The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

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No other cases of cholera have occurred in Hull.
The tonnage of Bristol has increased during the last
six months 12,651 tons.
The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Dover on Monday
morning, en route to London and Claremont.
The receipts at the Edinburgh Theatre, on the first
night of Jenny Lind's appearance, amounted to £1,200.

A vein of iron ore has been dis Covered on the estate of
Mr. John Shepherd, High Brow, Millom, Ulverstone.
The total income of the boroughs of England during
the year 1846-7. amounted to £1,346,184.
The munificent Dr. Warneford has just given anothqi
donation of £l,OOO to the Queen's College, Birminghanill
Jenny Lind has consented to sing at a concert in Man-
chester, and to give the proceeds for the erection of ano-
ther wing to the Infirmary of that town.
A public banquet, on an unusual scale of magnificence,
was given on Friday night, at Cheltenham, to the
" Conqueror of the Scinde."
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned, at Dinton
Devizes, against a man named Ford, for killing another
man in a fight.
The steam-ship Washington arrived at Southampton
on Thursday, from New York, which she left on the 20th
ult. The news by her is very meagre.
The members of the Edinburgh town council have una-
nimously resolved not to allow written speeches to be read
at the meetings of their body.
Mr. Salt, farmer, of Woolton, near Ashbourn, was kil-
led on Monday through the upsetting of his gig in which
he was riding.

An old gentleman named Purling, living at Brighton,
has been killed by an overdose of opium, which he had
long been in the habit of taking.
The pork for naval use, this year, will be made up en-
tirely in Ireland. No American will be taken into con-
sum ptim. _ _

During the past week two parish meetings have been
held in London, to adopt precautionary measures against
the cholera an other epidemic diseases.
A MILE IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES !—On Satur-
day, Captain Robertson, 31st Regiment, ran on Leith
Walk, Ediriburgh, one mile in 4 minutes and 50 seconds.
On Siindav week. a streetsweener of Wich..A ‘..4”,
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sifting the ust, &c., which she had swept from the mar-
ket place, was rewarded for his trouble by discovering five
sovereigns among the garbage.
The schooner Caroline, from Newport for London,
struck on some rocks near Scilly, on the 28th ultimo, and
went down instanter. The master and crew (seven in
number) were all lost, except the mate.
That immense wilderness, Alnwick Moor or Aydon
Forest, containing upwards of three thousand acres of
land, a large portion of which is capable of cultivation, is
now in a likely way of being reclaimed.
The John 0' Groat Journal calculates that in the pre-
sent season there have been 92,862 trans of herrings cap-
tured. Supposing that each cra'i holds 70 dozen, we have
6,487,740 dozen, or 77,852,800 herrings !
A few days since a living tortoise, packed in a box
pierced with air holes, was sent through the Postoffice
from London to Axminster, where it arrived without suf-
fering any injury from its journey in the mail bags.
Three senior cadets of the East India Company's Col-
lege, at Addiscombe, have been expelled, for attempting
to " fag" Mr. Douglas Reid, who refused to submit to the
usual drudgery imposed upon new comers.
Several immense masses of ice are now drifting in the
Atlantic Ocean, in the direct course of the shipping be-
tween England and America. One of them was noticed
600 feet high, and a mile in length.
The celebrated Mrs. Armitage " the fat lady," died
suddenly, on Friday, at Birmingham.i She was seized with
a shivering fit, and expired before her medical attendant
arrived.

The revenue received from tolls on turnpike roads, in
England and Wales, during the year 1846, amounted to
£1,384,498 ; and the total expenditure, in the same
period, upon the same roads, amounted to £1,378,352.
On Saturday no less than four postmen were charged at
Bow-street with abstracting money from letters entrusted
to them for delivery. Our friends should beware of mak-
ing remittances in cash, or in bank-notes except by
halves.

On Wednesday week, at York, two children narrowly
escaped being poisoned, by reason of one of them having
had left within his reach a plate or saucer of what is com-
monly called " fly poison,' which in fact was a solution
of arsenic.

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Liverpool Road,
Islingtm London, was destroyed by fire on l‘fonday.
The Imps £3OOO, but the premises were insured in the
Sun Office. The books and documents of the chapel
were saved.

Sir Charles Grey, the governor of Jamaica, who met
with such a serious accident through falling from a mule,
was formerly M.P. for Tynemouth. The hon. bart.'s
spine was so much injured that his life is in imminent
danger.

The Fifeshire Journal relates that a woman lately sold
some ducklings to a hawker, and was surprised on the
following morning by finding that they had managed to
return to her poultry-yard, though they must have tra-
versed by land a distance of more than a mile and a half.
AMERICAN TURTLES.—By the Washington steamer
from New York, a parcel of live turtles has been received,
which is a novel importation from that quarter, and has
become subject to a duty of 55. per cwt., being a dis-
tinction made by the new tariff from turtles of British
taking, which are admitted duty free.
PRISON DISCIPLINE.—A controversy has been going
La on in the London papers between Sir Peter La *e and
Ald. Sidney, on the subject of prison discipline, y as
to whether the separate system has not produce large
number of cases of insanity. Mr. Sidney ably defends
the system.

THE CIIARTIST LEADERS.—DowIing was an obscure
and unknown soi-disant artist ; Cuffey, a mulatto jour-
neyman tailor, born, bred, and fed in one of her Majes-
ty's dockyards, which makes the ingratitude of his trea-
son the greater; Fay, a journeyman shoemaker; Lacey,
another disciple of St. Crispin ; and Richie, a bricklayer.
CITY RUMOUR.—There is a rumour, which we give as
received, that the bank has quietly, and without the know-
ledge of any one but its very immediate circle, contrived to
obtain a loan of two millions for the Minister. This, it is
supposed, explains the great amount of money transactions
which have lately occurred.—Herapath.
ADVERTISEMENT DUTY ON PARAGRAPHS.—A circular
has been issued at the office of stamps and taxes, announc-
ing that, on and after the Ist of August last; all paragraphs
referring to advertisements published in the same news-
paper shall be charged with duty, the same is separate
advertisements.

A most beautiful and unique gold teapot was forwarded
from York to the Swedish Nightingale, while in New-
castle, by one of her enraptured admirers. The present
originally was part of the valuable collection of the late
Duke of Sussex. Other parties have also sent similar
but less costly tokens of their admiration.
Last week the Norwich mail was forced into a hedge,
and the driver, Francis Wicks thrown under the horses and
killed, in consequence of David Bond, when riding in his
cart half asleep, coming in contact with the vehicle by
turning into the road instead of to the side. The Coro-
ner's jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter against
him.

MATERIALS FOR A ROMANCE.—On Saturday, infor-
mation was received by the police that a female infant,
about one month old, had been found abandoned on the
step of the door, No. 91, Guildford-street, Brunswick-
square, London, inclosed in a reticule basket. There was
also a complete change of clothing of a superior kind, a
packet of rose powder, and a note, written in an elegant
female hand, stating the child's name to be Rose Walton,
that its parents were persons of distinction, that eventu-
ally it would be claimed, and those who protected it
amply rewarded.

COURT MARTIAL.— On Thursday, at Portsmouth,
First Lieutenant Daniel was dismissed from her Majesty's
ship Powerful, for inducing the•young naval cadets to en-
dorse a check on a bank at Portsmouth where the de-
fendant had no funds.

A poor woman, last week, in. the metropolis, sEddenly
ran into a tobacconist's shop, fell on the floor, and was
shortly afterwards delivered of a fine female child. The
tobacconist and his wife have alloyed her to remain until
she is fit to be removed ; and it appears that the husband
of the poor woman is out of employment, and with her
had been endeavouring to procure some necessaries at the
time she was taken ill.

THE BEAUTIeS OF INTEMPERANCE.—The Leicester
Mercury records an anecdote of a joiner at Matlock who
recently returned home one night steeped in inebriating
liquors, and when reducing his thirsty frame to a state of
nudity like to the condition of the " untutored savage,"
threw his clothes, as he believed, on a chair. The morn-
ing discovered in the grate a large quantity of tinder. and
a small quantity of molten silver. The latter had been a
watch.

GOOD AND BAD FARMING.—A gentleman possessing
land at Charlton, which he formerly let at £2 the acre,
and the tenant of which gave it up, as being unprofitable,
has since taken it into his own hands, and by improved
culture has this year got sixty bushels of wheat to the
acre. He has just carried from part of the same land
barley which has strolled out from seventy to eighty stalks
each root.—Bristol Chronicle.

The Exeter Chronicle states that the wife of a Cornish
bankrupt, who was recently examined in the Exeter Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy, was supposed to have concealed
about her person money and other property of value be-
longing to her husband's estate. She was searched a few
days ago by two women, by direction of the officer from
the court, and in her " bustle," which was unusually
bulky, were found watches and articles of jewellery of the
value of £lOO.

STARVING A JURY.—At Douglas, Isle of Man, on
Sunday, a jury on a coroner's inquest, who had been
incarcerated for three nights, and had had nothing to eat
for four-and-twenty hours, brought in a verdict of man-
slaughter, but appended to it the following :—" This
unanimity has been obtained from the painful gnawings
of hunger, and not from the conviction in the minds of
all the jurors that it is in accordance with the principles
of law as laid down bY the Deemster."
THE NEWCASTLE -SAVINGS BANK MURDER.—It has
always been suspected that the murderer of Millie had
made abominable overtures to his victim, and that, being
repulsed with virtuous indignation—probably, also, threat-
ened with exposure—he took the life cf the man whom he
had only befriended with a view to his moral ruin. This
explanation of the mystery is now corroborated by a letter
of the 4th of April last, recently received in Newcastle
from Launceston, Van Dieman's Land. He has been
since committed to Norfolk Island for that offence.
AN EXPERIMENTAL VESSEL.—There is DOW loading
in the North Docks, Sunderland, an experimental vessel,
named the Mary Caroline, built by Mr. Siddon, of Ro-
chester,
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tons register, and carries 4000 yards of canvass when in
full sail ; and when full laden with 29 keels of coals, she
draws only 92 feet of water. She is intended for the
French trade. On the run down, with a N.N.W. wind,
she outstripped forty colliers.
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theatre, comparatively few had taken their seats until
within a few minutes of the hour of commencement.
With the exception of the gallery, the tickets were all
numbered, so that the holders of them were quite at ease
as to their obtaining their allotted places. At the hour
nearly every seat was filled, and the greater part of the
assembly was in full dress. The elegant house, when
lighted up, had a most brilliant appearance.
CURIOUS FATALITY.—A melancholy casualty occurred
at Kimblethmont House, last week. On Wednesday, a
young man of the name of Gray, one of the grooms, while
daffin with a fellow female servant, who was engaged
sewing at the moment, seized her unexpectedly by her
left arm, which was inflamed, and thereupon she instinc-
tively thrust him off with the other, in the hand of which
were a pair of sharp-pointed scissors, which unfortunately
perforated his breast, and, reaching a vital part, caused
his death on Saturday. The poor fellow, with his dying
breath, acquitted the girl of all blame ; but she is in a
dreadful state of mental suffering.—Montrose Review.
EMIGRATION.—Three very large vessels sailed last week
from Plymouth with emigrants for Australia. The vessels
have been sent out by the Colonial and Land Emigration
Commissioners, who have appointed six more vessels to
sail during the present month.—On Wednesday, the nu-
merous artificers-6 Toyed at the Great Western Railway
locomotive wok Swindon, held a meeting at which
two gentlemen d by the commissioners attended by
invitation from th men, and pointed out the great advan-
tages of colonisation. The meeting was held in conse-
quence of a great number of the men having received no-
tice to quit the company's service, owing to a cessation of
operations on branch lines.

THE RIVER NILE.—A very interesting journey has
been undertaken by the Rev. Dr. Bialloblotsky, under
the joint management of himself and Dr. C. T. Beke.
The object of the journey is to trace the true sources and
branches of the River Nile, in reference to which scientific
gentlemen have differed much. The map of Ptolemy is
tdo ttiierritij gristo WOrthrtiTiigtraglihrSvefytfiethat
trade on the African coast. The expense of this expe-
dition is defrayed by subscriptions from scientific and
other gentlemen interested, but we believe the list of
subscribers are not too numerous. The Fast India
Company have granted a free passage in their steamer.
The result of these researches, it is expected, will add
much useful information to the members of the Geo-
graphical Society and others.
DISSENSION IN DISSENT.—A correspondent has fur..
nished us with some dissenting movements at Reading,
farther exemplifying the charity which warms and impels
the dissenting heart. It appears that the Independent
meeting-house in Reading has for its minister a respect-
able, inoffensive, and clever individual, named Legg ! !
Mr. Legg, however, in spite of his merits, talent, and
long service, has given unpardonable scandal to a very
independent portion of his Independent congregation by
reading some part of his discourse instead of delivering
the whole ex tempore. If there be other cause of offence,
we do not believe it to have been of graver kind than
what we have above named. So outraged. however, have
some of the congregation been pleased to feel themselves,
that they have actually seceded, and are now building an
independent Independent meeting-house. The Berkshire
wits have, of course, named this meeting-house " The
Left-Leg meeting-house !"—Church and State Gazette.
POISONING BY • ARSENIC.—The inquest on the two
young girls Fanny and Sarah Anne Kent, was resumed
on Wednesday evening at Glocester. The medical gentle-
men came to the conclusion that the deaths of both the
children had been occasioned by that poison. On the
second examination the father of the children requested
the coroner to send a constable with him to Cheltenham
to visit the druggists' shops, a rumour having been circu-
lated that he, the father, had recently purchased the
arsenic in that town. The coroner accordingly commu-
nicated with the inspector of police in Cheltenham, and
the result of the inquiry was, that no arsenic had been
sold to Kent or any otber stranger. A trace of arsenic
was very distinct in the remainder of the farinaceous food
left after making the pudding. The jury returned, " That
the children died from the effects of arsenic taken in
farinaceous food, but how it became mixed with the food
there was no evidence to show."
A DISEASED KNEE.—A WONDERFUL CURE BY HOL-
LOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—John Weir, aged 19,
of Kinnegs, parish of Longhall, near Armagh, %, • •ized
with a pain in his knee which lasted f. ree mont s,
and then commenced to swell ; six ... s afterwards it
broke out into a dreadful woun . discharged for twelve
months, though every re.: was used that medical men
could devise, both at • county infirmary and local dis-
pensary, yet no . pearance of healing presented itself
until his fath• .urchased some of Holloway's pills and
ointment, ich soon effected a sound cure. No wounds,
sores, . ulcers, however long standing, can resist the
prop• use of these fine medicines.
FIRE AND Loss or Two LIVES.—On Tuesday evening
a fire broke out in a cottage at Lushbrook, Ship-lake, near
Henley, by which two lives were destroyed. The cottage,
which was thatched, was occupied by a man named Mills,
a widow named Cresswell, with whom he cohabited, and a
family of five children, the youngest being the child of
Mitts. Milts returned home from his work and was eat-
ing his supper, when the eldest of the children, a boy of
nine years old, went up stairs to put his younger brother
to bed, and on descending unfortunately set fire to a heap
of corn stowed in a recess. The staircase was almost im-
mediately in a blaze. Mills rushed up to the room in
which the child slept to rescue it, but was unable to do so
from the intensity of the heat, and both he and child were
burnt. The cottage was totally destroyed. The husband
of the woman was killed some time back by falling from a
waggon, and about three years ago another of her chil-
dren was burnt to death.

SINGULAR INSTANCE OF CONJUGAL AFFECTION.—
FOLLOWED TO THE GRAVE BY Two DISCONSOLATE
WIDOWS.—On Sunday week, in a parish in the neigh-
bourhood of Tiverton, a man was buried, who, with the
reigning wife, lately came from Tiverton to reside in the
parish above alluded to, where, after a few days illness,
he died, and was followed to the grave as abovmentioned,
by two widows. The singular history is this :—His first
wife was by mutual consent, handed over to his own bro-
ther, who married her. Thus freed, he betook himself to
another wife, but a little lurking affection induced the
discarded lady, on hearing the melancholy tidings of the
death of the first object of her plighted love, to pay the
last respect to his lamented obsequies. It appears that
the hero of this tale expressed a wish to be taken back
to Tiverton to be buried, but the wife in possession thought
this too great an expense. The first possessor of his love
on hearing this, said, had she but known it, she would
have spent her last shilling to have gratified his wishes.
After the funeral the two disconsolates retired, and spent
a very amicable evening together.—Sherbourne Journal.
As IN LONDON.--A perusal of the following letter
sent this week to Messrs. J. and T. Waterhouse, grocers,
at their recently-opened handsome shop, will show that
we of South Australia are not a whit behind our contem.
poraries in England in specimens of the march of intel-
lect; and although the erudition may be wanting in many
skulls at the antipodes, they nevertheless possess veins of
genuine humour and untutored raciness :
Sir,—Having bean to See yore nue shop wich is a verry good
un and onely wonts wun thing wich is too men in the Winder
a Noddin all Day jest like wun Off the Shops in London i no
Too chaps as would be glad of the job for ss. a day and Share
grub So that you wos Not too and upon us and am your umbel
Servant JOHN TOMKINS.
N. B. wood turn A smal pepper Mil now and then but wood
rayther Excuse the coffy.
Mr. Warterhouse Groser Hinely-street.
—Adelaide Observer, March 25.