The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

fve men laden with bread, and says, " I was surprised to
find the wretched hamlet apparently deserted. I entered
some of the hovels to ascertain the cause, and the scenes
that presented themselves were such as no tongue or pen
can convey the slightest idea of. In the first, six famish-
ed and ghastly skeletons, to all appearance dead, were
huddled in a corner on some dirty straw, their sole cover-
ing what seemed a ragged horsecloth ; their wretched legs
hanging about, naked above the knees. I approached in
hot ror, and found by a low moaning they were alive—
they were in fever—four children, a woman, and what had
once been a man. It is impossible to go through the de-
tail—suffice it to say that in a few minutes I was sur-
rounded by at least twenty of such phantoms, such fright-
ful spectres, as no words can describe. By tar the greater
number were delirious, either from famine or from fever.
Their demoniac yells are still ringing in my ears, and their
horrible images are fixed upon my brain. My heart sick-
ens at the recital. In another case, decency would forbid
what follows, it must be told. My clothes were nearly
torn off in my endeavour to escape from the throng of
pestilence around, when my neck cloth was seized from
behind by a grip which compelled me to turn. I found
myself grasped by a woman with an infant apparently
just born in her arms, and the remains of a filthy sack
across her loins—the sole covering of herself and babe.
The same morning the police opened a house on the ad-
joining lands, which was observed shut for many days,
and two frozen corpses were found lying upon the mud
half devoured by the rats. A mother, herself in fever,
was seen the same day to drag out the corpse of her child,
a girl about twelve, perfectly naked, and leave it half co-
vered with stones. In another house, within five hundred
yards of the cavalry station at Skibbei een, the dispensary
doctor found seven poor wretches lying unable to move
under the same cloak. One had been dead many hours,
but the others were unable to move either themselves or
the corpse.

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

Lord Ward has presented the Rev. C. Girdlestone, now
vicar of Aldersley, to the valuable living of Kingswinford,
vacant by the death of Dr. Penfold.
It is stated that the Hon. and Rev. G. Neville Gren-
ville, the Dean of Windsor, will come into possession of
property, in consequence of the death of a relative, of the
value of between £20,000 and £30,000 per annum.
ORDINATION OF DEANJIBH AI NOWROJI.—On Friday
se'nnight, the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh met in Tan-
field, and ordained Dhanjibhai Nowroji as a missionary to
India. This young Parsee is the first ❑ative convert on
whom ordination has been conferred.
The Baroness de Speth, a German Roman Catholic
lady, who has been for several months residing with the
Duchess of Kent, has embraced the Protestant faith.
The Baroness on Sunday week attended Divine service at
St. John's Church, Windsor, with her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent.
The Rev. Edward Phillips, perpetual curate of East
Tytherley , Hants, who has never received more than £lOO
per annum from that parish, and for many years not so
much, has just declined the offer of a rectory in Suffolk of
the value of £385 per annum, simply on the ground that
the parish of East Tytherley, which has long been in a
neglected condition, because of the absenteeism of its pro-
prietors, is now emerging from poverty to prosperity, as
from darkness to light, by the munificence and judicious
management of W. F. Cooke, Esq., who has purchased
the estate formerly belongir.g to F. Bailey, Esq., com-
prising a considerable portion of that parish.
The pew holders and other inhabitants of Dudley, have
raised, and are about to present the Rev. John Davies,
minister of the unendowed church of St. Edmuads, a
purse of £2OO and upwards, in testimony of their respect,
and of their sense of the inadequacy of the income he de-
rived from the pew rents of the church. To this liberal
and generous expression of esteem to a gentleman so ge-
nerally respected, Lord Ward, with his accustomed mu-
nificence, also lent his support, having made an augmen-
tation to the living of £lOO per annum. We understand
that his lordship has also made a r, quest that daily prayers
may be read in the parish church of Dudley.

GRAND FESTIVAL AT TRINITY COLLEGE,

CAMBRIDGE

The third centenary of the royal foundation of Trinity
College was celebrated on Monday with unusual magni-
ficence. The proceedings commenced at tPn o'clock,
P.M., by the recital of the prize essays in the noble dining-
hall of the college, and the distribution of prizes to the
prizemen. The master presided, and there were present
most of the noble and distinguished gue,ts who had been
in•ited to take part in the festival. The following is the
list of prizemen :
ENGLISH DECLAMATIONS.-1. Vansittart.—Suhject
of the oration delivered in hall, " The Three Commer-
cial Powers—Athens, Carthage, and England." 2. Biome.
field, J. 3. Bickersteth, E. H. 4. Edlin.
LATIN DECLAMATION.-1. VanSlllart.—Subject of the
oration, " Lutheri Laudatio." 2. Evans.
LYRICS.—" Carthago."—Scott, C.B.
HEXAMETERS.—" Byroni Statua."—Vansittart.

ELE GI ACS —" Cordeiia "—Vansittart.
ENGLISH ESSAY.-.—" Rome under Augustus, compared
with London of the nineteenth century."—Bickersteth,
E. H. . .

BEADING PRIZES.-1. Ingram. 2. Alder.
Senior Sophs.—C. Evans, Hillier, Luard, Macgregor,
Mather, Sowerby, Walker, Wolstenholrne.
Junior Sophs.—Barry, Berry, Chilton. Lord A. Comp-
ton, Hardy, Pearson, C. B. Scott, Turing, Twisden,
Valling, Westcott.
Freshmen.—Baxter, A. H. Bull, Carter, Carver, Dun-
das, Durham, F. W. Edwards, Elwyn, D. Fenn, Gibson,
Headlam, Hinchliffe. Hodges, Hose, Lord R. Montagu,
Rowe, Schreiber, C. Taylor, Thrupp, Waddington, Wig-
gleswortb, Wray, Wilde.
Precisely at four o'clock, the Master of the Trinity,
attended by the great majority of the distinguished mem-
bers of the university, who had been attracted by the
festivities of the day to revisit the scenes of their scho-
lastic life, entered the chapel. The stalls were, by order,
reserved for the heads of houses, for fellows, and distin-
guished visitors, while the body of the chapel was allotted
to such strangers and other individuals as bid been fortu-
nate enough to secure cards of admission from the senior
dean, the Rev. William Carus, M.A. By some want of
arrangement, the chapel clerks, in obeying strictly the
orders of the superior functionaries, kept at the entrance
to the choir a mass of ladies and gentlemen, though ample
space was left unoccupied on the floor of the chapel.—
Amongst this body stood no less a distinguished and
learned personage than Mr. Justice Coltman. The com-
memoration service commenced with the chanting by the
choir of three Psalms, selected appropriately for the oc-
casion, viz. :—Psalms 145, 146, and 147. The 44th chap•
ter of the Book of Ecclesiastes was next read as the Lesson
of the day, which being ended, the Rev. James Amiraux
Jeremie, M.A., one of the fellows of the foundation, clas-
sical professor in the East India College, Hailesbury, and
examining chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London, pro-
ceeded to deliver the commemoration serviceor oration. He
opened with an eloquent and feeling allusion to the advan-
tages of a sound classical and academic course of education.
and enforced his views by a retrospect of the events which
had closed each of the three centuries of the foundation
of the college, the last of which the proceedings of the day
were intended to commemorate. Its two predecessors
had been marked—the one by intestine wars, which
brought a monarch to a scaffold—the second by a divided
empire, which led to disputes, destroying the nearest ties
of affinity and kin—while the third century, which the
expiring year brought to a close, saw this nation blessed
with peace and happiness under the dominion of a gra-
cious monarch and constitutional government. The rev.
preacher then proceeded to point out many brilliant or-
nament, of all the learned professions which this college
had sent forth to advance literature and science, and to
promote the best interests pf the nation_ _ Ttina raniii
review ot tbe lives and characters ot Lor Bacon, Sir
Isaac Newton, and other distinguished names of the olden
times, and of Bentley, Porson, and Green, of our own
times, and adopting as a presage of future excellence the
fact that the college had now existed unimpaired by decay,
the rev. gentleman concluded an able and touching dis-
course by invoking the blessing of Providence upon the
future efforts which would still remain to be made by
those entrusted with its conduct. The choir then gave
with thrilling effect Parcell's celebrated anthem " Oh give
thanks unto the Lord." The Rev. J. Romilly, M.A.,
registrar of the university, next recapitulated the names
of the royal and other benefactors to the college from the
date of its foundation to the present time—a proceeding
which was of a most tedious and somewhat uninteresting
character; at its conclusion the service was terminated
with prayer. The crowning ceremonial was the banquet,
and covers were laid in the hall for about three hundred
guests.

THE C..AIRT FASHIONABLE WORLD,

The Court still remains at 'Windsor Castle, and the
Queen and Prince Albert have taken their accustomed
out-door exercise, favoured by the remarkably fine wea-
ther.
The King of the Belgians will not arrive in this country
until after the B'h of January.
The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere purpose remaining
in town until after Christmas. The Viscount and Vis-
countess Brackley are expected to return from Rome in
February next.
On Monday and Tuesday her Majesty's royal bounty
was distributed to upwards of 1,000 poor and aged per-
sons, each receiving a crown, according to ancient usage
at this inclement season of the year. Upon this occasion
the applications for relief were more than usually nume-

roes.
A fine horse belonging to Prince Albert, named Isle-
worth, which was a favourite fur the Darby, in 1843, died
at the Royal Mews, Windsor Castle, a day or two since,
of inflammation in the bowels. A valuable road horse,
belonging to her Majesty, also died at the Royal mews on
Saturday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

LIABILITY OF ATTORNEYS.—In the Queen's Bench,
on Tuesday, Mr. Smith, a surgeon, obtained a verdict of
£3O damages, against Mr. Shaw, an attorney, for gross
neglect in conducting an action of debt with which he had
been entrusted by the plaintiff.
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COUNTY COURTS.—A notice appeared in Tuesday
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will take into consideration the propriety of making
orders for putting the " Act for the more easy Recovery
of Small Debts and Demands in England" in execution
in every county throughout England and Wales.
The Chief Baron on Saturday said to Mr. Cockburn
(counsel for defendant in appeal against a verdict for
breach of promise) that it would be an act of insanity
in a counsel to bring forward witnesses in support of such
an appeal. Mr. Cockburn, having said that such an ex-
pression from a judge in presence of a jury was likely to
deprive his client of justice, threw his brief down on the
table, and withdrew from the court amid the profoundest
sensation.
TRIAL IN TIM ROLLS ON STEAM BOAT ENGAGE-
MENTS.—The decision of Lord Langdale in the Rolls
Court, on an application to dissolve the injunction
granted at the instance of a proprietor, against the
Eastern Counties Company, to restrain the later from
completing the agreement entered into with the Harwich
Steam Packet Company, is of considerable interest. The
observations of his lordship on the merits of the case are
exceedingly clear and decisive. They expressly declare
the employment or engagement of the funds of a railway
corporation for purposes not contemplated in the act by
which it exists—whatever may be the advantage expected
to accrue from this use of them—is contrary to law, al-
though it may have been established in practice. That
neither the directors nor a majority of the shareholders,
can legally impose on any railway proprietor liabilities
foreign to the declared object of the partnership, as de-
fined by the company's act : that the objects of a railway
company are confined to the making, maintenance and
working of the traffic of the railway itself, except where
power to transact other business or enter into other
agreements is expressly given : that, allowing reasonable
latitude in the construction of the terms by which the
general purposes of the railway (including the promotion
of its traffic) may be interpreted—a latitude sufficient to
meet the objection that a strict reading of the law would
forbid a variety of minor tarar gernents conducive or ne-
ceesary to the business—it could not, by the largest in-
terpretation, include the support of another company,
engaged in a speculation of a different kind, and liable to
serious risks—nor authorize the adoption or guarantee of
the liabilities of any such foreign enterprise. On these
grounds, the judge refused to dissolve the injunction;
thus establishing an important position, as tar as the
principle of such agreements is concerned.
One of the " Fellows of the Royal Society" has an-
; nouneed his intention of prosecuting the editor of the
Athenaum for saying he was " ignorant."