The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

B. HYAM & CO.

FASHIONABLE TAIT,ORING ESTABLISFIMENT,
AND OFT7'FITTING WAREHOUSE,
63, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

At this Establishment wiil be found combined Elegance,
Economy, Durability, Neatness, and Taste.
'THE attention of Families and Gentlemen is respectfully
drawn by B. H. and Co. to the Prices annexed, of
Articles Manufactured by them, with a feeling of confidence
that all Orders they may be intrusted with will give the
utmost satisfaction.

Merchants Exporting, Captains Sailing, from this and
other Ports, Emigrants and Persons going abroad, will at all
times find great advantages in favouring B. H. and Co. with
a visit, as their Stock will be found to consist of Clothing
suitable for any Market or Climate, durable for wear, and
economical in price.
B. H. and Co. have at all times in their Stock every de-
scription of West of England Cloths for Coats; Diagonals,
Checks, Doeskins, &c. fog Trowsers ; Silks, Satins, Cash-
meres, and Marsellas for Waistcoats, and are constantly
receiving acquisitions of new Patterns and Materials in con-
sumption, and of the prevalent Fashions.
Gentleman's Black Dress Coat from
Do. Vest
Do. Trowsers 0 9 0
Do. other Coloured Dress Coats
Do. Frock Coat, Silk Facings
Do. Fancy Woollen Trousers 0 9 0
Do. Do. Valentia and other Vests 0 1 3
TO MERCHANTS, &C. FOR EXPORTATION.

Striped Shirts from
Regatta Do.
Duck Trowsers
Do. Frocks
Monkey Jackets
Flushing Trowsers
Jean Suit, consisting of Jacket, Vest,
and Trowsers
Fancy Vests from
All descriptions of Clothing suitable for Foreign Markets

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY i AND ELECTORS OF
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY I

OF CHESTER

GENTLEMEN,
FEAVING been honoured by a renewal of your desire that
I should again stand forward as a Candidate for the
distinction of representing, you in Parliament. I should deem
unworthy of this reiterated mark of your kindness

myst..__--
did
I suffer private feelings and predilections to obstruct toi
one moment the course of public duty thus intimated to me
in so flattering a manner. I therefore cheerfully submit to
your wishes.
Her Majesty's ministers being about to appeal to the
country on the subject of the Corn-laws, I feel it due to you,
openly and explicitly, to declare my opinions on that im-
portant tonic.

I consider the paramount objects sought for in the main-
tenance of a Corn-law to be these—to encourage the home
growth of corm by affording ariequate protection to the Bri-
tish farmer ; and, at the same time, to provide that the home
consumer shall not be liable to extravagant prices in seasons

of scarcity.
Convinced that these ends have been fully attained by the
principle of the sliding scale now in operation, I cannot but
view with alarm the attempt about to be made by the govern-
ment of this country to substitute a fixed duty for the pre-
sent plan ; the results of which must be, that in average
seasons the home grower will not be able to compete with
the foreigner—large districts of corn land will be thrown out
of cultivation—and consequently, in times of continental
scarcity, or of war, (our home produac being inadequate,)
the price to the consumer will be far more extravagant than
it ever can be under the regulations of the present fluctu-
ating scale.
On other subjects of political importance, I can confi-
dently appeal to the past as a guarantee that your interests
for the future will not be neglected should you again entrust
them to my care. _ _

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient, humble Servant,
P. DE M. GREY EGERTON

Oullon Park. June, 1841

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY •
OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
ADissolution of Parliament being evidently at hand, I beg
most respectfully to announce that the pledge given by
me to afford you, at this EVENTFUL CRISIS, an opportunity
of recording your votes, I am now ready to redeem.
The present Government—no longer an independent Go-
vernment—too weak to administer the affairs of this country,
and too tenacious of the advantages of office to relinquish
them, has succumbed to popular clamour and proposed a
total change in otir just and admirable system of CORN-
LAWS—a measure which, it carried, would not only de-
prive the English landowner and farmer of their property and
the English labourer of his means of subsistence, but the
manufacturer of his best and most certain market, thereby
proving ultimately as injurious to the one interest as imme-
diately destructive to the other. • „
Members of the IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC JOLTY now
form a portion of the administration of the country, which,
in my opinion is incompatible with THE SAFETY OF oust
PROTESTANT CHURCH AND PROTESTANT LIBERTIES.
A Government thus composed, and so regardless of the
peace and well-being of the nation, as the existing one has
proved itself, by the introduction of measures alike detri-
mental to both, is altogether unworthy, and undeserving of
our confidence.
Having on a former occasion issued an address, I will only
now repeat the declaration then made, that " I submit to the
thraldom of no party and, in the event of a dissolution of
Parliament, I shall throw myself on the support of those
Electors who, like tine, are determined to take that INDE
PENDENT COURSE which I conscientiously believe the exist-
ing state of affairs requires of every friend (whether Churcb-
man or Dissenter) to the PROTESTANT RELIGION, and of
every well-wisher to his Country.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
With sincere respect,
Your very faithful servant,
JOHN TOLLEMACHE.
Tileton Lodge, May 31, 1841.

STEINKELLER'S PATENT SQUARE & DIAMOND
ZINK PLATES.
To cover 100 square feet of Roofing with the cwt. qrs. lbs.
above will require 1 0 22
To cover the same surface with the best
Welch Slate will require 9 0 0
Saving in Weight, per 100 square feet, by
use of Zink Cwt. 7 3 6
SHEATHING ZINK, for Ships.
SHEET ZINK, for Roofing, Verandahs, Flats, Paper
Press Plates.
PLATE ZINK, for Engravers, Lithographers, Galvanic
Apparatus, &c.
ZINK SASH BARS, for Window Frames, Hothouses,
Fanlights, Garden Frames, &c.
ZINK NAILS, TACKS, and SPRIGS, for Ships' Use
ando utside Work.

"-Zirkiiiii•lWATEß PIPING, GUTTERING, BELL-
TUBING, MOULDINGS, LAMP BARS, &c., all drawn
by Machinery. _

.....
PERFORATED ZINK, ' for Window Blinds, Meat
Safes, Dairies, Strainers, for Ventilation, &c.
W. LAIRD, Jun., 1, Moor-street.

ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON SIR ROBERT

PEEL'S MOTION

Majority Majority
For. Against. for. against.
ENGLAND .. Counties .... 98 40 58
Boroughs.. .. 140 164 24
Universities.. 4 0 4
WALES .... Counties .. .. 15 1 14

.
Boroughs.... 4 9 5
SCOTLAND.. Counties .... 18 8 10
Boroughs.... 1 14
23

IRELAND .. Counties .... 14 36 22
Boroughs.... 16 29 13
Universities.. 2 0 2

The following is an anal sis on Sir J. Y. Buller's motion
on the same subject, in January 1840, when ministers ob-
tained a majority of 21 :
Majority Majority
For. Against. for. against.
ENGLAND .. Counties .... 92 40 52

Boroughs.... 131 169 38
Universities.. 3 0 3
WALIS .... Counties 12 10
Boroughs.... 3 8
3

SCOTLAND.. Counties ... • 14 9
Boroughs.... 1 20
IRELAND .. Counties .... 18 36
Boroughs.... 9 24 15
Universities.. 2 0 2

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287 308

ABSENTEES IN 1840.
CONSERVATIVES (9. MINISTERIALISTS (8.)
Baring, Hon. W. B. (ill 3 Benett, J.
Burr, H. D. Fitzgibbon, Hon. R.
Coote, Sir C. Grote, G.
Esteourt, T. G. B. Howard, Sir R.
Howard, Hon. W. Goring, H. D.
Ker, D. Jervis, S.
Lowther, Lord Johnson, General
Master, T. Moreton, Hon. A.
Darner, Hon. G. D.

ABSENTEES IN Isll.
CONSERVATIVES. M INISTERIALISTS (8.)
Bassett, J.
Fielden, J. (Oldham)
Fitzgibbon, Hon. It.
Harland, W. C.
Heathcote, G. J. (Lincolnsh.)
Heathcote, Sir G.
Howard, Sir It.
Johnson, General

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION AT DUNSTABLE,
TWENTY-ONE HOUSES BURNED DOWN.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Late on Saturday afternoon the principal insurance autho-
rities in the city received intelligence from Dunstable of a
most destructive fire having happened in that town, on the
morning of Wednesday last, by which twenty-one houses
were entirely destroyed, and property to the extent of some
thousands consumed. It was discovered at about five mi-
nutes after one o'clock raging furiously on the premisesoccupied by a Mr. Thomas Fossey, a Confectioner, which
stood in High-street, on the west side near the corner of
Church-street. The premises were three stories high, and
were constructed principally of wood, having a white front-
age, and several small outbuildings at the back. Mr. Fossey
states that himself and family were awoke from their sleep
by a body of flames breaking upon the windows at the back,
and that their escape to the street was attended witk the
utmost difficulty. They then aroused the adjoining inhabi-
tants, and in tke course of a few minutes after the whole
town was alarmed by the ringing of the fire bell, when
a fearful scene of confusion and excitement ensued. The
flames in less than seven minutes after the discovery
shot through all the apartments in the dwelling louse,
and were blazing from the numerous windows with very
great violence, and, within a quarter of an hour, the de-
struction of the whole premises was complete. The adjoin-
ing houses to the east, occupied by Mr. Clark, chemist and
druggist, and on the opposite side by Mr. Halifax, boot
and shoemaker, and Mr. Cheshire, upholsterer and cabinet-
maker, next became a prey to the devouring element. About
a quarter of an hour after the alarm was given, the engine
belonging to the town was brought to the spot, but it was
found to be in so dilapidated a condition that it was im-
possible to bring in into play. This was most unfortunate.
There was a good supply of water to be had, and the ravages
of the flames might have been soon stopped. An express
was then despatched to Luton, a small village situate five
miles from the spot, for assistance, but it was full an hour
and a quarter before the engines arrived. By that time the
flames had greatly extended, and threatened to overwhelm the
whole town. They had, in addition to the above houses, en-
veloped those belonging to Mr. Burgess, tailor, Mr. Cheshire,
wholesale grocer, in High-street, and communicated to a
range of dwelling-houses in Church-street, tenanted by la-
bouring men and their families. The distress amongst these
poor creatures was truly heartrending. They. had barely time
to save their wearing apparel, before the terrible work of de-
vastation burst upon them, and ere many minutes had elapsed
their habitations were reduced to a heap of ruins. Such was
the fury of the flames that in two hours 21 houses and seve-
ral outbuildings were burned to the ground. Shortly before
three o'clock several engines came up from different parts of
the surrounding country. The fire, though 2revented from
causing further sacrifice of property, continued to burn
fiercely throughout the entire day, and was not safely ex-
tinguished till the following morning.. On Friday, the ma-
gistrates instituted an investigation into the origin of the
dreadful calamity, but the precise
tre
cause could not be
setis s
dis-
covered. The amount of damage In High-.
he, Mr. Fossey, £BOO ; Mr. Clark, chemist, £l,oootated to
; Mr.
Burgess, £700; Mr. Cheshire, grocer, £1,500; Mr. Hali-
fax, £300; Mr. Thomas Cheshire, cabinet-maker, £5.00;
Mr. Young, £300; and Mr. Oliver, £2OO, Some of these
are insured in several fire-offices to the extent of their re-
spective losses. Most of the families o are
are burnt out in
they re
Church-street are straw-plait makers ; g at suffer-
ers, none of them being insured. During the raging of the
fire, which was without exception the largest that has taken
place in Bedfordshire for several years, the flames illumi-
nated the adjacent country to the extent of many miles.
Providentially no lives were lost.

AWFUL EXPLOSION.—A melancholy accident took place
at Derwent Crook Colliery, near Gateshead, on Saturday last,
at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, when the boiler of
the engine at the head of the pit exploded, by which the
engineer and one of the workmen were killed, and another
was so severely scalded as to render his recovery very doubt-
ful. Eight others were much, though not dangerously,
scalded by the steam, and hurt by the stones forced from the
engine•house by the explosion.
RECOF.DERSH TP OF CHESTEE..-411 consequence of John
Cottingham, Esq., barrister-at-law, having been appointed
police magistrate in the metropolitan districts, the recorder-
ship of Chester became vacant. We, understand that the
Crown has nominated W. N. Welsby, Esq., to the vacant
office.