The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

etneral gtiatilanv.

The hay harvest has commenced in Northumberland,
and the crops are abundant, particularly those of old grass.
Mr. Joseph Roebuck, manager for the Messrs. Pickford,
at Worcester, committed suicide last week.
The Duke of Bedford has purchased the horse " Jus-
tice to Ireland," for £2.500.
On Thursday, the take of salmon was so great in the
Tyne that large fish were sold in the market at 6d. per lb.
PUBLIC HEALTH BlLL.—This hill passed in the House
of Commons on Tuesday. We do not anticipate it will
encounter much opposition in the Lords.
A new London daily paper is to be commenced next
month, at two-pence. It will support the reform move-
ment.

A crow's nest with young may now be seen on the sum-
mit of one of the spires at the eastern end of Durham
Cathedral. .

GILMoUR AGAIN !—This worthy is now pouring in his
orders upon the outfitters, having some noys he wishes to
send to sea !•

In one number of the Times this week there were no
less than seventy advertisements of governesses wanting
situations.

Lady Elizabeth Moncrieffe died on Saturday, at her re-
sidence in Chapel-street, from the effects of the injuries
she sustained by having accidentally caught fire.
At "Witney, Gloucestershire, a young woman, who had
been married only six weeks, was hawked about last week,
with a halter on her neck, for sale by her husband.
Ann Sykes, a young girl in delicate health, died last
week at Thurstenland, in consequence of eating a quantity
of unripe gooseberries.
The sticks of rhubarb which took the premier prize at
the Macclesfield show were each 37 inches long and 9 lb.
13 oz. weight.
A vessel arrived in the docks from Hong-Kong and the
Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought 1,020 par-
cels of iron.

The Times is now lending its valuable aid to the expo-
sure of the " Count Touzery gang," who have, for the
last three years itinerated with goods, pretending to be
custom-house seizures and the like.

Sir John Richardson and his party arrived at Lake Su-
perior on the 29th April, and left a few days after, on
their journey overland to the Arctic regions, in search of
the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin.
On Friday, Edward Moody was sentenced, at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, to transportation for twenty years,
for uttering forged five-pound notes. He was convicted
of three several offences. _ _

Dr. Chambers, the leading fashionable physician in the
metropolis, has been obliged to retire into the country for
the benefit of his health, and it is doubtful whether he
will ever be able to resume his labours.
Prince Albert has sent a contribution of £25 towards
the erection of the monument recently completed to the
memory of the late Mrs. Siddons, which is about to be
placed in Westminster Abbey.
Lord Nugent, in accordance with the wishes of his la-
mented lady, has purchased twenty-five acres of land in
the neighbourhood of Weedon, for the purpose of allot-
ting them to the poor for ever.
Last week, at Lincolnshire, Mr. Hitchins, coroner,
stated that in the course of ten years he had held 111 in-
quests on the bodies of persons who had perished from
accidents caused by drunkenness.
CONSOLATION FOR MOTHERS.—When young children
cry lustily, they grow well and rapidly ; for through cry-
ing, the members and veins are stretched out which have
no other exercise.—Martin Luther.

The Inverness Courier describes the grouse season as
progressing very satisfactorily. In general the broods
contain nine or ten; fourteen have been counted in one
covey. No disease appears among the old grouse.
Keen and Young Sambo fought near Newmarket, on
Tuesday last, for £2OO. The battle consisted of six
rounds, lasted 19 minutes, and was decided in favour of
Keen.
At Judges' Chambers, on Friday, bail for Mr. Ernest
Jones, e chartist leader, appeared, and was accepted by
Justic attison : Mr. Jones was set at liberty. On Sa-
turday Mr. Fussell was enlarged on bail.
The Commissioners of Customs have issued directions
to their officers at the outports, to prevent the exportation
of any arms and warlike stores for the purpose of being
employed in hostilities against the Danish government.
On Thursday the bakers of London lowered the
.41b.
loaf Id. Those at the west end now only charge 7d. for
the best quality ; the second-rate Gd. and 51d. Many,
however, in populous districts are selling it at 5d., weighed
on delivery.

A GOOD JUMP.—At Epworth, on Monday, a bet be-
tween the footman of E. Waddington, Esq., and Mr.
Rd. Leggott, against the former jumping 17 feet in one
jump, was decided. It was won by the former jumping
171 feet.
In the birth-announcements in The Times, which are
all paid for, the following appeared a few days since :
" On the 9th inst., at Rotherhithe (in the unconsciousness
of mesmeric sleep), the wife of Mr. James Payne, of a
daughter."
Some workmen who were taking down a house at
Worcester the other day, found the skeleton of a cat, in
a narrow crevice between the joints, and 'a few inches
before her, where the crevice was still narrower, the
skeleton of a rat. 1
The guano mummy, which was exhibited in Liverpoo,
some time since, is to be presented to the Emperor oi
Brazil. The British Museum commissioners have offered
£5OO for it. This exhibition, at present at Manchester,
realised £2,440 to the proprietor in eighteen months.
A splendid silver claret jug and salver has been pre-
sented to Mr. Wilson, the Scottish vocalist, by some of
his friends, " in commemoration of his successful exer-
tions in reviving the public taste for the beauties of Scot-
tish song."
ECONOMY !—Orders have been given by the Govern-
ment for an extensive discharge of artisans now employed
in our dock-yards. We think we can point out quarters
where much more important and less injurious reduction
of expenditure could be made.

The poorbox of the Bristol Infirmary was opened on
Friday, after a lapse of three years, and was found to con-
tain the following amounts :--Gold, £3 10s. ; silver, £l3
3s. 10d. ; copper, £1 ss. ; making a total of £l7
19s. 10. in aid of the funds of the institution.
A Court of Queen's Bench jury, directed by Lord
Denman, have found a verdict with damages of £lO against
Mr. Flint, a draper, of Oxtord-street, London, for having
turned a lady of the name of Palmer from his shop, on
the suspicion that she was a shoplifter.
In the item of Royal " housemaids," of whom there
are forty at Buckingham Palace and forty at Windsor,
great reductions are reported to have taken place. Four
years ago they had £45, now only £l2 to £lB wages ;
and no pension, no matter how long in the Royal service.
Mr. Watt, jun., of Birmingham, recently deceased,
has bequeathed to Lord Brougham £50,000. Another
circumstance, not generally known, redounds much to
the honour of his lordship. The £25,000 left him by
Mrs. Flaherty, of Hammersmith, he generously gave to
his brother, Mr. W. Brougham.
ADVANTAGE OF PRISON FARE.—On Saturday, a
woman named Louisa Davis was indicted at the Central
Criminal Court, for stealing a watch from the person of
William Deverill. So great was the alteration for the
better in her appearance, that the prosecutor had some
difficulty in identifying her.
Charles Verrier, of Kingswood-hill, near Bristol, killed
his infant son a fortnight since, by a mischance resulting
from passion. He threw a poker at another of his children,
who had disobeyed its mother ; and, missing that child,
the poker fractured the skull of the infant killed. A coro-
ner's jury found the father guilty of manslaughter.
A serious faction fight took place at Raphoe, on Thurs-
day. Several severe contusions were received on both
sides. Stones flew as thick as hail. All the shops and
dwelling-houses were closed and barricaded, and business
entirely suspended for half an hour, during which the
belligerents fought with desperation.
Mr. H. G. Nicholls, recently a clerk in Bristol, com-
mitted suicide in prison last.week. He was found hang-
ing from a bar of his cell window ; his two cotton stock-
ings, tied together, were tied round his neck, and also
tied to the bar of his window, the knot of the stockings
was close under his right ear.
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The second annual cricket match between eleven of
England and twenty-two selected from the clubs of Bir-
mingham and a district of twenty miles, was commenced
on Monday, on the ground of the Birmingham Club, at
Edgbaston, and brought to a close on Tuesday ; the ele-
ven winning with six wickets to go down.
On the night of the 9th instant, during a violent storm
raging on the Brecon Beacons, five yearling bullocks,
three yearling heifers, and a cow with a calf, were blown
over the precipice, on the eastern side of the Peak, and
were of course all killed by the fall from such a fearful
height.

LIBEL.-Mr. Murdo Young, the proprietor of the Sun
newspaper, was on Wednesday convicted of a libel upon
Mr. Cochrane, the late candidate for the representation of
Westminster, in the damages of 40s. The libel charged
the plaintiff with having written a disgraceful and immoral
work, entitled " The wanderings of Don Juan de Vega."
DEPARTURE OF THE WEST INDIA STEAMER.—The
Thames, which was detained by a government order, sailed
on Wednesday. The homeward-bound West India
steamer having arrived on Tuesday night, has enabled the
passengers by her to notify their safe arrival in England,
by the Thames, a circumstance that has not occurred
before.
On Tuesday the ceremony of laying the foundation
stone of 40 alms-houses, the future residences of decayed
parishioners of St. Clement Danes, London, took place
amidst a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen
at Garratt-lane, Streatham. The building will be of the
Elizabethan style, with a frontage of 350 feet, and will
cost £14,000.
On Wednesday, the extensive premises originally occu-
pied as a theatre by Ben Jonson, and known as the Play-
house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London,
were taken possession of by the Royal College of Sur-
geons, who were about to erect a museum on its site for
the reception of the celebrated Hunterian collection, pre-
sented by government to the college.
A GIPSY'S DOWRY.—There was a gipsy's wedding at
Upton Bishop on Saturday, and we are informed, says
the Hereford Journal, that. the parents of the bride were
enabled to give her the handsome fortune of four thou-
sand pounds ! Taking it, however, at one-fourth or even
one-eighth of that amount, this is a dowry such as falls to
very few indeed of the industrious classes.
The Waterloo Banquet was held on Monday (the 18th
being on Sunday). The Duke received the usual congra-
tulatory visits—viz., from Prince Albert, F.M. Grosve-
nor, Viscount Beresford, Duke of Richmond, Viscount
Combermere, &c. Piccadilly was almost impasnble,
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from the great assemblage of spectators n carriages.
Covers were laid for eighty-four persons.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a woman.
named Gardner, a cook, obtained a verdict of 40s. da-
mages against her former mistress, Mrs. Slade, of
Lowndes-square, London, for a passage in a letter to a
subsequent mistress of the plaintiff, twelve months after-
wards, which reflected upon her honesty. This verdict
'lot 40s. will probably cost the defendant 400..

WATERWORKS AND CEMETERIES.—A letter from Dr..
Truman, in the Times, complains that the water supplied
by the Hampstead Waterworks Company from a well
recently sunk at the foot of Highgate-hill, not 300 yards
from that part of the hill on which the Highgate Ceme-
tery stands, has a most nauseous taste and smell, to the
great alarm of the inhabitants, who are apprehensive lest
some frightful epidemic disease should be the consequence.
Mr. John Briggs, a Chartist delegate from Sheffield,
has been removed to the West Riding Lunatic Asylum,
having exhibited unmistakeable symptoms of insanity.
A few of his brother conventionists might have been re-
moved with him to the benefit of the community at large.
The unfortunate man has since died raving mad. At the
inquest the verdict was "That death was owing to the
softening of the brain, caused by mental excitement."
A widow of the name of Harridge sought on Wednesday
in the Westminster County Court, to recover from
Viscount Palmerston the sum of £lO 3s. 4d. for shoeing
his lordship's horses. Evidence having been given to
show that the work had been done, the judge said be
should make an order for the payment on the sth of July,
which would give Lord Palmerston an opportunity to ap-
ply for a new trial if he thought proper.
THE CROPS.—The grain has greatly improved beneath
the genial influence of the recent showers, and beans and
pease promise well, which, after the total failure of last
year, is cheering. Apples will not be so abundant as was
at one time expected, but pears will probably offer a plen-
tiful crop. Potatoes look as well as we ever remember.
The hop-yards of this county look well, and the same is
the case in the other extensive hop-growing districts.—
Hereford Journal.
We know, from official sources, that the proportion per
cent of commitments for North Wales, is sixty-one per
cent below the calculated average for all England and
Wales, on the same amount of male population of the
like ages. In fact the gaols of Wales are commonly
empty, or the next thing to it ; and the whole twelve coun-
ties would hardly keep one barrister, on the crown side,
above starving point. Maiden assizes are anything but
uncommon in that country.

A PUZZLE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.—A few years
ago raw hides were selling at sd. per pound, at a time,
too, when there was a duty of 3d. per pound upon tanned
leather. At the present time raw hides are selling at five
farthings per pound, with no duty on tanned leather, and
yet boots and shoes are no cheaper than they were before
the duty was repealed, and when raw hides were 25 per
cent. dearer than at present ! Will any correspondent
inform us who it is that pockets the difference ?
Gilbert A. a'Beckett has, within the last few days, got a
government commis,ionership, and the public may shortly
expect a " blue book " from his pen in reference to one of
our agricultural counties, noted for its calves ! This is
the third press recognition by government within the last
few months : Fonblanque, Examiner ; Mr. A. Doyle,
Chronicle; and Mr. A. a'Beckett, Punch. The last
named and last appointed has for a considerable period
been a writer in another leading journal as well as Punch.
—Cheltenham Chronicle.
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The Kensington Board of Guardians has recently made
a strong representation to the Poor-law Board, with re-
ference to the great expense to which the parish is sub-
jected by the number of tramps, chiefly Irish, with which
it has recently been infested. It appears that, within the
last fortnight, no fewer than 1,637 have presented them-
selves at the workhouse, of whom 1,378 were relieved in
the workhouse. Of the 1,378 persons, 705 were Irish,
while in the three preceding years the number was only
430.

It appears that Sir J. Lubbock, of High Elms, Mon-
mouth, supplies funds to a village schoolmaster for the
destruction of all the wasps in his vicinity, by the urchins
of the school. 1600 have already perished, and the para-
graph proceeds to say, as every wasp killed at this period
of the year is a nest destroyed, and allowing one in five
to be a male, no less than 1280 nests have been destroyed,
which, allowing them to produce on an average 1000
young ones, will make 1,280,000 young destroyed, which,
together with their parents, will make 1,281,600—the
total number the vicinity is treed from.
ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE.—A painful accident Oc-
curred to Mr. Pritchard, the lessee and manager of the
theatre at Leeds, on Wednesday, while he was playing
the part of Macduff to Macready's Macbeth. In the tight
represented in the last scene the point of Mr. Macready's
sword unfortunately struck Mr. Pritchard on the face with
such force as to cut through the cartilage of the nose and
the upper lip, penetrating to the bone. It was with diffi-
culty Mr. Pritchard was able to retain his place on the
stage till the conclusion of the scene, and he could not
speak the remainder of his part.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT VICTORIA IRON WORKS.—
ELEVEN LIVES LOST.—The Monmouthshire Merlin
states that the scene of this awful catastrophe was a pit
known as No. 6 Black Vein Iron Stone-pit, at the above-
named works. On Wednesday morning, as the men
were descending the pit, by some unknown cause the
cross-pieces were separated from the ascending bucket,
by which it was roped to the surface, when that to which
it was opposed descended with proportionably increased
velocity, until the unfortunate men were precipitated to
the bottom with a tremendous crash, by which they all
perished.
Oh Tuesday a wretched looking young man, named
llart, described as a French polisher, gave himself up to
the London police, as, jointly with another man, the
murderer of the boy Lazarus, whose mysterious death in
an enclosed yard in Spitafields has excited much attention.
He confesses that he was with the man when he strangled
the boy with a blue pocket handkerchief, and afterwards
sold the clothes. He now gave the information in conse-
quence of quarrelling with his companion, and finding a
free pardon was offered to any accomplice not being the
actual murderer. He was remanded at Worship-street
till his alleged companion should have been taken.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, as Miss Row-
land, of Ipswich, was walking up the London-road, she
suddenly felt a great heat at the back of her arm, and was
terrified at finding flames shooting up from her dress.
The lady, in her fright, rushed across the road, into the
" Bear and Crown," where Mr. Cornish, the landlord,
threw her to the ground, rolled her over and over, and
succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The lady sus-
tained no injury beyond a slight burning on the hand
when she first felt the fire. The cause of this most sin-
gular affair is quite a mystery ; but it is supposed that
Miss Rowland must have trodden on a lucifer match on
the pathway.

THE CHARTIST ALLOTMENTS.-Mr. O'Connor has re-
ceived all the subscriptions and holds them in his own
name. He has invested upwards of £40,000 in land in
Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Ox-
fordshire, which has been conveyed to him. He is now
the uncontrolled and uncontrollable owner of the whole
property. The prizeholders who have been located have
no lease, not the shadow of a legal title to the land they
hold. Mr. O'Connor himself, should he be so minded,
might, at any moment, turn them out of possession; or
his heir at law, or his devisee, should he die, might deal
with them in a like summary way ; or his creditors might
charge their debts upon the land now, or after his death.
—Daily News.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.-0/1 Monday, the house of
Mrs. and Mr. Newlove, mother and son, at Warthell, near
York, was broken into at an early hour by thieves, who
fearfully abused the inmates, but, it is supposed from
their being surprised, little plunder was taken. The
female in question and her son were eccentric persons,
and were generally supposed to be possessed of consider-
able property. When the house was entered by some
friends next day, Mrs. Newlove was found laid with her
head towards the front door, literally bathed in blood.
The son, who was upwards of 40 years of age, was found
in the privy also covered with blood. They were both at-
tended to and are now going on favourably. The mis-
creants were armed with bludgeons.
A HUSBAND AND WIFE DROWNED.-011 Tuesday
week, a respectable farmer named Guthrie, aged 74, and
his wife aged 70, were drowned at the ford on the River
Ayr, near Holmsten, in Scotland. They had been at-
tending a fair, and travelled in an old-fashioned gig, ac-
companied by their grandson, aged 18. On their return
home by the ford, the water had risen, and the horse
could not resist the current ; and the gig being sent adrift
in the river, the two deceased were washed out and
drowned. The grandson was floated further down on
the gig, and was saved by catching hold of the branches
of a tree that overhung the stream. His cries were heard
by a ploughman's wife, who rescued him. The horse
was saved.

TURF-PRESSING APPARATUS.—Lord Willoughby de
Eresby has succeeded in constructing a turf-pressing ma-
chine, by which he obtains uniform pressure ; the pres-
sure regulated at pleasure, and security afforded against
breakage, or impediment to its action. A lever, on which
is hung a weight of half a ton, is so arranged, that when
in operation, the pressure in the peat-box beneath the
plunger is thirty-six tons ; and as this is considered as
much as the machinery will bear, the connecting-rods
from the lever to the plummer-boxes of the crank imme-
diately raise the whole bearings, when the power exceeds
this amount. In all previous machines, the breakages
have been numerous, from having no check ; but by this
arrangement it is entirely under control, and can be regu-
lated to the greatest nicety.
ILLEGALITY OF DERBY SWEEPS.—At Guildhall, on
Friday, William Willis, the landlord of the King's Head
public-house, in Newgate-street, was summoned before
Alderman Wilson and Sir Peter Laurie, to answer the
complaint of James Cuthbert, of the Golden Last public-
house, in Drury-lane, licensed victualler, for suffering
gaming to be carried on in his house, in the form of Derby
sweeps. After hearing a protracted argument upon the
legality or illegality of the practice, from Mr. Wontner,
who appeared to support the suiximons, and Mr. Child,
who attended for the defendant, the magistrates pro-
nounced a decided opinion that Derby Sweeps were lot-
teries ; that lotteries were gaming, and that it was a breach
of the license to allow them to be conducted at any
licensed house. They therefore adjudged the defendant
to pay a penalty of £5 and the costs. Mr. Cuthbert gave
his moiety of the fine to the poor-box. Mr. Child inti-
mated that he should appeal.
S LE E P.—The Poet Young says, "Sleep is Great Nature's
second course—the balm of hurt minds.f_ Johnson says,
" It is the parenthesis of human off:" Sleep being thus
appreciated by mankind, how4'e-sirous ought we to be that
./. all should tranquilly enj y'" sweet repose," the general
obstruction to which • hrough an unhealthy action of
the liver or other iscera. A little attention to the
" young disease," y having recourse to a mild aperient,
often produces e most salutary effect, and for such pur-
pose Frampton s Pill of Health stands prominent in pub-
lic opinion.
ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES.—AIOIOIIgh changes in the
temperature are more prevalent in the temperate zone
than in other latitudes, there is ,scarcely a spot to be
found where such great differedces exist as in Great
Britain, varying in a few hquri some twenty degrees or
more. The effect of such rapid changes on the bodily
health is very afflicting many thousands of persons, es-
pecially those in th middle or advanced ages of life,
causing attacks of ose painful disorders, sciatica, _gout,
and rheumatism Happily for those who are afflicted
with those painful diseases, chemical science has produced
that excellent medicine, Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills,

" Too LATE TO RUE."—On Tuesday, at Preston parish
church, a buxom pair presented themselves for the purpose
of being made happy. The marriage ceremony was per-
formed, the register signed, the fees paid, and everything
done in order. Some misgivings appeared to have come
over the minds of the two most interested, for instead
of the party leaving the church, they entered into a solemn
convocation, which ended in the bridegroom dispatching a
messenger to the clerk, to enquire if the couple that had
just been married, could not be unmarried, as the gay
Lothario had begun to rue. The clerk blandly sent word
that he should have rued half-an-hour before, but that he
had tied a knot with his tongue which he would find very
difficult to unloose.

DEATH OF A MlSER.—During the last few days much
conversation and surprise have prevailed among the
inhabitants of Tottenham, in consequence of the death
of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Powell, a minister of the Church
of England, who, it was supposed from his penurious
habits, was far from being in good circumstances. He
died on the 9th instant, upon which his relatives made
search for his will. This was discovered ; upon which it
was ascertained that his real and personal property
amounted to between £50,000 and £60,000. Of this he
had bequeathed £lOOO to the boy who attended upon
him ; £6OO to his brother ; a legacy to each of his execu-
tors • and above £30,000 to the London Hospital, having
disinherited the whole of his relatives. The landed pro-
perty at Tottenham is estimated at £lO,OOO value, the
right to which, it is stated, will be disputed by Sir Henry
Martin, who is heir-at-law to the deceased.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few nights since, in
the parish of Kentisbeare, a farmer hearing the sounds of
a duck. as if in distress, in his farm-yard, went out to
discover the cause, when he saw a duck which had been
sitting on some eggs, with a large rat, apparently hanging
to it. Unwilling the duck should sustain injury, he at
first thought his presence, and the noise he made for this
purpose, would cause the rat to quit his prey, but finding
this was not the case, and that the animal still retained its
hold, he struck it with a stick, and with such sure aim and
effect that he broke its back, and killed it. Still, how-
ever, it appeared to hold out, and the duck continued the
appeals for assistance, when going up to it, and lifting both
duck and rat from the ground, he found the rat had made

its attack with such strength and fierceness that it had
perforated the duck's bill with its teeth, and was unable
to withdraw them from the horny substance. These were
now withdrawn, and the duck betaking herself again to
the task, appears to have suffered nothing in consequence.
—Exeter Post.

On Sunday week, the vicar of Bradford, the Rev. J.
Durnet, L.L.D., preached a sermon to the Orangemen of
that district, told them that the society to which they be-
longed was a loyal society; it had stood the test of perse-
cution for its loyalty, and although persecuted by those
who should have known better, they themselves being
loyalists, yet the Orangemen could not be driven from
their principles—loyalty to their Queen, to their country,
and to their Bibles ; but he would remind the society to
open their lodge meetings with prayer. Their society was
a religious one. They must first personally possess that
faith themselves which was recorded in the text, and then
they must contend earnestly for it. He hoped the society
would go on and prosper. He knew the value of the brave
loyal Orangemen of Ireland at the time of the last Irish
rebellion, and he knew that if now wanted, although they
had suffered from Government, which ought to have
treated them in a different manner, they would be the
first to defend the Queen and Constitution.
THE POISONING CASE AT BRISTOL.—The jurors in
this case re-assembled on Monday, for the purpose of
proceeding with their inquiries. The inquiry as to the
death of the elder of the children was resumed by calling
Harriet Hill, sister of Mr. Thomas Wellington Hill,
from whose testimony it appeared that after the death of
the infant no one remained in the house at night with
Mr. Hill and his children. He would cook the dinner
himself, and the tea. He also made the gruel and the
arrow-root for the children, and gave it to them himself.
A druggist, named Reid, was also called, and proved that
Mr. Hill once sent to him for muriate of mercury, when
witness sent the sub-muriate, or calomel. Mr. Hill
called the next day, and said he wanted a preparation
that was soluble, to make a lotion ; corrosive sublimate
was given to him, and on his being told that it was poison
he said he knew it. The coroner having summed up the
evidence, the jury consulted, and returned a verdict of
" wilful murder " against the father, Thomas Wellington
Hill.

The magistrates at Bow-street have been much em-
ployed in hearing charges against various parties de-
tected as ringleaders in a row at Drury-lane Theatre. It
appears that a company of French dramatists, finding it
difficult to obtain a living in Paris in its present anarchial
state, took Drury-lane Theatre on speculation, and an-
nounced several plays of M. Dumas for performance.
This raised the jealousy of some second-rate English
actors, who, like the dog in the manger, unable to use the
theatre themselves, objected to its use by foreigners, and
accordingly, organized a body of about one hundred per-
sons, succeeded in getting up such a row in the house the
only two nights it was open as effectually to stop the per-
formance, Mast of the parties were liberated on enter-
ing into their own recognizances to keep the peace for
two months. One exception was nall`2l. in thrl eate of
Samuel Cowell, an actor at the Princess's, who, having
expressed his determination of trying the rights of the
theatrical public, was fully committed for trial at the Old
Bailey, but afterwards liberated on bail.
RAGGED SCHOOLS.—On Wednesday, the second annual
meeting of the friends of the Ragged School, established
in Marylebone, was held, and was attended by a large
number of the neighbouring gentry. Lord Ashley, M.P.,
took the chair, and said he had no doubt whatever that
rigged schools would soon receive government aid. (Hear,
hear.) From what had passed in the House of Commons,
and from private communications he had bad with go-
vernment, he knew that a certain number of those poor,
desttute, and helpless children, who had received certifi-
cates of good conduct at the schools, and were qualified
by a certain amount of education, would be transplanted
to a soil where they might industriously, honestly, and
happily pass the remainder of their days. (Hear, hear,)
Lord Grey, the Colonial Secretary, said to him (Lord
Ashley) a few days ago, " If you take care to attend to
the moral training of those children, imbibe them with
religious principles, and give them a knowledge of some
industrial occupation, so as to fit them for labour, then I
do not hesitate to assert that the means at the disposal of
government will be employed to convey them to the British
possessions abroad."
Loss OF THE LONDON AND QUEBEC PACKET-SHIP
ASTORIA.-011 Saturday letters were received at Lloyd's,
communicating the total loss of this fine, newly-built
ship, 500 tons burthen, while on her first outward voyage
to Quebec. The unfortunate vessel was only launched
at Sunderland in the latter part of last year. She took
her departure from Gravesend in the early part of the
spring, with a number of passengers, and a cargo insured
for £70,000. Her passage across the Atlantic was favour-
able, and she had gained within seventy miles of her
destination, when, on the night of the 11th of last month,
while running along the coast of the Little Fox River in
a gale of wind, a thick mist prevailing prevented observa-
vations of the ship's course being taken, in consequence
of which she ran ashore on a mass of sunken rocks.
Her masts were cut away in the hope it would lighten
the vessel, but she remained fast, and the weather con-
tinuing boisterous, soon beat in her bottom, and she filled
with water. The following night an attempt was made
by a gang of desperate wreckers to plunder the wreck and
the stores, which had been saved and landed. They came
down in large numbers, and the crew were compelled to
fire on them to disperse them. By the last accounts, it
appears there is not the smallest chance of the vessel
being saved.
THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND HIS ASSAILANTS.
—The only landed estate conferred upon the Duke is a part
of what is now enclosed by the park wall, the present Duke's
grandfather having added to the area a considerable por-
tion of Bladon and Coombe parishes, and three copses of
underwood outside the park wall. This is the whole of the
landed estate which was given to the Duke; and we may
just observe that this was not purchased by the country, but
granted from the domains of the Crown. The outside
value of the whole is £2,000 a-year. Now, a word as to
the pension. The legislature, in the time of Queen Anne,
granted this pension of £5,000 per annum out of the
revenue of the post-office, in lieu of £lOO,OOO down ; and
from this sum is annually deducted £1,200. We must
confess that we cannot see the slightest distinction be-
tween the grant of a sum in gross, and the grant of an
annual pension for services performed. If the £lOO,OOO
had been granted and paid, no one would have thought of
asking for it back ; and yet it is thought just by some per-
sons to refuse payment of the sum given in lieu of it. All
therefore that is enjoyed by the Marlborough family, for
the services performed by the great Duke, is £5,000 per
annum. Nossjust contra -t this with what the country has
bestowed on the Duke of Wellington, and no one, we hope
and believe, grudges him a farthing of it, or thinks that
his services have been overpaid. Instead of the £5,000
which we have mentioned, the legislature bestowed £700,000
upon his Graceto purchase an estate equal to some £35,000
- per annum. _

STARVATION.—On Tuesday, the 16th ultimo, an in-
quest was held at Bristol, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hodges. Deceased had at one time been housekeeper in
a respectable family at Clifton, which having, some time
ago, given up housekeeping, she was thrown out of a
situation. She lived, or rather dragged on, a miserable
existence at the Hotwells for some time, and at length,
with her daughter, a young woman of 18, who has dis-
played throughout her mother's miseries the most constant
filial tenderness, she removed to St. George's, where her
daughter opened a school, in the hope of contributing to
their joint sustenance. They got some six or eight chil-
dren, at prices varying from hi. to 2d. and 21d. per
week, which is all the money the poor creatures had for a
long time to live upon, as the mother, having been in
better circumstances, had, from a mistaken but under-
standable sense of pride, continuously refused to ask as-
sistance from any one, and forbade her daughter from
making their wretched condition known—a command
which the starving girl religiously obeyed. The evidence
of the girl, describing the mode in which she and her
parent used to coax and cheer each other into partaking
of the morsel of food they were able to procure—the one
professing that she had no appetite, and the other reply-
ing that she could not eat then—was most distressing,
and brought tears into the eyes of the Jury. At length
nature could endure no more, and the mother being
thrown down by illness, the daughter went out and tried
to beg a few halfpence to purchase medicine ; she did not
succeed, and then she came into Bristol and pledged, for
4d., the only two articles of clothing which were left her,
except her gown. She hastened home, but her parent
was death stricken, and her stomach rejected medicine
as well as food. A neighbour forced her way into the
house, and being horrified at the scene of wretchedness
she beheld, she went to the Rev. Mr. Salt, and made the
case known. That most benevolent clergyman did all
which kindness could suggest to relieve the poor sufferer,
; and the relieving officer, upon hearing of the case, has-
tened to the spot, and offered every assistance ; but it was
too late—the flickering flame had expired. Yirdict—
. Died from want of the necessaries of tile.

TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL GREY, H.M. PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES, &c.

MY LORD,--T would suggest that, for the purpose of
emigration, assistance be afforded to single and married
persons with their families, and I am convinced that the
outlay for each adult emigrant to our Australian colonies
need not exceed £l4. For instance :
A ship of five hundred tons would carry two hundred and
fifty adult emigrants. allowing one emigrant to two tons.
Freight to Australia, at 18s. per ton £1950 0 0
150 days' provision, each adult at Bd. per day 1250 0 0
150 tons watery oil tons, at 60s. each 450 0 0
Filling and shipping water, at 2s. per ton l5 0 0
250 beds and bedding, at 1os.

£3790 o a
Deduct for sale of oil casks in the colony, 150
at 50s. each

Net expenses

375 0 0

£3415 0 0

Or cost price of each adult to Australia, about .el 3 13s.

I have preferred employing the casks commonly called
" oil tons" for the conveyance of the water, as they would
find a ready sale in the colony at 50s. each, being required
in the whale fisheries of the South Seas.

In Australia the government charges 20s. per acre for
land, at which price, on account of its being so high, few
or no sales are effected. I would reduce the price to from
ss. to 10s. per acre, according to quality and position, and
I make no doubt that large sales might be effected, to
cover part of the outlay for emigration.
To provide the means of emigration for 100,000 persons
annually, would require about one million and a quarter
sterling ; and I think that if, for that purpose, a tax, (call
it an emigration tax,) to produce that amount annually
for three or five years, or until a revival of trade took
place, were to be imposed, such a tax would be popular,
because the rate-payers would eventually save the amount
of such tax by the reduction that would take place in their
poor-rate, irrespective of the future advantages to be
gained by creating consumers for their produce; for, be
assured a British subject, even at the antipodes, will pre-
fer articles of British to those of foreign manufacture, if
he can obtain them on equally advantageous terms.
Emigration, on a large scale, would also be of the greatest
service to the colony, as it would provide the present co-
lonists with labour, which, according to every account, is
much required by our colonies of Australia, the Cape,
New Zealand, &c., and the dearth of which much impedes
their advancement.

In order to elevate society in our colonies, I would
assist a few men of education, of good character, though
of small means, to emigrate; such as schoolmasters, &c.
To ensure comfort and order among the emigrants, I
would appoint one or more of the superior class to be
inspectors during the voyage, who should `see that the
emigrants were clean and orderly, and that they had their
proper rations •, such inspectors should be bound to deliver,
on their arrival at the colony—to some officer appointed
for that purpose—a diary of the voyage ; such as, an.
account of the number of emigrants, provisions consumed,
health and deaths (if any) of the emigrants, with causes or
such, from the certificates of the ship's surgeon.
The duty of the colonial officer should be, to receive
such report, and to place the emigrants in situations for
the prosecution of their respective callings, or at least to
see that they do not become burthens to the colony; such
officer should be paid by the colony.

I prefer Australia, or the Cape, to the Canadas, the latter
being too near to the 'United States. There is also a great
field for the employment of labour in the whale fisheries of
the South Seas, which would in time prove an encourage-
ment to our colonial and British shipping. We have given
£20,000,000 for the abolition of negro slavery in our colo-
nies, in a manner that has proved unsatisfactory, both as
regards planters and slaves :—we are expending nearly
£1,000,000 annually in a vain endeavour to suppress the
slave-trade, and sacrificing the lives of British subjects to
little avail :—we contributed £10,000,000 for the relief of
the Irish poor, not for permanent, but for temporary re-
lief, and without prospect of return ;—yet of all these the
British public did not complain, impressed as it was with
the urgency of the cause, and the noblest sentiments of
humanity. I thus feel satisfied that public opinion will
approfe of an expenditure of £1,250,000 annually, say for
three or five years, to produce inestimable advantages, and
to provide for our surplus population, with a certainty, if
properly conducted, of its proving beneficial to our manu-
factures at home. To diminish, so far as possible, the
expense, and to provide for the relief of a greater number,
I am of opinion that, by judicious management, homeward
freights might be provided for the emigrant ships, from
India, China, &c. ; thus obtaining some returns, however
slight.
The emigration of 100,000 persons would employ 400
ships, of_soll tons each.

1 hive the honour to remain, &c.,
MONTAGUE LEVYSON.
Queen Square, Bloomsbury, June, 1848.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHOLIC RESTRICTIONS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

w9ulcl.4*)rpit thrcract your paper to the public,
in justification of those who advocated- the retention or
what are called the penal statutes against the Roman
Catholics, that their advocacy of those wise enactments
provided by our forefathers, has been amply justified
during the past week. in which has been exhibited the
total disregard that a papist has for an oath, upon the
sanctity and observance of which the administration of all
justice depends in this country.
In the recent state trials in Ireland the papist jurymen
would not consent to be bound by the oath they had
taken, to find a verdict according to the evidence.
The only remedy is to prevent papists sitting on a jury,
as they cannot be trusted ; but to do this is to re-enact the
penal codes as they are called. Our reply is, stern neces-
sity demands it, and that crime produces penalties and
restrictions, and hence, originally, the Roman Catholics
brought the prohibition on themselves (repealed only a
few years since by Parliament) by their own wanton mis-

demeanours

Our forefathers could not govern the country without
excluding the papists from political power, nor can we.
By admitting them we break up our political system, it
will not work when in their hands.—Yours, obediently,
May 24. JUSTITIA.

" SUBLIME SENTIMENTS" AND DULL FACTS.

"Let them give to Ireland her own parliament—not the par-
liament of 1782—that was a meteor light which flashed across
the land—it was a deceptive vapour which quickly vanished.
Ireland wanted a fixed star, bright and resplendent—the cor-
dial influence and reflecting radiance of which might be seen
and felt in the glorious union of happiness, liberty and peace !"
" A strong man, because he is a strong man, insults his
brother man because his brother man is weak. The slave
struggles to be free, and the enslaver kills him because he
struggles. That was British legislation in Ireland."

" 1 call upon the jury in conclusion, as they value their oaths,
and as they value justice and public good, manly bearing and
personal honour, and as they love the country of their brethren,
to find a verdict of acquittal." _ .

We have culled (says the Guardian) the above choice
sublimities from the peroration of Mr. Holme's recent
speech in defence of Mitchell.
Mr. Justice Moore, immediately after this delivery,
summed up as follows :
" What the jury had to do was to consider two questions.
Firstly, did the prisoners really publish the documents referred
to? Secondly, what did those documents mean?"
Cruel Judge Moore ! or rather, cruel effect of reason
and common sense ! Mr. Holmes was among the fixed
stars. " Pray, gentlemen," the Judge quietly observes,
" can you satisfy yourselves and me about these two poor
facts, publication and construction ?" Wonderfully prosy
indeed ! Yet, somehow, most astonishingly effective. It
reminds us of the collapse of a balloon, on an unfortunate
contact with something hard and solid.
It is not perhaps surprising that this same phenomenon
should be found to pervade all modern revolutionary prac-
tice.

When the American Embassy at Paris had the first in-
terview with the Provisional Government, it did not at
first transpire what had passed ; but it was only given out
in general " that sublime sentiments had been inter-
changed." There was no further inquiry. The people of
Paris lived on this for a week.
Again—When the colonel of the 59th regiment of the
line was waited upon by the mob (a day or two after the
" glorious " days of last February,) with a modest request
for the arms of his regiment, he said at once that " the
59th was no more ; he commanded now the Ist regiment
of the Republic." This sentiment was of course magnifi-
cently sublime ; and it was accepted at once by the mob
in the stead of the muskets and bayonets.
We all remember the sublime sentiments by which La-
marline saved the tricolour and the Gallic cock; not very
much more than sentiments themselves. The " senti-
ment" that saved them was, " that the tricolour had
been round the world, and the red flag only round the
mud of the Champ de Mars."
Again—When General Courtais walked into the Na-
tional Assembly on its first sitting, and " in the name of
the people " demanded the proclamation of the Republic,
the agitation produced by so sublime a sentiment was so
intense that nobody in the hall could tell whether he stood
on his head or his feet.

But we should never end if we went on to quote all the
sublimities of the present row in France. The whole af-
fair is one vast sublimity,—a series of exciting and agitat-
ing sentiments, from first to last.
But the alembic is coming : perhaps come. Sentiment,
however sublime, cannot serve for bread and cheese, even
for a Frenchman ; and when pay-day comes in earnest,
and come it shortly must, we shall then see these sublime
sentiments also put, in their turn, upon their trial, by
most prosy and inexorable facts, even as Mr. Holme's
sublimities were by Judge Mooie's dull questions.
" Fine words," it is said, " butter no parsnips." We
should be glad to see produced in the bottom of a tum-
bler or on the point of a needle the real tangible entity,
the THING, which might be scraped, or squeezed, or
pulled together (for example) out of all the sentimental
glories which France has enjoyed for the last three months ;
or which, to take another instance, might be derived front
the famous and transcendent fact that Ireland is " the first
flower of the earth, the first gem of the sea." Yet this
sentiment and that glory will set a whole city raving at
three minutes' notice, or without. If it should be found
impossible to satisfy our curiosity on this point, we should
be glad to be favoured with a good definition of the word
HUMBUG.

BOROUGHS.—To entitle a person to become a borough
elector, on or before the 20th of next month (July), he
must pay all the poor-rates and assessed taxes due from him
during the twelve calendar months next, before the 6th of
April last. Should the collector NOT have called for
these taxes, they must be paid, or you will be DISFRAN-
CHISED. Those electors who have changed their pre-
mises since the 31st of July, 1847, must furnish the over-
seers with theiparticulars of the premises occupied between.
the 31st of July, 1847, and 31st of July, 1848. This infor-
mation is necessary to enable the overseers to make the
lists correct, and prevent objections, if taken, being sub-
stantiated. r