The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

years ago

us turn of mind,

esolution of laying her views before
, if po-sible, of converting him to
ir that purpose actually went over

n place of succeeding, however. she was her
Ito the tenets of the Roman Church. Thi

deplored ; but

under

d. An

stances, almost
si4stic, and—as
—weak-minded

id unadvised, to tht

iposition. was

midst all the blandishments and pa-
ity, and the wiles by which she would

er intentions

means of art
opening in a

of Excise, on F

were .fine

paid by the licensed y

of the Bridge Hot

The def
I license,

to be al

the common hangman, setting forth that he had a rig
a particular seat in the high church, and complaining that
the door-keeper refused him admission. The Lord Pro-
vost considered the behaviour of the door-keeper imper-
tinent and unjustifiable, in preventing any one going to
church. The petition was referred to his lordship's com-
mittee, to ascertain whether the executioner had a right
vas assn- , to a seat ex officio, and to report, &c. !

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.-70n Friday last a fine boy
of five years old, named Pi enderwell, was brought to
Guy's Hospital after having drunk boiling water from the
spout of a teakettle. The rapid swelling and inflamma-
tion which ensued, had so completely obstructed the air
passage that death from suffocation seemed inevitable, and
it was deter Mined at once to open the windpipe below the
seat of mischief, as the only chance of saving life. Before
this could be accomplished the child bad quite ceased to
breathe, and his life was appearing wholly extinct. By

suiration carried on through the
ipe. animation was soon restored,

and the child is now rapidly recovering

THE IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.—A return has been
printed of the number of oxen and bulls, cows, calves,
sheep, lambs. swine, and hog., imported into the United
Kingdom, since the sth and 6th Victoria, c. 47, anno
1842 ; specifying the total quantities in each year ending
the sth day of January. In 1843, there were imported
of oxen and bulls, 3,156; cows, 1,038; calves, 70; sheep,
634 ; lambs, 10 ; swine and hogs, 410. In 1844; the
numbers were respectively-1,114; 368; 39; 210; 7;
361. In 1845-3,710 ; 1,155 ; 55 ; 2,801 ;16 ; 271. To-
tal of the importations from the passing of the act (July
9. 1842) to January 5, 1845-7,980 ; 2,561 ; 164 ; 3,645 ;
33 ; 1,042.
PROTECTION OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—In the

convicted of retailing spirituous liquors in
Without having a retail license, and they
cb information £5 10s., which is the sum
• -4naller for his license. The pro-
cases were instituted by the licensed
who have been much injured by the " sample
At the same court, Rebecca Downing,
Tap, London Bridge, was fined £l5O,

dant had sold under the authority of

court have fr

aently declared

rated Dissentin

arrive(

:id tempi

went o

tion, i

THE LATE REV SYDNEY SMITH.—We announced in
our last the death of this well-known divine, by which a
canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral has become vacant. Mr.
Smith was partly educated in Edinburgh, where he re-

sided for some time, in company with Lord Brougham,
Lord Jeffrty, the late Sir James Mackintosh, and others.
In conjunwion with the above eminent men, he com-
menced the Edinburgh Review, which was under his

ted during the mos'
period of his life MI

was indebted in a gr(
Most people will recoil

Edinhurgh. and

o which he cor
fe. During till

not in very affluent cir-
ent he obtained he

11 the advanc

eat measure to his own industry
joke of his residing ii

rature on a little oat-

meal." It is but justice to say that the Edinburgh Re.
view had no contrihntor to its paeci more witty than Mr.
Smith. Indeed, with Lord Jeffrey, he was its principal
period, and, as a critic, he will be
It is impossible to regard Mr.

support for a very to

ss to the light critical literature
inexhaustible, which, combined

literary labours were princi-
the Ediniurgh Review; his only
" Peter Plimley's Let-
eat care, and produced

formidable toe on subjects whc
called forth. Mr. Smith
pally bestowed ul
published work of
ter•," which were writ

peared

We believe ther
ind was v(

Sri;ith's turn of

the Whig paity

Mr. Smith's

an be no doubt that -Mr.
unsuited for the calling of
a will be especially felt by

ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF.—On Tuesday the bill
(brought into the House of/Commons by Mr. Watson
and Lord John Manners) was printed entitled. " A bill
tor tne repeal of enactments imposing pains and penaltie
upon her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects on
of their relikion." There are only two sections in the

measure. The preamble refers to certain penal enact-
ments made against her Majesty's Roman Catholic
subjects, and declares that, notwith-tanding the provisions
of the said act, her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects do

gious belief orprofesainn.,to sundry punishmen

penalties, and ells

Cain acts passed by the Parliament of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland respectively, and to which punish-
ments, &c., none other of her Majesty's subjects are
liable : that it is expedient that all such punit•hments,
pains, and penalties, shall for ever be repealed and taken
away, and also that all such and so many of the aforesaid
disabilities shall be in like manner repealed and taken
away as do not in anywise relate to the holding of offices,

judicial, civil, collegiate. or eccle:•iagical, or to pre-ent-
ing to ecclesiastical benefices, or as do not in any other
manner tend to the better securing and strengthening the
present Church establishment, and the present civil go-
vernment, and the settlement of property within the

The first section recites the provisions of the
acts to be rei ealed to secure the objects of the bill. The
1 Elizabeth, c. 1 ; 13 Elizabeth,
3 James 1., c. 4 ; 13 and 14
11., c. 2 ; 30 Charles 11., c. 1 ;
111., c 60; 31

statutes mentioned are—
c. 2; 1 James I , c. 4
Charles c. 4 ; 25 Charles
11 and 12 William 111
George 111., c

4 ; Geor

32 ; and 10 George- IV., c.

3 mere formal provision to repeal or

amend t'e measure

fa►her:

Mar. 4, 1845.

the most
sits. ever

recollected to. have been imported in one vessel,' con-
sisting of no
.less than 2000 casks and 3000 cases of
brandy, the duty on which alone, if paid, would amount

The in

to the sum of nearly £60,000. —wortation in this
instance, however, being from America, and consequently
inadmissible for home use, the whole of this valuablf
cargo has been necessarily entered for exportation Oliiv
THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER AND RUBBERY

pears that the bod

dewed at Hampstead was, when disec
and the blood was pouring from a frig

neverlhe:
or scriptural

s the fact, thAtnanf