The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

JEW PROMOTERS OF CRIME.—On Friday, James Thos.
Newland, Henry Hart, and Lewis Levy, were brought up
for further examination at Guildhall, London, charged,
the former with robbing his employer, Mr. Wellington
Williams, wholesale warehouseman in Gutter-lane, Cheap-
side, of a quantity of goods, and the latter, who are mem-
bers of the Jewish fraternity, Hart with having received
the property, knowing it to have been stolen, and Levy
with being an accomplice of Hart's, having been found in
his company. The lad was coaxed over by a Jew whom
he had met in the street to rob his master; and to dispose
of the goods in conjunction with him. The mass of the
details of the system pursued came out also from the con-
fession of the boy. On the present occasion, the pledging
of the goods, which consisted for the most part of collars,
1111 children's dresses, and articles of millinery, by Newland,
was deposed to by numerous pawnbrokers ; the principal
part of the evidence, however, related to the identification,
by an obstinate Irish woman, of Newland, as being a party
who had met Hart at a public-house, with a bag, which
she ultimately Disposed to. Some conflicting evidence was
then given as to Levy having been in company with, the
other prisoners in a public-house, several witnesses swear-
ing that he was elsewhere on that occasion. Levy was
discharged, and the other prisoners were remanded.
THE STREETS OF LONDON IN 1851.—As the time for
the Industrial Exhibition approaches, London will become
thronged with strangers. The Croat from the banks of
the Drave and the Unna, fierce and exclusive in his re-
ligious sentiments ; the Fleming from Brabant, and the
Walloon from Luxembourg and Hainault, practically to-
lerant at home but acutely sensitive to assaults upon
their creed ; die Prussian from Wesphalia and the
Rhenish provinces, where bigotry abounds, but proselytism
and controversy are prohibited ; the Austrian from a
hundred regions, where Protestantism is barely permitted,
stripped of all outward signs of vitality ; the Italian, the
Spaniard, and the Gaul, inflamed with zeal and confident
of spiritual power—men from every climate and from all
roints of the compass, who have never visited us before,
and who know us only by the reputation of our freedom,
of our conquests by sea and land, and our world-wide pos-
sessions upon which the sun never sets, will crowd our
streets by day and night, filling our theatres and exhibi-
tions, our bazaars and!rnanufactories, and establishing in
our thoroughfares for many months an open congress of
all the civilised nations of the earth. Already upwards of
twenty thousand berths have been taken in the American
passenger vessels, and such is the expected pressure from
the United States that arrangements are said to have been
made for running a packet daily from New York.—Bent-
ley's Miscellany.

SINGULAR MONOMANIA.-At a Court held by Sheriff
Russell, at Wick, on the 13th ultimo, it was found
that the Rev. J. S. Douglas, Royal Bounty Missionary at
Auchrenny to the Established Church, was a monomaniac,
and dangerous to the lieges. From the evidence led, it
appears that the rev. gentleman has given a large share of
his attention to the investigation of mesmerism, and the
new discovery—electro-biology, on which an American
gentleman, Dr. Darling, has of late been lecturing in
Glasgow and Edinburgh. Reason ultimately gave way
in the case of Mr. Douglas, who gave out that he had
discovered " the ultimate principle of matter,"—the
secret by which the ancient magi performed their wonders.
He dreaded the mesmeric influence of some unknown
party, believing that, should they meet, the one or the
other must perish. It was this fear which brought mat-
ters to a crisis. He believed that he should, by his or
her voice, recognise the person whose mesmeric influence
would be fatal should they meet; and to destroy the
party he provided himself with pistols, on pretence of in-
vestigating the subject of acoustics by means of their
reports. He applied to the authorities for protection
from this imaginary enemy, and stated to a Medical
gentleman that he believed he would be safe if rolled up
in a web of silk, because silk would intercept the electric
-
or

magnetic current. The Sheriff granted warrant to
lodge him in an asylum, failing caution by his friends for
his safe custody.—Edinburgh paper.

A GHOST STORY.--One day lately an old lady, at
Southwick paid a visit to her nephew, whom she had not
seen for a long time. He, of course, was extremely glad
to see her, and insisted on her supping all night. The
house consists of a front and back kitchen upon the
ground floor, with a corresponding number of rooms
above. The nephew and his family slept above, and to
accommodate his aunt, who had been used to sleep where
there was a fire, the_old lady slept down stairs.

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occupied the back kitchen as a stable, from which there
was communication by a door; The old lady having
made up the fire, and performed her devotions, lay down
to rest. Just as she was about to fall asleep, the fire then
burning very dull, she was startled by a terrible apparition,
which walked across the floor, very slowly, towards the
fire. Not being able to see distinctly, her agitation may
be better imagined than described. Terror completely
paralyzed her, and as she described afterwards, she had
not power to speak. The Ghost, however, feeling the fire
very comforts •le, lay down before it ;.but in doing so, his
hind parts came in contact with the bedstock. The sudden
shock caused the old lady to find her tongue, when she
cried out, " 0 Lord, have mercy upon me, have mercy
upon me !" which she continued to repeat so loud, that
her nephew heard her up stairs, when he came down and
discovered that the terrible ghost was none other than
poor old Dobbin, who, being cold in his stable, had for-
ced open the door, and laid himself down near the fire in
the old lady's bedroom.—Shields Gazette.
WESLEYAN RE-UNION.—On Friday evening last, says
the Doncaster Gazette, the Wesleyan methodists of Great
Horton held a festival in their school-room on behalf of
the circuit funds. During the evening a variety of noises
and knockings were kept up by those who were prohibited
admission into the building, and much excitement pre-
vailed. The doors were barricaded and stoutly guarded

by several volunteers and a policeman in addition. Mr.
Thomas Myers, a trustee of the building, and one of the
expelled, demanded liberty of entrance, but no more
favour was shown to him than the rest;: they were all de-
terminedly repulsed. At last the opposition retired, and
during the interval of quiet, the collection (amounting,
with the profits of the tea, to £36) was made. It was now
about eight o'clock, and the congregation were singing in
triumphant tones—" Lift up your heads ye heavenly
gates," when an awful crash was heard, and a thick
plank like a battering ram impinged upon the outer door.
In another moment it was through the panels, and
amongst the screams of women, and the furious ejacula-
tions of men, the hostile parties were face to face in the
place of the assembly. In loud tones Mr. Walker ordered
Jennings (the relieving officer) to put down the names of
all who were implicated in forcing the door, whilst he
himself soon after drove off rapidly in a cab to Bradford.
sending back therein four additional policemen. Beyond,
however, a few incidents of a personal character nothing
further of public interest occurred. Mr. Myers has ap-
plied for a summons against Mr. W. Robertshaw for
assault; and on the other hand it is reported that the
conference party intend t) indict Mr. Myers and his
friends for riotous conduct.

CULTURE Om'. FLAX.—Before quitting the subject of
flax culture at Patrington, it may be well to advert to
one or two points which are sometimes overlooked by
the advocates .for its extension in England, An article,
of which the wages of labour in the first stage of its
manufacture form fully 60 per cent. of the whole value,

must I

dependent for profit on the scale of
wages. The difference of that- scale between most parts
of Ireland and the East Riding of Yorkshire is not less
than 150 per cent., and with such a difference the manu-
facturer in this district cannot afford to pay the farmer

for the ra
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naterial so remunerative a price as in Ireland.
ricultural, produce here are of con-
than in Ireland, and that

.rably.more

%lee per acre

offered by the rnanufaetu