The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

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tempt to ship. This is all delusion. The true cause of
their inertness is the severity of the frost, which would
spoil the potatoes between the barnyard pnd the wharf.
Some farmers have sent supplies into the market. The
potatoes sell at the exporting price, say 16s. per boll. To
appease the populace, Mr. Fraser. farmer, called the
town crier to advertise the inhabitants that whoever
wished to purchase potatoes might be supplied by him
with any quantity they wanted.
BANNS OF MARRIAGE FORBIDDEN.—At Great Whit-
ley Church, on Sunday, the Ist instant, the bans of mar-
riage between Thomas Bowen and Elizabeth Stringer
were publicly forbidden by the mother of the intended

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previously, but as soon as 'be reverend divine had corn-

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Bowen into the middle of the church, and exclaimed in a
loud voice, to the utter astonishment of the clergyman
and congregation, including also those occupying the pew
of royalty, " I forbid the banns in this church and all
others." The reverend gentleman, for a moment or so,
was in a "fix," but as soon as he recovered himself he
told the old lady he would see her in the vestry after ser-
vice. We have not since heard the result.—On Sunday
week, when the officiating minister at the parish church,
Stockton, was publishing a long list of names of candi-
dates for connubial bliss, and in the act of pronouncing
the names of a certain couple, an individual present ex-
claimed, in a loud stentorian voice, " I forbid the banns."
On being afterwards requested to state the " why and the
wherefore" he said the " would be" bridegroom was his
son, and that he was only 18 years of age. The next day,
however, matters were amicably arranged between the
pariies, and the indissoluble knot has since been tied.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHYMISTRY.--His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, on Thursday
visited the laboratories of the Royal College of Chymistry,
where he was met by Professors Hoffman, Brande, and
Taylor, and Mr.,Benjamin Bond Cabbell. His royal
highness made a very minute inspection of the laboratories
and examined every student as to the point they had
reached in the systematic course of study adopted. He
then witnessed a selection of interesting experiments, in-
cluding the method of analyzing organic. compounds,
known as Liebeg's organic combustion. His royal high-
ness, being well acquainted with the present-state of the
science of chymistry, has, from the first projection of the
College of Chymistry, afforded it his support. After
spending more than an hour in the laboratory, his royal
highness met Lords Palmerston, Hill, Newry and Marne,
and Ebrington, Sir J. J. Guest, Sir James Clark, Hon.
W. B. Baring, M. P., J. Denison, NI. P., Mr. W. Ewart,
M. P., and presided at a meeting of the council. The
principal resolution passed at this meeting was that the
building of the laboratories be commenced t,,rtitwith.
His royal highness then inspected the site for the labora-
tories and the plans of Mr. Lockyer, the architect, and
expressed his approbation of all the arrangements for the
establishment of the institution, and added a second dona_
ion of £lOO to the building fund.

The lambing season this year has been exceedingly
favourable. The earliest lambs obtained were from the
Dorset ewes, and from the mild state of the weather they
have continued on the grass lands, and are now in a for-
ward state. Among the south down ewes lambing is now
very general. The lambs ate dropped very strong. and
more than the average number of twins are produced.
Sheep feed is very abundant in most counties, and should

the weather remain in its present mildness, the couples
will continue in their folds, and lambs will be ready for
the markets much earlier than usual.

THE WARWICKSHIRE MURDER.—The examination
of Reed, who was apprehended on Friday week, at Bir-
mingham, on suspicion of having murdered Thomas Tran-
ter, a farmer at Berkswell, twelve weeks ago, took place
at Solihull, near Birmingham, on Monday. The magis-
trates took the examination privately, and the accused was
remanded. He has always been described as a fresh
coloured young lad, of eighteen years of age, but now is
very haggard looking, and has the appearance of having
suffered much privation. He was apprehended by a milk-
man, named Pane, in Dale-end, Birmingham, that person
having previously known him.
SENTENCE ON A RETURNED TRANSPORT.—A few
months ago, a convict, named John Potter, surrendered
himself at the Mansion-house, London, and alleged that
he was an escaped convict from New South Wales. He
said he had a great chance of liberty, but he wished to
surrender himself, and be sent back to the colony. He
was aware of the dreadful sufferings of the convicts, yet
he would not shrink from suffering if he could effect good
to others. The fact was, that since he got away, he had
been converted ; and, feeling the sinful and degraded state

in which convicts lived, he thought that, if he again went
over amongst them, he should prove an instrument of
much good. Great sympathy was felt, and Sir James
Graham was applied to for a pardon ; but this, he said,
could not be granted in the first instance—the prisoner
must be dealt with in the ordinary way. The prisoner
was, on Tuesday, brought into the New Court, when the
Common Sergeant briefly referred to his case : without
presuming in what way Gove-nment would act, he had
only to pronounce the judgment as in an ordinary case of
being unlawfully at large. The sentence was, that the
prisoner be further confined in Newgate for three calendar
months, and then be transported for life.
MIRAC CLODS ESCAPE.—On Monday, a most alarming
accident occurred 'at Sudbury, Derbyshire. Lord Ches-
terfield, and a number of distinguished guests from the
seat of the noble Earl. arrived at Sudbury Hall, formerly
the residence of the Queen Dowager, for the purpose of
enjoying a day's fox-hunting. The morning was beauti-
fully fine, and the party exceeded any former gathering
of the kind. They were met by Mr. Meynell's hounds,
and everything gave promise of a most delightful day's
sport. An accident, however, occurred to Mr. Potle, of
Radbourne Hall, which gave birth to another of a more
fearful kind. This gentleman was thrown from his horse,
and the animal galloped off at full speed, when it was met
by the carriage of Lord Chesterfield, which contained four
ladies—viz., Mrs. Clay, of Sudbury Hall, and her two
daughters, and Miss Turner, who had kept the road as
spectators of the sportsmen. The coachman, seeing the
horse approaching, incautiously quitted his seat for the
purpose of stopping the animal, when the horses dashed
off with the carriage at full speed, for more than two
miles, and threw the carriage on its side on an embank-
ment; the carriage was immediately righted again by the
horses, but only to be upset on the other side; they went
on a little further, when the carriage again was thrown on
its right side, and the horses stopped of their own accord.
Every assistance was immediately rendered to the unfor-
tunate ladies, who, we are happy to say, have escaped
with their lives. Mrs. Clay had her collar-bone dislo-
cated, and the other ladies were slightly bruised. The
jewellery. watches, and trinkets of the fair owners were
scattered in all directions, and the carriage was almost
dashed to pieces.
SERIOUS RIOTS ON THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE
RAILWAY.—On Wednesday morning last, the banks and
shops in Penrith were closed during a great par tvf the
day, and all business had been suspended, in consequence
of serious disturbances amongst the labourers employed
on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. That morning
upwards of 2000 of these men, engaged between that town
and Kendal, began to assemble in the neighbourhood,
with the view of driving the Irish labourers from the line.
Luckily no collision took place, the Irish having re-
treated. The labourers were armed with clubs and other
weapons. A party of the English having learned that
some Irish had taken refuge in a lodging-house in Pen-
rith, went to the place, before the civil power arrived, and
seriously assaulted nine Irishmen. One or two are
scarcely expected to survive. The Cumberland and
Westmoreland Yeomanry Cavalry were called out. At
eleven o'clock all was quiet. The disturbances com-
menced on Tuesday at the cutting at Hugh's Cragg. It
geared that an Irishman had refused to do some work
required by his overlooker or " ganger," and that the two
got from words to blows. The remainder of the Irish
then employed, about 60 in number, struck work, and
went to Mr. Smith's works, at Plumpton, where a great
number of their countrymen were employed. In the
evening the whole of them, to the number of 500, formed
in regular order, and marched through Penrith to the
huts on Yanwath moor, to burn them down, but were
prevented by the magistrates and civil power. Mr.
Hasell, a magistrate, harrangued them in kind language,
and they agreed to march back and meet next day
(Wednesday), to receive their wages. It was also arranged
that the Irish should work on one side of the Eumont
viaduct, and the English on the other. In the cutting at
Hugh's Cragg there are employed upwards of 600 English
and about 60 Irish About 13 men were wounded in the
affrays, and nearly all are doing well. The riot act was
read about noon. On Thursday night all remained quiet.
The Irish in the neighbourhood of Penrith were paid off,
and left the town, with the exception of four who were
seriously hurt. From 200 to 300, armed with guns and
other warlike weapons, were previously met by the
yeomanry cavalry, at .Milestone-house, and stopped,
where the Irish appeared so desperate that the riot act
was read, but, ultimately, it was agreed that they should
be paid off, and they laid down their arms. After they
had left the town all was again tranquil.
DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A dreadful tra-
gedy was enacted on Thursday morning at the house, 16,
Arthur-square, Commercial-road East, London. A man
named Jeremiah Spence Stark, a coal-weigher, having
murdered his wife by cutting her throat with a carving
knife, destroyed himself with the same weapon. It ap-
pears that Stark, who was a man of violent temper, had
lately made use of threats towards his wife, and was
spoken to upon the subject by his wife's father, who lived
in the same house. In consequence of an arrangement
made by the wife's father, Stark and his wife slept in se-
parate beds on Wednesday night. Stark rose very early,
and it is supposed that whilst his unfortunate wife was in
the act of kneeling before the fire, and sweeping the
ashes into a shovel, he came behind her, and inflicted
several wounds on her neck and throat. A scuffle of very
short duration then ensued, and the wife must have run
towards the stairs, where she fell from exhaustion and
loss of blood. The: man afterwards destroyed himself
in the front kitchen, when his lifeless corpse; weltering in
blood, was found stretched on the floor in front of the
fire-place. The police were immediately called in from
the neighbouring station-house, and found both parties
quite dead. The woman had received several deep
wounds on her neck and throat; the man only one, which

nearly severed 110 s head from his body. The.' fender and
fire-irons were scattered about in every direction, and all
things betokened a silent but terrible struggle. The only
discoverable grounds for the terrible tragedy are these :

A little brother of the young woman Ellen Baxter, alias
Stark, slept in the same apartment with her and her hus-
band, and on the previous night heard the latter abusing
her, and calling her odious names. This he told to his
father, who mildly remonstrated with Stark on the impro-
priety of his conduct. It would seem this galled the fel-
low, and must have rankled all night in his mind. From
the appearance of the front kitchen, which seemed.to be
the breakfast-room of the family, the young woman must
have been at work in the place when Stark made the at-
tack upon her, and the silent struggle between them must
have been terrible. Her bands wer- Put in seer

'erat places
through the gloves which she had on doing her work.
The poor young woman, who is supposed to have been in
the family way, is said to have been a good-tempered
girl. _

- THE LANDLORDS AND THE PRICE OF WHEAT.-It is
a generally-admitted fact, that the-home market for British
manufactures is larger than that of all foreign markets
put together. It is of course next to impossible to calcu-
late with 'certainty the fall of the price of wheat conse-
quent on throwing the British market open to all the
world, but we may assume that the reduction may be a-
bout ten shillings a quarter, which is the estimate of ex-
perienced men. Taking the consumption of Britain at
20,000,000 of quarters of wheat a-year, this beneficial
change, say the Free Traders, gives the cluntry, accoer
ing to this calculation, a saving of £10,000,000 _
that is, ten millions sterling, which was previouzly paid

by the unjust operation of CLASS legislation to tn. _
li-olders, will ba absolutely extinguished,—it will be no
longer paid to them, and be an absolute saving
community. But before we give such a statement an u.
qualified assent, it may be worth while to inquire what the
landholders do with the ten millions thus acquired? Do
they bury it, or is it absorbed in some mysterious way in
to the agricultural body, so that the rest of tt—

nation,

first robbed by their cupidity, continue to pine under their
selfish obduracy ? By no means. Hence in a great de-
gree the strenztb of the home market for manufactures of
which we have spoken. They, their families, their ser-
vants, tcir dependants, hasten to spend it mainly on the
various manufactures of the country. The ten millions
do not leave the country, or are absorbed by some unpa-
triotic slough, but run instantly, as soon as acquired, into
inumerable channels throughout the entire country, giving
an astonishing impulse and life to every thing from the
spinning frames and power looms of Manchester,—from
the manufacturers of Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Bir-
mingham, Sheffield, down to the retail dealers i❑ Regent
or Borid• street, to those of the most insignificant village
of the kingdom. If the wave of prosperity is directed
with unnecessary, or as it regards the community at large,
even hurtful force, over the green lawns of the aristocratic
body, back it instantly flows with an impetuosity which
carries it in its fructifying career to the remotest points
and corners of the land. Admitting such a view of the
question as this, it seems difficult to imagine that the evil
of wheat being 10s. a quarter higher than it might be, is of
the unqualified description which our Free Traders would
have it to be. Let ten millions cease, according to their
impetuous clamour, to come into the pockets of the land-
holders, it will equally cease to flow out of them again in-
to theirs, in the purchase, especially, of the elegancies,
luxuries, and refinements of life. If eventually the coun-
try suffer not, in consequence of the saving through the
community at large from the lower price of bread, (to ac-
complish which fall the bakers must be subjected to a spe-
cies of tortgre to charge only moderate profits, unknown
to the nineteenth century,)—for the present an embar-
rassment and derangement in the channels of the home
trade is likely to ensue, the extent, the duration, and con-
sequences of which he must be a bold man who shall pre-
dicate.—Record.