The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF ONE OF THE PRISONERS FROM CABOOL

—Amongst the passengers landed from the ship Windsor,
which arrived o❑ the 22nd instant from Calcutta, with a
detachment of the 49th regt., is the lady of Lieut. Eyre.
Bengal artillery, and late commissary of ordnance at
Cabool, whose able narrative of the events that occurred
there, and of the aisasters which befel our ill-fated army
has made so much noise in the world. This is the first
arrival in England of those ladies who displayed such
heroic conduct under the unprecedented hardships, priva-
tions, and terrific scenes which they witnessed during a
siege and cap:ivity which lasted for eleven months.
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JOHN BRIGHT'S ELECTION EXPENSES.—At adinner
given in Manchester, on Friday last, to celebrate the
triumph of this eminent leaguer, one of the speakers—a
Mr. Hibbert—remarked that he was at Rochdale on
Monday, and in Rochdale and Manchester he succeeded
in obtaining £3so—not to bribe, but to pay the necessary
expenses at Durham; for at Durham, as at Nottingham,
they were just emerging from the meshes of corruption to
the purity of election. Three hundred and fifty pounds
for the "necessary expenses ;" pray what are necessary
expenses? Three hundred and fifty pounds is rather a
large sum for a pure election to cost amongst a limited
constituency such as that of Durham.
Loss OF £5OO, AND REMARKABLE RESTORATION.—
On Tuesday, the 11th instant, a gentleman who had come
that morning from York, having with him the sum of
£5OO. principally in cash, which he carried in a silk pocket
handkerchief, on arriving at the Loughborough Station,
with singular absence of mind got out of the carriage and
went towards the town, leaving the money on the seat!
He soon discovered the loss, went to Leicester by the
nest train, gave information there, and went to Rugby,
where the property was delivered to him by the station
master, Mr. Pigon, in whose hands it had been placed,
that it might be restored to its owner, by a lady fellow
passenger, who was going on to London! This noble
conduct commands admiration, and the agreeable surprise
of the gentleman, on the restoration of his property, may
be easily imagined.—Derby Reporter.

THE LATE DURHAM ELECTION.—Lord Dungannon
thus explains his share in the " head-money " business :
" Previous to the election I did put the sum mentioned
into the hands of Mr. Wilkinson. It was a bill received
just before from Ireland. 1 requested Mr. Wilkinson to
defray every legitimate expense, to do in proper time
what was just and liberal regarding the service of every
individual, and then to deliver to me a debtor and creditor
account. I, at the same time, strictly charged him
to be most cautious in avoiding any act whatever, direct
or indirect, that could by possibility be construed into
such a meaning as that of treating or bribery. I called
his attention to the Nottingham and other cases, and
adding how much a candidate must rely on the discretion
of his agents, again strongly urged him to be most careful
against offending on that score, according to any act
previously existing or passed since 1841, when I ceased
to be a member of the house."
Two LIONs.—We understand that the Hon. and Rev.
George Spencer, the brother of Earl Spencer, who is, as
most of our readers are aware, a catholic priest, being in
Manchester for a few days, called, on Wednesday evening
last, at the house of the Rev. Hugh Stowell, who, how-
ever, was not at home at the time. The rev. gentleman
saw Mrs. Stowell, to whom he announced himself, and
expressed a desire to see the rev. incumbent of Christ
Church. The lady said that the best time to see her hus-
band was about breakfast time, and she invited the hon.
and rev. gentleman to breakfast the following morning.
Accordingly, on Thursday morning. Mr. Spencer pre-
sented himself at the residence of Mr. Stowell, who re-
ceived him with due politeness, and over breakfast, we
believe, the two gentlemen discussed various matters con-
nected with the great controversy between their respective
creeds and churches.—Manchester Guardian.—[Mr.
Spencer preached two sermons at Bury on Sunday, and
on the following day paid a visit to the vicar.]
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—On Wednesday last the
sittings of the Wesleyan Methodist Society commenced
at Carver-street chapel, Slaffield. The first business was
the election of a President. There were four candidates,
and upon the votes leing taken the members stot d as
follow : Scott, 150; Stanley, 16; S. Jackst.n, 15; 11.
Wood, 7. The Rev. John Scott was therefore dee:tired
to he duly elected. The Rev. R. Newton was again elec-
ted Secretary ; the votes for this important office were—
Newton, 158; S. Jackson, 15 ; J. Farrar. 5 r A. E Far-
rar, 4. Ou Tuesday, at a Special Missionary Contotett e
Meeting, it was stated that theft. had brew a falling off
in the receipts during the last six ruontlis, as CO'rpared
ti)e Education
Committee ig yp•
with the correspond.ng six months in 1842, of about.
£2OOO. At the meeting of the General Committee of
now come when the Wesleyan Methodists ough
day, as well as Sunday Scbools.
rese their conviction
a comprehensive and extended by
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that iltientotri'Thaelcvies'
stem of Intanttand week

In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Saturday, in the matter
of Wright and Biddulph's bankruptcy, an application was
made by a gentleman on the part of the governor and state
of Illinois, North America, to parcipitate in the dividend
now in the course of payment out of the estate in the SUM
of £19,756 5s BJ, on account of bonds which the bankrupts
held at the time of their failure. This was opposed by the
assignees on the ground that some part of the debt was
bad, the bonds having been at the time they obtained them
in a state of insolvency, and unable to pay its own divi-
dend. The application was granted.
MARRIAGE LICENCES.—It is important to parties re-
quiring these documents to know, that they are not, as
heretofore, obtained immediately on application to the
Surrogates. In accordance with the interpretation put
upon the Marriage Act by some of the ablest civilians,
the surrogates are now required, previously to delivering
licences to the parties, to ascertain from the Registrar
that no caveat has been entered with him, A necessary
delay, therefore, of some days occurs between the period
of application to the surrogate and the receipt of the
licence.

MANCHESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER.—
We understand the arrangements for this great musical
treat are now nearly completed ; the tickets will com-
mence issuing on Saturday next, and for the purpose of
preventing confusion in the sale, an office has been taken
for the purpose in Ducie-place. The number issued will
be confined to the number of seats, by which means the
building will not be unpleasantly crowded ; we should
advise our friends therefore to make early application, for
certainly so great a musical treat has not been offered to
the people of Manchester since the festival of 1836, and
question if, at so reasonable a price, it can ever be afforded
again. With the talent of Miss Clara Novello, Miss
Rainforth, Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Mr. Braham, Mr. James
Bennett, and Mr. H. Phillips, we feel satisfied the Mes-
siah will be given in a style not to be surpassed, indeed
they are the elite- of our English vocalists. The miscella-
neous night is crowded with gems such as we might ex-
pect from the taste and judgment of the highly gifted con-
ductor, Sir Henry Bishop.
SUICIDE BY HANGING.—On Thursd. y an inquest was
held before Mr. Chapman. coroner for the Borough of
Manchester. on view of the body of Joseph Beeston,
joiner, of Bank-street, Hulme, 40 years of age. It ap-
peared that the deceased had been addicted to intoxica-
tion, and was sometimes drunk for days together. He
came home to his lodgings very drunk about three o'clock
on Tuesday morning; he lay in bed all that day, and part
of the next, and on Wednesday afternoon was found in a
kneeling posture, suspended by a rope from one of the
bed-posts. It was stated by his sister-in-law, with whom
he lodged, that when he was in liquor he appeared wild,
and as though he was insane. His wife had left him about
thirteen months ago on account of his habits, and this
was supposed to have preyed upon his mind. On the
board, at the head of the bed, he had writted the follow-
ing with chalk ;
" Farewell my wife and daughter dear
My brother and sister toow
You will find me drowned 1 mile from here
In the Duke's canal within."
The cord with which he had hung himself he had taken
from a clock which was placed in his bed-room.—Verdict`
" Insanity, brought on by intoxication."
THE DURHAM ELECTION.—The ca'hedral city of
Durham has been disgraced by returning to parliament,
as its representative, an ohscure blaspheming Quaker—
bight John Bright, of Rochdale, notorious in his birth-
place as the " raw head and bloody bones" of anti-church-
rate martyrs and corn-law repealers, but principally in
our remembrance, and in the re-called disgust of every
decent person in this neighbourhood, as the mountebank
post-prandial retailer of blasphemous rhymes. It is al-
most too much for one's patience to find one of the
strongholds of English Christianity rejecting an advocate
of sound church and constitutional principles, for a person
who, in characterizing those who happened to differ from
him in opinion, must take a figure from an impious scrib-
bler of " butter woman's " couplets on corn—one Ebe-
nezer Elliot—and describe them as acting as though they
were to

" Shake their clench'd fists in the Almighty's face,
And cry—Thou fool ! "

The retailer of soul-destroying, and perilous stuff such as
this has been returned to represent the cathedral town of
Durham in parliament! Faugh ! And yet we are told
that the place owes this foul blot upon its character to
the caprice and jealousy of a conservative nobleman ! It
is said that Mr. Purvis bas lost the race because he did
not touch his cap to the Marquis of Londonderry and
ride in his co!ours. The marquis, it seems, could, by:a
word, have influenced at least eighty of the electors.
That word he withheld because Mr. Purvis presumed to
take the field without consulting him, and the conse-
quence has been that Mr. Purvis has polled nearly one
hundred votes less than the conservative candidate at the
last election, whilst Bright has polled 83 more than he did
on the last occasion. How the Marquis of Londonderry
will be able to atone to his party for this shameful aban-
donment of it, we are totally at a loss to conceive. He
has brought disgrace upon Durham, but double disgrace
upon himself.—Manchester Courier.
THE LATE MR. EDWARD WILLIAM ELTON.—This
admirable actor, whose melancholy and most unexpected
death is recorded as having happened through the wreck
of the Pegasus steamer, was born in the year 1794, and
educated with a view to follow the profession of a solicitor,
and for considerable time he was in the office of Mr.
Springhall, of Verulam-buildings; but having imbibed a
passion for theatrical representations, he became a mem-
ber of the well-known private theatre in Wilson-street,
Gray's-inn-lane, conducted by Mr. Pym, a place cele-
brated for having given the first rudiments of the art to
several eminent actors, among them the late John Reeve.
In 1823, after having tried for a short time some of the
small provincial towns, he obtained an engagement at the
Olympic Theatre, where the late Tyrone Power was then
engaged. Mr. Elton remained only a short time, and at
the Christmas of that year he engaged himself at the Li-
verpool Amphitheatre; and, not being satisfied with his
situation there, be joined the company of Mr. Bunn, then
manager of the Birmingham Theatre. On the following
Christmas, his services were retained by the Liverpool
manager to personate the character of Napoleon in the
" Battle of Waterloo," which spectacle was acted for
three months in succession. Shortly after the manager of
the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, proposed an engagement ;
and Mr. Elton, already very popular in the town, pre-
sented himself on the boards of the legitimate arena as
Cominius.in" Coriolanus ." here he became most popular;
but Mr. Vandenhoff being so long established as the lead-
ing actor, Mr. Elton could only obtain a first part oc-
casionally. From Liverpool he went to Chester, Shrews-
bury, Worcester, and Manchester, where he attracted the
notice of Mr. Charles Young, then playing for a few
nights there. That gentleman expressed himself highly
in favour of Mr. Elton's talent, and predicted his speedy
removal to the metropolis. He afterwards acted for a
season at Norwich and Cambridge, and in the year 1831
made his bow to the Garrick audience in Whitechapel as
Richard the Third. His success was prodigious; the
Eastenders bailed him as a modern Garrick; the managers,
Conquest and Wyman, liberally advanced his salary, and
their treasury was greatly benefited. The Surrey was his
next remove, where, after a few months' sojourn, the late
David Morris engaged him for the Haymarket Theatre,
where he appeared in 1833. He remained one season ;
and after various engagements at the London minors, he
appeared at Covent Garden, under the management of
Mr. Osbaldiston, in the season 1837, January 19, as
Waller Tyrrell, in the drama of that name. His claim
to the rank of an admirable actor was at once recognised.
From that period till his lamented death, he continued a
member of the theatres royal.
MODERN Romisa MiItACLES.—The Univers publishes
the following extraordinary relation on the authority of a
letter from Rome, and states that the same information
has reached it from various sources :—" For the last week
nothing has been talked of at Rome but miracles. On St.
Peter's-day, a journeyman mason, whose legs bad been
broken in several places by a fall from a scaffold, and who
for some time past had dragged himself from Madonna to
Madonna on his crutches, to implore a cure, stopped be-
fore the image of the Virgin, which is placed under a sort
of shed serving as a passage, not far from the Jews' quar-
ter. He prayed before it with his usual fervour. At length,
rising, he said, This is enough, Madonna, I have been
addressing to you on all sides my prayers long enough;
take my crutches, I will have no more of them; I leave
them to you • you cannot be hard-hearted enough to aban-
don me in the middle of my road ; you are too good not
to assist me and furnish me with strength to return home.'
Hardly had he thrown his crutches at the feet of the Vir-
gin, when he felt a commotion in all his limbs, and was in
an instant cured, as well and as sound as before his acci-
dent. He began immediately to shout ' Miracle!' and
the people who were acquainted with his previous infirmity
and his daily prayers, carried him to his house in triumph.
The news of this prodigy spread rapidly, and all the lame,
blind, and infirm rushed to the compassionating Madonna.
In a few moments the adjoining streets were thronged,
and it was who should pray most fervently. In order to
thank the good Madonna, and conciliate her, the more
carpets and hangings were brought, and an altar was set
up with wax candles, magnificent decorations, and splendid
transparencies, with the cypher of Mary. It is said that
new miracles were operated on the following days. On
Tuesday there were so many wax candles burning at the
foot of the Madonna that the drapery of the altar was set
on fire. The consternation was now general. The people,
dreading, lest the Madonna should be burnt, put up prayers
for her safety in accents of despair. Happily they suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the fire. To prevent new accidents,
and the tumult which the collection of such crowds would
occasion, orders were given to remove the venerated image
to the neighbouring church. A priest was charged with
this task, arid although the removal took place at two in
the morning, escorted by a detachment of dragoons, it
was effected with great difficulty, the people being opposed
to the removal. Since Wednesday the image is in the
church of Santa-Maria-del- Plant°. The crowd remains
the same but order has been established, and troops are
stationed in the neighbourhood. The infirm, large and
small, are ranged in front of the sanctuary before the
crowd, which only gives way to allow the sick, who are
brought from time to time, to pass." Another letter of
the 3d, in the same journal, says :--" I write to you under
the impression of an event sufficiently striking for me to
communicate. Yesterday evening 1 was with Monseigneur
and Mademoiselle, when D, rothea entered in great agi-
tation, exclaiming, ' A gnat miracle has just
been
d per-
formed
lame mason ; the little of a washerwoman, w
child
renanked this c
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on two clutch n_
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and wuuld not
the Madonna, who, four days ago, cured lives
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staircase
the
servant
support her
her crutches, and arriving
She went slowly on Hardly had she
mason.
Madonna, began to pray.
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fieisbed. ""'voice
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