The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-06 00:00:00

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public company to assume the
bilities thereupon, even although hp may have ab-
'ned from registering his name as the proprietor of sucb
- given satisfaction in the Stock Exchange
SUBSTITUTION OF AFFIRMATION FOR OATH.-
Wood, Sir E. Buxton, and Mr. Bouverie, have brc
bill to extend to all persons who believe the to
n oath to be forbidden by their duty to God, the
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to make a solemn affirmation in lieu
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COURT • AND I

sty held a

gent-street five-sixths of the shopkeep ers were in a state
of insolvency ; and more failures had taken place within
the last two or threee years than in the recollection of the
oldest man of business in the district. He had had the
curiosity to make an examination of some facts happening
in the very heart of London. The area he had taken was
a very small one, but it included every description of shop-
keeper, being from Farrington-street to the Old Bailey.
It contained 22 shops. The period his inquiries extended
to was from 1839 to 1849, and he found that during that
period one house had retired upon a competency, no doubt
made in other times—he alluded to Rundell and Bridge--
five others were still in existence, and 35 other persons or
firms had occupied those 22 houses, and had successively
failed. (Hear, hear.) If, then, it could be proved thit
seven-eighths of the houses were failing within a period
of ten years, it was proved to demonstration that we had
yet to experience the benefits and wisdom of cheapening
foreign produce. He considered the shipping interests of
this great country were taking the proper course in asking
the government and the legislature to pause and recon-
sider their acts before taking another step which must add
to the misery and poverty of the country.

Omen! itlizrellanv.

brig " Pandora" is reported to be cm
home with nine tons of Californian gold worth £9OO.
A brig on the stocks, nearly ready for launchir
burned at Sunderland on Sunday week, together
adjacent workshops, workmen's tools, &c.
Captain Kellett, R.N., has been suddenly ox
to Behring's Straits, in search of t
command of Sir John Franklin
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rge bags of tobacco, being up
t. The pedestrian followers
_ ran off with the whole booty, which 1
been hidden there by smugglers.
Dr. Crooks, a physician of Kentish towr
dead, with his throat cut, on Wednesday morning, near
the Model Prison, Pentonville. It is not quite certain
whether he had committed suicide or had been murdered.
At all events he had been robbed.
On Saturday, at Lambeth Police-office, a governess in
an infant national school was remanded on the very serious
charge of having placed a boy, three years of age, on a
heated stove, and burnt his person in so frightful a
manner that his life is in danger.
Mr. John Duncan, the African traveller, whose journey
through and beyond the territory of the King of Dahomey
has already been made public, is about to leave England
shortly on another expedition, with the view of prosecu-
ting further discoveries in the unexplored regions of that
country.

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STAMP YOUR LATE LETTERS.—A notice has been
issued from the General Post-office, to the effect that
from the Ist instant the postage on all late letters posted
at the provincial offices, as well as the late-letter fee.
" must be paid by attaching the requisite number of
postage s tam ps."

The master and crew of the barque, Plymouth, have
written a letter of thanks to Captain Colthart, of the ship
Britannia, for rescuing them on the Ist instant, from a
watery grave, when the vessel was in a sinking state off the
south of England. In about twenty minutes after they
got on board the Britannia, the Plymouth sunk.
COLONIAL ASSOCIATION.—On Tuesday, a preliminary
meeting of gentlemen connected with our colonies was
held, in London, for the purpose of establishing a colonial
association, with a view to the improvement of our depen-
dencies. A provisional committee was appointed with
power to add to their numbers. A public meeting, we
understand, will in a short time be convened.
A DANGEROUS PRECAUTION.—The Canterbury Jour-
nal relates the case of a young man who was engaged in
opening the window-shutters, to which were affixed five
detonating balls, for the purpose of giving alarm by ex-
ploding, in the event of attempted burglary; he by some
means caused them to burst, by which his right hand was
severely shattered and lacerated.
SUPPOSED MURDER OF A GENTLEMAN.—On NV,
day morning the body of Dr. Cfook, of Camden Town, a
gentlemanly attired man, between fifty and sixty yea ss of
age, was discovered in a pool of blood at the entrance to a
field in the Caledonian-road, Islington, London, under
circumstances which lead to the belief that he had been
murdered.
Peverell and Nesham, the two men charged with the
murder of the Duke of Cleveland's gamekeeper, have been
committed for trial. They have since confessed that they
were surprised in the wood by May, and were in the act of
giving themselves up to him when the gun in Nesham's
hand went off accidentally and shot May. They then left
the ground immediately.
Mrs. Tucker, of Bramford Speke, Devon, has left
£12,000. amongst the religious societies and the charities
of that neighbourhood. The largest amounts are, £l,OOO.
for repairing the church, £l,OOO. to the Devon Hospital,
£l,OOO. to the Christian Knowledge Society, £1,200. to
the Colonial Church Fund, £BOO. to the Church Mission-
ary Society, &c.

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On Saturday last, one of the most extraordinary cases
of self-destruction that has probably ever been heard of,
occurred at Southampton. The suicide was a Jew, named
Solomon Jewell, aged 21 years, who was married to a
young Jewess a day or two before, and before committing
the dreadful deed the unfortunate man wrote to a friend,
requesting that he would marry his wife, as he was about
to quit the present world for ever.

WHIG ECONOMY.—About-230 of the privates of the
Rifle Brigade were discharged from Horfield Barracks,
and marched through our streets with wallets on their
backs, en route for their respective homes. Just like the
whigs ! Saving a penny on a soldier's jacket, and adding
a shilling to the poor rates; or, what is worse, quartering
their dependents upon the public to the tune of hundred
of thousands sterling per annum.
UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE.—One of the Bideford
market-boats, returning from Devonshire, on Friday
afternoon, when in the river Lynber, near Ince Castle,
was suddenly upset by a gust of wind from the north-
west and six persons were unfortunately drowned, viz.,
Mr. Brown and son, Mrs. Crabb and child, John Jen-
kins and another. The only other person in the boat,
William May, was saved.

A MAN ENTOMED EIGHTY FATHOMS DEEP.—An Un-
fortunate man, Johnson Jeffries, who was mentioned a
fortnight ago as having been buried in an iron-ore pit on
Lindale Moor, Cumberland, is still under ground, and it
is said there is not the least probability of his body being
recovered in less than six months, even with full sets of
men working day and night. The corpse lies about eighty
fathoms deep, covered with many tons of earth and water.
A SENSIBLE JURYMAN.—It will be scarcely credited
that a person of respectable exterior presented himself at
the Court of Adjourned Quarter Sessions, held in trieigh-
illiM4tietkiiiiikis aralcleatrennilf stating that
was ill
in, bed, that he could not leave his house, which certificate
he presented to the chairman himself, amidst the laugh-
ter of the whole Court.---Bath Chronicle.
THE PLYMOUTH SISTERS OF MERCY.—A very large
meeting of the Devonport Board of Commissioners was
held on Friday, when it was moved by Mr. W. J. Little,
that the report of the Visiting Committee, recommending
the withdrawal of the children that were in the Orphans'
Home from that institution should be confirmed. Mr.
C. Tripe seconded the motion; and after a discussion
which lasted four hours, the question was carried by a ma-
jority of fortyzninp to twenty.

Sir George Napier having declined the command of the
forces in India, Sir William Gomm has been appointed.
He is an old Peninsular officer and distinguished himself
at Waterloo. Whether at his age he is likely to prove a
good leader of the military operations in India is another
question, The bravery and zeal of Lord Gough as a
General of Division cannot be questioned. His general-
ship has notoriously failed both in the campaign on the
Sutlej in 1845-6 and in the Punjaub in 1848.
AFFECTING FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday week a
party of strange gentlemen who have been staying here,
having gone over in a small boat to the Horse Island, on
a shooting excursion, on their firing at the wooden part of
the Beacon Tower as a mark, notwithstanding having given
strict injunctions to a few young boys that accompanied
them to keep at a distance from their shooting. one of
them, clandestinely, by climbing, entered the tower
through a window (out of view of the gentlemen), the
door being locked, when a ball entered his head, through
a two-inch piece of timber. He only lingered until next
morning. He was 14 years of age.—Glasgow paper.
The magistrates of Flintshire have inflicted a fine of
£lOO on the master of a steam-vessel, for neglecting to
give notice to the receiver of Droits of Admiralty of his
having found at sea an abandoned vessel, In default of
payment, the master was sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment. It may not be generally known that all
goods and articles cast up by the see, or secured as dire-
lect on the waters, are immediately to be reported in
writing, as such, by the salvers to the receivers for the
Admiralty. The act is most stringent and decisive on
this point. In the above instance, had the master pro-
perly reported the case, he would have been entitled to a
large sum as salvage.