The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-24 00:00:00

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—Jesse David Watts Russell,
Esq., has consented to stand, in the Conservative interest,
for this division of the county, with the Hon. W. B. Baring,
in the event of a dissolution.
REPRESENTATION OF FLINTSHIRE.—A report to thA"::...
contrary having been industriously circulated, we are autho-
rised to state, that Sir Stephen R. Glynne will again offer
himself to the electors of Flintshire, as a candidate for their
suffrages, whenever a dissolution of parliament • shall take
place.—Chester Courant.
WESVNORFOLK.—Messrs. Bagge and Chute, the present
members for this division, are sure of their re-election in the
event of a dissolution; it is also expected that Sir William
Folkes and Sir Jacob Astley will require a better authentica-
tion of the sentiments of the voters than they had last elec-
tion, before they suffer themselves again to be put in nomi-
nation.—Nolfolk Chronicle.
ELECTION MOVEMENTS AT ROCHDALE.—On Wednesday
night a very numerous meeting of conservative voters was
held in the large room of the Flying Horse Inn, to determine
on candidates to be brought forward in case of a dissolution
of parliament. Mr. Roby was in the chair. A deputation
was appointed to wait on Captain Ramsay, at Foxholes, with
a request that he would stand for the borough. It was ascer-
tained that if the captain refused to stand, three others were
ready to contest the representation with the present c4ndi-
date. On Thursday morning the deputation, consisting of
Edward Ball, James Butterworth, and Abraham Brierly,
Esquires, waited on Captain Ramsay, and acquainted him
with the wish of the meeting, when he gave his pledge that
he would come forward, should his services be required by
the conservatives of the borough.
NORTH WAILWICKSHIRE.—We have been informed, on
good authority, that in case of a dissolution of parliament, it
is the intention of the whigs, or'whig-radicals, to put two
gentlemen of their own party in nomination for North War-
wickshire. They have taken the liberty, indeed, of sounding
some of the conservative electors as to their opinion of Sir
Eardl.y Wilmot's conduct on the Jamaica question. We
can acquaint them, and all others whom it may concern, that
notwithstanding some of the electors did not approve f Sir
Eardley's conduct on that question, they will not, on that
account, discard him to support any individual with whom
they have fewer things in common, so that their opponents
need not hope to sow dissension in their camp. The position
of Sir Eardley Wilmot was a delicate one, and his constitu-
ents know how to appreciate his feelings. We have, more-
over, some further information wherewith to comfort the
ministerialists. Should the hon. baronet think proper to
decline contesting another election, we have two gentlemen
of considerable property and influence in the county, and
warmly attached to conservative principles, and we doubt
not that either of them would consent to be put in nomina-
tion in concert with Mr. Dugdale, whose election these whig-
radicals themselves acknowledge to be secure.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

Hussein Khan, the Persian ambassador extraordinary, is
daily expected in town from Paris. His excellency brings
over 20 Indian shawls as a present for her majesty of the
same costly and superb pattern as those he presented to her
Majesty the queen of the French, at a private audience at the
Tuilleries.

SPEAKING IN CHURCH.—On Sunday week, during divine
service, a man well known in the western districts of this
county, by his determined opposition, for a series of years
back, to the payment of road-money, being in the habit of
haranguing the people to resist it, happened to fall asleep in
church, while the worthy pastor was eloquently lecturing
upon the " broad road which leads to destruction." Our
slumbering agitator no sooner heard the word " road " pro-
nounced, than starting upon his legs, looking sternly at the
clergyman, and clenching his fist. he cried out with the
greatest vehemence—" I'll never suffer the people to pay one
farthing of road-money.''—lnverness paper.
" PRECURSERS ARISE !"—Mr. O'Connell's call remains
unanswered. The precursors must be a sleepy-headed
set ; they take no notice of the summons, and the great
Irishman may exclaim, " Arise, Jupiter, and snuff the
moon," with as much probability that the god will do his
bidding. They will not come when he doth call for them.
The two words are kept " in type" by the Irish printers,
to be used when wanted, and rival the memorable " heredi-
tary bondsmen " in the favour of the Irish nation.

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO CLERGYMEN. The inhabi-

tants of the Incumbency of Witton, in testimony of their
high regard for their pastors, the Rev. Daniel Vaudrey, M.A.
Incumbent, and the Rev. William Cardall, 8.A., Curate,
and in acknowledgment of their zeal and devotedness in the

discharge of their ministerial and parochial duties have pre-
sented to the former gentleman a handsome piece of plate,
and to the latter a silver tea service. In addition to this, a

pair of massive silver sugar tongs has been given to Mr.
Cardall, by a few females accustomed to attend a weekly
lecture of the rev. gentleman, in testimony of their unfeigned

regret at his departure from the Curacy.---Chester Courant.
NIAGARA FALLS—LOSS OF LIVES.—The St. Catherine's
U. S. journal of the Gth April, says that, just before sunrise

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on Tuesday morning, a boat, with two men in it was dis-
covered in the middle of the river above the falls, vainly en-
deavouring to make the ice with which they were enclosed,
to the Canadian shore. Their utmost exertions proved un-
availing, and in a short time they were seen to enter the
cascades, when they disappeared. In half an hour another
boat, with three men in it, was discovered in the same awful

situation, and trying too to gain the Canada side ; and in a
few moments shared the melancholy fate of the other. On

the sth of April the body of a man was picked up in the
whirlpool, supposed to be one of these unfortunate men,
havintabout his person 300 dollars, and a gold watch.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—On Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, our magistrates were fully occupied in swearing_
in special constables for the town and all surrounding town-
ships. A chartist pike, which had been seized last week,
was exhibited at the maoistrates' office on Saturday last. It
was a most formidable-fookingweapon ; and from its length,
shape, and sharpness, appeared calculated for dreadful ser-
vice. We are informed that hundreds of similar weapons

might be found in the neighbouring cottages ; and that the
taking of the one above-mentioned had roused the inhabi-
tants of that part of the country whence it was taken, to a
fearful degree of irritation.—Halifax Guardian.

Rinnoxism.—lf the government act with energy, this
diabolical conspiracy will be extinguished in this country.
The documents found in Sligo have enabled the authorities
to reach the country lodges. During the last week the mas-
ter of a lodge in Easky was arrested ; in his possession was
found a book containing the rules of the society, and also a
key to the cipher, in which the more important communica-
tions that passed between different lodges had been written.
We have seen the rules, regulations, and pass-words of these
ruffians. Of course one is, that no brother shall prosecute
a brother; another, that no brother shall deal with a Protes-
tant or Orangeman. To those regulations they are sworn.—

Derry Sentinel.
A BIRTH ON THE DALKEITH RAILWAY.—On Wednes-
day afternoon week, the wife of a gardener residing in this
city, was delivered of a son in one of the railway coaches,
between this city and Dalkeith. It appears that she had
been turned out of her own house in consequence of a quar-
rel with her husband, and that she was on her way to her
mother's at Dalkeith at the time the occurrence took place.
When the coach arrived at Dalkeith, a messenger was spee-
dily despatched to Dr. Morrison, who instantly attended,
and had the poor woman conveyed to her mother's house.
We hear that, although suffering considerably from the fa-
tigue to which she was subjected, she is otherwise doing
well.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.—Proceedings have re-
cently taken place with a view to establish an agricultural
college in Kent.—First it is proposed to raise the sum of
£15,000 in £lO shares, and purchase eight or ten acres, and
erect buildings for a school of 300 boys, who are to be edu-
cated at 25 guineas a-year, and 25 young men at £75. These
are to receive a sound education, particularly in all those
branches which bear directly upon theprofession of farming ;
and on a farm to he attached to the school they are to be
made practically acquainted with all that relates to agricul-
ture, as well as with carpentry, smiths' work, building, sur-
veying, and draining. The plan is well supported by Sir
Brook Bridges, and many other leading men in Kent. The
want of such an institution has long been felt by men
eminent in agriculture. On the continent there are several
institutions of this nature—and if well established and well
arranged it cannot fail to be productive of good.
MORE ENORMOUS LYING.—The London Sun of Tuesday
commences a leading article as follows :—" The enthusiasm
which prevails throughout the country is very great. We
are, in fact, prevented making use of the proofs of it by their
overwhelming nature. The one theme which occupies the
journals of England, Ireland, and Scotland, is her Majesty's
firmness. Universally almost is she praised and admired,
and almost universally is the tory demand to dismiss her
household, and submit to be the slave of that insolent faction,
indignantly reprobated. We regret that we cannot copy the
multiplied evidence which the provincial journals contain of
the public feeling, being in preference obliged to fill our co-
lumns with the evidence, by inserting reports of proceedings
in the metropolis of the state of public feeling here." Of
course, after such an apology, we expected to find the Sun
completely crowded with demonstrations in favour of the
shabbies but great was our disgust on looking over the paper
to perceive that out of its twenty-eight columns, four were
appropriated to advertisements ; four to enormous lying
leaders, of which the above quoted introduction is &fair spe-
cimen ; fifteen to miscellaneous intelligence ; four only to
one meeting which was held in the radical borough of South-
wark ; and one column to addresses from the dissenters in
the four important places of Poole, in Dorsetshire=Exeter,
in Devonshire—Tring, in Hertfordshire—and Wigan, in
Lancashire. Is not such misrepresentation as contemptible
as it is culpable ?
ATTEMPTS TO SET FIRE TO THE TEWKESBURY WORK-
HOUSE.—The union workhouse at Tewkesbury has been
attempted to be set on fire four times within a fortnight.
In the first three instances, notwithstanding the strictest in-
vestigation was immediately made, the delinquent could not
be discovered. On Tuesday, a girl named Ann Ella, about
15 years of age, an inmate of the house, was suspected of
placing a burning coal, wrapped in a piece of rag, beneath
one of the beds : on being taken into custody, she confessed
the crime, and has been committed to the borough gaol t nti 1
the sessions. The chief damage sustained, in either case
has been the destruction of some articles of clothing, and a
trifling injury to the furniture and floors of the house
There is strong reason now to believe, that the prisoner
Ella, who was employed in the cooking kitchen, under her
mother, was the guilty party in every instance. Felix
Farley.
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—On Sunday evening la: t
a comfortable farmer's daughter, residing in the immediate
vicinity of Kilkenny, left her home on a matrimonial tour,
in company with her father's servant. Their flight having
been discovered, the father immediately proceeded to Kil-
kenny, and searched all night in vain for the fugitives, but
received intelligence in the morning that a pair answering
the description had set off same night on a private car for
Carrick-on-Suir. He instantly took the road for that town,
but on his arrival learned that the Lothario and he ladye-
love' had extended their travels to this town. He then ap-
plied to head constable Orr, who lost no time in following
in their track, and, assisted by constable Garvin, the frail
ones were subjected to a most disagreeable interruption by
the intrusion of the former into their room, and nothing
could equal their mutual confusion when their fond antici-
pations were so unexpectedly blighted. On being searched
£7O were found, together with some gold rings and silver
spoons, in their possession. Previous to their flight the
young lady had contrived to abstract upwards of £350 from
a place of security where her father had placed it. They
had engaged seats at the coach-office for Cork, to which
city they intended' to. heve proceeded this morning. The
lady's -trunk.*asleft at tlie!c,oacb.zpiftce, in which-it is sup-
posed the residue of the money was, but subsequiriffirslaien
to the police station. Head-constable Orr at once took the
fond pair under his especial care and protection.—Tip. Con.