The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

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Tn the parish of Luxulyan, in the county of Cornwall,
no poor-rate has been required or made this half-year ! !
Sir James Brooke, governor of Borneo, arrived at
Southampton, on Tuesday, from Constantinople.
Arrangements have been made for coaling steam-vessels
at St. Helena, at the rate of 150 tons a day.
The American ship Ocean Queen, from New York, has
brought 100 packages of chesnuts as a portion of her
cargo, consigned to order.

What would be the feelings of Sir Walter Scott if he
could see Mr. Hope transforming the Abbotsford Library
into a Popish Chapel-of-Ease ?—Scotstnan.
The ship Caroline, of Bristol, Brooks master, from
Tobago, laden with rum and sugar, was burnt at sea, off
the Island of Savo, at the beginning of April. The crew
were saved.

The goods-shed at Wallingford-road station of the
Great Western Railway, containing chiefly corn, was de-
stroyed with its contents by fire on Saturday night, doing
damage to nearly £l,OOO.
Sir M. R. Shaw Stewart has presented to the town
council of Greenock the piece of land called Well-park, as
a park for the people of the town. He has also offered a
large field in another locality for an experiment.
The Brougham fishing cases are at an end, the cases
being allowed to drop without a decision given by the
magistrate, as the prosecution has been withdrawn as
hopeless by Mr. Jameson, his lordship's solicitor.
The sea has lately encroached so much on the high road
from Worthing to Lancing, near Lancing, on the Sus-
sex coast, that the road has become almost impassable,
and it has been necessary to change the route of the mail.
A FAMILY AT A BIRTH.—A Saffron Walden correspon-
dent writes that a Mrs. Chegnell, in that town, last week
gave birth to four daughters, all of whom are living, and
the mother is " as well as one can expect."
The Bedford Times gives an account of a donkey which
attacked a basket of butter and eggs left by a vendor of
those articles outside the house of one of his customers,
and ate 41bs. of butter before the owner returned.

It is said that the honour of knighthood is to be con-
ferred on Mr. Jos. Paxton, the designer of the Crystal
Palace, as well as on several of the Commissioners of the
Great Exhibition.

A STEREOTYPED POPULATION.—When the census of
the population was taken in 1831 the number of inhabi-
tants in Clifton, near Penrith, was 288 ; in 1841, 288 ; and
in 1851, 289—a casual visitor making it one more.
A female named Goss has been killed by an infuriated
bull at Aylesbury, which tossed, and afterwards trampled
on her. One of her children was also seriously injured
by the animal.

A man named Moodie, a hosier by trade, and resi-
ding in Potter-row, Edinburgh, has been apprehended
on a charge of inflicting injuries on his wife, by kicking
her, of so serious a nature that she died in a few hours
afterwards.

A pike, weighing upwards of 151b5., was caught on
Monday, in Worcester College-pond, Oxford, by one of
the fellows of that society. The fish was taken by a com-
mon troll bait, and was captured after giving a quarter of
an hour's play.
The Carlisle Patriot states that the Rev. J. Smith is
much better in health, and that the reverend gentleman
was admitted to bail on Tuesday. His sureties were
W. P. Johnson, Esq., Walton-house, and the Rev. C.
Benson, Vicar of Brampton.
MARRIAGE A LOTTERY.-At an evening party recently
it was proposed to dispose of the belle of the room by lot-
tery. Twenty tickets were immediately sold at a mixed
price. The joke ended not here : the fortunate adventu-
rer has since married the lady.--Aberdeen Herald.
In consequence of a letter which Mr. Ballantine has
addressed to the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, that
body has resolved to abandon the prosecution of Mr.
Eaton, the master of St. Pancras Workhouse, accused by
Eliza Smith, a pauper inmate, of having violated her.
RATHER STRANGE.—An individual in Letham, Fife-
shire, the other day, found a piece of bottle glass in a
duck's egg ; it was somewhat eliptical in form, and might
measure one eighth of an inch in one way and nearly one-
fourth the other.

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Friday an inquest was held at
Glocester, on the body of a man named Chamberlain, who,
while fighting with another man, both being very drunk,
was struck on the head by one Aston, a nephew of the
latter, and so severely injured that he died next morning.
The King of Denmark has conferred letters of heredi-
tary nobility, with the title of Baron on M. Charles
Hambro, a Danish Jew, principal of the banking firm of
Hambro and Son, of London—the first time a Jew has
been created a noble in Denmark.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of England
has decreased from £13,289,847 to £13,253,557, being a
difference of £36,290. The paper in actual circulation
has decreased from £20,950,889 to £20,810,498, being a
difference of £140,391.

The Times says--" Our office stands upon the founda-
tions of Blackfriars, where for centuries Plantagenets,
Yorkists, Lancastrians, and Tudors held court. We have
reason to believe that just about where we sit was heard
that famous cause for annulling the marriage of Catherine,
which led to the English reformation."
___

A great crowd of colliers having attempted to rush into
Ayr Circuit Court, to hear proceedings against two of
their body, a granite pillar, to which one of the gates was
hung, was forced down ; it fell upon a policeman, killing
him on the spot ; the falling gate struck two men and
they were much injured.
The Rev. Henry Bell Brown, Wesleyan minister, sta-
tioned at Portsmouth, and his wife, have been fined £5
each for great cruelty to a little girl, aged fourteen, whom
they employed as serving-maid. The magistrate re-
gretted that there were no funds to defray the cost of a
prosecution, or he would have committed them for trial.
A police-officer in London has been killed while in the
execution of his duty. While endeavouring to persuade
a party of noisy fellows, in Vauxhall-walk, to move away,
three of them attacked him with atones. He was struck
down, kicked, and beaten till insensible. He was carried
to Guy's Hospital, where he died in a few minutes. Se-
veral of the men are in custody.
A grand banquet was given on Saturday at Gore-house,
under the auspices of M. Soyer, by the Metropolitan
Sanitary Association. The Earl of Carlisle took the
chair, and among the company present were the Bishop
of Ripon, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord Ashley, Lord Ebring-
ton, Mr. C. Dickens, Mr. G. Cruiksbank, &c. The viands,
&c., were of the most recherche description.
y the will of his mother, the relict of the late Colonel
Gore Langton, W. H. G. Langton, Esq. of Clifton, has
been left the splendid residence in Grosvenor-square, and
the residuary estate, amounting to over £lOO,OOO. Mrs.
Langton has also left between her two daughters, one of
whom is Lady Burgoyne, £35,000 ; and to her lady's maid
she has left the interest of £IO,COO during her lifetime.
On Wednesday night, Mark Leppington, of Burton
Agnes, near Driffield, in the East Riding, had his pocket
picked of a purse containing £220 whilst drinking at a
public house in Leeds. He gave information of the rob-
bery at the police-office, and two women of loose habits,
who, with others, had been in his company at the above
house, were taken into custody.
The North British Mail states, that when a group of
statuary, from Italy, was unpacked in the Crystal Palace,
the whole hollow interior of the, figures was found charged
with gunpowder. It is added that the matter has been
kept as quiet as possible for fear of exciting alarm. We
do not believe this story, but, though it has been circu-
lated in other papers, we have not seen any contradiction
of it. _ _

COMMON LODGING ITOUSES.—On Saturday a bill in
the House of Commons was printed for the well ordering
of common lodging houses. It is to be read a second
time on Wednesday. The object of the bill is to place
under the police common lodging houses, with regard to
the cleanliness, ventilat:on, &c., as also to remedy con-
tagious disoases. The bill was brought forward by Lord
Ashley.
Three boxes of gold brought by the Great Western
stt im-ship to Southampton on Thursday, and consigned
severally to Messrs. Rothschild, Murrieta, and Dunbar,
have been stolen in their transit to London by the rail-
iws anyn. d e Thursteeei rd aggregateßoyal
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Taal i
le
sr
eaasm Xr4a,e9koeot, for
Companywhic ha
riet
answerable to the proprietors. A portion of the above
has since been recovered, a package containing £1,200
having been found on the line.
SINGULAR FEROCITY OF OWLS.---One evening last
week, a young man, the son of a respectable farmer, in
returning home across a field at Twyning, was violently
seized on the back part of his neck by an owl, which bad
suddenly alighted on his back, his approach being unper-
ceived, and it was with some difficulty that the winged
assailant could be kept at bay. Shortly afterwards a
working man of the neighbourhood, who was passing near
the spot, was also attacked by the same or another owl,
which flew in his face, and severely bit him just under one
r,and two or three days elapsed before the
of his eyes. In each case blood was drawn by the beak
quently ascertained thal'i
opafiitilleoaauggserdesso thereby ht lel
rye
ws uabs s iad ed.
nest
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ft
young
gs u
obws el
s-
in a tree near the place, and there is no doubt that one or
both of the parent birds made these remarkable assaults.
—Cheltenham Chronicle.

Nay 13,1851.

KiArraPancokf:lhFams EprWesgen.—An pwroipethirntytohfelasrl
years with the startling number of ten lambs! Wbellthe
fully one year old, in 1848, she had two lambs, and
following year, 1849, other two, and in the year 1854. ji
had three, and this year the same number, making 115
ten. And from the inclement season at which she
d '
year brought forth, this " fruitful vine" has :e
Edinburgh Paper.
Eliza Wilkinson and John liutterley are in custodY,oo,
Sheffield, charged with having murdered John Wilkiss;fig
the husband of the former and cousin of the latter, It
the night of Saturday or the morning of Sunday last' tht•
appears that the deceased was cut and hacked in a grit
ful manner. On Saturday night the woman took refer.
with a neighbour, saying she had quarrelled with her hr.
band; and the next morning he was found lying dead oitici,
pool of blood, on the floor of his own house, tsr,
wounded in the head and neck by a penknife laying°
Both man were engaged at the railway . t
EFFECTS OF UNEXPECTED GOOD NEWS.--.-Ab -,°t fib
fortnight since the wife of a labouring man, resichneber
Stratford, having received a letter by post informiegto
that her husband would be put into possession of Pr°13,.."
amounting to £lOO,OOO at the termination of a Chan'''
dsuuicte,dwahiscthatwe ooufldunbceonshscoirotulysnseeststl,edin, hwehriceh hxcsiteemreetit rafiel
for some time, and from the effects of which she haste.
yet entirely recovered. The news has also bad 00170
favourable effect on the mind of her husband, and sof
feared at one time it would produce insanity."—
Standard.
EFFECTS OF FREE-TRADE.—The fine farm of
in the parish of Dunbar, and belonging to the Du'; it
Roxburghe, has just changed hands. Five years silo
was let to a Mr. Davidson, a free-trade lace-mern'olY
thousands.from l‘ran cheAs tefirn,ewhhoousber, oaungdhtwith excellenthims
taeadin capitalg, ocfosentl
together from a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds Dg,
bably, were erected, and the tenant commenced driling'
liming, and manuring with much enterprise. Indeed, freet
late as last autumn he was laying upon the farm bay
manure brought by rail from Berwick. The result the
been, he has lost all his money, and forced to give ill),.put
farm. The present rent is £355. Mr. Davidsons '"

was £5OO.
ewlls
A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.—A soni
remarkable incident occurred at BallaugL, Isle of eAmtg
on Saturday week. About three o'clock in the 1231 0..
the house of Mr. Daniel Corlett, grocer, &c., vrag tba
vered to be enveloped in flames. About this time 4,01
baby, who had become very restless from the enen,"er
suffocation, happened, providentially, to awaken its fat j
who immediately discovered all on fire under his feet' j,
the floor of the room was so hot that he could not swibe
and an immediate exit from the jaws of death w°,lo
next step by the husband, wife, baby, and servant Wnwjoi
through the room-window, in a state of nudity, lef!",
everything behind them to be consumed. The orign!.,ei
the fire is still a mystery ; the house, stock, and furnit".-
however, are insured.
THE CANTERBURY COLONY.—Advices have been of
ceived from New Zealand, dated Wellington, the 24thbe
December, stating that the Sir George Seymoul,.,roi
Randolph, and the Charlotte Jane, three out of 0"„
the vessels despatched by the Canterbury Associea're..
September last, had arrived at Port Lyttelton. St.
maining vessel, the Cressy, had been spoken with o tea,
Paul's, at the end of November, and was hourly exPecwith
The Bangalore, (857 tons burthen,) in company sdsf
for
rotthhe cerfiannteevrbesusreyl,
sleetfttletmheen, New
LtondonzdeoaclaknsdrOn at
nesday there was a breakfast on board the Bangalo:;03
which Lord Lyttelton presided. The steerage endg oft
were afterwards regaled with the old English fare d felt
beef and plum pudding. The kind concern which is.
gip nit
in the welfare of the emigrFints and the advice give- a
the occasion, we doubt not, will' be productive ofgoeti_Ao
tend to unite them together as men engaged in one
mon and we trust happy enterprise. bit
THE CRYSTAL PALACE BEATEN.—Dr. punt 1,1 tbr
speech at the anniversary meeting of the Wesleyan luetbsf
dist Missionary Society in London, on MondaY, ,t ja
de
sesrci
nrigbheadm oneyo
uohf a
vt
eh et
hheathens
tt em
heathenples ofternl np
IT a 1 cse
the 0
probably be found from the north to the south Pal;it if
is a square, each side being a mile in length. so thavor
four miles round. Talk of your Crystal Palace! might
as a man would put a penny into his pocket, Youn pa'
put your Crystal Palace into the pocket of this hufiiicht
gods. The walls are 25 feet high, and 4or 5 feetvotero
and in the centre of each wall rises a lofty tower. .1.4
„call
ing the first square you come to another with a - ore
high, and with four more towers. Within that scci ion
there is another, and within that again another,--an
find seven squares, one within another, crowded bY ti!op.
sands of Brahmins. The great hall for pilgrims iti;110
ported by a thousand pillars, each cut out Of s
block of stone."
~-,
PROTEST OF CLERGYMEN.—Six clergymen of caine
hamshire have published a protest against the preceem (01'
of the guardians of the Amersham Union, under ti
,orief
lowing circumstances. It appears that a Mr. Q 1 out
Statham has been in the habit of distributing rehg. fat
tracts and visiting the poor in Amersham Workhonarste/
some years. His kindness seems to have been aPPrecf tblS
by the inmates ; but in January last the master %jos
workhouse received instructions to forbid his adra.l,-;„ner
and one tract given to a pauper, entitled " Andrea Du
the History of a Roman Catholic," being No. 110 toe
list of the Religious Tract Society, was forcibly ifotif
away from him. Though Mr. Statham has subserint of
appealed to the board for re-admission, and thougr,,,d,
has offered a list of tracts for their approval, all the atToi
tion he has received has been the simple acknowledgineljoiS
his letters. The only comment we have to offer on „uf
subject is, that men will do things in a public cepa'
which they would be ashamed of as private individuejot',l
CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—For years beyond the -cg
of any parishioner now living, there have been hangiliardll
the vestry of Keynsham Church two old pictures, sweep
traceable through dirt and smoke. A short tirae_..,,pd
however, somebody took to washing them with SnYntiaii
water, when one was discovered to be a fine old PT( oaf
of St. Cecilia ; the other represented the passion uviestrf
Lord, and was so remarkable a picture that the pea'
began to inquire among the parishioners if they."
anything of its origin. One very old woman sit Wag
recollected hearing, when she was a girl, that
painted " by some foreign painter," and after a J;4O old
collected his name was " Master Holbein."
woman knew nothing of art, and her authority la 00e
fore a valuable one, as showing the tradition 0f ~es t b
which she could not otherwise have heard : beslu,bit,
picture is marked by those striking peculiaritiestroff
distinguish the pencil of this very old master. Thdee.
at once claimed the pictures as his property. The '
however, dispute his right.—Bristol Times. f
, re_
tba
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.—The total valueg 0te...0,
exports of British and Irish produce, and mann6s,l
for the month ending sth April last, has been Xwor,
against £5,783,000 for the same period last If.,crea'",
£5,365,000 in 1849, thus showing a considerable*houvi
in the trade of the present year of upwards of Xity.fter
or at the rate of twenty per cent. In the first 4 onii._A
the present year the returns likewise exhibited ae porta"
derable increase in the trade over that of the sari,' our 65
during the two past years. The total value of op.
ports has been £16,523,000 on the present yearbeine;
£14,655,000 last year, and £12,822,000 in 10 lost yell
increase of above 2,000,000, or 14 per cent. over ruporof
and 4,090,000, or nearly 20 per cent., over 11341: cre!og
of cotton show increase of 622,000 cwt. ; wool, InobipPip,
797,0001b5. ; silk. increase of 395,0001b5. greats/(1
the tonnage returns for foreign trade shen tonS,sii
crease on the month, namely—inwards 163,0vu
outwards 127,000 tons ; in this increase British 8h
.100010
.„104.
6re6p,orooesetnotends.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—On Sunday last a 11. The coasting trade was also greater,
named John Rowland died at the workhouse in thisOy
whose history presents as awful an account of reve,'3o
fortune as it has been our lot to become acquainte,a
The individual in question was educated at Eton 02. ages
and was afterwards Fellow of King's College, CaFrrojtill
He was ordained deacon and priest by Bishop su,
ttrheeatt,heinwtabsis
apprehended,town.
officiated at St. James's, Westminster; and wenbZolift
St. Petersburgh as chaplain to the embassy. frobf
oNfohrifmolkis-s,
quently, he either threw up his gown or had it takellep
him, and became a blacksmith or coach-spring 7'311'
for stealing some iron, the property of Mr. BottoN;ittiy,
The
tried,
South Gates. On the expiration of his term co, in the
portation he returned to Lynn, made a settlennol"
town, and was for several years in the workhonsa..'ool%,
he died on Sunday last, at the advanced age of
,16 in
eight years. Many of our readers will recollect
vidual to whose lot so striking a reverse of for
fallen, from having frequently seen him carry pew
parish books to and from the town ball and other 40
places in a blue bag.—Lynn Advertiser. utsfiie,
hfreomdeptaeinwinbgurcyr,edanitdorhiensvde ciaticeietl:iiood
A TAILOR'S MEMORY.—The following el./4 Cal(
transpired at the Insolvent Debtor's Court, I°,g'
lasmetrinsolventMhaonnt d.£.3ays . tailor,
IHe was asked when this took P 000
where, and what he had to show for it ? To 00'0 io
3 A,OO/
be replied he was no scholar, but carried bop- 011!
,aacncodutnrant scs_peloiirti,
memory. Solicitor : How do you manage_Yo,w,„-ess 1,4,00
you say you have 30 men and women.—w"' or P-1/1
all by memory,—Solicitor : Well, but how do c0r,.0
of the various measurements ?—Witness ger° r P-1
memory ; I make 140 garments a.week.—Solicitoooo9
do you mean to say you keep all these in yo_ur_23l„,o 11140
—Witness : I can tell you the measure of 3Uu l'""roesPir/
town now. I can think on from memory. Et dor
they say to me, " Make them your size ; dolt to ;POI
His Honour : Oh, you look to measures, o°, 00 ;AP
(laughter.) I suppose they're not very particulatori;ol
town ?—Witness ;—Oh yes !oh yea I They're 0 o°oo
ticular in our town. It's a very fashionable tlsoc, ablg
sir.—His Honour : Dewsbury's a small Pc. 4;o'
fashionable ?—Witness : Yes, sir ; small, but la'
(renewed laughter.)—Yorkshireman. 00.20
MELANCHOLY DEATH IN A RAILWAY
On Thursday, when the express train from the
ireok
reached Penrith, it was discovered that one 0,00
_APIO,
sengers, who was alone in a first-class carriage,' ad Dr e
From his ticket it was ascertained that he bet(
from London for Carlisle. On his person hvi:ooto wooin
documents which left no doubt that the unfo...n -
who appears to be about 30 years of age, is 10. 03 the
jun., principal of the firm of Simpson and ioeoo
facturers, Glasgow. A gold watch, pencil oase,:trew 00
with a considerable sum in gold, notes, Scc"soe 70 tl
upon his person. It appears that Mr. Sitn,P,s reqll4e
ill before leaving Euston Square Station as 1"„. O%A
be lifted into the carriage ; he was, howov` 'ool'o
Lancaster when the guard collected the tickets' too ft
therefore have expired somewhere between tll9 orlPodu
Penrith. The unfortunate gentleman's father C 13,0:
minister of the United Secession PresbyterlP the
Sanquhar, arrived in Carlisle, from Dumfries,
pectation of meeting his son improved in lwP;ojot%;.1)
had been travelling in the south the la
otbsi,„ab
principally at Jersey—during the last six Inf. /Or"
hope of shaking off a severe illness.—Carlism