The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

M INCING-LANE.-YESTERDA Y.

The only movement in the market to-day is that Rice is
selling freely at an advance of 6d. on Friday's public prices.
A speculation chiefly founded upon, the potato blight is the
cause.

THE POLICE-COURT.—There were yesterday no fewer
than 139 persons brought up at the Police-court, the
gathering made from Saturday to Monday. Several of
the cases, as will be found by our report elsewhere, re-
quired considerable time and patient attention, yet, not-
withstanding, Mr. Rushton effected his daily gaol delivery
by half-past four in the afternoon.
A DEAD CHILD FOUND.—On Sunday, a gentleman
residing in Shaw-street observed a great crowd of women
on a vacant piece of ground adjoining that street, and on
going up found that they had discovered the dead body of
an infant under a cart that was "kecked" or turned
upside down. None of them, however, appeared desirous
of giving information to the police, and he himself sent
an officer from St. Anne-street, so that the case will be
investigated by the coroner.
The Rev. Moses Margoliouth has just returned from his
interesting missionary expedition, which he undertook
about this time last year. We understand that the reve-
rend gentleman is in possession of most interesting infor-
mation about the state of the Jews in France, Italy,
North Africa, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine, the countries
he visited in a missionary capacity. Mr. M.'s early edu-
cation peculiarly fitted him for such an expedition. We
cannot help expressing our enest wish that the result of
his researches may ere long be laid before the public.
MORE CHILD POISONING. On the 17th instant an
inquest was held at Misson, Nottingham, on view of the
body of Joseph Roberts, a child two years and a half old,
who died from the effects of a mixture, prepared by the
mother, which she called " anodyne," and composed of
portions of opium, treacle, and carraway seeds. The
mixture was taken by the mother in a bottle into a field
where she was at work, haymaking, in order to give to a
younger child, which she had been in the habit of drug-
ging from its birth.
MURDER.—A few evenings since a woman, named Re-
becca Gill, in the company of another female, was walk-
ing along the South Parade, Bath, at which time a num-
ber of persons were passing towards the railway. She
asked her companion whether she knew where the people
came from ? A man, named Edward Smith, overheard
her, and said she " had insulted him, and he was deter-
mined to break her head." Having followed her for some
distance, he gave her a blow under her left ear, which
knocked her down, and deprived her of her senses for
some time. She was taken bleeding to the hospital,
where she eventually died. Smith was fully committed
for trial at the next assizes.
COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE-COURT.—
Yesterday, a considerable number of thieves and riotous
characters were charged with violently assaulting or inter-
cepting persons in the streets, with a view to plunder,
loitering about dnring the night, robbing people of their
money, and the like. They were all either committed for
trial, or sent to prison and hard labour for two or three
months. Mr. Rushton remarked that many parts of the
town were so infested by these marauders that they were
scarcely passable, but he was resolved so far as the law was
available to put down a practice so dangerous and dis-
graceful. John Nutman, for robbing a man named John
John Hughes, of his watch, (value £3,) was sent for trial
at the sessions.
EFFECTS OF SOCIALISM IN FRANCE.—On Friday even-
ing, Mr. Brindley, principal of Tarvin-hall School, deli-
vered a very interesting and Cvle lecture on this subject,
in the Liver Theatre, which was crammed to suffocation
by a highly respectable audience the moment the doors
were opened. The Rev. F. Parry, incumbent of St. Cle-
ment's Church, Windsor, took the chair, and among
the other gentlemen present were, the Rev. J. R. Conor,
Rev. W. Hughes, C. S. Parker, Esq., John:Hay, EN.,
G. G. Watson, Esq., &c„ &c. Mr. Brindley first drew
the attention of his audience to the fearful consequences
that have resulted from the unchecked dissemination of
socialist or communist doctrines in France. He then
showed that such principles must always produce such re-
sults: whence the propriety of having counteracted their
evil influences in this country before they arrived at ma-
turity. He then contended that the extinction here of
socialist or communist bodies is matter of congratulation
—should excite in us increased gratitude towards that
good Providence that has sustained us amidst such at-
tacks upon onr religion and laws—should keep alive in us
those sentiments of loyalty that have ever characterised
Englishmen, and have been the marks of their regard for
those civil and religious privileges which, united with a
wholesome restraint upon licentiousness, keep England
peaceful and great amidst the convulsions that so fearfully
agitate the rest of Europe. Mr. Brindley met with a most
enthusiastic reception from all parts of the house. Every
portion of his admirable address received the most voci-
ferous cheering, and at the close the audience rose with
one accord and as if by concert, and sang with great effect
the national anthem,