The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

THE LiVgRPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN.

IMPORTANT FROM DRESDEN.

By accounts from Dresden, of the 25th ult., it is learnt
that the conclusion of the report regarding the composi-
tion of the Executive has been rejected, to the discom-
fiture of Prince Schwarzenberg, who, nevertheless, has
yielded with a good grace, and professes still that Austria
will remain united with Prussia.
M. de Manteuffel, defending the rights of all the union
states to give each a mature opinion on the proposals of
the committees as well regarding the executive as the
claims of Austria to enter with all her states, has carried
an adjournment of 15 days, and Prince Schwarzenberg
has returned to Vienna, and M. de Manteuffel to Berlin.
The adoption of these resolutions is regarded in the light
of a triumph for Prussian diplomacy.

An important discussion is at present going on in the
French Assembly. as to the grant for the support of the
French army at Rome. Many members warmly oppose
the grant.
A riot, arising out of a freak of the populace, took place
at Stockholm on the 17th ultimo. Military force was
required to disperse the rioters, and forty arrests took.
place.
A letter from Switzerland, in the Gazette de Lyon,
dated the 24th ult., states that a fresh collision had taken
place between the Government troops and the Radicals
at Interlachen. Several were wounded on both sides ;
and the Radical rioters dispersed.
Accounts from Cayenne to the 24th of January state
that at the time the colony was plunged into great con-
sternation by the death of the Governor, Captain Maissin,
from yellow fever. Although his ship, the Tartare, was
still in quarantine. 18 sailors, all that remained alive out
of a crew of 65, determined to follow the body of their
beloved commander to the grave.
THE CARNIVAL IN PARIS.—We read i❑ the Gazelle
des -Tribunaux:—" M. G—, a superior employ‘ of a
public administration, attended one of the recent masked
balls at the opera, and while seated alone in a box was
joined by an elegantly attired domino. Presently he got
into conversation with her, and she was very polite. After
a while she consented to accept a supper, and then took
off her mask. The gentleman saw that she was young
and beautiful, and demanded to be allowed to visit her,
but she refused to give him her address, because she said
she was married. She also forbade him to follow her.

She, however, promised to write, and a few days after he
received a letter, in which, after stating that her husband

was absent, and that she was going to a ball the next
evening at Bourget with one of her female friends, she
gave him permission to accompany her, and said that
her friend would present him to the family by whom the
ball was to be given, as a relatjve. The place of appoint-
ment she fixed at the corner of the Rue Laffitte, at eleven
o'clock at night, and said she would he in a carriate
At the tin
gentleman

charmer and

e appointee, a carriage urove up, ULM t
who was waiting, entered it, and found hi

her trienc

the gentleman got into such a delightful conversation
that he did not notice the direction taken. All at once
the carriage stopped, anC

adies saying,

place !' alighted.' The gentleman was surprised to see no
house and to find himself in a deserted road, but before
he could speak he was seized by three men masked, who
. . • • .• • •

nocked

him dos

They then took his watch and money, and even stripped
him of his clothes, after which they and thewomqn entered
the vehicle and drove rapidly off. Mr. G— wandered
about some time, and at last found himself in the village
of Bobigny. He knocked at the door of the house occu-
pied by the deputy mayor, and that person, on hearing his
story, gave him hospitality. The deputy mayor also sent
the gendarmes in search of the thieves; but, notwith-
standing all efforts, they have not yet been dicovered."

COURT AND FASHION.

Tne Marquis of Westminster has left Grosvenor-house,
for Motcombe-park, Dorsetshire, until Easter.
The Marchioness of Lansdowne is again suffering from
indisposition.
The Marchioness of Salisbury had a " reception" last
night at the residence of the noble marquis in Arlington-
street.

The Duke of Rutland is entertaining company at Bel-
voir Castle. His grace will receive visitors until the
Croxton-park races, which are fixed to take place on the
Ist of the ensuing month.

The fisheries of the Isle of Man, particularly for cod,
have been remarkably productive this season. In some
cases 4d. per fish has been deemed a good price.
THE BUDGET.—Numerously attended meetings in
opposition to the proposition of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer with regard to the window-tax, and the other
obnoxious propositions of the budget, were held on Mon-
day, in the parish of St. Luke and in the ward of Alders-
gate ; on Tuesday in St. Pancras and in the parishes of St.
Margaret and St. John the Evangelist, Westminster; and
on Wednesday, in the borough of Southwark and in St.
Anne's, Westminster, at all of which resolutions depre-
cating the proposed measure were agreed to.
MERCANTILE MARINE ACT.—A numerous meeting of
shipowners, masters, and seamen, was held at Leith, on
Monday evening, to take measures for petitioning against
this act, Baillie Morrison in the chair. A. number of
objections to different clauses of the act were discussed,
and a committee was appointed to forward the petitions,
which had been agreed to at a former meeting. It was
suggested that if the petitions were rejected by the Queen,
they should emigrate to the ljni;."Z;l. States or Brazil? but
anything like a strike was deprecated.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A LADY.—On Friday, an
inquest was held on the body of Mrs. Bramby, widow of
Mr. Bramby, chemist, of Woolwich. It appeared that
she and her mother lived together, and were in reduced
circumstances, and on Tuesday evening the deceased,
stating that she was going for a pill, took from a drawer a
phial of prussic acid, which they had for flavouring cus-
tards, drank a portion of the contents, and died shortly
afterwards. It was the opinion of a witness that she had
not originally intended to take poison, but the fear of
poverty induced a sudden impulse, which caused her to
do so.
HORRIBLE DEATH FROM STARVATION IN LONDON.
—Last Friday, Mr. H. M. Wakley held a protracted in-
quiry touching the death of William Barton, engraver,
aged 74, who died of starvation. The body, which lay on
a heap of rags on the floor of a wretched ho el, at No. 4,
Speedy-place, was completely shrunk, and presented the
appearance of a parched and dried-up mummy. The de-
ceased, who was much reduced, had formerly moved in
very high circles, and could not bear the idea of applying
for parochial relief. On Saturday, Mrs. Barton went into
a shop in the neighbourhood, and begged a farthing to
put to a halfpenny to buy deceased half-a-pint of beer.
She then confessed that, for the last fortnight, they had
no food except a bit of bread soaked in beer. Deceased
was a very well-educated man. The coroner remarked
that it was awful that, in the nineteenth century, and
amidst such wealth as abounded in the neighbourhood,
and in which were so many charitable institutions, a fel-
low-creature should die of starvation. It was one of the
most appalling cases he had encountered. The wretched
wife of deceased had become idiotic; and, at the sugges-
tion of a gentleman present, measures were taken to pro-
cure her admission into the workhouse. The juryreturned,
without hesitation, the following verdict :—" William
Barton died from exhaustion, produced by the want of the
common necessaries of life." The coroner and jury sub-
sequently raised a subscription towards meeting the
immediate wants of the poor woman.
A FAITHFUL. WITNESS.—In the House of Commons on
Friday, Sir Robert Inglis, in replying to Sir James Gra-
ham said, that his right hon. friend did not deceive him-
self in stating that the great majority of the people of
Great Britain were hostile to the papal aggression. He
(Sir R. Inglis) trusted, therefore, that his noble friend
(Lord J. Russell) and his right hon. friend (Sir J. Gra-
ham) would both well consider that even in this house
they would not be able to carry on an administration
which was founded upon the principle of tamely conceding
to an aggression which be conceived to be characterised
by as much audacity as could have been exhibited by the
Church and Court of Rome in the worst times of Inno-
cent 111. or Gregory VII. (Hear, hear.) The people of
this country would value more than any other sentence in
the noble lord's speech that sentence wherein he stated
that he retained, with unabated force. the feeling, the
principle, and the opinion which had first induced him
to bring forward his measure for repressing the papal ag-
gression. (Hear, hear.) Let his noble friend be fully
persuaded of this fact, that the people of Great Britain
would not be satisfied with any measure short of that
which he had introduced, the feeling expressed out of

doors being, not that it

,nt too far

at that, t

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might literally meet the precise case of aggression, it did
not meet the real grievance, of which the papal brief and
pastoral were only a part. (Hear, hear.) Without enter-
ing further into the subject, he (Sir R. Inglis) thought it
was but justice to those who entertained opinions similar
to his own, that some one should rise in that house and
state what he believed to be the almost unanimous feeling
of the great body of the people of England and Scotland,
that in the vain attempt to satisfy the Roman Catholic
portion of the people of Ireland they would alienate the
affections of the people of England. (Hear, hear.)

given to

DINNER. TO ltiß. MACREALY.—A dinner was
Mr. Macready, on Saturday, by his friends and adniirers on
his retiring from the stage. It was in the first instance
intended that the entertainments should have taken place
in the London Tavern, but the applications for tickets
were so numerous that it was found impossible to provide
the requisite accommodation in that establishment. The
Hall of Commerce was therefore engaged for the occasion,
and the large number of additional tickets which that
arrangement enabled the committee to issue were speedily
taken up. With the exception of two brilliant stars in
gas, having the ciphers " V." and " A." in the centre,
the hall was destitute of any ornament. Upwards of 600
tickets were issued. By six o'clock every seat in the ball
was occupied. Soon afterwards Mr. Macready, who was
accompanied by the chairman, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and
the members of the dinner committee. entered the ball,
and was received with enthusiastic cheering. Among the
noblemen and gentlemen" present were his Excellency the
Chevalier Bunsen (the Prussian minister), M. Van do
Weyer (the Belgian minister), the Marquis of Clanricarde,
Lord Dufferin, Lord W. Graham, Lord Ernest Bruce,
Sir C. L. Eastlake, P.R.A. ; Mr. C. Dickens, Sir E.
Landseer, Captain Sir G. Back, Mr. C. Babbage, Mr. W.
M. Thackeray, Sir R. Murchison, Mr. C. Kemble, Mr.
J. Forster, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Wilson, Mr. C.
Stanfield, Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P. ; Mr. R. M. Milnes,
M.P. ; Mr. Heywood, M.P. ; Mr. D. Maclise, R.A. ;
Mr. A. Stafford, M.P. ; Mr. C. Baring, R.A. ; Sir A.
Gordon, Mr. C. Leslie, ILA, ; Mr. P. H. Howard, M.P. ;
Mr. S. Hart, R.A. ; Mr. Macauly. Q.C.; Mr. D. Roberts,
R.A. ; Mr. E. Warburton, Mr. W. F. Pollock, Mr. A.
Fonblanque, Dr, Quin, Hon. S. Lyttleton, Mr. J. Catter-
mole, Sir E. Ryan, Mr. Serjeant Adams, Mr. S. Rintoul,
Air. P. 'W. IJarve,y, Pr. G. R. Rowe, &c.