The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

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A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDo..-IL
Napier, of Swansea, has announced to the seie:itific insti- Sunday (week), three lads, named Ray, 'hare,
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- A Mr. r REMARKABLE ♦ESCAPE ;-----ABERDE
tution of that town, that.he has discovered a new .:xplosive hart, all apprentice seamen, left Aberdeen king to 4
substance, which he designates " white powder," „•aving pilot boat on a pleasure sail. A storm rj!rbelefeA. eee 0
ten times the force of common gunpowder. it ie eu.vne night, after holding out to sea, they made Vf.. tettir't!ektil
posed of the following ingredients :-One part yelleoe.' but seeing another boat all but swampetlif Net
„, rer iiitl; Miss
they desisted and again went out to see,r
the lite Wakefieldeffiel
prussiate of potash, well dried ; one part sugar, well dried;
two parts chloride of potash ; these materials are finely
ground separately, and then intimately mixed. Meee:ey, they found themselves near the
,f; rhe yli!ne acluai , and
, ih.i.ven by the wind towards the north. n icoray
,4,enty.three II
Huttick and Simpson, the eminent literary auctioneers, the/
of Piccadilly, are to sell this week a highly-interesting men. The; had laid themselves down in raw 10',t' k, te,,ilrstat def
collection of autograph letters, formed with great taste the boat, but 3:.!1e wind veering round> OA pod 00 "Zed toe
wrt.ed th
and judgment, by George Linnecar, Esq., of Liverpool ; rating, on Monde,v afternoon they set see dr: , ,
ore ~ eei7 ,0 pa. his ad
to
eetee!ion of which was known to one IL,. bettoe, ~.i; trhat
yea, n,,ted th
a very extensive series of letters of artists, described as in lying down, eihaustee'l by cold and bunger,e, the P!4,f t,,°a his ; 's ad
most beautiful condition, accompanied by portraits and southwards as far as tine mouth of the Tao' The,' 0) t,;,a arumhoese ft
appropriate illustrations ;" to which is added an interesting there being discernible on Tuesday reorning•cbor, 7 t;ff's as a,
attorney
her
portrait by Hogarth ; the well-known drinking-cup of structed of iron bars in the boat a rode
mai:teen f° g3l _fttYlenaiv°rneY
John Evelyn, the author of Sylva [of whom the present they threw overboard, but after dragging --- by then,doc(olN and h • stay member for Surrey is a lineal descendant,] and some other of rope it did not reach ground. They theL loci it he defevae was r
articles formerly in his possession.
SINGULAR COINCIDENCES.-A widower, named Ben- 0 liu )1 i 4 t rig t
adgeaspinaird,rtifhteedbotoatsbeaeibnyg
the current.
withrecors'easite :DA;
jarain Atkins, of Brockdish, some years 'ago married a mid-day a breeze to landward sprung 110, ene, jokoi of 4Of 18'41r1 Ess
Shwidow, named Mary Fuller, both having a family. which they set the sail and were drifted weattetu at ll°, attori° he I
ortly after William Atkins, his son, married his mother- jumped ashore among the rocks eeenait9 0 eel) tie ''iiiead. eY at
in-law's daughter, and they all lived comfortably together exactly forty-eight hours after leaving Aberdeewere el, itti it chef he ca
till May last, when
oftenboh the women were taken ill, and During this time they tasted no food> OA dlytte9e liiiit„a in a 81d• ']
died within an hour ch other, and were buried in the I fatigued with cold. They were, however> i"'? iete't tto" 'eft Sh r"st al
same grave. On the 30th of September, in the same by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of &trivet!' hstl•tev pleld,
year, the said Benjamin Atkins married another widow, place, by whose generous offices they Were Jool, tltepeseWte. akefi(
named Elizabeth Drewmilk, late of Svleham, in Suffolk, and travelled home on Wednesday.-446er"f-node°.sie
who had a single daughter Rachel Drewmilk ; and on THE EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW.-A corre'r/e0 ale ''' the d rer neE
Sunday last Atkins' son was married to the said Rachel Brighton says that the late fatal explosion at seal to N 1 an ;e,'eadai
Drewmilk, at Brockdish Church, by the Rev. G. Erance. was distinctly felt and heard in Sussex, at aAt pet, ~ 1) aet Ler '" his s'
At .i, tltli 'er '
-Norwich News. Hounslow of between 50 and 60 miles. -- don, tan that:vritt>
3t4eig`ttli4seaeuadvittt tree:.
tiet'u,e atitchatui, tl
A circular has been issued to the creditors of Messrs. upwards of forty miles off, three reports wereeet f:ri 1,, ,7, 4a tche Barclay, Brothers and Co., of London, whose suspension, heard, and a correspondin number of shocks ;:esgir ht,tier ii. at he
with liabilities for £400,000, took place on the 13th of so that the inhabitants ran of th • houses, 4%0 val, cyst ag .
out their
jr lie ret tact,. ai
October, 1847, announcing a second and final dividend of that they had felt shocks of an earthquake. ,kite, e and :fr,t w,'-lag I) 2s. 6d. in the pound. The circumstances under which Mr. Heslop, a teacher of languages, while walk IPrj tlaj,,tlAiet').!; bi
this further payment is to be effected reflect honour upon the residence of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsroid,
~;,bilt. thpi","il. l' 'let the family connexions of the house. An offer, on the part near Brighton, heard a noise of distant thunt.le oil, °fin ale
of Mr. Hedworth and Alexander Barclay, was to give up the sky was clear, he imaned it was the lieti:isol4; ' alt,e7,, "t'soert
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all claim to dividends on their debts, and to put at the tillery. It was then twentyto four by "AI P Ilt. -`ttt,. price minutes oP e ), e th, -',4il. el
disposal of the estate a sum required to pay a further and Mr. Smith, a gardener and nurseryman at then The Oa 1,a!1t,, rlqA n. 4 final dividend of 2s. 6d. to the other creditors. The offer of Brighton, also distinctly heard the noise.. ses;,," utet tepsiNee
involves a total sacrifice, on the part of Messrs. Hedworth concluside evidence, however, that the explosn'lalin Itcl.kidid.ed 4
and Alexander Barclay, of about £40,000.
MATRICIDE BY A SUPPOSED MANIAC.-The village f
of Little Eversden, about eight miles from Cambridge, has Tuesday, a paper which wasprinted and in t,°141 L° thjaad°,:;',be:
boeltlowweeinngspoaraangdra6pOhm,
ciloepsiefrdofmrorathethsepostusissfetxreAisaik,eernr? '
,totopydtritieelsiokitistoresas
been the scene of a frightful crime, perpetrated by a la- the news of the explosion reached Lewes :--- i,„-. A ~.17.; the cf`,lt he
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bourer on his mother, on Tuesday. The deceased, Mrs. have reached this office from several persons iiv'mne'rl Nti 'iltdaft:'eetla
Carrington, an aged woman, the mother of the man im- ferent parts of Lewes, who depose to havingeelrtt9io •ItlTsc.:ret,alle
plicated, was killed by the blows of a spade. The mur- a slight shock, as if of an earthquake, at aloe # tl)tet'aall ''sera
derer, who is of very weak intellect, had attacked his minutes to four o'clock on Monday afternoon. lifor4, lOtt„ti oatLi feel nit,
father, who lies dangerously ill, and his mother had no train passing through the tunnel at that lingri dee ;thot,t°l4, 14 but
attempted to prevent his violence, when he attacked her over, the shock was felt in parts of the town n°, 010 Wet, tte zlave ~
and occasioned her death. After a long investigation, by the passage of trains. All the persons allude 1 !itaElulat ,„th of
during which the prisoner showed no signs of intellect, rienced the shock at the same period of tiniee,toso lotii,thipit'aing ii
the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder." various other places there are similar accounts, 51
.4 4141 to Li ber, SINGULAR SUICIDE.-A widow, who kept a watch ing as to time, but varying a little in descriPti°l'iliki kvi °Prtie ."' her
maker's shop at Shrewsbury, lately surprised her neigh- heard a noise, others felt a shock, whilst others bo alf h:,, Wei, ~
vet" Ittil4elis ‘ItY d i
bours by suddenly marrying a man named Kelvey, who and felt the effects of an explosion. en .olt td .ea
had been little more than a week in her service, and was FIRE ANNIHILATOR.-Several successful es,P itoo-,4 the ,t, the Ito in vi
previously an entire stranger. On Thursday week she were exhibited on Friday last, at the London ;','e Air itolZatit„azt tee
appeared before the magistrate, and complained that he Vauxhall, before a numerous company invited to fib' 'elld'a,°, &ele of t
had ill-used her, by striking her very savagely. In de- Mr. Phillips's new invention for extinguisnleoe klet thatlo t
fault of hail he was committed to gaol. When locked After several experiments on a small scale, f 8
the 9 10. tee„'tkpd„he hup he appeared very cheerful, and exclaimed that all was of the company was directed to a compartment ebietel 110!Nileti, :414 he
right. Next morning he was found dead, having hanged open building, quite twent feet hih inside, wl'of I 3 "ker that
thi,
himself by his braces. It is surmised that he contem- fitted up with partitions and temporary
..ee 0 0 ttrli thr. i.,,
joisting d 0,!" totaleregard ,'
plated murder as well as suicide, as a knife and a halter wood, well soaked with pitch and turpenrieK!ed io to bet tilt i'.. I
were found in his possession. hung besides with rags and shavings sash. ode toe. ter a letter
At York Assizes three men, William Brayshaw, Wil- manner. The torch was applied to this erectioni or, 1144 oft Dart et
Liam Cannon, and James Taylor, were convicted of sacri- flames, which ascended immediately, at lenlicic t°,4 Illairli am l'ifiden„
lege, at St. George's Church, Leeds, in stealing there- with a vehemence which drove the spectators
they ttts /I c,,,,a4 to i
from five bottles of wine, a communion-table cloth and distance of forty feet, and was already beyond eO6 tete: / CNA
that
napkin, some wax candles, three clergymen's scarfs, and of water. The inventor then brought forth one 4 tit ietrtist that
two books. It appeared on the evidence of one Furniss, hand-machines, and threw out a volume 0%.0.04 ,Ithn'ltlne qbs reto
who pleaded guilty, and appeared as witness for the vapour, which, in half a minute, entirely sill"Fi ctre, !tet",,th i'', 1847, Crown, that the prisoners obtained entrance into the flame and combustion; and to show tili:Dtoti"orteep, ? itsott43i,"tailliii,,heanv%
church, and concealed themselves in a pew, whilst some which now filled the space was quite workmen were engaged in repairs, and, after the latter Phillips mounted into the loft, and passed andi,e6 ,4-e,,,kni;tuet aet
had secured their plunder, unbolted one of the doors, and through the midst of it with a lighted candle in,..bed,:l uttil at Ares fmi
escaed. Brayshaw and Cannon were sentenced to one The machine with which this effect was acconir co' 01-0
i.tepdflwitet.
year's imprisonment, and Taylor, who appears to have rather larger than a good-sized coffee-pot, an,"„„ily c°o ;°"?.,"iffer ee,aeh 01
been a ringleader, and at whose house some of the things of three tin cases, one within another, and inthterilier 144; 417 elii ; but
were discovered, to be transported for ten years. rnunicating. There was a small quantity of wee, se, 444..1 ha ection
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We understand these parties came down f
and proceeded to the hall. The four

'reston,anc

'rom London,

ulphuric acid and chlorate of potash. In orcie'
he machine into action, this phial is broke,ocioe,
;aseous vapour is generated so rapidly
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went to the

and in ,5,.1i,1

behind unseen. Mr. Stubbs, who is in charge, askea
them what they wanted ; they replied to see the house.
He admitted them, but having some suspicion, or not
liking the appearance of his visitors, he barred the door.
After a time he suddenly missed nnp /If

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with great imnetuosi y. r. Phillips e t
machine of mil, size could be made according toapf
pose for which it was intended, and that a eVrt.
at length formed to carry the invention into eye bil•
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the back passage. Leaving the others in the staircase.
hall, he went into the passage, and found Lamer, Pres-
ton, and the other party coming along, having been let in
by the visitor he had missed. He turned out this person
somewhat roughly, but found the others too strong for
him single-handed. He consequently sent for the

curious things to light." The truth of this °u—the''
has been recently confirmed in Huddersfield by
lowing strange circumstances :—Some 25 Yetrlodelo
stranger, a Scotchman, came to the town, tootioneo,
,nd, after a little inquiry, took premises and clje °l9l
thA uito

busine

ca. °trier
Of course the affair has created" soLIM
me little
sensation. The parties are, we believe, now at Wymond-
ham.—Nonvich Mercury.

assistants

Lldcss, in wnicli name he has
trade in Huddersfield up to the period of his "'Ara ° 010
occurred some few weeks ago. From the
f.'"lfetanof
reaching the town, he paid attention to seve-ti, fat
and made offers which were declined. At keg
girl, who obtained her livelihood by deliveri°;lo"gif
sale, listened to his overtures ; but as her reerleb-e° ;lot'
cations were scarcely deemed high enough for ' hos
Scot," he took the precaution to send her to//iltredi
school and other places of instruction, to glio,tir
be a help meet for him. In due time she 109101?°A. $l4)
the name of Black. Fortune seemed to srs" 0,0
Scotchman, for his business visibly increaseu'ioss"beo
his means of enjoyment—a dwelling of higher eea to 01
occupied by the couple. At length there seen' stinitiey
turn to this good fortune, and most people were•ost tbe
to hear that a fiat in brnkruptcy had issued sPuodelfropl
ander Black. The fiat was prosecuted ; it
of the
bsurgt?
old bankrupt law, when the examination or ";,.011Y.,'"or
was taken in presence of the creditors, ge,u—vs
town where the bankrupt resided. While Biseitetion"isc;
nation was proceeding, the sheriff's officer in akbst 10
having reason to believe that all the property "so",
possessed had not been given up, left the roon3, Div
in search of the (Huddersfield) wife, to whericl
presented that he had been sent by her 11°,5: ha(tbe
that money ;" and that unless it was sent,
band) would have to be committed to York C 35 poOrided
representation operating on the fears of the prs°lo
tracted wife, she went to the hiding place, s° sbeltbi
£l,OOO in gold, which she delivered to t'%eforsAile
officer, and which was by him speedily. laid nt tie
assembled creditors, to their great astonishine p
light. This bankruptcy being worked to the fson
certificate obtained, our Scotchman commenced
again in the same line of business—borrowing" DV
enable him to do so, from the sheriff's officer w'odsoto,
cunningly stript him of the secreted .£1,00°; ;811°0'9
faith in Black's integrity seems to have been o tot to
ordinary kind. It should here be mentioned a ofrio3
affair Of the £l,OOO so preyed upon the 03111/#
Huddersfield wife, that she was for a consider° ealSrnpi;
an inmate of a lunatic asylum ; and in a few Yn k
her release she died, leaving our Scotch towns` diecil'or
rently a widower. A few weeks ago he also 0,
then came the revelations we have now to 'lle
tune had again smiled upon him, and, having
to dispose of, he willed small portions arnongsttdeova
bers of the family he had married into in Hu, there:1;01!
some other portions to his housekeeper. and and 1:1111I'
parties whom he named, resident in Scotland,
he described as his nieces and nephews. To tone 0,0;
old friend, the sheriff's officer, was InorlP, cataedall
executors. When one of the "- nephews„ nisbe,e'l„
Scotland to look after his interest, he came rur PvtV
proofs to show that Alexander Black was net thet;
the party who had been so long known hLti,„
real name was —, what, for the sake of `",", neh'pc;:
Scotland, we do not here mention ; that the Jet Pot
was the veritable son of the ostensible Alex°,6lllllri
that the said son had four brothers and sisters
crife°o.;
that the mother of these children, and the first beisg/0
said Alexander Black, was also still 04,
upwards of 80 years of age ; that at the time
i.ebobj
Black" left Scotland, he left a second wife u 00 0°
is also still living ; that he had fled from Sirts 01°
account of these marriages, and his whereabocury,
known for a considerable period.—Leeds
co ontoi.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION OP IBsl.—Web9aot
that the greatest exhibition of an r,..
, will be :01
herself, floundering along under a Free-trseed olso,;1,t,
tion. If, as the Greek poet tells us, " ge° got e
gling with adversity is a sight worthy of the
dmicausmt benetth?e spectacle of a great nation in tee

SINGULAR HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR APPLEBY.-011
Saturday week, Mr. Joseph Richardson, of Milburn Mill,
was robbed on his way home from Appleby market. He
left Appleby very much the worse for liquor, with, he be-
lieved, seven sovereigns and a half in his purse, which
was in his inside breast pocket. He was met at a public-
house at Longmarton by his servant boy, Joseph Collin,
and when he left there the night was dark. Th. hn‘, 10.7

71.
the horse, and Richardson rode on the end of the car an
fell asleep. When they had proceeded about half a mile,
the boy observed a man coming up behind the cart ; he
did not pass as he expected, and on his looking round
again he saw the same man and another on the cart be-
side his master. One was pulling him back and the other
was in front of him, but he could not see what they were
doing ; they might be a minute in the cart. The boy was
so alarmed that he durst not speak, and Richardson's
over-dose of liquor had rendered him as insensible to feeling
as to sight, for he was not aware that anything had oc-
curred until they got to Gullam Holme, when the boy told
him that he had been robbed, which he found to be too
true : his waistcoat was open, and his purse and money

DR. LAYARD'S RESEARCHES.— Dr. Layard has
effected an entrance into a room in the old Nimroud
palace, containing an extraordinary assortment of relics—
shields, swords, paters?, bowls, crowns, caldrons, orna-
ments in ivory and mother-of-pearl, &c. The vessels are
formed of a kind of copper, or rather bronze—some per-
fectly preserved, and as bright as gold when the dust is
removed. The engravings and embossings on them 'are
very beautiful and elaborate, and comprise the same
mystic subjects which are found on the robes of the
figures in the sculpture—men struggling with lions, war-
riors in chariots, and hunting scenes. Now, a serious
question occurs to us—are these precious relics, when
they arrive at Busrah, to be entrusted to any ignorant or
careless ship captain, who may be ready to convey them
to England ? We have not forgotten the fate of the last
cargo of curious ivories, glass, &c., which suffered such
wanton outrage on the voyage and at Bombay. If the
government really feel an interest in Dr. Layard's pro-
ceedings, a vessel should be sent from Bombay expressly
to receive his consignments ; but we fancy there is little
chance of any such step being taken. At Koyunjik, Dr.
Layard has uncovered a very interesting series of slabs,
showing the process of building the mounds and palaces.
FRAUD IN OBTAINING A SURGEON'S DIPLOMA.—On
Monday last, at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh.
William Duncan, surgeon, Amble, Northumberland, and
Alexander Cumming, surgeon and druggist, Broughton-
street, Edinburgh, were charged with forgery, and a con-
spiracy to procure a diploma from the Royal College of
Surgeons of Edinburgh, to enable William Duncan to
practise surgery and pharmacy without his actually appear-
ing before the examinators appointed by the college to
take the candidates for diplomas upon trial, by means of
Cumming assuming the character of Duncan, and under-
going the necessary examination. In furtherance of this
design, Cumming obtained from the conservator of the
college, a printed form of a schedule required to be filled
up, and appended to it the signature of " William Dun-
can," and thereafter delivered it to the president of the
college, pretending that he was the person whose signa-
ture was attached to the document. Cumming afterwards
attended and passed the usual examination appointed by
the college, on the 4th December, 1844, and by repre-
senting that he was the William Duncan represented in
the certificate, be obtained a diploma in Duncan's name,
qualifiying him to practise surgery and pharmacy, which
he immediately delivered to Duncan, to be used by him
as a diploma in his favour, and which was accepted by
Duncan for this purpose. The parties were apprehended
about the beginning of January. last. The indictment set
forth that Duncan and Cumming, in carrying out their
conspiracy, were both in Edinburgh, but no evidence was
adduced to show that this had been the case in regard to
Duncan, and he was consequently acquitted. Cumming
was found guilty and sentenced to one year's imprison-
ment.
SHIPPING THE INDIAN MAIL AT SOUTHAMPTON.—
Emerging from the dock gate are seen three immense
railway vans, drawn by powerful horses, escorted by a
mail guard dressed in the scarlet livery of the postmaster-
general, and preceded by policemen, who force back the
crowd from the side of the vessel. These railway vans
contain the Indian and Mediterranean mail. The mail
consists of about 200 boxes, and sacks of letters and
newspapers. The sacks are for places in the Mediterra-
nean, and the boxes are for parts beyond Egypt. Boxes
are used because of the convenience and safety with which
they can be transported on the backs of camels across the
desert of Suez, previous to their being embarked again
on board ship in the Red Sea. Letter-bags cannot be so
conveniently packed on camels' backs as boxes, and they
would be liable to be cut open, and their contents ex-
tracted, by the Copt and Arab camel guides across the
desert. The boxes and sacks weigh between four and
five tons, and they contain about 100,000 letters and
20,000 newspapers. The wood of the boxes is about
three-quarters of an inch in thickness; each box is about
two feet long and a foot and a half in height and breadth.
The covers of them are securely nailed down, and sealed
in such a manner that they cannot be broken open with-
out the seal being destroyed. About fifty of the boxes
are for Bombay, forty for Calcutta, twenty for Madras,
thirty for Ceylon, and twenty for Hong Kong. Those
for Bombay are painted white; for Calcutta, blue; Ma.
Bras, yellow ; Ceylon, black ; and Hong Kong red. The
object of painting them different colours is for the conve-
nience of selecting them for any particular part from the
mail room on board, where they are all stored away
together. As soon as the mail arrives along side the
packet, about twenty men are busily employed putting it
on board, and the admiralty and post-office authorities
are checking off printed lists of its contents. While fins
gers and their friends on board, who are now taking leave '
is going on time appears to be on the wing by the par,sen- A
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