The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

Wedutiday, tilt brig integrity of bi'Milerlanti time ill
collision with another lend (name unkneihf), by which the
latter was sunk, end all hands trabappiq drowned. The
master of the Integrity says, in a letter, t bat though every
exertion was made to save the crew the win d was blowing so
hard they could not reach them before the vtssel went down.
FIRE IN BERElCE.—(Extract of a lettet.)—" We had a
very serious alarm the other night, about twelve o'clock, a
house at the Winkle having taken fire. A Lot of grass was
left burning at the windward side of the house. When the
people went to bed the fire caught the under part of the
house; the staircase was almost burnt away -before the man
awoke ;—his wife and two boys jumped through the window ;
the man escaped with another boy,—two left behind were
burnt. The bodies were found after the frame fell. 'rho fire
reached high enough to ignite the cocoa-nut trt tes adjoining,
but was speedily extinguished, mainly through the exertions
of the seamen belonging to vessels in the river.'''

RALEIGH AND CO. AND THE BANK OF MAIiCHESTER.-
An application was made to the Court of Revie w in London,
on Thursday last, by the managing director of the Bank of
Manchester, to prove the debt owing by Raleigl and Co. to
that establishment, which, it will be remembt led, was ex-

punged by the coMmissioners at Manchester. Mr. Bacon,
who appeared for the assignees of Raleigh, stated that the
application was made with such promptitude, t hat they had
not had time to meet it by evidence. To this it a fas answered
that the bankrupt's last examination was on t be following,
day. Under these circumstances, the examinal ion was ad-
journed for six weeks, and the petition will be dit posed of in
the meantime.

FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—A l ;reat many
forged £5 Bank of England notes are now in arm elation, and
the following is the description of a man, after whom the
police are in hot pursuit, who has succeeded in pas sing sever-
al of them. One of the last be is traced to have p assed, was
at the shop of Mrs. Carter, 84, Robert-street, Che:(sea. The
swindler is between 35 and 40 years of agr, 5 feet ! ) inches in
height, dark brown hair and large whiskers of th e same lo-
lour. He is good looking, dresses in a suit of b lack, with
brown Taglioni over it. When he cheated Mrs. I Carter, he
gave the following name and address, of course fc and to be
false :—" Hooter, 20, Sloane-street, Chelsea."

EXTRAORDINARY MINERALOGICAL PHENOME NON.—A
correspondent of the West Briton, in a communi, ration on
the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, says -" While
working for John Taylor, Esq., and Company, about 25
years ago, in the parish of Brentor, Devon, in a m anganese
mine, I discovered a vein, while driving through soft growan,
or granite, about one-third of an inch wide, the co: utents of
which very much resemble candle grease. Indeed I, had it
been handed to me for my inspection, in order to give it a
name, I should unhesitatingly have pronounced it t .s before
stated. The appearance being so very similar to pieces of
grease severed from broken candle, I kept it for sot Lie time,
with the intention of showing it to some scientific gentle-
men; but meeting with none I threw it away, not t hinking
that geology or mineralogy would have been so stu died or
practised, either in Devon or Cornwall. I tried to melt it,
but could not • but by exposing it to a strong beat, it became
a white powder, very much, as I then thought, lid e mag-
nesia. I never saw any thing like it taken out of the bowels
of the earth before or since, neither have I ever 1 lad the
chance to meet with a miner who ever saw such a phi .nome-
non. Now, if any of your mineralogical correspondet ds ever
saw or met with such a thing, and they will be kind i flough
to give me its name, &c., through the medium o f your
journal, they will confer a great favour."

GIN DRINKING EXTRAORDINARY.-A most deter, mined
act of felony and drunkenness occurred at Oundle, i n this
county, during the past week, and which has nearly cm t one
of the depredators his life, but should he survive, it is ima-
gined he will never relish the smell of gin again as long ; is he
exists. The following are the particulars :—Four well kt town
characters residing in the above town, named John Nightin-
gale, John Wortley, James Coles, and Samuel Allen, con-
trived to enter the yard of Messrs. Smith and Tibbetts.
brewers, in Oundle, and to steal therefrom a two-gallon b ot-
tle filled with gin, which was placed on a waggon to be con-
veyed with other articles to Thurning early on Friday mot. n-
ing, the 11th instant. The bottle was then secreted in ahe ap
of used hops, in Mr. Smith's close adjoining, where it r, a-
mained till the evening of the same day, when a fifth perso n
named Fox was intrusted with the secret, and despatched t o
convey it to a hovel near the union workhouse. There thtl
five assembled, and in the absence of a corkscrew the top of
the bottle was knocked of, and a half-pint pot substituted for
a glass. Here they sat and regaled themselves till they finished
the two gallons. Wortley was in such a beastly state of in-
toxication that he could not be conveyed home, and lest he
he should lead to their detection, although some of the others
could scarcely walk, they left him in a ditch contiguous to
the hovel. Here he was discovered by Mr. Ambridge, the
superintendent of police for the Oundle division, and with
the assistance of Darker and another of the force he was

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wheeled... to the Bridewell in a barrow. At first it was not
certain whether be was living or dead, and on medical aid
being procured, Mr. Watson, surgeon, instantly applied the
stomach-pump, and at least three pints of neat gin were
ejected. The other prisoners were apprehended the same
night, and the following morning (Saturday), including Fox,
who was taken into custody also as an accessory. After the
apprehension of Nightingale he confessed to the whole of the
circumstances connected with the robbery. The prisoners,
with the exception of Wortley, were all brought up to the
Town-hall on Monday last, for examination before the magis-
trates at the petty sessions, but in consequence of the debili-
tated state of Wortley the case was remanded.—Northamp-
ton Herald.