The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-12 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. ThOmas Maitland, of the Scotch bar, is to be the new
Solicitor-General for Scotland.
Paganini continues in ill health, at Genoa. The citizens of
Naples recently presented him with the freedom of that city.
Mr. Grainger, the celebrated builder of Newcastle, is
amongst the competitors for building the Royal Exchange of
London.
Sunderland continues to be the most extensive ship-build-
ing port in England. There were 150 ships built there last
year, and there are 128 building at present.
The late Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson's celebrated
charger, which shared his dangers on the plains of Waterloo,
is to be shot by order of the will of his later master.
The Hon. and Rev. Henry Watson is constructing a chapel
of ease at Guilsborouh, Northamptonshire, at his sole ex-
pense ; the cost of erecting which will amount to £7,000.
There is no truth in the report that Lord C. J. F. Russell
has declined to oppose Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill,
and will therefore vacate his seat in parliament.—Ministerial
paper.

On Tuesday last, Mr. Solomon Bray was elected town-
clerk of Birmingham, visie Mr. Wm. Redfurn, who resigned
after holding the office nearly a year and a half without being
able to obtain any salary !
THE WEAVERS' TURN-OUT AT STOCKPORT.—We regret
exceedingly to announce, that the breach, mentioned in our
last, as existing between the operative weavers and their em-
ployers, in consequence of a dispute about the rate of wages,
is not yet healed.—Stockport Advertiser.
An inquest was held at Wilmslow, on Tuesday, on the
body of a young man, who, having been at the fair on Satin-.
day last, and meeting a young woman, who was "the apple
of his eye," on the arm of a more favoured swain, returned
home in the evening and hung himself.—Verdict " Lunacy."
—Stockport paper.
LAWYERS AND ATTORNIES.—The new law list for 1840
contains the names of nine thousand and eighty-two certifi-
cated attorneys and solicitors, viz :—in London, 2,802 ; in
the country 6,280—a pretty sum they pay, at £8 each.—
There are also 1,748 barristers and special pleaders at the
bar.
What a nice man is Baines, M.P. for Leeds ! He is pro-
prietor of the Leeds Mercury, in which he descants on the
Chinese war as a most disgraceful transaction ; and yet he
votes with the government on Sir James Graham's motion !
What a nice man is Baines, M.P. for Leeds !—Argus.
FOLLY.—A few days ago a gentleman in a state of intox-
ication was so imprudent as to perambulate the streets of
Manchester with £450 in gold and silver on his person. On
his arrival in Deansgate, a most suspicious vicinity of the
town, he found that he had been completely eased of his
treasure. This discovery, it is said, sobered him a little.
No trace has yet been found of the depredators.
We have been informed, by an eye-witness, that there is
now blooming in the garden of Mr. Phelps, at Warminster,
a most magnificent specimen of that beautiful plant, the
Glycine Sinensis, now more commonly called the " Western,"
occupying above two thousand feet of wall. Its delicate azure
blossoms and foliage cover the entire surface, •and dispense
their fragrance far around. It is thought that this plant is
not to be surpassed in the kingdom.—Salisbury Journal
The frail wife of Captain Heaviside, it would appear, con-
templated a change of name as well as of residence, as the
writing-desk carried off by the enraged husband bore on an
engraved plate the words Mary Lardner." In that desk
there was evidence that would satisfy a jury, unless the
Reverend Dennis Dionysius should prefer exhibiting the
black and blue marks of the husband's cudgel. The unre-
pentant lady is in the house of her father, Colonel Spicer,
at Boulogne. The gallant remains at Paris, still a little sore
from all he suffered for his love.
A few days after the death of the late Mr. J. Gibson, of
Ipswich, who died on the 10th of April last, the relatives of
the deceased gentleman, while engaged upon some business
of the house, discovered concealed in some old books that
had been kept for some years in a cupboard of a sitting-room,
bank notes, many of them of £lOO value each, and gold to
the amount of altogether of nearly, if not quite, £4OOO. The
whole were found in various deposits, and appeared to have
been placed there at distinct intervals of time. The property
is divisible among several parties.—Bury Post. -
A FORTUNATE FELON.—Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst,
now under sentence of imprisonment for manslaughter, is
said to become entitled to £7OOO per annum, by the death of
his grandfather, G. N. W. Medhurst, Esq., of Medhurst
Hall, Yorkshire. That gentleman had been inmate of a
private lunatic asylum, near Uxbridge, for many years,
having murdered his wife in 1804, whilst labouring under a
fit of insanity. • His grandson is now of age, but whether
under the peculiar circumstance in which he is placed, he
will inherit the property, or it will be forfeited to the Crown,
remains to be seen.
CLOSING SHors,—The retail hatters of Leeds have come
to the resolution of closing their shops at eight o'clock in
the evening the year round, except Saturday. The tea deal-
ers took the lead a few weeks ago in this march of improve-
ment, and we are glad they are thus determined, convinced
as we are that they will lose nothing by it, and that their as-
sistants will reap great benefit from the relaxation which they
will thus gain.—Leeds Intelliyencer.
NAME OF THE CAPITAL OF NEW ZEALAND.—We are in-
formed that a full board of directors of the New Zealand
Company yesterday resolved unanimously, that their first
and principal town at Lambton Harbour, in Port Nicholson,
shall be called Wellington. The unrivalled situation of this
spot as a centre of commerce for the islands will probably
ensure its becoming the capital of New Zealand.—Colonial
Gazette.
NEW Docxs AT LEEDS.—The Aire and Calder Company
have bought from .Wm. Chadwick, Esq., thirteen acres of
land on the banks of the river Aire, and on the east side of
Bowman-lane, for the construction of new docks. The price
of the land was twenty-seven thousand pounds. The en-
trance to the new docks will be just above the Leeds locks,
and below the intended Crown Point Bridge. We under-
stand that the works will be undertaken forthwith.
CLOVER SEED.—A fraud is at present practised in many
places to a great extent; old dead clover seed is coloured
and sold for genuine new seed. In London there are several
manufacturers who can make the most useless old red and
white clover or trefoil appear like the finest new seed, and in
some instances, old trefoil is made to appear so much like red
clover, that it is mixed to a great extent with it, and sold
without detection.
Outside of the city of Worcester a woman named Mary
Pierrepoint, fell into the Severn. Her feet and head alone
were under water, and a man immediately took her up, and
putting a string round her waist, tied her to the bank, leaving
her head just above water. The surgeon who was sent for
found the body then warm, but life had fled. Had the woman

been placed on the bank, her life might have been saved. The
reason assigned by the man for not taking the body out of the
water was, that he thought it unlawful to remove a dead body
without a constable being present.—Worcester Chronicle.

EXTRAORDINARY ClRCUMSTANCE.—Abouteighteen years
ago, a poor woman of the name of Elizabeth Charlesworth,
of Sheepshead, was in labour but not delivered of her child,
and on Saturday last she died, at the age of 50. At the re-
quest of the poor woman during her life, several surgeons
were present on Monday last, when a post mortem examina-
tion took place, and a large substance was discovered in her
inside, which proved to be a young child, in perfect preserva-
tion ; it was inclosed in a hard substance, and no doubt is
entertained of its havinc, remained there from the time when
the poor woman was in 'labour, and not delivered, eighteen
years ago. The child is now in the possession of Messrs.
Palmer, surgeons, Loughborough, and weighs six pounds :
its legs and arms are quite perfect, and it is admitted by all
who have seen it, that such a circumstance was never known
to have occurred before.—Nottingham Review.
SCHOLES CHURCH, WIGAN.—On Monday last, the inte-
resting ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new
church, to be erected in that part of Wigan called the Scholes,
took place. For years past it has been a matter of regret,
that a district, containing about eight thousand inhabitants,
should be left comparatively without a spiritual guide, or the
means of worshipping God in a temple in their own immedi-
ate neighbourhood. About eighteen months ago, at a meeting
called by the Rev. H. J. Gunning, rector of this parish, it
was agreed on that subscriptions should be obtained, and the
defect remedied ; and at subsequent meetings a spot was fixed
on, in a field belonging to John Woodcock, Esq., and suffi-
cient ground obtained on advantageous terms, through the
liberality of that gentleman. The mines under the field be-
longing to W. Lamb, Esq., were also in the most handsome
manner relinquished to the building committee for almost a
nominal sum. The spot selected could not be more appro-
priate. It is the highest, or nearly so, in that neighbour-
hood ; and the building, when completed, will, besides the
important use to which it is dedicated, form a most interest-
ing adjunct to the town, and will shortly lift its turret to
heaven in token of the religious feeling of the inhabitants.
Then will be verified the saying of one of our most beautiful
bards, and, in addition to

" The never-failing brook—the busy mill,"
will be added,

" The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill."
—Wigan Gazette.
MORE POOR-LAW TYRANNY.—The Poor-law Commis-
sioners have published a report lately, from which it appears,
that they are so far from being dismayed at the misery and
suffering which they have occasioned in carrying out the act,
that they contemplate imposing fresh restrictions and priva-
tions on the pauper community, in all cases in which it shall
be proved that the comforts they enjoy are a temptation to
others to seek for the protection that. the workhouses afford.
This, we apprehend, is a taunt of the most villainous descrip-
tion. They know perfectly well that their diet scale can only
be " stomached" by such as are on the verge of starvation,
or are utterly incapable of earning or procuring a mouthful
of food, by luck or by labour, of a better or more nourishing
sort. The threat, however, shows the lengths they are dis-
posed to go, to make the poor man more miserable than
pauperism itself would force him to be; they are now devis-
ing means for rendering the workhouse the worst place that
a man can be brought to, as if it were not that naturally and
in itself.--Preston Chronicle.

CALAMITOUS AFFAIR.—About three o'clock yesterday
(Wednesday) morning a fire broke out in the pager manu-
factory of Messrs. Barrett and Coles (late Mr. Joseph Coles),
of Wookey, near Wells, which raged in a short time with
such violence, that before sufficient assistance could be ob-

tained it had become perfectly uncontrollable. The two new
engines from Wells arrived at about half-past four, but pro-
duced comparatively little effect, though a large pond of
water was close at hand. By mid-day the whole of the pre-
mises, excepting the dwelling and engine houses, were in
total ruins, and an immense stock of paper and rags wholly
consumed. The premises have within the last few years
been built from the ground for the purpose of manufacturing
by machine, instead of by hand, for which Mr. Coles has
been so long and so justly celebrated, and the loss is esti-
mated at from £B,OOO to £lO,OOO, only about one-half of
which is said to be insured.—Bath Chronicle.

THE WHALE AT FLIMBY.— On the evening of this day
week an immense monster of the whale species was observed
floundering near low water-mark, opposite the village of
Flimby. The villagers assembled in great numbers, and
essayed to make the monster captive. They procured a
strong rope, and succeeded in getting a noose over his whale-
ship's tail. There was the giant of the deep at one end of
the rope, and about fifty villagers pulling at the other; find-
ing himself under a moment's restraint, he, by one tremen-
dous effort with his unwieldy bulk, laid prostrate the inhabi-
tants of nearly a whole village. Guns and hatchets were
soon procured, and the tide having considerably receded, the
animal was not in a condition to resist or escape from his
numerous assailants, 'and thus the monarch of the deep
became at once their captive and their victim. He measured
not Jess than 56 feet from the snout to the end of the tail,
which was 14 feet in width. The girth of the body of this
huge creature was upwards of 28 feet ; and his jaw bones
were 14 feet long by 10 feet broad. The carcase was soon
mangled and cut to pieces by numerous operators, many of
whom report says quarrelled seriously in dividing their un-
wieldy prize. Since the above was put into type, we have
received the following particulars :—" The skeleton is still
on the beach, and is becoming a great nuisance, in conse-
quence
of decomposition having taken place. The blubber
and whalebone would have been much more valuable had
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SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-MONDAY.

THE QUEEN V. FEARGUS O'CONNOR.
This morning having been specially appointed to pro-
nounce judgment on Mr. Feargus O'Connor, for publishing
a seditious libel; the Court of Queen's Bench, and all the
avenues leading to it, were crowded at an early hour. The
hack seats of the court were in a moment filled by the lead-
ing radicals of the metropolis, who appeared to take a deep
interest in the proceedings. The gallery was also crowded.
Mr. O'Connor arrived some time before the learned judges
entered the.court ; he looked very unwell, and seemed con-
siderably agitated.
On their lordships taking their seats, the case of the Queen
v. O'Connor was called on.
Mr. O'Connor said, before he addressed the court in miti-
gation of punishment he wished a number of additional affi-
davits to be read.

The Attorney-General did not wish to take any step which
would operate injurionsly to the defendant, but he thought
it was not regular to read additional affidavits.

Loid Denman.—Such a practice in some cases might lead
to inconvenience, but perhaps it would not in the present
case.

The Attorney-General was in the hands of the court.

The affidavits, amounting to upwards of 70, were then put
in, but only about 20 were read, the remainder being to the
same intent and purport. They in effect stated that the
speeches of the defendant were not calculated to promote
sedition or breaches of the peace ; but on the contrary, to
promote good order amongst the people. Some of the affida-
vits also stated that the defendant was most particular as to
what articles were inserted in his newspaper, the Northern
Star, and he gave the most positive orders, and showed the
greatest anxiety that no libels or seditious speeches should
appear. The reading of the affidavits occupied nearly an
hour. At the conclusion,
Mr. O'Connor said, having placed these numerous affida-
vits before the Court, he wished previously to speaking in
mitigation of punishment to thank their lordships for the
courteous indulgence they had shown in postponing his
case on two occasions. In now addressing the Court
he was aware of the difficulty he had to contend with in
confining hiniself to the subject matter under the considera-
tion of the Court. It was quite true he had been found
guilty at York on an indictment tried before Mr. Justice
Coleridge, and he was convicted of what was called a libel.
The learned Judge on that occasion most impartially
summed up the evidence, and impartially commented on
the speech which he (Mr. O'Connor) made. His lordship
told the jury that they might find the defendant guilty
on some of the counts in the indictment, and if they thought
proper and right acquit him on others ; but notwithstand-
ing this, the jury without scarcely any deliberation—
in fact, in the most indecent haste—the Foreman said,
"We find the defendant guilty on all the counts
in the indictment." Under such circumstances, he had
an undoubted right to call upon their lordships to arrest
judgment, and grant a new trial. If only one count in the
indictment had been found in his favour, it would be suffici-
ent for him to hang a peg upon in moving for a new trial ;
but, in the present case, their lordships would bear in mind
that his (Mr. O'Connor's) liberty was at stake. He stood
before the Court that day to defend his honour and his cha-
racter, and fearlessly contended that the speech for which he
had been convicted was not libellous, but, on the contrary,
calculated to promote peace and order, and worthy of appro-
bation rather than censure and punishment. Mr. O'C. then
remarked on the facts stated in the affidavits, and on observ-
ing on the speech for which he was indicted said, it had
been erroneously reported. He denied recommending phy-
sical force, and advising that those who opposed the people
should meet with a warm reception. Mr. O'Connor, after
proceeding at great length in his observations on the circum-
stances attending the events which gave rise to the prosecu-
tion, indulged in a most bitter invective against the present
whig government, who, he declared, had instituted proceed-
ings against him solely because Daniel O'Connell who it was
well known was their master (and whom they dare not offend)
had commanded them to do so. O'Connell had denounced
him (Mr. O'Connor), and that was sufficient motive for his
being prosecuted. The defendant addressed the court for
upwards of two hours, but we are unable, from want of
space, to give more than the above outline.
The Attorney-General addressed the court in aggravation
of punishment, at the conclusion of which
Their lordships consulted for a short time, after which
Mr. Justice Littledale pronounced the judgment of the
court. His lordship remarked on the dangerous and inju-
rious tendency of the publication of which the defendant had
been convicted, and concluded by saying that the sentence of
the court is, that you, Feargus O'Connor, be imprisoned in
the Custody of the gaoler of York Castle for the space of 18
months, and at the expiration of that time you find security
for your good behaviour for two years, yourself in the sum of
£3OO, and two sureties in the sums of £l5O each, and you
be further imprisoned until such sureties are entered into.
Mr. O'Connor said, he understood York Castle at the pre-
sent time was very full of prisoners, and as he was in a bad
state of health, he trusted their lordships would not send
him to York, but order him into the custody of the marshal
of the Queen's Bench prison.
Lord Denman said inquiries should he made as to the al-
leged crowded state of York Castle, and in the mean time the
defendant would be kept in the custody of the marshal of the
Queen's Bench.

Mr. O'Connor was then taken from the court in custody
of the tipstaffs, and removed in a hackney coach to the
Queen's Bench prison ; he was followed by the crowd, who
had congregated in the court and neighbourhood, and when
the coach drove off, loudly cheered, but no attempt was
made to rescue him from the officers.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, THIS DAY.
Since the sth instant, the arrivals of Grain, Flour, and
Oatmeal into this port, coastwise and from Ireland, have
been extremely light. Of foreign Wheat, however, we have
to note a liberal supply, and a fair quantity of Barley, from
Europe ; with 9,49 G barrels of Flour from the American
States, and the prospect of further large imports thence.
The quantities of Grain and Flour released here during
the week ending 7th instant will be found underneath, leav-
ing in bond here at that date, about—

Wheat I Barley I Oats I Rye I Beans I Pease I Flour
36,000 I 12,339 I 12,338 I 1598 I 1521 I 3643 qrs I 54.481b1s
After paying duties on Thursday last, the stock of free
Grain and Flour in Liverpool was computed to be about—
Wheat I Barly. I Oats I Rye Bns. I Pease I Flour
118,000 I 10,000 I 25,000 I 1200 1 2000 I 2500qrs I 145,000b1s

. .
Our market to-day was rather numerously attended by
town and country millers, who, influenced by the decline in
London yesterday, were not eager buyers ; still a moderately
fair amount of business was transacted, chiefly in good fresh
Baltic Wheats, which, as well as English and Irish, supported
late prices, while the general runs of Mediterranean were Id.
to 2d. per 701 b. cheaper.

Free Flour, of all descriptions, met a very limited demand
on the terms of this day week ; and of bonded Flour no sales
transpired. Barley and Malt were in moderate request, at
former prices. Beans, remaining scarce, realised an advance
of Is. per quarter ; and Pease maintained our last quotations.
A continuance of fertilising rains daily since the middle of
last week, having given a check to any extensive demand for
Oats and Oatmeal, these articles were taken off very spa-
ringly to-day, and remained stationary in value.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the sth to the pth April; 1840, inclusive,

DESCRIPTION. IRE- COAST- PO- I UNITED
TOTAL.
LAND. wain. REIGN. STATES.
-------
Wheat Qrs. 3 I 933 15528 I 1210 , 17674
Barley Qrs. 210 123 4836 5169
Malt Qrs. 3 6807 6810
Oats Qrs. 2527 700 3227
Rye Qrs.
Beans
Pease. Qrs. 314 314
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn . . . Qrs. r
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. . . Loads 384 318848
Flour . Sacks I 106 82
Ditto - I 9436 f 9496

Into Rnncorn, Ireland and
231 loads.

;oastwise,

Oats, 247 qrs. ; Oatmeal,

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, 2 qrs. ; Oats, 63 qrs. ; Pease, 4
qrs. ; Flour, 139 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 3095 qrs. ; Indian Corn,
266 qrs. ; Flour, 35 brls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 1940 qrs.; Barley,
1089 qrs. ; Malt, g qrs. ; Oats,l2 qrs. ; Rye, ?0 qrs. ; Beans, 41
qrs. ; Pease, 136 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 339 qrs.; Oatmeal, 41 loads ;
Flour, 423 sacks, 1.525 brls.
Average prices of Grain, for the week ending May 1, 1940.
Wheat 685.5 d. j Barley.. 395. Bd. I Oats.. 255. 11. Rye .. 375. 6d.
Beans.. 425. I Id. Pease, 425. Od.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 68s. 10. I Barley.. 40s. 10d. I Oats.. 2.55. 7d. I Rye.. 375. 3d.
Beans .. 425. Od. I Pease .. 41s. 4d.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheatl6s. Bd. I Barley ls.lod. I Oats .... 95.3 d. I Rye .. 14s. Od
Beans, 6s. 6d. Pease. ss. od. Indian Corn is.lod. Flourios. Old
Liverpool Averages, week ending sth May, 1840.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pease.
Qr 5..... 1133 2014 427
Prices.. 595. sod.' os. Od. 265. Bd. 475. Bd. Os. od.