The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Both Mr. D'lsraeli and Mr. Ferrand have subscribed
:a the Duncombe testimonial; the former £lO.

It is said that two crowned heads—the Kings of Bava-
ria and Denmark—have subscribed the teetotal pledge.
In Chester Castle, on Saturday last, a prisoner named
Thomas Leech hung himself in his cell.

Ten valuable horses, worth from £lOO to .£l5O each,
were lost from the Queen of Scotland steam-ship, during
a storm, on her last voyage from Hull to Hamburg.
The quantity of the blue pill alone lately shipped at
once for South America by one drysaltery house, in Lon-
don, amounted to six lons.
During the whole of last week not a single commitment
was made out by the Birmingham magistrates—a circum-
stance that has not occurred for 35 years.

THE LEAGUE AT BRISTOL.—The Bristol Liberal
Association, who are tools of the League, have objected
to every Conservative freeman, (possessing no other qua-
lification,) in number about 1900.
The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last
week advanced to 20s. per quarter—the maximum
amount at which it will, in all probability, remain for a
considerable time.

The body of a newly-born infant was found last week
in a ♦acant piece of ground in the parish of Bethnal
Green, with a piece of broad tape round its neck, with
which it had been strangled.

Mr. William Harvey, of Bedleston, Aberdeenshire, has
given the sum of £6,500 for the purpose of founding an
institution for the education of the deaf and dumb ; and
another for the reclaiming of females of dissolute habits,
disposed to abandon their wretched mode of life.

Richard Robinson, a boy eleven years of age, was a few
days ago fined £lO, at Wandsworth, and in default of
payment sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, for hav-
ing placed a piece of wood across the rails of the South
Western Railway at Wimbledon.
The Borough Compter, London, is at present wholly
untenanted, except by the keeper, turnkey, and matron ;
the whole of the prisoners who were in custody, upon ex-
ecutions for debts under £2O, having obtained their dis-
charge, under the provisions of the new insolvency act.
The Perth and Dunkeld st•sge-coach caught fire o❑
Wednesday from the friction of the wheels. The coach,
which burned for some time unperceived, the passengers
at last descending amid clouds of smoke, was rendered
useless. _ . .

A selection from the University sermons of August
Tholuck, D.D. professor of theology, and preacher in the
University of Halle, has just appeared, translated from
the German by the Lady Adehza Manners, sister of
Lord John Manners.

It is a curious fact that in some counties more labour-
ers are employed under than on the surface of the earth.
In Durham there are nearly twice as many miners as la-
bourers employed in cultivating the soil. The total num-
ber of agricultural labourers in Great Britain of both
sexes is 1,133,563.

Count Leslie, of Balquhain, the representative of one
of the oldest families in the county of Aberdeen, died
suddenly, yesterday sen'night, at his seat of Fetternear,
owing to having incautiously taken a draught of cold
water when overheated with the sports of the field. His
age was 24.

THE STABBING CASE AT NVENVERING.—We lament
to state that this shocking case, of which we gave an ac-
count in our last, has terminated fatally, the unfortunate
object of his brother's fury having expired, after living in
great agony. At a coroner's inquest a verdict of wilful
murder was returned.

ROYAL DEMISE.—A few days since, died, near Beau-
lieu, Joseph Lee, the acknowledged monarch of that
mysterious class of people the Gipsies. He was a native
of 13rockenhurst, in the New Forest, and was, it is said,
in his SGth year. He is reported to have died worth a
great deal of money.

QUOITS.--A match was played, on Wednesday, on
Woodhouse Moor, for £lO aside, between Simeon
Walker, of Rastrick, and John Briggs, of Armley, the
best of two games, with quoits nibs. the pair, distance
eighteen yards. Each party has been triumphant in
former contests, but this time Walker proved the victor,
getting forty-seven casts to his opponents twenty-three.

DEATH CAUSED 13y BATHING WHILE IN A STATE OF
PERSPIRATION.—On Sunday, the 25th ult., Mr. James
Thomas, of Truro, walked pretty quickly to the sea-shore,
and while in a state of perspiration, plunged into the
water. He was afterwards seized with shivering, and ul-
timately became so ill as to require medical assistance ;
on Monday morning last, he expired, in his 55th year.
FIRE AT HOPE MILLS, WREXHAM.—On Saturday
morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out in Messrs. J.
H. and R. C. Rawlins' paper-mills, which, in little more
than two hours, were entirely destroyed. By this unfor-
tunate occurrence we regret to hear that a considerable
number of hands will be deprived of employment, in a
district already much distressed from the suspension in
the iron trade. The owners are, we understand, fully
insured.

FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. —ln consequence of
the favourable accounts received from the agricultural
districts of the promising and abundant state of the
harvest, the price of wheat at Mark-lane has fallen last
week is. to 2s. per quarter in first quality, and 4s. to ss.
per quarter on second qualities. The best Kent, Essex,
Norfolk, and Suffolk wheat is 395. tos6s. per quarter ; flour,
fine, 40s. to 455.; and seconds, 395. to 40s. per sack, in
London. The bakers of the metropolis have reduced the
41b. loaf to 61d.
Ex ECUTION. —On Wednesday, at Taunton, Joel Fisher,
underwent the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder
of his wife, at Weston-super-Mare, in June last. He
died in a very repentant state. It seems almost incredi-
ble, but it is nevertheless true, that several applications
were made to the governor of the prison by persons
afflicted with the king's evil and rheumatism for permis-
sion for the band of the dead man to be rubbed over the
R
Esnh?..o
Kinross,
Rh
discharged
iNs cG
coveyiEa. r—g
ewOdal
boths
diFridays p erbsae
rd'i
dispersed,
d,a
toanaes p
poor
oor
ovt sre my
birdt( 11. f,
grouse, on the hill immediately above Ledlation, in Or-
parts affected, with the idea that they would be cured. It
need hardly be added that the applications were refused.
ApTaKtriii
fromw eßll
was observed to take the direction of an invisible wire
fence, erecting within less than 300 yards from the spot,
with which it came in contact when on full flight, and,
strange to say, the head was at once dissevered from the
body, the later being found fully
three yards distant from
the other.—Halifax Guardian.

Sept. 10, 1844.

NAUTICAL ADVENTURE.—As E. Watson Lloyd, Esq.
was returning to Parkgate in the yawl Horatio, on Tues-
day last, on falling in with the Fairy, John Lloyd Jones,
Esq., a salute was fired from the Horatio, when, unfortu-
nately, one of the brass cannons burst into splinters with
a tremendous explosion. The sails were much cut by the
fragments, but although nine persons were standing 11
when the gun was fired, we are happy to state that no one
received the slightest injury.—Chester Courant.
A distressing event took place on Monday in the neighei
bourhood of Wrexham. Four men were being lowered
into the pit of the Cheshire Vron Colliery, 13rymbo,
Wrexham, the property of Mr. Moulson,
when an explo-
sion of fire-damp took place. The shock was so great that,
the poor men were blown into the air. The body of on
of them was picked up in four pieces, the other three vterp
taken up quite dead. At t: le time twenty-eight men weee
employed in one part of the pit, several of whom are
dreadfully burnt, and are not likely to recover.
SUSPECTED MURDER AT SMIDDYHAUGH.—A great
sensation has been excited in this village and the nelg•b'
bourhood by the mysterious disappearance and recent i 1
covery covery of a woman belonging to this place. She has held
missing for nearly three weeks, and no trace of her coil
he discovered until Thursday last, when her dead boll
was found in a field of oats, and in a state of decomPsy
tion. She has had several illegitimate children, and sol
circumstances connected with her course of life, combine(
with others, lead to strong suspicions as to the manner()
her death. That it has been by violence of some sort, we
believe there is little doubt.—Perth Paper.
ia
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By the
tra
which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six o'cloelf!
reaching Ayr at half-past eight, a parcel arrived, corisie a
ing of a white willow basket, with the lid closely se°e
down. As there is no delivery after that hour, the bas,`et
was put along with other articles in the goods office. where
it remained all night. This morning the porter proeeeube
to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds, thought be
felt something stirring in the basket, and on lifting t
corner of the lid, discovered that his charge was a let°.ie
child ! The case is under investigation by the Whorl'
ties.—Ayr Advertiser, Tuesday.
FOREIGN PROVISIONS.—On Wednesday The a sale of im-
proved American provisions took place in London. .
first lot was 975 hams from New York, of fair overall
°
quality. These produced about 425. per cwt. ; a further
quantity of 3,025 hams from the same place sold for 34'
The pork, which was a remarkably good article, not too
salt, and apparently well filled, fetched 30s. per
cwt::
eaters, found ready purchasers at 40s
whilst 100 kegs of ox tongues, good and well flavoured.
produced at the rate of Is. lid. to 2s. each. The smoke.:
beef, very fair, sold for 395. per cwt., and 150 half barrels
of family beef, apparently well fed and sound meat ,1?u,
rather too highly salted to please the majority of English
sages fetched 9(1 per lb., and the undressed turtle se. Pee
pound.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE RATE OF INTIW
EST.—The directors of the Bank of England have Pet
taken a step which seems to have caused some astonish;
ment amongst those who thought that the separation 0'
the functim(s of banking and issuing would cause a pr:.9-,
sure on the money market and tend to raise the rate of
interest : they have reduced the rate of discount on three
months' bills from four to two-and-a-half er cent. le'
deed, we presume the directors will now proceed to em-
ploy the funds of the banking department in precisely the
same manner as the funds of other banking establishiraieV:
are employed, and will compete in the money roar"—r-thotl
bills, like other capitalists ; leaving the regulations 01 `.
per cwt. ; the sau-
issuing department to govern the amount of notes in cir-
culation.
NARROW ESCAPE OF A _CHILD BY THE SAGACITY 0
A 0 RSE.—On Saturday week a young child had a narrow
escape for its life, and was miraculously saved by the sa-
gacity of a horse. The child happened to be plaYing °,§
the street at the west end of Kirkaldy, when two eer'ri
were passing under the charge of one man, he sitting 'e
the foremost cart, and holding the other horse IoY
halter, a space being between the two. The child laci"
run in before the hindmost horse, and the horse obserritjg.
the perilous condition of the child, refused to go forward
and, though repeatedly urged by its less observant drice'll,
rather than do so, and prove the death of the child, Whiea
would have been inevitable, he fell down on his kness
an
lay till a young woman, who observed the perilous positinA
of the child, rushed out of her m:;ster's house and snatche'
up the child before the lazy driver had left his seat in tlr
was carried to its mother unhurt.—Edinburgh al
cart, or any other person came to its rescue. The chit
paper.
ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO GALLERY.--All act
dent occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Cast,',,"'
on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of orren"d"
and of exquisite workmanship, weighing several hundre
of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling, tb
aoar!
15 feet from the floor. These magnificent pieces of fur-
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niture, which, it is said, cost from £2,000 to .£3,ooeali.
are considered to be the most rich and beautiful sr
was
mess in this country. While one of the workmen
in
end aged, mounted on the top of a high flight of steps,
preparing the chandelier at the western end for l'ghting'
the whole mass gave way, and fell on the floor with a tom-
mendous crash, and breaking into a thousand nice%
Of the several circles of cut plate glass, upon which were
elaborately engraved the star, garter, and motto of t_n
order of the garter, not one escaped—the whole r;
smashed to atoms. The man on the steps fortunatei4
escaped. The chandelier, it is stated, weighed upsvern

of seven cwt.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDES.—On Saturday week the
head gamekeeper of the Earl of Stradbroke, named East'
committed suicide at Henham Park,it is supposed in COn:
sequence of the annoyance he experienced from the fre,
quent acts of poaching committed on his lordship's 1,11.
re
serves. From the relative positions in which the booYar
and
some the f gertduhanesb
ytwerero hes found,nihsaeenable
cchri
msei
across the
hhtw.
adoevu
barelytn
wd:ospgfe uutet
triggers
subsided,ogt
hsgt
eeeh
Trarestuhn
osedhifieo i);
whi
tisa
hnhdeepn excitementsi
beuithcacee,
t.andels placedin
hs his
mouth, foot
tupon r
et
oh
ffe endthe
oacmcaasnnione
neighbourhood of Henham Park was again astonished
by
the self-destruction of a man named CruxeY,vfh
who held
the position of superintendent of keepers,, horses,
omd dogs, connected
on nthat
aftestat withe.
n This
the Earl
unfortunate
no f
h Stradbrokeu eoman
t,he
spshehrtski ts haeib
fsEneltii
aissotehewii,
scarcely twenty-four hours after the cleat.. o.E:
servant.
narliarnen
LORD STANLEY.—It will be seen from our
tarH uyn
liament. His withdrawal from the scene of his triumphs'
and from the walls which have long echoed with his Dr'„
liant eloquence, and the enthusiastic cheers of his adtMei,
redrpoedrst, tahnadt
wLiothrddraSwtannlferyomhatsheacLcuewpeterdutuhueseCuhfilptera.r..a.:
ing and astonished hearers, is only preparatory to his!"
moval to the House of Peers. Lord Stanley retains, t 7;
seals of the Colonial office, and his seat in the Cabin of
and however severely his loss may be felt in the Hon; bue
Commons, his entrance into the House of Peers must of
hailed with universal satisfaction. Indeed, the 03n,„56
speakers on the Government benches in the Upper rvie,
has been strongly manifested since the death of thAeo.-
mented Lord Fitzgerald, the absence of Lord,,Dil of
borough, and the frequent indisposition of the ratrber.
Ripon.—lt will be remembered that Lord Stanley's „et
the present Earl of Derby, was also called to the
House, by the title of Baron Bickerstaff, during the es•
time of the preceding earl; and as the title became ciat•
tinct on his succeeding to the Earldom, no further 3
tion was ultimately made to the House of Lords. the
THE GAME LAws.—The Leeds Times states thtti
suicides of Lord Stradbroke's gamekeepers (nodal'
where) were occasioned through fear of his loresbeeo
anger that such extensive depreda.ions should bayed the
allowed among his preserves as have lately thinne ts to
number of his pheasants, &c. There are other reP°Lhich
a similar effect, showing that the anxiety of mind -eles
ended in these unfortunate men destroying therns bac!,
was caused by their solicitude about the game thenier°`
to preserve. It is not long since another gamekeerbers,
this same Lord Stradbroke was murdered by P°3orty
and, if our memory serves us aright, several tren,!fthen,
tions beyond the seas were the consequence. Lont"to tha
at the loss of life, the misery, and the expense „yea'
public, that this single landlord's game may be pres`',,arSt
Let it be held in mind that, during the last ten )13;00f
some. 30 gamekeepers have been murdered, and a 5
poachers hanged for the murders—that in onenJA
namely 1813, 30 persons were transported, and 4..%10`.,
victed and sentenced to fine and imprisonment in r,,n,e05"
alone, for infringements of the game laws—that In'theiC
of prnsecuting the " criminals," and in maintaining 05111
families when thrown upon the parish, amounts net'ftba
to not less than £lOO,OOO sterling, not to speak orte
immense cost of maintaining those who are traqtrn l
e
beyond the seas, nor of the wreck and ruin of Vitt" d re-
happiness to tens of thousands, nor of the brutal slliosiS
vengeful feelings engendered, and the desperate erinioro,
who are brought into existence and fostered by theseeetel
and who shall say but that they are one of the hg,roveP
curses of our land, and ought, without delay, t° "-
from off our statute-book for ever restil
WITCHCRAFT IN 1814.—Not long since the ote !e
place Of the dead at Phillack, near Ilayle, was ,n',,ued
res scene of r
sonofoisitstrraaunfflms
iacct:ieli
that
tn,,s_i
twh
gossipshich disease,mwaodu el
and
known.
oawyweinlo.b, 1 afeo:3.ioti
darkest ignorance of bygone ages. It appears ; scatir
y
inmoral3cdbmaayeur,d,iksgti
eecis nnaobcalefortdaitui
loidiv:rneivaaaiisgrsnyeeweiryaeswa.jr,
lieoadvludpettlyurdhl
teanirtTsrooe
atgoa
tldsrbohe, bvyinueimeielty:ami tetruieogottflsohinitetatc;stlhtti
taiernhoneldendtdiycsrthuewhf,ceeti intieoroti.
co
00eupr )e,.! err
proving that the boasted remedies were of nn rder rbs
e
e
they might avoid the only method by which they s
cured. Fortunately, a blazing light shot enrii:sipe'
ed
yrednen auto eeop
their ignorance, because they did not sooner find. °ll-he
were „ers
3
was only the work of a moment, but to discovercre rioee,
who could break the spell was not so easily ac
.0 ,_f": the:,
Every thought and action was centered in attain‘np,s.";
darling object. Finally, their wish was consmn
Ile tig
too, t
a scatterer of witch spells stalked forth from fro
..$3
whom they disclosed every incident of their li,f.,ehs; day :de
with uncertainty as tending to good or evil. -1-_,"tbe abYor
chosen, the dreaded hour of midnight fixed, an oroeneir
of the silent clod of all that once was living 03' but the;'
the place of assignation. The hour drew ne,er:., eefitsp
purpose became known by the impulse of their A
t tele•••• pee
and their stealthy actions were closeulyrcii?°tyefile),ur.resli;:t3erteei
asked-for fee was immediately given, an The" 31v
was enjoined, he churchyard wall was scaled'
myste ofr
cY}„t • floe
oti
spell breaker commenced the mysteries of his acti ea
aidnsugphemes y.ivsat
ieukr
eiaodvt
uns
vgseorwu
atnitkuseddaenamdd pnheyur
timest
yr i
pressedro
doors and windows opened and shut at his blartrley `ll,
be commanded them to remain open, and, 83_ had '°d
passed in succession, he brought the persons rr'ouen_
wished them to their face. Thus the spell
dissolved, and a faith given that their r"re,..501,
sefvopii3terkieibtedhlrieeltyicrhaeedusiffriseeteac.a—titsehedii:_shpteailStionlm,darieid7oidanoai.rnytashiehtswavircohusinflaCe:V.tibiferco;,:ctintl

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