The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

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—Halifax Guardian, Satur-

MATCH FOR ONE THOURAND GUINEAS.—In a match
he above sum, p.p., which came off at Newmarket on
Lord George Bentinek's Captain Cook (S. Ro-

.$) beat Mr. Sainsbury's Chotornion (Mann)

the bushes, and beaten in a canter by 15 lengths. The
trainer of Chortonion incurred a penalty by riding with
the horses in the early part of the race.

As a further and gratifying proof of the improvement
in this country, we are happy to state that great activity
prevails at this time at the Great Western Cotton Factory,
in this city, to meet the demand for piece goods in the
Irish, Northern, and London markets, where the fabrics
of the above company are much in request. Between
1700 and 1800 hands are not only fully employed at the
Works, but they are also obliged to pursue their opera-
tions during part of the night.—Bristol Journal.
Some of Galileo's manuscripts, presumed to have been
lost or burnt by order of the Inquisition, have been found
at Florence, among the archives of the Palazzo Pitti. The
Foreign Quarterly Review says :—" The manuscripts be-
sides being objects of curiosity, are likely to be useful to
astronomical science, inasmuch as they contain informa-
tion respecting the eclipses of former times,—a course of
the satellites of Jupiter, subjects to which Galileo directed

great attention

LATE CARLISLE BANK.—The creditors of Messrs.
Forster and Co., bankers, Carlisle, will be glad to learn
that a further dividend is expected early in the ensuing
year. The estate has already paid 12s. in the pound;
and it was stated to the Commissioner at the Newcastle
District Bankruptcy Court, that by Whitsuntide the
whole of the estate uncollected will be realised, and a
further sum of about £15,000 will be divided among the
creditors.

On Monday the Earl of Lincoln, accompanied by Mr.
Brnnel and Mr. Cubitt, inspected the Middlesex side of
the river. from Vauxhall Bridge to Battersea Bridge, to
ascertain the most eligible plan for the embankment of the
river. Mr. Brunel was provided with the levels and plans
that he had lately made at the request of government.
There will be a carriage road alongside the river from
Battersea Bridge to the two Houses of Parliament.—
Globe.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—Quarterly average of the weekly
liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the
15th day of July to the 7th day of October, 1843, both in-
clusive :

LIABILITIES.
... £19,561,000 Securities
11,466,000 I Bullion..

ASSETS

Circulation
Deposits...

.E 22,193,000
12,078,000

£31,027,000

£34,271,000

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THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.—The direc-
tors of this bank have this week made a call for 30s. per
share, amounting altogether to £6 10s. per share on
25,000 shares, every shilling of which is lost. The total
loss in this concern is more than £3oo,ooo—indeed, with
interest much exceeds that sum. The entire liahilities
are now reduced to £71,000. When the bank stopped
payment, they exceeded £1,400,000. The suspension
took place in June, 1810.

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THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAMER.—Between six and
seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, during the height of
the storm, as the British Queen steamer was at the tail of
the bank, on her passage across from Greenock to Helens-
burgh, it was found that she was making so much water
as to render a continuance of the voyage dangerous, and
she was immediately put about for Greenock Harbour.
All the passengers, together with the crew, were landed in
safety, and in a moment or two after the vessel sank. The
chief cause of the accident is supposed to have been the
Queen's coming against a small rock.—Scolch Reformers'
Gazette. _ _

A THIEF HUNTED OUT.—Mr. Higgins, of Misterton,
having been informed, on Sunday se'nnight, by his shep-
herd, that one of his fat sheep bad been stolen during the
night, immediately took his dog, a remarkably good one,
of the sheep breed, to the fold, and the dog struck off the
scent, and ran in a straight direction to the shepherd's
house, where a part of the mangled sheep was found.
Mr. Higgins at once charged his shepherd and another
man who resides with him (and whose clothes he disco-
vered were bloody) with the theft. They were both fully
committed to Taunton gaol to take their trial at the next
assizes.—Somerset County Gazette.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT' ON THE HUMBER.—SIX
LIVES LOST.—On Tuesday night, about ten or eleven
o'clock, the Three Sisters, Maltby, master, was lying at
anchor off Sunk Island, when she was run down by the
fishing smack William and Richard, Hodge, master, dur-
ing a dark night and stormy weather. The master and
mite of the Three sisters succeeded in saving their lives
by clinging to the William and Richard as it was passing
over their keel, but we regret to state that Maltby's wife,
who was on deck at the time, and his five children, who
were in the cabin, all perished.—Hull Packet.
FALSE REGISTRATIONS OF DEATHS.—It has recently
been discovered that a system of fraud has been carried on
to a great extent in the metropolis by a set of designing
persons who have falsely registered the deathsof individuals
who may be pensioners of the East India Co., or annuitants
of other public companies, in order that they might obtain
the usual gratuity given for information of their deaths,
and also, in many of the alleged cases, representing that
the deceased persons had left large and destitute families,
which has led to the granting of some allowance, either
for the immediate support of the survivors, or on account
of the supposed funeral expenses.

An application was made on Saturday week, to the ma-
gistrates at the Mansion House, London, oi. behalf of the
unfortunate Duke of Normandy and his wile and family
of eight children. The duke is now confined for debt i❑
Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and both he and his family are
starving. It was stated that the unfortunate man's claim
as dauphin of France is undoubted, and that the strength
of it was the cause that the French government repudiated
him. Alderman Johnson ordered some assistance to be
rendered from the poor box, and requested the reporters
to publish the application, in the hope that the public
would voluntarily assist the unfortunate prisoner.
COMMITTAL OF A DISSENTING MINISTER AND HIS
SON, FOR BODY STEALING.—On Thursday last, the Rev.
Isaac Bridgeman, the Minister of a Dissenting Chapel at
Walworth, whose case has been several times before the
Court, was finally examined, with his son, a medical pupil,
before Mr. Cottingham, at the Union Hall Police Office,
on a charge of having removed the coffin and dead body
of the late Mr. Tawney from the burial-ground of Mr.
Bridgernan's chapel. Both the defendants were held to
bail for their appearance to take their trials at the next
Old Bailey Sessions for the misdemeanour.—Leeds paper.
APPROACH OF WINTER.—On Tuesday morning, Ri-
vington Pike and the hills adjacent, appeared to be thickly
covered with snow. The Welsh hills also wear the ap-
pearance of winter. At Burton last week, and on Mon-
day at Ulverston, there were heavy falls of snow. In
Scotland the excessive rains and boisterous winds have
also been succeeded by cold dry winds and occasionally
severe frost and snow. The country generally begins to
wear a wintry aspect. The Westmoreland hills are co-
vered with snow, and the grouse shooters have in conse-
quence forsaken their employment.
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BELL AND STEEPLE.—The law adviser of the Irish
government has given an opinion, that there is no law to
prevent the erection of bells in Roman Catholic chapels
in Ireland. In England, there is a law which grants to-
leration to Roman Catholic priests on certain conditions;
but there is an express reservation, that those immunities
shall not be enjoyed by priests who worship in buildings
having a bell and steeple. We believe it is this enactment
which prevents a striking clock being placed under the
steeple of the Roman Catholic Chapel in Cookridge-street,
in Leeds.—Leeds Intelligencer.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT :TO LORD SHERBOURNE.—We
regret to hear that a serious accident occurred to Lord
Sherbone on Saturday morning last. His lordship was
riding out, accompanied by Mr. William Harvey, of Brad-
well-grove, and the Hon. John Dutton, when his horse
suddenly shied and plunged furiously, by which his lord-
ship was thrown with violence to the ground, breaking his
collar-bone and two ribs. Messengers were immediately
despatched for surgical assistance, which was promptly
rendered, and we are happy to hear, by the latest accounts
from Sherborne, that his lordship is progressing, though
but slowly, towards recovery.—Cheltenham Chronicle.
THE BANK OF MANCHESTER.—There was a meeting
on Friday of the proprietors of this bank, when a report
was read. It appears that there are still liabilities to the
amount of about £400,000, and that to meet this another
call of £2 per share will be necessary, and a call for that
sum was agreed upon. Mr. Burdekin, as it already ap-
pears, took with him about £lO,OOO of the funds of the
bank. The present call is caused by the winding up of
several large accounts, much more unfavourably than was
anticipated, especially those of Hiltons, of Darwen, and
Joseph Raleigh, of Manchester, with which concerns the
bank was a creditor for nearly £200,000. The proprietors
will thus lose nearly, if not altogether, one million sterling.
FIRE AT SUTTON HALL.—On Saturday morning last
about nine o'clock, flames were observed to issue from a
barn, forming part of the farm buildings adjoining Sutton
Hall, the mansion of Joseph White, Esq., near Chester.
An engine was obtained from Hooton, and messengers
were dispatched to Chester for further assistance. Mr.
Hill, with the Fire Police and their powerful engine, be-
longing to this city. set off at a quarter past ten o'clock
and arrived at Sutton, a distance of eight miles, in 25
minutes. So rapid had been the progress of the devas-
tating element, that the whole of the farm buildings,
containing a quantity of wheat and oats, were destroyed ;
the cheese, after a good deal of exertion, was saved ; and
the efforts of the Chester Police successfully prevented
the fire from communicating with the Hal'.
A LITTLE BOY POISONED AT PLAY.—On Sunday last
some little boys were playing together near Wakefield,
when two of them, called Willian Spawforth and James
Wood, the one aged 12 and the other 10 produced a
liquor in a small bottle, which they called Spanish juice-
water, and poured some of it down Francis Lumb's throat.
Spawforth's grandmother having left home for the day,
be took the opportunity of searching her cupboard for a
file, when a playfellow who was with him, found a bottle
containing oil of vitriol used for dyeing silks, which he
g themof fe e d
it i
was
taos
tasted, and finding that it blistered, lipshtiesuin
destroysm all quantity,
the
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ta and
other lads apparently for a joke
Spanish juice water. The unfortunate deceased, more
confiding than theffe,rretstw, saws aullsoewd
edtoa
Devie,erydied the following morning. The deceased
talthough
pouoigslol
d 'II h C was about 'five years of age. The two lads were appre-
hended and remained in custo y t e
.oroner's in-
quest, when knowing what it was;" they were
a verdict being returned o. f " Died from tak-
ing oil of 'Vitriol not

liberated