The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

H. M. S. Collingwood, which arrived at Spithead on
Saturday, from Valparaiso. has brought more than four
millions of dollars, chiefly on merchants' account.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A pipemaker, named John Hayes,
aged 25, has been committed from the Court-house,
Leeds, on the charge of having caused the death of an
elderly woman, named Hartley, in whose cellar he lodged.
A swarm of bees alighted on a lamp post, in the High-
street, Stocton, on Tuesday, and took, possession of the
interior of the hollow of it, without any preliminary pro-
ceedings whatever. During the day hundreds of people
went to behold this rather singular phenonenon of a lamp
post being metamorphosed into a beehive.
The hay harvest is now becoming general in Northum-
berland, with every prospect of the hay being well won ;
the fears of injury to the crops of corn which were appre-
hended, from the continued rain, are now completely
dissipated, the most bright and genicl weather having set
in throughout the country.
On Saturday, an inquest was held, in London, on W.
S. Badger, Esq., of Masborough-hill, Yorkshire, who
died about a minute after inhaling chloroform, preparatory
to the extraction of six teeth. The verdict was—" That
the deceased died under the influence of chloroform, act-
ing on a disceased heart and enlarged liver."
Mary Hughes, who was tried at July,assizes, 1847, for
the murder of her three children at hlanybydder, has
been removed from the county gaol, Carmarthen, to the
lunatic asylum at Devizes. She preserves the quiet de-
meanour observable at her trial, and scarcely a word
escapes from her lips.
On Sunday, Miss Selina Turner, daughter of C. Turner,
Esq., of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was burnt so se-
verely that she expired in three hours- after the injury.
It appears that the bedding took fire from the flame of a
candle by which she had been reading in bed, having
fallen asleep without extinguishing it..
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The committee have
been unable to secure the services of Mdle. Jenny Lind
for the approaching musical festival, owing to the difficulty
of meeting the other arrangements of her provincial tour.
The sum of £lOOO was offered by the committee ; and
Miss Lind, to show the interest felt by her in the charities
of the city, accompanied the refusal by a cheque for £5O.
The Austrian Prince Metternich is living at Brompton
Park, which has been let to him by its owner and late
resident Lord Ingestre. Within a stone's throw of this
mansion (by no means large) is the modest residence in
Pelham Crescent, at present tenanted by M. Guizot.
Who would have expected such an association for this
neighbourhood twelve months back ? _

TURNPIKE TRUSTS.—An expectation was entertained
that government would bring in some measure relative to
turnpike trusts during the prosent session, it seems how-
ever that the delay that has taken place in the progress of
public business, will not permit any such general measure
to be introduced ; parties who are concerned in turnpike
trusts, may therefore rest satisfied that no alterations will
be made in them before the arrival of another session.
DEAF AND DUMB.—Dr. Baudelocque has presented to
the French Academy of Sciences a boy seven years of age,
born deaf and dumb, whom he intends to treat. He re.
quests that the academy will keep an eye upon the child
for one year, as he considers that an examination of the
patient from time to time, during the twelve months, will
conduce to the settlement of the question of the curability
of deafness and dumbness.
On Monday the last portion of the old House of Com-
mons, called the Speaker's house, the adjoining Commit-
tee-rooms, and those forming the centre of the cloisters,
were being removed. The entrance-hall to the new
House of Commons and the western window to West-
minster Hall have attained their elevation, and are ra-
pidly approaching completion. The new House of Com-
mons, it is now stated, will positively be ready for Mem-
bers next session.
A few days since, a labourer employed on the railway
at Newton, in Suffolk, observed a fellow-workman lay on
the ground a bottle, which he fancied to contain beer,
and availed himself of an opportunity to take a hearty
draught of the bottle's contents, which proved to be
horse oils, for the use of the horses employed by the
contractors. The unlucky drinker at first suffered se-
verely from the effects of his draught, but proper reme-
dies were administered, and he ultimately recovered.
NECESSITY FOR EMIGRATION.—OUT population is in-
creasing at the rate of a million every. ten years. Our
poor rates are increasing, and likely to Increase. Should
the present state of things continue, £6,000,000 a-year
will not suffice to feed the unproductive pauperism of the
kingdom. Our paupers will cost more than our navy.
In a word, we shall be laying out on barren idleness more
than is sufficient to guard our whole expanse of territory
in Asia, Africa, America, and Australasia.
YEAST.—A barrel of yeast, which had been shipped on
board the County of Pembroke steamer, burst on Friday
week, while the vessel was on her passage from Bristol to
Swansea. The explosion was so violent, that a woman,
w:io had unluckily seated herself on the cask, was thrown
a height of ten feet in the air; but fortunately she was
not injured, although she sustained a severe shock from
her fall on the deck, and was completely drenched by the
seething yeast.
DISTURBANCE S AT EDINBURG-H.—A riot took place at
Edinburgh on Monday, arising out of the sale of two
tradesmen's furniture, who had refused to pay a local
impost, called the annuity-tax, which is levied for the
payment of the city clergymen belonging to the establish-
ment. The police and military were called out ; the auc-
tioneer was injured ; the goods were purchased by parties
from Glasgow, and were forwarded to that city under
military escort, amidst the yells and hootings of the mul-
titude.

POOR-LAW RELIEF.—In an appendix to the report of
Poor-law Commissioners, issued on Thursday, a compa-
rative statement is given of the number of adult able-
bodied paupers relieved in England and Wales during each
of the quarters, ended Lady-day, 1842, to 1846, inclusive.
The number relieved, in-door and out-door, was as fol-
lows :—Quarter ended Lady-day, 1842, 411,8V0 ; Ladyday,
1843, 466,585 ; Lady-day, 1844, 431,484 ; Lady-day, 1845,
420,096 ; Lady-day, 1846, 362,417; and Lady-day, 1847.
562,355.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—A few days since, Wm.
Shrapnell, Esq., of Bath, was discovered early in the
morning, suspended by a silk pocket handkerchief from
the banisters at the bottom of the staircase of his house,
quite dead. The deceased had been rather confused in
his thoughts for some time, and had said that some one
was going to ruin him. He wished to postpone his mar-
riage with a lady until his return from a visit to the Con-
tinent, but she would not consent to this, and the de-
ceased was constantly imagining he was being sued for a
breach of promise of marriage.
" THE BOTTLE.''—Mr. George Cruikshank has just
published,. as a sequel to "the Bottle," a series of plates
in a similar style, which are entitled "The Drunkard's
Children." They will be attended with a highly benefi-
cial effect. The " Drunkard's Children," we are con-
vinced, will be equally popular, and equally salutary, as a
moral agent, in counteracting the influence of the heaps
of poisonous rubbish which the artist's graver, as well as
the printer's types, are constantly diffusing among the la-
bouring population. George Cruikshank may well be
called the modern Hogarth ; he has a kindred genius, and
he exercises it in a kindred spirit.
A report just made upon the ventilating department of
the House of Commons states, in connection with the ar-
rangements for cleaning the lismse, that the expense of
taking up the matting every morning, which takes from 12
to 14 men half-a-day, amounts to between £833 and £9OO
per annum. This seems to be an enormous cost for a
very small service. It is stated, however, that by a differ-
ent principle of ventilation the cost will be greatly reduced
in the new house. The air is there to be forced down
from above, instead of being, as at present, forced upwards
from below the floor, thus carrying the dust with it into
the house.
SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.—On Friday evening
Mr. Harris, the proprietor of the Equestrian Tavern,
near the Surrey Theatre, having nearly 200 letters to
post, adopted the usual mode of moistening the postage
stamps with his tongue, and before he had finished, he
felt an extraordinary sensation and swelling of the tongue.
In a short time it had swollen to so alarming a size, that
Mr. Harris found it necessary to send for a surgeon, and
that gentleman, on attending, at once pronounced his
case one of poisoning, and stated that some poisonous
ingredient was used in the glutinous matter applied to
postage stamps. The usual remedies were adopted with
success.

SEA FIGHT IN A' FOG.—One day last week when the
salmon fishers at Berriedale were engaged at their occu-
pation, they were surprised at hearing an incessant report
of cannonading at sea. As there was a heavy mist at the
time they were at a loss to know the cause of the occur-
rence; but they were not left long to conjecture, as a
partial clearing of the atmosphere disclosed to their
astonished gaze two vessels peppering into each other at
a furious rate. The vessels were evidently foreign, and
are not unlikely to be the same two that are said to have
been engaged with .each other off the Bell Rock. The
fog soon returned, and the firing in a short time ceased.—
John o' Groat Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Monday, Mr. Wilson,
surgeon, was called to visit a youth residing at Lye
Waste, named Alfred Knowles, who is afflicted with im-
becility of mind. He found the patient suffering extreme
pain in the bowels, and on examination was satisfied there
was some unusually hard substance in the rectum, and,
from the dilated state in which it was, he with difficulty
applied means which succeeded in bringing away several
pieces of coal, weighing in the whole six ounces and a
half, and measuring from one to three inches in circum-
ference, besides two large raw potatoes, all of which must
have been swallowed and passed through the stomach
and intestines. It is said that some persons had induced
him to swallow them:— Worcester Journal.
GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGE-
MEN.---The annual meeting of delegates connected with
the above loyal and constitutional body, was held at the
Pitt and Nelsen Inn, Old-street, Ashton-under-Lyne, on
Monday and Tuesday last, on which occasion delegates
attended from the various towns and districts in the
United Kingdom. The large room in which the deputies
assembled was laid out with the ensignia of the order, and
around the walls might be seen several beautiful flags and
banners, bearing appropriate constitutional mottoes.
Amongst the objects most conspicuous was the handsome
union jack presented to the society by the Conservative
ladies of, the Ashton district. There were also various
portraits, the principal being that of King William the
Third, Prince of Orange.
FRAUDS IN THE BAKING TRADE.—A bill has been
brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Bankes, Mr.
It.,Bpooner, and Mr. Henley, to provide more effectually
for checking frauds in the sale of bread and other articles
of provisions. In future the weight of every loaf of bread
is to be marked on the outside under pain of a 40s. pe-
nalty. Bakers selling or exposing for sale bread deficient
in weight will be fined ss. for every ounce that is found
wanting, andso in proportion. Inspectors of weights, and
constables, may be empowered by magistrates to enter and
search the shops of bakers and provision dealers, and to
seize bread deficient in weight or not duly marked. The
same penalties will be levied on fraudulent vendors of
meat, cheese, butter, bacon, pork, &c, The act will take
effectirom the Ist of October,