The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-03 00:00:00

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curiosity
years old, an,

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and when that gen-

) is one of the maids
and had him sent to

of honour to the Queen, saw the boy,
Windsor Castle; and further that the Queen was so amused
by his diminutive boots that she forthwith appointed him
" tiger," or something of that sort, to his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales. If all this be true, Master Grubh has
grubbed up a prize in the lottery of life.—rambridge Chro •

mete.
An extraordinary meeting of the general assembly of the
Church of Scotland, was held in Edinburgh, on Tuesday last;
when Dr. Cook moved. " That, as it has now been adjudged
by the highest legal authority of the country, that the Gene-
ral Assembly, by its mere act, cannot confer on quoad sacra
ministers a valid and legal title to sit as members of the ec-
clesiastical judicatories of the Established Church—such act
involving the conveyance of civil privileges, which can be de-
rived only from the Legislature—the Commission in con-
formity to this, refuse to enrol, in the sederunt, the names
of any such minister, or to hold them as entitled to deliberate
and to vote on what may come under its consideration."
This motion was negatived, and one was carried that they
should proceed to the business of the day. Dr. Cook and
the minority then left, when Dr. Candlish, after a two hours
speech, moved a resolution, to the effect, that the church
present petitions to both Houses of Parliament on the sub-
ject of the " Claim of Right." He regretted to say that,
after the letter from Sir James Graham, he had very little
hope of the success of their application ; but still they thought
it their duty before taking any other steps, to have the opinion
of the Legislature express or tacit upon their claims. This
was adopted, and the commission separated.
BURGLARY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—Ii will be remem-
bered that, in March, 18-11, a very extensive robbery was
committed in the stores at Windsor Castle, and a party was
taken into custody on suspicion, but discharged. It appears,
that, on Friday evening last, the cap of one of the workmen
engaged in the stores was accidentally set on fire, and, in at-
tempting to extinguish it, it was thrown upon the floor,
amongst some things which lay near the man, and trodden
upon. Mr. Ledger, in the Lord Chamberlain's department,
in order to prevent the chance of any accident occurring from
fire, very properly ordered one of the men, named Gaw, to
remain upon the watch in that part of the premises during the
night. At half past five o'clock on the following (Saturday)
morning, Gaw was naturally surprised at hearing the outer
door unlocked, and at seeing a man, of the name of Samuel
Prentice, walk in. The man was taken into custody on Mon-
day, and examined before the magistrates, when he was com-
mitted to the Barks assizes, charged with having entered the
stores by means of a picklock key, and being found upon the
premises for improper purposes at that hour in the morning.
He was liberated on bail, himself in £5O, and two sureties of
£3O each. When the prisoner was first seen by Gaw, lie told
him he came for a hammer and chisel, which he took from a
nail, and departed. He then returned, and said that he came
for a brush, and begged of (jaw to say nothing about his
Deing seen at the stores, or it might bring him into trouble.
Mr. Oastler, in his last Fleet Paper, says :
nspicuous anti-corn-law man

OPPRESSION

foreman of a ver

s sent round with a book to collect subscriptions for the
£50,000 League fund. The book was headed in red letters,
£50,000. The foreman told the workmen 'to remember the
,d example, and he would now see
—ould give to the great
anstanding this well-understood hint,

master had set them a

,e of his workmen

Leagu

In the afternoon
of the same day, the foreman went round with the book a
,econd time, put down for each man 6d., and STOPPED IT
' Is there no punishment for this
' When Mr. 0. hears of
of poor George White, the
Leeds magistrates, and the £l,OOO bail which was demanded
from a working man ! !! whose only crime was carrying a
book and asking subscriptions for chartist purposes. Then,
again, after giving money to the League fund, these free-
trade gentry deduct from their workpeople just what they
think proper. I know one individual who gave £5O, who
had an old servant of 26 years' servitude, who had been
receiving 12s. weekly, but after the £5O was given to the
£50,000 fund, THE OLD SERVANT WAS REDUCED TO SS.
A WEEK !—this extortioner, at the same time, standing up
at anti-corn-law meetings, and boasting what a friend he
was to the working classes, and that he would do all he could
to serve them ! ! Are these the men whom Sir Robert Peel
and Sir James Graham intend to support? Depend upon it,
the working classes of this country will not support them.
Let the Leaguers try a public meeting on the subject of a
repeal of the corn laws, let it be open and free for all, in any
town i❑ the West Riding of Yorkshire, and I dare stake my
existence that they could not carry a single resolution."
PRISON LABOUR.—On the 23d instant the town of Rennes
was thrown into confusion by the violent conduct of some
hundreds of workmen out of work, principally weavers, who,
assembling at nine o'clock in the morning, proceeded to the
prison to prevent the women, to whom flax is given each
week to spin at their own houses, from handing in their work
to be completed by the prisoners. They came too late, as
the women had delivered their work at seven o'clock. There
were some indications observable of an attack on the prison,
but no violence was had recourse to, as fifty men had been
ordered out in addition to the usual guard. The crowd then
proceeded to the Prefect's, and a deputation demanded per-
mission to lay before him the complaints of the workmen.
This he refused, until the crowd had retired. A detachment
of the 73d Regiment with great forbearance drove them as far
as the Rue Louis Philippe. A woman who showed great vio-
lence was arrested, as well as a man who sought to prevent
the arrest. The deputation was then admitted, and listened
to very attentively, whilst the speakers laid before the Pre-
fect the distress of the weavers, and their annoyance at
seeing work executed by the men confined in the prison. The
Prefect, who was attended by the Procureur du Roi, General
St. Aubanet, and several persons in official situations, re-
plied, that he felt for their distress, but he had no means of
preventing it; that the work executed in the prisons could
not do them much injury, as the men in confinement were
only 275, whilst the number of the workmen was 5,000; that
besides he had no power to stop the work in the prison, as it
was so ordered by article 21 of the Penal Code; all he could
do for them was to order the improvements on the Route du
Mail to be immediately entered upon, in order that as many
hands as possible should have something to do. The depu-
tation then demanded the liberation of the persons just
arrested, but this was refused. The deputation then re-
tired, and the same groups were observed to parade the town
during the day ; but no act of violence was perpetrated.—
Galignani's Messenger.
GRAND BLAST AT THE DOVER RAILWAY.—The great
blast at Rounddown Cliff, consisting of 18,5001b5., or eight-
and-a-half tons gunpowder, was fired yesterday week, at two
o'clock. Long before this hour, every height (at a respect-
ful distance) commanding a view of the immense cliff in-
tended to Le operated upon, was studded with spectators ;
and, we must say, that excellent arrangements were made by
the company to avoid accidents. A line of demarcation was
marked off by signals, and police and military were stationed
along this line, to keep the populace from approaching within

the workmen would not give a farthing

HEIR WAGES

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extortion—this downright robbery
these things. he always t

it. The Rounddown cliff o'er hung the sea, close to the one
whose fearful height is so graphically described in King
Lear, and commonly known by the classic name of " Shaks-
peace's Cliff." The original intention of the South Eastern
Railway Company was to carry a tunnel through the portion
of the height thus blown down, as they have through the
bowels of the Shakspeare ; but, from the circumstances of
tremendous falls having taken place on either side, during
the progress of the works, and from these falls having affected
the stability of the cliff, the expediency of blasting it was
very judiciously resolved on. A mine, consisting of three
cells, was according planned and formed by-Mr. Cubitt, the
engineer of the company in the base of the cliff, into which
the enormous quantity of powder above named was placed,
and the ignition of the charges by the voltaic battery was
performed by Lieutenant Hutchinson, of the Royal Engi-
neers, who was employed lately by Major-General Pasley in
operating against the wreck of the Royal George. Punctual
to their arrangement, the miners communicated the electric
spark to the gunpowder by their connecting wires, on the
signal being given—the earth trembled under our feet to half
a mile distant—a stifled report, not loud, but deep, was
beard ; the base of the cliff, extending on either hand to up-
wards of five hundred feet, was shot as from a cannon from
under the superincumbent mass of chalk seaward ; and, in a
few seconds, not less, we should say, than 1,000,000 tons of
ruik were dislodged by the shock, and settled gently down
t. the sea below. Tremendous cheers followed the blast,
salute was fired. The sight was indeed truly
Such was the precision of the engineers, and
f Mr. Cubitt, that it would appear just so
of the cliff has been removed as was wanted‘h to make
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