The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

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were very much cut and bruised. The plate glasses of chairman to restore order. In the midst of this, Mr. T.
the carriage were broken to pieces. Believes they were Smith got upon a form to make an observation, when he
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run into by an engine with some waggons attached. was wantonly n”.1,,,,,i d.,-- . ._,

left in the tunnel, I pe
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did not observe a tail-light attached to
we left the tunnel, observed that Mr. Pickup bled p
fusely. He was taken up, and placed upon the slo
Witness then returned to Liverpool.

same facts, after which

Thomas Hetherington, the engineer of the lugga;
train, deposed that on the morning in question he left ti
station at Great Howard-street at 71m. past eight a.m

or about 6m. after the passenp,
very slowly till he passed 800
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person's name, we were told it was Fletcher.
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brought forward by Mr. Hardy.
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tollowing was the result of the divisions :—Messrs.
Aker, Orrett, John Gibson, T. Smith, and George
rner were elected overseers, subject to the decision.

4RDY demanded a poll ; but

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armed him t

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Lion, but merely a recommendation tot
e ad no ground for his application.
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t the salary was not fixed. The final p

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the sum expended
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the board

Harrison, Esq., (Green-lane,) J. Harrison, Esq.,
Green,) Hodson Bremner, Esq. Mr. William Sh
T. Fletcher, Mr. Charles Kenyon, Richard C. I

Esq., W. Fosberry. EN., Mr. R. Shacklaily,
Leatherbarrow, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., Mr. T. 0
Mr. T. Hewitt, Mr. John Owen, Mr. John W

Thomas Wrik

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12, jun.,

THE INDIAN CAREER OF MAJOR EDWARDES,
AS SKETCHED BY HIMSELF.

That modesty is one of the most graceful attributes of
true merit has ever been acknowledged. As an example

of such modesty, combined with distingui

)ility as a soldier, the following description of t
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given by himself at an

Indian

ment provided for his honour at Shrewsbury by
ther Salopians on Tuesday last, will be read with in-
terest :

In 1345 I had no interest of any kind ; I was a poor subal-
'--- -eg iment, when Lord Gough, then Sir Hugh, selected
vacancy in his personal staff. This
beginning of November 1845, and only a few days
the Sikh army invaded British India, and WE
plunged into the first Sikh war. Here was I tl
placed in a position to study war practically,
scale. and under the greatest advantages, at tt
the British general. And I can tell you that tl
by the right hand of Hugh Viscount Gc

erwards
were

at once
largest
band of
ho rides

paign, as the Irishman would say, is in a
place to see a good dale of it.' If he wants an fna.a
principles of war, he is likely to meet with a good
openers in such a situation ; and I can tell you a sto
of it. In our very first battle of Moodkee, on th,
cember. before the two hostile lines of infantry had 1,
staff officeri simultaneously galloped up to the commant
chief—' The enemy's cavalry, your Excellency, have outtl
us on the right,' said one—" The enemy's cavalry, your

1 many eye
ryinproof

lency, have' outflanked us on the left,' said the mei.
there were 15,000 horsemen turning each flank at the same
moment (the whole 30,000, by the bye, commanded by Rajah
Lal Sing, whom a modern Sikh historian has represented as
being in league with the British general. If so, defend me
from my friends !) Without an instant's hesitation, Lord
Gough gave orders for movements of horse altillery and cavalry
to both flanks ; and it was in this movement, to repulse the
Sikhs, that the Queen's 3d Dragoons commenced that series of
remarkable achievements which have since stamped them as
the noblest cavalry regiment that ever went to India. The
repulse was complete on both flanks. Our artillery and cavalry
went through the enormous line of the enemy, and got into its
rear, so as to become an object of the deepest anxiety to Sir
Hugh Gough. It was then that he turned to his aide'de-camps
and commanded two of them to recall the flank detachments
back to their own line. I was one of them, and I leave you all
to judge whether the duty was a pleasant one. It was per-
formed, however ; and I shall carry the memorial of it to my
grave, in the shape of a ball through my thigh. Such, gentle-
men, was the introduction into military life which I received
from my earliest patron in India—Lord Gough. I recovered
from my wound in time to serve as his lordship's aide-de-camp
again at Sobraon, the closing battle of the Sutlej war—a battle
most complete in its result. from the circumstance of a broad
and rapid river at the back of the enemy's position, into which
they were driven. A young soldier could not have received it
more instructive lesson than was displayed to him in that mag-
nificent battle ; and I well remember fancying at the end of it
that I could move 10,000 men if called upon next day. The
campaign thus closed. Lord Gough recommended me to the
Governor-General for promotion to the political staff now
required for the Punjaub ; and to this great step in life I am
mutually indebted to those two great men. But while express-
ing my gratitude to those powerful friends who gave me these
great opportunities, let me not forget the master who taught
me how to use them—Sir Henry Lawrence, who, at this very
moment but a captain of artillery, has made himself, by his
high purposes and indomitable energies, the foremost man in.
India, and a bright example to every Indian soldier. He it
was who, through three years of British protection of the Pun-
jaub, was my public master and my private friend ; and it was.
sitting at his feet amid great political events, that I trust I
learnt that noble lesson, to live not for myself, but for the
State."

CONTINUED IMPORTATION OF GRAIN AND

FLOUR FROM FRANCE

It was certainly never expected that any considerable
amount of our importations of grain would be derived
from France ; and in a recent debate we were assured,

upon ministerial authority that her sending us grain was
quite an exceptional case. Yet we find that during the
whole of 1849 we received from that country,—grain,
765,163 quarters, and flour, 1,104,763 cwts.; our imports
thence being only inferior to those from the United States,
which were, grain, 1,294,580 quarters, and flour. 1,883,284
cwts. We may remark that the next in amount of importa—
tions are Prussia and Denmark, the former having sent
us, of grain, no less than 1,359,899 quarters, and flour,
17,212 cwts. ; and the latter,—grain, 1,324,297 quarters,
and flour, 1247 cwts.

This rate of import from France is steadily continuing,
as we find that we received in the port of Liverpool during
the week ending Tuesday last, 1670 quarters of wheat and
7554 sacks of flour. Of course, the importations at the
eastern ports would be much more considerable. When
we look at the kind of vessels engaged in this new trade,
which are principally schooners of from 70 to 100 tons
burthen, it is impossible to avoid being struck with the
conviction that it will be a permanent trade; and that for
a large and fertile portion of France bordering upon the
British Channel, this conntry may henceforth be consi-
dered the legieimate market. The run across the ,thannel
is only a matter of a few hours ; and the freight paid by
the French agriculturist is less than the cost of a dozen or
two miles of land transport to an interior market, or an
ordinary coasting freight in this country. Thus, the
English consumer is raising the value of land on the con-
tinent, and increasing the rents of the landlords in many
parts of France, whilst free trade is doing everything to
diminish the receipts of the landowners in our own
country.

THE ABSORPTION OF SHIPPING IN THE TRADE TO
CALIFORNIA. TIM New York correspondent of the
Times states that the emigration to California is vastly in-
creasing. During the month of February three steamers
and 57 sailing vessels cleared from New York for San
Francisco ; and 11 ships and brigs had sailed from Boston
during the week previous to the sailing of the America.
In addition, 34 vessels were loading at New York, and 49
at Boston ; and others were being engaged for the trade.
The total clearances from all the Atlantic ports, up to the
Ist instant, were 960 vessels, computed to have taken
out 60,000 passengers, whilst 25,000 are said to have pro-
ceeded by the overland route. An idea of the freights
paid for suitable vessels may be formed from the fact that
50,000 dollars:had just been offered for a vessel, which was
built six years ago at a cost of 52,000 dollars, and has
dnrino• this pPrinti hpen rtinning bc•tvvoorx vr Yo. amid
Liverpool. The abstraction of this large amount of ton-
nage from the ordinary channels must shortly tell greatly
in favour of shipping engaged in the long voyage trade,
more especially as a very small quantity of the vessels sent
to California are likely to find their way back for some
time to come, if at all, through their crews deserting them
to engage in the search for gold. Many of them, at the
date of the last advises, were being very profitably em-
ployed at their moorings, in the harbour of San Francisco,
as warehouses, and temporary places of residence.
FREE TRADE AND RUINED FARMERS.—The intelli-
gent portion of our readers are aware that it is our duty,
as journalists, to scan over weekly the contents of some
two or three hundred papers, published in various parts
of the kingdom, for the purpose of extracting whatever
news they may contain of an interesting nature. For the
past few weeks, that task, we can assure them, has bees
a painful one ' • and its performance would inflict upon any
right-minded free trader a feeling of compunction, which
might well lead him to a re-consideration of his pet
policy. In every paper published, or circulating, in our
agricultural districts, the leading feature is an array of
advertisements of " extensive sales of live and dead
stock, agricultural implements, household furniture,"
&c., the property of Mr. So-and-So, " who is leaving his
farm." In some cases, the ruined, or half ruined man is,
are about to be houseless—to sink into the condition of
isw ec
laeraer ttohl ad s'o‘mabeosuttrivtiongemanigdrate;" formerlyb u but,
-edvoeirnyg cfaasme
liyt
labourers or paupers, or to become exiles from the land
of their fathers. We have taken the pains to count the
advertisements of this kind which occur in four papers
taken up at; random. Eddows's Shropshire Journal
contains 40 notices of sales of the kind ; Berrow'r
Worcester Journal has 7 ; the Doncaster Chronicle
10, the Newcastle Journal 12, and so on. In addition,
all of these contain a saddening array of "Farms to Let,"
of estates about to be brought to the hammer for peremp-
tory sale, of timber about to be cut down, of stock to be
pressed upon the market—in short, the palpable evidences
of the agricultural interest of the country falling rapidly
into decay, or resorting to every available expedient to
avert impending ruin. Where the men are to be found
prepared, with our present prospects, to occupy the posi-
tion of these dispossessed families, or to take into their
occupation all these vacated farms, is a question which we
cannot ourselves solve, and which we leave to some of the
wise philosophers who are enamoured of a free-trade
policy.