The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

GENERAL

MISCELLANY

The conservatives have a clear ,vtin of eleven on the re-
gistration for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
The Queen held a Privy Council at Windsor Castle on
Monday week, when parliament was ordered to be pro-
rogued from the 19th instant until November.
The lawyers of Stockton, one and all, without exception,
have agreed to close their respective offices at six o'clock,
both winter and summer, for the benefit of their clerks.
A NUNNERY IN SUNDERLAND.—The whole of the ar-
rangements are now completed by the Rev. P. Kearney,
for commencing this establishment.
In Birmingham £30,000 is said to be saved to the in-
habitants by having the gas lighting of the town in the
hands of the Corporation.
The committee of the London Wood Paving Associa-
tion has offered a gold medal, with thirty guineas, for the
best machine for cleaning the streets.—Artizan.

The revision for North Cheshire has terminated. The
conservatives succeeded in sustaining sixty-eight objec-
tions, and the radicals only eight.

Mrs. Wood (ci-divant Miss Paton) with her husband,
attend Chapelthorpe, near Leeds, every Sunday, and
render the choir the most efficient of any in the district.
COTTAGE ROBBERY.—On Sunday, the 24th ult., the
cottage of a labourer named Cudmore, at East Donyland.
was broken into, and a, the hard-earned savings of in-
dustry, stolen therefrom. Two men are in custody.
CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS.—Several new discoveries of
frauds were made at the Custom-house in the course of
the last week, and parties before unsuspected are, we
hear, implicated in them.
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A circular has been sent to the creditors of Messrs.
Dixon and Dalton, of the Dudley Bank, informing them
that a dividend of 6s. Bd. in the pound will shortly be
paid.
The Great Yorkshire Stakes, to be run for at York
Angust meeting, 1846, has closed with 117 subscribers ;
and the Competition produce, for the same year, with 27
subscribers.

Mr. .1. B. Smith, a leading member of the Council of
the Anti-corn-la .v league, offers himself a candidate for
the borough of Kendal, vacant by the sudden death of
Mr. Geo. Wm. Wood, M.P.

Mr. Slott, of the Edinburgh Town-council, has given
notice of a motion "to petition parliament to remove
from the land the established church, and apply its re-
venue to a useful purpose,"
MANCHESTER ATHENAIIIII.—The bazaar for the pur-
pose of paying the debt on this institution, was held last
week. Up to Friday night the sum paid into the bank
on account of the bazaar, was £1,600, but the debt
amounts to £3,000.

REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—Mr.
Thomas Baring (conservative) has acceded to the invita-
tion of a numerously-signed requisition, and offered him-
self as a candidate for the vacant seat. Mr. Pattison
(radical) is the opposing candidate.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Friday, Mr. Waller, a
merchant, at St. Mary-at-Hill, London, was in his count.
ing-house, when his clerk, Thos. Rowe, about 75 years of
age, drew a pistol from his pocket and shot him in the
left side. The effect of the wound is at present uncertain.
The vicar of Ware, which parish has been so much dis-
turbed by contentions respecting Church matters, has
advertised for a curate on account of his health. The
curate is required to be " in full orders, of sound church
principles, good judgment, and calm temper."
The Chartist Convention, lately held in this town, have
started the notable project of raising a fund of £lOO,OOO !
They say the money is to be appropriated in the purchase
of 1,000 acres of land to be divided into small allotments.
—Birmingham Advertiser.
On the fells between Kendall and Shap, Westmoreland,
on Friday night week, the mist was so dense, that the
drivers and guards of the mail and other coaches say,
they never encountered such great difficulty and danger
in getting along that terrible road.
A VERY IMPUDENT THIEF.—Last Monday evening,
some persons obtained access to the bench-room at the
Town Hall, Brighton ; and, whilst the officers and the
police were about the hall, they broke opru the poor-box,
and carried off its contents, amounting, it is supposed, to
about £3.—London Paper.

YORKSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION.—The Earl of Mex-
borough has consented to take the chair at the great meet-
ing of chess-players to he held in Huddersfield on the Bth
of November next. This has given great satisfaction to
all the members of the association, and a large muster is
expected.
THE WIFE OE THREE SUICIDES.—On Monday an
inquest was held on the body of David Mason, aged 48,
a coal-weigher, of 23, Lower Shadwell, who had destroyed
himself, leaving his family in great distress. His wife, who
was examined on the inquest, stated that this was her
third husband, all of whom had committed suicide!
FALL OF A HOUSE.—Two PERSONS KILLED.—On
Tuesday afternoon a house fell in the village of Westfield,
near North Weildham. There were seven persons in the
house at the time. Two of them, a bedridden old man
named Prosser, and a poor woman named Wilkes, were
buried in the ruins, and when their bodies were dug out
life was extinct.—London paper.
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An invention has recently been made for showing in
the night time the position of a ship in danger, and thus
directing the movements of persons attempting to give
assistance from the shore. It consists of a composition,
which when ignited gives a very distinct and brilliant
light, and has been tried it is said, with success at the
Goldstone, where the Pegasus was wrecked.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT 6.—We have had an
animated and general demand for raw sugars this week,
and about 900 casks West India have been disposed of at
fully is. per cwt. above the previous rates •, low soft brown
to fine bright grocery selling from 565. to 675. • 1000 bags
of Bengals have also been disposed of at from 595. to 645.,
which are full prices. Rum is still very dull of sale.
The Southampton papers give glowing accounts of the
first despatch of the mail from that port. It consisted
of 51 bags, weighing upwards of two tons, for various
islands in the West Indies. Immediately upon the arrival
of the train, the bags were shipped on board the Teviot.
A large assemblage of persons was on the pier to witness
the first embarkation from Southampton.
MORTALITY AMONGST LAMBS.—At present there is a
very great mortality amongst lambs on the Yorkshire
wolds. Some attribute it to the dryness of the searon.
The disease is diarrhoea. One farmer, out of 100 lambs,
has had the misfortune within a very short time to lose
52.—Linseed cake is said to be a preventative of the di-
sease.—Doncaster Chronicle.
FATAL FIGHT.—On the night of Wednesday, the 27th
ult., a fight took place in a beer-house, in Common Lane,
Sandbach, kept by John Venables, between two of his
sons, William and John, (respecting some money owing
by one brother to the other,) the father interfered to pre-
vent it, when he was brutally kicked, and received other
injuries from William, which caused his death on Thursday

morning.
COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—A
public meeting will be held to-morrow, (Wednesday,) at
the Hanover-square Rooms, London, at which the Rev.
Dr. Wolff will be present to take leave on setting out on
his expedition to Bokhara, to ascertain the fate, or obtain
the release of these unfortunate officers, when the Rev.
Doctor will give an account of his journey to and resi-
dence in that country in the years 1830-4.
THE TEA TRADE, Oct. 2.—The deliveries of tea last
week were 441,8141 b. The trade has been very quiet
owing to the absence of public sales, if we except a small
one last week, at which there was scarcely any congou
offered. Prices in general are steady. Probably the mar-
ket may become more animated after the arrival of the
overland mail, but if this takes place on the same day as
in this month last year, it will not be before the Sth inst.

THE WIDOW OF SIR C. BELL.—Her Majesty, at
the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, has considerately be-
stowed a pension of £lOO a year on Lady Bell, the widow
of Sir Charles Bell, who, we regret to hear, died in cir-
cumstances very different from what his position, as an
eminent lecturer and professor, and as the author of more
than one successful work, would have led us to suspect.
—Sunday paper.

IHE CHARTISTS.-Mr. Tidd Pratt, the certifying
barrister, has refused to enrol the rules of the Chartists,
passed at the late Birmingham Conference. In conse-
quence of this refusal, the president, treasurer, and secre.
tary have given notice that they will go on with their
system of organization, for the present, without the cer-
tification of the rules • and it is added that they will
hereafter compel Mr. iratt to certify.—Observer.

EX'T'ENSIVE FAILURE IN GLASGOW.—An extensive
failure in the wholesale grocery trade took place here this
week. The debts, which, we understand, are between
£60,000 and £BO,OOO, are principally due to parties in
town. One firm, it is said, suffers to the extent of £lO,OOO,
another to £6,000, and various others to £2,000 and
£l,OOO. Up to the time of the failure, the credit of the
firm, which was considered wealthy, was never doubted.
Losses in the Irish trade are said to have caused the bank-
ruptcy. We have not beard the amount of the assets, but
we believe them to be considerable.—Glasgow Citizen.

MILITARY PUNISHMENT.—A private of the Scots
Grays underwent the terrible and disgraceful punishment
of being flogged at the Barrack Riding School a few days
since. It appears the offence of the unfortunate man,
who is an Irishman of the name of Dogherty, was threat-
ening to shoot his corporal; this being the second time
of his uttering the threat. The fortitude with which he
received his dreadful punishment was astonishing—having
received 140 lashes without a groan or a cry of agony es_
caping his lips. He was afterwards conveyed to the hos-
pital, where he is in a fair way of speedily recovering.—
Ipswich Express.
FEAST OF TABERNACLES.—Sunday being the 15th of
the 7th month (Tisri), the tabernacle feast commenced,
and is the third annual festival which requires the pre-
sence of the Jews at the place of the sanctuary, and is
kept as a memorial of the dwelling of the Israelites in
tents and huts, while they wandered in the wilderness.
During this feast, temporary buildings are erected in the
open air, the roof being penetrable to the weather, and
decorated with fruits, flowers, and evergreens, in which
the family reside during the feast (seven days), the first
and last days only being holydays. Strips of palm, deco.
rated with willow and a citron, are taken from house to
house for the use of the family, who read prayers with the
branches in their hands. In the synagogues, processions
are formed of the rabbins and wardens, bearing the citron
and branches, and walk round the reading-desk several
times, the readers repeating prayers at intervals. This
feast is followed immediately by the Feast of Ingathering,
the concluding harvest festival, in acknowledgment of the
harvest and gatherings of the past season, the celebration
cf which is limited to OPC day.

RURAL POLICE.—So desirous are the bench of magis-
trates in Nottingham of being freed from the rural police,
that, in the event of its not being determined at the ad-

journ ed quarter sessions at Soutbwell, on the 26th inst.,
to discontinue them, five of those magistrates (the number

required by act of Parliament) have given another notice
to the Home Secretary of State for re-agitating the ques-
tion at the Nottinghamshire sessions in April next.
EARL GREY.—The health of Earl Grey during the last
few days has rallied, and somewhat relieved the anxiety of

his lordship's family and numerous friends. Sir Stephen
Hammick, Lord Grey's physician, bas been enabled in
consequence to return to London from Howick Hall. We
have sincere pleasure in stating, that on the whole, the
health of the venerable nobleman has assumed a much

more general favourable appearance, and it is to be hoped
his life may for some time be spared to his family.
The trust estates in the City of London, bequeathed for
public and charitable objects, produce an annual sum of
£364,096 lls. 9kd. Notwithstanding these princely en-
dowments, the local rates for the poor, paving, lighting,
watching, &c., form a heavier burden upon the in-
habitants than exists in any other part of the kingdom,
amounting, for the year 1841, to £272.788 4s. 5d., besides
duties levied by the corporation on coals, provisions,
&c., paid by the public at large, to the amount of

£202,549 12s. 7d.
THE ALLEGED SLAVE-TRADING CASE.—At the Cried-

nal Court, on Thursday, Mr. Clarkson made an applica-
tion for the postponement of the trial of Mr. Zulueta and
two others, on a charge of having fitted out a vessel for
slave trading on the coast of Africa. The ground upon
which he founded the application was the absence of ma-
terial witnesses for the defence, the principal of whom
was Mr. Joseph Toplis, who had been Mr. Zulueta's
chief clerk at the period of the alleged offence, and who,
when the affidavits were first prepared, was abroad at
Gibraltar, and had only arrived in this country on Satur-
day evening. After considerable opposition on the part
of the prosecution, the Court acceded to the application,
and the matter stands over untill next session.
BANK ROBBER CAUGHT.—We understand from Capt.

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Miller, that while on an accidental visit to Innerkip on
Tuesday, he discovered and apprehended a Creole named
Waddell, a notice concerning whose robbery and flight
with about 17,000 dollars from the British Guiana Bank
appeared in the Royal Gazette and in the Glasgow papers
a short time ago. The prisoner, it seems, was very civil
with the captain, gave up the keys of the tin cases, the
seizure of which was effected in a temperance hotel in this

city, and reminded his captor that he had no authority to
detain biro. Under these circumstances, and more espe:

cially as the tin cases on being opened were found, instead
of the missing dollars, to contain nothing but the body
clothes of Waddell, who does not appear to be in the best
circumstances. Captain Miller allowed him to go.—Glas-
gow Guardian.

GRAND RUNNING MATCH BETWEEN THE FOUR
CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND.-ThiS match, which has ex-

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cited so much interest in the sporting world, came off at

Reading, on Monday last. in Sampson's cricket-ground.
The champions were—Wild and Byrom, from Lanca-
shire ; Maxwell, from Sheffield ; and Sheppard, from
Birmingham. The distance was one mile (three times
round the ground, and 19 yards added). Precisely at 3
o'clock the start for the first heat took place, which was

accomplished in 4 minutes and 50 seconds—Sheppard
winning by 8 yards; Byrom, 2; Maxwell, 3; Wild, 4.
The men having rested about three-quarters of an hour,
the second heat took place. Byrom took the lead once
round, when he was passed by Sheppard, who kept ahead
throughout, winning by about 7 yards ; Byrom, 2 ; Wild,
3 ; Maxwell, 4. This heat was accomplished in 4 minutes
and 53 seconds.

EXECUTION AT STIRLING.—On Wednesday morning,
Allan Mair, who was convicted at last Circuit Court at
Stirling, of murdering an old woman eighty-five years of
age, his reputed wife, underwent the extreme penalty of
the law. The unfortunate man, who slept but little on

Tuesday night, was visited early on the following morn-
ing by the chaplain of the prison, and another clergyman,
with whom he spent a considerable time in devotional
exercises. Shortly before eight o'clock the magistrates
arrived in the hall of the prison, to which the prisoner
was brought, and where he engaged for some time in
prayer. His arms having been pinioned, the procession
moved slowly along to the scaffold, where part of a psalm
was sung and a prayer made on his behalf. He then

shook hands with those around him, and after remaining
for a few minutes in prayer on the fatal drop, he gave the
signal, and was immediately launched into eternity.

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airwas about 84 years of age.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—The brig Lord
Byron, of Limekilns, when on her voyage in the end of
last month from the West Indies to Liverpool, suddenly

sprung a leak without any apparent cause. It was consi
dered advisable to return to Jamaica, and, on the cargo
being taken out and the vessel examined, it was found
that the damage was occasioned by a sword-fish. The
sword or bill of the fish had pissed through the copper
sheathing, then through the plank in a slanting direction
to the extent of five inches, and also about eight or ten
inches into the dead wood of the keel, leaving an opening
in the planking in each side sufficient to admit the hand
of a boy. A piece of the sword retained by the captain is
six inches long and one and a half inch thick, of solid
bone ; but a longer piece remains in the keel. The
strength of the sword fish must be very great, and it may
have been the cause of the loss of several vessels. The
vessel referred to was carried into port with very great
difficnity.—Edinburgh Mercury.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On the evening of the
21st instant a small boat, in which were John Sutherland,
Samuel Willison, his son-in-law, Ann Young, and Hugh
Knarston, a harvest man, left this harbour, and had pro-
ceeded round the east end of Grxmsay, when, finding the
wind to be squally and the night dark, the boat was at-
tempted to be put round, in order to land at Grxmsay
for the night, but, from a sudden squall striking her, she
went down stern foremost. The crew got on her bottom,
and were again washed off. The girl first sank, and then
old John Sutherland (a native of Caithnessshire).
Knarston clung to the boat, and the wind and tide drove
him across Hoy Sound, within a short distance of the
anchorage of Cairston Roads. His cries were heard by
the people on board of the vessels lying in the roads, but
from the darkness it could not be discovered that an acci-
dent had happened. The boat was driven out of Hoy
Sound again, and at last came ashore at the churchyard.
The poor fellow had still been able to stick to the boat,
and was strong enough to get on shore and reach Strom-
ness about daylight next morning. None of the bodies
of the other three have been found.— Wick Journal.
EXPLOSION AT THE GLOBE WORKS, SHEFFIELD.—
Another infernal machine has this week been manufac-
tured for the diabolical purpose of blowing up the Globe-
works with gunpowder. These works are occupied by
Mr. William Ibbotson, file-manufacturer, who employs
a great number of hands ; one or more of whom is sup-
posed to have fancied themselves aggrieved, and to have
adopted the above destructive mode of showing their re-
venge. About half-past twelve on Saturday night, the
inmates of the dwelling-house, which is underneath the
same roof with the works, were aroused from their slum-
bers by a most terrific explosion. Mr. Ibbotson, jun.
imtnediateiy got up, and found in the cellar the fragments
of an exploded iron tube, of about four-inch bore, the
length of which could not be ascertained. The ends had
been securely stopped up with wood, and lead run in also ;
and, to make the explosion more effective, the wretches had
drilled holes through the tube, and run iron pins, of about
four inches in length, into the lead, to prevent it from
being blown out again by the force of the powder. The
effects of the explosion were to blow the roof and flooring
above the cellar, not only completely up, but partly into
the ceiling of the first floor, which was also quite loosened.
About a dozen were blown completely out, and as many
more shattered to atoms. Part of a brick wall which pro-
jected from the north side of the cellar was forced from
the upright, but had not fallen. The two windows on the
ground floor, which had no shutters, were quite blown
out. The noise was heard for many miles round.—
Buxton Herald, Oct. 6.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.—One of the most barbarous
outrages has lately occurred in the neighbourhood of
Slaidburn which the history of crime can record. Two
persons, named Matthew Dilworth and George Smith,
who, there is too much reason to believe, were the per-
petrators of the brutal act, have been arrested, and com-
mitted to take their trial at the next York assizes. The
victim is a young girl named Hannah Hargreaves, of
Dunsop, near Slaidburn. She deposed as follows :—I
live servant with Wm. Crumbleholme. of Dunsop, yeo-
man. I heard a whistle on Monday night. I was in the
house alone ; the door was locked, and the children were
in bed asleep. On hearing the whistle I went up stairs
and looked through the window, but could not see any-
thing; it was dark and not moonlight. The whistle did
not alarm me; I thought some one was whistling of a dog.
I came down stairs and found it was half-past nine. Ex-
pecting my master and mistress, I went out to listen if
they were coming home. When I got to the door, the
prisoner Dilworth was standing on the right side. I saw
another person, whom I did not know, standing at the
gate four or five yards distant from the door. Dilworth
immediately seized me as I stood on the flag by the shoul-
ders, threw me down on my back, and put his finger on
my throat. I said, " Oh, dear ! what art thou going to
do ?" He said, "I am boun to kill thee if thou dosn't
sup this stuff." He had a bottle in his hand, a darkish-
coloured one, and not a big one. I thought there was
about half a teacupful, and was so frightened that I drank
part of what was in it. The other person, whom I saw
standing at the gate, came up to us, and they both got
hold of my apron, pulled it over my face, and tied it round
my mouth and under my chin behind my head. After
that I heard one or both go into the house.—Mr. Jack-
son, surgeon, deposed to having been called in to see the
girl, and described her as then suffering under the effects
of some narcotic poison. He immediately administered a
powerful emetic, which was repeated until the stomach
was completely exhausted. He thought the narcotic to
be opium.—lt was deposed by two witnesses, that Dil-
worth and Smith were seen together on the evening on
which the offence was committed ; and it was sworn by
one of them that he saw the prisoners proceeding home-
ward together, as if from Dunsop, shortly after the hour
mentioned by the prosecutrix as the time when the offence
was committed.—W. Crumbleholme deposed that he and
his wife were from home on the night in question. They
returned home about ten minutes to eleven o'clock. They
found the house door open, and the servant girl, Hannah
Hargreaves, absent. There was no one in the house
except the children, who were in bed.,l Shortly after,
William Haythornthwaite, the girl's uncle, came in and
told him what had happened. He then searched the
drawers up stairs, and found that his watch, for which he
had paid five guineas, had been taken away, together with
a chain and seals.—Mary Crumbleholme, wife to the last
witness, gave similar testimony.—The prisoners, on being
asked what they had to say for themselves, replied that
they were innocent, and called two witnesses, who gave
unsatisfactory statements of having seen both the pri-
soners at Crawshawr, about the time mentioned by the
prosecutrix,