surely ought no longer
to be two opinions on the subject. The next generation
will not believe it when they are told, that a Chancellor
of the Exchequer in this has said, " Sanitary reform is a
humbug." Demonstrate as we will to some minds, it is
all useless : we must wait for their children. If we were
to get rid of our graveyards ; form paved ways and imper-
meable roads ; build our houses to live in, and not to
sell; give constant supply of water, light, and fresh air;
it may be safely asserted we should reduce to half the pre-
sent mortality of towns. We have said this for years;
we said it when there were fewer to say it than there are
now, and the experience of each succeeding year more
fully confirms the truth of the statement. To raise the
moral and intellectual character of the people while they
remain in their present physical debasement is impossible'.
Grown in dirt, and kept in dirt, how can we expect to
wash the earth from their souls and lead the spirit sky-
ward ? To raise the masses in the scale of social order,
we must first give them, after the means of getting their
bread, light, air, water, and a decent dwelling. Let us
earnestly exhort those who have long fought the good
fight against filth and ignorance to persevere to the end.
—The Builder.
AFFECTING INCIDENT.—III a late number of the
Knickerbocker Magazine is an anecdote of childish hero-
ism, which will go straight to the hearts of parents :
" You are fond of telling stories of children (writes H. F.,
an old friend and contributor), of their loves, rogueries,
and heroism. Let us make an addition to your stock of
tender anecdotes. A hearty, generous boy of my acquaint-
ance, between six and seven years old, in a neighbouring
town, was afflicted with a dangerous chronic disease that
rendered a surgical operation necessary. The little fellow
bore his periodical attacks bravely, but his parents saw et
each return his sufferings increased, until at last, yielding
to the advice of the attending physician, they consented
that their darling should undergo the operation, although
they knew that it would be at the peril of his life. The
father told his boy that he must submit to a dangerous
and painful operation, and asked him if he would, for his
mother's sake, consent. The little fellow replied that he
would do as his father requested, but he must allow him
to name his own time. Nothing more was said to him,
but at the end of a week he said to his father, Now lam
yvv,aspapa;
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students and assistants. The preparations were all made,
the child was undressed and a loose gown put over his
tolettiltehesteurgoepoenra,tewhoon
cma teo -amt
toe rnrdoewd. '
by Nhoi -s
tr
iecaed
shoulders, when he was taken into the room where the
operation was to be performed. He saw the tub placed
under the table to catch his blood, and permitted himself
without a murmur, to be laid upon the board, and volun-
tarily stretched out his little arms to be bound. The
sponges were placed around his body; then, looking up
to his uncle, he said—'Now tell my papa and mama to go
out of the room, and I shall be ready." His parents were
already gone, and would be distressed by his cries. But
he uttered no cry. Ether was administered to him and
the operation was performed. But the little hero never
again opened his eyes to bless those whose happiness was
bound up in his existence."

IMPORTANT FAMILY MEDlClNE.—Frampton's pill of
health effectually relieves the stomach and bowels by gen-
tle relaxation, without griping or prostration of strength.
They remove headache, sickness, dizziness, pains in the
chest, &c., are highly grateful to the stomach, promote
digestion, create appetite,' relieve languor and depression
of spirits; while to tbSse of a full habit and free livers,
who are continually/suffering from drowsiness, heaviness,
and singing in ifie head and ears, they offer advantages
that will not to be appreciated. Sold by all venders
of medicines. Price Is. 1-1(1. per box. See the name of
"Thomas Prout, 229, staxld lion4op," on the govern-
ment stamp.

CHESHIRE NEWS'
ofMr. Tonemaehe, M.P. for South Cheshire, hag
off, for the remainder of the Session, with Mr.lte:
CHESTER CENTETERY.—The first interment in' took
senters' burial ground in our beautiful cemetetigoillt
place on Monday last, when the Rev. Riehe_mrd t
l
minister of the Independent Chapel, Queen-sntee
elated at the burial of Mr. J. Hope's eldest de"
Chester Courant'. ee,„
CHILD DESERTION.—On Tuesday night, "
child, neatly attired, was-found inside the doorvoll) 118,
Allen's beerhouse, in Chester-street, Birkenheseholti
infant was wrapped in a shawl. The child was district'
over to the charge of the relieving officer of the
The unnatural parent has not yet been discoveredwoorit,
DARESBURY PETTY SESSIONS. -- willlam, eetoot
charged with being drunk and disorderly, in the s'irepe*
Runcorn, was fined ss. and costs. This man has 600
wh
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cl
ley
hCseohwaies
aet
ser Chronicle edly been brought before the magistrates 00 goott
fajb
charges, and there were then three fines standing,eBlo.
him. He paid the sum of £1 7s. 6d., and was iseeott)
has befallen a man working at the lead works thiroic),
the first place he was stunned by a piece of weeu'ofi.
upon the revolving saw himself, his head was at
open. No hope is entertained of his recovery• means of tii within
ia flying
ia Toe ahCilsi
face, and
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details a frightful accidente.
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INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—SOMe WOrkinen Ogle
by Mr. Evans in digging a cellar near the Esell,Bl,lllePth
week, exposed several large blocks of stone at `",,,eot &fir
of eight feet, and among them one with an .8,11,,.- of':
scription, which induced Mr. Jones, the proPrie";, Pt;
house, wisely to preserve it from harm. It oerti'
the Rectory of St. Mary's and turned out to be a,h
preserves
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seems to have exercised his profession in the Rernaerlitllh
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Chester Courant. u ead
PROPOSED NEW DOCK ON THE DEE.—We
that the Shropshire Union Canal Company (w-no-c
connexion with the London and North-Western '74
Company) have taken from the River Dee Coon to
the river frontage from the Sluice-house uP
eluding Moss's-crane, at the corner of Crane-e''iner tb".
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look business-like.—Chester Chronicle.
RUNCORN.—James Perry, Richard Arnastronfo,
Robert Leyland were charged, on Tuesday last, ,he-r
magistrates, with having, in company with two et- got;
not in custody, committed a violent assault uPe°
.pef
Pendlebury, a servant in the employ of the 13,1.1,Ac
trustees. The defendants were chainmakers,
ployed by Mr. Hammond, who had become batik, r; siocer
had been discl,sarged on Friday last. A short ""3„t-ed 0
the plaintiff, in pursuance of orders, had Preve- otigo
defendants from bathing in the canal,. and they' bra
revenge, had assaulted him in a most savage °ns.
ao
manner on Saturday night. Fined severally forty
costs, and, in default, committed to Knutsford'
toot
months. hopor:"
SANATORY INQUIRY AT SEACOMBE.--Ane -gegCO'hi
inquiry relative to the sanatory condition 0, il-nteb,;',/'
took place on Thursday, at Parry's Seaconahe "tern,
fore Robert Rawlinson, Esq., one of the superi!l
inspectors appointed by the general board °tip fit;
Several of the leading gentlemen of the toss.° tololiir
present, and in the course of a long conversation -001:
nicated a good deal of local information to the,c polo
sioner bearing on the sanatory condition' of tilted tLiii
bourhood. Ultimately, the commissioner intir„,-0150
he would attend again on Saturday, and nle',l" tko,"tbo
acquainted with the district. He sugeote:,. of
should be armed with a letter to Lord Seyineul 'ram
Woods and Forests, complaining of the nuisaneisei ber
Hassell said the matter would have to be brongt. 00'1)
tern° 01
the commissioners. The proceedings then
rdobveee.-tieong,
A BLACKGUARD AT NEW BRIGHTON.—A be e°,4o
a formidable moustache and a showy air, Pa„..d over
some time insulting ladies when unattended, f""gtiott
in care of children, at New Brighton, by a disgu-tbo-01
hibition of himself. One female, more resolutelotolo
rest,tno taltaagd
last,
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shte,
andscou intobnrdorleilotlatkbeenfote J°
Joseph
Ev‘
custody y,lTst,
sitting magistrate. The case was proved 80,11 0 vor
In answer to the magistrate, he said his namecaoltsfrtr,
mas Hodd ; that his usual residence was in , osor,d
street, London ; but that he followed theatricao balO'fo
fession. Latterly, however, he had been in tilecieooo,
exhibiting panoramas throughout the countryvriglito
hope, less offensive than he has afforded at Ner vecalhieit
The ruffian's dress, on examination, seeme" roil'
made for the perpetration of the offence for
ilv,hetie
now paying the legal penalty—three months 0
min.—Liverpool Journal.

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