The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Mt THE PROTECTION V.
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BRITISH INDUSTRY AND CAPITAL.—A long list of 0°
scriptions to this newly-formed society appears ill t4e
',
Times of Saturday. Among the £5O donors are the Dr
of Richmond, Lord Scarsdale, W. Long, Esq.,
Earl of Normanton, &c. The following donations_tr,e
from Liverpool gentlemen :—Sir John Gladstone,
Harold Littledale, Esq., £lO, William Mann, Esq., .4,.41"
Laurence Peel, Esq., £lO, W. R. Sandbach, Esq.'
Charles Turner, Esq., £lO, Liverpool Constitutional Pl'.
ciety, £lO. fr at
It is proposed to hold an " Anglo-Saxon Jubilee,
Watage, in honour of Alfred the Great, (born at Wanfilltei
849.) The time suggested is the middle of October, 01
is believed that the birth-day of Alfred was between the
26th and 29th of October, and the latter day is well knOll
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to have been the date of his death, in 901. Is,,'
hoped by the originatiors of this project that a W"'
fund may be raised towards erecting at Wantage
:nodal to record the commemoration; and that a ?Lae'
nation may be given to the Royal Literary fund in
name of the Scholar-King.
The failure of Mr. G. T. Braine, who was extensivelf
engaged in the India trade, took place in July last yew'
His friends then applied for assistance to the Bank 01
England, as it was estimated his estate would pay 20kilit
the pound, and leave a large balance in his favour, °lllO
the application was not successful. Within twelve ronuLo
from the period of the meeting of creditors, Mr. 131111:
has, with the assistance of Mr. J. E. Coleman, hi-5,11.1
countant, liquidated at the rate of 20s. in the pound, vy:.
interest, and will ultimately possess for his own bolo"'
surplus amount of £120,000 to £150,000. liftr
PARTRIDGE KILLING EXTRAORDINARY.—Mr.
butcher, on Sunday morning last, about four o'cloc r .
while standing in an orchard adjoining the railway betwel
Gloucester and Br'stol, observed a partridge rise lust
before the down mail train, and it appeared as if directly
struck down by the engine, which was at full speed. 311.'
Clift proceeded t the line, and there found a covey of file
partridges lying dead. What is the strangest part of the
matter is, that only one of the birds appeared to bale
been touched by the train ; the others seem to have been
frightened to death.—Gloucester Chronicle.
EXECUTION.—On Thursday Rebecca Smith was ell'
cuted at Devizes, for poisoning her children. She owe,
a full confession of her crimes, and appeared very penitee"
for them. The numbers present were countless. T_Ahe
unfortunate woman, on the drop, was firm and comanseu,i
The rope was round her neck in a moment ; she clasped
and raised her hands together as if in fervent prayer, an
after a slight struggle she was launched into eternitY'
Her husband was an idle drunken man, and never brought
a farthing to his wife, and there is no doubt that her lur
vations drove her to the commission of the crimes. if
Mr. CHARLES BUTLER.—The appeal made on bells
of this gentleman, through the medium of an advertise"
melt in our first page, is deserving attention, on public
as well as on private grounds. Having suffered from the
effects and insufficiency of our criminal laws, Mr. 13utler
has endeavoured, and is still earnestly seeking the right
of appeal in criminal cases—compensation for Judiclaf
error and injustice, and the reversal of the record o,
guilt, in cases of innocence—all very necessary reforms 01
the present system.—Coventry Standard.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening, the
cry of " Fire" was raised at the top of the High-street
Oxford, when a large number of persons rushed towel
a public-house, known as the Jolly Postboys, the bar o
which appeared to be in flames. It turned out, however.
that the landlady, Mrs. Galloway, having occasion t°
fetch some beer from the cellar, had placed a candle oi
the stairs, and on passing by, her clothes caught fire, au
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she was speedily enveloped in flames. She rusted uP
stairs immediately, and was about going into the
but was stopped and hurried into the bar. After linger'
ing in great agony through the night, the poor woman
expired next morning.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE—GIRL LOST IN THE MOORS!.
—On the 7th instant, a young woman, about eighteen a
nineteen years of age, named Isabella Paton, left St.
Colmes, a village about four miles to the east of Fraser:
burgh, with the intention of proceeding to Pennan, abeu`
seventeen miles distant. It is not known at what time
she left St. Colmes, but she did not reach Pennan that
evening. On the following day, she was met about a mile
and a half from Pennan by the party to whose house she
"quite
was going, and who describes her as being then
cheery and happy." It will be remembered that this was
the day on which the heavy fogs of the week commenceelj
and whether she had lost her way in consequence, or 1111. t!
gone out of the road on purpose, it is not known ; but n,
is most probable that the former was the case. It Is
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known that on the day she purchased sixpence worth t!,,
bread from a woman selling it by the way ; but from that
time till Monday morning, nothing was seen or heard,'"
her. It is conjectured that she had continued walking the
whole of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, during which
the fog continued, and on which days, owing to the fol
and the nature of the country—which is wild bog an
deep glen—it would have been extremely difficult for her
to have made her way to any house. But whether she
walked or not, it is certain that, houseless and unshel-
tered, she encountered all the fury of the terrible thunder
which,
storm of the Saturday evening—a thunder-storm street,
for violence, has seldom been exceeded, and exposure If'
which, in the circumstances in which the girl wasp lsege
was not unlikely permanently to injure the intellect, 1
was not affected previously. As we have said, she 0",.119
found on Monday morning, the 13th instant. When W__,,s" "
covered, she was lying on the moss of Kinbean, and I
found by some of the servants belonging to the farm °f
that name, which is situated on the property of Troup, 13
the parish of Gamrie. Having been for six nights expose
to wind and weather, and with, so far as known, no Cood,
save the sixpenny-worth of bread already mentioned, s 11:
was in a most dreadfully weak state. Her clothes, %chic.
had been drenched, had begun to dry upon her, and he'
boots were perfectly worn away with wandering In ri
moss. Every effort was made to restore her exhaustedframe. She is so far recovered as to be able to speak, but
it is evident that the mind is affected. At times she takes
fits of raving, and gives utterance to the most extraordi-
nary statements.—Banffshire Journal.

SUFFICIENT MONEY V. THE STATE OFBARTER'

Barter is an exchange of goods for goods.
But we cannot carry on au extensive trade, such as es"
ists in this country, by means of barter.
Then we must have the representation of goods portable
and transferable.

This is money—and might be paper money.
Quere.—Why should a banker have interest for making
this certificate ?

He did not back it with value, but the manufacturer•
The man who makes goods makes money ; he ma.
the substance, and the banker charges interest for nlakll3s'
the shadow ! J. 0.