The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lord Stanley, who is now at.Knowsley-park, is shortly ex-
pected in Ireland, on a visit to. his estates in the County of
Tipperary.
Sir William Allan, president of the Royal Scottish Aca-
demy, is now at Brussels, making sketches of the field of
Waterloo, for his large picture of that memorable battle.
Cooper, of Leicester, was acquitted, on Wednesday night,
at Stafford, on a charge of arson, and was to be tried for
sedition.

There are numerous forged notes in circulation, purporting
to be those of the Bank of England. They are numbered
1827, and dated June 4, 1842.
The beneficial effects of the new tariff have, we congratu-
late the public, reached Bedford, by affording to us excellent
American salt beef at 4d. per lb.—Bedford Alfercury.

Mr. Papineau is said to be in New York, on his way to
Canada. Mother Rumour, the old hag with a thousand
tongues, gives him a birth as Deputy Postmaster-General of
Montreal.—Halifax (U.S.) Paper.
The Musical lVorld advertises a set of quadrilles adapted
from Rossini's Slabat Mater! We expect to hear of the
Israel in Egypt waltzes, and paloppes from Mozart's 12th
Mass.

A FAILING CAUSE.—Every year since the Reform Bill
passed, the liberal party have expended a large sum annually
on the Middlesex registration. This year the clubs have
" abandoned the county."
LADY SALE.—A subscriber favours us with the following:
—Akbar Khan having desired this heroic lady to write to
General Nott, desiring him not to advance to Caubul, the
heroine immediately wrote, "Advance Nott."—Chellenham
Examiner.

The Durham and Sunderland Railway have declared a
dividend of 10s. per share, and appear to be working down
the difficulties from which it has for some time suffered. The
depressed condition of trade had much affected its traffic.
It is understood that the Rev. Dr. Butler will be appointed
to the Deanery of Peterborough, which will be vacated by
the nomination of Dr. Turton to that of Westminster. Dr.
Butler was for several years head master of Harrow School.

A quantity of foreign pickled beef from Holstein, and pork
from the United States, has appeared in the market at Ber-
wick, both of which were eagerly purchased. The beef was
sold at 40. per pound. the pork 4d. Good foreign pickled
pork has been sold at Darlington at 3d. and 4d. per pound
during the last week. Pickled dried tongues at 2d. per pound.

A letter from Toledo, in the Eco del Comercio of Madrid,
states that three of the band of robbers called the "Twelve
Apostles," having caught a National Guard who had given
information against them, carried him off, and having bound
him hand and foot, and confined him in a shepherd's hut,
set fire to it and burnt him alive.

We are sorry to observe that the Great Western siteam-
ship is to be brought to the hammer. If this vessel
should be sold to a foreign power, it will be a na-
tional disgrace. The company have been compelled to take
the step ; and they will find the Great Britain—now nearly
completed—quite enough to manage.
Admiral Sir Edward Codrington hauls down his flag, and
will he superseded in the naval command at Portsmouth, on
the 22d of next month, by either Sir Charles Rowley or Sir
John Talbot ; and should a vacancy occur with either of the
present members, Sir Charles, who is deservedly popular, is
very likely to be elected a member of parliament for the
borough.
SHIPWRECK.—The Konigsberg Gazette states that an
English ship, bound to St. Petersburg, name unknown, laden
with a valuable cargo of tin and cotton, was wrecked on the
6th instant, near Cravitz. It was said that the vessel bad
been abandoned by her crew. The leaves of her logbook,
subsequent to the 4th July, had been cut out.
BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN STEAMERS.—It is
announced, in the Halifax papers, that hereafter the steam-
packets will sail from ,Halifax for Liverpool on the 3d and
18th of each month, whether those days fall on Sunday or
not. They, will, of course, leave Boston on the Ist and 16th
of each month.—Boston Daily Advertiser.

AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—On Saturday last, as a train
was proceeding on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway,

some of the carriages became -detached, and were left on the
line. The passengers in them, finding themselves stationary,
looked forward to ascertain the cause, just in time to lose

sight.of the engine,—and backward with no very enviable
idea of seeing another train advancing to give them a shove.
Happily their absence was discovered by the guards of the
runaway engine in time to prevent further mischief.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—A girl from ten to eleven
years of age, belonging to the village of Scone, while amusing
herself last Saturday, cast a few common beans into her
mouth, one of which entered the windpipe. Spasms, with a
sense of suffocation, and other symptoms of extreme danger,
immediately ensued. The girl was promptly removed to the
Infirmary, and the delicate operation of incision into the
windpipe, with the view of extracting the bean, was perfor-
formed but without success. Her breathing was, however
considerably relieved by the operation, although little or no
hope could be entertained of her recovery.—Perth Courier
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENTS.--On Saturday
last, in the townland of Lower Ballyconnelly, near Ramullen,
Andrew Patton, farmer, went out with his son, a fine boy of
nine years old, to dig potatoes. A young bullock got into
the field where they were at work. The little boy ran to
drive him out, when the bullock turned upon him and threw
him to the ground. The father seeing his child in danger,
and being at a distance, lifted a stone and flung it at the bul-
lock, when, terrible to relate, the stone struck the child on
the head and killed him on the spot. This poor man is at
present labouring under great distress of mind bordering on
insanity. Just at the same time, near Patton's house, a
horse and cart broke off and killed another child belonging
to Patton's labouring man.—Londonderry Sentinel.
THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The working of

the compact between this Society and the Archbishop of
Canterbury will shortly be tested, as a case of Appeal has
come over from the Bishop of Madras. The Madras com-
mittee, being dissatisfied with the Rev. Mr. Humphry, the
Society's Missionary at Mayaveram in that Diocese, de-
termined to supersede him, and to appoint a Mr. Taylor in
his room. The Bishop has in consequence sent home to the
Parent Committee a " Stacement of Mr. Humphry's case,"
with a desire that it should be referred to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, as provided, under the arrangement so lately en-
tered into in matters of dispute.
St. Paul's Cathedral, which has been closed to the public
since July last. is now re-opened for divine service. During
the time it has been closed, the interior, which had become

in a most dirty state from the effects of the carbonic atmos-
phere and dust, has undergone a thorough cleansing. The
choir, which is constructed of solid old English oak, has
been well scrubbed and newly varnished, and the drapery of
the pulpit and the seats renewed. Many of the monuments
had become nearly covered with soot, so as to prevent the
public distinguishing the beauties of the sculptor's talent.
They have been so well cleansed that they have the appearance
of just coming from the statuary's. The whispering gallery,
the interior of the dome, and the magnificent bassi relievi,
are now seen to the greatest advantage, which previously pre-
sented but one mass of dust and black. The fine columns
now have the appearance of their masterly architecture, which
had been for years lost to the view. The whole of the centre
and the aisle, which had been enclosed with bars, is thrown
open to the public gratis during divine service from 10 to 11
a.m., and 2 till 4 p.m.
THE FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS.—As we believe the folio v-
ing exposition to be but too true, and that it cannot be con-
troverted, we comply with the wish of the committee by
stating that they have waited upon a large majority of the
manufacturers, but find that they have almost an unconquer-
able amount of difficulties to contend with, arising princi-
pally from a want of a brisk demand for labour. On the
one side the workmen complain of the manufaCturers giving
out work at miserably low prises, and the exorbitant charges
of the master framework-knitters; on the other hand, the
manufacturers complain of the workmen, or rather the under-
takers, coming to the warehouses and offering to take out
work at 9d. and ls. per_ dozen below the prices which they
are giving to the hands they employ. They admit that the
workmen's acting in this manner is not of choice, but that
they are necessitated thereto, owing to the difficulty they
have in obtaining employment; and from having no resource
to fall back upon, they are compelled to accept work at any
price, or otherwise break up their homes and go into the
union workhouse, or see their wives and children starve for
want of bread. The undertakers take out the work, as they
are sure of their profits; besides the advantage of carrying
on the mischievous truck system, which has destroyed the
independence of the workmen. According to the statement
of the manufacturers themselves, from the want of some-
thing to check these nefarious practices, they are severally
felt by them. The only chance there is of removing these
evils (except an increased demand) is the framework-knitters
commencing paying their weekly subscriptions to raise a fund
to protect the surplus labour. The public cannot be expected
to assist them unless they endeavour to assist themselves.—
Leicester Journal.
A violent outrage was last week committed upon the per-
son of Mr. Butler, of Shelsley Mill, a lonely spot about a
quarter of a mile from Stanford, in this county. It appears
that from his penurious habits he is reputed to be wealthy ;
and the circumstance of his brother being the only person he
has to live with him in the house probably operated as an in-
ducement to certain thieves ; for on Tuesday night the pre-
mises were broken open by four armed men, who blindfolded
both brothers, bound them hand and foot, and beat Mr.
Butler to make him disclose where his property was hid ;
after many threats to kill him, and the application of a razor
to his throat for that purpose, be was at length induced to
tell them that some portion of it would be found in a barn
which was situate at the other end of the fold-yard. This
was evidently said only with the view of getting clear of the
party, but they were not to be shaken off so easily, for with-
out allowing him to dress, the vagabonds took him from his
bed, and dragged him across the yard in his night-shirt.
Being unable or unwilling to show where his money was de-
posited in the barn, the party again returned, and after Mr.
Butler had again been beaten, and fancied he heard them
preparing knives to murder him, the fellows were informed
where they might-put their hands on £6O and upwards, which
they immediately did, and hastily decamped. It is believed
that two of the gang may be identified as the same fellows
who a few days previously had been about the neighbourhood
collecting damsons. The handkerchief which was tied about
Mr. Butler's head was stained as from that fruit. Informa-
tion was given to the police, and we understrnd that one
person has been apprehended on suspicion and remanded.
The brothers are 70 years of age, and this is the third time
the house has been robbed.—Worcester Journal.
MURDER AND RAPE.—Yesterday week, a lengthy inves-
tigation took place at the Waggon and Horses public-house,
Charlesworth, Derbyshire, before Mr. Thomas Manders,
coroner for the Glossop division, into the circumstances at-
tending the death of Samuel Shaw, a shoemaker, residing at
Charlesworth. The evidence of various witnesses went to
prove the following facts :—Late on Saturday night, the Ist
instant, the deceased and his wife were drinking together at
a public-house at Mottram, where they fell in company with
a man named James Ford, who resided in the same neigh-
bourhood, and he proposed to accompany them home. To
this they agreed ; and when near Hurstclough toll-bar, about
half a mile from deceased's residence, Ford began to take
improper liberties with deceased's wife ; and, on deceased
remonstrating with him, he took up a large stone and
knocked the deceased down, and afterwards struck him on
the bead and face with it till he became insensible. He then
attacked the wife in a similar manner, and, having also ren-
dered her insensible, dragged her into a field and violated
her person. During this transaction the deceased somewhat
recovered, and walked home,he not being
wife had gone on before him. The villain Ford, having ac-
complished his purpose, left her; and, her screams of mur-
der having brought e persons to her assistance, they con-
veyed her home Deceased was so ill from the injuries he
had received, that he
was totally unable to leave his bed after
that night, and ultimately
ories dietrile on Saturday week, in conse-
quence of those injand was generally considered a wasi forty-two see,
to the inquest his wife was ,
consideredeathrewere so much disfigured in a dangerous state,
s
and her own and deceased's f
from the brutality of the villain as scarcely to be recognisa-
villaralaintivFeJerd is a
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in the
hoousnaty of Waterford,
man, twenty-four years of
sae, o
Ireland, where his parents reside. He recognisa-
ble.
an
Manchester, but no children. He is a carpwenteerreldtin:din
and Idle is
was employed at the viaduct of the My ter d
anches an
Sheffield pailway, at Broad-bottom. He was apprehended
on the day after the commission of the offence, and was
brought before Mr. John Sidebottom, at Hyde, on the
following Wednesday, and committed to Chester for trial on
a charge of rape, and cutting and maiming. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against him, conse-
quently he will have to take his trial for that offence.