The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Sir Howard Douglas had an interview with Lord Stan-
ley, on Friday, at the Colonial Office.
All marriages at Gretna-green are declared illegal from
the Ist of January next.
The Sycee silver just arrived from China is to be sold
by public competition.
Yesterday week a medical student named Murrough
was gored to death by a bull in a field near Gravesend.
The Privy Council has refused a charter of incorpo-
ration for the town of Bradford.

Lord Sandon arrived in London, on Wednesday, with
his family, from Belgium.
The Royal children are at Osborne House under the
charge of Lady Lyttleton.
W. Bailie, Esq. offers for Linlithgowshire, on the con-
servative interest, in the place of Mr. Hope, the newly-
appointed governor of the Isle of Man.
During the past week, a female named Carlton, resi-
ding in the city of York, was single, married, and a wi-
dow, all within the space of three days.
A claim to the Scotch peerage of Lovat, which has
been suspended since the execution of Lord Lovat in
1746, has been put in by the Rev. A. G. Fraser, A.M.

Guernsey cider is selling at Brixham for 18s. per hog-
shead. cask and all. The crop of apples is unusually
great in the Channel Islands.

On Monday night, four seamen who had gone out in a
lugger with a pilot, to a ship off the harbour of Norfolk,
were drowned by the upsetting of the boat.

William Spicer, a journeyman basket-maker, has been
committed on the charge of the wilful murder of his wife,
at Reading.
Masons in Northumberland are now publicly offered
£1 is. per week, while twelve months ago 15s. to Hs.
was the current rate of wages.

Two persons were killed and fifteen seriously injured by
an explosion of hydrogen gas in the Bath pit, near Ashby-
de-la-Zouch, a few days siuce.

A vacancy has occurred in the representation of South•
work by the death of Benjamin Wood, Esq. Mr. Jere-
miah Plicher, late Sheriff of London, is a candidate.
Live geese have become an article of import from the
kingdom of Hanover into Hull.

Lord William Harvey has been appointed minister ple-
nipotentiary from England to France during the absence
on leave of Lord Cowley.

Mr. Sergeant Murphy retires from Parliament next
February, owing, he says himself, to excess of business,
according to others to intimidation.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is on
a visit to Sir William Massey Stanley, at the worthy ba-
ronet's shooting box in Inverness.

Last week Mr. Cripps was returned for Cirencester,
Sir C. Douglas for Warwick, and Lord Arthur Lennox
for Chichester—all unopposed:
A young boy, the son of Mr. Whitbread, near Bedford,
was killed, last week, by a tree, which a woodman was
cutting down, falling on him.

Mr. and Miss Vandenhoff performed a round of their
favourite characters, last week, at the Newcastle and
Stafford theatres, with brilliant success.
The movement now taking place in the borough cf
Southwark, will be the means of raising, in that populous
district, at least twenty new churches and schools.
On Thursday last, at noon, a smut shock of an earth-
quake was felt in Crieff, Perthshire. The soubterranean
rumble continued for several seconds, and was loud in
comparison with the shake felt.
Yesterday week, Mr. Kenworthy, a teacher of swim-
ming, for a wager, jumped from Hungerford Bridge into
the Thames, and swam to Blackfriars Bridge, in ten
minutes.

ANOTHER RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Fri-
day the bakers of the east end of the metropolis raised
the price of bread of the second quality to 8d the quartern,
being an advance of one half-penny in the 41b.
A number of the Licensed Victuallers of

about to give an undertaking to the authorities, that they
will close their houses every Sunday until half-past
twelve.
On Friday week, as a female servant in the service of Mr
Swift, at Wombwell near i3arnsley, was takiti
gun from a shelf to dust it, it went off and shot 'dead an-
other female servant standing by.

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In one of the districts of Hackney, where a church-rate
has several times been refused, the churchwardens have
been allowed by the Bishop of London to raise the price
of the sittings in the church, and out of the money thus
obtained pay the ordinary church•rate expenditure.
-

The Queen has issued her Royal Letter to the Arch-
bishops of Canterbury and York, authorising them to
promote, within their respective provinces, contributions
in aid of the fund now raising in this country for the suf-
ferers by the late calamitous fires at Quebec.
ACCIDENT AT PLAY.—On Monday George Attford, a
boy shout nine years of age, residing in Silver-street,
London, bad his eye forced out of its socket by an oyster-
shell thrown by a companion, with whom he had quarrel-
led respecting the division of a collection for a •• grotto."
Mr. Maxwell (a Roman Catholic) has been compelled
to retire from the contest of Kirkcudbrightihire. Lieut.
Col. M`Dowall is the conservative candidate, and Mr.
Maitland, late Solicitor-General, has been induced to
come forward by the liberals.

Richardson's theatre at Dartford was destroyed by fire
on the night of Tuesday. The stage and all the theatri-
cal property, with the booth, was destroyed. The loss is
estimated at £1,200. When the flames broke out the au-
dience had only been dismissed about ten minutes.
Lord Stanley arrived in town on Friday, from his seat,
Walton-on-Thames. 11 is lordship will not leave town
for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, until the return of the
Earl of Aberdeen from Germany.. His lordship now
superintends the business of the Foreign Office.

An oak stiddy, in the smithy of Mr. William Parkin-
son, Nog Toe, Vt. oodplumpton, on which there has been
an anvil regularly worked for the last five years,
has this spring put out several strong heal* sprouts in
full leaf.

Although upwards of 400,000 persons have bathed in
the Serpentine River since the season commenced only
one person has been drowned, so active have been the
officers of the Humane Society. We regret to hear that
the means of the society are very stinted.

THE MOORS.—The 12th of August was a miserable
day for the sportsman, and but- comparatively few birds
were killed on the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and York-
shire hills. Birds are evidently scarce, and the late rains
are no doubt the cause of it, for too much wet is as inju-
rious to the existence of grouse as very dry weather.
ACCIDESIT TO MR. JUSTICE CRESSWELL.—OR Sa-
turday night week, as Mr. Justice Cresswell was pro-
ceeding from Appleby to Lancaster his carr-age was over-
thrown in descending a steep hill on the north side of
Borrowbridge, but neither his lordship nor his attendants
sustained any injury.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—James Stewart, toym-
crier of the Linktown of Ktrkaldy, and a person of the
name of Leishman, while labouring under the influence of
liquor, took a bet to swim out to and round a boat that
was lying at some distance off, it being full tide. Leishman,
after being out a good way, turned and Caine to the shore.
Stewart was drowned.

At the Petty Sessions held in Staines, Aliiidlesex, on
Tuesday, a case came on in which it was tried, on the
part of the parish of Hampton-, whether the inmates of
Hampton Palace were liable to levies for poor rates. The
Crown contested, although the rate bad been paid in
February, 1839. The magistrates refused to grant a dis-
tress warrant, but the case stan.ls adjourned.

MURDER AT LEICESTER.—An inquest was held on
Tuesday on the body of Hannah Hubbard, supposed to
have been murdered by her husband (William Hubbard.)
Witnesses were examined, whose testimony left no doubt
of the guilt of the husband. The jury accordingly re-
turned a verdict of " wilful murder" against Wm. Hub-
bard, who was forthwith committed to gaol for trial.
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—The wages of agricul-
tural labourers in Pembrokeshire hive risen to sixteen
shillings and eighteen shillings per week, in consequence o
the paucity of good hands. A great proportion of the able-
bodied men have left for the continent, where high wages
and continued employment may be had on the various
lines of railways.

THE SUGAR TRADE.—A very minute inquiry has been
instituted monk the grocers and retail dealers through-
out the metropolis and adjoining districts, the result of
which is both curious and interesting. In the wealthier
quarters the increase in the consumption of sugar varie,
from ten to twenty per cent., but in the eastern parts of
the tow❑ and poorer suburbs it actually ranges from thirty
to sixty per cent.

HOAXING A CORPORATION.—A vexatious hoax was
played off upon the corporation of Colchester on the open-
ing of the railway. An invitation was received by the
mayor, purporting to come from the directors of the Eas-
tern Counties Railway, and inviting the members of the
council to join the expedition to Cambridge and partake of
Mr. Gunter's dainties; but on a letter of acceptance be-
ing sent the trick was discovered.

Bernard Cavanagh, the fasting man, expired on Sun-
day in London in his 32nd year. He had recently kept a
huckster's shop, in which he bad failed. He had gone by
an assumed name, and his right one did not transpire till
shortly before his death. His brother, who was with him
when be exhibited in Landon, was present. Deceased
was of parsimonious habits, and often reduced to great
extremities, but has left money in the bank.
A stranger from Hereford was accosted in Bristol by a
pretty-looking damsel, babited in deep mourning, who in-
formed him that she was much affected by his strong per-
sonal resemblance to a dear and beautiful young lover,
whose loss she was then lamenting. Her polite address
and persuasive manners won upon him, and he consented
to take a stroll with her, and to endeavour to assnage
her grief. In about half an hour, she, with apparent re-
luctance, " tore herself away from him," and at the same
time, managed to carry off his purse, containing two £lO
notes and a half sovereign.

TWO BROTHERS DROWN ED.-At Glssgow, On Sun-
day, two young men, brothers, while drunk, quarreled in
the street, and one threw the other down repeatedly.
When they reached the well, situated immediately beyond
Donlinie's Hole, a short way westward of Allen's Pen,
the elder brother threw the younger down upon the
ground, and soiled his clothes, which were wiped by a
little girl who chanced to be upon the spot. He then
went to the brink of the river, and at the moment his bro-
ther George was drinking at the well. exclaimed, " Fare-
well, Georgie," and threw himself into the river. The
elder brother at once plunged into his rescue, but fell upon
bitn, and they both sunk.

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Trig Flees CHURCH.—After'raising £rt---' d de.
£700,000 for churches, the Free Church of Scotian„usia
termined recently to have a college, r.:l twenty indiv'
esehu for
instantly put down their names to,. .1.1000
the purpose. Since then they have Oon,ulenced sd7os
scription to build parsonages for their ministers, t_' that
few weeks £40,000 or £50,000 has been raised fur

entered
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Jennings,
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child. .
the -
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h e behaved housel
and
at Killala, for causing the death of a publican ~.
ch 1"
a revenue policeman, has been commit,
witt
therebrutality to the tioor!
was in bed, pulling her out, and rolling her ou the Alla
hewaifthm man,
g,rHaecaactioem.
the
enied publican, by a tovrttaohrnes
Crane
r 0.7120:,
she was pregnant. This treatment made her 111, a -tber
was prematurely born the next day, dead, and the 01°
also died

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX'S LIBRARY.—The ntle).be!,;o
7
days consumed in the disposal of this extensive colleu"
tbe
of books was 62, and the total amount produced bf
Yew
saleouto
tutors
have
e 9 gainedls. Forpowma thisrd soi
ft
£w3ilool boe, leyent
hteh theagtoiava_ea_t
illus • trrous Prince between £15,000 and .£16,000 ; -Auditioa
not accepting their offer. The calleCtion cost thbettibs;
it must be taken into consideration that a great 8" re
was made to the library by the number of books P
seated to him being added to those he purchased' . the
ROYAL ACROSTICS.—The Queen's Speech,, 'id of
opening of the session, on the 4th January, consistehich
twenty-three paragraphs, of the initial letters of wresti
were the three forming the word WIT, as if her ga3The
would appeal to the wisdom of her Witena Genol e" on
paragraphs of the speech at the close of the seagen'och
Tuesday last, though fewer in number, presented a flor.,
greater variety of initial letters : just sufficient, 0 ",.--as
to spell the Anglo. Latin exclamation, "FYI it°,, gat'
much as to say, away with you; you are doing l''`
here.
S brace. Crawford,
grouse
;Hon.
E'q.,ll. and Fox party,i‘iau le, of the
GROUSE SnooTiNG.—The following is the rese" -•-••
fir_st clay's shooting on the principal Perthshire irle°q: alt
2W00106 brseth!
Stt3 li,
Sir P. M. Threipland, Bart., Drum' our Lodge,
bran, 741 brace grouse and 7 hares ; Lord IVlexVrfeuzailt
Kinloch Rannoch, 68 brace ; Mr. Robertson, of T 13::rt;
Grantully, 88 brace grouse, being half a days sand 5
Rochalliona Lodge party, 3 guns, 77 brace grouse' ,l, Sir
WJ
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orn
fnl Stanley 56 Vacs
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rj bracede; nt Sir
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SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT MURDER.--A frig ntiu•
of attempted murder occurred on Friday week, at fleocl
named
etdermmainratitne
sfactoamlleys.,
Norfolk, which there is too much reason to aPPre
The perpetrator is an 610
man about thirty years of age, is his wife's dangnb—mia'
former husband. This outrage was committed atdo-4,
day, in the public streets, when be knocker! her pees
and then cut her throat, and wounded her in several P
andl'h the victim Ell'en Ru;tl4.doti.:-11by ;
with a table kni:e ! The wretched man has subseque
undergone an examination when he was remanded °ins
the fate of the woman was known. She is at present 00t
very precarious state. The cause of the assault Os

stated. Api
VAGARIES OF A HURRICANE.—A most eztraor.•
and vitlent hurricane visited Norfolk, on Saturday roof
Three or four men on the wharf were obliged to ,nring
themselves flat on the ground, and seize the muds" the
rings to prevent being blown away by it; it lashe high
river to foam; and threw up the spray twenty Yards undt
—it dashed several swallows and sparrows to the gr° od
and either killed or stunned them ; then it came uP
pirouetted a quantity of coal-heavers' shovels je theoi
and then it threw a young woman violently into a sea,
water, and wetted her to the skin. It came from te,igh
and it travelled, roaring and whirling boisterously I°s:4-tea
the town ; then it returned to sea, and there it comet '
other vagaries, and damaged other property.
ADMISSION OF IRON INTO FRANCE DUTY Fora'
The subject is now undergoing the most serious cons' nri.
tion of the Minister of Commerce. The fact of Greal,beit
fain and other countries now so largely extent:l,llg
c tae
I.avy by the erection of iron vessels, has made it be,
a question of considerable interest with the Fr''"'

TenchGibe'

vernmeut, whether they are not placing difficulties.il,;„of
way of improving their own navy by the impos" joy'
heavy duties on foreign iron, as France is even yet mown
porting countiy, not producing sufficient for Ihe irbuild'
usual demands, much less any great increase for „ra,
ing and other large works. The wh, question of tiqog.
press of metallurgy in France, the prices of iron in 'rad
land. Belgium, &c., will be thoroughly entered i",t„,°'itted
it will be shortly be decided whether ironshall ben'li be
into France duty free

or whether such duties shall s

levied.—Mining- Journal. t 9'
STATISTICS OF COMMITTEES.—During the Pasts gat
sion, the Standing Orders Committee on Raibv3Y,," bet
39 days, and had 185 cases referred, (ordinary nu""oid
referred, 60.) Committee of Selection sat 41 daYs'-Ittes
had 315 bills, (ordinary number, 180.) The Conorry-
on Petitions sat more days than the other two• r
five railway group committees eat, which, with five %ere
hers in each, made a total of 225 members. There i
163 bills decided one way or the other, besides those "` 00
drawn, those unsupported, and those thrown petos'
standing orders. Taking the 163 bills only, and "Per re'
they had not been grouped, the 163 hills would ha° rs•
quired, at the reduced number of five, 815 Inernueci%
Of the committees 22 sat under 6 days, nine b.tween -
dos,
and twelve days, six between twelve and eighteen "sst
three between eighteen and twenty-four clip, fi`'e sat
above twenty-four ciys, and one of the committees

83 days. - - ---
vro-
A BANKRUPT CORPORATION.—Owing to sj• the
tracted litigation between the Charity Trustees B,ll:r'S
Corporation, it appears, according to the
..1131,-;clc,
w own report, that the ancient borough of of
is in a state of Bankruptcy.. At a recent ineet'ardis-
the town-council, after a long and unsatisfactorY tics
cussion of the pending dispute between the corpora!, of
and the trustees of the charity funds, the questtlien
lighting and watching the town was entered upon ; " for
the mayor observed,—" They had no contract n°° to e
lighting the borough—there were material objections was
high rate for any such purpose; indeed, the collector
~es,
doubtful if he could levy one. They could notlf of
land for a watch-rate ; and as for the houses, one ""•-d,--'
them were empty." A member of the council °a or.,
"There are 300 houses empty in the town. The toeFloos
"We are bankrupt. We owe £9OO and more• koof,
anxious to see the town properly lighted, but do n°l" -„,0.
what advice to give under our present eircumstee'-ol
It was finally resolved, that, as regarded the watching the
lighting, the meeting should adjourn:for a fortniglA ;,01
same to be still further adjourned for six weeks as regs'

the Charity Estates Chancery Bill.
„,„ M!,
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE SPECULATORS FORA ha-
IN CORN.—Our Contemporary, the Albion, Iv'. of ti
been for weeks indulging in doleful anticipations „.00,
failing harvest, and a dear loaf, makes in his publica:rcel
yesterday, the following admission :—" But the °-.",,est
is, alt this time, how the wheat of last year's b
seems to spin out in inexhausted arid apparently
haustible abundance, the markets being even n0w,,,5130
plied from it as plentifully as at any period during t" "been
thirteen months, over which the produce of it has ,00cl
now extended. At first it was confessed to be ° friben,
harvest, then it grew on to be a remarkable one, an u of
an extraordinary one. But the fact is, that the Penntilf
last year's wheat crop was almost miraculous in quarrel'
as well as quality, being in many places, as a vines/'
pondent emphatically expresses it, " two crops i° (1;010
and we are credibly informed, that considerable 5„" ;b8
are still in the hands of such of the farmers as h°°"plir
good luck to be capitalists. There has been a great toad
take on this point among speculators and the corn the
generally." We rejoice at the fact here referred to ltd.
Aebion on the other hand seems a little disapP°llooo
We think of the suffering agriculturist, and the. 0 of
which a failing harvest and an extensive importalibioo
foreign corn would inflict upon commerce ; the
thinks only of their effect upon the League agitation

morebY
tale
;no WI
THE TRIUMPH AT SUNDERLAND.—This elec',-.nt a.
proved the crowning triumph of all—the last in P°,loenV
time, the first in point of importance. On the retir;lition
of Mr. Alderman Thompson in 1843, the represen,i'' itlr'
of Sunderland was contested by Lord Howick 8r big
the present occasiontt
ConservativeM'iveriA opponentw ood—t
ht
ehbeyvafacie rammnatej
orsreiat
ofofultimatelyr24s2 uvoodbteee
ras
it.:olebtobsti
been contested by Colonel Thompson, au agent ° ivb°
Anti Corn-Law League, and Mr. George Hodson' of
avows his opinions to be " chiefly in accordOceplV
those of her Majesty's Ministers," but against the s al'
uooth Grant. And what is the result ? A ginr,i° been
unaph for the conservative cause. Every effort pure the.
made, which human ingenuity could devise, to scejese;
return of Colonel Thompson—the funds of the f the
have flowed freely into Sunderland—the agents ~e 8 ths
league, from Cobden, the fugleman down to Sno°' Or
itenerant lecturer, have bullied and blustered froto Tlicjotei.
doubly
bly votes!
so
ing till night ; but after all the Conservative c.an..ity (),
has beaten his Whig-Radical opponent by a WO' - of '
as Sunderland would be highly gratifying; it ."" 0/-
years have elapsed since this same constituency ft
ConservativewhUfeonnr Under an
place arnee
recollect
er
such
cmthhs
at atncliets ,
commercialth e net
im up:01:
rctoli oen:
majority of 242 in favour of the Whig Lord 11°W1c . C
kis 03000
THE INCREASE OF DEMAND FOR IRON.--41",010
useful. and, in fact, most necessary, metal for Wwa/
of man, is daily expanding its power, not only in '', lo
bdt Asia, Africa. and America. Railways are bel, aot
the only advantage that will be derivtleed But thist OW
down from north to south, east to west.
mercial nations as a rapid transit for passengers ,iirae.•
chandise, but the benefits it will bestow in tropics' F bats'
so subject to earthquakes,where the lives
tants are constantly in jeopardy. Several very elt`'..", fir”
contracts have lately been enterd into in this countal,' Is'
of the i."..nsil°,
the erection of iron houses, or villas in the West 17301i/iP
lands, Cuba, and the Havana, Mexico, Columbint_anl efr
Central America, Peru, and Chili, where the dres‘Tr, felt!
fects of those convulsions of nature are so frequetTeical
It is evident that iron will, in a few years hence' aril%
In rerring pear
individual life and private property.
one of the greatest articles of commerce for thfe e secai
to
late melancholy conflagrations at Quebec, wherehoilt nA
the whole city was reduced to ashes, being chelo'soiSel;
wood, how different would it have been had 154 Will%
9 111,
iron been the principal article in building ? IN" . a's -
in the Americas, both north and south, and 0011 live;
working to bring it into general use. How many
tils
would have been saved in the numerous earthqun, 01_,
have taken place the last fifty years in South. ~....,4 p.
had they had iron dwellings instead of the wood
r"we
thesr
ble fabrics they now possess? A change, hnwe,vcee 'bl its
glad to see, is very soon likely to take nia..bonses of
erection of galvanized iron dwellings and war; „Artgro
our West India colonies, Chili, and nearly sici Tato of
_ South America, contracts having been entereoding°
the sending out of several well-constructed b
that metal.—Mining Journal.