The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

Dec 4,

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On the occasion of the marriage, last week
second daughter of Baron Anselm von
Frankfort, with Baron Willy von Rothschild, 01; to. it?
the sum of one million of florins (£83,000) is salukragbill
beer)ittresented to the youthful pair byeßaron zrei,
von Rothschild, read of the great Frankfort P..of
The ceremony wasperformed under a strict observisrotej
the older Jewish ritual, Baron Willy being a °
Hebrew. •
THE LAUNCH OF AN EXTRAORDINARY P°' ', 7°,6,10110
pontoon, or floating landing-stage, four hundred beet
by fifty wide, and weighing six hundred tons, has pole
constructed in this town and is to be launched at.
c—etbe
early next month. The vast platform, which is tw_laidet
length of a ship of the line, will be launched bra'_ ea'
and the launch is looked to with great interest DY,g
gineers, as no structure of equal dimensions has 051' late
launched in one piece. The pontoon is madat.alterideti
iron, except the deck, which is of wood. It is la °site
for the pier at New Holland, on the Humber, °POP, the
Hull, and is for the landing of passengers, fr°,-chite
steamers communicating with one of the Lne°lll-ticle,
railways. The pontoon will rise and fall with the
ore
Two covered ways, called girders, also made at theheaeo
works, of plate iron, and on the same principle as t" feet
tubular bridges in Wales, one hundred and forty-01(1)o.
in length, will extend from the pontoon to the re' and
station on the pier, so as to enable passengers
to O
luggage be conveyed under cover, at all times,co°f the
orie
tide, from the railway carriage to the steamer. o'. of
the inclination of the girders will vary with the belg_ol
the tide, as one end will be attached to the stone Pie'
the other to the floating pontoon.—Leeds Mercury of
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN INDIA.—In the 810110
more exciting matter, a returned officer of the ina the
army has originated a paper-war in the Times India'
subject of the results of Christian Missions in „DO
Under the anonymous signature of " Sepahee" be ra",t.eßt
asserted that our missionaries made no converts „e:s•thig
such as were plainly converts for profit's sake.
olleet;
assertion he was backed out by another letter, a‘,ls,6cer.
ing an anonymous signature as "An InfantrY u"" rate
Both letters assert that the officers of the Indian arra'ead
the best and most impartial witnesses as to this faetindis
both declared that after many years residences a
they have found Christian Missions a tboroug,..„,,feS
Their bold assertions have, however, elicited severs! ';',real
from parties also returned' from India, who bear hig;flaita
honourable testimony to the success f missions ie
and who (unlike the traducers of those missions) 101 l
of their names
thespaut sheblic
is "a land of bibles
ly to their letters. As
and it isi:iso
hesigroo,t
we have been much gratified by reading such triaTP
aids
refutations of these anonymous,attacks. If it be t"eithe
of sound politics to secure " the greatest happiness au' f 5.
greatest possible number," as Bentham said, and as. loge
totle said before him, a Christian politician can never
sight of missions.
A PERILOUS POSITION AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCA,r-;s..
The following graphic anecdote of Sir James Ross leg
pedition has been communicated by one of the 17"kr.
engaged in it :—•'Those who have never visited the of
icebound shores of Greenland can form no conceptionao
our dangerous position on the evening of the 1503 and
morning of the 16th July, 18,18. It WAS raining that
blowing fresh. We were moored to an iceberg, and 00
berg drifting in a space of open water not larger thanne.
Grand Harbour of Malta, surrounded by mountainsLrsieg
cipices, and glaciers ; huge bergs drifting and cia,e
around us from all directions, presenting to the
scene of terrific grandeur. No means of escape left "bre
the only passage (that by which we entered this s°,n3thot
locality) being blocked up with heavy ice. The herr
we were fast to began to tumble to pieces. We bad ,beit
no alternative left but the dangerous one of making
and endeavouring to get hold of one aground.
.I°oo,
complish this we had to run the awful risk of coming la It
tact with some of the numerous floating masses tbrovge,
which we had to thread our way in the ' wind's epaYt't
Our vessel was sluggish and uncertain in her move,cai;oo
and had we missed stays,' our destruction would
ifice
been inevitable. Had we been commanded by an,°fiste
of ordinary experience, it is hard to say what would ',ea
been the result ; but our safety was entrusted to a 'ces
firm of purpose and of strong nerve, who gave his °r bad
on this trying occasion as cool and distinct as if he At
been tacking ship' in the middle of the Atlantic'hott
5 a.m. we got hold of a berg aground, and lay fast;fa
(1
in apparent safety, until the afternoon of the fai;„f 0.4
day, when we let go, and stood into open water, all
exceedingly glad that we had got out of our critica",re.
"„-
dicament "

701iC°
SWINDLING riq LONDON.—At the Westminster- 1
Court on Friday, a fashionably dressed man, aheetisir,
years of age, whose name was stated to be Alfred Sinf4e.
with four or five aliases, was charged with swindling -`O5,
ral tradesmen. The prisoner, it appeared, had taken Pod
session of two valuable houses, one in Cadogan Place, bio
the other in Vauxhall Bridge Road, which were let t°
on the favourable representation of an accomplic,;frota
these houses he had goods to a large amount brougu" old
upholsterers and house agents; who found, when ~ir
called to be paid, that the houses were abandoned bY
occupants. Under the name of Barclay and Co. the;
soner had also a large warehouse and counting ho,us; be
Queen-street, Upper Thames-street; at which luaciese
caused furniture and other goods to be brought, Prod
edly for exportation to the Wet Indies. In three _no
after, however, the whole firm, together with the ser',ol
employed by them, had disappeared. Among the Per-J-0
who appeared at the police court to prosecute, were[n
itinerant chair-seller, who had been accosted by the PT;fri;
in the street, and desired to make six dozen "7rbil
which he did, but without ever being paid for them-
of
court was crowded with manufacturers of goods and 0';„
persons who had been victimised by the swindler, v°lll
said to be one of a formidable gang, who have for Y`*"-
been plundering tradesmen.—He was remanded.
THE MORAL AND SOCIAL. ASPECTS OF FREE TO of
—Every industrious class in the country is complaittedi
the " cheapness'? which has in some instances dirolc,'-so,
in others totally destroyed, among the working rc'.s4
the means of pnrchasing their daily food. The -31°':Ierf
Chronicle contains a fearful picture of the sin and n'''orer
which this cheapness cry has entailed upon the IVect3
classes of our countrywomen. The unfortunate sudiollf
of the Morning Chronicle's descriptions are se"
hies
starved into sin. They loathe the condition to 'coo
they are sunk, but political economy has taught us thtble
must buy in the cheapest market, and the rais,,eop:
needle-woman must be content to have her wages ic" fieci
ened below the price at which life can be sustained'
eke out her livelihood by such means as the 310 &Doi
Chronicle describes. Take the following evidence ""
one of the unhappy creatures : dei l
" I am sorry to say there is too many persons like do:
trade—hundreds of married and single doing the same a,l-411'
for the same reason. It's the ruin of us, body and so'eateP
owing to the low prices. Almost all that works for the Pring
do the same thing. I know several thats very youngli‘ bard,
the same manner. It 'most drives 'em mad. They; re ptiC"
working industrious people, but they don't get sufficiec.
to have enough, no, not even of the coarsest victuals."
to fie'"
Young as I am," says another, "my life is a curse
The low prices have driven me to what I am."

Another says :
p1e41,,e
I am the daughter of a minister of the Gospel, and •ce red
my word, solemnly and sacredly, that it was the low Priogiti
for my labour that drove me to prostitution. I often st4tll,,
against it ; and many times have I taken my child 1..„,10`
streets to beg rather than I would bring s'iume upon, W'ol.:
and it any longer. I can and will solemnly state tha,,2ole
the smallness of the price I got for my labour that drov,eit;
prostitution as a means of living. In my heart I hate boA
whole nature rebelled at it, and nobody but God knows
struggled to give it up." f
Hear this, political economists, and be proud °rico
effects of your teaching ! " Cheapness and low' P
run through all the dismal narratives of misery an Cob'
" We cannot consider the small capitals," said 31,1'0f the
den in the House of Commons. No, nor the soutitilif,
poor; let them starve, rot, die, distribute their '''„gt
between the streets and the gaol, but everything ra"t"hof
" cheap," at whatever cost of sin and suffering sing sto'
rt
whom cheapness deprives of the means of purellt!'ifobe,r
ficient food. We remember an apologist of S'r (Aid,
Peel, in a pamphlet entitled " Pitt and Peel
pointed with triumph to the increased consunTl do
imported needlework since Sir Robert reduced tj!,ebeS
on its importation. The Morning Chronicle furn,-„
eloquent commentary upon the pre= raised "
Robert Peel's admirer

110P-
DR. ROCKLAND ON LONDON `YELLS.'-'On-'On-d -no
evening Dr. Buckland delivered a lecture in Lou 400'
Artesian wells. He said—lt had been asserted thsbyte
n such ~o
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three miles of St. Paul's. An Artesian well /01"nottit:
neighbourhood of the metropolis, namely, in the !OOP.
of the Horticultural Society, in the gardens of the,cion
of London at Fulham, and in Brentford and its /tlhroer..l
but the wells which were now made by boring fie
the London clay were merely common wells. „ in f", 4
heard it said that Artesian wells might be 1115%-f
pwwaihrtihtc
which would
gwaorudidt London,
oritshe
eoN‘f ,becauseaittesr
oowbtntha ere was
ecdortdo a
;s
übpupts iyhpeP I/0
ftiloci stintFooof
the 40 Rabb/
in Trafalgar-square, that it did not rise within d up of
the surface (a voice,-80 feet) ;it was PuraPeopPlitb,
means of a steam-engine, and the requisite roe
water could be obtained at a much less cost
Chelsea water-works. Indeed the same water;;; WP-
ped up over and over again. The large bre, to a
actually on the point of bankruptcy with reger"„ter 09,01
ply of water. The average depth at which yo be
now be obtained from so-called Artesian wells T; oa,bo
was 60 feet below the Trinity-house water-thatld 00_:be
believed that, in 20 or 25 years more, water w°,,s,g,
obtained at a less depth than 120 feet. This .obobiPrat
had said, a subject of vast importance to the.l of n,
of the metropolis, who had not now a supPlY,,,eir
equal to one-fourth of what was required forir7by
nary use. The rev. doctor proceeded to iontaineappil
means a sufficient supply of water could be o 011,t,
the metropolis. He considered that ari3geigh
might be obtained from the Thames in the to
hood of Henley. The water might be convq,`o4leiwieli
don by an open aqueduct of sufficient depth, rd hove
the Great Western Railway ; and, as it of sal.
Wil;
of three feet, it would flow without the ilia serfore
neering works, and might be brought to a re,_, St 0,4',
valley north of Paddington. It would there u, „col ei
of 105 feet above high-water mark, and at ths4 floe
thirds of the inhabitants of London Inight'sureiolo
an engine, be supplied with water at high Prthe4o otif
Tite hoped the government would take he ;king opp
—Mr. R. Stephenson did not approve 01 cote
from the Thames ; and a gentleman pre ,s 1 be 000
from his own experience, that London Wu' to g
by wells.—[The Henley Company undertaroo
250,000,000 gallons a day, that is 125 Pi
inhabitant.l