The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

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CHEPSTOW.—ELECTION RIOTS AND Loss OF LIFE.
—This town on Wednesday was in a state of anarchy and
The lower orders were so excited by drink as

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openly attacked by the mob at the hustings, and on that
and the preceding night the houses of his friends were
attacked with such fury that not only the glass but the

shutters were destroyed. The residence of respected
vicar was not spared. On Wednesday evening

waggon

ling barrels of beer for the mob was drawn byrail-
way labourers through the principal streets; on descend-
ing the High-street its impetus overcame them and several
fell, the waggon upset, and seven persons were severely
injured, one of whom is since dead. The deceased was a
young surgeon, recently become a resident in Chepstow,

and who so far forgot himself as to ride in the waggon ;
he fell out on his head and had his skull fractured. A.
navigator also was so much injured that little hope is en-
tertained of his recovery. On Thursday night, the mob
having ceased to be supplied with drink, the town was
blessed with the return of peace and quietness.

The ensuing Parliament will contain a very large num-
ber of men who may boast that their ability and industry

hemtol
Messr

:line and dignity from humble cir-
Stephenson and Locke are two

cumstance

M.P. for Leicester, began- life as an usher in a boy-'s
school. Mr. W. Jackson, M.P. for Newcastle-under-
Lvne, for which town he was elected over the head of
Lord Bracklev. the son of the Earl of Ellesmere, and

nephew of the Duke of Sutherland, worked his way up
from a humble clerkship to a partnership in ati African
house, mid eventually, by land speculations in Birkenhead,
of the prosperity of which he is one of the authors, ac-
quired a princely fortune. Mr. H. Brown, after enduring
the vicissitudes of fortune as a merchant and canal carrier,
and acting for some time as a railway manager, acquired a
fortune in three years as a traffic taker, and has, to use
Mr. Hudson's phrase, " crowned all," by proving that a
man may be honoured in his own country, having been
elected to represent his native town, Tewkesbury, in Par-
liament. Many more examples might be cited.—Railway
Chronicle.

THE TIMES AND THE LANDLORDS. - The death of
Mr. Walter has let loose the madness of the Times. His
was the guiding hand of that great engine, we are told :

tone from his own mind. The clog is now removed, and
the machine is whirling along in the full swing of demo-

cratic madness. An article in that journal of -last Thurs-
day probably exceeds in foul vituperation and unscrupu-
lous lying anything that ever yet appeared in the lowest

dijuling, instead- of answering those who differ from his
patron, and conscientiously believe, as well they may,
that free-trade is fraught with no blessings to this land ;

but he directly charges them with crimes that deserve the
gallows. There is no delicacy about the matter : the
style is of the pure " brick-bat-and-bludgeon" order.
" Your Bentincks, your Yorkes, your Newdegates, your
Felloweses," and all who think with them, are neither
more nor less than robbers and murderers—" a blessed
company of faithful men, who in all the righteousness of
robbery are able to look down on us sinners"—a set of
" agricultural freebooters," whose great commandment
is, thou shalt steal," whose godliness is gain," and who
despise honest men, "as the Highland robber did his
shopkeeping, law-keeping cousin : they enjoy the calm
delights, if not of successful spoil, at least of an unim-
paired zest for it." These are the terms which the great
prop of the Peel-policy applies to the landed gentry of
' England.
THE BARNARD CASTLE " Bows."—Considerable ex-
citement preyailed in this town on Wednesday week in
consequence of Mr. Farrer having announced his inten-
tion to address the electors from the King's Head Inn, at
three o'clock in the afternoon. At the appointed time his
carriage drove up to the inn, where he was received with
deafening yells and hisses from the assemblage ; and in
front of the inn was stationed a man dressed in red (Mr.
F.'s colour), mounted on a donkey, and carrying an effigy
suspended on a gibbet. Another person carried a pole,
on the top of which was a loaf of bread), and underneath,
in large letters, " Protection is shaken !" Sundry other
devices were exhibited, demonstrative of the popular feeling
towards Mr. Ferrer ; and, on his appearance on the bal-
cony, a disgraceful scene ensued. He was saluted with a
perfect shower of penny rolls and red herrings, accom-
panied by the most discordant noises imaginable ; and
seventeen squares of glass in the windows were demolished.
All this he bore very patiently, and made several attempts
to speak. He could not, however, obtain a hearing, the
crowd being determined to " put him down." Mr. Mor-
ritt, of Rokeby Hall, next made his appearance; and
although a popular man in the district, he could not in-
duce the crowd to hear Mr. Farrer. One person in the
crowd attracted Mr. Morritt's attention, and he threw
him a shilling, remarking that he deserved more for being
so uncommonly clever at making " a d—d ugly face.'
After other drolleries, Mr. Morritt said, " will you hear
Mr. Farrar)" and he was answered with a tremendous
"No !" He then withdrew, and Mr, Farrer very wisely
got into his carriage at the back part of the inn, and was
some distance from Barnard Castle ere the crowd were
aware of his departure, No further disturbance took
place, the crowd quietly dispersing. During the row a
boy got his thigh broken by one of the carriage horses.—
Gateshead Observer,