The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

FREE-KIRKISM IN ENGLAND.--This body is declining. ' THE. STIFALFIELDS BALL.—Drury-lane Theatre pre-
They have just given up their college, and the two soi- rented on Friday a most splendid scene. Everything that
disant professors, like the ouvriers-of Paris, are idle and royal and'noble patronage could bestow had been brought
at large. Regent-square and Woolwich Chapels belong to bear to,reuder the occasion worthy of its object, and it
by trust-deed to the Established Church, but as yet the is to be presumed that the Spitalfields School of Design
Free Presbyterians occupy them. will reap no small harvest from the festivity. The cos-
How Pooh's RATES ARE INCREASED.—Robert Blake, tames of the visitors, who were about 3,000 in number,
the man who cohabited with Hannah Parker until she were almost entirely British, and mostly military as far
murdered two of his children (for which crime she was as the gentlemen were concerned. They exhibited con-
executed a short time ago at Newgate), was brought be- siderable beauty and variety, and extended in fashion as
fore the magistrates at the Birmingham police-office on far back as the Norman conquest. The Queen Dowager
Thursday, charged with having deserted his wife and and most of the lady patronesses were present on the
child who have at times been relieved by the parish au- occasion, in addition to a host of distinguished persons.
thorities of that borough since January, 1843. It ap- The decorations of the theatre were very beautiful, the
peared from the evidence of a relieving-officer that he ap- Prevailing tones being white and gold. A large garland
prehended Blake at Mr. Plummer's saw-mills, Golden- of flowers under the chandelier was supported by rose-
lane, St. Luke's, on a warrant ordered by the guardians coloured festoons, which were arranged with great taste.
of the poor of the parish of Birmingham, and that his The band of M. Jullien attended, with its leader.
wife and children had received relief amounting to £llO BACK FREIGHTS : COALS, SALT.—There are plenty of
Os. 7d. He was convicted, and sentenced to two months' back freights in the neighbourhood of Bristol.
imprisonment in the house of correction at Warwick, and Cardiff, the depots for coal for steam-ships
with hard labour. This man's criminality\ has been very each of which we believe about 500,000 tons

•Newp-ort
and from

expensive to the public.
DEATH FROM TAKING BELLADONNA SALVE INTEL
NALLY.—Considerable interest has been excited at She

are exported, are within a few hours' sail; or the vessel
may lie in the Bristol Docks and be loaded from barges
at two shillings per ton. Salt from the Worcestershire

field by the cireumstar

Greaves, residing in Love-lane, who, being an out-patient understand at about two shillings per ton higher than at
of the Infirmary, went to-lane,
that institution on Tuesday for Liverpool,—and then it must be remembered there are
his medicine, when he received from the porter a box of neither dock or town dues on exports in Bristol, though
pills, a plaister, and a quantity of salve, composed of the there are both in Liverpool. We are sorry to hear, how-
extract of belladonna, the last of which, according to the ever, that a vessel was recently compelled to go round to
statement of the porter, he was instructed to spread on Liverpool for a cargo of salt, there being no supply here..
We hope this will be remedied. The salt trade is a very
the plaister. It seems, however, that from some mis-important one—it was the making of Liverpool. More
apprehension or other on the part of the old man, lie
took a small portion of the poisonous salve on Tuesday than 580,000 tons are exported per annum from that port.
night, under the idea that it was an electuary. The con- —Bristol .21firror.
sequence was, that after enduring great agony, he expired SHIPS' ENTREES AND CLEARANCES.—The East India
the following day. There appeared to be a want of and China Association have just published the statement
of British ships which have entered inwards and cleared
sufficient caution at the Infirmary, with regard to the
fixing of proper labels on the medicine dispensed.
outwards, from and to places within the limits of the
FIRE INSURANCES.—By a return just printed by order
Company's charter, during the six months ending the
of the House of Commons, containing an account of the 30th June, 1847 and 1848. The figures for London show
sums paid for duty by the Offices for fire insurance, we find a decrease in the vessels entered inwards of 69, and 24,130
that, in the year 1847, the following sums were paid for tonnage. The Liverpool return exhibits a decrease of
duty by the undermentioned offices :—Alliance, £31,644 ; three vessels, but an increase of 4,906 tonnage. There is
Atlas, £32,779; County, £50,001 ; Globe, £32,494; Impe- a decrease also at Bristol and Hull, but the principal de-
rial, £44,831 ; Phoenix, £90,137; Royal Exchange £75,336; clime is in the Clyde. More favourable results are shown
Sun, £180,482 ; Liverpool, £12,658; Liverpool Royal In- by the clearances outwards. All the ports have increased
surance, £10,229 ; Manchester, £17,373 ; Birmingham, except Liverpool, Bristol. and Hull. London has in-
£10,207. The sums insured on farming stock, exempt creased 43 vessels, and 17,391 tonnage. The Liverpool
from duty were, at the Alliance, £1,093,329 ; Atlas, decrease is only two vessels, with 432 tonnage ; and the
£991,225 ; County. £7,231,552 ; Phoenix, £5,041,226 ; the Bristol and Hull decrease six vessels, with 16.352 ton-
Royal Exchange, £4,663,136; the Sun, £8,134,113 ; Li- nage. The points for which the greatest number of yes-
verpool, £59,350; Liverpool, (Royal,) £56,672; Man_ s el; have left, are Bombay, Ceylon, New South Wales,
chester, £396,292. It appears, too, from this return, Mauritius, Arabia, and the Cape of Good Hope.
that the insurances in Ireland, of all descriptions, are ut- CLEVER TRICK SPOILED.—On Saturday, a country-
terly trifling in comparison with those in England. looking man bustled up to a heap of potato baskets in
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A CONSERVATIVE ELECTOR. Smithfield market, and, placing his hand on one of them,
On Saturday week the dead body of Mr. John Mulcock, said to the bystanders, " Here give us a hand with this."
fly proprietor, of Cheltenham, who had been missing since The request was at once complied with, and the man
Thursday, the day of polling at the recent election con- walked off with the half-load of potatoes on his back. The
test, was found in a pool, in a lonely spot near the Pitville owner, who had seen the whole proceeding, was for the
Gardens. The water was quite shallow, the head being
moment astounded at the cool audacity of the fellow • but
in 18 inches of water, and the feet on the bank. It was he quickly followed, and accosted the man with " Holloa
strongly suspected, therefore, that the unfortunate de- where are you taking those to ?" "To David Matley's
ceased was dead before he came into the water,
that he
and it is cart," was the prompt reply. " But they' are not David
remarkable that he had been heard to declare
Maley's." "Indeed ! Which are his then ?" asked the
should never survive the defeat of Mr. Gardner, his favo-
innocent and surprised porter. A moment's investigation
rite candidate, and that he should be killed by the vel- revealed that another basket from the same lot had been
lows (Mr. Berkeley's supporters).—His wife deposed at furtively abstracted, and the man was given into custody.
the inquest that her husband never threatened to commit On the same morning he was brought up at the Borough
suicide—that he always came home when ill, and that his Court. His name was Edward Coates, and he stated that
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pecuniary circumstances were not in any way deranged. he belonged to Stockport. His defence was that he had
mistaken the potatoes for David Matley's; but this was
When he came home with the flys after the polling, he
was covered with dirt which had been thrown at him._ proved to be a falsehood, and he was sent to gaol for one
Hereford Journal. month."—Manchester Examiner.
PROTESTANT SISTERS OF CHARITY—TRAINING IN- THE ORANGEMEN OF LONDON.—The Orangemen of
STITUTION FOR NURSES.—On Thursday, a meeting the Woolwich, Greenwich, and London District cele-
was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, London, for the brated the anniversary of the Battles of the Boyne and
purpose of establishing a Training Institution for Nurses, Aughrim, by dining together on the 12th instant, at the
and the encouragement of acts of piety and charity upon Crown Inn, Trafalgar-road, Greenwich. The District
the system of the Scours de Charite. The Duke of Master from London presided, and related various inte-
Cambridge was in the chair ; and amongst the persons resting details from the late meeting of the Grand Lodge
present were Lord Nelson, the Earl of Harrowby, the in Manchester. Letters were read from the Earl of
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Norwich, and the Bishop Enniskillen, the Earl of Roden, Lord Kenyon, Colonel
of Salisbury. The Duke of Cambridge said it gave him Sir W. Verner, the Grand Master, the Grand Chaplain,
great pleasure to assist in the formation of the present and various others. The health of " The Queen, and
institution; for as president of the German Hospital, in long may she reign in peace and happiness " " The
which trained nurses were employed, he could speak Queen Dowager," " Prince Albert," " The Orangemen
from experience of the great advantages of the system.
of Ireland," " The land we live in," " Our friends all
The plan was commenced some time ago by a German cl the world over," and number of other truly loyal toasts,
clergyman, and the King of Prussia was now at the head were drunk with great enthusiasm, and many important
of a large establishment of the kind in Berlin. The statements made respecting the operations of the body all
Bishop of London said that good nursing was of as much over the country, and in various parts of the world. One
importance to the sick as good medicine ; and how could fact was worthy of note—that every Orangeman may be
they better supply that than by training women anxious looked upon as a special constable in a time of need.
to devote their time to ministering to the wants of the THE CHARTIST TRlALS.—Ernest Jones was on Mon-
helpless, to provide temporal aid, while at the same time day found guilty of attending an illegal meeting at Bon-
ner's Fields on the 4th of June, and with riot. Fussell
they imparted spiritual consolation ? There was a very
flourishing Protestant institution of the kind on the banks was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and required
of the Rhine ; but it was their intention to take as a
to keep the peace for five years ; Williams, two years im-
model that in the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. prisonment, and keep the peace for three years ; Sharpe,
THE IRON TRADE.—The second of the quarterly meet-
two years' imprisonment for sedition, three months' for
ings of the iron and coal masters of South Staffordshire unlawfully assembling, and to keep the peace for three
was held at Wolverhampton on Wednesday. The prin- Years; Vernon, a similar sentence; Looney, two years'
cipal firms were represented, but there was a marked imprisonment for sedition, two months' for unlawfully
contrast between their dealings on this occasion and at assembling, and the same amount of sureties as the other
the last July meeting. Twelve months ago there were defendants, (his own recognizance in £lOO, and two others
more orders on the books than could be executed at £lO
in £5O) to keep the peace for two years. When the sen-
a ton. On this occasion few orders were reported, and
tence was passed, Looney laughed, and said " Vei y well—
prices low. Since the preliminary meeting, a few days that will do." Jones was sentenced to be imprisoned for
ago, there has not been any improvement which would
two years, and find two sureties in £l5O, and his own re-
justify the masters in regaining any portion of the 30s. a cognizance in £2OO, for his future good conduct. When
ton reduction which was then agreed to, and whatever
the sentence was pronounced, he said, " I wish your lord-
sales were made were at the reduced prices. There was ship good night, and may you sleep with the motto of the
not, however, much business transacted, as the principal Charter round your neck, and no surrender." In answer
sales and purchases are generally reserved for the meet-
to inquiries as to where the defendants would be confined,
ing at Birmingham on the next day. Throughout the
Chief-Justice Wilde said in the New House of Correction
district there are a great number of men unemployed and for Middlesex.
on half work, and the distress is very great amongst them. AN INTRUDER ON SEA BATHERS.—A few days ago, as
At Birmingham on Thursday the meeting was numerously one of the fishermen of Hunstanton, Norfolk, was em-
attended by the chief masters and iron merchants in South ployed catching crabs near the shore of that watering
Staffordshire, Wales and the metropolis. The prices re- place, he observed something of a most formidable size
solved upon at Stewpony, and confirmed at Wolverham-
approaching him in the water. The tide was receding,
and the man, who was without companions, was within
ton, were fully maintained. A considerable number of
extensive orders were taken, and the settling of accounts fifty yards of the shore, but much above the waist in the
is said to have passed off satisfactorily. Upon the whole, sea, when, nothing daunted, he struck a severe blow at
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the present aspect of the iron trade may be said to be his new acquaintance, which he soon discovered to be a
shark. A regular combat ensued, the man aiming heavy
more cheering than was anticipated.
REQUIREMENTS FOR EMIGRATION.—EngIish people blows at the head of the fish, and the latter fighting with
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are not generally aware of the very small cost at which a his tail, with which he !struck the fisherman two or three
young man or a young married couple can transfer their times severely on the chest. The man, fortunately for
fortunes to a region where a labourer will find his reward. himself, never lost his footing, his presence of mind, or
There are not many young men who cannot save five his strength, and ultimately succeeded in capturing the
pounds in two years with only denying themselves what monster. The tide continuing to ebb, the shark was left
they can well do without, and that sum will pay for their on the dry sands, where the old man was seen standing
passage and keep from any port in Great Britain to Que- with much satisfaction, over his captured enemy. The
bec. Twenty ponnds will do the same for a married cou- shark measured nine feet in length, and was presumed to
ple with three or four children. From the Irish ports, and weigh about 30 stone. The spot on which it was first
with a merely sufficient scale of provisions, the expense is seen was close to the place frequented by bathers, a ma-
considerably less. To Australia, of course, the expense is chine having on that day frequently conveyed parties
much greater; but so, also, is the advantage. It is a very there.
common observation, that if by any luck a working man EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF IMPOSITION.—CLAIR-
becomes posssessed of £5O or £lOO in this country, it VOYANCE.—J. Goennern, alias Dr. Von Goennern, of
No. 22, Great Pultney-street, Regent-street, was charged
does him more harm than good, as he cannot invest it
profitably, and is therefore tempted to draw upon it till it on Monday, at Marlborough-street, London, with having
is gone. The lesser sum will take a married couple com-
obtained money from Lord Crewe by false and fraudulent
fortably to New Zealand, or any Australian colony. Some pretences. An anonymous letter had been received by
of the most painful incidents of rural life are those which the Mendicity Society, calling attention to the imposi-
arise from the possession of such sums by bequest, or tions of Dr. Van Goennern, whose history it gave. He
whatever means. We feel assured that our labourers was, the letter said, a tailor by trade, a native of some
would be more apt to save, if it were not for the fact that village in the duchy of Nassau. A few years ago he had
those who do are seldom the better for it. Emigration acted as waiter at a coffee-shop in Paris, from which after
presents an adequate object. We hear already of emigra-
four weeks he was discharged. He then entered the ser-
tion clubs in the Potteries and elsewhere. These are the vice of a soi-disant Marchioness with an Italian name,
only land companies that will do thcir members any real now in England practising as a clairvoyant in street,
good. They will give him not only land but good wages. but at that time in Paris. The tailor having acquired
COLONISATION.—On Tuesday the " Society for the
enough of the mystery of clairvoyance to set up for him-
Promotion of Colonisation" held their first meeting in self, he came to England with a German girl, from a
London. The Earl of Harrowby was in the chair ; and,
house of ill-fame in Paris, whom he passed off as his sis-
ter, and who is now in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. Whilst
among the speakers on the occasion, were Lord Ashley,
Lord Monteagle, and Lord Farnham. The society is to
carrying on this trade, he got £3OO from a blind gentle-
be self-sustaining : they are to select the parties wishing man in the Isle of Wight, under pretence of purchasing
f
to emigrate, and they are to promote their object by a for him costly remedies discovered by his clairvoyance
loan of money, on, as far as we can see, the guarantee of sister in her sleep. He also obtained from a German
poor-law unions and landlords with over-peopled estates, merchant's clerk, on pretence of bringing out some dis-
coveries made by means of clairvoyance, a sum of £2OO.
the emigrants subsequently to refund the money ad-
After advertising for six months that he attended soirees
vanced. " Before us," said Lord Harrowby, `` were co-
lonies thirsting for population; around us were masses of for the purpose of exhibiting the extraordinary powers of
operatives dying for want of employment. The industry,
clairvoyance possessed by his sister, Fraulein Von Goen-
intelligence, and enterprise of the British people pre-
nern, the girl proved enciente. He then introduced her
eminently qualified them for colonisation. The spirit of not as his sister, but as his wife, at Liverpool, Manches-
independence and self-reliance of the Anglo-Saxon race, ter, &c., after which he came again to London. He
their literature, our extent of seaboard, were all circum-
wrote to the Baroness Rothschild, stating that, by means
stances more favourable to colonisation than characterised of clairvoyance, he had discovered a great misfortune
which would happen unless she paid £lO to avert it ; and
any other race. The greatest difficulty was 'the expense
of carrying out a systematic plan of emigration ;—the strange to say got the money. The woman, through
great golden bridge by which our impoverished thousands drink, dissipation, and her efforts at clairvoyance, became
could be conveyed from want to plenty could not easily deranged, and was removed to Hanwell. The tailor made
be constructed : . but he thought the principle adopted by use of the event to excite the sympathy of his country-
that society met the requirements of the question, and men. M. Staudigl, the singer, sent him £2O; and the
would be likely to render the system self-supporting. He Rev. Dr. Steinkopf gave him introductions, believing
wished to see the younger sons of high families trans- I him, to, be a distressed physician; but having de-
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planting themselves and their families to our colonies, and
a better class of emigrants than had hitherto gone out
would follow in their wake. Then the resources of our
distant possessions would not be left to he accidentally de-
veloped, as heretofore; and the institutions of the parent
state, which were unrivalled in their vigour and stability,
would grow up, and bless and consolidate those rising
communities at the other extremity of the globe."
How TO MAKE A BUDGET.—Reckon your expenditure
half a million too low; reckon your income half a million
too high ; the country thus gains one million. Then take
from the income of next year another half-million, and
add it to the incoale of this : the country will thus have
gained a million and a half. Then give up a half million
of projected outlay; and you may take to yourself the
credit of having added two millions to the national income
—if you can get it.
THE COLD EARTH CURE.—The "cold earth" cure
seems destined to rival the " cold water cure." One day
last week, an old man from Shields, arrived at his native
place, High Coniscliffe, near Darlington, suffering very
much from paralysis, which had deprived him of the use
of one side. He said he was told to get himself buried
two feet deep in his " native soil," and he would be cured.
The poor fellow, strong in faith, got a man to dig a hole
by the Tees. side, into which he got and was covered over
for a couple of hours, his head only being visible ! He
had not been long in his grave before he broke out into a
profuse perspiration. He complained of excruciating pain
in the side where before he had no feelingtat all, and after
his exhumation he declared himself better, could walk
nimbler, and had some feeling in his side. A correspon-
dent of the Durham Advertiser, who thinks the "cold
earth" cure " not to be laughed at," says, on the autho-
rity of an informant at Darlington, a Maltese physician
was, some forty years since, on a visit to the father of my
informant, who, in the course of conversation, asked him
what treatment was prescribed in an attack of the plague,
to which the physician replied, in his imperfect English,
" We do take the peoples that are seized, and do bury
them in the ground till they do swear." Swear, doctor !
Swear did you say ! What can, swearing have to do with
their cure ? You probably mean sweat instead of swear."
"Ah ! yes : sweat, that is. the word ;.vie,do.bury_ them in,
the ground till they do..swcAt..!'

his friends -to put- them on their guard. Among the
persons whom he defrauded were Lord Fitzwilliam,
£2O; Lord Crewe, £2O; W. Evans, Esq., M.P.,
£32 ; Lord Bexley, £lO ; Prince Albert, the Queen.
Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, the Countess of Pem-
broke, C. Forbes, Lord Morpeth, and many others. To
Miss B. Coutts he sent some Berlin wool work, pretend-
ing that it had been done by his wife during her confine-
ment in Hanwell. Many more had been appealed to.
He had a clerk that wrote forty letters daily. The letter
stated that on the next morning he was going to forward
a letter to Lord Crewe, 2, Hill-street, stating that he had
supported himself as an artist, and enclosing a sketch
which he had bought for 2s. 6d., thanking his lordship for
the £2O he sent him last year, and applying for aid to pay
his passage back to Germany. Inquiries having been
made, and the authenticity of some of its details ascer-
tained, Horsford was employed to watch the prisoner from
his house in Great Pulteney-street to Lord Crewe's, in
Hill-street, where he was taken into custody. On being
searched, a gold watch and three sovereigns were found
on his person besides a quantity of memoranda, bearing
out to a considerable extent the statements in the letter.
One of the papers contained the names of Lords Skel-
mersdale, Fitzwilliam, Durant, Crewe, the Duke of Leeds,
Mr. 0. Gore, Mrs. Huskisson, Major-General Gardener,
Lieut.-General Sir J. Gardener, T. Southern, Esq. M. P.,
Lord Brougham, and others from whom the prisoner had
obtained or expected to obtain money. The prisoner ad-
mitted he was not a physician, but said he was a school-
master, and was going back to Germany as soon as he
could get money enough. He could get plenty of respect-
able people to prove that he was what he represented
himself to be. Mr. Bingham said the prisoner had better
bring the persons who were able to speak to his character
forward at the next examination, (as it was his inten-
tion to remand him until Monday. The prisoner was
then removed. Horsford having gone to search the pri-
soner's lodgings, in a short time returned with the infor-
mation that the prisoner lived apparently in great luxury.
A £lO cheque just sent from W. Evans, Esq., M.P., was
found, which the prisoner had not yet got cashed ; also
scores of letters from charitable noblemen and entlemens
A letter with two sovereigns in it was also bud 161.4 b.
prisoner at Lord Fitzwilliam's. 8.4 NT))