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

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Duke of Wellington completed his seventy•seyenth
year on Friday.
At a wedding party in Scotland, the other day, one of
the guests unknowingly ate a piece of 'opium and died in
consequence.

A boy, nine years old, has banged himself at Shoreditch
because his mother refused to give him a half-penny to
buy a ball.
The foundation stone of a new Roman Catholic Church
the estimated cost of which is £ll,OOO, was laid at Burnley
last week.

A young labouring man named Henry Cook committed
suicide last week at itoldfast, near Upton, on Severn, by
taking arsenic. He was said to be in love.
The statement that a noble Viscount, a relative of a
highly esteemed Evangelical minister in London, was
about to leave the Anglican church and join the Roman
communion, has been denied on authority.
The weil-known Clara Seyton, who has been for some
time past giving lectures in this and other towns, was be-
fore the London Insolvent Court on Thursday. The case
was adjourned.
Keying, the high commissioner to the Emperor of
China, has requested Sir T. Cochrane to record his name
as a donor of 900 dollars (about £190) to the Seaman's
Floating Hospital. The money has been paid.
Captain Hamilton, of Port Glasgow, has bequeathed
the sum of twenty thousand pounds to the Free Church,
to be divided between the sustentation fund and the mis-
sionary schemes of the Free Church.
A London newspaper informs its readers that " an ad-
ditional number of sentinels are to be placed in Hyde
Park, to prevent the robberies which happened last win-
! ter."

Much curiosity was excited in Covent Garden Market,
on Monday, by the appearance of two pecks of French
green peas for sale, and for which the vender demanded
£2 10s.

On Saturday week, William Somerville, one of the po-
licemen on the Caledonian Railway, while attempting to
quell a disturbance, was.killed in the most barbarous man-
ner, near Lockerbie, by the railway labourers.
On Thursday, the Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham,
and Cleveland, and the Earl of Lonsdale, had audiences
of the Queen at Buckingham Palace, to present addresses
against the repeal of the corn laws.
On Sunday, the inmates of Mallow Workhouse not
only refused to eat the Indian meal, but rose up (ft masse
and denounced those who had introduced it. The riot
was such that the police had to be sent for.
ANOTHER VICTIM.—Miss Bridges, eldest daughter of
Matthew Bridges, Esq., of Aldershot Manor, Surrey,
was received during Lent into the Romanist Church at
Prior Park.—Church and Stale Gazelle.

.Bailey's statue of the late Duke of Sussex was inaugu-
rated at Freemason's-hall on Wednesday, in the presence
of the Earl of Zetland, Grand Master, and a large party
of masonic brethren.
In Herefordshire and Devonshire it is not considered
an excess for a man, when mowing or making hay, to
chink from twelve to sixteen quarts of ough cider in a

A female named Maria Smith has been committed, at
Northwich, for trial on a charge of having administered
centharides to a fellow servant and also to a younger girl.
They were domestic servants in the employ of a gentleman
near Northwich.

Mr. John Formby recommends farmers, after planting
their potatoes, to sow the same ground with turnip seed,
treating the turnips as weeds when the potatoes come up
healthy, but suffering them to remain in patches where the
potatoes.fail.
EXPORTS, 1845.—The total official value of the British
and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the
United Kingdom in the year ending sth of January. 1846
(as shown by a parliamentary return), was £134,599,116,
and the total deeiared value £60,111,081.
A family at Pillgwenlly had a narrow escape the other
day. An arrow-root pudding was made, and they par-
took of it; but, fortunately, their stomachs rejected what
they had eaten, for it was found that dry white-lead had
been sold in mistake for arrowroot !
SINGULAR MURDI:R.—At the Circuit Court of Justi-
ciary, on Tuesday, before Lords Moncrieff and Cockburn,
Ann Carruthers, of Gretna, was found guilty of the mur-
der of her child, by putting into its mouth small pieces of
coal. She was sentenced to be transported for life.

An old lady who, during the lasi three months, had
laboured under great excitement in consequence of her
daughter, who had been decoyed away by a young man
with whom she had formed an attachment, died suddenly
last week in London.
DIMINUTIVE DOG.—We have seen, within the last few
days, a curious specimen of the canine species; a spaniel,
four months old, weighing only 19 ounces, and not more
than four inches in height. The colour is dark brown and
white.—Derby Mercury.
At the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Society, held
in London on Monday, it was stated that no less than 23
volumes illustrative of the drama in the sixteenth century
were in preparation. An autograph signature of Shake-
speare, attached to the mortgage deed of his house in
Blackfriars was exhibited. It had been offered to the
British Museum for 200 guineas.
An experiment made at Glasgow of the practicability of
establishing a public nursery for the care of children
whose parents are prevented by their avocations from
taking care of them at home, or of children who are
orphans, has proved successful. Healthy children, from.
eighteen. months to six years of age, are admitted at the
nominal charge of ls. 6d. per week. Those who wish
their children admitted as day boarders only. are °barged.
is per week..

Miss Garwood. a young lady of wealc ititelleet, possessed
of a fortune of £30,000, has been carried off from the resi-
_
:dence of her aunt. at Kilhunr,,by a son of an upholsterer
of London. The young lady left a note on her dressing-
table stating that she was going to be married to the in-
dividual above alluded to.

Mr. Jones, carver and gilder, of Bath, has. in his pos-
session a canary bird, gifted with the power of articulating
clearly several words. Mr. Jones had the honour of pre-
senting the bird to her Majesty the queen at Windsor
Castle on Wednesday week, when her Majesty expressed
herself much pleased with the feathered curiosity.
Three men, implicated in the riots which occured in
February at Inverness, when the populace attempted to
Prevent the shipment of some potatoes, have been tried
and convicted before the Circuit Court of Justiciary. Two
of them were sentenced to nine and the third to four
months imprisonment.
A FEMALE KILLED BY A COIV.—A few days ago, while
Mrs. Todd, the wife of a farmer at Low Fields, near
Piercebridge, Durham, was passing through the cowsheds
of the farm-house, and in the act of picking up sorre hay,
one of the cows struck her behind the ear, which caused
her death a few minutes afterwards.

In the village of Fledborough, in Nottinghamshire,
which, at the census of 1841, only contained, along with
the hamlet of Woodcotes, a population of 112 souls, there
are now residing three families immediately adjoining each,
who number amongst them, 36 children. The first having
11 children, the second 12, and the third 13.
MINER'S STRIKE.—In consequence of the exorbitant
price for iron still asked in South Staffordshire, the de-
mand has decreased to a considerable extant. Several
masters having given notice to their workmen of a reduction
in their wages, to the amount of threepence a day, the
miners on Monday last etruck work to the number of 2000.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—AR accident of a very serious
nature, and which, it is feared. will end fatally, occurred
on Wednesday at St. George's, Gloucestershire, to four
workmen, who, while employed in painting the interior of
the church roof, were precipitated to the ground, a depth
of fifty or sixty feet, and received extensive fractures of
their limbs and other injuries.
A public meeting of the members and friends of the
Glasgow Emancipation Society VliS held on Tuesday for
the purpose of passing a memorial to the general assem-
bly of the free church, imploring them to renounce Chris-
tian fellowship with the American slaveholders, and to
send back their money. Resolutions were adopted by ac-
clamation in favour of the object of the meeting.
THE VICTOR OF is said in military circles
that the colonelcy of one of the regiments now vacant will
be conferred on Sir H. G. Smith, the victor of Aliwal.
The emoluments- of the colonel of a regiment are esti-
mated at £l,OOO a-year ; but should the regiment be serv-
ing in India, about double that amount whilst so serving.
PEDESTRIANISM.—George Clarke has undertaken to
walk, at the West-end Retreat Gardens, Heigham. Nor-
wich, 1,500 miles in 1,000 successive hours, walking a
mile and a half at the beginning of each hour, He com-
menced this wonderful task at seven o'clock in the even-
ing of Saturday, the 11th rat.
CAUTION TO CHARITABLE SOCIETIES.—Sunday week
was the day appointed for the collection in London at all
the Baptist chapels for their missionary society, and at
one of these meetings in the evening, the abominable trick
was played of obtaifiing 9s. as change for a half-sovereign
at each of the doors, both of the half-sovereigns being
afterwards discovered to be counterfeits.

STOICISM.—A few days ago, while an Irish labourer
was engaged with two waggons on the Dundee and Perth
Railway, by some accident one of his hands was entirely
cut off, and fell on the line. The sufferer picked it up,
and, looking at it for a. moment, txclaimed, with an oath,
"You are no use to me any longer, anyhow !" and threw
it into the river. The effort was above his strength, as he
immediately fainted and fell.—Dundee Advertiser.
The fracas in the House of Commons on Friday week,
did not terminate there. Colonel Peel sought Mr. Dis-
raeli, and addressed an observation to him of a nature that
induced the member for Shrewsbury to send Lord George
Bentinck to Colonel Peel for an explanation. Lord George
was referred to the Hon. Captain f{ous, with whom his
lordship bad so satisfactory an interview that any further
proceeding was deemed wholly unnecessary.
CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.-0a T.lUrad iy, the fair WaS
tolerably attended for the time of the year. Calving cows
were in demand, and prices ranged from £l5 to £lB.
Fat beef was worth 51 and 6d. Pigs were about the same
as last fair. Cheviot hog sheep were worth 225. The
show was tolerably good. Useful horses were in demand ;
but the show was but indifferent.

CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—On Wednesday, upwards
of 120 tons of cheese were pitched. The demand was
good, a large number of country dealers being in atten-
dance. Prices were fully equal to those of the same pe-
riod last year ; and rather better than last fair. They
ranged from 555. to 655. Some few prime dairies were
unsold, as high prices were asked. On the whole the fair
was satisfactory to the farmers, who, however, complain
of their prospects for the future;
PIINISFIMENT OF DEATH.—A. great public meeting was
held on Wednesday evening in the large room at Exeter
Hall, to consider what means ought to be used for the
abolition of the punishment of death. The hall was crowd-
ed in every corner long before the hour for the commence-
ment of business. W. Ewalt, Esq., M.P. was unani-
mously called to the chair. It was moved by the Rev. Mr.
Christmas, and supported by Mr. Wrightson and Mr- H.
Vincent—" That a society be now formed, to be called
" The Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishments."
RAPE CASES IN WESTMORLAND.—The four railway
labourers (two Smiths, Gloucester, and Gunner) who in
so diabolical a manner, on Sunday evening week, violated
the persons of Miss Elizabeth and Jane Dover, on Knipe.
Scar Moor, Westmorland, and who absconded early on
the following morning, on Wednesday night last were ap-
prehended at Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, by
Charnock and Stephenson, the two railway police stati-
oned at Hackthorpe, after a chase of nearly 100 miles.
They have been 'committed to take their trial.

THE BOY JONES.—The boy Jones, of palace-entering
notoriety, who it will be remembered, was some years ago
shipped no board the Warspite as a boy of the second
class, did not come bone In her, but was transferred to
the Inconstant shortly before the Warspite's leaving. He
bad then attained the rating of an ordinary seaman. At
climbing he had no superior in the Warspite; on one
occasion be climbed to the main truck, and seating him-
self there, threw off his bat, jacket, and shirt, and flung
them on deck. He is represented as well conducted, and
a very good seaman, considering the time he has been at
sea.

MANSLAUGHTER OF A HIGHWAYMAN.-011 Wed-
nesday last, a large number of the neighbouring villagers
were congregated in Margate, celebrating the festival or a
benevolent society ; James Sutton, a person of respectable
connexions, being of the number. About half-past ten,
as John Price, a carrier, was returning home, Sutton
leaped from behind a hedge, and demanded his watch. A
struggle ensued, and Sutton was sa much injured that he
died in a few hours. The coroner's jury, after al. ngth-
ened consultation, returned a verdict of " manslaughter"
against Price, considering the violence more than neces-
sary._ _ _

A SAGACIOUS HORSE.—On Monday week, while some
half-a-dozen of carters were returning from Dunkeld to
Perth, they halted at Bankfoot to take a dram, and drank
till they were all in a beastly state of intoxication. They
were helped into their carts, and resumed their journey,
trusting entirely to the sagacity of their horses. One of
the batch having awoke from a confused sleep, attempted
to stop his horse, and finding himself unable, had the te-
merity to throw himself before the wheel, but the noble
animal, as if aware of his danger, shoved him aside, and
moved on, leaving the greatest animal of the two to find
his way home the best way he could.—Edinburgh Regis.

A DANISH INDIAMAN RUN DOWN.—Soon after eleven
o'clock on Monday night, as one of Mr. Green's first-
class ships, the Seringapatam, was running down Channel,
in charge of a pilot, on her way to Portsmouth, bound to
the East Indies, she came into collision with the Herrick,
Danish East Indiaman, cutting her down amid ships to
the water's edge. The crew of the latter bad just time to
escape on board the Seringapatam, when the masts went
by the board, and she turned bottom up. The Seringa-
patam had her bowsprit carried away, and sustained so
much damage that she was obliged to return to Blackwall
to have her defects made good.
A MUSICAL BED.—The last novelty from Germany is
a musical bed, which receives the weary body and imme-
diately "laps it in Elysium." It is an invention of a
mechanic in Bohemia, and is so constructed that by means
of bidden mechanism, pressure upon the bed causes a soft
and gentle air of Auber to ISe played, which continues long
enough to lull the most wakeful to sleep. At the head is

the sleeper wishes to rise, when -th; time arrives, the
bed plays a march of Spontini, with drums and cymbals,
and, in short, with noise enough to rouse the seven
sleepers. This unique bed becomes therefore the ne plus
ultra for the wakeful as well as the sluggish.

EXPENSE OF THE POOR-LAW COMMISSION.-It ap-
pears from a parliamentary return just published that
eleven commissions were issued in 1840, and fifteen since
that time. The total expense of the poor-law commission
in England and Ireland, by salaries of the officers (whose
names and situations are set forth), is stated at £31,129
18s. The expense of the commission in the year 1842,
1843, 1844, and 1815 is given as follow's :—£33,799 12s.
6d. in England, and £20,653 sa. 2d. in Ireland ; £31,925
2s. 341. in England, and £21,608 ss. 2d. in Ireland ;
£30,962 13s. si. in England, and £18,351 13s. 2d in Ire-
land ; and £30,394 Os. sd. in England, and £18,334 6s.
3d. in Ireland.

BLACK RAIN.—A. most extraordinary storm of black
rain fell in the northern part of Worcestershire on Wed-
nesday week, and excited the greatest alarm. For two
hours, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., this extraordinary shower
lasted, and the pools, water-courses, and even the Severn
itself, were completely turned black. The storm extended
over Abberley, Dunley, Stourport, and Bewdley, to the
great alarm of the inhabitants of those places, the air be-
ing during that time completely black. Our informant
(says the Worcestershire Guardian), who describes this
singular phenomenon, states that the rain had a smell as
of soot and paint mixed, and that any article dipped into
it was blackened. We give this information as we have
received it ; it is possible that the rain was charged with
the sooty impurities of the Dudley co-il field, which sur-
rounds-the districts where the rain fell.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday week five men were
engaged landing some large blocks of marble from a barge
by means of a crane at a wharf close to Vauxhall-bridge,
London.. A large block of marble, two tons in weight,
had just been fixed to the crane, and the men were in the
act of raising it, when the platform un which they stood,
which projects about twelve feet over the river, and six-
teen above it, suddenly gave way, and they were precipi-
tated some into the river and others into the barge. They
were immediately conveyed to the Westminster Hospital,
where they met with prompt attention. One poor fellow
was dead, a second had his thigh so frightfully lachrated
and smashed that in spite of all the remedies used he died
in half an hour; a third bad so severe a compound frac-
ture that it is feared amputation will be necessary ; and
the other two are in such a dangerous condition from in-
ternal injuries, that there is little hope of their recovery.

CUSTOMS REVENUE. 1845.—The following (derives
from parliamentary papers) is !he,n et produce of the prin-
cipal items of customs revenue in the year ended January
5, 1846 :—Butter, £265,017; cheese, £140,567; coffee,
£697,220; corn, meal, and flour, £355,320; currants,
£244,050; molasses (treacle), £167.237; raisins, £156,093;
silk manufactures, £323,185; rum, £1,145,899; brandy, •
£1,187,761; sugar, £3,228,849, exclusive of £345,620 for
Ireland; tea, £4.1G9.446, besides £723,904 for Ireland;
tobacco and snuff, £3.274'961, besides £927,1f 9 for Ire-
land ; foreign wine, £1,711,718, besides £379,519 for Ire-
land; deals, battens, &c. £606,359; timber not sawn,
split, or dressed, £381,158. Total net produce of (ustoms
duties inwards, in Great Britain, £19,275,313; Ireland,
£2,319,512.

PLACES REGISTERED FOR THE CELEBRATION OF'
MARRIAGES —From a parliamentary return just printed,
we find that on the 31st December last the number of
places of religious worship in England and Wales. regis-
tered for the celebration of marriages, was 2,467, of which
143 are in Middleses,.22o in Yorkshire, and 236 in Lan-
cashire. Classed by religious denominations, 5 are fo-
reign churches, 78 Calvinistic methodists, 267 Armenian
methodists, 195 presbyterians, 599 baptists, and 970 inde-
pendents or congregationalists. In Lancashire the regis-
tered 'places of worship for marriages, are thus classed de-
nominationally :—Church of Scotland, 3; united secessi-
on 3 ; English presbyterians and unitarians, 13 ; presby-
terians not otherwise defined, 11 ; independents or con-
giegationalists, 63 ; particular or Calvinistic baptists, 10 es
general or Arminian baptists, 1 ; baptists not otherwise
defined, 14 ; Wesleyan methodists, 11; new connexion
do., 6; primitive do., 3; Wesleyan methodist association
8 ; independent methodists, I ; Welsh Calvinistic metho-
dists, 2; Lady Huntingdon's connexion, 3; Roman Ca-.
tholics, 71 ; New Jerusalem church, 6; Christian Israel-
, ites, 1 ; evangelical friends, 1, ; undeecribed or of derma.
minations not previously specified, 5 ; total number of
buildings registered in this county, 236.
CAKES, &c. OF INDIAN CORN FLOUR.—Johnny Coke
Indian fluur or meal scalded, and the dough rolled or
pressed out to half an inch in thickness ; cooked one side
at a time in front of the fire on a sheet of tin, a, plate, or
any material of suitable shape.—Pone Coke : Stir into,
one quart of new milk three eggs, slight- to the taste, and.
as much Indian flour as will make a moderately stiff bat-
ter, to which add a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda dis-
saved- in a little warm milk, and a little lemon peel, or
any other flavouring article. May be baked in tins or
moulds.—lndian Cup Cake : Two cups of Indian and.
one of wheat flour, or in that proportion ; made into a
thin batter with milk, eggs, and a little salt • cooked on a
bakestone.—lndian Cake: Three quarters Of a pound of_
white Indian flour, three quarters of a pound of white su-
gar, half a pound of butter worked to a cream, and six.
eggs, make a very delicious cake.—lndian Crumpets
Indian flour scalded, and after being made into a thin
batter with eggs and milk, are cooked on a bakestone
same as wheat floor crumpets; a little carbonate of soda
or barm may be added.—lndian Muffins : Pour boiling
water into a quart of Indian flour and reduce it to a thick
batter;, when cooled a little, add a table spoonful of barm,
two eggs well beaten, and a tea spoonful of salt ; set it in
a warm place to rise for two hours ; then bake it in shal-
low tins in a quick oven.
QUARTERLY TABLES OF MORTALITY.—These tables
for the quarter ending Mania 31, 1846, have just been
published by authority of the Regaitrar General. The
returns are obtained from 115 districts, sub divided into
576 sub-districts. Thirty-four districts are placed under
the metropolis, and the remaining 81 districts comprise.
with some agricultural districts, the principal towns and
cities of England. The population was 6,579,693 in 1841;
43,708 deaths were registered in the last winter quarter
(ending March 31). This number is less by 5,166 than
the number (49,874) registered in the winter quarter of
1845. If the increase of the population (of about 1.74 per
cent annually) be taken into account, the mortality will
also be found to have been less in the last winter than in
any of the eight previous winters. This marked diminu-
tion of the mortality occurred in more than two thirds of
the districts from which returns are procured; but is
most obvious in the metropolis, in the western and north-
western divisions. In the districts of the northern divi-
sion alone, of England, the mortality was considerably
higher than in the winters of 1844 and 1845 ; and this is
referred by the registrars to epidemics of scarlatina in
Sunderland. Tynewouth, and Carlisle. The mortality
was considerably above the average in the winter quarters
of 1838, 1840, 1841, and 1845—and much below the aver-
age in the winter quarters of 1843, 1844, and 1846.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.— On Saturday afternoon
last a young woman, about twenty-four years old, threw
her three children from Battersea-bridge into the Thames.
The wretched woman was seen to go upon the bridge with
an infant in her arms, and accompanied by a little girl
about four years old, and a boy about seven. When she
got to the middle of the bridge she walked to and fro a
few yards in a hurried manner, and then threw the chil-
dren one after the other over the railings into the river,
and was getting over the balustrades herself when she was
prevented doing so by the passers-by, who gave her into
custody. At the station-house she stated her name to be
Eliza Clark, her age twenty-four years; that she was the
wife of William Clark, a journeyman painter, living at
No. 7, Cumberland-street, Marlborough-road, Chelsea.
and that the children were her own. During the time oc-
cupied by the above proceedings attempts were being made
on the river to save the unfortunate children, which were
successful in one instance, that of the second child, (a girl,)
four years old, which was immediately carried to a public
house, where it received every attention and is recovering.
The infant child was also promptly got out, but life was
quite extinct. The prisoner was examined at the West-
minster Police-office ; her answers were very incoherent,
and a belief was expressed that she was insane. She stated
that her husband was in the habit of coming home drunk,
and ill-treating her. This is denied by the neighbours-of
the unfortunate woman. She is described as an uncom-
monly neat, clean-looking person. The husband has not
found by the police.
THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—The first point is de-
cided at once by a reference to the Scriptures.
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consideration, that the principle has been sanctioned by
the Deity. It may be easy to admit that rules fitted for
Judaism are not -fitted for Christianity; but in neither
dispensation can man be authorized to suppose it possible
that the Almighty has ever commanded an act which is in
its own nature a crime. If death is an act wholly beyond
the right of man in all cases, its infliction in the Jewish
code would be a contradiction of the divine wisdom and
virtue. But the sacrifice of life by divine command is
older, by thousands of years, than the Mosaic code. It
is as old as the code given to Noah, declaring that "
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so sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
It is true that this precept has teen idly misconceived by
the body of commentators as simply a prohibition of
murder. Its true purport was the prohibition of canni-
balism. The permission to eat animal food was then first
given to mankind ; but man was expressly guarded against
being the subject of an appetite which, however repulsive
to human feelings, has often been exhibited in the savage
state. It amounted to this—whoever kills man for food
shall render himself liable to the penalty of death. Of
course the act implied murder.—Britannia.
WELL EARNED REWARDS.—It is the intention of the
East India Company to confer a signal mark of the high
esteem in which they hold the services of Lord Hardinge
and Lord Gough, by a grant either of pensions for life or
of gross sums of money. Which of these two methods
will be adopted, it is not yet decided ; but on the prece-
dent of Warren Hastings, it will most probably be the
latter. That able man, than whom no Indian viceroy
before or since his time has more contributed to extend
and consolidate the British power in the east, received a
specific grant of .£60,C00, instead of an annuity of £5,000,
as was originally proposed. The same proposition, with
respect to the annuity, has been in contemplation for the
present Governor-General ; and a pension of £2,000 has
been named for the Commander-in-Chief. In reference
to the latter, the reward, though less in amount, is per-
haps greater in degree, because it has not hitherto been
the custom of the company to confer pecuniary rewards
on the officers of the Queen's army. These are properly
left to the gracious consideration of the sovereign, whose
ate servants they are. But in the instance of
Lord Gough, it has been remembered that he commands
in chief the Company's forces as well as the Queen's ;
and this considetation, supported doubtless by his dis-
tinguished services, has induced an exception in his favour.
When these munificent intentions of the Company shalt
be carried into effect, and the pensions of £5,000 a-year
which are to be proposed in the House of Commons on.
Monday shall be ratified by the popular voice, the con-
quest of the Panjaub will have earned for Sir Henry
Hardinge a Viscounty and £lO,OOO a year for life, and.
for Sir Hugh Gough £7,000 a year for life, with a Ba-
rony.

THE GOVERNMENT MEASURES.—In the course of
one of his addresses last week, as candidate for the Fal-
kirk boroughs, Lord Lincoln said, " We may differ in
our views upon general politics, but I think you will agree
with me in this, that after the failure of Lord John Rus-
sell, and after having seen the resolution with which the
present government came forward to push these measures,
I think you will agree with me, that if, by the result of
this election, or any other election, we should be again
compelled to retire from the helm of affairs, these great
measures will be materially retarded. I do say, and I
assure you I feel it to be the case, that in your bands rests,
in a very material degree, the fate of these measures ; I
will not say their ultimate fate, because, as they are based
upon good principles, it will be impossible ultimately to
stop their progress. But it may retard them ; and you
who have watched narrowly the proceedings in parliament,
know that a.measure once retarded or delayed is greatly
prejudiced, and, when it does pass, may pass under very
crisalvantageous circumstances from those originally pro-
posed. I should regret, for the sake of my country, the
defeat of these measures at the present moment. I assure
you the position of the ministry among their old friends is
not such as to render office very desirable for its own sake.
should, for my own part, be glad to be relieved from
that position. But under much obloquy we have under-.
taken these measures, and I do think we are bound to see
them carried out, whatever may be the result. In my own
person the government has met with a defeat at the hands-
of the Protectionists. I believe the protection party in
these burghs is small ; but if I am again defeated by a
party, t y,
feel
that must,
union of the protectionist party with a portion of the free-
trade
it willbe a
without
govern-
ment at this juncture. and might have the effect of retard-
ing these measures for a time •
A cargo of cattle has just arrived in London from Prim -
exaggerating my own im-
portance, blow to the pert a n pc_
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sia, whence no importations of beasts bad Prolamin,' taken
place.