The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

lane 27, 184 S. Etteraturt. VARIETIES. "Adam," sa id a gouty gentleman to a tr i c k y son, "I would be on the eve to cane you, were I able." ehe imperf ec ti on o f t h e E ng li s h l anguage i s ex hibit e d lctt we state that the black berry is red when it is preen. , He that is good may w hope become worse ; for vice, virtue, and time never stand still. • " A fine gold lady's breast pin," is advertised as lost I : 1 h a n American p a p er . A b ac h e l or ma k e s the inquiry if She is a si ng l e " gold lady, " and i s w i ll i ng to b e c h ange d. On auctione er a d ver ti se d on th e wa ll s , for public sale, sundry silk dresses, merinos, &c., winding up with artoueiebleostt!euiotb of rum, for ladies .umo,onebottle of whisky, and several other Tr IR RULING PASSION."—On his death-bed a dis ,,aguished h umor i st requested that no one m i g ht b e in matt . to his f unera l, " b ecause ," gas p e d out the dying n civility I can never repay." tr .& Scottish turnpikeman who had been up to London it the first time as a railway witness, was asked on his te '", ll l what he admired most in the great city. The na k was on the " nothing like leather" principle. " Od, P, , " said he, " it was yon gate beside the Duke o' e'lington's house; it's the finest place for a toll-bar I .17er s aw. Mends FOR T AT .—Th e M arqu i s o f W a t er f or d an d some 4 iends one day took their places in the fourth class car !age of a railway. To punish such doings, the railway ple hi red a couple of sweeps, all covered with soot, 'fir Put them in beside them. At the next station, the them bouht first-class tickets for the sweeps, and put in to adorn the silk and leather-covered seats. vtiel.lll.sn S HREWDNESS. —A few days ago a countryman 11.3 131„1 1h e i th nt : the Cavan Bank, and requested gold for some - Bank of Ireland notes he bad. The clerk declined, sta- Y gave gold for no notes but their own. clerk 1 1, then," says Mick, " will you give me Cavan cwieeaircarntdhe Bank of Ireland ?" " Certainly," said the the exchange was made forthwith. Mick and nite:uetx,,a.sb7t in the course of two minutes returned, a llng down the notes of the Cavan Bank on the A v_ m'cke went my man, I have you now sad d m o e f: L d r — th " im ßy no d t a e d s.'" It could not be refused, banker.his way, boasting how he had done the THE S A BBATH.—" G o d bl esse d the Sabbath." The benediction not only denoted His delight in it, but His tiamation of it to do good. It was blessed to be made " si ng. It was a boon to man—not for a man of par ti elliar circumstances, and classes, and climates—but for Pneric universal man. It is as much to each as to all. It, is the charter of poverty, the shield of helplessness. is the bow of promise, the anchor of hope. Its ray Pierces the prison, and lightens the sullen brow of guilt ; It enters the dwelling of desolation, and draws the widow's age to heaven. It is the best advantage and immunity of 14511 . It is the respite of toil, the lull of strife, the down i _i 3 f weariness, the balm of woe. What has tended to pro long life, to raise civilization, to refine character, to excite Lefiection, to bind society, to cheer labour, to honour t rt ii a .r e e l lit o gii r os e n, p , ress exaction, to quicken liberty, to consoli dateinal blessing breathes around it ? a delight." l h i g e h o t l . l IVE LORD CHANCELLORS IN A MADHOUSE.—Lord upo n Sir E. Sugden upon one occasion determined e n n investigating the ma n a g e m ent of a lunatic asylum. Pr oceeded, l to visit the establishment without previous thento D r . D uncan, t h e manager . D r . D uncan was ou t Ben Sir Ed war d k noc k e d at t h e d oor . H e was rece i ve d ,/ the keeper, but upon asking if the surgeon-general had , e '"'" ,l , the keeper assured him that he would be there u e l l, shortly. " Well," said he, " I will inspect some of keeper e rooms until he arrives." " Oh, no," he said, " the iiit would not permit that at all."—" Then I will walk ae garden" said Sir Edward, "till he comes." "We nnot let you go there either, sir," said the ehatancekeeper.— ," said he, ' "don't you know that I am the lord blllor Sir, " said the keeper, " we have four i ( r ) ;e lord c h ance ll ors here already." He got into a great eo ' and they were beginning to think of the strait waist at for him, when, fortunately, the surgeon-general came Wile " Has the lord chancellor arrived yet ?" said he. %alan burst out laughing at him and said, " Yes, sir, e-a ve him safe, but he is by far the most outrageous patient in the house."—O' Neill Daunt. o :4 " L AWYER'S DODGE.—A solicitor in Wrexham had in o ain for some time attempted to effect service of process o l f l ' a female, who occupied apartments on the second floor mhouse at that place, and who had been playing hide a d seek, w e ll k now i ng that repeated attempts had been e to obtain admission, but, she was the other day not l little surprised at being at last outwitted, under the fol r„„°wl,..l!g circumstance :—One of the clerks undertook the e` In good earnest, and immediately set his wits to work, ngaged a painter, who is at all times ready and willing to to a honest half-crown. The painter being made tho :ughlY acquainted with the duty he had to perform, sets n. work improving the appearance of the window frames ‘,.3 7 , as he said, the direction of the landlord), not forget " Rag the window of the lady's sitting room, when unfortu nately an accident happened to the poor painter, who had relessly upset his paint pot, which completely bespat %red the glass, so that he was under the necessity of ap- Pealing to the good lady within for the loan of a rag to Pe off the paint, who good naturedly complied by open ',°,l_4 the s as h, when to her utte r as t on i s h men t an d h orror received in exchange the dreaded copy of a writ. It is nee dless to say the p a i n t er di scon ti nue d hi s pa i n ti ng , an d their off with y oung L a tit a t, no t a littl e p l ease d w i t h ell k ' success, and to receive the reward of their ingenious "untrivance— Chester Chronicle. e,„ til l , - "NESE ITINERANT TRADESMEN.—Tn addition to the 54 Ps, the f requen t e d streets and populous villages are t el l ) Plied with travelling trades of every kind besides; the gardens and squares are filled with astrologers, necro d ancers, fortune-tellers, peep-shows, jugglers, Punch, fentists, quacks, in short, all the drags on the purse to be Za t. a in other countries. The most useful of these is the t - mng restaurateur. His apparatus is of the most com aet order, all lightly balanced on his back with one )4", while with the other he teazes a fire, and goes from I ,,,ace to place crying his various prepared dishes, until his tu ° tress be arrested by some hungry traveller. His whole tc.,Paratus, which may be six feet high by nine feet long, whllinost entirely made of bamboo. Besides the one in 44 1 1 ,1 1 he walks, there are two perpendicular divisions ; th "Re top of that before him are the basins, plates, &c. ' and the supply of wood, below which is the fire-place I go q kitchen, consisting of an iron pan, covered over by a th ( !.den tub, and let into light plaster-work upon the fire ; he boils, stews, or fries, according to the taste of the Lerner ; in the other division are the meats, vegetables, t h e., besides a quantity of gau dy c hi naware , con t a i n i ng it: dried herbs, peppers, &c., required. For a very tri vd„g sum, the labourer can here procure a hearty meal gew_outgl leaving his work, as the restaurateur hovers about ees where most needed. Besides the above, are tea th_ of the same kind, in which are kept, hot and ready, tte various kinds of bohea for public convenience. The oinile.rant barber's apparatus is complete ; the water always in nn a fire over his head, while in his rear, on a toleto balanced over his shoulderwels, are water, basin, razors, venipnt &e. If he be in requisition, he picks out a con s Pot, shaves the head, cleans the ears and eyes, 111 10 .S the joints, and shampoos the body, in an incredibly th e r , t sPace of time. Hair is only worn on the crown of 01 aead, in shape of a queue. The shaving is a matter necessity to the mandarin and gentleman while scarcely TObeurer goes more than three or four 'days unshorn. e ,is trade is in constant exercise, but the death of an lurrik`nPeror is a sure holiday to the barber, shaving and ing being inconsistent with each other. Tinker, ' 4 ' , and sho ema k er , eac h h as hi s pac k, an d, b as ki ng i n I ltr 4 r s 411 Y spot, plies hi s t ra d e ; fi n ish es o ff one j o b, an d eve rears e 1, 6 peculiar cry for another.—Lieutenant Forbe's in China. W 81 10 ,.., Rkr IS TO BE DONE FOR THE P EOPLE ?—Wh at ledni be do ne i s per f ect l y p l a i n an d general l y acknow tint.". You will not find ten men of sense or of informs- Great Britain, out of the precincts of the colonial th e Other government offices, who have two opinions on ,I„,Snhject. To relieve the labour market in Great Britain 1.0 Ireland, a great effort should immediately be made c l' a iLsransport some hundred thousands of the very poorest C anada, , who cannot emigrate on their own resources, to o ni ncla, the Cape, and Australia. Wages in the latter Il try are from 4s. to ss. a day for common, 6s. and 7s. for skilled labour. Ireland is the great quarter to Oleh the relief should be extended : if its surplus multi es are taken off, the pressure on Great Britain will be „mu tr ansport, a b a ted. Shi ps of war, to lighten the cost o f should be employed to transport the emigrants ti they do our regi men t s . G overnment b arracks should e established to re c ei ve th e em i gran t s a t t h e i r l an di ng, . , e Parate the healthy from the sick, est a bli s h th e l a tt er i n :', l.° Per hospitals, so as to stop the spread of typh u s f ever , tiold forward, at the public expense, the healthy and active h s the frontier. Other officers should be appointed there allot them ground, find them tools, furnish them with doe , or provide them with emp l oymen t. Thi s s h ou ld b e rh o lt e to at least three hundred thousand or four hundred asand should emigrants annually for some years to come. m w ,, like to seethe Chartism or Repeal mania which leug stand against such a c ou rse o f h umane , an d al wise an d t ru l y lib era l l eg i s l at i on. But such great ettures would require money. The average cost of lo cno e i nigrant so transported and looked to in the colony sor ts ' be £6 or £7 ; three or four hundred thousand per frotts° Provided with the means of emigration would cost t he n , & ' 2,0 00000 to £3,000,000 a year. Granted. Could l'etu -° fleY be better bestowed ? It would not yield no tari rn ,, , like that devoted to making good Irish roads and Par,unes. It would convert three hundred thousand ' tile rs annually into consumers of British manufactures Briti s h s .",areount of three or four pounds a head ; it would 15 titros l i° 0 0,000 or £1,200,000 a year to the export of nOir "" tn anufactures • it would secure a durable vent for Worf,, ° . ° d.s by planting British descendants in the New el ltst .• it would spread joy and comfort through Man peraryel., B irmingham, and Glasgow, not less than Tip- F°pineaa„ Galway :it would extinguish—and extinguish 11 ' l ,a, of Christian beneficence—the flame of disaffec v.seueh the realm : it would give to our people all that i t u l f ro aneialism has that is really beneficial, and stsve fra, lll , t he unutterableand incalculable evils with which e* " 4 ; it would restore the balance between capital 4 i'eets ( PY, so grievously and ruinously deranged by the „e he °f trade of late years, it would go far to allevi ;!l'ren-,„lll,lserY which the pernicious dogmas regarding the ,2„eave spread through the country. For blessings .: 1 4, ( 7,Lnese is the issue of Exchequer-bills to the extent ?I' three millions a year for some years, an extrava lnlee ree o pay ? Would not five times the sum be at 0 „, Wed by the state in a single year if war were to aall ny su c hn w ith France or America ? Are the dangers of b e . war to be compared to those which must inevit '4, i d , Incurred if the present frightful mass of pauper seli , enes s eVed and destitution, is allowed to continue un i•i_nst, the to go on increasing in the country ? What in t :t_ln . end, be the result of such a state of thins, v(aek t( 7,} anarchy, foreign degradation, ultimate ruin? vy'l Naazine. 27,184 g ;the meeting held evening, to sup.; 1 Suffrage, &Ate' Triennial Parba . were defeated bl in carrying res& Charter. As the A. this fact poll 'The fact is Os a little knot of any kind. Bve ° general grounds: confusion abrobe, that confusion) ,f toting the Consu' .--( Whig Pape r : not by sinecure' 'ces of a 0101 f the Court- -- P n ?,s—cut down the partrnents—be save 3d. a-yel mpire. It is 0° s consuming th e )ort and Birmin i i; we would gla“ o ' :houFands a year rosocrous or the villing to r edueu be ; but we ca n ' t idages of a g rey rup t tradesman' !'sponsibilities et ure. W e cano e ° ids ; neither without soldier, render our O t , f the world. r t. rr capital. It without keeping ate fleet a nd a troops. Gentle• n loing. P e titiorh, and extravagant ;eVerTunnice .. . 9 ' ate ; but Loewe'', mischief within' , the attention ei she is affordieS lands, and the xly and steadill Ind great suffer' ous history, O f ,s try to inflict 9 t all would have Ty.—Foreigne t t nformation, an speeches of Mr' by continent s : all the weigh u ;y leaders. T he !refore quite na i ; o England Wi t ,' which he ha is meetings• if his po pulariti t I when the fil l vas his election was his electio n on the svno'' ght, with told' ately prime it )rd Broughain vvriward court I when he w; chard Cobden,' ;he day he n' t as found, 111°5 which g reev: into expressly° merly, the li on l by the p eople , House of CO s of Grosvenor' tore brilliant or idson and Af f ' an hardly clOO ; m Leraves, nn o raise £lOO, at their cost, tri! t mical friend splendid testi• 0 Isistent pbilan' has been stull arity, and st l s of ConanOnf iiral D u ndas a o s Something L new stands": in parliaraer signally falle;!" e o r £70,000 or ousand P° ll l nrs , to exp e rt favour a any —.Record. lified their in rheatre on the Chas. Keall° her Majesty' s d play Alice* ied knowledge pera , and cries. nded from a l l acknowledge d ionstrations of o n was sun g• c e : and at its h' round upon with the wa- was honoured ipadied by the Albert Gate, asion she was Kling members Monternoliet ante Don Fer his presence. earliest to er hting from his accession front r of lawyers 1.0 mou nt of their n's Bench 00 t the Muns ter (' tiff, and gaC urda to the y, amo ur his chara c e fendant in tm hat pa per r. :, Mr. NaP le o i he Society o their NT, reason of 1;,. , nov el as to 0., amber of P er t th e tithe-r eo operties un aws of the su n ,' ed that, b ei 7 for Jellico. m the gr° ll/3 0 , 'Y associatj a m ember , b a mandatO s o f o anything Lrket is still o: for some cla ss e r vith any ale to say what accounts frail there are signs xtreme flatness range, no mat!: tringthe wee*: In goods the_rt an has been tif ;thing very atal buyers .f„ de, and the 7,1 b u t slow ad a poor O tel l; ade exceedy t t ile !ommence ,005 i c es of all see has taken P in the be t goods " l becX .eenis to c i , a nd, goods in approachesijeoi If )le, the g e •ne6 o utumn bu' th e betiq' t , b o tl if tl um ption i s Co p the stoc ks fr a ;cii! - I rther deP bob qc, being a d the duced, a n froo e s o / well to te improved state We have att the rid muchbyd e time Pa st con' vie which • the F iee e ons , ? e of late tbe done. Vibieff there a n n i:e ,;t r U n rg a S c i e c onf r ; nd the sPi i fbot There ar, the favour 101 l ply the Wl' quite f fling amount is es rig • , e _ ... . bic h ools,in iding s t ;l 3 except THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.-THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS (From a Sermon by the Rev. W. Carus Wilson.) Amidst this dark and frightful picture of anarchy and revolution, one bright spot presents itself for our refresh ment and relief, and one well calculated to illustrate the privilege and blessedness recognised in our text. The King of the French, naturally anxious for the future welfare of his kingdom, proposed his grandson as his successor, and the Duchess of Orleans, his daughter in-law, for the regency during her son's minority. At first, appearances are favourable for the recognition of the appointment. The Duchess takes two of her little sons, one in each hand, and presses through the crowd into the Chamber of Deputies. How perilous her Position ! Before she was seated her little ones were severed from her grasp by the pressure of the lawless mob ; and there could not but be a mother's pang and apprehension as to what might be their fate while con cealed from her view. Moreover, there was no ignorance as to the extremely critical condition of the King and Queen, who, in their flight, were far more likely to fall into the hands of enemies than friends. She saw, too, the Chamber packed with an infuriate and blood-thirsty rabble, who were bent on the annihilation of royalty, and were already exhibiting hands newly stained with blood ; for the massacre had been fearful in and around the Palace. And what could she and her little ones expect when such was the maddened haste and impatience of the assassins, that they would not tolerate the spectacle of a portrait of their exiled monarch which hung against the wall, but one of them must needs level his pistol at it, and tear it into disguise ! But there is the Duchess, not shrinking from an exposure to which every sense of duty to her country, and her sovereign, and her son, prompted her. There she is seen, seated before her enemies —calm, and dignified, and collected—how is this ? We admit that it was a heroism which has its parallel in instances where the possession of Christian principles and Christian resources could not for a moment be supposed to exist; but admitting this, it is a refreshment amidst this dark tragedy to know that the Duchess of Orleans had not to rely on a natural fortitude, or to turn to the uncertainty and precariousness of her own sufficiency ; but that she went down into this scene of tremendous extremity under the shelter of a spiritual refuge, and the sufficiency of a spiritual strength which she had not then to seek, but with which she had been long acquainted. I will give you some extracts of a letter from Paris which I received some time ago, little thinking that I should then have to connect it with so melancholy a sequel. " Since I came to Paris I have been deeply interested in the Duchess of Orleans and her little boys. Surely there never was a more fearful t rage dy th an th e h e i r o f 'France —the beloved husband, and the tender father, in a moment dashed from his carriage, and brought almost lifeless to a neighbouring house, where he in a few hours expired.— The Duchess was most deeply attached to him and he to her. * * The Duchess is a monument of stricken grief. But yet, she says, 'My only refuge is in prayer.' Her Sabbaths are passed in our humble Lutheran chapel ; and lately, when the Tuileries were brilliant on the Lord's day with the festive scene, she and her excellent mother, the Duchess of Mecklenburgh, were seen kneeling amongst our humble flock, and receiving the Lord's sup per. The chapel she attends has an excellent pastor, Mons. Valette. He visits the Duchess constantly. Ah, Mr. Valette (she said one day), you are come, and you are welcome ; speak to me of my soul—speak to me of my soul.' The Bible is her study, and her noble parent delights to be her companion in reading its holy pages. My children (she says), oh how shall I bring them up for God !' I heard the above, and much more from a very intimate friend of the DucLess of Elchingen, who is the favoured friend of the poor Duchess of Orleans. The Duchess of E., though still a Roman Catholic, is a devoted Christian, reading constantly the Word of God, and building up in the true faith the Duchess of Orleans. It is very interesting to hear of their happy intercourse. The Duchess of E. is accustomed to pay several visits during the week to the Tuileries, and being once pre vented by illness from ministering as she was wont to the royal widow, she received from her a note, directing her to read the 76th Psalm, and saying, "we cannot meet to-day, as we are accustomed, let us meet at a throne of grace.' " - How wonderful are the dealings of God with his child ren, and what evident marks of covenant love and faith fulness rest upon all his dispensations towards them, however wrapt up in mystery for a season ! We have only to tarry the Lord's leisure, and be will bring us forth to the light, and we shall behold his right eousness. It might seem a frowning Providence which so suddenly deprived this excellent woman of an affec tionate husband, and at once marred her prospects of coming to the throne ; but he who knows the end from the beginning, knew full well that a throne, in this world, was not to be h er p or ti on , even if h er h us b an d h a d sur vived ; and the grief which became her widowed portion, proved the best di sc ipli ne an d prepara ti ve f or th e t rou bl es which have now so thickly accumulated upon her. CHOOSING A WATERING-PLACE Any one who occasionally employs himself in watching the proceedings of his fellow-men in order to find food for his mirth, has a rich treat in beholding not only the various ways in which different individuals act with regard to " watering-places," but the various reasons which lead them to select different " spas." Shoals of people an nually visit some one or other. To a great many of these health is a very subordinate motive. They go because they have nowhere else to go, or because they want to get married themselves, or have daughters whom they wish to see married. " Thither," says Scott, speaking of one, " comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that weari some attendant, himself ; and thither come both males and females, who, upon a different principle, desire to make themselves one." The intellectual man or the woman of taste seek some quiet, retired spot, and quaff elegant preparations of iron or water, impregnated with bubbles of carbonic acid gas, Nature's champaign. Not so others of a class beneath them. Harrowgate is a very favourite resort of a section of Yorkshire clothiers, Lancashire cotton-spinners, and bagmen of both counties. It possesses for them a two-fold charm. First, they have, as it were, a quid pro quo for their money. The sulphur spa at Harrowgate smells and tastes as only the sulphur spa at Harrowgate can smell and taste. Nothing equals it, nothing in nature resembles it. They swallow pints of it, and its effects nearly tear their very bowels out. They bathe in it warmed up ; and lest they should lose any of its delectable fumes, they get the top of their tub covered in with sacks. Secondly, if the internal twinges gratify the bowels of " feyther" (this word is nowadays pro nounced "popar"), the bustle and the merriment of its sort, of which the place is full, please the little hearts of the country misses. Here they have every night at " Queen's" or " Binn's" a dance, every day a pic-nic, and, what is better than all, time and opportunity to con coct lies innumerable to retail out to their three bosom friends when they reach home relative to the " offers" they have had. If you could believe what any of them said, every one who asked her to dance, every one who handed her over a style, every one who took wine with her, made her an immediate offer of matrimony. Nay, if she be put to it, and fancies that some young spinning swain was thinking of asking her to take some pigeon-pie, but refrained from so doing on seeing how small a bit was left and how hungry he himself felt—he, too, she will declare, made her an offer. Not that the three bosom friends actually swallow all this, but they too visit watering-places, and they too come back with tales of like wonderful conquests, and " claw me and I'll claw thee," is their rule of action. Those who visit watering-places in search of health generally suffer from a similar indisposition, well enough expressed by the term " out of sorts." This means that the functional actions of the nervous and digestive system are deranged ; not much, but still so as to produce uneasy sensations. This state of things is generally brought about by the two great evils of our social system—having too much or too little to think about. The anxious and perhaps embarrassed merchant has had his nerves on the stretch for eleven long months, on almost every day of which his ledger has been opened with a sigh and closed with a groan. Even if more more fortunate, he has had an anxious heart for all that time. On the other hand the retired merchant, with more money than he can spend, from habit and mental constitution has nothing upon which he can employ his mind ; so, after eleven months of ennui and idleness, he too is indisposed. From analagous causes, an immense variety of other characters become " out of sorts." These visit their favourite watering-place, drink its waters deeply for a month, and return home undoubtedly better, if not quite well. Those afflicted with chronic complaints, although less certainly, are often in like manner benefited. This they repeat year after year, and who can wonder that they ex piate upon the efficacy of their spa, and upon how well it agrees with their constitutions ?--Fraser. In 1776, the Duchess of Charteris beat her husband in a foot-race of 200 yards for 200 guineas. The duchess was allowed to secure her petticoats above the knees. An Englishman who is good for anything at all, will gain nothing by what is called " citizenship," or any such humbug. We have not the least objection to our lively neighbours being citizens if they like it ; but, so far, it is evident that citizen and soldier, citizen and debtor, citizen and defaulter, citizen and idle man, citizen and bankrupt, citizen and state pauper, mean the same thing. EFFECT OF ENGLISH HAND-SHAKING.--A native having visited England in company with his master, and travelled by railway while here, on returning to his native country told his fellow-countrymen that " in England horse no good, bullocky no good ; plenty whiff"—at the same time drawing his hand quickly before him to indi cate the velocity of the railway carriage. His lubra (wife) hearing of his return, hastened to embrace him : he coolly extended his hand a l'Anglais, and said, " How d'ye do ?" She, not understanding this extraordinary conduct of her spouse, sank down on the ground, and sobbed aloud.—Wilkinson's South Australia. ANECDOTE OF THE REDBREAST.—Last winter a pair of robins were daily fed near the kitchen door of Mr. James Neild, of Oulton, the male bird occasionally flying through the open window to pick up the crumbs from off the floor, and so remarkably tame has he become that he will fly to and feed out of the hands of one of the family. During the present season they have reared three broods of young —the nests being built in an old wall within a few feet of each other—and are again occupied in the construction of another nest. Whenever gardening operations are in progress, one of the old birds is generally near to pick up the vermin, and it is a remarkable fact that these valuable birds will sometimes carry to their young in a few minutes between forty and fifty small worms and grubs. During a heavy shower a few weeks ago, the gardener took refuge in an arbour at some distance from his work, when he was quickly followed by his innocent companion, who perched on the branch of a tree, warbled his song r .if joy, as if in gratitude for the bounties of Providence. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. etneral gtiatilanv. The hay harvest has commenced in Northumberland, and the crops are abundant, particularly those of old grass. Mr. Joseph Roebuck, manager for the Messrs. Pickford, at Worcester, committed suicide last week. The Duke of Bedford has purchased the horse " Jus tice to Ireland," for £2.500. On Thursday, the take of salmon was so great in the Tyne that large fish were sold in the market at 6d. per lb. PUBLIC HEALTH BlLL.—This hill passed in the House of Commons on Tuesday. We do not anticipate it will encounter much opposition in the Lords. A new London daily paper is to be commenced next month, at two-pence. It will support the reform move ment. A crow's nest with young may now be seen on the sum mit of one of the spires at the eastern end of Durham Cathedral. . GILMoUR AGAIN !—This worthy is now pouring in his orders upon the outfitters, having some noys he wishes to send to sea !• In one number of the Times this week there were no less than seventy advertisements of governesses wanting situations. Lady Elizabeth Moncrieffe died on Saturday, at her re sidence in Chapel-street, from the effects of the injuries she sustained by having accidentally caught fire. At "Witney, Gloucestershire, a young woman, who had been married only six weeks, was hawked about last week, with a halter on her neck, for sale by her husband. Ann Sykes, a young girl in delicate health, died last week at Thurstenland, in consequence of eating a quantity of unripe gooseberries. The sticks of rhubarb which took the premier prize at the Macclesfield show were each 37 inches long and 9 lb. 13 oz. weight. A vessel arrived in the docks from Hong-Kong and the Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought 1,020 par cels of iron. The Times is now lending its valuable aid to the expo sure of the " Count Touzery gang," who have, for the last three years itinerated with goods, pretending to be custom-house seizures and the like. Sir John Richardson and his party arrived at Lake Su perior on the 29th April, and left a few days after, on their journey overland to the Arctic regions, in search of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin. On Friday, Edward Moody was sentenced, at the Cen tral Criminal Court, to transportation for twenty years, for uttering forged five-pound notes. He was convicted of three several offences. _ _ Dr. Chambers, the leading fashionable physician in the metropolis, has been obliged to retire into the country for the benefit of his health, and it is doubtful whether he will ever be able to resume his labours. Prince Albert has sent a contribution of £25 towards the erection of the monument recently completed to the memory of the late Mrs. Siddons, which is about to be placed in Westminster Abbey. Lord Nugent, in accordance with the wishes of his la mented lady, has purchased twenty-five acres of land in the neighbourhood of Weedon, for the purpose of allot ting them to the poor for ever. Last week, at Lincolnshire, Mr. Hitchins, coroner, stated that in the course of ten years he had held 111 in quests on the bodies of persons who had perished from accidents caused by drunkenness. CONSOLATION FOR MOTHERS.—When young children cry lustily, they grow well and rapidly ; for through cry ing, the members and veins are stretched out which have no other exercise.—Martin Luther. The Inverness Courier describes the grouse season as progressing very satisfactorily. In general the broods contain nine or ten; fourteen have been counted in one covey. No disease appears among the old grouse. Keen and Young Sambo fought near Newmarket, on Tuesday last, for £2OO. The battle consisted of six rounds, lasted 19 minutes, and was decided in favour of Keen. At Judges' Chambers, on Friday, bail for Mr. Ernest Jones, e chartist leader, appeared, and was accepted by Justic attison : Mr. Jones was set at liberty. On Sa turday Mr. Fussell was enlarged on bail. The Commissioners of Customs have issued directions to their officers at the outports, to prevent the exportation of any arms and warlike stores for the purpose of being employed in hostilities against the Danish government. On Thursday the bakers of London lowered the .41b. loaf Id. Those at the west end now only charge 7d. for the best quality ; the second-rate Gd. and 51d. Many, however, in populous districts are selling it at 5d., weighed on delivery. A GOOD JUMP.—At Epworth, on Monday, a bet be tween the footman of E. Waddington, Esq., and Mr. Rd. Leggott, against the former jumping 17 feet in one jump, was decided. It was won by the former jumping 171 feet. In the birth-announcements in The Times, which are all paid for, the following appeared a few days since : " On the 9th inst., at Rotherhithe (in the unconsciousness of mesmeric sleep), the wife of Mr. James Payne, of a daughter." Some workmen who were taking down a house at Worcester the other day, found the skeleton of a cat, in a narrow crevice between the joints, and 'a few inches before her, where the crevice was still narrower, the skeleton of a rat. 1 The guano mummy, which was exhibited in Liverpoo, some time since, is to be presented to the Emperor oi Brazil. The British Museum commissioners have offered £5OO for it. This exhibition, at present at Manchester, realised £2,440 to the proprietor in eighteen months. A splendid silver claret jug and salver has been pre sented to Mr. Wilson, the Scottish vocalist, by some of his friends, " in commemoration of his successful exer tions in reviving the public taste for the beauties of Scot tish song." ECONOMY !—Orders have been given by the Govern ment for an extensive discharge of artisans now employed in our dock-yards. We think we can point out quarters where much more important and less injurious reduction of expenditure could be made. The poorbox of the Bristol Infirmary was opened on Friday, after a lapse of three years, and was found to con tain the following amounts :--Gold, £3 10s. ; silver, £l3 3s. 10d. ; copper, £1 ss. ; making a tot a l of £l7 19s. 10. in aid of the funds of the institution. A Court of Queen's Bench jury, directed by Lord Denman, have found a verdict with damages of £lO against Mr. Flint, a draper, of Oxtord-street, London, for having turned a lady of the name of Palmer from his shop, on the suspicion that she was a shoplifter. In the item of Royal " housemaids," of whom there are forty at Buckingham Palace and forty at Windsor, great reductions are reported to have taken place. Four years ago they had £45, now only £l2 to £lB wages ; and no pension, no matter how long in the Royal service. Mr. Watt, jun., of Birmingham, recently deceased, has bequeathed to Lord Brougham £50,000. Another circumstance, not generally known, redounds much to the honour of his lordship. The £25,000 left him by Mrs. Flaherty, of Hammersmith, he generously gave to his brother, Mr. W. Brougham. ADVANTAGE OF PRISON FARE.—On Saturday, a woman named Louisa Davis was indicted at the Central Criminal Court, for stealing a watch from the person of William Deverill. So great was the alteration for the better in her appearance, that the prosecutor had some difficulty in identifying her. Charles Verrier, of Kingswood-hill, near Bristol, killed his infant son a fortnight since, by a mischance resulting from passion. He threw a poker at another of his children, who had disobeyed its mother ; and, missing that child, the poker fractured the skull of the infant killed. A coro ner's jury found the father guilty of manslaughter. A serious faction fight took place at Raphoe, on Thurs day. Several severe contusions were received on both sides. Stones flew as thick as hail. All the shops and dwelling-houses were closed and barricaded, and business entirely suspended for half an hour, during which the belligerents fought with desperation. Mr. H. G. Nicholls, recently a clerk in Bristol, com mitted suicide in prison last.week. He was found hang ing from a bar of his cell window ; his two cotton stock ings, tied together, were tied round his neck, and also tied to the bar of his window, the knot of the stockings was close under his right ear. _ _ The second annual cricket match between eleven of England and twenty-two selected from the clubs of Bir mingham and a district of twenty miles, was commenced on Monday, on the ground of the Birmingham Club, at Edgbaston, and brought to a close on Tuesday ; the ele ven winning with six wickets to go down. On the night of the 9th instant, during a violent storm raging on the Brecon Beacons, five yearling bullocks, three yearling heifers, and a cow with a calf, were blown over the precipice, on the eastern side of the Peak, and were of course all killed by the fall from such a fearful height. LIBEL.-Mr. Murdo Young, the proprietor of the Sun newspaper, was on Wednesday convicted of a libel upon Mr. Cochrane, the late candidate for the representation of Westminster, in the damages of 40s. The libel charged the plaintiff with having written a disgraceful and immoral work, entitled " The wanderings of Don Juan de Vega." DEPARTURE OF THE WEST INDIA STEAMER.—The Thames, which was detained by a government order, sailed on Wednesday. The homeward-bound West India steamer having arrived on Tuesday night, has enabled the passengers by her to notify their safe arrival in England, by the Thames, a circumstance that has not occurred before. On Tuesday the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of 40 alms-houses, the future residences of decayed parishioners of St. Clement Danes, London, took place amidst a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen at Garratt-lane, Streatham. The building will be of the Elizabethan style, with a frontage of 350 feet, and will cost £14,000. On Wednesday, the extensive premises originally occu pied as a theatre by Ben Jonson, and known as the Play house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, were taken possession of by the Royal College of Sur geons, who were about to erect a museum on its site for the reception of the celebrated Hunterian collection, pre sented by government to the college. A GIPSY'S DOWRY.—There was a gipsy's wedding at Upton Bishop on Saturday, and we are informed, says the Hereford Journal, that . the parents of the bride were enabled to give her the handsome fortune of four thou sand pounds ! Taking it, however, at one-fourth or even one-eighth of that amount, this is a dowry such as falls to very few indeed of the industrious classes. The Waterloo Banquet was held on Monday (the 18th being on Sunday). The Duke received the usual congra tulatory visits—viz., from Prince Albert, F.M. Grosve nor, Viscount Beresford, Duke of Richmond, Viscount Combermere, &c. Piccadilly was almost impasnble, i from the great assemblage of spectators n carriages. Covers were laid for eighty-four persons. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a woman. named Gardner, a cook, obtained a verdict of 40s. da mages against her former mistress, Mrs. Slade, of Lowndes-square, London, for a passage in a letter to a subsequent mistress of the plaintiff, twelve months after wards, which reflected upon her honesty. This verdict ' l ot 40s. will probably cost the defendant 400.. WATERWORKS AND CEMETERIES. — A letter from Dr.. Truman, in the Times, complains that the water supplied by the Hampstead Waterworks Company from a well recently sunk at the foot of Highgate-hill, not 300 yards from that part of the hill on which the Highgate Ceme tery stands, has a most nauseous taste and smell, to the great alarm of the inhabitants, who are apprehensive lest some frightful epidemic disease should be the consequence. Mr. John Briggs, a Chartist delegate from Sheffield, has been removed to the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, having exhibited unmistakeable symptoms of insanity. A few of his brother conventionists might have been re moved with him to the benefit of the community at large. The unfortunate man has since died raving mad. At the inquest the verdict was "That death was owing to the softening of the brain, caused by mental excitement." A widow of the name of Harridge sought on Wednesday in the Westminster County Court, to recover from Viscount Palmerston the sum of £lO 3s. 4d. for shoeing his lordship's horses. Evidence having been given to show that the work had been done, the judge said be should make an order for the payment on the sth of July, which would give Lord Palmerston an opportunity to ap ply for a new trial if he thought proper. THE CROPS. — The grain has greatly improved beneath the genial influence of the recent showers, and beans and pease promise well, which, after the total failure of last year, is cheering. Apples will not be so abundant as was at one time expected, but pears will probably offer a plen tiful crop. Potatoes look as well as we ever remember. The hop-yards of this county look well, and the same is the case in the other extensive hop-growing districts. — Hereford Journal. We know, from official sources, that the proportion per cent of commitments for North Wales, is sixty-one per cent below the calculated average for all England and Wales, on the same amount of male population of the like ages. In fact the gaols of Wales are commonly empty, or the next thing to it ; and the whole twelve coun ties would hardly keep one barrister, on the crown side, above starving point. Maiden assizes are anything but uncommon in that country. A PUZZLE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.—A few years ago raw hides were selling at sd. per pound, at a time, too, when there was a duty of 3d. per pound upon tanned leather. At the present time raw hides are selling at five farthings per pound, with no duty on tanned leather, and yet boots and shoes are no cheaper than they were before the duty was repealed, and when raw hides were 25 per cent. dearer than at present ! Will any correspondent inform us who it is that pockets the difference ? Gilbert A. a'Beckett has, within the last few days, got a government commis,ionership, and the public may shortly expect a " blue book " from his pen in reference to one of our agricultural counties, noted for its calves ! This is the third press recognition by government within the last few months : Fonblanque, Examiner ; Mr. A. Doyle, Chronicle; and Mr. A. a'Beckett, Punch. The last named and last appointed has for a considerable period been a writer in another leading journal as well as Punch. —Cheltenham Chronicle. _ _ The Kensington Board of Guardians has recently made a strong representation to the Poor-law Board, with re ference to the great expense to which the parish is sub jected by the number of tramps, chiefly Irish, with which it has recently been infested. It appears that, within the last fortnight, no fewer than 1,637 have presented them selves at the workhouse, of whom 1,378 were relieved in the workhouse. Of the 1,378 persons, 705 were Irish, while in the three preceding years the number was only 430. It appears that Sir J. Lubbock, of High Elms, Mon mouth, supplies funds to a village schoolmaster for the destruction of all the wasps in his vicinity, by the urchins of the school. 1600 have already perished, and the para graph proceeds to say, as every wasp killed at this period of the year is a nest destroyed, and allowing one in five to be a male, no less than 1280 nests have been destroyed, which, allowing them to produce on an average 1000 young ones, will make 1,280,000 young destroyed, which, together with their parents, will make 1,281,600—the total number the vicinity is treed from. ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE.—A painful accident Oc curred to Mr. Pritchard, the lessee and manager of the theatre at Leeds, on Wednesday, while he was playing the part of Macduff to Macready's Macbeth. In the tight represented in the last scene the point of Mr. Macready's sword unfortunately struck Mr. Pritchard on the face with such force as to cut through the cartilage of the nose and the upper lip, penetrating to the bone. It was with diffi culty Mr. Pritchard was able to retain his place on the stage till the conclusion of the scene, and he could not speak the remainder of his part. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT VICTORIA IRON WORKS.— ELEVEN LIVES LOST.—The Monmouthshire Merlin states that the scene of this awful catastrophe was a pit known as No. 6 Black Vein Iron Stone-pit, at the above named works. On Wednesday morning, as the men were descending the pit, by some unknown cause the cross-pieces were separated from the ascending bucket, by which it was roped to the surface, when that to which it was opposed descended with proportionably increased velocity, until the unfortunate men were precipitated to the bottom with a tremendous crash, by which they all perished. Oh Tuesday a wretched looking young man, named llart, described as a French polisher, gave himself up to the London police, as, jointly with another man, the murderer of the boy Lazarus, whose mysterious death in an enclosed yard in Spitafields has excited much attention. He confesses that he was with the man when he strangled the boy with a blue pocket handkerchief, and afterwards sold the clothes. He now gave the information in conse quence of quarrelling with his companion, and finding a free pardon was offered to any accomplice not being the actual murderer. He was remanded at Worship-street till his alleged companion should have been taken. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, as Miss Row land, of Ipswich, was walking up the London-road, she suddenly felt a great heat at the back of her arm, and was terrified at finding flames shooting up from her dress. The lady, in her fright, rushed across the road, into the " Bear and Crown," where Mr. Cornish, the landlord, threw her to the ground, rolled her over and over, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The lady sus tained no injury beyond a slight burning on the hand when she first felt the fire. The cause of this most sin gular affair is quite a mystery ; but it is supposed that Miss Rowland must have trodden on a lucifer match on the pathway. THE CHARTIST ALLOTMENTS. - Mr. O'Connor has re ceived all the subscriptions and holds them in his own name. He has invested upwards of £40,000 in land in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Ox fordshire, which has been conveyed to him. He is now the uncontrolled and uncontrollable owner of the whole property. The prizeholders who have been located have no lease, not the shadow of a legal title to the land they hold. Mr. O'Connor himself, should he be so minded, might, at any moment, turn them out of possession; or his heir at law, or his devisee, should he die, might deal with them in a like summary way ; or his creditors might charge their debts upon the land now, or after his death. —Daily News. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.-0/1 Monday, the house of Mrs. and Mr. Newlove, mother and son, at Warthell, near York, was broken into at an early hour by thieves, who fearfully abused the inmates, but, it is supposed from their being surprised, little plunder was taken. The female in question and her son were eccentric persons, and were generally supposed to be possessed of consider able property. When the house was entered by some friends next day, Mrs. Newlove was found laid with her head towards the front door, literally bathed in blood. The son, who was upwards of 40 years of age, was found in the privy also covered with blood. They were both at tended to and are now going on favourably. The mis creants were armed with bludgeons. A HUSBAND AND WIFE DROWNED.-011 Tuesday week, a respectable farmer named Guthrie, aged 74, and his wife aged 70, were drowned at the ford on the River Ayr, near Holmsten, in Scotland. They had been at tending a fair, and travelled in an old-fashioned gig, ac companied by their grandson, aged 18. On their return home by the ford, the water had risen, and the horse could not resist the current ; and the gig being sent adrift in the river, the two deceased were washed out and drowned. The grandson was floated further down on the gig, and was saved by catching hold of the branches of a tree that overhung the stream. His cries were heard by a ploughman's wife, who rescued him. The horse was saved. TURF-PRESSING APPARATUS.—Lord Willoughby de Eresby has succeeded in constructing a turf-pressing ma chine, by which he obtains uniform pressure ; the pres sure regulated at pleasure, and security afforded against breakage, or impediment to its action. A lever, on which is hung a weight of half a ton, is so arranged, that when in operation, the pressure in the peat-box beneath the plunger is thirty-six tons ; and as this is considered as much as the machinery will bear, the connecting-rods from the lever to the plummer-boxes of the crank imme diately raise the whole bearings, when the power exceeds this amount. In all previous machines, the breakages have been numerous, from having no check ; but by this arrangement it is entirely under control, and can be regu lated to the greatest nicety. ILLEGALITY OF DERBY SWEEPS.—At Guildhall, on Friday, William Willis, the landlord of the King's Head public-house, in Newgate-street, was summoned before Alderman Wilson and Sir Peter Laurie, to answer the complaint of James Cuthbert, of the Golden Last public house, in Drury-lane, licensed victualler, for suffering gaming to be carried on in his house, in the form of Derby sweeps. After hearing a protracted argument upon the legality or illegality of the practice, from Mr. Wontner, who appeared to support the suiximons, and Mr. Child, who attended for the defendant, the magistrates pro nounced a decided opinion that Derby Sweeps were lot teries ; that lotteries were gaming, and that it was a breach of the license to allow them to be conducted at any licensed house. They therefore adjudged the defendant to pay a penalty of £5 and the costs. Mr. Cuthbert gave his moiety of the fine to the poor-box. Mr. Child inti mated that he should appeal. S LE E P.—The Poet Young says, "Sleep is Great Nature's second course—the balm of hurt minds.f_ Johnson says, " It is the parenthesis of human off:" Sleep being thus appreciated by mankind, how4'e - sirous ought we to be that ./. all should tranquilly enj y'" sweet repose," the general obstruction to which • hrough an unhealthy action of the liver or other iscera. A little attention to the " young disease," y having recourse to a mild aperient, often produces e most salutary effect, and for such pur pose Frampton s Pill of Health stands prominent in pub lic opinion. ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES.—AIOIOIIgh changes in the temperature are more prevalent in the temperate zone than in other latitudes, there is ,scarcely a spot to be found where such great differedces exist as in Great Britain, varying in a few hquri some twenty degrees or more. The effect of such rapid changes on the bodily health is very afflicting many thousands of persons, es pecially those in th middle or advanced ages of life, causing attacks of ose painful disorders, sciatica, _gout, and rheumatism Happily for those who are afflicted with those painful diseases, chemical science has produced that excellent medicine, Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, " Too LATE TO RUE."—On Tuesday, at Preston parish church, a buxom pair presented themselves for the purpose of being made happy. The marriage ceremony was per formed, the register signed, the fees paid, and everything done in order. Some misgivings appeared to have come over the minds of the two most interested, for instead of the party leaving the church, they entered into a solemn convocation, which ended in the bridegroom dispatching a messenger to the clerk, to enquire if the couple that had just been married, could not be unmarried, as the gay Lothario had begun to rue. The clerk blandly sent word that he should have rued half-an-hour before, but that he had tied a knot with his tongue which he would find very difficult to unloose. DEATH OF A MlSER.—During the last few days much conversation and surprise have prevailed among the inhabitants of Tottenham, in consequence of the death of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Powell, a minister of the Church of England, who, it was supposed from his penurious habits, was far from being in good circumstances. He died on the 9th instant, upon which his relatives made search for his will. This was discovered ; upon which it was ascertained that his real and personal property amounted to between £50,000 and £60,000. Of this he had bequeathed £lOOO to the boy who attended upon him ; £6OO to his brother ; a legacy to each of his execu tors • and above £30,000 to the London Hospital, having disinherited the whole of his relatives. The landed pro perty at Tottenham is estimated at £lO,OOO value, the right to which, it is stated, will be disputed by Sir Henry Martin, who is heir-at-law to the deceased. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few nights since, in the parish of Kentisbeare, a farmer hearing the sounds of a duck. as if in distress, in his farm-yard, went out to discover the cause, when he saw a duck which had been sitting on some eggs, with a large rat, apparently hanging to it. Unwilling the duck should sustain injury, he at first thought his presence, and the noise he made for this purpose, would cause the rat to quit his prey, but finding this was not the case, and that the animal still retained its hold, he struck it with a stick, and with such sure aim and effect that he broke its back, and killed it. Still, how ever, it appeared to hold out, and the duck continued the appeals for assistance, when going up to it, and lifting both duck and rat from the ground, he found the rat had made its attack with such strength and fierceness that it had perforated the duck's bill with its teeth, and was unable to withdraw them from the horny substance. These were now withdrawn, and the duck betaking herself again to the task, appears to have suffered nothing in consequence. —Exeter Post. On Sunday week, the vicar of Bradford, the Rev. J. Durnet, L.L.D., preached a sermon to the Orangemen of that district, told them that the society to which they be longed was a loyal society; it had stood the test of perse cution for its loyalty, and although persecuted by those who should have known better, they themselves being loyalists, yet the Orangemen could not be driven from their principles—loyalty to their Queen, to their country, and to their Bibles ; but he would remind the society to open their lodge meetings with prayer. Their society was a religious one. They must first personally possess that faith themselves which was recorded in the text, and then they must contend earnestly for it. He hoped the society would go on and prosper. He knew the value of the brave loyal Orangemen of Ireland at the time of the last Irish rebellion, and he knew that if now wanted, although they had suffered from Government, which ought to have treated them in a different manner, they would be the first to defend the Queen and Constitution. THE POISONING CASE AT BRISTOL.—The jurors in this case re-assembled on Monday, for the purpose of proceeding with their inquiries. The inquiry as to the death of the elder of the children was resumed by calling Harriet Hill, sister of Mr. Thomas Wellington Hill, from whose testimony it appeared that after the death of the infant no one remained in the house at night with Mr. Hill and his children. He would cook the dinner himself, and the tea. He also made the gruel and the arrow-root for the children, and gave it to them himself. A druggist, named Reid, was also called, and proved that Mr. Hill once sent to him for muriate of mercury, when witness sent the sub-muriate, or calomel. Mr. Hill called the next day, and said he wanted a preparation that was soluble, to make a lotion ; corrosive sublimate was given to him, and on his being told that it was poison he said he knew it. The coroner having summed up the evidence, the jury consulted, and returned a verdict of " wilful murder " against the father, Thomas Wellington Hill. The magistrates at Bow-street have been much em ployed in hearing charges against various parties de tected as ringleaders in a row at Drury-lane Theatre. It appears that a company of French dramatists, finding it difficult to obtain a living in Paris in its present anarchial state, took Drury-lane Theatre on speculation, and an nounced several plays of M. Dumas for performance. This raised the jealousy of some second-rate English actors, who, like the dog in the manger, unable to use the theatre themselves, objected to its use by foreigners, and accordingly, organized a body of about one hundred per sons, succeeded in getting up such a row in the house the only two nights it was open as effectually to stop the per formance, Mast of the parties were liberated on enter ing into their own recognizances to keep the peace for two months. One exception was nall`2l. in thrl e a te of Samuel Cowell, an actor at the Princess's, who, having expressed his determination of trying the rights of the theatrical public, was fully committed for trial at the Old Bailey, but afterwards liberated on bail. RAGGED SCHOOLS.—On Wednesday, the second annual meeting of the friends of the Ragged School, established in Marylebone, was held, and was attended by a large number of the neighbouring gentry. Lord Ashley, M.P., took the chair, and said he had no doubt whatever that rigged schools would soon receive government aid. (Hear, hear.) From what had passed in the House of Commons, and from private communications he had bad with go vernment, he knew that a certain number of those poor, desttute, and helpless children, who had received certifi cates of good conduct at the schools, and were qualified by a certain amount of education, would be transplanted to a soil where they might industriously, honestly, and happily pass the remainder of their days. (Hear, hear,) Lord Grey, the Colonial Secretary, said to him (Lord Ashley) a few days ago, " If you take care to attend to the moral training of those children, imbibe them with religious principles, and give them a knowledge of some industrial occupation, so as to fit them for labour, then I do not hesitate to assert that the means at the disposal of government will be employed to convey them to the British possessions abroad." Loss OF THE LONDON AND QUEBEC PACKET-SHIP ASTORIA.- 011 Saturday letters were received at Lloyd's, communicating the total loss of this fine, newly-built ship, 500 tons burthen, while on her first outward voyage to Quebec. The unfortunate vessel was only launched at Sunderland in the latter part of last year. She took her departure from Gravesend in the early part of the spring, with a number of passengers, and a cargo insured for £70,000. Her passage across the Atlantic was favour able, and she had gained within seventy miles of her destination, when, on the night of the 11th of last month, while running along the coast of the Little Fox River in a gale of wind, a thick mist prevailing prevented observa vations of the ship's course being taken, in consequence of which she ran ashore on a mass of sunken rocks. Her masts were cut away in the hope it would lighten the vessel, but she remained fast, and the weather con tinuing boisterous, soon beat in her bottom, and she filled with water. The following night an attempt was made by a gang of desperate wreckers to plunder the wreck and the stores, which had been saved and landed. They came down in large numbers, and the crew were compelled to fire on them to disperse them. By the last accounts, it appears there is not the smallest chance of the vessel being saved. THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND HIS ASSAILANTS. —The only landed estate conferred upon the Duke is a part of what is now enclosed by the park wall, the present Duke's grandfather having added to the area a considerable por tion of Bladon and Coombe parishes, and three copses of underwood outside the park wall. This is the whole of the landed estate which was given to the Duke; and we may just observe that this was not purchased by the country, but granted from the domains of the Crown. The outside value of the whole is £2,000 a-year. Now, a word as to the pension. The legislature, in the time of Queen Anne, granted this pension of £5,000 per annum out of the revenue of the post-office, in lieu of £lOO,OOO down ; and from this sum is annually deducted £1,200. We must confess that we cannot see the slightest distinction be tween the grant of a sum in gross, and the grant of an annual pension for services performed. If the £lOO,OOO had been granted and paid, no one would have thought of asking for it back ; and yet it is thought just by some per sons to refuse payment of the sum given in lieu of it. All therefore that is enjoyed by the Marlborough family, for the services performed by the great Duke, is £5,000 per annum. Noss just contra -t this with what the country has bestowed on the Duke of Wellington, and no one, we hope and believe, grudges him a farthing of it, or thinks that his services have been overpaid. Instead of the £5,000 which we have mentioned, the legislature bestowed £700,000 upon his Graceto purchase an estate equal to some £35,000 - per annum. _ STARVATION.—On Tuesday, the 16th ultimo, an in quest was held at Bristol, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges. Deceased had at one time been housekeeper in a respectable family at Clifton, which having, some time ago, given up housekeeping, she was thrown out of a situation. She lived, or rather dragged on, a miserable existence at the Hotwells for some time, and at length, with her daughter, a young woman of 18, who has dis played throughout her mother's miseries the most constant filial tenderness, she removed to St. George's, where her daughter opened a school, in the hope of contributing to their joint sustenance. They got some six or eight chil dren, at prices varying from hi. to 2d. and 21d. per week, which is all the money the poor creatures had for a long time to live upon, as the mother, having been in better circumstances, had, from a mistaken but under standable sense of pride, continuously refused to ask as sistance from any one, and forbade her daughter from making their wretched condition known—a command which the starving girl religiously obeyed. The evidence of the girl, describing the mode in which she and her parent used to coax and cheer each other into partaking of the morsel of food they were able to procure—the one professing that she had no appetite, and the other reply ing that she could not eat then—was most distressing, and brought tears into the eyes of the Jury. At length nature could endure no more, and the mother being thrown down by illness, the daughter went out and tried to beg a few halfpence to purchase medicine ; she did not succeed, and then she came into Bristol and pledged, for 4d., the only two articles of clothing which were left her, except her gown. She hastened home, but her parent was death stricken, and her stomach rejected medicine as well as food. A neighbour forced her way into the house, and being horrified at the scene of wretchedness she beheld, she went to the Rev. Mr. Salt, and made the case known. That most benevolent clergyman did all which kindness could suggest to relieve the poor sufferer, ; and the relieving officer, upon hearing of the case, has tened to the spot, and offered every assistance ; but it was too late—the flickering flame had expired. Yirdict— . Died from want of the necessaries of tile. TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL GREY, H.M. PRIN CIPAL SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES, &c. MY LORD,--T would suggest that, for the purpose of emigration, assistance be afforded to single and married persons with their families, and I am convinced that the outlay for each adult emigrant to our Australian colonies need not exceed £l4. For instance : A ship of five hundred tons would carry two hundred and fifty adult emigrants. allowing one emigrant to two tons. Freight to Australia, at 18s. per ton £1950 0 0 150 days' provision, each adult at Bd. per day 1250 0 0 150 tons water y oil tons, at 60s. each 450 0 0 Filling and shipping water, at 2s. per ton l5 0 0 250 beds and bedding, at 1os. £3790 o a Deduct for sale of oil casks in the colony, 150 at 50s. each Net expenses 375 0 0 £3415 0 0 Or cost price of each adult to Australia, about .el 3 13s. I have preferred employing the casks commonly called " oil tons" for the conveyance of the water, as they would find a ready sale in the colony at 50s. each, being required in the whale fisheries of the South Seas. In Australia the government charges 20s. per acre for land, at which price, on account of its being so high, few or no sales are effected. I would reduce the price to from ss. to 10s. per acre, according to quality and position, and I make no doubt that large sales might be effected, to cover part of the outlay for emigration. To provide the means of emigration for 100,000 persons annually, would require about one million and a quarter sterling ; and I think that if, for that purpose, a tax, (call it an emigration tax,) to produce that amount annually for three or five years, or until a revival of trade took place, were to be imposed, such a tax would be popular, because the rate-payers would eventually save the amount of such tax by the reduction that would take place in their poor-rate, irrespective of the future advantages to be gained by creating consumers for their produce; for, be assured a British subject, even at the antipodes, w ill pre fer articles of British to those of foreign manufacture, if he can obtain them on equally advantageous terms. Emigration, on a large scale, would also be of the greatest service to the colony, as it would provide the present co lonists with labour, which, according to every account, is much required by our colonies of Australia, the Cape, New Zealand, &c., and the dearth of which much impedes their advancement. In order to elevate society in our colonies, I would assist a few men of education, of good character, though of small means, to emigrate; such as schoolmasters, &c. To ensure comfort and order among the emigrants, I would appoint one or more of the superior class to be inspectors during the voyage, who should `see that the emigrants were clean and orderly, and that they had their proper rations •, such inspectors should be bound to deliver, on their arrival at the c o lo n y—t o s om e offi cer a pp o i n t e d for that purpose—a diary of the voyage ; such as, an. account of the number of emigrants, provisions consumed, health and deaths (if any) of the emigrants, with causes or such, from the certificates of the ship's surgeon. The duty of the colonial officer should be, to receive such report, and to place the emigrants in situations for the prosecution of their respective callings, or at least to see that they do not become burthens to the colony; such officer should be paid by the colony. I prefer Australia, or the Cape, to the Canadas, the latter being too near to the 'United States. There is also a great field for the employment of labour in the whale fisheries of the South Seas, which would in time prove an encourage ment to our colonial and British shipping. We have given £20,000,000 for the abolition of negro slavery in our colo nies, in a manner that has proved unsatisfactory, both as regards planters and slaves :—we are expending nearly £1,000,000 annually in a vain endeavour to suppress the slave-trade, and sacrificing the lives of British subjects to little avail :—we contributed £10,000,000 for the relief of the Irish poor, not for permanent, but for temporary re lief, and without prospect of return ;—yet of all these the British public did not complain, impressed as it was with the urgency of the cause, and the noblest sentiments of humanity. I thus feel satisfied that public opinion will approfe of an expenditure of £1,250,000 annually, say for three or five years, to produce inestimable advantages, and to provide for our surplus population, with a certainty, if properly conducted, of its proving beneficial to our manu factures at home. To diminish, so far as possible, the expense, and to provide for the relief of a greater number, I am of opinion that, by judicious management, homeward freights might be provided for the emigrant ships, from India, China, &c. ; thus obtaining some returns, however slight. The emigration of 100,000 persons would employ 400 ships, of_soll tons each. 1 h ive the honour to remain, &c., MONTAGUE LEVYSON. Queen Square, Bloomsbury, June, 1848. ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHOLIC RESTRICTIONS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. w9ulcl.4*)rpit thrcr a ct your paper to the publi c , in justification of those who advocated - the retention or what are called the penal statutes against the Roman Catholics, that their advocacy of those wise enactments provided by our forefathers, has been amply justified during the past week. in which has been exhibited the total disregard that a papist has for an oath, upon the sanctity and observance of which the administration of all justice depends in this country. In the recent state trials in Ireland the papist jurymen would not consent to be bound by the oath they had taken, to find a verdict according to the evidence. The only remedy is to prevent papists sitting on a jury, as they cannot be trusted ; but to do this is to re-enact the penal codes as they are called. Our reply is, stern neces sity demands it, and that crime produces penalties and restrictions, and hence, originally, the Roman Catholics brought the prohibition on themselves (repealed only a few years since by Parliament) by their own wanton mis- demeanours Our forefathers could not govern the country without excluding the papists from political power, nor can we. By admitting them we break up our political system, it will not work when in their hands.—Yours, obediently, May 24. JUSTITIA. " SUBLIME SENTIMENTS" AND DULL FACTS. "Let them give to Ireland her own parliament—not the par liament of 1782—that was a meteor light which flashed across the land—it was a deceptive vapour which quickly vanished. Ireland wanted a fixed star, bright and resplendent—the cor dial influence and reflecting radiance of which might be seen and felt in the glorious union of happiness, liberty and peace !" " A strong man, because he is a strong man, insults his brother man because his brother man is weak. The slave struggles to be free, and the enslaver kills him because he struggles. That was British legislation in Ireland." " 1 call upon the jury in conclusion, as they value their oaths, and as they value justice and public good, manly bearing and personal honour, and as they love the country of their brethren, to find a verdict of acquittal." _ . We have culled (says the Guardian) the above choice sublimities from the peroration of Mr. Holme's recent speech in defence of Mitchell. Mr. Justice Moore, immediately after this delivery, summed up as follows : " What the jury had to do was to consider two questions. Firstly, did the prisoners really publish the documents referred to? Secondly, what did those documents mean?" Cruel Judge Moore ! or rather, cruel effect of reason and common sense ! Mr. Holmes was among the fixed stars. " Pray, gentlemen," the Judge quietly observes, " can you satisfy yourselves and me about these two poor facts, publication and construction ?" Wonderfully prosy indeed ! Yet, somehow, most astonishingly effective. It reminds us of the collapse of a balloon, on an unfortunate contact with something hard and solid. It is not perhaps surprising that this same phenomenon should be found to pervade all modern revolutionary prac tice. When the American Embassy at Paris had the first in terview with the Provisional Government, it did not at first transpire what had passed ; but it was only given out in general " that sublime sentiments had been inter changed." There was no further inquiry. The people of Paris lived on this for a week. Again—When the colonel of the 59th regiment of the line was waited upon by the mob (a day or two after the " glorious " days of last February,) with a modest request for the arms of his regiment, he said at once that " the 59th was no more ; he commanded now the Ist regiment of the Republic." This sentiment was of course magnifi cently sublime ; and it was accepted at once by the mob in the stead of the muskets and bayonets. We all remember the sublime sentiments by which La marline saved the tricolour and the Gallic cock; not very much more than sentiments themselves. The " senti ment" that saved them was, " that the tricolour had been round the world, and the red flag only round the mud of the Champ de Mars." Again—When General Courtais walked into the Na tional Assembly on its first sitting, and " in the name of the people " demanded the proclamation of the Republic, the agitation produced by so sublime a sentiment was so intense that nobody in the hall could tell whether he stood on his head or his feet. But we should never end if we went on to quote all the sublimities of the present row in France. The whole af fair is one vast sublimity,—a series of exciting and agitat ing sentiments, from first to last. But the alembic is coming : perhaps come. Sentiment, however sublime, cannot serve for bread and cheese, even for a Frenchman ; and when pay-day comes in earnest, and come it shortly must, we shall then see these sublime sentiments also put, in their turn, upon their trial, by most prosy and inexorable facts, even as Mr. Holme's sublimities were by Judge Mooie's dull questions. " Fine words," it is said, " butter no parsnips." We should be glad to see produced in the bottom of a tum bler or on the point of a needle the real tangible entity, the THING, which might be scraped, or squeezed, or pulled together (for example) out of all the sentimental glories which France has enjoyed for the last three months ; or which, to take another instance, might be derived front the famous and transcendent fact that Ireland is " the first flower of the earth, the first gem of the sea." Yet this sentiment and that glory will set a whole city raving at three minutes' notice, or without. If it should be found impossible to satisfy our curiosity on this point, we should be glad to be favoured with a good definition of the word HUMBUG. BOROUGHS.—To entitle a person to become a borough elector, on or before the 20th of next month (July), he must pay all the poor-rates and assessed taxes due from him during the twelve calendar months next, before the 6th of April last. Should the collector NOT have called for these taxes, they must be paid, or you will be DISFRAN CHISED. Those electors who have changed their pre mises since the 31st of July, 1847, must furnish the over seers with theiparticulars of the premises occupied between. the 31st of July, 1847, and 31st of July, 1848. This infor mation is necessary to enable the overseers to make the lists correct, and prevent objections, if taken, being sub stantiated. r