The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

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The American chapel is a remarkably neat little building.
Besides these, there is no other place of worship in Sin-
gapore worthy of notice.— Travels in the Far East.

AMUSEMENTS OF A POPISH PEOPLE.—The barbarous
and ungraceful mirth of the Lisbon carnival was not al-
tered in the least for the better this year, but considerably
for the worse. The elegant and imaginative resources of
this period consist in several thousands of people pelting
each other for many successive days with beans, rotten
eggs, dead rats, soot, and wat r. The streets during the
past week have been strewn with beans which, if not thus
squandered, might have afforded a meal to every poor
person in the metropolis. Dead and even live rats have
been let down from windows at intervals upon the heads
of the passengers. From my balcony I reckoned twelve
dozen cf eggs which were flung within a few hours on the
Sunday before Lent. The walls were all plastered with
the yolks, where they did not decorate Lisbonian noses.
Many young fellows of taste poured dozens of them in
succession into the windows of their cnamourates—an odd
way of bringing them into subjection to the `• matrimo-
nial yoke." In a central street, a man thus foolishly en-
gaged lost his balance while intruding his boisterous mirth
upon the passengers. He had stretched out too far in
flinging a handful of beans, fell into the street from an
upper window, and was killed on the spot. The unfortu-
nate man was the father of a numerous family of children,
whom he has left in the greatest distress. It is to be
hoped that government will take measures to suppress
next year the orgies of the carnival both here and at
Oporto, which have latterly risen to a shocking excess,
and are irreconcileable with the slightest pretension to
civilization. A club of young men, resembling that
Thunder Club, of which Gonzale Bravo was a leading
member, at Madrid, traversed the streets of Lisbon for
the three days preceding Ash-Wednesday, accompanied
by servants carrying baskets of eggs, and even followed
by seges, or hackney-cabs, in which were other basketfuls
of these disgusting missiles, and indulged themselves with
the Hottentot amusement of flinging them with all their
force at the windows and balconies as they passed along.
It is impossible to describe the hideous appearance which
the walls and windows of the metropolis thus plastered
presented. The contemptuous waste of food was illus-
trated by a barbarous indifference to the appeals of human
distress ; and one young sprig of nobility, while in the act
of removing in a basket from a tenda, or chandler's shop,
all the eggs which it contained, to be used as missiles,
was implored by a beggar woman for a solitary copper,
which he refused ! In addition to the loss of life which I
have already recorded, I am informed that the life of a
woman was sacrificed through a fall, occasioned by her
stepping back in fright, upon seeing one of these Bayarda
firing at her. Many ladies of respectability had eggs
burst full in their faces, and one was seriously hurt on the
temple. Others who ventured into the streets upon the
early days had live rats and mice let down by strings on
their bonnets and shoulders. A gentleman on horseback,
in passing through Silver-street, the Cheapside of Lisbon,
was pelted with an orange, when his horse became vio-
lently restiff, and instead of assisting him to quiet the
animal, scores of people pelted him with oranges, eggs,
and potatoes. For the honour of Portugal—even of Eu-
rope (for in that quarter of the globe is it still set down)
—I trust such scenes will never be repeated.
A TIGER FIGHT IN JAVA.—The exhibition took place
on an extensive plain near the town, just after daybreak.
A square of men, armed with native spears, was formed
three deep, and one hundred yards across. Inside this
square was placed a box resembling in shape a coffin, but
much larger, containing a royal tiger fresh from his native
forests, which had been brought to town the day previ-
ously for this express purpose. Imagine every thing ready,
the square formed, the box in its centre, and a silent mul-
titude looking on—some perched on trees, some on the
coacbboxes of the numerous carriages, others on horse-
back, and thousands on foot ; whilst the native chief of
the district, with his friends, and the European officials ot
the place, occupied a gay pavilion, placed in an advanta-
geous situation for viewing the coming strife. A native
Javan, in full dress, is now seen advancing into the square,
followed by two coolies or porters, one carrying a bundle
of straw, the other a lighted torch. The straw is thrown
over the box, and the torch-bearer stands ready to set fire
to it at the end where the tiger's head is, the box being
too narrow to permit his turning round in it. The leading
native then lifts a sliding door at the other extremity of
the box, carefully covering the opening thus made with
mats, to prevent the light from penetrating, and inducing
his royal highness to back out too soon. This operation
completed, the straw is set on fire. The native and his
two coolies now retire slowly, keeping time to Javanese
music as they make their way outside the square. By
this time, the fire had got fair hold of the box, filling it
with smoke, and the tiger begins his retreat, his berth be-
coming rather warm. Presently, his hind quarters appear
issuing through the sliding doorway, its covering of mat
readily yielding to the pressure : by degrees, his hind feet
gain firm footing outside, and his whole body is soon dis-
-1 played. On appearing, he seemed rather confused for a
few seconds, and, laying himself quietly down, looked all
round upon his foes, and gave a rear that made the welkin
ring, and my young heart quake a little. He then rose,
deliberately shook himself, turned towards the rising sun,
set off first at a walk, then at a trot, which he gradually
increased to a smart canter, till within a few yards of the
points of the spears pointed at him ; he then came to the
charge, and made a spring that surprised me, and, I fancy,
every one present. I am afraid to say how high he leaped,
but he was on the descent before a single spear touched
him. This leap was evidently made with the intention of
getting clear over the heads of the men and their spears
too ; and he most certainly would have accomplished it,
had be not leaped too soon, and fallen within the square,
the height of the spring being quite sufficient for the pur-
pose. As it was, when on the descent, the spears of the
six men neatest him being pointed at his breast, one of
them inflicted a frightful wound. On reaching the ground
the noble beast struggled hard for his liberty ; but, find-
ing his efforts of no avail, he ultimately started off at full
gallop to the opposite side of the square, where he renewed
his exertions, though with less vigour than that displayed
on his first attempt, and with no better success. He then
galloped twice round the square, just at the point of the
spears. Not a man advanced to touch him, it being the
rule that the tiger must come within the range of the
spears before they can be used. He was ultimately killed
while making a third attempt to escape, and thus ended
the sport. His first charge was very brilliant and exciting ;
his second much less so; his third and last was very fee-
ble. Immediately after the tiger's death, the same cere-
monies were gone through with a leopard, who took the
spear-men rather by surprise, and, instead of trying to
leap over their heads, darted in under their spears, got
among their feet, and effected his retreat, to the no small
consternation of the surrounding multitude, who soon
scattered in all directions. He was, however, pursued by
the men he had baffled, and was killed under a bridge
in the immediate neighbourhood.—Travels in the Far
East.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The American ship Liberty arrived at Cove on Monday
with a cargo of Indian corn.

The trial of Mr. H. J. Marcus, of Leeds, sharebroker,
for forgery, has been postponed until next assizes
Among the last inventions in London are
bats," so that galvanism is going a-head.
The English brig Vestal went on shore near Vi
the sth instant. The master, mate, and six seamen were
drowned, and eight seamen were saved.

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At Bury St. Edmunds assizes, on Friday, two young
men, aged nineteen and seventeen, were transported for
fifteen years, for having set fire to a shed.
Burton Flill House, the seat of J. Cockerel!, Esq., near
Malmesbury, was destroyed by fire lately. The loss is
ZlO,OOO.

A policeman was convicted on Tuesday of an assault
on Mr. Walsh, a gownsman, at the late riots at Cam-
bridge. _ _ _

On Wednesday, at the quarterly court of the East India
a petition was presented from Lieut. Wag-
horn, praying for a pension for his services.
The extensive cotton and india-rubber web factory of
Messrs. Harr's and Hemel, at Leicester, has been de-
stroyed by fire. The damage is nearly £5,000
REVERSE OF FonTuNg.—A man who is now following
the occupation of a drover at Smithfield Market, formerly
kept a pack of hounds in one of the midland counties.

proprietors.

The jury that sat on the body of Reilly, who was lately
killed in a public encounter with Cleghorn, near Newcas-
tle-on-Tyne, have returned a verdict of manslaughter
against Cleghorn and his abettors.
ACCESSION OF FORTUNE.--A labourer, named Bar-
ber, in the Portsmouth dock-yard, has been declared heir
to a fortune of upwards of £30,000 by virtue of the deci-
sion of the lord chancellor.

.3 17s. 9d. The force consists of 4,749 men, viz.,
one inspecting superintendent, 18 superintendents, 114
inspectors, 485 serjeants, and 4,131 constables.

hares in DrurF-lan
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They realized respectively
The return on these shares

was formerly £l5 per annum ; it is now £4.
The execution of Ralph Joicey, for the murder of his
father, took place on Tuesday, at Morpeth: He met his
fate with great firmness, and on the previous day commit-

ted to writing an ample confession

Last weel;', in 13;adford-street Circus, Birwineham,
Mr. Chapman was performing on the slack rope, when he
missed his hold, and fell to the ground with a tremendous
crash, suffering a fracture of the thigh bone.
An additional lieutenant-colonel is to be added to each
regiment about to be augmented, and it is also intended
that instead of an acting staff tct the reserve battalions, as
hitherto, an adjutant and a quarter master will be com-
missioned.

Tom Thumb is acting at the Lyceum, showing off his
preposterous littleness by sitting in an ogre's shoe, get-.

out of a nutshell, and a

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The Birmingham Advertiser gives an account of the
appalling death of a poor girl, named Ellen Moran, who
was killed in consequence of the machinery of a mill not
being boxed off as the act requires. This is the second
victim from the same cause within a fortnight.
On Tuesday last, a cutler, named John Harper,
45 years of age, committed suicide at Sheffield, by taking
After be had taken the fatal drug, he went to
n-hall, asked to see the Mayor, and gave infor-

I mation of v
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R.—Early on Sunday morning last, a murder
was perpetrated in a low public-house in London. A
vounc man named Jennings, unaer the impression that tl

woman of the name of Mary Murray had robbed him of a
shilling, struck her several blows of which she died in a
few minutes. Jennings is in custody
An iron market place has just b

seen constructed at the

Phoenix Iron Works, Glasgow, measuring 108 feet long,
60 feet wide, and surrounded by a verandah 12 feet wide,
supported by handsome fluted columns. It is intended
for Honduras, and is constructed of iron.
PIGEON SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.--A shooting
match came off on Mousehold Heath a few days since, be-
tween three gentlemen, for a sweepstakes of five guineas.
The pigeons were trapped at forty yards distance ; and
what is most singular, each gentleman killed his own two
dozen ; the sweepstakes were, therefore, undecided.

TIME WORKS WONDERS.—It is remarkable that the
majority in favour of Sir Robert Peel's measure of total
repeal is the same almost to a unit as that with which
the same Parliament selected Lord John Russell's eight-
shilling duty.
SHAMEFUL MUTILATIONS.—A week or two since some
miscreant tore off one of the bass reliefs of the Wellington
statue, Glasgow—a spur ; and on Tuesday, a ruffian fur-
ther mutilated this splendid work of art, by wrenching off
a bayonet from the projecting figures at the base.
A melancholy accident occurred at Kircaldy on Mon-
day. A considerable number of persons had assembled on
the pier to witness the arrival and departure of vessels,
when a sudden and furious gust of wind carried three of
them into the sea. Two were rescued, but the third sunk
and perished.
The Carlton Club is split into two sections, Peelites and
Protectionists. On Tuesday the election of a house com-
mittee took place; and the occasion was seized upon as a
trial of strength between the two parties. The Peelites
were beaten hollow, the Protectionist list being carried
by a large majority.
DISTRESS AT BRADFORD.—A public ix eeting was held
at Bradford, on Monday, to devise measures of relief on
behalf of the unemployed poor of the town ; when a pub-
lic subscription was originated, which amounted, up to
Wednesday evening, to £Bl4, and would, no doubt, be
greatly augmented before the end of the week.
NOTTINGHAM ASSIZES.—At the assizes for this county,
last Friday, there was not a single cause entered for trial,
either for the town or the county—a circumstance unpre.
cedented in the recollection of that remarkable person-
age, " the oldest inhabitant," and a fact by no means
pleasing to the lawyers, whatever it might be to clients.
Nearly all the spring vegetables, such as rhubarb, sea-
kale, radishes, new potatoes, &c. are now so plentiful in
the south, that they are brought to the north and sold by
the vegetable dealers at very reasonable rates. Brocoli of
home growth, is remarkably fine, and, at this early season,
is as plentiful as is usual. Rhubarb grown in the open air
is also becoming plentiful.
In the House of Lords on Monday Lord Dalhousie said
that he regretted the violation of the Sabbath which had
occurred on the 30th of November, by the deposit of rail-
way plans, which he considered highly unseemly, and he
hoped in a few days to submit an amendment of the
standing orders, which would prevent the occurrence of
what was so obnoxious to public feeling.
PRICE OF COAL.—The increased consumption of coal
required by the manufacture of iron in the various works
throughout South Staffordshire has had the effect of rais-
ing the price of best house coal to 16s. per ton, and even
at this high rate it is difficult to obtain large supplies. In
the immediate neighbourhood of the mines, and within 30
yards of the pit's mouth, the price of ordinary or second
quality is 12s. per ton.
How TO SICKEN JOSEPH ADY. An individual, at
Gateshead, wbo has been pestered by Joseph Ady's com-
munications, bas adopted the expedient of sending Jo-
seph (who, by the way, never pays postage) a farthing en-
closed in a letter, informing him that the balance of the
fee demanded (one pound) will be sent on receipt of the
valuable information promised. The general adoption of
this plan would no doubt soon induce Joseph to adopt a
more legitimate occupation.
RUABON.—The severe frost that set in early on Thurs-
day morning, after a heavy fall of snow, has completely
destroyed the bloom upon the wall-fruit trees, and so
much injured all the common fruits as to leave it doubtful
whether they will ever come to perfection. Potatoes round
this neighbourhood are very bad. Many farmers who have
lately examined their hoods to their sorrow find the whole
of their produce a mass of corruption. Prices are ruling
from 2s. Bd. to 3s. 6d. per measure of 90 lbs.
ORIGIN OF " Boz."—The following is said to be the
origin of the signature " Boz," used by Mr. Charles
Dickens :—A little brother of his so much resembled the
Moses in the " Vicar of Wakefield," that be went by that
name in the family ; but a younger girl, who could not
then articulate plainly, was in the habit of calling him
Bozie or Boz. The recollection of this simple circum-
stance led him to assume the name in the first article he
published, and he after continued to use it.
SOAP.—In the year ending the sth of January last, as
we learn from a parliamentary return, there was made in
Great Britain 2,683,5301 b. of silicated soap, 170,210,5611 b.
of other bard soap, and 16,880,3701 b. of soft soap. The
exportation of soap from Ireland to foreign parts has con-
siderably increased. In 1845 it was 10,668 cwt. 2qrs. 261 b.,
and in 1846 it was 21,272 cwt. 41b. The total exported to
Ireland was, 13,513,3841 b. of hard soap, and 2,769,6001 b.
of soft soap. 16 persons were convicted in the year for
defrauding the revenue arising from soap. The total num-
ber of licenses now granted to soapmakers is 365, of which
163 reside in England, 21 in Scotland, and 181 in Ireland.
SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN M.LEO D.—The steam-ship
Queen arrived at Southampton with the Peninsular mails,
brings an account of the death of Captain M`Leod, the
late commander of the Great Liverpool, who died by his
own hands immediately after the last of the passengers
had departed for Corunna. He has been in the most de.
sponding state of mind ever since the unfortunate loss of
his vessel. Lieut. Williamson, the Admiralty agent of
the Great Liverpool, lies dangerously ill at Corunna ; so
much so that his life is despaired of. There is nothing
further saved from the wreck. The ship is entirely gone
to pieces, and what valuables floated ashore were princi-
pally purloined by the natives.
THE GUANO TRADE.—It seems from a parliamentary
return, that there were seven British vessels employed in
the trade in 1841, the tonnage of which was 1,733, and the
number of men 87 ; there were no foreign vessels employ-
ed in that year. In 1842 there were 41 British vessels,
with a tonnage of 12,003, and 560 men ; and of foreign
vessels three, with a tonnage of 1,081, and 59 men. In
1843 there were thirteen British vessels, of 4,056 tons,
with 202 men ; no foreign vessels were employed that year.
In 1844 there were 286 British vessels, the tonnage was
81,9 02, and 4,313 men ; in that year there was only one
foreign ship employed, with 207 tons, and 18 men; and
in 1845 there were 679 British vessels, with 219,764 tons,
and 11,434 men, and four foreign vessels of 1,170 tons
and 52 men.

The bill just introduced into the House !of Commons
by Government, for rendering effective the service of the
Chelsea out-pensioners, and extending it to the out-pen-
sioners of the Greenwich Hospital, proposes to extend the
provisions of the 6th and 7th Vict. c. 25, to the Green-
wich pensioners. It also provides that the number of
pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, so to be
enrolled in the United Kingdom at any one time, may be
any number not exceeding twenty thousand men; and
that they may be called out for inspection or exercise on
any number of days not exceeding twelve in any year.-
-The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is also to be empow-
ered to call out the Irish pensioners " to assist the civil
power."
HONOURABLE CONDUCT.—In the year 1819, Mr. James
Cockshutt, who was then a manufacturer, residing near
Colne, was compelled to compromise with his creditors for
9s. in the pound; for which he then received an unqualified
release. He has since that time been residing at Brant-
ford, in Western Canada, where he has been carrying on
a prosperous business; so much so, that, about five years
ago, he determined to pay the whole of his creditors the
remaining lls. in the pound. Finding, however, that the
money he could spare from his trade was not sufficient to
pay the whole, he paid as many as he could, and has since
regularly paid interest to all those who were left unpaid ;
and, last week, he remitted the necessary funds, and has
now paid every one 20s. in the pound, for debts which he
had contracted upwards of 26 years ago.
COMICAL CASE.—As a country woman, with her mar-
ket basket on her arm, was admiring a bit of finery in a
draper's window, at York, her partner in life came up,
without being noticed by her, and, perceiving her intense
gaze at what she could not purchase, he secretly ab-
stracted a handkerchief from her basket, in joyful antici-
pation of his wife's vexation upon discovering its absence.
Unluckily for the joker, a gentleman, to whom the parties
were strangers, observed the trick, and desired a constable
to secure the villain. The rubber was seized.on the pave-
ment, and instantly carried before a magistrate. In the
meantime the unsuspecting woman was informed of her
loss, and hurried away to identify the luckless handker-
chief. She did so, it was her own, the very one which she
had been deprived of, and turning with honest indignation
to look-at the thief, she exclaimed, with astonishment and
fear, " Oh, lauks ! gentleman, it's my husband ?" The
arm of the law was paralysed. The prisoner was the rob-
ber of his own property ; the magistrates laughed, the
gentleman and the constable laughed, and, the charge be-
ing laughingly dismissed, the liberated husband and his
artless wife posted away to tell their village neighbours
what awful things had happened to them in York.

INTENTIONS OF THE LEAGUE.—The hostility of the
League to the Church of the Aristocracy is perceptible in
all the movements of the League and the free traders ;
and, when the party is swollen with success and confident
in its schemes, it never fails to threaten the landed in-
terest with the visitation of its wrath, should it dare to
impede its march to empire. We have only to quote the
speeches of its leaders to prove this intention. The aris-
tocracy will be levelled with the dust—the bishops will be
driven from the House of Lords—the primogeniture will
not. be permitted to exist in law. These are public
threats already sent forth. Mr. Cobden wishes to make
the House of Commons sensible of the power of the
masses of population which he can command in the manu-
factories, and how far their strength exceeds that of the
house, and the fate that will await that body, if it should
presume to arrest its supreme will. " Had there been
(says the demagogue) such an amount of public opinion as
now exists in favour of the repeal of the Corn Laws in
support of Charles Stuart, in 1745, the dynasty of the

St.u.arts would now have occupied the throne Of these

realms." " What is it (says Mr. Cobden) that will teach
you to regard public opinion ? Must you be tossed in a
blanket ? Must you be swept out of this house into the
Thames ? What must be done to convince you that the
feeling of the nation is not with you ?"
WORTHY CONDUCT. The Messrs. Marshall, of

Leeds, have issued a notice to their workmen which we
think settles the short-time question. They communi-
cate their intention of reducing the hours of labour in
their vast factory from 66 hours a week to 64, or eleven
hours a day and nine on Saturday, without any diminution
of their present rate of wages. In making this reduc-
tion, these gentlemen very candidly state the principle
which guides them. They do not for a moment desire to
have it regarded as a benevolent concession ; as an inten-
tion on their part to sacrifice the smallest particle of their
profits to the workpeople. They distinctly state their po-
sitive conviction that the result will be exactly the same
to them. All they say is. " you want your hours of work
shortening ; we think it reasonable ; do exactly the same
work for us in 64 hours a week for the same wages as you
now do in 66, and we shall be quite content. You can do
it if you will, by increased care and skill, of that we are
convinced. Nothing can be more fair. It is manifest that
if, on the same condition, their workpeople were to pro-
pose to work only one hour a week instead of 64. the
Messrs. Marshall, if equally convinced of its possibility,
would readily consent. The sole principle on which the
proposed reduction of time, irrespective of any other cir-
cumstance, rests, is the capacity of the workman to per-
form the same amount of work in a less time. It would,
have been as easily applied a year ago as to-day.'

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.