The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

Ortitral Aliatilanp.

No further riot has takan place at Bradford.
Good fresh mackerel were sold in Bristol last week at a.
penny each.
A few days since a monster, in human shape, roasted a
hedgehog alive, which he had found accidentally.

Two inert at Bradford, charged with illegally training
and drilling in that neighbourhood, have been committed
for trial.

A shepherd, named Macquat, was killed a few days since,
at Leadhill, Lanarkshire, during a thunder-storm.

A female at Bath, named Mrs. Gurriott, has-died from
the effects of the bite of a cat which was ill at the time
the poor woman was bitten.
By a notice in the Gazette of Tuesday, Berwich-upon-
Tweed is appointed an English port, from and after this
day.

The Duke of Sutherland subscribed the noble sum of
£70,000 for the relief of the suffering people during the
famine in the Highlands.

The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Polish Asso-
ciation, took place at Willis's-rooms, on Monday night.
There were upwards of 700 persons present..
Potatoes and bread are the same price per gallon in•
Salisbury at the present time, namely, 10d.—a circum-
stance probably without parallel within memory.
The John Bull says that Mrs. Mitchel is mot only not
the niece of Sir W. Verner, but that she has no claim
whatever to relationship with him.
Some asparagus, grown by Mr. Hesell, gardener, Bar-
near Bristol, measures four inches and a half in
girth, and is twelve inches in length !
The first premium of £lOO has been unanimously
awarded to Messrs. Tnompsom and Johnstone, Eccleston-
square, London, for their plan of the County Infirmary
about to be built in the city of Durham.
Cheltenham is at present inundated with Irish paupers.
Scores are arriving daily, and-a committee has been
formed to provide a building in the outskirts of the town,
for the reception of the casual poor.

MODEL LODGING-HOUSES FOR FAMILIES.—The Queen
Dowager has forwarded to the committee of the above so-
ciety £l5O, the Duchess of Kent £lOO, and the Duchess
of Gloucester £5O.

At Birmingham, on Monday, there was an attempted
demonstration on behalf of the Irish confederate Mitchell,
but only fifty persons made their appearance, and these
were soon dispersed by a sharp shower of rain.
DISINFECTING FLulns.—The Literary Gazette lately
stated that the cesspools of Westminster had been opened
to prove the efficacy of disinfecting fluids ; and that a
dangerous typhus was the result.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The East London Waterworks
Company and the British Gaslight Company have gene-
rously afforded gratuitous supplies of water and gas to
the model establishment, Goulston-square, Whitechapel.
SINGULAR CIRCUSTANCE.—Last week, while some
men were getting gravel in the river Trent, between
Torksey and Dunham, a fine salmon leaped into the boat,
and was captured. It weighed 181b.—Notts Journal.
In several towns in Yorkshire, a dramatic performance,
entitled " John Barleycorn," has been represented in aid
of the temperence movement. The scene is a court of
justice, and John is tried and found guilty of many crimes
and offences. .

Haymaking operations were commenced in the neigh-
bourhood of Bath a week ago, and the market was last
week well supplied with green peas and other garden pro-
ductions. The former were reduced in price within a day
or two from 2s. to 9d. and Bd. per peck.
A day or two ago, Mr. Kent, a baker, of Mold, and his
journeyman, died in consequence of eating some poison-
ous herb, while gathering hop-top in the fields. Mr.
Kent's apprentice, who likewise ate some of the herb, is
also dangerously ill, and not likely to recover.
Near Brough, in Westmoreland, al6-inch seam of coal
is ascertained to extend over a considerable district, being
situated between the 4 fm. limestone and that beneath ;
it has a plate roof of considerable thickness, extending to
within 4 or 5 ft. of the limestone.
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SUICI CE.—On Friday, while John Hopper, eldest son of
the late Mr. Ralph Hopper, of Benwell fishery, was walk-
ing leisurely on Backworth waggon-way, Durham, a train
of 14 coal waggons coming down, he purposely threw him-
self before them across one of the rails, and was killed on
the spot.
HUNTINGDON.—His Grace the Duke of Manchester
presided, on Tuesday, the 30th May, over a preliminary
meeting for the purpose of establishing a Protestant Asso-
ciation. The attendance was numerous and respectable.
Many clergymen were present. The meeting was ad=
dressed by J. E. Gordon, Esq., and James Lord, Esq.
A CONSIDERATE SoN.—A ew weeks ago, the son of a
joiner, residing within a hundred miles of Alfreton, being
short of work, made a coffin for his father, who lay ill,
stating as his reason for so doing, that trade might stir,
and if anything happened to the old man he should be all
of a bustle. The old man is still living.
A flock of sheep consisting of about 200, and belonging
to Mr. Pinckney, of Amesbury, have been deliberately
poisoned. Since January last, about twenty died a-day.
£lOO reward having been offered, information was given
which caused the apprehension of a labourer in the neigh-
bourhood.

JESUITS IN ENGLAND.—A numerous party of Jesuits,
who have recently been compelled to leave Italy, will
shortly occupy Ugborough-house, near Chudleigh, which
is now being prepared for their reception. This splendid
mansion is the property of Lord Clifford, who is a zealous
Roman Catholic. _

On Monday last, the towns of Newcastle, Shields,
Sunderland and Durham were flooded by the overflowing
of the Tyne and Wear, occasioned by heavy rains. At
Bishopwearmouth the kitchen of a house was inundated so
rapidly by the bursting of a sewer, that a woman and two
children were drowned.
The state of the affairs of Messrs. Carr, Tagmore, and
Co., indicates the fearful depreciation of the value of mer-
cantile property which has recently occurred. When
Dwarkenath Togmore left Calcutta on his last visit to
England, he believed himself worth half a million sterling;
in three years his house is in the Insolvent Court !
ISOPATHY.—A new species of quackery has made its
appearance in Germany, and is now becoming known
under the name of isopathy. According to this system,
when a person is afflicted in any particular part, say the
liver or the lungs, he is dieted on the same portions of
animal food for a certain time, or until he recover.
In a letter recently published by the Due de Joinville,
he says, " our family could earn their living. As to me,
a company in London has offered me the command of a
vessel destined for India, so that you see that we can
battle against want. My wife and my dear little ones are
well. May we again behold our native land !"
The meetings of Chartists have induced several parties
in London, to come forward to be sworn in as special
constables. Among the specials sworn in were the Mar-
quis of Worcester, the Marquis of Northampton, the
Marquis of Drogheda, the Marquis of Hertford, Earl
Howe, Mr. Fitzroy Somerset, and all the servants of the
establishment of the Duke of Beaufort.
FATAL THUNDERSTORM.—On Sunday afternoon week
the town and neighbourhood of Leeds were visited by a
heavy storm of rain, accompanied with loud thunder ana
lightning. Several buildings were slightly damaged by
the lightning, but the inmates generally escaped without
injury. One man was killed by the electric fluid at Fars-
ley, about five miles from the town.
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—MISS H. Wells, the
only daughter of Mrs. Burgoyne Wells, relict of Capt. B.
Wells, who fell in the Affghanistan war, and heiress to a
fortune of twenty thousand pounds, eloped last week from
Chislehurst with a stone-mason named Graydon, and they
were married at St. John's Church. The fortunate lover
is a person of herculanean and robust frame, and the lady
is six feet in height, with but one eye.
Abraham Simmonds, a publican, was charged on Mon-
day before the Lord Mayor of London with being in pos-
session of two Bank of England notes for £l,OOO each,
well knowing that they had been'stol en. The accusation
arose out of a robbery committed in 1843 upon Mr. Blake-
more, M.P. for Wells, in an omnibus. Two of three
£l,OOO notes stolen from that gentleman were found to be
in the possession of the prisoner. The prisoner stated that
he had received the notes at Epsom in payment of a bet.
He was remanded for further inquiry. Bail was refused.

Salter, a livery stable-keeper broiight an action in the
Westminster County Court against Earl Fitzhardinge for
£15.155., the hire of a horse ridden by Mrs. Barker. The
Earl hired the horse for Mrs. Barker in 1846, and after-
wards bought it ; and the question was whether the £l5
15s. was not to have been included in the £65 paid for the
horse. The plaintiff's books were produced, and the entry
of the hiring was found to be in interpolated writing.
The Judge thought the item had been " squeezed in "
long since 1846, and gave judgment for the defendant.
ALLEGED FORGERY.—The Rev. William Richardson
Robinson, a non-beneficed clergyman, and a man of very
intemperate habits, has been committed to Appleby gaol
for trial at the next assizes, on a charge of having forged
a bill for £35, and presented it for acceptance at the
Lancaster Branch Bank at Kirby Lonsdale. Mr. Robin-
son had just been appointed master of Bowness school,
and is son of the late Dr. Robinson, of Clifton, near Pen-
rith. He is a married man but has for some time past
been seperated from his wife.
A MAN ACCIDENTALLY SnoT.---On Wednesday, Mr.
Robert Baters, of Ripon, was found lying dead in the
road. The deceased was in the habit of going to a garden
which he had, for the purpose of shooting sparrows ; and
the supposition was, that deceased was attempting to open
the garden gate, as the key was in the padlock, and the
gate from two to three inches open, and that in the act of
stooping to open the lock, with the gun under his left arm,
the trigger, by coming in contact with his knee or the
gate, caused its discharge.
On Tuesday, a man and three horses were drowned in a
pool, at a place called Cinder Bank, near Netherton,
whither it appeared the deceased, Joseph Anslow, a wag-
goner in the employ of the Bilston Flour Mill Company,
had taken the horses to water, having left the waggon on
the road contiguous thereto. It appears that the horses
were attached by the traces, and Anslow was riding on
the leading horse. After the deceased had watered the
horses, he rode them into.the pool a second time, for the
purpose of cooling them, when the leading horse got out
of his depth, and dragged the other horses after him.
SUICIDE OF THE QUEEN'S TRUMPETER.—Mr. G. C.
Roberts, aged sixty, the Queen's trumpeter, committed
suicide early on Monday, by cutting his arm with a razor,
then his throat, and leaping from a parapet into his garden,
where he was found in a pool of blood from the wounds
stated, with a leg fractured in two places. He was very
eccentric, and under the delusion that in consequence of
the recent proceedings in Paris, and the meetings of the
chartists here, he should come to poverty. He often sat
up for nights together attending to his plants in hisgreen-
houses, or killing slugs in the garden.