The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

" REBECCA " REntvivus.--The agrarian disturbances
which characterised the southern portion of the princi-
pality of Wales in the years 1843 and 1814 have again

-manifested themselves in

precisely a similar manner. The

new county roads board does not operate in the way it
was intended to do. A new toll-house was finished on a
cross road near Llandilo on the 19th nit., and during the
night of the 21st ult, the toll-house was completely demo-
lished by the Rebeccaites, who literally left not one stone
standing on another.

A FAIR CONFESSION.-Our attention I
by a sentence of the Economist of Saturday, a paper abun-
dantly infected with the current liberalism of the age, and
little given to mark the superintending hand of Divine

s been arrested

government of society has long been held up as the high-
est work of human genius ; we begin to doubt, since indi-

viduals and the mUltittide have alike failed, whether the
task be not beyond the faculties of man."

A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.--On Monday se'nnight, as a
refractory cow was being driven by Mr. Home to the house
of Mr. Allen, butcher, Brettell-lane, Brierley-hill. the
animal became infuriated, and attacked everything in her
course. A gentleman was thrown out of his phaeton, and
the pony drawing the latter tossed in the air. Her driver
was subsequently thrown into a ditch, and another man
was forced through a shop window, and seriously hurt. At
last, after an attack upon other persons, findii igit impossible
to drive the cow to her destination, she vas shot in the
road.—Ten Towns Messenger.

EASTER MONDAY.--ANOTHER BESPOKE LONDON
Row !—Mr. Cochrane's second day in London, as the
Don Quixote of the poor, was only fit to be recorded by
Punch. The very genius of a row, he specially enjoined
peace! It was a failure extraordinary,—with Easter
Monday into the bargain. It was Mr. Cochrane "illus-
trated," instead of the Poor Law. There were pictures
of the poor—dying !'—sleeping on the stone floors !-men
and women in separate cages—&c. The police prevented
any great assemblage Sir George Grey was " not at
home," nor Mr. Cdchrane ! for his affair was all abroad.
EVASION OF AN OATH'.—A revolting case
,of subordi-
nation for perjury has been disclosed in the' Deemsteros
Court, Isle of Man. A farmer, who had been summonei
for non-payment of £47 rent, suborned two men to swear
that they had seen him pay the landlord. He had met
themon Douglas quay, and took them to a public-house.
The witnesses sat down. and while drinking their glasses,
the defendant took out of his pocket a piece of chalk,
with which he drew the figure of a man upon the table,
and wrote the plaintiff's name across. He laid down £47,
and the witnesses then agreed to swear that they had seen
the money paid to plaintiff.
T C - E- —The e'

mrtist de-

_HE -.HARTISTS IN ,DINBURGH.- _
monstration held on the Calton dill on Monday evening
proved a total failure. There might have been 600 or 700

persons on rue nut ; OUT, owing to the unfavourable wea-
ther, the meeting adjourned to•the hall in Adam-square,
where, after the assemblage had been kept waiting a con-
siderable time for the committee, a memorial to the
Queen, praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Par-
liament, was ultimately adopted. Delegates were then

appointed to represent the Scorch Chartists in the great
" National Assembly," to be held in the metropolis on
the Ist of May.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ROEDERI.-011 Monday,
between two and three o'clock, as a watchman named
Brassett, sixty-four years of age, was on duty at the Leith

and Glasgow wharf, London, he was•suddenly attacked by
three men, who came on shore in w boat. They struck
the poor old man on the head, as he believed with a life
preserver or some other blunt and heavy instrument,
which soon rendered him insensible. Believing, it is pre-

sumed, that life was extinct, they thrust him into a cellar,

len pro-

which they rifled of its contents

The poor watchman

lies in a very precarioug condition

EVASION.' OF THE LAW.—We have heard of Many
modes of evading the law, but Thomas Turk, a man who
was deprived of his. license to sell beer at our police-court
last week, has adopted a plan somewhat new in the annals
of beer selling in Newport., Having a " good run" of
custom, and being, moreover, possessed. of a pretty good
" plant" at the Tyrant's Castle, in Pillgwenlly, Thomas
Turk resolved he would not retire from business so ouietiv

as some

and carries on "a roarinz trade," by selling nuts at three
half-pence each, and giving away. a glass of sparkling
beer to the nut-buyer ! This system is carried on an ex-
sensive scale nightly.T-Monmouth.Merlin.

At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, James Bolton
was sentenced to eight days' imprisonment, for practising

Lowing now

cheat at

pennyworth of coppers were placed On small peg;,- N;i;14;
were to be thrown at with a small bar, when, if all the
half-pence were dislodged, the thrower, who paid a penny,
pocketed them. The prisoner, who was the proprietor,
was ready to take the chance eitheras a staker or a thrower,

but always took care that he should win, in each capacity,
except when he occasionally. tryst- on:,-purpot,e to•give-,an
appearance of fairness to the game. When he tnrew
himself the halfpence were lodged lightly on the pegs,
but when others threw, the lo.ver half-penny was made to

adhere by means of some composition

PENURY OF Louts PHILIPPE.—The Count de Neuilly
lives at Claremont in a state of almost penury, denying
himself those small luxuries which had become all but
necessaries from long use to a man of his time of life
',yen with t' St '" "

ne mo rigid economy; however, it is said that
his income is still insufficient for his maintenance, and that
in a year or two, if he survives so long, he will be com-
pletely destitute. It can, however, scarcely be the inten-
tion of the French Government to sequestrate the private
property, not only of the ex-King, but, of his whole family,
The dowers of his sons' wives are said to be almost entirel•

invested either in French funds, or in land in France, and
whatever claim the nation may have upon the Royal
estates, it can by no process, that wo are aware of, be ex-
tended to property thus acquired.—Times.
DESECRATION AND ROBBERY.—The minister of a
pretty church, which rises almost in the shadow of an
embattled " fortress of the fen," not 100 miles from Con-
nigsby, was called upon by a party, of "navvies" on Sun-

day week, to christen a child. While engaged in his duty,
another of these sons of clay and iron, evidently a ?nate
of the christening party, entered the church, and,

on the principle 4." exchange no robbery," took the rev
gentleman's new hat, and left in its place his own—one
of those bettered coverings which we see on the heads of
" Emeralders" during the harvest season—brimless,
almost crownless, and wofully "wanting a nap." We
are told that the trick is an old one; and that the same

child has been christened on, a former occasion at a sacri-
fice to a worthy parish clerk of a great coat.—Stamford
Mercury.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY,
pratt delivered an interesting lect

—Dr. Sheridan Mus-

evening, at the monthly meeting of the subscribers and
students of the college, at Hanover-square, on the mann-
fazture of the carbonate of sada, sulphuric acid, and hy-
drochloric acid ; and in a series of successful experiments,
showed how the deleterious gases evolved in the process,
and which were so destructive of vegetation, as to have
caused an action for damages to have been brought against
the Messrs. Muspratt, proprietors of chemical works in
Liverpool, upon that ground, might be condensed, and
their unhealthy action thereby greatly diminished, if not
altogether prevented. Scattere through the rooms were
many specimens of daguerreotype portraits and landscapes,
of Talbotypes, and of silver and copper electrotypes, all
of which were greatly and deservedly admired.
DAMAGE BY RIOTOUS OR TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLIES.
—Sir W. Clay's bill, for amending the law relative to re-
medies against the hundred in England, only contains
two provisions. By the 1

as it now stands, compen-
_
ltion can only be obtained against the inhabitants of a
hundred for damage done, where the offence amounts to
felony ; and it is considered expedient that such inhabit-
ants should be made liable to yield compensation in like
manner to parties damnified by the acts of persons, riot-

ously and tumultuously assembled, which may not amount
to felony. For this object, it is provided by the bill, that
in every case where any building whatever, or any part
thereof, shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner
damaged, or where any commodities whatever therein
shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged by any riot-
ous or tumultuous assembly of persons, the inhabitants of
the hundred shall be liable to yield full compensation in
damages to the person or persons injured.
A PLAGIARISM.—The 7'ablet (Popish paper), in com-
menting upon Lord Brougham's attempt to become a

of a British subject, say

nue ne retained tne privileges
One thing disappoints us in

le notion is not original

Lord Brougham

It is well known that Lord Brougham is acquainted with
the Tractarian system of philosophy. Many estimable
professors of that religion have reduced to practice an

analogous theory. When they travel abroad they fret
the catholic churches, and are very devout at mass,
vespers, and ask bishops for their blessing. They are ex-
tremely catholic. But when they return to this country,
they never enter a catholic chapel, and speak slightingiy
of the mass. They change on their passage

catholics abroad—protestants at home. Lord Brougliar
did but borrow their theory and apply it to civil politics-
in our opinion the more innocent borrowing of 0:
A person, describing himself as the Rev. B.
Fairfax, has been victimising the parishioners
marsh, near Sheffield, where he had been officiating som
months on behalf of the rector, who had been
the winter in Ireland. He obtained the cura(
swering an advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette
and showing ample testimonials ; but havir
credit to a large amount, by an assumed li
penditure, on the time approaching
trust the creditors became pressing,
missed from the parish, and has not si❑
The Society for the Propagation of the (
Parts and other religious societies are alsl
a young, unmarried man, " tall, slender, of
plexion, with large expressive eyes, and jetty hair , _
moreover, supposed to be nobly born and rich, he attracte,
great notice from the ladies : not only so ; his zeal for th
church, kindness to the poor and those who did not atter.
his ministry, made him one universal favourite with th
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