The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

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tish flag; and secondly, to assimilate spring salt imported
from the United Kingdom into Belgium to raw salt, as
regards duties of customs and excise, in case it is destined
for manufactories and warehousing.
_:;HT MISTAKE.—An old lady who used to fre-
.6 St. Peter's Church, Burnley, got into a comfortable
..00ze One warm Sunday during the sermon. While
thu&joat to all around, the clock struck fnur and slightly
disturbed her slumbers.. Business, of course, was upper-
_

nerseif at home, she exclaimed,
inirlour bell rings. Billy, gang ye." What
thought when she found out her mistake,
not, but probably she was more " wide

most, and, WO
" The bad
the,old lad
deponent sa►tn

awake" on subsequent occasions.
TOE GLASGOW LADIES AND THE VISITATION OF CON-

VENTS.--ne ladies of Glasgow, under a becoming sense
of the outrage offered to their sex, and the cause of mora-
lity, by the conventual system, are getting up a memorial
to the Queen, praying the adoption of lejslative mea-
sures, by which the light of heaven, and the wholesome
influences of magisterial visitation, may reach the hidden
recesses of the so-called " religious bons(

or nunne-

ries, unhappily being established in this country

—Glas-

goo Consiiiulional.
Fill AT A DISTILLERY. On Wednesday morning a
fire broke out in the extensive premises belonging to Mr.
W. Burbidge, the distiller; in Aldersgate-street, London.
It appears that the stillman was engaged in " damping"
a still charged rr,"

69 gallons of spirits. w
still. containing between 300 and 400 g
and the spirit, running into the farnam
_ _ _
the con

en an an-
Lllons, sud-

Joining

denlyoverflowc

became ignited, causing —ents of the larger still
also to take fire. The damage is roughly estimated at
from £2,000 to £3.000.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Christmas-day, Mr. J.
'Rs, a special pleader, who resided at No. 3, Garden-

court-, Temple, London, was found dead in his Chambers,
having a very deep wound in his head. It is supposed that
on retiring to his bedroom he was seized with vertigo, and
fell against the key in the door-lock ; being a heavy man,
the-key inflicted the wound, and his weight acting against
it tore away the bone. On the laundress arriving in the
morning she immediately called in a surgeon, who
attended prorcptly, but life had been extinct above half
an hour. The deceased was about 60 years of age.
MRS. COLONEL BLOOMER COMING TO ENGLAND.—
Mrs: Colonel Bloomer is said to be so gratified at the
slight progress Bloomerism has made in England, that she
intends visiting U 3 in the spring, accompanied by the gal-
lant colonel and a brilliant suite of ladies who have adopted
the. new costume. A magnificent performance, entitled,
Every Day and Every Hour, (illustrative of the innu-
merable advantages of dress reform,) will, most probably
be acted by ti

iezzling corps, in one of the London, and
ever.al of our principal provincial theatres, and the admis-
lion will be very considerable.—Bristol paper. _ _

TRELL.-By the death of this gentle-
man the grave has closed on another of the ornaments
of a society of what may be termed conversational wits,
whiCh seems 'to be passing away without leaving a new
generation of its kind to replace it. Mr. Luttrell died on
the 19th instant, at the advanced are of 86. He was the

MR. HENR

friend and companion, hand impari passu, of Jekyll,
Mafrintosh, Jeffrey, Alvanley, Sydney Smith, and others
of that brilliant school, and of which the Messrs. Berry,
Rogers, Moore (the last, indeed, fast sinking), and but a
few'others are still left us. One of the wittiest men of
his day, he could amuse and delight by the keenness of
playful, yet pungent sallies, without wounding the feelings
of any one by the indulgence of bitterness and ill-nature.
DEATH OF A ITETERAN.-011 Wednesday, the 17th
instant, at Stonehouse, in his 83d year, Wm. Burke, the
martian
who, under compulsion, hoisted the red flag at
the breaking Out of the mutiny at Spitbead ; who was
the's,allant young seaman who, when the admiral's flag
lot away on board the Royal George, in the battle
" glorious Ist of June," recovered the lost colours
and nailed them to the stump of the broken mast; the
man who was presented to his late Majesty, when Lord
High Admiral, as the " first practical seaman in the
• • f I
And the veteran who was in:the active service of
Snore than sixty years, respected by every
one who knew him, from the flag-officer to the cabin-boy.
The deceased retired some (years since as boatswain of
DeYonport Dockyard.
THE PRESERVED MEATS AT CLARENCE YARD.—We
hear that it is intended to have an examination of every
case of the preserved meats at this yard, that were sup-
plied by the contractor (17,000 lbs. weight), a portion of
whose supplies was a short time since condemned as unfit
for human food. Such as are in an unwholesome condi-
tion will be returned to the contractor, whilst those that
are eatable will be given away to the poor of the neigh-
bourhood (people belonging to the navy and marines hav-
ing the preference), as being once opened and exposed to
the atmospheric influence they become, after a few hours.
unfit for food. An examination of this description took
place at Deptford a few days since, when out of about 288
cans, only some 50 were found free from putrefaction.--
Hants Telegraph.

the Crown for

BRIDE

" 6 TROUSSEAU
r. Messrs. Chi

."—ln the Court of Exche-
istian, the well-known ho-

siers and linen-drapers of Wigmore-street, brought an ac-
tion to recover from Mr. Horwood, an attorney, the sum
of £BO 6s. 6d., the amount of their bill for Mrs. Hor-
wood's " trousseau." Mrs. Horwood was a Miss French,
and the articles in question, which were booked to " Miss
French," were sent, as directed by her, addressed to her
brother. The elder brother became involved in his cir-
cumstances, and the plaintiffs' bill remained unpaid till
this action was recently brought, when the defendants
unipsit, and the infancy of Mrs. Horwood,
were " ne-

pleaded non

to which the plaintiffs replied that the goods
cessaries suitable to her rank."—The jury found a verdict
for the plaintiffs for £BO 6s. 6d.

A FACT NOT TO BE OVERLOORED.—The wife of the new
Foreign Secretary is an Italian lady of considerable rank
and wealth, and, as we hear, a bigotted Papist. In the
room, then, of Lord Palmerston, who, with all his faults,
has been an English minister, we are now to have a young
nobleman, whose nearest connection is a foreigner and a
Papist. The person who will be ever at Lord Granville's
elbow, and closest to him in his most unguarded hours,
will be also, every week, at the feet of a priest ; and that
priest one f Dr. Wiseman's nominees. No one who has
any acquaintance with the history of Romish intrigues in
former reigns will be at any loss to understand the vast
importance of this circumstance. Rome has now an active
agent ever in the closest possible intimacy with England's
Foreign Minister. A snore alarming conjunction could
hardly be imagined.—Bell's Messenger.
LAUNCHES ON THE THAMES.—On Tuesday last were
launched three of the finest ships that ever swam on the
river. The first launches were from the building.yard of
Messrs. Mare and Co., Blackwell, on whose premises are
building at the present moment about £500,000 worth of
eteanuships of all classes, and for all countries, including
those of England, Spain, Austria, Egypt, and Rome.
Those launched on Tuesday were, first, an iron steam
yacht for the Pacha of Egypt, of 2,200 tons, to be pro-
Polled by machinery of 800 horse.power. The second
Vessel was the Lady Jocelyn, screw steamer, built for the
General Screw Steam Company, who have the contract
for the conveyance of the mails to the Cape of Good Hope.
Her burden is 1572 tons, and her engines 300 horse-
Power. The third launch was from the building-yard of
Messrs. Green, of a ship called the Challenger, designed
to compete with the Yankee clippers.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE AND DETERMINED SUI.
tTDE—On Thursday last, a rumour became prevalent in
Newark, that Miss Sophia Calkwwell, only daughter of
Mr. John Calkwell, of Appleton-gate, had committed
suicide by hanging herself, and, on inquiry, the report
was found to be too true. It appears that for some months
Psat she bad been in a low. desponding way, and bad
lately become acquainted with a gentleman to whom she
anticipated being married ; however, from some cause or
other the match was broken off suddenly, and no doubt
this preyed heavily on her feelings, causing her to commit
the rash act above described. It is said that previous to
this she had attempted to destroy herself by taking poison
ce -two •occasions, but her object was frustrated. The
deceased's disappointment is said to have been a very
cruet one.- -After courting her for some time, they agreed
to be married. On a certain day every necessary prepa-
ration had been made—the banns published, breakfast
"MY, bride and bridesmaid dressed, and nothing wanting
to have the ceremony completed- but the presence of the
bridegroom, when instead of making his appearance
accOrding to promise and pre-arrangement, he sent a
cruet letter, and ever afterwards abstained from seeing her,
Is far as possible. The poor creature never overgot so
°ll4d ful a blow at her peace'of-mind and happiness..""'
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