The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-27 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

-On:-Wednesday evening, about eleven o'clock, as two young
Men Were.Ptoceeding along the. Park-road, on their Way tnime,
they ware attacked by threc men, who were armed blud- •
geons. One of the. young men' was immediately felled; .the
other being extremely poWerfut, succeeded in knocking down
two of the. miscreants; and, upon assistance appearing, they
all three decamped, leaving behind them one of their weapons.
Two of the men were in the garb of sailors, the third was dressed
in a fustian jacket and trousers.. .
AccinENT,:—On Wednesday morning as a • bread-cart was
proceeding along the lower part of Park-lane the horse took
fright,' and made a start upon the Parapet, knocking 'down two
children; the cart-wheel passed over one of them, a boy about
seven years of age, and broke his leg in two places, the other
.escaped with' a Eight bruise on the head and a fright; the boy
was carried into a surgeon's in the neighbourhood, where he
was promptly attended to, and is now in a fair way of recovery.
The horse was stopped almost instantly; and appeared after-
ward§'extremely quiet.
It is stated that government has obtained a vote from the
House of Comthons of £15,000 on account of the Commission •
appointed to inquire into Municipal Corporations.—Will the
public be benefited fifteenpence by their labours ?—Salopian
Journal.-L[Of a surety the distribUtiOn of .fifteen thousand.
pounds among some thirty or forty young Whig laWvers,. must
redound to the honour and glory of the empire. With nothing
to eat. can they be expected to talk? Our respected contem-
porary appears also to • haVe overlooked the other advantages
that will arise from these commissions. In the liist place, they
arc admirablycalaulated to embody all the disaffection in the
country ; to create dissension where it does not. already exist;
to develop more' prominently the organs of destruction; and
lastly as a lever—Archimedes never dieamt.of one more power-
ful than this—by means of which the 'Whigs will uplift the most
venerable of our institution's from their very foundations.—
Edit'. Liverpool Standard.]
Lord Francis Leveson Gower, with a- fortune of £lOO,OOO.
a-year, is receiving half-pay as an ensign in the army; and
John B. Striven, Esq. a wealthy member of the Irish bar, and
King's counsel, is also on..the half-pay list, as lieutenant.—
Limerick Chronicle. :[Whether this be truly or falsely slated
we do not know; but we can hardly suppose that the writer of
this. contemptible piece of radical sneering is ignorant of the
fact, that half-pay is granted to the officers of the army and
navy as a retainer for services to be performed whenever the
exigencies of the state may require them. Until Lord Leveson
Gower has forfeited his right by some act of military insubordi-
nation, or the King has dispensed with his future services, . his
right to receive this half-pay.is as indisputable as his right to
any other part of his income. Gratuitous services are not in
any case accepted either in the army or navy,- on the good old
legal principle that no responsibility attaches to an agent whose
services are not paid for.--,-Edit. Liverpool Standard.]

On Wednesday, a most serious -riot occurred at a beer shop
in Crosbie-street, between two parties of Irishmen, and which
is likely to be attended with fatal results. In the midst of the
fray, the landlord, it appears, interfered and. stabbed three per-
sons; two, it is supposed, dangerously. .A party of puke was
immediately on the spot, and, through the promptitude and-
activity of Mr. Parlour, the landlord was taken Into custody.

On Wednesday night, as a gentleman was returning home
about nine o'clock, he was attacked by a gang of miscreants,
near to Mr. Ashcroft's farm, Kirkdale, anCrobbed of a Old
lever watch, seals, &e. and 19s. in money. The gentleinan
was knocked down and dreadfully beaten. AVe Understand
reward is offered for the discovery of the wretches.

C. W. WILLIAMS, ESQ.—We are glad to perceive by.the
following paragraph in the Limerick Chronicle that the exertions
of this public-spirited gentleman to improve. the inland naviga-
tion of Ireland are duly appreciated :—" Friday night, the
risinc, town of Killaloe was illuminated, and bonfires lighted up,
on the arrival of Mr. Charles Williams, of the Inland Steam
Navigation Company, to whose enterprise and very successful
efforts to improve the navigation of the Shannon the country
generally is deeply indebted.
COMFORTABLE .LODGINGS.—At. the Police Office, in New
York, in the month of July last, a case of slight importance
being investigated, it appeared in evidence that five families
were residing together in one cellar in the city. 'I he presiding
Magistrate asked one of the parties, a woman, if she did not
find it intolerable to live with so many persons in a cellar,
during such hot weather; to which the woman replied, that it
would not be so inconvenient to live with five families, only
one of them kept boarders.
A silversmith and jeweller, carrying on an extensive business
in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, London, was examined
on Monday at the pOlice-office, Marlborough-street, charged
with the felonious possession of a Bank of England note for
fifty pounds, the property of Mrs. Hampton. It appears from
the examination that the accused had both bought some dia-
monds of Mrs. Hampton, and had also sold to her several arti-
cles of plate and jewellery, and admitted that he had carried on
an intrigue with Ann Vickers, her maid, who is now in Maid-
stone jail to take her trial at the next assizes, for robbing her
mistress while at Margate. Mr. Chambers the magistrate re-
refusing to accept bail, the prisoner was again brought up on
the following day, when the other magistrates coneurriig with
him in opinion, he was fully committed for trial.
NEW AMERICAN STEAM-BOAT.—The New York papers de•
scribe a new steaih-veSsel recently launched in the following
lustrous terms. 'The blue and orange satin damask, and the
yellow and scarlet worsted damask, must be extensively splen-
did :—" We have rarely seen a more beautiful specimen of this
kind of naval architecture. She is 153 feet in length, and 23
in breadth, or, including the guards, presenting a deck of 50
feet wide. Her promenade deck is 116 feet long, and her
inirthen about 275 ton's. She is propelled by two low-pressure
engines of 120 horse-power, manufactured at the West Point
Foundry, and her boilers are of copper, staunch and strong.
The main cabin is spaciOus, being 74 feet long, and admits of a
table 64 feet in length. The gentle Men's cabin has 60 berths,
and the two cabins appropriated for the ladies 28 berths. The
former are decorated with curtains of yellow and scarlet worsted
damask, and the latter with splendid blue and orange satin da
mask, beautifidly feitooned, All the cabins are overspread
with handsome Brussels carpeting, and the furniture through-
out is of the best deScriptiOn. The ceilings are of ample height,
and the (leeks-spacious and unincumbered. We hate seen no
.boat of the same dimensions better adapted for convenience
and safety.than this; and added to her other accommodations,
she has a place for exit •at the stern, so that ladies may leave it
without being annoyed ,by the bustle and intrusion too com.
monly frequent at the usual side gangway."
THE NEW PlN.—Adam.. Smith devoted- a page of his Wealth
of Nations to the art of pin-making, in illustration of the division'
Of labour; the Spectator then may surely spare a paragraph to
the announcement of a new improvement in the manufacture of
pins, especially when, itis considered how much our fair readers
are interested in the perfecting of this minute but indispensable
item of the toilet. Numerous and sharp were the complaints of
the clumsy o'd-fashioned pins, whose heads were rudely formed
of a twisted coil of wire, not only unsightly, but apt to yield to
the pressure of the nail and wound the` delicate finger, endan-
gering the equanimity 'the fair one's
„temper as well as her
flesh. The pins at present in general use are a great. improve-
ment upon the old ones, both in the firmness of the head and
their neat appearance. The simile " neat as a new pin" has
risen in estimation accordingly. The head is still formed of a
separate piece of wire, but fashioned in the shape of a frustruth
of an inverted cone, and more firmly fixed on; but even these
heads have been known. to come off. To put this inconvenience
beyond the possibility of accident, the new improvement of
which we speak has been devised. The . patent •‘-inunoveahle,
solid-headed pin- 'consists of one entire piece of. metal;" the
head is formed of the wire of the pin itself; it nearly resemh:es
the conical head, but is smaller and neater. This may possibly.
be only a recurrence to the original mode of making pins, be-
fore the principle of the division of labour was known, and when
every individual pin was* made separately and at once, like a
nail, and as rudely fashioned. Be this as it may, the perfection
to which our manufactures are advancing is evidenced by the
last new pin, as well as by the most recent improvement of the
steam-engine.—Spectator.

Saturday last being St. Matthew's day, the election of two
bailiffs for the town _and liberties of Bridgnorth took place.—
After the jury had been sworn,. and locked up in the Guildhall
for about four hours, it was made known by their foreman that
choice had been made of Alderman Boucher, malster, and Al-
derman Jones, wine-merchant, to serve the office for the year
ensuing. Previous to the election of bailiffs; the hall was
crowded to excess, and much bustle and altercation took place,
in consequence of a large number of burgesses making their ap-
pearance, and roposing•two burgesses, (not in the corporation,)
office to serve the of bailiffs. Our correspondent says, the bust
ness is likely to be taken before a superior tribunal.—Salopian
Journal.
CAUTION TO WAGGONEES.—On Saturday last, a servant man
belonging to Mr. Lawrence, of Llynclys, near Oswestry, when
near the Gobowen,
.with his master's waggon loaded, was, in
consequence of drunkenness, thrown down, and. the wheels
passing over him, he was killed upon the spot.—And near the
same place, on the same day, another waggoner fortunately es-
caped the same fate, as he tell, but thc.wneel only passed over
his toes, -without doing much injury.—On Wednesday week, a
waggoner was killed near •Harkscott gate, in consequence of
the waggon going over him.
' DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF CHINA.—On the 15th July,.
died at Pekin, the consort of the Emperor of China. A general
mourning has been ordered in consequence.. The Montshur
employes are for twenty-seven days to wear garments of coarse
white linen, and caps without tassels or buttons; during one
hundred days- they must not shave their.heads. The Mongolia
employes are to aszumc the same mourning, with the exception
of the white garments. The Chinese people must leave their
heads unshaved Yor the same period, and are :to wear no tassels
on their caps tor seven days. The right of nominating the
Empress belongs to the Emperor's mother, who solicits, within'
three 'years, one ofthefive sponges of her son for that office--,
Russian paper.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A little boy at one of the hospitals
was frequently found in a most unseemly state. His age, of
two-years and a 'half, forbade the idea of his being druak,ito'say
nothing of his inability to walk to the gin-shop, or, when he
• was.there„ to pay for his drams. • Yet the general appearance of
the creature, as well as the odour of his breath, which ought, as
that of an infant, to have.been pure as new-made hay, pet mitted
no doubt of the fact: it was pronounced by'the doctors that the
small beast was drunk; in short, an habitual. diunkard. The
means of inebriety were discovered in the
,case of spirits of
wine used for the cupping-glasses ; it was found that the buy
took a cupping-glass too much ; the rogue had stolen a march
upon the . dotors ; his inquiring spirit had led him into the
secret of the
.spirit of wine; but, alas ! his knowledge stopped
short at its most direct use. This is always the result of a
smattering. The first use a .servant makes of his literature is
to read his master's letters; but this is no more an argument
against education, than this .drunkenness against burn-
ing spirits of wine. under the • cupping-glass. This march of
intellect is a mauvais pas when it halts : science must not be
taken at the wrong end, or the pupil will he found drunk .instead
of a doctor.—New Monthly.
Pohmeoh ivioNS.-Are these 'Unions conducive to the
spread of rational freedom ? Are they
.beneficial to the work-
ing classes; or rather, is knot clear and undeniable that they.
are fraught with immense and inealchhible mischief ? As to
freedom, they have it in their mouths, but their practice belies and
contradicts their assertions. They act the part of bullies, and
attemptto concuss Parliament into the adoption of all their
vagaries, crotchets, and absurdities. Their creed is, "No
taxes," and perhaps an agrarian law, "universal suffrage,"
and their grand aim, the ascendancy .of the worst of all tyrants,
the "mobocracy." It is fortunate that their ravings are
heeded and despised by the sensible, sagacious, and intelligent
public. It is a happy circumstance for Britain that the Unions
are so imbecile. These Unions of late have become public
nui-
sances, -which every sensible and patriotic man—every well-.
wisher to his speciesshould unite in endeavouring to discoun-
tenance and put down. To the working-classes they have been
productive of great evil, imbuing their minds with false and ab-
surd- notions of their own importance—swaying them in opposi-
s they can
timmtrin
to their fellow-citizens, surely as much interested in good
g
preteNnvdithtothbeeir—calundploexyecritsi7onth,eyhomtso
place•themselves in collision
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enterprise and talents they depend for subsistence. Happy
will it be for the country, but most of all will it be well for the
" Unionists" themselves, when Political Unions, and their ill-
; favoured progeny, the Trades' Unions, are consigned to the
"tomb of all the Capulets," to which place of rest we sincerely
trust and fervently pray these anomalous and unconstitutional
combinations will soon be consigned, never more to raise their
" hideous fronts."—Caledoniam llteroury.