The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

COURT or EXPERTS.—At the Privy Council, held for

he nomination of sheriffs, a curious ioint was set right

'ter an abeyance of many years,

,ne custom to summon a Privy Council to nominate the
sheriffs, and to summon the judges to attend that council

DIE OMNIBUS AND ~.._ /RIVERS OI .._ _ in a position of inferiority. It seems, however, by the
combined to do no work on Sunday, except in cases statute of Richard 11., under which this council meets, it
where life or property is at stake." is not a Privy Council at all, but a special council of
A MOORISH BARQUE arrived at Greenock recently, with , experts' (far more ancient than the Privy Council itself),
a cargo of grain from Alexandria. It is said to be the first which exists for the purpose of nominating sheriffs, and is
vessel of that nation which has anchored in the Clyde. composed of certain high officers and of the judges, all hav-
A DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT was made at Sheffield, one ing equal votes, and being presided over by the Chancellor
morning last week, to blow up a grinding wheel belonging of the Exchequer, and, in his absence, by the Chief Baron.
to Mr. W. Ward ; but the plot was discovered in time to Such councils of experts, for various departments of
prevent the intended result. administration, were usual in the middle ages, anterior to
AT SHREWSBURY RACES, the cup, which according to the existence of the Privy Council. That for nominating
custom was placed in front of the grand-stand until it had sheriffs, being under statute, has alone survived to our day.
been won, was carried off by some unknown individual, A LIONESS of the Botanical Garden, Grenoble, known
and has not been heard of since. by the name of Miss Sarah, contrived, one day last week,
AT CHELTENHAM, an old man has committed suicide in to escape from her cage. The weather was cold and dark,
order that his remains may be placed in the same church- and there were very few persons in the garden, all of
yard where his wife was buried, and which is to be closed whom took to flight the moment the lioness appeared.
this month. She first proceeded to the enclosure of the stag, who coin-
AT a meeting of the Victoria London Dock Company, menced butting at her through the paling with his antlers ;
held on Tuesday, it was unanimously agreed to lease the she then approached the monkeys' cage, all of whom testi-
undertaking to Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Brassey, for a fled the greatest alarm; and, afterwards, the cage of the
term of twenty-one years, from the Ist January next. eagle, who seemed in extraordinary fury at the sight of
AN ALARMING COLLISION took place, on Wednesday her. All at once, she perceived, at a distance, the conser-
evening, near the Kegworth Station, on the Midland vator of the Museum, and ran rapidly towards him, but,
Railway, between a passenger train and some cattle on drawing near, she recognised him, and began to caress
trucks. Several passengers received contusions, but no him and lick his hand. He profited by her affection to-
lives were lost. wards him to lead her to the side of her young ones, and,
THE OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS of the metropolis, who, with the aid of the keeper, he soon replaced Miss Sarah in
according to their own account, have been losing money her cage.
since 1851, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
CORN PROSPECTS OP THE COMING YEAR.—As some
Exchequer on Tuesday, praying for a reduction of the alarm has been caused by the large rise in the price of
duty. The interview ended in the usual manner, the wheat in the last month, it may be satisfactory to show
Chancellor promising to " consider the matter." that this rise may be accounted for by the extra demand
A BRUTAL FELLOW, named Charles Leake, a coal for seed in the market at this season of the year coming
miner, was charged at the Wakefield petty sessions, on suddenly ; and in addition to the usual consumption for
Monday, with having wantonly tortured a cat, by biting food; the latter having wholly to be taken out of the
off its nose. He was ordered to be kept to hard labour
for a month. ..te produce of this year—unaided, as it has usually been, by
a large stock of old wheat remaining in the country ;
MR. ALEXANDER GREENWOOD, late managing-clerk and that as this extra demand on the new stock subsides,
at a brewery in Spitaifields, London, lost his life on we are likely to have the markets fully supplied, and to
Saturday, in consequence of administering to himself a feel the benefit of the late abundant harvest. In addition
quantity of chioric ether, a preparation which he had been to the ordinary consumption of wheat, for food, in the
in the habit of taking as a sedative when suffering from months of October and November, and which is supposed
spasms and palpitation of the heart. in Britain to amount to a million and a half quarters a
THE official Gazette in Wurtemberg published at the month, there are required in these two months about a
commencement of this mouth some account of the plans million and a half quarters for seed—so that the con-
now rife in that country for emigration to Palestine. A sumption for this period is increased • about 50 per cent.
" Society for the bringing together of God's people in But the extra demand at this season has hitherto had
Jerusalem" has constituted itself, and amongst other pro- little or no effect on the markets, because we have always
ceedings has prepared a petition to the Bund of Frankfort. had large stocks of old wheat in the country, in addition
THE HIGH MARSHAL of the Court of Admiralty made to the growth of the last year—and the consumption for
public proclamation on Monday, on the Royal Exchange, food between Michaelmas and Christmas has principally
London, that another Russian vessel, called the Rapide, of been taken out of the old stock ; but, this year, owing to
which Brockelman was the late master, had been seized in the close working up of all old stocks by both millers and
the port of Liverpool under simulated papers, and that the bakers, and the absence of any foreign supplies coming
same would be condemned as a crown droit within 20 days, in, or remaining over in granary, the whole consumption
and sold for the benefit of her captors. has fallen on the new growth, and the farmers having
THE EARL or MORTON (a Scotch paper tells us), the had little inducement in the price, immediately after
last of the three shutters-up of the public way between harvest, to thrash out their new growth faster than
Burntisland and Aberdour, has formally given up the con- usual, the markets have been without the additional
test, and the public right, so long battled for in and out supply which the deficiency of old stocks has called for.
of the courts, is declared and secured. The question has But as soon as this extra demand has been supplied, I
been under litigation, in one form or another, since 1846. feel confident, from the very large crop grown this year,
PETER JOHN HENRY, an auctioneer, who had been of all grain, that the markets will be abundantly supplied,
convicted by two justices of selling by auction out of the and we shall have less occasion for a foreign supply than
district to which he was licensed, applied to the Queen's we have felt for some years past. From a very careful
Bench on Saturday to have the conviction quashed ; they observation of the crops of corn, both in England and
had fined him £lO, whereas they should have fined him the north of France, I am convinced the growth, this
£5O. It appeared that the justices had looked-up the year, is the largest and finest I have known in the last
wrong act, and the conviction was quashed. twenty years, and is at least a fifth more than an average,
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—In a fire which occurred on and probably nearly double the growth of 1853 ; and if
the premises of Messrs. Arnold and Co., Red Lion- this be so, notwithstanding the absence of old stock to
square, London, on Sunday week, Emma, wife of Mr. John
St. Clare Jones, who tenanted the second floor, was burnt lessen the consumption of new at this season, we shall
find the country, at Christmas, with as much, if not more,
to death, with one of her children. The remains were than our usual stock of home-grown corn, and the pre-
found in the ruins on Monday, and presented a shocking sent high prices will be but temporary—and I am aided
spectacle• in coming to this conclusion by my knowledge that whilst
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening, last the produce of potatoes is considerably greater, this year,
week, Mr. Henry Innes, aged 20, the son of a gentleman re- than it has been of late years, at the same time, there has
siding in the Hampstead-road, on arriving at the Hornsey been far less of disease in them ; and whilst the consump-
station, from King's-cross, got out of the train while it tion of wheat, of late years, has been largely increased by
was in motion, when he suddenly fell between the train the failure of this root, this year the reverse is likely to be
and the platform, micl;,was awfully mutilated before the the case.— HEWITT Davis.
carriages could be 'bfought to a stand. Death was LOANS TO FOREIGN STATES.—A Parliamentary paper
instantaneous. has just been issued by the Treasury, giving an account
THE FIELD TELEGRAPH.—Two waggons, each con- of all sums of money paid or advanced by way of loan,
tam ing twelve miles of telegraphic wire covered with
subsidy, or otherwise, to any foreign state, from the year
gutta percha, and with ploughs and the necessary arrange-
-1792 to the close of 1853. From this it appears that we
ments for laying down the wires, were put on board the
have in that period advanced to-- £ s. d.
Prince, screw-steam transport ship,at Woolwich, previous Russia 9,413,434 3 8
to her proceeding to Greenhithe to embark the 46th
Russian sufferers . ...............
Regiment. As letters announcing the arrival of the Prince 4,136,836 11 7
at Constantinople have been received, the instruments9,433,3s3 8 9
Portu I
must have been at the disposal of Lord Raglan's staff for ga
the last fortnight. Russian-Dutch Loan
Portuguese sufferers lOO,OOO 0 (20''
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY.—A meeting of this
company was held on Thursday, Mr. Cattley in the chair, Germany ... ................ -••• • • • .... ,
Prussia
. ...
to receive the report of Mr. Gibson on the company's Spain
affairs. It appeared from this that the aggregate value Sweden
of the lands, houses, &c., was £200,000, and that the Sicily Austria
2,734,415 0 0
Hanover
-
,
~ ,
He recommended the directors to sell the land by auction
at certain periods, and to lease others for ten to fourteen Minor Powers, under engagements
years, with right of pre-emption ; also to improve the . with the Duke of Wellington 1,733,528 18 4
harbour of Stanley, and to facilitate steam conveyance Holland (fortifications, Netherlands) 1,529,765 2 8
betwixt Launceston, Melbourne, and Stanley. The report Hesse Cassel 1,271,107 13 7
was adopted. German Princes
THE MINISTRY.—We are assured that the differences Sardinia 592,000 0 0
which originally existed in the Cabinet as to the attitude Greek Loaßava • n
603,602 16 5
501,017 6 0
1
which this country should assume on the first indications
of war with Russia, have again broken out ; and that Hesse Darmstadt 263,581 12 6
now, as formerly, Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Prince of Orange
and the Marquis of Lansdowne, range themselves on the France
• k
125,086 14 8
side of a greater promptitude and energy of action ; Brunswick
while Lord Abdrdeen, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Sidney Denmark
Herbert, and one or two others, are still in favour of a Baden 26,990 010
cautious and conciliatory policy.—Morning Advertiser. Morocco 16,371 3 3
A CURIQUS PENNY.—A person belonging to Grange-
mouth, in getting change for a shilling, was struck with
something uncommon in one of the pence. On examina-
tion it was found that the obverse and reverse of the coin
was divided, but united with a fine screw. Being opened,
a halfpenny was enclosed, which also was divided ; being
opened, a farthing was enclosed, and also divided; and,
being opened, a half-farthing was enclosed. This Qlabo-
rate penny is the same as the old heavy penny of George
III; date, 1799.

£64,215,126 11 9

Of this immense sum, the only items to which is attached
the word "repaid," are £200,000 of the £220,000 advanced
to the Prince of Orange in 1799 and 1813, and the £200,000
advanced to France in 1814. There are no advances since
1816, except upon the Russian-Dutch Loan to Holland,
and the Greek Loan. The Russian-Dutch Loan com-
menced in 1816, and has continued every year since, the
last payment iu 1851 having been £88,577 7s. sd. The
advance to Havre, for the fortifications of the Netherlands,
commenced in 1818, and terminated in 1820. The Greek
Loan commenced in 1843, and has continued ever since,
the last payment,i n 1853, having been £47,637 ls. 2d. The
loans or advances to Baden, Hesse Darmstadt, and Bruns-
wick all ceased prior to the commencement of the present
century. The first advance to Russia was in 1799, and
the last recorded was in 1816.
A MODERN ROMANCE.—On Monday, last week, the
Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in the case of Thorn-
hill v. Thornhill, relative to the attempted abduction of a

NATIONALITY.—In the production of the military
drama of the battle of the Alma, at Bristol theatre, the ma-
nager experienced the greatest difficulty in inducing par-
ties to personate Russians. The soldiers employed in the
spectacle would not listen to the proposition, and the
ordinary " supers" either flatly refused, or begged to be
allowed in preference to fill the humblest position in the
allied army. Mr. Chute explained to them, with the best
eloquence he could use, that they were but Russians in
"jest," and some of them at length yielded to his impor-
tunities, but he wholly failed in prevailing upon the full
number on which he reckoned.
ANCIENT MSS.—A few days ago the workmen engaged
in the demolition of the tower of St. Jean de Latran,
opposite the College de France, found a number of parch-
ments, which M. Van Cleemputte, the architect, carefully
collected and deposited at the Hotel de Ville. They were
found to belong generally to the 13th and 14th centuries,
but there is one receipt of the 16th century. It is thought
that other manuscripts may be discovered, and orders
have been given that they are to be carefully preserved,
and after being classified at the Hotel de Ville, their con-
tents are to be communicated to the Minister of Public
Instruction.
THE FREEHOLD FRANCHISE.—In the case of Astbury
v. Henderson, in the Court of Common Pleas, on the 24th
inst., the Conservative Land Society. which have fought
for the principle of the franchise being extended to all
persons who have purchased plots of land, proved to be of
the value of 40s. per annum, have gained the unanimous
decision of the four judges (the Lord Chief Justice Jervis,
and Justices Malik, Williams, and Crowder), in their ap-
peal against the decision of the revising barrister at the
Putney Estate, who refused the right of voting to seventeen
allottees on the ground that the land was not let, and did
not yield 40s. per year. This important judgment decided
that a plot of freehold land may be had of the value of 40s.
per year, and thus confer the county franchise, notwith-
standing that this land may not be actually let on building
lease or otherwise, and is for the time unoccupied arid
wholly unproductive.
ENGLISH GROWN SILIC.-Many persons in England, as
a matter of entertainment, have .kept a few silkworms,
which have produced cocoons. No further result by them
has been contemplated ; but we have heard of a gentle-
man (Mr. Hutton) in Cornwall, who has followed out the
growing of silk so successfully as an amateur, that he has
at length arrived at the conviction that silk-growing
might be profitably carried on in this country. We have
seen some hundreds of cocoons in an establishment near
Manchester. The gentleman calculates that an acre of
mulberry-trees would suffice to produce 601 b. weight of
silk, and that the ground would yield a profit to the far-
mer of about £3O an acre. Dr. (now Sir John) Bowring,
when in Manchester, said that the mulberry-tree was in-
digenous to every climate, and that nature had so favoured
us as to give a species suited to every country.—Man-
chester Examiner.
GROWTH or RIISSIA.—In 1722, the Czar, then Peter
the Great, only swayed 14 millions of boyards and serfs ;
but Russia was even then beginning to learn the art of
robbing her neighbours—"obtaining material guarantees,"
the wise call it ; and, 40 years later, in 1762, she had
"conveyed" to herself six millions more subjects, making
20 millions ; by 1795, Catharine, "the Semiramis (and
Messalina) of the North," had raised the number of 36
millions ; in 1818 it was 45,500,000; and, in 1824, under
the virtuous Alexander, it had grown to 60 millions.
Nicholas has not been less lucky than his predecessors,
and, as mentioned above, the 27 years of his great and

ward in chancery, by a brother of the Countess of Ferrers
A Miss Thornhill, 16 years of age, is a ward of chancery,
and is possessed of a large fortune. Her guardian is a
Mrs. Hungerford, who resides in Northamptonshire. Some
time last year, guardian and ward went on a visit to Earl
Ferrers' residence. They met there
.a Mr. Chichester, a
brother of the Countess of Ferrers. This gentleman is a
member of the noble Irish family of Donegal, but is very
poor and embarrassed. He seems to have sought the
heiress, and the countess, his sister, was earnest in his
suit. His object becoming known to the guardian, all
communication was forbidden between countess' suitor,
and ward. Nevertheless, Mr. Chichester did not give up
the suit, but followed the heiress to the country, and
sought to make her elope with him. To induce the
young lady, whom he was in the habit of seeing each
night at the window, he gave her letters of Lady Ferrers
to him, wishing him success, and stating that, even with
an elopement, she would be happy to receive her as a sister.
This clandestine affair becoming known to Mrs. Hunger.
ford, an attachment was sought for against the Countess
of Ferrers and Mr. Chichester for inducing a ward of
chancery to elope. The judgment was, that a sufficient
case was made out against the lady, of whom the Lord
Chancellor, notwithstanding, spoke with great severity,
but the gentleman was committed for contempt. The
young lady gave up some letters in the case, which, how-
ever, only showed that Lady Ferrers was anxious that her
brother should have the heiress. The following extract
from the judgment of the Lord Chancellor explains the
means taken by the fortune-hunter and his sister, to gain
the affections of the young heiress :—" On the morning of
their (Mr. and Mrs. Hungerford and Miss Thornhill's)
arrival at Ascot, Mrs. Hungerford discovered, what asto-
nished her, some fragments of a letter, which turned out,
or which was suspected at that time, I believe, to be from
Lady Ferrers, that had crossbars in different ink, of a
different writing, and being a different matter that was
written. It turned out to be written with lemon juice,
which, it seems, when held to the fire, comes out in the
form of a pale red writing ; and Mrs. Hungerford disco-
vered what led her to believe that, whoever was writing
these letters was writing an apparently open correspond-
ence in black ink, and a concealed correspondence in this
different ink or lemon juice, the clandestine writing being
more or less an encouragement on the part of Lady Fer-
rers to the young lady to give countenance to the suit of
Mr. Chichester, Lady Ferrers' brother. Exactly what it
was we do not know, but that that was the substance of it
is manifest. Lady Ferrers had desired that she might be
at liberty to send to the young lady a little basket in re-
turn for the purse. That was very natural, and Mrs.
Hungerford did not object to that ; but she said it would
be better it should come through her, and that she would
present it in Lady Ferrers' name. She did so, and that
seemed all right; but, to the disgrace of Lady Ferrers—
and I cannot attempt to qualify the exprVOD, for it was
most disgraceful, and it must for ever er her in the
society of her equals—in that basket wasi oncealed in the
lining a letter written, not on paper, which would have
made a crackling noise, and have excited attention, but
written on linen—a secret encouragement to the ward—
against the consent, or without the consent of her guar-
dian, to give countenance to the suit of her brother, whom
she admits, and whom all adinit, to be a man of deep
embarrassment. Mr. Chichester, being rejected on the
part of the guardian as an unfit suitor for the young lady,
was forbidden to visit her at all ; but the course he took
was this : Mr. and Mrs. Hungerford, and the young lady,
,% lived at Dingley-park, in Northamptonshire, which is only
a mile or two from the town of Market Harborough. It
) seems that some time in August, Mr. Chichester, with

purivuz IG.s.•
his devoted 'subjects, or one-seventh more than the whole
population over whom Peter the Shipwright exercised his
iron rule. Whence all these millions ? Let Poland,•Fin-

land, the Crimea, Bessarabia, Cl

Armenia, answer