The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-10 00:00:00

THE PERUVIAN MUMMY ! ! ! THIS DAY, (Friday,) the 10th instant, a LECTURE will be delivered by J. S. THORBURNE, Esq., M.D., on MUMMIES, and the CUSTOMS of various NATIONS towards the DEAD, at the PORTICO, Newington, Bold street, on which occasion the extraordinary and interesting Relic of Humanity, the PERUVIAN MUMMY, recently brought to the Port of Liverpool in Me4'srs. Brocklebank's Ship Oberon, will be Exhibited in illustration, previous to its REMOVAL TO LONDON. Doors open at Half-past One ; to commence at Two o'clock, p.m. Admission, One Shilling; and to the Gallery, Sixpence. SEVENTH GRAND ROMAN FESTA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THIS EVENING, (FRIDAY,) and will be repeated every FRIDAY and MONDAY during the Season, THE PICTORIAL MODEL OF ROME. At dusk, this novel exhibition will be' seen under the aspect which the scene presents during the rejoicing in cele bration of Il Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vas t Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the glorious Architecture shines forth in lines of resplendent light. It is on such festive occasions that the celebrated Girandola, or great FIREWORKS of ST. ANGELO, are displayed from the summit of the Castle and Bridge. beyond all comparison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented. A fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL will be represented. Amidst tremendous FLIGHTS of ROCKETS, and CASCADES Of FIRE, FOUNTAINS, and STARS, the whole of the Eternal City will appear as visible as by the broad light of day. Pyrotechnic - Artist, SIGNOR SEMONI. A first-rate MILITARY BAND, under the able superin tendance of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. TO CORRESPONDENTS The " Ode to Evening " must stand over - ---- • • " Observer" must have observed his communication almost in 'Widen& verbis already in the STANDARD. The article on the apprenticeship question in the Corpora tion Schools is scarcely fit for publication in its present shape, but it may be available on another opportunity. The letter of "D. S." would defeat his own object. The address to which he alludes has something more definite than a prayer that her M a j esty may " b e sh i elded from harm." We have our own opinion on the subject of the correspondence, and may probably feel called upon to state it if our radical contemporaries notice the subject. The quarterly return of the stamps taken out, and the advertisement duty paid by the press of Great Britain, from the Ist of January to the 31st of March, is now before us ; and that influential portion of our fellow townsmen, who support the principles advocated by THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, will, we have no doubt, be pleased to notice the steady improvement in the circulation of this journal. During the past quar ter,—one peculiarly barren of anything striking in the way of news, and marked with much commercial difficulty,--the STANDARD, and one contemporary only, have improved their position, as compared with the circulation of the previous half year; another journal has just maintained its position, whilst SEVEN of our contemporaries have declined, and some of them very materially. The next return, from our sale thus far, we are enabled to state, will show a further in crease ; and for the patronage which thus enables us, advantageously and diciently and, we may add, pro fitably to ourselves, to advocate Conservative inter ests, and to promote the spread of sound principles in this town and district, we must here record our grate ful thanks to a kind and indulgent public. It is a pleasure to us to labour in such a cause; it is doubly a pleasure to find our humble labours appreciated. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD undeniably occupies now a leading position amongst the journals, not only of our own town and neighbourhood, but of the United Kingdom. The respectability and influential charac ter of its circulation, we can say without hesitation, is surpassed by none. To those of our Conservative felloW-countrymen, therefore, who wish to be presented with an honest expression of sound constitutional opinions we point with confidence to its columns, and to the approbation which a large portion of the public have accorded to that expression in time past. No exertion, no attention, no expense, we promise, shall be spared, in time to come, to merit and increase that approbation. TO ADVERTISERS this journal now offers increased and increasing advantages, from its advancing circu lation, and its now recognised character, as one of the most influential mediums of communication with the gentry, clergy, merchants, and middle classes of the community. Whilst recording, therefore, our thanks to those of our friends who have so liberally favoured us hitherto, we beg to impress upon their consideration our added and increasing ability to do justice to their favours. We may remark, that we have never been in the habit of making a display of our amount of circulation and advertising. We do not, in fact, regard either as the infallible criterion of the value of a public journal, to the community or to advertisers. Having received, however, the government returns, immediately upon their issue, we have taken the opportunity of bringing them here before the public : Number each Publication. ... 7000 .... ... 3000 ... Advertisement Duty Paid. ,£272 2 0 Mercury Albion Courier . Chonicle 167 5 0 88 14 6 125 15 6 66 18 0 276 12 0 87 19 6 140 15 6 '135 16 6 229 1 0 0 13 6 Journal Advertiser 1423 1384 1200 1000 730 Times STANDARD Mail Mercantile Gazette European Elie Eibtrpoot .Atanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1842 The accounts from the seat of war in India, receive by the last overland mail, are, taken altogether, of a more cheering description than we have been favoured with of late; and yet they contain little upon which, as a nation, we have great cause to felicitate ourselves. GHVZNEE has fallen; and, as the result, there is too great reason to fear that the blood of another thousand British subjects has stained the war-knives of the fe- rocious Ghazees. General ENGLAND has been re pulsed in an attempt to penetrate with a convoy to Candahar, and has been compelled to retire to his po sition to await reinforcements. As a set-off against these reverses, the gallant SA LE has retained his posi tion in Jellalabad ; and, in two successive sorties, has inflicted severe chastisement upon the hordes of treach- erous and savage assailants by whom he was blockad ed. General NOTT has achieved a similar triumph in Candahar. The most marked and important success, however, is that achieved by General POLLOCK, who has triumphantly forced the dreaded Khyber pass, in the face of its multitudinous defenders ; and thus, at once, opened out the path for the release of our entire army from the Affghanistan territory, and vindicated, as well, the supremacy of the British arms in the eyes of the unruly nations by whom our empire in India is surrounded and, from time to time, disquieted. Such is the substance of our Indian news. Our losses are those of a reputed impregnable position, and the massacre of a thousand of its British defenders; our gains, that the means of retiring in safety have been won, and that our army, cooped up in the passes of this hostile country, have maintained themselves, and will probably continue to do so, until the full power of the British empire shall be reached out to wipe away, in the blood of their treacherous foes, the memory of the slaughtered thousands who have pe rished in this wretched quarrel. Negative triumphs these !—by which the power or the prosperity of India or of England is not one whit increased, yet attained, nevertheless, at a heavy sacrifice of life and treasure. Would that, in addition to this intelligence, we could communicate any thing satisfactory with respect to the unhappy captives at present in the hands of the perfi dious native chiefs ! Upon this subject, however, no thing definite has reached us, although it is too much to be feared that the treatment and condition of our unfortunate countrymen and country women is far from being one of comfort, if it is not, even, one of personal suffering and danger. Another mail, however, will no doubt either assure us of their release from durance, by the triumphant exercise of British arms or by ran -B°M, or confirm those apprehensions of calamity which will at times flash darkly upon our minds. In the meanwhile, is it not, we ask, full time that the people of England should be put in possession of some knowledge of the policy, and the object of that policy, which has led to the disasters already sustained, or which may hereafter be sustained, in this Afghanistan war ? We seek not, at present, to know the course to be pursued for the future. We ask not to be informed whether the government of India will direct its efforts to the rescue, merely, from danger, of the army em barked in it, and to the vindication of the national ho- 'lour, or to permanent conquest. A wise and a just course —one, too, which it befits England to pursue— will, we are satisfied, be pursued with regard to the future, and we are content to wait its actual develope merit ; but the country will not be, and ought not to be, satisfied with anything short of the fullest informa tion with respect to the past. In whose quarrel—for what object —was this unhappy expedition undertaken ? —an expedition which, from first to last, has been at tended with the sacrifice of twenty millions of sterling money, and of, what is of infinitely greater considera tion with us, twenty thousand British lives ;—an expe dition which has served only to damage the reputation of British arms and British statesmanship in the east, and which may, even, shake the stability of our Indian empire itself! We demand, upon all these points, the most ample information; and we ask that information from the late Governor-General of India and the mem bers of the late 11 7 hig administration. These men it should be,—and not the unfortunate officers whose conduct is to be submitted to a court martial, (if they should not previously have fallen vic tims to the treachery and bloodthirstiness of their sa vage captors,)—Lord Auckland, Lord Palmerston, and their colleagues it should be, who ought to be arraigned at the bar of British justice for the disasters which their policy, in the first instance and chiefly, has brought down upon their country. Irresolution, incapacity, and even cowardice may be alleged against the subor dinate offenders ; and the grounds of such charges may be a subject of very proper inquiry for a court martial;—but it is not with such that the people of England have to do. It is not the irresolution or cowardice of any individual officer which has placed Great Britain in a position where she can neither re tract with honour nor advance with safety. It is the policy and the conduct of the governing power, and not of its instruments—of the head, and not of the hands— which are in fault ; and upon that governing power— upon that head—and not upon the mere registering instruments of its rash and unwise determinations, the responsibility for accumulated disaster and difficulty must rest, and PUNISHMENT, if deserved, must The motion of Lord Ashley, on Wednesday night, for leave to bring in a bill to regulate the age and sex of persons to be employed in mines and colleries, was received with the universal concurrence of all parties in the House of Commons; and elicited, at the same ime, by the manner in which it was introduced by the ,oble lord, a degree of admiration of the praiseworthy efforts of that high-minded and excellent young noble man which it has rarely fallen to the lot of any indi- vidual to excite in the hearts of his fellow-men. This sentiment, we venture to predict, will not be confined within the walls of parliament, but will be echoed through the length and breadth of the land, by the voices of an entire Christian people; and if there is one man to whom the affections of that people should turn, that man is he who from his exalted station — from the bosom of luxury—has devoted himself to the advocacy of the rights and interests of the children of the poor ; and greatly do we mistake the character of our countrymen if the name of that man—the name of Lord Ashley—is not, for all time to come, treasured up in their hearts with an enduring admiration of his noble efforts, in behalf of the afflicted and oppressed, and of love for his exalted and exemplary character. The astounding disclosures of the commission ap pointed to enquire into the condition of our mining population, which we have laid from time to time be fore our readers, have created throughout Great Britain a universal demand that a system so horribly degrading —so disgusting and atrocious—should no longer be tolerated in a Christian country. It will no longer be endured that the individual avarice of any man, or any ;et of men, should be permitted thus to reduce their - ellow beings to the level of beasts—aye, lower than And yet we have seen the time when the roposition to interfere for the correction of a similar at level ! system—one little removed from the atrocity of the mining system—was stigmatized by not a few of the very men who, on Wednesday were loud in their praise of Lord Ashley's measure, as an unwarranted inter ference with the rights of labour and an attempted op- wession of the labourers themselves. Who can forget he ribald abuse levelled against the lamented SADLER 'or his exertions to ameliorate the condition of the fac :ory children ? At the present day even, is the name . _ of RICHARD OASTLER ever pronounced by the lip of liberalism, without coarse and slanderous vituperation ? Yet where is the difference, except in degree, between the system which these men would have modified—the ,yranny and cruelty which they would have mitigated— and that system which Lord Ashley proposes to put down altogether ? Assuredly, there is none ! The principle is the same, —and that principle is now established,—that the Bri tish legislature will interfere to put down infant and female oppression in our colieries—that it will not per mit the parents, even, of the sufferers to doom the childhood of their offspring to the labour of the brute creation. By this measure the legislature expressly declares that the moral well being of society is, in its opinion, far above the selfish considerations of money getting far above the utilitarian considerations of the political economists. By this measure the as sumed sacred character of the rights of labour—the right to grind the sinews and the bones of our fellow man into the dust which strews the feet of the manu- 'acturing Moloch—is directly impugned. The labourer is told that, even if purchasers can be found, he shall not be permitted to sell his wife or his daughters into a slavery more horrible than any ever perpetrated in the tropics ; and these, even, if degraded enough to be consenting parties to their own further degradation, are told that such self sacrifice, and the indecencies and suffering by which it must be accompanied, will from henceforth be strictly interdicted. We rejoice at this decision. We rejoice at the enun ciation of that principle which it establishes. The la bourer of Great Britain—not the mining labourer alone, but the manufacturing labourer as well, for how can we turn back from its full application to all classes —is no longer to be treated as the mere adjunct of the instrument of his labour—the crank of the machine at which he toils—an unsentient and soulless piece of clay, to be used up in the workshop of society, and, when exhausted, to be thrown aside to rot in the lumber-room of the world. The same hand, we trust, which has been stretched out to raise the mining labourer from his degradation —to restore the crippled infant and the brutalized female to the light of civilization and of day, will be extended to the factories and the workshops of England, in which a picture is to be seen, if not so dark as that which has been of late presented to the world, yet one which irresistibly calls upon us to relieve its shadows and mitigate the suffering and demoralization ith which it is lamentably rife. We trust sincerely that Lord Ashley will not stop short in the noble career which he has marked out for himself, but that he will rather go on, with added ener gies, in his proposed effort to wring from the utilitarian faction in the House of Commons, and from the government of Sir Robert Peel, even, a satisfactory working measure for the regulation of the hours of labour in the factories of Great Britain. It is noto rious that the present bill, with all its inspectors to enforce its provisions, is inefficient to put down the abuses for whose suppression it was designed. If the factory population be improved since its enactment; if the tyranny and wearing character of the system be mitigated; it is not to that bill, but to the operation of public opinion and the diminution of the temptations to overworking, that the change is attributable. A stringent measure is still loudly called for; is required as well for the protection of the poor factory children as for the protection of the honest manufacturer himself. Such a bill is desired by the sound and well principled amongst all classes of our manufacturing community ; and in the carrying of such a one his lordship will receive a measure of warm support from the now awakened people of England, which will enable him to withstand, alike, the furious denuncia_ tions of those whose malpractices it will put down, and the sophistries and cold-blooded dogmatising of the utilitarian economists, from the effects of whose grasp ing avarice it is calculated to protect the strength, the health, and the lives even of the working population of the country. We believe we shall not be suspected as being any other than well-wishers to our Canadian fellow-coun trymen. We have ever been, on the contrary, the ad vocate of colonial interests, generally ; and we have, certainly, never undervalued the importance, or de- sired to interrupt the progress towards prosperity and greatness, of our American colonies. We regard British America, indeed, as one of our most valuable possessions; we recognise in the great bulk of its po pulation the descendants of British ancestors—of men who have trod the same green hills ; who have breathed the same fresh breezes ; who have walked by the same bright streams with ourselves ; and we value their in terests, their liberties, and their welfare, as highly as we do our own. And yet we must confess that we cannot sympathise with the fears expressed by many of the ardent friends of Canada with respect to the alleged injurious operation of the proposed new tim ber duties upon the interests of that colony, or the justice of acting upon them to the injury of the people of Great Britain. In particular, we cannot approve of the course pursued, with respect to those duties, by our valued representative, Sir Howard Douglas. In the committee upon the new tariff on Tuesday night, Sir Howard moved, as an amendment to the government schedule, " that the duties on and after the 10th day of October next, should be fixed at 30s. upon foreign timber, and 38s. upon foreign deals, both per load, and that no ulterior reduction, as contem plated, should take place in either." This amendment, the honourable baronet stated, "he had been strongly pressed to submit, and had had no less than twenty three petitions in support of it confided to his care. These petitions," he added, " were petitions front Canada." We have no intention to enter into the question as to the merits of this proposition, (which, in fact, were ably dealt with by the Vice-President of the Board of Trade,) as we have already expressed our entire approval of this portion of the new tariff, which we are satisfied is in accordance with that of the great majority of our Conservative fellow-townsmen. The hostility towards it, expressed by Sir Howard, is, we are satisfied, not the hostility of the Canadian people, but of a mere section of that people, peculiarly in terested in opposing it. But we may reasonably ask, by whom is it that Sir Howard was "pressed" to take this course ? Was it by his constituents? Are the consumers of Liverpool and the majority of the timber trade of Liverpool nobodies in the honourable baronet's eyes ? Are the ship-builders and ship-carpenters of Liverpool not to be considered, except as second to the same classes in New Brunswick ? Is Sir Howard Douglas, in fact, the member for Liverpool, or the representative only of one particular Canadian interest? We are sorry to have to make these remarks ; but we do think that the honourable baronet has in this matter displayed a little obliviousness of his true posi tion,—a little slight, too, of the constituency which he represents ; and our duty to the public and to our fellow-townsmen compels us to bring the subject before his notice. LOCAL NEWS FlRE.—About ten o'clock, on the night of Tuesday last, a fire broke out in a stable belonging to Mr. Jones, of the White Lion, which is situated in St. Thomas's-weint, a sort of lane or passage leading out of Dale-street. It appears that it originated through the carelessness of a boy who was at work in the stable, and who incautiously placed against the wall a lighted candle, which fell down among some straw, and speedily set the entire building in flames. There hap pened to be only one horse in the concern at the time, and he was speedily removed. In about half an hour the flames, which had penetrated through the roof, and consumed the entire of the straw, wera completely subdued. The amount of the damage did not exceed £2O or £3O. FATAL ACCIDENT.—DEATH OF MR. WM. BUCHANAN. —We have to record a very melancholy accident, which occurred on Tuesday night, between five and six o'clock, on the Aigburth-road, a few miles from Liverpool. Mr. Charles Buchanan and Mr. William H. Buchanan, two of the sons ,of Daniel Buchanan, Esq., of this town, were proceeding along the above road in a double gig. Mr. William Buchanan rode behind and Mr. Charles was driving. Suddenly the horse, a very spirited animal, took fright and ran away. Mr. William Buchanan was either thrown out, or, as is supposed, he leaped from the vehicle. He fell, with great violence, against a stone, or some other hard substance, and received a frightful gash in his forehead, just above his eyes. He was taken up in a state of insensi bility and carried into the house of Mr. Bushby. The blood was gushing from his ears, showing that he had suffered some violent injury of the brain. Medical assistance was procured, but the case was at once pronounced hopeless. The unfor tunate young gentleman, who, we believe, was about twenty-five years of age, died at one o'clock on Wednesday morning. Mr. Charles Buchanan was carried forward some distance from the spot where his brother was injured. At length he also was precipitated from the vehicle. He re ceived some severe contusions, but he is not considered in any danger. An inquest was held upon the body of the de ceased gentleman on Wednesday, when the foregoing facts came out in evidence, and a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. CAUTION TO APPRENTICES.—At the Police Court, on Tuesday, Mr. Samuel Holme appeared to complain of the bad conduct of three of his apprentices, of the names of Dra per, Patterson, and Darbyshire. Mr. Holme stated that they were irregular in their attendance, insubordinate both towards him and the foreman, frequently absenting them selves from their work, and that their conduct was such an outrage on decency, that after trying every method, both of kindness and coercion, he had, as a last resource, brought them before the magistrates for correction. One of the lads had been found in a state of intoxication at two o'clock in the afternoon, lying on the floor, instead of attending his duty. Mr. Wilkinson, one of Mr. Holme's foremen, corroborated Mr. Holme's testimony, and declared that they were utterly unmanageable. They had been in the habit of calling to per sons passing in the street, to induce them to look up, and then throwing mortar down upon them ; and on one occasion a fine little boy had been deprived of the sight of one eye by this abominable conduct. Mr, Rushton, after a very feeling address, and pointing out to the misguided youths the im propriety of their conduct, in not availing themselves of the advantages offered to them of learning their business in such a good employ, and warning them of the future consequences to themselves, sentenced each of them to be impr►zoned seven days in the House of Correction ; declaring that if Mr. Holme had again any occasion to bring them before him, he should feel it his duty to inflict upon them the heaviest pu nishment in his power. STATISTICS OF CRIME IN MANCHESTER.—The following somewhat startling account of the statistics of crime in the borough of Manchester was brought before the House of Commons on Wednesday night by Lord Ashley, in the course of his excellent speech ia introducing his motion for a bill to prevent young children and females being employed in col lieries. The data are gathered frpm a report by Sir Chas. Shaw, the commissioner of police for that town, which states the number of Pawnbrokers to be Beer-houses . • . Public-houses. Brothels Brothels lately suppressed Brothels where prostitutes are kept 163 Houses of ill-fame where prostitutes resort 223 Street-walkers in the borough 768 Thieves known to reside in the borough, who do nothing but steal Persons following some legal occupation, but who are known to have committed felony, and augment their gains by habitual violation of the law Houses for receiving stolen goods 63 Houses suppressed lately ... Houses for the resort of thieves lO3 Houses lately suppressed.. Lodging-houses where the sexes indiscrimi nately sleep together THE CANNING DOCK.—In the account of the proceedings of the Dock Committee, published a few weeks since, it was notified that this dock had again been opened for the recep tion of vessels. The dock, as our readers may remember, was closed on the 11th of November last, but some delay oc curred ere the work was commenced. The alterations made to adapt it for the purposes required have been very exten sive. Amongst other things, it has been deepened through out the whole area to the extent of nine feet, the whole of the eastern wall has been underpinned, and a double set of gates have been erected in the passage leading to George's Dock. By the end of April last the work was completed ; the water was let in on the sth of May ; and on the 9th of the same month the dock was re-opened - for ships: Thus in about five-and-twenty weeks the whole business was com pleted, and the dock is now capable of receiving vessels of a large class. in the progress of excavation and of underpin ning the wall some interesting discoveries were made con nected with the ancient port. The site of Canning Dock was formerly the strand bordering the entrance to the pool, which was formed into the Old Dock, now displaced by the Revenue Buildings. A reference to the ancient plan of the harbour will at once illustrate our meaning. Along one part of the bottom of the dock were discovered the remains of an ancient landing place, which must have existed long prior to the formation of the Old Dock. It was erected on piles, which were turned to the east wall, beneath which they ex tended to some distance. Some of them in the bed of the dock were taken up. They were made of oak, shod with iron, and though they had been exposed to the action of moisture a vast number of years, were perfectly sound throughout. Several of these piles have been placed in the Dock:office. THE POST-OFFICE AND THE RAILWAYS. — An instance was given, on Saturday last, o f th e necess ity o f the post office accelerating the speed of the mail trains upon railways. The Times and some of the other London morning papers t oge ther with the letters intended fo r th e roya l ma il steam ship the Britannia) arrived in Liverpool on S a t ur d ay l as t by a quar t er -past two o'clock in the afternoon, published in Lon don the same day. This was accomplished by an express engine from Birmingham engaged for the p urpose , i n antici pation that the first edition of T he Times wou ld conta i n t h e news of the Indian mail more fully than gi ven i n t h e secon d edition of that Journal on Friday last. The usual hour at which the London morning papers are received in Li ver p oo l ' a distance from London of 210 miles, is four o'clo c k i n th e afternoon, but if the post - o ffice authorities w ere to take a lesson from this express , they would send the mail by th e six o'clock morning train , a nd b y acclerating the speed th e merchants of Liverpool and Man c h ester would receive their letters and papers every day at two o'clock, giving them an opportunity of answering their correspondents by the ret urn mail at seven in the evening. As it is, the London letters leave Euston-square at half-past nine in the morning, an d arrive in Liverpool and Manchester at seven,. after whi c h hour no delivery takes place u ntil the following mo rn i ng , when another mail arrives from London, thus showing no necessity for the first, unless the speed be accelerated and the time altered. It is highly desirable that an alteration should be made in the mail trains on the northern line of railway. Two years ago the good people of Manchester and Liverpool did not receive their papers until seven o'clock in the even ing, but through the exertions of Mr. Gaskill, the Liverpool agent for The Times, they have ever since received them at four o'clock.—London Times. [The suggestions of our metro politan contemporary, we think, are high l y deservin g the consideration of the post-office authorities. N . Ve cannot see what purpose it can answer to despatch th e mail at so late an hour in the morning as half-past nine, unless it was made much later ; and there cannot be a question but that the opportunity of answering the letters of their London con. respondents the same evening, would be a most material ad vantage to men of business in this and other towns.] INQUEST.—An i tiguisition was yesterday held before the Borough Coroner, on view of the body of a man named Edward Graham. The deceased, who was forty years of age, was employed on Monday afternoon in tying some besoins for sweeping the streets, on a scaffold, a stage under the roof of a shed lit :longing to the Workhouse authorities, on the banks of the canal, when some of the planks gave way, and he was preepitated to the ground from a height of eight to ten feet, by which he sustained so severe a fracture of the skull that he died on the same evening. Verdict— Accidental death. _ _ DEATH FROM A. BROKEN LEG.—An inquest was held be fore the Borough Coroner, on Wednesday, on view of the body of Thomas Perkin, an elderly man. It appeared from the evidence of a number of witnesses, that, on Wednesday week last, the deceased and another man, named Thomas Ginty, had tx souffle in Market-street, which was commenced more in fun than in earnest, and that it ended in the de ceased being thrown upon the ground, and having his right leg broken under him. lie was immediately conveyed to the Infirmary, where he wan attacked with delirium tremens, and diet! on Sunday last. The house surgeon stated that the injury to the leg had been the cause of death, and that it had produced the delirium tremens. The Jury returned a verdict of " Chance medley." THE FUNDS—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The permanent securities are slowly improving, and business is still limited. Money is easy in the general market, and therefore there no scarcity in the Stock-exchange. Consols for the account closed to. day 911 to -ex div. ; 3 per Cents. Reduced, 91/ to I ; Exchequer-bills, 475. t o 495. premium ; Bank Stock, 167 to 168 ; 3/ per Cents. Reduced, 100/ to'/ ; India Bonds, 235. to 255. premium • and Long Annuities, 12 9-16 to /. Both foreign stocks and railway shares revived as the increase in prices in the English funds was noted, and their quotations at the close of the day exhibited much more firmness. Spa nish Actives left off 22 to -k ; Ditto, New, 221 to 23 ; Portu guese 5 per Cents., 211 to 221 ; Dutch n per Cents., 52/ to ; Ditto 5 per Cents., 101 to / ; Colombian, 264 to I ; Chi hail, 87 to 89; Brazilian, 66/ to 66/; and Belgian, 102 to 103. . _ NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. ALDERMAN EARLE.—Yes terday afternoon, as Mr. Alderman Earle, mounted upon a spirited horse, was riding slowly up Bold-street, in conversa tion with Mr. Wm. Rathbone, who was driving his phaeton in the same direction, the horse of the former rubbed against the wheel of the phaeton, and bounced suddenly aside upon the flagged pathway, when he came down, Mr. Earle being under him. The worthy alderman contrived, in a very brief time, to extricate himself from his position, and the horse rose up and, springing across to the opposite side of the way, eventually galloped down the street, leaving Mr. Earle ex tended upon his back, with his head towards the middle of the road. Whilst thus lying, the wheels of Mr. Rathbone's vehicle passed within an inch of -his head. We are glad to state that Mr: Earle sustained no material injury, and was able to accompany his friend home in the vehicle which had so nearly occasioned his death. The horse was led behind in the care of his servant. DEATH BY DROWNING—CAUTION TO BATHERS. — Yesterday at inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of William Bretherton, a labouring man. The de ceased, who was twenty-six years of age, went on Tuesday evening last, with two other men, to the north wall (border ing the river) to bathe. After undressing, he leaped off the wall, and dived into the water. He shortly afterwards came up, but the back of his head only was seen above water, and in a short time he sunk. Grapnels were procured, and search was immediately made for him, but without avail. On the following morning, when the tide had retired, the body was found in some stones, nearly at the spot where he had disap peared. There were two wounds on the forehead, and some blood that had apparently flowed from him. The height from which he had leaped was about eighteen or twenty feet to the surface of the water, the depth of which was supposed to be eight or ten feet only; and the strong probability is, that he struck his head violently against the stones, and was so much injured and stunned that he could not recover himself. A post mortem examination took place, which favoured this supposition. Verdict to the effect that he was drowned while bathing.- BIRKENLIEAD.--ELECTICY OF COMMISSIONERS.—Du ring the last few weeks the annual election of commissioners, to fill the vacancies of those who retire by rotation, has ex cited considerable interest, there being a difference of opinion amongst some of the leading parties in this flourishing place as to the suitableness of those offering themselves to the rate payers. On Tuesday last the election took plane, a poll being requisite, which was opened at ten o'clock in the morn ing, and closed at four in the afternoon, when the number of votes were declared to be as follow : Mr. William Horner, merchant . Mr. Thomas Gilberson, corn dealer Mr. John Walker, builder .. Mr. Alexander Kerr, master mariner 284 Mr. Charles A. Watson, gentleman ..... 173 Mr. Christopher Bentham, merchant Mr. Daniel Mlsiicol, merchant Mr. Edward G. Willoughby, innkeeper .. 151 Mr. William Adamson, shipbuilder . 149 Mr. William Walker, builder ... FOR TWO Yg4Rs. Mr. Richard Fry, tea broker 169 Mr. William Green, brewer ........... , 127 FOR ONE YEAR. Mr. William Ravenscroft, merchant Mr. 'William Mosley, innkeeper The number of commissioners required to be elected were seven for three years, and to fill up two vacancies of two and one year, in the room of two gentlemen who have retired from the board. It will thus be seen that Messrs. W. Hor ner, T. Gilbertson, J. Walker, Alex. Kerr, Charles A. Wat son, C. Bentham, and D. M'lslichol, were at the head of the poll, and, consequently, elected for three years, and that Mr. R. Fry and Mr. IV, Ravenscroft to fill up the vacancies, the former for two years, and the latter for one. We cannot re frain from congratulating our friends in Birkenhead, on the mode in which the contest was carried on. 4 great contrast being manifest between the political bickering and ill-feeling which characterize our municipal elections, and the good humour and orderly conduct which was displayed at Birken head on Tuesday. - - - - - MECHANICS' INSTITUTION—MR. JAMES RuSSELL'S LECTURE ON CHARACTER.—On Wednesday evening Mr. James Russell gave a lecture at this institution, on Cha racter, illustrating it with songs, sentimental and humorous. In the course of the lecture the peculiarities in voice and manner of different persons, were imitated with great suc cess and ability, and caused screams of laughter amongst the audience. The imitation of Ineledon, is one f the best of that great singer, perhaps ever attempted. The laughing and crying gentlemen, the scenes at the Dublin and Covent Garden theatres, and numerous anecdotes, were all capitally done. Mr. Russell introduced several beautiful songs, which he sang with great taste, feeling, and sweetness. We may instance " The Angel's Whisper," in the execution of which the lecturer is remarkably felicitous. Although pre vented by accident from having a pianoforte accompani n3erit, the lecture went off with, we may truly say, im mense eclat, It is perhaps seldom that so Much " laughter and applause" is heard within the walls of this building. It will be seen that on Tuesday next Mr. James Russell will repeat his lecture at the Portico, and we cap assure those who wish to enjoy a treat, that they must not be absent on the occasion. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The following members were present at the meeting of the Dock Commit tee yesterday :—Messrs. Sands, (chairman), Horsfall, Bar clay, Holmes, Tobin, Evans, Bold, Mellor, Middleton, and Smith. The Sub-committee of Works recommended that the Canning Graving Docks, No. 2 and 3, should be coated with granite instead of sand-stone, which will incur an additional czpense of £BOO. The Sub-committee for the department of the Marine Surveyor, presented their annual report on the state of the light-houses and telegraphs from Holyhead to Hilbre Island. This report de-cribed. the present state of each establishment, and suggested some minor alterations. It was ordered to be entered on the books. The Marine Surveyor reported that the damage done to the North West Light-ship by the American ship Nestor, amounted to £62 18s. A letter from the captain was read, showing that the damage had been done by accident, which he attributed to the pilot having left the ship before she had cleared the channel. Application fer the repayment was directed to be made to the consignees, Messrs. Baring Brothers, with the understanding that the penalty of £2O would not be pressed. Mr. Mallaby, clerk to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company, in a letter on the part of the directors, stated that great convenience would be afforded to the public, if the Dock Committee would erect lock-up sheds upon the margin of the boat slip at George's Pier, for the use of which the directors would pay an adequate remuneration. Several gentlemen were of opinion that this application ought to have been made to the corporation ; but eventually it was referred to the Sub-committee of Works. Wm. Davies, the carter, whose horse was drowned in the Queen's Dock, (as noticed in the STANDARD some weeks ago), memorialized the com mittee for some assistance towards replacing the horse, the value of which was £3O. The Secretary was desired to in form him that the committee had no power. An applica tion for compensation from another Carter named M`Nalty, whose horse had one of its hoofs torn off by getting its foot fast in the railway just made by the committee, was referred to Mr. Hartley to inquire into the facts, and to ascertain the value of the horse. The committee then separated. DARING COUNTING-HODSE, RODDERY.—Price Parker, a good-looking and well-dressed youth, aqed about 18, was placed at the bar of the police-court on W ednesday, charged with having broken and entered the counting-houses of Messrs. James Maury and Sous, and Messrs. Castellain and Co., and stolen therein the sum of £4O 3s 4id. It ap pears that the prisoner was a lodger at the same house as Mr. Davies, one of Messrs. Castellain's clerks. What time he got into Messrs. Castellain's office, it is difficult to say, but it is certain that he seized the occasion of an alarm of fire being given, a trifling fire having occurred at a stable in Dale street, to attempt to effect his escape. He was seen about ten o'clock by police-officer Dean, 151, to open the folding door of Messrs. Maury*nci,Son's warehouse, He, lmmedi stely.retreated and rao-okertl.r.sCtio - rwards Hee" I 'Y : the same officer to wake 'his exit from niiraerr. /usury's window, pass along the ledge that surrounds the area, push up the xindow of Mr. Dyson, and disappear through it. The offi ,!ers followed him, and after some search found him locked at an inner office. The evidence brought forward was briefly as follows :—Samuel Dean. constable, 154, stated that at ten o'clock on the preceding night, he was on duty in Ex change-street West, when he saw the prisoner open the folding doors of the warehouse of Messrs. Maury, of No. 3, Exchangebuildiris. H o (witness) called out, " who's there ?" upon whicl7 the prisoner retreated back into the warehouse. Witness called Mr. Parkinson and Mr. Greaves from the Bridewell, and accornpacied them to the Exchange saw t h e prisoner come opt through the flags, where they he came to the window, which he window of Messrs. Manry's office, on the second story, and walk along the ledge till opened, and went through into t te n offi ce. A ladder and lan tern were procured, and witness d Graves, leaving a watch, went up into Messrs. Maury's warehouse, w hi c h they exam ined. They found that nine drawers had been broken open, in addition to the office and warehous e d oors. They went out through the win dow by w tich th e pr i soner had made his exit, walked along the ledge, and into Messrs. Dyson's window. They sought for the prisoner and they entered, he and after a time found him in a bac k room locked up. A dropped twp keys, and neer him was found a sma ll marlin spike. On the follo win g utornMg witness was sent for to the office of Messrs. Castellain, which is under that of Messrs. pike found near the prisoner Maury, and where he found that twelve drawers had been Andrews,e who was called in forced, apparently by the marlins when he was taken. Inspector after the prisoner was taken, state t he found him in the custody of Dean. Ile searehe b gns, a .£5 Bank of Eng -im, and found in his pos -12 lings, 19 sixpences, 3 four session 11 sovereigns, 5 half. so s v h e i fei , 4 foreign coins, and near land note, 2 half -crop penny pieces, ninepence in copper, copper. Witnesses were called who prov edhim 5 shillings in that the several premises were locked up and made secure on the preceding night. Several ti of the doors were secure on the following morning, many o e _iers had been forced open. he James Kerfoot, clerk with The key of the folding doors of Messrs. Maury's office was returned dd o h n is lN d_r e a d w n e e r s s da o y n n T le u r e n s : left hanging in the passage.th Messrs. Maury, proved Tues day evening, and that whenalti eret i D • ing they had been forced. John Davies, clerk with Messrs. Castellain and Co. stated, that the prisoner lodged in the same house with him. He saw him at six o'clock on Tues day evening, but did not see him again till he saw him at the bar. Alexander Hartley Maxwell, John Cartaret, Ludwig llollifreund, James Goo dman Bul l , Ferdinand Koechli n , clerks in the service of the firms above-mentioned, proved the several sums of money deposited in the drawers, which were locked before they went away, and found, broken next morning. The £5 note and the foreign coins, found on the prisoner, were identified. T he p ri soner declined s a yi ng any thing in his defence. H e was committed for trial, BERLIN, JUNE 1.--His Majesty has been pleased to found a special class of the Order pour le Merite, to be conferred on persons who have distinguished themselves in the sciences and arts. FIVE MINUTES AMONG THE ADVERTISEMENTS A perusal of the advertisements in the leading London journals is at all times a provocative of fun. There is always something for a joker to grin at. In many may be found mat te: worth a giggle—in others a laugh—while a fete compel us to .scream. Now does not this strike one as being ludicrous : "ARTIFICIAL ICE.—Wanted immediately, a good FIGURE SKATER, to exhibit the Artificial Ice, shortly to be opened to the public at the Colosseum, Regent's-park.—Personal appli cation to be made, for particulars and terms at the Colosseum, between the hours of eleven and one o'clock." Here is an advertisement for a man to " cut a figure " on ice, in the month of June, while the sun is at a " per-per-perpen dic-ular height," roasting and grilling one on the hot stones in the streets like baked potatoes cooked new fashion— " Wanted, a good skater." Fancy a man skating away and gracefully sketching out eights, and eagles, and all sorts of things, with the thermometer at ninety in the shade. It gives a body a fever to think of it. We do not envy the man his employment. We skate something ourselves—though none of the thinnest ; and we can go the pace on the ice, and per haps dance the lightest amongst a set of thin scarecrows for all that—but where is the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? It must interfere. A man hired to skate in June !—it is monstrous. At such a time a man made to skate is out of place. We always thought skating a super-fish-al accomplishment. Query—Will there be any fish under the artifishal ice. Another advertisement runs to " maids and bachelors when you marry." This is a tempting way of beginning ; it is at tractive, and appeals to the tender feelings of the fair as well as the sterner sex. Further on we find at what a small cost a home can be furnished ; so that only apply to these good ad vertisers, and the Shaksperian adage—"A wife hath charges" goes for nought. What palpitations will not such an an nouncement cause. Jane will say to dear John—" See how cheap ! well I never ! rooms furnished for £lO a-piece ! why it's nothing." This advertisement will have some weddings to answer for : a lady pointing out such an one to her beau will be a gentle hint ' Why do n't you marry ? " Mr. Brindley, in another part of the paer, undertakes to examine " Combe's Constitution of Man," and advertises to comb him, and that he will do so at the Adelphi Theatre. No man so capable as Mr. Brindley to develope the absurdities of free knowledge : he will make free of it, indeed, and scat ter its fallacies to the wind—if fallacies they be. ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES AMONGST THE ADVERTISEMENTS. The following advertisement appears in a London paper:— " A gentleman, whose age , is 26, whose complexion is fair, and whose stature is well-pioportioned, ardently desires to meet with a dark-featured lady, who is spirituelle and tinged with romance. Thus may he find a spirit companion to his own, for beauty and intellect are the chief requisites with M. M., 107, Regent-street." Romantic and spirituelle ! It is a modest demand, and one almost wishes the poor fellow may be gratified. There is another advertisement In the same paper which some of our fair friends may deem not undeserving their attention. It commences thus ;-- " MATRIEIONY.—A gentleman of good family, education, and fortune, is desirous of forming a matrimonial alliance with a well-educated young lady, who is in receipt of a set tled income of not less than £5OO yearly." We are sure there are many gentlemen similarly " desirous;" but well-educated young ladies of ,f5OO a-year are not always so be had for asking. The advertiser, however, seems to calculate on success; nor is he without the wherewithal) to justify his confidence. In the opinion of self and friends, he is of fair form and goodly countenance, and, combined with the attractions of family, fortune, and a residence in the neighbourhood of Regent's-park, his suit is in better plight than that of many a " solicitor" who has had to make pro posals through the columns of a newspaper. His personal qualifications ere thus commemorated : " The advertiser is considered good-looking, of gentlemanly appearance, and is 25 years of age. The lacly's age must nqt exceed that of the advertiser. Parents, for their daughters, and others, who may consider this worthy of attention, may rely upon the advertiser's strictest honour and secrecy. Ad dress by letter, post-paid, to R. S. T. U., Hanover-gate, Park-road, Regent's-park." His reasons for resorting to this mode of advertising his wants are thus stated : " The object of the advertiser, in pursuing this course of gaining his wishes, is to save the unnecessary time and trouble of a long courtship, which is but too generally the source of great disappointment to both parties, not to mention the lost time which can never be regatned ; for how frequently (too often) is it the case that years are fruitlessly spent, by those who are in pursuit of the advertiser's object, when by a short route, which he has chosen, they might expeditiously arrive at their destination and wished for happiness. The advertiser is well aware that various objections exist in the minds of many, in the approval of this short step to matrimony, but it is to be hoped that, in this enlightened age, these scruples will be overruled, when the truth is known, that three fourths of courtships prove deceptive, firstly, in the concealement of character; and, secondly, in the sole purpose of improv ing one's finances. The advertiser could produce many str9ng arguments in defence of this step, but thiqks it here unnecessary to dilate further, as h 9 is almost convigced the more intellectual part of his readers cannot but always ac, knowledge the truth of his present assertions, and sensible ness of his pioceedings." Well, who offers? But we suppose we will not,be admitted into the secret. The address, let it be remembered, is, " R.S.T.U., Hanover-gate, Park-road, Regent's Park." There is an advertisement of a different character in the Times of Thursday, which, as a curiosity, we extract : " A young gentleman, aged 37, having just relinquished the Naval Service, wishes to engage himself as Shoe Black, and to make himself generally useful. First-rate certificates if required. Address to P.I.Q. rf* Qffip9, 0106arie, street, ricpadillY!" SWINDLING IN LIVERPOOL (From the London Times.) A correspondent directs attention to some " swindling' practices by a firm in Liverpool, by which he has suffered and urges on our part the public exposure of the individual concerned, but declined taking for himself any share or re however, and quixotic in newspaper practice, to entertain and investigate even the tithe of cases imputing commercial fraud, where the difference is often a very nice one between overreaching and swindling, and where a jury might possibly be disposed to view the matter, if the parties were publicly named, in a very different light from the sufferers. This remark will hardly apply to the case referred to, which, if the circumstances stated are strictly true, can bear but one denomination. We must in prudence decline a mention of the names, but a detail of the circumstances will be both useful and amusing to the commercial world, and may per haps suggest means by which the snare may be avoided. It appears that in Liverpool, as in London, there is a society " for the protection of trade against swindlers," and that the persons referred to have been more or less under their ob servation since 1837. They have assumed, in the course of their practice, three or more different names and partner ships, They are said to have boxes at the post-office for each firm, and to be well known to the postmaster, who does all he may with propriety to restrain them in their course, but dares not go further. They are also well known at the railway station, where a delay in the delivery of goods di rected to them has sometimes purposely taken place, to allow time for recalling them if any suspicion should have arisen, though they durst not go so far as to give any warning whatever, for fear of being visited penally with the consequences. A most respectable tradesman in London having had the precaution to make a reference for informa tion to the society jirst mentioned, was fortunate enough to get back his goods 'before they had passed into the possession of the swindlers. On their information he was further ap prised that the parties are so little able to maintain a respec table appearance on the spot that their office of business in Liverpool only stands at a rent of £5, and even that was not regularly paid, the landlord having been compelled to dis train for it. Being completely " blown "in Liverpool, their chief practice has been upon the credulity and eagerness after business of the London, Birmingham, and other distant traders. When drawn in to the extent found to be practicable, and on application for payment, the usual answer was by circular, stating that the parties had become involved by the failure of some bank, and that they are compelled to offer hs. in the pound, or go to a bankruptcy. This expedient gene rally answered the purpose of gaining a little more time, but no instance was ever known of that or any other dividend being paid. The principal party was seldom to be seen, but employed a youth under age to meet the goods incautiously supplied to him, at the car r iers' warehouse, and transfer them to some other place to be disposed of. He lodged over the river in Cheshire for greater security, but though he was in the habit of getting goods for nothing, never paid his rent. He affected, however, great sanctity, and was usually to be seen with a Bible or Prayer.book in his hand. Having thus given an outline of the case, the question naturally arises how innocent or thoughtless persons may be protected. The merchants have no right to ask from a public journal to put itself forward, by an open and direct exposure, to meet the expense and trouble of a prosecution for libel, which must attend even o favourable verdict. They form associations in the great commercial towns, the organisation of which is very perfect, to protect the suscribers from fraud by giving notice in printed cieculars, but all who are not sub scribers—and a London merchant would not think of enter ing into such a subscription at Liverpool—are left without any protection whatever. But there seems to be no reason, when a case is so marked and perfectly notorious as that above described, why they should not publish the fact as an advertisement to all the world, giving a guarantee to the channel through which it is made known. Their answer would probably be that this would spoil the trade of the association by making subscriptions unnecessary, and be otberwiaa a.verY troublesoMe mode of proceeding, not to mention that objections would probably be made in many quarters to receive such a guarantee, or to insert the adver- 1 tisements at all. Perhaps, if due caution was exercised by merchants and traders in supplying goods to persons before unknown to them without minute inquiry, such practices could not be carried on at all ; and this, we fear, is the only certain pro tection which is to be looked for in cases like that just des cribed. The narrative may, at all events, be of some use, as it points out a safe medium for information, and must induce a general caution. The rest the parties must do for them selves. THE BERLIN COFFEE-HOUSE.—Some months ago we no ticed a small establishment in Concert-street, kept by a Mr. Eisenstein, where coffee and chocolate are made upon the for, eigu principle. So great has been the success with which he has been honoured, that he has been obliged to take larger premises—his address will be found elsewhere. Those who have once tried Eisenstein's coffee, will not be induced to drink any other. The Berlin Coffee-House being so near the Exchange, will, no doubt, be greatly patronized by those who love a wholesome beverage. Mr. POP.IOY ON THE ORANGE AND GINGERBREAD NursANcE.—The respectable town of Ormskirk furnishes continual annoyance to our fat friend, and we declare that the sight of an orange makes his eyes sore. People seem to think that he is ever sucking; for, wherever he moves, orange baskets are poked under his nose, and packets of that villainous composition of the scrapings of treacle casks and pig -meal, called " gingerbread," are offered to him with the most pertinacious politeness. At the ferries lie is especially persecuted. On the pier-head, on the slips, on the landing stages, and on board, the itinerant venders of these delicacies flock round him as if they imagined that he lived upon their wares, sucked oranges in his sleep, and dieted upon sweet stuff. We really sympathize with our friend upon the sub ject of his annoyance ; but we have a much greater sympathy with the numerous fair voyagers, who are even more out raged, than with this oranae persecution. The proprietors of the ferries might, we think, have some bowels of compas sion for their passengers ; and, at least, if they must needs allow them them to be pestered with the offer of a desert at all hours of the day, afford them a little more choice in the supply. Why not a nice Swede turnip occasionally, or a bunch of young onions ? A carrot, well scraped, would be as ornamental an edible for a young lady as a huge orange ; and a few sheep's trotters or some cold tripe would be infinitely more supporting than the wretched stuff called Ormskirk gingerbread. People , b y the way, don't go on board a ferry boat to gorge but to enjoy fresh air ; and the respectable old ladies themselves, who supply the proffered edibles, are,from the smell of whiskey and tobacco with which their garments and " most sweet persons" are redolent, anything save pro vocative of appetite. Queen Victoria's best guards are her people. She may say, like Elizabeth, when a foreigner asked where her guards were—" There," pointing to the surrounding crowd, " these are my guards—and I trust never to want any other." — Standard. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LY) tE ELECTION. (From our Correspossdent.) NEWCASTLE, THIIFIEDAY AFTERNOON . The circumstance of that staunch supp orter of our Pr.o ttstant institutions, Mr. Colquhoun, bei ng a can di date for this borough will, no doubt, render th a approaching election of a representative an object of pee uliar interest to your townsmen. The returning officer has appointed Monday next for the nomination of candidates, .and the following day for the polling. Mr. Colquhoun has lust concluded a most successful canvas, and during the last few days has repeat edly addressed the electors. It was not known until yester day morning whether any opposition. ,would be attempted, for, although it was threatened by the Whigs that they would bring Mr. Harris, the late member who was unseated for bribery, to contest with him the vacant seat, that gentle man appeared to hang fire and to exhibit . little inclinatio n t o re alise the threatenings of his whig friends. Yesterday morn ing, however, it was announced by placards, posted on the walls of Newcastle, that the unseated briber had arrived at the Whitmore Station; and his friends were requested to rally round him at Hill-Farm, about six midway between Whit more and Newcastle. As early aso'clock in the morn ing, several bands of music were parading the Potteries, beat ing up for recruits for a demonstration amongst the non electors, chartists, and colliers. Some six or seven thousand people were thus collected together, and about twelve o ' c l oc k escorted the honourable gentleman into the town, where shortly after his arrival he addressed the mob, from the windows of the Albion, in a rambling and almost unintelligi ble harangue, which touched upon every_ variety of subject except that most " germane to the matter" — to wit, the dis graceful position in which the aspirant for parliamentary honours had been placed by the recent decision of a com mittee of the House of Commons. He commended hugely the new tariff, which be declared would operate favourably for the interests of the working classes ; and deprecated th e income tax in the usual whig style of vituperation, when a measure is proposed affecting their own pockets . Brin g i ng up the procession were about forty carts, filled with men, women, and children, many of them in a state of drunken ness, all singing in chorus— " The day when we went gipseying A long time ago." The honourable candidate is evidently working to create a disturbance, which may have the effect of deterring respect able parties from coming up to the poll; and will not mend his position by his alliance with parties whose sole business at elections is to kick up rows. Already, nothwithstanding the recent parliamentary decision, the probable price of votes is beginning to be mooted ; and on the part of the liberal candidate there is little doubt that the same disgraceful practices which have prevailed in former elections will be extensively resorted to. No doubt Newcastle will follow the examples of Brighton and Ipswich, and return Mr. Col quhoun by a triumphant majority. THE EDGE-HILL SCHQQL TO THE EDITOR •OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD , DEAR MR, STANDARD,—Permit me to call your wonted attention to a crying grievance in our school's management. Yourself, myself, and all real churchmen wish that the children of the poor should be educated, and taught " the ways of pleasantnesik" But for one, I oppose the principle that such education should be accompanied by brutal severity. Severity, which terrifies the young mind as well as instructs, must leave an impression of terror rather than love. You say, " support the schools," so say I, but for good ness sake place them under tfie charge of competent, humane, and intelligent parties?.. To the p - oint: A child was taken by its mother, as usual, to the-Infants' School, Wavertree-road, Edge-hill, yesterday afternoon ; it did not return as usual; its mother searched everywhere for it—went to the school (which was shut up)—z to the bellman—in short, wherever she thought it likely to find her lost one, without success. She has rambled by all the pits in the neighbourhood, over the fields all night, and at last found her .child—where? why, locked up in the school!!! The poor little thing, about four years old, had committed some offence, had been put it is presumed in what is called " the dungeon," and when closing school forgotten, and left to cry its little self to sleep. When the distracted mother applied to Mrs. Barker, the minister's lady, she was assured that it was accidental. Even then it evinced gross carelessness on the part of those intrusted with such tender Infants. But I fear it resulted from gross severity,—,l allude to the system of " locking up in the clunpon,"—and it is too bad that such severity in a charitable institution should go unnoticed. It is but a year or two since a child was locked up in this very " dungeon." as it is called, and forgotten at closing ; fits ensued through fright, and it was found in the morning apparently lifeless, in a fit. My own servant's younger brother was locked up in it, and instantly withdrawn by his mother, and debarred the advantage of education, in consequence of this severity. And I much fear that the poor little girl of four years was similarly locked up last night. If you had only seen the look of horror on the poor habes countenance, when (after passing all night without food and in confinement) she prayed not to be sent to school again, you would think that there must have been some genuine severity to produce such a shudder in one so young. Oh,Tet us have our schools I but pray stand up as the friend of the poor man's little child, and let them not be treated in this way. I hope I may be proved to be wrong, but I fear lam too right. If our poorer brethren are to avail themselves of our generosity in educating their children, let them be as sured of kindness.—l am, your obedient Servant, J. C, Edge-kill, Wednesday, June 8, 1812. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the weather, excepting it be the beauty of the country, and the luxuriant appearance of the cznpi. 11 6 or 2 years there has not been such a season in Ireland, nor do we ever remember such a prospect of an early and an abundant harvest.—Dublin Evening Mail. WHEAT.—Some old records in Wiltshire state that in the year 1339, wheat in that county sold at eight guineas per arter,.and that it continued so for months ; that, it soon :er declined to lOs per quarter; that four years after it fell wined it that price ; with little fluctuation, for 20 years ; and at the expiration of this term it rose to £5, and held that PCce till near the year 1531, when it fell to 2s. 6d, per quarter. to 4s. ( 's, it maN ted that Lord De Gre not continue at the head of the executive of this country This (of course) will be stoutly denied by those who pane gyrise Lord Eliot, and laud Sir Edward Sugden, We have our own reasons for implicit reliance on the communication that has reached us, and one 0.7 other alternative will take place before many weeks pass over our head.—Dublin Even- ing Mail. HV;ktIV AY ROBBERY, ATTENDED WITII VIOLENCE, IvEARNEWPORT.—On Saturday night, Mr. Richard Myatt, cattle-dealer, of Knightly Common, was returning home, between Newport and Ecchshall, when he was assaulted by some villain, who succeeded in robbing him of thirty sove reigns, two £5 notes, and a quantity of silver, and left him in the road in a state of insensibility, where he was disco vered early the followlng morning. A man named Lewis Wardles, a gobbing butcher, from Hanley, and a most noto rious character, being suspected of the robbery, was appre hended by the Hanky police, in that town, on Monday night.—Shrewsbury POTATO RlOTS.—About twelve o'clock on Sunday night, a large mob, consisting of several hundred persons, attacked the North Main-street Potato-market and broke in the gate, and were proceeding to further violence when the police came up and charged them. The mob then attacked the Bride well, and threw quantities of stones at it, by which they broke some glass, but were resisted by the Bridewell Guard, who threatened to tire on them. The mob called loudly for the Bridewell officers to turn out, and that they would mur der theop.—Cork Constitation. CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—The accounts of the cotton experiments in the Madras presidency are bright ening very much, and there is little doubt of the ultimate success of the measure there, and the superiority of the Ame rican over the native plant. There has been perseverance, in fact, used, with kindly treatment of the American planters, which, if its example had been followed in Bombay, might have led to the same results. In Bengal, the cotton experi ments under Captain Bayles aro most satisfactory, and he has extended his experiments to the cultivation of sugar and other productions with great success. It will be a happy thing for India when such subjects as these, and the improvement of the government of her people, are questions for public comment and interest, instead of wars, wasting, as the pre sent has done, her resourses to the last.—Times. SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—We are glad to learn that the guardians of the poor and the directors of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway are negociating for the employment of part of the able-bodied poor this summer upon the proposed line near the town. It will do the com pany no small good in public opinion to break ground at this end of the line, by dissipating the apprehensions which many persons entertained that if they should get the branch from Penistone to the North Midland, Sheffield Would still be left in the lurch. Preparations are making to mark out portions of the line for letting, which it is proposed to let to contrac tors who will employ the parish men. But as the railway company is cramped for money, we apprehend the stipulation will be, that the company shall not pay the union for the la bour until the time when they would have executed the work in the regular course. This arrangement, therefore, will not afford immediate relief to the rates, but will ensure a consi derable repayment hereafter.—Sheffield Independent. BURGLARY AND DESPEIIATE CONFLICT.—For a consi derable period, Mr. John Hannah, general merchant, Girvan, having missed quantities of stock from his store, was watch ing the premises about 12 o'clock on Friday night last, with his two brothers David and Robert, when two men—Wm. Dimmigan and another—opened the door with a false key. The burglars were armed with crow-bars; and bad three large jars along with them, and lighter] a Candle, by matches, immediately upon their entry. The three brothers then opened the storehouse door, and warned them to surrender otherwise they would be shot. The ruffians, however, ex tinguished their light, and rushed from the premises, the first having struck Mr. John Hannah a very severe blow with a crow-bar upon the head, and ultimately made his escape. The other, who proved to be William Dimmigan, was cap tured by the other two brothers, after a severe conflict, and is now lodged in Ayr gaol. This serious case was investi gated upon the spot by the sheriff and procurator fiscal of the county, who left Ayr for that purpose by Monday's evening mail.—Ayr Advertiser. AN UNEXPECTED COMPLIMENT.—Those who have the luck to be personally acquainted with Lord Melbourne need not be told, that, in spite of his good nature and bonhommie, he has a dash of satire in his composition which he is not slow to exercise on pretenders of all descriptions, as occasion may , require ; and that he somet imes deals "plaguy hard knocks' on those who provoke a display of his somewhat enviable facility for knocking people on the head that may happen to thrust themselves in his way before they are aware that they are hurt. A curious instance of this sort of achievement occurred the otner evening at her Majesty's fancy dress ball. We are all of us aware that on that occasion Commodore Sir Charles Napier masqueraded in the costume of an Egyp tian Pacha; his dress intended, of course, to minister to his enormous appetite for personal flattery, by affording pretexts for allusions to his own mucit-vaunted exploits in Syria. Meeting Lord Melbourne, and desirous of provoking some thing complimentary to himself from so distinguished a courtier, he suited the " action to the word," so far as to address his lordship (as Mehemet Ali) with a complaint that his lordship's Government had not behaved as handsomely to him (the Pacha) as he had had a right to expect. "Indeed !' rejoined Lord Melbourne, " we sent you out a fellow who had the reputation of being a tolerably good officer, but if he chose to make a fool of itself we could not help it." 'Tis hardly necessary for us to add that the gallant commodore patronised some other pachalick for the rest of the evening. —Untied Service Gazette. The following is a statement of the quantity of goods destroyed in the fire at Hamburg Coffee Sugar, raw .. Ditto, refined Cotton, raw , Ditto, spun Carolina rice , 2,000,000 lbs. 2,000,000 lbs. 3,000,000 lbs. 1,200 bales. • 350 bales. • 300 tons. • 500 sacks. 100, 000 lbs. 5 00 cwt. 1,000 casks. 2,000 tons. 250 casks. 30,000 pieces 8,000 brls. 400 casks. 400 casks. Java rice Palm oil Rape oil ..... Smyrna raisins Wheat Linseed Cloth Wines of Bordeaux and Cette Corn and potato brandy Rum Leaf tobacco, of Porto Rico, Virgi lll3 ; Kentucky, St. Domingo, Cuba, the Ha- 31VVVIVUU IDS. vana, Varinas, &c. THE COURT WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Little Park and Slopes this morning, and in the afternoon drove out in a pony carriage, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent and Count Mensdorf. to Virginia Water, attended by the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Countess of Dunmore, and the Duke of Buccleuch, and the rest of the Royal suite on horseback. Their Excellencies the Count and Countess de St. Aulaire, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Marquis of Normanby, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady Portman, and Sir Henry Wheatley, have taken their departure to-day. Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meinengen, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady E. Leveson Gower, Earl of Dunmore, Lord George Lennox, Lord and Lady Stanley, Marquis of Worcester, and Madame de Kaas, have arrived to-day at the Castle, and will join the Royal circle at dinner, which will be served this evening in the Waterloo Gallery. Covers are laid for 70. The Royal dinner party this evening is also expected to in clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lord Grim ston, Lady and the Hon. Miss Montagu, Ladies F. and Georgiana Kerr, and Lord Mark and Lord Frederick Kerr, the Earl of Errol, Right Hon. George and Lady Agnes Byng, Lord Paget, Lord George Paget, Mr. and Lady C. Duncan, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hope; Hon. Lavinia Lyttelton, Mr. and Miss Pierrepoint, Hon. James Howard, and Sir George Couper. Her Majesty and Prhice Albert and their illustrious visiters visited St. George's Chapel this morning before noon, to view the edifice and hear the organ, at which Dr. G. J. Elvey presided. SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE ORANGEMEN BIRMINGHAM, Monday.—The following is the reply of Sir James Graham to an address which was forwarded to him for presentation to her Majesty, by the members of the " Pro testant Confederation" of Birmingham : " Whitehall, June 4, 1842.—Sir,—I am directed by Secre tary Sir J. Graham, to acknowledge the receipt of a written paper, addressed to her Majesty, in the following terms : " TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " 'Most Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the members of the Protestant Confederation of Loyal Orangemen of Birmingham, and its vicinity, beg leave most humbly to approach your Majesty's throne, with the most heartfelt abhorrence of the treasonable person attempt which has b een made upon your Majesty's life and " ' And while we would on one hand adore that Divine Pro vidence which has thrice protected your Majesty from the hand of an assassin, we would also implore the same Divine Providence, that it may continue to watch over and protect your Majesty from treasonable violence and Popish machin ation. " Signed on behalf of the Confederation, " W. FRENCH, Grand District Master, 6, Smallbrook.street. " W. GREATWOOD, Worshipful Master, " Prince of Wal es ' s L o d ge. ' And I am to inform you, that Sir James Graham is of opinion, this is an address which he ought not to present to her Majesty for acceptance. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ' S. M. PRILLIPPS, "To Mr. W. French." The emancipated negroes in the West Indies are, it is said, rapidly becoming proprietors. The whole taxation of France is £46,425,725, which, on a population of 33,540,000, gives a rate of £1 7s per head. HOSIERY TItADE.—We think the silk glove branch has amended a shade ; but the hosiery trade, in almost every branch, is in a truly lamentable state. If anything, the cut up is the best ; but then that branch is destroying all others. It will scarcely be believed that plain silk hose are made cut-. up.—Nottingham Journal. POOR-RATES IN THE SOUTH.—In the once bustling town of New Brentford, such is now the great depression of pro perty that the churchwardens and overseers have the greatest possible difficulty in collecting the rates. So great is the amount of arrears from the last poor-rates that the new over seers speak of being obliged to apply for a fresh rate of seven shillings in the pound. The amount of pauperism is daily increasing. —Evening paper. A VETERAN PEDESTRIAN.—Mr. Edwards, aged 97, a few days since left Ticehurst, in Sussex, at three o'clock in the morning, to walk to Lewes, a distance of 25 miles.. He has walked the same distance, once a year, for trany years past, and expected to do it at two miles per hour, but on reaching Lewes, he was three hours behind time, and ex pressed an opinion that it would be the last time of perform ing the journey on foot. DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A CHILD.-011 Monday last, a child, between 11 and 12 years of age, who was employed in a factory at Chorley, threw herself into the canal at Whit tle-le-woods, and, before she could be got out, was quite dead. An inquest was held on the body of the girl on Wed nesday, when a verdict of " Temporary insanity " was re turned. There was no assignable cause for the act, excepting that the child complained of being unkindly treated by her parents ; who asserted that such was not the fact, and that she had to attend a Sunday school without shoes.—Preston CAraniele. COMMERCIAL DIFFICULTIES AT CALCUTTA.—The severe commercial distress and prostration of trade in Calcutta is by the Englishman thus described :—" The condition of Calcutta at the present moment, arising out of the commer cial failures, is perfectly deplorable. On every hand we hear of severe financial pressure. The merchant pushes the trades man, the tradesman pushes his customers, the customer is at his wits end—attorneys threaten actions, take out war rants, summonses, and writs ; the sheriff executes. Every body is trying to borrow, and nobody is inclined to lend_ The consequence of all this worry, if persevered in, will be numerous bankruptcies, and immense distress. IMMENSE STONE.--The largest stone which we believe has ever been cut out from any of the fine freestone quarries which abound in our vicinity, has been this week removed from the Duke of Buccleuch's quarry a block of thirty tons weight of liver rock, and is intended to form the statue of Lord Nelson, about to be erected in Tra falgar-square, London. It was on Saturday removed from the quarry to Granton-pier, to be shipped in a vessel sent down specially by the Admiralty for the purpose of conveying it to London. The labour of removing it from the quarry was great in proportion to the ponderous mass, but under the superintendence of skilful engineers was satisfactorily accomplished. The cost of the block, with the expense of placing it in Trafalgar-square, we have been told will exceed I:3oo.—Caledonian Mercury. Lt Granton AWFUL CALAMITY WITH Loss OF LIFE AT ANDOVER. —The town of Andover, Hants, was thrown iuto great dis may on Friday morning, by the falling in of the splendid new. church, (a gift of that truly excellent divine, Dr. Goddart . ). and the loss of life which consequently followed. It occurred a short time after five A.M., just as the men had set on to work. One poor man lost his life, many received slight con tusions, &c., but will do well. It is thought there was a slight settlement in one of the columns, in the centre of the building, which led to the mischief. The entire of the north side is destroyed, and likewise the transept. The fine east end, with the stone-work, has stood firm. It is feared that on a survey, the larger portion of the building must be taken down. The loss, it is said, must fall on the builder, Mr, Dashwood of lihyde. At a religious meeting, a lady persevered in standi ng on a bench, and thus interrupting the view of others, though re peatedly asked to sit down. A reverend old gentl eman at last rose and gravely said, " I think if the lady knew she had a large hole in each of her stockings, she would not exhibit them in this way." This had the desired effect ; she imme diately sunk down on her seat. A young minister standing by, blushed up to the temples, and said, " Oh! brother, how could you say what was not the fact ?" " Not the fact ?" replied the old gentleman, " if she had not a large hole in each of her stockings, I should like to know how she got them on?" EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Great progress is making in the excavation of the Brentwood cutting, the most formidable work on the line. They are working in confident hopes of this work being completed and the rails laid by the Ist of September. The present rate of removal is about 40,000 cubic yards a month from one contract—the western; and it is calculated that there are about 70,000 of this con tract to excavate. In the other, or eastern contract, it is computed that there are-About 100,000 yards to be removed, which, at the same rate as the- western, would occupy until the first or second week of August. This, however, must depend in a great measure on the weather. The material of the cutting upon the whole appears to be very good, and well adapted for embankments. Sand and gravel are the princi pal features ; and some very excellent material for ballasting will be got out of this cutting. The works beyond Brent wood are is so forward a state as to leave little doubt but the line to Colchester will be opened for public use by the Ist of October, the time proposed. EXPERIMENTS AT DEAL.—The preparations for malting experiments on an extensive scale , with lar ge guns on the coast betwixt Sandwich and Deal, are now nearly completed, and the experiments will be commenced in the course of the next or following week. Major Hardinge and Captain Fyers, of the royal artillery, have proceeded to Deal, the latter to join Major Macbean's company, b y whom the experiments will be c arried on. Ma jor Hardinge, oaTrdheoc as senior officer, will have charge of the whole, and from lords com his great practical knowledge as an artillery office r will be able to give correct report of the details, and how far they may be likely to prove of an advantageous nature to the ; i o ra f i this ty a n c d o u t n h t e r y B . Ordna rn nc l e m lita is r s v io a n n e d rs na o v f al th se e rv A ice dm s have acted with a spirit of liberality in this mattert the heads of those important branches of her M worthy of vice, and have spared no personal exertion • ajesty's ser fullest instructions for carrying the in addition ti the experiments on in the most effectual manner. The followi n mounted at the Royal Arsenal, Woolw? guns having been pre c, are been delivered at Deal, aloft.' with 50 rounds of balls a d One 68-pounder, weighing 112 cwt, o n i eptridges for each:-.-- ieut.-Col. Dandasru principle, removed from the Geyser n t range on land. One 56-pounder, weighings steam-frigate to try its Monk's principle ; one 56 -pounder, weig g 97 B c s w e t t; t,oditto t one 42-pounder, weighing 80 cwt, ditto t i o n ne 10-inch gun, weighing 85 cwt, on General Millar's rinciple t roe 8-inch I gun, weighing 65 cwt, ditto. Several p magnificent gltlb° very large calibre, cap a bl e o f containing solid shot of u ti ke r weight were recently cast at the foundry of Messrs loved at and Co., for Mehe me t Ali, Paella of Egypt, and l b o . / t hese the Royal Arsen a l, at W oolwich. The f o unders o of o ne of guns having expre sse d a w i sh to h av e the rang been corn them tried to its utmost extent their desire h ill of Messrs. Wake with, and a suitable ship carriage, 811rd:that purpose. 's guns will he forwarded to Dealz° a splendid 32- A 32-pounder gun, weighing 50 cwt., as of Lieut.= pounder brass h ow it z e r , c o n structed n 1 ` on a l s o a l s o be forwarded Col. Dundas s , i ns pector of artillery, vi • ng their qualities at the same time, for the purpose of ha" reported upon. TIPPERARY MEN. —A LAUDABLE CONDUCT OF Pliengarrest of two Rockites, for correspondent informs us that o t sunday last, between Parsons serving a threatening noticeb.: three miles of the latter town, town and Borrisokane, t!_ wi of Noss, was mainly effected by the on the estate of the Earl , VI Donnell, the well-known waiter of intrepidity of George former town, who, accompanied by a Dooly's hotel in the friend, was paying a v i s it to the farmer upon whom th e 5 se rved at the time of the service. The • g notice wa s served otice was armed • threatening e . Rockite who served the to fire, if any of the persons on the w hi c h b e threateu dare _ dto approach him. Upon doing farmer's pretue 5 Isf:llow and his comrade ---. his work the fello w the field ; George _ jumped over a M'Donnell and his wall and rap_ h two others, followed in full comrade, wit up with t h e cry. One of the pursuers being nearly notice server the fellow ..,, d the Pistol, which burnt r• Pre— te hich struck the pursuer and felled hi to the ground. e grOund• While down, the ruffian struck him with the stone t o th m om ent of the head, and inflicted a desperate wound. At t his George *D onnell pursuit, struck the ruffian • , who was second in the him down. By the . united with a stone, and knocked fel low was arrested and efforts of the party the dragged They. however, detained him back to the farm-house. to, and returned fromned him while a messenger went Captain , Borrisokane with a party of po lice. Duff drew the charge of the pistol, which was composed of powder, wadding, and seven slugs. Had it gone off one o f the party wouid inevitably have been killed. __, correspondent, a m ag i strate, j ust ly o b s e rv e s , th a t a re ward to Mr. M Donnell and his friends might produce the best possible effect, by stimulating others to follow their praiseworthy example. We hope the hint will not be disre garded.—Evening Packet.