The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

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Those corner-stones, religion, I
have long ceased to adorn the figurative edifice of France
Still, we hoped we had seen the worst, and.that the crisi
might end happily. In the midst of our hopes falls, lik

—a people without loyal

3e grea'

a bomb, the Preslin murder to crush them
crime was born of vice—a crime, too ; but both are crimes
of a sort to which the filthy and infidel portion of the
French press and French literature generally have given
the name of virtues ! Where the stage and the novelists
encourage lust and murder, and where the law looks upon
adultery and bloodshedding as amiable weaknesses, no
wonder that God is outraged, and hearths desolated, by
such social crimes as that which has so lately awoke the
public horror.—Church Gazette.
FURTHER. FALL IN THE PI
highest price realiz

shed its maximums
—drcity," was £32 per load. Wheat of th
same quality was offered in Windsor market on Saturda
last, and only very small sales effected, the general •
pression amongst the buyers being that in the
another month it would be down to £l2 or -‘'"
The following are the last prices of r
market towns alluded to : —Reading
Newbury, £l4 to £l7 ; Bicester,

bouring count
during the " s

OF CO'

at the time it had

per load.
heat per load at the
12 lila to 4:11 10,

bury, to £l6 ; Th'ame £137163. to £l5 15s.;7Aliing-
don,. £l5 to £l6 ; Wallingford, £l3 to £l4 10s. ; and
Maidenhead, £l3 10s. to £l7. There appears to be a
general complaining throughout the provincial, districts
that the price of bread to the public has not been reduced
in anything like proportion to the great fall in wheat and
flour.

EFFECTS OP FREE-I
PAUPERISM IN LAN,

TRADM

—ALARMING INCREASE Ob
ASHIRE.—On this subject, says z

free-trade journal of Saturday, such an alarm has been
taken in Bolton, that the Mayor has convened a special
meeting to consult as to what is best to be done. In
Preston the increase upon the poors' rates has been very
great. In the June quarter, 1846, the number of poor
relieved in that town was 3,687, the cost being £1,130.
In the June quarter of the present year the number re-
lieved has been 12,615, and the cost £3,795. The Preston
Guardian in drawing attention to these facts, Says :—" It
will be ruinous to go on at the rate of fifteen thousand a-
year for poor-taxes alone ; and if the forebodings respect-
ing trade be realized, we may have that sum very greatly
increased in the winter, from the vast numbers who are
expected to be out of work. In addition to which, the
county rates, instead of diminishing, are likely to increase
upon us. What is done should be done instantly."
MORE ABOUT POTATOES.—Of the state of the potato
crops abroad, the editor of the. Gardener's Chronicle, who
has been at much pains to obtain authentic information,
says, in that paper of Saturday,—" The season is now so
far advanced as to justify us in believing that the danger
is over, and that the principal part of the European har-
vest oithis root is safe ; and thus again are confirmed the
opinions which we have this season ventured to express,
that the symptoms were more favourable, and that the
adlils disease had
bhtaosdualros spttoairttishe
Paris
virulence.
week will have removed
be equally satisfactory in
Belgium. There is nothing in the Belgian
potatoe crop
i
bushel, while the. 41b. loaf is 10(1., indicate an enormous
Frenchtterolast
crop;
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potatoes
se. 6 con-
tinent d.a
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appear
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havea coanitofidileanrceintfohramt
athtieonsufprpolmy
which can lead to a suspicion that it has been attacked by
the disease of previous years. In light land or heavy,
clay, marl, or bog, ( the Polders,) the crops are universally
te
and promise twice as large a return as in common
Holland, and affair
safe,
years."
THEATRE ROYAL, LIVER. This favourite theatre
opened last night under a new management, with the play
of Richelieu, the leading character being sustained by a
o
young tragedian—Mr. George Owen, 1- whom high ex-
pectations had been raised, from notices of his acting in
various provincial theatres. We have not had, upon the
eve of a publication, a fair opportunity of forming a judg-
ment of his abilities ; and must, therefore, refrain from
saying more at present than that many passages of his
acting elicited hearty applause, and that some evinced
great merit. The company geperally is good. The house
NM moderately well filled,
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