The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY

The supply of Beasts large. Trade very dull at 2d. per stone
lower. Sheep not sold so raadily as on Friday. Calvas no
better. Prime Scots 3s. Sd.

Beasts, 3,922; Sheep and Lambs, 19,490; Calves, 108; Pigs,
185 ; Beef, 2s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal,
2s. Bd. to 4s. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d.

Holland Beasts, 388; Ditto Sheep, 90; Ditto, Calves, 53.
Spain Beasts, 42. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts, 2.300. French
Beasts, 6; Sheep, 300. Leicester, Northampton, and Lincoln
Beasts, 300. Scotch Beasts, 400.

A SHIPWRECK

(From Fraser's Magazine.)

One morning, I can remember now well, how we
watched from the Hartland Cliffs a great barque that
came drifting and rolling in before the western gale, while
we followed her up the coast, parsons and sportsmen, far-
mers and preventive men, with the Manby's mortar lum-
bering behind us in a cart, through stone-gaps and track-
ways, from headland to headland. The maddening ex-
citement of expectation as she ran wildly towards the
cliffs at our feet, and then sheered off again inexplicably—
her foremast and bowsprit, I recollect, were gone short off
by the deck : afe 7, wild rags of sail fluttered from her
main and mizen. But with all straining of eyes and
glasses, we cculd discern no sign of man on board. Well
recollect the mingled disappointment and admiration of
the preventive men, as a fresh set of salvors appeared in
view, in the form of a boat's crew of Clovelly fishermen ;
how we watched breathlessly the little black speck crawl-
ing and struggling up in the teeth of the gale, under the
shelter of the land, till, when the ship had rounded a
pint into smooth water, she seized on her like some tiny
spider on a huge unwieldy fly ; and then how one still
smaller black speck shewed aloft on the main-yard, and
another—and then the desperate efforts to get the topsail

set—and how we saw it tear out of their hands again, and
again, and again, and almost fancied we could hear the
thunder of its flappings above the roar of the gale, and the
mountains of surf which made the rocks ring beneath our
feet—and how we stood, silent, shuddering, expecting
every moment to see whirled into the sea from the plung-
ing yards, one of the same tiny black specks, in each one
of which was a living human soul, with wild women pray-
ing for it at home! And then how they tried to get her
head round to the wind, and disappeared instantly in a
cloud of white spray—and let her head fall back again—
and jammed it round again, and disappeared again—and
at last let her drive helplessly up the bay, while we kept
pace with her along the cliffs ; and how at last, when she
had been mastered and fairly taken in tow, and was
within two miles of the pier, and all hearts were merry
with the hopes of a prize which would make them rich,
perhaps, for years to come—one-third, I suppose, of the
whole value of her cargo—how she broke loose from them
at the last moment, and rushed frantically in upon those
huge rocks below us, leaping great banks of slate at the
blow of each-breaker, tearing off masses of iron-stone
which lie there to this day to tell the tale, till she drove
up high and dry against the cliff, and lay, the huge brute,
like an enormous stranded whale, grinding and crashing
itself to pieces against the walls of its adamantine cage.
And well I recollect the sad records of the log-book that
was left on board the deserted ship ; bow she had been
water-logged for weeks and weeks, buoyed up by her tim-
bercargo,the crew clinging in the tops, and crawling down,
when they dared, for putrid biscuit dust and drops of wa-
ter, till the water was washed overboard and gone; and
then notice after notice, "On this day such an one died,"
"On this day such an one was washed away." The log
kept up to the last, even when there was only that to tell,
by the stern, business-like merchant skipper, whoever he
was ; and how at last, when there was neither food nor
water, the strong man's heart seems to have quailed, or,
perhaps, risen, into a prayer, jotted down in the log,
" The Lord have mercy on us!"—and then a blank of
several pages, and, scribbled with a famine-shaken hand,
" Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth :"
and so the log and the ship were left to the rats, which
covered her deck when our men boarded her. And well I
remember the last act of that tragedy ; for a ship has really,
as sailors feel, a personality, almost a life and soul of her
own ; and as long as her timbers hold together, all is not
over. You can hardly call her a corpse, though the hu-
man beings who inhabited her, and were her soul, may
have fled into the far eternities ; and so I felt that night,
as I came down along the very woodland road on which we
are now walking, with the north-west wind hurling dead
branches and showers of crisp oak-leaves about my head ;
and suddenly, as I staggered out of the wood here, I came
upon such a piece of chiaro-scuro as would have baffled
Correggio, or Rembrandt himself. Under that very wall
was a long tent of sails and spars, filled with preventive
men, fishermen, Lloyd's underwriters, lying about in
every variety of strange attitude and costume; while can-
dles, stuck in bayonet-handles in the wall, poured in a
wild glare over the shaggy faces and glittering weapons,
and piles of timber, and rusty iron cables which glowed
red-hot in the light, and then streamed up the glen to-
wards me through the salt misty air in long fans of light,
sending fiery bars over the brown transparent oak foliage
and the sad beds of withered autumn flowers, and glorify-
ing the wild flakes of foam, as they rushed across the light
stream, into troops of tiny silver angels, that vanished
into the night and hid themselves among the woods from
the fierce spirit of the storm. And then, just where the
glare of the lights and watch-fires was most brilliant,
there too the black shadows of the cliff had placed the
point of intensest darkness, lightening gradually upwards
right and left, between the two great jaws of the glen, into
a chaos of grey mist, where the eye could discern no form
of sea or cloud, but a perpetual shifting or quivering as if
the whole atmosphere was writhing with agony in the
clutches of the wind.

" The ship was breaking up," and they sat by her like
hopeless physicians by a death-bed side, to watch the last
struggle,—and " the effects of the deceased." I recollect
our literally warping ourselves down to the beach, hold-
ing on by rocks and posts. There was a saddened, awe-
struck silence, even upon-the gentleman from Lloyd's with
the pen behind his ear. A sudden turn of the clouds let in a
wild gleam of moonshine upon the white leaping heads of
the giant breakers, and on that tall pyramid of the Black-
church Rock, which now stands in such calm grandeur
gazing down on the smiling summer bay, with the white
sand of Braunton and the red cliffs of Portledge shining
through its two vast arches ; and there, against that slab
of rock on your right, still discoloured with her paint, lay
the ship, rising slowly on every surge, to drop again with
a piteous crash as the wave fell back from the cliff, and
dragged the roaring pebbles back with it under the com-
ing wall of foam. You have heard of ships at the lase
moment crying aloud like living things in agony ? I
heard it then, as the stumps of her masts rocked and
reeled in her, and every plank and joint strained and
screamed with the dreadful tension.

A horrible image,—a woman shrieking on the rack,
rose up before me at those strange semi-human cries, and
would not be put away—and I tried to turn, and yet my
eyes were rivetted on the black mass, which seemed vainly
to implore the help of man against the stern ministers of
the Omnipotent.
Still she seemed to linger in the death-struggle, and I
turned at last away ; when, lo ! a wave, huger than all be-
fore it, rushed up the boulders towards us. We had just
time to save ourselves. A dull, thunderous groan, as if a
mountain had collapsed, rose abave the roar of the tem-
pest.; and we all turned with an instinctive knowledge of
what had happened, just in time to see the huge mass
melt away into the boiling white, and vanish for ever-
more. And then the very raving of the wind seemed
hushed with awe ; the very breakers plunged more si-
lently towards the shore, with something of a sullen com-
punction ; and as we stood and strained our eyes into the
gloom, ane black plank after another crawled up out of
the darkness :upon the head of the coming surge, and
threw itself at our feet like the corpse of a drowning man,
too spent to struggle more.

A POET'S EARLY STRUGGLES.—When " Joan of
Arc" was in the press, I had as many 'legitimate causes
for unhappiness as any man need have ;uncertainty for
the future and immediate want, in the literal and plain
meaning of the word. I often walked the streets at din-
ner time for want of a dinner, when I had not eighteen-
pence for the ordinary, nor bread and cheese at my
lodgings. But do not suppose that T thought of dinner
when I was walking. My head was full of what I was
composing; when I lay down at night I was planning my
poem ; and when I rose up in the morning, the poem was
the first thought to which I was awake. The scanty
profits of that poem I was then anticipating in my
lodging-house bilis for tea, bread, and butter, and those
little &c,'s which amount to a formidable SUM when a
man has no zesources.—fouthey'a Life and Correspon-
dence.

AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.—Bbye Mabaraj Singh, the
Gooroo, is at length in safe custody in the Jullundur gaol.
We have several communications respecting his capture,
and from them we gather that it is entirely owing to the
exertions of Mr. H. Vansittart and a small party of the
14th, or Skinner's Irregulars. It would appear that on
the afternoon of the 28th December, information was
brought into Jullundur that the Gooroo was known to be
at a place near Adampore, midway botween Hoshearpore
and Jullundur, with some followers, and that there was
every chance of capturing him if no time were lost ; the
intimation being also given that it would be necessary to
to ride hard, as 14 koss must be done in an hour and a
must be done in an hour and a-half. Mr. Vansittart lost
no time in getting together some 20 of Skinner's Horse,
and set off immediately in the direction which the guide
poinred out, and on arriving at a thick enclosure of trees
they were warned that they had arrived at the spot of their
search by the sudden appearance of some six or seven
men, who immediately took to their heels ; they were,
however, pursued by a portion of the party (only ten, we
are told, arrived with Mr. Vansittart), the others kept
guard over the enclosure. The Rissalder of Skinner's
Horse was the first to enter the enclosure, and, the others
following, the Gooroo, with twenty followers, was cap-
tured ; they were generally unarmed, or there would, no
doubt, have been a contested struggle; as it was, we hear
that one man struck at Mr. Vansittart with a small axe,
but a pistol-ball from that gentleman disabled the Sikh
from during further mischief. This is certainly very
creditable to Mr. Vansittart, and the behaviour of the
Irregulars is beyond all praise; they will no doubt reap
the reward promiked for the capture of the Gooroo—we
believe 10,000 rupees. It is well known in certain circles
that the influence of this man is unbounded amongst the
Sikh chiettans and the whole population of the Punjaub ;
and there is little doubt but that he has generally been
the prime mover in all the conspiracies and revolts which
have lately caused us so much expense, and led to so much
bloodshed, whilst he is revered by all parties and ranks
for his supposed power of working miracles, and is, in
fact, the one holy man and profit:of the Punjaub.—Delhi
Gazette.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—It has the appearance of
compassion and charity to think that men ought not to
be put to death for their crimes, but to be kept alive, that
they may repent of them. Some, both ancient and mo-
dern, have thought that there was a cruelty in all capital
punishments that was inconsistent with the gentleness of
the Gospel: but when we consider that God, in that law
which He himself delivered to the Jews by the hand of
Moses, did appoint so many capital punishments, even for
offences against positive precepts, we cannot think that
these are contrary to justice or true goodness, since they
were dictated by God himself, who is eternally the same,
unalterable in his perfections. This shows that God, who
knows most perfectly our frame and disposition, knows
that the love of life is planted so deep in our natures, and
that it hath such a root there, that nothing can work so
powerfully on us, to govern and restrain us as the fear of
death. And, therefore, since the main thing that is to
be considered in government is the goad of the whole
body, and since a feeble indulgence and impunity may set
mankind loose into great disorders, from which the terror
of severer laws, together with such examples as are made
on the incorrigible, will naturally restrain them, it seems
necessary, for the preservation of mankind and of society,
to have recourse to capital punishments. The precedent
that God set in the Mosaical law seems a full justification
of such punishments under the Gospel. The charity
which the Gospel presents does not take away the rules of
justice and equity. We owe to human society, and to
the safety and the order of the world, our endeavours to
put a stop to the wickedness of man. It is highly proba-
ble that, as nothing besides such a method could stop the
progress of injustice and wickedness, so nothing is so
likely a means to bring the criminal to repent of his sins,
and to fit him to die as a Christian, as to condemn him to
die for his crimes ; if anything can awaken his conscience
and strike terror in him, that will do it. Therefore, as
capital punishments are necessary to human society, so
they are real blessings to those on whom they fall ; and
it may be affirmed, very positively, that a man who can
harden himself against the terrors of death, when they

come upon him so solemnly, so slowly, so certainly, he
being in full health, and able to reflect on the conse-
quences of it, is not likely to be wrought on by a longer

Under the Gospel, ag well as under the law, the magis-
trate is the minister of God, and has the sword put in his
hand, which he beareth not in vain ; for he is appointed
to be a revenger, to execute wrath on him that doeth
evil. The natural signification of his carrying the sword

is, that he has authority for punishing capitally, since it
is upon those occasions only that he can be said to use
the sword as a revenger. Nor can Christian charity oblige
a man, whom the law has made an avenger of blood, to
refuse to comply with that obligation, which is laid upon
him by the constitution under which he is born ; he can

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only forgive that of which he is the master, bus t'he other
is a debt, which he owes society ; and his private forgiv-
ing the wrong himself does not reach to that other obli-
gation, which is not in his own power to give away.—
Bishop Burnet.

POLICE COURT. -YESTERDAY - _ ESTERDAII

STREET THEFT.—A young man, named Lamheth, was
charged by a lady, Mrs. Hartiet Septima Wylde, of Great
Crosshall-street, with lobbing her of her purse in Church-
street, on Saturday afternoon. The lady was looking at
some goods in the window of Mr. Holmes's shop, when
she felt'- 1 f-

her purse snatches, .rom her hand, round which
part of it was twisted. The prisoner made off, but was
pursued by two young men, and finally captured by them,
and Inspector Anders, near Williamson square. The
purse and money, a half-sovereign and two shillings were
found upon him. He was committed for trial.

CAUTION TO SEAMEN NOT TO DESERT THEIR SHIP.—
Eight sailors, who had embarked by the ship Huskisson,
for a foreign voyage, were charged with deserting the ves-
sel, after having signed articles, so that others had to be
engaged in their places. They had gone to sea with the
vessel, which encountering bad weather put back in two
days. They refused to go to sea in her again, on the
pleo that they had got their clothes wet through and
through in the forecastle. The vessel had since gone to
sea. A young man, agent to Mr. Tobin, the owner, said
that there was nothing wrong with the forecastle, and that
the captain had offered them dry clothes out of the ship's
slop-chest, and had separately asked them to come on
board, but they each refused.—Mr. Rushton said it was
ridiculous for seamen to complain of wet clothes, while in
the channel in heavy weather, and sent the whole of them
to gaol for 30 days.

INTERCEPTING LETTERS FOR THE POST-OFFICE.--
John Wilden, a boy, was charged by Mr. Braithwaite
with keeping and making sway with two letters, out of
three, which he had sent him with to the post-office,
giving him 3d. to pay the postage. One of the letters,
addressed to London, had reached its destination. One
of the other two were addressed to a provincial town, and
one of them had enclosed half of a .£lO note, the other
half of which had been previously sent and received.
The prisonner, it appeared had ii' the

-.Ken the coppers for ,
postage to treat himself to one of the shows in Lime-
sreet. Mr. Rushton said that as half of the note was in
possession the money would not be lost ; and he reman-
ded the prisoner for seven days, to find, if possible, the
other half.

. COMMITMENTS AND FINES.—John Johnson, for steal-
ing a coat from Samuel Oakley, was committed for trial.

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imprisonment for picking pockets in various parts of the
town. These light-fingered gentry are very adroit, but
the detectives are almost equally so in watching and
apprehending them.—A rough carter, who with a cart, on
Sunday afternoon, ran drunkenly down Rupert-lane, and,
by contact, broke several of the iron rails opposite the
house of Mr. Bishop, a teacher in the Collegiate Institu-
tion, was fined for drunkenness and damage to the full
amount and costs.—Patrick Kane, for stealing a piece of
a cheese from the shop of Sarah Chapman, was sent for
trial.—Catherine Fazakerley, stealing a flower pot, with a
plant which she offered for sale—trial.—John Johnson,
for stealing, on Sunday evening last, a top coat, in the
vestry of the Wesleyan Chapel, Mount Pleasant, was sent
for trial. Coats had frequently been missed, and the
prisoner was watched, and caught in flagrante delictu,
before he could leave the room with his prize.—Three
foreign sailors were fined £lOO each for smuggling
(amongst them) 861bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco.—
Several persons were severely fined for assaulting police
officers in the exercise of their duty, and others for
attempting to rescue prisoners.—A soldier belonging to
the barracks was remanded on the charge of so violently
assaulting a married female that she could not appear.
He denied that he knew anything of the matter.

CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS CHARGED WITH CONSPI-
RACY TO DEFRAUD THE CROWN.-011 Friday twelve
men, named George Hopkins Judge, Andrew Pope, Jas.
Heywood, Geo. Moore Callow Cotteen, Saml. Thornley,
John Reynold Wilding, John Broadfoot, John Master-
man, Robert Simpson, William Higgins, John Davies,
and Joseph Foyer, employed in the tobacco warehouses in
connexion with the Customs, were charged with conspi-
racy to defraud the Crown. Mr. Beverley, of the Cus-
tom-house, London, conducted the case against the pri-
soners, who were defended by Mr. Snowball. The fraud
sought to be proved was, that the prisoners had conspired
to carry away tobacco, which they concealed from day to
day about their persons, the prisoner Judge, who was
gatekeeper, and whose duty it was to search the men
coming out of the warehouses, being cognizant of the
fact. The principal witness was a man named Thomas
Brady, who had formerly been employed in the ware-
houses, and had himself been imprisoned for stealing
tobacco. After a long hearing on Friday, the case was
remanded till Saturday, when, the whole of the witnesses
having been examined, Pope, Wilding, Heywood, Thorn-
ley, Davies, and Simpson were discharged, and the re-
maining six prisoners stood further remanded till yester-
day. Mr. Rushton attached no weight to the evidence of
the man Brady in cases where it was unconfirmed by res-
pectable corroborative testimony ; and the conduct of this
witness in giving testimony against his fellow-workmen,
with whom, according to his own admission, he bad been
concerned in the conspiracy, caused him to be hooted in
the street, and it was with difficulty that he escaped seri-
ous molestation. It may be stated that the prisoner
Judge, since his connexion with the tobacco warehouses,
has given evidence against no fewer than forty-one persons
charged with stealing tobacco. The six prisoners were
again placed at the bar yesterday, at the termination of
the usual business of the day,—Mr. Beverley called Mr.
W. Rean to speak to the state in which Brady was, at the
time he was detained respecting some tobacco. Mr.
Reane said he was warehouse keeper at the Qneen's to-
bacco warehouse in 1848, when Brady was detained.
Brady came to his office apparently intoxicated, and asked
for some money to get a glass. Witness recollected
Brady, saying he had received a letter from Ireland con-
taining £lO, adding that it did not last him long.—ln
reply to questions by Mr. Snowball, witness said he did
not kziow of any man ever apprehended at the warehouse
who had passed Judge's search. He always considered
judge did bis duty most efficiently, and always considered
an honest 512 d upright man. Witness knew nothing of
Brady of his own knowledge. Mr, Snowball called

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several witnesses as to the character and conduct of Judge.
Thos Besuchamp said Judge searched the men very
strictly, and no one in the warehouse ever suspected him
of wrong doing. He had never henrd a complaint against
him, and had always a good character of him for
honesty. David Alexander, another officer, gave similar
testimony.—Mr. John Connor, a locker in the warehouse,
said he had been appointed to watch Judge by a special
order from the inspector general in September last, and
closely watched him until the 6th January last. He never
found the isligetest reason to suppose that Judge allowed
persons to pass with tobacco upon them. So strict, in-
deed was Judge, that had witness himself been disposed
to take one single ounce of toLacco, he dared not have at-
tempted it. He never heard of any can
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