The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

The Halifax Guardian mentions that a gentleman who
left that town by the railway train for Huddersfield, fell

asleep in the carriage, and was brought

tion from whence . started.
Mr. Joseph Allday, of Birmingham, is to be presented
with a testimonial by his friends in that town. He has
long been attached to the press there, and has done much
for the spread of Protestant principles.
The working classes met at Halifax, Yorkshire, on Fri-
igua Neva, and day, in iinnir-

numbers, and a resolution in favour of
went education scheme was carried by a majo-

timer reports represemeu mm as cut, uli 'rum nulLljuv,
and his insulated position was said to account for the
absence of official or authentic intelligence from the seat

Catherine Fosk

She walked unsupported to the drop
quailed up to the last fatal
- guilt, but

weeks after rnarri

var. It now appears, however, that he did retire for
purpose of choosing his ground, and, according to

who poisoned her husb
was hanged on Saturday

t Bury

or from stumbling, lie ?ell down into the water.
was tall and corpulent, and by no means likely to recover
himself under such circumthnces.—Bristol Mirror.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.—We are gratified to
perceive that Mr. Watson's Popish Bill was deteated in
the House of. Commons, on Wednesday, a majority of 39
having voted against allowing it to go into Committee, so
that the measnreis rejected for the session. Lord Arundel
boasted during the debate that the Romish Church would
continue to exist and flourish when the name of Protestant-
ism should be forgotten ; but we do not attach much weight
to the. predictions of one who vrtay, after the example of
his sire, Lord Shrewsbnry, have been so besotted as to
_ believe in the "lying wonders" of "the ecstatica." The
0 one iabt, ub name of Protestant may, indeed, become extinct, but it is
The Queen has directed that ten shillings a week be only when the proclamation shall have gone forth,—
paid to the widow of James Blake, the workman killed a I " Babylon is fallen, is fallen," and when Papal Rome shall
short time ago be an accident at Osborne-house, and that be no more..
her two children be placed in a school in London, where THE FHIIRMEN OF WHITBERN
IL be ' doe.' - ed —ted. OF LIPE.— IS
The fishermen of Whith

with a firm step, and nev

ais posi'

;a Anna's despatch, he se

An the orders, o,
entrust well-educated individuals, dependent on a foreign and judgment. He drew the enemy into a place when,
power in respect to their conduct, with every privilege in they could not use very well their artillery, where there
this kingdom. When no practical evil existed, even in was no water, and where they wanted food.
the imagination of* the supporteig ?f* this bill, it was im- Reports had been received from Santa Fe that the New
Prii4.ollto agitate a question of this kind, as it begot Veneani It"d risen and massacred the Americans in the
will and hostility, which did not pass away with the dis- city, together with the Aillerican Governor, Bent,- and his
It was more especially imprudent to agitate it officers.

Viscount bantilupe has issued an address to the electors
of the eastern division of Sussex, offering himself as a
candidate at the ensuing election. He holds himself
unpledged ; is an advocate for religious toleration ; and is

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prepared to advocate the repeal of the malt tax.
It was ordered in the House of Commons on Tuesday,
on the motion of Lord Morpeth, that no private bills re-
lating to town improvements, or to public cemeteries, or
to Kweraget in further proceeded with by the house be-
for.. 4LA 4.-e-st day of May next.

cussior

now, wnen rrmestants aria noman uatnolics were Dating
each other in their efforts to relieve the distresses of their Accounts from Alexandria of the 29th ult., announce
common countrymen. After stating -his objections in that on the 22nd upwards of 40 vessels laden with corn
ietail to several clauses of the bill, he declared his inten- sailed from that port, mostly bound for England,
tit% to support the amendment. A letter from St. Petersburg!i, dated the 20, announces
Lord SANDON could not oppose the motion for going that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill, and that his
into committee with the view of doing away with these journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed.
inoperative enactments. In 1846, 1010 slaves were emancipated at Martinique,
After Mr. Watson had replied, the house divided, when 1115 at Guadaloupe, 177 in French Guiana, and about
there were—for going into committee, 119 ; against, 158; 300 at Bourbon.
majority against 89, and so the bill was lost. A man named Daniel Aitken, lately died in Wexford,
Canada, at the age of 120 years. During his life he had
contracted seven marriages, and he left five hundred and

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSD
The House to-night occupied their splendid new house seventy g_
for the first time. We give a description of it in another Private letters state that no uneasiness about the sup-
column. There was fortunately very little business, for ply of corn existed in Paris. The orders given for foreign
so great was the throng of visitors, that it was scarcely grain were
`more than adequate to the wants that will be
_ 1,1 • -1 4.,

Monday week, for the accommodation of the public on
Windermere, between Ambleside and Newby Bridge,
calling at Bowness and the Ferry to land and receive pas-

.s who did spec

never in

ae memory o:

man was a

spring more propitious in France than is the present."
MR. COBDEN.—Mr. Cobden, at the date of the latest
advices, had returned to
_Rome from Naples, aid was in

HOUSE OF COMMONS
iestions put by Sir J. GRAS

THURSDAY

Ironside
saved.

en I " the-eternal city" on the 23d ult
I been excavated in the hon. gen

J. RUSSELL replied, that no alteration had be
by the edudation minutes of 1816, relative to grants I h

house at Pompeii
an's presence and

n connection with the National and

his honour

but a e learn t

rat_nothing particu

British and Foreign Societies. Previous to 1839 the rule found during the excavation or clearing of the long-en-
was that aid should be given only to schools in connec- tombed residence of some ancient Pompeian.
tion with these two religious societies. In 1839 it was DEMOCRACY IN NEW YORK.—The Democratic City
laid down by the committee of council, that they were Government of New York, it is said, let out of tLe city
ready to consider other applications, but that such were prison on Blackwell's Island, sixty convicts, on election
to be considered as specific cases. With respect to the day, in order that they might vote against giving coloured
use of the authorised version of the Scriptures being people the right of suffrage Thirteen of these worthies
made the condition of aid to Roman Catholic schools, were arrested by Alderman Benson and Justice Merritt
the Lord President of the. Council did not think. that. on their way to the poll."
. —Tlta airno

address to the electors of Kendal, in consequence of his
having been named by the'liberal committee as a candi-
date qualified to succeed Mr. Warburton in the represen-

Last week Mr. Gale again ascended in his balloon from
Peckham, accompanied by two gentlemen. When the
machine had attained a great height, it was seen to lose
its form, to collapse, and descend with fearful rapidity.
The spectators were terrified, but they soon learned that

.—SERIOUS Loss quitting on the education question the ground they took
dey mi. . tea, led, anc. Luca,. urn went to sea on lin the Anti-Maynooth controversy. They then said,
EXPORTATION OF GRAIN.—This week the rare and, Thursday week to visit their lines, and were caught in the " Though there is an establishment of truth in the coun-
we believe, almost unprecedented circumstance has oc- violent hurricane that came on between eight and nine try, to which we are averse, that is no reason why we
curred, of a vessel loading wheat at Perth for France. o'clock. Five of the boats were not able to return to should tolerate the establishment of error also. There-
The grain is part of a cargo imported from the Baltic last Whitburn ; one belonging to William Young got into fore we will cordially join with Churchmen, to contend
winter.—Perth Courier. Hartlepool,—when just on the point of landing, James against the Maynooth grant, as an endowment of Popery,
nn t-11 -I-- g..,..-., f.4-in,lo anti PY. and because we dislike Popery." Dr. Reed and his

over to

)r. Iteee

peen received of the loss or
corn laden, from New Orleans to Cork ;
Also the loss of the brig Salem Alva, bound to • Edward riutcrunson, Has Hever Heen lICLUAL V 1 oaaa,,,,
from Inverness, with barley, which struck on the there is great reason to fear that she also has gone down, Scheme as—to use 'their own words—" a Subsid.iary Re- hours' journey outgtoampraokceeaendiynodmiffwehrieenhcowowuhladtebveefratiaril
Durmet Sands, and all on hoard perished. and that the three men on hoard in her have unhappily ligious Establishment," they insist upon it that it will be the manner of vie
Mr. George Carr Glyn, the chairman of the London perished. The poor fishermen who have returned home,objectionable te establish er endow truth alone, than t 9 ebarae:ter at home, and we therefore consider the ar
A 14.7,...44. Pailyvalt VANtvirtnriv_ has issued an having lost their 'boats and their lines and fishing-tackle, truth or error unitedly. In 1845 they distinctly said, ties in this affair as blameable as if they had perpetrated-
„ ,t -vtr, disapprove of a Church. Establishment, but still their profanation of the Sabbath at Newmarket or Don-

have now no means of
charity of the benevolent. •
ST. BEES HOTEL.—On Saturday last, the timber was 1 They now
s
raised on the New Hotel, St. Bees, belonging to Mr. Church Este
which occasion I tension of I

ore do we detest and a

lhor an establia

to be an extension of the
y schools, there shall be an ex-
' "To exclude the Roman Ca-

Liment of

" If there

A PCSER.—In the course of Sir R. H. Inglis's speech
on Wednesday, on Mr. Watson's Roman Catholic Relief
Bill, the hon. baronet addressed the Attorney-General

Thomas Tyson, builder, 01 tnis tow.,
he entertained his workmen with a sumptuous repast. On thuhes. —we use Mr. B.'s words,—" would be an ad- I and said :—" What he wished to know was specifically
passing through the village, the other day, we were glad ditional reason for opposing the measure." Let men this :—By this bill, as it then, and as it originally stood
to find that the roofing was nearly finished, and on inquiry, once establish themselves on a falie principle, and an un- (this part being untouched by any of the subsequent alter-
we were informed that the work will be completed in christian position. as has been so long the case with the I ations of the hon and learned member), it was proposed to
nrac:ant onnonronnaa +h. 13.14;,.1 niccAnt.ra iimincsiblP to limit the reveal the whole of the statute of the 30th Charles 11.,
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