The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

Mr. Parker, the Assists nt Poor-Law Commissioner, is
abont to publislrftlie. particulars of the- Andover Union
inquiry. He stateOthat he and the other Assistant Com•
missioners have oft(fri.been forced to act illegally in obedi-
ence to the superief 'Commissioners. Sir James Graham
has reminded Mr. Parker that this publication will be an
improper revelation of official secrets.
The family of Mr. Marshall, of Houle, near Eye, con-
sisting of six or eight persons, had a narrow escape last
week from_ dee*, owing to a quantity of wheat that had
been dressed with arsenic for seed having been ground into
flour and made into bread. They were all ill, more or
less, and the servant boy was not considered out of dan-
ger for several days.
SUPPLY OF Foon.-At the meeting of the Cirencester
Agricultural Society, on Fr Bowly, a practical
agriculturist of experience and intelligence, said that from
what he had read, and Flew of his own observation, he
would pledge himself, his honour, and every thing else he
had, that there is at the present time more human food in
the British Islands than ever was known at this time of
the year.
ATROCIOUS MURDER.--On the 2nd inst., the dead
body of Ann Meyrick, a young married woman 23 years
old, was taken out of the Cardiff and Merthyr canal at
Rhydicar, and on examination two frightful gashes, from
which there was great haemorrhage, or bleeding, were dis-
covered upon the body. It appears that she was last
seen, in a state of intoxicatiOn, with her husband, who
has been apprehended on stispicion. The accused, how-
ever, has always borne a good chat acter.
A WIFE FINED FOE BEATING HER HUSBAND.—At
the Hammersmith police-court, the other day, Mrs.
Chapman, who manages the-,business of the Ship public-
house, Hammersmith, was summoned for having slapped
her husband on the face. The husband, it appeared,
spent some time in drinking with the customers of the
Ship, and his wife, in a moment of exasperation, rushed
into the room where he was carousing with his friends,
and slapped him on the face. She was fined one shilling.
Another case of assaelt was brought against her by one
' of the husband's drinking companions, for which she was
fined sixpence..
Changes in the temperature are more prevalent in Great.
Britain than in any other part of the globe, varying, in a
few .hours, some 20 degrees or more,; the, effect of such
rapid changes on theiandily health is very trying to many
thousands, especially those. who suffer from asthma, in-
fluenza, coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath,
and other affections of the chest and lungs ; happily for
those who are afflicted with the above distressing com-
plaints, they have now an unfailing remedy offered them,
Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam : we recommend it with
confidence as a medicine giving immediate relief, and a
cure will certainly follow the use of it. (See adv.)
THE CHALLENGE DECLINED.—A duel has been avoided
at Bristol by the refusal of one of the parties to accept the
challenge. Mr. Charles Bli;sett having at a' meeting of
the Tine-blue'Club asserted that Mr.'Leech, the Editor
of the Bristol Times, (conservative paper) had been guilty
of wilful falsehood in a statement which appeared in his
paper relative to crown patronage, Major Shute, on Mr.
Leech's behalf, requested Mr. Blissett to name some one
to meet him with reference to a charge which could not
be passed over.—Mr. Blissett declines either to retract

s, or to accept the c

here the matter rests

enge to fight a duel, and

TWO CROPS OF POTATOES IN A YEAR.—Early in the
month of March, Mr. Johnston, shoemaker, Letham,
planted out'a plot of ground in", his garden with the ash-
leaf early potatoes, which he found fit for use by the end
of June, when the ground was cleared of them. On the
Ist of July, the ground having been well prepared, he
planted a crop of the common second earlies, which grew
rapidly. They were lifted on the Ist of November, and
turned out above an average crop. He laid aside a por-
tion of both kinds for seed for next year, which appeared
to be perfectly free of any kind of disease.—Fifeshire
Journal.

AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION—ITS HOPES AND
CHAMPlONS—Notwithstanding the large and enthusiastic
meetings held, we were almost going to say everywhere,
calling on Sir R. Peel to open the ports, not one counter
movement has yet been made by the "farmer's friends."
And although the Times has announced that Government
itself is preparing.to go with the stream. actually not one
bulwark has yet, been attempted to be set up to limit its
effect or to counteract its influence. In the regular pro-
cess of events the annual meeting of the Central Protec-
tion Society fell on Tuesday last; but the Society had no
plan to propose, and only about 50 gentlemen thought it
necessary to attend the meeting.

EXTRAORDINARY FORTITUDE.—A few days ago, Sa-
muel Mason, tenter in one of Mr. Swan's mills, near.Kir-
kaldy, met with a severe accident in the following manner
—Having observed a cord entangled with one of the belts,
he went up a ladder to relieve the same; but, on doing
so, the slack portion of the cord took a turn round his left
thumb and arm as it was drawn onward by the movement
of the belt• Being thus fixed. he foresaw his instant de-
struction if drawn up to the pulley by the belt, and, with
singular fortitude and presence of mind, he grasped a co-
lumn close by with his arms and legs, and held on till his
arm .was literally sawed and torn asunder : being thus re-
lieved, he slid down the column to the floor, took off his
bonnet and clapped it on the bleeding stump, holding it
with his hand, rushed out, and across the street to his fa-
ther-in-law, where, exhausted and breathless, he fell on
the floor before the engine was set off, being the first means
by which any assistance could have been rendered him.
Medical aid was immediately procured, when his arm was
amputated above the torn part, but, finding the bone so
much injured, they made another amputat4on a little be-
low the shoulder joint. He is doing well now.—Edin-
burgh paper.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, about
mid-day, a party consisting of four young men and a girl,
left the boat-house of Inverdruie, for the pureoco of oroatt-
ing the Spey. Their names were John Munro, John
Macmillan, Janet Macdonald, and Angus Macdonald,
Owing to the late heavy falls of rain in the district, the
river was very high, and, after reaching the opposite
shore, the party found themselves surrounded with water
in the direction which they intended to take. To avoid
the distance of going round, they proposed taking the
boat across, and after they bad got well over, it was dis-
vered a safe landing-place could not be found. They
plied the oars for some time, and at last were bore down
with the impetuons stream, until the boat struck against
a tree, and the whole were precipitated into the water.
Macdonald and Mackintosh instantly disappeared. Munro
being a powerful young man, succeeded in swimming
ashore. Macmillan got his breast across a strong branch
of the tree, and the girl got hold below, standing in water
to the shoulders, and Macmillan grasping her from above.
It very fortunately happened that some shepherds were
near the spot, and in less than half an hour scores of peo-
ple were congregated on both sides of the river. Boats
were procured with as little delay as possible, and seve-
ral ineffectual attempts were made to rescue the unfortu-
nate sufferers. Macmillan held the young woman fast
with one hand for an honr and a-half. No boat, how-
ever, getting near them, and his strength failing, he could
retain his bold no longer, and the girl was swept away by
the current. By three o'clock he was rescued from his
perilous situation. The parties drowned were all unmar-
ried.—lnverness Courier.

INCONSISTENCY.—Lord John Russell, who has just
come out as an advocate of the total and immediate repeal
of the corn laws, thus wrote to the farmers in 1825.—" A
duty of 40 or 50 shillings a quarter upon foreign corn
could hardly be enacted ; and, if enacted, certainly would
not be persisted in. But lam inclined to think that, if
foreign corn were admitted, even if you had scarcely any
taxes to pay, it would not be easy for the farmers of Eng-
land, who require to live in a certain degree of respecta-
bility and comfort, to compete with the lords of Poland
and Russia, whose vassal peasantry are unacquainted with
the wants of a civilised state. Corn is a manufacture (to
use our new phraseology) cheaply produced in a fertile
soil, wretched ploughs, wretched horses, and wretched
men. There is a party amongst us, however, distin-
guished in what is called the science of political economy,
who wish to substitute the corn of Poland and Russia for
our own. Their principle is that you ought always to
buy where you can buy cheapest. They repeat with em-
phasis that the nation pays a tax of £25,00,000 yearly to
the growers of corn. They count as nothing the value to
the country of a hardy race of farmers and labourers.
They care not for the difference between an agricultural
and manufacturing population, in all that concerns mo-
rals, order, national strength, .and national tranquility.
Wealth is the only object of their speculation ; nor do
they much consider the two or three millions of people
who may be reduced to utter beggary in the course of
their operations. This they call diverting capital into
another channel. Their reasonings lie so much in ab-
stract terms, their speculations deal so much by the
gross, that they have the same insensibility about the suf-
ferings of a people that a general has respecting the loss of
men wearied by his operations." _ _ _

CURIOUS CASE.—On Wednesday a man named Ed-
wards was brought up at Worship-street Police-office for
creating a disturbance in a crowded congregation assem-
bled in the Free Church in •White's-row, Spitraelds,
and endangering the lives of several persons. The Rev.
G. Montgomery West, D.D., stated that he was the mi-
nister of the above place, which was licensed for divine
service, though not yet under episcopal jurisdiction. The
defendant was a member of a body of professed infidels,
assembling in a building called the Hall of Science, and
bad had with him (Mr. West) several public discussions
on Christianity, and the champions of infidelity had been
routed. The doctor then went on to say that for the in-
struction of the neighbourhood, a New Zealand Chief
had been engaged to deliver a course of lectures on the
progress of Christianity in Australia, and was lecturing
in the place the previous evening, when the defendant in-
terrupted the proceedings, and a regular row commenced,
when the police were called in to restore order.—The
defendant said that when he entered the church he ob-
served a man fantastically dressed in the equipage of a
savage, who was described in the printed circulars as a
certain New Zealand chief, named " Pahe a-Range," or
" Son of the Clouds," but whom he (the defendant), on
closely looking at him, instantly recognized as an Irishman
named Byrne, whom he bad known for the last 20 years,
-as travelling bout the country, exhibiting himself at dif-
ferent fairs, booths, and public-houses in the character
he bad upon this occasion assumed. As soon as he re-

covered from his surprise, thinking it right the audience
should be apprised of the deception ehich had been prac-
tised upon them, he addressed the lecturer by his real
name of Byrne, and inquired how long he had been in
England ; but the only reply the lecturer deigned to give
consisted of a strange gutteral sound closely re,ernbling

not to satisfy his curiosity
flounced the imposture to the a,sembly. and nce the
row. Twopence each was collected from the peoule. Dr.
West said that what had been called the gobbling of a
'turkey was merely the enunciation of the language of the
natives on the part of the lectur'er, who, after the defen-
dant had been ejected, translated it for the andi,thce. The
magistrate bound the defendant to keep the peace for
three months, by which time the course of lectures will
be completed.