The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

SALE OF THE STEAM SHIP WORK

sale of these wo

The Great Western Steam
Ship Company; or a portion of it, bought the works in for
£27,000, the original cost having been £45,090, and we hear
they will now be enabled to manufacture for the public.—
Bristol Standard.

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DEATH OF LADY FRANCES PRILLOTT.—Her layship died
at Bath on Sunday last. The deceased, who was the youngest
daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Howth, and aunt of the
present earl, was relict of the late venerable Dr. James
Phillott, Archdeacon of Bath, and was upwards of 80 years
of age.

GIGANTIC HADDOCK.—On the 14th ult. a haddock, of the
following extraordinary dimensions, was caught off Findhorn
and brought for sale at Forres fish-market :—lt measured 3
feet long, 19 inches in circumference at the thickest part of
its body, and weighed 131 b. It was bought by a thrifty host-
ess in town for 3d.—Forres Gazette.

CRUEL ROBBERY.—On Saturday night last the cottage of
a poor industrious widow, in the village of Tredington, was
broken open during her temporary absence attending on a
sick neighbour, and a chest of drawers carried away which
was found in an adjoining field broken open and rifled of a
sovereign, a half sovereign, and a quantity of silver, the hard
earnings of a life of toll, together with a silver watch, and all
the wearing apparel she possessed.—Gloucestershire Chro-
nicle.

On Monday last Humphrey Ovenden, a fine young man,
of great promise, son of Charles Ovenden, Esq., J.P., went
into an island in Lough Erne, opposite Rossfad-house, to
shoot rabbits, where he had killed two, and on his return was
shot dead by his fowling-piece having accidentally discharged.
The boat was discovered floating with the current, and some
persons on the shore supposing it had been carried from its
moorings, and that the unfortunate young man had been left
on the island, pushed from the land to secure it, when he was
discovered lying in the bottom.—Enniskillen Reporter.

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY PROM DROPSY !—Mrs.
Pickering, fifty-nine years of age, and wife to a pensioner re-
siding near Castledawson, laboured under abdominal dropsy
for more than two years, during which period the operation
of tapping was performed seventy-three times, by Mr. Mac-
lean, of the above place—taking away' at each time from ten
to twelve quarts of fluid! She is now so far recovered as to
be able to attend to her usual household business—not hav-
ing had occasion for a repetition of the operation for the last
five months.—Ulster Times.

The following are the receipts of the principal railways for
the last week, that is to say, up to the date to which the re-
spective returns are made :—Blackwall, £505 ; Great North
of England, £1085; Hull and Selby, £545; Eastern Coun-
ties, £635; Birmingham, £12,408; Great Western, £9319 ;
Northern and Eastern, £778 ; South-Western, £3768 ;
North Midland, £325: Manchester and Birmingham, £305;
Midland Counties, £2138 ; Manchester and Leeds, £3784 ;
Birmingham and Derby, £1325; and York and North Mid-
land, £1145.
RAILWAY BETWEEN DUBLIN AND CORK.—A numerous
meeting of noblemen and gentlemen was held in Cork on
Thursday last, when resolutions were passed that a railway
from Cork to Dublin would be of great advantage to the in-
terests of the south of Ireland, and that the extension to
Cork of the proposed railway from Dublin to Kilkenny would
not only open a direct communication between the metropolis
and Cork, along with the existing stream of traffic, but would
also provide for the cities and towns of Carlow, Kilkenny,
Clonmel, Waterford, Wexford, and. Ross, a more ready means
of intercourse than any other line could give, while, at the
same time, such main line would admit of easy extension to
Limerick.

SNOW STORM IN SCOTLAND.—The snow storm continued
till Friday evening, being an onfall of nearly 48 hours. On
the last day it was accompanied by a keen frost, which har-
dened the particles as they fell and rendered locomotion par-
ticularly difficult. Most of the coaches were more or less
behind their time, and from Thursday till Sunday night the
English mail has been from four to five hours due before her
arrival, from which we learn that there has also been a heavy
fall to•the south. Saturday continued to be a day of severe
frost, but Sunday opened with a mild thaw, and in the course
of it a good deal of the:snow found its way from the streets
to the river in a melted state. We need scarcely say that an
embargo has been laid on all field labour.—Glasgow Herald.

STATISTICS OF MURDER.—The murders which have been
registered and noted in the abstracts (in Mr. Parr's letter to
the Registrar-General) on the authority of the verdicts of
coroners' juries, amounted in two years to 156—males 103 ;
females, 53. The proportion to the population is five to a
million annually, or lin 200,000. Of 148 persons murdered,
whose ages were abstracted, 78 were aged 20 and upwards.
If we assume that half the population is above 20 years of
age, about 53 in a million adults were murdered annually.
The number of cases in which verdicts of murder were
brought in was above the average in the south-western coun-
ties, in Lancashire and Cheshire, the south-eastern counties,
the north midland counties, and the metropolis. If infants
be excluded, the greatest proportion of murders occurred in
Lancashire and Cheshire; the smallest proportion in Essex,
Suffolk, and Norfolk.
INFAMOUS FABRICATION.—The Dublin Monitor has
earned most equivocal notoriety of late by putting forward
revolting fabrications, charging the commission of horrible
outrages upon " English officers " and " Orange miscreants"
and other very inhuman parties, who exist in very large num-
bers in the imagination of the aforesaid Monitor. Not con-
tent «i:11 a floating capital of falsehood on the subject of an
imaginary " fracas" between the Archbishop of Dublin and
the Lord Chancellor, the Monitor contained, a week ago,
a shocking detail of some English officers and a tory justice
of peace roasting an idiot boy at Philipstovvn, after bedaubing
him with oil of turpentine or some other application to make
their " Orange" gratification the more complete. Unfortu-
nately it seems that a coroner and twelve jurors upon oath
stated that the person to have come by his death "by the
visitarion of God ; " and the heartless profligacy, which
could for the purposes of faction invent such a story, has been
fully exposed.

ELECTION OF A SCOTTISH PEER.—On Wednesday the
peers of Scotland met in the picture gallery in the palace of
Holyrood-house, Edinburgh, to elect one of their number to
sit and vote in the House of Lords, in the room of the Earl
of Elgin, deceased. There were only eight peers present,
viz., the Dukes of Buccleuch and Argyle, the Earls of Home,
Lauderdale, Leven and Melville, Hopetoun, and Dalhousie,
and Lord Polwarth. The proceedings of the day were opened
by prayer by Principal Lee, one of the deans of the chapel
royal, after which the royal warrant for the meeting was read
by Mr. Ferguson, clerk of session. The oaths of abjuration
and allegiane having been administered to the peers present,
the Duke of Buccieuch voted for the Earl of Home as the
new representative peer, as did all the others, with the ex-
ception of the Eari of Home, who declined to vote. There
were also read signed lists from the following peers, all voting
for the Earl of Home :—Earls of Morton, Wemyss and
March, Selkirk, Seafield, Glasgow, and Bute, Viscount Ar-
buthnot, and Lord Rollo. _

HINTS TO CONSERVATIVES.—The 31st of January is the
very last day on which a conveyance should be executed to
entitle a county voter for it to send in his claim to be regis-
tered next year. An occupier to the amount of £5O per an-
num must have been in the occupation of his qualification
on the 31st of July last. Any person, however, who may
come into possession of a qualification by descent, succession,
marriage, devise, or promotion to any benefice in a church,
or by promotion to any office, at any time within such re-
spective periods, will be entitled in respect thereof to have
his name inserted in the list then to he made out by the over-
seers. Besides freeholders and £5O tenants, the following
may claim—viz., owners of copyhold, leasehold for lives, or'
leasehold for any time originally created for not less than
sixty years, to the amount of £lO per annum in each case,
or leasehold for any term originally created for not less than
twenty years, of the annual value of £5O. There are also
other ways in which an interest derivable from real property
may confer a vote, as in cases of mortgages in possession,
and•annuities, &c.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—CURIOUS Accc-
DENT.—On Tuesday a singular accident happened to one of
the passenger trains. It appears that a gentleman engaged
for the conveyance of his carriage to Brighton, and the truck
on which it was placed was in the last train. The owner,
although advised to the contrary, persisted in riding in his
own carriage. On the train reaching Balcome tunnel (the
largest on the line) by some means the truck became disen-
gaged and left the carriage in the middle of the tunnel. The
unfortunate occupant perceiving the train leaving him called
after them but in vain, and finding they proceeded on their
journey, he became dreadfully alarmed, being afraid to alight
and not knowing weather in a few minutes he might not be
dashed to pieces by the next train. He had not been long in
this suspense when an engine entered the tunnel puffingaway,
and the whistle screaming, he now considered his fate sealed ;
but the engine proved to be a pilot one, sent to look after him
the truck and carriage fortunately been missed on the train
arriving at the next station. The carriage and occupant were
conveyed to Brighton, where they arrived soon after the train,
and the only damage was the great fright the gentleman sus-
tained. The accident ought to be a warning to the servants
of the company, as the consequences would be fearful to con-
template had a train come in collision with the truck.

Exit RAORDINARY SUPERSTITION.—On Saturday Louisa.
wife of J. Stebbings, was examined before the mayor and
magistrates of Yarmouth, charged with having robbed the
house of William J. Presant of a dressing-case, containing
601. ih money, and a silver watch. A witness stated that the
prisoner was detected by the Bible and key. On being ques-
tioned by the mayor, witness stated that Mrs. Presant having
made known her loss a number of neighbours were summoned
to meet together, when the ceremony took place, which she
described. A Bible is procured, and the wards of a key,
being placed in or about the middle, the book is tied so that
the key, on being suspended by the bow, wilt sustain the
weight of the book ; a thread is fastened to the bow of the key,
and each party in succession places the thread on his or her
finger, thus suspending the book therefrom. Some incauta-
tion is pronounced, and the Bible is expected to revolve if
the party be guilty, and remain stationary if innocent. Wit-
ness went on to state, that the ceremony having been perfor-
med on several, and no effect produced, it was at last prac-
tised upon prisoner, when to her consternation, the Bible
twirled rapidly, and she uttered an exclamation of surprise
and terror, and confessed her guilt. The detail excited much
mirth lin court. A police officer proceeded to her house,
where he found her, and took from her five 51. notes of the
bank of Gurney and Co., five sovereigns, and two half sove-
reigns. She fetched the silver watch, and said she had bought
furniture and clothes with the remaining 291. The box. she
stated, she threw into the river, whence it has since been re-
covered, and is in possession of an officer. She was commit-
ted for trial.—Essex Herald.
MEETING OF SHIP-OWNERS.—An important, numerous,
and most influential meeting of the ship-owners of the Tyne,
Wear, and Tees, was held in Newcastle-on-Tyue, on Tues-
day last. The striking feature of the meeting was the utter
rout and defeat of the anti-English faction of free-traders—
the political allies of the selfish millocrats, and the grovelling
panderers to the factious designs of the prostrate whig-radi-
cals personated by the " small" statesman Lord John Rus-
sell, and such " enlightened " patriots of the nineteenth
century as are honoured with the management of the stul-
tified Newcastle and Gateshead Ship-Owners' Society.
These parties, with all the peculiar craft and subtlety of whig-
gem concocted the meeting for the purpose of bolstering
up the free-trade dogmas of the defunct ministry, and
covered the artful design under the specious trick of pe-
titioning parliament to inquire into the causes of the de-
pression of the shipping interests. To accomplish this
purpose the rejected motion of Mr. Sheriff Carr, to the
effect " that great difference of opinion existed among
ship-owners as to the true cause of the admitted depres-
sion" was contrived, and had it been suffered to pass as the
affirmed opinion of the meeting, a victory would have been
achieved by the clique which would have been appealed to in
the House of Commons as a strong. testimony that the ship-
owners were undecided in their opinions. as to the cause of
the gradual declension in shipping prosperity. And what is
of as much moment, the ship-owners' real sentiments would
have been disguised, and henceforward their petitions re-
garded as inconsistent and wavering. Thanks to the tem-
perate reasoning and sound practical views of Mr. Robt.
Anderson, this design was unmasked and the truth made
manifest, and despite the frothy spoutings of Mr. Lockey
Harle, the solemn mouthings of Alderman Justice Brockett,
and the insiduous reasonings of Justice Philipson, and Mr.
Hutt, M, P. truth and consistency triumphed, and an inval-
uable victory was gained for the benefit of native industry.
—Newcastle Journal.