The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

(Prom the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.—We observed 012
Friday, that business would most probably wear a more de-
finite character, upon the return of several of the Lancashire
speculation from Newmarket. It appears to be so ; for, al-
though the business has not been extensive, several horses
have been backed for the Derby with sufficient freedom as to
give them a more firm position, whilst others have been freely
offered against, showing at once the estimation in which they
are held by those gentlemen who have so recently returned
from the south. The offers on the field this morning were
100 to 6, which would have been laid in a very good quarter.
These odds exceed any we ever remember to have been offered
against the " first favourite" for the Derby Stakes, after the
racing closed at Newmarket. It shows, that there has been
no public running pointedly flattering to any stable, and pro-
mises a succession of first favourites during the winter. Grey
Milton, laid against yesterday at 30 to 1, was backed to win
£6OO. at 25 to 1 ; and the acceptor would have gone on. Ano-
ther grey, Lord Orford's Angelica colt, was also in force, 20
to 1 was taken in ponies ; and we have no doubt there was a
desire to proceed had the fieldsmen offered beyond 18 to 1.
Lord Jersey's horses were not named ; 20 to 1, no doubt,
would be laid against either, Maroon was in less estimation ;
100 to 3 taken, and then offered, in several quarters. Launce-
lot would have been backed this evening at 500 to 25 ; and
500 to 20 was offered versus Mr. Robinson's St. Andrew.
The following are the average prices against the horses in
most request :

THE DERBY.
100 to 6 agst Mr. Wreford's Wardan—off
100 to 6 „ Marquis of Westminster's Launcelot—off
take 20 to 1
18 to 1 „ Lord Orford's Angelica c—off—take 20
20 to 1 „ Ld. G. Bentinck's Grey Milton—off—t 25
100 to 6 „ Sir Gilbert Heathcote's lot—off
7 to 1 „ Mr. Day's la—takers
20 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Glenorehy—off
300 to 9 „ Lord Westminster's Maroon—off
100 to 3 „ Lady Sarah—off
200 to 5 „ Morgan Rattler—off
375 to 20 „ Duke of Cleveland's bro. to Euclid—off
1000 to 20 Fitzroy—t this evening
100 to 3 „ Mr. Thornhill's bro. to Melbourne—off
500 to 12 „ Velvet c—off—take 40 to 1 freely.

THE OAKS.

70 to 20 „ Ld. G. Bentinck's Crucifix—off—t 4to

TATTE RSALL'S, MONDAY.
The settling for the day at Newmarket (only partially ef-
fected, we should imagine, from the number of inquiries made
after parties who neither took the trouble to attend person-
ally nor by deputy) was followed by some Del-by betting, for
which three horses were so very near together that we
confess our inability to say which had the call at the close.
The Angelica colt was supported, first at 20 to 1, and at two
points less afterwards ; he had plenty of friends. Warden
was backed, not with spirit, at 18 to 1, and offers made to
take 20 to 1 about Launcelot ; the market price of each at
the close may be stated at 18 to 1. Lord Jersey's horses
were also in favour ; 20 to 1 was taken about Glenorchy, and,
several offers were made to back the two at 11 to 1 (a point
more than any one would bet), Muley Ishmael's price can-
not be more than 22 to 1. 2000 to 100 was betted against
Brother to Euclid, and an advance of two points and a half
made in a subsequent offer. Grey Milton was in consider-
able demand, 30 to 1 finding willing takers ; his next price
was 28, his final one 25 to 1, offered.

THE DERBY.
11 to 3 against Scott's lot
8 to I „ John Day's lot—t
10 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's lot—t
12 to 1 „ Lord Exeter's lot—t
18 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Latincelot

18 to 1 Mr. Wreford's Wardan
18 to 1 „ Mr. Orford's Angelica colt
20 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Glenorchy
22 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael
22/ to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Brother to Euclid
25 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Milton
33 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Bro. to Melbourne—t
33 •to 1 „ Sir George Heathcote's Bokhara
50 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Morgan Rattler
50 to 1 „ Lord Lichfield's Defendant
2000 to 30 „ Mr. Bowes's Black Beck—t _ _

6 to 4 on the field against Lord Jersey's, Scott's, and John
Day's lots (t).
THE OARS.—A slight decline in Crucifix, and one bet of
1600 to 100 about Pocahontas are all that we have to notice.
4 to 1 against Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix
16 to 1 „ Mr. Greatrex's Pocahontas—t

SHOCKING MURDER OF A FATHER BY HIS
SON, AT LEES.

About seven o'clock, on Sunday evening last, the inha-
bitants of Lees, near Oldham, were thrown into a state of
great alarm and excitement, by a report, which proved but
too true, that a man named John Bardsley, a rover in the
mill of Mr. Peter Seville, and a man of great respectability in
his station of life, had been murdered in his own house, by
his son, James Bardsley, a young man, twenty-three years of
age, and of the most abandoned and profligate character.
It appears, that the young man by whom this dreadful
offence was committed, has been for several years past an
idle and turbulent fellow, the terror of his father's family and
of the whole neighbourhood. A few months since, he made
an attack upon his mother with a knife,—giving her several
severe wounds ; and, such was her terror of him, that she left
her husband, and went to live with a daughter in the United
States, in order to be out of his way. Since that time, James
Bardsley has absented himself from home, returning only to
annoy and plunder his relations.
On Sunday evening, the father, John Bardsley, was at
home, reading the Bible, with his daughter and a boy, when
his son, whom he had not seen for some time, entered, and
began to help himself to some bread and cheese. His father
reproached him for his misconduct, and desired him to leave
the house : some angry words ensued, on which the son drew
from a sheath, a knife, apparently provided for the purpose,
and made a desperate attack upon his father, on whom he
inflicted a number of frightful wounds upon his head and
body. As soon as the murderer entered the house, his sister
quitted it ; but, the boy had remained, and seeing the mur-
derous attack, he ran out to alarm the neighbours and obtain
assistance. Several persons immediately hastened to the
house, and found the old man lying in a pool of blood on the
floor, and the murderer just rising from the body, with the
bloody knife in his hand. This was immediately wrested
from him, and lie was secured. A surgeon was then sent for
to examine the wounds of the father ; and, Mr. Elliott, of
Lees, was promptly in attendance, but his assistance was
in vain, for one of the blows of the knife had pierced the
apex of the heart, and the poor man bled to death in a few
minutes.

On examining the weapon with which this murder had
been committed, it was found to be a long-bladed clasp;
knife, which had been converted into a sort of dagger, by
winding string round the handle and a small portion of the
blade, so as to prevent it from shutting, and the point and
both edges had been ground extremely sharp, as if for some
such purpose as that to which it was applied.
When the murderer was apprehended, so far from showing
any compunction for what he had done, he seemed to exult
in the success of his attempt, and openly expressed his regret
that he had not been able to murder two or three other mem-
bers of the family. When taken in custody to the neigh-
bouring inn, he immediately asked for some refreshment,
and ate and drank with the utmost indifference, though his
hands were at the same time covered with the blood of his
murdered parent.
The house in which the murder was committed stands just
within the boundary of the county of York ; and the coroner
had therefore to come from Halifax to hold the inquest,
which was expected to take place yesterday.—Manchester
Guardian of Wednesday.

Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff will shortly make his appearance no
the boards of our Theatre, having concluded an engagement
with the manager.

The metropolitan improvements are stopped, because the
wise men who conducted the bill through parliament omitted
a clause necessary to enable them to raise the sum of money
required !-200,000.—Spectator.
A WORD TO TILE WIRE.—In the Wakefield Journal of
Friday we find a well written letter on the impossibility of
conducting a newspaer so as to please all. The writer evi-
dently knows something of the subject, as the following gra-
phic passage will testify :—" Your news-hunters are the most
assiduous class of ' Constant Readers' of any ; they are in
fact real bona-tide ' Constant Readers,' but very inconstant
purchasers of the paper they read, and it is the practice with
this class of readers to watch the arrival of the papers at the
bookseller's shops, where they flock by dozens, just to read
the news ; and, having satisfied their craving appetites, make
their bow, and wish the bookseller or news-vender a good
morning, and walk home with the great consolation of having
obtained their desire gratuitously, and saved their fourpence
halfpenny This is a great evil, and must fall hard both on
the news-vender and news editor. What would these gentry
say, if their shops or warehouses were visited in a similar
spirit of liberalism? Would they be content with suffering
their goods to he inspected for an hour or two merely for the
pleasure of inspection ? I fancy not. To such guidnuncs I
say, if you want the news, go and buy the paper, and follow
up your favourite maxim of ' Lire and let live.' "—Sheffield
Patriot.

PROUD DUCIIESSES.—The Duchess of Buckingham was
avowedly the natural daughter of King James the Second,
but supposed to be really the daughter of Colonel Graham,
an admirer of her mother, Lady Dorchester. This lady, the
only daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, the celebrated wit, was
mistress to the King, and had a pension of five thousand per
annum on the Irish Establishment. She afterwards married
the Earl of Portinore, and left two sons, one Of whom suc-
ceeded to the title, and was grandfather to the present Earl.
The Duchess was so proud of her birth, that she would never
go to the Court of Versailles, because they would not give
her the rank of Princess of the blood. She not only regula-
ted the ceremony of her own burial, but dressed up the
waxen figure of herself for Westminster Abbey ; she had
shewn the same insensible pride on the death of her only
son, the last Duke of Buckingham, dressing his figure, and
sending messages to her friends, that if they had a mind to
see him lie in state, she would take them in conveniently by
a back door. She sent to the old Duchess of Marlborough
to borrow the triumphal car that had carried the Duke's
body. Old Sarah, as mad and proud as herself, sent her
word, " That it had carried my Lord Marlborough, and
should never be profaned by any other corpse." Proud
Buckingham returned that " she had spoken to the under-
taker, and he had engaged to make a finer car for twenty
pounds !"—Countess of Huntingdon's Life and Times,
Vol. 11.

PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS OF AUSTRALIA.—Austra-
lia seems to be more unlike the portions of the earth lately
known to us than any part of America, or any of the islands
scattered through the Pacific and Indian Seas. No volca-
noes have yet been discovered, and no proof of the great an-
tiquity of the products on its surface. Nearly all the species
of plants, from the grasses to the loftiest ornaments of the
forest, are new to the inhabitants of the Old World. The in-
digenous animals are, in several instances, of a different cha-
racter to any in the countries of the other quarters of the
globe, while none brit the dogs have any affinity to the ani-
mals of this new continent ; and it is curious that its rivers
and marshes are not known to contain any of the lizard or
tortoise tribes, or any of the great mammalia. The native
dog bears some resemblance to a mongret fox-dog, and has
some characteristics indicative of its being so—the effluvium,
the tenaciousness of life, its silence when dying, and its pe-
culiar short bark—which lead to the supposition that it is not
indigenous, but a race derived from some shipwrecked ani-
mal. The human beings which have hitherto been found on
the shores, or in the interior, are of the same species, and
differ sufficiently in form to constitute a species distinct from
any hitherto known. Some anomalies are evident, which be-
long to no other race. They have great and varied powers of
mimicry, without having exhibited naturally any talent for
constructiveness ; though, when instructed, they have showed
an aptitude for building. It has never been ascertained that
they have a definite notion of a Supreme Being, who created
them, and all they see around them. They have neither idols
nor sacrifices, prayers nor priests ; which places them among
the lowest known in the scale of human nature. Their per-
ceptions are quick ; a nd, like other savage and wandering
tribes, they- can discover a track where the civilized man can
gee nothing to guide him. They are cunning, lively, and ca-
pricious, but with feelings of attachment which are to be im-
proved, and a sense of want and inferiority, which may be
turned to good, both for the settlers and themselves, if pati-
ence and Christian charity are exercised towards a race whose
country we seize, and whose hunting-grounds, on which their
existence depends, we enclose, to feed ow eagle, and grow
our corn.—Oglea Western Australia,

FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM HUME AND OTHER
HISTORIANS, RELATIVE TO THE REIGN OF
JAMES IL,
DESERVING OF PUBLIC ATTENTION AT THE PRESENT
CRISIS OF PARTIES AND OPINIONS.

" We are come,' said the quakers, in their address on
his accession, ' to testify our sorrow for the death of otir good
friend Charles, and our joy for thy being made our governor.
We are told thou art not of the persuasion of the Church of
England ; no more are we ; and therefore we hope thou wilt
grant us the same liberty which thou allowest thyself, which
doing, we wish thee all manner of happiness.' "—Home.
" He told the privy council, in his first speech, in very
positive words, that he would never depart from any branch
of his prerogative. He expressed his good opinion of the
Church of England, as a friend of monarchy ; therefore, he
said, he would defend and maintain the church, and would
preserve the government in church and state, as it was esta-
blished by law."—Bernet.
The King began to say that he would be served as his bro-
ther had been. He would have all about him serve him
without reserve, and go through in his business."—Burnet.
" The nonconformists were ground between the papists,
on the one hand, and the high chureh clergy on the other ;
whilst the former made the advantage of the latter, concluding
that when the dissenters were destroyed or thoroughly ex-
asperated, and the clergy divided amongst themselves, they
should be a match for the establishment, and be capable of
introducing that religion they had so long been aiming at.
Swarms of Jesuits and regular priests were sent for from
abroad, Jesuit schools and other seminaries were set up in
London and the country; mass houses were erected in the
most considerable towns ; five Roman Catholic bishops were
consecrated in the royal chapel, and exercised their functions
under the characters of vicars apostolical; their regular
clergy appeared at Whitehall and St. James's in their habits,
and were unwearied in their attempts to seduce the common
people. The way to preferment was to be a catholic, or de-
mangant for the prerogative, for all state affairs were ma-
naged by such men."—Neale.

" This opened the eyes of many of the clergy, and put them
upon preaching against the Popish doctrines, that they might
recover the people, and rescue the protestant religion, &c.
There was hardly a week but some sermon or small treatise
against Popery was printed and dispersed among the common
people. The chief writers were Tillotson, Stillingflect, Te-
nison, Patrick, Wake, Whitby, Sharp, Atterbury, Williams,
Aldrick, Buenet, Fowler," &c.—Neal. •
" A parliament was summoned, and all arts were used to
manage elections so that the King shall have a parliament to
his mind," &c. `• In some boroughs they could not find a
number of men to be depended on, so the neighbouring gen-
tlemen were made corporation men, and in some of them per-
sons of other counties, not so much as known in the borough,
were named." "It was resolved to bring up petitions against
some elections which were so indecently managed that it
seemed scarce possible to excuse them. But these were to
be judged by a majority of men who knew their own elections
to be so faulty that, to secure themselves, they would justify
the rest."—Bernet.

" Some of the dissenters grew insolent, but the wise- men
amongst them perceived the design of the Papists are now to
set the dissenters against the church."—Burnet.
" To humble the clergy, his Majesty created a new ecclesi-
astical commissiom. Though the act which took away the
high commission of 1641 had provided that no court of that
nature should be created for the future ; but the King, though
a papist, assumed the supremacy, &c. " The Archbishop of
Canterbury was afraid to act in it. Durham was so lifted up
that he said his name would now be recorded in history ; and
Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, in hopes of further preferment.
went with the stream. Some Roman Catholics were in the
commission, and consequently the enemies of the protestant
religion were to be its judges."—Neale.
The Papists thought by raising them (the dissenters) who
had been so long depressed, to have inflamed them with re-
venge against their brethren—to have widened the animosi-
ties amongst protestants, that they might all thereby be ren-
dered the more sure and speedy sacrifice to their malice and
cruelty ; but they did but drive the contending parties nearer
to each other, and make them at last more vigorous in their
united efforts to avert the common ruin."—Calamy.
" That the surer way might be made to establish univer-
sal toleration by act of parliament, changes were made in all
the corporations, and a certain sort of men called regulators,
who were persons of mean fortune :Ind abilities, but of great
forwardness, were sent into all parts to examine men's opi-
nions. They that would promise to use their interest in
elections to bring in such as would comply with the King's
designs, were preferred as mayors, aldermen,"&c.—Calamy.
" In Ireland things had a still more favourable aspect for
the court. The King had a greater dependence on the Irish
Catholics than any of his other subjects. Col. Talbot, Earl
of Tyrconnell, was made lord lieutenant, a vile and profligate
officer, who scrupled no kind of barbarity or wickedness to
serve his cause. He broke several Protestant officers—all
officers civil and military, were put into the hands of the
vilest miscreants—not a Protestant sheriff left in the king-
dom : the charters taken away, and new-modelled in favour
of Papists."—Neale.
" The King called a council, in which he declared his re-
solution to issue a declaration for a general liberty of con-
science to persons of all persuasions soever." "In the pre-
amble to which, he says—' That he cannot but heartily wish
that all his subjects were members of the Catholic church ;
yet, that it is his opinion that conscience ought not to be
forced,' &c., ' that the oaths of supremacy and allegiance,
&c., shall not be required.' He also repealed all laws im-
posing tests on those who held any employments."—Neale.
" The maxim that the King set up, and about which lie
entertained all that were about him, was the great happiness
of a universal toleration. On this the King used to enlarge
in a great variety of topics. He said nothing was more rea-
sonable, more Christian, more politic ; and he reflected much
on the Church of England for the severities with which the
dissenters had been treated. This, how true or just soever
it might be, was yet strange doctrine in the mouth of a
professed Papist," &c. " But since the church party could
not be brought to comply with the designs of the court, ap-
plications were made now to the dissenters. On a sudden
the churchmen were disgraced, and the dissenters were in
high favour," &c.—Burnet.
" Though it must be allowed," says Neale, " that some
few dissenters, from an excess of joy for their liberty, or it
may be from a strong resentment against their late persecu-
tors, published some severe pamphlets, and gave too much
countenance to the measures of the court ; yet the great body
of them kept at a distance, and, as thankful as they were
for their liberty,' says Lord Hallifax, were fearful of the
issue ; neither can any number of consideration amongst them
be charged with hazarding the public safety by falling in with
the measures of the court, of which they had as great a dread
as their neighbours. In the last and greatest danger the
church was exposed to, the dissenters joined with her, with
all imaginable zeal and sincerity, against the Papists, their
common enemies, showing no prejudice to the church, but
the utmost respect to the bishops when sent to the Tower."

" The reason of the dissenters' coldness in an affair that
so nearly concerned them, and for which they have since ex-
pressed so strong a desire," " was no other than their con-
cern for the Proestant religion, and their aversion to Po-
pery."—Neale.
" The violent advice of Father Peter and the Jesuit party,
was so fatally suited to the King's own temper and passion,
that they prevailed over the wiser counsels of almost all that
were advised with. But the King, before he would bring the
matter to the council, secretly engaged all the privy council-
lors to concur with him."—Burnet.

" Citations were sent out, requiring the chancellors and
archdeacons to send in lists of all the clergy, both of such as
had obeyed, and of such as had not obeyed, the order of
council. Some of these were now so animated with the sense
that the nation had expressed of the bishops' imprisonment
and trial, that they declared they would not obey the order,
and others excused themselves in softer terms, &c. "This
stopped the proceedings for that day and put the court to a
stand—so they adjourned, and never sat any more.''—Burnet.
" In order to allay the heat that was raised in the nation,
the King sent for the bishops." "He assured them of his
affection for the church of England, and protested he had
never intended to carry things beyond an equal liberty of
conscience„' &c.—Burnet.
"The Ashops moved him to annul the ecclesiastical com-
mission of their dispensing power; to recall ail licenses and
faculties for Papists to keep schools ; to prohibit the four
vicars apostolic invading ecclasiastical jurisdiction ; to fill
the vacant bishoprics ; to restore the charters, and call a free
and regular parliament, by which the church of England
might be secured according to the Act of Uniformity, and
provisions made for due liberty of conscience, &c.—BUT IT
WAS TOO LATE."—Neale.