The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-23 00:00:00

DOMESTIC.

RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LANCASTER HUNT.—
We understand that there is every prospect of the Lan-
caster Hunt being re-established. The matter has been
taken up most spiritedly by a number of the leading
sportsmen in Lancaster. An offer has Leen made to pur-
chase the celebrated harriers the property of the late
Upton, Esq., of Ingmire-hall.
A CH-LLD FOR SALE.—The following extraordinary
letter was received a short time ago by a gentleman in the
neighbourhood of Tewkesbury, from a person residing
here. The letter is dated from a certain court in this
town, but we omit the precise locality and the writer's
name, hoping that, without pursuing the exposure to that
extent, it will be sufficient to teach him that natural affec-
tion is not to be made a matter of bargain and sale, and
that it is the duty of a parent himself to cherish the ch Id
which he has been the means of bringing into the world:
" Sir,—Having heard that you expressed a wish to have a
child and did not mind to give a sum of money as an in-
ducement i flatter myself that I have it in my power to
furnish you with one to answer your purpose in every
respect it is a boy 2 years old a good looking healthy spi-
rited child and sound wind and limb and you will never
be troubled concerning the child afterwards so that you
can rair him up to suit your inclination you can send
word by the bearer and appoint aney time to inspect the
child.—Worcester Chronicle.
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DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN.—A meeting was held
in London, last week, for the protection of teese females.
The object of the society is to find work fur as many of
the unemployed as possible, to insure them a fair remu-
neration for their labour. It is proposed that each sub-
scriber shall receive to the amount of his subscription in
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manufactured by the nominees of the society, to be dis-
tributed by the subscribers among deserving poor. It is
further proposed, " That the amount of each person's
serving middle-
woman or job master be employed, so that the actual la-
two parties at the same time, viz., the needlewornen so
employed. and the destitute poor, who, from the hands of
the humane, receive those comforts so desirable at this
inclement season." One of the ladies present stated on
her own knowledge a case where two young woman were
paid Is for making 10 shirts. (Hear.) She also knew a
case where a poor woman who had been confined to her
bed for a considerable time was making trousers at ld.
a pair.

FLY FISHING.—MILDNESS OR THE SEASON.—A
gentleman resident in this neighbourhood, who has been
for the last few months on a sporting tour in Wales, has
been induced lately, from the unprecedented mildness of
the temperature, occasionally to exchange his gun for his
fishing-rod, and has succeeded in killing with a fly, during
the last fortnight, no less than four or five fine dishes of
trout, consisting of from ten to twelve brace each. They
were in beautiful conbition, bespangled, as in May, with
their splendid crimson studs and golden dress, and very
plump. It is a vulgar error to suppose that this fish will
not rise to the fly during the winter months, the fact be-
ing quite the reverse, as it is more ravenous and hungry
at this period than any other, and especially so after it has
spawned, when it rapidly gets into condition and rises
freely as the fly, which latter only appears on the surface
of the stream, when the temperature is particularly mild.
The fineness of the season has contributed to the rapid ad-
vance of the spawning process; and has contributed, at
the same time, greatly to the easy supply of food, which
combined, have thus advanced the fish to the condition
spoken of.—Cheltenham Examiner.
The usual ironmasters quarterly meetings have taken
place during the present week at Walsall, Wolverhamp-
ton, and Birmingham. The assemblage in Birmingham
was numerous, the great majority of the most extensive
ironmasters from the surrounding districts and many from.
Wales being present, and, as a matter of course, taking
great interest in the business proceedings of the meeting.
During the last week it was reported that an attempt
would be made to effect a reduction in the price of iron;
and on Wednesday, at an adjourned meeting of masters
held at Wolverhampton, in accordance with this predic.
tion, a gentleman from London, largely interested in the
iron trade, moved that bar iron be reduced at the rate of
10s. per ton. The motion found a seconder, and that was
all—for upon its being put to the meeting, the proposed
resolution was, with the exception of its authors, rejected
by the entire assembly. The prices, therefore, remain the
same as last quarter—bar iron from £5 10s. to £6 per
ton ; pigs, according to their quality, from £2 15s. to
£3 ss. ; hoops, £6 10s. ; and sheets. £7 to £7los. Many
of the most extensive works are in full employ, and alto-
gether the trade presents a more cheering appearance
than was anticipated about a month ago.
A BLACK HOLE IN BIRMINGHAM —A case of no
common interest was tried before the Recorder, at the
Borough Sessions, on Saturday last. Two poor debtors,
named James Smith and John Taylor, who had been
prisoners in that filthy and horrible hole called the Court
of Requests Prison, were arraigned on a charge of vio-
lently assaulting William Buckerfield, a police constable.
Mr. Mellor stated the case to the jury, which, he said,
was an assault upon a police constable named Buckerfield,
and took place at the Court of Requests Prison in Bir-
mingham. From what he had heard, that prison was a
disg ace to any country and any age. He knew of nothing
analogous to it except the hold of a slave ship. It
was, he had been assured, a confined, ill-ventilated hole,
underground, made out of the cellar of an old house, and
that the stench therefrom was intolerable. It was impos-
sible to use language too strong in describing it, or in cal-
ling public attention to it. It appeared from the evidence
of one of the witnesses that there was a practice there
called " chumming up." When a new prisoner goes in,
he is welcomed by the prisoners who in the prison, and
beat round with the chumming instruments—old swords
and staves. They generally have a fife, and the prisoners
put. Oil P.UID GULIULIy IS t/ V 1.4 p ••••• p•
ers demand from their new brother 2s. 6t1., and if he can-
not pay the half-crown they take his coat and waitcoat off
him.—The prisoners were convicted, and sentenced to
three months imprisonment in Warwick gaol.
ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS, LONDON.—On Tuesday
the half-yearly meeting of this company was held. The
credit balance brought forward on the Ist January, 1843,
was £121,184 19s. 9d. ; and the like balance brought for-
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than in the year preceding, although the official returns
upon the table showed that the business transacted in the
docks during the last year, both as retarded goods and
shipping, had, upon the whole, exceeded that of the year
1812. The falling off in the amount of earnings was not,
therefore, attributable to a diminution in the extent of
business, but arose from :accidental circumstances, the
description of goods landed having been of a less costly
character, and the rates consequently not so productive.
The dividend for the half year was declared to be 21 per
cent. There was in 1843 an excess of 46 ships entered
the docks over 1842, and an excess of aggregate tonnage
of 4,956 tons. The statement of the foreign trade of the
port of London showed a numerical decrease in 1843 of
208 British ships with cargoes, but an increase in the ton-
nage of 16,330, and in like manner of 1918 tons of foreign
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an increase in the tonnage of 18,248 register tons. The
returns indicated a material increase in the trade with
distant countries, seeing that the importation of corn
from European ports into London during last year had
greatly diminished. Of wheat alone 542,249 quarters bad
been less landed in 1843—a falling off equal in amount to
100,000 of ships' tonnage,
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. BUFFORD, THE BANKER.—
On Wednesday an inquest was held at Birmingham, on
the body of Mr. Francis Rufford, banker, of Stourbridge,
who suddenly fell down dead in the office of Mrs. Harri-
son's office for servants, in Anne-street, Birmingham,
The deceased was a county magistrate, and highly re-
spected in Worcestershire, of which county he had been
recently appointed high sheriff for the ensuing year. He
left Stout bridge early on Tuesday, and during the morn-
ing was actively engaged in transacting business in various
houses in Birmingham. Mrs. Harrison deposed: About
half-past twelve the deceased gentleman came to my
house on the subject of hiring a servant. He said, " I
must communicate with Mrs. Rufford, and she will com-
municate with you." He wrote the address of " Mr.
Francis Rufford, of Prescott, near Stourbridge," during
the first part of our conversation, and in about tea
minutes afterwards said, " I will add ' House,' as there
are two Prescotts, one near Liverpool." He stooped
down to the table in the front parlour, to add the word
house,' and I left the room to fetch my card to give Mr.
Rufford, but 1 had not gone more than three yards, the
door being open, when my servant, Sarah Averill, ex-
claimed, " Why, the gentleman lies on the floor." On
turning round I saw the deceased lying on his left side,
between the table and the fireplace. with his band upon
his temple, as if in the act of taking off his spectacles.
The evidence of the medical man who had made the post
mortem examination, went to show that the cause of
death was ossification of the heart ; and the jury re-
turned a verdict, " Died by the visitation of God."

HORRIBLE ATTEMPT OF A MAN TO MURDER HIS
WIFE.—On Thursday, James Lee, a bricklayer's la-
bourer, residing in New-street, near Hope-square.
Altrincham, Cheshire, attempted to cut his wife's
throat, to whom he had only been married some
four months. It appeared that they had frequent
disagreements, and on the day in question, when
he came in to his dinner, finding nothing prepared, in
consequence of his wife's illness, he went to a pantry and
got some bread and butter, and left the house without
making any remark. In a few minutes he returned,
opened a drawer where he kept his razors, and, after
looking out of the window a short time, went behind his
wife, who was seated near the fire-place, and had no sus-
picion of what he was about, and seizing bold of her, at-
tempted to cut her throat. He inflicted a severe wound,
but she prevented its being a fatal one by partly covering
her throat with her left hand, the thumb and finger of
which were cut. She then sprung from the chair on
which she was seated, screaming out " Murder ;" but
he knocked her down on the floor, and held her there
with her face downwards, while she was bleeding profusely
from the wound he had inflicted ; he afterwards kicked
her in the side, but was at length interrupted by some of
the neighbours, who had been alarmed by the poor
woman's cries, coming to the window. She then escaped
into the yard, where assistance was rendered her, and she
was removed into a neighbour's house. Mr. Pownall.
surgeon, was speedily in attendance, and sewed up the
wound, and by his skill she is placed in a fair way of re-
orwery. The man remained in the house, and boldly
stated to those near him that the woman inflicted the
wound on herself, and endeavoured to explain the blood
on his fingers and clothes by alleging that they had been
caused in the attempt which he bad made to prevent her
effecting her purpose, in struggling to do which she fell,
and he fell upon her. On the following day he was
brought before the magistrates, and committed for tria
at the next Chester assizes.—Chester Courant.
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THE GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL
ROYAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY'S
splendid new iron Steam Ships
,(00, PRINCESS ROYAL, Capt. M'ARTHUR,
NCR -' ROYAL GEORGE, Captain Cook,
Are intended to sail
Between LIVERPOOL and GLASGOW, asunder:
JAN UARY.

PRINCESS ROYAL.. Thursday, the 25th.. 1, Afternoon.
PRINCESS ROYAL.. Tuesday, the 30th.. 6, Evening.
Cabin Passage, 205.; Fee, 2s.— Steerage, ss.
For freight or passage apply to Mr. LANGLANDS, Glas-
gow ; or here to
JAMES BREBNER, 20, Water-street.

For GREENOCK and GLASGOW,
With Goods and Passengers.
Cabin.. 205.; Steward's Fee ..2s.—Steerage.. ss.
THE GLASGOW AND • LIVERPOOL STEAM
SHIPPING COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIPS
"4,1'&1. ACHILLES,
Captain HUGH MAIN, and
jtyl_filh\ FIRE KING, Captain IVI`KELLAR,
Sail regularly. from the Clarence Dock,
LIVERPOOL, to GLASGOW.
The •undernoted or other first-class Steam-Ship is
intended to sail as follows, from LIVERPOOL :
JANUARY.
Saturday, the 27th.... at 3, Afternoon.
For further particulars apply to
THOMAS MARTIN and BURNS and Co.,
7, Water-street, Liverpool.
GEORGE and JAMES BURNS,
Buchanan-street, Glasgow; or to
ARCHIBALD BLACK,
Custom-house-place, Greenock.
And at the Railway Stations, London, Birmingham,
Manchester) 54.

PARSON'S ALEPPO OPPICE WRITING INK.
THIS very superior Ink being made with pure ALEPPO
GALLS, is equally
adapted for Quills and Steel Pens,
and combines the requisite qualities of INcortßont mat ry
and PEEMANENCY of COLOUR with an easy flow from the
Pen. It is therefore strongly recommended to Merchants,
Bankers, Solicitors, Accountants, and others.
*** Warranted not to be affected by time mgclimate.
Sold in Quart, Pint, Half-pint, and Sixpenny Bottles,
by Jous PARSONS, at his Manufactory for Printing and
Writing Inks, 9, Ave-Maria-lane, London, and sold by
all the Booksellers and Stationers in Liverpool.

Dr ORDER OF TUE MORTGAGEE.
TO BREWERS, SPIRIT MERCHANTS, AND
OTHERS.
By Mr. BYFORD,
On FRIDAY, the 2d of February next, at Two o'clock in
the Afternoon, at the Clarendon Rooms, South John-
street, Liverpool,
ALL that Licensed PUBLIC-HOUSE, on the north
side of Button-street, leading out of Whitechapel,
Liverpool, now in the occupation of Mr. John Edwards,
together with the Fixtures thereon.
The Premises are Freehold of Inheritance, and have a
frontage of 32 feet 7 inches to Button-street, run in
depth about 27 feet, and measure at the back 14 feet 11
inches, and contain, in the whole, 72 superficial square
yards.

A good ready-money Counter Business is carried on,
and the Premises are in an excellent situation.
For further particulars apply to Mr. NEAL, Solicitor,
26, Castle-street, Liverpool.

EXTENSIVE SALE OF WINES.
By Mr. T. BRANCH,
THIS DAY, (Tuesday,) the 23rd instant, at One o'clock,
at the Hanover Booms, Liverpool,
ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-
FIVE DOZEN of Genuine WINES, consisting of
39 Dozen superior Old Crusted PORT, of choice quality,
about five years in bottle,
50 Dozen Ditto DITTO, upwards of four years in bottle,
30 Dozen old and fine East India MADEIRA,
60 Dozen Amontillado SHERRY, of very fine quality,
soft from age, imported direct from Xeres,
43 Dozen fine old London particular MADEIRA,
54 Dozen superior old Brown SHERRY,
60 Dozen old PORT, recently bottled, in fine condition
for present use.
52 Dozen rich fruity PORT, the vintage of 1834, recently
bottled,
36 Dozen old London particular VIDONIA,
24 Dozen BUCELLAS, of singularly fine quality,
27 Dozen very choice SPARKLING CHAMPAGNE.
Also, the following WINES and SPIRITS, in Bond, viz.
12 Quarter-Casks Choice old SHERRY,
6 Octaves West India MADEIRA,
11 Quarter-Casks fine old PORT,
25 Cases old COGNAC BRANDY.
And immediately afterwards,
25 Barrels FRENCH RENNET APPLES,
18 Jars fine CHINESE PRESERVED GINGER,
And a quantity of superior CIGARS.
Samples will be exhibited at the time of Sale, and Ca-
talogues may be had at Mr. BRANCH'S Offices.