The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

Tns WEAVER.—The project for limiting the sacred
day of rest on the River Weaver navigation to twelve
hours is for the present averted ; arid the proposal now
comes in a very modified form, inasmuch as application
is only made to the trustees for permission to run the
boats till two o'clock on Sunday morning. There is no
fear, however, that the by-laws will be altered.

THe CHURCH OF RomE.—There are now throughout
the world 147 Catholic archbishops, 584 bishops, 71 vicars
apostolical, nine prefi.cts, three apostolicals, and 3,267
missionaries. The number cf faithful may amount to
200,000.000,000. In the course of the present century
(from 1800 to 1842) forty new episcopal sees bad been
created.—Times.

BATHS AND WASH-SOUSES FOR THE LABOURING
CLASSES.—A public meeting in favour of these establish-
ments was held on 'Wednesday last, in the Mansion-
house, London. The Lord Mayor presided, and amongst
those present were the Bishop of London, Archdeacon
Wilberforce, Archdeacon Hale, Sir G. Larpent, Sir I. F.
Goldamid, Sir W. Clay, Mr. Byng, M.P., Mr. Colqu-
houn, M.P., Mr. Salomons, &c. The resolutions were
passed unanimously.
VOIDING AN ALDERMAN'S ELECTION.—The election
of Mr. Salomons, a Jew, as alderman for the ward of
of Portsoken, in the city of London has been declared
void, by a court of alderm,n held on Tuesday last, in
consequence of that gentleman's refusal to make the de-
claration, which he is required to make "on the true faith
of a christian," previously to his taking upon himself the
duties of the office to which he had been appointed. Hr.
Moon and Mr. Bousfield are candidates for the vacant
aldermanship.

COLLISION Al SEA.—During Thursday night week, a
collision, though not attended with loss of life, took
place off Whitby, at about eleven o'clock,. The brig
Normandy, Mr. Smales, master, while on her passage
from London to Stockton, was run into by a vessel un-
known. Both met with considerable force, and the Nor-
mandy sunk soon afterwards in deep water, the crew
saving themselves by taking to the long-boat. The other
vessel having bore away, her name could not be ascer-
tained, nor what injury she bad sustained.

CAUTION.—The Chester Courant very properly cau-
tions the inhabitants of the Principality against an edition
of the New Testament in the Welsh language, lately pub-
lished by Mr. W. Bayley, of Wrexiam. It contains
foot-notes to each page, one of which on Romans xiii. 1.
2., being literally translated, runs thus—" Circumstances
are very often met with, which make lawful a rebellion
against the authorities of the country." Mr. Bayley is
of the sect called Anabaptists; a promoter of the " Bri-
tish School" at Wrexham, and other kindred institutions
for disseminating the principles of liberalism and dissent.
BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH REGISTRATION.—GREAT
DEFEAT OF LEAGUERS ANT/ CHARTISTS.—The revising
barrister, Mr. J. D. Burnaby, terminated his labours on
Saturday. The result of the revision is, that of the 1,439
claims made by the leaguers and chartists, there have
been admitted in the parish of Birmingham 13 only; in
the parish df Aston there were 291 claims made by leaguers
and chartists, and 35 allowed ; total 49, leaving 1.681
claims disallowed! The leaguers and chartists made ex-
traordinary efforts to support their "claims."—Birming-
ham Advertiser.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On the 16th instant, an
inquest was held at Alprabam on view of the body of
Elizabeth Astbury, a married woman, aged 39, who was
killed by the early train from Crewe, on the previous
Tuesday. She was a native of Stoke, and had been to
visit her friends at Manchester, which she left, in de-
pressed spirits on the previous day. She was found dead,
and the body dreadfully mutilated, on the rails at Chol-
mondeston, by an engineer of the Grand Junction Com-
pany. The jury returced a verdict of " accidental death,"
and imposed a nominal deodand on the train.
DEATH OF A POACHER —On Sunday week a notorious
poacher, of the name of Joseph Henshall, aged 25, was
killed by the accidental discharge of his gun whilst poach-
ing at Northen Etchells, in Cheshire. The family of
deceased have suffered considerably in consequence of
offending against the game laws, a brother of deceased's
having been hanged at Chester about fifteen years ago for
an attack on one of Lord Stanford's game-keepers at
Dunham Massey. It appeared from the evidence that
none of deceased's family were in the habit of attending
a place of worship.
APPALLING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a-man named
Hardford, being engaged in brewing for a gentleman in
Slone-street, London, and in the act of pouring some
boiling liquor from the copper into the mash-tub, the
stand on which the tub stood suddenly broke down, and the
tub, which contained between 80 and 90 gallons of boiling
liquor, was precipitated forward, knocking the unfortu-
nate man down, and the principal portion of the liquor
flowing over the lower part of the unfortunate man's
body, scalded him in so shocking a manner, that on re-
moving his clothes, large pieces of fresh rolled off. Assis-
tance was immediately rendered, and he was removed in
a deplorable condition, and enduring excruciating suffer-
ings, to the hospital.
DEATH FROM DRINKING.—On Thursday Mr.Wakley,
the London coroner, held an inquest on the body of a lady
who had been found dead in her house at Hammersmith,
where she lived by herself. Her husband, a su:geon, said,
that soon after their marriage he had found her dreadfully
addicted to drinking, and they had in consequence sepa-
rated. A girl, who had been her only attendant for some
time, said she was constantly drinking spirits, and would
send out for a quartern perhaps a dozen times a day !
The coroner observed, that the husband should have put
her under restraint, as the unfortunate woman was Lai-
dently deranged. The verdict was, " Died from exces-
sive drinking of ardent. spirits,"

COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—Another colliery explosion,
but happily without loss of life, took place at Cox Lodge.
near Newcastle, yesterday week, where the underground
workings are extensive. Two shifters had gone in to a
part of the mine called the " goal," with a naked candle,
to see if the place was safe for the hewers; the g,s fired
by the candle, and the shock of the explosion was felt
throughout the mine. Several of the men made their
escape. One of them was much burnt, but not disabled,
and reached the shaft in safety. Others were injured by
being thrown down, and one had his thigh bone broken.
Two of the men were in the mine two hours before they
could be extricated, and withs,ood the killing effect of
" choke-damp." Two, Collins and Brown, (the latter
"deputy" of the workmen) were so dangerously injured,
that it is apprehended neither of them will survive. It is
the third time the pit has fired within a month, and on
every occasion with fatal or serious injury to a few.
IMPORTANT DECISION AT THE WESTMINSTER RE-
GISTRATION COURT.—On Saturday, Mr. Moylan, the
revising barrister, decided a case upon which no less than
400 claims depended. It appeared that in the parishes of
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, many of the
houses are farmed, or, in other words, that the landlord
is rated, and the occupiers are charged in their rent for
the taxes. These occupiers have claimed to be rated, but
the overseers have refused to do so, because it would give
them a settlement in the parish. Mr. Rogers, the vestry
clerk, however, entered their names in the rates book in
red ink, under the name of " owner," which is the second
column, instead of that of the first, as " occupier." This
he said was not intended to be a rating, but merely as a
note that they had made a claim to be rated. The revis-
ing barrister, however, was of opinion that it was a rating,
and allowed the claim upon the decision of which so many •
votes depended.
DISSENTERS' DIFFERENcEs.--OnSunday last, a some-
what novel scene took place at the Westgate Chapel, in
Wakefield. It appears that about six months ago, a few
of the trustees of that place of worship, from which the
major part of them had absented themselves for the last
four or five years, gave the minister of the chapel notice
to leave. This was opposed to the wishes of the congre-
gation, who entertained the highest respect for their pastor,
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mating that it would be closed on the following Sunday.
On the congregation assembling on Sunday morning last,
they found the gates of the chapel-yard and the doors of
the chapel locked. The keys were demaeded of one of
the ttustees, who had them in his possession, but he re-
fused to give them up. In consequence of this refusal the
doors were broken open, and the service took place in the
morning and evening as usual.—Doncaster Chronicle.
MR. CAMPBELL'S ALLEGED LUNACY.—The verdict
has startled the public. It is, we believe, the first time
in such cases that the jury have decided in the teeth of
every opinion, medical, or non-medical, pronounced; yet
we are not disinclined, from the review of the evidence as
it has been placed before us, to think the verdict a proper
one. That the evidence was sufficient to establish tolera-
ble proof of insanity on some former day, we are by no
means disposed to dispute. But this is the most we can
concede. As the conduct of Mr. Campbell-approached
the period of the inquiry, the weaker were the symptoms
of insanity deposed to. And when we consider, on the
one side, the harmless eccentricities into which a sensitive
nature, and rather imaginative mind, necessarily impel
their possessor ; and, on the other, the tendency by habit
and interest of one in Dr. Allen's position, to see madness
in every deviation, from that certain jog-trot course,
within whose narrow limits he is accustomed to confine
the existence of sanity, we cannot but conclude that the
jury did well to give full force to the good sense of Mr.
Campbell's exposition, and to decide that ho was scarcely
less fit for society than the rest of the foolish and eccentric
people who compose its moiety.-Itledical Times.
JEWEL ROBBERY.—On Wednesday, a fashionably
dressed young man was brought before the Brighton ma-
gistrates, charged with attempting to steal two diamond
brcoches valued respectively at £250 and £2l, and two
pins value £lB and £l6. Theprisonerthe enteredork
Cochrane 's shop, in that town, and said he wisced to buy
them for the Countess Rivolski, staying
tel.Ho-
Mr. Cochrane and he went in a fly to the York.
They entered a sitting-room on the first floor, when the
prisoner knocked at the door of an adjoining bedroom,
appeared to listen, and then went in. In a few minutes
he returned, said the Countess was unwell, and in bed,
and that she wished him to send in the articles for inspec-
tion. Mr. Cochrane, however, refused to part wish the
jewels, whereupon the prisoner again entered the cham-
ber, and on returning the second time, said, the Countess
would not detain them a minute, as she merely wished to
see whether the butterfly-brooch was the same that she
had seen in the window. Seeing Mr. Cochrane hesitate,
he told him he was sure he could get £220 for the butter-
fly, but that, in that case, Mr. Cochrane must make him
a present. Mr. Cochrane then intrusted him with the
articles, with which the prisoner again entered the bed-
room. Mr. Cochrane waited his return for a couple of
minutes with great anxiety, and then opened the passage-
door, when he found the prisoner, who had passed through,Cl.Z,
the bedroom into the passage creeping stealthily past la
door. Mr. Cochrane seized him, and recovered Gal.
jewels. The prisoner had hired the apartments about3s.
hour before, for the Countess Rivolaki, who, he said, wr
related to Count Nesselrode. The pri ner was co.'..
witted for trial. r
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