The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Free Port Association for Bristol have given the
requisite notices for applying to parliament n-xt session.
An enormous pumi kin, measuring six feet ten inches in
circumference, and weighing 148 lbs. was exhibited to her
Majesty last week. It was grown at Windsor.
STAMFORD.—Mr. Richard Newcomb, the publisher of
the Stamford Mercury, is spoken of as likely to be
elected mayor of that borough.
A new Hungarian dance, called the " Csoder," is
all the rage in Germany, and likely to supersede the
" Polka."

On Friday night last, at Fillingbam, near Lincoln, there
was an affray betwen gamekeepers and poachers, in which
one of the latter, Wm. Fisher, lost his life.
The ship Buckinghamshire, just arrived in the East
India Docks from Canton, had on board the unprece
dentedly large number of 29,071 packages of tea.
A woman, apparently in a fit, in the Blackfriars'-road,
London, on Tuesday, was found to have a large piece of
mottled soap in her mouth. She was recognised by the
police as an old hand at such tricks.
A new packet ship, of 1100 tons, to be named after the
the premier, is now being built in New York for the Lon-
don line, another of 1,000 tons, the American Eagle, has
already been launched.
On Wednesday, a lady, named Miss Jones, who for
many years had been housekeeper to the late Benjamin
Bickley, of Meridian Place, Bristol, precipitated herself
from the top of the house, and was picked up quite dead.
The relieving officers' rooms at the Leeds Workhouse
were burglariously entered on Wednesday night or Thurs-
day morning last, and a sum of upwards of £l7O was
abstracted from the desks in the rooms and carried away.
The Times of Thursday says that the Russian Govern-
ment, to which Messrs. Harmer were agents, has a claim
on that firm for £4-10,000, the balance of a debt which
not many months back stood as high as £700,000.
O❑ Friday night last, Mr. Jabez Ball, of Banbury, fell
out of his gig and was killed, and within twenty-four
hours his mother, who was on her way to see him, was
killed by a coach wheel passing over her head.
The Rev. W. Faber, who seceded some time back to
the Romish Church, and has lately founded a religious
order at Colton Hall, Staffordshire, has suffered a violent
attack of paralysis : his life has been despaired of ; and he
has received the "last sacraments" of the Romish Church.
The machinery of the Anti-Corn-Law League is con-
verted into that of a " Liberal Registration League,"
which seeks after " legitimate and important objects,"
which it is not thought advisable, we presume, to specify
more particularly.
The death of Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P. for the Scotch
county of Renfrew, is announced. Mr. Stewart was a
Liberal of very extiems views, both in religion and po-
litics ; a staunch supporter both of the Free Kirk seces-
sion and of Lord Melbourne's Administration.

On Tuesday, there was a general reduction of one
penny in the 41b. loaf, in Lambeth, Bethnal-green, White-
chapel, and Tottenham•court-road ; the best being 7-12. d.,
and household Qd. The West-end bakers still, however,
maintain the same price, 8.1,1. and 10d.
Messrs. Dryden, the celebrated engineers, are now
employed in the construction of a printing machine for
the Times, warranted to produce 12,000 impressions per
hour, or the inconceivable number of upwards of three
sheets per second !
HOLBORN-HILL VIADUCT. A company has been
formed for the arrangement of the thoroughfare from
Holborn-hill, across Farringdon-street, and along Skin-
ner-street to Snow-hill, by means of a viaduct level from
bill to bill.
A young man, on Saturday week, whilst travelling on
the Midland Railway, perceiving himself to be in the
wrong train, jumped cut whilst the train was in motion,
and falling upon the rails, the carriages passed over him,
inflicting such injuries that he died soon after.
A MAN CONVICTED BY MISTAKE.—At the recent
('armarthenshire Quarter Sessions, a man of the name of
Thomas Phillips was convicted by mistake, the jury, with
one exception, being almost entirely ignorant of the Eng-
lish lanctuage. The foreman was understood to say guilty,
when the jury (all Welsh) meant not guilty !
A splendid East Indiaman, " Anne Cropper," of 550
register, was launched from the building yard of Thomas
Gales, Esq., at Hylton, Sunderland, on Tuesday. This
noble vessel, which has been built especially for a firm in
Liverpool, is allowed to be one of the finest specimens of
naval architecture ever produced in the River Wear.
On Monday last, the window of a druggist's shop, in
Spalding, Lincolnshire, was garnished, as usual, with a
variety of large bottles, and the rays of the sun being con-
centrated through the glass, a pair of cotton gloves lying
near were set on fire ; fortunately, the occupier, observing
the smoke, was able quickly to extinguish the fire.
A company has been formed in London, whose pro-
fessed object is the political and social amelioration of the
condition of the people, by the erection of towns and vil-
lages in suburban districts, each member or shareholder
to have a life-freehold, giving, at the same time, a vote
for the county.
A poor man, named William Drury, aged 75, died a
few days since at Wakefield of starvation. He had only
eaten the day before his death a halfpenny tart and a
halfpennyworth of gingerbread. The jury brought in a
verdict of " Died by the visitation of God, to wit, from
starvation."
We are sorry to observe, that the colliers of the South
Staffordshire districts are again on the move for a strike—
the thick coal colliers for Is. per day, and the thin coal
and ironstone getters 6d. per day, increase in their wages.
Notices have been given to several collieries of fourteen
days, from last Saturday, for the above rise.

lhe Gloucester Journal mentions three reasons for the
ejection of Mr. Grantley Berkeley from West Gloucester-
shire. First, that he took the unpopular side on the
sugar question ; secondly, that he abstained from voting
on the corn question ; thirdly, that on the game qu'estion
be has stood by " his order."
GUN COTTON.—At the Saffron Walden dinner, on
Friday, the 16th ult., Lord Hardsicke said that forty
grains of gun cotton had been pitted against sixty grains
of gun powder for a rifle, and had been found superior.
But the curious part of it was. there was no report or
smoke : it vanished ; they saw the ball strike, and that
was all.

AGES OF CRIMINALS.—The ages of the prisoners con-
victed at the recent session cf the Central Criminal Court
were as,follow :--I.ll:der 10 years, 2; above 10 and under
20, 80 ; above 20 and under 30, 90 ; above 30 and under
40, 35 ; above 40 and under 50. 48 ; above 50 and under
60, 10 ; above 60 and under 70, 6 ; and above 70 and
under 80, 2.

ASTONNHING FEAT.—On Thursday, a most extraor-
dinary feat was performed by a man named Irvine. A
rope was stretched from the lamp at Stonehouse Bridge
to a pole on the opposite bide, a distance of about 400
feet. The rope was about 80 feet from the water, and he
walked across it, amidst the cheers of 2000 spectators.—
Thvonport Telegraph.
A company, to which government has granted a charter,
has been formed in London, for the purpose of prosecut-
ing the whale fishery, a trade which has progressively de-
clined in this country, though it has largely increased in
the United States. It is calculated that by fitting out a
large number of ships the uncertainty of the trade will no
longer be felt, as the gains of successful ships will coun-
terbalance the losses of unsuccessful ones. _

PU3LIC BAKERY.—A project is advertised for the
establishment at Kempsey, near Worcester, of a public
bakery and mills, for the supply of various kinds of
wholesome bread at a cheap rate. The mills are to be
worked on a principle invented by Mr. Pratt, analogous
to capillary attraction, and which he calls the " inter-
cepted pressure of the atmosphere," being a new method
of applying the power.
LORD NELSON'S SWORD.—The sword which Lord
Nelson wore at the battle of Trafalgar has recently been
discovered, and, thanks to the patriotic feeling of Lord
Saye and Sele, has been transferred to the Painted Hall
of Greenwich Hospital, where it reposes by the side of
the coat worn by our immortal naval hero on the same
occasion. [This can scarcely be correct, as history cre-
dibly informs us that Lord Nelson did not wear his sword
at Trafalgar.]
PAREDES IN ENGLAND.—Among t the passengers
brought by the Thamts, which arrived at Southampton
on Wednesday, is the ex-President of Mexico, General
Paredes. He embarked at Vera Cruz, and was brought
thither under a strong escort from Mexico. The general
appears in excellent spirits, and seems to bear his sentence
of banishment from his ill-starred country with great
composure. He is rather diminutive, and about fifty
years of age.
A new gas company at Wakefield have given notice of
their intention to apply to Parliament for an act to supply
general consumers at a rate not exceeding 4s. per 1000
feet, and to light the public lamps efficiently at the rate of
£1 ss. (the present charge being £2 12s. ed.) per lamp,
and to pay 5 per cent. on the capital, and never to exceed
that amount by way of dividend, but to apply the surplus
receipts in reducing the price of gas as much below the
above maximum as the income of the company will allow.
OPENING THE PORI S.—A deputation waited on Lord
John Russell on Tuesday, imploring bim to open the
ports. His lordship said he could not, unless he saw a
necessity for it. One of the deputation rejoined, that a
vigorous agitation was about to be raised on the subject,
and perhaps an energetic agitation would cause his lord-
ship to change his mind. Lord John replied, smiling,
that that would not induce him to take the step suggested;
but if he deemed it necessary, he would not hesitate to
advise his colleagues to adopt it.
Loss OF A WHALING SHIP. —MASSACRE OF HER
CREW.—For several months anxiety has been felt regard-
ing the fate of a whaling ship, named the Cape Packet,
Captain Powell, last from Sydney, and 28 seamen, her
crew. We regret to state that information has now been
received from Sydney that the unfortunate vessel (which
has been missing two years) had fallen into the hands of
the natives of the New Hebrides, Sandwich Islands, and
those belonging to her, excepting four hands, savagely
murdered.

THE IN:AVY RETIRED LIST.—The Gazette of Tues-
day publishes a list of fifty-four captains of the Royal
Navy, who have been promoted to the rank of retired
rear-admiral of her majesty's fleet, on the terms proposed
in the London Gazette of the let September, 1946, and
who having accepted the situation of captains of Green-
wich Hospital, are to be placed on the list of captains on
retired pay. It also enumerates ninety-four captains
who, on the terms specified in the same Gazette, are to
retire on the half-pay of £3 per day, and thirty-two
others on the half-pay of 18s. per day.
A POACHER SHOT.—During Friday night, as the
gamekeeper at Fillingham, near Lincoln, was going his
rounds, he encountered four poachers, and the issue was
a struggle, in which the life of one of them was sacri-
ficed. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday
last, before Mr. Broadbent, deputy-coronet. The jury
returned the following verdict—" That William Fisher
came to his death by his own hands accidentally, and by
no other means, being at the moment engaged in the un-
lawful pursuit f game in the dead of the night, and not
having the fear of God before his eyes, having received a
mortal gunshot wound in the left side of the belly, of
which wound he did instantly die."
THE " TIMES" AND THE CORN LAWS.—Our friends
who are the advocates of the corn-laws will be no less
astonished than pleased to find the following paragraph
in the Times of the 28th ult. :—" If the supply of corn
were a matter of imminent peril—if there were a moral
certainty that the crops of the world were so scant that
for the next nine months every man, woman, and child
throughout England would be put upon short fare—we
would say at once, abrogate the duty. But, according to
every authority on free trade, this is not so. Merchants,
dealers, and captains of vessels say, that from the far east
and from the west there will come food amply sufficient
to supply the wants of all Europe : and there are those
that add, come what may to the continent, England will
not suffer from want of corn."
A RIGHT HONOURABLE HOAX.—At York, some time
ago, the " Right Honourable Edward Frederic Vernon,"
with imposing mustachios and imperial, introduced him-
self to an elderly lady as the son of a peer, a temporary
exile from home for a youthful indi:•cretion. The old
simpleton supplied him with clothes money and introduced
him to many of the " first families" in the city, by whom
he was graciously received ; and, after living on the fat of
the land for three months, and making a pretty penny by
courting a young lady, lie decamped, stating to the family
of his intended, in confidence, that he was about to depo-
sit a casket of jewels with his London bankers for safe
custody. The jewels, he said were formerly his mother's,
and would shortly, he hoped, be his bride's. It has since
been discovered that the case comprised a cold tongue,
two partridges, a bottle of sherry, and some cheesecakes
and currant-cakes, which the young lady bad given him
front papa's pantry.
THE WELLINGTON STATUE.—" Well, the statue does
not look amiss, after all !" is the exclamation which,
since the removal of the thick network scaffolding that
until very lately enveloped it, is heard more and more
frequently every day. For our own parts, we are bound
to confess that, whatever misgivings we may have had,
in common with most people, as to the effect of the statue
when elevated to its present resting-place, the result of
the experiment has, on the whole, greatly relieved them.
Whether the fault be with our own vision—contracted, it
may be, by disappointed expectation, into a wrong focus—
or whether the predicted monster which was to affright
all London be no such monster after all—still, somehow
or other, "seeing is believing ;" and, at the risk of being
considered short-sighted, either in the p}'ysical or mental
organ of perception, we cannot help making the amende
honorable to his bronze eminence, and candidly avowing
our opinion, that there will be no great harm done should
lie be suffered to remain where he is.—Times.
AFFLICTING OCCURRENCE.—A. most melancholy ca-
tastrophe took place during the prevalence of the dense fog
on Friday week, by which a little girl, named Susannah
Chester, eleven years of age, lost her life, under very
shocking circumstances. It appears that the poor girl's
parents reside in a hut, in a coal-field at Hocker's Hill,
in the parish of Tipton. About six or seven o'clock on
the above evening, Chester went out to milk his cow, at
a little distance, and so dense was the fog that he was
obliged to carry a lighted candle to find his way. On his
return home, his little girl was a yard or two in advance,
and finding thatl the light only served to dazzle their eyes,
it was extinguished. They then proceeded onwards,
scarcely able to see a yard before them, when suddenly
he father heard a piercing cry and a plunge, and throwing

himself back he became aware of his own perilous situa--
tion, and the fate of his poor child, who had fallen down
the mouth of a pit nearly a hundred yards in depth. The
death of the unfortunate girl must have been almost in-
stantaneous, as, after the frightful occurrence, not a sound
or moan was heard from the yawning chaQm. It appears
that the pit had not been worked for three years, the
mouth of the shaft being left totally unprotected by any
fence or framework. The father's escape was most pro-
vidential, as a single step more would have hurried him
into eternity. The disfigured and mangled remains were
recovered through the exertions of a miner.
SHOCKING MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—On Sunday
evening week, the denesly populated district of St. Phi-
lip's, Bristol, was thrown into a state of great excitement
from the appalling circumstance of one of the Bristol po-
lice, viz., Patrick White, having been murdered by a wo-
man. The unfortunate deceased, who has been connected
with the police for about eight years, was an Irishman,
aged about 30. He was unmarried, and lodged in the
house of a female named Louisa Ferris, a married woman,
but who in consequence of domestic broils' had for a long
period lived separate from her husband. His fellow-
lodgers were Thomas Edwards (brother to Ferris). a cab-
driver, and Elizabeth Jones. On Sunday evening Ferris,
with her brother and a third party, had been drinking at
a public-house. About six o'clock they returned home to
Lion-street, on the Easton road, and Louisa Ferris upon
going up stairs found White and Elizabeth Jones in bed
together. At this she was very much enraged, having as
was previously known entertained kindly feelings towards
White. A short time afterwards the parties met down
stairs, deceased, Louisa Ferris, Thomas Edwards, and
Elizabeth Jones. A dispute arose about some trifling mat-
ter, high words ensued, the circumstance of White's in-
timacy with Jones was alluded to, and Ferris, seizing a
razor or sharp knife, walked up to White and inflicted a
deep wound in the throat, severing the wind-pipe and
penetrating the carotid artery, the effect of which was, of
course, almost instant death. The poor fellow staggered
to the door leading to the street, and fell into the road.
A medical man was sent for, but death had done its work
long before his arrival. The parties in the house were at
once apprehended, and upon their arrival at the police-
station house, Ferris admitted that she had committed the
dreadful act. The man Edwards was exceedingly callous.
Ferris has been committed on a charge of wilful murder.

Nov. 10, 1846, _

THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS AND Ma. FER-
RAND, M.P.—On Monday, Sir F. Thesiger applied to
the Court of Queen's Bench, on behalf of Mr. George
Cornewall Lewis, one of the poor-law commissioners, for
liberty to file a criminal information against Mr. Ferranti,.
the member for Knaresborough, for having published
two letters reflecting upon the character of Mr. Lewis, in
the Times of the Bth and 10th of Angust last. In the
first of these letters, which related to the evidence of Mr.
Lewi. before the committee appointed by the House of
Commons to inquire into the administration of the poor-
law in the Andover Union, Mr. Ferrand declared that
" the Graham-Lewis-Mott infamous report " was a
" oil and infamous conspiracy on the part of Sir James
Grat,arn and Mr. Lewis to crush the writer in the House
of Coninions." The second letter charged Mr. Lewis
with " the most deliberate falsehood, for the purpose of
deceiving the House of Commons," and accused him of
prevarication, which, if he had been guilty of it at a
police-office, would have caused him " to be packed off in
the prison van, and indicted for perjury." A rule to show
cause was granted by the court.
IRON SHIP BUILDING.—On Monday last, the second
half, viz , from midships to bows, of another iron schooner,
of 300 tons burthen, and to be called the Liverpool, was
drawn upon t wo trucks, by about 19 horses, four abreast
with three for the leaders, through the streets of the western
part of the town, intervening between the ironworks of
Messrs. Pim, in English-street, and the nearest spot at
which they can launch their vessels. The ease with which
the corners were turned, and the rapidity of the progress
surprised the spectators. We believe this is not less than
the sixth or seventh vessel of the kind which Messrs. Pins-
will have launched at this port. The Margaret, the Sena-
tor, the Tribune, the Citizen, the Dublin, and the Liver-
pool, are timongst the names which they have given to
their ships, which are all fitted with the screw, and worked
each with two engines of the united power of 28 horses.
The Dublin, (intended to ply from that port in co.tjunc-
tion with the Liverpool,) having received her engines,
&c., left this port on Sunday week, at 9 a.m., and reached
her destination half an hour after the midnight of
Thursday, or rather on Friday morning, effecting her
voyages in four days and fifteen hours, acknowledged a
very fine run. The Liverpool is to be launched, we
understand, in three weeks.—Hull Advertiser.
DESTRUCTION ON THE GARRICK THEATRE BY FIRE.
—On Wednesday morning, between the hours of four

and five, a police-constable discovered smoke and sparks
issuing from the Garrick Theatre, in Leman-street,
Goodman's-fields. Without a moment's loss of time, an
alarm was spread in the usual way. The Brigade engines
were the first that arrived, and without delay were set to
work. By that period, however, the whole tier of boxes,
together with the gallery, were wrapped in fire, and as
the burning flakes fell below they communicated with the
pit and mazarine floors, so that, by the hour of five or a
little after, the theatre was on fire from the basement to
the top of the roof. By nine o'clock the firemen suc-
ceeded in getting the flames nearly extinguished; by that
time the theatre was entirely consumed, and the valuable
wardrobe destroyed ; the whole of the scenery and stage
appointments are likewise burned—by which calamity
about fifty performers will be thrown out of employment.
As to the origin of the fire nothing that could be depended
upon could be ascertained, but it is the prevailing opinion
that it arose from some of the gun wadding lodging in the
"flats" during the firing of cannon at the performance of
the Battle of Waterloo on the previous evening.