The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

40,000,

A.t Leamington, on Wednesday, the Grand Open Stee-

plechase was won by a length by Mr. Fuller's Knight of
Gwynne, beating the Doctor, Alfred, Chandler, Red
Lancer, Prince George, Khondooz, Venom, Ace of
Trumps, Alexander, Linkboy, and Vindictive. Betting-
-3 to 1 agst Prince George, taken ; 4 to 1 agst Red Lan-
cer ; 6 to 1 agst Doctor ; 10 to 1 agst Gwynne ; 8 to 1
agst Alexander ; 8 to 1 agst Chandler.
A sign that cholera is on the wane in London, was
afforded on Tuesday by the fact that the Board of Health
issued no report of cases. The deaths, from all causes,
iq the metropolis during the week ending Saturday last,
were 1,207, being 53 over the average. Of the total num-
yen days, 118 were destroyed

ied dt

by scarlatina, and 70 by typhus—two diseases which con-
tinue to be much more fatal than the dreaded cholera.
.FATAL AFFRAY.- -Grl Saturdays a band of Irish navies,
employed on the Clydesdale Junction Railway, went into

a public-house in the village of Alddingston^, parish of
Bothwell, where they had a quantity of whisky. While
together in the house referred to, it appears that a dispute
had arisen betwixt them, and that ultimately they came
to blows. Onp - -
- so

man, named Joseph iison, was
verely injured in the scuffle that he died from the effects
--.inds upon Wednesday.

THE SEASON.-011, Thursday last a quantity of new
potatoes, varying from one to four ounces in weight, were
got from an open garden belonging to James- Green Armi-
tage, Esq., situated at the very foot oFliollm,Moss, a lo-
cality known throughout-Yorkshire as the ne- plus ultra
of bleakness, and almost eternal snow. The remainder of
the growing crop are in.a .very thriving condition, and free
from disease.

MELANCHOLY DEATIDOWMAJOR Ross,.—This gallant
officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. eldest son of Major-
General Sir Hew Dalrymple Rhss, K.C.8., Deputy
Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillerp, died on Sunday
last at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was stationed on the
recruiting service. His death took place from injuries he
received a few days previously by falling from his horse
when out riding, the animal having rolled upon him.
Major Ross was a comparatively young officer, being by
seniority Second Captain in Captain Gilbert's troop of
Royal Horse Artillery, although holding the brevet rank
' of Major in the service.
SHIPWRECK AND LOSS-OF LIFE.—On Friday, the brig
Seawitch, of London, Freeman, master, from Sierra Le-
one, with a cargo of African oak, and ground nuts, was
totally wrecked in Pontifex Bay, on the north west coast
of Guernsey. The vessel on striking recoiled, when a
wave carried her into a trough of rocks, and she was al-
most instantly broken in halves. The master and seven
men, who were on the afterpart, we•e swept away, and
perished. The three men who escaped were in the bows,
where they remained till daybreak, when they were res-
cued, the tide having left the forepart of the wreck high
and dry. Part of the cargo, together with two small boxes
of gold dust and some jewellery, have been recovered.
THE OAK FARM "IRON- WORKS.—An arrangement is
said to have been entered into between the assignees in
the bankruptcy of the late Oak Farm Company and Sir
Stephen Glyn, Lord Lyttelton, and Mr. W. Gladstone,
the proprietors of the estates, by which further litigation
will be avoided : £20,000 is named as the sum agreed to
be paid by the proprietors in lieu of breaking up the ma-
chinery ; and, although, from their heavy claims, the
greater part of this will revert to themselves, yet the cre-
ditors will sooner have a dividend declared. There are
now in the district of South Staffordshire 106 furnaces in,
and 31 out of blast.

The cholera broke out in Fighting Cock Yard, Monk-
Wearmouth, on Friday week, and on that day and Satur-
day five deaths occurred. This is not surprising, as within
a space of fifty yards no fewer than fifteen middensteads
exist in the most disgracefully filthy condition, and the
whole place is a scene of destitution and dirt. Thence the
epidemic extended to Monk-Wearmouth Colliery, where,
from Saturday to Monday, inclusive, twelve cases occurred,
five of which terminated fatally. Since then, other s
cases have occurred, and two persons have died. mai+

the deaths in all seven, and the remaining cases twels
Owing to the above sickness and deaths the colliery has for
the present ceased working
NARROW COURTS AND BAD DRAINAGE INDUCE CHO-
In the official return of deaths registered in Lon-
e week ending Saturday last, the cases are re-

ported of two children, of the ages of two and five years,
and a woman aged 45, who aied of Asiatic cholera, the
infant suddenly, the child in four days, and the woman in
18 hours. They all lived in the same court, two in the
house, and the other opposite. The register states that
" This court has 21 houses, which have two rooms in
each. Most of these houses contain two families. The
width of the court is only five feet, with very bad drain-
age. There is one water tank for the supply of the in-
habitants. The inhabitants are very poor, and several

persons have been taken ill."
Nottingham is visited by a " suicidal endemic.
lowing close upon the death of the Rev. Mr. Browns

Woman, v

Amnon, a lace-manutacturer, poisoned
num, on learning that her protector w

herself with

bout to In

Gadd, a young man, had farmed an attachment to a girl
named Cant; Gadd's friends were adverse to his marry-
ing her; the unhappy couple declared that if they could
not live tocrether they would die together ; so they bought
some arsenic, and put it into two little cakes, which were
baked at Cant's house. They ate the cakes, and were
soon in a dreadful state, but medical aid having rginnvpri

STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A boy named Edwin Hay-
ball, of Chard parish, one day last week fell into a mill-

Everybody believed the child d;

lose affliction was very great. She took her

the child showed symptoms of returnir c
upon which some change in the position Jf
place, when it was discovered that the chi
been in the fire and was dreadfully burnt.
having been called in did what was neces

of the body took

child was getting on very well

days after

the mother placed him before th
she went into the garden, and or

iefire for a momeiit whilst

..-
k to find her child burnt almost to a cinder. —lt
is a singular coincidence that a girl. the cousin of the
above-named Edwin Hayball, a short time since fell into
the fire, and one of her breasts was almost entirely con-
sumed , • in her agony she ran to the millpond to allay the

ror-struc

len she fell

in and was drowned.--Devon Chronicle.
ADVENTURES OF A PACK OF HARRIERS
pack of harriere, kept in the neighbourhoo

ast week a