The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The trial of the Hon. W. Ross Touchet stands over till
nett sessions.

Mr. H. O'Connell, said to be the son of the Great
Liberator, is giving lectures on Astronomy at Canterbury.
An infant child, a day old, was killed at Cheltenham,
last week, by a carraway seed sticking in its throat.
On the 16th instant a gentleman and two sailors were
lost by the upsetting of a boat halfway up the Firth.
FINSBURY.—Mr. Wakley is to retire on account of ill-
health, and the Rev. W. F. Fox, the well-known Sociuian
preacher and political spouter, is the chosen champion of
the League to succeed him.
During the past week a painful degree of alarm has
been created in some parts of Bedfordshire, owing to the
revival of those incendiary outrages which spread dismay
throughout the district last winter.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A young man named Tucker, of
Portsmouth, has been committed to trial on a charge of
the manslaughter of a married woman with whom he was
cohabiting.
EXPEDITION.—On Monday week, Mr. B. Wilson, of
Ossett, purchased wool at the market, and on Sunday
last, a vessel sailed with it from Liverpool for America.—
Leeds Intelligenccr.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN BASIL HALL.—We regret that
we have to announce the death of this gallant officer,
which took place on Wednesday week at Haslar Hospital,
after a protracted illness, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.

IMMENSE DELIVERY OF LETTERS.--On Monday
morning the East and West Indian and American mails
all reached London. The number of letters issued for
one delivery was unprecedented, being upwards of 250,000.
EXTRAORDINARY PARCEL BY THE POSTOFFICE.—On
Thursday week a most extraordinary package reached the
Postoffice of this city. This was no other than a parcel
containing some fifteen or twenty live frogs. They reached
their destination in safety.—Glasgow National.
LONG CREDIT.—A. short time ago, a person of thsi
town, (Chelmsford,) more ingenious than scrupulous, paid
a tradesman for some goods by a bill at two months; but,
on presenting it at the expiration of that period, the holder
found it was drawn payable two months after death, in-
stead of after date.—Essex paper.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 20.—We have had a
very quiet week in our sugar market, and the sales are
limited to about 200 hogsheads, at former rates. Fir
Bengals and Mauritius the demand is also dull, and the
transactions are confined to a few retail lots at steady
prices. Rum is still in good demand. Gazetted average
price of Sugar, Sept. 17, is 325. 11d. per cwt.
SIR WM. NOTT.—At a special general meeting of pro-
prietors of East India stock, held at the India House, on
Wednesday last, a resolution approving of the proposed
grant of an annuity of £lOOO per annum, to Major-Gen-
eral Sir Wm. Nott, G.C.8., for his services a Candahar,
Ghuznee, and Cabul, was unanimously agreed to. It is
to commence from the time of his leaving India.
THE AUGUSTA.—On Thursday, at the Criminal Court,
Thomas Jennings was placed at the bar, charged with
having captured slaves. The case arose out of that for
which Mr. Zulueta was some time since tried and acquit-
ted. Captain Jennings pleaded that he had already been
tried and acquitted for this offence at Sierra Leone. Upon
this resulted a legal argument, and the court took time to
consider.
SUNDERLAND.—The strike of ship-carpenters at this
port may be said already to be at an end. The masters
have in nearly every instance given the advanced wages of
21s. per week, and the men have consequently resumed
their employment. Trade is still improving, and as
freights keep on the advance (10s. 6d per ton having been
paid for coals to London, and 1:12 per keel for Hamburgh,)
ship-building will speedily be brisk at this and the neigh-
bouring ports.
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must have occurred. The persons killed were two boys.
A labourer, Daniel Williams, is not expected to recover,
he was bit on the head, and had his skull fractured by
same bricks which were blown for more than 150 yards,

THE LARGEST STATUE IN EUROPE.—The summit of
Banvraegie, in Sutherlandshire, is crowned by the colossal
monument erected by the Sutherland tenantry to the me-
mory of the late Duke. A statue 30 feet high, and con-
taining 80 tons of stone, stands on a oedestal 75 feet in
height. The figure, an excellent likeness, forms the
largest statue in Europe.
DEATH FROM THE FEROCITY OF A R AM.—A most mel-
ancholy catastrophe occurred at the village of Cnarmouth
from the ferocity of a ram, on the Gth instant. A poor
woman, of the name of Sarah Hoare, aged about 60
years, was walking in a field near the beach, when the
ram suddenly attacked her, gored her, and knocked
her down. The poor creature was so much injured that
she lingered in great agonies until Monday, when death
put an end to ber sufferings.—Western Mirror.
CAPTURE OF Five H UNDREDWHALES.—On Thursday
an immense shoal of whales, amounting to upwards of
500, came in off the mouth of Sandvoe, Zetland. The in-
habitants were immediately roused by the sudden visit of
these monsters of the deep. The herd was surrounded,
and with some difficulty nearly ell of them were captured.
The carcases were sold at an average of £2 ss. each,
which will prove a seasonable relief to many.—Scetch
paper.
IMMERSION AT BAPTISM.—The Edinburgh Observer
gives the following pithy but forcible dialogue between a
Churchman and Baptist :—Churchman—Do the Baptists
consider Noah's ark as a type of the Church ? Baptist—
Certainly, Sir, St. Peter,. good authority, you know, so
considered it. Churchman—Was the ark immersed in
the waters of the flood? Baptist—No, Sir. It was only
sprinkled with rain. But what of that ? Churchman—
Oh ! nothing. I only asked for information.
GUANO.—The sales of guano, during the past week,
amounted to about 100 tons at £6 to £6 2s. 6d. for
African, from the ship, which is an advance of £1 per ton
from the lowest point. A small cargo is reported to be
sold, for spring delivery, at £6 ss. per ton. There are
still buyers at £6. The stock of African here is about
1,000 tons; that of Peruvian about 3,000 tons. The
latter is still held at £lO per ton. On Saturday £6 ss.
per ton was paid for a quantity of the article, and, we
understand, there are now no sellers under that price.
APPALLING ACCIDENT.—A shocking accident occurred
on Saturday afternoon week, by the breaking down of a
phaeton. on the Whitstone-road, near Adderwater, con-
taining the Rev. Prebendary Medley, rector of St. Tho-
mas, his mother, the Bev. Prebendary Cornish, and his
sister, and by which one death has ensued, Mrs. Medley,
from the injuries she received, having expired about two
hours and a half after the melancholy catastrophe. Mrs.
Shaw still lies at a farm-house near the scene of this awful
occurrence.—Doncaster Chronicle.
DEATH BY EATING THE DEADLY NIGHTSHADE.—On
Thursday week four persons were poisoned by eating
some of the berries of the deadly nightshade, atropa
belladonna, which they gathered on the land adjacent to
the Lancaster sands, at Hest-band, where the plant grows
in abundance. Three of the parties, after suffering ex-
treme agony, were recovered by the application of proper
remedies. The fourth was found in a hayloft, lying stiff
and insensible, his body swoln to an extraordinary size.
He died, on Friday week, in a state of complete ex-
haustion.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—At about 2 oclock on
Friday morning the Rev. G. T. Mostyn, Incumbent of
St. Michael's, was alarmed by a loud explosion, which
app ared to prcceed from the passage of his house. On
going to ascertain the cause, he discovered that some per-
sons had placed a package of gunpowder in the key bole
of the door, and had fired it,—the explosion forcing the
paper, &c., in which the powder had been wrapped,
through the key-hole into the passage. On opening the
door another package of gunpowder was found on the
door-step.—Blackburn Standard.
DREADFUL DEATII.—On Friday morning last a young
man, a farm-labourer, was found in a ditch in Staple
Clayton, Buckinghamshire, nearly lifeless, and burnt
almost to a cinder. It is supposed the poor fellow got
drunk on the preceding night, and rolled into the ditch,
with a lighted pipe in his hand, or: had some lucifer
matches on his person, which ignited, thus destroying all
th 3 clothes on his body, and burning his frame to a com-
plete cinder, the lower part of his person being entirely
destroyed, and the interior of his frame being visible as if
he had been flayed alive.

THE LAY Loans.—Lord Brougham has addressed a
letter to Lord Kenyon in which he states, " that he
wishes above all to avoid the imputation of holding an
opinion subversive of the House of Lords' jurisdiction.
He supposed that the lay Lords meant to ground their
opinions (if they should vote) upon a matter which they
had heard and did understand, namely, the house calling
in the judges for the purpose of excluding party feeling.
However, his own reason for supporting Lord Wham-
cliffe was, that those lay Lords had not heard the case,
and he never in the least degree intended to hold that their
being lay Lords was any reason against their voting."

FRUITS OF CH ARTl9M.—Jenkin Morgan, who, with
Frost, Williams, and Jones, was sentenced to be hanged
at the Monmouth Special Commission in 1840, for the
Newport riots in 1839, but whose sentence wss subse-
quently commuted to imprisonment in the Millbank Pe-
nitentiary, has been lately released. Wheal he was ar-
rested he was the proprietor of three houses, had a well-
stocked farm, and was otherwise most comfortably.situ-
ated. Upon leaving the prison he found himself and his
family houseless, and is now endeavouring to raise a
subscription to enable him, to support his wife and
children.

TRAG/CAL OCCURRENCE.—On Monday a servant in
the employ of a gentleman of London, who had long been
suspected of being pregnant, ran up stairs, and was found
by her master lying an her stomach on the stairs, which
were in a pool of blood, her head resting on the top one,
and by her side an infant covered with blood. He de-
scended into the street, and alarmed the neighbours, se-
veral of whom returned into the house with him, followed
by a surgeon, who pronounced her to be dead. The in-
fant, a fine full-grewn female child, was also dead, but had
evidently been born alive and then strangled, the strings
of its mother's apron being tied tightly round its neck.
ANOTHER, DESTRUCTIVE EsS;NE•—Mr. Nasmyth,
engineer, of Manchester, has submitted to the considera-
tion of the Admiralty the plan of an iron steamer, bomb-
proof, which will effectually de,troy any ship or squadron.
She is propelled by the Archimedian screw, and, when
going at the rate of six knots an hour, she will run stem
on to a ship and leave a hole in her many feet wide,. below
the surface. It is, in fact, the power of two ships coming
in collision with each other at the rate of ten knots an
hour, placed,. by mechanical means, in the hands of not
more than three men. We understand that this invention
is now under their lordship's consideration, and there can
be no doubt but it will put Captain Warner's invention at
a discount.—Devonport Independent.
RUMOTTRILD CREATION OF PEERS.-A correspondent
of the Nenagh Guardian states that it is the intention of
Sir Robert Peel to confer the honour and dignity of a
peerage upon the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice
(Doherty) of the Common Pleas in Ireland, that the
ministry may also have the aid of his transcendent
abilities in the l-lonse of Lords. The necessity of this
creation is apparent from the late curious decision in the
case of O'Connell—a decision contrary to the opinion of
the learned functionaries whom the Lords called to their
assistance ; this rumoured creation is justifiable from the
paucity of Law Lords on the Conservative side, whilst
there is a heavy array of Whig created "noble and
learned's" on the opposition benches.
TIIE LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE.—A letter in the Times,
from Sir J. South, announces that this telescope of the
Earl of Rosse's was on Wednesday directed for the first
time to the sidereal heavens. With a power of 5C03 the
nebula known as No. 2 of Messier's catalogue was even
more magnificent than the nebula No. 13 of Messier,
when seen with his lordship's telescope of 3 feet diameter
and 27 feet focus. Cloudy weather prevented him turn-
ing the leviathan on any other nebulous object. The
diameter of the large metal is 6 feet, and its focus 61 feet;
yet the immense mass is manageable by one man. Com-
pared with it, the working telescopes of Sir W. Herschel,
which in his hands conferred on astronomy such inesti-
mable service, and on himself astronomical immortality,
were but playthings.
BANK or ENGLAND.—On Thursday, the half-yearly
meeting of the Court of Proprietors took place at the Bank
of England. Wm. Cotton, Esq., the Governor, was in
the chair. The chairman stated that the dividend of 31
per cent. would be payable on the 11th of October. The
accounts used to be made up upon theoretical principles
up to the 10th of October, and they were generally found
to be substantially correct. In future, however, the ac-
counts would be made up to the 31st of August, to enable
the proprietors to see the actual state of the financial de-
partment. It had been ascertained that the income of the
Bank had been enriched by £BBOO since their last meeting ;
and with respect to the branch banks, it was found upon
the whole that they were profitable to the parent establish-
ment. The report of the directors having been received
and adopted, the Court dissolved.

SUICIDE FROM DESTITUTION.—Last week an inqu st
was held at Sunderland, on the body of a man who had
taken arsenic in consequence of the miserable destitution
to which he and his family were brought. From the evi-
dence of his wife, it appeared that the poor man had only
been able to obtain a fortnight's work in the year, and
that they and their four children had suffered the ex-
tremest want. They had pawned their furniture, and
were obliged to lie on straw, and to subsist on the charity
of the neighbours. He was often very much depressed
when the children cried for bread and he had not a bit to
give them ; he said he was tired of his life, and that if
times did not mend, he thought they would get the better
of him. In answer to an inquiry from the coroner, the
poor woman said they did not apply to the parish, for she
was afraid she would be put into the workhouse there,
where she would have been parted from her little " bairns,"
and she had rather starve than be parted from them. The
jury found a verdict of " temporary insanity, brought on
by want of the common necessaries of life."
HALF FARTHINGS.—Large amounts of new copper
coin, or half farthings, are, as already intimated, now is-
sued. It is a neat piece of money, bearing the bust of the
Queen, with the inscription " Victoria," &c. ; on the re-
verse the words " Half a Farthing." Many street specu-
lators took advantage of the curiosity of the passengers,
and sold them at the rate of four for a penny. When
told that eight half-farthings made a penny, the answer
was, " We know that, but we sell them as articles of curi-
osity." And they did sell thousands in the city, and
various parts of London, at double the value. The pub-
lic, it is said will derive advantage from this new coinage.
They will be able to divide a farthing with the shopkeeper,
which in small dealings was seldom the case. Tradesmen
say they are entitled to the half-farthing in consequence
of loss sustained by giving the turn of the scale. [The
desire to purchase will soon cease, and in the mean time,
perhaps, no great mischief is done in giving a penny in-
stead of a halfpenny for four half-farthings ; but the
transaction is illegal, and the law was rather rigidly en-
forced when people sold guineas at 28s. each.]—Times.