The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

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Thursday a

thy Barnstaple Theatre.
The veteran Earl of Dundonald has accepted the naval
command of the North American and West Indian
Stations, at the solicitation of the admiralty.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Hannah Halsman, the postmistress
of Belper. lost her life through endeavouring to cross the
railway, when a train came up and ran over her.
The aggregate import of grain from June, 1846, to No-
vember, 1847, was 13,945,760 quarters. The quantity
entered for home consumption was 16,341,282 quarters.
A FACT FOR FORESTERS.—It is said that Mr. Christo-
pher Macrae, manager of the Applecross woods and
forests, planted 140,000 trees at a cost to his constituent
of only £5B.

A few years ago, a painting, by Rubens, " The Wise
Men of 'the East," was sold at a sale at Ilford, in Essex,
for £2 ; but subsequently it was sold for £5,000, and is
now at Arundel Castle.

The Globe states that the London police have received
orders to call upon all the publicans at whose houses
Derby Clubs are held, and caution them against confirm-
ing them for the future.

The Exeter Gazette excuses itself from publishing Gen.
Pork's Message, on the ground that "it measures fifteen
feet three inches in length of an ordinary newspaper
column."

The mortality in the metropolis increased last week.
The total deaths were 1,522, or 553 above the usual aver-
age: 497 have died of disease of the lungs and other or-

gins of respiration.
The Orkney Islands have again been the scene of some
disastrous shipwrecks. Amongst other vessels a French
brig was lost ; and the inhabitants of South Ronaldshay
inhumanly plundered right and left, in the very face of a
justice and other respectable persons. .

MEETING OF IRONMASTERS.-A large meeting of iron-
masters took place at Dudley on Wednesday, when a re-
ductionin the various prices of iron was agreed to. The
manufacturing operations have been all behind, and the
workmen must now submit to a reduction of their wages.
It is calculated that more than £65,000,000 sterling are
annually expended in the United Kingdom in intoxi-
cating drink !—ten times the usual amount of the English
poor-rates !—more, bj £3,000,000, that the declared value
of our exports !
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.-It is now rumoured
in Cheltenham that the Evangelical Alliance has passed a
vote of 'censure upon a talented Dissenting minister, who
took an active part in the recent agitation of the George
Dawson and Wilainson affair.

THE EPIDEMIC.-Our obituary again comprises nume-
rous aged persons, viz.-3 between 90 and 100 years of
age ; 4 between 80 and 90 ; 6 between 70 and 80 ; and 2
aged respectively 67 and 69. Many of these deaths may
be traced to the prevailing epidemic.—Hereford Journal.
A few days since a young woman living at Dovesland,
near Paisley, was sent by her mother to purchase some
refreshment for her lover, who was to accompany her to
a party. In going along the canal she missed her way, on
account of the darkness, fell in and was drowned.
Dr. Weiley, the celebrated organist, was fishing the
week before last at the preserves of Lord Feversham, at.
Hemsley, when the fell down an embankment and frac-
tured his leg. As Dr. Wesley was alone, and the place
solitary, he lay in a helpless state for several hours. As
the fracture is a compound one, his recovery will be slow.
At Chelmsford. on Thursday. a lady of respectable
family was sentenced to six months imprisonment for
fraudulently obtaining silk from a shop. Her friends
showed that she occasionally laboured under aberration of
mind, but the court did not consider the proof as suffi-
cient.

An inquest was held on Wednesday, in East Smithfield.
on a thief, killed while committing a robbery. He was a
labourer, about 30. He had got upon a new building on
Friday night to steal lead,—had fallen through a skylight
aperture down a well staircase,—and was found with his
neck and legs broken.
ANOTHER OF THEM !—Doctor Hale, Archdeacon of
London, has received a gracious permission from St. Jar-
lath's College, Tuam, to assume the prefix of " Mac" to
his patronymic surname ; in token that he is henceforth
worthy to be regarded as a true " Son" of the Mother
Church.

THE MURDER OF MR. BELLCHAMBERS.—A respite
has been forwarded by the Secretary of State for M'Coy,
one of the parties under sentence of death for the murder
of Mr. Bellchambers. With respect to Sale, the law will
take its course. The execution was fixed for Monday
(yesterday.)
LIBERALITY OF WORKING MEN.—The committee of
the " Artisans' Penny Subscription Movement" origi-
nated entirely by the working men of Birmingham, have
presented the magnificent sum of £924 18s. 9d.:as a new
year's offering towards the funds of the Queen's Hospital
in that town. The medical and surgical officers have also
paid over the sum of £242, fees from pupils.
The Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. F. Oakeley, having
arrived in town from Rome, have each publicly celebrated
mass in the Romish chapels of the metropolis. The former
gentleman performed that ceremony according to the rites
of the Romish faith a few days since at the chapel in Ca-
dogan-terrace, Chelsea, and the latter at the chapel in
Somers Town.
FLIGHT FOR LIFE.—A few days ago, as a flock of geese
were being driven down the High-street Edinburgh, about
40 of them suddenly soared in the air, and pursued their
course, at various altitudes, towards the Canongate.
Many of them, from their great weight, were soon com-
pelled to descend, and were secured, but a few of the more
active birds were speedily lost in the distance.
Captain Hambly, R.N., has been killed, in the avenue
of his own residence, at Elfordtown, by the running away
of a horse with a phaeton containing Captain Hambly and
his wife. The phaeton came in collision with a cart, and
the lady and gentleman were pitched out. Captain Ham-
bly was killed on the spot, but Mrs. Hambly escaped with
a few bruises.

The extensive premises of Messrs. A. Fullerton and
Co., Leith Walk, Edinburgh, were partially destroyed by
fire, early on Saturday morning week. The damage is
estimated at several thousand pounds, but it is covered
by insurance,—On the same morning, the premises of
Messrs. Hay and Addis, plumbers, &c., in Hill-street-
lane were burnt to the ground. _ _

A Nottingham paper states that, on Friday week, a
young man residing in that town had the misfortune to
make a slight puncture in his thumb by picking a small
piece of skin from the side of the nail. This trifling
wound caused his hand and arm to swell, and it became
so inflamed, that mortification ensued, and occasioned his
death on Wednesday last.
In Glasgow, the number of bankrupts during 1847, ex-
ceeded 100. In the Grain Trade, the liabilities were
reckoned at £400,000; in Manufactures at £1,328,000;
in East Indian Shipping and Colonial Interests at
£1,20 8,000; which, with the Ayrshire Iron ComaanY,
made a total of £3,156,000. Numerically, the whole
bankruptcies in Scotland, in 1847, were 523 ; and in Eng-
land, 1,626.
RESULTS OF INDUSTRY.—Died, at his residence,
Waterinbury, Kent, on Sunday, of the prevailing epi-
demic, after a very short illness, Alderman Lucas, M.P.,
in the eighty-eighth year of his age. The deceased was a
native of London, and served his time to his father as
a lighterman, and for a number of years toiled as hard
as any member of the class to which he belonged. Through
his industrial habits and success in business he realized an
immense fortune. It is stated that he has left landed and
funded property to the amount of between £300,000 and
£400,000.
On Wednesday, a butler appeared at the Marlborough-
street police office. London, for the purpose of complain-
ing of the gross ill treatment which lie had experienced
from his master, who had pushed him out of the drawing
room because he had refused to squeeze some lemons, on
the ground that such drudgery ought to be performed by
some of the inferior servants, and who had dismissed him
on the following morning, without allowing a footman to
carry away his luggage, so that the insulted butler was
unworthily compelled to carry his own portmanteau and
carpet bag more than a mile.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr.
Mills held an inquest at Marylebone on Louis Guttridge,
aged 79, and Louisa, his wife, aged 78. The deceased
were paupers, in the receipt of ss. a week from the parish.
The wife died suddenly, and her death so afflicted her
husband, to whom she had been fifty years married, that
he declared he could not survive her. As he was not seen
to leave the room, the neighbours became alarmed for his
safety, and entered his apartment, when they beheld him
suspended by the neck from the post of the bed upon
which the body of his ancient partner lay.
Three men and a boy have perished at the mouth of
the Tay, through being too much alarmed for their safety.
They • formed the crew of the bark favourite, which had
left Dundee a few days before ; as they lay at anchor, the
breakers set strongly against the vessel ; the crew took
fright and got into a boat ; the master of the vessel, Court,
said he would not leave her. In a few moments he saw
all his crew perish, by the capsizing °tithe boat, while he
could render no assistance. When the tide set in, Court,
single-banded, managed to get the vessel into the river,
and eventually obtained assistance to take her to Dumdee.
GAOL FEVER:—It is impossible now to ascertain the
extent to which the gaol distemper prevailed among us
during the last century. Howard's estimate of as many
deaths as happened under the noose of the executioner is,
doubtless, much below the mark ; but it is well for us
that, even in healthy years, 16,000 lives are sacrificed to
typhus fever in England and. Wales alone, in addition to
some 200,000 or so prostrated on loathsome beds of sick-
ness ; it is well for us that the reports of the poor-law
commission have revealed the orphanage and widowhood
it occasions, and the intolerable fever-tax that it levies
upon us ; it is well for us, that what cannot be brought
about by an appeal to feelings or conscience, may yet oe
accomplished by arguments. addressed to our selfishness.
" The fever-tax is the heavie,St of our burdens," is our
appeal to the rate-payer. •Typhus-fever is the most
atrocious of our manifold cruelties," is our argument with
the philanthropist. " Health is the poor man's property,"
is our remonstrance with the government. " Prevention
is the spirit of almsgiving," is our humble suggestion to
the clergy.—Fraser s Magazine,

ACCIDENTAL POISONING.—A farmer's wife, at Felt-
well, the other day, sent to the mill a sack of wheat, in
which was a quantity of corn which had been prepared
with arsenic for seed. A quantity of arsenic was left in
the stones of the mill, which poisoned two other lots of
flour. By this accident three families were poisonfd, but
only cne member, a young woman, died. Fortunately,
the means whereby the poison had been administered were
discovered, or the loss of life might have been frightful.

Col. Peebles, who lately succeeded as second in com-
mand of the marines at Woolwich, died very suddenly on
Monday. A lamentable accident occurred in connexion

visiting his parents

ran out

in great excitement, for me-

dical assistance, rushing past the sentry at the gate, with-
out answering his challenge. The sentinel, imagining it
was some run-away soldier, charred with his bayonet, in-
flicting a serious wound on Mr. Peebles' neck.
TOO TRUE A THOUGHT.—Mr. Ralph Smith, of Foun-
tain's Head, between Bowes and Cotherston, was return-
ing home on Christmas day from the Catholic chapel at

Darlington, and met two men on the road with bundles.
The " thought" struck him that one of the men had his
(Mr. Smith's) " new trousers " on • but he dismissed it
from his mind as an idle fancy. On reaching his farm,
however, he found that his house had been entered, and
shinned of a variety of articles. including the new

Jan. 11. 14448.

DECAY OF LITERATURE.—Among other causes of
regret at the condition of our native country is the deg
of those, commercially-enraged in the pursuits of respect'
ah'e tare.. In the list of bankrupts from Noveiab,
6, 1846, to Nov. 2, 1847, there were 17 booksellers; 4
bOOkbinee9 ; 3 newspaper proprietors; 2 newsvendert;
7 paper-makers; 5 print and music sellers; 15 printer!
and publishers ; and IQ stationers. To these we may au'
2 booksellers in the last Gazette. and the hiAlv respect'

able house of Curry and üblin, which has had
docket struck azsinst it. Co.,Why do we enter into tbl
enumeration ? Not with any feeling of satisfaction

eiples;the nation has ret

graded in all r'espee

for it it 7

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a fact that with the decline of useful literature has In
creased the circulation of cheap pernicious and infidel/
publications among the masses of the people.-2—Herefor;!
Journal.

AGGRAVATED CASE OF ROBBERY.—In a lane leaail
from Wisheach to Peterborough, near to Thorne}

the sign of Speed the Plough, occupied by William Post
and his aged partner, and this house was early on th.
morning of Sunday last the scene of a daring robbed'
About two o'clock on that morning, the inmates We!
aroused by a loud knocking at the door. Thinking it so'
a neighbour. the old man descended hv the fpniTl

trap - d oc

n the floor of the bed-chamber, and on 111°
opening the door, three excavators rushed in, and
mediately commenced an attack on Foster, forcing lor,
up into the chamber, where they secured the aged couP"
by tying them to the bedstead with ropes. After securing
the trap-door above alluded to, the thieves ransacked tho
premises, taking possession of £7, a silver watch, and 0
large hoard of farthings. The villains then regaled they'
selves with the viands in the house, and then decamptU'
Leeds Mercury. _

Mr. SAMUEL WARREN AND CAPITAL PUNISRAIENT/
We learn from a letter addressed to the editor of tba
4iserted on Monday last, that the distinguisho'
.uthor and barrister, Mr. Samuel Warren, is opposed
the abolition of capital punishment. He says—" There,l:
no stronger opponent in the kingdom than I am of t'd
abolition of capital punishment in cases of murder; an
while endeavouring in the work referred to (but only Ili
a minor object) to illustrate the glorious contrast betwee!
our criminal law of now and then, I endeavoured stucw
ously to guard myself against being misunderstood Lilon!
topic of such gravity as that which has called forth toil
letter. I have long doubted, indeed, whether the abory
tion of capital punishment has not been already carried to
a great extent. I concur, in short, in the opinions 1103"
this subject which have been from time to time so
fully urged in the Times, and should deeply regretubel4
suspected of countenancing, for one moment, notiogi
based upon unsound principles of legislation and spurioo
philanthropy."

APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM IN TETANUS.--A rse
servant in the household of Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Pal
the rectory, Enfield, cut off the tip of his thumb. In,'
days trismus (locked jaw) came on, attended with d 0;
culty of swallowing, resembling hydrophobia; in Ores
days more tetanus set in, affecting all the muscles of
body with painful ,spasmodic contractions and eel
rigidity, the head, neck, and lower extremities being b
backwards. In this case Mr. Asbury, her ladyship's le'
dical attendant. saw that death must take place in a I,li
hours, unless some powerful remedy were applied sili
success. Mr. Asbury determined, on chloroform "e
t
purgatives. The first application was, on, thesecon' or
d
of tetanus, when sleep was procured for 18 minutes ; 74
third day it was applied twice, and procured sleep '''
20 minutes each time. The chloroform vapour was al
applied to the wound, when, in two minutes,,the thu,sio
(being stilt and extended) dropped into the palm of tf4
hand. The vapour was also applied to blistered surfs'
on the back with equal success.

Loss OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-FRIGATE AVENGER'
—This first-class war steamer, built at Devonport in 17;
of 1,440 tons and 600 horse power, has been to
wrecked. She left Gibraltar for Malta on the•leth De,"
and it is supposed must have fallen in with a strong °"',
rent (spoken to by other vessels) and gone full speed 04
to the Sorelle rocks, near Galita Island, off the regenes
of Tunis, and become a total wreck. It is said that tbi,
loss of life consists of 270 persons, but this number, it,
hoped, is exaggerated, as it seems inconsistent with tb
complement generally on board a ship of similar Siie,
the Avenger. The only survivors (eight in numbers, etel
sisting of three of the officers and five seamen, reach
Tunis in a boat in a state of great destitution. I"ca
steamers proceeded to the rocks to see if any assistan
could be rendered, but no traces of the wreck were t,liet.,
discoverable, though the shore was strewed with n!1/40
ments of the vessel. Among the officers, were CaP',e
C. E. Napier, Lieutenants Kinsman, Marryatt, and Fre.7:,
w
cis Rooke ; Master W. Archer, Second Master W. Beth;
[Subsequent accounts state that the boat upset, and
only one officer and three seamen reached the shore.) ,
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WHAT ONE MAN MAY no.—The Fife Herald contsit,
an interesting narrative of the reformation effectedin, ;or
Andrew's, within the last three or four years, by 30,10
Playfair, the provost of the city. He was elected to
office of chief magistrate in 1842, and instantly tool‘
hand the work of improvement. He has- amended t'e,
pavement—enlarged and reformed the churchyard"--„lty
modelled the wells—induced landlords to rebuild_ rick
houses—provided public rooms, reading rooms, 10,
schools—corrected the morals of the vicious and the 'lO,
temperate—and, in short, revolutionised St. Andrei'
linen he first took office he found every one of his o',,
,
on;heeded;*biat-sla earn it
hopeless to try, for the town had no funds. " But Po
inhabitants have funds," said the major. And he -set :"!
work to raise voluntary supplies, himself setting a Jibed
example. By his energy and perseverance he infected et
classes with public spirit and liberality—funds were neco
wanting—and, notwithstanding he had acts of parliatne4,
to back him, he overcame all obstacles. His dictioq;'
like Napoleon's, contained not the word "impossible. I,
THE MONEY MARKET.—Consols have risen 1 per fin,
this week, but the greatest advance was observable so s°'
as it was ascertained that the revenue returns did note Ate;
hibit the enormous deficiency calculated upon. At 0114
prices went up per cent., having previously grachLPi,
improved on small and continuous purchases, and 00 Pef
day the advance was well sustained, considering that 0„1,
all is said and done the Whig tables of finance make bIA,
sorry figure in these times of national distress.
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modation has become so easy at the Stock Exchangel `',>l
chequer bills have acquired a premium of 17s. to 20_1:ral
The bank returns for the week ending the first Janni
establish a favourable comparison with those previonfal
published. The great feature of their contents is
steady improvement in the stock of bullion, which 11,001
stands at £12.404,250, or £167,724 in excess of what
what it last was. There has also been an increase of
notes issued of £121,745; an increase in the restir
£21,214 ; while there has been a decrease in pnblie:o
posits of £224,410; a decrease in seven days' and 0""of
bills of £1,834, and a small decrease in Governale
securities.
GIGANTIC RAILWAY GIRDERS.—Within the last flt.
days some interest has been excited at Witham by ti
-of
arrival of some extraordinary-sized cast-iron girders, di
'two of the- bridges on the line. These girders, cast 0
Derby, are the largest single girders which have ever beei,
cast, with one exception ; they are 53 feet 4i- inchesq,,
length, and weigh about 13 tons each. On the 25th we
the first of the girders was moved from the Witham s`eii
tion on two very strongly built stone-trucks, drawn bY,ie
powerful horses. It was generally thought that the gir"o
which was intended for one of the Langford bridges w°`l4l
turn the corner in the centre of the town, and proel,4
along the Maiden-road ; but, owing to the inconvenien
of turning anything of so great a length in such a narr9
part of the street, and the apprehensions which some of
the engineers appeared to entertain as to the strengt!lbt
the iron bridge in the Maiden-road, it proceeded straigio,
down the town, and reached its place of destination 5/13,
On Tuesday another of the girders was removed front o,
station, and the engineer determined to try the Mai'oe,
road in preference to the circuitous route before taavers,Bl
and he succeeded in turning the corner, and passing °I
the iron bridge above referred to, amidst the gaze °
large concourse of persons who assembled to witness via
and who added their further testimony to the well-ko°
skill of Mr. Jackson, the contractor, and his staff of e
giaeers.—Essex Standard.
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COLDS, COUGHS, AND ASTHMAS EASldLoYsesCuwitiult::
ensure a cure. Inveteri'at,
HOLLOWAY'S PuLs.—Let no person suffering boil
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andntee d
will
as to be unable' to lie down in bed, without laying d
asthma consider himself as past all • cfUrfreowem, etvheendilfess:
fat fees
famed
cme Iphlegmmedicine
ecpfrarroerdcytuce a healthy action ofpoipi Iptsieesassilungs.oppression
A proper cou'o
of thiosofff
'colds and coughs will soon yield to the like treatrag
The testimony of the ReV• David Williams, Weslelo
minister, at Beaumaris, is to this effect most astonishi
See Advertisement.
HYDE'S RAZOR STROP.—For years gone by the a-hest
tion of multitudes of talent has been directed to the "DO
mode of giving a keen lasting !edge—to that most I'ool
instrument---a razor. We have had a thousand and 4
prescriptions, and about an equal number of failures, ea,
though some have aimed at and assisted in attaining 'llO
cellence, few have yet attained-the-object. Amongetoei
best we have seen is a quadrangle razor sharpener, e
,fa
the XL, which certainly excels anything we have Pr'ol
ously tried On one side is a hone, the next is eottio
with a coarse paste, a third with a finer, and the last sc, Qy
a piece of fine leather ; the consecutive using of 0,4,1
produces the aimed at perfection. It is a neat and 110
able affair, and worthy the attention of those who eJi
from strong beards, or ill-set implements for tb
removal. ,
CULTIVATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.—It nas been.
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fashion with prudes and pedants, time immemorial, to ty
down the advantages of external appearance—thug
phrases " Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty, ,etS
obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and ot*Di
of similar import, an appearance of grave authority. cev
present age is bold enough to quit this dictum, and e to
to go as far as to extol the study of externals as a clauoir
society, which should have presented to it agreeable 0.1
jects, and now contends that the cultivation of the bed'
tiful holds a place second in importance only to the poi'
motion of the good. This it is which holds out enc,,e
ragement to those who labour to put the public inrcr,
session of means to this end. Oldridge's Balm °f 1.0
lumbia, as the most effective preservative or renoast°4o
that most beautiful ornament the Human Hair, take be
rank, and as long as its valuable properties continue t°,ol
known and appreciated, must take the precedence of
production intended for exterior improvement in o'V'
rection. C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF 0
LUMBIA causes the Hair to curl beautifully. flea
from scurf, and stops it from falling off, and a few 104/1
generally restore it again ; it also prevents greyne:lo4l
3s. -6d., 65., and 11s. per bottle. No other priee,ha'•
genuine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM, 1, Mien-ble
ton-street, Strand, London. Sold by all resew'
Chemists, Perfumers, and Stationers.