The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

r sists of six men, the fish are parted in seven lots, one for
each man and one for the boat. Each fisherman chooses
a small stone, conceals it from his neighbour, and puts it,
along with the others, into the lap of one of the women,
who is bound in honour not to look down while this pro-
cess is in progress. The woman then lays a stone on each
lot, and as every fisherman knows his own stone, he is at
no loss to decide which is his lot. There is no dispute in
this mode of apportionment, and it has this particular
advantage, it prevents disappointment when at any time
one or two fishes of more than ordinary value are caught.
The seventh lot is for the purpose of maintaining a fund
out of which the boat may be repaired so long as she is
fit for sea,.and a new one built when the old one is wrecked
or useless. When the fish are carried to the shed, all
hands set to work to dress them. They are, however,
generally cleaned and salted, or cured, by the women, as
many only being preserved in a fresh state as may serve
to supply the neighbouring market or the nearest farmers.
In the evening, and for the first half of the night, the men
go to rest. The women now bait the lines, or rather the
hooks on the lines, all of which had been carefully exa-
mined and made secure by the men in the afternoon.
In this employment every one has a part to perform.
For sixteen at least out of the twenty-four hours of good
sea-going weather, the fisherman's family are busied with
something or other, and when the prevalence of bad wea-
ther interrupts the usual routine, the time is spent in
making nets, mending lines, and preparing stock-fish for
the south markets. This description applies to what is
called home-fishing, which is conducted mostly in winter.
In the early part of summer, some five or six boats' crews
man their largest boats, and, accompanied by several of
their daughters, proceed to the Western Islands to pursue
the cod and ling fishery. When at the Lewis, or the
Harris, or at the islands of Tiree or Skye, these fishermen
pay a small sum of money, or a certain number of fish,
for the use of one or more huts, as circumstances may
require. The islanders have little or no communication
with them, and as their time is fully taken up either in
catching or curing the cod, the six weeks occupied in this
way are spent in comparative isolation. Having dried the
codfish on the rocks, they are carefully packed in the
boats about the middle or end of June, and carried to
Glasgow, where they are sold. The money thus obtained
is chiefly laid out in the purchase of clothing, coal, and
fishing-gear, all of which are to be had of better quality,
and at lower prices, in Glasgow than nearer home. Pass-
ing through the Forth and Clyde canal. the boats return
in the beginning of July. This is a merry time for the
villagers, when all has gone well during the season.
Every preparation is now made for the herring fishery,
which is carried on at various points on the east coast.
To some one or other of these the fishermen now resort,
taking with them, as in the former case, some of the
women to cook and wash for them in their lodgings. In
prosecuting the herring fishery, the men are at work all
night and the women all day. This fishery continues for
six or eight weeks, and in fair average seasons yields good
returns. The usual stipulation is to fish for two hundred
crans or barrels, at a certain fixed sum for. each barrel
caught. At the rates paid to the fishermen by the curer
last year, one boat's crew would receive for a full fishing
£230. On the faith of this, the fishermen often contract
debts, however, which they can seldom pay when the
fishery fails, and hence the practical advantages of the
system are in no respect to be compared with those which
result from the other modes of fishing either at the islands
or at home. In September, the fishermen are in their
own cottages again ; and, in prospect of winter, a club of
six or eight persons is formed, and a sum of money sub-
scribed, in equal proportion, for the purpose of buying
what they call a mart, that is an ox or fat cow to be
killed and salted as winter provisions; the marts are ge-
nerally purchased at one of the autumn fairs, and in one
day they are all slaughtered. A stranger entering the
village on this occasion would almost fancy that he was
"; amongst a set of savage barbarians, every strand being
filled with blood, and the women carrying hither and thi-
ther creels full of beef and offal. In dividing the marts,
the same mode of distribution is practised as in the case
of parting the fish on return from sea. During the dark
• season, the salted meat is used alternately with fish; and
as every fisherman calculates on growing a few bolls of
potatoes, the ground for which he obtains from the near-
est farmer in return for his fish-offal, there is generally
no want of good wholesome food all the season through
—lioyg's Weekly blYillictor

RIOT AND DESPERATE COLLISION WITH THE
POLICE, IN LONDON.

(From the Sun of Monday.)
When our reporter returned from Trafalgar-square to
The Sun office, shortly before three o'clock, for the pur-
,pose of framing the report of the Income Tax meeting,
which appeared in our last edition, he was led to believe
that the people would quietly disperse : indeed, a great
j many left the place, but it seems that as many persons as
the number mentioned in our last edition—namely 10,000
jor 12,000 remained, apparently with no settled purpose.
No expressions, as far as we were able to ascertain,
escaped the crowd that remained after the termination of
the meeting, from which one might judge of the settled
purpose which they had in view. He heard one man cry
out—in French—" Death to Guizot," " Long live the
Republic," but he seemed afraid that any one should
observe that he was the utterer of such sentiments.

4- At two o'clock, or a little after, a great number of the
Volice took up their position in different parts of the
Isquare, and proceeded simultaneously to clear away the
iFrowd, who resisted the rather summary way in which
ifhey began to put their orders into force. In facr the
:teople—and it is right to state that a vase number of them
el.q young men and boys of the labouring 'claw's—did not
lish the interference of the police, who in order the
ietter to accomplish their object, smote with too much
iolence right and left. They were assailed with the most
iscordant yells, and we saw several stones thrown at
hem. Some were severely punished; and the truncheon
irf one was wrested from him and thrown into the basin
smidst cheers. A little boy was struck so violently across
thehead by one of A division, of whose violence a great
many complained to us, that he fell, and the blood flowed
tram beneath his cap. A young man was knocked down
tike a bullock by one of the same division, and carried off
ror dead.

I It is right to mention that the tempers of the police
Were sorely tried. When we saw them strike, they did so
trial unnecessary force, and seemed altogether to have lost
their tempers. Many respectable persons with whom we
entered into conversation, agreed in opinion that if the
police had not interfered, no acts of violence would have
seen committed. Between thirty and forty men and boys
nave been taken into custody for assaulting the police in
;he execution of their duty. Some of them are severely
wounded about the head. A great many were taken to
the Charing-cross Hospitals to have their wounds dressed.
Inspector Baker, 19 A, had his eye-lid severely cut
Frith a stone ; he received also a severe wound at the hack
Of his head, and was obliged immediately to go to the
turgeon of the force.

Aliout three o'clock that portion of the palings of the
elson monument nearest the National Gallery were torn
own, and a number of men and boys got on the plinth
$ the column. Two or three persons who stood on the
margin of the basins were pushed in out of sheer fun, and
ilid not escape without a severe ducking. Police constable
4S A had his eyes severely cut, and the police are more or
less injured.
The greater portion of the police were withdrawn at
tvalf-past five o'clock, and as soon as they went order was
in a great measure restored.
.4.-We have seldom seen a mob more inveterate against
he police. Had they not mustered in such large num-
bers some must have been killed, for there were bitter
cries of " Throw them into the basin." The people
were exasperated at being struck with their truncheons.
ue fierce rushing to and fro of large knots,of people
sed by the police, now closing upon them, then strug-
gling fiercely, and shouting with all their might, with the
bitons striking away in all directions, had the appearance
4of a formidable riot, looking down upon it from the steps
4f St. Martin's Church. The club windows, and in fact
civery available spot from which a view of the conflict
Ould be obtained, were crowded.

. .On Tuesday and Wednesday, mobs of the lower orders
again assembled in Trafalgar-square and the neighbour-
hood of Charing-cross. They were composed of the low-
,f3t class, and of boys from sixteen to eighteen years of
age. The police were, however, on the alert ; •and though
Many windows and lamps were broken, and the streets
kept in continual confusion, no further outbreak took
place. At Bow-street police-office, an Tuesday, Mr.
Jardine was occupied the entire (lay disposing' of no less
than ninety charges arising out of the.disturbances, which
cainsisted of assaults upon the police by boys resisting
them in the execution of their duty, throwffig stones and
other missiles, and other acts of violence and resistance.

DREADFUL RIOTS IN SCOTLAND.---TRE MILI-
TARY CALLED OUT.
(Frons oar Second Edition of Tuesday la t.)
: the unemployed operatives in GlasgUW were last week
in rather an excited state, and assembled very
tiro numbers on Friday, to be addressed by one of the
ading chartists. They, however, separated peaceably ;
but it will be seen by the subjoined copy of a letter which
Flikv been received by the master of the Exchange News-
r ›tti m, in this town, that their peaceable intentions have
apt been of long continuance. - •

Extract from a initiate letter dated Glasgow, Monday
evening
_ .

The city is in great confusion and excitement. Sere-
r4l. shops broken into and gutted, by the unemployed,
vibe are marching about with guns, &c. The gunsmith's
idksp in Exchange-square, and the gOldsmith's shop in
nuelianan-street are forced in ; the former is cleared of
its contents, and the windows smashed. All shops are
*bed, and the streets crowded. Several shots were
fiied in Buchanan-street a few minutes age." • ,
TThe following despatches contain the latest .iiitelli-
Oque

GLASGOW, MONDAY, 4 P.M

t.'! ♦ chartist riot i 3 at this moi►ient taking place in this
64. The mob are breaking open the guns►niths' silo".
Ill* one next our ethos is now being pillaged: The cry
DOwn with the Queen !' The mob is .COMposed of
1000 persons. Two policemen shot." . .
" lIALF-PAST

'"The city is now quiet, but from the number of guns
adolen it is feared that there will be fresh outbreaks during
the• night. The military are posted in Varidui .PFP. and
ailarge body in the Royal Exchange. The shops of jevr_
eitlers and gunsmiths have all been more or less pillaged.
41,business is suspended."
; • "EDINBURGH, 11 O'CLOCK, P.m.
" 150 dragoons have jest left for Glasgovr. The mob
are increasing. They are pulling up the rails on the Pais.
14 and Airdrie railway. 600 of the 71st foot 'have just
test for Glasgow." .
.The turbulent mob renewed their-hostilities on Tuesday
afternoon, though all appeared quiet when our last de-
sictatches were published. The riots were recommenced
*id Bridgeton, by an attempt to Stop a mill which was at
work. Eighteen eirmed out-pensioners were on the spot,
100'haying- boen ordered to fire, an old man was 4hot

through the head at the corner of Muslin-street. A
younger man was also shot, and three young boys, who
chanced to be near the place where the people were as-
sembled, were shot, but were still alive. The excitement
amongst the working population from the mills, who by
this time were collected in crowds, was very great. Soon
afterwards a troop of cavalry entered Bridgeton at a can-
ter, and were received by the populace with great cheer-
ing. In the midst of the display, one of the dead bodies
of the men who had been shot was carried down Main-
street on a deal board, supported on the shoulders of six
or eight mer, and followed by a concourse of mourners,
who ever and anon shouted " A military murder !" The
dragoons at once made way for the passage of the mourn-
ful cortege, by taking the other side of the road, so that
the body and its followers passed without interruption.
The cause of the disaster was, that a number of boys had,
in the, first instance, commenced throwing stones at the
out-pensioners, that one boy was made prisoner for so
doing, that the crowd effected his rescue, and that Police-
captain Smart gave orders to fin, whe❑ five individuals
fell after the first discharge.
By the evening the excitement. increased to such a de-
gree that the shops and warehouses were closed. Large
bodies of military parade the leading localities in all parts.
The banks and principal public offices were guarded with
military.

The police-offices of the city were, towards night,
crowded with prisoners to the number of 100. Upwards
of sixty guns and other weapons were taken from the
rioters, and on the persons of the prisoners were found
quantities of cheese, butter, ham, barley, as well as pow-
der-flasks and powder.
During the greater part of Tuesday night the mob re-
mained in the streets, but they were quiet.
Every thing was quiet on Wednesday, and business
proceeded as usual, though the town was in a state of
excitement.

A man named Campbell, one of the persons wounded
on Tuesday, by the fire of the pensioners, died on Thurs-
day, in consequence of the injuries then received by him.
This is the third death which has now resulted from the
fatal collision between the populace and those armed for
the preservation of the peace.

On Tuesday an attempt at disturbance was made in
Edinburgh, of the same kind as that of Glasgow. The
Riot Act was read, and the military obliged to be called
out before the mob dispersed. The town, at the latest
intelligence, was quiet, but considerable mischief was
done to property. About a thousand street-lamps were
broken. About fifty persons have been apprehended.
On Friday, a body of colliers paraded the streets of Air-
dree, about ten miles from Glasgow. They seemed dis-
satisfied, and evidently meant to create a disturbance.
They were joined by one or two agitators fryn Glasgow.
LEITH.—A chartist meeting took place on Friday. The
following paragraph from the placard will show the cha-
racter of the proceeding :—" Working men—To you espe-
cially we say come forward and hear what republican
France is now doing for the good of the sons of the soil."
The building was densely crowded ; but the people con-
ducted themselves throughout in a very orderly manner.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Ten o'clock.

[ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS.]

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.

THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, ESQ., MAYOR,

PUBLIC NOTICE.

THE Mayor has received the following LETTER :
" Liverpool, 13th March, 1848.
St am directed to represent to your Worship the great
inconvenience to the Merchants, Brokers, and others frequent-
ing the Exchange Room and the Area of the Exchange Build-
ings, by the large Assemblies of Persons for some time past,
and greatly increasing the last few days it is felt as a very se-
rious interruption to business. Your Worship's attenti on is,
therefore, requested to the circumstance. And the Committee
further request that the Area may be protected, for the
use of the Mercantile body, to which it is exclusively appro-
priated by Act of Parliament.

" I have the honour to remain,
" Sir, respectfully, your most obedient servant,
" HARMOOD BANNER,
" Chairman of the Committee of the Liverpool
Exchange Buildings.
"To the Worshipful the Mayor,
Thomas B. Horsfall, Esq., &c. &c."

In reply, the Mayor has assured the Exchange Committee
that he will take measures to carry their wishes into effect.

NOTICE IS HERi.:BY GIVEN,
That no MEETINGS of Persons, similar to those which have
been holden during the last few days, will be permitted ; and
Orders have been given to the Head Constable to DISPERSE
all Persons who shall hold similar Meetings on the Area of the
Exchange.

...
THOMAS B. HORSFALL, Mayor,
Town-hall, 13M March, 1848.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL

PUBLIC NOTICE.
THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, ESQ., MAYOR.
THE MAYOR and MAGISTRATES having ob-
served that a large number of Persons have for several
(lays past ASSEMBLED on the EXCHANGE and in the neigh-
bourhood thereof,

Do HEREBY CAUTION
all well disposed PERSONS to ABSTAIN from ASSEMBLING
in the STREETS and PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES of the
BOROUGH.

Many Persons attend these Meetings as mere Spectators,
without any intention of taking part with those who may have
other and evil designs, but the Mayor and Magistrates remind
all such Persons that by so acting thty encourage the dis-
affected, become responsible for the acts of the crowd with
which they mingle, create alarm in the minds of many peacea-
bly disposed Persons, and expose themselves to injury and
punishment in the event of any active Measures being resorted
to by the Authorities for the preservation of the Public Peace.
THOMAS B. HORSFALL, ➢fayor.
Town-hall, 13th March, 1848.

KINSALE ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL.

B. Hawes....
Lord Chinton

At the Repeal Association yesterday, the Earl of Mil-
town took the chair, having joined the association in ful-
filment of a pledge given by him to do so, " if justice was
not done to Ireland."

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tms D.Y.
The news from here, of apprehended disturbances, sent to
London by telegraph yesterday, together with the state of
French financial matters, still further depressed prices there.
This has been followed by a further decline here, with more
sellers. The quotations of this morning's meeting of our
Stock Exchange were as follow :
_ _ _

Caledonias,`i9a. East Lancashire new, 62 dis. London Stock,
130 130#; new 4-shares. 21 2i pm. Sheffield Preference, dis.
par. Midland Stock,.loo, i-shares, 53 dis. North Stafford,
dis. Dover, No. 4, 31 3 dis. Berwick, new, tg pin. New-
castle l'reference, pm.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-THIS DAY
The arrivals into this port, during the week ending yesterday
contain a fair supply of Wheat, 0,, nna o,tmeal, with a
moderate quantity of Flour from i 1 eland, and several narce!s of
Grain coastwise; the imports from abroad, forming m• rely
9857 qrs. of Indian Corn, 5177 barrels or ,orn and 1117
barrels of Flour exclusively from the United States, having none-
recently in from the continent of Europe.
Although we had a good attendance of buyers at this day's
market, and the prices of Wheat were rather above those of
Friday, they scarcely reached the currency of this day week,
and the business done was only moderate.
American Flour at late prices; sack Flour in rather more
-Id the turn dearer.
dalt, Beans, and Peas remained unvaried.
slow request, and id. per 451bs. cheaper. Oatmeal
late prices.
orn was rather
talities of white
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Teal 6d. lower

request, an
Barley, NI
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the best quo
yellow near
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easier t

were 1
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:o purchase to-day, and while
s. cheaper: prime qualities of
quotations.

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