The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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Wounds of animals may be easily cured, by the part af-
fected being bathed frequently with the yolk of an egg, mixed
in the spirit of turpentine of Florence.
There is a great deal of poetry in the butter trade, as we
learn from a Providence grocer, who advertises a lot " of a
prepossessing colour, and sweet as morning roses, newly
washed with dew.•,
"THE SHIELD" OF THE BALLOT.—But if landlords could
be prevented from influencing their tenants in voting, by
threatening them with the loss of farms ;—if public opinion
were too strong to allow of such threats, what would prevent
a landlord from refusing to take, as a tenant, a man whose
prevent hilll 'froth' ;questioning, Rift be.tore --thelliAtiAdereald
cross-examining his tenant, and demanding certificates of his
behaviour and opinions, till he had, according to all human
probability, found a man who felt as strongly as himself upon
political subjects, and who would adhere to those opinions
with as much firmness and tenacity ? What would prevent,
for instance, an orange landlord from filling his farms with
orange tenants, and from cautiously rejecting every catholic
tenant who presented himself plough in hand ? But if this
practice were to obtain generally, of cautiously selecting
tenants from their political opinions, what would become of
the sevenfold shield of the ballot ? Not only is the tenant
not continued in the farm he already holds, but he finds, from
the severe inquisition into which men of property are driven
by the invention of the ballot, that it is extremely difficult for
a man, whose principles are opposed to those of his landlord,
to get any farm at all.—Rev. Sydney Smith on the Ballot.
THE BALLOT.—What a flood of deceit and villainy comes
in with ballot ! I admit there are great moral faults under
the present system. It is a serious violation of duty to vote
for A when you think B the more worthy representative ;
but the open voter, acting under the influence of his landlord,
commits only this one fault, great as it is ;—if he vote for his
candidate, the landlord is satisfied, and asks no other sacri-
fice of truth and opinion; but if the tenant votes against his
landlord under the ballot, he is practising every day some
fraud to conceal his first deviation from truth. The present
method may produce a vicious act, but the ballot establishes
a vicious habit ; and then it is of some consequence, that the
law should not range itself on the side of vice. In the open
voting, the law leaves you fairly to choose between the dangers
of giving an honest, or the convenience of giving a dishonest
vote; but the ballot law opens a booth and asylum for fraud,
calling upon all men to lie by beat of drum, forbidding open
honesty, promising impunity for the most scandalous deceit,
and encouraging men to take no other view of virtue than
whether it pays or does not pay ; for it must always be re-
membered, and often repeated, and said and sung to Mr.
Grote, that it is to the degraded liar only that the box
will be useful. The man who performs what he promises
needs no box. The man who refuses to do what he is asked
to do, despises the box. The liar, who says he will do what
he never means to do, is the only man to whom the box is
useful, and for whom this leaf out of the Punic pandects is
to be inserted in our statute book ; the other vices will begin
to look up, and to think themselves neglected, if falsehood
obtains such flattering distinction, and is thus defended by
the solemn enactments of law. —Rev. Sydney Smith on the
Ballot.

STEAMERS IN THE CLYDE.—The whole river Clyde is
at this moment a scene replete with interest to the man who
is interested in the progress of steam navigation. We were
shown a large ship called the Achilles, of about 1000 tons,
floating in.the basin of a Mr. Steele, at Greenock, which is
to contain engines of about the size of the British Queen,
and which we were also shown in the establishment of Messrs.
Laird and Co. The Achilles is a noble and symmetrical ves-
sel, rising to a great height out of the water, yet standing as
stiff as a castle ; and her engines are framed as a colonnade
of eight Grecian Doric columns of gigantic proportions, car-
rying an entablature which connects the two engines with
much elegance. I should have imagined that this vessel was
designed to cross the Atlantic or Indian Ocean, at least ; but,
to my astonishment, I found her merely built as one of the
magnificent line of packets between Liverpool, Greenock,
and Glasgow, to ply in concert with almost equally fine ves-
sels called the Actiean, Eagle, Commodore, &c.,—vessels so
large that the dock gates of Liverpool (to their shame be it
said cannot admit the largest, and barely the others. The
Achilles will form a most interesting experiment in regard
to power. The proportion of 500 horses power to 1,000 tons
is a proportion unequalled in the world, and will decide some
important questions of general interest. There is another
experiment of equal interest at present in progress in the
Clyde. The Fire King is a vessel of very peculiar construc-
tion, built for Mr. Ashton Smith, of Wales, as a steam yacht.
The midship section of the vessel is very peculiar, being a
plan of Mr. Ashton Smith's invention ; and the water-lines
adopted are those of which you have repeatedly given dia-
grams, in your accounts of the British Association, as having
been proposed by Mr. Scott Russell, to admit of the vessels
passing through the water with the least resistance. This
e :periment is the fourth which has been made avowedly upon
this form of water-line, the two first having been made by
Mr. Russell himself in 1834-35. This is the largest yet
tried, the vessel being 600 tons, and the engines 220 horses
power • and although the proportional power is much less
than what we find to be in general use on the Clyde, yet this
singular vessel is now the fastest vessel afloat. hre were
told by a gentleman who was on board at one of her trials,
and who had previously been prejudiced against her shape,
that she performed, without having set a stitch of canvas,
the measured distance, in rather fresh weather, of 151 miles
in 64 minutes ; being about 15 miles an hour through the
water. And the same vessel has since gone from Liverpool
to Greenock, and from Greenock to Liverpool, each way in
less than 15 hours, each way without canvas, in fresh blow-
ing weather, being about a rate of 15 miles an hour. This
vessel we saw lying alongside the British Queen ; and al-
though she seemed very diminutive in comparison, yet she
appears elegantly shaped ; and the part of it above water has
the form of an excellent sea boat. We were told that she
has also a great capacity for carrying cargo, and would have
been repeatedly bought as a merchant steamer, had not the
owner wished to retain her as a yacht. We were also shown
a large steam-boat at Greenock for the India Steam Naviga-
tion Company, by the Cape of Good Hope ; and several
large steam frigates, now fitting up for government ; besides
preparations for large steam-ships for the Halifax and Lon-
don mail communication ; but I must not extend further the
notice of these preparations.—Athenceum.
HORSE POWER.—A horse of the Clydesdale breed has
been employed, during fourteen years by Sir C. Stuart Men-
teat,
in drawing coal waggons upon the bad made turnpike
road, in the county of Dumfries, from Ayrshire to Dumfries.
His usual load of coal has been 35 cwt. in a common light
road waggon of the weight of 13 cwt. in a stage of four miles,
which he performs three times every day, or twelve miles in
the course of 24 hours daily. He has never been known to
lie down during the last eight years, except twice, when he
was in a state of sickness. Sir C. S. M. employs several
more horses to perform the same work, and to draw an equal
load upon the same road daily. From_ the experience Sir
C. M. has bad in the use of animal power upon common roads,
hcjwof opinion, that the most economical mode of employing
- Aetrgeftk raught, is to give every horse his own carriage,
tr
• aha..tkaf Pkuld solely depend upon his own exertions,
bi,draring_ mezis sl, as it is well known that it is difficult to
find.eitbes' ss• . beast equally willing or capable to make
, thAlsiiiie. 0 1
,ip i or to have the same spirit or motion; and
at' die-lame- ii.gi everat td exceed tix Aides O 4 a gage, Aad,to
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY.
THEFT FROM AN EMPLOYER.

Mary Ann Burns was placed at the bar charged with hav-
ing stolen a pair of stays, and several other articles, from her
employer Mrs. Ann Horsley, staymaker, 148, London-road.
Mrs. Horsley stated that the prisoner had worked with her
a few weeks as a journey woman. On Monday last she was
working in the shop alone, her mistress being in the room up
stairs. About eight o'clock at night another of her work-
women gave her some information, in consequence of which
she went into the shop, when she missed a pair of new stays
from near the shop door. She had been down in the shop
about half an hour before, and the stays were then hanging
upon a line. When she missed the stays, she also saw that
the prisoner had left the shop. Her bonnet and shawl were
on the counter, and she did not return for them. In conse-
quence of some information given by a joiner who was at
work, she took another of the workmen with her, and went
to a house in Lace-street, where the prisoner lodged, and
there she found her in a state of intoxication. She (witness)
called in Inspector Andrews, who searched a box, and found
a number of pieces of jean, her (Mrs. Horsley's) property.
Inspector Andrews searched further, and found the parts of
another pair of stays, which had been cut up. The Inspec-
tor having made some inquiry, went to a public-house in
Great Crosshall-street, when he received from the landlady
three yards and a half of linen cloth, which had been stolen
from her shop. The stays missed from the shop were not
found.
Thomas Armstrong, a joiner, deposed to having seen the
prisoner take the stays from a line in the shop. She went
into a back parlour with them, and presently afterwards
passed through the shop with something tied up in a hand-
kerchief.
Ann Evans, a servant at the house of Mrs. Mackereth,
publican, Great Crosshall-street, stated, that about ten
o'clock on Monday night the prisoner came to her mistress s
house and asked for a glass. She was served with one. She
then opened a shawl, and took out a new pair of stays. She
requested witness to purchase them for twelve shillings.
Witness said she did not want them. The prisoner re-
mained there drinking till she was intoxicated. She then
went out a back door which leads into Lace-street. She
took the stays with her. About half-past eight o'clock on
Friday morning last the prisoner was there, and she gave her,
witness, a few yards of linen cloth, which she said was her
own.

The prisoner was committed for trial.
THROWING DIRTY WATER.

Mary Evans appeared to complain against Margaret Jones,
who, it appeared, occupied the cellarbelongingto Mr. Evans's
house.
Mrs. Evans stated,her complaint as follows :—Last Wed-
nasty I was sitting on the steps of my door, when Misses
Shones come to me, and she trow turty watters upon me, as
I was hemming my towell. I tid not ask her what for she
do it. Then, after that, I was sitting hemming a towell
when she took an olt basin, fill full of turty stuff, an she
flink him all ofer me, and turty my towell fat I was hem-
ming. As it happened to co all ofer me, one of my lotchers
wat feet was coming past, catch part off it. Then I nefar
say nothink to hur, and she come up to me, an' she tear my
cown all of top of my waist, an' my -brat off my middle, and
she swear she would murder me.
A witness was called who delivered himself as follows :—lt
was 'bout fife clock at night, as I can take my oath—an'
Missis Iffins was sit 'pon top of hur step, hemming her
towell ; an' Missis Shones come with paison full of turty
stuff, an' she trow it all ofer me, an' 'pon top of her too.
The defendant, also a Welshwoman, spoke the following in
excuse : She make your worship know how it was. I owed
him, that is Missis Iffins, fife wicks rints, an' she sells up
all my pits o' things for it. An' then she 'booses me all ofer,
an' colls me every think pecause I won't leaf the cellars.
She come last wick, an' she proke a creat pick hole in the
brick woll. I haf only a pit o' straw to lie 'pon, pecause she
took'd all my thinks, and when she wanted to get me out,
she had two three huntret peoples in te street. So she knocks
te bricks out of te woll, all 'pon top of my foots. I haf no
witness hearr. I had one witness ; she was a tailor. Yes, I
had 'nother witness ; he was a little girl, but he could not
come.
Mr. Rushton said he conceived her case to have been
brought before him entirely on account of the rent. He
should therefore dismiss it. The defendant, however, was
behaving very ill in holding possession after due notice had
been given.

INTIMIDATION OF WORKMEN.
James Langan, a salt heaver, was placed before Mr. Rush-
ton and Mr. Booth, charged with intimidating several of Mr.
Fairclough's workmen, so that they would not serve him, or
fulfil their engagements. '
Mr. Fairclough stated, that the crew belonging to the
schooner Stag was taking in salt. He engaged two men to
assist (hem, but before long he found that these two men had
quitted work. He engaged two others, and the same thing
happened a second time. He was standing on the gangway,
when two workmen came up to him, and asked him if he
wanted any hands, or could give them a job. He told them
that he wanted two, and they might set to work as soon as
they liked. They took off their jackets, but before long he
was surprised to see that they too were going ashore. As they
had asked him for employment he was surprised at this ; he
therefore went and asked them. One of them informed him
that the prisoner, who had been loitering about all the morn-
ing, had told them that they would get killed if they con-
tinued to work their under wages.
A young man, a Scotchman, who was one of the two last
engaged, was called. He stated, that he engaged to heave
the salt for one shilling and ninepence for the half-day. The
prisoner came to him and told him that he would get killed if
he continued to work there for Mr. Fairclough, as he was
working under wages.
The prisoner said, the rules of the port were that the work
of heaving salt should be paid for at a penny per ton ; and
he went to the witness last called, and told him that he had
better not work under wages : and the witness's mother also
told him that he had better not work, unless he got what
other men got.
The witness admitted that his mother said so, but he chose
rather to work for what was offered than to be idle. He was
sure the prisoner said what he had stated.
The mate of the vessel was called. He corroborated Mr.
Fairclough as regarded the other men having quitted their
work, but he did not hear what the prisoner said to them.
^^U with ennnirierahha
The prisoner said he had a wife and four children.
Mr. Rushton said, he had acted very foolishly. Every
man had a right to sell his labour at as high a price as he
could get for it, but no man had a right to prevent others
from taking what price they thought fit for their services.
He (the magistrate) had power to imprison for three months.
He hoped a short imprisonment, however, would have a
salutary effect. The prisoner was committed for 14 days.