The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

THE LABOURING CLASSES.

We are rejoiced to perceive, by an announcement in the
Morning Herald, of Thursday, that his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort has consented to take the chair, on
Thursday next, at the annual meeting of a very useful
association of which he has long been president—the
Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the
Labouring Classes. It is pleasant to see his Royal High-
ness mingling, whenever the absence of political and
religious principles permits him to do so, with all classes
of the people, for the promotion of objects of general
utility and benevolence. It is satisfactory also to know
that the society in support of which he now comes for-
ward is one which has already effected much, and gives
promise of effecting still more, in the improvement of the
state and circumstances of the working classes.
In all parts of the country its influence and usefulness
have long- been steadily increasing. In Dorsetshire,
Someretshire, Kent, and Worcestershire, kindred or
branch associations are now actively engaged, both in
providing for the poor allotments of land, and also in
improving the state and condition of their dwellings.
Several admirable plans of commodious and economical
cottages have been put forth by the committee, and many
such dwellings are now erecting, in various parts of the
country, from these plans. We heard of a pair of cot-
tages, of three rooms each, and of exceedingly neat exte-
rior, being erected, within these few weeks, near Grantham,
after one of these designs, and at a cost of only £l4O for
the pair.
In a Hampshire parish, one benevolent landowner has
recently erected twenty-five good cottages, to each of
which he attaches one acre of land, and lets them at a
rent, for the cottage and land, of £5 per annum.
The society's chief efforts, however, have naturally been
put f.rth in the metropolis. Here it has built a double
row of excellent little houses near Bagnigge-wells ; it has
fully repaired and furnished three old houses in Charles-
street, Drury-lane, for working men as nightly lodgers ;
and it has built from the ground the new Model Lodging-
house, in George-street, St. Giles's. In these various
houses, between two and three hundred persons are raised
to circumstances of comparative comfort, who would
otherwise be sunk in filth and wretchedness ; and all this
without any loss of property; for these dwellings all yield
a fair return for the capital employed. The society now
desires to build a Model Lodging-house for families ; Lnd
also one for the poor workmen of London. But to carry
either of these plans into full effect would require a stnil
of about £5OOO or £6OOO. Meanwhile, however, the
influence of these efforts and their success is beginning
to be felt in many quarters. Several benevolent persons
possessed of wealth have recently entertained plans of
building houses for the poor, and are now occupied with
the consideration of the subject. But there is ample
room for all, and more than all, such efforts. Half a
million might be admirably employed, and well expended,
before the end of 1850, in projects of this kind. Well
expended, both for the capitalists and for those benefitted
by the operation.

MESSRS. OFFLEY, WEBBER, FORRESTER,
AND CRAMP'S SALE OF THE 15TH, 16TH, AND
17TH INSTANT.

(From the London Wine Trade Circular.)
Agreeably to our promise we proceeded to Liverpool for
the purpose of tasting the whole of the above-named par-
cels of ports.

In giving our valuations, it is often our painful duty to
animadvert upon the character of the wines offered, but it
is seldom that we are enabled to speak in terms of unqua-
lified praise of a whole shipment, but here we feel that we
should not be doing justice either to ourselves or to the
house by whom these wines are offered, if we refrained
from giving them the credit of bringing them here in most
superior condition ; and further, that after tasting every
cask, we can safely assert that there is not one single one
in any way faulty.
While upon this subject we must also bear witness to
the excellence of the arrangements adopted by the Dock
Committee at Liverpool, as instead of the filthy smelling
oil lamps and the vast accumulation of dirt that we find
in the London and Saint Katharine Docks, the whole are
well lighted with gas, and the most scrupulous cleanliness
observed. The coopers have not, however, acquired the
expertness in showing the wines which ours in London
possess; but we cannot expect perfection at once, and we
must say that they have commenced in the proper way,
and regularly give the lie to the objections urged against
the use of gas, as by it a regular temperature is kept up.
and much dirt and unpleasantness avoided.
With respect to the wine themselves, we find them di-
vided into the following marks, viz.:—
Double triangle, double grape.
Four grapes, 1834. •
Three grapes, S. S.
Feathers.
and, therefore, our valuations will not occupy much space.
The first mark, therefore (double triangle, double
grape,) consists of good coloured Ports, in splendid con-
dition. These are dry fine old wines, free from brandy,
roncao flavour, well-matured, and fit for immediate bot-
tling. They are a description that will turn out uncom-
monly well, and would soon give a very marked bottle
character. From the age and character of these wines,
they are such as we can recommend to the notice of our
subscribers, and we value them at from £34 to £35, at
which we should consider them worthy attention from
any house. _ _

The second mark (four grapes, 1834) consists of wines
of much the same colour and condition. These are very
superior descriptions of old wines, very dry, and of exces-
sively fine character. They possess much purity and ele-
gance of style, and would also turn out extremely well in
bottle. They are perfectly free from spirit, and, in fact,
are highly flavoured old wines, and well calculated to go
into bottle, when we have no hesitation in saying they
will turn out as well as the previous lots. Value, £35 to
£37. These prices, may, perhaps, appe,..r low, when
compared with their probable cost when purchased in the
Alto Douro, as we recollect giving for the first growths of
that vintage as high as 240 mil reis the pipe ; but the
average price of really fine wines, which these must have
been, was at least 120 mil reis, to which, after adding in-
terest of money and expenses, would bring such wines
to at least £7O per pipe. But although they may not have
cost this rate, still we must recollect the old adage—

" The value of a thing
Is just whatever it will bring,"
and as we cannot see how more than the above prices can
be paid with any prospect of obtaining a remunerating
price, we do not place a higher value upon them.
The third mark to which we shall allude (three grapes,
S 5) are also of equal colour and condition. This is cer-
tainly as fine a parcel of old wines as we ever had the
pleesure of tasting. They are of equal character with
the above, and in every way as valuable, but if anything
they are more racy, and would give even a higher charac-
ter in bottle.

The fourth and last mark (feathers) are of higher co-
lour, and in equally good condition. These wines are
younger than the preceding lots, have much colour and
body, possess a deal of character and a very fine bouquet,
and as they are nearer the style of wines sought after by
the trade, they bear a higher value, in our opinion, to
bottling houses, say from £3B to £4O.
The whole of the above are perfectly free from brandy,
and every cask is sound and without any fault from de-
fective staves. Still we could not help observing that a
few casks were a little superior to the others, but as room
will not allow us to particularize, we must request that
application be made at our office, when we shall be happy
to point out those casks we consider to possess the best
qualities.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND

THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUGH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—If you can, in these times of superabundant ex-
citing political news, spare room in your valuable journal
for the insertion of the following rather lengthy observa-
tions, you will oblige "An Old Subscriber."
I observe that the Duke of Buccleugh has again been
the object of the vituperative abuse of the ministers of the
Free Church, at their meeting in this town on the 4th
inst. As there has been a great deal of gross misrepre-
sentation respecting his refusal of a site for a church in
Canobie, allow me, in justice to a most worthy nobleman,
to lay a true statement of the circumstances before the
public. At the time the disruption took place in the
Church, scarcely any district in the kingdom took less in-
terest in the movement than Canobie, and the adjoining
parishes. The people are blessed with faithful and zea-
lous pastors, enjoying and reciprocating their esteem.
The Rev. Mr. Donaldson, parish minister of Canobie,
holds opinions, however, at variance with the Free
Church, and on the schism taking place, agitators were
sent into the parish, ivithout any invitation ; meetings
were called, at which the most inflammatory language
was used ; tracts were distributed, and every means taken
to stir up the people against the Established Church, its
ministers, and supporters. A few restless spirits were
drawn together, and much family dissension and ill feeling
was produced as the certain result of teaching which
maintains that the Established Church forms no part of
the visible Church of Christ.* An attempt was made to
form a congregation ; and without leave asked or obtained,
a tent was erected near to the Parish Church. on land be-
longing to the Duke of Buccleugh. Owing, however, to
the violent conduct of those inciting the movement, the
agent of the Duke obtained an injunction against this free
and easy mode of location. The tent was then pitched
upon the road side, upon land belonging to the road
trustees ; but here the sacred services were subject to
many unseemly interruptions, and his Grace of Buccleugh

Hay 16, 1848.

figuevlde
wpermission
astostihnceem
stotooedr.ectlnit irneftehreenwceelltoshtehletelrat
Mr. Innes, who became the pastor of this congregation,
whose death is openly charged upon the Duke :—At
a meeting held in Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr. Beg stated
that "he recollected the Rev. Mr. Innes as one of
their most robust vigorous ministers." be it observed
the Rev. Doctor had frequent opportunities of witnessing
the state of Mr. Innes' health, as they were for some time
members of the same presbytry. Now, as to "robust,
vigorous health," it was well known to every acquaintance
of the Rev. Mr. Innes that for some time previous to, and
ever after he became a licentiate of the Free Church, his
health was very delic ,te, and that he frequently incurred
the censure of his friends for his imprudent exertions when
at Portnockie, (the charge he held before he came to Cano-
bie,) and which he was understood to have resigned on ac.
count of its exposed situation being injurious to his health.
When he came to Canobie it was evident to the most casual
observer that he was in a declining state of health, and bad
not the slightest appearance of ever having been robust.
The Rev. Dr. Candlish stated bis conviction " that the
life of their departed brother had fallen a sacrifice to the
persecution which the congregation had been made to hear,
but urged upon his hearers to return good for evil, by
striving to keep an evangelical minister in the parish to
endeavour to save the nobility from the fruit of their own'
persecution by aiming at giving them a good population
instead of one allowed to sink into the dregs of heathen-
ism." The Rev. Doctor, by implication, asserts that the
Rev. Mr. Donaldson, parish minister, is not evangelical?
and that he utterly neglects his sacred trust. The con-
duct of his parishioners towards him powerfully attests
their dissent to such a charge.t The statement also im-
plies that the people were previous to the labours of the
Free Church ministers steeped in the dregs of heathenism?
and would, on his withdrawal, return to that state. Such
an imputation is, however, far from being warranted. The-
people were, till disturbed by these very men now traduc-
ing them, a contented, industrious, religious communitY,
living in harmony with each other, and entertaining the
warmest feeling of attachment to their old and faithful
pastor, and to their kind-hearted amiable landlord, the
Duke of Buccleugh, and with few exceptions they continue-
to bear that character and to entertain those feelings, not-
withstanding the efforts made to alienate them.
That very concentration of all the Christian virtues, the,
Rev. Mr. Tweedie, " declared that he knew of no parallel
to the persecution which they had just heard related, ex-
cept in Tahiti or Madagascar." Fortunately, the parallel
for which he requires to travel so far exists only in the
relation, not the fact. In the evidence taken before the
sites committee of the House of Commons, the late Rev-
Mr. Innes stated that nearly all the adherents of the Free
Church in Canobie were tenants of the Duke of Buccleugh,
and many of them in his employment as colliers, &c., but
that he did not know of a single instance of any party be-
ing dismissed such service or in any way persecuted for
belonging to that church. Who better able or more wil-
ling to have exposed the fact than this witness, had there
been cause of complaint? This evidence must have been
known to Mr. Tweedie.

There is in reality no necessity for a Free Church in Ca-
noble, the distances to Langholm anti Half Morton, where
they alraady have weak and languishing congregations, with
a super; bundance of church accommodation, is not such as ,
to cause the people any inconvenience. If they are deter-
mined, however, to have a church of their own, can they
explain why, on the Duke of Buccleugh refusing a site,
they did not apply to G. Maxwell, Esq., of Broomholint
whose estate lies within a short distance of their tent, and
who is favourable to their views ?

The preceding is an unvarnished statement of the case,
which I dare them to bring one proof to contradict. What,
then, becomes of the oft repeated charge of persecution ?
Perhaps they imagine that this perversion of truth, this
bearing of false witness, is justified by the end sought to
be obtained, viz., an act to compel the granting of sites
for free churches. A spirit of persecution is utterly foreign,
to the nature of the Duke of Buccleugh. not one act of
his life justifying such a charge. He is, of course, aware
of the whole circumstances of this case, and must feel, and
with justice, that it is not for the advantage of his nume-
rous tenantry to encourage the location amongst them of
men so utterly devoid of the graces that most adorn the
Christian character—truth and charity. There is no doubt -
that there are many devoted, pious ministers in the Free
Church who must deeply deplore the conduct of their in-
temperate brethren.

LIDDESDALE.

* One of the Free Church Ministers wished to refuse to
admit ministers of the Established Church of Scotland to the
Evangelical Alliance meeting held in this town, on the Piet • .
that he could not recognise them as forming any part 01'
the visible Church of Christ.

t A short while before the split in the church a valuable piece
of plate was presented to him by his parishioners, as a mark of
their esteem, to which scarcely a lawny in the parish, having
the means, neglected to contribute.

TO ALL WHO ATTEND THE MAY MEETINGS•

At a time when the generous sympathies and kindly
feelings of the religious world are exercised and indulged
in various efforts to assist the needy, instruct the ignorant,
and free the benighted heathen from the degrading tram-
mels of superstition and idolatry, it may not be amiss to
call attention to the thousands in our own town who by
the mammon-worshipping spirit of the age arc sacrificed
body, soul, and spirit upon the altar of our commercial
system by the injurious and unnecessary protraction of
the hours of business which, absorbing all the time not
absolutely required for eating and sleeping, leave no
opportunity for participating in those services and under'
takings which are calculated. to keep alive that zeal d
God and love to man which so eminently belong to
adorn the Christian character, anti mark a human being,..
as destined for some higher and holier purpose Or
merely to work that he may eat and eat that he may oa
able to work.

And surely it is an inquiry worthy of the Christian
public how far the condition of the young people engaged-
in business is favourable or unfavourable to their eternal
interests, and what can be done to place them in a posi-
tion suitable to rational and responsible beings.
And when we find that by the present evil habit of
" late shopping" the masters are induced to keep open
their shops, and that the assistants are of necessity vim-
tyt eonf du,
iaenn dt a
lt lonirtintohrua
cbuol
ttuhrea,r
ee x de
leupdrei vde dfr
oomf
aa l
services of religion, and subjected to the ton
pot
the oedr
weeklytut on
ita
successful temptation to devote the Sabbath-day to the
recreation which cannot be got at any other time, we can
readily perceive what a train of evil consequences are
inflicted upon society by a thoughtless habit, without the
slightest real necessity : for could the public be persuaded
to make all their purchases before six o'clock all business
might be terminated at such an hour as would Or'
tradespeople opportunities for healthful recreation, social
enjoyment, and intellectual improvement, and give to
hundreds the privilege they sigh for of labouring with
their brethren in the benevolent undertakings of the day,
and who would give new life and vigour to our Sabbath
Schools and other institutions by bringing to them the
fervent zeal of youthful piety which is now repressed?
deadened, and quenched under the withering influence of
long hours of business. _

Let not this be considered an ever-heated fancy or an
exaggerated idea; for although the Tradesmen? Assist-
tants have been virtually excluded from the pale of
Christianity and treated as beasts of burden, having
neither souls nor sensibility, there are to be found amongst
those who have shared in the partial improvement already
effected some whose pursuits and capacities give sufficient
earnest of what might be expected to throw a heavy
responsibility upon all—who neglect to make themselves
acquainted with this question, while there are also con-
tinual examples of hopeful and promising youths brought
by the demand of business from the homestead of anxious
prayerful parents, and cast solitary and alone upon our.
large towns, who find their energies so taxed and their
time so completely absorbed in business that one by one
their early habits are abandoned and dissoluteones adopted,
till they gradually fall into snare after snare to their own
eternal ruin, the disappointment of the parent's fondest
hopes, and the condemnation of all who have either done
what they ought not to have done, or left undone what
they ought to have done in this matter.
Should this meet the eye of any of the speakers at the
forthcoming meetings who will take the opportunity of
urging upon their audiences the Christian duty fans eaFlit
looking upon the things of others they may greatly is
a good movement, and will abundantly repay the sug-
gestions Of AN ASSISTANT TRADESMAN.
Liverpool, May 12, 1848.

DREADFUL MURDERS NEAR SWANSEA.—At an earl,'
hour on Tuesday morning, the inhabitants of Svvailsee
were alarmed by a report that a murder of a most diail°-
Beal character, and under most aggravated circumstances,
had been perpetrated on the persons of two unoffendia
men, who resided with their families in the neighbourhood
of the Marquis's Arms, on the road from Swansea to
Loughor. The facts of the case are briefly these
Monday night, a person named William Davies Nelda
" cwrw bach" in a small cottage adjoining the roa
and within a few yards of the public-house called Pne
Marquis's Arms, kept by David Evan, the son of Jecqd`'
Evan, one of the murdered men. A company, consisting
of about twenty persons, remained at the cottage drinking
until about one o'clock. About half-past twelve, a party
of Irish "navvies" entered the house. They remelt'
there for about half an hour, during which time did
drank several pints of beer. They entered into converse;
sation with the deceased John Williams, and some °the(
parties, saying that they had been discharged by one f
the contractors at Loughor, and were then in search ;
work. It is said that Williams had promised them viclj ;
and asked them to visit next morning the part of the lrt •
where his contract lay. Soon afterwards it appeared that
some words, arising probably from the feeling of jealony..
and antipathy existing between the Irish and Welsh, eel'a
sued between one of the " navvies" and a man nen',
Edward Morgan, who was eventually knocked doi!...
One or two other men, who interfered on behalf of nyc,..
gan, received blows about the head from species' • us
However, the injuries they sustained were not of a serip
character. The scuffle then appears to have eonclude°,,,
and they left the house ; some say they were turned ou
others that they went voluntarily. A considerable Tgli_
ber of those who were in the house, including John time;
Hams, deceased, seem to have gone out at the same Ili
but the majority immediately returned to the house, Jite
Williams and one or two other persons—it was not 4:lude_
clear how many—being out. A little noise, hardlY„teli
serving the' name of a scuffle, was tben made, itnltte"l- the
after which a loud cry of " Murder" was heard. .
people rushing from the house, John Williams and
oencle of
Evan were found lying on the road lifeless, while °
the " navvies" was observed to strike Evan's body wnso ;
spade. The murderers then made off towards bcca_rsue
one or two of the other men made faint efforts to P;ihie
rtheseumlt,
übfutthweittrhaunsoseteiffeencat.ppeTahreedstuedidirenpesssruarydseineu„
ace the
The policemen were making every exertion to Lori,
murderers, who ure severally named Patric .od
Michael Leary, Thomas Martin, William Isi°rri9
John Norris.

Etttraturr.
NOTICES.

Re Cure of Cataract, with a Practical Summary of
the best Modes of Operating (Continental and British)
by Hugh Neill, Surgeon to the Liverpool Eye and
46 ar Infirmary. Liverpool : Deighton and Laughton.
London : Churchill. Imperial Octavo with Tables.
This work on the cure of cataract should be in the
hands of every student and operating surgeon. To the
former it is strongly recommended by its brevity (a great
desideratum), and its being a compendium of the opinions
of the best writers on the subject—evincing much re-
search and labour—while to the latter, the very practical
nature of the remarks contained in Mr. Neill's ar.nota-
!ions must prove eminently useful. And to all this work
Is_ valuable from the clear and simple style adopted by Mr.
Neill in his writing ; a quality which so distinguishes the
Works of Pott, Hay, Cooper, and all our best surgeons.
Students have invariably felt the want of works which
would present within a small compass the opinions of the
various authorities on the several branches of surgery,
as they have but little time for wading through the many
Monographs with which our libraries abound. Here they
are presented to them in a concise and pleasing form, and
their discrepancies and errors carefully examined.
The Practitioner here finds as concisely laid before him
(and yet sufficiently ample) Mr. Neill's opinions, the re-
sult of an experience in the institution of which he is the
Operating surgeon, extending over a period of more than
fourteen years, and embracing between 700 and 800 cases
of operation for the cure of cataract.
His synoptic tables of the accidents in keratomia are
truly valuable.
sfl‘,l,r. Neill strongly advises the adoption cf the operation
, reelination" in preference to " extraction," and con-
Nering how very few of our Engli:h surgeons have given
themselves to that particular operation (requiring so much
dexterity and practice) he is right. Mr. Neill's mode of
?gating, and his lucid description of it cannot fail to be
In tarpeparteinciated by all practical men.
eratioribtehe very grave questionwhen should
performed ?" Mr. Neill observes—
indirati:ang as cataract is immature, the operation is contra-
tong as ". Some contend that it is imprudent to operate so
dialed by patient can see well with one eye—a precept repu-
ff nY others. There are those who operate upon the
ected eye when the other perfectly fulfils its functions. They
do so, becau oth these, tine sees better, you know, with
tWo eyes than 6auty one ;, and because the presence of cataract
in one eye is speedily followed by cataract in the other. It is a
delusion, however, to suppose that operating upon the eye
which already has cataract stops the consecutive development
of the disease in the other. Besides it happens ( ver and over
again that individuals carry a cotaract in one eye for many
years, and even to the day of their death, without the fellow
-optic becoming affected."
at the same time he admits that it is no delusion to say
that " the operation on one eye will sometimes save the
' other."

Speaking of the " effects" of the operation, he says
What cannot be too forcibly impressed upon all young
operators:

_ .
'`• An injudicious operation sometimes sets up inflammation,
and destruction of the eye so tampered with, thereby bringing
surgery into discredit and producing a deformity which did not
previously exist. Every surgeon, competent by observation to
ear faithful witness, will avouch the declaration that inflam-
matory action, after an incompetent or mal-adroit operation,
is not always confined to the eye operated on ; the sounder
Organ may share the mischief and be equally destroyed. A
Patient who could gee `something,' before his eye has been
Poked by experimentalists, may find himself quite blind after-
wards."
The few typographical errors, such as " Procidentia
Iritis," for " Procidentia Iridis," and " L'Appereil" for
" l'Appareil" are unimportant, and the reader can easily
correct Clem. The printer's devil should be more
'sharply looked after in provincial publications especially.
We must confess that we do not know who the "Tele-
graphic poet of antiquity" was who wrote " Tempora
41litantur et nos mutamur in illis.”
At the end of the work, which contains, be it observed,
VanY excellencies of style and arrangement, the author
ann rne into details about Chloroform, its early history,
d its
and azency in other surgical cases than eye-surgery;
1°":411 we do not censure such, yet it seems to our
view
of vie object of the work as presenting an illustration
IS called in forensic logic " travelling out of
hil!e take leave of our townsman in the best of good
2 ,„'"ur. however ; and, whilst venturing to criticise, we
uld venture a hope that so creditable a production may
meet with ample encouragement and success.
The getting up of the book is very respectable, and the
.IVolishers deserve encouragement beyond what usually
'la to the lot of provincial enterprise.

'WhittZings from the West. By Abel Log. London :
Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand ; Liverpool : Joshua
• Walinsley, Lord-street. Parts 1., 11., and 111.
We have too long neglected to notice this lively pub-
.eation. which we learn is from the pen of a fellow-
vown-1
nan. Mr. Log is evidently and eminently possessed
°I a rich vein of quiet humour, which rather appears to
ebeaPe from him unwittingly than to be paraded with a
devy to excite admiration. He is equally at home in the
escriptive ; and has viewed the splendid scenery, through
715-ich he wiles along, with the feelings of a aqua who has
to°4lo poetry in his composition. There is qintness,
in his style—in the readiness and suddenness with
8 jell he jumps from grave to gay, from pictures of the
ir 'lime to their ridiculous accompaniments—which is
~resistibly pleasing. We had some hearty laughs over
frome escription, in the first number, of the voyage out
t,s the Mersey to the St. Lawrence •, and the descrip-
iii'n in the second of the arrival at Quebec, and of Cana-
-1:11 Society, is not only pleasingly given but contains
teli which has escaped the observation of mere book-
Mwt,lt,iog tourists. The third number is occupied with the
iter's adventures, in company with too moose hunters,
ki."ew the majestic falls up the St. Maurice, or Black
‘4"---a portion of the country which has been explored
Polotw Europeans, and of which little is known in the
nY itself except to the wild hunters and voyagers who
Il Y have had to pass through it on their way to the
ath
NI s Bay Company's station, about eight hundred
toes distant from it. We shall be happy to welcome Mr.
Shedfan; and ful exect to see him become an cstab-
vourite with the public.

`ang in London. Part 11. London : David Bogue,
86, Fleet-street.
bel:lie engravings, three in number, in the present num-
e very good; and the papers illustrating them, by
l'
8 ssrtr s• Ox
nenford, Albert Smith and Charles Kenny, are
arkling ad happy efforts.
4eiai Distinction, or Hearts and Homes. By Mrs.
Author of Women of England, &c. Illustrated
3Y H. Warren. London: J. and F. Tallis, 100, St.
proi,ll4-street. Part I.
diB„„new work of an authoress upon whose previous
PrZi -e""°Tis we have had to bestow an ungrudged meed of
space re°romences admirally, and even in the limited
fort e a first number, a deep interest is excited in the
to glne,s of the various characters introduced. It romises
9,Ues%less didactic than some of the previous works in
; and to enforce, by means of the more lively ye-
less° of dramatic action and dialogue, etp!ally valuable
45",,,,,t'5• It is got up by the publisher in the first style,
Dieek'gards both typography and paper ; and the frontis-
feet aod vignetze, with which it is ornamented, are per-
goals of the engraver's art.

Crntral
3001,jriEglinton has sacTbe Witt to Sir John Gerard for
eas.
onthii"4ondon journal states that, upon an average, 100
th
Pnda "asses pass through Oxford-street in each hour of
,
b'•
I.' IGv LUXURIES.—A London journal notes, as a
ahroll importation, the arrival of wedding cake from
fall :fPriday evening, four little boys were killed by the
of Er igh a m
toanss of the cliff, a ~port distance to the eastward
heAe 41'. Wildblood, from Ironbridge, Shropshire,. has
p pli,l electrifying the London people by his extraordinary
eeinances on the flageolet.
ted :4.1750An OCCURRENCE.—On the I,t inst. the celebra-
lai 'l-..eePle chase mare, " The Novice," now at Abercam-
-oreconshre, brought forth two colts, both alive. 104 el:seY ciders is now on sale at Newport, at Bd.
gal-
for (including casks), for any quantity; or 9d. pepregraloonf
hisa single hogshead. There is an immense quantity
%cider brought over here this season.
—A few days ago, Mr. Willand, of
aford ACT.
a jab , In Wiltshire, shot a swift, or screech, w,,hich bad
slan-ileat_of red mwocco round his neck, dated Boston,
it
.7 n, 1818.
:340,1 calculated that the inhabitants of Glasgow will
clef 'Y be assessed to the tune of £lO,OOO or £lB,OOO, to
riotr:y the expenses incurred in consequence of the March
On
wou Tuesday, Priscilla Fitzpatrick, who was accidentally
master' ill the breast by a bullet from a pistol, by her
squa;.l. s son, Mr. Montague Richard Leverson,.of Queen-
expired at the University College Hospit.al..
the -hi"e annual meeting of the London. forAssociatiodnt
the
:•rojection of Trade, on Wednesday, it was statfe
had pciety's list of swindlers or persons unworthy
credt,to
I;•,6(Zen increased, during the past year, fr0m7,452
ings—"-POOTED FRIAR.—One of those remarkable be-
ii:a bare-footed friar,has been preaching in the Ro-
en Catholic chapel heie for several successive evenings.
is lit"rthY man appears to be a self-denying ascetic : he
eneirallY bare-footed, and attired in coarse sackcloth.—
ruridye Advertiser'
tw:II%'°CENT CONVICT:S.—At the last Worcester Assizes,
tlar,l,l).en named Box and Tolley, were convicted of a bur-
Yeat'oln a retired part of the county, and sentenced to 15
thes, trans-
at portation. Subsequent events show that
iib_Parties are innocent, and they will doubtless be set
L "tY•
110.!4(1 Ellesmere has given £5OO to the King's College
teaysPitall, " agreeing with Lord Brougham that money e more usefully applied to the support of the exist-
gett'"Pitals than in building new ones," and " not for-
loting the
April
tof the students of the College on the
hIA n of uc
'C
to,etrib AROL'S O'CONNOR AT LINCOLN.—The Chartist
is now at this city for the nurpose of selling the
Alaees fall Estate, which was intended to be one of the
t~for carrying out the National Land Schem. M.
te,,,&or has taken out a license as auctioneer,e and in r-
Lid,r knocking the land off in small allotments to the best
CI,OI..STRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday a most naelan-
E4A accident occurred at Auchinstarry Bridge, on the
(I(akrlrAgh and Glasgow Canal. The child of a spirit-
nal .2-i that place, named Stark, had fallen into the ca-
gleVl,cl, the father, attempting to rescue it, in the strug-
,butl4l4.. somehow, overreached himself, and sank. The
Was got out safe by some person assing at the time, l'ecove,,`!; ten minutes elapsed ere the body of Stark was
'ooA after died.
When taken out life still remained, but he

MANsLAuonTP.R.—On Saturday last an inquest was
held at the Ship inn, Ulverston, on the remains of Thos.
Levy, who had resided for some time in Ulverston. On
the 14th of April a quarrel had arisen at a sale, at Old
Hall, near Ulverston, between deceased and an old man
named William Dixon, a carter. Levy bad been kicked
so violently on the legs by Dixon as to cause his death.
A verdict of Manslaughter was returned against Dixon,
who absconded, and has not yet been apprehended.

DEATH OF TOM CRIBS.—The celebrated Thomas Cribb,
who in the days when pugilism was in the ascendancy,
was styled the " Champion of England," died at his resi-
dence in the High-street, Woolwich, on Friday, aged 67.
Mr. Cribb had for some years carried on the business of a
baker and confectioner, and had been for so-ne time in a
declining state of health, the cause of his death beinc, old
age and debility. A subscription was annually made for
him by his former companions, which placed him in very
comfortable circumstances.

INDUSTRY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.—Amid the " press of
a tumultuous crowd," as an old chronicler writes, we
strove on Monday last to get some idea of the 1,474 works
of art which line the walls of the Royal Academy, and
show what our artists have been at during the past year.
Join these with the SOO works exhibit d by the Society of
British Artists; 474 in the British Institution; 516 in the
Free Exhibition at Hyde-park-corner ; 346 by the old
Water-colour Society ; 413 by the new Water-colour
Society, and at least 1,500 which have been returned to
to the artists, for want of merit on the one s.de, or want
of room on the other—making a total of 5,523—and they
afford a sufficiently striking evidence of the industry of
the British school, without counting the large number
never exhibited at all, and the larger number shown only
in the provinces.—Builder

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday last, Mr.
Maughan, draper, Sheffield, left his residence at Wadsley
Park, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, in a
phaeton drawn by one horse, which in the course of the
drive took fright and ran off at a rapid pace, when the
carriage struck against the corner of a house, and threw
them all with terrific violence out of the carriage, which
was smashed to pieces. Mrs. Maughan was killed on the
spot. Mr. Maughan was taken up apparently in a lifeless
state, and afterwards conveyed to the Infirmary, where
the best medical aid was called into requisition, but death
relieved him from his suffering the same evening. The
two daughters of Mr. Maughan were not seriously injured.
DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—A most despicable outrage
was committed last week on Miss Louisa Kingsman, a
highly accomplished young lady, about 18 years of age,
the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Kingsman, the vicar of
Gilderstone, Bradford. She was crossing a field by a
footpath, when a ruffian addressed her in the most inde-
cent terms; and, as she was attempting to hasten from
him, he seized her by the arms and round the waist, drag-
ged her to a gravel-pit some four or five yards from the
path, Lnd having thrown her down, commenced an attack
which left little doubt of his intentions. Miss Kingsman
resolutely fought with the ruffian, and having regained
her feet, succeeded in escaping from him. A fine of £5
has been inflicted by a sagacious justice as adequate pun-
ishment on the offender !

UNSTAMMD PUBLICATIONS.-At the meeting of the
Church of England Sunday School Institute, it was stated
by the Rev. W. M. Whittemore, that there were 60 pe-
riodicals at a price from one halfpenny to three farthings,
published every week. There were no less than 16,640,000
of these published annually, all of them bad in character,
but some of them so unscrupulous in their tendency, as to
make one thrill with horror- at their very titles. There
was one with a weekly circulation of 100,000, which was
said to be a great favourite in families, whose main fea-
ture was a reprint of the most objectionable French no-
vels. All these were read principally by the young, and
often by the children of the poor, who had been educated
in Sunday schools, and thus acquired a taste for reading.
—John Bull.
ALLEGED MURDER.—A man, named William James
Lane, is now in custody, in Birmingham, waiting a coro-
ner's inquisition on the body of a man named James
Birch, supposed to have been murdered on Sunday morning
last. It appears Lane and Birch were fellow workmen.
employed as pearl button makers, in Newtown-row. On
Saturday night they went into the neighbourhood of
Kingsbury, a few miles from Birmingham, to fish, and
about five o'clock on Sunday morning, Lane returned
home without his companion, and stated that he had lost
him, but he could not give any satisfactory account of
what became of him. On Monday a number of persons
went to the river where they had been fishing, and found
the body of Birch in the water, and several severe bruises
upon various parts of his person, which evidently indicated
the unfortunate man had received ill-treatment before his
death. Suspicion then fell upon Lane.
DETERMINED SUICIDE OF MR. REDHEAD YORKE,
M.P.—On Friday, shortly after noon, a most determined
act of suicide was committed by Mr. Redhead Yorke,
M.P. for the city of York, and son-in-law of the late Lord
Brandon. The agent chosen by the unfortunate gentle-
man to effect his rash purpose was prussic acid, and the
locality where he swallowed it, the Regent's-park, on the
green sward nearly opposite the Glocester-gate, and within
a few hundred yards of the York and Albany. A number
of persons soon gathered round the unfortunate gentle-
man, but he died almost immediately. The deceased at-
tended the House of Commons the previous evening, and
on Friday morning he went out after breakfast without
doing anything to excite observation. He was about 50
years of age, and has always been considered of a some-
what eccentric frame of mind.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1848.
The TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of this Company took place on Tuesday, the 15th of February,
within the Company's Office, No. 3, George-street, Edinburgh,
CEORGE MOIR, Esq., Advocate, in the Chair.
The Report and Statements submitted by the Directors con-
tained a very satisfactory account of the progress of the Insti-
tution during the year 1847. It was reported:—
That the NUMBER OF POLICIES for Life Assurance issued
by the Company from 15th November, 1846, to 15th No-
vember, 1847, was 621.
That the Sums AssunED during the same period, con-
tained in these Policies, amounted to £443,578 4s. 11d.
That the NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS for Policies made to
the Company, and from which the above transactions
were selected, was 804, containing proposals for Assu-
rance to the extent of •."591,663 Bs.
That the ANNUAL REVENUE of the Company, as at 13th
November, 1847, was £131,316 10s. 7d.
That the WHOLE AMOUNT OF ASSURANCES covered by the
Company's Policies, in force at 15th November, 1847,
was £3,252,090 14s. HA.
The Report then proceeded as follows:
"The past year has been marked by the most extraordinary
features as regards commercial affairs and general credit; but,
while all classes of society, especially the mercantile commu-
nity, and our public institutions connected with the general
affairs of commerce, have felt the pressure of the times, the
Life Assurance Institutions of the country have stood unaf-
fected by the crisis. Nothing can tend more to extend confi-
dence in these Institutions than this result; and it is to be
hoped they will always be found affording protection and dis-
pensing benefits to all connected with them, unaffected by
those periodical changes.
" Notwithstanding the unfortunate position of the country
during the past year, the amount of new business transacted
by this Company has exceeded to a large amount the business
of the previous year. The claims during the year have been
greater in proportion than usual ; but when the increased
mortality throughout the kingdom generally is remembered,
the Directors consider they have reason to be %tell satisfied
with the results.".
After the Report and Statements were read, the Chairman
congratulated the Meeting on the favourable position of the
Company and its prospects generally, and again brought under
notice the most proullinent features in the Report. He drew
attention to the great increase of the Business, the increase of
the Revenue, and the rapid accumulation of the Company's
Funds, which, it appeareu, HAD BEEN MORE TITAN DOUBLED
DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
The following Abstract, showing the new business transacted
by the Company annually since 1842, was referred to, as exhi-
biting in a marked degree the growing estimation of the
STANDARD in public favour:—
Number of Corresponding Sum
New Policies issued. Assured.
1843, N f_'NV transactions .... 383 £348,135 17 1
1844, , ... 562
1845, „ (Bonus year) .... 698
1846, „ I .... 592
1847, „ .... 621
Time Meeting expressed entire satisfaction with the Report
and Statements; and, after the election of new Directors in
the room of those retiring by rotation, in accordance with the
Act of Parliament, the Establishment of the Company for the
ensuing year was declared to be as follows :
Governor,
His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.
Deputy-Governor,
The Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine.
EDINBURGH.
Ordinary Directors.
Humphrey Graham, Esq., W.S., 14, Atholl-crescent.
John Sligo, Esq., of Carmyle, 15, Drummond-place.
Alex. James Russell, Esq., C,S., 10, Walker-street.
William Wood, Esq., Surgeon, 9, Darnaway-street.
William Keith, Esq., Accountant, 50, Castle-etreet.
John Robert Tod- Esq., 'W.S. 39, Moray-place.
John S. Newbigging, Esq., Sheriff-Clerk of Roxburghshire.
George Patton, Esq., Advocate, 38, Frederick-street.
Alex. Clapperton, Esq., Merchant, 128, Prince's-street.
Charles Pearson, Esq., Accountant, 128, George-street.
David Smith, Esq., W.S., 2, Ainslie-place.
Eagle Henderson, Esq., Merchant, 16, Coates-crescent.
James Condie, Esq., Perth.
James Robertson, Esq., W.S., 28, Stan; d-street.
James Hay, Esq., Merchant, Leith.
LONDON..
Chairman of the Board,
The Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen.
l°l Ordinary Directors.
59., r2s
Alderman's-walk.
David Laing Burn, Esq., 12, Kensington Palace-gardens.
E•ecto
Thomas Holdswort
Alex. Gillespie, Esq., 5, Gould-square.
John Lindsay, Esq., 26, Laurence Pountney-lane.
Alex. Macgregor, Esq., 31, Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.
John Scott, Esq., Moorgate-street Chambers.
Manager—William Thos. Thomson, Esq.
Resident Secretaries.
London—r,eter Ewart, Esq. I Dublin—Samuel Smylie, Esq.
Glasgow—William Hunter,Esq.
OFFICE IN LIVERPOOL. 76, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET.
Messrs. J. &. D. L. MURDOCH, Agents.
82,.King London,
March 1, 1848..

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