The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-09 00:00:00

THE 'LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

The thermometer in Dublin, on Wednesday, was 118 in
the sun, and 80 in the shade.

"-Mr. Brewster, solicitor-general for Ireland, is named
for the vacant seat of the county Carlow. It is said that
Captain Broderick will be opposed to him by the repeal
party. _ . _

A young man, of the name of M'Craig, and three
young women named M'Allister, O'Ceill, and M'Clusky
were drowned on Sunday week in Belfast Lough by the
upset of a sail boat, while on a party of pleasure.
On Friday week, the Rev. S. O'Grady Parker, when
returning home from Nenagh, was fired at, but the pistol
missed fire, and the assassin escaped. Mr. Parker is a
most indulgent landlord, and only a few days since sub-
scribed £lOO to the relief committee. •

SHOCKING OUTRAGE.— A ruffian, named Michael
Corbet, has been committed to Kilkenny gaol to take his
trial at the next assizes, for setting fire to his house, with
the design of burning his wife and mother-in-law. The
fire was observed before it had made much progress, and
his intended victims were saved. Jealousy is supposed to
have caused him to commit this shocking outrage.

The judges of the Queen's Bench, Dublin, have deci-
ded against the points reserved by the judge of assize in
the case of P. Rice and P. II ayeQ, convicted at Nenagh of
a conspiracy to murder the late Patrick Clarke, &c. The
sentence of death passed upon the prisoners was respited
to the 19th instant, on • which day it will be carried into
execution. Patrick ,Fogarty, who was also convicted at
Nenagh, and for whom points were raised, is also ordered
for execution, pursuant to sentence, for firing at Mr.
M`Donald.

REPEAL ABSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this
body was held on Monday. The building was crowded,
owing to the circmmstance of Mr. O'Connell being pre-
sent. Henry Grattan, Esq., M.P., presided. The first
remmittance was from Dr. M'Hale for £127. The Ro-
man Catholic Bishops of Meath and Derry also sent re-
mittances. Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to eulogise Mr.
O'Brien for the manliness of his conduct, and alluded to
the rumours that were afloat respecting a division in the
Reteal camp. It was-said that the association was divided,
and that he was against Smith O'Brien, and Smith O'Brien
against him. It was no such thing. What would their
enemies think that day ? (Cheers.) lie could tell them he
would not consent to-continuea member of the association
one hour unless Smith O'Brien was his comrade, his_col-
league, and co-equal in the struggle. (Cheers.) If any-
thing would make him despair of Ireland, it would h&that
they should do anything to induce. Smith O'Brien ta quit
the ranks in which he had so bravely fought for Ireland.
Wbat!—leadership! He would be very much obliged to
him for becdming leader,; he would have his warm and
hearty support, and he knew that was a sentiment Smith
O'Brien would reciprocate. There was no division in the
Repeal Association—there was no division amongst the
leaders of that Association—therewas nothing but good
feeling and fellowship ; and above all, the sacred &aims of
patriotism bound them heart to heart throughout the land.
(Cheers.) He concluded by proposing a series of resolu-
tions to the effect that a public banquet and entry be given
to Mr. O'Brien. and that Mr. O'Brien be requested to
allow this Association, acting on behalf of the Repealers
of Ireland, to refund to him the fees paid on his discharge
from the custody of the Sergeant-at-arms. The rent for
the week was £355. During the proceedings, Mr. O'Con-
nell referred to a speech delivered by a Mr. Archdeacon
on Sunday week in Liverpool, as,a Repealer, and proposed
several resolutions calling upon him to know if the report
of what he said was correct; and, if so, to inform him
that he could no longer remain a member of the Repeal
Association. (Cheers.)

THE CjURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD,

Her Majesty and the infant Princess are progressing
most favourably. The Queen Dowager visited her Ma-
jesty on Thursday, and remained a couple of hours.
Prince Albert and the junior members of the Royal Fa-
mily have taken their accustomed airings in the vicinity
of Buckingham Palace.

Sir Herit y and Lady Pottinger, with their daughter, ar-
rived at Brighton, from Paris, on Wednesday.
The Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry enter-
tained Prince Louis Napoleon and a distinguished circle
at dinner on Sunday week at Rosebank.
It is rumoured in political circles that the Marquess of
Londonderry is to be appointed to the vacant Lord
Chamberlainship, in the place of Lord Delawarr.
Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has taken up his
quarters, pro tern., at one of the hotels in Jerrnyn-street.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton gave a splendid en-
tertainment last evening to their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at their family man-
sion, in Grosvenor-square.
The ex-king of Holland, father to Prince Louis Napo-
leon, possesses immense wealth, and makes a noble use of
it in relieving the poor and unfortunate. He resides
chiefly at Florence.

FASHIONS FOR JUNE.

(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")

Barges in large checks, grenadine de laine, with
rayures camaieux, tissu damas, and taffetas glace, are
the fashionable materials at this moment ; for the prome-
nade, lace is the indispensable accompaniment of every
toilette, and flounces of lace are no longer confined to
evening wear, but are used on morning dresses of taffetas
brochi. White silk is fashionable; in full dress three or
five flounces pinked are placed on the skirts; dresses of
crape, organdy larlatane, are no longer worn over a skirt
of coloured silk, but over one of the same material as the
dress which gives great lightness as well as fulness to the
toilette.

Double skirts of tarlatans, appearing to form but two
flounces, are pretty ball dresses ; these flounces are some-
times richly worked; they are also pretty edged with
fringe,

Turkish pink is a favourite colour for evening wear.
For coiffures flowers are much worn ; some as double
wreaths drooping; also foliage of every kind,, mixed with
roses, mignionette, &c. _ _

Caps are worn very backward on the bend; the orna-
ments of flowers, velvet or ribbon, are quite confined to
the ears, the lappets arranged to cover the headpiece, and
fall behind on the throat.

Many redingotes of taffetas are embroidered en tablier
either au passe or with silk braid ; some are with tiers of
narrow flounces of the two shades of colour of the dress,
or with several rows of fringe en tablier. Numerous
mantilets have appeared suitable to the season ; the es-
pagnol is of black lace lined with black, rounding off at
the waist, and finishing with lace half a yard deep; the
mantilet jeune femme is of light showy colours trimmed
with ruches. Pardessus are also made of tarlatane or
white barege over light colours, and are particularly suited
to young people. Leghorn bonnets are always fashiona-
ble in Paris ; they are worn without bavolets—are of a
very open form, ornamented with a long ostrich feather.
Paille de riz continue in favour, ornamented with lace
and flowers, or fruit, or feathers ; the inside of bonnets
is much trimmed. White crape and lace bonnets are also
much in favour ; the former are pretty, covered with
bouillons of tulle; fancy straws are lined with cerise pink
or green. and ornamented with fancy feathers : the pailles
Louis XV. are extremely light, and generally lined with
white.

DOMESTIC.

Public baths are to be established at 'Worcester,

A CURIOSITY.—A short time since, we noticed in our
paper a well-authenticated instance of a snail having been
found in an egg. This wonder is, however, completely
cast into the shade by the discovery of a fish of about an
inch and a querter long in a new-laid hen's egg. The
fish was found ,by Miss Pearson, housekeeper to Mr..
James Dakeyhe of Toadhole, and has been seen by many
persons, who all agree in describing it as a perfectly un-
mistakeable fish of some kind, the head being somewhat
large for the proportion of the body, and the rudiments of
eyes, gills, and scales, being distinctly visible. The shell
of the egg, previous to its being broken, was much mis-
shapen (?)—Derby Mercury.

FIRST ARRIVAL AT HULL FROM PETERSBITRGII.—
The Rob Roy, Lieut. Knocker, R.N., commander, ar-
rived at Hull on Friday, on her return from the first voy-
age to St. Petersburgh this season, being also the first ar-
rival at this port from the Russian capital. The Rob
Roy left Hull, outward bound, on the 4th May, and
has made the passage home in ra,her less than eight days.
She has had full cargoes out and home, also a large num-
ber of passengers. The prospects of trade at Constadt
were considered not bad for the season, although it could
scarcely be said to have opened, for no wool had come
down the river, and indeed none of the interior craft had
arrived, but they were daily expected.
A terrific thunder storm passed over Todmorden,
Ashton, Oldham, and the neighbourhood on Wednesday,
and did considerable damage. The lightning struck
Winter's mill at Todmorden and the chimney fell with a
dreadful crash, part of the roof of the building being
forced in, but happily, although the whole of the hands
were at work. no one was injured in the slightest degree.
The electric fluid entered the lower room of the mill and
set fire to the cotton, straps, and other combustible ma-
terials ; but the workpeople set heartily to work to ex-
tinguish the flames, and by their timely exertions the mill
was saved from the destruction by which it was threat-
ened. The damage done to the building and machinery
is estimated at about £3OO. Much injury was also done
at other places.

CHARGE OF MURDER. - On Tuesday last, a man
named Benjamin Gibbins was brought up at the Thames
Police-court, on a charge of murdering Jane Slowman, a
woman with whom he had cohabited. The deceased was
found lying in the lobby of the house, with wounds upon
her head. and face. The evidence against the prisoner
consisted almost entirely of marks of blood having been
found on his person. In his defence he pleaded that he
was not at home on Monday night, and not being able to
obtain admission, obtained a ladder on the following
morning, and on entering by an upper window, found the
deceased, who it was evident had been drinking, in the
position described. The fact was brought to light that an
illicit distillation of whiskey had been going on .in the
house, and the still had on that evening been hastily car-
ried away. _ The prisoner was remanded. _ . .

A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.—An old man met with
a frightful death near Stratford-on-Avon, about noon on
Tuesday last. The deceased was sent by Mr. Atkins, of
Milcot, near Stratford-on-Avon, to fetch home a bull that
had been hired out for the season, and he was returning,
at the time having hold of a chain that was attached to a
ring that passed through the bull's nose. Some persons
passing along the road saw the old man, as they supposed,
overcome with heat, sit down by the bank on the road
side, and immediately after the animal was seen to rush
at him as be sat, goring and ripping the poor fellow in the
most horrible manner. Several persons ran to the spot,
but the bull kept trampling upon and ripping open the
poor man's body and head, until his features were almost
obliterated. By this time a general alarm was given, and
one man drove a pickaxe into the animal's back, with
which he made off, and others fired at him in every direc-
tion. One man, a shoemaker, residing near the spot,
battled with him in a most extraordinary manner, facing
Isis fierce and frightful rushes, whilst others kept loading
and firing at him at every point. At length a butcher,
named Waite, seized him by the tail, and courageously
forced him into an adjacent shed, where a barber, named
Thomas Harris, terminated his existence by shouting
him in the head. The scene was of a most frightful
description.—Birmingham Advertiser.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE ON ULVERSTON SANDS.—
An accident of a most awful nature occurred on Ulverston
Sands on Thursday night, and that not by the rising of
the tide as has before too frequently happened, but by a
supposed mistake in the road. It appears that on Thurs-
day morning a party of young folks set out from Cartmel
and Flookborough, to pay a visit to Ulverston fair. The
party consisted of Thomas Moore, in whose cart they
went, Robert Benson, Thomas Tomlinson, Ellen Inman,
and Jane Inman, from Flookborough; Guy Crossdale,
William Hanson, and Jane Sefton, from Cartmel; and
John Brooks, from Holker. They spent a pleasant day
at Ulverston, and set out to go home in the evening. A
young man named Butler, who also had a cart, and was
coming home across the sands, followed almost close be-
hind them. It was, Butler says, about five minutes past
ten when they were crossing the channel, and the tide was
running out ; in fact, they were rather soon. Butler ar-
rived sate at home, and on going out next morning he
heard that Moore's party had never arrived. Instant
search was made, and it was discovered that the horse and
cart had fallen into a deep hole, and every one of its oc-
cupants had perished. Their deaths must have been in-
stantaneous, as Butler did not hear a scream or the least
noise, but concluded that they were still before him. Se-
ven of the bodies have been found. They were all young
persons about the age of 20 or 24, and had gone over to
the fair for a pleasure excursion. Ellen Inman, one of
the unfortunate young women, and Moore were to have
been married next week but one.—Prealori Pilot.
THE WHOLESALE MATRIMONIAL SPECULATOR.—
Joseph Mortimer, who has been examined sundry times
for duping several females out of their money, by either
marrying them or proposing marriage to them, at the
same time representing himself to be a wealthy American
merchant, was again brought up for re-examination, on
Saturday last,• at Guildhall. Mr. Teague informed the
bench that, since the last inquiry concerning the prisoner,
he had received many communications about him. The
information went to show that the prisoner was first
married to Catherine WlCennie, who is at present living
as servant in Dublin. His next wife was at Camberwell.
In July, 1839, he was united to a Mrs. Josephine Lang-
horn, who is at present living in New York. On the 22d
of January, 1814, he was wedded at St. Philip's Church,
Liverpool, to a Miss Lovejoy, who, on her passage to
America with him, in the Siddons line-of•packet ship,
died on the twenty-first day of the voyage, and was thrown
overboard. The captain of the vessel stated that he ill-
used her. The prisoner's next marriage was to a Misi
Baker, in March, 1845, who is also living in Ireland, near

Red-bill, county Roscommon ; and, lastly, he was married
to one Caroline Wright, at Shoredi:ch Church, on the
7th of June of the same year. This female was living in
Dublin. Mr. Shuttleworth, the coach proprietor, at
Chelmsford, identified the prisoner as being the man who

married Mrs. Longhorn, in 16'29. -1 tie remaie w❑s alive
in New York. Ile produced a letter from in r, bearing
date the '22LI of March. The prisoner said she was living
with anotoer man, and had children by him. The pri-

soner was acain remanded.
THE, CHEAP BEEAD HUMBUG

—Already there are

manife

not very materially reduce the price of bread. The League
mill-owners who Bioko with so much positiveness on the

glorious benefits of free-trade, refuse to shorten the hours
of labour, because they are not sure they will after all be
better off. The Ten Hour Bill has been rejected in this
very doubt. And whilst the Protectionist journals and
Peers are taking the League at its word, and affrighting
themselves and the farmers with visions of cheap corn and
an unlimited supply, the League journalists are showing
as plain as figures and present facts can show, that the
alarm is a false one. Thus Lord Stanley tantalised the
readers of Parliamentary debates with vistas (painted as
he assured the House of Lords by an eminent Liverpool
merchant) of wheat from the Danube at 14s. a quarter
and 9s. 6d. freight. But the Liverpool Times gives us
chapter and verse to prove that the price last year was
never less than 21s. per quarter, and the average freight
10s., and that moreover the wheat is so bad that it is of
little service. An agricultural paper, following humbly in
the wake of Lord: Stanley, told its Boeotian readers, of
\Vallachian wheat, bought for 9s. a quarter, and brought
to Goole for a freight of Bs, 6d. per quarter. But the
Leeds Mercury dissolves the pleasing vision by the reve-
lation that the wheat cost 19s. a quarter, the freight
14s. 6d., and that, moreover, the wheat was'` sad rub-
bish." The poor workmen will no doubt remember the
very large wooden " free-trade" loaves employed in the
great election, to set forth by contrast of bow much the
Corn laws were depriving them. They were but wood,
however, and are never likely to be properly-bre(a)d
loaves. We shall be greatly disappointed if they are.—
Halifax Guardian.