The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

I THE PLATE GLASS

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The Union ( wiipany's
at St. lielt•ns, after

very extensive plate gla

having been closed for some months past, were again wit
into operation on Alonday, the 11th instant, to the great
j',y of some hundreds of workmen, who, for a long time

past, have been literally star, ing ior want of employment.
TUE ATTEMPT TO MURDER NEAR BRISTOL.—John
Clark, the person charged with the diabolical attempt to
murder at Horfield, near Bristol, has been captured. He
has been committed for trial for assaulting with intent to
murder Joseph Maddocks, Mary Ann Madilocks, and
Mary Ann Priest. The prisoner had been lodged and
hoarded with the family out of mere charity, and what led
to the committal of the unparelleled outrage is a mystery.
FATAL FIG DT AT FOLKESTONE.—On Friday last the
Coast Guard here were inspected by their commanding
officer; after which a party got intoxicated, and a row
commenced between two of the men named Spencer and
Watts, who adjourned to a field to fight; they had several
rounds, when poor Spencer received such injuries as to
cause his death next day. The two men who fought were
very steady men. and much respected, and when sober
l were like brothers.

REDUCTION OF RENTS.—Thomas Fitzherbert Brock-
holes, E•q., of Clang,hton Hall, near Garstang, recently
assembled his tenants, and after having heard statements
from them on the depression under which farming inter-

ests have been for some time suffering, announced to them
that he should consent to allow a reduction of ten per
cent. on their respective rents, to take place on those of
last )ear, the present and all future ones, until some other
mutual arrangement may be agreed upon.
Mrs. Taylor, who has been confined for the last twelve
months in Paisley jail, on the charge of having poisoned
her husband at Bowfield, near Lochwinnoch, has been
liberated by an order from the Lord Advocate, who. after
a careful perusal of her case, was satisfied that the accu-
sation could not be brought home to her. On leaving the
prison, where she had been so long confined, she took the
omnibus for Barrhead or Neilaton, taking her child along
with her.— Scotch Paper.
MRS. GILMOUR.—On Thursday, Mrs. Gilmour was
taken before Sheriff Campbell for examination, and con-
tinued under examination till a late hour in the afternoon.
What the nature of her declaration may be is known only
to officials. She looks well, seems quite cool and col-
lected, and was dressed in a black silk gown and satin
bonnet. It is confidently anticipated, in well-informed
quarters, that it will he impossible to prove the allegations
against her, so as to obtain a conviction.—Scottish
Guardian.

THE ALDERMANIC GOWN Or BREAD-STRWET WARD.
On N% ednesday, the poll, which commenced on Monday,
was finally closed at five o'clock, when the Lord Mayor
declared the nu nbers polled to be, for Mr. B. Lawrence,
89; Mr. W. H. Hughes, 82—majority, 7. The Lord
Mayor said he should have declared Mr. Lawrence elected
had not a scrutiny of the votes been demanded. His
Lordship, having read the names of the scrutineers ap-
pointed by each party, said he should appoint Monday,
the 10th of October, for the scrutiny.
EXPENSES OF OVERSEERS UNDER THE REGISTRA-
TION ACT.—The new Parliamentary Registration Act has
a provision that was not in the Reform Act, but which
ought to secure a punctual attendance of Overseers at
the Revision Courts. Under the late act there was no
check upon the charges that Overseers might have made
for preparing and publishing the lists of County voters,
but now the overseers cannot repay themselves the amount
they may be out of pocket unless allowed by the certifi-
cate of the Barrister who may revise the lists.
Theodore Grurnbrecht, a confidential clerk for ten
years in the service of Messrs. C. F. Huth and Co., of
Moorgote-street, mercbants,was, on Friday week, brought
before the Lord Mayor for final examination, upon a
charge of having robbed his employers of several sums of
money, amounting in the whole to between £2OOO and
£3OOO, and committed for trial. On Tuesday he pleaded
guilty before the Recorder at the Central Criminal Cuurt,
and was sentenced to be transported for seven years.
We stop the press to announce that intimation has
been received this afternoon of the sudden death of Mr.
George Houston, of Johnstone Castle, late M.P. for Ren-
trewshire. The only particulars we have learned are,
that this young gentleman dropped dead on the moors
when out shooting in Aberdeenshire. Mr. Houston was
a candid, straightforward gentleman, of a kindly and
benevolent disposition, and we are sure he will be much
regretted by all who have enjoyed his acquaintance.—
Glasgow Saturday Post.
A trial of an immense machine for cutting railroads,
named by the inventor, Mr. Cochrane, a native of the
United States, " The Railway Excavator," was made
yesterday in the premises of Messrs. Varrall and Co., the
engine and machine makers, in the Avenue Trudaine. A
large heap of earth and stones was placed at one ex-
tremity of the yard, and the machine having been set to
work by means of a steam engine of 20 horse-power
forming part of it. the greater part was cut through and
the rubbish thrown aside in a few minutes. One of these
machines is, we understand, now in use on the Eastern
Counties Railroad.— Galignani's Messenger.
Pnovisios CONTRACT.—The navy contract for 600
tierces of beef has been taken at £3 18s. 5d., by Messrs.
Bnrnewall and Sons ; and at £8 Iss. 10d. for 600 tierces
of pork. by Messrs. Allan and Anderson. This is a great
failing off in prises, as well as in quantity, for in Septem-
ber, 1842, 16,000 tierces of beef were taken at £5 9s. 10d.
to £5 14s. Bd., and 14,000 tierces of pork at £5 18s. fid.
to £5 19s. The curing houses having been prepared for
the diminished wants of the Government, which is said
to have large supplies still, owing to the cessation of the
China war, the market is not expected to go lower.
The celebrated vine at Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor
Park, supposed to be the largest in the world, will this
year produce more than its usual abundant supply of
fruit. It now contains 2,350 bunches of grapes, each
averaging one pound weight, thus yielding upwards of a
ton of this rare and appreciated fruit. Its length is now,
under the skilful cultivation of Mr. Ingram, her Majesty's
gardener, 138 feet, and its width 16. extending over a space
of upwards of 2,200 superficial feet. It has now been
planted 40 years, and has ever been greatly prized by the
Sovereign.
THE BLIND TRAVELLER.—Lieut. Holman, R.N., the
celebrated blind traveller, took his departure on the 3d
ins ~ from Malta for Naples. He will afterwards proceed
to the Roman States, and thence to Trieste. During the
few days of his residence in this island the greatest hos-
pitality has been shown ['jai. The veteran traveller had
the honour of dining with his excellency the Governor
and frequently with admiral Sir E. Owen. Amidst all the
vicissitudes of his perilous life and increasing age, be still
maintains the same unabated thirst for travel, and his
mental and bodily faculties appear to grow in activity and
strength in the inverse ratio of his declining life and
honoured grey hairs.

!1, 1 EL ANCIIOLY ACCIDENT.—On Monday two men lost
their lives suddenly at a well about fifty feet deep, in Mr.
Gibb's lands, near Kirkintilloch. The water stands about
three feet deep in the well, and is brought up with wind-
lass, rope, and bucket. A workman was lowered by
means of this clumsy apparatus to recover an article of
small ♦alue that had fallen in, and in his descent he was
affected with foul air and perished. A neighbour, a
weaver, moved with generous feeling, descended to
rescue the man at the bottom of the well—before reaching
he called to be brought up—when within a yard of the
well's mouth, he stretched up his hands for aid—the rope
slipped over his arms, and he also perished.
SEIOCKING SUICIDE.—The Rev. Mr. Hare. of Liddinz-
ton, had been for sometime indisposed with a low nervous
affection. On Saturday morning, when Dr. Maurice, of
Marlb-trough, his medical attendant, called to see him,
Mrs. Hare told the doctor, in answer to his inquiry as to
Mr. Flare's health, that she thought him much better—
that he was just gone up stairs; and added, " Perhaps
yon will go up and see him, sir." Dr. Maurice accord-
ingly went upstairs, and, to his horror, found the rev.
gentleman weltering in his blood, with his head nearly
severed from his body. He had not left Mrs. Hare more
than ten minutes.— Wills Standard.

A PEAT BED UNDER ST. PAUL'S.—On Priday,in the
course of excavations which are in progress in St. Paul's
churchyard, the workmen crane to a bed of peat at about
13 feet from the surface. The depth of the bed was 41
feet. There have been above 20 carts filled with it. A
quantity of bones, earthenware, and various other articles,
were dug up from among the soil immediately in the lap
of the bed, from which it is supposed that this was the
oricinal surface, as all ahove is what is called " made
earth." It is a remarkable fact, that throughout the
greater part of the city of London there is a depth of from
10 to 15 feet of made earth, which is the accumulation of
many centuries.

THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND THE FIELD OF WA-
TERLOO.—The Sun, of Saturday last, says, '` We find,
in a Brussels paper, of the 20th, the following paragraph :
—' Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, the two minis-
ters who accompanied Queen Victoria, and a third person,
accompanied General Goblet, the minister of Foreign
Affairs, went in a Post-chaise to Waterloo. They visited
the church and the field of battle. It was reported, that
one of the three gentlemen who were accompanied by
General Goblet, was Prince Albert. The visit was quite
unexpected, and the visitors observed the strictest incog-
nito.' We should not wonder if the National, or some
other anti-English paper, in a future number, should an-
nounce that the mysterious stranger was the Queen of
England."

STIRLING ASSIZES.—CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—
At the Stirling assizes, on Wednesday, Lord Moncrieff
presiding, Allan Mair, an old man of upwards of 80 years
of age, was accused of the murder of Mary Fletcher or
Mair, his wife (who was upwards ot 70 years of age), upon
the night of Sunday, the 14th, or morning of Monday, the
15th of May last, within his house, at Candle-end or
Curshort, in the parish of Muiravonside, and county of
Stirling, in so far as he did, with a stick or other weapon,
beat and abuse the said Mary Mair, of which injuries
she came by her death. After the examination of several
witnesses, the jury unanimously found the panel guilty of
murder, as libelled. He was sentenced to be executed at
Stirling, on Wednesday morning, the 4th October.—
Scotch Reformers' Gazelle.

Loss OF A MAIL-BAG.—On Tuesday morning last,
owing to a defect in the buckles connecting the strap by
which the Birmingham and Brierly-hill bag was sus-
pended, it was unfortunately dropped on the road, and no
tidings were heard of its hawing been found until Wed-
nesday, when a collier informed the tollgate-keeper that
be had found it near Greatbridge. Information was im-
mediately forwarded to the guard, and the bag was
restored. It was discovered, however, that another seal
had been substituted for the one from the Post-office, and
that all the letters (between 40 and 50) had been opened.
The guard and two police-officers were immediately de-
spatched, and the collier was taken into custody on Wed-
nesday evening. We rejoice to state that none of the
letters were missing, and that the inconvenience of a day's
delay is, as it appears, the only material result. Ten
Towns' Messenger.