The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERr4OL STANDARD

over a moral death in which the politicians and economists t A DEART,IDE.—An incident connected with the statue
of this day exult, and it accounts for the degradation into of Peter the Great at St. Petersburgh occurred a few days
which the heretofore noble of every class are daily sinking. since. Some- American sailors, who had been making
Honour amongst kings, faith amongst nations, are at a rather too free with the jolly god, sallied forth on a frolic-
discount. Whilst, on the one hand, monarchs are seen to some cruise,.and one of them not having the fear of the
uphold their power by acts of treachery or turn craven in police before his eyes, climbed over the iron palisade sur-
the hour of danger, on the other, the virtue of allegiance rounding the statue, and, clambering,up the rock, seated
is trampled under foot. Where men were wont to die in himself en croupe behind the Emperor. He was speedily
wrinrinita fhPv now nurchase life, and some- dismounted, and, after a night's confinement, was brought

before the divisional officer of Donee.. His ease was sum-
disposed of, and so heavy a fine inflicted that he
y remonstrated. " No, no," said the officer,
n make no abatement ; if you will ride with great
you must pay great people's price."—Letters from

infamy, by the sacrifice of all that is high and ho-
Lble. When the Duchess of Orleans was in the mat
fiber of Deputies, shaming, with her woman's cou- n-
frightened spirits of her husband's house, one
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The average annual value of the feathers exported from
Ireland to England is estimated at £50,000.
On Monday Mr. Thomas Gamble, plumber, of Leed3,
drowned himself in the river Aire during a fit of insanity.
There are. about 60 Chartists for trial at the present
York Assizes. They are expected to last all this week.
Dr: M`Donall, the Chartist lecturer, has been commit-
ted for trial. . .

In a shop in Bristol some mice have gnawed a hole in
the gas pipe fully an inch long.
The People's Journal and Ho
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MURDER.—At Hiintingdon Assizes, last
3urton was sentenced to death for the wil-
dduchter.

The Burnley and Colliery branches of the Fleetwood,
Preston, and 'West Riding Junction railway have been
rejected by the Committee.
Dr. Von Goennern has been required to find sureties to
answer any charge that may be brought against him by

Le Mendicity
The early

Society.
dotato crop is so abundant in the Isle of
t the very best sorts•are selling at 3d. the gallon
9d. the bushel.

and 1s

A great quantity of base pennies ani
been seized by the police at Glasgow.
_ _

halfpennies have
The spurious

Large quantities of peaches and apricots have been im-
ported into London from. Belgium and Holland, during
the past week. _ . .

about to be built at Hammersmith, in connexion with
the " Convent of the Good Shepherd."
NEW POPISH SEMINARY.—Ashbourn Hall, Derby-
shire, has recently been purchased by the " Fathers of
the Immaculate Conception," for an Ecclesiastical Semi-
nary and Novitiate of their order.

EMIGRATION.—There are three fine ships now in the
Sound under charter to the Colonial Land and Emigra-
tion Commissioners,,for the conveyance of emigrants to
the Australian colonies.
BAKERS.—A Bill,, restricted to London and ten Miles
round, is now before Parliament, which is to prohibit the
making of bread and working in bakehouses during cer-
tain hours of the night.
On Monday, at Tenby, Benjamin Nash and his two
sons. aged 17 and 13, with a young man named Lewis
Bowen, were in the act of drawing up some lobster pots,
when a sea capsized the boat, and all four perished.

The Marquis of Salisbury., as Lord Lieutenant of

JENNY LlND.—Madame Solari, the well-known
secanda donna of her Majesty's theatre, has recently been
suffering under a pulmonary complaint of so seric
nature that her physicians have announced the necessity
of her immediately relinquishing her profession, and re-
turning to her native land. When on the point of de-
parture, the afflicted artiste received a: latter from Jenny
Lind, expressing deep sympathy for her sister vocalist,
and encloSinff with much delicacy, a note for £lOO.

A place of worship, recently erect
vertised as having been " erected for

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the principle of

of christians of all denominations, upon,
the Evangelical Alliance." It is further stai,
Culling Eardley Eardley,-IIIrt.; S. M. Peto, Esq.,
J. Kershaw. EAU.. M.P.: W. B. Gurney, Esq., and otl

dlesex, gives a grand entertainment on the 29th inst. to
the magistracy of the county. A great many of the lead-
ing nobility have been invited to the conversazione.
The steamer Lion, which arrived in Hull from Hamburg
on Sunday, brought the largest cargo of wool ever received
in the former port. This cargo consisted of 1,600 bales,
the weight of which was upwards of 200 tons.
On Wednesday week a fine sturgeon, which measured
eight feet in length and two feet in girth, and weighed
about 200th, was caught on the sands of the Severn,
where it had been stranded by the ebb of the tide, at
Newenbam, near Gloucester.
The inquest on the body of Mr. John Mulcock, fly-
proprietor, whose body was found in a shallow pit, near
Cheltenham, and who it is believed was murdered on the
night of the late Cheltenham election, has been again
adjourned.
MURDER OF A FATHER BY HIS DAUGHTERS.—
week an old man, named Stubbs, living at Harrogate, was
killed by his two daughters during a quarrel. The deceased
was knocked down a staircase, and died soon afterwards.
The accused have been committed for trial.
The Arid steamer, of 900 tons burthen, and 320 horse-
power, which went ashore early last month, on the Maldi
Velso reef, near Leghorn, has become a total wreck, but
the cargo was saved. She was worth £40,000, and only
insured for £15,000.
THE CHOLERA.—On Monday a letter was received by
the owners of the " Marion," of Leith, dated Elsinore,
stating that the master, Captain Beal, had died of cholera,
on the voyage home from St. Petersburgh, and that one
of the crew was labouring under the disease.
At the Cardiff Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice
Wightman, Thos. Martin and Michael Leary, two Irish-
men, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the
murder of John Williams, in the parish of Swansea, on
the 18th of May last.
The unsettled state of the Continent has this season
had the effect of directing the attention of summer tour-
ists to the beauties of home scenery ; and, as 'light na-
turally be expected, Wales attracts more than the usual
complement of visitors.
A COOL REQUEST.—In the House of Commons, on
Thursday evening, Mr. Anstey presented a petition from a
Mr. James Mills, of Paris, stating that he had a claim of

£5,000 upon the French government for supplying pure
water to the city of Paris, and praying the house to take
measures to insure him redress
On Monday, at Cardiff, Thomas Martin and Michael
Leary were convicted of having, on the Bth of May, near
Swansea, murdered John Williams and Jenkin Evan.
They were sentenced to be hanged. The prisoners were
Irish labourers, and, in the midst of a dispute respecting
the rate of wages at which Irishmen would work, they
stabbed two of the parties present (Williams and Evan) to
the heart.
INTELLECTUAL AMUSEMENT.—On Tuesday, at Marl-
borough-street, two fashionably dressed young men, who
assumed the names of James Morley and Arthur Bradley,
were charged, the first with having wrenched off a knocker
from the door of 39, St. James's-street, and the last with

having rung several door bells violently. Morley was
fined £5, and Bradley 40s. The defendants paid the fine
and left the court.
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The bank of Mr. J. Matthews, of Chipping Norton,
Oxon, has stopped payment, to the consternation of the
inhabitants of the surrounding country, who were totally
unprepared for such an event, Mr. Matthews being a man
of quiet habits, and in high credit amongst his neighbours.
The bank had been carried on formerly by his father, and
subsequently by himself, for more than forty years.
THE ARMY.—On Thursday orders were given to all .
officers belonging to regiments in Ireland, on leave of
absence, to repair immediately to that country. Prince
George of Cambridge left London by the mail train that
night for Liverpool en route to Dublin, also the Marquis
of Worcester, to join the 7th Hussars.
THE FATHER OF THE TURF.—The well known entire
horse, the Father of the Turf, got the first prize of 30 sovs.
" for the best stallion for getting hunters," at the Royal
Agricultural Society of England's Show, held at York last
week, against twenty competitors. Mr. Grant, the owner
of the Father of the Turf, refused £BOO for him at York.
On Wednesday week, an Irishman entered the shop of
a grocer at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and solicited charity,
declaring that he was dying of hunger ; but a customer
who was present doubted the truth of the beggar's asser-
tion, insisted on searching him, and found a fine shoulder
of mutton concealed under his coat. _ _

The mrgistrates at Taunton have committed for trial
four labourers, who were engaged in clearing away some
hay from the banks of the Great Western Railway, and
who placed a truck on the line which was shortly after-
wards traversed by a train, and an alarming collision en-
sued, though fortunately no one was hurt.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—A little fishing schooner
was lying at one of our wharfs last week which deserves
notice. She was manned by a veteran crew, consisting of

Skipper Marshall, aged 78 (his brother, aged 79 ; another
man, aged 76, and a "boy" 65. The vessel is 45 years
old, and the united ages of vessel and crew number 343
years.—Salem. Register.
THE CHARTIST CONVICTS.-011 Thursday 20s. was
paid at the gate of Tothill-fields House of Correction to
release Mr. Ernest Jones for one month from oakum
picking, to which he has been, in common with his fellow
Chartist convicts, subjected since his incarceration, and
will be in default of the payment of a weekly sum of 55.,

the charge made by the county for his maintenance.
The Manx Liberal indulges in the following summary
criticism :—" Mr. Barry Sullivan's performance of Mac-
beth, on Monday night, was, in our opinion, a most piti-
able failure. Rant, strut, stamp, stare, screech, bellow,
whisper, hiss, and nothing else, from beginning to end.
Lady Macbeth, Macduff, and other subordinate characters
in this astonishing drama, were far beneath mediocrity,
and infinitely far beneath criticism."

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!Heal Alliance, have promised the

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WEST INDIA PINE APPLES AND TURTLES.
Trinity Yacht, Captain Hounsell, has arrived in 27 days
from the West Indies, consigned to Messrs. Keeling ant'
Hunt, bringing an entire cargo, consisting of the eno
mous quantity of 45,000 pineapples, a portion of
being brought on the deck of the vessel growing in
soil in which they were orieinallv nlanted. and

are in troughs in 'the same gulf water as when taken alive
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN'. B'

THEIR MOTHER.—lianna Leith, residing at 27, Carbur-
ton-street, Mrrylebone, was charged and remanded at the
Marlborough Police-office, on Wednesday, with having
attempted to destroy her three children, aged respectively,
ten years, two years, and ten months, by administering
to them a quantity of sugar of lead. She was also

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charged with attempting to destroy herself by taking the
same deadly poison.
The John Bull vouches for a fact that tells very little
to the credit of Mr. Macready. That somewhat over-
rated actor was commanded some weeks ago to read the
tragedy of " Antigone " before the Court at Buckingham
Palace. He refused to obey the command upon some
trumpery professional punctilio : music was to be mixed
up with the performance, and so, forsooth, the great man,
who could mutilate Shakspere to show himself off before
royalty, could not descend from the stilts of his vanity
even to oblige a Queen.
On the 28th ultimo, the sister of Dr. Wolff, who has
resided in Paris for the last ten years with her family,
and who has been compelled to leave it in consequence of
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the late insurrection, arrived at t 1 e Parsonage House, at
Isle Brewers, in a state of complet destitution, with her
son, an engraver; and, as the D ctor is incapable of
supporting them, he has made arrangements for sending
them to America at his own expens)e, and will furnish
them with letters of introduction to his friends in the
United States, in order. teat they may obtain land from
the government to cult e.
M. Thalberg gave a morning concert on Monday last,
in the Concert-room of her Majesty's Theatre, and found
means to avail himself of the all-powerful attraction of
Jenny Lind, notwithstanding her engagement to Mr.
Lumley ; an engagement, by the way, which seems to be
of a singularly engrossing nature, and to preclude her
from even accepting provincial engagements on her own
account, after the opera season is over—as was shown by
the recent refusal to accept the magnificent terms ten-
dered by the committee of the approaching Norwich Fes-
tival.
On Sunday week the Parish Church of Drayton, Berks,
was a scene of confusion, excitement and laughter, on ac-
count of the banns of marriage being forbidden. After
they had been published by the officiating clergymen, a
man jumped up and said, " I forbid the banns till Sep-
tember two years," and was going on with his grievance,
but the dergymaa stopped him with the promise that he
would hear him in the vestry. It appears that the youth
whose nuptials were thus obstructed will not be of age till
September 185').