The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

An unexpected press of Advertisements has compelled us this
week to omit a number of articles and notices of local affairs.
Had we been aware in time we should have endeavoured to
provide for the difficulty by giving a Supplement. We have
done our best, however, to rectify it, and increase the space
at our disposal, by the use of a quantity of smaller type, which,
though objected to by many of our readers, will perhaps for
once be pardoned.
It is a little singular and creditable to our Contemporaries in
Preston and Manchester that the first news which arrived
in Liverpool of the Bombardment of Tangiers, was given in
first editions of the Preston Pilot and Manchester Guardian,
who were indebted for their early information to a late edition
of the. lifornia9,. Herald of Friday. Our own three papers
of Saturday were only able to announce it in second editions.

Zibtrpoot tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 20, 1844.

The Parisian Journals of Thursday brought us
the intelligence that the war between France and
Morocco had been commenced by the bombardment
of Tangiers. The ilioniteur contained the following
telegraphic despatch from the French Admiral.
" PERPIGNAN, AUG. 13, FIVE O'CLOCK, P.M.—The
Prince de Joinville to the Minister of Marine.
" Before Tangiers, the 7th. On the 4th instant, a re-
ply to the ultimatum of M. de Nyon was received, but
was not of a nature to be accepted. On the sth, I was
informed that Mr. Hay was in a place of safety. On the
morning of the 6th, 1 attacked the fortifications of Tan-
giers. Eighty pieces of artillery returned the fire. In
about an hour their fire was silenced, and their batteries
dismantled. Our loss in men is trifling, and the injury
sustained of little consequence. The quarter inhabited
by the European Consuls has been respected."

By an extraordinary express, since received, we
have news from Paris down to 9 PM. on Saturday,
which fully confirms the telegraphic despatch and
gives the following particulars of the action, from a
subsequent report addressed to the Minister of
Marine.
" It was on Tuesday, the 6th instant, about half-past
eight o'clock in the morning, that the squadron under the
orders of the Prince, at anchor under the walls of Tangiers.
opened its fire with shouts of ' Long live the King.'
In one hour the fire of the place was extinguished, the
batteries were dismantled, and the guns dismounted. On
our side the loss was not considerable.
" Notwithstanding the difficulty of the ground, the
squadron took its position in a most successful manner.
The ship Suft'ren, commanded by the Prince, anchored in
six fathoms and a half, with a rocky bottom, and the po-
sition nearest the enemy's batteries was that chosen by
the Admiral.

" The fire, which commenced at half-past eight, was
not entirely discontinued until towards 11 o'clock. It
continued during this time with order which did not ex-
clude for one moment that steadiness and precision ne-
cessary for taking good aim. It was to the accuracy of
the firing, as much as to the position chosen by the Prince,
that the rapid success is to be attributed.
"The example given by the Suffren was followed by
each of the ships of the squadron. Everywhere on this
occasion did officers, seamen, and soldiers, rival each
other in ardour and steadiness. The resistance was much
more vigorous than was generally imagined ; several of
the guns on the ramparts did not cease their fire until
they were destroyed by our shot.
" Mr. Hay arrived during the action in the Vesuvius,
coming from Mogador. In the evening he waited on his
Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville, who had an in-
terview with him.
"The Spanish division, a British man-of-war and frigate,
some Sardinian ships, as well as some Swedish and Ameri-
can ships, were present at this brilliant exploit.
" It is believed," says the Constitutionel,—
" That after the attack of Tangier, the Prince proceeded
to bombard Tetuan and Larache."
The Paris Correspondent of the London Times
asserts that a degree of dissimulation has been prac-
tised by the Admiral in his proceedings, which may
lead to serious differences between the two Govern
ments. Sir Robert Wilson, Sir Edward Owen,
Mr. Lytton Bulwer, and Lord Cowley relied upon
the pacific views of the Prince de Joinville up to
four o'clock on the sth; and despatches were
actually sent off to the British Government on that
day, announcing the probability of an amicable ad-
justment between France and Morocco. It appears,
however, that on the preceding day, the 4th, the
Prince had considered the reply of the Morocco
Government to his ultimatum unsatisfactory, and
on that day resolved on hostilities. Another charge
against the good faith of the French Government
itself, is, that a pledge was given to Great Britain,
that Tangiers, as a quasi-European town, should be
spared ; and, having given such a pledge it is con-
tended that instructions to fulfil it should have been
sent to the Prince. France therefore has either
failed in her faith towards us and forwarded no
such orders; or, as was broadly asserted on Satur-
day, in the best informed circles in Paris, the Prince
has, of his own will and in violation of orders, bom-
barded Tangiers.
There was another report at Tortoni's, that the
town had been taken possession of ; but it was ge-
nerally treated as a stock jobbing manoeuvre, and
not credited.
The public feeling excited in Paris is of a varied
character. Amongst sober men of all classes regret
at the step taken by the Prince prevails, whilst,
amidst the swagger of not a few of the war party,
the symptoms of some little fear for the result is
perceptible. Considerable agitation had been cre-
ated on the Bourse and a serious fall had been ex-
perienced in the prices of stock.
We have nothing up to the time of going to press
to explain intelligibly, the strange proceedings of
Mahemet Ali. The latest accounts attribute his
conduct to a freak of passion or insanity. Alexan-
dria was quiet ; but some fears were entertaied by
the Europeans of disturbances.

We brought before our fellow-townsmen, a fort-
night ago, the spirited example, which is being set
us in Manchester, in the attempt to construct pub-
lic parks, &c., for the promotion of the comfort and
the health of the community of that town. Unfor-
tunately our appeal has not produced the effect
which we sincerely prayed it would produce. Apa-
thy, on the part of our leading men, and of our
Corporation, is unfortunately too apparent ; and, on
the part of our brethren of the press, we are sorry
to observe something worse than apathy—an evi-
dent disinclination to throw, for the moment, party
to the winds, and unite their strength for the secur-
ing of a boon so important to all classes in our
town.
It is painful to contemplate such a feeling, and to
compare it with the eager zeal with which we em-
bark in any undertaking and in any outlay of money
by which gain to our commerce or increase of our
property can be promoted. We can expend mil-
lions upon railway projects, dock projects, ware-
house schemes, and schemes of more questionable
utility; we can build union workhouses and courts
of law, music halls and police courts; but when
the poor man appeals to us—when the sickly sons
and daughters of toil ask us for air and the fresh
breeze—when our wives and our children plead to
us for the privilege of inhaling an atmosphere free
from the effluvia of soaperies and alkali works, we
are cold as ice, impassive to the whisperings of hu-
manity, and close at once, as if panic-struck, our
pockets and our hearts.
Really, fellow-townsmen, this should not be.
Good feeling—Christian feeling forbids it. And
if these considerations are not enough to im-
pel us to move in a better direction, the inferior
consideration of vanity might almost urge us.
Manchester—Radical, selfish, money-grubbing, as
we call her population—is now instituting a vigo-
rous canvass for the subscriptions necessary for the
purpose of providing places of recreation ; her very
operatives are turning aside from the advocacy of
Chartism, and her shopocracy from the agitation of
the League, to unite their efforts in the pursuit of
this means of health and recreation; and shall Li-
verpool, with all her wealth, her valuable public
estate, her known public spirit, her Conservatism
and loyalty, hang back from an effort so loudly
called for—so imperatively required by the admitted
wants of her population ? We trust not. We trust
to see a better spirit spring up amongst us.

Our Foreign Relations have now assumed an
aspect pregnant with serious alarm for the peace of
Europe. On every side we find new complications
arising, new sources of danger manifesting them-
selves. No sooner has the collision occurred in
Morocco, the results of which England is bound to
watch wihtheasdueclh'ealous vigilance,—no sooner has
the hot-
France in Boy, who commands the Navy of
that quarter, succeeded in gratifying his
craving for than we are thunderstruck
with the news of warfare
,—than
and whereforbeereaens
retirement of Mehemet Ali,
the circumstances,
we are not to know.
Whatever may have
how-
ever, under which this strange circumstances,
movement has taken
place, its consequences may be sufficiently serious
Great Britain, to warrant, on the part of the most
energetic preparations for a coming storm. Already
our fleet is concentrating its forces in that quarter
of the Mediterranean, for any emergency which may
arise; and he must be a bold politician, endowed
with more than ordinary dependance upon the favor-
able solving of this chapter of difficulties, who can
predict at what moment and in what quarter the

first calamitous accident may occur, which will
place us in hostile attitude towards some of the
powers with whom we arc at present in a state of
peace and alliance.
We cannot bring ourselves to entertain any seri-
ous fears for our Country's ability to maintain her
present position in any circumstances and against
any opponents which may present themselves, how-
ever much all rational men must deplore that an
appeal should have to be made, in the present tem-
per of the civilized world, to warfare between nations.
We believe our navy was never in a better position
to maintain its pre-eminence on the seas, notwith-
standing all the boastings of our jealous neighbours
of France, or the senseless complainings of a disap-
pointed Faction at home. When the day shall
come for England in earnest to put forth her ener-
gies the same spirit will be found animating her
people and her rulers, which has defended her
against more powerful enemies than now menace
her. Humanity, commerce, and civilization may
suffer in the struggle; but England has ample
power to take care that her mighty empire shall not
be injured.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NlGHT..—Although busi-
ness presented little features to-day, the market closing
early, Consols were fiat, the aspect of affairs in France
not being considered altogether agreeable. The specula-
tors for the fall have increased their operations, which,
of course, in a degree, accounts for the heaviness obser-
vable. Consols for present transfer and the account
closed 984. Bank Stock left off 1984 to 199 i ; Exche-
quer-bills, 73s to 75s premium; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 991 to 4 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced.
1021 to 8 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011 to 8 ;
Long Annuities, 121; India Stock 282 to 284 ; and India
Bonds, 94 to 96 premium. Yesterday the price of Con-
sols was inadvertently quoted 954, instead of 94 In
the foreign market there was no essential alteration beyond
the business produced by the state of the English funds.
Spanish Five per Cents. left off 224 to 8 The Three per
Cents. 334 to 4 ; Portuguese, 431 to 441 ; Peruvian, 24
to 25 ; Mexican, 354 to ; the Deferred, 151 to 4 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 611 to ; the Five per Cents,
1004 to 101 ; Danish, 824 to 891 ; Colombian, 134 to 14 ;
Chilian, 103 to 105 ; Buenos Ayres, 34 to 36 ; Brazilian.
84 to 85 ; and Belgian, 103 to 104.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—In the Gazette of Friday night,
we have the return of the quarterly weekly average of the
liabilities and assets of the Bank of England for the three
months, from the 18th of May to the 10th instant in-
clusive. We find, on a comparison with the quarter from
the 20th of April to the 13th of July, that the circulation
has increased from £21,246,000 to £21,324,000, being a
difference of £78,000. The deposits have increased
from £13,977,000 to £14,090,000, being a difference
of £113,000, and making the total of the liabilities
£35,414,000. The securities have increased from
£22,471,000 to £22,908,000, being a difference of
£437,000. The bullion has decreased from £15,767,000
to £15,579,000, being a difference of £lBB,OOO, and
making the total of the assets £38,487,000. The surplus
or rest has increased from £3,015,000 to £3,073,000,
being a difference of £58,000 during the month.
The Northern Church of England School, Rossall
Hall, Lancashire, is to be publicly opened by the Lord
Bishop of Chester on Thursday next.
OFFENCES AGAINST THE DOCK LAWS.—Yesterday,
at the Police-court, Murdoch Mavnier, mate of an Ame-
rican barque, was charged with having neglected when
told by the dock officer to remove his vessel in the
Prince's Dock, so that another vessel was prevented from
getting into her berth a-head of her, and it was found ne-
cessary to employ some riggers to get the barque out of
the way. The case was proved, and he was fined 60 shil-
lings and costs, and required also to pay the wages of the
riggers.
THE CASE OF HOMICIDE ON BOARD THE THOMAS
BENNETT.—The prisoner, John Kent, who had been re-
manded from last week on a charge of killing Captain
Halsey, and who has since been acquitted by the verdict
of the Coroner's jury, as elsewhere recorded, was again
brought up at the police-court yesterday. Mr. Rushton,
without making any comment, again remanded him until
this day, the American authorities in this country not
having yet made up their minds for his release—to which,
however, it is probable, after the full and impartial in-
vestigations that have taken place, they will eventually
accede.
THEFT FROM A SHOP.—An elderly female named
Elizabeth Scott was yesterday charged before Mr. Rush-
ton with having stolen a web of gingham from the shop
of Mr. Robert Roberts, Great George-street. It appeared
that at about eight o'clock on Saturday night, the priso-
ner took the article from the shop door and made off with
it. She was seen rnnning with it up Nile-street, and
being pursued was overtaken with it in her possession in
Rathbone-street. It was attached to the door by a string
which was found to be cut, and a pair of scissors were
found upon her. The piece was stated to contain 56 yds.
worth 61d. a yard. She said she saw it rolling in the
street and picked it up. Committed for trial at the
sessions.
RODNEY-STREET SCOTCH CHURCH SCHOOLS.—It
being in contemplation shortly to re-open the Sunday
school attached to the Rodney•street church, a sermon,
specially addressed to the young, was delivered by the
Rev. J. T. Brown, from the pulpit of that place of wor-
ship upon Sunday evening last. The reverend gentleman
selected his text from the second epistle to the Corin-
thians, v. 17. The intended pupils of the school were
stationed in the seats immediately fronting the pulpit,
and appeared deeply impressed with the emphatic and af-
fectionate exhortations addressed to them by their pastor.
The service was throughout of a most interesting charac-
ter. We understand that during the ministry of the late
incumbent, the congregational sabbath school was in full
and efficient operation ; and we are glad to find that his
successor has thus early formed the resolution of tread-
ing in his steps, by tendering to the children of those
committed to his pastoral charge, the benefits of a sound
and thorough scriptural education.
THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MR. BRENT SPEN-
CER.—Our readers will, doubtless, remember the extra-
ordinary case of this gentleman, who was recently found
in a house in Chelsea, under circumstances of a distressing
and degraded nature, under the care of a Mrs. Pelham,
his mother. A commission de lunatico inquirendo was
opened, on Saturday, to inquire into his state of mind ;
and, after hearing the evidence offered, the jury came to
the unanimous conclusion that he was of unsound mind,
and had been so from the 3rd of July, 1840. At the
conclusion, a woman came forward, and stated that the
younger son of Mrs. Pelham (Wilson Pelham, a young
man, 22 years of age,) had been kidnapped from her when
a month old, by Mrs. Pelham, under singular circum-
stances, and that she had never seen him until now. Au
inquiry into the case was subsequently gone into, at
Queen-square police-office, when the magistrate promised
to take time to consider the course to be pursued. He
thought that a felony had been committed.
A POST-BOY AT FAULT.—At the Police-court yester-
day, a driver named William Cunliffe was charged with
having received a sum of money on his master's account,
which he had not paid over to him.—Mr. Evan Williams,
carriage-owner, said, that the prisoner was in his employ
as a post-boy. On Saturday last, he was employed, with
another postillion, to drive Sir John Gerard, of New
Hall, near Warrington, in his own carriage, from the
railway station in Lime-street to Bootle, he (complainant)
finding one pair of horses, and another person the other
two. He (prisoner) had received the money for both ;
had paid the other postillion his half, but had retained the
remainder, and absented himself on the following day.
He had also appropriated the money he had received on
Thursday, hut of this the complainant could not adduce
proof.—William Fletcher, footman to Sir John Gerard,
said he had on Saturday paid the prisoner, on account of
his master, £1 4s. The prisoner was apprehended yes-
terday morning, and on his way to Bridewell said, of his
own accord, that he had received the money and given it
to his wife.—He was committed for trial at the sessions
for the embezzlement.
ALARM OF FIRE.—Yesterday evening, shortly before
seven o'clock, a young man on horseback rode up to the
Fire-station, Temple-court, and gave the alarm that
smoke had broken out, indicating a dangerous fire, in a
warehouse in Norfolk-street. He had on his way stated
the circumstance to all the police-officers he saw, and
from his anxiety, Mr. Hewitt, superintendent of the fire-
police, immediately ordered out, and accompanied, three
engines and a number of new water-carts, and drove
rapidly towards the spot. Other water-carts, from in-
termediate stations, were also ordered out, the number in
all being about twelve. On reaching the vicinity of the
warehouse, the adjacent crossing line of street—Park-
lane and St. James's-street—was crowded by thousands
of " expectants," but it was announced that the alarm
had been occasioned by the chimney of an office having
taken fire, the smoke from which had so filled some of
the floors of the warehouse—bursting out above—that it
was inferred that it had there originated. All being again
in safety, the engines, water-carts, ladders, &c., returned
to the station before they reached the ground. The
young man who gave the alarm was, we learn, by no
means to blame, as his motive was good, though he did
not again return to the station. The alarm had merely
the effect of showing the efficiency of the fire-police, and
gave them a " review" exercise.
MORS LETTER OPENING.--.-NOYEL FEATURES IN
SPORTING FRAUDS.—During :he last few days disclo-
sures of the most extraordinary character have been made
in the letter-carriers' office of the General Post-office,
from the discovery by the authorities of a most extensive
collusion on the part of several letter-carriers employed
in the delivery of letters in the western district of the me-
tropolis, who, it appears, have been for some time in the
habit of opening letters directed to noblemen and gentle-
men belonging to the sporting world, with the view, as
far as we can learn, of disposing of such information for
some pecuniary consideration, or betting themselves upon
the strength of it. It is said that this practice has been.
carried on for a length of time, and that letters, both in-
ward and outward, have been thus treated, the letters
being afterwards duly delivered. Rumour states that this
scandalous plot was thus discovered :—Two letters, open,
were found on Wednesday morning last upon the seat oc-
cupied by a letter carrier named Tapson, directed to well-
known sporting characters, but with which be had no bu-
siness, as the parties did not live in his district, or walk.
Upon being closely questioned, Tapson admitted that
such letters had frequently come into his hands, and even-
tually he gave such information, that six other letter car-
riers and one sub-sorter were brought up for examination.
A most rigid inquiry into the whole circumstances of the
case is instituted daily ; and up to Saturday afternoon
there were suspended, until the decision of the Post-
master-general can be known, the letter-carrier who de-
livered the letters of Lord George Bentinck, the one who
delivered those of Mr. Tattersall, besides four others
employed to distribute those belonging to other sporting
characters.