The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-14 00:00:00

On Tuesday evening se'nnight, as J. B. Orton, Esq., of
Tatten-hall, near Chester, was sitting in his own drawing-
room, a pistol was discharged at him through the window.
Providentially the assassin missed his aim.
Captain Mackenzie, indicted for the summary execution
of some of the crew belonging to the American vessel of war
the Somers, after a long trial, has been honourably acquitted
by a court-martial held on board the ship North Carolind.
A few days ago a young female of Louvain, in a fit of
temporary insanity, arising out of an altercation with her
husband, threw her two children into a well, and destroyed
herself by jumping in immediately afterwards.
At a County Court, held at Devizes on Monday, Mr. Wil-
son, of Salisbury, was elected one of the Coroners for Wilt-
shire • the magistrates having determined on augmenting the
number of Coroners to three.

Owing to the deprestsion in agricultural produce the com-
missioners for the borough of Coleraine have made a reduc-
tion of ten per cent. on the rents of their lands, on the half
year due on the 28th of September last, and now payable.

A case was tried in the police court on Thursday, in which
a shopkeeper in High-street, Glasgow, was charged with
selling fresh butter, nearly one-half of the weight of which
was water, mixed up in the body of the half-pOund prints.
A reduction of eighteenpence per waggon has this week
waggon has this week been made in the price of coals ship-
ped at Whitehaven, belonging to the Earl. of Lonsdale. It
is expected that this reduction will have the effect of keep-
ing the Scotch and Welsh coals out of the Irish offtket.

It appears by a Parliamentary return that the quantity of
spirits on which duty was paid, in Ireland, in the year end-
ing Jan. 5, 1841, was 7,401,051 gallons; in 1842, 6,485,443
gallons ; in 1843, 5,290,650 gallons ; shewing a decrease in
1843, as compared with 1841, of 2,110,401 gallons.

The system of transportation, from the time of its com-
mencement up to 1841, cost this country £8,000,000. In
1836, the cost of transporting 46,000 convicts amounted to
an expense of £Bl per head ; while, in 1842, the police in
the penal colonies cost £92,000, and other judicial establish-
ments £400,000 more.

THE LATE E. DRUMMOND, ESQ.—Administration of the
goods and effects of this lamented gentleman has just been
granted to C. Drummond, Esq., his brother, the eminent
banker of Charing Cross. The personal property of the de-
ceased is sworn under the value of £6OO. Mr. Drummond
was of too amiable and generous a character to die wealthy.
A horrid tragedy has just been perpetrated at Philadel-
phia. A libertine, named Heberton, had, by the most vil-
lainous treachery, seduced a young lady of a respectable
family, aged sixteen, lodged her in a brothel for five days,
and then sent her home. He was challenged by the brother
of the ruined girl, refused to fight, fled, was waylaid, and
shot through the heart.

A man named Leper and his two sons were convicted at
the Antrim assizes for the murder of a man named Lamont.
They were all labouring men engaged in breaking stones on
a road, and some dispute having taken place between them,
the father and two sons beat out the unfortunate man's
brains with their hammers. Sentence of death was passed on
the whole three.

DISCOVERY OF A SUNKEN ROCK NEAR BLASQUET
ISLAND, DINGLE.—A letter has been received at Lloyd's
from a fisherman of Dingle, stating that, whilst pursuing
his avocations some weeks back, he discovered, at the east
end of the great Blasquet Island, a sunken rock of conside-
rable extent, hitherto unknown, having only two or two and
a half fathoms of water upon it, whilst at either end there is
about thirty fathoms.

AUSTRIA.—The population of the Austrian dominions
amounted in 1840 to 36,950,401 inhabitants, of whom
18.202,631 were males, and 18,747,778 females. The army
reckoned 464,972 men. The relative population was 3,177
per each German square mile. In 1839 there were 7,637,209
wfaamsili2ess:46a9,
and 5,229,508 ;
55,229u.5n08itehd Gouserese.ksT 3,573,21$ ; Schismatiche number of Catholics
Greeks, 2,852,120 ; Calvinists, 2,238,918 ; Lutherans,
1,258,250; Jews, 652,000, &c.
On Wednesday, James Downie, a journeyman shoemaker,
labouring under a " delusion," was committed to Bridewell
for, breaking the windows of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans,
printers, and threatening violence to those gentlemen, be-
cause they would not tell him the residence of Mr. Chambers,
proprietor of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. He con-
sidered that some article in that miscellany respecting a per-
son named Downie, in India, had been the cause of his not
obtaining work.

GRATITUDE OF TUE POOR.--A pleasing and striking in-
stance of the gratitude of the poorer classes has been recently
exhibited by some of the patients of the Charter-house In-
firmary for the cure of fistula. Sensible of the benefits re-
ceived by them from this institution they have formed them-
selves into an auxiliary society, and subscribed in small sums
nearly £lOO towards its funds. The subscription is no less
honorable to themselves than conclusive as respects the
value of the infirmary.

THE FUNDS.—The funds continue to rise rapidly. See.
ing the advanced point consols have now reached, the public
are beginning to believe that the next financial operation of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be a reduction of the
Three and a Half per Cent Stocks. Should the increase of
business and the abundance of capital give an additional
movement upwards to prices, a doubt can scarcely exist of
Mr. Goulburn availing himself of the favourable opportunity
of making retrenchments in Treasury expenditure, especi-
ally as connected with the debt of the country.—Times.

Tim NIGER EXPEDITION.—We have a return before us
made to the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. H.
Baillie, stating the mortality which occurred on board the
three ships sent to explore the Niger, which exhibits the fol-
lowing melancholy results :—The Albert had a complement
of 68 Europeans, and of these 28 died; the Wilberforce had
55, of whom 15 died ; and the Soudan, which had only 39
men, lost the same number. The total number of men that
left the country was 192, and of these 58 died, including one
casualty, and three deaths previous to the sailing of the ex-
pedition. We believe the sum voted for this ill-fated experi-
ment was £60,000.

THE RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.—The follow-
ing statement of the religious population of the United States
is said, by the Rochester Democrat, to be derived from va-
rious sources, several of which are authentic:--
Baptists 4,000,000 Dutch Reformed .. 450,000
Methodists
Presbyterians .... 2,175,000 Unitarians lBO,OOO
Congregationalists. 1,400,000 Dunkers.. ' 30,000
Roman Catholics.. 1,300,900 Mormonites
Episcopalians .... 1,000,000 Shakers
Universalists .. 600,000 Moravians .
..
Lutherans 540,000 I Swedenborgians . • 6,000

A WORD OF WARNlNG.—Oastler, in his Fleelers last
Saturday, gives, with great prominence, the following start-
ling sentences :—" I will caution the starving millions.
Agents are now at work, striving to get up another outbreak.
Do not listen to their suggestions. There is Death in the
Pot." We have made some anxious inquiries as to the
truth of this ; and find that, as usual, Mr. Oastler, although
he is immured in a prison. has contrived to anticipate those
who have the personal advantage of the "freedom of the
press." Another outbreak is talked about; and there is
much suspicious activity, in country places especially.—Ha-
lifax Guardian.

Fox HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.--On Friday afternoon
a fox hunt extraordinary took place in the vicinity of the
Borough. A few minutes before five o'clock as fine a fox as
was ever followed broke away from his kennel in the neigh-
bourhood of Meetinghouse-walk, near the Skin-market,
Bermondsey. Not many minutes had elapsed before reynard
was discovered, when a motley " pack" of pedestrians set off
in fine style after him. The chase was gallantly maintained;
and the hallooing of his constantly increased pursuers created
no little stir throughout the densely-populated district over
which he ran. From King-street pug proceeded at a very
rapid rate into the Borough High-street, where he was at
length headed. Skirting St. George's Church, he suddenly
checked his speed, and, not seeming to relish being hunted
down so unnaturally, be bolted without the least ceremony
into the shop of a stationer, within a door or two of the Bo-
rough branch post-office, Blackman-street, where he was
captured without either difficulty or loss of life.—London

MELANCHOLY Acctoer4T.—The Rev. James Paterson,
minister of New Broughton Church, Manchester, Jamaica,
—the missionary of the United Associate Congregation of
Broughton-place, Edinburgh, was unfortunately killed on
the 23d January. On the morning of that day (Monday), he
in company with his brother-in-law, the Rev. John Robson,
of Wellington-street Church, Glasgow, now in Jamaica, for
the recovery of his health, left home in a gig, to attend the
meeting of the missionary Presbytery at Mount Zion, St.
James. On going down a descent, the horse became un-
manageable. Mr. Paterson, who was driving, was thrown
from his seat, and lighted on his head. Mr. Robson was en-
abled to keep his seat, and after having ran at full speed for
about half a mile further, the horse slackened its pace, and
gave him an opportunity of dismounting. On returning to
the spot, he found Mr. Paterson lying senseless where he had
fallen. He immediately opened a vein with his pen-knife,
but life bad fled.

MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED.—The Dublin Evening POR,
of Friday last, contains a curious circumstance. It may
afford a lesson to gentlemen travelling for the first time in
Scotland, and we shall, therefore, give its purport:—" A
gentleman, rejoicing in the name of Sydenham Snow, was
travelling in Scotland, in tha month of December last, and
was enjoying the amusements of the good city of Glasgow.
A gentleman in the search of pleasure, he admired the fair-
haired daughters of the north, with flaxen locks and sparkling
eyes of blue. But among them a', she who fixed his medi-
tations was a maid whose after life must strangely mix with
his. Jolly in name, jou in person, she arrested the steps of
the wanderer, melting him by the warm influences of beauty
on the impulses of our nature. He loved merriment and he
loved Jolly, and with both, in happiness, he passed the
hours. Mr. Snow, as his name would lead us to suppose,
'is frae the north.' Ho dates in ' bill,
bond, quittance, or
obligation,' from Omagh, in the county of Tyrone. But
Glasgow is still ' farther north,' and Miss Jolly, though she
smiled so merrily, appears not to have been at all a degenerate
slip of the northern pine. In a moment of—we know not
what—Mr. Snow may, perhaps, remember—Miss Mary Jolly
and Mr. Sydenham Snow mutually
acknowledged each other,
before two witnesses' as husband and wife. Poor Mr.
Snow ! he appears not to have known what he did. Heff p
forgot that the law of marrin. ;„, cntland is somewhat

ferent from that of thiseounbtry," and even now seems quite
' Not thus Mary

ree as air
I et.-

law, and she

has, it would appear, taken whatever rights
this contract gave her. Mr. Snow insists that he was
never married.' Mary's agents say the marriage is a valid
one,' and thus their quarrel runs. The story is not a fiction,
and may be useful to gentlemen visiting the Scottish lakes or
coursing on the Scottish heather for the first time. When
they are attracted by the folly-ty of the hill-side maidens, let
thrm not forget the freezing gravity which Mr. Snow wires
now."