The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLAN Y.

The Glasgow cotton spinners have agreed to raise the
wages of their workmen ten per cent.
A butc%er was killed on Monday in the New Cut, Lan-
don, by his knife slipping out of his mouth and st!cking;
in his abdomen.
A ferry-boat was run down nff Woolwich, by the Wa-
terman steamer, on Friday, when two men were unfortu-
nately drowned, and two others seriously injured.
The Marquis of Londonderry has been defeated in an
attempt to increase the police of the county of Durham.
The magistrates were against it.
At the present period there are only three prisons in
the metropolis for debtors, and the whole number does
not exceed 300 persons.
The river Ayle, at Westport, rose last week above eighty
feet beyond its usual level, and the current became so
strong as to sweep away hay, turf, oats, and even cabins.
At Hereford, 413 heads of families have signed a de-
claration to countenance those shops which close at early
hours, and discountenance the others.

Richard Lcach, a sawyer, has been ,onemitted for trial
chrtrg:d with attempting to destroy the timer rani, &c.
of Mr. GrAam. a builder, at Belton, on the 11(h instgmt.
The theatre at Beccles, built, a few years since, at an
expense of £2,000, is abut to be cmver:ed into a corn
exchange.

About 5,000 acres of Dart:lto& have been purchased by
a company, who hare already fenced and drained part of
it, and calcuLte on IFtring the whole at ,10s. per acre.
Hitherto the land has been statte.
On Tuesday la3t, two trims *ere killed, and another
seriously bjured by the ruling of an immense mass of
rock and earth, upwards of 1000 !Oita w..4.;Li:, at a quarry
near As' ton-under-Lyne.

On Thursday evening wet k, Mr.hstrd Cobuss of
Cohh•stt'eet, Ash, in Kent, was shot dead by a concealed'
astaisin. supposed to have been liis owu s,rl,- George, a
youth of nineteen, who is in cu tody.

Lord Eldon has scent a donation of £23 to iltr! Com-
m'ttee for providing baths and wa4-houses for the work-
ing classes, and several of the London bankers have' an-
nounced their intention of giving largc donations.

WrNTER A.•:IZES.—It 16 now defilitiv ly fixed that
a winter ,raol delivery shall tike place in many parts of
the kingdom, but it is believed flat the subs:diary arrange•
inPrits will not be.made till the beginning of term.
THE LOCOMOTI'VE.—Just forty years ago, Mr.
Trevetl:ick. a mining engineer, em!strytcted the first loco-
motive engine at Merthy r Tyekil, and applied it ruccess-
fully to the tractiOn of coal and coke.-----Cambrian.

At the Central Criminal Court on Wedoe!day. the Hon.
W. Ross Tdnehet was tried for firing at the tiroprietor of
a Shooting Gallery in. Holborn, and acquitted on the plea
of insanity.

The Northern Star newspaper hitherto published in
Leeds, is about to be removed to London, to he issued
there ; but whether under the s3me title, which will teen
be a misnomer, or-under sc me new name, we have not
heard.

The greatest activity almost ever known now exits in
the cohl trade, no less than 291 shins' cargo hating been
purchased at last Tuesday's coal market in Lon', n. The
average number of ships' cargoes sold previously being
only from thirty to filty.—Newcastle Joetrnul.
Mr. Serge-Int Bompas, wiio died suddenly a short time
since, left a widow and a large femily in somewhat in-
different circumstances ; but his professional brethren es-
teemed him so highly that a subscription was entered into
for the hervfit of his family, to which Sir Thomas Wilde
contributed the princely sum of 1,040 guineas.
CIDER AND PERRY.—These liquors will be very cheap,
this year, in Fleretordshire, and on the banks of the
Severn, from Worces-tr to Cliet.stcw. The crops of
apples and pears are much larger than last year : Is. to
Is. W. per bushel is now the price kr good apples at
Hereford and Ledbury.

Washing-tub excursions appear to he increasing in fa-
vour amongst the Jack-pochlhg fraternity. The Durni ies
Courier states, that, on Frtlay week, the clown of Cook's
Circus took a voyage down the Kith in a v,,ssel of the
above description, drawn by four geese, in the presence
of a large concourse of people.-
A IlonsE BUYER FROM THE " CELESTIAL EMPIRE ire
—Last week, at the Howden horse fair, the greatest per-
haps in Eng'and, among th,lse present, strong, as tt may
appear, there was a buyer from the EniperA- of China, in
the person of one of his subjects, attnied by an inter-
preter.

LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night week, a
young woman named Hester Tilly, the daughter of a
fanner living at. Ashley-hill, Stqpleton, destroyed herself
by jumping into a pool of water in her father's orchard..
The unhappy girl had been forbidden her father's house
in consequence of her keei•ing company with a young
man, whom her parent did not approve.
Mr. Clark, manager of the extensive works of Messrs.
Monteith and Co., of Ba-rowWd. Glasgow, 11:.s Hanle
discovery in the art of calico printim:, v.hieh is likely to
produce most important results in that trade, almost in.
the same ratio as the invention of hot blast produced in
the iron trade. • Mr. Clark has secured, a patent for ther
invention.

EFFECTS OF GAMBLING,—A gentleman's SCTV,W, in
London, out of a situation, who had been out on Monlay
evening with some friends, and having entrie.l into play
at cards, had ImA between £1• and £5, returned to his
lodgings between one and two o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing much intoxicated, and cut his throat. ft e was removed
to the hospital without hopes of rec,very.
CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last a !nest
calamitous explosion of fire-damp took place In a coal.-
pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at the Five Ways, tiow!ey
Regis. The number of persons at work in the pit at the
time is and rstood to have been severleAl or eighteen,.
and of these no less than tleven have fallen victims to this
lamentable occurrence.

THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—A man named John Leigh,
claimant o the estates of the Lord Leigh at Stoncleign,
Warwirksiiire, and shoot thirty of his followers- have
been held to bail by the Magistratfs of Leamington for a
riot and mtrault, in having broken in the panelS of a door,
and taken fcrciLle poEsession cf Stoneleigh Abbay-on
Monday morning lat.t.

Monday being the thirty-ninth anniverqiry of the
memorable bltde of Trafalgar, a number of naval offi-
cers, who had been in the engagement dined together, at
the Naval Club House, St. James's-square London, in
coma emoration of the day. At Greenwiclilospital the
tars en,:aged were regaled with an excellent dinner. a
pint of porter, and a shilling to each man.
A VETERAN CORONER.—At an inqw st at Yeovil, on
Saturday, Mr. R. P. Celtics remarked that in the course
of nis coronership he hid held no less.tbau 3800 inquests.
He had been a c,moner nearly 28 years,. and during the
last seven 'years al.o:e he_ had travelled 36.76 G miles,
giving an average of 522 miles per year.. He had pad
in turnpikes during thi:s even years a suai very little short'
of £9O.

INcoNsoLABLE.--It is suited, that the Quoen has
ordered a pension of :C3O to be granted to the widow-of
Walker, the artideryman, who was killed by the discharge
of a cannon on the King's Bastion, at Portsmouth; and
Louis Phillippc has also expressed an intention of pro-
viding for the woman. It is feared, however, that she
may not survive to enjoy the pension ; she remained in-
sensible from the Monday until Saturd©y week.
TUE BELGIUM TARIFF.—A very serious increase bas-
been made by the Belgian government, in the duties upon
silk and cotton manufactures, and also upon machines im--
pc•rted into that country. The effect will probably be, to
drive the manufactures of Manchester nut of the Belgian
n:atkets, and to have them replaced by the manufactures
of Rouen and Munausen. The whole measure is one of
the utmost hostlbty to England.

PASSING HALF-NOTES.—At the London Mansion-
house, on Friday, thrte cutlers appeared before Sir Pett r•
Laurie and exposed an ingenious system by which they
had been swindled out of portions of their property. Par—
ties from Southampton had, it appere 1, sent them let-
ters, enclosing the halves of stolen B•Ank of England not( S.
and ordering goods to the full amount of the enclosure,.
and, when the goods were forwarded, the remaining halves
were never remitted.

EXPORTATION OF METALS.—The offi:tial returns of
our ,xportations during thejast two yeats exhibit a great
increase in the last over the present one. In the article
of metals, embracing iron and steel, copper, brass, and
tin, we exported in the year ending sth September, 1843,
to th, amount of £3.405,568, and in the same period
ended sth September, 1814, £4,136,984, showing an in-
crease in the present year of upwards of seven hundred
and thirty thousand pounds.
COLLIERS' STRIFCF.—A very general strike has taken.
place amongst the eelliers at Othury, for a raise of Gd.
vee day. On Monday last, at a very early hour, they
congregated in crowds of about 150 persons, and went to
tee different pits to prevent those willing to work fr:on,
going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most
.4 the men at play. On Tuesday morning their intentions.
were frustrated by the vtry active measures resorted to.
—Woiverhamp'on Chronicle.
NEW POoR-LAw CRUELTY.—Mr. Bowen, an Old COT.
respondent of the :nines, has eseablistied the revolting
fact, that in e ne of the new workhouses erected in this
Christian ccuntry. (in the Bridgewater Union,) females—
one orthetn with an infant at Ii r breast—have been set to
break stones as a labour suited to their age and sex, and
have been afterwards sentenced to three weeks' hard la-
bour in the House of Correction, in consequence of their
refusal to submit to such mid and deg:tiding tusk-work.
REVISING-BARRISTEL.S.—The duties of the ievising-
barristers for • the revision of the lists of voters for the
pre-sent year are drawing to a close. The first revision,
in the year 1833, cost upwards of £30,000 in payments
to the barristers and for their expenses; but under the
Ilegistesation of Voters' Act their charges were limited tee
200 guiee as .cach. It appears that tee payment to the
batristers, including -their expenses, now amounts to the.
fixed yearly sum cf £14,700. More eppealsare expected
to the Court of Common Pleas in the present than,
occurred in the preceding revision.
The New Brazilian Tariff levies duties of 40 per cent.
'on catpeting, earthenwere, glass., paper, and ready-rnada
clothing ; 25 per cent. ill brass, copper, iron, lead, tin,
steel and leather ; 20 per cent. on handkerchiefs of linen,
carnoric, or cotton lace, thread, or silk ; and 30 per cent.
on all articles not enumerated, which of course include
neatly all kinds of cotton, woollen, linen, and silk manu-
factures, end it is said that those goods ate to be taken at
their estimated value and 10 per cent. additional. The
Government is authorised to lay additional duties on the
goods of any nations which subject the pro lace of Brazil
to a higher duty than similes - peoduce of other countries.
SUICIDE OF AN OLD SFORTSMAN.—On Monday night
an inquest was held at Lewisham, Kent, upon the body of
Charles Morton, aged 76, who was found dead, hanging
from a rafter in a barn belonging to a gentleman named
Russell, residing at Lee. It appears that the deceased
was formerly huntsman
,to the Earl of Derby, and that
subsequently he kept tee Derby Arens Inn, Croydon, the
magpie Inn, on Hounslow Heath, and latterly was land.
lord of the Leaping Bar, Blackfriars-road, where he was
robbed by his housekeeper of a considerable sum of money,
since which he had involved himself in a lawsuit, which
ended in his ruin. Of late he had become very eccentric
and strange in his manner.
hhilded
yidatreili
In.:endue:al inquest
again
iynni e the body of a man named Hall, who
having pawned every article they possessed, she was com-
pelled, he being too ill to work, to apply for parochial
relief, but it was refused her, and he died from actual
want (it appeared) in a fe w days afierwarcis. The coroner
declared he could s7e the eo A woman het self was literally
starving at that very moment. She said her children
(four in number) were in a similar state. Some medicine
had been given to her husband, but they were f.;..1d that if
s
chance of employment ir:a.where they were.
DREADFUL DESTlTUTlO'N.it—she:ylirdw.or:rratkablteeeyd4
~ optanhsastFedrai,fd,taetyor
forbn er.elielif
r theiMarish, which they did lot desire, as their only