The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

Orntral

has takan place at Bradford.
kerel were sold in Bristol last week at a

Good fres
penny each.
A few days since a monster, in human shape, roasted a
1.[.,10P1V10 alive, which he had found accidentally.

Two men at Bradford, charged with illegally training
and drilling in that neighbourhood, have been committed
for trial.
A shepherd, named Macquat, was killed a few days since,
at Leadhill, Lanarkshire, during a thunder-storm.
A female at Bath, named Mrs. Gurriott, has died from
the effects of the bite of a cat which was ill at the time
the poor woman was bitten.
By a notice in the Gazette of Tuesday, Berwich-upon-
Tweed is appointed an English port, from and after this
day. _ _ _ _ _

The Duke of Sutherland subscribed the noble sum of
£70,000 for the relief of the suffering people during the
famine in the llighlands.
The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Polish Asso-
ciation, took place at Willis's-rooms, on Monday night.
There were upwards of 700 persons present.
Potatoes and bread are the same price per gallon in
Salisbury at the present time, namely, 10d.—a circum-
stance probably without parallel within memory.
The John Bull says that Mrs. Mitchel is not only not
the niece of Sir W. Verner, but that she has no claim
whatever to relationship with him.
Some asparagus, grown by Mr. Hasell, gardener, Bar-
ton-gill, near Bristol, measures four inches and a half in
girth, and is twelve inches in length!
The first premium of £lOO has been unanimously
awarded to Messrs. Tnompsom and Johnstone, Eccleston-
square, London, for their plan of the County Infirmary
about to be built in the city of Durham.
Cheltenham is at present inundated with Irish paupers.
Scores are arriving daily, and a committee has been
formed to provide a building in the outskirts of the town,
for the reception of the casual poor.
MODEL LODGING-HOUSES FOR. FAMILIES.—The Queen
Dowager has forwarded to the committee of the above so-
ciety £l5O, the Duchess of Kent £lOO, and the Duchess

of Gloucester £5O.
At Birmingham, on Monday, there was an attempted
demonstration on behalf of the Irish confederate Mitchell,
but only fifty persons made their appearance, and these
were soon dispersed by a sharp shower of rain.
DISINFECTING FLUIDS.—The Literary Gazette lately
stated that the cesspools of Westminster had been opened
to prove the efficacy of disinfecting fluids ; and that a
dangerous typhus was the result.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The East London Waterworks
Company and the British Gaslight Company have
gene-
rously afforded gratuitous supplies of water and gas to
the model establishment, Goulston-square, Whitechapel.
SINGULAR CIRCUSTANCE.—Last week, while seine
men were getting gravel in the river Trent, between
Torksey and Dunham, a fine salmon leaped into the boat,
and was captured. It weighed 181b.—Notts Journal.
In several towns in Yorkshire, a dramatic performance,
entitled " John Barleycorn," has been represented in aid
of the temperence movement. The scene is a court of
justice, and John is tried and found guilty of many 'crimes
and off6nces.
Haymaking operations were commenced in the neigh-
bourhood of Bath a week ago, and the market was last
week well supplied with green peas and other garden pro-
ductions. The former were reduced in price within a day
or two from 2s. to 9d. and Bd. per peck.
A day or two ago, Mr. Kent, a baker, of Mold, and his
journeyman, died in consequence of eating some poison-
ous herb, while gathering hop-top in the fields. Mr.
Kent's apprentice, who likewise ate some of the herb, is
also dangerously ill, and not likely to recover.

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The person in whose house deceased lodged having got
the alarm of the above melancholy occurrence, hurried
down to the sands, and when he returned to the house
found the brother of the deceased, who also lodged with
him, a corpse ! The cause of his death we have not
heard ; but it is said that he had been living irregularly

for some days previous. He was about twenty-four years
of age, and wrought occasionally as a porter. The two
brothers, 'A hose deaths, arising from separate causes, were
all but simultaneous, were interred together on Thursday.
SINGULAR DEATH.--PRUSSIC ACID IN CHERRY
STONES.—An inquest was held at Corfe Mullen, a few
days since, on the body of Mary Anne Clark, an interest-
ing child, six years of age, daughter of Mr. James Charles
Clark, gardner to George Harris, Esq. of Henbury House.
It appeared that the deceased, with her little sister, one
year her junior, went into the Carden adjoining their cot-
tage, and with the assistance of a garden rake, got down
some unripe cherries from a tree there, of which they
partook. Shortly after eating them, they were both
taken seriously ill, and within five hours the deceased had
ceased to exist. Her sister, who appears to be of a strong
constitution, though alarmingly ill for two days, is likely
to recover, The jury, were satisfied that the death of the
child was caused by the prussic acid contained in the
- swallowed.—Devizes

SIGNS OF RETURNING CONFIDENCE IN MONETARY
MATTERS.—We record with sincere pleasure—and we
think we cannot possibly adduce more satisfactory evi-
dence of the fact—that there is neither want of money
nor of purchasers where money's worth is to be obtained,
as the following enumeration of bond fide sales, effected at
high prices in the course of the last few days, must clearly
prove :—Sales of estates at Garraway's Coffee-house, by
Messrs. Farebother, Clarke, and Lye, on the 31st of May
—A copyhold farm, at Hurstperpoint, near Cuckfield, with

farm-hniise and buildings, and 100 acres of land, £4,100,
Dagnalls Park estate, between Norwood and Croydon.
consisting of a residence and 22 acres of land, £5,500. A
capital leasehold mansion, held for 70 years, at £lOO per
annum, in Queen's-road, Kensington, (unfinished, and
subject to a mortgage of £5,000,) £6,800; and several
estates, houses, and other property, also found purchasers.
GREENLAND FISHERY.—The Hamilton Ross of Peter-
head, arrived at Aberdeen on Monday last, from the
fishing, with 12,000 seals and reports as follows :—The
Hull vessels all clean ; of the Dundee vessels, the Fairy
clean ; of the Dundee vessels, the St. Andrew, Flamingo,
and Mary, clean ; of the Peterhead vessels, the Superior,
clean ; the Traveller and Commerce not seen, but sup-
posed to have taken the ice at the same time as the Ham-
ilton Ross ; the Dublin, 10,000 seals ; the Eclipse, 10,000
ditto ; the Enterprise, with seals, but the quantity un-
known • the Hamilton Ross, 12,000 seals ; the Resolution,
9,400 ditto ; the North of Scotland, clean ; the Union,
clean, the Victor, clean. The seals were all got in March,
and only a few fortunate ships fell in with them. The
Hamilton Ross left the ice on the 6th of May ; made her
fishing in 73 45 north •, saw the superior on the 6th of
May, with 40 seals, who reported all the British ships
clean, unless those mentioned, but could give no dates.
Six or seven of the. Dutch vessels had from 2,000 to 5,000.
seals each ; but all the others reported clean by the Su-
perior.—Aberdeen Journal.
A NEW ADVENTURE.— XI e..pedition, altogether no-
vel at this port, has, within the last few days, been fitted
out and despatched, at the sole expense of Mr. John
Bowlby, who, at his own risk, has determined to try whe-
ther the fishery for cod at Davis' Straits cannot be suc-
cessfully carried on. He has, therefore, purchased her
Majesty's late revenue cutter Bee, of the burthen of e 0
tons. and a schooner named the Seaflower, of the burthen
of 190 tons, and having thoroughly fitted, equipped, and
stored them for the business, they left this port, the Sea-
flower about ten days ago, and the Bee on Tuesday last,
for the before-mentioned fishing-ground. The crew of
the former consists of sixteen hands, of whom Captain
Smith is the commander, whilst Captain Weldon has
charge of the Bee, whose crew numbers nine persons.
Each ship's company includes a proper proportion of
Orkneymen, trained to the fishing business, by whom it
is intended that the fish, as caught, shall be headed, gut-
ted, backboned, salted, and packed. On arrival here the
cargoes will be landed at the proprietor's establishment
at Stoney-ferry, on the river Hull, where the process of
cleaning and curing will be completed, and the articles
will be ready for use or exportation. We believe that
there exists in the trade of this port, with several parts of
the world, a fair outlet for the commodity, which, in ad-
dition to home consumption, will, we hope, not only ren-
der Mr. Bowlby's present speculation a profitable one,
but cause others to imitate his example.—Hull Adver-
tiser.

:ers, named Ellen and Ja

asAow, Garn

kilasg-ow, Kilmarnock, ana aspectively 19 and 15, were recently in tfie service of a
gow
gentleman named Cooper, at Southampton, when the G 1
(at
girl was dismissed for impertinence, and her sister Great and. Greenock
Southern and Western
refused to remain without her. They were seen by seve-
ral persons du!ing the two or three following days, and

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go home to.their mother, who was cohabiting. with- a man
to whom she was not married, they would throw them-
selves over the quay. They had both complained of ill-
treatment from their mother, and the vounrer girl had

been severely beaten by the man, previous to their going
to service. On Monday, the Bth ultimo, according to the
evidence of their mother, they called at her house at
Horton Heath, and told her of their having left their
place, and said they were going to another situation. She

accompanied them back into Southa►npton, when they
gave an address as the place they were going to. On Sa-
turday morning, the 13th ultimo, between seven and nine
iin at Horton Heath in their mo-

tiler's garden. She asked them the reason of their being
there, when they told her they bad got a holiday, and
come to see her ; that they had arrived at ten o'clock the
night before, but as she was gone to bed they did not like
to disturb her, and they had been lying there all night.
Tt —1 had 4 witfi her, and remained

_ney went in ana _ oreaktasi
till two o'clock, when they left, as they alleged, to go
back to their place in Southampton. Ellen said, " Mo-
ther, go down to the bottom of the garden with us."
She went, and they then kissed her, and said, " Good
bye, God bless you,' after which she saw them no more.
On Tuesday, the 16th, having suspected that something
was wrong, she went to Southampton and inquired for
the address they gave her, when she found there was no

such person or -place, nor could she hear anything of
them. The last that was seen of the unhappy and un-
fortunate girls, after this,. was by_a person named Wm.

over the brook in which they were found, at six o'clii-ck
on the same ever.ing of the 13th. Their death occurred,
no doubt, very shortly after this time, as they were not
seen afterwards alive. The bodies were found several
yards from the bridge, and had probably floated down the
stream. They were lying clasped in each other's arms,
their arms being round each other's waists ; and they
appeared to have been in the water seven or oight days.—
Hampshire Independent.
DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CAPTAIN AND CREW
OF A BRIG BELONGING TO HULL.—For some months
past great anxiety has been felt by many parties in Hull
in consequence of the non-arrival, in due time, of the brig
"Viatka." She was commanded by Captain Chambers,
and left Archangel on the 30th of September, bound for
Hull. All the other vessels from that port arrived suc-
cessively, though late, but the Viatka did not appear, aril
after a lapse of time was given up for lost. Nothing was li
heard of her until the 30th of March, when intelligence
reached this country that she had put back into Jokan
Harbour, in Cape Sweetnose Bay, on the 20th of Decem-
ber, with her cargo much heated, but the crew all safe.
Information was subsequently received of her arrival at
Berwick on the 26th ult., and on Wednesday last she ar-
rived at Hull. She had on board a cargo of linseed co-
dilla. Off Cape North she encountered a succeesion of
hurricanes from the S.W. The linseed, in consequence,
became so much heated that great fears were entertained
that she would take fire. The captain bore up for Ham-
merfest, but, through stress of weather, she did not reach
it, and, after other hardships, reaehed Jokan Harbour.
There the frost set in, and the island, as described, is one
of the most dreary which the imagination can depict. Not
a single human being was to be seen anywhere around,
and the whole landscape was a vast ridge of mountains,
covered with snow. The state of the weather and the
cargo precluded all possibility of reaching Archangel or
any other port, and they were therefore obliged to remain
in this desolate region. On their arrival their provisions
became so diminished that they were constrained to put
themselves on a most limited allowance. Their fresh water
also failed them, but of this they supplied themselves from
the snow. In this miserable position they continued for
six weeks without seeing a single inhabitant. On the 25th
of January they at last descried some Laplanders who had
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Great Western

Kendal and Windermere
Lancashire and Yorkshire

Leeds and Thirsk
Londonderry and Enniskillen
London and North-Western
London and Blackwall
London& Brittliton. Sot

London and South-Wester
Wchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland, Bristol, and Birming-
ham

Midland Great Western (Ireland)

New marke

Newcastle and Carlisle
Norfolk

North British

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Rouen and Havre
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Chester
South-Eastern and Branches
South Devon

Whitehaven Junction
Wisliaw and Coitness
York, Newcastle, and Berwick
York and North Midland, &c.

STATE OF

MANCHESTER,—There has be
market during the week as real

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come down to procure food. The captain succeeded in
making them understand that he and his crew were on the
brink of starvation ; but they were little better off them-
selves. They took the captain to Ponoi, sixty miles up
the country. He spent one night with the natives on his
way, but suffered dreadfully from the cold, not having
necessary clothing. On the following morning he started
with them in a sledge, drawn by rein-deer, for Ponoi. He
reached Ponoi in eight days, but his sufferings during the
journey from the cold were indescribable. During the
time that Capt. Chambers was away the crew were re-
ducedlo such a condition that they actually cut up all the

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