The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The nomination for Southwark election takes place on
Wednesday, and the polling on Thursday.
The Bishop of Calcutta is expected in Huddersfield this
week, on a visit to the Vicar.
Benjamin D'lsraeli, Esq., M.P.. has been created a
deputy-lieutenant for Buckinghamshire.
On Wednesday and Thursday last, upwards of three
hundred sail arrived in the Thames.
The sea at Crome has gained rapidly on the land. Se-
veral cottages, &c., have fallen, being undermined.
The Marquis of Anglesey is undergoing hydropathic
treatment at Dr. Weiss's establishment, near Richmond.
Earl Fitzwilliam has upwards of 100 acres of hay so
spoiled by the late rains, that the whole has been obliged
to be put in heaps for manure.
A dividend of twenty-five thirty sec)nds of a penny in
the pound has been declared upon the estate of Nicholas
Price Wood, banker, Burslem!
The capital required for the cotton mills at Sheffield is
to be £20,000, with power to increase it, and it is to be
raised in forty £5OO shares.
Mr. Scott Murray, who a few months ago embraced
the Rornish faith, is erecting a chapel at Great Marlow,
at his sole expense. The cost is £3,500.
On Tuesday week, a labourer at Ashton was choked to
death by a bone sticking in his throat whilst be was eat-

ing his dinner.
On Thursday about 40 hampers, each containing 7 cwt.
of fresh beef, were received at Hull per steamer from
Leith, and immediately forwarded to London by railway.
CHURCH RATE.—After a fortnight's polling at Wake-
field about a church-rate, the friends of the church have
been successful, by a majority of fifteen. The numbers
at the close were—for the rate, 2376; against it, 2361.
Mrs. Priestley, the wife of a brewer, at Perry Bar, near
Birmingham, hanged herself the other day, from the top
of the bed. The same afternoon, her husband, who had
been melancholy of late, followed her example.
Mr. Moylan has been elected Judge of the West-
minster Court of Requests. There were four other can-
didates, and for the first time in this country a system of
" canvassing " for the office of judge was adopted.
The Registrar-General has addressed a circular to the
coroners throughout the country for the purpose of ob-
taining more special information respecting the cases over
which they severally preside.
On Saturday week a young man named Barker, the
editor of a provincial newspaper, destroyed himself in
London in a fit of insanity brought on by excessive

drinking.
On Saturday several dwellings were accidentally de-
stroyed by fire on the estate of Sir Thomas Baring, near
Winchester, and numbers of industrious families have
thus been deprived of house and food.
For a wager of £5, two pigeons were flown the other
day from Dover to London. The winning bird performed
the distance (about 78 miles) in 76 minutes ; the other
was 12 minutes longer on the way home.
Amongst the advertisements in the Times, we read that
" Two sisters want washing," and that a " spinster, par-
ticularly fond of children, wishes for two or three, or any
other employment !"
LONGEVITY.—On Thursday week a public dinner was
prepared at Dobcross, for all men and women resident in
Saddleworth, and aged 77 years and upwards ; of which
dinner 132 old people partook, whose ages averaged more
than 80 years !
At Dorking fair, on Tuesday, a fight took place between
Lynch, a bricklayer's labourer, and Taylor, an Irishman.
Taylor inflicted two severe wounds on the body of his
antagonist with some weapon as yet unknown, from which
the latter died. He is in custody.
The Ocean landed at London, on Tuesday, from Rot-
terdam, 73 oxen, 24 cows, 456 sheep, and 2 goats. The
whole were of a superior quality. This is by far the
largest number of live cattle ever brought in one vessel
from the Continent.
JACK KETCH'S PERQUISITES.—After the late execu-
tion of Benjamin Ellison, at Bodmin, Jack Ketch sold
the rope with which he was hanged to great advantage,
obtaining a shilling for the smallest bit of it, from per-
sons who bought it to cure fits and the King's evil.
FOREIGN FRUIT.—The Emerald Isle steamer landed
last week at [lull, from Hamburg, 836 baskets apples and
plums ; the Leeds steamer, 543 baskets plums and cucum-
bers; the Helen M`Gregor, 259 baskets plums, 2 of fil-
berts, 27 of cucumbers, and 2 of horse-radish.
CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—On Wednesday the quan-
tity pitched was very limited. Neither was there any-
thing of very good quality. The demand by country
dealers was however tolerably brisk. Prices ranged be-
tween 455. and 58s. ; and nearly all was sold.
CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—On Thursday, the Septem-
ber Cattle Fair was held. The show was small. Barren
cows were not in much demand ; but milkers were eagerly
enquired after, and realised good prices. Fat cattle were
worth from sid. to 6d. a pound, and sink ; fat mutton
realised 6d. There was a good demand for store pigs.
The horse fair was indifferently attended ; but useful nags
were in demand.
The gold mace, the gift of Queen Elizabeth to the cor-
poration of Lincoln, after nine years' banishment by the
municipal reformers, has again been allowed to see day-
light on public occasions, and this month has been laid
on the council-table during the meetings of the town-

council.
A TWOPENNY BANK-NOTE.—The editor of the Tyne
Mercury acknowledges the receipt from a correspondent
of " a curious specimen of our early currency, namely, a
very handsomely-engraved note of the Womlmancote
Bank, Gloucestershire, dated about half a century ego.
and bearing the extraordinary value of twopence."
Mr. Searle, woollen-manufacturer, of Tavistock, has
been committed to the county gaol on a charge of forgery.
Some time since he failed in business for about £3,000,
and offered a composition of 10s. in the pound. The off,T
was declined, and the management of his affairs passed
into other hands. It is stated that forged bills for £25,
£123, and £2OO, have been discovered.
DEATH OF A MURDERER.—In June last a man named
Blackburn murdered his wife, by cutting her throat, at
Stouden Massey, near Chelmsford, and subsequently in-
flicted a frightful wound on his own throat. He was too
ill to be tried at the last assizes, and on Friday week he
died from extreme exhaustion. The deceased and his
wife had been fellow. servants.
VISIBLE POPERY.—The Record states that popish
priests, with their half white and half black cravats, and
long-tailed coats, begin to get numerous in London, and
that the shops increasingly exhibit crucifixes and other
popish trumpery in the windows. In Liverpool the same
exhibitions are witnessed, and we can scarcely turn the
corner of a street without observing three or four emis-
' series from Maynooth, or Jesuits banished from France.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—In working one of Mr.
Harrison's coal-pits, at Clapgate Colliery, Pemberton,
the men came to a place, which they supposed to lead to
some workings which had been made up. On breaking
it open they found that it had been worked to the extent
of about 11 acres of coal, which they supposed must have
been got upwards of 200 years ago. Two colliery tools
were found, a pickaxe and a spade, the latter made out of
a piece of solid oak, the back round and the front rim had
been shod with sheet iron, some of which still adheres.
I They are now in the possession of Mr. Banks, of Win-
stanly-hall.
BOMAN:ISM AND MR. WARD'S MARRIAGE.—There
will be no obstacle to Mr. Ward's becoming a Romish
priest notwithstanding his marriage. A dispensation for
the purpose will be the easiest of things imaginable. In
the eye of the Romish Church he is now a layman.
They may re-ordain him priest without asking him any
inconsistent questions. Roman regulations are as elas-
tic as caoutchouc. They will shrink or extend with every
little applied violence. Those regulations merely require
that no priest of the Church of Rome shall marry. Well,
then Mr. Ward is not a priest of that ancient communion.
When he becomes one he will doubtless not marry—again.
The thing has been done before, and, as the young Dane
says, " 'tis as easy as lying !"
CURIOUS EXCHANGE.—A most remarkable discovery
was made in London, last week, on the apprehension for
theft of a man styling himself William Fitch. The pri-
soner was identified as having, some time back, been tried
with another man, whose name is Fitch. Both being
convicted, they were sentenced, the man named Fitch to
three months' imprisonment, and the prisoner, who now
assumes the name of Fitch, to seven years' transporta-
tion. It now appears, that, while in Tothill-fields Prison,
the parties agreed to change names, and, of course,
punishments, and Fitch, instead of three months' impri-
sonment, is now serving out the other's term of transpor-
tation, and the prisoner, assuming the name of Fitch,
underwent his companion's sentence, and was recently
liberated.
THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—After a six weeks'
cruise, the squadron has returned to port, and there seems I
to be little doubt that the Queen and Albion, built by the
Surveyor of the Navy, and launched in 1839 and 1842,
have obtained a comparative advantage over their compe-
titors. We say comparative, inasmuch as both these
vessels were repeatedly beaten by the Canopus, an old
French ship, launched in 1794, and captured at the battle
of the Nile. How far their accidental success may deserve
to be regarded as a testimony to the sailing qualities of
Sir Wm. Symonds' ships may be inferred from the fact
that his two crack ships, one (the Vanguard) launched in
1835, and the other (the Superb) the very latest produc-
tion of his genius, proved themselves the worst sailers of
the squadron ; having been beaten throughout the whole
of the trials on all points of sailing.
LINES OF STEAM VESSELS.—British enterprise has
now established steam communication with the following
countries :—To Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, by the
Hull line; to St. Petersburgh ; to North Germany, by
the Hull and London lines to Hamburg; to Holland,
Belgium, and France, by the General Steam Company's
vessels ; to the north and south of Spain and to Portugal,
by the Peninsular Company's vessels ; to Italy, by the
new line from London to Leghorn ; to Malta, the Levant,
and Constantinople, by the new Line from Liverpool ; to
Egypt, Arabia. Ceylon, India, Sincapore, and China, by
the Oriental Steam Company's vessels ; to British
America and the United States by the Cunard and Great
Western lines from Liverpool ; to the West Indies,
Mexico, and the north coast of South America, by the
West India Line; to Peru and Chili by the West Coast
line. To Brazil and the river Plate by the line now
building in Liverpool. The only British Colonies of
any importance which have riot now the advantage of
steam communication with the mother country are the
Cape, the Mauritius, and Australian Colonies.
THE PATENT MORTAR LAMP AND MORTARS.—These
Mortars, made from tallow, by the aid of a neat little lamp
in which they are consumed, are far superior, as a night
light, to the ordinary rushlight or float. They burn quite
as long as we are told they do, without the least smell or
dirt, and are at the same time extremely economical.
The public will find, from an advertisement inserted in
our paper of to-day, that a society, called the " Leeds
Union Building Society," is about being established, and
we have no hesitation in recommending it to their notice,
as the advantages which such societies afford to small
capitalists are obvious. The respectability of the parties
connected with this society is sufficient to inspire the con-
fidence of the members and ensure its complete success.

tiIEVMERPOOL STANDARD.

Etttraturr.

POETRY.

IN A POOR-

A PAUPER'S FIRST SUNDAY
HOUSE.
The Sabbath rose ! E'en from his earliest days
It woke in him the voice of joy and prai-e,
When sweetly floating o'er the quiet dells
Came the glad music of its welcome bells !
In after years he loved the house of prayer,
And led betimes his willing children there ;
Now when he heard fr-m far the bell's slow toll
The iron entered deep int) the soul,
To think the temple of his Saviour's grace
Was nought to him hut a forbidden place :
Hard thoughts of God and man a moment cast
Their evil influence, but as quickly pass'd,
And memory took her flight, away—away—
Through buried hopes to that far distant day
When his glad feet the cowslip meadow trod,
Beside his father, to the house of God!
Like Israel's banished monarch, his vex'd soul
Long'd for the courts where living waters roll;
There the free swallow makes her happy nest,
But there his wounded spirit may not rest!

Oh ! if earth holds one consecrated spot
Where all the six days' trouble enters not,
Where pain and poverty forget to weep
And holy hope her constant vigils keep,
Pointing the mourner to his home on high,
Where every tear is wiped from every eye,
It is the poor man's church ! He enters there,
And casts upon his God his every care.

*
Whilst earthly blest, the thoughtless and the gay,
Find their reward in this life's little day,
Through tribulation's straight and narrow road,
He wends 'mid sighs and tears his way to God'
Poor and afflicted' was his Master's lot,
The poor man I, nows it, and he murmurs not;
But as he walks with pain this vale of tears,
A prey to all the ills our nature fears,
Deny him not the solace God has given,
To dry his tears and aid his way to heaven ;
Enough of ill surrounds his rugged path,
Man need not add the vials of his wrath,
Nor let these prison walls their shadow throw
O'er his vex'd soul and suff'ring body too."

NOTICES.

Rational Orthopedy, or the Treatment and Cure of Spi-
nal Curvatures and other Deviations. By A. M. Bu-
reaud-Riofrey, M.D. London : Bailliere.
This pamphlet conveys an intelligible outline of the
author's method of treatment of these distressing devia-
tions of the bony mechanism of the spine. The plan is
certainly far better calculated for modifying the evil than
any based upon strong supports and treacherous aids, in the
shape of strait waistcoats, coats of mail, &c. ; and by the
simple method of the author, more room is left to nature to
operate her own cure than by any other ; which is, conse-
quently the optimism of the question for medical care of
such puzzling questions, wherein too often we find sur-
geons, like the opposing groups of political partisans, pull-
ing in opposite directions for the attainment of the com-
mon good, and happy it is where they so often spend their
energies in neutralising the antagonistic efforts. We re-
peat, Dame Nature has one chance left her in Dr. Rio-
frey's system, and we wish him success in his devotion to
this subject, of which he may have for its motto the chosen
title of one of Lord Byron's dramatic works, viz., " The
Deformed Transformed" ! The simplicity will constitute
an objection to the plan in many minds probably. Let
the author handle his own weapon, " and he will be found
cunning of fence." " Let n' mother be deceived by the
apparent simplicity of this system ; unless she unierstands
how to find the diagonal of a parallelogram of simple
forces, she will never be able to take advantage of the only
system of dynamics that can with safety and comfort be
applied to young ladies."

The Medical Times. Vol. XI I. No. 302. July

This periodical keeps up with the march of science, in
so much that we are glad to sharpen our own instrument
at so famous a grindstone. It acuminates a round and
rusted edge, and gives to our ivory paper-cutter the power
and virtues of steel. The only thing we regret in its
closely-columned pages is that in the leaders, whilst pass-
ing our ivory blade along them, we found the heat of the
editorial articles had somehow or other given to our gen-
tle blade a wire edge ; and as we like to go smoothly along
the paper path, and cut a slice where we list without any
turning off, we should petition for a quieter tone in the
editor's setting on his hone, or else the wheel whereon
principles and opinions revolve will have occasionally to
be applied to, in order to rectify our too lavish praises.