The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDXRD.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

.The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet the
Tourist, from Hamburgh, arrived off the Custom-house at three
o'clock on Friday, after a very favourable passage, and brought
Hainburgh and other German papers to the 4th instant. Tile
following extracts, which relate to the movements of the Holy
Alliance Powers, are the only ones which appear worthy of
extraction. Papers of dates less recent speak to the increasing
jealousies of the German governments of the spread of fiiierai
ideas. Several students of the universities hart been punished
for their liberalism.

BERLIN, A uGusr 31.—The King of Prussia set out yesterday
from Berlin for Stuttgard ; his Royal Highness the Crown Prince
left the day before yester lay, and proceeded front Schwedt to
Stettin, where he arrived in the evening. His Majesty the Em-
peror cf Russia, who intended to leave St. Petersburgh on the
27th, on board the imperial steam-boat Ischora, was expected
every hour, and the imperial equipage, which arrived at Schwedt
on the 28th, are ready at the landing place to receive his Ma-
jesty. Up to four o'clock yesterday afternoon the Ischora had
not, however, arrived. Their Imperial. Highnesses Prince Wil-
liam (his Majesty's san), and his consort; Prince and Princess
Charles, her Highness the Princess of Leignitz, M. A ncillon,
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lieutenant-General Van Witzle-
ben, his Majesty's Adjutant-General; and Ti. Van Ribeaupierre,
Russian. Ambassador at this Court, who only returned from Bo-
hemia yesterday, are also gone to Schwedt.. It is supposed that
the Emperor of Russia will stop at Schwedt two days with the
royal family, and then go to Bohemia to pay a visit to the Em-
peror of Austria.
On the 7th September the King and the royal family will go
to Magdeburg to the reviews. The Emperor of Russia is not
likely to be more than a month absent from home. It is
.proba-
ble that our King will accompany the Emperor, his sou-in-law,
to Bohemia, and that the latter will afterwards be present at the
grand reviews near Berlin.
The State Gazette announces the appointment of Count Von
Lusi to the post of Minister Resident at the Court of the King
of Greece.

FRANKFORT, AUG. 26.—Count Van Bellinghausen, President
of the Diet,set out yesterday morning for Bohemia, having the day
before received au Estafette, which brought, as we hear, an in-
vitation from Prince Metternich. The President will not be
absent more than a fortnight, during which time Baron Von
Negler, the Prussian Minister to the Diet, will preside.
STOCHoLm, AUG. 27.—A private letter from St. Petersburgh
of the 9th announces that the cholera has again appeared iu
the interior of Russia. It raged with great violence in the go-
vernments of Saradoff, Worouesk, and Ael, and especially in
Kiusk.

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PROGRESS OF MIND IN ENGLAND.

If any doubt be entertained of the equivocal progress
of mind in England, let the doubter take up the first
newspaper that comes to hand, and peruse the advertis--
ing columns of those literary midwives, the publishers.
The bulk of modern publications is made up of every va-
riety of new-invented sectarian theology, the darkest
views of the divine dispensations, and of the future des-
tinies of the human species in the world to come. In
this case, "he who peppers the highest is surest to
please;" and it is almost impossible " to deal d—mnat ion
through the land," up to the mark of popular appetite.
Next to this mass of imbecile credulity, or barefaced
roguery, come volumes upon volumes of grammars, text-
book-S, and elementary treatises, on all that is common-
place—mere apothecary's work, pourings out of many
bottles into one, culled without knowledge, and mingled
without taste. Then follow reprints of old authors, cut-
tings up and fritterings of natural science, which, under
the guise of novelty, expend the time and money of the
public on mere mill-horse tunings in the same dull cir-
cle. Add to these a few works of effete imagination and
of amusement that no longer amuses—fashionable novels
out of all fashion, and serious novels that would make a
cat laugh—all expressly calculated to shut out inquiry,
and to keep intellect in abeyance, and you have the en-
tire sum and substance of the literary food of to the
insatiate appetite for nonsense, of the "most thinking pub-
lie." The works of Jeremy Bentham are, indeed, advertis-
ed on the loose pages of the Westminster Review but then
it is a French translation, printed in Brussels, for the
benefit of continental readers. With this exception,
there is scarcely a single work of law, metaphysics, mo-
rals; or general politics, announced once in a twelve-
month, that exhibits the slightest pretence to original
thinking. The reason is obvious enough: there is no
market -for any such commodity ; and if few men have a
taste for being stoned to death for their communications
to a reluctant public, there are fewer still who will waste
their time on investigations, for which they are certain
of, being paid neither-in money nor fame. But it is not
merely in abstract science that the -British public is
shinnefully deficient. Its very amusements are marked
atithe corner with imbecility and ignorance.—Athenreum,

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON GREAT
SAFFRON-HILL.

Friday afternoon, at about a quarter before five o'clock,
the inhabitants of Great Saffron-hill were suddenly
alarmed by a dreadful noise in the street; and, on run-
ning out of doors to ascertain what had happened,
found that. two houses, Nos. 13 and 14, had fallen in
with a tremendous crash, burying in the ruins the mem-
bers of various families, about ten in number. A poor
woman, who had been confined only a few days, and who
occupied a lower back-room in No. 13, which portion of
the building only miraculously escaped destruction, was,
in a few minutes, through the exertions of those assem-
bled,. together with her infant, rescued from apparently
inevitable death, as the walls by which the apartment
was surrounded were in a most decayed and tottering
condition. At this period an immense number of persons
had congregated, and it was with the utmost difficulty
that
.the ground was sufficiently cleared to enable -the
workmen to search for the unfortunate creatures who
were missing, the screams of whom on the buildings, giv-
ing way were piercing and heartrending in the extreme.
A strong body on the G division of police was soon on
the spot, headed by superintendent Dixon, when in an
incredibly short space.of time the crowd was sufficiently
removed tram the dreadful scene to enable the workmen
to pursue their labours without interruption. At the
imminent risk of his life, policeman M'Carthy, assisted
by a gentleman named Hanbury, of Pulteney-street,
Pentonville, rushed into the ruins, and in ten minutes
after the fall of the buildings succeeded in dragging out
a fine boy six years old, who, providentially, had not
received the slightest injury.
After the lapse of a considerable time, a poor woman
named Lannon, mother of the child saved, who occupied
a room on the second floor of No. 14, and was about 35
years of age, was dragged frbm beneath an immense mass
of timber and rubbish, still breathing, but so dreadfully
mutilated as to leave, scarcely any feature discernible;
the poor creature was immediately conveyed to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital ; but on her road thither
breathed her last. The body was then brought back, and
carried to a neighbourinF, public-house, where it awaits
the coroner's inquest. fwo children were afterwards
taken oat of the i uins with scarcely any signs of life, and
removed to the hospital. A lodger at No. 13, a few mi
nutes before the accident took place, was frightened by
the cracking of some part of the building, and -ran terri-
fied into the street, with the intention of alarming the
neighbours, but had no sooner made her escape by the
front door than the whole gave way, before she had time
-to relate her fears for the safety of the numerous inmates,.
the friends' and parents of many of whom were absent
from home, pursuing their calling of fruit-selling, &c., at
Bartholomew fair. Had the occurrence taken place at
any other period, it is more than probable that a great
number of human lives would have been sacrificed, as
o. 14 was inhabited by nine or ten different families,
all of them very poor : the other house was not so nu-
merously tenanted. It is said that as early as eleven
o'clock in the morning an opposite neighbour, who was
somewhat alarmed by hearing a noise, as if the stack of
chininies had given way, informed the inmates of the cir-
cumstance, at the same recommending them by every
means in his power to leave the premises if they had any
regard for their lives. The timely warning was, how-
ever, unheeded, and thus several, it is much to be feared,
have met with a shocking death. At the period when
our reporter left the spot, the workmen, whose numbers
had increased, and who were indefatigable in their e:zer-
lions, had not been fortunate enouL-;11 to meet with a re-
ward for their labours, in the satisfaction of finding the
bodies of any more of the poor creatures, who, after the
length of time which had elapsed from the hour when the
accident took place, it was not reasonable to imagine
would be dug out with any signs of life. It is said
that the infant child of one o-f
the lodgers, ivhich- was in
its cradle, was among those who could not be found. At
ten o'clock no more bodies had been discovered. It is a
lamentable fact that the houses have been for a limn.
while past considered-to be in a dangerous condition, ande
that the neighbouring inhabitants have long dreaded the
deplorable event winch has at length occurred.
A great crowd is still congregated near the spot, and
the workmen are pursuing their labours with all ponsible
alacrity. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on the
extraordinary exertions made at the melancholy scene.
It is a miraculous circumstance, that in a place so densely
populated as Saffron-hill, the lives of one or more casual
passers-by should not have been sacrificed, considering
that the buildings almost instantaneously fell is an im-
mense muss into the street, completely covering the road.
Quarter past 10.—It has been ascertained that a child
is the only one now missing, and the workmen have dis-
continued' their labours for the night.

TilE LATE STORM.

( From the Cambridge Chronicle.)

A general meeting of the Eau Brink Commissioners was held
at. March, on Friday last, the Rev. Algereon Peyton in the
chair. The state of *the Ouze Banks was brought under con-
sideration, and an order made, directing an application to the
Bank Commissioners to execute the repairs provided fur by the
last Eari Brink Act. Directions were also given for working
the dregging eugihe in excavating the shoals in the river below
'vetiver sluice,- 'and sortie other business of minor importance
was disposed of.
The alarm felt by the Eau Brink Commissioners for the
security of the Ouze Banks, as slated above, appears unhappily
to have been ton well founded, for within twelve hours ot the
adjournment of the meeting no less than three breaches took
place on the left bank of the river, between Salter's lode and
the Tong's sluice. One of them was occasioned by the insecure
manner in which a sluice recently erected for the draining of
l)ownham Fen was executed. The sluice was swept away by
the force of the tide, and a breach made in the bank to the
width of forty feet, by which nearly 3000 acres of valuable land
have been inundated. Some live cattle, and many hundreds
of acres of croeping, consisting of oats, beans, and potatoes, have
been destroyed. The damage altogether is estimated at 15000.
During the storm of Saturday last one of the small pinnacles
eon the west end of Peterboroukh cathedral was blown down.
INUNDATION 05 DowNriAsr FEN.—In consequence of the
tremendous gale from the northwest on Saturday last, and an
unusual strong spring tide, the sluice and tunnel on the west •
bank of the river Ooze, very recently laid down about midway
between Downham and Stow bridges, were blown up about
eight o'clock that evening. The breach was not less than thirty
feet in width, and such wasehe immense body and impetuosity
• of the water, that in the short space of a few hours upwards of
fifteen hundred acres of land (out. of a district of about from
sixteen to seventeen hundred acres) were laid under water, in-
deed nearly the whole of Downham Fen is at this time deeply
inundated. Fortunately, the greater part of the harvest had
been got in, but still many acres of standing corn are irrecover-
ably lost, and many head of cattle drowned. A small farm- in
the fats, in the occupation of a Mr. Page, is entirely insulated
by not less than three feet water. Two other breaches of banks
of the said river (although of minor importance compered to
the former) happened the same night between Downham bridge
and Sa'itercs lode, which overflowed the turnpike road, and ren-
dered it fur two or three days impassable ; by which inundation.
Mr. James Houghton, of Downham market, farmer, had a va-
luable mare drowned in the stable. The damage sustained by
this lamentable event has not yet been ascertained, but it is
much to be feared that it is to a considerable extent; nor is
there any prospect that the water can be gut off beiore the en-
suing spring.

St•FFoLK.—The tremendous hurricane of Saturday and Sun-
day was sadly destructive to the hopes of the gardeners. Mr.
Steed, of Bury, lost not less than titteen sacks of walnuts. The
quantity of apples blown down was immense; in tact the standard
fruit is almost all lost. A tine walnut-tree in a field belonging
to Sir T. Cullum, at the back of Northgate-street, was torn up
by the roots; and the number of trees blown down in the mea-
dows and neighbouring parks was immense. Mr. Miller, car-
penter, of Garland-street, had a chimney blown down, and the
destruction of tiles was prodigious. But perhaps the most sin-
gular freak of wind that ever we heard of, was that one of the
hands of the church clock on the Saxon Tower was carried away.
HUNTINGDON, Sept. 6.—The tremendously high wind of Sa-
turday last has done considerable damage to the gardens and
fruit-trees in this town and neighbourhood, and the market gar-
deners will sustain 'a heavy loss. A tree was blown down in
Hinchingorook park, which fell across the road, and obstructed
the passage for some time. During the whole of the day the
market people were unable to put up their stalls on the hill, and

OLT) BAILEY sEssrox.s.

BIG A mt.—John James Fraser,otherwise John Fraser, was
indicted for marrying Mary Ann Bliss, his wife Sarah being at
that time living.
Mr. Parker, on behalf of the prisoner, moved the Court, on
his affidavit, that the trial should be postponed. until Monday,
as two material witnesses for his defence had to come from a
distant part of Kent.
Charles Knight, the husband of Mrs. Bliss's sister, produced a
certificate to prove, beyond his oral testimony, that the prisoner
married the prosecutrix at St. George's, Southwark, on the 21st
of December, 1831.

Another certificate was put in to prove that he was married to
Sarah, his wife, at Queenborough, in Kent, on the 25th of No-
vember in the preceding year.
In order to substantiate the latter marriage, a grotesque old
lady was called to prove that she acted as braierna4at the time
of its solemnization. '

By Mr. Doane.—She had often acted in that capacity. Is
not styled the bridemaid-general of the parish :-she is too old
for that. (Laughter.) She would give up her " business" for
the future. She would never do so again, as it had come to
this. (A laugh.)
Mary Ann Bliss, a respectable-looking middle-aged woman,
stated that she had been married to the Prisoner on the day
named. He called himself " John Fraser," and at his request
she signed the marriage-book " Mary Bliss," and left out
Ann," the intermediate name. She was at the time a widow
with five children round her, and she had a comfortable shop,
but she was now unable to tell what had become of half of her
property; she was ruined; she never induced the prisoner to
marry her by telling him that she was pregnant by him.
By the Court.—The prisoner said that he was a widower with
one child; he had no property except half-a-crown a-day pen-
sion allowed by government.
The prisoner made a very long and irrelevant defence, con-
sisting of a tirade of accusations against his wives, one of whom
he charged with having attempted to persuade him to procure a
medicine to cause abortion.
The Court told hint that his defence was only calculated to
prejudice his case, but he must take the consequences ofthe line
of conduct which he had adopted.
Thos. Chalmers was called to speak to the prisoner's character.
Mr. Serjeaut Arabia summed up the evidence, and the jury
immediately-pronounced the prisoner guilty.
The learned Judge told the prisoner that he would inevitably
be sent out of the country.
Prisoner.—lt's a hard case; I hope your lordihip will consider.
Judge.—Depend upon it I shalt not interfere in your favour.
l'on say it's a hard case, and so it is upon the poor widows you
have married and defrauded.

The grand jury came into court at half-past six o'clock, and
presented their bills, one of which was a bill found against,
Thomas Cox Savory, the silversmith, for a mi,demeanour.
The foreman complained of the neglect of public officers
coming forward to give their evidence (alluding to the Mint.)
It was explained that Mr. Field, the inspector, was in attend-
ance at the Middlesex Session Court, to give evidence before.the
county grand inquest.

LONDO.I- POLICE REPORT.

MANSION HOUSE.

A gentleman, named Pearce, was brought up, charged with
having been drunk on the preceding night.
The- Lord Mayor.—l understand, Mr. Pearce, you have been
drunk—very drunk, Mr. Pearce: (A laugh.)
Defendant.—No, my lord, not so drunk. I hope your lord-
ship will be so good as to let me go, as it is very disagreeable to
me to he here (looking with a curled nose at his neighbours)—
very disagreeable, upon my word.
The Lord Mayor.—Oh, Mr. Pearce, you didn't care in the
midst of your enjoyments, in tumbling about the streets, how
disagreeable you made yourself to other people.
Defendant.—l hope, my lord, you will consider my situation.
I wish to lo out of this as soon as possible.
The Lord Mayor.—Pray what are you, Mr. Pearce?
(Laughter.)
Defendaut.—Why, not exactly any thing, my lord.
The Lord :flavor.—You mean, I suppose, that you are a man
of substance without toiling for it—a gentleman.
Defendant.—l have some property.
Officer.—Yes, my lord, he is a man of property. I found a
watch and some silver in his pockets when I took him to the
station-house.

Defendant.—l hope that is sufficient, my lord. I really, my
lord, ant very uncomfortable. (One of the paupers began to
scratch his head, and shuffle hitnsell about in his clothes.) Will
your lordship send me out of this place ? I do not intend to.
stay in this poor country.
The Lord Mayor —Oh ! Pray may I ask where you intend tai,
go ? To Scotland ? (Great laughter.)
Defendant.—To America, my lord.
The Lord Mavor.—Do you belong to a Temperance Society ?
Defendant.—No, myy lord.
The Lord Mayor.—l'm sorry for that, for there are many
Temperance Societies there, and if you happened to be a mem-
ber of one of ours, you might show them an improvement upon
their system. (Laughter.)]
Defendant.—My lord, if you let me go, I'll do anything you
desire. _

lhe Lord Mayor.—Then pay ss. for being drunk, and mind
how you take your glass again, or you'll get in amongst the
same kind of companions.
The defendant then went away shaking his clothes.
On-Friday Mr. Staniland, the solicitor, applied to the Lord
Mayor to back a warrant issued by the magistrates of the coun-
ty of Kent for the apprehension of two men, named Ellison
and South, for robbing the oyster beds in the manor of the
Hon. Miss Wvkeham. The accused were, he stated, now en-
gaged in selling the oysters at Billingsgate at 7s. a hundred,
although they were worth 12s. Ten of the fishermen, of whom
the persons named in the warrant were the ringleaders,. had
been committed to Maidstone gaol by the magistrates of the
county for similar depredations, and the plunder had been kept
up in the most extraordinary manner, a fleetactually consisting
or one. hundred men being daily employed in stripping the beds,
to the ruin of the unfortunate man who rented them of the lady
of the manor. All the rest of the beds within the manor were
protected by the injunction of the Lord Chancellor, but an in-
junction had not been applied for in the present instance on
account of the expense. In the mean time the lessee's pro-
perty was hourly disappearing.
After some hesitation the Lord Mayor backed the warrant,
but expressed great regret that his duty compelled him to do so.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Two men, apparently in a state of great destitution, named
J. Warren and J. Hodges, were brought up in custody by a 'M-
ike-constable of the T division, and placed at the bar )before
Mr. White, charged with sleeping uudor a hay-rick at Ken-
sington, and having uo place of abode.
Mr. White asked- the constablo what the prisoners said when
he apprehended them.
The constable replied• that they said they had been in Don
Pedru's service, and were completely destitute..
Mr. White--1 know nothing whateverof Don Pedro's service.
Constable—That is what they told me, your Worship.
Mr. White (to the men)—\W here do you come from ?
The defendants said that they had come from Devonport.
Mr. White—And what brought you here ?
Defendant—We walked up to London in the hope of getting
employment; we have both been in the service of Don Pedro,
and were landed at Plymouth a short time ago.
Mr. White—What business had you to enter into Don Pe-
dro's Service, breaking the laws of your country?
The defendants said they thought they had a right to enter
any service when they were starving and could get no em-
ployment.
111 r. White--7-You were Rat& to imprisonment at the time you
entered into Don Pedro's service. What business have you to
interfere with the affairs of Spain or Portugal, or any other fo-
reign nation ?
Defendant—We were only trying to get our living.
Mr. White—Why can't you mind your own business at home,
and not interfere with the quarrels of other nations, and leave
other persons to settle their own disputes ? I shall send you both
for one month to the House of Correction, and when you come
out of prison I recommend you to get back to your own parish.