The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

There svas no

Toer nopy!te, must not

heir classical enthusia

towards the side of public liberty ; but here is a question
f the day, between might and right—into.which forms
gles, at that time, but too plainly resolved
And the young politician, with the whole

such strui

themselves,

of the people; speaking, huzzaing, swelling the shout
chorus of the weaker party, which, being the weake

nerally the first chosen of generous and heroic natures
ut how could it be otherwise? His education had al

along been surerintended by his uncle, one of the most
zealous liberals of the day. His Eton, and afterwards his
Oxford vacations. were passed either at his uncle's, or at
Mr. Crewe's, or Mr. Legh's, of Che,hire, or amongst the
Sheridans—all of the same colour. What politics was he

been so temptingly presented to his imagination ? Ilis
progress, too, was watched with daily interest by Fox,
wt ,o calculated upon attaching him to the Whigs ; and he

y looked u

pon with such confidence

It giti mate property, that Sheridan absolutely announced
his coming in the [louse of Commons.—Bell's Life of

GENERAL MISC.

ELLANY.

The new screw for the Great Britain steam-ship weighs

seven tons

The English dwarf, Tom Thumb, is to ride Carter's
Mammoth horse at Ast'ey's.

A splendid service of plate has been presented to Mr.
Gilhart, the fiat manager of the first joint-stock bank in
London..

The East India Company have granted £lOO n-year to
Master Charles Mott, until he attains the age of 18, for

his education

KEEPING A FEROCIOUS DOG.—In a case at Lincoln,
a person was fined £2.5 for keeping a ferocious dog, which

At Huntingdon assizes, on Friday, Eliza Maycock, a
stout surly-looking girl of twenty-one, was convicted of
'maliciously setting fire to three stacks of corn, hay, &
Amateur alaying seems to be the fashion
te-nding itself to railway engineers, who

It is ex-
solved to

The carpenters and joiners of Leeds have given notice
of their intention to strike on the 6th April, unless their
wages are advanced 2s. per week.

struck by lightning and instan!aneously

[ed. His

body were much scorchec

ave been committed for trial at Maidstone
fc:r a murderous attack on a policeman. They wounded
him so severely that he died shortly afterwards.

Five men

Birmingham and the populous towns adjacent have
been for the last four months co
supplied

th good potatoes

FATAL PRIZE FIG ElT.—On Wednesday, a prize fight
came off at Blyth, between two men named Reily and
Cl--ghorn, which proved fatal to the former.

By a Treasury Order, bottled strong beer may now be
exported on drawback, in cases containing two dozen
quart or two dozen pint bottles, provided the quantity ex-

There are building at this time on the banks of the rivet'
Wear 83 ships, and 14 more laying in the river fitting out
and for sale, waking a total of 97, many of which are of

large burden.
Captain Reynolds, Mr. Hunt, a surgeon, and Cornelius
Sail, Frenchman, have been committed for trial, at Can-
terbury. charged with robbing Joseph_Hogg of £45. after

~„ .
The home eonsumptiln of foreign spirits in 1844 was
3.237,456, and in 1845, 3.544,000 imperial gallons, show.
ing an increase last year over the previous year of 305,544

The committee appointed to inquire into the
condition of the Nottinghcm lace makers, state,

hundred teen are out ofwork, three hundred women and
five hundred children want bread."

The sum of X 15,000 has been bequeathed to the Phre-
nological Society of Edinburgh, by the late Dr. RAert-
sgn, of Paris, who died in 1840, and who had taken a
warm interest in the subject for nearly thirty years.
Mr. Twyford, for many years a magistrate at the Chief
Police-Court, in Bow-street, has resigned his office, and
his resignation has been accepted. Mr. Henry, of the
Lambeth Police.court, has been appointed to succeed him.

ATROCIOUS ASSAULT.—At Oxford, James Stevens,
48, was sentenced to transportation for life, for a criminal

Egrd 10 years

There was

he scoundrel, for a like offence upon an
hter, which was not tried.
The nett income of the Property and 'lncome Tax, as
appears by a Parliamentary paper, published on Friday,
was, in the year ending the sth April, 1844, in Great
Britain £5.372 786. 12s. 6-Id.: and in the year enclitic

ler wins

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the sth April last £5,303,521. i6s. lid.
INCREDIBLE CRIME.---At Durham, on Saturday, V:olet
Crawford, for pouring boiling hot water into her husband's