The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Wheat fell is. por quarter at Wakefield on Friday.
Portman Haymarket; St.. Marylebone, London,, was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening.
The personal property of the late Sir William Felled
has been sworn to be under £160,000.
Lord Arthur Lennox-has been appointed Clerk of the
Ordnance.

A verdict of Wilfu?•,Murder has been returned against
a young woman named Susan Douglas, at Windsor, for
the murder of her infant child.

There was such an abundance of peas in the Canterbury,
market, on Saturday week, that they were sold at a penny
per gallon.

Last week, a boy ten years old, the son of a Spit dftelds
weaver, drowned himself in the Regents Canal, in conse-
quence of having been chastised by his father.
On Thursday, at Carlisle Assizes, Jane Crosby was
tried for having burnt to death her little daughter on a
fire, and acquitted.
On Tuesday last, a farm servant named Woodcock, 'vas
gored to death by a bull, in one of the railway carriages,
on the Leeds and Selby Line.
On Friday week, a thoemaker at Selby, named Watson,
brutally murdered his wife by stabbing her, and after-
wards attempted to commit suicide.

In consequence of the anticipated passing of Lord
Wharncliffe's anti-gambling bill, " Crockford's" club has
been dissolved.

On Thursday the bakers at the west end of the metro-
polis, including those near Drury-lane and Clare-market,
raised the price of bread of the second quality to ed. the
41b. loaf, being an advance of id. per 41b. loaf.
Three deaths from hydrophobia have resulted during
the past week: ono a young man of twenty-seven years
of age, the other a boy of thirteen, and the third also a
boy of seven or eight.
THE GAME LAWS.—The select committee appointed
to inquire into the operations of these laws, not having
been able to bring the inquiry to a close, have recom-
mended their re-appointment next session.
The Judges on the Northern Circuit, Mr. Baron Rolfe
and Mr. Justice Cresswell, with the leading members of
the bar, were entertained at a splendid dinner on Thurs-
day, at Lowther Castle, by the Earl of Lansdale.
On Wednesday, an inquest was held by Mr. Wakley on
the body of an aged man, who was found in a barn near
London, who had died from starvation. The coroner
remarked that such cases were now of such frequent re-
currence that they scarcely excited any surprise.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against a
person named Harvey, for killing Charles Ratherbee, a
musician. The parties had a dispute about a piece of
land, at Walworth, and Harvey struck the deceased, who
was labouring under a severe affection of the lungs. The
blow caused his death.

Tile KING OF HOLLAND'S MEMORY.—On Saturday
week the king recognised Sergeant Rayner in Brook-street,
as one of the men who helped to carry him off the field of
Waterloo, when wounded. The sergeant was in plain
clothes. He was naturally much gratified. The king
shook hands with him most cordially.
The post-mistress of the Edgbastan post-office, near
Birmingham, Miss Mewls, has been committed to take
her trial at the Warwick assizes, for having appropriated
a surcharge of fuurpence on a letter which passed through
her hands. Two other charges of a similar nature were

substantiated

EFFECTS OF STEAM.—The town of Sittingbourne, in
Kent, a lew years since, had two respectable inns, which
together used sixty pairs of post horses ; the largest, the
Rose, is now shut up, and the other uses only three pairs
of horses and two post boys ! formerly thirty-five coaches
went through the town, now only one.
A man of some pretensions to respectability, named
Jones, and Rho, with his father, has been parish clerk of
Walton, near Brunyard, has just been committed to
Worcester county gaol to take his trial on the charge of
stealing the silver chalice, used in the administration of
the holy sacrament, from the parish chest.
Lord Melbourne was entertained, on Tuesday, by the
Fishmongers' Company, London. In the course of the
evening, he said, in reference to the whig ministry, " Our
principles and opinions, our views of public affairs, still
survive us. They have been adopted and acted upon by
those who replaced us."
Within the last few days no less than five hundred
horses have been sent for sale to a repository, owing to
the further opening of the Northern and Eastern Rail-
way, from Bishop's Stortford by way of Ely and Thet-
ford to Norwich, and the consequent discontinuance of
the running of the coaches.

Mr. Charles Maynard, an estate agent in London, who
undertook to negociate the restoration of a writing case,
containing bills of exchange to the amount of £2,000,
which was stolen recently on the Great Western Railway,
was apprehended on Tuesday, and brought before the sit-
ting magistrate at Guilehall. Ile was remanded.

THE LATE BARON GURNEY having been called on
at a certain dinner for a song, regretted that it was not in
his power to oblige the company. A wag, who was
present, observed be was much surprised by the refusal cf
the learned judge, as it was notorious that numbers had
been transported by his voice.
The electors of Chippenham, the constituents of Capt.
Boldero, have addressed a letter to the gallant officer,
stating that the implied censure on his conduct, as a
member of the Board of Ordnance, has not diminished
their confidence in his integrity, as they do nw consider
the evidence justified the report of the parliamentary

On Tuesday last, the town of Rugeley, Staffordshire,
was almost c: mpletely laid under water by the overflow-
ins of Hagley Brook. Nearly every inhabitant of the
town bas sustained more or less damage, and several per-
sons escaped drowning with the greatest difficulty. Walla
were carried away, fields of oats destroyed, and damage
has been done to the extent of several thousand pounds.
SUDDEN DEATH FROM EATING MUSHROOMS.—On
Friday last, Mr. John Carr, boot and shoe maker,
Ipswich, died suddenly after eating a very large mush-
room grilled for dinner, which was only fit for making
catsup. It is understood that all fungous matter is really
poisonous at some period of its growth, and grilling mush-
rooms does not extract the poisonous matter. Death en-
sued in five hours.

A BRIGHT PROSPECT FOR THE LEAGUE.—The fol-
lowing snug family connexion we find amongst the " List
of persons claiming to be entitled to vote in the Election
of Knights of the Shire" for the Northern Division of the
County of Chester—the Southern Division of the County
of Lancaster—and also for the West Riding of the County
of York :—Bright Jacob, senior! Bright John, M.P. ! !
Bright Thomas !! ! Bright Jacob, the younger !! !
Bright Samuel 'III! and Bright Gratton ! ! !.! !

A TIME FOR DRINKING.-At the Mansion House,
London, on Monday, a policeman, named M'Donald,
was charged with " regaling himself with brandy and
water while on his beat." The defendant admitted that
he did take a little drop upon being pressed :" but where,"
he added, " is there a man who would not, at three o'clock
in the morning, take a little of something to drink ?"
Notwithstanding the appropriateness of the plea be was
fined 10s.

DEATH FROM DRINKING.—A donkey, belonging to a
farmer near West Calder, a few days ago strayed to an
adjoining farm, and walked into the dairy, (the door of
which bad been carelessly left open), where a large
quantity of milk had just been deposited. The donkey
drank the whole, and instantly fell down dead. The
owner of the donkey demands some compensation for
the loss of his beast, while the other farmer demands
some compensation for the loss of forty cows' milk.

COWARDLY ACT.-At Lewes Assizes, an extensive
farmer named Taylor, was sentenced to twelve months
imprisonment for shooting a little boy only five years of
age, and wounding him in the hand and other parts of
his person. The prisoner had been annoyed by bays
trespassing, and he was observed to be walking on his
own property, with a gun in his hand, at the time the
boys were fishing. He went towards them, and on their
running away he fired his gun after them, and the prose-
cutor was wounded in the hand, and likewise about his
person.

NEW ELECTIONS.—On Friday, in the House of Com-
mons, new writs were ordered for Belfast, in the room of
Emerson Tennent, Esq., who had accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds ; for Cirencester, in the room of Wm. Crieps,
Esq., who had accepted the office of one of the commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury ; for Linlithgow, in the
room of Henry Charles Hope, Esq., who, since his elec-
tion, had accepted the office of Governor, of the Isle of
Man ; for the borough of Warwick, in the room of Sir
Charles Douglas, who, since his election, had accepted
the office of Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital; and
for Sunderland, in the room of Lord Howick.
SECESSIONS TO THE ROMISH CHURCH.—The follow-
ing is a list of the persons who have recently passed from
the ranks of the Tractarian school into the Roman Catho-
lic Church. The Rev. Bernard Smith, the Rev. G. Tal-
bot, the Rev. J. M. Capes, the Rev. J. Montgomery, the
Rev. Campbell Smith, the Rev. D. Parsons, W. Leigh,
Esq., P. Renouf, Esq., G. Tickell, Esq., T. Meyrick,
Esq., G. Bridges, Esq., Scott Murray, Esq., J. Douglas,
Esq., J. Grant, Esq., W. Lockhart, Esq. his observable
that nearly all are members of Oxford University, and of
the following colleges : viz., Christ Church 42 ; Balliol, 2 ;
Corpus, 1 ; St. John's, 1; Exeter, 1; Pembroke, 1. To
these might be added the names of many ladies.

HYDROPHOBIA.—A remarkable case of this most
dreadful malady has just taken place in St. Alban's. The
sufferer was a labouring man named Oxley, who, about
two years ago, was bitten by a mad dog in two places on
the left arm. The wounds at the time healed. No fur-
ther inconvenience was felt by Oxley until Monday week,
when he suddenly became ill, and during the following
day manifested decided symptoms of this horrible disease.
falling into violent fits whenever water or any other liquid
was presented to him. Medical assistance was procured
prior to the exhitition of these symptoms, but without ef-
fect, as he expired in great agony on Tuesday morning
last.

A "DEAF" JIIROR.—In the Nisi Prius Court, at
Bridgwater, on Tuesday, a juror appeared in the witnass
box and claimed exemption on the ground of deafness.
Mr. Baron Platt in a very subdued tone of voice interro-
gated the dear un. "How long have you been deaf?"
inquired the Judge. The juror unhesitatingly answered
" two years." The Judge, in a much less audible tone,
" How was, your deafness caused?" Juror, (without
evincing the least difficulty in hearing,) " I caught a se-
vere cold." Judge, in a voice almost reduced to a whis-
per, " Don't you think your deafness is cured ?" " No,
my Lord," answered the unsuspecting juryman. " Oh,
you'll do very well, sir" replied his lordship, amidst roars
of laughter.

ACCIDENT TO THE CROWN.—As her Majt sty was quit-
ting the House of Lords, after proroguing parliament, on
Saturday, the Duke of Argyle, who bore the crown upon
the velvet cushion during the ceremony, stumbled, and
the crown was consequently precipitated to the fi ,or. A.
number of the jewels fell out of it, and it was otherwise
much injured.

BALLOONING.-Mr. Green safely descended from his
balloon on Monday, at midnight, at Enfield, after his
pyrotechnic display from his car during the evening. He
made a similar ascent on Thursday night, from Cremorne
House; and, after a pleasant trip, descended in safety at
Farnham, in Knit, a distance of about twenty-five miles.
Subsequently, a youth, named Herbert, made an ascent
in a small balloon, amidst a discharge of fireworks, and
reached a height of about fifty feet.
IRON VESSELS OF WAR—IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—
`Zr. John Barber, of London,. is stated in the Sunday
Times to have discovered a means by which he will be
enabled to obviate the strongest objection which has yet
been urged against the use of iron vessels for the purpose
of naval warfare; namely, that the injuries sustained by
the shots taking effect through the hulks, being unsus-
ceptible of immediate and perfect remedy, must subject
vessels so injured to inevitable loss.

A MISSIONARY PEER.—The Right Hon. Lord Teyn-
ham is at present preaching in the Baptist chapels at
Swansea and neighbourhood. It appears that his lord-
ship has been engaged in this duty from an early age, and
previous to succeeding to the peerage, laboured in con-
nexion with the Home Missionary Society, which so dis-
pleased his father, the late lord, that, in his will, he de-
prived him of everything, with the exception of the en-
tailed estate. A portion of the property has, however,
since reverted to him by the death of two of his brothers.

The Southampton Dock Company held a meeting on
Tuesday. It appeared by the report that the dock sanc-
tioned by their late act would be ready for use early next
year. From the statement appended to the report it ap-
peared, that while the quay earnings for the two half-years
ending December, 184:2, and June, 1844, were only £6OO
2s. Id. and £938 13s. 4d., those for the two correspond-
ing periods up to the present time are £3059 14s. 4d. and
£3862 2s. Ild. The receipts exceed by a considerable
amount the expenditure and. the interest on the debt.
HOPS.—The cold weather of the past week has re-
tarded the burr, and the high winds have somewhat
injured the bine. The vermin do not appear to increase,
but fine weather is greatly needed for developing the burr
and realizing a crop. Without some such genial visitation
the crop will fall far shoe tof anticipation. The duty is
still on the decline, though it is generally estimated at
£178,000 to £lBO,OOO. Most accounts speak of the back-
wardness of the burr, and fine weather only being neces-
sary for the realization of an abundant yield.—Kentish
Observer•.

THE GRINSDALE MURDER.—The trial of John Gra-
ham, for the wilful murder of Margaret Graham, his wife,
at the parish of Kirkandrews, near Carlisle, by adminis-
tering poison to her, came on before Mr. Baron Rolfe, at
Carlisle, on Thursday. Th Court was crow,:ed, and
hundreds remained outside unable to gain admission The
prisoner, when placed in the dock, hung down his head
and wept bitterly. The prisoner was found not guilty.
There was another indictment against the prisoner tor the
murder of his father, and a verdict of no[
_auilty was re-
turned. [The paragraph in our last, on the subject of
these trials, was incorrect.]

At Lincoln Assizes, on Monday, Richard Brookfield
was convicted of stealing, at Swinhop, three geese, the
property of Henry Green. Mr. Justice Maule was pro-
ceeding to pass a very mild sentence, when the prisoner,
addressing his lordship, said it was of no use, he should
do it again.—Mr. Justice Manic : " What is that you
say ?"—Prisoner : " 1 shall do so again ; not want
while there is plenty in the country, so you can just do
as you please."—Mr. Justice Maul.? "'Then the sen-
tence of the court is that you be transroi•ted for seven
years. Perhaps that will satisfy you."—Th

Frisoner

left the dock lughing. • -- - -
MELANCHOLY EVENTS. —On Tuesday week, at Mena
Bridge, Mr. Barrington Brown, eldest son of Col. Gore
Brown, of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, died in four
hours after taking ten grains of morphine. He bad been
in the habit of taking small doses of the same medicine
for some complaint to which he was suhkct. Ile was
only 29. On Saturday an almost similar calamity occurred
to Dr. Male, a distinguished physician at Birmingham,
whose, death was attributable to the incautious use of aco-
nite (monk's-hood), a powerful nortico-acrid medicinal,
which he took fur the purpose of alleyiatinz rheumatic
pains, of which he was the subject.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF THE AFRICAN Rasmus.—
A most melancholy and fatal accident occurred on the
28u1t, to Mr. Aldridge, the African Roscius. Mr. A.
was returning in his carriage from the seat of Col. Powell,
when within half a mile of Liandillos, one of the horses
took fright at the blaze of light from the iron works;
this occurred on the brink of a precipice, over whici, the
carriage swerved with its inmate, dragging the horses and
postilion. The footman had a most providential escape ;
he was in the act of alighting to seize the horses' heads
as the carriage was precipitated over the cliff. Mr.
Aldridge, the postilion, and horses were killed upon the
spot—the carriage being dashed to atoms. The place
where the frightful accident occurred is 120 fee
summit to the bottom

in the

RUMOURED CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY.—The pre-
sent gossip in political circles is, that the parliamentary
recess will be distinguished by several changes in the
government. According to the current rumour, Lord
Stanley will retire from the Colonial Office, and be suc-
ceeded by Sir James Graham. His lordship is to take
the office of President of the Council, now filled by Lord
harncliffe, who will assume the seals as Secretary for
tins tiCCePre PrinT6lWsaY t appa/Stme‘tit; 'WM be's-a-C-Cie,did at
the Board of Control by Lord Mahon ; while the Earl of
Lonsdale, who has been desirous of retiring ever since
the death of his father, will leave the Post-office open for
Lord Ellenborough or Lord Dalhousie, for both of whom,
as well as for Mr. Gladstone, it is deemed desirable to
find seats, as early as possible, in the cabinet.
AMUSING INCIDENT.—The Sunday Times states that
the following amusing incident occurred previously to the
arrival of her Majesty, at Woolwich dockyard :—At half-
past three o'clock, the gates of the dockyard were thrown
widely open, and a cabriolet came thundering down the
carriage-drive, which was hailed with a buzz of expec-
tation by the assembled multitude, and, the moment it
stopped, a gentleman with a blue bag stepped lightly from
the vehicle, and approached the water's edge with so much
of the air distingie as to impress the bystanders with an
idea that he was a continental prince, or, at the very least,
a foreign field-marshal. The royal barge was immediately
hailed, and, the " illustrious foreigner" having gone on
board, the illusion of his consequence was dispelled from
the minds of his inquirers by the blunt answer of a sub-
ordinate, that it was only a Mr. Isidore, her Majesty's
barber.

PRIDE SHALL HAVE A FALL.—TWO ladies of distinc-
tion last week stopped in a carriage at a jeweller's shop
near Charing Cross, where one of them got out, leaving
the coach standing across tLe pathway. Some gentlemen,
wanting to pass over to the other side, desired the coach-
man to move on a little. The fellow was surly and re-
fused. The gentleman remonstrated, but in vain. Dur-
ing the altercation the lady came to the shop door and
foolishly ordered her coachman not to stir from his place.
On this one of the gentlemen opened the coach door, and,
with boots and spurs, stepped through the carriage. He
was followed by his companion, to the extreme discompo-
sure of the lady within, as well as of the lady without.
To complete the jest, a party of sailors coming up, ob-
served that " if it was a thoroughfare, they had as much
right as the gemmen," and accordingly scrambled through
the carriage. •

STEAM.—At a dinner to commemorate the opening of
a branch of the Eastern Counties Railway a few days
since, the Bishop of Norwich said, " We .may look back
to past times with utter astonishment, even to see what
has been accomplished in the last half-century. I can
ternember the time when there was not a railway exi=ting,
and when there was not even a steam-boat navigating the
ocean. I recollect the time, when, sitting with three
gentlemen who were officers in command of packets be-
tween Dublin and Holyhead, when I hinted, as a young
man, that a steam-boat might manage to navivate
from Dublin to Holyhead, why I was laughed to scorn.
I was told she would go down by the head or sink by the
stern—that she would do anything except in a calm day
run her way from one pert to the other. But in three
s'iort years after that, these three naval commanders were
in command of steam packets, and feeling a peen:tar de-
gree of satisfaction at the situation they possessed."

TIIE LOST FOUND.—ROMANTIC
. IF TRUE.—Two Or
three months ago, we announced the mysterious disap-
pearance of Mr. Richard Hoyle, surgeon, of Washing-
borough, on his returning late at night from Lincoln, his
pony, and various articles belonging to him, being found
on the hauling-path on the bank of the river Witham.
On Monday, he returned to his home, and the account
he gives is, that he was way-laid and assailed by a gang of
fellows, from whose blows he was reduced to a state of
insensibility ; on returning to his senses, he found him-
self on board a smuggling vessel, off the Lincolnshire
coast ; some of the crew made a proposal to murder him,
and throw him overboard, but that was over-ruled by the
one nct,ng as captain. He contrived to escape as they
were on the coast, endeavouring to run in a cargo of
smuggled goods; he pushed inland, and reached Hag-
worthingharn, near Horncastle, having only an old shirt
and a pair of trousers upon him. Hence he wrote to
his friends, and Mr. East, the gentleman at whose house
be had been spending the evening before his disappear-
ance, immediately went to Hagworthingham, where he
found Mr. Hoyle in a state of complete destitution, and
having his hair and whiskers cut off.

TRICKS OF PICTURE. DEALERS.—Many pictures have
been made to acquire the appearance of age, even to a
complete deception; and I remember, at the commence-
ment of my collecting, having purchased some : they
were offered at a price which induced me to buy ; and as
the very canvas on which they were lined, to prevent their
falling into decay, appeared old, whatever uncertainty I
might have been in as to their originality, I had none as
to their antiquity. I sent for a picture-dealer, who made
use of spirits of wine; arid in a moment that which be
worked upon was totally ruined, which made the cleaner
say those pictures had been in the Westminster oven.
He then informed me. that there was in Westminster a
manufactory, where several persons were employed mak-
ing copies, which, after having been soiled with dust and
varnish, were thrown into an oven built on purpose, and
moderately warmed, where, in the course of an hour or
two, they became cracked, and acquired the appearance
of age; and a certain stoicily the pictures I had bought
did not possess, which made me conclude they had not
been baked long enough. I will venture to assert many
of our superficial connoisseurs have been caught as I have
been with this snare, and have preferred, to the best mo-
dern productions, those of the Westminster oven.—Noel
Desenfans.

For DUBLIN, BELFAST, BANGOR, BEAUMARIS,
and CARNARVON.

THE CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM
1706. 4 PACKET COMPANY,
filf/30 V - Incorporated by Act of Parliament.

The above Company sailtheir Vessels, (with o r without
Pilots,) taking Goods and Passengers,

ÜBLIN,
The Company's neForDw and splendid Vesiels, QUEEN
VICTORIA, PRINCE, PRINCESS, and IRON
DUKE, of 600 tons burthen and-260 horses power, (with
Cabin Passengers only,) sail IffERY EVENING, at Seven
o'Clock, from George's rhead, LIVERPOOL, to
KINGSTOWN 1-IA.RBOUR, carrying tier Majesty's
Mail.

They also sail theivdargo Vessels (as below) from the
Clarence Dock to DUBLIN QUAY :
THIS DAY, August 12, at 4 o'clock P.M.
WEDNESDAY, ~ 13,
THURSDAY, ~ 14, 7 , ,
FRIDAY, ~ 15, 8 „ P.M,
SATULDAY, ~ 16, 8 ~
MONDAY, ~ 18, 10 , P.M.
. For BELFAST,
ATHLONE.
SATURDAY, August 16, at 9 o'clock P.M

J ~ P. XI

For BANGOR, BEAOIARIS, and CARNARVON,
The ERIN-GO-BRAGH,
W. H. WARREN, R.N., Commander,
/Nom George's Pierhead, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY,
and SATURDAY, at Eleven o'clock in the Morning.
Further information given at the Company's Office,
24, Water-street,

JOHN K. RO UNTH WAITE, Agen