The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

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tiously answered by various movements and signs of the
hand, and body. A few of the children could produce

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vowels in the alphabei.—and, indeed, some complete
words. Mr. Rhind stated that, by proper treatment, in
the course of time, he had no doubt they would be enabled
to speak so as to be understood.

MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND

We extract the following, relative to the proposed change
in the transmission of the Irish mails, from the Dublin
Mercantile Advertiser :

" We are given to understand that the following is the
intended change to take place in the despatch of the mail
from Dublin after the 20th instant, consequent on the
doing away with the contract mail packets to Liverpool
from Kingstown :
" The mail to leave the General Postoffice at ten minntes
to six o'clock, p.m., (instead of ten minutes to four o'clock
as at present,) leaving Kingstown for Holyhead at half-
past six o'clock. From Holyhead the correspondence,
&c., will be despatched about midnight, so as to arrive in
Liverpool for the first delivery of letters in the morning
there. Letters for London, &c. by above mail will be sent
from Chester by the morning express train, reaching Lon-
don about one o'clock in the day.

" From Liverpool there will lie but one despatch daily
for Ireland, namely, at nine o'clock, p.m., via Chester,
from whence the correspondence will be brought by the
down night mail from London, arriving in Dublin about
twelve to one o'clock, (noon,) instead of as at present, (in
ordinary weather,) at seven o'clock in the morning.
"No change in the despatch of morning mail for Lon-
don, &c., at half-past eleven, a.m., from Kingstown.
" The morning mail at ten o'clock, a.m., from London,
will be despatched as at present ; but the Irish correspond-
ence to come via Chester, where it will reach at a quarter-
past four, p.m., remain there till the arrival from London
of the five o'clock express train. due in Chester at a

quarter-past ten, p.m., from whence the Irish mail bags
wil be immediately forwarded (after six hours' detention,)
arriving at Holyhead about half-past one in the morning.
The packet to leave there about two o'clock, a.m., and be
due at the General Postoffice at seven o'clock, a.m."
To Liverpool, the interests of which are so immediately
connected with those of Dublin, and to all the districts
which transmit through this channel, the above arrange-
ment will be exceedingly unsatisfactory. It deprives us
of those advantages of speedy intercommunication to which
we are entitled, limiting our postal intercourse to once in
twenty-four hours. Newspapers from this district will
not be delivered in Dublin till their intelligence is stale,
and journals from this quarter to the interior of Ireland
will lose much of their interest before they can arrive at
their respective destinations. Men of business will have
equal ground of complaint at the tardiness with which
their wishes and operations on each side must be commu-
nicated. We hope a strong remonstrance will be made
against the mode in which Liverpool is treated in this
matter, and that the influential men both of Liverpool and
Dublin will use their utmost endeavours to induce a more
satisfactory arrangement.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—On Friday, a
great number of shopkeepers, coal dealers, and marine
store dealers and others, appeared before his worship the
Mayor, charged by Mr. Fell, the chief superintendent of
weights and measures, with having in their possession
fraudulent weights, scales, and measures.
On Thursday, a fellow, named John Williams, was sent
to gaol for three months. He had agreed to carry a box
for a poor woman to the Mostyn packet, but decamped
with it on the road, and was found next day (the articles
the box contained having been taken out) offering it for
sale.

JUVENILE CRIME AND ITS TREATMENT.—Four little
boys were placed in the dock, when one of the keepers of
St. James's Market said,—" Last night these boys were
found stowed away in the market."—Mr. Rushton :
" Stowed in the market ! Don't bring children of seven
years of age, and charge them as criminals. Discharge
them, and send for their parents."
CHARGE OF FRAUD BY A SHIPPING AGENT'S CLERK.
—Two miserable looking Irishmen charged, on Friday, a
young man, named John Kearney, with having received
from them the sum of £9, under pretence of shipping
them to America, and then being unable to perform his
promise. The prisoner stated that he was in the employ
of Mr. Murphy, shipping agent, Waterloo-road, and that
he had handed the £9 he had received over to him. Mr.
Murphy was sent for, and stated that the prisoner was
not in his employ ; also that he had never received any
money from him. On Saturday the case was again heard,
when it appeared that the money had been returned to
the emigrants, and the prisoner was discharged.