The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

ie only objection that we know of is One akin to that
raised a few months ago by a cold-hearted few against
: that it tends

iamentary succour to t.

lie starving Iris

iv aeprive me recipient or tne ieelings of self-dependence.
Just or not, it may be truly said that this is an objection
which woul/ never occur to a man whose Christian feel-
ing was more than a name. It is not true, however,'*at
least so far as Industrial Schools are concerned, as an ad-
mirable passage from the Rev. T. Guthrie's " Plea for
Ragged Schools" will show. With this we quit the sub-
ject for the present : .

" This is no scheme to relieve those whose vices have
brought them to ruin, or whose indolence keeps them in
poverty. We fully accord with this sentiment of the
apostle, 'He that will not work should not eat.' This is
both the judgment of Scripture and of reason. In very
mercy to this world, God has linked crime and suffering
together ; and it were a short-sighted benevolence which,
interfering with that law of Providence, would dissolve the
connection. Let guilty parents suffer : they have eaten

sour grapes—let their teeth be set on edge. But has not
God said, ' What mean ye that ye use this proverb con-
cerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set ,ou edge ?
As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion
any more to use this proverb in Israel. Andthe question
which we put to a humane and Christian public is this :
Are we, without any efficient effort to save them, to allow
parents to draw down into the same gulf with
their innocent and helpless offspring ? We
to contaminate our hospitals with such
it would be one thing to rear the chil-
-lin affluence,—to provide them with a
I,—to house them in splendid palaces ;
, to save them from the pangs of hunger,
---les to which hunger tempts them and
drives them,—to bless them with a simple education,
• ,

do not propo
children. Surely

lege Wynd of the Old Grey

with some

she was a drunkard

save some straw there ;

But there was

there was no bed in her bons(

a drunkard ? And if not—if what I did was not to be
condemned, but rather commended how ought this
scheme to commend itself to the zealous support of
Christian men ! That food, perhaps, served to spin out
for but a little their feeble thread of life : it secured to
them no permanent benefit. But we beseech the public
to observe, that the charity given in the way we plead
for does what common charity does not ;—it secures for
every child whose hunger it allays, and whose life it
saves, the blessings of a eommon and a Christian edu-
cation."—Birmingham Journal.

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THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND JENNY LIND.—
Mdlle. Lind has been invited by the Bishop of Norwich
to stay at his palace during the approaching concerts.
The number of married couples above sixty years of age,
who are inmates of the various workhouses in England
and Wales, is 574.

On Wednesday, the Rev. Samuel Jackson was elected
president of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for the
ensuing year. The Rev. Mr. Beecham was second on
the list.

At the Stafford Assizes, a postmaster, named Robert
Ingle, was convicted of robbery, having embezzled a
security of £2 Os. 3d., the property of the Postmaster
General. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
On Saturday last, Hannah Boys' the wife of a labourer,
at Alaston, Surrey, who had been haymaking, was struck
dead by lightning whilst seeking shelter from a thunder
storm.

A movement is being made for the formation of a com-
pany to promote the cultivation of cotton on the Pacific
coast of Australia, from the 30th parallel of latitude to the
tropic of Capricorn.
LAUNCH.—Wednesday, Messrs. Robert Steel & Co., of
Glasgow, launched a magnificent steamer of 700 tons,
named the Niagara, being the second of the addition to
the Halifax line.

It is stated that Jenny Lind was offered £4OO to sing
at Sheffield, but she declined under £l,OOO, as she has
only one night disengaged during her stay in England,
which she quits in September.
A playful whirlwind, says the Gateshead Observer,
betook itself to haymaking the other day, in a field be-
longing to Mrs. Backhouse, of Norton. It ran off with
a quantity of the crop, two hundred feet in the air, and
then sportively scattered it over its fellow haymakers.
FRENCH FRUIT.—The steam-ship Columbine arrived
at the St. Katharine's Steam Wharf, from Havre, has
brought the immense quantity of 2,528 baskets of the
various kinds of fruit in season, the production of France.
This is the largest importation of the kind.
The present restricted weight of letters by post, of six-
teen ounces, will be removed on the Ist of August, and
from that day the Treasury are empowered to fix the
maximum weight of letters to be sent by the post, in or-
der to prevent packets of an unwieldy bulk, or an incon-
venient size, being transmitted.
THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.—The grand jury, at
the Derby Assises, ignored the bill against Robert
Statham, charged with having, at the borough of Ches-
terfield, in the year 1845, aided John Platts to murder
George Collis, on the ith day of December, 1845.
Anthony Lant was tried on a similar indictment on Tues-
day, and was acquitted.
REMARKABLE HORTICULTURAL FEAT.—The gardener
of Lady Rolle has succeeded in ripening pine-apples in
the open air in Devonshire. After the fruit was set in
May last, the pots containing the plants were placed in a
trench sheltered from cold winds, and covered with
charred hay, and the result has been ripe pines of excel-
lent flavour.

A company, formed out of the late Drury-lane com-
pany, have been lately performing operas at the Surrey,
and have migrated from the far south to the far north,
their whereabouts being. now Sadler's Wells. The prin-
cipal soprano and tenor are Miss Rainforth and Allen.
They have produced the " Sonnambula " with consider-
able success.

The new post-office act provicles " that it shall be law-
ful to allow any printed words, writing, or marks (in addi-
tion to the direction), to be put on any newspapers, or
other papers sent by post, or on the covers thereof, and
any such newspapers, or other papers, shall from hence-
forth be forwarded either free of postage or subject to such
rates of postage as the Postmaster-General with the Com-
missioners of the Treasury, shall from time to time direct."

To PROTECT GRAIN FROM RATS.—An individual of
much practical experience informs us that green elder,
deposited in and about the mows of hay and grain, will
prove an effectual preventive against the depredation of
mice and rats. We have long known that the leaves of
common mullen will drive rats from their haunts. There
is something in the odour of this plant that is disgusting
to the rats—they " cannot abide it."—Scotch Gazette.

At the Beaumaris assizes, Mr. Davis, surgeon, New-
burgh, and medical officer of the union, and Mr. Williams,
a schoolmaster, were convicted on an indictment of libel
against Mr. John Lloyd, surgeon of Llangefni, in the
shape of a printed handbill, describing the prosecutor as
an ignoramus. They were sentenced, Davis to imprison-
ment for two months, with a fine of 1100, and Williams
to two months' imprisonment.
INCREASE OF THE PROPERTP-TAX. —The following
rather startling announcement was given as the first
article in Thursday's Standard:—" It is designed at the
meeting of the new parliament to propose an augmenta-
tion of the property and income-tax to five per cent. Of
this the public may be assured, and the design will explain
what has been hinted in some of the hustings speeches of
the ministerial candidates."
At the Worship-street police-court- an Mondayi Wil-
liam Sheeue, the man who acquired so much notoriety
some years since by cutting off the head of his child,
from which charge he was liberated by the judges on a
technical informality, was placed at the bar charged with
cutting and wounding a woman, named Mary Anne Sulli-
van, with whom he had cohabited, with intent to murder
her. _ He was fully committed on the capital charge,_

A YOUNG LADY SHOT BY HER BROTHER.-0.11 Wed-
nesday, a young lady, daughter of Mr. Lesourer, of Sloane-
street, Chelsea, was joking with her brother in the garden,
when the latter brought a fowling-piece with him to clean,
presented it at her, and touching the trigger, the discharge
entered the young lady's neck and face. Medical assist-
ance being obtained, it was found that the charge was
chiefly small shot. Though the injuries are serious, fatal
consequences are not anticipated.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.--A SHOWER OF BLACK
GNATS.—On Sunday evening, the good people of Mer-
thyr were very much astonished by being visited by a
shower of these small insects. So dense were they for
about an hour, that people coming from chapel could
hardly see their way along the streets, and were obliged to
cover their faces for protection. They were of a larger
size than the common gnats, and their sting like that of
the musquito.
CURIOUS INCREASE OF CHURCHES AND SECTS.—Ten
years ago the town of Girvan had only two churches, in
which public worship was regularly performed, with two
chapels, in which there was occasional service. Since
then three new churches have been built, and there are
now no less than nine congregations of different denomi-
nations in Girvan ; all this while the population has not
increased above 700 or 900.—Edinburgh Witness.

The ruins of Kilcolman Castle, the residence of Spen-
ser, in the north of Ireland, remain to this day. A
tourist thither, inquiring of a postillion whether he had
ever heard of Spenser at Kilcolman, was answered, " Is it
Mr. Spenser, of Kilcolman, your honour ? " Troth, then,
I can 't just say that I ever heard tell of him ; but I sup-
pose he goes round by Doneraile way. for he never took
horses in Mallow in my time, sir."—Lady's Newspaper.
MOST MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday last,
about mid-day, an Irishman, called Peter Hair, with
three children, his whole family, aged fourteen, eleven,
and six, the oldest and youngest being boys, left the
Newabbey shore, to gather cockles on the bank opposite
Carsethord. Not being acquainted with the run of the
tide, they remained too long on the bank, and before a
boat could reach them the three children were swept into
eternity ! Their father was rescued by Captain Blair,
just as the water was entering his mouth, and must also
have perished in a few minutes.—Dumfries Herald.

THE REMAINS OF MR. O'CONNELL.—The Chester
Courant of Wednesday contains the following :—" The
mortal remains of the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell arrived
in Chester on Monday evening, and are now lying in the
Roman Catholic Chapel of this city, whence they will be
removed on Sunday night, on their melancholy journey
for interment in Ireland. Mr. Gardner, of Chester, has
received orders to make a new coffin, as that in which the
body is now encased, and which was made at Genoa, is of
rather common workmanship. The corpse is to be em-
barked on board a steam-packet at Birkenhead for Dublin."
The-Dublin Freeman of Tuesday says " The funeral will
certainly take place on Thursday, the sth of August."

SERIOUS CASE OF POISONING A SHIP'S CREW
Saturday se'nnight, a very frightful occurrence took place
on board the Achilles, of Newcastle, lying at Gloucester.
On the previous day a new cook, a black, had been re-
ceived on board, who on Saturday proceeded to mace
soup for dinner. Most reprehensibly, a jar of arsenic had
been left in the lazaret, and the cook mistaking this for
flour, used a handful of it to thicken the soup, of which
when preliared, the cook himself, the mate, the carpenter,
the captain's child, and a nurse girl partook. A custom-
house officer on board tasted the soup, but not liking it,
refused it. The other five were speedily taken alarmingly
ill. The nurse and child were soon placed out of danger
by the prompt remedies applied, but the three seamen
were for some time considered in extreme danger.
On Friday night, a thief at Northmoulton, near Exeter,
came by her death in a most extraordinary manner. A
woman named Wesmacott, wife of a schoolmaster in the
village, had gone out with an empty sack in her hand,
and on the following morning she was found jambed and
quite dead in a corn mill, between the water wheel and
the wall. It appeared that the miller had latterly missed
corn from his mill, on several occasions, and had watched
a few nights previously, but without detecting the depre-
dators. There is an aperture above the axle of the water
wheel, through which the entrance must have been made ;
and, theref n.e, on the night in question, he left the mill-
wheel slowly turning, to prevent the access of the thieves.
However, through this opening the woman ventured to

PRESERVING LIFE AT SEA.—A very interesting expe-
riment took place on Monday week, in the river Tyne,

of the town, and a la'ige concourse of s;

pectators

It was

to test the efficacy of an invention to preserve life at sea
by means of tubes of vulcanized India rubber, lashed to

CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A CL ER X IN SOME
SET HOUSE.—On Wednesday, William Yates, chief clerk
in the Income-tax Office, Somerset House, was brought
up in the custody of Constable Kerr, F, division, and
placed at the bar of the Bow Street Police Office, before
Mr. Jardine, charged with forging a receipt for the sum
of 1137, with intent to defraud the Drapers' Company,
and also with stealing that amount, being the property of
the Receiver-General. The. prisoner was in the receipt
of £4oo' a-year, and was said to be tha son-in-law of
Lord Robertson. He was remanded for a week.

At the Exeter assizes, all the men indicted for con-
spiracy and mutiny on board the Thomas Campbell were
acquitted. In the course of the evidence for the prose-
cution, it was elicited, on cross examination, that the
captain was a man of a violent and brutal nature, and
that he had just been liberated from Newgate, where he
had been confined ior a most violent attack on one of the
crew of the ship he had formerly commanded. The
captain himself admitted, on cross-examination, that he
had been thirteen times before different tribunals, at
home and abroad, on charges of cruelty to his men.
THE SECRET SERVICE MONEY AND THE ELECTIONS.
—The £30,000 a-year, secret service, at the disposal of a
Minister of the Crown, and especially at the period of a
general election, is a sum capable of being spread"
either good or for evil. That some (if not very large)
portions of this £30,000 will be sunk in certain election-
eering contests, which we have heard named, there is not
the shadow of a doubt. Whether any share of the ex-
penses of the City of London election will he paid from
out of this sum, it is, of course, impossible for us to say.
We have, however, an opinion about this matter—and

Lers en

y coinci

wouiu De ratner nara- upon the Jew, say " the
people " bf Houndsditch and Bevis Marks, to call upon
the great Hebrew capitalist to pay all the expenses, while
Lord John has got so large a sum of money at the quiet
disposal of the government.—John Bull.
THE FACTORY ACT.—We have been looking forward
with no small degree of anxiety to witness the spirit in
which this important measure would be acted upon by
those manufacturers who anticipated its results with the
most gloomy anticipations. The factory workers of this
district are now in a position to rejoice at the result of its
introduction thus far. The noble and benevolent-minded
Fieldens, of Waterside, have again come forward with an
example worthy of imitation, and which, we are glad to
report, is not without its pleasing effects on many others,
who have honourably followed the example of Messrs.
Fielden, and are now working their mills 11 hours per
day, and paying the day hands with 12 hours' Wftol.2_

We rejoice to find that the result of the new bill has cre-
ated a spirit of inquiry among the factory workers (espe-
cially the young men), who are considering the best means
of appropriating to advantage the extra time that is already
and will hereafter be afforded them. And we are informed
of several applications that are now being made to rent
small plots of land, for the purpose of making cottage
gardens. This is a step in the right direction,—Halifax
Guardian.

RIOT AFTER THE NORWICH ELECTION.—During the
after part of the day of polling at the Norwich election,
on Thursday, about 200 navvies," wishing probably to
give an extra cheer to their master, Mr. Peto, one of the
successful candidates, came into the city, and regaled
themselves rather too plentifully with strong drink, and
perambulated the streets, uttering the most vociferous
cheers for Mr. Peto, till the closing of the poll. Mr.
Peto had beaten the popular candidate, Mr. Parry, and
that was enough to stir up the ill-feeling of the Norwich
mob, hundreds of whom had nearly all day filled the
Church-mall of St. Andrew's. When these jolly fellows,
unarmed and waving their hats, came past, an attack was
commenced upon them. The Norwich men were chiefly
armed with sticks and bludgeons, and chased the navvies.
The half-inebriated men turned round, and, having no
other weapons, the stones fell thick as hail amongst the
crowd. A fight followed, and the "navvies" were driven
through the market-place, along Davy-place, across the
Cattle-hill, taking refuge in the Cattle-market Inn. Here
the windows were dashed in, and in the fight nearly forty
of the men were severely injured, chiefly about the head.
The police force was called out, and drove back the mob,
taking the wounded men to the police station, from whence
they were afterwards removed to the railway station to be
sent home, followed by the infuriated mob, who were with
difficulty prevented making another attack upon them.
The rest got off safe.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPYTO BURN A WHOLE FAMILY.—
One of the most cold-blooded attempts to destroy a whole
family that has probably ever been made was tried on
Wednesday morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, and
there is no doubt if it had not been for the providential
discovery that was made every person in the house would
have been burned to death. It appears that a waterman
named Maxwell, with his wife and family, have resided
for some time past in Love-lane, Rotherhithe. The fa-
mily retired to bed at their usual hour on Tuesday night,
but at the time before stated Maxwell was aroused from
his slumbers by a strange noise in the lower part of the
building. He immediately got up, and on getting about
half-way down stairs he smelt fire very strongly. He went
back and informed his wife that he thought the house
was wrapt in flames, at the same telling her to get up and
arouse the other inmates, whilst he went below to ascer-
tain if what he imagined was correct or not. The mo-
ment Maxwell got to the foot of the stairs, he was met by
a young man, who, armed with a heavy hatchet, struck
him on the back of head with such violence as to knock
him on to the floor, after which he inflicted another blow
on the head of the poor man. The family, hearing the
man fall, ran down to learn the cause, and the villain,
seeing the people moving, rushed through one of the back
doors, and succeeded in effecting a safe escape. In the
confusion of the moment the residents forgot that their
first cause of alarm was the outbreak of fire, and it was
not until a dense body cf smoke issued from one of the
lower rooms, that they became aware that the place had
been fired. WLen they entered the apartment in ques-
tion they found that a bottle of spirits of turpentine had
been set on fire in the cupboard, and that the flames were
extending. By the timely assistance afforded, the fire
was happily soon put out. Everything has been done for
Mrr Maxwell, but he lies in a very precarious state.

ELECTRICITY AND THE POTATO DISEASE.—III a letter
addressed by Sir R. Meyrick to the Hereford Times, we
find the following interesting statement :—"A valuable
piece of information was communicated to me yesterday,
by the Dean of Westminster. He had been a day or two
before informed of the following interesting fact:—On my
stating my disbelief in the injury having been effected by
a fly, he said that I was right, and that the conclusion
come to by the various committees of savans abroad was,
that we knew nothing about the matter, and tnat it must
therefore have been caused by the peculiar state of the
atmosphere. This assertion induced a scientific gentle-
man, living at Kensington, to inqure what had occasioned
any such state in the air. On examining the meteorologi-
cal tables, he found that during the last two years there
had been a much greater quantity of lightning than pre-
viously. Then came the question, would that injure the
potato plant ? Lightning being electricity, to ascertain the
point he enclosed some atmospheric air in a receiver, and
having insulated it, applied the electrifying machine. The
potato plant being then introduced into the receiver was
immediately affected in the same way as those diseased
ones of last season. The potato was removed, and corn
of various kinds, mangold wurtzel, and such like vegetable
substances, subjected to similar treatment. They were
unsullied. A fresh potato plant was then put in and the
effect was the same as before. Thus was established the
fact that the potato disease was occasioned by lightning.
Now to prevent it. The first thing necessary was to as-
certain how the lightning acted. Mr. Adams found that
it separated the air into its component parts, oxygen, hy,
drogen, and nitrogen, the first so requisite for animal life,
and the last for that of vegetation; but this was not all,
for it did the injury to the potato by converting the nitro-
gen into nitrous acid. Mr. Adams knew that quic lime
was an antidote to nitrous acid; he therefore took a fresh
potato plant, sprinkled it over with quick lime, and intro-
duced it into atmospheric air electrified as before—the po-
tato plant remained uninjured."
THE MONEY MARKET.—There is very little to notice
in our weekly summary of money and commercial affairs,
almost universal attention being directed to the prepara-
tions for elections now at hand and in progress. The ac-
counts relative to the probable yield of the harvest con-
tinue to be of a most satisfactory nature, and this circum-
stance has inspired a considerable degree of confidence in
all banking and trading circles. The amount of business
doing, nevertheless remains limited, and will doubtless
continue so until after the first week in August at least has
passed. The amount of mercantile paper coming to ma-

turity on the 4th instant proves to be larger than was ex-
pected. Every effort is being made to prepare for such
payments, and, though difficulty is experienced, and will
still be felt, until the event has been arranged, it is never-
theless expected that, on the whole, the matter will be
brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The foreign ex-
changes were quoted for three months bills as follows :
Paris, 25.65 to 70 ; Antwerp, 25.70 to 25.75 ; Amsterdam,
12.41 to 5 ; Hamburgh, 13.11/ to 12 ; Frankfort, 121 ;
and Trieste 10 to 10.1. These rates exhibit a small ad-
vance upon Holland and Germany, and more firmness
upon other cities. The fluctuations in the funds have
been but limited since this day week, but the tendency of
the week has been rather downwards. There has been
some demand for cash both in the stock exchange and
disconnt markets, and the rates rule high, considering
that there is little or no export of bullion going on, and
that the capitalists and brokers are very full of cash. The
fluctuations in the English stocks since our last, have been
in Consols for immediate transfer 88+ to 881 and for the
account 888 to 891. Exchequer Bills have realized Bs. to
Ils. premium, and East India Bonds 10s. to ss. premium.
Bank Stock has been at 196/ to 198 and East India Stock
at 246 to 2431. The New 31 per cents. have been marked.
91+ to 901, the Reduced 3 per cents. 898 to 884, and Con-
sols Scrip to + premium. The foreign stock market has
been very quiet on the whole, but the quotations keep up
as well as can be expected. The state of money matters
both at Madrid and Lisbon is certainly very discouraging,
and, as to Mexico, we have no later news thence. The
Peruvian bondholders have decided to push their claims
nnnn +b. 0,,,,,,,•,,mpnt at Lima, and not to be at the ex-

pense of sending an agem
ferenc,e of Lord Palmerston.
leading Foreign Securities, since ou.
Spanish Active Bonds from 21+ to 22k, the Three t.
Cents. 32 to 31, Portuguese Four per Cents. 308 to 31
Mexican 19+ to 191, Brazilian 84 to 841 Russian 1123
1112, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per

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