The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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The hay harvest has commenced in Northumberland,
and the crops are abundant, particularly those of old grass.
Mr. Joseph Roebuck, manager for the Messrs. Pickford,
at Worcester, committed suicide last week.
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The Duke of Bedford has purchased the horse " Jus-
tice to Ireland," for £2.500.
On Thursday, the take of salmon was so great in the
Tyne that large fish were sold in the market at 6d. per lb.
PUBLIC HEALTH BlLL.—This bill passed in the House
of Commons on Tuesday. We do not anticipate it will
encounter much opposition in the Lords.
A new London daily paper is tc be commenced next
month, at two-pence. It will support the reform move-
ment.

A crow's nest with young may now be seen on tne sum-
mit of one of the spires at the eastern end of Durham
Cathedral. . .

GILMOUR AGAIN !—This worthy is now pouring in his
orders upon the outfitters, having some uoys he wishes to
send to sea! _ _

In one number of the Times this week there were no
less than seventy advertisements of governesses wanting

situations

Lady Elizabeth Moncrieffe died on Saturday, at her re-
sidence in Chapel-street, from the effects of the injuries
she sustained by having accidentally caught fire. _

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At Witney, Gloucestershire, a young woman, who had
been married only six weeks, was hawked about last week,
with a halter on her neck, for sale by her husband.
Ann Sykes, a young girl in delicate health, died last
week at Thurstenland, in consequence of eating a quantity
of unripe gooseberries.
The sticks of rhubarb which took the premier prize at
the Macclesfield show were each 37 inches long and 9 lb.
13 oz. weight.
A vessel arrived in the docks from Hong-Kong and the
Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought 1,020 par-
cels of iron.

The Times is now lending its valuable aid to the expo-
sure of the " Count Touzery gang," who have, for the
last three years itinerated with goods, pretending to be
custom-house seizures and the like.

Sir John Richardson and his party arrived at Lake Su-
perior on the 29th April, and left a few days after, on
their journey overland to the Arctic regions, in search of
the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin.
On Friday, Edward Moody was sentenced, at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, to transportation for twenty years,
for uttering forged five-pound notes. He was convicted
of three several offences. . .

Dr. Chambers, the leading fashionable physician in the
metropolis, has been obliged to retire into the country for
the benefit of his health, and it is doubtful whether he
will ever be able to resume his labours.
Prince Albert has sent a contribution of X 25 towards
the erection of the monument recently completed to the
memory of the late Mrs. Siddons, which is about to be
placed in Westminster Abbey.
Lord Nugent, in accordance with the wishes of his la-
mented lady, has purchased twenty-five acres of land in
the neighbourhood of Weedon, for the purpose of allot-
ting them to the poor for ever.
Last week, at Lincolnshire, Mr. Hitchins, coroner,
stated that in the course of ten years he had held 111 in-
quests on the bodies of persons who had perished from
accidents caused by drunkenness.
CONSOLATION FOR MOTHERS.—When young children
cry lustily, they grow well and rapidly ; for through cry-
ing, the members and veins are stretched out which have
no other exercise.—Martin Luther. _

The Inverness Courier describes the grouse season as
ing very satisfactorily. In general the broods
nine or ten; fourteen have been counted in one
covey. No disease appears among the old grouse.
Keen and Young Sambo fought near Newmarket, on
Tuesday last, for £2OO. • The battle consisted of six
rounds, lasted 19 minutes, and was decided in favour of

Keen.
At Judges' Chambers, on Friday, bail for Mr. Ernest
Jones, the chartist leader, appeared, and was accepted by
Justice Pattison : Mr. Jones was set at liberty. On Sa-
turday Mr. Fussell was enlarged on bail.
The Commissioners of Customs have issued directions
to their officers at the outports, to prevent the exportation
of any arms and warlike stores for the purpose of being
employed in hostilities against the Danish government.
On *Thursday the bakers of London lowered the 41b.
loaf id. Those at the west end now only charge 7d. for
the best quality ; the second-rate 6d. and 51d. Many,
however, in populous districts are selling it at 5d., weighed
on delivery.
A GOOD JIIMP.—At Epworth, on Monday, a bet be-
tween the footman of E. Waddington, Esq., and Mr.
Rd. Leggott, against the former jumping 17 eet in one
jump, was decided. It was won by the former jumping
171 feet.
In the birth-announcements in The Times, which are
all paid for, the following appeared a few days since :
" On the 9th inst., at Rotherhithe (in the unconsciousness
of mesmeric sleep), the wife of Mr. James Payne, of a
daughter." •
Some workmen who were taking down a house at
Worcester the other day, found the skeleton of a cat, in
a narrow crevice between the joints, and a few inches
before her, where the crevice was still narrower, the
skeleton of a rat. 1
The guano mummy, which was exhibited in Liverpoof
some time since, is to be presented to the Emperor o
Brazil. The British Museum commissioners have offered
£5OO for it. This exhibition, at present at Manchester,
realised £2,440 to the proprietor in eighteen months.
A splendid silver claret jug and salver has been pre-
sented to Mr. Wilson, the Scottish vocalist, by some of
his friends, " in commemoration of his successful exer-
tions in reviving the public taste for the beauties of Scot-

tish song."
ECONOMY !—Orders have been given by the Govern-
ment for an extensive discharge of artisans now employed
in our dock-yards. We think we can point out quarters
where much more important and less injurious reduction

of expenditure could be made.
The poorbox of the Bristol Infirmary was opened on
Friday, after a lapse of three years, and was found to con-
tain the following amounts :—Gold, £3 10s. ; silver, £l3
3s. 10d. ; copper, £1 ss. 31d. ; making a total of £l7
19s. lid. in aid of the funds of the institution.
A Court of Queen's Bench jury, directed by Lord
Denman, have found a verdict with damages of £lO against
Mr. Flint, a draper, of Oxtord-street, London, for having
turned a lady of the name of Palmer from his shop, on
the suspicion that she was a shoplifter.
In the item- of Royal " housemaids," of whom there
are forty at Buckingham Palace and forty at Windsor,
great reductions are reported to have taken place. Four
years ago they had £45, now only £l2 to £lB wages ;
and no pension, no matter how long in the Royal service.
Mr. Watt, jun., of Birmingham, recently deceased,
has bequeathed to Lord Brougham £50,000. Another
circumstance, not generally known, redounds much to
the honour of his lordship. The £25,000 left him by
Mrs. Flaherty, of Hammersmith, he generously gave to
his brother, Mr. W. Brougham.
ADVANTAGE OF PRISON FARE.—On Saturday, a
woman ramed Louisa Davis was indicted at the Central
Criminal Court, for stealing a watch from the person of
William Deverill. So great was the alteration for the
better in her appearance, that the prosecutor had some
difficulty in identifying her.
Charles Verrier, of Kingswood-hill, near Bristol, killed
his infant son a fortnight since, by a mischance resulting
from passion. He threw a poker at another of his children,
who had disobeyed its mother ; and, missing that child,
the poker fractured the skull of the infant killed. A coro-
ner's jury found the father guilty of manslaughter.
A serious faction fight took place at Raphoe, on Thurs-
day. Several severe contusions were received on both
sides. Stones flew as thick as hail. All the shops and
dwelling-houses were closed and barricaded, and business
entirely suspended for half an hour, during which the
belligerents fought with desperation.
Mr. H. G. Nicholls, recently a clerk in Bristol, com-
mitted suicide in prison last week. He was found hang-
ing from a bar of his cell window ; his two cotton stock-
ings, tied together, were tied round his neck, and also
tied to the bar of his window, the knot of the stockings
was close under his right ear.
The second annual cricket match between eleven of
England and twenty-two selected from the clubs of Bir-
mingham and a district of twenty miles, was commenced
on Monday, on the ground of the Birmingham Club, at
Edgbaston, and brought to a close on Tuesday ; the ele-
ven winning with six wickets to go down.
On the night of the 9th instant, during a violent storm
raging on the Brecon Beacons, five yearling bullocks,
three yearling heifers, and o cow with a calf, were blown
over the precipice, on the eastern side of the Peak, and
were of course all killed by the fall from such a fearful
height.
LIBEL.—Mr. Murdo Young, the proprietor of the Sun
newspaper, was on Wednesday convicted of a libel upon
I Mr. Cochrane, the late candidate for the representation of

Westminster, in the damages of 40s. The libel charged
the plaintiff with having written a disgraceful and immoral
work, entitled " The wanderings of Don Juan de Vega."
DEPARTURE OF THE WEST INDIA STEAMER.—The
Thames, which was detained by a government order, sailed
on Wednesday. The homeward-bound West India
steamer having arrived on Tuesday night, has enabled the
passengers by her to notify their safe arrival in England,
by the Thames, a circumstance that has not occurred
before.
On Tuesday the ceremony of laying the foundation
stone of 40 alms-houses, the future residences of decayed
parishioners of St. Clement Danes, London, took place
amidst a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen
at Garratt-lane, Streatham. The building will be of the
Elizabethan style, with a frontage of 350 feet, and will
cost £14,000.
On Wednesday, the extensive premises originally occu-
pied as a theatre by Ben Jonson, and known as the Play-
house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London,
were taken possession of by the Royal College of Sur-
geons, who were about to erect a museum on its site for
the reception of the celebrated Hunterian collection, pre-
sented by government to the college.
A GIPSY'S DOWRY.—There was a gipsy's wedding at
Upton Bishop on Saturday, and we are informed, says
the Hereford Journal, that the parents of the bride were
enabled to give her the handsome fortune of four thou-
sand pounds ! Taking it, however, at one-fourth or even
one-eighth of that amount, this is a dowry such as falls to
very few indeed of the industrious classes.
The Waterloo Banquet was held on Monday (the 18th
being on Sunday). The Puke received the usual congra-
tulatory visits—viz., from Prince Albert, F.M. Gros”.-
nor, Viscount Beresford, Duke of Richmond, Viscount
Combermere, &c. Piccadilly was almost impassable,
from the great assemblage of spectators in carriages.
Covers were laid for eighty-four persons.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a woman
named Gardner, a cook, obtained a verdict of 40s. da-
mages against her former mistress, Mrs. Slade, of
Lowndes-square, London, for a passage in a letter to a
subsequent mistress of the plaintiff, twelve months after-
wards, which reflected upon her honesty. This verdict
of 40s. will probably cost the defendant £lOO.

WATERWORKS AND CEMETERIES.—A letter from Dr.
Truman, in the Times, complains that the water supplied
by the Hampstead Waterworks Company from a well
recently sunk at the foot of Highgate-bill, not 300 yards
from that part of the hill on which the Highgate Ceme-
tery stands, has a most nauseous taste and smell, to the

great alarm of the inhabitants, who are apprehensive lest
some frightful epidemic disease should be the consequence.
Mr. John Briggs, a Chartist delegate from Sheffield,
has been removed to the West Riding Lunatic Asylum,

having exhibited unmistakeable symptoms of insanity

A few of his brother conventionists might have been re-
moved with him to the benefit of the community at large.

The unfortunate man has since died raving mad. At the
inquest the verdict was " That death was owing to the
softening of the brain, caused by mental excitement."
A widow of the name of Harridge sought on Wednesday
in the Westminster County Court, to recover from

Viscount Palmerston the sum of £lO 3s. 4d. for shoeing
his lordship's horses. Evidence having been given to
show that the work had been done, the judge said he
should make an order for the payment on the sth of July,

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which would give Lord Palmerston an opportunity to ap-
ply for a new trial if he thought proper.
THE CROPS.—The grain has greatly improved beneath
the genial influence of the recent showers, and beans and
pease promise well, which, after the total failure of last
year, is cheering. Apples will not be so abundant as was

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at one time expected, but pears will probably offer a plen-
tiful crop. Potatoes look as well as we ever remember.
The hop-yards of this county look well, and the same is
the case in the other extensive hop-growing districts.—
Hereford Journal.
We know, from official sources, that the proportion per

cent of commitments for North Wales, is sixty-one per
cent below the calculated average for all England and
Wales, on the same amount of male population of the

like ages. In fact the gaols of Wales are commonly
empty, or the next thing to it ; and the whole twelve coun-

ties would hardly keep one barrister, on the crown side,
above starving point. Maiden assizes are anything but

uncommon in that country

A PUZZLE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.—A few years

ago raw hides were selling at sd. per pound, at a time,
too, when there was a duty of 3d. per pound upon tanned
leather. At the present time raw hides are selling at five
farthings per pound, with no duty on tanned leather, and
yet boots and shoes are no.cheaper than they were before

the duty was repealed, and when raw hides were 25 per
cent. dearer than at present! Will any correspondent
inform us who it is that pockets the difference ?
Gilbert A. a'Beckett has, within the last few days, got a
government commis.ionership, and the public may shortly
expect a " blue book " from his pen in reference to one of
our agricultural counties, noted for its calves ! This is
the third press recognition by government within the last
few months : Fonblanque, Examiner ; Mr. A. Doyle,
Chronicle; and Mr. A. a'Beckett, Punch. The last
named and last appointed has for a considerable period
been a writer in another leading journal as well as Punch.

—Cheltenham Chronicle.
The Kensington Board of Guardians has recently made
a strong representation to the Poor-law Board, with re-
ference to the great expense to which the parish is sub-
jected by the number of tramps, chiefly Irish, with which
it has recently been infested. It appears that, within the
last fortnight, no fewer than 1,637 have presented them-
selves at the workhouse, of whom 1,378 were relieved in
the workhouse. Of the 1,378 persons, 705 were Irish,
while in the three preceding years the number was only
430.
It appears that Sir J. Lubbock, of High Elms, Mon-
mouth, supplies funds to a village schoolmaster for the
destruction of all the wasps in his vicinity, by the urchins
of the school. 1600 have already perished, and the para-
graph proceeds to say, as every wasp killed at this period
of the year is a nest destroyed, and allowing one in five
to be a male, no less than 1280 nests have been destroyed,
which, allowing them to produce_ on an average 1000
young ones, will make 1,280,000 young destroyed, which,
together with their parents, will make 1,281,600—the
total number the vicinity is freed from.
ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE.—A painful accident oc-
curred to Mr. Pritchard, the lessee and manager of the
theatre at Leeds, on Wednesday, while he was playing
the part of Macduff to Macready's Macbeth. In the fight
represented in the last scene the point of Mr. 3Tacready's
sword unfortunately struck Mr. Pritchard on the face with
such force as to cut through the cartilage of the nose and
the upper lip, penetrating to the bone. It was with diffi-
culty Mr. Pritchard was able to retain his place on the
stage till the conclusion of the scene, and he could not
speak the remainder of his part.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT VICTORIA IRON WORKS.—
ELEVEN LIVES LOST.—The Monmouthshire Merlin
states that the scene of this awful catastrophe was a pit
known as No. 6 Black Vein Iron Stone-pit, at the above-
named works. On Wednesday morning, as the men
were descending the pit, by some unknown cause the
cross-pieces were separated from the ascending bucket,
by which it was roped to the surface, when that to which
it was opposed descended with proportionably increased
velocity, until the unfortunate men were precipitated to
the bottom with a tremendous crash, by which they all
perished.
On Tuesday a wretched looking young man, named
Hart, described as a French polisher, gave himself up to
the London police, as, jointly with another man, the
murderer of the boy Lazarus, whose mysterious death in
an enclosed yard in Spitafields has excited much attention.
He confesses that he was with the man when he strangled
the boy with a blue pocket handkerchief, and afterwards
sold the clothes. He now gave the information in conse-

quence of quarrelling with-his companion, and finding a
free pardon was offered to any accomplice not being the
actual murderer. He was remanded at Worship-street
till his alleged companion should have been taken.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, as Miss Row-

land, of Ipswich, was walking up the London-road, she
suddenly felt a great heat at the back of her arm, and was
terrified at finding flames shooting up from her dress.

The lady, in her fright, rushed across the road, into the
" Bear and Crown," where Mr. Cornish, the landlord,

threw her to the ground, rolled her over and over, and
succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The lady sus-
tained no injury beyond a slight burning on the hand
when she first felt the fire. The cause of this most sin-
gular affair is quite a mystery ; but it is supposed that
Miss Rowland must have trodden on a lucifer match on
the pathway.
THE CHARTIST ALLOTMENTS.—Mr. O'Connor has re-
ceived all the subscriptions and holds them in his own
name. He has invested upwards of £40,000 in land in
Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Ox-
fordshire, which has been conveyed to him. He is now
the uncontrolled and uncontrollable owner of the whole
property. The prizeholders who have been located have
no lease, not the shadow of a legal title to the land they
hold. 11ir. O'Connor himself, should he be so minded,
might, at any moment, turn them out of possession ; or
his heir at law, or his devisee, should he die, might deal
with them in a like summary way ; or his creditors might
charge their debts upon the land now, or after his death.
—Daily News.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Monday, the house of
Mrs. and Mr. Newlove, mother and son, at Warthell, near
York, was broken into at an early hour by thieves, who
fearfully abused the inmates, but, it is supposed from
their being surprised, little plunder was taken. The
female in question and her son were eccentric persons,
and were generally supposed to be possessed of consider-
able property. When the house was entered by some
friends next. day, Mrs. Newlove was found laid with her
head towards the front door, literally bathed in blood.
The son, who was upwards of 40 years of age, was found
in the privy also covered with blood. They were both at-
tended to and are now going on favourably. The mis-
creants were armed with bludgeons.
A HUSBAND AND WIFE DROWNED.—On Tuesday
week, a respectable farmer named Guthrie, aged 74, and
his wife aged 70, were drowned at the ford on the River
Ayr, near Holmsten, in Scotland. They had been at-
tending a fair, and travelled in an old-fashioned gig, ac-
companied by their grandson, aged 18. On their return
home by the ford, the water had risen, and the horse
could not resist the current ; and the gig being sent adrift
in the river, the two deceased were washed out and
drowned. The grandson was floated further down on
the gig, and was saved by catching hold of the branches
of a tree that overhung the stream. His cries were heard
by a ploughman's wife, who rescued him. The horse
was saved.

TURF-PRESSING APPARATUS.—Lord Willoughby de
Eresby has succeeded in constructing a turf-pressing ma-
chine, by which he obtains uniform pressure ; the pres-
sure regulated at pleasure, and security afforded against
breakage, or impediment to its action. A lever, on which
is hung a weight of half a ton, is so arranged, that when

in operation,-the pressure in: the peat-.box beneath, the

• plunger is thirty-six tons ; and as this is considered as
much as the machinery will bear, the connecting-rods
from the lever to the plummer-boxes of the crank imme-
diately raise the whole bearings, when the power exceeds
this amount. In all previous machines, the breakages
have been numerous, from having no check ; but by this
arrangement it is entirely under control, and can be regu-
lated to the greatest nicety.
ILLEGALITY OF DERBY SWEEPS.—At Guildhall, on
Friday, William Willis, the landlord of the King's Head
public-house, in Newgate-street, was summoned before
Alderman Wilson and Sir Peter Laurie, to answer the
complaint of James Cuthbert, of the Golden Last public-
house, in Drury-lane, licensed victualler, for suffering
gaming to be carried on in his house, in the form of Derby
sweeps. After hearing a protracted argument upon the
legality or illegality of the practice; from Mr. Wontner,
who appeared to support the summons, and Mr. Child,
who attended for the defendant, the magistrates pro-
nounced a decided opinion that Derby Sweeps were lot-
teries ; that lotteries were gaming, and that it was a breach
of the license to allow them to be OP nd acted at any
licensed house. They therefore adjudged the defendant
to pay a penalty of £5 and the costs. Mr. Cuthbert gave
his moiety of the fine to the poor-box. Mr. Child inti-
mated that he should appeal.
SLEEP.—The Poet Young says, " Sleep is Great Nature's
second course—the balm of hurt minds." Johnson says,
" It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being thus
appreciated by mankind, how desirous ought we to be that
all should tranquilly enjoy " sweet repose," the general
obstruction to which is through an unhealthy action of
' the liver or other viscera. A little attention to the
" young disease," by having recourse to a mild aperient,
often produces the most salutary effect, and for such pur-
pose Frampton's Pill of Health stands prominent in pub-
lic opinion.
ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES.—Although changes .in the
temperature are more prevalent in the temperate zone
than in other latitudes, there is scarcely a spot to be
found where such great differences exist as in Great
Britain, varying in a few hours some twenty degrees or
more. The effect of such rapid changes on the bodily
health is very afflicting to many thousands of persons, es-
pecially those in the middle or advanced ages of life,
causing attacks of those painful disorders, sciatica, gout,
and rheumatism. Happily for those who are afflicted
with those painful diseases, chemical science has produced
that excellent medicine, Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills.

" Too LATE TO RUE. "—On Tuesday, at Preston parish
church, a buxom pair presented themselves for the purpose

of being made happy. The marriage ceremony was'per-
formed, the register signed, the fees paid, and everything
done in order. Some misgivings appeared to have come
over the minds of the two most interested, for instead

D a solemn

of the party leaving the church, they entered int
convocation, which ended in the bridegroom dispatching a
messenger to the clerk, to enquire if the couple that had
just been married, could not be unmarried, as the gay

Lothario had begun to rue. The clerk blandly sent word
that he should have rued half-an-hour before, but that he
had tied a knot with his tongue which he would find very

mit to unloose,

DEATH OF A MlSER.—During the last few days much
conversation and surprise have prevailed among the
inhabitants of Tottenham, in consequence of the death

of the Rev. II

Thomas Powell, a minister of the Churel

of England, who, it was supposed from his pal
habits, was far from being in good circumstance

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