The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

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Saving any part of our baggage was, at first, out of the qu
tion; every one lauded pretty much in the state he got out
of bd. _ _

Nothing could exceed the,cool, steady conduct of both officers
and men ; instead of any one showing anxiety to save himself,
which is exceedingly natural, on the coutrary many showed
such reluctance to quit their officers that' they were obliged to
be ordered to the boats. We got shelter for that night in an
unfinished house belonging to a planter, who treated us very.
kindly. The ship went to pieces the dtev after we quitted her.
In the course of the day some of the officers of the garrison
found their way to us, we being eighteen miles from St. Ann'S,
and all that day we employed in saving as much of our baggage
as'poSsible; next day we marched .to St. Ann's, under a burn-
ing sun, in such a plight, many of the poor fellows without
shoes, and in a most wotul condition. Two days after, the cola.
mender of the forces, Sir Lionel Smith, came to inspect the
shipwrecked heroes; after thanking the
_men for their steady.
good conduct on the occasion, he addressed Captain Arthur, of
the 93d regiment, nearly in these words, in the presence of the
whole of the troops :—" Captain Arthur, I am at a loss •to ex-
press to.you my admiration of the firmness, coolness, and judg,
ment shown by you on the-occasion I refer to; it is to your
judicious arrangement that the whole of the Se men owe their
lives; if I had it in my power I would promote you on the spot;
but, in forwarding your report of the shipwreck to Lord Hill, I
shall feel it'my duty to recommend you to his lordship's notice
in the strongest manner.' So 'much: for my first, and I trust,
my last shipwreck. :The fatigue, expentre to the sun, and
anxiety, and one thing and another, hai completely knocked
me up in the mean time; I have been laid up for the last fort-
night with severe headach, but am, I trust, in a fair way of get-
ting better. You have no conception, at least I had not, of the
devastation occasioned by the hurricane which took place nearly
two years ago. This island will not recover from it for many
years; the barracks are not half rebuilt, and everything is as
uncomfortable as possible."—Glasgow Courier. .

Dr. Lushington has given it as his opinion that missionary
meetings held in churches, without authority from the crown or
diocesan, are illegal.

KIRKALDY.—VALUABLE DISCOVERY TESTRD.—A paragraph
has gone the round of the papers, setting forth that the manager
of the Paisley Gas Work had made the valuable discovery, that
lime taken out of a wet lime gas-pUrifier applied to the beard,
and taken off by the back of a knife or a thin piece of wood,
shaves the face as cleanly as by soap and razor. In conse-
quence of this important information, one of the men employed
at the gas ' work here availed himself of the discovery, by
making the experiment on his beard, which was both long and
thick. Having lathered well the under part, of his face with
the line, he in about fiVe minutes afterwards commenced the
scraping operation with the edge of a thin piece of wood, and
immediately his face was as well (if not better) shorn of hair,
as if he had come through the hands of a most experienced
barber. Whether the beard shall grow again or not, remains
to be proved; but, be this as it may, John expects to save his
penny formerly paid for the application .of the razor, every
Saturday evening, and the manager is in high spirits, in the
hope that his refuse lime will receive a speedy sale at a greatly
advanced price. We should suggest that the next experiment
should be made on the back of a Sandy Catnpbell; which, if it
succeeded equally well, would make the discovery a still more
useful one.—G'aggoic Herald.

We-this week record in our obituary the melancholy and un-
expected death of James Losh, Esq. of West Jesmond, recorder
of Newcastle. It will be seen that the learned gentleman was
in the North Riding of Yorkshire at the time of -his decease, in
discharge of his duties as revising barrister, - On Thursday he
held a court at Romaldkirk. He was taken ill the same evening,
after having dined with his colleagues at Greta Bridge, where
he breathed his last on Monday afternoon, tb the great grief of
a numerous private connexion, and much to the regret, of the
party of .whom the learned gentleman was a zealous and some-
what effective leader. Mr. Losh was a native of the sister
county of Cumberland, where his two nieces now reside, re-
spected by the rich, beloved by the poor, to whom their hand is
ever open. 'To them the blow will be severe; and in this town
and neighbourhood there will be unfeigned expressions of sor-
row in whatever circle the learned gentleman's death may be
spoken of.—Neicrestle Journal.

AN OPEN HEART.—A noble youth of the family of Mont-
gomery, from a fall and consequent abscess on the side of the
chest, had the interior marvellously exposed, so that after his
cure, on his return from his travels, the heart and lungs were
still visible and could be handled; which, when it was com-
municated to Charles the First, he expressed a desire that Har-
vey should be permitted to see the .youth and examine his heart.
" When," says Harvey, "I had paid my respects to this young
nobleman, and conveyed to him the King's request, he made
no concealment, but exposed the left side of his breast, when I
saw a cavity into which I could introduce my fingers and thumb;
astonished with the novelty, again and again I explored the
wound, and first marvelling at the extraordinary nature of the
cure, I set about the examination of the heart. •Taking it into
one hand, and placing the finger of the other on the purse of the
wrist, I satisfied myself that it was indeed the heart which I
brought him to the King, that he might be-
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extraordinaryto.l.iclliesno
thing, and that he might per-
ceive, as I did, that unless when we touched the outer skin, or
when he saw our fingers in the cavity, this young nobleman
knew not that we touched the heart!"—Sir Charles Bell's Bridge-
water Treatise.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FACTORY CHILD.—While the bu-
siness at the New Bailey was proceeding on Tuesday, Mr.
Thomas, the Deputy Constable, bmught into court a boy about
nine years of age, whom he had just found in the street, sur-
rounded by a crowd of people, and applied to the magistrates
for a warrant against John 'Moores, a spinner in Mr. Faulkner's
factory, in Jersey-street, for committing a most brutal and
cowardly assault upon the poor fellow. The appearance of the
boy was sufficient evidence of the shameful manner in which he.
had been treated. He was almost naked, and through the
holes in what was once a shirt, his back, breast, and shoulders
could be seen completely covered with livid bruises, produced
by the repeated blows of a rope; his left eye was black and
quite swelled up ; and Mr. Thomas stated that the lower parts
of his. body were in a similar state to those which were exposed.
The boy, whose name was James Goodwin, the son of a labour.
ing man in Poland-street, gave a very intelligent account of
the assault. He said that Moores's piecer and he were striving
which could first finish cleaning their respective frames, which
were next to each other, that he having finished before the
other boy, called to him to ask what he was doing, when he
made use of an expression in answer which we.shall not repeat
—that he'then pushed against the other boy, at which Moores
went into a violent passion, and, seizing hold of a rope which
was covered with grease and about the thickness of a common
bed cord, but doubled sixteen times, he first knocked him down
with it and then beat him most unmercifully while he lay on
the floor, giving hint three blows on the cheek which Caused his
eye to swell—that nOt content with beating him in this way on one
side of the body he made him turn over and repeated his brutal
violence ou the other side, until he was himself almost exhausted
The boy then got up and went home. and he was on his road to
the New Bailey with his father, when Mr. Thomas met with
him in the street. Themagistrates immediately granted a war-
rant against the inhuman perpetrator of this act of wanton
cruelty, and at the suggestion of Mr. Thomas the boy was
taken to the hospital in the New Bailey, where leeches were
applied to his eye, and his other bruises were dressed. On
Wednesday, Moores was brought up in custody, when the facts
were clearly proved as above stated. Mr. David Foulkes, jun,
appeared for him, but expressed his inability to say an) thing
in extenuation of such conduct; he might state, however, as
one inducement to the bench to deal more leniently with him
than they would otherwise do, that as soon as the circumstance
came to the knowledge of Mr. Faulkner, an intimation was
given to the prisoner that he would be no longer employed in
that factory. The loss of his work, therefore, would be some
punishment for the offence. The magistrates expressed them-
selves its very strong terms of indignation at the conduct of the
prisoner, and ordered him to find sureties to answer the charge
at the sessions. Mr. Thomas, who, very much to his credit, ap-
peared to feel warmly on the subject, declared that ho would
pay the expenses of the prosecution out of his own pocket
ruler than stiffer such unmanly conduct to go unpunished.
The poor boy appeared to be much altered for the worse since
the previous dav ; the left side of hiS face was one mass of livid
corruption, and it was the general opinion of the persons who
saw him in court, that unless great care was taken of hint, hi
life would be in danger.—Manchester Courier.

OunaNG-On-rap:G.—The following is an interesting account
of the chase of a gie-antie specimen of the red ourang-ontaug
A boat party, under the command of Messrs. CraVgyman and
Fish, officers of the brig Mary Anne Sophia, having lauded to
procure water at a place called liambooni, near Touraman, no
the north-west coast of Sumatra, on a spot where there was much
cultivated ground and but few trees, discovered on one of them
a gigantic animal of the monkey tribe. On the approach of the
party he came to the ground, and when pursued sought refuge
in another tree at some distance, exhibiting, as he moved, the
appearance of a tall man-like figure covered with shining brown
hair, walking erect, with a waddling {gait, but sometimes ac-
celerating his motion with his hands, and occasionally impelling
himself forwardwith the bough of a tree. His motion on the
ground was plainly not his natural mode of progression, for even
when assisted by his hands or a stick, it was slow and vacillating ;
it was necessary to see him among trees in order to estimate h.s
agility and strength. On being driven to a small clump, he
gained by one spring a very lofty branch, and bounded from
one brand' to another with the 'ease and alacrity of auother
monkey. Had the country been covered with wood, it
would have been almost impossible to prevent his escape, as
his mode of travelling from one tree to auother is described to
be as rapid as the progress of a swift horse. Even amidst the.
few trees that wero on the spot, his movements were so'
quick that it was very difficult to obtain a settled aim, and it;
was only by cutting down one tree after another that hi;_
pursuers, by confining him within a very limited range, were
enabled to destroy him by several successive shots, SUMP
of which penetrated his body and wounded his viscera.—
Having received tiVe balls, his exertions relaxed, and, reclining
exhausted on one of the branches of a tree, he vomited a coast-
derable quantity of blood. The ammunition of the bunters
being_ by this time expended, they were obliged to tell file tree
in order to obtain him, and did this in full •confldence that his
power was so far gone that they could secure him without trot',
ble; lint were astonished, as the tree was falling, to see him
effect his retreat to another with apparently ondimiliisbed
vigour. In fact, they were obliged to cut down all the trees
bcfire they could drive him to eoraLat his enemies on the ground,
against Awn he still exhibited surprising strength and agility,.
although he was at length overpowered by numbers, and de-
s'. roved by the thrusts of spears, and the blows of stones and
other mix' ilea. When nearly in a dying state•he seized a spear
made of a supple.wood, which would have withstood the strength
of the stoutest man, and shivered it in pieces; in the words of
the narrator, he broke it as if it bad been a carrot. it is stated
by those who aided in his death, that the human-like expression
of his countenance, and piteous manner of placing his Lauds over
his wounds, distressed their feelings, and almost made them.
question the nature, of the act they were committing. W ben
dead, both natives and Europeans couNinplated his figure with
amazement.
.His stature, at the least computation, was up-
Ivardir of sit feet."--The Natttraiifa's Library.