The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald)

The Lord Bishop of Exeter has conferred the Precentor-
ship on the Rev. Wm. John Philpotts, M.A., late of Oriel
College. . . _

Thg Rev. Arthur Nugent Buckeridge, M.A., late of St.
John's College, has been instituted to the Rectory of Ken-
nerleigh, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. J.
Kirkness, on the presentation of the twelve Governors of
Crediton Charity. _

The Rev. Richard Blackmore, M.A., of Exeter College,
has been instituted to the Rectory of Charles, Devon, vacant
by the death of the Rev. W. H. Vivian, on the presentation
of the Rev. R. Blackmors, of Conibmartin.

On Thursday se'nnight, the Rev. the Dean and Chapter
of Hereford unanimously nominated the Rev. F. B. Twisle-
ton, D.C.L., late. Fellow of New Coll., and one of the Pre-
bendaries of Hereford, to be a Canon Residentiary of that
Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. Matthews,
Fellow of Brasenose College.

VLast
week, the Rev. Clement Greswell, M.A., Fellow of
Oriel College, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol, to the Rectory of Tortworth, Gloucester-
shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Cooke, D.D.,
of Oriel College ; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of that
Society. _ . _ _

Yesterday se'nnight, Wm. Lonsdale, 8.A., of Oriel Col-
lege; George Markham Giffard, S.C.L., Fellow of New
College ; Thomas Phinn, 8.A., Scholar of Exeter College ;
Wm. Smyth, M.A., of Wadham College; John Whitlock
Nicholl, M.A., of Jesus College; and Wm. Cope, M.A. of
Trinity College, were called to the Bar by the Honourable
Society of the Inner Temple.
On Tuesday last, Henry Trail Erskine, B.A. of Balliol
College, and Edward James Bevir, M.A., of Pembroke Col-
lege, were called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Law by the
Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. T. Young, to the Perpetual Curacy of Salcombe,
Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Lane ; patron,
Rev. D. Macdonald, Vicar of West Allington.
Rev. Alexander Annand, late of Jesus College, Cam-
bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Road, Northamptonshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Butlin ; patrons, the
Duke of Grafton and the Rev. John Risley.

Rev; T. Williams, of Trostrey, to the New Church of
Abergavenny.
Rev. John Fox, M.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Kirkb3
Bellars, Leicestershire ; patron, Sir F. Burdett, Bart.
Lord Rollo has appointed the Rev. Thomas Grylls, Recto]
of Cardynham, Cornwall, to be one of his Lordship's Do.
mestic Chaplains.
Rev. Edward Baines, M.A. Fellow of Christ's College
Cambridge, and Rector of Clipston, Northamptonshire, u
be the Master of the Hospital and Free School, endowed b:
Sir George Buswell, in that parish.
Lord Beaumont, 'of Carlton, has appointed the Rev. W
H. Hugcll, of Sproatley, to be his Lordship's Domestic
Chaplain.
Rev. R. Martin, B.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Dore
Derbyshire vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Parker
patron; Ea Fitzwilliam.
Rev. J. C. Harper, to the Vicarage of Stratfield Morti•
mer, Berks, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. Craver
Ord; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of Eton College.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM TIIE LEEDS GAOL.—On
Wednesday week, about a quarter past one o'clock in the
afternoon, whilst Mr. Lancaster, gaoler, was engaged in the
business of the rotation-office, a young man named George
Roberts, who was in custody on a charge of robbing his
lodgings, made his escape of the gaol, under circumstances,
which any person inspecting the place would pronounce ut-
terly impossible. The task however was accomplished, and
according to the evidence of several other prisoners who wit-
nessed the escape, but gave no alarm, without any assistance
whatever. It appears that the fugitive got upon the sill of
the first window, which is about seven feet from the ground,
by means of standing upon the door of an out-house, and
from thence he succeeded in climbing over a row of revolving
spikes, and then to the top of the palhsading, on which are
triple-headed spikes with very sharp points. He would have
to stand upon the revolving spikes, in order to attain the top
of the pallisading, which is a distance of about three feet and
a half. The most difficult and hazardous part of the task
now remained to be accomplished. The distance of the sill
of the top window is upwards of six feet from the pallisades,
and incredible as it may appear, the prisoner, like a cat,
sprung from the top of these triple-headed spikes. where the
footing must have been precarious, and succeeded in grasping
the iron stanchions which surround the former place ! ! !
The window is in an oblique direction from the spikes, so
that the task must have been much more difficult to per-
form. Had the attempt failed, the prisoner must inevita-
bly have been impaled on the spikes, and encountered a
dreadful death. Having got upon the top window, he seized
hold of the spout, which is about three feet distant, and thus
mounted tht roof of the building. He had then seven feet
to drop, in order to place himself upon the roof of Messrs.
Walsh and Dunbar's marble warehouse, which he effected
without any difficulty. Mr. Dunbar observed a man looking
down, and immediately went to the gaoler, to ask him if he
had lost a prisoner, stating what he had seen on the roof.
Mr. Lancaster replied in the negative, and a party went
upon the roof to see if anybody was there, but it would seem
that in the meantime Roberts had dropped into Wine-street,
and so effected his escape. He was observed by one person
in the street, but the individual appears to have been so
amazed at the adventure, that he suffered the prisoner to
alight on the ground, and saw him run off in the direction
of the Infirmary, 'before he communicated the fact to the
gaoler. He was seen in the town at half-past four the same
day, in company with a gang of well-known thieves ; but
since that time the efforts of the police to discover the place
of his retreat have been unavailing. It appears, on an exa-
mination of the other prisoners, that Roberts tried the prac-
ticability of the escape at breakfast-time the same morning,and, according to their evidence, he ran up the wall like a
cat. He is nineteen years of age, and of diminutive stature,
not being more than 5 feet 4 inches in height.—Leeds Mer-
cnry.

Conx LAWS.—The subject of the corn laws was brought
before the Ripon Operative Conservative Society at one of
its recent meetings by Mr. Vickers, one of the members, in
a very interesting and, we may add, very convincing lecture.
After a short sketch of the history of legal enactments to
protect and encourage the growth of corn, the lecturer took
a general view of the question of repeal, as it would affect
the two grand divisions of the population, those dependent
on agriculture and those dependent on manufactures, with
regard to their dealings with each other, and the dealings of
the latter with the corn exporting countries, in which he
clearly shewed the impossibility of the demand for our pro-
ductions from abroad even equalling, much less exceeding,
the deficiency which would be occasioned in the demand for
domestic consumption by the depressed state of our agricul-
turists, unless the price of our goods were lower. Prices
could be lowered only by reducing profits and wages, and
this reduction must still further decrease demand in the
home market. The result, therefore, of a repeal of the
corn laws would be, that one.half of the population would be
brought into a state of great distress, whilst the other half
would either receive no benefit at all, or one which they could
enjoy only for a-very short time, and ultimately all would suf-
fer. He supported his argument by reference to a body of
well-authenticated facts, from Jacob, Porter, Wilson's Anti-
Corn-Law Treatise, ane many other sources, in the course of
which he answered and refuted the objections usually ad-
vanced, such as that the laws were made for the benefit of
a few; that they obstruct commerce, &c, and shewed that
the present law was both beneficial in operation and just in
principle, and that it was decidedly, preferable to a fixed
duty ; and concluded the lecture, which had riveted the
attention of the audience for more than an hour, by addres-
sing the tradesmen and operatives before him, in these
words :—" In Ripon, and in every place similarly circum-
stanced, whatever channels the money may pass through
which comes into the tradesmen's till, the source is the land;
and here at least it must be so. The most sangine free tra-
der cannot picture to himself the rise of manufacturing esta-
blishments here or the opening of channels of commerce.
No man can point to a new set of customers to supply the
deficiency consequent on the reduced expenditure of embar-
rassed landlords, ruined farmers, and starving labourers.
The interests of trade and agriculture are here indissoluble—
they must stand or fall together. No rivalry can take place
between them unless the mass of the population were brought
to a state bordering on destitution, when the case should be
that of the back versus the belly, in the choice of purchase
between the first and secondary necessaries of life. In this
rivalry the tradesman and the artisan would certainly come
off the worst. And this choice of the destitute should be
that of their own families, let them support the interest
that supports them. This is demanded of them not as a
case of disinterested friendship for those among whom their
lot has been cast, or of gratitude for past favours, or of
sympathy for the distresses of others, but one of pure self-
interest. They must maintain the corn laws for their own
sakes—they must be anti-repealers, because a repeal would
bring ruin upon themselves."—Leeds Intelligencer.