The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

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OMINOUS.—The malpractices of the Radicals of Leices-;
ter having been exposed, we are not surprised to find the
Reform Office shut up. On going up Town-hall-lane the
passer-by will perceive the words" Reform Office" white-
washed over on a well-known building. How glad would
the Whigs be if they could as easily efface from memory
the acts performed in this bank of 17s. 6d. issue !—Leices..
ter Journal.
THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—The Count de Neuilly paid
a visit to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Monday,.
at Bushey House, Bushey Park. The ex-King was un-
accompanied by an members of his family. He arrived.
from Claremont in an open landau, and on passing
through Hampton Court was saluted with every mark of
respect by the numerous visitors and residents of the
place. His ex-Majesty appeared in the enjoyment of
good health.
A WISE AC RE. —On Saturday last, a man was ordered'
to send four pointers and a spaniel from a village about
five miles off; to Leicester, in order that they might be
sold by auction. Being reputed to have some experience
in the management of dogs, it seems almost incredible
that he should have packed them up in a box and sent
them by cart. Such, however, is the fact ; and on reach-
ing Leicester, the poor pointers were found dead, and the
spaniel died shortly afterwards, of course from suffocation.
FREE TRADE.—Mr. W. Walker, an eminent manufae-`
turer of Bradford, thus concludes a very able letter to the
Leeds Mercury, on the connection between free trade
and the present distressed condition of that district :
" The restoration of tranquillity on the Continent of
Europe will only, in a still greater degree, increase foreign
competition • and then, I predict, your boasted free trade
principles will, from many other quarters, be condemned
as based upon a theory which will not stand the test of
experience."
On Wednesday, George Lee, labourer, of Drax, and hie
wife, on the approach of a thunder storm, took shelter in
a shed, situate in a field near Drax ; he was struck by a
flash of lightning and instantly killed. His wife was also
struck by the electric fluid, and her limbs partially paral-
ysed, but she was able to crawl out of the shed. The
lightning ignited the shed, which was nearly consumed,
and the body 'f the unfortunate young man almost burnt
to ashes.

THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A correspondent of
the British Banner complains that at a recent meeting of
the Evangelical Alliance held at Stepney, the secretary-
read " the Alliance creed," which recognises as Christians,
"Advowson dealers and Arch robbers," while it " pro-
nounced the Mrs. Frys and J. J. Gurneys of the empire
to be castaways." The complabiant having risen to ask
if such were not the fact, was shouted an hissed down.
" in a manner," he says, " that would have disgraced a.
play-house," and by which he felt the more aggrieved,
because this uproar followed "after a descant upon love
and union, for three hours, by various ministers."
COMMITTAL FOR MURDER.—Mrs. Mary Lightfoot,
wife of Henry Lightfoot, of Quarry-bank, Dudley, has
just been committed on a charge of administering arsenic
to her husband, which caused his death. It was proved
on the inquest that the prisoner bad been seen in familiar
intercourse with a man not her husband, and that she
had obtained medicine for her husband during his illness.
Arsenic was found in the body of the deceased on a post-
mortem examination being made, and altogether the cir-
cumstances were of so suspicious a character that, after
an adjournment, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against the wife. On Lightfoot's death
his wife obtained a sum of £4 for his burial from an Odd_
fellows' club, of which her husband was a member.
DERBY SWEEPS.—In the House of Commons, on Fri-
day, in reply to a question from Mr. Anstey, the Attor-
ney-General said that no notice had been given of the il-
legality of inserting advertisements of Derby sweeps, no
steps had been taken by the government against the
offending newspapers, but he wished then to give notice,
that parties henceforth offending would become amenable
to the law.—Lord G. Bentinck hoped there would not be
one law for the rich and another for the poor. If these
sweeps were to be put down, they should also put down
every description of lottery amongst the higher classes.
—The Attorney-General said, that the question to.which
he had replied referred only to the insertion of advertise..
ments of Derby sweeps.
DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN VILLA.—The Hon. R. C.
Neville, with his usual zeal in his researches of Ro-
man remains, has been enabled lately, through the
kind permission of Mr. Samuel Jonas, of Ickleton, to
have a field in his possession explored. It is situated
within sight of the Roman encampment and Templi Um-
bra (as called by Stukeley), and about a quarter of a mile
from the Chesterfield station, by the road side leading to
Ickleton. • The men in the employ commenced their la-
bours about ten days since, and have succeeded in disco-
vering the remains or walls of a large Roman building,
supposed a villa, having already exposed to view five rooms
or compartments. Hopes are entertained that it will
lead to some further interesting discovery. Amongst the
numerous fragments, &c., found, were the skeletons of
two infants.
A BLACK PRINCE.—At Guildhall police-court, on Fri-
day, a black man, who described himself as Prince Henry
Christophe, of Hayti, was charged with having swindled
the landlord of the Whittington dining-rooms, Newgate-
street, London, of refreshment to the amount of 19s. 6d.
The prisoner ordered an expensive dinner for himself and
friend, representing that he was Prince Henry Christophe,
of Hayti, and that he should want beds for himself and
friend that night, and that it was his intention to bring
his wife and family to permanently occupy the rooms
while he remained in this country. He and his friend
were supplied with whatever they wished for, and in a few,
hours they ran up a bill of 19s. 6d. His friend left, and
no money being forthcoming, the prisoner was given in
custody.—Mr. Needham, of the Saracen's Head, Snow-
hill, deposed to the prjsoner having swindled him out of
more than £3 in the same manner.—The prisoner WAS
sentenced to one month's impriionment.
A NEW " DODGE" AT BRECHIN.—We had last week a
visit paid us by an elderly individual, in a sort of a half
clerical garb, who attempted to do—what does an inno-
cent public think ?—why, palm himself off upon us as the
Marquis of Breadalbene ! We humoured this personage,
when he told us a very lengthy, but very improbable
story, the gist of which was, that he was the veritable
marquis; that he had made a wager with another aristo-
crat, that he (the marquis) would travel for an entire year
as a beggar, confining his perambulations to that extensive
district of country between Taymouth and John O'Groat's
House : and that, though his rental amounted to £90,00G
per annum, he was, by his agreement, not to touch a
stiver of it until the time of his mendicancy was expired.
He added that, in the meantime, people would find that
he was not insensible to any kindness or hospitality shown
to him ; and that he was in the habit of registering the
names of such Samaritans in his note book. promising to
do the genteel thing by them when he again came to his
estate. This impostor, we doubt not, has deluded not a
few of the green ones, but we are inclined to think that
he found the Brechin folks by no means easy of belief, and
that the vagrant's campaign in the city did not turn out
so profitably as he anticipated. We believe the pretended
marquis has left the place.—Dundee Courier.
A CLERGYMAN DROWNED.—On Wednesday, the Rev'.
Jbhn Lloyd Crawley, of Arlingham-on-Severn, rode out
to visit some friends on the other side of the river, telling
his servant that he should be back at night, and if late
for the ferry, he should swim his mare across the river.
Arriving at the other side of the river, he told one of the
ferrymen he should be crossing to Arlingham at night,
and desired that he would wait up at the ferry-house to
put him across, which the ferryman promised to do.
Just as the tide began to ebb, the unfortunate gentleman
arrived at the ferry-house, and waited there some time
for the ferryman. At length neither ferrymen arriving,
he rode his mare into the river in the direction of Arling..
ham. Man and horse appeared to advance steadily until
they arrived at a part of the river where the eddy is very
strong ; . then a plunging was heard, and, shortly after-
wards, the noise of the mare blowing some way further
down the river, after which a dark object was seen to
mount the opposite bank. Fearing some accident had oc-
curred, the persons on the shore gave the alarm. The
river was shortly covered with boats, but no signs were
discovered of the unfortunate deceased, whose mare was
found at his door with the saddle empty, and one stirrup
gone.. The probability is that when the plunging was
heard man and horse were overwhelmed by the eddy ;
that the rider was struck when under the water, or dragged.
by the stirrup in such a manner that he could not swim ;
that after the stirrup gave way the mare was relieved of
the burden, and she reached the shore. The deceased's
body has not yet been found, though every search has
been made for it. The deceased had frequently ridden
across the river in safety before, and was an expert swim-
mer. He has left a widow and four children.
M. GITIZni• rho public entertain.=
ment given last week at Great Yarmouth, after the re-
opening of St. Nicholas' Church, M. Guizot, who is stop-
ping at Lowestoffe, was present, and, on his health being
drunk by the chairman, spoke as follows :—" I give you
my most heartfelt thanks for the honour you have done
me, the kindness you have shown me, and, above all, for
the interesting—the most interesting and awful ceremony,
of which by your kind invitation I have this day the hap-
piness to be witness. And I would pay you my thanks,
not only in my own name, but in the name of the many
honourable and distinguished visitors who have assem-
bled to-day in your town. How can I discharge well
such a duty—l who am a foreigner, with my imperfect
and so lied English ? But if there be a want of correct-
ness in my speaking, be assured there is no want of sin-
cerity in feeling. I have come but twice during my life.
to England. The first time I came as the ambassador of
a powerful King ; the second time I came as an exile from.
my native land. When I came the first time to your'
country, Europe was in a state of perfect tranquillity and
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such a spectacle of noble national wisdom ? How should
I not but have deeply felt such a mark of respect ? For
these motives I am here to-day. I have hitherto refused
myself to every invitation—declined every invitation to
feasts and to great meetings. Far from my dear country,
and deeply sad, it is my inclination as well as my duty to
live in retirement; and this lam doing. But this occa-
sion is one of a very different kind. The restoration of a
church of God, the piety of an immense people, the elo-
quence of two worthy bishops—these were the motives
that attracted me to your town after I had refused every
other invitation. I regret it not. lam happy, deeply
happy to have seen what I have seen—to have heard what
I have heard—to have felt what I feel just at this moment.
Only one word more. Allow me to say, keep your faith--
keep your laws—he faithful to the examples, to the tradi-
tion of your ancestors, and I trust God will continue to
pour on you and your country His bust, His all* alma.
dant, His most textile blessings."