The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-06 00:00:00

CUMBERLAND &WESiIIORZLAN‘ D WIttSPLINGI
• The annual Whitsun contests between the wrestlers of I
Cumberland and Westmoreland, which was however open to
all: England, was held yesterday at the High Park Coffee
House. The bowling-green was in excellent condition, and
upwards of 2,000 persons were present, amongst whom were
many classed as the "first fancy," having been winners of
the principal prizes of not only this but of former years.
The amount to be contested for was £4O, which was divided
into prizes for three classes-Ist. the light weights not t

exceed 101. stone-2nd, the middle.weights- those not exceed-
ing 12 stone, and the heavy weights open to all, and 3rd, the
heavy weights open to all. The number of aspirants for these
prizes was greater than at any previous meeting, and the ex-
citement was considerably increased in consequence of a report

freeman was about to compete for the prizes awarded to the
heavy weights. All the necessary arrangements of weighing,
&c., having been completed, the light weights were called on.
The number entered was 47, to which 17 blanks were added,
to make the number turn out even.

The first meeting was of but little importance, but on the
second the interest greatly increased, particularly when At-
kinson, who appeared to be a great favourite, came forward.
The third time over the following was the result :
FELL.

STOOD

Thos. Irving, Botcherlev.
Wm. Jackson, Mill Bank
George Banks, Gilcruis.
John Waters.

John bison, Carlisle

John Atkinson, (lay down.)
David Willis.
James Jameson.
William Tiffin.
Thomas Wood.
Thomas Robert.
Thomas Tweddle.
John Robertson.
FIFTH TIME OVER.
William Jackson.
William Kay.
Matthew Atkinson.
John Ivison.

Rd. Capstick, Crossley.
Wm. Kay, Bride Clituch
Matthew• Atkinson.

Thomas Irving.
George Banks.
Richard Copstick
John Waters.

SIXTH TIME OVER.
Thomas Irving. George Banks.
John Waters. George Capstick.
The final contest between Irving and Waters was easily
settled in favour of the latter, who won two throws suc-
cessively.

The next that came on the green were those whose weights
did not exceed 12 stone.

Donaldson was decidedly the favourite, but from the late-
ness it seemed improbable that the contests woad conclude
that evening. The umpires were Mr. Pearson and Mr.
Robinson.

Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., has purchased the pack of
Perthshire fox-hounds so well known throughout Scotland.

Some patriotic individual, name unknown, Las sent £lOO
to Sir Robert Peel, to be applied in the reduction orthe
national debt, on the principle " that every little helps."
THE LAMBING SEASON.—We have much pleasure in
stating that we have received-generally very good accounts
of the lambing season from Strathglass and other parts of
the country. Although a long and severeish winter was ex-
perienced, lambs, if not qui a so numerous as in some for-
mer years, are generally healthy, and the ewes in tolerable
condition. From our liehnsdale correspondence, the news
is equally favourable in that northern district, Inverness
Herald.

NEGRO FLyrNa.—The editor of the Boston Mail ridicules
Mr. Henson and his aerial steam carriage, and predict* that
the first career down the inclined plane will end somewhat
like Sambo's first experiment, when he undertook to fly from
the garret window with a pair of wings manufactured out of
a leather apon. The honest negro struck the ground with
his head hard enough to break a sledge-hammer; and spring-
ing to his feet with a kind of rebound, scratched his woolly
pate, exclaiming, " Dem's fuss rate flying ; no bird do bins
quicka ; but Golly ! dey's darn hard lighting.
WHERE WERE THE WHIGS ?—Stlel iS the question th%t
the peruser of the names upon the division, on Wednesday
night, in the house of Commons, upon the Arms (Ireland)
Bill, is disposed to ask. " Where were the whigs ?” No
Lord John Russell figures on either side upon that division,
nor any Lord Howick, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Baring, and
other whig chiefs. Doubtlessly accident kept them away,
or they would surely have recorded their votes in favour of
a measure similar to one they themselves introduced a few

years since!

FOUR FISHERMEN DROWNED.—A number of fishing
boats belonging to Greencastle, had arrived at the Isle Bank,
on Wednesday morning last, for the purpose of taking cod.
After they bad shot their lines, the wind veered round to the
north, and a sudden storm arose, the sea at the same time
running very high, and breaking over the boats. Tne fisher-
men determined on hauling in their lines, and returning
home; but, unfortunately, one of the boats WtAl unable to
accomplish this' and, while the crew were hauling in the
lines, she must have either swamped or upset. The sea was
so rough that no assistance could be afforded by their fellow
fishermen, and the crew, four in number met a watery grave.
Londonderry paper.
tier Majesty has granted a free pardon to James Foster,
coal-merchant, of this town, convicted at the last assizes for
the city of tyloucester, of uttering a forged £5 Bank of Eng-
land note. We have been given to understand that a great
difference of opinion as to the verdict prevailed amongst the
jurymen; and in order to put an end to the dispute as to the
verdict, they tossed up for it ! and the result was unfortunate
to the prisoner; but owing to the exercise of that most valu-
able of all the prerogatives of the crown, the injustice has
been as far as possible remedied. Another statement made
respecting the jury is, that one of them was a relative of the
prosecutor, and that the latter in the event of a conviction
became entitled to receive the £5 from the Bank of England!
One would have hardly expected such disgrecAl conduct
from a jury composed of the residents of our county town
Cheltenham Examiner.

Hobart-town and Launceston papers have arrived to the
12th of February, but they give no important news. The
harvest was plentiful in the southern districts, and reapers
are stated to be earning for the season wages at the rate of
13s. per acre. Wheat was ss. Gd. to Gs. Gd. per bushel, and
flour was from £7 10s. to £l5 per 2,0001 b. according to
quality.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF DOCTORS' COMMONS.—OR the
west side of Thames-street is a house, builded of stone, which
belongeth to Paul's Church, and was sometime let to the
Blunts, Lord Mountjoy ; but of a later time to a college in
Cambridge, and from them to- the doctors of the civil law,
and arches, who keep a commons there; and, many of them
being lodged there. it is called the Doctors' Commons.—
Hower: Lonclinopolis.
Time ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CLOCK—One of the most sin-
gular and useful inventions of modern times is Professor
Wheatstone's electro-magnetic clock; the object of which is
to indicate, by connection with other clocks, exactly the same
time in as many different places, distant from each other, ag
may be required. A standard clock in an observatory, for
example, would thus keep in order another clock in each
apartment, and that, too, with such accuracy, that all of them,
however numerous, will beat dead seconds audibly, with as
great precision as the standard astronomical timepiece with
which they are connected. But, besides this, the subordi-
nate timepieces thus regulated, require none of the mechan-
ism for maintaining or regulating the power. They consist
simply of a face, with its second, minute, and hour hands,
and of a train of wheels which communicate motion from the
action of the second hand to that of the hour hand, in the
same manner as an ordinary clock train. Nor is this inven-
tion confined to observatories and large establishments. The
great horologe of St. Paul's might, by a suitable network of
wires, or even by the existing metallic pipes of the metropo-
lis, be made to, command and regulate all the other steeple
clocks in the city, and even every clock within the precincts
of its metallic bounds. When railways and telegraphs ex-
tend from London to the remotest cities and villages, the sen-
sation of time may be transmitted along with the elements
of language ; and the great cerebellum of the metropolis may
thus constrain by its sympathies, and regulate by its power,
the whole nervous system of the empire.—Quarterly Review.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—Of the College of Maynooth I
must likewise speak briefly; for the reason that an accurate
description of that establishment would be of necessity so
disagreeble, that it is best to pass it over in a few words. An
Irish union-house is a palace to it. Ruin so needless, filth.
so disgusting, such a look of lazy squalor, no Englishman,
who has not seen can conceive. Lecture-room and dining-
kitchen.and students' room, were all the same. I shall
never forget the sight of scores of shoulders of mutton lying
on the filthy floor in the former, or the view of a bed and
dressing-table that I saw in the other. Let the next May-
nooth grant include a few shillings' worth,of whitewash and
a few hundred weights of soap ; and if to this be added a half
score of drill-sergeants to see that the students appear clean
at lecture, and to teach them to keep their heads up and to
look people in the face, parliament will introduce some cheap
reforms into the seminary, which were never needed more
than here. Why should the place be so shamefully ruinous
and foully dirty? Lime is cheap, and water plenty at the
canal hard by. Why should a stranger, after a week's stay
in-the country, be able to discover a priest by the scowl on
his face and his doubtful downcast manner? Is it a point of
discipline that his reverence should be made to look as ill-
humoured as possible? And I hope these words wilt not be
taken hostilely. , It would have been quite as easy and more
pleasant to say. the contrary, had the country seemed to me
to have been the fact, and to have declared that the priests
were remarkable for their expression of candour. and their
college for its extreme neatness and cleanliness.—Titntarsh's
Irish Sketches.

SPLENDID MisznY.—There is recorded (in the lire of
Theodore Hook) in more than usual detail, one winter visit
at the seat of a nobleman of almost unequalled wealth—
evidently particularly fond of Hook, and always mentioned
in terms of teal gratitude, even affection. Here was a large
company, including some of the very highest names in Eng-
land ; the party seemed to have remained together for more
than a fortnight, or if one went the place was filled itnmedi-
ately by another not less distinguished by the advantages of
birth and fortune ; Hook's is the only untitled name—except
a led captain and chaplain or two, and some misses of musical
celebrity. What a struggle he has to maintain ! Every
Thursday he has to meet the Printer of John Bull, to arrange
the paper for Saturday's' impression. While the rest are
.shooting or hunting, lie clears his head as well as he can, and
steals a few hours to write his articles. When they go to bed
on Wednesday night, he smuggles himself into a post-chaise,
and is carried fifty miles across the country to some appoint-
ed " Blue Boar" or " Crooked Billet." Thursday morning
is spent in overhauling correspondence, in the details of the
editorship. He with hard driving gets back to the neigh-
bourhood of the Castle when the dressing bell is ringing.
Mr. 1-look's servant has intimated that his master is slightly
indisposed ; he enters the gate as if from a short walk in the
wood ; in halt' an hour behold hint answering placidly the
inquiries of the ladies—his headache fortunately gone at last
—quite ready for the turtle and champagne—puns rattle like
a hail-shower—" that dear Theodore" had never been more
brilliant. At a decorous hour the great lord and his graver
guests retire ; it is supposed that the evening is over—that
the house is shut up. But Hook is quartered in a long bache-
lors' gallery with half-a-dozen bachelors of far different cali-
bre. One of them a dashing young earl, proposes what the
Diary calls " something comfortable in his dressing room.
Hook, after his sleepless night and busy day, hesitates, but
is persuaded. The broiled bones are attended by more chain-
pagne—Ronian punch—hot brandy and water finally ; for
there are plenty of butlers and grooms of the chamber ready
to minister to the delights of the distant gallery, ever
rnug with swimming,
pro-
ductive of fees to man and maid The end is that they play
deep, and that Theodore loses a great deal more money' than
he brought with hint from town, or knows how to come at if
ty is to be made;
he were there. But he rises next trio
bewildered head,perceives that he
on ally terms, remit a hundred pounds
must write instanadyulfoars
rtihmenfenym
o disperse,iffi eu
the fashionable tailor (alias merciless Jew), to whom he dis-
closes the case, must,
by return of post. It is accomplished—the debt is discharged.
Thursday comes round again, again he escapes to meet the
printer. This time the printer brines a payment of salary
with him, and Hook drives back to the castle in great glee.
Exactly the same scent e recursa night or two afterwards.
The salary all goes. When the time comes for him at last to
leave his splendid friend, be finds that he has lost a fortnight
as respects a book that must be finished within a month or
six weeks—and that what with travelling expences hither
and thither.(he has to defray the printer's too), end losses at
play to silken coxcombs, who consider him as an admirable
jack-pudding, and alo as an invaluable pigeon since he drains
his glass as well as fills it—he has thrown away more money
than he could have earned by the labour of three months in
his own room at Fulham, But then the rumble of the green
chariot is seen well stocked with pheasants and hares, as it'
pauses and passes through town at Crockfords, the Carlton,
or the Athenmem ; and as often as the Morning Post alludad •
to the noble peer's Christmas court, Mr. Theodore Hook's
name closed the paragraph 0f.," Fashionable Intelligence."--
Quarterly Review,