The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

THE LiVERPOOL STANDARD

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Polwarth was elected the new Scotch representa-
tive peer on Wednesday. There was no other candidate.
At Hutingdonshire Assizes there were only four prison-
ers for trial, and not a single law cause.

It is now generally stated, says The Globe, echoed by
The Times, that the Houses of Parliament will not be
prorogued until the last week in August.
On Thursday last, a poor woman was safely delivered
of a stillborn child whilst passing along Chiswell-street,
London.

The sect called Latter Day Saints or Mormonites, of
Stockport, have taken the chapel in High-street, recently
occupied by the Unitarians.
It is stated that at the close of the poll at Durham,
several carrier pigeons were let loose, two of which were
to convey the news to Rochdale and Manchester.
A piece of solid gold was found a few days since by some
labourers upon Little Baddow Hall Farm, Essex, weigh-
ing nearly an ounce.
On Sunday week, Thomas Hart, beerseller, Halliwell,
had his 29th child christened at Bolton parish church ;
and what is quite as singular, 25 of them are alive.
In the year 1815 no less than 166 persons lost their
lives by coal-pit explosions, within a circuit of four miles,
in the counties of Durham and Northumberland.

The capabilities of a new iron steamer on the Thames,
called " The Prince of Wales," are said to be seventeen
miles an hour.

It is said that Mr. Bunn, backed by two enterprising
capitalists, is to resume the management of Drury-lane
Theatre.—Brighton Gazette.
THE INFLUENZA.—This epidemic, which visited our
cities so severely, has now generally disappeared. It is
now prevailing all over Canada.
DEPUTY LIEUTENANCY.—The lord lieutenant of this
county has been pleased to appoint Henry Hawarden Fa-
zakerly, of Gillibrand-hall, Esq., deputy lieutenant.
...'-' THE LATE DUEL.—The Times says, " We understand
there is very little doubt that Lieutenant Munro, with
Lieutenants Cuddy and Grant, will surrender to take their
trials with Mr. Gulliver."

The special train on Thursday evening, with the party
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg, per-
formed the journey, 77 miles, in one hour and thirty-nine
minutes, trom Southampton to Vauxhall.
A diver of the name of John Cle2g, stated by the
Carlisle Journal to belong to this town, unfortuna'ely
perished last week, whilst engaged with the wreck of the
Hibernia, wrecked off Whitehaven harbour.
RARE OCCURRENCE.—There is at present in the green-
house of Mrs. Lawrence of Studley Park, the holy palm
(Cycus revoluta), above 100 years old, now in flower.
This beautiful plant only flowers once in a century.
At the Hertford Assizes, a servant girl, who had put a
quantity of oxalic acid in her mistress's teapot, was found
" guilty of administering the poison, but NOT with intent
to murder!"

Two prisoners escaped yesterday se'nnight from the
new house of correction at Usk ; built npon an improved
model for security, invented in the good days of Whig
Administration.

Mr. Wilson, the celebrated singer, has been compelled,
by a severe domestic calamity—the death of his youngest
son, a fine boy. eight years of age—to postpone for a time
his musical entertainments.

On the 12th nit. two churches, a convent of nuns, com-
posed of seventeen different buildings, and thirty-seven
private houses, were destroyed at Orzel, iu Russia, by a
conflagration.

Lady Byron, widow of the poet, has recently taken up
her residence at Market Bosworth for a short time. We
regret to hear that her lAyship has been labouring under
indisposition for some time past.
The standard height of the recruits for the Royal
Marines has been altered by direction of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty. It is to be five feet seven
inches, until further orders.—United Service Gazette.
In the Sheriff's Court a verdict [for the Crown, for
£3,954 Is. 2d., was obtained against Messrs. Candy and
Dean, silk importers, for duties unpaid. The affair is
one of the Custom-house frauds.

A considerable quantity of fresh butter was seized in
Cardiff market on Saturday week for deficiency in weight,
and confiscated. It was distributed, by order of the
mayor, to several poor persons.
The captain, mate and crew of the Drusillar. from Bos-
ton to St. Domingo, which was destroyed by fire on the
fitn July, arrived at this port in the Sheffield, by which
they had been taken from the Cape whale-ship Harry.

THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE CAMPERDOWN.—
We stated in our last that one of the sufferers by this me-
lancholy occurrence had expired. Since then the gun-
ner's mate, James Duke, Miss Barton, and Miss Parker
have also been released from their sufferings by death.
Early on Thursday morning the steam-packet Bataviar,
Captain Dunlop, arrived off St. Katharine's Steam-packet
wharf, from Rotterdam. Part of her cargo consisted of
450 baskets of potatoes and 500 baskets of currants, which
were consigned to two salesmen in Spitalfields-market.
We are glad to hear; that Mr. Robert ;Story, author of
"The Isles are Awake," any many other loyal and pa-
triotic lyrics, most of which have appeared in our columns,
has received an appointment under government, and is
now a resident in town.—Slandard.

ii,The company established to carry out Mr. Ingold's in-
vention for the manufacture of wheels and pinions of clocks
and watches intend to proceed, with a capital of £250,000
in shares of £25 each, under an exclusive license from the
trustees.

An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week, by
Nlefsrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of
Demerara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during
five years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return
from Guiana to Calcutta.

Damage, to the extent of several hundred pounds, was
sustained on Monday afternoon week, by the two o'clock
mixed train of carriages, on the Dundee and Arbroath
railway line taking fire. The fire originated in some of
the as from the engine being blown among a quantity
of flax and miscellaneous goods immediately behind the
engine.

On Sunday last, the Rev. J. Moore, catholic priest
read to his congregation, in the Mass-house, in Bath-
street, Birmingham, the sermon, for preaching which Dr.
Pusey has been suspended; and, commenting on the said
sermon, described it as a pure exposition of catholic
doctrine.

The fishermen employed at the fishery called Tweed-
mouth Steil, a little above the Carr Rock, near Berwick,
last week caught in their salmon net a sturgeon which
measured seven feet five inches in extreme length, by two
feet eleven in circumference, and weighed ten stone four
pounds.

MR. COBDEN.—This gentleman's father was a farmer,
and, after a whole life of industry and self-denial, left his
children £4,500. His children, in ten years' manufac-
turing, raise it to £400,000 ; and yet complain of undue
advantages given to the farmer! Was ever anything more
preposterous!
The Birmingham Journal announces, on behalf of
Thomas Attwood, a new scheme of agitation, which is to
combine " all the various classes of men, who are now
seeking different objects by different means, in England,
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, in one greatlegal confeder-
ation," against Peel's currency bill.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE EXEMPTION BILL.—The act for
exempting certain bills of exchange and promissory notes
from the operation of the laws relating to usury, which
would otherwise expire on the Ist of January next, is to
be continued in force, by a bill just introduced for that
purpose, until the Ist of January, 18,16.
The unlicensed pilots of the port of Sunderland have
held sundry meetings during the past week, and have ul-
timately resolved to form themselves into a society for
protection against the prosecutions of the Trinity House,
Newcastle, and to use means to effect a discontinuance of
that corporation's interference with them.
About two hundred unemployed working men of South
Shields have thrown themselves on the parish, and are
now employed in breaking stones, and covering the church
!,ard with gravel, at one shilling per day, whilst others
have gone into the workhouse, where they receive the food
of the house and lodgings.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager is expected to arrive
at Whitley Court, at the close of this week. from Bushy
Park, for the autumn. Earl Howe and his family will re-
main at Gopsall-ball, with occasional visits to Whitley,
during her Majesty's sojourn in Worcestershire.
EXPENSE OF THE EXPEDITION TO CHINA.—A par-
liamentary return, just published, shows that the sums
paid, or to be paid on account of the war with China
amount to £2,872,873, of which sum £804,964 are re-
quired to be voted, in 1834-44, as balance due to the East
India Company:
On the landing of the 92d Highlanders at Trinidad, in
May last, the negroes, who had never seen the Highland
costume before, did not know what to make of it. The
washerwomen were outrageous, exclaiming, " Dem High-
landmen no good, dem too poor, dem hab no money to
buy trousers."
GitousE SHOOTING. Active preparations for the
moors have already commenced, and the attendance of
sportsmen on the heather-clad bills of Caledonia, on the
morning of the 12th of August, is expected to be this
year greater than usual. The steam ships which sailed
on Saturday for Scotland were crowded with passengers,
many of them for their shooting quarters in the High-
lands. A large number of dogs accompanied their
owners. The sport promises to be excellent.
CHINA OPIIIM.—A return, publisFetan Wednesday,
states tlidt £1,281,211 13s. sd. will be required to make
good to certain holders of opium surrendered in China in
March, 1839, the amount of compensation due to them
under Art. 3of the treaty of peace. The above amount,
however, includes a sum of £29,289 Ils. 9d., as a claim
by the Part,ee firms of Heerjeebboy ltustoryjee and A.
arid D. Furdonjee, the settlement -of which depends on
further explanation.

VALUE OF AGRICULTURE OVER MAFUFACTURES.—
At the first meeting of the Brootrisgrove Farmers' Club,
an introduettl-y lecture v.as delivered by Mr. 11 F. Par-
don, On the advantages of associations for the
of aprictli mt." In proof of the national impor-
tance• of agriculture. the hetoses suited, on the authority
of Strad:titan's Stati,tics of the 13ritish Empire, that in
1831 there were 5,812.276 males above the age f 20
years in the United Kingdom, and that of these 2,170.111
were employed it) agriculture. It was further stated, on
the authority of the s me work, that the entire popula-
tion of the United Kingdom may be thus divided :
Dependent on Agriculture...... 20.898,997
Alaunfacturee.... 5,971,146

QUAKER M.E's.=There are only two instances' of
quakers having been returned to parliament; and it is re-
markable that one was for the county and the other the
city of Durham. Joseph Pease, of Darlington, repre-
sented the southern division of the county after the pas-
sing of the Reform Bill; and John Bright, of Rochdale
has now been returned for the city.
LERWICK (ZETLAND), JULY 17.—CAPTURE OF FOUR
HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE WHALES.—During the
past week, the coast has presented a somewhat novel and
certainly unusual appearance. Two shoals of young
whales have been driven on shore, viz., one consisting of
280, at Hillswick ; and the second, consisting of 163, at
Stand. They were all captured and killed.
THEATRICALS.—The benefit of Mr. Benedict, the com-
poser, on Monday night, at Covent-garden Theatre,
produced near £4OO. The St. James's Theatre closed
last ni ht for the regular season. Three thousand pounds
and upwards were received at the Italian Opera on Thurs-
day night. on the occasion of her Majesty's first state visit
to that theatre.—Britannia.

JOINT STOCK BANKING,—Of nine joint stock banks,
established in Manchester within a space of abont 14
years, only three survive in a flourishing condition, viz.
the " District," the " Union," and the " Manchester
and Salford " Banks • of those in process of winding up,
two only are at all likely to realise any approach to the
capital originally subscribed by the shareholders.
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DISSENTING FALSEHOOD.—The Leeds Mercury in
some tabular statements as to the schools belonging to
the church in the various towns of Lancashire, states that
there are in Preston 265 teachers and 3,126 scholars.
Some trouble has been taken to ascertain how far this is
correct, and it turns out that there are 313 teachers and
4,642 pupils in schools in connection with the church.—
Preston Pilot.

FOUNDN.RING OF A VESSEL WITH ALL HANDS.—
Within the last three or four days, the melancholy intel-
ligence of the total shipwreck of the brig Falcon, of Lon-
don, with the loss of all her orew, excepting one seaman,
has been received. She is stated to have been a fine
vessel, of about 150 tons burthen, and the number who
have so unfortunately perished amount to fourteen, in-
cluding the master, Captain Cairns.
THE LEAGUE PETITION FORGERIES.—At the close of
the proceedings in the House of Commons, on Friday
night, Mr. Christopher brought forward the subject of
the petition from Epwortb, which a committee had de-
clared to be forg-d, and moved that " Samuel Potts be
taken into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms•" Orders
were forthwith given by the Speaker that a warrant should
be issued for his apprehension.
STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—John Ralph, shoe-
maker. Nairn, 26 years of age, while working at his busi-
ness, about a fortnight ago, touched the point of one of
his fingers with the shoe-rasp which he was handling, and
ruffled the skin a little. He took no further notice of the
circumstance for some days, but the pain increased to an
intolerable degree, and his arm swelled and became in-
flamed. It immediately affected his body, and ended in
mortification and death.

THE ARCHIMEDEAN SCREW.—On Thursday the Vice-
Chancellor granted an injunction, on behalf of the Ship
Propeller Company, to restrain the Messrs. Rennie, the
well known engineers, from infringing a patent obtained
by Mr. F. P. Smith for the application of the screw pro-
peller, commonly called the Archimedean Screw, as a
means of propelling vessels. The patent had been as-
signed by Mr. Smith to the Propeller Company.

THE LATEST SECESSION.—For some years past the
spinning mill at the Horse Cross has been terribly in-
fested with rats. About five days ago the workers were
surprised to find that these troublesome neighbours had
entirely disappeared. On making a little enquiry, it was
discovered that, to a rat, the whole had gone out and
located themselves about the foundations of the Rev. Mr.
Gray's Free Kirk—all as merry and frisky as it is natural
for non-intrusion rats to be.—Perth constitutional.
TIDAL Pit ENomENA..—A very strange phenomenon has
occurred along the coast this week ; the sea one night
having leaped forward twenty feet or so, and then imme-
diately retiring.—Tyne Mercury.—The same phenome-
non was observed on Friday week, at Leith. At the time
of low water the tide suddenly rose about six inches,
rushing into the harbour, and in a few minutes it again
receded with equal velocity. Similar phenomena occurred
in various parts of this country during the great earth-
quake at Lisbon.

A WONDERFUL SHOWER.—We have read of showers
of fish, showers of eels, and showers of codfish, and in
fact of almost every extraordinary nature ; but Charleston,
S. C., has been visited by one certainly unparalleled in
the records of showers. During a tremendous thunder
storm on the 2d ult., an alligator, about two feet long,
fell at the corner of entworth and Anson streets. The
Charleston Mercury, in recording the phenomenon, says:
—" the beast had a look of wonder and bewildermtnt
about him, that showed plainly enough, he must have
gone through a remarkable experience.'

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—FOUR LIVES LOST.—On
Sunday last, about half-past eleven o'clock, a party of
four persons entered a pleasure boat, lying at Inverness,
and proceeded down the Firth as far as Kilmuir. When
returning, and within about two hundred yards of the
Longman Point, a sudden squall caught them before they
had time to shorten sail, and the boat filling, instantly
swamped. The accident was seen at Kilmuir, and boats
put out to render assistance, but before they could reach
the spot, the whole had disappeared amidst the stormy
currents that prevail in this part of the Firth.—Edinburgh
Paper.

THE WRESTLINGWORTH MURDER.—At the Bedford
Assizes, on Saturday week, Sarah Darley, aged 22, was
indicted for the murder of her husband by poisoning him.
The jury found her guilty, and Baron Alderson passed the
last sentence of the law upon her, leaving her no hope of
mercy. It may perhaps be remembered, that this woman
had also been found guilty, by the coroner's jury, of mur-
dering her infant child, which, by the coroner's warrant,
had been disinterred: and the body of a former husband
was also taken up, but in the latter case the body was too
much decomposed to say by what means he died.—[This
creature almost equals in atrocity Betty Eccles, recently
executed at Kirkdale.]