The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE ROSCOE CLUB HOUSE.

This establishment, No. 82, Bold-street, the fitting up
of which is nearly completed, will be opened to the mem-
bers on Friday next, the Ist October. We have had an
opportunity of going through the building, and, from the
accommodation provided, we have no doubt of its becom-
ing a very popular resort for our fellow-townsmen, and a
great convenience, especially to that portion of them who
are inclined to improve their minds, and to devote their
leisure hours to rational and instructive pursuits. The
ground floor, lately a shop, is appropriated for a coffee-
room, and is being fitted up in very neat style. It is ca-
pable of accommodating at one time from 80 to 100 per-
sons to dine or drink tea. The windows in front will be
fitted up with wire blinds, which, whilst allowing ample
light to enter the room, will prevent observation from
without. Immediately at the back of the coffee-room is
the steward's bar, from which refreshments will be fur-
nished, and through which the dinners, &c., will be trans-
mitted from the kitchen. The latter necessary apartment
is being fitted up with one of Mr. Bennett's excellent
kitchen ranges, and will contain all the requisite conve-
niences. As an adjunct connected with this department
of the establishment, there is a front cellar, in which the
preliminary portions of the cuisine, the making of pastry,
&c., are to be conducted, with a state cellar at the back
for wines, spirits, malt liquors, &c. Should the coffee-
room prove to be insufficient for the accommodation of
the members, it is contemplated to extend the first and
second stories of the building over the yard, by which a
considerable quantity of extra room will be provided.
The reading room is in the front, on the second story ;
and is a pleasant apartment, well lighted with three win-
dows, and appropriately fitted up. It will be suitably
provided with the papers of the day, and the leading
periodicals. Immediately behind this is the secretary and
librarian's room, in which also there will be a table for
periodicals, &c. Further back is a smoking room ; and
behind this conveniences for washing, &c. Above stairs
are servants' sleeping rooms, board room, class rooms,
&c. The whole are being thoroughly painted and deco-
rated : and the furniture is in the best taste and quality.
One of the leading attractions oath& club will be the
cheapness of the viands furnished to subscribers. A
plate of meat and vegetables is to be given for 7d. ; a
small chop for 4d„ or the member can dine off a joint,
vegetables, &c. included, for 14d. A cup of coffee will
be charged 2d. Refreshments will be sold at prices barely
to cover cost. Indeed it is not intended that anything
more than the first cost of the articles supplied, with
with wages of servants, waiters, &c. should be realised
from this source.

The library at starting will probably not be large.
Already, however, about one hundred volumes have been
presented to the club, by gentlemen interested in its
welfare ; amongst which we observe several from its
president, Mr. Samuel R. Sandbach, including copies of
the poems of his talented lady. Mr. Richard Rathbone
also.has presented to the club a splendid large map of
England, reduced from the ordnance trigonometrical
survey, which is hung in the reading room. Altogether,
it is gratifying to be able to say, that the club will open
under most favourable circumstances ; and we trust that
the efforts of its indefatigable committee and secretaries
will be duly appreciated.

SERIOUS ROBBERY.—On Sunday evening, whilst a
gentleman was listening, amongst a crowd, to a lecturer
on teetotalism, in the neighbourhood of the Custom-
house, his pocket was picked of a small brown leather
bocket-book, containing five bills of exchange, for large
amounts; ti'e particulars of which are given elsewhere.
The police should be instructed to put a stop to these
lecturers, who generally gain a crowd of persons whose
object, in too many instances, is to pilfer from the
unwary.
DINNER IN HONOUR OF THE PURCHASE OF SHAKS-
PEARE'S HOUSE.—A dinner in honour of the purchase of
the birthplace and residence of the immortal bard will,
we hear, be given on Thursday evening next, at the
Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street. In order to give all
an opportunity of testifying their approval of the course
the committee have pursued, the price, which will, we
learn, include wine, is fixed at an extremely low figure ;
but the name of the caterer, Whiteman, is sufficient to
guarantee that the fare shall be such as will ensure satis-:
faction.
THE POLICE COURT.—The usual business at this court
yesterday was but of slender importance, and a brief
summary will suffice :—Ellen Collins, charged with stealing
a watch in a night or beer-cellar, in Bannister-street, and
James Jennings, for stealing a jar, containing tobacco,.
from the shop of. Mr. Braithwaite, Park-lane, were com-
mitted for trial at the sessions.—James M`Fadan, for
having 141bs. of foreign tobacco brought by the ship.
Columbia, in the 'Waterloo Dock, in a box with secret
partitions, and William M`Carthy and Daniel Monaghan,
found with a bale of foreign manufactured tobacco on
board of the ship Forfarshire, in the Brunswick Dock,
divided into two, ready for being carried on shore, were
remanded until it be ascertained from head quarters how
they are to be proceeded against.
INDISCREET CONDUCT OF POLICE-OFFlCERS.—Yester-
day,,at the police-court, a man and his wife were brought
up on a charge (as we understood it) of interfering with
some police-officers. A gentleman, who is a druggist in
Great Homer-street, gave the case a very different com-
plexion. It appeared that the accused parties were quietly
walking when they were interrupted and pushed against
by a drunken man. Officer 405 came up, and afterwards
366. They somehow or other allowed the drunken man
to escape, and took the accused to the station. The gen-
tleman followed to hear the charge that would be made
against them, and was treated with coarseness by the
keeper and officers, and ordered out of the station-house.
He had voluntarily left his business almost unprotected,
to state the facts. Mr. Rushton severely reprimanded-the
officers, and ordered officer No. 405 (whose conduct had
been the most improper) to be suspended. The prisoners
were discharged, as it appeared there was no good cause
for their being taken into custody at all.
MANSLAUGHTER CASE.—Yesterday, an inquest was
held before Mr. Statham, on view of the body of Ann
Owens, aged three years, the daughter of a joiner residing
out of Burlington-street. It appeared that about five
o'clock on Saturday evening, deceased and several other
little children were crossing the street from Bevington
Bush to Burlington-street, when a large and heavy spring
cart, with a spirited horse, came up at a sharp trot towards
them. The driver, Thomas Hale, was called to loudly by
two of the witnesses, one of them a respectable car-
owner, to stop, as they saw the danger- in which the
children were placed, but he did not slacken his speed,
which was so great at the turn of the street that he could
not well have done so, to avert the catastrophe. Both
witnesses also stated that lie was in liquor at the time, and
that after the accident he did not attempt to pull up, and
that it was only stopped by themselves and others seizing
the reins some yards further on. The deceased was
knocked down by the cart and the near wheel passed over
her body. She was carried to a druggist's shop, but died
in three hours afterwards, from rupture of the lungs and
pleura, and fracture of ribs on both sides. The jury re-
turned a verdict of manslaughter, and Hale, (who was in
custody,) was committed for trial at the Assizes.
THE LAZARETTOES.—We rejoice to say that the fever
which had raged so violently in the town for many months,
is now on the wane; but having learned that it is in con-
templation by the parish anthorities to dispense with the
Lazarettoes, lent for patients by the government, we re-.
spectfully suggest that styli a step would, as yet, be pre-
mature and impolitic, for reasons which we shall briefly
adduce :—Four hulks were procured in the first instance,
and the cost of fitting them up for the reception of patients
was, if we are correctly informed, about £2,500. Two, of
the vessels were sent back, and there are now only 80 pa-
tients in the two that remain. On this plea it is ttinught
of dispensing with these two also. But it should be borne
in mind that during , the four months whilst the vessels
have been in use, there has been expended in addition to
the equipment stated, somewhere about £650 for wages of
attendants, &c.; £l7O for surgeons; £l5O for- drugs;
£350 for provisions; and £l9O for hire of steamers,—
making in all, for the reception and care of 1000 patients,
an aggregate expenditure of about £4OOO. It will require,
moreover, it is said, nearly £5OO to unfit and replace the
vessels as before, which the government will require. Now,
though the fever is " scotched," it is not yet killed. It
has reached those in the higher ranks of life, where, we
are credibly informed it is spreading, and it may yet
(though we pray it may not) relapse upon the public
health.. Considering, therefore, the cost of the two ves-
sels left, and that that cost will not require to be increased,
would it not be advisable to retain them for two or three
months longer, and to remove to them the patients now
in the fever sheds, both for their own sakes and that of
the public. The sheds, from the locality in populous
neighbourhoods, not only excite feelings of alarm (which
the lazarettoes are calculated to allay), and tend to dete-
riorate the value of property around them, but it is also
impossible to conceive that any system of ventilation can
render them so effective in the restoration of poor invalids
afflicted with the epidemic, as vessels at anchor in the
tideway, and perNiOns to the purifying and invigorating
sea,breeze>,

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

THE RIVER PLATE.

Her Majesty's packet Seagull arrived at Falmouth on
Saturday with the Brazilian mails, having sailed from Rio
de Janeiro on the Bth, Bahia on the 17th, and Pernambuco
on the 24th ult. On freights in gold, &c., about £20,000.
Exchange at Rio, 271 to 274 ; Government 6 per Cent.
Stock firm at 831.
The only occurrence worthy of note at Rio was the arrival
there, in the Eagle frigate, on the evening of the sth of
August, of Lord Howden from the River Plate, to assume
his functions of British Minister to the Brazilian Court.
It would appear he had not been able to accomplish all
the necessary points for effecting a peace between the
belligerent states, but had raised the blockade of Buenos
Ayres as far as regarded British vessels. The French
Minister still persisted in maintaining it nominally, owing
to some lapse of proper etiquette or formality on the part
of the Argentine Executive. An armistice for six months
had been entered into, which would probably yet result
in an accommodation of differences upon a permanent
basis. The day before the Seagull sailed from Pernam-
buco (23d August) the steamer came in from Rio Janeiro,
and communicated the arrival in that city of Count
Walewski, the French Minister, who would depart again
in two days for Toulon in the French steamer-of-war
Cassine.

A disturbance was anticipated at Pernambuco from
some of the natives in the interior, who threatened to
attack the town in consequence of some unpopular mea-
sures of the Government. A quantity of arms had been
seized on the estates in the neighbourhood, but all- was
quiet at the sailing of the packet on the 24th of August.
The only British ships of war left at Rio were the Eagle
and Crescent, and the Kestrel packet, lately arrived from
the Plate. Tonnage had come in abundantly at Rio, and
the demand for coffee having increased, prices advanced.
Considerable sales took place at 2,950 reis to 3,000 reis
for superior, 2,750 reis to 2,850 reis for good firsts; and
2,500 reis for good seconds, Sugars were dull—white,
2,700 reis; and brown, 1,800 reis to 2,000 reis. Freights,
70s. per ton for England, and 80s. for the continent.
Government was a taker of about £20,000 by the packet,
and about £300,000 had been done in the month pre-
ceding the Seagull's departure.

Lord !Tinto has arrived at Berne, en route to Rome.
It is rumoured that Nldlle. Deluzy, the governess to
the Praslin family has. since the unfortunate affair with
which her name is mixed up, had two offers of marriage,
and that the head of a lady's boarding-school at London,
has made to her several propositions with a view of en-
gaging her services as partner in the business.
Mr. Monckton Milnes, the poet and member for Pon-
tefract, has arrived at Lisbon, and been presented at court,
and received with great distinction. He proceeds by the
next packet, in company with Mr. Lockhart, the distin-
guished author of Ancient Spanish Ballads, and editor of
the Quarterly Review, on an Andalusian tour, and thence
to Madrid.

SWITZERLAND.—Letters from Berne, of the 22nd inst.,
state that military preparations were proceeding with con-
siderable activity on the part of the Federal Government
and the Sonderbund, and that a collision was deemed
imminent. The canton of Zurich had demanded the
speedy dissolution of the league, and, in imitation of
Berne, had granted a considerable sum for the organiza-
tion of the militia on a respectable footing. Those two
cantons, the most populous and wealthy in Switzerland,
can alone bring into the field 40,000 men, perfectly drilled,
armed, and equipped, and maintain them during two
months without any detriment to their finances.
ITALY.—The Pope is still determined to resist in case
of any attack upon the independence of his states. It
was reported that his Holiness had assented to a propo-
sition that Louis Philippe should become arbitrator be-
tween the Holy See and Austria. Pius IX. added, how-
ever, a condition which Prince Metternich would not
subscribe to, namely, that the Austrian .troops should
withdraw from the town and the citadel of Ferrara. The
proposition cf the King of the French fell therefore to the
ground, mucli to the satisfaction, it was said, of all in
Rome who had learned anything of the matter. Austrian
intervention in Lucca and Modena was hourly expected,
and it was said that the Grand Duke of Tuscany was
wavering.
THE BORNEO PIRATES.—THE NEMESIS IRON STEAM-
SHIP.—The Overland Mail from China brings accounts of
a brilliant engagement between the Hon. East India
Company's steamer Nemesis and a number of piratical
prahus, on the 30th of May. The news is published in
the Singapore Free Press of the 21st of June, and the
following are the heads :—The Nemesis, (which it will be
remembered was built at North Birkenhead, by Mr.
John Laird, and has done great service in the East,) left
the town of Brune on the 30th of May, to cross over to
the new British port of Labuan. She had on board Mr.
Brooke and Captain Grey, and soon descried, near the is-
land of Moarra, a fleet of Balanini and Sule pirates, in
full chase of a trading prahu. The pirates, on seeing
her, attempted to escape, and finally ran in shore and an-
chored. The Nemesis reached them at 1 p.m. Thirty of
them (all well manned) opened fire upon her, and she re-
turning it, the battle was kept up hotly for two hours,
when the enemy was silenced, and pulled away in a crip-
pled state. The Nemisis pursued them ; drove six of
them on shore. The boats and other small vessels ac-
companying the Nemesis were put in requisition, and the
flower of the pirate fleet was captured or destroyed.
The force of the pirates were computed at 500 men, ex-
clusive of 100 captives. Forty or fifty of them, who had
deserted their vessels, were found dead on the beach, ten
were found killed in the captured_prahus, and many must
have died in the jungle--in all SO to 100 killed. The loss
to the British was three men killed and seven wounded.
Ten brass guns, varying in size from nine-pounders, and
five iron guns were captured. Five of the largest prahus
were taken, and none would have escaped, had the British
had a sufficient number of boats to send after them. At
the close of the engagement the beach was covered by
captives flying from their captors, and by pirates aban-
doned in a hostile country. The night closing, pre-
vented measures being taken in favour of the liberated
captives. Several of them, however, got into the
British boats, and represented the extensive depreda-
tions committed by the pirates on the southern coast
of Borneo, the Straits of Banka, and other places.
Great praise is due to the officers, crews, and all engaged
in the action, which it was hoped, with ulterior measures
in preparation, would remove the curse olpiracy from
those shores. The Nemesis was coaling, would call at
Sarawack with Mr. Brooke, and was expected in a few days
at Singapore. The treaty with the Sultan had been con-
e eluded.

A CURIOUS QUESTION.—A correspondent of the Rail-
way Times, in discussing the propriety of suspending rail-
way works, makes the following remarks:—"We have
had thirty-two years of peace, and hardly twenty years of
railway-making. Comparatively speaking, very little has
been spent as yet on railways. Where, then, has all the
accumulation of these years of peace gone to? To mention
but one way. Immense sums have been spent in embel-
lishing, and uselessly decorating, houses and shops, at
enormous cost. This is- how- the greater part has been
sunk ! Query : If the sums laid out in fitting up linen-
drapers', tailor's shops, &c., or gin palaces, in the last
twenty years, had been expended on railways, how many
miles of railway would those sums have made ?—Answer
Very nearly the whole of the railway mileage made, or
authorised to be made, up to the end of last session! We
can decorate, then, at immense cost, our gin shops, &c.,
but cannot make our railways." There is some truth in
the fact of an enormous amount having been thus thrown
away but we scarcely fancy that it would have sufficed
to make all the railways completed up to this time.
STATE OF THE IRISH PROVINCES.—After a period of
unexampled tranquillity the old system of agrarian crime
is again spreading through the southern provinces. The
Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary outrages on person and
property are becoming events of daily, occurrence, and as
complaints are general of the cessation of all employment,
by reason of the termination of harvest labour, it is
apprehended that this, in conjunction with many other
circumstances, will lead to a season. of more than average
disquiet. Here is a wretched sample of Rockite legisla-
tion, having its origin, as usual, in a dispute about land,
furnished by the Limerick Reporter :—" On Wednesday
night last the.house of a man named Kelly, who lives at
Knocksentry,, in this county, was attacked by an armed
party, who knocked at the door and demanded admittance.
Kelly, who was sitting at the fire eating his supper, rose
with one oPhis children in his arms for the purpose of
opening the door, when the parties outside fired, and shot
him dead. The child's legs are broken, as well from the
effect of the shot as from the father falling on it. The
murderers made their escape through the bog and have
not since been taken. The cause of the murder is said to
be something about land.'
BII,LS OF EXCHANGE FROM INDIA.—At a special
meeting of the Liverpool East India and China Associa-
tion, held on the 22nd of September, Mr. Charles Turner
in the chair, it was unanimously resolved,—" That in the
opinion of this association the term of ten months' date,
at which bills of exchange are usually drawn from Cal-
cutta upon England, is unnecessarily long for the legiti-
eaate purposes of commerce, and gives encouragement to
undue speculation. and accommodation ; that a bill drawn
from Calcutta upon England at six months' sight, would,
in the opinion of this association, afford ample facilities to
the merchants connected with India for carrying on their
business ; that whilst this association would not wish to
throw any difficulties in the way of such fair accommoda-
tion as may be necessary to the, carrying on a distant
trade like that of India, they are of opinion that ten
months' credit upon a bill of exchange is not requisite for
this purpose ; that it is attended with very great risk lay
giving an undue extension to credit." The resolution
went, on to advise the tuem,hers of the propriety of dis-
couraging the negociation of ten months' bills, and of en-
deavouring to establish a uniform usage of six months'
bills. •
THE CORN TRADE.—We learn from the monthly offi-
cial customs return that,during the month ending the sth
September instant, there were imported into the United
Kingdom, from foreign countries, 1,515,701 cwt. of corn,
grain, meal and flour, and from British possessions
378,660 cwt., making a total of 1,894,3t11 cwt. There
were admitted during the same month to home consump-
tion 1,894,794 cwt. ; and on the sth September there were
remaining in warehouse 23,920 cwt. of which 21,802 were
from, foreign countries, and 2118 from British possessions.
We have thus imported in one short month from foreign
countries above a million and a half quarters of grain,
meal, flour, &c. Considering that this heavy import must
have been made without trenching upon the new crops,
and may be regarded as the sweepings of the Trans-
atlantic and the European granaries, after the harvest of
1846, it is clear that there must have been, somewhere or
other, a stock on hand much too large to warrant any
fears of impending famine and consequent high prices.
One, million two hundred thousand quarters of grain, and
one million eight hundred thousand, hundred weights of
flour and meal per month would, if continued for a year
or so, rather astonish our agr..cultural free traders. We
might very soon dispense, altogether with the British
plough,

Sept. 25, 1847.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Our market this morning was well supplied with Eagifi
Wheat, and most country markets held during the past wro
appear also to have been plentifully furnished by farmers,
prices gave way 3s. to 4s. per quarter ; a like decline had to,uve
submitted to before the Essex and Kentish factors could his.
any progress in sales, but at that abatement a tolerable cleel7e
ance was effected. In Foreign Wheat the transactions Is err
much more restricted than of late, at a reduction of 3s• Pe
quarter upon the quotations of last Monday.
Barrel Flour must be quoted 2s. to 3s. per barrel, and coun-
try Flour Is. to 2s. lower.

Barley met a steady sale at previous rates.
The quantity of really flue horse corn that appears at n"Lilsett
is so trifling that factors were enabled to obtain an advance„;
ed. to is. per quarter upon Oats answering this descriPti"-
all secondary and inferior qualities were not dearer.
White Peas, from their scarcity, brought 2s. more Juana'
Beans were unaltered in value.
SMITHFIELD cxrrLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
We have again a
very great supply of Beasts, but a largel
portion are of very inferior quality; these latter meet wl.t.hed,
very slow demand, and late'
prices are with difficulty suPPoi`ari
The best descriptions, bein,, scarce, are sold quite as de
some choice Scots have made4s. Bd.
The number of Sheep is also large, including a great 1011.,
that were left over from Friday last. Prime Downs, not bei.,
very plentiful, nearly reached late currencies ; but beaper
coarse-woolled Sheep were with difficulty disposed of at rater.
less money. There were about 6,020 from Holland and .
many, several of which remained unsold.
anle•
Trade is very dull for Calves; prices remain about the s
We have about 117 from abroad. Pigs are still dear.
MONEY MA.
Business began this morning at about the• latest and 100;
quotation of Saturday, namely, at 85A to 6 for the acec'tiicl,
The advices from Cnina are certainly looked- upon as 1.„,i.
better than the public mind had been prepared for by prellTe;
nary announcements on the subject. The present Pfor
marked for Consols are 85i to for money, and 8G (exactly)
account. Exchequer Bills, 4s. to 7s. premium.