The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

so much destruction of

infant life took place as at pr€
The opponents of the Government edtu
at Bristol held a large meeting in the (latE
Hall, Broadmead, on Thursday evening. They are in a
the radical Bristol Mercury,

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Socialist

for their or

)iinpletely doiertedthem on this

in its un-qualiiiedl.dhesion to the Cabine

At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesd
Cronin was acquitted of the charge of mansla
having caused the death of a female by administering a
certain noxious compound. The defendant is a physician

Dennis

ter, in

in good practice in London, and his trial caused much
excitement among the faculty.
AMERICAN FLOUR.—Thc vessel Lady Hilda, arrived in
the London docks from Barbadoes, brought, in addi-
tion to a cargo of West India sugar, 100 barrels of Ameri
can flour. This is the first occasion, to our knoll

the arrival of Americari flour from one of the We
Islands.—London Times.

uth Northumberland

ensuing f
understoc

ieral election, as has been rur
however, that the step was cont

is not to be carried

t in consequence. we are glad to
state of the honourable member's

,e improved

REFUSAL TO WORK.-At the Newport (Monmouth-
shire) police-office, two Irishmen, John Murphy and J.
Barry, one of them from Skibbereen, who had been
granted an_ asylum in the workhouse, were last week

-convicted of cursing and swearing, and
They were sentenced to imprisonment

refusing to work.
and hard labour

in Usk gaol

THE- IRISH IN SOUTH WALES.—Swansea, Cardiff,
Newport, and other places on the line of the South- Wales

fever in

the run

'hey generally trave

troops of ten or twelve, and few of *the women appear to
have bonnets ; many are barefootpd-__ _ _ _

,
The mortality amongst lambs in Herefordshire during
the present season, has been of serious consequence.
One farmer has lost as many as 300, and another 00. It

fordshire, in the southern counties of England the lamb-
ing season has been particularly favourable, healthy, and
prolific.

VERY LITTLE CHANGE.—It is announced that the
Theatre at Abervstwith, has been purchased_ and con-

vetted into a Popish Chapel

The Change yc

scarcely

be perceptible in the performances now to take place, and
those formerly under theatrical management, only the
mummery and tinsel will be more showy and melodra-
matic in the hands of the Priests. _ _

Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, has addressed a
letter to the visiting magistrates of the various gaols, in
the country, acquainting them that, "in consequence of
the suspension of the transportation of male convicts to Van
Dieman's Land, it will be requisite to make immediate
provision for the confinement and employment, in this
country, of a great number of such offenders.

PARENTAL AFFLICTION.—The following appeared as
an advertisement in the second column of the first page of
the Times of Wednesday last :—" R. P. B.—My dear
child, write to me without delay, as your father is very ill
on account of your absence, and I am almost distracted.
If you wish to live from home I will send you your clothes
and money fa

,c 1 to me

you will break my heart.--M. B."
TAME BIRDS.-At the Rectory, Llanfoist, the Rev.
James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden, where
maybe seen several robins and chaffinches, the worthy

has so successfully trained them, that the moment he
enters the lawn, they will immediately come to his call,
and fly, each in its turn, to the number of six or eight,
into the hand to be fed.
AWFUL VISITATION ON A WEDDING-DAY.--Lucy
Loomes, aged 22, died at No. 14, Baltic-street, Old.:
I street, London, where she was about to spend the
_
week, moon. - ---:" T

It appeared that she was married on .uesday, to
a young man of respectable connections, at Spa-fields
Chapel ; afterwards they walked about the streets, when,
in the course of the afternoon, she complained of being

ill. On rea
was sent for

.hing home she became so bad that a surgeon

however, soon became extinct.

In a minute of the Privy Council recently issued it is
said, alluding to th

,osed measure of g

verment edu-

themselves precluded from making- provision for Roman
Catholic children by new measures, if they shall deem it
advisable. This reservation only tells us what we knew
before—that the present government, like the last, is dis-
posed to make grants or otherwise give aid to Romanists
whenever they can find an opportunity. Our present bu-
siness,.however, is with the present measure.

hursday last

perket hurricane on the west coast of Scotland, which
was particularly felt in the Firth of Forth. We are in-
formed that the powerful steamers on the Burntisland
ferry made the whole of the usual passages to Granton
Pier, &c., taking a little longer time, with the exception

„
of the six o'clock boat, the runnel of which was blown
down, and in consequence of the accident the steamer put
into Kirkcaldy, and lay there all night. We understand
that no passage was made during the day at the Queen's
ferry.—Edinburgh Gazette.

Sir Robert Peel, in his speech against the factory bill,
said he knew ten persons at least who were now worth
£300,000 each, who at one time had only 20s. to 30s a
week. [The right hon. baronet's own father's case pre-
sented quite as strong an instance as those alluded to, of
the acquisition of great wealth by individuals who were at
one time in comparatively straitened pecuniary circum-
stances • his predecessor, who became the great builder up
of the family, having actually worked over-time, at the
cutting department of a calico printer, to provide himself
with funds to procure the first watch he had ever the pride
or privilege to wear.]
PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OE GRAIN FROM TURKEY.
—Official intelligence has reached this country stating
that in six weeks from the March, owing to information
received by the Ottoman government that the interior of
the country will have to suffer from the scarcity of grain,
the exportation of grain from the ports of Adrianople,
Tilistria, Nidisi, Canini, Avlonio, Delvino, Sirhala, Ro-
dosto, Salonica, Pachalic of Broussa, Sarouhan,
Corria, Trebivonde, Castamoum, Nicomedia, and Smyrna,
will be prohibited—the delay of six weeks being fixed in
order that parties who were under contract to receive
freights at any of these ports may be enabled to execute
them. _ _ _ _ .

EMu
fluential peers

—A memorial, numerot
Ind gentlemen, was

signed by in-

lresented to Lord

Nednesday week

it consider themselves pledged, are, first, the necessity of
systematic colonization, on a very large scale, from Ire-
land to Canada, and of the assistance of the state to pro-
mote, it ; secondly, the necessity of making religious pro-
vision for the emigrants; thirdly, the advantage of enlist-
ing private enterprise, in the form of agency, to carry out
the-plan; and, fourthfy, a willingness to accept an income
and property tax for the purpose of defraying the cost of
the emigration.

AEROSTATION.—On Monday week Mr.Gypson ascended
from London in his new improved balloon, accompanied
by Mr. Coxwell. The flight was continued for sixty
miles to Sandhurst, in Kent, where a safe descent was
effected, near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the
illustrious astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross
the Channel, but a shift of the wind suggested the pru-
dence of altering their original determination. Lady Hers-
chel and some of her family having witnessed the deseent,
Mr. Gypson and Mr. Coxwell were induced to pay their
respects to the distinguished observers of the aerial cha-
riot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been hos-
pitably received, the merits and probable utility of aeros-
tation were cliocussed with enthusiasm and with conside-
rable compeancy and knowledge of the science on the
part of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers at one
period of their lengthy journey attained an elevstion of
three miles, and some ingenious machinery, invented by
Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the balloon without loss
of gas or ballast, was worked with advantage.
'TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH AT LEEDS.—A corres-
pondent of the Daily News says :—" A change seems to
have come over the spirit of the dream of the people of
Leeds. Wednesday was the day appointed for the annual
election of churchwardens for the parish of Leeds, and
although, for the last fifteen or eighteen years, the church-
wardens of the parish have been either Dissenters, COM-
morily so called, or persons more decidedly opposed to the
interests of the church as an institution connected with
the state, the parishioners have at length elected by an
overwhelming majority the entire body of the church-
wardens from the decided friends of the church. Before
the votes were taken, one of the inhabitants urged very
strongly upon the parishioners assembled the propriety of
electing as churchwardens persons who would be opposed
to levying a church-rate, as, according to the late decision
of Lord Denman, a majority of the churchwardens, and a
minority of the vestry, could lay a church-rate, as if it
were required, in opposition to the wishes of a majority of
the parishioners. To this it was replied that there would
be no more necessity to lay a church-rate now than there
had been for the last dozen years, as the expenses of the
church not defrayed by the congregation, and which the
churchwardens were legally bound to provide for by a rate
or otherwise, scarcely exceed £2O. The proposer of the
opposition list demanded a poll, which the Vicar said he
would grant if he should receive a satisfactory guarantee
for the expenses before four o'clock in the afternoon.

the upper side of London-bridge, and immediately in
front of the new and extensive range of warehouses erected
a few years back by Alderman Humphery, M.P. It was
principally used as . a receiving house by the vessels en-
gaged in the coasting trade of Kent and Essex, and as a
depot for the produce of those counties intended for the
London market. The wharf was the property and in the
it blew a I occupation of
_Alderman Humphery. The whole of the

buildings and their contents were destroyed to. the
amount, 'it is supposed, of £15,000. They were only
partially insured. The fire is supposed to have originated
from spontaneous combustion

Anglesea and Field Marslial Grosvenor, when the Duke
of Wellington, attended by the Head Quarter Staff, pre-
sented to those two veteran officers the batons so de-
servedly bestowed upon them by their Sovereign in the
last Brevet. Only one feeling of regret is associated with
this gratifying event—the absence of Field Marshal Sir
George Nugent, whose advanced age and indisposition
prevented his attendance to receive a similar reward for
his past meritorious services. We sincerely trust, how-
ever, that he will soon be sufficiently recovered to come

to town for that purpose; and we are certain that the
Commander-in-Chief participates in our wish.—United
Service Gazette.

COST 011FH E GENERAL SURVEYS
liamentary returns lately issued wa

one containing an item of most startling magnitude. It
is entitled, " Abstract of the aggregate amount paid in
each year on account of the survey of counties and the
trigonometrical surveys ; distinguishing the amount for
England, Ireland and Scotland, since the commencement
in 1791, up to January 1847, and the total amount for
each kingdom and for the United Kingdom." And under
the head of Ireland we find the prodigious iim'of £Bl7,
512. 14s. 64d. as the cost of t

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