The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

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more thin an hour, and v

Great part of Sur

early pa

night.
said to 13(

of the evening

'under, I

ye heard Of no dam

at it faired up in the

The corn crops may now 11

rowing field crops pro-
most promisingly, especially mangel-wurzel, some
fine fields of which we have seen. Rumour is still unfa-
vourably busy regarding the potatoes ; but we have reason
to believe that the evil has been greatly exaggerated.
The article, of good quality, was sold by retail in our mar-
kets on Saturday at 10d. to Ild. per 21th.

LIMERICK.—On Tuesday, a deputation from Limerick,
nominated by the Corporation, the Chamber of Com-

coerce. &e., waited on the Lord Lieutenant

to his Excellency the advantages that would result from
the establishment of an American packet-station at Li-
merick. Mr. O'Brien, M.P., urged the object, because

was now complete
Lima-rick, contend

the railway communication with the city and the docks
Captain Rendall, harbour master at
that by the plan suggested, of mak-
t station from Liverpool to America,

every c

,neon preser

Could prove

ty miles from ti

t aid to

e sea the Shannon for
all the ad.

'easels wa

sstill water, and pons

Halstea,

Soon after the exami-

CAPTURE OF Two BURGLAR
nation which took place before the magistrates, at Witham,
Essex, of A. Patten, the elder, and A. Patten, the
younger (uncle and nephew), Mr. Corder rode to Ford-
ham, and succeeded in obtaining possession of a letter
which had been received that very morning from William
Payne, one of the parties suspected. The letter bore the
Liverpool post mark of Sept. 10th, was signed in the
feigned name of " Wm. Plail," and contained what Cor-
der believed to be a clear clue to Payne and another party,
who was not named, but only referred to in the letter,
, to represent I but which he had no doubt was Thomas Whittaker, who

had absconded some time previously from his home in the
Colne road. The writer expressed a particular wish that
the party to whom the letter was addressed would see his
uncle as soon as possible, and tell him to send word wile-

ther there had been any of the Cozgeshall party after
them. Mr. Corder, on his return to Witham, lost no
time in preparing an information and warrant, which were
mover, signed until eleven o'clock at night, because
gistrate could be found before that hour. This

leaves Witham

ted oft by
.t thirteen

three o'clock in the morning, on his
e to Liverpool. Mr. Corder also wrote by the
night's post to Mr. Dowling, the police commis-

sioner fit Liverpool, giving him information of the fugi-
tives, the feigned name which one of them had a3sumed
and the name of the very ship, the Colonist, in wl
believed they llad taken a passage for New Yor

lich he
Liver-

rived in Liverpool on

Wednesday a►f

loon, ar

having ascertained that the Colonist had left the dock, and
had proceeded down the river, outward bound, accompa-
nied by William Gardener and John Toole, two of the
detective police force of Liverpool, and whom on his ar-
rival he found quite ready to render him every aid, he
took a boat and proceeded down the river. They over-
took the vessel about four miles from the picrbead, where
she was lying to, off Black Rock, waiting for the next
tide to carry her out to sea. 0

n boarding her, almost the
first person the officers saw was Payne, and having se-
cured him they next found and apprehended Whittaker.
On the robbery of the wine at Mr. Charles Skingley's
being mentioned, Payne_ remarked. `' Very well. I am

phasis on the word " that." Whitaker was very taciturn
and dejected, but Payne seemed not much depressed.
They were conveyed on Thursday to Witham, where they
were committed for further examination. Some papers
were found on one of the prisoners, which may prove
an important clue to the retreat of another of the gang
still at large. It appears that Whitaker and Payne had
taken their passage to New York, and with a fair wind
would in a few hours time have been fairly on their voyage
to the United States. It is a remarkable fact, and shows
the vast facilities afforded by railway communication, that
Mr. Corder was, on Tuesday evening, between six and
seven o'clock, at the retired village of Fordham,_ near

he same

te next

evening, apprebendea at .uiverpool, a distance, we believe,
of nearly 300 miles. Whitaker and Payne are both sup-
posed to be implicated in the fire and robbery which took
place at Mr. Skingley's a considerable time since. Whit-
aker, it appears, made an assignment of his property
before he absconded. On Wednesday last, the prisoners
French and Tansley, charged as principal and accessary
in several of the

mined at the cour

bourhood c
Pant_ CI flu,

£13,652 43. 7d.; bond stamps, £2460 10s. SUbscription;
to the charities, £520; materials unexpended, £26,519
13s. 2d. The amount paid to workmen in wages amounted
to £230,000, or at the rate of £730 per day. On the
credit side we find that the amount of unexpended mate-

rials last year was £37,719 Bs. Bd. The principal receipts
have been, borrowed, £158,278 9s. Id. ; rents, £6745 2
2(1. ; from Harrington Dock, £2145 Cs. s'l; ton!

severe si

graving docks, £2.084 -1

from Denison, Heywood

graving
-id Co.,

character of the

ment just conclu

passed

which v

1.1.za.c0 v LLIC7 Lu, ui .orlugewater, _Lae ocna
debt amounts to £3,715,483 7s. 9d. Of this amount there
is redeemable on demand £158,213 14s. 7d.; in 1848,
£77,700; in 1849, £341,191 4s. sd. ;in 1850 --
in 1851
1

Zit ls. 10d.; in 1

340 Bs. sd. ; in 1856, £970 in 18
ng is the amount of dock duties received at
the last ten years ending 24th June each year :

Tonnage,
2,158,01

jury to qnqtnin th

ceriaed. He had

were g

197,617

;es, or 18

No. 1, The Exx
very mer

The treatment of t

the two figure

ing in wainitt

our idE

ground

Defoe, in
m. ;ao. n

They knew from

that when one of these unfortunate persons once
found themselves entangled in the meshes of vice, they
seldom, if ever, reformed until their vicious career was
terminated by their being removed from all that was near
and dear to +I-, try—fn-

tnem in this country—Tor although the
offences with which they were charged were generally
small, yet their frequent repetition brought on them the

;eHtences of the la

he would be guided in a great-n.

,ure.by the

1z one or two importar

iession of parlia-

acts had beer

of them related to the manner of taking the examination
of witnesses in cases of felony; it had also sanctioned a
practice which had formerly existed in this country

own ti

e most laudable deter-
snv technical strictures to screen

matters parliament had
mination not to allow
the guilty, and yet they
full benefit of the law, and every
He wished, however, that they hr
diction to punish witnesses who

.ccused tt

means of defence

r, that they had given r

urts the juris-
and before the ma-

dictrnents in -which they NI
Csn to fear that in cases wiu

_ gs of swindlers concerned—such, for instance, as
those who rob and defraud poor emigrants—the witnesses
were frequently tampered with in the interim, and the
ends of justice thereby frustrated. He had the power to
estreat their recognizances, but he was of opinion they
should be armed with larger powers. With these observa-
tions he would leave them to the discharge of their duties.
The grand jury then retired ; and shortly after returned

against variou

)f the prisoners, who were ac-
cordingly put upon their trials, but there were none of
them of any impor

EXHIBITION OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY

I. Sant.

This is a large and

rious picture, by an artist whom we ha-ve not
before observed as having prominently distinguished him-
self. The subject is from Milton's " Paradise Lost;"
and our common parents are depicted as observing in the
heavens the signs of coming calamity and change of their
state :

" Oh, Ere 1 some further Chan,
Which Heaven by these mute E
Forerunners of his purpose."

whole is very fine

may, however, be complained of as wan

No. 36. Queen Elizabeth discovers that she is no
longer Young—Augustits Egg—isone of the most talented
and pleasing pictures in the room. The subject is thus
stated, as a quotation apparently from some author, whose
name, however, is not given in the Catalogue :—" In the
melancholy of her sickness she desired to see a true look-
ing glass, into which she had not looked for many years."
The result is strikingly conveyed in the convulsed attitude
and features of the unfortunate Queen, the latter of

iecialiy, are exquisitely painted, conveying, fully,
s of her masculine character, bowed down by
advancing years and sickness, yet still susceptible of strong
passion. We can almost imagine that we see in them the
source of some of the darkest events of her life—deeds
resolved upon in the tempest of an excited feeling, and
repented of so soon as her reason and affections resumed
their calm state. The expression of mingled sympathy
and awe in the features and attitudes of her attendant
maidens and ministers, is very fine. We almost see the
very hush and silence of that sick chamber. Mr. Egg has
added to his previously acquired laurels by this picture.
The finish, colouring, &c., are, as usual, in his works,
perfect; but we may hint as a fault—no uncommon one—
a too apparent likeness of some of the faces to each other,
which we suspect has arisen from his having drawn too
much from the same study. This want of variety and
contrast in the features of a group is to be deprecated.
37. Flora and Zephyrus.—G. Patten, A. R. A.
characterised by his usual excellence as a colourist.
female figure has, although not in so great a degree, the
fault of his last painting in!the exhibition. She is a little

R. ~.,—ls
- ' The

too large in form to satisfy the generally received ideas of
female beauty 'rho face is faultless and most lovely.
Notwithstanding the exception we have taken to it, and
in which others may not participate, this production, as a
classical work, deserves to rank very high.
133. The Battle of the Standard—R. .Ansdell—is a
noble picture, and worthy of the talented artist, although,
from its very large size, and the crowded state of the
rooms, we could have wished to have seen it elsewhere.
Such large pictures sadly interfere with the hanging in
their just places of many less pretending but equally
meritorious pictures. The subject is that memorable in-
cident on the field of Waterloo, in which the eagle
belonging to the 45th regiment of Invincibles was taken
from its bearer, by Sergeant Ewart, of the Greys, and de-
fended against a Polish lancer and a foot soldier•, all three
of whom he killed in succession, until at last he was called
to by Gen. Ponsonby, with the well-earned expression—
" You brave fellow, take that to the rear : you have done

till you get rid of it." The horses-engaged in the
ee are finely painted, especially the bay in the fore-
The form of the sergeant is equally good ; but
ave hea,Tl his face complained of as too quiet for the
occasion. We can only see in it ourselves that expression
of high daring and coolness fitted to the character and the
occasion, and can excuse the absence of melodramatic
passion. The calmness of the soldier—the human being—
contrasts well with the somewhat violent action, in which
Mr. Ansdell delights in pourtraying his favourite studies—
the animal creation.
228. Highgate Fields, during the Great Fire of Lon-
don.—B. M. Ward, A. R. A.—Our readers will remem-
ber the painting of this artist—a Scene in 'Change-alley
during the South Sea Scheme Mania—for which the prize
of £5O was awarded to him last year. The present picture
is one of the same class, and is founded upon a passage in
Evelyn's Diary, descriptive of the congregation of all
classes in Highgate Fields, during the great fire in London.
The grouping is most picturesque; and the variety of
character introduced very great. The group in the left
foreground is finely conceived and well painted, and the
distance in the left, exhibiting the " Solomon Eagle," of
frenzied denunciation, realises
The admixture of puritan and

period.

cavalier is also cfiaracteristi

effect of the picture, the colouring being somewhat Out of
keeping, and there being little to tell as to the history of
the interest which is apparent in her features. With

Corn, Wills_
Fiour, bls.
Cornmeal, bls.
Rice, tierces .
Wool, lb.
Hops, lb

I 89,07;

19,43 c 167;2961
3 29
9,21.6 16,125

si 135,6681,192.66( 15,5261
35,3551,015,244 2,457,0_
1, 50,165 7Nqs
18,127 38,271
I .. 610.625 349,6
4,166 68,894' 72,252 441,
The increase of breadstuffs is especially remarkable; tot
whereas in 1843 her exports to this country were
nil, in 1847 we had from her 2,544 563 bushels o wheati
15,500,000 bushels of Indian corn. 2 457 000 arrels o
flour, and 713,000 barrels of corn. meal;, and we know:
that she was enabled to spare us this vast quantity of
food with very little inconvenience to herself.
What an export trade to America—what e
+.O our many' —this would almost
bf
'

.4 rich harvest
itact urers— nave afforded, bad the
proenostications of our free-traders proved correct
Jonathan, however, spent the money in an aggressive
war instead of in
,the cottons 2!afrnacrii.esittewr
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