The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

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A cabbage weighing 201 b. was cut near Bawtry, York-
shire, last week.
On Monday, a house near Ipswich was set on fire by
lightning, and destroyed.
At the Wesleyan Conference, Dr. Bunting announced
his retirement from the ministry, and requested to be
placed on the list of supernumaries.
A marble statue of the Rev. John Wesley, the founder
of methodism, has been presented to the Wesleyan Con-
nexion.
The concert which Jenny Lind gave for the Hospital for
Consumption at Brompton, produced £lBOO for the cha-
rity.
The manufacturers of the Government postage stamps
have denied that there is anything poisonous in the gum
applied to them. It is perfectly innocent.
Saturday, the 22nd ultimo, was the anniversary of the
day which witnessed the establishment of the first Eng-
lish newspaper, now 260 years ago.
On Saturday week, a spirit shop and a provision shop
were destroyed by fire at Newcastle. A fireman named
Golloway perished in the ruins.
STEALING MONEY LETTERS.-At Derby assizes, John
Gray, employed in the post-office there, pleaded guilty to
three charges of stealing letters containing money. He
was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
Earl Brownlow exhibited, at the ArchEeologcali
Insti-
tute's meeting at Lincoln, a silver oar, presented to the
corporation of Boston by Queen Elizabeth, and sold by
the town council in 1832.
The w oman brutally assaulted in an Irish row, in Wake-
field, on the 14th ult., died on Sunday last. A charge of
murder is preferred against a man named Asquith, and is
to be beard on this day (Tuesday).
An Irish cattle-drover absconded on the 21st ult. from
North Charlton, Durham, with the price of ten cattle,
which he had been employed to drive, but which he had
sold.

The Carlisle Patriot states, that after a sermon at
Nether Denton Church on Sunday, the 9th ultimo, a
collection was made, which amounted to the large sum of
three-halfpence.
At the Ambleside petty sessions, the parish constable
appeared before the magistrates to accuse himself of
having been drunk at the fair, and the magistrates fined
him 55., which he paid.
A man named John Rowlands, a night watchman,
employed at the railway works at the Menai Straits, was
found dead, last week, with a frightful wound on the left
side of his head. It is feared he has been murdered.
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SENSIBLE FELLOWS !—A far greater number of Irish
reapers have passed through the town of Worksop during
the last fortnight, than have ever been known to frequent
that town and district before. They literally come in
shoals in quest of harvest employment.
Three estates of the Duke of Buckingham, comprising
the whole of the parish of Hillesden, Bucks, 12,000 acre-
at Finmore, Oxon, and the hamlet of Falcott-cums
Aswell, Northamptonshire, were sold on Saturday for
X 216,400.
The London police are now armed with cutlasses hav-
ing saws at the back ; they serve all the purposes of a
sword, whilst they are so constructed that if they once
enter a barrier, or plank, no matter how thick, scarcely a
minute would be required to sever it.
The unhappy William Atter, convicted at the last as-
sizes for murder at Portsmouth dockyard of O'Connor,
was executed on Wednesday at Winchester. He conti-
nued praying whilst the executioner prepared him for the
fatal moment. and died instantly.
A London paper mentions, that one day last week the
master of the rolls was forced to adjourn the sitting of his
court, as the stench caused by the emptying of a neigh-
bouring cesspool was so great, that neither judge, barris-
ters, nor attorneys, could endure it.
On Sunday week, four young lads from Dundee went
in an old leaky fishing boat on the Long Loch of Lundie,
and had not proceeded far when the boat swamped, and
three of them—two brothers named Smith, and a cousin
named Williamson,—were drowned.
BUSINESS HOURS IN LONDON.—It is understood that
on and after the second of October next the West-end
bankers contemplate following the course adopted by the
city establishments three months back, of closing their
counter business at four o'clock.
On Wednesday, the members of the Junior United
Service. Club gave a complimentary entertainment to
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles J. Napier, the late gover-
nor of Scinde, on the occasion of his return to England
from the scene of his brilliant services in India.
The proprietor of Barrett's Hotel at Ross has inter-
dicted the public the right of " free ingress and egress "
to a public walking-place, called " Prospect," left in
1693, by John Kyrie, the Man of Ross, for " their walk-
ing or diversion," and enjoyed by the public without let
or hindrance to the present time.
A society was established in London on Wednesday, to
be called the Irish Amelioration Society, to employ the
peasantry in the preparation of peat fuel and charcoal ;
and, by removing the peat, to effect the full reclamation
of the bog lands ; the surplus profits to be expended in
improving the social condition of the people.
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned, at Gros-
venor-square, London, against Mrs. Mary Anne Dore,
the mother, and Mrs. Spry, the grandmother, of a female
child, aged four months, who had been poisoned by arse-
nic. The parties appear to have been moving in a re-
spectable sphere of life.
A fire broke out on Monday on board the sloop Nep-
tune, at Bristol, with five tons of charcoal on board, by
spontaneous ignition. By the prompt arrival of engines
it was speedily extinguished, when a boy in the cabin,
and a porter in the forecastle, were discovered to have
been suffocated.
MANSLAUGHTER.—On Friday week a young labouring
man named Roberts, near Evesham, was going along the
road, when he was overtaken by a drunken man on horse-
back, who knocked Roberts down and rode over him,
killing him on the spot. He has been committed for
manslaughter.
The committee to which the proposal for the abolition
of punishment of death was referred has affirmed it, and
recommended a bill for carrying the abolition into effect;
the cases of war and the declaration of a state of siege are
excepted. The military code will still retain the power
of inflicting sentence of death.
The Glasgow Examiner states that a Latter-day Saint
in Campsie, who suspected the knowledge of his brethren,
one day recited, in French, a few verses of the 23rd Psalm,
as if he had spoken in an unknown tongue. By the saints
these verses were interpreted to mean that the orator
should become a missionary, and successfully initiate the
heathen into the knowledge of the Book of Mormon.
FURTHER APPREHENSION OF CHARTIST LEADERS.—
On Thursday two more chartists, named Bryson and
Shell, were brought before Mr. Hall, the chief magistrate
at Bow-street, having been apprehended the previous day
on warrants issued by his worship, upon the information
of the government reporters. They have been committed
for trial.
DECLINE OF METHODISM.—No new applications for
ministers have been made to the Conference this year ; on
the contrary, some of the old circuits have given notice
that unless the Conference is prepared to contribute largely
to the expense of *maintenance, they wish their ministers
to be withdrawn. The Welch Methodist Chapel in Lon-
don is not to have a regular minister for the future, but is
to be served by a student of the Richmond College.
VANDALISM.—At a recent meeting of an Archgeolo-
gict.l Society in Devonshire, it was stated that, many
years ago, the ancient stone pulpit of Plympton Church
was broken to pieces to form sleepers for some pews
which were being erected in the edifice. One of the per-
sons who perforrnea the work of destruction, on being
interrogated on the subject, said, " It were voinely
carved ; but we'd, a tarribul job to knack tut abrard..