The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

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The Hon. Octavius Duncombe, brother to theilitrtbil•
member, has been elected for the North Riding of Yorkshire.
On Sunday week the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells at-
tained his 80th year. His lordship is in excellent health.
CURRENCY.—Since July, 1839, the currency has been ex-
tremely limited in amount. In July, 1840, it did not exceed
£36,000,000 for the United Kingdom, and in July, 1841, it
was only £35,444,783.

The Right Hon. J. C. Herries has come forward as a
candidate for Ripon, in the room of Sir E. Sugden, who has
accepted the Chancellorship of Ireland.
OLD AGE.—Selezza do Pedraida praising an old lady for
her beauty, she answered that " beauty was incompatible
with old age." To which Selezza replied, "We say, beau-
tiful as an angel,' and yet the angels of all creatures are the
most ancient."

THE REV. H. E. HEAD.—The Bishop of Exeter has at
length thought it necessary to institute proceedings against
the Rev. H. F. Head, rector of Feniton. This gentleman
has frequently attracted the attention of the public, but the
last cause of complaint arises from some remarks which Mr.
Head has thought proper to make in a pamphlet which he
has recently published, and the purport of which may be
gathered from the title, "a view of the duplicity of the
present system of episcopal ministration."
Among the extraordinary anomalies of the present day is
that of the authors of the reform act vehemently protesting
that the reformed house does not represent the people or
public opinion. If this were true, what would it amount to
but an acknowledgement that their own much vaunted act
has been a failure and a cheat ? The truth however is, that
as long as the constituency under the reform act produced a
Whig-radical majority, the measure was all perfection ; but
now that the reverse is the case, its very authors are driven
to the shabby recourse of "crying stinking fish."
INTENDED STEAMERS ON WINDERMERE LAKE.—(From
a Correspondent.)—lt is rumoured that the Fort Fleetwood.
Company, together with several individuals at Ulverston, are
getting up a project which, if carried into effect, will cause a
greater influx of company to the lakes of Westmorland and
Cumberland, through Fleetwood and tiverston, and which,
it is expected, will rival, if not eclipse, the present line of
road through Kendal and Penrith northward. Their plan is
to cut a ship canal from Bardsea, through Ulverston, to the
foot of Windermere Lake, at Newby-hridge. and p!y the
steamers direct from Fleetwood to Ambleside Waterhead. It
is also intended to spend £20,000 in making a good road over
Kirkstone to Patterdale, on which omnibuses and coaches
may run to Penrith, and thence to Carlisle, Scotland, &c.
AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Friday week five pilots en-
barked in a six-oared gig from Guernsey, in search of vessels.
Three of them successively boarded and were engaged by as
many vessels ; the other two were overtaken on their return
homeward by a tremendous hurricane, accompanied with tor-
rents of rain, vivid lightning, and heavy thunder. It has
since been ascertained that they were driven on the coast of

France, as the pilot-boat was found by one 4>
guard off Flamanville, with the two men dead. 'I
doubtless, been struck by the electric fluid, since the
the boat was rent to pieces, the mast was standing, and the
two men were in a sitting posture at the foot of it, having se-
veral livid marks about their heads and other parts of their
bodies. The boat had shipped no water, and the provisions
were not exhausted.

A few evenings ago, a well-dressed man, whose name and
person were unknown, having enveloped his head in a hand-
kerchief, laid it upon the railway between Brussels and Ma-
lines, in order that it might be crushed by the first train.
This took place, and the unfortunate man, in whose pockets
no money of any kind was found, was buried at Ever.
SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.—On the 9th of September,
James Capp, gamekeeper to R. C. Vaughan, Esq., Burlton
Hall, Salop, found a covey of partridges, consisting of eleven
birds, in a small field of standing rye, at Sleape ; with the
first barrel he killed nine, and with the second he killed one,
and wounded one, which flew to the end of the field, when it
rose, and Capp killed it, being the last of the eleven.
DR. MARSHAL HALL ON MEDICAL REFORM.—This ably
physician has addressed a small pamphlet of some 16 pages
to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., on the subject of
medical reform. The doctor says—" It is no part of the ob-
jects of the sincere medical reformer to injure existing in-
stitutions ; his object is rather to introduce a perfect and just
reform in them, whilst he would legislate on just and gene-
rous principles for the whole profession, and for the public
at large." He then proceeds, to develope his plan for re-
form, which is based on a general incorporation of all the
members of the medical profession, doing away entirely
with all needless and invidious distinctions among prac-
titioners, making it incumbent upon every individual to be-
come a member of " the faculty," which act is to entitle
him to practise with eqal rights, in all parts of the empire;
but honours must be sought for from the existing reformed
institutions. The present medical and surgical schools, with
the universities, are to be unaffected, " the faculty being an
institution for examination and licensing only." Druggists
are to be incorporated among themselves ; are to be pre-
vented from practising ; but are to be protected in the sale of
drugs. The doctor's plan is further developed in " Obser-
vations addressed to the Provincial Medical Association. "
which are added in an appendix.—Times.
SKETCHES BY "H. B."—" Beginning in Good Old
English Style," is the title of one of the last of this amusing
artist's productions. It represents a pugilistic contest about
to take place between the late Secretary for the Colonies and
the present First Lord of the Treasury. The Duke of Wel-
lington acts as bottle-holder to the baronet, and the Lords
Melbourne and Palmerston are to "pick up" the little man,
whom his adversary is about to "floor." An Irish bully is
exclaiming, " Now, Johnny, mind your hits," and a stout
gentleman urges the combatants to proceed to business. There
is not much humour in this sketch, but the likenesses are
good. Two others are better. " The Fox and the Crow "
represents the little pugilist of the above-mentioned sketch
as a fox cajoling the crow, who is his antagonist, to sing.
The crow has opened his mouth to emit his notes, and in so
doing lets slip a piece of cheese, on which is written " Sliding
Scale." This sketch is spirited and humorous. The third
exhibits " A Pair of Sad Boys "—viz., Lords Melbourne
and J. Russell walking arm-in-arm. They frown in grim
resentment at a butcher's boy, who puts the homely but very
pertinent question, " Does your mother know you're out ?"
SLAVERY IN BRITISH INDIA.—A numerous deputation
from the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society, accompanied by several members of Parliament,
had an interview on 'Wednesday, with the right hon. Sir R.
Peel,:Bart., to present a memorial on slavery in British
India. The deputation was most courteously received, and
they were informed by the right hon. baronet that previous
to the intimation of the committee of their desire of an in-
terview, he had directed the attention of the noble lord the
President of the Board of Control to the subject of the me-
morial, as deserving the most serious attention of the go-
vernment.

Luring the time that Sir John Campbell was Attorney-
General he was ordered by the House of Commons to
prosecute a Dr. Webster for alleged bribery, on the occasion
of the St. Alban's election. Has anything yet been done in
the matter ? One can easily understand that the whigs would,
in all probability, wish to stifle further proceedings, but that
is no reason why the order of the house should not be
acted upon by the conservatives.—Correspondent of the
Morning Post.

INCREASE OF THE ROYAL NAVY.—Thursday, the Ad-
miralty had quite a warlike appearance in consequence of
the number of bills stuck up at the gateway of the names of
ships put in commission for foreign service, and notice to
petty officers, able-bodied seamen, and seamen, lads, and
musicians wanted to join them. At Woolwich, Sheerness,
Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth dockyards, the great-
est activity prevails in getting them ready for service ; but
some difficulty is experienced in obtaining able seamen at
those ports, and at the general rendezvous, Queen's Head,
Tower-hill, as there is a great demand at present for the
merchant-service and American.—Nornikist Chronicle.
SUICIDE OF A CHlLD.—Yesterday afternoon the following
determined act of sell-destruction was committed by a girl
about 13 years of age, named Mary Cattle, or Callow, residing
with her parents, in Glocester-cottage, William-street, Mai-
den-lane:--In the morning, the deceased having accidentally
broken a window, her mother threatened to tell her father,
a vender,of catsmeat, on his return home. and also threatened
to give her a beating herself. The girl said nothing, but
watching an opportunity, opened the street door, and ran
away. She was not missed for some time, but the mother
wanting her, called her several times, but receiving no answer,
she began to search about the place, and went to several of
the neighbours' houses, inquiring if they had seen her. No
tidings could be learned of her until about one o'clock,
when some boys who were playing on some dust hills, near
the Maiden-lane basin of the Regent's Canal, saw her deli-
berately plunge into the water, and almost immediately dis-
appear. They informed some men who were at the Albion
public-house of the circumstance, who procured the drags
from that house, and -after using them for some time, suc-
ceeded in getting the body out. It was taken to the above
house, but all attempts at resuscitation were fruitless. The
deceased, no doubt, committed the act under the fear of the
ill-treatment of her father, who, the neighbours state, is in
the habit of beating his children in a very unmerciful man-
ner, so much so that a short time since one of his boys was
beat in so cruel a manner that he ran away, and was absent
for three week. On the fact of her daughter having com-
mitted suicide being communicated to the mother, she be-
came greatly excited, attributing to herself the cause of de-
ceased's death.—Times of Thursday.
PEEL POLICY.—The speech of Mr. Yates Peel, at Tarn-
worth election, affords satisfactory evidence to those who look
for literal explanations of the policy about to be pursued by
Sir Robert Peel's government towards Ireland, that it is de-
signed to be, in the strictest sense of the words, impartial
and even-handed. The following passage is from Mr. Yates
Peel's address :—All men might not be agreed as to what
Justice to Ireland meant. If Justice to Ireland meant the
dealing of ' heavy blows and great discouragements' to the
Protestant Church,—if it meant that the Established church
was to be robbed of its revenue—if it meant that Irish pro-
testant noblemen and their agents were to be murdered in
open day, that the assassinations were to be witnessed by
many, and that the assassins were to be suffered to escape
—no man interfering; that no persons were to dare to point
outthe murderer—if it meant that when a tenant gave a vote
to a Protestant landlord, his house was to be marked
with a death's head and cross-bones,' and himself pointed
out to popular execration; if this were what it meant, he
did not know that he should himself be any great advocate
for ' Justice to Ireland.' But, if it meant that no man should
suffer on account of his religious opinions, whether Protes-
tant or Catholic,—if it meant that the rights of the Catholic
should be respected,—if it meant that the mansion of an
Irish nobleman, or the cabin of an Irish peasant, should be
as sacred as the residence of an English nobleman, or the
cottage of an English labourer,—if it meant that the provi-
sions of any acts of parliament beneficial to Great Britain
should be extended to Ireland,—then he should raise his
voice in favour of ' Justice to Ireland as loudly as any per-
son."—Which party can desire more than justice ? Not the
Protestants of Ireland, certainly ; and should Mr. O'Con-
nell's deluded followers clamour for more, they will find they
will not succeed in extorting it.

SLIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES.--Sir Walter Scott, walking
one day along the banks of the Yarrow, where Mungo Park
was born, saw the traveller throwing stones into the water,
and anxiously watching the bubbles that succeeded. Scott
inquired the object of his occupation. " I was thinking,
answered Park, " how often 1 had thus tried to sound the
rivers in Africa, by calculating how long a time had elapsed
before the bubbles rose to the surface." It was a slight cir-
cumstance, but the traveller's safety frequently
depended tio portion
upon it. In a watch, the main spring forms a small ipor
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public inn changes the
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fortune of an empire. If the naoseof
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