The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

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fore Wednesday, the 30th.

STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT.—There were two persons on
board this unfortunate vessel whosa names have not reached
the public eye. In the published list "Mr. Howell and
friend" are named. That friend was Mrs. Howell, who was
married to Mr. H. a few hours before the vessel left the
port; the other was:Robert Hamilton Dundas, of the British
navy, a promising young officer.—.2Vew York Commercial
Ad?, ertiter.

POPULATION' OY WAVERTREE DISTRICT.—WeVeI'Iree,
1150 males ' • 1519 females ; total, 2669. Last census, 1950 ;
increase, 719. Childwall, 85 males ;97 females ; total, 182.
Allerton, 214 males ; 226 females ; total, 440. Garston,
885 males; 1004 females ; total, 1889.
TE E NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice
Denman and Mr. Justice Wightinan.)—York, Saturday,
July 10th ; Durham, Saturday, 21th ; Newcastle and North-
umberland, Thursday, 29th; Crrlisle, Tuesday, August
3d ; Appleby, Saturday 7th ; Lancaster, Tuesday 10th ; Li-
verpool, Saturday 14th.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE ACCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
—OR Sunday last, the service appointed to be read when
the anniversary of a Sovereign's accession to the throne falls
on a Sunday, was used in several churches in this town, and
we believe was very generally adopted through the country.
Lord Palmerston passed through this city on Wednesday
last. on his way to Tiverton, to canvass the electors. His
lordship was rather dispirited, on arriving among his con-
stituents, to find a conservative in the field, in the person of
Charles Ross, Esq., for whose return active exertions are
making.—Bristol Mirror. [We suspect his lordship will
be still more dispirited, when, hurried out of Tiverton,
he finds himself the rejected of Liverpool.] •

DUBLIN ELECTION.—The conservative candidates, West
and Grogan, are proceeding as well as heart could wish. The
corporation and all the minor guilds are passing unanimous
votes in their favour ; and every hour tends more and more
to confirm us in our opinion that Mr. O'Connell will fall
back upon Kilkenny, and that there will be no contest for
Dublin.

PLEDGES!—The Rev. fl ugh Stowell, of Manchester—a
man as honoured as any in the sacred ministry—has addressed
" a letter to the Protestant electors of Great Britain, on their
duty at the present crisis." We have to acknowledge the
receipt of a copy from the rev. author, and will publish the
whole in our next. For the present we must content our-
selves with the following extract:—" Efforts ought to be
strenuously made to influence the minds of our future repre-
sentatives in-favour of an uncompromising Protestant course.
NOT THAT PLEDGES SHOULD BE EXACTED ; THEY ARE THE
COBWEBS WHICH PETTY TYRANTS WEAVE TO ENTANGLE
PLIANT KNAVES."

ACCELERATION OF THE DUBLIN 'TAIL.--The London
evening mail was conveyed, for the first time, on Tuesday
morning, on the Chester and Crewe and the Birkenhead and
Chester Railway, and put on board the Posto►ilice mail
steamer, on the Cheshire side of the river, a few minutes
after six o'clock. The train which brought the mail did not
bring any passengers ; a circumstance of which Lord Robert
Grosvenor complained, on Friday evening, in the House of
Commons, his lordship being then ignorant of the announce-
ment from the Directors of the Grand Junction Railway
Company, that, on and after to-day, passengers as well as
the mails will be conveyed on the Chester and Crewe line.
If the corporation would erect on the Liverpool side of the
Mersey a slip, with the same capacity as those at Birkenhead
or Woodside, which run so far out that the packets can come
alongside at any time of the tide, the steamers for Dnblin,
instead of quitting the Mersey after six, might leave it shorty
after four o'clock, and in average weather reach Ireland early
in the afternoon.

GLEANINGS AT AN ELEOTIONEERING MEETING.—John
Fisher was placed at the bar of the Police-court, on Saturday,
charged with having picked the pockets of several gentlemen
who were in the crowd assembled in the Exchange to hear
the speeches of Lord Sandon and Mr. Creswell on Friday
last. Mr. George H ugh Davies, of Burlington-street, stated,
that he was one of the auditory on the occasion above alluded
to. He felt some person pushing behind him, and, on look-
ing round, saw the prisoner putting a handkerchief into his
breast. He immediately delivered him to police-officer Bar-
ton, who took him to Bridewell, where three other silk
handkerchiefs were found on his person. Mr. Thomas
Chilton, merchant, of King-street, who lost his handkerchief
in the crowd, claimed one of those found on the prisoner as
his property. The prisoner said a man in the crowd made
him a present of all the handkerchiefs. He was committed
for trial.

STEALING FROM A SHOP.-At the Police-court, yesterday,
John Tongue. a young man, was charged with having stolen
a piece of moleskin from the shop of Messrs. Danvers and
Nixey, woollen drapers, Byrom-street. on Saturday night.
Information of the theft was given to Mr. Danvers by a fe-
male who was passing, and the prisoner was pursued and ap-
prehended in Sawney Pope-street with the moleskin in his
possession. It was sixty-one yards in length, and was valued
at £4 6s. Id.

THE AFRICAN EXPEDITION.—Extract of a letter from
an officer on board her majesty's steam-vessel Albert, dated
Madeira, 21st May, 1841:—" After full a fortnight's deten-
tion by contrary winds at Plymouth, we started, all things
smiling upon us, and had a delightful passage to this place of
84 days : when using wind and steam, beating everything we
saw : but two days we ran 5 and 54 knots under canvass
alone. The prints dont do the vessels justice. They are
good sea-boats, but at times a little unpleasant. This is in-
separable from these shallow, flat bottoms. The ventilation
answers admirably, besides making it more agreeable, the
air is considerably drier, as shown to the amount of 34 deg.
by the hydrometer." We have seen a letter from an officer
on board the Soudan, in which he gives the vessel the highest
character as a safe and good good sea-boat. It is worthy of
notice, that the Albert and Wilberforce sailed together from
Plymouth, and arrived at Teneriffe together.

THE PRINCESS ROYAL STEAM PLEASURE BOAT.—This
newly-built pleasure boat, propelled by the Archimedes
screw, made her first pleasure trip to Arundel and back, the
party (about sixty in number) being the invited guests of the
respected proprietor. The vessel was very recently built on
the Tyne, from which port she arrived on the Bth instant, in
the short space of 484 hours, the distance being upwards of
four hundred miles, She is of the following dimensions :
length of keel 81 feet, breadth of beam 174 feet, depth. of
hold 10 feet, of immersion 6i feet, tonnage 101 tons register.
There are two engines each of 23 horse power, the screw is
a feet diameter, 6 feet pitch, and 31 strokes of the engine,
making 170 evolutions is the regulated speed. The velocity
of the boat is about eight knots an hour (equal to 9./ miles) ;
but, in our estimation, its greatest recommendation as a
boat for pleasuring in its uniform steady progresss through
the water.—Brighton Guardians
TRIBUTES OF REGARD.—The congregation of All Saints'
have just presented their eminently zealous pastor, the Rev.
Andrew M'Conkey with a full suit of canonicals, and a sil-
ver pocket communion service ; the former, it is expected,
he will wear this evening, to deliver the first of the course of
lectures advertised in the STANDARD of to-day. The
younger members of All Saints' have also presented Mr.
M'Conkey with a handsome pulpit bible.
THE FINE ARTS.—We beg to draw the attention of con-
noisseurs to Mr. Ward's small, but very choice collection of
paintings, which he is about disposing of. The Backgammon
Players, by Gerard Dow, is one of the most pure, elaborate,
and brilliantly executed productions we ever saw of this mas-
ter, celebrated as he always has been for the high finish of
his works. One of the figures is a portrait of Gerald Dow.
As a pupil of Renzbrandt, he does his great master no dis-
ciedit. The two Vaudeveldes are also very remarkable pic-
tures : the smallest is a charming work. The Magdalen, by
Vandycke after Titian, is a great effort of art, and no one
who closely examines it will, we think, deny its authenticity
and excellence. We can safely recommend these pictures to
the notice of connoisseurs.

A large placard appears upon the walls, addressed to the
Irishmen in Liverpool, and calling upon them, as they value
their religion and Daniel O'Connell, to behave themselves
decently, quietly, and respectably at the ensuing election.
This is as much as saying—in the Devil's name have done
Positively popery don't take things as it used to do, but be-
gins to have something quite gingerly, and " wery pecooliar"
in its notions. As to the inside of the cup we cannot sad
much about it, but certainly it scrubs away at the outside,
and has already got a very tolerable face upon it. It eschews
all inflammatory potations, and preaches up both sobriety
and order. We take this as an evidence that it is rising in
the world. When it was a very despised thing, it was
careless in its habits ; but since it has got a certain
footing in society, it begins to think well of itself,
and is desirous of being thought comme it faut. We are sorry
to distress our friend Sir Joshua, but we must tell him that
this is a bad sign for him. It was Father Mathew that
gained the last election for Colonel Bruen in Carlow.
That's a fact. While the electors were given up to whiskey
and drunkenness, the priests would do what they liked with
,them—and under the influence of popery and alcohol they
went madly forth to vote against their landlords ; but when
they took the friar's pledge, and saw things with a straight
eye—to the very great surprise and disappointment of the
secular and other voters of the clargy and the demagogues—
not a vote would they give against their landlords. Colonel
Bruen then won easily. We'
would advise " our knight" to
look to this. If the Irishmen in Liverpool have resolved to
conduct themseives prudently, we fear it's all over with him—
his last chance is gone.
SAVAGJt CONDUCT OF A POLICE-OFFICER.—A case of
considerable interest, affecting a police-officer named Wilson,
was, on Friday, brought before Mr. Rushton, at the police-
court. A decent-looking old man, named Shepherd, who
showed some wounds on his head, and whose hat had been
broken by the blows he had received, charged Wilson with
having committed a second violent attack upon him, which
had nearly proved fatal, lie (the officer) having at the time
been under suspension for the first assault. Wilson, a tall,
athletic, red-haired man, appeared in court in plain clothes.
The following is a statement of plain facts :—On Tuesday
week the defendant saw Shepherd in the street, rather intox-
icated, and ordered him peremptorily to go home. This he
did not at once do, and Wilson struck him severely, so that
he fell down some cellar steps, and was seriously injured.
Shepherd complained of the treatment he bad received to
the Police Committee, who finding, on an investigation, that
his story was true, suspended the defendant from duty. On
the parties leaving the committee-room, Wilson held out a
threat to the old man that he should be revenged, a threat
which appears he carried into execution. On Friday morn-
ing, at the court-room, the complainant stated that, at about
half-past ten o'clock on Monday night, he had just gone out
of a beer-house in Upper Mason-street, kept by a Mrs.
Evans, when he was attacked by Wilson, who made a blow
at him, and struck him in the cheek with some sharp instru-
ment, which wounded him severely ; and afterwards struck
him about the head with what appeared to be the handle of
a whip, with a heavy knob at the end of it. Wilson denied
having seen the defendant from the day of the investigation
up to that same morning. Mrs. Evans, however, corrobo-
rated the testimony of Shepherd in many particulars, and
Mr. Rushton said it was quite clear that the aggression com-
plained of had been committed, and that the attack was one
of savage revenge. He fined Wilson la and costs, or in de-
fpult to be imprisoned for two months ; and required him
also to find bail to keep the peace. himself in £2O and two
sureties in £lO each, or to be further imprisoned.
COLONIAL BISHOPS.—WC are
glad to see that this sub-
ject is not allowed to sleep. The commissioners for carrying
it into effect have issued the following recommendations. On
due consideration of the relative claims of those dependen-
cies of the empire which require our assistance, we are of
opinion that the immediate erection of bishoprics is much to
be desired in the following places :—New Zealand, the Bri-
tish Possessions in the Mediterranean, New Brunswick,
Cape of Good Hope, Van Diemen 's Land, and Ceylon.
When competent provision shall have been made for the
endowment of these bishoprics, regard must be had to the
claims of Sierra Leone, British Guiana, South Australia, Port
Philip, Western Australia, Northern India, Southern India.
In the first instance, we propose that an episcopal see be esta-
blished at the seat of government in New Zealand, offers
having been already made which appear to obviate all difficulty
as to endowment. Our next object will be to make a similar
provision for the congregations of our own communion, esta-
blished in the islands of the Mediterranean, and in the
countries bordering upon that sea ; and it is evident that the
position of Malta is such as will render it the most convenient
point of communication with them, as well -as with the
bishops of the ancient churches of the east, to whom our
church has been, for many centuries, known only by name.
We propose, therefore, that a see be fixed at Valletta, the
residence of the English Government, and that its jurisdiction
extend to all the clergy of our church residing within the
limits above specified. In this city, through the munificence
of her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, a church is in course of
erection, which when completed, will form asuitable cathedral.