The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

MR. WINTERBOTTOAL—This gentleman, the account
of whose arrest in this town a few days ago we gave at the
time, has bean fully committed to Chester Assizes for
trial, chat gad with forgery upon the Pelican Life Assurance
Society for the sum of £5OOO, which was payable to the
family of the I.lte Mr. J. Isherwood, of Marple-hall, upon
his death, and which sum was received by the prisoner on
his presentation of an authority purporting to be signed by
Mrs. Isherwood and her three daughters. It will be re-
membered that the prisoner occupied, some years since, a
prominent position as a solicitor in Stockport, from which
place he absconded in 1840, and had not been heard of
until his arrest.
A NEW COMET.—In the Times Sir I. South thus
writes :—" By a letter which I received from my friend
Professor Schumacher on Friday last, I was informed that
a comet had been discovered on the 6th instant, by Mr.
Melhop, of Hamhurgh. Owing to unfavourable weather,
I have not been able to see it till this evening, when, the
clouds having cleared off for a few minutes, I found it with
an ordinary night-glass, without difficulty, and got an
observation of it with my five-feet equatorial, by which its
approximate place was, at fifty-two minutes past ten
o'clock last (Sunday) night—right ascension, about 0
hours 44 minutes and 9 seconds; anti its southern decli-
nation about 12 degrees and 56 minutes."
MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.—The last report of the
treasurers of the Duncombe Estate Fund announced that
they had in hand, after payment of all expenses, £37 lls.
Bd. Since then, Mr. O'Connell has subscribed five
pounds ! This munificent donation. we are told, was one
of the first acts of the " Liberator," after quitting Rich-
mond Penitentiary, " the regulations of that prison having
prevented him from doing so earlier." Better late than
never—and better a little than nothing—as we dare say,
Mr. Duncombe thought, when he saw his valuable ser-
vices rated at no higher price. The Repeal Association
has also subscribed £25. In return, the Finsbury radicals
are getting up a dinner to celebrate Daniel's escape.—
HORRIBLE CASE.—The following particulars of a most
disgusting case have been communicated to us. Under
ordinary circumstances we should be inclined to doubt the
possibility of such a thing occurring in a civilized country.
As our correspondents, however, have communicated to
us their names and addresses, we can see no reason to
question the accuracy of their account. In the borough
of Tregony, in Cornwall, George Davy, a pauper lunatic,
has been confined eight years chained to the wall, in a
hovel not fit for swine, littered down with straw, and only
one coverlet, winter and summer. There is no window or
door to protect him from the cold. His unfortunate wife
stated to our correspondent, that through the want of the
latter protection the children were in the habit of collect-
ing round the door and teazing him until he was driven to
a state of frenzy.—Sunday paper.

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT—IMPALEMENT OF A FE-
MALE.—On Sunday evening week, at the small village of
Dalton, near Croft, a singular and dangerous accident
occurred to a young woman, servant to Mr. Preston,
farmer. She was ascending a plum-tree, no doubt with
the intention of procuring some fruit, when the branches
gave way, and, in her fall, she came in contact with a
large hay fork, which was placed against the tree with its
prongs pointing upwards, one of which entered the centre
of her arm-pit, and taking an oblique direction upwards,
appeared under the collar-bone, then pierced her neck
about its middle, and to the left of the mesial line, and
again appeared in the back part of her mouth ! Thus
pierced and supported by the implement, she remained,
elevated a few feet from the ground, and was unable to
render herself any assistance. Her shrieks, however,
bringing the neighbours to the spot, they immediately re-
leased her from her painful situation.
EXTRAORDINARY DELUSIONS.—A commission of lu-
nacy was opened on Friday, in London, to inquire kto
the state of mind of Miss M. A. Roberts, of Upper
Clapton. It appeared that the unfortunate object of the
present enquiry was the daughter of a clergyman, who died
some years since. In the early part of 1843 the first
symptoms of a deranged intellect appeared. The first
delusion she laboured under was, that she was to be mar-
ried by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Rev. Mr.
Machindale, who was coming to fetch her in a carriage
and four. She decorated the tables with everything in
season, and would use the most endearing expressions to
her supposed husband, and attempt to kiss him. On the
13th of July her conduct was most extraordinary. She
said that she had had a vision ; that she had seen her
mother in hell, but that her father was her guardian
angel, and she then went down stairs with her hair dis-
hevelled, and said she was to go to hell at four o'clock.
Other delusions of a similar character were deposed to,
after which the jury found " that Miss Roberts was
of unsound mind, and had been so from the 13th of July,
1843."

FIGHT BETWEEN Two POLICEMEN.—At Winchmore
Hill, near Enfield, on Sunday morning last, a policeman
was secreted to detect some party who was in the habit of
milking a farmer's cows. Hannant was the constable's
name. About four o'clock, he detected a brother police-
man, named Harvey, about to commence milking the
cows. Advancing towards him for the purpose of appre-
hending him, he was met by the other with entreaties for
his connivance; which being refused, they were speedily
followed by a tremendows blow on the head, which broke
the staff with which it was given. He, however, proceeded,
and after much resistance, succeeded in• seizing his anta-
gonist; but was induced,. on the promise of the prisoner
to " go quietly with him•," to loosen his hold, when the
other immediately attempted to escape, and being again
seized, drew a chisel out of his pocket (his staff being
broken,) and inflicted several severe wounds on the head
and arms of Hannant. Though faint from the loss of
blood, the latter had still sufficient strength to spring his
rattle and maintain his grasp, till he was providentially
rescued from his perilous situation by another policeman.
The wounded man soon after became insensible, and was
obliged to be carried to bis lodgings, where his wounds
were dressed, and in the course of the morning his- depo-
sition taken, as his life waaconsidered in a very precari-
ous state.

Heads of families cannoi be too strongly admonished
against the common but pernicious practice of adminis-
tering to their children in any of their little ailments
those drastic powders, all of which contain more or less
of calomel, which they are 30 constantly in the habit of
procuring from their apothecary or chemist ; for although
the convenience of their minute bulk and absence of
nauseating taste is great, yet the frequent repetition of
such medicines produces a softening of the bones and pre-
mature decay of the teeth most prejudicial to the consti-
tution during the whole period of life. Of late years
there have been made great improvements in Vegetable
Chemistry, by which the active principles of many simple
innocent medicines have been separated from their inert
and nauseating parts. The greatest boon has been con-
ferred upon mankind, and more especially upon the ris-
ing generation, by separafaig the active principle of that
universally esteemed purgative, Senna, by Mr. John
Freeman, a. practical chemist, living in the Blackfriars
Road, who has removed all its nauseating and griping
properties, and rendered it so peculiarly pleasant to the
taste, that children will take it with a positive relish.
This preparation, which he denominates " Sweet Essence
of Senna," is sold by most respectable Druggists, ex-
tensively patronised by the Queen's Physicians as a
valuable acquisition to the Royal Children, and its
moderate price places it within the reach of the most
humble.—Bell's Weekly Messenger, July 31.
NEW SCHEME OF THILLEAGUE.—The leaguers are now
particularly anxious to close the subscription which has
been for so long open in support of the £lOO,OOO fund. A
long circular has been issued by Mr. Wilson, the chair-
man, in which he expresses " a hope that the inhabitants
of the metropolis will, at all events, contribute such an
.mount to the great league fund, as not to place the
richest community in the world under pecuniary obliga
tions to the inbabitarOs of the provinces," and further on
he states his " conviction that London will not only de-
fray its own local expenses, but contribute an adequate
contingent to the general national advancement of the free
trade cause." From this it would appear that the in-
habitants of London have been rather more wise than to
contribute an "adequate contingent " to this now declin-
ing association, and that the agitation in the metropolis
has been carried on at the expense of, or, as the modest
chairman delicately expresses it, under the " pecuniary
obligations" of the provinces. The circular reminds the
readers that a properly authorised canvasser will call in a
few days, when all who have not yet contributed will be
solicited forthwith ; and, to guard against fraud, it is par-
ticularly requested that no subscription, however small,
shall be given without taking a receipt. But the money
is not to be given for nothing, Each subscriber of no
more than £l' is entitled to receive a copy of the league
newspaper for a whole year—fifty-two numbers; and,
moreover, all who feel inclined to contribute will have the
satisfaction of seeing their names, and the amount they
subscribe, open to the gaze of the world, in the columns
of the anti-monopoly print.
ARMY SLOP-WORK.—Some new terms have been put
out for the prices to be charged for all work made for
Government, and it will be seen whether the poor shirt-
makers of the slop-shops are not better off, or at any rate
as well paid, as the poor c ettnres who have to work under
the Government contracts, though probably the members
cf the Government know nothing of the proceedings.
The following are the prices, and many are the long faces.
and unshaved beards that carry the work home :—For
the Police, for double-breasted great coats and lappels,
so that when sue is worn out another can be put on, 3s.
the profit to the middlemen, who are responsible for the
work, and give security for £5O to the contractors, being
about 3d., while the labour in the work amounts to eight-
een hours, they have to pay for their own thread, &c.,
and a tailor would charge 9s. Dress coats are the same,
and occupy sixteen hours, tailor's price Bs. Trousers,
undress, eight hours' work, 10d. ; the full dress, ls. 3d.,
which takes ten hours' ; the one being 4s. and the other
55., as the tailor's prices, and it should be remembered
that men work at these.—For the Regiments of the Line,
the great coats with capes 5d., after seven hours' work,
the usual price being 3s. 6d. With fourteen hours' work
a red coat can be made, and I]d. is paid for it ; the tailor's
price ss. 6d. ; looping is 7d. extra. The undress white
jackets sd. and 7d. with five hours' work, and usual price
2s. 6d. Trousers white and grey, sd. and 6d., and it
takes six hours to make them, tailor's charge 3s. Draw-
ers, linen and flannel, 3d., four hours' labour, 2s. by
the trade. The old Chelsea pensioners, with their large
red coats, lined with blue shalloon, are supplied by the
poor workwomen at Is. Id. each, occupying twelve hours'
in the making, and the tailor's charge 6s. The trousers,
which are heavier than the Guards, are paid for at the
same rate. Recently it was expected many of the pen-
sioners would be called out, and for that purpose they had
e double-breasted coat, with stand-up collars and loops,
2s. 2d. was the remuneration for eighteen hours' work,
and what ought to have been charged 9s. for; trousers,
6(1., and six hours' work, wages ought to be 3s. ; shirts of
linen for 3d. In the Life Guards and Blues, the very
expensive leather breeches are made in the barracks, for
which tailors are employed at 2s. 6d. a day, and it will
occupy a man two days. A tailor in Bond-street would
charge 305, —Times.