The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

PROBABLE LOSS OF THE WEST INDIES

At a meeting cf the West India Association of Liver-
pool on Mon,lay, thanks were voted to the inhabitants of
George Town, Demerara, for passing a series of explicit

the present any grant for the current expens,

of the

_ The act of 1846 baying
ance of cultivation impracticable

colony

having announced their intention to grant no (meet itiief,
the people of Demerara plainly announce that they
" cannot proceed to vote the estimate, or to take any part
in raising the supplies, the sources of income whence the
colonial expenditure has hitherto been defrayed having
ceased to be productive." Commenting on the system
of legislation which has led to these resolutions, the
Liverpool Association observe—
"That the Association cannot believe the inhabitants
of England would, if the matter were fairly brought
before them by Government, restrain their fellow-sub-
jects to an expensive and unremunerative cultivation by
free labour, making it felony for a British colonist to own
a slave, and at the same time allow the foreigner to work
slaves for the production of sugar and coffee for con-
sumption in the markets of this country."
They also added a paragraph which of course will be
regarded and excused as the mere impotent recklessness
of despair, but which still conveys a painful impression
of the wearying injustice by which alone it has been called
forth :

"That as it is impossible for the inhabitants of the
West India colonies to continue the production of sugar
and coffee on such unequal terms of competition with
foreigners, this Association see no other course left, if
effective relief be not immediately afforded, than for the
West India colonies to appeal to the Crown for a release
from their unprofitable allegiance, in order that they may
attach themselves to some other country willing to extend
to them the protection of a parent state, and not to deny
to them all the advantages enjoyed by the foreigner in
the markets of this country."

44.rw5.

The Finance Committee have resolved to recommend
Mr. Bally to the Council as auditor for the borough. •
On Thursday afternoon, the body of a new born female

infant was found in a brickfield, near Great Howard-st.
It was proved to have been still born.
A labourer named Hanlon, sixty years of age, living in
Northampton-street, was found dead in a privy on Thurs-
day night. He died from disease of the brain and heart.

atild, three years old, named Simon, living in
Hague-st., Everton, was killed •on Thursday through a
pile of curb stones falling upon him.
The annual dinner of the Liverpool Chess Club was held
on Wednesday evening, at the Adelphi Hotel, Mr. J. S.
Spreckley in the chair and Mr. Duguid in the vice chair.
Only thirty members attended.

The Adele, Comelissen, from Liverpool for Ostend,
which went on shore near Cape Cornwall, on the 21st
instant, was completely destroyed by the ground swell on
Tuesday.

NEW BRIGHTON.—This delightful and fashionable
watering-place is now filling very rapidly. The weather
being so fine has induced many families to avail them-
selves of the beautiful marine view, fine shore, the light-
house

fort, &c.
ME. GAGE AND THE CORPORATION.—We understand
that Mr. Naysmith, the arbitrator, has decided in favour
of Mr. Gage's claim against the Corporation for services
rendered during the time that the Question of a sufficient

supply of water at home, and from a distance, was under
discussion in Liverpool. The balance claimed by Mr.
Gage was £159, which has been awarded to him with all

SIIICIDE.—On Saturday, Betsey Davies, who kept a
stall in the Fish Market, in Great Charlotte-street, com-
mitted suicide by throwing herself into the river from one
of the Birkenhead steamers. The tide was running out

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rapidly at the time, but it is thought she might have been
saved if her bonnet and cloak had not come off, and risen

the persons who were trying to save her. Itis not x:
with any certainty what was the cause of the suicide

BODY FOUND.—An inquest was held on Wednesday,
on the body of a man'unknown. It appeared that as two
boatmen were in a boat on the river on Monday last,
when opposite to Wallasey Pool they saw the body of
deceased floating on the water, and took it ashore. The
body appeared to have been a long time in the water, and
the features were not at all recognisable. He had on a

pair of baragan trousers, check shirt, white singlet, and
laced np boots, but without either coat or waistcoat. The
jury returned a verdict found drowned.
DEATH FROM BEING KNOCKED DOWN BY A LORRY.

—On Wednesday, an inquest was held on the body of a
woman named Phoebe Perry. It appeared that on Mon-
day last, as a lorry was passing along Bath-street, the
deceased accidentally fell between the Wheels, but the
vehicle being stopped, they did not pass over her body.
She was picked up quite insensible, and conveyed to the
Northern Hospital, where she died in about a quarter of
an hour. The surgeon who had made a post mortem ex-
amination of the body, said that the cause of death was
rapture of the liver and spleen, the result of external vio-
lence. The jury returned a verdict according to the

evidence

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held
on the body of John Cook. It appeared that the deceased,
who resided in Rice-street, went to bed with his wife on
Monday night, apparently quite well; in the morning,
the wife was awoke by hearing the deceased breathing
very heavily. She roused him, but he said nothing; she
then went to sleep again, but in a7mut an hour she was
again awoke by hearing a similar noise. She then got up,
and called in the assistance of a neighbour, and sent for a
surgeon, but deceased was then quite dead. The surgeon
gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from
apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict of died from natu-
ral causes.

W001:TON FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI-
TION.—This show (the first of the season) took place on
Friday in a marquee erected at Woolton village. The
attendance was numerous and highly respectable ; and
the plants, flowers, &c., produced, exceeded in number,
choiceness, and variety, those of former years. A mu-
sical band was in attendance. Amongst the successful
competitors were Mr. T. Davies, of Wavertree, Mr. P.

-q., Mrs. Jos. Ashton, S. L. Phipps, Esq., R.
, I,:sc. and Messrs. J. Harrison, J. Molyneux, B.
Id, C. Wilson, T. W. Bipndell, T. R. Healey, F. H.
P. Gore, G. Bennion, J. Green, A. Dunlop, Rev.
, Musgrove, &c. The decision of the judges
,atisfaction, and• the whole exhibition went off

EXHIBITION OF MODERN PAINTINGS, BY
MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

On entering the rooms in Post-office Place, the work
which first meets us is the Cartoon, •` First Trial by Jury.'
by C. W. Copeland, R.A., which carried off the 360
guinea prize at Westminster Hall. It is a noble design,
simple and classically correct, yet graphic. The murderer
—a bondsman as pointed out by his wearing a collar
round his neck—is placed by the side of the prostrate
victim, apparently on the spot where he fell, and his wife,
stooping over the corpse, is detailing to the feudal Baron
and an attentive Jury the circumstances of the murder,
The grouping and drawing of the various figures intro-
duced is most artistical and clever. _

The painting, No.l, in the large room, " Giving Alms,"
by C._ Landseer, R.A., is an excellent specimen of the
The subject is taken from the following
Styles Annals of the Reformation,"—" This

passage in
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aig,fit and his daughter had the character of very good
almsgivers, in respect of their great liberality to the poor ;"
and the painter has given the worthy knight in the act of
distributing alms at the porch of his Hall to a crowd of
supplicants, whose various characters and conditions
are forcibly depicted. The knight himself is a fine rep-
resentative of his class ; and, amongst the other figures
that of a negro and the sturdy Flemish-looking kitchen
wench, who is bringing out a supply of provisions, are
most striking.

No. 3, "The Deluge," by F. Danby, A.R.A., is a
wonderful painting, striking in its conception, and most
masterly in detail and execution. The artist has intro-
duced as his principal object a towering rock, around
whose base the mighty flood is surging, and whose steep
sides are studded with a multitude of human beings,
frantically struggling to attain its summit. The figures
and features of the crowd stand out clearly in the wild
white light of the tempest ; and those who have already
reached the top are painted with surprising force and,
at the same time, almost the minuteness of minatures.
In the foreground, on the left, a terrific scene is intro-
duced, in which a number of figures are seen clinging to
a tree, which is giving way beneath their weight and the
force of the waters. The sky and the pouring clouds are
fiinely conceived and full of grandeur; and through an
opening the ark is seen riding tranquilly in the distance.
A fine effect is produced by the blood-red sun, settling at
the left hand corner. This noble work of art deserves
to be studied, and will amply repay frequent visits.
No. 5, " And Christ was subject to his parents," by
Herbert, is a beautiful specimen of the artist, chaste and
simple in

its details, and solemn in conception. The
youthful Saviour is represented as entering the work-
shop of Joseph, carrying a basket of chips, in a heap of
which upon the floor a cross has been accidentally formed
by two intersecting pieces of bark. He is in the attitude
of one startled by some dim remembrance or passing
thought • and the painter has suggested, by the quotation
of some lines, that possibly at times his destiny was thus
suggested to him. The Virgin Mother has her eyes fixed
upon her son with a mournful and solemn expression, as
if she herself were conscious of the feelings which were
passing through his mind. His figure is the most strik-
ing in the picture, which throughout is full of genius.
We observe that an engraving of this work is in prepara-
tion.