The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

HAMBURGII, An G. 9.—The seventh list of contribution 3,
to the 30th July in the evening, published to-day, states the
sum total at 3,700,000 marks banco.
The Rev. Cuthbert Southey, son of the poet laureate, has
been appointed assistant curate and evening lecturer at
Cockermouth Church.—Carlisle Journal.

CATTLE FROM HAMI3IiRG.—The first lot of fat beasts
from Hamburg, arrived here last Saturday, were purchased
by Mr. Smith, Market-place, and were much admired.—
Hull Herald.

Dr. Arnold. of Rugby, at the time of his decease, had just
completed the third.volume of his " History of Rome ;" and
his friend Archdeacon Hare will superintend its progress
through the press.
The Rev. A. C. Tait, recently elected head master of
Rugby school, was one of the five tutors who appealed to the
heads of houses against the Oxford tracts, on the first ap-
pearance of No. 90.

NEW OATMEAL.—A cart load of new oatmeal passed
through this town on Saturday, for shipment to Liverpool.
We understand the oats were grown in the neighbourhood of
Ardee. We believe this is the first new meal that has made
its way into this town this season.—Newry Examiner.

Friday's Gazette announces that Mr. Charles George
Young, York Herald, is promoted to the office of Principal
Garter King of Arms, vacant by the death of Sir William
Woods ; and Mr. Edward Howard Gibbon, Mowbray He-
rald Extraordinary, is made York Herald.

RIFLE SHOOTING BY THE HON.
C. A. MURRAY.
The Hon. C. A. Murray, the Master of her Majesty's
Household, having wagered with another member of the
royal establishment that he would kill forty rabbits with a
single-barrelled rifle within twelve hours, upon one of the
royal preserves in the neighbourhood of the Great Park, at
Windsor, the affair, which created considerable interest,
came off on Monday morning, at Norfolk farm. The Hon.
Mr. Murray commenced at the early hour of six o'clock ;
and such was the excellent character of the shooting, that
within four hours forty-three rabbits were bagged, only five
discharges failing in their effect.
Mr. R. B. Follett, a brother of the Solicitor-General and
a partner in the well-known eminent firm of Adlington,
Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, has been appointed by the
Master of the Rolls one of the Taxing Masters of the Court
of Chancery ; an addition to the number of these officers
having been made necessary by the establishment of the new
equity Courts. The salary, we understand, is £2,000 a
year, but Mr. Follett relinquishes a private practice of con-
siderable value.

CAMENZ, AUG. 5, SEVEN A•M•-Our whole town is in
flames ; of 500 houses, there are, perhaps, scarcely 100
standing. Among the buildings destroyed arc the Town
House, the church, all the inns, and the Post-office. Se-
veral persons are missing. The fire broke out yesterday
evening, at ten o'clock, as it is said, through the carelessness
of an old woman. While lam writing these lines the fire is
spreading; all attempts to stop it appear to be in vain, for
the wind is high, and there is very little water.
IPSWICH.-Mr. Lane Fox (not Viscount Villiers, as has
been reported) and Mr. Gladstone (Walsall), the conserva-
tive candidates for the representation of Ipswich, arrived
there on Tuesday, and immediately instituted an active can-
vass of the electors. They
.were preceded on Sunday by
Messrs. Gisborne and Moffatt, the defeated radicals at the
last election, and we have been informed that a subsequent
examination of the canvass books by those gentlemen has re-
sulted in Mr. Gisborne intimating to the conservative can-
didates that he retires from the ground ! Mr. Moffatt has
since returned to town; it is supposed with the view of pro-
curing a colleague from the members of the Reform Club.
We understand that the Queen and Prince Albert purpose
to pay a visit to Scotland at the commencement of the month
of September. Her Majesty and the Prince will, we believe,
go to Scotland and return by sea. Her Majesty will proba-
bly make an excursion to the Highlands during her stay in
Scotland, paying visits to the Earl of Kinnoul, Lord Mans-
field, Lord Breadalbane, and Lord Willoughby D'Eresby.
It is said that her Majesty will reside, while in the neigh-
bourhood of Edinburgh, at the palace of Dalkeith. The
Royal George yacht, at Portsmouth, is fitting ont with the
utmost expedition, doubtless for the purpose of conveying
her Majesty to Scotland.
MEETING OF THE LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY
COMPANY.—On Wednesday last, the half-yearly general
meeting of the above company was held in the Directors'
Room at the Railway station, Lancaster. The report hav-
ing been read the Secretary read over the memorandum of
agreement, between the Lancaster Canal Company and
themselves which was adopted, and a resolution was put and
carried unanimously, that Parliament be applied to for an
Act, authorising the two companies to carry the agreement
into effect.

AFFLUENCE IN RAGS.—On Thursday evening, a most
wretched-lookine object made his appearance at the police
barrack at Pallaskenry, soliciting charity. Something in his
demeanour attracted the eagle eye of head Constable O'Meal-
ly, who desired him to walk in. After a few questions, the
police began to search his person, and found £23. Os. 13d.
sewed up in bags under his arms in shillings and sixpences !
He had no larger coin in his collection than one-half-crown,
and three shillings was in coppers. This itinerant mendi-
cant is from the west of Kerry, and his name is Flo-
rence Callaghan. The silver was quite mouldy, and
must have been long stored up.—Limerick Chronicle
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A BROTHER BY ISIS SISTER.—
A pretty-looking young girl, named Susan Woodman, was
charged, at the London police-court, on Thursday, with
having stabbed her brother, a lad about fourteen years old.
It appeared from the evidence of the mother (a widow lady
of independent property, residing in the Walworth-road),
that the prisoner and her brother quarrelled while at break-
fast, when the prisoner suddenly seized a sharp table knife
and stabbed him in the right side. The lady handed a certi-
ficate from Mr. Darrell, a surgeon, residing in the Walworth-
road, which stated that the unfortunate youth was lying in
a dangerous state. Mr. Trail remanded the prisoner for
the attendance of the surgeon.
PECULIAR LAW OF THE ISLE OF MAN.—From an in-
teresting pamphlet just published by Mr. Adamson. an at-
torney, it appears that by the law of the Isle of Man, all the
real and personal property of an individual, the land, &c.,
purchased with money and not inherited by descent is held
jointly with his wife ; that is, she is the absolute owner of
one-half thereof, has the power in her own lifetime of dis-
posing of it by will to one, two, or any of her issue she may
please, without consulting the father, and that the children
may, immediately upori her death, demand such moiety
from the father. The husband, again, has no power to dis-
pose of more'than one-half the property which he may have
acquired by business, labour, or otherwise, the one-half
being the absolute property of his wife. The pamphlet is of
some length, and embodies many important considerations.

WHIGS AND WHIGGER.Y.—Mr. John Nicholson, the
the honest electors of Ipswich,
tea-dealer of Fenchurch-street, has published an address to
in which he says—" Whigs
c sense,
and whiggery are at an end ; there are not two men to be
found in the United Kingdom, who possess common
who will dare to acknowledge themselves whigs of the pre-
sent race of whigs. It must be old whigs with new skins.
Perhaps they may fight under the name of " liberals," which
is
months,th laste
wehdait thetion
whigs ought to have done ten years since,
if they had not been what they are—the most selfish, base,
cruel, and mercenary crew that ever existed in England.
Peel's tariff has brought down the price of hams to 6d., beef
and pork to 4d. a pound, and the price of bread will be re-
duced to 6d. a loaf before Christmas."
A great sensation was occasioned in Salisbury on Wednes-
day last, by a report, which proved but too true, that two
into a pig bucket, containing a
beingc
trampingh l children, en ,
plungedtwins,
Irishwoman,
about
headforemost
namedtwo years of age, the offspring of a
Esther, had met their death by
quantity of wash,. and suspicion pointed to the mother as the
perpetrator ot this horrible atrocity. The shocking occurrence
took place at a low lodging-house. An inquest was held on
the bodies of the poor children. After hearing the evidence
of three medical men, the jury brought in a verdict of
" Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."
The woman Esther, having undergone an examination by a
full bench of magistrates,•has been remanded for further ex-
amination.—Dorset Chronicle.

A MAN BURIED ALIVE.—Last Friday, a poor young man,
named John Roper, accompanied by two women to Bramley
Fall, for the purpose of getting sand in a basket. While
Roper and Elizabeth Austin were standing underneath a
projection of stone and earth, a small piece of the latter fell
upon the girl, when Roper remarked " Oh, never mind, its
only a little bit of loose earth. 1. " le had scarcely spoken
when a large quantity of the impending projection fell upon
him, and buried him underneath. The girls fetched some
delph men who were near at hand—but a period of twenty
minutes elapsed before the poor fellow could be extricated,
and he was then quite dead. Mr. Blackburn convened a
jury on the following day, who returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death."—Leeds Journal.

Norway has been accurately and forcibly described as a
country which stands pre-eminent in attraction, by the com-
bination of so many grand objects ; large mountains, large
rivers, large forests, may all be found separately in other
countries ; here alone are they to be seen united, and in pro-
fusion. It is not one mountain, or one great cluster of lofty
rocks, that we pass in the course of a day's journey ; there
are miles beyond miles of rock and mountain stretching
away till fancy flags in attempting to follow them,—an entire
kingdom of grandeurs ! The forests are endless ; not broken
woods, but whole regions of pines, where you may travel
for days, and still find nothing but wood, wood, wood.
The very solitude is deeper,
more impressive than that of
any other country. How voiceless, how awful is the silence
of these retreats ! The listener is appalled when he rests for
a moment in the midst of it. The small cry of the smallest
bird would be a relief.—Milford's Norway and her Lap-
landers.

Loss OF FIFTEEN LivEs.—A most miserable accident,
attended with the loss of fifteen lives, occurred on Lough
Swilly, on Monday evening. We have not been able to
gather all the particulars, but the principal facts are as
follow :—A boat, belonging to the country people on the
Fanet shore, put off from that side with eighteen reapers,
intending to go to the harvest in Scotland by yesterday's
steamer from Derry. When about " half-channel through"
—that is to say, between Ned's Point Battery, and the Coast
Guard station on the Buncrana side—a gale overtook the
boat, which was one of many other boats on the same trip.
By some mismanagement she upset—perhaps being too small
for the number of passengers, as the was but fourteen feet
long in the keel, and very heavily laden. No immediate
assistance, it seems, could be procured and the first which
was rendered was by a boat from the shore which the unfor-
tunate men had left, the people upon which saw the accident
from the first, and beheld their relatives and neighbours
going down one by one. When the succour came up, two
men were found alive, who had laid hold of oars, and two
others also alive in the boat, which had righted, but was
quite full of water. The dead body of another of the pas-
sengers was also seen in the boat, but was left there while an
unsuccessful attempt was made to discover other survivors ;
and before she was again come up
with, the corpse had been
washed out by the waves. It thus appears that four only
out of the eighteen were saved, and one of these has died
since the occurrence. We have not been able to learn the
names of the unfortunate sufferers ; but from the nature of
the employment they were about to pursue, it may be in-
ferred that they belonged to poor and wretched families.
One man has left a sick wife and six children behind him.—
Londonderry Standard.

RY REPORT, AUG. 13.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

UNITED STATES.

General Parkhill,) C Hoyt, 593 N ew Yore, C Grimshaw & Co
Champlain, J Miller, 628 Philadelphia, ' Brown & Co
EUROPE.
Amalia, C Faelders, Riga, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Johannes, W Mennen, 203 Riga, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Emma, A Janes, 211 St. Petersburg, Campbell & Rudd
Caroline, D Dnske, 228 Stettin, Bahr, ftehrend & Co
Lessing, C C Neumen, 384 Stettin, Bahr, Behrend & Co
Minerva, H Barker, 153 Leghorn, J Bibby & Sons
Sophia, L Binderaan, 226 Pillau and Konigsberg,
Campbell & Rudd
Arrow, A Tristram, 64 Gibraltar, G Yates & Louthean
Betsey, R Hammond, 170 Malta and Smyrna, A Wilkin & Preston
Bogamilla, S Beekman, Memel, Bahr, Bahrend & Co
Eliza Swan, H Reid, 308 Narva, Bahr, Bahraini & Co
Fortuna, P C Thural, 126 Norway, J B Higuett

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, AUGUST 13.
We cannot observe the least improvement in our Butter market;
prices of the best descriptions of Butter 'nominally 78s to 80s;
middling and inferior kinds 7s to 8s per cwt. lower. The make
both of Irish and. domestic has been at no former period more
abundant ; this fact in combination with the alarmingly insubor-
dinate state of the operative population in the manufacturing dis-
tricts ;—must, we apprehend cause, for some time, still greater
depression. Pickled Butter is shipping iu considerable quantities
for the Brazils and West Indies. We believe, however, that it is
principally on Cork account. We hear of few sales making on the
spot, and the currency is without alteration. Good heavy Beef
is worth 115 s to 1203 per tierce. Other sorts gOs to loos. We arc
informed by influential curers, that any quantity of new Beef need
not be looked for before November. Pork very dull indeed, and
holders ready to take almost any price that is offered. In this
article, our Irish friends may expect greater competition with
foreigners, than in Beef.