The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

THE I,IIERPOOL STIN6IIIO.

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Lord Gough has returned from India.
All the deer in Dean Forest are to be destroyed.
A thank-offering of £230 towards the repairs of Red-
cliff Church, Bristol, has been received by tie Mayor.
The Moravian Missions obtain an average income from
England of £3,000 a-year.
To supply London, daily, with milk, 60,000 cows are
required, yielding 100,030 gallons.
Mr. Mirehouse, the common sergeant of London, died
on Wednesday.

At a great meeting held in Westminster on Thursday,
to promote the Industrial Exhibition of 1851, £2,000 was
subscribed.

We have now a stock of upwards of one million of bales
of cotton in the ports of Great Britain and the United
States, and half of the crop yet to come in.
There is an asylum for young thieves in Bristol, rented by
two juvenile rascals—one 13 and the other 16 years old—
who sub-let it to other tenants.
A vessel just arrived in London, from Calcutta, has
brought several hogsheads of " earth oil" as a portion of
her cargo.

The eldest daughter of M. Guizot is about to be mar-
ried to M. de Witt, the lineal descendant of the celebrated
Dutchman, Jean de Witt.
Captain Matthews, formerly of the Great Western, has
been appointed to the command of the Glasgow and New
York screw steam-ship City of Glasgow.
The weekly cattle market at Wakefield has been discon-
tinued. As formerly, cattle markets will be held at Leeds
and Wakefield alternately.
The magistrates of Nottingham have fined an Inde-
pendent minister 40s. and costs for assaulting a married
female.

We are happy to find that there is everywhere a growing
feeling for the entire closing of the post-office on the
Sabbath-day.
A gentleman, named Robson, formerly in the service of
the late Duke of Northumberland, was killed, on Monday,
at Berwick, by a train passing over him.
An immense meeting was held at Edinburgh, on Mon-
day, the Lord Provost in the chair, to petition Parliament
to close the post-offices on Sunday.
GERMAN YEAST.—Since the commencement of the
present year, the Norfolk steamer has brought over from
Holland to Goole 4,536 bags of yeast in baskets—a proof
that the article is becoming of considerable consumption.
A correspondent of the Times advocates supplying
London with water from Bala Lake; but Mr. Rawlinson
has put a stop to the scheme by his estimate for carrying
it out, viz., £10,000,000.
Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., has announced his in-
tention of presenting to the Literary and Philosophical
Society of Newcastle a marble bust of his illustrious
father, the late George Stephenson.
The furze on Wandsworth-common was set fire to, on
Thursday evening, and drew out all the engines far and
near, a space of three quarters of a mile being in flames
at one time.

NEW GREEN PEAS.—A small parcel of this early lux-
ury has been received in London by the Pacha steamer,
from Lisbon, bearing as fresh an appearance as if grown
in England.
A quantity of meat has been roasted on the railway
near Leighton Buzzard by a truck's taking fire. By the
time the train stopped at the station most of the meat
was cooked.
While a man named Piper, in the service of a tanner
of Dewsbury Moor, was superintending the chopping of
some bark on Tuesday last, he fell amongsr the knives of
the mill, and his body was chopped to pieces.
Three Irishmen, who had deliberately broken some
windows at Feversham, Kent, on Monday week, were
seized by a mob, and were whipped out of the town, after
one of them had been ducked under a pump.
The Birmingham Journal relates that, on Friday night
week, some burglars broke into a mill near Redditch, and
stole thirteen packets of needles, averaging from 40,000
to 50,000 in each packet.
A PAUPER'S " EFFECTS."—In a late return, made to
the Banff Parochial Board, by a party applying for paro-
chial aid, the household property of which he was pos-
sessed was stated to be of the value of " 20."
During a public-house brawl at Ruthin, John Lewis
struck Thomas Thomas so severe a blow on the head with
a poker, that he died shortly after, and the assailant
has been committed on the charge of wilful murder.
On Tuesday morning last, Mr. Samuel H. Turner,
formerly a very respectable druggist in Scarbro', was
found suspended to a tree in a plantation near Breckon
Farm, in the township of Ayton.
A boat, in which were William M'Gammon and his
wife, went adrift from Leith, on Saturday week, and was
not picked up until next morning, when the unwilling
passengers were found in a very exhausted state.

Fiftesn full-grown herrings' which appeared to have
been recently swallowed, were lately taken out of the in-
side of a cod by a cook in a gentleman's family in Edin-
burgh.

A-woman named Kelly accidentally fell head foremost
into a midden at Preston, on Wednesday, and was buried
up to her waist ; but some neighbours succeeded in res-
cuing her before she was suffocated.
The Society of Dealers in Newspapers have presented a
unanimous vote of thanks to the proprietors of the Spec-
tator and John Bull newspapers, in consequence of their
discontinuing a Sunday edition of their journals.
Perplexed by the question, " what is England to do
with her rogues ?" the Morning Post hesitatingly sug-
gests the expedient of "founding some new penal colony
on ground yet unbroken by the Anglo-Saxon spade."
The ex-king of the French, with his consort and family,
and attended by a large suite, have taken up their resi-
dence at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond. The in-
tention of his ex-majesty is to remain in Richmond till
Easter.

While the wife of a cattle dealer living at Barnby Dun,
Yorkshire, was milking a cow in a stall on Thursday week,
the cow suddenly kicked her into an adjoining stall, where
she fell, and sustained so severe a concussion of the brain
that she died in the course of a few minutes.

An honest industrious man, living on Castle-hill, Holy-
well, has three sons, named Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego; Abednego was baptised last Sunday week.
Should he have three more he is to call them Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.

The mayor and magistrates of Kendal have formally
requested the inhabitants in no case to offer relief to
strolling beggars, their benevolence being in a majority of
cases grossly abused, and tending to encourage the reci-
pients in a lazy and plundering course of life.
The first of a new line of screw-ships, from Glasgow to
New York, starts in March. These vessels are of a large
capacity, and will afford great facilities for emigration. So
far as experience goes, the voyage will generally be made
in from 22 to 26 days.

The Rev. James Bromley, a Wesleyan minister, who is
stationed at Bath, having received notice of trial at a spe-
cial district meeting, on account of three letters that he
has published on the subject of conference discipline, was
suspended from the ministry last week.
SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDEN FRUIT.—A quantity of
this tropical fruit has been received from the Bahamas,
which, together with oranges, is being cultivated to a
considerable extent for consumption in America, and is
likely to prove of pecuniary benefit to our colonies.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £16,850,255 to £17,089,901, being
a difference of £239,646. The paper in actual circulation
had decreased from £20,556,613 to £20,339,864, being a
difference of £216,749.
On Saturday a curious case was tried before a metropo-
litan court. A scoundrel induced a simple-minded ser-
vant-girl to `• marry" him, and persuaded her to believe
that the ceremony consisted in jumping over a broomstick.
Subsequently, he obtained possession of her little savings
and next day abandoned his ruined victim.
WISE VERDICT.—The coroner of Bristol—the bones
of a couple of cavaliers or roundheads, slain at the siege of
the city by Prince Rupert in 1643, having been turned up
by some " navvies"—held an inquest upon them, and
the jury returned an unimpeachable verdict of " Found
dead."

RELIGIOUS AGITATION.—" Before any person is now
admitted to an office in the Wesleyan Society," states the
Stamford Mercury, " the question is put, If you
should find anything you disapprove of in management
or discipline, will you quietly leave the body and not agi-
tate ?' "

Last week, a girl in the service of a gentleman living
at Windsor Hill, near Pembroke, thoughtlessly placed
her master's powder flask upon the "fire jamb" in the
kitchen. Shortly afterwards, the powder exploded, shat-
tered the fire-place to pieces, blew out the window, and
severely burned the girl's face, hands, &c.
Recently a hawk pounced upon a weasel, and was carry-
ing off his prize in triumph when he was observed to
spread out his wings, and both came gradually to the
ea, th. The hawk was dead, but the weasel, after turning
round once or twice, began deliberately to make a meal
on the carcase of his enemy.

A fire broke out in the village of Blackawton on Friday
evening. Four cottages were burnt down, and two others
were unroofed to prevent the spreading of the flames.
The fire first appeared in a thatched roof, not near a
chimney, and is generally supposed to have been kindled
by a wicked incendiary.—Plymouth Times.
DISCOMMUNING AT CAmnainGE.—Two tradesmen have
been discommuned fcr infraction of the regulations of
the University of Cambridge—the one (who is one of the
principal tailors of the town) for three months ; and the
other (the keeper of "an old curiosity shop") during the
pleasure of the authorities.

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MURDER OF A HUSBAND.-At the Worship-street
office, on Friday, Anne Merritt, who has several times
been under examination on suspicion of having poisoned
her husband, a turncock in the East London Water Com-
pany, was committed to Newgate on the charge of wilful
murder. This is one of those cases of poisoning where the
husband belonged to a benefit society.
The sub-marine telegraph between France and England
is to be completed by the Ist of September. The two
points fixed are Cape Gaisner, near Calais, and the
Shakspeare Cliff, near Dover. The distance is only
eighteen English miles ; but the telegraph, consisting of
seven wires, is to be twenty-three miles, to allow of
oscillation.

At the assizes at Appleby, on Wednesday, the most
serious case in the calendar was that of the prisoners
Richard Johnson. Henry Wilkinson, and Isaac Johnson,
for night poaching, the latter being also charged with
maliciously firing a gun at Robert Orphan, gamekeeper to
the Farl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, with intent to do
him grievous bodily harm. The prisoners were convicted,
and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.

At Richmond police-court on Saturday week a grazier,
named Fuller, and his servant were fined £lO 10s. and
costs, for annihilating 38 oxen belonging to a gentleman
there. Thirty-eight ears of oxen were placed on the
table before the bench, some were five or six inches in
length. Their exhibition created quite a sensation.
Fuller performed most of the cruel acts himself, and jus-
tified himself on the ground, that he "cropped" the ear
off to identify the beasts from others.

The inhabitants of the fashionable town of Leamington
Spa have subscribed a thousand pounds (to be continued
annually) to provide a succession of amusements for the
summer visitors, embracing archery fetes, horticultural
shows, cricket matches, balloon ascents, pyrotechnic dis-
plays, daily musical performances, &c.; and to encourage
fox-hunting.
It is said that 10,000 pairs of boots and shoes are menu.
factured daily in Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, and
Spitalfields. Thousands of ladies' French shoes, that
never saw France, are made at this end of the town, and
worn by the first ladies in the land. The material and
wages cost under 2s. per pair, and they are sold as goods
imported from France at 4s. 6d. and ss. 6d.
JENNY GEDDES REVIVED.-At Bridgend, near
Swansea, the Latter-day Saints were lately holding a
meeting in a tavern, when a fair hearer, thinking the
priest to be personal, threw her patten at his head, and
broke his nose. Down rushed the priest from his ros-
trum, and inflicted summary punishment, with his fists,
on the rebellious saint.
A Scotch paper mentions that on Saturday week, while
an old woman named Robertson was filling a tub from '
the Kilmarnock Water. which flows at the bottom of the
garden of the cottage where she lived, near Kilmarnock,
the garden gate suddenly swung round on its hinges, and
knocked her into the water, where she was drowned before
her neighbours could rescue her.
At the Episcopal Chapel in West-street, St. Giles's,
London, an Sunday week, before reading the general
thanksgiving, the officiating minister made the following
unusual announcement :—" A person desires to return
thanks to Almighty God for deliverance from captivity in
the dungeons of the Inquisition at Rome." It was at
once known that Dr. Achilli, who had arrived in England
the night before, was in the chapel.
At Guildhall, London, on Wednesday, Robert Leggatt,
a respectable leather merchant, was sentenced by Alder-
man Carden to seven day's imprisonment for putting his
arm round the waist of a lady in Leadenhall-market,
insulting her with gross language. He pleaded drunken-
ness, and offered to apologise and pay any fine, but the
Alderman very properly determined on making him an
example.
MINIATURE IN NATURE.-A curious and most novel
specimen of the human race is now in existence at the
Union workhouse at Yeovil. The object of this, remark
is a female child, an " orphan," about six weeks old, but
appearing much older ; the ponderous gravity of its whole
bulk amounts to the astonishing weight of 21- lbs. The
little creature is quite well, and to all appearance likely to
live.

LONGEVITY.—Janet Mackintosh, of Wyke, in the pa-
rish of Cromdale, Morayshire, died on the 16th Dec., at the
good old age of 105 years ; and on the 6th ult. she was fol-
lowed by her husband, Robert Stewart, at the age of I'o2.
This patriarchal pair enjoyed each other's society, ac man
and wife, for the period of seventy-eight years ; they had
nine daughters and one son, forty-eight granchildren,
and four great grandchildren.
FUNERAL ECONOMY.—Last week took place a very
plain and somewhat eccentric funeral of the Rev. J. Ford,
at Navestock. The object of the plainness, we find, was
that the money thus saved should be distributed amongst
the poor in sheets and blankets ; and accordingly, on
Saturday last, the sum of £5O was thus given away at the
vestry, in sums of 10s. each, to 100 of the most deserving
in the parish.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENTS.—At the Bow-street
office, on Tuesday, Mr. S. D. Worship, a solicitor, nth'.
another gentleman (!) named Watts, were charged with
being drunk and disorderly in the streets of London, an-
noying and pushing off the pavement every female they
met. The magistrate, Mr. Jardine, said he should not
fine the defendants, but sentence Lem to be imprisoned
for seven days.
Messrs. Horlock and Co., of Northfleet, have just com-
pleted the machinery of a trim little steam-schooner,
destined for the service of the Channel Islands and
France Steam Navigation Company. This light and
elegant vessel is propelled by a pair of 20-horse engines,
acting directly under the propeller shaft—thus dispensing
with the use of any gear-wheels. Nearly- the whole of
the works is of malleable iron.
A seaman of the mail-packet Garland, fell into the sea
at Calais, and his body was not recovered for ten minutes.
For two hours, the commander of the steamer, Lieut.
Wylde, the second master, and the engineer, took turns
with the crew in applying the remedies recommended for
the resuscitation of the apparently drowned, and their
efforts were then crowned with success. The sailor has
since been brought to Dover, and is going on well.
A correspondent of the Morning Post states that the

committee who are carrying into effect Mr. S. Herbert's
emigration scheme, instead of sending out distressed
needlewomen, are giving the advantage of their funds to
parties well able to pay their passage money. Young
women who have held lucrative situations as ladies'
maids, and the daughters connected with emigrating fami-
lies having sufficient money, have been provided with free
passages.

Lord Nelson's daughter, Horatia, contradicts, in a letter
to the Times, a statement made in the Liverpool Albion
recently, that she is not the daughter of Lady Hamilton.
There appears, however, great doubt that such is the case.
A daughter of Lord Nelson's late chaplain distinctly de-
clares that she frequently heard her father say that Horatia
was not the daughter of Lady Hamilton, but of a lady of
high rank and of much stricter morals. The Rev. Erskine
Neale confirms this.

WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE AVERAGE PRICE OF
WHEAT.—We are unable satisfactorily to answer this
question ; but we can state, on unquestionable authority,
that a few days ago one of the principal city houses char-
tered several vessels at a freight of 6s. per quarter to load
wheat at Odessa at 245. per quarter, free on board. The
last weekly average was 365. 6d. ; being a fall of 7s. sd.
per quarter on the price of the corresponding week of last
year, that week being the second week of free trade.

A large meeting of pitmen was held on Saturday last,
on the Black Fell, near Wrekenton. There would be
between three and four thousand present. The objects
of the meeting were to adopt measures for the promotion
of a better system of ventilation in mines, and to petition
parliament for the appointment, of inspectors of mines.
Resolutions and petitions to Parliament were unanimously
adopted. The meeting was addressed by Mr. G. W.
Reynolds, author of the " Mysteries of London," and
other speakers.

THE PROJECTED ARCTIC BALLOONS.—Mr. Shepherd,
the "Messenger Balloon" projector, liberated five bal-
loons, such as are furnished to the Arctic ships, on Wed-
nesday, from the Admiralty, carrying between two and
three thousand messages. MI the balloons ascended
well ; and did not, as did those previously despatched,
descend near London. They are probably now, with the
high wind which has been blowing, scattered over the
north of Europe. The matches burn for sixty hours.—
Athenceum.

John Stockwell, a well-known thief, has been com-
mitted for trial on various charges, at the Thames Police-
office. Two children, a boy and girl, aged respectfully
eight and ten, gave evidence against him, stating, with
artless simplicity, "'that gentleman," looking at the
prisoner, " had pointed at things at different shops,"
saying, " there were some gifts for them." They took
whatever they were desired, and gave them to the
prisoner, who used to give them a shilling now and then,
and plenty to eat and drink.

ADVANTAGE OF CORONER'S INQUESTS IN CASES OF
FIRE.—On Monday week a house and shop in Queen-
street, Exeter, occupied by Mr. Foote, grocer, was de-
stroyed by fire. The engines of the various insurance
companies were soon on the spot. and the adjoining pro-
perty was saved. An inquest was held on Tuesday,
which was adjourned to Thursday. On Wednesday a
warrant was issued for Mr. Foote's apprehension, on a
charge of setting fire to the premises, and he was accord-
ingly apprehended on Wednesday afternoon ; and, after
a hearing at the Guildhall, he was remanded.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION FOR 1851.—A most numerous
and highly influential meeting of the inhabitants of West-
minster, in furtherance of the great work for the exhibi-
tion of the industry of all nations, in 1851, took place on
Thursday, in Willis's rooms. Francis Smedley, Esq., the
High Bailiff of Westminster, took the chair. On the
platform were the Bishop of London, the Earl of Carlisle,
Mr. J. Loyd, Mr. Leslie, J. Wyld, Esq., M.P. There
were also present, several foreigners of distinction. The
Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Mary Howard were pre-
sent, and appeared to take great interest in the proceed-
ings.

At Chamisso Island, a cask of flour, left by Captain
Beechey, twenty-three years previously, was dug up from
the sand by the crew of a vessel lately visiting those parts.
It required the united strength of two boats' crews, with
a parbuckle and a large spar as a lever, to frse it alto-
gether. The sand was frozen Fo hard that it emitted
sparks with every blow of the pickaxe. The cask itself
was perfectly sound, and the hoops good ; out of the 336
lbs. of flour which it contained, 175 lbs. was as sweet and
well tasted as any on board. The tin of beads was also
found ; those not of glass much decayed ; the cotton
stringing quite sound.

CAPTURE OF A THIEF.—At Carlisle, on Saturday week,
a thief was pursued by a policeman, and on reaching the
side of the river, which was considerably swollen with the
recent rains, the thief made a momentary halt ; but a
second thought seemed suddenly to cross his mind, and
he darted into the flood, with the intention of crossing to
the other side; but as soon as he became immersed up to
the neck in cold water, he made a dead stand. The
policeman waited patiently at the edge of the water for a
few minutes. During this time his half-starved victim's
courage was cooled, and he came farther out, and stood
up to his knees in the water, seemingly very resigned.
He was soon afterwards secured and taken to the lock-up.
FEARFUL COLLISION AT SEA.—A collision, of a most
alarming character, involving the loss of two valuable
vessels, was reported on Monday at Lloyd's, as having
occurred on the night of Friday week. Both vessels were
English traders ; one, the Floridian, a large barque of
300 tons burthen, belonging to Newcastle, the other was
a brigantine, the Helen, belonging to Dumfries, from
Lisbon, bound to Leith. The force with which they cama
together was tremendous. The Helen foundered almost
instantly after, her crew having barely
.time to clamber
among the wreck into the Floridian, which seemed in the
same condition ; her hull was cut down to the water's
edge, her mainmast was gone, as also the fore and bow-
sprit, and it was not expected she could outlive the night.
One of the Helen's crew perished in attempting to gain
the Floridian : he fell between the wrecks, and was either
crushed to death or drowned ; he was never seen after,
wards. By incessant working at the pumps, both crews
managed to keep the vessel from sinking, but still the
water gained in the hold, and it became evident that there
was no chance of saving her, and that in a few hours she
would follow the fate of the Helen. Very fortunately, on
the morning of the 15th, her perilous situation was ob-
served by the schooner Victoria, on her way to London
from Vallaviciosa, which bore down to her aid, and the
master, Mr. Weis, with his boats, succeeded in taking off
the wreck the crew of both vessels. The Floridian ills-
appeared under water in the course of an hour after. The
loss of the vessels, with their cargoes, is calculated at
upwards of X 17,000.