The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

parties comin
in whicl

i they. have engaged passages,

—We have had fine s

THE WE ATHER
termediate sunshine, since our last publication, and vege
tation has consequently proceeded with astonishing rapi-
ill look well and prOmising. Sunday

;howers, with in-

The crof

but with

The early pOtatoes in till the
brown in this district appear to
commanded from ls. to ls. ld.

inn aay
T breeze

beauties w,.. ..ey are
be quite healthy, and hal,

ks ago, but very paitially, and the
ground 'tieing again sown, the new crops do not appear to
be affected. Indeed, so far as the season has gone, we do
not remember to have seen general crops more healthy or
promising. Old potatoes have given way a little in price,

parts, a few wee

HUGH M'NEILE, D.D., ON
THE ACQUITTAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS, COMMEMO-
RATED IN THE PAINTING BY HERBERT.--It will he seen
by the advertisement in our columns this day that, on
Tuesday next, Dr. Mclsleile will deliver an important lec-
ture on Protestantism, in which he will devote himself to
the illustration of the subject of the above picture. So
noble a subject could scarcely have been selected by him ;
and, from the eloquence and learning which the rev.
leeturer will be able to bring to bear upon it, we have

URE BY THE REV

as well, of a 1

arising

he crisis which is bef

day of the Queen, and ti

on by the Yacht

a number of th
Brig

yachts assembled

en o'clock opposi

Ilion, and follow-1
titre (Dr. Grind

that in which the Cott

iag. They proceeded down dctum', be:
ight-ship, and_ retrnel, beating up the

tyle, t

k from abot

competition in sailing, th

rsion 0:

the closing c_
fleet. The beautiful little vessels, he

ring of tl

Alter the day's

wed the owl"

Tsars

THE CONDITION OF

to the working
• - -
ses on weekly credit. Their cu.tomers having neces-
arily fallen back in their payments, they have gone on
upplving them in the hope of a resumption of working,

an.d.aS their only chance of at last being repaid ; and the
bulk of them are either ruined, or are in a struggling con-
dition. The more affluent tradesmen, by whom these are
supplied, are suffering from their ruin, and from the with-
drawal weekly from circulation of so large a portion of

ng population have borne their
patience; and even applica-

So far the manufactu
privations with exemplary

sufferers 'preferring to endure to the la 4 ratherthan'sub-
mit themselves to the dreaded ordeal of the relieving-
officer and the workhouse. Where we hear of largely

d pauperism throuzhout the district, it is generall

sual and immigran't

It is to be fe,

spirits are said to b

Drk to promote disturbance

Humours of impending riot and outrage are
culated ; and such rumours, in periods like the pr
are generally realized ; not, however, by the real sufferers
but by those of whom plunder and mischief are the
objects.

As yet fever amongst the workpeople generally has not
Dwn itself in a ereativ increased devree. the hulk a that

which is existing being confined to the immigrant Irish,
who swarth through the whole manufacturing districts,
locating themselves in the low lodging-houses, and the
filthy Irish streets and courts which, in every manufac-
turing town and village, that portion of the population
have set apart for themselves. The rate of mortality,
however, is fearfully high, and is weekly getting higher,
principally from dysentery, diarrhea, &c., and from ex-
haustion. Many a case of death from starvation, we are