The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCI?LLANY•

On Friday last her Majesty completed her twenty-fifth
year.
On Wednesday next the Cheshire Yeomanry will assem-
ble at Chester for their annual probation of duty.
The guano trade is still thriving, and no less than 300
British vessels are now engaged in a business that was
not thought of two years ago.
That ornament of the peerage, William Lionel Felix (!)
Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, figures in the list of
insolvents in Tuesday's Gazette.

Mr. Crockford, of gaming-table notoriety. expired
between nine and ten o'clock on Friday night. His death
will add to the difficulties of the settling on the Derby.
LAUNCESTON ELECTlON.—Yesterday week, Admiral
Bowles was returned member for this borough, in the
room of Sir Henry Hardinge. _

Several agricultural villages have petitioned the House
of Commons to re-inflict the punishment of death on
persons guilty of the crime of arson.
STRANGE FOSTER MOTHER.—There is now to be seen
at Mrs. Norton's, the Mexborough Arms Inn, Hunslet,
near Leeds, a cat that is suckling six young rabbits.
A DESTRUCTIVE PAUPER.—On Friday week, a pauper
in the Devizes Union workhouse, who was dissatisfied
with his supper, demolished four hundred and thirteen
panes of glass.
CONVERTED MEMBER.—On Monday, in the Commons,
Mr. Scott Murray, having embraced the Roman Catholic
religion, took the oath prescribed for members of that
persuasion.
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.—On Friday next, the 31st
instant, there will be a total eclipse of the moon. The
eclipse will commence at fourteen minutes after eight in
the evening, and terminate at twenty-six minutes after
one o'clock the following morning.
PATENT MEDICINES.—We learn from a parliamentary
return just printed, that the amount of duty on patent
medicines, in the 10 years, ending sth January, 1844, was
on an average, nearly £30,000 a year. This shows an im-
mense consumption.
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A short time since, a poor woman of Colchester, having
scratched her hand, and afterwards brought it in contact
with a corpse which she had been engaged to lay out, the
member became inflamed, and the disease increased to
such a degree as to cause death a few days afterwards.
THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—It appears by a re-
turn made to the House of Commons, that in 1838 the
Lords of the Treasury limited Mr. Barry's remuneration,
as architect of the Houses of Parliament, to £25,000 to
be paid at intervals in proportion to the advance of the
works.
In the gambling-houses broken into by the police last
week false dice were found among the gambling imple-
ments seized. The brass divisions of the roulette tables
are in most of these dens so formed as to present an ob-
struction to the entrance of the ball at the will of the
manager of the table.
Negociations respecting the reduction of the tariffs of
the two countries have been opened by the English and
French governments, and will be prosecuted with greater
activity during the interval of the session. Persons
engaged in the Wine and Brandy trade must not, accor-
dingly, lose all hope.
A synagogue, in a style of splendour surpassing any-
thing hitherto attempted in England, is about to be erected
in the west of the metropolis. Sir Moses Montefiore has
contributed £5,000 towards the building, on the under-
standing that the worship is to be according to the usages
of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
DEATH OF THE H ON• MR. WORTLEY.—We regret to
state that the don. Charles Wortley, youngest son of
Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council, expired on
Wednesday morning last at the house of his brother in
Grosvenor-street. The deceased gentleman was thirty-
four years of age, and married to a daughter of the Duke
of Rutland, by whom he has several children.
DEATH PREFERRED TO SLAVERY.—ShortIy before the
royal mail steamer Trent left Cuba, a fine-looting black
slave went on board, but on being informed that he must
return on shore, he drew out a knife and nearly severed
his head from his body. On his person were found 200
dollars, which he had saved, three boxes of cigars, and a
copy of Gil Blas. He belonged to an unkind master, from
whom he had hoped to escape.
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LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL.—We are enabled to
give the most positive con,radiction to the report current
in the legal cirzles—viz., that the learned and excellent
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas con-
templates, or has expressed a wish to resign his high
office at the expiration of the present term. His lord-
ship at present does r►ot entertain any intention of retir-
ing from public life.— Standard.
GUANO.—The market is better supplied, and holders
are more inclined to sell; the tendency of prices is deci-
dedly downwards, A cargo of Peruvian, which has been
nearly three years in London docks, has been sold from
£l2 10s, to £l3 per ton. For arrival cargoes of African
are offering at prices varying from £5 10s. to £8 10s. per
ton, according to the month.—London New Price
Current.
THE PRIZE COMEDY.—The Committee appointed by
Mr. Webster to award the prize of £5OO to the best prose
comedy illustrative of modern British manners and cus-
toms concluded their labours on Saturday, by adopting
the piece entitled Quid pro quo, or the Day of Dupes.
Of the authorship of this production, we are not at liberty
to say more than it is by a lady, known to literary fame.
There were 98 competitors.

A BLIND CARPENTER,—Near Cheddar Cliffs, in
Somersetshire, stands John Cooper's cottage. This ex-
traordinary man his been quite blind for forty years,
during which period he has learned the trade of a carpen-
ter, and may be seen making a cart, waggon or some other,
implement in husbandry, without the least assistance, his
mortices and mouldings being truly accurate, and he can
distinguish any kind of timber.
NOVEL IMPORT.—A new trade has sprung up in Hull,
to the benefit of the sister isle. On Friday morning, a
stranger from Ireland arrived by railway, at seven o'clock.
with a thousand and forty ducks, which were in Liverpool
at seven the preceding evening. He sent them out in
droves of fifty, in various parts of the town, and by Mon-
day evening had disposed of the whole (excepting the odd
fatty), at Is. a couple. The speculation was so success-
ful, that he immediately sent for a further supply.—Hull
paper.
THE APOTHECARIES' HALL.—This establishment bas
just issued a report of its proceedings since 1815, when
penal enactments were passed against any unlicensed
person practising. From the report it appears that, from
August, 1815, to January, 1844, there were 11,564 appli-
cants for admission, of whom 1531 were rejected, and
10,033 admitted. In the years 1836-7, the applications
were 622, which, in 1842-3, were reduced to 396, The
report stated that the hall had succeeded in almost every
prosecution against unqualified practitioners, and that
each prosecution cost £320.

A foot race for the championship came off on Tuesday,
at Smitham Bottom, near London. The competitors
were George Bradshaw, of Hammersmith, and Benjamin
Butler, of Hanwell, the former a thin man of 5 feet 8
inches, and the latter a very stout person, measuring 6
feet 2 inches ; the first two miles were run in 17 minutes,
the first six miles in 53 minutes. Both were together for
eight miles. when Butler took the lead, and Bradshaw,
Laving a violent pain in his side, gave in at the 15th mile.
Butler performed the 25 miles very comfortably in four
hours and a half.
DEATH FROM VOLUNTARY STARVATION.—On Mon-
day afternoon, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Blue
Anchor, Club-row, Bethnal-green, on the body of James
Beasley, aged 51 years. It appeared by the evidence that
the deceased was a weaver : that he lived by himself ;
kept three large cats, which were in fine condition ; but
he had himself wasted away for want of food, from which
be had voluntarily abstained. It was ascertained, by
post raorlem examination, that the intestines were quite
empty, except a little water. Verdict—" Natural death,
accelerated by exhaustion and starvation." The real fact
is, we suppose that the poor fellow was a lunatic.
REFUSING TO ASSIST A CONSTABLE.-011 Monday
last, Mr. James Wade, of Wakefield, shopkeeper, was
charged before the magistrates at the Court-house in that
town, by Mr. Thomas Haigh, one of the constables ap-
pointed under the Parish Constables Act, with refusing
to assist him to quell a disturbance after being charged so
to do. Wr. Wade said he had a shop to attend to which
Le could not leave. The Bench informed him that he was
liable to an indictment for misdemeanor, and liable to be
punished by fine or imprisonment or both. Mr. Haigh
did not wish to press the charge, and Mr. Wade was or-

dered to pay the expenses.
ROBBERY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—On Thursday,
at Bow-street Police-office, two sisters, named Lindsay,
the one a housemaid, and the other a linenwoman, em-
ployed at buckingham Palace, were brought up on the
charge of stealing a quantity of blankets, counterpanes,
&c., the property of her Majesty, and James Lindsay,
their brother. a surgeon residing at 25, Upper Eaton-
street, Pimlico, was charged with receiving the same,
knowing them to have been stolen. It appeared that the
females carried off the articles at various times, and de-
posited them with their brother, who afterwards removed
them from his lodgings. They were all remanded.
SPECIMEN OF FREE TRADE.—A Mr. Goss, who has
carried on the drapery business, at Davenport, twenty-one
months, having commenced operations without a farthing
of capital, has contrived to incur debts to the amount of
nearly £30,000, and he, the other day, went before the
Commissioner of Bankruptcy, at Exeter, with little or
nothing to offer to his creditors. For postages of letters
he bad set down 6s. per week ; twenty-one monthly
journeys to London, £lO each ; string, brooms, brushes,
&c., £2 2s. per week ; clothes, washing, medical advice,
and pocket money, £122. The charge for gas was enor-
mous. He had twenty-eight assistants, for whose weekly
board he charged 10s. each. He confessed that he had
sold several hundred pounds' worth of goods to parties in
London at a considerable reduction from the cost price,
and made no note in his books of such transactions.

THE DERBY—PIGEON EXPRESSING.—Expresses are
generally now pet formed by steam, on rail or water, or by
horses ; but the Derby was done by pigeons, which nei-
ther stop for water nor turnpikes, but shoot along their
straightforward course, rejoicing in the blue serene! It
is with pigeons as with horses--that as a horse will always
come home faster than he goes out, so will the pigeon ;
and to increase this feeling in the bird, advantage is some-
times taken cf natural causes. For instance, a pigeon
that left young ones at home will travel much faster than
an indifferent brd. If ' money makes the mare to go,"
instinct is sure to make the bird to fly—and
fly with in-
creasing joy at its nearer approach to borne! It was so
on the Derby-day. our private extraordinary express
beat our public one so much that the Sun was delivered
on 'Change and all over town before our public one
reached the office. We had thus the exclusive pleasure.
not only of " d;stancing" our rivals, but the satisfaction
of beating ourselves !—Sun.

ASTRONOMICAL PROGNOSTICS OF RAIN.—Mr. G. Sug-
den, of Howden, writes thus to the Mark-lane Express:
" I anticipate a sudden transition from drought to moist-
ure, as the planet Venus has entered the watery sign
Cancer. An old author says, Venus, in the first ten
degrees of Cancer, gives certain rain ; consequently, we
may expect fine genial showers at intervals during the
next ten days. Positive electricity prevails for a few days
about the middle of the month, discharging itself in va-
rious parts of the kingdom, but, generally spearing, a fine
growing month may be expected." Venus in Cancer has
not, up to this time, been so bountiful as the old author
avers her to be, at least, we have but few or no droppings
thereof in this part of the country.
Hors.—Worcester, May 22.—The appearance of fly
in many Hop-gardens has caused considerable excitement
in our market within the last few days, and to several
months of unusual dulness has succeeded an active trade,
with an advance in prices from the lowest point of 7s. to
Bs. per cwt., and which was firmly maintained in our
market on Saturday. The present rates of the best
1843's ranged from £6 12s. to £6 16s. per cwt., and
1842's from 115 s to 120 s per cwt. Both sorts are scarce,
and quite inadequate to meet the increased demand ; in
consequence of which good fresh old hops have been in
quired after, and some sales of 1837's and 1839's have
been made at 503 to 63s per cwt., and a few old lots at
30s to 42s per cwt. There were 18 pockets weighed on
Saturday.
COLONEL FAWCETT AND MR. MUNRO.—Mr. Cuddy,
of the 55th Foot, in replying to Mr. Munro's last letter,
says—" In justice to the memory of Colonel Fawcett, I
feel myself bound to contradict the statement made by
Mr. Munro, to the effect that I was of opinion that Col.
Fawcett intended to kill him, or that he (Mr. Munro)
was =wed at my suggestion off a target on which he
would otherwise have been placed, and which plainly inti-
mated the intentions of my principal.' The reverse is the
fact. Colonel Fawcett solemnly assured me, previous to
to the affair taking place, that although he felt himself
forced to meet Mr. Munro, no consideration whatever
should induce him to fire at the husband of his wife's
sister ; and such was the case, as he did not discharge his
pistol at all." In corroboration of the above, he encloses
a letter from Major Daubeney, C. 8., 55th Regiment, who
attended Colonel Fawcett, and who confirms the above
statement.

STEREOTYPE PRINTING.—Amongst the most impor-
tant discoveries of the day may be ranked an improve-
ment in the art of stereotype printing, for which Messrs.
Kronheim and Skirving, of London, have obtained a
patent, and which bids fair to work a complete revolu-
tion in the book-making world. The procuring of a cast
of moveable types by the methods hitherto adopted with
plaster of Paris was attended with great difficulty and
loss of time,—objections so entirely removed by the sub-
stitution of some other substance by the new plan, that a
perfect mould, free from all defects, may be obtained in
half an hour. Under the old process the work occupied a
day, and then frequently had to be done over again. We
have seen specimens in which passages of Hebrew,
Arabic, and other oriental languages are given, and the
stereotype is a perfect fac-simile of the original. The
saving in the expense of stereotyping effected by the new
process will be 70 or 80 per cent., and the public will,
no doubt, benefit greatly by it by and by, in the reduced
cost of standard works.

EXTENSIVE MEETING OF COLLIERS.—On Monday
last, a very large meeting of the colliers of Oldham,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and other places, was held at the
back of the Albion Inn, Oldham. Benjamin Hawks-
head, a coal miner, was called to the chair? when Hamlet
Booth and H. Berrill, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, advised
the colliers and all other operatives to contribute to the
assistance of the mining operative turn-outs of Northum-
berland and Durham, in their present struggle to obtain
their wages. Mr. W. P. Roberts, the Attorney-General
of the miners, spoke at great length on the propriety of
the colliers striving to obtain a higher rate of wages, and
on the evils of the administration of the laws practised
upon miners. Several delegates from other places also
addressed the audience, and resolutions were passed to
support the turn-outs at Northumberland and Durham.
A delegate meeting was afterwards held at the Old Mess
House public-house. There are upwards of 1,500 coal
miners in the above districts, and we understand tbat up-
wards of three-fourths have joined the Colliers' Union.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—SOUTH-
AMPTON, MAY 22.—The heavy baggage of the new Go-
vernor-General of India is expected here in a day or two
for shipment in the Great Liverpool, which departs for
Alexandria on the Ist of June. The Governor-General
and suite do not, however, embark here. They are to
proceed via France to Marseilles, where a Government
steamer will be in waiting to convey them direct to Egypt,
from whence they will embark, at Suez, on board the
Oriental Company's steam-ship, the Hindostan, for Cal-
cutte, and will arrive there about the 20th of July. Sir
Henry Hardinge will be the first Governor-General of
India who has proceeded to his government by what is
called the overland route. It is a question whether Lord
Ellenborough will have had time to make arrangements
for his return before his successor's arrival, which will
take place only a few days after Lord Ellenborough re-
ceives his recall. It is calculated that Sir Henry will have
entered upon his high functions in India within little
more than a couple of months from the date of his ap-
pointment being made in Leadenhall-street—a celerity of
movement which the history of Indian affairs has never
yet been able to record.
SELF-TRANSPORTATION.—In the Royal Court, Guern-
sey, on Saturday week, James Cohu, aged 19, and Henry
Dufour, aged 18, were charged with having at various
times feloniously entered the premises of Mrs. De Lancey,
at the Grange, and stolen therefrom sums of money to
the amount of £l5 ; also a dozen of wine, as also 3s. from
a dresser in the kitchen. Advocates Utermarck and Falla
severally stated that the prisoners were not desirous of
making any defence, " but they were willing to leave their
country (i.e. Guernsey) for such period as the court might
think fit to order, as had been done in several previous
instances." The Queen's Procureur said, that as the
only proof against the prisoners was derived from Cohu's
confession, which was made under a promise given by
Mrs. De Lancey that he should be admitted as Queen's
evidence, and, considering that they were both young
men, against whom no complaint had been previously
brought, he recommended that the court should order
Cohu to leave the island for six years, and Dufour for
four years. The court, considering the above circum-
stances, and considering also that if the prisoners had
been tried and convicted their " punishment " would not
have exceeded that which they " asked for," ordered
Cohu to quit the island for five years and Dufour for four
years. The two young men left gaol for Southampton, to
try their luck in the convict settlement of England.

A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN MURDERED.—On
Tuesday last, a poor woman, named Ann Saville, and her
three children, Mary, seven years old; Harriet, aged five
years ; and Thomas, aged four years, were murdered,
near Nottingham, by William Saville, the husband and
father. On Monday, the woman and her children left
the union workhouse, the husband having been in lodgings
in Radford. On leaving she said she would endeavour to
find her husband, and did so. On Tuesday morning,
Saville, his wife, and family, were all in Nottingham to-
gether, and the husband said he lost sight of his wife near
to Manvers-street, and he gave out that she drowned her-
self. Previous to being apprehended, he denied all know-
ledge of what had become of her, and even made pro-
posals of marriage to another woman, saying that the
deceased was not his wife; but, when in custody, he
admitted that he had married her nine years ago, and that
her name was Ward. On Thursday the bodies of the
wife and her three children were discovered with their
throats cut, and dead, in a spinney between Colwick and
been
the eeeaterelne dragged
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her hand was a razor. In consequence of this informa-
tion the prisoner's trunk was sent for, and it was examined
in his presence. The contents consisted principally of
wearing apparel, but on a packet being taken out on
which the word " arsenic " was written, the prisoner was
stripped ; his trousers had several spots of blood upon
them. His razor-case was found in the box, but without
a razor, and it was stated that Mr. Sutton, where he
lodged, could identify it, and that prisoner shaved him-
self on the morning when it is supposed be committed
the murder.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NAWORTH CASTLE.—About
two o'clock on Saturday afternoon a violent fire broke out
at Naworth Castle, Cumberland, one of the seats of the
Earl of Carlisle. The engines were almost instantly sent
off by the railway, and arrived at the scene of destruction
about six o'clock, but not till the roofs of the principal
building had fallen in, with the exception of the large
tower, which the uncontrollable element had not reached.
The exertions of the firemen were directed to this tower,
which, after very great difficulty, was saved. The valua-
ble collection of oil paintings by the best masters, and
also the ancient and valuable furniture, were nearly all
destroyed. Naworth Castle was in ancient possession of
the Dacres, and passed into the family of the Howards by
marriage. Lord William Howard, third son of Thomas
Duke of Norfolk, the famous " Belted Will" of border
history, succeeded to it and a large domain annexed, in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in right of his wife Eliza-
beth, sister of George Lord Dacre, who died without heirs
male. He was warden of the western marches, and was
distinguished for his learning and literary research, as well
as for the rigour with which he repelled the excesses of
the daring moss-troopers who ventured to foray in his dis-
trict. In the castle of Naworth, his private apartments,
comprising a bed-room, oratory, and library, as well as
the " Bilhoa blade by marchmen felt," the broad and
studded belt in which he wore it, his embroidered gloves,
and splendid suit of armour, were shown to the public, in
addition to the other objects of interest in the castle. Sir
Walter Scott, in allusion to them, says, they impress us
with an unpleasing idea of the life of a lord warden of the
marches. Three or four strong doors separating these
rooms from the rest of the castle, indicate apprehensions
of treachery from his garrison ; and the secret winding
passages through which he could privately descend into
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rable appearance of these apartments, and the armour
scattered around the chamber, almost lead us to expect
the arrival of the lord warden in person. All these in-
valuable relics are now destroyed, or if a few have escaped,
Naworth
Castle, are displaced and deprived of much of. their interest,
and a smouldering ruin is all that remains of N
Castle, one of the most formidable and beautiful of
the
border t e
border fortresses. Although very favourably
about twelve miles from Carlisle, the castle was not often
sitd
the residence of the noble family to whom it belonged, as
they preferred the greater splendour and convenience of
Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, where they are at present
-esiding ; but in the shooting season the younger mem-
bers of the family, and their friends, always assembled at
Naworth to enjoy the field sports, for which the wild Al-
, ratter of the surrounding country affords peculiar faci-
• lities.