The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

\, Two LIVES LOST.—At a very early hour on Monday
morning two gentlemen left London for the purpose of pro-
ceeding to Woolwich to witness the departure of her Majesty
for Scotland ; but, melancholy to relate, in passing through
the Pool the nose of the boat struck against a barge near the
entrance of the London-docks, and in an instant went down,

Two men in a colliery witnessed the occurrence, and instan

ty got into a boat, and rowed to the spot, but were too late
to render any assistance. Their names were Lloyd and Free-
mantle, the former was in his 26th year, and was on the point
of marriage with a daughter of a wealthy merchant in the city.
The bodies have not yet been found. Mr. Freemantle was
30 years of age, and had a large scar in the palm of his hand.
About three weeks since a labourer of Thorncombe, in
Devon, near to Chard, went to the Union to apply for relief ;
he was told that he must either go in the Union-house or
provide for himself. He urged that he had brought up a
large family, that he was become old, and that rather than
go into a union workhouse he would hang himself. But all
in vain, the guardians would give no relief. The applicant
left : he was missed from that time by his friends, and on
Sunday Morning last he was found in a plantation belonging
to Mr. Gwynne, at Ford Abbey. His head was swinging by
a cord with which he had hanged himself : the body had
separated from the head, and fallen on the ground. The
hands and other extremities were devoured, it is said by dogs
or foxes. A coffin was procured, and the remains of the
wretched man were placed into it. An inquest was to have
been held on Tuesday, by Mr. Aberdein, coroner for Devon.
According to a statement published by the Sentinelle de l'
Arm6e, the garrison of Paris, and of the banlieu within a
distance of ten leagues, consisted of 54 batallions of infantry,
thirty squadrons of cavalry, a regiment of artillery, six com-
panies of engineers, four companies of veterans, and a squad-
ron of the waggon-train. " If we add these troops," observes
the Commerce, " the gendarmerie of the Seine, the municipal
guards, and the firemen, these united forces will present a
total number of 65,000 men ; and nevertheless, we are
living in a state ofpeace, at any price.
MODENA.—Miss Clara Novello, the pupil of that able
professor, the Chevalier Micheroux, has obtained great
success at this place. The night of her benefit, before her
departure for Bologna, was of the most brilliant kind. A
crowd assembled under her windows, manifesting their en-
thusiasm by shouts and acclamations. and by throwing her
large bouquets of flowers. This young singer seems destined
to a brilliant career.—Musical Review.
LAUSANNE.—The Helvetic Musical Society have given,
in the great Cathedral of Lausanne, one of those Concerts
which make a lasting impression on the memory. Rossini's
Stabat Mater was performed by seven hundred singers, with
perfect precision. A symphony of Beethoven had been
previously executed. The second part consisted of Men-
delssohn's Oratorio of St. Paul. This superb work was
received with transport. Among the solo-singers were
Mesdames Gaugler, Maschek. Gaulier, Saladin ; Messrs.
Mengis, Valloton, and Heller.
FOUR BOYS SUFFOCATED.—On Thursday morning
number of boys, who had run away from St. Pancras Work-
house, were found on the kilns in Rhodes' brick-fields, Cam-
den Town; three were quite dead and a fourth died soon after
being removed from the kiln. The remainder recovered.
On Friday an inquest was held on two of the bodies. The
Coroner remarked, " Another most singular circumstance
was the extraordinary appearance of the two bodies just
viewed by the jury. Here were two boys dying from pre-
cisely the same cause, yet one .presented the extremely livid
and congested appearance usual in persons who died from
suffocation ; whilst the skin of the other was quite the con-
trary, and so pallied that no medical man in the kingdom
would believe he had died other than a natural death."
RIOTING AT WEST BROMWICII.—On Friday morning,
at nine o'clock, four or five hundred colliers came from Dud-
ley, Sedgeley, and other places, and many of them having
sticks in their hands went to Mr. Gilbert's pit, at Gold-hill,
and commenced an attack upon the men who were at work,
and broke some of the tools. The police and special consta-
bles arrived, but they were unable to suppress the rioters,
who stoned and otherwise ill-treated them. Mr. Dawks,
jun., special constable, was badly injured. The-Cavalry were
sent for, and on their arrival the mob fled and took to the
canal, into which upwards of 50 plunged themselves in order
to escape. Two of these unfortunate men were drowned,
and it is thought a third lies under a boat. Thirteen were
captured and taken before Lord Dartmouth, and committed
to Stafford Gaol. The place is tranquil, but strongly guard-
ed. The men were all strangers from Dudley, sedgdy,
Brockmere, and the surrounding country. A riot was at-
tempted at Oldbury, but prevented in good time and no mis-
chief done.
HINTS TO BAKERS.—It appears from accurate calcula-
tions, founded on experience of many ages of the " assize"
of Paris, that 283 lbs. of flour will give 363 lbs. of bread.
The expense of baking the French Government estimates at
7s. the sack. Now, if this is found to be a fair allowance at
Paris, it must be a liberal allowance here, where fuel is one-
third the price ; and, besides, every one knows that, in the
manufacture of bread, the bakers here use, we do not say
blameably, a considerable proportion of potato and other
cheaper flour. If, therefore, we divide the 363 lbs., we shall
have a fraction less than tenpence halfpenny as a fair price
for seven pounds of the very best bread or about fivepence
farthing for the loaf now usually sold for sevenpence, show-
ing, supposing weight and composition of the loaf to be per-
fectly honest, an exhorbitant profit of full thirty-three per
' cent.—Journal.—(On the subject of this profit " a farmer
who "
has addressed a letter to the Morning Herald, from
Whitechurch, Hants, makes the followinr, statement On
Thursday lasntalrstold at' Newbury market 20 quarters of wheat,
engage
that a sack, or four bushels, of
this wheat shall pro
du nd. spmeogoodea
113 0
g.al flour,gallons,
nfe
sq
bread,ubalutto thb
y
1
by the addition of water, it
would
t
which is now selling here atg
cal-
culating by the price of flour alone, the sack of wheat, when
I, the grower, receiveoy2to the
converted into flour is charged public 365. 3d., where-
asmiller and baker on four n7s"
so that the profit of the
g, eonsequentbie
third of the value ! The bran bushels
is
9s.
3d., or more than one-
tril)ollard is always allowed to
.of
which
eheixpense of baking alone
pay for grinding,
bakehouse driving
idnrtilvtiencsouanftariyr
is to be deducted, the charge
is ld.
per gallon, but in a regular
half that price is sufficient to allow.)

BREVITIES.--" This must be looked into," as Sammy
said to his father's watch when he heard it tick.-_.. young
particularly uneasy on this point," as he
men taken in and done for," as the shark said to the ship'-
i-d wh"enrnithe young gentleman stuck him on the end of
flyere crew.
a needle.-"
yon can't come too often," as the hackney_
coachman said to the thunder-storm. " Come, get up,
it's time to rise,"as Baron Rothschild said to the Spanish
funds.