The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

em bro,

• .1 -
and ship and insurance agent
aersonal and practical knowl'

'epreser

AT qEt"--

ESCAPE --
Annabelle, Mr. John Patterson cosio
passage home,from Trinidad to Clyde's
she was one day goihg through, the
about three knots an hour, with a.t
shark was observed following the veth
was immediately called for, bait,ed olho
and thrown over the side, when the 8 iv
hold of it, and was hooked. As is usb,
a bowling hitch was passed round thev
by the mate, to secure it. While in the
the mate, Mr. Dow, now. commanclel,"t
lost his balance. fell averboard, and -id
sack of the sbark—thas both shark ko
' - liiaQter, Sees

iended by the rope.
danger to which his mate was eNT-"'
taking hold of a rope in one hand,,e.t
by the other. At this moment, in 'aiti
got clear of the hook, but before it ""
on its back, as it is under the nece'
instep
can seize its prey, the master and instepon deck by those on board.—Whenllolo
deck he was as pale as death, and a'
Glasgow Mail. '5l
QUARTERLY RETURN OF THE i'„led,
—The quarterly return, just puhos 16491
uarter which ended September, 9, 00
rife, the r lie I
—and even in proportion to sof
es in the corresponding quarter
every quarter since the sum eft
mers of 1839, 1844-5-6. birt
ified in Cheshire and Locos jo
1, Middlesex, and other plecea%lo
ipton, Liverpool, Leeds, and
1 severely from cholera, tbe,T
1. The births in the metroP°ll
Liverpool, and in Hull, where io
summer quarter, were fewer
of 1849, than in the COrresP
The deaths in Cheshire and
er ending December 31, IS'''.
age. In Liverpool this was strii'l
hths in that quarter being 1,847, 3,
Rresponding quarter of 1848,
,‘enu,t
.ponding quarter of 1847. In ‘;,.,,,e'ber‘
were 834, against 1,030 in the Dece,',-0A"
" A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER vele
CER OUTWITTED.—The quiet 11,
was visited, a few nights sinctcel
in the form of a sheriff's Pi,eir
from Leeds, in quest of t'
whom they had arcertaired to be tenj,,
under the roof of a friend resident in

Lien chol

caPturcc,

Expecting to make an easy _
" century behind the age" a place as:t'ati
wended their way from the railsraY -nog
(some two miles or thereabouts), c 4.100
for the rain which was falling on
anticipations of the pleasure they nisiol
at last taking undes their kind an Their
tion their unsuspecting victim. '-',,„ pVA
was to forward to the house of tiii;e9,
Mr. - was staying a parcel aci'' 01.4'
appearance of which, however, was °t
diately to put both host and gnOsitiji"
Shortly after the delivery of the afarefori
as the object of search was retiring, ",0?),,
knock at the door caused our friend :olt
in the direction of his bedroom nertV`
tho view of effecting his escape t Y
,
medium of the window than by COW.fe

. biuuthers light " on his pillow; 't
,entative of the majesty of the ls"tC
every nook and corner of the hoilse?
ota
safely domiciled under the hosppoo,
resident about a mile out of S—• tedioo
all the livelong night, keeping a roosr
watch on the place where they etili jjef,
of their solicitude to be secreted, ouArAp
hied back to Leeds on the following ""ble'
intended prey, and affording a memo
Roland for au Oliver."—LeedsOljeiiessV4
LETTERS AND ATITOGRAPHS. g
Simpson, of Piccadilly, were selling, 100
varied and highly interesting Collec'
autographs of distinguished charaetel;ll,9
curious lots were the following :—L3• 0014
cel of letters and documents illustraticto
inventories of her valuables ,• sale cpc,
Nelson's effects ; jewellers' bills, (a„er
order with hair, £3 Bs. ;) curiousls;cif
bill of sale to J. Smith, signed by -'-'„eiltu.o
Memorial presented to the Prince Rebtioli d
ton, urging her claims to the atteartiad
alleging that she had spent, in su,,PP:oofol
the British consulate at Naples, xl;',ki
£30,000 of her husband's fortune, WO
Nelson to pursue and destroy the 'l'l4
which neither would nor could basic„ 1"(;'
for the aid memorialist procured
a detailed account of her services, an 0'12)
she might have exercised an economy r pi(
of Naples that would have secured her
yet such calculation she would have g,
nal prudence under the circumstance red
was to maintain the dignity of ouori,to
master, to advance his interests an valf,'l
and alleviate the toils of his brave, !°011",01
tent clime. In place of hoarding at ,010
sions, it was my sole pride, my gl9if,blild
to have expended what private file,' eV '0
for my own immediate comforts.' iitoOd
would ever keep telling Sir W. 11,10 01)
the world, that the battle of the .01 0)
his." This interesting lot was sold for co
ortof
an autograph letter, two pages qu -00
loft hand, and dated, "The Victory, 'fp
relating to his contemplated attaclqo
norca, and particulars of his intende;',;(stero
£1 Gs. M. Guizot, the French intends
Russell, May 10, 1839, requesting lA° go
could be obtained as to the life of
doe,
for whom he professed high admire ,00gued
Parr, December 17, 1792—a very 'of
letter, relating to the unsettled sts,ta,, 01,0
period, with two letters of Mr.
sions entertained by the doctor aisratolloid
king, &c., £1 6s. Duke of We'''tioo,
Peel, July 30, 1828, as to the transla pcofd
London to the see of CanterburlisoeP
Chester to that of London, with Sir
meat, £1 4s. in Ale)
THE BORNEAN PHLATES."'"rap-- -tsfg
bell, who has been at sea for forty ioceA,4l,,
which were passed in the Indian
,01P,
Archipelago, writes to the Times tOrOF i 1
seas " swarm with piratical pro or,cll
numbers of bloodthirsty savages,oed
every man of them carrying a PO's'9o3 if
everlastingly on the look-out for u° „off or/
sels, or traders .of any description:l;oo:A
in boarding her, woe to the eafT„,ortie
they master them, they invariabq te
cri 01
Olive and scuttle the vessel.' eore b0,'04
compliment to Mr. Smith, who aFP,ici or di
meeting, (as reported in our lest,) lice it
Isi6xotoeenofmtehne,sefoupgirhatthesis, schiappstuaieneescsietill
three different occasions I have hah, the
on two others T have been chased wcfecosioofil
off the coast of Borneo. On old in o'l 11,4?
of their boats, on another 58; a to floil
had with them I lost my only sorb ,
dec., • 0.
and-twenty as ever stepped a 014 r,
crew, all of them killed, too, viltli,4 ri,cl,co6ll
was not five miles from the Screed in 19
occasion I was desperately wow' boa", t
othfrmeeymreunnnkiinllgedr,ibggesinidgescarmYri!deu;%.--111.417;.04
know, too, that between 1826 euct. cl,Peleo
English vessels were attacked, five
pad peattrlif
and every man on board murdered co.
Dutch and foreign ships, besides !alp
wrecked on the coast of 'Borneo4seso„ele,r,d
slaves—ay, and some good EDP! to 13°1,014
thetoo.
most Think
cruelof p
ethat,
lep
not five years ago, the Dutch sertie to her
protect their trade, things had co
'"upoe.mooty
Oenir,t—hesofladcolacoftiot ogiareci:o,,
these Bornean pirates came do,w,r coil rep
attacked her in thousands, killed an two, who contrived to eseapt_bicha" 3e1.4
Afters uch doings, of the truth 0 ri.oll ,
it is enough to make one's blooc,):0100
lubbers as Mr. Sturge and Mr- 1/,..cijog9,A /4t
James Brooke's atrocious proccolty, pp
of • cold-blooded butchery, cillass.ol4
is all very well to use foul langsZoeo,,,ooiiih,rl,
quite safe, but I know Sir Jasylfne of 4,4qL ,v4rTith_
full well, too, that there wilsllabnyder 91310-1 1 '"t Sint
crew that met yesterday to e word a9cd%o at 91
would dare to have uttered onewn knocroo,o 1,1411
been in England. From ° tb°,„,210
there is not a kinder, better. 12,11,0 .13hw
or a braver Man alive than Sir