The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

from a par
fewer than 114

ncietieF, of which 42 are situate in Midd

appear that these societies are not very pr: table con-
cerns. Persons are generally induced to stain a loan,
v. hicli is spent in a few days, and they find it no very
easy matter to pay weekly sums for a period of a year.
In Middlesex last year 2 were discontinued, and 18 others
yielded no net profits after the payment of interest and
the cost of management. One of the societies in Tot-
r tooa d£lli3a
6d 21 ,1359.
rr h e applicationsrearienl6t the a
n year,of
which 1,957 were borrowers. The net profit of the Con-
cern en b
amountedan-,
u rl
-34 d.
socie-
ties in Liverpool, one of which had nearly 4,000 applicati-
ons last year : the society granted only 1,776 applications.
INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY.--.
'Cording to the last official returns, it appears there are
?I'' 'q of 100 ships of war now building at our different
up :',.!.
Rio. v‘hich are no I,ss than 35 steam-frigates
arsenals, !tn.._ , _36
eli; four. .gun frigates; ten 50-gun
and other wat` -,:.7°
cy, the line, averaging from 80 to 84
ten ships
a each—viz., the _Agarne,inon, the Crio,sus, the
~:sistible, the Majestic, the Meeacge, the Brunswick,
the Cressy. the Lion, the Mars, and the Sans Pareil ; sir.
ships 0f the line of 90 guns each--viz.; the Aboukir, the
Exmouth, the Princess Royal, the Acgters, the Hannibal,
and the St. Jeao d'Acre; six ships of the line, first-rates,
of 110 guns- each—viz., the Marlborough, the Royal
Frederick, the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Royal
Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal
Albert, of 120 guns.

DISGRACEFZ-L SCENE.—A scene of unparalleled atro-4
city occurred at the Marley Hut Close, South Brent, So-
merset, on Sunday week ; two men, named Charles Pur-
nell and Robert Parsons, induced two boys to fight, and
after a contest of one hour, one was killed. It appears
that the men had taken the two boys into a " tornroy" shop,
and given them beer, and set them to fight. Esen when
they saw deceased was the weaker of the two, and was
nearly dead, they brutally insisted on his continuing the
contest, and defied the bystanders to interfere. At ength,
he was taken up and carried into one of the huts, and oniy
survived a few minutes. The jury, at the inquest, re-
turned an unanimous verdict of manslaughter against
Hutchings, Purnell, and Parsons, all three of whom have
absconded. The coroner immediately issued his warrant
for their apprehension, and it is to be hoped that they
may now be brought to justice. Purnell has lost his left
hand just above the wrist.—Bristol Mirror.

SORROW UNTO DEATII.-It was our melancholy duty
to record, in a late obituary, the death of the lovely and
only daughter of the late W. Duberly, Esq., of Dursley_
It is now our still more painful task to announce the
death of tier brother, Mr. H. Duberly, a remarkably
handsome young man. It appeared that on Thursday,
after the decease of his sister, to whom he was devotedly
attached, he arrived at Torquay, to accompany her re-
mains to Dursley. The melancholy task was accom-
plished on the Monday, and on the hearse arriving at the
late residence of his mother (now that of Mr. G. Duberly,
his brother,) he bad the coffin opened, and sat by it until
one in the morning, in overwhelming grief. Again at RR
early hour he resumed his sad vigils ; at the funeral,
which took place about noon, he evinced the strongest
emotion and sorrow, and on his return became alarmingly
ill. Two surgeons were in attendance, but medical skill
proved, unhappily, ineffectual—he dikl at four o'clock on
Wednesday morning.—Bristol Mirror.

DIFFERENCES Iti THE CABINET.—It is stated, upon
what we believe to be unexceptionable authority, that the
sugar question, which is said to have had more to do with

ical scrun!es, has
It is

tary from office than theolob
ated a serious difference in the cabinet
that the colonial secretary, and another c

whose connection with what is called the West India
terest is less direct, have refused to go the length the pr
trier desires in removing West India prolection ; ai

West India agriculture while they destroy the r
of English agriculture, pretending that they ref'
sugar because it is slave-grown, while they are i

slave•grown sug:irs and slave-grown ma
It is said that Sir R. Peel swallowed his defeat in prefer-
ence to impeding the progress of his "comprehensive

from America-

—l3rilannia

A YOUNG CRIMINAL.—In the New Court, Old Bailey,
London, on Thursday, Thomas Miller, a smutty-dressed
boy, only eight years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a

bear, va

he proper

champ. The boy had to be plaed on a stool that the court
might see him. The common sergeant made some in-
quiries respecting the prisoner, when, to the astonishment
of every one present, it was stated that he had I

ieen twice

convicted of felony in that court, and had been twice in-
dicted at another court for felony, but, on account of his
age, he had escaped hitherto with a light punishment. The
mother of the prisoner, a well-dressed woman, said her
son was a boy of very evil habits, and quite beyond her
management. The learned Judge said it was very diffi-
cult indeed to deal with such a case as this. If the prisoner
was set at large there was very little hope rf his reforma-
tion; and the best course that could possibly be adopted
was to place him at the disposal of the -,ment, by
sentencing him, nominally, to be trar

EXTRAcEDINARY THRESHING MACHINE.-011 Tues-
day the trial was made of a pony threshing machine, at
Trefullock, in the parish of St. Enoder, built by Mr.
Thomas Staple, of Blue Anchor, and the result was the
threshing of a hundred sheaves of barley, quite clean, in
the very short space of seven minutes. The horses em- govt
ployed were a couple of ponies, walking at a steady pace Apo,
—Falmouth Packet. he
Tnr, Ottroak”. •••• •..........,,, ..says—" The packet which will sail from Liverpool in a WHAT WILL THE LORDS Do?—According to some
few days will convey to the United States the real im- of our private accounts, there is a possibility that the
pression produced here by the late intelligence. If the corn bill may be defeated in the House of Lords on the
resolution was intended as a threat or a hostile measure, second reading ; but the more general expectation is, that
it has totally failed to have any effect whatever, except a clause fatal to its becoming law will be carried in com-
that it is probable Mr. Pakenham will be at once em- mittee. The Government is calculating upon a majority
powered to bring the controversy to a prompt and final of thirty-four on the first division ; but it is confidently
issue. asserted, that in this are included all the bishops and the
Cuurons PETITION.—In the House of Lords, on names of several peers, who, either like the Duke of Cam-
Thurssay evening, Lord Normanby presented a petition, bridge and the Archbishops of York and Canterbury,
the prayer of which was of a singular nature. The pe• will not Tote at all—or of others, who, although they have
titioner stated that he had invented a new medicine for not made a formal declaration upon the subject, will cer-
diseases of the chest, and he prayed their lordships to tainly vote against the bill. With great pride and gratifi-
appoint a committee to investigate the merits of his in- cation, we announce that every one of the Irish Conser-
vention. The noble lord facetiously remarked. that he vative peers, with the exception of Lord Bandon—an ex-
•

rted for seven
should be sent

.s, but

,th a recommendation th

supposed the petitioner desired that their lordships' com- ception that, we own, astonishes and distresses us—will
mittee should try the medicine themselves. vote against the destruction of the agricultural interests in
A COUNTER FACT FOR FREE TRADERS.—At a recent Ireland : and that those who were looked upon as doubt
land-letting by auction at Kirton, near Boston, not a sin- ful, or who were said not to have made up their minds
gle lot was disposed of. One of the best fields was upon the subject, have decided wisely and justly. and
bought in at 265. per acre rental I This speaks whole vo- amongst the latter Lords Erne, Clancarty. Ranfurly, &c.
lumes. The land thus offered for public competition com- —Dublin Mail. The London correspondent of the Dub-
_,___, es,
. .

FI laCO U 4 0,1,0 ‘.•• .. ... . 0
and situate in the best part of the county, amidst the most
spirited and enterprising graziers, and offered on the cus-
tomary terms. . . .

on this subject—" Expresses were despatcnea irom Lon-
don on Wednesday to the following Ambassadors, requir-
ing their immediate presence in Westminster, to take a
part at the second reading of the bill, and to be present
during the sittings in committee at its subsequent stages :
Lord Cowley, Paris; Lord Holland, Florence; Lord
Howard de Walden, Lisbon; Lord Westmoreland, Ber-
lin. At the latter court there is no Secretary of Lega-
tion ; but so urgent is the case, even with the majority of
thirty-six, (which is the majority stated by the free traders
by which the Lords will pass the bill), that Mr. Hamil-
ton, one of the corps diplornativie, was himself the bearer
of the express, in order that he may assume the position
of Charo d'Affaires, in the absence of the Am
Lord Heytesbury will, of course, be ' ordered ove
DESTITUTION AND POOR LAW RELIEF
Brinsley Sheridan has written a letter to The 2

Dickens, Jerrold, and Mackay, and others of our popu-
lar writers, dine with the nobility every now and then.
Sir Robert Peel had Charles Dickens the other day to
dinner; so had the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Mor-
peth, and Lord John Russell, The Duke of Devonshire
takes them in a heap, and keeps them two or three days
at a time, enjoying their society, and leaving the " boys"
to roam at leisure over his noble grounds, on the under-
standing that they all meet at dinner time.
WHO WANTS A CHILD?—The Western Times contains
a letter, offering to any persons who may be desirous of
adopting a child, a little boy between three and four years
of age, " whose mental and
.bodilydevelopmentsareof

-Mr. R

•
"cannot afford to support and educate, without proper I
--tailingi'.hedestitute circumstances of several poor labou

remunera

communication addressed to the editor of the Western inDorsetshire, who had asked him to step in betwee
Times, who says that " his own bands are full of small them and their immediate employers. In one case. ama
- • , •

life." could only r
A JUVENILE LAMBERT.—There is at present in the his son, upon which to support hit
city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet family of six young children ; at
64 inches. He measures round the. chest 441 inches ; were but is, a week, for the sup;
round the belt 464 ; round the thigh 24 ; round the calf of families of six persons. Mr

week, including I

d in others the wages