The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

)ock Cc

in 1844, 101 9
last 3,

; and in 1845, 119,917—being an increas
,car of 10,562 tons over the year preceding.
goods delivered in 1843 were 105,935; in 1844, 105,233;
and in 1845, 117,200, being an increase in the last over
the Preceding year of 11,967. Goods remaining in 1843,
69,293 ; in 1814, 65.415 ; and in 1845, 60,126—being less
la-t year than 1844 by 5289 tons. The decrease of the
stock remaining in dock is attributed very reasonably to
' p unprecedentedly large delis,. —oduced by the alte-

4a,es
ration in the duties by the Premier's new tariff.
usual dividend was declared.
POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Since we adverted a day or two
agc to the alleged murder of an infant by its mother. who

had been sent away from the union workhouse without
any covering for her offspring, we have discovered that
this inhuman practice is a very common one. We have
received an extract from the Worcestershire Chronicle,

culars of a charg

gaunt a mother for attetnptir

murder her child-by exposing it in a field entirely naked
and uncovered. In this case, as in the one on which we
lately commented, the mother had been suffered to leave

child, and wi

After carryin

sing, p

the bus

ri to Lord

Morpeth. In aaditien, Mr. Archer G'urrney, Rock Vale,
Devon, has addressed the electors of the Riding, offering
himself as a candidate for the honour of repreeenting
them, He presents himself as one who " botb in English
and foreign publications has consistently advocated the
principles c

n and Sismondi. as a protectionist,"
and who is resolved in every way he can to secure remu-
nerative prices to every class of productors. Mr. Gurney,
moreover, declares that Lord Ashley's Short Hour Bill
has his most decided concurrence. Mr. Gurney intimates
his determination to withdraw should Mr. Lascelles, or
any other local candidate, present himself. The writ for
the election has been• issued, and the nomination is ex-
pected to take 'place next Monday.

ATTACK ON TIIE ARISTOCRACY. -- At Manchester,
Mr. Bright went a step farther towards the "beginning
of the end," as may be seen from the following extract
nf hi. II

sJ7 vi all Lne narsn words and all the
arguments you could bring against the reasonableness or
unreasonableness of maintaining our aristocracy, nothing
could be thore damning than the fact that the aristocracy
ire at issue with twenty millions of people on the vital
-
er these people should
There are people who
It would be a pitiable condition
uced to if they were all at one

have ulterior 01,

be people v

hemselves

mark—if some were not moving on faNter than others:
but I may tell the Duke of Richmond and his co-la-
bourers in the cause of monopoly that they themselves

hold out for the great maes.of the to go on with
that which we have begun, and to wrest from them the
power they have exercised to the great injury, or, 1 would
say, to the ruin of many thousands of the people of Great
Britain."

A LETTER TRAP.—Ori Thursday evening last a gen-
tleman of Glouester having put a piper into the bole of
the box at the post-office, was surprised to find that it
would not descend into the basket. He pushed, and
pushed again, and still it stuck fast, and therefore he went

round to the door to notify the circumstance. The post-
office clerks, equally surprised as the applicant, naturally
turnel to the box itself for an explanation of it, when

'y damage(

lad it been
e credit of

they discovered an -
successful, would have serious,,
the establishment, by cheating a large number of persons
of their letters and papers. A silk bag had been let down
into the aperture, bullets being placed in each corner to
distend it, and it was secured to the mouth of the aperture
by hooks of wire. The bag was nearly full of letters and
papers which had been dropped into the hole, and this
was the reason that the paper through which the discovery
I

. _
,as made would not descend. Probably the practice of
this trick would account for many of the post-office losses.
Unfortunately, the trap was not left until the thief came
to remove the big and the spoil, and therefore he is quite

—Gloucestershire Chronicle.

SUICIDES.—On Tuesday morning week, in London,
Mr. James Ede, aged 68, who, for the last thirty years,
has been a suitor in Chancery for property valued at
£lOO,OOO, having an execution served upon him for a
small debt, went up stairs and deliberately cut his own
throat.—On Friday an inquest was held in London, on
Mary Day, aged 26, a domestic servant, who, being
falsely accused to her mis'rtss, of having been the worse
'or liquor, was so much affected, that sl,e destroyed her-
-At Preston, Mary Hulme, an un-

self with 0)
married wc

antic acid

An, thirty ye

lodge of water at the N

had an it

of w, drowned herself in a
► Mills. The deceased, who

rant, had been in a low s

to for several weeks, and was
]house. On con-

apprehensive of being sent to the v

r mother, she said, " Do ❑ot
say any more about it; I shall make wyEelf away ; ,it will

fessing her situation t(

publican, London, was found hanging from a bed _
his own room, and quite dead.—Captain .Burrell, late of
the 55th Foot, committed suicide on Eaturday week, in
his own house, London, by shooting himself with a pistol,
in consequence of heavy losses by railway speculations.
THE PREMIEIL'S EXPLANATION. We confess we
should like to see the Premier undertaking an explanation

or a confession somewhat more retrospective than_that on
which he spent his heart and his strength on Thursday
evening. He has served four Sovereigns, and, enjoying
the personal confidence of three, for nearly twenty years
he has been the leader of a powerful—and for his sake we
will suppose—a patriotic and intelligent party. Yet,
strange to say, his apology recognizes no longer a term
than the last three years of this period. It might be sup-
posed that four years since was the date of his first intro-
duction to his Conservative friends. It is only the last
act of these four years that in his opinion requires defence.
He is now doing right. He appeals to the experience of
the last three years, and its legitimate effect on his judg-
ment ; he appeals to posterity ; he appeals to everything
but the past, and does not show how it is that a man
*ho for so many years possessed so great a mastery over
mind and over matter in this country, should have
brought men and things into such a state as to entail at
last so abrupt a transition, and so great a violence to the
weaker minds, or the lesser souls of his party. Sir Robert
Peel says he is right now, but he does not bring out into
quite sufficient relief the obvious inference that be has
hitherto been most grievously wrong.—Times.