The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN Ai\D COLONIAL.

INDIA AND CHINA.
(From the Times )

We have received -by extraordinary express Calcutta pa-
gers of the 14th, and .13,mbay papers arid corresgandebee
to the 13th of March inclusive. brought by the Bentinck,
which reached Suez on the 12th of April ; they were
brought to. Marseilles from • Alexandria direct by the
French steamer.
. The latest dates brought by the Bentinck, which reach-
ed Suez on the 12th instant, are from Calcutta to the 14-h.
and BofobaY to the 13th. -Ma:rch. The steamer Carnac
was despatched from Bombay on the evening of the 13th
to Ceylon,-to meet the Bentinck, on her passlge from Cal-
cutta to Suez.

The mails' Which had left 'London ton the G'h of Febru-
ary had arrived at Bombay,' huit the letters were not to be
delivered until 'the following day. The most important
Military news refers to the rtfusal of one Madras and two
'Bengal regiments to proceed to Scinde on finding that
they were not to be allowed full batta.
There is nothing of importance from Lahore and Aff•
ghanistan, but it is supposed that these two states will
shortly come to open hostilities.
The Sesostris arrived at Bombay on the 10th of March
from China, which c,,utitry she left on the 15th of Febru-
ary, having on board, amongst other passengers, Major-
General Sir James Schoedde. The town of Victoria was
quite healthy, and it was hoped that the ensuing summer
would not be so fatal as the last. Several daring attempts
at robbery had been made at Hong Kong. Sur 1-1. Pot-
tinger had evinced an earnest desire to act up to the treaty
with China. Her Majesty's 55th Regim.nt was under
orders for immediate embarkation for England. Ott.
Majesty'a ship Dido, Captain Keppel, left for Calcutta on
the 2d of February, having on board Lord Saltoun, late
Commander of the Forces, who arrived at Suez in the
Bentiock, and will proceed to England by the (Great) Li-
verpool. Little was doing in teas on account of the high
prices demanded.
The Governor-General arrived at Calcutta on the 28th
of February, and on the 29th published a most liberal
grant of batta to all the troops that were engaged in Gwa-
lior and Scinde

India in general is tranquil.
A letter from Calcutta, dated March 15, contains this
passace :--" Scinde is finally and for ever annexed to the
British possessions." _ _

Malta- letters of the 23d of April, received by this ex-
press, brings no news."

HURRICANE OFF THE MAURITIUS.

Within the last few days the subjoined intelligence has
been received at Lloyd's, announcing a most fearful storm
having occurred in the month of January last, off the
Mauritius, by which, we regret to state, several splendid
ships were totally lost. It is described to have been the
severest that lms visited that island for many years, and
lasted nearly 28 hours. Among them the Hugh Matthie,
an Indiaman, on her first voyage, having only been launch-
ed by the owners, Messrs. Sparks and Co., at Maryport,
in Devonshire, in the early portion of last year ; and the
purpose for which she put into the Mauritius was to land
about eighty emigrants and their families from Calcutta,
and afterwards to proceed on the remainder of the voyage
to England. Through the zeal and vigorous exertions of
the captain and pilot. every soul (except one man) was
saved. The unfortunate person who was lost was one of
the emigrants, who, it seems, was washed ovrrboard by
the breakers. The last letters received from the Mauri-
tius state that the ship had become a complete wreck, and
her fragments have been sold to the highest bidder. She
had a valuable cargo on board, consisting of merchandize
and East India produce, very little of which was saved.
The total loss was computed at £25,000 portions of which
sum- will fall on one or two insurance companies.
The emigrant ship Amity was also a beautifully built
ship, and it is somewhat remarkable that she likewise was
on her " first passage" when overtaken and destroyed by
►he tempest. This .hip belonged to Liverpool, which port
she sailed from for Bombay in June last, and made an ex-
traordinary quick passage From Bombay she proceeded
to the Mauritius, with emigrants for that Island, which
place she reached in safety on the 2d of January. One of
the vessels that left Liverpool at the same time that the
Amity did, was unable to hear up against the violence of
the ocean, and was eventually hurled upon the rocks. Two
other ships soon shared a similar fate, which, lamentable
to d- tail, also had a number of emigrants on hoard.
The ship Marion; Captain Ross, 350 tons burthen, also
in the emigrant trade, was wrecked within a short distance
of the spot where the Hugh Matthie went on shore. She
was from Calcutta, and had a valuable and miscellaneous
cargo ; providentially, the whole of the emigrants were
saved, though they endured the most severe sufferings,
con equent upon their destitute state. She was lost under
precisely similar circumstances to those already detailed.
The Malay brig, Captain Shaw, with a number of emi-
grants also on board, was lost at the same time on the
same coast. The whole of the passengers were saved, as
also the crew.

Another vessel, called the Bordeaux, was lost during
the storm, but all on board saved.
Letters were on Friday evening received, mentioning
;the total loss by fire of the ship Palestine, between 500
and GOO tops burthen, belonging to the port of Newcastle-
noon-Tyne, off the Cape of Good Hope, in the month of
February last. Great anxiety is felt for the safety of thecrew :
'none of them have ben seen or heard of since the occur.
rence. She left Newcastle in the early part of Septem-
ber last, and was bound for the East Indies.

The Havannah papers mention the failure of the house
of Mooyor and Co., of that place, for 700,000 dollars.
AsoTuErt DUEL--We are sorry to be compelled to
state that a duel t ok place Yesterday morning. between
General W. D: buys, the State-treasurer, and Mr. R.
Richardson, which is likely to be att-nded with fatal con-
s, quences and derrive the State of a valuable servant.
The parties met at the New Orleans Ball-room, at twelve
o'clock, and folight with sharpened toils. Mr. Bichard.
son was severely wounded in the shoulder, and General
Damp was run through the lower part, of the t-mly. We
were informed last evening 11,1 t. but faint ,the
were en.
tertained of his recovery.—New Orleans Tropic, 25th
March.

INTOLERANCE AT .Romc.—A weekly meeting of Eng_
lishmen has for some time past been held in Rome, in the
apartur nts of an Englishman of rank, for the purpase of
reading the Scriptures and prayer, at which the Dean if
Ardagh has presided, and Dr. Keil. the writer on pro-
phec) ; Dr. 'Lillis, of Cheshunt ; Mr EN:4, the South
Sea missionary ; several English clergymen, and persons
from Germany and. America, have been present On one
of these occasions, the assemb:y was turned into a mis-
sionary meeting, in behalf of the Lond,n societies, and
Lord Gaii.sbarough tof.k the chair. The ecclesiastics,
however, although they complain en loudly of the exclu-
sion of the Jesuits by thelaueen of. Tahiti, have put a stop
to the meetings. The landlord of the house in which the
meetings were hell was sent for, and a proas verbal was
drawn up (which he was compelled to sign.) enj.tining him
nut again to let hisloose to " Methodists," and not any
more to bold a public kitchen in his house. The poor man
d.d not so much care about the first part of the old r;
but applied to the government to relax the orderahout his
kitchen. This they r t once did ; saying, their object hal
only been to :,top the meetitigs. and, f that object were
effecied. he need tint he afraid to furnish dinners. Of
course, this policy succeed, d, and the meetings era ed.—
Letter in the Globe.

IRELAND.

THE DUBLIN TRIALS.

On Monday last the Solicitor Genet al restimpti his
address on the part of the crown. The learned gen.
tleman commenced hi. arguments by replOnz to the
fourth grouno of objection specified in Ali. O'Connell's
noti, e of tooth n. v z., that no evidence had been
tticen of any mate,iii or evident fact Invitie taken
place within the venue' laid in the imictruent. lie then
woreedtd at great length to reply to the statemt ws put
forth about what was teemed the "fraudulent" suppres-
sion of mums fr m the jury list, and went through the
objections of the traverse's seriatim, and argued that
th;•re gas not the slightest reason fur granting a new trial
on the grounds relied on,

On tues•lav the Sol.eitnr• Gen-ral concluded his ad-
dress at one o'clock, when coton..tl for the teat erset s oin-
mowed t►►eir a(!dres,es, and ocruped the time of the
court nr►til Friday at noon, when lin. Attorney-General
rose to repl , and continued his spee4 h unt►l the adjourn-
ment of the curt.

On Saturday the full court sat, pursuant to adjourn.
meat, a, two o'clock, when

The ATTORNEY GENERAL continued his arguments,
replying to the übi-rtioni raised r,spteting ttie judge's
charge,, and the evoience of tr,.e net, st :titers. At neatly a
quart errpast five o'cl ick the Attorney-General concluded
in these wrrds :—" 1 'can say, with a meat magic' rate o;t
au occasion and under circumstances not unlike this, Ego
hue animo scraper tri invidiam virote pirtam ploriam
non invidiam putarenl " The Aiturriey•General testnt-d
seat amitlst dentinstrations of applause.
Mr. Ni BITESIDE adverted to the tact of there hay ng
been at feast taefve near cases cited by the Attortiey-Ge-
n,ral in the con. s, of his arguments. and the ti avt.rsers'
ciiousel; '.he said, tad a iiitht to eitument upi n thetn•
Mr. MONAHAN s.itl when the traversers' cons 1 waived
h it right to be heard by two counsel each, it "8 "Pn"
the twd. rAanding tbit the Solicitor-Genetal should men-
'ion all the cases on widen the Crown n east to rely. so
that the traveis,rs' counsel would comment ut on them ;
ituf Mr: Justice Burton said, that it at y case uo men-
tioned by the Sol,e,trr•Gent-ral svas att-ivt,rds relied on,
that the traverscrs' counse. would .be entitled to comment
it them,.

Alter rnme discussion nn this point.
Jnilr.PuaToN ,a,(l, that if. on h oking more fully in'o
th easeS c‘ted by the cr wn, the jtioges were if opinion
that it was essential f. r t..e traverAtro to have a reply;
..her wuuki he .11• wed it.
The court adj-urned at a quarter-post firs.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT DUBLIN.—On Twww s.(7av, Lieut.
.;cett, o° e sin Fu .r. nc his Lode
'brine e tit the •ce•wix Pa.k. alai rereive.il so s,‘eie
t cvcu, 11 a I. al:. Ice vva, token home to Ship-
Arret U =I racks in e and died during
lIP g ,t.

THE, RF,PEA 1. A S^OCIATION —At the weekly Mt, tins;
.e this b..dv on 7tl..nliilV 1%1'4, O'C. nne4 &poke at
e t ten4til nutl m d f. clue allusion t r the prohai.ay
.r his beau rpi-e-11, io• p: • wit (I. moved that. tie
ttc-
s'ciatiott. to os 5.,._. acj.u.rn 1.. retoste bn ad-
to is e prat 1 • 1...1-rd eet tie the cotidue• t ey
'Oa to t the trim Th.t oti t.f ft e -tale t. als.
rue t w 1,/itit,l r.t the rum 1,.t.t.t. 41:190.
Flo r EESSING ACCIDENT. —A VV., ep-
Hertity I)lTUrli on Fr.tay. by .I:eh
Alexander Chartil.,., I.llr. henry Nelson, and Mr.

Alen B-11. have nee,' conogne.l to ,en early grace. .I*. ey
had, that day, gone on the iake, oil a pleasure exents;on ;
and w:tett rounding Ram's-island. the yacht in which they
were rapstz-d, in a sudden and violent sqoall, ant stink.
when tne twee vcung men nerigued. Several persons on
the shore witnessed the neo,irr:nc,, hut tin ass's anc.
could he afforded. All the bodies h ~e been recovered.—
Belfast Whig.
SUPERSTITION.—The f tllnwingreccurrence, which rook
play last week at a e called Candhbrack, in the parish
of Inoisca ra, deserves to he made pubic, not only as
awful in itself, but as showing the degraded state of su-
perst it on i n h 'he people are kept. A young woman.
daughter of a farmer living at that place, had been disap-
pointed in a matrimonial arranzement, in consequette- 0.
her patents not giving the amount of money required on
the man's part ; and he ua, in consequence married to
another. The former wem n, who lived as servant s mie
miles from her father's, proceeded in the mid:ile of the
night to the house of her parents, with a lighted candle in
a lantern, set fiie to the thatch while the inmates—her
parents and brothers and sisters—were asleep, and then
drowned herself in the river Toonali which flims by that
place.—The. family escaped with great difficulty, but the
house and furnitui e, and a quantity of potatoes, were
consented to ashes. Tile body of the unfortunate woman
was toandliteless in the river, part of ber dress found tied
to the lantern which she had lett on the bank; apparently
for the impose of twilling the place. The awful super.
stition: connected with the occurrence is this :—When
found in the river, a Rontish scapular was upon her body.
which it appears was pat t of a regular set of that kind of
trurnpet-y, worn by persons in Romish orders, which the
-pour infatuated creature had purchased the day before
from the venders of such thanes in Cork, evidently with a
view of scieetenz her soul Irian the'guilt of the f-nl and
awful crime she had then in contemplation. Had this
wretched 'superstition rested with the unfortuttaie woman
herself, it might have lost much of its weight, as a sauple
of the spiritual degradation of the peasantry ; hut the If
lowing facts give it general appltc ttion :—The parents and
friends of the woman not only carefully kept the scapular
found with her in the river, upon her dead body, at the
wake. but had the other Popish rags above alluded to
brought and put upon her, and had her buried with them ;
and a report was circulated through the neighbourhood,
that though the scapular had tio' kept her front drowning,
yet it had showed its wonderful power in keeping her body
perfectly dry in the water.—Cork Constitution.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, TUESDAY, April 30.

PICKFORD V. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an action in which the plaintiff, the well-
known carrier, sought to recover compensation from the
defendants for the breach of an alleged contract to f ,r-
-ward certain goods of a pr tishable character from Liver-
pool to London on the night of their delivery at the
Liverpool goods station. At the trial it appeared that the
goods in question were taken to the Wapping station at
ten minutes past six in tie eveniog, when the carman was
told by the warehouseman that he was in plenty of time.
The goods, however, did not go forwa,d on that evening,
and the owners havin, enfr cid their losses from the
plaintiff, he in turn brought this action against the railway
company. On cross-examination of plaintiff's witnesses
it was shown that there was a large bcrird on the nremi•
sea in Wapping, the purport of which was that "goods
received after 4 o'clock p. m. would go forward to next
working day," there being but one goods train from
Liverpool to Loudon on each of the week days.
The jury having f-und for the deferid6nt under the direc-
tion of the learned judge, Lord Abjurer, on the ground
that there was no evidence of a special contract to for-
ward these good• on the sante evening, a rule nisi uas af-
terwards &A oiled tor a new trial, on the ground of mis-
direction, sod that there was no evidence to warrant the
verdict of the jw y.
Mr. Erie and Mr. Crompton now showed cause. The
action was On a supposed special contract, which was a
deviation from th, general one set f rth to the public by
the board, and it was one which the servant M the compa-
ny could have no authority to make so as to bind the de-
fendants. The cont, act r .th r was to send forward the
goods so received at the earliest reason,ib:e time, and
though goods might have been lorwardA when left later
than 7 o'clock even, still the conapayy were not bound to
do so. There was no evidence whatever to warrant the
jury in saying that there was any spec!al contract. in the
first place; and in the next, there was no misdirection in
his Lordship's telling the jury that in his opinion there
was none, which was all he did say.

- . -
Mr. Martin and Mr. Cardwell supported the rule, and
contended that the learned judge was not justifi-d in leav-
ing the facts to the jury as he had done, for the defend-
ants ought to be bound by the agreement entered into by
their clerk or weigher at the station. That person had
informed the plaintiff's agent that the goods were in time,
and that, coupled with the enquiry, certainly was very
good evidence of a special contract in respect of the goods
so deli, eruct

The Cur was of opinion that there had been a misdi-
rection on thiA point and tin-r fore—

The rule was.o.ade absolute fora new trial.

it is said that Mr. Serjeant Goo'born, brother of the
Chane• llor of the Exch -quer, is to d the lhte Mr.
Merivale as one of the Commissioners of the Court of
Bankruptcy. The salary is £2OOO.

It wa. exp •cted that yesterday morning the Solicitor-
General w,ultl move the Court of Queen's Bench for a
criminal information atainst Mr. urnfrey, the b rrrister,
for his speech against ‘he Dike of Mariborourch at the
recent election for Woodstock.