The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE logger Mystery, of only fourteen tons burthen, has
arrived safely at Melbourne from Penzance.
A NEW LINE of steamers is about to be established between
Bristol and the western coast of Africa.
A LETTER from Lille reports the burning of the church of
La Basee, remarkable for the magnificence of its spire.
LAST WEEK, John Mitchell, innkeeper of Pulley, Salop,
was sent to gaol for seven days, for winning a ham in a raffle !
IN the United Kingdom there are fifteen letters written in
the year for every one of the population. In the United
States the number is only four.
IT is estimated that the government have in the army, navy,
church, and colonial service, no fewer than 60,000 places at
their disposal.
AFTER a failure of nearly half a century the pearl fishery
in Ceylon for the present year will, it is estimated, present a
return of more than £lO,OOO sterling.
THE city of Paris is about to raise a loan of sixty millions
of francs for the completion of great public works. It is pro-
posed to repay the whole within forty years.
THE government of Melbourne have exempted editors and
sub-editors of daily newspapers from serving on juries, and
remitted fines incurred for non-attendance.

GREAT numbers of French ladies have lately visited
Chartres, to gaze upon the Virgin with the black face, which is
Placed there, and which has the reputed power of curing
sterility.
THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
have recommenced for the season issuing return tickets, afford-
ing a fortnight's tour in the lake district of Westmoreland and
Cumberland.

AN insurance-company has been started in Paris for the
purpose of providing substitutes for persons who are drawn for
the army, and who also happen to have the means to insure
themselves against personal service.
THE PRINCESS DE SAGAN has commenced an action at
Berlin, against Gervinus, for having stated, in his " History
of the 19th Century," that she had been seen on horseback,
seated en troupe behind a Cossack !
THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL has instituted a series of
pecuniary fines, varying from half-a-crown to half•a-sovereign,
to be inflicted on his subordinates who are guilty of errors
that endanger the safety of registered letters while passing
through the post.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA. has refused to
sanction the Maine Law Liquor Bill, brought up from the
Legislative Assembly ; " his instructions being to reserve, for
the signification of the Queen's pleasure, every bill of an ex-
traordinary or unusual character."
A market-gardener near Huddersfield, being annoyed by
the incursions of his neighbour's fowls, poisoned and shot them
all, and afterwards brought an action to recover compensation
for the damage they had done in their life-time. It was
decided that as he had already taken the law into his own
hands he was not entitled to damages.

THE PRIESTS, and his pious Sicilian Majesty, have tried to
make a little political capital out of the eruption of Vesuvius.
The Cardinal has visited both branches of lava, at Cercolo and
St. Georgio a Crema, and preached there, and blessed and
exorcised there ; his Majesty has followed the bones of St.
Roeco, and returning to Naples, has visited and kissed the
blood of St. Gennaro !—Morning Post Correspondent.
THE TRADE IN HORSES.—A return, ordered by the House
of Lords, shows the exportation and importation of horses and
mares from and into the United Kingdom. From May, 1852,
to April, 1853, the aggregate export to all countries was 2,561,
and the import 4,449. From May, 1853, to April, 1854, the
export was 1,439, and the import 7,581, whilst from May,1854,
to April last, the export was 3,502, and the import 3,937.
THE EMPEROR AND Empanss of Austria walked on the
6th in the Corpus Christi procession at Vienna. The fine
figure and the military bearing of the Emperor greatly
attracted the attention of foreigners ; but the Empress was
the principal point de mire of the Viennese. Her Majesty,
who had on a court dress of white damask, wore some magni-
ficent crown jewels, consisting of a diadem, a pendent necklace
with tassel, and a girdle of diamonds and rubies. Although
somewhat pale, Her Majesty looked—it is the word employed
by the people—"charmante." Some of the centre rubies in
the crown, necklace, and girdle, are nearly as large as' a five-
shilling piece.
HnELA.s, a tailor at Wokingham, brought an action which
was heard at Nisi Prins, on Monday, to recover from the
son of the Hon. and Rev. R. Talbot, an officer in the Rifle
Brigade, the sum of £46 7s. Id. for clothes supplied to himself
and grooms during his stay at Sandhurst ("allege. The
defendant's father allowed him £lOO a year, upon which he
attempted to keep five horses and two grooms. The debt
claimed had been incurred in about four months. The de-
fendant now pleaded infancy. The jury, not judging five
horses and two grooms necessaries for a boy at Sandhurst,
gave a verdict for £5, in addition to £l6 paid into court.
A MAN, named Geo. Wadley, deserted from the 46th regi-
ment about five years ago, and returned to his home at Here-
ford, married, and became the father of three children. Last
week he was apprehended as a deserter, and locked up in the
Hereford city gaol. On Saturday the governor, on visiting the
cells, found Wadley in a fainting state, and the skin, flesh,
nails, and bones of the fore and middle fingers of his right
hand hanging in shreds. He said that the tyranny he had
experienced and witnessed in the 46th regiment was such as
would kill him if he were subject to it again, and that he
would sooner be shot than serve again in such a corps. He
had crushed his fingers with the wooden blocks.
IN the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Monday, a bill was pre-
sented—Manby v. Bewicke—in which the plaintiff, a common
day-labourer and .gardener, living at Louth, Lincolnshire,
sought to establish kis title, as heir-at-law of a certain Doro-
thy Windsor and of his grandfather, Stote Manby, to certain
property in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the county of Northum-
berland, producing a rental of nearly £50,000 a-year. It ap-
peared the defendant had been in possession for forty years.
The vice-chancellor, after hearing the arguments, allowed
plaintiff to amend, there being just the shadow IA possibility
of the existence of documents which might throw light upon
the transactions. He said he could not encourage the plaintiff
to proceed.
MURDER Mt !AN ENGLISHMAN IN PRANCE. John
Edward Piers, aged 46, a native of the Isle of Man, has been
sentenced by the Court of Assize of St. Omer, France, to
twenty years' herd labour, for shooting his landlord dead.
The prisoner stated the landlord was in the habit of insulting
him by foul insinuations, and admitted that he had preme-
ditated the murder. The defence raised was that the man's
min& was affected, and in support of this it was stated that he
was very excitalle, fancied that people were constantly talking
ill of him, used to rise at night to bear if people were not
speaking against him in the street, and in February, 1854,
fired a pistol attthree persons who happened to engage in con-
versation beneath his windows. But it was admitted that, in
spite of all this, he, in ordinary matters, seemed in full pos-
session of his weason.
HERRING FISHING IN THE CLYDE.—A sight which we
venture to think not even the oldest inhabitant ever witnessed
at the same spot, was beheld from the Steamboat Quay on the
morning of Wednesday, about seven o'clock. An immense
shoal of herrings, extending in length from the western end
of the new platform to the Wooden Wharf, Victoria Harbour,
and in breadth from the quay to the mooring 'buoy opposite
the East Harbour, passed up the river. They were packed in
a dense mass, and the water was bubbling like .11 pot boiling
(as a looker-on expressed it), while they passed. Large quan-
tities of this fish are present in the river and the neighbouring
lochs, and fishing is going on with great briskness. On Wed-
nesday morning-several boats in Gareloch caught from 7,000
to 8,000 each ; and one boat at Arrochar captured twenty
maize or 10,000 Esh. Yesterday morning, owing to the rain
over night, the take was not so good. An immense -shoal was
seen crossing the Skelmorlie Bar on Saturday, and a naval
officer whose duties on the west coast of Scotland have led
him to observe such matters describes it as the largest he ever
beheld. The fishings to the north, from Lewis to Skye and
Barra, are most successful, some boats securing from twenty
to thirty crane, of from 16,000 to 24,000 fish each. On the
Ayrshire coast the take is very large.— Greenock Advertiser.
A FATAL BOILER ExpLosios occurred last week, upon
the premises of Mr. Ralph Wood, Crown-court, Salford. One
person was killed, Frederick Ashton, a lad 14 years old, who
was employed as firer-up • several persons were scalded or
bruised, and many nanrowly escaped death. The boiler and
engine were under the tare of Mr. Wood's son, Ralph, about
22 years old, and he was assisted by the deceased. At the
time of the explosion the two were standing near eaeh .other,
and about six feet from the firing-up end of the boiler. There
were twelve or fourteen other persons working for Mr. Wood;
but most of them were in the rooms over the brewery, and
therefore not exposed to much danger. In a neighbouring
shed, occupied by Messrs. Dickens, Hartcliffe, and Co,, there
were about 47 persons employed. The explosion was accom-
panied by a loud sharp report, and the surrounding buildings
were filled with dense vapour. As soon as this had cleared
away, those who rushed to the spot found that two cottages
under which the boiler had been placed, and Messrs. Dickens,
Hartcliffe, and Co's shed were destroyed. Several of Messrs.
Dickens and Harteliffe's men got bruised and slightly scalded.
A search was speedily commenced amidst the rubbish of the
cottages, and Ashton and Ralph Wood were soon discovered.
Ashton was quite dead. Ralph Wood was alive when got out,
but he was very much injured, both by scalds and bruises ; he
was at once removed to the Royal Infirmary, where he remains
in a dangerous state. The damage done is estimated at £l,OOO
at least.

IKE CHIEF JUSTICE A WAG.—Returning thanks for the
judges at a Mansion-banquet on Saturday week, Lord Camp-
bell said that much had been done of late years to improve
the administration of justice, and more especially in the Court
of Chancery, the delays of which had been effectually got rid
of. Indeed, he recollected when a friend of his (Mr. Jekyll)
was called to the bar, a solicitor, in handing him a brief, said
that he knew of no person better entitled to conduct a case, in-
asmuch as the first pleading in the cause had been drawn by
his great great-grandfather in the days of Queen Anne.—
Such things, however, could not now occur, and it must be
a difficult ease, indeed, if it was not settled within two months.
With regard to the Corporation of the City of London, he
felt that England would not be England without its Lord
Mayor ;—(laughter)—and so highly was the office thought of
on the continent, that, when Sir Samuel Romilly became
Attorney-General, he received a letter from a friend in Paris,
congratulating him upon his elevation as being on the high
road to becoming a Lord Chancellor, and expressing a hope
that he might live to become even Lord Mayor of London.
(Cheers and laughter.) Furthermore, he believed that it was
now the general belief on the continent that, if the war was
not speedily brought to a conclusion, it would be necessary
for the Lord Mayor to go and take the command of the army.
(Laughter.)
A MONSTER OF CRUELTY.—We have the following from
Lncknow :—" March 29.—We have read of the terrors of the
Spanish 'lnquisition, the horrors and barbarities of the reign
of terror, and the persecutions of Christians by the Roman
Emperors, but the atrocities of the fiend Juggernath, if not
exactly unparalleled, are of a nature so revolting and brutal
as to instil loathing and disgust. The inordinate love of
cruelty and refinements of torture practised by this robber,
lately elicited upon his short trial, are supremely barbarous.
A little while previous to his arrest, Juggernath seized and
carried off to the fortress (the pandemonium where the worst
excesses were enacted) the child of a mahajun, who was
reputed to be rich. He offered to ransom the boy for a sum
of money so exorbitant as to be out of the father's power to
pay. The robber, determined not to be outdone in his
nefarious scheme of extortion, put in force a diabolical threat
which he had previously communicated to the child's parents.
He cut off the unfortunate lad's ears and nose, and placing
them in a brass dish covered with red cloth, sent the hideous
spectacle as a gift to the father, with an intimation that, in
event of the amount demanded being not forthwith remitted,
he should be greeted with a sight of the other members of his
son's body. As no blood can be knocked out of a stone, and
the sum was far beyond the parent's means, he earnestly
implored for his son. The inexorable Juggernath was as
good as his word; the fingers and toes followed next, and
finally he dashed out the boy's brains against the wall of his
fort. The boy's parents are the principal accusers against this
inhuman criminal."—Calcutta Englishman.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY.

A discussion took place respecting the supply of water to
the camp at Aldershot.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL.—The Earl of SHAFTESBURY
moved the adoption of the report on this Bill, the object of
which was to repeal so much of the act of Geo. 111. as pro-
I hibited the assembling of more than 20 persons in a house,
besides the family, for the purposes of religious worship. He
thought that at the present day, when so much ignorance,
especially in religious matters, existed, every impediment
should be removed from religious instruction.—The Bishop o'
LoNnox was willing to give every facility to persons engaged
in the spread of religion, but would not consent to allow per-
sonsl to establish in their houses small congregations, to the
I injury of the established church.—The Bishop of OXFORD
had no doubt that the bill was brought forward with the
best intentions, but felt bound to oppose it, on the ground that
it would interfere materially with the action of the established
church. He moved that it be taken into further consideration
that day six mouths.—The Earl of CARNARVON thought that
if this bill became law it would be productive of consequences
which it required no spirit of prophecy to foresee. At present
Dissent was known and acknowledged in a way that was recog-
nized by every one. Those who dissented from the Church
were clearly and distinctly marked out, and had full liberty to
assemble in their certified places of worship; but by this bill
all the lines of demarcation that now existed between the
Church and Dissent would be swept away. All the visible
and external distinctions that now separated them would be
removed, and temptations would be opened to the people to
attach themselves to no particular religion or creed. This bill
would enable any person who took an objection to a particular
clergyman or doctrine, and who might wish to act upon the
basis of the Prayer-Book, to set up a congregation of his own,
and in this way the whole of our parochial system might in
time be destroyed. When the line of demarcation between
the Church and Dissent was obliterated, there would remain
only a tangled wilderness of shadowy and vague Christianity,
professed by those who belonged, in fact, to no church or sect.
He hoped their lordships would not exert their influence to aug-
ment the discord which now prevailed in the Church. He be-
lieved itwas founded on the mostcomprehensive principlesatthe
time of the Reformation, though differences soon grew up in her
bosom, and he deprecated any measure by which those differ-
eirces would be embittered. By this bill the sections within
the Church would find themselves put in possession of weapons
far stronger than any they had ever before possessed. What-
ever room there had hitherto been for a division of opinion,
there had always been a neutral ground on which men of all
parties within the pale of the Church had met, and that was
the Prayer-book : but the essence and intention of this bill
was the mutilation of the Prayer-book. Modifications and
alterations, perhaps slight in themselves, would at first be
made, but by degrees new prayers would be introduced and old
ones expunged—changes of the most vital importance would
be made, and the result would be that we should see many not
merely, with their own places of worship, but with their sepa-
rate forms. The Prayer book, which was the pledge of the
continuity of the Church and its bond of unity, would retain
its name, but for that reason it would be all the more danger-
ous, and their lordships would, perhaps, find themselves at last
driven to the alteration of the Prayer-book itself. He would
therefore oppose the bill, because he was satisfied that while it
would infringe on the rights and privileges of the Church, it
would give no additional liberty to Dissent —The Duke of
ARGYLE supported the bill, as did the LORD CHANCELLOR,
and after some further discussion their lordships divided, when
there appeared—for the bill, 31; against it, 30—majority, 1.
The bill was then reported, with amendments.
The Church Patronage Transfer Bill passed through corn-
mittee.—The Cambridge University Bill was reported, with
amendments.—The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill was
read a second time.—The Education of Poor Children Bill, and
the Brighton Incorporation Bill, went through committee.
The Romanist Charities Bill was read a third time and
passed.—The County Palatine of Lancaster Trial Bill was read
a second time; and the house adjourned at a-quarter to nine

o'clock.
THURSDAY.
The Lands Improvement Company Bill was read a third
time and passed.
NEEDLEWOMEN.—The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that
the Bill for Limiting the Working Hours of Needlewomen be
referred to a select committee, and explained how he proposed
to obviate the notorious evils complained of,by prohibitingwork
daring " the London season,"—defined as a period of time ex-
tending from the Ist of May to the Ist of August—between
the hours of 10 at night and 8. in the morning, and, during the
rest of the year, between the hours of 8 at night and 8 in the
morning.—Lord GRA.NVILLE did not rise to oppose the motion,
but to point out the extreme difficulty of legislating with any
effect on such a subject.—Lord MALMESBURY, on the contrary,
thought the plan perfectly feasible.—After some further dis- .
cussion, in which Lord CAMPBELL, Lord STANLEY of Alder-
ley, Lord OVERSTONE, and the Duke of ARGYLE took part,
the motion was agreed to, and the bill was referred to a select
committee.
"The Gold Finger Rings Bill was read a second time.—The
Cambridge University Bill was read a third time, and passed.—
The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill passed through com-
mittee.—The Brighton Incorporation Bill and the Ecclesias-
tical Caarts Bill (Amendments) were read a third time and
passed.—The County Palatine of Lancaster Trials Bill passed
through committee.
Slurs' MEASUREMENT.—The Earl of HARDWICR, who had
placed upon the paper a notice that he would " call the atten-
tion of the House to the subject of the measurement of ships
for tonnage and to the mode of estimating the steam power
for propelling ships, with a view to amend the law on the sub-
ject," said that on the present occasion he would content him-
self with laying; on the table a bill for the amendment of this
law. Upon the second reading he would state more in detail
what the objects of the measure were. Their lordships ad-
journed at a quarter past 6 o'clock.

FRIDAY.
The Validity of Proceedings ( House of Commons) Bill was
read a second time at half-past ten o'clock, a.m.' and, the
standing orders being suspended, went through its other
stages and was passed.
The royal assent was given by commission to the News-
paper Stamp Duties Bill, Sewers ( House Drainage), Registra-
tion of Births ( Scotland ), Ecclesiastical Property ( Ireland ),
Brighton Incorporation, Validity of Proceedings ( House of
Commons), Oldham Gas and Water, Over-Darwen Gas, Lan-
cashire Water and Gas, Liverpool Corporation Water, Ashton-
under-Lyne Water, Manchester Improvement, and several
other private Bills.
A brief discussion took place with reference to the site of
the proposed new public offices.
REmerous Wolter:up BILL.—The Earl of DERBY, on the
order of the day being read for the recommittal of the Reli-
gious Worship Bill, moved that it be referred to a select corn-
mittee, on the ground that it had been hurried through the
lower house, and that sufficient time had not been allowed to
consider so important an alteration in the law. He was not
desirous to impose restrictions on religious instruction, but he
objected to sweep away at one blow all difference between the
clergy and the laity, and abrogate the functions of the paro-
chial clergy. A discussion of considerable length ensned, after
which their lordships divided, when the numbers were—For
Lord Derby's motion, 47.: against it, 30—majority, 17. The
bill was accordingly referred to the select committee.
The Edscation of Poor Children Bill was read a third time
and passed.—The Gold Finger Rings Bill went through corn-
mittee.—The Administration of Oaths Abroad Bill and the
County Palatine of Lancaster Trials Bill were read a third
time and passed.—Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to
eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
The Validity of Proceedings' (House of Commons) Bill was
read a second time.
The House then went into committee on the Metropolis
Local Management Bill, commencing with clause 69, and
having proceeded as far as clause
,124, further proceedings
were adjourned.
DECIMAL COINAGE.—Mr. W. BROWN moved a series of
resolutions, "that the initiation of the decimal system of
coinage, by the issue of the florin, has been eminently success-
ful and satisfactory ; that a further extension of such system
will be of great public advantage ; and that an address be pre-
sented to Her Majesty, praying that she will be pleased to
.complete the decimal scale with the pound and the florin, as sug-
gested by two commissions and a committee of the House of
Commons, by authorising the issue of silver coins to represent
the value of the one hundredth part of a pound, and copper
c &MS to represent the one thousandth part of a pound,
to be called ' cents ' and mils respectively, or to bear such
other names as to Her Majesty may seem advisable." He
argued at some length, in support of the motion, citing many
authorities.—Lord STANLEY seconded the motion. There
were two practical questions—first, what should be the par-
ticular unit or basis ; secondly, whether any inconveniences
would arise in effecting the change that would materially
detract from its advantages. With regard to the first question,
three .different plans had been suggested—first, that of snaking
the penny the basis or unit ; second, •that of retaining the
penny and dividing the pound into 24 pieces of 10d. each ;
third, the plan proposed in the resolutions, which was that
embodied in the report of the committee. He pointed out
the objections to the first two plans, and the comparative
advantages attending the last, and upon the second ques-
tion he contended that there would be few real prac-
tical inconveniences consequent upon the change. Mr.
J. B. SMITH moved, as an amendment, to leave out from
the words " pleased to" to the end of the question, in order to
add the words, " invite a congress of representatives of all na-
tions, at some convenient place, with the view of considering
the practicability of adopting a common standard of moneys,
weights, and measures' instead thereof.—Mr. Lowe did not
think the plan suggested by Mr. Brown a proper one ; on the
contrary, it was open, in bis opinion, to powerful objections.
He entreated the house, however favourable men of science
might be to the change, before it adopted a measure so puz-
zling to the poor, to give more time for maturely considering
the subject in a committee, and not rush at once into a pro-
ject which, instead of economising, would multiply labour.—
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the house was
under great obligation to Mr. BroWn for bringing this subject
under its consideratien ; but, in doing justice to his motives,
it was necessary to examine the nature of his plan, in order to
form a judgment of its practical operation. Assuming the
pound as the unit, he had proposed to make the florin and two
new coins money of account, so that there would be four
denominations of money of account, two of them being new
coins. His first objection to Mr. Brown's plan referred to
the cent and mil, as coin, which would be so minute
that they , could not maintain their ground in circulation.
Other inconveniences would result from their employment as
money of account. Serious difficulties would, moreover, arise
in the practical introduction of the new system, which could
not be carried into effect by a royal proclamation, or without
an act of parliament; so that an address to the Crown would
be ineffectual. If the Crown should concur with the house, and
the house voted money for the issue of these new coins, they
could not be constituted money of account without the sanction
of Parliament. Under these circumstances, he thought the
house would not be prepared at that moment to record by a
solemn vote any resolution upon this difficult subject, and he
recommended Mr. Brown to withdraw the motion, assuring
him that the subject should receive the most careful con-
sideration of the government.—Mr. CARDWELL said no
doubt the ,scheme was beset with inconveniences, but the
difficulties were not insuperable, though he did not think
the time had arrived at which this great change could be
carried out.—Mr. BROWN proposed to withdraw all but the
first resolution ; but, this course being objected to by Mr.
Heallam and by Lord Palmerston, the house divided, when
the first resolution was carried by 136 to 66. The second

resolution was agreed to without a division, and the third, for
an address to the Crown, was withdrawn.
Mr. KENNEDY was proceeding to move a resolution on edu-
cation in Ireland, when the house was counted out at half-past
eleven o'clock.