The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded in the Royal
Gardens of Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday morning.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness took an airing in the
afternoon in an open barouche and four; the Equerries in
Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshall) and Colo-
nelßouverie, attending o❑ horseback. _

Tyeir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Prin-
cess Royal were taken airings yesterday,

Her Royal Highness the bu'chese of Rent dined with her
Majesty and the Household. There was no addition to the
Royal circle last evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, honoured the Reform Club.with a visit yesterday.
His Royal Highness was conducted through the principal
apartments by Mr. Walter Scott, the secretary, and after-
wards inspected the kitchen department, the different ar-
rangements of which were pointed out to his Royal Highness
by M. Soyer, who also submitted to his Royal Highness's
inspection the paintings by his late wife, Madame Soyer.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town at ten
o'clock yesterday morning for Frogmore Lodge. Her Royal
Highness returned to town in the afternoon.

The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Tuesday evening for
the Priory, Stanwore.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—We regret to state, that con-
trary to the sanguine expectations of his medical attendants,
his Royal Highness's complaint has taken a most unfavoiir-
able turn, and the worst consequences may now, we fear, be
anticipated. The following is the bulletin issued at Ken-
sington Palace last evening :—" His Royal Highness's symp-
toms have assumed a more unfavourable character. There
has been much general oppression during the day, which has
considerably increased this evening.

MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER.—The marriage
of this young nobleman with the accomplished daughter of
Mr. Whitbread was solemnised on Thursday at Cardington,
a small village near Bedford. The ceremony was per-
formed by the lion. and Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, and
a: numerons assemblage of the friends of both families
attended. The beautiful sisters of the youthful bride
officiated as bridemaids on the occasion ; and from the pre-
parations which had been made it was expected that the scene
would be altogether one of the most interesting character. The
Whitbreads settled at Cardington in the year 1650, and the
church contains numerous monuments to members of the
family. The bride's father has a residence in the village.
The family seat is the far famed Southhill, purchased, in 1795,
by the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq. ; and on the conclusion
of lithe ceremony the happy pair proceeded thither to pass
the honeymoon. The young earl has not yet attained his
majority, having been born on the 22d of December, 1822,
and the bride is scarcely eighteen.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of the local coun-
cil, held last week at Cork, it was resolved that this learned
body should commence its next session in that city on Thurs-
day, 17th August. The attendance is likely to be very large,
as the meeting commences not only just at the termination
of the assizes, but just previous to her Majesty's contem-
plated visit to Ireland. Not only will the intellectual re-
sources and the hospitality of Cork be thrown open to mem-
bers and visitors, but Limerick, Bandon, Belfast, and other
large towns in the vicinity are preparing for their accommo-
dation. Those members who visit Dublin in their way to or
from the meeting will also be freely admitted to its public
institutions and exhibitions on the presentation of their
tickets. The local subscriptions are going on well, at the
head of which stands the name of the Earl of Rosse, the
president. The noble president has announced that his gi-
gantic reflecting telescope will be completed, and thrown
open for the inspection of members. As the neighbour-
hood does not contain so many objects of manufacturing in-
genuity and industry as other towns previously visited by the
association, great attention is being paid to render the local
museum particularly rich in the geological and marine pro-
ductions of the vicinity.

Barrrsu TONNAGE.—A statement has been published in
one of the London paper exhibiting the increase which has
been made to the tonnage of the colonies, and the addition
which has been made by Colonial-built vessels, principally
North American, to the tonnage of the United Kingdom.
By the statement to which we refer it appears that the re.
gistered tonnage of this country has increased since 1831 by
about. seventy ships a-year, of, upon an average, 347 tons
each ; that we had at the end of 1841, 1,402 ships of 293 tons
average burthen, and of colonial-build, sailing out of, and
belonging to, ports in the United Kingdom ; and that the
owners of vessels really British—ships built in the United
Kingdom—had, at the end of 1841, to compete with 240,506
tons of shipping—vessels which had been constructed and
fitted at an advantage, in regard to cost, which enabled their
proprietors to work them at a much easier rate than that re-
quired to remunerate the owner of a ship built in England.
This rivalry the owner of British-built ships has had to con-
tend against, with a carrying trade not increasing in a ratio
equal to the augmentation of tonnage; while, at the same
time, he has had to oppose, (where lie could,) the inroads
that foreigners—which untaxed ships and cheap stores—have
been making into our maritime business. This is a combi-
nation of circumstances which must have affected our ship-
ping interests very materially.
THE NORTH-LEACH PRISON AGAIN.—The Times of Fri-
day contains the result of an inquest on another unfortunate
victim to the atrocities of this prison. Richard Jones was
committed for one year for theft. He entered the prison in
good health. He was put on the tread-wheel, and had no
other nourishment than this—at breakfast a pint and a half
of thin water-gruel, a pound and a half of potatoes for din-
ner, and a pound and a.half of bread. He fell ill, and ac-
quainted the governor with his being dreadfully ill. The go-
vernor replied, " what do you mean by dreadful ? You must
go to work, or else you will be locked up in the dark cell."
He said the same thing to the surgeon, and obtained the same
answer. He was so exhausted on the wheel that he fell from
it, and was carried into his cell by two men. He was pushed
about by the under. tprnkey, when he was not able to work,
and he was accused of shamming. He was too weak to stand
upright; when in this condition, he was struck with a large
iron key and lamed. The surgeon used to go the prison
rounds, and the prisoner was, after complaining, placed on
the wheel again, and extra rounds of the wheel were given
him for complaining. The cellars were cold and damp, and
the linen damp also, The jury, after a careful investin.ation
of seven hours' duration, brought in this verdict—" Tilt the
deceased, Richard Jones, died from the ill-treatment he re-
ceived while in the North-Leach House of Correction, from
hard labour, want,of food, arid from no other cause. In ad-
dition—That the authorities of North-Leach were deserving
of censure for their conduct throughout this affair.'
THE LATE MR. R. ALEXANDER.—We extract the fol-
lowing from the Gentleman's Magazine for this month :
Robert Alexander, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., was a Bendier of
Lincoln's-inn, and senior Queen's Counsel on the northern
circuit. He was the son of a highly respectable solicitor at
Halifax, and his brother, Edward Nelson Alexander, is nosy 1
following the profession of the law in that town. He took
the degree of M.A.of Christ Church College, Oxford, and

was called to the bar by the hon. society of
11th February, 1820. For a series of years he has suffered
from declining health, but continued to pursue the duties of
his profession until the early part of the year 1841, when, un-
der the advice of his medical attendants, he went abroad, in
the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial.
Unfortunately, however, it effected no permanent change for
the better; and, although from the amendment which had

taken place, it was announced by some of his professional
friends, at the summer assizes last year, that he was so far

recruited as to justify a hope that he would join the circuit
again this spring, it was a hope which those who were more
intimately acquainted with him considered too faint to place
a reliance upon. Mr. Alexander was a man well versed in
general literature, and his attainments as a lawyer stood de-
servedly high. He had a remarkable vivacity of manner,
and a most pleasing address. On the northern circuit he
vas for many years joint leader with the present Mr. Justice
One of his great characteristics in the profession
dS the cautio❑ which he uniformly exercised in giving any
opinion until he was fully master of the merits of his case,
and hence the result of his consideration and judgment was

Cresswell

always looked upon as sound and conclusive-. Tie was a
fluent speaker, and particularly clear and intelligible in the
language which he used. Mr. Alexander was married in the
year 1829 to Matilda, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Lenard,

Bart,,and-sisterof the present Sir T. Legard, Bart., of ban:

on, 'Yorkshire.

MIOUALLANAOVO.

krmi,ty p 4.4 2,0 a, it is probable tbotViiiooupt Allen
Jetted to the vacant Nlastership of Dulwich Coliege.

On Monday night, at Glasgow, two cotton stores were de-
stroyed by fire with their valuable contents.

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The Very Rev. Principal, Macfarlane is to be proposed as.
moderator of the ensuing General Assembly.
The effect of the Waltham powder mills explosion was
sensibly felt at the town of Tonbridge, a distance of nearly
fifty miles.

On Wednesday week/ a tinker, of Hansel', a married man,
murdered a woman with whom he was cohabiting, at Merthyr-

Mr. Steele and Mr. O'Connell's eldest son are going out
:o America, to agitate the repeal of the union there. The con-
tributions to the repeal association, last week, were £5OO.

The government has, it is understood, intimated to its
adherents among the patrons, that they had better he pre-
pared to present in case of any secession.—Aberdeen Herald.
Her Majesty's ship Druid has arrived from China, bring-
ing a further arrival of sycee silveron account of the ransom ;
it has been bought by the bank at 4s. ll d. per ounce.

The quantity of malt used in the distilleries, in 1841, was
3,947,604 bushels ; in 1842, 3,796,961 bushels. The number
of barrels of beer exported to foreign countries in 1841 was
166,975 ; in 1842, 113,538.

Pastoral letters have been issued by the bishops, ordering
collections in the various churches for providing religious in-
struction in conformity with the principles of the Church of
England, in China.

The nomination of candidates for East Suffolk took place
on Tuesday, when the show of hands was in favour of Mr.
Adair, and, a poll was demanded for Lord Rendlesham. The
polling takes place on Friday and Saturday.

MUTINY IN A WORKHOUSE.-At Brompton workhouse
(a branch establishment in the parish of St. George, London,)
on Saturday last a mutiny took place amongst the inmates,
which the master endeavouring to quell was so severely
treated that he died the same evening.
Considerable alarm, which appears to be well-founded, is
at this moment prevalent in St. Giles's and other metropo-
litan parishes (Whitechapel and Kentish-town), in conse-
quence of the appearance of what is considered to be an epi-
demic of a very fatal nature.

On Tuesday, a child, three years old, residing in Parlia-
mentary-road, Glasgow, got hold of a table knife, and was
proceeding up stairs after its mother, when its foot slipped,
and the knife passed into its mouth, and, cutting some vital
part in the throat, produced almost instant death.
Another monomaniac, a French woman, was examined at
Bow-street on Saturday, on the charge of attempting to
gain an entrance into Buckingham Palace, for tha purpose
of dethroning the queen. The insanity of the unfortunate
woman was fully established, and she was removed in cus
P.

I.OOF OF DZSTRFSS.—At the Lambeth-street (London),
police-office, the sitting magistrate read a letter from a young
man earnestly entreating to be committed to prison to save
himself from starvation. He stated himself to be the orphan
of a clergyman highly connected, and his account turned out
to be quite correct.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.--A brace of partridges having
been started by a lady who was walking in the fields a few
days since, near High Roothing windmill, one of the birds,
in rising, flew against the sails of the mill, which were at the
time in motion, and instantly fell lifeless to the ground.—
Essex paper.

ARREST OF A MURDERER.—On Tuesday last constable
Kearney arrested a man, named Murtha Walsh, on private
information, at Mountbolus, for the murder of a man, named
Cleary, about thirty years ago, on Buckley hill, within a
quarter of a mile of Tullamore. He absconder', at the time,
and could not be heard of till now.—Leinster paper.

STATISTICS OF THE PORT OF DUBLIN.—The sum of
£Bl,OOO, the amount of the Customs collection for the port
of Dublin, during the month of March in the present year,
was composed of £29,000 for tea, £22.000 for sugar, £22,000
for tobacco, £4,000 for wine ; the remaining £4,000 was
contributed from the trifling duties now levied on the various
trifling articles rateable under the new tariff.

THE SCOTTISH CHURCH.—We hear from a quarter which
leads us to give credit to the statement, that the government
intend to bring in a measure for settling the affairs of the kirk
a few days before the meeting of the general assembly. The
heads of the bill have been seen by parties in Scotland in-
terested in the matter, and we understand they are such as
will satisfy the "forty thieves," and the Glasgow " me-
morialists. '—Glavoit, Chronicle.

PORTUGAL—Accounts have been received from Lisbon to
the 10th instant. The alteration projected by Government
in the organization and endowment of the Board of Public
Credit, had excited much alarm amongst the holders of
bonds of the internal debt, and petitions, signrd by 622 of
them, had been presented to the Chamber of Deputies against
the proposed measure. This arrival does not bring any fur-
ther information respecting the tariff negotiations.

MRS. Woon THE VOCALIST.—It is with sincere and
heartfelt pleasure that we are able to announce that the
wish expressed in our notice of this celebrated lady's remo-
val to a convent at York, has been fulfilled. We are autho-
rised to state that on Tuesday evening last she arrived at her
husband's residence, at Woolley Moor ; the pain and anxiety
of being absent from husband and child being greater than
her religious enthusiasm.—Wakefield Journal.

Portsit BAZAAR.-A Bazaar has been held at Manches-
ter during the present week, the proceeds of which, it is sus-
pected, are to be devoted to the founding of a monastery
in Leicestershire. The receipts of the two first days amoun-
ted to £537. Os. 3d. The Countess of Shrewsbury presided
at one of the stalls, assisted by the Misses Newton, daughters
of the Rev. Robert Newton, Wesleyan methodist minister;
the conversion of these ladies to popery caused some sensa-
t the time.

STEEPLE-CHASE WITH HORSES THAT HAD BEEN
HUNTED WITH.THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS.—One of the pret-
tiest chases of the season came off in the neighbourhood of
Hayes, on Wednesday last, fora sweepstakes of 2 sous, with
a purse added, for horses standing within ten miles of Hayes
that have been hunted with her Majesty's stag-hounds.
Four came to the post :—Mr. Nicholson's Jack-the-Giant-
Killer (owner), Mr. T. Shackell's Kildare (Mr. F. Poxell),
Mr. Fagg's Dark Susan (Mr. Burge), Mr. Chantry's Stranger
(Mr. C. Oldaker.) Stranger took the lead for the first two
miles, when he was headed by Kildare and Dark Susan over
three or four fences, but finding the pace too severe they re-
signed the lead to Stranger, who came in a very pretty win-
ner by several lengtns. The beauty of the country drew
hundreds to the spot, who were well pleased with the day's
amusement.—London Paper.

LORD ELLENDOROUGII AND GENERAL Norr.---(Extract
of a letter.)---;General Nott seems a soldier and a gentleman.
When the ceremony at Ferozepore was all over, Nott went
after breakfast, to call on Lord Ellenborough ; and not
having beeu admitted, he was going away, on leavidg hls card.
Lord Ellenborough sent after and bronght him back; and
whilst Nott was standing in the tent, up came some one, and
shook him warmly by both hands, saying, " I am delighted
to see you, General Nott. This is one of the happiest mo-
ments of my life. Nott looked at him from right to left,
but could not recognize him, as be replied, " Really, I am
very glad to see you, whoever you are, ; but four years'
absence from India have changed the faces of my old friends,
that at this moment I do not remember you." " Never
mind, I am one of your friends; I am Lord Ellenborough."
—Standard.

CANADIAN WHEAT.—The following is a parliamentary
return of the average rates of duty paid upon all Canadian
Wheat imported into Great Btitain, in each year, from 1838
to 1812, inclusive; with the average rate of duty paid upon
the same during the five years ending sth January, 1843 :
Per Quarter.
s. d.
2 1
6

Year 1838
„ 1839.
„ 1840.
„ 1841
„ 1842.

sthAverage of the five years ending Jan.

THE PROTESTANT BISHOP OP TUAM PRESENTED TO TBs
POPE,.—ROME.—The Protestant Bishop of Tuam has been
here, and was presented to his Holiness according to his
own request. lie wore his apron, and kneeled three times,
according to usage. The Pope almost anticipated the cere-
mony by rising in the most cordial manner, and shaking
both his hands, and told him, through his interpreter, that
he wus pleased to meet the son of Lord Plunkett, and added,
that he felt a lively and grateful recollection of the services
rendered to the Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland by
the eloquence and reasoning of his illnstrious father. The
Bishop retired greatly pleased, and begged of the Rector of
the English college to convey his thanks to his Holiness on
occasion of so complimentary a reception. This is the first
instance on record of a Protestant Bishop asking an inter-
view in half canonicals of the Anglican denomination. May
we hope that it will not be the last !--Tablet of Saturday.
ANOTHER BLAST AT DOVER.-011 Tuesday another
" blowing up" took place at Dover cliffs. The mass of chalk'
operated on formed the base of the same cliff, the crown of
which, to the dept of 90 feet, was blown off by a blast con-
sisting of 7000 pounds of gunpowder, on the 2d ult. The
present blast consisted of upwards of 10,000 pounds of gun-
powder, placed in fifteen cells or chambers, at proper distances
along the base of the chalky cliff, the removal of which was
desired, and the conducting wires being properly placed, all
were fired off at once, as on the occasion of the last blast, by
an apparatus 'invented by the junior engineer, Mr. Hodges,
which simultaneously communicates ignition, by means of
the voltaic battery, to any number of wires attached to it,
with a single motion of the band. This blast, like the others,
was characterised by the absence of noise or smoke, the only
difference being that on the present occasion a large quantity
of chalk-blocks and rubbish was projected in the air to a con.
siderable distance seaward. The surfaetsof the cliff extended
300 feet in length, and the height which was directly acted
upon was 200 feet. The whole mass fell slowly and equably
into the sea. 45,000 yards of cliff, weighing about 90,000
tons, was detached.
THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—The Courrier de Lyon of
the 15th states that the following are the results of the late
disastrous frosts in the southern provinces :—" In almost
the entire valley of the Saone, in the department of the Cote
d'Or and of Saone and Loire, the prospect of the wine crop
is in a great measure destroyed. Rape, which was con-
siderably advanced, has suffered severely. The leaves of
several trees, sech as walnut, acacia, and elder, have been
completely frozen. Fruit trees have likewise paid their
tribute to the asperity of the season. The mulberry tree has
suffered, but not so much as was at first apprehended. It
appears that the sudden depression of the temperature which
has caused such destruction to our neighboured has been
likewise experienced along the banks of the Rhone, where
the vines are much injured. It is to be hoped that the frost,
the most disastroue which has been experienced since the
year 1813, happening
at the moment when the worm, so de-
structive to vineyards, has been hatched, will destroy this
formidable enemy to the grape, and that the wine-growers,
against whom this insect wages so destructive a war, may
have the satisfaction to see it exterminated by another scourge
more ruinous in itself, though less persevering."
DISSENT.—It is well known that in Bristol, as elsewher e
the dissenting ministers are making a hard push to oppose th
education clauses in the Factories 13111 ; and that which, pro
fessedly, most excites their hostility is the danger to which
they. state that their Sabbath schools are exposed. Now
it appears to us rather strange that a body of men, who in
all things that apply to other people are advocates for free
trade, should find fault with competition in an object so
important, and so avowedly open to improvement, as i
education. But leaving this as matter of opinion or taste,
we have been really startled at seeing, exposed in the win-
dow of a bookseller for the
"dissenting interest" in this
city, a tract, in the first page of which is broached the doc-
tine, that although education in religion is a good thing, it
is not that which the state has a right to require ! And
that there may be " no mistake " on this point, it is further
propounded, in explanation of the new doctrine, that if a
parent choose himself not to believe in the existence of God,
it is tyranny to require that his children be taught the truth a
upon that subject! To treat this
proposition—coming from
a class privileged on the assumption of peculiarly tender
"conscience "--in the way that it deserves, were to break a
fly upon a wheel ;and it is scarcely
necessary to observe, that
if " the state suffered a generation to grow up without the
knowledge of God, the laws which most properly can only
,
be enforced upon evidence given on oath, would be of no use.
A pretty state of things we should have if mankind were
governed, for the benefit of " Sabbath schools," without re-
igious instruction !—Bristol Journal.

I._ AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED
Into Liverpool, from the 11th to the 17th inst. inclusive.
FROM IRRLAND.
Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves.
1213 130 5340 28
-- Lambs.
135 400
Prey.. 11170 7787 94739 252
30 -- 900
coAsinvf sic.
230 3549 9 25 - 25600 2816 1 -- --
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DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION AND
DISEASE 01? THE HEART.

Warren-street, corner of Russell-street.

WRILKLY INPORT.—
Received Advice and Medicine
Palpitation of the Heat t.
Intlamation of the Lungs
Relieved Spitting of Blood
Confirmed Consumption
Incipient Phthisis
Relieved Spasinutlic Asthma

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