The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-17 00:00:00

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Fresh herrings are selling in the Isle of Man at thirty
for a shilling.
The Sheffield Times modestly declares the " prettiest
thing out of London to be a Sheffield watering-cart !"
On Thursday Ledru Rollin, Martin Bernard, Etienne
Arago, and Sergeant Boichot, landed in London from
Ostend. _ _ _ _

Some labourers employed in excavating at the back of
an inn at Dover have found a chalic coffin, of the rudest
formation, containing the bones of an infant.
Thefts of lead have lately become extremely common in
Glasgow, and the roofs of three inhabited houses were
lately stripped of their lead fittings on the same night.
A vessel has arrived in London from the West Indies
in twenty days, bringing 20,000 pine apples and 50 live
turtles.
The Times advertises that the two imperial theatres of
Milan areto be disposed of by lease for six years. Austrian
influence sends "to let" advertisements to the Times.
One of the three war steamers now building for the
Austrian Government, at the ship-yard of Messrs. Pat-
terson and Co., of Bristol, was launched on Thursday
afternoon. _ _ . .

The promised German opera, from which many had
promised themselves so much of refined pleasure, is not
to be produced at present, owing to the disorganisation of
the company in London.
LEEDS THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. George Owen took his
benefit on Friday, 29th June, concluding his engagement
here in the character of Macbeth, and was twice called
before the curtain at the end of the play.
About mid-day the house of Mr. Grice, an inhabitant
of Moxley, Staffordshire, suddenly sank down more than
ten yards in depth, the roof falling in and only a small
portion of the building was left standing.
The cholera has made its appearance at Nantwich, and
within a few days thirty fatal cases occurred. In one
case the coroner's jury censured the guardians for not
more promptly rendering assistance.
So great was the heat in the neighbourhood of London
on Monday, that a ginger beer seller dropped dead on
Primrose Hill from a sunstroke, and a woman who was
working in a hay-field fell down speechless, was seized
with strong convulsions, and is not expected to survive.
Serious riots and outrages have been committed this
week at Killingworth colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
the property of Lord Ravensworth and partners. The
rioters were a number of colliers who have struck for
wages. Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended.

ST. STEPHEN'S KIRKSTALS, YORKSHIRE.—A beau-
tiful marble monument has been erected in this church to
the memory of the Rev. Joseph Ware, M.A., the late
esteemed incumbent of the parish. The design is appro-
priate and chaste, and reflects great credit upon the
sculptor, Mr. F. Webster. of Kendal.
A MAIDEN ASSIZE.—The commission for opening the
assizes for the County of Rutland was opened at Oak-
ham, on Wednesday, by Mr. Justice Coleridge, but there
was neither prisoner nor a cause at nisi prius ; nor was
there a member of the bar to be seen in the town. The
high sheriff presented his lordship with a pair of white
gloves.
A BOY KILLED BY HIS MASTER.—On Wednesday a
boy named Andrew M`Cafferty, the son of a labourer,
residing at Springbank, Glasgow, while in Springbank
Foundry, was assaulted by a man named James M'Arthur,
an iron dresser, who threw him to the ground, and kicked
and otherwise maltreated him in such a manner, that, on
being carried home, he only survived for a few hours the
injuries he received.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.—OR Thursday, while work-
men were repairing the steeple of the church in Clerken-
well, London, a man, out of bravado, attempted to
descend by a rope. He had, however, only descended a
few feet when the rapidity with which he came down caused
the rope to pull the flesh off his hands ; and being unable
to keep his hold of the rope any longer, he fell to the
bottom. He was picked up in a dreadful state of suffer-
ing, and removed.
DEATH OF MR. E. B. KENNEDY.—Tt is with sincere
regret that we quote, from intelligence just received from
Sydney, the following announcement of the tragical death
of Mr. E. B. Kennedy, son of Colonel Kennedy, of the
island of Guernsey :—" The exploring expedition of Mr.
E. B. Kennedy, into the north country between Moreton
Bay and Cape York, had unhappily terminated in the
death of the gallant leader and nine of his men. Mr: E.
$. Kennedy was murdered by the natives, and the men
died from starvation. The government passed a high
eulogium on Mr. Kennedy and his unfortunate oom-
panions..7

COMPETITION FOR FARMS.—AB a proof that the com-
petition for farms in this country is somewhat subsiding,
there are now—and have been for months past—no less
than six farms, situated in the very heart of the Pusey
Vale, (one of the finest corn-growing districts of Wilt-
shire,) for which no tenant can be found !—Devizes Ga-
zette.

—.—
THE IRON TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The
correspondent of the Morning Herald writes from Dud-
ley on Saturday. The last of the midsummer quarterly
meetings of the iron masters of this district was held to-
day at the " Hotel," and closed without any indication of
that improvement which was anticipated. I have reason,
however, to think that sales of bar iron have been effected
at £5 per ton, and pig iron at 455., prices evidently unre-
munerative. Several furnaces have been already blown
out, and it is feared many more must follow. The wages
of the workmen have been reduced considerably, and the
surrounding district is by no means in a healthy commer-
cial state.

The Hon. Adolphus Capel, brother of the Earl of Es-
sex, applied on Friday to the Insolvent Debtors' Court
for his protecting order. It was indignantly refused.
The insolvent, with £9OO a year which he once possessed,
had incurred debts to the amount of £25,000. Lord
Maynard, the father of Mrs. Capel, allows that lady £6OO
per annum for the support of herself and five children.
The insolvent had the coolness to offer to pay £2OO per
annum out of this (another man's money) till his debts
were liquidated ! Even supposing the parties lived, and
the allowance was continued, it would thus take 125 years
for Mr. Capel to pay his debts out of the money given in
charity to his wife and children !

AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE IN A CHURCH.—OR
Sunday week, after the sermon, in compliance with the
Queen's letter, was preached at Hullavington Church,
Wiltshire, by the Rev. 'William Carter, vicar of the parish,
the plate was taken to the three principal farmers, who
each in succession refused to hold it at the door. The
vicar's lady, on seeing this, left her pew, took the plate,
and stationed herself at the door; but, after a few per-
sons had passed, the plate was observed to drop from her
hand, and she fell in a state of insensibility, and so con-
tinued until her death, which took place between seven
and eight o'clock in the evening the same day. A medi-
cal gentleman was promptly in attendance, who gave his
opinion that death wns occasioned from apoplexy; and a
verdict was returned to that effect. The deceased, who
was a most amiable lady, was 42 years of age.—Stafford-
shire Advertiser.

RED RAlN.—Early on Saturday morning, the 30th ult.,
a shower of rain as red as blood fell near the village of
Bonvilston, South Wales, and extended from thence in a
westerly direction over Lantrithyd, Flemingston, &c.,
towards Llantwit-Major—it was so manifest that it im-
pregnated the clods of earth, many of which were like
ruddle. Several country people who witnessed it were
dreadfully alarmed, imagining it to 'be some omen of com-
ing misfortune, and very many, who did not see it fall,
came in the course of the day to see the discoloured soil.
A phenomenon of this kind has been known to occur on
the south side of Mount Blanc, between Condamine and
Motet, where it left red spots on the snow, and the natives
called it La pluie rouge, (the red rain). Again, in the
iron districts of this country small streams have been so
impregnated with chalybeate that the water was of quite a
deep red colour for some distance.
A MORMON PREACHER TAKEN AT HIS WORD.—On
Tuesday evening, a follower of the notorious Joseph Smith,
while haranguing a crowd in Murray-street, Montrose,
adduced the fact, among sundry proofs of the blessings of
Mormonism, that on a true believer, poison would have
no effect. One of his hearers, having a navvy's exterior,
challenged the preacher to a fair discussion, but the Mor-
monist endeavoured to sneak away. This the crowd
seemed not willing to allow, and forming themselves into
a circle around the preacher, gave him unequivocal warn-
ing that they were resolved to try his faith by a personal
experiment. He was immediately presented with a few
drops of prussic acid, at which he looked "unutterable
things." The crowd began to laugh, both at the preacher
and his principles ; but a policeman coming to his assist-
ance, relieved him from the dilemma by kindly becoming
his counsellor and conductor.
SUICIDE OF A BRIDE.—A sad event occurred at Hol-
beck, near Leeds, on Monday, at the house of Mr. Wil-
liam Wilkinson Walley. Mr. Walley, who is a wool-
stapler in Leeds, was married on the 21st ult., at the
church of St Mary the Virgin, London, to Sarah Ann,
the daughter of Mr. Joshua 11ldren, of Hoxton, the lady
being about 27 years of age. Up to Monday last nothing
had occurred to create any dissatisfaction between Mr.
Walley and his bride, and on the day named he was about
to receive company. When Mr. Walley left home in the
morning his,lady appeared in her usual health and spirits,
and in the course of the day retired to her dressing-room
for the purpose of preparing her toilet, previous to the
arrival of her friends ; but as she did not return, the ser-
vant proceeded to her room; where the uohappy lady was
found quite dead. She had committed suicide by dividing
the jugular vein.
FEMALE COURAGE.—On Wednesday a large grey-
hound managed to break its chain, and ran away. It
traversed the country all night, and on the morning of
Thursday it entered the house of James Haldane, Inver-
ness, carrier, in the parish of Alvie. It ascended the
stairs, and got into a room where the two youngest boys
were asleep. It approached the bed, and one of the boys
tried to keep it away by striking it with his hand. The
dog laid hold of the boy's hand and bit it. The frightened
boy got out of bed, and the dog leapt in and took hold of
the other boy by the cheek and brow, biting him severely.
The mother, on hearing the screams of her children,
rushed up stairs, and finding the dog, she took hold with
one hand of a collar that encircled its neck, and with the
other she held its mouth shut. She dragged it down
stairs, and managed to hold it to the ground, where she
held it with her hands and knees till a man-servant
knocked its brains out with an axe. Medical aid was
shortly procured for the children, and it is hoped that
they may recover.—Edinburgh Register.
On Wednesday last the village of Beckenham, in Kent,
was the scene of great bustle in consequece of the marriage
of the rector's daughter to to the newly created Bishop of
Victoria. At half-past ten the carriages of the neighbour-
ing gentry arrived : the children of the national schools
were stationed on each side of the carriages, holding
bouquets of flowers. The parents and brothers and sisters
of the children were admitted to the ground, and formed
in line behind the children, who strewed flowers upon the
path MI the bride passed slowly along, leaning on the arm
of her father, who led her directly to the altar, where the
Bishop of Victoria was waiting. The Archbishop of
Canterbury was attended by the Rev. W. Vine and the
Rev. John Brandram. At the conclusion of the ceremony
the party returned to the rectory, and soon afterwards the
Archbishop, the bride and bridegroom, the clergy, and the
happy pair appeared upon the lawn in front of the house,
and every child was presented with a Bible by the young
lady, who received many blessings from those assembled.
At three o'clock the Bishop of Victoria and his bride left
the rectory for the Isle of Wight, from which place they
will, after the honeymoon, depart for Hong-kong.
A STRANGE VISITOR IN GLASGOW.—One day last
week, a person, who had been ordered by his medical
adviser to take a hot bath, which he was in the habit of
using, was imprudent enough to get into a bath at a
temperature of a hundred degrees, immediately after par-
taking of a hearty dinner of roast beef, &c. In a few
moments after submersion, he became delirious, started
from the bath, rushed from the bathing establishment
through several streets, into an entry, up stairs, and into
a house, the door of which happened to be open, and, to
the serious alarm of the mistress of the house, hid him-
self under a bed, evidently imagining that some evil was
threatening. Of course he was in a state of nudity.
Medical assistance was immediately procured, and so
soon as he was relieved from the quantity of animal food,
the digestion of which this dip had too suddenly arrested,
he recovered consciousness, and was next day quite well,
-with the exception of some abrasions of the skin, which
occurred to him in two or three tumbles which he expe-
rienced in his headlong race. The hot air bath ought
never to be employed while the stomach is in a state of
repletion, or, indeed, until digestion is perfected.—
Glasgow Citizen.
MELANCHOLY FATE OF AN AERONAUT.—Considerable
anxiety has prevailed in the vicinity of Cardiff and Swan-
sea, throughout the week, regarding the fate of an aero-
naut, named Green (not Mr. Charles Green of Vauxhall
celebrity), who, it is feared, perished by falling into the
sea, in his ascent in a balloon from Cardiff on Monday
last. The balloon was the property of Mr. Wadman of
Bristol, who had been announced to make the ascent, but
through illness was prevented. Mr. Green undertook the
trip, and took his departure from terra firma about six
o'clock in the evening. Its course on leaving the earth
was over the town in the direction of Pcnarth, Mr. Green
liberating a parachute with a car attached to it as he
passed over. The next morning about five o'clock the
balloon was discovered at Wadmore, in Somersetshire,
lying on the ground, about three parts filled with gas, and
not at all injured. No one was with it, but in the car a
coat, neck-tie, pair of boots, and a pocket handkerchief,
were found. Inquiries have been made along that part of
the coast after Mr. Green, but not the least intelligence
can be elicited of his fate. At dusk on Monday evening
the coast guard perceived a ballood crossing the Severn
from the direction of Cardiff. It was close to the sea
when discovered, and one party states that he saw it
dragging through the sea, and suddenly ascend to a great
altitude. This leads to a supposition that Mr. Green
abandoned the balloon to save himself by swimming, but
perished in the effort.—John Bull.
ROMANTIC STORY.—On Wednesday night Mr. Payne
went into an enquiry at St. John's, Horselydown, on the
body of Mary Metier, aged 28, who came to her death
under the following circumstances:—The deceased and
her sister (Rehah Metier) were natives of Bretz, in Prus-
sia, and neither could speak a word of English. The for-
mer was about to be married to a young man of her own,
village, but he broke off the acquaintance and made pro-
posals to another. This had such an effect on the de-
ceased that she induced her sister to enter into a plan to
leave the place for ever, and go to their brother, who is
said to be living at Birmingham. Accordingly they col-
lected what money they could, and took their passage by
waggon to Harnburgh, a distance of 76 miles. They then
embarked on board the Wilberforce steamer on Saturday
morning. On the same night Mary Metter was taken
very ill. On Monday she was not better, and, having
walked the deck, was obliged to be taken below again,
where she remained until the arrival of the vessel in Lon-
don, when she was seen by the assistant of Mr. Mishin,
of Horselydown, who gave her brandy and other stimu-
lants ; but she never rallied, and died the same night.
The two sisters, it was said, partook of a piece of salt
herrir aat Hamburgb, and had a drop of broth. Beyond
this they had no food for the voyage except a few oranges ;
but Mrs. Meeson, the stewardess, seeing the helpless
state of the two poor foreigners, gave them some wine and
arrowroot, and the passengers made a subscription of 255.,
which the boatmen on the river had cheated the surviving
sister of, and she was left helpless and friendless in Lon-
don. Mr. Hill, the assistant of Mr. Mishin, did not
attribute the death to cholera, but exhaustion arising
from retching on an empty stomach, occasioned by sea-
sickness,

CORRESPONDENCE.
ENGLISH RESOLUTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—The House of Commons has of late been selected
on many occasions by distinguished men, as the proper
place to propound the opinion, that, " but for the repeal
of the Corn-laws in 1846, England would have been revo-
lutionised last year!" This is an accusation introduced
into almost every attempt at a defence of free trade, and
it has been stated so often, that the Morning Chronicle,
has expressed its abhorrence of Lord J. Russell for repeat-
ing it. Sir R. Peel, however, (although later in the field
with the same opinion.) has escaped the castigation admi-
ministered to Lord J. Russell by the Drayton organ.
Rational enough, most certainly, but not very consistent
in the Chronicle.

Might I ask Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell
for their authority in uttering this calumny upon the
loyalty of the English people! Under what pretence
could a revolution have been effected here ? If they
would say (as from their statements we infer) that the
Corn-laws would have been the grievance which would
have driven us to such desperation, then I say they brand
us with a character they are unable to prove, and accuse
us of grosser acts elan can be attributed to the French, or
any other revolutionary people ! because what they say is
sufficient to drive us to rebellion is tolerated and sup-
ported on the Continent and elsewhere--by a people who
will throw up a barricade with avidity, when "their liberty
has been compromised, or the constitution has been in
their consideration unceremoniously violated."
But suppose the people would have been so mad as to
demand thus desperately the means for their own destruc-
tion, what shall be said of the men that led them to the
brink of such a precipice—of Cobden and the League,
who, according to Lord John Russell and Sir Robert
Peel, raised the passions of the people to such a culmi-
nating point, that they were prepared to have stopped the
streets with barricades, and disputed the passage with her
Majesty's troops? Let the la,ggafd Cobden converts an-
swer the inquiry which their own suppositions have sug-
gested, and extricate themselves and their tutors from the
difficulties which their own luckless assertions have thrown
up around them.

-However unscrupulous many of the free-trade and agi-
tating preachers may have been, I cannot believe that its
average element was a spirit of insurrection ; but above
all, however, Sir Robert Peel and my Lord John Russell
may estimate the respect, which, as a nation, we render
to the constitution of our country. I will not place my
confidence in any man, however great, or my share in the
interests of my country in a mind, however vigorous or
well-informed, that can stoop so low as to serve a virulent
and vindictive purpose, at the expense of this country's
most brilliant character,—the loyalty and devotedness of
her gallant sons ! No ! let them chase phantoms as long
as they like, and combat imaginary dangers if they please,
until the facts of the future dispel their delusions, and
cover them with the shame their inconstancy merits,—the
contempt their treachery deserves ;—but let them not dare,
with all their dignity, to brand the records of history as a
lie, the unwillingly accumulated testimony of the world
as a fable !

England may have steered through many a strait in
safety, and many a blackening cloud that dubiously ga-
thered over us may have blown away, and left no trace
behind it ; but none were ever caused by the nation's
disaffection, and many have been averted (humanly
speaking) by its courage, its fidelity, its patriotism !
But, sir, the impeachment has been brought, it is now
in Hansard's faithful custody ; the prime minister of Eng-
land has preferred it, and his vacillating predecessor has
endorsed it with his sanction; that the nation which ac-
cepted a rejected Reform Bill, a spurned Emancipation
Bill, at the hands of the House of Peers, with compara-
tive contentment, was yet prepared in 1848, to have chal-
lenged the decision of the House of Commons,—the deci-
sion of the representatives of a majority of " the people,"
even had it been necessary to substantiate and consecrate
that challenge in rebellious blood ! ! From such a state-
ment I contemptuously dissent—such an assertion I in-
dignantly deny.

Let Sir Robert Peel give the grounds on which he rests
this base imputation, and then let Englishmen judge, if it
is founded on fact or fiction ; if it is a sincere and designed
attack on their historic character, or only another addition
to the thousand and one unscrupulous means of enhancing
the value of the personal pronoun, when used by that very
ingenious—but in this particular, most infelicitous—per-
sonage, the pedantic Sir Robert Peel !
I have the honour to be, sir,
Yours, much obliged,
"VINCIT AMOR PATRIJE."

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WHAT STOPS TRADE AND CRAMPS INDUSTRY,
AND IMPEDES PRODUCTION?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
It is impossible that this country can be in a natural
and healthy condition, when we see on ono side large
numbers of skilful workmen, aided by an efficient machi-
nery, unemployed, and yet our population wanting the
necessaries of life.

England has store of stone, brick-clay, lime, iron-stone,
lead, copper, and tin ore, salt, slate, potter's clay, fuller's
earth, and her soil capable of much higher cultivation.
She has au industrious population to work up this raw
material into all things necessary and desirable to man.
Whilst at the other end of the scale is the boundless and
insatiable desire for all kinds, not only of necessaries, but
luxuries. What stops production ? An instrument of
exchange which is only tit for a nation in a semi-barbarous
state—namely, a gold money, which remains stationary n
amount, whilst the exchanges it has to effect ought, if un-
repressed, to double in amount at least every ten years.
MENTOR.

THE MERCURY, THE COTTAGE OWNERS,
AND THE RATE-COLLECTORS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENTLEMEN,—I find in the Mercury of the 13th inst.,
an apology to Mr. Eyre Evans, for having designated him
as owner of certain property in Prince's-court, Great
Howard-street, at which one of the parish rate-collectors
is stated t) have been abused. In this apology, which is
from a person named Downes, the collector alluded to,
14IS substituted the name of Mr. William Evans, builder,
Netherfield-road North, as owner, and he is stated to have
asked the collector " What he was doing there ; " " to
have told him he had no authority to demand such rates ;"
"to have instructed his tenants not to pay them," and
" to have threatened to overthrow the whole affair by a
representation to the Council." Now, gentlemen, I am
,
Mr. William Evans, builder, of Netherfield-road sTorthi
and beg to assure you that for my part there was no ask.
ing for the collector's authority ; " no instructions to
tenants ;" no insolence ; no mention of the Council, for
the simple fact that I have not a single brick in Prince's-
court, nor did I see any collector on the day alleged. If
Mr. Eyre Evans is not the gentleman, I am certainly not
the party ; but let the collector institute a proper inquiry,
and not without justifiable cause so culpably stigmatise
the character of individuals unknown to the circumstantes.
Leaving the matter with the Select Vestry, I am Gentle-
men, yours, &c., WILLIAM EVANS.

Netherfield-road North, Everton,
July 17, 1849.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.

Sylvan walked over for the Croxteth Stakes, and The
Flying Dutchman for the Bickerstaffe Stakes. The
Mersey Stakes were won by Col. Anson's f by Touchstone
—Potentia, beating Simi], and four others.—A Produce
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each was won by Tingle, beating
The Italian and two others.—A Sweepstakes of 200 sovs.
each was walked over for by The Flying Dutchman; and
the Sefton Stakes by Cigarette.—A Produce Sweepstakes
of 10 sovs. each was won by Harriott, beating Probity and
eleven others.—A Plate of £6O, for horses that never won
£5O, was won by Roland, beating Burghley, May Day,
and two others.