The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

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USHAW COLLEGE.—Five bishops were present at the
recent opening of St. Cuthbert's new chapel, Ushaw, and
nearly one hundred priests. Dr. Wiseman preached at
the opening, having the previous week given a " retreat"
to the students. _ _ _

, The first living specimen of the tree kangaroo which has
ever reached England, has been presented to the London
Geological Gardens by Lieutenant-Colonel Butterworth,

The wife of a framework knitter, living at Daybrook,
Notts, died last week from the effects of several large
doses of tincture of colchicum, which she had taken in

me hope or curing herself or rheumatism, a alsease irom
which she had suffered for some time.
A few days since, at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, a two-
year-old bull and a fat stag furiously attacked each other,

as witn tne greatest aimcuity tnat ti
victor was removed from the dead body of his fallen foe

One large factory at West Ham, which has a large con-
tinental trade, has, within the last fortnight, received an
order of some magnitude from an eminent house in Paris,
which is the only order received worthy of notice from
that capital since the revolution in February last.—Essex
Standard.

ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.—On Wednesday, a
young man named Russell, of Bowling, near Bradford, 16
years of age, was playing with some gunpowder, when it
accidentally took fire and exploded. The whole of the
windows in the house were completely shattered to pieces,
and the lad was sadly burnt.
COLD WATER CURE.—The Montrose Review mentions
that a believer in the cold water cure has been committed
for trial, on a charge of having occasioned the death of a
labourer named Smith, by causing him to be wrapped in
cold wet sheets, as a remedy for a rheumatic fever, under
which he laboured.
Two accidents on board the Grampus, off Portsmouth,
occurred on Wednesday, by which one man lost his life
and another was very seriously injured. An iron water-
tank fell upon the former, crushing his head so suddenly
that death was instantaneous. The other man, who was
in a sling, fell from the mast, and was much injured.
LIEUTENANT EDNVARDES.—As was anticipated by
every one who had the slightest appreciation of military
skill and successful gallantry, the special elevation of
Lieutenant Edwardes to the local rank of major has been
followed by a decoration of the order of the Bath. We
are sorry, however, to see, by the Gazette, that he is only
appointed to the third class of the military division C.B.
The Coventry Standard says that a new fraud was suc-
cessfully practised at the last Rugby cheese fair by two
men, who brought about a ton of the worst cheese, but
contrived to plug each cheese with a sample of the best
quality, which they gave buyers to taste, and which pro-
cured them a ready sale for their goods, as they sold
single cheeses at the wholesale prices.
How DID THEY COME !—Mr. James Ellis, of Goose-
gate, Nottingham, box-maker, has a pear-tree in his gar-
den on Windmill-hill. Sneinton, which blossomed in
Spring, and bore plentifully in July. There is at this
time another supply of fruit upon its branches, and, what
is the most surprising circumstance attending this second
bearing, it has not been preceded by the slightest appear-
ance of blossom.
SHOT IN A QUARREL.—On Monday night a surgeon
named Addison was in company with Mr. Thos. Hartnell,
a painter, drinking at a public-house in Southampton.
They left about two o'clock on Tuesday morning quarrel-
ling with each other. When they arrived at the Hound-
well, a large open space in the centre of the town, Addi-
son took a pistol from his pocket, and shot Hartnell in
the groin, who lies dangerously ill. _ _ _

BELGIAN CATTLE.—The arrivals from Belgium are so
large as to attract particular attention, in consequence of
the comparative novelty of the supply of live cattle to any
extent from that country. The steamer Triton, just ar-
rived from Ostend, has brought, besides a general cargo
of the usual character, 100 sheep, individually addressed,
and 140 sheep, several calves, and the large number of
74 cases of poultry, consigned to order, the production of
Belgium.

On Sunday week, a very destructive fire took place at
the Mansion House, Vickers Island, Derwent Lake, the
residence of H. C. Marshall, Esq. Every article of fur-
niture in the library, together with the entire collection of
valuable books and paintings, were destroyed, as well as
the contents of the rooms above and below in that part of
the building, which was a wing attached to the' original
premises, the latter being protected from the fire by a
strong gable-end wall. So great was the probability of
this whole building being destroyded, that every portion
of furniture at all removeable was taken out of the house.
CAUTION.—Mr. George Hancock, solicitor, of Yeovil,
received on the 23d September an intimation from the so-
licitor to the Board of Stamps and taxes that a prosecu-
tion would be commenced against him in the Court of
Exchequer for the recovery of two penalties of £2O each,
for giving unstamped receipts. Mr. Hancock replied,
admitting that in the hurry of business he had written
" settled " to two bills of costs for £166 19s. 3d., and
£169 Bs. 5d.. the bills referred to. The Board replied to
this communication on the 6th October. staying the pro-
ceedings, and mitigating the penalty to the lowest sum,
viz., £5.
EXTRAORDINARY FEATS.—The Fife Herald narrates
the antics of a steeple and chimney climber on the top of
a chimney stalk at Newton of Abbotshall, 136 feet high.
He fixed a plank ten inches broad, and projecting about
twelve feet on each side, on the top of the chimney. In
the centre of this plank he placed a pole sixteen feet high,
having a small piece of wood on the top, which he climbed
up and stood upright on, holding a flag in his hand.
After doing so, he descended to the top of the stalk,
when he walked out to each end of the plank and struck
an axe into them. He then turned about towards the
centre, and, to the great alarm of the assembled multi-
tude, stood on his head for some time, and, returning to
his feet, he stamped firmly upon the plank on each side
of the chimney. He then safely descended bead-foremost.
THE DUTCH DWARF.—A most diminutive specimen of
the genus homo has recently arrived from Holland. He
is the smallest dwarf of his age, which, by authentic cer-
tificates, appears lo be ten years, ever exhibited in this
country, and is even less than the celebrated Jeffery
Hudson, whose exploits are recorded by the writers of the
time of Charles 11., and on whom Sir W. Davenant did
not think it beneath the dignity of his muse to write a
poem. This little gentleman, whose real name is John
Hannenia, but who has assumed the nomme de guerre of
Admiral Van Tromp, is only 28 inches in height, and
weighs but 161 b. He is well dressed, active, intelligent,
and pleasing in expression of countenance.