The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Glasgow cotton spinners have agreed to raise the
wages of their workmen ten per cent.
A butcher was killed on Monday in the New Cut, Len-
d,)„, by his knle slipping out of his mouth and sticking
in his abdomen.
A f,rry.boat was run down off Woolwich, by the Wa-
terman steamer, on Friday, when two men were unfortu-
nately drowned, and two others seriously injured.

The Marquis of Londonderry hAs been defeated in an
attempt to ,n creaf e the police of the county of Durham.
Ttie magistrates were against it.

At the uresent period there are only three prisons in
the metropolis for debtors, and the whole number does
not exceed 300 persons.

The river Ay lc, at Westport, rose last week above eighty
feet beyond its usual level, and the current became so
strong as to sweep away hay, turf, oats, and even cabins.
At Hereford, 413 beads of families have signed a de-
claration to countenance those shops which close at early
hours, and discountenance the others.

Richard Leach, a sawyer. has kern committed for trial
charged with attemptint; to dertroy the timber yard, &c.
of Mr. Graham, a builler, a,lton, on the lithinstant.
The theatre at Beccies, built, a few years since, at an
expen.e of £2,000, is about to be converted into a cora
exchanze.

About 5,000 acres of Dartmoor have been purchased by
a company, who have &ready fenced and drained part of
it. and calculAe. on 1, tring the whoie at lA. per acre.
Hitherto the lAnd has been waste.

-On Tuesday two Mfgn were killed, and another
seriously injured by the fa!lin't of an inttnene rnass of
rock and earth, upwards of 1000 tons weight, at a quarry
near As ton-under-Lyne.

On Thursday evening week, Mr. Richard Cobuss, of
Cobb-street, Ash, in Kent, Was Want dead by a conc,mted
assassin, supposed to hive hevn h s own son, George, a
youth of nineteen, stho is in custody.

Lord Eldon has s,nt a donation of re2oo to the corn-
mittee for providing bobs and wa-1,-lniuses for the work-
ing classes, and sever 4 of the London hankers have an-
nounced their intention of giving lirge donations,
WINTER ASSIZES —lt im now definitiv ly fixed that
a winter gaol delivery shall take place in many parts of
the kinedoni, but it is believed ti a' the subs'diary arrange-
tnents will not be made till the beginning of term.
THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.—Just forty years ago, Mr.
TrevetLick, a mining engineer, cont.tructed the first loco-
motive engine at hlrrliv r Tydvil, and applied it tuccess-
fully to the traction of cc& and coke.—ambrian.

At the Central Criminal Court nn Wedne,day. the
W. [toss Touchet was tri,d for tiring at the proprietor of
a Shooting Gallery in Holborn, and acquitted on the plea
of insanity.

The Northern Stir newspaper hithertn published in
Leeds, is about to be removed to London, to he issued
there. ; but whether under the same title, which will then
be a misnomer, or under acme new name, we have not
heard.

The greatest activity almost ever known now exikts is
the coal trade, no less than 290 ships' cargo hasing been
purchased at last Tuesday's coal market in Lora n. The
average number of ships' cargoes sold rreviously bting
only from thirty to fifty.—Netreastle Journal.
Mr. Sergeant Bampas, d;eal stlden!v a short time
since, left a widow and a large family in somewhat in-
cUfferent circumstances; but Ilia professional brethren es-
teerred him so highly that a subscript on was entered into
for the ben: fit of his family, to a Lich Sir Thomas Wilde
contributed the princely sum of 1.000 guineas.

CIDER AND PERRY.--TrieseNrinrs will be very cheap,
this year, in Herefordshire, and on the banks •of the
Severn, from Worces•er to Chet stow. The crops of
apples and pears are much !Filler than la,t year : Is. to
Is. 6d. per bushel is now the price for good apples at
Hereford and Ledburv.

Washing-tub exentsiont appear to be increasing in fa-
vour amongst the JPck-pudcitz fraternity. The Dumf. jet
Courier states, that, on Friday week, the clown of Ccok's
Circus took a voyage down the Kith in a vessel of the
above description, drawn by four geese, in the presence
of a large concourse of people.

A lIORSE BUYER FROM THE "CELESTIAL EMPIRE!"
—Las, week, at the Bowden horse fair, the greatest per-
haps in Eng'and, among.thtse present, strang, n may
appear, there was a outer from the Emperor of Chinn, in
the person of one of his subjects, aq,nded by an inter-
preter.

LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night week, a
young woman named Hester Tilly, the daughter of a
fanner living at Ashley hill, Stapleton, destroyed herself
by jumping into a pool of water in her father's orchard.
The unhappy girl had been forbidden her father's house
in consequence of her keening company with a young
man, whom her parent did not approve.
Mr. Clark, manager of the extensive works of Messrs.
Monteith and Co., of Brurowfield, Glasgow, Ins n.a.e a
discovery in the art of calico printing, which is likely to
produce most important results in !hit trade, hlrnost in
the same ratio as the invention of hot blast produced in
the iron trade. Mr. Clark t:as secured a patent for the
invention.

EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—A gentleman's scrvan•. in
London, cut of a situation, uho had been out on Ainn:tay
evening with some friends, and having entered two play
at cards, had lost between £4 and .Z. 5, returned to his
lodgings between one and two o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing much int,xicroed, and cut his throat. He was removed
to the hospital without hopes of rec 'very.
CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last a mest
calamitous explosion of fire-damp took place In a coal.
pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at the Five Ways, 'Hovey
Regis. The number of persons at work in the pit at the
tini is nod rstood to have been seventek,n or eighteen,
and of these no less than deven have fallen victims to this
lamentable occurrence.

THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—A man named John Leigh,
claimant .o the estates of !In-! Lord Leigh at Stowleign,
Warwickshire, and count thirty of his followers have
been held to hail by the Magi?,ratts of Leaming!on for a
riot an,l aisault, inhacing broken in the panels of a door,
anti taken fureiLle poseision of Stoneleigh Abbey on
Monday morning

Monday bein.4 the thirty-ninth anniversary of the
memorable battle of 'frata!gar, a number of naval uffi-
eats. who hail been in the engagement dir.ed together, at
the Naval Club House, St. Ji:mes's-sqoare, London. in
comrremoration of the day. At Greenwiih tiosrital the
tar. reviled vinti an ex, enent dinner. ei
pint of porter, ara a stitlllng to cull men.

A VETERAN ConoNErt.—At an inquest at 'Yeovil. en
S.iturday, Mr. R. P. C iiiits rerun, ked that in the course
of his coronership he hid held no less than 3800 inquests.
He had been a coroner nearly 28 years, and during the
la-t seven years alone he had travelled 36,766 miles,
giving an average of 5252 miles per year. He had paid
in turnpikes during thss even years a sum very little short
of .f;9O.

INCONSOLABLE.--It is stated, that the Quoen has
ordered a pension of X3O to be granted to 11,e widow of
Walker, the artilleryman. who was killed by the discharge
of a cannon on the King's Bastion, at Portsmouth; and
Louis Phillinpe has also expressed an intention of pro-
viding fer the woman. It is feared, however, that she
may not survive to enjoy the pension ; she remained in-
sensible from the Monday until Saturday week.
Tin?, BELGIUM TARIFF.—A very serious increase has
been made by the Belgian government, in the duties upon
silk an cotton manufactures, rind also upoumactiines im-
ported into that country. The afect will probably be, to
drive the manufactures of Manchester out of the Belgian
markets, and t' have theni replaced by the manufactures
of Rouen and Mull ausen. The whole measure is one of
the utmost hosti.ty to England.
PASSING HALF-NOTES.-At the London Mansion-
Lons.., on Friday, thrte cutlers appeared b4,re Sir Peter
Laurie and exposed an ingenious system by which they
irtd been swiril,d out of portions of their property. Par-
ties from Southampton had, it appet-re 1, sent ilvm let-
' ttrs, enclosing the halves of stolen Batik of England notes
• end °reefing goods to the full amount of the enclosure,
and, w:ten the goods were forwarded, the ren,aining halves
never remitted.

EXPORTATION OF METALS.—The offi !id returns of
our txportations during the la,t two years exhibit a great
ircreat.e in the last over thr present one. In the article
Of metals. embracing iron and steel, copper, brass, and
tin, we exported in the e.. 3- ending sth September, -1843.
to th, nn:onnt of £3.405,568. and in the same period
em'et: sth Scpten,ter, 1814, £4,13G,984, showing an in-
creas, in the present year of upwards of set en hundred
and thirty thousand pounds.

COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A very general strike has taken
place amoligg the coIIR IS at Oibury, for a raise of 6d.
per day. (hi Monday last, at a very early hour, they
congrf gAetl in erhwds of about 151) persons, and went to
tl.e (htlerent pits tai prevent those willing to work fr
to
going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most
t l.e men at play. On Tuesday mornifsg their intentions
were fi ustrated by the very active measures resorted to.
—Wulei-rhanip!on Chronicle.

NEW POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Mr. Bowen, an old cor-
resondent of the Times, has established the revolting
fact, that in ,ne of the new workhouses erected in this
Chi is :ian count ry. (in the Br idgewuter Union,) females—
one of them with an infant at 11. r breast—have been set to
break stones as a Ltboer suited to their age and sex, and
have been afterw; rds sentenced to three weeks' hard la-
bour in the House of Correction, in consequence of slitir
n.fusal to submit to such clue: arid degtading bisk-csork.
BEVISING-BARRISTERs.—The duties of the revising-
barristers for the revisicn of the lists of voters fur the
present year tire draviing to a, elnse, The first revision,
in the year 1833, cost upwards of £30,000 in payments
to the harri,ters arid fur their expenses ; but under the
Regritration of Voters' Act their charges were limited to
200 pintas each. It appears that the payment to the
barristers, including their expenses, now an-.runts to the
fixed yearly sum of X 14,700. More appeals are expected
to the Court of Common Pleas in the present than
occurred in the pi cceding retisiun.

on earpt tine, ePrffenwore, glass, raper, and ready-made
The New Brazilian Tariff levies duties of 40 per cent.
clothing ; 25 rcr cent. en brass, copper, iron, lead, tin,
steel and ltather ; 20 per cent. to handkerchiefs of linen,
camoric, or cotton lace, thread, or silk; and 30 per cent.
on all articles not enumerated, which of course include
thediti o
pro n a I
laceditties
of on
the
Brazil
to a higher duty than similar produce of other countries.
nearly all kinds of cotton, woollen, linen, and silk manu-
factures.ctures, and it ,s said that those good; are to be taken at
their es;imatrd value and 10 per cent. additional.. The
goods o
fs
Governmentany nis a authorisedtiou w hwhich
SUICIDE. OF AN OLD SPORTSMAN.—On Monday night
an inquest was held at Lewisham, Kent, upon the body of
Charles Morton, aged 76, who was found dead, hanging
from a rafter in a barn belonging to a gentleman named
Russell, residing at Lee. It appears that the deceased
was formerly huntsman to the Earl of Derby, and that
subsequently he kept the Derby Arms Inn, Croydon, the
Magpie.lnn, on Hounslow Death, and latterly was land-
lord cf the Leaping Bar, Blackfriars.road, where he was
robbed by his housck, epee of a considerable sum of money,
since which he had involved himself in a lawsuit, which
ended in his ruin. Of late be had become very eccentric
and strange in his manner.

DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—Mr. I,Vakley on Friday
held
had daireidiiiiqnuei‘sitarolnietbhe oncb.ody of a
His
swimdoan
w namedsuited,
d, thaftervu
having pawned every article they possessed, she was com-
pelled, he being too ill to work, to triply for parochial
relief, but it was refused her, and he died from actual
want (it appeared) in a ftw days afterwards. The coroner
declared he could a e the o woman herself was literally
starving at that very moment. She said her children
(four in number) were in a similar state. Some medicine
had been given to her husband, but they were told that if
they applied again for relief they would be " passed" to
their pariah, which they did not desire, as their only
chance of employment was where they were.