The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

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LOSS OF THREE SHIPS IN THE BALTIC BY ICE.—On Sa-
turday, the ith instant, the brig Scotia, Captain Mearns,
belonging to Montrose, from that port for St. Petersburg,
in ballast, was jammed by the floating ice off the island of
Nervo, and soon afterwards went down. The crew and part
of the brig's stores were saved. Two days afterwards the
Joseph Storey, Captain Spencer, from London, andthe Cas-
pian. from Newcastle, both for St. Petersburg, also got
jammed by the ice, and sank between the islands of Leskar
and Biorko. Several of the stores, and a small portion of
the cargo, consisting of indigo, of the Joseph Storey, and
the crews of both vessels, were fortunately saved. The three
unfortunate ships—viz., the Scotia, Joseph Storey, and Cas-
pian, were partially insured.
On Monday evening an awful instance of the uncertainty
of this life occurred at the Montpelier Tavern, Walworth.
There had been a large chartist meeting in the afternoon,
with a tea party and ball for the friends of the delegates in
the evening. Mrs. Brown, the wife of the president, had
been busily engaged attending at the tea table, and was in
the highest spirits. After tea she went to dress herself for
the ball, remarking to the servant that she " would see her
different from what she wag then the next time she saw her."
She returned to the ball-room apparently in the best of
health, when she suddenly said, " Good God ! I am very
giddy. Let me see my husband." She then sank in a chair,
and never spoke afterwards, having expired almost imme-
diately.

skins are very valuable; and 29 of a fair or average size, in
the proper market, would fetch £lB at least.—Perth paper.
By the provisions of the theological statute passed at
Oxford last week, Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Di-
vinity, has been constituted chairman of the new Theologi-
cal Board, and is also recognised as a public University Pro-
fessor in Dogmatic Theology. The statute, therefore,
virtually rescinds the judgment passed by the university on
the professor's theological opinions, in 1836, on occasion of
his appointment to the chair by her Majesty, at the recom-
mendation of the late whig administration.—Globe.
We understand that a bill is about to be introduced by go-

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vernment to attach Shropshire to this circuit—to merge the
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six counties of North NQes into three, for assize purposes,
by joining two together, and holding the assizes alternately
in the chief town of each—to transfer Hereford and Mon-
mouthshire to the South Wales circuit, and to send two
judges on the Welsh circuits, instead of one. Lord Abinger
is the proposer of these alteration.—Carnarroon Herald.—
[This statement has since been contradicted by authority

NOTTINGHAM, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—This evening,
at six o'clock, Joseph Sturge, Esq., the candidate selected
by the Complete Suffrage Association, and the chartist body
of this town, entered Nottingham, preceded and followed
by as immense a crowd of electors and non-electors as has
ever assembled here. The procession was the most unosten-
tatious ever seen ; no banners, no flags, no colours, no bands
—all was simple and pure, betokening a good beginning on
pure principles, and which it is sincerely to be hoped will end
in a triumph. The greatest enthusiasm prevails in favour of
Mr. Sturge, and he was received with cheers on all sides.
A ROBB= EXTRAORDINARY.—Between two and three

o'clock, before daybreak, on Thursday morning a servant in
the employ of Mr. F. J. Arnold, of Peter-borough House,
near Hornsey, aroused his master with the information, that
he (the servant) had heard footsteps passing along the gravel
walk near to the window of the pantry, and that some one
had shook the shutter of his room window, Mr. Arnold
immediately arose, and, telling the man to awaken the coach-
man, he armed himself with a brace of pistols, and, accom-
panied by his two servants, left the house by :the back door,
and proceeded cautiously to the front of the mansion, where
they distinctly heard a rustling amongst the branches of the
shrubbery, as though persons were making their way through
the trees. Mr. Arnold called out to the supposed robbers
to stop, or he would fire, merely intending to intimidate the
fugatives by the threat, and was in the act of rushing forward,
when the pistol he held accidentally exploded, and a loud
groan proceeding from the shrubbery gave token that the
shot had taken effect. On the party reaching the spot, they
discovered, instead of a wounded two-legged midnight ma-
rauder, a couple of four-legged intruders in the shape of a
mare and a foal, in the former of which the shot had taken
effect ; the poor beast being in its last struggles. The ani-
mals had doubtless effected an entrance into the shrubbery
from the adjoining lane on the previous day, whilst the gates
had been left open for the egress of the carriage, and so re-
mained unobserved by the servants.—London paper
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT—PA RKSIDE STATION, WED-
NESDAY AFTERNOON.—This morning the London up mail
train from the north, on its arrival within a distance of 200
yards of this station, passed over the body of Thomas Grif-
fith, a bargeman. James Blundell, the driver of the engine,
on finding that he had met with some obstruction on the
way, stopped the engine as speedily as the downward incli-
nation of the line at that particular part would permit, but
not until the whole train had passed over the body of the de-
ceased. On examination it was discovered that the de-
ceased had been dead some hours, as the body was cold and

nd bore evident marks of more than one train having

passed over it. The lower extremities were nearly severed
from the trunk, and were only attached by a small ligature.
From the inquiries I have made at this station this afternoon,
I learn that the deceased was a married man, about 40 years
of age, and a native of Tarvin, in Cheshire. He was in the
employ of Mr. James Tyrer, of Lowton. and engaged as a
bargeman on the Bridgewater Canal. On Monday he dis-
charged his cargo, and spent the greater part of yesterday at
Newton cattle fair. At night he, his master, and some other
men were drinking at the Bull's Head public-house, in Gol-
bourne dale, and left there between ten and eleven o'clock.
They were all the worse for liquor. The deceased loitered
behind the rest of the party, and I understand they saw
nothing of him after they passed the_ bridge over the North

Union Railway, on the London-road. The embankment of
this point of the railway is full eight or ten yards above the
railway on either side, and it is well fenced, so as to prevent
parties trespassing. It was near this place the deceased's
body was found ; and, in case he got upon the railway on
parting from his companions, no less than two luggage trains,
in addition to the mail, must have passed over him. His hat
and shoes were picked up at different places, and the sand on
the railway bore evident marks of the deceased having been
dragged a considerable distance.
PRINTING IN BOMBAY.—The Bombay Times of the Ist
of March, after apologising for "some enormous typogra-
phical errors," which had occurred during the iilness of the
editor and chief corrector of the press, says,—" If the Eng-
lish reader had any guess of the frightful state of backward-
ness of the typographical art in Bombay, he would wonder
less that blunders of this sort should be continually occurring
than that a Bombay paper should be made legible at all. Our
compositors are chiefly Portuguese, who understand next to
nothing of the English language, and who care nothing what-
ever how their work is done, because they know we are at
their mercy, and who, moreover, on the occurrence of a
Saint's day, or native festival, will decamp without warning
from the office, whatever the emergency. A first proof from
them is more like a galley-ful of ' pie' than a piece of com-
positorship intended to be read ; and it is only by the inces-
sant and persevering labour of one able and industrious pre-
siding reader, over divers others of inferior responsibility,
that we are able to produce a paper at all intelligible. The
sickness of one or two of the trustworthy men in the office
utterly disables us—there is no resource to fall back upon.
A steady English compositor could earn from £lO to £l5 a
month without the smallest trouble, working from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. This class of European workmen in other depart-
ments so generally drink themselves to death in Bombay,
that no printing-office here has as yet run the risk of paying
their passage out. We shall certainly be driven to it shortly.
The expense of printing here, waste of material, and wages,
taken together, is about four times what it is in London.
Bombay, for sober men of good constitution, has one of the
finest intertropical climates in the world : to the tippler or
drunkard it is instantly fatal."

THE ROMANCE OF LIFE.—Some short time ago, in one
of the villages on the Firth of Forth, lived a lady whose hus-
band had long before gone to sea, and never having beard
from him for some years, she believed him to have been
dead. At the time her husband went to sea, Arlrs. S. lived
in a town in England ; but, after giving up hopes of his
return, she removed, with her only daughter, to her native
country, Scotland. In the course of years a probationer
of the church of Scotland came to officiate as a mis-
sionary in the parish, and formed an attachment for Miss S.
Seeing no immediate prospect of obtaining a church at
home, he resolved on transferring himself to one of our
American colonies, and received an appointment there from
a colonial missionary society. Having been united to Miss
S., he took his departure, leaving his wife and mother-in-
law to follow as soon as he should have prepared for their
comfortable reception. They accordingly left this country
some time afterwards for America. In the meantime, among
the settlers over whom the young divine's charge extended,
was a comfortable farmer, also named S., who made inquiries
after the history of the minister's wife and mother, and ex-
preded an anxious desire to see them on their arrival. They
ivh..aVe safe, and on reaching the minister's habitation,
of ell .7," sent for to be introduced. Judge of the surprise
males !I_'; on the entry of Mr. S.. the newly arrived fe-
ing bee7rin him the long lost husband and father ! Hay-
trded ab---„zle to trace his family in Englan after pro-
singular aolit„,ec, he had returned to America ;where, by a
given up as fot ace, both he and they found those they had
living eorafmabi The parties, we are glad to say, arc now
7 a'ld haPPily in the new world.—Edinburgh

A lIINT.—x„s v WALL
spondent at Bristol' FOR FRUIT TREES.—A corre-
choice fridt
difficult to protect theirv-es:— gentlemen find it very
walls, from the depredationti, of birds,
on trees fastened to the
other insects, should ,Tlianed from slugs, and
new hemp nets, and theeatruit aroPi
heavy expense of
flshing nets, led me to thinirttbirefiZnsiboilqY of procuring old
of _ ofe your enterprising
townsmen could manufactu --a"
would prove very useful, and rseo nets
dourgaTieral use ;
it is necessary that they combinen bebrouazhr into cotton that
cheapness; such nets might bestsr,,ength and
trees by S books, and to protect pe-asrnded under standard
with
ton nets will more effectually proi'ecattld small seetandard
blossom, being much warmer than hempca.ll trees w.beCnot.
necessary to weave nets of different nets •it • in
sized , will be
larger mesh and string for heavy fruit, as meshes,aPple With
and smaller, for cherries, damsons, and 111144,M Pears ;
shape of the mesh is i:nmaterial, if square it • -es• The
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.—This is a weekly
paper which made its first appearance on Saturday. week,
-,r HALL ESTATE.—The great room pre-
senting quite a new character among public journals. Its
rHE BitANDrsTo
numerously
crowded by •
capitalists, the
at Principal feature is its rich embellishments of wood-cuts in
e mart was on Thursday very best style of the art, thus conveying graphically the
expectation of getting a great bargain
aany of them in the newsjests of the week ! The Queen's Masque furnishes the sub-
rorn the circumstances being rumoured that required the
Efarliltr many splendid illustrations; the conflagration of
;ale being a peremptory one. Mr. George Robins delivered
liurn, in which he praised very tresses of k;:, the Versailles Railway catastrophe ; the for-
a long and very animated exorc
~., abul and Ghuznee, all are brought before the eye
cir Robert Peel by setting by the cut of the
highly the measures adopted by
eo•arding the corn-laws. not very distin engraver. The politics of this journal do
at rest the differences of opinion r , Y appear; party name is disavowed and re-
He stated that it was impossible for human wisdom to have Pndiated, but consistency
Asa iDusistency is promised—a somewhat difficult
allotted a more sensible, just, and honest. arrangement, as pledge.
give the followinsagr.j'ple of the humour of the paper, we may
between the landowners and the public; it was, in fact, a
Bank ! Wanted a parett'—"
lollypop, with his trUnder a sketch of an elderly dealer in
and pleasantr in
measure altogether worthy of the high renown 0, f our highly
this mock advertisermay of
spice slung to his neck, appears
and
thorou Capital Spec ! Safe as the
gifted minister. In this strain Mr. Robins went on for a
dwith s
ealny
crowdedair , e o rnae r
sisnug,tna t genteelion
in o littlen
e o f
the concern,
most
lengthened period, and evidently succeeded in carryingshtais.
good ready money business vq-
audience entirely with him in the view he took of the
Wares in the met'ropolis, and doing
, idithout much risk ; which an
bility now of landed investment as compared with the uncer- a
tainty of increase of capital would co
with a previous years. The rental is £lOOO a year, and
, anYacustom alone covers the
%yanblY extend. The returns
suppositious value only for the mansion and manors,
exceed the outlay, and the it
which is held at atirre
said to be £1,200 a year • but the real annual value was con- rent. The taxes are redeemed
fidently declared to be 'from £l,OOO to £1,200 a year. He term of the lease, is along unexpired
and well
means
be
the estate for 30,000 guineas, independently of the tim- into a half share, including plant and 101 l
The coming
er, which is to be taken at a fair valuation. Mr. Wood,
Say will trifle above £OOOO. Any person wh„', ver_oynammoadnedratthee,
the solicitor,... a, ,
,Address, , but a
of \Voolbridge, was the purchaser for one of
above sum, will not only find this a decided b
his Suffolk clients. The event'of Thursday is one of im-
,e 1, desirable opportunity of commencing business,a.rirain
portance, inasmuch as it proves the wisdom displayed by Sir
Robert Peel, and demonstrates a fact which before was : worthyr.
R f es exchangedp.
doubtful, that his arrangement of the corn laws has not at to B. faimßriany'dy Beaellr,7l" ieman's Alley.,A, , pre-Paid,
all deteriorated the value of land.—London paper. to JD. 8.,

COUNTERACTION OF INFIDELIg'Y.—On Friday morning ,
meeting was held in London to receive from Mr. Brindley a
report of proceedings with respect to the attempted sup-
pression of socialism. The auditory was very numerous.
After Mr. Brindley had detailed the rise, progress, and down-
fall of socialism, and unfolded his plan of operations for the
future, the Lord Bishop of Chester remarked that if he had
not been an enemy to socialism as a Christian minister, he
certainly should be so as a man and a philanthropist. He
very much rejoiced in the course Mr. Brindley had decided
on adopting ; he was in the possession of great powers, and
had applied them to the most noble purpose. There were few
infidels who knew the evidences on which Christianity rested,
and therefore he was glad that so many opportunities had
been afforded them by Mr. Brindley for making themselves
fully acquainted with these points. The Bishop of Norwich
also spoke in similar terms.
IMPORTANT INVENTION.—A French gentleman, Dr.
Payerne, has just made a discovery likely to be of great use
in submarine experiments and purposes. He proved on Fri-
day morning that he can descend and remain under water for
any length of time without communication with atmospheric
air. He descended, in the presence of several scientific men,
in the diving-bell of the Polytechnic Institution, at 9 o'clock,
and remained there for three hours, when he ascended, hav-
ing no appearance of inconvenience. His process is, of
course, a reproduction of the gases necessary to support life
and also combustion, .as was proved by his taking with him
same candles, which he kept burning whilst below ; and he
intends applying it to salvage and submarine purposes, for
examining dock-gates, foundations of bridges, ships' bot-
toms, &c., as soon as his patent is sealed.—London Times.
" Bottled Ale," like many other of the good things of this
world, owes its invention to a priest. Dean Newell, Master
of Westminster School in the reign of Queen Mary, was a
noted angler. One day, when the Dean was catching fishes,
Bishop Bonner was laying his lines to catch Newell. News
came to the angler of the danger in which he stood, and he
transferred himself from the banks of the Thames to a ship
on its bosom, and was transferred to a place of safety. When
the days of persecution were ended, he returned home, and
renewed his recreations as an angler. He then remembered
that he had left behind him, on the day of his flight, the pro-
visions which he had brought to the river-side for the suste-
nance of his inner man ; and on examining the hole in the
bank which he had converted into a cupboard, he found the
victuals untouched. Among other things, there was some
ale, which he had put into a bottle ; and on drawing the
cork, he was surprised to hear a loud report, and to rind that
the liquor was extra excellent. This (says Fuller) is be-
lieved to be the origin of " bottled ale" in England.
Strza-ci—s.B. RECOVERY OF A. Loa'r Ssinrw-Rot.—A. short
time since, a snuff-box was missed from off a table on the
lawn of one of the masters at Eton College, during his tem-
porary absence, and no tidings were heard of it until a few
days ago, when it was discovered in the following curious
manner :—The rope communicating with the bell in the tower
of Eton College Chapel not working so freely as usual, Mr.
Gray, the clerk, was about to ascend the narrow stone stair-
case to ascertain the cause, when he found the stairs com-
pletely blocked up by a large quantity of twigs, chips, pieces
of wood, and other materials of a similar character, (some
two feet in length,) extending throughout the whole width
of the staircase, and from the bottom step of the landing to
the top of the flight, consisting of no less than 14 stairs.
Upou a closer examination, be discovered that the depositing,
in this position, of the whole of these twigs and chips, was
the persevering labour of two jackdaws, who had thus con-
structed their enormous nest upon the stairs. Amongst the
variety of articles with which the jackdaws had constructed
their habitation (which must have been conveyed through a
loop-hole in the tower, the only opening, not more than four
or five inches wide) was discovered the identical snuff-box,
uninjured, which had been lost a few days before, and which
must have been " walked off" with by the industrious and
not over-scrupulous daws. Extraordinary as it may appear,
the twigs, &c., of which the nest was constructed, could not
have weighed less than three quarters of a hundred. The
tower has since been visited by the Reverends the Provost,
the Vice-Provost, Dr. Hawtrey, several others of the autho-
rities of the college, and parties residing in the neighbour-
hood ; but the old birds, no doubt in consequence of the nest
having been disturbed, deserted their skilfully and extraor-
dinarily constructed retreat two days after the discovery had
been made. They have since been seen hovering around the
tower, but without again venturing to take possession of the
fruits of their persevering labours.—Morning Herald.
POOR LAWS IN SCOTLAND.—A considerable number of
individuals belonging to Glasgow, impressed with a deep
sense of the misery and destitution of the poor of that city
and neighbourhood, and with the inadequacy of the means
provided by law for an effective management of the Scottish
poor generally, presented a requisition to the Lord Provost,
requesting him to call a meeting of the citizens, to consider
the propriety of memorialising her majesty's government on
the subject, and praying for such revision and adaptation of
the poor laws, to the altered circumstances of the country,
as may seem necessary. The Lord Provost having called the
meeting, it was held on Wednesday in the town-hall, and his
lordship was called to the chair. Dr. Perry, in an able
speech, showed the absolute necessity of an alteration in the
law, so as to enable the poor to claim with effect that which
was their right—a subsistence when they had not the means
of earning it by their own labour. He moved a resolution to
the effect that, destitution was prevailing to a fearful extent
in the city and suburbs, and in various other districts ; and
that it was too deeply rooted to be removed by the effects of
private benevolence. This was seconded by James A. An-
derson, Esq., supported by the Rev. Dr. Burns, of Paisley,
and agreed to.—Professor Win. Thomson moved the second
resolution, to the effect that, in some parts of Scotland, the
operation of the poor-law was illusory, in other parts not
acted on at all, while the poor were gathered to those places
where a provision was made for paupers. He strongly urged
the necessity of altering the law, so as to secure a better pro-
vision for the poor.—Seconded by Mr. N. Stevenson, and
agreed to.—Mr. Bennet gave a variety of statistical details
connected with the college parish ; after which Dr. Willis
moved the third resolution, in favour of a civil instead of an
ecclesiastical management of the poor, and complained very
strongly of the inefficiency of the present system. This hav-
been seconded by Mr. N. Stevenson, and carried, a memorial
to government was agreed to.—Glasgow Argus.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CLYDE.—We have the melan-
choly duty of announcing the occurrence of an accident on
the river, which resulted in the death of two persons, one of li
them a gentleman well known and highly respected in this
city, viz., Mr. Robert Henderson, of the eminent firm of
Messrs. R. and J. Henderson, of London and Glasgow. At
four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Robert Henderson,
his brother Mr. John Henderson, and the Rev. Dr. King,
proceeded from the Broomielaw, in the Windsor Castle
steam-boat, with the view of lauding at Mr. Henderson's
country seat of Park. Arriving opposite Park Quay, they,
along with a female servant of Mr. Henderson's, were put
into a small boat, and almost immediately after having pushed
off from the Windsor Castle, another steamer, the Shandon,
was observed coming up the river towards them, when Mr.
Robert Henderson exclaimed, " We shall be run down," and
a collision soon followed, in consequence of which the small
boat was instantly submerged, and all on board (five in num-
ber, including the boatman) were left struggling in the.water
The Shandon was immediately stopped, and every asr
was given by both steamers. Three of the party were re,
cued, viz., Mr. J. Henderson, the Rev. Dr. King, and the
boatman. Mr. R. Henderson was picked up at the same
time as Dr. King, but was insensible when taken out, and
every attempt to restore animation proved abortive. The
body of the servant has not been found.—Glasgow Courier.