The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

THE LIVER'PO'OL STANDARD.

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The shops in many of the towns of the north of Eng-
land were entirely closed yesterday.
The Hull ➢ock Company have made a reduction of ten
per cent. on the tonnage dues of that harbour.
A line of screw steamers has been placed on the line
between Bristol, Constantinople, and Malta, &c.
The Cheviots and other high grounds to the north and
north-west have this week again been capped with snow.
There are now in the Mercantile Marine of Great Bri-
tain about thirty-five thousand apprentices.
Cheltenham half a century ago was but one remove from
a village. Since then its population has increased at the
rate of 700 a year.

The oak has burst into leaf before the ash this season—
a most unusual occurrence, and looked upon as the har-
binger of a plentiful season.
The stout-hearted wife of the brave Sir John Franklin,
it is feared by the Scotch journals, is fast sinking under
the weight of her prolonged and terrible trial.
Henry Bell Brown, the Wesleyan minister who was
convicted in the sum of £5 for ill-using his servant-girl,
has been suspended from the ministry.
Frederick Malpas, the servant of Mr. Wetherby, poultry
dealer, Newgate Market, London, was fined 20s. and
costs, a few days ago, for plucking a number of fowls
alive! . .

Government has introduced a bill to continue the sur-
vey of Great Britain, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Isle
of Man, from the 31st of December, 1851, to the 31st of
December, 1856. _ _ _ _

On Saturday the free Church Assembly had the subject
of temperance and Highland destitution before them.
The destitution in the Highlands, particularly in Skye,
was said to be dreadful. _ _ _

A puffin or sea parrot, which was so exhausted as to be
unable to fly any farther, was lately taken alive by a wo-
man near Brampton, Cumberland, whither it had proba-
bly been driven from the coast during a gale of wind.
In consequence of the breaking of a beam, a loft over a
stable in the Horseferry Road, London, fell down, a few
days since, and four horses were killed by the oats and
flooring which were precipitated upon them.
A boy six years old, named :Makin, lately died at Wal-
sall, from inflammation of the bowels, caused by a large
foreign bean, which he had swallowed, and which had
lodged in the intestines, where it had begun to germinate.
On Sunday, Mr. Drew, residing at Chatham, in cross-
ing the rail from the platform at Woolwich station,
slipped down, and a train of empty carriages passing over
him killed him on the spot.
A gun-barrel maker at Birmingham was fined £290 on
Wednesday last, by the magistrates of that borough, for
counterfeiting the proof-house stamp upon twenty-nine
barrels, heing £lO fer each barrel.
_ _

An explosion took place on Tuesday, at Byer's Green
Colliery, near Bishop-Auckland, by which three persons
were severely injured, one of whom, Mr. Robson, the son
of the principal viewer, is since dead.
It is stated that the Rev. Mr. Bland, incumbent of a
church in Norwich, who lately preached in a Socinian
chapel has resigned his connection with the Church of
England.

The wife of a corn-porter, named Phillips, at Glouces-
ter, has drowned herself in consequence of 'alleged neglect
by her husband. She went to her husband, who was
carousing in a public-house, and leaving their infant with
him, told him she would make an end of herself.
Notwithstanding there have been recently three or four
large new vessels launched on the Tyne, the shipwrights
generally are but indifferently employed. At North
Shields, for some time back, the majority of the ship-
wrights have been without a day's work.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £13,568,049 to £13,704,854,
being a difference of £136,805. The paper in actual cir-
culation has increased from £20,119,891 to £20,473,778,
being a difference of £353,887.
A respectable-looking man, named George D. Mayne,
was committed for trial from one of the London police-
courts, on Thursday, after pleading guilty to a charge of
having attempted to defraud an insurance company of
£ll6, by claiming that amount for an alleged fire in the
country, which never occurred.
A magnificent service of plate, for which upwards of
500 gentlemen of all shades of politics in that city, con-
tributed (the subscriptions being limited to one guinea
each), was presented to Sir J. K. Haberfield, the mayor
of Bristol, on Wednesday last, at the Council-house, as
a testimonial of respect and esteem.
It is said that Captain Somerset wrote to his colonel
from prison, inquiring what he should do under the cir-
cumstances. The reply of the colonel was short and
pithy—" Write to Mr. Hardwick thanking him for his
reproof, and atone with your purse to the policeman
whom you have beaten."
On Friday weak, the crier of Derby was sent round the
town to give public warning that a great number of pick-
pockets had been seen in the place. Fifteen or sixteen
suspected thieves were taken into custody during the day ;
but they were discharged on the following morning, as it
could not be proved that they had committed any theft.

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One of the arms of a windmill, which is situated near
the roadside, at Middleton, near Shields, struck a boy on
the side, a few days since, and hurled him a distance of
nearly thirty yards, on to a railway. Several of the boy's
ribs were broken, and his skull was fractured by falling on
one of the rails, so that little hope is entertained that the
lad will recover.

While the girls of the national school at Doncaster were
walking together along the side of the river Don, on
Thursday week, a little girl, nine years old, who wished
to overtake some of the other schools, ran down a steep
bank with such speed that she was unable to stop herself,
and was carried by her impetus down another bank into
the river, wherein she was drowned.
An errand boy is in custody at York for stealing the
large sum of £l5O, the property of his master, a linen-
draper. The money was safely locked up in a cash-box,
which the lad absconded with while left in the shop by
himself for five minutes. He was subsequently appre-
hended at Tadcaster, and £l2O of the money found upon
him.

During a recent inspection of enrolled pensioners at
Bristol, owing to one of the rear-rank men not closing up
quick enough, when the word " fire" was given, his
musket was on a level with the hand of the man before
him, and in the discharge the poor fellow's hand was
quite shattered, the flesh covering the fingers and
knuckles being carried completely away.
The Watchman of Wednesday last, gives a list of "dis-
trict returns," showing that the members of the Wesleyan
society have decreased 55,852 in the past year. North
Wales appears to be the only district in which the mem-
bers have increased in number. The deceptive appeals to
popular clamour on the part of the " reformers" is
assigned as the cause of the secessions.
MANSLAUGHTER. - Two men, named Green and
Reglar, met on Saturday last at Portland, and quarrelled
—they separated, and on the evening of the same day,
met again at the Ferry-bridge, where a renewal of harsh
language took place, accompanied with blows, in the
course of which Reglar knocked Green down, and the
back of his head came with such force upon the ground
as to cause his death. _

WATERLOO DAY.—It is generally understood that the
Duke of Wellington will not have his usual banquet at the
anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Such a meeting
must naturally every year become more painful, as one
after another of his companions-in-arms drops into the
grave ; and the presence of so many Frenchmen in Lon-
don at this season furnishes a more graceful apology for
omitting his grace's customary celebration.
BENEFIT OF RAGGED SCHOOLS.—At a meeting, of the

Ragged School Union, last week, the report stated many
gratifying results respecting the children who had at.
tended the schools. One girl, who had been sent abroad,
had remitted £5 to her mother ; a boy had sent £lO to
his father; and several had returned the passage money,
with letters expressive of the utmost gratitude for the ad-
vantages which they had derived.
A NEW DOCTRINE ON HYDROPHOBIA.—At a meeting
of the Edinburgh Town Council a few days since, on the
subject of issuing the usual proclamation against dogs
being allowed to run about unmuzzled, Professor Dick
gave it as his opinion that there was no such thing as hy-
drophobia in the lower animals ; what went properly by
the name was simply an inflamation of the brain ; and
that the disease in the case of human beings was caused
by an over excited imagination worked upon by the
popular delusion on the effects of the bite by rabid animals.
FREE TRADE.—There are upwards of 200 houses and
shops to let in Lincoln. Trade has been long and wo-
fully depressed, and the shopkeepers are all declaring that
they cannot hold out much longer. "At Gringley," says
the Doncaster Gazette," before the repeal of the corn laws
every house was fully occupied, and amongst the labourers
it was no unusual circumstance to find two families living
in one dwelling. Things are now strangely changed, and
such is the depression, under which all are more or less
suffering, that 14 houses are now unoccupied, and the
labouring population are reduced to the greatest misery
and privation."
JUVENILE HONESTY.—Lord Ashley (now the Earl of
Shaftesbury), in a letter on the shoe-black society, says,
—" These boys have been raised from the very lowest
depths of society ; and to show the good effect of their
training, I cannot do better than give an extract of a let-
ter which I have received The society, I rejoice to say,
flourishes. Last week they earned nearly £ll. An Irish
boy, one of the number, received a sovereign from a drunk.
en man in place of a shilling, but returned it immediately.
They make good use of the library and bath tickets.
Their Bible reading and prayer every morning at the re-
pository, before going out, produces an excellent result.
Several of them have removed to the model lodging.
houses ; and, indeed, everything connected with them is
so prosperous as to fill our hearts with thankfulness."
GREAT CHESS TOURNAMENT.—A great chess tourna-
ment has been going on for some time, Herr Howitz,
well known as an ingenious player, and particularly dis-
tinguished for his power of playing without seeing, having
hitherto been the victorious combatant. Having van_
quished his first antagonist, he had on Wednesday the
perilous honour of contending with Mr. Staunton. The
struggle excited very great interest among the amateurs
present. Mr. Staunton is, since the retirement from the
field of Mr. Lewis, acknowledged the champion of Eng-
land. The game played was a very fine one, and fully
justified the expectations of the spectators. After a severe
struggle, which lasted eleven hours, Mr. Staunton was
defeated, Herr Howitz winning the first game of the
series. The remaining players well sustained their repu-
tation.
A REMARKABLE CURE IN HOBART TOWN BY HOLLO.
WAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Major Walch, of Well-
ington-bridge, Hobart Town, writes that Holloways Pills
enjoy high reputation in Van Diemen's Land. He speaks
of one man who had been for years under the treatment
of medical practitioners, and was discharged from the
hospital as incurable, and had become so miserably emaci-
ated and weak that he could only move about with the
assistance of persons supporting him. In this condition
he commenced using these medicines, which haves() com-
pletely renovated his healtb that he is new become a stout
and healthy-looking man, and his cure is solely to the use
of Holloway's Pills.

MORE " PROSPERITY."—In the Times of Monday,
we have the following additional evidence of manufactur-
ing prosperity under Free-trade, in a letter from Notting-
ham :—"The depression in the hosiery trade extends to
every branch, not excepting gloves or silk stockings,
which are in no way affected by the round frame. No
one can account for this. All at once the home trade in
hosiery seems to have become nearly extinct, and foreign
orders are scarcely more than a moiety of the average of
former years."

"The last fortnight," says the Worcestershire Chronicle,
" has produced seasonable weather, and vegetation now
wears a very luxuriant appearance. An ear of wheat was
shown at Pilborough market, Sussex, last week, which
had been gathered by Mr. Boxhall, at Stopham farm, in
that neighbourhood." The Hereford Times says—" The
prospect of a good crop of apples and pears was never
more promising at this time of year than in the present.
The pears are well knit, and look healthy. The apple-
trees are now in full bloom ; the blossom is kind, and the
trees are free from insects."

DISCOVERY OF IRON STONE, &c.—A most astonishing
discovery of iron stone and beds of clay, from five to six
yards in thickness, has lately been made on the estate of
Lord Downes and Thomas Hinton, Esq., at Danby and
Gissick, in the North Riding, which baffles all description,
and which is likely to be a great benefit to the neighbour-
hood, as well as to the country at large. On Lord Downe's
estate, in the manor of Danby, there is coal and limestone
in great abundance. It is rumoured that a large and
powerful company is now forming in London for the pur-
pose of working these valuable minerals.

ATTEMPTING TO HANG A MAN.—At the Bedford
Police-court, last week, a strange charge of attempting
to hang William Driver, was preferred against Thomas
Hartley. The complainant and defendant are weavers at
the works of Messrs. Waud, and a dispute arose, re-
cently, between Messrs. Waud and their weavers. A
turn-out was the consequence ; but Driver refusing to
turn out, to punish him they put a string or strap round
his neck, threatening to bang him if he did not turn out
his fellow-workpeople. The magistrate treated the case
as a common assault, and ordered the defendant to pay a
fine of £1 and 10s. expenses.
A TRIO OF PATRIARCHS.—The other day at a hair-
dresser's shop in Hyde, two hale and hearty old men,
upon whom snows of ninety-five winters had descended,
accidentally met for the purpose of being shaved. In a few
minutes afterwards there entered another venerable old
man, who has lived only ten years short of a century.
The greeting of the old men was affecting, and ere they
separated many jokes were cracked, and anecdotes related
of men and things in the " good old times," before rail-
ways and steam-engines were heard of. One of them
much lamented that he had not used himself better in his
early days, " for," said he, " I have now to use a stick
and spectacles."
LUCKY RECOVERY.—On Monday, as Mr. George
Travel, who was removing from a house he had for some
years occupied in a yard in Angel-row, Nottingham, was
clearing out the last fragments of his household stuffs, he
directed a labourer to take a candle and look into a dark
and dirty cupboard under the stairs, to see whether any-
thing was left there which required clearing out. The
man, after groping for some time through a mass of accu-
mulated dirt, laid hold of something more bulky, which
upon dragging forward to the light proved to be a bag of
gold-500 sovereigns!—which the careful owner had de-
posited there and quite forgotten!—Doncaster Gazette.
Loss OF THE NEPTUNE STEAMER.—The following is
an extract of a letter from the underwriter's agent, dated
Elsinore, June B.—" The steamer Neptune, bound to St.
Petersburg, during a gale of wind last night got on shore
at Swinemund, a dangerous reef about nine English miles
north of this place. The passengers have been saved :
part of them are here, and part in Sweden. Some indigo
and other goods have been saved and brought in here. A
steamer has been sent out to assist the Neptune; and it
is expected that the cargo will be saved, but not the vessel,
as she is full of water. She got on shore about 11 o'clock
last night. Captain Smith accounts for the accident by
his compasses being out of order."
SINGULAR INTERMENT.—The old vestry inside Whit-
burn Church has recently been removed, and while the
workmen were making the necessary excavations for lay-
ing pipes on the spot where it stood, they discovered the
skeleton of a man and a horse, from the position of which
it was evident that they must have been interred together.
The skeleton of the man was found on the north side of
the horse, his head being encased in stone, and lying to-
wards the west. It is supposed from the length of the hu-
man bones that the man must have been seven feet in
height. The lower jaw measures thirteen inches, and con-
tains sixteen teeth, all entire. There was no trace of a cof-
fie, or anything to indicate the time when this singular in-
terment took place.—Sunderland Herald.
THE EFFECTS OF LOVE.—An apprentice to a cabinet-
maker at Cambridge became smitten with the charms of
a young girl. She, in a fit of coquetry, wrote him a let-
ter, declining his future attentions. This epistle was
dispatched by post ; upon receipt of which the love sick
youth proceeded up stairs, and tying two handkerchiefs
together, attempted to strangle himself. He would
doubtless have effected his purpose had not the upsetting
of a chair frightened the landlady, who ran up stairs and
found the young man insensible : she alarmed the neigh-
bours, and the handkerchiefs being loosened, he recovered.
The girl, hearing of his devotion towards her, has since
changed her mind : proving the truth of Milton's obser-
servation, " Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end."
A FEMALE HIGHWAY ROBBER.—On the morning of
the 21st instant, as a young woman named Caroline Forek,
niece of the superintendent constable of Market Rasen,
was taking a walk on the footpath leading from Mill-lane
Rasen, to Linwood, on her reaching Linwood lordship she

met a femalegipsy, who demanded her "purse and money."
The young woman told the gipsy that she had neither;
upon which the latter said, " Let us see," and instantly
seizing Miss. F., she put her hand into her pocket and
took a lawn pocket-handkerchief and a small box, with
which she immediately decamped. Miss Forek was of
course much frightened, and returned to Rasen, when she
related the particulars of the robbery to her uncle, who
shortly after apprehended a woman of the gipsy tribe call-
ing herself Adelaide Boswell. She was taken to the po-
lice-station, and identified by Miss F. as being the person
who had stopped and robbed her. The stolen handker-
chief and box were found in her possession. The prisoner
has been fully committed for trial.
FORBIDDING THE BANNS.—At Burford Church, last
Sunday, the minister was for the second time publishing
the banns of marriage between William Cleeton and Anne
Weaver, the former ostler and the latter cook at the Swan
Hotel, Tenbury, when a female roseand forbade them. The
clergyman intimated that he would presently see the party
in the vestry, and the service, which bad been somewhat
discomposed by this unusual interruption, was continued.
At the interview the young woman said her name was
Brown, and she, too, had been a servant at the Swan,
where thy warm wooings of the ostler had stolen her
heart, and they had been twice asked in church, once at
Burford and again at Tenbury. In her misery she thus
publicly forbade the Banns as a last resource to save her
faithless lover for herself ; but the objections she urged
were not valid ones in the eyes of the law, and so the
fickle groom and his new love may yet be married, unless
conscience back poor Mary's vain forbiddings.—Chelten-
ham Chronicle.
MORMONS.—On Monday afternoon, the London con-
ference festival of the " Latter-day Saints," or Mormons
(whose founder and prophet, Joe Smith, was murdered
some time ago in the United States), took place at the
Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen-street. _ About 1100

people of both sexes,- including a considerable proportion
of young persons, were present. The proceedings were
of a singular nature, commencing with a procession of
the " twelve apostles," or " fathers in Israel," accom-
panied by " presidents of branches," by a number of

young women dressed in white, and by twelve young men
wearing large blue scarfs, and carrying a bible in the
right hand, and a " Book of Mormon" in the left. In the
course of the afternoon, a number of addresses were deli-
vered, and the proceedings were relieved by singing, per-
formed by the young persons before mentioned. An ac-
count of the rise and progress of the "Saints" was given,
in the course of which it was stated that the total number
in the United Kingdom, in January last, was 30,717; and
that during the last 14 years more than 50,000 have been
baptised in England, of whom 17,000 have emigrated to
America.

DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING A MATRIMONIAL ALLI-
ANCE.—The daughter of the Judge of the County Court
of Lincolnshire, Miss Harriet Smith, has just been con-
ducted to the hymeneal altar by Gedney, Esq., of Brigg.
The marriage was intended to be solemnized in the first
instance by the Rev. J. Clarke, Roman Catholic priest,
of Market Rasen, and then to be again performed on the
following day according to the forms of the Established
Church, at Hoolton. Miss Smith having imbibed the
tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, was desirous of
being united to her betrothed by a priest of that church.
This, however, was forbidden by her parent, on account
of his objections to Romanism. Matters having been ar-
ranged for the ceremony to take place according to the
young lady's desire, this refusal of paternal sanction crea-
ted some difficulty. Mr. Gedney waited upon Mr. Smith
on the subject, but the latter gentleman proving imprac-
ticable, there was no alternative but to reverse the arrange-
ments ; this was done, and Mr. Gedney was united to the
fair object of his choice at Hoolton,° on Thursday morn-
ing last. Immediately the ceremony was over, the bri-
dal party hastened by special engine to Market Rasen,
where the ceremony of marriage was repeated in the
Catholic Chapel. in the presence of a large number of
the congregation, who remained to witness the event.
The bridal party, after reaching Lincoln, and partaking
of breakfast, left for the metropolis, en route to the con-
tinent.—Lincoln Times.
SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—On
Monday, a very curious charge was held at the Mansion-
house, London. A clergyman who had been for thirty
years in holy orders, part of the time doing duty in Wor-
cestershire, and partly at Eye, in Suffolk, was charged
with abstracting a shilling from the plate of the church of
All-Hallows, Barking. A collection was being made for
the evening fund, and the plate was being held by one of
the oldest parishioners. Mr. George Creaton, vestry
clerk of the parish, said that he saw the defendant put
his hand into the plate, as if he were about to give some-
thing, but be (Creaton) believed that the defendant had
taken something out, and acting on this belief he instantly
seized his hand, exclaiming, " You villain, you have taken
something from the plate." He then removed defendant
into the vestry, whence he was taken to the station-house.
On being asked by the magistrate for his defence, the
prisoner said it was perfectly true that a shilling was in
his hand when it was grasped by the witness, but that it
was his own. On approaching the door of the church,
he opened his:purse to obtain a coin for the plate. The
purse only contained a shilling and a sixpence, and they
both came out together. He put the sixpence into the
plate, retaining the shilling which was his own property.
He wished for the fullest investigation. The Lord Mayor
said that the matter was so extremely important, espe-
cially to the prisoner himself, if his statementindeed
were true, that he should remand the case for afew days, 1
and meanwhile cause p strict inquiry to be instituted.

HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT!
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CURE OF A DISORDERED LIVER AND STOMACH,
WHEN IN A MOST HOPELESS STATE. •

Extract of a Letter from Mr. Matthew Harvey, of Chapel
Hall, Aird,ie, Scotland, dated the 15th of Tanuary,lBso.
To Professor HOLLOWAY.

SlR,—Your valuable Pills have been the means, with God's
blessing, of restoring me to a state of perfect health, and at a
time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave. I had
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could for me, stated that they considered my case as hopeless.
I ought to say that I had been suffering from a Liver and Sto-
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