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

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THE MINORITY-NOES. 231.
English county members
English borough members
English university members
Welsh county members ....
Welsh borough members ... 2 2
Irish county members .... ...... 13 1 14
Irish borough members .. • • •.. 2 2
Irish university members........ 2 2
Scotch county members
Scotch borough members 1 1
Isle of Wight member 1 1

9 231

Absent (Conservatives).
Ditto (Liberals)
Speaker
Seats vacant—Sudbury ..

MISCELLANEOUS.

LARGE SALMON.—A salmon, the largest caught this
season in the Tay. weighing 4.3 i lbs., was taken at Black-
lug station, last week. This fishing is rented by Mr. Young,
Watergate, who had £4 75., remitted to him from his
agent in London for this fine fish, being 2s. per lb., or 10d.
more than the market price.—Perthshire Courier.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—A few days ago, whilst a man
was employed in repairing the ceiling of the Preston
theatre immediately in front of the gallery, from which
was projecting a bar of iron, a portion of the scaffolding
gave way, and he was Immediately precipitated into the
pit, falling with his head downwards. During the fall his
head Cam ~in ermtart witlathe hair irnn in front nf Sir
gallery, which it broke, an also in the pit the poor fellow s
head again struck upon and went through a temporary
wooden step in front of the centre box ; but, fortunately,
he was not hurt beyond a few bruises, and is now at work
again.
EXPEDITION OF MR. HUDSON M.P.—On Friday week
this gentlemen left the House of Commons at two o'clock
in the morning, and proceeded to his home to sleep, He
rose between seven and eight. took a walk in the Park,
returned to breakfast, then attended four consultations,
passed three bills before Mr. Greene's Committee, gave
evidence before the Commission on the metropolitan ter-
mini, attended Mr. Morrison's Committee, was in his
place in the House at four, dined with the Duke of Buck-
ingham in the evening, and afterwards attended tLe She-
riff's Ball in the City, which he did not leave until two
o'clock in the morning.
CHAPEL BUILT BY ONE MAN.—Every stone of the
chapel for the Bath union workhouse, mentioned in our
last, was laid by one man, John Plass, a mason, aged 78,
who was residing in the house. The dimensions of the
chapel are 67 feet in length, by 35 in width, and it is ca-
pable of accommodating 455 persons in the body. At the
west end is a gallery, which affords room for 256 children.
In the west porch a stone is thus inscribed :—" To record
the services of John Plass, inmate of the workhouse, who
at the age of 78, working with much zeal and industry, laid
all the stones of this building." Weare glad to bear that
he has been treated liberally by the guardians.—Builder.
MURDER.—A few days back, a respectable farmer,
aged .70 years, named Daniel Delany, who resided at
Oldcourt, near Bathdowney, Queen's County, was. inhu-
manly murdered under the following circumstances :
The deceased, who held a large tract of land from Mr.
Robert Drought, of Cappagolan, King's County, was em-
ployed to serve ejectments on a tenant who owed large ar-
rears of rent, and for which act he was followed from the
market and murdered on the road not far from his resi-
dence. The person upon whom the ejectment was served,
and a stranger in, that locality, are in custody, fully
charged with the committal of this fearful crime.
EDITORIAL PLEASURES —A gentleman, called Doo-
little, educated at Harvard University, and a native of
Connecticut, was tranaplanted south to edit a violent
party paper in a locality where " revolvers" ad infinitum
and a whole armoury of bowie-knives and a strong influ-
ence in preventing the freedom of speech. He held his
situation six months ; was stabbed twice, shot three times,
once well cudgelled, and once thrown into a horse pond;
but he congratulated himself from never having been
kicked. He retaliated upon his tormentors by shooting
two of them as dead as doorposts, and then he departed
for more peaceful latitudes. A New York parer declares
this is a fact.—Montreol Courier.

The experimental squadron passed Falmouth to the
westward on Thursday at 4 p.m., in splendid style, with a
moderate breeze at east and fine weather. They consisted
of three three-deckers, four two-deckers, and four steam-
ers ; the last under canvass only, as well as the former. A
large two-masted steamer. with thirteen sails set, was con-
siderably in advance of all the fleet; a three-decker with
a broad pendant, and a three• masted screw steamer (close
together) were next; and a three-decker (without a com-
modore's flag) was the sternmost of the lines ; whilst two
schooner steamers (one with two funnels) were a mile or
two astern of all. All the sailing ships were under simi-
lar and easy canvass, and during the period occupied en
nassant from off Pendennes to the Manacles were busy in
exchanging signals; they appeared to haul to the south-
ward and westward from Falmouth.

A CASE PUT.—Let us put a case. Let us suppose a
most mild and benevolent Roman Catholic clergyman in
the north of Ireland savagely murdered ; let us suppose
him a person who had never interfered in politics, so as
to draw down upon himself any marked dtsplessure, and
who bad given of his substance indiscriminately to all who
were inAvant ; let us suppose the miscreant Orangeman,
by whom he was waylaid
.when on a mission, of charity,
arrested ; let us suppose the charge proved against him,
so that no human being could entertain a doubt of his
guilt; let us suppose that the jury, nevertheless, upon
some point which does not touch the merits of the case,
acquit the prisoner; let us suppose that upon his enlarge-
ment he is surrounded by exulting friends, and that lifting
his arm with fiendish joy, he exclaims, " there's the hand
that done the job ;" let us suppose this ruffian returning
to his native village, all inhabited by brother Orangemen,
and that this village is illuminated at bis approach, as if
to celebrate this triumph over law, as well as to hail the
liberation of their associate, who was acquitted by a
mockery of justice ; let us suppose all this taking place
in the north of Ireland, and the actors orangemen, and
we ask, would not the press ring with the indignant re-
cital? would not the Parliament and the empire be agi-
tated by it? would it not be made to resound through Eu-
rope? Would not the Orangemen be denounced as mon-
sters who were not fit to live in human society ? And
would not the ministry be hurled from power, which could
continue to regard them with any peculiar favour? Now,
what we have imagined in the case of the Orangemen of
the north, is nothing more than a tame and spiritless nar-
rative of %hat is literal matter-of-tact in the case of the
Romanists in the south of Ireland ! The Rev. Irwin
Whitty is the murdered notestant clergyman to whom
we allude, and every circumstance which we have sup.
posed respecting the trial, the acquittal, and triumphant
welcome home of the liberated murderer, is but a tran-
script of what actually took place when the felon was en-
larged who gloried in the field of blood!—Dublin Univer-
sity Magazine.
Mr. Williams, the estate agent, again offers some va-
luable plots of land for sale.