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

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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he Kendal Mercury describes grouse as' being plenti-
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hear from the ful, and strong on the wing.
ishment of a boarding Chester Spring Races,lB4E
~stablishment is kept by the 2d of May.
u, the capital. Another Mr. O'Brien has sold Mentor to Mr. A. Johnstone for
e Antipodes. The editor • 450 sovereigns.
+I,. ~..,..;,-,÷ f;•nrn Tinhai t. 1 Nr. Elwes has sold Sir Tatton Sykes for £2.000 ;he is

will commence on Tuesday

zinting,

t Wolverhampton ra,

as won by b. f. Jocose (entered in the name of the

races, on Wednesds

3rd Lo
's Th(

HE HARVEST.

A very fine

xrdarT

ies of wheat in one acre, which is an
'ast year's crop, and much

ive upon hi:

t I finer grain

—Taunt(

Courier
CROP.—

les have beer

rn the e

ses at the next term

r high, considerin
narket hnt this is:

“PParent success
.e 1, without a canvas

out prepa
word. 11

aided by nothing exe,
lone on the husting

seized the liberal can.
and both suddenly withdrew ! A second repealer,
closeness of his purse-

the great catch-
.eady to contend

lo ! a pani

except t

ad the two repeaters re

lay was in a state of anarchy and
rders were so excited by drink as

to be r

yin a state of madness. Captain Somerset was
,cked by the mob at the hustings, and on that

;:edininight the houses of liis friends were
h such fury that not only the glass but the
re destroyed. The residence of the respected
spared. On Wednesday evening a waggon
)arrels of beer for the mob was drawn by rail-
!rs through the principal streets; on descend-
h-street its impetus overcame them and several
=on upset, and seven persons were severely

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-

Ito be supplied with drink, the town was

essed with the return Of peace and quietness.
The ensuing Parliament will contain a very large num-

raised them to fortune and dignity fro-m
humble cir-
stances. Messrs. Stephenson and Locke are two
iant instances of railway results. Sir J. Walmsley,
'. for Leicester, began life as an usher in a boy's
Mr. W. Jackson, M.P. for Newcastle-under-
e, for which town he was elected over the head of
rl Rrarkinv_ the son of th

oe executea on tne
nephew of the Duke of Sutherland, worked his way up
ts recommended to
hacket, who had a from a humble clerkship to a partnership in an African
-,ntion. The house, and eventually, by land speculations in Birkenhead,
of the prosperity of which he is one of the authors, ac-
'mired a princely fortune. Mr. H. Brown, after enduring
'-Qitutles of fortune as a merchant and canal carrier,
.g for some time as a railway manager, acquired a
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 :
its affairs were directed under his advice, and it took its

the machine is whirling a

long in the full swing of demo-

cratic madness. An article in that journal of last Thurs-
kably exceeds in foul vituperation and unscrupu-
,
g that ever yet appeared in the lowest
The writer is not content with ri-

lows :yin

diculing, 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
•llows. r". 1.

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 look Wiwn on na -

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