The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-16 00:00:00

AN ANCIENT PARTY.—Last week a singular wedding took
place at the village of Shurdington, Gloucestershire; the
the bridegroom was 72, the bride 69 ; the bridesman 76, and
the bridesmaid 73 years old.—He'reford Journal.
MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE IN HIGLI LIFE.—To-day Mr.
Hugh Williams, the owner of vast estates in Wales, will
lead to the altar Miss Wynn, the sister of Sir Watkin Williams
Wynn, Bart.

The commander of her Majesty's ship Spartan, arrived at
Vera Cruz, reported that he saw the hull of a large steamship
while off St. Thomas, which vessel was, probably, lost some-
where in that latitude.
Mr. Walshaw, clock and watchmaker, of Knareshorough,
it is said, has constructed a magnetic engine, in a compact
and portable form, having condensed within the limits of- six
inches square, a power equal to forty pounds in weight.
PORT or PRESTON.—On Tuesday last, several merry peals
were rung upon the bells of the Parish Church, to announce
the news of Preston having been granted the privileges of an
independent port.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—In the year 1742 the county of
Fermanagh was represented in the Irish parliament by Henry
Brooke, Esq. and Nicholas Archdall, Esq. The present re-
presentatives of that county in the imperial parliament are
Mervyn Archdall, Esq. and Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart.
A new London Newspaper, called The British Lion, and
Courier of London, published three days a week, has been
commenced during the present week. Its principal object is
stated to be to defend the Landed and Agricultural Interests,
and to give battle to the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers.
A London commercial traveller was arrested at Carlisle
last week, when ten bottles of Scotch whiskey were found in
his "carpet bag." He pleaded ignorance of the excise laws,
and by way of a practical lesson the magistrate fined him
£25.

It is said that only two regiments are to remain in China
—the 18th and 98th; and that the 55th will return home on
the arrival of the four companies of the 98th, now under or-
ders for llong Kong—the first division of which will embark
in the Cornwall, now fitting at Portsmouth.
A class was opened, a short time ago, at the Royal Poly-
technic Institution, in London, for the instruction of naval
men in the use and application of steam power to paddle-
wheels, propellers, and other apparatus used in steam
navigation.

A LONG STEAM-110AT.-Mr. Burden, of Troy, is now i❑
New York, making arrangements to construct a steam-boat
six hundred feet long! She is expected to make the trip
from New York to Troy, 160 miles, in five hours !
Albany Atlas.
Councillor Timothy O'Brien has been nominated for the
office of Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year, by a
majority of five over Councillor Fagan : according to the new
bill of Lord Elliot, the election is fixed for the Ist of De-
cember.

An influential body of gentlemen have resolved upon the
immediate construction of railroad carriages from Dublin to
Portuuma and Ballanisloe : they intend to act upon the at-
mospheric principle, and to avail themselves of the banks of
the Royal Canal.
A renewed effort is about to be made for the establishment
of a bank for British India, with its centre resting in London
a respectable deputation had an interview on the subject yes-
terday week with the Earl of Ripon, the President of the
Board of Trade, which, as far as it went, proved satisfactory.
There is now living at Marham, near Downham, Suffolk,
an old lady named Alice Dye, who was born on the 3d of
March, 1752, and who has had the following offspring .-3
sons, -1 daughters, 71 grand-children, 180 great grand-child-
ren, 20 great-great-grand-children—total, 206.
A commission has been appointed by government to in-
quire into the condition of children among the colliers and
miners in Shropshire, together with the counties of Worces-
ter, Stafford, and Warwick, and to report the result of their
inquiries to parliament. The sum of £650 has been voted
for the expenses of conducting this commission.
Mrs Rees, a lady of fortune was tried on Wednesday, at
the Westminster Sessions, and acquitted, on a charge of Lav-
ing stolen a pair of white silk stockings in the shop of a ho-
sier in Regent-street. She is related to some of the first
families in Wales, and had several thousand pounds in her
pocket at the time of the alleged theft.
Messrs. Rimmingtons and Younges of Sheffield, have pub-
licly notified to their friends that they have made arrange-
ments to retire from their business as bankers, in favour of
the Sheffield and Retford Bank, the business of which estab-
lishment was on 'Wednesday last, removed to the bank in
High-street, Sheffield.
MANCHESTER CORPORATION—MR. OSWALD MILNE.—
This gentleman's claim, (X 34,000) for loss of fees as magis-
trates' clerk at the New Bailey, has been declared by the
Mayor and Corporation of Manchester invalid. This com-
munication was made to Mr. Milne on Thursday. Mr.
Milne has the right of appeal to the Privy Council—a right
which he will, no doubt, forthwith exercise.
A model frigate, to be called the Victoria, is now in course
of building, by order of the Privy Council Committee on
Education, and is intended to be let into the green sward in
front of the boy's school at Greenwich Hospital, for the in-
struction of the boys. The school vessel will be frigate
rigged, measuring 500 tons burthen, mounting IS guns, and
fitted in every respect as for actual service.
Among the articles disposed of in the eighth day's sale of
Lord Berwick's library, was a copy of " Magna Charts,"
printed on vellum in letters of gold, with portraits of King
John and his barons ; with the Duke of York's speech
against the Catholic Relief Bill, printed on vellum in letters
of gold, in one volume, in a morocco case, with lock and
key. Fol. ISM This copy was executed for a royal per-
sonage, and was bought by Pickering for £5B.
DANGEROUS LUNATIC.—About a week since, a fine young
girl. about nine years old, named Ross, was going to school
at Ballymacateer, about half a mile from Lurgan, when she
was pursued by a mischievous idiot, named M'Crory, and so
affrighted was the poor child that, on arriving at the school,
she sank exhausted on a form, where she soon fell asleep.
On arriving at home she was put to bed, from which she
never rose, having died in four or five days afterwards.
A Wtnow's LasT TEAR.—There was a buxom widow in
Exeter, whose husband died a few weeks since; she followed
him to the grave as a widow should, and on turning to depart
her handkerchief fell into it, and settled on the coffin. Some
anxious friends who mourned with her instantly offered to
rescue it from the grave. " Let it alone !" she said, ex-
claiming—" I've done with tears now !" Not many days
elapsed before that widow was rewived, and then the honest
gossips of the neighbourhood remembered the token of the
last tear.—West of England Conservative.
A'TOUGH OLD WOMAN.—In Oultsmoral, Clyne, Suther-
landahire, there lives an old woman, born in 1722, who is still
able to take care of herself, and can even knit stockings yet.
She was married in 1760, and has been a widow 51 years;
has had a large family, and has seen her great grandchildren.
She was very stout and tall—five feet nine inches, but now
she is much bent. She has still a capital memory. There
were not many men in the parish that could match her for
strength. She never felt the least symptoms of sickness—
never was in the hands of the doctors. Her name is Ann
Sutherland, alias M'Aie, and site is a native of the High-
lands.— Caledonian Mercury.
THE BANS FORBID !—An unusual circumstance occurred
in Kingstone Church, in this country, on Sunday last, dur-
ing divine service. The clergyman published the names of
James Morgan and Jane Morgan as persons about to enter
the estate of matrimony, when up started a young girl of the
name of Emma Cooke, and exclaimed, " I forbid the bans !"
The congregation were struck with astonishment, and were
of course in the dark as to the reason of such a proceeding.
It has since transpired that Mr. James Morgan had paid his
addresses to Miss Emma Cooke, and continued them up to
the month of May, on the first of which he forsook his first
love, and obtained the consent of another to become his
bride. Whether this is a valid ground of objection against
the publication of the bans, or a case for the lawyers in the
shape of a breach of promise of marriage, is a point which we
do dot pretend to decide.—Hereford Journal.
DREADFUL THUNDER-STORM AT RAPHOE.—About two
o'clock, p.m., on Monday, a continued noise of thuneer from
the north-east gave notice of an approaching storm, and,
until half-past two, the rain descended in torrents. About
three o'clock the inhabitants were horrified by a fearful peal,
accompanied by most vivid lightning. After the dismay had
subtitled, it was found that the steeple of the cathedral was
very much damaged. Its massive walls (nearly sixty feet
thick) have been, on the north-east side, fairly split open.
The cathedral windows, on the same side, are altogether
broken in. It appears that some of the electric matter passed
through the church, as, in many parts of the aisles, pieces
of flagging are broken up. Windows have been broken in
many of the houses in the town. A cabin has been thrown
down ; and the house inhabited by Captain Crawley, of the
police, is so much injured, that it is no longer safe to live in.
No lives have been lost, though several persons were pros-
trated to the ground by the violence of the shock.—Derry
Standard.

MACKAY THE MURDERER.—We understand that there
is little alteration in this unfortunate criminal since receiving
sentence of death, He sleeps well, and his appetite is by l
means affected. He is daily visited by the prison chaplains,
is
and listens attentively to their instructions. Indeed so ear.'
nestly has he devoted himself to preparing for the great
change that awaits him, that although a very illiterate perso
when first taken into custody, he can now read, and has com-
mitted to memory a number of psalms and hymns. He has
been visited by some relations of his murdered wife, but the
interviews have not affected him to any extent, nor has his
general health suffered in the slightest degree from his for-
lorn and wretched condition. As a precaution, a prison at-
tendant spends the night in the little apartment adjoining,
and looking into, the condemned cell. Mr. A. Young, agent
for the prisoner, very properly transmitted to the care of
Sir James Graham, on Monday last, a petition addressed to
Her Majesty, praying a commutation of the sentence—the
result of which cannot yet be known. If nothing takes
place, however, to interrupt the sentence of the court,
Mackay will suffer the last penalty of of the law on Thurs-
day, the 18th inst.—Glasgow Chronicle.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon last an
accident of a singular nature occurred on the premises of
Messrs. John and Samuel Barrett, millers, Todd-street,
under the following circumstances :—During the whole of
he day a man named William Entwistle, together with
another man, had been assisting to unload some sacks of meal
from carts by means of a teagle. Each set of carts having
been unloaded, the meal was discharged out of the sacks
through a hole in the room, about 18 inches square, into a
large bin underneath. Having been so engaged for some
time, Tomlinson, the man working along with deceased,
heard a noise as of the truck falling, and on going to the spot
he perceived that the deceased had fallen headlong through
the hole, and had sunk about a yard deep into the meal, with
his feet uppermost. With the assistance of soms fellow-
workmen he was extricated, after having been in the bin
about three minutes. Medical aid was called in, and all was
done that could be to restore him ; but he died in about
twenty minutes, having been smothered with the meal, part
of which he had inhaled. An inquest was held on the body
on Tuesday, at the Dog and Partridgelnn, before Mr. Chap..
man, borough coroner, and a verdict of accidental death was
returned, accompanied with a request from the jury that the
coroner would write to Messrs. 13arratt to have the hole
closed in future during the interval between the emptying and
unloading the sacks.—Maucheder Guardian.