The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Thursday, the Liverpool Gas-light Company were
fined 20s. and costs, for taking up the pavement in King-
street, and not replacing it, as required by the local act.
COMMITTAL OF A MARINE STORE DEALER.—On
Wednesday, John M`Donald, a plumber, employed under
the Dock Trust, was committed for trial on a charge of
stealing a quantity of lead from the docks. The prisoner
sold the lead to Elizabeth Bellis, a marine store-keeper,
in Greenland-street, and it appearing to the magistrate
that she had received the same with a guilty knowledge,
she also was sent for trial.
BEGGING LETTER IMPOSTERS.—The Rev. Mr. Ew-
bank appeared at the Police-court, on Tuesday, to prefer
a charge of imposition against a young man named John
Williams. The rev. gentleman said that he was sorry to
lay the charge, but he felt it his duty to do so, as, not
long since, more than £4O had been raised in contribu-
tions through the use of his name. The prisoner had
come to his house, saying that he was engaged at Mr.
Simpson's office as clerk, and was in want of some
clothes. He told Mr. Ewbank that he had been to a
friend of his who had given him a waistcoat, and re-
quested that a coat might be given to him. He told him
that he could not give him a coat, but if he would bring
him a note from the gentleman he named he would give
him five shillings. The prisoner went away, and came
back stating that the gentleman had gone out of town,
when he told him that if he got a note from Mr. Simp-
son he would give him five shillings. The prisoner came
again to his house on Monday evening with a note, pro-
fessing to be written by Mr. Simpson, but the suspicions
of Mr. Ewbank being roused, from some inquiries he had
made, he gave the man into custody. The note was pro-
duced in court, and Mr. Simpson stated that it had not
been written by him. The prisoner made no defence.
Mr. Ewbank said he did not wish to press the case, but
Mr. Rushton observed that nothing was so essential to a
proper distribution of benevolence. The hand-writing
of the note was well known in court, and there were peo-
ple in Liverpool entirely living by these means. The
prisoner was sent to the House of Correction with hard
labour for three months.

BIGAMY.—On Friday, a young man of superior appear-
ance, who gave his name W. F. Crawley, and who, It
seems, is the master of a vessel, was placed in the dock at
the Police-court, on the rather unusual charge of bigamy.
A remarkably pretty girl, whose mild and lady-like de-
meanour proved her to be a person of the higher class of
society, stepped into the witness box, and, having stated
that her name was Eliza Crawley, went on to charge the
prisoner with having intermarried with a woman in the
present year, in this town, she being his wife at the time.
Her marriage took place in the year 1845, at Bristol, from
which place she could produce witnesses who were present
when the ceremony was performed. In answer to a ques-
tion from the Bench, she stated that at present she was
lodging at No. 2, Queen-street, Birkenhead. It was al-
leged that the prisoner was married last at St. Nicholas's
Church, in this town, in July ; this was shown
from the register-book, but Mr. Lovett, the regis-
trar, and who is also the clerk of St. Nicholas's Church,
failed to identify Crawley ; which, indeed, is not remark-
able when it is considered that there were 300 marriages
registered by him last year. After some delay a female
named Everson was produced, who stated that she was
present when the marriage was solemnized between
the prisoner and the female referred to at St. Nicholas's
Church, in the July of the present year. The pri-
soner being asked if he had any defence lo offer, stated
that he did not deny the marriage at St. Nicholas's
Church, but did that which was said to have taken place
at Bristol. The truth was, that when he was at Bristol,
in July, 1845. he became acquainted with the person
representing herself to be his wife; she was then living
with a gentleman by whom she had a child ; he left Bris-
tol, and was absent until October in the same year. The
complainant repeated her assertion that witnesses could
be produced who saw the ceremony performed. It was
also stated that there was a third wife at Mullingar, in
Ireland ; but the date of this marriage was not ascertain-
ed. After another lapse the subject of the marriage in
Liverpool was produced. She appeared to be a respecta-
ble person. On entering the witness-box her feelings
overpowered her, and she was for some time unable to
reply to the questions which were put to her. Mr. Lovett
immediately recognised her. Her maiden name was
Isabella Hall, and her place of residence is No. 7, Law-
son-street, Abercromby-square. The poor woman asked
permission to see the man who had so grossly cheated
her, but Mr. Rushton advised her to forego her desire as
it woul result in no good. The prisoner is remanded.

MORE BULLIONIST ADMISSIONS.

(From the 31anchester Courier.)

" Commerce," says the Times of Wednesday last, " has
been thrown quite out of gear, and we are in an abnor-
mal state. We have a balance to pay, and must pay in
gold. England, however, happily for herself, does not
produce gold, and only keeps enough for the purposes of
commerce, including the very purpose in question—the
settlement of international balances. We shall not go
on regularly paying for corn in gold—though, indeed, it
would be no such foolish bargain to give what we cannot
eat for that which we can. When we have paid our
neighbours in money, and their immediate want is re-
lieved, they will soon wish to spend that worthless com-
modity. They will come back to our manufacturers."
True, it is not " a foolish bargain to give what we can-
not eat for what we can." But if, by the absurd and
suicidal regulations which our contemporary strangely
prostitutes his talents to support, what we cannot eat is
made as essential to the body politic as corn is to the hu-
man person, keep it we must, at whatever risk, at what-
ever sacrifice. During the war we let our gold go or stay
as it listed—the currency was maintained in numerical
sufficiency, and even our vast expenditure caused general
prosperity. Because (the purchasing power of currency
being the same) the more money is spent, i. e. passed
from consumer to producer, the greater the production,
the more flourishing trade, better wages, increased pro-
fits. Our free traders interfere to prevent the payment of
corn with gold. They keep the gold for the purely acci-
dental and unnecessary purpose of a medium of internal
exchange—attempting, as we have shewn, to disguise the
absurdity of this procedure by terming gold coin " capi-
tal,"—capital, we all know, (but in another sense of the
, word,) being necessary to production. But the absurdity
remains. The mischiefs are before us. We keep what
we cannot eat, and deprive our wretched artizans of that
which they want; or, if any considerable portion of gold
be sent abroad, the necessary result is a currency panic
and industrial disorganisation.
We ask no more than that the admissions made by the
bullionists themselves should be consistently reasoned
upon and carried into practice. The obvious cause that
foreign countries have not sufficient gold to send for our
manufactures is, because we previously impounded by
force all the gold which the currency doctors of '44
deemed necessary to be kept in this country. If, as the
Times says, we had " paid our neighbours in money"
(gold coin)—if by the plan so ably developed in the Eco-
nomist, or the one suggested by Mr. Alison, of a carefully-
restricted paper currency convertible into gold at the
market price, we had maintained the numerical amount
of currency which the test of a moderate fixed rate of
interest—say three or four per cent.—shewed to be
wanted for the trade of the country, our neighbours
would have wished to spend that worthless commodity,
and would have sent it back to us in exchange for manu-
factures. Our manufacturers of silk and cotton, and iron,
would have produced what the others would have wanted
to purchase. Our operatives would have been fully em-
ployed. The country would have prospered.

Eltsirtrt

A Board of Health has been established at Chester,

A dividend of 20s. per share is likely to be paid by the
unfortunate Bank of Manchester, and 6s. Bd. per share
can be paid at any time.
The Rev. Dr. Carpenter preached at St. Paul's Church,
Preston, on Wednesday, in aid of the schools attached to
the church.

The Art Journal states that Mr. T. S. Cooper, A.R.A.,
has sold his large picture of the " Battle of Waterloo,"
which was exhibited at Westminster-hall, to a gentleman
in Lancashire, for 1,000 guineas.
On Tuesday, William Townsend and Joseph Daniels,
two labouring men, were killed by a fall of heavy logs, in
a timber yard at Manchester.
The Roman Catholic chapel, erected in Mulberry-street,
Manchester, was opened on Thursday with the usual ce-
remonial service, a pontifical high mass, two bishops and a
considerable number of Roman Catholic clergy officiating.
A skiff match between James Candlish, of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and Robert Dawes, of Manchester, came off
on the river Irwell, on Monday last. The match, which
was for £3O a side, was won easily by Candlish.
A movement has been commenced at Rochdale against
the very great cost of the county constabulary in that di-
vision. The board of guardians have adopted a petition
to the magistrates on the subject.
On Tuesday, an explosion of fire damp took place in a
pit at Ashton-in-Mackerfield, belonging to Mr. Stock, by
which the lives of five men were unfortunately lost. Their

limbs were broken in a frightful manner, and their deaths
must have been instantaneous.
CURIOUS NOTIONS ABOUT PROPERTY.—A short time
since, eighteen houses, situated in Little Ireland, Man-
chester, were advertised for sale. Upon learning this, the
tenants seem to have come to the unanimous determine-

tion to have compensation they took in kind, viz., the
doors, grates, windows, shutters, staircases, &c., of the
doomed houses, which in consequence have been left in a
most ruinous condition, little but bricks and mortar re-
maining. One man distinguished by the amount he had
abstracted, has been committed for trial.
MOST GRATIFYING TESTIMONIALS.—The Rev. R. T.
Wheeler, incumbent of St. John's church, Blackburn,
has been presented by the candidates for confirmation
with a handsome silk gown and cassock. A. few of the fe-
male candidates also presented him with a set of bands
which they had worked for him.—On Friday, the Rev. A.
G. Edouart, incumbent of St. Paul's church, Blackburn,
was presented with a very handsome silver cup, by the
young people whom he had prepared for confirmation.—
On the same day the Rev. I'. Sharples, of St. Peter's
church, in the same town, was presented with a handsome
silver pocket communion service, under similar circum-
stances.

WONDERFUL ESCAFE ON A RAILWAY.—On Monday
last, Mrs. Edward Statham, who resides at the lodge of
Messrs. Marshall's factory in this town, was coming up
from Liverpool, by the ix:lf-past twelve o'clock train with
her daughter, a little girl about five years old, sitting upon
her knee. Soon after passing the St. Helens, station,
.the child stood up on her mother's lap, and was about to

look out of the window, but the door being unfastened,
suddenly opened, and the child fell out while the train
was going forward at full speed. The distressed mother
would have jumped out after the child, but was held down
by her fellow-passengers. The screams of Mrs. Statham
and the other persons in the carriage alarmed the guard,
who gave the signal to the driver, and the train was
stopped about a mile from the place where the child
was supposed to have fallen out. A search was immedi-
ately made, a general impression prevailing that the
little girl must have been dashed to pieces, but to the
surprise of all, the child was found to have fallen in the
soft mud in the ditch, and to be uninjured. The train
however was put back and the child was soon after de-
posited safe and sound in her mother's arms. The little
girl is remarkably intelligent, and detailed to us the cir-
cumstances of the case with great accuracy.—Stocdport

Mercury.
AWFUL DESTITUTION:IN OAKENSHAW.—We received
a few days ago a communication detailing the deplorable
condition of the operative population in and around
Oakenshaw, in consequence of the stoppage of the print
works of Messrs. Fort, Brothers, and Co. The recital is
truly affecting, our correspondent stating that there are
some families who have repeatedly been without food for
two days together. The following revolting instance
occurred on the 4th inst :—A calf belonging to Mr. John
Walmsley, farmer, was found dead, and a butcher was
engaged to remove the skin in order that the carcass
might be buried. Before he could do this, however,
abont forty men and women gathered round him, seized
the dead animal, and tore it in pieces, which, though
actually putrid, they hurriedly cooked and devoured.
The effluvium (says our informant) was absolutely sti-
fling. From inquiries since made we have ascertained
that the hands out of employment at Oakenshaw are little
short of one thousand in number. These have been re-
cently paid off in large batches at different times, and the
works will be entirely closed, it is expected, in a week or
ten days. Many of the hands out of employment have
had no regular work for three years, and a few others
have had work on the East Lancashire Railway, but that
being finished, they also are destitute. The distress is
extreme, and will now be aggravated by the almost com-
plete exhaustion of the sufferers' credit with the shop-
keepers, there being now no reasonable hope of the deb-
tors ever being able to pay. Notwithstanding their severe
privations, however, it is extremely creditable to the suf.
ferers that their conduct has been of file most peaceful
character.--Presion Guardian,

Oct. 24, MS.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CHOLERA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—When the town in the fable was threatened with
a siege, the individuals convened to consult as to the best
materials with which to construct the fortifications had
each his own particular interest in view in the various
plans recommended for adoption ; but now that this king-
dom is threatened with the invasion of a far more de-
structive foe than any human enemy, and I am disposed
in consequence to propose something in the way of forti-
fication against this adversary, which is the cholera, no
one will be able to accuse me of being an interested ad-
viser on the occasion, though I may be an object of ridi-
cule, for which I am perfectly prepared.
From what I have read, heard, observed, and experi-
enced, personally, I feel convinced that salted brandy will
be found one of the most efficacious remedies in the
dreadful disease in question ; and I would urge every one
to be provided with it, and recommend its being taken in
large doses at intervals of two hours, until the stomach
and bowels become quiescent and the pain subdued.
I have read that very large doses of opium proved a
certain cure of cholera, but the writer did not announce
in what physical condition the patients so treated were
left.

As in attacks of the cholera everything taken into the
stomach is almost. immediately rejected, I would advise,
in the event of the first dose being rejected, a repetition
of the dose, which will, probably, be allowed to remain
undisturbed.

I may, perhaps, avail myself, through your kind per-
mission, of a future opportunity in order to state my rea-
sons for recommending salted brandy as one of the most
efficacious remedies for the cholera, but my present limits
will admit of my doing no more than to subscribe myself,
your faithful servant, SAMUEL FENTON.
Wavertree, Liverpool, 19th Oct:, 1848.

DR. M`NEILE AND THE MAIL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MAIL.
SlR,—Your comments on my letter in your paper of
last Saturday have forced me into unwilling, but inevita-
ble. collision with you. As you have chosen to persist in
that, which, whether intentional or not on your part, i 8
in fact a misstatement, I must once more, in the simplest
and plainest language, assert that the case is not as you
represent it. _ _

You have told your readers that my opinions upon
vital subject have been modified, and that, in conse-
quence, my line of conduct will be modified. The truth
is, that my opinions have undergone no modification
whatever ; and it is not my intention That my conduct
should exhibit any change.

The conversation out' of which this fiction has arisen
might have taken place five, or ten, or twenty years ago.
as well as in the present year. I have always felt that to
give the scheme of Romish endowment even a plausible
appearance, it must be connected with provisoes of the
kind referred to. I have always felt also, that even with
those precautions, the plan would be delusive and useless.
No new opinion has been embraced on my part, nanely
doctrine broached.
As to my line of duty, I have already stated, in ni,e
most explicit terms, that I should regard the scheme 111
question as fraught with the greatest possible peril to the
nation—the peril of bringing down upon it the wrath of
justly-offended God. With this conviction, how will it
be possible for any one possessing any sincere regard for
his country's welfare, to remain inert or careless ?
As to the endowment of the Romish priests bees
"inevitable," I never thought so. I never said so. Re'
garding the plan as a suicidal one, how could I assume,
either of an individual or a community, that it was inevi-
table that he, or it, should be guilty of an act of sell"
destruction ?
Be content, then, sir, to urge your opinions by soell
arguments as you think available ; but do not ascribe to
me thoughts or purposes of which I am wholly innocent,
and the very reverse of which I openly profess.
I am. sir, your obedient servant,
HUGH AI'IsTEILE.
Aigburth, 17th October, 1848.

MEETING OF THE JEWISH SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL COURIER.

DEAR SIR,—In looking over the report of the meetini
held last night, in the Collegiate Institution, for the Jews
Society, as given in the Liverpool Standard of this
morning, I perceive that that portion of it which 1135
reference to myself is so untruly reported, (I trust unie'
tentionally so,) that I feel it to be my duty to lay before
the public, if you will kindly permit me, the plain facts
of the case as they really occurred.
The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst
the Jews has professedly for its simple object the diffusion
of the knowledge of Christ's Gospel amongst that people,
without any regard to the differing views which its sop'
porters may individually entertain of Jewish prophecy.
Such being the constitution of the society, I became
member of it, and a subscriber to its funds, some years
ago, and have warmly supported it, by preaching rP,r
.
otherwise, ever since. But I have perceived, with roue'
pain, that, notwithstanding the society's avowed compre-
hensiveness, its anniversary meetings in Liverpool Wei;
for some time, been so arranged that the speaking has a"
been one-sided, in respect of theological opinions. For
instance, last year, the chairman and all the speakers
were, without a single exception, Millenarian in their
views of unfulfilled prophecy.
Entertaining, as I conscientiously do, a most strong
objection to such views, as opposed to Scriptural Christi"
and..finding _invariably _that they. were
advocated on the society's platform, I felt that it would
not be consistent with my duty to continue my attend-
ance at the meetings without some attempt at remon-
strance. Accordingly, I have spoken on the subject re-
peatedly to the, secretaries, and only a very short time
since stated in writing to one of them, Mr. Boutfiower,
my earnest wish, that both sides of the Jewish question
should be fairly set before the meeting, if, indeed,
should be thought desirable to introduce the subject at
all, which I much doubted. Not the slightest dispositiq
to attend to my wish was ever manifested. And yet
think it was an honest and lawful one, and one which
every lover of fair play would most readily acknowledge
to be just.
What, then, was Itodo ?. I might have left the sod'
ety, as many eminent Christian men have already done'
in disgust. But this, deeply anxious as lam for the COll.
version of Jews, I could not conscientiously do. I deter'
mined, therefore, God helping me, that I would, at the
next meeting, either in the form of an amendment ue°,°,l
some resolution, or otherwise, if the opportunity
be allowed me, as I hoped it would, express, in a plor
and temperate manner, my feeling upon what I coot
dered the unfairness of the arrangement of the pub`;
meetings. With this view, I attended the meeting in 0;
Collegiate Institution last night. Dr. M'Neile was „
the chair, and the two secretaries were both present'
Before the moving of the first resolution, as I wished to
act with courtesy, I communicated to one of the secrete'
ries my intention to move an amendment to the resole'
tion, as a subscriber to the society. But I also informed
him, that, as I had no wish to speak against the society;
or against any of the prophetic views entertained by 0°)
members of the society, except so far as might be 8105
lutely necessary to explain my own sentiments, I sholl
much prefer to be allowed to have an opportunity of see,
an explanation in the common course of supporting a
of the resolutions. The secretary told me that he Wo° t
consult the chairman. The chairman's reply was, tilt
if I attempted to rise he would put me down. Nothieb'
therefore, remained for me, after this abrupt and 115
courteous response, but to wait till the resolution ILA
been moved and seconded, and then to use my undoubt
privilege as a member of the society, and propose 0'
amendment.
It may be right here just to state, in precise ter°l
what my amendment was ; for, as Dr. M'Neile, by
irregular conduct in the chair, threw the whole meetl°o
into confusion and uproar, I had no opportunity of the,
declaring what it was ; and perhaps it will hardly be 1'45
lieved, that Dr. M'Neile, though he assured me of Pea
intention to put me down, never knew, and never ne,kto
to know, what the amendment was, which I intended
propose. il
The amendment was as follows :—" And that it bete
instruction to the committee now named, so to orra,.%f
these meetings, for the future, that either the subjee",t,
Jewish prophecy be not introduced, or, if intro
that the speaking embrace both sides of the question. foe
Accordingly, when the time came I rose, and, in Per'
order, began to propose my amendment. The chairolv
refused to hear me, and attempted to put me down a,
clamour. I felt that I was clearly right, and determi?F4
therefore, notwithstanding his insulting remarks, v'n"o,,
hweerheaidtt a rteirlgyhfto,reais chairman,gntothepowintinosfistorodnerwhich ,
not
down. And I was not put down. kt last finding tl'of
his angry tone and his determination to deprive 110,4
my undoubted privilege of speech produced no nth
effect upon me than to increase my resolve to persist io of
what was right, he dissolved the meeting, amidst ono
the most disgraceful scenes of confusion which I es'
to
witnessed among men calling themselves Christians._j,
This is a plain statement of the facts as they occw:of
How the Liverpool Standard. could suppress the fse'ife
the dissolution of the meeting, and in other respeets„gaot
a completely untrue version of the whole affair, I Fe„10-
tell. I have spoken in strong terms of the gross UnrooC
priety of Dr. M`Neile's conduct in the chair, but tea
nearly so strongly as the truth would justify me. be
if I had been out of order, which I was not, still, aftereet-
had himself trespassed upon the indulgence of the ° eels
ing by introducing a mere personal squabble betv'eo,
himself and the editor of one of the Liverpool newsee4
on a subject which had nothing whatever to do s'i cet.
meeting for the conversion of the Jews, he ought eft
tainly, in the common courtesy of a gentleman, toißoo
extended some indulgence to me. But be denieuo,
plain justice, and that in such a manner, by sneerie'fco
my being a member of the Evangelical Alliance, and eorsi
descending to the depth of calling names, that ray okit 01:
indignation at his unworthy conduct is, I can troll
far less than my sorrow for his grievous inconsisteorfol'
was, indeed, warned that I ought to expect such inconsistent'
meat at his hands; but I would not believe it. 11;
him credit for better things. I calculated on his fio";e1,
I had often heard him say, that " fair play is a ielior
and I thought he meant it. I have been sadly 1" el
pointed. But, be this as it may, nothing that he re,tt
or say shall ever prevent me from attempting, at let Li.
I,i.
state what I believe to be right and Christian at 01
verpool meeting. Vera
These facts, accompanied by these few necessary °
vations, I beg, through your kindness, to lay heforeor
Liverpool public. I have never had occasion to tlifollos
thing of the sort before. I sincerely hope that I eu;o. „„`
ver have occasion to do anything of the sort agtotls 11'
have done it with much pain ; but a sense of duty w
myself and others has constrained me.
I am, dear sir, your faithful servanl,.
WM. WITHERS EWA4'
Everton, 17th October, 1848.