The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

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A dreadful row took place at Coven
on Friday night, in consequence of the bu
been crammed too full—such is the anxiety to bear the
music of Mons. Jullien. The police had to use their
truncheons pretty freely before anything like order was
restored.

WELSH EDUCATION INQUIRY

—This inquiry is pro-

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needing very rapidly, and, from the facilities given every-
where to the Commissioners, promises to be accomplished
in an unusually brief time. Every parish, it appears, is
being looked into, and its schools inspected where they
exist. Thus the return, as regards statistics, promises to

The Manchester Guardian says, that Colonel Maberly
is about to retire, on his full salary, from the secretaryship
to the Postmaster-General, and that he will be succeeded
by Mr. Rowland Hill. The Observer of Sunday says that
Mr. Hill is to be appointed an additional secretary, in
order to relieve Colonel Maberley, who will continue as
chief secretary of the Post-office.
On Friday, the 6th ult., as some men were- gathering
jet out of the cliffs between Staithes and Runswick, a por-
tion of the cliff fell, and three of the men eseaped by
climbing up a rope by which they had descended. Other
three were more tardy, and the entire mass, comprising
several thousand tons, came down, and hurled them to
the bottom, a distance of about sixty feet. Strange to
say, they were all, though much injured, found alive.

RETURN OF A CARRIER PIGEON AFTER LONG
As-
sENCE.—On Thursday afternoon, a pigeon belonging to a
gentleman named Rawlings, of Brixton, made its appear-
ance after an absence of two years. In October, 1844,
the pigeon-house of Mr. Rawlings was robbed, and the
whole of his pigeons were taken away, and nothing was
heard of them till Thursday, when a carrier pigeon, of pe-
culiar marks and colour, arrived at home, and took his
roost in his old spot.

The Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages
in England, announces in his seventh annual report, the
alarming fact, that there is a great probability of the race
of Quakers shortly becoming extinct I Under the head of
" marriages," this official authority states that "the mar-
riages of Quakers have decreased considerably ;" and that
" the Quakers appear to be dissolving into the general
population of the country, under the benign infinence of
religious toleration."—john Bull.

TEA.—The Economist says, that in consequence of
speculative movement in tea, the price of common cen-
gous has risen from 9d. to 10-id. per lb. ; the speculation
has arisen in hopes that a reduction of duty will take
place next session. Our contemporary, however, says that
he has good authority for saying that government has no
intention of making any change in the duties next session,
and that the large increase in the present stock, as com-
pared with that of last year, will furnish more than a
provision for the gradual increase of consumption.

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A NEW INFERNAL MACHINE.—As Mrs. —, of Wem,
in this county, was lacing her stays on Wednesday morn-
ing last, the lace broke, when a severe shock was expe-
rienced by the lady bruising her hack and sides, as though
gunpowder had exploded near her. On examination it
was found the lace was made from the material now so
much the su ct of conversation, " gun cotton," and
had been sentllesome friend in an envelope to the lady
in question, as a new invention for which a patent had
been obtained.—Shropshire Conservative.
MADEIRA ORANGES.—The cultivation of this delici-
ous fruit Is likely to form an important frature in the ex-
port trade from Madeira, the soil being in every way
adapted for the growth, the temperature being similar to
that of the Azores. A small parcel in boxes has just ar-
rived by the Dart. The fruit is perfectly sweet. This
vessel has likewise brought a large quantity of bananas
in a ripe state, specimens of walnuts, green citrons, and
sugarcanes, all the growth of Madeira, being sent over as
a sample of the productive capabilities of the place.
MARRIAGES AND CHRISTENINGS WITHOUT FEES.--• _ _

On Sunday, in consequence of the authorities of the parish
of St. John, Clerkenwell, having discovered that numbers
of the poorer classes inhabiting that district were living
together without regard to either of the above ceremonies,
and bringing up their children in the same way, notice
was given—their excuse being that they were unable to
pay the fees—that on Advent and Whit Sundays christen-
ings would be performed gratuitously, and marriages on
the first Mondays in December and May.
The cargo of the Victoria, from New York, was re-
ported on Wednesday in the Custom-house (London) list
of entries, and seldom has such a mass of merchandise
been discharged from one bottom in the port of Lon-
don. The single article of cheese would appear on paper
to be enough of itself to load a large vessel, and yet it only
forms a fraction of the whole cargo. Of this article there
are no less than 6,681 boxes and 1,034 casks. Another
item merits attention—this is two hundred and fifty bales
of hops—an ominous item to the growers in Kent, Sus-
sex, &c.
ATTEMPT OF A MAN TO BLEED HIMSELF TO DEATH.--
On Tuesday, a working man (a stranger) was discovered
lying weltering in his blood on some loose straw betwixt
two haystacks, near Wakefield. He was in a state of
great exhaustion, and was conveyed to the Union House.
It appeared from what he afterwards stated that be was a
mechanic in search of work, but not being able to find
any, and not liking to beg, he deliberately cut his left
arm, with the intention of bleeding himself to death. He
had cut himself on the Saturday previous, and had been
lying in that state till discovered as above described. He
is recovering.

The electors of Weymouth have bad another meeting,
at which Mr. Christie introduced to them a second Li-
beral " candidate for the next election. We are no ad-
mirer's of Mr. Christie's political opinions, or of the
course which they lead him to take in parliament, but we
must do justice to the manly and straightforward way in
which he adverted to a " message " of a peculiar nature,
sent him by Mr. Gordon, the person who had been mixed
up with Mr. Christie's late " explanations " to his con-
stituents. Mr. Christie courageously avowed his deter-
mination, upon principle, never to fight a duel; and he
said that as Mr. Gordon felt himself aggrieved by the im-
putation of "intriguing against him (Mr. Christie), he
had referred the matter to a friend, Sir D. Le Merchant,
who had advised him that the expression " intriguing "
was objectionable, upon which be at once withdrew it. ..
A deputation from the London Health of Town's Asso-
ciation, joined by several members of similar bodies in the
country, bad an interview with Lord Morpeth and Sir
George Grey, at the ]Home-office, on Friday last. The
following particulars of the conference h-ve transpired :
That the Government have decided on bringing in a bill
early in the ensuing session—that it will embrace the best
parts of Lord Lincoln's measure, and several of the pro-
visions urged in the recent report of the London Health
of Towns' Committee—and that not a few of the evils
sought to be remedied by local acts of parliament will
probably be met in a manner satisfactory to all parties.
Sir G. Grey informed the deputation that, in reply to ap-
plications from several corporate bodies, as to the extent
of the Government measure, and as to the desirableness
of proceeding with bills which they contemplated, he had
advised them to avoid all unnecessary expense, and wait
for the announcement of the various details.
THE EFFECTS OF SHOT ON IRON VESSELS.—The in-
formation received from the officers of the Gorgon steam
vessel, which has lately arrived from La Plata, gives a
very alarming account of the effect produced on the hulls
of the Harpy and Lizard iron steam vessels, by the shot
from the batteries of Rosas. It was expected, from the
nature of the material, that any breach made by shot
would leave a clean fracture, merely curling up the lips
of the orifice, as is usual when fiactures are caused in iron
by the application of an ordinary force. The results,
however, are quite different. Instead of a clean fracture,
large splinters of iron flew about in all directions on the
bull being struck, rendering the danger frevo this cause
tenfold more imminent than that produced by the shot
itself. Several splinters of this kind, struck from the hull
of the Harpy, have been brought home by the officers of
the Gorgon, and,, amongst the rest, the splinter from the
angle iron which caused the death of Mr. Barnes, the
clerk in charge, proving that the tendency to splinter is
not confined to the thin sheet iron of the hull, but to the
heavier masses which compose the vessel. These results
are in accordance with those observed in the experimental
trials on board the Excellent, and they constitute a sad
drawback against the general use of iron as a material for
vessels of war. Whether the iron in question is not so
malleable as it ought to be, or might be if better wrought,
is another question ; for the present, however, the men
are alarmed, and those who have witnessed the effects
produced on board the Harpy declare that they will never
go to sea in an iron vessel.—Daily News.
TRACTARIANISM.—Mr. Ambrose L. Phillips has pub-
lished a letter from the Rev. F. Merewether, in reply to
the charge reported in our paper last week, and made in a
speech of the Rev. M. H. Seymour, that " Mr. Mere-
wether, a Tractarian told him (Mr. S.) that a leading
Roman Catholic convert in the neighbourhood had written
to him to state, that if Mr. Merewether would privately
conform to Rome, he might trust to his (the writer's)
honour to have it concealed, and that he might continue
in his living as a Protestant clergyman, until such time as
it would be convenient for him to make the matter public.
The name of the Roman Catholic converted gentleman
(said Mr. Seymour) is Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, of Grace-
dieu, Leicestershire." Mr. Seymour said he had seen
the letter, which bore out these facts. Mr. Merewether,

in a letter in reply to an inquiry from Mr. Phillipps, says
that the letter in question was written several years ago,
and contained the following passage ;—" My dear Sir,—
You need not hesitate to speak your mind to me, for I
promise you the strictest secrecy ; and whether you re-
main a minister of the Protestant Church or not, no one
shall be the wiser of any thing having passed between us
on these subjects." Mr. Merewether, after givicg this
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extract, says to Mr. PhiHipps, " I must freely confess to
you this passage offended me extremely when I received
it; as I think it would any one under my circumstances.
But this is no excuse for Mr. Seymour for making so bad
a use of his memory, especially when he thought fit to
mention the matter publicly, with names, without any
sort of previous communication with me. In truth, he is
a stranger to me, except on the occasion of what may be
called his official visit in this neighbourhood, and once I
saw him in London. The other statement of the allusion
in the letter to ' thirty Protestant clergymen,' is totally
Without foundation."