The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

we are within a few weeks

f the commencement of

NEWS ABOUT THE POTATOE-CROP.---A
- ...Lenient is going the round of the papers to the effect
nounces the fact that the three Presidents destined to that in one part of the country a person on examining a
govern the new Colleges are already selected. Two of potatoe-crop found that it was full of disease; he went in
them are to be Roman Catholics; one, Sir Robert Kean, ten days after and saw that it was entirely gone ! Accord-
for the Southern College, the other, Dr. Kirwan, a ing to this ingenious piece of intelligence the best way
Romish priest, for the Western College. The Northern will be to leave the disorder alone—perhaps, like Si"
College is to be presided over by a Protestant, the Rev. H-- - "1 go (sir

another famine in the sister country.
THE Inisn COLLEGES.—A pamphlet from the pen of
Dr. Ennis, Archbishop Murray's Envoy at Rome, an-

CHEERING

M. Henry, described by Dr. Ennis as "a minister of that

candy's fire, it will go off of itself.
JULLIEN's BANKRUPTCY.—This bankrupt has obtained
The debts now are £12,000. His attor-

.s certificate

the Irish clergy; his principles of honesty and liberality per cent. ! One of his ruinous speculations was engaging
being known to all from experience ; he having been for Mddle. Dorus Gras at £2OOO for only a short time. One
many years a member of the Board of National Education." item of his personal expenEes was £IBUO for presents to
WEALTHY PAUPERS.—The failure of the potatoe cron his musicians in a rear

ie prospects of the

Is said to oe an ascertained tact, anc
winter are most alarming. Mr. S.
asked what means are to be adopt
relieve the distress. We shall soon have abundant ap-
peals for eleemosynary aid ; but we hope we shall not have
any more of the improvident expenditure of 1846. To
tho. se well-meaning and benevolent. individuals who are

THE KING OF THE BEI.G;AN'S ANNUITY

The ac-

lions from the

mpena

Great Britain, have been published, from which it appears
that the annual expense of keeping up Claremont, to-
gether with certain pensions and salaries, amounts to

On Si-inday last a party of frish reapers took their seats
in a train travelling on the North Midland It.ilway from
Treasury, in reference to the Irish Savings Banks :—" Se- Rotheram to Masbro'. Not having provided themselves
veral parties who were inmates of the union workhouse, with the usual tickets they thought they might as well get
as well as recipients of the late relief fund, appeared be- out before the train stopped. This they effected when the
fore me as claimants, and three parties who were in the train was near Normanton. The engineer pulled up, how-
gaol as debtors came in the custody of the gaoler to claim ever, and guards, station men, and passengers followed in
deposits." And again—" I would observe that by far the hot pursuit after the Irishmen. Several of them were
taken, and next day were fined heavily by a magistrate.
REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.—On Sunday, a child
of Mr. Edgar, tewdealer, about two years old, having been
taken by her sister into the attic, fell out of the window, a
height offull 30 feet, upon the pebble pave
and was taken up quite insensible ; but was f

tract from a letter by

regularly paid into thelxcheq

out attention to the following ex-
Mr. Tidd Pratt to the Lords of the

though to all appearance in the greatest destitution, were

not, horn the investigation 1 had made, parties for whom
these institutions were intended, but they had invested

theitmoney to the amounts before stated [viz., £l,lOO,
£B5O, £620, £5OO, £4OO, £320, &c.], in order to avoid

the payme

.• acBcal Uptill
i '••
them,•••
and in numerous instances they were living on
charity, or were recipients of indoor or outdoor relief ; and
• .• .•

nt below

most utter utsregarti tor truth, and the attempts at fraud,
falsehood, and subornation of perjury, which were made
by the claimants."—A pretty result of the alms-system
of 1846-1847
CONCILIATION.—We have done much to discourage
Protestantism, and to encourase Ponerv_ That ;a fn

cover. It is supposed that clothes acted as a para-
chute to break the'forceof the fall, and that she alighted

•
to back his waggon into a quickset hedge, at Horsemon.
den, in Kent, and thus upset three hives of bees, which
immediately attacked their disturbers with such fury, that

means o

an ivory ins

❑ouse, w

ble enc

THE CHARTISTS AND IRISH CONFEDERATES

Another large meeting of these parties was held on
Wednesday at the South London Chartist Hall. The
chairman observed, that according to the Attorney-
General, it was sedition to repeat at one meeting any sedi-
tious language that had been spoken by other speakers
at any previous meeting. There were, he went on to

state, 70,000 men out of employ in LondOn, but the Char-
ter would cure this, and all their other grievances, whilst
the measures of Messrs. Hume and Cobden would prove
wholly inefficacious. The proceedings at the meeting
were of no general interest.
At the Mansion house police-office on Wednesday,
John Shaw, against whom a warrant had been issued
by the Lord Mayor, for having attended an unlawful
meeting and used seditious language was brought before
his Lordship. A great deal of curiosity was excited by
the examination, the prisoner having been chairman of
the meeting in the Milton-street Theatre, at which the
alleged seditious words were used, and J. J. Bezer having
been a few days ago committed to Ncwgate upon a similar
charge. The report of the prisoner's speech by a Govern-
ment short-hand writer, was read at length. He was
then committed for a misdemeanour.
On Wednesday, two more chartists—Hoyle and Ro-
gers, the latter apprehended at Nottingham—were ar-
rested. All the Manchester prisoners, except Burton and
Leach, who have been bailed out; have been sent to Kirk-
dale Gaol, not having been able to procure the bail.

--The Standard stares that amongst the fire-balls, car-
tridges, &c., seized by the police at the lodgings of some
of the Chartists lately arrested, are some missiles of a dia-
bolical character. They consist of a packet, somewhat
square in form, covered with brown papal., and filled with
nails, pieces of iron, and coarse gunpowder. Attached to
each is a fusee of cotton, which leads to the powder.
When ignited, the packet would in half a minute explode,
and kill or seriously injure any one near. These missiles,
it is supposed, were to have been thrown into the windows
of houses the night the ringleaders were apprehended.
On Wednesday, the following persons were apprehended
at Ashton by Inspector Maiden, assisted by Mr. Sykes
and Mr. Higgs, of the county constabulary, wi h a party

his men :—James Taylor, -treasurer of the Chartist
miation ; John Taylor, son of ditto; W. Atkinson,
schoolmaster; James Harrop, gas fitter ; Edward Harrop,
actory hand ; William Bonito!), ditto; W. Madn, la-
bourer; and I'. Storer, shoemaker. The whole of the
above, and James RatelitTe, were apprehended under a

bench warrant. Ratcliffe was arrested by Maiden, of
Ashton, and Inspector Bates, of the detective force of Li-
;crpool, on board the ship Ocean Monarch, bound for
Boston, North America, in which be was found stowed
►w•ay in the hold among a quantity of old wood ynd hay._

'William Dowling, artist and portrait painter, an Irish
orrfederate, was brought before Mr. Henry, at Bow-
rtet on Monday, charged, on. the evidence of Powell,
.vith.being one of the Chartist delegates present at the
Lord Denman beer-shop on Tuesday evening, Avhen Mut-
. ins, th^. chairman, went round the room and a,ked each
And obliged to I :elczate whether lie would come out arid fig,ht on the fol-

;he " Plotting Ceinniittee," whose duty it was to devise
Aans for carrying out the i►:teaxted Chartist attack. lis
also was remanded.

'ter its time

von. is auout au yarns long anu zi yarns wide, the depth at nine o'c
being considerable. The supplying stream, from the late to
heavy rains, has been much swollen. The inmate of a th
house at the end of Back Water-street was alarmed by
" •

morning, and which was thelitisier
e. As soon as the engine"'
he
gain saw the approael: of theres bu,
immediately put all steam on to get out of the wrtl'"p:Broi
auuni Lig Milo ne per- before he could attain any speed, the exPre" canic roge
ceived his house to be surrounded by the torrent, and had dashed right into the hinder carriages. Four car„.
scarcely escaped with his wife and children over the roof were completely dashed to pieces, and the wo,n_d_eie•tii!ote.ll,

0
___ of his own any of the passengers escaped. An engine zi
tly after the whole house was overset, went forward to Lancaster for surgeons, and on t'n/00,
ve persons who inhabited cellars in rival it was found, that although many were much loq
cgs were drowned. The reservoir is there was only one killed—a woman of the name
situated 600 or 700 yards from the scene of the disaster, mondson, from Poulton-le-Sands, near Lancastero
at an elevation of 200 feet above the town, so that the men received compound fractures of the skull, avaitOer
force of the inundation may be imagined. A culvert lie in the House of Recovery in a hopeless e°„,,,11'
through which the waste water of the reservoir runs, and Mrs. Yates, of Lancaster, had her face much out, " l°:'
'which
1
'which passes under the principal street of the town, was collar-bone broken. A Miss Bland, of the satoeii;jor'",
burst, and the cellars filled with water; in these six per- received several injuries. The number of the
sons were drowned. In one house four children were amounts to between ten and twelve. When thevoidij,
carried out at the door by the torrent, but were fortunately driver and stoker on the express train saw wha,t.;„ijoorl
saved. Many persons were floated about, and much pro- evitably happen they jumped off and escape" '—ireet 4
perty destroyed. The flood lasted about an hour. Mr. William Jackson, of Lancaster. one of the
e,
The gale was felt severely on the coast of the Isle of of the Lancaster and Preston Railway, was tikll9°./lelf
Man. Several hundred fishing-boats assembled at the train at the time, and leaped out unhurt. Mrs" a 1°!of
Calf of Man were scattered in all directions, and four son, who was killed, had in her arms at the time; Woo
boats in seeking shelter in Port St. Mary bay were driven little boy about four years old, who received jelarreAil
on the rocks and became total wrecks. Fortunately only whatever. This is the first collision that has oc yevio
one man was drowned.
theaa
bLancastereeo
opened an,daPo Preston
hasston
causedßailway
dduring f telixec
ftefeeTc ,lia
At Penwortham and Hutton in this county then has 1
been much land under water. At the Old Grange Farm, the neighbourhood. Mr. Beckett, tea-dealer, lieseefell
occupied by Mr. Oliver Ball, in the latter township, up- ter, had a marvellous escape. He was in one of t lie 001
wards of fifty acres of grain, potatoes, &c., were covered. class carriages that was smashed to piecO• loth
Great numbers of persons at Charnock Moss, Penwor- through the bottom of the carriage when it Pa
tham, have suffered from the flooding of their crops. In escaped without even a mark of injury.
some instances, potatoes and grain have been carried

away ; and in one instance at Ojai nock Moss a haystack
was a yard deep in water. At Longton, the whole of the
lands near the Marsh, and the other low lands in the - ---- for '
Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is a candidate 10°
township have been covered. In Longton and the neigh- „ea :,‘
the approaching election.
bourhood the water has been across the turnpike-road, in
places where the oldest villager does not remember such The Cheltenham Election Committeeeibec,reed: is
that Mr. Craven Berkeley was not duly '
an occurrence previously to have taken place. Hoole.was through his agents been guilty of treating•
similarly visited ; and Bretherton Heys were also under
water, as well as some of the low lands of Rufford. At

POLITICAL MISCELLAN

MORE ABOUT THE SPANISH MARRI

Croston the streets were " swimming," according to our -----
informant's accountmany of the houses being let
~ je.
Ate bsl
flooded, much furniture was floating about. The Revue Retrospective publishes a " 046,4 (Y
of Lord Aberdeen to M. Guizot, dated Sep.
11' Ulde 0-
again shifts the burden of blame on to the s''"4oo'.too
the French Government in the Spanish marriaq joertiie
His lordship explains that, although Lord, fa,i Keels
placed Prince Leopold on the list of candjua-04 "lot
Queen's hands it was because direct overtures deorSoir
made by Queen Christiana, and not from a',l,Ypoa
other than the success of one of the sons 0'

V
cisco : ,c °lce
or to prof
rOttiot
" I have always done everything in my Pow--,,, ,-;oil 'mit
that this country had no interest in the si,—":pie- ii, -Df
Leopold, and to remove from your mind every Ot, soc_keti
to
his intentions, if indeed he ever entertained alljoyar;ot,011
of which to this hour I am quite ignorant, were seoln ipe
the English Government. I had very.frequentt. all' oi, 'for
with the Queen and Prince Albert on this subjeeaa pis 131 e oi
remember saying to Jurnac, that after what h 0 pePlotit
Prince could never speak to me again, if it Nye,. witb 4
him to engage in any, intrigue for such an Ode" ,tiol:t
knowledge." t intruVu".ll
Lord Aberdeen reminds M. Guizot. tha •,.riiag„gli'„
had been given to Mr. Bulwer, , when the reltliJi,ttere'i
of Saxe Coburg wasproposed , that the feeling'. c A to.,et °
Government on the marriage question rernaiDe"prosPc Cofr
and, after expressing his satisfaction e the cailoi'tnely
the marriage of the Queen with the Duke at' Soo '
the
eludes with a free yet friendly warning en ' do .n°l
sier union : d o"d ir
-4'
" A descendent of Philip V. has been selectc !_ibt O 0 0!,,,
comprehend, therefore, why it has been thougb.ro!,7o.l !Alfa 'tile
x s.,osllri!y
Lrie, rill :lilt
sary to abandon the engagement voluntarily V reseec to to
me last year, and since frequently repeatT,teordiagoseaoiep
marriage of the Duke de Montpensier. i'i'i`-pq proltpesArepi
terms of that engagement, although the . of .)i'lcul" a
demand the hand of the Infanta for the Prtheid liaVe., the
he promised not to do so until the Queen silo Cured
I or,
and the succession to the throne should be se arrscte
rect line. rt 0,
4. Lobe 1:1 ;0e CO
co
• " I did not feel called upon to object it °tier ite
sinjoe:
to
t?len
rtehaesoconnavinerya-,mtvhceLie•nasrop:saroefo
tries; and as the question itself would ilea:- -decide dict
considerable time before it could be final it ,vas fie
possible that the views of policy by IlieCitia,'• rotOettel
might, in the interval, receive some mo(J-- Nr the iieg tv,
" You n.ay have reasons unknown to no, .
aiii qtle.ti
cog
adopted by the French Government ; alitt,ls„, a. 'jet
..,iye,
that to you they must appear sufficient, as_: did aolq. o_7 t:;.
you would never do anything for which 301., dor ,;-1 fowl",
self to be fully justified. But 1 confess, ti )te aconi,ouicycot
thfit I nrn nt n incq to iiPri•PicC all ade9?r,,,t }Till' kild

change which has taken
"MA A alll.l 411, il IV.A AV i•LA •-•,. • ••• -
me to state frankly, and without any disgul
..4I be u,,ziv,
~
sion upon the subject. Any other coin, e Iv,,"t'friervi'' pc,'
with my sincere regard tor you, and with In'
roe tocopli
I trust nothing can ever diminish. ,cars t°4oos.„ce ~,
" The measure, as now contemplated, al,l‘ d
, , to set„rov?'-,it6i
place• I ain-sure ki-L:-,-„y
.I`,T;ooD',"liiv
vprt+ ,Inul:f fill ilnliev_ nnil may perhrtj2s;:L.-,-,,,t r. 0): sit a,,-rel,-,c

11:1, l•V1 &&&&& 111 liVill.j, ..... ••••- •
But upon these niatters it 1' .",-I that, ..-, ~- i,%,
preyent to decide. I have onlv to assure 3 0-,sio till,.`oo to 01'
whether i❑ a public or private 'capacity, You ~ervall..6l,eil, slie
and anxious to co-operate with you in the IT- 000.0010er'
good understandint.; which we have iniPPi'Xties, liti''lrll'lY '
SCC(.,Efully maintained, under taany difi“l,,', i on -Litii.o,l(
SRCcountrie3 in the last tive years, and wlin:,_:o., of 1,0. ), ~
SU:Vied is essential to the welfare and proslx ri
.;'iliCe' i OP
Believe me, lily dear M. 6uizio_ ever D'Am".. AusoP

tr,Otic)

It, 19 a very fonlis.h thing toi
sleeping uartn?r, because he may aym itf
D 1 the Gaztlte.--Conanissicner 11 co.