The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-11 00:00:00

MISCEI,LAN.EOT-S.

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Mg FAOTORT. B fl.L.—We warn the friends of the factory
children that Mr."Potiiett Thomson has given notice of a mo-.
,lion, the'purposes)f which is strongly suspected t 0 be the revo-
cation of that miserable ualliative of infant slal' I''''s molted by
the long and noble exertions of Mr. Sadler and Lord Ashley.
If we are not misinformed, the purpose of Mr. Thointon's trio-
lion is to permit -anew, the toiling of infants under 13 tents, for
more than eight hours a-day in factories. Speaking. as yet but
hypothetically upon this point, we shall not say of such an atro
_Mous attempt, all that we think it deserves.—Standard.
REPREENTATION OF PAlgLEi.—This borough is in the
market. Captain Speirs has resigned, and a Mr. Ilastie, whd
says he is a native of the borough, and appears, ready to swallow
any dose Of pledges, however large, vhith the. Paisley boclie
may think proper to administer, has conic forward as the new
ministerial candidate. The conservatives, it is Said, have re-
quested Mr: Culquhoun, of Killerinont, to gland on their
interest.

A CURIOUS Manta—On Saturday tin interesting will cause,
Jones v. Lambert, was heard before the Vice-Chancellor. The
testatrix, a lady who lately resided at Chipping Sudbury-, bea
queathed legacies of £lOOO eat'h to her six grand-children, and
by . a subsequent clause, £5OO to her niece Miss .Idnes, the
plaintiff. At a later period, by a codicil to her will, she bey
queathed other suoss to her grand-children, and also gave £S(XI
more to Miss Jones, giving at the saute time to the later " all
the property of every kind, except coins of the present and two
preceding reigns, over which she had a disposing power, which
might be found in or about her house; on or after the day of her
interment. On examining the house after the death, money and
seturities were found to the amount of £lO,OOO. In one part
of the house were found 777 sovereignS; in another part of the
house, ammo: some rags, were found 400 sovereigns; while in
another part were found 144 sovereigns. tinder the stairs, in a
sort of cupboard, the slim of £3,710 in bank notes Was discover-
ed. In a sechtiled part of the house, and carefully wrapped up
in St stocking, £515 in country bank notes, payable to the bearer
no ileolatitt, were lewd. Between the leaves of a hook £3(l
igt batik notes were discovered!. In other parts of the house
were found one promissory note for £1.6G0, payable to the (-es;
tatrix; another for £270; a third for £211; a foerth fer 239; a
fifth for £2111; and a sixth for £lOO, all payalile "to the testatrix.
hi one af,the drawers {Va..' found a deposit in the Bristot bank,
Pay able to the testatrik, of £705. The whole amount of money,
and Securities' fur money, thus found, was about .C1et,0(10. The
question, therefore, for the Court to decide Was, whether the
Money thus found. could be passed to Miss Jones, under the
:turfs "every kind of property." (t Was cootendedonlltespart
saa, the grandschisdrett that; the soyErOiges and guineas, and the
`Bank and primossory notes which are the representatives of mo;
ney, could not have been iutended fdr Alias Jones, as the tern:
property" week! not have been used had such been the in-
tentioil of the•testatrix. The vice-chancellor told the Counsel
foe !Miss. Jones that Ohe was entitled to the sovereigns and gun-
fleas`: upon that point he was quite satisfied. Ile, therefore;
directed them to apply their at-ailments to the other tnotieV
fotina in the house of the testatrix. The case was adjourned
fur 'further hearing. No question was raised its to the house-
hold finititure, plate, and other moveables of the deceased.
Tor. ITNSTAMPED Paass.-aCleave, a little man of great ra;
die al Cockney notoriety both at an orator, a Missienary to the
trades' Lotions, and as a proprietor and vender of tinstamped
papers, oas apprehended on Thursday last, While conveying in
it cabtioiet thirty-three quires of one of his papers to his pub-
lisher. Ile was sentenced to three months iniplistininent in the
house of Correction, and instantly conducted to that place of
refiinaation. Ile had been preVioesly convicted in the
Court of Exchequer for selling unstaiged Papers in penalties
antounting to 1:000, and he pleaded this conviction, and that
he would have been taken in execution under it in a few days,
as a reason why he ought not to he sent to prison; But the
magistrate was inexorable. As a caution to periond buying or
suffering unstinaped papers to come into their possession we ex.:
tract the following from the Act 3S (ieo. 111., tap. 78, sec.
19—" That if any person shall knowingly and wilfully take
or rseeive into, and keep in his custody ails newspaper, or other
such paper as aforesaid, not duly stamped according td law;
such person shall forfeit and lose, for every- such paper at afore-
said, not duly stamped, which he shall so take or receive into,
and keep iu his custody, the suet of twents pounds."
Ba.i.ateas Commattca.—The Antwerp Journal du Commerce;
of the 3d instant, contains the following paragraph :—" Private
information, which we have received front London, acquaints
its with a pieveof intelligence which is very unwelcome to our
merchants and shipowners. The English government has just
declared that Belgian ships cannot he considered henceforward
as ships of the Netherlands, but must be placed on the same
footing as ships belonging to a country with whose government
England had not yet concluded a treaty of commerce and reci-
procity. To show what a severe blow this will be to our coin.;
!tierce, it will be sufficient to say that the charges on a Belgian
vessel of 10(1 tons burden, fur instance, arriving in England will
he increased £.5 sterling. This is enormous, especially it' we
remember that our navigation labours under a great disadvan
taise in England. The duties were already ruinous for our flag.
A'Belgian vessel of 100 tons burden paid £lB or £2O sterling
for pilotage and other dues going up and down the Thames:
The English ships pay nothing.. In frame it will be extremely
difficult for us, if not impassible, to maintain the competition
with the English ships, over which our outs ships enjoy in our
ports only the slender advantage ofa deduction of 10 per cent.
'Phis is the way we are treated by England, our friend and
wannest protector. We are assured that our shipt already pay
-the increased ditty. Poor Belgian coin/terve ..
Itaitatoaosa—ltailroads are indeed introducing a new eta
into civilised Europe, of which it is impossible to foresee the
results or anticipate the advantages. Our very language begins
'already to be effected. Men talk of " getting up their steam"
whenever they want to make some great effort or exertion ;
and when their tongues outstrip truth, they, are said to be
" going it, or rattling along at a railway speed." The " Lioti
of the day" will ere long give place to tlie " Locomotive of the
day." Distances, whiCh used-to be reckoned in.miles, ate now
likely to be reckoned
.in hours and miautes ; and merchant
who lives some thirty miles out of London,. will tell you that he
lives an hour front the Exchange. Conversely, tales aud stories;
which were wont to be measured by the time they occupied in
telling, will very shortly be denominated by the distance between
the points of beginuing, and end; •so that we shall probably
have a young lady telling her mamma of a delightful tale she
listened to 120 miles long. Our Twopenny-post, as We ceill it,
may be expected to reach to every corner of the kinsfeloru ;
and in a few years, the first, second, &c., deliveries of London
letters will be as punctual at Liverpool as they are now at
Brentford. A cockney sportsman, who heretofore could hardly
attend a hunt 12 miles out of town, will presently put his horse
amd himself on a train, follow the hounds in Norfolk or Voris,
shire, and recount the adventures of the chase—the hard run he
had had of some five minutes long—the tremendous leaps he
had taken over ditches lie barely looked at, and gates he had
prudently opened—with his numerous hair-breadth escapes for
want of being better fastened to the saddle—to his wondering
friends in 'St. James's or Regent-street the same evening. Nay;
at such a railway rate aloes improvement bid fair to progress,
that. 1 expect to hear the dame of sonic Devonshire squire order
ing John, tier coachman, to get the carriage ready the next
morning, as after breakfast she intends to visit her milliner in
Bond-street, take a drive round the park, and return with a
friend to dine at her house at Tirertota—Herupath's Railway
Magazine.
JOBBING OF THE GOVERNMET.—It has just transpred that
Lord Melbourne's government has added sit it her job to the al-
ready crowded list which it has brought into existence. The actor=
ney-general is M.P. for Edinburgh, and the lord-advocate the
representative for Leith; and these two gentlemen, being anx-
ious to do soinething handsome in return -for the honour confer-
red on them by their constituents, have been liberal enough to,
use theirinfluenee with the government to procure £120,000 of
the public money to be given to their friends. This large sum
of money has been, or is to be, paid to the corporation of Edin•
burgh, fur, he purpose of setting up the new town-concillors,
who had no controul over the vorporate property, which is now
sub judice. The Melbourne Cabinet, however, has not had
the courage to give this money directly, sraa long report has
been issued with a view of smothering the job ; but, alas !
though it is dished up in Mr. Labonchere's best style of decep-
tion, it is too rank to be disguised by the sauce With which it is
served up. But what does it signify? —£120,000 is not more
than the annual sum raised by the taxation of windows in three
of the largest towns in England. Whigs don't think anything
of. giving away £320,000.
A NEWSPAPER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.--The following;
extracts are from a newspaper entitled tliendal Weekly Courant,
published in 1736.—",G1N, Sept. 4, 1736, (a short time prerioui
to gin being prohibited;)—Last Wednesday, one Wm. Alexan-
der, who lived near the Bull's Head, in Nightingale-lane, a
bricklayer, a professed votary to gin, being too deeply affected
at the approaching fate of his idol, (the gin,) resolted not to see
that unhappy day, look a rope, went up stairs, shirt himself in,
and hanged himself up. He was not found till seven at night.
when he was cold and stiff." Tueeta TIME HIGHWAYMAN'
September 15.—" We hear that Turpin has been in Holland;
from whence he returned about six weeks ago, in the Osteud
packet boat. It is said that Don Malden, the highwayman;
knew him there, and that Turpin endeavoured to prevail on
him to go into foreign service and see England no more."
Sept. 18.—" Next Tcesday, Mr. Allerton is to raise a ballad nit
the Bell, at Brampton, whilst a shoulder of mutton is
roasting.i
July 14, 1737—" On Wednesday, sonic evil-disposed persons,
moved at the instigation of the devil, entered Westminster Hall
unseen, and whilst the Court of Chancery Was sitting, and busy
about some affairs of importance, a large parcel of paper was
conveyed, bound up, and set on fire, Under the seat of the Nun:
senors in the Court of Chancery, which was by the keeper of
the court kicked' down the steps into the common hall, and do:
mediatoly blew up at three several times, and made a very large
report and smother in the hall, and put the judges, counsellors;
&c., into the utmost consternation, some of them falling down
the steps, leaving their wigs and gowns behind them."
ORIGIN OF THE NEWSPAPER STAIUP.—So important were
these libellous publications deemed, that the Queen (Anne)
concludes one of her messages to parliament, by representing
the licentiousness of the press. In obedience to the ((teen's de-
sire, and at the instance of her secretary, the parliament passed '
a bill (1712-13), imposing a stamp upon pampl-acts anti perio d
iral publications-albs" origin of the present newspaper staan p
At its origin the amotint of this stamp was only a halfpenny.—
Cooke's Life of Bolingbroke.
CAUTION TO MOTHERS arm Nuesas.—On Monday last ari.
inquest was held at Northowram, near Halifax, on the body of
a child whose death had been occasioned by a worsted needle; -
which had become detached from its clothes and had penetrated
its body to the region of the heart. A post mortem examinatin n •
'was indite, the result of which confirmed the statement, and the.
surgeon stated that death was immediately (went:loner! by:_it,l-:
PRICES OF LABOUR.—The factory operatiyae,,eiheli:ms
fla lomat ion of the heart.
he
sw,eori.dkicsio
,‘thatjitrinesffescsa.
Bst.di;:s;re,:ncnaiLalet-n151,...
works 69 hours per Week,
for whichs'a'lln asvesin has 10s.; in
-I:Ill's:1ra he works-
or wages,; in America,
Fraoce, he works from 72 to 8-i tmid,
,ahaas
AVE's.'is---'The value'
aturs!'s Commission 7:nisston Report:
! nil, he works from 72 to 81) hours and
Bonn, in
.aaxony,
land, nyv
works
sfrformonl727Btoto9lB,)
thohanti-so:anan
has 544:;.8t5itni:
sth.; in
St tls:ei trzrevt:i
! 9a4' irs9.ahnoduthaaisi
Ihya2ss4„
ofl,iGe:°lassan GaZg realit7nEirtleraitilEeqpie:t'el;ltaFpsii-ireciated by the Euro-
dried up; were it not for the etipiotto
peat reader. ISuarineP,.earfitisiitiiilnert,nained4itinridtied throughout Weatern
Asia)tain rarely
la Sispiember, end the
hear of the suit being at the same time eery tarots., all yeasas
ration wound parched
aatned.
dews which fall during the-night and eoropletely moisten the
e°llll.‘tti ittiort
thisintisiniv.hisiteuhret.6e:-I:llpno'ri,:eter;
as swot as the sun has risen: Jr seenie
dewslne x
with
ground,tsho be
astonishing;
tkee re pl
ei
agn d aes fertileorapidityl
more or less. hilly or efevatedt or lit
that the advantage of these abundant dews is not tgeuerallv. joyed except in regions
confined valleys. vtahlalet yasn. y
?tnettlitepri.ainßsuatmini gsleusclhit:reitist•tsduness
ti
men can inhabit except the wandering tribes, f •
tint tOWns anll. • villages are
only found on the banks of, natural. or artificialstreams; nor, onlesa in the Settle situation:!, is any rultiv"ti.(nt
attempted where there are nip !right dewy-di summer rneenipen--
sate for the want of rain. The paasoue Gra. ii., 5; 0, figs led
some to Suppose Witt there was no ;Ma; but de* onlySpreviously
to the atmospheric and other changes sslinh, are romeeived td
~have taken place at she Deluge. It the -palsage• in- question
affords aufficiertt foondation for this theory': there' aeofd then
have been no rainbow previous to the Deliu?e, and the opinion
would be justified which considers:-that -tat rainbow was first.
manifested to Noah, when it was made a tcken of` criveiase
betvreCn God and man.—Genesis, x.cvii.i 28s.

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