The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LORD ASHLEY.—The Sun of Thursday, in a sanitary
article, very appositely alludes to Lord Ashley as .‘ the
Wilberforce of the present day."
Several sermons have recently been preached in the
Town-hall of Kelso, by a boy only ten years of age. The
reason given for his thus appearing before the public is,
that money may be obtained to further his education.
On Monday, there were several dishes of raspberries
exhibited in London, at Covent-garden Market. They
were not the produce of forcing, but were natural crops,
grown in the open air in a garden near Turnham Green,
being the second supply this season.
In consequence of the competition existing on the river
Thames, the fares of nearly all the steamers have under-
gone a very extensive reduction. Boats are now running
between London and Westminster Bridge, at the extra-
ordinarily low•fare of one halfpenny each person.
AN AGED BIRD.—A magpie died on the sth of this
month, which has been in the possession of Mr. James
Hagger, of Great Chesterford, for 19 years. It was taken
from the nest when young, and it would call all the neigh-
bours and children by their names.—Cambridge Chron.

The Town Council of Sunderland have ordered a rate
of one halfpenny in the pound on the property in the bo-
rough, to sustain the expenses connected with the forma-
tion of a public museum, which is placed under the
direction of a committee of the council.
A HINT FOR ASTLEY'S—The directors of all the the-
atres at Berlin have resolved to substitute the explosive
cotton for gunpowder, in their representations, because
the cotton makes little or no smoke, which is not only
annoying to the public, but has an injurious effect upon
the voices of the actors.

The Tablet (Roman Catholic paper) announces the
conversion to Romanism of Mr. Toogood, late editor of
the Cambridge and Oxford Review. The Daily News
says that i junior fellowship has become vacant at Clare
Hall, Cambridge, in consequence of the secession of Mr.
Thomas Caswall.

REAL DISTRESS.—As a convincing proof of the dreadful
state of the trade in Kidderminster, we have only to men-
tion that during the last fortnight, no less than eighty-six
wedding rings have been purchased, chiefly from the wives
of weavers, by one jeweller residing in the Bull Ring in
that town.

Last week a vessel of 120 tons, named the Albion, one
of the Woodbridge traders, was run down off the Essex
coast, near Wotton, by the city of London steam-ship.
The crew of the Albion were saved with difficulty by the
steamer, except a young man, the son of the master, Mr.
Smith, who sank with the vessel.

On Friday, a meeting was held in Birmingham, convened
by the clergy for the purpose of an immediate extension of
the infant schools in that town. There are seven thousand
infants there for whom no means of instruction are pro-
vided. The Queen Dowager has contaibuted £5O for the
good work.
An accident of nearly a fatal nature occurred at Stony
Stratford, on Tuesday, the 3d instant. A firework maker,
named Holloway, put some damp gunpowder into the
oven to dry, and proceeding to work, the gunpowder was
forgotten. It very soon, however, made its owner aware
of its presence by exploding, and causing very great de-
struction ; hut, fortunately, no lives were lost. _

SHORT TIME MEETING.—A short time meeting was
held in favour of the ten hours' bill, in the Working
Men's Hall, Keighley, on Wednesday evening last. A
dense crowd attended, and hundreds were unable to obtain
admission. Mr. W. B. Ferrand, M.P., Mr Oastler, and
a number of other speakers, addressed the meeting, which
seemed unanimous and enthusiastic iu attachment to the
ten hours' bill.

On Monday evening last, as the driver of a cart and
two horses, belonging to Mr. Stone, of Winwick, was
returning home, his horses were frightened by the noise
of empty milk-cans in some carts which were passing on
their way from Newton Railway Station to Winwick.
He ran to the head of one of his horses, was thrown
down, and the wheel passed over his body. He died
soon after.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant-general Sir
Benjamin D'Urban will, it is said, proceed to Canada as
commander-in chief, in the room of the Earl of Cathcart,
who held that appointment with the governor-generalship.
Major-general Brotherton, formerly of the 16th Dragoons,
will receive the appointment of inspector-general of caval-
ry, in the room of Lieutenant-general Lygon, lately pro-
moted.

The Morning Post revives the tale of a split in the
Cabinet, arising from the dislike of Earl Grey to Lord
Palmerston. The Spanish marriage is said to be the
question at issue. The Post hints that the Earl of Cla-
rendon is also opposed to the Secretary of Foreign Af-
fairs, and adds that if rumour do not err, the question of
opening the ports and of Irish policy has only been de-
cided upon by a division of the Council.
THE WINGATE COLLIERY CLERK.—The fugitive clerk
who absconded from Wingate colliery, with nearly £6OO
belonging to his employer, Lord Howden, and who was
apprehended in Ghent, in Flanders, is said to be again at
liberty. Nearly the whole of the money, with the excep-
tion of his " travelling expenses," and the cost of his
" gentlemanly" outfit—his gold watch and ring, wig, im-
perial, and moustaches—having been recovered, "it has
not been considered worth while to bring him to Durham
for prosecution."
PENAL DISCIPLINE OF CONVICTS.—We believe that
this interesting subject is at present under the serious con-
sideration of the Government, with a view to relieve New
South Wales from its redundant convict population. It is
proposed that the transportation of males to the colonies
should cease, but that the deportation of women should
be carried to its fullest extent, in order to diminish the
existing disproportion between the two sexes. It is also
under consideration to establish a convict home colony in
the Isle of Portland, where a proportion of the prisoners
sentenced to transportation would be submitted to a com-
bined moral and physical discipline, and employed in
hewing and preparing stone.—Literary Gazette.

THE DURATION OF MARRIED LIFE.—The tables of
the mean joint lifetime of males and females show, that
in this country husbands and wives married at the age of
26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows
living rather more than 10 years (10.4) after their husbands'
deaths, and the widowers nearly 9 years (9.3) after their
wives' deaths. Where the husband is 40; and the wife 30,
the mean term of marred life is 21 years, the widows
living 13 years after their husbands, and the widowers 5
years after the deaths of their wives. The tables furnish
ready' answers to a great number of questions of this
kind, and others in which two lives are concerned.—Re-
gisrrar-General's Reports.
INGENIOUS SMUGGLING.—On Monday morning, a
seizure of an extraordinary description took place at the
St. Katherine's Dock Steam Packet Wharf, by a Custom-
house weigher. A case of live geese, brought over from
Harlingen in the Magnet steamer, had been landed from
the vessel, and was being examined by the officer, when
he thought the geese appeared unusually tall. He made
a more careful scrutiny, and ascertained that a quantity
of hay, forming a false bottom, had been made, on which
the geese were standing, and on removing that, he dis-
covered beneath a quantity of very thin deal boards.
These were also removed, and a quantity of cigars, weigh-
ing 441b5., were exposed to view. The case, geese,-28
in number—and the cigars, were immediately seized.
SERIOUS EFFECTS OF A " LARIC."—On the sth in-
stant a young man about 18 years of age, who had been
employed on the railway near Deal, for a spree dressed
himself as a Guy Fawkes. This he did by stuffing a ga-
bardine or large jacket he had on with straw, till, for ro-
tundity, he resembled more a Sir John Falstaff than a
Guy. It was in the evening when the young man was so
amusing himself. He had a great many squibs about him.
Some of these got ignited, and in a moment he was inla
complete blaze; and as the squibs continued to go off in
all directions about him, it was impossible for any one to
approach to render him any assistance. He now lies in a
deplorable state, with no hopes of recovery.—Dover
Chronicle.
NEW COIN.—FIVE SOVEREIGN PIECES.—Some five
sovereign pieces have lately been struck by Mr. Wyon;
and though as yetbut in the hands of a few of the authori-
ties, they stand as portion of the coin of the realm ; but
whether they will be called out for general use, the Go-
vernment have not decided. This gold piece is considered
to be the most perfect of coins. In point of size it bears
resemblance to a crown piece, but otherwise it is much
neater in detail. The obverse displays a representation of
her Majesty, and the reverse the figure of her Majesty as
Una, guarded by the lion (standard of England), and
holding the sceptre. It may be well, perhaps, to inform
the public, who must for some time back have noticed the
absence of the figure of St. George from the new crown
pieces, that such emblem has been entirely discontinued.
A WOMAN FOUND WlLD.—About three weeks ago, a
young woman, 22 years of age, and of the name of Ca-
therine Stewart, living in Brown-street, in the Merkinch,
left home, and nobody knew where she had gone, until a
day or two ago she was discovered in the woods of Lea-
ohdin, some herds having been attracted to where she lay
by her shrieking or singing. She had rolled herself up in
moss till- she had -made herself as round as a ball. She
bad thus lived for seventeen days, subsisting, it is sup-
posed, on nothing but moss. She was taken home imme-
diately, almost reduced to a skeleton. She is recovering,
but on account of the great shake such an unexampled
state of existence, for so long a time, must have given
,the
constitution, the progress is naturally slow. It was never
thought she was wrong in the mind, though she was ob-
served duller than usual for some time back.—lnverness
Journal.

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A BRITISH FRIGATE FIRED ON BY THE PORTUGUESE.
—ln the intelligence given in another column, brought
from Lisbon by the Marys, "The American frigate" is
said to have been dismasted by the batteries of Oporto.
We copied the statement as we found it ; but we think
that the America, British frigate, must be meant, as she
had just been ordered by Admiral Parker to Corunna,
with instructions, as she passed Oporto, to demand satis-
faction for an insult recently offered to a Mr. Noble, a
British merchant, and, if our memory do not deceive us,
consular agent, in that city. This would satisfactorily
account for her attempt to enter, and for the hostile
reception she met with. The America is a raz6ed 74 ; it
will be recollected that she recently returned from the
Pacific, and that her captain, the Hon. John Gordon,
youngest brother of Lord Aberdeen, was tried by a court-
martial for having quitted that station without permission
from the admiral commanding.—Britannia.
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS SUPPOSED LOST, AND
FOUND..—On Wednesday night last, a person from one
of our city banks was despatched to the agency in Falkirk
with a parcel containing a large sum of money, amounting,
it is said, to £3OOO in notes. The man, on alighting at his
destination, found himself minus the parcel. and gave in-
timation accordingly, to the alarm of the agent, who took
measures to apprise the police anthorities here and in
Edinburgh by the train which arrives at either end shortly
after midnight. The Glasgow superintendent of police
started in search on Thursday by the earliest morning
train ; but, on his arrival at Falkirk, the cheering news
was, communicated that the parcel had been found in
safety in the carriage which the messenger Left at Fal!cirk,
on its arrival at the Edinburgh terminus. It is
likely
that the man had fallen asleep, and left the parcel behind
him on the confusion of a sudden awakening.--Glasgow
paper.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Ten o'clock.

THE STORM OF FRIDAY.-FLTRTIIER
PARTICULARS.

From a letter received this morning at the Underwri-
ters'-rooms, dated Boulogne-sur-Mere, 21st November,
we learn the total loss of the American ship Helen, of
New York, Capt. Hoyt, from New York to Antwerp,
with a cargo of rye and cotton, a few miles west of that
place. Out of a crew of seventeen, only six are saved.
The captain and officers are of the number lost. The
vessel has gone to pieces.
The English schooner Devon, Beer, from Plymouth,
bound to London, with a cargo of lead, hemp, ore, &c.,
is also stranded near the same place. Crew saved. She
is still upright. Damage not known.
During Friday Dublin presented a most depressing
spectacle. The day being set apart for general humilia-
tion and prayer, on account of the fearful state of the
country. and the apprehended famine, the shops and offices
were for the most part closed, and the streets and thorough-
fares presented a most dreary appearance. In the sub-
urbs considerable damage has been done to property.
At Rathgar trees were blown down, and houses com-
pletely unroofed.
At Ringsend the river Dodder was swollen to. an im-
mense extent, but we are happy to say there was no loss
of life. Throughout the early part of the day several boats
were engaged in carrying provisions, &c., &c., to the oc-
cupants of those houses the lower storys of which were
completely inundated.

The Jessie Torrens, William Skead, master, went on
shore on Friday morning, near the coast-guard station at
Dunny Cove, near the Galley Head, and will be a total
wreck ; 11 or 12 men are saved out of a crew of 20.
This vessel was timber laden, and bound from Quebec
to Liverpool. Another vessel was seen near Clonakilty,
at the west side of the entrance to that harbour, and is
supposed to have gone down.
The Sea Lark, in putting back into Limerick, was seen
to disappear immediately off Loop-head, and is supposed
to have foundered with all hands. The Senator, in run-
ning back, was driven into Ballybunnon bay, dashed
ashore, and it is feared will become a wreck.
A large ship, with Indian corn was wrecked at Bally-

cotton on Friday morning, name as yet unknown. The
police went from Middleton to protect the wreck—crew
saved.
IMMENSE Loss OF PROPERTY ON BOARD THE AJAX
STEAMER.—This noble ship returned to Cork on Friday
morning, after experiencing the gale of Thursday night,
and suffering much from its severity. The Ajax left the
above port at four o'clock on Thursday for London, with
a very large cargo, principally consisting of live stock and
previsions. Until she had well cleared the harbour there
were no indications of its coming on to blow hard, but
about eleven o'clock at night, when she was forty miles
from the land, the storm rose with tremendous fury, and
heavy seas struck the vessel with such force as to tear
away the bowsprit and smash in the forecastle deck. The
stairs on the paddle boxes were at once carried away, and
the flooring of the deck under the mate's berth also stove
in. The vessel having a very heavy deck load of cattle,
&c., it was found necessary that she should be lightened
as much as possible, and accordingly out of 120 sheep on
deck, all but nine were thrown overboard—the pigs were
next thrown over to the number of ninety, and then as
many as could be of the bullocks and cattle ; but from
the terror and confusion of the deck passengers, of whom
there was an immense number, sufficient assistance could
not be had to throw them overboard, and the poor ani-
mals were killed or smothered. Out of 93 head of
cattle on board, only twenty this morning were landed
alive. The fury or the gale continued until day break,
and the ship behaving nobly all through, when the cap-
tain put back, and, laying too off the harbour all night, in
consequence of the number of ships in Cove and the river,
he arrived at the quays on Friday, with all on board in
a miserable plight. The violence of the storm, and the
force with which the seas struck the vessel, may be
judged from the fact that one of the chain boxes, weigh-
ing six tons, was carried off the rail it is usually moved
upon from one side of the deck to the other, and thrown
on two pigs, which were literally crushed to atoms under
its weight.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The regular meeting of this
body was held yesterday in the Conciliation Hall. There
was a most numerous attendance in every part of
the building. After a little parliamentary business, Mr.
O'Connell said he was prepared to bring up his report
upon the disunion existing amongst Repealers, and in
doing so, wished to say that no man was more anxious
than be was that the friends of Ireland should be joined
hand in hand to restore to her her parliament ; but he
believed it was impossible, for it would be seen by the
report he was about reading that the question between
the Old and 1 oung Ireland parties was, in point of fact,
should the Association adopt the doctrine of " physical
force" or not ?—(cheers.). The learned gentleman then
proceeded to read the report, which was of great length,
and by no means interesting, and set forth the various
points at issue between the Old and Young Ireland par-
ties.—The rent was announced as £54 18s. 9d.

Foul o'CLocx.—The Association has just adjourned.
Mr. O'Connell did not at all allude to the exhausted state
of the treasury.

FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING

We are are sorry to have to record another of those
unfortunate collisions in whi, h the use of the knife has
been resorted to, with, we fear, too great a probability, of
a fatal result. The particulars of the ease, so far as we
have been able to learn, are as follows :—At about one
o'clock this morning the attention of the police was drawn
to a squabble between two seafaring men in South Cas-
tle-street. When they came up it was found that one of
the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was imme-
diately arrested, and on him was found a large broad-
pointed clasp-knife.
The injured man was conveyed to the Northern Hospi-
tal, where he now lies in a most precarious state. The
wound, from which his bowels were protruding, is a little
below the navel, and about two inches long, His name
is Charles Wimslow, and he resides at a boarding-house
in Barton-street, having recently arrived from St. John,
N. 8., in the Champion, of this port.
The prisoner will, we understand, be brought up at the
Police-court this morning.

POPERY IN BRISTOL.—For some time past, six sisters
of mercy, living in a small house in Pritchard-street,
St. Paul's, have exerted themselves, we are afraid, too
successfully amongst the poor of this city. Encouraged,
undoubtedly, by their success, they have lately removed
to Harford-house, Dighton-street where they have been
trebled in number by fresh arrival% from Belgium. We
hear also that the sisters of penance of St. Dominic,
" whose labours embrace the whole works of mery, cor-
poral and spiritual," are about to settle in another por-
tion of this city.—Bristol Journal.
YANKEE NOTIONS OF FREE TRADE WITH ENGLAND.
—The New York Journal of Commerce calculates on the
United States driving the Britishers out of their own pro-
vision market. It says :—" An Etiglish merchant, who
is here buying bread stuff's, says that American flour bar-
rels are effecting a great revolution in the trade there.
The practice from time immemorial, has been to sell flour
in very large and inconvenient bags, and the trade has
been confined to the millers and the mealmen. But the
great beauty and convenience of the American barrels has
brought grocers to take up the business ; and he says
that now he has orders for fifty barrels a-week from
dealers who never before sold flour at all. The English
cannot contradict this ; for they have no free-splitting
ash or other timber from which to make these beautiful
barrels. So we think the repeal of the English corn-
laws will be something to us—yes, everything to us—a
home market for the supply of 18,000,000 of barrels."
THE HOMICIDE PARDONED.—The Home-office is pro-
ceeding in the course of liberating convicts, and in some
respects with injustice to the accused themselves. At the
York Assizes in 1844 a man named Daniel Donovan was
found guilty of homicide in having killed a person during
a riot arising out of religious differences, in the streets of
Bradford, and was sentenced to transportation for life.
Ever since that time the friends of Donovan have ex-
erted themselves to prove an atibi,—that is, that he was
in another place at the time of the offence, and they suc-
ceeded in interesting Lord Morpeth in the cause. Now,
this plea must have been established or not. It is possible,
though highly improbable, that the witnesses. jury, and
judge were all mistaken, and if Lord Morpeth and Sir
G. Grey were satisfied upon the point, a free pardon
ought at once to have been granted ; if not, the pro-
priety of such an excercise of the royal prerogative of
mercy on their part, may be doubted. What, however,
is the course taken ? The Home Secretary has sent out
a pardon provided that the man's conduct has been good
since his transportation, and upon condition that he does
not return to Great Britain, thus perpetuating the sen-
tence of banishment. The alibi, then, which would of
course be a complete exoneration, is apparently made the
ground of annulling the sentence, and yet the man is
treated as a criminal! We never remember to have read
of anything so absurd and at the same time so mischievous
—it is as much as saying that a man may be half guilty
and half innocent—a proposition which, we suspect, will
receive no countenance from the law-officers of the
crown, or any lawyer in the kingdom.
ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LONDON. —* On Saturday
evening, a brutal attempt was made by a man named
George Wilmot to murder a Mrs. Haines, residing in an
alley called Paradise-terrace, in the Liverpool-road, Is-
lington. On the evening in question, Wilmot, who was
well acquainted with Mrs. Haines and her husband,
called at her house, where he found her busied in pre-
paring supper, and quite alone. After some conversation,
Mrs. Haines turned towards the fire, when Wilmot
availed himself of the opportunity to extinguish the can-
dle burning on the table in an iron candlestick, with
which he then struck Mrs. Haines several tremendous
blows on the head. A desperate struggle ensued ; bat
Mrs. Haines succeeded in dragging her assailant to the
door, which she opened. She then uttered loud cries of
" Murder!" when Wilmot took to flight ; but he was
subsequently apprehended, and brought before the magis-
trates at Clerkenwell Police Court. From inquiries
which he had previously made, there can be little doubt
that he had attacked Mrs. Haines with the view of ob-
taining possession of the money which he had learned
that she was in the habit of carrying about her person.
To add to the atrocity of his crime, it appears that he is
indebted to Mrs. Haines and her husband for repeated
services, and that they have frequently lent him money.
Mrs. Haines is now lying in a very dangerous state, and
her deposition has been taken„ in case her wounds should
cause her death.

Nov. 24, 1846.

ALLEGED POISONING AT SUTTON.—The adjourned in-
quiry into the death of George Taylor, whose body was
disinterred after being in the grave two years, to ascertain
whether he had been poisoned with arsenic by Elizabeth
Smith, his housekeeper, who gave him some doses on the
recommendation of Sarah Taylor, stepmother of the de.
ceased, was resumed at the Volunteer Inn, at Sutton-
upon-Trent. It appeared that the deceased died from
ulceration of the stomach, which the surgeon who at-
tended him in his last illness said, after hearing the evi-
dence, was caused by doses of arsenic. No trace of ar-
senic was found in the stomach and 'viscera, which had
been sent to London for analysis. The jury returned:a
verdict of manslaughter against Elizabeth Smit'a and
Sarah Taylor.

A ROMANCE.-A Colonel of Dragoons is on friendly
relations with a family in the neighbourhood of his quar-
ters. In the interchange of civilities an orderly is often
employed. The orderly, being a fine-looking soldier,
finds favour in the eyes of the fair daughter of the house,
as he gallops up to the door each day. Stolen glances are
exchanged. The young lady now herself brings down the
answers to the notes, messages, &c. Little conversations
ensue—the conversations lead to interviews—interviews
to confessions and vows—and the confessions and vows
to elopement and marriage. The Colonel is astonished—
the parents storm—and the orderly-corporal is deprived
of his "stripes" for prolonged absence. Denouement :
The orderly appears in his real character; he is the son
of a gentleman of high respectability in England ; the
young couple will be possessed of a competency-a com-
mission is to be procured for the soldier-husband—parents
are reconciled—all parties are pleased—and true love is
rewarded ! Our readers will wonder why we have been
giving these extracts from the note-book of some writer
of vaudeville or comedietta ; but, unless we are misin-
formed, the play has recently been acted in real life—the
scene, Edinburgh ; and the time, October, 1846.--Edin-
burgh Journal.

MORE WORK FOR LORD PALMERSTON.--The Morning
Post announces that the Russell ministry is by no means
at one on the subject of Lord Palmerston's policy.
Whether this be so or not, we cannot tell. But the
country is already pretty unanimous against it. Mean-
while the clouds are thickening around the diplomatic
horizon. The Northern Powers (taking advantage of the
disruption of the entente cordiale between France and
England) have, it is said, decreed the destruction of the
neutrality of Cracow. And it is alleged that in this step
France is not an unwilling witness. Indeed the French
Government has already resorted to a puerile persecution
nr the. P _I • rs . .

..a. ~/11311 jour oars puonsnea in raris, with an evident
view to procure their suppression. It may be interesting
to copy the two solemn articles of the Treaty of Vienna
guaranteeing theindependence of Cracow. They are as
follow Article 6.—The city of Cracow, with its terri-
tory, is declared in perpetuity a free, independent, and
strictly neutral city, under the protection of Russia,
Prussia, and Aus'ria." " Article 9.—The Courts of
Russia, Prussia, and Austria, engage to respect, and to
cause to be respected for ever, the neutrality of the free
city of Cracow, and of its entire territory. No armed
force can ever be introduced into it, under any pretence
whatever." To this Treaty France and England are
parties, as well as the Three Northern Powers. And
they, therefore, are bound to remonstrate against the
guilt of its intended violation. The continental kings are
playing a desperate game. But they may rest assured
that a terrible retribution will follow the achievement of
so infamous a breach of faith and honesty.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written another letter of
three columns in length, exposing the terms upon which
he became Lord Fitzhardinge's nominee for West Glou-
cestershire, viz., £2OO a-year and a room in a house in
town. The money does not appear to have been punctu-
ally paid. The letter goes at length into family matters
and private arrangements. The Times very properly de.
dined to publish it except as an advertisement; where-
upon Mr. B. waxes wrath, and sends a bullying letter to
the editor, which the Times remarks is worth inserting,
as a confession, under his own hand, of the scurrility,
falsehood, and detraction,' contained in the effusion to
which we refused publicity. He says, 'lf I desired to
indulge in scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction,
judging from your remarks on my correspondence with
Mr. Harman Visgar, &e., I must hire a space in your
paper, but not otherwise.' Surely he cannot think it un-
reasonable that if he ' desires to indulge in scurrility, &c.,
he should be at least obliged to pay for it. We have ad-
mitted his scurrility gratis quite long enough, and he has
no right to complain of his being compelled, as he says,
to ' hire a space' for any more of the same stuff he is
anxious to put forward. We acknowledge that we did
not fear even our advertising columns being degraded by
Mr. Grantley Berkeley's scurrility—as he confesses it to
be—when we made its being paid for as an advertisement
the condition of its being inserted. We fully anticipated
that we should thus exclude it from our paper altogether,
and our anticipations have been realised. We should per-
haps have spared him the humiliation of declining his let-
ter on the ground of its being made up of ' scurrility and
abuse, falsehood and detraction ;' but as he has given this
description of it, we are for once not ashamed to own that
we are of the same opinion as Mr.,Grantley Berkeley."