The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

crimson velvet riding habit, black hat with white stream-
ers, of the time of one of the Louis. Her style of riding
exceeds anything of the kind we ever beheld. She sits

th a dignity wort

MADLLE. MATHILDE is another splendid rider, and
must come in for her share of the above praise. She
shows equal skill, is a fearless rider, and has a beautiful
figure and carriage. When she appears in the Indian
costume, in the " Four Quarters of the World

filer costume is the modern FrenchAmazone riding hab
and hat. She offers a fine example to our lady eques.
trians. How we should like to see her in Hyde Park
" Norfolk," the horse she rides, h
fine eye, and is of a chesnut colour

a neat head and

a pink rose on hi
nink border... it

MADLLE. FANNY STANLEY.---711i9 young lady, who we
believe is the only English female equestrian attached In
the company, has scarcely excited the marked applause,
which has greeted Palmyre Anato and others,
.yet never-
theless is most deserving and clever. Perhaps one reason
of this may be that the act in whichshe chiefly appears—
the scarf-dance—depends more upon graceful than upon
dashing riding. To our taste, and to that of many, it i 0
much more feminine, and therefore 'pleasing. Madlle,
Stanley is an accomplished dancer ; and her feat of riding
upon the tips of her toes, in opera fashion, and' at full
speed, is one which displays great training and power.
Upon all occasions there is great Spirit and daring, as well
as grace, in her performances.

pearance
really di]

AURIOL 1.5% rare fellow—the clown of all clowns.

Is 1 haC

)ody in the hands ol the credit Ors, who would thus be
compelled to defray the expenses of its burial.
When completed, tho Westminster Palace clock will be
the most powerful one in the empire. According to the
specification in certain Parliamentary papers which have
been published, it is to " strike the hours on a bell from
she dis- I eight to ten tons. and if practicable, chime the Quarters on

feet in diameter
at 'Malin(

:low the time upon iou
With the exception of

,nsioni surpass those of any

the above
other clock-face in Euro,—
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has petitioned
vfith one dissenting voice, against the game-laws. 0.11

, 111, 11,.•
Mr. Cowan,M.P. maintained that as
crops, it was quite legitimate in thc
what lit

gra,l adopteilly-themrreejting

ame destroyed

entertain

nan food

THE STRIKE IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The strike
n :this district is now assuming a more unfavourable ap-
The men are being acted upon by those who
__t consult their interests,—who know little of
the necessity which has given rise to the proposed reduc-
tion. House after house is going into the Gazelle
throughout the district, and yet the cry is "No surren-
der ; the old wages." On Thursday, a large meeting of
miners was held, when it was decided to continue the
stand out,

POET•OFFICE OVERCHARGE.—At the Rugby County
Court on Wednesday last, a plaint was preferred by Mr.
Wratislaw, solicitor, against the Postmaster-General for
the recovery of the sum of 2d. overcharge on a Bohemian
(foreign) letter, and for the recovery of the value of
another newspaper detained by the General Post.—For
the defence the Despencer case, viz., that the money had
not reached the hands of the Postmaster-General, was
relied upon. and the plaintiff was non-suited.
The Staffordshire mining district, which, six months
ago, presented a scene of busy and profitable industry
unequalled in any other part of England, wears just now
a changed and cheerless aspect. There are altogether 137
blast furnaces in the district. Of these 58 are out of
blast, and 79 in, and so lately as since December 38 of the
58 named 'as blown out, have been stopped, in conse-
quence of the present distressed state of trade. The num-
ber of furnaces in blast in the depressed state of trade in
June, 1843, was 72, and out of blast 69—total, 141.
BURNING OF A LOCK•UP.—On Sunday morning, the
lock-up at Gravesend was burnt, and a drunkard, named
Thomas Budge, who was confined in it, was burnt to
death. It is not known how the fire originated, as Budge
bad no combustibles about him. On Friday evening, a
poor destitute woman, who subsisted by selling lucifers
about the streets, was allowed a night's lodging in the
refuge. ' It is thought that a match may have dropped
from her amongst the straw, and the poor fellow rustling
about may have fired it.
THE MOTHER WANTED.—A poor old woman applied at
the Camberwell Police-court, on Monday, for advice.
She said she kept a school for little children. Wishing to
increase her limited means, she put into her window a
paper announcing that she nursed children by the day,
and on Monday last, a well-dressed female, unknown to
her, brought a babe about a month old, and requested her
to take charge of it for a few hours, while she assisted in
removing from her lodgings, and she had not since re-
turned. The child was sent to the workhouse.

EXTENSIVE FRAUDS IN GOLD BARS.—On Saturday
morning a respectable-looking young man, by trade a
jeweller, was brought before the sitting magistrate at the
Public-office, Birmingham, charged with fraudulently
cutting off the assay marks affixed to bars of pure gold,
and affixing them to a spurious metal which he had sold
as genuine to Messrs. Alston and Co., the eminent refi-
ners and bullio”-merchants of that town. The frauds
committed by the prisoner, already detected, are said to
amount to upwards of £1,500. The prisoner was re-
manded.

THE DISAPPOINTED ARTIST.—On Saturday Mr. Wak-
-lev held an inquest at Chelsea, on the body of Mr. Joseph
William Brett, aged 34 years, (the son of the Rev. Joseph
Brett, a clergyman of the Church of England,) who com-
mitted suicide by cutting his throat. The deceased had
competed for the prizes for the cartoons to embellish the
new Houses of Parliament, choosing for his subject,
" King Richard pardoningthe soldier who had shot at
him," but hike the large majority of his brother artists,.
was unsuccessful. This affected his health, and induced
the dreadful act.

PROCESSION TO " SNIG'S•END."—On Monday a rather
novel turn-out was witnessed in Cheltenham, when a pro-
cession of members of the Land-scheme, men and wo-
men settlers, preceded by a band of music and followed
by the " movables," took place to Snig's-end. There
were in the whole procession,• three waggons and eight
carts, drawn by altogether thirty horses;. the latter were
all noble-looking animals, and we could not help con-
trasting their plump and corny appearance with the look
of squalid and shivering wretchedness of the 20 or 30
women and children huddled together in an open cart.—
Mr. Fearaus O'Connor did not attend as was expected.—
Hereford Journal.

A :JUVENILE DUEL.—On Friday morning last a con-
course of boys were gathered together near Pitville Circus,
and, by their violent gestures, appeared to be quarrelling.
Soon after one of the party, by name Cooke, left the
group and ran a distance of about fifteen yards, when,
turning round, he fired a pistol at a boy named Hughes.
The latter seemed determined to have satisfaction, and
proceeded a little distance along the road, apparently with
the intention of performing a similar•manceuvre. When
the two youths were about twenty yards apart,. Hughes
turned round and fired a pistol at Cooke, who received
some of the shots in his shoulder and thigh. They were
arrested.— Chelfenharn Chronicle.

----
FREE TRADE —PROSPERITY.—The Bradford Observer
says—" Many persons. having large families, and, with
only one or two exceptions, woolcombers, have applied to
us for advice : they uniformly.' xpress great anxiety to be
assisted out, being fully satisfied that their chance of
bettering themselves here is utterly hopeless, while they
are sanguine of doing so in the United States or the
colonies, To the objection that an emigrant's life is one
of hartsliip and suffering, there was but one reply. "We
can't be worse off. master, than we are now."' If such is
the hapless condition of the poor, what is that of the rate-
payer ? Last year, in the township of Bradford, two rates
were laid, amounting to 3s. 6d., the last being laid in
October. Already, a new rate, number one for the year
1848, has been laid ; it is a 3s. rdte: and how many more
will be wanted before the close of the year it would take a
wise man to say."

PAPER FROM STRAW.—We are persuaded that if a
comparison were carefully made between our free and en-
slaved manufactures, it would be found that the de-
terring nature of the excise grasp—like that of Bruin the
bear in the show—tends wonderfully to keep all inquiries
and experiments at a safe distance from the possibility of
an embrace. One of these imported inventions—destined
to exercise a great revolution, if we mistake not, upon the
manufacture of paper in Etttrone,_ancl _which already ex-
cites much Interest among the trade in Great 15ntam—is
that of the use of straw as a material. Mr. Lemuel W.
Wright, a native of the United States, obtained a patent
in this country for this process in 1843, and we believe
has disposed of a patent he acquired at the same t me in
France, for a great sum, to a large company in Normandy,
who are now fitting up very extensive works for the manu-
facture of straw paper on boards.—. Edinburgh Chronicle.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF SIR JOHN MILDMAY,
BART.—Tt is our painful duty to record the death of Sir
John Mildmay, Bart., which took place by his own hands
at an early hour on Monday morning, at his residence. 6
Halkin-terrace, Belgrave-square. It appeared that the
deceased gentleman occupied the upper part of the house,
his establishment consisting of two male and two female
servants. For several days past his valet had noticed that
he appeared depressed in spirits, but on the previous day
he appeared somewhat better. He retired to rest between
eleven and twelve o'clock, and nothing more was heard or
seen of him until shortly before fire o'clock on Monday
morning, when his valet was awoke by a deadened report
of fire-arms, and on entering the room he discovered his
master lying on the carpet. His head was shattered to
atoms • a double-barrelled holster pistol, which had been
recently discharged, was lying close to his right hand, and
had evidently been discharged in the mouth.
LIVE STOCK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.—From that
invaluable work, " M'Queen's Statistics of the British
Empire." we learn the enormous value of the live stock
in the kingdom. It appears that there are 2,250,000
horses, of total value of £67,000,000, of which
more than
1.500,000 are used in agriculture, and that their value is
£45,000,000. The number of black cattle in the king-
dom is about 14,000,000 to 15,000,000. of the value of
£216,000,000 ; the number of sheep 50,000•0, whose
value is estimated at £67,000,000 ; and the extent of
capital invested in swine is still more extraordinary, when
we reflect how little it is thought upon or taken into
account. The number of pigs of all ages. breeding and
rearing. is calculated to 've upwards of 18,000,000, which,
taking one-third at £2 each, and the remainder at 10s.
each, gives a value of £11,870,000, as the capital invested
in pigs alone, making the total amount of capital invested
young lady, 5uf-
,270,000.
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Gal
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gk
ey, n
's shop a few
days ago to have a tooth extracted on the painless prin-
ciple Having inhaled a small quantity of the substance,
dropped on a handkerchief, she immediately became in-
sensible; the tooth was extracted without the slightest
feeling, and she went away shortly afterwards, highly sa-
tisfied at having so easily got rid of what had caused her
so much suffering. After she was gone the surgeon and
a gentleman, who happened to be present during the ope-
ration, were remarking what a pleasant flavour the chlo-
roform had. The former at the time had the handker-
chief in his hand, and but for the presence of his friend he
would have fallen to the ground ; as it was, he had to
assist him to a chair, where, in spite of all his endeavours,
by shaking and pulling him, he remained unconscious for
fully ten minutes, to the no small astonishment of the
gentleman. The doctor himself. on consciousness re-

turning, was as much surprised as was his friend at what
had occurred.—North British Mail.
.-110URS OF LABOUR IN FACTORIES.—A London news-
paper contains a report of a very important case, heard
before a bench of Essex magistrates, on Tuesday week,
on an' information preferred by Mr. Bury, the factory
inspector, against Messrs. Brown and Moy, silk manu-
facturers, at Colchester, for having employed a female for
more than twelve hours in a day; the fact being, that she
really worked only two hours and a half, namely, from
six in the evening to half-past eight. It was contended,
however, in support of the infor

~mation, that, inasmuch
as Messrs. Brown and Moy had fixed up in their mill a
notice to that effect that the hours of labour there were
to terminate at six o'clock, they could not work any female
or young person later than that hour without raising the
legal presumption that such female or young person had
been employed from the usual time of commencing work
in the morning. As the party in question had worked
till half-past eight, the legal presumption was, that she

worked thirteen hours and a-half. The magistrates
sustained this view of the case, and tined Messrs. Brown
and Mov—there being twenty-three other informations of

similar character—in penalties amountin

g, with costs,

to £76 9s. 6d.
CRIME IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND.—
On reference to " Parke's Statistics of Crime in England,
Scotland, and Ireland," it would appear that in the latter
country the amount of crime is the greatest. Ireland,
with three times the population of Scotland, has six and a
half times the numb— Engt--

......ucr of commitments ; and o.anc,
with more than double the population of Ireland, has only
an increase of 4000 over the latter country, proving that
the actual amount of crime of a serious nature in Ireland
is twice as great as that in Great Britain ; and, strange to
say, in those districts where crime is the greatest in
England the largest proportion is committed by Irishmen
nv. are also borne out by

)&—ct. (the two
he greatest
............. U 011104., Wll4/ 1.... p -
for nearly a quarter of a century. On attending at the
various police-offices in the metropolis and at the various
Petty sessions in the suburbs—viz. Kensington, Ham-
ImatetersrmiinthciudEindgmothnetonp,allslhforodf,
mrStraesttfHorlim,
proportion of offenders will be found to consist of Irish.
or those born of Irish parents. The total number of
capital crimes in Ireland are committed by natives; while
in Great. Britain official documentS prove that fully one-
half of the capital offences are committed by the Irish.
These are startling truisms, and we advert to them
without wishing to raise any invidious feeling of distinction
between this and the sister kingdom,—
I Chelnutford
chronicle.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER.—We have this week to record
the murder under very mysterious circumstances, of
respectable farmer of this neighbourhood, Mr. Walling-
ham Hazell, of Dundry. It appears that Mr. Hazell way.
missed by his family on Monday last, and no tidings could
be obtained of him till Thursday, when his dead body
was found in a well, considerably bruised about the head.
and body. The circumstances under which the discovery
of the body was made are not the least singular and mys-
terious connected with the affair. Two men of the village
of Dundry, named Henry Gover and Benjamin Payton,
dreamed that the body of the missing man was in a eel*
taro well ; their dream they told to a man named Stakes,
and be informed some men who were thrashing in the de'
ceased's barn. The well in Question Was then search
and the body was found in it, as we have already stated.
A man named John Hall deposed to finding by accident at
bludgeon, with which, there can be no doubt'. the murder
was committed. He had also found, in a most' unaccount-
able place, an umbrella, which the deceased bad when he
left home on Monday. Two nephews of the deceased are
in custody upon suspicion.—Bristol Journal.
LOVE AND SUICIDE IN WESTMINSTER.—CIO Wednes-
day, Miss Harriet Leet, aged 21, lately residing wilts her
mother, at 28, Rochester-street, Westminster, committed
suicide by poison, under the following deplorable cirorns-
stances. It appears that the deceased, who was a youtv
girl of considerable personal attractions, bad, for a period.
of three years, been corresponding with a man, earned
M'Kay, to whom she was greatly attached. About tvtio'
years ago, in consequence of some little misuoderstand'd
ing between the deceased and her lover, she grew des,
pondent, and attempted self-destruction by poison. Os
recovering, the deceased still continued the correspond-
ence, and evinced the deepest marks of affection, fre-
quently avowing to her friends that she sh•nild never be
happy until the became united to her love. Latterly,
however, the deceased had become exceedingly depressed
in spirits, and would wander about in the most disconso-
late manner, notwithstanding the kindness of her friends.
On Monday evening she retired to rest' at the u-ual hour,
and next morning she went out, and having purchased
some oxalic acid, she returned and swallowed off a large
dose of it. A surgeon was called in, but all efforts to
restore animation were fruitless.
EXTRAORDFNARY CASE OF BIGAMY.—An extraordi-
nary case of bigamy was investigated on Saturday at the
Cheltenham police court. A richly dressed woman who
has lately introduced herself into fashionable circles in that
town under the name of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, was
placed in the dock, charged with bigamy. From. the evi-
dence produced against her, it appears that she.vvaq mar-
-1 ried on the Bth of November, 1838. at Kensingtoreehurch,
wider the name of Octavia Sarah Moore de Bellevue,. (at
which time she described herself as the daughterot Lucia*
Moore de Bellevue, Marshal of France,) to Mr. Henry-
Wyatt, architect, son of Mr. Matthias Coles Wyatt, th,
celebrated sculptor. Subsequent to the marriage the par-
ties went to reside at Boulogne-sur-mer, but they sepa-
rated after a short residence there. It further appeared,
that in May last the prisoner was charged with hitramv at:
the Marlborough-street Police-court, London. ! y
marrying with another person, from which I harge•she
escaped. The offence now charged against her that
she contracted marriage, a few months since, i» the name'
of Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, with another gentleman, at
civil• engineer, her first husband, Henry Wyatt, being alive,
at the time. The prisoner was fully committed for trialN
at the next Gloucester assizes.

A Weetex Suor.—A most deliberate act of homicide,
was committed at the Cavalry Barracks of Leeds, ow
Friday.. About seven o'clea, a married man, named
William Garrett, a private in the 57th Regiment, was in
his room at the barracks, with his wife, private Michael.
Stokes, sergeant Keenan, and private Dooley or Doolan,
of the same regiment, and, without angry words or the
slightest observation, Michael Stokes got his musket from-
the rack in-which it was usually kept, and took it for
moment or two to a table as if he was about to clean it.
He, however, suddenly turned' round, put the piece to
his shoulder,.pulled the trigger,. and shot Mrs. Garratt.
She fell to the ground mortally wounded, the bullet from
the musket having entered the abdomen and passed out
at her back. Mr. Jackson, the regimental surgeon, was
immediately called in attendance upon the poor woman,
but she expired- in about an hour and a half afterwards.
Stokes, who -had fired the mu,ket, was instantly taken into
custody, and given up to the civil authorities. There is
not any known, or even supposed, cause for the perpe-
tration of this fatal act. The prisoner is a young man, a
native of Ireland., It is stated that after he was taken
into custody, he acknowledged that he had premeditated
the deed for two months, and that he loaded his musket
about. two hours before he fired it: Ott Saturday, at the
coroner's inquest; a verdict of " wilful murder ' was re-
turned against Stokes. None of the witnesses could give
any reason for the committal of the fearful act, snd the
prisoner said no one should ever know but the priest.

EMIGRATION.—In 1846, which was a year- of larger
emigration than any that preceded it, amounted to
129,851. But in the first three quarters of the last year
the emigration extended to no less than 240,732 persons,
almost the whole of them being Irish emigrants to North
America. The component parts are thus stated :—From
Liverpool, 114.301; from other English ports. 22,094 ;
total from England, 186.395; from Scotland, 8,155 ; from
Ireland, 95,911: grand total, 240461. Those who em-
barked from Liverpool were almost entirely Irish ; and
there can be no doubt that the Irish helped to swell the
tide from other ports of Great Britain,. especially in the
west of Scotland. It is scarcely necessary to observe,
eilbesess
peopled, from one
er thinly-
peopled
history records no single transportation at all to corn-
flare with this_ Tha sz, rdt
slow
°i°nztino gsan another eirnrfaantht
tribes onlypee thplede district
more fertile. In actual figures. the irruptions from the
North into Southern Europe were never at one time more
immense. When Columbus crossed the ocean with his
little band, and even a century afterwards, when a few
straggling English adventurers were making vain attempts
to found a settlement on the shore of Virginia, they little
imagined that after a lapse of only seven generations a
quarter of a million British subjects would in one year,
not only cross the ocean, but find new homes in those so
recently inhospitable wilds. Such an event is a landmark
of history. It shows the magnitude of the powers which
surround us, and enlarges the mind both as to the neces-
sities and the resources of our time.
DEATH. OF, MR. DISRAELI, SEN.—The Times of Fri-
day announces the death of Mr. Isaac Disraeli, father of
Mr. B. Disraeli, the member for Buckinghamshire, and,
well known as the author of the Curiosities of Literature,
and other valuable and popular works, chiefly on subjects
connected with the history of literature. Mr. Disraeli,
who was born'at Enfield, Middlesex, in the year 1766, was
the only child of Benjamin Disraeli, a Venetian merchant
long settled in England. He was partly educated at Am-
sterdam and Leyland, and after lie had visited Paris in
1786, he returned to England, in the expectation that his
friends would desire him to engage in commercial pursuits.
They appear, however, to have consulted his wishes, and
he was placed in such pecuniary circumstances as enabled
him to indulge his taste for literature. One of the ear-
liest works which he published was the Curiosities of Li-
terature, which appeared when its author was in his twen-
ty-fourth year ; and it was, followed by the Quarrels of
Authors, the Calamities of Authors, the Illustrations of
the Literary Character, the Commentaries on the Life and
Reign of Charles 1., and the Amenities of Literature, be-
sides several novels which he published anonymously, and.
some contributions to the Quarterly Review. It is re-.
markable that he composed the Amenities of Literature-
after he had become blind, in the year 1839 ; and it is be-
lieved that, if his sight had not perished, he would have,
written a life of Pope, a theme for which his friends sup
posed him to be peculiarly qualified. The decease of Mrs..
Disraeli took place at his country seat, Bradenham Houses,
in Buckinghamshire' and he has left one daughter and
three sons, the eldest of whom is the present member fec
Buckinghamshire. _ _ _

The annual meeting of the Provident Clerks' Mutual
Benefit Association was held on Monday last, at the
London Tavern, Mr. R. H. Jones in the chiar. It ap-
peared from the report of the committee read on this oc-
casion, that the state of the society had been one of
gradual progression from its formation down to the
present day. During the last year, although one of heavy
commercial pressure and epidemic disease, the number of
policies effected was 417 for an amount of £84,740, con..
trasted with 374 for £69,200, in the preceding year, The
rate of mortality had been unprecedently small, up to the
end of 1846 five deaths only had occurred, making claims
to the amount of £6OO, and this, too, in the face of the
Registrar-General's heavy returns; while, during the last
year, the amount paid was only one per cent. on the
amount assured. The first division of profits would take
had joined
place in 1848, the necessary documents being at present
most beneficial effects had resulted from these visits. In
if nr tinh e
thhaen hands
societyo f th et
oa
httea Deputationsrgyr.eatprovinelai t
ohdnsb:aenndaetunet
many
yad not been
aware of the existence of the society. B the balance
i 014111
sa ntcohtehset er,
visita n do
fthe Birmingham,
deputation, m
sheet it appeared that the funded propert-
y had increased
to £10,500,
who, Liverpool:pl.ev
independent of the guarantee fund ; the
amount of income from premiums and interest on stock
being about £6,800. The report concluded with re-
commending the four out-going managers for re-election.
The question that the report be adopted was put and
unanimously adopted. A remuneration of £3OO to the
Managers for their labours during the last year was also,
put and unanimously agreed to.
Jevcratx DEPAVITY.--At the Lambeth Police-court;
on Tuesday, Joseph Parnell, a little fellow whose head
did not reach the top of the hoar of the felon's dock, was
charged with stealing eight sovereigns belonging to his
parents; and Sarah Walker, a middle-aged female, was
also charged with receiving a part of the money, knowing
it to have been stolen ; and further, with unlawfully her!,
bouring the child. From the statement of the mother of
the youthful prisoner, which was corroborated by himself,
it appeared that on the sth instant her son absconded,
taking with him eight sovereigns, which herself and hus-
band had, with the greatest care, saved, and did not return
until the day before. From questions she had put to the
boy she elicited that on the day he took the money he
met a boy belonging to the female prisoner, and accom-
panied him home, and from that time until the day before
she harboured him at her house. It also appeared, that
in order to disguise the boy, and prevent the police, who
had been made acquainted with the robbery, from know-
ing him, the female prisoner' had caused the long curly
looks of the boy to be shorn off, and, further, purchased

a suit of coarse slop clothes, and a sou'-wester, so as to
make his disguise perfect, but on finding that all his
money was gone she turned him out and desired him to
go about his business. The poor woman, who seemed
almost broken-hearted, said she had eleven other children.
six of whom were younger than the prisoner, that she
worked hard at ironing from morning till night, that hot
husband had also been obliged to work hard to support
their large family, yet the fruits of many years' labour,
and that which they accumulated by sixpences and shil-
lings at a time, was now gone. The only defence set up
by the female prisoner was that her boy had brought her
fellow-prisoner home, when the latter said that he had
Tt no father'or mother, and that the money was his grls‘
he prisoners were mantled.