The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISC.ELLANY.

Alas for the Pbace Cdngress ! it has already lost one
of its most zealous, if not eloquent advocates. La
Presse er (which comes to the same thing) M. de Girar.
din, has just declared himself the adverary of a general
disarmament. The letter of the President is the cause,
and it must now be taken for granted that the distinguished
journalist no longer believes in the possibility of a system
df general arbitration.

FINANCIAL REFORM.—The Liverpool Financial Re-
form Association, it appears, is not prepared to go the
whole hog with Sir Joshua Walmsley and the other
financial and suffrage revolutionists. They have issued a
circular, in which they state that, having received several
communications recommending the adoption of parlia-
mentary reform as an additional object of their associa-
tion, the council, from its importance, have deemed it to
be their duty to give the subject their fullest considera-
tion. Having looked at it in every point of view, they
have come to the conclusion to confine themselves to the
objects proposed at the formation of the association,
namely :—the enforcement of the most rigid economy in
the public expenditure, and the substitution of direct for
indirect taxation.

Sir Charles Napier, in a letter to Lord John Russell,
says—" All general promotions must be put a stop to, for
they are the overwhelming evil. In 1841, when the Tories
had been so long ont of office, they made up for lost time
with a vengeance, and under pretenee of services on the
coast of Syria and Chins, no less than 79 captains, 147

Sept 18, 1841,

commanders, 194 lieutenants, were added to thelis;.,tbi
addition to this, after the House of Commons 11511,00
most liberal manner, voted £30,000 for a retired list,
removed 180 captains, a general promotion toll P.,
which added to the lists 70 captains, 132 cotmenuer,ioicei,,,
lieutenants. This was done by the Whigs, ceb,'"fice
they were nearly as hungry after being out 01 n„,,en;',
yea as the Tories were, after their repose of 5i1`:(3,0;,5,'
that what between Tory Admiralties and Whig "
010
ties, John Bull, poor honest beast, is sure to be ba ht
which he has hitherto• borne with patience; bute el I
stands it any longer, he has his own self to bla
has no right to grumble."
„fli• efOrj,
MR. DISRAELI AT AYLESBURY.—The
meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Society' pro.
held at Aylesbury, on Wednesday. The orthnar„,Yol
ceedings of the association, including the ploughin:oo
cr
and the distribution of prizes to aricultural launeighll
occupied the morning. At two o'clock, between tfor
and ninety gentlemn and farmers dined together 5, tv
George Hotel; Mr.e W. Lowndes, late high sheriffet'oo
county, in the chair. The usual loyal and patriotiepo
having been drunk, Mr. Disraeli, one of the olem;b.ios.
the county, proposed " Prosperity to the assoc`B,lios'
The hon. gentleman said he would avoid political ,ter
sion, and though the society7was founded for the PLS
tion of agriculture, he would say nothing about theTthe
of the corn laws. But he called their attention "rio,
burdens affecting lard. He stated, the tgrienitnuftbe
after contributing their fair quota to the revenue of
country, paid an extra revenue of £12,000,000, fr°,...ni
dt
other classes were exempt, under the name of ra'i tbit
asked that other classes should bear a share °Dot'
Again, the land tax was very unequally levied. In, i; in
inghamshire it was Is. sd. in the pound on the rem' in
Bedfordshire, ls. 6d. ; in Hertfordshire, Is. 6d.; %nod,
many other counties more than Is. On the otheririgh•
in large towns, such as Manchester, Liverpool, and „,001`1
ton, it was only 2d., Id., or even /A. Now he PirVo the
that all through the country it should be levied'Ole
same proportion as in Bdckinghamshire, which sonvi itv
said, realise a yearly income of £5,000,000. This,n,e,.b the
come should go to constitute a sinking fund, of
c 0 tbe
cperation would be to maintain consols at par, so t",. i 0;
farmer would be able to get capital at three per eenSof
stead of four-and-a-half, for the purposes of sgrie"„ ob.
improvement. This scheme, he said, should be ,th;fes
jectiof
mouths
tleir
intoreagoirtalteisosn
~ andhe e pledgedtheir
that they would succeed.

UNIVERSITY AND CLE.RICAL il
did of
Archdeacon Jefferies (late of Bombay) bay
cholera at Exeter. dioccr
The Bishop of Victoria will sail for his distant
in•about three weeks. been 6P4:
The brother of the lion. T. B. Macaulay has

LowFur'
, pointed to the rectory of Aldingbam, in
Lancashire. The living is worth £lOOO per annu
of
n'oew
The living of Ballymore. including the town oleed
rag ee, to which Dr. O'Sullivan has been presented,"
at -C1.235 va
The three Queen's Colleges in Ireland are to be a bare
under t ie name of the Queen's University, and t°
the power of conferring degrees.
and Thmeoßishopto
f bileo
RI) fo
Ross all Manchesterl
I and the 0/10
bishop of Canterbury has promised to send a cell
works. rfs°'
A meeting was held, last night, in the Exchange' Col'
Coiiege,liFasiemetawdoeoad p;resent 0 tro.
cbester, to assist the establishment of a MissionarYgcled,
lege at Hong Kong. The Bishop of Manchester Pre
and the Bishop of Victoria addressed the audience'dioce4
DIOCESE OF NORWICH.—The vacancy in this se the
occasioned by the death of Dr. Stanley will ceni4oo
elevation of the Bishop of Chester to a seat in the 'libe
of Lords, wherefrom the New Bishop of Norwich ::blope.
excluded until another vacancy in the list of 13b' ridge'
Dr. Wbewell, Master of Trinity College, Cam D
ec
will, it is expected, be Dr. Stanley's saccessor•
Stanley was the second son of Sir J. T. Stahl
relate
Alderley, Cheshire, of which place the decease'; P„ the
was formerly rector. He was married in 1810 he
daughter of the Rev. Oswald Leyester, by whom
left a large family.
„, fres;
THE CHURCH AND DISSENT.—The !rondo- °mill,
pendent of the Manchester Guardian, an able disse"cerf
paper, is obliged to confess that " the church with
active now ; in fairness it may be said to be actingoiter
as much energy as any dissenting body." The 01164
becomes a little more particular, and says : "The the
individual who walks the streets may note it, that afar 0
external characteristics of a London Sunday, in en poll'
divine worship is concerned, is in favour of the P. let
nance of the establishment. In all the suburban e" aliat
not even excepting Hackney, noted of old as the Pef.,Tery'
habitat of dissenters,—in Brixton, or Clapham, or haul"
ington, or Highbury, or Islington, where MercAisrrict
stockbrokers, and tradesmen now reside,—new '-'‘t is'
churches start up almost daily, and these are alleni car
variably crowded. I simply state this as a fact..., eyed
not shut my eyes to the palpable evidence aebnassee,
Sunday affords, that, with the middle and upper ca.ected;
the church is more popular, or at least more 3.,,ojei'
than dissenting chapels. More than once 1 have„,""auriag
my business,to note the congregations of peoP'el aseer:
out of churches and chapels, that I might try lasee''
tain, so far as externals go, the character of the e„,,nof
who attend them ; and I repeat, though the assertie' that
wound the self-love of sincere and ardent dissentereipilf
the evidence afforded by a London Sunday is deist the
in favour of the predominance of the church att,"”a3-
middle and upper classes of the metropolis. 1,-4100'
Paul's end Westminster Abbey,—from the Grist
parish church of St. James's to the plainest scoot
chapel of' ease, there is palpable demonstration jA where
of this conclusion ; and though Surrey chaPe" three
Rowland Hill once held forth, usually contains it 9
thousand auditors ; and though crowded congrePsg,
may attend the ministrations of a Binney, a Curorneli
Leifebild, a Burnett, or others of the able men °h°,. d;
the
the dissenting body,—it is not possible to ininc.2'e' talie
fact that the church more than keeps its place, itr,sr
mere numeration and appearance as our guides.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ll°.
There is a clause in the New ba Bankruptcy Actr 5, coa'
ing oaths so far as a bankrupt and his wife may
cerned.
--)11'
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BANKRUPTCY COURT,. —IN RE ASPINALD}e'
Commissioner Perry gave judgment in this case 00,0
day. suspending the bankrupt's certificate for
,ectiorl
months from the Gth day of August last, with PO :be el'
for the present six months, with leave to apply at v'
piration of that period for a renewal of the proteetl°oooo
Lord Brougham has occupied the leisure of the Joe
by publishing, in a pamphlet shape, a letter to Sir f the
Graham, on the subject of "Making and Digesting.°ooo
Law." One main feature of the letter is a criticise
the defects of our present law-making machinery, thieb
hibited in the history; of the Bankrupt Digest,; Isle
Lord Brougham passed through parliament in ",. 405
session ; the remaining portion embodies the coiloceiti
to which these criticisms point, insisting on the I,%;the
of our resort to some new machinery, and sugg
outline of an improved system.
LONDON COURT OB,BANKRUPTCY, THUBSZ6,IIIOL
KRE M. L. PRITCHARD AND R. N. DALE.--The
rupts were stock and sharebrokers, in Liverpotitbei
Pritchard was also the deputy chairman of the
eastern Railway Company, and was at one time elope;
of property of the value of £156,000. The a: istvi
sheet of the joint estate, extending from August count
to May 25. 1849, has the following items :—A-113:Aitol"
debts owing to unsecured creditors, £6,101; to cr:,,,01,
holding security, £1;142. Credit :—By debtors,
£1;739 ; property in hands of creditors, £1i114; 400
Pritchard's transit account, £7,436. The ban" thet
owed £1,034 to Messrs. Moss and Co., and £l,73.'his
Liverpool Fire and• Life Insurance Company;
item was disputed, and after considerable discuss) ft,
honcur allowed the debt to be entered asa
leave to apply on a future day, in the event of the In the
;(1
not coming to an, agreement upon the matter. „pie
course of his examination, Mr. Pritchard 01100;
that, although he had had transactions withAtneooo Ped
mercial Bank of Liverpool to the extent of Zsti"' nt
year, the bank had declined to give him an a'", fir
the securities they hold. After the case had beeol tit
gone into, his honour remarked that he was inf°r cd t t
Mr. Whitmore that the bankrupt's books were keil:eir
singular accuracy. The bankrupts then. Passed tSofelli'
amination, the commissioner appointing. Friday,
ber 9, for the certificate meeting.

COURT AND FASHION. of
arl
The Prince of Wales has been gazetted as 0.
Dublin.

NMeAx.:ESLTeYtteArNDstatleßs
istßhat
derlBlE'sß
multitude ...)roke through the barrier of militar3 in
which surrounded the Queen after the reviewiung."ll
Park, one of the boys cried out with stentorian a aehe
" Blood alive, madam, get rid of the horses not t?
carry you home ourselves." Another brawny `the 113%1
sod having seized hold of the Queen's arm with
the rood,
rapturous delight, her Majesty turned round to It' gOe
consort and exclaimed, "Albert, I fear there tic
natured Irishmen will take me away from you' aaiOceber.
GAwhLeLnAlViiiiobi•ibece
AN IRISH PRESENT TO THE QUEEN.—A 01
bog-oak bracelet was presented to her MajestY
late visit to the Irish metropolis. The severe B°o
the bracelet, which are joined by loops of Wiel ;p 159ia
compose the name of " Victoria," and the is' of
Irish harp. The bracelet is enclosed in a benut'
u itsi°
case of arbutus wood, also indigenous to the n,°-1
1`
Killarney.
14;,,, land
THE BRAEMAR GATHE:tING.--ThiS art
which takes place annually, under the pat r°ll3'-ulotlioi
Duke of Leeds Gen. Sir A. Duff, and 3SIr. FO4llOO to
of Invercauld, Came off at Braemari Castle, onl,itri°,if
week, with great eelat. Her Majesty and 'her
Consort were present. No sooner had the r°.,og
arrived than the games were begun. The throu:nisn.,;ol"
hammer commenced the proceedings. The fir''' rd'' to
stepped forward succeeded in makin'g an estranuagelbia
cast, which none of the other competitors tua 030,08
equal, and was, of course, declared the victop fbe
race came next, and was the most exciting sPel„ it• ,
day ; at least, it had mo. attention bestowed 'ndreo,oe'
total distance ran over was between seven hu the
eight hundred yards. A part of this was overhorofti
holm, where an amazing degree of celerity ur_l.l,o3iLet•
but the winning post was a flag placed on the
ofßg° the
hill that overlooks the Castle at an elevation de
the only accessible path being right up tbqcliaar,
eminence, which seems next filing to perPenuiruan°l7ls.
of it being wooded as well. Here there was no fo
the con3paitors seemed content to crawl oU:rochtiod
Donald 1111 Donald, a carpenter was the first t",e Arc bet
top. Dancing came next. Her 'Majesty, and t paol,eit
her, repaired to the interior of the Castle, wheliecl
hog 4,
of light-heeled and nimble individuals $Ol2
powers to the evident gratificatieu of the

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