The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

August 13, 1844.

FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

The French government has received the following

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
" Accounts from Tangier of the 2d of August state,
that at that period the term granted to the Emperor had
expired, and that no answer had been returned to the last
letter of M. de Nion.
" But the Gregoire, which left Tangier on the night. uI
the 3d, brings the news that at the moment when hostili-
ties were about to commence, a letter received from the
Emperor gave full powers to the Pasha of Larache to ne-
gotiate for peace.
"The Emperor, moreover, apprized the Pasha that be
was about to write a letter to the Prince de JOinville
which would secure the re-establishment of friendly re-
lations."

THE WEST INDIES.—It is arrang-d that the emirs'
tion of coolies to the West India colonies shall, in the
first instance, be limited to 15,000, and of these 5000 q 6
allotted for Jamaica. The only three colonies included
the preliminary arrangement are Jamaica, Trinidad, and
Demerara ; so that on this principle, if allotted, we pre-
sume that the division of the 15,000 will be equal.
THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.—His Royal Highness wall
expected to arrive in this country yesterday (Monday)
It is said that after the Prince has seen every thing bet',
worth notice in the metropolis he will make a tour through
Scotland and Wales.

In the case of the Marquis of Hertford and Suisse, tie
French Court have decided against the latter, who will
consequently have to refund 800,000 f.
MR. JOHN PARRY.—This versatile and accomplished
singer will appear in Liverpool next month, having beta
engaged by Mr. Webster, upon the strength of his recce
popularity at the Haymarket Theatre.

SUICIDE.—On Thursday last an old woman named Ea'
ther Lawler, living in Charlotte-place, North Birkenheaof
hung herself in the garret of her house. She had mad°
an ineffectual attempt to drown herself previously.
REMOVAL.-o-It will be seen by an advertisement in'
serted in another column, that Mr. Hill, auctioneer, bll3
removed his sale-rooms from St. John's-lane, to the more
extensive premises in Hanover-street.

DEFECTIVE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—On n 1.40
last the Mayor held a court for the purpose of hearing al'
formations against parties who had had defective weights
and measures. Twenty-five persons were fined in sums
varying from sa. to 14a. 6d.

The Rev. Mr. Brooks, youngest son of the Rev. Jona-
than Brooks, senior rector, has been appointed to the
curacy of St. George's Church, in the Crescent, in the,
room of the Rev. Mr. Leigh, promoted to the vicarage og ,
Walton-on-the- Hill.

THE PROROGATION.—It will be seen from our parlia•
mentary report that on Friday the House of Lords ad'
journed to the 2d,.and the House of Commons to the sth
September. This is, of course, to admit of the return, in
the meantime, of the judges from their circuits, when
judgment on the writ of error will be given.
HOYLAKE RACES.—The programme of the forthcoto:
ing races at this delightful watering-place will be publisheel
this day, and promises excellent sport. On the first daYt
a silver cup, the gift of Mr. Gough, of the Woodside
Hotel, will be contested for. Mr. Gleave, of the Adelpto
Hotel, also contributes a silver cup.
SUPREMACY OF THE POPE.—Bishop Baggs havid
announced his intention to preach upon this subject lasC
Sunday week, at Manchester, the Rev. J. H. Maguire, 0i
that town, addressed a letter to the Bishop, in which h.
asked him to substitute some day in the week when he
(Mr. M.) might be present, or else to publish the ser-
mon, and Mr. Maguire pledged himself to a prompt repli•

THE ABOLITION OF IMPRISONMENT OF DEBT.--in
above act, which received the Royal assent on Friday 07
commission, came into operation on Saturday, when
number of debtors who had been imprisoned in the differ'
ent metropolitan prisons for debts under £2O, were lib°.
rated. and the same course will be adopted in all tbe,
other gaols throughout the country, with the exception 01
those persons who stand committed for penalties due t°
the Crown. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex be"
given directions to the keepers of the respective gaols 11;
the county, not to take in any person whose debt is wide
the sum stated in the act.

PUBLICANS AND BEERSELLERS FINED ON FRIDAit.r„
Edward Sumners, publican, Vauxhall-road, 80s. •,,..0"„;
Anderson, Buist, publican, Key-street, 80s. ; 'Jltra,),"
Crook, beerseller, Leeds-street, acquitted ; Eliesue—
Lynes, beerseller, Freemason's-row, £5, (fourth convic-
tion ;) Peter Moody, beerseller, Pall-mall, 00s. ; Ellen
Forest, beerseller, Bostock-street, 40s. ; Philip avines-'
ley, beer-seller, Dryden-street. acquitted ; Thomas Sot'
ton, beerseller, Leeds-street, 50s. ; James Nolan, beer-
seller, Bevington-bush, £5; Elizabeth Houghton, beer-
seller, Cherry-lane, 20s. ; William Pritchard, Publics"'
Edmund-street, 50s. ; and Richard Moffitt, beerseller,
Coburg-street, acquitted.
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CHARGE OF STABBING A WIFE.—A person n-..tn.
John Dogherty was charged at the Police-court on
wife
day with stabbing his wife. The prisoner and
ruin!°]..`alowastL
live in a cellar in Dale-street, and on Sunday
quarrel took place, when the wife of the prisonweroun
d ten
with a knife across the abdomen, inflicting
inches long. The prisoner's wife stated
herself, but
her, when she took up the knife to defend •
"nflicted on her
could not tgll, how the wound had been
apprehended, said he
person. TN prisoner, on being
Rushton.
wished he had cut off his wife's head. Mr.
Web
after observing that this was one of those cases in which
he feared the affection of the wife induced her to scree
her husband, ordered the prisoner to be discharged.
THE CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—The radical
papers have recently made the most of a charge brought
against the Rev. Mr. Uresswell, incumbent of St. Peter's
Church, Stockport, of a most horrible nature. The local
papers from the first discredited the charge, and at the
Chester Assizes, last week, the grand jury ignored tbe bill-
tbe,
that ahad beaten
The Stockport Advertiser of Friday states that at
time the alleged off, nce was committed, the reverend gen%
tleman was in a state of extreme physical debility and
mental alienation, which, independent of other circepti,
stances, rendered it in the highest degree probable tO._
he could be neither morally nor legally responsible for nal
actions. The unfortunate gentleman still remainLifr
Chester in the same deplorable condition, both men.'
and physically, and is of course totally unconscious
the failure of the charges brought against him ; and it
very probable that death will shortly terminate bis suffer-
ings.
THE MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND 81LL.—...e Th effect
of this measure, introduced in the House of Comran";,!
on Monday evening, will be, to establish an equity of Pe",
sions all over the country ; to divide the seamen into 51,,,
classes, the first class to comprise the seamen eras%
disabled, the second to consist of seamen totally bleaf
with the rates of pensions, as follows ;—At the age
fifty and upwards, seamen partially unfit for service, ex-
cept by habits of intemperance, to receive a pension of
£-1 per annum ; at sixty-three years and upwards, 0110.
the merchant seaman is entirely unable to earn wages`
~
and if he has complied with the conditions with resPrd
to the contribution, he will be entitled to receive a pens",
of £8 instead of £4 per annum. With regard to pensioile
to widows, with the exception of widows of advanced It
at the period of the death of their husbands, it is propos`;
to abolish altogether pensions to widows, and give as,
substitute gratuities. The gratuity would be £4 whic
would be given at the husband's death. The pensions... to
,
children to be altogether dispensed with. In introduell
the bill, Mr. Gladstone said he thought the best 014
would be to deduct a sum from the gross fund in order
make a fund for the sick; and intimated that the rig h°
of existing pensioners would be respected. The bill
read a first time and will be proceeded with next sesein

MARRIED.
On the Ioth instant, at Carmarthen, South Wales, by' tbol
Rev. David Hughes, Mr. THOMAS ANDREW, DraPfr.ior,
Manchester, son of the late Joseph Andrew, Esq., solic,itpe
Nottingham, to MARY ELIZABETH, only daughter 0,
late JOHN SMITH JONES, Esq. of the former place.
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