The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The total import of foreign oxen and cows this year
amounts to 5327 head.
Sir Henry Pottinger arrived at Grove's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, on Tuesday, in excellent health.
The agents of the Anti-Corn-Law League actually made
no less than 700 objections at the City of Exeter Regis-
tration, out of which they sustained twelve.
The demand for Tartan dresses, which has been on the
increase for several years, has received a vast impulse by
the visits of her Majesty to Scotland.
FIRE AT CREWE.—On Friday a fire broke out in an
outbuilding of the Holly Sheaf Farm, in the occupation
of Mr. Furber.. The loss is estimated at £l5O.
A subscription has been entered into for the relief of
the relatives of the sufferers at Haswell Colliery. The
amount already announced is nearly £l7OO, the owners of
the colliery having subscrKed five hundred guineas.
At the third and last Falkirk cattle tryst, which com-
menced on Monday, from sixty to seventy thousand, sheep
were exhibited, and prices were lower by from Is. Gd. to
2s. a head than in September.

On Friday last, a boy, ten years old, at Rhiw Coch
mill; near Holyhead, came within reach of the wings of
the mill while making their revolutions. He was struck
down and killed instantaneously.

ARRIVAL OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH.—Lord Ellen-
borough arrived at Portsmouth, en Friday moning, in the
Locust steam-ship, Lieutenant Commander Lunn. The
vessel is performing quarantine at the Mother-hank.
The Artesian wells at Southampton (one thousand three
hundred feet deep) have been completely successful. The
water rises to within forty feet of the surface and by the
aid of powerful engines no less than fifty-five thousand
gallons a day are poured into the town.
THE MOTHER OF HILLS.—We are sorry to hear that
the Jubilee Column, on the lofty summit of Moel Vamtra,
is in so dilipidated a condition, that unless instant means
'are taken to put it into a proper state of repair, it will
scarcely stand through the winter.

LIBERATION OF A CHARTIST PRISONER.—Joseph
Cappur, the well-known Chartist Blacksmith, of Tunstall,
convicted of sedition at the special commission in 1842,
was released from Stafford gaol on Monday last, after
' undergoing his term of two years' imprisonment.
JEWISH MAGISTRATES.—Mr, E. Lousada, of the
Peak, Derbyshire, and one of the deputy-lieutenants for
the county, has qualified as a county magistrate. Mr.
Benjamin Cohen, at Richmond, has also been placed
upon the commission of the peace.— Voice of Jacob.
The Windsor Castle, an iron steamer, soon after leaving
the royal squadron on Tuesday week, struck on the North,
Carr Rock, between Dundee and Edinburgh, and was
totally wrecked., The passengers, two hundred in num-
ber, were providentially rescued.

THE HASWELL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The pro-
tracted inquest on the bodies of she sufferers by this
awful visitation closed on Friday, when the jury brought
in a verdict of " accidental death," stating, that they did
not attribute blame to any one.
TERRIFIC FIRE.—On Wednesday a most extensive fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Mace, farmer, one mile
from Gravesend. A homestead, a large building filled
with grain, a pea rick, two of beans, and two stacks of
wheat, the piggeries, stables, &c., were consumed. A
deaf and dumb man, is in custody.
On Wednesday last a beat, containing eleven persons
wag swamped by passing over the ridge of rocks called
" The Bridges,' off Devonport. Eight of the eleven were
drowned, one of them a female, who had just bade adieu
to her husband, a seaman on board her Majesty's ship
Bhadamanthus.
FATAL MIS'FAXE*--TWO Scotch lads went into the
woods near Crieff, Perthshire, last week to shoot a roe
that had been trespassing on the corn stacks. One of
them perceiving a movement in a bush, incautiously fired,
and passed a rifle ball through the body of his companion,
who died next day.

SUNFLOWER.—A new society devoted to the cultiva-
tion of this flower says—" Let a man but devote his ener-
gies to the cultivation of one hundred acres of sunflowers,"
and he shall see, what he shall see—his profits in one
year shall be from £2,000 to £2,400, after paying his la-
bourers handsomely !"
HERRING TRADE.—The total quantity caught for the
season is estimated at 90,000 barrels, of which there
have been exported to Ireland, 38,997; do. to the Conti-
nent, 33,066. Leaving unshipred 17,936 baire's. The
total number of boats employed here during th - season
was 906, and of hands 10,561.—J0hn 0' Groat's Journal.

UNITARIANISM.—Upwards of £4OOO is already sub-
scribed towards taking down and •rebuilding Mill Hill
Chapel, which was formerly built and occupied by Trini-
tarian Nonconformists, but is now, by virtue of the ab-
sence of all creeds, and of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill,
in the hands of the Unitarians., The same body, in
Leeds, have also appointed a town missionary.

Hop-picking has been brought to a close nearly through-
out the county, and we are enabled to state pretty confi-
dently that, taken on the whole, the produce has fallen
from a fourth to a third short of what was expected.
The quality in some instances, however, is better than.was
anticipated. From Mid-Kent we learn that the crop falls
short of expectation by a third, and even a half, in a few
cases; and the estimate of duty now varies from £127,000
to £l3o,ooo.—Kentish Observer

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—We last year took notice
of a maniac belonging to Strathpeffer, known by the name
of Big Hector, and the abominable manner in which he
behaved during the sacramental fast days in Ferintosh,
and the danger to the public of his being left at large.
We are now informed that he lately visited Edderton, in
the eastern portion of this county, where, having
taken hold of a child (a girl), he ate the flesh off her arm,
and the poor sufferer, when relieved was, and still is, in a
very painful and dangerous condition.—Rosshire paper.

THE BRIDE OF STRONG WIND.—WC state"!,- last
week, on the authority of the Sentinel, that the English
bride of the Ojibbeway Indian had returned to the pater-
nal roof, in consequence of the parties not having been
able to agree. A genileman, who called upon us a few
days ago, has informed us, that this report is incorrect,
he having seen a letter, which the bride had written to
her father, stating that the happy couple had landed at
New York, and giving evidence that they were living un
the most affectionate terms.—Albion.
ARRIVAL OF MRS. PRITCHARD AND FAMILY.—Mrs.
Pritchard (the wife of Mr. Consul Pritchard), with her
three daughters, have arrived in this country. They came
on board the barque Cape Breton, Captain Caerr, which
left Valparaiso on the 11th of June, and arrived at Cork
ma the 3rd of October, bringing government dispatches
from the master of the Basilisk, on board of which Queen
Potnar e has taken refute, and from Admiral Thomas on
the South American Station. Mrs. Pritchard and her
daughters came over to Bristol on Saturday, and reached
Landon the same evening.

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—George Gardner, the young
man who was arraigned at the Warwick Spring Assizes
for the abduction of Miss Jane Page, the daughter of Mr.
William Page, of Stretton, on the 10th of February last,
from a boarding school at Warwick, and bound to keep
the peace, committed suicide by poison on Wednesdayweek,
at the house of the young lady's father, whither he had
gone for some unexplained reason, but probably for the
commission of the sad deed. The conduct of Mr. Page
to the young man during the time he was in a dying state
was severely censured at the inquest by the jury who
brought in a verdict of Felo de se.

Louis-Philip is the first French sovereign who has
visited England in peace. King John of France was
taken prisoner by the Black Prince, carried to London,
and lodged in the Palace of the Savoy. Francis the
First promised a visit to Henry the Eighth, and Henry the
Fourth held out the same hopes to Elizabeth • but ob-
structions, intentional or unavoidable, intervened. Nei-
ther Louis XVIII. nor Charles X. were kings—they were
mere refugees—and we may safely say England, never till
now, bad the honour of a friendly visit from a King of
Franc This is a new feature in the remarkable history
of this remarkable man.

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM FIRE•ARMS.—On Tuesday
last Lieut. Cul. Charles Davies was shooting near En--
glish Bicknor, and when in the act of getting over a
hedge, his gun becoming entangled in the briars, went off
and lodged the contents of both barrels in his right side.
He immediately fell, and on the keeper (who was accom-
panying him) coming to his side, and attempting to raise
him, he exclaimed " It is of no use, I am a dead man !:
He then prayed earnestly to God to have mercy on his
soul, and on the souls of his relations. The keeper ran
to the village (which is only a hundr.d yards from the
spot) for assistance, but before he could return the unfor-
tunate gentleman had breathed his last.—Chellenham
Chronicle.

BREWERS, VICTUALLERS, AND BEERSITOP-KEEPERS.
—lt appears from a parliamentary document, that on the
10th of October last there were 2,614 brewers in the
United Kingdom, of which number 2,318 were in Eng-
land, 188 in Scotland, and 138 i❑ Ireland. There were at
the same period 86,073 victuallers in the United King-
dom, of whom 57,698 resided in England, 15,449 in Scot-
land, and 12,926 in Ireland. In England, there were
31,227 persons licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the
premises, and 4,252 per sons licensed to sell beernot to be
consumed on the premises; there were 27,009 victuallers
who brewed their own beeer, and nearly 14,000 beershop-
keepers who also brewed their own beer.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning, during
a sale in the attic of the Bull's Head Inn, Digbeth, the
beams of the floor gave way in the middle, and the com-
pany, 23 persons, were nearly all precipitated into the
club-room below, and enveloped amongst furniture, &c.,
broken fragments, clouds of dust, &c. The screams and
contusion were terrific. Several were so much injured,
that they had to be sent to the hospital. Several of the
parties, both in the attic and club-room, escapt d almost
by a miracle. One man was saved by jumping on the
leads in front of the house. Curiously enough, the vehi-
cle in which a Mrs. Hare was sent to the hospital was up-
set, and another to which she was transferred lost a wheel,
before she got to her destination.
BROUGH-HILL FAIR, WESTMORELAND.--ThiS impor-
tant fair was held on Monday and Tuesday. There was a
tolerable supply of Scotch and Irish cattle, considerable
lots of which were sold for wintering, at prices fully eight
per cent. below the prices of last year's fair. A goodly
number of English cattle of all kinds was exhibited, but
the sales effected were at declining prices. Practical
agriculturists affirm that fodder for cattle during the ap-
proaching winter will be scarce, by reason of the oat and
barley crops being so short in the straw, and the turnip
crops scarcely average ones. There was a good deal of
business done among the Scotch and other kinds of sheep,
but the prices, like those of cattle, were looking down-
ward. The horse fair was a very thronged and brisk one,
and a large number of very superior animals were shown
for sale.

PROFITS OF TIMBER.—The late Mr. Fleming, of
Hampshire, was one of the largest landed proprietors in
the county, owning at his death 15,000 acres, and so richly
wooded has it ailways been that he is supposed to have
cut no less than £300,000 worth of timber, from first to
last, and yet left the whole as full as the land will bear.
Mr. Fleming's expenditure in the town and neighbour-
hood of Southampton averaged £lB,OOO a-year, and im-
mediately after his departure for the Mediterranean the
loss of such a large expenditure was most sensibly felt.—
Hants Advertiser.
A somewhat interesting native of India, "Mobem Lal,"
arrived in London by the last overland mail. lie, is the
same who travelled in Central Asia in disguise with the
late Alexander Burns, and subsequently published his
journal in Calcutta. Since that period he has been de-
voted to British interests, and was greatly instrumental
in effecting the deliverance of our prisoners in Affghanis-
ran. We hear he has been received with marked atten-
tion by the chairman of the East India Company, Mio,
after honouring him with a visit, invited him to dinner at
his reside, ce.... He. will shortly proceed to Scotland, to
meet the parents of his late lamented friend Sir Alex-
ander Burns.—Morning Paper. .
PROPERTY IN SHARES.—On Friday last, at the Auc-
tion Mart, Mr. Shuttlewoith put up for sale by auction
100 shares in the " Thames Tunnel," upon which I.:50
each had been paid, amounting to £5,000. The attend-
ance of capitalists was rather numerous, in consequence
of the same auctioneer having several other lots of value-
able property to dispose of; but they appeared to " resolve
unanimously that th's was a bad lot, and after a very
sluggish and slight competition, they were knocked down
to an extensive -shareholder in the undertaking, at the
exceedingly low. price of six shillings per £5O share.
realising only £3O, and £4,970 less than had been paid
for them. The sale was a bond fide one, the shares hav-
ing been put up by the executors of a deceased gentle-
man...

THE H ASWELL EXPLOSION.—With the exceptitm of
the Wallsend explosion, in 1835, that at Haswell has been
more fatal than any on record. The following is a list of
all the accidents which have occurred during the present
century, in Northumberland and Durham in which fifty
lives and upwards have been lost :-1812, May 25 : Fel-
ling, ninety-two lives lost, by explosion.-1815, May 3:
Heaton, seventy-five lost, by inundation.-1815, June 2:
Success Pit, Newbottle, fifty-seven lives lost by explo-
sion.-1821, Oct. 23: Wallsend, fifty-two lives lost by
explosion.-1823, Nov. 3: Plain Pit, Rainton, fifty-nine
lives lost by explosion.-1835, June 18: Wallsend. 102
lives lost by explosion.-1839, June 28: St. Hilda,
South Shields, fifty-one lives lost by explosion.-1844,
Sept. 28: Haswell, ninety-five lives lost by explosion.
This is a fearful catalogue : and cne, we trust, which will
ngt appeal to science, to benevolence, and to the legisla-
ture, in vain.

SUGARWUTIES.—On the 10th of November next the
act passed in July last to alter the duty on sugars will
come into operation. The several duties to be paid are
set forth in the statute with the enactments respecting the
importations of sugar from China, Java. or Manilla, or
from the British possessions. By the third section it is
stated that from the 10th of November next her Majesty,
by an order in Council, may declare, with respect to any
foreign country or countries, that it having appeared to
her Majesty, from sufficient evidence, that the sugars of
such countries are not the produce of slave labour, such
sugars shall (from and after a day to be named in such
order) be deemed and taken not to be the produce of slave
labour, and from and after the day named the brown Mus-
covado or clayed sugar (not being refined) of the countries
mentioned in such order shall be admissible to entry for
home consumption at the duty of £1 14s. the cwt., with
5 per cent. additional. Certificates and declarations from
masters of ships are to be required respecting the growth
of sugars.

DESTRUCTIVE FinEs.--Monday week a fire broke
out on the home farm contiguous to Mertham House,
Surrey, the seat of Sir W. Joliffe, M.P., by which the
stabling, and a very large quantity of hay. straw, &c.,
therein, were consumed. The fire also spread to a range
of shedding, upwards of 100- feet long, which was soon
destroyed along with a valuable bull, brought from Ger-
, many for the purpose of increasing the value of the En-
glish breed, which fella sacrifice to the fury of the flames, as
well as two horses, and from 12 to 18 pigs, and a couple
of spring carts, with a valuable assortment of agricultural
implements. On the same day a fatal conflagration took
place at the residence of Mr. W. G. Hayter, M.P., Wells.
The fire originated in an outhouse, but soon communicated
to the mansion, and before the engines could effectually
subdue the devouring element, the roof over the servants
bed-rooms fell in with a tremendous crash. Here, we re-
gret to say, lay an invalid, whose body was found soon
atter the fire was extinguished burnt to a cinder. The
damage is estimated as exceeding £3,C00.

WEST INDIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM COMPANY:
This company held their half-yearly meeting on Thurs-
day last. It appears, that, between the reduction of ex-
penditure and the increased traffic, the concern has done
about £40,000 better this half•hear than it did in the cor-
responding one of 1843. A portion of the saving is, how-
ever, due to a less distance run. Some opposition was
given to the report and management by Mr. Ridgway,
but the general feeling was one of satisfaction, and, in the
end, Mr. R. seconded a vote of thanks to the chairman.
To avoid the uncertainty of repairs, a contract for £22,000
a-year has, been entered into with Mr. Pilcher, the emi-
nent shipbuilder of Blackwall Referring to the accident
to the Tay, the. Chairman said, that the expenses, inclu-
ding salvage, were about £lO,OOO, and that they had dis-
missed the captain, though they had had an excellent cha-
racter with him, and had, in other respect., found him to
be a good officer. A new steamer of 1,000 to 1,200 tons
is to be built for the greater work imposed on the com-
pany by the Admiralty. Some allusion was made to the
company's claim on the estate of Acraman and Co., which
depends on the issue of a new trial.

TURN-017T AT LEEDS.—A turn-out of the persons em-
ployed at several of the principal flax mills in Leeds has
taken place, owing to the operation of the New Factory
Act, which came into effect on Tuesday week. The per-
sons who have struck work, amounting to about 3000 in
number, are nearly all girls and women, classed as " young
persons ; " but they have caused 300 or 400 male adults
to also cease work through the consequent stoppage of
the machines at the different mills. Under the old regime
it was customary for the whole machinery of the mills to
be kept running from six o'clock in the morning to seven
in the evening, with the cessation of an hour for dinner.
Thus, taking into account that the factories closed on
Saturday at four o'clock in the afternoon, the hands
worked 69 hours a week. The new statute requires art
hour and a half at certain intervals allowed for meal times,
and in consequence of an attempt to make up the 69 hours,
by heginnin.: work earlier in a morning, and leaving off
later at night, the hands have struck.—[The Leeds In-
lelligencer of Saturday announces that the strike has
been brought to a close, some mutual concessions having
been made.]

PREACHING TO THE DEAF AND DIYMB.-011 Sunday
afternoon week, Mr. Henry Roxby, formerly of Hull, but
now residing at Huddersfield, and being himself deaf and
dumb, attended by several others labouring under the
same deprivations, and a few friends in possession of
these invaluable faculties, proceeded to Cliffe End, about
two miles from Halifax, Yorkshire, to the house of a
working man and his wife, both also deaf and dumb,
where Mr. Roxby preached to them from 1 Cor. c. xi.,
v. 2. The assembly consisted of ten deaf and dumb per-
sons. The sermon lasted about three quarters of an hour,
and was delivered with much expression by the finger-
alphabet and by signs, which to those who had their hear-
ing were not very intelligible, but to the deaf and dumb
were perfectly so, and the sermon appeared to give therm
great pleasure and satisfaction. A Hull paper states that
Mr. Roxby is perfectly understood by all the deaf and
dumb persons present. Part of the liturgy of the Church
of England, several portions of the Holy Scriptures and
two psalms were expressed by signs and by dactylology,
as were also a short sermon and some prayers. All the
deat and dumb persons appeared highly delighted.

INAUGURATION OF THE DUKE'S STATUE AT GLAS-
GOW.—Tuesday last was fixed upon for opening to the
public the statue erected by the citizens of Glasgow in
honour of the Duke of Wellington. The statue had been
raised on its pedestal in front of the Royal Exchange on
the previous Saturday. All the streets in the neighbour-
hood were densely crowded, and numberless banners
flaunted in the vicinity. About two o'clock on the first-
mentioned day, Sheriff Alison, Sir Neil Douglas, the
Commander of the Forces, the Lord Provost of Glasgow,
and Col. Fleming of Glasgow, ascended a temporary ele-
vation; and after a brief address had been delivered by
the learned Sheriff, the signal was given, and the covering
which bad hitherto concealed the statue of the hero and
statesman was lifted up. The opening was greeted by a
round of enthusiastic cheering, and succeeded by the
booming of the guns of the horse-artillery. The likeness
of the noble duke is admirable, and his position is that of
dignity and repose. The steed seems worthy of its rider;
and, in particular, the spirit and expression of the head
and neck are natural and classic. The bas reliefs round
the pedestal are extremely beautiful : they represent on
two sides incidents in the Duke's career, and on the other
two they are emblematic of Scottish life. Baron Maro-
chetti, of Paris, is the artist.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE,—One of the most destructive
fires that have occurred in the metropolis since the burn-
ing of Toppings Wharf, occurred on Monday evening.
line scene of its operation was a large space of ground
13.1 ind the London Road, Southwark, on which was
erected a large number of shops, occupied by various
tradesmen, and known as St. George's Market. Before
any person had time to get out of their houses, the flames
extended to a long range of butchers' shops on the west
side of the same ro all of which were speedily enveloped
in the same element. The fire next reached three or four
tall houses on the opposite side of Butcher-row, and con-
tinued its course with great fury, destroying in its pro-
gress sundry other stables, sheds, and slaughter-houses.
It next attacked a large warehouse in Market-street.
The scene towards half-east eight o'clock was indeed
awfully grand, myriads of sparks were sent flying in every
direction, and falling upon the houses in the vicinity.
caused the utmost alarm and consternation to prevail
throughout the neighbourhood. The flames next broke
through the windows of an extensive house belonging to
a chair maker, and owing to the very inflammable nature
of the stock contained therein, the building was, in the
almost incredibly brief space of ten minutes, one com-
plete burning mass. Notsvitbstaading that the firemen
were beset on every side by the continual falling of roof
and heavy beams, they worked without the leastinter-
mission until nine o'clock, when it at last became ap-
parent that the flames were yielding beneath the power of
antagonistthe element they were casting upon it. In
the course of another half-hour all further danger of the
fire extending was dissipated. Thirteen buildings, in the
who'e, 100 feet long by 35 feet wide, and used as butcher's
stalls and miscellaneous tradesmen's sheds in the market
were destroyed, together with their contents, including
five sheep and a horse. Several other buildings is
Butcher-row were also seriously injured.

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AMERICAN HOUSE,
45, BOLD-STREET.
GERARD DONKING, CLOCK AND WATCHMAKER,
83, DALE-STREET, in returning thanks to the Inha-
bitants of Liverpool for their support for the last twenty-
four years, wishes to inform them that on account of his
extensive sale in AMERICAN CLOCKS, he has
OPENED a BRANCH SHOP, in BOLD-STREET. No.
45, opposite Slater-street, for the Sale of the above Arti-
cles, where he will constantly have on hand a great variety
of AMERICAN-and other CLOCKS.
G. D. begs particularly to call the attention of the
Public to the American Clocks, as being a beautiful Arti-
cle, and warranted to keep correct time, at remarkably
Low Prices.