The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-21 00:00:00

ISLE OF MAN

There, also, the shock was perceptibly experienced. It was
preceded by a rumbling noise, and followed by a sensible vi-
bration from east to west. At the time of the shock tie
wind became instantly calm, but a considerable motion was
observable in the sea after it had subsided, and the waves
dashed violently against the adjacent shore. After the lapse
of a few minutes the wind again rose to a stiff breeze. The
rarity of such a phenomenon in our northern latitude has pro-
duced, as might be expected, considerable sensation in the
town, but we are happy to say no worse results than alarm to
the timid and general surprise to those who were disturbed
in their midnight stuwbeis by us occurrence. The earth-
an.h. -rt.—o to have been felt throughout Lb. sauuu,
particularly at Castiotown, shale the.inmates of the college
were fearfully alarmed by the ing of the building.

From all we have learned the earthquake does not appear
to have extended further north than Carlisle. It was felt
generally with greater severity in the north than here. At
Whitehaven, Ambleside, Keswick, &c., the shock was par-
ticularly sharp.

CORRESPONDENCE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sia,—l take the following extract from the Dumfries and
Galloway Courier of Feb. 20th, 1843 :
" RICH BISHOPS.—It is on record (says a recent writer)
that three bishops, in fifteen years, left £700,000 to their
families. A Bishop of Clogher went to Ireland without a
shill
ing, and after ight years died worth £400,000. The
Bishop of Cloyne, who died in 1820, left £120,000 to his
children; and a Welsh bishop, who died recently, although
his bishopric was called a poor one, left £lOO,OOO to his
children. By the probates at Doctors Commons, it ap-
peared, in 1828, that the personal property of 24 bishops-
who had died within the preceding twenty years amounted
to the enormous sum of £1.649,000—an average of nearly
£70,000 for each bishop. This was the sworn value of the
personal property only, and some of the bishops are known
to have had very large possessions in real property. Now,
we will venture to assert that in no other profession will it
be found that so large an average of wealth has been left by
the heads. Take the 24 last generals, the 24 last admirals,
the 24 last judges—nay, the 24 last merchants—and the per.
sonal property will not equal tbat of the bishops, nor ap_
proach it.—[A bishop? must be blameless, not greedy of filthy
lucre.—Tim. i. iii.]
I conceive this to be a random and false article. The
Bishop of Clogher therein alluded to was Dr. John Porter,
who died, I believe, in 1819. I knew his cousin, and often
,"ard him speak of the bishop's circumstances. That he
le" no such sum behind him as £400,000 is quite certain—
nor, 4' J conceive, a tenth of it. We may, therefore, con-
clude th.
the other estimates are equally erroneous. The
animus of he e
/f0u,.,,,0n tide is apparent—it is the fashion with the
Scotch to fall
far et nefas. I have ni,
,episcopacy and episcopalians, per
If heardiibnSscots a child wouldlandsuchta see
tales re-
lated, and
absurdity swallow.ofe too,done waooul.d t.-Ic that our preshyterian a , bishops,
brethren had so much to do at presem. :.h the state of their
own church that sins might, fora time at leas,, _sss unmo-
lested. Whatever else may be thought of such artick....,
one extracted, it certainly evinces very bad taste in the LP
fries Courier. The public ought to be disabused upon the
point, particularly at the present mome t
n, when the quiet,
uniform, consistent working of episcopacy is contrasted with
the factious and tumultuous doings of the Scottish establish-
ment. It may be worth while to inquire, why so insidious
an attack is made upon the English hierarchy just at the
present time. It has been said, that in the great cities, many
persons, disgusted with the quarrels of the courts, have taken
refuge in the peaceful harbour of the episcopal church. Ido
it.—Yours, &c. D.
not pledge myself for the truth of this, nor for the extent of
Warrington, March 17th, 1843.
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ANTIQUITIES.—They write from Munich on the 25th ult.
that the King of Bavaria is now building a house in the park
of his summer palace at Aschaffenburg, near Wurtzlaurg,
which will be the exact copy of the famous house of Castor
and Pollux at Pompeia, which was cleared in 1839, under the
direction of the distinguished German archaiologist M. Zahn.
Tho splendid mosaic work, the fresco painting, the altar, fur-
niture, utensils—in short, all the curiosities contained in that
ancient building, will be copied with the utmost accuracy in
the new structure now in progress of erection at Aschaffen-
burg, so as to afford a correct idea of the domestic manners
of the old Romans in our country, where nothing of the kind
exists.—Journal des Dlbats.
AN ADVOCATE'S ZEAL.—At a late meeting of the judicial
committee of the privy council, Lord Brougham told the
following anecdote, illustrative of a barrister's zeal for his
client :—" I remember a cause at Guildhall, before Lord
Tenderden, in which, upon the cross-examination of a wit-
took a ten-pound note out of his own.
zeal for his client—and handed it over
ness, I brought out the fact, that be had an interest in the
case, upon whicwhhmo yagnroebedletoanrdecleeaivreneidt finriednidscLhoarrdgeCoafmhis
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interest ;hatn which my learned friend said, " Now, do yon
confirm wa you stated to me upon your examination ?" to
which the witness, of course, replied in the affirmative.
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felt that my objection was removed to another ground, and
endeavoured to convince the jury, that the man having
lywictaottenall propriety, made a
pledged himself by his evidence while be had an interest
could not possibly go back now that his interest was at ari
end, without and
perjury; but that, haying •
interest,hisbwevidences
er ea
idnoidtr
mistake, and found against me. (Laughter.) They
were
pleased with the nimbleness and tact of my learned frireensdo
yto,huucgoshntitmrnapor
and with his great generosity, too, that they could not forbear
giving him a verdict." (Great laughter.) .
SUBSTITUTE FOR GLAZED FRAMES IN HOT-BEDS.—In
the .Rheinlandlshe Garteizzeitung is described a substitute
for the glazed frames of hot-beds and green.houses
deserves the attention of florists. Instead of glass the'fwhich
are covered with a fine white cloth of cotton. In orderram°
render this more transparent, and enable it to re • . to
'on the resist moisture
it is covered with a preparati , ingredients of whi
four ounces of pulverised dry white These two lunch are
white slack lime, and four ounces of boiled lie ces of
These three ingredients having been mixed with eed
oil'
four ounces ft he white of eggs, and as much ofeach other
are added, and the mixture is then made liquid b the yolk,
The oil combines easily with the other ingredient heating'
varnish remains pliable and quite transparent •_B. and the
of a forcing bed arranged in this manner is • The e
inconsiderable,e
and it yields at the same time many other advantages.
a hot-bed needs not the anxious attention required Such
ordinary ones covered with glazed frames. by the
of the mid-day sun During the
strongest rays
particular covering orshade; the stews require any
phere therein
serves a nearly equal temperature almost the whole pre-
requires only to be changed from time to time, 01" day, and
circumstances. If such a bed is provided according to
with
horse dung• and a proper thickness of so a soil of
sifted, heath mould is spread thereon, layersnae fertile, finely
flowers, early vegetables, and other plants of all sorts of
from seed' in it.—Annals of Chemistry. a may be reared
CBELSEA HOSPITAL.—An addition has
which adorn the hallof
trophies this been made to the
noble • '
It consists of flags which were captured military asylum.
war with China, and which, from during our recent
strange character, form a striking co their freshness and very
tattered memorials of former con ntrast to those dirty and
have found a place. These flags, quests among which they
are of very rich silk and satin, and,which are six in number,
They
yellow, and of very gay and showy
all triangular • green, bein
They are in shape, and g the most prevalent.
fur-
nished with long streamers, on some of them are
tion in Chinese characters. The which is contained an iueip-
of uncouth and grotesque oh•e standards present a variety
which is the dragon, which is jo
cts, the most conspicuous of
of the Chinese empire, the rof the supernatural animals
phoenix, and the tortoise. Th other three being the •tag, the
same that is said to be affixed e figure on the standards is the
books, instruments, and all to
the Imperial precepts, edicts,
China what the British l' the insignia of royalty, being to
monster embroidered ion is to our national arms. The
on thesestandards,with his horned
wi
head, large eyes, wide •
yawning ja •
wb, and contorted form, is
an object sufficiently terrificdire,"btuo all who believe attest
unable
to resist the might of the Britis'hast
lohne
,traonppeas
sucithey
are
viewed by the brave old warriors whose noble hall is adorned
by these recent importations from the " flowery nation."
CRIMINAL OFFENDERS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.—
The most
important information on legal an audio statistics
will be derivable from the minute and systic series of
returns of criminal prosecutions now annually presented to
Parliament from both ends of the land. We have now before
us the respective returns for England and Scotland for 1841.
The result continues to exhibit—what has often been ,showa
by able writers the great superiority of the
convictions Scotch system or
procedure, through stipendiary prosecutofors
cominga at the truth,
by a majority of the jury, as a means.
guilty. ln England,.
and convicting the accused when be is
..
committed for trial, or bailed. during
the number of persons
year, is 27,760. This includes the cases where bills were.
fle o 2048 ; and likewise-
casegored by grand juries, aftloun"--O,lAt. leaving 25,326 ca
ss not prosecuted, amounting to oe;, ,
acquittalsby finding of ses
brought to trial. In these, the
hrcet. of the not
guilty were 5018, being 19 and 4-2ttli! Pebe contemplated'whole
number tried. In whatever way isit
shows a fearful state of defectiveness in the
hen has the t law. le we pre-
these 5018 men to be all innocent,
sume
and caprice of the English law exposed that number
tainty
to the risks of a trial, and the certainty of ruined fortunes
and a blighted reputation. If we suppose them all guilty,
then has the law, by its feebleness, left society exposed to the
machinations of 5018 acknowledged criminals. in Scotland,
the total number of " offenders" (as they are very inaccu-
rately called, since the term includes not only those who are
acquitted, but those who are discharge_ befors trial) was
3562. From this number we have to deduct b 53, who were
discharged before trial ; when we have 2909 actually brought
to trial. Of these, the number acquitted was 216, or 7 and
I 2-sths per cent. Yet even this small number were not sent
forth with a vague and general finding of not guilty, as in
England. In 191 e.anca, the verdict is " not proven"—
declaration of suspicion,
• which tells the world, that th 11'
e ac_
cused must produce something more than what appeared at
his trial before society can receive him as an innocent
This is a species of verdict both just and humane to man-
whose innocence is undoubted; for it leaves room those
distinct line between them and the suspected. Sto draw a
have our juries been in returning the higher o cautious
there are only twenty-five causes (not one verdict, that
number brought to trial), where the verdict per cent. in the
—juryman s Legal Haud-Book. ct 4 "not guilty:*

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BLIC PBTITIONS.—From the tenth report of the
.e of public petitions, it appears that 6,326 persons
oned against the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, 17,04
sees of St. Asapb(s:fiYtt-Pangor, s'l
of church extension,' 3,466 against Lord
:lel or the corn
`o the Hiudoo princes, 1,842 for a re-
*,ifietirrioersiastcotn laazids,l 3,0310 m
"-- the repeal of the corn
~cue, Dorsetshire, in favour
of foreigners' bill.
ILEY.—The circumstances under which
.as convicted and sentenced to transportation
,t the January sessions of the Central Criminal Court
still fresh in the recollection of our readers. Cr
usual custom, the presiding _
mer instanter, and the conclusay.
urally be that its execution would ,r
wor some unexplained reason, h'
the convict still r'

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