The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

GENERAL• MISCELLANY.

Both Mr. D'lsraeli and Mr. Ferrand have subscribed
:a the Duncombe testimonial; the former £lO.

It is said that two crowned heads—the Kings of Bava-
ria and Denmark—have subscribed the teetotal pledge.
In Chester Castle, on. Saturday last, a prisoner named
Thomas Leech hung himself in his cell.

Ten valuable horses, worth from £lOO to £l5O each,-
were lost from the Queen of Scotland steam-ship, during
a storm, on her last voyage from Hull to Hamburg.
The quantity of the bine•pill atone lately shipped, at
once for South America by one &Tannery house, in Lon-
don, amounted to six lona.

During the whole of last,week not a single commitment'
was made mit by the Birmingham magistrates—a circum—
stance that has not occurred for 35 years.
THE LEAGUE AT BittsToL.—The Bristol Liberal!
Assgeiation, who are tools of the League, have objected
to every Conservative freeman, (posseesing no other qua-
lification,) in number about 1900.

The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last
week advanced to 20s. per quarter—the maximum,
amonntiat which it will, in all probability, remain for a
considerable time.

The body of a newly-born• infant was found last week
in a vacant piece of ground in the parish of Bethnal
Green, with a piece of broad tape round its neck, with
which it-had been strangled.

Mr: William Harvey, of Bedleston, Aberdeenshire, has
given the sum of £6,500 for the purpose of founding an
institution for the education of the deaf and dumb ; and
another for the reclaiming cit females of 'dissolute habits,
disposed to abandon their wretched mociaot life.
Richard Robinson, a boy eleven years-of age, was a few
days ago fined £lO, at Wandsworth, and in default of
payrnent,sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, for hav-
ing placed a piece of wood across the rails of the South
Western Railway at Wimbledon.

The Borough Compter, London, is a<:..! present wholly
untenanted, except by the keeper, turnkey, and matron ;
the whole of the prisoners who were in custody, upon ex-
ecutions for debts under £f:ls, having obtained their dis-
charge, under the provisions of the new insolvency act.
The Perth and Dunliell; stige-coach caught fire on
Wednesday from the friction of the wheals. The coach,
which burned for some time unperceived, the passengers
at last descending amid clouds of smoke, was rendered
useless..

A selection from the Unitersity sermons of August
Tholuck, D.D. professor of theology, arAd preacher in the
University of Halle, has ;but appeared, translated from
the German by the Lady Adeliza Manners, sister of
Lord elan Manners.

It is a curious fact that in some counties more labour.
ers are employed under than on the surface of the earth.
In Durham there are nearly, twice as many miners as la-
bourers employed in culti7ating the soil. The total num-
ber of agricultural labourers in Great. Britain of both
sexes is 1,138,563.

Count Leslie, of Balquhain, the representative of one
of the oldest families in the county. of Aberdeen, died
suddenly, yesterday sen'Jfight, at his seat of Fetternear,
owing., to having incautiously taken a draught of cold
water when overheated with the sports of the field. His
age was 24.

TaE STABBING CASE AT WEA7.ERING.—We lament
to state that this shocking case, of which we gave an ac—
count in our last, has terminated fatally, the unfortunate
object of his brother's fury having expired, after living in
great agony. At a coroner's inquest a verdict of wilful
murder was returned.

Itovat DEMISE.—.,A few days since, died, near Beau-
lieu, Joseph Lee, the acknowledged monarch of that
mysterious class of people the Gipsies. He was a wative
of Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, and was, it is said,
in his 86th year. He is reported to have died worth a
great deal of money.

QUOITS.—A match was played, on Wednesday, on
Woodhouse Moor,, for £lO aside, between Siineon
Walker, of Rastrick, and John Briggs, of Armley, the
best of two games, with quoits 111bs. the pair, distance
eighteen yards.. Each party has been triumphant in
former contests, but this time Walker proved the victor,
getting forty-seven casts to his opponents twenty-three.
DEATH CAUSED EY BATHING WHILE IN A SIATE OF
PERSPIRA'ZLON.—On Sunday, the 25th ult., Mr, James
Thomas, of Truro, walked pretty quickly to the sea-shore,
and while in a state of perspiration, plunged iato the
water. He was afterwards seized with shivering, and ul-
timately became so ill as to require medical assistance ;
on Monday morning last, he expired, in his 35th year.
FIRE. AT HOPE 'MILLS, WREXHAM.--011 Saturday
morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out in Messrs. J.
H. and It. C. Rawlins' paper-mills, which, in, little more
than two hours, were entirely destroyed, By this unfor-
tunate occurrence we regret to hear that a considerable
number of hands will be deprived of employment,
i, nia
district already much distressed from the suspension n
the iron trade. The owners are, we understand, fully
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FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—In consequence of
the favourable accounts received from the agricultural
districts of the promising and abundant state of the
harvest, the price of wheat at Mark-lane has fallen last
week ls. to 2s. per quarter in first quality, and 4s. to ss.
per quarter on second qualities. The best Kent, Essex,
Norfolk, and Suffolk wheat is 395.,t0 565. per quarter ; flour,
fine, 40s. to 455. ; and seconds, 395. to 40s. per sack, in
London. The bakers of the metropolis have reduced the
41b. loaf to 61d. _

tofnor,Jtoheelmurder
of his wife, at Fisher,
Weston-super-Mare, in June last. He
died in a very repentant state. It seems almost incredi-
ble, but it is nevertheless true, that several applications
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underwent .—On
afflicted with the king's evil and rheumatism for permis-
the ext rem We
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were made to the governor of the prison by persons
sion for the band of the dead man to be rubbed over the
parts affected, with the idea that they would be cured. It
need hardly be added that the applications were refused.
RATHER STRANGE.—On Friday week, a sportsman,
from Kinross, discharged both barrels at a covey of
grouse, on the hill immediately above Ledlation, in Or-
well parish. The covey was dispersed, and one poor bird
was observed to take the direction of an invisible wire
fence, erecting within less than 300 yards from the spot,
with which it came in contact when on full flight, and,
strange to say, the head was at once dissevered from the
body, the later being found fully three yards distant from
the other,—Halifax Guardian,

Sept. 10, 1844.

NAUTICAL ALVENTURE.—As E. Watson Lloyd, Esq.
was returning to Parkgate in the yawl Horatio, on Tues-
day last, on falling in with the Fairy, John Lloyd Jones,
Esq., a salute was fired from the Horatio, when, unfortu-
nately, one of the brass cannons burst into splinters with
a tremendous explosion. The sails were much cut by the
fragments, but although nine persons were standing by
when the gun was fired, we are happy to state that no one
received the slightest injury.—Chester Courant.
A distressing event took place on Monday in the neigh'
bourhood of Wrexham. Four men were being lowered
into the pit of the Cheshire Vron Colliery, Brymbo, near
Wrexham, the property of Mr. Moulson, when an plO.
sion of fire-damp took place. The shock was so great that
the poor men were blown into the air. The body of one
of them was picked up in four pieces, the other three were
taken up quite dead. At the time twenty-eight men were
employed in one part of the pit, several of whom are
dreadfully burnt, and are not likely to recover.
SUSPECTED MURDER AT SMIDDYHAUGH.—A great
sensation has been excited in this village and the nog!'
bourhood by the mysterious disappearance and recent do'
covert' of a woman belonging to this place. She has been
missing for nearly three weeks, and no trace of her could
be discovered until Thursday last, when her dead bodY
was found in a field of oats, and in a state of decompose'
tion. She has had several illegitimate children, and some
circumstances connected with her course of life, combined
with others, lead to strong suspicions as to the manner°
her death. That it has been by violence of some sort, we
believe there is little doubt.—Perth Paper.
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By the train
which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six o'clock'
reaching Ayr at half-past eight, a parcel arrived, consent-
ing of a white willow basket, with the lid closely sewed
down. As there is no delivery after that hour, the basket
was put along with other articles in the goods office, where
it remained all night. This morning the porter proceeded
to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds, thought be
felt something stirring in the basket, and on lifting the
corner of the lid, discovered that his charge was a female
child ! The case is under investigation by the authors"
ties.—Ayr Advertiser, Tuesday.
FOREIGN PROVISIONS.—On Wednesday a sale of
proved American provisions took place in London. The
first lot was 975 hams from New York, of fair average
quality. These produced aboat 425. per cwt. ; a farther
calantity of 3,025 hams from the same place sold for 37s'
The pork, which was a remarkably good article, not too
salt, and apparently well filled, fetched 30s. Per cifll;'
whilst 100 kegs of ox tongues, good and well flavoure":
produced at the rate of ls. 11d. to 2e, each.
The smoked
beef, very fair, sold for 398. per cwt., and 150 half barrels.
of family beef, apparently well fed and sound meat but
rather too highly salted to please the
majority of English
eaters, found ready purchasers at 40s. per cwt. ; the sail'
sages fetched 9d per lb., and the undressed turtle ss. Per
pound.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE RATE OF INTER'
EST.—The directors of the Bank of England have just
taken a step which seems to have caused some astonish-
ment amongst those who- thought that the separation of
the functions of banking and issuing would case a pres.
sure on the money market and tend to raise the rate of
interest : they have reduced the rate of discount on three
months' bills from four to two-and-a-half per cent. To-
deed, we presume the directors will now proceed to em-
ploy the funds of the banking department in precisely the
same manner as thelunds of other banking establishments
are employed, and will compete in the money market for
bills, like other capitalists ; leaving the regulations of the
issuing department to-govern the amount of notes in cif'
culation.

NARROW ESCAPE Clr A CHILD BY THE SAGACITY-Or
A HORSE.—On Saturday week a young child had a narroil
escape for its life, and was. miraculously saved by the s*
gacity cf a horse. The child happened to be playing 0°
the street at the west end of Kirkardy, when two cart/
were passing under the charge of one man, he sitting
the foremost cart, and holding the other horse by the
halter, a space being between the two. The child )saving
run in before the hindmost horse, and the horse observing
the perilous condition of the child, refused to go forward;
and, though repeatedly urged by its-less observant driver,
rather than do so, and prove the death of the child, which
would have been inevitable, he fell down on his kness and
lay till a young woman, who observed the perilous position
of the child, rushed out of her master's house and snatched
up the child before the lazy driver had left his seat in the
cart, or any other person came to tits rescue. The child
was carried to-its mother unhurt.—Edinburgh paper.
ACCIDENT TN THE WATERLOO GALLERT.—AR acci-
dent occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Castle,
on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of omit;
and of exquisite workmanship, weighing several hundEnce
of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling,at,'Fir..
15 feet from the -Nor. These magnificent pieces °I each,
niture, which, it is said, co:A from'-£2;000 to £3,000 .
are considered to'be the most rich and beautiful speci-
mens in this country. While one of the workmen was
envaged, mounted on the top of a high flight of steps, in
preparing the chandelier at the western end for lighting,
the whole mass game way, and fell on the floor with a tre-
mendous crash, and breaking into a thousand pieces.
Of the several circles of cut plate elass,-upon which were
elaborately engraved the star, garter,. and motto of the
order of the garter, not one escaped—
the whole were
smashed to atoms. The man on the- steps fortunately
escaped. The chandelier, it is stated,-weighed, upwards
of seven cwt.
EXTRAORDINARI3SuICIDES.-011 Saturday week the
head gamekeeper of the Earl of Stradbroke, named Easy,
committed suicide at Henham Park,it is supposed in con-
sequence of the annoyance be experienced from the fre-
qwent acts of poaching committed on his-lordship's pre-
serves. From the relative positions in, which the hod,'
and the gun were found, it would seem that he had fixed
some of the rushes across the two triggers of: his- piece,
and placed his foot upon the end of those rushes in such
amanner as to enable him, having put the end
of bar-
rels in his mouth, to- fire off the gun! Tie excitement
occasioned by this suicide had barely subsided, when the
neighbourhood of Henham Park was again astonished by
the self-destruction of a man named Cruxey, who held
the position of superintendent of keepers, horses, and
dogs, connected with the Earl of Stradbroke'ci establish-
ment on that estate. This unfortunate man shot himself
on Sunday afternoon in his own house on the Park estate,
scarcely twenty-four hauls after the death: of his-fellow
servant.

LORD STANLEY.---Itiwill be seen from our parliarnen
tary report that Lord Stanley has accepted: the Chiltern
Hundreds, and withdrawn from the Lower House of Ter-
Lament. His withdrawal from the scene of histriuniPhP
and from the walls which have long echoed TO
with: his "'
liant eloquence, and the enthusiastic cheers dins admit"
ing and astonished hea-ers, is only preparatary: to his
re-
moval to the House of Peers. Lord Stanley retains the
seals of the Colonial office, and his seat in- the Cabigeti,
and however severely his loss may be felt in the Honseee
Commons, his entrance into the House of Peers must u
hailed with universal satisfaction. Indeed the want o'
speakers on the Government benches in the Upper H 0056
,
has been strongly manifested since the death of the "1".
mented Lord Fitzgerald, the absence of Lord 01
e1:1„-f
borough, and the frequent indisposition of the East "rc
Ripon .—lt will be remembered that Lord Stanley's fathe r
the present Earl of Derby, was also called to the 11°P,-,e,
House, by the title of Baron Bickerstaff, duringthe
time of the preceding earl; and as the title became
,ecti,
tinet on his succeeding to the Earldom, no farther a°
tion was ultimately ma3e, to the House of Lords.
THE GAME LAWS.—The Leeds Times states that the
suicides of Lord Stradlaroke's gamekeepers (noticed els%
where) were occasioned through fear of his lordship
anger that such extensive depredations should have bile
allowed among his preserves as have lately,thinned t„
number of his pheasants, &c. There are other-reports,cyt
a similar effect, showing that the anxiety of mind schl
,ended in these unfortunate men destroying re .. these,,,' as s a
was caused by their solicitude about the game they "of
to preserve. It is not long since anothengamekeePerri,
this same Lord Stradbroke was murdered by poaeheta.
and, if our memory, serves us aright, several transpor
tit
tions beyond the seas were the conseq
the expense to `auerme. Look, th
at the loss of life, the misery, and ,ebe
public, that this single landlord's game may be preserves
,
Let it be held in mind that, during the last ten Yearn;
some 30 gamekeepers have been murdered, and as 0:15;t,
poachers haneed for the murders—that in one Ye"
namely 1843, 30 persons were transported, and 4,500 coei
victed and sentenced to fine and imprisonment in Englengst
alone, for infringements of the game laws—that the,fi-eir
, of prosecuting the " criminals," and in maintaining
lly
families when thrown upon the parish, amounts anti? to
to not less than £lOO,OOO sterling, not to speak oirtra
immense cost of maintaining those who are transPeod
beyond the seas, nor of the wreck and ruin of virtue, re.
happiness to tens of thousands, nor oZ-the brutal elitioslB
vengeful feelings engendered, and the desperate crinilovis;
who are brought into existence and fostered by these„ateet
and who shall say but that they are one of the gr:,./ePt
curses of our land, and ought, without delay, to be '
from off our-statute-book for ever?
testing
Wrrcitcr.AFT 1844.—N0t long since the aethe
place of the dead at Phillack, near Hayle, was rall a tW
scene of transaclons which would' have blackest sew
darkest ignorance of bygone ages. It appears tha
nt ef
ral persons afflicted with disease, and who, for I their:
moral courage, would not submit to the directions eolie°
medical, advisers, very readily caught hold of and errienee
every nostrum that gossips made known. E%P„e' their
proving that the boasted remedies were of no ave,"Proittl
imaginations were put to the utmost stretch, in 0rue.,1,1 be
they might avoid the only method by which they co their
cured. Fortunately, a blazing light shot across..,ateo
darkened way, and their gloomy reflections were disettlvoced
by its brilliancy. It was a revelation ; and they den°,c tbe,
their ignorance, because they did not sooner find owed
cause of their malady. To believe that they were ill-7rson
was only the work of a moment, but to discover a fished'
who could break the spell was not so easily accotrlL tbeir,
Every thought and action was centered in attabataci, and
darling object. Finally, their wish was consum to
velstu Art
a scatterer of witch spells stalked forth from frauv
whom they disclosed every incident of their livese, day o'll e
with uncertainty as tending to good or evil. Tdnthe awed as
chosen, the dreaded hour of midnight fixed, an _owed
of the silent clod of all that once was living was Put their
the place of assignation. The hour drew near. eostaciee'
tched.
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