The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Northampton is the successful candidate for the show
of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847.
The unfortunate man Blewitt, who was shot by a young
man in Drury-lane, expired last week.
A blacksmith at Bristol has been committed for trial
for the manslaughter of his wife.
At present, the Princeton and the Mississippi are the
only two steamships which bear the United States' flag.
There were no less than twenty-two bankrupts in Tues-
day's Gazette.
A fine youth named Glover, aged 17, was drowned late
week whilst bathing in the river Calder, near Halifax.
An old pair of satin shoes, once worn by Fanny Ender,
lately realized upwards of £2O in the United States !
Mr. S. O'Brien, the Irish " martyr," is seen some-
times outside the door of his cell reading a huge book. He
lives very sparingly, and puts on the air of a hermit.
Twelve corn-stacks in the farm-yard of Messrs. Green,
at Crawcrook, near Newcastle•on-Tyne, were destroyed
by fire last week. They were ignited by an incendiary.
RAILWAY DIGNITY.—King Hudson's heir apparent,
an Eton boy, has been dubbed by his schoolfellows, " The
Prince of Rails."

A petition from Hull has been presented to the House of
Commons, praying ter the release of Mr. S. O'Brien
from the Tower

The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the
railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the
whole of the winter.

The Duke of Northumberland has consented to become
one of thirty subscribers to pay off the building debt of the
city of 'Westminster Mechanics' Institution.

At the Eglington Park races, on Wednesday, the horse
on which the Marquis of Waterford was riding, fell, and
his Lordship had one of the bones of his shoulder fractured.
The King of the French has, it is said, sent a reply,
wriren with his own hand, to the address of the Town
Council of Edinburgh, on his escape from assassination.
In Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, up-
wards of two hundred and fifty rats and one hundred and
sixty mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped.
PILOT AG E.—The Admiralty have ordered that the ser-
vices of pilots are in future to be remunerated according
to the draft of water of the vessels of which they have
the charge.
ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS.—The architects from all
parts of the world talk of bolding a general congress of
architects once every three years, the first to take place at
Athens.

Lord Worsley, ALP., has been appointed Deputy Grand
Master of Freemasons for England. This highest office
but one, is generally considered by the craft as pointing
to a future election to the masonic throne.
ANCIENT ART.—It is a singular fact, that the pattern
now most common upon Paisley shawls, and which had
always been a favourite, was in use among the Hindoos
three or four thousand years ago.
It is a startling fact, teat when the " Religious Opi-
nions Relief Bill" is passed, the Pope will have more au
thority, and Romanists more license in this country tha
of the Popish countries of the continent

The annual meeting of this society was held on Wed- in any
nesday in the large room at Exeter-hall. FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place
Mr. PLUMPTRE, who occupied the chair, expressed his the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of
satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so- Manchester) for £5OO, at a place called Withy Green, near
ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor.
on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or The number of fires that have taken place in the metro-
unkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners, polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year,
but as to the system of the Church of Rome, be felt according to the records kept by the brigade authorities,
bound constantly to protest against it. He had had amounts to more than 300.
many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which was ex- In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the
ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries. year 1840-44, there were 347 ; being an increase of ten per
He was sorry to say that in the Established Church of cent. ; while the increase of the population would account
England there were men who were propagating the prin. for but six per cent.
ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Coventry, has been ap-
avow their connexion with the Roman sect. He looked pointed Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic of the western
upon the concessions which had been made to 11omanisnn district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. Dr. Ulla-
as a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would thorne is a member of the Benedictine order.
therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces- On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five,
sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropo-
and sifting times before them, he had very little doubt his, some of which were attended with considerable da-
that the cause of truth would ultimately triumph. mage.
The Secretary then read the report.—The first portion Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by
of that document was employed in denouncing the con- which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from
duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pre- common type, may be printed so as to be read by the
tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the blind.
country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year,
attempted the destruction of the church. The present walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh,
government had followed in the path of their predeces- two miles. She appeared in good health and full of
sors, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious Opini- energy.—Doreet ufirontrie.
ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston
by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re- with a cargo of oats from Holland, This is the first ves-
port then referred to the vigorous efforts made by the so= sal of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great
ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the number of persons witnessed its arrival.
number of petitions then presented against it being more At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wed-
than 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were
and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord
year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the Bahl- Gough respectively.
lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane
might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from
once be made available for the society. The number of drowning at Granton Pier in November last. The collar
additional subscriptions during the past year bad consi- bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver.
derably increased. Several standard Protestant works The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mas-
had been added to the publications of the society, and nu- ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men
merous grants bad been made for the cause at home and are to declare verbally that they do notsupport any branch
abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the of the building trades that is at present " out on strike."
satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of STRIKE FOR WAGES.—The shipcarpenters and sawyers
the college at Malta, the National Club and the Evange- at Maryport made a general strike on Friday morning for
lical Alliance fur the maintenance of Protestant principles. an advance of wages. They have hitherto had 18s. per
The report concluded by stating the confidence which the week and demand 20s.—Cumberland Parquet.
Protestant world had reason to feel in the ultimate tri- SEAMEN IN LONDON.—The number of unemployed
umph of the truth. seamen in London is less than for many years past, there
Sir D. MACKWORTH moved the first resolution that not being above 200 in the Sailors Home, nearly the
the report be adopted Ile regretted that the Romish whole of whom have but just returned from distant voyages.
church met with so sad an ally in tkis country, not in Captain B. A. Somerset has consented to stand for
those who were at present inclining to its doctrines, but Monmouthshire, on protection principles, at the first
in the general apathy and indifference of the people. opportunity. Lord Granville Somerset is the present
After adverting to the doctrines contained in the charge member, and has displeased the electors by voting for
of the Archbishop of Lyons, and the state of religious opi• free trade.
nions in France generally, he concluded by saying that he Nine persons went through the ceremony of initiation
spoke in no spirit of enmity to Roman Catholics, and that into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick, by wading
he relied upon the distribution and reading of the bible as through a muddy pool, called the " Freemen's Well," and
the ultimate and great support of the Protestant princi- perambulating the boundaries of the moor, on St. Mark's
plea. Day.
The Rev. Mr. STowELL said that they were there a A Naptha Company has taken a portion of the Dart-
body of men much misunderstood, very much maligned, moor prison, which was formerly inhabited by the French
but by the blessing of God they were there unshaken in prisoners, for the purpose of erecting a chemical apparatus,
their principles, and undiminished in their confidence. and extracting Depths, ammonia, tar, &c., from the peat
The candle which was lighted by Laimer and Ridley was with which Dartmoor abounds.
not to be put out because there were traitors in the camp. A. pauper named Patrick M`Carthy, aged 68, committed
No, it would shine out, and never be extinguished till it f - .4c,tine wounds on his person with a knife, in
was lost in the blaze of eternity. The retrospect of the
past year presented to their view the most severe shock
which Protestantism had received since the fatal year of
1829. It was not intellect that would save the Maynooth
priesthood from the blackest doctrines and blasphemies
of the dark ages. The staple of the education would not
be improved, but the amount of production would be
greatly increased, and from it would go forth to the colo-
nies, and over the country, men who would labour to
subvert the settled foundations of the Protestant faith

the Newington Workhouse last week. The deceased was
sensible after the injury, and wrote on a slate, "The devil
tempted me."
FATAL FIGHT ON A SUNDAY.—A fight took place on
Sunday last, in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South
Devon Railway, between two " navies," when one of them
fell a corpse on the spot, just as he received a blow from
his antagonist.—Devonport 7'elegraph.
A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon,.llas been

vaughter

There was another feature of the past year in the secessi-
ons which had taken place from the church of England
. .

prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beards-
worth, and the latter received such injuries during the
affray as to cause his death.

to the church of Rome. Now they had gone to their own
places, to which in honesty they should have gone at the
beginning. They would mark the benumbing effect

The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to
foreign countries in 1843. was 12,9-16,452 bushels ; in 1844
13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,482 bushels. By far
the greater part of this quantity was exported from Liver-
pool.
William Richardson, 49, and Anne Maria Richardson,
22. his daughter, were tried at the Central Criminal Court,
on `Wednesday, for the wilful murder of an incestuous il-
legitimate child, of wh-om they were the parents, They

which ROmanismexercised on the heart of every one,

however gentlemanly, however sensible or
,good

ously. He alluded to the conduct of Mr. Newman—for
no Protestant Englishman could ever have drawn the
principle of construing the articles of the church in a

' non-natural " sense. He then alluded to the conduct
of Mr. Faber, who, he hesitated not to say, notwith-
standing the correspondence which had appeared in the
_ papers, had kidnapped two lambs from the fold of Christ
I
I to hand them over to the ravening wolves of Rome. We

were acquitted.
FOOD FOR ENGLAND.—There have been shipped from
,ondon, this week, over thirteen thousand

ittore. to

should be consoled for such secession if they served as
beacons to the church. If the University of Oxford did
not proceed as she had begun: to root out heresy from ber
borders, she would lose the confidence of Protestant Eng-
land. And if Dr. Pusey, and those who thought witt

s of flour

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a boy fourteen years of age, living at Lam-
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honesty on them also. He did not hesitate to say that if
Mr, Newman went over to the house of Rome, Dr. Pusey,
and those who agreed with him, ought to do so too, and

execu-

share the dark abyss of, Romish

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so unless it was intended that hereafter there should be a
bridge across the gulpb which used to separate Popery
from Protestantism, and that one learned professor was
intended to be the foundation stone on one side, and an-
other the foundation stone on the other. Mr. Stowel
then adverted to the conversions from Popery to Protes-

POI SONIN G.—Several members of a respectable family
named Ball, in Norfolk, having recently died tinder cir-
cumstances which excited suspicion, the bodies have been
exhumed, and the discovery made that their death was
caused by arsenic. It is said that suspicion rests on more
than one person.
RICH ACTRESSES.—Mrs. Kean, Mdlle, Taglioni,

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MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Monday evening, about nine
o'clock, a man rung the belt at the door of Mr. Probyn,
of Lower Belgrave•street, London, and on its being opened
by the servant, she was told that her mother had died very
suddenly. The announcement had such an effect on the
poor girls mind, that she ran up stairs and was heard to
exclaim, that " She would soon be with her mother."
Immediately a loud crash was heard in t
house, into which she had thrown herself
window, and fractured her arm and
other injuries. She was perfectly sens
veyed to Sr. George's Hospital.
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