The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A NOVEMBER FOG.—During the whole of Thursday morn-
ing the metropolis was visited with a thick fog, which rendered
it necessary for all persons employed in offices, shops, manu-
factories, &c., to burn gas, oil, or candles, in order to pursue
their several avocations.
Instructions have been sent from the Loid Chamberlain's
office to prepare the loyal Pavilion at Brighton, for the ar-
rival of her Majesty and the court on Thursday the 30th
lost a nt.— Morning Herald.

- EXTriAoRDINAHY WEIGHT OF THIRTY PIGS.—Mr. S.
Raingill. of Streford, recently purchased from Mr. James
Taylor 30 pigs, which, when killed. averaged 21 score each,
and 191b's. over.-

SINGULAR ADVERTISEMENT.—The following appears in
the advertising columns of the Wakefield • Journal:—" A
finger left:—The shoemaker who left the top-point of his fore
finger on the ridge of a row of celery. in a garden near East
Moore, on Monday night last, may have the seine ott appli-
cation at the Journal office, on condition that he produces the
remainder of the finger.—Wakefield, Tuesday, October 30."
TESTIMONIAL To MR. J. S. THOMAS, DEPUTY-GONSTA-
BLE.—On Wednesday last, was preesnted to !Jr. J. S.
Thomas, deputy-constable, from the bankers of Manches•
ter, a superb box, lined with gold, and suitably inscribed, as
a mark of their esteem. for the zeal, activity, and integrity
evinced by Ali. Thomas, in the bringing to justice that Levia-
than of commercial fraud, " John Kinnear," who was con-
victed last spring assizes at Liverpool.—Manchester Guardian.
ANOTHER GRAND If,ADICAL DEMONSTRATION.-011

day last, what was to have been a grand radical demonstra-
tion was held in Leigh, which, however, proved to be a com-
plete failure. The meeting was to have commenced at half-
past ten o'clock ; but, from want of numbers,' the greater
part of the morning was spent in beating-up for recruits in
the neighbouring townships, and, between eleven and twelve,
about 70(J) persons had thus been collected together in the
Market-place. At no stage of the proceedings did the num-
bers exceed 2000, three-fourths at least being women and
children. The meeting was attended by Stephens, and
another rev. gentleman' named Jackson, of Leigh. The
proceedings are-described to have been of an inflammatory
and abusive character.

I.IOGD AND THE LONDON HORSES.—To a " pTo vine ial"
who has on eye to the sublime in horse-flesh, the London
waggon steeds rivit his attention at the very outset. This was
decidedly the case with James Elogg; and the young gentle-
man who acted as cierone to him during his visit to the me-
trupolis informed us, that though he often called his attention
to scenes of interest, articles of vertu, or to an equipage
adorned by a galaxy of London fair ones, the Bard of Yar-
row, having his eye on a glorious team; inure than once re-
plied, " Odd, man, never mind the trifles; but did ever mor-
tal see sic splendid brutes ?"—Diunfries Courier.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—ID addition to the bequeSts of
the late Miss Byrom of £lOOO to the Infimary, and £5OO to
the Lying-in Hospital, which we announced last week, we
understand that this benevolent lady left £5OO to the Ladies'
Jubilee Charity School, £501) to the House of Recovery, £5BO
for the repairs of St. John's Church (built by her father.)
£3OO to the Eye Institution, and £3OO to the Warrington
Charity fur the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the
Clergy.—Surely it may be said of her, that she died not only
full of years, but of good works. In her a name, which has
been long connected with the history of Manchester, has
passed away; but "The memory of the just is blessed."—
Manchester Courier.

BIRMINGHAM BURGFSS RoLL.—If we are correctly in

formed, in the parish of Birmingham alone, out of about 3500
names on the list, not fewer than 1200 unqualified persons
are returned as burgesses. The manner in which the bur-
gess list for Deritend and Brodesley is made out, is still more
disgraceful than even that for the parish of Birmingham.
We are informed, upon an authority in which we can pl.►ce
implicit confidence, that out of about 1500 names placed on
the list, 900 have, in reality, no right of voting, while many
of the most respectable householders, who have been rated
to the poor for a number of years—as it appears to us—
simply because they are respectable and not radicals, have
been carefully omitted from the burgess roll.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

THE Auctintsuor OF YouK.—On Sunday last the vener;
able Archbishop of York preach his farewell sermon at th
cathedral in that city. There were present the Earl de Grey,
Viscount Milton, the officers and the men of the Yorkshire
Hussars, and almost all the menab•!rs of the Vernon families.
His grace said he bad now reached his eighty-fourth year,
and that he felt he must refrain. from preaching at his
advanced age: The congregation might not again hear his
service ; but he entreated them to live according to and he
guided by the precepts of Chritian faith; as it must render
them happier, wiser, and better members of society, and in-
sure them immortal glory.—York Herald.
MRTEoRoLoGic AL SOCIETY.--At a meeting of this society
on Wednesday last, a communication was read from Mr.
Charles Green, the aeronaut, on the variety of currents in
the atmosphere in England. He expressed his opinion that
in England, at a great elevation, the -north-west current
generally prevailed throughout the year without reference to
the direction of the wind near the earth, which constant cur-
rent is at an elevation of from 3,000 to 14,000 feet. This
upper current carries his balloon at the rate of about six
miles an hour, whilst the lower current will carry him at a
rate of thirty miles per hour. He states that in one of his
ascents from Liverpool he entered the constant current at an
elevation of 14,000 feet, and descended into a lower south-east
current at the height of 12,0 W feet, the former carrying his
balloon at the rate of five miles, and the latter at a rate of
801Irniles per hour. The greatest speed he ever travelled was
97 miles in fifty-eight minutes, and his speed has often been
froth GO to 80 miles an hour. The next paper read was from
Mr. Manerly, of the Royal Academy of Gosport, on the
aurora borealis, from observations made-for a period of twenty
five years. After advancing a theory upon the subject, he
stated, from a long series of observations„that rain and wind
invatiably come on in twenty-four hours atter the disap-
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VALC:E OFGIBRALTER TO GREAT BRITAIN.—The value of
Gibraltar to Great Britain has been questioned by a recent
writer on Spain, who doubts whether it be worth preserving.'
"The command of the ,Mediterranean," he observes, be-
longs to the strongest fleet." This—albeit a debateable pro-
position—l will not stop to dispute, since what Gibraltar
claims is simply the command of the entrance to the Medi-
terranean, and that clearly belongs to the power which can
most readily keep a force near at hand to prevent all ingress
and egress. Now, Gibraltar is so situated as to enable Great
Britain to do this with very small naval means; whereas it
would require a fleet of any other nation to watch the straits,
because that power would have also to blockade the port of
Gibraltar. This any one at all acquainted with the locaii•
ties, the pr-vailing winds, &e. will readily admit to be at times
an impossibility; and on every occasion that the blockading
squadron might be driven fromits cruiziug ground, the com-
mand of the straits would again be possessed by Gibraltar,
should its batteries shelter but a few gun boats. The im-
portance of Gibraltar will increase tenfold in the event of
steam war, as every thing hill then depend upon the vicinity
of the contending parties to their coal depots.— Scott's Ronda
and Granada.

NOVEL. SPORTING —A great, uncouth, savage-looking fel-
low, named John Whittaker, was brought before the ma-
gistrates, at the New Bailey, or. Tuesday, charged with hav-
ing attempted to shoot his sister, with a pisiol, on the evening
before. She stated that, without any provocation whatsoever
on her part, her brother entered her shop on last Monday
evening, and, presenting a pistol at her, threatened to blow
her brains out.—Being desired by the magistrates to say why
he conducted himself in so extraordinary a manner to her,
she repeated that she knew nu cause for it, except drink. Ile
was inebriated at the time, and it was not once alone he so
menaced her.during the evening—he returned to her shop,
and acted in a similar manner four or five times. She was
afraid of-her life, and wished to have him bound over. —The
prisoner stated, that he had been shooting sparrows with his
pistol, and being somewhat in drink, he raised the pistol to
his sister, for a joke—but he had no intention of doing her
any harm. The pistol was not loaded.—To prevent a repe-
tition of such dangerous jokes at the end of a day's drunken
sparrow shooting, he was ordered to find two sureties in LIU
each,. and himself in £2O. to keep the peace forthree months.
—Manchester Courier.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Ou Wednesday morning last, a
rather serious accident happened on the Bolton and Leigh
line of railway; but it was fortunately not attended with loss
of life. Our readers are probably aware that' oh this line
there is only one pair of rails, and, therefore,, whatever has
either to pass along or return must do 'so On the same rails.
On the morning in question, we understand the train con-
veying passengers from Bolton to the Kenyon Junction,
started at a quarter past seven, the usual time, and arrived
at Bag- Lane. When it reached there, it was found that a
train of goods, which should have arrived, had nut, and there-
fore it was thought the train had not set off. Such anticipa-
tions, however, proved erroneous; for the passenger train
had not proceeded far down the incline, before it came in
contact with the luggage train, which was being drawn up by
the stationary engine; and such was the violence of the con-
cussion, that most of the carriages were shivered all to pieces.
There were seven passengers in the carriage next to the en-
gine, all of whom are more or less injured. and the two engi-
neers dangerously. One, named Collier, had his leg fractured
to such an extent as to render amputation necessary. We
understand the accident arose ill- consequence of the dense
fog which has prevailed these last few days, and which pre-
vented the trains being seen, until too near each other to
prevent mischief. The cause of the luggage train not being
apt Bag Lane, as was expected, arose from the slippery state
of the rails, which impeded its progress.—Wigan Gazette.
ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY. Parkside,
Friday London mail which left ,Manchester at three
o'clock, was detained at this Place between two and three
hours, waiting for the arrival of the northern mails, rs hich
should have arrived by the North . Union Railway train,
leaving-Preston at 2 A.M. 'Ultimately the Manchester train
proceeded on without the bags, under the charge of a guard
from the Manchester post office to Birmingham. The cause
of the detention was an accident that occurred to the north
union train, which we regret to state, was caused by the wil-
ful and malicious act of some person, at present unknown
to the directors of the North Union Company. The train
left Preston at the usual hour, and had proceeded over the
narrow embankment, within a mile and a half of the Boar's
Head station, about three miles on the Preston side of
Wigan. Here the engine came in contact with a large block
of stone placed on the rail. The concussion was felt all
along the train. At a bound the engine cleared the stone,
and fell over the embankment, some six or seven yards below
the level of the railway. In the descent the engine was
turned completely over. The concussion and sudden check
fortunately broke the link of the chain which attached the
engine to the tender, or the concequences of the accident
would have been of a much more serious nature. Charles
Elnsworth, the engineer, a married man with a young
family, was on the engine at the time it went over the em-
bankment, and great fears were entertained for his safety.
He was found shortly 'after the accident with one of his arms
broken in two places, and his hand fright fully shattered. The
fireman was on the tender, and received no serious injury.
All the carriages were thrown off the line. There was only
one passenger, a lady, on her journey to London ; she es-
caped uninjured, as did also the guard. The engineer was
conveyed to the Boar's Head public house, where every at-
tention was paid him that his situation required. A post
chaise was procured from Wigan, and in that the mail bags
were conveyed to Newton in time to proceed on to London
by the second class train, which left Manchester at half-past
six. It is with much pleasure we state, that the lady who
was in the mail at the time of the accident, had sufficiently
recovered from the effects of the fright, as to be enabled to
pursue her journey at noon. The trains from Manchester.
Liverpool, and Birmingham, were taken on by the " Fury,"
an engine belonging to the directors of the Liverpool and
Manchester railway Company.—Manchester Chronicle.
SULPHUREOUS AND SALINE FOUNTAIN AT MAWDESLEY.
—This fountain, which has been so long springing alinost
unknown and unnoticed, is, we have the pleasure to announce,
about to be brought into repute. Numbers are daily flocking
unto it to carry away or drink of the waters; and a gentle-
man from Liverpool has taken a lease of the field wherein
the spring is situated, for time purpose of there erecting hot
and cold baths. Had this spring been more generally known,
it would have been more generally frequented; for its water,
in Every respect, is equal to that of Harrogate. Mr. Haugh-
ton, a medical gentleman of Ormskirk, to whom the greatest
credit is due for his endeavours to introduce the fountain into
note, -informs us that the water in no way differs from the
Harioaate, either in its properties or ingredients. He has
lately analysed it, and finds its component parts to he sul-
.phureited hydrogen, carbonic acid, lime, and common salt.
Mr. Coxless, surgeon, of Preston, to whom a bottle of the
water has been submitted fir examination, likewise pro-
nounces it analogous in its leading chemical characteristics
to the sulphureous waters of Harrogate, Moffat, and Aix-'a-
Chapelle. Its medicinal properties he describes as diapho-
retic and diuretic. and says it may be beneficially adminis-
tered in some forms of dyspepsia, hypochoudriasis, &c., and
is likely to be particulaillv; useful either when given internally
or used. externally as a lotion in certain chronic cutaneous
affections.--Preston Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SIR GEORGE ARTHUR AND HIS BUTCHERIES
IN UPPER CANADA."

7'O THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Slit,—The liberal, or Whig-tadical papers of England have
been lavishing their venomous attacks upon the brave and
loyal defenders of the constitution and allegiance to their
youthful Sovereign, of the provinces of the Canadas, and ,
copying the execrabla sentiments of-one of the Must diabo-
lical fiends in human shape, William Lyon Mlienzie, have
dared to stigmatize the deserved and most proper execution
of Lount and Mathews, two notorious rebels, as the "But-
chery of Sir George Arthur"! It is our misfortune that
even at this day the Canadas and the people are so little
known and understood in England, a.gd so trifling a degree
of credit given by our friends at home to men who, braving
the perils and rigours of this northern clime, in the depth of
winter, with only the clothes they stood in, rushed in thou-
sands to expel the rebel crew, and defend their altars and
their firesides front as wicked and crafty an enemy as the
world ever produced. Yet we ate told, from very high autho-
rity, that plunder only was the object of these misguided and
mistaken men! The crime being of small amount, the
punishment must be in ratio! Admirable reasoning, fora
smith ! The good folks at home, beguiled by that most cor-
rupt and lying press of the frontier of the United States, re-
echoed by the venal radical writers at home, and trumpeted
forth by that most immaculate Grecian, Joseph Hume, in
his place in the Ilouse of Commons, are led to believe the
thrice-told tale, that these men are martyrs to the cause of
liberty and conscience—the men who risked their lives to
protect their country, stigmatized as blood-thirsty tyrants—
and the gallant but too humane Lieutenant-Governor held
tie to public observation as a delighter in the shedding of
blood, even against the remonstrance of his council!! Jus-
tice to Sir George Arthur demands that the most unqualified
contradiction be given to these mendacious assertions: the
minutes or the council obtained front Lord Glenelg and Mr.
Hume, and transmitted by him to M'Kenzie, sufficiently refute
the latter charge; and the relation of the following facts, as
an rye-witness connected with the proceedings of the last
insurrectionary movement, will be a satisfactory reply to
these slanderous and indecorous charges against this high-
minded officer. I was present when three Indian chiefs,
who were bringing up it body of 3Qolndiansto hem the rebels
in, by a simultaneous movement of the troops from Toronto,
were introduced to his Excellency, at the Clifton House,
Niagara Falls, in June last. - After some conversation as to
the line of march, &c., the Lieut.-Governor, addressing them
in warm and energetic language en the duty of humanity to
prisoners, desired most imperatively that "no lives should he
taken, no blood shed, if it was possible to avoid it ! Take
theni prisoners, but spare their lives, inv friends,"—which
they solemnly promised to observe. Instead of ordering the
immediate execution of every scoundrel taken in arms, by a
drum-head court martial, (which ought to have been done,)
a commission, after some delay, was sent over—trill by jury
allowed—every delay asked for granted—and the prosecution
carried on in so humane a manner by this Solicitor-General
(Mr. Draper), as to call forth tine unanimous applause of
the counsel for the prisoners. Only one, as yet, has been
executed! Sir George Arthur as little deserves these oppro-
brious epithets as the gallant hero of many battles, Sir John
Colborne, whose memory will be handed down to posterity
by thousands and tens of thousands of grateful hearts, as the
preserver of his country from-the fangs of as blood-thirsty
set of cowardly assassins as ever handled a pike; while the
recollection of Lords Gosford and Glenelg, " Noodle and
Doodle," will be transmitted in execration and ineffable con-
tempt. The truth is, all this false leniency and puling sen-
timentality is most injurious to the best interests of the pro-
vinces: the honest and the good are disgusted to find them-
selves treated with coldness and indifference, while the guilty
and disaffected are openly encouraged and rewarded here
and at home; ex. gr., the notorious Chapman, the well-known
mover of the rebellion in Lower Canada, author of the in-
flammatory letters from London to the Correspondent and
Advocate, the hired assistant of Roebuck in all his treason-
able efforts to produce bloodshed and murder in the pro-
vinces, is rewarded by the " little Lord Jibe" with a place
and a salary, as an encouragement to others of the same
stamp to follow so good an example!—and that most noble
" Lord Goosey," who found a colony in peace and left it in
flames, by his own folly and imbecility, is honoured with the
Order of the Bath ! What insult to loyalty is this! The
same conduct is pursued here. Men who have pushed the
affair on, or kept in the rear while the battle was raging in
front, wilfully withholding their services and their means
when required, have fattened on the plunder of simple John
Bull, and gorged themselves in the spoil. Sutherland, the
Yankee robber, whose exploits are written in letters of blood,
in the western district, is pardoned, unconditionally!—his
wicked associate in crime, Theller, whose life is doubly for-
feited, is reprieved !—the guilty authors of the rebellion in
Lower Canada shipped off to enjoy the agreeable recreation
of spending a few moons in that delightful retreat, the Ber-
mudas, supplied with every delicacy- and luxury the stores
of Quebec could afford, to make their short sojourn pleasant
and agreeable; this is the "otium cum dignitate" of male-
factors with a vengeance! It is due to the loyal people of
Canada, that the real characters of certain individuals con-
nected with the late transactions should be correctly under-
stood in England. William Lyon M'Kenzie is a liar of the
first water, a cheat, a !swindler, a bad husband turd a most
wicked father, a rebel to his Queen, an infidel, an arsoner,
mail robber, and a murderer!—to crown all, the right-hand
man of Hume and Roebuck ! Hear this, ye credulous dupes
of whiff-radical principles! Lount, a Yankee, was an illite-
rate ruffian, a bad husband, a wicket father, a Sabbath-
breaker, a rebel. a manufacturer of pikes; he was a black-
smith, and elected to serve as a member of the House of
Assembly in the radical parliament ! !—and, but for Gibson,
the murderer in cold blood of all the prisoners captured in
Yonge-street. Of Mathews I know little; but firmly believe
he richly deserved his fate; they both pleaded guilty, and
acknowledged the justice of the sentence. How far the mis-
creant Theller and his. gang deserved the clemency of the
home government, -I leave to- the brave and injured men of
the western district, headed by that prince of good fellows,
Col. Prince, to relate. A hare recital of all their sufferings,
trials and vexations—harassing marches in the intense cold
of winter, night and day, -in the pitiless storm or freezing
blast—their want of food and clothing—the exposure of their
wives and daughters to the-merciless attacks of these despe-
radoes, to avoid which they were compelled to flee to the
woods for protection and shelter, and one most excellent
lady, the wife of a distinguished gentlemanf lost her life in
consequence! Their subsequent ill treatment by the Com-
missary-General will create a feeling of astonishment in the
breasts of the honest people of Old England, to learn that
their brethren in Canada have been subjected to such un-
merited indignities, abuse, and neglect. On the frontier, in
the late insurrectionary movement, the gallant militia of the
district. of Niagara, leaving their harvest to waste, exposed
to the noonday sun and the dews of night, rushed at once to
the scene of danger, staking a forced march of jinly
miles—
some with arms, many without,—and, without the assistance
of a single soldier, captured the whole gang! The object of
the attack tin the Lancers was the murder of Cornet Heath
--the plunder of the arms and horses of the men—the rob-
bery of Mr. OvertrolPs house of IAX/dollars in the dead of
night—with the intended murder of Mr. Davis, postmaster,
who escaped by a miraele. If these midnight assassins are
to be pardoned or reprieved from death, their just doom, how
are the peaceable and well-disposed to be protected ?
M'Cleod was pardoned by the late Lieut.-Governor at To-
ronto, and yet we find him one of the most desperate of the
gang! If mercy is thus bestowed upon the guilty, where is
justice to the honest and innocent? The consequence must
be, that Lynch law in future will usurp the place of the good
old law of the land; and as our sympatbising neighbours are
preparing for another campaign, on the closure of the navi-
gation, we shall then probably be enabled to chew which is
the best preventative of crime—false and injudicious mercy,
or just and immediate punishment.
I remain, Sir, yours most obediently,
JOHN MEWBURN.
Stamjiml, near the Falls of Niagara,
Upper Canada.