The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

IMPORTANT CAUTION.

- _ •
UNPRINCIFLEI) SI-1011UPERS, for the sake of gaining a
trifle more profit, vend the me4t SPURIOUS COMPOUNDS
under the same names; some under the implied sanction of
Royalty, and the Government Departments, with similar at-
tempts at deception ; while they copy the labels, bills, adver-
tisements, and testinzonlals (substituting fictitious names and
addresses for thereat) of the original pre.nfinnions. It is there-
fore highly necessary to see that the won.; " ROWLANDS' » is
on the Wrapper of each Article. Sod Prpprietors—
A. ROWLAND AND SONS,
20, 11ATTON-GAI?DEN, LONDON,
and by ail respectable Chemists and Perfumers.

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY,
ESTABLISHED 1846,
27, TVHITECHAPEL, LIVERPOOL,
FOR the reduction of Fractures and Dislocations of
the Bones, (BONE SETTING,) and th ..care of Cancer,
Scrofula, Scurvy, Leprosy, White Swelli L Ulcers, Fistula,
&c.
Surgeon.—J. S. TAYLOR, M.It.C.S .A.C., Prigeman of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, London n the Session 1643-4, &c.,
who may be consulted daily fro, 9 to 3, and 6 to 9 ; end on
Sundays from 10 to 2.
The following case will lilt
adopted :
" James Pollard, aged ' i years, residing at 65,Preston-street,
had suffered from a 4st inveterate scrofulous complaint of
the head from the rly age of four years ; his head was a
complication of at accumulated disease, so loathsome to the
sight, so offensi e to the smell, and altogether so repulsive,
that those who were under the necessity of attending upon him,
performed that service with reluctance. He had been under
the care of different gentlemen of the medical profession, com-
bining all the skill and talent of this neighbourhood. He was
also a patient for ten months in the Liverpool Infirmary, and
six months at the Dispensary; but there the combined skill of
the most eminent of the faculty was defeated, as the individual
exertions had before been. As a last effort he was placed under
the care of Mr. Taylor, who succeeded in effecting a perfect
cure, and he is now well, healthy, clean, and strong, and likely
to have a good head of hair.
(Signed) " JAMES POLLARD.
" Attested by his brother-in-law, JAMES FALLows, 63,
Preston-street, Whiteebapel."
An Assistant in continual attendance at the Celle e.

rate the success of the treatment

On Friday night, Meer Shahamut Ali, Persian secretary
to the residency at Indere, arrived in Manchester, on a
visit to the manufacturinz districts, and took up his tem-
porary residence at the Palatine Hotel.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT OXFORD.—On Tuesday even-
ing, a destructive fire Lroke out a few minutes before
seven o'clock on the farm of Mr. John Price, adjoining
the Woodstock turnpike-road, and about half a mile
from Oxford, which raged furiously. The fire first
originated in a shed adjoining a heap of straw, and in
an hour two wheat ricks, a barley rick, a bean rick,
two hay ricks, a clover rick. and a stack of straw, together
with the barn and unthreshed wheat, several implements
of husbandry, and the cart shed, were destroyed. The
value of the property exceeded £l,OOO. Several fine large
elm trees standing at the back of the ricks were so much
injured as to render them almost useless. _

MORE SUPERSTITION.—Under the head " Veneration
of the Holy Cross," the Tablet gives the following ac-
count of another mummery recently carried on at St.
George's Church :—" On Thursday last, the Feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the devout worshippers of
St. George's were gratified, through the kindness of the
Coadjutor Bishop of the District, by the oppertunity of
paying their veneration to a portion of the True Cross,
belonging to his Lordship, and by his favour exposed
during the morning in front of the screen. A temporary
altar was erected under the rood, at which Mass was said
at eleven. In front of it, raised on a beautiful throne,
and surrounded by lights, the precious relic was from an
early hour exposed to the veneration of the Faithful,
and after each of the Masses it was given by the several
priests to the people to kiss. It was delightful to see with
what joy the opportunity was embraced by a crowd of
worshippers. After the eleven o'clock mass, the relic was
borne in precession under a canopy round the church.
Many hundred persons assisted at the solemn mass at
eleven, and after the procession, kissed the relic presented
by the Rev. Dr. Doyle. The worshippers were chifly
poor, including the children of the schools. The only de-
ficiency, and it was a great one, was that of processional
chanting, It may be hoped that such beautiful and affec-
tionate devotions will more and more increase amongst
us. They commend themselves to all loving hearts, and
in fact seem the grey clesideraiwn 9f our 9AlMtry at the
pres,got mouaea, '

THE JESUITS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMI-

SPHERE.
(Prom the Australian of April 29.)

The Preach ship Arche de' Alliance, which, with its
band of Jesuit missionaries, had been lying in Port Jack-
son for several weeks, suddenly sailed on Good Friday, the
21st instant, having taken on board about 30 of the South
Sea islanders, who, for the last 10 or 12 months, have been
in the service of Mr. Boyd, by whom, as it is well known,
they were brought from the Loyalties, and who had
succeeded beyond his expectation in training them to
habits of usefulness and industry. By various arts and
the aid- of a plentiful supply of cocoa nuts they were
kidnapped by the Arch d'Alliance company of Jesuits,
at whose instigation t hey took from Mr. Boyd's stores, the
bedding, clothes, cooking utensils, and various other ne-
cessaries, with which they had been supplied by him. Upon
being apprised of this audacious act of the French mis-
sion, Mr. Boyd, through Mr. J. P. Robinson requested
the interference of Archbishop Polding, representing to
his Grace that the men were useful servants, and that
they were under engagements to Mr. Boyd, who would
however, have no objection to allow two or three to pro-
ceed with the Arche de Alliance, if their services as in-
terpreters were desired by the mission. Mr. Robinson
farther explained that this "island-labour experiment"
had every prospect of success ; that many of the Sydney
householders had engaged, and been much satisfied with
the services of the men ; and that as a very important step
in the difficult problem of colonisation, it was desirable
that the attempt to interfere with and kidnap the people in
Mr. Boyd's employ should be abandoned. Dr. Polding de-
clined to interferein the matter, on the ground "that he had
no control over the French mission ;" and Mr. Robinson
thereupon-obtained from the magistrate of the water-police
warrants for the apprehension of the men who had been
enticed on board the ship then on the eve of sailing. Be-
fore these warrants could be executed Captain Marceau
set sail, waiving the usual form of clearance, and defying
the authorities of the port. This officer's conduct will
of course be represented in the proper quarter, and in F o
far as 'he is concerned full redress will doubtlessly be ob-
tained; but as regards the audacious outrage by the Jesuit
missionaries, it may be advisable to consider the matter
in-tome other form than a tedious and, but too probably,
unsatisfactory official correspondence.

THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND.—The delightful weather
has enabled the farmers in this quarter to urge on their
-operations, and in a clay or two, excepting upland districts,'
the crops will be secured in the barn yards. It is said to
have turned out better in every way than was expected.
Turnips and parsnips are suffering somewhat from drought.
The reports in regard to the potato crop are rather worse
than before, and some of them come from places hitherto
exempt; but assertions are so contradictory, that it is not
easy to come to any certain decision. With this weather,
however, we do not despair of a tolerable crop.—Edin-
burgh Regieter.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BlusToL.—A fire occurred at
Bristol on Wednesday night, in the warehouses of Messrs.
Richards, papor manufacturers, Tower-hill, St. Philip's.
The flames speedily communicated with the premises of
Messrs. Weston, ironmonger, which ignited with so much
fierceness that Mr. Weston and his family narrowly escaped
with their iives. The fire then communicated to the pre-
mises of Mr. Hawker, chemist and druggist, in Castle-
street., and to the adjoining shop and warehouses of Mr.
Bess:11, linendraper, in both of which it did considerable
damage. Mr. Richard's stock was uninsured. The entire
loss is estimated at from £5,000 to £5,600.

SUICIDE THROUGH LOSSES IN SPORTING SWEEPS.—
On Wednesday, a young man hired a cab, on the stand
in Oxford-street, London, and was driven to No. 6, Suf-
folk-street, Pall-mall. On arriving the driver opened the
door to let his fare out, when he found him lying on the
seat weltering in his blood, and a large holster pistol,
which had been recently discharged, close to his rigl t
hand. .Mr. Cook, proprietor of the house, recognised the
deceased as his foreman. The young man whose name
was Norman Howard, was conveyed to the Charing-cross
Hospital, but was found to be quite dead. It is supposed
that the deceased committed suicide in consequence of
losses in several of the sporting lotteries. His employer
having been lately out of town, deceased had the who!e
management of the business, and it has already been
learnt that he received sums of money, and lost them, of
which he had rendered no account.

EMIGRATION CLUB.—On Monday evening a crowded
public meeting of the labouring classes, the majority of
whom were respectable-looking mechanics, was held at
the Working Men's Institute, Pear-street, Stratton-
ground, one of the most densely inhabited and most
wretched parts of Westminster, for the purpose of
receiving the report of a committee appointed to inquire
into the practicability of forming an emigration club for
the working classes. The committee proposed that a
club should be formed, to .consist of en unlimited
number of members, and to be connected with the Society
for the Promotion of Colonization ; that the subscribers
should pay 9d. per week per share, and is. entry ' • and
that the election of members for emigration should take
place every three months, and should be-decided by lot.
It was calculated that, with the proposed subscription,
the society would be enabled to send out at least one hun-
dred members in four years. A committee was formed.
RURAL SPORTS AT EASTHAM.--Yesterday the •annual
rural sports at this delightful village, took place in front
of the hotel, under the anspices of Mr. Nicholls the pro-
prietor. The company was not very numerous. The
sports consisted of donkey races, wheelbarrow races,
treacle eating, together with several other descriptions of
the well-known amusing but rather ludicrous rustic pas-
times, with all of which the villagers and competitors ge-
nerally seemed to be exceedingly gratified. The contest
for the winner of the wheelbarrow seemed to excite un-
usual interest and mirth, the various competitors being
blindrAded. The race commenced at the top of the lane,
and terminated opposice the front door of the hotel. In
their progress towards the goal, the barrows with their
"blind" conductors paid no respect to "man or boast,"
and several of the spectators came closer into contact with
them than was compatible with their bodily safety.
THE LATE LORD GEORGE BENTINCIC.—The mortal
remains of this much lamented nobleman will, it is under.
stood, be almost immediately removed to town, prepara-
tory to interment in the family vault of Marylebone
Old Church, which is surrounded by the Portland estate.
The vault already contains the remains of the Duchess of
Portland, mother of the deceased, who, it may be recol-
lected, was fel:rid dead in her bed early in 1844; of Lord
and Lady William Bentinck, and other members of this
distinguished house. Lord George, it appears, has died
possessed of a considerable amount of ready money and
other personal property. He owned an estate in Norfolk
known as the Orange Farm, called so in respect to
the memory of William 111. (Prince of Orange,) who
raised the celebrated Dutch General Bentinck to the
peerage of Portland for services rendered at the battle of
the Boyne, when Schomburg, then the second in com-
mand, was shot. He also possessed some property in
Scotland. So great was the benevolence of the deceased,
that, on several occasions, he has been known to re-
establish tradesmen and others overtaken by misfortune,
on finding that their intentions had been good, merely
exacting a promise that, if ever an opportunity presented
itself, he would be repaid. During the two years of
famine he subscribed upwards of £lOOO for the relief of
the distressed Irish.

PUNISHMENT FOR DRUNKENNESS.—The magistrates
of Loughborough have for some time past enforced the
provisions of an old act of Parliament relative to drunken-
ness. Persons convicted a second time of this offence
have been required to enter into their own recognizance,
together with two other persons, in the sum of £lO, for
their sobriety during the remainder of their lives. On
the 17th of September, 1846, a stocking maker, named
Wakelin, of Quorndon, was convicted of being drunk at
the wake, at that village, ' a few days previously • and that
being his second offence he was required to find the usual
sureties. With some difficulty the sureties were obtained,
and Wakelin was liberated. Two years have passed, and
the wake at Quorndon has been celebrated. Early on
the morning of Wednesday week Wakelin was drunk in
the street. and was taken into custody. He was taken
before two magistrates at Loughborough ; his recogniz-
ances were estreated ; and he was informed that, unless
the £lO was paid, his goods would be distrained, and
those of his sureties, to the extent of the deficiency.
Another man was convicted a second time of drunkenness
by the same bench, and was ordered to find the usual
sureties for the remainder of his life. He was not able to
find such sureties, and was consequently committed to
Leicester prison; where he still lies, and, according to
law, will lie for an indefinite period.
AWFUL CASE.—On Saturday, at Lamhkh Police-
office, Richard Orpin, William Lindfield, Spencer Lind-
field, arid Mary Ann Dryden, who have been in custody
for some days, were placed at the bar before the Hon. G.
Norton, on the charge of having caused the death of
Mize Wilson. The details were unfit for publication.
The female prisoners occupied a house where females, to
conceal their shame, were in the habit of going to be con-
fined ; but several neighbours swore that when they left
the premises they had not infants with them. The house
was searched, but nothing of a suspicious character had
been found. The superintendent of police had, however,
caused an extract to be made from the " occurrence
hook" kept at the station-house, and found that from
that month twelvemonths the following dead bodies of
infants were found in the neighbourhood—viz., "Sept.
4, 1847. Found, in a ditch in Tarleton-place, Walworth-
common, the body of a female child, newly-born ; ver-
dict Found dead.'—Oct. 27. Found, in Albany-crescent,
Albany-road, the body of a newly-born male child; ver-
dict, Wilful murder against some person or persons un-
known.' March 6, 1848. Found, at 4, East-lane, the
body of a newly-born male child ; verdict, ' Wilful mur-
der against some person or persons unknown.—May 11.
Found, in the Surrey Canal, the body of a new born male
child ; verdict, ' Found dead.'—August 29. Found, in the
area of the house, 17, Lacy-terrace, Penton-place, the
body of a male infant ; verdict, ' Found dead.'—March
17. Found, in the garden of Apollo-buildings, the body
of a newly-born male child ; verdict, Wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown.' " The pri-
soners were remanded, the magistrates refusing to take
bail. There were handed to the bench two numbers of
the Times paper, of the date of October, 1826, in which
were given, under the head of Union-hall Police-court,
lengthened reports of aninvestigation at that court, touch-
ing the parentage of the prisoner, William Lindfield. It
appears that a Mrs. Burrows, a widow lady of great re-
spectability had, in order to conceal her shame from
her family and friends, been privately confined at the
house of Mr. Lindfield, Mrs. Burrows, shortly after the
birth of the infant, felt so convinced that a deception had
been practised on her, and that the infant given to her was
substituted for her own, that she did not pay it common
attention, and it was ultimately discovered by the parish
authorities in a frightful state of emaciation, with the
r,
bones nearly protruding through the skin, and the flesh of
his thumbs quite raw, from the little creature's sucking its
flesh; which afforded it nourishment. Mrs. Lindfield ul-
timately
up ee ewe,
agreed to tali? thg infant, and had brow 14 him

EXTENSIVE DRAINAGE-

(From the New York Sun of Sept.l2lh.)

The draining of the Ever Glades of Florida, a project
agitated in Congress by Senator Wescott, of Florida, and
which has been reported upon, is exciting general interest
and attention. The Ever G!ades extend from the southern
margin of Lake Okechobee some ninety miles towards,
Cape Sable, the southern extremity of the peninsula of
Florida, and are in width from thirty to fifty miles. They-
lie in a vast basin of lime reek. Their waters are entiroly.
fresh, varying from one to six feet in depth. Their usual
level is more than twelve feet above that of the waters of-
the straits of Florida and of the Atlantic Ocean, but of
course not so great above the Gulf of Mexico. As the
Ever Glades extend seuthwardly from Lake Okechobee,
they gradually decline, arid their waters move in the senee.
course. They have their origin in the cop Ens rains which
indebted
fall in that latitude during the autumn and fall, and in the
overflow of Lake Okecho'oce throw swamps between it and
• the Ever Glades.
The proposed drain will, it is estimated, recover over a
million
tileprodauccrteiso
no fo7-as
manyte
articlesland, f
fog
the
which ni
ost va r
are kind
we a
to the West Indies and foreign countries, as for instance,
compty, yam, casava, ginger, pulka, Sisal hemp, indigo,
tobacco, cortez cascarilla, canilla albs, sarsaparilla, sugar -
cane, pepper, bush and vine pepper, tea plant, orange,
guava, Otaheite plum, shaddock, lime, hog phlin, forbid-
den fruit, lemon, Jamaica apple, grape fruit, citron, sugar
apple, banana, pineapple, cocoanut. plantain, sapadilla,
sour sop, Avocato pear, mango, mame, o.ive, mame sae_
pota, boxwood, lingumvitre, mahogany, titi, and ship
timber.

The expense of the draining will be from .8'300,000 to
=8:540,000, to effect which it is _proposed to vent certain
public lands to the State of Florida, the State.in consider-
ation, to assume the work. The drain is to be effected
by cutting canals from the great lake Okechobee to the
Atlantic and the Gulf. With Lake Okechobee are con-
nected the vast swamps and numerous streams whose
swelling from rains overflows the country sought to be
reclaimed, and which with little expense can be /11010
directly precipitated into the lake, and which only require
an'ontlet to the ocean and gulf to free over a million acres
of the richest soil.

The distance of the lake from the eastern coast is less
than forty miles in a direct line, and does not exceed fifteen
miles to the navigable waters of the Caloosa- Hatehee, and
a similar distance or, the west side will reach those of
Loca-Hatchee, the fall being sufficient for the proposed
cuts. Besides the land reclaimed, equal to the whole
State of Connecticut, it is proposed to make these canals,
capable for commercial purposes, thus shortening the dis-
tance to the Gulf and avoiding the Florida reefs, upon
which in three years 1844, '45 and '46, property, was
wrecked or damaged to the amount of 53,086,800.
Furthermore, the reclamation of these lands will im-
mensely forward the settlement by increasing the produe-
!iveness of the State, and extensive settlement is all than
is required to render Florida one of the richest states of
the Union, rich even as Cuba. The project is a great and
feasible one, and if it can be performed by the State upon
the terms proposed, Congress should not hesitate in sane-.
tioning the enterprise.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.),.

An insurrection has broken out at Baden, and a Provi-
sional Government has been established, of which M.
Struve is at the head.

LONDON MONEY MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

Consols area little firmer this morning, having been steady
at 80 for account, and slit 4 for money ; India Stock 2371,
the June Exchequer Bills 275. 395'., the March 30s. 315., and
India donds 35 pm.