The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

A NEW WAY OF GETTING CIISTOMERS.—A little in-
cident which occurred on Monday morning, in front of a
respectable drapery establishment in Sheffield, strikingly
exhibits the intensity of the competition in some branches
of trade at the present time. A' rival establishment was
" selling off;" and the house in question, having no ex-
traordinary attraction to put forth as a set-off, resorted to
the following expedient as a means of drawing the crowd
of bargain-seekers from their rival's shop to their own :
One of the shopmen came to the door, and having adroitly,
attracted the eyes of the crowd, began scattering confec-
tionery in liberal quantities upon the causeway. The bait
took ; and as soon as the lovers of " cheap John " from
within held out some of his most attractive cheap wares,
which he offered at "an astonishing sacrifice," in true
country fair fashion,—Sheffield Times.
PAINTED TEA.—Professor Reid, a practical chymist of
New York, and a person to be relied upon, states that,
having seen in the shop windows of that city a sample of
green tea of a very bright colour, he suspected it was of
that class of painted and poisonous teas lately examined
by London chymists. He examined the article, and says
he has discovered it to be painted tea; that is, old stale
and exhausted tea, covered with some colouring matter,
no doubt injurious to health ; and proposed a simple test,
which is, to take a spoonful of tea, and put it in half a
tumbler of water, and allow it to stand for five minutes,
and then stir it up, when the paint will be detached and
form a turbid mixture with the water. The public, how-
ever, cannot always be upon its guard against these frauds,
and the only mode is, when painted tea is actually sold
and detected as such, to publish the name of the person
who sells it, in order to guard the public against future
imposition.—The Patriot.
COLD COMFORT FOR CHARTISTS.—Now that Ernest
Jones has been incarcerated for two years, and Cuffey,
the auditor of the accounts of the hopeful land iob.

transported, the knowing Feargus O'COnnor, who'hai
kept out of the scrape, makes this announcement to the
deluded Chartists : Now, brother Chartists, I have to

inform you that no power on earth shall induce me to
say a word, or write a word, that will place me in the

power of these devils; and if any man writes me a sedi
tious or treasonable letter, I will immediately publish it
and if any man, during my tour, comes into my presence
and talks sedition or treason o me, in the hone of en

trapping me, I will leave my mark on his face, that will

enable me to identify hint in the witness-box." Mr
O'Connor, in another part of his journal, slanders th,
late Mr. O'Connell, and fills three or four columns witl

T.—On

SUIT FOR THE RECOVERY OF A LOVE
Thursday, Mons. Dominic Lambert, principal rider of

the Cirque Nationale, was summoned at the Marlborough-
street Police-court, London, for refusing to deliver up to
Madame Klebert, a French lady rather advanced in years,

a valuable diamond ring. Madame Klebert stated that
she became acquainted with the defendant sometime ago,
in Paris, and that an intimacy occurred, which ended in

the defendant propc

one of them of consid

lg to become her husband

rable value

It was expr

ilv un-

derstood at the time that the ring was a gage d'amour,
to be returned in case affairs did not come to an hymeneal
conclusion. Circumstances had since occurred which put
marriage quite out of the question, and she then demand-
ed to have her diamond ring restored. The defendant
refused to give up one of the rings unless a sum of 200
francs was handed over. The defence was, that the lady
had deceived the defendant, by representing hersclr as a
lady of fortune, and the ring was a gift ; and the magis-

trafe refused to make an orde; on the subject.
RAGGED SCHOOLS.—Lord Ashley examined the Indus-
trial School. Dumfries, on Friday. His lordship expres-
sed himself highly gratified with the progress made by the
children during the short time they had been under train-

Oct. 31. 1848.

THE CHOLERA AT HULL.—We are happy to have to
announce that it is still questionable whether Asiatic cho-
lera has yet visited Hull. Some medical gentlemen in the
town affirm that they have had patients attacked with
cholera, but it has not been proved to the satisfaction of
the Sanatory Committee of the. Town Council that such
patients were resident inhabitants of Hull, or that they
exhibited the deadly type which is reported to prevail in
London, and which recently raged in Hamburg. In an-
swer to question put to him at a meeting of the Town
Council yesterday, Dr. Ayre, the Chairman of the Sana-
tory Committee, said that he had not only NOT seen any
real case of cholera in Hull, but that he had not so much
as spoken with any person who had witnessed a case, or
who had conversed with a third person cognizant of the
epidemic.—Hull Advertiser.

- CHARTIST TRIAL.-At the Central Criminal Court,
on Thursday, George Bridge Mullins, a surgeon, aged
22, was placed at the bar charged with feloniously con-
.

spiring to levy war against the Queen. The Attorney-
general conducted th prosecution in person. Thomas
Powell, the approver, was the first witness called, and
deposed to having met the prisoner at meetings of the
chartist association, where he always took a prominent
part. Prisoner was always " chief spokesman," a mem-
ber of the plotting committes, and a strong advocate for
physical force. He was included in the " firemen" who
made the appointment to meet at the Orange Tree.
Powell underwent a very severe cross-examination, and
made the same confessions as to his previous life and con-
duct, which were elicited from him in the former trials.
George Davis, the other approver, was also examined,
and gave evidence of the same character. The prisoner
was, on Saturday, found guilty.
A STRANGE SLEEPING PLACE.—A few nights ago, Mr•
Whitewright, Maxwelltown, made up a large sackful of
rags to send off per carrier next morning. The sack was
. _

left outside for .the convenience of the carrier's porter,
and early in the morning the owner on looking out noticed
it was shifted from its position. On ifoina. towards it. he

was not a little startled to
when he heard a snand liL

being issuing from the interior of th
of rags. Mr. \Vhitewright 1
mulously on the sack, it

crawled o

ave a heave firs

still more so,

ysterious bundle
I somewhat tre-

ing, the majority being scarcely able to read previously.
His lordship said, " Their great difficulty would be the
maintenance of the funds for their annual expenses.
They-must take the children the whole day if they wished
effectually to benefit them ; and if they did so, they must

to one side and

ter from the cola, and had there enjoyed a cozie sleep
during the night, The beggar, instead of evincing glad-

TLE STEAMER,

:ed off w

ELOCITY

rumbled a

his own ragged

formed

s for his

been received, announc-

Aberdeen, of theti

ing the complete 1
ship, Mr. John Stuart, command
ingly boisterous. The stean

the weather was
ver, managed
following

,t,v steam-

exceed
to bear up against it until six o'clock on. t

evening (Sunday

great that sh
sunk. A lar

when on runn
h the north

n for Aberdeen, sbe

lmost immediately parted in two, and
portion of the quarter-deck fortunately
3 passengers,
n- their lives-
r much diffi-

Ts of t

Pilot-boas were put off to their
culty, succeeded in picking ;hen

!ly after the

wreck on to which they had g(
Velocity is tinders

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near the same pla
St. Nicholas

coal, called the
ewcastle, was driven upon the
The crew were saved.
I alluded the other

Almost imi:ee-
portion of the
o pieces. The
sured. A few.

A brig lath
lso from 1\

the back of the pi,.
its. FANNY KEMBLE BUTLE
to Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butl

well known that she married a weal
man, of Philadell
lived

ihia, with whom s

some inter-

Merican gentle-

aas not recently

divorce

[e has recently filed a bill in equity to obtain a
and the ground assumed is said to be incom-

noway of getting food but by begging or stealing, and
therefore unless they fed them they could have them only attached to her husband, and would live with him it she
could. But it is said he will not allow her to do so ; and
in the evenings, and it was difficult to teach them to any
purpose in three hours each day. It was, therefore, ab-
the apparent cause of his last resolution is her intimacy
solutely necessary that the children should be fed, which
with a distinguished literary family that he does not iike-
added very much to the expense. In London they were
Mrs. Butler has nothing herself, and receives nothing
f
-Her wishes are very nlO-

'sincerely

unable to do it under a cost of £4 10s. for each child per
annum ; although he believed from the difference of
habits it could be done in Scotland for about half that
sum. Again, in all these ragged schools it was necessary
to have industrial classes—in all schools for the children
of the working classes these were necessary, but more
especially in ragged schools. The children attending
these institutions must be shown that labour is honour-

rom him for her support
derate, and she seems to be weary of life. The New
York public, knowing her unhappy position, will doubt-
less give her a cordial welcome when she returns to the
stage ; and we have no doubt that she will realise from
her new efforts as much as she made when she was on
the American boards previously—a sum estimated at
30,000 dollars, all of which she gave to her father.--:Neto
York Correspondent of the Daily News.

APPALLING DISCOVERY.—On Thursday, Mr. Noble
went in company with a workman to inspect the premises
situate at Bellvue, in this neighbourhood, and which have
been unoccupied since the 12th of May last. They pro-
ceeded to open the front door of the further house, and, on
doing so, they felt that it resisted their efforts as if sonic
heavy body was lying behind it. On exerting more force
they succeeded in gaining admittance : but their horror
may be imagined when they discovered that the obstruction
had been caused by the dead body of a woman. She was
entirely naked, with the exception of a piece of calico rag
which was sown around the neck, and the remains of a
pair of stockings. The few fragments which had appar-
ently constituted her clothing were lying beneath her. On
the circumstance being made known to the Coroner, he
aumn.u.see a jury, nut not tue sllgntest evmence could be
produced as to the identity of the wretched being. There
was no article, mark, or sign, calculated in the most re-
mote degree to illustrate her dark and dismal history.
We examined the premises on the following morning, and
it would appear that she had effected an entrance through
the window of a ba,:lc parlour, and the place afforded suffi-
cient proof that she had for some time, perhaps for weeks,
used the house as a shelter, and that within it the wither-
ing hand of famine had slowly, and hour by hour, gnawed
away her vitality, till exhausted nature sunk under the
fearful conflict. In the rooms which she had used, not
the veriest fragment of any kind of food was found, if we
except two small turnips, one half eaten, the other un-
touched. There were sevzral heaps of turnip peilings
scattered here and there, from which it would appear that
they had served to prolong the dismal and agonizing strug-
gle which this forlorn outcast had waged with the great
destroyer.—Manx Liberal.
AFFECTING CASE OF SurcinE.—Mellicent Balch Ma-
guire. whose mother is a widow, residing in Southampton,
in an evil hour left her house (having previously had a
child, which accompanied her), under the protection of
Captain Thomas Besant, of the Bengal Infantry, with
whom she lived as his wife for a year and a-half, part of
the time in London, and latterly at Owslebury Cottage,
near Winchester. Some time since the Captain left her
to go to Dorchester, and continued to correspond with
her upon ordinary topics, when at length she rece;ved a
letter containing the stunning intelligence that he was
gone to India to his wife. The unhappy girl (for she had
only just turned 20 years of age) was frantic at this unan-
ticipated blow; for the heartless wretch had induced her
to believe that he would marry her upon the death of his
mother. Upon the receipt of the intelligence of her pro.
raised husband's desertion, she was almost distracted, and
offered to make away with herself, but was prevented by
the wife of the groom who had lived for some time with
the captain. She removed to Southampton, where she
stated it to be her intention to let lodgings. On Friday
night she arrived at Winchester, accompanied by her
child, four years old, where she remained that night and
the following day, and after breakfast on Sunday morn-
ing took a fly to Owslebury Cottage with her litile boy.
James Alexander (the groom) and his wife behaved in the
kindest manner to their visitors, and did not observe
anything extraordinary in her behaviour. She took a se-
cond breakfast, and said she had seen the captain, and was
going to Australia with him. She then requested Alex-
ander to fetch letters she had written to him, but as he
expected they would be brought he only pretended to go.
He had scarcely reached the gate, when he heard a scream
and a smash, and upon returning he found that the
wretched woman had precipitated herself and child down
the well, having a depth of 20 feet of water. Assistance
was obtained as quickly as possible, but when the bodies
were taken out of the well life was quite extinct. The
evidence in every particular justified the verdicts of felo de
se as regarded herself, and that of wilful murder of her
child.— Hants' Guardian.

BAD SEWERAGE, DRUNKENNESS, AND THE CHOLERA•
—A coal whipper, 34 years of age, living in Wapping+
London, died of Asiatic cholera, on Thursday week. He
was taken ill on Wednesday about noon, and died on the
following morning. Sarah Grace, deceased's sister, stated
that for two days previous to the Wednesday deceased had
been drinking freely. Juror : Have you not complaints
in your neighbourhood of the sewers being in a very bad
state ? Witness : Yes, sir. Both the sewers and the
drains are in a shocking condition. When there are heavy
rains the ground-floor of the house he lived in overflows
with filthy sewerage. which comes out of the common
sewers and drains. The smell is so dreadful that they are
obliged to shut the door and windows. The foreman of
the jury and several of the jurors stated, that between
ocrval ts.tl nine o'clock or an eve,ii,,,, the elTluvlui. 4>laC
neighbourhood was most dreadful. A sewer passed down
Wapping wall and entered the river Thames, adjoining the
house in which the deceased lived, and at the above time
it is believed the refuse from the bone factories of Messrs.
Cohen and Parker, in Old Gravel-lane, was sent into the
sewer. The whole of the neighbourhood was suffering-
from the defective state of the sewers and the drains, in
consequence of which the most serious apprehensions
prevailed among the inhabitants. _

THE NATIONAL GUARDS AND LOUIS-PHILIP.—If we
had not reached a point in public events at which nothing
surprises us on account of its apparent improbability, WO
should perhaps have refrained from stating a circumstance
that has just been brought to our notice. The inforinn--
tion, however, has reached us upon such authority that we
do not feel justified in withholding it from our readers,
though we are not in a position to assert the fact on out
own personal knowledge. We are assured that a deputa-
tion from the Parisian National Guard now in London
have waited on the Comte de Neuilly, at Claremont, to
offer their condolence with the royal exile on his altered
fortunes, that they were very graciously received, and
that the Comte expressed his regret that he could not pre-
sent them to his illustrious consort, in consequence of
that august lady's indisposition ' • but added, that as he un-
derstood they were not to leave London for a few days, he
should have much pleasure in introducing them, on a fu-
ture occasion, to the Comtess de Neuilly. On their return
to town, as we are further informed, the members of the
deputation determined that at the next interview they
would present to the Comte an address expressive of their
devotedness to his person and regret for his misfortunes;
and this address, we understand, has actually been drawn
up, preparatory to another visit to Claremont—probanlY
in the course of this day. The names of several of the
members of the deputation have been communicated to
us, but it must be obvious that the present state of feeling
in Paris affords the most cogent reason for declining to
give them publicity.—Morning Poet.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—At the annual meeting of the
York Auxiliary to the Bible Society, T. J. Bourne, Esq.,
one of the domestic agents to the Parent Society, with re-
spect to the disturbed state of the Continent and the com-
parative quiet which we have enjoyed in England, said he
had been much struck with an incident that had occurred
in the Royal Palace, as illustrative of the source whence
the happiness of our own country is derived. He had had
the case to which he alluded brought under his notice on
good authority. Some time ago Miss Hillyard, the gover-
ness of the Royal Family, seeing the Prince of Wales in-
attentive to his studies, said,—" Your Royal Highness is
not minding your business, will you be pleased to look at
your book, and learn your lesson ?" His Royal High-
ness replied that he should not. " Then," said the go-
verness, " 1 shall put you in the corner." His Royal
Highness replied that he should not learn his lesson,
neither should he go into any corner, for he was the
Prince of Wales, and, as if to show his authority, he
kicked his little foot through a pane of glass. Surprised
at this act of bold defiance, Miss Hillyard, rising from her
seat, said,—" Sir, you must learn your lesson, and if ycu
do not, though you are the Prince of Wales, I shall put
you in the corner !" However, the threat was of no
avail, the defiance was repeated,. and that too in the same
determined manner as before, his Royal Highness break-
ing another pane of glas 4. Miss Hillyard, seeing her au-
thority thus set at nought, rang the bell, and requested
that his Royal Highness Prince Albert might be sent for.
Shortly, the Prince arrived, and having learned the reason
why his presence was required, addressing the Prince of
Wales, and pointing to a footstool or ottoman, said,—
" Yon will sit there, Sir !" His Royal Highness then
went to his own room, and, returning with a Bible in his
hand, he said to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
—" Now, I want you to listen to what St. Paul says
about people who are under tutors and governors," and
having read this passage to him, he added,—" It is un-
doubtedly true that you are the Prince of Wales, and, if
you conduct yourself with propriety, you may some day be
a great man—you may be king, in the room of your
mother; but now you are only a little boy—though you
are Prince of Wales, you are only a child, under tutors
and governors, who must be obeyed, and must have those
placed under them to do as they are bid." "Moreover,"
said his Royal Highness, " I must tell you what Solomon
says ;" and he read to him the declaration that he who
loveth his son chastiseth him betimes, and then, in order
to show his love for his child, he chastised him, and put
him in a corner, saying,—" Now, Sir, You will stand
there until you have learnt your lesson, and until Miss
Hillyard gives you leave to conic out, and remember that
you are under tutors and governors, and that they must be
obeyed !"

MURDER AT BRADFORD—SINGULAR CONFESSION,"
On Tuesday morning, a man named Robert Slater, a
tailor, of Great Horton, was found dead in a stream called
Bradford Beck, on the Leeds road. He was a person of
sober habits, but, on the preceding evening, had been
drinking with some friends at the Royal Hotel, in
Thornton-road, until a quarter past twelve, when he
started homewards, in company with a neighbour, Joseph
Bowles. Bowles and the deceased. both of whom were
the worse for liquor, parted company in Seagram's-lane,
the last occasion on which the latter was seen alive. Na
marks of violence were discoverable on the body, and;
conjecture was at a loss as to the cause of death, until
Thursday morning, the day appointed for the coroner's
inquest. On that day, previous to the investigation,
man called Joseph Foster, also a resident at Horton, stir'
rendered himself to Police-constable Tiley, and confessed ,
that he had, without any cause, wilfully murdered Robert
Slater, by throwing him into the beck, between one and
two in the morning. At the inquest, Bowles (deceased
companion during the day) stated that they had emploYea
the afternoon in making purchases and paying visits, until
seven o'clock, when they went to a beer-shop, the 'Nevi:
gation Inn, and remained there until they were dismissed
by the landlord, at eleven. Joseph Foster was among the
company there, but there was not the slightest quarrel
between him and the deceased. On leaving the Navigation
Inn, Bowles, Slater, and a third person, adjourned to the
Royal Hotel, and remained until past twelve. On the
way home, Slater stopped for a moment, fell asleep, and
lost Bowles, who was seen no more. Mr. W. Brooks
bank, of Market-street, was sitting up till late that night,
and about two o'clock heard the voices of several men'
apparently wrangling, and in a few minutes cries of
" help," and receding footsteps. He has frequently el;
hibited symptoms of a discontented and unhappy state of
inind. Tbe coroners jury have returned a verdict of
"wilful murder" against him.
ORANGEISM v. POPERY.—The first lecture of the win'
ter session of the Church Institution was delivered on
Monday evening, in the large room of the institutions
Charles-street. The lecturer was the Rev. Dr. Burnet'
the president of the institution, and his subject was the
Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome. Having
shown how the errors and corruptions of Rome had gra'
dually crept into the church through the dark ages, tbe
rev. doctor said :—lt was in vain for them to talk of the
19th century. The light of the 19th century had not kept
weak men from going back to the darkness and corruP;
tions of Popery ; the liberty oof the 19th century could
not of itself stand out against the corruptions of Poperl'
If she was not now what she was, it was simply because,
she could not be. It was the want of power that kept het
down, and she was only waiting to come forth before t"'
world to be the same hideous thing she ever was. (Cheers')
He would convey to them his deep felt conviction, tba!
from all the circumstances which were awaiting the chore"
and the country, religion would be more than ever min'
gled 'with the subjects that would come before the legiele:
ture, and that the time was come for pious Christian me'
of the Church of England to take their stand. They
should not take it too late ; but should take it now. Lootit
wherever they would, amongst the sections into which
parties were divided in this country, and they saw ment
making questions those of conscience and religion.
them take the Bible as their guide, because its princiPle•
_.
would lead them to a glorious issue. Nail their colual'
to that mast. They would be driven from one post to
another if they didn't. They would have to give up every'
thing to expediency. Perhaps they would be called upo
one of these days to accede to the endowment by the staff
il
'of the Romish clergy, Lut they must make their steed
upon the English constitution. The rev. lecturer tbet!
concluded by urging upon the Conservatives, who wets
Christian men, the claims of the Loyal Orange Institution.