The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

WEIGH YOUR CANDLES.-At the Court Baron of James
Dearden, Esq., of Rochdale, last week, eleven persons
were fined in various sums, for having exposed for sale can-
dles deficient in weight. The candles were in dozen pounds,
and in one case the deficiency was 17i ounces.
CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.-It has been decided at Bristol,
by Sir Charles Wetherell, the recorder, that publicans suf-
fering not only card playing, but bagatelle and the like,
although not for money, or money's worth, are liable to the
penalties imposed by the alehouse act of parliament.
It is a well-known fact, which says little in favour of the
New Poor " Law," that there is not one union in the ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire, Yorkshire, or Cheshire,
where the law is not broken. The guardians dare not carry
out the law for fear of their lives, and the commissioners
dare not press them to do so for fear of their salaries.
EARLY STRAWBERRIF,S.-Mr. Matthew Dalby, gar-
dener, of Linton, near Wetherby, has during the present
week exhibited to us a very fine specimen of the strawberry
(Keene's seeding) perfectly ripe, which had been gathered in
his grounds, and had been grown in the open air on the
banks of the river Wharfe.
A committee has been organised in the city of London,
with many influential names, for the purpose of presenting to
the Pasha of Egypt a gold medal, as a slight mark of their
esteem for the ready facilities to the conveyance of the mails
to and from India throuch his territory, notwithstanding the
war. Lieut. Waghorn, R.N., is active in the business.
On Saturday Lord Denman gave judgment in the long-
disputed case whether. Miss Burdett Coutts should be rated
to the relief of the poor in respect of a box which she held
in Drury-lane Theatre, and the court decided that the box in
question was a tenement, within the meaning of the act of
parliament, and that, therefore, Miss Coutts was liable to be

nOME, MAY 17.—Great sensation has been excited here
by the marriage of an accomplished young English lady,
sister of Lord R , to a veturino, and the arrest of
, a lady of rank, who from a fondness of pieces of
ancient kinds of marble, broke them out of places where
they were fixed in our churches and museums.—Allgemeine
Zeilung, May 26.

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Since the passing of the reform act no fewer than seventeen
candidates have on different occasions offered themselves for

the representation of Ipswich, viz., on the conservative in-
terest, Messrs. Mackinnon, Fitzroy, Goulburn, Kelly, Dun-
des, Brooke, Holmes, Gibson, Cochrane, [Terries, Gladstone,
and Lord Desart ; and on the whig-radical interest, Messrs.
Wason, Morrison, Gibson, Rennie, Gisborne, and Moffatt.
BELFAST ELECTION.—The committee appointed to try
this election determined on Thursday, that the same must
be declared void, on the grounds that sufficient polling ac-
commodation had not been provided, and that four of the
poll clerks were minors. The candidates returned were Mr.
Emerson Tennent and Mr. W. G. Johnson ; the disappointed
ones, the Earl of Belfast and Mr. Ross. Little doubt is
entertained that at the fresh election, the same candidates

again returned

Sir Henry Hardinee has aanouneed, by a circular from the
"ar Office, that government will not be responsible for any
sses sustained by paymasters of regiments, officers, sol-
ers, from the failure of country banks, as paymasters can
ive Bank of England notes at all times through the regi-
ental agent. This order has been issued in consequence
the losses of the Scots Greys by the failures of Wigney's
righton bank.—Limerick Chronicle.
RAILWAYS.—We understand there is every reason to be-
eve that, in the September of 18-13, both the Leeds exten-
ion and Liverpool junction line will be completed ; the
hairs of railway communication will have its link added, and
ae railway be open in one continuous line, from the H umber
D the Mersey ; from the Thames to the Forth and the
:lyde ; while all the great towns of Great Britain—London
nil Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, Leeds
nd Hull, Glasgow and Edinburgh, will thus be placed in
loser connexion and more rapid communication with each

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DOPER, THE ALLEGED MURDERED.—COODer, alleged
he murderer of the policeman at llighbury, appears to be
dly recovering from his illness, but is totally indifferent
or unconscious of, the awful situation in which he is
,ed ; for yesterday, one of the authorities of Newgate en-
d
his cell, and thus addressed him :—" Well, Cooper,
are you to-day ?do you think you are getting well ?
Vhy, yes, sir, I feel I am getting better daily, but the effect
he poison that 1 took has gone into my hands and feet,
gives me great pain, and I do not think I shall get clear
A. for two or three years to come.", The gentleman thus
tressed, as his duty commanded, made no remark on this
servation, and shortly afterwards quitted the cell.

TRUE ?-A considerable crowd was collected the morning
before last in the rue Beauregard, before a house from which
loud cries proceeded. Suddenly the glass of a window was
dashed to pieces, the casement thrown open, and a man
forced out a woman whom he held only by the hair of her
head over the street. A cry of horror burst from the persons

below—mattrasses were placed where the unfortunate'woman
was to fall, but she by a desperate effort, succeeded in catch-
ing the window-sill, and at last, after creeping-up, pushed in

man, who struggled with her

The guard arrived nearly

at the same moment, and arrested the ruffian, who was con-
ducted to the guardhouse amidst the groans and hisses of the
crowd.— Galignani's Messenger.
DYING OF A THOUSAND GOOD SYMPTOMS.—" Here I
am," said a great man, to a friend who entered his sick
room while flattering physicians were telling him of hopes of
recovery, which he felt were false, " dying of a thousand
good symptoms." " There it is," says with very different
feelings, the Morning Chronicle, pointing to Sir Robert
Peel's majority, " dying of a thousand good symptoms.
The sanguine journalist tells his readers—" The measures of
the Ministry have been supported by larger majorities even
than that which placed them in office ; ' " no defection worth
notice has taken place among Sir Robert Peel's supporters ;"
" if occasionally a few Tories have given a rebellious vote,
their loss has been supplied by at least an equal number of
Liberals, who have strayed into the majority;" and yet," we
are quite sure" that " the Tory party is most seriously
damaged, if not actually broken up, by what has passed
during the present session." Sheridan, a Whig leader in his
lay, went once upon a time to shoot over the estates of an
Irish nobleman. An Irish attendant followed him, carrying
mis game bag, much after the same fashion that the Chronicle
'ollows Lord Palmerston, Sheridan blazed away right and
eft, but not a bird would fall ; the numerical strength of the
)artridges, like the numerical strength of Peel's party, re-
mained undiminished. At first his trusty squire consoled
him by assurance. that this bird hung its legs suspiciously,
that other moved its wing awkwardly, while a third he pro-
tested had dropped a feather or two. At last, finding the
sportsman listened incredulously to his hacknied flattery, he
bethought him of a variation, and bawled out as another bird
flew off scatheless, " By the powers and ye gave that one a
fright !" The Chronicle must have nearly exhausted its
topic of consolation when it has recourse to one so nearly
akin to Paddy's last shift.
ROMANTIC INCIDENT.—A man of the name of Buffard,
aged 44, a day labourer, was tried on the 13th before the
Court of Assizes of Angers, for the murder of a gendarme
lamed Renault. It appeared that the deceased on the 22nd
if February, when accompanied by two of his comrades on
duty in the commune of Maulevrier, perceived a man with
a gun who was evidently poaching. He desired his com-
panions to stay behind whilst he went towards him. The
latter on seeing him approach fled, and the gendarme pur-
sued until his comrades lost sight of him. Suddenly the
report of a gun was heard, and the two gendarmes running
up, they found Renault dead, and the murderer gone. A
young man, named Gandreau, was arrested on suspicion, but
after 14 days' imprisonment, Buffard, who is his uncle,
came forward and delivered himself up, declaring that, if
any one was guilty, he was the man. On the trial, the pri-
soner, who was decently dressed in the costume of the
peasants of La Vendee, appeared deeply afflicted, held his
face hidden in his pocket handkerchief, and, when he spoke,
his voice was interrupted by sobs. He acknowledged that
he had shot the man, but declared that it was altogether an
accident, for when he saw the gendarme pursuing him, he
;yarned him not to come near, and throwing down his hat
;aid, "if you pass that spot, I will fire." The gendarme
'till approached with his musket to his shoulder, and he,
mot knowing what he was doing through agitation, raised his
guel, and the piece unfortunately went off. He fled, and told
his nephew, who had been arrested, as well as to other mem-
bers of his family. The court, taking into consideration the
conduct of the man in giving himself up, and the evident
affliction be felt for the unfortunate event, found him guilty
of homicide without premeditation, and sentenced him to
the Pr o c ur eu r
eightnoun ey
de years'confinement..dßßoeif,owr e the h
o conducted sentence was h
epr o s pro-
nounced,
prosecu-
tion, uo
--
tion, informed the jury that the prisoner had a high cha-
racter for general good conduct, and mentioned that the
nephew, who was in the first instance apprehended on the
charge of murder, knew, immediately after the event, that
his uncle was the guilty party, but, with the most generous
feeling, had preferred imprisonment, and even the risk of
condemnation, to becoming his accuser.—Galignani's Mes-
senger.

THE LATE FIRE AT lIAMBURGII.—MESSTS. Abraham
Bauer and Co., of Hamburgh, transmit to the Morning
Chronicle, a correct statement of the buildings destroyed by
the fire-61 streets ; 120 courts ; 1992 houses, and 1716
dwelling-floors, (etages, sable); 498 cottages ; 468 dwelling-
cellars ; 21,526 inhabitants roofless ; 3 churches ; 2 syna-
gogues ; 3 watermills, with 36 wEelves ; the spinnhaus and
zuchthaus, with their churches (houses of correction) ; the
Detention-house; the Senate-house; the Old Exchange.
N.B.—The New Exchange, only built last year, is saved •, and
repairing,
of Commerce, Court of g, in use again. The Eimbeck-
ahfotuerset few
tai daysing n
,i
Com-
mon Pleas, with offices, the Custom-house offices, the Stamp-
offices, the Lottery-saloon, the Citizen Guard offices, and
other public offices. The Bank. A great many—and all the
largest—hotels; and all the libraries. 3.786,300 square feet
is the superficial extent of the burnt portion of the city. " The
streets of Hamburgh, says the correspondent of The Times,
" that have escaped the fury of the fire are assuming in many
parts a novel appearance. I have already mentioned that
small wooden buildings were being formed at different points
at different points of the city, to accommodate as far as pos-
sible those tradesmen who have been burned out of their
houses,
and whose business has been for a time necessarily
suspended
These buildings are rising rapidly in several
.
wherever a vacant space convenient for their con-
• quarters,
As soon as finished (and formation requires
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Ino.rt time), they are occupied by some of the sufferers
s from the late fire. Many of the places are already opened as
instances, where there has been time t
e shops; and in some
and f • to
furniture, make, con-
complete the internal decorations
a pretty good show. These build-
ingssideringall circumstances, ; the allotment of them be-
are occupied as they are built
I committee, of which the Hiilfs-
ing in the hands of a genera
s verein forms part, who have also the ~ distribution of the funds
Business
collected for the relief of the sufferers by the fire.
and credit are reviving rapidly; and assistance continues to
be transmitted from all quarters.