The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

SECOND REPORT

The market for English Wheat closes firm at Is. advance,
and a clearance effected. Foreign sold to a fair extent at a
similar advance on best kinds, but in inferior kinds no change.
id a fair business doing. Barley and Malt sold
Finest kinds of English Beans brought
but all other kiwis met good sale at

Flour steady
steadily at firm rates
in soma cases Is. adv

firm rates. Beans steady at full price
good sale at last Monday's terms. See

Oats met a pretty
unaltered.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET

-YESTERDAY

Beasts, 4,448; Sheep and Lambs, 23,222; Calves, 165; Pigs,
225; Beef, 2s. 2d. to 35.2 d. ; Alutton,3s.4d. to 45.; Veal, 2s. Bd.
4s. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Lamb, ss. to ss. Bd. ' • Holland
Beasts, 314; Sheep, 290; Calves, 55i Norfolk and Suffolk
Beasts, 3,000; Scotch, 500. An unusually large supply of
Beasts. Trade very dull, at reduced prices : choicest Scots
barely realized 3s. 4d. per stone, 3s. 2(1. is the fair quotation.
Sheep did not sell so well as on Monday last : Prime Downs
out of the wool made 4s. a few in the wool, 4s. 6d. Lambs
and Calves sold at a reduction.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY

CINNAMON.-At public sale only about one-fourth of the
quantity sold at an average decline of 3d. to 6d. par lb.
COTTON.-700 bales sold to-day at stiff prices. COFFFE.—A
dull market, and only 500 bags Native Ceylon sold at 405.,
which is a decline of ts. 6d. to 2s. on Saturday's prices.
GRAVESEND.—Arrived. Alice Maude, Algoa Bay.

By accounts from Madrid of the 23r3, it is learned that
the ministerial crisis is over. The King had, after a long
conference with the Queen, yielded on all points. The
ministry does not resign.
The Prefect of Police at Paris has given notice to news-
venders not to sell derhocratic journals either within doors
or without. The prohibited journals are taking measures
to counteract the effect of an order su ruinous to news-
paper property.
FRIGHTFUL MURDER.—At Marienwerder, in Spain,
sentence of death has just been pronounced on a woman
named Lempeck, for the murder of her step-daughter, a
child five years of age. She deliberately buried her alive,
thongh, as she says in her confession, "she resisted and
shrieked dreadfully." She tied the childs bands behind
her, forced her into a hole, and covered her with the
earth, even after she heard the stifled cries of the victim.
She told the neighbours the child had been sent to some
relations. Neither on the trial nor in her confession did
the woman exhibit any signs of derangement.

Lord Gough arrived in Dublin on Friday.
A public thanksgiving has been ordered by the Popish
Archbishop in Dublin, for the Pope's return to Rome.
The manufacturing operatives at Bradford, Hudders-
field, Leeds, Halifax, and other places, have warmly
protested against any compromise of the ten hours' bill,
not even to ten hours and a half, as last suggested.

The cholera has made its appearance at— Castiecomer,
Kilkenny, where three fatal cases have occurred ; and at
a place called Bagenelstown, in the adjoining county of
Carlow, where two persons have died.
The Times of yesterday holds out a hope that Sir
Charles Woad intends to repeal the window tax as early
as possible.
Her Majesty has granted a free pardon to Thomas
Glenny, convicted at the late assizes for Surrey, at Kings-
ton, for the murder of his illegitimate child.

The Bishop of Clogher (Lord Robert Tottenham) is
seriously indisposed. There seems little hope of his
recovery. Clogher is the last of the suppressed bishop-
ricks, and its revenues, amounting to £13,000 a-year, go
to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
A thief, while endeavouring to escape from a window
at the Ship Inn, Brighton, on Friday night week, fell to
the ground, a distance of twenty feet. He was fouud
next morning lying under the window almost dead, with
a bundle of the landlord's bedding under his arm. He
died in three hours.
A conditional order for a mandamus requiring the Town
Council of Dublin to proceed to the election of a Lord
Mayor in the place of Mr. John Reynolds, whose name
has been struck off the Burgess Roll, has been granted
by the Court of Queen's Bench at Dublin.
In the Bail-court on Saturday, a rule for a criminal
information was applied for against the Times, on the
part of Mr. Nash, a parliamentary agent. The complaint
was that the report of some proceedings as given in that
journal, in which Mr. Nash appeared before the House
of Lords in an Irish rahway, incorrectly implied that that
gentleman had been guilty of forgery. He also com-
plained of its being said that he was " brought to the
bar" of the House, as implying that he was on a criminal
charge. The court declined to grant the rule.
The Times, in an article disfigured by a pun upon
" Lord Campbell's Miss-Sellon-ies," congratulates the
church upon the decision in the Queen's Bench, on Thurs-
day, by which "the authority of the existing Courts of
Appeal is placed beyond further dispute,"—but at the
same time, admitting by implication the unfitness of the
tribunal, suggests that "the church m. y now demand,"
and "the legislature may now if it think fit, sanction, a
change in the supreme jurisdiction."
ANTICIPATED BENEFIT TO THE rORELINER FROM 11
THE APPROACHING EXPOSITION OF THE FINE ARTS.
—This great affair, although a hobby of royalty, and to
carry out which the contributions of all classes will be, as
the phrase runs, " thankfully received," is not, it would
seem, to be merely in the nature of an exhibition, from
which the foreign manufacturer and artizan are to be
permitted to acquire a knowledge of British processes and
machinery. It is rather to afford these classes an oppor-
tunity of competing, duty free, with the industry of this
country at our doors. The following extract of a letter
from the Times' Paris correspondent, (' atel Monday week,
will perhaps serve to place the matter in its true light, and
to open the eyes of some people, wl o are just now very
earnest in their efforts to advance the project :
" The announcement of the commissioners. appointed to
conduct the grand exposition to take place in London during
the ensuing year, to the effect that foreign articles will be re-
ceived there from the let January to the lst March *text, free
of duty, has given fresh animation to the French manufacturers,
who are already beginning to make preparations to avail
themselves of the invitation. It is feared, however, that the
manufacturers of cumbrous articles Hill he deterred by the
expense of carriage from sending, unless the government come
to their assistance. This matter has been made the subject of
a petition to the Minister of Commerce."
Of course, under the pretence of a friendly exhibition of
specimens merely of manufactures and art, we shall have
an inundation of French and other foreign manufactures
for sale, duty free, to replace the products of the suffering
British workman, and to foster still further amongst our
consuming classes a taste for foreign articles. And not
only luxuries, and goods for the rich, will be introduced,
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during several opportunities

" John Wesley's

conversation is good, but he is never
&ways obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very
di=agreeable to a man who likes to fold his legs, and have
out his talk, as I do." Again he said : "He can talk
well, on any subject." And he afterwards gave Boswell a
note of introduction•to Wesley, " because (he-says in tho
note itself) I think it very much to be wished that worts y
and religious men should be acquainted with each other.
—Religious Life and Death of Dr. Johnson.

ARCHBISIIOP USHER.—You speak of the illustrious
name of Usher" (p. 31). You will not doubt his pro-
found erudition, or the value of his judgment on theolo-
gical questions. Hear, then, my lord, tie modest lan-
guage in which this profound theologian speaks to a
brother theologian, Dr. Ward, on the subject, and judge
of the estimate he would have formed of the course you
are now pursuing. " You have done me," he says, " a
great pleasure in communicating unto me my Lord of
Salisbury's and your own determination touching the effi-
cacy of baptism of infants, for it is an obscure point, and
such as I desire to be taught in by such as you are, rather
than deliver mine own opinion thereof." So spoke Usher
in 1630, when Archbishop of Armagh. to his friend, Dr.
Ward. What a contrast does the language of this pro-
foundly learned prelate present to that with which tho
church is now echoing ! But the emptiest vessels make
the most noiso.-21fr. Goode's letter to the Bishop of
Exeter.

THEODORE Hoox.—He poured forth his extempsra
songs on all subjects, with a facility and a raciness which
no language can describe. Only get him in the humour,
and seat him before a piano, and there needed but a hint,
no matter how barren, to set him off at score. No diffi-
culties of name or subjects stayed him. Whatever the
theme might be—an adventure at the drawing-room, a
mishap in the park, a speech in parliament, a new inven-
tion in science—Hook seized it at once, and rhymed and
sang about it ad libitum. Not unfrequently the subject
given might be the names of the individuals of whom the
party consisted, and he invariably managed to br;ng them
aptly and cleverly into his verse. An instance of this is
recorded by Mr. Barham, which we do not remember to
have heard of before. A young Dane of the not very
manageable patronymic of Rosenagen, happened to be
one of a party of whom it was desired that his muse
should speak. On went the improvisatore, galloping over
the rest without pause or check ; till at last the trial came.
It was thus met—

Yet more of my Muse is required—
Alas! I'm afraid she is done;
No. no hke a fiddler that's tired,
I'll ROSIN-AGAIN and go on.

ANECDOTES OF THE LATE CANON BOWLES, THE POET:
—This lamented gentleman once left our office in com-
pany with a well-known antiquarian of our neighbourhood,
since deceased, and who was as absent as Mr. Bowles him-
self. The servant of the latter came to cur establishment
to look for him, and, on learning that he had gone away
with the gentleman to whom we have referred, the man
exclaimed in a tone of ludicrous distress, " What, those
two wandered away together; then they'll never be found
any more !" The act of composition was slow and labo-
rious with Mr. Bowles. He altered and re-wrote his MS.
until sometimes hardly anything remained of the original,
excepting the general conception. When we add that his
hand-writing was one of the worst that ever man wrote—
insomuch that frequently he could not read that which he
had written the day before—we need not say that his
printers had very tough work in getting his works into
type. At the time when we printed for Mr. Bowles, we
had one compositor in our office (his death is recorded in
our paper of to-day), who had a sort of knack in making
out the poet's hieroglyphics, and he was once actually
sent for by Mr. Bowles into Wiltshire to copy some MS.
written a year or two before, which the poet had himself
vainly endeavoured to decipher.—Bath Chronicle.

On Sunday morning, about two o'clock, a man, named
Donovan, living at Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, London,
threw his wife out of the bed-room window. Her skull
was dreadfully fractured, and there is no hope of her re-
covery. The poor woman states that she and her husband
were quarrelling, and that she opened the window to call
for help, when he rushed upon her, and forced her out.
WRITING.—It is surprising with what avidity a well-
written letter will be read, while one couched in terms,
exact in purport. would be utterly disregarded from the
inferior style of the hand ; and when the words " he
writes excellently," form a daily passport to lucrative
employment, it is not to be wondered at that Mr. Thomp-
son, as a teacher, should yearly find increased::encourage--
ment.
motionB t 0
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going2B inte committee
ANCTHEE MINISTERIAL DEFEAT.—MiniSterS were
again beaten pretty handsomely on Wednetday night,
The- bccasion of
upon the Affirmation Bill, the ministers voting unsuccess-
fully for the committee. What renders this victory of
the Country party more gratifying is the faerthat it was
their namely,
d s disgrace c a e
m was ajexclusively their own, for though two or three Peelites
ortihtey of 14
voted in the majority, even had they voted the other way,
the events would have been the same.
DIVISION.—On Friday, among those who voted in the
majority of 156 against abolishing the stamp duties on
marine assurances, bills of lading, and other shipping
documents were, R. Cobden, G. Greenall, T. Greene,
Lord R. Grosvenor, J. W. Patten, R. A. Thicknesse, T.
Thornely, and Bir J. Walmsley.
In the minority of 0
were B. D'lsraeli, W. J. Fox, T. M. Gibson, J. Oreene,
A. Henry, L. lleyworth, .T. iTornby. J. TYlrre, Lord J.
Manners, G. Sanders, J. Seettr3, Col. MCI -rp, R. Stc-
Pllewiont and' Talltun cht. •

THE POPES ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION
VELLETRI.

A R'nnan correspondent of The Times gives an admir-
able account of the reception of the different deputations
from Rome by the Pope on his arrival at Velletri. The

3f regal

and in the im

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erals, judges, ambassadors, and noble guards,

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without which it cannot subsist—at least with a regime of
liberty. Have, then, full confidence in your undertak-
ing—it is essentially good, it responds to the greatest and
most pressing interests and instincts of our time. Pur-
sue it with ardour. Make Christians—it is Christians
that our society requires. I say Christians—that is our
name, that is what we ought to propagate. The Bible
Society has strictly confined itself to its task; it is to
Protestants alone that it his distributed holy books ; but
its sentiments, its wishes, and its hopes are not confined
to the narrow circle to which its action is limited : it
ardently desires to make Christians everywhere ; it calls
by that name all who take the sacred writings as the basis
of their faith, of their hope, and of their love.

WORK !

AN ANECDOTE

Fortune. w

actions, having been quartered for a
ign city, gradually fell into a life of ex-
it dissipation. He soon found himself

itary service, that even the
y routine became irksome and unbearable. He
ngly solicited and obtained leave of absence from
went for six months. But instead of immediately

gave himself up to greater luxuries than ever,
Red into every kind of sensuality. The conse-
ras a disgust of life and all its healthy offices. He
enable to read half a page of a book, or to write

the shortest note; mounting his horse was too much

With this

down the street was a hateful effort

f, or everything disagreed with

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a ; and

and entered St. James's

uard for the last time; listened to each sound, and

looked with r

ion across the misty green to-

entered the pa:11

me gate a poor mechanic, who
le direction. He was a gaunt,
and walked with a sad air, hisd
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half-famished lookin

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without I
Arriving i
denly stoT

eing aware of the presence of another person
bout the middle of a wide open space, he sud.
ped, and drawing forth both pistols, exclaimed

" Oh, II

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not strengtl

I have not courage to endure or face

With these words he cocked the pistols, and was raising
both of them to his head, when his arms were seized from
behind, and the pistols twisted out of his fingers. He
reeled round, and beheld the gaunt scarecrow of a man

lmmered the officer, with a painful
ire you to step between me and death ?"

from me—and I am a 1
is I have nobody to live for, and have bee(
of my life, I came out this morninz. intend

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nic took him by the

over to the police if he resisted, led him