The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

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wink the wounded eye in a rapid manner, and then, as if
to cool the painful wound, he suddenly dived. since when

T havn't had the slightest trace of him, either by my own
observation or through others.—l am, your obedient ser-
ROGER W. MAYERS.

Since the above letter was received, says the Constitu-
tion, the following information on the same subject came
to hand :

Monday last a party of gentlemen belonging to this city
were enjoying a sailing excursion, in the Antelope yacht,
belonging to Mr. Wheeler, alone the coast from Glan-
dore to Kinsale. Passing the Old Head of Kinsale, the day
unusually fine, they observed an extraordinary commotion
of the sea, apparent to every one on board. The bay of
K;- ,le was at the fi' In a f--

time .ed with fisn. _ew mo-
ments they perceived a large serpent-like fish on the sur-
face, that could nabe less than 120 feet in length. In
shape it resembied a king funnel of an immense steamer.
Unfortunately they were not sufficiently near the monster
to give a description of the head and body. After lying
on the surface for a few minutes it suddenly dashed ahead
with a velocity, as far as could be seen for a distance of
two miles, of at least 60 miles an hour. It then disap-
peared. It was believed that the sea serpent must have
been in pursuit of the shoals of fish that thronged the bay.
It is a singular circumstance that notwithstanding the
unusual quantity of fish that was observable the Kinsale
hookers were most unsuccessful, as it was stated that they
did not obtain a single take during the evening. The gen.
tlernen who have witnessed the visit of this monster, and
whose statement is detailed above, may be relied on a 3
above all suspicien.

Eriitval lirtllaiw,

General Haynau left Lon Ton on Friday, still suffering
from the injuries received at Barclay's brewery.
The tobacco pipe makers of Leeds have struck for an
advance of wages.

A new Roman Catholic cathedral was consecrated in
York on Wednesday.

Hannah Curtis, who murdered her husband at Glouces-
ter, is to be transported for life.
Offers have been made to purchase the Lincoln Theatre,
for the purpose of converting it into a hall for lectures
and public meetings.

The Hermann steamer arrived from New York at Cowes,
where she landed her passengers, and proceeded to Bre-
men. Her advices were anticipated by the Cambria.
During two days last week Hannah Clarke, an old
woman aged seventy-nine, might have been seen shear-
ing in a field at Hellsfeld, near Kendal.
A man named Lucy was suffocated at York, on Thurs-
day, by falling into an open cess-pool in one of the streets.
There is need for sanatory reform here.
An equestrian statue of the Queen is about to be
erected in Glasgow,—the first equestrian statue of a
woman in Great Britain.

A straw bonnet maker of London has sent out a man
dressed in a straw hat, straw coat, straw waistcoat, and
straw pantaloons, as a puff to his shop.
Forty-six churches have been erected and fifty clergymen
added to the Roman Catholic mission in Scotland during
the last ten years.

On Tuesday night, above twenty sheep were killed
while straying or, the South-western railway, near Esher,
by being run over by a train.
Aninnkeeper at Darlington, named Coates, destroyed
himself a few days since by shooting himself, in conse-
quence of suspicions as to his wife's fidelity.
The Master-General of Ordnance has given an assur-
ance, through Sir G. Grey, Bart., that, for the present,
at least, the ramp Arts of Berwick would not be disposed of.
The reports from all parts of the country concur in
stating that the weather for the last fortnight has been
most favourable for the ingathering of the harvest.
The Douglas Mill, belonging to Messrs. Gilroy, at
Dundee, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning.
Nothing but the bare walls remain.

On friday a fire broke out in the goods yard of the
Nottingham railway station. It is reported that the con-
sequent loss will be upwards of £l,OOO.

amework, and be-
bis perilous situation was discovered he was nearly
rangled. Assistance was procured, but the poor little
llow lingered for about two hours, when he died.
A WATER DISPUTE AT BATH.—A few days since ap-
ication was made to the Master of the Rolls to restrain
to Corporation of Bath from supplying water to any street
therto supplied by the freemen—the latter having en-
wed by Act of Parliament to give a good supply, and
le Corporation being bound not to interfere with their

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rights. The Master of the Rolls refused the injunction.
At Castletown, in the Isle of Man, on Saturday, some
children were playing at " hide and seek." A little girl
looked under the bed, with a candle, to find her brother.
The bed-clothes caught fire, and the motherwas so severely
burnt in endeavouring to extinguish them, that she ex-
pired on Monday morning. The two children were also
severely burnt, and the little boy isnot expected to recover.

A LONG SHOT.—On Thursdajy last, as Henry Marshall,
Esq., was shooting in the neighbourhood of Derby, with
a gun made by the celebrated Westley Richards, he killed
a partridge at the great distance of 117 yards. The bird
happened to be flying in a direct line with the covey,
from which Mr. Marskill killed his right and left, in addi-
tion to the one killed at the long distance just mentioned.
NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING.—The inventive genius
of the metropolitan advertisers has adopted a rather novel
and amusing mode of bringing their wares before public
notice. On Friday a dog, covered over with advertising
placards, perambulated the Strand and Fleet-street,
attracting particular notice, and exciting much amuse-
ment.

T'ie Lord's-day Society, in Carnarvon, have offered
prizes of ten and three pounds for the best and second
best essays on the Lord's-day, its due observance, the
evils of its violation, and the blessings which result from
keeping it holy. The essays to be in the Welsh language,
to be written by operatives, and not to exceed 20 pages
octavo, in brevier type.

The merchant steamer Brunswick, of Plymouth, Capt.
Thomas Russell, in making her accustomed passage from
Guernsey to Torquay on Wednesday morning, about half-
past one o'clock, it being very dark, unfortunately ran
down a boat hailing from Brixham, which was drifting for
pilchards. Two men aged GO and 63, sunk with the boat,
but the third, aged 22, son of one of those drowned, was
saved by the Brunswick's boat.

On 'Monday night, the village of Harbo)s, St. Ives,
was thrown into the greatest confusion by the sudden
outbreak of a fire, which involved in flames and reduced
to ashes a large farmhouse, with all its stock of hay and
straw, and eleven cottages, the inhabitants of which are
now sheltered in the church, which was in .tantly opened
for their reception. It originated from some children
playing with lucifer matches near some hay and straw.
By a parliamentary return just issued, it appears that
there is in the hands of the government the sum of
£1,107,09G 13s. ld. arising from forfeited end unclaimed
shares of prize-money, grants, &c. In October, 1849,
there was paid to the Woods and Forests,' towards the
Royal Military Asylum, the sum of £20,000 from these
monies. [This arises mostly from the claimants being
dead before the prizes were awarded.l

THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND'S GIFT TOWARDS A Ro-
MAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—We questioned the truth as
to the spirit of a paragraph which has appeared on this
subject, in our last Journal. The simple fact of the case
was, that the duke had sold the site of the projected new
chapel to the parties at the high valuation of land in that
borough ; but, in consideration of the largeness of the
sum, returned one hundred pounds out of the same.—
Shrewsbury Journal.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days since, while
some men belonging to the Old Gas Company were
putting a gas branch into a shop in Candlerigg-street,
London, they fell upon a rat's nest beneath the pave-
ment, containing one yard of pack-sheet and a letter ad-
dressed to Mr. William Scott, cabinet-maker, Candlerigg-
street. The letter was dated 20th August, and the seal
was unbroken. Strange to say, the gas men were putting
the pipe into the very shop of the individual to whom the
letter was addressed. How either it or the packsheet
found its way into the nest was a mystery.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—Mr. Rees, the wife of a trades-
man at the Hotwells, when taking a walk on Monday last
with her family in Leigh Woods, gathered something.she
supeosed to be mushrooms, but which unfortunately was
a very poisonous sort of fungus. On her return home in
the eveninc, she cooked them and gave them to her three
children ande' an apprentice, and ate heartily of them her-
self. The consequence was .they were very soon seized
with the usual symptoms of poisoning, and Mrs. Rees
and her youngest child have since died, and the others
remain in a helpless condition. •

DESTRUCTION OF A LIME-LADEN SHIP.—On Tuesday
week a schooner, named the Farmer, of Sunderland, laden
with a cargo of lime, sailed from Sunderland for Scot-
land. On arriving off the Coquet Island she was dis-
covered to be on fire. The captain immediately resolved
to put back, and they had reached Tynemouth, when an
explosion took place, and the decks blew up. The dan-
gerous state of the vessel being observed by the crews of
two steamboats, which came alongside, they towed her
into Sunderland harbour, the flames all the time rising
several feet in height. The vessel was moored, on the
Potato Garth, and continued to burn far several hours
until she became a total wreck.

Sir Arthur Chichester's sport in the-Loc-hcarron forest
during the month has been unprecedented. In one week
be has brought down seven deer—one particularly a very
fine stag—and mortally wounded other four ; all good
shots. His sport on the moors has been equally success-
ful. One afternoon he shot 20 brace of old cocks, and
caught a number of salmon the same evening.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT NEATH.—Up the vale on
Thursday last, the son of May, the ostlerat the " Castle,"
was driving two men and a woman in a return car from
Merthyr; and in descending the Poutwallby-hill, about
three miles the other side of the " Lamb and Flag."
where the navvies were blasting on the railway, an explo-
sion took place as they were crossine the bridge ; the

horse shied, and whirled the car against the temporary
railing on the bridge, which gave way, and the horse, car,
and its contents, were instantly hurled down a precipice
of forty feet ! One man was killed on the spot. Young
May died in a few hours. The woman's dress acted as a
parachute, and conveyed her in apparent safety to the
bottom ; and the other man, who was dead drunk, walked
away, a little the worse for the fright. But it is since
found that he sustained internal injury, from which he
expired on Monday morning. The woman, too, is not
evpected to survive. The car was smashed to pieces, and
the horse a little scratched on its hind leg. May was
buried at Lamptwit, on Sunday. afternoon, the road being
literally crammed from the Union to the top of the
Cemetery.—Bristol

A STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY.—At the Sunder-
land Police-court, the other day, in the investigation of a
case wherein a watch had been discovered which was
stolen from the person of an officer of the River Wear
Police, about twenty months ago, a singular revelation
was made concerning two parties. A brief recapitulation
of the case will he interesting. On Monday se'nnight a
man named George Snaith, presented himself at the shop
of Mr. William Wilson, pawnbroker, Pilgrim-street, in
Newcastle, and desired to sell a watce. The pawnbroker
refused to give the price asked, but agreed to lend INs. on
this and another watch. As is the custom, the pawn-
broker, prior to lending the money searched his books
where lists of stolen goods are registered, and then dis-
covered that the ffrst watch spoken of was that stolen
from Mr. Ralph Apnison, an inspector of the River Wear
Police, on the 17th January, 1849. Mr. Wilson at once
sent for an officer and gave Snaith into custody ; Snaith
was at once taken in eharge and sent to Sunderland, when
he stated he received the watch in part payment for board
and lodging, from a sailor named William Ridley. A
Sunderland officer was duly despatched to take Ridley into
custody; wherever he might be found ; and, curiously
enough he learned that Ridley had signed articles to go a
voyage to Quebec, and the vessel was just about sailing.
The officer followed him down the river in a steamer, and
took him into custody. Ridley at once admitted that lie
gave the watch to Snail h, and said lie had bought it from
a sailor a long time before. Evidence was adduced to
show that Ridley had been in possession of this watch
almost immediately after the robbery, and had left it with
a publican as security fot debt about that time. The
magistrates, therefore, had no difficulty in sending Ridley
to trial, and Snaith was admitted Queen's evidence. The
singular part of the story remains to be told. Ridley is
nephew to Mr. Annison, from whom the watch was stolen.
Annison received great violence from the thief, having
been knocked clown from behind by some heavy weapon,
and afterwards cruelly kicked in the face by the feet of
the robber. He was thus rendered unable to swear to the
thief ; it was quite dark at the time and much blood flowed
from the wounds on his head into his eyes. Annison was
taken home by a Mr. Clarke, a baker, who heard some one
moaning in the street as he lay in bed. On the following
day, his nephew, the prisoner Ridley, went to his house
to see him, pretendedly out of sympathy : although he had
never been in the habit of visiting him. The fact was that
the prisoner had been twice convicted of felony, and there-
fore his uncle—the stern officer of justice—never gave him
any countenance. Perhaps from this slight the prisoner felt
he owed his uncle a grudge. Well then, Snaith having been
admitted evidence and discharged, applied through his
solicitor, Mr. Cooper, for the restoration of the £2O
which he had deposited as security for his appearance on
the day of the remand to answer the charge. But the
police step in and say, " you, Mr. Snaith, kept a house
of ill-fame in the Low Street, Sunderland ;"you were sum-
moned to answer an information to that effect, and you
unceremoniously decamped from the town. Notwith-
standing this, your case was gone into, and you were
fined in two penalties of £5 each ! Hence we want £lO
out of the £2O deposited,"—and they got it ! Snaith
left Sunderland about two months ago, and is now en-
gaged as a provision-dealer at the Ouseburn, in New-
castle-upon-Tyne.
AN ABSCESS IN THE BREAST CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S
OINTMENT AND PILLS.—About three years since, MTS.
O'Flaherty, of Mill- street, Cork, accidentally bruised her
breast. For months afterwards, the pain increased, and
the part became fearfully swollen. Various applications
were tried without giving,the least relief; and ultimately
an abscess formed, dischirging a great quantity of humour,
which debilitated kerrconstitution to an alarming extent.
At this stage, iviady strongly recommended her to try
Holloway's Oiitment and Pills, having witnessed their
good effectaron former occasions, which advice she fol-
lowed,, aid these fine medicines answered most satisfac-
torily, for the wound was soon healed, and her health is
now completely renovated.