The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

THE LITERPWOL STANDARD.

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The northern parts of England and Ireland were visited
on Wednesday with heavy falls of snow.

John Bright, Esq., M.P , is undergoing the hydro-
pathie treatment at Wharfdale.
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Amongst the candidates for the Provostship of Edin-
burgh is Mr. William Chambers.

During several days last week, herrings were sold at
Dumfries at the rate of eighteen for a penny.
Captain Mitford, R. N., with his son, have left the
Church of Rome, and joined the Church of England.
The Brussels Herald of Saturday, gives a favourable
report of the potato crop in Belgium.
The total number of the horned cattle annually sent to
England from Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and
Wigtonshire, is estimated to amount to 29,000 head.
In Mr. Pilkington's garden, on the Hunger Hills, a
moss-rose tree was, at the beginning of this week, bearing
a number of roses in full bloom.—Notanyham Journal.

The Standard states that on Friday .36,000 muskets
were shipped at Southampton on board a steamer for
Italy.
There is considerable falling off in the Linen trade of
Barnsley. A considerable number of hands have been
turned off.

The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per
annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to
superintend the health of the metropolis.

Of 397 boys removed from Parkhurst prison, in the
course of last year, 371 received conditional pardons, and
16 free pardons.
During the past fortnight several cargoes of potatoes
have been shipped from Ramsey for Liverpool, and other
cargoes are being shipped and some ready for sea.

On Monday week, three horses which had strayed from
a field on to the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway were
killed by the mail train at a short distance from Newark.

For several weeks past the Solway Frith, which has
been comparatively abandoned by the tribe for the last 40
years, has swarmed with innumerable shoals of herrings.
The Rev. Mr. Clarke, Presbyterian minister at Dal-
reooh, near Perth, has been thrown from his horse and
killed.

Sarah Searle, who died last week at Chelsea, bequeathed
her body to Dr. Pettigrew for dissection, and it has ac-
cordingly been given up to him.

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On Monday, the body of a domestic s
Abbott, was found in a ditch near Roche
face covered over with a carpet. It is feared she•has
been murdered.

Mr. Charles Braham, son of the celebrated vocalist,
made his debut at the Princess's Theatre, London, on
Monday night, in the new opera of Leohne, and experi-
enced a most enthusiastic reception.
At a recent meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Com-
merce ;ndt,

a resolution approving of an attempt to induce
government to grant a higher rate of interest for deposits
in savings banks, was F dop ted.
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The Cholera is still making but slow advance in Edin-
burgh. In Leith it has broken out, and with some seve-
rity, but with nothing like the virulence that has prevailed

on Continent

On Tuesday, the Thames rose to such an unusual
height as to cause very great damage to property. Tow-
ards evening, when the tide was at its highest point, the
steam-boats could scarcely pass under the bridges.
Government has come to the resolve; on the recom-
mendation of the Board of Health, to do away with the
idle precaution of six days' quarantine, inflicted on vessels
from continental ports suspected of cholera.

Letters from; Exeter announce the rather sudden de-
mise of Mr. Thomas Gray (the ingenious but unrewarded
improver, if not originator, of the railway system), on
Sunday week, in the 61st year of his age.

At the quarter sessions held at.. Berwick on Friday,
there were agt

1 occasion, in succession, al

bias been

no business before the court.
BREAD SELLERS.—A dealer in bread has been fined
half-a-,guinea, in Edinburgh, for having sold a loaf on
which the weight was not marked in distinct figures.

The conviction was made under a new statute.
At a temperance meeting in Broseley, Salop, the Hon.
and Rev. 0. W. Forester said he was informed by one of

the medical attendants of the Duke of Wellington, that
for the last two years his grace had not drunk a glass of
wine—water being his only beverage.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SCARBOROUGH.—On Friday last,
as two men were bringing fish to the harbour from a

L/54 ay, ai oealth and spirits, and the greater
po.rtion, says the New York Herald, from Great Britain.
From May to December, 1817, there landed 129,082, and
from the Ist of January to August, 1848, 110,404 were
landed, making 239,486 in fifteen months ; of these 53,180
were Germans, and 52,496 Irish. Every month the num-
bers arriving were increasing.
Thomas and Alexander Efeathcoat, razor-blade grinders,
of Sheffield, were tried in December last, for destroying
machinery in the Kelham grinding-wheel, belonging to
Peter Bradshaw, a razor-blade grinder, and having been
found guilty, they were each sentenced by Mr. Justice
Coleridge to seven years' transportation. At a subsequent
period they confessed their guilt, and divulged a variety of
lawless transactions of a similar nature to that of which
they had been convicted. The result of their disclosures
was the apprehension of four of the principal members of
the Committee of the Razor-blade Grinders' Union, who
were at the ensuing Spring Assizes arraignpfi nn the

transportation, the principal witnesses against them being
the Heathcoats. In consequence the Heathcoats' sentence
has been commuted to eighteen months' imprisonment.
SRANGE STORY.—While Mr. John Yearsley, iron-
monger, of North-street, was acting as foreman of the
grand jury at the Lewes sessions, on Tuesday morning, he
was suddenly seized with a fit of anonlexy. In nrtipr to

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allow the rest of the jury to proceed with the business, he
was removed to the large room in which they sat, where
he lay during the day attended by a sur

geon, who e-x-

Cowper's 'residence, at the back of the county ball. .Mr.
Yearsley passed a very restless night; but on the follow-
ing morning he had recovered sufficiently to ask a variety
of questions. indicating that he had no recollection what-
ever of what had passed subsequently to the attack.—
Brighton Gazette.
ROYAL CONDESCENSION.—Her Majesty has visited the

houses of several of the humbler cotters in the vicinity of
Balmoral, and the Royal condescension will not soon be
forgotten by those who have been thus honoured. Sir

Walter Scott, whose regard for all things pertaining to
Royal dignity, was peculiarly conspicuous, describes an

of furniture, in which some King of England had conde

cended to rest himself, in such reverence, as to preserve
it, in all time after, from being polluted by being the seat

of any humbler individual Cliut there are now many
" Queen's Chairs" in bumbler homes than the baronial
homes of England, and as much revered as that

Sir Walter describes,

One old woman, whoEe kitchen

sne wouia not give the chair in which her beloved
Sovereign sat for " a gueed lan's lair."—Seotsman.
THE CHOLERA AT HULL.—We are very happy to state
that, up to a late hour last night, there were no indica-
tions of the prevalence of cholera in Hull. The Times of

yesterday announces that since Thursday last nine cases

lolera have emu

proved fatal

Our opportunities 'of knowing how w.

die of cholera here are fully equal to those enjoyed by the
Times, and we have only to assure our readers that nei-
ther Dr. Ayre nor Dr. Horner are prepared to say that a
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- ...oat+, El V II 11 ull Una Ueen at.LacKeu wan
cholera since Thursday last. In fact, Dr. Ayte and Dr.
Horner are doubtful whether a single case of real Asiatic
hese, ....I. -I • T T . .

ilan yet, appearea in Hun in which the malady
was not directly imported by the person attacked from
Hamburg. Many persons here have been suddenly seized

e corn-

mencement of

is very questionable whether a single inhabitant of this
town has yet fallen a victim to the epidemic.—Hull Ad-

THE CHOLERA:-It may perhaps arise only from that
common feeling of politeness that prompts us to pay more
attention to a stranger than one of our own household.

the more formidable diseases which constantly at our
population are but little regarded. When medical men
tell us that fever kills more people every year in this
country than the Asiatic cholera did during the eighteen

gioUs disease, which cholera is not, scarcely an effort is
made to avoid its infection. Even though we have been

for case, a more expensive disease than cholera, no one
has believed it. Again, take the case of influenza and
other prevailing epidemics. In one month last year these
diseases destroyed in London alone four thousand one
hundred and nine persons above the average, a number

nearly equal to half of all the persons who died of cholera
in 1831-2, and yet how little fear of these diseases exists,
and how feeble the efforts to remove their causes.
THE PRICE OF RESTITUTION.—WhiIe Miss Moore,
of Nottingham, was at George-street Chapel on Sunday
her house was entered and the sum of £5O in gold and
silver stolen. Vigilant inquiries were made, but up to
Tuesday no clue had been obtained as to the manner the
robbery had been effected. On that day, however, a youth
in her employment went to her and confessed that he had
been an accessory in the felony, stating that he would tell
her all about the matter if she would not prosecute. She
did so promise, and he then told her that he had been per-
suaded to take the money by a man whom he named, and
that they had divided the X5O equally between them. He
then fetched her £24. having spent £1 of his share of the
spoil. Miss Moore having ascertained the whereabouts of
the other person, went to a miserable place where he lived,
and demanded the remainder of the property. The fellow
perceiving that he had a woman of too kind a nature to
deal with, replied that he had parted with £4 of the mo-
ney, and that the rest was buried in a field ; but that he
would not fetch it unless she promised to let him have
another pound. Having obtained her assent to this bare-
faced oroposal, he went out and in a short time returned
with £l9, which he restored.
SELECTION OF BUILDING S

using care in the selection of stone for building purposes
was not felt till recently—the fact that the same quarry,
of whatever stone it may be, will supply a bad as well as
a good material was unnoted, and the result is that many
modern structures are in a state of obliteration. Black-
friars-bridge, built of Portland stone, began to show
symptoms of decay before it was finished. Several
modern rhorehps hnilt of the cpmp

aantou,a ,11U1 u. utic mt4lllC watenai retain l►ttle
or none of their original carving : and some of the mould-
ings in the arches at Hyde-park-corner are all to pieces.
We could even point to a building of the same material
not yet finished, where, in spite of more than usual care,

time ; and yet we all know that the Portland quarries do
furnish stone as lasting and as good as any we can obtain.
The appointment of the commission to select stone for
the Houses of Parliament, and the report which they
have published, have led to a different feeling on the sub-
ject, and cannot fail to be productive of advantage.
Knowledge is now wanted, and that can be obtained only
by careful inquiry and diligent investigation.—Builder.

DISSOLUTION OF THE ORDNANCE OFFICE.—The
Morning Herald of Saturday says,—" It is said that the
Ordnance Office is doomed—that the fiat has gone forth,
or is about to go forth, for its abolition. It has been
discovered that the board is a useless incumbrance upon
the state—that the only good of it is to make a certain
number of appointments, with a Master General at the
head of them, to distribute a certain amount of patronage,

,
and to create a certain number of jobs; and it is said,
that, the discovery having been made, it has been deter-
mined to effect a considerable annual saving, without any
detriment to the efficiency of the Ordnance corps, by
practically acknowledging the right of the Artillery and
the Engineers to be regarded as integral parts of the

army, and by transferring. the miscellaneous business of
the department to other offices where it is likely to be less
out of place. If we desire to reduce the Ordnance esti-
mates in such a manner as really to confer a benefit on
the country, we must abolish the Ordnance Office itself.
There is no sort of reason why the military business of
the board should not be transferred to the Horse Guards,
and the remainder to the War Office and other suitable
departments. It is believed that some such measure has
been determined upon, and we earnestly hope that the
report has truth for its foundation. The Ordnance Office
must fall sooner:or later. The sooner, we are disposed to
think, the better. Such we believe is the opinion of the
majority of military men, who are entitled to be regarded
as competent authorities."
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET.—Ina town in
Oxfordshire, favoured with the existence of one of those
systematic structures for the relief of the poor, yclept
" Unions," not many years ago the following rather sin-
gular mistake happened :—The chaplain of the union, the
Rev. —, having been called to a distance on business,
engaged his friend, the Rev. —, to perform divine ser-
vice in the chapel of the union on a certain Sunday. The
latter is an excellent mathematician, but a singularly
" absent" man ; and the latter failing or f culty frequently
brought him into queer situations, not the least embarras-
sing of which arose out of this very union engagement.
Mr. was punctual to the hour in his visit to the town
on the morning in question. It happened that the union
chapel is faced by a Roman Catholic chapel, in the vestry
of which, about the hour for commencing service, walked
a gentleman, a stranger to the sexton, but showing enough
of the "points" of the profession to satisfy the latter that
it was some strange " holy father" come to officiate at
mass for the priest then in charge of the mission. The
stranger being apparently chary of words, intimated by
familiar gestures hie wish to be robed, and accordingly
the priestly paraphernalia was speedily displayed upon
the person. Apparently it struck him that he had donned
rather more :than the usual vestments for the reading
desk. He was:absorbed at wondering at his finery, and
busily engaged in feeling the stiff embroidery of his cope,
and regarding with wonder the silky texture of his other
flowing robes, when another gentleman entered the vestry
room, and the following colloquy took place. Second
comer—May I inquire who it is that I have the pleasure
to address ? First comer—By all means ; my name is
and I have come here this morning to officiate for
Mr. —. Second comer—But, my dear air, Mr. —is
a clergyman of the Church of England, and this is a ca-
tholic chapel ! First corner—A what ! Catholic chapel !
So, so. I beg a thousand pardons. I have made a very
singular mistake. I thought that I was in the union over
the way.—Worcester Herald.

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A Herefordshire paper relates that an expectant bride- PRECAUTIONARY HINTS ON BODILY HEALTH.—Every
groom visited his betrothed lady on the evening before the man has an unfailing barometer in his own person. He
day which had been fixed for the wedding, and in the knows, if he will know, what elevates and what depresses
course of conversation observed, that as he intended that the quicksilver of his bodily health. The great thing is
the £5OO which constituted her portion should be paid to keep up the general health to the highest possible
down, he might as well take the money home with him standard ; and this is best to be done, not by resorting to
that evening ; but to his utter discomfiture, the lady and any violent changes, but by adhering to that diet and
her parents were so indignant at the mercenary nature of regimen which experience has taught him to consider not
his affection, that he was instantly turned out of the only safe but salutrrv—regarding, of course, all peculiar
house, and was forbidden ever again to speak to the lady. symptoms which may induce him to vary either the one
Amongst other matters important for this country to or the other, and adapting both to those atmospherical
know, is the vast number of emigrants arriving in the viccissitudes which indicate, at all times, the propriety of
United States from Europe, and more especially from the some modification, and especially when a virulent epidemic
United Kingdom, and which are constantly adding to the is committing its ravages among the people. It is the
numbers, the wealth, and the power of those states. fate even of the most salutary articles of human food to
From sunrise to noon 1800 emigrants landed at New have discredit thrown upon them by the excesses of those
York, and in the afternoon 934 more landed, making who have suffered by their abuse of good gifts, intended
2" in one dr -1I in 1— • -nd

ay rovidence for the promotion, not the prostration, of
the health and vigour of the human family.—Herald.
On Monday, nineteen young women, in a very dis-
tressed state, applied to the Clerkenwell magistrate for
relief under the following circurnstances.—They had been
engaged by a Mr. Owen, in Goswell-street, Clerkenwell,
to work at " ladies cloakmaking" in a room at No. 60.
Goswell-street, early in the morning till late at night, at
the rate of Os. a week. On Saturday night the forewoman
took the cloaks to Mr. Pawson's establishment, in St.
Paul's Churchyard, and returned saying she could not get
the money, and the applicants were in consequence desti-
tute and starving. They could not find either Mr. Owen
or the forewoman, and many of them had had nothing be-
yond a bit of dry bread during the whole time they had
been at work. Some person present answered for Mr.
Pawson that. he would not knowingly encourage su:th pro-
ceedings, and undertook to see him and explain the cir-
cumstances ; he also promised work to some of them im-

something for their immediate necessity, and the poor
half-famished creatures appeared very grateful for the
kind attention shown them and returned thanks with tears
in their eves.