The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

appreciated by flowing

voice, of
ently fine

u tenacity, and an c.
-q and melodies with great
-tie subject required. She
ect and musical taste altoge-
-nth! and rapturously

humour or with gm,
possesses a precocity c
Cher extraordinary. Sh. _ _
encored, and retired at the close amidst rapturous cl
The Tyler family played on their clarionets, and
formed on the flageolet many beautiful pieces.

s frea

SHOCKING DESTITUTION.--
Thursday, an inquest was held on the body of Julia Fitz-
gerald, aged 16, who died from the effects of injuries re-
ceived on the Bth of September last, in a qu rrel with a
family named King, with whom she lodged. Deceased
was a slop waistcoat maker, by which she earned a miser-
able subsistence. Not being able to pay 12s. 6d. for rent
the landlord distrained, and a row taking o^-
son and two daughters of the landlord '
severely. On the 31st of October
surgeon, saw her, when she was in a Yom,,
state, and suffering from pleurisy. She continued to get
worse till Friday week, when she died. This witness said
that death might have been accelerated by violence. The
'coroner summed up at great length, and the jury,
after deliberating for nearly an hour, returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter" against Richard King the younger,
Sarah Green and Jane Sumner, his sisters, and the coroner
immediately issued his warrant for their apprehension
and committal to Newgate.
DISCOVERY, IN LIVERPOOL, OF Two RUN,
On Saturday two very respectably-dres.ed !U'
young men, apparently just out of
brought before Mr. Rushton, on a ch-
found in possession of large ,
of loaded pocket pistols. They gave their nai..
Hampson and Thomas Dickenson. Inspector 111'Dot.
stated that about six o'clock on the morning of t hat day,
(Saturday,) be received information that there were two
young men in a public house, in the Old Haymarket, with
large sums of money about them, which they were spend-
ing freely, and a brace of loaded pistols, which they were
ever and anon taking out and exhibiting to the bystanders_
He immediately went to the house, and, finding the two
prisoners there, he requested of them to accompany him
to the Police-office. They went along the streets together.
and the inspector asked Hampson how much money he
had in his possession. He replied that there were 100 so-
vereigns in a bag. On searching the bag, however, 140
were found. Then he was asked how much money he
bad in his purse, to which he replied, from ten to twenty
sovereigns. The purse contained sixteen sovereigns.
They had a variety of wearing apparel in their trunks.
Mr. Rushton asked whether their pistols were really
loaded. The inspector replied in the affirmative.
m parents
mr .
ARNu es withoutnhtEosnrrEenmd,
Hampson said that his mother bad given him the money
before he left home, and Dickenson expressed a hope
that the magistrate would dispatch some person for their
remanded
nladye.ci
MlDLAND,themey
found at the house of Mr. John Hampson, Nottingham.
saidan dN
directedtDh e
Gi r l
ta parents trs.Gsßul wouldphfe sr
isbn
tendent Brown to communicate with their parents.
Y
RAILWAY.—At a *medal meeting of this coning at
Rotherham, on Friday, for the purpose of determiningi
whether the company should be dissolved or not,he
report of the directors recommended the dissolution of
the company, so far as cz.rrying out the line of last year
went, but recommended to the shareholders the prosecu-
tion of a line from Masbrough to Doncaster, a distance of
twelve miles, for which they had caused a survey of the
country to be made, And which they found could be com-
pleted at a cost of £270,000. For this line no tunnelling
would be required, and the gradients were extremely fa-
vourable. The treasurer's accounts showed that a depo-
sit of £1 7s. 6d. per share had been paid on 31,220
shares, which amounted to £42,927 10s. The expendi-
ture amounted to £27,851 ss. 11d. ; the engineering,
surveying, &c., having cost £7342 65., the parliamentary
expenses being £9488 Is. Bd., and the expenses of wit-
nesses in London, with travelling, &c., were upwards of
£6OOO. There was a balance in hand of £15,076 4s. ld. ;
but as there were liabilities to the amount of £BO5l 14s.
Id., the sum to he returned to the shareholders was re-
duced to £7024 10s. The recommendation of the direc-
tors was that those who joined the new company should
receive one £25 share in respect of every four which they
held in the old company; cr, in other words, each share-
holder who seceded from the old company would receive
18s. per share, while those joining the new company would
have to pay £l. The report was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Shepherd. the parliamentary agent, and as represen-
tative of 4200 shares, complained of the heavy expense of
£2OO per mile for surveying; and the expense of £l7OO was
complained of by Mr. Robertson, of Masbrough, as being
too high a chare for the old plans and surveys. It was
resolved that the company be now dissolved, and that it
be not considered an act of bankruptcy. It will be thus
seen that the old company is to be dissolved, but the share-
holders will carry out the line from Masbrough to Don
caster, at which place it will join the London and Y-
The directors have surveyed the line at their or-

IANSLAUGE

beat the decea
Mr. Horror

AWAYS

A, were
Lng bees

MIIs of mot

a expense,

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.—A young French wo-
man, fashionably dressed, lately arrived from Southamp-
ton, and took up her abode at the Railway Hotel, near
the Terminus, Nine Elms. A day or two after her arri-
val Mademoiselle de Saumarez (such was the name she
gave) handed over to the landlord a bag of gold for safety.

. -
ind on Saturday last she produced a cheque on the Fare-
bam Bank for £99 13q. which she requested him to get
cashed. About this time it was discovered that a cash-
box, containing upwards of £l5O in gold, two double
sovereigns, and a cheque for £99 135., had been stolen
from the house of a ship-builder living at Fareham. Mr.
Gow, the superintendent of the Hants constabulary, hav-
ing obtained a clue to the probable retreat of the depreda-
tor, PXocceded to London on Monday, and, accompanied
by the guard of the train that bad brought Mademoiselle
de Saumarez to town, went to the hotel, and on seeing
her, took her into custody. The prisoner threw berselt
upon her knees, and gave the following extraordinary
statement :—That a few weeks since a gentleman brought
her to England and, after remaining with him for a C.--- '
.

w days

left her at Gosport, where she obtained apartments at a
boarding-house. The family with whom she lodged
introduced her to their cousin, who resided at Fareham.
There she remained a week on a visit, and during that
time saw the mother of her friend's cousin give him fifty
sovereigns from a cash-box, which she afterwards de-
posited between the sacking and bed of a bedstead. She
went to Southampton, where she purchased a cash-box,
resembling the one she had seen, and returning with it,
complained of her head aching, and requested permission
to lie down far an hour before she left for Gosport. She
then went to the room where the cash-box was deposited,
end substituting the empty box for the full one, succeeded

in leaving the house witt;out exciting suspicion

being searched, the cheque and two double sorere

were upon her •; and Mr. Howse, upon opening the
• • • --- -- •

bag, discovered it to contain £146 in sovereigns. The
mcney was g ven up to the superintendent, who started
with the prisoner the same night for Far(

En. Thep

soner seemed dreadfully ill,

She repro

ttteraturr.

POE I

SONNET t►\ sti ELLEY

BY T. J. OUSELEY

As fr,m the placid hos m

ty torrent

So tt.cl thy spirit. SH h

u•hes forth to life
v. from its birth;

r 1 thrk strife ;

'grit t-inefiashed
ihy lieht

e the sc

to fascinate,

im dashed

he gates of Farad se

gh paper
IA UCIS

I the v

fly so c

AND PHILEMON
10141, f R

rf dried fruit

,ger, 60 places of
in 1y cherries.

D EFOUGH

and col

ever the pleam
men amot

•Dle of jud

causes so mina

Of climate is c

may sound, are,
terially altering
North America!

g, bite,

1 THE CHURCH AND THE PROTECTIONISTS

(From the Oxford and Cambridge Review.)
Perhaps it may be thought that the true refuge for the
Church under present circumstances is the Protectionist
or Country party. We have striven to speak well of the
said Country party. We could not but feel a strong syrn-
paihy with them in the late session of Parliament, when
they had to battle out a losing cause against the minister
who had betrayed them; but, apart fr,in those peculiar

. .
cierucr.stances in which they were at that time placed, we
confess that we can but speak of them with very qualified
apooval. Especially in the matter of the Church, we

doubt their having any sounder or deeper views than the
mere Conservatives. At least, if the general character of
a party may be gathered from the individual character t f
those units which constitute it, the Church views of the
Country party must be, to say the least, somewhat indis-
tinct and hasy. Lord Stanley, when, as a member of the
Peel government, he, in 1845, opposed the St. Asaph and

Bangor Bill, spoke more decidedly against the increase of
English Bishopricks than any other noble lord who took
part in the debate. Lord George. Bentinek has not, pro-
bably, found time to turn his attention to a subject not
ct re congenial, and apparently not very pres-ing. Mr.
D'lsraeli s church views may be described as half Angli-
can, halt Rowanist, and ha?" Jewish. And as for thos.-
.

very respectable country gentlemen who form the mass of
the Protectionist party, and give it all its importance,
whet her in Parliament or in the country, sure we are that
not one in ten of them has any other wish with regard to
the Church than that things should he let alone—that par-
sons should not be over pious—and that Pus-yisrn should
he put down. Speak to them of the Church's needs, tell
them that five or six thousand more clergy are wanted for
Foreand and Wales, only, that twenty er thirty now hi-
shopricl4s are required, that five th ,usand new schools.
end nearly an equal number of churches have to be built,
that tresii laws are needed a ith respect to the matters of cle-
rical supervision, and Church discipl,ne, that the powers of
the Diocesan courts should be revived ; hint tus ther, that

something of liberty in regard to the election of Bishops,
some real voice in the matter should be rest red to the
Chaptt rs, and add that it is hoped Convocation will ere
long be allowed to meet for the dispatch of busit•ess.
and thenceforth sit regularly with every Parliament—and
you will be at once set down for a Puseyite or a luna-
tic. These respectable gt,ttlemen would hold up their
hands in horror, at the bare mention of such a catalogue
reforms, and would look on the proposer of them as an
ecclestastical radical. Their notion is, that the Church

siqmld keep let well alone,' as ihey phrase it.
Thry would have all remain ,s they knew it in their
yming,r days,—jolly parsons, eauital fellows a'ter dinner,
fair riders, good whist players, exeelltnt-hearted men—
these are the sort of eltrgym,n 'hey would wish to see
p-rp. tuated, this is their beau We-al of what a clergyman
should be. All stir in the Church they deprecate; they
think it &ngerous; they know not what may come of it.
To expect them to aid in that regen, ration of our Church

which is at present in progress, to expect them to tend a
helping hand to what they so lit le comprehend, and so
frtr as they comprehend distrust, appears to us a very san-
guine, not to say a silly notion. No ! it may be th it the
Church is wholly beset by enemies, and his nothing to
hope for from any existing political tarty —it may be that
the Whig policy will not correspond to our anticipa!ions

of it, and the Church will at last be thrown wholly upon
herself and her own resources,—all this is yet in the womb
of time, and we pretend not to the gift of vat cination,—
but of one thing, at least, we are sure, the Protectionists
will he found by the Church but a bruised reed for her to
lean on. Already is there rife among Protectionists a feeling
of anger against the Clergy and the Church generally on
account of their tacit aquiescern e in the great event of the
last session, the repeal of the duties upon foreign grain.
That neither University should have petitioned against the
change, that the colleges shotrci have remained quiet, that
the Chapters should have looked on in seeming indif-
ference, that the Clergy should nowhere have made a stand,
that a majority of the Bishops should have voted for the
c measure—these are so many crimes on the part of the
Church, in the eyes of that parry which has made protec-
tion its battle-cry, and holds all other points as of secon-
da y importance. They are provoked, grievously provo-
ked at the quiescence of the clergy, and their apparent con-
tentedness under the new arr,ngement. They cannot un-
der,tand how a class, whose incomes are the most threat-
ened of any by the chana, should so readily submit t.. it.
They fal altogether to appreciate that noble and generous
s.-ntiment which has pervade the clerical body, and in-
duced the members of it to abstain from all interference,
with a lejslation, which, while it may fall indeed some-
what heavily upon themselves, promises to increase the
comforts, and ameliorate the condition of those for whom
they are especially b,,und to care, the poor of Christ's
11 alt. Instead of sympathising with such prais• worthy
self-denial, they are wont to acuse the clergy of deserting
them, and are not unfrequently heard to utter threats of
future retaliation.

HONOUR TO THE FAIR Sex!—At the risk of vexing
some who would not have ti eir good deeds brought too
Prominently forward, we cannot avoid making honoura-
ble mention of the remarkable pi- rseverance and devotion
.f the daughters of General S mcoe, who distinguished
himself in the American war. These ladies, 4.n the ruins
of 'he old Abbey of Dunkswell, near Honiton, have
erected a church, for which they worked all the stone with

their own hands A large drawing room, commenced by
the general, and not finished, s,rved for the al‘Per. We
have a worthy companion for these ladies, whose names we
mention with all due real. cot in Miss Rickards, of .Stow
Lanoott, Bury, who has, with her own hands,_as we hear,
glazed an the windows to—tier TaiSer'~' dhurcb.
stained glass, painted and burnt by herself!-Builder.

ADVICE TO AN INTENDIN SERIALIST.—I have, there-
fore, little opportunity of judging whoher the characters
depicted by some of our later reriallas, are exact copies
from nature or reverse. I have, however, heard several
young ladies declare them to be extrem. ly natural, though
I confess to have been somewhat puzzled as to their means
of accurate information. But I may be allowed en pas-
sant to remark, that it seems difficult to imagine what kind

of pleasure can be derived from the description of a scene,
which, if actually contemplated by the reader, would in-
spire him with loathing and disgust. or from conversa-
tions in which the brutal alternates with the positive ob-
scene. The fetid den of the Jew, the stinking cellar of
the thief, the squalid attic of the prostitute, are not
haunts tor honest men, and the less that we know of them
the better. Such places no doubt exist—the more is the
pity ; but so do dunghills, and a hundred other filthy
things, which the imagina,ion shudders at whenever they
are forced upon it,—tor the man who willingly and deli-
berately dwells upon such subjects, is, notwithstanding all
pretext, in heart and soul a nightman ! Don't tell me
about close painting after nature. Nature is tilt always
to he. `-‘1 as she really is. We

oe painteu ould you hang up such
paintings in your dravting-i. It not, why suffer them
in print to lie upon your tirawing-room tables ? What are
Fugene Sue and his English competitors, but coarser and
more prurient Ostades?—Bleckwood's Itlag.zine.
CURIOSITIES IN GARDENING —Gardening, as well as

literature, has its " curiositits," and a volume might be
filled with them. How wonderful, for instance, the sensi-
tive plant, which shrinks from the hand of man—the ice-
plant, that almost cools one by looking at it—the pitcher
plant, with its welcome draught—the air trigger of the
stylidium—and the caruiverous " Venus' fly-trap" (Dio-
nma muscipula—

" Only think of a vegetable being carniverous!")

which is said to bait its prickles with something which at-
tracts the flies, ut•on which it then closes, and whose de-

cay is supposed to afford food for the plant. Disease is
turned into beauty .ri the common and crested moss rose,
and a luaus nolu ce reproduced in the hen-and-chicken
daisy. There are phosphorescent plants, the fire-flies and

glowing-worms of the vegetable kingdom. There are the
microscopic lichens and mosses ; and there is the Rafflesia
Arnoldi, each of whose petals is a foot long, its nectary a
foot in diameter, and deep enough to contain three gallons,
and weighing fifteen pounds! What mimicry is there in
the orchises, and the hare's foot fern, and the Tartarian
lamb, (Polypodium Baroneylz !) What shall we say to
Gerard's Barnacle tree, " whereon do grow certain shells
of a white colour tending to russet, wherein are contained
little living creatures; w ich shells in time ‘,l maturity do