The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

£52,000.

During the bearing of a case at the Mansion-house, the
Lord Mayor of London stated that in France the extra-

ordinary system had been adopted of sending over to ibis
country any lunatics found about the streets. •

At an inquest held last week, at Leicester, on two
infants poisoned by overdoses of "Godfrey's t ordial," the
coroner threatened in the next case of the kind to direct
the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter.
The western coast of Africa can grow cotton enough
for all the world. In America the average crop is 400Ihs.
per acre; while experience has proved that in Africa
Bjolbs. and even 1000 lbs. per acre may easily be produced.
At a recent auction for sheep, held in Nottinghamshire,
and attendrd by agriculturists from every part of the
kingdom, forty-two guineas was bid for a sheep, and yet
this did not effect the purchase.
COLLISIONS AT SEA.— It appears from an official docu-
ment Just presented to Parliament, that there were last
year 454 collisions of vessels at sea. and in the present
year, to the 12th of May last, the number was 150.
EFFECTS OF A MRRDEROUS ATTACK ON M R. LUDLOW
BRUGES' KEEPERS AT SANDRIDG E.—Pointing. the
assistant, died about two mouths since ; and Bell has
become insane, and the inmate of an asylum, supposed to
arise from blows he had on the head.
OFFICE OF PROMPTER ABOLISHED.—We suppose that
after this date we shall hear no more of persons being
" prompted" at public meetings or upon the stage. The
manager of the Swansea theatre now describes that funct-
ionary as "Repelileur."
SNOW ON ; KIDDAW.—On Tuesday week, notwith-
standing the excessive heat which had been experienced
at Keswick for some weeks past, the summit of Skiddaw
was densely covered with snow or hail, and retained its
wintry garb for several hours.
SHIPS-OF. WAR NOW BUILDING.—It appears, from
the official list published by the admiralty, that there are
now building in the various dockyards, 27 ships of the
line, 18 frigates, 18 sloops ani brigs, six steam guard-
ships, 12 steam frigates, eight steam sloops, and 13 steam
gun-vessels.

Ibrahim Pasha has offered to place a steam boat at the
disposal of Mr. Cobden, to convey him op the Nile,
should Mr. Cobden determine to winter in Thebes. Mr.
Bright has as intention of spending some months in visit-
ing the United States. _

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by the princi

FIRE AT NEWFOUNDLAND.—The losses sustained
)al London assurance offices, particularly

the Phoenix, London, Imperial, Roy al Exchange, and
Sun, by the recent fearful conflagration at Newfoundland,
exceed, it is stated, £lOO,OOO.—Morning Post.
A vessel called the Friden, which has arrived in the
Landon Docks from Odessa, in addition to a cargo of
Russian tallow, had 1,250 bomb-shells on board. The
importation of so singular an article of warfare is some-
what remarkable. _ _

The floods in Perthshire last week did considerable
damage. The rivers were much swollen; bridges, cattle,
and timber were carried away, and the roads broken up.
In Athol' the damage done is estimated at several thou-

nbb, the celebrated lock and key ma-

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sand locks made by this most ingenious inventor, there
are not two to be found that will take the same key.
On Wednesday and Thursday
_nearly 4000 children,

enjoyed a pleisure trip from-Birmingham to Cheltenham,
under the guidance of their teachers. The charge was 6d.
each for the children.

It is in contemplation to reduce the postage to India, to
afford greater accommodation to passengers, to shorten
the quarantine at Marseilles, and not to stop at Malta;
the passage at Alexandria and Marseilles is to be effected
in seven or eight days.

THE IRONs'TaAr,[l.—At a meeting of the iron masters,
adjourned from Wolverhampton, held in Birmingham, on
Thursday evening, it was understood that the prices of
last quarter-day—namely £lO per ton for bar iron, £l2
for hoop, and from £4 10s. to £4 15s. for pig iron were
to be maintained.

GREENLAND SEAL FISHING.—The Mary, Captain
Drina, arrived at Aberdeen from the Greenland seal fishing
on Monday, with 1,.00 seals, about 12 tuns of oil, and
gives account of twenty two other vessels being at the
fishery, between April 28th and June 7th, with upwards
of 25,000 seals.

On Tuesday, Mr. Norris, gamekeeper of L,rd Ward,
in Staffordshire. was deliberately shot by an under-keeper
named Hull, who had been blamed by the former for
taking dogs into the preserves. Hull immediately gave
himself up and confessed the crime. The victim lies in a
hopeless state. _ _

AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.—Mr. William
Mansfield, of Bainton, Buck

week, in the 82d year of his age; and it is believed was
worth at the time of his death from £40,000 to £50,000,
but the whole of his personal expenses have not exceeded

to the grave in one of his own waggons

as taken

In consequence of an impostOi who is going about
Ross-shire predicting a horrible storm, with a dreadful
loss of life, which, he says, will take place at Wick,
during the ensuing fishing season, none of the Ross-shire
fishermen can be induced, " for love or money," to
proceed towards Wick, and they are all consequently

going southward.
AN OPPORTUNE REQUEST.—During the discussion at
the Monmouthshire Sessions on the proposed new Luna-
tic Asylum, eighteen gentlemen were speaking at one
time, and Mr. W. A. Williams at the same period politely
intimated to the reporters " the necessity of taking a cor-
rect account of the proceedings, and hoped they would
do so."

A Portuguese slave dealer, named Gil Thomas Dos
Santos, on the occasion of a mutiny of slaves on board his
ship lately, threw down a quantity of unslacked lime on
the turbulent negroes, and then closed the hatches on
them. This " capital plan of quieting savages," as he
boastingly termed it, had the desired effect, though it was
attended with the loss of a few slaves.
On the 26th ult. the commodore c,

,mmanding the expe-
.nental squadron made a signal for a boat from each
ship, and a memorandum was issued to the captains,
directing them to inform their officers that a gertleman
who had communicated to the Times newspaper certain
accounts of the last cruize had been removed from the
service, by order of the Admiralty ; such proceeding being
contrary to an article of the printed instructions.
The next annual Conference of the Wesleyan Ministry
will be holden in Bristol, on Wednesday, the 29,h inst.,
on which day the business of the assembly will commence

by appointing a President and Secretary. It is reported
that the Rev. Thomas Jackson, D D , Theological Tutor
of the Southern branch of the Wesleyan Institution at
Richmond, Surrey, will be elected to the office of Pre-
sident.

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP OF A. CAT.—A short time
since, while a cat, belonging to a person residing in Salter-
gate, Chesterfield, was sitting in an open window three
stories high, puss observed a sparrow flying into its nest,
under the eaves of the roof. The mouser suddenly made
a spring from the window, caught the bird, dropped upon

her legs on the pavement of the street uninjured, and im-
mediately ran off with the prize.—Derby Mercury.
On Friday week, a pan, employed in the manufacture of
salt at Droltwieh salt-works, burst with such terrific
force, that one-half of it was driven through the wall of
the building ; and a horse and cart standing near were
precipitated into the river Salvvarpe. Two men loading

the cart, and also the driver, were *dreadfully scalded, and
one of the former, named James Carter, subsequently

In the vicinity of Wrexham a gentleman has annually.
on ilia natal day, for several velars, been in the habit of
walking the boundaries of his native parish ; and, on
Wednesday week, (the completion of his sixtieth year,)
he accomplished this no small task within seven hours,
passing en route through 27 townships. 7 parishes, 3
counties, 3 hundreds, 2 provinces, 2 dioceses, and a part
of England and Wales.

NEW CURRY-POWDER JOKE.—Perhnps the following
joke may have sprung up simultaneously, in a thousand
shapes, in a thousand quarters, but we warrant it as ori-

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gins! in the case of the party from whom it came to us.
Mr. B. C. being told that the Duke of Norfolk was made
Master of the Horse, in the new ministry, observed at
once, " I do not know whether his grace knows much of
horses, but he will, at all events, understand how to curry
them."

AFFECTING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday Week John White
labourer, aged 15, was looking down a new pit sinking in
the neighbourhood of Armby Moor Side, near Leeds,
about 20 yards deep, and whilst thus engaged his hat thvv
off. In stretching forward to catch it his foot slipped, and
he fell into the pit. A man named Stevenson, who sawn
the accident, having got assistance, descended the pit,
which being unfortunately filled at the time with "black
damp," he was suffocated.
CLAIMING A HUSBAND.—At Brighton, the other day,
a young woman named Denning claimed Captain Mercer,
a half-pay naval officer, sixty years of age, for her hus-
band. She asserted that he had married her on the Ist
of October, and annoying him by her intrusions, the case
was brought before the magistrates, when the captain was
able satisfactorily to prove an alibi, and the counsel for
the girl admitted that she must have been mistaken as to
his identity.

We direct the attention of our readers to an advertise-
ment in another column, announcing the publication of

the fourth volume of lvlessrs. vnver ana soya s cue
edition of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation

This edition possess a merit peculiar to itself, and is
highly deserving public attention. It has been carefully
revised by the author, who himself in the preface declares
it to be " the only faithful expression of his thoughts in
the English language." _

The Times printing-office was honoured on Monday last
by a visit from Ibrahim Pacha. His highness arrived at
about four o'clock, and minutely inspected the various
departments. His highness manifested extreme intelli-
gence and a ready appreciation of the ingenious and pow-
erful machinery by which The Times is printed, and was
particularly struck at the extr, me rapidity of the process,
upwards of a hundred copies in a minute being struck off.
After spending nearly an hour in Printing-hous?-square,
his highness departed expressing extreme satisfaction at
all be had seen.
A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.—On the 30th of June
died, at the age of 88 years, M r. John Cheetham, of Hole-
bottom, Conyston, farmer and weaver. He had used the
same set of looms for nearly eighty years, to such a degree

givers, and grandfather and great grandfather to ti

Sunday lEst at

loly Trinity Unapt,

Shaw, and t

NOVEL QUALIFICATION FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.—The
Guardians of the Bedminster Union advertise in the
Bristol Gazette of Wednesday, for an instructor of youth,
and state that preference will be given, not to a person ac-
customed to tuition, but to a tailor! The successful ean-
didate for the office must, it seems, know how to turn his
cane into a yard ; be equally learned in breeches and
books; able to mend pens and pinafores ; rectify rents in
grammar and garments ; and patch up, at the same
coats and copybooks. That the tutor tailor may neve

elbows

dians proffer him, as a reward for
above-mentioned, the munificent

the manifold services

sum of £2O a-year.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN SUNDERLAND.—On Sunday
morning last, the body of a young woman named Cather-
ine Hip dmarsh, was found near the tunnel on the Lambton
coal railway. She had left her home on an errand about
twelve o'clock on Saturday night. How she had got in
such a lonely place as that in which she was discovered,
is unknown ; but it is supposed, from a variety of circum-
stances which have been ascertained, that she had been

ing her virtue, had, to escape detection and punishment,
thrown her over the bank and destroyed her life. The
most diligent inquiries are being made into the affair.
She was alive when found, but unable to speak, and died
the same afternoon. The inquest terminated on Saturday

with a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown."
LOA GEVITY EXTRA ORDINARY.—There is now residing
in the parish of Beguildy, adjoining to the borough of
Knucklas, Radnorshire, a person of the name of William
Matthews, whose lengthened age seldom finds a parallel.
He is now in his 118th year, and retains the full power of
his natural faculties, being competent to recount, with the
most scrupulous exactness, tran'.actions which otherwise
the lone space of a century would have buried in oblivion.
His bodily strength, considering his many years, is almost
incredible. He walks at the rate of three miles an hour,
and commonly performs journies of 20 miles in the day.
He is strongly tinctured with the enthusiasm and folly of
the times of the junior days—a strong and prejudiced
belief in wizardism and witchcraft.—Hereford Journal.
PREN CII OPINION OF ENGLISH ARTISTS.—Le Obser-
valeur Francais says:—" Toe death of Robert Haydon
is naturally drawing attention to the precarious position
of artists in England. Isolated, for the most part, one
from the other, neglected by a public, who, in general.
can but little judge of or appreciate their efforts, aban-
doned to themselves by a government which does not pro-
tect or encourage the ornamental arts, the English artists
have no other exercise for their talent than the patronage

which almost always, dc
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injury to the art which it re-

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le caprices o

Sion, am

aspire to the more sublime flights of fancy, may termi-
nate, as he did, their hard career in misery, despair, and
sometimes even by suicide."
A CHINESE WITNESS.—In a divorce case in the
House of Lords on Friday, a female Chinese, whose name
is Kowhan, was called in, and Lord Brougham desired
the interpreter to tell her " that now she had been sworn,"
(this was done the day before with the formality of breaking
the saucer,) " if she does not speak the truth, her gods
will punish her." The interpreter then made her ac-
quainted with the Noble and Learned Lord's remark.—
Lord Brougham : now ask her "who are her gods ?" In
reply she said, through the interpreter, that the chef
was Buddha —Lord Brougham : tell her that Buddha
will punish her most severely if she does not speak the

truth ; and that she will also be punished in this world if
she does not speak the truth. This being explained, she
replied in Chinese. " I will speak the truth."

The inquiry into the origin of the incendiary fires at
Soham has resulted in the apprehension of Cornelius H ar-

vey, a man o

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James Harvey, a grocer and draper. The premises of the
younger Harvey were burned, the charge preferred against
them was, the ignition of the house of Mr. Peachy, with
a view to consume that of the younger prisoner. The
stock and premises of young Harvey were, it is alleged,
over-insured, and he was indebted to his uncle £3OO. The
prisoners were examined before the magistrates, and it
appeared that, although nearly the whole of the younger

prisoner's stock was saved, he had claimed from the office
for its total loss. Such evidence was adduced as warranted
the remanding the p.isoners, and they were conveyed to
the county gaol at Cambridge. _ _ _

The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at As-
cension in 13 days from the Bight of Benin, with tidings
of the Flying Fish, 12, having, aft.r a long chase, run a

Spanish slave felucca ashore; and that on Lieutenant
Robins (who was in command of her) proceedi►,g to board
her, the boat in which he was, capsized, and unhappily,
he and four of the crew were dr]wned in the surf. Mr.
Simpson, midshipman, together with another man, suc-
ceeded in reaching the shore, but were knocked down by
some of the slaves whose release from bondage they were
endeavouring to effect, and Mr. Simpson had one of his
fingers cut off by them for the purpose of obtain►ng a ring
which he wore. The Wasp, 16, Commander S. H. Usher,
had taken three slavers, one a schooner, alter a hard fight,

in which 13 men of the schooner were killed. The prizes
were taken to St. Helelia by Lieutenant Elliott, of the

AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—About a week since a fe-
male pauper, named Piecraft, died in our union-house, at
the advanced age of 97. There are some very singular

She was found in the churchwarden's garden, and as no
clue could be obtained of her parents, she was taken to
the workhouse, and she has remained, with the exception
of three months, an inmate of the parish workhorse from
-the day of her-birth to the day of lier—death. This three
months of independence was, however, a very eventful
one ; she married a soldier, who deserted by turns both
his wife and his regiment, for we hear he was absent on
that description of furlough known as " French leave

when he won her affections, which he was very soon glad
to rid himself of. She then returned to the workhouse,
where she lived until her decease. She has cost this
parish something like £9oo.—Local paper

persons assembled near the Humber Dock gates, on Sa-
turday morning, at seven o'clock, to witness the ascent,

from the deck of the Monarch steam-ship, of eighty-seven
choice carrier pigeons, selected by the members of a
society of amateur pigeon fanciers at Antwerp, and sent
over in the above vessel, in the care of a trustworthy
keeper, in order to decide a bet or bets made concerning
them. Every bird bore on one of its wings its own pecu-
liar mark. They arrived here, on Thu, sday, in four
hampers, and all appeared in excellent condition. They
rose simultaneously and almost perpendicularly into the
air, and immediately took a course south-eastward. They
were expected to reach Antwerp, distant 200 miles, at
half-past two o'clock that afternoon. If so, they would
travel, under a blazing hot sun, at the rate of about 33
miles an hour. The steamer left this port for Antwerp in
the evening.—Hull Herald.
MURDER IN NOTTINGRAMSAIRE.-011 Saturday night
week, a carrier, named Robinson, was murdered on the
road be ween Nottingham and Mansfield. He, .was ac-
companied by a man named Shepherd, whom be requested

to drive his wageon for a short time while he stopped at a
puhlic-house. Shepherd did so; but arrived at Mans-
field without having been overtaken by Robinson, and
immediately communicated the fact to the latte..'s
when a search was instituted, and deceased's body was
found at a short distance from the road with several

wounds upon the head and trunk. Some money was
found in his pockets, but it is supposed that he must
have been possessed of a larger sum when murdered.
No clue has been found by which the murderers can be
traced ; though at the inquest, spots of blood had been
found on Shepherd's jacket and smockfrock, a circum-
stance for which he accounted by saying that he had fought
a fellow-servant on Thursday. He entered into recogni-
zances to appeal when called upon, and the inquiry was
then adjourned.
A REAL Du EL.—A. contemporary thus describes what
he calls " an affair of honour," and which he states came
di near this city last week :—" Some altercation took
place between two gentlemen at Plymouth, on Nlorlay,
tie 15th of June. The rumour which has reached our
ears is to this effect :—That over a glass of wine some al-
lusion was made by one of the patties, which was taken as
a personal affront, and resented on the instant by a glass
of wine being thrown in the face of the offender. This led
to a hostile message, and it was arranged that a meeting
should take place at Exeter on the succeeding (last) 'Tues-
day. Accordingly, the parties met, each attended by his
friend. Being placed on the ground, the first fire was de-

The party who

mately amicably settled at a dinner which followed this
hazardous affair. We know the parties, but decline sta-
ting any names." [No doubt the murder will out.]—
Woolmer's Exeter Gazette.
MURDER AT KIN ETON,

—An atro-
n, a market

town half-way between Banbury and Stratford-upon-
Avon. The deceased, William Chater, was a blacksmith
nod machine-maker, living at a village called Conthrouke,
and doing well in the world, being possessed of about a
dozen cottages, all tenanted. He is represented, bow-
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ever, to have been a man of very quarrelsome and litigious
disposition, often engaged in disputes before the local
magistrates with his workmen and others, some of whom
have been known to threaten him, and it has been con-
jectured that to some such cause his death may be attri-
buted. It appears that on Wednesday sennight.he went
to the town of Kineton, about two miles from which he
resided, and that he left in the evening for the purpose of
returning, being somewhat in liquor. About midnight,
however, his body was found by the roadside, with seve-
ral desperate wounds on his head, and the traces of a
hard struggle about the spot where he lay. An inquest
has been held, and the jury have found a verdict of
" Wiltul murder against some person or persons un-
known."
EAST INDIA TRADE.—From the statements just pub-
lished by the London East India and China Association
of the outward and inward tonnage to and from India' for
the first six months of this year, as compared with the