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

" Too LATE TO RUE."—On Tuesday, at Preston parish
church, a buxom pair presented themselves for the purpose
of being made happy. The incvriage ceremony was per-
formed, the register signed, the fed s paid, and everything
done in order. Some misgivings appeared to have come
over the minds of the two most inteested, for instead
of the party leaving the church, they enterztd 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 X 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 execti,-
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 iu 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 Go4ernment, 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 BILISTOL.—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.

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

My Loin,—l 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 ''3 18s. per ton .41950 0 0
150 days' provision, each adult at Bd. per day 1250 0 0
150 tons water, oil tons, at 60s. each 450 0 0
Filling and shipping water, at 2s. per ton
250 beds and bedding, at 1os.

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

Net expenses

X 3790 0 0

375 0 0

.'3415 0 0

Or cost price of each adult to Australia, about .t'l3 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 front
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 emigrationfor 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 ma 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.
Emigrating, 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 muchiimpedes
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 daring 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 of
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
approve of an expenditure of £1,250,000 annually, say for
three or five years, topalice inestimable advantages, and
to provide for our surplEPTlopulation, 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 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- TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,
formance. Most of the parties were liberated on enter- SIR,—I would submit through your paper to the public,
ing into their own recognizances to keep the peace for in justification of those who advocated the retention of
two months. One exception was made in the case of what are called the penal statutes against the Roman
Samuel Cowell, an actor at the Princess's, who, having Catholics, that their advocacy of those wise enactments
expressed his determination of trying the rights of the provided by our forefathers, has been amply justified
theatrical public, was fully committed for trial at the Old during the past week, in which Las been exhibited the
Bailey, but afterwards liberated on bail. total disregard that a papist has qor an oath, upon the
RAGGED SCHOOLS.—On Wednesday, the second annual sanctity and observance of which the administration of all
meeting of the friends of the Ragged School, established justice depends in this country.
in Marylebone, was held, and was attended by a large In the recent state trials in Ireland the papist jurymen
number of the neighbouring gentry. Lord Ashley, M.P., would not consent to be bound by the oath they had
took the chair, and said he had no doubt whatever that taken, to find a verdict according to the evidence.
ragged schools would soon receive government aid. (Hear, The only remedy is to prevent papists sitting on a jury,
hear.) From what had passed in tho as they cannot De trustea-; nut to ao tms is to re-enact the
ho had had with go-
and frts., penal codes as they ar° 'anon_ ;0, aece.-
vernment, he knew that a certain number of those poor, sity demands it, and that crime produces penalties and
desltiute, and helpless children, who had received certifi- restrictions, and hence, originally, the Roman Catholics
sates of good conduct at the schools, and were qualified brought the prohibition on themselves (repealed only a
by a certain amount of education, would be transplanted few years since by Parliament) by their own wanton mis-
to a soil where they might industriously, honestly, and demeanours.
happily pass the remainder of their days. (Hear, hear,) Our forefathers could not govern the country without
Lord Grey, the Colonial Secretary, said to him (Lord excluding the papists from political power, nor can we.
Ashley) a few days ago, "If you take care to attend to By admitting them we break up our political system, it
the moral training of those childrpn, imbibe them with will not worg when in their hands.—Yours, obediently,
religious principles, and give them a knowledge of some \ May 24. JUSTITIA.
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.—On 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 apart
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. Nov‘ just 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 think44hat
his services have been overpaid. Instead of the £51,000
which we have mentioned, the legislature bestowed £700,000
upon his Grace to 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 bad 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 Id. 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 ffered every assistance ; but it was
too late—the flickering flame had expired. Virdict—
Died from want of the necessaries • of life.

The emigration of 100,000 persons would employ 400
of 500 tons each.

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

ROMAN CATHOLIC RESTRICTIONS

" 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 conClus'on, 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 veroration of Mr. Holate'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-

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-
martine 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 pOesent 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 Moore'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 from
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.

BOR,OUGHS.—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 Nur 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 thefparticulars 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 urevent objections, if taken, being sub-,
stantiated.