The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

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A few days ago, a fine whale measuring 30 feet in length
and 13 in girth, was caught in the Humber.
The Rev. James Parsons, of York, is President of the
Congregational Union for the ensuing year.
The etter signed " James Henderson," about the sea-
serpent turns out to be a hoax.
One day last week five turnips, weighing altogether
751 b, were dug up on a farm near Halifax.
Madame Grisi has been engaged in London for the
winter months.

Jenny Lind will remain in England through the winter
and coming spring.
The Marquis of Bute has lent his noble collection of
pictures for ten years to the Royal Scottish Academy.
Thb Marquis of Salisbury has returned to Hatfield
House, Herts, from attending the funeral of the Hon.
and Rev. Dr. Gerard V. Wellesley, at Durham.
Charles Hastings, of Lincoln, has been committed for
trial for having attempted to murder Lydia Graham, a
woman of bad character.

The Queen has appointed Mr. Henry Halford Vaughan,
M.A.. of the Inner Temple, banister, to be Regius Pro-
fessor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.
One day last week the ex-Mavor of Salisbury, for a
wager, carried a butcher's tray, laden with meat, through
the markk-place to his house.
Five Post-office letter-carriers have been severally con-
victed, in London, of stealing letters containing money,
and sentenced to transportation for seven years,
Miss Hutchinson, a young lady lately living in Suff)lk-
street, Southwark, died in a cab, from disease of the heart,
while returning from an evening party on Wednesday.
The hills of Kent, particularly around Tunbridge Wells,
were white with snow last week, and a heavy fall took
place at Brighton and other towns on the coast.
The Suffolk Chronicle says that singing has lately been
introduced into the devotional services of the county gaol,
Ipswich, and appears greatly to interest the prisoners.
Mullins' the young surgeon and confederate of Coffey
and other Chartists, has been sentenced to transportation
for life.

A young lady named Pettit, who had formed a mis-
placed attachment, destroyed herself a few days since at
Portsmouth by cutting her throat with a razor.
The ship-builders of Glasgow have received, lately,
extensive orders, and their yards are now scenes of great
activity.
NATIONAL PROTESTANT CLllll.—This institution has
been revived, and three able and spirit-stirring addresses
against the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood
have been issued.
Mr. Chambers has intimated his withdrawal from the
contest for the Edinburgh Provostship; and accordingly the
field is left -to Mr. Johnston without the probability of
competition.

The Bishop of Sodor and Man has written to the
clergy of his diocese, directing them to observe Sunday,
the 19th instant, as a day of thanksgiving for the late
harvest, and for a most abundant supply of fish.
Several crownless pineapples have this year been grown
and ripened in the hot houses at Claremont, the present
abode of Louis Philippe, and the appropriate name of
" republicans" has been given to those fruits.
In the case of a sudden death at Halifax, a few days
since, the coroner's jury returned a verdict that the de-
ceased died of Asiatic cholera arising from neglected
diarrhEea and not from epidemy.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—Prince Albert has consented
to lay the first stone of the new farm school for criminal
and vagrant boys which the Philanthropic Society is now
establishing at Potter's Bar, near Barnet.
The Bristol Times notices the case of a young lady who
recently seceded to the Church of Rome, and who has
returned to the Church of her baptism, influenced by the
disgust she felt at questions put to her at confession.
The much-vexed postal differences which existed be-
tween the United States and our Government is finally
aaranged to the satisfaction of both Governments. The
arrangement has yet to go before the American Congress
for formal sanction.

At the Durham quarter sessions, last week, John New-
ton, a collier, was sentenced to a week's solitary confine-
ment for smoking his pipe in a mine at Monkwear►nouth.
This practice is supposed to have occasioned many dread-
ful explosions.
One of the most dangerous operations in surgery, the
removal of the collar bone in the female, was dexterously
performed by Mr. Henry Potter, on Tuesday, in New-
castle-on-Tyne, whilst the patient was under the influence
of chloroform.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The importations of potatoes
which have lately taken place from France and Belgium,
have been of so numerous and extensive a character as to
have been quite remarkable and are of much interest and
importance.

It has been noticed that all porters engaged in loading
and unloading charcoal, at Malta, and other parts of the
Mediterranean, have escaped the cholera. The power of
charcoal to absorb atmospheric impurities, is thus ren-
dered highly deserving of scientific investigation.
THE ALLEGED MURDER OF SLATER.—The Bradford
paper states its belief that the statement made by Joseph
Foster that he was the murderer of Robert Slater (a full
report of the particulars of which appeared in our last
paper) is an idle tale.
EXPLOSION OF POWDER MILLS.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, about four o'clock, the three powder-mills at Sedge-
wick, near Kendal, were totally destroyed by an explo-
sion ; the report was heard at a distance of 40 miles, and
mistaken for thunder. Fortunately no person was present.
TENTENNY POSTAGE STAMPS.—Postage stamps of
the value of 10d. are about to be issued for the purpose of
Postage, in addition to those now in use, they will be sold
to the public a; the rate of 10d. each, whatever may be the
number purchased.
John M'Donald, the marine sentenced by court-mar-
tial in July to transportation for life, for having struck
Captain Baynes of the Bellerophon, whilst in the execu-
tion of his duty on board the said ship, has received a free
pardon, and has been set at liberty.
Mr. S. G. Osborne, in a most forcible letter to the

Times on Thursday last, described the dreadful condition
of the poor of Hilton, Dorsetshire, and the extent to
which fever has been suffered to exist without any attempt
to check it. _ _ _

The Baroness Cabral was on Thursday remanded for a
week, on a charge of stealing jewellery and other valuables
from a boarding-house in Finsbury-square, where she had
been staying for some months. She was bailed out by
the Consul-General of Portugal.
The Stowe Estate will, ere long, be deprived of the
whole of its timber. A further and far more extensive
sale than the last one ;s to take place shortly. Persons
are now employed in marking the various lots ready for
the auctioneer's hammer. _ . _

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PERMANENT PAUPERISM.—It is a curious fact that on
one day lest week three orders of removal were taken out
before the magistrates of a Yorkshire borough in the cases
of paupers who had been respectively 18, 38, and 53 years
in uninterrupted receipt of parish pay.
THE INDIAN MAILS.—The Southampton correspond-
ent of the Morning Herald says that Messrs. Cunard and
Co. have tendered, in opposition to the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance
of the Indian mails from Southampton, on the 20th of
each month.

At Kirmington, near Coistor, on Monday night, some
villains attacked the house of Mr. Hall, farmer, and
effected an entrance to the drawing-room by smashing
the window to atoms; but luckily Mr. Hall was not re-
tired to rest, and he captured one of the burglars named
Woolly.

A boy living at Great Clacton, in Essex, had been
prohibited from playing with a gun. He secretly took it,
loaded, from a cupboard, and concealed it in a ditch. A
little while afterwards, he tried to draw it out again by
the muzzle; the gun went off, the charge lodged in his
side, and he died iu a few hours.

There is a difficulty in inducing a gentlemen to fill the
office of mayor for the city of Bristol, in the ensuing
municipal year. Several parties who have been applied
to have expressed their intention to pay the fine of £lOO
rather than serve. Civic honours appear to partake of
the general depression.
On Friday intelligence was received at Lloyds of the
total wreck of the emigrant ship Thetis, on her passage
to Melbourne. The passengers and crew consisted of
about forty persons. The disaster occurred on the night
of the 26th of June, at the entrance of Port Philip
Heads.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A valuable horse,
belonging to a gentleman near the town of Chard, died
lately, and on opening the body, a row of large stones was
found in the stomach. It is supposed by scientific men,
that these concretions were formed in the stomach from
the food, by some peculiar and unexplained cause.
THE CHOLERA.—The Times of yesterday, at the con-
clusion of a long article on the subject of the cholera,
says,—" There is little more reason for believing the
cholera to be an Asiatic production than a Baltic impor-
tation. It is but a modification of the ordinary results of
impurity and want, and should be met with the ordinary
appliances of cleanliness and care."
In the New Court, on Monday, Emma Beaumont and
Mary Ann Fitzgerald, her servant, were found guilty of
having set fire to the dwelling-house of the former in
Long Acre, having just completed an insurance in the
Westminster Fire-office for £4OO. Beaumont was sen-
tenced to fourteen years' transpwlation, and Fitzgerald to
seven.

John Higgins, a boy of very bad character, was sen-
tenced at the Thames Police Court, on Tuesday, to be
imprisoned for three months for stealing a coat. He was
placed in a cell adjacent to the court. Some time after-
wards he was found hanging by a handkerchief to wire-
work over the door, quite insensible, but by surgical aid
his life was saved.

SINGULAR INCIDENT.—On a recent voyage of one of
the steam-packets from Bristol to Newport, about four
miles from land, a hawk was seen in close pursuit of a
small bird, which in its escape from impending destruc-
tion, flew to a gentleman on board, who took it in his
hand, and when close to shore gave freedom to his fea-
thered taptive, a green linnet.
THE SMUGGLING CASE AT ROCHE STER.—On Thurs-
day William Christian, of Craven-street, Strand, publi-
can, John Eline, of Gravesend, van proprietor, and Edwin
Harding, of High-street, Bermondsey, cab proprietor,
remanded at a previous examination on a charge of
smuggling, to which they had since pleaded guilty, were
each convicted in a penalty of £lOO.
SUICIDE OF LORD MIDDLETON.—Lord Middleton, a
healthful man, in the prime of life, but who has lately
been rather eccentric in manner, committed suicide, on
Wednesday, by inhaling the fumes of burning charcoal.
His lordship resided at Paperharow-park, near Godalming.
He dies without issue, and is succeeded by Charles
Brodricke, son of the late Archbishop of Cashel and
brother to the former incumbent of Shalford.

ANOTHER VISIONARY.-Mr. Dingle, a farmer, of Great
Orcheton, has forsaken his farm and commenced lecturing
on the Millenium, saying he has been commanded so to
do by a vision. He goes from town to town preaching
that the Millenial reign of Christ on earth, will commence
in the year 1850, &c. He has crowds of hearers.—Sher-
borne Journal.

M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS.—The enter-
prising Jullien resumed his popular entertainments, on
Friday, in Drury-lane Theatre, and they promise to be
more popular than ever. The house was crowded to the
doors, and the various performances were received with
vociferous applause, especially the National Anthem,
which produced a perfect storm of loyal enthusiasm.
At the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions, W. Squire Brad.
ley, described in the calendar as a gentleman, was con-
victed of having, at various times, embezzled sums of
money amounting in all to £9OOO, the property of the
Llynvi Valley Railway, he being at the time a servant to
such company. Sentence, six months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
CHOLERA IN HULL.—For 11 days not one case of
cholera had occurred at Hull. On Sunday last, however,
there were two fatal cases. One was that of a young
sailor, named Henry Mallinson. who died on board a keel
in the dock, and the other that of an elderly woman,
named Mary Stubbs, residing in Sewer-land. The
medical attendants declare both these to have been un-
doubted cases of cholera.

JENNY LIND AT BRIGHTON.—This admired singer was
the star of attraction at a concert which took place at
Brighton on Tuesday. The large room at the Town-hall
not being large enough to accommodate the whole of the
applicants for tickets, the orchestra was half-filled, and,
in addition, a greater number of persons were obliged to
content themselves with listening from an adjoining room,
from no part of which was the orchestra visible.
LOUIS PHILIPPE'S PRIVATE PROPERTY.—It is said in
Paris that Louis Philippe and the Government have come
to an understanding with respect to the private property
of, the Orleans family in France. The Count de Monta-
livet is to be " liquidateur," and a loan of twenty-four
millions is to be raised to pay the most pressing claims on
the property, and for the immediate support of the mem-
bers of the family now in England.
SUDDEN DEATH, AND BURIAL.—On the 18th instant,
an 01.1 man, named Thomas March, a native of the parish
of Wick and Abson, dropped down, and shortly expired.
By the direction of the overseer, the -body was removed
to an outhouse, where it remained until an inquest was
held. In less than two hours after the inquest the body
of the deceased was placed in a coffin with all his clothes
on, just as he was picked up in the road, his hat being
taken off and put under his head fora pillow, and, with-
out further ceremony, taken away for interment.—Bath
Chronicle.

THE FENS.—Never, within living memory, did the fens,
at this time of the year, present so cheerless and sad a
prospect. The roads are impassable, and the rivers full of
water from bank to bank. The dykes and drains in many
parts are equally full, and some banks have blown and
others are in a very insecure state. The land itself is so com-
pletely saturated with wet, and rotten, that in many of
the oldest drained districts the houses are continually
miring down, whilst in several others the sowing of wheat
this season has been abandoned altogether.
ATTEMPTED MURDER BY POISON.—At Alton, Sussex,
Ellen Heath has been committed for trial, charged with
attempting to murder her husband, a carpenter, by mixing
arsenic with his dinner. The parties have been married
twelve months. The woman had gone off with a young
man, but returned to her husband, who took her back
again. Finding himself ill immediately after eating, he
suspected what had occurred, and went off to a surgeon,
taking part of the victuals with him. Proper remedies
being applied he recovered, and the food was found
strongly impregnated with arsenic.
AN ARTFUL DODGE.—As a farmer of Caterham was
making a bargain for some sheep, in Croydon fair, last
week, with a farmer whom he did not know; there was
some dispute about the price, and he left the pens. One
of the " swell mob," having overheard the conversation,
followed Mr. Clark, and said he did not like to lose the
bidding, and would take his money for the sheep (naming
the price). They went to an inn, where the money was
paid, the purchaser saying he would send for the sheep
shortly. On going, however, to the owner, the latter
disclaimed all knowledge of the man to whom the money
was paid, which was about £5O.
CHOLERA.—CHLOROFORM A CURE.—Dr. James Hill,
resident surgeon of Peckham House Asylum, in a letter
addressed to the Times of Monday morning, states, he
placed the patient under the influence of chloroform, and
"in one hour after the attack the patient had an abate-
ment of every bad sympton ; the nervous system being
completely tranquillized, the vomiting and cramps cea-
sing; the purging being checked, and the heat of the
body returning. His success." the doctor adds, "encou-
raged us to persevere, and we have now employed it in
ten cases of malignant cholera with complete success, six
having perfectly recovered, and four being convalescent."
REPORTED Loss OF THE NETLEY.— Considcrable
alarm has been, felt at Woolwich in consequence of the
non-arrival of the Netley, a schooner belonging to the
Board of Ordnance, which is employed in conveying
stores between the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the
arsenals at Portsmouth and Plymouth, &c. It appears
that the Netley, which had a crew of s,x men and a boy,
left Devonpor, on the 23rd of October. She encountered
very severe weather, and it is feared that her cargo—
heavy guns and shot—shifted in her hold, and that she
foundered at sea. Inquiries have been made at the va-
rious ports of the channel, but without success, and all
hope of the safety of the crew is now abandoned.
A WOUND IN THE LEG CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S
OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Extract of a letter from Mr.

Edward Nicholls, 34, Rose-street, Covent-garden :—"To
Professor Holloway.—Sir,—For years I had a bad leg,
and about four years ago an abscess formed, which the
treatment adopted by several medical men failed to heal,
and I despaired of a cure ; lately my friends recommended
your medicines, and by their use alone I soon found a
great improvement, and in a few weeks my leg was per-
fectly cured, I can now walk 10 miles a day with as great
ease as when I was 20 pears old, and now I am 50."—
Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's estab-
lishtnent, 244, Strand.
HOARDING OF LINEN.--Amongst the old customs still
in vogue in this country that of hoarding up linen is one
of the most inveterate. The following is a singular ex-
ample of this habit :—An old maid, 78 years of age, died
recently at Tocqueville. This person, who possessed
rather a large fortune, lived with extreme parsimony.
Her only luxury, her only expenditure, was for linen,
which she laid by in her closets. An inventory made
after her death proves that in 14 closets she had in reserve
more than 500 pairs of stockings, nearly 600 chemises.
the enormous quantity of 100 dozens of napkins 12 dozen
sheets, an innumerable quantity of caps. handkerchiefs,
&c. ; and, lastly, linen cloth sufficient to provide for the
wants of 500 nersons.—Brussels Herald.
GALLANTCONDUCT.—As Captain Thomas C. Irvine ,
late of the Liverpool barque Theodosia, and his brother,
the manager of the Bristol and South Wales Coal Com-
pany, in this city, were crossing the Marsh-bridge, St.
Philip's, on Saturday, they saw in the water of the New
Cut a boy in the act of drowning. At the risk of his life,
Captain Irvine plunged in, and succeeded in saving the
little fellow's life. Ibis gentleman was, we understand,
instrumental on a former occasion in saving the lives of
fourteen of his fellow-men, when chief officer of the
Elizabeth Wood, he having been the only one of the
ship's company who volunteered in a gale of wind to take
the crew off a wreck they met with in the Atlantic
Single-handed he sculled a boat from one ship to the
other, and succeeded in saving the whole of the crew.—
Bristol Journal.

SHEEP WORRIED BY A HORSE,—On Saturday, the 25th
ult., a young horse out at grass, belonging to Mr. W.
Ashburner, Pennington, near Ulverston, was discovered
making a furious attack on a sheep. It seized the sheep
with its teeth, and tossed it a considerable height three or
four times, then kneeling upon it worried and tore it with
the ferocity of a bull-dog. The sheep, a large fat one of
201 b. per quarter. when with difficulty rescued from the
savage attack of the horse, was not quite dead, but so
mangled and torn that it was killed immediately, there
being no hopes whatever of its recovery. About a fort-
night before a sheep was discovered in the same field
worried to death in a frightful manner, and three others
very much mangled, and there is no doubt this was the
work of the same horse.—Carlisle Patriot.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—On Friday the Colonial
Land and Emigration Commissioners appointed four
vessels, of not less than 500 tons each, to convey 250
male and female emigrants to New South Wales and
Australia—on the 4th December for Sydney, all the
passengers to embark at Plymouth ; and the same date
another for Adelaide, all to embark from London ; 11th
December, Port Philip, all from London ; and 7th Dee.,
part in London, the rest in Plymouth. Total, 1000
adults, exclusive of children. On Thursday 164 fine
young women, from Ireland, arrived at Plymouth to be
sent out to Sydney under the care of respectable matrons.
On the arrival of the young women in the colony they
will be rlaced under the protection of the government
authorities until they are provided for.
WRECK OF THE VICTORIA BALLOON.—The aeronaut,
Mr. Green, has had the misfortune to lose his balloon.
He was preparing to ascend on Saturday, at Halstead, in
Essex, during a violent hurricane. The machine was
held down by powerful men, but such was the violence of
the gale, that in an instant twenty human beings were
lifted up six or eight feet from the ground. The hoop
broke in halves, dropping men and iron weights in a con-
fused heap beneath ; and the balloon rose to 16 or 18 feet,
with the stakes, by which it had been confined, wrenched
from the ground, and two or three men still hanging on
the hoop, and the balloon rolling entirely over on its side
in the air (owing to the detention of one remaining rope),
the netting suddenly ripped up on the side of the balloon
then uppermost, and the silk enclosure, shelling itself out
of the ripped envelope, burst from end to end. The men
and weights and netting fell in mingled confusion—away
flew the immense mass of silk, rent in every direction, and
the grand balloon was no more.
EDUCATION.—COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.--The Rev.
F. Close in his recent pamphlet recommends co-operation
with the Committee of Council o'3 Education on the fol-
lowing grounds :—" That the amount of moral, spiritual,
and intellectual destitution, both in town and country
districts, is appalling and increasing. That no individuil
unassisted efforts of private and voluntary benevolence
are equal to the task of enlightening and evangelizing
this mess of ignorance and vice. That the assistance
now offered by Government, is exactly that in kind and
degree, which is calculated to call up the energies of the
country, and to secnre a system of education adapted to
the general necessities of the land both in qualiy aad ex-
tent. That the fears entertained by some pious persons
relative to the interference of Government with the reli-
gious teaching in the schools are grounuless. That indif-
ference or opposition to this movement arises, in too many
instances, from an almost unconscious prejudice against
the higher cultivationof the minds of the working classes.
That these considerations are strengthened and confirmed
by the experience of the founders of the Church of Eng-
land Training-Schools in Cheltenham."

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.