The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

We have hitherto refrained from making any comment on
the " scandal" which has lately been rife in the clubs, re-
specting the abstraction of a noble lady's jewels by a lady of
high rank, her intimate friend. In adverting to it now, we
do so merely for the purpose of stating that, however deeply
the fact is to be regretted, but one opinion is entertained of
the delicacy and forbearance of the noble lady whose confi-
dence was so sadly misplaced.—Morning Herald.
IMPUDENT FRAUD.—On Thursday a fraud was discovered
at the Exchequer-office, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, of an im-
pudent character. It seems that for some time the commis-
sionersi of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, n consequence of
persons having got into prison without the issuing of a writ
against them, have required on all petitions an office copy
prcecipe to be lodged in order to show an existing action. A
P necipe was on Thursday brought back to the office, when it
was discovered that the names of both plaintiff and defend-
ant had been altered to represent other persons, and was
consequently a forgery of the proceeding, so that ncr such ac-
tion was in the office. The plan adopted appears to be for a
copy prceeipe to be obtained in an action which had been
commenced, and then to alter the names to represent the
parties whose names might appear on other proceedings—for
instance, a detaining creditor and a person about applying to
the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The detection was easily
made, but it is feared that the system has been practised to
some extent. By holding the altered paper to the light it
was perceived that the original names had been written over,
and made to represent different persons whose names, it is
believed, were required in the proceedings of the Insolvent
Debtors' Court for the purposes above mentioned.
THE JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES' ACT.--The following
summary of the act will explain its design and illustrate its
importance :—" That, after the passing of this act, neither
the justices of the peace acting in and for any county, riding,
division, or liberty, nor the recorder of any borough shall,
at any session of the peace or at any adjournment thereof,
try any person or persons for any treason, murder, or capital
felony, which, when committed by a person not previously
convicted of felony, is punishable by transportaion beyond
the seas for life, or for any of the following offences ; (that is
to say)-1. Misprison for treason.-2. Offences against the
Queen's title, prerogative, person, or government, or against
either Houses of Parliament.-3d. Offences subject to the
penalties of prtemunire.-4. Blasphemy, and offences against
religion.-5. Administering and taking unlawful oaths.-6.
Perjury and subornation of perjury.-7. Making or suborn-
ing any other person to make a false oath, affirmation, or
declaration, punishable as perjury, or as a misdemeanour.-
8. Forgery.-9. Unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to
crops of corn, grain, or pulse, or to any part of a wood, cop-
pice, or plantation of trees, or to any heath, gorse, furze, or
fern.-10. Bigamy, or offences against the laws relating to
marriage.-11. Abduction of women and girls.-12. Endea-
vouring to conceal the birth of a child.-13. Offences against
any provision of the laws relating to bankrupts and insolvents.
—l4. Composing, printing, or publishing blasphemous, se-
ditious, or defamatory libels.-15. Bribery.-16. Unlawful
combinations and conspiracies, except conspiracies and com-
binations to commit any offence which such justice or re-
corder respectively have or has jurisdiction to try when com-
mitted by one person.-17. Stealing or fraudulently taking,
or injuring or destroying, records and documents belonging
to any court of law or equity, or relating to any proceeding
theirin.—Stealing or fraudulently destroying or concealing
wills or testamentary papers, or any document or written in-
strument being or containing evidence of title or any real
estate or any interest iu lands, tenements, or hereditaments.
The league having propounded that an increase of exported
manufactures from this country is a symptom of bad trade at
home, it must of course be taken as a melancholy fact that
the exports of cotton yarn in the first six months of the pre-
sent year have greatly exceeded those of the corresponding
portion of last year. From Burn's " Commercial Glance."

a work published periodically at Manchester, we find that in
the first six months of 1841 the cotton yarn exported
amounted to 43,959,8621b5. and in the same period of 1812,
the exports were 57,726,9061b5., showing an increase of
13,767,0441b5. upon the former amount, or about 30 per cent.
Upon fourteen different classes of cotton goods exported,
the comparison is reversed, not however so as to show a
very serious decrease. The aggregate export of these goods,
in the first six months of 1841, was 355,567,527 yards; and
in six months of 1842, 350,141,569 yards : decrease 5,425,958
yards, being less than 1 per cent. Altogether these facts
would leave us to infer a favourable degree of steadiness in
these baanches of our foreign trade ; but the leaguers will
doubtless have ingenuity enough to draw disagreeable con-
clusions both from the increase and decrease stated above.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE LONDON.--On Wednesday
morning the preachers assembled in the City-road Chapel, to
commence the business of the ninety-ninth annual conference.
The religious services being concluded, the names of the
preachers constituting the legal conference were called over,
and they took their places, as usual, according to seniority.
Inquiry was then made as to the vacancies in the legal hun-
dred which had occurred during the year, by death or su-
perannuation. These were found to be eight—six in Eng.
land and two in Ireland, and they were filled up as follows :
—Messrs. William Evans, John Bustard, John Radford,
George Cubitt, Thomas Garbutt, and Joseph Pretty were
elected from the English Ministers, and Messr. Robert Mas-
saroon and William Crook, from Ireland. After these pre-
liminaries, the conference proceeded to the election of a pre-
sident for the ensuing year. On the votes being taken, it
was found that the choice had fallen upon Dr. Hannah,
theological tutor in the Wesleyiii Institution at Hoxton.
The Rev. Robert Newton was thelt in the usual manner,
elected to be the secretary. We subjoin the number of votes
for each candidate :
FOR PRESIDENT. FOR SECRETARY.
Dr. Hannah...... 129 votes. I Robert Newton... 124 votes.
John Scott ....... 118 ~ John Scott •••• •• • 123 ~
Both elections were duly confirmed by the hundred.
MURDER OF AN INNKEEPER AND HIS WIFE.--On
Friday information of a burglary, attended with murder,
which was committed so far back as the 25th June, was re-
ceived in London, and forwarded to all the metropolitan
police-stations. On the night of the 25th of June last, the
house of Mr. James Mawdesley, of the Oak-tree Inn, in
Coppal, Lancashire, was broken and entered by three or
more persons, who stole 13s. in silver and a pistol. Two of
them beat and wounded the said James Mawkesley and
Fanny his wife so as shortly afterwards to cause their deaths.
Inquests were held upon their bodies, and verdicts of " Wilful
murder" returned against persons unknown. The tallest of
the three men is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, and wore a
dark-coloured dress coat and a hat. The two others were
about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, and wore dark-coloured fus-
tian jackets and caps. It is believed that the men had been
in the neighbourhood for some hours previously, and bad
found means to ascertain the defenceless state of the occu-
pants of the inn. Two bludgeons were left by the murderers I
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The first importation of cattle to the Tyne, under the
operation of the new Tariff, arrived at Shields on Thursday
evening, in the Henry, a small vessel from the island of
Guernsey.—Newcastle JournaL

MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE.—We understand that banns
of marriage betwixt Mr. Sartaris and Miss Adelaide Ketrible
were proclaimed in the churches of this city on Sunday last.
The parties were proclaimed three several times. The bride-
groom, we believe, is of Spanish origin.—Glasgow Argus.
The Hon. Mr. Clements, assistant poor-law commissioner,
has been unexpectedly placed in charge of the important ma-
nufacturing district of Lancashire, and has left Ireland in
consequence.—Newry Telegraph.
Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rosebery, will
shortly lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Whitbread, daughter
of Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq., and grandniece to the
venerable Earl Grey.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRlDGE.—Extensive preparations are
being made at various places to pay a suitable compliment to
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on his con-
templated visit to the Marquess of Londonderry. The in-
habitants of Durham are making arrangements for giving an
eclilt to the visit of his Royal Highness to the University.
On Sunday, a boy, named Henry Price, nine years of age,
engaged to ferry Mr. Evans, shoemaker, across the Monnow,
near Monmouth. Mr. Evans took his seat with his back to
the boy, and when he stood up on the boat reaching the
land, he found that the poor lad had fallen into the middle
of the stream. Before he could get to the spot the boy had
sunk.

At Milford, on Sunday week, off the Smalls, a young man
named Keeffe, a native of Youghal, a seaman on board the
Alexander, of Youghal, fell from the main crosstrees, a
height of forty-five feet, on deck. The captain ran to him,
and asked him if he was much hurt, when he answered,
" The devil a bit,—was not that a clean trick, captain ?
Five Ribbonmen were prosecuted to conviction at Armagh
Assizes by the Attorney-General, and Judge Crampton sen-
tenced them to seven years' transportation. One of them
(Rice) was in most comfortable circumstances.
A NEGRO BURNED.—We learn from the clerk of the
Highlander, that while wooding a short distance below the
mouth of the Red River, they were invited to stop a short
time and see another negro burned. They were informed
that the fellow who was prepared for the exhibition was ano-
ther of the gang recently mentioned as having committed
enormities, and fled to the swamp, one of whom was burned,
as already published. The last fellow, it was ascertained,
had killed a man, and carried off women, one of whom he
had violated ; and for this they had him well chained, and
the fagots ready, with a view of giving him a foretaste of his
inevitable fate.—New Orleans. Bulletin.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT—Two LIVES LOST.—OD Thurs-
day last, a herd-boy of the name of Haining. residing at
Loch-bank, went to bathe at Kelton, tempted like many
others by the extreme beauty and warmth of the weather.
The tide which was not a high one, came rippling to the
land with the greatest gentleness ; and as the unfortunate
boy could not swim, he kept pretty close to the side from
getting beyond his depth. But in wading forward it is sup-
posed he had tumbled over one of the little brows excavated
a little by spates and tides; and in that way suddenly lost his
footing. But, be this as it may, he in a few minutes was
seen struggling by some females stationed at the side, who
immediately called loudly for help. Their cries brought to
the spot the son of Mr. Crosbie, farmer, Kelton, a youth
who, on being thoroughly urged, entered into the water with
his clothes on. But very unfortunately, from inability to
swim, he speedily became as helpless as the other; and to
the deep consternation of all onlookers both sunk to rise no
more alive, within a short distance of one Another.— Dum
fries paper.
A family, residing near St. Cloud, was robbed about six
months ago of money, plate, jewels, linen, and other pro-
perty, amounting together in value to about 20,000 f. Sus-
picion fell upon a man and his wife, who had previously
lived in it as servants, but were discharged. These persons
were arrested, and found to be in possession of a sum of
6,000 f., for the acquisition of which they could not account.
They were detained, and subjected to repeated examina-
tions, being constantly kept from any communication with
each other. At length we learn they have admitted the
robbery, and confessed that they had hired a lodging, un-
der a false name, at Meulan, about 28 miles from Paris,
where they had buried the treasure under the hearth of the
kitchen fireplace. Here on a search it was all found, except
part of the money which had been spent. These thieves
had two accomplices, who have been arrested.
THE WEATIIER.—With gratitude to Divine Providence
for its beneficence towards us, it is our pleasing duty to
announce the continuance of fine weather, calculated in every
way for the accomplishment and fulfilment of that beautiful
prayer in the liturgy—" That it may please thee to give and
preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth; so as in
due time we may enjoy them." Nothing can be more pro-
pitious. The markets already afford a sensible indication of
the appearance of the crops; and yesterday new potatoes of
the very finest quality were selling for 9d. a stone. We have
received the following communication from a most intelligent
and well-informed correspondent, who has recently had an
opportunity of personally witnessing the appearance of the
country and the crops over an extent of 1,800 miles, snd who
thus writes his impressions :—" I have travelled during the
last six weeks from 1,600 to 1,800 miles in Ireland, and
never, within the memory of the oldest man living, was the
bounty of Providence more manifest than in the extraordi-
nary luxuriance and abundance of the crops than it is this
year. During the whole of so long a journey I have not seen
a field of corn prostrate by wet or storm, and scarcely the
top of a potatoe injured. Verily, the old times and seasons
have returned to us."—Dublin Evening Mail.
TRANSLATIONS OF THE LITURGY.—The intention of the
Committee of the Society for promoting Christian Know-
ledge has been directed during the present year to the pre-
paration and completion of several new versions of the
Liturgy. The first or these is a version of the Liturgy of
the Church of England into the Amharic or modern Ethiopic
—the language of a great part of the country of Abyssinia.
This has been translated by the Rev. C. Isenberb, a clergy-
man of the Church of England, in the service of the Church
Missionary Society. A translation of the Liturgy into the
Turkish language has been undertaken by the Rev. Mr.
Fieldshed, of the Church Missionary Society, assisted by a
native of Constantinople. Portions of the Liturgy have been
translated into Armenian. Modern Armenian has been
chosen in preference to ancient Armenian, or Artneno-Turk-
ish. The Prayer Book has been translated into modern
Greek, and a large number of copies distributed. It has also
been translated into French, Portuguese, Dutch, and por-
tions of it, at the request of the Bishop of New Zealand,
into the language of that distant country

The Times of Friday defines a statesman. The subject-
matter of the article is Mr. Duncombe's motion on the sub-
ject of the distress of the country ; and the Times observes,
that "what a man is in private life, such, in intention at
least, will be his public politics. If he seeks out and relieves
distress—it he never breaks a promise, never leaves a debt
unpaid, nor even defers its payment ; such a man, though he
may err in judgment, will yet be legislating for the good of
the people . . . But ! ! ! . . . if
he be an idle, careless, self-indulgent spendthrift ; who
lives . . . . it puzzles the world to say
how . . . . who does nothing, makes no-

thing, earns nothing, gives nothing ; who throws away money
in horses, or in gambling, or in debauchery ; such a man is a
HUMBUG" -. . . " But," continues the 7'itnes,

" we are wandering from Mr. Dnncombe."
TRADESMEN'S BILLS.—A correspondent makes an appeal
to the monied classes, in this time of manufacturing distress
and commercial difficulty, to assist in relieving that distress
and removing that difficulty by paying their tradesmen's
bills as soon as possible after they are presented. We would
certainly urge the consideration of this matter upon the at-
tention of our more wealthy readers, and beg of those papers
with whom we exchange to do the same. They who have no
difficulty at any time in providinc, for their wants, know not
the value of ready money to the trading classes. To the
man of wealth it is of little or no consequence whether he
pays his bills one week or another; but the payment of them
a few weeks or months earlier than usual may relieve the
tradesman from difficulties, and be a means of saving indus-
trious artisans from being thrown out of employment. We
can even conceive of cases, and not improbable ones either,
in which the payment of a few pounds may save several
small tradesmen from utter ruin. Paid to one, it enables
him to meet his engagements and satisfy, perhaps, the de-
mands of another, whose engagements are equally pressing;
and so on with others. We offer these remarks in anything
but a spirit of dictation, and trust they will be so received,
and meet with the consideration their subject demands ; and
shall conclude by reminding those to whom they are ad-
dressed, that many tradesmen who are really more than sol-
vent, are, at such seasons as the present, broken up, and
have their families reduced to beggary, merely because they
cannot, at the time when needful, realize their capital.—
Birmingham Advertiser.

A RETURNED TRANSPORT: EXTRAORDINARY CASE.--
Stephen Nash was arraigned, at the Waterford City Assizes,
for returning from transportation before the term was up.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and added a most impressive
and remarkable detail of the " horrors of transportation."
He said he was put to work in a dockyard gang o, labourers,
and because he would not join in a plan to rise and escape,
he was not sure of his life for a minute, his mind was mi-
.

serable, and he preferred death to remain there any longer.
He determined to escape at any risk, and he made his way
to a vessel by swimming. He told the captain that he ran

away from a man-of-war
tain would not take him.

consequence of which the cap-
He was then backwards and for-

wards three weeks on the beach, and swimming to the vessel
;hrough water that was full of sharks, one day hungry and

another day thirst. The vessel wasllmile from the-sbore,
and his only food was a musty biscuit and an old muscle that
he found on the .aeach. At the place where he was at work,
if a man was only found with a bit of tobacco in his month,
he was taken out, tied under a triangle, and got fifty lashes.
As for Norfolk Island, he could call it nothing but the
Island of Sodom and Gomorrah. "My Lord,' said the
prisoner, in piteous terms, amidst great sensation in court,
" have mercy on me. I care not for my body, but for my
soul, and I would as soon have you pass sentence of death
upon me as send me again to New South Wales." The
Judge : '• I really feel most distressed, but I believe I am
left no discretion." Prisoner : "Oh! my Lord, do not send
me back." The Judge : " I wish to God that the unhappy
people who are putting themselves into circumstances that

make it necessary. to send them where you come from knew

what you, and others like you, had to suffer. It always
gives me a degree of pain equal to what I feel in pronouncing
the capital sentence of death when it is my duty to send
people to that rigorous country. I feel this pain not alone
on account of their feelings, the anguish of their being torn
from their family and country ; but on account of the dreadful
fate that sentence of transportation is, of the frightful
punishment and suffering that awaits them, of which you
have had experience. I wish to God they heard you here
this day, and, taking warning from your statement, would
avoid crime in future." The prisoner was then removed
from the bar, still imploring mercy.

" SHOOT THE PREMIER " !—A HINT FROM TIIE LEAGUE.
-We have had handed to us the following startling details,
hid), as showing the diabolical spirit that animates the
issppointed members of the League, we think of sufficient

importance to deserve a prominent place.—We shall proba-
bly soon get at the truth of this diabolical business, not-
withstanding the sedulous attempts which have been made
by the League, here and elsewhere, to have it hushed up.
It now appears that some desperado in Manchester is the
guilty party. On Thursday night last, there was a meeting
of shopkeepers to receive the report of a deputation which
they lately sent to London. Only some dozen persons
attended, and the proceedings were of the most unimportant
character, except in one respect. Mr. Abel Heywood, one
of the deputies, in the course of his speech, declared that
he had conversed with one shopkeeper in Manchester, who
had refused to subscribe to the expense of the deputation,
and on being told that Sir Robert Peel would not give the
delegates an audience, he said—" I'll subscribe to a deputa-
tion to yo up to shoot Sir Robert Peel, but I'll not sub-
scribe towards any deputation which seeks to make an im-
pression upon him by argument." So, after all, it appears,
notwithstanding the violent protestations of the League,
there are wretches sufficiently abandoned seriously to enter-
tain this demoniacal intention. Who the villain is is known
—to Mr. Abel Heywood. at all events ; and we call upon
that person, if he at all affects to lay claim to the title of a
patriot, to give up the name of the miscreant, and let him
be held up to that public execration and punishment which
he so justly merits. In such a case, concealment is scarce
a less atrocious crime tdau that attaching to the blood-thirstd I
wretch himself.—Manchester Courier.

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for Ova olootitg, or (daltusting iti(i diva, a wook) fora two.
area. ana ton ciao, It hag, on ari avefotta, glitki kola focie ''''
tlio afternoon till eleven at night, so that ite labours will
extend over t. 140 space of one thousand six hundred and.f ;Pi,'
1 hours.

The Queen, it is understood, is again in the way of adding
to the impediments already existing to the King of Hanover's
chance of ever reaching the throne of England.

The qualification for Commissioners under the Property
and Income Tax, is £2OO per annum in land and tenements
over and above all ground rents, incumbrances, or reserva-
tions, or of personal property to the amount of £5OOO.
Advices from Ascension to the 29th of May say that the
Niger Expedition awaited the termination of the rainy season
to make an ascent up the river; the water not sufficing for
the purpose at that date.
An address from the General-in-Chief of the Polish Army
has been forwarded to every member of the British Parlia-
ment, expressive of gratitude for the sympathy evinced, in a
recent debate, for the wrongs and woes of Poland.
A WOMAN TN A TRANCE.-011 Monday morning, the
18th instant, an aged widow, named Betty Butterworth, of
.Wolstenholme Fold, Spotland, near Rochdale, after eating
a hearty breakfast, lay down and fell fast asleep, and conti-
nued in that state until Friday following ; all attempts to
awake her in the mean time proved unavailing. When she
awoke, she asked for some porridge, which, being furnished,
she ate with apparent greediness. It is stated that about six
months ago she slept upwards of a week in a similar manner.
She is in a good state of health.
FATAL DUEL.—" A duel took place lately at St. Peters-
burgh," says a letter from Berlin, " between Prince Dol-
gorouki` son of the Russian general of that name, and Prince
Jaschwill. Prince Dolgorouki was killed. They were both
officers of the Imperial Guard."—Galignani's Messenger.
There were in 1841, 288 troops of yeomanry cavalry in
Great Britain, comprising 840 officers and 13,434 men, or a
total force of 14,274 ; the expense of which in that year was
£82,026,

The largest gun ever made in this country has just been
completed at Woolwich for the Pacha of Egypt. It is about
12 feet long, with an immense quantity of metaal at the
breech. The diameter of the bore is within about one-tenth
of 16 inches. The weight of solid shot with which it will be
fired is 455 lbs., and shells of 330 lbs.
COMMERCE OF SYDNEY.—We perceive, by the shipping
intelligence in a late Sydney paper, that there were, at that
time, 81 vessels in the harbour; 95 vessels expected; and
21 colonial whalers at sea. In the same paper, three steam
boats, with the hulks and other property of the Steani Navi-
gation Company, are advertised for sale.
NOBLE. BEQUEST.—The entire property of the late Mr.
Moore, of Liverpool, New South Wales, amounting to above
£20,000, has been bequeathed for the promotion of educa-
tion and advancement of religion in the Colony, in connexion
with the Church of England. The building and endowing
of a college is the principal object ; Bnd the Lord Bishop of
Australia is one of the trustees appointed by the will to see
the truly Christian designs of the testator carried into effect.

The following are the receipts of railways for the past
week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
returns are made :—Birminghatn, £17,788 ; Great Western,
£15,507 ; South Western, £BO9l ; North Midland, £4760 ;
Manchester and Leeds, £4BOl ; Birmingham and Derby,
£1400; York and North Midland, £1756 ; Great North of
England, £1435 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2464 ; Black-
wall, £1316; Northern and Eastern, £l6Ol ; Hull and Selby,
£1059 ; Eastern Counties, £llB2.

ARRESTING THE DEAD.—On Friday Mr. W. Ellis, of
the firm of Ellis and Co., of the Lower-road, Deptford,
furnishing undertakers, appeared before the sitting magis-
trate, at Greenwich, to ask his advice under the following
circumstances :—Mr. Ellis stated that he was employed to
bury the body of a poor man, named Taylor, late a convict
keeper on board the Thames, lying oft' Deptford Dockyard,
who, at the time of his decease, happened to owe a person
residing in the neighbourhood £l5. The tender-hearted
creditor had called upon the widow of the deceased, at No.
3, King's Head-row, Deptford, demanding the amount of
his claim, and, in a short time afterwards, she mustered £5.
which she gave him. The creditor had insisted on being
paid £lO. He, however, went away, and said that he would
call again for the residue. He came again on Thursday
evening, and insisted upon being paid £5 more, and that, in
the event of its being at once pail, he would leave the re-
maining £5 to pay the funeral expenses of the deceased.
The mother, brother, and widow of the deceased were pre-
sent, and, with tears, assured him that it was out of their
power to comply with his demand. The creditor then went
away, threatening that he would arrest the body the next
morning. The mother of the deceased, a respectable woman,
told him that he might use his discretion ; the body was in a
putrid state, and begged him to remember that the coffin,
&c., were the property of the undertakers. The creditor re-
plied, that he had a man waiting at the adjoining house who
was ready to take the body in execution. Mr. Ellis told the
magistrate that he feared he should be interrupted in the
discharge of his melancholy duty, and wished to know if the
party could legally stop the corpse on its way to the place of
interment. Mr. Grove said, that he must hesitate in giving
an opinion. He remembered, however, that
.the body of the
celebrated Sheridan was arrested on its way to the grave by
the joint legal proceedings of a large number of his creditors,
but that was for a large amount. Mr. Grove recommended
the applicant to apply to Mr. Mallalieu, the superintendent
of the R. division of police, who would afford him all the
protection within his power, and prevent any infringement
of the public peace. Mr. Ellis thanked the magistrate, and
went at once to Mr. Mallalieu, who told him that he knew
nothing about the law of the case, but that he would send a
sergeant with a police-guard, in order to prevent any violence
or confusion tending to a breach of the peace. Mr. Ellis
then withdrew.

There was a sentence in Mr. O'Connell's speech on Mon-
day evening which will not a little nettle his obsequious
auxiliaries. For months past, his friends of the press,
through lack of something substantial to growl about, have
been abusing the Irish Government for its hard-hearted
indifference to the wants of " the starving poor." Many an
indignant denunciation have we had of its inhumanity, and
many an admiring ejaculation at the patience of the people
under its disregard of their sufferings. Well, Mr. O'Connell
spoke on Monday evening, and what did the Liberal "Leader"
say ? We quote from the report of the Morning Post:—
" He felt bound to give his testimony to the promptness and
readiness with which the ptcsent Government conducted anti
afforded their power to distress. He did not know any
locality where distress existed that had not a share of their
bounty."

COLLIERY DISTURBANCES.—A fresh turn-out of the
colliers in south Staffordshire. The men have paraded the
towns in the neighbourhood of Bilston, in bodies of from 20
to 50, demanding provisions from the shopkeepers, and some
bread was .aken from several shops. A leader of one of the
gangs who has been taken into custody is an old offender,
having been committed for felony on a former occasion.
When arrested he had in his possession the handle of a
miner's pick, a formidable weapon in itself, but rendered
still more dangerous by being loaded with lead. He was
brought before the Magistrates and committed in default of
sureties. The Magistrates have adopted measures for putt-
ing a stop to these breaches of the peace, and we hope their
efforts will be successful.

STATE OF THE POTTERlEs.—Several of the collieries in
the neighbourhood of Burslem, are'now in work again, but
many of the " turn-outs" still refuse the terms offered by
their masters. An unfortunate occurrence, one of the melan-
choly consequences of the suspension of work in the mines,
occurred in one of the pits in this neighbourhood on Tuesday,
from the explosion of fire damp, by which one poor fellow
was killed on the spot, and four others were dreadfully in-
jured. This deplorable accident will, it is hoped, induce
greater precaution on the part of the men, in adopting the
necessary measures for excluding the foul air which has ac •
cumulated in the pits before they re-commence operations.

A PATRIARCH.—The following letter appears in a Cork
paper, addressed to the editor :—" Ballinawoona Castle,
July 26th, 18-12.-1 think you will not have any objection to
insert in your next publication the death of a very old man,
my poundkeeper, on part of the lands of Clogher, near Do-
neraile, named Louis Wholehan. He died yesterday, at the
age of one hundred and eighteen years and seven months ;
he was married to his first wife more than fifty years, and
had no offspring. He married a second wife at the age of
one hundred and nine years, by whom he has had a son, a
fine boy, and very like the father. From his great age, I
have given him his house and the parish pound, many years
rent free, which made him comfortable, and prolonged his
life. He never lost a tooth, nor had he a grey hair on his
head. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
GARRETT NAGLE."
SYMPTOMS OF IMPROVEMENT.—After the most severe
and prolonged distress which this country has known in
modern times, it gives us heartfelt satisfaction to see a few
rays of light break in upon the gloom.. The exhaustion of
the resources of all classes will make a revival of trade
both slow and precarious ; and we see no reasonable ground
for expecting durable prosperity until our manufacturers are
put upon an equal footing as to the chief necessaries of
life with their foreign rivals, whose goods are now com-
peting with them in the principal markets of the worid.
But it is certain that the fearful stagnation of the last
three or four months has been in some degree owing to the
suspense about the tariff, and to the consequent locking up of
some considerable classes of foreig❑ commodities in bond till
the reduced duties came into operation. That event having
taken place sales of goods are resumed, and the seaports begin
to display greater activity. The very favourable weather,
also; not only cheers the spirits, but affords substantial
ground for hoping that food may become cheaper and more
abundant, in which case manufactures and trade cannot fail
to receive a stimulus. The markets of Liverpool and Man-
chester have experienced a decided improvement within the
last fortnight. At Liverpool, where prices and operations
are governed by the barometer more than by anything else,
and where as corn falls cotton rises, and vice versa, there
has been a material revival, both in the cotton maket and in
most other branches of trade. We wish it were in our power
to state that an improvement was already obvious in the con-
dition of the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, but there
appear to be no grounds for such an assertion. All we hear
would lead to an opposite conclusion, and this is borne out
by the reports of the state of trade during the week at the
seats of our staple manufactures—except, perhaps, at Brad-
ford. At Derby the distress is unmitigated. The increased
commercial transactions in the seaports may be expected,
however, to act favourably on the manufacturing districts,
and to relieve them from a portion, at least, of the depres-
sion which is at present almost overwhelming.—Leeds Mur-
cury.

ARREST OF A NOBLEMAN IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—
One day last week a carriage and four drove up furiously to
the door of the Wvnnstay Arms Hotel, at Machynlleth, and
three persons, who were conveyed in it, stepped into the
parlour of the hotel, whilst fresh horses were attached to
carry them on to Aberystwith. A gentleman was seated in
a room into which the travellers were shown, whom one of
the strangers immediately recognised as Lord Huntingtower,
the nobleman against whose person they had an execution
for debt. He had arrived at Machyrilleth from Aberyst-
with a short time before, and thereby saved his pursuers a
stage of their long and hasty pursuit. His lordship, after
being taken into custody, despatched a messenger with all
speed, with a detail of his case, to his mother, the
Countess of Desart, and he was then transferred to Montgo-
mery gaol.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. The Chester Courant
saYs. " The arrest of Lord Huntingtower has led to a series
of disclosures in the courts of law, of which the following is
a detail. Lord Huntingtower was removed to London from
the custody of the gaoler of Montgomery on Wednesday,
under a writ of habeas corpus, obtained at the instance
of his lordship ; and on being taken before a judge, to get
an order for his committment to the Queen's Bench,. his
lordship's solicitor and counsel objected to the validity of
the bench warrant, upon which he was first taken in Mont-
gomeryshire; first, on the grounds that the nature of the
offence with which he stood charged was not set forth in the
warrant ; and secondly, that the magistrates before whom
he was taken by the police-officer who effected his caption,
not having drawn out a commitment (for want of bail), that
the goaler had no power to detain his lordship ; and it fol-
lowed that if the bench warrant and the detention under it
were adjudged to be invalid, then that the whole of the sub-
sequent detainers lodged against his lordship (amounting to
about £8,000) would be bad also. Several subsequent hear-
ings took place between the respective counsel and attorneys
for the contending parties (the sheriff of Montgomeryshire
being ably represented by Mr. J. H. Lloyd), when the mat-
ter was ultimately settled on Tuesday last, by his lordship's
counsel and solicitors giving the contest up, and consequent-
ly the bench warrant and the detainers were adjudged to be
good and valid, and his lordship having put in bail to the
former, the judge (Coleridge) made out his lordship's com-
mitment, and he was COASigtled to the enc. Queen's B h "

PIIZATOZROY WILLIAMSONACIIIAWC

Lag Night but BONNER,
Thirteolth Night of dm New Tple of Superstition, galled
GISELLE, OR TnE PHANTOM NIGHT DANCERS.

THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 2d instant,
DAMON AND PYTHIAS.

After which,
7'HE KING'S GARDENER
To conclude with
IS ELL E.
Mrs. R. Ilonner.

Giselle

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH

Donald Mr. Travers. Eolia
Atter which,
A FAVOURITE INTERLUDE,

Miss 11. Gardner

In which Mr. W. J. Hammond and Miss Julia Bennett will
appear.—The whole to conclude with

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only buys our publication from a news-room at half price.
It is poor encouragement for us to make improvements to
meet with such support. We always give the stations o;
the British array, at the commencement of each month.
If our correspondent had been a "constant reader," be
would have long ago found that out.

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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1842

On Saturday last the committee upon the Ipswich
election came to a decision, and the sitting members,
Lord Desart and Thomas Gladstone, Esq. were un-
seated on the ground of bribery. The committee
found, however, that neither of the candidates in ques-
tion had been cognizant of the illegal practice, on ac-
count of which their seats were forfeited ; and they are
consequently eligible to be elected again in the present
parliament.

We must confess that we were not prepared for this
result. From what we have noticed of the evidence
brought before the committee, the case of the petition-
ers appeared to us to he singularly weak ; and we
are satisfied that nothing but an excessive prudery,
on the parts of the honorable members composing
it, could have induced the committee to such a
decision. Such a ridiculous affectation of virtue, if
persisted in, will shortly render it impossible for a
House of Commons to be elected at all ! Men will
be afraid even of paying their just debts, lest common
honesty should be termed bribery. Candidates had
better make an assignment of their effects to trustees,
or to Mr. Roebuck as provisional assignee, before
going upon their canvas, lest a stray shilling should
find its way into a voter's hand, and afford food for
a Coppock conspiracy. Even this resource will scarcely
avail them ; for by the decision in the Ipswich case,
any indiscreet friend or marked enemy can void an
election, in despite of the determined honesty of the
candidate himself !

We regret deeply this decision, not only because in
Mr. Gladstone the Protestant cause has lost a staunch
supporter—a set off, by the way, against the acquisi-
tion of Mr. Colquhoun to its ranks—but because it is
calculated to stultify and even falsify the notion that a
committee of the House of Commons is a tribunal fit
to be entrusted with the liberties or lives of English-
men. The most valued portion of our constitution is
fast being wrecked by the veriest ape that ever entered
its portals—JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK ! Shame upon
English gentlemen, who can permit themselves to be
thus fooled and betrayed by a thing so contemptible.

It is really a hard case when a public journal canno
afford to be, or dare not be, HONEST. In such a piti-
able plight appears to be the Manchester Guardian.
Upo❑ a recent occasion, that influential organ of the
Manchester millocracy gave—by misadventure, we sus-
pect—a report of the improved state of the Manchester
market. The report in question was in inopportune. It
was thrown in the teeth of the veracious deputations
which were at that moment badgering the Govern-
ment with representations of an entirely opposite state
of things; incontinently a hurricane of reprobation
was poured upon the offending journalists; and
annihilation—had the power of his denouncers been
equal to their will to injure—would by this time have
been his portion.

We might have sympathised with our contemporary
could we have convinced ourselves that this casual
lapse into the practice of truth-telling was likely to be
the forerunner of a permanent maintainance of that
practice, in defiance of the dictation of the League
Agitators. But the Guardian is a slippery journalist.
His virtue is akin to the valour of Bob Acres; and. in
the very publication in which he is dilating upon the
value of " honesty" and " veracity," and the iniquity
of " petty misquotations;" in reply to his league tra-
ducers, we find him going the whole hog of literary
theft, to suit his own purposes, and petty misquota-
tions to restore his credit as a discreet journalist with
his offended masters.

Of the theft in question we think little, although it
is committed upon ourselves. We are used to such
things. But when a journalist thinks it worth while
to steal a whole column of matter, without acknow-
ledgment ; when he adopts it so unreservedly that he
cannot find time to correct a very obvious error--,one
would scarcely imagine that, if honest, he could find
time to cut out trifling passages, and to garble quota-
tions, merely because they are not likely to be palatable
to this or that faction amongst his supporters. Yet of
this littleness of conduct was the Manchester Guardian
guilty in his publication of Saturday last.
At a late hour on Thursday night—so late, indeed,
that we apologized to our readers for any inaccuracies
or omissions which we might commit in giving the
news which she brought us—we received our advices
from America, by the mail steam-ship Caledonia, in
time, with the aid of a little exertion, for our post
edition. The news in question the Guardian copied,
errors and all, and amongst the rest the very obviously
erroneous statement, that papers had been received
from New York to the 17th instant, when the steamer
left Boston on the 16th ! We do not complain of this,
although an acknowledgment would have been cour-
teous. Of course the bulk of our news was extracted
from the American journals. That fact was stated
distinctly; and the Manchester Guardian had no right,
in copying our quotations, to garble them for his own
purposes. We give the passages, for the purpose of
sheaving the animus of the omissions, premising that
they are stated by us to be from the New York
American :

" It is almost too early to form an opinion as to the result
of. the crops, but our advices lead us to anticipate large pro-
ducts, far exceeding what can be disposed of at profitable
rates to the producers ; thus affording little prospect of are-
newed demand for manufactures, either domestic or foreign.
The supply of both descriptions is abundant, and sales can-
not be effected except at enormous prices. MANUFAC-
TURING DISTRESS, therefore, it will be seen, is not confined
to Great Britain.

" Most of the American manufacturers have already stopped
their mills, and the rest will probably soon follow their ex-
ample. Great numbers of the labouring population have
been thrown out of employ, and were it not for the constant
demand in this country jor agricultural labour, great want
and distress must hare been experienced. We commend
this picture to our free-trade agitators."

In the first paragraph, it will he observed, the
American journalist expresses an opinion that neither
foreign nor domestic manufactures can be sold except
at enormous sacrifices. We pointed attention to that
fact (in a line or two, which in the hurry of writing or
composition was not marked by the usual typographical
sign of its not being a portion of the original text), as

proving that " MANUFACTURING DISTRESS WAS NOT
CONFINED TO GREAT BRITAIN." This remark,
however, although, from the omission which we have
pointed out, the Guardian had no right to know, and
we dare say did not know, to be a remark of ours, he
omitted. It would not suit THE CASE of the Anti-
Corn-law League!

Again, in the next paragraph, in noticing the fact
that most of the American manufacturers had closed
their mills, and that " great numbers of the working
population had been thrown out of employ," the Ame-
rican journalist added, that " were it not for the con-
stant demand in that country for agricultural labour,

ATII.. TRAVERS respectfully announces to his Friends
111 and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take place
TO-MORROW, (WEDNESDAY,) the 3d instant, previous
to his engagement at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden.
The Performances will commence with Barnett's Grand
Opera,

THE WATERMAN.
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