The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

the Gloucester Journal mentions three reasons for the
ejection of Mr. Grantley Berkeley from West Gloucester-
shire. First, tbat he took the unpopular side on the
sugar question ; secondly, that he abstained from voting
on the corn question ; thirdly, that on the game question
he has stood by " his order."

Gvx COTTON.—At the saffron Walden dinner, on
Friday, the 16th ult., Lord Hardwicke said that forty
grains of gun cotton had been pitted against sixty grains
of gunpowder for a rifle, and had bee❑ found superior.
But the curious part of it was. there was no report or
smoke : it vanished ; they saw the ball strike, and that
was all.

AGES OF CRIMINALS.—The ages of the prisoners con-
victed at the recent session of the Central Criminal Court
were as: follow :—Under 10 years, 2; above 10 and under
20, 80 ; above 20 and under 30, 90 ; above 30 and under
40, 35 ; above 40 and under 50. ; above 50 and under
60, 10 ; above 60 and under 70, ; and above 70 and
under 80, 2.
ASTONISHING FEAT.—On Thursday, a most extraor-
dinary feat was performed by a man named Irvine. A
rope was stretched from the lamp at Stonehouse Bridge
to a pole on the opposite bide, a distance of about 400
feet. The rope was about 80 feet from the water, and he
walked across it, amidst the cheers of 2000 spectators.—
Drronport Telegraph.
A company, to which government has granted a charter,
has been formed in London, for the purpose of prosecut-
ing the whale fishery, a trade which has progressively de-
clined in this country, though it has largely increased in
the United States. It is calculated that by fit'ing out a
large number of ships the uncertainty of the trade will no
longer be felt, as the gains of successful ships will coun-
terbalance the losses of unsuccessful ones.

PUBLIC BAKERY.—A project is advertised for the
establishment at Kempsey, near Worcester, of a public
bakery and mills, for the supply of various kinds of
wholesome bread at a cheap rate. The mills are to be
worked on a principle invented by Mr. Pratt, analogous
to capillary attraction, and which he calls the "inter-
cepted pressure of the atmosphere," being a new method
of applying the power.
LORD NELSON'S SWORD.—The sword which Lord
Nelson wore at the battle of Trafalgar has recently been
discovered, and, thanks to the patriotic feeling of Lord
Saye and Sele, has been transferred to the Painted Flail
of Greenwich Hospital, where it reposes by the side of
the coat worn by our immortal naval hero on the same
occasion. [This can scarcely be correct, as history cre-
dibly informs us that Lord Nelson did not wear his sword
at Tratalgar.]
PAREDES IN ENGLAND.—Amongst the passengers
brouelit by the Thames, which arrived at Southampton
on Wednesday, is the ex-President of Mexico, General
Paredes. He embarked at Vera Cruz, and was brought
thither under a strong escort from Mexico. The general
appears in excellent spirits, and seems to bear his sentence
of banishment from his ill-starred country with great
composure. He is rather diminutive, and about fifty
years of age.
A new gas company at Wakefield have given notice of
their intention to apply to Parliament for an act to supply
general consumers at a rate not exceeding 4s. per 1000
feet, and to light the public lamps efficiently at the rate of
£1 ss. (the present charge being £2 12s. 6d.) per lamp,
and to pay 5 per cent. on the capital, and never to exceed
that amount by way of dividend, but to apply the surplus
receipts i❑ reducing the price of gas as much below the
above maximum as the income of the company will allow.

OPENING THE POR s.—A deputation waited on Lord
John Rusell on Tuesday, imploring him to open the
ports. His lordship said he could not, unless he saw a
necessity for it. One of the deputation rejoined, that a
vigorous agitation was about to be raised on the subject,
and perhaps an energetic agitation would cause his lord-
ship to change his mind. Lord John replied, smiling,
that that would not induce him to take the step suggested ;
but if be deemed it necessary, he would not hesitate to
advise his colleagues to adopt it.
Loss OF A WHALING SHIP. MASSACRE OF HER.
CREW.—For several months anxiety has been felt regard-
ing the fate of a whaling ship, named the Cape Packet,
Captain Powell, last from Sydney, and 28 seamen, her
crew. We regret to state that information has now been
received from Sydney that the unfortunate vessel (which
has been missing two years) had fallen into the hands of
the natives of the New Hebrides, Sandwich Islands, and
those belonging to her, excepting four hands, savagely
murdered.

THE NAVY RETIRED LIST.—The Gazette of Tues-
day publishes a list of fifty-four captains of the Royal
Navy, who have been promoted to the rank of retired
rear-admiral of her majesty's fleet, on the terms proposed
in the London Gazette of the Ist September, 184 G, and
who having accepted the situation of captains of Green-
wich Hospital, are to be placed on the list of captains on
retired pay. It also enumerates ninety-four captains
who, on the terms specified in the same Gazette, are to
retire on the half-pay of £1 per day, and thirty-two
others on the half-pay of 18s. per day.
A POACHER SHOT.—During Friday night, as the
gamekeeper at Fillingham, near Lincoln, was going his
rounds, he encountered four poachers, and the issue was
a struggle, in which the life of one of them was sacri-
ficed. An inquest was held upon the body on Saturday
last, before Mr. Broadbent, deputy-coroner. The jury
returned the following verdict—" That William Fisher
came to his death by his own hands accidentally, and by
no other means, being at the moment engaged in the un-
lawful pursuit of game in the dead of the night, and not
having the fear of God before his eyes, having received a
mortal gunshot wound in the left side of the belly, of
which wound he did instantly die."
THE " TIMES PP AND THE CORN LAWS.-011r friends
who are the advocates of the corn-laws will be no less
astonished than pleased to find the following paragraph
in the. Times of the 28th nit. :—" If the supply of corn
were a matter of imminent peril—if there were a moral
certainty that the crops of the world were so scant that
for the next nine months every man, woman, and child
throughout England would be put upon short fare—we
would say at once, abrogate the duty. But, according to
every authority on free trade, this is not so. Merchants,
dealers, and captains of vessels say, that from the far east
and from the west there will come food amply sufficient
to supply the wants of all Europe: and there are those
that add, come what may to the continent, England will
not suffer from want of corn."

A RIGHT HONOURABLE HOAX.—At York, some time
ago, the " Right Honourable Edward Frederic Vernon,"
with imposing mustachios and imperial, introduced him-
self to an elderly lady as the son of a peer, a temporary
exile from home for a youthful indiscretion. The old
simpleton supplied him with clothes money and introduced
him to many of the "first families" in the city, by whom.
he was graciously received ; and, after living on the fat of
the land for three months, and making a pretty penny by
courting a young lady, he decamped, stating to the family
of his intended, in confidence, that he was about to depo-
sit a casket of jewels with his London bankers for safe
custody. The jewels, he said were formerly his mother's,
and would shortly, he hoped, be his bride's. It has since
been discovered that the case comprised a cold tongue,
two partridges, a bottle of sherry, and some cheesecakes
and currant-cakes, which the young lady had giyen him
from papa's pantry.
THE WELLINGTON STATUE.—" Well, the statue does
not look amiss, after all !" is the exclamation which,
since the removal of the thick network scaffolding that
until very lately enveloped it, is heard more and more
frequently every day. For our own parts, we are bound
to confess that, whatever misgivings we may have had,
in common with most people, as to the effect of the statue
when elevated to its present resting-place, the result of
the experiment has, on the whole, greatly relieved them.
Whether the fault be with our own vision—contracted, it
may be, by disappointed expectation, into a wrong focus—
or whether the predicted monster which was to affright
all London be no such monster after all—still, somehow
or other, "seeing is believing;" and, at the risk of being
considered short-sighted, either in the p}'ysical or mental
organ of perception, we cannot help making the amende
honorable to his bronze eminence, and candidly avowing
our opinion, that there will be no great harm done should
he be suffered to remain where he is.—Times. _

AFFLICTING OCCURIIIINCE.—A most melancholy ca-
tastrophe took place during the prevalence of the dense fog
on Friday week, by which a little girl, named Susannah
Chester, eleven years of age, lost her life, under very
shocking circumstances. It appears that the poor girl's
parents reside in a hut, in a coal-field at [locker's Hill,
in the parish of Tipton. About six or seven o'clock on
the above evening, Chester went out to milk his cow, at
a little distance_ end An ,dente wRa the focr that he wet

obliged to carry a lighted candle to find his way. On his
return home, his little girl was a yard or two in advance,
and finding that the light only served to dazzle their eyes,
it was extinguished. They then proceeded onwards,
scarcely able to see a yard before them, when suddenly

the father heard a piercing cry and a plunge, and throwing
himself back he became aware of his own perilous situa-
tion, and the fate of his poor child, who had fallen down
the mouth of a pit nearly a hundred yards in depth. The
death of the unfortunate girl must have been almost in-
stantaneous, as, after the frightful occurrence, not a sound
or moan was heard from the yawning chasm. It appears
that the pit had not been worked for three years, the
mouth of the shaft being left totally unprotected by any
fence or framework. The father's escape was most pro.
vidential, as a single step more would have hurried him
into eternity. The disfigured and mengled remains were
recovered through the exertions of a miner.
SHOCKING MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—OD Sunday
evening week, the denesly populated district of St. Phi-
lip's, Bristol, was thrown into a state of great excitement
from the appalling circumstance of one of the Bristol po-
lice, viz., Patrick White, having been murdered by a wo-
man. The unfortunate deceased, who has been connected
with the police for about eight years, was an Irishman,
aged about 30. He was unmarried, and lodged in the
house of a female named Louisa Ferris, a married woman,
but who in consequence of domestic broils, had for a long
period lived separate from her husband. His fellow-
lodgers were Thomas Edwards (brother to Ferris). a cab-
driver, and Elizabeth Jones. On Sunday evening Ferris,
with her brother and a third party, had been drinking at
a public-house. About six o'clock they returned home to
Lion-street, on the Easton road, and Louisa Ferris upon
going up stairs found White and Elizabeth Jones in bed
together. At this she was very much enraged, having as
was previously known entertained kindly feelings towards
White. A short time afterwards the parties met down
stairs, deceased, Louisa Ferris, Thomas Edwards, and
Elizabeth Jones. A dispute arose about some trifling mat-
ter, high words ensued, the circumstance of White's in-
timacy with Jones was alluded to, and Ferris, seizing a
razor or sharp knife, walked up to White and inflicted a
deep wound in the throat, severing the wind-pipe and
penetrating the carotid artery, the effect of which was, of
course, almost instant death. The poor fellow staggered
to the door leading to the street, and fell into the road.
A medical man was sent for, but death had done its work
long before his arrival. The parties in the house were at
once apprehended, and upon their arrival at the police-
station house, Ferris admitted that she had committed the
dreadful act. The man Edwards was exceedingly callous.
Ferris has been committed on a charge of wilful murder.