The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

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proprietor to the waist. A boat
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it to the place of

canal one of the ropes broke, and those holding the other
becoming fearful lest they should be carried up, let go,
and the balloon and car rose rapidly, leaving the aeronaut
on the ground looking upwards at his loss. This mishap

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was followed by a yell from the people, who seemed to
enjoy the sport very much. The balloon ascended in a
';rection, until it was lost sight of in the dis-
-nense crowd dispersed, chuckling over
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kscension. Captain Taggart ascended from

Jersey cityin the presence of a large throng of specta

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and passeirover the city in a northerly direction, on a
bee-line for Boston. The telegraph has not yet announced
his arrival. To his balloon he attaches a pair of revolving
fans, which he turns with a crank, also an apparatus for
steering. The captain confidently 'asserts his ability to
cross the Atlantic to Europe in three days."

THE CHASE

Sir Thomas Hesketh's Harriers will meet on Tuesday
at Shaw Green ; Thursday at Longton ; and Saturday at
Devil's Well—each day at eleven o'elock.

The Cheshire Houtids will meet to-morrow, (Wednes-
day, the 27th, at Dunham Massey; Thursday, 28th, at
Withington ; Saturday, 30:h, at Beeston-hall ; Monday,
Dec. 2d, at Crewewood-ball ; Wednesday, 4th, at Black
Dog, Saighton ; Thursday, sth, at Oulton-park ; and
Saturday, 7th, at Twemlow-hall : each day at half-past
ten o'clock.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

The Rev. Robert Mosley Master, incumbent of Burn-
ley, has been nominated by the Bishop of Manchester an
honorary canon of tl:e Cathedral Church of Manchester.
Mr. Macaulay declines to vote either way for the Lord
Rector of Glasgow University, and the casting vote will
therefore fall to Col. More, who it is confidently expected
from his literary tastes and political views will award the
dignity to Sheriff Alison.

DURHAM CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of Durham has
presented f.. 500 towards the restoration of the Dormitory
of the Ancient Monastery attached to the Cathedral of
Durham. The Dean and Chapter of Durham have
granted £l,OOO for the same purpose, in addition to nearly
an equal sum, which they have already expended on the
fabric. The building is believed to be the largest room in
the kingdom, except Westminster Hall. It is at present
intended to fit it up as a library and museum.
BORNEO.—A second clergyman will in a few weeks time
proceed to Sarawak, under the auspices of the Church
Mission. His especial object will be the evangelization
of the native tribes of the interior. From a Cutch con-
temporary we learn that Dr. Schwaner has completed an
important exploratory journey from Banjermasing, on the
south coast of this island, across the interior as far as
Pontianak. He passed through a well-watered, fertile,
and thickly populated country. Of the inhabitants Dr.
Schwaner says—" Their customs and usages are of an
advanced character. I was furnished by them with all the
requisites necessary for the accomplishment of my pro-
ject ; the chiefs readily accorded me all the information in
their power, and I was everywhere received in the most
friendly manner." He likewise states that gold was found
in abundant quantities along the banks of the Kavan, a
large and navigable stream, and that the natives were
anxious for the establishment of a commercial intercourse
between themselves and the Europeans on the coast.
EFFECTS OF LORD FIELDING'S CASUISTRY.—We are
happy to learn that the publication of Lord Fielding's
correspondence with the Bishop of St. Asaph has been
attended with the happiest results for the interests of the
Protestant church in the parishes of Whitford and Holy-
well. In less than a week from the appearance of that
correspondence upwards of £l9OO have been promised
towards the erection of a church in the district, and the
following names, selected from the first list of subscribers,
will show that the nobility and gentry of the Principality
are resolved to mark their sense of his lordship's conduct
by liberal contributions in aid of the edifice which is des-
tined to counteract the baneful effects of Papistical teach-
ing :—Mrs. Pennant, £5OO ; the Marquis of Westminster,
£lOO ; the Marchioness of Downshire, £100: Earl Howe,
£lOO ; Lor I Direr en, £lOO •, the Bishop of St. Asaph,
£lOO ; the Miss Luxmoores, £lOO • Mr. John Day, £lOO ;
the Rev. R. Buscoe, D.D., £5O. '
Protestants should re-
member that St. Dewis Church cost £lO,OOO, and that
their subscriptions in opposition to it should at least equal
that sung.

mile to and from Ili

for calls on Burlington line

4,250-13,210 £159,459

Balance applicable to dividend
20s. per share would take ....

£69,195

62,900

Leaving for first half year of 1851.... £6,295
Mr. Betts has resigned the office of chairman t‘.) the
Eastern Counties Railway Company.
I The leading railway companies have agreed to carry
gout half way across the mechanics and the industrial classes at the rate of id. per

mat, Exhibition

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY.—This line is to be
opened for traffic throughout from the London and North
Western Railway to Oxford, about 32 miles in length, on
the Ist of December.

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attain).

Allied Tennyson has been appointed the poet laureate.
Lord Fielding was burnt in effigy, at St. Asaph, last

The Queen:has subscribed £5O for
her sister.

Mrs. NiTaghorn and

The crystal palace is to be enlarged to the extent of
45,000 superficial feet, to make room for extra exhibitions.
The Rev. Lewis Potter, rector of Dromore, fell dead' in
the pulpit, on Sunday week, whilst preaching.
Mr. Warren is on the eve of publishing, in the form
of a letter to Mr. Walpole, M.P., a pamphlet under the
significant title, " The Queen or the Pope ?"
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., is proposed by the Liberals to
succeed Mr. Raphael at St. Alban's. The Conservatives
have not yet named a candidate.

Six of English race horses sent to the Pasha of
Egypt some time since, have died in consequence of the
change of climate.

The Hereford Journal says that six foxes have recently
ben found dead on the Sundorne estate, evidently from
the effects of poison, laid by some malicious person.
At the rent day of the Duke of Portland, held at Mor-
peth during last.week, the munificent return of t'airty per
cent. was made.

The Town Council of Haverforawest have resolved not
to admit the reporter for the Carmarthen Journal until
that paper apologises for an alleged unfair report of the
Council's proceedings.
The authorities of Durham have given notice of an
intention to apply to parliament for the erection of new
markets for the sale of corn, butcher's meat, vegetables,
&e., in that city.
The average price of wheat throughout the country for
the week ending Nov. 16th was 395. 11d. per quarter,
barley, 245. ld., and oats 17s. 2d. There was a slight
advance in the price of wheat in Mark-lane on Monday.

Sir John Herschel will succeed Mr. Sheil as Master of
the Mint. This appointment will no longer be held by a
member of Parliament, and the salary will be reduced to
£1,500 a year.

A Brazilian slaver was captured on the 11th July, off
Campos% by the Sharpshooter, Lieut. J. C. Bailey.
Only four days previously the vessel had landed 320
slaves.

The three flags taken by the 80th Regiment at Sobraon,
were placed upon the monument at Lichfield Cathedral,
on Wednesday. There was a procession on the occasion,
headed by the Marquis of Anglesey.
It is stated that the present generation will witness the
elevation of Cardinal Wiseman to the chair of St. Peter.
It will be only the second instance of an Englishman's
being raised to that dignity in the history of the Romish
Church.

Mr. Funnel!. a workman in the employ of Mr. Schenk,
watchmaker, Brighton, is constructing a watch smaller in
circumference than a threepenny piece for the Exhibition
of 1851 ; but it is uncertain whether he will be able to
complete it in time.

The Goldsmiths' Company, with a view of encouraging
the manufacture of British plate to be exhibited at the
great Exhibition, have offered £lOOO, to be distributed
into eighteen prizes of from £2OO to £2O, for the best
specimens of various specified articles.
Not long since some Romish enthusiasts came in a
body on " St. Edward's" Day, to Westminster Abbey,
and wished to proceed from his tomb to pray at that of
Queen Mary ! but were deterred by finding that she and
Elizabeth repose in the same vault.
On Friday week the ceremony of turning the first sod
in the Norfolk Estuary was performed, on behalf of the
company who are about to reclaim 32,000 of these waste
acres, by Sir W. Ffolkes, M.P., in the presence of ten
thousand persons. Sods were also turned by the Earl of
Hardwicke, the Earl of Leicester, Mr. R. C. Townley.
the Rev. G. Townley, &c.
On Friday, a mischievous lad, about fourteen years of
age, suddenly placed himself, with a mask on his face,
before a poor woman named Porter, residing in Coventry,
when the fright made such an impression on her that she
immediately lost her senses. Being far advanced in
pregnancy,rs she has
adhamseinueu.
ce been delivered, but continues in
a state o

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furniture and their clothing. One of her children lately
died, she believed, from want. (Here witness burst into
tears.). Last Monday her husband rose from his sick-
bed, and walked to and from Berkhampstead, a distance
of 30 miles, in search of vro.k, but got none. He returned
home on Tuesday exhausted, and complaining of cramps
in his legs and in every part of his body. On Wednesday
nis pains were horrid, and constantly he called for drink.
WitnesS had nothing to give him but weak coffee, which
he could not drink. He repeatedly exclaimed, "I'll die—
I'll die.” (Witness was again interrupted by her tears.)
He soon afterwards became insensible. and Mr. Clark,
surgeon, was sent for, who instantly attended, but de-
ceased died in a quarter of an hour after the gentleman's
attendance. When he died she had neither a farthing nor
a farthing's worth in the world until a good neighbour
gave her 2s. She had no resource for herself and her in-
fant unless the workhouse; but her infant (witness wept
bitterly) would not trouble the world long. Mr. Clark
gave it as his opinion that deceased died of a disease of

the heart, and that his death was accelerated by his great
.
exertions rii walking on Monday. Several jurors gave it
as their opinion (in which the coroner concurred) that de-
ceased died of starvation. Verdict, " Natural death."
THE RIGHTS OF MAN.—Shortly after the Stranraer
steamer had put to sea last Saturday, with a large number
of cabin passengers, a tall powerful man became conspi-
cuous by his mariner of talking to every one, holding forth
on every subject, and professing the most ultra opinions.
Having towards evening, as he supposed, secured the
good feelings of his fellow-passengers, and collected a con-
siderable circle round him on the quarter-deck, he held
forth in the most approved Chartist style. Ridiculing all
the inst;+-- tr- -id.

o, he country, anu, not content with
abusing the aristocracy in a body, attacking many by
name—many who are never heard of as public men—he
then commenced an attack on the country gentlemen of
Ayrshire, and was in the act of naming a gentleman of
large property, near Stranraer, when Lord Ranelagh, who
was at some distance, walked up to him, and said, " Sir,
I desire you will not abuse that gentleman, who is a friend
of mine ; ' but the hero of liberty paid no attention. His
Lordship again said, "That gentleman is a friend of mine,
and unless you instantly desist from your abuse, you will
repent the consequences." But the man of the people
thinking, perhaps, his height and size would keep off
all personal attack, again commenced, but was again
stopped by Lord Ranelagh saying' " Sir, it seems that
your only idea of liberty consists in low and scurrilous
abuse against every respectable person who has property.
I twice cautioned you that the gentleman you named was
a friend of mine, and you still persist in your abuse of
him,—so take that"—and with the word, the Chartist
hero of six feet two was flat on the deck, where he lay foi
at least a quarter of an hour. The scene that followed
was curious ; Lord Ranelagh, without saying a word,
walked back to where he had been before he had heard
his friend's name mentioned ; and, for five minutes at
least, not a word was spoken by any one of the passengers,
so surprised were they, and so richly was the chastisement
deserved.

RIOT, ROBBERY, AND MURDER.—Afearful outrage by
Irish immigrants took place at Leeds, last week, in the
course of which a beer shop was sacked, its inmates mal-
treated, two police-officers frightfully beaten, the arm of
one being broken, and the skull of the other fractured ;
and an inoffensive Englishman so injured that he soon
expired. The delinquents, nine in number, have under-
gone two examinations before' the borough magistrates.
On Saturday night a body of men, armed with pokers,
bludgeons, and other offensive weapons, marched to the
Forester's Arms, and finding it barred against them,
broke the windows and did other damage. They then
proceeded in a body to Ball's beer-house, at the door of
which stood a pony, and one of the ringleaders, named
Hogan, who was armed with a heavy bludgeon, struck the
poor animal upon the head and stunned it. Haley and
Cratty, the one armed with a poker, the other with a stick,
then forced their way into the house. and at once demo-
lished all the china, glass, and other articles in the lower
rooms. They next raised a wild Irish cry, and in a minute
stones and brickbats poured like a hailstorm through the
bar-window, compelling the landlord and landlady to
seek shelter in a corner of the room. Haley coolly drew
ont the money till, and cleared it of its contents—some
£l4 or £l5. Further damage was done to the premises ;
they then retired, and met Policemen Storey and Mus-
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present lying in a dangerous state. About this time a
man named James Rhodes was passing along the street,
in company with his son, a boy of ten or eleven years ;
three men stepped from the crowd, and one of them
instantly flung a brick at Rhodes, which struck him upon
the temple, and knocked him to the ground insensible.
He was conveyed to the infirmary, where he lay inn:state.
of unconsciousness until Monday evening, when he he-
came delirious, and continued in that state till noop on
Thursday, when he expired from an extensive fracture
long the base of the skull.