The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

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RECEIVING HOUSES WITHIN
MILE CIRCLE.
General Post-Office, St. Martin's-le-G4
Borough,
Charing Cross,
Branch Offices,
Old Cavendish-street,
Lombard-street, (for issuing Orders only.)
Battle Bridge, No. 1, Pleasant Row.
Bloomsbury, No. 1, Broad Street.
Camberwell Green.
Camden Town, No. 98, High Street.
City Road, No. 36, near Old Street.
Dockhead, No. 11.
Gray's Inn Lane, No. 43, Upper North Place.
Hackney, No. 8, Church Street.
Islington, No. 86, Upper Street.
Kennington Cross, No. 2.
Kingsland Road, No. 4, Orchard Place.
Lambeth, No. 33, Mount Street.
Limehouse, No. 44, Three Colt Street.
Old Kent Road, No. 9, Northampton Place.
Oxford Street, No. 210.
Piccadilly, No. 65.
Pimlico, No. 28, Queen's Row.
Ratcliffe, No. 77, Broad Street.
Strand, No. 180, Corner of Norfolk Street.
Tottenham Court Road, No. 103.
Upper Baker Street, No. 54.
No. 1, Whitechapel Road.

BEYOND THE THREE MILE CIRCUIT.
Barking. Highgate.
Barnet. Hounslow.

Bexley.
Brentford.
Bromley, Kent.
Brompton, Middlesex.
Chelsea.
Clapham.
Croydon.
Deptford.
Dulwich.
Edgeware.
Edmonton.
Enfield.
Footscray.
Greenwich.
Hammersmith.
Hampstead.
Harrow.

Kensington.
Kingston.
Lewisham.
Norwood.
Paddington.
Putney.
Richmond, Surrey.
Romford.
Shooter's Hill.
Southall.
Stanmore.
Stratford.
Sydenham.
Tooting.
Waltham Cross.
Woodford. •
Woolwich.

When a Postmaster is applied to for a Money Order, for
the Metropolis, he will be careful to ascertain in what part of
London the person in whose favour the Order is granted
wishes to have it paid, so that the Money Order may be
drawn upon the Office which is most convenient to him, and
the Postmaster will direct the Letter of Advice to the Office
on which it is drawn, as at that Office alone it can be paid.
A Money Order granted upon London, without specifying
any particular Office in London, can only be paid at the
General Post Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand.
By Command,
W. L. MABERLY,
Secretary.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE AT HAMMERSMITH.

During the last few days, much conversation has been
occasioned throughout the neighbourhood of Hammersmith
by an occurrence of a singular and extraordinary nature.
From the inquiries made by our reporter on the spot, it ap-
pears that the friends of a lady most highly connected, and
about thirty years of age, finding, some considerable period
since, that, although not labouring under any distinct form
of insanity so as to require restraint, her mind was exceed-
ingly weak, by the advice of Dr. ----, an eminent physi-
cian, placed her under the care of Dr. , a medical
man residing at Fulham, who, although not keeping a private
lunatic asylum, professed to take the charge of persons so
circumstanced. The lady in question accordingly remained
at Fulham until about four months since, when—it reaching
the ears of her friends that she had formed an intimacy of
rather too close a nature with a son of the medical man at
whose house she had been placed, who, although six feet and
a span in height, has not yet numbered twenty years' expe-
rience—it was determined to remove her to a more suitable
situation ; and she was immediately conveyed to the residence
of another surgeon, in the neighbourhood of Brook green,
Hammersmith, where she: remained until Moudav last.
About ten days since, the friends of the lady received infor-
mation, that, notwithstanding her removal from the care of
the father of the young man above alluded to, they had con-
trived to continue their correspondence, and had, in fact,
been married by bans at the parish church of Rotherbithe in
the early part of September last, but that no attempt had,
up to that time, been made by the alleged husband to claim
the society of his wife. In the course of the forenoon of
Monday last, the young gentleman, accompanied by his
father, brother, and other relatives and friends, went to the
house of the medical gentleman under whose care the lady
then was, and demanded to see her, which application was,
of course, refused • but she, becoming acquainted with the
presence of her alleged husband, opened a front window on
the first floor, and, stepping out on the balcony, threw into
the street nine or ten sovereigns, which were immediately
picked up by the claimant to her hand. After several vain
endeavours to obtain an interview with her, they left the
spot, but returned in the afternoon ; and, loitering about the
house, were observed about four o'clock by the lady, who.
having secured the door of her room on the inside, imme-
diately presented herself on the balcony, and was addressed
from below by her alleged husband, who asked her, " Mary,
am I not your husband ?" to which she instantly responded,
" Yes, you are," and appeared in a state of great excitement
and trouble of mind. The strange colloquy attracted the
attention of the numerous persons passing along the high
road, and in a short time a considerable crowd had collected,
to whom the alleged husband showed his certificate of mar-
riage, and who, from their want of knowledge of the real
circumstances of the case, commended his exertions to ob-
tain possession of his supposed bride, and he then told he a
to put her bonnet on, and come out on' the balcony, and he
would rescue her. She accordingly retired into, the room
and presently afterwards came out on the balcony dressed
for her departure. She then, by the direction of the party
below, got a chair out of the drawing-room, and placing it
at the east end of the balcony, mounted the top of the rails,
and then holding the top rail, slid herself down with her
back to the rails until her feet found a resting place on the
edge of the balcony, and she stood for some minutes in a
position the most frightful to be conceived, with certain death
staring her in the face should she let go her hold, the per-
sons assembled outside cheering her, and calling to her to
hold tight. By that time some members of her family, ac-
companied by a solicitor, &c., had arrived from town, and
with the proprietor of the house, procured a pair of high
steps, and raised them to the balcony, while at the same time
the alleged husband, with the assistance of his friends,
mounted the wall dividing the front garden from the adjoin-
ing one, when from his great height he was able to assist the
lady to tarn round, and before any of her friends could
ascend the steps, she lowered herself into his arms, and
reached the ground in safety, he was immediately surrounded
by his party, who conveyed the lady to a neighbouring public
house, followed by his friends and the assembled crowd.
Finding all efforts to regain possession of the lady at that
moment would be futile, her friends were determined to
watch where she would be removed to, but notwithstanding,
they showed themselves able tacticians, they were foiled
by the other party, and it is understood that the lady was
unobservedly introduced into a garden adjoining the pub-
lic-house from which there is an entrance into aby lane,
leading towards Fulham, where a fly was in attendance, into
which she was placed, and driven off, no one knows where.
Her friends, being then unaware of the circumstance of her
having been carried off, remained watching the public-house,
which was still surrounded by a large crowd, until about
seven o'clock in the evening, when a fly drove up to the door,
and two or three persons, muffled up in cloaks, instantly got
in, and the vehicle was driven off at great speed, in the di-
rection of Turnham-green. An offer was immediately made
of five guineas to any person tracing the destination of the
fly, and some persons in a cab instantly followed it to Turn-
ham-green, when the fly turned round, and retraced its way
back to Hammersmith Broadway, the cab following in its
wake. At Hammersmith Broadway the fly turned up Brook-
green-lane, in the direction of Shepherd's-bush, but before
reaching that place, it pulled up in a dark part of the road,
allowed the cab to pass by, and again went back to Hammer-
smith Broadway, and thence down the Bridge-road, towards
the Suspension-bridge. The persons in the cab soon disco-
vered they were on the wrong scent, and, returning to the
Broadway, were enabled to overtake the fly before it could
cross the bridge, and after a lengthened chase through all
the by-roads in the neighbourhood, the fly finally pulled up
in King-street, Hammersmith, when it was found that the
whole had been a ruse to deceive the lady's friends, the per-
sons in the fly being only the son of the landlord of the pub-
lic-house, and other persons unconnected with the case.
::We have abstained from inserting the names of the indi-
viduals connected with the above singular occurrence, as we
understand that the family of the lady intend to institute
proceedings in the Ecclesiastical and other courts against
all the parties concerned in the affair, when the matter will
be more fully brought under the notice of the public.—Times.

At a party the other day some discussion arose as to the
highest mountain in the world :—" I don't know which is,"
said " but Nicholas Suisse is certainly the dee-pest
valet."—American paper.

CAMBRIDGE FRESHMEN.—The number of admissions
this term amounts to 426, the chief portion of which were as
usual at Trinity and St. John's—the former having 131, and
the latter 111. Clare Hall had but 2, and King's 1. On the
whole, the admissions have been more numerous than those
of last year, which were an increase on those of the previous
one.
STRANGE PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—A splendid
hind-quarter of wild cattle beef arrived at the Castle on Fri-
day, as a present to her Majesty from Mr. Leigh, of Lyme-
park, Cheshire. This extraordinary breed of cattle is pecu-
liar to the estate of Mr. Leigh, and is considered a great
luxury from the extreme richness and delicate flavour of the
meat. The carcasses are very small, with a large proportion
of fat, and are very similar to Christmas prize meat without
its coarseness. The hind-quarter presented to her Majesty
weighed 1461 b.
TARIFF PORK (so CALLED.^:We are informed that ad.
vantage has been taken of the admission of Amerie'an pork,
which can be retailed of an excellent quality at'a very rea-
sonable price, to get rid of 'a Laige qUantity of old ship, Orot
visions; pork condemned 'ai'unservigeable for sea use:. and
that this half-perished, dry, and Unwholesome stuff ii'Offered
for sale as the commodity we are for the future to be T,sup.
plied with from the United States. There is, of course, so
palpable a difference between the latter and the article which
is substituted as its representative, that, once seen together,
one cannot be mistaken for the other; but as the imposition
should not be allowed to be successful, and as unsound is
generally believed to be productive of disease, we would cau-
tion poor people against the use of it. Good American pork
is not discoloured, that is, rusty, stale in appearance, or des-
titute of brine, which are the characteristics of condemned
naval stores.--Shipping Gazelle.
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CLARA. NOVELLO.—The negotiations with Clara Novello
are still going on, but nothing is definitely settled ; she can-
not by any possibility appear in London until February or
March, and then only for a short season ; she has engage-
ments abroad until 1846. She is, what is technically called,
" up" in twenty-one operas.
THE ARSON CASE.—On Wednesday, at two o'clock,
Thomas Henry was again brought up before Mr. Rushton
and Mr. Heyworth, when Mr. Dowling applied for some ex-
planation regarding a statement made in evidence by Proc-
ter, Mr. Henry's shopman, relative to the quantity of stock
the prisoner had on hand at the time the fire took place.
Mr. Henry, in the list for indemnification submitted to the
insurance office, having claimed £4O, whereas there could
not have been a greater amount than £l3 worth on hand at
that period ; one parcel having been sent to Mr. Hodgson
for public sale. Procter stated that there must have been a
mistake regarding this, and accounted for it by saying that
one of the parcels had not been unpacked. After which the
evidence of Mr. William Plyne Helby was taken. He de-
posed that he was a stay manufacturer at Portsea, and that
he had supplied Mr. Henry with stays. The first order was
sent off on the 22d of September last. He had been to Mr.
Hodgson's room to. examine the stays sent there by the pri-
soner. They were part of those the prisoner had received
from the witness. The bill amounted to £37 14s. 6d. He
sent another parcel on the Bth instant. This bill amounted
to £l3 15s. He sent them by way of London. He re-
ceived a bill and acknowledgments for both parcels from Mr.
Henry, but the bill would not be due till January next. The
letters were put in and Procter called, who admitted having
written the two letters according to instructions received by
him from Mr. Henry. Mr. Helby thought it a large order
for stays. Procter was again recalled, who stated that the
first parcel of stays had been sent to the auction-room. He
was not aware of the amount of the last order. Mr. Daven-
port submitted that the stays most either be on the road or
burnt. Mr. Dowling inquired of Procter what relation Mr.
Shannon was to the prisoner, when Procter answered that
Mrs. Shannon was the prisoner's sister. After some other
questions were put to Mr. Shannon, the case for the prose-
cution closed, when Mr. Rushton observed that although the
case was wholly circumstantial, yet there was sufficient
in
his opinion, to enable him to take the responsibility of send-
ing the prisoner to trial. The whole of the depositions,
which were very lengthy, were then read over, when the pri-
soner was asked, after being cautioned, if he had any state-
ment to make, but he declined saying anything. Mr.
Davenport then applied to have the prisoner liberated on
bail, as Mr. Rushton had been kind enough to grant a
Si E
lar application on a former case. Mr. Rushton would
not refuse the application, but would take it into his con-
sideration. The prisoner wan then removed from the bar.