The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

THE CHASE.

The Cheshire Hounds will meet
To-morrow, the 6th. at.. W:lgherton Lodge, Doddingtori
Thursday, the 7th, ar.... Stamford Bridge, Highway Side'
Saturday, the 9th, at Three Greyhounds`
at half-past ten o'clock.
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Thursday, the ith, at
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Tuesday, the 12th, at .............. „ „ DuJlestope
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GENERAL NIN(;ELLAN .

A ,e CaniLridgp Chron:ele ,ta.---,,, that the British its'‘o
itiation will visit C, i,ii,„lge fi.r the second tine ia 1845.
Wednesday last foot ;;;,.n were killed by in aeciden' at
fthe Brandy Colliery, ligation, who have left wicrs and
amilies to lament their loss.
Boz IN BIRMINOH 1. M.—Mr. Dickens presided at a
Conyersazione in the Town-hall, B.rining iam. on Weil tie-
dav •s_rht , the'
' ni- --' c'n invitation of the Btrmiugham Puly-
technie_lnqitution.
beellictiAan OASTLEft —This gentleman, who has
"'en &Pending a few days at Leeds, with soma of his rela-
tives, took his departure on Friday, with Mrs. Oastler,
Ridfor Wold Newton Hall, near Hunmanby, in the Eist
ing, the hospitable tnan,ion of William Cadman, L,q,
with whom they wiil sp-nd a short time.
recentl
RPy" " GUILD ROBBERY.—JoeI Hobson, who was
committed for trial at Birkenhead, on a charge
13eofnhavictviedn!'''' in
enniunction with the woman who has been
, robbed Mr. Marquis of £1,990, has been tri"d
yeaat Knatsford. found guilty, and sentenced to fourt, en
Years' transportation.
cSla B. Buvwxa, BART.—From a notification in the
ante arctic, it appears, that this eminent author, in comoli-
, with direction in the will of his late mother,
saizabeth Barbara Bulwer Lytton, of Knebworth, will
hereafter use the surname of Lytton, in addition to and
after that of Bul • '
gcoi
vne.n.. m e d
Her rn„,_ty
„n J 5 has commanded that the whole of the un-
wine at the royal table at the Castle shall be
, under proper regulations, to the sick poor, whose
comPlaintB may require such aid, residing within the
ensile
dns of Windsor and Eton, and within the extensise
istrict embraced by the Windsor dispensary.
j THE WILLS FORGERIES.—WiIIiam Henry Barber,
woshua Pletcher, Thomas Griffin, and Georgiana Dorey,
househeer e23bdroiriusgthatnut,ptfoor further examination, at the Mansiot-
, on .
Friday. The case was further remanded till
defe give time to subpcena witnesses for the
nce from various parts of the country.
Ra,
L--.OL SUGAR MARKET, MARCH I.—Our sugar
2240e0r"t has been quiet this week, the sales not exceeding
boa hpsheads West India at very full prices.—Scarcely a
- r'°f any description of sugar is now to be met with
tn the offices, but the buyers are pretty fairly supplied.
;111 Mauritius the sales reach 1500 mats, at former prices,
out the transactions in Bengals are unimportant. Ga-
zetted average price of sugar, Feb. 27, is 365. 3d. per cwt.
broth;Pußs.nsur. ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, at one of the
er
in the Po nton 'and Worth Collieries, two men.
rothers, belonYint, to Disley or New Mills, had just
e4rotnenced their descent, when by some means the action
Bain
he heading,
engine became reverse.d, an.d thdeyovweerrte drawn. up
and with tremendous velocity, pitche
"Ez Precipitated down the pit, a depth of
Ild4Ocoyuarriedrs.,
Alit completely dashed to pieces.—Macclesfie
I,'tneBoN IN LINCOLNSHIRE.—A young man named
Kidd ged 18, a brush maker, on tramp f
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Sheffield, has' been co..m. mitted to Lincoln Castle tor tria
at the a
with , PProaching assizes, charged on his own confession
e
"a'ing set fire to a barley stack, at Binhroo ,_
ce-
rnaPbeer.ty
.of Robert Johnson, Esq., on the 16th of De-
when they
basis 't In company with two,o,hers, in revenge for
Were lig been refused relief by the servants, begging !
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A SNOW BALL.—An inquest
wase held on the body of Joseph Monk,
struckil sY, Who came to his death in consequence of being
at Padiham,.on
s on the ear with a snow ball containing a stone,au .
waarnand;adyat hvreered weeks. et ek s . Violent
tteur
n .lately marriedof
minated in the unfortunate man's death. The jury r d
inflammation set in,
ed.
IRON , and has left a young widow, who
" accidental death." The deceaseis
ciente, to deplore his loss.
Increased_io so
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.yd,B
iiaElslib'ese--nThe of iron vessels having of late
Thatjistration, and
much, tluseattention of the Committee of
directed towards the subject of their
bare issued the following notice :
Such the
shiPe character of A 1. will in future be granted to
.1, as shall be constructed of iron under the theirsur-
of
the Surveyors to the Society, and be reported, on
~
utcompletion. to have been built of good and substan-
‘l4Bl aterials, and with good workmanship.
from the: E‘NGLAND.—The following notice was issued
nor and Kof England on Thursday :—" The Gayer.
Company of the Bank of England are ready,
ranptil further notice, to receive applications for loans,
i sop the deposit of approved Bills of Exchange, not
andalng more than six months to run. Exchequer-bills,
East India
tore the 18t Bonds
n such loans to be repaid on or be-
percent.per annum,iand to be for sums of not less than
2,000 each.
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wThe operative miners of Oldham, Ashton, Newton
Moor, and Hyde, and the surrounding districts, are still
aork, but they hold meetings every evening in the
Week to discuss their grievances ; and although
there is
not any turn-out at present,
they are mostly working
Short time, for the purpose of reducing the quantity
coal in the market, and thereby increasingothheigvhaelrueraotfe it,of
who
and by acting thus they think to obtain
havebtain
wages. There are many miners not yet joined
the colliers' union.
shed, which we
C NEW POWER Loom SHED.—Mels,rs. Ainsworth and
The shed is 350
o• are now erecting a new. powwero-rlodom
understand is the lareest inthe
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feet in length,. by 187 in breadth, divided into 36 bays.
toThe roof is supported by 352 columns. It is calculated
o i 1650 looms, and when complete, the number of
hancdsntaactually employed in the room will be 855. The
production of the looms will average per week 13.200
pieces, 20 yards each, or 3 1-5 pieces per minute. This
applies to the weaving shed alone, independent of the
spinning and other departments.—Preston Guardian.
Mr. J. Hallam, formerly a tea dealer in Edinburgh,
ha'lng been established in business by several private
7t'ends, failed of success, and retired from the undertak-
hal with a loss to his supporters of £769 11s. 6d. He
11;1 8 Partner in the concern, to whom, and to himself,
dohenefactors gave a discharge in full from all obliga-
to,Zl .He afterwards obtained an appointment at Can-
-11,", iiii,",a,Pector of teas to Baring Brothers; and he has
-e"`yliili'ne £856 Is. hi. (principal and interest), to
ilia insns'dt. friends
date home—being the entire amount of
steadirx 7," A'°,l,the of remittance.
i I'; : 4413 E Feb. 26.—The deliveries of tea are
° -eial reC-8` week 'they amounted to 480,698 lbs. The
creased b orna
, show that the consumption last year in-
!hided nn',.,,4,f'arly 3 000 000 lbs. The public sales con-
;nail ratp-e"
and`,day,n, 17,000 packagess. having been sold at
6 antrie ', ite the private purchases have been
"'Nal e 'tem, and at a slight advance on the sale prices.
and 140,„.4"110n congou is called Is. to Is. 0-Id. per lb.,
thonah, t'w,Parts ate• expecting a further improvement, al-
bs, how ( beve, the supplies will be good. The quo-
ow ver, are at present not high.
sq'tresePti.tai' I'vt-
110 • II ever,
gentlemen educated at Guy's
"esclas 5.."". dine together every' two years, dined on
eat , rveni dinner,he London Tavern, Bishop..gate-
downA. t ;1,,, upws-rds of two hundred centlFmen
the found hP chairman, (Dr. Babingtoni)
inimipm er of the institution,
ter. the f prevailed
1::-)000t° his memory said that a feeilnit:gpeaking of
as he was accused of leaving
daugt, to the . ,
. ,r having
ospital, end shutting out a s-i.n and
.a
be (Dr. Bah; ° rnPr with but £3 and the other 150 ; this
tradict, 1,, n':vg:fln) had the power then and there to con-
_ genet ortality of
The 1., had a son.
reit
kilv, shows a London, and, indeed, of England
grark4 annual decrease, whilst it is
ratps jPwl, the population increases considerably. The
reduced
;I prersiurn for Life Insurance have been greatly
C'svup e d during the last few years, yet the offices continue
Sttre°sPerons as formerly. Thsse facts clearly demon-
mut that some cause, either unknown or unheeded,
18 have produced such favourable results. Amongst
•_ictoe causes, the increased knowledge of anatomy and the
many very valuable discoveries in medicine will stand
_.111,.
thousands,
prominent. The small-pox, that annua:ly carried
un has been successfully combatted by vacci-
istinastio.n •, and Gout, that used to claim its numerous victims
161 been thoroughly vanquished by Blair s Gout and
Rheumatic Pills.—See advt.
CHESTER CHEESE FAlR.—There were about 200 tons
of cheese piled at the fair on Wednesday last. The sale
was of a diversified character. For small-sized cheese,
varying from 3 and 4to 4 and sto the cwt the sale was
cescheevsaerso.ifngeofrom o about
!l qo i
t4ys s
nominally
sOs and
worthfo r
brisk
ir
its ek r a-
pt i eel. id
528 to 565.; the sale was ver dell, ' • • -
description returnedseveral dairies of this
homey
choice dairies of very fine unsold. Four or five veryflavour, and
fetched 60s to 635. which was really the top large in size,
price, being
a reduction generally of about eight .shillings per cwt.
since Michaelmas last, and of ten from this time 12
months. Farmers do each other an injury by reporting
higher prices than they really obtain; one stated on
he got 655., but the real be 62s 6d
price, proved to
and a dress given over.to the dairy woman.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—The Government has
resolved
to
adopt the most active measures to put au end to the
traffic in slaves on the African coast, and the French Go-
vernment has also determined on the same course. The
Penelope, 22, steam-frigate. Captain W. Jones, and the
ometheus, Lieutenant-Commander W. M. J. G. P 'taco. and two or three other s teamers, are about to be
4despatched to the coast of Africa, which they will scour
,1 those latitudes where this nefarious traffic is carried on.
she entailer steamers will go up the rivers, and examine
be
inlet and creek where it is possible for any slaver to
!. concealed, and the search along the coast will be so
Vitiate that it will be impossible for any vessel to escape
me
aro vigilance of the squadron. Three French' steamers
e,,_ being equipped for similar service on the African
tLlat, and there will be the most cordial co-operation he-
607cen the French and English cruisers in every plan re-
," d to for the effectual suppression of the slave trade.
•c4Crit
Or, p.AOR D 1 N A Rl' CHARGE.—At the He assizes,
thu nclaY, the Rev. J. Brogden, a clergyman of the
chljnh of England, surrendered to answer an indictment,
at Cot him with feloniously discharging a loaded gun
"otrnelius Wintle, with intent to disfigure him. In
Maim" Count the prisoner's intent was laid to be, to
ona ball,rl disable the prosecutor, or to do him some griev-
ks. Isnntly harm, At the close of the prosecutor's case,
be
case
Alderson expressed his opinion, that there was
had fire,,,,tn go before the jury. II appeared, the prisoner
.nOt thj",!‘ gun out of a window in the dark, and there was
!rie inter slightest proof that he saw any one, much less that
eotie,tied to shoot any one. If Mr. Brogden had in-
Isl have" to shoot the person he fired at he would have said,
hit h* tt
a rev him, and not have said, there
*ben thn shot." The jury considered for a short time,
that NI Voreman said they were unanimously of opinion
be fired r; foreman
did not -intend to shoot any one when
L ten ..L.
be
..ie gun. It appeared that some person was
auxin• walkin,
;fg ti p; about the reverend gentleman's residence
tighten ':,_e night in question, and the gun was fired to
`trite.k ts_"rrn away, when, unfortunately, the contents
teriowdy".c Prosecutor, who is a policeman, and hurt him

130Noc.n IVAIt El-It/USES. —lit the month of clove.oher
last, four plots of land, on the New Quay, and about fifty
yards tr.', the river, were sold by the carporat:on. tot
the ere,: ion i warehou,es for the boding of f,reign
oto,•.rf-.1 itito Pre-too. The our(:le,e.,s of tle'ic
lii. .t- re M. A ldermao Getmal,, Al r. Alderman Flay
dock, Mr Turner, eoal moreoaor, hod Mr l 3 coo-
tr oc or. Tio,se warehouses will he bud! it iii ick I with
stood ba-ements, carried to a height of seven feet above
the roadway); tire proof throughou . and tinislie.; accord-
ing to tli leguhei.tos required by t., cus,otos, of full pet-
yih=ged ports, The buildings will he each five stories high,
and occupy a surface of sixty feet by thirty-six. They are
likely to be completed in the course of the autumn.—
Thursday last was fixed upon to lay the foundation stone
of the new buildings, and, about one o'clock, a pretty nu-
merous company had assembled to witness the ceremony.
—Preston Paper.
TRYING AN EXPERIMENT.—Mr. James Osbourne, of
Farndon- row, Newark, a native of the Emerald Isle, tried
the experiment of cutting his throat on Thursday, the 15th
ult., and after cutting through the fleshy part shouted out
lustily for help. On his sr n-in-law answering, he found
him bleeding very profusely, but in no immediate danger.
He had in one hand a razor, and in the other a penknife;
and it appears that he had met a disappointment which
led him to make the attempt. His wife was confined to
a sick bed, during which time he discovered a hoard of
£l4O, and this he placed in the hands of a faithless com-
panion named Childs, to accompany him to America.
Childs was to lead the way to Gainsborough, and Osbourne
was to follow ; but Childs proved to be old enough to de-
camp with the whole sum, and poor Pat returned so chap.
fallen and chagrined, that he ventured upon the experiment
above stated. We are happy to say his life is not in dan-
ger.—Stamford Mercury.
STAMPED POSTA GE PAPER.—The proposed stamped
half-sheets, intended to pass free through the post-office,
will bear an oval medallion portrait, beautifully embos-
sed, of her majesty, so impressed as to fall, when the
half-sheet is folded for the purpose of note writing, in the
right-hand corner of the space usually dedicated to the
superscription of the letter. If the paper be intended to
be used as an envelope, the stamp folds into the centre of
the front, immediately above the part allotted for the
address. The authorities of the post office have given
their sanction to thus placing the frank, as the process of
obliteration will not be retarded by it. From a statement
made in the House of Commons the other evening, by
Sir George Clerk, we learn that the stamped paper will be
sold to the public at the following prices :—Per double
ream of 960 stamps, £4 75,; per half-ream of 240 stamps,
£1 2s 3d. ; per quire of 24 stamps, 2s 3d.; for a single
stamp, lid.
SNOW STORM.—Since Friday the frost has continued
with more or less intensity, accompanied now and then
with heavy falls of snow. On Sunday the snow fell with.
out intermission the greater part of the day till one o'clock,
and again in the evening. On Saturday. from the snow-
drift about Noblehouse, the Dumfries mail was de-
tained two hours and a half, and on Sunday four hours
and a half behind its usual hour. The Aberdeen mail
of Saturday morning did not arrive till four in the after-
noon. The north mail, by Perth, of the same day, was a
whole day behind, the bags being carried, we understand,
by parties across the greater portion of the road. Last
night, at six o'clock, this last mail, and also the Aberdeen,
the London and Dumfries mails, were all due: and if we
may judge of the interior by the abundance of the snow
which fell here yesterday, these several roads must be by
nearly, if not wholly impassable. To add to the severity
of the cold, the wind has blown with great violence from
the east.—Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday.
FALL OF A WAREHOUSE .—A very serious accident,
attended with fatal consequences to two unfortunate men,
occurred in Manchester on Monday afternoon last at the
iron warehouse occupied by Messrs. Horton, Simms, and
Bull, Port-street. It appears some men, who were em-
ployed in making alterations in the interior of the build-
ing, removed a quantity of bar iron from one "horse" or
beam against which the iron was reared to another, when
the additional quantity of iron piled against one side of
the horse nearest the counting-house was more than the
beam could support; it broke, and the whole weight of
the iron piled against both sides of that horse fell with
tremendous force against the next, horse, and broke it,
and so in succession, all the four horses on that side the
warehouse were snapped in two, when the whole accu-
mulated weight fell against the outer wall of the building,
which it forced through, falling into Port-street. The
two men, James Watkinson and Joseph Fitton, were
found crushed among the ruins. An inquest was held on
the bodies Oa TuE..sday evening, which, atter a long inves-
tigation, was adjourned.—At the close of the adjourned
inquest, the jury gave in a verdict of accidental death,
with a deodand of £l5O on the building.

THE LEAGUE DEFEATED.-00 Monday week the de-
legates of the Anti-Corn-law League sustained a most
signal and complete defeat at Thirsk. in the North Riding
of Yorkshire. On that day a meeting, called by the
League, was held in the Corn Market, Thirsk, for the
purpose of hearing addresses from a deputation of the
League, which deputation con,isted of Colonel Thompson,
Mr. Archibald Prentice, of Manchester, and Mr. Plint, of
Leeds, on the expediency of in, roducing corn, the growth
of other na'ions, into this country free of duty. The
meeting was attended by a large number of landowners
and farmers of Thirsk and neighbourhood. Addresses
were delivered by the gent lemen comprising the deputation
in favour of free trade principles. They were opposed by
Mr. J. James Crompton, of ; and Mr. W. Rut-
son, of Newby Wiske. At the conclusion Mr. Crompton
proposed a resolution to the following effect:—" That a
free trade in corn would reduce to a state of destitution
all who had invested their capital in f arming operations,
materially injure the landowners of Thirsk, bring want
and misery on the agricultural labourer, and involve in one
common ruin, all classes of the community." The reso-
lution was carried by an overwhelming majority, and the
deputation retired hi4hly chagrined at their defeat.
FALLING CONDITION OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,
LONDON.—On Wednesday the annual general meeting of
the proprietors and donors was held in the theatre of this
institution, to receive a report from the council and to
dect officers for the ensuing year. The Earl of Auckland,
vice-p; evident, took the chair. Mr. C. Atkinson, secre-
tary, read the report and the financial statement. It ap-
peared from the financial statement that the receipts
during the past year had been £22.354 18s. 5d., and the
expenditure exceeded the income to the extent of £735 ;
the deficiency having been made up from the balance of
the previous year's account. The sum received in
fees to the college was £7.221 6s. 4tl. ; to the school,
£1,445 18s. 6d.; to the huspital, £2.467 15s. There had
be:m paid to the professors, £5.029 14s Bd. ; to the mas-
ters of the junior school, £3.h99 10s. Bd. ; and to the
hospital committee, £2 469. The number of pupils was
stated as follows died school, 324, whn paid in fees,
£4 827 10s. Bd. ; faculty of arts, 158, who paid £2,399 lOs ;
in the junior school, 380, who paid 1:4.415 13s. Total,
862 pupils, paying the sum of £14,643 Is. 10d. A dona-
tion of £5OO had been r,ceived from " A Patriot,"
through Lord Brougham, making £3,500 from the same
donor.

FATAL RESULTS OF WOUNDED PRIDE.—A few days
ago the daughter of a respectable farmer in Auchincairn,
a village three miles south of Lan.lash, was about to be
married to a young man of her own rank in life. The
marriage day arrived, and, as the custom is, a cavalcade
of friends were invited to assemble at her father's house
at an early hour, to proceed from thence to meet the
bridegroom, who read-•d at the north end of the island,
some fifteen miles distant. The rnorni g was stormy, so
that, from that and other causes, only three appeared to
proceed on the journey. The bride felt the circumstance
as a conte rptuous injury done to her feelings and cha-
racter, and could not brook the thought of her intended
husband witnessing such a sm•tll number approaching to
meet him on the road, especially as she knew his company
would be numerous. So intense did her mental suffer-
ings become, that ere mid-day reason was unhinged, and
the young and blooming bride became a wild and fearless
maniac. The anxious bridegroom and his party arrived
at her father's house, but she resisted all his entreaties,
and refused all consolation. The fearful malady increased
till nature was exhausted and vitality expired; and on
Friday week her bridal bed was made in the cold grave of
Kilmorric churchyard.—Glasgow, Journal.

BOTANY or CHINA.—In the course of last year the
Horticultural Society of London, resolved to send a
practical and scientific botanist to China, for the purpose
of exploring the country, to discover the indigenous
plants of that extraordinary empire, and to collect seeds
for transmission home. Mr. Fortune was engaged for
the interesting undertaking, and we have now to state
that letters, dated November 'l2th, have been received
from him from Chosen. He describes the whole coast of
China to the northward, as consisting of bare rugged
rock barren sand, and burnt gravelly clay, but with beau-
tiful plants here and there. He had explored the islands
of Koo-long•soo and Amoy, and on the voyage to Chusan,
had landed at Chinehen, and at Chaim°, and examined
the country for several miles inland. On no occasion
had he met with serious obstacles to penetrating the
country, but, on the contrary, found the natives particu-
larly civil, much more so than on the coast further south

and at Canton. Mr. Fortune had fallen in with bills
covered with Azaleas, and with several other good things,
seed of which he has sent home. In particular, he had
met with a very beautiful Buddies, with rich purple
flowers, arranged in clusters like a Lilac, and a very fine
Campanulaceous plant with flowers, as large as those of
Lisianthers Russellianus. He had great hopes of fully
realising the anticipations of the floral public, and was
about to proceed to Shang-Hai and Ning-po.

PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION.—A parliament-
ary report has been published, giving an analysis of the
total number of members sent to the House of Commons

by the several counties, cities, towns, and boroughs it;
England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland respectively,
according to the late census, 6th June. 1841 :
ENGLAND. Members. Population. Total
41 counties, returning.. 144 9,115,611 Population.
187 cities and boroughs.. 323 5,879,527
2 universities .

14,995,138
WALES.
12 counties, returning.. 15.... 680,147
56 cities and boroughs.. 14.... 231.456
911,603

(exclusive of army and navy abroad, &c.)
IRELAND.
32 counties, returning.. 61.... 7,370.533
6 cities .
3 towns..
24 boroughs
1 university

8
SCOTLAND. ,175,238
30 counties, returning.. 30.... 1,657,985
76 cities and burghs.... 23.... 962,199

2,620,184

Total. „ . „ 658

26,702,163