The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

GREAT REDUCTION

IN THE PRICE OF
VENETIA N BLINDS,
AT
Av. LEDGER'S WINDOW BLIND MA NUPACTOILY,
3], PARADIS Siiii_ElST,
who has constantly on hand a tensi.7e and well-seasoned
STOCK, and can furnish a se complete with them in
SIX CRS' NOTICE.
Gauze Wire, and e - -
ider,,meei
other description of Blinds, at very
moderate Prices, superior Workmanship.
OBSERVE,
31, 1 ARADISE-STREET,
Between the Unitarian Chapel and the Star and Garter Hotel

i
VIADUCTS AND OTHER RAILWAY WORK- 1
r HE attention of RAILWAY ENGINEERS, AR-
I CHITECTS, and CONTRACTORS, is ra-ticularly directed
to the great advantages to be derived from the application of $
SEYSSEL AS PHALTE, as the only impervious and permanent i
Covering for Arches and Roofs, a —Lining of Reservoirs,
Gutters, &c.
The arrangements of CLA GEES PATENT ASPHALTE COM-
PANY enable it to execute rksaany extent with thegreatest - . . -- ,
promptitude.
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In order to gna must the_lll,e of spurious materials, it is .—: -.‘„,.44,.,.!..,,....
important that all applications Yor Works to be executed, be
made direct to this (7ompany ; and as a further protection, it
is suggested that Engineers, Architects, and Contractors should
require a CERTIFItATE from the Company that the proper
description of Material has been used.
Information may be obtained as to all Works which have
been executed by the Company since its establishment in 1838,
which will prove that the failure of many Works represented i
to have been done with the genuine material, has resulted front the substitution of a spurious one. _ .

I. FARRELL, Secretary.
SEYSSEL ASPILILTE COMPANY,
STANGATE, LONDON.

ISAAC N. PARCE,
BOOKSELLER, PRINTER, STATIEONER, AND ACCOUNT
BOOK MANUFACTURER,
15, RENSIIATIT-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
BEGS leave most respectfully to tender his grateful
acknowledgments to his Friends and the Public generally,
for the kind support he has received since his commencement
in Business, and to assure them that that it will be his•constant
endeavour to merit a continuance of their patronage, by sup-
plying articles at such prices as etdonly a fair remune-
rating profit. Any orders e ed to his care will be executed
with promptitude and d ch.
I. N. P. would also • unate that he has recently added to his
LIBRARY
U ARDS OF 1000 VOLUMES,
comprising the latest Works by the most popular authors, and
trusts that, by procuring every new one as they issue from the
press, to deserve that favour which has been already afforded
to him.

BOOKBINDING, in all its various branches, executed on the
Premises by experienced Workmen.
MOURNING and FANCY STATIONERY kept, in endless
variety.

FRUIT AND ITALIAN WAREHOUSE,
NO. 1, CLAYTON-SQUARE,
PARKER-STREET.
JOHN WILKINSON has just received a supply of
the finest
BITTER SEVILLE ORANGE MARMALADE,
From the celebrated Makers, Messrs. KEILLARS, of Dundee.
At One Shilling the Pound Jar.
Also, his last importation for this season of
IMPERIAL FRENCH -,
In very handsome Cartoons, whi is now selling off at one-
half their original value, o y little more than the cost of
package. oxes of choice
ELENIE ,S AND DESSERT RAISINS.
These are stro y recominended to the notice of Purchasers
for superiority. in quality and cheapness.
BRITISH WINES, SAUCES, PICKLES.

WILLAN'S PUBLIC LIBRARY,
73, BOLD-STREET.
THIS PUBLIC CIRCULATING LIBRARY will
be found one of the most extensive in England, now esta-
blished Forty Years, containing nearly Seventy Thousand Vo-
lumes, with every New Work of merit adde soon as published,
including Reviews, Magazines, and r 'eriodical Literature.
Subscribers to this Establis t are not limited as to the
time of keeping the 800 l
ATIONERY.
E. W. has alw on hand a good assortment of FAMILY
STATIONER , o the best quality, and on reasonable terms.
N.B.—The remnant of his tOREIGN and JUVENILE
BOOK STOCK is SELLING OFF at very Reduced Prices.
73, Bold-street.

IPGIBBON,
30, NORTH JOIIN-S7'REET,
PATENT INSTEP SPRING 1100TAIAKER

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, SIR H. POTTIK-
GER, AND LATE GENERAL SALE,
RESPECTFULLY calls attention to this valuable
invention, which has been fully tested and approved of
in this town and neighbourhood for its grand superiority over
any other Boot that is made in the three kingdoms. For In-
valids it is lighter and easier to walk upon ; and for the fashion-
able world it is all that can be desired for elegance and beauty.
They cannot get out of shape from the moment put on ; all other
Boots made in the present mode do not retain their shape more
than two or three days, the waste or shank being built of
leather, sinks and cannot rise ag.i."
ward on his toes. "- "' " of •
great cause creating corns.
wearer goes 7tit-
,•tny gentleman may test what is said by setting his foot down
on white paper, marking heel and toe, then standing up,—he
will find the foot half an inch longer, owing to an arch spring
hone in the foot, which IWGlnnox's IT. INSTEP STEEL
SPRING goes in unison with. A eminent waiter Tailors in
Liverpool highly approve is invention, as their Trousers
look more elegant, alwa aving tiic appearance of a fine lofty
instep, and cannot ut of order.
with
WGIBBON is d ined tonavel who wish to befriend him their r ctivem orders his PATENT SPRING
BOOTS at a greater per centage cheaper for cash than many
other respectable Bootmakers in town will do in their present
style.
M‘Ginnox has, at a great expense, got up machinery for
making these estimable articles of utility, for accommodating
gentlemen of Liverpool and vicinity, as it will enable him to
manufacture some gross per day, consequently there will be no
delay as formerly in his own Boot department ; he will appoint
Agents in all towns in the three kingdoms to supply masters
and Bootmakers in general.
CAUTION.—J. 1%1%1)11:Km's name and address is stamped on
each Spring.

HOW TO DETECT IMPOSITION !
THE Tradesmen of Liverpool are, and have been for
some time past, much annoyed by a number of persona
calling upon them, representing themselves as MANurAcTu-
HERS of WINDOW PLATES, and each professing to have, over
the others, some great advantage either in price, or quality, or
both.
Now the Manufacture of Window Plates, independent of
Machinery, requires the skilful co-operation of workmen in
different trades, viz., Joiners, Braziers, Screw-cutters, Engra-
vers, and PoIishers—EXTENSIVE r . also absolutely
necessary, in order that thei eral operations, instead of
each being handed over t eparate employer, may proceed
under one original a eneral management, whereby much
unnecessary utla • avoided, and an uniformity of workman-
ship secure • 1 were otherwise impracticable. From this
comprehensive system alone, can CHEAPNESS WITH EXCEL-
LENCE, be derived.

In ONLY one Establishment in Liverpool has this combina-
tion been effected—and if Tradesmen, when solicited by these
pretenders, would require to see their MANUFACTORIES I !
and contrast them with that of W. JORDAN, at .48, LONDON-
ROAD, they would at once be convinced that lie is the ONLY
genuine Manufacturer of such articles in the Town, and the
specious impositions of such opponents would be easily
detected.

W. JORDAN has been induced to solicit this inquiry and
comparison, in consequence of having. so many complaints
from parties who have been duped by these pretended Manu-
facturers.
48, LONDON-RaiD.

FURNISHING IRONMONGERY.
fl ENJAMIN lIIGGS respectfully invites Families
Ji) about to Furnish to inspect his very extensive
STOCK OF
FURNISHING IRONMONGERY,

At 46, LORD-STREET,
NEXT DOOR BELOW THE MERCURY-OFFICE,
Arranged in a
SUIT OF SHOW
In which every thing new and_.

ly useful will be found.

The great improvement cently introduced in the method
of manufacturing Har re by Machinery and various patent
processes, together i the system adopted by the Advertiser
in conducting hi siness, enables him to sell Goods at prices
Twenty-tive ent. cheaper than the Public have been in the
habit of paying for them.

In the FURNISHING IRONMONGERY, particular attention
is requested to the following : -e. s. d.
A Set of Six strong Block -tin Dish Covers, the 1 i 5 0
Tops in one Piece
Strong BlOck-Tin Jack Screen, with Bottle• Jack 1 2 6
Ivory-handled Knives and Forks to balance,l
r 2io 0
full size, the Set of fifty pieces
Bronzed Breakfast-room Fender, with Bright Top 0 4 6
Ditto Ditto, with Steel Rod and Brackets 0 12 0
Best Sheffield Drawing-rhom Fenders, from... • 1 5 0
Fire-irons, hard Polished, per Set 0 3 6
Ditto, Ditto, with Bright Pans 0 5 0
Ditto, Ditto, with Cut heads, from 0 12 0
Bronzed Swing Kettle, with Stand and Heater

BATH DEPARTMENT. .e. s. d.
Portable Shower Bath, with Curtain 0 10 6
Pillar Shower Bath, with Brass Force Pump 3 3 0
and Curtains, complete
Ditto, large size 4 4 0,
Sponging Baths, Japanned Oak, 30 inch .
Sltz Bath, Ditto 0 12 0
Toilet Can, Pail, and Bath, the Set 0 13 0

ELECTRO-PLATED WARES, IN TEA AND COFFEE SETS,
SPOONS, FORKS, AND CRUETS.
PAPIER APACHE TEA TRAYS, LONDON TEA URNS,
SHEFFIELD REGISTER GRATES,
And every other Article in the Trude, at from Twenty to
Twenty-five per Cent. under the usual Prices.

BENJAMIN Moos will continue to offer only such Goods as
will wear to the satisfacti ,f the Buyer. 41111Waff4
To sell those Articles
Profit for Ready Money.
To mark all Goods One
which no deviation can be

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIVAY.
Lord BROUGHAM, on the authority of petitions he had
—t. tlled the attention of his noble and learned

' to present, canto ..le a—_
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. friends to the fact, that by the abolition of imprisonment
Sir H. DOUGLAS rose, pursuant to notice, and at con- for debt acts, power was reserved of arresting debtors who
2iderable length called the attention of the house to the were about to quit the country ; but its exercise was
ease of medical officers, surgeons, and paymasters of regi- limited as to the granting of the writ, inasmuch as an ap-
ments, who have not been included in the warrant issued plication for that purpose was necessary to a judge sitting
in July, 1846, consequent upon the motion made in April, in Westminster Hall. It was urged by the petitioners
1845, for an improved retirement to a limited number of that this power ought to be extended to judicial authori-
medical officers, and all officers of regimental staff, to ex- ties in the provinces.
tend to them, in limited numbers, the benefits conferred Lord CAMPBELL thought the judges of the New County
by warrants dated 1840 to limited numbers of officers of Courts would be the most proper parties to exercise it.
all other branches and arms of the service ; which motion On Earl GREY'S moving the first reading of the Army
appeared to receive the unanimous approbation and sup-
.Service Bill, a conversation ensued as to when the next
port of the-committee, and was only withdrawn on an ex- stage should be taken, which was fixed for Monday
press assurance that the proposition, for an improved re- --
tirement to all officers of regimental staff, would be taken HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY.
into favourable consideration. The hon. member con- Mr. WARD, in answer to Sir C. Napier, replied that the
eluded his address by stating, that having called attention Admiralty had suspended the further proceeding with the
to the subject he felt satisfied in leaving the result to the works of the three 72-gun ships at present on the stocks.
consideration of the house and her Majesty's government. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Hindley, observed that
Mr. F. MAULS said the tv of question was one such as
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the same enthusiasm in the saloon by the members of the
Diet. The royal speech was delivered in the great cham-
ber of the old palace, in presence of the whole Diet, the
royal family, the diplomatic body, and of all that is most
illustrious in the kingdom. The King has spontaneously
promulgated, just before the assembly of the Diet; seve-
ral of the most important laws which had been under the
consideration of the Government. He has in his speech
proclaimed the principle of complete religious freedom to
all sects ; he has granted the publicity of the proceedings
in the civil and criminal courts of justice; and the Prus-
sian Envoy at Frankfort has been instructed to bring be-
fore the Federal Diet the question of the liberty of the
press, with a view to the complete execution of the pledge
contained in the 18th article of the federal compact of
Germany. At the same time the regulations for the con-
duct of public business by the United Diet of Prussia are
conceived in a liberal spirit, more akin to the practice of
Parliament in this country than to that of the French
Chambers ; and complete freedom has been secured to
the publication of the debates, with the names of the
speakers. The king went from the castle to church on
foot, and returned the same way, his subjects lining the
road the whole distance.

importance in relation to the public service, that he ca
upon the house to pause before it agreed to any motionef ;hen they were made, which was not yet the case ; and
the hon—member for Liverpool. that he had taken care there should be given with the
After a short conversation the subject dropped. estimates the detailed accounts of the proposed distribu-
Mr. WARD intimated that it was intended to limit the tion of the grant, so that the house might see the manner
time of service for ships on that station to two years. in which it was to be expended. And, in answer to Mr.
The House then went into Committee of Supply upon Muntz, the noble lord stated that her Majesty had directed,
the navy estimates, whereupon Mr. WILLIAMS called the as a proof of the high sense she and the Government en-
attention of the committee and Government to the in- tertained of the heroic conduct of Captain Camp, of the
efficient state of many of the ships in the service, and in- Spanish brig Emilio, in rescuing the survivors of the Tweed
neighed against the yearly increasing estimates for the steamer from the Alacranes reef, that he should be pre-
maval departments, which he mainly attributed to the sented with a medal, on which would be inscribed the
gross jobbing which took place in the dockyards, and to meritorious services performed ' • and, further, that the sum
the extravagant expenditure of which they were the scene. of £5OO should be placed- at his disposal in the manner
Lord INGESTRIR agreed with the honourable and gal- most acceptable to him. Mr. B. Escort, in answer to
hut gentleman, that in some instances our dockyards had Mr. Lefroy, intimated that he should abandon his bill for
been the scene of gross and wasteful expenditure, and the abolition of duties on butter and cheese for the present,
complimented the Government on the efforts which they thinking it necessary to keep the sinews of war unim-
were making to put an end to an extravagance which was paired. ' The LORD ADVOCATE, in answer to Lord Duncan,
a drain upon the exchequer and a detriment to the ser- replied that it was his intention, if possible, to bring in a
vice. He then adduced several instances in which he bill for the sale of encumbered estates in Scotland during
maintained that our naval architecture had been at fault, the present Session. The question of the third reading of
and pointed out the necessity of having none but scientific the Irish Poor-law Bill originated a further debate on the
men acting in the capacity of officers in our dockyards. condition of that country, and of the conduct of the land-
He concluded by suggesting to the Admiralty the pro- lords, their tenants, and the people generally ; after which
priety of procuring a naval survey to be made of the the bill was read a third time, as was also the Landed
islands composing the colony of New Zealand, without Property (Ireland) Bill, Colonel RAWDON moving an ad-
which, life and property wiil not be safe upon its coast. dition to clause 4, that the commissioners should authorise
Mr. WARD would not enter into the vexata questio of
ship-building, on which such a diversity of opinion ap-
peared to prevail, but intimated that the suggestions of
the noble lord embraced points which were already r

ceiving the anxious attention of the Gove

the erection of corn mills to be worked by water-power
which proposition was rejected on a division by a majorit:
of 69. Lord G. BENTINCK moved an amendment to till

for the erection of substant
gatived by a majority of 56

farmhouses, which
The bill then passed

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIESDAY
Mr. WALPOLE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the law for the registration of persons entitled to vote for
the election of members to serve in parliament for England --
and Wales. The Court remains at Buckingham Palace
Il 'V .I.l_ 11. 1 D_
Mr. MTNTZ then moved for leave to bring in a bill to
enable retail brewers, in the midland counties, to keep
open their houses till twelve o'clock at night, as the me-
tropolitan brewers are permitted to do

Sir Girt OREY did not see the necessity fox
sure, and could not, therefore, assent to the motion

COURT AND FASHION.

performances at the Italian Opera.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the new House
of Lords on 'Wednesday. The elegant apartments were

ie sta-

ar was

.Rumours of dissensions in the cabinet, touching the I IMPORTATION OF ITALIAN MUSICIANS AND MlCE-
dissolution, prevail in the clubs ;it is said.to be a struggle BOYS.—A few nights since another band of poor savoyads
between the Greys and the ftedfords. The Irish Secre- were landed at Folkston' from the Princess Helena
tary, Mr. Labouchere, is said to be bent on resigning. steamer. The band consisted of 50 wretched-looking
The new Poor Law for Ireland is the great bone of con- ragged beings, who are to wander about our streets and
tention.` perambulate the country as musicians or mice-boys. They
The corn markets, which a fortnight ago were reported were landed in charge of a man who had the modesty to
as falling throughout the country, are again on the ad- offer 4s. 6d. for a lodging for the whole of the party for
vance ; and, after this last attempt at moderate prices, one night. Eventually they found a resting-place in some
most parties appehr to have yielded themselves to the stables, where they huddled together like so many swine.
conviction, that all hopes of such a blessing, at least until We think some means should be adopted to put a stop to
the next harvest, must now be abandoned. Unfortu- such a cruel traffic.
nately, this fact goes far to deprive us of any hope of THE IRISH IN ENGLAND.—SeveraI hundred unfortu-
amelioration of our financial difficulties. nates, in addition to the swarms that have already been
SUSPECTED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Considerable ex- thrown upon Newport, Monmouthshire, have been brought
citement was caused in Warminster on Monday by an oc- over from the south of Ireland by collier vessels. Many
currence which led to the suspicion of a murder perpe- are afflicted with fever, and all have gaunt tokens of
trated by a father on his son. The name of the former is famine. Upwards of one thousand poor creatures have
Matthew Keene, a pensioner, who lived in the neighbour- been relieved within a very short time but several
hood. The lad was found in a water-ditch, with his head deaths have occurred.—Among the crowd of applicants
under the water, and suffocated • and the father was dis- for relief at St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, on Friday last,
covered near him, with his throat cut, and dead. was one person who, it has been ascertained, placed fif
CHEAP METROPOLITAN TRAVELLING.—On Monday, teen sovereigns in the hands of a companion before pre-
omnibuses commenced running from Battersea to Hoxton, seating himself as a " starving Irishman."
conveying passengers the entire distance, about nine miles, IRON STEAM-SHlPS.—William Crawshay, the great
for sixpence. The Ant and Bee steam-vessels, running iron merchant, in a letter to the London Times, of last
from London Bridge to the West-end, reduced their fares week, says,—" I hope that the rapid breaking up of the
to one halfpenny; and the Citizen steam-boat Company Tweed steamer, a wood-built ship, and the consequent
commenced running their vessels to Hammersmith, dreadful loss of life, will be contrasted in the public
Wandsworth, and Putney, at reduced fares. mind with the holding together for six months (and pro-
FORGING THE GOLDSMITHS' STAMP.—At the Glouces- bably until got off), and the consequent preservation of
ter Assizes, on Saturday, Josiah Gregory, a silversmith, every soul on board, of the Great Britain steamer, an iron-
and Edward Bynes, his shopman. were convicted of forg- built ship. A comparison of the situation of the ground-
ing the mark for stamping silver used by the Company of ing of the two vessels might probably be favourable to
Goldsmiths at Exeter, within whose district Gregory's one or the other; but under any circumstances I am in-
shop was situated. They had carried on the practice for dined to believe that had the Tweed been an iron-built
a considerable time. Gregory was sentenced to imprison- ship, every soul on board would have been saved, and
ment, with hard labour, for eighteen months, and Bynes much, if not all, of the imperishable, part of the cargo
for twelve calender months. also. The boilers, which are of similar construction to
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BlLL.—Among the mem- an iron vessel, are still standing entire."
bets who voted, on Wednesday, in favour of this bill EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—On Thursday, a meeting
going into committee were Lord Sandon, T. Thornley, "of the members and friends of the Leeds sub-division of
W. Brown, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, W. Ewart, Lord the British Organisation of the Evangelical Alliance "
R. Grosvenor, Sir J. Jervis, Lord J. Russell, &c. We was held in the Music Hall, Leeds ; Sir Culling Eardley
find among those who voted against it, Sir H. Douglas, Smith, Bart., in the chair. The admission was by ticket,
J. Tollemache, W. T. Egerton, W. B. Ferrand, Capt. and there was a large attendance of the dissenters of
Gladstone, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, G. Hudson, Hon. Leeds and the neighbourhood present. We believe six-
G. D. Ryder, Col. Sibthorpe, &c. pence each was asked at the doors for the admission of
NARROW ESCAPE OF A MULTITUDE FROM DROWNING. persons who were without tickets. The proceedings
—On Easter Monday, an overloaded canal boat, on the commenced at six o'clock, and did not conclude till after
canal between Tipton and Birmingham, was upset by the ten. Amongst the speakers, besides the chairman, were
foolish pranks of some young men. Thirty or forty per- the Rev. Dr. Bates, of Glasgow ' • the Rev. J. A. James,
sons on the roof were shot into the water, and the boat of Birmingham ; the Rev. T. Scales, of Leeds ; the Rev.
sank. For some time, upwards of one hundred and Jos. Hargreaves, of Sheffield, &c. No resolutions were
' proposed, but several sentiments in favour of union
amongst different denominations of Christians were pro-
posed. The general object of the meeting appeared to be
to encourage the friends of the " Alliance ' to continue
in its ranks, and to obtain recruits for the same.
THE WESLEYANS.—It is astonishinc, to perceive the
amount of virulence and ignorance that is brought to bear
against that highly-respectable body of Christians, known
as Wesleyan Methodists.—When the Dissenters find them
acting in an independent course, they attack them with
all their available-weapons of calumny and ridicule ; but
the next day the same Dissenters find they cannot blink
the fact of the wealth, extent, and growing influence of
the body, and they seek by every artifice to produce con-
ciliation. For our own parts we are free to own that we
look upon the resolution of the committee of privileges
of the Wesleyan body, as indicative of independence and
nobility. Feeling that the people must be educated, and

but at length all were safely rescued, though drenched
and in a miserable plight.
AN UNFORTUNATE HARE.—A hare was killed last
week on the Railway near Barton Moss, by one of the
railway trains. When taken up, it appeared to have only
three legs, and, on examination, it was found that one of
fore legs had been cut off, as cleanly as if with a knife,
but that the cut had healed. It is supposed that this had
been done in a previous railway accident, in one of pussy's
excursions from the Worsley woods to the Barton turnip
fields.

THE JUDGMENT OF LEEDS ON THE GOVERNMENT
SCHEME OF EDUCATION.—The nineteenth report of the
committee of the House of Commons enumerates four
petitions from Leeds in favour of the Government
scheme. The petition of the " Magistrates' Aldermen,
' r -Mors" has 36 signatures attached to ; that of
M' 'st-- the Gospel "31 ; that of

.iergy and _imsters of .-
" superintendents and teachers of Sunday schools," 351
that of the " inhabitants," 24,747. " Think of that,
Master Baines !"—Daily News.
The free church synod of Glasgow and Ayr has, on the
motion of Dr. Buchanan, resolved, by a majority of 60
to 16, to petition against the education scheme. This
synod is *he largest provincial court of the body; and as
Dr. Cr me, 'ler.

-andlish sat in it as a corresponding n
voted in the majority, there can be little doubt that this
decesion will exercise a considerable influence over, or at
all events may be predicted as indicating pretty correctly,
the opinions of the ensuing general assembly of the free
church. The free presbytery of Arbroath have without
a vote come to a similar resolution.

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WHOLESALE INCENDIARI3III.—OH Thursday night, a
fire broke out in an extensive farm yard at Burnham,

Essex, and whilst it was being extinviished, the persons
engaged in doing so, were half paralyzed by the sudden
bursting out of flames on a second, and then on a third
farm, so that there were at the same time, and scarcely
more than half a mile distant, the property at three farm
homesteads all blazing. Altogether, eight or nine stacks,
four barns, stables, and various other outbuildings, with
in one instance the dwelling of one of thelabourers upon

that there is no radical evil in state assistance, when not
connected with servility ; and finding that the authorised
version of the Scriptures is alone to be read ; and that no
inspector will be allowed to enter a school in their con-
nexion without the previous sanction of their body, they
have resolved to offer no further opposition to a plan
which is founded on liberality and based on truth. For
this we find they are abused in almost every quarter. So
much for liberality ! So much for Evangelical Alliance !
—Birmingham Advertiser.

THE AtiJRDERERS OF MR. JOHN RILEY.—This unfor-
tunate gentleman, it will be remembered, was murdered
on the 11th of January, while on his road home from
Sheffield to Grimesthorpe-lane: On getting into his house
he exclaimed, " Mary, they have almost murdered me."
This was said to his wife ; but he could not identify his
He was attacked on the Monday, and died
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murderers

:remises. fell a prey to t

—aturclay following. ,arty next hay his watch was
round, wrapped up in some cloth, in Mr. Riley's garden,
where it had been placed during the night. From infor-
mation received by Mr. Raynor, superintendent of police,
he caused two men, named William Challiner and James
Bradley, of Grimesthorpe, to be apprehended on Saturday
week. It appears that the grounds of suspicion were, that
Sheffield man bad been discovered who had purchased
Tr. Riley's watch of the prisoners, and who, on hearing

Much o:

he pro-

THE GREAT-WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—We believe we
may now venture to state that this noble vessel has ceased
to be the property of a Bristol Company. We hear that
Captain Chappell, Secretary to the West India Mail Steam
Packet Company, has completed the purchase of her, for
the sum of £25,000, exclusive of her plate. The Great
Western will leave her berth on this present Saturday
morning, and proceed to Pill for the purpose of shipping
her paddles, previously to going to Southampton. From
that port she will sail for a five months' voyage, and, at
the expiration of that period, we hear that it is the Com-
pany's intention to lay her up, and expend a large sum
upon her (report says £10,000) in repairs, refitting, ece.—
Bristol Mirror.

perty, it appears, was insured.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE

of the murder, had gone and placed the watch in M:
Riley's garden, as before described. The than, it seem

connected with the loss

The learned recorder of Hull, Matthew Talbot Baines,
Esq., Q.C., took care, in his address to the grand jury, on
Friday last, to remove any suspicion which might have
existed of his participation in the editor of the Leeds
Mercury's abhorrence of theLGovernment scheme of Na-
tional Education. Though we expected that such would
be the case, we confess we were rasher apprehensive that
family considerations would have prevented the learned
gentleman from expressing himself with all the clearness
demanded at such a juncture. In charging the grand
jury, the learned recorder said—" I, for one, rejoice
greatly over the improved prospects of national education ;
for it is quite impossible to conceive a subject of greater
importance. So far from wishing to limit education -at
all, if I had my own will, I would make it accessible to
every human being ;' because, in proportion as you 'dis-
seminate the blessings of a sound religious and moral
education, in exactly the same proportion do you provide
for the dearest interests of the public at large.

A. most distressing event,

of the Tweed West

ndia

ay week, when he acimitteh
purchased the watch, and placed it in
iley's garden. The prisoners were taken before the
mayor on Saturday week, and remanded in order to com-
plete the evidence against them. It seems, at present,
that Bradley is suspected of having been the most guilty
ible transaction.

,
poor woman, the wife of one of the crew of that ill-fated
vessel, the mother of six children, and several months
advanced in pregnancy, dropped down dead on being told

he secret unti.

WHAT HAS VOLUNTARYISM DONE FOR .EDUCATION.—
The Rev. R. Burgess at a meeeing in London, last week,
said, " It was stated by Mr. M'Cullock thatin 1833, the
total number of children in Dissenters' schools of all de
ip-
sc • dons was 61,828; in the National schools it was
324,045 ; up to 1833, then, what had the voluntary system
done ? Nobody had done more for education than the
Wesleyans, the community was much indebted to them
for their Sunday schools ; yet with all the exertions the
Wesleyans could make it appeared that last year they had
only 30,686 children in the daily
,schools. The number
of Wesleyans in England was reckoned at 1,200,000,
which gave only one child to 40. As to government in-
terference, when they called on it to repress and punish
crime, they could not debar it from spending money to
prevent it. But he would rather call this assistance than
interferance. Ia fa.t, the control and inspection was ap-
plied only to the church ; other bodies were comparatively
free. He looked forward to the carrying these measures
as the grc atest blessing that had ever befallen the country.
The people had been shamefully neglected ; up to 18:33
the government never gave any assistance, never furnished
a shilling for the purpose of education. France applied
between £600,000 and £700,000 a-year to this purpose;
even slow-moving Austria was before them ; England was
the only country that saw, with folded arms, its people
driven into eternity in hopeless ignorance."

FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FUNDS.—The quotations of
consols for money at the end of February, when the last
account closed, was 901. From that point it gradually
improved to 90i to ; but immediately after the conclu-
sion of the new loan of X 8,060,000, the market began to
exhibit much weakness, owing principally to the intelli-
gence from America, and the consequent export of bul-
lion. From 90a to the price of consols in the early
part of March, they declined to 87/ in the middle of the
month, but afterwards rallied to 884, and suddenly fur-
ther advanced, on the announcement of the Russo-French
convention, to 894. This rise was not long maintained,
and speculative sales continuing to increase, a re-action to
the old quotation took place. At the close of the month
of March consols stood at 88k to 4, and between this time
and the 7th of April they declined to 87k. On the Bth
instant the bank directors having augmented their mini-
mum rate of discount to 5 per cent., an additional fall of
nearly 2 per cent. followed ; and onthe 11th consols stood
at the low point of 851. Since then a re-action of 2 per
cent, has taken place, but that improvement has not been
fully supported, the price having again given way to 861.
In consol scrip the early bargains were about -1 to 1 pre-
mium, and as soon as the loan was taken, the price ad-
vanced to 2 premium. This was not long sustained, and,
under the pressure of sales, the quotation declined to 1
discount ; but the Russo-French convention brought the
price from 1 discount to par to 1 premium. With the
subsequent decline in consols scrip has, however, also kept
pace, and from that point has gone down in about the
same ratio, till it has in one case been quoted 4 discount.
It has now a better market, being between 21 and 2 dis-
count.— Times.

.o."HE M.P. AND THE TAILORS.— ,erkeley, Brothers,"
are.btfore the public once more with their disreputable
quarrels. The younger member of the firm having been
dunned by his tailors, Stultz and Co. for the settlement
of an account, rushes into print with a ion.. correspond-
ence be t seen himself and the patient tradesmen, from
which he deduces the conclusion that Lord Fitzhardinge
has been guilty of sJme villairoas " unconstitutional "
proceeding in declining to pay for a gay yeomanry uniform,
with which the gallant and brawny member decorated his
brawny person. • We don't think ill?, public will care very
much about this trumpery piece of business : the present

THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.—At a meeting in
London, on Thursday, for the purpose of supporting
the Government Education Scheme, the Bishop of Nor-
wich stated that,—" On a very low computation 2,125,000
children ought to be found in this country in the schools
for the elementary education of the working classes ; but
that instead of this,, scarcely more than 1,000,000 of
children were to be found in them, so that considerably
more than 1,000,000 were left without the instruction they
had a right to demand. He held in his hand a letter he
had received from a clergyman in Staleybridge, near Man-
chester, in which he stated that the. district under hiS
superintendence contained 10,000 immortal beings ; that
nine-tenths of- his parishioners were in a state of avowed
or practical infidelity ; and that there was not one single
school within the whole. district in which a good educa-
tion wns given. Then take a parish. in this neighbour-
hood—that of St. -Pancras ; twit parish was recently sur-
veyed fiom house to house by gentlemen connected with
the City Mission, and among 25,000 inhabitants in one
district it vca3 found that there were between 2 and
year; of age more than 15,000 children : and out Ofthe
but 7,000 w..-re in the habit of attending school, WllC-
th2r bunctay or Cay school, so that there were more than
8,000 children between the years of 2 and. 12 who were
These thine

,ed nnin half-a-dozen words

I with rm educatioii

alone and un sided in its work, but that, year by year,
la-ge grants had been given by the state to meet volun-
tary efforts, and that in these grants dissenters and church-
hs
ete steeple-chase
disreputableplhorses,e
-e h
ass e
men had alike shared."
A Jusr REBUKE.—The Times of Wednesday, with be-
coming honesty and truth, makes the following remarks
about the shameful desecration of the Sabbath caused by
the steeple chase in Paris on Sunday week.—" We pub-
lish to-day an account of a steeple-chase which was run
scene, we say it with shame, nearly all the actors were
neare h
ieti occurred
yP,
our own countrymen. It was only the locality in which it
being given to a pio:Reding got up and carried through,
well as their owners and riders, were, with very few ex-
ceptions, exclusively English ; and, there cannot be a
doubt that, had such a desecration of the Sabbath de-
pended on the French themselves, it never would have
happened. In their own country none of the persons
concerned would have dared to outrage public opinion
by an indecency for which there is no excuse, and which
seems to have been prompted by a spirit of vulgar
bravado towards those rules of decorum which it is con-
venient for the unscrupulous to set down to the score of
prejudice. We are sure that not one of the individuals
17 .
haustion, and 'died. Another boat managed to get into menus wisneu to piotet .... ~.....___ . _ _, es- who rode his horse, or allowed it to run, in the steeple-
Black Hills. The crews of the two other boats, belong- tablishment of truth and the establishment of error. chase of Sunday week, would have ventured to take a
ing to John Purvis and Cuthbert Dobson, were taken up But to this Sir Culling Smith and Mr. Baines would not part in such a pastime on such a day in England, unless
by the Adam White, schooner, of Leith, and were landed consent ; and therefore Dr. Reed withdrew, and began he were prep-ared to forfeit his position in society at once,
he Crosby Hall conference." Now, however, we fear and sink into a class with whom resctabt of the very
se iron ship at Bridlington ; their boats went down soon after being
that both hA B• and S' C Ring Smith have gone humblest • kwould fl • degradationhold
_, rr I, ~ 441-1, linat hPhinaino• to Cuthbert and ot Ir. ames ir u ian ee it atocom-
VT• • ... 4-1.:,, V.1....,•4.Z.,.,..1 rIerIL-",c1.;.-. TIT- , . ..1_ .. 1.1- - -1:-4.-- -- _e _ e-
t title
Englishmen.
sf inhaml: rne .n whichehT

—,zed to bear certain charges for yeomanry
uni-
and personal expences, to be incurred by
,the for-
mer : his noble brother practically den'e3 that any such
promise was made ; and with le t rs f o n tailors, writs
from one tradesman, and threats of writs from another,
the M.P. thinks the case one for the edificat:on of the
world in general and the electors of We s' Gloucestershire
in particular, and straightway indites a long, long letter,
wherein he lays bare transactions inconceivably shabby,
and such that even we could hardly have believed of the
distinguished and moral Whigs of Berkeley Castle. We
presume the electors of West Gloucestershire will, for
their own credit's sake, throw off the disgraceful connec-
tion between themselves and the Berkeleys at the very
earliest opportunity.
lrtcoNsisTENcv OF DISSENTERS.—The dispassionate
and reasonable among the dissenters cannot fail to re-
mark that Mr. Baines, and we fear Sir Culling Smith, are

tially pior: