The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

CRUELTY OF OUR PHILANTHROPY.

The awful sacrifice of human life which attends our
insane efforts to put down the slave trade, by means of
our blockading squadron, whilst we encourage the slaver
by giving him almost the monopoly of our markets for
his slave-raised produce, seems not at all to affect the
British philanthropist and free-trader. It is nothing to
them that vessel after vessel comes back from the pesti-
ferous shores of Africa, leaving behind them half the fine
fellows who trod their decks victims of fever and ague,
whilst the survivors only reach us with constitutions
shattered, and half the promise of a life cut off. We
must not abandon this cruel and absurd experiment, for
we are, par excellence, the friends of the negro—the
champions of freedom throughout the world !
The statistics of the cost at which we purchase these
sounding titles may perhaps startle some of our reat.a.k.s.
The following is the average mortality of 21 years on the
different naval stations of the English service, calculated
per 1,000 of the mean force employed :

. .
South America .
Mediterranean 9.3
Home
East India . .
West Indies..
Coast of Africa .
nimonstex of
Station, p. 178.) _ .

. . ,
Nearly six per cent. of our crews employed in this pes-
tilential service are thus yearly cut off, and the seeds of
premature death implanted in thousands of once vigorous
constitutions ; and vet the slave trade is increasing in
spite of all our efforts !

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE BY THE OFFICERS
OF THE GARRISON.

Undoubtedly the most attractive of the efforts made in
our town, in behalf of the poor sufferers from the burning
of the Ocean Monarch, was the amateur performance,
given on Wednesday evening at :he Royal Amphitheatre,
by the officers of the regiments now stationed in camp at
Everton. _ _ _ _ _ _

The first piece was the comedy of " Charles the Second,
or the Merry Monarch," the parts being supported as
follows l— Charles the Second, Capt. Campbell ; Earl of
Rochester, Capt. Garrett; Captain Copp, Mr. Liddell,
81st Regt. ; Edward, (a page,) by Mr. Wolridge, 46th
Regt. ; the female characters by members of Mr. Cope-
land's establishment. The piece was excellently put on
the stage, the dresses perfect, and the whole was gone
through most artistically. In particular, the Capt. Copp
of Mr. Liddell was an excellently-sustained character.
That gentleman might, indeed, have been an old stager.
Mr. Wolridge's page was also a good character, as was
Capt. Campbell's merry monarch," and Capt. Garrett's
Rochester. We would recommend to not a few of our
regular theatrical people to study the mien of these two
gentlemen, when playing monarchs and their favourites.
There is something, after all, in " walking the stage."
A monarch ought to walk, as well as dress, like a gentle-
man. _ _ _

The ballet of " Myrna" was very ably produced, and
followed by the farce of " The Unfinished Gentleman,"
Lord Totterly being supported by Mr. Nicholls, 46th
Regt. ' • The Hon. Mr. Frisk Flammer, by Capt. Camp-
bell ; Mr. Danvers, by Capt. Wombwell ; Bill Downey,
by Capt. Fyffe; Jem Miller, by Mr. Piper, 46th Regt. ;
Nibble, by Mr. Crookshank, D.A.C. ; and Robert, by
Mr. Steele, 46th Regt. We cannot say that we ever saw
the play much better performed. Bill Downey and Jon
Miller were especially well played.
The house was a crowded one; and we learn that a
considerable gain will accrue to the fund for the relief of
the poor sufferers, the receipts having been about £140..
which, deducting the charge for the house, expenses, &c.,
will leave a little over £lOO for the Fund.

Mr. Rushton has declined to take bail in Mr. Chubb's
case.

SINGULAR DEATR.—On Thursday last, a boy eight
years of age, named Michael Lanagham, who resided in
Bispham-street, was sent by his parents to purchase some
tea and sugar at a grocer's shop. In about an hour after
his return, he complained of being very ill, and said that
he had taken a piece of white stuff off the counter, which
he said was sugar, and which he ate. He, soon after
stating this, began to vomit, and a dose of castor oil was
given to him. On the following day his body became
swollen, and a doctor from the dispensary was called in,
and prescribed for him. He, however, kept getting
cumplcsicied much of a burultig
sensation in the throat and stomach. Shortly afterwards
he became unable to speak, and languished until Sunday,
when he died. The inquest will be held to-day. The
substance which he said he had eaten has not yet been
ascertained.

LIVERPOOL Loch-UP HOUSES.—Recommendations by
Mr. F. Hill, in the Thirteenth Report on Prisons, just
issued :—" I made the following recommendations, appli-
cable to all the lock-up houses in Liverpool : —l. A
uniform dietary to be adopted of a pound and a half of
bread per day to each prisoner, to be given in three meals
of half a pound each ; and no prisoner to be required to
pay for his food. 2. No keeper or other officer of a lock-
up house to be allowed to have any interest in the supply
of food, or in furnishing beds to prisoners, or in any
other way whatever to receive payments from prisoners.
3. Rugs or blankets to be supplied for prisoners during
the night, except to such as are in a state of filth or
drunkenress. 4. Where there are no water-closets,
night-stools to be provided, on a simple plan adopted in
many other lock-up houses, and explained by me to the
keepers of the lock-up houses. 5. Provision to be made
for the prisoners to wash themselves, and no prisoner to
be allowed any food until he has washed himself."
CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.—The celebrated eques-
trian troop of Mons. Dejean will, we understand, com-
mence another season in this town early in the month of
October, and we have no doubt but our townspeople and
the gentry of the neighbourhood will again throng to see
the performances of this highly respectable and-unequalled
company, which has done so much in England to raise
the character of equestrian performances. We believe we
shall again have the precedence, as last year, to the Me-
tropolitan season. It will be remembered after leaving
this town they commenced a most brilliant career at the
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where the performances were
honoured by the Royal Family and nobility of the Metro-
polis, who attended in great numbers the day and night
performances. We understand that little Maria Annate
has astonished the Parisian public by the rapid advances
she has made in her profession, and by her grace and ease
upon the saddle of the horse has merited the title of a
little Cerito a cheval. • _ _ _

WHITSTABLE OYSTERS.-Mr. :Duffy, of Hanover-
street. advertises a daily supply of native London oysters,
the excellence of which, owing to the rapidity of transit,
is quite equal to those Tended m the metropolis itself,

dept. 19,1_

LOUTS PHILIPPE'S NOTES OF HIS Lils

One of the most interesting papers found in the 11;r01401
feuille of the ex-King of the French, on his escape
the Tuileries, is a sort of chronological statement, ,e''A
titled "Notes annales," briefly setting forth the prinel
events of his life, which has assuredly been "strange _8:0
eventful." The dates are punctually affixed. It app
he was born in Paris on the 6th of Oct., 1778. He of
made Colonel in 1785, and first fought at the battles
of
Boussu and Quarignon in 1792. Same year (the 6710,0
the Republic) he was made Lieutenant-General, and be
at the battles of Valney and Jernmappes. That Y. t
endeavoured in vain to persuade his father to rek`;
America. He and his sister 'afterwards took refug,_,,t
Bremgarten (1793), and his father, who journeyed ond74,
in Switzerland, almost without money, was refuse.fietl
mittance by the monks of St. Gothard. After a v—rtoto
of adventures in other states, he returned to Breal fet
in January, 1794. In 1795, being unable to ember sod
America, ho successively visited Sweden, Nor waY! the
Lapland. In 1797, he and his two brothers met 112,,ei
United States, and together visited the interior. IP'atit
went to New Orleans in 1798. Waiting to go to ',Poo
to join their mother, they arrived at the Havana e
the a
re for
13th of March. and were compelled to remain
more than a year. A 00
In 1800 the three brothers went to London,
.311;otberi
after went up the Mediterranean in search of their and
but could not join her. They returned to England, ions
took a house at Twickenham, whence they made elein.,l tho
into the interior of England and Scotland. In 1SO! io
Duke de Montpensier died. The ex-king again Ilstrovi
the shores of the Mediterranean, and was repulsed 103,
Gibraltar, and was conveyed back to the shores of
and
leans,
He was allowed (1808) to rejoin his mother, an" ,05,
embarking at Portsmouth. was joined by Mdlle. dol;eito
whom he had not seen since 1794. They arrived at' of
early in 1809. In February, same year, after 16 IT.
separation, the mother, the son, and sister Ine"„,ber
arrived together at Palermo. On the 25th of Nole—ears.
the Duke espOused Marie Amelie of Sicily, aged 27 Y,06
In 1814, on the first news of the restoration, the "the
embarked for France, and appeared at the Tuileries To
uniform of a French Lieutenant-General. In 2r op'
1815 he was sent to Lyons to concert measures ',;";
posing the advance of Napol3on. Same yeaL.„""ea
France to join his family in England. He revu'":4-
France with his family in 1817. The following nsin.„—tol."
the document ; the ex-king being then 57 years of
Neuilly _ _ _ •

1830, July .. ..
1830, Aug. .. ..

. . REVOLUTION OF Rae,. ult.,
.. The Duke of Orleans, 0700,
General of the jUng
is proclaimed King on
ith of August.

The Pope has put his veto on the Diplomatic Relation
Bill. FLO'
On Saturday, the Marquis and Marchioness o•„raer
downe arrived in Kingstown in the Admiralty es. ,
'
Banshee, and proceeded to the Viceregal-lodge. „00,
At the Middlesex sessions, on Saturday, a n3on. 001
John Spice was sentenced to three months' impileeine
with hard labour, for being in possession of '8
hackney-carriage number plate."
ROYAL VISIT TO DukeCHATSWORTH.The of
vni
shire is dispensing his princely hospitality to their P-01,1
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge'
a distinguished circle of the aristocracy. ,0010
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—A few weeks since, 8 wee'
named Parker, wife of a labourer at Yateley, left her ti'
and her body was found in a ditch in Sandhurst on fb6
day, so decomposed as not to be identified except DJ
clothes. ol
,bef
SUMMARY OF DONCASTER RACES. Total nii‘mrit,
Stakes 25 ; won by favourites 8 ; won by non•faceriol'
10 ; forfeits 7. Horses entered 410 ; horses startooo;
Total amount of stakes £15,155 ; subscriptions £l4'
public money given £1,105. t of
'
The mansion called " Vernovignette " the _dees
E. A. J. Harris, M. P., at Christchurch, Hants.,`";4 o'
stroyed by fire, on Saturday. The most valuable the
the furniture was saved. The property is insure'
Phoenix.
Ple
THE SINGLETON SCHOONER.—Considerahle mai
hension still prevails in this town respecting the_4hing
this fine little craft. Up to our going to presein,
which can be relied on has been heard of her. B.'w
property of our esteemed member, J. H, ViviaT eye
and sailed from this port with copper-ore for lA/
three weeks ago.—Cambrian. des
A STRANGE CENSUS.—We read in the Journ eas-
A
Debats,—"The Government, in order to obtain Iraeee,
account of the respective strength of each party in gene'
has ordered to be drawn up, in every department/ 1%000
ral list of all the citizens who have been Darned taof each'
of the municipal councils, indicating the opinie,eoscy uvpzli
This demand, which is imposed with great
the prefects, lays down the four following eatebgllcane, 50
Legitimatists, Conservatives, ardent Wen-
moderate Republicans." bich
e WAS 714.,ict3
LATEST FROM IRELAND.—The official a-c° disk- -
retched Dublin on Sunday from the southe had
state that the large bodies of the peasantry whichhbouriag
been assembled along the Suir and in the neig into
hills in the early part of the week had broken 111,,,.e5a
were traversing the country without any PP
Idabe aurnderstoo
small bands of between thirty and fifty, and thetinttiLy'deci
vised object as far as their movements cou
of a rent
of the day, and there was hourly expectation
outbreak Wog
by the authorities. Alarm, however, was
of hostilities—the points of anticipated ode:
Carrick, Fethard ; and Heaven knows how many_
beeide
.ARTIFICIAL TEETH.-An ingenious method 80,
still the olei
recently been discovered by Mr. Moggridget of uld
L„t for
lington-street, who some time ago obta'nel a 1,8"`"„010
an invention by which the pneumatic
principle was.o in riot
applicable for the fixing of artificial palates, t
for
artificial teeth, and for constructing and tinting th.esoe,
such a manner that a closer resemblance to nature I er,7,1
duced than has hitherto been obtained ; in fact a Iny
of
by which the graduated opacity and semi-transpareier
La
natural teeth are represented. This invention is elf tbe
eat to a vast number of persons, and will superan of
somewhat repulsive custom of making use of the tee_,,lell
dead men to supply the wants of living, a practice riot
engenders in many instances disease. It is a fee pat
there has lately been an importation of teeth Wl' ni
into London, the teeth having been extracted &lie is
te
jaws of the insurgents and their opponents slain in
insurrections in the former city. n tha
SCOTTISH AGILITY. —On Thursday after:ll°Y-Oa-I, t 13.1
Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess ile
Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred, arrived in the f tho
carriage at Braemar, and were received in front of
mansion by Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of liaTergate`;
On alighting from the carriage, the Queen was. Pr garde;
with a bouquet of wild flowers, interspersed witeAtteel)
roses, by Master Alexander Ricardo • and the "'re" eo,e,
Royal, the Prince of Wales, and Prince'
Alfred, weyasty,
presented with an elegant bouquet of flowers bYAas
James Ross Farquharson, Master Francis DO"; 51/4
quharson, Master George Murray Farquharleh--; 04'
Master ohn Athol Farquharson. These 370,,urp0 04'
clad in the highland garb, and the Royal chivr-ftie,,"o
dressed in the Stuart tartan. Her Majesty antihe of
being seated on a rustic chair, set on a cargders,ibl,
Farquharson tartan, General Sir A. Duff gave ei,r eaill 0
the games to commence; and then followed sne7,s co to
tions of athletic power and Celtic enthusiast:ll-a th,,,,e
only be appreciated by being seen. In half an '°roo4;:ai
was such foot-racing, hill-climbing, hammer-th
rid rj
and caper-tossing as only the highlands of Scetl,ehol
produce, and none but such men as those of Oita
Braemar can perform, One Herculean highlaneert C.e,o
a 161 b. hammer 90 feet 7 inches ; and five stale's.o tvca
ran up Craig Clunie for a distance of half a miletlbia to
seven to nine minutes. The foremost runner /0„0,
climbed the mountain and crags as nimbly as a d
ty, Ore,
accomplished the feat so cleverly that Her Maras
bad viewed the race through a telescope, left s''
ward for his agility.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET—YEsTtreSot to- ci
oefc,
We have had a large supply of stock at our inar';diole'll,.,
which was generally of inferior quality, and, on the6d. per
with dull sale at the following prices :—Beef, sd. t°
Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Lamb, sd. to 6d.