The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

A NEW WEAPON OF CIVIL WARFARE

When it was supposed that Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher,
and the other rebel leaders, had taken refuge in the col-
lieries in the neighbourhood of their defeat, it was con-
ceived that it would be a rather perilous feat for the police
to attempt to dislodge them from amongst the " black
boys." An eminent tactician of our acquaintance sug-
gested, as an efficacious movement, the propriety of
throwing down each shaft a few dozen hives of bees,
whose stings, well applied, would promptly place both
the pikes and the pickaxes of the said " boys " hors de
combat.

IMPORTANT EVENT

It is said that Mr. Smith O'Brien is to be made a mem-
ber of the Merchant Tailor's Company on the first va-
cancy, in consideration of his " uniform" fondness for
greens, and especially for cabbage, as exhibited in the
Widow Cormack's garden. His art of cutting has also
excited the universal admiration of the master snips.

The sum of £lB 12s. was collected for the Liverpool
Church of England School Society at St. John the Evan-
gelist's Church, on Snnday last. The claims of the
society were advocated by the Rev. Henry H. Higgins,
minister of the church.

THE ALBERT WAREHOUSES.-We are assured that,
after a very careful examination of the receipts and pay-
ments for the Albert Dock Warehouses, those splen-
did erections do not realise a profit of more than per
cent. There is plenty of food here for a lengthy oration
from Mr. Eyre Evans.

The body of special constables in Birkenhead now num-
bers nearly a, thousand, and they are drilled every eve-
ning. The police have been provided with cutlasses, to
the exercise of which they are being drilled, and in which
they are becoming very expert. Bodies of special con-
stables at Oxton, Rock Ferry. and other places in Che-
shire, also assemble almost nightly for drill.

DEATH FROM CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS.—Yester-
day an inquest was held on view of thebody of Henry
Bateson, of Craven-street, aged 60. Deceased was a
weigher. On Friday evening deceased complained of
being ill in his bowels, and kept his bed all day. At four
on Saturday morning he became much worse, but refused
to take anything. Shortly after twelve o'clock at noon,
the person with whom he lodged went up to him, and
found him quite dead. It was found that death was
caused by congestion of the lungs, arising from an affec-
tion of the bowels.
BANKRUPTCY OF JAMAICA.—It will be seen from our
summary elsewhere of the West Indian intelligence, that
the financial state of the Island of Jamaica is extremely
bad. The Receiver-General of the public Treasury had
issued a notice that he was without funds, and could not
pay the salaries falling due, but that he would give notice
as soon as he could pay a moiety of the amounts due.
The Jamaica Dispatch says that the payments of the
September quarter also cannot be met, and the Treasury
may be said to be a bankrupt, there being a deficiency of
£14,000.

IMPUGENT ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the Police-court,
two mere youths, Thomas Wilson and David Higgins,
were charged by Alfred Kershaw with having on Friday
gone into a house in Soho-street, in which there was, at
the time, only a little girl, and asked for a bundle of
clothes in blue and white, which he said was his. It was
given to him. It appeared that part of the family in the
house had very shortly before come from Staleybridge ;
that the prisoners had got into company with one of them
on his arrival here, had watched him to the place, and
could describe the bundle which he carried, as that
given to him by the child. They were both committed
for trial.

OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.-At
the Police-court, yesterday, a man who had been employed
at Mr. H. Littledale's, in Wallasey, was charged with
having obtained in Liverpool several small sums by way
of loan, he stating that he was short of money, and had to
make several purchases for Mr. H. or his lady. It ap-
peared that there was no truth in such representations;
but that as he had not actually stated that his master or
mistress had authorized him to say so, the cases adduced
were insufficient in law for a commitment of the pri-
soner; but he was remanded, in order that enquiry might
be made into some other alleged offences of a similar
nature.

COMMITMENTS AT THE POLICE-COURT, YESTERDAY

Rosanna Burns, and Ellen Mc. Ginnis, cluirged by Eliza-
beth Connor with picking her pocket of 9s. in St Martin's
market, on Saturday, were committed to gaol for three
months.—Several fellows found haunting the town at late
hours, were committed for three months.—A woman
named Mary Twist, was charged with having robbed a
man named John Bird of £1 Is., while he was drinking
with her in Finch-street. She was an old offender, and
was committed for trial at the sessions. Mary Coyle, for
stealing several pairs of stays, a corset, and a cloak,
(worth in all about £7,) from a shop in Bold-street, was
committed for trial.

THE ANDERTON CARRYING ComPANY.—Yesterday, a
general meeting of this company was held in the Claren-
don-rooms, Mr. Robinson Duckworth in the chair. Mr.
F. Iloult, after passing a warm eulogium on the directors,
moved a formal dissolution of the company. which being
seconded by Mr. Holt, was carried unanimously. The
chairman then observed that their deed of settlement re-
quired that there should be another meeting before the
act of dissolution could be legally carried out, and that it
was necessary to give ten days noti,. "f r...tinz. It

was proposed to hold a meeting on the 19th instant, which
would be duly advertised. [We learn that the company
having beet► purchased by the Earl of Ellesmere. the above

proceedings are necessary to effect a leg
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to revolution. A few Italianised divines may act on the
law that all power is from God, and rebellion, therefore,
sinful ; but the majority Tltertain no such notions ; they

are of the people—with the people—and, in polities, are
Irishtnen rather than priests. In rebellion, the bishops
could not restrain them. There is no doubt that many
of them consider an outbreak at some future day as in-
evitable ; and it is a fact that several have provided them-
selves with those ecclesiastical robes suitable to the ad-

the battle-field."
IMPORTANT CAUTION.-Mr. W. T. Callon, surgeon,
of Islington, has communicated the particulars of a case
which recently came under his attention, and which should
operate as a warning to the public against the use in cr.'

nary operations of a certain description of glazed pan.
One of his patients was recently taken ill after eating
some preserves made in a glazed pan, and the pan was
submitted to Dr. Brett, who says, that having chipped off
some of the enamel, and submitted it to analysis, he ob-
tained unequivocal evidence of the presence of arsenic.
He adds that having made some experiments with another
pan of the same description, he finds that certain acids
are capable of acting upon the enamel and seperating the
arsenic therefrom. The orginal patentees of the glazed
pan have certificates from the most eminent men denying
altogether that there is anything deleterious in the articles
of their manufacture, but they, of course, cannot be an-
swerable for those made by other parties.