The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

TRIAL OF FRANCIS

(From the Morning Herald of Saturday.)
John Francis was convicted of high treason and sentenced
to death. The evidence detailed on the trial of this guilty
youth was quite conclusive, and the verdict was most
righteous. That the convicted traitor did deliberately,
sanely, and of malice prepense, attempt the life of her most
gracious @Majesty the Queen, was established beyohd all
doubt ; and that to no power save that of Almighty God
does the nation owe the preservation of its courageous and
beloved Monarch, is certain. Amongst the many blessings
poured down by an all-wise and all-good Providence on
this highly-favoured land, the failure of this attempted
assassination of Queen Victoria is pre-eminent. In the
midst of much present chastening for manifold national
offences, it ought to be a subject of devout thanksgiving
that the nation has escaped so dreadful a calamity as the
murder of its Sovereign. Most manifest to mankind is the
re-fulfilment of that Divine promise, that He will not for-
sake those princes who place their trust in Him.
Against the verdict of the jury, who tried and convicted
John Francis, not a dissentient syllable can be raised—sub-
stantially there was no defence. Against the sentence which
condemns the convict to a traitor's death, no objection can
be taken ; it is but the fulfilment of the law of the land.
Against the execution of that sentence we do hesitate to pro-
test. The life of the Sovereign must be protected; and if
the death of the traitor be absolutely necessary to secure that
life, so precious to the country, from future attacks, then to
the excution of John Francis must we say amen, and " may
the Lord God Almighty have mercy on his soul." But is his
death 'absolutely necessary ? Can her Majesty be secured
from such treasonable outrages only by the execution of this
traitor? These are solemn inquiries; hut, solemn as they
are, they must be answered by the sworn advisers of the
Crown. The responsibility of the Queen's ministers is deep
and delicate. Should the mitigation of the sentence be fol-
lowed by another attempt on the royal person, it would be
universally ascribed to present •leniency. Should future se-
curity attend the rigorous excution of the law, it may be
doubted whether they would be treated as cause and effect.
Whatever be the decision of the Privy Council with respect
to this sentence, and whatever it may be, whether for life or
death, we shall not doubt its mercy ; for there is mercy to
the Queen and her people as well as the traitor. That de-
cision must be come to on the sole and individual responsi-
bility of those whose duty it is to administer the prerogatives
of the Crown. It is a subject-matter for decision, into
which the wishes or feelings of the Sovereign must not be
permitted to enter. What those wishes and feeliaguseeanr,es
none can doubt; they must be restrained. The
ministers have an awful duty to perform ; forits performance
they are responsible to a deeply-interested nation.
The simple question is, will the death ofstohneabtriematottracpkrse-?
tend to preserve her Majesty from other trca

SHERIFF'S OFFICE, PRESTON.-INQUISITION

CORDAROY AND KENDRICK V. SERGEANT.
This was a writ out of the Court of Exchequer,d
sustained by
ici ascer-
tain the amount of damages the plaintiffs had
the defendant having slandered their character and
tion as tradesmen. A respectable jury was impan
the sheriff's office. erieipedutaa-t
The plaintiffs are respectable hatters, in Liverpool ; andA
the defendant is in the same trade, in the same town.
report had gone abroad in that trade, that the plaintiffs were
comthpounding with their creditors, and offering five shillings
in e pound. This report, as in, ight be expected, led to
serious injury. The wholesale traders immediately began to
press the plaintiffs for their accounts before the usual times
for payment; actions were commenced against thsrn ; and
some of the dealers refused to furnish goods without having
guarantees for their accounts.
s These facts were proved by
several respectable witnesses.
The report was traced to the defendant ; and on application
he refused to give up its authoer,
insert a writn apology i
-n the P.ubliice was
calledthen
un small
donation totes charity, in order that the credit
upona to
da
ma naagcet is o,
as
might be re-established with the public • but this he also re-
fused to accede to. As the only courseleft to obtain redress
the defendant had not Mr . Segar, the counsel for the plaintiffs, called upon the
give
the plaintiffs:
jury toexemplarycommenced
-at-
tempted to justify or excuse his conduct, but had added to
already inflicted, by allowing hid
the iniurY • • •
so preventing an investigation
trnent to go
him, and at an assizes ;
against at
• Inquiry conducted the office of the ghee
for, that an
inqulsheriff could
worldof the plaintiffs' solvency d
an the de-
fendant'snot inform thewith the same publicity that would result
from crime
The jury found a verdict for- the
from a trial at an assizes._oo._
Preston Chronicle.
Plaintiffs, damages XI

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BURY.—On Friday morning, about
ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the factory of Mr( James
Witworth, of Bury, and notwithstanding that it continued
little more than an hour, upwards of £2OOO worth of pro-
perty was destroyed.
It is expected, in consequence of the approaching great
agricultural meeting at Bristol, at which Prince Albert and
several foreign princes will be present, the receipts on the
Great Western Railway will exceed £20,000, from the 11th
to the 18th of July next.

DISCONTINUANCE OF WORKING FEMALES IN COAL.
MlNES.—During the past week the colliers in the employ of
the Earl of Balcarris, have received notice that the working
of females in the colliery will be discontinued as soon as the
necessary arrangements con be made for that purpose.—
Bolton Chronicle.

HONOURS FOR THE BRAVE.—DOWNING-STREET, JUNE
16, 18.11.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to nomi-
nate and appoint Colonel Sir Robert Henry Sale, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the
Bath, serving with the rank of Major-General in Affghanis-
tan, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said order.
COLLIERS IN LANCASHIRE.—From the statistical state-
ment
of trades, Scc., in Lancashire, we learn that there are
330 collieries in that county, employing, when in full work,
about 1,400 persons. The yearly consumption of coal by
all the steam-engines is estimated at about 3,000,000 tons.
THE GARRISON OF GHUZNEE.—" AHMEDABAD, April
22, 1842.—Intelligence has just arrived that these poor fel-
lows have been destroyed to a man. There were about 25
officers and 700 men, sick included. The sepoys could not
hold their muskets, and the Ghazis referred to in the P.S.,
perceiving this, closed upon and destroyed them."
THE HORSE ATTlLA.—Colonel Anson has, it is said, won
by the Derby, £22,000; Lord Chesterfield, £12,000. The
horse Attila, the winner, was taken by Colonel Anson in ex-
change for a doubtful debt of £220 or £l4O. His first win-
ning was £3,000, his second £B,OOO ; so that in all he has
returned the lucky possessor £33,000, a profitable enough
exchange for a suspicious or bad debt.—British Queen.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council having di-
rected that the costs cf all the parties who litigated the will
of the late Mr. James Ward, of Gloucester, should be paid
out of the estate, the proctors attended the court of surro-
gates on Tuesday week with their bills, as taxed in the regis-
try, for the purpose of being sworn to them, and of their
being signed by the court. The aggregate sum of these
costs was £17,535.

A government proclamation appeared on Friday announcing
the forthcoming issue of a new species of coin—viz., of half-
farthings. This promises to be a great convenience, par-
ticularly to the labouring classes who make their purchases
of provisions, &c., in small parcels, and who in consequence
are invariably fleeced by the shopkeepers out of the fractional
differences resulting from the reckonimr, where the more
wholesale price involves a figure or fractional part of a sum
which cannot be equally resolved and represented by any.
piece of coin now legally current.
The last advices from Alexandria afford satisfactory proof
of the desire of Mehemet Ali to cultivate and promote the
interests and conciliate the friendship of this country. In
compliance with the wishes of the Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company he has allowed them to place steam-vessels on
the canal of Alexandria—a point on which he had been
hitherto very tenacious. The Pasha had also given orders
for clearing snd otherwise improving the road between Cairo
and Suez, for building transit depots, an hotel at Suez, and
making other arrangements for facilitating intercourse with
India via Egypt.
INDIA AND CIIINA.—EXTRA MAIL.—The extra mail
from Calcutta was to leave Calcutta by the India steamer on
the 28th of April, and may be now daily expected, having
been out 47 days. The last mail sent by this route left Cal-
cutta on the 10th of January, and reached this country on the
27th of February, making 48 days, including some loss of
time at the coaling stations. The dates from Calcutta will
be about eight days later than by the last overland mail, and
yrobnbly bring nom. new:, front that city, and ftunt
China. From Bombay or Affgbanistan, however, no later
accounts can be expected.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—By the recent report " on the
present state of national monuments, made by order of Par-
liament," it appears that the dean and chapter of Westmin-
ster Abbey (868) " have given orders for a portion of their
ornamental fund to be laid out upon a splendid painted glass
window, to be put up immediately in the south transept."
The abbey being rather deficient in this species of ornament,
it will have a very imposing effect, besides that of giving a
seasonable impetus to artists who are endeavouring to effec-
tually revive this interesting art.
TENDER or SILVER COIN.—By the act 14 Geo. 111., c.
42, sec. 2, it is enacted, " That no tender in the payment of
money, made in the silver coin oE this realm, of any sum ex-
ceeding the sum of twenty-five pounds, at any one time, shall
be refuted in law, or allowed to be a legal tender within
Great Britain or Ireland, for more than according to its value
by weight, after the rate of five shillings and twopence for
each ounce of silver; and no person to whom such tender
shall be made shall be anyway bound thereby, or obliged to
receive the same in payment, in any other manner than as
aforesaid ; any law, statute, or usage to the contrary, not-
withstanding.
HAVRE, JUNE 11.—The agent of a Liverpool steam packet
company has been here inquiring into the port and harbour
dues for steam vessels. The Liverpool company is about to
put on two vessels to run between Southampton and this
port, in opposition to the South Western and South of
Eng-
land companies. The consequence of the opposition will be
that the shares will be reduced considerably.. The Liverpool
company will also run a vessel between Southampton and
the Channel Islands. The intercourse between Havre and
Southamptom increases. There is a daily communication,
and every vessel carries between 40 and 50 cabin passengers.

PROSPECTS OF THE GROUSE SEASON.—Accounts from
the moors represent the present as the most favourable sea-
son
for hill game which has been experienced for years. The
rainy and stormy autumn and early winter last season, pre-
vented the usual destruction among the young birds, so that
there was an abundant supply of breeders for this year. Eggs
were found on the low and sheltered grounds by the middle
of April, and upon the higher Grampians by the end of it.
The dry and warm weather which followed in May was
greatly in favour of the young broods, while the occasional
showers which took place during the latter half of the month
supplied them at hand with the necessary moisture, the
search for which is so often fatal to them. A continuance of
the present weather would bring the birds perhaps too rapidly
to maturity. At all events, there will certainly be no cheep-
ers to be found by the 12th of August, and the deficiency of
the returns in numbers will be more than compensated by the
quality of the game. On the whole, the ensuing grouse sea-
son is likely to be the finest experienced in the Perthshire
Highlands for many years.—Perth Courier.
ALARMING FIRE AT CoLNE.—On Wednesday morning,
last about half-past two o'clock, the cotton spinning mill
belonging to Mr. Sagar, of Carry bridge, near Colne, was
discovered to be on fire, and so rapid was the dovouring
element, that about five o'clock the roof of the old part of
the mill fell in. One fire engine was upon the spot soon
after three o'clock, another from Barrowford and three from
Burnley arrived as soon afterwards as the distance from the
respective places would permit, by means of which the
steam engine, water-wheel, and sizing house, were preserved
but the upper room:, and roof of the new part of the

entire ,
mill are r

were subdued about

san, employed on

point Steam Ferry Bridge, by way of experiment, plaeed 13
ducks' eggs, embedded in sawdust, upon the crown of the
boiler, anxiously watching them and sprinkling them daily
with warm water : after remaining the usual time of incuba-
tion, 13 lively young ducklings burst their shells and started
into existence, and are now in the possession of Mr. Cowley,
of Torpoint.—Devonport Independent.
TITHE CAMPAIGN IN IItELAND.-011 Saturday orders
were made by the Master of the Rolls for sums varying
from £2BO to £2O, against upwards of 200 individuals—some
of them great friends of the church—while the burden rested
exclusively on the people. Among the present defaulters
are Mr. Garrett Standish Barry, the late member for Cork ;
Sir Thomas Deane, Sir George Gold, Mr. L. Langton, of
Limerick, and a host of others equally respectable, both in
circumstances and rank, in the dioceses of Cloyne, Cashel,
Cork, Ross, Limerick, Ossory, Scc.

MILITARY WEAR AND TEAR.—The 66th, at present quar-
tered in Glasgow barracks, was one of the regiments sent
out to St. Helena in charge of the Emperor Napoleon, and
which remained there until his death. It was three Grena-
diers of this regiment, with an equal number of those of the
20th, that carried the " immortal hero of a thousand fights"
to his tomb. So rapid is the wear and tear of the army, that
there remain now in the 66th only one captain, one serjeant,
one corporal, and one drummer, who were present at the
above memorable event ; though only one year previous the
corps consisted of 1200 rank and file, with its due propor-
tion of commissioned and non-commissioned officers.—
Paisley Advertiser.
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Asbipptug intellttnre.

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FRIDAY, JuNit 1

—Wind N.W. light

ILlVED.—Brother;, Shimells. from Alexar—Lydia, Hart
ley, from Antigua—Corsair, Daly, from New Orleans—Prompt,-
Morton, from Charleston—Princess, Neagle, from Newfoundland—
Sultana, Rogers, from Odessa—Albion, Mace, from A ncona—Cen-
taur, Vox. from Gibraltar—Scotsman, Armichael, 'roan Barletta—
Edward & Mary, Wright, from Bourdeaux—San Jose Balear,
Sierra. from Bilboa—Ariel, Smithen, from Kiel—bezina, Herman,
from Rotterdam—and Constante, De Certe, f*om Ostend.
SA' LED.—George Buckham, Sim, for Sincapore—Sarah, Miller,
and Volunteer, Reed, for Alexandria—Athens, Chase, for New
York—Agnes, Braithwaite, for St. Thomas—Lamport, Armstrong,
for Quebec—Eleanor, Kewley, for Stettin—Thomas Battersby,
Leitch, for Brazils—Avon, Masters; Britannia, Caulthard, and
Oronocto, Crook, for St. John, N.B.—E. Graham, Ferguson, for
Oporto— Castilian Maid, Ivens, for Malta.

Prince Albert, hence for Rio Janeiro, was spoken 6th April, in
lat. 9 S, long. 33 W
Ann Dingwall, hence off the Canaries
Gondolfo, Culotto, henee at Palermo
Merlin, Richards, Carron, Potter, and Bootle, Chaplin, hence
at Genoa
Devonshire, Higginson, hence at Havre
Auguste, Kirkhoven, hence at Ostend
Trinmph, Havelock, sailed from Palermo 18th May, and Flo-
rence, Lowther and Eliza 20th May, all for Liverpool
Boadicea, Rowland, sailed from Genoa for Liverpool 6th June
Ann, Softly, sailed from Nantes for Liverpool itth June
John Horrocks, Bond, from Berbice, at London
Chariot, Robeson, from Ancona, at Cove
Lucy, Harding, from Malta, ditto

MIDDLEWICH CORN MARKET, hnir 14

Wheat, old, 2,e, 7elt
new

Oats, old, v 50113

Bean;, v 601 b,

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LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 20

We have had a large stonily of stock at this day's market, and
prices a little on the decline. Prime Beef 6d to sid ; middling
Sid ; Sheep 6id ; Lambs 7d to 7id, sinking the offal. Number of
Beasts 813 ; Sheep and Lambs 9153.