The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

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MURDER.-At the York assizes, on Thursday, George
Calvert, 38, Thomas Hodgson, 28, and James Mellor, 22,
were charged with the wilful murder of William Wood,
at Farweather, near Bradford, on the 18th of December
last; they were also charged with committing a burglary
in the dwelling-house of the said William Wood. Cal-
vert and Mellor were found guilty, and Baron Rolfe, in
passing sentence, said :—You have been convicted, on
the clarest testimony, of a most barbarous murder.
Every murder must, necessarily, bq a case of great atro-
city, but it has rarely indeed happened to me to be pre-
sent at an investigation which disclosed such long-con-
tinued and persevering barbarity as was inflicted by you
on that fatal night. I have seen cases where deadly wea-
pons have been used, and where the victim has fallen
under the sudden infliction of some deadly wound ; but
rare indeed is it that four men in the prime of life at least,
have been proved to have broken into the lone house of s
poor but apparently industrious and respectable cottager,
to have driven him, absolutely naked, from his house, in
the dead of the night—to have beaten him first with
sticks, and then with another deadly weapon, and not
being satisfied with one attack, to have renewed it, more
than once—to have left him prostrate on his own floor,
absolutely without a rag upon his body, while you deli-
berately plundered the house, and thought to escape with
impunity. _ _

LECTURES ON MAN CULTURE, by theßer . T. D. Gregg.
—We cannot allow these lectures to terminate without
expressing our very high sense of the importance of the
subject, and our admiration of the superior manner in
which it was treated by the Rev. T. D. Gregg ; in this
respect indeed the expectations which we, were led to
entertain at the commencement of the course were more
than realised. It is gratifying to know that those who
did attend were especially qualified to judge of the sound-
ness of the views brought forward, and that their appro-
bation was most decided. We are aware that some have
been hitherto disposed to regard Mr. Gregg merely as a
distinguished politician of ultra-protestant principles ;
these lectures will certainly convince them that, whether
they concur with him in that respect or not, his opinions
on the question of education, that is on man culture,
on the developement and due exercise of our intellectual
powers on the formation of character upon a true Christ-
ian and philosophical basis, are deserving of the most
serious consideration, being both sound in principle and
practical in character. Whilst his various readings from
the oriental languages, the ancient and modern classics,
combined with his own critical remarks, evinced to those
acquainted with such matters, the extensive research and
refined taste of the scholar ; lie also succeeded in equally
instructing and entertaining the English portion of the
audience, so that the interest first awakened increased
irom night to night. Mr. Gregg concluded by reading
an address to the Queen praying for inquiry into the
present system of public education. It is evident that
his vigorous and eloquent style of address would recom-
mend any subject to a popular audience.—Cheltnhm Jour.
INDIAN COTTON.—Before Mr. Bright's committee on
the cultivation of cotton in India much information was
elicited from Mr. Robert Wigram Crawford, a partner in
the house of Messrs. Remington and Co., Bombay and
London, the only witness examined. Having traversed
the western coast of India in all sorts of craft, and
journeyed after business through most of the cotton-
growing districts for several years, this gentleman's evi-
dence was of a highly sanguine character as to the capa-
bilities of the country. He spoke warmly in favour of a
railway being constructed, to connect Bombay with the
interior, the utility of which he likened to that of the
Ganges at Calcutta. The railway system, however, could
not be comprehended by the natives, and on that account
they would not cordially engage in subscriptions for its
construction, although interest was guaranteed on their-
advances; but if they once saw it in operation for ten or
a dozen miles, they would understand its capabilities at
once, and immediately engage in promoting its success.
In the course of his evidence on this subject, Mr. Craw-
ford mentioned the fact, very well known to the observers
of eastern habits, as one cause of the poverty of the
Indian population, that there are no means provided for
the investment of their small savings, consequently, they
are what we should call improvident. It is not, however,
exactly improvidence in their case, because their small
sums are invested in bronzes and jewellery, which have
some value ; and, as an illustration of similar habits
near& home, the Chairman stated that, when lie was in
Syria, he recollected seeing a donkey driver give £2O for
a bracelet. Mr. Crawford expressed a confident ()Onion,
that ultimately, East Indian cotton will be produced of a
quality and price to meet the American product upon
perfectly equal terms in the Liverpool market.

EATING AND DRINKING ON 130ARD THE TRANSAT-
LANTIC STEAMERS. —The Glasgow Herald furnishes us
with some curious particulars of the eatables and drinks-
Wes supplied for the consumption of the passengers on
hoard Cunard and Co.'s American steamers. Each ship
on her outward trip is supplied with 50 dozens of port
wine, 100 dozens of sherry, 100 dozens of champagne, 50
dozens of Madeira, 50 dozens of hock, 200 dozens of soda
water and lemonade, 300 dozens of Scotch ale, and 200
dozens of London porter, besides spirits of all kinds.,
There are also ample stores of ice, and an abundant sup..
ply of fresh water. Each ship is victualled for 2 days,
and carries at least 40001bs. of beef, mutton, and pork,
fresh and packed in ice. Then there are 16 dozen fowls,
4 dozen of geese, 4 dozen of ducks, 4 dozen of turkeys, 6
dozen of pigeons, and one dozen of roasting pigs, besides
an calves' heads, &c. Milk is
furnished
h each ship also carries a sup-
ply of forty gallons, which is packed in ice, and keeps
fresh and sweet till the end of the passage. The baker
turns out 200 loaves or rolls per diem, and the confection..
er is never idle. Breakfast begins at half-past eight, and
the cloth is removed at ten. There is lunch at twelve. and
dinner at four. Tea is served at seven; and then follow
snacks, wine, punch, toddy ' gin slings, tec.,—that is for
those who want them—till. half-past eleven, when the
steward's bar is closed, and all the lights are out by
twelve. Such is life on board a Transatlantic steamer;
and in the summer season it is said to be becoming quite
common for parties to make a pleasure trip to America,
in the fashion that people go up the Rhine. There have
even been occasions in which young married people have
spent their honeymoon in a trip to Halifax, a flying Digit
to Niagara and New York, and a return voyage to Eng-
land, and all in six weeks,