The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

Fresh herrings were selling at Brighton, last week, at
the rate of twenty-four fcr the shilling.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynne was re-elected for Den-
bighshire, on Wednesday, without opposition.
PEEBLESSHIRE ELECTION.—On Monday Mr. Forbes
Mackenzie was re-elected without opposition.
Peaches were sold on Wednesday at Covent-garden
market at ss. each.
Sir Cuthbert Sharp has been appointed the new Collec-
tor of Customs at Newcastle•on-Tyne.
Douglas Jerrold is the writer of Mrs. Caudle's famed
" Curtain Lectures" in Punch.
Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Samuel Rogers went over
the New Royal Exchange on Tuesday.
It has been recently discovered that the whole of the
architrave of St. Paul's Cathedral is composed of white
marble.

The " Royal Consort" steamer was totally wrecked off
the Mull of Galloway, the week before last. All the pas-
sengers were saved.
Mr. Charles Mathews' debts are set down in his shedule
at £26,000. The estate will pay a dividend of about 6d.
in the pound.
The number of signatures attached to the Stockport
petition, fora mitigation of Mr. Winterbottom's sentence,
is 18,610.
The Duke of Sussex steamer was wrecked yesterday
week, within .150 yards of the port of Boulogne. The
passengers and crew were saved by the pilot-boats.

The Auction Duties' Repeal Bill received the royal
Mr. Hume has given notice to move a " Call of the assent on Thursay place and no duty is to be paid on any
House on the 221 inst. The inciting cause to this mo. sale which took since the Bth of April last.
Lion was the excuse made by an honourab!e member for A servant in a family at Greenwich last week murdered
absence from a railway committee, namely, that he had the infant child of her employers, in revenge for her mis-
been engaged during the day on three or four other corn- tress having given her notice to leave.

mittees c so, says IVir.Burne, as there appears a deficiency Dadd, the parricide, is in Bedlam. He has recently
of gentlemen for the due performance of business, we produced some beautiful paintings. He is still mad, being
must look after the truant members, and bring them to fully convinced that his unfortunate father was a fiend by
their tasks. whom be was persecuted.

An original oratorio, entitled "The Resurrection,"
the composition of a working mechanic of Devonport, was
performed on Thursday, at the Town-hall, Devonport.

The nominal value of the contributions prepared for the
great free trade and Ant( Corn-law Bazaar about to be
held in Covent-garden Theatre is said to be above
£20,000.
The debts of the late Duke of Sussex have all been
paid, with but two exceptions, one for a bond given to
Madame d'Este for £lO,OOO, and a considerable sum to
his legal adviser.
Miss Isabel Robertson, late of Glasgow, has left by her
will the sum of £37,000, in sums varyir.g from £5OO to
£lOO, to the different charitable and religions institutions
of that city.

A rival to Van Arnburgh, in the person of a Mr. White,
has lately arrived in England. He is accompanied by a
numerous assortment of lions, tigers, &c., which he has
in complete subjection.
The late Mr. Johnston, long a shipowner in Kircud-
bright, has by his will bequeathed the magnificent sum of
£5,500 sterling for the immediate erection and endow-
ment of a free school.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—The hops have continued the
rapid growth lately commenced, and have caused the tyers
to be actively engaged. The polling is now nearly corn-
pleted.—Maidslone Gazette.

CORONATION AND MINISTERIAL OATHS.—PreviOull
to the adjournment of the House of Commons on Mon.
day night, Mr. Turner moved that a copy of the corona-
tion oath he laid on the table of the house. Also, that a
copy of the oath taken by her Maj-sty's ministers on as-
suming office be laid on the table of the house ; and that
a copy of the oath taken by members at the table of the
house previously to taking their seats be also laid upon
the tab!e of the house. Sir James Graham observed that
those oaths were regulated by statute, and he presumed
that her Majesty's ministers were amenable to the law as
well as the humblest of her Majesty's subjects. The mo-
tion was withdrawn.

THE LATE AWFUL CATASTROPHE AT YARMOUTH.—
On Wednesday Mr. Ferrier, the Coroner, and jury as-
sembled to renew the painful inquiry concerning the fate
of the poor creatures who suffered by the late falling of
the suspension-bridge. In addition to the sixty-five
bodies which were identified in the course of Monday,
there are nine others. There are supposed to be full
fifteen bodies under the water still. making the aggregate
loss of life about ninety. The day's proceedings consisted
chiefly of receiving evidence as to the identification of the
several bodies ; and the inquiry was adjourned. The
accident happened by the breaking of one of the main
chains by which the bridge was suspended, and on in-
specting that particular part, it will be observed that the
iron had oxydizt-d, and had become so eaten away with
rust that a centre only remained of about art inch and a
half in diameter.

Mr. Thornely has given notice that he will move in the
committee on the Smoke Prohibition Bill that nothing in
the act shall extend to collieries, mines, or other mineral
undertakings or iron works.
It is said that a matrimonial alliance is about to take
place between a distinguished member of the House of
Commons and the bar (a widower), and a lady whose
claims to legitimate royal blood lately occupied the atten-
tion of the House of Lords, (Mademoiselle D'Este.)
Four large tanks are about to be placed in tie lantern
tower of York Minster. Each of the tanks will contain
about 500 gallons of water, which will be used in case that
building should again at any future period, unfortunately,
become on fire.
A few days ago a young man, who was walking through
some grounds near Alderwasley, took up an adder, be-
lieving it to be a harmless snake. The reptile bit his
hand, anti, though medical aid was procured immediately,
his life is despaired of.
The minority of two, on Monday night, on Mr. S.
Crawford's amendment, were the two honourable mem-
bers for Salisbury, Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Wakley. The -
tellers were Mr. Crawford and Mr. Hindley, the mover On Saturday was published a blue book, containing the
and seconder of the amendment. 23d report of the Inspectors-General (Messrs. Palmer
Mr. Dundas, the member, for Greenwich, in reply to and White) of the general state of the prisons of Ireland
his constituents, has promised to vote against the third during the year 1844, with appendices. which has just been
reading of the Maynooth Bill. He voted for the second presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of
on the supposition that Mr. Ward's motion would have her Majesty the Queen. The tables annexed in the ap-
been carried. pendices are very numerous; but they do not show the
A poor quarryman, named Edward Jones, while en-
whole amount of crime in this distracted country, but
gaged in blasting a rock at the Craig, near Denbigh, a only those cases in which the offenders have been rips
few days back, had his brains dashed out, by a stone, up- prehended and committed for trial. The criminal tables
wards of three pounds in weight, descending upon his for 1844 present the same gradual decrease in corn-
head, while be was witnessing the operation of blasting. mitroent which has characterized the four preceding
CHEESE.-By a return just printed, it appears that the 19,418, or a decrease, as compared with the preceding
importation of cheese for the year ending the sth of
year (1843), of 3.37 per cent. The gross number of corn-
January last, in the United Kingdom, amounted to mittals for the years 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843, 213,850 cwts. The exportation from England of Euro- amounted respectively to 26,392, 23,831, 20,796, 21,186,
pean cheese was, in the year 1844, 6,920 cwts. and 20,126. This decrease has, however, been chiefly
SUGAR CANDY.-The Commissioners of the Customs c nfined to the last and comparatively unimportant class
have received a letter from Mr. Cardwell, one of the sec. of crime, viz., " miscellaneous offences," whilst we re-
retaries to the Treasury, to the effect that he has been gret to state that in three other classes, comprising the
commanded by their lordship to authorise the payment of gravest offences, there has been a decided increase, as
a drawback on sugar candy exported, equal to that allowed well as in others of a somewhat less atrocious descrip-
on single refined sugar. tion. In class No. 1, " Offences against the person,
COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS.-On Tuesday, with violence," the number of committals was 5,482, being
this committee decided that the standing orders could not an increase of 40 or 0.73 per cent. ; and this increase in-
be dispensed with in respect to the Glasgow Harbours eludes '2l additional cases of murder. In class No. 2,
Union Railway, also in respect to the South Western " Offences against property, with violence," there has,
(Epsom Branch) Railway. These bills are therefore lost however, been a considerable decrease, amounting to 129,
for this session. or 10.87 per cent., the number for 1844 being 1,058. In
The declining fortunes of the drama are sufficiently "
missals have
against propertytowi6tho4, violence,"e the. com-
shown by the statement in a London paper, that at the
nn
I that a
Alvses I;amountedo 3 ) of 189:30ir 3bosing an
increase
present cent. n
present moment there is not one theatre open in the
class No. 4, containing " malicious offences against pro-
counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertford, Bedford,
~ . party, tne increase has amounted to 18, or 9.32 per cent.
Cambridge. Northampton, Warwick, Kent, Gloucester,
Hereford, Wiltshire, Dorset, Salop, or Sussex. In " forgeries and offences against the currency" (class
5), there has been a decrease of 27 committals, or 18 per
The passage-boats Victoria and Prince of Wales, on cent. on the numbers as shown in the tables for 1813. In
Lake Windermere, entered upon their stations for the class N 0.6, " miscellaneous offences," the decrease for the
season on Tuesday last. The proprietors promise to past year has principally arisen, the number being for
transport passengers the entire length of the lake (from 1844, 6.197, a difference as compared with the previous
Newby Bridge to Water Head, Amb'eide) a distance of year of 769, or 11.04 per cent.
14 miles, in the short space of two hours. The offences against the person with violence amounted
SALTED PROVISIONS.--An increased quantity of salted to 5,482 in 1844, against 5,442 in 1843 ; the offences
provisions may be expected from America during the ap- against property with violence to 1,058 in 18-14, against
proaching season. One house, that of Mr. N. C. Bald.. 1,187 in 1843 ; tie offences against property without via-
win of Cleveland, Ohio, is said to have killed and put up lence to 6,377 in 1844, against 6,188 in 1843; the rnalici-
-3,138 head of beef cattle for the English market making a ous offences against property to 211 in 1844, against 193
shipment from this one establishment of over 5,000 tierces in 1843 ; the forgeries and offences against the currency
of beef. to 123 in 1844, against 150 in 1843; and the n-,iscellane-
TAWELL'S CIIILDREN.-The two children of the re- ous offences to 6,197 in 1814, against 6,966 in 1843. The
gross decrease in the year 1844, as compared with 1843, is cently executed John Tawell, by Sarah Hart, are under
the care of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Hallett, 678, or 3.37 per cent.
and her hUsband, at Gravesend. This aged couple, who Under " murder," class 1, there has been an increase
28, or 27.72 per cent., the number charged with that
are very poor, have not yet received any intimation of a of
being 129. Under the head of "shooting
provision having been made for the children by their heinous offence . • .
at, stabbing, administering poison, &c.," there has been
guilty father.
an increase of 10.5 per cent., the number committed for
Mr. Macaulay has returned the following answer to the past year being 63 ; while in assaults with intent to
another remonstrance from some of his c I
have no constituents murder, in the same class, the committals have been 129,
against his vote on the Maynooth Bill :-" being an excess on the returns for 1843 of 32.98 per cent.
apologies or retractions to make. I have done what I The number of persons committed for murder was, in
believed, and believe, to be right. I have opposed myself 1839, 286 ; in 1840, 155 ; in 1811, 120; in 1842, 189 ; manfully to a great popular delusion. 1 shall continue to 1843. 101 ; and in 1844, 129.
in
do so. I knew from the first what the penalty was ; and The cases of burglary have diminished from 131 to 101,
I shall cheerfully pay it."
or about 23 per cent. whilst under the head of " taking
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS.-As many persons and holding forcible possession" there is a decrease of 29
change their residence in May-the period of the year len the whole number, or 356 per cent.
when the new rates are generally laid-those who do so I • -- ---
should inform the overseers or collectors of their removal,
and request to be rated to the premises to which they have
retnoseo, taseeau or the prends. .3..6 quicieu,
to prevent an objection b ing substantiated if taken to
their vote on the next registration

" I see leaders of all parties sacrificing principle to ex-
pediency. They create the expediency, and then they
sacrifice all principle to it. Surely it is difficult to sup-
port a denial that all sides, as to leaders, have gone too
far in acting on this most mischievous doctrine." So
wrote Lord Eldon in 1835. What would he have said had
he wrote 10 years later, viz. in 1845.
THE FUGITIVE FROM ETON.—Master E. P. Fletcher,
the young gentleman who ran away from Eton, has, at
length, been heard of at Ross, in Herefordshire. An old
nurse of the family it seems lived in that town, and to
her he made his way, after arriving at Bristol by the night
train from Slough. His clothes were sent for from the
dame's three or four days ago, and it is not expected that
he will return to Eton.

CURED PROVISIONS.—It appears from a parliamen-
tary return, that America has gained more by Sir Robert
Peel's tariff than all the rest of the world. In 1813 the sup-
ply of salted beef from that country was 31,026 cwt., whilst
in 1844 it increased to 76.660 cwt. Salted pork, in 1843,
imported from the United States, amounted only to 9,882
cwt. ; and in 1844 it amounted to 24,342 cwt. The trade,
however, is only in its infancy, and next year the quantity
imported will treble that of last year. The total quantity
of salted beef imported into this country in 1843 was
60,633 cwts., and in 1844 it increased to 106,766 cwts.
The importation of salted pork in 1843 was 27,100 cwts.,
and in 1844 it reached 30,771 cwts.
WILT. OF A MILLIONAIRE.—The will and codicil o
Mr. Philip John Miles, late of Bristol, banker, has just
been proved in Doctors' Commons by the executors, who
have sworn the personal property alone to be above the
value of a million sterling (the highest amount on which
duty is payable.) The deceased bequeaths to his sons
(eight in number) £lOO,OOO each, and to William Miles
an additional sum of £50,000; to his grandsons £lOO
each ; to several godsons £2OO each ; to nieces and many
other relatives legacies varying from £lOO to £3,000; to
his two solicitors £2OO each, and legacies to three of his
confidential clerks ; to each of his banking partners lega-
cies varying from £lOO to £3OO. He gives large sums to
various charities. The stamp affixed to the probate is
£15,750.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The accession of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge to the mem-
bers of this Institute is a valuable testimony to its merits,
and the manner in which it happened is equally honoura-
ble to the royal duke, and to its founder, Mr. Bucking..
ham. It appears that, on the occasion of a public dinner
at the Freemasons'-hall, his Royal Highness was so much
pleased with a speech delivered by Mr. Buckingham that
he desired to be introduced to him, and having in the
course of his inquiries touched on the subject of the
British and Foreign Institute, his interest was so strongly
excited in its success, that he appointed an interview with
Mr. Buckingham at Cambridge House, at the close of
which he expressed his desire to become a member of the
Institute, and was accordingly received and entertained at
a dinner given by the President and C, un 3'l, on Saturday,
the 3d instant, which was attended by se /era' Peers and
members of parliament to welcome their royal guest.

STATISTICS OF CRIME IN IRELAND

THE ARMY

WAR OFFICE, MAY 7.
Her Majesty has been pleased to promote his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge, K.G., Colonel of
the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Major-General in the
Army.

WAR OFFFICE, MAY 9.
4th Dragoon Guards.—Ensign and Adjutant W. G.
Sutton, from the 69th Foot, to be Cornet, without pur-
chase.

7th Light Dragoons.—Cornet G. F. Miles to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Savile, who retires; William
Viscount St. Lawrence to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Miles.

3rd Foot.—Ensign R. Portal, from the 83rd Foot, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cameron, who retires.
16th Foot.—Ensign E. N. Dickenson to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Wall. who retires ; C. C. Grant, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dickenson.
18th Foot.—Capt. W. Evans, from 44th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Staveley, who exchanges.
_ _ _

24th Foot.—H. F. Barclay, Ger7t., to be Ensign, by
purchase.
31st Foot.—Lieut. J. B. Travers, from the 25th Foot,
to be Paymaster, vice Matthews, appointed Paymaster of
a Recruiting District.

32nd Foot.—Assistant Surgeon C. Scott, M.D., from
the 36th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Bampfield, deceased.
36th Foot.—W. M. Dowding, Gent., to be Assistant
Surgeon, vice Scott, promoted in the 32nd Foot.

LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of this society was held on Monday, Lord Cholmondeley
in the chair. The gross amount of the sums contributed
to the schools connected with the parent society and the
Diocesan Association, is £35,771, showing an increase of
the entire Income, above that of the previous year, of
£7,706. The total number of schools in connexion with
the parent society, or the Diocesan Associations, amount
to 1812. with 104,963 children on the rolls, of whom
13,668 are Protestant Dissenters, and 32,831 Roman Ca.
tholics, showing an increase, compared with the previous
year. cf 83 schools and 2,440 children on the rolls. In
11,39 there were 825 schools, 43,627 children, the number
of Protestant Dissenters not ascertained, Roman Catho-
lics 10,868.

37th Foot.—Lieut. Col. the Hon. G. A. Spencer, from
the 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Bradshaw,
who exchanges. _ _

41st Foot:—Lieut. R. Portal, from the 3d Foot, to be
Lieutenant, C. A. Morshead, who retires ou half-pay, of
the 3d Foot.

43d Foot.—Lieut. the Hon. C. H. Lindsay to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Wright, who retires upon full
Eay ; Ensign J. S. Kennedy, from the 45th Foot, to be
nsign, without purchase.
44th Foot.—Capt. C. W. D. Stavelcy, from the 18th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Evans, who exchanges.
45th Foot.—T. J. Grant, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Kennedy, appointed to the 43d Foot.
60th Foot.—Lieut. Col. J. Bradshaw, from the 37th
Fout, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Spencer, who ex-

changes

86th Foot.—G. S. Nunn, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Macneill, whose appointment has been
cancelled.

90th Foot.—H. M'Mahon Eagar, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Thruston, who retires.
2d West India Regiment.—J. T. Shower, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Robertson, whose appoint-
ment has been cancelled.

CONCEALMENT OF A NOBLE LORD IN A COAL-CEL-
LAR.—Lord Northland voted with the government on
the Maynooth question : his vote was obtained under
novel circumstances. It was the noble lord's intention
to have gone out of the house without voting at all. He
remained, however, in conversation with another member
until the doors were locked and retreat impossible. Lord
Arthur Lennox, (one of the Lords of the Treasury,) how-
ever, in pity for the noble viscount, hid him in a coal-cel-
lar. According to the rules of the house, all members
within the body of the house must vote, and on its being
intimated to the speaker that Lord Northland was se-
creting himself, the speaker ordered the sergeant to
fetch him from his lurking-place, which he did amidst
shouts of laughter; and then, in gratitude, no doubt,
to Lord Arthur Lennox, the noble lord voted with Mi-
nisters.

3d West India Regiment.—Ensign F. J. Hills, from
the Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Smith, whose promotion, by purchase, has
been cancelled.

Ceylon Rifle Regiment.—Lieut. J. M. Macdonald to
be Captain, by purchase, vice B. E. Layard, who retires;
Second Lieut. P. O'Gorman, to be First Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macdonald ; D. D. Greentree, Gent., to
be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice O'Gorman;
J. Meade, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Muller, deceased.

BREVET.—Captain G. E. Turner, of the Royal Artil-
lery, to be Major in the Army.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major J. Algeo, from the 77th
Foot, to be Major, without purchase; Lieut. J. Hay,
from the 15th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.

REBECCA AT A FUNERAL.—A curious scene took place
on the Taff Vale Hallway on Sunday afternoon, at the
Cardiff station. The corpse of a man, attended by his
widow, his father, four brothers, and numerous friends,
arrived by train from the neighbourhood of Merthyr. It
appears that the deceased was the owner of some little
property, that he had by a will left the whole to his widow,
and "cut his father and brothers off with a shilling." The
widow wished to have the body interred at Penarth, and
by her orders a hearse and coach attended to the station ;
but the father and brothers, conceiving that if they buried
the body of their deceased relative they would be entitled
to his property, expressed their determination to have the
interment made at Cadoxton-juxta-Barry, whereupon a
fierce dispute ensued, which required the interference of
a superintendent of police, who directed the undertaker
"to move on." Four men accordingly proceeded to le-
move the coffin from the railway carriage to the hearse,
but when half way to it the deceased's four brothers, who
are each upwards of six feet high, quietly put their
shoulders under the coffin, lifted it from those of its former
bearers, and walked away at the rate of four miles an hour
unobstructed by any person. We have been informed
that the interment took place at Cadoaton.—Swansea
Journal.

Has all her dead weight engaged, and is in-
tended to sail on the 16th instant.
For CALCUTTA,
Afre4- The fine river-built Ship
QUEEN OF ENGLAND,
ROBERT PEARSON, Commander;
A 1 ; 538 tons per register; and coppered; sails remark-
ably fast ; offers an excellent oprortunity fnr goods, and
has first-rate accommodatiotvfor passengers.—For terms
of freight or passage apply'f-o Messrs. TAYLOR, POTTER,
and Co., Merchants, or to
W. N. MOORE and BROTHER,
4, India Buildings.