The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

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Two gentlemen in Scotland have contributed £2,100 to
the endowment scheme of the Church of Scotland.

At Doncaster, recently, a lady who had left an infant
slumbering in its cot was alarmed by cries of distress, ran
to its side, and discovered a rat eating one of its hands.
The Marquis of Waterford has returned twenty per
cent., and Sir M. W. Ridley twenty-seven per cent. on
their respective estates in Northumberland.
The Rev. Mr. Caldwell, an independent minister, died
in an awfully sudden manner, at the Tynemouth railway
station, on Tuesday.
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.—This wonderful animal was ex-
hibited to the public on Wednesday, for the first time, at
the Zoological Gardens, London.
During the storm at Tunstall, Staffordshire Potteries,
the lightning killed a man and four cows. At Dowlais,
four women were struck down in a mass, and one killed.
The ambassadors of Nepaul have taken a box for every
night's performance at her Majesty's Theatre during their
residence in London.

At Bowness, on Thursday week, a man and four horses
were killed instantaneously during athunder storm, by the
electric fluid.

As a proof of their enjoyment of the pleasures of Eng-
lish society, the Princes of Nepaul have taken a box for
every night's performance at her Majesty's Theatre during
their residence in London.

On Thursday night, a splendid banquet was given to
Lord Gough at the Mansion-house, London. To this
magnificent entertainment nearly 300 of the most dis-
tinguished inhabitants of the metropolis were invited.
The Earl of Shrewsbury made the handsome return of
twenty per cent. to his Shropshire tenantry, at the audit
of Monday last; and of twenty-five per cent. to many of
his Worcestershire tenants, at the recent audit.
SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Fifteen able-bodied labourers,
with their families, came into the Union workhouse, in
Doncaster, on Friday, from Tickhill, in consequence of
their inability to obtain work.
The Queen has, upon the occurrence of a vacancy,
offered to Mr. Hunt, a brother of Leigh Hunt, a nomi-
nation as one of the poor brethren of the Charterhouse,
which that gentleman has accepted.
A writer in a metropolitan contemporary alluding to the
invasion of Cuba, says that " the struggle between the
whites in the midst of so large a negro population would
be like a duel fought with pistols in a powder magazine."
A fire broke out on Thursday, at the Great Western
Cotton Works, Bristol ; the reeling and warping sheds
were destroyed ; the entire works will be temporarily
stopped. The cause of the fire is unknown—damage
£5OOO.

A day or two since the barge Sarah, belonging to Mr.
George, of Branscombe, laden with coals, was upset in
the Severn, and all hands, consisting of three of the
crew and one passenger, were lost. The barge afterwards
righted, and was towed into Chepstow.
The Ladies' Society for the Promotion of Negro Edu-
cation in the West Indies held their annual meeting in
London last week. It was stated that subscriptions to
the amount of £l,lOO had been received during the year.
Dr. M'Neile was among the speakers.
The Shields Gazette says that a coin, apparently struck
during the reign of the Kentish king Egbert, as it bears
the name of Alchred, who was a moneyer of that king,
and lived between 665 and 674, was found last week in
Jarrow churchyard, during the digging of a grave.
WESLEYAN SOCIETY.—A tabular statement of the re-
turns from each district, prepared for presentation to con-
ference, shews a total increase of upwards of fourteen
thousand members during the year, with twenty thousand
members on trial. What will the agitators say to this ?
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Englanii
has increased from £16,631,080 to £16,701,949, being a
difference of £70,869. The paper in actual circulation
has decreased from £20,659,416 to £20,199,440, being a
difference of £459,976.
DEPARTURE OF SIR JQHN ROSS FOR THE ARCTIC RE-
GIONS.—This gallant explorer, who volunteered to go in
search of Sir John Franklin in the Arctic Seas, sailed from
Lochryan last week, accompanied by Commander Phillips
and a picked crew.
The governors of the Wakefield Grammer School have
declared that the Rev. J. Taylor, head-master, has ex-
ceeded his duty in severely flogging a boy of thirteen
years of age, and that he ought to have laid a complaint
before them, as directed by the statutes.
During the Whitsuntide festivities at Dinton, near
Salisbury, on Monday last, some rustics were throwing at
boxes placed on sticks, when the stick thrown by one of
them struck a youth who was standing near with great
force, on the jugular vein, and killed him on the spot.
On Friday week some men were washing sheep in the
river Tees, at Gainford, Durham, when one of the men,
following a stray sheep, slipped over a rock into a hole
in the river. Two of his companions jumped in after him.
The former, having a rake in his hand, managed to escape,
but the two who so gallantly came to his rescue perished.
A youth, named Steel, after running a race with ano-
ther lad on Thursday evening week, at Mortomley, near
Sheffield, complained that he felt ill, and shortly after-
wards expired, in consequence of the rupture of some
large blood-vessels, as was shown by a post mortem exa-
mination.

One of the college students at King William's College
Isle of Man, was on Wednesday climbing a steep rock
near Castletown after a birds nest, when his foot slipped
and he fell on the beach. He was unfortunately killed.
The deceased was a son of the Rev. G. H. Woodhouse,
rector of Frimingley, Notts.
Twenty-four plants of the famous Stanwick Nectarine,
the property of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
were sold by auction, a few days since, for the extraordi-
nary sum of £166 19s. which was, by his Grace's orders,
handed over for the benefit of the Gardener's Benevolent
Institution.

A clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Bull, of Corby, North-
amptonshire, seeing two men engaged in a pitched battle
in a field, went up and pushing through the crowd sepa-
rated the combatants, and although threatened at first, he
succeeded, without assistance, in putting an end to the
disgraceful exhibition.
The inhabitants of Carlisle make loud complaints of the
filthy state of the water supplied to that town ; it is de-
scribed as rel and muddy, and as having a "fishy flavour,"
which is not surprising, since fish have actually been deli-
vered through the water taps in various parts of the town
—some without heads, others without tails, and some all
alive and swimming. _ . _

DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, the 15th ult.,
an amiable girl, the daughter of Mr. Everson, a respecta-
ble farmer of Upper Aston-lodge, Shoreham, had just
been to call her father to breakfast, and was standing be-
tween two young ladies who were on a visit to the farm,
when her brother was in the act of laying down a pistol,
which went off, killing the unfortunate girl on the spot.
A woman at Bristol was fined last week for having
pawned some shirts which a tradesman had given her to
make. In the course of the inquiry, it was stated that
the remuneration to the poor woman for making shirts
was fourpence each, which the employer considered good
wages, as many only gave twopence halfpenny each. The
woman said when she pledged the shirts she had not a
morsel for her children to eat.
The story of the poisonings at Clavering has been
revived. It will be remembered that, about two years
ago, Sarah Chesham was tried and acquitted for the mur-
der of her children by poison. Richard Chesham, the
husband of the woman, died on Thursday last, and the
body is now undergoing a poet mortem examination, under
suspicion of foul play. Another son is also said to be
dying.
Last week an inquest was held in Essex, on the body
of a sailor, found drowned. The jury found the usual
verdict, and retired to their homes ; afterwards, however,
when the body was stripped for burial, the supposed sailor
was found to be a female, a poor girl, who had been en-
gaged in seaman's garb only a week before, at Harwich,l
and who had accidentally fallen over the bulwarks of the
vessel at Wivenhoe, and was there drowned.
It appears that " Broom-stick" or " Toll-gate" mar-
riages are patronized by a Rev. Mr. Ritchie, of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, who has recently assumed the honour of
presiding at the " orgies" of border unions in that neigh-
bourhood. The circumstance has created some stir, and
it is rumoured that the reverend gentleman has received
a call from the hostelrie of Gretna to officiate there in the
absence of the recognised official. Mr. Ritchie has
written a long letter to the Berwick Warder in justifica-
tion of his eztakordhun cimduCt.