The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

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GENERAL.

At the late assizes of Limerick it was decided that a
marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant, celebrated
by a Catholic priest, was invalid; and a person charged
with bigamy escaped punishment under this E lea.
Two or three of the Biirds, against whom Lord
Brougham obtained a verdict at the last Summer Assizes,
at Appleby, for trespass, have been arrested and commit-
ted to prison for non-payment of the taxed costs of the
action.

The Morning Herald contradicts the report that the
Prince Consort intends to visit the reigning Duke and
Duchess of Saxe Coburg during the Easter recess, as re-
ported.

Prescot Cattle Fair on Tuesday last was well attended.
There was a brisk demand for good cows and calvers, but
very few sales were effected for inferior stock, of which
there was a great abundance.
A builder of Taunton, baying some ground to let, has
stuck up a board with the following:—" This good and
desirable land to be let on a lease one hundred and twenty-
five yards long."
On Saturday, a motion for voting in the Chamber of
Deputies by division, as in England, was rejected by a
majority of only seven ; there being 174 for the motion,
and 181 against it.

FACTORY BILL.—Mr. Raikes Currie left the House
without voting; his name is inaccurately inserted in the
list of the majority in favour of Lord Ashley's amend-
ment.

FACTORY CASK.-At the Rochdale petty sessions, on
Wednesday last, Edmund Rhodes, woollen manufacturer,
was convicted in the penalty of 20s. and costs, for em-
ploying a girl named Elizabeth Shaw, under 10 years of
age, to work in his mill and not attend a day school.
The 39th Regiment, which was foremost in the late
victory under Sir Hugh Gough, was the first British
regiment that landed in India. Among the ninny dis-
tinctions which it bears upon its colours, is Primus in
Indis.

THE BRIGHTON MURDER. —On Wednesday last, John
Lawrence, charged with the wilful murder of Henry So-
lomon, the chief officer of the Brighton police, ~as tried
at the Lewes Assizes, before Lord Denman, found
and sentenced to be hanged.
The New Zealand Company has been compelled to sus-
pend its operations ; as, after having expended upwards
of £500,000, its title to land, notwithstanding the compact
entered into three years ago by Government, is yet unse-
cured by the grant of a single acre from the Crown.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—.—On Wednesday
the Fellows of this College met at their house in Trafal-
gar-square, for the purpose of choosing a President in the
room of the late Sir Henry Halford, when John Ayrton
Paris, M.D., F.R.S., was elected, by ballot, to fill that
important office.

At ten minutes past three o'clock on Tuesday after-
noon Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal, left Claremont in a
carriage and four for town. The Royal party arrived at
Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of Light Dra-
goons, at twenty minutes before five o'clock.
A "MONSTER" PETITION.-The state prosecution
petition contains upwards of eight hundred and twelve
thousand signatures—measures more than nine thousand
two hundred feet in length—nearly two English miles !!
This monster petition was to be forwarded last night to
En gland.—Dublin Evening Freeman.
The Aberystwith mail-coach was stopped by the snow
on Saturday last; Nobbs, the guard, was obliged to pro-
ceed across the fields with the bags into the nearest post-
town, and another coach baring been procured proceeded
on his journey. The snow on some parts of the Welsh
mountains had drifted to the depth of ten and twelve feet.

DONATION FROM THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Iier Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager has, with her accustomed kind-
ness and liberality, sent to the Rev. W. Withers Ewbank
the sum of £lO towards the building of an additional
infant school in connexion with St. George's Church, in
Everton.

Alli ',WAY INTELLIGENCE.—A general expectation
gains ground amongst railroad directors and speculators,
that the present session of parliament will relieve third-
class class carriages from the tax of five per cent., and will
regulate and enforce the principle on which railways ought
to be assessed to the relief of the poor.—Herald.
The Queen held a levee on Wednesday afternoon, at
St. James's Palace, which was numerously attended.
Iler Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal suite ar-
rived from Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, in four of
the Royal carriages, escorted by a party of the Royal Re-
giment of Horse Guards.
ITALIAN BANDlrTr.—.—Rome, Feb. 2G.—lntelligence
has just been received, that an English family of distinc-
tion, en route for that city, had been robbed by banditti
more
I tris of all their luggage ; and what renders the affair
more unfortunate is, that some of the servants, in de-
fending the property, came in conflict with the robbers
and were severely wounded.—Standard,

At the levee en Wednesday, ,a petition was presented
to her Majesty, by Lord Kenyon, from the Bath Church
of England Lay Association, praying her Majesty to con-
sider the religious, moral, and social importance of ap-
pointing a Bishop for Manchester and its densely popu-
lous neighbourhood without delay ; but deprecating, as
highly injurious to the best interests of our holy religion,
the destruction of either of the North Welsh bishoprics.

LARGE CONSUMPTION OF PLATE ULASS.—In the
construction of the immense iron roof at the Manchester
and Leeds terminus in Manchester, there has been about
at least 12,000 superficial feet of rough plate glass used ;
and it is probable, that before the Liverpool and Man-
chester and Manchester and Bolton Companies have
completed their arrangements on the Salford side of the
terminus, that some thousands of additional feet of glass
will be required.

VISIT OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS
TO ENGLAND.—A letter dated Ostend, March 16, says
His Majesty the King of the Belgians and su:te are ex-
pected at that port on the 2Gth instant, en route on a visit
to Her Majesty the Queen of England and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. The Princess Alice steam-
vessel, one of the Dover mail packets, it is expected will
embark his Majesty and suite on that day, and convey
them to Woolwich.

VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO THE ISLE Or WIGHT.
—His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Isle of
Wight on Monday last, for the purpose of inspecting
Osborne House, which is to be fitted up for a marine resi-
dence for her Majesty. The following arrangements are
stated to have been made with respect to the purchaser of
the property. It has been agreed to give £28,000, for the
freehold estate outright, providing her Majesty is satisfied
with the accommodation the house affords. In any event
the mansion is taken for one year certain, at a rental of
£lOOO.

THE POST-OFFICE A DISPENSARY.—Many remark-
able things have been mentioned as having passed through
the post-office, since the establishment of the penny post-
age ; but we do not recollect anything more singular than
a whole cargo of physic. No less than 190 bottles of
castor oil, enclosed in tin cases, were sent through the
General Post-office, on Friday evening, addressed to
nearly all parts of the country. The postage on each bot-
tle was 4d. making on the whole £3 3s. 4d. The post-
office has thus been made a medium of dispensing physic
for the million.

DANGEROUS EXPLOIT.—On Monday, numerous per-
sons were attracted at St. Paul's Church yard, watching
anxiously the movements of a man placed on the extreme
summit of the cross which completes the height of St.
Paul's, whilst re-gilding the ball and cross. The dange-
rous undertaking was performed, we believe, in pursuance
of a contract lately entered into to keep that part of the
venerable pile in a state of good condition. From the
extreme height, the man was scarcely perceptible, marked
only as it were a dark moving object, which the brightness
of the cross reflecting the sun served to make visible.—
London paper.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO LORD WILLIAM HlLL.—About
one o'clock on Monday, while following the stag-hounds
in the Neighbourhood of Whitton, near Ipswich, a fatal
accident occurred to Lord William Hill. The horse
which the unfortunate nobleman was riding fell and rolled
over him, and before be could be removed to the barracks,
he was dead. The accident threw a deep gloom over Ip-
swich and the regiment to which the deceased nobleman
belonged. Lord William Hill was the third son of the
present Marquis of Downshire, and was only in his 28th
year. He had entered the Scotch Greys in 1834, and his
commission as lieutenant is dated October 21, 1836.
RANK OF ENGLAND.—The half-yearly meeting of this
company was held on Thursday, Sir William Cotton,
governor, in the chair. The Governor said, the cow t of
directors were of opinion that a dividend of 3A per cent.
for the half-year might be made out of the interest and
profits. He considered it right to state, that to pay the
dividend, £10,603. 12s. Cid. must be taken from the Rest,
as the net profits for the half-year were short of that
amount. He also stated, in answer to questions from
proprietors, that the present amount of Rest, independent
of the buildings in possession of the bank, was £3,159,966
Bs. 5d., and that the branch banks are a source of profit.
He said, moreover, that he bad nothing to communicate
with reference to the charter. The attendance of pro-
prietors was very numerous.
MONASTERIES.—On the 12th instant, at Cambridge,
the second adjourned debate on the subject of monasteries,
took place at the Union. The question proposed was,
"That the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII has
been highly injurious to this country ; and that the cir-
cumstance of the times imperatively demand the restora-
tion of similar institutions." The numbers were,—
For the motion
Against it.
Majority
The great interest the question excited in the University
may be gathered from the fact of the discussion extending
over three evenings, on the last of which (Tuesday), the
12th, there was a larger house than has been assembled
for many months.—Weekly paper (Tractarian).
SACRIFICE OF CIIILDREN.—CAUTION TO PARENTS,
—Coroners' inquests have recently been held on the fol.
lowing children, who were burnt to death in consequence
of their clothes taking fire, generally during the tempo-
rary absence of the persons who ought to have taken cars
of them :—Elizabeth Young, aged four years, at Leeds;
James Shaw, aged four years, at Preston ; John Jones.
aged two years, at Abertrynant ' • Frederick Jones, aged
six years, at Mothfey ; Charles Moore, aged five years,
at Bawtry • Hannah Jones, aged seven years, at Salford I
Elizabeth 'Crook, aged six years, at Preston ; a boy five
years of age, at Hensall ; Alfred Netherwood, aged three
years, at Hopton, near Dewsbury; John Atkinson, aged
sc lv
e n pears, years,
seven years, at Holcombe; Ellen agedßates,
at Manchester ; and Sidebottom Hill, aged
at Stalybridge.