The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

MR. SIMPSON

The Montreal Gazette of Tuesday publishes a letter, dated
St. Peter's, Fort Snelling, 20th July, 1840, which, we regret
to say, corroborates the first dreadful version of the death of
Mr. Simpson, nephew of Governor Simpson, of Hudson's
Bay, and of his two companions. The letter in the Gazette
is written by Mr. Peter M`Leod, formerly of Montreal. It
is very circumstantial in its details, which are substantially
the same as formerly given. St. Peter's is about 400 miles
nearer the scene where the horrible event took place than St.
Louis, from whence the first account of the tragedy was re-
ceived.

" You will recollect that, for the past two years, Mr.
Dease and Mr. Simpson (nephew of Governor Simpson), of
the Hudson's Bay Company, have been employed in the pro-
secution of Arctic discovery, by order of the company. Some
time in February or March last these gentlemen returned, on
their way to England, with reports of their discoveries, &c.
Mr. Dease went by the usual route, via the Lakes. Mr. Simp-
son (for what reason I have not learned) separated from his
companion, and determined upon proceeding to England via
the L nited States. By this way, perhaps, he deemed it the
most expeditious route. His party consisted of three men
and a boy. A few days after their departure from the colony
Mr. Simpson showed symptoms of a deranged mind, and, in
fact, ordered his men to turn with him, and go back to the
colony. They did so, and returned seventy miles. Again
he ordered his men to wheel about and come southward, re-
questing them to hasten their horses, in order to overtake a
party of colonists, with whom they set out in the first instance.
They were proceeding thus, when, on the evening of the 14th,
just after the moon rose, and while the men were employed
about their horses, and preparing the encampment, Mr.
Simpson, without any provocation, (as reported to me.) took
his double-barrelled gun, and first shot John Bird dead, and
then tired the second barrel at Le Gross, a Canadian. who
fell and survived but a few moments. The boy was a son of
Le Gross ; and he and the other person, a young man named
Bruce, without any interference on the part of Mr. Simpson,
took two of the horses, and set out to overtake the party of
colonists, whom they came up with that night. The next
day, six men returned to the scene of disaster, and discovered
Mr. Simpson's tent extended on the ground, and, supposing
him to be under it, they were afraid to approach too close
until they were certain where he was.. They, therefore, fired
two vollies over where they supposed him to be lying. Im-
mediately afterwards, the report of a gun was heard from
between where the two carts stcod. Upon going to the place,
they found Mr. Simpson extended near his mattress, with
the muzzle of his gun immediately between his eyes. The
nightcap he wore is much blackened and burned. Having
buried these three unfortunate men in the plain, the colonists
proceeded to this place, where they arrived a few days ago.
No reasons have been assigned for Mr. Simpson's conduct
but one ; and, from all I can learn, he must have been la-
bouring under a melancholy aberration of intellect, and sup-,
posed that Bird and Le Gross intended killing him for the
purpose of getting possession of his papers." '

MARVELLOUS.—The people at Bath surpass the Athenian
sage. He merely chewed the pebbles, hut according to the
Morning Herald," At Bath the Victoria Column is in every
body's mouth."

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS.—If theatricals have declined
in the metropolis, says one of the London Sunday papers,
the provinces present as fearful a picture. Bath (once the
nursery of the stage) has ceased to pay for years. The pro-
prietor of the Liverpool Theatre resigns this season. The
York circuit, now confined to Hull, Leeds, and York, hav-
ing ceded Sheffield, Doncaster, and Wakefield, barely pays
eachTlie yNeoarrssic .
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its expenses. Alanley's circuit has been long in the market.
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Mr. H. Bennett manages to make Shrewsbury, Coventry,
and Worcester pay ; we question if any one else could.
Munro does the same at Birmingham, but lost money at
Leicester. Beverley extracts, with difficulty, a living from
Sunderland and Shields. Young Elliston could do nothing
with Leamington and Stratford-upon-Avon. Barnett does
wretchedly in all his towns, save Oxford. Sloman made
money at Dover, Rochester, &c., but by a system to which
slave-driving was kindness ; at present those theatres do not
pay. Shalders scrambles on at Southampton, Portsmouth,
&c., hut scarcely lives. Ternan (on the new broom principle)
has done tolerably at Newcastle ; but every one of the theatres
enumerated have been invariably deserted when Batty or
Ryan, or other equestrian troops, came in their vicinity.
Dissenters are taught that it is sinful to go to the play, yet
they visit equestrian and mountebank displays. In towns
where a company of eight gentlemen and six ladies, at salaries
not averaging 30s. per per week each, cannot exist a month,
an equestrian company, involving at least ten times the ex-
pense, will remain (making money) for six, seven, or eight
weeks. This is the present state of dramatic taste in the
provinces. The returns to the authors under Bulwer's act
show that the worst and most trifling pieces are most fre-
quently played, and that the amount received from country
theatres is decreasing week after week.

Rev. John Postlethwaite, to the Vicarage of Headon-cum-
Upton, Nottinghamshire ; patron, G. H. Vernon, Esq.
Rev. Joshua Nussey, M.A. of Catherine Hall, Cambridge,
Rector of Ponghill, Devon, to be one of the Domestic Chap-
lains of Lord Blaney.
Rev. J. S. Stockwell, Rector of Wilton, Wilts, to the
Rectory of Wylie, in the same county, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Francis_Baker ; patron, the Earl of Pembroke.

Hon. and Rev. Mr. Harii;, a son of the Earl of Malmes-
bury, succeeds the Rev. Mr. Stockwell at Wilton, which is
also in the patronage Of the Earl of Pembroke.
Rev. Dr. Wm. Berm to the living of Moylaska, Meath.

Rev. R. Hew•son, to the Curacy of Killarney.
Rev. Thomas St. George, to the Vicarage of Kilbarrow,
Tipperary.
Rev. R. M'Clelland, to the living of Newtown Crommelin,
Ireland.

Rev. W. Adamson, to the Curacy of Kilkeeley with Kils-
cannel.

POVERTY AND CRIME-THEIR PUNISHMENT

AND REWARD

(From the Stockport Advertiser.)

It appears from recent statistical returns, that the daily
cost to the country of each prisoner in Newgate is Is. 91d.,
or 12s. Sid. weekly, and that the average daily cost of indi-
vidual prisoners in the London, Middlesex, and Surrey
gaols, is Is. lid. or 7s. 81d. weekly. Now let us look "at
home," where " Charity" ought "to begin." For the poor
in the Cirencester Union, in the counties of Gloucester and
Wilts, the Somerset House triumvirate, gave it under their
hands and seals, on the 10th of October, 1836, that the
dietary for able-bodied men should be 61bs. 2oz. of bread
per week ; soz. of bacon, (the only meat allowed !) 7oz. of
cheese, 61bs. of potatoes, 2 pints of soup, and 7 pints of gruel.
Now we should like to examine the quality of these provi-
sions, and we should like to ascertain the justness of their
weight It might not be a very difficult effort perhaps to
form a tolerably accurate idea of the quality of the bacon,
cheese, &c. likely to be sent to a workhouse, by a screwed-
down contractor, or of the richness of the soup. By the bye,
what is the soup made of ? According to this dietary system,
the weekly cost of provisions for an able-bodied, hard-
working pauper, [they take care that the paupers shall have
a " full allowance" of labour, however deficient they may
be in food,] will be less than two shillings--or perhaps what
a Newgate prisoner's diet costs daily ; and we have seen
some dietary tables, in which the weekly cost has been
less than fifteenpence ! Suppose the weight of the arti-
cles to be honest, and their quality to be fair, we take
it for granted that the quantity is not adequate to
the due sustenance of nature. Nor are five ounces of
bacon per week a sufficient proportion of animal food for
either man or woman. The contrast thus furnished Letween
the diet of prisoners and that of paupers, must be anything
but pleisant to the feelings of the latter; many of whom, in
their better days, have contributed largely to the poor-rates
themselves, and kept excellent tables of their own. Nothing
would delight us more than to possess the power of subject-
ing the triumvirate to just such a diet (the" gruel" included)
as that of the unions for just three months, and we most
earnestly exhort every elector, whether tory, whig, or radi-
cal, to demand from every candidate who may solicit his
suffrages at the next election, a solemn pledge that he will
exert himself to the utmost of his power to obtain some al-
teration of the present heartless, cruel, un-English mode of
administering the poor-laws.

We freely assent to the justness of the position, that nei-
ther gaols nor workhouses ought to be formed upon the mo-
del of palaces, or of luxurious banquetting halls ; they ought
not to be rendered objects of attraction to the idle, the un-
principled, or the infamous. On the other hand we contend
that neither thieves nor paupers should be tasked beyond
their physical powers—should be injured in their frames or
constitutions—should be subjected to disease or starvation.
In this humane, benevolent, and enlightened age—this age
of black emancipation and religious freedom--the thieves
have wonderfully little to complain of. So averse are the
" lib -rals " in their spirit of super-philanthropy, to the in-
flicton of corporeal punishment, that even a murderer can
hardly obtain an introduction to the final executioner of the
law. Lucky is it for the thieves that they are not under the
control of the amiable and tender-hearted poor-law commis-
sioners.

YANKEE METHOD OF KILLING A BUG.—Catch a bug,
inject a pinch of snuff up its proboscis, and it will go off in
a pop. N. B.—This treatment will not do for a bug that is
up to snuff.
EXTRAORDINARY DISEASE IN A HORSE.—On Tuesday
an immense tumour, composed of immense layers of a yel-
lowish oily fat, was cut off the inside base of the tongue,
where it joins the windpipe. of a very valuable thorough-bred
horse, belonging to Mr. Vanderkiste, collector of customs,
Limerick. The poor animal was for some days unable to
swallow anything, and was in consequence rapidly wasting,
and must ultimately have died. Two medical gentlemen,
who merely visited the sufferer as a matter of curiosity in a
comparative point of view, ventured to out the tumour out,
which they succeeded in accomplishing, and in a moment
after the horse rose off the ground, spat up this extraordinary
tumour, fully as large as a Seville orange, and drank a quan-
tity of water. To reach the tumour it required the entire
length of the arm inside the teeth. This is perhaps the most
extraordinary disease ever known to have existed in such a
situation. The horse is at Mr. D. Barrington's stables,
Pery-square, and doing well.—Limerick Chronicle.

FATAL STAGE-COACH ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon
the following fatal accident occurred to a coachman named
Burnett, who was driving the new company's London and
Bristol stagecoach on its way to town. It appeared that
Burnett had started from Thatcham, for London, about half-
past three o'clock in the afternoon, with a coach load of
passengers and luggage ; about five miles from Thatcham, he
stopped at a public-house, and, imprudently throwing the
reins over the horses' backs, proceeded into the house, for the
purpose of obtaining refreshment. Whilst standing at the
door, drinking some gin and water, he perceived the old
company's coach pass by at full speed, which he had just
before passed on the road. Thehorses of the new company's
coach, hearing the others pass, immediately started off at full
gallop. Burnett instantly threw down his glass, proceeded
after them, and, with great difficulty, succeeded in laying
hold of the reins of the leaders. He, however, was thrown
down by them, and severely trampled upon, and the wheels
of the coach passed over his head, body, and legs, and when
picked up in a few seconds life was extinct. He was con-
veyed to the Hare and Hounds, where his body awaits an
inquest. Some of the passengers now jumped off the coach,
and the horses, •being without control, .shot forward with
increased rapidity, until they arrived at a place called " Jack's
Booth," about two miles further on, where they were stopped
by some ostlers. Burnett was one of the oldest stage coach-
men, having driven the " White Hart" and other coaches
upon that road upwards of twenty years, and on this occasion
was driving for another man, unable to perform his duty from
illness. He has left a widow and two children, who are well
provided for. He was, we understand, the brother of Mr.
Burnett, who drives one of the coaches from Bristol.—
Bristol Journal.

TOUGH TRIPE.—A girl belonging to this neighbourhood,
was engaged as dairy-maid at Craignish, Argyleshire, last
summer. The first night after going home, as the family had
supped on tripe, before she could get her work in the byre
brought to a close, Kate was told that she would find
her share in a pot on the fire. Impelled by a sharp appetite,
Kate approached one of the pots, carrying it off into a cor-
ner, and then and there commenced an attack upon what she
conceived to be a square yard of tripe. She found it darkish
in the colour, about the toughest fabric of human provender
that ever encountered her ivory ; but, as she was young, and
had never before tasted tripe, she felt ashamed to reject that
of which she had been told that all the family had partaken ;
and tore away at it, now using her teeth, now her hands,
and, at times breaking it over her knees, till she managed to
bolt the whole of it ; inwardly ejaculating "it was more
like the hide than the inside of any best she ever saw." All
night her horrible nightmare moans so loudly indicated that
Kate's digestive powers were being severely tested, that the
gude wife administered a bead of the small-still aqualo mas-
ter the tripe. It was found next morning, that Kate had
taken the wrong pot, and had swallowed the dishclout, which
had been left in the water to wash the dishes. Kate think-
ing it was a trick, her blood got up, and seized an old clout,
with which she unceremoniously dislocated the shoulder blade
of the eldest son, and shouting, as a sort of war-cry, " that
naebody suld make a rope wark o' her stamach," let skelp
at all till she had put the whole establishment to the rout.
A reconciliation was effected ; but till the day she left, the
" brawniest chiel" dare not mention tripe in Kate's pre-
-Ayr Advertiser.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY

The following are the Times of Departure from Lime.street,
Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road,ldanchester :

_
TIMES OF DEPARTURE
FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM
1 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m.
6 a.m. Mixed PP 19 12
8 IS a.m. First Class 99 Of 1 15 p.m.
. 10 30 a.m. First Class f 9 90 4 p.m.
12 15 p.m. First Class 91 PP 6 p.m.
4 p.m. Mixed
7 p.m. First Class 99 p. 12
FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
- 215 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston
at Parkside.
6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do.
11 30 a.m. First Class
2 15 p.m. First Class
2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston
at Parkside.
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3 30 p.m. Mixed
S p.m. First Class

On Sunday the Departures will be

3 30 a.m. First Cla;s, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m
8 15 a.m. Mixed If 119 1 30 p.m
10 30 a.m. „

7 p.m. „ ~ 12
2 15 a.m. First Class
7 30 a.m. Mixed
11 30 a.m. „
245 p.m. ,
The Trains on 'Sundays stop at First Class Stations only,

Napier, Sanford, from Mobile at this port, sailed 4th August. On
the 24th August, in lat 39, long 63, spoke the Spring, from Apala-
chicola for this port. On the 15th, in lat 27, long 19, spoke the St.
Cloud, from New Orleans for this port

Cestrian, Saville, sailed from Bombay for this port 7th June
Tigris, Robinson, sailed from Calcutta for this port 4th July
Tory, Reid, sailed from Saugor for London 2gth June
City of Derry, Roberts, sailed from Madras for Singapore sth July
Phillips, Scott, sailed from Valparaiso for Islay 27th May
Floraville, Mitchell, sailed from ditto for Coquimbo 9th June
Swallow, Nelson, sailed from ditto for Guayaquil 10th June
Columbus, Cropper; Sheridan, De" Peyster Rochester. Wood-
house; Memphis, Ni.hols; and Selina, Smith, hence at New York,
19th August
Sylvanus Jenkins, and William Goddard, hence at Mobile
Gardiner, Jackson, hence at Charleston
London, Patten, hence at Baltimore
Narraganset, hence at Boston
Lancashire Lass, Norman, hence at Malta
Arrow, Harris, hence at Messina
Lion. Watson, hence at Genoa, rather leaky, having experienced
heavy gales from the N.W., on 14th ult., off Cape St. Vincent, and
another from N.E. off Cape Creux
Ariel, Darling, hence at Genoa
Cornelian, Swart ; Hoop in Fortuin, Nickoff ; Countess, Arrod ;
Annign Elezina, Kuiper ; Jonge Wilhelm, Weengen ; Zeldenurst,
Konig, hence at Texel
Eliza, Nygus ; Louisa, Binge; Ocean, Burns; Gratitude, Swart;
Mary Burn, Mitchell ; Seaflower, Foster; Paulina, De Beer; Rosa,
Farena, hence at Helvoet
Atlas, Michelson; Henriette, Devoust ; and Phcenix, Kniper,
hence at Antwerp
Cornwall, Butcher, from Bahia at Falmouth
Tancred, Patten, from St Lucia off ditto. On the 29th August,
spoke the Ann and Margaret, hence for Campobello. On the 2d
instant, spoke the Victoria, hence for Newfoundland
British Queen, (steamer,) from London for New York, was spoken
on the 6th instant, at 8 a.m., in lat 49, long 20 32
Monongahela, hence for Philadelphia, was spoken on the 10th
August. iu lat 45, long 56
Woodside, hence for Boston, was spoken on the 13th August, in
lat 43, long 59
Shenandoah, hence for Philadelphia. and North America, hence
for New York, were off Bardsey yesterday
Alfred, hence for New York, was spoken on the 6th instant, in
lat 48, long 20
Lehigh, from New Orleans for this port, off Maternilla Reef, 11th
August
Thunder, Small, sailed from Alexandria for this port 16th August
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 26.—The Palmyra, Gill, which sailed hence
19th instant for Liverpool, put back the following day, very leaky

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.—Wind W.N.W, fresh.
ARRIVED.—PearI, Lemon, and Tamenend, Boutell, from New
Orleans—and Perseverance, France, from Lisbon.

Cabot's, Ashton, from Bahia, at this port. sailed 23rd July. On
25th Aug. in lat. 34, long. 42. spoke the Persian, from Ceylon for
London
Drumore, Milne, sailed from Madras for Calcutta 12th July

Champion, Pike, sailed from Saugor for Liverpool 28th June,
and Euphrates, Wilson, for London, lath June

•
Peru, --, from Sincapore for Liverpool, was spoken in lat
34 S, long. 27 E
Talbot, —, from Liverpool for
Aug. in lat. 46, long. 25
Argyleshire, —, hence for New South Wales, was spoken 6th
Aug. in lat. 13, long. 29
Belhaven, Crawford, from Mazatlan. at Valparaiso
Essequibo, - -, sailed from Antigua for Liverpool 3rd kugust
Rossendale, Friend, hence tor Bahia, was spoken in lat. 18 N.
long. 25 W

New York, was spoken 25th

—, and Harrison Chilton,

hence off

Henry Bliss,
Cape Ray 13th Aug
Duncan, —, from Manilla, at Downs
Cessnock, frem Benin, at Tenby
Providence, Maas, from Danzic for Liverpool, at Stornaway
PI EansAn, Sept. B.—St. Andrew, Murray, from Liverpool for
Fisherrow, is on shore on the rocks at the entrance to the harbour ;
part of the cargo has been discharged, and it is expected the vessel
will be got off

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

—Wind N.W. moderate

ARRIVED.—Robert Syers, from Puerto Cabello—Eliz*beth Buck.
ham, —, from Monte Video—Aurora, —, from Pillau—and
Cambria, Robertson, from Mauritius.
_ _

Caledonia, (steamer) Cleland, from Greenock, at this port, in 181
hours, and will sail 19th instant, with the mails for Halifax and
Boston

Harper, from
lat. 49, long. I

Skipton, —, hence for Quebec, was spoken gth Aug. off
Basque Island

Intrepid, —, hence for Richibucto, was spoken 20th August,
Lu lat. 45, long. 54

England,

—, from Liverpool for New York, was spoken 26th

Alarkets.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPTEMBER 12.
Our sugar market has been inactive this week, but prices continue
to be firmly supported for all descriptions.

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, SEPT. 11

LIVERPOOL CATTLE

MARRET

Sm. 14

Our market to-day has not been quite so largely supplied, con-
sequently last week's prices were well supported. Prime Beef sold
readily at 6d, middling 5d to 53d; prime Nether Sheep 6id to 76;
Lamb 6iti ; old Ewes and inferior Sheep 6d—sinking the offal.
Number of Beasts, 1486; Sheep, 8409.