The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-15 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

AN OLD OFFENDER.—A man named James Steel, was
placed at the bar, and charged by police-officer 106, with
having been apprehended by him on the 22d of December
last, along with two others—since tried and found guilty of
a serious felony. The prisoner, however, on that occasion
escaped from custody, leaving in the possession of the officer,
a large quantity of false and skeleton keys of all descrip-
tions, pick-locks, and other implements of the trade of a
burglar. There was also found upon him a shirt collar
marked with the name of one of his companions, and a silk
handkerchief, with the name of a gentleman well known,
which he could not have honestly come by. He was com-
mitted to the House of Correction, Kirkdale, for three
months.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—Three little boys named Clay.
ton, Kershaw, and Pickering, were charged with haying on
the previous night, attempted to force the staple from a
warehouse door, by means of a potato or manure fork. They
were committed for one month to the Borough House of
Correction.

A LUCKY OFFENDER.—A young woman, named Mary
Lawless (!) was placed at the bar on a charge of having
stolen a considerable sum of money. A young gentleman of
the name of Donough, stated that he lodged at No. 47,
Cornwallis-street, where the prisoner was servant, and that
he had in a silk purse, a sum in sovereigns and half-sove-
reigns, of upwards of £l6, which he missed. Another young
gentleman in the house also lost five sovereigns. Witness
made inquiry of the prisoner about the latter sum ; and she
gave him £4 in a glove, as part of it. He had gone after her
to a house in the neighbourhood which she frequented, and
on receiving the £4, on their return he asked if she knew
any thing of his money, when she gave his purse, containing
the whole amount within about three pounds. It appeared,
however, that witness had, before she gave it up, told her
that if she had taken it and would return it, he would forgive
her, or words to that effect. Mr. Hall regretted that the
witness had been so imprudent as to make this promise, be-
mime he could not on that account commit her for trial, and
as the other party did not appear he must discharge her. He
added that she was very lucky in thus escaping ; for had the
evidence warranted it, he should have committed her. Mr.
Dowling here said, that everything possible had been done to
redeem the prisoner after a former offence, by persons who
had taken a humane interest in her behalf. She had been
tried at the sessions and sentenced to be transported, but had
by strong intercession been released and taken into service.
She had for some time acted properly, to the great satis-
faction of those, who, thinking there were circumstances of
palliation in her fit offence, had taken an interest in her
behalf; but he regretted to say, that after having lived in se-
veral situations where she was kindly treated, she had again
relapsed into her evil practice. Mr. Hall repeated that she
had had a most fortunate escape, and ordered her to be dis-
charged.

A DEAF AND DUMB BOY.
A boy, who "wrote" himself to be deaf and dumb, was
placed before Mr. Hall on Wednesday, charged by the mas-
ter of the Athenaeum Rooms with having boldly walked into
the News-room, to solicit donations by means of small
pieces of paper, stating his bereavement ; but as these were
of precisely the same import as some papers presented some
days ago, at the same place, by a girl who gave it to be un-
derstood that she was also deaf and dumb, it was suspected
that he was an impostor. Several questions were put to hint
in writing, to which he rapidly wrote replies,—that his name
was William Crawford ; that he came from an institution
near Dublin, the name of which he did not remember (pro.
bably Claremont) ; that he was a tailor by trade, but was
unable to work ; and that he belonged to Dundee in Scot.
land, and wished to return to Glasgow. Some discrepancies
having appeared in his story, he was remanded until yester-
day (Thursday) ; when, though he still appeared a somewhat
suspicious character, it was intimated that he should be
passed on to Glasgow.

COMMITMENT.

Two boys, named Hindley and Frazer, were committed
for trial, for:breaking into the house of Mrs. Spurr, Shaw's.
brow, and stealing therefrom some articles of wearing appa-
rel. A boy, named Hughes, was charged along with them,
but as he was, though a bad character, not implicated accord.
ing to the evidence, further than being afterwards seen with
the others, he was, yesterday, discharged. The prisoner
Frazer, for a former offence, had " Death recorded' against
him. Hindley is also an old offender.
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THURSDAY.
The cases this day were of no peculiar interest. Two"- TM
women of the town were committed for trial, for the usual
offence of such persons, robbing from the persons of the
fools who accompanied them to their haunts.

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LIVER THEATRE.—We perceive that Mr. Fogg, the box
book-keeper, takes his benefit this evening at this delightful
theatre. His bill of fare is highly attractive. We hare no
doubt that the frequenters of this little " temple of mirth"
will show their estimate of Mr. Fogg's zeal and attention by
giving him " a bumpei" on the occasion. No one better
deserves the reward of a full house.

THE MARINER'S CHURCH.—A sermon was preached at
this church, on Sunday last, by the Rev. W. Maynard, when
a collection was made in aid of the funds of the Sunday
School's Seamen's Reading-room. The collection amounted
to £l2 15s.

THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL.—This splendid vessel
arrived off New York, after a passage of eighteen days, on
the 24th ult. She encountered extraordinarily severe and
tempestuous weather. Under the circumstances, her passage
was remarkably quick. She has fully established her charac-
ter for swiftness and safety.

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—A public examina-
tion of the pupils in this interesting institution will take place
at the annual meeting, to be held on Tuesday next, at tie
Royal Institution. e understand that one of the pupils
will reacfaudibly a portion of scripture on the occasion. rq
ONE OF THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE.—Talk of the n bag
miseries of human life ! what can be a greater misery than: ‘••it
being wet through ? your clothes adhere to youi skin, you
are made a furnace against your will, and as you pant along ^IfT
as much steam " blows of "as would work a five-horse power i
engine ; should your boots be slight, you begin to doubt :zlia
their nature, and wonder whether they be really boots 'in, -,lcrt
pumps. Splash ! you tread upon a loose stone, and a 'et Hs,
water plays upon you ; tramp ! tramp ! tramp ! thewa
you go the more you steam, and the more closely do your
clothes adhere to you, until at last you are not mertlren-
closed in a " strait-waistcoat," but every other article of
dress becomes a fetter upon your movements : you are now
utterly miserable !—From Davy Dreamy, edited by Flit I
POPISH MEETING.—Last night, a meeting took place at
the School-room of the Popish Chapel, Browtdow-hill, for
the purpose of considering the propriety of forming
lan auxi-
liary society in this town, in aid of the " Cathelie tMtitate
of Great Britain," established for the purpose'bf &ming
what its originators are pleased to call " the faltehood of the
charges made against the Catholic relifion" ; of defending
Catholicity ; of circulating tracts in its support • and of
" protecting" the poorer Catholics in the enjoyment of their
" religious principles and practices." The attendance was
rather numerous, and a considerable number of priests were
present, and were the principal and almost sole speakers.
The Rev. Dr. Youens was called to the chair, and, after a
few prefatory remarks, read a long letter from the secretary
of the Institute in London, in favour of the establishment of
the society, and recommending the sole power to be vested
in the said Institute. A great number of speakers fol-
lowed, amongst whom was the Rev. Mr. Parker, wiko
was more vehement than argumentative• in his attack
upon " the calumniators," as he termed the conscientious
opposers of the intolerance of the Papacy. A considers-
ble number of persons became members of the sockt.v.
before they left the room. Why are our Protestant bre-
thren so tardy in joining the association formed for '"
the dissemination of their principles ? Our adversaries 7:
ate in the field,: and as appears, are Ative and persevering.
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As will be seen from an advertisement, petitions are .now ;
in course of signature for the withdrawal of the annual
parliamentary grant from that seminary for criminality
and indecency—Maynooth College. No Protestant in Li.
verpool should hesitate or delay for a moment to afftilis
signature to a petition for such a purpose. The recent ex.
pos.lre of the unchristian and seditious principles inculaatid
by authority in this school fully.warrants every constitutional
Englishman to use all legitimate means to deliver the
United Kingdom from the reproach of supporting, and even
sanctioning, an institution so opposed to the peace and
loyalty of her Majesty's subjects.
There is now living at Wire-hall, in Lunedale, in the parish
of Romaldkirk, Yorkshire, William Raine, aged 92 years,
and his wife 90 : this couple have been united upwards of 70
years.
RHEUMATISM.—We feel pleasure and satisfaction in re-
ferring to a pill, prepared by Dr. Barker of this city, for the
cure this most excruciating disease—Rheumatism. It is
consistent with our knowledge, that several persons with
whom we are acquainted have been cured after a long period
of distress, and after all other remedies had failed. This is
a truth, " and why should not a useful truth be told ?" Nor
is this notice inserted at the request of the respectable gen-
tleman who made this most important discovery in medicine,
or of the vendors of these pills, but of our own accord. We
refer to our paper of last week for a certificate from a highly
respectable gentleman, a landed proprietor in Stirlingshire,
as to their virtue in removing Gout, and we have recorded in
another column a convicting case from a gentleman in Eng-
land. Those afflicted with either maladies should at least
give them a " fair trial."—Edinburgh Weekly Journal, jun..
6, 1838.
The Diligence, from Toulouse to Marseilles, was stopped
on Saturday se'nnight, near Arles, by some robbers, who
plundered the whole of the passengers. , •,!
ANNOUNCEMEENT EXTRAORDINARY.—On Friday, initeit
curiosity was excited by the appearance of a placard, offering ,ta reward for the discovery of a young lady, of one of the.';
families in Cheltenham, who had left her home on Thin*:
morning, and had not returned. It appears from the
bill, that her friends supposed that she had been decoyed int 9
the cottage of some poor family in distress, but this it appearstri
was not the case. We are glad to find that the lady has siltet„f
returned to her friends.—Cheltenham Journal. ,a
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. THE WOODEN WALLS OF ENGLAND.

(FROM FRASER'S MAGAZINE•)

The, homes of merry England, how sweetly do they rise
Within her dells, upon her hills, beneath her native skies ;
Tim fleecy clouds sweep over them, upborne by many a breeze;
Tfie wooden walls encircle them upon her rolling seas :
The wooden walls ! the merry homes !—good Christian men,
ah, me !
The e homes are still, the meteor flag floats not upon the sea ;
And the thunder songs of triumph that burst upon the blast,
And the banner bold that floated free like eagle round the
mast,
Row proudly greets the whirlwind in the tempest's eye no

more ;
And the wooden walls of England all are rotting on the shore.
The vision.of futurity is dark upon my brow,
And the glbries of the past rise in mockery I trow,
The voice of mighty triumphs that pealed from realm to realm,
When the sons of Ocean armed, with a Nelson at the helm,
And Thougand hopes were round them, and thoughts of home
and beauty,
And England hoped that "every man that day would do his
duty,'
Fills lofty retrospection : then every gale that rose
Brought victory to Albion, defeat unto her foes ;
And scarce the orient orb upsprung to sweep into the west,
But England's fame was stamped in flame upon his gorgeous
vest.

The vision of futurity is dark upon my brow,
The wcoden walls of England, where are your glories now ?
Where is the flag of memory that floated o'er the deep,
And the lion roar that shook the waste of waters in their
sweep ?
Where are the valiant men of might likerocks who dauntless
stood,
Who gazed like gods and potentates on England's ocean flood?
A wailing from the white-cliffed shore, a wailing as of pain,—
No battle-decks are on the deep, no thunder on the main •
And murmurs from a thousand graves of heroes in their
pride,
Fame's.speetral sons leap forth and point to England's sailless
tide.

Howe, Rodney, Jervis, Duncan, lo! "it is a knell" of truth,
To rouse the shame, the agony of England's rising youth,
When ye. and names like yours, are heard with all a nation's
strength, •
With patriot power wrung from the soul in all its breadth
and length ;--
Invoking ye,—great God, to think !—invoking ye in vain.
Ye cannot "sweep across the deep" of England's rolling
main ;
And it is well that Fame of old unwreathed each honoured
• brow •

That in your graves ye sleep, nor see our shame and sorrow
now.
wellfor ye, immortal shades ! ye hear not Honour's calls—
For England now upon the sea no more has wooden walls.
A wan and faded lustre shines, our sun is in eclipse,
And naught but scorn, with fear combined, go forth from
English lips ;
Scorn of the heartless bloodhound band, whose foul unsated
maw
Old Ehgland's nobler parts devouredwithnever-wearied jaw ;
Fear that our unprotected fanes the spoiler may pollute,
The banner starred, the supple Gaul, or, worse, the northern
brute ;

For Albion's seas are tenantless, her meteor flag is furled,
And her once dauntless spirit crushed and spurned by all the
world ;
For where a Pitt and Nelson shook with thunder sea and land,
A Melbourne feeds and Minto's earl bursts bombshells on the
strand.*

O wo to England's weal, and wo to England's lordly power,
And wo to every honest heart when knaves and fools have
power,—
When traitorism, giant vast, from surge and valley looms,
And would, hyena-like, devour the dead within their tombs.
Wo to the memory of the past ; what's glory but a shroud,—
Fathe's sheeted phantom darkening allwhen traitors bay aloud?
Wo, to the crown of centuries, wo to the sceptre and the ball,
When feeble is the arm that wields the spearand sword of Saul;
Woto the strength of loyal hearts, the trusty and the true,
\Nlicin England's zenith star but shines on England's traitor
Crew.

0 for an hour of good old days, e'en for that hour again,
When Admiral Kempenfelt went down with his eight hundred
men :

Though sad that hour, yet in that hour Old England on the seas
Had wooden walls, and jackets blue, and banners on the breeze;
She'd hearts of oak to sweep the deep, and guard her island
shore,

And ne"er a foe but quickly felt her ocean thunder's roar.
But now,---Idown heart, indignant hide thy spirit's manly tears,
And brace thine arm, and grasp thy sword, and trample on
thy fears ;
Dish down the traitor knaves, dash down the knave and foe-
man too,

And man once more thy wooden walls with England's gallan
crew !

It is the soul's unbounded burst when patriot passion fires,
To trample on domestic strifes, feel honour but inspires,—
Honour, that from past centuries springs, and from the thou
sand tombs _ _

Of heroes, England's glorious dead, lights up the 'passing
gloon2s ;
Honour that in the brave man's breast feels every hope restored
Hears but its country's pleading voice, and grasps its coun-
try's sword !
Honour that flames above the storm like that transcendant
light,

Whose presence is eternal day, whose absence endless night !
Honour that bids us brave the blast, and true to glory's calls,
Come forth in England's trial hour, and man her wooden walls !
Arlie ! and, spite of all the
,shame that weighs thy spirit down,
C9me forth once more on sea and shore,—come forth for old
renow n !
Remember not thy wrong, true hearts, remember but this
thing—
In; danger Britons only see their country and their king.
Abide the time, but in the hour when storm and dangers rise,
Lee,s only on our altars think, our homes and native skies.
Ogee more, once more, 0 let the flag of England be unfurled,
AUd'Epgland's wooden walls again be monarchs of the world !

Settle Gapers informed us, the other day, of this patriot earl's
arittrOut erhplornent, in playing at hollow-shell practice; and of his
blowing up sundry sand-hills, whilst the fleet was unmanned, the
arsenals empty, and every dcck-yard was exposed to the aggressione
of,,altreign.foe,—" Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a"—bomb.
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gbirgliNMENT OF TEMPER.—Every human creature is
sensible of the propensities to some infirmity of temper, which
it should be his care to correct and subdue, particularly in
the early period of life ; else, when arrived at a state of ma-
turity, he may relapse into those faults which were originally
in hia'nature, and which will require to be diligently watched
and kept under during the whole course of life ; since nothing
leads' more directly to a breach of charity, and to the injury
and molestation of our fellow creatures, than the indulgence
of an ill-temper.--Dr. Blair.
1::!lCTILITY OF THE INFANT MIND.—Mrs. Sigourney, in
her '"Letters to Mothers," thus remarks on the influence
of stories, particularly on those told by superstitious vicious
setvitrits :—How criminally indifferent are parents to the in-
flikence which servants have on the youthful part of the family.
f the little girl cries while I am gone," said a mother to
an Irish domestic recently hired, " tell her a story, and she
will be quiet." Ah ! and what kind of a story ? You will
not be there to hear it. But the tender intellect, already
sufficiently advanced to be soothed with stories, may imbibe
foOlish, or vulgar, or frightful images, and take their colour-
ing; like soft wool sinking in Tyrian purple. " Tell her a
story !" Why, that is the very aliment which her opening
mind seizes with the greatest eagerness. Are you ignorant
whether that aliment may not be mingled wall corruption ?
It .was a wise man who said he cared not who made the laws
of a nation, if he might only have the making of their songs.
With greater truth may it be said of unfolding infancy—any
one that chooses may give it grave lessons, but lookout for its
storytellers. Thus it is that unfortunate babes are terrified,
and,lnade to dread a dark room or lonely chamber, until the
slay hilt should solace them is but a communion with name-
les? si (instrs, and they are frightened out of their sweet
bit, EM—the fearlessness of innocence.
, .... " ItLE CRUELTY COMMITTED IN HORSE REPOSI-
TOAWS•IN LONDON.—The ostler, or some one commissioned
by,hina,walks through the stables of these repositories many
tiraeosin,a day, armed with a heavy whip, which he forcibly
appiipoi,to almost every horse. The horses, in consequence
ofAlasisAisten for the distant sound of human steps, and are
orkthealert, and shift their posture at the approach of every
indivishutl. This state of apprehension and alarm passes for
a dplay of spirit, of which the poor creature has scarcely a
papiicle left. In addition to this, the continual shifting pos-
tnpsniay hide some blemish or unsoundness that would o ther-
wise,he observed. The more completely the animal is worn
down, the greater is the torture applied. In proportion to
the„ debility is the stimulus. This is almost constant practice.
Ous,the .morning of sale, on most of the horses, and those
espeeiaily !a which there is something to hide—groggy horses,
perhaps, more than any others—this discipline is repeated
with, additional severity. " I once," says John Lawrence,
" saw a poor mare, stone blind, exquisitely shaped, and show-
ing all the marks of high blood, unmercifully cut with the
whip about a quarter of an hour before the sale, in order to
bring' her to the use of her stiffened limbs. I saw the tears
actually dropping from her sightless eyes." A friend of
ours tells ns, that, a littlewhile ago, in one of these sinks
of infamy, he saw an old fellow on his knees before one
of the hones. He was beating him with a short stick on
the,mpsi sensitive places—the shin bones, and the tendons.
The horse had been brought there decidedly lame, and
it was, hoped that this torture over the whole limb might
give
hima_ quickness of action that would conceal the original
disease. There is one practice for which no terms of rebro-
b4ion are, sufficiently strong. A horse is brought for sale,
lame qn one foot. The other shoe is taken off, and a horse-
bean,: or, small pebble, or bit of iron, is inserted between the
foot and the shoe, which is then nailed on again. This is
ca34,7eaning a horse. The presence of this hard body
be eep,, the shoe and the sole soon gives excessive pain, and
thetlorpe is as lame on that foot as on the other. This, how-
evesrtdpappears, or is lost in the agony which the poor
craatntg endures from the firing or horrible flagellation which
he,.undergoes before he is taken from his stall to be exposed
for sale. And are there brutes in human shape who can be
guilty of atrocities like these ? It is the practice of every day,
and there are plenty of smiths to be found degraded and base
enough to lend themselves to this horrible barbarity. If the
master will not be seen in the transaction, there is no diffi-
culty in bribing the man. Is there no law that will reach
cruelties like these ? Would not the appointment of inspectors
over these establishments restrain a portion, at least, of the
evils? A case lately happened. A mare was sent to one of
these establishments to be sold. She had some good points
abqul her, but she had lopped ears. What was done ? A
fineset,on was inserted, reaching across the poll from one
ear tp the other, the ends being concealed in the inside of
each ear. She then carried a decent kind of ear. This mare
was sold for a greater sum than she would otherwise have
prqduced„and some days passed before the trickery was dis-
covcrcd. .Smithfield is a still more horrible place than the
eopapapn,horse repository. The firing is never omitted there ;
butitis conducted in a different manner. The Smithfield
horses are generally a stage nearer their end than those that
are sent to the repository ; and, consequently, a still greater
degree of cruelty is necessary in order to arouse them to the
false appearance of spirit. The marks of the whip so savagely
applied as it must be, would be visible and excite suspicion ;
the miscreant, therefore, takes his ash plant, of its full size
and weight, and that will reach from the hannelt to the
shoulder, and standing behind the horse, belabours him with
all his might. Perhaps two of them are employed in the
same diabolical way. The loins and back are beaten almost
to a jelly, but no wheals are seen. The poor sufferer after-
wards starts at the sight of the ash plant, and is all in motion
if the weight of a finger is laid upon him. Plenty of ginger
is then,uscd, and he is led into the market. The pain of the
beating and the dread of its repetition keep him sufficiently on
the alert for ,the requisite time ; but he probably will be
scarcely able to drag his limbs out of the stable on the follow-
ing day. Here too, as in the repsitory, the animal fares ill in
the inverse ratio of his value. If he has good points about
him, he .perhaps, after a certain degree
_of firing, takes his
chance; but on the worn-out wretch the ingenuity of demons
is • s exerted, in order to produce the requisite degree
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