The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY,

At a quarter past seve❑ o'clock on Saturday morning her
Majesty left Walmer Castle in a close travelling carriage and
four en route for Windsor. The Queen and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert were escorted by a detachment of Hussars,
and preceded by outriders in scarlet liveries. Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal fol-
lowed in another carriage and four, and were attended by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Miss Skei rett. Ina third car-
riage were Vicountess Canning, Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir
Edward Bowater, and Mr. Anson. The Grenadier Guards
were drawn up near the drawbridge and saluted the Queen as
her Majesty entered the carriage, and the Thunderer, at
anchor off the Castle, fired a royal salute.
At Canterbury great demonstrations greeted her Majesty.
The Queen left the Fountain Hotel at nine o'clock, and pro-
ceeded by the most direct route to the Great Western Rail-
way station on her way to Windsor.
On arriving in the interior of the station, her Majesty with
Prince Albert alighted from her carriage, and proceeded to
the waiting-room, followed by the attendants bearing the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. In this room ad-
ditional accommodation had been provided for her Majesty's
special use. Her Majesty was met at the entrance to the
waiting-room by Mr. Russell, M.P., chairman of the Board
of Directors, and by Mr. Saunders, the secretary, and Mr.
Clarke, the superintendent of the Company. Her Majesty
remained for a few; minutes in the waiting-room before she
proceeded on to Slough. At about 25 minutes past three,
she came out, attended by Prince Albert, and followed by the
attendants with the children. Her Majesty looked well, and
walked with a firm and elastic step, not leaning on the Prince
for support. She wore a pale pink bonnet trimmed with
black lace, a black velvet mantle surmounted by a deep collar
of Chinchilla fur, and a pale gray coloured silk dress. Imme-
diately afterwards, her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince,
entered the elegant and costly carriage provided for her spe-
cial use by the Company. Before her Majesty entered, how-
ever, she saw the two children into the carriage, and com-
fortably settled. Not till then did she enter herself.
Much pleasure was expresesd by the spectators at the ex-
cellent view they were able to obtain of the heir apparent and
his illustrious sister. The former wore a round cap of purple
velvet, with a broad band of gold, and was wrapped in a
robe of Stuart tartan. The Princess Royal bad on a bonnet
of the same colour as her Majesty. At half-past three, the
train had started for Slough, being three-quarters of an hour
after the carriages took up the escort at New Crsss.

WINDSOR, SATURDAY EVENING.

This afternoon, at twenty minutes past four o'clock, her
Majesty and suite arrived at the Castle from Walmer, ac-
companied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, having tra-
velled from Paddington to Slough in the state carriage of
the Great Western Railway Company. Her Majesty was
escorted from the Slough station by a detachment of the 2d
Life Guards.
Her Majesty appeared in excellent health and spirits, and
but very slightly fatigued by her lengthened journey. The
loyal inhabitants of the town assembled in very considerable
numbers in the High-street, and on Castle Hill. to greet her
Majesty on her return from Kent.

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.

(From the Newcastle Journal.)

A very '()Teat sensation has ceen produced in this neigh-
bourhood by a most daring act of house-breaking and at-
tempted murder, which occurred on Sunday morning last, at
Gateshead Low Fell, about three miles from this town. The
situation of the premises is somewhat retired, lying more than
a quarter of a mile from the Turnpike-road leading from
Gateshead to Durham, in rather a wild mountainous district,
overlooking the vale of Ravensworth. The only inmates of
the house were an aged maiden lady, named Miss Robinson,
her servant, Ruth Lawson, and a companion, named Miss
Clarke, aged and very infirm. Miss Robinson is a lady of in-
dependent circumstances, nearly sixty years of age, living in
Kell's-place. The house was one of two built together, with
gardens in front, the back yard wall adjoining a field. The
family retired to bed as usual at an early hour on Saturday
night, Miss Robinson's bed-room being on the same floor
with that occupied by the servant girl and Miss Clark, who
slept together. It appears from the statement of the girl,
Ruth Lawson, who has lived with Miss Robinson for about
two years and a half, that at about four o'clock in the morn-
ing she was awoke by a noise in the house, when she heard,
her mistress crying out, and thought she was unwell. She
answered, "coming, coming," and instantly jumped out of
bed, and went on to the stair-bead. She then saw a light in
her mistress's bed-room, and heard the voice of a man talking
to her mistress, telling her to " hold her tongue or it would
be worse for her." On hearing this the girl was alarmed,
and ran back into her bed-room, and closed the door after
her. She then heard her mistress cry out " murder, mur-
der," as loud as she could, and, summoning her courage, she
again ventured out, and entered her mistress's room, having
heard the men, as she thought, go down stairs. On entering
the room she found her mistress on the floor with her head
in a pool of blood, and apparently in a dreadfully mangled
condition.

- Miss Robinson's account of what occurred is as follows :
she states that about a quarter to four o'clock she was awoke
by a noise in her bed-room, and when she looked up she saw
a light, and two men were standing one on each side of her
bed. One of them had a candle in his hand. The men had
their faces blacked and their persons were disfigured by sack-
ing or canvas wrapper tied over their clothes. On looking
up, one of them assumed a menacing attitude and said,
" Y're money or y're life." Miss Robinson was horror-
struck, but she maintained her self-possession, and replied,
" Oh, I'll give you all the money I have," and she was in
the act of getting out of bed, when one of the men struck
her behind the head with an iron pinch. She shouted out
" murder " as loud as she was able, and it is probable that
the men had heard the servant girl upon the stair-head, as
they then left the room and made their escape from the house.
On examining the lower apartments it was found that every
place had been ransack'd. Drawers bad been examined, the
silver candlesticks and chimney-piece ornaments removed,
the piano-forte opened, and, indeed, every place searched
where it might be supposed money would be placed. The
only money thsy appear to have got was in the servant's box
which stood in the kitchen, and from thence they took one
sovereign, half a sovereign, and three shillings and sixpence
in silver.

Two men are now in custody charged with the offence.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT CALCUTTA.

(From the accounts by the Overland Mail.)

One of the most dreadful accidents that has ever been
known in Calcutta occurred in the Old China Bazaar, on last
Friday evening. Between the hours of four and five that
evening, Mr. Hudson, son of Mr. N. Hudson, of the Supreme
Court, had gone to a shop in the Old China Bazaar, a little
beyond the place where hats are sold, and just at the north-
west angle of the road which runs into Doomtollah, for the
purchase of gunpowder. Mr. Hudson was in a buggy, ac-
companied by two other gentlemen, who remained in' the
vehicle at the shop-door, while Mr. Hudson entered to
bargain for the article. The only surviving witness of the
transaction is a boy belonging to an opposite shop, who could,
from his position, look into the shop where Mr. Hudson was.
and who saw some powder shown to him by the powder-
vender. He next observed Mr. Hudson thrust his hand into
what he believes to have been an open barrel of gunpowder,
and take out a handful of the contents. Mr. Hudson was
then seen to raise his hand, as if to examine what he had
taken out, and immediately after the boy saw a small blaze,
produced, no doubt, by the ignition of the powder in Mr.
Hudson's hand by contact with the lighted end of a cigar
which he was smoking. It is believed, that as the powder in
his hand blazed, Mr. Hudson jerked his hand instinctively,
and thus communicated the fire to the barrel which stood
near him. In an instant more the entire shop, with one or
two other shops on each side adjoining, was blown up into
the air, and masses of masonry, rubbish, and timbers, flew
in all directions.

All the inmates in the shop were buried in the ruins, toge-
ther with a number of passengers in the street, who were
seriously, and many of them mortally, injured, and have
since died. Mr. Hudson perished among the rest, and from
the place and position in which he was found, which was
just near the entrance of the ill-fated shop. his body being
completely doubled up, with his face on his boots, it is be-
lieved, that notwithstending the blast from the powder, he
made an effort to gain the street, but was intercepted by the
fall of the ruins over him. The unfortunate young man's
apparel was almost all destroyed by the blaze, and the only
things found whole on him were his boots, a Prayer-book,
which was in one of his pantaloon pockets, and a penknife
and keys. The parts of his person which escaped disfigure-
ment were his face and feet. Immediately after the occur-
rence the police succeeded in clearing away a great portion of
the ruins, and extricating several bodies.
There were no less than 35 persons injured by this most
dreadful occurrence, 12 of whom were found dead on the
spot. There was one poor native found buried alive among
the ruins with only his head above. He was extricated and
removed to the hospital, and is expected to survive. A na-
tive woman, who was passing the street at the time, got her
leg so seriously fractured by one of the timbers thrown up
by the explosion as to require the amputation of that limb.
The majority of those injured were scorched by the blaze.
Of these no less than 22, inclusive of Mr. Hudson, are dead.
and among the remaining 13 out of 35 in hospital, several
were in a precarious state up to Saturday evening. A lady
and child who were passing that way at the time, are said to
have been thrown out of their palanquin by the shock, and
are believed to have suffered serious injury ; but we have
been unable to learn who they were, or the extent of their
injury.
The shock produced by the explosion was so great, as not
only to have been felt in all the surrounding building, but in
many at a distance. Some of the large houses in Rada
Bazaar and Clive-street Ghat are said to have experienced it
very severely. It ought to be stated, that the companions of
Mr. Hudson most providentially escaped. The buggy horse
at the first flash of the powder took fright and ran away, and
thus put those in the buggy beyond the danger, which other-
wise they must have shared. An inquest was held by the
coroner. The jury repaired to the Medical College to in-
spect the bodies, where few juries must have beheld a sight
more painfully revolting than they did. There were 21 stiff
and scorched up corpses laid out side by side, some of them
presenting the most shocking appearance of disfigurement.

Cod-fish is selling at Bath and Bristol, at 2d. a lb.
Lady Alexandrina Vane, daughter of the Marquis of Lon-
donderry, is alarmingly ill of inflammation of the chest.
The King of Prussia has given orders for the formation, in
Berlin, of a winter garden, similar to that of Breslau, but on
a more magnificent scale.
It appears that coffee, the importation of the present
season, is 25 per cent. cheaper than those of the last several
years.
The funds of the savings' bank at Richmond, Surrey, have
been embezzled to the amount of £lO5O, by its secretary,
Captain Bo'stead, a person who is highly connected, held
other appointments, and is a captain in the Surrey militia.
We understand there has been eight hundred pounds
lodged in the Killarney Saving's Bank during the past week,
by the poorer classes of the community. This is no bad symp-
tomof the times.—Kerry Post
It a
that the Prince de Joinville (third son of King
Louis
r" hppe) is to be married immediately to a Brazilian
Princess, and that his sister, the Princess Clementine of Or-
lean, is to b
WORTHY 01:grall,lf
Coburg, brother very shortly married to Prince Augustus of
mltrhAeTKiniNtig......ofmPro.rtEuvgaanl.
Evans,
of Llwyn-
fynwent, Llan
tenants on the presenatrch, has returned ten per cent. to his
wasp reviously let at atid last year's rental, though his land
hood—he has, besides puler rate than any in the neighbour-
' without any deductionasilo the buildings in thorough re-
pail,n that score.—Brecon paper.
It is stated that about two years ago, the shares in the
Rochdale Canal were worth about
the opening of the Manchester and
Leeds‘() each, but that since
Railway, owing to
the necessary reduction of the tolls arising
tition, the dividends have been so much from the wing
to
reduced that the
shares now fetch barely £4O each.
UNEQUALLED SERVITUDE ON THE RIVER
Mr. —, the late boarding clerk for the St.
Katherine Dock
THAMES.—
Company at Gravesend, during nine years' residence
" boarded," and frequently with unexpected success there,to h
employers, in an open boat, 17 feet 10 inches in length, no
fewer than 20,710 vessels from foreign ports, in doing, which,
he sailed, by correct calculation, no fewer than 29,790 miles,
being a distance greater than once round the world. The
gentleman alluded to as having performed this unequalled
feat is still in the St. Katherine Dock Company's service,
although in a different capacity.