The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

I ELECTION FOR ST. PETER'S WARD-THIS DAN

the Town-Council took place this morning before
man (Mr. J. H. Tune ,
at the Horse and Jockey Tavern, .
booth opened exactly at 9 o'clock, and a few minutes aft

and the two assessors of the ward,
The Dolling

lember for IN

tendered the firs

vote for Mr

John St

gentleman

lother •otes

ere afterwards received, b

no other candidate

was proposed. At twenty minutes past ten o'clock, no vote
PREPARATORY SCHOOL,
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE• having been tendered for an hour, the alderman declared the
election closed, and that Mr. Stewart had been duly returned.
LAW/ , who has had for several years a Prep election A
School of the first respectabilityA worthy substitute (has th , us been found for Mr. Samuel
of Liverpool, having Removed to New Brighton, receives in the neighbourhood.,s
SIX YOUNG GENTLEMEN, from the age of three Holme ; and " Gibraltar ' has been taken without the enemy
--, as BOARDERS. .
~ have dared to show the brighl-ness of his countenance.

well known as being one of the
on the Coast of England ; and, on ac-
e advantage of Sea Bathing for Children, the
ing her Pupils the latter end of
Several Families whose Children have
years, will bear satisfactory
ss 01 her system of Education, and
tr. the religious in-

LATEST NEWS FROM IRELAND.

,ores rece

THE CYCLOPS.—A large man-of-war steamer, armed with
four sixty-eight pounders—those used in the bombardment of
Acre—anchored in Kingstown Harbour on Sunday morning.

for some

the Children intrusted to

and happiness o

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weekly gathering at the Corn Exchange, Dublin tneir,
yest usualerday.
Captain Seaver, of Newry, in the chair. A great number
of
letters, enclosing subscriptions from various parts of the
country, were read, but the proceedings in other respects
were quite devoid of interest. The total sum anticipated at
the close of the meeting was £l5OO.

n also refer to eminent Clergymen of the Established
and Medical Gentlemen, in Liverpool.
Thir' 'uineas per Annum

No extra

.ig and Books
r Terrace

Ve. ; Brighton, Cheshire

THE ATHLONE M EETING.—We will have a splendid meet-
ing here, and every preparation is being made so as to give
the Liberator a proper reception. The Repealers alone are
knot the only people that intend to honour him, for the can-
nons of our garrison have been repaired, cleaned, and fitted
for the purpose, we should suppose, of welcoming him with
a royal salute. Some wag, like the stipendiary at Water-
f ird, was at work here, and the guards were trebled on Wed-
nesday night last, and an order of readiness for immediate
action issued. Many police and military parties to escort
ammunition to all parts of the country, were here during the
week.—Athlone Sentinel.

THE FIRE.
Christian's Ap-

ESTABLISH-

MELANCHOLY DEATIL—We regret to have to announce
the death of the Rev. James Lowry Dickson, rector of Levey,
county of Cavan, under the following melancholy circum-
stances :—lt appears that on Wednesday last Mr. Dickson,
having returned home from Cavan, felt somewhat fatigued,
and, after dinner, retired to bed. Mrs. Dickson being out
visiting at the time, there was no person in the house but the
servant maid, and a per4on named Eccles, a relative of Mrs.
Dickson, who, unfortunately, is subject at intervals to fits of
mental derangement. This person having entered the dining-
room, after Mr. Dickson had retired, and having partaken
copiously of of a decanter of spirits, which lie found on the
sideboard, commenced smashing the glasses. &c., when the
servant maid, who, although well aware of the danger she
incurred by interfering, came to the door and forbid him to
act in such a manner, whereupon lie pursued her up stairs,
whither she fled, to one of the bed-rooms, for refuge.
On reaching the labby the maniac darted into Mr. Dick-
son's room, who was then in a profound sleep, alas! " a sleep
that was to know no waking," and having seized a razor
which lay upon the dressing-table, with one stroke of
the
deadly weapon completely cut the trachea, by which respira-
tion waslnstantaneously suspended, and the vital spark ex-
tinguished ! An inquest was held on the body on Thursday.
when a verdict, in accordance with the foregoing circum-
stances, was returned.—Dublin paper.
RIBBONISM.—On Monday last John Johnstone, Esq.,
. •

our county inspector, and Charles Nl'Kelvy, Esq., sub-in-
spector of constabulaty, with a party under their command,
and acting upon information they had previously received,
entered the house of a person named Hanlon, residing in
Monaghan, and in a room up stairs found seven persons
seated round a table, in conclave, and upon searching them
they discovered, in the watch pocket of one of the persons,
named Hanlon, the son of the proprietor of the house, a
paper, containing the "goods," that is, the signs and pass-
words of the Ribbon society, just issued for the present quar-
ter. The whole party were taken up, and on Tuesday they
were fully committed for trial by the magistrates presiding
at petty sessions. Three of the party had been admitted to
bail, but the other four are yet in custody. Papers were
found only on one of them, but this may be accounted for,
as they had not time to get the ' goods' delivered to each
until the police were upon them. The house was one of
entertainment, but altbough they were sitting round the
table they had no refreshment of any kind before them, and
it is worthy of remark that they were all from different
quarters of the country. One of them from the county
Louth. one of them from the direction of Clones, one from
that of Glasslough, another living near Baliybay, andlithe
others from opposite directions, and all apparently strangers
to each other, as if it were a meeting of delegates from se-
veral districts, assembled at one central point to devise new
schemes of rebellion, and bring back to their several lodges
the orders from head quarters. The ramification of this dan-
. gerous conspiracy is daily extending, supported as it now is
by the extraordinary excitement which pervades society in
Ireland, and aided by the facility of assembling _ and com-
munication afforded by the legal repeal meetings."—Beffast
paper.

FOREIGN 9- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE'

FRANCE

The Paris papers, of Thursday and Friday, do not contain
any thing of political importance. They publish, how-
ever, some particulars of a banquet given at Macon to M.
de Lamartine, and a report of that distinguished deputy's
very remarkable speech on the occasion, in which he exhorts

the people to " endeavour to recal the Government to the
principles which placed the present King on the throne; but
that, should the Government persist obstinately in the course
it has hitherto pursued, the peuple must not accompany them
in it." The terms in which this unquestionably gifted per-
son conveyed his meaning are, however, either too poetical
or too timid to be literally understood and translated ; we
are, consequently, reduced to guess only at his meaning,
and that appears to be, that "the present state of things may
endure for, in all, fifteen years in France, or to the demise
of the present Sovereign ;" but that "•the destinies of the
country were never either in the hands of, or bound up with
the fall or existence of any individual." " Napoleon, said
he, significantly, "is dead. Powerful dynasties have passed
away, yet France remains. It has never yet been confined
to any man or to any power to carry with them the fortunes
of France."

According to the figurative reasoning of M. De Lamartine

" the monarchy imagined and decreed in 1830. and which it
was then understood was to be that of King Louis Plaillippe,
was the work of reason and of necessity,—a monarchy not
enveloped in the mysteries of English metaphysics, con-
cealing its origin in heaven (!), but the monarchy of broad
daylight, examined by everybody, agreed to by everybody,
belonging to everybody. Less than that would be the aucien
regime—more than that would be the repubbe." He con-
cluded by giving as a toast—" The regular al d peaceable ac-
complishment of the destinies of democracy.' '

In a word, M. de Lamartine shows that thi two mons .shies
tried by France since 1789—the military monarchy ot Na-
poleon and the divine-right monarchy of he reit aation, en,
(lured for only fifteen years each; that tht pros .nt experiment
(monarchy) has existed for now nearly eighteen years, and
may be expected to expire in a couple more ; th.it then the
existing monarchy having been, though a work of necessity,
a masterpiece of reason, and having failed in its object,
France should have no more to do with monarchieS of any
kind or description.
The Monitore of Saturday has the following :
"The Prince de Joinville, on his arrival at Rio de Janeiro,
demanded of the Emperor of the Brazils, with the consent
of the King his father, the hand of her Imperial highness the
Princess Frances of Braganza, which was accorded to him.
The marriage was to be celebrated at Rio de Janeiro on the
Ist of May. The Prince de Joinville is now on his way back
to France, in the frigate Belle Poole, with the. young Princess
his bride. Their Royal Highnesses are expected in the
course of next month."
" The new daughter-in-law of the King of the French,"
says the Commerce," will shortly enter her 19th year. Her
sister, Donna Maria, is Queen of Portugal, and her second
and elder sister, Januaria, is presumptive heiress to the
crown of the Brazils."
" It would be curious to ascertain," adds one of our pri-
vate Tatters, " the precise amount of influence this coining
event exercised over the mission of Mr. Ellis."

One of the Paris Journals contains the particulars of a
threatened affair of honour between M de la Roche Pouchin
and Prince Napoleon. son of Jerome Bonaparte, which was
fortunately prevented by the police.
There is at present in the orangery of Versailles an orange
tree planted by one of the female ancestors of Jeanne
d'Albret. Its age is 432 years. It was brought to France
in 1560, and was the first of the kind that was seen. Francis
I. and Henry IV. kept it at Fontainebleau.—Galignani's
Messenger.

ARTESIAN WELLS.—We understand that it is intended
to carry the bore for the Artesian well in the Garden of
Plants to the depth of 800 or 900 metres, whereas that at
Grenelle is only 550 metres deep. The object of piercing so

low is to find water of a high temperature. The expectation
of doing so is founded on observations made by M. Arago and
M. Walferdin, at Grenelle, that the temperature of the water
increased in warmth one degree at every 32 metres depth,
and,- consequently, at that of 800 or 900 metres must be at
36 to 39 degrees centigrade (about from 97 to 104 Fahrenheit,)

with which the hothouses of the equatorial plants, and also
the lodges of the animals in the menagerie, and even the hos-
pitals in that quarter, may be warmed in winter.—Paris

Tti E WEATHER IN FRANCE

EXTRACT OE A LETTER
PARIS, JUNE 8

This is Saint Mcdard ! (the St. Swithin of France), and it
has rained incessantly all day, as it has done in fact for the
forty days that have preceded it. Will you believe that the
gloom which, had this been the 9th instead of the Sth of
Jane, would have been produced by a continuance of rain
and cold, is considerably enhanced by the recollection that
this is Saint Medard ? A. report prevails on the Bourse (of
all places !) that the astronomers predict that a favourable
change will take place on Saturday. Let us hope that this is
something more than a mere stock-jobbing rumour, for the
weather is the sole influence now felt at the Bourse, political
excitement being for the moment in abeyance.
Should the weather improve, we shall vet have a good har-
vest, but this is the critical moment. We have had much
rain and a very cold temperature, but no material injury has
yet occurred to the corn crops. The vintage will, however,
in any case be a failure. You already know that irreparable
mischief has been done to the vines of Bordeaux and of Bur-
gundy. The prospect in Champagne may be collected from
the following passage in a letter I read yesterday, from an

officer of thegi

gim-ent of Artillery, now on its march from

Paris to Met,

and dated Chalons sur Marne

a.• •
" The vintage in this country will be the worst on record.
Oar cannoneers will, on passing through Champagne, have
drunk more Champagne wine than the whole vintage of the

present year wal supply

The King of Prussia saved his life a few days ago in the
deer-park near Potsdam, by seizing a rifle from an attendant,
and killing on the sputa furious stag. which has often done
• 11l •

The King of Prussia has presented three beautiful vases
from the royal porcelain manufactory at Berlin, to a confec.
tioner at Cologne, as an acknowledgment for a perfect and
most accurately-worked model of the cathedral of Cologne,
made of sugar.

FALL OF A METEORIC STONE.—UIRECtIT, June 3.—
Yesterday evening, about eight o'clock, a meteoric stone fell
in the commune of Blaanwkapel, about a league from this
city. After a violent expiosion, repeated three or four times,
resembling a discharge of artillery, a whistling and howling
noise was heard, which excited much anxiety and alarm
among the villagers. The servant of a farmer, Jan Tennisse
Borch, who was bringing some horses home from a field, saw,
at a short distance, a heavy body fall to the ground with such
violence that the sand was raised to a considerable
in the air. Having procured a spade, he returned to the
place, and found the stone at the depth of three feet in the
stratum of sands which extended below the clay, It weighed
seven pounds, is of a longish irregular shape, and covered
with black crust, peculiar to those ewigratical bodies, wb;
is broken off only in one place, where the,lnternal
ter et the stone appears.

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