The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

EVERTON DISTRICT.
Total No. of Votes
420 ~

I'3,

1853.

THE EXPORT BEER TRADE.—In the month ended
the sth ult., the value of beer and ale exported was
£136,147, against £74,933, at the same period of the pre-
ceding year.
THE REPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—The Jewish
Chronicle says :—" Arrangements are in progress for
shortly commencing an energetic agitation for the purpose
of enabling Baron Rothschild to take his seat for the
House of Commons, to which he has been thrice elected
by the citizens of London. We hear that, once com-
menced, the movement will not rest until this important
object is fully attained."
REMOVAL OF TIiOOPS FROM THE CAPE.—We have
been for some time past aware that it was intended by the
authorities to order the removal of some of the troops
from the Cape of Good Hope on the cessation of the war
in Caffreland, and it is now decided that the following
changes will immediately take place:—The Ist battalion
of the Rifle Brigade, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel George Buller, who left England for the Cape on
the 2nd of January, 1852, are to return to England ; the
12th Prince of Wales' Royal Lancers, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Pole, who left England
for India on the sth of July, 1851, but were detained on
their arrival at the Cape of Good Hope for service against
the Caffres, are now to proceed to India, to relieve the
15th (King's) Light Dragoons (Hussars), under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel George William Key, the
regiment having been on service in India since 1839.

NOVEL PAPER. —Some time back it was mentioned that
paper with a novel kind of water mark had been produced
at the mills of Mr. Thomas H. Saunders, of Darenth, in
Kent, which would be likely to come into use not only for
ornamental purposes, but also for bonds, checks, and other
similar documents, as an extra precaution against forgery.
The process enables portraits, landscapes, or any other
subjects to be given with the same effect as in the German
porcelain pictures, the graduated thickness of the paper
at the various parts of the design creating, when it is held
to the light, the requisite effects of light; and shade. It
was invented by the late engineer of the Bank of England,
and much time has since been spent in bringing it to per-
fection for practical purposes. All the early difficulties,
however, are now stated to have been got over, and paper
of this make has been adopted for specific objects, by some
public companies, both at home and on the continent.
FATAL ACCIDENT. —Mr. Jesse Oldfield, whose name
has for many years been before the public in connec-
tion with the notorious Cobbett in various Chancery
suits, met with his death under the following melancholy
circumstances :—On Wednesday he was in his horse and
chaise, on his way from London to his residence at
Smitham Bottom, four miles from Croydon, and called
on a friend at the latter place. After remaining some
time, he determined to drive home, notwithstanding the
torrent of rain. He quitted Croydon about eleven
o'clock, hut not arriving home his family was kept up all
night in a state of great anxiety, momentarily expecting
his return. At four o'clock on Thursday morning, mes-
sengbrs were dispatched in search of him. They had not
proceeded far, when, in a lane leading from Croydon to
S:nitham Bottom. they discovered the horse and chaise
of the deceased, the latter without an occupant. The
search was resumed, and ended in the discovery of the
body of the deceased, some distance from the spot where
the horse and chaise were found, lying on his back at the
side of the road, his skull dreadfully fractured, and his
body otherwise awfully mutilated, the blood flowing
copiously from the wounds, and his clothes saturated
with rain. The precise time demised breathed his last
could not be ascertained, but it is supposed that it was
not long after his leaving Croydon that the fatal accident
happened ; therefore probable that he must have lain for
hours in the most excruciating agony.
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on
a chancery suit twenty-seven years ago, and to a speech
of the late Earl of Eldon. In doing so the name of the
Earl of Mornington was introduced. The ire of the noble
earl has been aroused thereby, and in an epistle to Lord
Shaftesbury he says :—" I beg leave to invite your lord-
ship either to explain and retract the offensive remarks
with which you introduced my name into your speech on
the sth instant in the hlouse of Lords, and which have
been reported in The Times newspaper of the 6th inst.,
or to say whether you will give me that alternative that
I am entitled to, and which I trust tbat you will not re-
fuse." Lord Shaftesbury, in reply, said :—" In my speech
in the House of Lords I simply quoted a judgment of
Lord Eldon's—a law case, published in a law-book. This
I had a right to do, whether in parliament or out of it ;
and every one has the same right. Your lordship is good
enough to send me what is technically called a chal-
lenge.' I refer you for a reply to this and
in
any further
communication either to the police magistrate nßow-
street or to my solicitors." In answer Lord Mornington
says :—" Your referring me either to a police magistrate
of Bow-street or your solicitors is but adding to your
original insult, and is very absurdly impertinent. Thus,
I must consider you as neither having the good feeling to
explain the unfounded imputation, made in the House of
Lords, you have passed upon me, or the spirit to meet
what you have yourself provoked in the manner which
regulates the conduct of gentlemen."

THE RECENT ELECTIONS.—SeveraI alterations in the
composition of the House of Commons have taken place
recently. Captain Vernon has been returned for Chat-
ham by a majority of 13 over Admiral Stirling. The
vacancy was caused by the ejection of Sir F. Smith by
the committee, on the ground of bribery and treating.
Mr. O'Brien and Sir J. F. Fitzgerald were unseated for
the county of Clare by the committee, but have since
been returned again. Mr. J. T. Aspinall has been re.
turned for Clitheroe, in the room of Mr. Wilson, un-
seated for bribery and treating. A seat for West Corn-
wall is vacant in consequence of the death of Mr. E. W.
W. Pendarves. Mr. Mowbrav is now member for the
city of Durham, instead of Lord Adolphus Vane, whom
the committee unseated on the ground of bribery and
treating. The seat for North Derbyshire has been va-
cated by the acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds by
Mr. Evans. The Earl of Dalkeith has been elected for
Edinburgh County, in the room of Sir John Hope, Bart.,
deceased. Mr. Bagshaw is now member for Harwich,
in the room of Mr. Peacock, unseated for bribery and
treating. The Hon. H. T. Liddell and Mr. Horsfall now
sit for Liverpool, in the room of Mr. F. Mackenzie and
Mr. Turner, ejected for bribery and treating. Mr.
Whalley was unseated for Peterborough on similar
grounds, but he has been returned again. Mr. Horsman
has been elected without opposition for Stroud, in the
room of Lord Moreton (now Earl of Dude). Mr. J.
Sadlier has been returned for Sligo city, in opposition to
Mr. Somers. Mr. Townley was removed from the seat
for bribery and treating. Mr. Daniel O'Connell is now
member for Tralee, in the room of Mr. Maurice O'Con-
nell, deceased.
THE QUEEN AND THE ITALIAN BOY.—Another in-
stance of Her Majesty's benevolence and kindness of
heart evinced itself on Tuesday last, at the Windsor sta-
tion of the South-western Railway. The Queen's maternal
anxiety for her children at Windsor Castle induced her to
travel from London, in private, to see them on the day in
question ; consequently the customary guard of honour,
and the usual state formalities, were dispensed with upon
this occasion, and Her Majesty's arrival at Windsor was
witnessed only by a few persons who happened to be
strolling about the precincts of the station. The Queen
proceeded to the Castle through the grounds on the north
side of the park, the entrance to which opens immediately
upon the South-western station. On Her Majesty'sret urn,
about two hours afterwards, some people had congregated
to witness her departure, and among them stood a poor
Italian boy, with his rude frame of images upon his head.
The fine expressive countenance of the lad was observed
by the naturally quick and scrutinising eye of the Queen,
and she herself beckoned the youth to follow her, which he
did to the vestibule attached to the elegant suite of apart-
ments provided for Her Majesty at the station. The boy,
conscious that it was the Queen who hod summoned him,
hurried to the porch, in a state of bewilderment, with his
images upon his head, when one of the officers present, seein g
his confused state, assisted in bringing him and his board of
images t o the
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and
gracious
a moment upon the youth, and then selected from his little
stock the infant Daniel, praying, a Venus, and a lady at
her bath. After liberally rewarding the little fortunate
vendor of the fine arts, the Queen had her purchases
placed in the train, in which Her Majesty in a few minutes
afterwards took her departure. This act of Her Majesty
is another of the many proofs of her great condescension
and goodness of heart.—Morning Herald.
ROMANIST RIOTS.—For some time past a religious feud
has existed among the Italian and Irish attendants at a
Romish mass-house, in Gray's. inn-lane, London, which at
intervals has broken out in most alarming riots, creating
the greatest terror among the peaceable inhabitants. To
such a height has the feeling risen, that one of the priests,
who expressed himself disapprovingly of the conduct of
the Tteiicmo, itt,aatly auverOiy wounded in a court
leading out of Gray's-inn-lane, the assassin escaping, and
the priest's life for a considerable time being in extreme
danger. On Monday last week a considerable number of
the Italians, who have a mass-house in Baldwin's gardens,
assembled, and taunted and jeered the Irish people who
attackingr riot en ensued, dt rmwehdo,wiwtliitipioklaerrgseanccilabspludsgteiloentiso,
went. to attend worship. The result was that a terrific
the Italians, the Irish,
a,
knives, stabbed indiscriminately all who came near them.
Several persons were carried away bleeding and danger-
ously wounded, and with broken limbs. Father Gilligan
and other priests who essayed to quell the tumult were
severely handled, and came out of the fray with their
faces covered with blood, Fattier Gilligan, it is reported,
being stabbed. In the meantime sections of constables
arrived from the police-station. The force proved in-
sufficient, and the Italians making an attempt to fire the
school-house, at ten o'clock a force of several hundred
constables were brought together, when the men drew
their staves and charged the mob of rioters. A great
many were apprehended, but it was not till midnight that
tranquillity was restored, extra constables remaining on
duty to prevent a renewal of the fight during the night.
Throughout the entire of Tuesday and Wednesday a
strong detachment of police were on continuous duty in
Baldwin's-gardens. After dark the number of men was
doubled, and persons were not allowed to congregate near
the spot, all groups that gathered being immediately
dispersed. The surveillance is to be continued until the
present thirst for revenge, known to exist, has somewhat
subsided. The friends of the Italians engaged in the con-
flct deny that they used their knives, but declare that
the injuries the Irish sustained were inflicted with their
bludgeons and fists. Several of the Irish who joined the
fray from Saffron-hill have incised wounds on the arms
and breasts. The police are also aware that the Italians
cut
across their knives with them. One of the priests is
across the nose. The reason that none of the Italians
have been arrested is, that the injured parties are unable
to identify their assailants; they are also afraid of the
personal consequences
for the share they took in the riot.
Another serious disturbance occurred on Sunday night,
between a number of the lower order of Irish and a Party
of Italian refugees. On this occasion, as on the previous
Monday, the Irish were the aggressors, and, owing to the
admirable precautions taken by Superintendent Martin,
of the G division, several fellows have been apprehended
and lodged in the station-house on the double charge of
assaulting upoffending
police
Italians, and resisting the in
the execution of their duty. Of the premeditated ella
racter of the riot there cannot be the smallest doubt, in-
asmuch as from information previously communicated to
the authorities, nearly 400 constables have been kept in
reserTet reedy to act at any moment they might
be called
upon.

CHISHOLM has left London for R )me, to take
leave of her son, previous to her return to Australia
CH/CORY.—In London, the police-courts h
called upon to deal with three respectable tradesmen fo
chicory with their coffee, and selling it as pure
and, of course, at coffee price. These creditable
individuals were fined in mitigated penalties of £25 each.
PAPER HOUSES.—A number of cottage houses have
been constructed of papier melte: The frames, floors,
and doors are of wood, but all the rest of papier mache.
The cottages contain from four to ten rooms each, and
can be taken down and re-erected in a few hours.

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SERGEANT WRANGRAM, Mr. Alexander, Sergeant
Kinglake, and Mr. E. James, Q.C., have given it as their
opinion that Mr. G. H. Whalley, M.P. for Peterborough,
was not qualified to become a candidate for re-election,
having been unseated in consequence of the treating
practised on the previous contest.

ENTERPRISE
that twelve u 8
monthsC"D a E.T
Greenock Herald mentionstheh
yard of Messrs. Simons was under '
a crop of grain • and,
since the commencement of building operations, three
vessels, including the " ..A.iirora," have been launched,
while three large vessels are at present in rapid progress.
A HEART TOO FULL.—A man named Andrew Francis,
whose brother was among a batch of emigrants leaving
Galway last week, being refused admittance at the railway
terminus at Eyre.square, ran round iby another drzction
to meet the train, with a view to seeing his brother once
more, but, on observing the train pass before his arrival,
he dropped down and expired.

DIVINE SERVICE IN THE ARMY. A return has
been published, showing the expenditure of the sum
of £18,500 taken in the army estimates for allowances
to officiating clergymen for performing Divine service to
the military at home and abroad, and for religious books.
To Churchmen the sum paid was £14,536; to Presby-
terians, £865; and to Romanists, £2,702. For religious
books £526 4s. 10d. was spent—£2o2 Os. 61. for books
for Romanist soldiers, and £324 Os. 4d. for Protestants.
HARVEST PaospFcrs.—With the exception of a hasty
thunder shower on Saturday, this has been a week nearly

void of rain, though generally cloudy. Tuesday and
Wednesday were decidedly fine, which was a cause of re-
joicing with haymakers, and much was stacked during
that time in good order. The mild temperature has been
exceedingly favourable to all growing crops, both of grass,
roots, and corn, and will greatly assist in perfecting the
wheat grain at the critical period of flowering.—Leicester
Journal.

" AN APPROVING CONSCIENCE ITS OWN REWARD."
—Not far from Ripon, in the parish of North Stainley,
there is a Methodist local preacher, nearly seventy years
of age; he has preached for the Wesleyans during forty
years ; walked five miles every Sunday to the morning
service, returning in the evening—making, in all, upwards
of 20,000 miles—alabourwhich he still continues to pursue,
and for which he has never obtained more than one shil-
ling, which a man put into his hand one day when lie was
coming down from the pulpit ! This makes his pecuniary
reward, for edifying a Wesleyan congregation, a fraction
more than one farthing per annum. He is employed the
rest of the week in breaking stones on a carriage-road,
and he has never made more than ten shillings a week.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DERBY. —On Wednesday,
about a quarter pact six o'clock, flames were seen to
issue from the roof of the extensive silk manufactory of
Mr. Joseph Davenport, in Albert-street, Derby. An
alarm being given, the inmates left the mill, but several
daring men having ventured to ascend for the purpose of
saving part of the silk, the roof fell in upon them. One
of them in flames threw himself from the window, a
height of 70 feet, and was so much injured that no hope
is entertained of his recovery. Mr. Thorpe and two other
men were also rescued alive, but dreadfully burnt. The
building being fire-proof, the flumes were ultimately
subdued.

FATAL FIRE.—On Monday noon, a destructive fire took
place upon s'me farming property belonging to Lord
Headley, in the vicinity of Warley, near Brentwood,
which ended in the loss of two if not more lives, and a
very serious distraction of property. A few evenings
back a party of Irish tramps, haymakers, slept in a barn
attached to an off-hand farm, the house being occupied by
a Mr. Bottershall. The tramps had left some matches
behind them in a cattle pen, and four of Mr Botteshall's
children, on going into the barn to play, found the matches
with which they soon struck a light, and as quickly fired
the place. The straw which was lying about in all
directions, generally ignited. and but for the prompt
action of a labourer named Willey, the childrap would
doubtless have all perished. He rushed into the blazing
barn end succeeded in dragging all four of them out.
Two, however, a little boy and a girl, were so shockingly
burnt that they survived but a short time, the other two
being hurt. Willey in his noble exertions sustained con-
siderable injury. The flames were eventually subdued,
the dwelling house being preserved.

PRIESTLY INTERFERENCE.—The Sunder?cnd News
publishes a letter from H. J. Staley, a Romish priest, to
a young woman, who was about to marry a young man
belonging to the Primitive Methodist body, in which he
says, " I take the liberty of addressing you in this way on
the important step you are about to tnke,—a step for
which you must expect to suffer, either in this world or
the next, or both. Either protracted bodily affliction, or
poverty, or persecution, or some other temporal calamity,
or a premature grave, or an eternal hell, will inevitably
follow the breach of that Divine command, ' Be not un-
equally yoked together with unbelievers.' You know
that you are doing wrong ; you were evidently not pleased
at my calling upon you yesterday. ' Your deed is evil,'
and you wish to &void the light, and all who would tell
you the truth ; but you cannot get rid of your conscience,
nor of God, nor the judgment day. If you take the pro-
posed step it will be ml painful, solemn, but imperative
duty to expel you from the society. If you say that this
rule has not been enforced in other cases, I answer, ' By
the grace of, God, I shall enforce it while lam here.' I
suppose it is quite useless to ask you to break the con-
nexion,—that would be too greata price for eternal glory.
Do not, my sister, think that I hate you because I sey
and act in this manner. No, I love you ; and shall follow
you with my tears, anxieties, and prayers. Request all
your friends to procure mourning, and to put it on the day
you are married. Please to show this letter to the young
man to whom you intend to give your hand. Give my
love to your sister, and accept it yourself.—l remain,
your much grieved, faithful, and affectionate pastor and
leader."

ABDUCTION IN YORKSHIRE.—At York assizes, on
Wednesday, William Johnson and Mary Cartwright were
indicted for the abduction of Judith Kay (under the age
of 16 years) from the possession of her father. The pri-
soner Johnson, a good-looking young man, had formerly
been a " navvie" on the Thirsk and Melton line of rail-
way, and the female prisoner was the wife of another
" navvir." Both prisoners lodged in the village of Thor-
manby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire—Johnson at
the house of a Mr. Kay, a grocer and provision dealer.
The prosecutor, Kay, had a daughter at home not more
than 14 years of age, though in appearance a grown-np
and very good-looking young woman, apparently 17 or 18
years of age. Between this girl and Johnson an intimacy
sprang up, which was noticed and reprobated by her
parents, on acceunt of her youth. Johnson offered to
marry her, and two or three times proposed to her to leave
her tether's house. This the girl refused to do for some
time, till the female prisoner called upon her, and endea-
voured to persuade her to go off with Johnson, telling her
that if she was in her place she would do it. Partly in
consequence of this persuasion, backed by her own incli-
nations, the girl agreed on Saturday, the 16th of April.
with the female prisoner, who represented to her that
Johnson was going away next day, and that she was also

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going with her husband, to join them on Sunday evening
after church, at a little distance out of the village, and to
put her clothes out of the window that night for Johnson
to take sway. This the girl did, and went oft' with the
p isoner Johnson to Guisborough, where she spent the
night with him. The female prisoner and her husband
lodged in the same hDuse. Information was given to the
police of the girl's absence, and she was traced to Guis-
borough and taken from the prisoner Johnson's bed.
Both prisoners w:re found guilty and were sentenced, the
female to two years, and the :panto six months' hardlabour.

ALLEGED ABDUCTION BY A ROMISH PRIEST.—It is
anticipated that when the Nunneries Bill comes before the
House of Commons, on Wednesday, a circumstance that
has caused much excitement in this town, will be brought
under the notice of the Legislature, the whole of the facts
having been laid before Lord Palmerston, Mr. Chambers,
the author of the Nunneries Bill, and other supporters of
it ; while Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Lucas, and other Romanist
tjhu function,
lattert
instead.io
members have been acquainted with the particulars. It
appears that two young ladies, about fourteen and sixteen
Thiss e sea-side,
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years of age, the daughters of a respectable family re-
siding in this town, end formerly of Burnley, have been
hitherto educated in the religion of their father, as Ito-
manists, and it was his intention to take them to the con-
vent of the Holy Child Jesus, at St. Leonards- on-Sea, to
receive further education, and to act also in the capacity
of pupil teachers. Whether they had shown, at any time
previously, any wavering in their doctrines, we are not
aware; but ontheir coining to reside at Preston, a few weeks
since, and about the time when their departure for the nun-
nery was resolved upon, they renounced the Romish faith to
one of the clergy of this town, attended his Sunday-school
regularly, and had consented, with the approbation of
some of their Protestant friends, that he should make ar-
rangements for them entering a training.scbocl for teach-
ers, the one at. London arid the other at Warrington. They
were last week at the house of a near relative in the town,
a Protestant, when their father and some other friends,
finding persuasion unavailing, hit upon a device for ob-
taining possession of the girls to take them to the nunnery..
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ejaculated, " Oh l
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• Such an • exclamation
created quite a scene, and many parties were at once
at hand to render
assistance for a rescue, if assistance were needed. Various reports were speedily in circula-
tion, but although the aid of a magistrate was volunteered
for necessary interference had there been any opportunity
of exercising it, nothing, it was found, could be done where
a father was simply taking, as he stated, two girls to
school. The wires of the electric telegraph were set in
motion, and information of the extraordinary incident
was conveyed to Preston and other places ; and, on the
arrival of the train at the various stations on its way to
London, considerable interest was excited, news of the
occurrence having preceded the train. We learn that the
young ladies are now in London, at a branch establish-
ment of the convent, where they are to remain for a few
days previous to being taken to St. Leonard's., Their
Romanist friends allege that they are now reconciled to
the prospect of a conventional residence ; but we learn
from other quarters that their dislike has not been over-
come, and that they avow their intention of remaining
Protestants. Several gentlemen, of the town are interest.
ing themselves on behalf of the,young ladies, should there
be any means of legally placing them in the way of pro-
feliling the Pretedent religion.—Presion Chrowle.