The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

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6t five dollars per gallon, to save

appearances.
THE STOCK OE CORN AND TIIE CROPS.—A letter
from Frome says—" The corn markets are coming down.
All the corn rooms are full of wheat, and some of it has
been in the London Inn for the last two years, and the
sacks are rotten. There were 2,000 sacks left unsold at
Bath last Saturday, and the farmers in this part hold good
stocks, and some of them are yet sanguine of getting 70s.
or Bs. per sack. Potatoes look well. The blight is said
to have commenced in the Isle of Wight. The wheat and
the grass crops look exceedingly well. Fruit is likely to
be abundant. We shall be obliged to pluck off half the
cherries to make room for the others to grow. The apples
and nears are somewhat similar."

ROYAL DECREE EXTRAORDINARY !—Some few days
ago, a respectable, but unsophisticated matron from Mad-
ley, made the most diligent inquiries, publicly and pri-
vately, in this city, respecting a supposed decree issued by
the Queen, that in consequence of the high price of food
all children (" babbies") under five years old, and all
7rown-up persons above seventy, should be put to death !
:fficult to convince her that it was a false report—
seemed to have no doubt of the fact, observing, " This

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is just as King Herod did, but I thinks her Majesty should
gie up her own " babbles" as well as the rest. Ibe only 60,
and be safe, but its a terrible business. There is plenty
of corn in the country, but the rich men and the farmers

hoards it all up, and keeps it from us poor eritturs."
Strange as it may seem, the notion of an order having been
given for the massacre of superfluous infants and helpless
old people, is prevalent. We know not whether there is
an adult school at Madley, but it is clear that such esta-
blishments are necessary there and elsewhere.—Hereford

Journal.
DISBUDDING FRUIT TREES.—The increasing attention
to the cultivation of super Apr sorts of fruit, gives addi-
tional interest to such hints, as emanate from really prac-
tical men. In Maund's " Botanic Garden and Fruitist"
for June, the subject of disbudding fruit trees at this sea-
son, is so practically treated, that a hint or two from it
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vention is

in the summer, the growth of the superfluous wood is pre-- I
vented, and the whole power of the tree is thrown into that
portion which is retained as useful for bearing. It will be
clear, even to the unlearned in these matters, that this sys-
tem must be superior to permitting the tree to exhaust it-
self on that which is to be cut away. Another evident
advantage arises from the light being fully admitted to act
on, and properly ripen the wood that is retained ; for it is
stated, " light is more especially required, to act on the
leaves belonging to the embryo buds, or spurs, which are
ultimately to produce the fruit." We give one other ex-
tract from amongst these directions, very useful for those
to remember who cut, or direct the cutting of, trees,
many of which are pruned by those possessing no know-
ledge of the subject. " The plum, apricot, pear, apple,
and the red and white currants are instances of fruit trees
bearing principally on spurs ; whilst the raspberry, black
currant, vine, peach, and morello cherry, produce the
chief of their crop on the young shoots.'
A YACHT CAPSIZED IN A SQUALL.—The greatest
consternation was produced at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on
Whit-Monday last, a pleasure-boat with six persons on
board, belonging to the town, having gone .down, within
sight of their relatives and friends, and at about half-pistol
shot from the promenade. The party had gone out in the
morning on a fishing excursion, in the direction of Aml- '
wch, there being what sailors call a " capfull of wind
and a bit of sea on." With what success they plied their
nets it is impossible to say at present, the sole survivor
being in too weak state to render any account of the day's
proceedings. Let it suffice that with the return tide and
the coming on of night the vessel was homeward-bound,
and had gained the Roads about seven o'clock, by which
time the wind had freshened to a gale, producing a heavy
cross-sea, such as no small craft would choose to be
abroad in, when, on making a tack, and before the vessel
had way on, she was struck by the wind and sea at the
same moment, and went down by the stern. Some of
the party were observed struggling with the waves, and
before a boat could reach them, which it tried in vain to
do, they were swept off by the tide. Another boat at the
greatest possible risk, went up the Straits in the direction
of the tide, and at a considerable distance picked up the
body of a youth in whose arms an oar was firmly grasped.
The rest of the party could not anywhere be met with,
living or dead, all having perished miserably. The
names, &c., of the unfortunate party are, Mr. George
Owen; druggist ; Mr. Thomas Lloyd, Mr. Spackman,
officer of Excise ; Mr: Jones, painter ; Hugh Tyrer, an
old seaman, who had weathered many a gale ; and Roger
Hayes, aged 16 (saved).
PHYSICAL VERSUS MORAL.—Whether the. Physical
wants should be remedied through the Moral, or the
Moral through the Physical, has been a question which
has occupied the attention of philosophers and philanthro-
pists, for centuries. Without attempting to decide the
question, there can be no doubt that when the Physical
condition is impaired it demands the first attention. For
instance ; a person whilst suffering from an acute attack
of Gout would be unable to appreciate the sublimest
lessons of philosophy, even though enunciated by the
divine Plato, How much more welcome to the sufferer
would be a box of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, so
eitcaciow in eradicating this distressing malady.

JEWISH SCHOOI

There has been a most inefficient
supply of inefficient masters; there has not been, nor is
there, any regular attendance at these schools ; and they
have wanted a moral cleansing, which alone would have
remedied all these defects. Let any one go to these
schools, and see what impression is produced on them
by the children there assembled. Dirty, wild, and unruly,
the first principle of social life—cleanliness—utterly dis-
regarded ; and, from want of proper means and due regu-
lations, disorder reigning throughout. What signify
proud public examinations, where children are previously
taught answers to .the questions there asked, in one or

two the higher sciences, while they are ignOrant of the
commonest principles a most ordinary education affords ?
Do we not see the fruits of these in one fact—there is not
a child educated in the commonest and cheapest twoperice-
a-week school who is not better informed than any child
who has followed the course of education adopted in our
schools ? Their best supporters and friends have acknow-
ledged this failure. And wherein lies the great secret of
this failure ? It is because the Jews, as a body, have
taken no part in the education of their people—because
those who, by their position and authority, have been
bound to examine all these things, and report on them,
have given their donations, and remained satisfied with
this paltry discharge of their duties. It seems most
strange and remtirkable, that, with few exceptions, none
of these children ever turn to any but roving trades, in
which their fathers have laboured, and to which, for want
of knowing better, they cling ; and such a thing would be
impossible were their minds properly prepared and
trained.—Jewish Chronicle.
JENNY LIND.—From a little memoir of this interesting
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list we extract a few notabilia respecting her early
career.
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It seems she was born in 1821, in Stockholm,
where her parents kept a school. Her precocity appeared
in its usual forms, and excited the usual attention,
particularly that of Madame Dunfiberg, an actress,
through whose instrumentality she was placed under the
tuition of a local music master, and subsequently sus-
tained children's parts at the theatre with great liveliness
and originality. The historian then tells a miraculous
p . _

anu intim tale or now Jenny lost her voice for four years,
and how it came back again upon a certain occasion, when
she was accidentally called upon to sing an "insignificant
solo" in Robert la Diable, leading to her debut at the
Opera-house while " yet a maiden of sixteen summers,
as the writer sweetly expresses it, and her

performance of

a round in the highest class characters. A narrative is
then given of her desire to go to Paris, and the tender re-
sistance of her parents, and of her ltimate prosecution
of the scheme. She had introductions to Garcia, the
brother of Malibran, who told her she must not sing
another note for three months. Unfortunate Jenny !
For three months, then, she " lived on the tears and the
agony of the mal de pays ;" but she eventually secured
the desired tuition from Garcia, though that respectable,
individual seems to have had more faith in her intelli-
gence than in her power. But it was left for Meyerbeer
to recognise " the pearl under the modest unpretending
shell," and at Dresden, whither she went at his sugges-
tion in 1844, her German fame had its earliest origin,:
leading to her subseguently visiting all the principal
northern cities, crowning her repute at Vienna, where, in
1846, she sang before all the musical public, as well as the
hunerial court.
TIIE TRIPLE MURDER AT MIRPIELD.—The examina-
tion of the two prisoners, Michael M'Cabe and Patrick
Reid, apprehended a short time since on suspicion of
being the perpetrators of this appalling crime, took place
on Saturday at Dewsbury. The accused have been care-
fully watched since their arrest, and have been kept in
separate cells. M'Cabe is stated to have manifested con-
siderable uneasiness and restlestness since his removal to
the station at Dewsbury, but on his being brought into
court he maintained the same calm demeanour which he
preserved at his first examination before the deputy-
coroner. He was placed in the dock in the long brown
overcoat which he wore at the time he was taken into cus-
tody, and on the left arm were placed several pins, to
mark the place from which had been cut pieces of cloth,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether the marks on his
clothes were or were not really those of human blood, and
which were submitted to the inspection of Mr. West, of
Leeds. Reid, who is a much younger and more
II athletic man, was also dressed in the dark green coat and
buff waistcoat which he was sworn to have had on on the
morning of the murder: and on his left arm, immediately
on the round of the shoulder, and the inner part of the
wrist, were similar marks placed, to denote the spots
whence the cloth had been cut for the chyinist's inspec-
tion. The most important witness was Benjamin Horton,
a hawker and dealer in rags and pots, who lived in Mab-
lane, Mirfield, and who said, that as he was passing down
the road leading from M'Kinnell's house, by the Baptist
Chapel, close to that of Mr. Wraith's he accidentally
turned his head, and he then saw Patrick Reid at the lane
end, near Mr. Wraith's house, and from which one im-
mediately faces into his dwelling by the back yard. He
could not speak as to what distance was between them ;
but he passed on, and a shower of rain almost immedi-
ately overtook him. In his cross-examination, he said he
had known Reid personally for some time, but not his
name before murder;the and he knew M'Cabe well. He
did not see their faces, ut he spoke to their dresses and
person. and swore positively that they were the two meek
he had seen in the locality lie had described,