The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-27 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

John Gladstone, Esq. has subscribed £5O towards the
monument of Sir Walter Scott.
The Duke of Cambridge completed his seventieth year
on Saturday.
Mr. Geo. Thompson, of slave and corn-law notoriety,
arrived from India by the Oriental last week.
M'Culloch states, that the value of the manure alone,
annually pot on the soil of this country, is more tha❑ all
our foreign trade put together.
A meeting was held of the Anti-Corn-Law League on
Wednesday, at Covent-Garden. The principal speaker
was O'Connell.
The great fountain now in progress at Chatsworth, is
expected to play to a height of upwards of two hundred
feet.

Her Majesty has been pleased to commute the sentence
passed at the late Special Assizes for Chester, upon John
Shaw, for a rape at Congleton, from transportation to
im
prisonment.
WASTE months
WASTE LANDS.—The largest quantity of waste land in
any county in England is in the North Riding of York-
shire, there being no less than 132,815 acres of common
or waste land out of 1,897,592.
The leading congregationalists of London are now aim-
ing to augment the sum which it was proposed to raise for
day schools in their community from 100,0001. to 250,0001.
and the number of schools to not less than five hun.
dred.

Her Majesty, with the most gracious kindness and
consideration, has granted an apartment in Hampton
Court Palace to the Misses Pottinger, sisters of Sir Henry
Pottinger, Bart., end also to the orphan family of Sir
Lionel Smith, Bart., and Lady Smith.
A silver cup is to be run for by pedestrians on the first
day of Durham races, on the course, leaping over hurdles
three feet six inches high. A subscription has already
been entered into for that purpose. The race is to be con-
fined to competitors of the north.
SHOCKING CASE.—A boy, named Phillips, was lately
stabbed by his schoolfellow, at Cardiff. He is still alive,
but in a most dangerous state. No hopes are entertained
of his recovery. The boy who stabbed him is in custody.
—Monmouth Merlin.
SURVEY OF HOLYHEAD.—The Lucifer steam vessel,
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to finish the survey of Holyhead and the Welsh coast.—
Freeman's Journal.
FATAL ACC IDENTS.—A singular fatality has occurred
within the last fortnight in Montgomeryshire, no fewer
than four children, all females, having been burned to
death by their clothes accidentally taking fire ; besides
two awful instances of sudden death, one a boy and one a
girl, who were found dead in bed.
FATA.L ACCIDENT.--A poor man, of the name of
Charnock, was accidentally killed. by falling into the coal-
pit of Mr. Samuel Stock, near Billinge, on Friday last.
The unfortunate man was employed to keep watch at
night, and it is supposed his sight was dazzled by the fires
on the brow, and he walked into the shaft.
The banks of the metropolis are again making a move-
ment for an abridgement of business hours, and with every
probability of the alteration being carried out. The mer-
chants' clerks also e‘pect some relief whenever the ar-
rangement is completed, being, as a body, more hardly
worked than the bank assistants.—Globe.
LONGEVITY AND PEDESTRIANISM.--On Saturday Mr.
William Eaton, travelling packman, died at Brachin,
Forfarshire, at the age of 95. He had travelled with the
pack 74 years, and walked on an average 15 miles a day,
exclusive of Sundays, amounting to 347,430 miles, nearly
14 times the circumference of the globe.—Scotch Paper.
IMMENSE PORPOISE FOUND AT SALT MARSH.—On
Monday last, two young men, of the name of Roberts,
were surprised at finding, on the Marsh, a large porpoise,
which had been !eft by the tide. It was conveyed to
Woodbank, and found to measure 8 feet 7 inches in
length, 4 feet 4 inches in circumference, and supposed to
weigh upwards of 5001bs.—Chester Chronicle.
RUNCORN.—On Wednesday last, Job Millington, late
asistant to Mr. William Harding, deputy-constable of
Runcorn. was brought before the magistrates, at War-
rfngton, for having embezzled several sums of money,
while employed in collecting rates for Mr. Harding. The
prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next
quarter sessions, to be holden at Knutsford.
THE DONC ASTER CORPORATION.—This body of sa-
pient Whigs have parted with the fee-simple of the tolls
on the River Don for £l,OOO and the fortunate purchaser
has leased them at a rental of £6OO a year—a very nice
investment. What will the burgesses of this ancient
town think of the job which their Solons have perpetrated ?
Yorkshire Gazette.
A few days previous to the commencement of the late
severe weather, a labourer employed in Mr. Knight's
quarry, situate at Lady Lea, near Worksop, discovered
amongst a quantity of stone and rubbish, which he was
removing, a bird's nest, containing three young ones, all
of them alive and apparently doing well.—Doncaster
Gazette.

MURDERS BY A YOUNG CHILD.—A girl, only twelve
years old, named Mary Ann Johnson, has been committed
to Lincoln Gaol, charged with the murder of William and
Daniel Farr, her half-brothers, aged eight and five years,
by poisoning them with arsenic. at Benington, which she
had bought at the shop of Mr. Overton, of Boston. It is
said that the prisoner has made a confession implicating
other persons.
THE IVIINT.—This establishment sustained a loss by its
purchase of old worn silver coin from the Bank of Eng-
land during the past year of X 9,48.3. The sum issued out
of the consolidated fund for the purchase of silver and
copper bullion for coinage amounted during the past year
to £350,000. The silver coin delivered into the Mint-
office during the same period amounted to £276,606, and
the copper coin to £10,985.
A SECOND DANIEL LAMBERT.—On Sunday was bu-
ried at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, Charles Cole, a well-
known character, aged 42, who was found by his wife
lying dead by her side. Cole, though not more than five
feet seven inches, was of extraordinary bulk, weighing
24 stone (141 b. per stone.) He had been cook at the
Rainbow, Fleet-street, nearly 14 years. A short time be-
fore his decease, however, he had grown enormously fat.
—Globe.

On Monday a boy, of the name of Worthington, was
passing over the ice on Redesmere, near Capesthorne
Hall, when it gave way beneath him, and he was unfor-
tunately drowned. He came to the surface three times
before he finally sunk, and was heard repeating the
Lord's prayer. It was not till some time after that the
body was got out by means of a boat, by the Rev. J.
Heptinstell, life being then quite extinct.-117acclesfield
Courier.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, as Mr. Samuel
Lewis, of Cote Crook, rear Tarporley, was oui; shooting,
his gun missed fire, but while in the act of dropping it
from his shoulder, it exploded (having hung fire) and the
whole contents of the barrel entered the hands, thighs, and
abdomen of his friend Mr. Maurice Jones, the well-
known trainer and jockey, of Delamere Forest, who was
standing near at hand. Mr. Jones is going on fast to-
wards recovery.—Chester Courant.

DEATH BY SUFFOCATION.-111 the night of Tuesday
last, two men, father and son, named John White and
William White, wool-combers, who occupied a cottage in
Commercial-street, Bradford, died from suffocation. Be-
fore they retired to rest they had supplied the comb-pot
in their room with charcoal, to be ready for work in the
morning, but they perished from the effects of the car-
bonic acid gas evolved, and were found dead in bed early
in the morning.
WELLAND CANAL.—Riots still prevail along the line;
in consequence of the usual winter reduction in wages,
hundreds have refused to work, and are living upon the
pillage of the surrounding country. A detachment of the
coloured troops are on the spot. The rate of wages at
present is 2s. 6d. a-day, to be raised to 3s. 141. on the
Ist of January. Many would be glad to work at this rate
but are driven off by the rioters. Mr. Moore, one of the
contractors, has been severely injured by the rioters.—
Montreal Courier.
On Saturday morning last, about four o'clock, a loaded
gun, heavily charged, was fired into the house of Peter
Lyon, at Thatto-heath, Eccleston, shortly after he had
gone to his work. Lyon was what is called " a nobstick,"
working at the colliery of Messrs. Broinilow ; and there
is no doubt that his destruction and that of his family were
contemplated. Providentially no injury was done to any
of them. The ruffians who perpetrated this diabolical
outrate are yet undiscovered, but there were several foot-
marks about the house, of which the measure was taken.
At the Guildhall, London, yesterday week, two females
of respectable appearance, named Mrs. Ann Elizabeth
Earnshavv and Emma Wells, were brought before Mr.
Alderman Challis, charged with stealing two silver fruit-
knives from the shop of Mrs. Rose, a jeweller and silver-
smith, in Farringdon-street ; a gold locket, value 12s. 6d.,
from the shop of Mr. Lamb, a jeweller in ChFapside ; and
a piece of ribbon, value 55., from Messrs. Hitchcock and
Rogers,
week.
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SUDDEN DEATH.—A melancholy instance of the un-
certainty of human life occurred in the up-train of the
Eastern Counties Railway on Thursday last. Mr. Thomas
Gainsborough, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Isling_
ton, left Sudbury, and proceeded by rail. When the train
stopped at Brentwood, two gentlemen, who were his
fellow-travellers, remarked that Mr. Gainsborough had
taken a long nap, and proceeded to rouse him, when he
was discovered to be quite dead. Mr. Gainsborough was in
the 62nd year of his age, a native of Sudbury.—Suffulk
Herald.

weeks, in a state of alarm, in consequence of the riotous
proceedings of those colliers who have struck for wages.
The men at the respective collieries of Messrs. Crockford
Holywell and the neighbourhood have been, for some
and Kenrick continued to work up to Tuesday week, when
which had collected from Mostyn, Bagilt, and
Flint, surrounded the yards,
abused several of the men,
a mob,
succeeded in stopping the works. On the
same fidnaaily y the justices met, and deemed it prudent to send
for a detachment of military from Chester Castle, which
arrived on the following morning.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WAKEFIELD.--011 Tuesday
morning, about two o'clock, an accident occurred at the
Wakefield-station, which shows very great negligence on
the part of somebody, and which we doubt not will be in-
quired into by the proper parties. It appears that a train
from York was unloading a number of sheep, and while
the men were employed in this, a luggage-train from Man-
chester approached at a rapid rate, aad ran into the York
train, breaking several carriages, and doing considerable
injury to both the engines. We are happy
no serious personal injury to say that
took place.—Halffox Guar-
dian.