The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

THE IaItERPOOL STANDARD

the bulk of our army, at present employed in pro-
tecting them ; that we might dismantle our navy,
dissolved
Observer says that the Free Trade Club has been
which at present only "floats on every sea for the
like unprofitable purpose ;" that we should itnme- tsgeveilobireui-itan.imotir consent.
diately bring the crown lands to the hammer---why governorship o"feßleaslta. Mr. O'Ferrall has resigned the
that
tr
that he has been reprimanded.
not add 'Windsor Castle and Park, Greenwich, It is said that if only half the objectionswhic'a have
Buckinghatn Palace, the Royal Yachts, and other been lodged against the electors in the boroughs and
valuable appanages, and board our Sovereign county of Cardigan are substantiated, nearly half the vo-
ters be disfranchised.
Victoria in a cheap square or street in London,letterarnent writtenfully approve b 5 Lordof
with an income sufficient to keep a one-horse that Fromgoverstrikingjthem Russell.o itthel3ri appears
shay ? In this way, we could, no doubt, reduce tish flag, as practised by Mr. More O'Ferrall, just as they
considerably our direct contributions to the would ap prove, and always have approved, (according to
national exchequer; but unfortunately there is an their nature,) of every thing base.
h Lord Brougham has again been addressing himself to
awful bugbear in the way, which will retard for a
while our approach to a primitive state of Arcadian tifer . farmerstisrael i?sf cry, offers
and,tll
einpenn contradistinction
m aa. to
e. plithlaute
with
bliss. There is the debt—the unvarying twenty- the Society for the ConfusiOnmof Knowledyg
four millions a-year which constitutes one-half of the yellow capital of the one, and the blue-stocking aid
the national burthens, 'What is to be done with iof the other, the farmers will soon be in a condition to
this? The crown lanes are to pay off a portion of
it, we observe; and the rest is to be gradually
liquidated by subjecting to legacy duty every
species of property, and thus "a sum equivalent to
a tenth of our annual savings be levied by a post
mortem irntaost to redeem the debt," which it is
calculated would be effected in eighty years. But
would such an additional tax be submitted to for
eighty years? Would it for ten years? We
think not. We suspect that the very object of
this scheme, which is to create "an impatience of
taxation," would be so effectually realized in a
couple of years that the debt would he voted a
bore, and honesty, an exploded feeli

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

understand the philosophical combination 'of green better
than the French appear to do, according to Lord
Brougham's account. •

etural zalts'rellanv.

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of modern enliglitenment and philosophy.
-We have, perhaps, bestowed more time upon this
trumpery essay and its absurd propositions than
they deserve. We cannot, however, conclude
without addressing a few words to those Con-
servatives who _have given to the National
Confederation the sanction of their names. We
ask them to examine calmly what it is that such
men as their essayist are driving at, and what
would be the inevitable result of the adoption of
the mode of taxation recommended. In the first
place, let it be borne in mind that—as the Anti-
Corn-Law League justly said—" Capital has no
country." Capital will most assuredly not stay
here to be taxed from 10 to 25 per cent. upon its
returns: Capital will not remain in the public
funds, in land, in houses, in railways, or in mines,
for the tax-gatherer to take away yearly a tenth or
a twentieth of its yield. It is contended, in reply
to this obvious fact, that living will be cheaper,
and that the increase of taxation upon the man of
money will thus be compensated for. This is
simply absurd ! The saving is only in the con-
sumption of the individual owner of capital and
that of his family. The tax is upon the yield of
his whole property. A man with ten thousand
a-year will be paying from one to two thousands,
and saving not as many hundreds from the
cheapening of articles of necessity and comfort.
Nor will industry, talent, or enterprise stay here to
be taxed. The idea is preposterous.
The whole scheme is a delusion. A perusal of
this very essay must convince any practical man
that a scheme of direct taxation cannot he worked ;
but we go further than this, and unhesitatingly
express our conviction that, in a very few years; it
would hurry this country to a convulsion more
disastrous than ever befel any civilised country.
This agitation is, in fact, a revolution under a
mask ; and we would most earnestly urge the
Conservative members of the Confederation to
part from the dangerous colleagues with whom they
are allied, before they commit themselves irre-
trievably in the eyes of their fellow-countrymen.

A. MEIVI. FOR DR. HAWTHORNE

In a rather lengthy report, in reference to the measures
of prevention and relief of cholera adopted in the metro-
polis, in which the beneficial effect of house to house visi-
tation is strongly dwelt upon, we find the following,
amongst other similar statements :

an hour

King, in respect to Lambeth and Newinzton, re

he tour dayi during which the visitation has been &ga-
-1 in operation, the vb itors have discovered and brought

cricket eight or nine days before

under immediate treatment 2103 neglected cases of diarrhoea,
and 67 cases on the verge of cholera; but that none of these as
far as has been ascertained, have passed into cholera."
From a communication just received from Sheffield, it ap-
es that during the last week the medical officers have, by
system, discovered, and brought under immediate treat-

young man, su

reptic fits, met

. _ . .
Tuesday, at Birmingham, by falling with his throat on a
chamber basin. He expired in his mother's arms in a few

minutes

The Wakefield Journal says that a wife and child were
publicly sold in a village near that town on Saturday week,

f dia,;rhcea, out

has piissed itito cholera, and that during this period there ha4i
been only one death from cholera in the districts under visita
tion."

by a labouring man, to a navvie,
to her lawful husband.

hem the wife preferred

These are precisely the sort of cases which Dr.
home considers within his conditions ; that is, the

A police-officer, near Gateshead, having observed six
thieves decamping from a house they had robbed, pre-
sented his staff, threatened to shoot the first man who
stirred, and captured the whole batch without resistance.
One of the Sheriffs elect of London. Alderman W.

cholera cases which have not yet assumed the fatal type.
WIT .
I that other practitioners cure
ases quite as infallibly as Dr.
Those practitioners, however, like the par-
Are to the premonitory symptoms their proper

e have r
3 same description of

peatedly

Hawthorne.

Lawrence, has
his chaplain.

appointed the Rev. D. Davison, M.A
This is the first instance of an Unitarian

name of
lera,"

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diarrlicea. The Doctor calls all his cases "
Indeed, he says so in a letter to the Mercury,

The American mail steamer Hermann left Southampton
for New York on Thursday, with a cargo of Bremen and
French manufactures, &e., valued at £150,000 sterling,
and upwards of 160 passengers.
_

It is stated in naval circle; that Ex-Commander Pitman,
recently dismissed the service, intends appealing to the
Court of Queen's Bench against the judgment of the
court-martial which so justly deprived him of the com-
mission he disgraced.
The cholera is visibly abated since the beginning of the
week. The deaths reported in London this week are 850;
throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, 3473. The
country returns, however, include numerous arrears. In
Dublin it has almost entirely ceased.

The Glasgow Mail says that, on Wednesday morning,
a barrel-organ player, who had slept in the open air at
Glasgow, discovered that during the night he had been
robbed of 17 sovereigns, a half.crown, and some copper
money._

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The annual proceedings
of this society—equal in interest to any former meeting,
closed on Wednesday. The society will meet in August
next year, with Sir David Brewster, as president, and in
1851, at Ipswich.
At the sale of the effects of the late Mr. Nicholson,
brother-in-law to Mr. Hudson, at York, last week, a
portrait of the ex•railway king was put up, and the first
bid for it was sixpence. It was ultimately knocked down
to one of the family for ten shillings.
THE HOME SECRETARY AT BERWICK.—At the dinner
given to Sir George Grey, by his friends at Berwick, on
Monday, it is rather remarkable that with the exception of
the honourable guest, not a single member of either branch
of the legislature was present I

Samuel Hanson, a milk-man, at Lockwood, near Hud-
dersfield, has been committed to York assizes, for trial,
on a charge of administering deleterious drugs to young
women, in order to enable him to accomplish criminal

'The mixture was rum and cantharides

Lord Carlisle has recently accepted the office of Vice
President of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile
Offenders. The late Mr. J. Denison, M.P., has be-
queathed £5OO in aid of the society's farm-school, Redhill,
Surrey.

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We regret to hear that the potato disease is doing much
mischief in some parts of Scotland. It has also shown
itself and is making progress, although not as yet to any
very great extent, in the Axholme district of Lincolnshire,
from which the London market is mainly supplied. From.

other quarters, likewise, the same accounts reach us.
A few days since, a fine kite pounced on a cage contain-,
ing a goldfinch, which was hanging outside a house at
Wood Leigh, Devonshire. The kite was so eager for his
prey, or so stunned by the force with which he had struck
the cage, that he was easily secured by the farmer, who
ascencred a flight of steps, and took him with the hand
LADY FRANICLIIN

—This noble-minded and devoted
heroine has purchased one-fourth of the Hull whaling
ship Abram, and paid the additional risks for insurance,
with a view to her exploring Jones's Sound and Smith's
Sounding, and search for Sir John. She has also offered
a reward of £5OO in case of success.—New York courier.
MISS BREMER IN' ENGLAND.—Amongst the passen-
gers by the Helen M'Gregor, from Petersburg, which
arrived in Hull last Saturday, was Miss Frederica Bremer,
the celebrated Swedish authoress. This lady proceeded
on Monday to London, whence she will in a few days
proceed to New York.
_ _

Sir Moses Montefiore and Lady Montefiore safely ar-
rived from the Holy Land in this country on the 13th.
They landed at Dover, and proceeded to their seat at

Ramsgate, Lady Montefiore has completely recovered
from her previous illness.. The money distributed by the
philanthropic baronet in the Holy Land amounted to no

than £5,000

Messrs. Graham and Elliott, late of the Childers, are
now confined as felons in Exeter Gaol. They complain
very much of the treatment to which they are subjected,

crior qu

;y of the food

allowed them. "For cod's sake," eiclaims one of the
gentlemen, writing to his solicitor, " obtain us some miti-
gation of this severity, or we shall both die."
MURDER.—On Friday night a man, named Warner,
formerly a waiter in the United Service Club, drowned his

child, n girl about eighteen months old, by immersing her
in a water-butt. his wife had gone out, and when she
returned and asked for the child, he only replied, " I have
murdered her, and you will find her in the water-butt."
The man was given into custody.

The foreign
arrivals
at Leith have been numerous during
the last few days. No less than 65 foreign vessels were
discharging grain during last week—the greater part of
the wheat is from Prussia and other ports of Germany, and
the oats and barley from Russia. Altogether, probably
from 30,000 to 40,000 quarters are at present lying in
Leith Docks.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN GRAVE-DlGGER.—Between
forty-five and fifty thousand bodies (says Mr. Walker) are
annually placed in the receptacles for the dead in London ;
and these bodies are deposited amidst millions of others
who have predeceased them. Twelve-thirteenths of every
dead body must dissipate and mix with the air we breathe,
which is thus the vehicle of invisible and subtle poisons.
A SOUND SLEEPER.—On Friday night, a person named
Hunter, residing in Castle Gate, Nottingham, went to bed,
having seen all the doors secured. By the side of his bed
he kept a sword, and under his pillow he put his trousers,
in the pocket of which was his purse, containing £6. On
awaking in the morning, he found his trousers lying on the
top of his sword, his money gone, and all the doors of the
house open. He heard no noise.

THE ENFIELD MURDER.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Thursday, Caroline Cock was indicted for the
wilful murder of her husband, John Cock, at Enfield, in
July last. The murdered man was footman in the service
of Mr. Butler. Jealousy seems to have prompted the
dreadful crime. The counsel for the defence dwelt in-
geniously on the probability of the man having murdered
himself. A verdict of not guilty was returned.
The Hereford Musical Ftstival closed with eclat, on
Friday, the 126th meeting of the three choirs of Wor-
cester, Hereford, and Gloucester, the principal perform-
ances being the oratorios of Elijah and the Messiah,
supported in the vocal department by Madame Castellan,
the Misses Williams, and Miss Poole, Messrs. Lockey,
Sims Reeves, Hobbs, H. Philips, and Machin. The
amount collected was £833, being rather more than at
the last festival in Hereford, in 1846.
BENEVOLENCE.—Some time since the Earl of Carlisle
received an anonymous letter containing £lOO. to be ap-
plied to her Majesty's service. His lordship, in the pre-
sent emergency, has sent the amount to the Bishop of

..,ondon, for the most afflicted districts of the diocese;
and lest his lordship " should appear by this possible di-
version to be only making free with the money of others,"
he has sent the same amount to the Bishop of Winchester
for distribution on the south side of the river.
Lord Brougham, at the Carlisle Agricultural Associa-
tion, has repeated the advice he gave at Penrith, and has
again lauded the Earl of Lonsdale for having delivered
Prince Canino has declined to accept an invitation to a from water three thousand acres of land, and for deep-
soire'e proposed to be held in his honour at Birmingham. draininc, to the extent of three hundred miles. And the
Two arrivals of hops from Belgium took place in Lon- Earl of Lonsdale renewed his account of the benefit which
don last week. has been the result, which consists in the great fact that
On Wednesday, seven fires occurred in the metropolis on properly drained farms the crops are earlier and more
in less than twelve hours. prolific.
The floating island in Derwent Water, Keswick, has TREASURE FROM CALIFORNIA.—On Saturday, seventy
appeared again for the first time this season. tons weight of gold dust from California and dollars from
Death has been busy of late with the old pensioners at Valparaiso were placed in the vaults of the Bank of
Greenwich Hospital. Numbers of them are dying daily. I England, brought by her Majesty's ship Calypso. The
A vessel arrived in London, from Caen, has brought 22 specie arrived by special train from Portsmouth, and was
casks and 50 cases of French honey. removed from the London-bridge terminus in twenty
At Aberdeen, James Robb has been sentenced to death vans, drawn by eighty horses, and escorted by the police.
for the murder of Mary Smith, whom he also ravished. It was contained in 1,4000 boxes, value £6,000,000
The authorities of Norwich have commenced a subscrip- sterling.
tion to erect a monument to the memory of the late bishop LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND Menrontsm.—Lord John
of the diocese. Russell once gave great offence by thus passing judgment
At the London Central Criminal Court last week, upon Conference :—" Could the Methodists be invested
Thomas Smith, aged 33, was sentenced to fifteen years' by some revolution with the absolute power which Rome
transportation for setting fire to a wheat stack. once possessed, there is reason to fear, unless checked by
Sarah Jackson, the widow who attempted to murder the genius of a more humane age, the Conference would
her children at Enfield, has been tried, and acquitted on equal Rome itself in its spirit of persecution." Many de-
the ground of insanity. vout Methodists are now prepared to say that his lordship
The Duke of Northumberland is at present expending had more penetration than they gave him credit for.—
a sum of £20,000 in improving the cottages of the ten- Wesleyan Times.
antry on his estates. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Wednesday a very destrac-
On Friday week, a boy leaped into the hopper of afl our tive fire, the act of an incendiary, took place at a farm at
mill in London, and was covered and suffocated by the Braintree, Essex. The live stock destroyed consisted of
meal before he could be extricated. six horses, two calves, a sow, and eleven pigs. The crop
The inhabitants of Leicester pay a voluntary rate of a of the farm in the barns, (which were extensive and full,)
penny in the pound, for the furtherance of the National- two stacks of wheat, a stack of barley, two stacks of hay,
rate agitation. two of straw, the cart-lodge, with all the implements,
At the New Court. London, John Pearson, a labourer, stables, granary, barley, barn, two cattle sheds, piggeries,
indicted for stabbing a man named Lamb, at Whetstone, wheat barn, and two sheep sheds, were also consumed,
in a quarrel, was sentenced to ten years transportation. and the cowhouse was partially injured.
An Inverness paper mentions that, a few daps since,
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Thursday Mr. W. H.
three sportsmen, who were shooting on the Glenfeshie Jennings, son of the Rev. H. Jennings, of Watton Abbey,
Hills, killed thirty brace of ptarmigan in five hours. near Driffield, was out in the fields amusing himself with
The lowest rental of land in England is in Wiltshire, a gun. Finding some cattle had strayed in the fields, he
where it averages 9s. per acre ; and the highest is in Mid- attempted to put them right, and in endeavouring to do
dlesex, where it averages about 345. so he struck one of the beasts with the butt end of the
A young man, rejoicing in the patronymic of Oliver gun, whilst holding the barrel in his hands. The concus-
Cromwell, has found his way into Wakefield House of sion produced by the blow is supposed to have caused the
Correction, for theft. Another named Feargus O'Connor gun to discharge, and lodged the contents in his body.
is in the same place, for an assault. He only survived a short time.
Sir James Duke's butler strangled himself on Sunday LOLA MONTES.—This celebrated woman is the daugh-
week, at his lordship's country residence in Scotland, ter of a Cork lady. Her mother was a member of a mil.
Glen Ogil. He had recently suffered from concussion of linery establishment in this city, the partners in which
the brain by a fall from a horse. were the mother of the Countess of Landsfelt, her sister,
A PRECIOUS JUNCTION.—The Paris correspondent of and two step-sisters. The mother was married in this
the Times states that relations of an intimate kind have city to Lieutenant Gilbert, the father of Lola, who was an
been established between a leading French Socialist officer in the army, and shortly after sailed from this port
refugee in London and the Chartists with ulterior views. with his wife to join his regiment, the 21st Bengal Native
On Sunday, a man suddenly threw himself under an Infantry. Lola's mother, who is in declining health, paid
omnibus as it was going through Moorgate-street, Lon- a visit to her sister in this city at the close of last year.—
don, and was killed on te spot. A coroner's jury brought Cork Constitution.
in a verdict of " Temporary insanity." NEW MODE OF PUNISHING A THIEF.—Last week, a
On Monday a young man, named John Marr, at Gains- young man entered a currier's shop in London to buy a
bore', who has been much addicted to intemperance, piece of leather, and whilst the proprietor was getting the
committed suicide in the union workhouse by striking his article for him, the young man secreted a roll of leather
head against the wall. under his apron, which was missed by the proprietor, who
On Wednesday week, some gentlemen dined at Spald- gave the thief the choice of two things—to stand on the
ing, Lincolnshire, off some corned beef, which had been counter with a card round his neck, with the words,
enclosed in a tin case in March, 1820, and which was pro- " This young man is a thief !" or be given into the custody
nounced to be very good, though a little too salt. of the police. The thief chose the former, and was
Another of the Chartist prisoners, named Alexander exhibited to several thousand passers-by for the period of
Sharpe, died in Tothill-fithls Prison last week. Latterly
he has been locked up, and kept on bread and water, and
he told his wife that this was the cause of his death.
Mr. Godfrey Pigott, of Bolton-upon-Dearne, died on
Thursday week from concussion of the brain, occasioned
sorts I by a blow of a ball under the right ear while, playing at

FIGHT BETWEEN WOMEN.—The Bedford Times re-
ports an Amazonian battle. On the borders of Roxton
and Wilden parishes are some fields, the gleaning of
which is disputed by the neighbouring parishioners. The
other day the worn en fought for the prize., The Wilden
women were gleaning, when the Roxtonians resolved to
expel them. A fierce battle ensued ; caps and bonnets
flew about, hair was torn from the head, and there was
a terrible clamour. The invaders were successful, on ac-
count of superior numbers ; the Roxton women count-
ing nearly sixty, the Welden hardly thirty..
Mr. W. Hodgson, tenant farmer, of Low-Walton, near
Whitehaven, has addressed a letter to Messrs. Mechi,
Davis, and Huxtable. as representatives of the "scientific
treatment of the soil."
£2O to £10(

urnips equal

present growir

to one a

scientific"