The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

The following to be LET:—

Very eligible Warehouse and Offices, Chapel-street ; Ditto,
near the Custom-house; a splendid HOUSE, with Coach-
house, Stables, Gardens, &c., Holt-hill, Cheshire ; an ex-
cellent Ditto, near Waterloo; One Ditto, Bootle Marsh,
facing the River; One Ditto, near Hamilton-square; One
Ditto, Peel-street, Toxteth-park •, One Ditto, Mile-street ;
One Ditto, Bedford-street ; One Ditto, Rodney-street ; One
Ditto, Edge-hill ; One Ditto, Falkner-terrace, Parliament-
street; One Ditto, Waterloo-road; One House and Shop,
Great George-street ; One Ditto, Ranelagh-street ; One
Ditto, with Bakehouse, St. Anne-street ; One Ditto, Pitt-
street ; One Ditto, Byrom-street • an excellent Spirit Vault,
Cleveland-square ; an excellent Pew, in St. Mark's Church.
The sum of SIX THOUSAND POUNDS to be Lent on
Mortgage, on good security.
Apply to W. M. WILLIAMS, Estate Agent, 57, Rane-
lagh-street, and Bootle-road, opposite the Postoffice.

Mr. Orde's Bee's-wing won the gold cup at Ascot races
on Thursday.

Between 7000 and 8000 persons bathe daily in the Serpen-
tine river, Hyde-park.
The Birmingham town council, on Friday, resolved to
petition parliament against the introduction of the new poor-
law bill into that borough.

A poor woman last week threw her child, only one month
old, into the canal, near Lucan, Ireland. She confessed that
she committed the unfortunate act from want.
Mr. Corbelly was returned for the county of Meath, on
Friday, without opposition. _

The petition against Lord Alfred Hervey's return for
Brighton has been withdrawn.

Why is hope like a piece of decayed cheese? Because
thousands live in it.

CONUNDRUM.-Why is sympathy like a man playing at
blind-man's-buff ? D'ye give it up ? Because it is a fellow
feeling for a fellow creature.

The splendid weather experienced for the last ten days has
caused hay cutting to be general in this neighbourhood.—
Bristol Journal.
Numerous testimonials have been presented to the Rev.
Archibald Boyd, on his leaving Londonderry for Cheltenham.
On Wednesday last, a printer named Griffith Owen Evans,
and on Friday last Mr. John Huddleston, woollen draper of
Chester, were drowned whilst bathing in the sea.
The Rev. Robert Daly was sworn in Dean of St. Patrick's
Dublin, on Wednesday. The law costs between him and
Dr. Wilson amount to £4,000.

At the Killarney petty sessions fines to the amount of
£270 were recovered against a number of Lord Kenmore's
tenants for the burning of land.

From all quarters of Ireland there is most cheerful promise
of an abundant harvest. The corn, fruit, and potato crops
will be at market fully a month before those of last year's
harvest.
PROOFS OF EARLINESS OF THE SEASON.—Strawberries
are beginning to appear in the market, and stalks of wheat
in full ear are beginning to be shown as curiosities. Rye-
crops were in full ear last week.—Ulster Paper.
New CHURCHES.—The Rev. F. Close stated on Friday,
at a meeting held at the Masonic Hall, Cheltenham, that in
a report recently presented to the Lord Bishop of the Dio-
cese, it was recommended that three additional churches
should be built in that populous town.
PRINCELY DONATION.—On Friday afternoon, at the
usual annual meeting of the London Female Penitentiary
Society, the secretary stated, that a few days ago the society
received from a gentleman, who wishes to be, and is, entirely
unknown to the society, the princely donation of £l,OOO.

COLLIERIES IN LANCASHIRE.—From a statistical state-
ment of trade, &c., in Lancashire, we learn that there are
330 collieries in that county, employing, when in full work,
about 1,400 persons. The yearly consumption of coal by all
the steam-engines is estimated at about 3,000,000 tons.
Hay-making is becoming general in this part of the country
(Chemlsford), and some quantity has already been stacked,
the weather being very propitious. The wheats in this
neighbourhood look pretty well, but we cannot say so much of
them down in the Hundreds. Peas and beans are indifferent
in quality, but oats and barley look well.—Essex Standard.

A marked sensation was produced in London on Friday
morning by intelligence that the highly respectable firm of
Briggs, Thurburn, and Co., had suspended their payments.
The immediate cause of this unfortunate event is understood
to be the continual absence of returns from Calcutta for ad-
vances made upon consignments, and of remittances to meet
draughts upon the house. This firm was one of agency
merely, and had no speculation on its own account, so that
a moderate return to them of their assets will enable them to
cover all their engagements. Messrs. Briggs, Thurburn,
and Co., were the agents of the Agra Bank, and it will be
satisfactory to the parties holding the bills of that bank to
know that the funds and agency have been transferred to
Messrs. Coutts and Co. We further learn that the inter-
ests of Messrs Briggs and Co.. of Alexandria, are unaffected
by this event, and that they will only have to arrange for a
fresh agency in London.
The Waterford election committee have come to the fol-
lowing resolutions •,—" Resolved—That W. Christmas, Esq.
and W. Morris Reade, Esq., were not duly elected to serve
in the present parliament for the city and borough of Wa-
terford, and ought not to have been returned." " That
Henry Winston Barron, Esq., now Sir Henry Winston
Barron, and Thomas Wyse, Esq„ were duly elected, and
ought to have been returned." The chairman said he was
directed by the committee to move the house that W.

Christmas, Esq., W. Morris Reade, Esq., and ;11-other
persons properly qualified so to do, be at liberty to petition
against the amended return within fourteen days, and dis-
pute the validity of the election of Messrs. Barron and
Wyse.

DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON-MILL AT MANCHESTER.—
On Wednesday morning, at about half-past four o'clock, a
fire was discovered in the premises of Mr. Thompson, cotton-
spinner and power-loom cloth manufacturer, in Pin Mill-
brow. The mill is known as " Pin Mill Factory." The
building is one of the oldest mills in Manchester, but has,
from time to time, been rebuilt in parts and repaired. The
machinery, however, was modern, and some of it very valu-
able. The mill itself, independently of the engine-room and
some recent additions, was about forty yards long and five
stories high, in which upwards of 300 hands were employed,
more than one-half of whom will be thrown out of employ-
ment by this accident. In about two hours from the com-
mencement the whole building was completely gutted, the
floors giving way first on the top story, and carrying with
them down to the bottom the floors of the whole building,
burying beneath the ruins about £7OOO worth of machinery
and stock, exclusive of the building. During the progress
of the flames, a part of the side walls and one of the gable
ends of the mill fell in, and the remaining is so injured that
it must be pulled down and rebuilt. Fortunately no lives
were lost, nor have we heard of any persons being seriously
injured. The building, engine, and mill gearing belonged to
Mr. Leonard Willan, of Lancaster, and was insured, it is
said, in the County Fire Office, to the full extent of its va-
lue. We understand it was previously insured in the Nor-
wich Union, but that office gave it up about eighteen months
ago. The machinery belonged to Mr. Thompson, and is
covered by insurances in the West of England and Atlas
offices. The total damage is estimated at from £lO,OOO to
£12,000. Nothing is yet known of the origin of the fire.
RIOTS AT CLARE, WITH Loss OF Live.—The Limerick
Chronicle gives an account of some alarming riots which oc-
curred on Saturday week and Monday last at the village of
Clare, and in the subjacent districts, in the course of which one
or two of the police were severely injured, and the latter fired
upon the mob, killing and dangerously wounding no less
than twenty-four individuals. The first emeute occurred at
the village above named on Saturday night. The poor of
the district have, for some time past been suffering severe
privations. On the night in question, a sail boat, which
James Bannatyne, Esq„ had loaded for Kilrush with meal
and flour, (most part of the former bought by a Roman
Catholic clergyman in that neighbourhood for the poor of
his parish,) was invaded at the quay of Clare by a large con-
course of people' who soon overcame the crew, and carried
off most part of the cargo before the police came to the
rescue. The constabulary were placed in charge of what
remained, but the mob on Sunday night made a second
attack upon the vessel, and, having overpowered the police,
Possessed themselves of whateyer was left on board. Whilst
the outrage was being perpetrated on the boat and cargo,
showers of stones fell on the deck from the mob, on the quay
rwhich thejtwo policemen suffered, and one of the plun-
.erers was, also, severely hurt in the head from a missile
burlby his own party into the hold. The police subse-
quently recovered some of the flour, and made near a dozen
" the riotersprisoners. On Monday a meeting of the
tuatistramiff tes
the was held, and a dispatch was sent to Limerick for
ing statroj, 111.,!1 the police was called in from the surroud-
quarters "uring the day the mob collected in various
symace,g7tded the streets of the town, and exhibited strong
an early begaii...,_eltelnent. The police were on the alert from
ten o'clock atire? the orders of the magistrates. About
Mr. Bann/dr.:lst furious crowd collected opposite one of
gates and wie7,l4stiaras,,,, and commenced an attack upon the
and, with some aiiie„Lhe Police were shortly on the spot,
clearing the space inirn`r, succeeded in repelling the mob and
ordinary excitement tir of the stores. There was extra-
the increasing sympto:saiti? the town at this period from
the knowledge of the trifling turbulence in the !crowd, and
general protection, Red, Zat, Police force available for its
asiaiet.ewa!‘, being further wea-
kened by small detachments
(litibn the banks and in
certain provision stores and
o'clock the mob appeared to be dispersing,out half-past eleven
the police
retired from the store to patrol Min..... 411111
was but a stratagem. In their absenoTa
mils, however,
and the mob had just succeeded in was again
made,breaking one of
the gates when the police returned, and endeavoured to drive
ones were now hurled at the police from front
them back.
n table had his skull fractured. Sub-in.
spector Browne rear, one
constable
ands CaptainDe Runynes were both lit
The police got orders to form two fronts back to back, •
when
they fired on the crowd, About twenty-five shots were fired
and almost every one took
.effect, but the crowd supposed
the discharge was blank cartridge until the fall of the woun-
dedetnhe women too late convinced them
and the screams
of
only the assailants began to dig-
eeeuiefdromto this
of its fatal effects. T
perse amidst the greatestT uhperowaro.un
period was excessive. Theded excitementw e
•
hospital, where two of them expired immediately, and most
man of the others were found to be so severely
The woun
bede ll d that
was
no
hope was entertained of their recovery.
demanded blood,
despatched round the town to call the inhabitants together
and the mob, with threats of vengeance,
nn detes-
for blood. All the persons in authority. denied having given
the police orders to tire, and all agreed in express
tation of the action, promising the people full
uest sat on
investigation
and certain justice. On Tuesday a coroners inq
the body of case Cathar.ine Sheehan, one of the persons killed.
The investigation • t all the circumstances of the
oc-
cupied three days,in o • on Thursday last. The jury,
after a retiremen of nearly an hour, returned
Catharine
Sheehan,
the follow-
ing. verdict We
Sheehan, came by
e find that the deceased, Catharine
death in seqnence of a gunshot
wound inflicted by on her eon
town of Ennis,
on
al: of a party of police on duty in the
morning of Tuesday, thniOt of Monday, the 6th June, or
Sect the property of •th June instant, called out to pro-
aforesaid, further find, • Barmatyne. And we the jurors
ceive sufficient provocatt the party of police did not re-
tumultuously assembled, to°ll from the people, who were
the people and we ferthervairiXt them in at all firing at
alone , that those belonging to
the
.police force fired not tithout order from the
magistrate or any other officer
positive orders of their officern." Tt in opposition to the
that several of the Most severely wo latest accounts state,
to sUrVive,
untied are not expelled

REPRESENTATION OF BELFAST.—The Ulster Times an-
nounces that it is the intention of Lord Hamilton Chichester
to offer himself as one of the candidates at the ensuing
election.

The property tax will be deducted from all dividends paid
by the bank down to £I6G 13s. 4d., but not from incomes
below that sum.
The whole of Lord Ashburton's homestead, situate at
Clapham, a romantic village about two miies distant from
Bedford, together with twelve houses in the village, were
recently totally destroyed by fire.

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ATTORNEYS.—Last Easter Term 162 gentlemen gave no-
tice of their intention of applying to he admitted attorneys of
the Court of Queen's Bench, and there were also 11 notices
of re-admission to practise. During the present (Trinity)
term 128 notices of application for admission to practise have
been given, and 17 notices of re-admission. In the last four
terms between 600 to 700 gentlemen have been added to the
list of attorneys practising in the Queen's Bench.
TEE TURNIP FLY.—A. correspondent suggests the follow-
ing preventive of the ravages of this insect :—Wet the seed
before sowing with train oil ; if the seed remains wet with
the oil an hour the better ; afterwards dry it for sowing by
adding flour of brimstone, precisely after the manner of
brining and liming wheat. The seed thus prepared is said to
come up sooner, to grow faster, and the plant, whilst in the
seed leaf (which is the only time the fly attacks it), is effec-
tually preserved.
On the Ist instant, the Rev. Daniel Nl`Gelligan, a Roman
Catholic priest, was committed to bridewell for refusing to
disclose tne circumstances which took place at a meeting be-
tween himself and two persons who had a dispute about a
horse. The priest alleged that, though the facts did not
transpire in the confessional, he nevertheless thought he
ought not to disclose them.
A rumour is very prevalent, and is believed in well-in-
formed quarters, that six sail-of-the-line are to be immedi-
ately commissioned. We are quite aware that it is usual,
and very advisable, to have ships put into commission to-
wards the fall of the year, when seamen are returning from
the timber voyages, and ships for the India trade are not
fitting out ; but there does not appear in the political hori-
zon to be any cause for this addition to the naval force ;
however, we understand the armament for the Vengeance
and Collingwood, of 84 guns each, has been got ready in our
gun wharf.—Hamphire Telegraph.
LIGHT GOLD COIN.-1n 1837 £8,322,902 of gold coin was
tendered in London, of which 1,105,375 was rejected as light,
while the same year, at the branches of the Bank of England,
£6,450,559 was tendered, and £631,003 was rejected ou the
same occount.

In Town and Country

In 1838 was tendered £13,431,065 Rejected £2,223,230
In 1839 ditto 16,329,252 ditto 2,762,416
In 1840 ditto 17,627,499 ' ditto 3,798,635
It is calculated that our gold circulation amounts to about
£12,000,000, and it is pretty certain that about one-half is
light, which will be a loss to the public of 21 per cent. upon
the amount of £6,000,000 or upwards of ~C 150,000. In 128
years, from 1631 to 1816, the gold coinage was one hundred
millions and a half. The gold coined in England from 1/90
to 1833 was £75,000,000. In 1821 the gold coined was
£9,500,000 sterling ; and in 1834 £1,292,000.
PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THE BISHOP OF CHI-
CHESTER.—On the elevation of Dr. Gilbert, Principal of
Brasenose College, to the See of Chichester early in this
year. and on his announcing his intention of resigning the
Headship before the long vacation, a strong wish was ex-
pressed that he should not retire without receiving some
lasting token of the esteem and affection of the Society. A
subscription therefore was entered into by the Fellows,
which it was thought right to extend to other members of the
College, who might from personal considerations be not un-
willing to join in this desirable object. This suggestion was
most promptly and liberally met. The subscription amounted
to six hundred guineas. Messrs. Rundell and Bridge were
accordingly intrusted with the execution of a service of table
plate to that amount, consisting of the following articles :
eight corner dishes and four covers, four oval dishes and two
covers, a rich tureen, and one large handsome salver, on
which are engraved the arms of the College, the arms of the
See of Chichester, and the Bishop's private arms.
THE BUDE LIGHT.—The following description of the
Bude light, of the principle of which perhaps little is gene-
rally known, appears in the Polytechnic Journal. The Bude
light originally consisted of an oil argand flame, having a
stream of oxygen
thrown over its internal surface, which pro-
duced a very vivid illumnination. It was found, however,
after having been used for some time in lighting the House
of Commons, that oil lamps, thus fed with vital air, were ex-
pensive and difficult to regulate. Mr. Gurney then tried to
illuminate the house with naphthalised coal gas in argand
burners, similarly supplied with oxygen ; and though this
produced a light of sufficient intensity, he encountered a for-
midable obstacle to its continuance from the deposition of
liquid naphtha in the tubes of distribution. He next, hap-
pily, devised a method of obtaining from ordinary coal gas,
purified in a simple apparatus of his own, and burned with
oxygen derived from the atmosphere, an effulgence adequate
to every purpose of internal and external illumination, which
is now used in the House of Commons with perfect success,
and at a cost of I2s. per night, whereas that of the candles
previously used there amounted to £6 Ils per night.

THE BICENTENARY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
IN IRELAND.—On Friday, the 10th of June, 1642, the first
regular Presbytery was held at Carrickfergus, when five mi-
nisters and four elders constituted themselves into a regular
church court, in the name and by the authority of the Lord
Jesus Christ. From that small beginning has sprung the
great and flourishing church of Ulster, which now numbers
about 500 ministers, which is the connecting link between
England and Ireland, and but for which, in all probability,
Popery would have swallowed up the whole of the Green
Isle. Each of the presbyteries held on Friday a special
meeting in the chief town of its district, when appropriate
address were delivered, and collections made for church
extension.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, THURSDAY.—THE QUEEN
V. ALLEYNE.—This was an indictment for sending a hostile
message to a Mr. Power, of Atherstone, in the county of
Warwick. The provocation which had induced Mr. Alleyne
to send the challenge, consisted in the fact that Mr. Power
had circulated a report that Mr. Alleyne and a lady, whom
be represented as his sister, were, in fact, not brother and
sister, but husband and wife. The case has been before the
public in several shapes, and the defendant was brought up
for judgment in this court in the course of the last term.
After a long discussion upon the former occasion, the court
directed the case to stand over. In the course of this morn-
ing, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, upon being called upon to
move, informed the court that the defendant was ready to
receive judgment if the prosecutor thought proper to pray
for it. Lord Denman, observing that the prosecutor's
counsel did not think proper to act upon this suggestion,
proceeded to call upon another gentleman to move, and the
case, therefore, has for the present gone off.

FIRE IN ELY CATHEDRAL.-At eleven o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning the city of Ely was thrown into the greatest
consternation by the ringing of the fire-bells, and a cry
that the cathedral was on tire. With an alacrity beyond all
praise, within ten minutes after the announcement the whole
of the inhabitants, women as well as men, had assembled,
and had formed themselves into double lines from the neigh-
bouring wells, by which means a most ample supply of water
was conveyed to the engines ; and within half an hour, from
the very great exertions of the people, all danger was en-
tirely removed, and the fire was completely extinguished,
with but trifling damage. The fire originated in some sparks
from a temporary fire-place, carried up for the purpose of
heating the irons for the plumbers who were at work on the
roof at the time, and was first seen flaming through the in-
terior by the verger on duty, it having happened during the
performance of divine service.

LIGHT GOLD.—A great quantity of light sovereigns and
half-sovereigns were received on Saturday in London, from
France and Holland, by the Ostend, Calais, and Boulogne
steamers, to be changed at the Bank. The annual amount
of the precious metals exported to Paris, Hamburg, and
other parts of the Continent, is considerable, and the procla-
mation of June 3d has produced no little consternation in the
Jew money speculators. The deficiency in the weight of the
silver coinage of the realm is, perhaps, greater in proportion
than that in the gold, especially in the crowns, half-crowns,
shillings, and sixpences of the coinage of 1817, the greater
part of which are worn quite flat. The Stamp-office, Cus-
toms, and Excise, which at first refused to take light sove-
reigns and none but full weight, it is said will take them
during the ensuing week on the same terms as the Bank of
England. Several bankers :;n the city and at the west-end,
for the accommodation of the public, and to prevent their
being sacrificed by the Jews, have notified that they will take
them on the same terms—viz.. £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce. At
the Great Western, the London and Birmingham, Eastern
Counties, South Western, and the London and Brighton
railways a similar notice is put up ; also on board the
steamers.

CHILD MURDER.—An inquest was held at Pill-house,
Gloucestershire, near Chepstow, on Monday last, on the
body of a female child, found in the privy of the above house.
From the evidence of Mary Bull, it appeared Eliza Dash, the
prisoner, had been in the service of Mr. Hall nearly three
months ; from her appearance she was questioned by her
mistress as to her being in the family way, which she strenu-
ously denied ; on the morning of the 4th witness observed
her to absent herself from her work for some time, she then
saw her coming from the privy, and from prisoner's agitated
appearance, inquired of her whether she was unwell ; the
embarrassment of her manner, induced witness to mention
to her mistress that she thought something was wrong with
Eliza. Eventually she admitted the birth of a child, and to
its being concealed in the privy ; on search being made, the
body of a fine female child was found, which, from the evi-
dence of the surgeon, had been born alive. A verdict of
" Wilful murder" was found by the jury.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN A BATIL—The following lament-
able occurrence happened the day before yesterday, in the
bath establishment in the Rue du Temple :—A lady of every
appearance of respectability entered and ordered a bath, and,
when prepared, told the attendant that she would ring when
she wanted her assistance. As three hours elapsed without
her being summoned, the woman became alarmed and en-
tered the cabinet. She found the lady completely immersed
in the bath, the cock turned on and still running, and the
cabinet flooded with the water. The lady was taken out,
and medical aid called in, but all endeavours to restore
animation were unsuccessful. No doubt of the catastrophe
having been caused by a fit is entertained. The name of
the unfortunate lady has not transpired.—Galignani's Mes-

sewer.
MURDER.—A King's County correspondent of the Dub-
lin Pilot narrates the following horrible circumstance :
" This neighbourhood has been thrown into a state of the
most extraordinary alarm for the last week, in consequence
of a brutal murder at Killeen—near the demesne of Durrow,
where the late lamented Earl of Norbury was most myste-
riously, but most barbarously, murdered—of Mary Wheela-
han, on the night of Tuesday, the 31st ult., who was strangled
to death by Walter Wheelahan, her husband, who had her
body concealed in a tillage field under ground, near the
dwelling-house, until last Sunday. The supposed cause of
this murder is an unaccountable hatred of the wife, produced
b) , perhaps, a criminal. attachment of her husband to ano-
thern* they didto
female. This good and virtuous woman had been two
days murdered before she was missed by her friends. Upon
inquiry they were told by the husband and his relatives, that,
zidcolour, not live happily together, she got some money
ulesenttisfaAmerica. The statements of the husband were
through the
that he produced a letter, to give them
accounts tile to be written by the wife, and conveyed
home for
for post-office to the husband, in which she
tory statements
America.
feigned intention of secretly leaving
and it was evidently
.a Tfohrigserlye.tteTr
This
sonctiarienuemd
stacnocnetradimici
;nietabad no post mark of any post-office,
ahan was murdered by
the conviction that Mary lA,Theel-
pressed every mind
) her husband ; and he and some of
Wheel-
his relations wereconsequently given into custody to the
police till he had acycoeunted for his wife- Upon serrch
tillage field, about fifteen 7;enrihenheglel
the body was found in the
being made on Sunda
from the dwelling house.
aOrirdi Nafroensdpaeyetaanbleiu
jury. After
wasA Mr. Dillon, coroner,
ter a longby and minute examina-
tion of witnesses, in the presence of immense multitude
of the people, the doctors in attendatic
agivvienrgditheir opinion
that death was caused by strangnlation,e
Murder' was given, to the satisfaction of the pucbtl?cf `Wilful
the unnatural husband, who, with his aged father as' an ac-
complice,hes been committed to the county gaol. This
been
murder as nothing whatever to do with the peace of the
country, or with party of any kind, both families having
remarkable for good and peaceful conduct at all times. They
are of a very decent class of landholders, and are connected
with most of the old families of that p sh. The :murdered
female was a robust, healthy, and most indust person
she was plain in her appearance, but very agreeable, well-
disposed, and charitable.