The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Six,-I perceive in the Albion of this day two letters, one
from Mr. Lawson, and another from Mr. Mason, denying
the statements I made in the Liverpool papers of Saturday.
All that I need say in reference to Mr. Lawson is, that
Mr. Joseph Appleby and Mr. Threlfall were present, and
heard Mr. Lawson offer the bet; and I feel assured both of
these gentlemen will not hesitate to confirm my statement.
And with reference to Mr. Mason's statement, I have to
observe that I am ready to make oath to what I said in my
former letter ; and bow Mr. Mason could sign such a docu-
ment, I leave to his own conscience to supply the answer.—
1 am, &c., JOHN BRIGHOLTSE.
Park-road, ist February, 1841.

MEDAL IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MAS

SACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW.

CHALLENGE TO THE POPISH PRIESTS OF LIVERPOOL.

The editor of the Liverpool ifircury having stateCihat
if the present Pope of Rome were monster enough to ap-
prove of the above barbarous massacre, he could not be fool
enough to order a medal to be re-cast, commemorating it.
I assert that the medal was re-cast, in the mint at Rome, so
lately as December, 1839, and I challenge any priest in Li-
verpool to disprove such fact, if he can. Further, I chal-
lenge any Popish priest in Liverpool to point out to me any
',work, having the authority of the Pope of Rome, io which
that atrocious massacre is spoken of in terms of reprobation,
or even, to rise the moderii phraseology, 'as an untoward
event.
I make not these statements " to keep tip enmity between
two large sections of Christians," as is falseti asserted by
those who brawl aboutliberty, and know not what it is :-but
I make them to Ad* that Popery id whit it' W 08; and what
it ever will be., —it system of blood-stained persecution.—l
remain, &c., JOSH. CRISP.

A.IMAT. ',V.V,. IYA-9.§..

T 9 4.#41 R-949,13 ff 414 E PY,F-4?-P9o* 5T41414P-P.
SIR,—In your paper of yesterday you gopy the following
query from a 1400 don contemporary--" Does dear bread
bring high wages ? In reply to which I beg leave to send
you the following table ;
Year. Wheat per Bushel. Wages of Agriculturists.
a. d. s. d.
1150 0 4i .. 0 2
1350 1, 0 3
1450 .. 1 5 .. 0 31
1550 .. 1 104 0 4
1600 .. 4 04 0 6
1625 .. .. 411 0 61
1675 .. 4 6 .. 07i
1720 .. 4 6 8
1740 S .. .. 010
1760 3 94 0 11
1780 1 2
1795 .. 7 10 1 54
Now, from the above you will see, with some slight devia-
tions, that the price of bread and wages have kept pretty
equal. For instance, in 1350 wheat was at ls. 104 d. per
bushel, and wages 3d. per day ; so that it took a man 74 days
to earn a bushel of wheat. In 1795 wheat is 7s. 10d. per
bushel,. and wages
dais. 54d; per day sp, Ulm he earned a
bushel of .wheat ri4 or. `*,ow' What hatelhegrtimblers
to complain of. `• • • r..r t
Thii table is extracted from the Philosophical Transactions
for 1798, and consetitiently was' not' calculated 'for political
purposes ; so that they may be depended Upon c and to these
tables I refer your readers' for the'price of other' Commodi-
ties, which Will show more clearly tihe dote 'connection of
wheat and wages iOlnice. 4t 11. P.
Liver'popt, 3001404arY•

RommitY we 4 BLIND MAN.—Yesterday, at the Police-
court, a blind man, named Peter Callaghan, was charged
with stealing a sum of money from a widow named Bridget
Braman. Informant said that she lived in Jones's=conrt,
Lace-street. Her husband died in November last, and she
had received five sovereigns and ten pounds in silver as his
funeral money from the club to which he belonged. She
paid away part of it, and had a balance of five sovereigns and
seventeen shillings in a leather purse, which she put into a
sock, and placed in her pocket. Between nine and ten o'clock
on Sunday night, while she was going tO fled, Ole heard the
prisoner striking her mother. She ualked out ". :Murderrder i" and
4
was met on the stairs by the priSon, er by the
throat with one
.14041, ,while, with .the%other he seized her
pocket, and•tookat off her person with' her money. 'A con-
stable was 'calW add'tlie prisOnet was taken to bridewell.
He had a harp
in hi's hell .rootn. A boy
wilo was in the house
shook it, and money was heard to jingle in it. When the
constable returned from bridewell, he found the money that
had been missed in the harp, together with the purse. The
prisoner had shut himself up in _his bed-room iinmediately
after taking the money. He was committed for trial at the
sessions.