The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

AN INNOCENT IRISHMAN.

There was a gentleman named William M`Carthy, who
appeared on the trial of M`Manus, at Clonmel, as a wit-
ness, in which capacity he established an indubitable
claim to the appellation in question. Mr. M`Carthy was
examin ed by the Solicitor-General.

" Did you see any men about the door with a pike ?
A pike ! What's that? I would not know a pike. (A
laugh.)
_ _

No doubt he would not if he could help it.
" Would you not know one if you saw it ?—I never
saw one, to know it, in my life."

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Mr. M`Carthy does not see pikes for the purpose of
knowing them, or remembering anything about them.
Probably be is subject to a fit of hard winking when he
looks at pikes.
" Would you know a carving-fork ?—Oh! indeed I
might."

It will be observed that Mr. M`Carthy speaks in the
potential mood. He might know a carving-fork—but
that would depend upon circumstances.
" Did you see anything in the hands of the people
about ?—I saw sticks with them.
" Anything else ?—I did. _ _

" What ?-:Things I heard the people say were pikes.
(A laugh.) But I did not know them at all." (A laugh.)
The plainness which is proverbially ascribed to a pike-
staff by no means appears to extend to a pike, in the
eyes of Mr. M`Carthy. His ignorance on the subject of
weapons in general is equally gross—indeed he appears to
be an infant in arms.

" Would you know the look of a gun ?—Oh ! think I
would."

This is not to be mistaken for " I should think so ; "
for mark :

" Had any of the men you saw guns in their hands ?
One had something with the appearance of a gun in his
hand."

FLAGRANT ATTEMPTS AT IMPOSITION,

On Saturday week, a man named William Geo. Flynn
was brought before the Lord Mayor of London to answer
the charge of two brothers—George and James Cargyll.
Such of our readers as are in the habit of studying the
advertisements must frequently have seen announcements
headed— " THE SEA, THE SEA ;"
_ _

" MIDSHIPMEN WANTED ;9'
" To Parents and Guardians," &c., intimating " that
vessels of the larger class, commanded by captains who
would attend to the moral and nautical education of the
parties intrusted to their care, were in want of appren-
tices." The manner in which this system is worked,
after the dupes have swallowed the bait, was thus ex-
plained to the Lord Mayor :
" Mr. Pelham, who appeared gratuitously for the protection
of the boys, stated, that for some time the newspapers con-
tained advertisements under the above heads, and that nume-
rous impositions had been practised by persons who pretended
to be authorized to engage apprentices to be bound under the
Merchant Seamen's Act. Inquiries were to be made of certain
parties, who, it was found, employed a number of crimps to
board vessels in the docks and river, and ascertain whether any
and what ships required apprentices, in accordance with the
number required by the 37th clause of the 7th and Bth Victoria,
chap. 112. which regulated the number according to the ton-
nage. The next thing to be ascertc.ined was the amount of
premium. That appeared to be from .t'2 to £2O, and when the
premium was obtained from the friends of the poor lads who
applied, the outfit was demanded, and, after that demand was
answered, the business was so manoeuvred that the applicants
were left without ship and without redress of any kind." _ _

The present appeared to be an ordinary instance of the
manner in which this system is carried out. The two
boys had been abandoned on the town to rob or to starve
after having satisfied the requisitions of the advertiser.
They were the sons of a poor widow at Leeds, who had
seen the advertisement in the Leeds paper, in which great
inducements were held out to apprentices, and reference
was given to Flynn, The sum of six guineas was paid to
this person to procure the proposed situations, necessa-
ries were supplied to the boys, and they were sent up to
London. Here they remained e length of time. Nothing
was done for them, and finally they were thrown upon
the town in a state of extreme destitution, as we have just
mentioned. Flynn, when called upon for his defence,
stated that he had obtained situations for the lads, but
they were unable to profit by them on account of the
want of outfits. He hoped the Lord Mayor would take
his ignorance of the law into consideration, and not pro-
ceed to extremities with him. The Lord Mayor com-
mentedin terms of deserved severity upon Flynn's conduct,
but, with the consent of Mr. Pelham, an offer from him
of complete restitution was accepted, and he was dismis-
sed from the Court with an intimation that for the future
he would remain under the surveillance of the police.
So much for " The Sea, the Sea !"
The next case is, if possible, still worse. On Tuesday
Lieutenant Lean, R.N., the London agent of Govern-
ment Emigration, appeared at the Justice-room at the
Mansion-house. on the part of the authorities of the
Colonial Land and Emigration Office, to represent the
following facts. A person, whose name was not men-
tioned, had attempted to entrap three poor men who
wished to emigrate to Australia into the payment of a
sum of money, on the pretence that the company he
represented—but which it is believed has no existence—
were Government emigration agents. The points to
which we chiefly wish to draw the attention of the public,
and more especially of the poorer emigrating public, will
best appear from the following short statement of Lieut.
Lean, and from the order made by the Commissioners
when the subject was bronght under their notice. Lieut.
Lean stated : _ _

"The pretence that the self-constituted emigration agent set
up was the more deeply mischievous, as he required payment
under the plea of procuring for his victims that which, if ap-
plied for at the Government Colonial and Emigration office, in
Park-street, Westminster, would have been given without any
charge at all. The three poor men who accompanied him to
the Mansion-house had, upon the representations of the person
complained of, sold off all their goods and prepared themselves
to emigrate to Australia. They had, however, fortunately
called upon him and mentioned the extent of the transaction
which had taken place, and he could arrive at no other conclu-
sion than that a most nefarious fraud was meditated against
them."

These poor men had sold off their furniture and what
little property they possessed in order to Garry out their
laudable scheme of emigration. One of them was to have
paid the sum of £5 ; another the sum of £slps. ; and the
third the sum of £ll, and he was placed under a strict
injunction of secrecy to the self-constituted agent, in
order that he might not be charged XI more. When the
matter was brought under the notice of the Emigration
Commissioners they made the following order, to which
we hope to give additional publicity by our present notice :
" As it is stated that no money has yet been rcc2ived by -,
the Commissioners are of opinion that it would not be possible
to take any legal proceedings against them. Nevertheless, as
the practice which they have adopted might lead to fraud, and
might expose poor emigrants to imposition, the Commissioners
think it would be advisable that the utmost publicity should be
given to the fact that there is no agent in London authorised to
distribute forms or receive money, or act in any other way on
behalf of the Commissioners, but that all information, and the
necessary forms, may be forwarded gratis on application at this
office, and that nothing will be gained by proceeding in any
other way, either in increasing the emigrant's chance of ac-
ceptance or otherwise."

Oct. 24, 1848,

ii: omtstir.

DEATH FROM GRIEF. -A groom, named Bewsher,
was last week killed at Westminster, by a kick from a
horse. His wife suffered so much from grief at his death,
that she expired herself in two days afterwards.

RARE INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY IN A BIRD.—A gen-
tleman residing at Twyning, near Tewkesbury, kept a
jay, which had been presented to him upwards of twenty-
two years ago, until the 27th ult., when it died literally
of old age. This bird, which would talk as well or better
than most parrots, sometimes exhibited strong symptoms
of sulkiness when its master went from home, and would
welcome his return with evident pleasure.
A LABOUR TEST.-Mr. Sheriff Alison having ordered
interim relief to an able-bodied unemployed labourer,
eight parties subsequently came forward to the parochial
board and applied for similar assistance. The board in-
stituted a labour test by offering the applicants employ-
ment as scavengers and lamp-lighters, which vocations
were declined by four of these needy men, who of course
were refused all other modes of relief.

FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE WESLEYAN MIS-
SIONARY SOCIETY.—The treasurers of this society have
just published a most "urgent and important" appeal for
immediate assistance, stating that they are under accept-
ences to the amount of about ten thousand pounds,
large portion of which becomes due within ihe next ten
days, whilst the funds at their disposal are entirely ex-
hausted ; so that they have not the means of meeting
their immediate responsibilities ; and, further, that they
anticipate that their entire payments, from the present
date, to the 31st of December, will amount to thirty
thousand pounds.
RELIEF TO THE HOMEWARD-BOUND.—OUT merchants
and shipowners will be gratified to find that the Lords of
the Admiralty have given orders for her Majesty's steam-
sloop Driver, Commander Johnson, to proceed from
Portsmouth immediately to the chops of the Channel with
water and provisions for the relief of the homeward-bound
merchant ships prevented from making their respective
ports by the prevalence of north easterly winds, and that
the steamer left Portsmouth on Friday afternoon at three
o'clock. Their lordships have also ordered an available
steam vessel—the Trident, Lieut. Commander Risk—to
be dispatched from Cork to the entrance of the Channel
for a similar humane purpose.
DECREASE OF DISSENT.—At the autumnal meeting of
the Congregational Union held this Reek at Leicester, a
prominent topic with the different speakers was the
" decrease" complained of in " nearly all the denomina-
tions." It was stated that "the present custom of
taking children to the ordinary Sabbath services has the
effect of disgusting them with religion." Various ob-
servations were made on the inefficiency of Sunday
schools, from which, it was observed, there were rarely
any " additions to the Churches." Strictures fell, like-
wise, from some of the speakers, on the competition be-
tween ministers and Sunday school teachers. Among the
remedies suggested were `• children's chapels," with regu-
lar services exclusively for the young.
PAPAL BULLS AND INDULGENCES.—The vicar apos-
tolic of the district, or, as the Tablet calls it, the
"diocese" of York, has given notice that upon his petition
the Pope has granted to the district of York a plena/
indulgence (applicable to the souls in purgatory) on the
following festivals, viz.: the 10th of October, the festival
of St. Paulinus, first Archbishop of York ; on the 12th of
October, the festival of St. Wilfred, Bishop of York ; on
the 15th of October, the festival of St. John of Beverly.
Archbishop of York : on the 2nd of March, the festival of
St. Chad, Bishop of York ; and, on the Bth of June, the
festival of St. William, Archbishop of York. The condi-
tion for gaining these indulgences, besides the usual one
of previous confession and communion, is, that the faith-
ful during any time of each of these indulgences, should
visit some church, or public chapel, in Yorkshire, between
the first vespers and sunset, and offer up prayers for the
peace and welfare of God's Church.

The Watchman publishes a correspondence between
Mr. Kay Shuttleworth and the Wesleyan Committee of
Education, which forms a singular contrast with that re-
cently published by the National Society. A number of
demands, in the form of " Inquiries" were addressed to
the Secretary of the Council Board by the Wesleyan
Committee, to all of which the most gracious answers are
returned, accommodating the rules of Council to the re-
quirements of the Wesleyan body, or, where that is ma-
nifestly impossible, considerately " contemplating that
occasional exceptions may be justified." The only point
on which the LordiPresident and the Secretary have had
the heart to reply by a refusal, was the cool proposal that
the Committee of Council should make grants for the
liquidation of the existing debts of Wesleyan schools.
The Watchman congratulates the " Connexion" on their
success in " securing by every provision human wisdom
could suggest, the full integrity of Wesleyan doctrine and
discipline in schools which might accept assistance from
the Parliamentary grant.
FROLICS OF FASHION.—When the Queen was on the
Clyde last year, finding her face visited too roughly by
the air of the Scottish hills, she tied her veil under her
chin. The action was natural, and the effect, no doubt,
under the circumstances, becoming. The royal cheeks,
warm with health, flushed with womanly and queen'y
feeling, and fanned by the welcoming breezes of the
north, looked almost as beautiful, we dare say, as a moss
rose. However that may be, before the day was out,
there were hundreds of other cheeks in the same predica-
ment. The rage of imitation spread. In the shadiest
walks—in the closest streets of the town—in the cal.-welt
and hottest days of the season—the veil was fashionably
tied under the chin. The fashion, however, was, in
reality, made a fashion only through misapprehension, for
the Queen had merely adopted a temporary expedient to
serve a temporary end ; and when the emergency was
over, she no doubt unloosed the knot, and gave her veil to
the winds as usual. Her imitators were as unregardful of
circumstances as the very sagacious monkey which gulped
a package of medicine because he saw his master swalloy,
a quantity of the same material previously.—Scotch
Paper.

NARROW ESCAPE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Accord-
ing to the Scotsman of Wednesday, Lord John Russell
had an exceedingly narrow escape at the Perth railway
station on the 6th instant. The up trains, or those going
south, travel upon the line furthest from the station-
house, and as his lordship had arrived just at the time ad-
vertised, he lifted his youngest child, and proceeded in 5
thoughtful mood to cross to the side for the up train pas'
approach.
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the lines when the engine was not above its own length
from him, moving at a quicker rate than usual when at a
station, in consequence of the extreme wetness of the day,
which prevented the breaks from catching. Mr. Cuck.'
son, the superintendent, with admirable self-possession,
instantly darted from the platform, and, seizing his lord'
ship, drew him back, just as the ponderous engine passed,
and thus prevented an accident which, in all probability,
would have been fatal.

SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.—The
following precious moreeau will give some idea of the
advancement of erudition among the commonalty of
Wales. It is an infallible cure for the toothache. To be
written on paper, thrice sealed, and worn next the heart.
Here is the text as used in the parish of Hope ; but I on
told there is a different reading in the parish of Mold
" As Jesus walked thrawgh the gist of Jerusalem he saw
peter weeping and said into him why weepest thou peter
said because i have got the toothache then Jesus tucked
his tooth, and said have feath and thy tooth shall ake na
more glory be to the father And to the Sun and to the
holy gost amen W***m P***l." The name is that of the
patient, which it appears necessary to write in this form,
and also according to the use of Mold. The charm, which
I send you, was written in 1843, and had been worn ever
since, up to last week, when it accidentally came into of
hands, on its transit from the original patient to another,
a friend of his, grievously afflicted with the said malady,
and who (being a woman) opened it, and showed it me'
With respect to the learned author, I should add that be
is well known to me, and is a man of great skill in the
Scriptures, and can tell you what are the reforms wanted
in the State, and what the Church regimen ought to be.'
Correspondent of the Chester Courant.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—On Sunday night "Wig
a man named Dunn, who is a native of Ormskirk, and al
shoemaker, and has resided in Newcastle-on-Tyne for
about eighteen months, made a desperate attempt to mom'
der a young woman in the latter town. She had made 91
appointment with Dunn on the Sunday evening, but did
not meet him according to promise, having been walk-
ing with another n
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man,
On reaching the second landing of the stairs she was
aboutw
suddenly accosted by Dunn, who said, " Ann, I wans
to speak to you." She then attempted to avoid hirer.
but he seized her, at the same time drawing a razor out 01
o'clock,wi with wahnodm
pashrteedretfuro returned dm
home
his pocket, when, catching a glance of it by the light of
the moon through the casement of the window, she in'
stantly grasped it with her right hand, while he was raish3%
it up, by which it severely cut her thumb. She then
shouted, Mother, mother," but Dunn replied, '` It i°
of no use, your mother is not in ;" upon which, by
(1;
desperate effort, she released hersef from his grasp,
ran down stairs, Dunn pursuing her. She bad not, 110°,1
ever, got further than the first landing, when he whet;
her down on her face, and kneeling on her body, raise;
her bead by holding her chin, and made a desperate ges_i
across the right side of her neck, after which he juinen
up, dropped the razor, and made his escape. The age 0'
the female is seventeen years, that of Dunn twenty-o°'
Dunn has since been captured.
SEDUCTION AND CRIME.—A young female, not nil
than 16 years of age, named Stevenson, was charged
the Southwark office on Wednesday with shoplifting, 6,0
having committed two offences at different shops,
Southwark and the Westminster-road ; in one instals'
she succeeded in getting clear off with 16 yards of
which was afterwards found at a pawnbroker's, who ide2;
fled the prisoner as the party who had pledged it. TT,
most painful part of the case was in the disclosures 00110
by a professional gentleman who appeared on the prisorle,rif
behalf. He said the accused was the daughter of higi',lo
respectable parents in the country, and a short time si6,o
she had been seduced by a gentleman and absconded frqtb
her friends. That she had been living at Brighton vild
her seducer up to a few months ago, when, in coming .th
to town by the train she had the misfortune to meet
one of those wretches of women, who prevailed on
to accompany her to her house, which was one of an lirl
famous description. Here it was that the unfortunate ta
was made a victim, and the woman instilled into 0-0
mind, amongst other vicious lessons, that of becomingas
shoplifter, and had actually taken her to the warehqiof
and instructed her in the way she was to possess herself to
property. When, however, the accused was taken like
custody her vile companions escaped.—A very ladY.:ter,
woman, who described herself to be the prisoner's sl-rcho
came forward, and verified the facts just detailed. kin'
Magistrate said it was very evident the prisoner had
the victim not only of seduction, but of the arts of ‘t', t to
famous woman. He had no alternative, however,
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commit her, hinting that the statement which ha-00
been made to him might be mentioned to the Judge 3
trial. '

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