The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The Queen has subscribed £lOO towards erecting baths
and pleasure gardens for the working classes at Bradford.

Sir J. South announces that the comet discovered at
Kiel on the 15th is not a new one, but the cornet of Biela.
A nest of young well flushed blackbirds was offered for
sale in Bristol market on Wednesday.

Canadian butter is now selling at Sunderland for Bd.
per lb. ; a large consignment has been made to merchants
in that town.

Madame Catalini has nearly lost her voice, and it is
said she has probably made her last appearance in public.
In Covent Garden market, on Tuesday, strawberries
were sold at 2s. 6d. the ounce.

Fine new potatoes were selling last week, in London, at
from 3d. to sd. per pound.
Captain Egerton, brother of Sir P. Egerton, M.P., has
died of the wounds he received at the battle of Feroze-
shah.

A tradesman in Huddersfield, on Monday week, re-
ceived 6d. in a letter from some party who had defrauded
him of that amount.

On Sunday week the barque Agerma arrived in St. Ka-
tharine Docks, from Boston, with twenty-five cases of
turkeys, geese. and capons : also six boxes of red reindeer
of superior quality. They were packed in ice.
It is very remarkable that the three last Coroners of
that division in the County of Devon, in Mr. Partridge's
jurisdiction,—viz., the deceased and his two immediate
predecessors—committed suicide.
The patent right of Mr. Bencraft in his ingenious sad.
dlo, for Great Britain and the Colonies, was sold on Sa-
turday last, at the Auction Mart, London, for fourteen
hundred guineas. _ _ .

Mr. V. Matthews, who fell into a vat of boiling liquor
in Marsfield Distillery, a few days ago, and was actually
boiled to death, lost his father, in 1826, by a similar acci-
dent in the same distillery.

On Wednesday a terrific fire totally consumed the ex-
tensive premises knosn as the Canada Steam Staw-mills,
situated at Rotherhithe-street, London, near the Com-
mercial Dock, the property of Messrs. Vertue and Co.
At the Coventry Assizes, William Garratt pleaded
guilty to having stolen certain moneys belonging to the
Postmaster-General, and was sentenced to be transported
for life.

Among the visitors to the baths and wash-houses for
the labouring poor in George-street, London, last week,
were the Earl of Fortescue, Lord Ebrington, Lord Sandon,
and Sir R. and Lady Inglis.
On Tuesday five large pieces of ordnance, intended, it
is said, for India, arrived from Wigan at Birmingham, on
their way to London. They are 56-pounders, each weigh-
ing 3 tons 5 cwt., and are eight feet in length.
On Friday, two pigeons were tossed at the starting of
the railway train at Brighton for London, and one of the
birds arrived at its home in thirty minutes less time than
the train.

The Stamford Mercury states, that so exceedingly
scarce is copper money in Lincoln, that some of the
tradesmen have been actually compelled to give change in

postage s

At the London Court of Bankruptcy, on Wednesday,
Maria Theresa D'Asmar, commonly known as the Prin-
cess D'Asmar, obtained her interim order to be delivered
from debts to the extent of about £290.

France and England are now within an hour and a half's
sail of each other, the Onyx steamer having made the
voyage from Dover to Calais in that time, in a trial of
speed with the rival steamer, the Princess Alice.
A young woman, who was married but a week before at
Birmingham, has been committed to prison for robbery,
on the information of her husband, who discovered that
she had a quantity of goods in her possession that she had
stolen from her late master.

There are hundreds of English girls—many of them
from Leeds—in the flax-mills of the north of France ; and
the cotton, flax, and woollen-mills of almost every foreign
country have either English overlookers or English work-
men, together with English machinery.
Whilst Valentia slate from Kerry, is used in the houses
of parliament for roofing, the projectors of the Roman
Catholic Cathedral at Killarney, within 40 miles of Va-
lentia, are importing slate from Wales, a distance of 600
miles !

A destructive fire, through the carelessness of the carter,
broke out in the stables of Mr. Clarkson, farmer at Fac-
combe, near Andover. The out-houses, live stock therein,
stacks, &c., soon became a mass of cinders. The causer
of the mischief escaped with difficulty. The property is
insured.

The Minister of Commerce in France has made a pow-
erful and remarkable speech, condemnatory of the folly of
Sir R. Peel's free-trade policy. He shows that the trade
of France has doubled since 1830, when a protective sys-
tem was fully acted on in that country.

THE MOST INNOCENT AND THE MOST WICKED
COUNTY IN ENGLAND.—The smallest number of criminal
offenders in England, in every 1000 of the population in

1841, was in the county of Westmoreland, being 6 (or
six-tenths); and the greatest in the county of Gloucester,
being 2,9 in every 1000.
_ _ _ _

Ttie Monthly circular of one of the leading commercial
firms, states, that as the demand for the fabrics of York-
shire and Lancashire is now going on to a greater extent
than ever before, business must soon improve in those
branches, notwithstanding the dulness complained of at
present. . .

John Oliver Richer, the once celebrated rope-dancer,
died at his seat, at Swindon, on the 24th ult., in his Z3d
year. George 111. was extremely fond of witnessing his
performances, and for that purpose frequently sent for
him to Windsor. He performed before every court in
Europe, and attained great celebrity in his profession.
In the House of Commons there are 2 Admirals, 1 Ge-

neral, 1 Lieutenant-General, 7 Major-Generals, 22 Colo-
nels, 32 Lieutenant-Colonels, 7 Majors, 67 Captains of
the army and navy, 12 Lieutenants, and 2 Cornets, mak-

ing a total of 153 legislators interested in the consump-
tion of gunpowder. k

A PRESENT FROM THE SUTLEJ.—A young man named
Bradshaw, corporal in the 10th regiment of infantry, son

of Mr. Bradshaw, Nottingham, has written a
father from the bank of the Sutlej, in which he incloses,
as a present, a handful of hair he says he dragged from the
head of a dead Sikh, after the battle of Aliwal
The royal gardens at Cumberland Lodge are to be bro-
ken up ; the materials of the orangeries, the hot-houses,
and the vinery, are directly to be sold. The celebrated

Letter to

vine of Cumberland Lodge, nearly 100 feet in length,
which produced last year upward ; of two thousand bunches
of grapes, has been commanded to be preserved.
At the Stafford Assizes, Mr. Dickenson, a medical prac-
titioner, charged with manslaughter in causing the death
of Mrs. Hickman, whom be attended in her confinement,
was acquitted. It appeared that there is a difference
among gentlemen of the profession as to two modes of
treatment in cases such as that which has terminated fa-
tally.
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SINGULAR COMBAT.—A Curious incident occurred at
Revesby a few days since. A rook in search of food
alighted on the premises of Mr. Robert Proctor, farmer,
and was immediately attacked by a fine cock ; a battle en-
sued, which lasted for some minutes, when the rook
proved the conqueror, having actually killed chanticleer
upon his own dunghill. . .

Two men, named Macgregor and Inglis, have been tried
at Edinburgh, charged with carrying on an extensive and
combined system of swindling upon the citizens. Not
less than 100 witnesses were examined on the part of the
crown, and the jury being satisfied of the guilt of the.pri-
soners, Macgregor was sentenced to ten, and Inglis to

seven years' transportation.
SQUARING THE CIRCLE.--A party is said to have
died, leaving the sum of £lOO,OOO in trust, to the then
Lord Chancellor. for the benefit of the individual who
should clearly demonstrate the squaring of the circle ;
the interest, until the condition of the will is complied
with, to be paid to one of the colleges at Cambridge, it is
believed St. John's College.
A ROOKERY IN CHEAPSIDE.—It is a sins
that at the present time there are two crows' I
lofty tree at the corner of Wood-street, Cheapsidt

gulat fact,

nests on a
city

the-birds are mated. One day last week a furious fight
took place between the whole four of them, and
which ended in the partial demolition of one of the nests.
The damage has since been repaired.—Morning Post.

Mr. George Robins states that the rumour respecting
the sale of the Globe for £19,000 is not correct, inasmuch
as no sale has yet taken place. Such a sum, he says,
" would have a poor chance of possessing a journal, the
profits of which, if he is not mistaken, approach £lO,OOO
a year."
WEST INDIA YAMS.—A small importation of three
tons of this root has just been received from St. Kitts, to
ascertain its availability for purposes of food in this coun-
try, a great many of which have found their way to the
shops at the west end, where they are being sold as lux-
uries for the table. When cooked, either by roasting or
boiling, the root is much more nutritious than the potato,
nor is it possessed of any unpalatable qualities.
EARLY GRAPES.—A correspondent in the Gardener's
Chronicle of Saturday, who dates from near Conway, says :
—" I have now (March 17) on one vine, ten bunches of
grapes, almost ripe, and I may mention that the same vine
produced a good crop last summer. Some years ago, I
was not a little proud to have my first crop ripe by the
25th of June ; but this year I will be able to cut ripe
fruit by the 25th of March."
HUNG DY ACCIDENT.—On Monday, a boy named
Noakes, fourteen years of age, the son of a farmer, at
Ilellingley, Sussex, was found hanging in the hay-loft by
the lanthorn rope from a beam, and quite dead. It ap-
peared from the evidence, that the deceased was in the
habit of swinging by means of the lanthorn rope, putting
his head through a loose noose, and holding on with his
hands.

THE LATE STORM.—On the 25th ult., the district of
Cleveland, Yorkshire, was visited by an awful thunder
storm, during which a thunder-bolt descended at Newton-
Mulgrave, and shivered every pane in a new farm-house
to atoms, threw down a huge chimney, split one side of
the house in twain, together with a barn, prostrated the
tenant's wife and aged mother, and killed the youngest
child. A man was killed at Bilsdale by lightning.

FIGHT BETWEEN:WOMEN.—A most brutal fight took
place at West Stockwith, near Halifax,. Yorkshire, on
Friday last, between Sarah Howlett and Eliza Graham,
for £lO a-side, which was won by Howlett. The disgust-
ing scene was made much worse by their mothers acting
as bottle-holders, and supplying them at intervals with
drink. They fought an hour and fifteen minutes, until
the authorities came and separated them.

CLEARING OF LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
—On Wednesday last Mr. Kimpton superintended an ex-
tensive sale of timber, at Hoddesden, comprising 2647 oak
timber trees, and 6667 oak saplings. The object of the
noble owner, the Marquis of Salisbury, in disposing of this
large quantity of timber is to clear the land for agricultural
purposes. It is said that seven farms are to be created
out of the land which will be thus cleared.

LARGE OAK TREE.—There is nom growing on the
Crickie Farm, in the parish of Llangorse, an oak tree,
supposed to be the largest in Breconshire, if not in Wales,
It is 36 feet 3 inches in girth, and 30 feet 4 inches high.
The inside is hollow at the bottom, and there is sufficient
room within for six persons to dine comfortably. Mr.
Powell finds this place often very convenient to keep his
ploughs, harrows, :ind other implements in, while in field
use.—Hereford Journal.
COLLISIONS AT SEA.—During the severe gale that
prevailed in the early part of last week, several collisions
occurred off the north coast, between Yarmouth and
Shields. In three instances the vessels almost immedi-
ately foundered. TWO of these were the brigs Britannia,
of Shields, and the Gironde, of Sunderland ; both crews
saved. The third vessel was a schooner of about 150 tons,
name unknown, which was run into by a loaded coal brig,
trading to London, and before any assistance could be
rendered she had disappeared, carrying with her the
whole of her unfortunate crew, who have all perished.
DREADFUL DEATH.—On Friday night, a man about
60 years of age, named Edward Glover, moulder, slept in
a stove belonging to the Galvanised Iron Company,
which is situated close to their blast furnaces, when the
iron broke out from one of them, and ran through the
door-way into the stove where the deceased was lying,
and literally burnt him to a cinder. There was unluckily
but one door to the stove, which the iron blocked up, so
that the man's escape was impossible. The wall of the
stove was obliged to be pulled down to extricate the re-
mains of the deceased.—Worcester Journal.
THE BERKESWELL MURDER.—At Warwick, on Tues-
day morning. James Read was put on his trial for the
murder of Thomas Tranter, of Berkswell, near Coventry.
The prisoner is only eighteen years of age. It will be re-
membered that the deceased was found dead in his house,
his brains having been knocked out by a bill-hook, which
lay near the body. A young man, supposed to have been
the prisoner, was seen as if coming from the house ; and
there were various circumstances connected with his dis-
appearance from the neighbourhood calculated to involve
him in strong suspicion, &c. The jury consulted for five
minutes, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

AN INFERNAL MACHINE AT SHEFFIELD —On
Thursday morning an explosion took place at Carver-
street, Sheffield, which shook all the houses for some
hundred yards round. On examination, it was discovered
that it had been caused by an infernal machine, which had
been placed against Mr. Sanderson's cork manufactory.
The back windows of nine houses were completely shat-
tered, a brick wall levelled to the ground, and considera-
ble injury done to the mill and machinery. The explosion
was heard for several miles round, and the shock in the
immediate neighbourhood is said to have resembled an
earthquake, Fortunately no one was hurt. Suspicions
are entertained as to the guilty party.
FATAL PRESENTIMENT.—On Wednesday, Mr. Wak-
ley, M.P., concluded an inquest on the body of Mr.
Samuel Rowe Brooking, aged 38, a builder. The first
inquiry was twofold, as it comprised one on the body of
the deceased's wife, who expired the day after hi :death,
predicting that she should do so in the event of his de-
mise. The most extraordinary part of the affair was the
singular affection manifested by deceased's wife, who de-
clared her death should follow his, and when he died, she
continued to embrace and cling to his corpse during six
hours, and four hours after that expired herself. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect, that the deceased
had died from the effects of accidental injuries.

POTATOES.-Our Perth correspondent writes us :
"The potato trade still continuesi n a thriving state, and
prices on the abvance. During the whole of last week
prices varied from 16s. 6. to 18s. for the London market;
and prime qualities for seed realised in some few cases as
high as 275. According to accounts from the south on
Friday doubts were entertained if the immense quantities
shipped would not produce a reaction; but there was no
indication of such a result on Monday last, when good
specimens realised 16s. 6d. Fromithe number of farina
mills lately erected, some have conjectured that the stock
in the country is nearly exhausted ; we think, on the con-
trary, that it is not, and that the best is yet to come. We
know the crop in the Highlands is far above an average—
shut up in the recesses of the Grampians, on account of
the expense of transit; but 18s. per boll is too tempting for
their being stored up for no use, if means can be had to
drive them to market."—Edinburgh Register.

NARROW ESCAPE OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER CAP-
TURED BY THE SIKHS.—The following, says the Dublin
Packet, is an extract from a letter of one of our Indian
correspondents :—" One circumstance may be named
which will interest your readers, in reference to the escape
of Captain Biddulph, an active and enterprising officer of
the 45th, who had been taken prisoner. His sword was
demanded, and refused, taken from him, and again de-
manded, after this indication of his inability to offer any
resistance. Again he refused to yield it, and a gallows
was ordered to be raised to intimidate him. The Sikhs

changed their minds, and determined to blow him from
one of the guns, to which he was accordingly chained, and
preparations made. The action just then interfered, and
called off the whole body of the Sikh troops, who left
Captain Biddulph chained to the gun. One of the Sikhs
offered to conduct him to the Governor-General's camp,
if he would give him 1000 rupees, and not take arms again,
to which he acceded, an,!, was released and conducted to
Sir H. Hardinge, who at once paid the amount."
RIOT AND FORCIBLE ENTRANCE.—A few days since,
at the village of Holmsfield, in North Derbyshire, a curi-
ous outrage took place. It appears that Isaac Tomlinson,
a respectable schoolmaster, resided with his wife, in a
school, having bees appointed to the situation by trustees

parties in the village seem to have doubted the validity of
the appointment—and being anxious to instal a man of
their own choice into the office, assembled in a body on

rying every thing moveable into the highway, even to the
coals and potatoes in the cellar, dragging Mr. Tomlinson
by the legs down stairs—and after turning everybody out
of the house, committed the indecent assault upon his
wife, which was detailed in the evidence given before th
magistrate

From the number of men implicated in tl
transaction, the local constables were afraid to undertake
their apprehension, and the Sheffield police had to be sen
for, who succeeded in capturing ten of the rioters, who China...... .. Jan. 3
were committed for trial at the next Derby Aesizes. Demerara.. .. Feb. 1
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circuit. A young woman, 22 years of age, was delivered La Guayra. Feb. 23 ~

of a child in-the ledbury workhouse. Being very poor.
and without friends to assist her, she had no means of
clothing her infant. Clothes however were

,upplied

knew they would be taken away on her departure, such
being the cu.torn of the union. She therefore cut up a
portion of_ her own garments to cover the child, and, on

the seventeenth day after her confinement voluntarily left
the place. The day was cold and wet. The woman was
faint and weak. She appears to have wandered about for
some time, and finally left the child in a ditch. Here it
was found, and proper remedies administered, notwith-
standing which it died within a month. The woman was
tried for murder and acquitted. Mr. Baron Platt, in
leaving the case to the jury, animadverted strongly upon
what he justly called the " iron rules" of the workhouse,
" whose officers were_ prohibited from furnishing any

clothing whatever to a helpless naked infant quitting their
roof." . - -

EXECUTION.—On Wednesday, at Leicester, William
Hubbard expiated his offence in front of the county
bridewell. He seemed perfectly indifferent to his fate
until Saturday week, when by acme means he obtained a
brick, and made an attempt to strike the constable. He
was then handcuffed. On the Sunday

previous to his

execution, whilst the chaplain of the' b'orough gaol was
reading the commandments, when he came to " Thou
shalt do no murder," Hubbard rose from his seat, at:t:!

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coolly remarked, "Do you want to hurt my feelings?"
He made another remark, also tending to show his indis-
position
position to avail himself of the spiritual advit

chaplain. Every attempt was made to render him alive
to his awful situation, but he appeared determined to resist,
and as he was led from his cell to the drop, whilst the rev.
chaplain was reading the funeral service, he gave utter-
ance to an expression showing his disapprobation of that
part of the ceremony. He then ascended the drop,
which was at a considerable elevation ; the rope was at-
tached to the beam, and in less than a minute he was
launched into eternity, the only remark he made being
addressed to those around him. He said—" Gentleman,
I have had an unfair trial, and an unjust sentence,"
which he repeated twice. He died almost without a
struggle. There wexe 20,000 persons present.

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