The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

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body, and

mped upon him. He was
It managed to crawl to a lodging-hot

idered almost insensible,
where he was

lingered in great agony until Tuesday, when he died.
A. NEW TRADE.—To the number of ingenious devices
whereby some of the inhabitants of London obtain a
livelihood another has just been added. Some specula-
tive individuals, taking advantage of the newly-invented

e established a travelling
•
workshop, with which, after the manner of the tinkers
and chairmakers, they move from house to house and
clean knives at Id. per dozen. The scene of operation is
constructed in the shape of an immense square chest,
like the advertising vans, and in it are two or three of the
knife-cleaning machines, with a man to work each; and,
as is known by those who have seen knives cleaned by the
process, the work is done in a very satisfactory manner.
THE CREW OF A VESSEL IMPRISONING THEIR CAP-
TAIN.—The barque .Esther Francis, of Newport, Mon-
mouthshire, arrived at Falmouth, on Monday, from Ha-
vannah, under the charge of Mr. Dunipace, the mate.
It appears that Mr. Michael, the master, was handcuffed
the crew, on June 14. being six days after leaving Ha-

vannah, and has thus been confined in his cabin ever since
that date. An alleged charge is made that he attempted
to poison some person or persons on board, by mixing
what is described as " extract of lead" with some water
in a jug, to which Mr. Shaw, a passenger, the mate,
second mate, and a boy, had access. A magisterial in-
vestigation is to take place.

Lacy, member for Bodmin, has presented a peti-
tion to the House of Commons from Mr. Rugg, a surgeon,
praying the house to institute some stringent police regi4
lations for the sale of milk in London, for the sake of the
health of the metropolis. He states that the results of
several years' investigation, by microscopical examination

_ .
and chemical analysis, are, that in most instances the milk
is systematically adulterated by the addition of from one-
third to one-half of water • and, in order to disguise this
dilution, fraudulent and deleterious admixtures are used,
such as flour, starch, size, annatto, magnesia, chalk, trea-
cle, salt, brains of animals (reduced to an emulsion), and
sugar of lead.

CONFESSION OF BENNISON..—This unhappy man has,
since his condemnation, been confined in the Calton Jail,
where he has been very sedulously attended by his former
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hay, Wesleyan minister. He, soon
after receiving his sentence, selected Mr. Hay as his spi-
ritual adviser, and the Rev. Gentleman has since passed
the greater portion of each day with him. On Tuesday
he emitted a full confession of his guilt, of both the crime
of bigamy and of the murder of his second wife, stating
that he bought the arsenic, and put a grain or two into
the porridge of which the unfortunate woman partook on
the Friday night, but afterwards felt a good deal consci-
ence-stricken for having done so.

THE CLAIMANT TO THE DUKEDOM OF DEVONSHIRE.
—We find that the alleged genealogy of the Souters is
correct. Mrs. Richard Gordon, residing at Hensingharn,
is descended, on the female side, from the Lady Mary
and James outer named above, and from her we learn
'the following additional particulars :—Lady Cavendish,
giandmother to the present Souters, was the daughter of
Lord Cavendish, and in her minority married her father's
gamekeeper, which so outraged her family that they cut
her off. She had a daughter who married Mr. Souter, of
the firm of Allison and Co., of this town. Mr. George
Hudson, above-named, was captain of a steamer which
sailed for some time between Whitehaven and Belfast.
His mother was sister to the present Souters.—White-
haven Herald.

THE CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION.--011 Tuesday, a
public breakfast was given by the Canterbury Association
to the colonists about to take their departure for the set-
tlement of the association in New Zealand. The enter-
tainment took place on board the Randolph, in the East
India Docks, Blackwall, one of four fine ships chartered
for the voyage. The names of the vessels are the Sir
George Seymour, the Cressy, the Charlotte Jane and the
Randolph : the day appointed for sailing is the 29th of
August. From 200 to 300 ladies and g,ntlemen were
assembled on the occasion, and the scene which the good
ship presented was a most animated and cheering one.
Lord Lyttleton filled the chafr. Several addresses were
delivered in high praise of the colonial experiment, and
the company separated. A son of Lord Wharncliffe is
going out wuh the first settlers.

CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—A gentleman from Suther-
land has made us acquainted with a singular phenomenon
which was witnessed near Golspie. A severe thunder..
storm had visited the place, accompanied, as usual, by
much rain. After the rain had dried up, a powder, re-
sembling flour of sulphur, was observed along the sides
of the small runnels, and the same substance having set-
tled on the flowers, great numbers of bees were destroyed
by sipping from them. One individual lost a complete
hive. It is a pity that the substance was not examined.
—lnverness Chronicle.
DEATHSTRUCK ON HORSEBACK.—On Saturday, a me-
lancholy circumstance occurred in the family of the Rev.
J. Swires, vicar of Manfield, near Darlington. His third
daughter, Miss Emma Swires, was riding on horseback
in company with her brother, and when near the village
of Melsonby he observed his sister sitting unsteadily
upon the saddle, and ultimately fall off the horse. As-
sistance was at hand, but she died almost immediately.
It has been ascertained that death resulted from a fit of
spasms of the heart. She was only seventeen years of
age.—Sunderland Herald.

-PLEASANT RAILWAY COMPANION.—A correspondent
of the Times says, " Coming up from Guildford this
morning by the South-western Railway, in a second-
class carriage, 11 was somewhat surprised to find in pos-
session of one of the seats a mad woman, (with two' at-
tendants, male and female,) who I was informed was being
conducted to a mad-house. This woman was raving
furiously almost the whole time, and the words she uttered
were calculated to disgust any respectable person. There
were several ladies in the carriage. I leave you to imagine
their feelings."
THE WALLS OF BERWICK.—The renowned border
town of Berwick, so celebrated in the histories of England
and Scotland, and so nixed up with the wars in which
this country bore so large a part, as well as• with the Bor-
der forays of past ages, still retains its ancient fortifica-
tions—a fine specimen of that description of architecture,
and an object of interest to visiters. Unfortunately the
old walls belong to the Crown, and, will it he believed,
the government officials are actually about to sell the
venerable ramparts, as if they were some of the old use-
less stores in an arsenal.
THE NEPAUL PRINCES.—The Nepaulese Ambassador
leaves this country this week, and takes with him a young
English girl, well known at the West End, of surpassing
beauty, and of high spirit—a second Lola Montes, whom
she must at least equal in courage to trust herself alone
at. Kootmandoo, among the Nepaulese warriors and their
wives. Her Majesty has been, it is said, much scanda-
lized, by the appearance of this young lady in the Ne-
paulese Ambassador's bor at the Opera, the said box
being next the one occupied by Her Majesty herself. He
also takes back with him an immense number of rifles,
muskets, and fowling-pieces, of swords and bE yonets, a
soda-water machine, an ice-making machine, and a set of
dissolving views.

• SEAWEED FOR Foop.—:There is nothing remarkable,
as some of our contemporaries suppose, in the fact that
sea-weed is purchased by starving wretches in Leeds and
Manchester at three-pence per lb:, while good wheat
meal is selling at half that amount. Starvation is a slow
process as every one knows who is at all conversant with
the annals of the poor. That squalid wretch that per-
fumes the air with the smoke of tobacco purchased at
four shillings the pound, allays the pangs of hunger by
process tar less expensive than the consumption of
wheaten bread or butcher's meat ; but he would not sub-
mit to starve on the noxious weed it he could afford to
satisfy his appetite, and renew his strength by recourse to
nutritivediet of corn and fl,sh.--Netvcastle Journal.
SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR MIIRDER.—At Newcastle
assizes, on Wednesday, Patrick Forbes was found guilty
on the charge of murdering his wife, Bridget Forbes. The
judge passed sentence of death without hope of mercy.
The prisoner, who appeared in a state of collapse during

the trial, swooned away twice while receiving sentence ;
and in the midst of the solemn scene, the dauzhler, who
-1 the lobby of the court, on hearing that her father
ntenced to death, went into hysterics, and sent
"0 father! father ! ' into the court.
unable

screams of

The poor wretch seemed' overpowered, and t _
to raise his hands, desired the policeman to raise his ha
to God for him, which they did in an at

m to heaven for mercy

IRMISEI BETWEEN A C

,titude of suppli-

AND SWALLOV

curious scene was witnessed the other day in a park at the
outskirts of Montrose. A cat was observed attempting
to defend herself against the assaults of a number of swat-

ate by striking with her claws

the cat lay quietly

down as if she were dead ; and the swallows, deceived by
her appearance, desisted from their warfare and mounted
into the air. Puss no sooner perceived this than, taking
advantage of the opportunity, she bounded off to a place
of refuge. Her assailants, having observed her move-
ments, made after her, but she had got into a place of
,lielter before they could reach her. What could have
been the cause of the quarrel is a question for naturalists

decid

—Montro,

SENTENCE OF PENANCE.—In the Consistory Court of
the diocese of Ripon, on Thursday week, an action for
libel and slander was brought by Miss Catherine Mary
Luis Fernandes, the second daughter of Mr. J. L. Fer-
nandes, of Sandal, near Wakefield, against Mr. Joseph
Horner, the elder, of Wakefield, corn-miller, and a mem-
ber of the town council of that borough, for certain slan-
derous reports which had been circulated by the defendant,
tending to prejudice the character and reputation of the
plaintiff, and reflecting upon her virtue. The Chancellor,
the Rev. John Headlam, decided that the defendant
" ought to be duly anc canonically corrected and punish-
ed," and that he be compelled " to perform n saintary and
Littante penance, according to his demerit, for his excess

foresaid." The act of penance enjoined is accordingly
be performed by the defendant, in the pariah church of
Vakefield, on the 25th of August, immediately after the