The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

DERBY

5 to 2 agst Cotheratone (taken).
11 2 British Yeoman (taken)
11 1 Gasper (taken).
15 1 Aristides (taken).
16 1 Newcourt.
16 I General Pollock.
18 I Parthian.
18 I Gamecock.
95 1 Winesour (taken).
40 = 1 Dumpling.
50 1 Highlander.
50 1 Lueetta.
50 1 Pickpocket.

OAKS.

6 to 1 agst Maria Day.
8 1 Laura filly.
10 1 Judith Hunter.
11 1 Sister to Jeffy.
11 1 Elegance filly.
12 1 Bessy Bedlam filly,
20 1 Peggy (taken).
20 1 Extempore.
20 1 Cowslip.

BETTING IN LONDON.--(FRIDAY NIGHT.)
9 to 4 agst Cotherstone (taken).
8 1 British Yeoman (taken).
10 1 Gaper (taken).
14 1 Aristides (taken).
15 1 Gamecock.
16 1 Newcourt.
20 1 General Pollock (taken).
20 1 Parthian.
40 1 Pickpocket (taken).
50 1 Maccabeus (taken).
50 1 Languish c. (taken).
50 1 Fakeaway (taken).
OAKS.
5i to 1 agst Maria Day (taken).
10 1 Sister to Jeffy (taken).
12 1 Elegance filly (taken).
20 1 Peggy (taken).
20 1 --- The Lily.
30 1 -- Laura filly.

Corm:itsToNE.—This celebrated horse, the winner of the
Riddlesworth, Column, and 2,000 Guineas Stakes, at New-
market, this year, and first favourite for the Derby, is named
after Mr. Bowes's extensive manor of Cotherstone. The
pleasant village of Cotherstone stands at the confluence of the
Balder and the river Tees, about four miles above Barnard
Castle, and it is famous for a petrifying drop-well, close by
the margin of the former stream, and for its " cheeses,"
which are well known throughout the kingdom. Cotherstone
is described as a good bright bay, rather over fifteen hands
two inches high, with black legs and on white he
e el hind;
head rather plain and large, good deep shoulders well b
thrown
back ; very deep in the girth, round body, splendid quarters,
well let down, and looking from behind him, very wide hips
showing great power; carries his tail a little way from his
quarters ; good strong arms, thighs, and hocks, short from
the hock to the ground ; very sound clean legs and feet ; has
a fine temper, good hardy constitution, altogether presents
the appearance of a powerful racing-like nag. Should he be
well on the day, he will take a vast deal of beating for the
Derby—it will not be the hill that will stop him. Cother-
stone was got by Touchstone (who, with his brother, Launce-
lot, won the St. Leger in the years 1834 and 1840,) out of
Emma (the darn of Mundig, winner of the Derby in 1835 ;)
grandam, Gibside Fairy (the grandam of Euclid, Theon, Ex-
tempore, &c.,) by Hermes ; great grandam Vicissitude, by
Pipator, &c.

HOT-BLAST CASE.—This important case ma decided on
Saturday week, the trial having commenced on Wednesday
the 10th instant. The pursuer was James B. Neilson, of
Glasgow, engineer; and the defenders Messrs, W. A. J. and
D. Baird, partners in the Gartsberry iron works. The ques-
tion regarded the validity of Mr. Neilson's patent for the
hot-blast. The jury found for the pursuer on all the issues,
and assessed the damages at £11,867 16s. ; £4,867 16. being
in the name of proats ; £7,000 as other damages.—Sceleh
Paper.

An Irishman, some time since, found a sovereign in the
street, which proved to be light, and he could only obtain
19s. for it. Soon after, chance threw another in his way,
but Pat exclaimed, " By the powers, I'll have nothing to do
with you, for I lost a shilling by the last one I found."
Cornelius Donovan, a wood-turner in Mallow, has re-
ceived .£9 from the Queen and Prince Albert for a present of
toys and a diminutive spinning wheel, his own manufacture,
sent to Buckingham Palace. One of the toys was a top for
the Prince of Wales.
On Thursday last, at the Salford Sessions, Mr. John
Molesworth, son of the vicar of Rochdale was found guilty
of an assault on Mr. Jesse Hall, the publisher of a periodi-
cal in which were inserted some remarks offensive to the
vicar and his family.
Da GUiiTinUS, &c.—A Paris letter says, "At a sale of
autographs, the property of a valet-de-charnbre of Napoleon,
on Monday evening, an autograph of Napoleon affixed to an
order given in Cairo, sold for 5 francs, 10 sous (about 4s. -1(1.
sterling), while one of Madame Laffarge brought 9 francs!"
THE IRON TRADE.—We hear that several large iron-
works in Staffordshire have stopped working, and a greart
number of hands are, consequently, thrown out of employ-
ment. The inhabitants of Dudley, Tipton, and the whole
country in that direction, are under serious apprehensions
for the result.

An application was made in the Vice-Chancellor's Court
on Thursday, on behalf of Mr. Alaric Alexander Watts, for
an injunction to restrain Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode and Mr.
Charles Hyde from interfering with the management of the
United Service Gazette. The application was ordered to
stand over, and will probably come on next week.
At the meeting of the Free Presbyterian Church Assembly,
last Monday, Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, M.P., said he was
commissioned by the most noble the Marchioness of Breadal-
bane to state, that she bad ordered the sum of .£l,OOO to be
placed at the disposal of the assembly for the benefit of the
free presbyterian church.
As a circumstance of interest at the present moment, it
may be mentioned, that the accounts from the continent
upon the subject of the weather and the growing crops read
very satisfactory, and that, as far as present appearances go,
the probability is in favour of a good harvest. It is worthy
of remark, however, that in Belgium provisions continue
very dear, agricultural produce being, in fact, higher than
for years past, while in England the reverse is the case.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT ! ! !—On Friday afternoon, during
the parade of the 8 Ith Regiment, P.M., in Third-street,
near Green, the officers were assaulted and insulted in the
most shameful manner. Flour was thrown over them, and
other acts committed too scandalous for a decent community.
On Saturday George Griffiths, one of the party, was arrested
at the instance of Colonel Lazelle, and bound over by Alder-
man Boileau in 300 dollars to answer at court.—American
Paper-

THE LATE MR. ARKWRIGHT.—On Wednesday the pro-
bate of the will of Mr. Richard Arkwright, late of Willesby,
in the county of Derby, deceased, passed through the hands
of the seal keeper of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
The personal property of the deceased is sworn to exceed
£1,000,000; the stamp duty on the probate was £15,000,
being the highest duty, when the personal estate of the tes-
tator is £1,000,000 and upwards. The executors are the five
sons of the deceased, who are also residuary legatees to a
very large amount.
THREE SUICIDES BY THE WIVES OF ONE HUSBAND.—
On Thursday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Seymour
Arms, Seymour-place, Bryanaten•acquare, London, on the
body of Mary Salmon, aged 44. Evidence was given to
prove that she had separated from her husband, and had
since lived a dissipated life, and that she bad committed sui-
cide by taking laudanum. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
One of the jury stated that the deceased was the fourth wife
of her husband, and that two of them exclusive of her, had
also committed suicide.
THE TARIFF : FIRST IMPORTATION OF PORK,&C. FROM
New ORLEANS.—On Tuesday morning the barque Pearl, of
400 tons register, Captain Brickley, belonging to New Bruns
wick, arrived in the London Docks, from New Orleans, with
a perfectly full cargo of provisions, &c. ; namely, 1,042 bar-
rels and 227 tierces of pork, 127 barrels and 5 boxes of bacon,
2 barrels of hams, 3,421 kegs and 1 tierce of lards, 124 bar-
rels of tallow, 11 half-barrels of tongues, 230 casks of oil-
cake, and 50 barrels of flour. The Pearl is the first vessel
having a full cargo of this description of articles from New
Orleans since the passing of the tariff.
UooD NEWS FOR HAMPERED J. K.
Bruce gave judgment in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, last
week, on a point respecting wills. A testator, in 1831, made
a will, by which he gave a share of his estate to his (laughter
and her issue ; but by a codicil added in 1836, he provided
that this property should pass over to other persons if his
daughter should ever marry. The daughter did marry, and
the " other persons" stepped forward to claim the money.
The judge said, that all such restraints upon marriage were
void by the English law ; and the declaration of the court
was, that the lady should keep the money.
RATHER STARTLING.—The Kilkenny Moderator has the
following paragraph :—" We have heard, and we fear there
are ample grounds for believing, that the rumour is well
founded, that the population between Paulstown and Ben-
nett's-bridge are in a very excited state at this moment, and
that large masses of men assemble occasionally, at night, at
Freestone Hill and Killymount. Por what purpose they are
assembling at this crisis and making these nocturnal excur-
sions is a question which is easily answered ; for if it be the
fact, is is clear the population are being drilled, organised,
and perhaps regimented, ready for action."
CRIME.—From Mr. Porter's digest of the criminal re-
turns, we find that the mean number of committals of chil-
dren under sixteen years of age, during the sixteen years
ending with 1841, was—
In Ireland, .. 1 in 6,224 of the population.
In England, .. .1 in 5,564 of the population.
In Scotland, .. lin 4,495 of the population.
In England, the centesimal proportion of offenders who
were under sixteen years of age, in 1836, was 11.55, and in
1841 was no more than 11.57 ; but in Scotland the same
proportion had risen from 15.00, in 1836, to 17.49, in 1841.

THE PETITION MANUFACTURE.—The Manchester Guar-
dian of Saturday last informs us, that the petition from that
town against the education clauses of Sir James Graham's
Factory Bill, as amended to meet the dissenting demands,
" received in the course of only three days and a half NINETY-
ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE SIGNA-
TURES! Taking the entire population of that town at 300,000,
it would thus appear that nearly one-third of that population,
including women, children, and infants in their cradle (!)
have signed the petition in question ! The document, we are
further informed, weighs fifty-five pounds, doubtless owing
to the deposits of grease and dirt from the unwashed fingers
of the ♦arious urchins, whose cacoet hes scribendi its getting
up has gratified. Verily, we shall begin to think soon that
petitioning is indeed " a farce," when a fraud so palpable as
this can be deliberately practised upon the legislature.

THE " RULING PASSION OF THE BEGGARMAN."—The
following exquisite specimen of the bathos, fell from the lips
of this arch-hypocrite and impostor, at the Limerick gather-
ing last week. With his hands uplifted, and his eyes

" In a fine frenzy rolling—"
" Glancing from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth"

He apostrophised as follows :—" I have been, whilst ad-
dressing you, looking into your minds ; (Qy. pockets) ex-
changing that mental sympathy with you, which I feel within
me. (!) OH, TO THINK THAT IN THE YEAR 1843—TOE
REPEAL YEAZ—THE RENT SHOULD HAVE ACCUMU-
LATED FROM £56 TO £694 PER WEEK"! The disinterested
patriot ! What would he not do for THE RENT ! We
can imagine the assembled peasantry buttoning up their
pockets aghast at this singular confession of the object of
the Repeal agitation.

APPLICATION TO STRIKE AN ATTORNEY OFF THE ROLL.
—ln the Bail Court, on Friday, Mr. Henderson moved the
Court to strike an attorney of the roll, under the following
circumstances appeared from the affidavit that the ap-
plicant was an attorney, and a very young man, who was
lately left a property to the amount of £3,000 a year. lie
became indebted to a considerable amount, in consequence of
certain gambling transactions in which he was involved. The
attorney against whom the application was made was a friend
to the applicant's family, and he said he compounded with
those to whom the money was lost, for £5,000. The appli-
cant was subsequently induced to play with the attorney,
sometimes by themselves, and sometimes in the presence of
other parties, till he lost £12,000. It was sworn that the
attorney used at one time false dice, and at another time
false cards. Rule nisi granted.

CHEAP BUTTER, &c.—Such has been the immense quantity
of butter brought into the Retford market during the last
two or three weeks, that it has become quite a "drug".
Last Saturday the very best dories only made 7d. per pound,
whilst inferior ones with difficulty realized:4d. to 6d. New
milk is likewise more plentiful in Retford at the present time
than we have known it for the last twenty years—so much so
indeed, that it is with the greatest difficulty one half of it
can be disposed of ; and a talk is quite current that the in-
habitants are to have this article at tariff prices during the
present week. As a proof also that calves are plentiful, and
not in very great request in that neighbourhood, we may state
that a few days ago Mr. Howe, of the Crown Inn, bartered
away a calf for a hen and chickens, pluming himself at the
same time that he had much the best in the bargain. The
hen and chickens on the same day were purchased by the
farming baliff of a neighbouring gentlemen for 7s. 6d., and
are now making up for the future garnishing of their masters
table.—Doncaster Gazette.

REPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT.—It is said here, and
I believe with truth, that government have at length resolved
to take active measures to repress the agitation in Ireland,
and to apply to Parliament for additional powers. The visit
of Sir Robert Peel to Claremont, it is generally supposed,
was for the purpose of laying before her Majesty the plan to
be ➢roposed to Parliament for effecting this object, and of
obtaining the Queen's sanction previously to the subject be-
' ing noticed in both houses. The question is of sufficient im-
portance to warrant ministers in advising her Majesty to send
down a special message, and this, most likely, will be the
course adopted. It is doubtful, however, whether ministers
have the courage to take the only effectual measure for put•
ting down the agitation for ever—namely, by making it high
treason to contemplate the dismemberment of the empire.
It is true, the act of union is but au act of parliament. There
are other acts, however, which it is high treason to attempt
to alter ; and, unless government are prepared to go this
length with regard to the repeal of the union, it is uselrsa for
them to stir in the matter at all. Should the proposition be
to re-enact the proclamation law of 129, Mr. O'Connell will,
no doubt, be prepared to drive hie. coach and ail, full tilt,
through it. If vigorous measures be really intended, Lord
Elliot must he recalled ; he is utterly unfit to administer them.
London Correspondent of the Dublin Mail.