The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLENCE.

ANNOYING A CONGREGATION.—A workman was yes-
terday fined by Mr. Rushton five shillings for having gone
in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Copperas-hill, in a state
of intoxication, and annoyed those present while several
children were being baptised.
BREAKING INTO A MARKET STAND.—Yesterday, at
the Police-court, Dennis Daley and William Jones, both
mere lads, were charged with breaking into a shoemaker's
stand in Cleveland-square market, and stealing shoes of
the value of 6s. Being, though young in years, old in
offence, they were both committed for trial.
BASE COIN.—At the Police-court, yesterday, an elderly
man, Thomas Ford, and a female, Mary Graham, were
charged with uttering, on two different occasions' two
base shillings, in a public-house in King-street. Both
the coins were from the same mould. The prisoners were
remanded in order that the case might be submitted to
the law officers of the Crown.

COMMITMENTS TO GAOL OR FOR TRIAL FROM THE
POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY. —Julia Macdonald, for
stealing two pickaxes, the property of Michael Kelly,—
one month's ~,imprisonment.—Joseph Hughes, charged
by, apparently, a countryman, named Canse, with robbing
him of his watch (value £4) in a house of ill fame, was
sent for trial at the sessions.—Joseph Pugh, an apprentice
to Mr. Gambell, sail-maker, and James Tittensor, one of
his workmen, were committed for trial at the sessions, on a
charge of having stolen some canvas, which they had cut
out of a vessel's topsail, on their employer's premises, and
sold to a marine-store dealer. It appeared that Mr. Gam-
bell had previously been a serious loser in the same way,
but could not discover the offenders. The prisoners made
statements recriminating upon each other.•
CASE OF CHILD LEAVlNG.—Yesterday, a young and
emaciated woman, named Mary O'Neill, was charged with
leaving infant child, (six weeks old,) on the steps of a
cellar occupied by a Mrs. Kelly, in Addisbn-street, on
the night of Saturday last. The infant was wrapped up.
Mrs. Kelly said that the prisoner had before left another
child, of which she believed her to be the mother, in the
same way. In consequence of a statement made by the
prisoner it appeared that Mrs. Kelly's son, who lived. with
her, was the reputed father of both the infants, and that
he had left them and the mother in great destitution,
though he was earning 18s. a week. Mr. Rushton said
that nothing could justify the prisoner in leaving her child
as stated, but that he would not, under the circumstances
commit her. She must come before him again, and affi-
liate her infant, and he should take care that the father
should provide for it.

BEGGING IMPOSTOR.—On Friday, a woman named
Mulvary, applied at the District-office, Arley-street, for
relief, stating that she was in great distress. Police-con-
stable Cotham suspected that she was not telling the
truth, and examined her. In her breast he found 13s. 6d.
She was brought before Mr. Rushton, and committed for
ten days for begging.

sent to gaol by Mr. R

On Wednesday, a man wa
ton, for three months, for endeavouring to obt
by begging petitions, the signatures to which were for-
geries. They purported to be signed by the Rev. F.
Ould, Rev. W. W. Ewbank, &c. Mr. Rushton said that
no person should give money to such people. There was
a regular manufactory of such petitions in this town. [A
letter from the Rev.'F, Parry, in another column, gives a
further warning to the public on this subject. It seems
that not merely signatures are forged to these documents,
but that forged letters are written by these scoundrels.]
CAUTION TO PARENTS.—On Tuesday, Mr. Burns,
alias Mary M'Coy, was committed for trial for stripping
a little girl named Francis Rowe, in Cheapside, of nearly
the whole of her wearing apparel.. The prisoner per-
suaded the child to allow her to take off her clothes, gave
her a penny, and was in the act of walking off with the
stolen articles when she was observed and apprehended.

ain money

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, Catherine Faza-
kerly was committed for stealing some articles of bedding
from the house of Mrs. Sarah Bretherton, keeper of a
public-house in Falkner-street It appeared that the
prisoner went into the house, and upon ascertaining that
the landlady was in the kitchen, walked up stairs, and
came down again in a few seconds with a large bundle of
bedding. She was secured by an officer on leaving the
house, and taken to bridewell.

DEFECTIVE SANATORY STATE OF THE NA-
TIONAL DAME AND INFANT SCHOOLS OF
LIVERPOOL.

At a meeting of the Liverpool Literary and Philsophical
Society, held on Monday evening, a paper was read by
Mr. Balman, surgeon, entitled, " Physical Education, with
reference to the industrial pursuits of this country, and
especially to the National Schools of this town," showing
the physical evils of confining children so much in ill-
ventilated factories, of compelling them to physical exer-
tions beyond their strength, and of collecting them to-
gether in small ill-ventilated buildings, for the purposes of
education. The consequence of the defective state of such
schools, Mr. Balman stated to be most destructive to
life and provocative of sickness ; the bulk of the schools
are ill-ventilated, and of the infant schools one-half are
situate in cellars, which are damp, badly lighted, and ill-
ventilated.

The number of buildings inspected by Mr. Babnan were
43, comprising 80 separate schools, of the scholars attend-

absent from sickness, there being an average"registered
number of 6828 scholars, 731 sick. Of 60 schools, 23 were
ventilated, 11 were imperfectly ventilated, and 26 had no
ventilation at all. Out of 31 infant schools inspected 11
were quite unfit for schools, 14 were in cellars, and 6 were
ventilated imperfectly. Of 3542 registered scholars, 705,
or 20 per cent., were ill. At the conclusiou of the asay
of Mr. Balman, the clerical inspector of schools, the Rev.
H. H. Higgins deemed the subject of so vital importance
to the jeopardized health of hundreds of poor children,
forced into, and daily incarcerated in, schools, alias cellars,

underneath churches and chapels, in this town, that
the discussion on this important subject was finally and
very properly adjourned till the next fortnightly meeting.

STEAM-VESSELS (NAvY).—A return printed on Fri-
day, on the motion of Sir Charles Napier, shows that the
number of screw steam-vessels laid down and launched
since the Ist of Janury, 1840, amounts to 11, ranging
from 42 to 1,861 tons burden, and from 10 to 629-horse
power ; that the number of ships altered to screw steam-
vessels amounts to 10 ; and that the number of iron
steam-vessels laid down and launched since the Ist of
January, 1840, amounts to 33,
from 20 to 780iiorse power

,952 tons, and

CHURCH DISCIPLINE.—We are infOrmed that a bill
on this subject has been prepared by the Lord Chancellcr,
as a substitute for the one against, which we had occasion
to express such strong objections when introduced last
session ; and that several of the most obnoxious features
of the former bill have been modified. We hear that it
is proposed to give the bishops some power of summary
proceedings, but with the aid of the dignified clergy of the
diocese, instead of a jury selected at the will of the dio-
cesan, as proposed by the Bishop of London.—Church
and State Gazette.
MORE SECRET POISONING. IN ESSEX.—On Wednes-
day, the Rev. Mr. Majendie, and other Magistrates act-
ing for the district, were engaged some time at the police-
station of Dunmow, in receiving evidence against Sarah
Bright and David Grey, on suspicion of having caused
the death of their illegitimate child, David Grey Bright,
aged seven weeks, by administering to it a deleterious
drug. An inquest had previously been called to investi-
gate the death, and the Jury returned a verdict that" the
deceased died from convulsions, but how produced there
was no evidence to show.",., In a few days afterwards
many additional suspicious rumours got afloat respecting
the affair, and one or two of the jurymen who presided at
the inquest communicated to the magistrates in the
neighbourhood on the subject. Mr. Superintendent An-
derson was instructed in the matter, and the result was
the apprehension of the parents of the child on the charge
previously mentioned. After a long examination, the
prisoners were committed to the County Gaol at Chelms-
ford for trial, on a charge of wilful murder.
BLUNDERS OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.—The
House of Commons, on Tuesday night, agreed to refer
the- consideration of the navigation laws to a select com-
mittee, by a majority of 155 to 61. Mr. Ricardo moved
for the committee in a long politico-economical speech,
which, not to break a custom, was full of blunders in the
matter of fact. One of these blunders was amusingly
exposed by Lord George Bentinck, the scourge of blmr
tui:
derers and political economists, great and small.
Ricardo boasted that a reduction of certain freights might
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quantity of half-a-crown to complete Mr. Ricardo's reduc-
tion. We know not whether it was this display of the
arithmetical accompliehments of the honourable member
for Stoke-upon-Trent which caused Sir W. James to say
that the honourable member's speech was worthy of his
name ; the assertion was unquestionably just, though we
must question its being complimentary. • A Mr. Ricardo
it was who predicted not once, but fifty times, that the
bill of 1819 would not reduce the price of agricultural
produce more than four per cent., if quite so much. A
few months proved the accuracy of this calculation, by a
reduction, not of four per cent., but of sixty per cent.
So much for the Ricardo standard of arithmetical accu-

racy.—Standard.
LONDON POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—At the meeting
of thisisociety, last week, were exhibited some interesting
objects which excited the greatest attention, viz., speci-
mens of famine food. About a dozen different kinds of
bread were submitted for examination, consisting of rye,
barley, Indian meal, parsnip, yam (sweet potato), beet-
root, artichoke, carrot, Iceland moss, and hay. With the
exception of the two last, these breads seem to be well
adapted for use, not only in times of scarcity, but also
when no such dire, exigency exists. The Iceland moss
and hay bread are black, and fit only to be used as human.
food when terrors, similar to those described by Josephus
of the last siege of Jerusalem, shall fall upon us. At that
dreadful extremity " the tender and delicate woman" ate
her own child, and the son tore the bread from the mouth
of the mother ; and the father fed upon his daughter's por-
tion. This wonderful fulfilment of the prophecy, with all
the circumstantial details of the event, occur, not unnatu-
rally, to the mind at this season, more particularly when we
already see human ingenuity at work to provide against
the worst ; and the productions of the earth, heretofore the
food of beasts,converted into another form for the exclusive
use of man. May God forbid that so fearful a necessity
should fall upon this hitherto highly-favoured land I
Animals, it is observed, live and thrive upon hay diet : it
is also supposed that, when mixed with a 'certain small
support
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Feb. 16, 1847.

ADVANCE IN THE PRICES OF GRAIN IN

IRELAND

. ,
As was only to be expected, the stoppage of canal nail'
gation, and, indeed, the nearly total suspension of all
land communication, owing to the continuance of the ill'
tense frost, has had the effect of causing an advance in
the prices of all kinds of grain in Ireland, and the spew
lators are consequently once more in high spirits. At the
Corn-exchange, Dublin, there was a brisk demand for
every thing that was offered for sale, and wheat, barleYr
and oats were each up fully ls. per barrel. The rates
were—white wheat, 475. to 50s. ; red wheat, 445. to 485.;
barley, 275. to 325. ; oats, 20s. to 255. ; oatmeal, 255. to
275. ; second flour, 255. to 265.. The price of the 41b,
loaf, it is calculated, will be lid. this week. All other
kinds of provisions are equally dear; vegetables are fast
disappearing from the Dublin markets. The whole fad
of Ireland is one sheet of ice, nor does there seem to be
the slightest prospect of any immediate change in the
weather. Trade is miserably slack, the shopkeepers
literally doing nothing at a time when the calls of chant/
are incessantly pressing upon their resources. The fol-
lowing is from the Westmeath Guardian of Friday :--
" The weather has been exceedingly severe for the last felt`
days, a considerable fall of snow having taken place on Mon-
day night, which was succeeded by frost, and several other
showers of snow since. The navigation of the canal is closed
since Tuesday night, and several mails are late in their arrivals.
It has had a tendency to raise the markets, which were pre-
viously heavy, and looking downwards. The holders of meal
were demanding, at the opening of the market to-day, 268. pet
cwt., but failing to effect any sales, loweri.d their terms towards
evening, to 235. ed., at which price seven tons were taken for
the gaol and relief committee: some small transactions brought
245; per cwt. Oats, in the same way, were expected in the
morning to bring a large advance, but the holders had to dis'
pose of the most at 20. to 235. per barrel."

VOTES FOR PRESIDENT OF MEXICO,

The candidates for the presidency of Mexico, according
to the Hibernia's advises, were seven in number, ON
only, however, being strongly supported. The votes
given were 99, of which 50 were for Santa Anna, and 40
for Elloriga, the remainder being divided amongst the
other five candidates.