The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-30 00:00:00

JAPANNED. STAINED. AND FANCY CHAIRS

In the greatest variety ;
Four-post, Cottage, Conopy, French, Dome, Camp, Nursery,
and Press BEDSTEADS, of every form,
In Mahogany, Birch, and Painted Woods ;
Feather BEDS, Hair, Flock, and Straw MATTRESSES,
PAINTED CHAMBER REQUISITES,
Of all descriptions,
In Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Toilet Tables, Basin

Towel Airers, &c

Elegant CHIMNEY and DRESSING GLASSES,
A VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL
ITALIAN SCULPTURED ORNAMENTAL FIGURES

VASES, URNS, EWERS, &c.,
Also, a very diversified Stock of
BRUSSELS, DAMASK, VENETIAN, KIDDERMINSTER, and
JUTE CARPETING,
Embracing the most Modern Patterns, of excellent
Manufacture ;
TURKEY AND BRITISH HEARTH RUGS,
A great variety of beautiful PRINTED DRUGGETS,
In the newest and most admired taste ;
Crimson, Drab, Green, and Mixture DRUGGETS,

BLANKETS,
Figured FLOOR and LOBBY CLOTHS,
Of all dimensions, for cutting to fit Rooms, Halls; Lobbies,

Shops, and Ships' Cabins,
INDIA AND ENGLISH MATTING,
Black Hair Beatings, of all Widths, Sic. Sic.
INVALID, GARDEN, AND BATH CHAIRS;
CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, &C.

FOR COUGHS AND ASTHMAS !
EGGLESTON'S OXYMEL of HOREHOUND has the
extraordinary property of giving immediate relief in all
Asthmatic and Consumptive Cases, Hoarseness, Difficulty
of Breathing, &c., promoting gentle expectoration, giving
ease and freedom to the Lungs, and is justly considered un-
rivalled as a Universal Family Medicine. Those who are
deprived of rest at night by incessant Coughing, will, by
taking one dose, find immediate ease; and a small bottle
will, in most cases, effectit Cure.
Numerous authentic Testimonials, and References of the
highest respectability, may be had of the Proprietor,
J. V. EGGLESTON,
Chemist, Copperas-hill, corner of Rupert-street.
Sold in Bottles at ls. lid. and 2s. 9d. each, the 2s. 9d. size
containing four of the smaller ones.
atßf The Genuine Oxymel is sold only by J. V. EGGLE-
STON, Chemist, Copperas-hill, corner of Rupert-street, Li-
verpool.
WONDERFUL AND GRATIFYING DISCOVERY !!
EGGLESTON'S VEGETABLE PASTE, a •safe, per-
manent, and instant Cure for the most agonizing Tooth-
ache, Ear-ache, and Tic Doloureux. Invented and sold only
by J. V. EGGLESTON, Chemist, 52, Copperas-hill, corner of
Rupert-street, in pots, ls. each, or three pots for 2s. 6d.
" We can, from experience, highly recommend Mr. Eggle-
ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the Tooth-ache."—
Liverpool
Standard.
" One application of ' Eggleston's Vegetable Paste' cured
a most inveterate Tooth-ache, which had deprived me of rest
for three nights. " JOAN POYNTZ.
" 10, Dance-street, Rupert-street, Liverpool."
" My daughter, Elizabeth Pritchard, was troubled with a
most excruciating Tooth-ache for three weeks : the first
application of ' Eggleston's Vegetable Paste' gave immediate
ease, and in the course of two hours she was completely
cured, and has been free from pain ever since.
" ELLEN PRITCHARD.
" 25, Marlborough-street, Liverpool,
" May 15th, 1840."
Mr. CROPPER, Publican, St. Andrew-street, Liverpool,
was cured in less than a minute.
NOTICE.—For the accommodation of the Public, the Pro.
prietor of the Vegetable Paste has appointed the followint
Chemists and Druggists as Agents for Liverpool and it:
vicinity :—Mr. Priestly, Lord-street; Watson and Dickin•
son, St. James'-treet ; Mr. Cox, Fox-street; Mr. Barnett
Edge-hill; and Mr. Smith, Woodside.
*** Observe the Stamp round each Pot has the signature
of J. V. EGGLESTON."

hi CAUSE AND EFFECT.—Digby fell down the other slippery
morning. As he sat on the ground, he muttered, " 1 have
no desire to s.ee the city burnt down, but devoutly wish the
streets were laid in ashes."—Boston (American) Post.
RAILROADS versus STAGE-COACHES.—In the coffee-room
at the Black Swan Tavern, in York, hangs an advertisement,
of which the following is a copy, in a glazed frame, over the
mantel-piece :—" York four days stage-coach. Begins on
Friday, the 12th of April, 1706. All that are desirous to
pass from London to York, or from York to London, or any
other place on that road, let them repair to the Black
Swan, in Holbourn, in London, and to the Black Swan, in
Coney-street, York. At both which places they may be re-
ceived in a stage-coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-
day, which performs the whole journey in four days,, (if God
permits.) And .sets forth at five in the morning. And re-
turns from York to Stamford in two days, and from Stam-
ford, by Huntington, to London, in two days more—and
the like stages on their return. Allowing each passenger
141bs. weight, and all above, 3d. a pound. Performed by
Benjamin Kingman, Henry Harrison, Walter Baynes. Also,
this gives notice, that the Newcastle stage-coach sets out
from York every Monday and Friday, and from Newcastle
every Monday and Friday." This journey is now performed,
on the railroad between York and London, in ten hours.
A MAD Ox.—On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a
small ox of the Scotch breed, was being driven into the
slaughter-house of a butcher, in Salisbury, when the animal
became infuriated, and broke away from the butchers. He
took his course through Market-place, where the first object
of his attack was a little child, whom he tossed into the air ;
the child fell into the channel, and by that means escaped
without very serious injury. Pursuing his course up Win-
chester-street, he attacked a poor woman named Sanders,
the wife of a shoemaker, who was endeavouring to remove
one of herchildren from danger ; she was tossed three times,
and the horn of the animal entered the side of the throat,
inflicting, it is feared, mortal wounds. When the animal
had nearly reached the London-road, at the top of the town,
a malster belonging to Maton's brewery, attempted to arrest
his progress with a rake, but the unfortunate man was speedily
knocked down, and the calf of his leg was nearly torn off by
the horn of the ox. Several other persons received minor in-
juries ; and the animal remained at large in the fields until
Tuesday morning, when a party went in pursuit, and suc-
ceeded in shooting him at Ford Farm, about two miles from
the city.

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A REGULAR OUT-AND-OUT VAGABOND.—Last Thursday
afternoon, as Mr. Mulby, of the Sawyer's Arms, was resting
awhile on one of the stone seats behind the church, a middle
aged man, apparently in great distress, came up to him, and
after asking charity, commenced a most pitiable recital of his
misery and want ; he had been a sailor " shipwrecked and
drowned, and then sold for a slave." Nlr. Mulby was on
the point of relieving him, when Mr. William Mecoid, block-
maker, came up to them quite out of breath with having run
up the Vicarage-hill from the Quay as fast as he could. After
ascertaining that Mr. Mulby had been some time in the
church-yard, he asked him if he had seen a strange man pass
him. Mr. Mulby replied that the only person he had seen
was the poor beggar before them, who seemed to be sadly in
want. Gaberlunzie upon this was preparing to bolt, and
looked anxiously about, which way he bad best shape his
course • but just as he was going to shoot a-head, Mr.
Mecoid, who is an old sailor, threw his grappling irons over
him, telling him that he must overhaul his cargo before be
allowed him to take his departure. Mr. Mulby, as may well
be supposed, was surprised at such a rencontre, and much
more so, when, upqn the fellow being searched, a good linen
shirt was taken from him, which the impudent impostor had
been seen to take from a garden-hedge. As he cried loudly
for quarters, Mr. Mecoid let the fellow go upon conditions
that he took his rascally presence from the town instanter.
The man stood not upon the order of his going, but set off
down the yard into Church-street at railroad speed. But
here the " tragedy" did not end ; for whilst Mr. Mecoid and
Mr. Mulby were talking the affair over, up to them hastened
two other men from the Quay, and also a female, all asking,
as Mr. Mecoid had done, "if a strange man had just gone

through the yard." Upon the adventure detailed above
being related to them, it appeared that they were after him
upon the same errand, as he had been robbing hedges, at the
bottom of the Vicarage, with the greatest coolness, never
supposing that he could be seen from the small window at
the back of the houses on the Quay. Chace was immediately
given, but as yet the fellow has not been apprehended. and
probably he will not be in this quarter, as he would doubt-
less leave the town without delay. He is a stoutish-built
man, apparently about fifty years of age, and had on a suit
of shabby dark clothes. [Since the above was in type, we
find that the man, whose name is Roberts, has been taken up,
and committed for trial.]—Preston Chronicle.

DARING BRIGANDS.—We understand, that, for three or
four months past, two men, armed with guns, have been
prowling about amongst the hills, on the borders of Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, committing a number of robberies and
outrages of the most audacious kind. They are believed to
be two notorious poachers, named Briggs and Dickenson,
from the neighbourhood of Bolton-by-Bowland, near Clithe-
roe. These men are snspeeted to have committed the rob-
beries and outrages near Bacup ; and more recently, they
appear to have been carrying on their atrocious proceedings
in the northern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It
appears, from the Kendal Mercury of Saturday last, that on
the preceding Thursday, as a man named Mr. Joseph Wig-
nall, butter buyer, was on his road to Hawes Market, about
six or seven o'clock in the morning, he came in company,
when crossing the Stake, a very solitary and mountainous
district, with a man on foot, who went with him some dis-
tance, although Mr. Wignall was on horseback ; and when
they came to a certain part of the road, a gun was fired at
him from behind the wall, but fortunately the contents did
not effect the murderous intention. The piece had been
loaded with hail shot, about half-a-dozen of which had pene-
trated Mr. Wignall's head ani face, but without doing him
much injury. He immediately put his animal to full speed,
and left the villains to ruminate on what they no doubt con-
sider their bad fortune. There were carts not more than a
quartet of a mile behind at the time, and some people were
not very far before, whom Mr. Wignall soon overtook, and
related to them what had happened. The circumstance soon
became generally known in the neighbourhood, and several
young men volunteered their services to go in search of the
villains. It fell to the lot of one party, consisting of a con-
stable and another man, to track them towards Horton, near
Settle, where, stepping into a farmhouse to make inquiry
concerning them, they beheld the very persons of whom they
were in quest, quietly drying their stockings, by the fire ; they
instantly seized hold &them, when a scuffle took place ; and
they
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and his man, pat to flight, and totally worsted, retreated
to Settle. Hitherto, we are sorry to say, these desperadoes
have not been apprehended : but, as their names and per-
sons are known, they cannot long escape the pursuit which
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FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1841

A passenger on board the British Queen, in her
voyage out, gives what evidently appears to be a
"landsman's" description of the great storm she en-
countered, and the perilous position in which, to his
eyes, she seemed to be placed during its continuance.
"The steam-power of the ship," he says, "crippled as
she was, (having lost more than half her paddles) was
totally inadequate to the size of her and the storm.
We rolled helplessly in the mighty billows. Every
sail was split into rags, and we were completely at the
mercy of the waves. At length the violence of
the storm and size of the waves rendered it unsafe to
scud before the wind, and our only chance was to face
it with half-paddle power. The consequence was, we
were twice, each time for four or five hours, in the
trough of the sea without steerage way, and as help-
less as a raft. Nothing. saved us but the prodigious
strength and buoyancy of our noble ship, which only
wants 150 more horses' power to make her uncon-
querable."
From this description we can form a tolerable idea
of a storm in the vast Atlantic, and the condition of
one of our mammoth steamers when overtaken by its
mighty force. We read the description with a painful
suggestion on our mind, we own, as to the fate of the
President. But whatever her lot may be, we think this
lesson has been taught by recent experience—namely,
that steamers of her vast bulk arp not the best adapted
to Atlantic navigation.
It was early ascertained that the power of the en-

Dines in these enormous vessels was not equal to the

obstacles to be overcome in circumstances of trial of
an extreme kind; and it is further a question whether,

in the present state of our mechanical knowledge, the
defect is remediable without incurring danger in other
respects. More powerful engines could, no doubt, be
made; but not. we believe, without a proportionate
increase in the weight of metal; and then there is th'
risk arising from such a massive structure being stowed
in the hold—a cargo in itself—and a cargo to which
this disadvantage is annexed, that no part of it can be
thrown overboard upon an emergency, without an
abandonment of the great element itself from which the
safety of the ship is to be looked for. An amplitude
of power would seem to be the most important ingre-
dient in the machinery of the steamer under trying
circumstances; and, in order to give this, we must
either have machinery of greater efficiency, or vessels
of less burden for distant and dangerous navigation.
The performances of the Cunard packets confirm the
theory, which may be considered an important one in
connection with this invaluable science.

In our last number there were inserted two papers
to which we were only able at the moment to direct the
attention of our readers in a few general terms : we
allude to the memorial of the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society concerning the sugar trade with
Cuba and Brazil, and Mr. Gladstone's able letter on
the Corn Duties. .We would now detain our readers
for a brief space, chiefly with a view to show the very
great importance of the considerations suggested in
these documents. _ .

If Mr. Gladstone's positions be well-founded, it
must be observed that the bait held out to the work-
ing classes, of cheaper bread being the ultimate and
abiding result of the solicited freedom in the corn
trade, is altogether a deception. Some temporary fall
of prices there certainly would be, just enough to do
great injury to the farmer, and drive him out of his
native market—just enough to give foreigners the ad-
vantage over him, and spoil him as the best customer
of the shopkeeper and manufacturer. So much be-
nefit there might he attained ; but it would have but a
very, very short duration. Gold must go abroad to
pay for the foreigner's corn; our circulating medium
in the precious metals is drained away; money be-
comes scarce ; and then—the poor man finds it as
difficult as ever to pay for his loaf, and the bubble of
the present hour immediately resolves itself into thin

Mr. Gladstone puts this case in a manner so plain
and practical that we desire to add nothing to his state-
ment. When our gold is exhausted, he asks, how is
foreign corn to be paid for ? and what then becomes of
our multitudes of manufacturers and artisans ? " With
home production discouraged, limited, if not put
down, by this temporary foreign supply, it could no
longer be depended on as heretofore, whilst, exposed
to this risk of competition, which, from the position of
our home-growers, they could not, while it lasted,
maintain. Their consumption of goods, too, would be
lost to the manufacturer; and, with such adverse and
conflicting results, might not the public revenue be
expected to suffer, and alarm to rise ? Who then
would be found to stern the torrent when the flood was
once broke loose ?"
The answer of the free traders on this head consists
in a denial of the position that gold would be thus
drawn out of the country. No, say they, that would
not be the result; but foreigners being permitted a free
access to our market with their grain and flour, would
then take our manufactures in exchange ; and thus,
whilst we should have a greater abundance of bread
from abroad, our trade and commerce would be ex-
tended. This answer is indisputably plausible, and
would be of immense value indeed, if we could depend
mereupon theory, and,
ing ,well-founded. But at present it is a
instead of being supported by facts
and experience, is strikingly contradicted by them.
Mr. Gladstone refers to the unfavourable seasons of
1837, 1838, 1839, and our importations during those
years. Our supplies were drawn from Germany, Rus-
sia, Prussia, and other countries bordering on the
Baltic; and he asks this material question—" did they
take payment in our manufactures during those years ?
Or, on the contrary, is it not well known that they did