The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The first iron sailing ship of war ever built, the Recruit,
12 guns, was launched at Blackwell, on Wednesday.
Prince Castelcicala, the Neavolitan ambassador. was
present at the debate in the Lords on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, a man aged seventy committed suicide by
jumping off the cliff at Ramsgate.

ne hay Arrest has commenced all round Birmingham,
and a better crop was scarcely ever known.
No less than 2,000 pictures have this year been ex-
cluded from the Royal Academy's exhibition through
the want of room.

Within the last fortnight no less than six persons be-
longing to Worcester and the nei;hbourhood have been
drowned whilst bathing.

On Friday a lady fell to the ground, in Regent-street,
London, from the effect of a sun-stroke

She was re-

stored by medical aid

Lord Cowley, her Majesty's ambassador at the Court
of the Tuillieries, arrived in London on Tuesday evening,
in order to vote on the corn bill.

There has been over 50,000 mackerel in a few days
taken off Portland, Dorsetshire. On other parts of the
coast the fishermen have met with even greater success.
A hovel in Timberland Fen, a few miles from Horn-
castle, Lincolnshire, was set on fire by lightning during a
storm on Sunday week, and consumed.
The tobacco-pipe makers of London and its vicinity
have determined to cease from work, from and after the
13th instant, unless their rate of pay be increased.
A young gentleman and two females were drowned in
the Thames, near Battersea, on Thursday, by the upset-
ting of a boat which be was rowing.
Many of Lord Morpeth's supporters in the West Ri-
ding of Yorkshire, are so offended with his votes on the
Factary Bill, that they will not vote for him again.
On Friday last. Mr. Palmer's mare trotted three miles
in harness under eleven minutes, on the Holloway-road,
and won her match, which was not to exceed that time.
A female infant was last week accidentally smolhered
in Birmingham, from the pressure of its face upon the
pillow during sleep.
The mechanics of Greenock are at present engaged in
getting up a penny subscription to give Sir it. Peel a
mark of respect for his measures of free trade.
Lord Gough, the sheriff of India, succeeds on the death
of Colonel Bunbury, to an estate of £2300 a year, left to
his lordship by the late Mr. Banbury, M.P. for Carlow.
In accordance with an official circular issued from the
Home-office, prison discipline and prison diet will hence-
forth be rigidly enforced with respect to debtors commit..
ted for &mil.fide frauds against creditors.

The sailor, named Payne, who was lately found in a
tent, rn me gardens of Buckingham Palace, was again
discovered there, and immediately transmitted to his ship
at Portsmouth, to be punished_as a deserter.

Fine ripe cherries imported from Holland have been
sold at Sunderland during the week at eight pence per
pound, and new potatoes from the south in great abun-
dance at four shillings per peck.
The Gazette of Tuesday announces that the Royal li-
cense has been granted to Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid,
Bart., to use the title of Baron de Goldsmid and de Pal-
meira, conferred on him by the Queen of Portugal.
Persons cleaning glass bottles with shot, should be
most careful not to leave any of the shot in the bottles, as
the arsenic, which enters largely into their composition,
is disengaged by wine, porter, or any acid.
DR. WOLF F.-Sir R. Peel has granted Dr. Wolff a sum
of £4OO in order to enable the reverend gentleman to
repay certain advances made by Captain Grover towards
his expenses when travelling to Bokhara.
The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
have decided that slaveholding did not constitute a sin
which rendered it necessary to renounce communion with
those guilty of it. They have, therefore, returned the
money subscribed in the slave states of America.
An unnatural parent was fined £5 the other day by the
Huddersfield magistrates, for forging a certificate of bap-
tism, with the intent of enabling his daughter, who was
under age, to work in a factory. The child had been exa-
mined once and refused, because under age, in conse-
quence of which the certificate was forged.
The Standard of Friday says :—The debate on Lord
Stanhope's amendment was adjourned, but whatever the
fate of that amendment, we believe we are safe in congra-
tulating our readers upon the assurance that the bill will
never pass through the House of Lords.—The Morning
Herald of Saturday makes a similar announcement still
more confidently.

REFRESHMENTS AT FUNERALS.--The Edinburgh
Town Council has agreed to give their countenance and
support to the movement for abolishing refreshments at
funerals. All the ministers, of every denomination, in
Edinburgh and Leith, have likewise thrown their influ-
ence into the movement.

A careful examination of the three dead bodies which
were discovered in a case at the warehouse of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, a short time since, has been made by
Mr. Wilson, and it turns out that they were the bodies of
three American Indians which had been embalmed and
for some time busied. They had been disinterred and
sent to this country as a curiosity.
Reports from all parts of the country speak strongly on
the beneficial effect which the recent warm weather, and
occasional showers of rain, have had on the growing crops'
both of grain and grass. The hay harvest has commenced
in various parts of this and the neighbouring co'inties,
with every prospect of a large and well-got crop being ob-
tained.

PILL-BOXES AND LUCIFER MATCHES.—III the com-
mittee on the Oldham District Railway Bill on Wednes-
day, Mr. Nightingale, a manufacturer of lucifer matches
and pill-boxes, at Newton-heath, stated that he uses 600
tons of and'

_ timber, and that he employs 300 persons on an
average throughout the year; and he exports to all piles
of Europe and North America and Australia, besides
sending large quantities to every part of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland.

FOREIGN GRAIN.—AII the grain warehouses in Leith
are full, and carg es have been sent to considerable dis-
tances for lodgment. At present 130 more lofts are filled
than ever have been at any former period. The quantity
under customs lock and key just now is 200,000 quarters,
being equal to the entire yearly produce of at least 220 of
our East or Mid Lothian farms ; or the product of 55,000
acres of the finest soil ; or the barn-yard average would
be about 14,300 stacks.—Edinburgh Register.
Lord George Bentinck having expressed his wish that
the £2,100 which was subscribed in the year 1844 for the
purpose of a testimonial to his Lordship, should be ap-
propriated for the advantage 'of trainers and riders of
good character, the committee intend to lay the founda-
tion of an efficient fund for the benefit of trainers and
jockeys, their widows and children, to be called the " Ben-
tinck Fund," t.nd for which purpose further donations
are being contributed.
SAILOR BEES.—A most remarkable circumstance oc-
curred on board the Lindsay steamer, on her passage from
Hull to Gainsborough, on Friday week. When she
reached opposite Gunthorpe, a large swarm of bees settled
on her, taking up their position near the chimney, where
they remained as passengers till she reached her destina-
tion ; they were then conveyed to Captain Jonson's gar-
den, Little Church Lane, and may now be seen gathering
honey " from every opening flower."—Hull Advertiser.
" THE DERBY.i'—A jolly Boniface, residing not fifty
miles from Boston, having heard mighty talk of the run
for " the Derby," imbibed an irresistible desire to be an
eye witness of this much talked of race. Accordingly,
supposing that " the Derby" must be run for at Derby,
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IBRAHIM PACHA'S DIAMONDS.--The diamonds
brought over by Ibrahim Pacha are of enormous value,
some of them are as large as the half of a hazel nut. The
state Lobes of scarlet and gold are gorgeous, and the hilt
of the scymitar is ornamented with jewels of great value.
The trumpets, drums, and other military emblems with
which it is ornamented being brilliants of the finest water,
and in the centre of the hilt is a diamond of very large
size. His pipe is of great size, and studded with dia-
monds.

ALARMING FIRE.—A fire of the most alarming kind,
and which has led to the destruction of property to the
value of between £35.000 and £40,000, occurred at Bristol,
on Thursday. It originated in some extensive premises
at Counterslip, which run back to the wall of the floating
harbour, and are occupied by Messrs. Finzell and Son, as
a sugar refinery. The entire premises, with the valuable
machinery and immense stock of sugars, were destroyed.
The books of the firm were fortunately secured. The
property was only partially insured.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday week, Thomas
Arnett, of Shensall, near York, bad a double barrelled
gun in his pockets, the stock being on one side of him and
the barrels on the other, and as he was fastening a gate
through which he had passed the barrels fell out of his
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TFIE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.—It is not only in the
Conservative party that there is a split; division has also
crept into the opposition camp. A very considerable

the opposition benches have resolved not to join in any
vote the obvious object of which is merely to place Sir
Robert Peel in a minority, and so endanger the passing of
the Corn Law Bill. Considerably more than thirty
liberals have already pledged themselves to this course, and
there is reason to believe that this number will increase
They consist chiefly of the free trade nartv.—Times.

EXTRAORDINARY MUSHROOM.—On Saturday week,
James Stubb, of Buglawton, near Congleton, was some—
what surprised that one of the flags just within the
threshold of his door had been so far displaced
invisible agency, that it had become almost impossible
open or shut the door

this strange effect tt

by some

To discover the hidden cause of
was removed, and underneath

it was found a fife mushroom, measuring nearly half a
yard in circumference. The flag which was thus pushed
from its place by the upstart fungus, was two feet long by
eighteen inches wide, and two inches thick !—Macclesfield
Courier.

MELANcnotr ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening,
Mrs. Eliza Ackroyd, wife of Mr. William Ackroyd,
painter, and third daughter of Mr. M. Cawood, of Otley,
Yorkshire, went with some others down to the river
Whirfe, Otley, for the purpose of bathing her own and
some of her neighbours' children. She and a young
woman pulled off their shoes and stockings, and went a
short distance into the water, and having bathed two of
Mrs. Parkinson's children, she was attempting to dip an
orphan girl nine years old, of the name of IN dson, who
was too strong for her, and they both fell bead 'foremost
into the river, which in that part is very deep. A man
hearing the screams, went to the place, and succeeded in
rescuing the little girl, but the poor woman was unfortu-
nately drowned.
A FAMILY POISONED BY A GLAZED DISH.—On Sa-
turday, a family in Berwick were exposed to an alarming
accident from a simple cause. The mother of three chil-
dren bought in the market-place a large earthen dish,
which she immediately put to use by sending it to the
bakehouse with a quantity of fish to bake. After the
meal had been prepared, the entire family, (consisting of
the mother, two sons, and a daughter), partook of it, and
shortly afterwards they became seriously ill, and exhibited
signs of being poisoned. A surgeon applied proper anti-

recovering

The cause is sup-
posed to have consisted in the material used for coating
the ware not being properly mixed, and too great a quan-
tity of white lead being used in the compound.—G
Courier

WEST INDIA FRUIT.—The public sale of pine-apples
and greengages, the latter a first experiment, from the
West Indies, brought borne by the Tweed, steamer, took
place on Wednesday. A f,reat portion of the pine-apples
was in excellent preservation, and the first qualities sold
at from 14s. to 155., but the bulk of them were from 3s.
to is. each. Last year plants were sent out from this
country, which will much improve the quality, and there
seems no doubt but the current of consumption will be
diverted entirely from New York to the home market.
This is establishing a new branch of colonial commerce
to mutual advantage, as the returns to the Bahamas are
all made in manufactured goods. The green-gages sold
at 355. per cwt. • and as this article will be extensively
available for making wine, and other similar purposes,
and has been imported in beautiful condition, there can
be no doubt of the demand becoming extensive.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A private letter from an
officer of the Herald, surveying frigate, Captain Kellet,
C. 8., in the Pacific, relates the melancholy death of Mr.
Edmonstone, the naturalist of the expedition, which took
place under the following lamentable circumstances :—ln
January last, Mr. Edrnonstone ; the assistant' surgeon,
Mr. Billing; the purser, Mr. Scroggs ; the clerk, and
others, proceeded on shore in the Bay of Panama, for the
purpose of collecting some specimens of birds, plants, &c.
When the party returned to the boat the fowling pieces
were laid down in the bottom of it, and among them a
loaded musket. A cadet in stepping in trod on the lock
of this piece, when by some means or other the gun ex-
ploded, and the muzzle being inclined towards the clerk,
the ball passed through the fleshy part of his arm, and
then entering the back part of Mr. Edenon,tone's head, it
passed obliquely through, traversing the brain and killing
him on the spot.

lIYDROPATHY.—On Tuesday, the inquest on Mr.
Dresser, who, as we stated last week, was alleged to have
died from improper treatment at the hydropathic esta-
blishment of Dr. Ellis, at Sudbrooke Park, was resumed.
The evidence went to show that the deceased had for
the last three weeks been subject, as he considered, to
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medical treatment, and in consequence, his wife was indu-
ibli,hraent at Sudbrooke park, Petersham, Surrey. The
deceased went to Dr. Ellis's establishment on Friday
week last, and was there subjected to the water system of
treatment, under which he died on the following Tuesday.
The jury returned a verdict. " That Mr. Dresser's death
resulted from the rash treatment he received under Dr.
Ellis's care. We are unanimous in a verdict of man-
slaughter against Dr. Ellis," The coroner then bound
over Dr. Ellis in the sum of £5OO, and two sureties in
£250 each, to take his trial on the charge of manslaughter.
THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND SLAVERY.--
Much interest has been latterly felt in Scotland, and sharp
disputes have existed. respecting the course to be adopted
by the free church with regard to the money collected for
its benefit by some of the Presbyterian churches in Ame-
rica, which defend the institution of slavery. On the
opening of the general assembly of the free church at
Edinburgh, cries were even uttered by some persons who
witnessed the procession,—" Send back the money ! send
back the money !" On Saturday week, several petitions
were presented to the general assembly, requiring that
body to testify against the sin of slaveholding,, by disowning
fellowship with those churches in America who lend it
their sanction. These petitions excited a lively debate.
and speeches were delivered by Drs. Candish and Cun-
ningham, in which, without attempting to defend the in-
stitution of slavery, they maintained that slaveholding did
not constitute a sin which rendered it necessary to renounce
communion with those guilty of it. The general assembly
concurred in this view of the subject, and the report ori-
ginally given on the subject was adopted.
THE BURDEN OF TITHE.—The select committee of
the Lords, in their published report, have reckoned
tithes among the other burdens on real property. On
whose real property can tithes be considered a burden ?
Not on that of the tithe-owner himself, for that would be
an absurdity : they are treated as his real property, and.
taxed accordingly. Not on that of the landowner; for
the committee, in almost the same paragraph, acknowledge
that the landowner has no claim to the property of the
titheowner. But the select committee seem to imagine
that the Tithe Commutation Act has made that a burden
which was not such before. It would be enough, perhaps,
to ask if that act was passed on the petition of the tithe-
owners; but it is also fair to add that the titheowner is
deprived by it of any benefit from the increase of produce
arising from improved cultivation, being left subject, not-
withstanding, to that depreciation in value which is the
natural consequence, and which is now looked forward to
with such alarm. His condition is deteriorated both with.
respect to his former state and to that of the landowner;
and should that fall in prices take place which some anti-
cipate, it will soon be discovered that his real property,
instead of being a burden on others, is more heavily bur-
dened that of any other parties.
THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST.—A. return has been
made this week, in pursuance of an address of the House
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ords, of the number of males employed in agriculture,
s occupiers and labourers, in 1831 and in 1811. From
this return it appears that whilst in 1831, with a popula-
tion in Great Britain of 1G,539,518, there were

Of occupiers
Of labourers

355,890
887,167

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there were only. in 1841, when the population had
increased to 18,720,394,
Of occupiers
Of labourers

826,367
881.622

In all only

1,207,989

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Here, in ten years, is an extra population of more than
two millions to be provided for, whilst agriculture, instead
of increasing the number of its labourers, or of its occu-
piers, is diminishing both. In 1811, the agriculturists
seem to have amounted to thirty-five per cent. of the
population. In 1821, their per centage fell to thirty-one;
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drunkard will soon stand alone, an object of scorn and
contempt, no longer countenanced by society as a good
fellow, nor tolerated on the score of conviviality, he will
pass his life of vice without friendship, pointed at as a
thing to be avoided and despised, and stagger into a pre-
mature grave unpitied and unwept. Although the health
must be benefited by the adoption of temperate habits,
yet great caution should be observed, as a sudden absence
from stimulants sometimes produces so altered an action
in the stomach, liver, and bilary secretions, that consti-
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excellent aperient Frampton's Fill of Health.

For LONDONDERRY,

CALLING OFF PORTRUSH, the GIANT'S
CAUSEWAY, and the ADJACENT PORTS,
The new aMnAIDd poENwerfuCITY, l Steam.packet
""'""' RICHARD CROMPTON, Commander.
Intended hours of sailing, from the Clarence DOck Basin :
Three Times in the Fortnight,

FROM LIVERPOOL
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All Goods to be alongside one hour before the time of sailing,
Apply to JOHN MUNN Foyle-street, Londonderry, or to
WILLIAM MOORE, 35, Water-street.

FOR DUBLIN, BELFAST, BANGOR,
BEAUMARIS, and CARNARVON.
THE CITY OF DUBLINSTEAM-PACKET
COMPANY,
INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
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The above Company sail their Vessels, (with or without
Pilots,) taking Goods and Pa
DUBLlNssengers.
For ,
THIS DAY, June 16. at 3 o'clock P.M.
WEDNESDAY, ~ 17, 4. ~ P.M.
THURSDAY, 18, 5 ~ P.M.
FRIDAY, ~ 19, 6 „ P.M.
SATURDAY, ~ 20, 7
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MONDAY, ~ 22, P.M.
Tim PRINCE, PRINCTSS, IRON DUKE, or other First
Class Steamers, sail EVERY EVENING, at Seven o'clock, from
George's Pierhead, LIVERPOOL, for KINGSTOWN HAR-
BOUR, carrying Her Majesty!, Mail and Cabin Passengers
081. V.
They also sail their Cargo Vessels (as below) from the Clarence
Dock to DUBLIN QUAY: • •
BELFAST,
The W I N D S O R.
WEDNESDAY, June 17, at 4 o'clock P.M.
SATURDAY, ~ 20, at 8 ~
Returning from BELFAST to LIVERPOOL every MONDAY
and THURSDAY.
For BANGOR, BEAUMARIS,
,and,CARNARVON,

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The PRINCE OF WALES,
W. H. WARREN, Commander,
Sails from GEORGE'9, PIERHEAD, LIVERPOOL, On TUESDAYS,
THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS, at Eleven o'clock, Morning.
Further information given at the Company's Office, 24, Water-
street. JOHN K. ROVNTHWAITE, Agent.

TAIPORTANT LETTER received by Mrs. Kearsley,
Proprietress of the only Genuine WIDOW WELCH'S
FEMALE PlLLS.—Madam,—Susan Smith, of Baumber, wishes
me to write to acknowledge your kindness for the two Boxes of
Pills. She is now in her twentieth year, and has been for the
last.six years in a very delicate state of health ;- she has had the
best Medical advice that could be suggested, and the, benefit of
the Dispensary, but all to no avail, and given up as incurable,
supposing her complaint would terminate in consumption.
She heard of the manyvirtues of your Female Pills, and sent to
my shop- for a box, which gave her relief; she tried another
[ continued recovering: as she could not afford more,
'led me to write you, and the two boxes you had the
s to forward, has effected a total cure. She is now in
"'I and capable of engaging a situation in servitude.

She wishes me further to
knowledge her gratitude.

te, that She cannot sufficiently ac-

I have the honour to be, Madam, your obedient servant,
D. CUSSONS,
Bookseller and Medicine Vendor, Horncastle.
3d August, 1844.
These Pills, so long and justly celebrated for their peculiar
virtues, are strongly recommended to the notice of every lady,
having obtained the sanction and approbation of most gentle-
men of the Medical profession, as a safe and valuable Medicine
in effectually removing obstructions, and relieving all other
inconveniences to which. the female frame is liable, especially
those which, at an early period of life, frequently arise from
want of exercise and general debility of the system. They
create an appetite, correct indigestion, remove giddiness and
nervous headache, and are eminently useful in windy disorders,
pains in 'the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpitation of
the heart ; being perfectly innocent, they may be used with
safety in all seasons and climates.
It is neceassary, owing to the numerous imitations, to inform
the public that Kearsley's is the only original and genuine me-
dicine of this description ever made, and has been prepared by
them for more than fifty years l Purchasers are particularly
requested to remark, that, as a testimony of authenticity, each
bill of directions contains an affidavit, and bears the signature
of " C. Kearsley" in writing, also engraved on the government
stamp ; and each box is wrapped in white paper.
Sold, wholesale and retail, by J. SANGER, 150, Oxford-
street, London; price 2s. 9d. per box; and by Mr. Carter,
Bold-street ; Messrs. Johnson, and Rawle, Church-street ; Mr.
Priestley, Lord-street ; Scholfield, Peter Roberts, M‘Guffie,
Troughton, Wagstaff, Liverpool; and all respectable Medicine
Vendors throughout the Country.