The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

the tenor or counter tenor, let him be quiet in future
when he (Dr. M`Neile) gave him a little bit of his bass.
(Loud cheers and laughter.)
A vote of thanks was here passed to the Mayor by ac-
clamation, and the meeting separated.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Present, Messrs. Ni-
col, (in the chair,) Molvneux, Chilton, Horsfall, Kendall,
Wood, Mann. Rankin, Holt. Tobin, Shand, Henderson,
Sandbach, Royden. The plans for open sheds and police
stations on the quays of the new north docks, submitted
last week, were approved.—The receipts of dock and light
dues for the past month were reported to be £79 15s. 6d.,
on 347 vessels, of 18,928 tons.—Mr. William Maddrell,
master porter, sent a letter to the committee, informing
them that he had given up his house, and removed from
the premises.—The sub-committees, with one exception,
had nothing to report, and the proceedings occupied only
a few minutes.

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—On Thursday,
the annual examination of the children receiving educa-
tion at the School for the Deaf and Dumb, was held in
the Lecture-room of the Royal Institution. Richard
Rathbone, Esq., occupied the chair. Mr. Rhind, the
master, conducted the examination ; and the children dis-
played great proficiency in the various branches of instinct
to which their attention had been directed. Several of
the scholars were able, by placing their fingers on the
throat of their tutor, and watching the motion of his lips,
to articulate distinctly. There was a very large company
of ladies and gentlemen present, who appeared to be
highly gratified by the very interesting proceedings. At
the conclusion the chairman complimented Mr. Rhind
and the matron, for the zeal and ability displayed by
them in their arduous task. The Rev. W. Maynard also
bore testimony to the efficiency of the teachers, and the
kind treatment the pupils received at their hands. The
children were regaled with buns, &c., during the meeting.
We regret to find, that, owing to the depression of the
times, the list of subscribers has decreased. No institu-
tion is more deserving of support, and we hope our towns-
men will not allow the funds to suffer materially.

MEETING OF PORTERS.—On the evening of Tuesday a
meeting of the porters took place in the Adelphi Theatre,
Christian-street. The chair was taken by Mr. O'Hanlon.
Mr. Adair, the Secretary, read a report of the proceed-
ings of the deputation which went to London. They had
had interviews with Mr. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch, Mr.
Brown, Sir Le Marchant, Sir G. Grey, and Mr. Porter,
from all of whom they had received every attention. The
report was warmly received, after which Mr. H. Tindal
Atkinson addressed the meeting. He said the French
had a proverb, that Heaven helped those who helped
themselves ; and this the Liverpool porters had done.
He bore testimony to the diligence of the deputation, and
testified to its impression on those who had received it,
iutimating that Mr. Bramley-Moore who was in London,
had received information from the deputation on the sub-
ject of the porters' grievances, with wnich he had not been
acquainted before. He also expressed the peculiar obli-
gations the porters were under to Mr. Brown, who had
spared no pains to further their interests. Having shown
the meeting how favourable the government were to them,
he urged them not to relax in their endeavours. There
was a great distance between the porter and the merchant,
and the porter singly could do nothing, but, in combina-
tion, as he saw them, they could not only speak, but be
heard ; and, if their requests were right, the realization of
their wishes would only be a question of time. Mr. At-
kinson, at the conclusion of his address, took his depar-
ture for London ; and, after a vote of thanks had been
tendered to him, and some other routine business dis-
posed of, the meeting separated. The theatre was about
two-thirds full.

Distrtrt P.elvg.

Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of
Colna.

It is now pretty well ascertained that the convict
Mawdesley, who accused himself of having robbed the
Rev. Mr. Germon, is not the man who committed the
offence.

On the 4th inst., at Hulme, near Manchester, while a
female, named Forshaw, was about lo wash and drew her
child, twenty meths old, she was seized with a fit (to
which she was subject), fell against the fire, and upon the
child, and each were so much burned before assistance ar-
rived that they died_afev! days afterwards.

One of thesigns of the timcs, as exhibited in our borough,
is the issue of a printed placard. In the Market-place
and other principal streets, many of the best shops are
closed and tenantless, and upon which is affixed the fol-
lowing significant notice ;—" These premises to Let—well
adapted for a Free Trader. Enquire of Messrs. Cobden
and Bright, MancheSter."—Stockport Advertiser.
SUDDEN DEATH, DECEASED FRIENDS WANTED.—On
Sunday week, a man named William Henderson, who
hed been working at the new Hotel erecting at Bury by
the Earl of Derby, suddenly expired; he had worked at
Bury for two or three years, and stated he was an illegi-
timate child, and was brought up by an uncle at Portobello
in Edinburgh. There was £l5 in money on his person,
there was also found at his lodgings, one box filled with
books, one box with clothes, and a box of valuable
Joiners' Tools. There was no paper that would lead to
the discovery of his friends. The property is left in
charge of Mr. Sellers, Superintendent of Police, Bury,
until his friends are heard of.
TARLETON.—On Sunday week, two sermons were
preached in Tarleton Church, in behalf of the Sunday
Schools and the Girls' Day School, by the Rev. George
Dover, incumbent of St. Bartholomew's Liverpool. The
collections after the sermons amounted to £9 10s. The
children's feast was held the day after, when the weather
was most favourabla,for such a purpose. Two hundred
and ten children were in attendance, who formed a pro-
cession and walked to the parsonage, where they sang
most loyally the National Anthem, after which they re-
turned through the village to the school-room. At four
o'clock they were treated with an abundant supply of
buns and coffee.
CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS IN LANCASHIRE AND CHE-
SHIRE.—From a parliamentary return recently laid before
the House of Commons, it appears that the number of
convicts under sentence of transportation on Ist January
last, in the county prisons in Lancashire, was :—Kirkdale
31 • Lancaster Castle 1 ; Liverpool 44 • Preston 11 ; and
Salford 10 ; making a total of 97. The return for the
nine years, 1839 to 1847 inclusive, was respectfully for the
same places, 57, 19, 29, 34, 44, 91, 39, 43, 58. This the
year 1848 (or rather 1847) exceeds all the other years.
In Cheshire the number of convicts within the same
period was respectfully 29 (in 1839), 31, 14, 19, 19, 12,
16, nil, nil, 15 (in 1848). The total number in England
and Wales, Ist January last, was 6523, showing a consi-
derable increase. In Wales there have been only 27 con-
victions within the whole ten years.

ORMSICIRK.—The remains of Henry Pennington, Esq.,
late Captain in her Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot,
were committed to their last resting-place on Wednesday
morning last, at the parish-church of Ormskirk, the
neighbourhood of his birth ; the funeral service being
read by his friend, the Rev. R. Battersby, chaplain to
the Right Hon. Lord Skelmersdale. The gallant officer
entered the service at an early age, as ensign in the 3rd
Royal Lancashire Militia, and volunteered into the 29th
Regiment, prior to the first campaign in Portugal, under
his Grace the Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wel-
lesley ; was present at the battles of Robeia, Vimiera,
Talavera, Albuhera, Oporto, and other minor actions in
the Peninsula. He also served with the 29th Regiment
in North America, and entered Paris with the allied
armies in the year 1815, after the battle of Waterloo.
Without an expression of regret for the death of this
gallant officer, we cannot permit his eminent military
s?rvic:s to be passed over. His amiable disposition, his
honourable principles, and kindly feelings, endeared him
to all who had the pleasure of his society. In life he
was highly respected, and in death is regretted by all who
knew his worth and integrity. As a soldier and Christian
he had ever lived, and as such he died, at his residence,
Scarth-hill, Bickerstaffe, in the 73rd year of his age. This
short sketch is given by a brother officer of many yea's'
acquaintance.— Correspondent.

CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, NEW ZEALAND

We have been favoured with a sketch of the plan which
is proposed to be adopted in carrying out the objects of
this settlement, to which we have previously referred.
The committee includes the names of the Bishop of Ox-
ford, Lords Littleton and Courtenay, Sir William Krqu-
har, C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., Honourable R. Caven-
dish and F. Charteris, M.P., Rev. G. R. Gleig, J. R.
Godley, Esq., Rev. Ernest Hawkins, E. Halswell, Esq.,
T. S. Cocks, Esq., M.P., J. Simeon, Esq., M.P., and John
Hutt, Esq. The Archbishop of Canterbury is president,
and the association embraces the names of many of the
bishops, many noble lords and eminent clergymen. The
prospectus states :
We intend to form a settlement, to be composed entirely
of members of our own church, accompanied by an ade-
quate supply of clergy, with all the appliances requisite
for carrying out her discipline and ordinances, and with
full provision for extending them in proportion to the in-
crease of population. As, by preserving unity of religious
creed, the difficulties which surround the question of edu-
cation are avoided, we shall be enabled to provide amply
and satisfactorily for that object. The Committee of
Management will have the power of refusing to allow any
person of whom they may disapprove to become an ori-
ginal purchaser of land, and, as that power will be carefully
exercised, it is hoped that ineligible colonists may be al-
most entirely excluded, and that the new community may
have at least a fair start in a healthy moral atmosphere.
The purchasers of land will have the selection of labour-
ers to be recommended for a free passage ; such labourers
to be also, exclusively, bond fide members of the Englfsh
Church. As a site for our projected colony, we have
fixed upon New Zealand, which offers greater advantages
of soil and climate, combined with the greater amount of
available and unoccupied land, than any other British
possession ; arrangements are accordingly in progress with
the New Zealand Company (which stands in the place of
the crown, as regards the disposal of waste lands in that
country) for the acquisition of a territory of 1,000,000
acres (about the extent of the county of Norfolk) in a fa-
vourable situation, apart from older settlements, and from
the vicinity of the natives, to be devoted exclusively to
the purposes of our settlement. By means of the muni-
cipal institutions lately granted to New Zealand, the col-
onists will have the power of managing their own local
affairs without interference. In order to provide funds
for carrying out the objects of the association, every pur-
chaser of land will be required to contribute a sum pro-
portioned to the extent of his purchase, and all such con-
tributions will be expended, through the instrumentality
of the Committee of Management, according to the wishes
and directions of the colonists, from among whom those
who are fit and able to take part in the proceedings of the
committee will be from time to time added to their num-
ber. The principal sources of expense will consist in re-
ligious and educational endowments, in the importation of
labour, in surveys, and in those public works (such as
roads bridges, and buildings) which may be absolutely
I necessary to the establishment and maintenance of the

settlement. These are things which every Colonist
wish to see well done; but they are such as the isoletnii
efforts of individuals cannot do, and therefore it is neat'
sary to make a contribution to them a preliminary rolu.lj
site to the purchase of land in the settlement which ,'au
benefit by their existence. Ten shillings per acre will
charged for the rural land ; and every purchaser of land
will contribute to the purposes above mentioned in thl
following proportion :—.ZI per acre to the Religious and
Educational Fund; £1 per acre to the Immigration
Fund ; 10s. per acre to the Fund for Miscellaneous Pr
poses, such Its surveys, roads, bridges, &c. When the
whole territory reserved for the purpose of this settlemer;
shall be disposed of, the sum of the contributions to the
objects enumerated will be as follows :
Religious and Educational Fund.... £1,000,000
Immigration Fund..
Fund for Miscellaneous purposes ... 500,000
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts has cordially adopted the views of the Associatienj
and undertaken to become trustee of the Religious. an
Educational Fund.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOIT RACES

These races commenced on Tuesday, and on Wednes'
day the celebrated Derby Stakes were run for. Tile
number of subscribers was 215, the stakes being 50 s°°'
each, h. ft., for 3 yr. olds. The start was not so ut,!ne:
rous a one as in some former years, seventeen " blg,bt
mettled racers" being all that were brought to the 01:
of which the following three were all that were placed v.'
the judge:--
Lord Clifden's Surplice, by Touchstone .. (Templeman)
Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack (F. Butler) "i •
Mr. B. Green's Shylock (S. Mann) 3t
Betting at Starting.—Even on Surplice, 4 to 1 IF,
Glendower, 4 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum, 14 to 1 !igs•
Shylock, 15 to 1 (and in some places 20 to 1) agst Spliegt
Jack, 40 to 1 agst Great Western, 40 to 1 agst The
ler, 40 to 1 agst The Fugleman, 50 to 1 agst The Fowler'
and 50 to one agst any other. Precisely at the time fin
one of the best starts ever witnessed was effected, Great
Western taking the lead, followed by Loadstone, Fugle,"
man next, with Surplice, Fern, Glendower, Springy Jac'
and Shylock in their wake. They came to the Craven
post in this order ; Loadstone then joined Great Western'
headed him in a few strides, and went on with the 0111.
ning Great Western dropping astern, and Fugleman talc"
ing the second place, Surplice, Fern, Glendower, shylock,
and Springy Jack following. Loadstone carried the rue"
ning on until half way between the road and the distance„'
and where, having had enough of it, he was passed .1),1,
Surplice, Fugleman still keeping the second position, wl'"
Springy Jack and Shylock in close waiting. Fugletel
gave way at the distance, and Shylock, and Springy Jack
were left to finish the race with the favourite. Shyle°7
kept the favourite's friends on the tenter hooks, until lls"
ck
way up the distance, where he was beaten ; Springy
then came, and a desperate race ensued between the tol
horses that of all others were the worst for the boa-
makers. Springy Jack made a gallant effort at the lilt;
but never was able to get up ; Surplice, not without Oa:
ing, winning by a neck ; Shylocka very good third, OW
dower a bad fourth, The Fiddler fifth, and Fugleman sixth.
The race was run in 2 min. 46 sec., from which it eddy'.
be inferred that the pace was not very great. The Ytil`"„,"
of the stakes was £5500, from which the owner of tw"
second horse was entitled to receive 100 sovs., and t::
winner was required to pay 100 sovs. towards the expo°el
incurred by additional police-officers.
On Friday the Oaks Stakes were run for, and the
lowing is the return :
Mr. Pedley's Cymba

(Templeman? ;

Mr. Quin's Attraction.
( Rbui nms
bo
Mr. Foljambe's Queen of the May
26 ran. At starting the lead was taken by Hope, followe '
.
by Lola Montes, lodine, and Do it Again, with 1131
phone, Queen of the May, Cymba, Wiasma, and tlio
or three others in the wake, and behind them Attrac-
tion and the ruck. At the Craven post Do it AP"
took the third place, but no other change of mole°
d tbe
was observable until they came to the turn, an 3
lead was then taken by Camphine, followed by p°,lie
Again and lodine, Cymba, Wiasma, Miss Orbell•
(08. r:,))
Miss Lydia filly, and one or two others whose colours.",
could not make out, lying very forward. After crossly:lli,
the road, Queen of the May took up all the running,
phine and Cy mba waiting on her, with Attraction, Wissrbor
lodine, and half-a-dozen others close at hand ;so „
reached the end of the Stand, where a decisive eller-
took place. Cymba went up to the Queen of the Nacil;
headed her, and although Attraction, who came ia'n'et,
ately after, made the race look doubtful for a motet.she won cleverly in the end by a length ; Attraction beain,
ing Queen of the May by half a length ; Wiasma, Cers,
phine, lodine, Miss Lydia filly, and three or four °til we
were close at the finish, and so nearly abreast that ir
tot
cannot undertake to speak with any certainty asA, the
relative positions; we fancied Wiasma had a sha",.;ined
best of it. The pace was fast up the hill, but not sus' ~,,kes
throughout. Run in 2 min. 48 sec. Value of the sv""
£2,400.
ElemDaEnßßroYdeArhDe
winnersO A KS.
TeTmlip
year ; he rode the winner of the Derby on 14receks oa
last, and piloted Cymba first to the post for the
Friday. —oiftthweillDbeerbryernanedrnboearekdesstlaha:syt,

STATE OF TRADE

• alineell bevY
maArlkneNtcsuinEeseTTEuue.—sdWaye,
whattvheahfaudrtahecrotnnteiintnuaetdiog
to German
ptiroince.s.
ThTleieorredebrasseboenesnegusoetnnte
olnitttleheinl
houses, but without leading to any transactiOnS from t
East have only partially come upon thegatilmeirlararkriiarntbd:Wit
has been done has been effected at the lowest rates pre 'n and
accepted. Very little is doing for the Mediterronea- on
Levant, and sales can only be made at very
the whole things have been exceedingly quiet during the
of the week. •
trade
LEEDS.—There is no change to notice in the staple
here since our last. A fair average amount of btleine",b 011
tinues to be done, and stocks are neither heavy nor in..-„iing
the increase. Manufacturers, in many instances, are 111'
to order.
BRADFORD.--WOO/: In the der- low prices; _to

:nand or consurgtion,...eool

there
combing wools, which is now comparatively Ma", verY
nothing of interest to note. The stock in the market I,...niers
limited ; and there is no disposition on the part of the sTeing
to increase the supply, the prices sought by the farmers.
es are
too high to meet current rates here. Noils and
more active to-day, and late prices are realised. "tioo,
There is scarcely any demand except for home consuniP,oes
and so wretchedly low is the price of yarns, that in inosti'neor
the cost of labour has to be forfeited. The quantity of ceded
ployed machinery is on the increase, and without de
until
change we see no chance but that of further curtailment. at of
the raw material can be had at a price corresponding to u'ee of
yarns. Pieces: There was an unusually large attendan boo
merchants at our markets on Thursday, many of whorl". 'et to
arrived by the last steamer from America ; but we re=but to
learn that their business is not directly to purchase, as for
seek consimaments. Owing to the demand for fancy geo
there
the spring having been active, and chiefly made to order, 'it is
'.
is less than an average stock of goods in the market,w'
hoped that the demands of the home merchants, fo
may be done on American account, will keep things fr°
thH A der epression. e
rge
LI FAX.—The same dulness which we have for s° The e
past had to notice as prevailing here still continues. is th
mand for worsted goods is very limited, and the saln`
case with both yarns and wools.
H UDDERSFIELD.—We have had a dull market, with wand
e
attendance of buyers. More is doing in the home trade,
_,
as the results of the London wool sales are now lae"„a
probable our manufacturers will display more activity, aloe,'
a variety of patterns and increase of stock will induce
more frequently to visit our arket. dSt
d'e
ROCHDALE I'LANNEL MARm
KET.—The demand for 01
qualities of grey flannels has been equal, if not better o'd other
week. Strong Yorkshire goods remain rather dull, and 00:2
much the same as last week, Prices of both goods 3-tity
remain stationary. There is by no means the rloars goo
ly
business transacted as is usually the case, but trade
improving. ctie'
NOTTINGHAm.—There is at length a considerabletorecjjoli
and improvement in the cotton hosiery
gloves, and drawers, but especially the two former, u the Y`',4l
very brisk; we have not seen such a general stir sinc`nonaed,
1936. Some of the houses assert that they have ",„pie..o%
prices, and give a premium to have their orders cipal'„'et
The silk glove trade still keeps pretty good, principallyin; ycl,
habit gloves—mitts, long arms, and extra long arins.,„,ressto
of fashion. The silk hose trade of every kind is very u'icieratee
The bobbin-net ;trade in some departments has con% so
improved. New manufactures and new improvernea` '
of them of considerable importance, are springing up'

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struck.rg,rs a
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workshop.
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who possessed a splendid bass voice. Sir a • ger
him instructed, and he became celebrated as a locert-;
sacred music; he was engaged at the Ancient Tho
Oratorios, &c. ; but he resided chiefly at LivevP°s that
following anecdote is, told of him :—Having
19
he ete
parishparishclerk of a village in the Vale of Clwyd, .IM-s
of Griffiths, could sing down to double C, be
,41 "'let:-
mined to visit him. He accordingly startedttge e 5
about forty miles. When he arrived at the v1";-„: pot tight
quired for Griffiths. A very totem.llo, digg',l'(tlinat;fl
in a garden, was pointed out i " W 11" 4.h. an I te„'o.l
Meredith) that shrimp of a thing to sing lower
Impossible ! Meredith was a fine tall man, "„reiogrC,
six feet high. He walked around the garden, de,
Griffiths disdainfully ; at length he said nl3°`iiis SP's to
"Good day to you Sir." Griffiths, resting, Good 010
replied on double low C (five notes lower), uoff, *c.
you, Sir." Upon which. Meredith marched 001. er
double C ringing in his ear all the way to LiLerfea, Ps4f.
MR. LABOUCHERE.—A Halifax, Nova oc- „1 of et:
says, that .the following is the singular histoPcabil4r,
Labouchere, at present a member of the Britisni_ of Po
—" In 1822 he was a clerk in the banking-hou'v to
Hope, at Amsterdam, and was sent by hiLondon,
Thomas Baring, the celebrated hanker of 4- 'l;er'
gotiate a loan. He displayed in this affair soil; bat! ,01:
that he attracted the attention of the Ea,glalsring,
"Ah 1" said he one day to Sir Thomas
have a charming daughter, will you accord__,;;ooo4ooo
hand ?" " Young man ! no pleasantry. lln coal,,teil
but how could Miss Baring become the wife ee also ~I
clerk ?" " But," said Labouchere, "If I WI, that `c
with Mr. Hope ?" "Ah, that is very differen .fr•troji,
materially lessen the inequality between Yep his 0001'
bouchere returned to Amsterdam, and sa ,01.1 if 1
" I must be your partner !" "My friend, no ;7,130.
re
of that ? you are without fortune ! and .1, ! ohiP
were a member of Sir Thomas Baring 's foal:no-toe, gr'
devil! Why, in that case, I would give Yeti "I.olise',,fter
on the spot ! On the strength of the two p_,ntiisr,kft.
Labouchere returned to England, and two 7fice of_iieff
married Miss Baring, because he had the Plrurriel tea 06
Hope to make him a partner when he wasZ:use
and became associated with Mr. Hope " 3161)1
married to Miss Baring. N't
charles
XTRAVAGANZA XTRAORDINARV.--s.' is Pfr.-se,
of France, was xtravagantly xtolled, Intionj
xecrated. He xhibited xtraordinarY 'Kee' on xsini 0.11,1;1
xhh
teezwoaarssd
ixxnetEcyptilcainurynxdinteerxmxtephroonreratalstx,ipobrnue,stxsesxtret.riniVenaicet:gloteo
for his xcesses; and to xpiate his xtravag
xpired in xile,