The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-24 00:00:00

Majesty's late whig govern-

ment. Such an inquiry, we sub

!to to tt

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honour and the safety of the country. I

to the living and the dead. It is due

Bove all, to a

consideration for the prostrat

the en-

feehled resources, and the financial decay of our vast

Indian empire.
We are told that the days of impeachment are gone
by; that a minister of tl

longer re-

sponsible to the judgment of Parliament for his errors

or his crimes ; but may stand up in his place in either
house, unabashed and unassailed by the hand of jus-
tice, though the ruin of an empire and the blood of
thousands of his fellow-countrymen be upon his guilty,
but imperturbable, front. It may be so. With our
excellent contemporary, the Morning Herald, we regret
the fact, if it be so. It may appear wise, in this re-
formed and liberal age, that for the crime which de-
luges .an empire with blood, unnecessarily slain, the
punishment should be merely loss of office, or the
temporary displeasure of capricious constituencies;
whilst to the man who merely robs a hen-roost, or
kills and cart ies off a sheep from our fields, the law
meets out the punishment of transportation beyond
the seas. The officer who loses a compan
advised or unskilful movement in the field, i
to the judgment of a court-martial. The naval com-

by an ill-

s subjected

mander who lowers his flag before an enemy, or even
loses his ship in a tempest, must submit to a similar
ordeal; and unless able to prove that all has been
done, which prudence and seamanship conl
avert the calamity, he must submit to cen

do, to

if not

to degradation from his rank. But the GOVERNOR.

GENERAL, who orders an army into defil

It a dis-

tance of hundreds of miles from its supplies, in which
it is savagely and helplessly butchered,—the MINISTER
who thus perils the honor of his country and the lives
of his fellow-countrymen, are, in this excessively " li-
beral" age, to escape not only punishment, but even

trial; for IMPEACHMENT HAS BECOME OBSOLETE"!
Doubtless there may be wisdom in this; doubtless

there is liberality in it

We can disce

latter,

though we cannot the former. Our fath

ers, we sus-

pect, were wiser, in their generation, than we are in

ours—more jealous of their liberties—more jealous of
the humblest British subject who trailed a musket in

the cause of his country, than we of the

fety of an

entire army, of its noblest and most distinguished
officers. Our fathers, we suspect, would not have con-
ceded what we have already conceded, even to a popu-
larly-elected House of Commons. They would not
have permitted the privilege of such a body to over•
ride alike the sacred immunity of private character and
the law of the land. They would have considered
such a demand, on the part of any branch of the Legis-
lature, as TYRANNY, of the worst species and most
outrageous form; whilst such an attempt as is now
being made, under the plea of the obsoletism of impeach-
ment, would have created a storm of unappeasible in-
dignation from John O'Groat's to the Land's End.
We shall have no impeachment, then. The manli-
ness and fearlessness of the British senator, which
would, in days of old, have rushed upon such a course
—the spirit of fine and lofty chivalry which hovered
around the walls of St. Stephen's Chapel in the days
of Pitt, and Burke, and Chatham—is no more ! The
spirit which animated the bosom of a Hastings, and
which urged him to welcome, rather than shun, the
fiery torrent of eloquent denunciation, with which he
was assailed within those walls, exists not in the hearts
of the Palmerstons, the Aucklands, or the Hobhouses
of modern days. Clubism, Liberalism, Utilitarianism,
and the new-fangled conventional resources of modern
society have, indeed, rendered the old-fashioned and
severe virtues and practices of our ancestors obsolete,
if not troublesome things. What was a vice in their
eyes is a peccadillo in ours. What was in their eyes
unworthy of a man or a statesman, is but blameable in
ours, in a Pickwickian sense. In fact—for we disdain
to palter with our feelings and convictions upon this
subject—the lofty, sterling, civalrous, trutful, and
honorable character of England and of Enghlishmen,
whether displayed in her legislative assemblies, in her
marts of trade, or in the intercourse of private life, is
no more that character which the world looked up to
in days gone by, than the Brummagem counterfeit is
the sterling gold which it is designed to reresent. Strange, by the bye, that we know so
well thep differ-
ence between the counterfeit and the real, in every
affair of life ; and yet only decisively prefer the latter
to the former, when the object in which the quality is
displayed is a paltry coin !
But though we may have no impeachment, surely we
may have a searching inquiry; and surely some inde-
pendent member in the British Parliament will take
steps to bring it about.

=--_.._

LOCAL. ATMS

PUBLICAN'S FINES.—The amount of penalties inflicted
upon publicans on Friday amounted to £53 10s., and that
on other parties to £2. 9s. Gd.
The Cheshire Foxhounds meet to-morrow (Wednesday),
at Tatton Park ; on Friday, at Beeston ; and on Saturday,
at Tabley Park ;—each day at half-past tea.
LIVERPOOL SAVINGS BANlC—During the three first bank
days in the present year, the sum of £8,079 was received
from 208 depositors, being a larger number of deposits and
yearsban p.

THE JESSIE LOGAN.— i was uon
Friday at the Exchange News Room. The crew osted
of the Jessie
Logan, Captain Major, from Calcutta to Liverpool, were
taken into Cork on Wednesday, the 18th instant, by the
Lynn.

ANOTHER STEAMER LOST.—Letters have within the last
day or two been received in London reporting the logs of the
Dolphin steamer; she is said to have been driven ashore
during the tempest at Portinllean, and was every hour ex-
pected to fall to pieces. She belongs to Liverpool.
THE WRECK OF THE MONK STEAMER.—At the inquest
on Monday week on the bodies of the sufferers by this
melancholy occurrence, the fury found the following verdict,
" Accidentally drowned," expressing their opinion that the
steamer was not sufficiently seaworthy, and ought not to have
been placed upon the station, and that greht blame was at-
tached to those having charge of her inleaving Porthdynllaen
on the day in question.
THE PILOT-BOATS.—These admirable sea-boats, b y the
exertions of the hands on board, were enabled to keep their
respective stations on the night of the terrific storm. Nos.
lil, 4, and 5 were on the western stations, and No. 12 on the
ght-ship station succeeded the following morning in board-
ing the Hottinguer, Monongahela, and several other vessels,
in a most tremendous sea ; and, in all probability, but for
the courage and presence of mind displayed by the pilots,
these vessels would have shared the fate of the unfortunate,
packet-ships which suffered in the gale of January 1839.
COMMITMENTS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, three
girls, named Sarah White, Sarah Thomas, and Jane Brown,
:were committed for trial at the sessions, on a charge of hav-
ing gone into the shop of Mr. Ingham, draper, Scotland-
road, to purchase some small articles, and thence purloining
16 yards of common print. The cloth was found wrapped
round one of their bodies before they left the shop, where they
had recently been frequently seen together.—Edward Hum-
phries was also committed for trial, for stealing seven pairs
of braces from the shop-door of Mr. Album, Whitechapel.
DEAvit FROM A FALL.—An inquest was held yesterday,
before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of James Sudlow.
The deceased, who was 61 years of age, on Thursday evening
last, fell down the steps of a cellar in Collingwood-street,
I.iy which he was so severely injured that he was picked up
insensible. He was bled by a surgeon immediately after,
and recovered for a time. He was afterwards attended at
his own house, but gradually got worse, and died on Satur-
day. Mr. Clark, surgeon, who attended him, stated the
cause of death to be concussion of the spine. Verdict—
" Pound injured in a cellar, and died from injury to the
spine ; but how the injury was caused there was no evidence
to show."

DEATH FROM SCALDlNG.—Yesterday, an inquest was
held before Mr. Curry, borough coroner, on view of the
body of Jane Thompson, a child of two years and a half old.
On the 11th instant, the mother of the deceased and another
female were at home washing in Orrell-street. There was
an iron pot on the floor about half full of hot water. The
mother went to cut a piece of bread for deceased, who fol-
lowed her, and in doing so she stumbled against the pot, and
overturned it, and the hot water went over her. She was
severely burnt over the right shoulder and under the arm.
She was taken to the dispensary and dressed, and afterwards
attended by a surgeon, but she never recovered, and died on
Sunday morning last. Verdict—" Accidental death from
the burning."

OF AN ILLICIT STlLL.—Yesterday Mr. Super.
visor Gibson, and several other officers of excise, appeared
before Mr. Rushton, at the Police Court, and preferred a
complaint against Patrick Oonelly, John Rayner, and three
other persons, two females and a man, for having worked an
Illicit still. It appeared that having received certain informa-
tion, the officers went to No. 2, Gore-street North, on Satur-
day last. On looking through an aperture in the door they
how and heard the prisoners Donnelly and Rayner conversing
;Ilion the flavour of some whiskey which they were tasting.
Whey then went in, and in the cellar they found a still in full
operation. A great deal of disturbance followed, in the
course of which Donnelly threw two quart bottles full of
whiskey into the fire, whereby the house, for some time, was
in danger of being in flames. These two men were, however,
secured, and the other prisoners, being found up stairs, they
also were placed in custody. All the materials for manufac-
turing whiskey, and forty gallons of " wash,"were found and
seized. All the prisoners protested their innocence. Don-
nelly and Rayner were convicted in the penalty of £3O e a c
and, in default of payment, they were committed to the
rough Gaol for three months. The other prisoners we
discharged.

FUNERAL 01' MR. INSPECTOR Clioucu.—The funerai
Of Mr. Crouch, inspector of police, who died last week after
a protracted illness, took place yesterday afternoon, and was
attended by the whole of the disposable police-officers of the
northern divisio❑ of the town, the superintendants, the chief
constable, and a number of private friends. The procession,
which consisted of several hundreds, followed the remains

from the deceased's residence in Richmond-row, along Vt
he
principal line of streets, leading southward, in the higher
part of the town, to St. James's—the Mount Cemetery.
The whole presented throughout a most impressive and
mournful appearance. The picturesque burying-ground was
much crowded as the last rites were performed. The de-
ceased, who had been in the force for 10 or 12 years, was a
highly meritorious and active officer. He was about 36
years of age.

THE FUNDS: SATURDAY EVEN NG.—The funds have
experienced further improvement to-day, a large purchase of
Consols, to the extent, it is said, of £120,000, having been
concluded for delivery on Tuesday next, by one of the leading
brokers, who is known to have a great share of the business
of the west end bankers. A general supposition prevails that
the operation proceeds from one of these establishments being
dosirous of laying out their unemployed capital at interest.
For one portion of the stock so bought 94i was paid, and
for the remainder the rather higher quotation of 95. In other
respects the English securities were firm, and altogether a
fair a nount of business was transacted. The last price of
Consols for money and the account was 94; to 95 ; Bank
Stock, 171 to 173 ; Exchequer-bills, G3s. to 655. premium ;
India Stock, 262 to 263 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 951 to
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 102 ; New 'force-
and-a- Half per Cents., 101 to *; Long Annuities, 1n; and
India Bonds, 60 premium. In the foreign market no pro-
minent feature occurred beyond the continuance of much

steadiness in prices. Spanish Actives left off l 8 to -1; ditto
New, 23-;',, to ; Portuguese converted, 354 to 64; Mexican,
324- to s ; ditto Deferred, 9k to s ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 52 to -; Dutch Five per Cents., 1024- to b ; Danish,
85 to 86 ; Brazilian, 73 to 741 ; and Belgian, 1024 to 4.

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THE INFANT SAFI:IIO'S FAREWELL CONCERT.—The
Infant Sappho gave her farewell concert last evening in the
Music-hall, which was tilled by a highly respectable auditory.
The intentive talent of this remarkable child has surprised
every one, and none more so than the most experienced mu-
sical professors : in Manchester as well as Liverpool the
unanimous verdict of all who have heard her Las been that
for her age she is a musical prodigy. She sang' her usual
pieces last night, but with the additon of a Magnificat,
which she gave with much taste, delicacy, and expression,
for which she was warmly applauded. Her performances,
indeed, elicited universal admiration. Besides the efforts of
Mr. Vining. father of the Infant Sappho, Mr. Richard An-
drews and Master Andrews, of Manchester, greatly interested
the auditory by performing several duets on the piano-forte
and the concertina. At the 'close Mr. Vining returned
thanks for the support and encouragement his daughter had
met with in Liverpool : he should never forget the remem-
brance of it, not so much from any pecuniary benefit, but
from its showing that the extraordinary talent of his daughter
was appreciated in' this town. We understand that the
Infant Sappho is about to visit Dublin, and we strongly re-
commend her to the notice of our contemporaries in that
city.

THEATRE-ROYAL.--The tragedy of " Othello" was re-
presented on Friday last, when a Mr. Hoskins made his
debut before a Liverpool audience. We understood that it
was Mr. Richard Hoskins that was about to essay this cha-
racter, and therefore attended with some curiosity ; how-
ever, it was not " Mister Richard" that appeared, but had
it been- his veritable self it could not have been done with
more humour. Whence this Mr. Hoskins comes, or whi-
ther he goeth, " deponent sayeth not " ; but if he be an
amateur, we can commend his attempt as rather creditable—
if a professional, as unworthy of notice. The Roderigo of
a Mr. Perkins was really quite ludicrous. Mr. Stuart's lago
was very clever : we never saw him act so well. Mts. Sey-
mour's Desdemona was a charming and talented impersona-
tion of a wonderful creation of the poet's fancv.—The Pan-
tomime goes off capitally. The new clown, Mr. Wood, is
decidedly the best actor of this line of business we have seen
since Joe Grimaldi. His restless activity and his humour
'keep the scene alive. But where are the huge pockets, that
Joey used to wear, in which everything moveable, from a pig
down to a pin, used to find its way ?=-Arnongst the novelties
we see the " Tempest" is underlined for Monday next. The
new opera of " Marinette" is in preparation, and will shortly
be produced.
ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON.—
Some of our radical contemporaries, and especially the Man.
chester Guardian and Liverpool Journal, have recently
made a great stir about the refusal of the Rev. Jas. Wright,
Incumbent of Latchford Church, Warrington, to bury a
child who had not been baptized. It is perfectly true that
Mr. Wright did refuse to read the burial service over the
child in question, though not before be ascertained that the
child had not been baptized at all ; but it is equally true that
the rubric in the prayer-book, which is the law of the laud,
left him, under the circumstances of the case, no option. It
is, however, contrary to the fact, that Mr. Wright had pre-
viously buried several of the children of the same parent, as
he has read the service over one only, and that because he was
not aware that the child had not been baptized ; and it can-
not possibly be true that Mr. Wright has buried unbaptized
persons to any great extent, as there have been but twenty-
five funerals at the church within a period of eight years, and
two of these were Mr. Wright's own children. We under-
stand that the bishop of the diocese and the father of the
child have both expressed their approval of Mr. Wright's
behaviour. With all due deference to our contemporaries,
the case of this child could not give rise to the question
whether " a person dying and not having attained the age
at which baptism is administered by a particular class of
dissenters, is entitled to burial according to the law of the
established church." That question is settled by law, and
unless dissenters can without scruple expect the clergy of
the established church to violate their consciences and the
law of the land, they should forbear a little on this point.
As to any displeasure on the part of Mr. Wrights congrega-
tion at the occurrence, we believe no such feeling has been
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in hoisting them, and lowering them on the waggon. After
the third balk (weighing upwards of three tons) was hoisted
up, the deceased, who had charge of the lowering, took hold
of the rope to lower, but the apparatus being insufficient,
(there being no regular break to the crane,) the balk went
down by the run, and could not be properly placed on the
waggon. One of the men on going round the crane im-
mediately afterwards, found the deceased lying on the ground,
just under the break, which consisted of three turns of the
rope round the shaft or barrel of the crane. The blood was
flowing from his ears, and there was a large wound on the
left ear. The deceased was taken to the Southern Hospital.
The iron wrench handle of the crane was found broken. In
the opinion of the other men who were working the crane, is
was not sufficient to lower such a weight with safety.—A
police-officer, who found the broken handle, (which had no
doubt struck the deceased,) expressed the same opinion.—
W. W. Cochrane, manager of the porters, said that a rope
twisted round the shaft of the crane had been used for some
time as a break for the crane, which had been in use for
about ten years. He did not consider the break sufficient to
lower the balk on it when the deceased was killed ; but it was
at the option of the parties using the crane, to use the break
or not at their option. The break (by the rope round the
shaft,) would be of some assistance, if two men were at the
handles, but not of itself. The men were aware of the state
it was in, arid that it would not support such a balk.—Mr.
Chaloner, surgeon of the Southern Hospital, said the de-
ceased was brought to the hospital ill a state of insensibility,
and died before one on the following morning. The cause of
death was fracture of the skull, causing compression of the
brain.—The jury, after being briefly addressed by the coro-
ner, consulted for a short time, but not entirely agreeing,
they were about to be placed under the custody of the beadle
to consider their verdict, when those few who had stood out
gave way to the majority, and they returned a verdict of
" Accidental death," with an addendum, levying a deodand
on the crane (which belongs to the Liverpool and Manches-
ter Railway Company) of X2O.
LAW RELATING TO FIRES.—On Saturday last, Mr. As-
pinall, the barrister, appeared before Mr. Rushton, for the
purpose of substantiating an accusation preferred by Mr.
Whitehouse, agent for the West of England Insurance Com-
pany, against James Rigby, who was charged with having
carelessly set fire to the premises of Messrs. Platt and Co.,
in Greenland-street, on the 22d December last. The infor-
mation was laid under the 84th clause of the Act 14 George
111., cap. 78, which enacts, in substance, " that, if any
servant shall be lawfully convicted of firing, or causing
to be fired, any dwelling-house or outhouse or houses, or
other buildings, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one
hundred pounds to the churchwardens or overseers of the
poor, or, in default of payment, be committed to prison for
eighteen months." Mr. Aspinall said, the fire-office had
been induced to take this proceeding in consequence of the
numerous instances which had occurred of buildings having
been set on fire by the carelessness of servants. It was pro-
per to show such individuals that, if lives and property were
endangered by their negligence, they were liable to punish-
ment. The defendant was distilling turpentine. He must
have known the danger of carrying a light near the pans
while that process was going on, for he had been in Messrs.
Platt's service many years, and knew that all the pans were
provided with gas and with safety lamps, which would ena-
ble any person to look into them. Nevertheless, he took a
lighted stick for the purpose of looking into one of the pans,
and the result was, that the vapour ignited immediately, and
the whole building was presently in flames. None of the
partners of the firm were present at the time ; and he was
the more particular in making this observation, as a contrary
statement had gone abroad. He would be able to prove that
the defendant had done as he stated, and that he knew it to
be a practice fraught with danger.—Benjamin Platt, jun., a
Partner in the firm, stated that the defendant had been in
their service twenty years. Their works consisted of a dis-
tillery, yard, an office, and a house, in one room of which a
person resided. General instructions were given that lights
were not allowed to be carried about. There was a gas-light
to each pan, which gave sufficient light for all purposes. It
would depend on the state of the pan whether there would
be any danger in using a light. If the pan were hot, it
would send up an inflammable vapour, and it would be dan-
gerous to use a light. From the experience of the defendant,
he must have known that it was dangerous to take a light to
look into the pan at that time.—John Edwards was called,
but he did not answer.—Mr. Aspinall begged for time, but
Mr. Rushton said, as this was a highly penal clause, and the
defendant stood then on his defence, he could not grant it.—
George Findlater, Messrs. Platt's foreman, was called, but
he was unable to prove anything material.—Mr. Rushton
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SINGULAr. MISTAKE.—When Dr. Keate was the Head
Master of Eton College, and sitting one afternoon enthroned
in his awful chair in the upper school, a person was seen ad-
vancing from the lower end, clad in scarlet, the livery of
royalty. Nothing doubting his regal origin, and supposing
him to be the bearer of a message from his Sovereign, the
doctor received him with marked courtesy and his best smile ;
when, what was his astonishment at bearing bins ask per-
mission to perform feats of legerdemain in the lower school
—in truth, it was no other than Mr. Moon, the conjuror!
We leave our readers to imagine the amusement this afforded
to the boys, and need hardly say that this request was re-
fused instanter.
Poor LORD MORPETII has been writing a riamby-paroby
school-boy epistle to some " dear Mrs. Chapman" in Ame-
rikv, and published in the Liberty Bell, for circulation at a
" Slavery Fair," held at Boston in December last. As a spe-
cimen of style and research—origival and quotation—we sub-
mit the following;--
" I am conscious (my dear Mrs. Chapman,) that I may
seem to you to magnify any possible effect that might proceed
from some probably very pointless scrap of composition ; but
in all these matters it should be more a question of principle
than of degree. I have seen before now that the susceptibi-
lity of nations can stoop very low, as well as soar very high.
If a foreign chime should be detected in the peal of the Li.
berty Bell, I know not what startling echoes it might not
awaken in the deepest recesses of Accomac. There is a line
which we happen to have often heard quoted among ourselves
, 1 -------- Know ye not
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow 1"