The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

Btstrirt getus.

Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of
Colne.

It is now pretty well ascertained that the convict
Mawdesley, who accused himself of having robbed the
Rev. Mr. Germon, is not the man who committed the
offence. _

On the 4th inst., at Hulme, near Manchester, while a
female, named Forshaw, was about lo wash and dress her
child, twenty months old, she was seized with a fit (to
which she was subject), fell against the fire, and upon the
child, and each were so much burned before assistance ar-
rived that they died a few days afterwards.
Oneof thesigns of thetimcs, as exhibited in our borough,
is the issue of a printed placard. In the Market-place
and other principal streets, many of the best shops are
closed and trnantles3, and upon which is affixed the fol-
lowing significant notice ;—" These premises to Let—well
adapted for a Free Trader. Enquire of Messrs. Cobden
and Bright, Manchester."—Stockport Advertiser.
SUDDEN DEATH, DECEASED FRIENDS WANTED.—On
Sunday week, a man named William Henderson, who
hed been working at the new Hotel erecting at Bury by
the Earl of Derby, suddenly expired ; he had worked at
Bury for two or three years, and stated he was an illegi-
timate child, and was brought up by an uncle at Portobello
in Edinburgh. There was J.:15 in money on his person,
there was also found at his lodgings, one box filled with
books, one box with clothes, and a box of valuable
Joiners' Tools. There was no paper that would lead to
the discovery of his friends. The property is left in
charge of Mr. Sellers, Superintendent of Police, Bury,
until his friends are heard of.

TARLETON.—On Sunday week, two sermons were
preached in Tarleton Church, in behalf of the Sunday-
Schools and the Girls' Day School, by the Rev. George
Dover, incumbent of St. Bartholomew's Liverpool. The
collections after the sermons amounted to £9 10s. The
children's feast was held the day after, when the weather
was most favourable for such a purpose. Two hundred
and ten children were in attendance, who formed a pro-
cession and walked to the parsonage, where they sang
most loyally the National Anthem, after which they re-
turned through the village to the school-room. At four
o'clock they were treated with an abundant supply of
buns and coffee.
CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS IN LANCASHIRE AND CHE-
SHIRE.—From a. parliamentary return recently laid before
the House of Commons, it appears that the number of
convicts under sentence of transportation on Ist January
last, in the county prisons in Lancashire, was :—Kirkdale
31 • Lancaster Castle 1; Liverpool 44 ; Preston 11 ; and
Salford 10; making a total of 97. The return for the
nine years, 1839 to 1847 inclusive, was respectfully for the
same places, 57, 19, 29, 34, 44, 91, 39, 43, 58. This the
year 1848 (or rather 1847) exceeds all the other years.
In Cheshire the number of convicts within the same
period was respectfully 29 (in 1839), 31, 14, 19, 19, 12,
IG, nil, nil, 15 (in 1848). The total number in England
and Wales, Ist January last, was 6523, showing a consi-
derable increase. In Wales there have been only 27 con-
victions within the whole ten year:,

ORMSKIRK.—The remains Of Henry Pennington, Esq. ,
late Captain in her Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot,
were committed to their last resting-place on Wednesday
morning last, at the parish-church of Ormskirk, the
neighbourhood of his birth ; the funeral service being
read by his friend, the Rev. R. Battersby. chaplain to
the Right Hon. Lord Skelmersdale. The gallant officer
entered the service at an early age, as ensign in the 3rd
Royal Lancashire Militia, and volunteered into the 29th
Regiment, prior to the first campaign in Portugal, under
his Grace the Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wel-
lesley ; was present at the battles of Robeia, Vimiera,
Talavera, Albuhera, Oporto, and other minor actions in
the Peninsula. He also served with the 29th Regiment
in North America, and entered Paris with the allied
armies in the year 1815, after the battle of Waterloo.
Without an expression of regret for the death of this
gallant officer, we cannot permit his eminent military
s2rvie_s to be passed over. His amiable disposition, his
honourable principles, and kindly feelings, endeared him
to all who had the pleasure of his society. In life he
was highly respected. and in death is regretted by all who
knew his worth and integrity. As a soldier and Christian
he had ever lived, and as such he died, at his residence,
Scarth-hill, Bickerstaffe, in the 73rd year of his age. This
short sketch is given by a brother officer of many yea's'
acquaintance.—Correspondent.

CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, NEW ZEALAND

We have been favoured with a sketch of the plan which
is proposed to be adopted in carrying out the objects of
this settlement, to which we have previously referred.
The committee includes the names of the Bishop of Ox-
ford, Lords Littleton and Courtenay,, Sir William F:.rqu-
har, C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., Honourable R. Caven-
dish and F. Charteris, M.P., Rev. G. R. Gleig, J. It.
Godley, Esq., Rev. Ernest Hawkins, E. Halswell, Esq.,
T. S. Cocks, Esq., M.P., J. Simeon, Esq., M.P., and John
Hutt, Esq. The Archbishop of Canterbury is president,
and the association embraces the .Dames of many of the
bishops, many noble lords and eminent clergymen. The
prospectus states :
We intend to form a settlement, to be composed entirely
of members of our own church, accompanied by an ade-
quate supply of clergy, wits all the appliances requisite
for carrying out her discipline and ordinances, and with
full provision for extending them in proportion to the in-
crease of population. As, by preserving unity of religious
creed, the difficulties which surround the question of edu-
cation are avoided, we shall be enabled to provide amply
and satisfactorily for that object. The Committee of
Management will have the power of refusing to allow any
person of whom they may disapprove to become an ori-
ginal purchaser of land,, and, as that power will be carefully
exercised, it is hoped that ineligible colonists may be al-
most entirely excluded, and that the new community may
have at least a fair start in a healthy moral atmosphere.
The purchasers of land will have the selection of labour-
ers to be recommended for a free passage ; such labourers
to be also, exclusively, bond fide members of the Englfsh
Church. As a site for our projected colony, we have
fixed upon New Zealand, which offers greater advantages
of soil and climate, combined with the greater amount of
available and unoccupied land, than any other British
possession ; arrangements are accordingly in progress with
the New Zealand Company (which stands in the place of
the crown, as regards the disposal of waste lands in that
country) for the acquisition of a territory of 1,000,000
acres (about the extent of the county of Norfolk) in a fa-
vourable situation, apart from older settlements, and from
the vicinity of the natives, to be devoted exclusively to
the purposes of our settlement. By means of the muni-
cipal institutions lately granted to New Zealand, the col-
onists will have the power of managing their own local
affairs without interference. In order to provide funds
for carrying out the objects of the association, every pur-
chaser of land will be required to contribute a sum pro-
portioned to the extent of his purchase, and all such con-
tributions will be expended, through the instrumentality
of the Committee of Management, according to the wishes
and directions of the colonists, from among whom those
who are fit and able to take part in the proceedings of the
committee will be from time to time added to their num-
ber. The principal sources of expense will consist in re-
ligious and educational endowments, in the importation of
labour, in surveys, and in those public works (such as
roads bridges, and buildings) which may be absolutely
necessary to the establishment and maintenance of the

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settlement. These are things which every colonist must.
wish to see well done; but they are such as the isolated
efforts of individuals cannot do, and therefore it is neces-
sary to make a contribution to them a preliminary requi-
site to the purchase of land in the settlement which will
benefit by their existence. Ten shillings per acre will be
charged for the rural land ; and every purchaser of land
will contribute to the purposes above mentioned in the
following proportion :—£l per acre to the Religious and
Educational Fund; £1 per acre to the Immigration
Fund ; 10s. per acre to the Fund for Miscellaneous Pur-
poses, such as surveys, roads, bridges, &c. When the
whole territory reserved for the purpose of this settlement
shall be disposed of, the sum of the contributions to the
objects enumerated will be as follows :

Religious and Educational Fund: £1,000,000
Immigration Fund 1,000,000
Fund for Miscellaneous purposes .
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts has cordially adopted the views of the Association,
and undertaken to become trustee of the Religious and
Educational Fund.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOATRACES.

These races commenced on Tuesday, and on Wednes-
day the celebrated Derby Stakes were run for. The
number of subscribers was 215, the stakes being 50 sovs.
each, h. ft., for 3 yr. olds. The start was not so nume-
rous a one as in some former years, seventeen " high-
mettled racers" being all that were brought to the post,
of which the following three were all that were placed by
the judge:--
_ _

Lord Clifden's Surplice, by Touchstone .. (Templeman) 1
Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack (F. Butler) 2
Mr. B. Green's Shylock (S. Mann) 3
Betting at Starting.—Even on Surplice, 4 to 1 agst
Glendower, 4 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum, 14 to 1 agst
Shylock, 15 to 1 (and in some places 20 to l) agst Springy
Jack, 40 to 1 agst Great Western, 40 to 1 agst The Fidd-
ler, 40 to 1 agst The Fugleman, 50 to 1 agst The Fowler,
and 50 to one agst any other. Precisely at the time fixed,
one of the best starts ever witnessed was effected, Great
Western taking the lead, followed by Loadstone, Fugle-
man next, with Surplice, Fern, Glendower, Springy Jack,
and Shylock in their wake. They came to the Craven
post in this order; Loadstone then joined Great Western,
headed him in a few strides, and went on with the run-
ning Great Western dropping astern, and Fugleman tak-
ing the second place, Surplice, Fern, Glendower, Shylock,
and Springy Jack following. Loadstone carried the run-
ning on until half way between the road and the distance,
and where, having had enough of it, he was passed by
Surplice, Fugleman still keeping the second position, with
Springy Jack and Shylock in close waiting. Fugleman
gave way at the distance, and Shylock, and Springy Jack
were left to finish the race with the favourite. Shylock
kept the favourite's friends on the tenter hooks, until half
way up the distance, where he was beaten ; Springy Jack
then came, and a desperate race ensued between the two
horses that of all others were the worst for the book-
makers. Springy Jack made a gallant effort at the last,
but never was able to get up ; Surplice, not without shak-
ing, winning by a neck ; Shylocka very good third, Glen-
dower a bad fourth, The Fiddler fifth, and Fugleman sixth.
The race was run in 2 min. 46 sec., from which it may
be inferred that the pace was not very great. The value
of the stakes was £5500, from which the owner of the
second horse was entitled to receive 100 sous., and the
winner was required to pay 100 sous. towards the expenses
incurred by additional police-officers.
On Friday the Oaks Stakes were run for, and the fol-
lowing is the return :
Mr. Pedley's Cymba. (Templeman) 1
Mr. Quin's Attraction. ..(Robinson) 2
Mr. Foljambe's Queen of the May (Bumby) 3
26 ran. At starting the lead was taken by Hope, followed
by Lola Montes, lodine, and Do it Again, with Tisi-
phone, Queen of the May. Cymba, Wiasma, and two
or three others in the wake, and behind them Attrac-
tion and the ruck. At the Craven post Do it Again
took the third place, but no other change of moment
was observable until they came to the turn, and the
lead was then tagen by Camphine, followed by Do it
Again and lodine, Cymba, Wiasma, Miss Orbell, the
Miss Lydia filly, and one or two others whose colours we
could not make out, lying very forward. After crossing
the road, Queen of the May took up all the running, Cam-
phine and Cymba waiting on her, with Attraction, Wiasma,
lodine, and half-a-dozen others close at hand ; so they
reached the end of the Stand, where a decisive change
took place. Cymba went up to the Queen of the May,
headed her, and although Attraction, who came immedi-
ately after, made the race look doubtful for a moment.
she won cleverly in the end by a length ; Attraction beat-
ing Queen of the May by half a length ; Wiasma, Cam-
phine, lodine. Miss Lydia filly, and three or four others,
were close at the finish, and so nearly abreast that we
cannot undertake to speak with any certainty as to their
relative positions ; we fancied Wiasma had a shade the
best of it. 'I he pace was fast up the hill, but not sustained
throughout. Run in 2 min. 48 sec. Value of the stakes
£2.400.

TfIE DERBY AND OAKS.-It will be remembered that
Templeman rode the winners of the Derby and Oaks last
year ; he rode the winner of the Derby on Wednesday
last, and piloted Cymba first to the post for the Oaks °I"
Friday.