The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

THE LIYFRPOOL STANDARO.

AN UNEQUAL MATCH.—The Plymouth (lazetie men-
tions that a shoemaker of that. place, nearly six feet high,
and tittle more than twenty years .old, it tdrotit to be mat•
ried to Miss Plinsaul, who is three feet high and fifty, years
old. The maiden was long in the service of Lady Rolle,
who gave her a substantial legacy, and the late Lord Rolle
has left her a further annuity of £2OO a !veer.

Mr. C. B. Baldwin, M. 1"., was on Tuesday stepping
from a Gravesend steamer into a small boat off Purficet,
when he missed his footing and fell into the water. The
boatman incautiously threw one of the oars to him, and
in consequence of the strong tide was unable to make
much way with the other. Fortunately Mr. Baldwin is
a good swimmer, and after being carried nearly half a
mile succeeded in regaining the boat.
Charles Surrage, a boatman at Oxford, in attempting to
steer a party home at night in a house-boat from None-
ham, where they had been making a gala-day, fell over-
board in a state of intoxication, and was drowned. He
was not missed till the boat struck the bank for want of a
steerer, and the night being dark, no traces could be dis-
covered of him, and his body was not found till four days
afterwards.

Loss OF POUR PERSONS

—A painful sensation has
his week, in consequence of

Sunderland tl

the supposed loss of four persons who went to sea in a
small boat, on Sunday evening week, on a pleasure trip,
during a tremendous gale of wind. 'rhe party consisted
of two men and two young women, and, whatever may
have been their fate, nothing certain had been heard up
to Friday. and little doubt can be entertained that they
have not all perished.
DANGEROUS PRACTICE.—On Tuesday two sisters

named Chalker were swinging in one c

these dangerous

achines called highflyers, at Cunt

Mr. Gott

to have

durinf

kurnal

who is retirin

Tug BEER TRADE.—By an act of parliament We.-
was passed last week, a duty of ls. 4d. per cwt. hag been
imposed on sugar used in the brewing of beer, to costs=
mence from the sth of July next. From the 10th-of Oc-
tober next, brewers are not to sell at any other place than
their licensed brewing premises, or on premises licensed
fur the express purpose. Brewers may take out a license
for the sale of beer at any other place as well as their
brewing premises. Taking orders for the sale of beer is
not to he deemed selling beer at any other than their
licensed houses. _

A REFRACTORY BOSJESMAN.—During the exhibition
of these people at Totness on Tuesday last one of them
slipped off the stage and into the caravan unobserved. In
a moment dreadful shrieks were heard therefrom, at which
the ladies were much alarmed. The exhibitor begged the
company to remain, as there was nothing to fear. From
his statement it appeared that the elder man had a few
days before quarrelled with his wife, who remained in the
caravan, and taking advantage of the keeper's absence, he
had gone and beaten her severely. He was soon quieted,
but would not again come before the audience. •
NEW CUSTOMS AcT.—An act to amend the laws re-
lating to customs has just come into force. This act pro-
hibits the importation into the United Kingdom of any
extracts, essences, or other concentration of coffee,
chicory, tea, or tobacco, or any admixture of the same.
Witnesses refusing to attend or to give evidence may be
fined £5O. The export duty of 4s. per ton on coals is
now repealed. All manufactured goods are to be deemed
to be the produce of the country of which they are the
manufacture. No abatement of duties shall be made on
account of any damage received by any corn, grain, meal,
or flour imported into the United Kingdom.
SALMON Ftsurscs.—We have just had the Lammas
floods, but they don't bring up salmon, for salmon there
are few or none to bring. The season has been a most
unproductive one to our tacksmen. From whatever cause,
there seems to be a general decay of red fish in our wes-
tern Scottish rivers. The Glasgow Courier of Tuesday
says :--" A few weeks will terminate the present salmon
fishing season. On the Clyde—once famous for the ex-
tent and richness of its takes—it has been the most un-
successful upon record. Since the month of March,
when the fishing begins, we believe there have not been
40 salmon killed between Glasgow and the mouth of the
river." Such a fact as that is quite extraordinary.—
Dumfries Herald.

DREADFUL MURDER.—On Friday the inhabitants of
Gloucester were alarmed to hear that a man had killed his
wife between that city and Bristol. A man named Miller,
accompanied by his wife and another person, was pro-
ceeding on the Bristol-road from Gloucester with a dog-

cart containing their wares, they being travelling hawkers,
when they quarrelled, and after a few angry words the
man struck his wife a violent blow on the left breast,
about the region of the heart. The woman was knocked
into the ditch by the roadside, where she lay for a few
moments, when, not rising, the other man became alarm-
ed, and with the assistance of the husband, pulled her
out of the ditch, but life was found to be quite extinct.
Miller was conveyed to the Glocester lack-up.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday, the carriage of
Andrew Liddell, Esq. of Plean, was passing near to
Grahamstown (where the operations are going on for
carrying the Stirlingshire Midland Railway under the
canal), when the horse started suddenly from the noise
made by an engine erected by the roadside, and backed
instantly, with all it contained, into the canal. There
were in it at the time the lady of Mr. Liddell and the

coachman

both of whom were plu

;ed overheat

The coachman, after securirg his own safety,
made in for Mrs. Liddell, who had sunk the second time,

and providentially caught hold of her, and brought her to
the bank ; and she has now nearly recovered from the
effects of the accident. The horse attached to the carriage
was drowned.—Edinburgh Advertiser,
STItANGE ACCIDENT.—A horse belonging to Mr.
Samuel Taylor, butcher, of Ipswich, was sent out to grass

in Mr. Fonnereau's park. On Sunday morning, a son of
the owner went to see it, and, to his surprise, found the
poor animal with its shoulder completely pierced through
by a thick bough of a tree. The assistance of Mr. Long,
the veterinary surgeon, was sought, but it was as much as
two men could do to draw the stump out of the animal's
body, when the injuries proved to be so great that the
animal was at once despatc:ied. It is not known how
his injury was occasioned, but it is supposed that the
es had anncyed the mare, which was a valuable and
'‘,-spirited creature, and that she had so violently
1 upon the point of the hough as to pierce it com-
r gh her shoulder
TALE OF N. IMPOSTOR.—

throe

—/psu
Most of our readers will re-

4 Express

T the history of an extraordinary in-

ition which

man of Chelmsford, who

was practised by a young
excited the commiseration of the cbaritabl

Ind on her

le faculty.
regarded

removal from hospital to hospital fairly puzzled I
as to the nature of her complaint, her case being
in the professional journals of the metropolis I
nornenon in medical practice, until at Brighton it was
discovered that all these hideous wounds were produced,
and this torture inflicted, by hydrochloric acid or spirit
of salt, artfully applied by her own hands. Her name

1 ' FATAL FIGUT.—A fight occurred on Saturday, at Alles-
ifee, near Derby, between Thomas Watson and Joseph
Walley, in which the latter lost his life. Both the com-
hatadts were partially intoxicated, and deceased more so
than the other. They had had no quarrel, but Watson,
having challenged Walley to light, the proposal was im-
mediate!, accepted, in spite of the expostulations of the
bystanders. They fought three rounds, at the end of
which Walley became insensible, and was carried home.
lie died the following day from compression of .the brain.
It appeared that the deceased had been engaged in a fight
with a brother of Thomas Watson, just before the fatal
encounter took place. The jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter against Thomas Watson, who was delivered
into the custody of the police. The deceased man was
46 years old, and has left a widow and eight children.
CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—We regret to announce that
the gale of Saturday night, Sunday, and Monday has
considerably damaged the crops iu tke neighbourhood of
Edinburgh. A correspondent, writing to us from Dal-
keitb, says that " the wind has shaken out of the grain
nearly a boll an acre. The stooks were blown down on
Sunday and even tossed about the fields with the utmost
violence. There can be no doubt that the damage is
considerable." From other quarters in the neighbour-
hood we hear that many fields of oats are so injured and
shaken as scarcely to be worth cutting down. Since our
last the weather has been cold, accompanied by showers
of rain, which must have materially retarded harvest
operations. We have the best authority for stating,
however, that with regard tooth e potato crop there has
been as yet not the slightest a ppearance of disease.—
Edinburgh Post.
CHARGES OF FORGERY AGAINST A WAKEFIELD
TRADESMAN.—On Tuesday last the chief constable of
Wakefield apprehended William Ramsden, painter, of
Kirkgate, on a charge of forgery. The accused was taken
before the magistrate, at the court house, and the charge
formally laid against him. It would seem from what little
of the particulars of the case transpired that Ramsden is
charged with forging, in the first instance, the acceptance
of Joseph Wilby and Son, of Ossett, near 'Wakefield, for
£9 15s. The forged acceptance was dated August 7th, in
the present year, and purporting to be payable at Messrs.
Denison and Co.'s, bankers, London. The second charge
against Ramsden is for forging a guarantee, purporting to
be signed by " John Hargreaves," directing Mr. B. Hirst,
of Leeds, to deliver to him, Ramsden, £5 worth of goods.
The case was adjourned, and Ramsden was removed in
custody.
ATTACK OF A HORSE.—On Thursday week, as a boy,
named Alfred Reville, in the service of Mr. Wm. Parsons,
solicitor, Sherwood Rise, was crossing the Nottingham
race-course on his return home, he was suddenly attacked
by a horse in the following singular manner :—The
animal laid hold of him on the arm near the shoulder,
and lifted him from the ground. The boy cried loudly
for help, and the horse letting go his hold, he fell upon
the course, and endeavoured to crawl away on his hands
and knees. The horse, however, followed him, and tried
to tread on him with its fore feet, but the boy instantly
got up and had the presence of mind to seize the horse
by the nose, and retain his hold until a friend came to the
rescue and drove the animal away. The boy soon after
fell again through weakness, and was with difficulty got
home. The wound on the arm caused by the teeth of the
horse, was found to be very serious, and without proper
treatment, might have been injurious to the boy through
life. He is, however, out of danger, and is rapidly re-
covering.—Nottingham Mercury. . .

—At the

STRANGE SCENE IN A WiLSII CITAPEI
Caerphilly Baptist Chapel, on a recent Sabbath night,
while the service was Troceeding, an excited person
named Rees Thomas, who has a number of aliases,
denly leaped out of one of the rising pews in the gallery,
and dashing over two others, kicked away the capping of

the backs, and flung himself down stairs, with uncovered
head, outstretched arms, and

the chapel at or

became a scene of terrible confusior

a panic seizing all who witnessed the extraordint
of Thomas. The minister was silenced; the rns
door was over-powering ; the roof was falling

some ; the chapel was nn fire, shouted others ; while the
cries of trampled children, the screams of females, and
the struggles of the men, made the occasion one of the
most distressing character. Order being restored after
,erson who had occasioned the confusion
ne fancied he had seen a woman dying on
*en before the door of the chapel."—Swansea

some time, the y

merely said,

Herald,

AN ELEPHANT AT LAUGE
_ _•

—A curious incident oc-

Redditch Fair, in consequence of t

large elephant
fancied a midnight
telry (the Fox and G
abode. It managed to force

longing to Batty's menagerie having
11 in the garden behind the hos-
), in which it had a temporary
von the door of the place in

which it was confined, without going through the cere-
mony of picking the lock. It being beneath his dignity,
also, to climb the wall like a common garden thief, seve-
••

were speedily

,s only a commenc

it of the.work Of

olition

A large app-1

Tree was despoiled of frui
!berry t

"nd goc

me fate, rows o

.ry and beds of carrots disappc

pacions maw,
meal, he was

num tree. when one

Ito the

monster was again secured. Mr. Batty rei
landlord for the damage which had been done
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Maurice Murphy