The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-26 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

NEW YORK, July 13.
MONEY.—The Stock market continues to exhibit the
same wont of animation that has existed for some weeks
past. The limited orders from Europe, and the absence
of many from the city, as is usual at this season, will, to
some extent, account for the general inactivity. Not-
withstanding this general dulness, there is a steady demand
for Government and the leading State Stocks. The ag •
gregate receipts of California gold for the fortnight amount
to .8'4,150,000. The exports of gold to Europe have been
,81,062,681, making a total, from Ist Jan., of '8'9,717,663.
In 1852, for the same period, they amounted to
-813,758.715. The supply of money continues abundant.
Loans are freely offered on first-class securities, at 5 to 6
per cent. There is but little animation in the Exchange
market. Rates rather heavy ; supply of bills good. The
quotations ore—for bills ou London, 91c. to 9e. prem.;

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool and London there has been
more offering, and some improvement has taken place.
The rates are :—To Liverpool, for cotton, 5-32 d. per lb. ;
flour, ls. 71d. to ls. Yd. per barrel : grain, in bulk, s;d.
per bushel. To London, flour, 2a. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per
barrel ; grain, in bulk, 7d. per bushel. To Havre, cotton,
c. per lb.
NEW ORLEANS,JULY g.—Cotton has been quiet to-day,
nearly 500 bales having been sold at full prices. Middling
is quoted at 10IC.
CHARLESTON, JULY 7.—Holders manifest very little
anxiety to sell, and this indifference was followed by higher
prices, resulting in an advance for the week of lc. on the
good middling and middling fair qualities, with sales of
1816 bales. Freight to Liverpool, 5-10 d. to
MOBILE, JULY 4.—Very little doing until the Africa's
accounts on Friday caused a better feeling, and we heard
of 600 to 700 bales being sold, the market closing firmly.
Total sales, 1610 bales. No ships up for Liverpool.
HAVANA, JULY I.—The sugar market is dull, notwith-
standing sixty vessels have freighted since last week.
Prices as before. Nothing doing in coffee. Molasses scarce.
SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 15.—The general market has
been extremely quiet, and we hear of few sales of moment
from first hands. Little freight is going forward to the
interior, except by the river steamers. Shipments have
been moderate.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

PILGRIMAGE By STEAM.—A pilgrimage excursion
from Lyons via Marseilies to Jerusalem, by rail and
steam, is being set on foot, and a great many subscribers,
at the rate of I,ooof. there and back, have engaged places.

HUMAN BRAINS 3Y THE WEIGHT.—Since the weight
of the brains of Daniel Webster has been ascertained and
published, it has become a custom in America to follow
the example with almost every man of any consequence.
The brains of the late Amos Lawrence were found two
ounces heavier than those of Webster.
VETERANS.—A letter from Berlin, of the 6th inst.,
says, " Last Sunday, the officers and soldiers who served
under the great Frederick, and who reside in the neigh-
bourhood of this city, met together at a banquet, to the
number of 168. The oldest of these veterans is 108 years
of age, and the youngest 83. The Great Frederick died
on August 17, 1786."

THE CHOLERA.—At the date of the last accounts from
St. Petersburgh, the 9th inst., the cholera had increased
in intensity. There were on that day 104 now cases.
Letters from Copenhagen, of the 12th, state that the
cholera was at that time increasing in intensity. A letter
from Kalmar, in the island of Gott'land (Sweden), states
that this terrible disease had broken out there with great
virulence. Many of the persons attacked died in less
than two hours.
A PARADISE OF A PRINTING OFFICE.—The Boston
Olive Branch, on which females are employed as com-
positors, says—" Our rooms are well carpeted, and the
girls do not come till nine or ten o'clock in the morning,
retiring in good season, seldom making even seven or
eight hours a day. SMart compositors can in that time
earn from six dollars to eight dollars a week. We have
also one female clerk out of the three we employ. Added
to this, one desk has been occupied by a female editor as
our assistant, at a salary of 900 dollars. She has spent
seven hours a day in the-office for five days in the week.
We generally have in our office an organ and a pianoforte,
and we have music at the meal hours, when the ladies
feel to like playing."
MURDERS AND SUICIDE IN ITALY.—The city of Bolog-
na was the scene of a horrid tragedy on the 10th. Soveral
large drops of blood under the windows of a well-known
gentleman, named Dr. Accussi, roused the attention of
some people, as it seemed as if those drops must have
fallen from some wounded person who had gone to the
window. Cries, groans, and. lamentations being also
heard to issue from the same house, the police were
called, who after repeated summons to open, which were
disregarded, had to force open the outer and some inner
doors, when a frightful tragedy presented itself to their
view. Accussi and his maid-servant were found lying
dead in one room, both, evidently murdered ; while in
the next lay Dr. Gieuseppe Salvi, Dr. Accussi's nephew,
who, from a sharp surgical instrument in his hand, was
conjectured to have been the murderer of the other two,
and to have afterwards committed suicide, to avoid being
arrested. The cause of this melancholy event is attributed
to family dissensions, but nothing certain has yet been
elicited.—Galignant's Messenger._...
PAnis.—lt appears that the late Prefect of the Seine,
who has just become a member of the senate, and who
has presided over the municipal works of Paris since the
2d of December. not being a sufficiently fast man for the
superior authorities, has been succeeded by M. Hausa-
man. Report says that he is to propose a loan of 200
millions of francs (eight millions sterling).to be devoted
to works f At this rate Paris will in ten years be com-
pletely altered, and, except the larger monumental build-
ings, the completion of which was mainly due to the late
Louis Philippe, its whole aspect will present an entirely
new physiognomy. The greatest improvement would re-
sult from the abolition of the octroi, and substitution of
a house tax. This would allow of theunlimited extension
of Paris beyond its present narrow and inadequate limits,
and introduce life, energy, and private building opera-
tions into the suburbs, as we see in London.— The Builder.

ONE OF THE SIGHTS OF SYDNEY.—A German, named
John Clippel, has recently arrived in Sydney, viel Mel-
bourne, bringing with him a French piano, of a superior
and beautiful construction, which plays a variety of
modern and popular airs. At the top is a glass case, con-
taining several Fantoccini figures, very well executed,
and which are set in motion by the music. At an aper-
ture iu the glass stands a small but pretty female figure,
with an infant on her left arm, and holding a plate in her
right. At the sound of the music she turns about, gently
bowing her head to the spectators ; and when any person
is so gracious as to drop a coin in her plate, she bows her
thanks, and deposits a coin in her box for that purpose,
Next to her, but in the back ground, is a female form in
the costume of a Tyrolean. playing on a guitar. The
next figure is that of an Indian snake-charmer, who goes
through the evolutions peculiar to those persons, with a
snake coiled around him. A jolly cobbler plies his ends
and wags his face as if he had been " pouring spirits
down to keep his spirits up." The last figure is that of a
tailor, mounted upon an Alpine goat, which he whacks
with his yard measure, having his goose in his right hand.
The animal makes continual inclinations of the head,
demonstrative of its desire to pitch the tailor off. The
performer, John Clippel. i 3 a decent-looking, civil young
man, and any person desirous of seeing a modern novelty
and affording a few minutes' amusement to their children,
will be gratified by the performance above narrated.—
Sydney Empire.

THE ASSIZE intelligence from the provinces presents
an appalling increase of crime,—especially of offences
arising from the indulgence of brutal passions. False
education, which is directed more upon the intellect than
upon the heart,—false philanthropy, which abhors the
wholesome severity of punishment in accordance with
the Divine law,—political liberalism, which teaches the
people that no one has a right to rule them, but that
they themselves ought to be the rulers,—religious
liberal-
ism, which falsifies the conscience by persuading it that
it is subject to no law except that which it chooses to im-
pose upon itself, are doing their work in removing re-
straint out of the way of the natural corruption of human
nature, which is at the same time artificially fostered by
covetousness and luxury. Having sown the wind, we are
in a fair way to reap the whirlwind.—John Bull.
FATAL SIIIPWRECK.—TII3 melancholy intelligence was
received at Bristol on Friday, of the total loss of the sloop
Ann, of Newport, with crew and passengers, off the Steep
Holmes, in the Bristol Channel. The sloop, heavily laden
with coal, left the last-named port, on Tuesday, on a
voyage to Bridgewater, and it is believed that when off
the Holmes, and in about nine fathoms of water, she
started a bunk. Certain it is that she sank, and that her
master, Captain Billings, his son, a seaman (name not
given), and a man named Harnbledon, who was a passen-
ger by her, were all drowned. The catastrophe was to
some extent witnessed by the crew of a vessel belonging
to Bridgewater, called the Fortitude. They saw the four
men take to the boat, and endeavour to release her from
the disabled vessel, hut before they :ould get time to cut
away the rope which fastened her, the sloop suddenly
sank, and dragged the beat and all the we (lQwn with her,

Mr. Serjeant WILKINS, in stating the case, said—He
had the honour to appear on the part of the plaintiff. The
defendant in this action, Mr. John Ramshay, is steward
to Lord Carlisle, at Naworth, a gentleman of large pro-
perty, as was admitted on the other side, having an income
of between £2OOO and £3OOO a year. The lady cannot
boast of equal advantages as regards fortune, but in point
of education and everything which could adorn a gentle-
man's house in the character of a wife, she is quite Mr.
Ramshay's equal. The plaintiff's father has been a tenant
under Lord Carlisle since the time of his father's death—
his father and grandfather before him having occupied a
farm of about 1400 acres of land. The defendant had
been intimately acquainted with Miss Tweddle from
childhood, he being now about 45 and she 25 years of age.
He had noticed her often when a child, and even when a
child had expressed his admiration of her, and given her
many tokens of his regard. In 1848, however, he made
known to her aunt that he had long entertained for Miss
Twaddle the strongest affection, that, from his observation
of her general conduct and character, he entertained the
highest admiration for her, and wished, if the young lady
would accede, to make her proposals of marriage. He
wished the aunt to send for Miss Tweddle, that he might
make these proposals to her. She was sent for from her
father's house, and then, in the presence of her aunt, t h
defendant stated to Miss Twaddle that he was anxious to
make her his wife. " Sir," said the young lady, in reply,
"I am younger than you are considerably; but there seems
to me to be another obstacle which you would do well to
consider. I allude to our different positions in life.
You associate with the first families in the county, and
are considered, no doubt, superior to me, both in point
of wealth, and also as regards your rank and position in
life ; and these are obstacles which I fear cannot well be
got over." Mr. Ramshay said he had well considered
both these circumstances, and that he felt they presented
no obstacles to his proposal. He assured her that his
intentions were pure and honourable ; that ho had given
due deliberation to all the surrounding circumstances, and
pressed her to receive him as her accepted suitor. Miss
Twaddle told him that the question he had put to her was
an important and serious one, end she trusted he would
give her time to deliberate. " Well," said Mr. Ramshay,
" I am going to Newcastle to-morrow, I will give you the
night to think of it, and will call in the morning, when I
hope you will give me a favourable answer." He did c.,11
next morning, and asked if Miss Tweddle had thought
over his proposal. She said she bad, and he then asked,
"Do you consent, or not ?" Miss Tweddle did consent,
and, no doubt, Mr. Ramshay being a man who stood high
in the county, and having ail the advantages which cha-
racter, position, and wealth could give him, such an alli-
ance was a most desirable one for her. During the
remainder of that year Mr. Ramshay's visits to the young
lady were almost daily, and when Naworth Castle, which
had been partly burnt down, was rebuilt and was being
refurnished, he took Miss Twaddle and her aunt to see
the furniture, saying that if some of it accorded with the
young lady's taste he should purchase some like it for his
own drawing-room after they were married. Besides
this, he took pains himself to publish his intention of
marrying Miss Tweddle, and requested her aunt and her
mother to make no secret of the matter if any one in-
quired whether or not the marriage was to take place.-
It was his intention to marry her, he said, and added
that, in his opinion, people were much mistaken if
they made a secret of that the publication of which
would be to them a source of honour. He conse-
quently represented her and introduced her as his wife,
on all bands, and, on various occasions when there were
public entertainments going forward, he was desirous of
her being brought to those entertainments, and when she
was not there expressed great dissatisfaction. So things
went on up to the year 1850, when, for some reason or
other, the defendant thought proper all at once to discon-
tinue his visits ; or. at ell events, he made them mere
matters of form, and avoided every chance of meeting the
young lady alone. The consequence was that her health
became seriously affected, at one time so much so that
apprehensions were entertained for her life, she feeling the
defendant's conduct to her so bitterly that she was often
found weeping in the dead of the night and expressing
sorrow on account of the treatment she had experienced.
Eventually she wrote to him for an explanation of his
conduct, but her letter could not be produced, as she had
made no copy of it. The nature of the contents, however,
might be pretty well gathered from the defendant's answer,
which was dated April 25, 1850, aad was to the following

effect

"My dear Mary,—l have got your note from Mrs. Tweddie,
and you need not think you have given me the slightest
offence; nothing of the kind. It is only the painful circum-
stances under which I am placed, and of which you are aware,
that have prevented me coming as usual to Askerton. I have
felt that had I done otherwise I should have acted unfairly
towards yourself. I shall always entertain towards you the
greatest regard, as well as towards the whole of your family;
but the explanation which I once gave you of previous occur-
rences, and which still hang over my head, compels me to
abandon the intention I most seriously entertained. I have
done all in my power to avert this, but it has been in vain.—
Believe me very faithfully yours, " J. ItwpaskiA-v."

It appears, said the learned serjeant, that Mr. Ramshay
set a very light estimate upon the feelings, affections, and
hopes of young ladies, for this painful circumstance to
which he referred in his letter was a difficulty in which he
had involved himself by making a previous promise to
another young lady. He had expressed a hope that he
should be able to get out of that difficulty by a payment
of something like £2,000, and repeatedly said he had no
doubt that he should do so. For Miss Tweddle, and
Miss Tweddle alone he had mado up his mind, and he
had long ceased to entertain affection for a former young
lady at Trentham. He said he could easily get out of
that, but when his admiration of Miss Tweddle began to
give way, be urged this very engagement as an idle pre-
tence for justifying him in treating her as he had done.
That was only an idle pretence, for Mr. Ramshay had
since married a Miss Lacy, who was not the young lady
at Trentham, and to whom the same objection would.
have applied if that had been the real ground of the
defendant's conduct. At any rate, on the 25th of April,
1850, alter he had ceased to pay his attentions, and
after he had been compelled to abandon his intention,
ho spoke of Miss Tweddlo in the highest terms, in-
forming her that ho should always entertain towards
her and the whole of her family the greatest regard.
After this the plaintiff had the misfortune to lose her
father and uncle, and while these calamities were going
on she did not press her claim, and then at last the
defendant married another lady (Miss Lacy), thus
precluding the possibility of his marrying the plain-
tiff. Shortly afterwards the present action was brought ;
but previous to that the Rev. J. Bell, of Bolster-
stone, wrote to the defendant on behalf of Miss Twed-
dle. This letter was dated March 15, 1853, and called
upon the defendant to state what reparation he was pre-
pared to make for the serious injury he had inflicted upon
the plaintiff. Mr. Bell alluded to the death of her father,
and informed Mr. Ramshay that as she had been deprived
of her natural protector ho bad undertaken to see that
she should receive such compensation as the law, in an
aggravated case like this, would require. He went on to
say that, if he might judge from the letter Mr.. Ramshay
had written to Miss Twaddle, he could not conceal from
him that if the matter became public it would be calcu-
lated to do him (Mr. Ramshay) a serious injury. "Ac-
cording to your own confession," said he, " she is not
the first young lady you have rejected after an honourable
engagement. The fact will necessarily come out in
evidence if the case be brought into a court of justice.
Such publicity will be quite satisfactory, to Miss Tweddle,
as it would afford the public an opportunity of becoming
acquainted with the real facts of the case, and establish
un
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hn ts
hpeo
hs position o
suffered
her purity of conduct. However ho (Mr. Bell) might
condemn such conduct, he felt reluctant that such an ex-
tremeohef
revenge, and
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uffineretdheb3c,
should be forced upon Mr. Ramshay, knowing that
plaintiff, he assured him, was not actuated by any feeling
she did not wish to lower him, in the opinion of those
whose regard he had well earned. lie should wait for a
week from the date of his letter to learn what the defen-
dant proposed doing, and if then he should receive no
reply, he should conclude that Mr. Ramshay preferred to
abide the verdict of a jury, and should give instructions
to a respectable attorney to commence an action to recover
compensation in damages for the injury sustained by Miss
Tweddle, in consequence of Mr. Ramshay's breaking off
his engagement with her." The answer to this letter was
dated March 21, and was as follows :
" I am quite prepared to meet any proceedings you,may think
proper to commence against me in regard to the matter to which
your letter relates."
Then the action was brought, and the question was to
what damages was the plaintiff entitled ? If Mr. Ramshay
had fulfilled his promise to her, she would have been
married to a man standing high in the county of Cumber-
land—a man of high character, of great wealth—and she
would have been placed in a position of which almost any
woman in the land might be proud. Now what was her
position ? Her hopes were blighted, she must have re-
ceived a wound which nothing but time could heal,, she
had undergone intense suffering in consequence of the
defendant's conduct towards her, her prospects were
destroyed, and she was subject to all that surmise, ani-
madversion, and suspicion to which she had never been
subjected before and which she did not deserve, the de-
fendant having courted her, and not she or her relaticns
him, and his solicitations that she might be sent for were
repeated over and over again before they wore acceded to.
Witnesses having been called in support of the plaintiff's
case and the above letters put in,
Mr. TEMPLE proceeded to address the jury for the
defendant, who now, for the first time in his life, had had
imputations brought against his honour, and who, he
regretted, was not able to appear in the witness box to give
the jury his version of this transaction, and to counteract
the anxiety on the other side to swell up the measure of
injury sustained by the plaintiff. He commented upon
the great difference between the position in life of the
plaintiff and defendant, and pointed out what consequent
great temptations there were for the relatives of the
former to bring about an engagement between them
if they could. He believed that the story of Miss
Tweddle having been sent for at the request of the de-
fendant had been much exaggerated. He admitted that
it was an imprudent act on the part of a man whose
disparity of age was so great compared with that of the
plaintiff, but he denied that she ever had any real affection
for him, and therefore there were never any wounds of the
heart in respect of which she was entitled tobecompensated.
The learned counsel animadverted upon the conduct of
the plaintiff's aunt, imputed to her that she had afforded
Mr. Ramshay an opportunity of sitting up with the
plaintiff alone at night time, and contended that the jury
could have no doubt that from the moment he expressed
his admiration of her niece the aunt had determined to
inveigle him into a contract. The defendant did not cast
the slightest imputation upon the character of this young
woman, but he did complain of the manner in which he
had been treated in this matter, At Easter, 1849, the
defendant discontinued paying hio attentions tq Miss

Rev. P. S. Ashworth, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bredicot and
the Vicarage of Tibberton, Worcestershire.
Rev. G. Bishop, 8.A.,t0 the Curacy of Wolvey, near Hinckley;
Rev. C. Boston, Vicar of Wickliambrook, to the RectorY 0`
"Tartest, near Boxted, Suffolk.
Rev. P. B. Brodie, to the Vicarage of Rowington, War-
wickshire.

Rev. W. H. Buck, to the Curacy of St. George's, SouthwarlG
Rev. A. S. Butler, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Penn-street'
near Amersham, Bucks.
Rev. T. G. Carter, M.A., to the Rectory of St
Warwick

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Rev. G. Carter, 8.A., to the Curacy of Coningsby, Lincoll%,
Rev. R. Cooper, A.8.,.t0 the Curacy of the District Chard
of St. Jude, Southwark.
Rev. J. M. Cox, M.A., to the Vicarage of Misterton, Somerset
Rev. E. A. Darby, 8.A., to the Curacy of Audenshaw, uea
Manchester.
Rev. R. W. Ferguson, ILA., to the Incumbency of the united
parishes of Llandao•o and Whitebrook, Monmouthshire.
Rev. A. Gault, A 713., to the Curacy of St. Thomas's, Lambeth
Rev. E. Haf, 8.A., to the Vicarage of LittleCawthorpe, Lour,
Rev. R. Hornby, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Bayston
Shropshire.
Rev. A. Jenner, LL.B., to the Rectory of Wenvoe, Cardifk..
Rev. D. L. Jones, to the Vicarage of Stainton-le-Vale, LifCel
Rev. Dr. H. Kynaston, High Master of St. Paul's School, et',
Rector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey with St. Nicholas Olave,
a Prebendal Stall in St. Paul'el• Cathedral.
Rev. N. G. M. Lawrence, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St.
Paul's, Forebridge, Staffordshire. ea I
Rev. E. 11. Loring, M.A., to the Vicarage of Cobham,
Gravesend

Mitchell, to the Curacy of Nately Scures, 041

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Basingstoke.
Rev. W. C. Moore, M.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord
Viscount Valentia.
Rev. W. Morton, to the Incumbency of Penkhull, Stoke'
upon-Trent.
Rev. J. H. Nowers, 8.A., to be AssiStant Chaplain to the
COnvict Establishment at Portland Island.
Rev. W. H. Oakley, Rector of Wyfordby. Leicestershire, tO

be a rogate.
R. SurF. T. Pearson, M.A., to the Ministry of St. Peter's
Episcopal Chapel, Charlotte street, Pimlico. 1-
Rev. W. H. Pritchett, M.A.,.Fellow of Corpus Christi Co
lege, Cambridge, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Stair.
Rev. 11. It. P. Sandburn, 8.A.,.t0 be one of Her Majesty's
Inspectors of Schools.
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Rev. R. Sankey, M.A., Vicar of Farnham, to the Rector,'
Witney, Oxfordshire.
Rev. W. W. ztoddart, 8.D., to the Vicarage of ChariblrY°
near Enstone. Oxfordshire.
Yen. H. Tattam, D.D., Archdeacon of Bedford, to be ChaP"
lain in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
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THE COLONIAL Cnuacx.—The bill introduced by the
Archbishop of Canterbury into the House of Lords,
"to enable the bishops, clergy, and laity of the unite
a
Church of England and Ireland in her Majesty's foreigi
and colonial possessions to provide far the regulation e'
the affairs of the said church in swill possessions." Cell'
vocations in the colonies are provided for, the bill enactill
that the affairs of the colonial church shall be regulated
by assemblies of the clergy and laity. Power is giver to
the diocesan to call the clergy and laity together and.
make regulations, which, however, are only to bill(
ministers and members of the church "in respect n
their ministry and membership," and are to have no leg;
validity against the acts of the colonial legislaturen,
Thus the State obtains all the guarantees which it is e
titled to demand ; whilst the orthodoxy of the churl
finds ample security in the sixth clause, which forbids °lt
regulation to be made at variance with the prayer-Iva;
the articles of religion, or the oaths of ordination. Yee
existing subordination of the colonial church to the "'„0
of Canterbury is also protected by a provision that "of
measure affecting it shall be valid without the consent
the archbishop under his hand and seal, and the fine
sanction of the Queen in council. The lay representatio,
or representatives to be chosen must have been a conrlA
nicant or communicants in the said church for at ler.o,
the term of twelve months preceding. Power is elh'e
given for provisional assemblies of like character to
held.