The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE GREEK
DISPUTE!!

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—The House of Commons is suddenly called upon
to blemish its own character, in order to patch that of
" her Majesty's Ministers." Cajolery, entreaties, warn-
ings, and threatenings, are indiscriminately wielded to
induce that House to defy the decision of INDEPENDENT
Peers, and so to stave off the repudiation of that hybrid
theory which is now so grievously paralysing the best
energies of our country. Yes, sir, the existence, or not, of
Lord John Russell's government IS THE QUESTION on
which the House of Commons will divide. It may be
denied ; but why do the supporters of the Ministry pa-
rade before their readers so prominently and so repeat-
edly the possibility of its resignation, if it be not to divert
the attention from the direct question in hand, and so by
the contemplation of unwished-for consequences, to in-
tercept the work of conscience and the discharge of a
highly-important public duty !
I fear the lower house—consisting of many whose seats
are appropriated—will vote more for the maintenance of
the present parliament, than from any great fondness for
our foreign, colonial, Irish, or domestic policy. The
most unlettered man in the empire has heard of our
foreign squabbles, our colonial blunders, our Irish mis-
rule, and our domestic destruction of agriculture ; and
yet ministers will have us think, that because the House
of Commons may vote against its own dissolution, it
likewise sincerely endorses the child's play of its govern-
ment ! Fiction ! Fiction ! The decisions of the
lower house are always commercial, never moral or
patriotic except by accident ; its mind is bored with one
idea only, and it is with a view to that alone that almost
all its decisions are directed. This is a sad state of
affairs. But it will soon be over. The mighty voice
which demands its dissolution like pealing thunder through
the land cannot much longer be safely resisted, The
House of Commons will do protection an infinite service
by passing
will, at the same time, take the responsibility—the serious
responsibility—upon itself, of our existing unsatisfactory
relations with foreign powers.—Yours,
A PROTECTIONIST.
Tune 24th, 1850.

Of late there has been quite a mania for altering and
beautifying shop fronts at Halifax. During such a process,
on Wednesday, two shops in Northgate fell down ; several
ominous cracks were heard during the day, and at tea-time
the entire walls, floors, and roof fell in with a tremendous
crash.

The Bishop of Chester will next month preach in St.
George's Church, in aid of the Blue-coat Hospital.
The Rev. Mr. Lundy, of Edinburgh, is expected to
succeed the Rev. Mr. Gardner in the pastoral charge of
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Birkenhead.
A great demonstration was made at Salisbury, on
Thursday, in favour of protection. Among the speakers
were Mr. Ferrand and Mr. G. F. Young.

The Queen has presented to the inhabitants of Windsor
about 100 acres in the Home Park for sports and re•
creation.

A new church at Shelf, near Leeds, and another at
Bradford, have just been consecrated by the Bishop of
Ripon.
The Queen has presented £5O towards the fund for
erecting an Asylum in connection with the Royal General
Annuity Society.
ALL churchyards in London are to be closed for ever on
the Ist July, 1851, when burials are to take place in the
suburban cemeteries.

Prince Albert caused to be forwarded to Capt. Forsyth,
of the Arctic expedition at Aberdeen, a beautiful organ for
the use of the crew, but unfortunately it did not arrive
until the vessel had sailed.

Lord Howden, our newly-appointed minister to Spain,
has sold his estate in Yorkshire, called Grimston, to Lord
Londeshorough for £200,000.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Birkenhead, built by Laird,
arrived at Portsmouth from Lisbon on Friday, after a run
of two-and-a-half days against opposing breezes. During
her passage she ran 200 miles in eighteen hours.
A young man named Bingham, from Lincolnshire, has
been brutally murdered at the diggings in California, by
the Indians. His body was found dreadfully mutilated
and robbed of everything in his possession.
General Garibaldi, the celebrated defender of Rome,
arrived in Liverpool on Saturday from Gibraltar. He will
remain here for a few days, and it is said to be his inten-
tion to visit America.

The annual examination at the Tarvin-hall School took
place on Thursday week, in the lecture-hall of the institu-
tion. The attendance was numerous and highly respect-
able, comprising many of the first families in Cheshire and
Lancashire, with others from a distance.
The Bishop of Oxford preached the sermon at the 149th
anniversary of the Gospel Propagation Society, on Wed-
nesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury and several
bishops were present. In the evening the Lord Mayor
gave a splendid banquet to the prelates and a number of
other dignitaries of the church.
CRICKET.—On Thursday last a match was played be-
tween the Olympus and the Preston Clubs, on the ground
of the former, Prince's-park, which terminated in favour
of the Preston. There not being time for two innings,
the match was decided by the first, during which the
Olympus club scored 82, and the Preston 103.
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet-
ing of a Board of Examiners held last week, Captain
William Fredrick Rogers, late master of the " Countess
of Louden," of Liverpool, and Mr. Peter Campbell, late
mate cf the " frydaspes," of Liverpool, were found quali-
fied for second class masters' certificates.
On Tuesday, 500 members of the Elms Temperance
Society, Toxteth-park, had a cheap excursion by railway
to Rufford. The school-room was neatly fitted up, and
every arrangement made for " teaing" the whole party.
Sir T. G. Hesketh kindly threw open for tkeir gratifica-
tion his park, shrnbberies, pleasure grounds, &c., and the
party enjoyed themselves to the full.
On Saturday a deputation, consisting of nearly ninety
members of the House of Commons, waited upon Lady
Palmerston at the family mansion in Carlton-gardens, by
appointment, for the purpose of presenting to her lady-
ship a full-length portrait of Viscount Palmerston, with
an address expressive of the high sense they entertained
of his Lordship's public and private character.
MISFORTUNE OF NOTORIETY.—On Wednesday, a cab-
man was brought up at one of the London Police-offices,
for a series of offences committed whilst in a state of
drunkeness. The defendant pleaded as an excuse that he
was the man who drove Mrs. Manning to the railway
station from her house after the Bermondsey murder, and
that when he told gentlemen of it, they treated him with
too much wine. This plea, however, did not avail him.
AN INFURIATED COAV.—The inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood of the Infirmary were greatly alarmed yesterday
by the vagaries of a cow which appeared to have broken
loose from one of the adjacent slaughter-houses. The
animal was evidently quite wild, and it was only by the
greatest activity that many persons who happened to be
in the street escaped ; as it was, we hear that two or three
children were maimed by it. A posse of men and boys
pursued it, and kept up the chase to the Park, where they
succeeded in effecting a capture.
The new docks at Sunderland were opened on Thurs-
day amidst great rejoicings. A splendid procession, a
magnificent ball and sumptuous banquet, took place.
Mr. George Hudson was the hero of the day, and was
most enthusiastically received. He presided at the ban-
quet. The " great" dock is no less than 20 acres in ex-
tent, and besides this, and the tidal harbour, andthe half
tide basin. &c., an area of upwards of 25 acres of land has
been gained from the sea to the westward of the docks.
TEST OF TANN'S SAFES.—In our notice last week of
the test which was given of one of Tann's patent fire-re-
sisting safes, it should have been stated that after the box
had been examinedisubsequent to tieing taken from the
fire, it was again placed in the middle of the burning pile,
and allowed to remain there another hour ; during this
period, of course, the intensity of the heat had increased ;
yet, when the chest was a second time examined its con-
tents were found, as on the former occasion, to be un-
injured.
ST. BARNABAS SCHOOLS, GREENLAND.STBBET.—A
public examination of these schools to3k place on Friday
evening last, in the presence of about two hundred per-
sons, members of the congregation, and parents and
other friends of the children ; the result of which was
truly gratifying to all who witnessed it, and gave the
fullest evidence of the zeal and assiduity of the teachers
in the discharge of their important duties. It was con-
ducted by the Rev. G. Dover, Incumbent, and the Rev.
G. Hubbert, Curate of St. Barnabas. The subjects on
which they examined were, Old and New Testament his-
tory, geography, arithmetic, English hi 4( ry, English
grammar; and, in addition to these, the boys answered
many questions in Roman history.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, AIN-
TREE.—This concert was held on Thursday evening last,
in the Grand Stand, and drew together a numerous and
fashionable audience, numbering upwards of 200. The
selection of music was excellent, and the reception given
to the talented vocalists and instrumentalists, twho so
kindly gave their gratuitous services,') was such as must
have been most gratifying to their feelings, awl plainly
showed that the love of the fine arts is as deeply imbedded
in the minds of the inhabitants of our suburban districts,
as in the town itself. The various glees and concerted
pieces were admirably rendered, and the inst•Nmentation
of Mr. E. W. Thomas gained him thunders of applause.
Miss Jessie Hammond received an unanimous encore in
" Love lurks in a laughing eye," and the same compli-
ment was conceded to Miss Walker, and Messrs. Arm-
strong and Dodd ; during the evening the latter gentle-
man being immensely witty in some of his Irish songs,
giving them the genuine Hibernian pathos, and with a
readiness of humour seldom found. The concert termin-
ated with " God save the Queen" soon after nine o'clock.
There is one disease that a miser is pretty sure never to
die of—and that is " enlargement of the heart 1"
site end, which led up. another steepellletrhg
SCENE IN A COAL MINE.—They
of horses.
which was used for the ascent and descent
of a
They were just in time to witness the arrival
been Ina mine.
new-
comer, a horse which had never before e
towards a abaft
The
as
with
t h eyes and
restless, e rs
became b frightfully ex-
pressive, a
and
the op
anticipatory s quivering
flesh he swung round in his descending approach
l • plunge , but
d, he made a p
earth. When his hoofs touched, him, he appeared yet
though the band and chain confined endmingrapproach to the
but with the same result. He then stood
second plunge,
blackness. He made a
offt The body of the
stock-still,
oocrke
-sti restrained
iare
dbyrotuhnedaat the black figures and faces that
Appalling
surrounded him, and hist%tint a
sort of sledge, by
horse, was speedily dsr ag
taken to be fanned. A
great m
" This was not.
entirely a mine joke.
iron wheel with broad fil.
was o
often worked rapidly in a certain place, to crel e a
current of air, and thither, or, at all events in that direc-
tion, the poor horse was dragged, amidst the lau3ltter and
ofgthe
tackle. The.businesmine,, could not wait for his
recovery. He was
jokes of the miners and the shouts and whi,,t.tl;° of (tie
boys.--pickens's House/4°14 Werth..