The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mrs. Hofland, the authoress, died the week before last.
Henceforth English letters to Belgium will only be
charged eightpence, and newspapers are to go free.
The gallant Sir R ibert Sale, G.C.B. the hero of Jella-
lahad, has left town to resume his military duties in India•
The Duke of Devonshire has contributed £lOO to the
Farber Mathew fund.
The Society of Innkeepers, London, refused, last week,
to drink the health of the present lord mayor.
JERSEY.--Mr. Carus Wilson has rejected the offer of
the Royal Court to liberate him on his own bail.
PARLIAMENT.—At a privy council meeting on Thurs-
day, parliament was further prorogued to the 4th of Feb.
Sir Henry Pottinger. Bart., was, hat week, by command
of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy
Council, and took his place at the Board.
The subscriptien to the Rowland Hill testimonial closed
on Saturday. The amount collected considerably ex-
ceeds £lO,OOO.
One hundred and two fat cattle were, last week, im-
ported into Hull by the steamers from Hamburg. The
Emerald Isle, from Rotterdam, also brought 62 sheep.
Five thousand eight hundred and ninety-four pecks of
onions were, last week, brought into Hull, from. Rot-
terdam.
The mayoralty of Tiverton, Devonshire, was this year
was offered to a man who can neither read nor write. He
bad, however, the good sense to decline the honour.
A young lady named Gulliver, daughter of Thomas
Guiliver, Esq., of Bloxham, committed suicide last week,
by drowning herself in a mill-dam near Banbury.
The Bank of England have given notice that they
will lend money on approved Bills of Exchange at 24 per
cent.

The vestry of Leeds have given £l,OOO, realized by
selling land to a railway company, to purchase garden al-
lotments for the poor.
On Saturday week. John Hobert, coachman to the
Earl of Haddington, was found, with his skull fractured,
lying in the park. A young man named Hannah is sus-
pected,

Sir James Williams, of Edwinsford, bas set the liberal
example in this county, of giving his ten.n,s permission
to kill game on their lands, or of inviting any qualified
person they think proper to do so.—Welshman.

DANGEROUS EMPLOYMENT.—The history of Eyam
records the number and names of forty-one persons, wbo
have been killed in the mines of that village in little more
than a century. • The d.-epest lead mine in Derbyshire is
in Eyam Edge—the " New Engine," nearly 160 fathoms.

" LIVES OF THE ENGLISH SAINTS."—The series of
little works continues in much the same spirit as it com-
menced ; the writers, if there is any dtfference, seeming to
get rather more Popish as they get older.—Tablet, a Ro-
man Catholic paper.

AN ATTORNEY TRANSPORTED.—On Thursday, at the
Central Criminal Court, London, Mr. Bleadon, the at-
torney, was sentenced to sev..n years' transportation, for
having obtained half-a-crown and a pint of wine under
false pretences. The convict was excessively astonished.
A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Saturday night last. Mr.
Green, gamekeeper to J. S. Leacher, Esq., of South
Weald, was wounded by a gun shot, in an attempt to
apprehend a poacher, who escaped Mr. Green lies in a
dangerous state.—Essex Herald.

HYDROPHOBIA.—A man, who was bitten by a dog,
supposed to be mad, in September last, died la.,t week,
in the d spensary at Wrexham, under all the symptoms
of hydrophobia. Two other men and a girl were bitten
by the same dog. They are under medical treatment.

Mr. Bro vn, a partner of the well known medical prac-
titioner, Mr. Tupper, is about to be united to Miss Me-
redith, who tor many years has resided with Miss Burdett
Coutts. This intended alliance has given rise to a report
of the wealthy heiress being about to be married.

Mrs. Blomfield, mother of the Bishop of Lando ~ died
on Tuesday. at Bury St. Edmunds. His lordphip was
expected in his native town to officiate at the re-opening
of St. Mary's Church. Strange and melancholy to say,
his arrival took place at the moment of dissolution.

-- •
A man named Cogger pleaded guilty at the Maidstone
Assizes, on Wednesday, of havi. g practised as an attor-
ney at the Maidstone Quarter Seesions without being duly
qualified or admlted to practice in that capacity. Judg-
ment was postponed.

FREE-CHURCH COLLEGE.-Dr. Welch, in a letter,
has announced that he has obtained £19,000 for this ob-
ject from nineteen subscribers of £l,OOO each. £20.000
was the sum required, and there is no doubt it will be
immediately raised. The College is to be in Edinburgh.
Mr. Parsons, the popular dissenting minister of B- Ilan
chapel, Mile-end-road, unfortunately met with his death
on Friday by felling down the stairs of his house, when
his head came in contact with some flower-pots and was
so severely cut as to render medical aid unavailing. He
was only 47 years old.

On Thursday Miss
_Ellen Richardson, the daughter of
a physician at Brentwood, was held to bail on the charge
of stealing two leng.hs of a piece of gros de Naples, the
property of a linen draper at Brentwood, part of some
goods which had been sent to her lather's house for in-
spection.

On Tuesday I,st an inquest was held at Stockport, on
the body of Eliza Jones, who had been killed by her
husband on the previous day. She was in a delicate state
of health, was the mother of six children (two of whom
only are living),and was far advanced in pregnancy. She
was 34 years of age. The husband has been committed
on a charge of manslaughter.

STRIKE OF THE FISHERMEN.—No fewer than sixty
fishing smacks, belonging to Barking, in Essex, are, at
this moment, lying in the river, a little below Woolwich,
their crews having brought them home from sea, and
struck work. The demands of -the men are ft r increased
wages and shorter voyages. Their present rate of wages is,
men 14s. a week, and mates 16s. They want this to be
advanced 2s. in each case, and the time of absence to be
limited to one month.

A PRIZE FOR THE HISTORIAN.—A most interesting
discovery has been made in the secret repository of the
Equestrian Order at Stockholm—viz., several chests full
of documents, which have not been examined for these
30 years. Among them are original documentsconcerning
the revolutions of 1719, 1772, and 1789. Most of the
documents are written, and some elegantly bound, and
several have silver clasps. Geyer's third volume of the
papers of Gustavus causes some sensation.
BETTER TO BE BORN FORTUNATE THAN BTCH."—
It is currently reported at Sleaford, and we believe cor-
rectly so, that a well known millwright (a working man)
of that place, by a recent decision in the High Court of
Chancery, immediately comes into the possession of a
large estate near London, of the annual value of .£13,000,
as well as arreaas of rent for the same for the last twenty
years, amounting, of course, to the sum of £260,000.—
Lincolnshire Chronicle.
THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE ATWOLVERHAMPTON.—
On Friday, Mr. John Sheriff, Mr. Hildreth, Mra. Hild-
reth, and Miss *Jane Railton, were again brought up ;
and after a few preliminary proceedings, Miss Railton
was fully committed to take her trial for concealing the
birth as principal, and Mrs. Hildreth, Mr. Hildreth, and
Mr. Sheriff, as accessaries. 7 hey were admitted to bail.
A second cba•ge was preferred against Mr. Sherrill, for
feloniously administering drugs for the purpose of bring-
ing about abortion. Miss Railton was admitted as evi-
dence against him ; and he was committed also on this
charge to take his trial at the assizes. Bail was accepted.
FATHER MATHEW.—We are told that Father Mathew
is in difficulties. And not one word more can we obtain.
How he fell into difficulties; for what cause, or to what
extent, we are never told. He may be in debt for £5OO,
'or for £20,000. He may have merely become security
for some friend in a bond for £lOOO, or he may have
undertaken to build a new Popish cathedral to the tune of
£50,000. Never before, so tar as we can recollect, were
the public called upon to subscribe to an object without
having the slightest information furnished them, even as
to the sum required !

EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL OF SHIPPING AT LON-
DON.—On Sunday 30, and on Monday i 2, ships were
entered at the Custom-house. They were from China,
Sidney, America, Archangel, France. St. Petersburgh,
Harnburgh, Dantsic, indeed nearly all parts of the world.
Last wet-k the average arrivals were about 30 a day. Ttie
effect of such a vast importation of produce has caused a
great activity at the t ustom-bouse, and at the various
docks an imifease number of men have hien able to ob-
tain full emptrtymtnt. A large fleet of vessels has also
been entered outwards.

nee. 3, 1841.

twDelvEeSToß.,cUliCcTklY,
of Arundel-lane, Sheffield, manufacturers, was discovered
to be on fire. The fire was discovered about a quarter;
past twelve o'clock at night. With all the exertien S oo!
th warehouse FIRE.
—On
usne Tout Messrs.sda).nig‘h%!: Is sihmcnatniv
and
Colter
the police and firemen, under the direction of Mr. ftsinT
it was nearly six o'clock in the morning before the re:,
mainder of the property could be considered in a st:teet!
safety. The whole of the extensive warehouse, to "tinee,';
portion of the premises the fire was confined, is en 1(1; 2
destroyed, the outer walls, with the stone staircase, rit/
standing.
InsTtellaßd ionf °:TanTtißnAgi):o.t-Tk
dined to execute. Thisi.and similar cases are the rr,
of the improved cenditiOn of the iron trade, in 151
branch of which, with the exception of nailing, the grease ore
activity prevails ; employment is plentiful, the men
oftbest
getting better wages, and, consequently, many - sa
are disposed to do less work. We believe there is n.to
of
iron work in this district now standing, and the erice,4
iron, of almost every description, has advanced sincl;
aeretnnenow in
iZe outir,ba
than
dthgeeyclaisrt:i;i
last quarter-day, and has still a tendency upwards. 11'
tester paper.
which
THE COAL-MINERS.—Various circumstances
have recently come to our knowledge, seem to indicate U!:
nit
intention on the part of the Lancashire Colliers °a
to cause a general strike ere long ; and we propose
is
notice a few facts connected with that agitation wine'or,
now so industriously fomented amongst the body ofsott674
ing colliers, with the view of making the public acensteble
with the object of this intended strike. The retold
co° 1,
feature of this agitation is the proposal by the d
miners to their employers to force a rise in the prLeatts
coals, by contracting and diminishing the supply to
public, and then to allow the coal-miners to share ,vtlist
them the profits which would re .ult ,from this sttiticat
scarcity and consequent de trne,s of an article whie"%ri
this season of the year, may be termed a prime necess-t,
of life. It may be said that we aro not fairly resod
fti
onh strike,rge ytthilleae
have
ioleclwown
eesidrncatoeenbndjttehi
co?
masters
aictsttsrerrosft
makingoi
nthitnaoe
dncaudocgakeel
e:nemoeprriia,nnlegberysoina
n,daals d °tteisraoaa:.!
Manchester Guardian.
, Wotft,
THE LIFE OF AN OUTCAST.—A boy, named by
who draws crowds together in the streets of London,
standing on his head on the spike (lan iron railing', d,
on Saturday, at Marlborough-street, charged with stelb,
ing on his head on the railings of St. James's Chute
tdeidr
u aeiigreat
fields;
a dread
ddr
reoboarende bbnoeefgii
in prison,
the workhouse,
Vetsdskoen,
bh ve tet
c 1
s Aoa
rnanedgep ss
oi
o be
nd
dhenaro eeywfsee
nixr.r expressed
many
asi
prison
bt she had
Tell yer worship the whole lot. First of all I got sere
1 e
gave up that dodge, and stole a penny loaf, and got 'do--
night at the mill. Next, nee and my partner stole te
horranges, and the beck guy a month apiece at 'Dte':
fields. Arter that got seven days fir jumping Jim 1-'l.°,';
Arter that two months, cos a pleasman cotched mel3lA'd
scroff of my neck, and I hey a stone at him, wot rnte°„t
him and hit a boy behind a slap on the nose. Nest
three veeks at Horsenionger, for notink as I knoW V't
Arter that 305., or three veeks at the New Prison, it'fi
breaking vinders, cos they chucked water over me
that's all, except this here, which is either Brixton of te''
verkhus, vot yer vership pleases."—This history of send,
optionAasi ~arymi
eaobt
fot enn
making
onc
rogku rl
iosseu e
victions was given without the slightest hesita ion, se
for
s le7Mat
isor .nh
eHb
aeaptrwpd
eewaeirncekdagtoapyreihsaotvrhlee a
g
ba
ors
a settle'
mint in that parish. The boy, after a short pause, de.
tided on giving the prison another trial.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—During Sunday week a robber);
took place at the bank of Messrs Rogers, OldinS' 8114
Co., St. Clement's-lane, and notes and gold to the am°°"
of £40,000 were stolen. It appears that the money was
deposited in the iron safe; and, as usual, a clerk was Sr'
pointed to watch over its safety during the day, and err
tiler clerk to perform the like duty during the night. 11
of the partners remaining at home on Sunday, the 091
clerk asked permission to go nut for a few hours, °ls
was granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening! t
other clerk came, and remained during the night; of,
(;:.
what
hdriaents,,:rmeynrek
t had bMwe
ecansn found
used tt,ol
nd
phsetaysei,
andrw)l,eetniyeedtwn oi businesst
hftrhc ewe
rid the
of its • valuable contents. Of course, all is coeieeiticre
upon the subject. Notes to the amount of £35,000 b'',
been stopped at the Bank. It is a remarkable circumstance
con nee.ed w th this robbery, that on the morning of 31°1
day, when it was first discovered, there was no extern',
appearances from which suspicion could be entertained
upon entering the office that any robbery had been PerinPe;
Crated, or attempt at robbery had been made. Every tw-
was in its accustomed order ; the iron safe. in which the
y
cash and securities were regularly deposited was locked'
and the iron chest in which it was usual to deposit t"
master-key of the safe, to which there were two locket
was also secure. A large handbill was issued on Monfil
containing the particulars of the stolen Bark of Entail'
notes, which amount altogether to £40,710. Of these
ci
hank notes there are 168 for £5, 40 for £lO, 37 for '
10 for £3O, 12 for £4O, 9 fi.x. £53, 10 for £lOO, 5 for £200!.
1 for £5OO, and 35 'or £lOOO. The handbill states that
further particulars of the bills of exchange will be ell
lished, and that whoever give su ,11 information as
lead to the apprehensii n of the guilty party or parties, orp
either of them, and recovery of the property, of any tor"
thereof, shall receive £3,000 reward, or a part thereof,
proportionate to the sum which shall be recovered.
THE CORN TRADE.—The arrivals in the Thames t:
wheat since the last market-day have been again !err, htle
as the principal quantity of them is from Spalding, 13°5;
ton, and other places of shipment in Cambridgeshire and
Line Inshire, the Mark-lane corn-factors have received
but little, if any, benefit from this circumstance. These
wheats have been purchased under the new Sir Robert Peel
principle of commerce at the ports of shipment, as being
the cheapest markets, at prices below mediocrity, by the
London town millers, and therefore commissionsof mid'
dlemen have been. saved on there transac,ions. These
gentlemen, following out this modern system of com-
merce, as soot, as they have converted into town-made
flour these wheats of north country growth, will most na-
turally send their manufacture for sale into the dearest
market, which is always found by them in the British me-
tropolis, because there, and nowhere else, are the prices
of fancy of household bread regulated and fixed by the
millers themselves. Whilst, therefore, the farmers of Lin-
colnshire and of Cambridgeshire are receiving for their
wheats prices scarcely equal to the expenses of the Pro-
duction, even on new and on alluvial soils, the inhabitants
of this populous metropolis receive not the slightest belie'
fit from the depressed prices at which British wheats are
now selling everywhere throughout the united kingdom.-
From all quarters the intelligence received in London
within these last few days is far from being favourable to
the British agricultural interest. From many of the con'
try markets inferior qualities of the last wheat crop
.•
ruinously low prices are universal subj'cts of conleial"'
whilst from abroad, purchases of uncommonly fine torero,.
wheats are weekly now announced for shipment to th
'country, as soon as the navigation becomes practical)i_.
As scarcely any old wheat of British growth remains w
this country, if the corn trade was now in a wholesome
and in a natural state, a prospect at all events of better
times, after the conclusion of this most unfortunate year'
would at present cheer the spirits of our wheat farmers!
'but with little short of half a million of quarters of foreig.l3,
wheat already bonded in this country, and with the cir,
tainty of large importations from the Baltic, from the Me-
diterranean, diterranean, from the Cenadas, and from the United Ste!'iii
of I`;torti, America. as soon as shipments can he made 'ire
safety to the cargoes, little chance indeed exists of t°°,,s
prosperous times. It is perfectly unnecessary here for "
even to allude to the condition of the great mass of ter
agricultural labourers, for it will be difficult indeed, and
further depression in the corn trade, to render it worse
than it now i5.—.2110, fling Post.
r 51.
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—Perhaps one of the mos-
fecting suicidal tragedies that has happened in the owl;
polis for many years occurred on Monday at a very ea%
hour. a t .e dwelling of a Mr. Duckett, an accountas
No. 9. Raven-row. Mile-end, viz., the self desttuctionl
Charles Win. Duckett, treed 21, son, and Elizabeth w.y.
keonuonwenpteorhsoatvise
qwuhaorrehlalrede
.faol lennsuansdaacvnafittreernb
Hams, aged 22, lovers, from the effects of prussic:o%s
It appears that for upwards of nine years the unfoitone'n
hands were closely attached to each other, and were need
tea at Mr. Duckett's house, and took their departure st
about half-past five o'clock, at the same time stating tb:,l
they were going to church ; at which period they seetnea
in excellent spirits. The evening wore on, and Oess.o
o'clock having arrived, the usual time for their feud,
having passed, the family became somewhat &arta
Soon afterwards two brothers of the ill-fated girl
Mr. Duckett, and inquired if his son or their sister b:be
been seen, she having not made her appearance, "Ddhad
lateness of, the hour induced them to think that they
met with some accident. Unpleasant feelings (451%0
were then felt by all. Messengers were despateheu.o,
round the vicinity in search of them, but without I'o
At last, between one and two o'clock, whilst Mr. 'nog
was searching about the house, in the hope of 110 ne,
some letter which would mention where they were 80 t"he
he discovered that his son's bed-room was fastened °,lltbat
inside, the key being in the door. It being surmised to
::onthtehiery:Drt
he had returned unknown to the family, and oneretiree
rest, the door was broken open, and there, perhaps,' so
of the most saddening scenes that could be imaginealo
presented to a parent. The bodies of the young CO— ite
were stretched on the bed, life having been extinct sPleitie
rently for some time, with their arms round each
neck. Cups were found on each of their sides, tel•
smelt of prussic acid, as also two bottles on the rellyip
piece, which had contained that deadly poison- Sept
Deere, a surgeon of Mile-end-road, was promptly
that
for, who pronounced them to have expired frornost
effective poison. As the bodies lay, i
t apars committedtey roe
have sat on the end of the bed when theyaori
act, and fallen back. The poor girl's features were be
prepossessing. "It is our last wish that this letter
00f
delivered into the hands of the above lady. Such °they
final request, and whosoever may find this, we PriY The
may give -the same to her."—E. W., C. U. D. oorch
handwriting is that of the young man, and displays
firmness, being clear in the extreme. The borders was
apparently been inked by one of them ; the
sealed with black wax, with the follow "'trolled
" Absence pains hut cannot altar." No idea can be °onto-
by the families of the deceased of the cause of the
foible occurrence. Their parents move in the m,',o
ranks of society. The letter addressed to Miss ChaP':,,f,
was found to contain-two ep'stles both addressed to he
One was a piece of -poetry in twenty-four verses. ,titerr
title is, "The Last Lay of Two Broken Ileart ; ,!,I,lthat
and composed by C. U. D." The letter statess,„ld be
ere she (Miss C.) had received that epistle they
swt,'7,o ID
in the sweet sleep of death. Fate had marred hi or
this world. He was prepared to leave it, and J.rt
whom he had lived had told him, ' If you die witb)n tidy
you will be my murderer,' and to use the words
Jane Grey, 'Death had no terrors.' " Both produ ion'
had deep black borders round ahem, lettet