The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

A PROVIDENT SAILOR.—A very gratifying instance of
what may be accomplished by careful and prudent habits
on the part of seamen has just been displayed by one of
the old boarders at the Sailors' Home, who has on each

returning voyage placed a portion of his wages in the
savings-bank attached to that institution until the princi-
pal and interest having increased to £2OO, he has purcha-
sed that amount in the public funds. This sailor is a
native of Ireland, and has always been in the habit of

remembering his relatives in that country, to whom he

has constantly sent pecuniary assistance.

A public meeting in aid of the Society for the Promotion
of Colonisation was held on Friday, at the Guildhall, city
of London, and presided over by the Lord Mayor. The

objects the society have in view are to assist emigration,
to collect and diffuse information, and to form correspond-

ing associations at home and in the colonies. A numerous
assemblage of persons, many of them belonging to the
industrial classes, indicated that the subject of emigration
is becoming a prominent idea in the public mind. The
platform was crowded by gentlemen well known for the
interest they take in the question.
In the Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday, William Howitt,
bookseller and publisher, in the Strand, and an author,
passed his last examination. The balance sheet, which
begins May I, 1846, and ends at the date of the fiat, June
8, 1848, has the following items :—Sundry creditors,

£3006; creditors holding security, £6lB ; profit, £1731
c ipital, May 1, 1846, £1036 ; liabilities, £2OO ; liabilities
on account of the late firm of Saunders, Turrell, and
Howitt, £2054. The credit side has the following :

Good debts, £369; doubtful ditto, Xl2; property, £641 ;

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property in the hands of a creditor. £474 ;' trade expenses,
£1227 ; personal expenses, £1872 ; and losses, £1792.
WEIR ON ULVERSTONE SANDS.—About 650 yards of
this important work has been comple`el When we in-
spected it on Monday last, preparations were making for
the construction of a road, at an angle of some 45 degrees
with the weir, to commence the most important part of
the undertaking, that of crossing the channel. into which
the weir had entered—or, rather, the channel had moved
to the Weir. The depth of water within ten yards of the
front of the weir was ten feet. The effect of the weir is
already very remarkable in causing the deposition of sand.
and also influencing the channel on the eastern shore of
Chapel Island. and the formation also of a wash on the
western side of the channel, opposite the weir.
A SURPRISE.—When the despatch announcing the al-

leged outbreak in Ireland reached London, Sir George
Grey was about to start to Richmond, to act as one of the
sponsors at the baptism of Lord and Lady John Russell's
infant son. He immediately forwarded a communication
to the noble premier, who received it just as he was enter-
ing Petersham Church. After witnessing the baptismal
ceremony, his lordship left for town in great haste, and
had an interview with the Duke of Wellington. Sum-
monses were issued shortly afterwards for a Cabinet
Council. The Earl of Glengall, Lord Lieutenant of Tip-
perary, and several of the leading Irish members, were in
constant communication during the day.
THE BAPTIST SECT.—A Dissenting print announces the
public baptism, l-.y immersion, on Sunday week, of the
Rev. C. B. Proby, Rector of St. Peter's, Winchester.
The ceremony was performed by a Baptist preacher, with
whom Mr. Proby is said to have had some previous dis-
cussion on the subject, and who, at his request, baptized
him in a running brook, in the presence of between one
and two hundred persons, after he had made a public pro-
fession of his new faith. In the afternoon, Mr. Proby
communicated at the Baptist Chapel, and in the evening
preached a sermon at his own church in spite of the re-
monstrance of the churchwardens, when he announced
the fact of his ana-baptism and stated his views on the
subject.
MURDER BY POISONING.—At the Chelmsford assizes,
on Monday, Mary May, aged 28, a repulsive-looking
woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of William
Constable, by administering to him a large quantity of
arsenic. The prisoner, who is a married woman, lived
with her husband at a small village called Wix, a few
miles from Harwich, and she kept a little grocer's or
chandler's shop, her family consisting of herself and
husband, two children, and a half-brother, the unfortu-
nate deceased, who got his living by doing what little
jobs he could get in the village, and e_Tupied one of the
rooms in the prisoner's house. It appeared that she had
entered the poor fellow as a member of a burial club, and
that she had poisoned him for the purpose of obtaining
£8 or £9, which would be paid on his death. She was
ound guilty, and sentenced to be hanged.
A public meeting, the proceedings of which illustrate as
well the good sense and clear perceptions of the labouring
class as the kindly feeling of persons in a higher sphere,
was held on Tuesday evening in the metropolis. The as-
semblage was convened at the Central Mechanics' Insti-
tute, in Southampton Buildings, for the purpose of sub-
mitting to the public the plan of the Canadian Land and
Railway Association—a scheme purporting to " have ori-
ginated with, and for the benefit of the working classes,
with a view to the improvement of their social condition."
The chair was taken by Lord Ashley, and amongst the
speakers were the Duke of Argyle, the Marquis of Bland-
ford, the Earl of Harrowby, and various other gentlemen
of rank and station. The utmost unanimity prevailed, if
we except the efforts made by a madman and some half
dozen chartists, who tried at the conclusion to disturb the
meeting, but with signally ill success.
KILLING HARES.—The new law on this subject autho-
rises any person, being in the actual occupation of any in-
closed lands, or for any owner thereof who has the right
of killing game thereon, by himself or by any person
directed or authorised by him in writing (according to a
form in a schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like effect)
so to do, to take, kill, or destroy any hare then being in
or upon any such inclosed lands, without a game certi-
ficate. The authority to kill hares is to be limited to one
person at the same time in any one parish ; which autho-
rity shall be sent to the clerk of the petty sessions, who
shall register the same. If authority revoked, notice to
be given of the revocation. Persons authorised to kill
hares not to be liable to tax on game keepers. Hereafter
it shall be lawful for any person to pursue and kill or to
join in the pursuit and killing of any hare by coursing
with greyhounds, or by hunting with beagles or other
hounds, without having obtained an annual game certifi-
cate. This Act is hot to authorise the laying of poison to
kill game.
HORRID CONFESSION.—Prior to the execution on
Monday last of Hewson, for the murder of the turnkey
in Coldhath-fields prison ; the murderer gave to the She-
riff and Ordinary a number of papers relating to himself.
He states that he was born in 1803 in Whitechapel ; that
he went to the charity school, and became one of the
singers at the church, and got a medal for good conduct.
That his father was a corporal in the 20th regiment. He
married ; but having enlisted, and being bought off seven
times by his mother and sister in 1826 he entered the
Queen's Royals, and shortly after went to the East Indies,
and was in the Affghan and Cahoot expeditions, and in
1839 was at the taking of Ghuznee and Kelat, and for his
conduct received two marks. Previous to his entering the

army, he was tried in 1825 at the Old Bailey for stealing
a pennyweight of gold, the property of his employer,
but was acquitted. By his unhappy intercourse with
his daughter he had four children ; the eldest died
since be had been convicted; another was still-born, and
the other two were murdered to conceal their birth. For
the death of one he and his daughter were tried, and for
the minor offence he was sentenced to two years', and she
to eighteen months' imprisonment. The knife with which
he killed Woodhouse he had concealed about his person
for four months, sometimes carrying it in his sleeve, some-
times in his trousers. He intended to have murdered
Mr. Chesterton, the Governor, but he never had an oppor-
tunity. When asked his motives he had none to give,
and a few days since he expressed in strong terms to the
visiting Aldermen his regret that he could not carry out
his object.
There was a " scene" in the House of Commons on
Friday night. A hot-headed gentleman, named Keogh,
made a speech on Irish affairs, in the course of which he
contrived to touch up the Whig reinisters on a point
whereon they are peculiarly irritable, and open to far
sharper appliances than any which rough operators like
Mr. Keogh can administer—the contrast between their
language and conduct upon O'Connell's trial when they
were in opposition, and their language and conduct now
when in power. This made Sir George Grey very angry,
hand he fell upon the unfortunate Irishman with the fury
of a scold. This was all welt enough ; but the Home Se-
cretary at length lost all discretion, and made it a serious
charge against his opponent that he attended a repeal
dinner some eight or ten years ago, and was returned as
an anti-repealer at the last election. Upon this, Mr.
Keogh returned to the charge, and having fired a shot or
two at his old antagonist, turned his weapon against Sir
William Somerville, the Irish Secretary. If he was to be
called a repealer for accidentally attending a dinner years
ago at which repeal was proposed as a toast, what was to
be said of the chief Secretary for Ireland, a member of
the Government engaged in an exterminating warfare
against repeal, who had actually voted for and supported
by his purse at the last election a repeal candidate in
opposition to Mr. Keogh himself ? A " sensation " fol-
lowed this home-thrust, and the House was anxious to
hear what the Irish Secretary had to say to it : but for a
long time the right honourable gentleman wrapped him-
self up in his own dignity. He was at last dragged forth,
and compelled to confess that he did give a cheque towards
the expences of a repealer's election ; but he didn't do it
in his character of Secretary of Stale! Now, really
this was very pitiable.
SCENE IN THE HUDDERSFIELD PARISH CHURCH.—
On Sunday week, Samuel Jackson, a young man, who
has attained the age of 22 years, presented himself before
the altar table at the Huddersfield parish church, seeing
no just cause or impediment why he should not be joined
together in holy matrimony" with a pretty-looking girl
named Townend, the object of his ardent and early at-
tachment, and whom he had brought thither for that pur-
pose. The Rev. Mr. Packer, one of the curates, officia-
ted ; and the ceremony had proceeded so far that the
happy couple had repeated those spell-bound words " I
will," and the ring was about to be given by the clergy-
man to the bridegroom to be pl ced on the finger of the
bride, when, to the utter consternation of the party,
Jackson's brother and sister rushed breathless into the
church, and up to the communion railings. The former
seized the ring from the minister's hand, and the latter
dragged the half-married youth by main force through
the lower west door, into the churchyard. The astonished
bridegroom clung to the framings of the pews as they
passed along the transept, but the muscular strength of
the sister, aided by the brother (a lad much younger)
completely overpowered him, and he was compelled to
yield. When in the churchyard, be partially succeeded
in making his escape from their ruthless hands, when the
brother again urged the sister to another effort at rescu-
ing him from the hapless fate that awaited him inside the
church ; but the luckless wench proved like the rest of
her sex, and remarked, " I have done my best,—let him
go his whole length ; and in a few moments more the
bridegroom was placed at the altar beside his wonder..
stricken spouse. The ring having been torn away, a
female stationed near the altar rails volunteered the loan
of her's. The ceremony then proceeded. Meanwhile, the
sexton had been dispatched for the churchwarden and a
constable, but their arrival was too late to be of service.

ROMISII INTOLERANCE.—OD Wednesday a curious in-
stance of the party enthusiasm which has often been dis-
played by Roman Catholics, especially in the sister
country, was manifested in our High-street. It would appear
that an Orange lodgein the city are in the custom of holding
their meetings in a coffee-housein the High-street ; and in
order, as they represented, to make their local habitation
known, had displayed a large board in front of the house
with a very gorgeous and well-executed representation of
the celebrated Orange Prince, William 111., with the in-
scription, " G.V.I.L.E.L. at the bot-
tom. This had not been long displayed before the atten-
of the Catholics of the city were directed towards it ; and,
unwilling to suffer their eyes to be offended by the spec-
tacle, especially on the anniversary of the battle of the
Boyne (the 12th of July), they assembled in considerable
numbers on Tuesday evening, and defaced and bedaubed
the odious figute. Throughout the whole of Wednesday,
groups of three and four individuals (which it was not dif-
ficult, from the indignation visible on their countenances,
to recognise as Roman Catholics) might have been seen
at different periods congregated in front of the picture ;
and, about ten o'clock in the evening, so tbr2atening were
appearances, that the authorities deemed it advisable to
remove the obnoxious board.—Edinburgh Paper.
REMEDIES AGAINST THE HUNDRED.—Last April, Sir
Wm. Clay introduced a bill into the House of Commons
for amending the law which denied redress to all but
landlords against the hundred, for damage done by rioters,
tumultuous assemblies, &c. The defect in the law was
first made manifest three months since, in London, during
the Chartist riots, and the object of Sir William's bill
was to obviate this admitted defect. The bill is to be read
a second time to-morrow, and the public would do well
just now to solicit their representatives to support it, in
order that it may pass into a law this session. The bill is
brief, for it contains only one clause and the customary
one. It provides, " that in every case where any house,
shop, or other building whatever, or any part thereof,
shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner damaged or
injured, or where any fixtures thereto attached, or any
furniture, goods, or commodities whatever which shall be
therein shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged, by
the act or acts of any riotous or tumultuous assembly of
persons, or by the act or acts of any persons engaged in or
making part of such riotous or tumultous assembly, the
inhabitants of the hundred, wapentake, ward, or other
district in the nature of a hundred, or of the county of
the city or town, liberty, franchise, or place in which such
damage shall be done, shall be liable to yield full compen-
sation in damages to the person or persons injured, &c."
SUSPECTED MURDER.—On the 17th inst., Mr, Robert
Sowerby, the policeman at Hessle, apprehended two men
at South Cave, on suspicion of stealing a number of arti-
cles which he had previously seen in their bundle on the
road near Hessle. The articles in question consisted of
five fine shirts, twenty shirt collars, a pocket book, a sil-
ver-bladed fruit knife, with a pearl haft, a black frock
coat, and several other articles. No owner could be
found for these articles for some time, but thanks to the
unceasing activity of Mr. Sowerby, it was at length dis-
covered that the things belonged to a Mr. Jonas Edward
Iredale, a solicitor or solicitor's clerk, of Leeds. This
gentleman left Leeds on the Ist of July, and from thence
there is account of his being at York, Northallerton, Dar-
lington' Ferryhill, and Durham. He left the Newcastle
Arms, New Elvet, Durham, on the 10th of July, and
from that time nothing further has been heard of him.
It appears the missing gentleman was in communication
with a young lady at Leeds, and she received three letters
from him, dated respectively the 3rd, 6th, and 9th July,
since which date she has not received any letter. The
two men in custody are named Henry Bunting and Ed-
ward Bateman, and it has been ascertained that they
arrived at Hull on the 16th from Newcastle, by the stea-
mer. No clue whatever has yet been found to the mis-
sing gentleman, and the circumstances altogether lead to
the belief that the unfortunate man has been murdered
and robbed by the two men now in custody.—Leeds
Intelligencer.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—A respectable firm in Man-
chester have received from the partner resident in St.
Petersburgh a very interesting and important communica-
tion in relation to the present appearance of the Asiatic
cholera in Russia and other countries in Western Europe.
Some few weeks ago the Medical Times and the Man-
chester Guardian noticed that the ravages of this fearful
and devastating scourge were most fatal and more fierce
" over twenty degrees of latitude, on a line, nearly due
north and south," which line comprehends, as will be seen
by looking at the map, the cities of Constantinople, Jassy,
St. Petersburg, and Bucharest. Further experience and
adviees have proved the accuracy of this observation. In-
telligence has been received of the appearance of the cho-
lera at Salmi, in Finland, and at Riga, on the coast of the
Baltic, all of which places are on the same parallel of lon-
gitude. The discovery, however, to which we have alluded
above, is thus communicated :—" The air here (St. Peters-
burg) has had a very singular effect on the magnetic power.
Whilst the cholera was at its height the action of the mag-
net was nearly neutralised ; which, now the disease is gra-
dually subsiding, assumes by degrees its former power. A
magnet block, which used to carry 801 b., would, during
the worst time of the cholera, not carry above 131 b. Its
strength has now increased again to 601 b. The electro-
magnetic telegraph, at one time, would not work at all."
Here, then, have our scientific medical authorities a rich
mine submitted for investigation. If the above paragraph
be correct in its details, it is settled that quarantines are
utterly useless to prevent the ravages of the Asiatic
cholera. We will not, however, presume to dogmatise on
a question essentially medical and scientific. We direct
attention to the discovery, and solicit a discussion of the
subject from the pens of competent medical authorities in
this town. We shall be glad to open our columns thereto.
—[We perceive since the above was in type that Dr.
Hawthorne, in the pamphlet which we recently reviewed,
states that a disturbance of the electrical condition of the
human body had been observed by him. He was one of
the Physicians of the Belfast General Hospital.]
THE WESLEYANS.—Last week, the annual " Con-
ference" took place at Hull. The first business was the
supplying the vacancies in the legal huldred. By nomi-
nation, Francis West and William Barton ; by seniority,
W. Beal, Morgan, Cullen, Corbett, Cooke, and Davies,
were the parties elevated. The election of president fol-
lowed. The votes were, for Dr. Newton, 197 ; the Rev.
Mr. Fowler, 83. The esteemed minister now chosen oc-
cupies the presidential chair for the fourth time—an
honour previously conferred only in the single case of Dr.
Bunting. Dr. Newton presided over the Leeds Con-
ference, in 1824 ; the Liverpool Conference, in 1832, and
the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Conference, in 1840. He could
not have been re elected more frequently, since one of
the regulations of Conference is that a minister shall not
be again eligible to the office until the expiration of eight
years. For the secretaryship the Rev. Joseph Fowler, of
Hull. was elected, having received 111 votes. The Rev.
Dr. Hannah received 71 votes, and the Rev. John Farrar
56. After this, the newly-elected president was seated in
the presidential chair, and invested with the insignia of
office. The ex-president, the Rev. Samuel Jackson,
tendered the Seal of Conference, the Bible, and the key
of the desk with inimitable grace. The sight of the two
venerable gentlemen in such a relation to each other,
with all the attendant circumstances, was extremely
affecting, many of the aged ministers being observed in
tears. The station committee presented their report,
which included the following ministers for this neighbour-
hood—Liverpool, north—Revs. J. Keeling, W. Illing-
worth, and S. R. Hall ; south—Revs. P. M`Owen, T.
Martin, W. H. Taylor, and W. Willan. St. Helens and
Prescot—Revs. Rotherick and R. Dyson. Warrington—
Revs. S. Broadbent, G. Dickinson, and R. M. Wilcox.
Newton—Revs. J. Werril and W. S. Bestall. Wigan--
Revs. T. Moss arid J. Jones. Southport and Ormskirk—
Revs. J. Bartholomew and H. L. Church. Lancaster—
Revs. W. Coultass and Faulkner. Garstang—Revs. T.
Burrows, W. H. Lewis, and G. T. Nelson. Preston and
Chorley—Revs, J. Moulton, W. Cattle, and T. Kent.
FREE TRADE OR PROTECTION.—BRITISH MERINOS.—
According to the Bradford Observer, (at one time, if not
yet, a thorough-going free-trade organ,) the good people
of Bradford have begun to find out that the staple manu-
facture of that town has suffered severely by the operation
of free-trade principles. The manufacture of merinos
was ‘• once the staple of the Bradford trade," but alas !
free trade has stepped in and all but extinguished it—the
French material being preferred in every respect but du-
rability, pretty much on the same principle as that which
induces well-dressed persons to prefer kerseymere inex-
pressibles to corduroys. There is in the Observer of
Thursday a paragraph, setting forth in glowing terms the
unequalled excellence of Messrs. R. Brook and Co.'s
merinos, of which, by the way. her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to express her approval. The para-
graph in question commences thus:—
" BRITISH MERlNOR,—DifTerences of opinion may and do
exist as to the policy of opening our ports to the importation
of foreign manufactures ; but so far as their introduction may
hare superseded our own. or diminished the sources of employ-
ment for our own artisans, there is a common feeling of regret.
This has been especially the case with respect to the Menno—
once the staple of the Bradford trade. 'the superior finish of
the French goods has given them the command of the market;
and partly on this account, and partly from other causes, for
some time past our manufacturers have almost ceased to em-
ploy their looms on the finer descriptions of this fabric."
Now the French may finish their merinos better than we
finish ours, but we cannot help thinking that Messrs.
Cobden, Bright, and Co. are, after all, the persons who
have "finished" the Bradford merino trade; and if we
do not misconstrue the paragraph, the writer of it, no
doubt instigated by certain free traders who have found
free trade a losing game, thinks so too. So ! There is
" a common feeling of regret " that " foreign manufac-
tures" have " superseded or diminished the sources of
employment for our own artisans." We have always
said it would come to this. If we are not mistaken, we
read something of the kind the other day, in an account
of an interview that had taken place between Colonel
Thompson and a deputation of his constituents—the free-
trade Colonel expressing himself favourable to " a little
protection," in order to save the particular trade from
being swallowed up by foreigners. We are much obliged
to the Bradford Observer for this early proof of the
" moving of the straw" amongst the free traders. We
shall not be surprised to find friend Bright demurely ask-
ing for some little protection on some little article in
which he is interested, one of these days.
CURIOUS CASE.—At the Lambeth police-office, on
Friday, Mr. Thorndike, a solicitor of Staple's-inn, who
was accompanied by Mr. Bushell, a medical gentleman
residing in Kennington-lane, who is one of the guardians
of the poor for the parish of Lambeth, applied to Mr.
Norton for his advice in the caso of an aged lady, then
present, who was reduced to great distress under circum-
stances of a very peculiar character. The lady in whose
behalf he applied had been a member of a highly respect-
able family formerly residing at Feversham, in Kent, and
in the year 1812, she was married to a Mr. Fox, then an
extensive merchant. The parties lived happily together
until Mr. Fox had occasion to go out to the Mauritius to
arrange some mercantile affairs, and ultimately settled
there. In 1816, Mrs. Fox followed her husband to the
Mauritius, but finding on her arrival there that her
husband had got a second wife, she soon after returned
to England, and three years afterwards, news reached
her of the death of her husband. In 1823, when, as she
supposed, in her widowhood, she met in society a gentle-