The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-17 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY. •

A steamer on a novel principle, having a double stem
and bows, was launched at Blackwall, on Tuesday.
A young gentleman called at the Post-office in Lough-
borough, last week, to buy a " stamped antelope 1"
THE LAWYER'S FIRST BRIEF.—" Thoq great first
cause, least understood." So says Horace Twiss.

Moore, the poet, is about to write the biography of his
facetious friend, the late Rev. Sydney Smith.
So numerous have been the accidents on the wood
pavement in the Strand, London, that the paving com-
missioners have given orders to have it taken up.
A man named John Graham is now in custody in Car-
lisle gaol, on the charge of poisoning his aged father and
his wife.

•
Th,3 Kentish Observer states, that a dragoon officer
committed suicide the other day in consequence of losses
un the Derby.

The Marqu's of Westminster, it is said, has purchased
the celebrated Fonthill estate, formerly the property of
Mr. Beckford.

Richard Christopher, an old man of seventy-five, has
been held to bail at Abergavenny, for a manslaughter
committed twenty years ago.

The proxies of Lord Enniskillen, Skelmersdale, and
Mayo, were entered to be given against the Maynooth
bill. By some accident they were not given.
A steam-packet which arrived at Hull from Rotterdam,
on Saturday, brought 71 live oxen, 1,000 fowls, and 30
baskets of cucumbers ;And fruit.

The Builder states that the project to throw a tube of
sheet-iron across the Menai Straits has been abandoned.
Two strong bridges are to be built instead.

On Tuesday, there was a sale of 2,000 pine apples in
London, which had been brought over by the Trent
steamer from Nassau, in the Bahamas, in excellent con-
dition. They sold from 2s. to ss. each.

On Monday evening John Hickman, aged 28, who had
been for some time past. employed as a scene-shifter at
the Theatre Itoyul Birmingham, was killed on the stage
by the falling of the scene-roller.

An antidote for arsenic has been discovered by Dr. Bun-
sen in the hydrated peroxide of iron—a simple prepara-
tion, and one which ought to have a place on the shelves
of every druggist in the kingdom.
Prince Henry, third son of William 11., King of Hol-
land, nrrived in Leith Roads, on Thursday week, in a
frigate of sixty-eight guns, and spent three or four days
in inspecting Auld Reekie.
A HOPEFUL FAMILY.—When Mr. Byng read in a pa-
per the other day that he was ". the father of the House
of Commons," he remarked to a friend that he felt greatly
ashamed of most of his sons.

Major Hamilton, of the 13th Light Dragoons, cut his
throat last week, at Maryboroueh, but not mortally. He
has only just attained his majority. No cause is assigned
for the rash act.
Mr. Setim, who fell in the late duel at Gosport, was
buried at Fordiogbridge, on Tuesday. The hearse and
four mourning coaches were joined by the neighbouring
gentry in ten private carriages.

An innkeeper of Carmarthen lost a dog in this town in
November, 1843. since which period be heard no tidings
.of the animal until Sunday evening week, when it made
its appearance at the door of its former owner.

A seizure of almost unequalled magnitude has, within
the last few days, been made by the officers of Excise, on
the premises of one of the largest tobacco manufacturers
at the east end of London.

The Ewart Rock, so long a dangerous impediment to
vessels navigating the Solway Frith, has been b own to
pieces with gunpowder, by the direction of the trustees
of Mary port Harbour.

To-morrow will be the anniversary of the battle of
Waterloo ; Friday next the anniversary of her Majesty's
accession to the throne in 1837 ; and Saturday, the 28th
instant, the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation in
1838.

RUSSIAN STATISTICS —According to the last census
of the population of Russia, the Serfs amounted to
42,000,000, 15,000,000 of whom belonged to the crown,
and 27,000,000 of private individuals. The entire popula-
tion of the empire exceed& 53,000,000 of souls.

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On Monday the Queen and Prince Albert proceeded to
Windsor, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Ne-
mours, the Prince of Leningen, and the usual suite. On
Tuesday and Thursday the royal party and their guests
drove to Ascot to witness the races. On Saturday her
Majesty returned t, town.

It appears to be in contemplation to bring glass into
use for the roofing of houses. This roofing wilt be much
lighter than tiles or slates, and if it be extended into the
country, the poor will be enabled to partake-of the luxury
of a bunch of grapes grown under the roofs of their own
humble cottages.

PRICE OF BREAD.—The bakers of this town last week
reduced the price of the 41b. loaf to fourpence-halfpenny,
and the best seconds is brought into the town at four-
pence! This is "cheap bread" with a vengeance I No-
body but the farmer has a right now to complain of the
price of bread.—Exeter Gazette.

TRINITY COLLEGE v. MAYNOOTH.—A meeting of
electors of Trinity College, Dublin, was held at the resi-
dence of Archdeacon Magee on Saturday last, when a re-
solution was adopted to address her Majesty, praying her
to dissolve parliament before giving her royal assent to
the endowment of Maynooth.
A MORAL SIGN.—In Worsborough Dale, near Barns-
ley, an innkeeper has so contrived his signboard, that by
pulling a string, another board, quite plain, falls directly
over the old one, thereby obscuring the landlord's name,
and the rest of the writing. This he does every Sunday,
by which means his house looks quite private.
Vidocq, the celebrated French thief-taker, has opened
an exhibition in London, at which he personally shows to
visitors various implements of torture, manacles, &c.,
which he was wont to use in the coercion of criminals,
the disguises which he used to wear to compass their cap-
ture, &c.

IMPORTANT TO ANGLERS.—By the new Fishery Act,
all rivers in England and Wales are to be closed on the
13th of September in each year, and any person catching
or having in his possession any trout measuring in length
less than seven inches from eye to fork will subject himself
to a penalty.

It is rumoured that Mr. Milnes Gaskell, now a Lord of
the Treasury, will be made Secretary to the Board of
Control, in the place of Mr. Emerson Tennent, who goes
out to be Colonial Secretary in Ceylon ; and that Sir
Charles Douglas, M.P., for Warwick, will succeed Mr.
Milnes Gaskell. Let the electors of Warwick be on the
look-out.

For some time past the copper coinage of William IV.
has been eagerly purchased by persons who are stated to
be Jews. and a report has, in consequence, gained ground
that gold is contained in it. Whether this be so or not, it
is a well-known fact that agents have been at work for the
last two months buying up those particular coins in West-
minster, and they now fetch double the legal value.--
VERY NEAR THE FAG-END OF IT.—On Saturday week,
in the afternoon, a singular scene presented itself in
Osborne-street, opposite to the Masonic Lodge, Hull,
where, for a considerable time, to the tune of a fife and a
penny jew's-hap, six sweeps, in all the dignity of soot and
bare-feet, danced the Polka, to the great amusement of
the numerous bystanders.

NARROW ESCAPE.—Un Wednesday, during a sale by
auction of machinery, &c., in Dixon Mill, Yeadon, the
second floor, on which the company were assembled, gave
way, and upwards of 50 persons were precipitated into
the room b low, along with a great quantity of heavy
pieces of wood and other weighty property ; but, as-
tonishing to say, not one was seriously injured.—Halifax
Paper.

An electrical gun is now astonishing the Cockneys by
displays of its destroying power. The bullets used are
calculated to kill at the distance of a statute mile; they
pass freely through a three inch plank, which, in volley
firing, is torn to atoms by their force; but if discharged
against an iron target, they are dashed to pieces; if into a
solid log of wood, are often found welded together, ap-
pearing to be united by a semifusion.

In the course of a recent examination of Mr. Brunel,
before a parliamentary committee, that gentleman stated
that, notwithstanding the increased speed of the new fast
trains, "the maximum rate of speed on the Great West-
ern line is not yet attained; it will be much greater."
And Mr. Gooch, of the locomotive department, stated
that last Saturday week, in a train of 63 tons, he went at
a speed of 65 miles an hour.

Dr. WOLFF.—At the last meeting Of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, Captain Grover exhibited a very curi-
ous picturesque delineation of Dr. Wolff's route from
Bokhara to Mesched, executed by a Persian who accom-
panied the Doctor, and who has written a history of the
journey, which is now being translated. Dr. Wolff is
now labouring under severe disease, which he took at
Bokhara, and the consequences of which are greatly to be
dreaded.
NOVEL OPERATION.—An ancient prediction is fulfilled,
and the plough is, in very truth, passing over the streets
of the royal burgh of Peeble, in North Britain. The
streets having required to be lowered and repaved, a
strong plough has been employed to tear up the old cause-
way and subsoil; and, so effectually has this been per-
formed, that, by one or two days' operations of a man and
a pair of horses, the labour of many men for a week or
more has been spared. The hint is worthy of the notice
of railway excavators.
DEATH FROM THE USE OF LEADEN PIPES.—An in-
quest has been holden on Friday at Malvern Wells, on
the body of an agricultural labourer named Wilkins, who
came by his death from having drunk a quantity of cider
(the common drink of agricultural labourers in that dis-
trict), which had been conveyed in leaden pipes from the
cider-house to the place where it gas drawn for• use.
The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased had
died from apoplexy, drawn on by drinking the impreg-
nated cider.

June 17,_1S

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THE DUEL AT PORTSMOUTFI.—It is said that 'denAi
to prove the provocation to the unfortunate duel, wilt' t
is to be brought forward by Lieutenant Hawkey's frien:h
has produced such lamentable results, and that Lieuten*
Hawkey will surrender himself, at the termination of
inquiry, to abide the consequences.
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Manchester, 52 ; in Bury, 56 ; in Oldham, 68 ;
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Ashton-under-Lyne, which is " the cheapest and "
supplied town in Lancashire," 93 per cent.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday vain!,
last, a shocking catastrophe occurred on the river Dui,
went, within a few hundred yards of Derby, by which tat
following individuals (the average age of whom was
,1111.
twenty years,) met with a watery grave :—George Dr` b,
bury, of Willow-row, son of the late librarian of t
Derby Mechanics' Institution ; John Keys, Eliza Mired'
ham, and Emma Bradderley. It appears that the deceased
Bradbury had got a boat on Tuesday night, and with the
other three deceased persons went on the river. From the
circumstance of the bodies being found near to the
landing-place, it is conjectured that the parties were in
ant of landing-, when the boat overbalanced, and preclPl
tated them into/he water.
EXTRAORDINARY LADY'S BUSTLE.—On Mondayla,
Caroline George. servant to a milliner of this city, 17f
committed for trial on a charge of stealing five yards
ribbon, a handkerchief, a thimble, and other articles, the
property of her mistress. These things were found in 11:
prisoner's box ; but on her arrival at the station-has':
another and somewhat novel receptacle for miscellaneou
goods was discovered. She was subjected to the usual
search by the daughter of the superintendent, who
~,rem-
arked that her " bustle" was rather balky, and on 11:
being cut open, in addition to the usual contents of the!:
articles of a lady's dress, there were two pieces of sib'
two pieces of silk velvet, and nine pieces of ribbon."
Somerset Herald.
EXTRAORDINARY DELUSIONS.—On Tuesday a Con'
mission of Lunacy was held at the Crown Inn, Hockerilst
near Bishop's Stortford, to inquire into the state of Win
of Mr. John Tucker, aged 65, a nurseryman and t.inn-
keeper, Bishop's Stortford. The unfortunate man, ("0
was brought into the room) said he had got several (Oa
in his inside, who were complete masters over him, °I
that unless he did whatever they wished, his death would
be consequence. They also had got five machines, which
they set to work at one time, so that he was afraid 0"
violence of the motion would shatter him to Piece's'
They would not allow him to move without paYi"',..l
enormous sum, and for walking to the inquiry they%-ho
charged him three thousand trillions for every step -
took !

-A frightful explosion took place on Monday last, at the
shop of Mr. Steele, Claypath, Durham. It appears that
Mr. Steele dealt in gunpowder for the purpose of suppir
ing the pitmen for blasting ; and one of his apprentices'
having a lighted candle in his hand, went into the cellar
where the powder was. It is supposed (for the boy vr3l
deprived of his senses, and is since dead) that a spark h"
fallen from the candle, and caused the explosion. T.e
front of the house was completely blown out ; and cat;
derable damage was done to the adjoining and oinicsi,,
shops and houses ; the glass and woodwork of many oftif„
windows being broken. Miss Robson, who was lying
on the premises, received considerable iiijury, togelbs_
with two or three other people, who were passing at tag
time the•explosion took place.
SIR HENRY POTTINGER ON CHINA.—At a dinner of
the merchant tailors of London, on Wednesday, Sir Pi
Pottinger said he had many friends in China, both official
and otherwise, from whom he rejoiced to say he ha l re::
ceived assurances that everything was going on as well ay
could possibly be expected in that country. The trad,
was flourishing, and the emperor himself bad adoattrt
the free circulation of books on Christianity. They tang',
the people virtue, and therefore the emperor said. they
should not be prohibited, as heretofore. This was a verf
important fact. He had also lately received a very
traordinary paper—an edict, signed by the Governor of
Shanghai, calling on the people to cultivate the mulberrf
tree. [lt will be seen from our Parliamentary summery
that the Queen has recommended an annuity to be granted
to Sir Henry of £l5OO per annum.]

THE GAME LAws.--The following is an abstract of
Lord Dacre's Bill. " for the further amendment of the
laws in England relative to game." According theretoe
no person is to sell game except a licensed dealer in game'
&c., but occupiers of land need not take out certifivares:
Dealers in game are to keep a book, entering the name'
of sellers thereof, the description of game sold to them'
&c.; and such book is to be open to inspection at WO'
time by justices of the peace, or persons having their '.0".":
rant. Persons in possession of game are to account fur
it, and also for the possession of snares. Damage done
by game is to be apportioned among the neighbouring
proprietors, the amount being assessed at petty session.':
power of appeal being given to quarter sessions.
Provisions of the former oct, as regards all penalties an
forfeitures, are proposed to be extended to this act.*

DEATH BY EXPERIMENTAL HANGING.—Last week.
a young man was found hanging in a stable at B-thtint.
Green, suspended to a rafter by a horse's bellyband. r"
was taken down, but was qu'te dead. He had been a
schoolfellow and an acquaintance of James Tapping, whci
was lately hanged at the Old Bailey, for the murder fi
Emma Whiter. He went to see him executed, but /I `l,,
never made any allusion to the occurrence. Since thal,
time be bad often amused himself by placing a hand
diief round the neck of young children, and nOdra"
them to make a noise " cluck, cluck," as if they werg
hanging. About a week since a brother of deceased ha
di-covered him suspended by the same strap, as if"
were trying an experiment. All the witnesses at the 17;
quest deposed to an opinion that deceased was mere.'
trying an experiment of the sensation produced by Ilang.
ing, and that unfortunately it had terminated fatally.
THE SUGAR TRADE.—The new sugar duties, helped
the great increase in the supply of sugar, are working es,:
ceedingly well. According to a table in the Econornis,
the importation of West India, East India, anti Matllititis
sugar, to the 29th May in the present year, is 71,510 tons,
against 43,540 tons to the same date last rear; the quad[
tity on which duty bas been paid is 62,285 tone, egs'"4
42,072 tons; and the stock on hand 30,389 tons aga'.
17,874. The quantity of foreign.free sugar imported
year is 4,242, and the stock on hand 5,672 tons. Conalci
derable specimens of free-labour sugar have been receire
from Manilla, China, Siam, and Java, and a small Valli.-
tity of slave grown sugar from Venezuela. The price of
very fair sugar being now from sd. to Cd. per lb. there
will no doubt be an increased consumption of it for pre-
serving purposes during the fruit season. This is alscaY
found to be the case when sugar can be bought at or un-
der 61 the pound.

Upon referring to the history of the passing of the 11,°:,
man Catholic bill of 1829, we find that it was carried 1"
larger majorities in the Commons, and smaller in the
Lords, than the Maynooth bill. Upon the introductie°
of the mea-ure by Sir Robert Peel, the numbers were
For going into committee, 348 ; against it, 160 ;
188. For the second reading, 353; against it, 173;
jority, 180. For the third reading, 320; against it 142 ;
majority, 178. In the House'of Lords the divisions w,,.,e,
as follow :—For the second reading, 217; against it,
majority, 105. For the third reading, 213; against
109 ; majority, 104. Thus it will be seen that the %vitt.
creations since 1830 have increased the pro-Catholic otato
jority in the upper house, and enabled the ministri
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carry the Maynooth, or any other measure of that lotie
in defiance of the old tory party. So anxious was t g
minister of the day to press the bill of 1829, that it
on
only five weeks in progress : the bill was introduced °he.
March 5, in the House of Commons, and passed by t"
House of Lords on April 10.
ELOPEMENT.—Miss Wilkinson, daughter of Mr. ,
kinson, of Sudbury, was recently on a visit to the hey't.
Joseph Fenn, at Blackheath, one of her guardians 10" in"..,
the Court of Chancery. The young lady is of weak the
tellect. She possesses property in her own right to
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amount of £6,000. Her father, a few years since, i5%,5.
a commission of lunacy against her, which was stlecT,er
fully resisted, she proving cruel treatment by both "
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father and step-mother. On Saturday, the 24th ultiruel;
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ders. The bridegroom took the ring from her finger 1,!•,r.,
left her with her aunt, to whom she related all the v'ma
cumstances, and the aunt restored her the same afrerne in
to the care of her guardian, Mr. Fenn. ProceedinVoa
the Ecclesiastical Court are being taken by the 0"16-
to annul the marriage.
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THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The screw-pr-,day,
steam-sloop Rattler arrived at Sheerness on Moi' bus
from the Orkney Islands, after having towed the Friende
and the Terror to Cape Wrath, and thence to the
ever
Barra and Rona, situated 60 miles N.W. of the Orkelieit
where the ships composing the arctic pedition took t the
final departure about noon, on the 4th instant, under
rof
auspices of a favorable breeze. The Erebus and 'retrial°
were, on several occasions, both taken in tow at oee,noti
by the Rattler, and in calm weather a speed of 6iirrittb
was shown, by Massey's log on board each ship. I'l waS
strong breeze ahead, and considerable sea, the ratet the
never less than four knots ; but the greatest feat that for
screw has yet performed in exhibiting its capabilitie,o6
tugging purposes, was that of towing both vessels (14t'Irtls
combined tonnage is nearly 700 tons) through the ran'
of Pentland, and thence to Cape N 4 ratb, which was the
dered more difficult by swell then setting in fr.
nu°°..ioch
Western Ocean, and the consequent breaking of gtbese,
hawsers, which were used ; at times, even too e' ea°
immense ropes were insufficient to hold the Erebus
her consort. • Pl'
PAUPERISM.—The number of persons relieved 'fligklf
gland alone, in the three months ending Lady-dal' abodt
amounted to nearly a million and a half, and were a as'
9* per cent of the entire population. Of the milli° eat
a half thus relieved, a large proportion were Pere'tbree
paupers ; but the number of new cases in the othe.r ,
quarters may be safely estimated at half a mill ;id
that the number of persons relieved in Englan b 5
Wales in the course of the parochial year 1841 of lthe
taken at about two millions, or nearly an eightlo i 0
actual population 1 In other words, about one pars fros;
eight, through the entire population, received relle,',./.01.
the poor rates at some time during that year. 011,41.1,04,
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paupers relieved in the quarter ending Lady-de s 3
the number relieved in the workhouse was 230.8046,14
the number who received out-door relief ass 110056
that is to say, those who were relieved in the w°;,,
urer
were 16 per cent.; or, In other words. those /s"oeive,
relieved in the workhouse were to those alto
out-door relief about one to five. The coront:es se'
further state that the total amount of the local. tai
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nually levied and expended in England and W s.cea
not, upon the most moderate !computation, be P'"
a less amount than £10,000,000.

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