The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

WEST INDIA MAIL

The Thames arrived at Southampton on Wednesday.
The freight on board consists of 1,997,809 dollars, 91,597
Hof which are on account of Mexican dividends.
The weather in Jamaica was favourable, and the canes
looked well. A great many American vessels were in the
harbour of Port Royal, and there was a prospect of an ac-
tive trade with the United States under the operation of
the amended navigation laws.

Mr. Dyce Sombre has placed a new petition on the files
of the Court of Chancery, being the seventh appeal for an
inquiry into the state of his mind.

It is stated to be the intention of the• Government to
put nn end to "special pleading" in the Superior Courts
at Westminster, by bringing forward a measure in the
House of Commons to abolish the form of pleading to
actions, and thereby to diminish the present great ex-
penses in law proceedings.

Demerara, in expectation of a loan from England, was
-clev!sing the means of meeting the interest.
The railway is getting on most prosperously.
At Cuba plenty of rain had fallen throughout the island.
It was resolved that the colonial duties on wines and
spirits should be pledged to nay the interest, 4 per cent.,
and that a sinking fund, at the rate of 21 percent., should
be formed for the liquidation of the loan, amounting to
£250,000, in twenty years. _

The Stamfird Mercury mentions that in the Gains-
borough county court, on Monday week, the vicar of
Gainsborough successfully sued a person for marriage
fees. It appears that the bridegroom had borrowed the
money for the license and fees, and when the ceremony
was completed he refused to pay the latter, and spent the
cash at a neighbouring public-house.
JUDGES'SALARIES.—The Lord Chancellor has £lO,OOO
a-year, and the Master of the Rolls £B,OOO. It is propo-
sed to fix the salary of the Chief Justice of the Queen's
Bench at £B,OOO, and that of the Common Pleas at
£7,000, which salaries have been received for some time.
The Chief Baron of the Exchequer has £7,000, and all
other judges of the superior courts £3,500 each. Of
course, the income tax is deducted from all these.

The crops of sugar and other products have been large,
and the vessels in the harbour were taking in full cargoes
of the produce of the island. Sugar was selling at 2 dol-
lars penowt., and coffee at 15 dollars, with a further ad-
Nance in price-:-

Some slight intrigues and disturbances have taken
place in the interior of Mexico, which have been promptly
suppressed by the government.

The gold diggers-, prepared for the return of spring, are
returning to the diggings by hundreds, and every packet
brings from a million to a million-and-a-half of dollars.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Brougham is the author of six out of the seven-
teen bills introduced into the House of Lords this session.
It is said that Lord Cottenham has resigned the Great Smith O'Brien and his fellow-exiles have arrived at
Tasmania. They have all accepted a ticket of leave, ex- Seals, and that Lord Langdale will succeed him as Chan-
rept O'Brien, who positively declines to receive it. cellor. The Solicitor-General, Sir J. Romilly, is spoken
. The report is again in circulation that the Duke of of as Lord Langdale's successor.
Brunswick is about to be married to the Princess Louisa, Three-fourths of the parties who voted for E. Denison,
daughter of Prince Charles of Prussia, who has just at-
Esq , M.P., in the Selby district, have signed a requi-
tained her 2lst year. sition to the hon. member to resign his seat, on the
dof his supporting tree PIILEUS, MARCH 19.—We are in a state of uncertainty ground
The Archbishop of Canterbury has recommended a
here. Eleven of the vessels captured by the English have
clergyman, who hesitated about retaining his living in the
been given up. An English courier arrived at Athens
yesterday, with dispatches from London.
TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM.—IL church, after the recent decision of the privy council, to
REBUILDING OF THE
~ :
Ls hold his incumbency for six months, and if at the termi-
nation of that period he held the same opinions, to resign
stated in the Berliner Allge.meine Kirchen Zeitung that
the Jews have obtained a firman from the Porte, granting the living.
them permission to build a temple on Mount Zion. The On Saturday, Lord Seymour, the new Chief Commis-
projected edifice is to equal Solomon's temple in magni-
sioner
Toetnectorof Woods and Forests, was re-elected M.P. for
ss. His lordship, in the course of his speech to the
licence. Millions of money are said to have been col-
lected for this purpose in America alone. electors, s, denounced in severe terms the conduct of the
There is a curious ar.eodote in the National, contained Bishop of Exeter in his disputes with the Rev. Mr. Snore
in a letter from Naples of the 17th ultimo, according to and the Rev. Mr. Gorham.
which it would seem that the Pope had ordered a chaplet It is said that many hon, members who voted against
Mr. Hutt's motion would have voted in favour of it had
-to be manufactured at Rome, each bead of which should
have carved on it the head of a saint. The chaplet arrived, they not feared being advertised as co-operating with Mr.
was blessed, and given to the Queen, to the edification of Cobden ! Surely this must be a hoax : members of the
the court ; when lo ! it was discovered that the heads of British Legislature cannot be deficient in moral courage.
Bt. Peter and Paul were no other than those of Mazzini Many members had also received a distinct impression
and Garibaldi. from ministers that the debate would be adjourned, and
Jenny Lind is to receive £2OO for each of 150 concerts ; were in consequence absent.
total, £30,000. She is to sing in America. Mr. Bene-
THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.—1 n reply to an invitation
diet is to receive £33 6s. Bd. for each of the 150 concerts;
sent to him to attend a meeting for the
arrangements in support of the "Great
Exhibitionmaking of
total, 2500. These sums are insured. The rest depends
on the result of t 1851," Mr. G. F. Young declines on the ground that it is
he speculation. We will take odds that
regarded by the Morning Chronicle (the organ of Free
Jenny Lind comes back with £60.000 ; Mr. Benedict
Trade), as "in a manner the inaugural festival of free
with £10,000; and Signor Belletti with £5OOO in their
trade." He thinks, moreover, that the fact of the choicest
pockets. It is not generally known that Jenny Lind in.
productions of foreign art and manufacture being ostenta-
tends to devote the whole of her gainings in America to
tiously paraded before the inhabitants of our luxurious
thebuilding of an hospital at Stockholm.—Musical World.
metropolis, will inevitably tend to the practical result of
The packet-ship New World, which sailed from New
York on the 7th instant, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday. increasing the taste for foreign productions and to the
In the Senate, on the 6th, Mr. Cooper attacked a letter encouragement of foreign at the expense of British in-
dustry.
of Sir H. Bulwer regarding the duty on iron, and said that
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—It is proposed to erect addi-
the foreign minister failed in his duty when he attempted
tional bishoprics, as rapidly as circumstances will permit,
to make suggestions in relation to the domestic policy of in unprovideden-
that government, and characterised his remarks as obtru-
gage attentio districts ; and the first n
is Sierra Leone. Westernplace that
i willown
sive and impertinent. Several other members expressing
under the superintendence of the Right Rev.s Dr. Short,
the same opinions, Mr. Clay said he disagreed with what is to be erected into a distinct episcopal see. The island
bad been said by those who had preceded him, and corn- of the Mauritius, where there are at present many Church
plimented Sir H. Bulwer in high terms; and, after some of England clergymen, is also to be erected into an epees
discussion, it was referred to the committee on copal see. No provision has yet been made for the sees
,commerce. The cotton market continued inactive.
EDUCATION IN CANADA.—The last number of the of Nova Scotia and Montreal after the incumbency of the
present bishops. The importance of providing a bishopric
In Journal of Education for Upper Canada," published for the northern provinces of India has been pressed upon
every three months, gives a very encouraging account of f of the present state of education in that province. The the
Calcattention
utta.— o
Wee the Court
kly Chronicle Directors by the Bishop of
amount raised by local assessments has been as large in
Upper Canada, in proportion to the population, as in the
state of New York ; the same has been the case in regard
to the amounts raised by local voluntary assessments over
and above what the law has required in order to secure
the apportionment of the legislative school grant—which
is also as large in proportion to the whole population in
Upper Canada as is the annual common school fund in
the state of New York. The number of student teachers
attending the Normal School in Upper Canada is larger
in proportion to the whole number of the schools, and of
-..the whole population, than in the state of New York.
The salaries offered to and obtained by good teachers
from the Normal School are at least 25 per cent in ad-
arastce of what was offered two years ago.
A JEWISH MARTYR.—A case of martyrdom recently
Anc:curred in the empire of Morocco. The awful details
*re gathtred from a private letter received by Mr. Abra-
iam Sebag, a respectable Jewish merchant residing in
Castle-street, St. Mary-axe, London, whose brother hag
fallen a victim to the barbarity of the inhabitants of that
uncivilised country. J appears that Judah Sebag, a
Jewish merchant, who resided in a town called Alig, near
Ifogador, was maliciously accused of having spoken blas-
phemy against the Mahomedan faith. The cause of this
malice was the jealonsy of some Mahomedan merchants.
He was dragged before the governor, or rather the chief
magistrate of the city, whose name is Lechusman ben
Ilassam. The evidence against him having been heard,
the sentence of the judge was, that he must embrace
Mahomedanism or be burnt to death. Judah Sebag in-
dignantly refused to deny his religion, and nobly
chose the alternative—death. The governor then imme-
diately ordered a large fire to be made, into which the
man was thrown, and soon devoured by the flames. He
was only 24 years of age

enteral Alisrtllanv.

The earthenware manufacturers in the Potteries are
forming a Chamber of Commerce.

According to a letter from Paris the postage between
England and France is to be lowered to five-pence.
The trade in the woollen districts is now becoming in-
active, as it has long been in the cotton manufacture.
A vessel arrived in the Thames has brought 311 pack-
ages of horseradish, the growth of the Hanseatic towns.
There were eight fires in the metropolis on Wednesday
morning.

Fifty-four young females in Newcastle Workhouse are
selected for Australia.
The Ist?. Mr. Ramsay, of Barnton, had his life insured
in various offices to the amount of £BO,OOO.
On Saturday, Mr. Green, the aeronaut, forwarded nine
balloons to the expedition about to sail in search of Sir
John Franklin.
The sale of wheat in the markets, which regulate the
average prices, were last week 71,658 quarters, and the
six weeks' average price is 38s, Id.
At Warwick races on Wednesday, the winner of the
two-years old stakes was named " Louis Napoleon," and
the name of the jockey who rode him was " Prince."
The Bradford working men are forming money clubs,
to accumulate £5 each member, as a purse for a trip to
London during the show of industry from all nations.
At Wick, in Caithnesshire, owing to the cheapness of
provisions, no fewer than nineteen couple were proclaimed
in the parish church the other Sunday.
The Port Dundas grain mills, Glacgow, were destroyed
by fire on Monday. The loss is £15,000, and the pre-
mises were insured.
Three new steamboats, the Queen, the Luna, and the
Neptune, were launched on Monday last from the build-
ing yard of Messrs. Denny Brothers, Dumbarton.
On Thursday George Bailey, parish clerk of Spalding,
was found in the church-vestry closet suspended to a hook
by a cotton handkerchief. He had been desponding for
some time.
A gentleman in a railway carriage. last week, between
Cariisle and Preston, was robbed of £l2 by a fellow-pas-
senger, who had given him a lozenge which lulled him to
sleep.
On Friday evening, Wm. Bell, Esq., surgeon, Chelten-
ham, cut his throat with a common table knife, in the
presence of his wife. The coroner's jury returned a ver-
dict of "temporary insanity."
Mr. J. M'Gregor, a resident engineer on the North
Western railway, was killed on Saturday week, through
the horse on which he was riding falling down an embank-
ment and rolling over him.
The Stamford Mercury says that there is now growing
in a garden at Corby, near Colsterworth, a sage-tree, of
the height of six feet six inches, upon a single stem, with
a beautiful green bush of leaves on the top.
SNOW STORM.—On Friday and Saturday week the
trains of the North-Western and Midland Railways were
delayed several hours past their time, on account of the
heavy falls of snow during the night.
The total quantity of malt made in the United Kingdom
between October 1848, and October, 1849, was 4,749,879
quarters. The total quantity used in the same period was
3,719,145 quarters.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Cardigan has placed
Major Jones, of his regiment, under arrest. We shall
barn in a day or two the particulars of this fresh exercise
of authority.

IRELAND.

Messrs. W. Lane and Son, of Cork, have stopped pay-
ment, with liabilities amounting to £100,000.---Dub/in
World.

A fearful row took place at Gortnaghy, Derry, on
Tuesday, in consequence of a distraint for county cess.
Many of the distraining party, as well as the others, were
seriously injured by stones, spades, &c., and one person
was so brutally treated that he died soon after.

CRUEL DRCEPTION.—James Fullerton, a soldier of the
13th Regiment, was convicted at the Armagh assizes of
having procured a person named Barry, to act as a cler-
gyman, and of having had a false ceremony performed,
whereby he deceived a girl named Brown, into a belief
that he had married her. He obtained possession of her
little savings ; and she is now pregnant. She has resided
with her mother since her supposed marriage. When
she asked him if it were true that he did not acknowledge
her as his wife, he bade her to go to h—. The girl is a
Protestant, the soldier a Catholic. He was sentenced to
six months' imprisonment.
THE NEW POPISH PRIMATE IN IRELAND.—The kind
of influence which Father Cullen is likely to exercise over
Pius the Ninth's Irish subjects may be guessed at by an
address to the Romanist Clergy of his new diocese, in
which he stigmatises those who seek to convert the poor
benighted Irish to the reformed faith, as " the emissaries
of the enemy of mankind,"—adding that "there is a class
of criminals who never come within the jurisdiction of
prosecutor or judge, but whose crimes are the most wicked
in their commission, the most ruinous in their kind, the
most extended in their effect;., the most notorious in
their existence"—meaning, of course, the Alissionary
Clergy of the Irish Church.

g2A. sample of fine strawberries was exhibited for sale this
week in the shop of Mr. Henderson, fruiterer, Pilgrim-
street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. This is remarkably early, as
none have yet been exposed for sale at Covent Garden.
A man named Foster, at Bacup, attempted on Wednes-
day to murder a young woman with whom he had been
cohabiting, by cutting her throat. He afterwards cut his
own throat. She is expected to recover, but he is not.
On the 12th ult. Master Eyton, son of J. P. Eyton, of
Kinsale House, Flintshire, was drowned through falling
from a boat in which he was rowing with a companion on
the dam near his father's lend-works.
There were some serious disturbances at Wishaw, N. 8.,
on Tuesday, owing to the authorities distraining for poor-
rates on the colliers. The rioters smashed the windows
in the house of the inspector of the poor.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £17,273,285 to £17,279,943, being
a difference of £6,658. The paper in actual circulation
had decreased from £20,060,433, to £19,655,077, being a
difference of £405,356.

The surgeon of the Lincolnshire Lunatic Asylum lately
took a number of his patients with him to enjoy the sport
of coursing hares at Thurlby ; and so orderly and sedate
was their conduct, that the others present could hardly
perceive them to be in any wise deranged.
A bullock, which was being driven to a slaughter house
in Neath, Glamorganshire, a few days since, rushed into
the parlour of an inn, where he demolished the table, and
scared the customers ; but at length he was coaxed into
the street, and speedily afterwards slaughtered.
Among the recipients of the royal alms, last week, was
an old man who had passed his 100th year of age, and
another who had been decorated for service in the royal
navy, in which he had received a gunshot wound. He is
now disabled, and nearly worn out.

On Wednesday, the 20th inst., a young man named
John Norbury, son of the late Mr. John Norbury, of the
Witton Brewery, Northwich, feeling himself rather unwell,
went to bed ; on his wife retiring some time after, she
found him a corpse.
FIRE AND Loss OF FOUR LIVES.—A fire has occurred
at Osborne Newton, near Kingsbridge, which resulted in
the destruction of the farm-house of Mr. Moysey, and
the death of four of the inmates, who were dug from the
ruins next morning.

At a coroner's inquest, held in London, on Monday,
the jury referred to the great and increasing number of
illegitimate children, and gave it as their opinion " that it
is the duty of government to provide a suitable national
asylum for the reception of illegitimate children."
The church of Calverley, near Bradford, was lately
entered by some robbers, who broke open two large and
strong iron safes, one of them by filling the lock with
gunpowder, and blowing it to pieces; but they obtained
no booty save a su-plice.
A Derby journal states that a man named Poxon, who
had stolen some fowls, and had been overtaken by some
persons who pursued him in the neighbourhood of Castle
Donington, on the 18th inst. leaped into some deep water
at the junction of the rivers Trent and Derwent, and was
drowned.
Last wee
Court Thea
The crowd was exc

Jenny Lind gave a grand concert in the
of Dresden, for the benefit of the poor.
essive, and the excitement as usual
prodigious. A fanciful and very German way of express-
ing enthusiasm was adopted—a flight of white pigeons,
which were let loose and fluttered about the room ! We
confess ourselves unable to expound the mystical meaning
of the compliment,