The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

William Whitehead, Esq., of York, returned 40 per
cenb to his tenantry, at. his rent audit, held at Beverley,
on the 31st ult.

Mr. Mitchell, an Edinburgh engraver, intends sending
to the Exhibition a piece of gold so small that an ordinary
pin's head will cover it ; yet it contains the whole of the
Lord's Prayer.

On Wednesday, whilst the miners were in full work at
the Bwleh Consols Lead Mine, situated in the mountain
near Aberystwith, a portion of the ground gave way, and
buried two miners, married men, under the falling mass.
SMOKE EFFECTUALLY CONSUMED.—A steam-boat, 011
Monday, was propelled up and down the Thames, no
smoke escaping from the furnace, there being, in fact, no
funnel.

Windermere Lake on New Year's Day, during the
night and following morning, rose one yard in height,
owing to heavy rains. It is computed that 3,127,338,858
gallons of water fell in six hours.
IMPUDENT THEFT.—Stephen Allan, a notorious delin-
quent, last week broke into the House of Correction at
Spilsby, and robbed the turnkey of £l2 ! He was after-
wards taken and committed to prison.
The corn markets have been very sluggish this week
throughout the country. The average price of wheat for
the week ending the 11th instant is only 38s. per quarter,
with importations pouring in from all parts of the world.
The arrangements for the erection of the marble arch
at the Cumberland-gate entrance to Hyde-park will it
appears be carried into effect with an extraordinary de-
gree of despatch.
In a garden well stocked with fruit trees, at Yaffortb,
near Northallerton, there is at present two throstle nests,
in one of which is four eggs, and in the other one three
eggs. There are also fruit trees irr bud.

-in a coal-pit at Llanelly, as four men were ascending
in the basket, it from some cause tilted over and preeipi-
tated them to the bottom. Three were killed on the
spot, and the recovery of the fourth is doubtful.
An explosion of fire damp occurred at Cwmbach, on
Thursday last, in a level belonging to the Yniscedwyn•
Iran Works, when four persons were seve.sely burnt. One
of the sufferers died shortly after. •

The extensive printing and publishing establishment of
Mr. Nelson, at Gifford-park, has suffered considerably
by Are. The loss is estimated at £2,000, which is fully
covered by insurance in the Norwich Union.

The Staffordshire potteries are overdone with orders,
and a considerable advance has taken place in the prices.
The foreign orders are more extensive than they have been
for some years, and the general business is excellent.
_ _

It is stated• that an order has been sent to the litristol
parochial authorities, from the Secretary of State, for the
erection of a lunatic asylum, the estimated cost of which
is £50,000.

A well-attfired man entered a spirit shop, in Edinburgh;
a few days glice,•and after calling for a dram of spirits,
deliberately swallowed flee mould and four dip candles,
all of which, eneept the wicks,-he ate with apparent relish,
consuming with them a pennyworth of bread.

The widow of Lieutenant Wagborn has been addition-
ally pensioned by the liberality of Sir Jamsetjee Jujub-
hop, the wealthy native merchant of Bombay. The well-
known Parsee Knight has bestowed £2O per annum on
Lieutenant Waghorn's relict.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has decreased from £1,1,839;118' to £14,641,849,
being a difference of 188269. The paper in actual circu-
lation had increased' from £20,286;251 to £21,125,108,
being a difference of M38;857:
On Saturday week, at Grays Thurrcek, a boat contain-
ing nine persons—viz., two watermen, two women, and
five children, was being rowed over the river Thames. A
coal brig going down the river unfortunately ran them
down, and the whole party met a watery grave. It hap-
pened in consequence of a fog.
Sir J. E. Eardley Wilmot, after struggling during the
last three years against serious difficulties-arising from the
pecuniary embarassments in which the Bbrkswell estate
'descended to him, has been- obliged to announce to his
friends that he is making arrangements- for the total
alienation of his property.

The Friendship- Fire Company, of 'Baltimore, are going
to send their splendid new engine to 'the worl'd's exhibi-
tion. Daniel Spuer, Esq., the president, is- going out
with it at his own expense. 1i is stated'te be a machine
of exquisite workmanshind will no doubt bear away
the bell at the exhibition the American. fire engines
are the finest in the worl.

The Lancet of Saturday contained a useful paper
on the adulteration of coffee. A. microscopic examination
of 34 different qualities sold in.LOndon showed that with
three exceptions the whole were adulterated. Chicory
was-present in 31 instances, with the frequent'addition of
roasted corn, beans, or potatoes, and in some cases the
quantity of coffee was not more than a fifth of'tbe whole
arti ale.

Ile Durham tenants of the Duke of Cleveland• have
no leases, but the holdings are hereditary, the same fami-
lies in direct descent occupying the same farms- for cen-
turies. His Grace's estates were valued fifty years ago,
and the rent has never since undergone any change.. One
of the bestfarmers on the estate has in his possession a lease
of the land he now occupies, granted to one of his, ances-
tors in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

A boy, named Roberts, the son, of a tradesman living
at Snareston, Leicestershire, went into his father'S- shop,
on the 3d instant, took up a loaded gun, and said to his
brother, a boy about five years old, " I will shovr--rou how
to shoot dickey birds." The gun went off,' and the
charge of shot dreadfully lacerated the younger boy,'S face
and head ; but surgical assistance was immediately ob-
tained', and the child is now recovering.
The•CHRYSTAL PALACE.—Mr. M. D. Wyatt, in an
official report, says, that the width of the main avenue
was within ten feet double that of the nave of Stl Paul's
Cathedral, whilst its length was more than four times as
great. The walls of St. Paul's were fourteen feet thick,
those of the great building in Hyde Park were only eight
inches'. St. Paul's occupied thirty-five years in building,
whilst the Hyde-park building would be finished in less
than halt that number of weeks.

A _DARING Doc.—On Thursday last, in the afternoon,
a large dog, not acquainted with the appearance of the
railway trains that now pass through our links, had the
daring audacity not only to barkr•but even to spring over
the paling and attack the iron horse. After doing so only
one beer-wow was heard, and when the guard looked
down, the poor dog was literally divided in two, a half of
him being on each side of the rail, in two pools of blood.
—Montrose Standard.

SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—The schooner En-
terprise, on her voyage from IMapooi and Stornaway, has
been wrecked on a rock off the latter place. Mr. .Tohn
Corbett, of Stornaway, was the only passenger. The
captain and the crew took t&.the boats and were saved,
leaving the unfortunate passenger to be drowned' in the
cabin•. They state that they gave him notice of the
danger, but that he laughed at it, thinking• they were
"making fun of him."
FERE 'AND Loss OF LIFE IN LONDON.
night last, a fire broke out at the Coach and Horses
public-house, St. Martin's-lane, which is kept by Ben•
jamin Caunt, the notorious pugilist. Cana was, not at
home. The alarm was not 'given till the usual way of
escape was cut off by the flames ; some of the inmates
and family escaped through the windows and over the
roof; but two of Caunt'i children, aged nine and six
s, besides his wife's cousin, a young womswof eighteen,
perished, being suffocated: by the smoke.

On Tuesday

-Thomas

CHARGE OF MURDER *BY A HUSBANL
Johnson, an elderly man, by trade a shoemaker,, residing
in Graham-street, Islington, London, is in custody,
charged with the wilful murder of his wife. She was found
lying dead on the floor in a pool of blood; the surgeon
who examined her being of opinion that blows from the
fist caused the wounds-on her person, and kicks from the
boots. Blood was foand on the hands of the prisoner,
and on his boots ; and, it appeared he had been imprisoned
for ill-using her. The deceased was 6lyears of age.
COLLIERY ExPLorpacoN.—On Tuesday last an explosion
occurred in the Black Boy Colliery, about two miles from
Bishop Auckland, which unfortunately resulted in the
loss of two lives. About two o'clock, in the morning
some of the men had proceeded to work, when the over-
man and a boy entered a drift recently. opened; they had
proceeded upwards of a mile with naked candles, when it
is supposed that they had come in contact with a
" blower," or pent-up quantity of gas, which instantly
exploded, and both were instantly killed by the blast.

PIRACY IN, THR DowNs.—A-few, days since the crew
of a Swedish brig lying in the Downs,, consisting of eight
men, having secured the captain and mate in the cabin,
proceeded to rifle the vessel of every,axticle of value ; and.
among Other property of a portableAlescription, carried off
the captain's watch. Having taken to the boat, they de-
serted her. on landing near the second battery, where the
boat wasfound and secured by the coast-guard on duty.
No trace of the delinquents has, yet been discovered.—
Dover Telegraph.

SIR JoRNBARROW'S MONUMENT.—The Ulverstone
Adver.lister of the 9th inst. says :--" Whilst we are at
press,, we are glad to hear a ,reerry peal from our old
church bells, announcing that. the last stone of Sir John
Barrow's Monumental Tower has been successfully raised
—may it remain there to his honour for ages to come..
By, the kindness of Mr. Barrow, of the Admiralty, the

workmen are being regale 4 within it ; flags are flying
there, on the church steeple,, on the shipping, and, appro-
priately, one over the cottage in which Sir John was

We learn from the Christian, Timei that " the inner,
the outer, and the outermost circles of voluntarism"-have
recently combined to present Dr. Pye Smith with,a testi-
monial for his long and brilliant services for fifty years
as the president of one of their colleges. It consists of
the sum of £2OOO, invested in trustees, the interest of
which is to be applied to his use during the remainder of
his life, and afterwards to provide divinity scholarships,
bearing his name, in connection with the new college,
London. The venerable Doctor was so overcome that
he was obliged to get his son to respond for him.
THE ALLI.GED " CALUMNY INTRItatiE IN HIGH
LIFE."— A letter, signed William Doria, and dated from
the Brunswick Hotel, has been published in the London
papers, and contains the following paragraph :—" I have
reason to believe that I am the person erroneously designa-
' ted as the Attache of a distinguished foreign embassy in
London. As far as lam concerned I beg to state that
those paragraphs contain a series of gross misrepresenta-
tions, and that there is not one particle of truth in the
statements, that I insulted the noble lady, that I was
knocked down or kicked from the house, or that I ever
refused to fight."

ADULTERATION OF PEITER.—At the Court of Inland
Revenue, on Wi enesd ay, Thomas Christie, the pro-
prietor of tea and grocery establishments in Bishopgate-
street, the Commercial-road East, and Whitechapel, Lon-
don, was charged, on three informations, with adulterating
pepper with rice and other articles, by which he had in-
curred, for cry such offence, a penalty of £lOO. The
information contained three other counts, charging him
with having such adulterated pepper in his possession, by
which he had incurred a further penalty of £3OO. It was
proved that the proportion of rice was about one-third.
The defendant was fined in the full penalty, on three
counts of the information. of £3OO. Two at m. dealers
vex° Ailed in £lOO each fora similar offence,