The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Earl Howe has been appointed Deputy Grand Master
of the English Freemasons, order the Earl of Zetland.
The Queen Dowager is suffering from an attack of
erysipelas, but the latest accounts are favourable.
On Thursday morning the Duchess of Portland was
found by the Housekeeper dead in bed at Walbeck Abbey.
HORSHAM.—The election for this borough took place
on Wednesday last. R. H. Hurst, Esq., who has thrice
before represented it, was returned without opposition.—
He is a conservative.
On Saturday week, in Manchester, a poor woman was
seized with labour pains in the street. She was placed in
a wheelbarrow, where she was safely delivered of a female
child.

John Toplis, tobacconist, of London, was, on Thursday
last, fined £3OO for having adulterated tobacco with sand,
earthy matter, &c. He was also condemned to forfeit a
large quantity of tobacco.
Early on Wednesday morning a destructive act of in-
sendiarism was committed upon the extensive plantations
in the Forest, near Bagshot, the property of Prince Albert,
and upwards of 700 acres have been totally destroyed.
On Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock their Majesties
the King and Queen of the Belgians embarked from
Woolwich on board the Princess Alice steam-packet, and
sailed for Ostend.
THE BARK HARVEST.—Bark stripping has commenced
generally throughout this county, and two loads were
delivered in this city on Thursday. The price is not fixed,
but is generally thought to be £4 15s. per ton.—Hereford
Times.

Sir R. and Lady Sale will arrive in England this week
as passengers in the Great Liverpool, from Alexandria,
which is due at Southampton on the Bth instant. Lady
George Pollock, the wife of the hero of Affghanistan, ar-
rived in town on Friday from India.
THE CONVICT AT YORK.—An order has been issued
that George Lowther, who was convicted at the last
assizes of the murder of the Marquis of Normanby's game-
ker, per, and sentenced to be executed, shall be transported
for life.

PROSPECTS FOR GOVERNMENT APPLICANTS...-Sir
Robert Peel stated, in the course of Tuesday's proceed-
ings in the House of Commons, that there are no fewer
tha1122,000 applicants for government situations. Out of
this enormous multitude, how many have a chance of ob-
taining the object of their wishes?
THE EGG TRADE.—To give an idea of the extent of
this branch of trade, it may be stated that the Princess
Alice, from Dublin to Fleetwood, on Sunday, brought
thirty-eight tons, or about 700,000 eggs ! The whole were
despatched by railway to Manchester, Birmingham, and
London.

On Thursday last several portions of an infant, which
had evidently been cut in pieces by some sharp instru-
ment, were discovered flowing through the outlet of a
sewer near Hampton Court Place. A rigid investigation
h-is been set on foot. The pieces of the body had not been
in the water many hours.

Two Frenchmen quarreled, in Jersey, on Monday last.
One of them, frantic with rage. rushed ferociously on the
other, threw him down, scooped out both his eyes with
his thumbs, and afterwards danced upon him, The in-
jured man is recovering, but the papers do not say what
was done to his brutal assailant.

FREEMASONRY.—On Tuesday week, a grand lodge of
the province of Cornwall was held at Falmouth, when Sir
Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., was installed Provincial
Grand Master, in place of John St. Aubyn, deceased.
Mr. T. Crooke has been appointed grand organist to the
fraternity, vice Sir George Smart, who has resigned after
holding the honourable office for years.
THE FACTORY BILL.—At a meeting held in Accring-
ton, near Blackburn, last week, to petition in favour of
the ten hours' clause, Messrs. Robert and Jonathan Har-
greaves, two of the largest cotton manufacturers in the
kingdom, (employing nearly 2,000 hands,) were present,
and spoke strongly in favour of restricting the hours of
labour.

GETTING UP THE STEAM.—A special train, conveying
Mr. Brunel, and other gentlemen, which arrived at Exeter
at one o'clock, on Wednesday last, left the Great Western
terminus at Paddington. at a quarter before seven. On
its return it left Exeter at a quarter after five, and arrived
at Paddington at ten minutes before ten, thus performing
the journey, 1931 miles, in little more than four hours
and a half.

CARRYING COALS TO NEWCASTLE.—Saturday morn-
ing, the Frith of Forth presented a very animated scene—
upwards of thirty light colliers were seen beating up to
the various coal ports on the coast, to load coal for the
London market, in consequence of the " strike " among
the English pitmen; and, what is not a little curious, a
large vessel is at present loading Scottish coal for New-
castle !—Glasgow Mercury.
OPENING OF TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—Yesterday morn-
ing the area of Trafalgar-square was thrown open. The
jels d'eau are not yet in play, although the basins have
been charged with water for several days. In a few days
the equestrian s-atute of George 111. will be removed from
its present site, facing Messrs. Ransom's, to the vacant
pedestal at the west end of the terrace in Trafalgar-
square, and opposite the statue of George IV.
ANTI-STATE-CHURCH CONFERENCE.—The Confer-
ence of delegates from various Di,senting bodies held
their proposed meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
on Tuesday and Wednesday. 550 delegates formed the
assembly. The proceedings were of no great interest,
except to themselves. Toe conference separated after
agreeing to petition Parliament to dissolve the connexion
between Church and State, and resolving to hold a ainailar
meeting every three years.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—The
Times, of Saturday last, announced the probability of Sir
Henry Hardinge being nominated to the office of Go-
vernor-General of India. The Times says, " This ap-
pointment will take place with the cordial approbation of
the Crown and the Court of Directors, and in consequence
of friendly concert between the authorities immediately
responsible for the selection of a Governor-General."

TWO YOUNG LADIES DROWNED.-011 Thursday even-
ing last, as the two youthful daughters of Mr. Nl' Hardy,
Chief Constable Of Police, near Chelmsford, were walking
in the fields in that vicinity, with their governess, the
elder, a girl about eleven years of age, slipped into the
Chelmer, where the current was running deep and rapidly.
The governess, Miss Grace, a young lady of great beauty
and high accompli-hments, plunged in to her rescue, and
both were drowned.

BRISTOL SUGAR MAEKRT, MAY 3.—Our sugar mar-
ket has been active this week. In We,t India, the sales
amount to 500 hhds. and tierces, at from 60s. to 665. for
low brown Dimerara to good bright Jamaica, and the
transactions of East India and Mauritius consist of 1000
bags of the former, at 61s. to 665. for low damp yellow to
middling white and 1300 mats of the latter, at from 61 to
645. for ordinary to good yellow. No transactions in rum
or Molasses. Gazetted average price of Sugar, April 30,
is 365. 94d. per cwt.
MURDERS.—Susan Jarvis, a nurse girl, under 13 years
of age, in the employ of Mr. Golsby, Canal Tavern, Co-
ventry. has been committed to Warwick gaol, charged
with the murder of her master's infant child, by stabbing
it with a carving knife.—On Wednesday last a coroner's
jury, in the parish of Davidstow, returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Matthew Weeks, he appearing,
from the evidence brought forward, to have been the
murderer of Charlotte Daymond, a girl, aged 19 years,
who was found, a few days before, lying in a field with
her throat cut.

A letter from Bristol states, that under the extensive
bankruptcy of Harford and Davies. which took place in
June last, owing chiefly to the fortunate and hold deter-
mination of the assignees to carry on the concern, a very
fortunate realization is about to take place, and the cala-
mity at the same time has been averted of throwing, nearly
5,000 persons out of employment. On the 30th of March
a dividend of 13s. 4d. in the pound was declared, and
there remains in the hands of the accountant in bank-
ruptcy available for a further dividend, the sum of
£131,250.

The Duclaess of Kent, accompanied by the Royal. Family
of France, visited the galleries of the Louvre, on Satur-
day last. On the same day, at twelve o'clock, her Royal
Highness received the ladies and gentlemen of the House-
hold of their Majesties, and of the other branches of the
Royal Family. After the reception, her Royal Highness,
attended by her suite, accompanied their Majesties and
the Royal Family to St. Cloud. After inspecting the
palace, gardens, and park, the royal party visited the por-
celain manufactory, at Sevres, and returned to dinner at
the Tuileries. On Sunday morning, her Royal Highness
attended Divine Service at the Episcopal Chapel, in the
Rue d'Aguesseau.
IRISH APPOINTMENTS.—In the House of Commons on
Tuesday night, Mr. French was complaining that Irish-
men were neglected by the government in the bestowal of
their patronage, when Sir R. Peel said he really was sorry
to hear these constant bickerings about petty Irish ap-
pointments. He should like to know who represented the
Court of St. James's in Washington? An Irishman.
Who represented the Court of St. James's in St. Peters-
burgh ? An Irishman. Who represented the Court of
St. James's in Constantinople? An Irishman. Who re-
presented the Court of St. James's in Paris? An Irish-
man. He hoped that the hon. gentleman would not fur-
ther quote these appointments of clerks to petty offices,
and say that Irishmen were always excluded, when he
might look at the great offices of state, and be proud that
his countrymen filled them. (Hear, hear.) He could
assure the hon. gentleman that he would not gain a single
appointment by his agitation, but that all appointments
would be bestowed as heretofore with the strictestim-
partiality. (Cheers.)
SALE OF MADAME VESTRIS'S THEATRICAL WARD-
ROBE.—Last week, a sale by auction was commenced and
completed of a part of the theatrical wardrobe of Madame
Vestris and Mr. Matthews. The lots consisted of a large
assortment of very elegant dresses, shawls, &c., which
were wo n by that eminent actress in some of her
.most
celebrated characters. There was a very short notice of
the sale, the effect of which was, there were but few of
the theatrical corps present. There were sixty-five lots,
amongst which were thirty-six dresses and fifteen shawls,
besides scarfs, riding habits, gowns, &c., an embroidered
Cashmere cloak, a black velvet ditto, an Indian satin
ditto. Twelve muslin and cotton dresses sold for £2 ;
a black satin dress and ditto embroidered shawl for £2 24.;
an embroidered Cashmere cloak and two slips for 19s. ;
a very elegant velvet dress, richly trimmed, for £2; a
piece of net muslin and lace, and a blond skirt, which
was stated to be worth about £lO, for £1 ss. ; and various.
others at an average loss. A superfine court dress coat
and a pair of breeches fetched only 18s. ; the auctioneer
said the coat was worth £5, the first bidding for it was 7s.
The property produced about £76, which, it was stated,
was not a fifth part of the value. The principal buyers
were of the Hebrew persuasion.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Wednesday last was
the birthday of the Duke of Wellington, who completed
his 75th year. His grace dined in the evening with Count
and Countess St. Aulaire, at Manchester House, where a
grand banquet was given by his excellency in honour of
the fete day of his Majesty the King of the French. In
the morning of the same day, his grace, accompanied by
the Marchioness of Douro, honoured M. Claudet with a
sitting for a portrait, at the daguerreotype establishment
in the Adelaide Gallery. The noble duke sat twice, and
the result was extremely satisfactory.—Standard.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The anniversary
meeting of the members of this influential body was held
on Monday, at Exeter Hall. The Right Hon. Sir G.
Rose, G.C.8., filled the chair. The society has at pre-
sent 274 stations in various parts of the world, 387 mis-
sionaries, 1,610 other paid agents, 4,884 unpaid agents,
101,137 full and accredited church members, 5,066 persons
on trial for membership, 64,307 scholars, and seven print-
ing presses. The gross receipts during the year 1843, in-
cluding a previous balance of £523. 13s. 6d., amounted
to £110.620. Os. 3d. ; and the expenditure to £112,908.
ss. 2d. ; being an increase over income of £2,288.45. 11d.;
the old debt of £30,800 being, however, now completely
paid off.

DREADFUL MURDER.—Yesterday morning week, the
most intense anxiety prevailed in the neighbourhood of
Bridge-road, Ba tersea, in consequence of the discovery
of a most diabolical murder, which bad been committed
at a late hour on the previous night upon a Mrs. M`Far-
lane, resident in that road. It appears that the deceased
was acquainted with a Frenchman named Dalmas, and
that they had been walking out together during the even-
ing. The wretched woman's throat was cut from ear to
ear, but, when discovered, she was still alive, and said,
" Dalmas has done it." Dalmas gave himself up to jus-
tice at the Marylebone police-office, and, after an exami-
nation on Saturday, be was remanded until further evi-
dence could be procured.

AWFULLY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-00 Wednesday last
a destructive fire took place at Stretham, near Ely. The
destruction of property is enormous. Twenty-five houses,
&c., have been razed to the ground, including the dwell-
ings of wealthy agriculturists and labourers. The fire
originated in a small hovel adjoining the blacksmith's
shop of Mr. John Westby. It is supposed that some
sparks of hot iron were the immediate cause of the catas-
trophe. The flames from the hovel soon communicated
with Mr. Westby's house on one side, and Mr. Wright's
stack-yard on the other. No sooner were Mr. Wright's
extensive and well-stored premises seized upon by the
devouring element, than the utmost alarm for the safety
of the village was entertained. Nor was this alarm un-
founded, for the flames spread with such frightful rapidity,
on both sides of the street, that in a little more than an
hour from the time of their breaking out, twenty-five
occupations, extending over about 15 acres of ground,
were in a blaze. The damage has been estimated at be-
tween £15,000 and £20,000, a great portion of the pro-
perty being, we fear, uninsured. A fire of somewhat si-
milar character occurred in Stretham 73 years ago, going
over very nearly the same ground.

THE GREAT CHESS MATCH.—The terms for a new
match between Mr. Staunton and M. St. Arrant having
been objected to by the latter gentleman, and with good
grounds, as unreasonable, the English champion has, in a
very manly and spirited manner, removed all such obsta-
cles by challenging his antagonist to play almost on his
own terms. He says, " I will engage upon your arrival
in London to play you at the St. George's Chess Club a
match of twenty-five, of twenty-one, of eleven, of seven,
or of five games, at your option, for any stake not less
than £lOO sterling. These games shall be played at your
own appointed days and hours. I will undertake to play
every day, or alternate days, or once a week, as you may
arrange, under the penalty of one guinea for each omis-
sion. I will agree that the maximum time allotted for
each move shall be ten, or fifteen or twenty, or twenty-
five, or thirty minutes, at your pleasure ; and that either
party exceeding the given time shall on every occasion be
fined a guinea. The match shall also be played in public
or private as you may determine ; and, finally, I will con-
sent that in each game both players shall on their first
move play king's pawn two squares."
Met. DYCE SOMBRE.—It is well known to most of our
readers that Mr. Dyce Sombre has been residing for some
time past at Paris, where he has been giving a series of
entertainments to the elite of that city. He has also been
received by Louis Philippe at the Tuileries. Being
strongly impressed with a conviction of the injustice of the
decision by which he was declared to be incapable of ma-
naging his affairs, he consulted some of the first medical
authorities in Paris. An army of French physicians after
lengthened examinations, long reports of which have
appeared in the public journals, have decided—" That
from the appreciation of all the conversations that they
have held with Mr. Dyce Sombre, of all his acts which
have come to their knowledge, they are all perfectly con-
vinced that at the present time Mr. Dyce Sombre is in
full possession of his intellectual and affective faculties,
that the movements of jealousy, the tenacity of which are
revealed in several expressions of Mr. Doyce Sombre, do
not appear to exceed the ordinary feelings of an European
and with much more reason than those of an Asiatic.—
That from all the information furnished by several persons,
who have known Mr. Dyce Sombre ever since his arrival
in France. the full possession of his intellectual and affec-
tive faculties has not failed him since that period. " A
petition has been presmted to the Court of Chancery, to
set aside the finding of the commission, which was argued
on Friday, when the Lord Chancellor said Mr. Sombre
ought to be brought within his jurisdiction, in order that
he might ascertain by personal enquiry whether he (Mr.
S.) was a party to the proceedings and understood their
nature.

DARING ROBBERY IN CHESTER.—On Sunday after-
noon last, some scoundrels broke into a house adjoining
the city walls, near the race course, in the occupation of
the Misses Foulkes. It appeared that an entrance was
effected by getting over the wall which bounds the house
on one side, and then forcing open the drawing-room
window, during the absence of the Misses Foulkes and
the female domesties at Church. Every room in the
house was ransacked ; the principal booty obtained by the
robbers consisted of a large quantity of jewellery.
Among the articles stolen were a gold maltese fine chain
about two yards, and a tortise shell and gold eye-glass
appended; a new gold chain • a pair of bracelets ; one
agate, cut in circles, and other different gems; a silver
philigre shell brooch ; a gold pin with hair, set round with
small garnets; rings; a chrysolite with single stones,
of yellow tinge ; a ring of Irish gold, with Irish motto,
and the shamrock in Irish emerald ; a gold ring, with
hair, old fashioned, and set with small garnets ; diamond
pin; two pins of onyx stones, with gold chain uniting the
pins; a cornelian brooch ; a brooch, green stones and
socket, &c., appended ; and old-fashioned ring, set with
small garnets ; a ring with -small diamond in the centre,
on each side o it topaz and pearl ; a ring set round with
pearl, and other small brooches ; tortoise shell and gold
eye glass. The thieves left behind them several skeleton
keys and a picklock. The police are pursuing a vigorous
search after them, and we hope they will speedily be
brought to justice.—Chester Courant.

ART-UNIONS.—On Saturday week a general meeting
of artists took place in London on the subject of the in-
terference of government with the Art-Unions. Mr.
Wyse, M.P., who was in the chair, spoke at great length,
on the advantages of these institutions, and appeared to
entertain a confident opinion that the legislature will be
disposed to interfere in their favour. It was decided by
the meeting to present a memorial to the First Lord of
the Treasury, praying for a committee of inquiry, and pe-
titions to the two houses of parliament to the same effect.
If the Art-Unions are really to be suppressed, we have
little doubt that the friends of art, who hare fully proved
how much may be accomplished by the principle of asso-
ciation, will devise some other means by which the same
advantage may be secured. The editor of the Art-Union
(in the number for May) urges upon all who are favorable
to these societies, that an effort to place them upon a firm
basis should be at once made. He says : " The stoppage
of Art-Unions will be to British Art ' a heavy blow and
great discouragement.' But let us not anticipate so terri-
ble an evil. We shall wait at least for the next step. It
must be taken ere long. The personal feeling of the pre-
mier will be tantamount to a decision of the matter. No
man, statesman or private gcnteman, is more universally
esteemed fc r his love of the arts and his desire to foster
all things that tend to elevate the character, refine the
mind, and promote rational enjoyment. If be opposes a
well•digested scheme—should such a one be submitted to
him—for placing Art-Unions on a firm principle and a
safe foundation, we shall at once conclude that he is pre-
paring some plan by which the British Government will
sustain and encourage British Art—remodelling old insti-
tutions, so as to render them more in accordance with the
spirit of the age, and making it—as it is made in other
states—the business of the nation to foster and advance
that which will ever be the chiefest of national distinc-
tions."

FACTORY BILL.—At a meeting of the friends of the
ten-hours clause in Rochdale last week, Mr. Leach, one
of the speakers, blamed the millowners for sanctioning
some of the most palpably false statements, which appeared
in the Manchester Guardian of that week, for the purpose
of deceiving the House of Commons relative to the pro-
portion of women employed in factories. In the article
to which be referred it was stated that, taking 412 mills,
in which there were employed 116,281 persons, 28,459
were men and 26,710 women, the object being to show
that the advocates of the Ten Hours Bill were wrong
when they stated that the majority of workers in the mills
were women. But the injustice and trickery of these ta-
bles would appear when it was considered, in the first
place, that not one-half of the working population was
accounted for. In the mills enumerated 116,281 persons
were said to be employed, and of these account was taken
of only 55,169, leaving 61,112 entirely out of the question.
(Cheers.) In fact, they only gave the men and women
above 21 years of age, while all below 21 (the more cri-
tical age for women, and the great preponderance of those
e protected
importanttd wh eo under that
in the mills being under 21) were left unaccounted for.
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factories Surely h
i should
wasouldatb least at
es oe
when above that age. (Cheers.) There was another
misstatement in that paper, which must be exposed as
one of the most deliberate and wicked attempts to delude
the country he had ever known. The statement was this
—that since 1833 there had been no reduction of wages
beyond 2d. per head per week. (Cries of " What a lie !")
Yes, a lie indeed it was, and a most atrocious one too.
In the cotton districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire wages
had since that period been reduced at least 2s. 6d. per
head per week. (Cheers.) He knew a mill at Holland-
wood which had lately been running from half-past 5 a.m.
till 11 at night, six days in the week ; and he knew a fa-
mily—father, mother, and children—who were now work-
ing in that mill 17 and 18 hours a day. (" Shame !")
Sorely such a state of things required some regulation.
(Cheers.) The masters would be consulting their best
interests, and the interests of society at large, by pro-
tecting the labouring classes, and advocating the rights
of native industry. He hoped they would yet come tor-
ward, and assist their men in getting the Ten flours Bill.

May 7, 1R44.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER RACES.

TUESDAY.
A PRODUCE SWEEPSTAKES Of 50 sovs each, h ft, colts

Bst 41b, fillies Bst; two miles; 10 subs.
Mr. Mostyn's br c Brunel by Velocipede.... (Holmes) 1
Sir R. Bulkeley's bl f Coal-black Rose..(G.Whitehouse) 2

A MATCH 49 goys each, p:p. ; mile and half.
Mr. Smith's h g Tnbaicain, aged, Bst
Mr. Collect's br h Rory O'More, aged 9it.(W(hCi°tePela
hotindsell
Even betting, and 5 to 4 on Rory O'More.

A. SWEEPSTAKES of 25 sovs each, for two years old cola
Bst 51b, fillies Bst 21b ; half a mile i • 12 subs.
't
Mr. Mr. Worthington's ch f Lancashire Witch .... (Oates)
Mr. Smith's gr f Alice Gray

Six others started.
A SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sous each, with 50 sous added br
the Proprietors of the Grand 'tend, for horses that
never won before the day of entry for the Plates.
Heats, one mile and a half; three years old 6st 101 b,
four Bst 21b, five Bst 81b, six and aged Bst 121 b; mares
and geldings allowed 31b.; 5 subs.
Mr. Dawso 's b g Daft Waity,4 yr 5...... (Lye) 4 1 1
Mr. Speed's ch gWalton, 3yrs • .(Abdale) 1 2 2
Mr. Wilson's be by Hampton. 3yrs.. (Darling) 2 dis•
Sir R. Pigot's ch f by Dr. Faustus, 3 years
(Arthur) .3 d