The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

lockers, &c., from his pocket,
Attached to the bunch was a small pi(
_ _

which his name and that of the v

and gazed on their rapid d(
tory with deep r
cast anchor off the island of Rassay, about No
Lochbroom, and again resumed his piscatory emPlachi
Among the result ot his labours was a large codfisby,
was speedily unhooked and thrown on the deck; Llileo
the utter amazement of the skipper, the poor cod, ",
the last agonies of death, vomited up his bunch ?!. or
The parchment, being partly preserved, proved ai:,;er,
pertv beyond a doubt. At the same time, as if coni;o0
stricken, it disgorged a penknife belonging to a .
skipper, on which his initials were engraved. It load
markable circumstance that this fish, in its
course, should arrive at the same spot where tb,°gio
was, sacrificing its life, and with its last breath discl7,;,o
an act of honesty that would have honoured a l"
grade or species of animals.— Greenock Advertiser. 151
EFFECT OF PROSPERITY ON MARRIAGES.—in DOOO
according to the census of the Registrar General,
b
ber of women living between the ages of 15 no miteo,
• 3,812,651, of whom it was estimated about 2,000.vy'l 0
unmarried. Allowing for a proportionate mareas:oo°
diminution by marriage during each of the sicid,o
years 1842-6, we find that on this number of 2,0000):0.
affected, the returns of marriage give the followio6o
sults :-1842 237,650, 1843 247,636, 1844 2640,4
287,486, 1846 291,328. The Registrar-General To
" the disposition to marry " as one of the tests °Tboi
prosperity or supposed prosperity of the country. or
half of the year 1846. Then came an
in 1844-5, years of great abundance and ease, tile, or
riages were far above the average ; so, too, in the
the number of marriages, and an increase in the nOty
of deaths. We have not as yet got the returns ores
year 1847, but they will, we fear, give strong evidel
the heavy suffering resulting from our comm oto
other calamities during that year. In 1845, wheiirsool
was cheap and commerce prosperous, 50,000 more p 0
were married than in 1842. In 1847 the variation °'
doubt, be the other way.
cv e.;
CHARGE OF ARSON.—Oh Monday, at 'sow'
Emily Beaumont, keeper of a coffee shop in Lorigr;
Mary Fitzgerald, her servant, and James Fry, 'ye cbg"
ced at the bar, the two first-named prisoners being
gedasyrineipals, and the male prisoner as being aU'''gr'
actual ciecrei

.nt into the water

Six weep

after the fact, in setting fire to No. 52, Long-neree"liePs
Storr, the assessor to the Fire-office, said that on l'iolog
of August, the prisoner Beaumont called on him, $4,
f
claim to £272 165., among which was a quantity OtY
ing apparel, which was found pledged previoo4,oo
25th of August, when the fire took place. 00 f.bol#;
the 4th inst., the prisoner Fitzgerald came to his ;00'
when she made a statement respecting the fire,:_cetitl:
any threat or promise being made to her, which °ea, tt`
ced to writing in the presence of Sergeant Then
officer.—The effect of the statement was, that thetio
ner Beaumont had repeatedly urged various Probf
set fire to the house, under a promise of a consi/joste"'
pecuniary reward—that one of the parties thus ins!;ciff"
received the sum of £5 as a portion of the proln!4
ward, but decamped with the money without tal'lst e
part in the crime, and that the prisoner Beaunr,, 500,
been sending her property out of the house f°
time before the fire which actually occurred in '",(.091
the deponent Fitzgerald, also by the hopes of P—orir„;
gain, to keepler secret.—The prisoners were roll Or
CHEAP ANDNICIOUS LITERATURE.—The irtevook;
the bankruptcy of George William M'Arthur o°'
author of the " Mysteries of London,''' and otheres
publications, has elicited some interesting evidence
store',
subject of the demand for cheap and vicious liteetbell
The bankrupt himself gave evidence. He was the ;'l,
the " Mysteries-of London," " Pickwick Abroad, cidei,
ter Timothy's Bookcase," " Wallace," " The Par s% tile
" Gretna Green," besides several translations Ire f tb
French and Grman. He was also the
" London Journal," and is now connected with.," cas',
paper, to divulge the name of which would,- he s at, if si,
his immediate dismissal. One of the most re„cl, gise°
the latest of his publications, was Reynolds Lankrale
limy," which has-had a large circulation. Thehad nec
being examined regarding it, deposed thateibrceulation
received one penny out of it, even when tr and he
20,000. The price of it was only one Penn' '26,00.
it would not pay at a circulation of less than
completed
added that when those cheap serial works were whilst
they were not worth one farthing, and only 6OOO
progress. He declared that a circulation of 0"
0 at
tl
7000 would pay him better at nd. than 22,00_
or Or,
that he had been losing by the Miscellany .tal6
d his earnill;',
week. He was now employed by others, and his
err
averaged £lO a-week. The penny works were quite r
extraordinary
sa e o 5
meral. They had, perhaps, an e
down.—Patriot. A
weeks, and then as rapidly went • • oren
Th following int ori
STATISTICS OS MARRIAGE.—The ReP
statement is contained in the Registrar General's „era
just published :—" In the year 1846 the total nuemstsb'
marriages celebrated according to the rites of tlavngt,,
lished church was 130,509; the number not accordf tie
the rites of the established church was 16,155;,, were,b,(
first-named. 14. were by special license, 17,1°," were,!
license, 92,995 by bans, 1,862 by SupPrintellUeDth
of td
trar's certificate, and 18503 " not stated by whie to tbi
editor
peg'
foregoing forms." Of the marriages not according( or
established church, there were in registered places,_?ooll‘
ship, 10,693 (of which, 3,027 were in Roman 'l5lO
chapels, and 7,669 in the chapels of other denotnin,'„%iietj'e
4,167 in Superintendent Registrar's office, 68
and 224 Jews. In 1846 the number of men rotor'''. I'l
,i;
were not of age was 6,313 ; of women, 20,001.10 le
widowers who re-married were 18,343 ; the widows, name
The men whee ',Aug unable to write their own
signed with marks, were 47,488, the women not .`e
70,145. The age at which the greatest number f
riages takes place, both of men and women, is frtweeli
25 years. Then 20,519 bachelors married thel save, 1,',1
ber of spinsters ; 871 bachelors married widoe'sia',4
widowers married spinsters ; 996 widowers be
e 3
widows. Three women were led to the altar,,o 00,0 J
the mature age of 75 and 80; two between 130
(whereof one found a partner of a less age than serlji
five between 65 and 70. Of the men 20 were, Ocl 'llie,
between 65 and 70 ; seven between, 70 and Pdo'
whom married a woman of a less age than 26);
between 75 and 80 years of age.
otill;re
Two• CHILDREN KILLED BY AN INSANE i; 00'
On Wednesday, the inhabitants of Willenbal" re,i'tord
manufacturing parish, three miles from Wolveriel Yto/
were alarmed by a report that a woman flan' pit, orl
Jones,. wife of Enoch Jones, whimseyman at %Or I/
killed her own child, Edwin, a boy 18 monks „se.gi'
also a niece 12 years of age, by cutting their t°,11;"0 net
seemed that Mrs. Jones had been attacked olleeo•
ous monomania, and it was deemed necessary i°o`o)et,o
in the lunatic ward of the Wolverhampton el, o•lostet.
She was removed thence on Wednesday morn'il's, be. 44
the instance of two female relatives, appare,°' Virtte
According to a statement which she made, t•°„eor bt,,"
after the occurrence, to Abbott, the gever",hed -
workhouse, she sent her niece with the babe '):) 511"e't
fore eight o'clock, and retired to rest herself iot°ol'
after, but could not sleep, and the thought cat 0,1011"
head that she must kill her child, as it would "- CPO,'
owing to its having been christened by a Roman or; edit
clergyman. She then got up and sought for a eefifrot°
not finding one, took a black-handled knife, toathi•lP,
on a steel, proceeded up stairs, cut the girl's the el 513;
ear to ear, and afterwards completely severe? a, D''„
head from its body. She then raised an al°,,eto etour
had murdered the children, and endeavoured
own throat, but only inflicted a slight wound'r other tirj
at times she seems tolerably composed, yet tdeOP:
ments she bitterly reproaches herself, and has `ehe P con'
to strangle herself, and threatened to kill verlder
watching her. She and her husband were inoe
fortable circumstances, and religious frenzy
01A
to have prompted her. e thister'ro
A BATTLE WITH THE WHALES. We 113%1 I° doffe
to perform the duty of the ancient scalds, n',!ro
(but in sober prose) the gallant deeds that tv't srbal''soj,
eeus9neruil°,`llll
Cromarty Firth last week, when an invasi
courageously encountered by the hardy "A- we 0,.-01.4;
after a bloody fight, the shoal was disPer°'" best
4, with great loss," for many of the largest anti:o tDora pee
shoal were stranded, and became Pri2es,ii cOteprAle
querors. The shoal of bottlenoses was ,;* u: '0
Saltburn, near Invergordon, on MondaY, hde.„,l
their presence by the noisy nature of their g,°"'olarle 9,(
village fishermen were soon ready after tfehatebooe to
given, and went out in boats, armed with A SIA i°,o
spear, musket,. pitchfork, grape, and Wal, rigat *'lie
the most amusing character ensued. Dositid 00;05
the middle of the shoal, the fishermen Tyros ijogiot
great good will, and many a deadly woun'''..t Ilea' orinto
the fray. The terrified whales dashed alO fare, pith
• al ose
the wildest confusion, lashing the water in_hot ,iso
the safety of the men and the boats, and, " hot" poet
and the excitement of male and female,ld the i'aciletili
shouts of the fishermen, the struggles of aetl,oi•of
gathered on the shore, the scene was ay., the l'3„. tilt°
and wildest that can weli be imagined. ;; dyceFtbeSlic
the hubbub, the mail coach from Invern arge ,r.,0
the village, the road running close to the e
ses'ejoyet!br9
sengers, several of whom were strange, travel 011
which they may not see again should they
,g , altered)
road for 50 years. Late in the orfeer'ail en sue, tboc,'ilt'
hours of shouting and fighting, the nsue some
driving 45 of the sea-monsters on s.,.ll°Tir that niigubher 4
feet in length. Lille sleep was taken the blob tie° fr
burn ; everybody was busy in cutting „e opera„'
the prizes • and on Tuesday forenoon earrwt 60;0,
tinued—the carcases, divested o
bhe oil wee re Or
the farmers as manure. With
casks were filled to be shipped off to tood geble eoetotelo'
and will. no doubt, yield a was a large„olll,,,lto
The great body of the shoal, which
sea, but secro' ee';cteof
ceeded in making their way out to
_vea of the_.i,ht_oltt
tangled in the bay of Nigg, WhersuTuesdaY 4309 oio
aground by the receding tide. On
de their way shy
moresvere catured, having.ma
_aaded °tie car ,frAle
down the Firth; and having r.
1.2 more weevarYiliP
Fowlis Point. On Wednesday
dullie Point:l
the little haven to the west of Ar a a tone oy ureA
11 to 16 feet, the fight having been ttY equ the tiff
70, pre ,aor ,
whole number captured exceeds
orth de eighy iol°ll#
amongst the fishermen on the Il the n
_coos i° „.
none of the whales having ventured2,les are
oup so 'O7,
their 410
of Cromarty, where bottlenose n' ay E
r n ntere
seen. Shoals seldom, if eve , 11 01°11
did the one which was so signa Y
Inverness Courier. tiliefatlubber abloct°ooo