The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

THE SHARE MARKET.

AND REV, akPrIST NOEL'S
EXPLANATION,

MICETING OF FERDIN IND OF NAPLES AND
THE POPE.

FEKDINA.ND.
Holy Father, your blessing I beg you'll bestow,
And I kiss, with all reverend duty, your toe!
POPE.
Thanks, my son, for your filial kindness and shelter,
From Rome and its ruffians I come, helter skelter.
Disobedient children ! no longer they feel
Due respect for my toe, so I show'd them my heel,
And fairly ran off in a desperate fright,
And a bevy of cardinals with me took flight,
For indeed they'd no notion to figure as martyrs—
To be hanged, to be stabbed, and divided in quarters.
No, no: they were bent but on say ng their bacon,
And with that worthy motive all measures were taken,

. •
But how did your holiness sIipFERDINAN
from D
the claws
Of your subjects, revolted, averse to all laws?
POPE.
The Republican furor, that hateful disease,
Has invaded old Rome, and there kick'd up a breeze;
All things in an uproar, an infidel pest
Has poison'd all ranks, with the devil possessed;
Morality vanished, religion; gentility,
No regard for ourself, or our infallibility
A chaos and Babel of murder and crime—
And to run off from these, I esteem'd it high time.
Loretto's famed House through the atmosphere flew;
Such a journey, aerial, would have suited me too,
Taking with me St. Peter's, the Vatican. o'er,
To plant them so snugly on some other shore.
Instead, I have left all these glories behind,
Which may follow sonic day, when to flying inclined.
When night's rrmrky mantle enveloped the skies,
To favour my flight I assumed a disguise.
I thought of a garnwnt, " the old coat of Treves,"
But found it was rather worn out in the sleeves—
All tattered by time. and ages of work,
So I mean to present it to Paddy of Cork
Leather breeches and boots, like a flunkey arrayed,
Pio Nono was hid in complete masquerade!

PERDINAND.
From the desperate crew 'twas indeed an escape,
Delay might have seen you hung up by the nape!
In our realm, holy sire, you're right welcome to stay
Board and lodging, all gratis, and nothing to pay.

With fin though my pockets are not over-lined,
1 possess other treasures of far richer kind—
As indulgeiieies, bulls, which will soon raise the wind I
FERDINAND.
An indu!genne or two, for sins smatter or bigger,
May sell, but I• guess at a rather low Altura;
As to bulls, you may send them to Ireland by shoals,
Tho' perhaps 'tis like sending to Newcastle, coals;
Benedictions you have to bestow on a friend,
And those in abundance at each finger end:
So long as existetlt, in Christendom sin,
think you can master sufficient of tin ! V
Besides I've some reliques so precious ands rare;
Old bones, stones, and nails. all selected with care.
From the tail of thecock to St. Peter that crew,
Of the feathers I happen to treasure a few,
With sanctified womiers.a goodly supply,
Which I reckon the cash of the pious will buy:
In the meantime, I feet rather tired in my crupper'
From my journey so jolting,—•a mouthful of supper
‘Vill be grateful, my son► and of brandy a tiff.
I shall sleep all the betterif made rather stiff—
Perhaps half and half—it will do me no harm,
Against chill and fatigue 'tit a wonderful charm.

SABUATH PRIZF ESSAYS EssAvs.—The aijarlicators•
on•these Essays have awarded the first prize to-Mr. Jas.
Craig, stereotyper.
The woman who attendee?- the lodge gates at Stanfield
Hall has received such a-shock'from the horrible- murder'
of her masters, the Messrs. Army, that it has been ne-
cessary to remove her to a madhouse.

Ow Wednesday week, the son of a gamekeeper-,. near
Haltwistle, Northumberland, was handling his father's
double-barrelled gun, when he unfortunately caused the

breast of hhi mother, who died almost imtnediately.
CHEAP'GRS.—At a meeting of the City Commissioners
of sewers, held on Tuesday, a letter was read from the
Pacenix FCmndry, Clerkenwell, offring to enter intcra
contract for the term of 21 years, to provide the necessary
works, main pipes, and supply the City with gas of the
finest and best: quality at 3s. 6d. per thousand cubic feet
A few mornings since a boy, five years old, the son of a•
needle stamperat Feckenham, Worcestershire, whom his
parents had left asleep in bed, awoke,...and perceived on
the table a bottle,- containing half a pint of brandy. He
climbed on a chair, and thus succeeded in reaching the
brandy, which he swallowed, thereby causing his death
within two hours.

THE HON,

Mr. Baptist Noel's " Essay on Church Slid §tittS
just issued from the press. The following prefaCe
tains a portion of the reverend writer's apology (tit with=
drawing from the ministry:—

It has been finally arranged that the magnificent library
of Stowe shall be sold in January next, by Messrs. Sothe-
by. The sale is expected to occupy twenty-four days in
completion. The -ntimbi,r of volumes is estimated to be
near 30,000, the number of lots being 6,111. It is ex-
pected to produce £2O 000. The Stowe manuscripts anti
the rare collection of engravings will be sold' soon after
the termination of this sale.

DREADFUL SUICiDE.—A Jew named Cohen, living at
Birmingham, was married on Thursday last to a Jewess,
whose parents reside. in Lower Temple-street, in that
town. Early next morning. he roge frnm hpd went int.

" Asin the following work I have frankly attacked the
union between the Church and State, I feel constrained
to bear my humble testimony to the piety and worth of
many who uphold it. I have stated, without reserve, the
influence of the system upon prelates; but how many
stances occur in which men, raised to the most ensnaring
honours, have successfully resisted their temptations?
Of those prelates with whom I have the honour to be
acquainted, some I admire for their simplicity. benevo-
lence, and liberality ; and others still more for eminent
piety. Most wisely in many instances, and most con-
scientiously I doubt not in all, have the present govern-
ment administered their ecclesiastical patronage.
" Still more anxious am I to do justice to my beloved
and honoured brethren, the Evangelical ministers of the
Establishment. Having acted with them for many years.
I can speak of their principles with confidence. Numbers
of them. whose names I should rejoice to mention here
with honour, are as sincere in adhering to the Establish-
ment as I wish to be in quitting it. Of many of them I
am convinced that they surpass me in devotedness to
Christ. Worthy successors of Romaine and John Venn,
of Ne!ton, Cecil, and Th)mas Scott, of It)binson and
Simeon, I hope that, remaining conscien i usly in the
Establishment; they will have the respect and affection of
al good men. May they enj IT increasing comfort and
usefulness to the end of their ministry ! While I con-

demn a State prelacy, I honour each pious prelate v;
while
I mourn the relations of godly pastors to the State, I no
less re.hice in taeir godliness.

" The reasons forseparation appear to me clear; but I
do not expect others to think as I do. In claiming my
own liberty of judgment, I learn to respect theirs. To
remain in the Establishment with my views would be ell-
nainal—with theirs it is a duty.
" If by any of iny expressions I have unnecessarily
wounded the feeling, of any Christian brother, I ask him
to torgive me. If I have unconsciously fallen into any
ex•iggeration. I deeply deplore it. Throughout the work
1 hay- made a clear distinction between Evangelical and
on-Evangelical clergymen—between those who preach the
Gospel and those who do not preach it. No spurious li-
berality—no fear of censure—shout'l obliterate the dis-
tinction.; yet many, doubtless,. who are not ranked among
the Evangelical party—who do not support their institu-
tions, and who do not usually act with them—may be
converted and faithful ministers of Christ.

Lastiy, I must express my regret that I have not
done more for the welfare of a friendly,- considerate, and
willing Church, to which I have been for twenty-two
years a pastor,. and with whom I hnped to have spent the
remainder of my days. Sterner duties, which the study
of the Wort of Gni has forced LIIKn my attetttion, have
to be fulfilled. But I cannot quit them without earnest
prayer that my successor may receive• mucbgrace to build
them up in piety, nor without, my grateful thanks for their
abundant and unvarying kindness.
" Hornsey, December 14."

THE CHRfnIIfAS MARK

Tr( t do not remember, for many years, tobave observed
so large a collection of the good things of this-life adapted
for Christmas festivity a:v on the present
notwithstanding the acknowledged t
di-jointMent of the times

hich, however, we begin t;)
augur are• verging fast towartls amendment. Be this as
it may, and hopingfor the best, we proceed to give abrief
notice of some of our principal public marke

r—giving

credit, at once to our principal caterers in these este
blishments, for a very worth exertion on their parts
to provide, • as for years past, alt :the possible substuntials
anti delicacica-that fall within their important province.
St. John'S market, the largest'and • most central its the
town, was replete with all that thw most fastidious gour-
mand could desire. On Friday night, what with the
abundance of viands, and the tastelet decorations through-
out the avenues,-it was next to impossible, owing to the-
crowd of intending purchasers, and the stillgreater throng
of spectators, young and old, to crush, one's way through
the dense multitude. without damage to the clothing of
the adventurer. Neither buyers nor sellers, indeed, could'
push a traffic without inconvenience—the great rush being
almost confined to a cursory inspection, of the Christmas
decorations, the place being brilliantljN illuminated with
gas. This curiosity partly died away on Saturday, and
purchasers were enabled to aceom modate themselves with-
out much inconvenience. It were almost invidious to
particularise particular standings in any department : but
we may state that the Ihrgest show of heat` which we ob-
served was that of Mr. Tomlinson—animals that bad been
highly fed, •and of great weight. The stand was hand..

on his knees and cut his throat with a _knife. He was
immediately removed to, the hospital, where he'died in a
few hours.

vy a uruiuunting etass crown, wi h
the letter " "in the centre. Mr. Denton had also fine
beef; and Ali.. Meadows one of the finest young bullocks
in the market, brought from y railway.
CHOLERA.—On Friday the Board of Health received mutton was, throughout; splendidSurre, as wasby the pork. TLe
reports of the following fresh cases :—Whitechapel, 2 ; The vegetable and fruit departments were most at-
Shadwell, 1 ; Greenwich. 1 fatal ; Cambridge, 1' - Holy- tracting. The principal stand ( Mary Taylor's) was beau-
head, 1 fatal ; Edinburgh, 9,3 fatal ; Glasgow, 100, 50 tifully decorated, as usual. with festoons of native plants
fatal ; Maxweltown, 6, 4. fatal ; Tranent, 1 fatal; Coat- ald flowers, and also exotics; and grap
.1r hit.des ( home-grown),
brid gej Lanark ), 122, 48 fatal ; Johnstown Paisler
,tatal : , .- notat.as. ere. mint. nonnnis.n...
Old Kilpatrick, T fatal ; RothesaY, 3 fatal. Total new Prices. COTtßidprinr, th„ •
cases, 249 ; 10'

Glasgow was visited by &storm on Friday. Slates, chim-
ney pots, and signboards were hurled to the ground.. The
parapet wall of the General Terminus Railway bridge, on
the Paisley-road, near to Greelaw-place, fell over upon
the footpath, from the violence of the wind, about six
o'clock, whereby three men were killed. In the after-
noon, a labouring man, while passing along Castle-street,
was accidentally struck by a falling tile, and so much hurt
that he had to be sent to the Infirmary.
WORKING MEN'S ESSAYS. ,UPON THE SABBATH.
public meeting to receive the report of the adjudicators
will be held in the large room, Exeter Hall, on Wednes-

y reasonable. Geese, of which there Was a 'large
quantity, were generally to be eot at a low price, and
many of them w.,re prime. Turkeys fetched higher
amounts. Game of all kinds was abundant, and to be got
on easy terms. • We may add that one pig in the market
weighed forty.score..
The other public markets, and the provision, chops of
the town, were- proportionably well supplied. At Mr.
Nation's, in Commutation-row, there was a a;)lemlid car-
cass of a heifer fed at Ciub-moor: a finer, or one com-
-A I prising more delicate beef, we never saw. We also saw
a beautiful small pig which had been fed exclusively on
rice. Much of the fine meat noticed was bought for the
Merchants' Dining and Coffee Rooms, Mr. Lynn, of
the Waterloo, Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi, and Mr.
Whiteman, of the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street.
The Fish Market was remarkably well supplied both
with fresh fish from the coast, and no inconsiderable
quantity from the south of England, received by. rail.
The butchers' and poulterers' shops over the town were
replete with stock. Mr. Johnson's shop, in Queen's_
square, was peculiarly-attractive, especially in geese and
rabbits from Scotlarkl. Mr. Johnson received no fewer
than 1736 geese from two steamers which had just arrived
from "The Land of Cakes."

day, December 27, lord Ashley, M.P., to take the chair,
and distribute the prizes to • the successful competitors.
The meeting will be addressed by Sir C. Buxton, Bart.,
T. Challis, E-q., Alderman S. M. Peto, Esq., MX„
Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Rev. J. Jordan,
Vicar of Enstone, &c.
CHOLERA PRODUCED By FILTR.—Four inquests have

been held at Whitechapel, London, on the bodies of Ellen
Donovan, aged 60; Ellen Lyon, aged 40; Richard Pool,
aged 40; and Patrick Sheen, aged four years, who died in
Hairbrain-court, Rosemary-lone, from an attack of cho-
lera, produced by the pestilential state of their dwellings.
The jury stated that their deaths were produced from the
filthy and abominable condition of the liabitations in the
alleys and streets in Rosemary,lane, Whitechapel.
A CURE FOR COUNTERFEITING.-An old pauper, in
the receipt of out-door relief, was detected last week at
Folkestone, disguised as a ghost, with stilts, and white,
robes, after he had thrown the whole neighbourhood into
a state of trepidation by his nocturnal gambols. The
magistrates, in consideration of his age, upwards of 70,
were inclined to be le ient ; instcad, tLere'bre, of sendirg.
the offender to gaol, they handed him over to the tender
mercies of the Poor Law Commissioners. If they do not
make a real ghost of him, he must be a sham indeed.
Loss OF ANOTHER EMIGRANT SHIP.-011 Wednes-
day night the ship Breams, Captain Matson, from Ham-
burgh to New Orleans, with.lls emigrants, and a general
cargo, struck and drove over the Goodwin, and after
losing two anchors and cutting away her main and mizen
mast and losing another anchor-chain, struck on. the
Pan-sand. A Margate lugger, the City Queen, being in
the vicinity, observed her signal, and with great difficulty
approached her, in consequence of the weather. Another
large Margate lugger, the Intrepid, also made the ship,
and the two boats succeeden in saving the crew and pas-

A WIFE POISONED BY, HER. HUSBAND.—O❑ Saturday
last, James Holdsworth, a.larmer and blacksmith, living
at Clayton, was committed to York castle for trial, for
having poisoned his own wife. He is sixty years of age,
and his wife Judith Holdsworth thirty. They have been
married five or six years,, and have not lived on,terms of
affection of

The Birkenhead Market was beautifully decorated, and
well plenisbed. Mr. Hilton, Mr. Vassey. Mr. Knott;
and others, presented splendid beef, mutton, &c. Some
of the primest beef shown was fed by Mr. Walker, of
Hale. We saw little or none of•the " monster"' prize
beef, &c., from agricultural shows. All was serviceable,
and not too much of a good thing in fat.

GEOLOGY OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD !OF

LIVERPOOL

TO B. DONB.

SIR.—In acknowledging the corn

was.possessec

pliment which you

have been pleased to pay me in last week's STANDARD,
may observe that my acknowledgments are also due to Mr.
Gladstone (to whom, as well as to yourself, I am an utter
stranger), for he has, in the most candid manner, congra-
tulated me upon the coincidence of our opinions.
I find amongst my papers many notices regarding the
connection of the red sandstone with the coal-fields of
Lancashire and Cheshire which might lead to useful re-
sults, provided any accredited authority was organized to

. , _
receive them, and your own observations do but skew that
if once the subject was adopted—so as to raise funds for a
thorough investigation, with a comprehensive plan and
report—that many material facts would be elicited towards
the discovery of both coal land water-

Your fears of the coal being injured by excessive pres-
sure are known in practice to be groundless, since we have

homs of cover,

young wife had a vagrant disposition that led her fre-
quently, according to rumour, to associate with other
men. Holdsworth has had two wives previously, and
report, always busy and inventive on such occasions, in-
timates that their exit was also the result of foul play.
AWFUL MURDER —At York assizes on Thursday, Tho-
mas Malkin, aged 17, was sentenced to death for the wil-
ful murder of Esther Inman, at Leeds. on the Bth October.

now under discussion may possibly engage E
versy, it is very desirable that the writers

ome centre-
should affix

their names

The prisoner and the deceased were lovers ; and it was
proved that he had called her out from her parents' house
into the garden at ten o'clock at night. Immediately
after, the cry of murder was raised ; the girl was found,
stabbed in two or three places with a dagger ; and she died-
almost immediately, saying that he had,stabbed her. Th.)
prisoner was seen, running away ; and just after the mur-
der he admitted, in the presence of some persona in his
mother's house, that "he had done for her." The dag-
ger with which the murder was committed was identified
by a smith as similar to one which,he had forged for the
prisoner a short time before ; and evidence was given of
the prisoner having frequently threatened to kill the de-
ceased. He has since confessed his guilt.
THE MAN WHO STAID OUT- AT NIGHT !—A, recent
number of Chambers's Journal has an amusing sketch
illustrative of the groundless imputations so often thrown
upon individuals by those who judge of the characters of
others solely by appearances. It is•the case of a gentle-
man named Williams, who.stays out every night till late.
hours, coming home only pale and haggard, when " day-
light doth appear!' Thereupon his opposite neighbour,
Mrs. Pry, or Mrs. Braybrooke, touchingly laments the
condition of his " dear little wife," condemned to pass
so many tedious hours alone, whilst her brute of a hus-
band is drinking at the tavern, gambling, or passing his
time in any company but that where he should be ;
breakfasting at noon, and dining at sight. On explana-
tion, however, it turns out that the offender's late hours
are more his misfortune than his fault—his work begins
when other people's end—in a word, he is Editor of a
Morning Papep!
AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—We have to record one of
the most melancholy events that has happened for some
time, and by which five children have fallen victims. On
Thursday afternoon last news was brought to Faversham
that five children had been burnt to death in a hawker's
cart at a place called Plumford, about a mile and a half
from Faversham. The news proved to be too true, for
on proceeding to the spot a sight the most harrowing met
the view. The charred bodies of the children were lying
in a heap with the remains pf the cart. It appeared that
the parents of the children left them in the cart in the
early part of the day, Whilst they proceeded to follow
their avocation in the country, as hawkers of small wares
for sale, and it is supposed that one of the children must
have lighted a lucifer and ignited some of the bedding in
the cart, which was one of the usual description occupied
by gipsies, and of small dimensions, and that the chil-
dren must have been soon suirocated, as the cart was
closed up, in consequence of the inclemency of the weather.

I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
M.tTTS. DUNN

Newcastle-on-Tyne, December, 1848.

NEW ATFITIdD OF CONSTRUCTING VIERS AND BREAK-
WATERS.—Some t.me ago a patent was granted to Wm.
Bruce, Esq., barrister of the Temple, and of Flintshire,.
Pembrokeshire, for " certain improvements in construct-.
ing piers, breakwaters, and other. submarine works of
stone." As the subject of submarine architecture is now
exciting much attention among professional men, in con-
nection with the formation of harbours of refuge, and is,.
.in fact, one of great national importance, perhaps the fol-
lowing outline of Mr. Bruce's• novel plan may not be
uninteresting :—Mr. Bruce has had two objects in view :
first, building under water- by means of machinery ;
and secondly, the application to such structures of
the principle of columnar subsidence, so as to super-
sede the necessity for a, solid foundation. The in-

ventor proposes io attain the first of these objects
by a framework of guiding rods, forty or more in
number, dropped perpendicularly into the water, and
dependent from a framework or traveller, which is to
traverse on a timber staging, on each side of the mole
or pier, of the same description as that used in building

built edifices. The whole is to be built endways by low-
ering the blocks of stone ; the structure beginning from
a given pier head of bell work masonry, or wooden piles,
and being finished to the top before the following series
of blocks are lowered down. The stones, deeply
grooved, slide down perpendicularly between the finish-
ed wall behind, and the sort of pendant gridiron, form-
ed by the guiding rods, in front. The weight of the
iron work keeps the perpendicular face of the wall in
its place, while, on every two bars, a screw-jack tra-
vels up and down, turned by a rod, the bead of which
is above water, and worked by the men from above, so
that 20 men, working 20 screw-jacks, screw into their
proper places five blocks of grooved stones to stand in
layers upon one another, like the Basaltic Rocks of the
Giants Causeway, at from 17 er 18 feet below low-
water mark up to the surface, in rows of five stones, but
actually representing-12 hexagonal, or six six sided colum-
nar shafts. The result is, that a continuous dovetail
from front and rear,. of stones cut with mathethatical
nicety in six six sided figures is produced ; and when at-
tained, the second object contemplated by the patentee,
namely, the construction of a mole or submarine struc-
ture of stone, without having recourse to a solid found-
ation is also realised, because, as the dovetail is com-
plete from front to rear, the columns cannot fall either
backwards or. forwards. And as the wall must ulti-
mately be ended by pierheads, and the wall itself is ecraw-

ed sideways by powerful machinery while building, and
the stones are cut of a geometrical figure, which precludes
trbil 1: possibility
(unless
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.5 rock itself' wt39ld find a bed) the columnar shafts will
subsidence beddsgence ca
to;r: subside upon; and an occasional extra
be remedied by an additional layer of
stones placed on the !..°1) to the extent of the subsidence.
This method solves the ditt.clilty experienced by architects
in building on sandbanks, and ether unstable founda-
tions, and will prove of great practical