The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

IVZISCES.LANEOTJS.

A commercial treaty with the French Government, which is
said to be on the Lapis, has lately occupied the attention of the
Ministry. Lord Lansdown and Mr. Poulett Thomson have
been in constant communication with Lord Grey on the subject.
The Duchess of Bedford has been detained at Baron's
court, in Ireland, (the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn,) by a
severe and dangerous attack of pleurisy; but we are happy to►
learn that she is now convalescent.
In the event of Mr. Alderman .Waithman's retiring from
Parliament, which from the state of his health there appears
great reason to apprehend, we understand it is Mr. Lyall's in-
tention again to come forward as a representative for the city.

. IRISH LEGISLATION.—In May 1784, a bill, intended to limit
the privilege of franking, was sent from Ireland for the Royal
approbation; in it was a clause enacting that any member who,
from illness or other cause, should be unable
.to write, might
authorise some other person to frank for him, provided that on
the back of the letter so franked the member uoth, at,the same
tune, give under his hand a full certificate of his inability to
write.—Dublin Penny Journal.

EXPEDITION.7-ThC following appears in the Parliamentary
report on the Post-office communication with Ireland
proof of the capability of expeditious communications with Ire,
land via Bristol, an instance recently occurred. An express-
with the result of the division in the 'House of Lords on the
second reading of the Reform Bill left London on the 14th at 8
o'clock in the 'morning, arrived in Bristol at half-past 3. was.-
forwarded by a steam-vessel at half-past 4, and was delicered in
Waterford at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th, taking 31
hours only from London to Waterford.
Puanic Ent:CATION FRANCE.—The Moniteur contains a
report 'to the-King from the Minister of Public Instruction on
the present state and progress of, primary instruction, from
whiCh it appears that since the year 1829 there has been
established 4,655 additional schools, and that the number of
scholars has beed increased by 231,375 within the same period ;
that there are 2,741 communes which have primary schools now
that had none in 1829; that the number of schools of mutual
instruction have- increased by 536, and of normal primary
schools by 31.

ACCIDENTS BY FIRE. IMPORTANT SUGGESTION TO Ph.
RENTS, &c.=-Inquests were on Monday held in St. Barthole,
mew's Hospital, on the bodies of John Horland,.aged 4 years ;
Emma Pragg, aged 5 years ; and- John Dernocom, aged .
years, who were all burnt to death in • consequence of their
clothes taking fire. A fourth child remains inthe hospital, SO
shockingly burnt, from a similar calamity, that little hopes are
entertained of its recovery.. The jury appeared much shocked
at the repetition of these dreadful calamities; and one of tßem,*
an experienced chemist, suggested to parents the propriety of
washing children's clothes in a weak solution of alum, as a pre-.
ventive to tire. He has tried the experiment, and could testify
that it was almost impossible to set auy kind of linen or stuff on
fire when washed in this way. Verdict—Accidental death in
each case.

PARQUIIARS.ON, who, it will be recollected, committed a
contempt of the Court of Chancery, in reporting the proceed.
ings of a meeting of the late Duke of York's creditors, was ar-
rested on' Saturday last, and sent to the Fleet. On Thprsday,
the Attorney-General moved, before the Lord Chancellor, for
his dischargerwithout payment of costs. Sir E. Sugden, for
the plaintiff, did not object to his release • but thought that he
ought to pay the costs. The Lord Chancellor ordered his dis-
charge, on the payment of costs, on the grounds stated in his
affidavit, namely, that he had no evil intention in sending the
report in question for publication; that he expressed contrition
for his offence; and that his state of health was such as enti-
tled him to the merciful consideration of the court. The Lord
Chancellor said,—" I do not envy the feelings of that man, be
lie who he may, or of those men, be they who they may, who
placed Mr. Farquharson in this situation, and will not imme-
diately convey to him the means of paying those costs." And,
"my impression is, that those who have got off by exposing this
gentleman for them, ought to pay the costs. Where is the
newspaper? :They were liable for this contempt, but were let
off for Mr. Farquharson." The Attorney-General, Mr. Be-
thell, and Mr. Whitlock have relinquishe' their share of the
costs, having returned their fees to Mr. Farquharson. It was
stated also, that his solicitor had acted gratuitously.
Lone EXMOUTH.—Ve have to announce the death of Lord
Exmouth, Vice-Admiral of England. He expired at half-past
6 o'clock on Wednesday sennight, in the 67th year of his age,
at his house at Teignmouth and surrounded by his family, one
of whom, the Rey.-IMward 'Fellow, Dean of Yorwich, hail onl7,-
arrived in time to take his sorrowing stand by •the death-bed oii
which the most honoured hero of the British navy, and a man
the most amiable iu all the social endearments of 'domestic life,
was closing his last scene. His Lordship had been for a con-
siderable time suffering. under severe illness, in the first stage
of which he became quite delirious, and was wholly, engrossed,
with the idea that he was then actually engaged in fighting the.
Dutch fleet. A few days before his death he appeared to feel
himself better, and, in noticing the improvement, said ." I have
lately been going to leeward, but now I think I am working to
windward again." He has left two sons, the present Lord
Exmouth, a Captain in the Navy, and the Hon. Captain Fleet-
wood Pellew, and we believe one daughter, Lady Halstead.
His funeral, in obedience to his own wishes, is to be strictly
private. Every reader of our naval annals must be familiar
with his long and brilliant career of service during the eventful
war of 1793. At the commencement of that contest he received,
the honour of knighthood for the first capture of a French fri-
gate, and a few years after he was further rewarded with the
dignity of baronet, for his heroic benevolence in saving, at the
imminent hazard of his own life, the whole crew of the -Dutton,
when that ship was driven on shore in a dreadful gale at
Plymouth.—Courier. His lordship was Grand Cross of Charles
111. of Spain, of the order of Ferdinand and Marie, of Sicily ;
the St. Lazarus and St. Maurice, of Sardinia; and of
of the Netherlands.