The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-13 00:00:00

It Is stated In a Manx paper of last week that since the
commencement of the present year it is calculated that not
less than fifteen thousand tons of potatoes have been exported
from different parts of the island.
Mr. Lillington, glove nianufacturer, of this city, has been
honoured by the commands of her Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager, for a large supply of coloured and white kid gloves.
There is no doubt that this seasonable patronage will be at-
tended with the best effects to the trade of this city.—Wor-
cester Journal.

On Friday last a collision took place in the Thames, be-
tween the London and Hull steam-packet Gazelle and the
brig Charles, by which the latter went down in about two
and a half fathoms water. All the crew were saved. The
Charles had a general cargo, none of which was insured. The
steamer did not sustain much damage.

There is a cargo of Egyptian wheat arrived in Limerick,
which ten days ago would have been subject to 275. Sd. the
quarter, duty, but may now be released, manufactured, at
13s. the quarter. Two hundred quarters of wheat have
been released in Waterford during the week, at 13s. duty.
The quantity of wheat under the Queen's lock there, is four
thousand quarters.
NOVEL WAGER.—A person went last week into a public-
house near Dudley, and after some conversation offered to
bet a wager of 10;. that he would eat the coat off his back if
they would allow him to cut the buttons off. The wager was
laid, and the coat was cut to pieces and put in a frying-pan,
and after well frying it in liquor, he ate every bit of his coat
and won the wager.—Cambridge Advertiser.

O'CONNELL'S FREEMEN BEFORE THE QUEEN'S BENCH.
—One of Mr. O'Connell's manufactured freemen was
brought before the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday
last. The would-be freeman, William Brady. was struck
from the roll, and £lO costs awarded. This decision has, in
effect, expunged the names of no less than 300 of Mr.
O'Connell's freemen, whose case is precisely similar to that
of Brady.—Dublin Statesman.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 6.—About 500 hhds.
raw sugar have been sold in our market since our last, viz.,
300 hhds. Berbice and Demerara for removal to Liverpool,
at prices ranging from 61s. to 675., and about 200 hhds.
Nevis and St. Kitt's, imported per Marys; the latter have
brought from 635. to 715., and which are full prices. We
have three arrivals this week,—one from Jamaica, with about
320 hhds. and tierces, one from Barbadoes, bringing 460
hhds. and a cargo of 7,000 bags Mauritius—all of which are
much wanted, and will probably be offered as soon as landed.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— About half-past ten o'clock
on Tuesday night, the attention of a watchman in Gallow-
gate was called to a fire said to have broken out in a house
in Calton Entry or the " Double Dykea." On entering the
house he found it in flames, and immediately gave the alarm,
but when the engines arrived, it was found that the fire was
only a small portion of the evil. After giving the alarm, the
watchman proceeded to examine the house more minutely,
when he found the husband, AP Pherson, a chimney-sweeper,
vainly endeavouring to extinguish the flames in which his
wife was enveloped. This, however, being ultimately accom-
plished, she was sent to the Infirmiry. On making further
search, a child of three years of age was found,'where the bed
of straw had been, literally burnt to a cinder, and still as if in
the attitude of unconscious sleep. Two other girls and a boy
were in the house at the time of the accident, of which they
gave the following account :—Both father and mother had
been intoxicated for some days, and on Tuesday afternoon
the mother came in the worse of liquor and lay down on the
straw. M`Pherson coming in afterwards, far from sober,
and seeing her in bed, went out again. In the mean time
the children had fallen asleep, and one, about nine years of
age, had taken a lighted candle with her, which fell on the
bed and caused the unfortunate results. The mother has
been sent to the Infirmiry, where she lies dangerorsly injured,
the remains of the child, which presented a shocking ap-
pearance, were carried to the Police Office. The father has
been taken into custody.—Glasgow Mail.
ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY.—At the Head Police-office,
Dublin, on Monday, Elizabeth Barnard and James Derham
were brought in custody before Sir Nicholas Fitzsimon,
charged by Richard Barnard and Acting-Inspector Matthews
with elopement and robbery. Before the prisoners were
placed at the bar, Derham, who seemed to recognise the
worthy magistrate, begged to have a few minutes' conversa-
tion with him, but Sir Nicholas peremptorily refused to
hear anything from him but at the bar, and ordered the
witness to be sworn. Mr. Barnard stated that he was house
steward to the Earl of Charleville, his wife, the prisoner,
was housekeeper, and Derham, the gardener, all in the same
service. On Thursday last the two prisoners disappeared
from Charleville Castle, and Mr. Bernard found a letter on
his table, written by his wife, stating that she had taken what
money would answer her out of his drawers—that she had
long since fixed her affections on James Derham, the gar-
dener—that she hoped he would not follow them or bring
her or her true love James into court, as she could never
think of parting from him, particularly as she was, through his
means, in a certain interesting state, &c. On examining his
drawers he found that she had taken away £53 lOs in Bank
of Ireland notes. He also missed an old trunk belonging to
Lord Charleville. Acting-Inspector Matthews stated, that
after a long search he discovered the prisoners in the Brazen
Head Hotel. Several articles of Derham's were in the trunk
alleged as belonging to his lordship ; and in his (Derham's)
possession, he found a snuff-box, which Barnard claimed as
his. The female prisoner, who is abort forty years of age,
with a sharp thin visage and pale complexion, evinced no
signs of contrition or shame, and declared that she would
not go back, that the money was safe, bua would not say
where she had deposited it ; she said she gave the snuff-box
to her dear James, and that her husband knew it. Derham
is a strapping able fellow, about twenty-five years of age.
He denied having taken the box, and alleged that the trunk
belonged to an old woman, and said he could get any bail
from £3O to £l,OOO. Sir Nicholas Fitzsimon ordered the
husband and Matthews to lodge their informations, and sent
the prisoners to Tullamore to be disposed of at the petty
sessions. Barnard and his wife are natives of England, and
Derham is a King's County boy.— Saunders' Newsletter.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—For the last few days much
excitement has prevsiled in Paradise-street, Lambeth, which
had on Monday increased to so great an extent as to render
the street nearly impassable. Various rumours were freely
circulated, but the following particulars were obtained from
a source which may be relied upon. Some years since, a
certain Scotch nobleman formed an intimate acquaintance
with a woman, by whom he had three children. At his
death, which happened about six years since, he left by will
to the eldest child, a girl (now about ten years of age), the
sum of £70,000 per annum ; and to the two younger children
he left the sum of £30,000 a year each, and to the mother
£20,000 a year. His brother, who at present enjoys the
into
effect, was appointed to carry the provisions of the will
effect, and to see to the education and ?roper care of the
children, who were to be under the guardianship of the mo-
ther while she remained unmarried, and conformed to certain
other regulations, but some of which it appears she has in-
fracted ; a knowledge of which having reached the ears of
the surviving brother, the nobleman alluded to, application
was made to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by whom a war-
rant was issued some months since to remove the children
from the custody of the mother, who then lived in the
neighbourhood of Glasgow; she, however, fled to London,
and up to last Friday has contrived to seclude herself; but
through the activity of an inspector of the A division, her
retreat has been discovered, and constables have been di-
rected to watch the premises, so that the children should not
be again removed, until an application should have been
made to the lord chancellor. This has been deemed an an-
noyance by the mother of the children, and on Saturday
night she presented pistols at the police, and declared that
she would fire at any person who attempted to enter the
house. Every window is kept closed and the doors bolted,
and letters and provisions are drawn up by a cord to the
first floor window, from whence all applications and messa-
ges are answered. It is expected that a warrant from the
lord chancellor will be obtained, when a forcible entrance
will be effected.!—Morning Herald of Tuesday.
ROMANCE IN REAL LlFE.—Considerable excitement
was caused in Tenby, on the 21st ult., by the appear-
ance of a person in male attire, who had a short time intro-
duced herself to several families in the town as a female, and
partook of their hospitality under that character. On her
first visit she stated that her name was Miss Ellen Hatfield,
and gave the following account of herself ;—She was 19
years of age, was born at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and was
daughter of Joseph and Mary Hatfield, the former a native
of Scotland, and the latter of England. Joseph Hatfield
was educated for the bar, and afterwards ordained a clergy-
man of the English church, at college, at New York. He
died about four years ago. Ellen Hatfield was placed by her
guardian, Mr. Newton, about three years ago, in a Popish
church, near Halifax. Soon after the death of her mother,
about six years since, her father married again, and after his
death her stepmother married her guardian, Mr. Newton.
She remained in the convent five months, and then returned
home, and was afterwards sent to another convent, where
she continued nine months, and then eloped with the Rev.
Archibald Campbell, a clergyman of the English church ;
they were not married. They embarked in the Elizabeth, of
Halifax, Captain Morris, the crew consisting of 25. The
vessel ran aground on a sandbank, about four miles from
the shore of a small island called Hook's Island. She and
Mr. Campbell were allowed by the Captain to go ashore
alone in the boat. Mr. Campbell, in consequence of pre-
vious indisposition and over-exertion in rowing the boat,
died on the beach three days after their landing. She sup-
posed the island to be uninhabited, but at the expiration of
eight days she found an old gentleman living there from dis-
gust of the world ; she lived eight days upon oranges, and
knows nothing of what became of the vessel. Thence, after
a stay of more than a month, she sailed in the William Hutt,
of Halifax, Captain Morris (another Captain Morris,) and
arrived at Swansea on the 21st of October. Thence they
sailed almost immediately in a vessel called the Seven Stars,
Captain Reece, to Cornwall, and wandered about in that
, neighbourhood for three months, during the whole of which
time, since her departure from Halifax, she dressed in man's
clothes; about five weeks ago she put off her man's costume
at Pontardulais. She says her father left £15,000 to herself
and two sisters ; when she left home she had about £2O in
cash, a check, and a will. On her last visit she was taken
by the police-officer before the mayor and one of the borough
magistrates, and gave her name Albert Valentine Cavendish,
but refused to give any further information. Several at-
tempts were made to discover her sex, which failed. Mr.
N. Millard, surgeon, was then sent for, who stated that she
was a female, on which she was immediately discharged.
She stands about five feet high, fair complexion, speaks
rather broad, and is supposed to be from the neighbourhood
of Laugharne.—lVelchman.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.--The annual meeting of this
association took place on Wednesday, when the large room at
Exeter-hall was completely crowded. Lord Kenyon was in
the chair. On the platform we noticed, in addition to the
noble lord, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., General Latter, General
Innes, Major Penjey, Dr. Alexander, &c. After the noble
chairman had briefly opened the business of the day, the se-
cretary (Mr. Dalton) read the annual report of the committee.
That document commenced by congratulating the cause of
Protestantism on the good which could not but arise from
the recent visit of his Majesty the King of Prussia, and the
additional tie thereby cemented between the two countries.
It then went on to advert to the necessity the committee had
felt of calling a meeting in the month of August for the purpose
of considering the propriety of the adoption of some steps to
counterbalance the lamentable effects oth
f e barbarous and
outrageous conduct which had been perpetrated at the late
elections in Ireland—conduct which had been calculated to
create the greatest alarm for the cause of Protestantism
in that country. The report next congratulated the cause
on the adhesion of a prince of Lucca to the ranks of
frequently
interrupted Protestants. The reading of the report was
interrupted by warm applause. Mr. Plumptre then moved
the adoption of the report, and took occasion to express his
grief at the disunion which had sprung up amongst the body
of members of the national church. It was an event almost
too frightful to contemplate, and he lamented to have reason
to call attention to the fact that there were many who had,
as it were, by their adoption of the new doctrine or system
to which he referred, withdrawn themselves from their
church. But he would say if those parties had done this
with a firm conscientious belief, then let them sever them-
selves absolutely from the national—the Protestant church.
He hoped that all true Protestants would be ashamed of
those persons continuing their names as members of the
great body, for the desire and intent was to rob the church
of the Scriptures. He ardently trusted that they would all
protest against this new species of Popery—(hear, hear).—
which had risen up in their own church,—(hear, hear,)—and
he most heartily wished that the beads of that church could
see it to be their duty to declare against so foul and fatal an
error. (Hear, hear.) The meeting was subsequently ad-
dressed by the Rev. Dr. Tyn,,,,c, from America. the Rev. Mr.
Goodhart, the Rev. H. Stovvell, the Rev. A. S. Thelwall,
and others, by whom a series of resolutions, in maintenance
and furtherance of the objects of the association were pro-
posed and seconded. A vote of thanks having been given to
to the noble chairman, the meeting separated.