The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL RTANDIRD.

LORD BROUGHAM'S LEri ER ON THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION.

Lord Brougham has addressed a public letter to Lord
Lansdowne, the President of the Council, on the French
e, the letter of Burke, on

I,volution

t is, in one

the former revolution,—changing only the perion and the
time,—events being as it were identical. The comparison
must, of course, be to the disadvantage of the noble
lord ; but that is no fault of his ; for who can .write like
Burke ? Lord Brougham has seen the sort of political
science that is found in the working classes of society,
when appealed to as statesmen and rulers,— of which
weakness and folly, all nations and times bear ample tes-

iepublicans of Pa

led Aristides,—the
Chartists of Man-
nen

Chester and Birmingham, are all of the same gene
of circumstances—the Bens hominum. The letter is writ-
ten with great power of language and concentration of
sentiment. We have now only room for a brief passage
or two.

HOW THE REVOLUTION WAS EFFECTED

;empting to reform the system by lawful means,

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or to change the ministers who had given offence, or to exact
punishment by the course of justice for that offence, the indig-
nation of the multitude in Paris suddenly bursts forth, because
the police threaten to stop a dinner and a procession ; an armed
mob resists the authorities; an accident renews the conflict,
after it had of itself died away ; another accident occasions un-
necessary shedding of blood; the populace, further exaspera-
ted, march to the National Assembly, and, without the assent
of any regular body whatever, proclaims a republic, of which
no one had dreamt an hour before, and nan.es as its chiefs
some half-dozen men, of whom no one had dreamt at any time,
as rulers of the state t Then this work of some half-dozen ar-
tisans met in a printing-office, and leading on two or three
thousand in a capital of one million souls, and a nation of five
and thirty, is at once perceived to have the very probable con-
sequence of uniting the ten or twelve thousand felons, chiefly
discharged galley-slaves, who are always under watch of the
police, but always hovering about, ready for any mischief; a
national alarm is excited, that the monarchy having been de-
stroyed in one contest, all Paris may be subjected to another
fire, pillage, masacre. So, by universal consent, the inhabi-
tants of that great capital submit to the absolute dominion of
the dictators thus suddenly appointed by a handful of armed
ruffians, headed by a shoemaker and sub-editor, and adopt, as
it it had been their own work, the new government thus pro-
claimed by that most insignificant hand, without even affecting
to ask the consent of any human being, or even to apprise any
one beforehand of what they intended do—nay, very possi-
bly without having five minutes before formed any precise in-
tention at all.
Yes I yes I—this is the truth—the terrible truth I The like
of this was never before witnessed among men. I will not say
men living in a state of civil society, but among any collection
of rational beings, connected by the slightest tie, and joined
together for the common purpose of their joint defence, or their
joint operations of any kind whatever. That a total change in
their social condition should be the sudden work of a moment—
a change prepared by no preceding plan—prompted by no felt
inconvenience—announced by no complaint—that all which
had before been adopted by the approval more or less general,
of the nation, at any rate submitted to in peace by all, should
be instantaneously renounced, rejected, cast off, and every ves-
tige be swept away of what had existed with unusual acquies-
cence, and an entirely new order of things—an order in all
particulars new, devised without the least deliberation, struck
out a heat, created off-hand as quick as a ready speaker can
off-hand utter half a dozen sentences unpremeditated—that a
few minutes by the clock should intervene between the old,
obsolete, annihilated, and the span-new, untried and even un-
thought-of—truly this is a convulsion to which no former re-
volution ever known in the world offers the least parallel.
The following, on the benefits of agitating the masses,
is true in all times, seasons, and countries :
The trade of the agitator, the professional mischief-maker,
should in every possible way be discouraged. As long as every
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a cantir, preacher of grievances, or a quack distributor of re-
medies,'he will both become a popular favourite and earn a
subsistence, rely upon it there will never be wanting many to
follow this very easy and not very honest calling, and many
more to be the dupes of their nostrums. At no period was this
abuse carried so far as during the last few years in England,
but especially in Ireland. The repeal of the Union has been a
livelihood to many; to one it was the source of great gains.
Partly on the money it yielded in large sums, partly on the
traffic which he drove with your government for places to his
family and followers in purchase of their votes which he com-
manded, he contrived, during a considerable portion of his life,
to live on the people, as a pensioner on the poor, with the name
of a disinterested patriot.

erneral

A vessel has arrived in London from Calcutta, with
800 sacks of flour.

A verdict of the coroner's jury on the body of Mrs.
Armitage attributed her death to congestion of the lungs.
The Sheffield Mercury has ceased to be published, and
is incorporated with the Sheffield Times.
The Surrey Theatre is in such a state of decadence that
the scenery, " properties," costumes, decorations, &c.,
have been brought to the hammer.
On Wednesday, Holland's extensive flour mills, situate
at Stanley Bridge, Fulham, were totally destroyed by tire.
The loss is estimated at £5OOO.

A vessel, named the Queen, has arrived in London,
from Lisbon, with an entire cargo of grapes, comprising
1319 boxes.

The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per
annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to
superintend the health of the metropolis.
The sale at Stowe, which terminated on Saturday week,
realised £75,495. What is to become of the mansion
and estate still remains a problem.
The splendid glass chandelier in the centre of the Sur-
rey theatre, which cost two hundred guineas, was sold on
Wednesday for only twenty-two guineas. _ _

It is now said that £12,000 ayear will be saved to the
Duke of Buckingham out of his estates, and that the
Marquis of Chandos will succeed to £30,000 a year.
A Chartist, named Wynne, has been committed for
trial, charged with attempting to shoot Policeman Cor-
nick, at Queenhithe.
Five persons, who evidently caught the cholera in
Hamburg, have died in Hull, but the pestilence has not
broken out in any part of the town.

No less than three women were, on Wednesday sen.,
brought before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house,
charged with attempts at self.destruction.

A MAN TO BE PITIED.—The Rev. H. Butler, the in-
cumbent of Wantage, Berks, has forbid the Church Mis-
sionary Society to hold its auxiliary meetings in that town.
A disease has appeared amongst swine in the neigh-
bourhood of Hull, which is attributed to the excessive
quantity of diseased potatoes that have recently been
given to them.
THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.—The epidemic has ap-
peared in London, Woolwich, Hull, Sunderland, and
Edinburgh. The greatest number of cases have occurred
in London.
On Friday night week the mansion of G. Pritchard,
Esq., situate at Broseley, Shropshire, was broken into,
and a large quantity of silver plate and other valuable pro-
perty stolen, amounting in value to upwards of £2OO.
Nineteen acres of land, rather more than a mile from
the town of Wisbech, were sold by auction on the sth
inst. for the large sum of £2,260, being nearly £ll9 per

acre.
The copyright of the Musical Times was brought to the
hammer on Friday, and was purchased for £1,710. The
publication realizes a clear income, after paying all ex-
penses, of £l,OOO a-year.
The Oxford Chronicle mentions that terror was caused
to the inhabitants of Folly Bridge, where. Friar Bacon
once studied, by the appearance of a ghost. A large party
gave chase, but the apparition fled, jumped into a boat,
and escaped down the Isis.
A LAZY DEFENCE.—At the Plymouth Police Court last,
week, a boy, charged with playing pitch and toss on Sun-
day, said be was innocent, as he always lay in bed on
Sundays. This defence was, on inquiry, found to be li-
terally true.

A CHAIRMAN'S WEDDING.—On Tuesday one of the
United Brotherhood of Wheel-chairmen entered the bonds
of Hymen with the object of his affections. The "happy
couple" went to church in two wheelchairs, and returned
Gloucester Chronicle.

The Middlesex magistrates have declared war against
racing sweeps. _ _ _ _ .

A SHIP AT CAMBRIDGE.—On Wednesday week, the
sloop Mary Ann, a small sea-going vessel of about forty
tons burden, arrived at Cambridge with a cargo of coals.
With the exception of the steamer which plied to Lynn
some years since, we believe this is the only sea-going ves-
sel that has come up to Cambridge within memory.
A singular but painful accident lately happened to a
gentleman named March, connected with the Russian
Consulate. He was descending from the outside of an
omnibus when his ring caught by the hook of the side
bar of the box seat as he was in the act of jumping off,
and the sudden wrench that ensued actually tore off his

little finger. He has been doing well.since.
Doc. STEALING.—At the Middlesex sessions, on Satur-
day, three men were indicted for having taken six guineas
as a reward for restoring three bloodhounds of the value of
300 guineas, belonging to Lord Alexander Russell, which
had been stolen. Two of the prisoners pleaded guilty,
but it appearing that some compromiSe had been made by
his lordship's groom, the prisoners were discharged, on
giving security to appear for sentence when called on.
BOOTY LEFT BEHIND.—On Saturday night or early on
Sunday morning a dwelling-house on the Marine-parade,
Dover, in the occupation of Captain Sir Thomas Trigge,
was forcibly entered without creating any alarm. The
thieves succeeded in packing up valuables to the amount

of £l,OOO in a bat, when, it is supposed, they wei
turbed. as they decamped, leavin., their valuable
behind, and taking only £7 in gold and some silver.

EXTRAORDINARY DELIVERANCE.—AII account ap-
peared, a few months since, of a captain of a small vessel
near Weymouth liming, in a state of delirium, one night
got into the boat and pushed off, leaving one man in the
vessel, who used every means to discover him without
He was, it appears, picked up by a vessel bound
, America, whither he was carried, and has since re-
turned.

success
to

THE T. Y. DESPATCH, OR THE TRAITOR'S REWARD.
—Mr. Thomas Young, ex-private secretary to my Lord
Melbourne, is now a secretary of the Post-office with a
salary of £1,000; while Mr. Joseph Parkes, his clever
coadjutor, who was, at the time of the Reform Bill, an
obscure attorney at Birmingham, but a Dissenter, is now
a Chancery taxing-master with a salary of £2,000 a year !
Pretty fair rewards these for agitating for a revolution.
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY LUCIFER MATCHES.—
On Tuesday, as a little boy was amusing himself by light-
ing lucifer matches, near a stable on the premises of Mr.
John Birdseye, of Kelvedon (Essex), some straw ignited,
which instantly communicated with the stable, and being
some distance from the dwelling-house, the whole was in
flames before any assistance could be rendered. A valu-
able pony was burnt to death, and the harness, &c., en-
tirely destroyed.

Hew LONG A MAN MAY LIVE AFTER HE IS WORN
OUT.—There is now living in the parish of St. Philip,
Bethnal-green, an old soldier of the name of Geo. Lewis,
in the 94th year of his age, who was discharged from the
Ist Regiment of Fuot Guards,, then commanded by his
Royal Highness the late Duke of Gloucester, on the 20th
of May, 1802, after a service of 26 years, and, as his dis-
charge expresses, because he was very lame and worn
out." . .

DREADFUL DEATHS. —A few days since, two men
employed in a pit at the Dee fields, repairing the brick-
work of the shaft, a chain attached to two pieces of strong
wood across the shaft for the purpose of supporting the
brickwork whilst they were underbuilding it, gave way
about three feet, and the brickwork it supported, at which
place the two men were employed at the time, fell in-
wards, and closed upon them. When extricated they
were quite dead.
Another murder arising out of disappointed love was
committed near Leeds on Sunday night, by a young
man, named Malkin, a wood-turner, aged only seven-
teen, who cut the throat of a carder in a flax mill at
Hunslett, named Ingham, only sixteen years of age,
because she had declined to continue an intimacy that
had sprung up between them. This is the third murder
we have recorded within the last month arising from the
same cause, and by persons in similar stations of life.
THE LATE MAJOR WEMYSS.—This distinguished
officer, whose late melancholy demise at Durham we re-
corded, as senior captain. led the final charge of the Scots
Greys at Waterloo, the result of which was the final over-
throw of the power of Napoleon. During the conflict,
Captain Wemyss had no fewer than three horses shot
under him. Though severely wounded in the arm, he
bravely led his followers into the midst of the conflict,
and so greatly signalised himself that he was promoted to
the rank of major, and rewarded with a pension.
The ironmasters quarterly meetings commenced on
Tuesday, at Walsall, and naturally enough felt the influ-
ence of the panic prevalent, with renewed force with re-
gard to railway shares, in the city, on Saturday and Mon-
day. Letters from Glasgow communicate that the price
of pig iron during the week, has had a downward ten-
dency, and may be quoted 445. 6d. for No. 3, sellers.
The market closed very inanimately at these rates. Un-
der these circumstances, it may be considered a settled
point that prices will remain unaltered for the ensuing
quarter.
A VERY HARD CASE.-Mr. Charles Butler, once a
well-known and highly respectable chemist in St. Paul'
Church-yard, has forwarded us a statement of '
tunate case, and requested us to aid him in recovering
his position in society. He was wrongfully convicted of
felony, sent to the hulks, found to be innocent, set at
liberty, pardoned, and—ruined ! The law, or its admi-
nistrators, had fallen into an error, and Mr. Butler was
forgiven, or pardoned, his imputed felony ! The brand,
however, was upon him, and there it will remain, until

the public feel the injury done to him as to themselves,
and make him reparation.
SINGULAR CASE.—The Worcester Chronnte publishes
a singular instance of mortality in the case of a shop-
keeper in that town, who, having had a bad finger, put a
blister to it; soon after which it is said he handled a po-
tato that was diseased, and it is presumed that the effect
was poisonous, for his finger and hand soon presented a
serious aspect, and he went to the Infirmary, where mor-
tification ensued, and he died on Saturday. A post mor-
tem examination of the body has been made, and the in-
ternal appearances are said to be healthy, leading to the
conclusion that death could only have been occasioned by
the introduction of some poisonous matter to the system.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Monday, at the village of
Brynsiencyn, near Carnarvon, Elizabeth Jones, a char-
woman, brought from Carnarvon six pounds of gunpow-
der. As the evening was very wet the powder got damp,
and when Mrs. Jones reached home she placed it before
the fire to dry: There were four of her daughters sitting
by the fireside at the time, and the powder having taken
fire, a fearful explosion took place, the roof of the house
was blown off, and the inmates dreadfully scorched. The
poor sufferers were found with their clothes on fire, and

their blackened skin and flesh hanging in rags from their
bones. The youngest daughter died soon afterwards, and
little hopes are entertained of the recovery of the others.
A BANKRUPT CORPORATION.—The corporation of
Exeter is in such straightened circumstances that there
was much difficulty in getting any one to accept the
mayoralty last November. It appears that his worship is

often called on to advance money to pay the police, that
their jailor's salary was in arrear, and that officer had
been paying his turnkeys out of his own funds, that the
expenses of witnesses and prosecutors were wofully be-
hind, and that the other day three witnesses from Abing-
don came al

he way

rain for payment, and

tur led away without it. Even the prisoners in jail are in
rags, hitched together by string, because there are no
funds to provide clothing.
Sinuous ACCIDENT TO A TOURIST IN WALES.—
four o'clock on Tuesday night, at Pont-y-Celyi
Bettws. about five miles from Llanrwst, a gentleman
named Evans, from London, was nearly killed. The un-
fortunate gentleman rode a very vicious pony ; he was met

about a mile from the place, proceeding at a rapid rate.
It is supposed that the animal must have suddenly shied
at some object in the road, and pitched the unfortunate
gentleman over a precipice nearly sixty feet deep. Some
stunted bushes fortunately broke his fall, but he has, we

are sorry to say, received a fracture of the right arm and

several ribs of 'the same side, and a concussion of the
brain.' He was found in an insensible state about four
hours after the accident. There is, we regret to say, no

A TRAVELLED MAN.—There is at present residing
in ,Perth a man named Thomas Maxton, who has
been employed as a wright upon the Moncrieffe estate for
the last thirty-five years, and who has during that period,

with, we believe, only two exceptions, travelled three-
and-a-half miles out and three-and-a-half miles in and
from his work every lawful day. Seven miles a day is
forty-two miles a week, and 2184 miles a year; 2184 miles
a year, for thirty-five years, is 76,440 miles, which this
man has travelled in the pursuit of his daily avocation,
besides the journeyings to and fro which he has been
obliged to take from one place to another of the grounds

and which, at .a moderate calculation wi
fifth more—making in all a total of 91,7'.

amount to a

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111GaWAY ROBBERY NEAR BROUGII.—On Monday
night, as the daughter of Mr. John Dent, of the Blue Inn,
Stainmore, and a young man, an acquaintapce of her's,

were rerurniug wgetner trom Drougn 1-1111 Yam, they were
overtaken by three men, strangers. Tl,e men, however,
seemed to have a perfect knowledge of Miss Dent, called
her by name, and made themselves very familiar, and,
after they had proceeded on the road a short distance,
announced their character, by demanding the purses of
the lady and her companion, which being refused, they at
once proceeded to use violent measures to accomplish their
purpose, threw both of the parties down on the road, and
took between three and four pounds from Miss Dent, and
about thirty shillings and a silver watch from the young
man. The night was so very dark, that we fear the rob-
bers cannot be recognised, if apprehended.
DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Saturday John Lanham,
of Maiden-lane, King's-cross, London, came home intoxi•
cated, and having had a quarrel with his wife, who was
also the worse for liquor, he took down an old musket
which hung c;A'er the mantelpiece, deliberately loaded it
With powder and small shot, and fired at her. Several of
the shots entered her jaw and lips, and her screams na-
turally attracted a number of persons to the spot, who
gave expression to their indignation. This proceeding
excited the ire of Lallham, who reloaded his musket, and,
coming out into the road in front of his cottage, tired
indiscriminately amongst the people, and a woman, named
Eliza Carter, and two boys were severely wounded. The
miscreant (who is said to be 86 years of age) loaded his
piece a third time, but it was wrested from him before he
could fire it off.

FEARFUL WOUNDS FROM ERYSIPELAS CURED BY
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS !-Mr. A. Coles, for
five years in the employ of Mr. Oliver, coach-maker,
Twickenham, had been ill, off and on, fourteen years, and
for the last seven was continually under the care of one
surgeon or the other, besides being a patient for a consi-
derable tim3 at one of the hospitals for settled eysipelas,.
in both lega-, which discharged quantities of water, and,
humours issuing from several large wounds. His age,
being seventy-two it was expected that the complaint
would Lill him, and yet this poor man has been perfectly
cured faziameeks by:Hollowuy's Ointment and Pills.,

A WIFE .BOTIIERICD DY A New LAW.—A woman living
in Ashlerinquired last Sunday of one of the police if he
could give her any tidings of her " mon" (meaning her
husband), andsaid she wished " Parliament was fur enough
for alteringthe laa," (alluding to the new w

publicans to L

o their ho

now in opc-
,uses closed

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the whole of,Sunday morning) : " she could always find
her mon till the last Sunday or two, for he always- got

drunk in a morning, and was in bed the remainder of the
day ; but now she bnow'd no more where to look for him
than the mon in the moon. But the Parliament folks eared
nout what trouble they gee poor craturs."—Leicesteraire
Mercury.

JENNY LINeS• VISIT TO A YORKSHIRE FARMER.—
During her recent visit to this part of the country, the
nightingale had expressed a great desire to see an English

farm -house

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