The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-13 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE LANCASTER ASSIZES.—The Commission for the Summer
Assizes for this county was opened yesterday, by the Lord Chief
Justice Denman and Mr. Baron Bolland. All the cases of any
public interest or importance will be reported in THE STANDA RD.

Lord Sandon, one of the representatives of the borough, has
remitted ten pounds to relieve the widows of the poor men who
lost their lives at the late fire in Scotland-road. Our other
member, Mr. William Ewart, has subscribed the sum of two
pounds for the same praiseworthy object!

The Liver Theatre is undergoing some alterations and repa-
rations, and will be opened next week by that emperor of all
the fiddlers, the Signor Pagauini. We recommend those who
have not heard his almost magical performances to take this
opportunity of doing so.
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The trades' unions are already beginning to break up. Some
men returned to their work yesterday, having at last plucked
up sufficient courage to break the chains imposed upon them by
the idle and the worthless. The Effects of these combinations are
of a heartrending nature in this town. There are hundreds of
famines. who have not a bed to lie upon, and who have been
obliged to pawn or sell almost every article of dress or furni-
ture. Work there is in abundance, and 3.et there are hundreds
of workmen walking. the streets. Good wages might be ob-
tained, and yet their wives and children are either starving or
begging.

LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.—Dr. Murray is about
to enter on a course of lectures on geology, at this institution,
which, if delivered with the tact and spiiit exhibited in his re-
cent lectures at other places, will not be undeserving of the
time that may be devoted to them. If these lectures are not
delivered to mechanics—if this class of persons neither support
nor attend them in any
.considerable number, it would perhaps
be better if these institutions were called by names less iikely to
mislead their supporters.
STEAM NAVIGATION.—The St. George Steam-packet Com-
pany have entered into a treaty of alliance with the Netherland
Steam-packet Company, for facilitating the communications
between this port, Cork, Plymouth, London, and Rotterdam:
To effect this object, one of three steamers engaged for this
trade, will be despatched for London, via Cork and Plymouth,
which place it is expected to make in six days, when the voyage
to Holiand will be resumed after a trans-shipment of the cargo,
whether bibed or quadruped, living or dead lumber, to one of the
Dutch vessels. Any enterprise that has a tendency to increase
the intercourse with Liverpool, whether it be with places near
to or distant from us, foreign or domestic, bus our best wishes
for its success.

There has been an unusual influx of strangers into Liverpool
during the last ten days, and "mine host" of the Adelphi Hotel,
has had the honour ofnumbering among his guests, the Marquis
of Granby, Lord and Lady Acheson and family, Lord Brudenell,
Lord and Lady 'Vernon and party, Sir Robert and Lady
Bateson, the Mayor of Paris, Sir Frederick Trench, Sir Hugs
Stewart, General Taylor, General Yves, General Freeman,
Rev. Dr. Porter, Rev. D. Hutton, of London, Rev. T. Grove,
Colonel Maxwell, Colonel Marshall, Major Lloyd, Major
Sweeney, Captain Grindlav, Major Bowver, Captain Taubmau,
Sir John Rennie, Rev. M. Ryerson, Count and Countess e
Genfield, Mr. ti
astin, of New Orleans, Mr. Rothchild, Mr.
Palmer, Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Wm. Becher,
Mr. Edgeworth, Mr. Bridges, late an M.P. for, and also an ex
alderman of, the city of London; Mr..7St:George and fatuity, of
Frankfort, Captain 111‘Ginnis, Mr. Ilobhouse, and Mr Curtis.
The following is extracted from the /Warning Herald :—" We
understand that a civil engineer has been engaged by Sir John
Milley Doyle to proceed to Oporto, as it is said to be the inten-
tion of the gallant officer to establish a sham communication
between that place and Lisbon. Sir John, it will be recollected,
was the proprietor of a steamer called the Royal George, which
he sold to the existing government of Portugal." In common,
with the English nation, we are not i,norant of the meaning of
that significant word sham ; seeing the universality of its appli-
cation to all patriots par excellence, from those reformers, Sir
John Key and the Reverend Doctor Wade, down to our own
pure andexcellent representative, William Ewart, Esq., who is
horror-struck at the bare mention of bribeiy or corruption in
any shape; but a "sham communication" is among the novel.
ties that we are bound to notice. We perfectly well remember
the sale of the Royal George, and we have a sort of suspicion
that the gallant knight has a peculiar aptitude for selling any
commodity, and no particular dislike to sell royalty whenever a
scrap of it falls iuto his hands.

EMIGRANT PASSfiNGERS. —On Saturday one of those die.
graceful occurrences of outrage to strangers going to America
was heard before the magistrates, upon a warrant, on the com-
plaint of a poor, illiterate Irishman, against one of the subordi-
nate agents for American passengers, who hail agreed to take
the Irishman in the Sylvanus Jenkins to New York for £2 15e.;
but, when he came to the office, five shillings more was demanded
for hospital money, and, upon his remonstrating, he was knocked
down and much 'ill-used. The defendant uas held to bail to
answer for the assault at the sessions. The utility and efficiency
of the office established here by Government for the protection
of emigrants will, no doubt, lead to its being made permanent,
and to the establishment of similar offices at those seaports in
England and Ireland from whence emigrants are shipped, the
active superintendence of which will be attended with very bene-
ficial results

Things in Cockaigne appear to be "in most admired dis-
order." A radical candidate is not to be found "ter love or
money"—nothing goes on as it should do, and the public clocks
are no_ more to be depended upon for telling the honest truth
than Sir John Key, for.they, too, it appears, are given to Icing.
A correspondent of the Herald "expresses his surprise that to
such a city as London, and in the very centre of it, the clock of.
St. Paul's should be allowed to. deceive and disappoint so ms.p.r.
thousands daily " The Herald responds that "the conll'lir'e,;l
not without reason," and tells us moreover that " thr ,
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charge may be brought against St. Martin's clock, 16'41' L'o. 72,
its cousin in the city,' has been dumb fur about the satne.,„.
Other churches (St. John's in the Waterloo.road, for inh.sLati
are also in the same predicament." welbirlk, le
portentous 1 We are not. philosophers enough. to die and it
cause of this sym hpathy
...etween.the clucks nod tlic-ratli.
ait.
appear to lahwir under souse grievous aiiiiction,
recommend Dr. 13itibcck to inquire into the cause o
.ease among the clocks. The euiy opinivu that we Cl
on the subject is, that the cholera moubus has broken o 4

them ; xt any G;te they du not appear to meditate: 4 4.;n

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