The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK

The demand to-day has been only moderate, as is usually
the case on a Tuesday, in the absence of any excitement ;
about 2,500 bales have been sold at full market pric es, with
a very steady and firm feeling.

A London corn merchant, who failed the other day with
liabilities to the amount of £588,727 12s. 10d., commenced
business in April, 1840, with a capital of £5,974 9s. 3d.

There is no foundation whatever for the reports which have
appeared in the newspapers relating to the Lord Chancellor's
intention of resigning the Great Seal.
The quantity of eggs used annually in France exceeds, says
one of the Journals, 7,250,000,000, of which enormous num-
ber Paris absorbs 120,000,000.
The Prussian navy, royal and commercial, amounted last
summer to 790 vessels of 10,600 tons burden, and employing
6,800 sailors. Towards the year 1790 Prussia had 2,000 ves-
sels and 10,000 men.

THE WETTENHALL MURDER.—We understand that Joe,
alias Duke Baker, charged with wilful murder on the coro-
ner's inquisition, has hitherto evaded pursuit, notwithstand-
ing that a most unremitting search has been made for him.

We understand that the statement which has gone the
round of the papers as to a pension having been conferred
upon the poet Wordsworth, is not strictly accurate. The
yearly sum which Mr. Wordsworth will receive is a retiring
allowance given to him upon resigning the office of distribu-
tor of stamps.—Brighton Gazette.
THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER.—We are happy to
understand that Alexander Duff, the unfortunate sufferer in
the late diabolical deed, was so far recovered as to have been
able to leave the cottage where he found shelter on the night
in which an attempt was made to take his life, and walk a
short distance to the railway on Friday last, on the way to
his own home.—Dundee Warder.

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It was rumoured in Westminster-hall on Thursday morn-
ing, that in consequence of the appointment of several learned
serjeants as commissioners under the New Bankruptcy Bill,
Mr. Serjeant Merewether having been appointed town-clerk
of the city of London, and the death of Mr. Serjeant Spankie,
a number of learned counsel will be shortly elevated to the
dignity of serjeants-at-law.—Standard.
A YOUNG PREACHER.—The anniversary sermons in be-
half of the Primitive Methodist Sunday Schools, Oldham,
were preached on Sunday last by a boy of 14 years of age,
named Joel Hodson, of Lancaster. Such was the excite-
ment of the public to see and hear this juvenile prodigy that
the congregation were admitted by tickets sold at Is. 6d.
each.—Manchester Advertiser.
WILSON, THE STEEPLE CLIMBER.—We have more than
once referred to the fearless intrepidity of this individual in
mounting and repairing steeples or the high stalks of public
works, and to the tradesmanlike manner with which he
finishes his perilous operations. He has of late been em-
ployed on some of the loftiest stalks in the city, and now de-
votes himself to stalk-climbing as a profession. The fellow
thinks no more of climbing a height of 200 feet than of swal-
lowing his breakfast.—Glasgow Argus.
FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—A prize fight, which has been for
a considerable period in contemplation, came off on Thursday
last, between Luke Lock, a Brighton man, and Greenstreet,
a pugilist well known in the ring. The site pitched upon was
Washington Common, about twenty miles westward of
Brighton. Intelligence reached Brighton in the evening after
a contest of seventeen rounds, which occupied forty minutes,
Lock came Dff victorious, having left his antagonist dead on
the field.
RAILWAY CAPABILITIES.—WHAT NEXT?—The
tudinal bearings and cross sleepers, required for the Hull and
Selby Railway, were kyanized in two large cylindrical
wrought-iron tanks, each seventy feet long and six feet m
diameter; and not being now required for the use of the
company, they have been sold to an eminent railway con-
tractor, to be used for a similar purpose at Gloucester or
Bridgewater : last week each tank was placed on two of the
gix
theS luggagewheels and on
train to
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dpaaynnyi'gsht goods
they w awgegroen
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Birmingham, where they arrived in safety on Saturday after-
noon, at three o'clock ; the weight of the two tanks was
about twenty-eight tons. This is a convincing proof, that
goods, however bulky and heavy, may be forwarded by rail-
way without the least risk or inconvenience ; and the charges
for carriage being very low, cheapness and, expedition are
also combined.—Hull paper.

AWFUL
five o'cIock,CATASTROPHE n A
oldT Li
lEa t—e
dO n
Tuesday after-
noon, building of three
d
stories, situated between Tolbooth wynd and the Coalhili,
suddenly gave way, burying in its ruins twelve individuals, of
a
whom three were got out unhurt, sib
others were more or
less injured, and two were taken out dead. There was one
still missing late at night. The house was tenanted by a
blind man o the name of Gardener as a lodging-house; and
at the time the accident happened, it was chiefly occupied by
of a ship'screw,
a part
returned two days ago from London, per the Royal Adelaide,
after a long cruise in pursuit of the fur trade. The names of
surviving sufferers at present in the casualty Hospital are,
Alexandr Langscails, William Bryce, Hugh. Cormack, and
Hunter Thomson. Drs. Patterson, Bryce,. and Jackson,
were in immediate attendance upon the unfortunate sufferers.
It is feared that some of those enumerated will not survive.
—Glasgow Courier.

BLOSSOMS IN NOVEMBER.—Those who are deeply studied
in the mysteries of inanimate nature and meteorological
science have given their opinions, from correct observations,
we believe, that during the last 10 or 15 years there has been
a visible mutation in our seasons and climate—namely, that
the winters are not of such long duration, and the frost not
so severe, whilst the springs are more early, and the sum-
mers generally are not so genial and warm, and the autumns
less dry and seasonable for the purposes of agriculture.
Probably there may be some ground for supposing that the
observation is correct; for in the counties of Cumberland
and Westmoreland, and i❑ other districts of the north of
England, there are several apple and other trees which in
this improbable month (November) are now in their second
blossom. This account may seem somewhat incompatible
with the statement of the state of the weather in the north
we gave on the 29th ult., but our correspondent is prepared
to testify that the above observations are founded in truth.

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE AT RUFFORD.—it is our
painful duty this week to record a melancholy event, which
has brought two unfortunate creatures to an untimely grave.
George Brooks, waggoner to the Right Hon. the Earl of
Scarbrough, and Ann Brooks, his wife, resided in a cottage,
near the mansion of - the noble earl, at Rufford ; and it ap-
pears, that, on Monday the 2lth ult. Ann Brooks had been
whitewashing one of the bedrooms, up stairs, in which she
and her husband usually slept; and, in order to dry it the
sooner, she placed an iron pan in the room, into which she
put some sticks, and set fire to them. This was during the
course of the day. At night, when they went to bed, they
took the warming pan up stairs to warm the bed ; and, it is
supposed, either the woman or her husband incautiously re-
cruited the embers, and shutting the door close, went to
bed. About four o'clock the next morning, Brooks not
coming to look after his horses as usual, one of his fellow-
servants went and rapped at the door • and, supposing that
would be sufficient to awoke him, he went away. Five
o'clock arrived, but still Brooks did not make his appear-
ance ; on which his fellow-servant went again, and knowing
there was a boy sleeping in an adjoining chamber, he rapped
until the boy got up, and ordered him to go and see if any
thing was the matter with George. The boy accordingly
went, and opened the chamber door, and, entering the room,
was almost suffocated with the smell of sulphur. On looking
towards the bed, he was horror-struck to find Brooks partly
on it, but with his face on the floor, surrounded by a pool of
blood. He was quite dead and cold, and his wife also was
also laid in bed beside him a cold and lifeless corpse. He
immediately opened the door; and, the melancholy fact hav-
ing been more fully ascertained, medical assistance was im-
mediatly sent for, but it was altogether unavailing, for the
vital spark had evidently been extinct for some hours. On
the Wednesday following, an inquest was held before P. R.
Faulkner, Esq. coroner, when the before-mentioned facts
having been deposed to, the jury at once returned their ver-
dict that the parties had died from suffocation.—Doncaster
Gazette.

" If you are satisfied with the above assessment (and that
under Schedule A) you need not take any trouble under the
matter, as you will be called upon for the assessment in due
course; but if, on the contrary, you have cause to appeal
against the same, you must give ten days' notice, in writing,
within fifteen days after the date hereof, to Mr. , sur-
veyor of taxes, at his office,
" Name } Assessor."
Address-
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VERY EXTRAORDINARY AND SINGULAR APPLI-
CATION-ROMANCE IN REALITY.

At Henry-street Police-office, Dublin, on Saturday week,
a person of very gentlemanly appearance and polite address
presented himself before the bench, and stated that he wished
to make an application to the magistrates under rather sin-
gular circumstances. The applicant was a most intelligent-
looking individual, and apparently between 50 and 60 years
of age.
Mr. Duffy.—What is the nature of your application ?
Applicant.—My name is Hayden, the Rev. Henry Hay-
den, and I have iesided several years in-Nova Scotia. I
returned to this country from Nova Scotia in the latter end
of the year 1839, and went to reside with my family in the
county of Down. I resided there with my family from Oc-
tober, 1839, till about May, 1840 ; and, having business at
that time in town, I came with mywife and daughter to Dub-
lin, and resided with them in lodgings at 13, Upper Stephen-
street, for about a month. At the expiration of the month
my wife and daughter proposed to return home, and they
accordingly went to the coach office to take places. The next
day they left me to proceed to the country. They did not
go, however, but went to Dr. Harty, with whom they had a
conversation relative to me, with the view of entrapping Me
into a lunatic asylum. During the time I was absent in Ca-
nada, my wife received the interest of £lOOO by power of
attorney, which I gave her ; the interest was, however,
suffered to run in arrear, and having got into the hands of a
person who had formerly been sheriff of the county of Down,
a lawsuit was instituted for its recovery, and after three
years' litigation my wife recovered about £l3O of the money,
some of which, 1 believe, was expended on the education of
my children. Having recovered the interest, and tasted
some of its sweats, they imagined it would be a comfortable
thing to get the principal into their hands; but I could not
afford this, and having no means to support myself in Cana-
da, I was obliged to resort to my pen. I accordingly wrote
works on astronomy, philosophy, the prophecies, and other
subjects, which no other person but myself was capable of
doing, and by this means I supported myself respectably for
some years. At the time I resided in Dublin, I lost a watch,
and shortly after my wife and daughter left me, some persons
were sent to me, as they said trom Dr. Harty, under-the
pretence that they had found the watch, but it was only to
entrap me, as it afterwards appeared. Those men said they
were police-officers, but on my questioning them they went
away. Shortly after they came and brought me to a house
in Dorset-street, where they said Dr. Hartywas, and that he
wanted to speak on particular business with me. I went there
accordingly, and saw Dr. Harty, who told me Major Brown
was most anxious to see me. I asked who Major Brown
was, and he said he was the chief of the Dublin police, and
that my wife and daughter had been telling him that I was
very extravagant in laying out my money on books, prints,
and other things, and he (Major Brown) should see me on
the subject. I told him (Dr. Harty) I had spent no money
except my own—about £2o—and that no one had any right
to interfere with me on the subject, nor would I suffer any
man to question me about the money. Dr. Harty then in-
sisted on my going before Major Brown, and said that if I
did not go quietly he would call in the police and take me by
force, as my wife and daughter were waiting for me.
Mr. Duffy.—Was that the first interview you had with Dr.
Harty ?

The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—lt was. I never saw him before
that time. I asked him where Major Brown lived, and he
said in the Lower Castle-yard, and that I had better go at
once, and quietly, to prevent any unpleasantness. I stepped
quietly into a covered car with Dr. Harty, and asked him
" how long the business would last with Major Brown, what-
ever it was about?" He said, " Not long," and then told
the carman to drive off. We went on for a short time ; but
instead of going to the Castle-yard, I observed some trees
and fields, and on looking out I at once perceived we were
on the Circular-road. I told Dr. Harty he had made a mis-
take, when he replied, " Oh, no ; the major has a country
seat about three miles from town, at Finglas, and it is there
you are to see him : he is a very hospitable man, and will
treat you well." I said, " I did not require any of his hos-
pieality, and when the business is over I will go home." We
then went on, and on arriving-at a house the doctor got out,
and walked very smartly for a man of his age up to the door,
at which he knocked, and said, with a wink to the footman,
" Here is a gentleman who has come on a visit to Major
Brown." I was then thrust inside the door, out of which I
never put my foot for seventeen months and one week. and
during that. time I was treated most barbarously. Several
lawyers and attorneys came to me, and before I could pro-
cure my liberty, they compelled me to sign deeds conveying
all my property to Colonel Chester, my wife's brother.
Mr. Duffy.—And was it Dr. Harty did all this‘to you—all
you describe ?
The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—lt was, sir.
Mr. Studdart.—And what is the object of your present
application?
The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—My object is to have him bound
over to keep the peace, for if he discovers that I am about to
take law proceedings against him, he may entrap me into
that house again, and it would be more than my life is worth
to be confined there any more, for I was treated barbarously
and cruelly while I was there.
Mr. Duffy.—How were you treated ?

The Rev:Mr. Hayden.—l could not tell you half of it,
but it was most brutal treatment I received, for which I am
resolved to have satisfaction.

Mr. Studdart.—You can get a summons for Dr. Hartyt
and when he is present you can make your charge agains
him.

The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—Can you not now bind him to the
peace, for I am seriously afraid of my life ?
Mr. Studdart.—From what has appeared. you have good
grounds for a summons—at least sufficient has been shown to
us to grant you one. You can tell this story when Dr.
Harty will be present to make his defence to the charge.
Mr. Duffy.—We feel bound to grant you a summons. and,
in the meantime, an application can be made to Major Brown,
to ascertain the fact if he authorised Dr. Harty to use his
name on the occasion.

Mr. Studdart.—Allow me to ask where you came from

The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—From Kilkee, in the county of
Down.

Mr. Duffy.—Are you now apprehensive that you, being in
Dublin, and Dr. Harty in the vicinity of it, that personal
violence will be resorted to against you in consequence ?
The Rev. Mr. ilayden.-1 am, most undoubtedly, sir.
Mr. Studdart.—How long have you been in town ?
The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—Since Friday, at two o'clock.
Mr. Studdart.—bid anything happen to you since your
arrival here ?

The Rev. Mr. Hayden.—No; but I fear there will. I
was treated most cruelly before.
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Mr. Studdart.—Very well, sir ; as I said before, you have
grounds for a summons, and you shall have one. If you at-
tend here on Monday, at twelve o'clock, the whole matter
will be investigated in presence of Dr. Harty. In the pre-
sent instance it is an ev parte statement, and it is right that
the accused should hear it all, in order to meet the charge.
The reverend gentleman thanked the bench, bowed respect-
fully, and retired.

The investigation was resumed at twelve o'clock on Mon-
day, when, after a brief inquiry, the bench dismissed the
complaint. Mr. Hayden announced his intention to have
recourse to proceedings in another court.
The writer, on making inquiry relative to the Rev. Mr.
Hayden, obtained the following particulars respecting him :
Ile is the son of a gentleman numed Hayden, who was for-
merly in partnership with a gentleman named Rivers. They
kept one of the most extensive and flourishing establishments
in Ireland at that period, and carried on business at Water-
ford, under the firm of Hayden, Rivers, and Co. The rev.
gentleman was remarkable for his learning and research in
literary and philosophical pursuits, and also for his exem-
plary life and conduct. He went some years ago to Canada
on the mission ; but our informant lost sight of him at the
time, and knew nothing whatever abut himself or his cir-
cumstances since that period, nor did lie ever see him since,
till he made the above strange application at the police-court.

ANNUAL BURNING OF CHILDREN.—The distressing
ac-
cidents of this nature, which, for the most part, begin and
end with the winter months, we perceive by the different
journals have already commenced. It is calculated that more
children perish annually in England by the excruciating death
from fire, than the average of females formerly immolated in
India by the horrid Suttee rite. The cause of the majority
of the accidents is poverty, poor women being compelled to
leave their children whilst they go and endeavour to earn the
means to provide them with food. Again, the cheapness of
flimsy cottons, which easily catch fire, causes them to be used
as clothing by the poor, whilst the slight degree of warmth
which they impart doub'es the danger by causing the shiver-
ing children to draw towards the flame. The Cornwall
Gazette states, that when the dresses of the poor are com-
posed, as in South Wales, of a coarse woollen cloth manu-
factured in that vicinity, accidents by fire seldom occur.
Though these woollen cloths are cheap, yet the greater cheap-
ness of the cotton fabric will, it is to be feared, cause the
children of the very poor to be clad in the inflammable
material, notwithstanding its known danger. We cannot,
therefore, imagine a more beneficial channel through which
the kindness and philanthropy of the ladies of Bristol and
other cities might flow than in providing cheap clothing for
poor children during the coming winter. We have many ex-
cellent local societies, but we are sure that an association of
benevolent females for the special purpose of endeavouring to
prevent the frightful annual destruction of children by fire
would be attended with the happiest results. The imme-
diate benefit, too, arising to the poor children from more
comfortable clothing, would of itself justify the formation of
such a society—a society which, more than any other, would
be likely to appeal to the sympathies and feelings of wives
and mothers. It has ever been a complaint against ns, as a
nation, that our charity does not begin at home, but that we
go abroad in search of objects of benevolence, to the neglect
of those we encounter in our daily paths. We should not
like to be considered nationally selfish, but there is some
truth in the censure. If statistical accounts were published
of the deaths of children by fire in India or Africa, duly gar-
nished with moving incidents by " eye-witnesses," and if it
could, at the same time, be shown that such deaths were, in
a great measure, preventable, we have no doubt that the
ladies of England would never rest until they had formed so-
cieties, and auxiliary branch societies, in every city and vil-
lage, in order to avert such calamities. The children of our
own poor, it ought to be borne in mind, in burning to death
do not suffer less than little Indians and Hottentots, and are
at least equally worthy objects of humane consideration. In
cases where the deaths of children by fire occur in conse-
quence of the gross and wilful neglect of parents, the censures
of juries cannot be too strong, nor, where opportunity is af-
forded, the punishment awarded by magistrates too severe.—
Bristol Mercury.

PRICES OF SHARES, NOVEMBER 7
Prices within the last seven days.
RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share.
Bolton and Preston
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Derby lOO .... 0 0 0 ....
Bristol and Exeter 7O .... 0 0 0 ....
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half
Ditto, new, issued at .33 dis. .... 1 2 6 pm..
Dublin and Drogheda
EaStern Counties
Ditto new Shares.... 9 6 8 0 0 0 ....
Ditto, Debentures
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto new shares 5 .... 4 17 6 ....
Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 20 paid 0 0 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 25 paid 0 0 0 ....
Half Shares 9 0 0 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1
Greenock, and Ayr 5O paid 0 0 0 ....
Grand Junction
Ditto half shares
Quarter 9,, 43 5 0 ....
New ditto 7 10.. 24 15 0 ....
Great Western its .... 83 10 0 ....
Ditto new shares 5O .... 61 5 0 ....
Ditto Fifth Shares 4 .... 7 15 0 ....
Great North of England ...... 100 .... 55 5 0 ...
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Preston .. :
Ditto Junction, new
Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 0 0 0 ....
Leeds and Selby
Liverpool and Manchester lOO .... 175 0 o ....
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto half shares
London and Birmingham ' 90 .... 180 0 0 ....
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto new shares

This days
Prices.

Ditto new
London & Brighton
Ditto new ..
London and South Western
Ditto, 10th shares
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham 4O 0 0 0 ....
Ditto and Ditto Extension
Manchester and Leeds 7O .... o 0 . .
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter shales
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
Noich Midland lOO .... 0 0 0 ....
New North Midland 4O .. 31 5 0 31 10 0
One-third Shares
North Union
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 0 0 0
Ditto quarter shares
Ulster
Paris and Rouen 2O .... 22 10 0 .... 22 10 0
South Eastern and Dover 5O .... 22 17 6
New shares
York and North Midland 5O paid 0 0 0 ....
Half Shares .. 15 .... 0 0 0 ....

BANKS.
Bank of Liverpool ........ Zl2 10s paid !8 2 6
- Borough Bank lO .... 14 0 0
- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 0 0 0
- Commercial of England. 5 .... 0 0 0
- East of England lO .... 0 0
- of Manchester lO .... 0 0
- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 0 0 0
- Northern and Central
- North and South Wales lO .... 0 0 0
- Royal of Liverpool .. 500 .... 0 0 0
- South Lancashire

- Albion
- Liverpool Union lO .... 0 0 0
- Liverpool Banking Co lO .... n 0 0
- Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. 0 0 0
GAS, WATER WORKS, &c.
Exchange Bnildings £loo paid 0 0 0
L'pool and Harrington Water 1 Stock .. 00 0
Works ..
Bootle Ditto Stock.... 0 0 0
L'poo Gas,l,iglit Company,
._

Ditto —(Original Stock) lon 0 0 0
new Shares.... 100 0 0 „
['pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 0 0
Ditto new shares are now paid up.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
_ _

M'chestcr XsstiTariceCOmpany. 10 .... 00 0
Liverpool Fire and Life........ 2 10s. 2 7 6
Ocean ASsurance ............ 2 10.. 0 0 0
Liverpool Marine Assurance} 0 paid 0 0 0
Company
DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c.
Anderton Carrying Company .._l6 ss. 0 0 0

0 0 0

Steam Tug Company
Harrington Docks ..

Is. . 510 0
100 .... 60 10 o

Apothecaries' Company
Asphalte (Liverpool)
(Polonceau) 2 0 0 0

LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET,
NOVEMBER 7, 1842.
The arrival of Potatoes both from the Isle of Man and Scotland
still continues light, and prices remain without ehange since our
last report—yet the business transacted this day was on the most
limited scale. On Saturday and this morning there was an im-
mense quantity of produce exhibited for sale• in our local markets
by the neighbouring farmers, which moved off only slowly, barely
sustaining the previous currency.
Potatoes 9llb. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Short Tops 1 3 1 4 Old Hay .... 0 9@o 11 49, 2015
Cups 1 5 .1 6 New Hay.... 0 6 0 10
Pink-eyes and S 1 6A Clover Hay.. 060 9
Kemps- ,Clover & Grass 0 0 0 0
Cattle
Turnips, 19, ton ...
Carrots 28 035 0 Straw, Barley 0 0 O. 0