The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

AMSTERDAM.—Like a toad the city sits, squat upon the
marshes ; and her people push out of the• waters, and pile
up the earth against them, and sit down quietly to smoke.
Ships come home from India and ride at anchor before
their doors, coming in from the sea through paths they
have opened in the sand, and unlading their goods on
quays that quiver on the bogs: Amsterdam is not the
most pleasant place in the world, when a June sun is
shining hot upon the dead water of its canals, and their
green surface is only disturbed by the sluggish barges, or the
slops of the tidy housemaids. I went through the street
of the merchant princes of Amsterdam. A broad canal
sweeps through the centre, full of every sort of craft, and
the dairywomen land their milk from their barges, on the
quay in front of the very proudest doors. The houses
and half of the canal are shaded with deep-leaved lindens,
and the carriages rattle under them, with the tall houses
on one side and the waters on the other. Nowhere are
girls' faces prettier than in Holland ; complexions pearly
white, with just enough of red in them to give a healthy
bloom, and their hands are as fair, soft, and tapering, as
their eyes are full of mirth, witchery, and fire.—Bentley's
Miscellany.
PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS.—A Newspaper to be worth
attending to as a business, ought not only to yield a fair
profit on the very considerable capital which is required
to carry it on, but ought to yield such an amount of addi-
tional profit as will make it worth while for a man of edu-
cation to devote the whole of his time to the conducting
of it. In this country the periodical press has long passed
the state in which it was a mere business, and taken rank
as one of the most important and arduous, and, certainly,
not the least honourable of the professions. If, however,
its conductors are deprived of that fair amount e profit
which is every year inducing a greater number of men of
education, who might hope to take a respectable stand in
the Law, in Medicine, or, in other professions, to adopt it
as their occupation, the result will be, that it will either
sink to its former state, when an editor was considered a
superfluous appendage to a newspaper, or, what is infi-
nitely worse, it will become dependent for success on a
dishonest calculation of what doctrines will sell the great-
est number of papers, instead of what are true and useful
to the community. One principal cause which has carried
this country in safety through the outburst of popular
madness which has shaken nearly all the thrones of the
Continent, is, that the press of the country is in the hands
of men who, as a class, have nothing to gain, and every
thing to lose, by revolution. The elements of confusion
exist in England as well as in other countries, and there
was a short period of excitement in the spring of the pre-
sent year, during which they were charged with mischief ;
but all that time the daily and weekly press, instead
of being the ally and accomplice, was the enemy
and fearless denouncer of the Anarchists, and the resolute
supporter of public authority. Hence the storm which
drove and is still driving all the nations of Europe on a
sea of confusion, passed harmlessly over the vessel
which carries the fortunes of the British Empire. At all
times, but especially in times like the present, when the
fortunes of private men are falling in every country of the
continents, crushed under the ruins of their Governments,
it is surely of infinitely greater consequence to have the
press in the hands of men whose education and indepen-
dence, whose character and interests, give society guaran-
tees for a prudent and honest exercise of their great in-
fluence on public opinion, than to save a penny or a two-
pence a week, and have it in the hands of men who may
be tempted to season their articles with a strong flavour of
Chartism, Repeal, and even Republicanism, or any other
passing delusion, to obtain a large circulation for their
papers.—Liverpool Times.

M. S. Collingwood, which arrived at Spithead on
Saturday,. from Valparaiso, has brought more than four
millions of dollars, chiefly on merchants' account.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A pipemaker, named John Hayes,
aged 25, has been committed from the Court-house,
Leeds, on the charge of having caused the death of an
elderly woman, named Hartley, in whose cellar he lodged.
A swarm of bees alighted on a lamp post, in the High-
street, Stocton, on Tuesday, and took possession of the
interior of the hollow of it, without any preliminary pro-
ceedings whatever. During the day hundreds of people
went to behold this rather singular phenonenon of a lamp-
post being metamorphosed into a beehive.
The hay harvest is now becoming general in Northum-
berland, with every prospect of the hay being well won ;
the fears of injury to the crops of corn which were appre-
hended, from the continued rain, are now completely
dissipated, the most bright and genial weather having set
in throughout the country.
On Saturday, an inquest was held, in London, on W,
S. Badger, Esq., of Masborough-hill, Yorkshire, who
died about a minute after inhaling chloroform, preparatory
to the extraction of six teeth. The verdict was—" That
the deceased 'died under the influence of chloroform, act-
ing on a disceased heart and enlarged liver."
Mary Hughes, who was tried at July assizes, 1847, for
the murder of her three children at Llanybydder, has
been removed from the county gaol, Carmarthen, to the
lunatic asylum at Devizes. She preserves the quiet de-
meanour observable- at her trial, and scarcely a word
escapes from her lips.
On Sunday, Miss Selina Turner, daughter of C. Turner,.
Esq., of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was burnt so se-
verely that she expired in three hours after the injury..
It appears that the bedding took fire from the flame of a
candle by which she had been reading in bed, having
fallen asleep without extinguishing it.
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The committee have
been unable to secure the services of Mdle. Jenny Lind
for the approaching musical festival, owing to the difficulty
of meeting the other arrangements of her provincial tour.
The sum of £lOOO was offered by the committee; and
Miss Lind, to show the interest felt by her in the charities
of the city, accompanied the refusal by a cheque for £5O.
The Austrian Prince Metternich is living at Brompton
Park, which has been let to him by its owner and late
resident Lord Ingestre. Within a stone's throw of this
mansion (by no means large) is the modest residence in
Pelham Crescent, at present tenanted by M. Guist.
Who would have expected such an association for this
neighbourhood twelve months back ?

TURNPIKE TRUSTS.—An expectation was entertained
that government would bring in some measure relative to
turnpike trusts during the present session, it seems how-
ever that the delay that has taken place in the progress of
public business, will not permit any such general measure
to be introduced ; parties who are concerned in turnpike
trusts, may therefore rest satisfied that no alterations will
be made in them before the arrival of another session.
DEAF AND Durum—Dr. Baudelocque has presented to
the French Academy of Sciences a boy seven years of age,
born deaf and dumb, whom he intends to treat. He re-
quests that the academy will keep an eye upon the child
for one year, as lie considers that an examination of the
patient from time to time, during the twelve months, will
conduce to the settlement of the question of the curability
of deafness and dumbness. _

On Monday the last portion of the old House of Com-
mons, called the Speaker's house, the adjoining Commit-
tee-rooms, and those forming the centre of the cloisters,
were being removed. The entrance-hall to the new
House of Commons and the western window to West-
minster Hall have attained their elevation, and are ra-
pidly approaching completion. The new House of Com-
mons, it is now stated, will positively be ready for Mem-
bers next session.
A few days since, a labourer employed on the railway
at Newton, in Suffolk, observed a fellow-workman lay on
the ground a bottle, which he fancied to contain beer,
and availed himself of an opportunity to take a hearty
draught of the bottle's contents, which proved to be
horse oils, for the use of the horses employed by the
contractors. The unlucky drinker at first suffered se-
verely from the effects of his draught, but proper reme-
dies were administered, and he ultimately recovered.
NECESSITY FOR EMIGRATION.—Our population is in-
creasing at the rate of a million every ten years. Our
poor rates are increasing, and likely to increase. Should
the present state of things continue, £6,000,000 a-year
will not suffice to feed the unproductive pauperism of the
kingdom. Our paupers will cost more than our navy.
in a word, we shall be laying out on barren idleness more
than is sufficient to guard our whole expanse of territory
in Asia, Africa, America, and Australasia.
YEAST.—A barrel of yeast, which had been shipped on
board the County of Pembroke steamer, burst on Friday
week, while the vessel was on her passage from Bristol to
Swansea. The explosion was so violent, that a woman,
w:io had unluckily seated herself on the cask, was thrown
a height of ten feet in the air; but fortunately she was
not injured, although she sustained a severe shock from
her fall on the deck, and was completely drenched by the
seething yeast.
DISTURBANCE S AT EDINBURGH.—A riot took place at
Edinburgh on Monday, arising out of the sale of two
tradesmen's furniture, who had refused to pay a local
impost, called the annuity-tax, which is levied for the
payment of the city clergymen belonging to the establish-
ment. The police and military were called out ; the auc-
tioneer was injured ; the goods were purchased by parties
from Glasgow, and were forwarded to that city under
military escort, amidst the yells and hootings of the mul-
titude.

Poon.-r.mv RELIEF.—In an appendix to the report of
Poor-law Commissioners, issued on Thursday, a compa-
rative statement is given of the number of adult able-
bodied paupers relieved in England and Wales during each
of the quarters, ended Lady-day, 1842, to 1846, inclusive.
The number relieved, in-door and out-door, was as fol-
lows :—Quarter ended Lady-day, 1842, 411,890; Ladyday,
1843, 466,585 ; Lady-day, 1844, 431,484 ; Lady-day, 1845,
420,096 ; Lady-day, 1846, 362,417 ; and Lady-day, 1847.
562,355.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—A few days since, Wm.
Shrapnel!, Esq., of Bath, was discovered early in the
morning, suspended by a silk pocket handkerchief from
the banisters at the bottom of the staircase of his house,
quite dead. The deceased had been rather confused in
his thoughts for some time, and had said that some one
was going to ruin him. He wished to postpone his mar-
riage with a lady until his return from a visit to the Con-
tinent, but she would not consent to this, and the de-
ceased was constantly imagining he was being sued for a
breach of promise of marriage.
"THE BOTTLE."—Mr. George Cruikshank has just
published, as a sequel to "the Bottle," a series of plates
in a similar style, which are entitled " The Drunkard's
Children." They will be attended with a highly benefi-
cial effect. The Drunkard's Children," 'we are con-
vinced, will be equally popular, and equally salutary, as a
moral agent, in counteracting the influence of the heaps
of poisonous rubbish which the artist's graver, as well as
the printer's types, are constantly diffusing among the la-
bouring population. George Cruikshank may well be
called the modern Hogarth ; he has a kindred genius, and
he exercises it in a kindred spirit.

A report just made upon the ventilating department of
the House of Commons states, in connection with the ar-
rangements for cleaning the house, that the expense of
taking up the matting every morning, which takes from 12
to 14 men half-a-day, amounts to between £833 and £9OO
per annum. This seems to be an enormous cost for a
very small service. It is stated, however, that by a differ-
ent principle of ventilation the cost will be greatly reduced
in the new house. The air is there to be forced down
from above, instead of being, as at present, forced upwards
from below the floor, thus carrying the dust with it into
the house.

SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.—On Friday evening
Mr. Harris, the proprietor of the Equestrian Tavern,
near the Surrey Theatre, having nearly 200 letters to
post, adopted the usual mode of moistening the postage
stamps with his tongue, and before he had finished, he
felt an extraordinary sensation and swelling of the tongue.
in a short time it had swollen to so alarming a size, that
Mr. Harris found it necessary to send for a surgeon, and
that gentleman, on attending, at once pronounced his
case one of poisoning, and stated that some poisonous
ingredient was used in the glutinous matter applied to
postage stamps. The usual remedies were adopted with
success.

SEA FIGHT IN A FOG.—One day last week when the
salmon fishers at Berriedale were engaged at their occu-
pation, they were surprised at hearing an incessant report
of cannonading at sea. As there was a heavy mist at the
time they were at a loss to know the cause of the occur-
rence ; but they were not left long to conjecture, as a
partial clearing of the atmosphere disclosed to their
astonished gaze two vessels peppering into each other at
a furious rate. The vessels were evidently foreign, and
are not unlikely to be the same two that are said to have
been engaged with each other off the Bell Rock. The
fog soon returned, and the firing in a short time ceased.—
John o' Groat Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Monday, Mr. Wilson,
surgeon, was called to visit a youth residing at Lye
Waste, named Alfred Knowles, who is afflicted with im-
becility of mind. He found the patient suffering extreme
pain in the bowels, and on examination was satisfied there
was some unusually hard substance in the rectum, and,
from the dilated state in which it was, he with difficulty
applied means which succeeded in bringing away several
Pieces of coal, weighing in the whole six ounces and a
half, and measuring from one to three inches in circum-
ference, besides two large raw potatoes, all of which must
have been swallowed and passed through the stomach
and intestines. It is said that some persons had induced
him to swallow them.— Worcester Journal.

GRAND PROTESTANTASSOCIATIONOFLOYALORANGE-
MEN.--The annual meeting of delegates connected with
the above loyal and constitutional body, was held at the
Pitt and Nelson Inn, Old-street, Ashton-under-Lyne, on
Monday and Tuesday last, on which occasion delegates
attended from the various towns and districts in the
United Kingdom. The large room in which the deputies
assembled was laid out with the ensignia of the order, and
around the walls might be seen several beautiful flags and
banners, bearing appropriate constitutional mottoes.
Amongst the objects most conspicuous was the handsome
union jack presented to the society by the Conservative-
ladies of the Ashton district. There were also various
portraits, the principal being that of King William the
Third, Prince of. Orange.
FRAUDS IN THE BAKING TRADE.—A bill has been
brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Bankes, Mr.
R. Spooner, and Mr. Henley, to provide more effectually
for checking frauds in the sale of bread and other articles
of provisions. In future the weight of every loaf of bread
is to be marked on the outside under pain of a 40s. pe-
nalty. Bakers selling or exposing for sale bread deficient
in weight will be fined ss. for every ounce that is found
wanting, and so in proportion. Inspectors of weights, and
constables, may be empowered by magistrates to enter and
search the shops of bakers and provision dealers, and to
seize bread deficient in weight or not duly marked. The,.
same penalties will be levied on fraudulent vendors of:
meat, cheese, butter, bacon, pork, &c. The act willttake,
effect from the Ist of October.

THE MURDER IN SPITALFIELDS.—The young man
assuming the name of George Hart, but whose real name
has been ascertained to be Thomas Evans, who stood
charged upon his own confession with having been
accessory to the murder of the child Henry Lazarus, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, on Friday, for
final examination. Information having been given to the
magistrate which satisfied him that the self-accusation
made by the prisoner was the mere result of some strange
hallucination, the young man was discharged with an
admonition as to the public inconvenience and the pro-
bable frustration of justice which his stupidity had
occasioned. _

—THE GREAT NOTE Rommey.—Abraham Simmons,
aged 33, described as a licensed victualler, was indicted on
Tuesday, in London, for feloniously receiving two bank
notes for the payment of £l,OOO each, well knowing the
same to have been stolen. The notes had been stolen
from Mr. Blakemore, M.P., in an omnibus, in 1843.
Evidence was given which clearly proved that the accused
had bong fide received the notes, as he had stated, on the
Derby day, in payment of a bet, and that he had since
given every information and assistance in his power to the
police, who, however, had been unable to trace the party
from whom he received them. Mr. Baron Parke said it
would be too much to charge a man with felonious pos-
session of a note taken during the bustle of a race. The
prisoner was then acquitted, and the notes given up to
Mr. Blakemore.

THE LADY ADA ALICE WYATVILLE.—Among the
prisoners tried at the Gloucestershire Sessions, on Wed-
nesday, was the notorious Lady Ada Alice Wyatville,
alias Hinckley, whose trial and lucky acquittal at the last
assizes for this county, as " the wife of three husbands,"
caused a good deal of gossip at the time. It will be re-
membered that after her liberation on that occasion, she
returned to Cheltenham, the scene of her short-lived
matrimonial dignity, and there in her distress was tempt-
ed to appropriate to herself a watch and gold appendages,
the property of Thomas Roberts, landlord of the Plough
Hotel Tap, from whose family she had received various
little acts of kindness. The theft was discovered and
Lady Ada was again placed in durance, and on Wednes-
day was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.—
Cheltenham Examiner.

A meeting of the creditors of Mr. G. T. Baine, was held
on Thursday. The debtor side of, the statement shows
£226,412 ss. 3d., and the creditor side £411,349 7s. ld.
Full explanations were given relative to the assets, which,
besides the claim on Messrs. Oswald, Seal, and Co., of
Calcutta (£122,000), show £290,000 to cover liabilities of
£226,000. The details given were such as to satisfy the
creditors that there can be no doubt of their receiving
twenty shillings in the pound, with interest, and that a
very considerable surplus would accrue. Mr. Braine pro-
ceeds to India to arrange his affairs with Messrs. Oswald,
Seal, and Co. The creditors expressed much sympathy
with Mr. Braine, and their entire satisfaction with the
accounts. It was agreed to liquidate the estate under in-
spection. The assets generally are in a state favourable
to an early realisation. A considerable portion will be re-
alised within six months.
SUTTON COLDFIELD .—The Sutton branch of the
" North Warwickshire Medical and Friendly Society"
held its "Third annual meeting and feast" on Tuesday
last, 6th ult. The benefit members assembled at the
Town-hall at a quarter-past 9, where " dinner tickets"
were issued at a reduced rate, and shortly after ten they
proceeded to the rectory, headed by a banner and band of
music, to escort the Rector, Dr. Williamson, to church,
when they were met by the members of the " Midoleton
Branch.' An excellent discourse was delivered to them
by the Rector from the 17 chap. of Prov., I v., which was
listened to with the greatest attention. On retiring from
church they were joined by the honorary members ; and
after perambulating the town, they adjourned to the
Town-hall, where an excellent dinner was provided. At
the termination of the business of the above meeting, a
tea service of plate, consisting of teapot, sugar basin, and
cream jugs, was presented by the inhabitants to the Rev.
A. J. Douglas, on his promotion to the living of Mathon,
near Malvern, Worcestershire.
TRIAL OF THE CHARTISTS.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Wednesday, Joseph Treanans John Fussell,
described in the calendar as a jeweller, aged 32, was ar-
raigned on a charge of misdemeanour. The prisoner (who
was very respectably dressed, evidently in a suit of new
clothes) in a firm voice pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. W. F.
T. Fowler, a reporter, read the speech of the defendant
from short hand notes, the principal points of which have
already been published. Mr. Sergeant Allen afterwards
addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The jury
retired for a quarter of an hour, and found the defendant
Guilty upon those counts of the indictment which charged
him with sedition and attending an unlawful assembly,
and Not Guilty upon the count charging riot. On Thurs-
day, Joseph Williams, a baker, was found guilty of being
present at an unlawful assembly and riot, and William
John Vernon, described as a lecturer, was found guilty of
being present at an unlawful assembly. On Saturday,
Alexander Sharpe, aged 27, painter, was found guilty of
sedition and attending an illegal meeting. On Saturday,
Francis Looney, 34, cabinet-maker, was found guilty of
attending an unlawful meeting.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Monday
last, William Girdlestone, 45, and Charles Swan, 48,
were indicted with John Saunders, who surrendered, for
unlawfully and maliciously conspiring together to make a
false charge of forgery against three gentlemen, named
Francis and James M'Gowran and Barton, with
intent to injure them, and subject them to the penalties
of that offence. The indictment arose out of some pro-
ceedings at the May sessions, when the above-named
gentlemen who on Monday appeared as prosecutors, were
indicted for having forged the will of Francis M'Gowran,
the father of the two gentlemen of that name, and upon
that occasion when the defendants appeared in court to
answer the charge, the witnesses on the back of the bill,
who were the defendants, on Monday, did not come for-
ward, and after waiting for some time the court ordered
their recognisar.ces to be estreated, and the defendants
(the present prosecutors) were acquitted. After a long
trial, Girdlestone and Swan were found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for two years. Saunders was
acquitted.
A BITER BIT.—On Tuesday a boy was sent to a shop
in Leith for the loan of twelve shillings for his mother,
and when leaving the shop a young man came running
after him, and said that the merchant wanted him to go
and get change for a pound, at the same time putting into
his hand a one pound note, and taking the twelve shillings
from him, which he said he would keep till his return.
The boy went to several shops asking change for the note,
but it being an old one of the Commercial bank, no one
would change it. The boy at last returned to the mer-
chant, to whom the whole matter had, of course, to be
explained. As there was little doubt entertained that the
note was forged, information was lodged with the police,
at whose suggestion it was taken to the Commercial Bank,
where, to the no small joy of the boy and his mother,
they were told the note was perfectly genuine. Who the
swindler was still remains a mystery, but it is supposed
that, having failed in getting it cashed, he had thought it
was bad, and adopted the above-mentioned ingenious
method of disposing of it to the "best advantage," being
eight shillings less than its real value.—Edi2zburshAdv.
ROBBERY BY A LADY.—Catherine Herrien, a respec-
table lady has been committed for trial at Greenwich
Police-court for stealing some money from a till in a pub-
lic-house in which she had two glasses of porter. The
magistrate told her it was a melancholy sight to see a per-
son of her apparent respectability in such a situation.
The prisoner was taken to a cell and in about a quarter of
an hour after being locked up, the gaoler again opened
the door, and found her partly undressed and sitting with
a mass of clotted blood at her feet in a fainting condition.
Dr. J, Smith, of Blackheath Road, was immediately sent
for, when it was discovered that she had undressed and
taken off her stays, from which she had forced the steel
busk, and having broken it in two parts, had made a deep
incision in the veinous part next the elbow-joint, from
which a vast quantity of blood issued, and but for the
early return of the officer, death must have ensued. The
effusion of blood having been stopped, and the wound
bandaged, two females were left in charge, in order to
prevent her from further acts of desperationL
DESPERATE CASE OF BURGLARY, AND FEMALE VA-
LOUR.—A daring attempt at burglary was made about
one o'clock on Tuesday morning last, at the house of Mr.
William Scafe, relieving officer, of Pateley Bridge. The
house is situate at a short distance from the town, and
we understand that Mr. S. had received a considerable
sum of money the preceding day. At the hour above
named, while the family were all asleep, three ruffians,
navvies, effected an entrance at the bed-room window,
but the family being aroused by the noise, rushed from
their beds, and while Mr. Scafe ran for assistance, his
wife and daughter, aged 21, and a boy, had a most violent
struggle with one of the party, and acted a truly valiant
part. They laid the scoundrel prostrate on the floor, and
the heroic daughter kneeled upon his body, and at the
same time so firmly grasped him by the collar, that I,e
roared out she was chinking him ! By the help of her
mother and the little boy, she held him down until help
arrived, when they properly, secured him. His two com-
panions made theirescape, but messengers were despatched
in every direction in search of them, and it is to be hoped
that they will be apprehended. The prisoner has given
up their names, and a description of their persons and
dress. One of them was previously transported. Mrs.
Scafe bad one of her arms hurt by a blow given with the
shaft of a hayfork.—Leeds Paper.
THE SWINDLER AND THE SWINDLED.—THE RECENT
" FREAK OF FORTUNE" AT HARROGATE.—A man, named
William Muscroft, alias Boscoe, whose name has been
going the round of the press in a paragraph, headed
" Freaks of Fortune," and who, untill recently, was em-
ployed as a day labourer on the Leeds and Thirsk Rail-
way, about two months ago brought himself into public
notice, by stating that he had, through some deceased re-
lative, or such like means, become possessed of a large
property, varying in amount from twenty to thirty thou-
sand pounds, and exhibited papers, obtained from some
unknown source, which appeared to strengthen and give a
plausibility to the statement. His employment as a la-
bourer was, of course, abandoned, and though retaining
the habits and intimacies of his former life, he launched
out into an expensive and dissolute course of living, as if
bent upon seeing how much money he could squander
away, and in as short a space of time as possible. He had
obtained all kinds of articles of apparel and decoration
from tradesmen in the neighbourhood of Knaresborough,
and run up bills at the various hotels to a serious amount,
on the assurance that he should, in a few days, be in re-
ceipt of money, and would then discharge all claims.
These things went on up to the latter end of last week,
when suspicions gained currency that he was an impostor,
and application having been made to the banker in whose
hands he had repeatedly said the money was lodged, that
gentleman at once denied that any money was then, or
ever had been, belonging to Muscroft, in his hands. This
at once opened the eyes of the victims, and the result has
been that Muscroft, and a man named Kaye, and his wife,
the former a timekeeper on one of the lines of rail, were
brought up at the Knaresborough Court-house, and the
charge of obtaining goods on false pretences being proved
against " the man of fortune" and Kaye's wife, they were
bath committed for trial.—Leeds Mercury.