The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

MISCELLANEOUS.

When the railroad from Calais to Paris is completed,
the whole distance from the metropolis of England to the
metropolis of France may be done in 12 hours.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, June, 21.—We have had
rather more business doing in our sugar market this
week, but prices are again more in favor of the buyer;
565. to 665. are the extrerrvs of the market. In Bengals
and Mauritius some small parcels of each description
have been disposed of at about the previous value. In
rum the sales reach 60 puncheons Jamaicas at full prices.
No sales reported in molasses. Gazetted average price of
sugar, June 18, is 335. 9d. per cwt.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days agn, as some
workmen were employed in quarrying a rock close to the
Tweed, about a quarter of a mile below Rutherford-mill,
a gold thread was discovered embedded in the stone at a
depth of eight feet. How long this remnant of a former
age has remained in the situation from which it was
taken. will baffle the skill of the antiquary or geologist to
determine. A small bit of the thread has been sent to

our office for the inspection of the curious.—Kelso

Chronicle.

SUGAR DUTIES.—On Saturday the biil on which the

recent division took place which has been amended in
committee, and on report, was printed. The duties impos-
ed by 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 26, and 3 and 5 Vic., c. 17,

are to be continued till the sth July 1845,with the custom
duties, and an additional duty of five per cent. Her
Majesty by order in council to declare the sugars of other
countries to be admissible as not being the produce of
slave labour. By the seventh provision, power is given to
Her Majesty by order in council to declare. that the

sugars ot-cotintries with which her Majesty his treaties of
reciprocacity as to duties, be admissible at 345, per cwt.
additional. Her Majesty may allow the importation of
sugar, the growth of certain British possessions, at the
lower rate of duty. There are 25 sections in the bill.
ADMISSION OF ATTORNIES.—The result of the exa-
mination of candidates for admission on the roll of attor-
nies in last Trinity Term, shows a larger increase on that
branch of the legal profession, 71 having passed exami-
nation, whilst four were postponed, and four who had
given notice did not attend, and a large number failed to
perfect their testimonial of services, besides which, one of
the candidates for admission withdrew during the exami-
nation. Upon referring to the examination of the last
Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter. and Trinity Terms, it ap-
pears that in Michaelmas 106, in Hilary 90, Easter 92,
and Trinity Term 71, passed, showing a total for the last
four terms of 359. This number, we believe, includes
some instances in which the examiners reported specially
with reference to questions of service of clerkship, and
which were submitted to the decision of the judges.

MYSTERIOUS CASE.—Yesterday week an aged man.
named Crosby, and his wife, residing at a quiet village
called Long Sutton, near Cambridge. lost their lives by
poison, administered by a stranger. The old couple were
in the receipt of an annuity of £5O, and the half-yearly
payment of £25 was made only the week before last.
Early in the forenoon of Monday, the old man (who had
been walking about the streets in the morning in his usual
health) rushed out of his house and complained to his
neighbours that he and his wife had been poisoned by a
woman who had put something into their tea. Two sur-
geons were immediately in attendance, but they both died
in about two hours. A considerable quantity of arsenic
was discovered in the remaining quantity of the tea. A
strange female had been on the premises. but nobody
could tell who she was. The inquest was adjourned until
Monday (yesterday.)
PICKFORD V. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
—Sir T. Wilde took up the argument in the Vice Chan-
cellor's Court on Friday morning, the opening of which
was commenced on the 29th of January last. The ohject
of the motion is to restrain the Grand Junction Railway
from doing a number of acts mentioned in the notice, the
general effect of which is to impose upon Messrs. Pick-
ford and Co. some excessive charges in the carriage of
goods, and especially small parcels on the Grand Junction
line of railway, by which the plaintiffs alleged they will be
unable to compete with other carriers. The suit is found-
ed upon a judgment in the Court of- Exchequer, which
has already decided in favour of the plaintiffs, that the
charges complained of were unreasonable under the pro-
visions of the company's act, and, therefore, illegal; and
the motion seks to restrain a -continued violation of the
legal rights of the plaintiffs, which the judgment has
established, The Vice Chancellor refused the application
on the ground that the plaintiffs had delayed to bring
forward the case.

LIBEL.—In the Common Pleas, on Friday, a clergy-
of the name of Forth brought an action against the
Times newspaper, for an alleged libel, charging the plain-
tiff with having been suspended by the Bishop of London.
The plaintiff, who was formerly an officer in the army, and
who, in 1803 left the former service for the church, was,
in July, 1843 brought before Mr. Clive, magistrate at the
Wandsworth Police-office, charged with having assaulted
his landlord, who demanded some rent from him. The
rev. gentleman was fined 205.. and, in default of payment,
was committed to Kingston Goal. In consequence of the
representations of the Times that the rev. gentleman was
in a state of destitution, several donations were sent to
Mr. Clive. Shortly afterwards a report appeared of some
remarks made by Mr. Clive on the bench, to the effect
that Mr. Forth had not claimed the money in Mr. Clive's
hands, and that Mr. Clive had made some inquiries as to
induce him to relinquish all correspondence with Mr.
Forth and his family. To this repot t the Times added a
statement that the Rev Mr. Forth had been suspended by
the Bishop of London which was the libel complained of.
The jury were locked up until Saturday, when not being
able to come to a decision, they were discharged.

A RESPECTABLE DEPUTATION.—A deputation of
ficiytriots, intrusted with an address to, her Majesty, frona
the citizens of Dublin, praying for the remission of-the
sptence, by the liberation of the great agitator, passed
through this town on Sunday week, baying arrived that
morning .by the Royal. Adelaide Steamer from Dublin,
and have since been duly presented to the sovereign.
The party consisted of the celebrated (sub) agitator
of the Linen Hall Ward in Dublin, Thomas Atkins,
whose calling any of our readers may see described
in gilt letters, upon a green signboard, fashioned. tn the
shape of a blouse—" TAILOR TO O'CONNELL ," Mr.bus*
Sinnot,a poor-lawguardian and publican, earryiantgko-nstreelt,
ness in the respectable neighbourhood. of Barr
of Ca el-street,
town councillor, grocer and dram-seller,
could'nt
adjoining the Royal Barracks, Dublin ; Myles Tobin,
, (we
Dublin; and a Mr. Cumming, or Curr.a
from his manners and appearance. A nice specimen
make out which,) equally respectable, ifnwe. might judge.
these to be presented to royalty r Her Majesty may be
excused if, when relieved of their presence, she had ex-
claimed in the language of the great dramatist, " Give us
an ounce of civet, good apothecary." But of such stuff,
it would seem, deputations. are made tip (as O'Connell's
tailor would say) from the now respectable city of Dublin!
AN ARISTOCRATIC DEFAULTER.—A letter from Rome
of the 12th inst., quoted by the Gazette des Tribunatta.,
says :—" The disappearance of Count Rocchi, of Ancona,
the receiver-general of the province, has created a general
alarm. Ile was involved to a large amount in the failure
of a banking-house of Paris, and resolved to relieve him-
self at the expense of those who had placed confidence in
him. He consequently collected all he could possibly
obtain, converted into money nearly all the negociable
paper he held, made every preparation for his departure,
procured a passport for Venice, and embarked in an
Austrian steamer with his wife. It is believed that hehas
gone thence to Trieste, with the intent of gaining a more
secure retreat. The Apostolic Chamber had in his
hands 215,000 f., which he has taken to the last penny ;
but the funds of Notre Dame de Loretto and the
Casino of the town have suffered by his delinquency
much more deeply. The total amount of what he has
carried away is estimated at more than 1,000,000 f.
The government is nearly covered by securities ; but the
rest of the creditors will lose alLas the landed estates Of
the count are all settled on his, wife. The government
his appointed a comaission for inquiring into this de-
plorable affair."
.I..asTox, THE COMEDIAN, AN USllER.—Liston—the
incomparable John Liston—in 1800 held the situation of
usher at Archbishop Tenison's School, St. Martin's
During a temporary absence of the master, (commonly
called " Pownall the Pompous,") thelads petitioned their
viceroy for permission to act a play, on a certain night in
Whitsun week. The drama was quite original, entitled
"Tippoo Saib," and written by one of the leading boys,
who has long since been known to the world as a dramatic
composer. This lad could write, but, like the great Dry-
den, could not embody his own conceptions. Something
was to be done in respect of their chief actor, for the part
Tippoo was first-rate in its kind, and required an equal
genius for its impersonation. " I know a chap, young
Carey," said one of the boys "who does Cupids and de-
vils at Drury-lane—a regular Tippoo, all over—he'll come,
I warrant you." On one of his ." collar days," therefore,
application was made to young Kean, or Carey, for his
valuable assistance. The youth jumped at the proposal;
rehearsals,
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" but "I must give Aunt Tid the slip," said he, "in good
time—must run away—tii fineish weather—l'll be off to
sgeePair3iaaratk'attm.e"n
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workedd t
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away at the dresses—in fact, was both the van and flank
of the mighty armament. The night arrived. Liston, the
equally truant usher, occupied his own chair, as a kind of'
stage-box ; the beadle of the parish was present ; and
sundry minor functionaries of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
The business commenced most prosperously—all were de.
lighted ; but the ecstacy participated by the chief actor
and the virgin bard, was a sum of bliss which rarely falls
to the children of this world. Scarcely had a round of tip_
plause subsided into mute attention, when a growl, more
mfflrtoyrroivliedii
startling and terrific than had ever awakened the echoes
of Mysore, occasioned the affrighted party to turn their
eyes in one common direction. Pownall the Pompous,
the very aspect of Titus Oates, had returned unexpectedly
to St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and was at this moment
grinning a ghastly smile through an iron grating from the
staircase, which commanded an entire view of the whole
scenic effects. All was immediate consternation--a bull
I in a crockery booth, or a tiger's spring on travellers in re-
pose, could scardely have surpassed this moment of dis-
may. Down rushed the infuriate pedagogue, and armed
with his well-known ferrule, commenced laying about
him with all the vigour which an extra glass had inspired,
and all the malice which was so peculiarly his own.
Sprawling fell the beadle over the already prostrate David
Baird, while the Marshal Harris crept 'like a rabbit into
the burrow of Liston's capacious pocket: Listoia, a tithe
of whose comic cast has since won him immortal honours,
would have moved the gravity of a very wretch under the
gibbet. Tippoo, so prematurely routed, had vaulted on a
1 fragile bookcase, from which citadel he was to have fallen
in the coming scene, whilst the poet himself bobbed with
I agile evitation under the reiterating bamboo, like a Scara-
: mouch at Saller's Metilazi„,.