The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

On Friday evening the Manchester Rectory Division
Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords.
The Rev. John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew,
S.C.L., has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Chester
to the stipendiary curacy of Prescot.
The Bishop of London's New Court of Appeal Bill
was lost in the House of Lords on Monday, by a majority
of 32, in a house of 135 members.
The conference of preachers of the Prussian Church
have voted an address of congratulation and support to the
Bishop of Exeter for his conduct in the Gorham case.
The Bishop of Bombay, on his recent visit to Madeira,
attended divine worship in the chapel of Mr. Brown,
although the Bishop of London has decided that Mr.
Love is the only legitimate clergyman on the island. This
act produced a commotion in Madeira.
The Rev. Robert Henry Gray, M.A., has been licensed
by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the Perpetual Curacy of
Kirkby, in the parish of Walton.on-the.hill, in the
county of Lancaster, void by the death of the Rev. Robt.
Cort, on the nomination of the Earl of Sefton, the patron.
Value £250.
St. Barnabas' Church, Pimlico, London, will be conse-
crated this week. The Rev. Mr. Bennett is one of four
_incumbents, and every sitting is free. The establishment,
consisting of church, school=rooma, ai,elling' for master
and mistress and twelve choristers, and residence for four
clergymen, has cost £20,000. The church is to be opened
daily from morning to night, and there are to be two or
three services daily.
The Rev. Mr, Kelly, a minister of the Episcopal Church
in America, has been chosen pastor of the Free Church,
St. Mary's, Torquay. In reference to this arrangement,
the Western Times says :—lt is delightful to see the new
world reciprocating benefits with the old, and returning
that quality of Protestant " succession," which the first
missionaries of the established faith carried into the
wilderness of the West.
THE GORHAM CASE.—The Bishop of Exeter is deter-
mined to leave no stone unturned which is likely to pro-
cure delay, or a reversion of the sentence of the Judicial
Committee in the Gorham csse. On Thursday, his coun-
sel made a similar motion in the Court of Exchequer to
that which had been rejected by two other superior courts
of law. In doing so he complained that these courts had
denied the Bishop the usual courtesy in such cases, having
rejected the application without giving an opportunity for
the arguing of the grave point of law involved. The fact
that on both occasions the application met with the same
fate, and that on the second occasion every judge con-
curred in the rejection, would tend to show that, after
all, there is no point of law in issue.

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The total quantity of window glass imported into the
United Kingdom, in 1849, was 25,555 cwt.
A little boy died last week, at Leeds, after eating largely
of uncooked rhubarb and sorrel.
Sergeant Murphy is again a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Cork.
Lord John Russell hoe.. timt svota .00.4” mill bo
in commission tor only a very short time.
The commissioners, to whom the custody of the Great
Seal is to be intrusted on the resignation of Lord Cotten-
ham, will be the Master of the Rolls (Lord Langdale),
the Vice-Chancellor of England (Sir Launcelot Shadwell)
and Baron Rolfe.
Sir F. Kelly, in his motion in the Court of Exchequer
on Thursday, in the Gorham case, spoke five hours and
five minutes.
The Times of yesterday announces that government has
determined to separate " the two incompatible offices of
Lord Chancellor and President of the House of Lords."
Daniel O'Connell, Esq., is appointed her Majesty's
Consul at Para, in Brazil, in the room of Richard Ryan,
Esq., deceased.
A Roman gold coin, bearing the heads of Agrippina and
Claudius, was found some time since, by a labourer who
was hoeing turnips in the neighbourhood of Ipswich.
The Stamford Mercury says, two merchants at Spalding
have suddenly been deprived, for a season at least, of the
services of one of their offspring each : the young couple
eloped on Monday night.
A vessel arrived from Launceston, Van Diemen's Land,
has brought 358 quarters of wheat consigned, and also 287
quarters of wino
1! to order, the produce of that distant
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colony.
The East India Company have given notice of their in-
tention to reduce the present rate of interest of 31 per
cent, nt. on Indian Bonds to 3 per cent. on the 7th June,
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Dr. Chevalier, of Paris, has invented a disintoxicating
potion, which consists of acetate of ammonia dissolved in
sugared water, and which is said to render a drunken
man immediately sober.
It is said that the building for the great exhibition of
1851 will be about 2,300 feet long, rather more than 400
feet across, and the roofing area will probably extend to
about 900,000 square feet, or upwards of 20 acres.
It is understood that the watermen of London coach-
stands are to be sworn in as special constables, to act on
the different stands, in order to prevent the unlicensed
persons from driving with badges belonging to others.
A return just published states the amount of stamp duties
collected in the year ending January, 1850, on bonds,
mortgages, conveyances, and other written instruments,
to have been £1,381,225.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned at Glou- '
cester against a woodman named Hook, and his deceased
wife's sister, for so ill-treating and neglecting an infant
of the former that it died.
Mr. Cantwell, agent to Sir William Somerville, has
issued an address to the electors of Drogheda, in antici-
pation of the hon. baronet being called to the upper
house.
Mr. Fagan intimates to his Cork constituency his inten-
tion of immediately retiring from the representation of
I Cork, on the passing of the Irish franchise bill now before
parliament.
On Friday night Joseph Ady was captured by the
police, and lodged in Giltspur-street Prison, on a charge
of defrauding the Post-office, by sending 1,400 unpaid
letters, which were returned.
The miners at Holywell are still out on strike, and the
agitation is causing serious annoyance in the neighbour-
hood. They wish to reduce the hours of labour from
eight to six hours. The labourers in the mines of Flint-
shire are evidently not now so peaceable as they used to be.
Preparations are making on a scale of great magnificence
at Lismore Castle to place that mansion in a suitable etato
for the reception of the Queen, who intends, it is stated,
to honour the Duke of Devonshire with a visit at his
Grace's Irish mansion.
A poor and aged couple living near Leeds have just
been gratified with the receipt of a bankers bill for £lOO
from their son, from whom they had not heard for five
years. He had emigrated to California and became a gold
digger.

A train on the Peterborough branch of the Eastern
Counties Railway, on Monday night week, killed or fatally
injured 22 sheep, which are supposed to have been mali-
ciously driven from a neighbouring field by some one who
bore a grudge to their owner.

In tire report of the metropolitan registrar of births, it
is stated that a man of 36 years, who had disease of the
heart, was fishing in the New River, and captured "a
jack," and that the excitement attending his success caused
a fit of apoplexy, from which he never recovered.
Last Sunday evening, a boat containing five persons was
capsized on the Thames, and the entire party immersed.
Three of the party were rescued in a very exhausted state ;
but Mr. Wetherell, residing at No. 125, Princes-road,
Lambeth, and his grandson, aged five years, were drowned.
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The bullion in both departments of the ank of Eng-
land has increased from X 16,701,949 to X 16,737,613,
being a difference of £35,664. The paper in actual circu-
lation
has increased from £20,199,440., to £20,413,863,
being a difference of £214,423.
It is stated that the forged bills of exchange uttered by
the bankrupt, Mr. Threlfall of Addingham Mills, York-
shire, amount to the extraordinary sum of £50,000. of
which £32,000 is alleged to be in the hands of one bill
broker in London.
The National Association for the Protection of Native
rndustry and Capital, on application being made to them
for aslistaßee, have voted £5O to the factory workpeople,
to assist them in their struggle to preserve the Ten Hours
Act in its IntegVitY•
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Yeiterday at-Bow-streetpoliee4ffice Mr. Henry refused
a summons against. the. Earl of Harrowby, on the applica-
tion-ot Mr. Reynolds; the Chartist, The subject is refer-
red to elsewhere. The magistrate told the applicant that
he:had'no business :it the 'meeting, and that the alleged
assault was justifiable.
'Mr. Samuel Rogers, the poet, met with a very severe
accident on Thurseltiy night, on his return home from
dining with a friend. Mr. Rogers was knocked down by
a cab in crossing the street, and has ever since continued
in such danger as 'to cause very serious alarm to his
numerous friends.
ORANGEISM.—The meeting of the Loyal Orange Insti-
tution will take place at Bilston, on the Ist July next.
The society now numbers 3000 members. It is expected
that the grand master (the Earl of Enniskillen,) will pre-
side, and Marquis of Blandford, Lord Bradford, Colonel
Verner, &c., are expected to be present.
The Times of Tuesday contains the following singular
specimen of the way in which people talk to each other
through the medium of advertisements :—A. W.—The
Dog' Wolf' is Dead. The experiment has fully succeeded.
The ' Bear' mourns. ' Tidus vale amicus."
The fight for the championship and £2OO a-side,
between Bendigo and Paddock, came off on Wednesday,
at Mildenball-road Station, in Cambridgeshire. The
battle lasted 59 minutes, and in the 50th round was
declared in favour of Bendigo, in consequence of a foul
blow struck by his opponent.
It would seem, from an article in Tuesday's Morning
Chronicle, that the office of Poet Laureate—with an inti-
mation that no poetic tribute need be paid—has been
offered to Mr. Rogers, the venerable author of " The
Pleasures of Memory," but was gracefully declined by
him, on the plea of age.
At the County Court, held last Friday, Mr. R. Griffin,
ironmonger, had an action brought against him for injury
to a child's hand by the exposure for sale in the public
streets of a chaff-cutter, with which the child cut off one
finger, and lost the use of another. Damages laid at £2O.
Allowed by the jury ..£lO expenses.
An inquest was held on Tuesday at Kendal, on the
body of George Folder, an upholsterer, working with Mr.
Horne, whose death was occasioned by the alleged ill-
treatment of Sergeant Hutchinson, of the police-force, on
the previous evening, in-removing him from the Oddfel-
lows Hall. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned
against Hutchinson.
DESTRUCTION OF FARM PRODUCE.—On the afternoon
of Tuesday a fire broke out upon the premises of Mr.
G. Little, of Farcet Fen (where a steam-thrashing ma-
chine was being used), five miles from Peterborough.
and five large stacks of corn, three of wheat, and two
of beans, were consumed. The property was insured in
the Sun Fire Office.
A gentleman was fined forty shillings at Southwark,
last week, for having on Tuesday night, at the Surrey
theatre, climbed from a private box to the stage, coolly
lighted a playbill at one of the lampstand handed a light
to one of his friends, who lighted Ins cigar therewith.
He did considerable damage in climbing back again, and
narrowly missed setting fire to the curtains of the box,
The following days have been fixed for opening the
commission at the several assize towns in the circuit :
York—Wednesday, 10th July. Durham—Wednesday,
24th July. Newcastle—Monday, 29th July. Carlisle—
Thursday, Ist August. .Appleby—Monday, sth August..
Lancaster—Wednesday, 7th August. Liverpool—Satur-
day, 10th August.
PROTECTION.—in the House of Commons, on Thurs-
day
evening, Mr. Disraeli, pursuant to notice, presented
a petition, signed by 15,120 farmers and labourers of the
county palatine of Lancaster, 'complaining of the experi-
mental legislation of parliament with reference to the pro-
ductive labour of the country, and of undue foreign com-
petition. The petition also prayed for protection to agri-
culture.

WAR AGAINST THE WASPS.—The Earl of Burlington
commissioned his gardener, Mr. Wilson, to give a penny
each for every wasMought to. him that may have been
caught in or about his lordship's gardens. From the
23d of April up to the present time, he has taken in no
less than► 2,364. As every wasp killed at this time of the
year is a nest destroyei, the number thus prospectively
abolished is almost incalculable.—Westmoreland Gazette.
The insane daughter of a merchant at Huddersfield
was violated and robbed some time since by a ruffianly
"navvy," who gave the simple young lady some ale and
then lured her into a shrubbery near her father's house.
He also robbed her of a gold watch, gold chain, and her
purse. The circumstances were seen by a bystander, who
wondered at what he saw, and gave information. The
navvy has been committed for trial.
DR. SOUTHEY AND SIR WALTER SCOTT.—In Nov.,
1813, the then newly-appointed poet laureate wrote thus
to the author of Waverley—" We shall both be remem-
bered hereafter, and ill betide him who shall institute a
comparison between us. There has been no race ; we
have both got to the top of the hill by different paths, and
meet there not as rivals but as friends, each rejoicing in
the success of the other."
On Sunday week, J. Charlesworth, Esq., of Chapel-
thorpe Hall, near Wakefield, went into his pastures as
usual, to see his cattle, with some of which he bad become
very famili,tr. He dismounted from his horse and called
to him some young heifers, and whilst standing among
them one ran against him and knocked him down. Others
kicked and trod upon him, and he was so severely injured
that he is considered in a very precarious state.
A great wonder has just made its appearance at North-
ampton, in the shape of a live Proctor. A real bona fide
election for a Proctor to serve in Convocation, has actually
taken place; and what is more, the candidate elected by
a majority of 224 against 141 is a gentleman who has
pledged himself to do his utmost to obtain the revival of
the active functions of Convocation, while his defeated
opponent., started uptits
all in his power to prevent such revival.
EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY IN 1851.—The committee
appointed to consider all matters relating to the building,
reported to her Majesty's Commissioners on the 9th ult.
that they had arrived at the unanimous conclusion that of
the numerous plans sent in, " able and admirable as
many of the designs appeared to be, there was yet no
single one so accordant with the peculiar objects in view,
either in the principle or details of the arrangement, as to
warrant them in recommending it for adoption."
LORD BROUGHAM ON THE EPSOM RACECOURSE.--
The Sunday Times says, " Amongst the celebrated cha-
racters we encountered in strolling about the course was
Lord Brougham, with his pocket-handkerchief full of
knick-knacks that he had knocked over playing at ' cock-
s:lly! His lordship, when we saw him, was explaining to
Colonel Sibthorp the scientific principles of a ' Jack-in-
the-box,' which the gallant colonel swore was the image
of Lord John Russell."
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION-HALL.—The con-
struction of this dome, 200 feet in diameter, though of
light sheet iron, will be no joke. We may remind the
reader that it will be double the size of our St. Paul's
dome, which is about 112 feet in diameter. The dome of
St. Peter's, at Rome, is 139 feet in diameter, and that of
the Pantheon 142 feet. The central hall will be a poly-
gon of 16 sWes, four of which will open into gardens re-
served around it. Its main walls will be of brick, and
about 60 feet high.—Builder.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—A boy named Cole, belonging
to Frampton-on-Severn, is now lying in a dangerous
state in the Infirmary, suffering from the effects of a sin-
gular and terrible accident. Some days since he was
leading a horse, when another horse came up, and they
began to kick each other. The boy held on fast by the
halter, which was firmly twisted round his hand, when,
horrible to relate, the horse gave a sudden jerk and tore
the poor lad's hand out of the socket at the wrist ! The
hand was found some yards distant from the poor fellow,
and when it was picked up the fingers were actually mov-
ing.—Wilts Standard.

BEEF FOR EDITORIAL JUDGMENT.—The editor of the
Wakefield Examiner was embarrassed the week before
last, as he was preparing for press, by the receipt of a
large piece of beef which the butcher's boy requested he
would insert in his paper. As the editor knew not how
to put beef in his broad-sheet, even if he had room, the
boy and beef were summarily dismissed. Next day he
again received the beef with a note, requesting him to
accept it and decide upon its quality, as it had been re-
jected at the prison as unfit for the food of felons, at which
the contracting butchers were much grieved. The civil
editor had the beef cooked, and has pronounced it ex-
cellent.

THE " NATIONAL LAND COMPANY•"—In the Court
of Queen's Bench on Tuesday, in the case of the Queen v.
Whitmarsh, Lord Campbell, in delivering the judgment
of the Court, said that the question raised upon this
demurrer was whether the National Land Company could
be registered under the Joint Stock Company's Act, and
the application was made to compel the registration. In
the act, after alluding to various companies, it was stated
that companies which were established for the purposes
of profit might be registered ; and it was contended that
the National Land Company was established for the
purpose of profit, and ought, therefore, to be registered.
The Company was not, in the opinion of the Court,
e.t.blished for the purpose of profit, but for the purpose
of allotting lands to the shareholders, and therefore the
judgment of the Court would be for the defendant.
Lord John Russell presided on Thursday at the sixth
annual meeting of the London Society for Improving the
Condition of the Labouring Classes, and when the first
resolution had been submitted, two individuals, named
Reynolds and Beacon, attempted to address the meeting,
but not being members of the society, his lordship decided
that they could not be heard. After some confusion Mr.
Reynolds tendered a guinea in order to entitle him to
speak as a member, which was refused. He then
came in front of the platform, and, passing before Lord
Harrowby, appealed to Lord John Russell, with a swag-
gering air, not to " allow the working classes to be in-
sulted." Lord Harrowby thereupon rose from his seat,
took him by the shoulders, and pushed him back. Mr.
Reynolds, without further resistance, slunk back to his
seat, while the meeting resounded with cheering, and cries
of " Well done, Lord Harrowby !" Mr. Reynolds has
since applied to the magistrates for a summons against
Lord Harrowby.

THE NEPAUL EMBASSY.—Every one who has passed
through St. Paul's Church-yard London, on a rainy
day, when birch brooms are very much in requisition,
must have noticed the well-known Hindoo crossing-
sweeper. who has for years past regularly stationed him-
self at the north-east angle of the Cathedral. A day or
two ago be was at his post as usual, when the attention of
the NepaNleae Ambassador, who was passing at the time,
was attracted towards him. His Excellency ordered the
carriage to stop, and entered into conversation with him,
the result of which was that he threw his broom with
desperate eagerness over the railings of the burial-ground,
and then seraml;led into the carriage and took his seat by
the side of his Excellency, who immediately drove off with
his singularly-aequirJd companion. We undestand that
our ex-crossing-sweeper is engaged during his Excel-
lency's stay in this count7Y, which ,will probably be about
two months, to act as iet*rpreter to him and his suite.
He now appears in the earr:hige of his Excellency every
morning arrayed in a new anA superb Hindou,costume,
and is not too proud to m0p:1.491414d acqualgtances I
80c1 friends of the broom;