The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

IRE LIVERPOOL STANhARD.

found duly at their posts in the evening, prepared
to do as they were bidden,and to avert the awful con-
sequences to the ministerial family party of the
loss of place and pay.
We are by no means, however, disposed to award
the whole onus of this evening's disreputable pro-
ceedings to the government party. Most ably and
effectively were they aided by the leading members
of the Peel section of the house, headed by their
leader himself, Mr. W. E. Gladstone being the only
open deserter on the occasion. Mr. Cardwell's
speech Was the best delivered in favour of the con-
tinuance of the squadron—plausible, ingenious,
and clever. Further, however, in its praise we can-
not go. The subject would not admit of eloquence,
or of an appeal to the higher feelings of our nature;
for what is the object which the opponents of Mr.
Hutt sought to uphold, and upon the maintenance
of which Lord John Russell staked the fate of his
ministry ? The continuance of national hypocrisy !
Yes, national hypocrisy of the grossest and most
disgusting kind ; an hypocrisy which makes British
philanthropy the scoff of the world ; the mainte-
nance of a policy, the perpetuation of which is al-
most enough to make the immortal advocates of a
noble cause—the departed Clarksons and Wilber-
forces—turn in their graves.

THE LATE FRAUDS ON THE HOUSE OF
RATHBONE BROTHERS.

What is this policy ? How are we at this mo-
ment carrying out our professions of humanity to-
wards the negro race? Whilst we are attempting,
by means of our cruisers in the African seas, to put
clown the slave trade, we are encouraging the slaver
and the slave planters in Cuba and the Brazils, by
receiving the produce of their unholy traffic. Since
we opened our market to slave-raised produce, the
importation of Africans into these countries has
confessedly increased, notwithstanding all the vigi-
lance of the African squadron. Up to the passing
of the bill by which slave-grown sugar was admitted
to compete with the produce of tree labour in our
own colonies, the accursed trade in human flesh
and blood was notoriously and rapidly decreasing.
Since we opened our markets to that produce, the
slave has been submitted to a harder and more
cruel bondage. It has been made cheaper to " use
him up," to shorten the duration of his life by
verer labour, than .to cherish and sustain it by
more lenient treatment. Previously he was being
regarded as a human being, valuable to his owner,
and therefore to he cared for tenderly. We are
told by ministers, that by withdrawing the African
squadron the national honour would be perilled,
If to retire from the effort to raise the condition of

CONCERT

the African, and to put down slavery throughout
the world, be to forfeit the national honour, we say
boldly and advisedly that it has been forfeited
already. We are at this moment, r:ith respect to
this object—for which we have made such heavy
sacrifices of blood and treasure, to advance which
we have expended millions wrung from the hard
toil of a suffering people, and ruined the finest co-
lonies which ever a nation possessed—the very scoff
and byewords of the world. British philanthropy ?
The imposition of an extra halfpenny upon a pound
of sugar and treacle has long ago scattered it to the
winds.

Twenty-two colleges were destroyed by fire at Parsons-
t&wn, Leinster, on Friday.
The number of building societies in Great Britain in
1849 exceeded 2,000, and the funds above £2,000,000.
Mr. Rainbird, of Norwich, has invented an apparatus
to raise vessels, of any magnitude, sunk at sea, if not
silted.
The result of this motion, however, is not one - Two workmen in the Clyde Bottle Works, Glasgow,
upon which our Whig government have much to having quarrelled, one of them seized a red-hot iron rod ,
plume themselves. They have been saved on this and ran his assailant through.
ernotpeor, ._n,enanr dpoofver one on
occasion, in part by an appeal to the basest and deTthrueclti,ovendfiornespianpaernsdonfeyaersttaday
tcontalin reports of five
the premises of Mr. Williams, camrpe
most sordid feelings of their supporters the
hangers-on of official men, the greedy hungerers Messrs. John Bright and Brothers, Rochdale, were on
after treasury pickings ; and in part by a trick ; for Friday last fined Ll and costs for a breach of the Factory
Mr. C. Lushington informs us that himself and Act, in allowing a girl to clean machinery during meal
many other members left the house before the hours. _ _

A society haskbeen, established in Edinburgh for the
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within ,51Treasn.d Therenlfrieiore collected
division, having been assured by ministerial funs-
building of
tionaries that the debate would be adjourned, a fewwuo-reellic'sen2l
Another instance or two of that obstinacy and die- mediately to be commenced on the aLe
r(i)tv(l.walkuses is im-
tatorial haughtiness, which was displayed on this On Thursday last, as Mr. J. Miller, of Wymeswold,
occasion by Lord John Russell, will perhaps not be near Loughborough, was passing through the Market-
attended with the same success. An insulted
hall, some thieves abstracted from the pocket of his
under-coat a book containing two
cheques, each for £3OO.
party may perhaps begin to regard the loss of such T 1 Marquis
The of Bristol has placed his mansion at Kemp
a leader as no such very great calamity. Town, Brighton, at the service of the Count de Neuilly,
and the aged exile, with his consort, are shortly expected
The Board of Ordnance have taken a house at Live r to take up their temporary abode in that town.
pool for the purpose of being converted into a barrack. A locomotive engine, belonging to the London and
THE ASSIZES.—The criminal business closed on Satur- 'North-Western Railway Company, blew up at Wolverton
day, and yesterday Baron Alderson assisted his learned on Wednesday. Large masses of the boiler were hurled
brother with civil cases. The assizes will probably lastto great distances, but the driver and his assistant escaped
I
nearly the whole of the week. _ _ injury._

On Good Friday a party consisting of two females and On Sunday week, John Corrin, a first-class pilot, fell
two men started on a boating excursion up the Mersey. overboard, whilst attempting to jump on board a vessel
When near to Walton-bridge the boat upset and all were off the Ormshead, from a boat belonging to No. 6 pilot-
drowned with the exception of one man, who, with some boat. He was in the water a quarter of an hour, and
difficulty, succeeded in reaching land. when rescued was of course much exhausted.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE RIVER : DEATH OF Mn. At Burton-on-Trent, on Tuesday last, John Sharp and
LOWNDES.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Thomas Rouse, both employed by the Burton Railway
i.nwnap. • . •...

,uniny L.,ourt, uy an ~,,Trioy, were convicted of mutiny torturing a dog by
unfortunate casualty which occurred on Sunday night on rubbing turpentine on its skin and then setting it on fire.
the river. We learn that shortly after ten o'clock, as the The magistrate committed the brutes for six week's im-
w
Seacombe steamer neared the landing-stage to land her prisonment ith hard labour.
passengers, a gentleman was observed to step towards the The miners of Cornwall are in full employment, and at
gangway, imagining, apparently, that the usual bar was iTproved wages. The quantity of copper, in bricks and
stretched across the gap in the bulwark. Our informant, pigs, exported in IFSO was 153,000 cwt., against 85,000
observing this, hastened forward to arrest the gentleman's cwt. in 1849 ; of wrought copper, 17,000 cwt. in 1850,
progress, but too late. Another individual, almost at the against 5000 ext. in 1849 ; and, finally, of brass and mixed
same moment, sprang forward, with the ,intention of metals, 23,000 cwt. in 1850, against 13,000 cwt. in 1849.
jumping overboard after the unfortunate gentleman, who The Commissioners for promoting the Exhibition of
was then being carried away by the incoming tide. Our 1851 have issued a circular announcing that the prizes to
informant grasped his coat to prevent this attempt, and be awarded to exhibitors will consist of medals, it being
for a few seconds succeeded in restraining him, but at their opinion that this is the form in which it will, gene-
length the cloth tore away in his hands, and Mr.Lowndes' rally speaking, be most desirable that the rewards should
son plunged into the river in a brave, hut, unhappily, be distributed. They offer three prizes of £lOO, and
futile attempt to save his father's life. Intense anxiety three of £5O, for the best designs. The medals are to be
prevailed on board amidst the darkness, but boats imme- in bronze.
diately put off from the landing-stage,' and, after some ANOTHER EFFECT OF FREE TRADE.—Our farmers can
time, succeeded in picking up the son. Mr. Lowndes, no longer make cheese, unless at a loss, and in conse-
sen., we regret to say, was lost ; and, so far as we can i quence they are giving up the manufacture ; and, as a
ascertain, 11:s body has not yet been recovered. Mr. proof of this, we may refer to an advertisement in another
Lowndes, jun., we believe, was conveyed to the receiving- column, where an eminent agriculturist in Shropshire
house, and received every attention. The following no- solicits tenders from milkmen to take the produce of the
tice was given to the public, and posted at the County cows on his farm, as he is unable to dispose of the milk
Court, yesterday :—" In consequence of the lamented in the usual way of making cheese.
death of William Lowndes,
owndes, Esq., the judge of this court, Several instances have taken place recently of parties
the business of the court for the hearing of cases and the having been drugged, through having had lozenges given
granting of summonses is for the present suspended, but to them in railway carriages and other places, and being
due notice will be given when it will be resumed." robbed whilst in a state of stupor. Last week two well-
TOWN COUNCIL.—The usual monthly meeting of the dressed men were looking at apartments in Manchester.
Council will be held to-morrow. The proceedings of the and during the conversation asked the landlady to take a
Finance Committee comprise a recommendation to sell lozenge, they appearing to eat some, but which she ob-
`o the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks the saltpetre sheds served they passed adroitly up the coat sleeve. She, of
and other property, authorized to be taken by the trus- course, declined the gift.
tees of the dock for dock purposes, for the sum of MURDER BY POISON.—An old man named Samuel
£25,280, being the amount of the joint valuation of John Turncliff died at Swinscoe, near Ashburne, lately, who,
Stewart, Esq.. and the Corporation surveyor; and to it has been discovered, was poisoned, and the coroner's
amend the hackney-coach bylaws, so far as !regards the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against William
tares authorized to be taken. The Mayor's communica- Chadwick. This man having been apprehended made a
tions comprise a letter from Mr. Thomas Jevons, calling statement that his wife, Mary Chadwick, was the instiga-
the attention of the Corporation to the intended sale by for and active party in the murder, he having only pur-
auction of the Roscoe and Howard Arcades, and suggest- chased the poison for her, which he saw her administer
ing that they should become the purchasers ; and a me- from day to day. He has also implicated his wife's mother.
morial of owners and occupiers of premises near the Lime- WILL 'WHEAT BE LOWER ?—For a year or two more,
street Station of the London and North-Western Rail- bad harvests, foreign troubles, or other adverse circum-
way Company, complaining of the great deterioration in stances, may postpone the final result : that result is, how-
their property, caused by the alteration and width of ever, absolutely certain. America alone would decide the
Gloucester-street by the above company. Mr. Picton question. She can now send us corn as freely as she can
has given notice of a motion for the appointment of a send us cotton. The result will lie, that she will perpe-
committee to consider the practicability of forming a free tually increase her growth and diminish her price. The
public library. Mr. Thompson will bring on again his history of the growth of cotton may show us how this
motion for giving up Birkenhead Ferry, which will no can be done. Tn 1820 America sent us 89,999,174 lbs. of
doubt meet with its usual fate ; and Mr. Alderman Hors- cotton-wool, and the price of Uplands cotton was 114 d.
fall has given notice of the following motion That aln 1833 she sent us 237,506,758 lbs., and the price was
special committee be appointed for the purpose of consi- 91d. In 1840 she sent us 488,572,510 lbs., and the price
dering how far it is practicable to amend the present was 6d. The like progress may be expected to be made
mode of levying poor and local rates, with the view to with corn. If it were possible to suppose that the pre-
relieve the inhabitants from such taxes as press most sent lunacy could last so long, we should see nothing un-
heavily, and to consider the propriety of petitioning Par- reasonable in the expectation, that in 1860 the United
liament in favour of a bill to amend the present law appli- States might send us 20,000,000 of quarters of wheat, at
cable to the levying of poor aad local rates, and for an average of 245. per quarter, delivered at Mark-lane.
making all public property rateable thereto." We shall DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION IN MANCHESTER.—
be glad to see the motion carried. We last week recorded the destruction by fire of thr

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET BILL.—OR Saturday
afternoon a large and influential meeting of members of
the Liverpool and Manchester Agricultural Society was
held at the Neptune Hotel, Clayton-square, to take into
consideration certain clauses of this bill materially affect-
ing their interests. The chair was taken at two o'clock
by Robert Neilson, Esq., and amongst those present were
Messrs. R. Ledger, Dr. Sillar, W. Lougton, R. C.
Lowndes, John and James Birch, H. Hu!me, J. Ellis,
Dixon, Rothwell, Owen, Davies, Littledale, Word, M`Far-
lane, Tyrer, Lucas, White, secretary of the society, &c.
The chairman entered into a lengthened statement of the
clauses of the bill, drawing particular attention to two of
them, which, if passed in their presentshape, would havethe
effect of preventing any gentleman or farmer in the

..re ,e ex-
tensive premises of Messrs. Wood and Westhead, of Man-
chester, one of the oldest and most extensive houses in
the Manchester trade ; and we have pleasure in referring
to the testimonial which our townsmen. Messrs. Milner
and Son, have received from Messrs. Westheads of the
value of Milner's Safes. These repeated evidences of the
practical utility of these securities, bringing their contents
unscathed out of destructive fires, must be as gratifying to
the patentees as they are serviceable and convincing to
the public. In the case alluded to, a large house lose
their stock (£lOO,OOO in value) and premises by fire, yet,
having used due precaution, and secured their stock by
insurance and their books in these safes, are now carrying
on their large business in new temporary premises as ac-
tively as ever. Unless they had taken these prudential

dred of West Derby fro-m
selling either a horse Trcattle
-
of any description in any other place but the market speci-
fied in the bills (with the exception of their own premises,)
under a penalty of 10s. The bill had already passed
the House of Commons, but it had been done so
quietly that the parties interested were not aware of the
extraordinary powers contained in it, as it was
represented to be merely a bill for the purpose of raising
further capital to enable the company to enlarge the
market. But, the chairman's attention having been
drawn to the subject, it was found to contain a clause
giving the company power to include the whole of the
Hundred of West Derby in their penal enactment, not
only preventing a farmer from buying or selling cattle at
his own door, but infringing upon the rights of the
ancient markets in the Hundred. Mr. Townsend, of the
firm of Mallaby and Townsend, solicitors for the bill, with
a deputation from the Market Company, were in attend-
ance, and explained the nature of the objectionable
clauses, offering to meet the opposers of the bill, in order
to modify them, but nothing less than their entire with-
drawal would be listened to. After a long discussion, in
which the new powers sought by the promoters of the bill
were unanimously condemned, a petition to the House of
Lords, praying to be heard at the bar of the house in op.
position to the clauses, was agreed to. It was also deter-
mined to send copies of the petition to the overseers of
all the townships in the hundred for the purpose of pro-
curing signatures, and that the chairman be appointed to
convey the petition to Lord Stanley for presentation, and
to obtain the assistance of counsel to oppose the bill. A
committee was then formed to further carry out the
views of. the meeting and solicit subscriptions to defray
the-expense of the opposition, and, after a tote of thanks
to the chairman, the meeting separated.

Latien these pru.-
measures, what a different position they would have been in.
" What is the difference, my lord," said a pert sub-
altern, the other day, to a certain dignified maker of jokes
—" what is the difference between an ass and an arch-
bishop ?" A pause ensued. "Do you give it up?" " I
give it up," quoth the dignitary. " Well, then,, ' quoth
young flippant, " it is that the ass's cross is upon his back,
while the archbishop's lies upon his breast." " Good
indeed ; but let me ask in return" continued his grace,
" what is the difference between an ass and an officer—
say, in the army ?" A longer pause ensued. The sub-
altern gave it up. " I protest," quoth he, " I cannot
make it out. The difference ?—the difference ?—No,
cannot see it!' " Neither can I," said the grave Arch-
Prelate ; and, turning on his heel, left the malapert querist
to meditate upon a distinction without a difference.
THE HORSES OF NEW Yong.—The Londoner, who
in his complacency brags of the carriages and horses of his
native city as the finest in the world, should go to New
York to learn wisdom in coach-horse-flesh. There he
would see many a pair sold for six hundred dollars that a
duke would be glad to get for as many guineas. You can
scarcely find a carriage horse that is not a beauty ; and
they exhibit all varieties of beauty, from the blood ches-
nut colt, a-fire in every, muscle, yet gentle and tractable
amid a crowd of vehicles, to the heavy grey, sixteen-and-
a-half hands high, firm as a statue, travelling on with a
majestic action and a steady pace. A lover of the noble
animal on arriving here congratulates himself on having
reached the paradise of horses and horsemen, until he
resides long enough to require a mount, when the mys-
tery is explained. He finds that all the best horses in the
country are trpintd to hnruess, and that a good saddle
beast is for a gentleman the work of a month to lad.--for
a. lady a very phoenix.--Frozer's Idragazine4

It will be recollected that at the April Borough Sessions of
1849, John Meiklejohn, head warehouseman to Messrs. Rath-
bone Brothers, was found guilty of having defrauded his em-
ployers of various amounts of money. He was sentenced to
nine months' imprisonment, and at the expiration of the term
to pay .4'200, or be further im;,risoned until that amount should
he paid. The term of his incarceration expired on the 4th of
January last, and the £2OO was ►aid.
Through the instrumentality of Kehoe, one of the detective
force, it came to the knowledge of Messrs. Rathbone that
Meikle John possessed property to between .t'3,000 and £4,000
invested in various public societies and companies, and
through their attorneys they sued him in the Court of Exchequer
for the recovery of the property which they could prove they
had been defrauded of. Meikie John allowed judgment to go
by default. and yesterdy a Sheriff's Court was held in the
Grand Jury-rooms, before Mr. Aston, barrister, to assess the
amount.

Mr. Crompton, Mr. Paget, and Mr. Rushton, barristers, con-
ducted the case for the plaintiffs.
Mr. CEOMPTON, at very considerable length stated the case
to the jury, and went fully into the whole circumstances of the
frauds carried on by the prisoner, which are already known to
the public. He could, in addition to the amounts which
would be proved before the jury, shew a vast number of frauds
the expense and difficulty attendant upon which had induced
the plaintiffs not to bring them forward.
Upwards of sixty witnesses were examined, whose evidence
fully established the statement made by the learned counsel.
It was proved that at the time the defendant was arrested
upon the criminal information, although his wages for the
greater portion of the time he had been with Messrs. Rathbone
had been but 235. per week, one year 275., and never more than
305., he was possessed of property to between .e3OOO :and
.'4OOO invested as before stated. He held 2100 shares
in the North Britain Loan Society, of which society he had for
a number of years acted as chairman of the directois he had
sixty-five £lO shares in the Apothecaries' Hall; thirty
shares in the Manchester, Chester, and Liverpool Fish Com-
pany; he was possessed of a coasting trade, and owned several
substantial and valuable dwelling-houses in Hill-street, in the
Park.
The amount of property proved before the jury was £2065
16s. 11d., for which sum they made their aw_rd.

MRS. M`DOUGALL'S GRAND MISCELLANEOUS

Mrs. M`Dougall made an appeal to the public last evening, at
the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. A cordial response was
given on the part of the public, the large room seldom having
contained a greater number of persons on any similar occasion.
The artistes were, besides Mrs. M'llougall, Mrs. G. Holden,
Mr. Blewitt, Mr. T. M. Bednall, the members of the Apollo
Glee Club, &c. The selection was good, and the several parts
were executed in a style which gave universal satisfaction.
Mrs. M'Dougall sang the Wanderer" in an unaffected and
simple style, which called forth an encore, to which she re-
sponded, by favouring them with a lively composition. This
was given with the utmost spirit and good taste; her execution
was deservedly rewarded by hearty applause. Mrs. G. Holden
sang the winning melody, Norah, my dear 1" with exquisite
feeling; and Mr. Blewitt produced immense sensation by his
rich humour in " Courting is very, very charming," and "Two
Strings to my Flow." A splendid bit of instrumental perform-
ance was contributed by Mr. Sheppard (flute), MasterJ. H. Shep-
pard accompanying on the piano-forte. This young gentleman
promises to excel in the profession to which he has so early become
connected; his execution had all the boldness and finish of a
matured hand. "The White Squall," by Mr. T. M. Bednall,
was well received. In consequence of the absence of one of
the persons whose name appeared in the programme, this gen-
tleman vo'unteered the popular song--" The death of Nelson,"
which was given effectively, and received with loud applause.
We were not able to remain longer than to the conclusion of
the first part of the performance—a circumstance which will
account for the omission of a notice of the second portion.
The concert gave universal satisfaction.