The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-12 00:00:00

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THE WEST INDIES AND NTEICO

FALmourn, MAY 9.—The Royal mail steamer Avon,
commander Strutt, arrived this morning at nine o'clock,
bringing Mexican, Havanuah, Jamaica, and other West In-
dia Island mails. Her dates of leaving are—from St. Tho-
mas's, April 8 ; Bermuda, April 20 ; and Fayal, the Ist inst.
She brings 23 cabin passengers, three steerage, and two ser-
vants ; and on freight 400,000 dollars and 98 serous of co-
chineal and indigo.
The royal mail steamer Clyde brought the Jamaica mails
and dates to the 6th of April to St.Thomas's.

The royal mail steamer Thames brought the Mexican, Ha_
vannah, and Nassau (New Providence) nails to Bermuda,
where she arrived on the 13th of April. having left Havannah
the afternoon of the 6th, and Nassau at midnight of the Bth.
From the former place(Havannah) she towed to sea her Ma-
jesty's ship Warspite. captain Lord John Hay, which vessel
proceeded to New York, for the purpose of taking home Sir
Charles Bagot. Mr. Pakenham, late minister at Mexico.
came passenger from Vera Cruz by the Thames steamer, and
landed at Bermuda, to await the arrival of the royal mail
steamer Dee, expected from England.
Her Majesty's brig Ringdove and schooner Hornet were
at Bermuda, at which place her Majesty's ship Illustrious,
Admiral Sir C. Adam, was daily expected from Jamaica, the
Havannah, and Nassau. The House of Assembly at Ber-
muda had met on the 18th of April.
The whole of the West India islands are reported to be
unhealthy in consequence of the rains, and continued shocks
of earthquakes were still felt. At Guadaloupe ten shocks
had been experienced on the 3d, and one on the sth of April.
General Santa Anna had been indisposed, but bad re-
covered, and gone to the city of Mexico.

The Avon has on board about 80,000 dollars consigned to
Messrs. Lizard', but whether any portion thereof is on ac-
count of the Mexican dividends is not known.

The Avon was in collision on the night of the 4th instant,
in lat. 43 30, N., long. 17 13, \%., with the brig Eliza, Leily,
master, of and from Swansea, for St. Jago de Cuba, laden
with a part cargo of coals.

The Conch arrived at Port Elizabeth, had brought late
intelligence from Natal, though it was not of a very impor-
tant character. The Boers, it would seem, had been levying
a tariff on all imported goods forwarded to Pietermanrltzberg,
but the immediate interference of Major Smith, who took
measures to prevent a successful continuance of the tax, had
caused a relapse in the vigilance of the authorities, and inter-
course was now resumed on the usual basis. From Colesburg
the advices state the Boers in the neighbourhood of the
Orange River to be peaceable. They had called their atrag-
hug members together with the intention of opening, through
the local government, a correspondence with the colonial sec-
retary on the subject of their claims to the land they now
possess.

The Paris papers of Wednesday state that an evaeute or
rather a strike, had taken place among the dockyard artifi-
cers of Brest. in consequence of the dismissal of 700 or SOO
workmen. The Gazelle de France contains the details of a
frightful accident to 50 workmen employed on the fortifica-
tions of Mount Valerien, who had been buried by the falling
in of a large bank of earth. None of the sufferers had been
taken out alive,

STOCKHOLM, APRIL 14.—8 y a royal ordinance of the Btk
instant, the export duty upon iron is reduced as follows:
Of cast iron in future to be paid 4s. per skilpund ; of wrought
and sheet iron of three-eights of an inch in thickness, and
less than twelve inches wide, 4s. per skilpund ; on hoops,
nails, bolts, railings, and all other articles of manufactured
iron, the duty is taken off entirely. Besides this, the Wog,
or additional duty upon the first-mentioned articles is re.
duced to 4s. per skilpund, and upon the latter it is entirely
abolished.

ENORMOUS WEALTII.—The property left by
Baron
the banker, who lately died at St. Petersburgh,
estimated at the enormous amount of 50,000,000 rubles
(between £5,000,000 and £6,000,000 sterling). He was a
native of Hanover, where his elder brother, one of the neat
celebrated physicians in Germany, died a few years ago.
A NOVEL HANDICAP.—The Pirsiverent of Limoges pro-
claims a challenge, given by an avocatof that city, to run a
match of 10,000 f., between a sow, trained by him, and any
thorough-bred horse to be brought against her. The ground
to be gone over is nearly ten leagues, and lies between the
hippodrome of hezonieras and St. Damien lea Comber. The
proposer stipulates that the horse is to follow the course of
the sow as long as she keeps the lead. The match, if ex.,
ceptod, is to come off on the 21st instant.

LORn STANHOPE.—The agricultural gentlemen of Buck
inghamehire gave a dinner to this nobleman at Aylesbury or;
Monday, for the purpose of testifying their respect for i h
character, and their high sense of the important service g
has rendered to the farmer. a L
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Dr. Quarrier was seized with a fit on Thursday morning
while sitting at his bedroom fireside, and, falling out of his
machineof.
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colony, is also applicable to the draining of lands generally,
and was planned and executed at the engineering establish-
ment of John Rigby, Esq., Hawardeu, Flintshire, North
Wales :—" Mr. Easton, one of our best practical engineers,
has completed a machine for draining Canegroce estate, on
the Mahaica Creek. It is in operation, and answers the
purpose admirably. There is a sluice whichmin transmits theinto
water to be drained off, in any quantity detered on,
a brick channel, in which, e, in a grove, moves a wheel,
which, divided into bucket-like compartments raises the
water, and throws it into an aqueduct that may be of any
length and may run over the top of any ob
thsat ta m
cles. Exact
e,,omputations, and actual experience, prove the achine,
which may be worked, without difficulty, by the engine at the
sugar-works, can drain any estate, however disadvantageous_
recommend situated. We recoeed the distressed planters onsati the
East Coast to ins eat the Cane,grore erection,satisfy
themselves." P
LORD FiTzGERALD.—II is with deep regret we have the
painful duty to announce, that so precarious is the condition
of the noble President of the Board of Trade, that in all pro-
bability ere this article meets the eye of our readers the
the noble lord will have ceased to exist. Last night Dr.
Seymour was with his Lordship until a quarter past ten
o'clock, and we lament to say that not the remotest hope ex-
isted for his recovery, inflammation having assumed its worst
form, so as to defy all medical treatment. At a quarter past
nine o'clock the Rev. Mr. Fuller waited on his Lordship to
offer the consolations of religion, and the sacrament was ad-
ministered to the noble snfferer by that rev. gentleman. His
lordship, although be experienced the utmost difficulty in
articulation, was perfectly sensible to all that was proceeding
around him. The following Particulars relating to the noble
lord's illness may be regarded as authentic :—lt appears that
Lord Fitzgerald, although able to discharge his official duties
as President of the Board of Coatrol, has not enjoyed com-
plete health since his illness about twelve months back,
when he was suffering from an enlargement of the It
riiver fling a
, and
that for some weeks he has been ailing; but of so
nature was his indisposition as to create lithe or no alarm to
himself or friends. On Thursday last the noble lord trans-
acted business at his office, but did not attend the funeral of
his Royal Highness the Duke Sussex, as was erroneously
stated in all the papers. On the following (Friday) morn_
ing his lordship shortly after rising was seized with a cold
shivering, and Dr. Seymour was immediately sent for. That
medical gentleman, after consulting with his noble patient,
instantly ordered his lordship to his bed, as be considered
the symptoms to be of an alarming character. Since that
time his lordship's disorder has gone through the moat
aggravated stages, and his prostration is at length such as to
give not the slightest hope of his eventual recovery ; indeed
his dissolution is hourly expected. Since Tuesday morning
his lordship's sufferings have been intense, and the only re•
pose he may be said toe have taken has been the result of ex-
haustion.— Times of yterday.
OF TIIE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER BY A
TREATMENT
BAPTIST .—The following are extracts of a speech
made by theMiNisTER (Rev.) H. Bonner, Baptist Minister of Wood-
street Chapel, Bilston, at a meeting held on Tuesday even-
ing, April 25th, 1843, in the Independent Chapel, Bilston,
to take into consideration the education clauses of the fac-
tory bill, &c. ; Mr Rrt Bew, a Wesleyan, in the chair,
Mr. Bonner said, "that the people ought to be the govern-
ment. As the gOVerntnent now is, it makes laws for the
people, and dictates to them. But if the government was
what it should be, or, in other words, in a healthy state, it
would be merely the deputation of the people. He charged
upon the mgovernment of the country all the present misery
and crime ;and until the principle be changed there could be
no good results. He protested against the government inter-
fering between him and his conscience, dictating to him how
he should serve his God. The education clauses of the bi:l
we are met to discuss to-night require the children to be
taught the Church Catechism. Ile would make a quotation
from the same: "to order myself lowly and reverently to
all 'my betters." "IN hY. said be' " I have not a ` better,'
in all the world, and all men are n'Y equals." He then pr
ceeded,—" This book 1 herein m.v hand is the Book of o-
_Com-
mon prayer ; and common enough, indeed, to wipe m je I
upon." He then threw it upon the floor, and rubbedY 1,6-
feet upon it. He took it up again, and then threw it downLi
again, and held hisfoot upon it for some minutes. He
duced a Bible, and set the Bible against the Prayer r-
ook,
and quoted, " The rich and the poor meet to and the
Lord is the maker of them all." He then said, addr
the chairman, "If you will allow me, I will take it n ening
it is a pity the poor thing should be there:, He tooPkafain ;
t up,
and made a quotation from the 19th article, " The •
visible
church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men." Some
one below would say it was the bricks and mortar. He then
referred to the twentieth artiye,
'' " The church rch bath power to
decree rites and ceremonies. He ithat his arti-
cle contradicted the former; for if one of the congregation
were to ask Mr. Fletcher (meaning the incumbent of St.
Leonard's) to read Bing James's Book of Sports, he would
say he could not ; and he has no power to leave out the read-
ing of the Load's Prayer once, though it be read half a dozen
times in the morning service." Mr. Bonner
said at the con-
clusion of his speech, that no churchman ever taught chil-
dren, nor took any interest in educating them, except
were incited to do so by the" ragamuffin Dissenters theyor-
respondent of the London Standard. ."
EXTRA 01.DINARY AFFAIR.-0n
Lam-
beth-street Police-office, London, A Monday,
at the
middle-aged, well-dressed, and r Ir.& Ann Flemming, a
espectable-looking woman,
applied to Mr. Henry for his ad • vice and assistance under the
following circumstances
who • :—From the statement of the appli-
cant, it appears is connected • h wit several highly re-
spectable families, and whose uncle is at the head of onears
of
the first legal firms in Europe, it appeared that
he son
marriic led a
e
ago, contrary to the wishes of her family, s
linendraper's assistant, named John Flemming, and by her
property they were enabled to open a large establishment in
the drapery and haberdashery way in Sydney-place ; but
owing to the extravagance of her husband they ultimately
failed there, and the business, as well as the freehold which
belonged to her, had been disposed of. Flee husband after
this left her, and lived with a Miss Taylor, whore be had
taken from her friends at Croydon, and shit had reason to
believe they were still living together, but where she had not
been enabled to ascertain. Some time after he had left her
her husband had obtained a situation as assistant to Mr.
Howell, a linendraper in Oxford-street, but had not been
long in his place when he was taken into custody on a charge
of plundering his employer to a considerable extent, and was
committed to the Old Bailey on the charge. In June, 1841,
he was tried at the Old Bailey, found guilty of the offence,
and sentenced to six months hard labour io
the House of
Correction, a sentence which, under the circumstances, was
considered exceedingly lenient. What became of him after
this she (applicant) was unable to state with any accuracy,
but in the month of November last both be
and her sister
bad attended at Shoroditch workhouse and identi
gent's
fied the
body of a female that had been picked out of the
the name
Re
Canal a day or two before as hers,
and wrote
" Ann Flemming," on the lid of the shell in which
before the b
Mody
was placed. An inquest was subsequ
was ently held r.
Baker, the coroner, when, the a verdict of " Found
body
treated as hers (applicant's), when
drowned" was returned, and the body was left to be buried
at the expense of the parish. The applicant said that these
circumstances had been told her by her own sister, and
the mistake in identifying the body was a wilful that
one to ob-
tain possession of her property ; the fact being that
band had already raised £4OO on it, through a r her Hus-
band
she was drowned. The magistrate directedepresentation
officer of the parish to take up the case, the relieving
husband from squandering any more of th , and prevent the
don paper. 0 PrOpertyowLcm.