The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET-YESTERDAY.

It is not improbable that, although prices have suffered no
depression, and are even * higher than last quoted on Saturday,
the tendency upwards might have been more decided but for
the complexion of the Irish news. We call Consols now 80 to

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTE R DAY.
We have to-day a large supply of good Beasts.; trade is dull,
and the heavier descriptions are rather lower; notwithstanding,
a nice selling Bullock still makes 4s. 2d. There is an increased
supply or Sheep and Lambs, and the demand has decreased ;
cons quently lower prices are submitted to. Trade is heavy
for Calves. The demand for Pigs is very limited.

PICK-POCKETS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, John
Jeifrys, Peter Manly, and Michael Lynch, were committed
to gaol for three months, for attempting to pick pockets in
Great George-street.

STEALING ON BOARD SHIP.—Four young men, Duffy,
Davies, Holding, and Fletcher—were yesterday charged at
the Police-office with being found on board the packet-
ship West Point, concealed under the passengers' berths,
with the evident object of stealing their clothes. They
were committed to gaol for a month.
We are glad to perceive from an advertisement in our
paper of this day, that our favourite friend Wilson will,
at the request of several parties in Liverpool, give his
Walter Scott Entertainment at the Royal Assembly
Rooms, next week.- The songs selected for the-event-ties
entertainment are chiefly culled from Sir Walter Scott's
poem, The Lady- of the Lake, and, if we are to judge
from the encomiums bestowed by the London press upon
this new effort of Wilson's in catering for the public taste,
we may predict a room crowded to excess.
HORRIBLE DEATH.--On Friday fortnight the schooner
Charlotte, of Bridgwater, was put into the graving dock
at Sherborne for repairs, Six men were at work under
her, when the vessel was observed to be giving way, all the
men escaped except one. an old man who was in a sitting
posture and the vessel fell on him, forcing his heart and
lungs through his body with such force as to eject them
several feet from his person, and his heart was seen quiver-
ing in the bottom of the dock until taken up and placed,
with the lungs in the poor fellow's cap.
OVERCHARGE OF SERVANTS, AND THEIR RETAINING
THE DIFFERENCE OF THE MONEY.— At the Police-court,
yesterday, a boy named Charles Shaw, and a young man
named William Bingham, were charged before Mr. Rush-
ton with having overcharged the servant of a gentleman
from London, for the keep of a carriage and two horses
for a night at Mr. Lucas's repository, and retaining to
themselves the difference of the money, only 7s. of which,
however, was paid over to Mr. Lucas's foreman. Mr.
Lucas said the charge was only 6s. They were both com-
mitted for trial.

ESCAPE FROM GAOL.—On the 18th, two prisoners
confined in Cardigan gaol for housebreaking effected their
escape and got clear off. Immediately after the gaoler's
visit on that day, the prisoners must have set to work,
and having broken off the leg of a bench, with that im-
plement they succeeded in breaking their way through the
walls of their apartment, whence they got to the roof of a
part of the gaol ; there they tore their blankets in pieces,
and having fastened them together, they tied one end to
an iron railing, and formed a rope, by means of which
they descended to the fields at the back of the gaol,
whence they got clear into the'road.
Two MEN STABBED BY A BLACK MAN.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, a black (Brazilian) sailor, named John
Fontenac, was charged with having stabbed two English
sailors, David Rolland and John Charleton, on Saturday
night, about eleven o'clock. The prisoner, who was with
two coloured companions, had come out of a public-house,
in Wapping, and was challenginc, " any Englishman"
amongst those who passed to fight him. The complain-
ants and others with them were passing, when, from the
violence of the prisoner, a scuffle ensued, he having first
struck a blow at Charleton, who was wounded in the face
and hand. The other complainant seeing his comrade
attacked, ran to his assistance, and was also stabbed in
several places in the neck. Two other witnesses saw a
knife glittering in the prisoner's hand. He made his
escape, but was soon afterwards taken. He denied the
charge in toto, but was'sent for trial.
CAUTION TO TRADESMEN OBTAINING GOODS ON FALSE
PRETENCES.—Yesterday, Mr. Reav, Secretary to The
Liverpool Guardian Society, appeared before Mr. Rushton
against a well dressed man calling himself John Scholes,
who he explained had, by as he conceived fraudulent
pretences, obtained from a paper-hanger in this town no
less than 180 dozen of paper, he stating that he had built
some houses in Dexter-street, and that he wanted the
paper for them. it was sent, but he stopped the bearer
of it, although promising to pay the money on the way,
and obtained it without paying anything. It was after-
wards found that no houses were lately built in Dexter-
street, and the whole was a trick. Mr said Rushton, this
case could not stand, as the goods had been sold upon the
prisoner telling a falsehood, and the party selling them
did not use due caution and inquiry. Another cam was
then brought against the prisoner, he had obtained 56
dozen of room paper from Mr. Wm. Harlow, on promise
that it should be paid for to the person who took before
it was delivered over. He, however, induced the carrier
to go to a public-house, where lie persuaded him to leave
it. He immediately afterwards sold it, in Islington, for
less than half price. He had also swindled a Mr. Evans.
Mr. Rushton said that, as the frauds of the prisoner were
no doubt extensive through the town, and the reporters
were present, lie should remand the prisoner, in the ex-
pectation that the publicity of the case so far would lead
to the discovery of other cases against him.
THE DEAmissAL OF Sea H. BULWER.—The Times, of
yesterday, publishes the letter of the Duke of Sotomayer,
the Spanish minister, to Sir H. Bulwer, our ambassador
at Madrid, requesting the withdrawal of the latter from
that capital. After announcing to Sir Henry the appre-
hensions entertained for his safety, the Duke says,—
"Your conduct, in the execution of your important mis-
sion, has been reprobated by public opinion in England,
censured by the British press, and condemned in the Bri-
tish parliament. Her Catholic Majesty's government
cannot defend it when that of her Britannic Majesty has
not done so. In this state of things your remaining at
Madrid is considered in this country, doubtlessly without
foundation, as a procf of the weakness of the government,
and, if this opinion should gain strength, it might occasion
some conflict, which it is indispensable to avoid at any
cost. For these reasons, which the loyalty of the British
people and its government cannot otherwise than appre-
ciate at their true value, her Majesty's government has
resolved to put an end to all these fatal coutingencies, by
transmitting you your passports, and requesting you,
within the term of forty-eight hours, or sooner if possible,
I to quit this capital, for circumstances are urgent, and
there would be much to lament if this took place too
I late." The Duke goes on to say that he does not wish to
wound the dignity of the British nation, and that the de-
-1 parture of Sir Henry cannot weaken the relations of
friendship between the two countries,

May 30, 1848.

ONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.—ADDRESS
To HER MAJESTY.

The Queen having appointed yesterday (Monday) f°r
the reception of the address agreed upon by convocation'
full honour was done to the ceremony, and the proceed'
ings were on a scale of grandeur unequalled in the histor/
of our national hierarchy.
The procession left the Jerusalem Chamber at half-past
two, and moved through the Dean's-yard, across thel
Broad Sanctuary, through Princess-street into Greta,
George-street, and thence into the park by Storey's-ga e
proceeding along Bird-cage walk to Buckingham. Palace,
where they were received by the Lord Chamberlain, Who
conducted them to the throne-room. the
On being introduced to her Majesty, his Grace
Archbishop of Canterbury, read the address, which tweecri
an expression of attachment to her Majesty, congratulat
her Majesty on being surrounded by a family, who the/
trusted would repay the pious care of their parents. The/
gratefully acknowledged " her Majesty's continued adhe_:
rence to those constitutional principles, that moderatiol
in the exercise of power, and that care for the generaf
weal, which has always distinguished the Sovereign °
your Majesty's house.
We quote the next paragraph in full :—" We desire
,
especially to express our thank fulness for the preservatied
of the two ancient and venerable sees of St. Asapit 51;14
Bangor in their distinctness and integrity, as well as '
the appointment of a new bishop at Manchester to super'
intend the spiritual welfare of the vast masses of manufat;
turers that have recently been accumulated in those WI),
of this kingdom, and we hOpe and trust that this maY
the prelude of a further increase of the episcopal bodY,
that the number of the chief pastors in our Church r5aYl"
brought more nearly into proportion to the vast increPe
in the number of souls committed to their charge. de
The address then went on to notice the exertions nis
to extend the efficiency of the Church in our foreign P°'-
sessions.