The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLAN Y.

The Glasgow cotton spinners have agreed to raise the
wages of their workmen ten per cent.
A butcher was killed on Monday in the New Cut, Lon-
don, by his knife slipping out of his mouth and sticking
in his abdomen.
A ferry-boat was run down off Woolwich, by the Wa-
terman steamer, on Friday, when two men were unfortu-
nately drowned, and two others seriously injured.
The Marquis of Londonderry has been defeated in an
attempt to in crease the police of the county of Durham.
The magistrates were against it.
At the present period there are only three prisons in
the metropolis for debtors, and the whole number does
not exceed 300 persons.

The river Ayle, at Westport, rose last week above eighty
feet be} and its usual level, and the current became so
strong as to sweep away hay, turf, oats, and even cabins.
At Hereford, 413 heads of families have signed a de-
claration to countenance those shops which close at early
hours, and discountenance the others.

Richard Leach, a sawyer, has been committed for trial
chargrd with attempting to destroy the timber yard, &c.
of Mr. Graham, a builder, at Bolton, on the llth instant.
The theatre at Beccles, built, a few years since, at an
expense of £2,000, is about to be converted into a corn
exchange.

About 5,000 acres of Dartmoor have been purchased by
a company, who have already fenced and drained patt of
it. and calculate on letting the whole at 10s. per acre.
Hitherto the land has been waste.
On Tuesday !ant, two men were killed, and another
seriously injured by the falling of an itunvlnse mass of
rock and earth, upwards of 1000 tons weight, at a quarry
near As'.ton.under-Lyne.
On Thursday evening week, Mr. Richard Cobuss, of
Cobb-street, Ash, in Kent, was shot dead by a concealed
assassin, supposed to have been his own son, George, a
youth of nineteen, who is in cu-tody.

Lord Eldon has sent a donation of £2OO to the com-
mittee for providing baths and wash-houses for the work-
ing classes, and several of the London bankers have an-
nounced their intention of giving large donations,
WINTER ASSIZES.—iI is now definitiv, ly fixed that
a winter gaol delivery shall take place in many parts of
the kincdom, but it is believed that the subsidiary arrange-
ments will not be made till the beginning of term.

THE. FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.—Just forty years ago, Mr.
Trevethick. a mining engineer, constructed the first loco-
motive engine at Merthyr Tydvil, and applied it success-
fully to the traction of ecal and coke.—Cambrian.
At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, the Hon.
W. Ross Touchet was tried for firing at the proprietor of
a Shooting Gallery in Holborn, and acquitted ou the plea
of insanity.

The Northern Star newspaper hitherto published in
Leeds, is about to be removed to London, to be issued
there ; but whether under the same title, which will then
be a misnomer, or under scme new name, we have not
heard.

The greatest activity almost ever known now exists in
the coal trade, no less than 290 ships' cargo hating been
purchased at lost Tuesday's coal market in London. The
average number of ships' cargoes sold previously being
only from thirty to fifty.—Newcastle Journal.
Mr. Sergeant Bompas, who died suddenly a short time
since, left a widow and a large family in somewhat in-
different circumstances ; but his professional brethren es-
teemed him so highly that a subscription was entered into
for the benefit of his family, to which Sir Thomas Wilde
contributed the princely sum of 1,000 guineas.
CID RR AND PERRY.—These I,quors will be very cheap,
this year, in Herefordshire, and on the banks of the
Severn, from Worcester to Chepstow. The crops of
apples and pears are much larger than last year: Is. to
Is. 6d. per bushel is now the price for good apples at
Hereford and Ledbury.

Washing-tub excursions appear to be increasing in fa-
vour amongst the Jack-pudding fraternity. The Dumfries
Courier states, that, on Friday week, the clown of Cook's
Circus took a voyage down the Nith in a vessel of the
above description, drawn by four geese, in the presence
of a large concourse of people.
A HORSE BUYER FROM THE "CELESTIAL EMPIRE!"
—Last week, at the Howden horse fair, the greatest per-
baps in England, among these present, strange as it may
appear, there was a buyer from the Emperor of China, in
the person of one of his subjects, attended by an inter-
preter.

LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night week, a
young woman named Hester Tilly, the daughter of a
farmer living at Ashley-hill, Stapleton, dearoyed herself
by jumping into a pool of water in her father's orchard.
The unhappy girl had been forbidden her father's house
in consequence of her keeping company with a young
man, whom.her parent did not approve.
Mr. Clark, manager of the extensive works of Messrs.
Monteith and Co., of Barrowfield, Glasgow, has made a
discovery is the art of calico printing, which is likely to
produce most important results in that trade, almost in
the same ratio as the invention of hot blast produced in
the iron trade. Mr. Clark has secured a patent for the
invention.

EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—A gentleman's servant, in
London, out of a situation, who had been out on Monday
evening with some friends, and having entered into play
at cards, bad lost between £4 and £5, returned to his
lodgings between one and two o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing much intoxicated, and cut his throat. He was removed
to the hospital without hopes of recovery.
CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last a 'pest
calamitous explosion of fire-damp took place In a coal-
pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at the Five Ways, Rowley
Regis. The number of persons at work in the pit at the
time is and rstood to have been seventeen or eighteen,
and of these no less than eleven have fallen victims to this
lamentable occurrence.

Tun LEIGH PEERAGE.--A ma❑ named John Leigh,
claimant to the estates of the Lord Leigh at Stoneleign,
Warwickshire, and about thirty of his followers have
been held to bail by the Magistrates of Leamington for a
riot and assault, in having broken in the panels of a door,
and taken forcible possession of Stoneleigh Abbey on
Monday morning last.

Monday being the thirty-ninth anniversary of the
memorable battle of Trafalgar, a number of naval offi-
cers, who had been in the engagement dined together, at
the Naval Club House, St. James's-square, London, in
commemoration of the day. At Greenwich Hospital the
tars engaged were regaled with an excellent dinner. a
pint of porter, and a shilling to each man.
A VETERAN CORONER.—At an inquest at Yeovil, on
Saturday, Mr. lt. P. Caines remarked that in the course
of his coronership he hid held no less thau 3800 inquests.
He had been a coroner nearly 28 years, and during the
last seven years alone he had travelled 36765
giving an average of 5252 miles per year. He had raid
in turnpikes during thes even years a sum very Huh: short
of £9O.

INCONSOLABLE."—It is stated, that the Quoen has
ordered a pension of X3O to be granted to the widow of
Walker, the artilleryman, who was killed by the discharge
of a cannon on the King's Bastion, at Portsmouth; and
Louis Phiilippe has also expressed an intention of pro-
viding for the woman. It is feared, however, that she
may not survive to enjoy the pension ; she remained in-
sensible from the Monday until Saturday week.
THE BELGIUM TARIFF.—A very serious increase has
been made by the Belgian government, in the duties upon,
silk and cotton manufactures, and also upon machines im-
ported into that country. The effect will probably be, to
drive the manufactures of Manchester out of the Belgian
markets, and to have them replaced by the manufactures
of Rouen and MulLausen. The whole measure is one of
the utmost hostility to England.
PASSING IIALF-NOTES.—At the London Mansion-
house, on Friday, three cutlers appeared before Sir Peter
Laurie and exposed an ingenious system by which they
had been swindled out of portions of their property. Par-
ties from Southampton had, it appet re 1, sent them let-
ters, enclosing the halves of stolen Batik of England notes
and ordering goods to the full amount of the enclosure,
! and, when the goods were forwarded, the remaining halves
were never remitted.

EXPORTATION or METALS.—The official returns of
our exportations during the last two years exhibit a great
increase in the last over the present one. In the article
of metals, embracinc, iron and steel, copper, brass, and
tin, we exported in the year ending sth September, 1813,
to the amount of £3,405,568, and in the same period
ended sth September, 1844, £4,136,984, showing an in-
crease in the present year of upwards of seven hundred
and thirty thousand pounds.
COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A very general strike has taken
place amongst the colliers at Olbury, for a raise of 6d.
per
day.On Monday last, at a very early hour, they
congregated in crowds of about 150 persons, and went to
F the different pits to prevent those willing to work from
going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most
of the men at play. On Tuesday morning their intentions
were frustrated by the very active measures resorted to.
—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
New POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Mr. Bowen, an old cor-
respondent of the Times, has established the' revolting
fact, that in one of the new workhouses erected in this
Christian country, (in the Bridgewater Union,) females—
one of them with an infant at her breast—have been set to
break stones as a labour suited to their age and sex, and
have been afterwards sentenced to three weeks' hard Ja-
i bour in the House of Correction, in consequence of their
refusal to submit to such cruel and degrading task-work.
REVISING-BARRISTERS.—The duties of the revising-
barristers for the revision of the lists of voters for the
present year are drawing to a close. The first revision,
in the year 1833, cost upwards of £30,000 in payments
to the barristers and for their expenses ; but under the
Registration of Voters' Act their charges were limited to
200 guineas each. It appears that the payment to the
barristers, including their expenses, now amounts to the
fixed yearly sum of £14,700. More appeals are expected,
to the Court of Common Pleas in the present than.
occurred in the preceding revision.
The New Brazilian Tariff levies duties of 40 per cent.
on carpeting, earthenware, glass, paper, and ready-made
clothing ; 25 per cent. on brass, copper, iron, lead, tin,
steel and leather ; 20 per cent. cn handkerchiefs of linen,
cambric, or cotton lace, thread, or silk ; and 30 per cant.
on all articles not enumerated, which of course innde
nearly all kinds of cotton. woollen, linen, and silk manu-
factures, and iris said that those goods are to be taken at
their estimated value and 10 per cent. additional. The
Government is authorised to lay additional duties on the
goods of any nations which subject the produce a' Brazil
to a higher duty than similar produce of other countries.
SUICIDE OF AN OLD SPORTSMAN.--011 Mmislay night
an inquest was held at Lewisham, Kent, upon ';',Le body of
Charles Morton, aged 76, who was found d-oad, hanging
from a rafter in a barn belonging to a gentltrnan named
Russell, residing at Lee. It appears that the deceased
was formerly huntsman to the Earl of Derby, and that
subsequently he kept tie Derby Arms Inn, Croydon, the
Magpie Inn, on Hounslow Heath, and latterly was land.
lord of the Leaping Bar, Blackfriars-road, where he was
robbed by his housekeeper of a considerable sum of money,
since which he had involved himself in.a lawsuit, which
ended in his ruin. Of late he had baeome very eccentric
and strange in his manner.
DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—MA. Wakley on )Friday
held an inquest on the body of a.man named Hall, who
had died in Marylebone. His widow stated, that after
having pawned every article they possessed, she was com-
pelled, he being too ill to work, to apply fox parochial
relief, but it was refused her, and he died from actual
want (it appeared) in a few days afterwards,. The coroner
declared he could s:-e the ion. woman herself was .
starving at that very moment. She said. .
(four in number) were.in a similar state. .ve, tome
had been given to Lee husband, but they we t.) Aatlif
they applied again: for relief they !would beA tattf,e4"-.'7io
their parish, which they did not desire, al tittte,.44
chance of euiplpyrne4t wai whew they were. !

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r NEW YORK LINE OF PACKETS.
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4.ONT Sailing on the 21st of every month.
041.104,
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PATRICK HENRY, DELANO MOO tons.. 2lst Nov.
GEO. WASHINGTON, ALLEN 00 tons.. 21st Dec.
INDEPENDENCE, NYE
ASHBURTON, HUTTLESTON HOC tons.. 21st Feb.

N.B.—The PATRICK HENRY, Capt, J. C. Pelano,
will take the place of the GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Capt. Allen, for Me next voyage, to sail from New
York on the 6th October, and from Liverpool on the
21st November.

These well-known superior Ships are all of the first-
class, built expressly for the Packet-service, posessing
the qualities of fast-sailing, with every accommodation
and comfort that can be afforded on shipboard, and com-
manded by men of great experience- and acknowledged'
character. The Cabin Passage Money is fixed at TW EN-
TY-FIVE POUNDS, for which an abundant supply of all
Stores will be provided, with the exception of Wines
and Spirits, which can be had of the Steward, if required.
These packets sail punctually to the appointed day, and
take no freight two days previous to being -despatched.—
For Freight, and Cabin Passage only. apply to •
CHAPMAN, BOWMAN, and Co.,
9, Rumford-place.
Freight payable in New York at the rate of four dollars
and eighty cents per pound sterling.

NEW YORK LINE OF PACKETS. -
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14* 4 -
EV'
I ; NEW ARRANGEMENT.
'UN l'2171) STATES,
on the 26th of every Month.
A. BairroN 650 tons.. 26th Nov.
-.IRGINIAN, " n.u,‘l.LuN ... 620 tons.. 26t h Dec.
M SAUEL IIICKS 830 tons.. 26th Jan.
STEPHEN AV II ITNE''W IL.
TuoursoN ......
...... 1 1031 tons.. 26th Feb.

. These ships are all of the first, erlass, recently built in
the city of Nevi,- York ; and,
Vgth, beauty of
model, pune,nality and swiftneEs or:ta as well as for
are not
camfort of cabin aceor'elioricie'aotnions,
Went and
surpassed by Inv in the ~rade. and
men of great exuerienee. The rare of Cabin deers
are
MOW is TWEFFY-FIVE POUNDS, ft, ' Pa:"age-.
. r which. all
. Stores Will be found, cx cept Wines and Spirits, wi •„,.1,
an be had of the StewArd, if required. To insure' ntiiii-e
-.lpality in sailing, no Go-wis can be received on board:
unless thpy'are down two d.O's before the day
and of sa
CO.iling
7Apply to T. Lim( J. SANDS •
Freight by Oleic vessels to be r4ccted in New York
at the ritf, qf foq &lip-- r.;ri-,fi ni)l. to the pound
sterling. ' ' ‘'''''r
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For GREENOCK and GLASGOW
With Goods and Passengers.
cabin.. 205.: Steward's Fee.. 2s.—Deck.. ss.
THE GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL STEAM
SHIPPING COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIPS

ACHILLES,
Captain litrox MAIN, and
~111 FIRE KING, Captain J. M` PHERSON,
Sail regularly from the Clarence Dock,
LIVERPOOL, to GLASGOW.
The undernoted or other first-class Steam-Ship is
intended to sail as follows, from LIVERPOOL :
OCTOBER.
ACHILLES .... Thursday, the 315 t.... at 1, Afternoon.
For further particulars apply to
THOMAS MARTIN and BURNS and Co.,
7, Water-street, Liverpool.
GEORGE and JAMES BURNS,
Buchanan-street, Glasgow; or to
ARCHIBALD BLACK,
Custom-house-place, Greenock.

ForDUBLIN, BELFAST, BANGOR, BEAUMARIS,
and CARNARVON.

THE CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM.
PACKET COMPANY,
illl
t
-4- )21 Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
The above Company sail their Vessels, (with or without
Pilots,) taking Goods and Passengers,
For DUBLIN,
The Company's new and splendid Vessels, QUEEN
VICTORIA, PRINCE, PRINCESS, and IRON
DUKE, of GOO tons burthen and 20 horses power, (with
Cabin PasPerzyersouly,) sail EVERY EVENING, at Seven
o'Clock, from George's Pierhead, LIVERPOOL, to
KINGSTOWN iIARI3OUR, carrying her Majesty's
Mail.
They also sail their Cargo Vessels (as below) from the
Clarence Dock to DUBLIN QUAY :
In IS DAY, Oct. 29, at 10 o'clock P.M.
WEDNESDAY, ~ 30, 12 „ NOON.
TIIURSDAY, 31, 12 „ NOON.
For BELFAST,
The AT II LONE.
WEDNESDAY. Oct. 30, at 11 o'clock P.m.
Returning from BELFAST to LIVERPOOL every
SATURDAY.
For BANGOR, BEAUMARIS. and CARNARVON
The ERIN-GO-BRAGH,
W. 11. WARREN, R.N., Commander,
Further information given at the Company-1$ Ofi]ce,
WVGT-street,
JOHN K. ROUNTHWAITE, Agent.

IN CHANCERY.
COUNTY OF SLIGO.

John Britton and other:, whore, by John Britton, their
next Friend, ; Adam 111' Donnell, Elizabeth
111.1)&nnell, and others, Defendants.

THE SALE under the decree in this cause of all that
and those that PART of the LANDS of CUR-
HOWNA called the CHURCH-LAND, and also the
MILL and WATERCOURSE, with the LAND adjoin-
ing, as formerly held by ANDREW JOHNSTON, Esq., and
afterwards in the possession of Elizabeth Parke, with all
Houses and Offices erected thereon, is ADJOURNED to
FRIDAY, the 15th day of November next, at the hour of
One o'clock in the Afternoon.

Dated this 22d day of July, 1844. •
E. LITTON.

For rt ntal and particulars, aid inspectic n of map and
survey, application to be made to JOHN FARIS, Solicitor,,
having carriage of decree, No. 6, Henrietta-street; Jo-
SEMI A. NEWELL, Solicitor for defendants, 178, Great
Brunswick-street ; EDWARD JONES, Solicitor for re-
ceiver, No. 7, Lower Gardiner-street, Dublin ; and Was.
PATRICKSON, Esq., the receiver, Thorn Hill, Sligo.

IMPORTANT SALE OF OLD TIMBER TREES.
On FRIDAY, the 22d November next, at Twelve o'clock,
at the Eagle's Head, in Over Kellet,

Tr HE following WOODS, situated on Aughton Hall
Estate. near Lancaster, in. Lots.

Lot 1.-H IGH INT ACK WOOD.

150 Oak Trees, numbered, and several Ditto, crossed,
5 Alders, 1 Plain Tree.
Lot 2.—LOW INTACK WOOD.

5 Oaks. 70 Ash. numbered, also some crossed, 21 Elms,
41 Plain Trees. 5 Cherry Trees.
Lot 3.—G MEAT WOOD CLOSE.

254 Oaks, numbered, end several crossed, 209 Ash
Ditto, and some crossed, 59 Beech, and some crossed, 13
Plain Trees, 6 Elms.
Lot 4.-INTACK WOOD.

42 Oaks, numbered. and a few crossed, 16. Ash Ditto,
and a few Crossed, 1 Plain Tree, 4 Aspen.
Lot 5.--BIRKEN BANK WOOD. _ _

87 Oaks, numbered, and some with a cross, 41 Ash
Ditto, and some with s cross, 3 Alder. 1 Cherry Tree.

Lot 6.—JENNY BANK WOOD.
29 Oaks, numbered, and several crossed, 6 Plain Trees,
ditto, and several crossed, 1 Cherry Tree.
Lot 7.—KNOWLE WOOD.
94 Oaks, numbered. and several ctosstd,3 Ash, 3 Alder.
Lot B.—HANDLE BARROW WOOD.
130 Oaks, numbered, and several crossed, 5 Asb, 6
Alder, and several crossed.
The above Timber is of large dimensions, and suitable
for Shipbuilders, Coachmakers, and Wheelwrights. Being
I,:!uated on the banks of the Lune, it is easy to remove.
Mr. JOHN NEWHOUSE, or Augbton Hall, will show
the Woods, and for further particulars apply to Mr.
GARDNER, at Capernwray hall Lodge.
The COuditions to be declared at the sale.

TO HEADS OF FAMILIES, &c.

FREEMAN'S SWEET ESSENCE OF SENNA.
(The most agreeable Purgative.)
Containing in a highly concentrated form all the active
principle of senna entirely deprived of its nauseating and
griping properties, and rendered so peculiarly pleasant to
the taste, that children will take it with a positive relish.
The extraordinary merit of this medicinal novelty has
obtained for it the distinguished patronage of Her Ma-
jesty—the Queen Dowager—the following Physicians to
tier Majesty and the Queen Dowager, Sir C. M. Clark.
Bart:, M.D., Dr. Ferguson, and Dr. Locock—Sir David
Davies, and Dr. Holland—by many Princes, Nobles, and
Families of distinction, by most of the eminent Physicians
and Medical Men in London, who have been for several
years, and now are, in the daily habit of prescribing and
recommending it as the best and safest domestic aperient
for females and children—the aged and delicate—the
nervous—the bilious—the habitually costive, and those
suffering from piles, worms, sickness, or head ache, and
as being particularly adapted for ladies during pregnancy,
and children during dentition.
Impelled by a sense of duty, confideat of conferring a
great national benefit, the proprietor proudly submits it
to the patronage of a discerning public, assured that a
single trial will convince every one of its inestimable value
as a pleasant, safe, and efficacious domestic aperient, the
moderate price of which places it within the reach of every
family. Sold by all respectable Vendors of Medicine, in
Betties at Is., 2s. 6d., 51., 12a. 6d. and 20s. each.
CAUTION—The great celebrity this medicine has attain-
ed, having induced many druggists in Scotland and Eng-
land to put up for sale, base and worthless imitation, to
the serious injury of the original Preparation. Purchasers
are therefore requested to ask for Freeman's Sweet Es-
sence of Senna, each genuine bottle of which is signed
John Freeman.

To the Medical Profession. Captains of Ships, and

Person, Travelling abroad.
TESTIMONI AL.

48, Stamford-street, London, August 2, 18.14.

. _
Sir,-1 have much pleasure in hearing testimony to
your unique and elegant preparation of Senna, which
contains in a highly concentrated form, the active princi-
ple of that Valuable Domestic Aperient. I have taken it
out with me twice to India, and having found it to preserve
the active principle of Senna quite free from fermentation,
1 consider it admirably adapted for persons traTelling
abroad: and am quite sure, that no person who knew its
value, would ever take a voyage without a supply of your
Sweet Essence of Senna.

I remain, Sir, yours respectfully,
It. M►APLETON, Surgeon.
To Mr. J. Freeman, Blackfriara-road, London.

HWALKER'S NEEDLES, (by authority the
e QUEEN.S OWN,") with the new large eyes, arc
easily threaded, (even by blind persons,) and work with
great ease, haying improved points, temper, and finish :
they are made of every length or substance, and for every
purpose the labels are correct likenesses of Her Majesty
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in relief on co-
loured grounds. They can be sent free by post, by any
respectable de:Aler, on receipt of 13 penny postage stamps
for every shilling value.
WALunu's HOOKS and EYES, FISH-HOOKS,
STEEL &c. are recommended.
H. WALKER, Manufacturer to the Queen, No. 1, (late
20,) Maiden-lane, Wood-street, London.