The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

Inn It nor_,rn . an Cnastwise ,—qrs.; Oats,
1240 qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads; Flour, sacks.

EXPORT4.—Foreign. Wheat qrs.; Malt, qrs. ; Oats.
35a qrs.: Pere. 2.:9 qrs.; Indian Cor . - qrs.; Oatmell, 0
loads; Flour. 6t4 brls.--1: eland Whet. 40 qrs. : Bar.
ley, qrs ; Oats. qr,: Rye, qrs ; Indian Corn. 103
qrs. ; Oatmeal. Ids; Flour, sks,
Wheat, 109 qrs. ; Barley. 20 qrs.; Malt, qrs ; Oats. 35
qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 2 qrs.; Oatmeal, 8 loads ;
Flour, 217 sacks 773 brls.

Avera,re prices of train, for the week eruhrur June 29. 1914.
Wheat 555. Eld. 1 Itarley 345. Cd. 1 Oats ..22.5. gd 1 Rye 353. Cd.
Beani..sCs. Cu. f Pease.. 30i. Id.
Aggregate averagxe of the six weeks.

Wheat 55s 8d I Barley 31s to.l Oats /2., Rye 333 6d
Beans.. 365. 3d, Pease.. 3 i 5. hi.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &e. this week.

Wheat 17s rid I Earley 7s Se. I Oats .. . 6s Od I Rye.. !Is 6d
Beans 6a 66 Pease.. 8s 6d Ind. Corn Os Ori Flour los .2VI
Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. Is. od. I Barley.. Os. 6d. I Oats .. 61. I Rye., is 6d
Beans Os. 6d I l'ease us (id. I led. Corn C's. oil. I Flour .. Os 74,1
Liverpool Averages, week ending 4th July, 1841.
Wheat, 659 qrs., price. 525. Id.. Barley, 18 qrs., price, 31$. 4d.;
Oats. 248 qrs., price Sus. Bd.; Beans, 123 qrs., pr.ce 365. 4d.;
Pease, qr., price s
Duties paid in Liverpool, for week en'ing 4th July, 1844.
Foreign—Wheat, 39.34 qrs.; Beans, 471 qrs.; Pease, 116 qrs.;

Flour, brl
Colonial-11 heat, Wheat,
E3i cps.

qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads; Flour,

• THE BERTHDDU ESTATE, LLANWRST.—L ist week this
fine estate was sold in lots by the cele)rat-d George
Robins. The rental was es:imated at £l7OO per annum ;
and the price realised was upwards of 70,090 guineas, ex-
ceeding on the aver,ge forty-two years' purchase. is
stated that anmher lar:;e of the value of £150,000,
will speedily f,ll under the same hammer.
ATTEMPTED M it o tt.—Ou Thursdry afternoon, Mr.
Samuel Johnson arri,ed at home, in R.- deross-street,
Southwark, to dinner from Billingsga.e-market, at which
place he is a salesman, when he found his wife inebriated,
and no dinner provided for him or lus faintly. He re-
monstrated with her for Litt. conduct, and was about to
leave the house, when his wife, in a state of frenzy, seized
a table-knife, and stabbed him in the back of the head,
just below the scalp. He was taken to Guy's Hospital,
a here it was ascertained that the knife had entered with
great force betaeen the nape of the neck a.id the skull-
bone, against which it had struck, and that little hops
were ent-rtained of the man's recovering. The wife was
taken into cosrody.
LONDON DOCKS.—The half-yearly meeting of the
London
.Dock Cotnpany he'd on Moaday. The
Dock returns du ipg the half-year ending the 31st May
last were £173,888 Bs. 5J., including the profit on the
sale of London Dock stock h ld by thecomoany ; the
nett revenue from the business transactions during the
hal -year being £160.169 ls. Id. lint octant imptove-
mews had been eifected in the warehousing and other
departments, especially in the West Qua), where four
separate warehouses were available. Owing to the in-
creased operat•ons of the company, the directors were
enabled to recommend a forthyr augmentation in the di-
vidend, viz., to £2 ss. per cent., for the half-year, and
which would still leave a balance in favour of the company
of £429. _

ROASTING A BAILIFF.—It was asserted in the courtat
Dudley. same few weeks back, by one of an ill.used fra-
ternity, that " it was quite a common thing fir bailiffs to
be ripped up and stuck !" The gangs of ruffians that
frequently appear before the Courts, both at Stourbridge
and Dudley, upon similar charges, would make it appeal
less of a joke than at the time we wt-re inclined to treat it.
On Wednesday last, Bennett, the deputy-beadle of the
Court of Request. charged Joseph Mills, Martha Heath-
cot, and others, with attempting to put him on the fire, at
a house called the " Little Pig," kept by Mr. Watts. It
appeared that Bennett went to serve a process upon one of
the prisoners, when he was attacked by the whole of the
parties then before the bench, with others who had not
been apprehended. It was clearly proved that the officer
had been in danger of burning. The prisoners were fined
10s. and costs, or one month's imprisonment; they were
locked up in default of payment.— Worcester paper.
INDOMITABLE PERSEVERANCE,—Some two or three
years ago it was stated that Mr. Fitzgerald, the o vner of
extensive property at Pendleton, new- Manchester, had,
at an immense outlay, sunk two coal-pits at the extra-
ordinary depth of 425 yards, and at which depth he had
what is termed in the north " won themine; " a mine of
s•ven feet in thickness, besides having passed through
three or four other consideritble beds of coal at an easier
depth. It was also subsequently stated,. that all the im-
mense outlay was rendered useless by a sudden and over-
powering irruption of water, which even the cast-iron
td,bing, which the pits were lined, could not with-
stand, and that the mine, in consequence, was so com-
pletely inundated that to work it was impr'ss ble, and that
the works therefore for the moment had tohe abandoned.
Mr. Fitzgerald, however, is not the man whose purposes
are to thwarted by trifles, nor even by difficulties, tbat to
most men would appear insurmountable. He has de-
termined to use three steam-engines of, in ally 450 horse
power. These are in preparation, and will be set to work
with all possible celerity.
DIALOGUE ON DIVORCE.—At a certain board of guar-
dians, in Glarnor.2atishite, the following dialogue took
place between one of the guardians and a pauper named
John Williams. better known by the sobriquet of Will
Bright, one of the class on whom the usual " test" of the
house had heen r.-sortect to in vain :—Guardian--" Well,
John, the board are of opinion that yourself and family
have been sufficiently long in the house, and that you
ought to go and seek. employment." Pauper-17 lam
very willing to work, and with the permission of the
hoard will leave on —." Goardian—" Accompanied
by your wife and family." Pauper, looking seriou-ly—
" I have got no wife." Guardian—" No wife !" Pauper
—" No wife: it is true I once had a wife and children,
but"—Guardian (interruptittg)—" Is she not your
wife who stands by your side ?" Pauper, survi ying the
woman—" She was my wi7e, certainly ; but when we came
into the. Union we were then sepatated by law."' It is
needless to add, that the board did not altogether coin-
cide with this Br;ght, though perhaps not very novel,
interpretation of the New Poor Law.— rVelchman.
TOE AFPGRAN MASSACRE.—A handsome tablet' has
been ercc ed in Alverstoke Church, near Gosport, to,the
memory of the officers and soldiers of the 44th Regiment
who fell in the Affghan war, over whi h hang the colours
of that ill•fated regiment. The following is the inscrip-
tion :

" Sacred to the memory of Colonel T. MAckrell. A.D.C. to
Her Majesty; Major W. B. Scott, Captain T. !•waine, Captain
R. B M'Crea, Captai- F. R. Leighton. Captain T. Robinson.
Captain F C. Colli s, Lieutenant W. H. Dodgin, Lieutenant W.
G. White, Lieutenant W. G. Wade, Lienten int 11. Cadett,.Lieu-
tenarA S. Swinton. Lieutenant F. .1. C. Fortye. Lieutenant A.
W. Gray. Paymaster T. Bourke, Lieutenant and Qu rtermaster
R. B. lialah :n, Surgeon J Fla ,court, Assistant-,urgeons W.
Balfour and W. Primrose, and 645 t on-comman ing officers
an.i soldiers of the 44th Regiment, who fell upon the field of
battle in the disa,trous Affghan war of 1841 and 1842. They
sank with arms in their hands,.unconquered, but overpowered
by the united horrors of climate. treachery. and barbarous war-
fare; their colours. saved by Captain J. Souter. one of the few
survivors, hang above this stohe, which is erected to their me-
mory by the Officers of the 44th Regiment.—June, 1844.
" ' And if Thy people Israel be put to the worse before the
enemy, because they have sinned against Thee; and shalt re-
turn and confe s Thy name, and' pray and make supplication
before Thee in tWs house ; then hear Thou from the Heavens,
and forgive the sins of Thy people Israel.'-4th chap er of the
second hook of Chronicles, 24th and 25th verses "

A SHARP AND A FLAT.-Our hor4e fair last Monday
was not very prolific in acts of swindling; or if it were
but few of them have been brought to light. One little
case, however, has reached our ears, which we record for
the warning of the credulous portion of the public. As
the tale goes, a respectably dressed man, with a tidy-
looking nag for sale, accosted a farmer of this neighbour-
hood in the fair on Monday, and after some preliminary
confab told our unsuspecting rustic that he had been
offered a rea,onable price for hi, horse by a dealer; but
he could not accept it, because he was the son of a clergy-
man, and had made la's papa•.a faithful promise to have no
transaction in the way of buying or selling with any mere
horse-dealer. A man standing near was pointed out as
the dealer referred to, and' this clergyman's son said the
offer made for his horse was £4O. Now, he was very
anxious to get rid of the animal, and generously offered
to give his conscience the go-bv, and put a couple of so-
vereigns into the farmer's pocket at the same time, by
selling him for £3B the nag which he might immediately
dispose of for £4O. The farmer seized the bait and struck
the bargain at once ; but not having any cash in his pocket,
he walked with the conscientious clergyman's son up to
Messrs. Foster's bank, and there drew a cheque for the
money, which he handed over to the stranger, in exchange
for his £4O horse. Thus far all seemed fair and above-
board ; but on returning to the fair for the purpose of
pocketing his commission of £2, the farmer looked in
vain for the dealer : he and his friend were missing. This
excited suspicion, and now for the first time the horse
was examined : like some other cattle, he was all outside
show, and his blemishes, skilfully concealed', were found
to be so numerous, that £5 was his utmost value I.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.

THE COLLIERS! STRIKE.—The pitmen
continued upwards of three months, antlis yet without The coal
certain indication of its speedily terminating. The
the owners are unanimously determined to rest
d at a delegate
unrea-
sonable demands of their late workmen.
anit was resolved
meeting held in this town, on Wednesdayei.o.aine . „
d a little
unanimously that the strikel shonldbeeesm t
coal-owners would at
longer," in the vain hope that the
using great exertions to
length give way. The owners arewerkmen. by introducing
supply the places of their late
awl several hundreds of
other parties from a distance,
into
the district. The de-
Welchmen have been imported the greatest hardships,
dintothis town, we have seen several
'fr str i k e has nsoev;
lubd "turn-outs" atesrlo-s id. this and the neighbouring
and the pawnbrokers'te
_u shops u'
one or two large pawn-
bt orwoknise
ure arrive from the neighbouring collie-
cart-toads of furniture
the
day- A
serious affray took place
ries in the course
Monkhesledon, near Castle Eden, between
on Saturday at
of the rural police. Warrants. pitmen and a party_forthe
..
some
rs, were issued
it appears,
charged with riot and assault, and these warrants
men
sted to a party of rural policemen, who proceeded
were entrusted
act upon them. The police having discovered the re-
treat of of the rioters, in the house of Benjamin Greenwell,
one of the parties charged, proceeded thither in a body,
yresor
and having effected an entrance, they found ten of the men
of whom they were in search. They were concealed in a
gare establishmentsdail
loft, and on being summoned to surrender they perempto-
rily refused. The superintendent then endeavoured to
gain access to the loft, and in doing so received several
severe blows on the head from an adze and an iron lever
or crow bar. On this the police, who were armed with
cutlasses, tushed forward, and a desperate conflict ensued.
Greenwell, who wielded the crow bar with furious energy.
was overpowered after he had received five dangerous
wounds about the abdomen and chest, and the whole gang
were ultimately captured, after wounds and bruises had
been plentifully distributed on both sid4s.—Newcastle
Journal.