The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

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Lord Lyndhurst is likely to recover his sight, after the
experiment recently performed.
M. Ledru Rollin inhabits the small house at Brompton,
occupied some months since by M. Guizot.
EXHIBITION OF 1851.-A local committee, to collect
and forward articles for exhibition, has been formed at
Hong-Kong.
On Wednesday workmen were employed in erecting a
scaffolding of considerable strength round the marble arch
at Buckingham Palace, preparatory to train; it to pieces.
Several hundred head of live stock had to be thrown
from the vessels sailing from the Dutch ports to this
country during the late stormy weather.
Last week, in London, a youth of nineteen committed
suicide with an Italian-iron, an impromptu touchhole to
which he had previously manufactured.
On Monday, Mr. George Binns, a Quaker, was run
over and killed, by a train of thirteen waggons, on the
Bowling iron company's tram-road, near Bradford.
The Rev. David James Stewart, M.A., vicar of Hill-
marton, Wilts, has been appointed one of her Majesty's
Inspectors of Schools. _ _

AN ANCIENT FORTRESS DISMANTLED.--Berwick-on-
Tweed is about to be dismantled, and its walls converted
into building sites, by order of the Crown.
An equestrian statue of her Majesty is about to be
erected in Glasgow, in commemoration of the Royal
visit in 1849.

A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against
John Gould. a toll collector at Vauxhall, for killing a lit-
tle boy seven years' old by wilfully throwing boiling water
over it.

A dissenting minister at Bradford who had lately been
extremely popular, was found a few nights since in the
streets so intoxicated that he had to be taken care of by
the police.

On Thursday week, a person, by means of Cox's
patent swimming stockings, swam across the Firth of
Forth—a distance of nearly two miles. He was fifty
minutes on the passage.
There are now 82 sailing vessels on the stocks on the
river Wear, in addition to which there are four flat bot-
tomed keels for river use building. It is upwards of 20
years since any keels were built at Sunderland.
A very destructive disorder has been discovered among
large quantities of the wheat grown in Worcestershire.
Its ravages extend over the whole of one farms and several
adjacent ones are much affected.
The great rowing. match on the Thames, between T.
Coombes, the brother of the champion of the Thames,
and Chitty, of Richmond, for £lOO, came off last week,
when Chitty won by nearly a length.
A strenuous attempt is now making at Bath to have
the assizes removed to that town from Wells. The latter
town has a population of only 7,000, whilst the inhabitants
of Bath number 52,000.

A FACT.—A piece of wheat, containing seven acres,
was sold on Friday last, at the Carpenters' Arms, in
Tickhill, for twenty-four pounds; the tenant-right of
which was seventy pounds!—Doncaster Chronicle.
BRITISH MUSEUM.—AII the galleries throughout the
building are now open, though in the new part the fittings
have not yet been set up. Barely a wreck of the old en-
trance remains, and in a short time Montagu House will
be swept away.
On Sunday, a young man aced 25, undertook for a wa-
ger to drink a pint and a half of brandy, and afterwards
walk from Charing Cross to London Bridge, in less than
two hours. He drank the brandy, but almost imme-
diately rolled off his seat and was a corpse in a few hours.
The idea of erecting a memorial window to Queen
Adelaide, at the east end of Worcester cathedral, has
been changed to - the placing of one in one of the tran-
septs, the sum collected not having reached more than
£520.

The parishioners of Hull have presented the governor
of the workh; use with an elegant silver tea and coffee
sei vice " as a testimonial of their appreciation of the zeal
and ability displayed by him in 1849 and 1850, and espe-
cially curing the visitation of cholera in the former year."
Aint:ng other visitors at the great exhibition, next
year, :ritl be a Gelman chorus, made up of Liedentafel
societies, rivalling in number the never-to-be-forgotten
Colnzne gathering, an assemblage of more than 2,000
voices. _ _ .

Several riots took place last week at Portsmouth, be-
tween the military and seamen. On Thursday the riot
act was read, and many were seriously injured. A large
number of windows in the public-houses have been
broken.
THE ROMANIST SYNOD.—The proceedings of the
synod hitherto are so unimportant as to render them utterly
unworthy of a report, being in fact mere form and cere-
mony. A meeting took place on Thursday, at which that
prince of firebrands "John of Tuam" delivered a speech.
Vessels, during the last few days, have been loading
coals in the Tyne for London at ss. to ss. 3d. per ton
freight; and yet, notwithstanding this miserable rate of
remuneration, ship-owners continue to extend their
tonnage.
At the Exeter district court of bankruptcy, on the 20th
instant. Charles Parnell, grocer and draper of East Looe,
Cornwall, in consequence of the numerous prevarications
in his evidence, was committed to prison, until he should
be prepared with more satisfactory answers.
Last week, an Irishman was apprehended at Cambridge
for being drunk and disorderly in the streets, and fought
so violently that eventually he had a fit. The policeman
who had him in charge ran off for assistance, but when he
returned the fit was over, and the Irishman had vanished !

CURIOUS CHURCH ARRANGEMENT.—The church of
Philip's Norton has been. recently " repaired and re—
stored." One of the most curious arrangements, how-
ever, is the provision of .iron spittoons for the congrega-
tion, so that they shall not spoil the place by spitting
about.—Bristol Times.

Benjamin Augustus Wallis, aged fifty, a gentleman of
independa►lt property, residing at -Stamford-grove, Upper
Clapton, died last week under circumstances which led to
the belief that his death arose from starvation, the only
food found in the house being a small quantity of pudding
and a dried crust.
The Duke of Cleveland has subscribed £lOO towards
the purchase of a site for a new Roman Catholic chapel
at Wolverhampton.—[The duke professes to be a church-
man and a protectionist. How can his grace look for
support from his Protestant tenantry when he com•
mits such an outrage as this on their religious principles.]
The Sheffield Times says, "On Monday, while the
wind was blowing very fresh, it forced a pane of glass out
of a window of the Talbot beer-house, in the Haymarket.
It fell upon the paving-stones of the street, and though a
large pane, measuring about fourteen or fifteen inches, it
was taken up unbroken."
LOUIS PHILIPPE'S WILL.—It is supposed that the
son-in-law of Louis Philippe, the King of the Belgians.
has been appointed testamentary executor and trustee of
the deceased king. Thus the duty will devolve upon
Leopold of maintaining that union of interests and har-
mony of action among the surviving members of the
house of Orleans which was latterly the chief care of the
ex-king.

CONISHEAD PRIORY.—The following lots of this pro-
perty were sold in London on Friday week :—Lot I.
The Bardsea property, comprising 87 acres, £5,500.
Lot 2.—The Deer Park, 138 acres, £10,500. Lot 5, ad-
j lot 2. 138 acres, £6,801 Total, £22,800, exclu-
sive of the timber, which is to be taken at a valuation.
The whole was purchased by Wm. Gale, Esq., Lightburn-
house, Uiverston.
A few nights ago, a young woman in the service of
Mr. Page, of 404, High-street, Cheltenham, was found in
her bedroom with her hands and feet fastened with a
cord, and her neck tied with a napkin. This, she stated,
had been done by a man who entered her room by the
window, but she has since acknowledged that she had
committed the act herself, having been provoked to do so
from something said by her sister.
The Oxford Herald gives an account of the opening of
an Independent meeting-house at Banbury, consisting of
a nave, south aisle, chancel, and vestry, with well-pitched
roofs, and the front gable surmounted by a stone cross.
It has lance-light windows, mostly filled with "green-
tinted cathedral glass." There was an effective choir,
by which the psalms were chanted, the sanctus sungrand
anthems performed.
The Brighton Guardian relates that during the late
races two young farmers were conversing on the course,
when one of them espied a purse on the green sward before
him. He remarked, " There lies a purse," but to his
astonishment, cat picking it up, he discovered that it was
his own, and that it was empty, the impudent thief having
extracted the contents and thrown the purse down at the
feet of its owner.

FRATRICIDE.—On Sunday, two brothers, William and
Nathaniel Brown, on their way to Stroud, in a cart, Quar-
relled as to which should drive. From hard words they
came to blows; when, shocking to relate. William Brown,
in the course of the struggle drew a knife from his pocket
and stabbed his brother in the bowels. The wound was
of a fatal nature. The wretched brother, William Brown,
has been, of course, taken into custody.
THE GREAT GREENHOUSE.—The glazing alone of the
building for the Industrial Exhibition will employ about
one hundred and fifty glaziers for ten weeks ; and as that
number of respectable workmen will be rather difficult to
collect they will require efficient superintendence, or half
the glass will be put in without proper bedding and the
risk of leakage much increased. Probably. one hundred
and fifty tons of putty will be required.
On the night of the 12th ult., at Barton, 'Lincolnshire,
a man named Sanderson was awakened by some persons
throwing in dirt at the windows. He got up and saw
some men standing at the gate. He warned them off,
and on their refusing to go, went out with a poker, and
during the fight that ensued one of the men was so severely
injured that he died next day. A verdict of mauslaughter
has been returned against Sanderson.
SINGULAR VERDICT.—On Tuesday an inquest was held
on the body of a child, at Dodsworth, near Barnsley. It
appeared that a young, unmarried woman, named Hannah
Stones, had been delivered of a still-born child, and made
no one acquainted with it for several hours, although she
had prepared clothes, &c., for the child, and had made
no secret of the matter. The jury returned iI verdict of
"No use." We presume they intended that holding an
inquest under those circumstances was of no use.
It is stated that John Bowes, Esq., of •Streatlam Castle
and Gibside, formerly one of the members for the southern
division of the county of Durham, who has been the lessee
of the Theatre des Varietes, at Paris, for the last ten
years, has within the last few weeks purchased that esta-
blishment for the sum of 1,260,000 francs (X 50,000 ster-
ling.) The purchase is made in the name of Mad'selle
Delorme, an old actress in the theatre, and a lady of great
personal attractions.
_ _

The Morning Post views with well-founded jealousy
the new patent process for refining sugar by the agency of
acetate of lead, and, after describing the process by which
the poison is to be neutralised, and the efficiency of which
depends entirely upon the the.judgment of one individual,
denominated the " tester," observes :—` Is any govern-
ment justified by prudence, duty, or morality, in con-
fiding an unlimited power over millions of lives to a single
irresponsible individual ? This is the proposition to be
considered, and upon► it the entire case hinges."
A coroner's inquest has been sitting for ten days on
the bodies of the four Irishmen who were drowned in
endeavouring to escape from the pursuit of several Eng-
lish " navvies," •on Saturday last, at Partington, York-
shire. Seventy-nine witnesses were examined, and a
verdict of manslaughter against two men named Robert
Bielby and James Brown, who have accordingly been
committed to York to take their trial at the next assizes.
Four other men have been committed for trial at the next
Beverley sessions on this charge.
EXPLOSION OF GUN COTTON.—On Tuesday week two
women, mother and daughter, were engaged i❑ cleaning
their house' in Aberdare, and in making up the fire, when
one of them threw what appeared to be some rags on the
grate. Instantly a terrific explosion was heard—the
" rags " proved to be gun cotton. The windows of the
room were blown out, the house set on fire, and the two
women burned in a dangerous manner. The noise at-
tracted the neighbours to the spot, who extinguished the
flames and rendered every assistance to the sufferers, who
now lie in a very precarious state.
Irk:TEMPERANCE AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday. a party
of labouring men and their wives, all more or less intoxi-
cated, were returning to London from Battersea, when,
off the Houses of Parliament, a Mrs. Shadbrook, who had
conceived that an improper intimacy had taken place be-
tween a female of the party and her husband, in a frenzy
of jealousy, suddenly threw herself overboard. Mr. Shad-
brook, though unable to swim, leaped in to save his wife ;
the unfortunate woman, however, who was very drunk,
was not seen to rise again, and her husband was with
difficulty dragged into the boat.
At the Berks county court at Reading, last week, Mrs.
Chapman, a milliner, recovered from Mr. Stanford, M.P.,
the sum of £l7 lls. 10d. for " bows" and " favours" at
the time of the election. The agent said an order had
been given for only £5, but different members of the
committee gave orders which the Judge held to be a suffi-
cient liability. A verdict was entered for the full amount
for the plaintiff, who had been obliged to give up her
business in consequence of the non-payment of the bill,
she having spent her little capital of £lO in providing the.
necessary ribbon to make up the favours. _ _ .

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Tuesday, a ticket collector
at the London and South Coast railway station, at Lewes,
named Isgar, was within a hair's breadth of losing his
life. Ho was on the rails below the platform when he
saw a train entering the station and just upon him. In
this position -Isgar threw himself on his face, dreading lest
he should be crushed. His fearful position was seen by
the station clerk, who fully expected that lie would be
found dashed to pieces when the train bad passed. There
was one moment of agonizing expense, and then up leaped
Isgar, but not injured in any way. Isgar is an exceed-
ingly small made man. _

FATHER IGNATIUS.—On Friday last, the Hon. and Rev.
Geo. Spencer, brother to the present Earl Spencer, delivered
a lecture in the Catholic Chapel, Bedford-st., North Shields,
--" On the prospect of the conversion of England." The
reverend gentleman was formerly a clergyman of the
Church of England, which he left about eighteen years
ago, when he became a convert to Roman Catholicism.
He is nJw a monk of the strict mendicant order of the
passion, sworn to poverty, and named Father Ignatius.
He wears a coarse woollen habit and no stockings or
shoes, his feet being protected by sandals. Shields.
Gazette.

A FAMILY REAPING PARTY.—On Saturday, in a
wheat-field situate near the Cross gate, adjacent to the
town of Ihninster, were to be seen a father and his ten
sons reaping: The field is rented by one of the sons,
and, by his request, his father and his brothers helped to
reap. The father is an athletic man, named William
Mullins, aged 65 years. His sons' names and ages are
John, 40 ; William, 38 ; Noah and James (twins), 36 ;
Esau and Jacob (twins), 34; Matthew, 32; Henry, 30;
Robert, 28; and Emanuel, 22 years. The sons are all
fine and robust men, and, on an average, stand 5 feet 11
inches each. A great many persons went from the town
to see them reap, and the bells of the venerable church
rang two peals on the occasion.

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petrified, and stared with open mouth, but moved not ;
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