The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

ENOUGH TO CAUSE A WAR.

In opposing the bill for the removal to their own coun-
try of the French, German, and other foreign scamps,
who swarm in the metropolis, and are said to have been
of late busily engaged in fomerting rebellion and outrage,
Mr. Joseph Hume is reported to have declared his opi-
nion that " the French and Germans in London had no
more chance of getting Englishmen to listen to their re-
volutionary principles than a horde of Ourang- Outangs
would have as propagandists." The comparison is cer-
tainly not very flattering, and unless properly understood
would not be unlikely to give serious offence to the French
people in particular, in the present touchy state of their
temper. We can assure them, however, that it has been
prompted by a complete misunderstanding of Mr. Hume.
Joseph has got into his wise head, along with his arith-
metic, the notion that every grimy-looking, dirty.shirted,
unshaved monster he meets with in his peregrinations
through the metropolis, disfigured by a filthy beard, an
equally filthy moustache, and long greasy hair trailing
over his coat collar, is a communist emissary—a Ledru-
Rollin, a Blanqui, or a Cabet in disguise. Nothing can
be more untrue. The hulk of these aspirants to the hir-
sute beauty of an ourang-outang, or of our own domestic
goat, are no more foreigners than we are ; but consist of
discharged policemen, pedlars, old clothesmen, journey-
men tailors and snobs of various sorts. Joseph Hume
himself would be the first to welsome an alien bill suffi-
ciently comprehensive in its provisions to remove such a
nuisance. We make this explanation to prevent any un-
pleasant feeling being excited across the channel by his
mistaken remark.

DREADFUL CONDITION OF FRENCH

INDUSTRY

The effect of unsettled institutions and political agitation
is at length telling fearfully upon both the employers and
the labouring classes in France; and the government find
out the impossibility of the task which they have under-
taken, of supporting by an unnatural stimulus, or out of
the national funds, the industry of the people. At Rouen,
it is said that the funds depended upon for this purpose are
quite exhausted, and the various charitable institutions are
about to be closed. At Cherburg 700 men employed on
public works have been dismissed for want of funds to pay
them. Throughout the country vast masses are unem-
ployed, who must be paid by the state, or be driven to
outrage, and the means of providing for them are becom-
ing daily more difficult to procure. The condition of the
manufacturers is one of actual or approaching insolvency.
At Lyons, says a private letter :
"The manufacturers are living on the produce of sales, or
rather, the sacrifice of the fabrics ; but that resource will soon
fail. They complain that they have been forced by necessity
to sell to a host of English speculators their stocks of silks and
velvets at two-fifths of their value. `The best velvets,' say they,
which ought to produce 23f. to 24f. the yard, we have parted
with for Bf. "

Such a state of things must have a speedy end. The
whole fabric, not only of French, but of continental indus-
try, is shaken to its base, and must come to the ground,
when to be built up again, who can say, and at what cost ?
Truly our neighbours are paying dearly for their various
whistics; and affording a warning which revolutionists and
agitators in this more favoured land would do well to con-
template attentively.

On Saturday gooseberries were selling in St. John's
Market at 8d per quart, and new potatoes at 8d per lb.
The Rev. Mr. Alcock, of Kilkenny, has been appointed
pastor of St. Barnabas', Douglas, in the place of the Rev.
Dr. Carpenter, now at St. Jude's, in this town.
The Caradoc, Holyhead mail steam packet, will leave
Woolwich early this week, under the charge of Lieutenant
Robertson, for Liverpool.
On the forenoon of Wednesday, a horse and cart backed
over the Albert Parade, Liverpool, and fell upon the deck
of a flat. The horse was killed.
Mr. R. B. Brough, late editor of the Liverpool Lion,
is at present engaged in writing a new and original bur-
lesque for the Amphitheatre, which we believe will be
produced by Mr. Copeland with great splendour.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday Patrick Doran, liv-
ing in School-lane, who had been complaining, was found
lying on the floor of his bedroom by his wife and died in
a few minutes afterwards.
The foundation stone of a new Unitarian chapel for the
Paradise-street congregation, to be erected in Hope-street,
will be laid this morning. The building is to be in the
Gothic style of the early decorated period.
AN UNPROMISING NAME FOR A NURSE.—The London
Times advertises that " Elizabeth Crabb wants a child to
nurse. Situation airy." We should not like to trust a
little innocent of our own to so crabbed a person.
The Birkenhead Docks Completion Bill, which em-
powers the Woods and Forests to advance £150,000 to
complete the extensive works at that place, is to go be-
fore the select committee of the House of Commons
to-day.
HORSE-STEALING CASE.—We are assured that Mr.
Stritch was :not charged before Mr. Rushton, yesterday
week, with any guilty knowledge in this case ; and that the
young man's character is a sufficient release from any
such imputation.
MRS. BUTLER'S READINGS.—On Thursday evening,
Mrs. Butler read before a very fashionable audience at
the Collegiate Institution, " Much Ado about Nothing,"
which was extremely well received. Last night she read
" Romeo and Juliet" to an equally brilliant assembly. On
Thursday night we shall have the last of the series.
On Tuesday, a flatman left his flat in the river opposite
Harrlngton Duck, and came on shore, leaving his son,
about thirteen years of age on board. On his return a
few hours after, the youth was missing, and it is supposed
he accidentally fell overboard, and, no one being near, was
drowned. _ .

On Sunday week, two sermons were preached in St.
Andrew's church, in aid of the Sunday and Day Schools
belonging to it : that in the morning by the Rev. J.
Jones, M.A., the incumbent ; and that in the evening by
the Rev. T. Nolan, M.A. The collections amounted to
£B2 7s. 9d.
Dr. Carpenter commenced his duties as minister of St.
Jude's Church, on Sunday week. On Monday week, be-
fore leaving the Isle of Man, he was presented with a
check for £420 from his congregation, as a token of their
esteem and of their appreciation of his many years faith-
ful ministry among them.
A deputation on the health of towns, consisting of Sir
Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr.
Law, the Town-clerk, Liverpool,. and Messrs. Newlands
and Driffield, of Liverpool, had an interview with Viscount
Morpeth, on Thursday, at the office of her Majesty's
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-

place.
FATAL EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Tuesday
night Mary Ann M'Kenzie, an habitual drunkard, living
in Parr-street, retired to rest in a state of intoxication ;
between three and four o'clock on the following morning
she was seized with a fit from which she never recovered,
death ensued in about half an hour after the attack. The
unfortunate woman was only 31 years of age.
SECRETARY TO THE EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM.—The
number of applicants for this situation exceeded 80. The
committee sat on Monday and Thursday. and reduced the
list to eight ; from these eight one was selected on Satur-
day, and the appointment fell on Mr. Younghusband, for-
merly in the service of Messrs. Moon Brothers, and Co.,
and of the late firm of Messrs. [Barton, Irlam, and Hig-

ginson.
M. GulzoT.—lt has been rumoured that M. Guizot
intended to resume his old occupation of lecturer, and in
consequence Mr. Hogg, the very active secretary of our
Mechanics' Institution, at once wrote to the ex-minister,.
suggesting (if the rumour were true) a visit to Liverpool.
M. Guizot returned an immediate answer, informing Mr..
Hogg that it was not his intention to lecture in public, and
declining the invitation in very courteous terms.
FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FOREIGN MISSIONS.—
On Thursday evening, a public meeting was held in St.
George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street. The prin-
cipal speoker was the Rev. Dr. Begg. The object of the
present effort was to raise £20,000 for the purpose of re-
placing missionary premises in Calcutta, Bombay, and
Madras, from which the ministers of the Free Church
had been expelled.
THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION AND FINANCIAL
REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The negotiations between those
two most useful bodies, undertaken with a view to a coali-
tion, have thus far, we regret to say, entirely failed. The
Finance Reform Association has definitely refused to
unite with their neighbour "on the question of local tax-
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ation, although they desire to express their sincere sym-
pathy with the objects which the National Confederation
have in view." They will have " great gratification in
acting in perfect harmony with the National Confedera-
tion, in endeavouring to obtain the abolition of indirect
taxation for national purposes, and the substitution, in its

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stead, of direct taxation."
NEW CHURCH IN OXTON VILLAGE. —On Sunday
week, the new church at Oxton, erected entirely by the
pious munificence of the Rev. Joshua King, patron and
rector of Woodchurch, of which ancient parish, Oxton
forms an out-lying part, was opened. The prayers were
read by the Rev. W. Corkeroft, the incumbent of the
new church, which is called St. Saviour's, Oxton. Ap-
propriate and eloquent sermons were preached by the
Rev. T. F. Redhead, the respected incumbent of St.
Peter's, Rock Ferry Park. The church is built in a very
peculiar site, and seems admirably adapted to it. The
bell was presented by our respected townsman, Mr.
M`Murdo, timber merchant: The cost is about £1,400,
and there is accommodation for 350 persons.
SERIOUS COLLISION AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.—The
packet-ship West Point, Captain Allen, which arrived in
the Mersey on Sunday, from New York, reports having
been in contact, on the 27th ult., with the barque Cove,
of Quebec, winch was on her passage from London to
Quebec. The mate and three men of the latter vessel
lost their lives during the collision. The remainder of the
officers and crew and two passengers, (in all 14 persons,)
after abandoning their vessel in a sinking state, were
brought to this port by the West Point. The West Point
showed a light which could not have been observed by the
Cove. The jibboom, head, cutwater-head, stays, &c., of
the West Point were carried away. The Cove was a com-
plete wreck when the West Point left her, with main and
wizen masts gone by the deck, decks swept of everything,
and stern off.
TRIAL TRIP OF THE ITIBERNIA.—This fine new iron
steamer, built by Messrs. Vernon and Co., of this town,
for the new line of mail steamers between Holyhead and
Dublin, made a trial trip to the Menai-straits on Tuesday.
She ran from the Rock twelve miles out in ninety-six
minutes, and accomplished the distance to the Great
Ormshead in two hours and seven minutes. The engines
were built by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, and
are of 370-horse power. They are oscillating, 5 feet 9
inch stroke, 73-inch cylinders, and have two air-pumps
worked at an angle by the intermediate shaft. The en-
gines made twenty-two revolutions per minute with a
twenty-eight-feet wheel. They reflect great credit upon
the talented engineers who constructed them. The boat
herself is of 680 tons burthen, and is a very handsome
model. Her interior fittings are very beautiful,