The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

enteral Iftiatilanv.

Green peas are selling at Bath at 9d. per peck.
Two Prussian vessels have taken refuge at Cardiff,
having been attacked and pursued by Danish cruisers.
The Bristol Docks Transfer Bill was read a second time
in the House of Lords on Thursday.
A field of Australian wheat is now in full ear and bloom
on a farm at Oystermouth, within four miles of Swansea.
The Town Council of Plymouth have resolved on laying
down glass pipes for the supply of water to the town.
The next meeting of the British Association will be held
at Swansea in August.
Another chartist rioter at Bingley, has been committed
by Mr. Ferrand for trial.
Three members of the Wesleyan Society have been ex-
pelled at Stourton, in the Gainsborough circuit, for be-
coming Chartists.
Col. C. Rowan, senior Commissioner of the Metropo-
litan Police, will, it is said, shortly receive the honour of
knighthood from Her Majesty.
The late Miles Lester, Esq., of Upton, Gainsborough,
who died a fortnight ago, has left sixty of his nephews
and nieces £3OO each.

A firm in Nottingham have received an official order to
make a dress of " Nottingham lace" for her Majesty, to
be worn by her at the drawing-room.
A fight took place between two strangers at the Pig
and Whistle Inn, Shardlow, Derbyshire, on Tuesday
afternoon last, and one of them was so much injured that
he died in about half an hour afterwards.
Out of 200,000 offences that every year occupy the
attention of our courts of justice, nearly 20,000 are com-
mitted by children, and nearly 50,000 by transgressors
under 20 years of age.
The Royal Pavilion. Brighton, so long the favourite
abode of George IV., is now shut up, preparatory to its
being offered for sale. Not a single individual is left to
disturb the silence that reigns throughout the building.
A club called " The Early Risers" has been established
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the members meet on the moor
every fine morning at six o'clock to hear a lecture, play
cricket, quoits, and football, and then repair to breakfast.
On Thursday last, the musical festival by which the an-
nual meeting of the children belonging to the old charity
schools of London is usually celebrated, was held in St.
Paul's Cathedral, when upwards of 10,000 spectators, be-
sides 5,000 children, assembled in honour of the event.
The Chester Chronicle states that one of the masons
employed at the Britannia Bridge, in the Menai Straits,
caught, the other day, after a hard struggle, a lobster
weighing 14 lb. 2 oz. which had been left by the tide
amongst the sea weed.
The Earl of Arundel and Surrey had a large party to
dinner on Wednesday, at his residence on Carlton-house-
terrace. The guests were all respectable tradespeople,
special constables of St. Martin's parish, who had acted
under his Lordship as captain of that district.
The number of English artizans, mechanics, weavers,
lace makers, railway operatives, and others, who have
been compelled to leave France, since the February revo-
lution, is upwards of 7000. They are all in the greatest
destitution.
THE GREAT WILL FORGERlES.—Galignani's Messen-
ger announces the arrival of Barber in Paris, and men-
tions various circumstances which occurred at Norfolk
Island, from which it expresses confidence that Mr. Bar-
ber was entirely innocent.
No less than twenty persons have been poisoned at a
public dinner at Northampton, which took place on Wed-
nesday. One gentleman is dead, and several have suf-
fered severely. It is said that arsenic has been found in
the body. The cook is in custody, and the inquest has
been adjourned.
Ann Baker, a charwoman, James Grant, James Grant,
jun., and Sarah Grant, have been committed for trial at
the next Central Criminal Court Sessions, charged with
stealing 5001bs. of parliamentary reports and acts of par-
liament from the Masters's office, in Southampton Build-
ings, Chancery-lane, London.
On Monday week, a young man named Smith, a cabi-
net-maker, living at Kingland, in a joking humour, pre-
sented a pistol at the head of a young woman named Luff,
to Whom be was abutut tv be un-
known to him, had been loaded, and went off. The poor
girl lies in a dying state.
Sir George Grey, in reply to a question put by Sir W.
Verner, denies the fact of Mr. Mitchel baying been allowed
to dine at the officers' mess on board the Shearwater,
though be admits he was asked to breakfast by the Assis-
tant-Surgeon, which conduct he added, is under the con-
sideration of the Admiralty.
MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—Mr. Edward Paxton
Humble. proprietor of the .Durham Advertiser died on
Friday week, within a year of the death of his father, and
thus within the short space of twelve months that paper
has lost both the proprietors, embraced under the firm of
Messrs. Humble and Son. _ _

It became known in London, on Wednesday, that the
Bank of England would be willing to mike advances on
bills of exchange and stock securities at 3 per cent. until
about the middle of July, when the payments of the divi-
dends will have taken place, and some applications were
consequently made for loans at that rate.
Sir Robert Peel is to take the chair at a meeting of the
professional and other friends of Josh. Hodgson, Esq.,
F.R.S., to be held at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, on
Tuesday next. The meeting is called for the purpose of
determining upon offering to Mr. Hodgson some mark of
the esteem in which he is held by a numerous body of
friends.

CONVICTION UNDER THE TEN HOURS ACT.-011
Monday Mr. Joseph Haley, woollen manufacturer, Bram-
ley, was fined 20s. and costs, at the Leeds Court House,
on an information laid against him by Mr. Baker, in-
spector of factories, for having employed persons under
18 years of age more than ten hours a day, contrary to
the recent act of parliament.
Some twenty of the London rioters engaged in the de-
monstrations of Sunday were on Tuesday fully committed
for trial by the magistrate at Worship-street, at the ensu-
ing Criminal Sessions, and we are pleased to say that on
Wednesday most of the districts in winch tumultuous assem-
blages have previously taken place were in a state of quie-
tude.
A most unfortunate affair occurred shortly after the last
race-at Ascot, on Thursday. A respectable innkeeper of
Sunning, named Dell, irritated at an unprovoked insult
offered to his wife by a man whose name has not been
a.seertained, knocked him down ; the blow, unhappily, took
effect under the ear, and death ensued instantaneously.
We tlnderstand Mr. Dell has been admitted to bail.

On Friday a lioness in Wombwell's menagerie, station-
ed at Stafford, seized the keeper, who had entered the
den, and tore off the scalp from the back part of his head
and dreadfully lacerated his neck. Another keeper then
came to his assistance and racued his unfortunate com-
rade.

Among the recent bankrupts is Wm. Hewitt, described
as " Bookseller, Strand," but better known as the author
of " Homes and Haunts of British Poets," and other
popular works. The difficulties of this gentleman arose
in consequence of his secession from the management of
the People's Journal, and the enterprise of Howitt's
Journal.

Early on Sunday morning a fire was discovered on the
establishment of Mr. John Turpin, upholsterer and com-
mission-agent, situate in Swinegate, Leeds. Mr. Turpin
and family had gone by the last train on the Saturday
evening to attend the funeral of a brother at Hull. The
damages sustained by Mr. Turpin will be about £2,000.
He is only insured to the amount of £3OO.
Lieutenant Gale was to have ascended in his Cremorne
balloon from the Zoological Gardens, Hull, on Monday
last; but a storm came on about noon, when the inflation
was complete, and it was with great exertion that the bal-
loon was not blown away. Though 40 persons held it
down, the gas-valve was broken, and the gas wasted, and
some damage done to the balloon.
CHEESE RETURNS.—The aggregate quantities of cheese
imported into the united kingdom in the year 1847 (end-
ing sth of January, 1848), amounted to 354,832 cwt., in-
cluding 109,322 cwt. from the United States of America,
and 413 cwt. from British possessions abroad. The quan-
tity of foreign European cheese exported from the united
kingdom in 1847 amounted to 4,834 cwt.
ANOTHER DEATH. BY LIGHTNING. —On Monday,
while a party of fisher girls, belonging to Cullercoats,
Northumberland, were searching for sea-eels, on Blyth
Sands, they were suddenly overtaken by a storm of thun-
der andi lightning, when suddenly one of the party, named
Mary Story, about sixteen years of age, was struck by
the lightning and killed on the spot.—Newcastle Courant.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S RISBOROUGH ES-
TATE.—This fine property was sold on Thursday at Ayls-
bury, by order of the directors of the Norwich Union
Fire-office, the mortgagees in sixteen lots. The first bid
was £7,000, and eventually reached 11,200. The reserve
bidding was then announced as £12,000, at which price it
was purchased, after the sale, by the Rev. Mr. Partridge
the occupier.
IMPORTATION' OF SOLESKINS.—The steamers arriving
from Rotterdam have, within these past few weeks,
brought a large quantity of soleskins as a portion of their
cargoes. The skin of the sole, washed and dried, which,
as is probably generally kno an, is available for coffee re-
fining, and other purposes, is a novel article of importa-
tion, and introduced as an experiment. It is duty free on
importation.
A NEW AFRICAN DRUG.—The following is one of the
234 resolutions which Lord George Bentinck proposed for
the adoption of the committee on sugar and coffee plant-
ing ;—" That the negresses, from the circumstances of the
great preference for men, and the almost exclusive demand
during a long period of years for men by the regular slave-
dealers, very much outnumber the negroes, and conse-
quently glutting, are a cheap drug in the African mar-
kets I"
William Barrett, a letter-carrier in the Lambeth dis-
trict of the London Post-office, has been committed for
trial, charged with stealing several letters, money, and
other articles which were being sent to different parties
through the Post-office. The articles of jewellery found
on the prisoner included a lady's bracelet of ivory and
gold, with small figures in ivory appended, a gold ring,
&c. He had also a memorandum-book containing entries
of his visits to the Casino, &c., and a Chartist medal.
Lord John Russell's written offence against literature
was put into action on Thursday night, at the Surrey
Theatre, when " Don Carlos," a tragedy from the pen of
the Premier, was represented to a motly audience. The
greatest hilarity prevailed on the occasion. Nevertheless,
the noble author may well ask, " What enemy bath done
this ?" It is some consolation that the offence is not to
be repeated, the bills having stated that the tragedy was
to be played for the first and only time.
STATISTICS OF METALS.—Some returns, moved for by
Messrs. Pendarves and Vivian, show that 85 tons of lead
ore and 1,176 tons of shot were exported from the United
Kingdom in the year 1847 of copper ore 41,490 tons
were imported in 1847 (yielding a duty of £40,864), and
5,882 tons of unwrought British copper exported. The
imports of tin amounted to 1,165 tons, and the exports to
1,741 tons. The imports of zinc amounted to 12,768 tons,
and the exports to 886 tons.
A singular cricket match was played on Wednesday
week at Wratting, in Suffolk, between a farmer with his
two agricultural pupils and a clergyman with his retriever
dog. The " fielding" of the canine cricketer is said to
have been admirable, but was insufficient to win the game
for his master ; for at the close of the second innings tne
farmer and his pupils were announced to hdve scored 71
notches, while their reverend antagonist and his dog had
made but 55 runs.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—In digging upon the premises
of the Great Northern Railway HAel, Lincoln, the other
day, several bottles of wine were discovered buried at a
considerable depth. The antique appearance of the bot-
tles, which were low and square shaped, clearly proved
that the wine must have been buried for a great number
of years ; the probability is that several centuries must
have elapsed since the wire was consigned to its hiding
place. One of the bottles was much ornamented.—Stam-
ford Herald.
The Tagus steamer, from the Mediterranean, has
brought a considerable sum in specie—£170,000 from
Constantinople, and £50,000 from Alexandria. We
presume the bulk of the remittances from the former
place will be made on account of the banking firms there
who have lately begun to draw bills on England. We
learn, also, from private letters, that specie to some ex-
tent had been sent from Italy to Malta, where it would
probably be invested in the purchase of bills drawn on the
English government.
INFLUX OF IRISH PAUPERS INTO OXFORD.—rhe influx
of Irish paupers appears to be on the increase, and bats
become so overwhelming, that the Anti-Mendicity Society
has been compelled to close their doors altogether against
them. It was stated at the meeting, on Thursday, that
150 pass through Oxford daily, and that no less than 500,
including men, women, and children, have, in the course
of a week, been huddled together in one large room at
the workhouse, where shelter has been afforded them for
the night.—Oxford paper.
DISTRESSING EVENTS.—The beloved daughter of the
Rev. James Linton, of Hemingford, Huntingdonshire,
aged only twenty-one years, was drowned last week,
whilst bathing at Sea View, Isle of Wight ; and near the
same place a female and a child sat upon some pieces of
rock, amusing themselves, till the tide had completely
encircled them, when so great was the consternation
caused by the discovery of their position, that the poor
child was drowned in the confusion and haste to extricate
themselves.
On Wednesday, a numerous meeting, convened by the
West London Reform Association, was held at Chelsea,
for the purpose of adopting a petition to the House of
Commons for household suffrage, vote by ballot, and tri-
ennial parliaments ; and giving the most distinct contra-
diction to the statement of Lord John Russell that the
people did not want reform. Another meeting of the same
kind was held at St. Mary s, Lambeth, on Thursday.
Similar meetings Kaye been held at Manchester, Bath,
and Birmingham.
WHEAT AND POTATOES.—The price of an imperial
bushel of wheat in Hereford ranges from ss. Bd. to 65.,
whilst that of a bushel of potatoes is from 6s. Bd. to Bs.,
thus making the latter the dearest article of the two.
This is remarkable, and the low terms realised for wheat,
combined with the poor prospects of the Lent grain, is
causing much pecuniary difficulty among our agricultu-
rists. Indeed we scarcely remember a period when agri-
culture was more depressed, for although meat fetches a
high price, yet the expense of rearing it renders the profit
to the producer extremely small.
CANARIES.—The gentleman mentioned in a paragraph
in The Times last year as having reared canaries in a state
of freedom has this year succeeded in rearing two broods
of these birds in nests built in his garden—one of them
in a cyprus tree, having three young ones, the hen having
been reared in the open air in July, 1846, since which
time she has been generally free to fly about at pleasure.
Another nest was built in a magnolia by a hen, free from
the time of her birth (in May, 1846), which contained
two young birds hatched on the 15th of April last. The
old birds and the young ones also (with the exception of
one that disappeared) continue their flight about the
grounds, coming in to feed. Each hen has now a second
brood, one consisting of four and the other of three young
birds, which are expected to take flight in a few days.
FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT BRISTOL.—On Wednes-
day morning, a firo broko. out in. ilia chop ,of Pear/roc,
waterproof clothing and cloth manufacturer, Broad Quay,
Bristol. The materials being highly inflammable, the
flames reached a great height, and burned with intense
vividness before the engines (six in number) could be
taken to the spot. All efforts to preserve the building
were unavailing. The adjoining houses were much da-
maged. and the inmates with difficulty escaped. About
five o'clock the body of a woman, wife of a sailor named
Jackson, was discovered. She had lodged in the house,
and the body was found in the kitchen. She was found
on her knees, and was dreadfully burnt. The house and
stock of Mr. Parkes were insured. The other parties,
whose premises and stock were injured, were not insured.
COMMITTAL OF THE CHARTISTLEADERS.—The Chartist
leaders, Ernest Jones, John Fussell, Joseph Williams, and
Alexander Sharpe, were on Wednesday brought before
Mr. Henry, at Bow-street police-office, charged with
" wickedly, maliciously, and seditiously uttering seditious
words concerning the Queen and government." Jones
was apprehended in Manchester on Wednesday morning,
and the other three prisoners in _London at an early hour
that morning. They were all committed for trial, but the
magistrate offered to take bail with twenty-four hours'
notice. Jones was ordered to find sureties--himself in
£5OO, and two sureties in £250 each.—ln the other cases
each party has to find sureties in one hundred pounds,
and two sureties in £2OO each. On Thursday another
leader of these misguided men named W. J. Vernon, of
respectable appearance, was committed for trial. He was
also offered bail, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO
each.
AMERICAN STEAMERS.—Dr. Scoresby remarked, in a
lecture which he delivered in Bradford, on the 25th May,
that the recklessness and daring of the Americans were
remarkable, and might be well illustrated by the value
• which appeared to be set upon life in their steamers.
British steamers sailed across the Atlantic at a pressure
of steam from 5 lbs. to 7 lbs. on the square inch. The
American Atlantic steamers professed to work a a pressure
of 20 lbs. on the square inch, and the North River steamers
at 16 lbs. to 20 lbs., and sometimes 30 lbs., on the square
inch,oo b s
w. il
ande, on the
eMainsdsisesviepnpih,
to—it was, consequently, very easy to account for those
tremendous explosions so frequently occurring on those
rivers. Dr. Scoresby mentioned several of these explosions
higher,
er, pressure
was h
aodf 80
lbs.,recourse
as cases in point—showing that the passengers were equally
to blame with the captains of the steam-boats,

DESTRUCTION Of A CHAPEL.—On Wednesday the ut-
most excitement was caused throughout the parish of St.
Pancras, in consequence of an alarm being raised that the
extensive building known as Grove Street Chapel, Cam-
den Town, was on -fire. The firemen tried all they could
to prevent the conflagration from extending through the
building ; but, owing to the firm hold it had previously
obtained, their exertions met with little success, and the
greater portion of the chapel was destroyed. The total
loss by this disastrous event must be very considerable,
but it is understood that the trustees were insured in the
General Fire Office. How the calamity occurred is enve-
lopad in mystery.
AN URGENT APPEAL.—The Manx Liberal says, " As
we only furnish our accounts once a year and allow them.
to be three months over due before we ask for them, we
think if our subscribers and general customers have any
christianity in them, they will see the propriety of instant
payment. It is degrading to the feelings and subversive
of all right self-esteem to be dunning, begging, and im-
ploring day after day for what is legitimately your own.
Although not !possessed of extraordinary acuteness of
sensibilty on such matters, we feel lessened in our own
opinion when we are compelled to make these reiterated
claims. It is to us mental horror to see a fellow-creature
twisting, stammering, and writhing to find a plausible ex-
cuse for further delay. If parties find it inconvenient to
pay for-newspapers and advertisements, why do they have
them, we do not press our goods upon any man. If they
feel inclined to favour our establishment with their orders
we feel thankful to• them when they pay us for such, but
it does not suit our purpose to be craving with a beggar's
zeal that which is legitimately our own. If the people
are anxious for an independent press they should put the
editors of it in an independent position of paying their
debts, the office carries with it a sufficiency of toil, God
knows, in week after week, year after year, striving;to pro-
vide new matter for the insatiable maw of human cu-
riosity."
ALLEGED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRISTOL.— OR
Monday the bodies of Maria, Edward, and John Hill,
mother and children, were exhumed for the purpose of
being submitted to an examination, rendered necessary
under the following-circumstances :—ln October last the
wife of Mr. Thomas Wellington Hill, a retired builder of
Bristol, died somewhat suddenly, and her death was fol-
lowed in a short time afterwards by the decease of two of
her children. No suspicion was attached to any party at
the time of the death of Mrs. Hill, and not until applica-
tion was made by the husband for the amount of a policy
effected upon the life of the wife in the National Lean
Fund Assurance Society. As the policy was to a large
amount, £3',000, and was only effected four months pre-
vious to the death of the insured, the parties in the insu-
rance office disputed payment and caused inquiries, to be
made respecting the death of the wife, and it was disco-
vered that her illness had been attended by vomiting.
Mr. Hill having threatened the insurance society with an
action, they caused the body of the wife and also the
bodies of the children to be disenterred, and the intestines
given to Mr. Herapath, the celebrated chymist, for analy-
zation. During the time the bodies were being disinter-
red the suspected party committed suicide by means of
essential oil of almonds which he had procured—a portion
himself and another portion by means of a sister—from.
two druggists' shops. Mr. Hill wrote a note previous to
taking the poison, in which he said, in disconnected sen-
tences, " his head suffered severely from mental distrac-
tion. His mind was bowed down by the attempt of a
powerful party to crush him. He was not guilty of the
atrocious charge," &c. At the inquest respecting the
death of Mrs. Hill and the children, it was stated that in
each case arsenic had been detected, and the inquiry was
adjourned to to-day (Tuesday).
TRADE AepouNTs.—We are sorry to perceive that the
official tables-of the board of trade for the past and present
years, ending on the sth ult., show a very unsatisfactory
state of things. The falling off in the import of tea has
been upwards of one million pounds. But it is in our ex-
port trade that affairs look most gloomy. During the first
four months of the present year, the total decline in the
value of our exports, as compared with those of the same
period last year, was £1,746,937, or, at the rate of
£5,240,000 a-year. The value of the exports, in the
month ending sth May, in the present and the two prece,
ding years, were the following :

1846. 1847. 1848.
£ e
1,467,530.... 1,646,252.... 1,272,351
746,333.... 670,082.... 298,078

Cotton manufactures
Cotton yarn

As the exports to the East Indies and China have been on
a tolerably large scale, the preceding decline, and particu-
larly the striking decrease in the shipments of yarn, are
due to the disorganised state of commerce on the continent
of Europe. The total exports of British produce and ma-
nufactures also show a decided decrease, both for the
month and the four months ending sth May. They are
the following

1846. 1847. 1848.
.e
Month ending sth May 4,337,683.. 4,812,852.. 3,345,735
Four months ending sth May 15,873,858.. 16,157,969.. 14,411,032
These accounts now begin to exhibit the effects of the
large purchases of silk goods in France, consequent upon
the low prices prevalent in that country. There is a very
large increase in the imports during the month, the quan-
tities being 70,606 lbs. weight this year against 41,622 lbs.
in 1847, and 52,566 in 1846. The imports for the four
months comprised in the accounts, also exhibit a marked.
increase in the present year.
DESTRUCTION OF SANDON HALL, STAFFORDSHIRE.--.•
We are sorry to learn that a considerable portion of this
beautiful structure, the seat of the Earl of Harrowby,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning last. It is
said that about 10 a.m. the fire was first discovered by
some plumbers, who were at work repairing the roof of
the centre portion of the building where it originated.
It is supposed to have commenced through some accident
connected with their operations. On the discovery of
the disaster, messengers were immediately sent off to
Stafford and Stone, for the fire engines, but before their
arrival the fire hae. acquired such ascendancy as to baffle
attempts to save the centre of the building, which was
completely gutted. The valuable library of books,
numerous paintings, vases, mirrors, works of art, and
articles of vertu, together with the furniture, were re-
moved from the house to the pleasure grounds adjoining,
and from what we can learn, the loss in this respect has
been very trifling : though, of course, the hasty removal
of the articles will cause serious damage to some of them.
During the fire, a joiner named Perkin was crushed to
death by a falling stone, and Mr. Till, of Stafford, was
badly hurt by a similar accident. The engines continued.
to play upon the smouldering mass until Wednesday
evening, when they were all removed. The Earl of Har-
rowby arrived at the scene of destruction on Wednesday
afternoon, from London, in company with Viscount San-
don. He seemed to bear the misfortune with good
humour ; but was much distressed at the death of Perkin,
who was, we believe, a favourite servant of his lordship's,
having been at the hall since his youth. We have not
heard whether the property was insured. A number of
noblemen and gentlemen, from different parts of the
county, were present at the fire, and displayed the utmost
zeal in rendering all assistance possible.
THE MUNICIPAL CEMETERY, LEEDS.—WO find by
the Leeds Infelligencer that the dominant party in the
town council in Leeds are now dissenters and that they
have signalized the commencement of their government
of the new Municipal Cemeteries by imposing an addi-
tional shilling upon every interment in the consecrated
part of the ground (one half of the whole) over and above
the regulated scale of charges. This, as they appre-
hended that it was not legal, was rescinded, but a more
objectionable step followed. It happened that the chap-
laincy to the consecrated part of the burial ground was
vacant, and on a clergyman being appointed by the
Bishop, the dissenters in the council resolved to have a
pecuniary compensation for the concession out of the
future chaplain's stipend. They accordingly voted that
the mere acknowledgment of 40s. a-year should be paid to
the chaplain, instead of the very moderate stipend of £BO
a year, which was formerly voted, and which is only equal
to the salary of the registrar of the unconsecrated ground.
By these and other measures of partiality to their own
party, the result is that with fees, &c., the burial of the
dead, according to the rites of the Church costs the public
(in each case 155.) nearly as much more as burial accord-
ing to the rules of dissent, which is only 7s. 2d. The In-
telligencer asks :—" Is it not enough that the ratepayers
must expend more for the sepulture of one dissenter than
for that of two churchmen ? Or must the disproportion
be still aggravated by withholding an adequate stipend
from the chaplain, or by permitting it to be provided for
out of an annual donation from the vicar, in aid of the
evasive and insulting 40s. voted by the Town Council ?"
The same paper thus concludes :—" The question will of
necessity be again under consideration, as the Rev. G.
Hills has tendered to the Bishop of Ripon his resignation
of the chaplaincy.
JUVENILE DESTITUTION.—In the House of Commons,
last week, Lord Ashley drew the attention of the house to
the state of our youthful population. His lordship points
to the colonies—he asks the legislature to furnish there to
the labouring class a means of honourable adventure. His
proposition is that about £20,000 a-year should be voted
by parliament, to send out annually 500 boys and as many
girls to South Australia, the privilege of being sent out to
be the prize of good conduct and a certain amount of pro- -
ficiency in ragged schools. In this way there would be a
strong inducement given to persons to support these
schools, when thus leading to a direct practical result—
there would be a powerful motive given to the children to
profit by them, and there would be a future provision for
those who did ; there would be a boon to the colonies in
the annual supply of labour, and a relief to the country
even of a part of the expense to which it is put for the
punishment of crime. The cost for punishing crime is
enormous. The prosecution, removal, and subsistence of
prisoners, the expenditure of county gaols and county
houses of correction,—of the metropolitan police, are alone
estimated at a million a year. Now, it is interesting to
know that the effect of ragged schools has been to dimi-
nish crime. In reply to some inquiries of the committee
of industrial ragged schools, Mr. Smith, the governor of
the prison at Edinburgh, says that the commitment to
prison, of boys of 13 years and under, is about 50 per cent.
less in the three months ending March last than in the
corresponding months of last year, which he attributes to
the effects of these schools. He then very significantly
remarks, " The public ought to know that if £5 a year be
not spent on the education and maintenance of a little boy
at a ragged school, £ll a year will probably have to be
paid for him at the prison in Edinburgh, or £l7 for him.
in that of Perth." It is important to know, on the au-
thority of 80 city missionaries, that it is very rare that
young men fall into crime after twenty years of age ; it is
under that age that the peril is great, and that the evidence
of early corruption is shewn. It is gratifying to know that
Sir George Grey approves the plan of juvenile emigration,
founded on an educational test, and that government is
disposed to give every facility for its execution. Satisfied
with this declaration, Lord Ashley withdrew his resolu-
tion, which had some inconvenience in form, as pledging
the house to an annual outlay on no specific plan. We
congratulate his lordship on the subject of his benevolent
advocacy, and earnestly hope it will meet the sympathy
and support it deserves from one extreme to the other of
the land.

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