The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

With a limited amount of wheat fresh up this morning,
dealers display an inclination to purchase, and the currency of
Monday last bas been supported both for English and foreign.
Barley, Beans, and Pease in moderate request, at previous
prices, Oats sold nearly at former quotations; and Flour and
Malt fully supported late rates. Best Red Wheat 445. to 465•;
White ditto 465. to 495.

SMITH O'BRIEN'S CAPTOR. William Hulme died
suddenly on the 27th ult., at the White Chimnies, near
Leek, aged 28. The deceased was the captor of Smith
O'Brien, for which he received the government reward of
£5OO.
IRISH RABBITS.—It will be seen by an advertisement
in to-day's paper, that Mr. Johnson, of Queen-square,
now receives all the rabbits from two large estates in Ire-
land—which, with his Scotch agencies, gives him great
advantages.
How CARDINALS ENCOURAGE RAILWAYS. The
Papal Triumvirate have decided that the railway to Na-
ples is a useless scheme, tending to inundate Rome with
worthless foreigners; they have, therefore, definitely
suspended the works, and thereby thrown thousands out
of employment.
WATERPROOF OVERSHOES. -- Large importations of
India-rubber Overshoes have recently taken place from
America, but, as they are admitted at a 10 per cent. duty,
they are sent en masse, regardless of quality ; some caution
should be used in their selection, more particularly as
many are manufactured of the unvulcanised material, and
split on exposure to any change of atmosphere.
A correspondent says that, in the course of a walk
round Bath, may be seen the following names of boot and
shoemakers :—Long, Strong, Short, Broad, Good, Small,
Tyte, Large, Pinch, New. Noble, Best, Smart, Prime,
Perfect, Gould, Steele, Wood. Cotton, Brown, Greene,
White, Black, William Rex, and George King.—Bath
Chronicle.

The Dublin Nation describes "eighty or ninety" of
the Irish members of parliament as " scoundrels or inca-
pables, cunning knaves or weak fools !" Mr. Duffy him-
self, who has so long been giving lessons in crop plunder-
ing, and who, in the same number of his paper, puts the
base and cowardly murder of Mr. Cage under the head
" Retaliation," is, of course, neither knave nor fool—in
his own estimation.

The family of a farmer living at Witnesham, Suffolk,
were seized with violent illness, on Sunday week, after
dining on a piece of roast veal ; and upon investigation it
was discovered that some arsenic had fallen on the drip-
ping pan, and had been mistaken for flour by the cook,
who allowed it to remain. Fortunately medical aid was
soon procured, and all the family have since recovered.

CAUTION TO BRICKMAKERS.—At Wolverhampton,
lately, the owner of a brickyard was fined in the mitigated
penalty of f.,50 for allowing his tenant or manager to re-
move the bricks to the kiln before the proper duty had
been levied on them. The owner was quite ignorant of
the fraud, being supplied by the party making the bricks
at a certain rate per 1000, including duty. In another
case of a similar kind nearly 14,000 bricks were forfeited,
and a penalty of £5O inflicted.
A MYSTERY FOR HOUSEWIVES AND FREE TRADERS.
—The Scotsman makes the following remark on the
present condition of the community generally, and sug-
gests an important problem for the solution of housewives,
and, as we beg to add, for the advocates of free trade also,
like our contemporary himself :—" How comes it let
housewives tell, if they can ; but true it is that domestic
servants have of late years, while an opposite process has
been going on among almost all other classes, been becom-
ing better paid and worse qualified." A truth which,
though we scarcely expected it to be acknowledged by our
contemporary, will bo readily recognized by the public at
large. We thank the Scotsman for its valuable testimony.
A CONFEDERATE ATTORNEY SUSPENDED.—At Belfast
Quarter Sessions Court a scene was enacted, on Monday,
in which Mr. Rea (the attorney to the Dolly's Brae Ribbon -
men), the assistant barrister for Antrim, Mr. Gibson, and,
the police force, were the actors. Mr. Rea, we may pre-
mise, was, in the days of the Irish Confederation, a red-
hot patriot of the Mitchel school. In consequence of his
behaviour in court, the bench ordered him to be impri-
soned, and to be suspended for practising there for three
years. In one case which Mr. Rea defended, the court
told the prisoner that if his defence had been entrusted to
any man of ordinary discretion, his conviction would
probably not have followed.

The innualfite of the Mechanics' Institute at Leeds,
on Friday, elicited speeches from two very dissimilar men,
—Lord Mahon and Mr. Roebuck. One almost wonders
how they could find themselves together, except on the
open and comprehensive arena of the House of Commons.
Their remarks on this occasion are eminently character-
istic. His lordship wanders through the field of historical
anecdote, and shows by example bow much may be picked
up with very little trouble in that region of real romance.
His younger hearers will soon be deep in the shelves of
biography and history, and will find, to their disappoint..
ment, how few the prizes and many the blanks in the lot-
tery of historical research. Mr. Roebuck, on the other
hand, after criticising the previous speakers, just as he
would do an Irish debate, proceeds to grapple with the
fundamental question of mechanics' institutes and popular
education.

CHARGE OF ABDUCTION.—OR Saturday, at Guildhall
a diminutive red-faced man, named Robert Sutton, who
described himself as 43 years cf age, but his looks indi-
cated him to be much older, was charged with decoying
Louisa Rogers, a weak-minded girl, frora her parents'
residence, and stealing property belonging to her father.
The prisoner, who is stated to have amassed some pro-
perty as a cooper in America. treated the proceedings ap-
parently with the greatest indifference. The father of
the girl stated that the prisoner had married her that
morning at St. Duustan's Church. He believed that the
prisoner intended taking her to America. They were
married by license. A watch, ring, part of a locket, and
other things, which were owned by Mr. Rogers, were
found in the prisoner's room, and the accused stated
that Louisa Rogers, then his wife, had brought them
there on the previous evening. The prisoner was re-
manded. The young woman having declined to return to
her father's house, the alderman informed her that the
magistrates had the power to send her to prison if she
refused to obey their order, and, eventually, the officer,
induced her to return.

SIMPLE PAT.--A roar of laughter was caused at the
Board of Guardians to-day, -by an application for a recom-
pense, from a countryman who asked "any thing that was
pleasing to their honours, for having saved the life of a
female officer of the house—in proof of which he referred
"their honours" to the comer's inqueft on 4tr I#ody.
Limerick Examiner,