The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

WRECK OF THEi'OLKA r

ing between Jersey and St. Malo, left St. H
t. Malo, on Monday week, with 50 passengers
Vhen within six miles of the Minquiers rocks

he captain had hardly time to

a quarter of a mile of the easte'rt
Matrielle, and land his crew and

in deep water and er

astern steamer, Capt

be following

in the afternoon the. loo'l
number of persons on the Matriel
a small boat was

seen approaching .t 1

Lain Goodridge

Lt the persons on the rock, and als

as a signal of distress. We immed
the rock and saved the whole party.

of the non-arriC

.ock,
ev,socs

uth WI

CITY OF GLASGOW SCREW STELAEII7n
arrived, from New York, at Greenock, yes
making a run of fifteen days and two hours.
63 passengers and a valuable freight. The C

within

York, and lost some of her topmasts; but after dearinl
the banks of Newfoundland, she had a fine run across the
Atlantic, with licht winds, and averaging a speed of 20(
's per clay. The City of Glasgow left on the 7th ult.
i,ns been anticipated by the Atlantic and the

and he;i

been engaged three

ks since,

in a few days two fine steamers for the PE
Oriental Company, to he called respectively the Sinca

insular and

and the Ganges. So soon as they are off the stocks, an-
other fine iron steamer will be laid down, as a consort to
the City of Glasgow in the New York trade—a proof that
the low freights and fares (lave been found remunerative.
AN AWFUL ADVENTURE.—As an honest baker in this
town was a few days ago quietly plying his skill in mould-
ing the cottage crust and perfecting the conserves in-
trusted to him by the housewives around, an explosion,
which spread terror through the kitchen, and made the
very jellies in his window tremble, was heard within his
heated workshnn A ralaw _1 a

ing in,
blood,'

its family found him "
and face besmeared and floury

with t

.ne same startling ingredient. Alailn, oe-course,
.ead through the dwelling. The surgeon was hurried
in, armed with probe and lint and bandage, to solder up
the wounds if the spirit still lingered in the mangled frame,
when, lo ! it was found that neither gas nor steam, nor
even angry yeast, had done the awful work, but simply
a bladder of preserved damsons had burst like a shell at
the oven's mouth, and covered him with their i.
luscious juice. The recovered man, we hear, was inclin
to be a little crusty, and those who had hastened to h
aid were in danger of being themselves blown up.
Chelmsford Chronicle.
A " GREEN" OSTLER.—A company

uddv an

whilst regaling

thernSelves with a glass and pipe one night not 1,

in the M.P. public-house, Long Preston, were speaking
of our beloved Queen and her royal consort, Prince
Albert, when the following colloquy took place :—Ostler
at the inn—How long is it since Prince Albert was
crawned ? One of the company—Who-a? Ostle
Isn't Prince Albert t' Queen ? One of the comna
Ostler (rather knowingly)—Yah she is, she w
Queen hawiver when I was hoos'lin'

ny—No.
crawned
.Si— T

know vary weel, for we had pudding an' beef all abait
Bingley,—hi begow ! we might ha' brossen wersens if
weed lik'd (laughter). One of the company—Thou means
Queen Victoria ? Ostler—Na I don't, they call'd her
Prince Albert hawiver. One of the company—lndeed,
but you'll mean Victoria was crowned Queen. Ostler—
Whia er the' both 't same? One of the company—Yes,
in one sense; they are man and wife. Ostler—Well,
which is t' Queen ? One of the company—Victoria.
Ostler—Whia, begow 1 allos thou't t' Queen an' Prince
Albert both t' same.—Leeds htelligencer.
THE HABIT or SWALLOWS.—In the summer of last
year. one of a small batch of enthusiastic ornithologists
in Methven, after discussing the migratory habits of va-
rious kinds of birds, differed from his friends on the
question, " Whether the swallow, on its return, after its
winter absence, took up house in the same locality it bad
migrated from." He maintained the negative, giving
such plausible reasons as induced the coterie to devise
some method in obtaining a settlement of the question.
The only method, therefore, was to catch a swallow.
This they ingeniously contrived to do. They captured a
female as she was feeding her young. Taking great care
of her, they sewed a small piece of red ribbon ebout her
neck, in such a manner as it would not, in ordinary cir-
cumstances, get loosened, and then sent her to the broad
expanse. The badged bird reared its young, and conti-
nued in the neighbourhood until the migrating season,
when, with its fellows, it disappeared. Great was the
qnxiety this spring of the naturalists to discover if it
would return. Group after group appeared, but not the
ribboned favourite. At length, on the 13th day of April,
among the last influx of returning emigrants, appeared
the identical bird ; thereby overthrowing the hypothesis
that they do not revisit their former haunts. 'But what
is worth still more notice is the circumstance, that it built
its nest and reared its this year's brood in precisely the
same spot it did the year previous. It flew again to sun-
nier lands only a few days ago.—Perth Courier.
STRANGE CREDULITY.—A singular case of audacious
imposition and ridiculous credulity occurred at Gosport
last week. A woman called at a house in Chapel-street
l'wnsteonovtafeneugh to
to inquire if there were any umbrellas or parasols wanted
s
mending ? The servant girl informed her that there
Shall I tell your fortune, or rule your plaeetsr;
e after a
fnrootm; upont h
e w
country,hi cilsh she said
Goo
"Good
o ltuheek girl,at t whoen d
you,is a raw
1,,,1, importdTeabre.
girl replied that she had no money.
name, she
thatlittle
she persuasion,
would
tell and
her
r "the promise
yoonnengt
,hinewHapa
mans
gave her threepence. This,
bribe Fate, and so the creature saidT girl went to her
hand with a piece of silver or gold.
II on which she went
box and fetched sixpence for here. P
away, saying she inust
en stars for sixpence."
see if she could "turn the sear to have been exceed'
The seven stars, however, apped for some more money ;
ingly stubborn, as she return
had no more, so she asked for some
he'wevr, she must cro's'ssYshblieleri
the girl, however,
articles of clothing that had
credulous simpleton ;
produced by the
and petticoat were p go
dtontohhobleost,tomFoortfhwthiethsatreet
shawlto
nndo said she would bring
them back neat clock. However, in
bringing another woman
about two hours she c
h rubbish as we should scarcely
with her, declaring--such
most degraded savage would believe. By
the .
imagine united persuasions they induced her to lend them
their
the woman took themmorningam eatb away
asee
back,
and
another gown and a shawl, and went away promising all
ts and, most delightful of all, telling her
that she should
of four children ! They then left, promising to return
the n
the 'articles of clothing the following morning. It
sorts of presents,
almost useless to say that neither Fate nor the "seven
stars" have as yet forwarded any of the rich presents;
and the sybil has entirely failed in returning any of the
clothing of which she so mercilessly fleeced this silly
servant-mold! ,