The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

Omen! illiattlany.

The dock-dues of Hull have been considerably reduced.
The sale at Conishead Priory realized £8,500. The
whole of the armour sold for £325.

A Bristol music seller has invented a simple and effi-
cient " wrist supporter" for the piano forte.
Lady Peel was last week attacked with two hysterical
fits, but she is now recovering.
Lord Brougham left Brougham-hall on Wednesday to
make a tour in Germany.

Several large importations of wine have taken place
from America and Canada.

Only two bankrupts appeared in the London Gazette
of Tuesday, and three in that of Friday.

A ship which arrived from
pigs as part of her cargo.

Naples has brought some

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The fire insurance offices have raised the rate of insu-
rance for farming stock from 3s. to 4s. per cent.
On the night of Monday week, no fewer than twenty
sheep were stolen from a close at Canwick, near Lincoln.
A London bookseller is about to publish The Life and
Travels of the Rev. George Copway, alias Kah-ge-ga-
gah-Bowh.
Seventeen cases of starch made in the colony of Port
Philip, have been shipped from Melbourne to London, in
order to try the market.

Some of the Jersey papers are congratulating the in-
habitants of that island upon the importation of thirty
horses and twelve cabs, as a mark of progress.
Jetty de Treffz has arrived in London from Vienna to
fulfil her engagements with M. Jullien. She brings with
her a new vocal repertoire.

The Morning Chronicle has begun the experiment of
publishing articles relating to the Great Exhibition, in
English, French, and German.
The Lords of the Admiralty paid a visit to the Britan-
nia-bridge last week, and expressed themselves extremely
gratified with the stupendous works.
The cloth actory of Mr. Cooper, at Leeds, was destroyed
by fire on Sunday week. The loss is estimated at above
£5,000, and the premises were not insured.
On Wednesday a lunatic leaped out of one of the rail-
way carriages near to the Barnsley sration, on the Midland
line, r.nd was so much injured that his life is despaired of.
The estate of the late James Smith, Esq., of Deanston,
the celebrated agriculturist, is now being wound up in the
Scotch Bankruptcy Court.
A youth, named Morris, was committed for trial, at
Methiey, Yorkshire, on Monday week, for having pulled
out the tongue of a horse, which he was employed to drive.
A brass horn-tip, weighing about an ounce and a half,
was lately found in the gizzard of a duck, which a cook
was preparing for the spit, at St. Leonards, Devonshire.
The Ulverston Advertiser records the appearance of a
lake-serpent on Windermere, a yard long. Two sports-
men chased it, but so fierce was the monster's aspect that
they ingloriously abandoned the quarry.
The Norwich Union Insurance Company have intimated
to many farmers in Cambridgeshire, that they will not re-
new their insurances in consequence of the rifeness of in-
cendiarism.
A. steamer which arrived in London from Antwerp, last
week, brought 3,230 packages of walnuts,—the largest
quantity that has ev.ar been imported on board a single
vessel.
Lord Feilding met with what might have been a serious
accident, in landing from a steamer at Oban. His Lord-
ship, it appears, fell into the water, but got on shore with
the loss of his hat.
The Hopetoun Royal Commemoration Prize of the Royal
Company of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for Scot-
land, was shot for in Hope Park on Thursday week, and
gained by John Phin, Esq. •
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against a
man named Lambourne, living at Watlington, Oxford-
shire, for killing his wife. He had illused her for a long
time, and often wished for her death.
MELROSE.—The mansion-house and lands of Prior-
bank were sold last week to W. Tait, Esq., late publisher
of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, for the sum of five thou-
sand guineas.
Time BRITANNIA.—The tubes of this great structure
are to be entirely roofed in to protect them from atmos-
pheric influences, with galvanized tinned iron, for which
purpose 66,000 square feet will be required.
A grand fancy fair and horticultural exhibition took
place at Newcastle-on-Tyne last week, and was eminently
successful. It was originated and carried out by the
Literary and Philosophical Society.
The dreadful murder at Frimley has been followed by
an extensive robbery of jewellery and about 40 gold
watches from a shop in Wokingham, a town midway
between Frimley and Reading.
Lord Harry Vane presided at the annual meeting of the
Durham County Agricultural Society on Wednesday, and
his brother the Duke of Cleveland was present, as were
Dr. Townsend and Dr. Gilly, Prebends of Durham.
On Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, as Capt. Bally,
R.N., of Datchett, was passing through that frequented
place Chapterhouse-court, St. Paul's, London, he was
beset by three men, who threw him down and then rob-
bed him of eight sovereigns and some silver.

REVOLT OF BRIGHTON CABMEN.—On Tuesday,
owing to certain railway arrangements which give prece-
dence to a set of new cabs, the old hands, on the arrival
of a train decamped from the station in a body, with hoots
and hisses. and left the passengers in the lurch.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has decreased from £16,811,698 to £16,707.224,
being a difference of £104,474. The paper in actual cir-
culation has increased from £20,102,132 to £20,280,784,
being a difference of .t.17b,b52.

BENEFIT OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION.-At the
present time, were it not for the importation of damsons
from the south of England by railway, the price of that
delicious fruit would not be less than Bd. per quart in place
of 4d. or 4id., at which prices they are selling.
It is a singular fact that there is a house, the property
of Sir W. W. Wynne, in a mountainous district of Me-
rionethshire, in which, for 150 years, it can be proved no
death has taken place—the whole of the occupants hav-
ing either died suddenly in fields or in other people's
houses.

Lord Ossulston killed with his own gun, over two brace
of pointers, forty-four brace of partridges, one snipe, and
one rabbit, between the hours of twelve and five o'clock
on Friday week, on a farm belonging to the Earl of
Tankerville, at Doddington, near Wooler. _

Mr. Webster, the professor of oratory to the Royal
Academy of Music recommends the erection of sounding
boards over pulpits, to be formed of strained sheepskin,
by which a great increase of reverberation would be ac-
quired.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against a
serjeant of the London police, who so beat a man that he
died soon after. The officer, a tall stout man, dashed the
deceased violently against some rails, and struck him over
the arms and legs with his staff.
CarToN Wooi..—A vessel arrived from Lisbon has
brought 327 packages of cotton as a portion of her cargo.
The vessel Rosa, of France, arrived from Algiers, has
brought 269 bales of cotton wool ; and the vessel Emily,
from Morocco, has brought a cargo of cotton wool in bags.
All these arrivals are unusual.

Parliamentary notices have been given of an intention
to apply to parliament to construct a submarine telegraph
from England to Ireland, either from Holyhead to Dublin,
a distance of sixty-four miles, and thence to Cork and
Galway, or from St. David's Head, on the Welsh coast,
and on to Wexford and Waterford.

At the late York archery meeting an arrow stuck in a
lady's bustle as she was leaving the ground, and she was
walking away without perceiving that she was decorated
with so novel an ornament, when some of the bystanders
informed her of what had happened, and she smilingly
withdrew the shaft.

A SINGULAR MONSTER,—On Wednesday, at an in-
quest at Newington Butts, a person summoned as a juror
refused to be sworn on the ground that he did not believe
in a God or in a future state, or in " anything but what he
could see ;" upon which the Coroner immediately ordered
him out of the room.

The profession of Journalism has sustained a serious
loss by the death of poor Alexander Lyons, who, for a
quarter of a century, was connected with the Morning
Herald; and who, although deaf in one ear, and entirely
ignorant of short-hand, was yet one of the most accom-
plished reporters who ever entered the gallery of the
House of Commons.

Lortnow WELLS.—The deepest well in London is that
sunk by Messrs. Coombe and Co., the brewers, which
measures 522 feet. The next is at the Excise-office, MO.
The well at. Meux's brewery is 425 feet deep ; that at
Messrs. Elliot's, Pimlico, 398 feet. The Trafalgar-square
well is 383 feet deep, and the well at the Kensington new
workhouse 370 feet.—The Builder.

Nine students at the Royal Military Academy, Wool-.
wich, who have lately joined from the training school at
Carshalton, have, been expelled for gross immoral prac-
tices, and 23 pupils have been peremptorily dismissed
from the latter school. The principal of the school has
also been dismissed for not taking prompt steps to crush
the evil when it first became known to him.

The new Town-hall at Durham has just been completed.
t is 70 feet long, 35 feet broad, and 51 feet high, and is
ghted by three windows on the north side, by a large

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window on the west end, and by an oriel on the south,
which commands a beautiful view of a part of the roman-
tic environs of the city. The large west window will be
filled by stained glass.
A YOUNG PLOUGHMAN.—At the annual ploughing
match of the Farringdon Agricultural Society last week,
the ploughing of a little boy, only eleven years of age, ex-
cited the admiration of every one in the field. His name
is Win. Harwood. and he is in the employ of Mr. Charles
Edmonds, of Lechlade. He gained the first prize in his
class; and nothing could exceed the vociferous cheering
when he went to receive it.—Bath Chronicle.

A paragraph has been going the round of the papers to
the effect that Viscount Mandeville was going out with
his brother Lord Frederick Montagu. as a settler in the
new colony of Canterbury. We understand that the only
foundation for the statement as regards Lord Mandeville
was his Lordship's intention to accompany his younger
brother, who goes out with the Hon. Mr. Stuart Wortley
and others to the new settlement.

STRANGE DETECTION OF SMUGGLING.—On Friday as
the Enterprise steamer, which plies between Rotterdam,
Ipswich, and Yarmouth, was entering the latter harbour,
she ran against the pier, and carried away part of the
woodwork of the paddle-box, discovering to the astonished
Custom-house officers about 1601 b. of manufactured to-
bacco dangling down among the paddle-work machinery,
in such a position as no mortal would have ever dared to
search. The engineer is now in custody on the charge.—
Essex Standard.

PUBLIC SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.—A correspondent of a
Birmingham paper complains that the usefulness of King
Edward's School in that town is materially impaired by
the number and length of the holidays. He shows that
the real number of school days in a year is only 151, or,
in round numbers, six months and a half of holiday to
five mouths and a half of school instruction ! Similar
abuses are common in many public schools. Many gla,
ring instances of this might be pointed out in London,
(And in many other places than London.}"

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TRUTH BETTER THAN SOPHISTRY.—A Mr. Robert
Cooper offered, the other Sunday, to prove in the Lec-
ture-room, Newt,astle, that the immortality of the soul
was a delusion ; admission 2d. " Look you here, Tom,
(said a quaysider on reading the placard announcing the
meeting, and swearing a big oath,) here's a fellow wants
us to pay 2d. a-piece to know that we're no better than a
dog : be's a bonny animal, is he not ?"
THE WRECK OF THE SUPERB.—The coroners jury
met on Thursday, and returned the following verdict:—
That Isaac Gossett and his wife were drowned in conse-
quence of the wreck of the Superb, on the 24th ultimo.
That the wreck of the Superb was the result of culpable
imprudence on the part of Captain Priauls in taking the
Superb in a dangerous place, without knowledge of its
ordinary course. That John Fleming, the mate, is guilty
of imprudence, in attempting to take the said vessel on
that course.

FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—AS the afternoon train was on
its way from Newark to Lincoln on the 27th inst. a child
belonging to the Rev. H. R. Harrison, of Elston, from
the doors not being closed fell out of the carriage : and,
as no comminication could he conveyed to the engine-
driver, the passengers wete in a state of consternation
until the train arrived at the Collingham station. Notice
was then given to the officials, and they instantly de-
spatched a messenger on the line, who, singular to say,
found the child quite unhurt, it having rolled down a
bank.—Stamford Mercury. _ _ _

NINEVEH-AND BABYLON.—A vessel has arrived in
the Thames from Bussorah, on the river Euphrates, hav-
ing on board a great quantity of Assyrian and other an-
tiquiti3s and marbles, consigned to the trustees of the
British Museum. Among them are tlae Great Bull from
Nineveh, with a man's head and dragon's wings, weigh-
ing twelve tons, and a lion sculptured in the same man-
ner, weighing nine tons. There are also several coffins
containing many curious relics of the manners and usages
of eastern countries regarding the ceremonies observed in
bureing their dead.
ORANGEISM.—This loyal order, which are very nume-
rous in this district, met on Sunday, at Great Horton,
where they walked in procession to the Episcopal Chapel
there, where an excellent sermon was preached to them
by the Rev. W. Sherwood, of Leeds, after which they
contributed their quota towards the support of the Sun-
day school. The orangemen in the Bradford district
having for several months past highly approved of the
procedings of brother Squire Auty, G. C., have come to
the conclusion to present him with a gold watch, as a
small token of regard,—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE PRICE OF GAS.—The return respecting the gas
companies which has just been printed is an interesting
document at the present time. It relates to 120 gas com-
panies in England and Wales ; to nine in Scotland, and
six in Ireland. In London alone there are 15 gas com-
panies. The largest capital paid up is in the London Im-
perial Company, being £655,500, and their rate per cubic
feet at the latest date was 65., the price of coals being 15s.
per ton. The City of London supplied gas at 4s. the
1000 fe t, and paid 15s. 9d. per ton for coals ; whilst the
Equitable charged 6s. per 1000 feet, and paid only 13s.
Ild. per ton. The Western Company, in London, charged
Ss. per 1,000 cubic feet; the price they paid for coals is
not given. The prices in the country range from 3s. per
1,000 feet to Bs. The lowest price paid for coals seems to
have been ss. per ton, and the highest, at Oxford, 225. 4d.
the ton—they charged, at the latest date, Bs. 4d. per 1,000
cubic feet. The return extends to 19 folio pages, and is
made up to the end of 1849.
FINANCIAL ROUGHS OF THE MATRIMONIAL ROADS.
—Sunday week was the day appointed for the marriage of
a young couple in Wisbech. The feast was prepared, the
bride was dressed, the bridesmaids were in attendance,
but the bridegroom came not. Being in love merely with
the person of his intended wife, and "not at all with her
purse," he was still sadly disappointed at hearing, on the
bridal eve, that the amount of the young lady's fortune
would probably fall short of the sum which he expected,
or he had, perhaps, been led to expect ; and so, instead of
keeping his appointment, his father came to negotiate with
the young lady's relatives. We are happy to state that
the pecuniary matters were arranged to the entire satisfac-
tion of the bridegroom and friends, and the wedding was
celebrated on the day following. Several young ladies of
Wisbech are very indignant at the affair, and declare that,
under the circumstances, they would not have married him
at all ; not they, indeed !—Leicestershire Chronicle.
BLINDFOLD CHESS PLAYING.—A match was played
on Thursday evening last, between Herr Harrwitz and
four members of the Glasgow Chess Club. The condi-
tions of the match were, that Herr Harrwitz should con-
duct two games simultaneously, and without seeing
either chessboards or chessmen, against four members of
the club, two in consultation at each board. The play
commenced by Mr. Harwitz writing his first two moves
on a card, which was conveyed to the chairman of the
meeting, who read them aloud for the information of the
competing players, and in the same manner their moves,
in reply, were communicated to Mr. Hurwitz. After a
long and exciting contest, the players of game one re-
signed about half-past one o'clock on Friday morning ;
the other, in which however Mr. Harrwitz had obtained
a decided superiority of position, it was agreed, owing to
the lateness of the hour, to postpone till the next day.
We understand that Mr. Harrwitz was to give another of
his marvellous exhibitions in Edinburgh on Thursday
evening. •
THE SCREW V. THE PADDLE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
TRADE.—There are about a dozen screw-steamers trading
between this country and the Peninsula and Mediterra-
nean. They are powerful rivals of the paddle-box steam-
ers, because their consumption of coal is little more than
half what the consumption of the latter is, and because
also few more than half the hands are required to man
them. At the beginning of this month the Propontis and
Hellespont, two fine screw-steamers, and the Erin, pad-
dle-box steamer, were at Smyrna, eagerly seeking a freight
of fruit, the first of the season. The Erin secured the
bulk, nearly 200 tons; the Propontis secured 35 tons;
and it was stipulated that she should forfeit £1 per ton if
she landed her fruit in London after the cargo of the Erin
had arrived there. The Propontis had thirty hours' start
of the Erin, and she coaled at Smyrna, to avoid calling at
Malta. The Erin called at Malta, and entered Gibraltar
as the Propontis was leaving that port. The former over-
took the latter off Lisbon, and they proceeded some time
in company; at length the Erin shot ahead, and arrived
at Southampton last Monday. Her cargo was at once
forwarded to London, and arrived there on Tuesday, just
before the arrival of the Propontis was announced. The
forfeit, therefore, will have to be paid. The fruit in the
Levant is said to be very fine in both quantity and quality.
—Daily News. _

THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The Prince,
Albert, Captain Forsyth, arrived at Aberdeen, on Tues-
day night, and brings some intelligence in addition to that
brought by the North Star. On the 25th August, Mr.
Snow, an officer of the Prince Albert, was sent to exa-
mine Cape Reilly, where he found five or six tents, or
encampments, which, from certain peculiarities, he knew
to be those of a vessel in her Majesty's service. He found
that the Assistance, Captain Ommaney, had been at
Cape Reilly two days before, and had left a notice to the
effect that he had found traces of encampments, and col-
lected the remains of materials, which evidently proved
that some party belonging to her Majesty's ships had
been detained on the spot. Beechy 'lsland was also ex-
amined, where traces where found of the same party.
The materials seem to have been the remains of a rope,
with the Woolwich mark, evidently belonging to a vessel
which had been fitted out at Woolwich, and which, in all
probability, was either the Erebus or Terror. As it was
perfectly obvious, from the state of the ice, that the
object of the expedition—the exploration of Prince Re-
gent's Inlet, and the passages connecting it with the
western seas—could not be carried into effect, Comman-
der Forsyth resolved to return to England, and the Prince
Albert then bore up to the eastward. The Prince Albert
has explored regions which have seldom been reached, and
has had a good passage home.
ELOPEMENT PREVENTED.—A tall, dark-visaged man,
named George Britton, apparently between 40 and 50
years of age, was brought up at the Leeds Court-house
on Saturday, on a charge of robbery. Mr. Barwick, so-
lic tor, appeared for the prosecution, and it appeared that
the prisoner had been employed as a labourer by Mr.
Jackson, of Coach-house Farm, York-road, who, how-
ever, had discharged him three weeks ago on account of
insolent behaviour. The prisoner is a married man, and
has been living about half-a-mile from Mr. Jackson's
house. Between three and four o'clock on Saturday
morning the prisoner was discovered in an enclosed yard
on Mr. Jackson's premises, and at the same time Mr.
Jackson's daughter was found in the act of leaving her
parents' roof with two bundles of clothes, some portion
of which belonged to herself and the remainder to her
mother. Miss Jackson is 23 of age, and it was stated that
she had confessed that her intention was to elope with the
prisoner. Different articles had been missed from the
house which were not found in the bundles, in-
cluding two silk dresses belonging to Mrs. Jackson ;
these dresses the daughter was supposed to have given to
the prisoner, and Mr. Jackson said he had reason to be-
lieve that they would be found at the prisoner's own
home. A hammer and a pair of pincers-had been missed
from the farm yard since the prisoner was discharged
from his employment. The charge of felony was ulti-
mately abandoned. _

A KANGAROO HUNT IN WEST SURREY.—Extraordi-
nary as it may appear, there has been a genuine kangaroo
hunt this week in the vicinity of Dorking. One of these
animals some four months ago escaped from the pen in
which it had been confined at Wotton, the seat of Mr.
W. J. Evelyn, M.P., and has been running wild in the
neighbouring woods ever since, bidding defiance to seve-
ral attempts to effect its capture. On Monday last, how-
ever, by Mr. Evelyn's direction, a regular hunting party
was formed to accomplish this object. The clever pack
of beagles kept at Wotton, with huntsman. whipper-in,
and a train of followers, started at noon for Abinger-
common, where the kangaroo had been seen on the pre-
vious day. Not finding him '4 at home" there, however,
the party proceeded to the Duke of Norfolk's copses in
the immediate neighbourhood. Almost immediately the
extraordinary animal broke cover, evidently determined to
shew sport. The beagles were speedily on the scent, and
off they dashed to Mr. Evelyn's wood, and then making
a circle of it by returning to the copses. They then made
for Abinger rectory, where a check of a few minutes threa-
tened to spoil sport, but " Found !" " Tally-ho t" was
soon the cry, and off they went again, the kangaroo once
more trying the Duke's copses. Forced to abandon this
his favourite spot, however, the chase got warm ; and,
dogs and men in close pursuit, he reached the foot of
Leith-hill. Here the animal's peculiar mode of progres-
sion wa3 exhibited m a style which astonished the field—
a singular succession of leaps carrying it over the ground
at a rate perfectly startling. Those who were well
mounted alone were enabled to go the pace, and they
speedily found themselves at the top of Leith-hill, where
the kangaroo took to the road, and for about a mile and
a half they all dashed along, "the field" rapidly augment-
ing in numbers as they proceeded in their novel chase.
At last, hard pressed, the animal took refuge in a pond on.
High Ash Farm, Abinger, where a groom succeeded in
Zapturing him, though not without receiving a fraternal
embrace, from which his shoulder suffered for some days‘