The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

THE; LlVEfitoOnt, STANDARO.

SECOND EDITION,

Standard-office, Half-past Six o'clock.

137 EXPRESS.

DUBLIN CeURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Monday, May 6th.

All the avenues to the Queen's Bench were crowded
from an early hour this morning ; the listlessness which
had so strongly characterized the public during the de-
livery of the long-winded and time• killing harangues of
the traversers' counsel, having, now that there appeared
some probabilty of judgment being pronounced this term,
given way to an intense anxiety to ascertain the result.
By eleven o'clock, the hour at which the full court usually
sit, every disposable inch of room in every part of the Court

- .
was occupied. The front of the gallery was filled with
ladies. None of the members of the Court appeared at
the usual hour, which caused much disappointment to the
public curiosity. Twelve o'clock came, and still their
Lordships remained absent. The ladies, the gentlemen of
the bar, the press, and those liege subjects who are classed
as the public at large, might be seen in little groups, en-
gaged in the most animated conversation on such topics
as, what the Judges were now actually doing ? Whether
they were, or were not, arranging and discussing their
judgment ?
However, all the various and interesting speculations—
and they were numerous—were put an end to by the crier
shouting " Silence ! " a few moments after which Mr.
Justice Burton entered the court and took his seat, and
in a few minut,s was followed by Mr. Justice Crampton,
and at a quarter past twelve o'clock the Lord Chief Jus-
tice took his seat, but Mr. Justice Perrin did not appear.
The Attorney-General and several of the Crown counsel
were present, together with the Crown Solicitor and Mr.
Hodges, the Government reporter. Some of the counsel
and agents for the traversers were in attendance, as also
were Dr. Gray, the Rev. Mr. Tierney, and Mr. Steele,
O'Connell's head pacificator.
The CHIEF JUSTICE having inquired if Mr. Attorney-
General wished to move any thing,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL bowed to the court, but
bad no motion to make, upon which
The CHIEF JUSTICE made the same inquiry of
Mr. 13REWSTER, Q. C., who rose and said, that in the
case of Stringer v. Mac Donald, he had been instructed to
apply to their lordships for a new trial.

The motion was destitute of any feature of public in-
terest.

Mr. Brewster's motion having been disposed of, for the
present, upon a preliminary objection,
The Court proceeded to call upon the Queen's Counsel
present to move, according to their seniority, some of
whom having availed them of the opportunity, one or two
c +ses were heard, during the last of which Mr. Justice
Perrin, who, it was understood, had been engaged with
the Grand Jury in chamber during the morning, entered
the court, and took his seat amongst his learned brethren.
Atter hearing two counsel on either side in support of
the application, which was a renewal of a writ of habere,
the Court refused to grant what the plaintiff required, and
gave their opinion at some length on the subject, atter
which the Court asked Mr. M`Donough if he bad any
thir.g else to move, who was riot at present prepared to
wove anything. The same question was put to Mr.
S..oti, Q.C., and to Sir Thomas Staples, Q.C., both of
whom similarly d •elined.

The Csief-sluqiee then addressing Mr. French, Q.C.,
said, have y u anything to move? upon which the learned
gentleman, 'stoking a low bow t the bench, immediately
rose from his seat, and moved himself out of Court,
amidst pcals rf laughter at the learned counsel's mode
of answering the question, in which the Bench heartily
joined.

Half-past Three o'clock.
The Court. with the most provoking indifference to the
curiosity of the public, have not as yet said a syllable on
tne subject of the traversers' motion.

Half-past Four o'clock.
The Court has just adjourned, without announcing when
they will pronounce their j►idgment in the case of the
Queen v. O'Connell. On Wednesday the Term ends, so
that it is to be feared the decision will not be given till
next Term.

The rent received at the Repeal Association to-day was
£248.

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock.

LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT, &c.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

On the motion of Sir 11. DOUGLAS, the report on the
Liver po,il Fire Prevention Bill was brought up and
agreed to.

BANK OF ENGLAND CHARTER.

Mr. Greene it the chair.

Sir R. PEEL then rose and addressed the house on the
important subject of the Bank charter. In 1833 there
had been a r:-nee al of the charter to the period of 1855;
but a rower was reserved by parliament to reconsider the
charter wi•htn ten years, which period would exp r
August next. and if that time was passed by, the present
charter would continue until 1855. It was therefore un-
der these circumstances that the government wished to
lay their views and plans before the legislature, and he
hoped the most impartial attention would be paid to th s
great subject. lie did not ask the House of Commons o
come to any deckion then, he only asked members to ne,ir
the argon eilt, oA hirh would be off-red, and well consider
the resoloti••n= which would he proposed. He asked for
no decision on the present occasirin, hut that the resolu-
tions might be considered pro forma and attentively in-
quired into (hear.) He ho•oed no hon. member would
e,.me to the discussion on this great question with preju•
di:•ed tteling• (hear, hear.) lie trusted tha nothing
which hid ,aken puce at public mee ings would bias their
judgment (hear.) His first propo-ition related to the issue
of promb:sory notes, and he trusted that proposition would
be fully and maturely discussed before any decision was
pronounced (hear.) He courted discussion on the mea-
sure and value of the standard coin and the principle of
paper currency. The right hon. hart. then took a review
of the changes which had been made in the currency from
the time of William the Conqueror to the present period.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT-ONE HUNDRED
LIVES LUST, NEAR LLANELLY.

(From the Welshman of S4turday.)

A most dre idrul accident occurred yesterday i n a col-
liery near Llauelly. It appears from the particulars we
have been able to gather, that between two and three
o'clock yesterday afternoon the engine in the Penh% leh-
gwyu colliery, about two miles from Llanelly, caught fire.
After a short time the engine with a tremendous crash
fell into the t it, shutting out every chance of escape for
the liuntire,l ii.en and children who were working in the
pit. At! a teairt sto put out the flames were vain. Ex-
et-ions to ext.-iv:ae the sufferers wete used incessantly,
but at eight o'clock last night not one of them was got
out of the pit. Ii is much to be feared, therefore, that
every soul has perished.

A Court of Directors was held at the East India House
yesterday, when Lieut.-General !he Right Hon. Sir
Henry Hardinge, K.C.8., was appointed unaannously
Governor-General i.f India.

It is rurnonr-d t?)a. Sir George Clerk will probably
succeed Sir Henry Hardinge as secretary at War.
In the French Chamber of. Deputies, on Saturday, M.
Givzot di-dared, on the presentation of a petition on the
sunjt Cr, that it was the intention of the gnvernin•-!iit to
abolish negro slavery in toe French colonies, and that in
so doing they should be guided by the example and expe-
reric;- Great Britain.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.
•

E Hose has been appointed Deputy Grand Master
of the Eng!i,h Freemasons, under the Earl ot• Zetland.
Jo:.n TopliQ. tobacconist, of London, was, on Tnursday
laNt. filled £309 tor having adulterated tobacco with sand.
earthy matter, &c. He was also condemned to forfeit a
large quantity of tobacco.

Early on Wednesday morning a destructive act of in-
sendiarstn was committed up,,n the extensive plantations
in the Forest, near Bagshot, the property of Prince Albert,
and upwards of 700 acres bave been totally destroyed.
On Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock their Majesties
the King and Queen 01 the Belgians embarked float
Woolwich on board the Pe to est, Alice steam-packet, and
sai:ed fur Ostend.

THE BARK H ARVKST. —Bark stripping has commenced
generally rh,oughoui this county, kn,l two !owls were
delivered in tins ci,y on Thursd iv. Tne price is Hot fixed,
but i. generally thouTAht to be £4 15s. per txt.—Hereford
Time*.

Sir R. and Lady S ale will arrive in England this week
as passi-ngers in the Greiit Liverpool, from Alexandria,
Which is due at Southampton on the Bth ins,ant. Ltidy
George Pollock, the site of the hero of Affghanistan, ar-
rived in town on Friday from India.

THE CONVICT AT YORK.—An order has been issued
that George Lowther, wh was convicted at the last
assizes of th- murder of the Marquis of Normanby 'a game-
ke. per, and sentenced to be executed, shall be transported
fur ikf-.
PROSPECTS FOR GOVERNMENT APPLICANTS.—Sir
Robert Peel ,t&ed, in the c urse of Tuesday's proceed-
ings in the House of Commois, that there are no fewer
ihAn 22.000 applicants fir governokent situations. Out of
this enormous mul itude, how many have a chance of ob-
taining the object of th,-ir wishes ?
THE EGG TRADE.—To give an idea of the extent of
this brBticli tra :e, kt 'nay be stated ?he :'fitteeFe
/Vice, tr. In Doolin to Flf.• twood, ott Sooday, beouglit
Vitr y-right tons, or ahou' 700,000 eggs ! Tile whole were
destPttnittli by railway to M.kkcbes er, Birtnin4hom, and
Lund ,n,

FOURTH EDITION.

Standard-office, Twelve o'clock.

Total Destruction of the Theatre-Royal,
Manchester, by Fire.

We regret to state that the Theatre Royal, Cooper-
street, Manchester, was this morning destroyed by fire;
but with, happily, no loss of lite. We have been enabled
as yet to obtain but a very imperfect account, the parttes
who arrived by the last railway train having learned little
more than the simple facts. It appears that last night " The
Christmas Carol" was presented, in the second actot which
a rocket is sent up from the stage. The inference is that part
of this combustible projectile had lodged in the canvas
of the scenes, or wood-work, above ; and ren .ined smoul-
dering and unnoticed during the night. Be ti.is as it may,
smoke was seen to issue from the building at about six
o'clock this morning, and on a door being tpened, the
dr rushed in, and the building was soon in a complete
blaze—defying all control. By seven o'clock it was
entirely burnt down. The firemen it is said directed their
attention tothe saving of the valuable property, warehouses,
&c. adjoining, which, however, suffered considerable
damage.

Half-past One o'clock p.m.

The fire, at the departure of the last train, was quite
subdued, and all danger to the adjoining pi emises was at
an end. The walls of the Theatre were still standing.
As to the origin of the fire, nothing is known beyond
what has already been communicated. It is fortunate
that, owing; perhaps, to the peculiar formation of theatres,
in which there is little to burn beyond scenery and
benches, the conflagration was confined within the build-
ing, which is surrounded by a mass of the most valuable
property in the town. At one end of the Theatre, which
is situated in Fountain-street, is a Calico warehouse,
which was formed a few years ago by taking away a
portion of the box lobby. At the back, divided from it
only by a narrow street, were several valuable warehouses,
the Assembly and Club Rooms, facing Mosley-street ;
and at the front the Parish-offices, and the extensive silk-
mills of Messrs. Occleston and of Messrs. Tootal, adjoin-
ing to-which is a mans of buildings, very closely packed,
which, if ignited, must have resulted in a vast sacrifice of
property.

The Theatre itself belongs to a company of proprietors,
and, we understand, is, with the proprietors' scenery, &c.,
fully insured ; and, not having been a p,,ying concern of
late, will, in all probability, never be rebuili. The site,
which is of great value, will most likely be in a short time
covered with warehouses.

THE DUKE of WELLINGTON.—Wednesday last was
the birthday of the Duke of Wellington, who con.pleted
his 75th year. His grace dined in the evening with Count
and Countess St. Aula-re, at Manchester House, where a
grand banquet was giveo by his exi.ellencv in honour of
the fete day of his Majesty the Kqig of the French. In
the morning of the same tlav, his grace, accomoanied by
the Marchioness of Douro, hooolirrd M. Clasidet with a
sitting for a portrait, at Vie daltierteotvpe estatili hmeilt
in the Adelaide Gallrrv. The noble duke sat w•ce, and
the result was extremely satisfactory.—Standard.

MR. DYCE SOMBRE —lt is well known t most of our
readers that Mr. Dyce Sombre has b-en resi ling for some
time past at Paris, where he has been giving a series of
entertainmen's to the elite of that city. He has also b TT'
received by Louis Philippe at the Tuileries. Being
strongly impressed with a conviction of the injustice of the
decision by which he was declared to be incapable of ma-
naging his affairs, he consulted some of the first medical
authorities in Paris. An army of French physicians after
lengthened examinations, long reports of which have
appeared in the public journals, have decided—" That
from the appreciation of all the conversations that they
have held with Mr. Dyer Sombre, of all his acts which
have come to their knowledge, they are all perfe-tly con-
vinced that at the present time Mr. Dyce Sombre is in
full possession of his intellectual and affective faculties,
that the movements of jealousy, the tenacity of which are
revealed in several expressions of Mr. Doyce Sombre, do
not appear to exceed the ordinary fi-elings of an European
and with much more reason than these of an Asiatic.—
That from ail the information furnished by several persons,
who have known Mr. Dyce Sombre ever since his arrival
in France. the full possession of his intellectual at•tl affec-
tive faculties I,as not failed him since that period. " A
petition has been pres.trittcl to the Court of Chancery, to
set aside the finding of the cornmi:sion, which was argued
on Friday, when the Lord C.:linnet-11er said Mr. Sombre
ought to he brought within his juriAdicti in order that
he might iscertain by petsonal enqui,y whether he (Mr.
S.) was a party to the proceedings and understood their
nature.

DARING ROBBERY IN CHESTER.—On Sunday after-
noon last, some scoundrels br-ke into a house adjoining
the city walls, near the race course,"in the occupation of
the Misses Foulkes. It appeared that an entrance was
effected by getting over the will which bounds the house
on one side, and then f acing open the drawing-room
window, during the absence of the Mi,ses Foulkes 'and
the female domestics at Church. Every roam in the
house was ransacked ; the principal batty obtained be the
robhers consisted of a larhe qqa:itity of jewellery.
Among the articles stolen were a geld tnaltese fine chain
about t.vo yards, and a tortise shell and gr:ld eye-glass
appended; a new g.ild chain ; a pair of bracelets ; one
agate,. cut in circles, and other diff-rent gems ; a silver
philigre shell brooch ; a gold pin with hair, set round with
small garnets; rings; a chrysolite w:th single stones,
of yellow tinge ; a ring of Irish gold, with In-h motto,
and the sham rock in Irish emerald ; a gold ring, with
hair, old fa-pion-d, and set with small garnets ; diamond
pin ; two pios of onvx stones, with gold chain uniting the
pins; a cotnelian br. och ; a trooch, green stones and
socket, &c., appended ; and old-fairioned ring, set with
small garnets ; a ring with small diamond in the centre,
on each side of it topaz and par' ; a ring set round with
pearl, and other small brooches ; tortoise shell and gold
eye glass. The thieves left behind them several skeleton
keys and a picklock. The police are pursuing a vigorous
search after them, and we hope they will speedily be
brought to justice.—Chester Courant.

ART-UNIONS.—On Saturday week a general meeting
of artists took place in London on toe sohjert of the in-
terference of government with the Art-Unions. Mr.
Wye, M.P., who was in the chair, spoke at great length,
On the advantages of th -se institutions. and apttear:d to
entertain a confident op;nion that the legislaiure.will he
disposed to ititerfer- in their favour. It wis &ode Iby
the meeting, to present a memorial to the First Lord of
asso-
ciation, the Treasury, praying for a committee of ii,ci;ry, and pe-
titions to the two houses of parliament to the same effect.
If the Art-Unions are really to he suppressed, we nave
art,by wthheophiaicnecifpulellyol
provedlhi
ottwl e
muchthibtrnti:iayt
bteh
aecfcroi
ti
will devise some other means by which the same
advantage may be secured. The editor of the Art-Union
(in the number for May) urges upotaall who are favorable
to these societies, that an effort to place the, mAm a firm
basis should he at once made. Ile sass : " Toe stoppage
of Art-Unions will be to British Art a heavy blow and
great discouragement.' But let us not anticipate so terri-
ble an evil. Vire shall wait at least for the next step. It
must he tsken ere long. The personal le-ling of the pre-
mier will he tantamount to a decision of the matter. No
marl, state man or private gent eman, is more universally
esteemed for his lova of the arts and his desire to foster
all things that tend to elevate the character, refine the
mind, and promote rational enjoyment. If he opposes a
well-dig sted scheme—should such a one be submitted to
him—for placing Art-Unions on a firm principle. and a
safe foundation, we shall at once conclude that he is pre-
paring some plan by which the British Government will
sustain and encourage Br.tish Art—remodelling old insti-
tutions, so as to render them more in accordance with the
spirit of the age, and trAking it—as it is made in other
states—the business of the nation to foster and advance
that which will ever be the chiefest of national distinc-
tions."

FACTORY BILL.—At a meetiig of the friends of the
ten-hours clause in Rochdale last week, Mr. Leach, one
of the sneakers, blamed the millowners for sanctioning
some r,f the most palpably false statements, which appeared
in the Manchester Guardian of that week, for the purpose
of deceiving the House of Commons relative to the pro-
portion of women employed in factories. In the article
to which he referred it was stated that, taking 412 mills,
in which there were employed 116,281 persons, 28,459
were men and 26,710 women, the object being to show
that the advocates of the Ten Hours Bill were wrongwhen they stated that the majority of workers in the mills
were women. But the injustice and trickery of these ta-
bles would appear when it was considered, in the first
place, that not one-half of the working population was
accounted for. In the mills enumerated 116,281 t,ersons
were said to be emil..yed. and of these account was taken
of only 55,169, leaving 61.112 entirely out of the question.
(Cheers.) In fact, they only gave the men and women
above 21 years of age, while all below 21 (the mote cri-
tical age fir women, aid the great preponderance of those
in the mills being under 21) were left unacennuted for.
, whleli must be extios d as
ot
(Cheers.) Sarely it was sit least as important that female
labour in factories should he protected when under 21 as
when above -that age. (Cheers.) There wis another
misstatement
of t- nos in that
b rpar
ari
ort wicked attempts to delude
the ceuritry he had ever known. Tie statement was this
_that since 1833 there had been no reduction of wage,
beyond 2d. per head per week. (Cries of " What a lie !")
Y,s, a lie indeed was, t.nl most atroeieus one too.
it de
In the cotton districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire wages
had since that period. been reduced at least 2s. 6d. per
head r week. (Cheers ) He knew a mill at Fit nand-
wood which had lately been runnitte from half-pas' 5 a.m.
till 11 at nicht, six days in the w.sek ; and he knew a fa-
mily—father, mother, and children—who w-re now work-
ing in that mill 17 and 18 hours a day. (•• Shame !")
Surely such a state of thi;igs rt quired sane ratulation.
((:beers) The masers •
w•oild be consultieg their best
int, rests, and the i.oev,,t, of society !tree. by pro-
'come the labourina eLtsses, a, d n(ivoc oinsr t le rights
of native indu•tt Y. II- hoped tey won+d yet cure for-
ward, and assist their men in getting the Ten flours Bill.

May 7. 1844

SPo .1: 11 _V G 11YTELLIUENCE.

CHESTER RACES.

TUESDAY.
A PRODUCE .I'VEEPSTAkES 0* 50 80VS Pa Ch, h ft, COltJ

Bst 41h, fillies. 8-t ; two miles ; 10 subs.
Mr. Most br c 11, ithel by Velocipede.... (Holmes) I
Sir R. 13ulkeley's bl f Coal-brick lictse..(o.Whitehouse)
A MATCH 49 sovs each, p:p. mile and half.
Mr. Smith's is g Tnlialvaqt, aged, Bst (Copeland) /
Mr. Coile't's br h Rory ( t'l‘4,.re, aged 9q.(Whitehouse) 2
Even betting. and 5 to 4 on Rory O'More.
A SWPEPSTARES if 25 ,ovS each, fo- two years old colt/
8-t 51b, fillies Bst 21 ; half a mile; 12 suhs. .
Mr. Worthington's eh f Lancashire Witch .... (Oates) i
Mr. Smith's gr f Alice Gray

Six others started.
A SWEEPSTAKES of 5 says each, with 50 sovs added
the Proprietors of the Grand Ftand, for horses that
never won before th- day of entry for the Pled'
He,ats. one mile and a half; three years old 6st 101 b,
four Bst 21b. five Ss: 81h, six and aged Bst 1216; mares
and geldings allowed 31h. ; 5 sobs.
Mr. Daw-o 's b g Da,t Wa•tv, 4 yrs (Lye) 4 1 1
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Mr. Speed's ch g Wal,or, 3 yrs..
Mr. Wils ,n's be by Ham' ton. 3 yrs.. (Darl ng) 2 dl°'
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