The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LADES.
BEWARE OF SUMMER !

riIHOUGII the Season is delightful, yet exposure to
1 the scorching rays of the SUN produces upon the delicate
skin a species of inflammation, which, upon subsiding, leaves
a permanent stain of inveterate TAN, or Sprinkles of FRECKLE;
in other instances, a discoloration inclining to REDNESS, or
SWELLlNG—ultimately assuming one of the multitudinous
forms of ERUPTION. The only efficacious preventive against
these unpleasant liabilities of the SKIN and COMPLEXION is

ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, ---
a BOTANICAL PREPARATION from Balsamic Exotics; for, whe-
ther resorted to in its specific character as a thorough purifier
of existing defects of an eruptive nature and discolorations of
the Skin, or as a benign PRESERVER and PROMOTER Of its
already bright and glowing tints, this ELEGANT TOILET
REQUISITE has, in every instance, maintained its claim' to
thetitleof"TirE UNFAILINGAUXILIARY OF FEMALE GRACE."
'During SUMMER and AUTUMN, which are peculiarly the
seasons Of FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS, the inrigorafing and
refreshing properties of ROWLAND'S KALYnOIt will be
found singularly agreeable to LADIES TRAVELLING. The
effects produced by temporary EXPOSURE TO SOLAR HEAT,
upon the FACE, NECK, ARMS, and HANDS, being neutral-
ized, and the cloud induced by relaxation andlanguor dispelled
by its power of sustaining a perfect elasticity of the skin ; with-
out which, certain (though perhaps unheeded) deterioration
takes place. Thus, in the usual Periodical-Visits made to the
Coast, ROWLAND'S KALYDOR is indispensable as a preserva-
tive after SEA BATHING, from e irritation caused by the
chemical action of saline vapo
As a perfect illustration o he unquestionable safety attend-
ing the application of wland's Kalydor, and of the wide
range of its utility, it. troduction to the nursery, with the
advantage which en es in that interesting department of ma-
ternal solicitude, • most convincing ;—here it soothes every
species of incid tal inflammation, and fosters all those infan-
tine graces upon which the parental eye dwells with delight.
This EXOTIC PREPARATION in every case promotes a healthy
tone of the minute vessels, and is the most elegant as well as
effective Toilet Appendage hitherto submitted to universal pa-
tronage. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. Gd. per bottle.
*,„.. None are genuine without the words " ROWLAND'S
KALYDOR" on the wrapper.
The HEAT or SUMMER, also, frequently communicates a
dryness to the Hair and a tendency to fall off, which may be
completely obviated by the use of
ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL,

A DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT AND TRANSPARENT PREPARA-
TION; and, as an invigorator and beautifier, beyond all prece-
dent. Nor at this season can we be too careful to preserve the
TEETH from the deleterious effects of Vegetable Acids, (the
immediate cause of Tooth-ach :) by a systematic employment,
night and morning, of
ROWLAND'S ODONTO, OR, PEARL DENTIFRICE,
A WHITE POWDER, compounded of the rarest and most fra-
grant exotics.—lt bestows on the Teeth a Pearl-like White-
ness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts to the Gums a
healthy firmness, and to the Breath a delightful fragrance.
CAUTION.

Numerous perniciOus imitations of these admired articles are
now offered for sale by SHOPKEEPERS of apparent respecta-
bility, who copy the Bills and Labels, and substitute either a
fititious name, or the word "GENUINE," in the place of
fictitious name or the word "GEN'UINE," in the place of
ROWLAND'S : it is therefore necessary on purchasing either
Article to see that the word " ROWLAND 'S" is on the EnVe-
lope. For the Protection of the Public from Fraud and Impo-
sition, the Hon. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Stamps have
authorised the Proprietors to have their Names engraved on
the Government Stamp, which is affixed to the KALYDOR and
ODONTO, thus :
A. ROWLAND AND SON, 20, HATTON-GARDEN.
(n- All without are SPURIOUS IMITATIONS ! !—Ask for
" ROWLAND'S" Articles.
Sold by them, and by Chemists and Perfumers.

MR. ISAAC'S CONCERT.—We mentioned last week
that Mr. Isaac's grand concert is to take place this day
week. We also mentioned the names of the principal
performers, which being done no further recommenda-
tion is needed. The powers of Grisi are well known, and
those of Mario have already been highly appreciated in
this town. But he is not the Mario that he was. Charm-
ing, and easy, and expressive as was his singing a few
years ago, it is now of another and more elevated charac-
ter, his style having improved as much as the quality of
his voice, the former having attained more of masculine
energy, and the latter greater vigour without losing any
of its purity.
THE LEAGUE BREAD COMPANY.—An' advertisement
appears in the London papers for the formation of a
company. with a capital of £200,000, in shares of £5
each, for the following purposes :—" To carry out the
free- trade principles of the League to the fullest possible
extent. To enable the consumer himself to reap alt the
benefits conferred and intended by the legislature. To
supply the consumer with the best bread, full weight,
unadultered, at five per cent. advance on the actual coat
for materials, wages, &c. To reduce the pre ent price of
the quartern loaf by 2d. or more. To destroy the mono-
poly which has existed from time immemorial."
AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER AT LEEDS.—OnWed-
nesday night a shocking occurrence took place in the Old
Post-office Yard, in Leeds. A man flawed William
Walshaw, a licensed hawker cf hardware, had been beat-
ing a woman who lived with him as his wife in a most un-
merciful manner, and a number of women living in the
same neighbourhood, whom she had made acquainted
with the ill-treatment she had received, went in a body to
the man's lodgings, hooted and hissed him, called him a
" murderer," and expressed their feelings of indignation
in a variety of other ways. Two of the women, named
Elizabeth Smith and Kitty M`Loughlin, attempted to go
into the house, when the man in a rage, and under the
influence of drink, rushed upon them with an open clasp
knife in each hand and stabbed them. Smith died the
same night, but M`Loughlin, who was wounded in the
thigh, is expected to recover. Walshaw, after commit-
ting the foul act, attempted to escape, but was secured,
and kept in custody awaiting the coroner's inquest. He is
apparently about 36 years of age, and formerly lived at
Pontefract. A verdict of " Manslaughter" was returned
at the inquest.

THE EGYPTIAN PEA TREE.—Several years ago Sir
Gardiner Wilkinson found a vase and an Egyptian sarco-
phagus, 2,844 years old, in a mummy pit, which he sub-
sequently presented to the British Museum. On exami-
nation, the vase was found to contain a few grains of
wheat, a few peas, and other decomposed mat ter, supposed
to have been originally similar substances. Three of the
peas were presented by P. J. Pettigrew, Esq., to Mr. W.
Grimstone, of the Herbary, Highgate, who, on the 4th of
June, 1844, planted them in a compost resembling the
alluvial soil of the Nile. They were placed in a forcing
frame, and in exactly one month he was most agreeably
surprised by the sprouting of one of them. The product
was nineteen pods, from which fifty-five peas were pre-
served. Some of these were planted on the 23rd of April,
1815, and some on the 4th of June, in the open air, and
in a similar compost, and all were soon in a most flourish-
ing condition, producing quite a plentiful crop of seed.
The Egyptian pea is very prolific, producing from seventy
to one hundred pods. The tree grows similar to a dwarf
grape vine, about three feet in height, and has many
stems, two or three mother stems generally springing from
the mother stalk.

DO Nor DESPISE SMALL THINGS.—The possibility of
a great change being introduced by very slight beginnings,
may be illustrated by a tale which Lockman tells of a
vizier, who having offended his master, was condemned
to perpetual captivity in a lofty tower. At night his wife
came to weep below his window. " Cease your grief,"
said the sage, "go home for the present, and return
hither when yru have procured a live black beetle, toge-
ther with a little ghee (or buffalo's butter), three dews,
one of the finest silk, another of stout pack thread, and
another of whipcord; finally, a stout coil of rope."
When she came again to the foot of the tower, provided
according to her husband's commands, he directed her to
touch the head of the insect with a little of the ghee, to
tie one ehd of the silk thread around him, and to place
the reptile on the wall of the tower. Seduced by the
smell of the butter, which be conceived to be in store
somewhere above him the beetle continued to ascend till
he reached the top, arid thus put the vizier in the posses..
sion of the end of the siltr thread, and drew up the pack
thread by means of the silk, the small cord by means of
the pack thread, and by means of the cord, a stout rope
capable of sustaining his own weight—and so at last es-
caped from the place of his dureAse.—Quarterly Re-
view.

AN INFIDEL'S DEATH-DED.—Some years ago, an indi.
vioual well known and highly respected in the religious
world narrated in my hearing the following incident. In
early life, while with a college companion, he was making
a tour on the continent, at Paris his friend Was seized
with an alarming illness. A physician of great celebrity
was speedily summoned, who stilted that the case was a
critical one, and that much would depend upon a minute
attention to his directions. As there was no one at band
upon whom they could place much reliance, he was re-
quested to recommend some confidential and experienced
nurse.
yourself
happymentionedHein
deed added,osnheo,ubldutyoubeable to secure her
is " You may think
services; but she so much in request amongst the higher
circles here, that there is little chance of finding her dis.
englsed." The narrator at once ordered his carriage,
best and
went to her residence,. and much to. his satisfaction found
her at home. Be briefly stateds his errand, and reque;ted
liPir immediate atten.dance.
.•
,But be'ore I consent to ac-
companyyou, permit me, si.r, ' she sai.d,. " to ask you a
single question. Is your friend a Christian?" " Yes,"
indeed he is—a Christian. in the
highest sense of the term, a man who lives in the fear of
God, But I should Ithe to know your,, reason for such an
he replied, ."
Sir," she Answered, I was the nurse that
inquiry ?" "
attended Voltaire in his last illness, and for all the wealth
of Europe I would never ,see another infidel die.".—
Ford's Damascus.

TO THE LANDED AND MANUFACTURING
INTERESTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,— Let US suppose that OUT
Gracious Queen is made sensible at last of the great duty
she owes to her people, and she is anxiously enquiring
around her for advice and information, how best to gratify
the reasonable claims and to secure the happiness of her
subjects. In these circumstances, we may be permitted
in honest candour to deliver a suitable memorial to her
Most Gracious Majesty, with all becoming firmness and
respect.
No doubt can be entertained, after the truly gratifying
and encouraging manifestation recently exhibited at Lynn
Regis by the genuine friends to Native Industry, that you
will respond to the respectful sentiments and vital truths
expressed in the accompanying appeal to ber Majesty the
Queen, and that you will, IN DUE TIME, be urged to as-
semble your numerous Protectionists Societies, especially
the FARMING TENANTS throughout the United King.
dom, under the fostering, powerful, and wise influence of
your devoted persevering friends and noble leaders the
Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, Rutland, Newcastle,
Lords G. Bentinck, Ashburton, and a long line of aristo-
cratical commercial Protectionists, to constitutionally
appeal to your Sovereign for a revocation of the Free
Trade Act, calculated as it is, to paralyze the exertions of
the agriculturists and all classes of our fellow subjects
both in England and the Colonies.
Keep in mind, Electors of the Empire, the advice of
your leader, the noble Richmond—noble in patriotic feel-
ing and heroic deeds, the champion of his beloved coun-
try's liberties and dearly bought rights ; re-echo the cry,
No Surrender firmly resolve, at the next election, to
fight the battle of the good old cause, Native Industry !
UNDER the motto of the victorious Nelson. " England ex-
pects every man to do his duty !"
A PROTECTIONIST TO FREE LABOUR,

BOTH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES.

It is necessary to notice that our colonies in British
America are our best customers for our manufacturing
fabrics, and that the United States altogether take infi-
nitely less than what we import into the Canadas. Let
us mark the importance of our North American colonies :
Russia takes our imports only Bd. per head ; Prussia,
81.1. ; Germany and Switzerland, 2s. 9d. ; France, ls. 7d. ;
Holland, 31s. sd. ; Belgium, 7s. ; Denmark, 2s. 10d. ;
Sweden and Norway, ls. 3d. ; United States, 7s. Ild. ;
and the North American British Colonies, 375. 4d. !
Notwithstanding these astounding facts, at would appear
that a great reliance is placed on foreign competition,
though foreigners met England with hostile tariffs.

A PROTECTIONIST TO BRITISH INDUSTRY.
Oxford, 6th .Angust, 1846.

THE NEW POOR-LAW COMMISSION.

The committee appointed by the House of Commons
co inquire into the alleged irregularities of the Andover
Union have made their report.
Under the head of dietary, the committee point out an
explained discrepancy between the dietary No. 3, as pub-
lished in the second annual report of the Poor-law Com-
missioners, and the dietary said to be No. 3, adopted in
the workhouse of the Andover Union. They are of opi-
nion that, until last autumn, the Andover dietary was too
low ; and that it was often further diminished by the
master. It was proved that the hungry inmates bad
been in the habit of eating refuse food thrown to pigs
and fowls, and of eating the marrow of the bones
they were set to break. The committee find it proved
that produce of the paupers' labour in crushing bones,
was distributed among the guardians by a mock auction.
It is their opinion that this or any other labour of a dis-
gusting or penal character, should not he adopted by
boards of guardians, to deter the really destitute poor
from entering the workhouse. It is remarkable that,
notwithstanding petitions to parliament to this effect in
1842, no order for the discontinuance of the practice was
issued by the Commissioners till November, 1845. The
committee mention that the sick in the Andover Union
did not receive their necessary extra allowances. They
are of opinion that these abuses would have been checked
at once, had the medical officers of the Union been placed
in an independent position by being appointed during good
behaviour.

The Committee find it proved that the greatest laxity
has prevailed in respect to the accounts of the Union ;
that many important books have remained for long pe-
riods unchecked ; and that the Board of Guardians and
Clerk of the Union have failed in the due performance of
the duties which they respectively owed to the rate-payers
and the poor of the district. The Committee mention,
as one contributing cause to the irregularities prevalent
in the Union, that the clerk had been, from the beginning,
allowed to act by deputy.
The Committee account for Mr. Parker's not having
detected the abuses which prevailed in the Andover Union,
by ihe fact "that the large extent of his district, the
large number of Unions comprised in it, and the heavy
special calls made upon his time by the Poor. law Com-
missioners, have rendered it almost impossible for him
to pay visits to each of the Unions under his care, nu•
moerkro
hu
os o andses. In connexion long enougheosoez foro
withefft thective
excessive e
inspection
sozf the
wof
Mr. Parker's district, the Committee advert to the cir-
cumstance that while the number of unions has been
yearly increasing, the number of Assistant Commission-
ers has been successively diminished from twenty-one to
seventeen, to twelve, and at last to nine. Not only, it is
added, were Mr. Parker's labours excessive ' • his special
representations of the disgraceful state of the accounts
and workhouses in many of the unions placed under his
superintendence, received no attention from the Commis-
sioners ; nor is this the only instance in which these gen-
tlemen have failed to encourage the detection and removal
of abuses by Assistant Commissioners.
On the cases of Messrs. Parker and Day, " tbe com-
mittee are of opinion their (the commissioners') conduct
has been irregular and arbitrary, not in accordance with
the statute under which they exercise their functions, and
such as to shake public confidence in their administra-
tion of the law."

In conclusion, the committee intimate that they have
"received much evidence upon the mode of transacting
business which has been adopted by the Poor-law Com-
missionets, throughout the existence of the commission,
and upon the insufficiency of the present number of As-
sistant Commissioners for adequate inspection and con-
trol, and upon other points connected with the adminis-
tration of the poor-law, to which they think it their duty
to direct the special attention of the house ; but upon
which, as these subjects are not included in their order of
reference, they consider themselves precluded from offer-
ing any opinion of their own."

THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.

TO THE RIGHT HON. H. GOVLBORN, M. P.

SIR,-1 have to-day read a statement made by you in
the House of Commons when a committee on the North
American mail contracts was moved for by Mr. Miles,
and, as that portion of your speech relating to the Great
Western steam-ship was not founded on fact, (although
there can be no doubt you, sir, believe it true, and that
you were induced to believe it by false information from
interested parties,) I feel called upon, in justice to myself,
who commanded that still good ship, to call your atten-
tion to the following days of her departure and arrival
during the years 1838, 1839, and 1840, which will clearly
show you that the Great Western Steamship Company,
with their ship the Great Western, under my command,
have a right to the credit of proving to this country. and
to the world, the possibility of crossing the Atlantic by
steam, to and from America fat ALL seasons of the year;
and this was done against, the expressed opinion of high
scientific authority, and also (of what I deem more im-
portance in this case) the strongly expressed opinions of
good practical seamen:
You will see•by the dates I shall give that the Halifax
and Boston contracts were not made until the Great
Western had prmied, by making winter passages (being
at sea in November and December, 1838, and January,
February, and March, 1839) the possibility of the voyage
being accompliOhed at all times of the year.
The following is copied from your speech, as reported
in The Times, of 25th of July :
" Mr. Cunard has thus proved to all, what no other
company ever yet proved, that it was possible to main-
tain the communication regularly through the winter."
* * * " But the Great Western Company
have never attempted to cross the Atlantic during the
winter months. The last period they ever sailed from any
port was November 6, and the earliest voyage was in
April • that company had made no attempt to face the
difficulties of navigation through the ice. Those difficul-
ties were never faced by any one but Mr. Cunard, and,
therefore, having overcome them, he was entitled to the
preference."

What you, sir, call Mr. Canard's doings have been
well done by the Boston and Halifax steamers, and the
difficulties they have had to encounter have been great, but
the Great Western has gone through the same, ice, and
all other difficulties. On one occasion we were thirty
hours continuously in ice, and at another time fairly
stopped, and with much difficulty extricated from a pe-
rilous situation; indeed, we have encountered ice very
frequently.
Now, sir, for dates, (being every month you were told
the Great Western never sailed from any port :)

Left Arrived at Left Arrived at
Bristol. New York. New York. Bristol.
1838. 18'8. 1838. 1,38.
October 27. November 15, November 23. December 7.
1839. 1839. 1839. 1839.
January 28, February 16. February 25. March 12.
October 19. November 2. November 16. Nov, tuber 30
1840. 1840. 1810. 1840.
February 20, March 7. March 19• April 2.
November 7. November 24. December g. December 23.
During this time the Great Western Company found

During this time the Great Western Company found
that the winter passages were not profitable, from the
small number of passengers, length of voyage, and con-
sequent extra wear and tear of their Ship; and as they
did not succeedi n getting the mail contr4et, and could
not compete with a company having Government pa-
tronage, they very wisely decided on making passages in
the finer months of the year only.
I blame no man or set of men for using every exertion
to obtain such patronage, but I do complain of false state-
ments to obtain it; end as those statements affect my
credit as one of those who first solved the problem of At-
lantic steam navigation, I make no apology for thus
placing myself before you and the public on an occasion
in which I feel peculiarly called on to do so ; and I trust
to your sense of justice to acknowledge tbat the statement
made by you in the House of Commons, now referred to,
was made on incorrect information.
I have the honour
(Si toned) J be, sir,.ouAMES yr obedientHOSKEN servant,
g.

Great Britain steam-ship, Liverpool, August 20.
N. B.—Since writing the above I find the names of
Cunard on the Great Western passenger list several times,
and more than once during the dates I have given you.
Those are Mr. S. Cu/lord or bis brothers.