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 instant-
ly got into a boat, and rowed to the spot, hut 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. Fremantle was
30 years of age, and had a large scar in the palm of his hand.
About three weeks since a labourer of belief;Thorncome, in
Devon, near to Chard, went to the Union to apply for
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 t
a can ll
in vain, the guardians would give no relief. The appli
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 othej 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 Sentiaelle del'
Arme'e, 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 65,0d0 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 givpn,
in the great Cathedral of Lausanne, one of those Concerts
which make a lasting impression on the memory. Rossini's
Stahl Mater was performed by seven hundred singers, with
perfeet 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.-011 Thursday morning a
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 flom 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 BROMWICH.—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 wilo 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 ment
stronglywere drowned,guwereard.
and it is thought a third lies under a boat.o Thirteen
captured and taken before Lord Dartmouth, and committed
to Stafford Gaol. The place is tranquil, b
ed. The men were all strangers from Dudley,Sedge IY'
' Brockmere and the surrounding country. A was
at-
tempted at Oldbury, but prevented in good time and noms-
chief done.
HINTS TO BAKERS.—It appears from azTerate calcula-
tions, founded on experience of many ages of the " essize"
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 following statement :—" On
Thursdaya last I sold at Newbury market 20 quarters of wheat,
pte.:tspheerl.qufarwteilrfoefnegietitmhpaetraiaslabcnks,heols, weighing 64 lbs.
wthiiisiclivhseat shall produce 29 gallons of goodrflfoouurr, ebquusahleitost'hoatf
gby the rice.
I now selling here at 15el. per gallon. Of bread, by
by the addition of water, it would make 31 gallons, but, cal-
ccouiliavteinrted
into flour is of flour &one the sack of wheat, when
miller and baker on four bushels
to the public 365. 3d., where-
as I, the grower, 275., so that the profit of the
awe I The
bran
is 9s. 3d., or more than one-
third of the v an or pollard is always allowed to
pay for grinding, consequently
is to be deducted, the the expense of baking alone
charge ef which in the country is Id.
per gallon, but in a regular bakehouse, driving a fair trade,
half that price is sufficient to allow.)

BREVITIES.-" This must be lookeciFnto," as Sammy
on
this point,"
to the ship's
otninnettl"e end of
said to his father's watch when he heard i
men taken in andpadrounceulfaorriy"uanseatshye shartktiek.-"
hackney-
Young
lee int
(In stuck him
ill:s
as the
crew.--" I'm
a
fly said INhen thle,orucannitgeeonntl
a needle.----“
coachman said to the thunder-storm.-" Cote
it's time to rise, Baron Rothschild said to the' gpetaa
funds.
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Expenditure of the Union £1769 4 9
Balance due to the Treasurer 183 • 9 271

Df the 103 " churches," two are in Cheshire, three in
Westmoreland, two in Yorkshire ; leaving ninety-six to
Lincashire. Of the forty-nine cases aided by the Union in.
1840, there were fifteen cases of acknowledged increase, six-
teen of decrease, and sixteen respondency;—in .1841 they
may be classed as ten cases of increase, nirxe decrease, four
despondency, and twenty-six stationary.
The only daily school noticed is '` given up ;" as is also
one of the two infant schools. It may be well to state, that
in these districts the Established Church has recently raised
forty-fire Sunday and daily schools, and thirty-five liew
churches. Disr,ent has also licensed thirteen meeting-houses
for marriages, 5m..4 4,4 e Establishment twenty-two churches
and chapels.
We shall now proceed to our calculation with respect to
the accommodation afforded by .dissenters to the whole of
the population in Lancashire. There are several large meet-
ing-houses well attended, like that of Dr. Rattles, a 4 Liver-
pool. There are many others very respectably but not so
nume.ously attended, like that of Dr. Halley in Manchester.
Btit tnefeis a mass of others in the rural districts scarcely
freque44l, and where the Church and the Wesleyan Me-
thodists sorb that portion of the whole population who
attend at anv place of worship at all. We will admit, then',
that 70 of the 138 Meeting-houses are attended by congrega-
tions averaging 400, and 6,3 by congregations averaging 300
each. Thus, out of a population of ane pillion six hundred
and sixty-seven thousand and sixty-four souls., the congre-
gational dissenters offer meeting-room to only 48,449 being
a deficiency of 1,618,664! This is a fair and faithful account
of Lancashire Dissent. So " the Church may still lift up
her head, and go on her way rejoicing."