The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

POLICE COUKT—YEssTanAY.

CHARGE OF SHOPLIFTING.—A respectable-looking
young woman, named Ellen O'Gallagher, was charged
with having stolen from the shop of Mr. Briscoe, Oldhall-
street, a boa, or victorine. On Saturday, the prisoner
went into the shop, and asked to see some furs. The
shopman took her up stairs, where they were kept, and
assisted her to take off her shawl, and try several victo-
rines on her neck, but she did not like them, and he went
down stairs for some others that were in the window.
She bought one of them, for which she paid ten shillings,
and afterwards went down and bought some ribbon. The
shopman missed a boa out of a number which he had laid
on the counter, and, suspecting she had taken it, fol-
lowed her into the street, and had her detained by a
police-officer, on whose approach two victorines dropped
from under her shawl. She said in her defence that she
was not aware that she had two, and one of them must
have been left on her shoulders when the man was fitting
them on, without her knowledge. She had, it appeared,
been a frequent purchaser aithe shop, and was not known
to have done anything dishonest. Mr. Rushton said he
could not avoid sending her for trial ; but he accepted
bail for her appearance the sessions, the sureties being
her father and another person.
SMUGGLING WHlSKY.—William Dunn, Edward
Conolly, sen., and Edward Conolly, jun., were fined 405.,
for smuggling from the steamer William Penn a quantity
of whisky, under one gallon.
A girl, named Margaret Kelly, was committed on a
charge of stealing, on Saturday night, from the shop of
Mr. Peaviour, clothier, Paradise-street, a piece of h!ue
cotton cloth, called dongaree, 30 yards in length, and va-
lue Bd. per yard.
CONCEALING A Box WITH VALUABLES WITH INTENT,
&c.—A girl, named Ann Cain, was charged with having,
on Sunday, while she was in the house of Mr. Callagher,
in Houghton-street, taken a workbox from the kitchen
table, ar.d hid it amongst some ashes in one of the cellars.
She had called for a noggin of gin, and after she left the
box was missed. The box contained £33 in sovereigns,
one guinea, one doubloon, one gold dollar, a half eagle,
and a gold diamond ring. When Mrs. Callagher missed
the box, she went after the prisoner, and told her that if
she would restore the'box and its contents, she would not
proceed against her. The prisoner went down immedi-
ately to the cellar, brought up the box, and returned it.
It had not been forced open, and the articles were not
disturbed. The informations were taken ; but on its ap-
pearing that the promise stated was made, Mr. Rushton
dismissed her, severely censuring Mrs. Callagher for
making such a promise, which went to defeat the law,
and for which she was herself amenable to indictment.
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A POLICE-OFFICER.—A half-
clad,
rough looking man, was charged with a violent
assault upon Police-officer Richard Pool, in Great Homer-
street, on Saturday night. The prisoner was found drunk
and very noisy at the end of a street, and the officer told
him to go home quietly, which advice he not only repu-
diated, but furiously attacked Pool, and getting possession
of his stick, battered him about the head until he became
insensible. The officer was taken to the hospital, and is
yet unfit to resume duty. The prisoner was sent for trial.
FALSE ACCUSATION.—A man named O'Connor, land-
lord of a public-house called " The Sow and Pigs,"
charged two respectable men, Dignan and Haney, with
having, on Sunday, entered his house and possessed them-
selves of six colour-poles, which he said had belonged to
his brother, now dead. It appeared, however that the
accused were stewards of an Hibernian Society formerly
held at the house, end that they were the rightful owners
of the poles. The conduct of the complainant in the wit-
ness box was such that Mr. Rushton ordered him out of
court, and discharged the two men.
ROBBERY OF MONEY.—A big Irishman, named Michael
Sullivan, complained of a man named Griffith Jones, and
a woman. Elizabeth Shaw, robbing him in a house of ill
fame in Eaton-street, of fifty-one sovereigns and other
monies, at a very early hour yesterday morning. Nothing
was found on the prisoners. Other parties are also sus-
pected, and the case was remanded.
SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—Two seamen. John Harris and
James Wilson, were proceeded against for having, on
board the ship Cressida, from Calcutta, concealed 28 lbs.
of cigars, in two casks. They were remanded. Two
other men were also apprehended as participators, but
there was no evidence against them, and they were dis-
charged.
A GANG OF BURGLARS.—Five men were remanded on
a charge of having entered the house of a lady at Wind-
sor, and carried off a quantity of silver plate, spoons,
sugar-tongs, &c.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. A genteel-looking
young man, named Beauchamp, was charged by Mr.
Searle, of the firm of Searle and Co., vinegar-manufac -
turers, with having received 15s. on false pretences, in the
name of that firm, and also with collecting other small
amounts for which he had not accounted. The 15s. was
paid to him at Mrs. Dent's, Islington, for vinegar. After
an investigation of the case it appeared that one of the
partners of the firm, named Mr. Crichley, had himself
made some agreement with him to receive orders and
collect money at so much per cent. for each, and under
the circumstances Mr. Rushton discharged him—some
money being due to him.

The sum of £7 was collected at St. Matthew's Church
on Sunday, in aid of the schools.
UN INTELLIGIBLE AFFAIR.—An advertisement appears
in the Mercury to the effect that an application is to be
made in the ensuing session of Parliament for an act to
alter and amend certain sections of the Dock Act of the
9th and 10th year of Victoria, intitulcd an act, &c. The
act in question is the North Docks Act, and the solicitor
of the proposed new bill is a Mr. W. D. Wheeler, Prince's
Buildings, Liverpool. What does this mean ? It is evi-
dently not a movement with which the Dock Committee
have to do, or we should see appended to it the signature
of our respected Dock Solicitor, Mr. John North. Is it
put forward by some Manchester, or other party, to give
them a standing in an intended opposition to the proposed
pock Rating Bill ? It is it puzzle t 0 inrselves at present.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—T shall feel obliged by your giving publicity to the
following correspondence.
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I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
SAMUEL HOLME.

Holmestead, 25th October, 184 t.
Ray. AND DEAR am sorry I was not in when you
called a day or two ago. I understand that you have promised
your vote to Mr. Jones, and when it was communicated to me,
I confess that I felt GRIEVED, because I feared that you might
have withdrawn your confidence from me. I was not, how-
ever, aware of any act or expression of mine that could have
given you ground for such withdrawal, as my sole desire has
ever been to use all my influence for the general good.
On the subject of water.—l am made painfully sensible of the
state of thousands of our labouring classes, and have long
been striving to introduce every measure that can ameliorate
their physical as well as moral condition.
I have had to bear up against much prejudice, great obloquy,
and indeed severe abuse; and I am perfectly content to bear
it, in the full conviction that I am in the path of duty, and that,
when the prejudice has worn away from the public mind, I
shall have full justice done both to my acts and motives.
At the same time, I will be candid enough to inform you, that
some of those who are opposing me have made much of your
promise, and I understand that it will be the means of depriv-
ing me of the support of several others.
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My object in writing is simply to request that you will fulfil
the promise which you have made, whatever may be the conse-
quences to me, for I fear that if you do not do so (whatever
may be your feelings et present) it may be made a pretext for
attacks upon you which might not be pleased, and may be
transferred from you to that church of which you are so zealous
a minister. ,
Of all the votes with which I may be favoured, I value none
so much as those of the clergy of that church of vhich I am a
member, end whose principles I have for so ninny years had
the privilege of advocating ; end I shall endeavour to think that
your promise was hastily made, anti that your recorded vote
against me will not deprive me of your friendship and esteem.
—Believe me to be, reverend and dear Sir, your very faithful

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servant.
Rev. W. Pollock.

SikUEL H6LME,

51, Rodney-street, Oct. 25.
My DEAR SIR,—I have to thank you very much for your
kind end generous letter. It has indeed pained me exceedingly
to find myself occupying a position of seeming hostility to you.
But I trust you have already heard how inadvertently I placed
myself in it. It was without the remotest idea that you were
the opposing Candidate that I promised to vote for Mr. Jones.
Your address had not then appeared, and so ignorant was I of
matters municipal, that I did not so much as know you to be
one of the Members for this Ward. Had I been better informed
nothing would have induced me to pledge myself against you;
for however I may have the misfortune to differ from you on
the Water question, as far as I understand the merits of the
case, I have always entertained the very highest respect for your
motives and character, and felt it a privilege and a happiness
to reckon you among my friends. It has accordingly pained
me not a little to see you the object of so much public animad-
version, and I should have been the last person to have know-
ingly arrayed myself against you.
I have applied to Mr. Jones's Committee for permission to
withdraw, conditionally at least, from my engagement ; and I
have reason to believe that I shall be wholly set free. I much
wish that the whole event were as though it had never been.
With sincere esteem and regard,
I am, very dear Sir,
Yours very faithfully.
WM. POLLOCK.
Samuel Holme, Esq.

Holmestead, 29th October, 1819.
REV. AND DEAR Sin,—Finding, from conversation with
various persons, that much misapprehension exists as to your
voting against me, and seeing in the .Tourttat, of Saturday, a
remark to the effect that you had been canvassed by Dr.
3l`Neile on my behalf, I should feel obliged, by your per-
mission, to publish the letters which we exchanged, as it
would have the effect of setting all parties right, and particu-
larly you and myself; and, if you have no objections, may I
trouble you for my letter, as I have no copy of it. considering
it at the time a mere private note to a friend.—l am, reverend
and dear Sir, yours faithfully and respectfully,
Rev. W. Pollock. SAMUEL HOLME.

51, Rodney-street, Oct. 29th, 1849.
MY DEAR SITl,—You are perfectly at liberty to publish the
letters which have passed between us, although mine was
written, like yours, without the least idea of its future
publication.
I have not seen the paragraph in the Journal; but it is quite
untrue that I was canvassed by Dr. M'Neile for Mr. Jones.
The simple facts are that, at a public banquet, Dr. M'Neile in-
cidentally alluded, when in conversation with me, to the unfor-
tunate mistake I had committed in ignorantly pledging myself
against you. I was, at the moment, about to have introduced
the subject myself, and he afterwards offered to give me, should
I desire it, an introduction to Mr. Jones, that I might explain
the matter to him. He did not attempt to exercise the
slightest influence over me. Should you decide on publishing
our former letters, I should like this statement to appear also.
Before I conclude, it is right to say that my error is wholly
to be attributed to my own precipitancy. I am sure that the
gentleman to whom I promised my vote is above all conceal-
ments, and supposed me to be in possession of all the circum-
stances of the contest.
Believe me,

My dear Sir,
Yours very faithfully,
WM. POLLOCK.

Samuel Holme, Esq

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

LONDON MONEY MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

The news received from Russia on Saturday has strengthened
the opinion of speculators for an advance in the English
funds, which the cperations in the stock market this morning
have proved to he well founded. Consols opened for money
and account at 921- to 2, and have since steadily advanced to
93, at which they were done for both cash and time; they are
at present quoted 921 to 93 for money, and 93 to for account.
The Three per Cents. ReduCed were done at 9li, , and
The Three and a Quarter per Cents. at 92k, and I. Exche-
quer Bills were done at 445., 455., and 425. premium. Bank
Stcck, at 197.

LONDON CORN MARKET.7-YR9TEnnAy.

Our market was tolerably well supplied this morning with
Wheat, by land-carriage samples from Essex and Kent; the
condition, however, of the bulk of the supply, was indifferent,
and sales proceeded slowly, at a reduction of is per qr. upon
all but picked samples. In foreign Wheat comparatively little
business was transacted, at the prices of this day se'nnight.
Very choice malting Barley maintained last week's quotations,
but all secondary qualities of English must be quoted is lower;
old foreign Barley, for grinding purposes, was fully as:dear.
The trade in Oats was not brisk, at the same time there was a
steady sale for the article at the rates of Monday last. Boiling
Peas were Is. dearer; other sorts of Peas and Beans without
alteration.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The supply 'of Beasts is considerably smaller than on Mon-
day last; trade is consequently improved, and it is more par-
ticularly observed in the infer►or qualities. Almost everything
is sold, and the best kinds freely make 4s. The number of
Sheep is a'so mach reduced; in consequence, prices have ad-
vanced for all descriptions. Calves also partake of the rise.
Pigs are not much dearer, the weather being still very mild.
From Germany and Holland there are 1093 Beasts, 3380 Seeep,
52 Calves, and 70 Pigs; and 1,700 Beasts from Leicestershire
and Northampton.

A public meeting of the Provident Clerks' Mutual
Life Assurance Society will be held on Friday, when an
influential deputation from London will attend.
UNFORTUNATE MORTALITY. We recorded in OUT
last the somewhat sudden demise of the talented Mrs.
Maury, and our obituary of to-day contains a notice cf
the death of her husband. Both died in America.
A STRANGE VISITER TO A CHURCHYARD.—On Sun-
day forenoon last a fox found his way into the yard of St.
Mary's Church, Birkenhead. He had a string round his
neck, and was easily secured. Two sailors afterwards
claimed bum, as having escaped from a ship lying at Bir-
kenhead, to which they belonged. Reynard had no doubt
smelt the land, and longed to return to his favourite
woods.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This establishment conti-
nues to give its usual variety of tragedy, melodrama, and
lighter theatricals. We observe that on Friday the per-
formances will be for the benefit of the attentive and
active box bookkeeper, Mr. T. Shuttleworth, on which
occasion the drama of " Ivanhoe" will be performed, the
Jew qf York Mr. Cathcart, with other favourite piece S.
Mr. Shuttleworth has deserved well of the theatre-going
public.
SUNDAY LABOUR AT THE POST-OFFICE.—On Sunday
the new regulations, with reference to the Postoffice came
into operation. About fifty persons were employed at
the metropolitan office but some confusion necessarily
occurred. Upwards of 600 bags arrived from the provin-
cial towns, and the whole could not be got through,
though omnibuses, mail-carts, &c., were all in readiness. It
is evident that the extent of the desecration of the Sabbath,
caused by this uncalled for innovation, is at present
unseen. _

" Our settled opinion," says the Manchester Spectatcr,
" is, that. the pulpit is suffering from its unfaithfulness to
the masses, and the masses are suffering from their disre-
gard of the pulpit."
It perhaps may not be generally known, even by those
engaged in flax, that by completely robbing the fibre of
all its gum, we get immediately a fine feathery material
like raw cotton, only somewhat stronger; the strength of
the flax is rather diminished by this process, but still the
fibre is much superior to cotton, and it may be passed
through all the present cotton machinery in the subsequent
processes.
THE GENDER OF MYSTERIES.—There is not a mystery
in creation, the symbol or practical' invention for mean-
ings abstruse, recondite, and incomprehensible, which is
not represented by the female gender. There is the
Sphynx, and the Enigma, and the Chimera and Isis,
whose veil no man had ever lifted ; they were all ladies,
every one of them. And so was Prospering and Hecate,
who was one thing by night and another by day. The
Svbils were females, and so were the Gorgons, the Har-
pies, the Furies, the Fates, and the Teutonic Valkyrs,
Ncrnies; and, in short, all representations of ideas,
obscure, inscrutable, and portentous, are nouns feminine.
—Freemasons' Quarterly Review.

CAUTION.—DR. LOCOCK'S MEDICINES.—The extraordinary
success of these Wafers has tempted unprincipled persons to
imitate them in all kinds of ways—one more daring counterfeit
in the form of Pills, (which has been advertised in the Man-
chester Newspapers,) even copies the form of the advertisement
of Dr. Locock's Wafers, and states that Mr. George Westma-
cott, of Market-street, and other most respectable Chemists in
Manchester, are "Agents by Appsintment"—which is totally
false, as Mr. Westmacott has not only not consented to become
agent for the sale of any such preparation, but has actually de-
termined not to keep those Pills in his stock. [ln a letter just
received by Messrs. Da Silva and Co.. (the sole London Agents
for Dr. Locock's Medicines,) dated Manchester, October 23d,
1849. Mr. Westmacott writes—" I have just been shown an
advertisement of a medicine called' LOCOCK'S PILLS,' to which
my name is attached as Agent, `which is entirely without my
authority,' and, indeed, it is my determination not to keep the
medicine at all."] From such unprincipled deception the only
protection consists in observing that no medicine is genuine
but " DR. LococK's PULMONIC WAFERS," forAstlima, Coughs,
Colds, &c.:—and "Da. Lococx's FEMALE WAFERS" the only
medicine recommended to Ladies, by the use of which, they
pass through life comparatively free from complaint, and never
suffer from thepuinful diseases of advanced life. Consumption
is prevented, chlorosis, general weakness, accompanied by
weariness and sinking at the pit of the stomach, feverishness,
loss of appetite, flatulence, heart-
burn,loins,
igestion,
and all hysterical aftections. They have a plesant taste. Price
isd.asitn) d
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under
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NOTICES

Ruins of Many Lands; a Descriptive Poem. By Ni-
cholas Michpll, author of " The Traduced," " The
Eventful Enoch," &c. Second Edition, enlarged.
London : W. Tegg and Co., Pancras-lane, Cheapside.
1 vol., pp. 384.
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THE plan. of this poem is a very comprehensive one, and it
contains, along with many very beautiful descriptive pas-
sages, a very large amount of compressed historical and
topographical information. The writer divides his sub-
jects into three classes. The first book is devoted to a
description of the ruins of the dark ages, which ranges
over Babylon, Nineveh, Petra, Nubia, Egypt, ruined
America, Rock Temples of Ellora, Elephanta,
am, in India. His descriptions of the former places, as
bearing upon the sacred writings, will be found most in-
teresting to the scriptural student ; and the views which
he takes of the probable Egyptian, or Ethiopian origin of
the ruined cities of Central America, as shewn by the
character of their monuments, and especially their pyra-
midal erections over the bodies of their dead, are both
curious and ingenious. This theory, which seems highly
worthy of attention, would establish the fact that these
eastern nations had, long before the discovery of Colum-
bus, carried the arts and sciences of Asia into the western
world, and established there an empire, which only ceased
to exist in its luxury and splendour when the last of its
monarchs, Montezuma, fell beneath the invading hosts

cities of

of Cortes.
Book second contains the ruins of the classic era, some
of the descriptions of which, in spirit and fine conception,
remind one forcibly of the reflections of Childe Harold.
The third book contains the ruins of miscellaneous ages,
including Carthage, Ephesus, Tyre, Persepolis, Geraza in
Gilead, and others. The notes are most valuable, and
display, as well as the context, extensive reading and
research. The poetry is smooth and flowing throughout,
and frequently approaches the sublime in conception.
The improvement in this edition consists of a considera-
ble addition to the notes, and an amplification of the
original text, in parts where the author considered the
descriptions too brief for the importance of the subject.
We append a few extracts ; and take first the following

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LINES TO AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.
" What wert thou, uncouth form, that Hest there
Three thousand years concealed from outer air,
Thus in thy strange and gilded wrappings cased,
With bird and beast and mystic symbols traced?
Dark mummy when we rend this covering band,
Around thee twined by some fond careful band,
Ah ! can we think this black and shrivelled limb
Was once all comeliness, these feet could skim
The turf like some gazelle's, while beauty drunk
Delight from flashing eyes, now closed and sunk ?
What wert thou, then ?—a courtier, doomed to kneel
At Pharaoh's throne, and anxious tremors feel?
Wert thou a priest, and didst thou teach the crowd
From these blue lips, while listening votaries bowed?
Or face to face see Moses, when his rod
Shook o'er the trembling land the plagues of God?
Wert thou a sage, this hollow, grinning skull
Peopled by thoughts, with wit and wisdom full,
While through these socket-holes thy curious eye
Scanned heaven's wide arch, and read the spangled eye?
Or wert thou some great chief? and didst thou lead
Fierce myriads on to conquer and to bleed?
Did this poor arm the glittering falchion wave,
And, scattering death, send thousands to their grave?
" Alas! poor mummy, gazing on thee now,
Ambition well may sigh and Wisdom bow;
Though mute these lips, they do not teach the less ;
A sermon read we in thy ghastliness.
Ali! what charmed word, what strong Medean spell,
Shall rouse to life this dried and shattered shell?
Nought but the tr impet's final wakenine blast,
When thou shall burst thy bon:ls, dark thing, at last,
And oh I if just and pure—and who are they
That dare condemn and quench bright Mercy's ray?—
Shalt see these blackened limbs in beauty shine,
All, all thyself again, but more divine."
There are the true elements of poetry in this description,
and the volume is strewn throughout with similar pas.
The following is a striking description of