The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

Good Gin

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Best London and Bristol Whiskey l6/0
Gin 12/6 I Ditto Glenlivat and Islay .16/6
Jamaica Rum 14/0 „ Irish Malt 16/6
Best Old Jamaica Ditto ..16/0 ~ Cognac Brandy 24/0
Irish Whiskey lO/6 ~ Pale Ditto Ditto.. . 24/0
I Good Malt Whiskey 14/0 ~ Scheidam Holland.s.24/0
Genuine Hollands (in Cases of 1 doz. or 2 gals.) 48/0 per Case.
WINES.

Per Doz. Qte. Doz. Pte
Good Port
Fine Old Port 36/0 18/0
~ Crusted 4O/0 20/0
Bronte Madeira
Good Dinner Sherry
Fine Old Sherry
Best Old Pale Sherry
CHAMPAGNE, CLARET. MADEIRA, 4- c .
BRITISH WINES.

Ginger, Raspberry, Raisin, Cowslip, Orange, } 15/0 per Dozen,
Gooseberry, and Black Currant
ALE AND PORTER, IN BOTTLE.

Per Doz. Pte. Doz. Qte,
2/10
2/9 4/6
//6 /
3/6 6/0
3//0 6 6/0
4 7/0
2/9 4/6
2/9 4/6

Alloa Bitter Beer*
Drogheda Ale
Burton Ale
East India Pale Ale
Burton Bitter Ale .
Edinburgh Strong Ale
Dublin XX Porter ....
London Brown Stout..
Best London Double Stout (recom-
mended for invalids) 3/8 6/0
Bottles must be given in exchange, or paid for on delivery. The
same amount allowed for when returned.
TERMS, CASH, AT TIME OF ORDERING, OR ON DELIVERY.
* A light Dinner Beverage, medically recommended.

• ' I/ R. NINO,
FAMILY AND COMPLLIIENTARY,
THE PROPRIETORS of the LONDON
GENERAL MOURNING WAREHOUSE beg
respectfully to remind Ladies whose bereavements
compel them to adopt MOURNING ATTIRE, that
every Article requisite for a complete outfit of
MOURNING may be had at their Establishment, on
the' Inest reasonable terms, at a moment's notice.
WIDOWS' and FAMILY MOURNING is always kept
made up; and the

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are replete with all theNOVELNOVELTIES
of the SEASON,
in MOURNING MANTLES, MOURNING MILLI-
NERY, HEAD DRESSES, &c.

R. H. PUGH AND CO.,
(Front London.)

P
114, BOLD-STREET,ROPRIETORS
Corner of Colquilt-street.

N.8.-FUNI

ItALS COMPLETELY FURNISHED,

REMOVAL.
romAs WYLIE, SIJEVEYOII., ESTATE-AGENT, and
AUCTIONEER, REMOVED from Sweeting-street to No. I
ROYAL BANK BUILDINGS, DALE-STREET. ,

RANELAGH-STREET DIE-HOUSE,
No. 4, RANELAG.U-STREET, and
65, GLOUCESTER-STREET.
ej_EORGE SCOTT respectfully informs his Friends
kir and the Public that he still continues carrying on the
SILK, COTTON, and WOOLLEN DYEING and CLEANING
in all their various Branches.
N.B.—The above is the Cheapest Dye-house in RANELAGH-
STREET: Next door above the Waterloo Hotel
A Van is kept for Ha purpose of
out Goods free of ci

in and Delivering

LONDON DYEING HOUSES,
15, RANELAGII-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
AND
7, BRIDGE-STREET, BIRKENHEAD.
WILLIAM JOHNSON begs to inform the Inha-
bitants of Birkenhead and its vicinity, that he has
opened an Establishment at 7, BRIDGE-STREET, WOODSIDE,
(near the Ferry), where the same attention to their orders will
be given as in Liverpool.
The superiority of his workmanship has for manyyears gained
the approbution or the Public, and having fitted up his New
Premises with entirely New Machinery and all the Modern Im-
provements, he is enabled to execute all orders in a superior
manner, not to be surpassed by any house in the kingdom.
Being the only practical Dyer of the name, Ladies cannot be
too particular in sending work to his Liverpool Establishment,
to direct to the number,

15, RAisTELAGII-STREET,
having now no connexion with the Old Premises. in Ranelagh-
street, or the shop in Bold-street.

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.. ' marine placed on guard at our cabin door. We were to t
—4— have cocoa and dry biscuit for breakfast, and tea and I
UNITED STATES. biscuit in the evening. We were also allowed 2 lbs. of salt 1
The Royal Mail steam-ship America reached Liverpool beef or pork for dinner, with biscuit. These allowances, i
on Wednesday. She left New York on the 28th ultimo, with two gallons of wine each, for the entire voyage, form
and Boston on the Ist instant. our bill of fare. We are looking forward, however, for i
Every one is looking forward to the meeting of Con- some better modifications, on our arrival at the Cape. I
gress and the President's Message. We are all in excellent health, and just the same spirits as i
The political news is not of greateonsequence. Another you used to see us at Richmond. For my part I never t
steamer had exploded at New Orleans, and several per- was in better health. The sea voyage has much improved I
sons killed. The hotel-keepers at New York import me."
game in considerable quantities from this country. The CHEAP MARKETS—WHO ENJOYS THEM ?—While the 1
cholera has been frightful in some parts of the State of price of prime cattle in the Dublin markets is not more t
Mexico. . than 2d. per lb. weight, or one-third that vs hich it was 1
A Dr. Coolidge, of' the State of Maine, was some time - some time ago, the retail price to the public is within 1
ago condemned for murder. To avoid an ignominious one-third of what it was at the dearest period alluded to. ;
death, he committed suicide, and his body was buried. The following letter from a grazier to the editor of Saun-
Private letters state that he has since been seen working ders's News-Letter, puts the case clearly. Speaking of ,
at the gold diggings in California. This, if true, has an the " extortion of the Dublin butchers," the writer goes I
important bearing on the question now stirred in this on to say—" It has been alleged that the cause rests with i
country for the substitution of private execution for a the salesmen and butchers. Now, I maintain the former 1
public one. The escape of Coolidge must have been con- have nothing to say to it ;it is all a conspiracy on the i
/lived at by the authorities. part of the latter gentry, who, while they are realising
Lieutenant Lynch, who commanded the late " Dead the profits at the rate of 300 per cent., are mulcting the
Sea Exploring Expedition," has volunteered to head a graziers and the public in that exact ratio. A fortnight
party, in the spring, in search of Sir John Franklin, if ago I sold ten cows to a Dublin butcher, the price for
the United States' Government will sanction it. The which was, as near as could possibly be calculated, 2d. per
cholera has again appeared at St. Louis and the rivers. lb., sinking offal. Wishing to test the quality of my own
Eighteen death_ occurred in one steamer. feeding, I sent for a roasting and boiling piece, for which
The news from Canada is unimportant. The manifesto I paid 64 per lb. for a shoulder of mutton. Some check
against annexation with the United States, at Toronto, must be put to a system nothing short of actual robbery.
had already received 4,000 signatures. The charges by rail are so high housekeepers cannot avail
themselves of the prices which in Limerick and Tipperary
Passports are to be discontiued in France. are about half." The bill (says the editor) is from one of
Letters from Canada state that Sir Allan M`Nab was the most respectable victuallers in Dublin. Mark, when
-lying very ill at Toronto. prime beef cost Gd. the pound as it stood in Smithfield
The debuts of Madame Grisi and Signor Mario, at St. market, the retail price did not exceed Bd. and 9d. Now
Petershurgh, have been triumphantly successful. ' that it is hut 2d., the retail price is 61d., while mutton is
Mr. Robert Stephenson figures, amongst other engi- 7d. here, and but 4d. in the country towns.
veering celebrities, in the Paris Moniteur as Chevalier of _______„,e----
the Legion of Honour.
Two suicides were committed in Paris on Wednesday—
one by a law student, who shot himself through love ; the
second by a broker, who hung himself. The Orangemen of England recently forwarded to Lord
Kossuth's furniture has been sold by an-tion at Pesth. Roden and to the Messrs. Beers, excellent addresses on
The plainness of it was remarkable. His family have recent occurrences. The following is a copy of that
been liberated, and they intend to join him in Turkey.
The Committee of the Episcopal American Domestic "TO THE RIGHT HON THE EARL OF RODEN.
Church Mission has published an appeal in which it is " Rig:it Worshipful Sir and Brother,—l have the
stated that a sum of forty-two thousand dollars is required honour, on behalf of the Orangemen of England. to ex-
for the maintenance of the missionary bishops and the press to your lordship the feelings of deep and general
clergy. indignation with which, in common with every loyal and
MARIOLATROUS MIRACLE.—The Anti de la Religion honest man in this country, we have heard of the late
contains an account of the alleged miraculous deliverance insult offered to your lordship and other magistrates whom
from cholera of the town of Aniane, in the diocese of we have the privilege to call brethren.
Montpellier, by the statue of the Virgin carried in proces- "We may be pardoned if we have been slow in noticing
sion through the streets. this insult, as we cannot, in consideration of the quarter
CorroN IN INDIA.—The improved cultivation by the from which it has proceeded, attach any importance to it.
natives had greatly fallen off during the year 1848. During It has not surprised us, as it is perfectly consistent with
the present year, however, there has been a very the whole conduct of an administration who has exhibited
striking increase ; and the number of acres planted with all the violence of the most capricious despots, and all the
New Orleans seed is, in round numbers, 15,400, against meanness of the vilest slaves ; which hangs the incendiary
3400 in 1848. priest in Cephalonia, where it is strong enough, and in
The Times of Tuesday morning was shown on the Ireland receives weekly his address to the Sovereign,
Bourse at Paris at one o'clock on that day. The distance fraught with the most insolent treason, because it fears
from London to Paris is now performed in nine hours. him ; which attempts to ride roughshod over the loyal
The paper was specially carried, to show still further men of Canada and the Cape, and at Madrid and Malta,
dispatch attainable, by a deputation of the Boulogne and where it becomes involved by the misconduct of its agents,
Amiens Railway Company. exhibits the meanest insensibility to insult, humbling the
The private advices from New York continue to give a name of England at the feet of a few paltry Jesuits, and
favourable report of the general state of business, and, displaying a baseness and cruelty to which Turks have
notwithstanding therequirernent 0f15,000,000 t 020,000,000 scorned to stoop.
dollars during the next eighteen months, to make up the "That such a government should prosecute rebels in the
deficit left by the Mexican war, the stock market showed south of Ireland, for firing on the paid police, and in the
considerable firmness. The general impression was that north of Ireland endeavour to punish the unpaid police
a loan would not be resorted to, but simply a temporary for firing on rebels, in their own defence, is not, surprising.
issue of treasury notes, and the prosperous condition of " The Orangemen of England, my lord, regret deeply
the country seems to warrant this opinion. that their brethren in Ireland should have been placed
THE PAPAL STATES.—Letters from Rome, of the 4th under the necessity of dispersing the poor dupes of the
instant, state that as yet General Baraguay d'Hilliers has priests and the government; but those who occasioned
not been successful in his endeavours to induce the Pope that necessity, by omitting to declare in time what they
to return to Rome. His holiness is said to have pleaded now assert to be the law, are alone chargeable with the
the inclemency of the weather and the state of the roads, consequences ; and their present attempt to transfer the
covered with snow. as an excuse for his remaining some blame of their misconduct to others is fully understood by
time longer at Portoci. Other accounts state that the every sensible man in the country.
Pope is unwilling to return to Rame until he shall have "In conclusion, my lord, we feel that every expression
raised a loan, by means of which he may withdraw the of sympathy or condolence on our part would be utterly
paper money in circulation. misplaced, as we cannot suppose your lordship to be either
The sarcophagus containing the mortal remains of Gus- surprised or pained by the factious conduct of a party
tavus Vasa, of Sweden, has been opened by royal autho- whose monstrous inconsistencies are the subject of ridi-
rits. Of the body of the great monarch, nothing remains cule or the cause of shame to foreigners and Englishmen
but the skeleton ; but all the clothes (of the ancient Spa- in every part of the world : which has trifled with every
nish costume) are intact, and preserve a certain freshness. interest in the empire, and which can neither issue a new
These ornaments are of velvet and silk, with gold and silver coin or a post-office regulation, neither appoint a digni-
brocade. The crown, the sceptre, the globe, and the or- tart' in the church, nor supersede a civil magistrate, with-
naments of the scabbard, enclosing the royal sword, and out outraging the feelings and insulting the principles of
the buckles of the girdle and shoes, are of fine and massive every respectable religious and loyal man in the nation.
gold, and partly adorned with precious stones. "With feelings of the most affectionate respect for your
A SCENE FOR A FARCE.—THE KING OF THE Mus- lordship, personally, and admiration of your public and
Qulroes.—The following communication is from an Ame- private character, we are your lordship's humble and
rican paper. It is dated Hull (U.S,), September 22, faithful brethren,
1849 :—" Skipper Mudge, who arrived at this port from " By order of the Grand Master,
Honduras last week, in his smack Nancy, reports that he " NICHOLSON BRADLEY, Secretary.
had an interview before sailing, with his majesty the " 119, Upper Canning-street,
King of the Musquitoes. His majesty wore a splendid "Liverpool, Nov. 7, 1849."
cocked had and a red sash, and had very large gilt spurs,
To these spirited appeals suitable replies have been
strapped about his ancles, but I regret to see that the re-
mainder of his person was, as the painters say, without received.
drapery. We must make allowance, however, for differ- .....—e ...........—m
ence of customs and climate. His majesty, who cannot RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
be more than twenty years old, was slightly intoxicated.
His suite consisted of a one-eyed dremmer-boy, and two MIDLAND RAILWAY-
.--It
—lt has been decided by the
gentlemen with fifes, one of whom acted as an interpreter. board °ai cfdl irectors of the Midland Railway to make no
The sing of the Musquitoes received Skipper Mudge, furtherat present on the £5O shares.
seated on an empty whiskey cask. He motioned to the The Morning Herald says that the Great Westesn
skipper to take a seat on the ground, or wherever he Railway Company, at their next meeting, will pay a divi-
chose." The writer then goes on to describe the further dend at the rate of 44 per cent. per annum, and carry for-
proceedings of the interview, in the course of which his ward £28,000.
majesty's laughter having been excited, the cask rolled On Thursday at noon as the Emperor eneine, dragging
from under him and he fell to the ground. a heavy train of coal waggons, was proceeding along the
eiesseeeeeerneezeseesseaeeseeeeceseee....e. railway at Whiston-bank, between Rainhill and Huyton
I R E L A N D. stations, it ran off the rails and drew the carriages across
—4— the line, effectually stopping the traffic for nearly two
On Tuesday a meeting of the inhabitants of Cork was hours. It is said that one of the rails was up for repairs,
held to memorialise the Government to appoint a port in and that the engine driver did not see the signal in time
Ireland as a packet station between Great Britain and to prevent the accident.
T...1...,,1 'PL. .....,....;.,,.....2 rpry inflnentiallv attended.

On Tuesday a meeting of the inhabitants of Cork was
held to memorialise the Government to appoint a port in
Ireland as a packet station between Great Britain and
Ireland. The meeting was very influentially attended.
The first sale under the " sale of encumbered estates
act" has been announced. It relates to the extensive
estates of John O'Connell and Morgan John O'Connell,
Esqrs. of Grena, county of Kerry.
On Saturday week, a farmer named Ward was found
dead in his own cart on the road leading from Belfast to
Saintfield. On the same road another man was also found
dead, it is supposed from the inclemency of the weather.
KiLnusff UNION.—The Limerick papers bring melan-
choly accounts of a " crisis" which has at length taken
place hi the affairs of this unfortunot,e union. Money
and credit are all gone, and starvation has lkerally set in
among the paupers in the workhouse.
A requisition is in course of signature in the county of
Dublin for a meeting to petition parliament, praying it to
take into immediate consideration the operation of free
trade in agricultural produce, particularly in Ireland.
Other counties are expected to join in that which pro-
mises to be a great national movement.
THE NENAGII CHAPEL AFFAIR.—We find that the
Roman Catholic parishioners of Nenagh memorialised
Dr. Slattery, the Roman Catholic archbishop, to interfere
in procuring the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Power to
the parish. The reply of Dr. Slattery was, that he had
no power to interfere. The petitioners are now resolved,
it is stated, to appeal to the Pope.—Clare Journal.
NIL DESPERANDUM.—The following paragraph from
the Irish papers has an English interest cf no mean cha-
racter :—" The extensive coal field of Ballycastle has at
length been opened, and a cargo of coals therefrom has /
arrived at the quay of Belfast. It is fifty-five years since
the Irish parliament discussed the national advantages oil,
constructing a harbour at Ballycastle for the exportation ,
of its coals; but, like all other important improvements
out of Dublin, they neglected this great work. The
public is now indebted to an English company for opening
this mine of wealth, which will afford so much employ-
ment."
On Friday night last an awful accident occurred at
Ballymartin, near Kilkeel. A poor man, his wife, and
two children, lived in a miserable hut, beside the sea
shore. The hut was old and dilapidated. Friday night
was an exceedingly tempestuous one. The man and his
family had gone to rest, all of them sleeping in the one
bed, when the house fell on them, and the whole four
were killed. The next day the bodies were dug out from
the ruins. The poor fellow was found in a sitting pos-
ture, with one of the children in his arms, as if he had
been rising to make his escape. His wife had the other
child.—Newry Telegraph,
ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.—On Sunday evening, at
ten o'clock, a shot was fired into the drawing-room window
of the residence of Henry Drury, Esq., at Sherwood, in
the county of Carlow, within one mile of Kildavin. Miss
Drury was at the time standing close to the window. The
family were about to commence evening prayers, and, we
regret to say, one bullet entered her cheek, breaking three
teeth, and lacerating her tongue ; five bullets passed
through the shutter, and some even through the door into
the back drawing-room. The outrage has been occasioned
by a dispute with some tenants about land, as a threaten-
ng notice found subsequently in the grounds testify.
A document is circulating through Ireland, at the in-
stance of the Earl of Glengall and other Irish peers, in
the shape of a petition to the Queen, praying for protec-
tion to the agricultural interests of Ireland. It is said
this petition may be regarded as the groundwork for an
amendment to the address in Parliament next session, in
case some measure of relief is not indicated in the speech
from the Throne. Amongst other topics touched upon is
"The exercise of Her Majesty's royal authority in this
kingdom cotemperaneously with the abolition of a regal
representative, selected on the nomination of a political
party, and at all times the patron of a section, in place of
the representative of the Throne, which rules for the
benefit of all."
We dare say some of our readers will remember the
notes of triumph which were sung by the free traders
over the sale of the Blessington estates in Ireland. The
thousand evidences of depreciation were as nothing, com-
pared with the one fact that the Blessington estates had
sold at a good price. It turns out, however, that she
whole thing is a grand mistake. Mr. Anderson, the pro-
feesional manager of the sale, has written a letter which
very quietly and completely demolishes the whole case of
the free traders. The property offered for sale was of two
classes—land in the quiet county of Tyrone, and ground-
rents in the best part of Dublin. The ground-rents sold
at 20 years' purchase ; but for the land there were no
bidders, although it was intimated that 20 per cent. less
would be taken than had actually been offered only three
- years ago. One lot was put up at £24,000, for which
£30,000 was refused in 1846, but not an offer was made.
THE IRISH REBELS.—A letter from Mr. M`Manus,
written on board the transport ship off the Cape of Good
Hope, in September last, says,—" With regard 'to our
• accommodation, the captain read for us his instructions on
the day we lost sight of Ireland. They were briefly
enumerated under the following heads :—We were allowed
to be on deck two at 4 time, frem sunrise to sunset : to be
in bed And All lights Ant pl 4 At nine o'clock ; and have .a

LAW INT.ELLIGENCE.

ACTION FOR DEFAMATION.—The Court of Exchequer
in Dublin has been engaged, for nearly the whole week,
in an action for defamation, brOught at the instance of a
young woman named D. vine, against Captain M‘Manus,
a gentleman bordering on 80 years of age, and who for-
merly filled the office of Under Secretary in the Military
Secretary's office, Royal Hospital. The trial concluded
on Friday, the jury finding for the plaintiff £350 damages
and 6d. costs. It was alleged that a criminal intercourse
had existed between the parties, and that the defendant
had written letters blasting her character. For the de-
fence it was argued that the plaintiff had been imprisoned
for felony, and that the defendant had never written
the letters. Several gentlemen deposed that he never
wrote them.
In the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, an action
was brought in the name of a girl 13 years of age, against
Mr. Wakley, son of Mr. Wakley, coroner, for having, in
treating her for the fracture of a limb, in the Free Hos-
pital, London, caused her to be lame for life. The father
of the girl told a most horrible story of dirt, neglect, &c.,
and stated that Mr. Wakley made him large offers not to
make any complaint. He was so disgusted with the
treatment in the •Free Hospital, that he removed his
daughter to St. Bartholomew's, where she was cured, It
appeared that the child had taken the scarlet fever from
another patient, and this retarded her cure. Several
surgeons declared that, under all the circumstances, the
treatment was faultless, and the verdict was for the de-
fendant, Mr. Wakley.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—FRIDAY.
isi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Chief
Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.)

HILCOAT V. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND

This was an action on the case by the Rev. Dr. Hilcoat,
who was the incumbent of St. Matthew's church, at Li-
verpool, and proprietor of the site of some buildings and
premises attached thereto, against the Archbishop of
Canterbury (as late Bishop of Chester) and the Archbishop
of York, for not duly regarding the plaintiff's interest in
a bargain and sale made by them of the church, buildings,
and premises to the Bury and Lancaster (now the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire) Railway Company, as they were re-
quired to do by the company's act of parliament. '['he
archbishops, however, were only nominal defendants, the
real defendants being the railway company.
From the evidence adduced by the plaintiff it appeared
that the chapel was originally used as a dissenting chapel,
but in 1798 was converted into a chapel in connexion with
the Established Church, and duly consecrated. In 1836
the plaintiff became the purchaser of the property for
£l2OO, and when the railway company applied for their
act be appeared before the committee by counsel, and ob-
tained the insertion in the act of the clauses set out in the
declaration. Soon after the act was obtained a meeting
took place at Liverpool, which was attended by the agents
of the respective parties, when it was agreed that the com-
pany should pay £7,732. 17s, for the church and premises
adjoining, but the plaintiff claimed £3,000 for his interest
in the pew rents, and £1,700 for his interest in the land
and buildings; and upon the refusal of the defendants to
allot him more than £1,500 in respect of his whole interest
he instituted the present action for the value of his in-
terest in the lands and buildings only, independently of
the pew-rents, which the defendants defended, upon re-
ceiving an indemnity from the company. mr. Hobne, a
builder at Liverpool, deposed that he estimated the plain-
tiff's interest in the land and buildings at £1,700; and
Mr. Stewart, a surveyor from the same place, estimated
it at £3. 10s. per square yard, which came to a somewhat
smaller sum. Mr. Holme also stated that a chapel equal
to St. Matthew's might be built for £5,000 ; and that the
lowest sum at which a similar chapel could be erected,
under the provisions of the Liverpool Building Act, would
be £3,000, exclusive of the fittings. It further appeared
that, instead of building a church, the railway company,
with the consent of the defendants, purchased a Scotch
Presbyterian chapel at Liverpool for £6,132, and converted
it into a church capable of accommodating 1,200 persons.
This being the plaintiff's case,
Sir F. Thesiger, for the defendants, contended that as
by the deed of consecration the land was dedicated for
ever to church purposes, and could not therefore be used
otherwise for profit by the plaintiff, and as the whole of
the pew rents, save two, were charged with the payment
of £95 a year, and there could not therefore be any sur
plus from them, the plaintiff bad no claim whatever in
respect of the property he now sought compensation for;
and that in awarding the sum of £1,500, the defendants
had done so rather as an act of grace than of strict justice,
The learned gentleman also contended that the act did
not apply to this land, but only to land not being the site
of the church, and that the word site included not only
the ground on which the fabric of the chapel stood, but
surrounding land which was necessary to furnish air and
light,:as appeared by the provision in the act for enclosing