The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The wife of the late murdered Serjeant Major Shepherd is
not dead, as falsely reported ; on the contrary, her health is
gradually improving.
On Thursday morning, at half-past eight o'clock, the Croy-
don Railway opened for public traffic. His first train was
crowded with passengers.
LUDLOW ELECTION.—There will certainly be a petition
against the return of Mr. Alcock. Mr. Thesiger and Mr.
Austin are retained as counsel for Mr. Clive.—Standard.
There are about one thousand different specimens of coun-
terfeit bank bills in circulation in the United States.
Miss Ellen Tree will, it is expected, return from a most
successful visit to the United States about the middle of
August.

Recruiting for the'navy is prosecuted with much vigour in
Portsmouth. Every street nearly has its rendezvous for sea-
men ; and the flags flying to announce the " whereabouts"
give a gay appearance in the town.
SHIPWRECK.—Another lamentable accident has happened
on the Danube. A letter from Vienna announces the loss of
a sailing packet with 64 passengers on board, the greater part
of whom were drowned, but the spot where this sad occur-
rence took place is not specified.
The New Orleans Times says—" Strawberries have been
in market about four days ; they afford an expeditious and
pleasant mode of spending money. You can get two quarts
for twenty-six dollars, or by them at retail for four cents a
piece."

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On the 30th May Henry Fen-
wick, Esq., of Goldspink Hall, walked a mile in nine minutes
—ran back in six—rode back in two minutes and three-quar-
ters, in all within eighteen minutes, upon the Newcastle race-
course.—Carlisle Patriot.
It is a remarkable fact, that line boats which started from
this place for Buffalo, (365 miles,) on the day the steam-ship
Liverpool sailed from Liverpool to New York, (more than
3,000 miles,) had not been able to reach this place on their
return, on the day the Liverpool arrived in New York.—New
York Whig.

PENNY-POSTAGE PETITIONS.—On Wednesday evening,
June 5, upwards of 250 postage petitions praying for Mr.
Rowland Hill's plan, were presented, making a total exceed-
ing 1,400 petitions presented during the present session of
parliament to the House of Commons alone.
The continual high price of bread is producing uneasiness
in several , parts of France, At Metz anonymoul letters,
threatening incendiarism (supposed to originate in discontent
at the dearness of bread), were addressed to the authorities'
and to several private individuals. Commercial distress is
also said to prevail in Havre and Rouen.
THE PIKE MANUFACTURE AT A DISCOUNT.—WC under-
stand that the industrious pike and dagger manufacturer at
Heady-hill, near Heywood, has been obliged to abandon the
making of pikes and daggers, in consequence of an entire
cessation of demand. It is said that he has not had a single
order for these deadly weapons since the Kersall Moor meet-
ing.—Matzehester Guardian.
AMERICAN COMPLIMENT TO QUEEN VICTORIA.—The
president, &c., of Colombia College, New York, have agreed
to place the gilded crown, which formerly adorned the cupola
of the college, previous to the revolution, upon the figure-
head a the Britishi Queen (steamer,) expected at New York
during the summer. This superbly made crown has remained
in their library since 1777.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have left Bridgewater
House, for Devonport, accompanied by the Hon. F. Egerton,
their eldest son, who is about to enter the navy under Sir
Graham Moor. His lordship, who has paired off for a few
weeks, intends cruising in his yacht on the coast of Devon
for a short time, after which he will return to town, and give
a series of parties at the above residence.
As Sir Henry Parnell is to be opposed by a captain in the
navy at Dundee, on the ensuing general election, we think it
is not improbable, if the sinews of war are supplied, that he
may become a candidate for Liverpool. As Joseph has an
ambition that way, he cannot be expected to assist in paying
the piper, and it is surmised that others who are competent
to a liberal expenditure would scarcely consider it a safe
speculation.

The Court of Directors of the East India Company have
determined on augmenting the number of their officers in
India, and likewise to form an additional regiment of Eu-
ropeans at each presidency, which will create very extensive
promotion throughout the army, and an additional number
of cadets.—Naval and Military Gazette.
WORCESTER HOPS, JUNE s.—Our market on Saturday
was barely supplied with hops, holders being all reluctant to
sell their stock. The few bargains made were at an advance
of about 2s. per cwt. on the prices of the previous week.
Fly has been noticed in several parts of the plantations, and
prices will probably advance in consequence. New hops,
565. to 75s ' • choice, to &Is ; 1837'5, 50s to 78s ; choice, 82s ;
1836's and 1835'5, 28s to 565. Weighed, 47 pockets ; dur-
ing the week, 11.
On Thursday last, the Manchester Town-hall presented a
scene of great interest and activity, on the occasion of the
election of 17 children to the Deaf and Dumb Institution,
in that town. The very great and just celebrity to which
that institution has attained, as has before been the case, an
immense number of candidates from all parts of Great Bri-
tain ; and, in consequence, very considerable interest, with
its innumerable ramifications, was set to work to secure the
election of these unfortunate children.
HA.MBURGII, May 28.—The prospects of the farmers
throughout the whole of the north of Germany are brilliant,
the growing crops being in the most satisfactory condition.
The Sehweidnitz wool fair begins to-day. This is a small
fair, preceding the more important one held at Breslaw.
Targe transactions have, however, already taken place at
Schweidnitz;almost all the parcels of wool brought to the
'fair having been immediately disposed of, at the prices paid
last year, and in some instances even higher rates were
acceded to.

THE BOROUGH OF SANDWICH.—Mr. Budworth, a gen-
tleman of large property, and highly respected for his talents
and sterling good old English feeling, has just put forth an
address to the electors of the borough of Sandwich, Deal,
and Wollner, ou independent conservative principles. It is
Ytßtts TbrAmg.z.
A uAnour declaring that he will make way for a whig puor
candidate. It is understood that Mr. Budworth has been
eminently suecessful in his canvassing the electors.
SHABBY.—THE BOLTON CORPORATION.—This corpora-
tion has appointed to the office of coroner, Mr. John Taylor,
solicitor, of Bolton, but on the understood condition, that
Mr. Taylor is to defend, at his own cost, any suit or suits at
law which may be instituted against him for the alleged illegal
usurpation of the office, arising out of the supposed illegality
of the charter lately granted to that borough. The conserva-
tives, as a body, have commenced proceedings against the
corporation, with the view to upset the charter altogether.
The office is supposed as not likely to yield £5O per annum.
Lord Brougham may well be an advocate for popular edu-
cation when he sees how easily the ignorant people of the
larger towns are deluded by their leaders into acts of which
they have reason ultimately to be ashamed. What will he
think of their gullibility on perusing the list of addresses
presented at her majesty's late levee, expressive of admiration
of her majesty's promptness and energy in repelling an attack
upon her personal liberty in the choice of her majesty's do-
mestic friends and associates ?

A STRANGE DEBUT.—An actor, who two years ago per-
formed in secondary characters at the Havre Theatre, re-
cently transferred his talents to a Belgian theatre. Learning
that a formidable cabal opposed his reception, he made his
debut with the following singular address to the ungracious
public :—Ladies and gentlemen, I am aware that you won't
have me; be pleased therefore to hiss me at once. It will
save me the mortification of appearing three times before you,
and save yourselves the tedium of enduring my presence so
often." The request was forthwith complied with ; for five
minutes together the hissing was unanimous, after which the
artiste courteously bowed and withdrew.

INQUEST BY DEPUTY.—On Saturday last an inquest was
held at the house of Mr. George Mills, the George Inn,
Tonge, near Middleton, before a brother of Mr. Rutter, the
coroner! upon the body of a child, seventeen months old,
daughter of James Collinge, Mill Fold, Alkrington, who was
found drowned in a mug half-full of water in the loom-house.
It is supposed the deceased had been paddling. in the water,
and, over-balancing herself, had fallen over into the mug.
A verdict of " Accidentally drowned" was returned. It was
stated that the reason of Mr. Rutter's brother officiating was,
that Mr. Rutter was at Bolton.—Manchester Guardian.
Persons who affect to be friends of Lord John Russell
have used him very ill. They pretend that in his speech on
Tuesday evening, upon proposed alterations in the reform
act, "he spoke in a double capacity !" They try to show
that the views of Lord John Russell, member for Stroud, are
in favour of certain changes, to which Lord John Russell,
the government leader of the House of Commons, and
Secretary of State for the home department, cannot consent.
They represent Lord John Russell, in his official capacity,
as triumphing over Lord John Russell in his individual capa-
city. They acknowledge that the Secretary of State for the
home department has voted against that which they maintain
to be the opinion of Lord John Russell, member for Stroud.
All this is done by persons who affect to be Lord John Rus-
sell's friends! Now the plain statement of the case is this :
either the statements and representations to which we have
called attention are utterly false, or Lord John Russell is
an honest man. There is no escape from this alternative.—
Post.

In the Commons on Wednesday evening, on the motion of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, seventy thousand pounds
were voted from crown lands revenue, to build stables at
Windsor Castle. These ought to be commodious stables,
and there can be no doubt that the country is blest with an
economical government. The stables that were good enough
for George the Third—a good horseman and a zealous eques-
tr:itn—for George the Fourth,
,proverbially' an capennive
Prince—for William the Fourth, whose stud it was thought
too costly to retain—the stables that have been hitherto found
sufficient for the quadrupedal section of the household (at
present certainly the best section) -are now found to be too
mean. " Gentlemen, we claim your support as the advocates
of economy and retrenchment," was the whig and radical
appeal at every hustings in 1837. Seventy thousand pounds
for building new stables at one of the five or siiv royal palaces
is the illustration of the sincerity of this appeal. Where was
Mr. Hume ?

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE SHREWSBURY LOYAL DE-
CLARATION.—Every one of right feeling and good taste will
read with delight and admiration 'Sir Robert Peel's manly
and eloquent reply to. the Shrewsbury resolutions ; one passage
deserves particular attention. " But I must contend that if
I deemed it necessary to advise any changes in those (the
household) appointments, I am much less responsible for the
necessity than those ministers who had not merely given to
this department of the household a political character, but
who had established its immediate connection with the ad-
ministration, by permitting their nearest female relatives to
occupy the chief appointments." The question was happily
put at the Common Council meeting. Would Lord Mel-
bourne and Lord Nortnanby consent to take office if Lady
Peel and the Marchioness of Douro, and Mrs. G. R. Dawson
were to invest the Queen as her Majesty's only domestic
society ? If Sir R. Peel and the Duke of Wellington had
made such appointments, would it not be said of them, with
reason, that they were contriving to perpetuate their tenure
of office at the expense of compromising the Queen's feelings,
upon their own hypothesis that her Majesty's feelings are
implicated ?—Standard.

A BRurE.—On Monday last, upwards of 40 young men
assembled in a field at Tonge, near Middleton, where they
had two barrels of ale, and continued drinking for several
hours, when two of the party began to fight. A young man,
17 years of age, named John Collinge, employed as a black-
smith on the Manchester and Leeds railway, was returning
home, and having to pass the men, he attempted to separate
them, when a single man 34 years of age, named Thomas
Thorpe, drew out a sharp pointed knife, and stabbed Collinge
under the left shoulder blade, making a cut three inches deep.
Collinge was immediately taken to Mr. Taylor, surgeon who
dressed the wound, and said the man was in danger. He was
then conveyed home, and one of the constables of Tonge
took Thorpe into custody; and on Tuesday, the prisoner, the
constable, and Collinge's parents, met at a beer shop, and
after drinking six hours, the matter was settled on the follow-
ing terms :—Thorpe paid £l, and promised to pay all expenses
of the surgeon and constable, and allow Collinge Ds. per
week till he is able to work. •n Tuesday and Wednesday he
was in a very dangerous state, and o n Thursday he was still
confined to his bed. It is not the first time Thorpe has at-
tempted to stab persons. There was one man whom he in-
jured, for which he was imprisoned, and the person will be a
cripple through the injury while he lives. The brute is allowed
to go at large without appearing before a magistrate:—Bolton
Chronicle.

The brig Ann, Trotter, master, has sailed from Tralee, with
over 100 passengers for Quebec, principally wealthy farmers
with large families.—LimericrStandard.
We understand that the petition from this city against the
abandoned government plan of national education, received
upwards of 12,000 signatures in a few days.—Bristol Journal.
The Carlow. Election Committee has now sat thirty-five
entire days. The returned member was in a majority of one
vote at the close of Friday's proceedings. About £B,OOO
have been spent already.
ASSAULT UPON A MAGISTRATE.—Mr. Richard Evans, of
the Haydock Colliery, near Newton, appeared before the ma-
gistrates at the Warrington petty sessions, on Monday, to
answer the charge of assaulting Henry Critchley, Esq. one of
the magistrates for the county, a gentleman residing at Heyes
Green, near the colliery. Mr. Critchley, having been sworn,
stated that there had long existed a dispute between himself
and Mr. Evans, as to a right of water. On Monday week
witness went to see Mr. Evans about it ; anti, finding he could
get no redress, he went to the bank of the reservoir, and be-
gan to cut an opening so as to admit of the water passing
from Mr. Evans's premises into those of witness. Mr.'Evans
called out to him to desist. He proceeded, and on that Mr.
Evans came up to him and struck him a blow on the chest,
and knocked him from the top of an embankment five feet
high into the ditch below. Witness got up again ; and, being
considerably irritated by Mr. Evans's conduct, he did as most
men would—tried to aim a blow at him with the spud he held
in his hand, but missed him ; and then Mr. Evans came up,
rushed upon him, and took the spud from his hand. In de-
fence, Mr Evans denied that any assault had been committed.
He had, as he had a right to do, endeavoured to protect his
property, and bad pushed the defendant, who tumbled down
the embankment, which was no more than two feet high.--
Mr. Critchley then came running at him with a spud five feet
long, with iron at the end, and he certainly did take it from
him.—Mr. Evans said he had witnesses to prove his state-
ment ; but Mr. Critchley only requiring that he should be
bound over to appear at the quarter sessions to answer the
charge, the magistrates thought it advisable not to go further
into the case. Mr. Critchley afterwards stated, that he had
never before a quarrel with a neighbour ; and he had no wish
to prosecute the case further, provided Mr. Evans would.make
a suitable apology.—Mr. Evans said, he had committed no
assault, and should make no apology. He then entered into
sureties, himself in £lOO, and John Rylands, Esq. in £5O,
for his appearance at the sessions.—Manchester Paper.
REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON.—The Morning Herald
of Thursday gives currency to a rumour that our member,
Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood, is likely to receive an appointment
in the colonial department; but on what authority such ru-
mour is founded it is not stated. We think it requires no
great .depth of penetration or foresight to see that Lord Nor-
manby holds the colonial, seals by a very uncertain tenure ;
and on that account it would seem to be a questionable kind
of policy in Sir Peter Fleetwood taking office under such cir-
cumstances. But there will be another consideration not
undeserving the attention of the hon. member—he will have
to vacate his seat for Preston, and his re-election for the
same place is not a thing to be calculated upon with unerring
certainty. His defeat might be brought about in the easiest
manner possible, and that too by two ways :—the numerous
and respectable class of voters to whom lie owed his first
election for Preston might, and as a body they very probably
would, withhold their support from him, or they may throw
it into the scale of his opponent, (if they did not think pro-
per to bring forward a candidate of their own), and in either
ease he would most certainly lose his election. For this
reason, then, we shall hesitate in giving credit to the rumour.
The present government cannot afford to risk the loss of a
vote in the House of Commons ; and great risk will attend
the hon. baronet's next return for Preston.—Preston Pilot.
IMPORTANT TO WATCHMAKERS.—Mr. Bethell, watch-
maker' of Bridge-street, Warrington, appeared before the
magistrates on Monday week, to show cause why he refused
to deliver up a watch belonging to a countryman residing at
Croft, in this county. On Saturday week the complainant
had been drinking pretty freely at the Pied Bull, Warrington,
yet, according to his own account, he was not so intoxicated
as not to know what he was about. He started for his home
about seven o'clock in the evening, and got there before sun-
set. He then discovered that his watch was gone from his
pocket, and the fob torn. Only one person, a neighbour, of
whom he entertained no suspicion, had been in his company,
and he had only stopped once on the road home. On the
following Monday, the watch was sold at Mr. Bethell's shop
for £2 10s., by a person who gave a fictitious name and ad-
dress, and very shortly afterwards the complainant gave no-
tice of its having been stolen. Mr. Stubs said that it was
impossible for watchmakers to carry on their business with-
out having transactions, like the present. A fair price had
been given for the watch, and the complainant must endea-
vour to find the thief. The other magistrates concurred in
the opinion, and the watch was ordered to remain in Mr.
Bethell's hands, unless the complainant thought fit to refund
Mr. Bethell the £2 10s. paid for the watch to the party sup-
posed to have stolen it.
GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—The last con-
tract or section, to complete this Railway from Darlington to
York, will be let next week. The directors of this company,
accompanied by their secretary, engineer, and land agent,
made a progress through that portion of their line which ex-
tends.from Darlington to York a short time ago. After ex-
amining the two contracts in the county of Durham, they
proceeded to the handsome bridge over the Tees, at Croft, and
from thence walked along the line to Northallerton, each sec-
tion of it being now in a great state of forwardness, and ap-
proaching very near to each other, making a minute inspec-
tion of all the works as they passed, and the following day
they visited the contracts near Thirsk. The directors were
gratified in ascertaining by their personal inspection, the rapid
progress making in the cutting, embankments, and bridges,
and the contractors received every encouragement to push
forward their contracts with vigour. The junction of the
contract. No. 6, from the North, with that of No. 7, near
the Castle Hills, Northallerton, will take place this week.—
Leeds Intelligencer.
PROGRESS OF POPERY.—A sort of hallucination seems to
have come over the Roman catholics in this country, that the
" old" religion, as they term it, is about to revive. There
is no harm in going into a catholic chapel ; and the gorgeous
style in which they now celebrate their service in London on
every occasion, backed as it is by vocal music in the best man-
ner that foreign artistes can give us it, would well repay any
ane fara sli2-ht violation of religious feeling. But even that
2e, nuceio.onid
tAtii ier
flock. The tenor of these homilies (the only part of the Ro-
man catholic service given in English) is that the " aposto-
lical," as the priests call it, and the " old," as the lay catho-
lies call it, religion is once more asserting her supremacy and
infallibility. How the lay catholiCs can be so gulled as to be-
lieve all this is astonishing; and nothing but the activity of
their priests, and the lavish expenditure of the aristocracy be-
longing to their creed, could lead them into such an error as
to indulge in the fancy that all the world is suddenly going to
become catholic in their sense of the term. The intened
consecration in July will, of course, perpetuate the delusion.
A papist bishop is now to be appointed for the districts of
Cumberland, Westmoreland, Northumberland, and Durham ;
and another specially for Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire,
are moreover to be united in one vicariate ; and in a few years
we shall see the whole country thus parcelled out for the
operations of a papist priesthood. That the Roman catho-
lics are not trifling about the matter is evident from the struc-
ture of the many catholic chapels which have been built during
the last 14 years. All that money, human labour, and ar-
chitectural skill can do, has been done to make them im-
posing and enduring. The writer of these few remarks was
kindly invited by the present Lord Clifford, about ten years
ago, to look over a catholic chapel then in the course of
structure, at Irby, in Lincolnshire. Irby is a small village ;
and yet here was a chapel raised by one enthusiastic indi-
vidual, which for design, cost, and magnificence, would put
to shame the very best of our recently-built metropolitan
churches. On expressing some surprise at the vast expense
of raising such a structure in stone, when the adjacent field
would have supplied material for white bricks, his lordship
made this remarkable answer :—" You protestants, sir, pre-
fer brick—we catholics prefer stone ; and, if we both live long
enough, we shall see whether stone is not preferred before
brick after all." Of course, as a guest, no reply was made,
to this sanguine sally ; but it may tend to show protestants
the long-headed zeal with which Roman catholics, even in
this country, contemplate ultimate ascendancy.—Herald.

It is impossible for any one to reflect upon Lord Nor-
manby's demeanour in Jamaica and Ireland, and to read
his wretched novels, without coming to the conclusion that
he is, as the Rev. Sidney Smith would say, a " regular fool."
He and his lady absurdly may believe that a Radical House
of Commons is really attainable by a proper abuse of the
Queen-'s name. Let them try : but that the trial may be a
fair one, let the people know the whole truth ; and that they
may, we- must again urge the necessity of giving the most ex-
tensive circulation to Lord Brougham's speech. Now is the
time to obviate the effect of " enormous lying" or " mysti-
fication." When the writs shall be issued it will be too late,
for men always read with suspicion at an election time, and
radicals and whig-radicals will be found at every hustings of
the kingdom to say, and to swear, if necessary, that the speech,
if then first promulgated, is a forgery ; and wretches will be
found to believe them, or, which is practically the same thing,
to pretend to believe them. We implore of our conservative
friends not to lose an instant in making this provision against
the effect of falsehood at an election, which we firmly believe,
and have the best reason for believing, not to be three weeks
distant.—Standard.

If the Ministerial newspapers give anything like a fair in-
dication of the state of the ministry, that company of per-
sonages must be in a very uncomfortable condition. They
now see nothing for it but to follow the suggestion cf the
renowned Daniel Whittle Harvey, and to make a coalition.
The following is from the Globe (Ministerial paper) of last
evening :—" For our own part we are very much inclined to
believe that new political combinations will be the ultimate
consequence of all the ' organic' squabbling in the liberal
party. Toryism cannot assume power. Neither can radi-
calism. Neither can the present ministers keep their ground,
if nightly_ badgered in this war. As to the value of all the
talk about ' a reform of the reform act,' we think very con-
temptuously of it indeed. Bad workmen complain of their
tools. We agree mainly with Mr. Harvey. He was not
one of those who considered that without a further reform of
that House they were incapable of proceeding with objects
of useful legislation. Far otherwise. Though he was anxious
to advance the objects which he had noticed, yet he thought
that there were in the House elements of sound legislation.' "
And so the whigs want a coalition, do they ? Les pouvres
hommes ! As Sir Edward Bulwer says in some of his flash
novels, " Don't they wish they may get ?"--Post.

SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE.—On Tuesday evening, a
young man, a stranger, went into the Shooting Saloon,
Jamaica-street, and tried a shot with a rifle. He then took
a seat, and remained upwards of an-hour, seemingly amusing
himself by observing the firing of various people who were
practising in the Saloon. During the whole of this time he
appeared perfectly calm, and made frequent remarks on the
shots that were successively fired. The party who had been
practising ultimately retired from the Saloon, and he was
left alone with the keeper, when he proposed to try a shot with
a pistol. The weapon was loaded accordingly, and put into
his hand, and he took the usual position for aiming at the
bull's eye on the target. The keeper turned for a moment
to mark the shot upon a board, the pistol went off, and the
stranger fell to the ground dead. He had, it appears, placed
,the muzzle of the piece close to his mouth, and the bullet,
going upwards, penetrated the brain. A document was found
in one of the pockets of the deceased, which led to inquiries
being made at a person in Glasgow, from whom it was ascer-
tained that his name was Daniel IVl`Nicol, and that he had
lately been employed as a waiter in Dunfermline. For some
time past, however, he has been out of employment.—Scottish
Guardian.

A HILL ON FIRE.—In the country places immediatly ad-
joining Waterford the inhabitants gave vent to their loyalty
on her Majesty's-birth day by bonfires, which were lighted
up in every quarter, and spread from hill to hill for a wide
distance. About ten o'clock our attention was attracted to
an immense conflagration which appeared to envelope that
well-known elevation " Mount Misery," which overhangs
the city on the Kilkenny side of the river. The mount had
all the appearance of a miniature Vesuvius. From the apex
the flames shot forth with a vehement ardour and dazzling
brightness, whilst along the sides nearest the river it ran si-
milar to the burning lava ; it was indeed a grand, a magni-
ficent spectacle, but how to account for it was the question.
It appears that in the earlier part of ttie night some children
had ignited some combustibles on the side of the mount,
which is thickly studded with furze, and that the fire imper-
ceptibly insinuated itself among the furze until all attempts
to arrest its power were unavailing. Crowds of persons con-
gregated to witness the conflagration, and many of fellow
citizens were quickly on the spot, who with the cheerful co-
operation of the inhabitants did what they could to allay the
velocity of the flames ; it was not, however, until about mid-
night that the flames wasted their fury, to the evident joy and
satisfaction of all who had awaited their expiration. Waterford
Chronicle.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.