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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

dissipated. Food of all kinds has been placed
within the reach of our population. Foreign mar-
kets still invite the manufacturer to renewed opera-
tions.. Yet, our contemporary says, "We have now
again to write of panic." And he says so truly, if,
for "panic," we substitute the words " currency
famine." -Manufacturing industry is again sus-
pended ; commerce is once more paralyzed ; the
price of our public and other securities is ruinously
reduced, as well as those of property and exportable
' products of every description ; and shortly we shall
again see that process going on, which the Times
remarks upon as having recently. taken place, in
which " the -foreigner"—who has our gold—" comes
in to purchase our depreciated securities," and, we
may add, our manufactures.
Has the conduct of the trading community had
any thing to do with the production of this state of
things ? Obviously not. They are amazed at and
perfectly helpless to prevent its occurrence. Our
contemporary indeed says, that " scarcely a dozen
railway schemes of any magnitude have been aban-
doned," and that " no relaxation of the caution ne-
cessitated by free trade could be warranted." What
the abandonment or non-abandonment of railways
has to do with gold -going out of the country, we
are at a loss to know,except inasmuch as by keep-
ing some hundreds f thousands of railway labour-
ers in employment we enable them to consume more
food—which we presume is what he means in
another part of his article by the term "railway
consumption"—and to consume, at the same time,
more of the products of native industry. " The
caution necessitated by free trade" is a novelty to
us, unless it relates to the argument, which we have
long ago held, that free trade and our present cur-
rency system are antagonistic to each other.
Our contemporary thus concludes one of the
most weak and inconsequential articles we ever met
with in his columns :
" There are some," he says, " who clamour for an ex-
pansive action' on the part of the Bank of England as the
panacea for all existing evils, and who by this cry retard
the correction that must only fall the more terribly in
proportion as it is delayed. Advance money—facilitate
imports of provisions and an export of gold in the face
both of railway consumption and free trade—reduce the
rate of interest and bring a French loan of X 14,000,000 at
once upon our markets—see the last bar of gold exported
from our vaults, and add the rush of home discredit to the
force of a foreign drain, and all will then be righted. This
is the language of a large majority of financiers—worthy
rather of the other side of the Atlantic than of England—
and there is no little peril that, as the next Parliament is
constituted, their efforts will find expression in more than
words. Let what may happen, however—let palliative
after palliative be adopted—we once more put upon record
the assertion that there is no escape but in a recognition
that the railway expenditure- must be stopped. and that
traders must be prepared to groan and many of them to
succumb ufidei such rate of interest and for such time as
may be essential to effect that object. Let things take
their best and natural course, and the evils to be endured
will still prove such as few have even yet ventured to con-
template ;. let the painful process of cure be retarded by
the tampering concessions of an interested legislature, and
the long and grinding period of distress before we shall
again breathe freely. will be such as to wear out heart and
pe and to sicken all men with the struggle."
We beg to direct attention to the passage, which
we have marked in italics—" Advance money—
facilitate imports of provisions and an export of
gold in the face of both railway consumption and
Free Trade." ! and something dreadful will occur.
Why the Free Traders told us that the object of
their measures was to facilitate the importation of
provisions ; and we assure them that such must be
the case, whether for consumption here, or to be
stored by our capitalists to supply the wants of
Europe. The imports of foreign grain must be,
under our present system, a staple and immense
trade, as the impdrt and storage of sugar is a great
staple trade of the free ports of Europe. But we
want to export manufactures as well as to import
provisions; and that, it is plain, our present re-
stricted currency, based as it is and measured in
value by a definite and arbitrary price of gold, pre-
vents us from doing. Upon this subject an able
authority, Mr. Jonathan Duncan of London, stated
recently—and we recommend the Guardian-ridden
manufactures of Manchester to ponder over his
words :

" Suppose our measures of length, as the yard wand of
the draper, were made of gold, then, possessing intrinsic
-value as commodities, they would be liable to exporta-
tion, and the business of the draper would be suspended ;
he would therefore be compelled, at a sacrifice, to obtain
back from the foreigner the gold wands, without which he
cannot carry on his business ; the foreigner says to him,
' you shall have them back on the condition that you give
me 54 inches for a yard, instead of 36 ;' here the draper
clearly loses 50 per cent. to buy back the golden wands.
This is precisely what our manufacturers are compelled
to do to get back the sovereigns from the foreigner; they
must reduce the price of their goods to him by 50 per
cent., and give him three bales of cloth where otherwise
they would only have given two."

The Times, it will be seen, has already admitted
that the same is the course of action pursued by
the foreigner with respect to our " depreciated se-
curities." What our " railway consumption" has
to do with the matter we cannot tell ; nor shall we
admit that the formation of railways, which is the
creation of property upon our own soil—as good and
as. valuable property to this nation as mills or mines
or the land itself, and as good even as gold, so long
as wa can find a representative for it, which can be
made available for the carrying on of our foreign
transactions—can be a source of danger to the
nation, or is the cause of our present embarrass-
ments;until we are convinced that railway sleepers
and rails are made of the precious metals, or that
these commodities are embedded in embankments.
Our embarrassments flow solely from the absurd
attempt to regulate our standard of value by that
of an article which is of fluctuating value ; to
regulate prices by the supply of an exportable
material, which is liable to be drawn from us
whenever our imports exceed our exports, and to
carry on .a Continually expanding commerce by
means of a circulating medium whose basis is
short in supply to meet the wants of this country
and the world.

THE drama, which has for months been perform-
ing-, and of which the chief scenes have been laid in
Mark-lane and other markets, is approaching its
catastrophe. The glorious autumnal sky, under
which we have for the last few weeks been rejoicing,
has scared away alike actors and prompters, scene-
shifters and property men—the last of whom have
left behind them, as relics, the machinery, which
they have heretofore found so useful, and which
only failed them at the last hour. Amongst the best
known of these is the asserted potatoe rot, which is
so far worn that it is not thought it can be of any
use in another season, and has been bought for an
old song by one or two of our contemporaries.
In more intelligible and business-like language, the
famine-panic has broken down, despite all the ap-
pliances used to keep it up ; and its promoters and
dupes are about to receive their reward, which, we
trust, will he meted out to them in somewhat less
measure than the sharp practice of the former and
the folly of the other would fully warrant.

In ofd times our ancestors witnessed the south
sea bubble and its bursting. A year ago we wit-
nessed, ourselves, the, railway mania and its cala-
mitous issue. Wise people—prudent inen=talked,
with disapproving shakes of the head, of the evil of
withdrawing capital from the legitimate channels of
trade, and of the folly of urging forward the con-
struction of railways, although everywhere around
there were evidences of the vast boon to mankind
conferred by the railways already m existence, and
the further boon to be conferred by the formation
of additional railways, to promote the cheapening
of the cost of transit, the developement of the
resources of the soil and, most important, of all,
the increase of • civilization amongst the people.
Yet, no sooner did we see the end of the railway
mania than we had, got up by the same wise people
who denounced it so vigourously, a famine mania.
The potato crop of last year was a failure : ergo
they said it was to be a failure again. Our supply
of bread stuffs was short ; and straightway they
acted as if the bounty of Providence would never
enable us to repair our deficiency—never enable us
to overtake and to conquer the evil. To the last
too many have clung to this delusion. They have
hoarded and hoarded ; they have exacted famine
prices, they have revelled in the prospect of imagin-
ary gains to the last. Men of all sorts and con-
ditions—capitalists and beggars—men of money
and men of straw—merchants, brokers, shop-
keepers and even clerks, with pittances barely Rif&
cient to keep whole coats upon their shoulders,
have abandoned their ordinary and legitimate avo-
casions, and rushed to the lucky marts at Mark
Lane and elsewhere, to possess themselves of bush-
els or barrels of the fortune-creating commodity;
and, having succeeded in this object of their am-
bition, they have closed their eyes to the acts and
accidents of the world around them, and fancied
themselves moderately or immoderately rich, accord-
ing to the amount of their respective ventures.
The world has gone round upon its axis all this
time, The ficauml have followed in their coupe

bringing with them the cheering, prospect of abun-
dance. The granaries of the world have been
emptying themselves into the ports of wealthy
England. Every available vessel has been put in
requisition to transport food to our shores. But
the corn speculators still slept on, still doled out
their scanty supply to a hungry and distressed
people, at an immoderate and immodest price—
slept so to the very last, dreaming of storm and
blight, magnifying every genial shower into a flood,
every. speck upon an ear of wheat or a potato stalk,
into an evidence of widely-spread and irretrievable
destruction. At length, at the last hour, these
gentlemen are being t..wakened ; and if their re-
verse be more signal than it might have been,
they have but their own acts to.blame for the cir-
cumstance. •

Greater folly we never witnessed or heard of
than has been displayed in the course of the last.
few months by the parties who are now about to
be called upon to suffer. Every disinterested man,
whose fingers were not infected by the touch of
the prevailing idol; every man in the full posses-
sion of his intellect, saw clearly that the pressure
upon our food market was only temporary—that
the vacuum produced by an unfavourable-season,
putting aside the interference of Providence to
furnish us with abundance from our own soil,
would soon be filled up to overflowing by the
influx of food from other countries. The Ainerican
people, everybody knew, would snatch the husks
from their swine to feed upon, in order to wring
from us dollars in return for their wheat and flour.
The serfs of Russia and Poland, . Norway and
Sweden, would vegetate upon tallow and kelp, in
Order 'to get British gold for their wheat and rye.
Germany would sustain itself upon cabbages and
other greenstuffs, in order to share the golden
harvest. The men of Mark-lane, and such as
they, alone were blind to these facts. They alone,
morever, were unable, or refused, to see that the
stocks of a world could not for ever be held over,
and the appetites of a hungry people satisfied only
at famine prices—that bills renewed once or twice
could not be renewed for ever, and that, postpone
it as they might for a season, the crash must come
at last. It is at band. It has commenced; and
whilst we repeat our hope that the destruction of
individual credit and property will not be propor-
tionate to the extent of individual misconduct, we
cannot but fear that it will be great and calamitous.
Whatever may be its extent, however, let it serve
as a warning against the evils of commercial gam-
bling, and the wickedness of inordinate avarice.

Another lesson, too, it may teach those who, so
triumphantly in their own estimation, ask us how
we should have sustained our people under the
operation of the sliding scale : viz., the fact that
speculation under that system is infinitely less
potent in raising the price of a people's food, be-
yond a people's means to purchase, than under a
system of free trade. The speculator for a rise
under the latter has no fears, save of a decline in
prices. He holds to-day in the hope of an additional
shilling per quarter to-morrow; and if prices recede
a shilling, that shilling is the extent of his loss.
Under the sliding scale, he held subject to his
neighbour adopting the opportunity of selling
which he himself rejected. He must, in declining
markets, at once accommodate himself to the cir-
cumstances which warranted that decline ; for, if
he refused, he was liable not only to a loss com-
mensurate with the decline in price but, as well, to
the imposition of an additional duty. Moreover,
in the emergency of very high prices—of prices
only as high as the present—we should under that
system have had free trade to its fullest extent.
So far as we have experienced the workings of our
present law, we are convinced that it holds out to
the capitalist facilities for operating injuriously
upon the interests and comforts of the masses, by
raising and depressing at will the price of their
food, infinitely greater than the law which it sus-
pended. Steadiness of price it obviously cannot
accomplish.

THE POLICE CoußT.—Yesterday there were no less
than 148 cases on the police books for hearing, consisting,
for the most part, of drunk and disorderly cases. We
learn that this number exceeds the average by near 50.
IRISH BEGGlNG.—Yesterday a considerable number of
Irish mendicants were brought before the magistrates at
the police-court, charged with begging on Sunday. Several
were discharged on promising to return to Ireland, whilst
others refusing to be sent back to their native country
were sent to gaol for seven days. The answers from some
of them on being asked to return home, were somewhat
amusing. The reply of one was, " I'd rayther not if I
could help it." He was committed for persisting in his
refusal. Another, who seemed averse to returning home,
was pointedly asked the question, " Will you go home or
to prison ? " when he answered with much characteristic
simplicity, but evidently under the sudden influence of
the feeling of prison restraint, " Faith, I'll go home if
you like."
REVISING BARRISTERS.—The Lord Chief Baron nas
made the following appointments of revising barristers for
the northern gircuit:—York.—West Riding with Ponte-
fract.—W. Blanchard, Benjamin Boothby, and L. Tem-
ple, Esqrs. West Riding Boroughs, except Ripon, Pon-
tefract, and Knaresborough.—William Gray, Esq. East
Riding and Boroughs of York, with Knaresborough and
Ripon.--7G. F. Pollard, Esq. North Riding and its Bo-
roughs, except York.—Stephen Temple, Esq. Durham
and Boroughs,7—Richard Mathews, Esq. Northumber-
land and Boroughs.—T. J. Hogg, Esq. Cumberland
and Boroughs, with Kendal.—Woronzow Greig, Esq.
Westmoreland, North Lancashire, Clithero, and Lan-
caster.—Charles Otter, Esq. South Lancashire, War-
rington, and Rochdale.—P. A. Pickering, W. Conie,
and J. P. Wild, Esq. Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton, Preston,
and Blackburn.—F. S. Brandreth, Esq. Boroughs of
South Lancashire, except Liverpool,Wigan, Bolton, Roch-
dale, and Warrington.—Hon. R. -Denman.
WOODSIDE FERRY.—We understand that the com-
mittee for conducting the affairs of this and the Monks'
Ferries contemplate recommending to the next general
meeting of the commissioners a reduction in the salaries
of the men employed in the establishment of ss. per week,
to commence after the 28th instant,, and that notice to
this effect has been given by the manager to those func-
tionaries.. It will be in the recollection of our readers
that it is only a few months ago since • the sum proposed
to be abated was added. The reason assigned for taking
such an important step is, that the funds of this rising
city are deficient, and that they intend making up such
deficiency by lessening the expenditure of these ferries.
It can hardly be expected for one moment that the Ferry
Committee are in earnest in making such an announce-
ment, for if the deficit should be so trifling that the re-
duction of a few shillings from the small pittance of some
ten or a dozen officers will make it up, we must condemn
it at once as a most imprudent and unwise step ; and if,
on the contrary, the deficit should amount to a large sum,
we would' ask how that object can be gained, upon the
same principle ? We know for a fact that this is the con-
struction which has been put upon it by some of the
largest and most respectable ratepayers in Birkenhead.
However, as the matter will have to be brought before
the board for their sanction, before it can be carried into
execution, 'we hope, for the credit of that intelligent and
highly respectable body, and the township generally, that
they will at once set their faces against such a paltry
transaction, and will show their independent spirit by
quashing any such recommendation. We would ask how
it is possible that they can expect to get the services of
respectable men, who have wives and families depending
upon them for support, when provisions and everything
are so dear, and rents so high, for so small a pittance as
30s. a week, and in addition give a bona fide security to a
large amount for their honesty and integrity. If they
expect this they will find themselves sadly deceived, for
besides the qualifications above enumerated, the duties of
the officers are extremely heavy.
THE CROPS' IN OUR IMMEDIATE DISTRICTS.—The
weather has been extremely propitious during the past
week both for the growing and the ripening crops. We
had some rains in the early part of last week, but nothing
to do any injury to the F3-rain, while they greatly advanced
green crops. These, with sunshine intervening, were suc-
ceeded by the finest possible harvest weather,—the glass
on Thursday ranging at " Set Fair," and so continuing,
with a warm sun and a healthful drying breeze, up to the
time we write. The dews made up any want of moist-
ure during the day, as affecting green crops. Sun-
day was, perhaps, the finest of the fine days of a
fine summer, and we may say that, upon the whole,
a more prolific season was never realized (so far) and in
prospect. The only exceptions are in the late potatoes,
and the beans. In the former the disease has made its
appearance, rather formidably in some fields, (and it sel-
dom shews itself until towards the period of ripening)
but the breadth under culture is so great, that by canyid
and timely gathering the general crop may yet amount to
a fair quantity. The price rose a little in our markets on
Saturday, (being is. 3d. per score), and until the whole
crop is gathered in, and the result known, we can scarcely
anticipate a fall, the popular demand for this root being
greater than for any other vegetable of general consump-
tion. Much of the wheat is already in stock, and is
heavy and fine. The same may be said of the oats, and
with some few exceptions of the barley. Turnips and
mangels have swelled out amazingly both in verdure
and bulk, and a heavy yield may be safely anti-
cipated. We have seen, in the Wallasey district, some
splendid fields of wheat and oats, on the exten-
sive farm of our townsman, Mr. Harold Littledale.
Much is already cut, and the reapers here, as elsewhere
in the neighbourhood, will be vigorously employed this
week, should the weather hold, of which there is every
prospect. All sorts of vegetables, excepting potatoes, are
cheap, being abundant and fine. Nearly all the oats have
been cut, and the wheat yet standing is fully ripe. A
black insect has destroyed a great part of the beans, both
in gardens and fields ; but the breadth sown in this neigh-
bourhood is limited, so that the loss will be little felt.
The mangels in a large field of Mr. Littledale's, near the
south end of Wallasey village, are already of great size,
and the final product will, no doubt, be unusually large.
Barley, which in June was thin and unpromising, has
considerably improved. The after grasses are forward,
awl Wok beautiful.

THE ANNUAL LICENSING SESSIONS.

There are few duties in which the magistracy of a great
town can be more usefully employed than in the proper
regulation of its- public-houses and taverns. It is a fact
notorious to every judge who sits upon the bench, that
more criminal associations are formed, more crimes batched,
more robberies and outrages planned, in the low and dis-
orderly public-houses with which all populous towns
abound, than in any other places. Hence we regard the
duties, which are annually to be performed by the licensing
magistrate, as more than ordinarily important, and do not
conceive that we are stepping out of our sphere in convey-
ing to them what we know to be the sense of a large and
influential portion of our fellow-townsmen, with regard to
the mode of their performance.
During the past two years the town has sustained a
large increase of building, and, in consequence of the
operation of the sanitory act, a considerable portion of the
new erections is composed of cottage property—small
streets of houses, two and three storied, with rentals vary-
ing from £l5 to £2-I per annum. In nearly every such
street we observe preparations made for a future public-
house, (if a license can be got,) and in the meantime fora
beer-house. Hence the unusually large number of appli-
cations for licenses with which the magistrates will have
to deal at the approaching sessions, many of which are,
no doubt, put forward by parties of unexceptionable cha-
racter, and backed by signatures of persons the only ex-
ception against whom is that they are probably tenants of
the landlord, for the advantage of whose property a license
is sought. With respect to the mode of dealing with the
major part, if not the whole, of such applications, we
would urge upon the bench the same considerations which
we caged last year. There are, unless we are sadly mis-
informed, existing in the back streets throughout the
town, in places which were once populous thorough-
fareS; but are so no longer, not a few licensed public-
houses, too many of which serve only as the resorts of
vice which shuns the light, as the nurseries of crime, or
the lurking'places of the criminal—houses in which the
Exciseman is never called upon to guage a cask of wine or
spirits' because the only receptacle in the by the poor
tenant is a bottle filled as required from the nearest gin-
palace. Let the owners of such property be allowed to
draft their licenses to the localities to which the popula-
tion they once depended upon has removed, and there can
exist no necessity for granting a single new licence for
years to come. Tt must be borne in mind that the new
streets, for houses in which licences are being applied for,
are not indicative of an increase of population to the ex-
tent of the tenants which they are capable of accommo-
dating. The bulk of them have been provided for the
accommodation of parties removed under the operation of
the sanatory act, or at their own option from unwhole-
some streets in the centre of the town, in search of a
better and a purer atmosphere. Let such parties take
their public-houses, or what amounts to the same, their
licences with them. Abundance, and indeed far more
than is required, will still be left within the limits of the
old borough.
As we remarked last year, however, there may be here
and there, and particularly in the growing outskirts of the
town, a few isolated cases, in which the establishment of
a respectable tavern is calculated to be a convenience rather
than a nuisance to the locality. We pointed to two such
cases on a former occasion, in 'one of which (in Nether-
field-road, Everton) the applicant was successful in pro-
curing a license, and we believe has conducted his busi-
ness with credit and satisfaction to the magistrates and
to his neighbours.
Another case which we referred to last year was an ap-
plication for a license to a house, built by its owner for
the purpf,se on the Bootle-road, in the centre of an im-
proving and highly respectable neighbourhood, and seven
or eight hundred yards' from any other public-house.
This application was not granted last year ; but we observe
that the owner of the property is applying again this year,
with, 'we learn, the support of a number of the most in-
fluential residents. For the last twelve months it has
been conducted most satisfactorily under a beer license ;
and it is furnished and in every way fitted to afford the
accommodation required from a first rate tavern. The
extension of the town and the docks in this direction—the
number of cars and omnibuses passing along the road,
with the prospect of a large increase in the population
surrounding, we submit call for such a license being
granted.
There are no doubt other similar cases, here and there,
which will present similar claims ; and in all these we
have no doubt that the magistrates will exercise a wise
discretion, keeping in view the fact that we want only such
houses as are likely to be respectably conducted ; and that
to enable the tavern keeper to so conduct his establish-
ment, it is necessary that his business should not be so
divided by competition as to drive him to resort to un-
worthy and disorderly practices—to encourage tippling
rather than supply in moderation the wants of the public.

THEATRE-ROYAL.-MADAME RACHEL AND

THE FRENCH COMPANY.

Yesterday evening, the first appearance of this distin-
guished lady, accompanied by a very talented corps of
male and female performers, took place in our Theatre-
Royal, a most fashionable audience being assembled to
receive them. The lower boxes, in especial, we have
seldom seen better filled. The first piece was Scribe's
comedy ;of " Valerie ou L'Aveugle,! in which Mdlle.
Rabut sustained the part of Valerie, the blind girl, with
great efficiency. The closing scene, in which Valerie is
restored to her sight, was full of nature and feeling. The
part of Caroline was sustained with great nalvette by Mdlle.
Vallee ; and-but we need not particularise further.
The whole was gone through most artistically, and eli-
cited unqualified admiration.
Of " Les boraces," the tragedy, we scarcely know
how to speak. It was perfect in every part, and afforded
to those who heard it acting such as we have seldom wit-
nessed during the performance of an English play. The
plot is the well-known one to the Latin scholar of the
Horatii and Curatii ; and the part of Canzilla was allot-
ted to Rachel.

In the first four acts we should, as impartial judges, have
given the palm to Sabina (Mademoiselle Rabut,) whose
acting was superb, as it was in the previous piece. But
in_thelast act, Mademoiselle Rachel, as Camilla, asserted
her preeminence in a manner which left no room for any
competitor. More splendid acting we never witnessed
than the closing scene, which drew down, as it deserved,
a perfect torrent of applause.
Amongst the ether parties engaged in the piece we find
it difficult in the very brief space at our disposal, to par-
ticularize. We may, however, mention Mr. Raphael
Felix. The acting of this gentleman throughout was of a
very high order. Indeed the whole corps are most efficient.

The Observer,—a good authority—now says that Parlia-
ment will not be called together before the usual time.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton have arrived at the
noble lord's seat,- IVleggernie Castle, Perthshire. from
Croxteth Hall.

Mr. George Grist has been appointed secretary to the
Liverpool Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Association in
the room of Mr. Rowlandson, resigned. Mrs. Grist has
received the appointment of matron to the; institution.
We believe the appointments will give great satisfaction.

Yesterday, at the Police-court, two half-starved looking
urchins appeared at the Police-court, charged with stealing
a quantity of potatoes from a shop in Dale-street. In
reply to the charge, all they had to, stale was, that " they
had had nothing to eat for two days." They were com-
mitted for seven days.
AMERICAN PROVISIONS. During the eleven last
Months (from Sept. Ist o the end of July last), there
were exported to Great Britain, from the various Ameri-
can ports, 2,706,202 barrels of flour, 779,711 barrels of
corn meal, 3,084,910 bushels of wheat, 16,251,988 bushels
of corn, 451,214 bushels of oats, and 271,353 bushels of
barley.
MAN KILLED ON THE ILAILWA.V.—A man, named
Henry Johnson, a labourer, at the railway, in Crown-
street, was accidentally killed on Saturday afternoon
last. It appears that he was in the act of moving
two waggons past some points on the 'main line of
rails, and whilst doing so, another train of waggons,
drawn by an engine, struck against the waggon deceased
was pushing at, knocking it off the rails, and jamming de-
ceased against a waggon standfng on an opposite line.
When taken up he was found insensible.
SALE OF LAND AT BIRKENHEAD.—Last night Messrs.
Churton offered for sale, at the Monks' Ferry Hotel,
Birkenhead, a quantity of villa land, called the" Dibbins-
dale Vale Estate," situate on the margin of Bromborough
Pool, near Birkenhead. The quantity advertised was
75,000 square yards, in 19 lets. The attendance at the
sale was numerous, but the state of the money market
had an effect upon the bidding. Four lots only were
offered, one of which was knocked down at 2s. 6d. per
yard; and a second at 3s. per yard. The two other lots
offered were bought in. The total number of square
yards sold is 5,000.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT KIRKDALE.—On Saturday last,
a carter named John Woods, on his way from Liverpool,
met with his death in Kirkdale, under the following
circumstances. The deceased was driving an empty cart,
and behind him was a cart filled with manure. The horse
in the latter cart began to trot, when the driver immedi-
ately stopped it, but the deceased, who was about five
yards in advance, made a stand, allowing his own horse
and cart to proceed until the other horse came up to him.
He then took hold of its head, and whilst endeavouring
to stop it, he was seen to fall down against the horse,
when both horse and cart ran over him. On being taken
up his head was found to be dreadfully crushed, and he
was quite dead. Verdict, " Accidental death."
THE LATE DEAN OF MANCHESTER.—The Hon. and
Very Rev. William Herbert, L.L.D., Rector of Spofforth,
son of the late Earl of Carnarvon, revised and re-dated
his will on the 25th of January last, which had been ex-
ecuted by him in the year 1845. He has bequeathed to
his wife, the Honourable Letetia Herbert, a life-in-
terest in all his property in England and elsewhere [ex-
cept Canada], also certain specific and pecuniary be-
quests, including the carriage and horses, the plate, &c.,
and that she may select from his books, pictures,
and furniture, to the amount of £700; and after her
decease, he leaves the property purchased by him
in Therfield to his son Frederick; his only freeholds he
leaves to his daughter Louisa, with a pecuniary bequest.
The residue of his personal estate, and of the unsettled
real estate, to be divided between his said son and daugh-
ters, Cecilia and Louisa. The estates in Canada, subjectto the
payment of an annuity to his trustees, he has devoted to his son
Frederic and his heirs. His estates undermarriage settlement
in the counties of Bedford and Hertford, over which he had
power of appointment, he has apportioned to his said son
and daughters, his son Henry having received his portion
in the lifetime of his father. He leaves to. the Rev. C.
Richson, one of his executors, £lOO. The Hon. Letitia
Herbert, the relict, and his brother, the Hon. Algernon
Herbert, are the other executors. The personalty in Eng-
land and within the province of Canterbury was valued at
£4OOO. He held the rectory of Spofforth,. Yorkshire, for
thirty-three years, the value of which is returned as
£1,538 per annum ; he was made Dean of Manchester
in 18-1(,, and died in the yetg of his age.