The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

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place again. At that election the registered voters
amounted to 19,064, viz., free liverymen, 4509, and £lO
householders 14,564. The votes were recorded for the
several candidates as follows:—Mr. John Masterman,
6339; Sir Matthew Wood, Bart. 6315; Mr.. George
Lynn, 6,290; Lord John Russell, 6,221 ; Mr. Wolverley
Attwood, 6,212; Mr. James Pattison, 6,070; Mr. Wm.
Crawford, 6,065 ; and Mr. Alderman Pirie, 6,017.
FRACAS ON THE MANCHESTER 'CHANGE.—A personal
collision occurred on Tuesday on 'Change, at Manchester,
which, from the publicity of the place, and the crowded
state of the room at the time, being during the hour of
" high change," e.acited considerrble attention. The
origin of the fracas was a dispute about a horse-cloth.
One gentleman having sold another a horse, complains
that the buyer never returned the cloth sent with the
animal to the buyer's stable. The buyer has been for
some weeks on the continent, and we believe the parties
now met for the first time since his return. After same
words had passed between them on the subject in dispute,
the seller is said to have applied some personally of
epithet to the buyer, who immediately retorted by striking
hiln several blows, which, we believe, were not returned ;
and there the matter ended.
MARVELLOUS CHANGE IN FORTUNE.—THE ANGELL
ESTATES.—The celebrated claim to these immense estates
which has occupied the attention of the legal profession
And the public for so many years past in various parts of
the kingdom, was decided in this ejectment case, before
Lord Chief Justice Tindal and a special jury at Croyden
assizes on the 16th ult., after a trial of two days continu-
ance, by a verdict for the plaintiff William Angell ; thus
establishing the heirship and claim of this once poor man
to the estates in Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, formerly of
Wm. Angell, the first purchaser of Crowhurst, in Surrey,
of the value of upwards of a million of money. Some
lighthouses, part of the property, were lately sold to the
Trinity House, for about £23o,ooo.—The plaintiff some
few years past worked as a labourer in husbandry at Mr.
Cornock's, of Blanchworth, Berkeley, in the county of
Gloucester.

EARL GREY.—We deeply regret to learn from a private
source on which we are inclined to place the most im-
plicit reliance, that the health of the venerable Earl Grey
is such as to cause the most anxious uneasiness to his
family. The noble sufferer, we understand, does not
labour under any active disease, but lingers in such a state
of exhaustion and natural decay that no one need to be
surprised to hear of his lordship's dissolution, for that
melancholy event is now looked for by the noble lord's
family, most of whom, if not the whole, are at present
assembled at Howick. Earl Grey is in his eightieth year,
having been born on the 13th of March, 1764.—Sunder-
land Times.—The Durham Advertiser of Friday states
that the state of the venerable earl gives no cause for im-
mediate alarm, and the Newcastle Journal of Saturday
remarks that, though Earl Grey is said to be fast sinking
under age and infirmity, it cannot be said there is anything
immediately alarming in his condition.
THE LEAGUE FUND.—The following statement offac-
count was read at the meeting of the League in London
last week --Total amount of subscriptions received,
£50.290 14s. The heads of expenditure are as follows :
Printing 9,026,000 tracts and stamped publications, and
distributing the same ; lecturers' salaries, and expenses of
hiring rooms, printing, &c. for 651 lectures; expenses of
deputations to 156 meetings in counties and boroughs ;
expenses of agricultural meetings, including printing,
placarding, and distributing reports, &c. ; expenses of
deputations to boroughs on parliamentary registration ;
expenses of weekly meetings of the league and metropo-
litan meetings ; rent, taxes, gas, and office expenses, in
London and Manchester ; advertising, including 426,000
tracts in magazines ; wages, stamps, postages, and inci-
dental expenses ; local expenses in collecting the league
fund. Total expenditure, £47,814 3s. 9d. Balance of
cash in hand, Sept. 9, 1843, £2,476105. 3d.
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland has offered a reward
of £25 for the conviction of the individuals who, on or
before the morning of Sabbath, the 27th of August last,
tied up the tongue of the bell of the church of Farr, and
nailed the rope to the wall ; who feloniously forced their
way into the church, and hung up the putrid carcase of a
dog from. one of the galleries of the same ; who smeared
the seat of one of the elders, from end to end with coal
tar ; who treated the precentor's desk in the same manner;
and who scrawled words and sentences on the pulpit inju-
rious to the preacher for the day; also a reward of £l5
for such information as may lead to the conviction of the
individuals who, betwixt the evening of Saturday, the 12th
and the morning of Sunday, the 13th of August last, cut
and carried off the lower portion of the bell-rope of the
church of Tongue. and who filled up the keyholes of all
the doors of said church with small stones or gravel.
GREAT FOOT MATCH AT SHREWSBURY.—This match,
came off Monday week, over the Shrewsbury race course.
The weather was peculiary fine and bracing. The contest
was between James Openshaw, of Lancashire, and the
Welsh Bantam, a three-mile match for £6O aside. Open-
shaw is reported to be a man of little hardy figure, of
great promise, and has had considerable practice in the
sport, and much, in consequence, was expected from
him. The Bantam, as the successful competitor in more
than one race, was a favourite; and, notwithstanding his
defeat on the present occasion, continues so still. The
Bantam had the start of his competitor of about ten
yards, which he kept for about a quarter of a mile,
closely followed, however, by Openshaw, who thought it
high time to make play, he accordingly put forth his
powers, and closed with the Bantam, and continued to in-
crease the distance which he threw between them for the
first time round, until he made it 100 yards.. That dis-
tance in the second was increased to 200 yards, which
ultimately secured the victory to Openshaw. The dis-
tance was run lay Openshaw in somewhat less than 101
minutes; and by the Bantam, in 17 minutes. Much
confidence is still felt in the Bantam for his speed and
bottom.
JUSTICE V. THE HORSE GUARDS.—The authorities
at the Horse Guards seem to regard themselves as above,
or below, public opinion. Notwithstanding the appeal
made to them at the last session of the Central Criminal
Court, when Lieut. Cuddy and Mr. Gulliver surrendered
themselves for trial on the charge for aiding and abetting
in the duel by which Lieut. Col. Fawcett lost his life,
they still refuse to take the necessary steps to compel
Lieut. Monro and his second, Lieut. Grant, to meet the
serious charge which is preferred against them. Another
of the Central Criminal Courts has closed, and nothing
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has been heard of Lieutenants Monro and Grant. Theit:
names are still in the Army List. Lieut. Monro was with
his regiment up to the morning when he engaged in the
duel in which he unhappily killed his relative, and for
whiel, both by the verdict of a coroner's inquest and the
finding of a grand jury, he stands charged with the crime
of " wilful murder." Lieut. Grant, involved in the same
serious charge, though on half-pay, is subject to the mili-
tary authorities. Yet in neither case has the Commander-
in Chief deemed it within the compass of his duty to his

country to require that these officers, thus amenable to
public justice, should be required to place themselves
within its reach !—Globe.

OAzroHE
AnomTERTIacuAE.
—AAccotruaNdeTsinoaFn for the protection of the inhabitants against the improper
,THabcouCtUßeißgchtNeceirn I
exercise of power by the police force. This step was orSTNR
taken in consequence of the statement recently made by months ago, left Paisley to visit some relatives who had
Sir Peter Laurie in the vestry, " that the high premiums emigrated to Brookville, near Montreal. These, with
offered for the attendance of the police at the sessions had their connections, he found in possession of the greater
induced them to get up cases for the purpose of entitling number of farms in that neighbourhood. They had
themselves to the money." abundance of everything that constitutes the good things
EQINOCTIAL WEATHER.—The change of temperature of this life, but no money, not even to the amount of five
on shore has been experienced at sea wtth the usual pounds, amongst the whole. His sister, who accompanied
equinoctial accompaniments, strong gales and a heavy him, began business as a straw-bonnet maker, and having
swell. The steamers leaving London on Tuesday, the finished one for the wife of a druggist, received payment
Gazelle and City of Hamburgh, encountered such rough in sticking-plaster. She had previously ordered from a
weather as to cause their being 12 hours longer than usual blockmaker a block for a new shape of bonnet, and, on
on the passage, the former not arriving nntil a quarter asking the price, was told that it was sixpence, but cheap-
before four, and the iatter at half-past four yesterday ened it down to fivepence. She then presented in pay-
morning. The Tourist steamer, for Sunderland, also put went five pennyworth of the sticking-plaster, which was
into this port for a supply of coals, and many sailing accepted, after much grumbling, and an intimation that
vessels have experienced difficulty from the high winds he bad given her the penny down, expecting to be paid in
from the north-east.—Hull Packet. cash. The person previously alluded to taught drawing,
FURS ALLOWED TO BE CUT AND TRIMMED IN BOND. and he was obliged, in the absence of money-fees, to board
—A Treasury order has been received here this week,
with the parents of each scholar, to take cords of flrwood
which directs that permission be given to the trade to
~ from one, bacon hams from another, maple sugar from a
cut off the tails of fox and fisher skins ; also, to trim chin-
third, ashes from a fourth, &c. This did not exactly
chilies and bear skins, in bond ; provided, that the legs,
suit, however, and he was glad to return home again to his
tails, and valueless parts, if taken for home consumption, native place.
be charged with the duty of £5 per cent., as pieces of un- A Luscious BATH.—PERTH.---On Friday afternoon,
dressed furs, and the foxes' tails with the rated duty of as several porters were engaged roping two puncheons of
2d. each." Of course, if the Hibernicism in this order, molasses at the shore, on a cart, one of them was sub-
of paying an ad valorem duty on " the valueless parts," jected to an inundation of the contents of one of the
is not altogether admired, the owner may avoid duty by casks, that for a while created apprehensions in the minds
getting leave to destroy them. of those about him as to whether he really would not lose
_ . I.'- life. He was standi"cr. or rather bending his body

lIIS s,._ - was b. —5, ~_ t, .... -
ALARMING FIRE AT CLAPHAM.—EarIy on Saturday fastening an end of a rope at the back of the cart, when
morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. D. Bat- the puncheon suddenly burst, and the whole of the lus-
ten, stationer, of Clapham. It appears one of Mr. cious contents, in a mass, descended upon him, with a
Batten's apprentices thought he smelt fire in the couse of violence which laid him prostrate, " buried in sweets."
the night, and communicated with his fellow apprentice, He remained some time entirely invisible, buried beneath
who could not be brought to the same opinion, and advi- the treacle, which, from its nature, he could not shake
sed his going off to sleep. In a short time the whole off, while those about him, disliking the idea of getting
house was in flames, and it was with difficulty that the themselves similarly besmeared, made no effort to assist
inmates made their escape, more especially an old lady, him. The liquid at length gradually rolled off, and the
who was obliged to be carried out by the police. The deplorable subject of the immersion endeavoured to rise,
engines were quickly on the spot, but did not succeed in but he dropped again. This he did so often, that his
quenching the fire, however, until about £2,000 worth of companions at length, fearing that he might be suffocated,
property was consumed. Mr. Batten is insured in the went to his assistance. On being raised to his feet he
Sun Fire-office. was very much exhausted, and from his exhaustion, as
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE, GROUSE, &c.—On Mon- well as the sticky state of his clothes, be was unable to
day, the steam ship London arrived from Dundee, at walk until he had got a drop to revive him. His appear-
Wapping, London, with fifty-one live oxen, one hundred ance, one may imagine, was ludicrous enough as be took
and ten boxes of game, thirty boxes of Tay salmon, and his way home to get his clothes cleaned.
a large quantity of linens and other miscellaneous goods. For some time past, a kind of secretlexpedition has been
On Tuesday morning the steam-ship, Duchess of Suther- fitting out at this port, and the vessels that have already
land, arrived off the Aberdeen wharf, from Aberdeen, sailed are under sealed orders, which are not to be opened
with eighty live fat cattle, fifty pigs, thirty sheep, and an until the ships have received a given latitude and longi-
extensive quantity of Aberdeenshire manufactured goods. tude across the line. In spite of the secrecy that has been
On thursday the steam-packet Antwerpen, Captain Jack- observed, it is now becoming well known that the expe-
son, arrived at the St. Katherine steam-packet wharf, dition has sailed for an island said to be somewhere to the
from Antwerp. She brought a large number of passengers, east of the Cape of Good Hope, and the speculation is
and nearly two thousand bushels of fruit, consisting of
pears, plums, walnuts, &e. likely to be not only a lucrative one to those engaged in
it, but will be of immense benefit to the agriculturist, as
ANOTHER SINGING MOUSE.—There is fashion in every well as to the shipping and commercial interests of the
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thing; and no sooner is the example set, whether it be in country. It is said that the island in question contains
the cut of a coat or the bursting of a boiler, than it is guano of a richer description than any hitherto known
sure to be followed. The other day we noticed the debut here. Several vessels have already sailed from this port
of a singing mouse, and, ere it is fairly established in bu- with implements of every description, and boats con-
siness, and, according to the old musical pun, has began to structed for the purpose of carrying the cargo from the
change its notes for cash, up starts a rival in the trade. shore to the ships, viz.,—lrishmen, barrows, shovels,
A correspondent states that a gentleman in town informed pickaxes, &c. A number of other ships, all of large
him on Saturday that he had just purchased another of burthen, are about to follow. In London and Liverpool
these musical animals, caught in Cannon-street, for which vessels are fitting out for the ••
he paid several pounds. Our correspondent adds, that we Clyde ship,
shall probably soon hear a duet by them, Madam Cat- by it. As the price of guano is at pi-
alini accompanying them on a running bass. The singing ton, the speculators bid fair to make an f
propensities in the cheese-nibbling race are certainly a it, as they will have the cargo f

,ers have had the start

t abou

little extraordinary, considering that they had always a stand the speculators are two mercantile firms in Glasg,
mortal aversion to the " mews," and abominatd the sound who have chartered the vessels.—Cnrrespondent of th
of cat-yut.—Essex Herald. Greenock Okercer.