The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

THE COLLINGWOOD ESTATE.-
Collingwood, situate in the parish

magnificent fortune of £lO,OOO per annum, nu, ...
sum in cash, most unexpectedly, by the late Lord Mid-
dleton.
Jenny Lind will sing, gratuitously, at a magnificent
concert at Exeter Hall, on Friday, under the patronage of
the Queen and Queen
Mendelsohn scholarships.
500 performers.
An elegant marble monument, with a suitable inscrip-
tion, has been lately erected by the heritors and parish-
ioners in the church of Lunan, to t'—
the last Scottish martyr
fered for his adherence rt. '
Mr. Smith O'Br"

wager,

The concert will consist of

he memory of
o. under Pop

college for the deaf

and-Winnil) at Rugby. Master O'Brien is between u and to
years of age, very intelligent looking, and remarkably
quick at comprehending anything communicated to him
by the usual signs.

morning wec

and nation. Yet not even that astounding explosionman, living at Crediton, was found dead in ner nouse,
readily learn that the possession of lair;e estates,
could awe the bitter and intrepid spirit of the solicitor.with a box placed on her chest and other articles of fur-
not used merely for the purposes of luxury and pri-Striving to make himself heard above the din, he calledniture piled upon her. Her premises had been robbed
vats ratification, was a blessing to the pour, in pro-
upon the judges to commit those who had violated byand everything portable was carried away.
moting the establishment of schools, churches, and
clamour the dignity of a court of justice. One of the re- STEAM NAVIGATIO7.q. contract will shortly be
other institutions calculated to ameliorate our social
-noulace was seized. But the tribunal felt that it
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nc_ condition ;. d,2,37,.tiT 2‘t,he.:?.Tll;t”htz:milclil,e,.arTththpraet entered into between the Admiralty and the Indian and
Australia Steam Packet Company, for the conveyance of
"s between Singapore and Sydney for a period of

would be absura to pull.o a mug., LULLS • tuuan Rut ata vs- Tile suomvision 01 moo, p
fence common to hundreds of thousands, and dismissed
him with a gentle reprimand. was no law of primogeniture, ;La'S-O'ne--(Fthe greatest t- ---
seven years.
sources of misery that could possibly exist. (His Lord-
READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDULGENCE IN THE ship here referred to the evils c> to France from
•,._ Innd_ the stant addition day,lt. vri7frvomuerrooufs
4.,, rimir_ The Bishop of the Diocese

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OF KING JAN

'or Was Cf.

The Saturday passed over without any sign of relenting to its proprietor,—creating, according to rrenen our u.., -- -,
on the part of the government, and the Sunday (May 20, millions of distinct properties, the effects of which, in im- wrote to regret his inability t_o atm., ........._
1688) arrived,—a day long remembered. In the city and poverishing the national resources, he detailed at eonsi-
liberties of London were about a hundred parish churches. derable length.) He would only add one word more on sceevneernatlsepleeereghyemse.n, and other gentlemen, delivered c
A meeting of the
In only four of these was the order in Council obeyed. this part of the subject. They had winter before them,
culture" was hell
At St. Gregory's the declaration was read by a divine of and distress at the present season of the year. and under
the name of Martin. As soon as he uttered the first present circumstances, it largely prevailed. He need not, offices, in Bond
in the chair. The proceedings consisted principal,/
words the whole congregation rose and withdrew. At St. therefore urge on them (the grand jury) the importance
vote of 100 guineas to a monument to the late Lord G
Matthew's, in Friday-street, a wretch named Timothy of sympathising with the poor. and embracing every op.
Hall, who had disgraced his gown by acting as broker for portunity of mitigating their privations. For affording an Bme:nitri
.n ck.
Gear
the Duchess of Portsmouth in the sale of pardons, and opportunity of exercising virtue in this manner might bege Bennett the well-known tragic actor, has
written a play, called "The Justiza ; a Tale of Arragon,"
who now had hopes of obtaining the vacant Bishopric of one reason why Providence permitted so much suffering;
which is to be produced at Birmingham. The heroine is
__ _ _,. A. 1-,„1- 1,‘,, ou.itie., themselves of such means of doing good,
to be performed by Miss Cushwan ; and it is said that
- Intro-J.-well fitt,d, in hoth_sitnatinn and writing, AO
, the capabilities of that accomplished actress.
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Society for the " Protection of Agri..
Th....lnv last. at the society's

Tt. Lando.), the Duke of Richmond
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ntiment,—

Serieanhe-inn, in Clinme•prv-1,.., thn eletk Dretended that we mi
he had forgotten to bring a copy, and the Chiet Justice of
the King's Bench, who had attended in order to see that
the Royal mandate was obeyed, was forced to content
himself with this excuse. Samuel Wesley, the father of
John and Charles Wesley, a curate in London, took for
his text that day the noble answer of the three Jews to (From the We of I heodore Hook.)
the Chaldean tyrant—" Be it known unto thee, 0 King, There resided at Sunbury, in a large house, an elderly
that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden gentleman, a bachelor, of somewhat eccentric disposition,
nape which thou bast set up." Even in the chapel of whose ruling passion was for his garden. This, albeit
prodigality was by no means a besetting sin of the pro

rcppze rue. ITU' tl tit i
he Duct may have

otter taste,

The traffic on
On "Wednesday there were no less than 13 schooners, one
brig, and five sloops, in the basin and Muirton Locks,
besides the fine barque Mersey, of Liverpool, which ar-
rived the preceding evening. This large vessel measures
364 tons register, but carries upwards of 600.
A WOMAN KILLED BY A LAMB•—On Sunday morn-
ing as a female named Hannah Dawson, of Methley,
Yorkshire, 81 years old, was crossing a field in the occu-
pation of Mr. Farrer, of the Rose and Crown Inn, at
that place, she was attacked by a tap-lamb, and so much
injured that she died on the following Tuesday.
A perfectly white rat was caught at the Sheffield work-
week. It was then confined in a squirrel cage,

THE SIGN OF " THE FLOWER-POT

aletlonia

afing minister had the courage

admirable order, and deco-

to disobey the order

Vestruinster boys

Long re-

membered what took p►a.,_ uay in the Abbey. ?Sprat,
Bishop of Rochester, officiated there as Dean. As soon
as he began to read, the declaration murmurs and the

rates; regarmubs
meats in the very height of suourban fashion—leaden
cupids, slate sun-dials, grottoes of oyster shells and look-
ing-glass, heaps of flint and over burned bricks, denomi-
,

voice. lie trembled so violently that men saw the paper
shake in his hands. Long before he had finished, the
place was deserted by all but those whose situation made
it necessary for them to remain. Never had the church
been so deer to the nation as on that day. The spirit of
dissent seemed to be extinct. Baxter from his pulpit

nated rock-work ; and beyond all, and above all, with a
magnificent vase filled with a flaming cluster of fuschias,
geraniutns, and a number of plants with brilliant blossoms
and unntterable names, which faced the entrance. Here,
one fine afternoon, when the flowers had reached their
achme of refulgence, Mr. Theodore Hook pulled up his
de►uner. A powerful tug at the bell brought a sort of
half-gardener, half-groom to the gate in double-quick
time.
" Take the mare round to the stable, put her in a loose
box, and rub her down well. I'll come and see her fed
myself in a few minutes : none of you rascals are to be
trusted !"
So saying, the young gentleman threw the reins to the
domestic, marched leisurely along the broad, brown sugar
looking walk, dexteiously cutting off here and there an
nv pr 0-rnwn carnation with the lash of his driving whip,

non-. -- • -- _
and turned the wiry drum as naturally as a squirrel; but
it died on Monday last. Since the capture of the animal,
two other rats have been seen, one of which is perfectly
black, and the other black and white.
A meeting has been held at Hereford to establish a
c)unty school farm, in which as many boys and girls, the
children of agricultural labourers, should be instructed in
agricultural pursuits as the quantity of land would em-
ploy and subsist. The high sheriff presided, and a com-
mittee was appointed to carry out the suggestion.
There has been a marked decrease in the number of
cholera cases daily during the past week, both in the me-
tropolis and in Scotland. The number of fresh attacks
reported in London on Thursday was only one, in the
provinces also one, and in Edinburgh, Leith, and other
Scotch towns, 14, being the smallest return since the dis-
ease attained its height.
SUNDAY SEIAVING.—The curate of Upton-on-Severn
has laid informations against the local barbers for follow-
ing their calling after the hour of half-past ten o'clock
on Sunday morning. The informations are laid under
the 29th Charles 1., and a case came on for hearing a few
days ago. The defendauts were discharged with n cau-
tion. _ _ _ .

pronounced an eulogium on the bishops and parinhial
clergy. The Dutch Minister, a few hours later, wrote to
inform the States General that the Anglican priesthood
had risen in the estimation of the public to an incredible
degree. The universal cry of the Nonconformists was,
that they would rather continue to be under the penal
statutes than separate their cause from that of the pre-
lates.

PRCIMEN OF A CRIMINAL TRIAL IN 1685.-BAXTER,

THE CELEBRATED NONCONFORMIST

When the trial came on. a crowd o
and honoured Baxter filled the court. . . . Two
Whig barristers of great note, Pollexfen and Wallop, ap-
peared for the defendant. Pollexfen had scarce begun
his address to the jury, when the Chief Justice broke
forth,—" Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark
upon you. You are the patron of the faction. This is
an old rogue, a schismatical knave, a hypocritical villain.
He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but long-
winded cant without book ;" and then his Lordship
turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing
through his nose, in imitation of what he supposed to be
Baxter's style of praying,—" Lord, we are thy people,
thy peculiar people, thy dear people." Pollexfen gently
reminded the Court that his late Majesty had thought

hose w

and entered the hall. Giving another tremendous jet
the bell-wire in passing, he walked into the dining-room,
the door of which happened to be open, took up a maga-
zine, and threw himself at full length upon the sofa. A
tidily-dressed maid-servant appeared at the summons.
" bring me a glass of brandy-and-water, my dear, and
send Boots.' "
" Boots,' and brandy-and-water,'
claimed the astonished girl.
" You may fe ch me a pair of slippers yourself, if you
like; so make haste, and you shall have a kiss when you
come back."
Duped by the authoritative air assumed by the visiter,
it would he indecorous to suppose another motive, the
attendant disappeared, and speedily returning with the

—La, sir 1" ex-

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR.---On Monday
so'nnight, John Langley, Esq., attorney, of Harrington-
place, Bath, committed suicide in his private office by
firing a loaded pistol into his mouth. The unfortunate
gentleman, who was advanced in years, was in no pecu-
niary difficulties, and no cause beyond that of nervous
despondency can be assigned for the dreadful act.

IT' I Baxter deservin_ of a bishopric. '` And what ailed the
old blockhead, then," cried Jeffreys, " that he did not
take it ?" His fury now rose to madness. He called
Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than
° justice to whip each villain through the whole city. .
• • Baxter himself attempted to put in a word ;
tn but the Chief Justice drowned all expostulation in a tor-
rent of ribaldry and invective, mingled with scraps of
Hudibras. "My Lord," said the old man, " I have been
much blamed by Dissenters for speaking respectfully of
a bishops." " Baxter for bishops," cried the judge, "that's
merry conceit indeed. I know what you mean by bishops;
rascals like yourself. Kidderminster bishops, factious
e 4 snivelling Presbyterians." Again Baxter essayed to
speak, and again Jeffreys bellowed,—" Richard,. Richard,
dost thou think we will let thee poison the court ? ;
to Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou bast written books

slippers, observed,
" If you please. sir, I have brought you a pair, but they
are master's and he is rather particular."
" Particular : Nonsense ! where's the brandy.
ter

As a means of reform, a member of the Town Council
of Durham, at a meeting ►ast week, said he would keep
down the increase of the nefarious, low, filthy, and dirty
public houses. In Durham, he said, they had 120 or 130
public•houses open already for the reception of guests,
and every means was used to induce young men of the
lower and middle orders of life to go to these places.
-

.nd-wa-

" He never leaves out the spirits, sir; he always keeps
the key himself, sir, in his own pocket."
" He must be a deuced odd sort of fellow, then : send
him here immediately."
" Master is dressing, sir; he will be down directly,"
was the reply ; and accordingly, after the lapse of a few
minutes, Mr. - made his appearance, in full evening

On Sunday week, Nehemiah Smith, son of the late
King of the Gipsies, died in his tent by the side of the
road leading from Kislingbury to Gayton, in which neigh-
bourhood he was well known. He had been ill sometime,
but, although advised by a medical gentleman to go to a
more comfortable abode, lie refused to be removed. On
Wednesday week he was buried in Kislingbury church-
yard.
A REALLY' INDEPENDENT LADOURER.—At a recent
meeting of the Guardians of the Cleobury Mortimer
Union, Henry Tudor, a resident in the parish of Wheat-
hill, voluntarily came and paid Is. 6d., the amount of
relief advanced to him while unable to work from the dis-
location of his arm. The Guardians present immediately
subscribed the amount, and returned it to Tudor, and ex-
pressed their admiration of his sterling honesty.

costume.
" My good friend," commenced Hook, without raising
his eyes from the paper, " allow me to observe, that the
rules of your establishment are a little inconvenient to

as an esg is full of meat. By the grace of God, I'll look
after thee. I see a great many of your brotherhood
waiting to know what will befall their mighty Don. But,
by the grace of God Almighty. I will crush you all." .
. . The noise of weeping was heard from some of those
who surrounded Baxter. • Snivelling calves !" said the
judge.

brandy-and-water—brink one immediately

me know what you have got for dinner."
" I really beg your pardon," said old Mr. —, as soon
as he could find words; " I really beg your pardon, but
I am at a loss—"
" So am I, my good man—for a glass of brandy-and-
water—bring that, and another for yourself, and then I
shall be happy to hear whatever you have to say."
" But, sir, you must permit me to state--"
" I was never in such a detestable house in my life,"
exclaimed Hook, starting up ; " what do you stand chat-
tering there for, instead of attending to my order ? am I
to be kept here starving all night ? Bring the brandy-
and-water, d'ye hear."
The old gentleman was struck positively speechless ;
his face purpled, he seemed in imminent peril of choking
with the sudden conflux of ire, indignation, and astonish-
ment.
'• Why, the fellow's drunk !" pursued Theodore ;
" disgracefully drunk, at this time of day ! and in his
own parlour, too ! I shall 'feel it my duty, sir, to lay a
statement of this inexcusable conduct before the bench."
Mr. -- sprang. to the bell. " John—Thomas—turn
this impudent scoundrel out of the house !"
The arrival of the servants necessarily led to an explan-
ation. Nothing could exceed Mr. Hook's regret ; what
could be done ? What apology could be made ? He was
a perfect stranger to Sunbury ; had been directed to the
" Flower-pot " as the Ina affording the best accommoda.
tion ; and on seeing what he imagined to be a gigantic
representation of the sign in question at the garden gate,
he had naturally entered, and acted upon that erroneous
impression. This was the unkindest cut of all. To find
a stranger reclining in full possession of his sofa and slip-
pers was bad enough ; to be treated as a dilatory innkeeper
was worse; and to be taxed with insolence and intoxica-
tion was still more trying to a gentleman of respectable
character and excitable nerves • but to hear the highest
achievements of art he possessed—the admiration of him-
self and friends, and the envy of all Sunbury, his darling
vase, compared with which the " Warwick" and the
" Barberim " were as common wash-pots—to hear this
likened, to an alehouse sign, was a humiliatjon which
dwarfed into insignificance all preceding insults. Bat as
to whether. Hook contrived, to sooth the anger he had pro.

A cornfactor at Thirsk, of the name of Cariss, was on
Monday committed for trial on a charge of uttering seve-
ral forged bills of exchange to the Yorkshire Banking
Company. One was for £36 18s., another for £l9B, and
a third for £157. During the signing of the depositions,
the prisoner was left in charge of the door Keeper, whom
he induced to accompany him to his lodgings, and whilst
there the prisoner went up stairs and escaped by a room-
window, and has not since been heard of.
MR. JOHN MUSTERS.—This gentleman, so well known
in the literary world as having married Lord Byron's
" Mary," is, we regret to hear, in a state which precludes
all hope of his ultimate recovery. As a first-rate sports-
man, he many years kept a pack of hounds and hunted in
the adjoining county of Nottinghamshire, and for two
yeara hunted the North Wold hounds. His gentlemanly
manners in the field, and his hospitality at his mansion,
gained him innumerable friends as l• Handsome Jack."
FIFTY MILES IN FOUR HOURS.—A trotting match
took place, on Thursday last, at Hatfield, in which a
horse, the property of Mr. Richley, was backed to trot
fifty miles in four hours and a half ! The horse had been
running for a long time in one of Mr. Richlev's omni-
buses, between. London and Waltham Cross. When the
match was made, the horse was taken from the omnibus
and put to rest. He performed the task (resting for five
minutes at the end of every ten miles) in four hours and
thirteen minutes.
MURDER IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM.—A melancholy oc-
currence took place on Monday morning, in the private
lunatic asylum kept by Dr. Brigstock at Derby. One of
the inmates,. a youth of respectable connexions, and who
was considered rather as a harmless idiot than a madman,
was allowed to sleep with another inmate named Tomlin-
son without any keeper in the room. On Monday morn-
ing- Tomlinson was discovered murdered by his companion,
who had inflicted several dreadful wounds on him with a
board taken from the bed. A verdict of wilful murder
was returned at the inquest.

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THE RECENT CONTINENTAL CONVULSIONS
AND THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RICH AND
POOR.

(From Baron Alderson's Charge at Chester.)

That man must have looked on with careless eyes who
had not observed the transition state in which society now
was, or who had failed to see the imminent peril which
hung over the whole civilized world. In the language of
prophecy, and to which in this peculiar season of year
our church especially called our attention, we hear oT
wars and rumours of wars—nation is rising up against na-
tion, and kingdom against kingdom, and the powers of
the world seem to be shaken. Europe, during the past
year has been convulsed to its very centre—its ancient
dynasties were overthrown, and its rulers sought a refuge
from the fury of those over whom they had swayed the
sceptre. Even the mightiest fabric among the ecclesiasti-
cal powers seemed to be crumbling to pieces ; and he who
had presumptuously claimed to give and to take away
kingdoms was now a fugitive from his own people. In
our own kingdom something of these mighty movements
had been felt, but, blessed be God, the shock had not
been one of a very serious kind. There had, no doubt,
been reasons for this. The causes of anarchy which ex-
isted abroad had not been felt here. Our people lived
under free institutions, and they knew it, and, knowing
it, they had manifested a general desire to maintain those
institutions. We had also a monarch whose public
conduct deserved their approbation. and that appro-
bation he rejoiced to say, had been manifested of
late in devoted attachment and ardent loyalty.. Our
poor had been subjected of late to deep, distress and
to much privation ; but, though poor, they were sound at
heart, and he regarded this as a good indication for the
future. There was, however, the reverse of this picture.
I Recent events had tended to elevate the labourer in the
scale of society ; the general spread of education had ex-

paid a visit, by special train, according to previous .
pointment, to their brother bonifaces of Sheffield, by
whom they were hospitably received and entertained.
THE ATTEMPTED ASS&SSINATION OF THE T-
CLERK OF GREENOCK.—The trial of John Thompson, tor tax redeemed. it comprised mu acres in art,,—,
the attempted assassination of . Mr. Grey came on on dow, and pasture land, the rental being about £2045 per
Monday, in the High Court of Justiciary, and ended in annum. It was purchased by the Hon. Henry Thomas
the conviction and sentence of death on the prisoner. ngt
Forged £5 notes (which chiefly purport to be of the in
Newcastle Branch Bank of England) are in extensive cir- -it
culation ; and it is stated that an immense number of tithes, Secured upon the estates ~ ..,, —__
counterfeit fourpenny pieces are in circulation in different berland, Ralph Carr. Esq., the Hon. H. T. Liddell, ,
parts of the country. Thomas Clennell, Esq., situated in the paiiih of Alnhan
Lieutenant W. H. Rushbroke, of her Majesty's ship It was knocked down for £6450. The last property
S. Vincent, at Portsmouth, has been bequeathed 0- -...te esdipd R1.1.-.1,-- - ,

Ainghain and

Alnhan, Northumber

Land. was put up to

Liddell, of Eslington
—' purchase on the rental

The next propertxy

-charg

3 of £261 is

4d. per annum, in

of ahevioCHill,

and containing about ISUU acres of sump w...,
tithe-free. The estate is bounded by the Breamisl
and is let at .£llO per annum. It produced £3250

The ,Monmouthshire Merlin relites an attempt
fraud a publican by some pretending prophets at

port. two men ten a tnira, mew couipzunuu, a.
lic-house for the night. In the morning the lodE
found by the landlady stretched upon his bed app
lifeless. Shortly afterwards his two friends mad
appearance and said,—" You have a dead man
-

The woman si

it was so, and a,

.vealed unto us by

awake than the wife

istening

and who had been quiet_
" Oh, I see, T see !" and fetching a moderate sized wal
ing-stick, he ran up to the corpse, to which he applied his
stick so effectually that the corpse sprang out of bed with
one bound, huddled on its clothes with as little delibera-
_