The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

The Great Western sailed, on Saturday last, with a
large number of passengers and a heavy mail, for New
York.

On Thursday a packet ship from America arrived at
Portsmouth with another party of North American Indians,
of the Ojibbeway and Odeanwan tribes.
The Whitehaven Gas Company have resolved to reduce
the price of gas from eight shillings to four shillings per
thousand feet.

Boz, it is said, has quarrelled with his publi-hers,
Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and intends to start a maga-
zine of his own.

A continental meteorologist has predicted an unusually
warm summer for 1845, because the spots on the sun are
diminishing in size!
From the extreme backwardness of the spring, old ex-
perienced hands predict immense crops of apples, peas,
and plums ; and, indeed, of fruit of every description.
At Greystoke, Cumberland, the other day, a young
man, named Thomas Greenhow, frightened by an affilia-
tion order in bastardy, hung himself to the branch of a
tree, and was found quite dead.
It is said the Duke of Wellington is about to retire from
office, and that Lord Stanley is to suceed him as leader in
the lords. The infirmities of age are increasing on the
noble duke.
A heavy failure occurred, on Monday morning last, in
Mark-lane, said to be for £40,000 to £50,000. Opera-
tions two or three years since were said to be the cause
of the event.
At York Assizes, Henry Bourne, a surgeon, was con-
victed of an unnatural crime, and sentence of death was
recorded against him, the judge intimating that he would
be transported br life.
On Wednesday, Joseph Hawksley, a farmer, near
Chesterfield, who had been arrested on a charge of hav-
ing murdered his mother-in-law, hung himself, by tying
his neckcloth to the hinges of his cell-door.
At the Maidstone assizes, the Hon. Capt. Stuart took
his trial on a charge of extensive swindling, practised on
the tradesmen of Tunbridge Wells. He was found guilty,
and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
The first cargo of Java sugar, with a certificate of ori-
gin, has arrived in London from Batavia. Under the new
act this will be admitted at a duty of 235. 4d. per cwt.,
instead of 355. 9d., as regulated last year.
The fountains in Trafalgar-square were tried on Wed-
nesday. The water will ascend forty feet high, but the
jets were only suffered to play to a height of six or eight
feet. The effect was very pleasing. The fountains will
shortly be put into permanent operation.
A fire broke out on Tuesday last, at Messrs. Steiner's
works, Church, near Blackburn, which has completely
destroyed the building in which it originated ; and unfor-
tunately one young man, of the name of Riding, was
burnt to death before he could escape from the place.
A WARNING TO HIGHWAYMEN.—During the last
week, at York assizes, Mr. Justice Wightman sentenced
fifteen persons, who had been convicted of street or high-
way robberies, attended with violence, to transportation
for fifteen years

Mr. Solomon, a merchant of St. Helena, brought an
action on Thursday, at the Kingston Assizes, against the
Times newspaper, for inserting two letters which stated
that he had put unwholesome water on board a vessel cal-
led the Moffatt. The case lasted eight hours, when ver-
dict was returned for the plaintiff—damages £5OO.

CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.—Captain and Brevet
Major, W. R. Ord, to be Lieut. Colonel, vice Thompson,
retired on half-pay ; Second Captain, W. B. Marlow,
to be Captain, vice Ord ; First Lieut., S. Freetb, to be
Second Captain vice Marlow; Second Lieut, J. M.
Grant, to be first Lieutenant, vice Freeth.

At Edinburgh assizes, John Johnson, a farm servant,
was convicted of shooting (with intent to kill) at John
Cockburn, a fellow-servant, and a successful rival in the
affections of their mistress, a widow, to whom Cockbur❑
has since been married. He was severely wounded, and
it was thought at first that he could not recover. The
prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life.
TESTIMONIAL TO SIR JOHN BARROW, BART.—The
officers employed on the various polar expeditions have
just presented to Sir John Barrow, Bart., on his retire-
ment from office as Secretary of the Admiralty, a hand-
some candelabrum, with a suitable inscription, &c., to
testify their private esteem, and to record their sense of
the very prominent part he has taken for many years past
in the promotion of Arctic discovery.
On Wednesday, at Coventry assizes, Susannah Jervis,
aged 13, was tried for the murder of an infant which was
placed in her charge to nurse. The child was found
murdered in the cradle, and the prisoner alleged that a
man had rushed into the house and killed the baby with a
carving-knife, which was found lying near the cradle.
As a man had been seen about the time on the premises,
the prisoner was acquitted.
At Huntingdon assizes, Thomas Bull was convicted of
setting fire to a haulm-stack, and sentenced to twenty
years' transportation. The prisoner had threatened be-
forehand to fire some premises, in order that be might be
sent out of the country, as transports lived better than he
did, and he also stated that he should stop till a little
while before the assizes, as then he should not have to be
long in prison.

An extraordinary apple tree is to be seen at East Mark,
near Taunton. The girth near its branches is twelve feet,
the branches five feet four inches, and its height is about
fifty feet ; the branches extend over the surface twenty
yards across, and sixty-two yards i❑ circumference ; and
it is a well-known fact, that it has often produced apples
enough in one year to make six or seven hogsheads of
cider.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Easter Tuesday, the whole
of the scholars belonging to this hospital, 800 in number,
according to annual custom proceeded in procession to
the Mansion House, where they were each regaled with
two buns and a glass of wine ; the Grecians were pre-
sented by the Lord Mayor with a guinea, 10s., and ss.
each, according to their seniority ; the monitors with
2s. 6d. each, and the scholars generally with Is. each.

A FACT.—A requisition is actually determined on, to
invite three eminent renting farmers to stand as candi-
dates for the next parliamentary election. The farmers
of Devon are determined to have men who pay rent to
look after their interest i❑ the House of Commons. We
do ❑ot anticipate much immediate success from such a
step; but it will teach the aristocracy a lesson.—Exeter
Times.

Tanned leather, the only manufactured article which,
under Sir R. Peel's proposed regulations, was to be ad-
mitted free of duty, has been withdrawn for the present
from the schedule of the Customs' Bill, and reserved for
future consideration. This step has, we unuerstand,
arisen from a representation made by the leather manu-
facturers that if protecting duties were extended to other
manufactured articles, they ought to be extended to lea-
ther.

At Derby, an astrologer, named Coulson, brought an
action against two magistrates, for having sent him to
prison for two months as a rogue and a vagabond. The
action was brought by a society, calling itself the Astro-
logical Cerebral Mesmeric Society of London. The
plaintiff was nonsuited. How comes it that these learned
pundits did not ascertain, either by astrology, or some
other ology or ism, that such would be the event of the
action before they went into court ?
THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY.--At the Central Cri-
minal Court, last week, a lad, named Singleton, was
indicted for stealing a loaf, value 5d., the property of his
master. The prosecutor stated the fact of the theft, and
said the loaf bad been hidden behind some sacks of pota-
toes. The common sergeant interposed, and observed
that the indictment would n t do. It stated that " a loaf"
had been stolen, without setting forth whether it was a
loaf of bread or a loaf of sugar. The prisoner must be
acquitted. Verdict—not guilty.
EXECUTION IN LONDON.—On Monday week, James
Tapping, aged 22, was executed at Newgate for shooting
a young woman named Emma Whiter, to whom he was
paying his addresses. The culprit was very resigned, but
not communicative. Just previous to his leaving the gaol
for the scaffold, breakfast was served to him, consisting
of coffee and roll, which be appeared to partake of with
a good appetite. The usual preparations within the walls
of the prison having been gone through, a few minutes
after eight o'clock the melancholy procession appeared on
the platform. Tapping seemed very firm and collected,
and it was his intention to address th- crowd, but in con-
sequence of considerable noise he refrained, and merely
bowed to the immense crowd which had assembled.
After he had been placed on the scaffold, he retired back
some steps, and kissed the hands of the sheriffs. He
said to Mr. Sheriff Sidney, " It is a Just sentence, and I
forgive all, as I trust to be forgiven ;" but we have not
heard that he made any further confession. The body,
after hanging the usual time, was cut down.