The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

ther day that not one of tl
)rward by the Whigs will pass tl

the repeal of the Navigation-1
in-Aid he considered had no than
The Oxford and Cambridge boat race took place on
Thursday between Putney and Mortlake, the distance of
four miles. The time occupied by them in performing
race was twenty-two minutes. The contest was
in favour of Cambridge.
elect committee of the House
to inquire into the operation of the I

Lords, appointed
sh Poor Law and
expediency of making any amendment in its enact-
ments, have just agreed to their third report, in which
the Rate-in-Aid scheme is condemned; they refer to some

AN EBONY ADONIS.—At Gloucester Assizes last week,
Elenry Desbury, a black man, was convicted of bigamy,
md sentenced to six months' imprisonment. He married
its second wife with the consent of his first, who repre-
mented him as a single man, and he himself acknowledged
:hat he took her for her " pretty face alone ;" she had no
'ortune " of any consequence."

........hroughout this melan-
choly affair, were presenl at the grave ride. Between the THE DOG IN DANGER.—A cat._
hospital and the cemetery, numbers of people thronged Parliament, entering the house of a washerwoman in
the streets, and a large concourse of spectators congrega- Yorkshire, shook hands with all the inmates, not except-
ted near the place of interment. These would have been ing a little Cinderella on the hearth, and nauseated
considerably augmented had it not been that the funeral Dame Suds with his fulsome courtesies. Kicking the
took place somewhat unexpectedly, an impression being dog which lay snoozing by the fire—" Get away wi' thee
prevalent that the deceased would be buried on Sunday. (she cried)—he'll be shaking hands wi' thee next !"
The corpse having been placed in the grave, the usual
burial service was read by the Rev. Mr. Green, curate of EXTRAORDINARY APPOINTMENT.—Miss Tempest, of
St. Mark's Church, in a very solemn and impressive the Grange, near .Ackworth, (sister to Sir Charles Robert
manner; the large assembly listening with the greatest
Tempest, Bart., of Broughton-hall, in the county of
attention. York,) has been appointed overseer of the poor for the
parish of Ackworth, together with John Hagues, cow-
vvere It was understood that on Sunday the Rev. Mr.Pol-
leech, also of the parish of Ackworth. The appointment

r a seat in

lock would preach a sermon, at St.' Mark's Church, in
reference to the melancholy event which has excited such
interest in the town. There was, consequently, a
large attendance.. The rev. gentleman delivered a very
elegant discourse from the sth chap. 2d Corinthians, 4th
verse, but it did not partake of the character of an ordi-
nary funeral sermon. At the close of the subject he re-
ferred to the large attendance, and said there appeared to
have been an impression that he would have made some
remarks relating to the painful tragedy which had recently
taken place in the town. Such, however, had never been
his intentions, as he had said all he intended on the pre-
vious Sabbath. Besides, he thought he would not be
doing that which was consistent with his own duty and
the public interests if he endeavoured in any way to pan-
der to an excitement which he would rather use his endea-
vours to modify and allay. He was quite sure there was
in the present day a morbid sensibility connected with
horrible affairs such as that which had recently taken place,
and no minister should help that feeling forward. He
cordially agreed with the sentiment in reference to that
subject which lately fell from one of the judges at York.
There is every reason to believe that this man's name
is not John Gleeson Wilson, but Owen Morris. A per-
son of the name of John Sharps has deposed that he wrote
a letter to the prisoner's father some time since at the
prisoner's request, in which the prisoner spoke of himself
as Owen Morris, The letter to the father was addressed
RJohn Morris, blacksmith, Dreol, to the care of the
ev. Father Ryan, P.P. Rathkeal, Limerick." The pri-
soner speaks Irish with fluency, which is what not an Eng-
lishman in a million can do.—Liverpool Times. The pri-

was Wade at Wentbridge, on the 26th ult., and is in-
dorsed by " two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace."
FREE TRADE AND THE FARMERS.—We find the fol-
lowing in a leading article in the Standard . " His Grace
the Duke of Marlborough has received notice of their in-
tention to quit their farms at Michaelmas next, from the
occupiers of seven thousand acres of the best land in
England. His Grace's tenants make no complaints of
excessive rents, or of any oppressive restrictions ; they
are at full liberty to destroy hares, rabbits, &c., upon the.
farms, and have hitherto been upon the best terms with
their noble landlord, as they are still. But they can-
not cultivate their land at any rent. or no rent, without
loss, and they therefore abandon it."

DIVISION OF PARISHES.—The Queen has been pleased
to appoint the Most Rev. the Archbishop of York, the
Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, the Rev. the Lord
Bishop of London, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
Lichfield, Lord Ashley, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
Sir Edward North Buxton, Bart.. Rev. Henry Raikes,
M.A., Chancellor of the diocese of Chester, the Venerable
Archdeacon Sinclair, Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook, D.D.,
Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A. William Cotton, Esq.,_ Rev.
William Weldon Champneys, M.A., Charles Knight
Murray, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, William Woodrooffe,
Esq., tem Joseph Haslegrave, M.A., and Robert Benton.
Sealey, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to in-
quire into the practicability and mode of subdividing into
distinct and independent parishes, for all ecclesiastical
purposes, all the densely-peopled parishes in England
and Wales,