The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-15 00:00:00

Ile loyalty of the people of Birmingham was
cellar manner on Tuesday last, at the parish

church, where upwards of a hundred christenings took place
the majority of the names of the males being either Edward

Edward. This is a simple but gratifying
aglish feeling.—Birmingham Advertiser.
POLITE INVITATION.-At the late election at Shaftesbury,
agland, an Irishman made his appearance, and happening
to say something in the crowd to the candidates, one of the
whig party exclaimed from the hustings, " Oh, Paddy, now
go to the devil !" " I'm much obliged to yer honour," was
Paddy's reply, "sure ye are the first gentleman that has in-

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vited me t(') yer faifieejsnouse since my arrival in England."

SPREADING OF PUSEYISM.-Of the 200 resident members
of convocation, at least one quarter are tractarians. Of
these some follow Dr. l'usey, who, as Mr. Ward informs us,
has a " strong feeling against Rome ; " others Mr. New-
man, who has "no such feeling at all." In one college,
where there is a considerable number of resident fellows, al-
most all belong to either the one or the other party ; and at
Queens, Trinity, Magdalen, Christ Church, and, I fear,
other colleges, there are tutors maintaining the same views.
In a college which I have not yet named an undergraduate
friend of mine was told by the lecturer in divinity that the
English reformation had in his opinion been carried a great
deal too far. Of the spread of these opinions among the
1200 undergraduates and bachelors it is difficult to form an
estimate. But I have reason to fear that the faith of a de-

cided majority of the more serious and studious of the youth
of the place is seriously corrupted. As a symptom, some
have the Roman breviary in their possession, and it was cal-
culated that on Sunday, December 12, at least 100 of the
junior members of the university were present at St. Mary's
Church, listening to a sermon which, whatever may have
been its object, had all the effect of an artful and dangerous
attack on the Church .of England—Letter from the Rev.
C. P. Golightly.,

THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY EVENING.—The funds were
firm to-day, with a shade of improvement in the quotations,
but with not much business doing. Consols for money 89k,

and for account 891- to 4-. Bank Stock 168 to 9. India Stock
244 to 6. The continued rise in Exchequer bills, which to-
day stand at 245. to 265. premium, is giving occasion to cer-
tain speculations on the subject of the inquiries before the
commission appointed to examine into the working of the
Exchequer bill-office, and of the motions respectively an-
nounced in both houses of the legislature on Exchequer bill
affairs. The conviction obtains that the claims of innocent
holders under the surreptitious issues are not meant to be re-
sisted, but the reverse. A material improvement may be
noted in the prices of Mexican Stock, consequent on the re-
cent arrangemeat agreed and ratified between the bondhol-
ders and the financial agents of Mexico, and on the certain
apparent prospect of an early declaration of a dividend. The
bonds left off 33 to 1. Colombian 21i t 44. Dutch Two-
and-a-Ulalf per Cents were 511 to 1, the,s per Cents 1011
to Belgian 1021 to 31. Spanish Active with the Coupons
22,1 to Portuguese Fixe per. Cents 32 to /. the Three per
Cents 19 to 4. Brazilian 654 to 61. Danish 81 to 2.

AWFUL EXTENT OF THE RIBAND SYSTEM.—This town
was, during the past week, filled with confusion and alarm,
by the arrest of several persons charged with being masters
of riband lodges, on the information of one of their own
body. Most of the persons taken have been in decent situ-
ations, and of good character for their rank in life. The
person who gave the information has been sent under charge
of the constabulary to the castle, and it is rumonred that the
disclosures made are really fearful, and implicate the vast
mass of the Roman Catholic population of this county, and
several other counties, as being connected with the riband
system, which is stated to have been in vigorous activity up
to the present moment. William Fausset, Esq., provost,
bast also gone to Dublin on information connected with this
awful system of conspiracy, and is said to have received full
and accurate information, from more than one informant, of
all the lodges in this province, with the' houses where they
meet, and the numbers usually attending, and also the rules,
regulations, passwords, and object of the society.—Sligo
Journal.
COLONEL WHITE'S AGENT SHOT.—It is with feelings of
the most painful nature we state that, on Thursday night,
Mr. David Cullen, of Carrickfad, within four miles of this
town, was shot in his own bed-room ; the ball entered under
his shoulder, passed through his body, and was flattened
against the opposite wall. He has been attended by Drs.
Knott and Johnston, and his recovery, though not despaired
of, is extremely doubtful. Mr. Cullen had been writing
letters in his bed-room, and had undressed when the assassin
fired at him through a small slit in the window which the
shutters did not cover. It is, we fear, a part of the murder-
ous riband conspiracy which was about to explode in the
country, and it is now freely said, that the person who gave
the important information referred to in the preceding arti-
cle, mentioned that an agent was shortly to be shot, and that
not less than 20,000 persons in this country alone, connected
with the riband system, were ready to turn out at a moment's
notice. Many of them appear to be respectable householders
in Sligo.—lbid.
That the excessive fluctuations in the prices of corn are not
" occasioned by the graduated scale," may be ascertained by
any one who will only inspect the parliamentary returns of
the prices of grain in this country before the introduction of
that scale. The average price of wheat in 1800 was 113 s. 7d.,
in 1803 it was only 565. 6d.,! In 1808 it was 795., in 1812 it
was 1255. sd. The fact is, that the excessive fluctuations in
the price of corn, observable everywhere' constitute a prob-
lem in political economy as vet unsolved. It may be noted
as a curious fact—it was brought prominently before the
agricultural committee in 1821—that some of our most expe-
rienced corn factors have, even in years when foreign im-
portations were hopeless, given up all attempts to calculate
prices from the actual state of the crops, even though they
go to the expense of an actual survey of the great corn-
growing districts. How, indeed, can any man calculate on
steadiness of price under the operations of an ever-varying
currency—now expanding, now contracting, constant to no-
thing but alterations in the value of property.—Morning
Herald.

TREATMENT OF PAUPERS.—The town of Bromsgrove has
again been painfully excited, in consequence of the death of
a child in the workhouse, which was reported to have been
occasioned by improper treatment on the part of one of the
medical officers. The deceased, a lad named Cartwright,
was, with several other children in the house, under the care
of Mr. Fletcher, the surgeon, for an unclean disease ; and it
appears that, as it did not yield to the usual remedies, he di-
rected that a bath should be prepared with a quantity of
potance sulphuretum : this bath was made so strong that
Cartwright died from its effects in three days, and several of
the other children were much affected. On Wednesday an
inquest was held, when evidence was procured to show that
the quantity of sulphuret of potass used was highly
ii juc'i-
cious. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased,
Henry Cartwright, came to his death in consequence of being
immersed in a solution of sulphuret of potassium,' as a cure
for the itch ; and we consider the conduct of the surgeon,
under whose direction it was applied, as injudicious and neg-
ligent." We understand that a copy of the evidence has been
forwarded to the poor law commissioners.--Worcester
Journal.

MAGNETISM V. TOTAL ABSTINENCE.—The Groningen
Courant relates the following curious circumstance :—About
four years ago there was received in the Catholic Hospital of
Groningen a woman of 26 years of age, named Leantje Ry-
zelman, who for the space of six years previously had been
suffering from complete paralysis of both her legs. She bad
been for two years in an hospital at Amsterdam, whence she
was dismissed as incurable, and was removed to her native
place, where she continued under medical treatment. For
the space of two years she took no sustenance, as her sto-
mach obstinately rejected food. During the interval of a
year and a half she had no evacuation, and her voice was be-
coming more and more feeble. The patient suffering under
this complicated state of disease has been suddenly cured, to
all appearance, by a magnetic sleep into which she fell, after
having partaken of the Sacrament, which sacred rite her in-
firmities had prevented her trom observing for three years
previously. During this magnetic sleep,
and on awaking
from it, she felt that she was recovering the use of her limbs,
and that the other symptoms of her malady were abating.
She is now so far restored as to be able to walk without sup-
port, and to take food. This fact, in all its details, is attested
by medical men, who attended the patient both in Amsterdam
and in Groningen, who observed her malady with the utmost
attention, and who have made frequent experiments for the
purpose of mitigating the disease, and ascertaining the cor-
rectness of the patient's statements.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S
.RESIGNATION.—The

Bucks Gazette, a paper supposed to be under the influence
of the Duke of Buckingham, thus explains the cause of his
resignation :—" The Duke of Buckingham pledged himself
to the agriculturists to maintain, in or out of office, such an
amount of duty on foreign corn as he considered adequate
protection to the home grower. Now, had such an amount
been proposed and carried in the cabinet as the noble lord
deemed protection, he would of course have assented to it,
and remained a Cabinet Minister. The fact of his resigna-
tion suffices to prove that the reduced scale proposed was
not protective in the duke's estimation, and therefore he re-
signed. The agricultural body have much to regret in this
result, for it augurs no good to their interest, by which the
duke has stood unflinchingly and consistently since he first
commenced his public career. We shall not speculate on the
precise objections made by his grace on the scale proposed,
but we may be sure that with his desire to preserve the unity
and strengthen the plans of a Conservative Administration,
he would have given way had such a course been consistent
with his determination to stand by the farmers. And we do
fear that when the reduced ' sliding scale' shall be made
public, the agriculturists would soon detect the grounds of
the Duke of Buckingham's refusal to acquiesce in it.."
INCENDIARISM.—BIRMINGIIAM, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
A messenger arrived here this morning, at three o'clock, with
intelligence that an incendiary fire had broken out on Blow-
er's-hill farm, at Rowley Regis, occupied by Mr. Edward
Allsopp, and requesting that the engines belonging to the es-
tablishments might be immediately dispatched to the spot.
Two engines were immediately got in readiness, and in a very
short time were on their way to the scene of the conflagration.
On their arrival at the farm, which they had some difficulty
in finding, owing to the darkness of the night, and the bye-
roads through which they had to travel, they found that two
engines had already been obtained from Dudley, about four
miles distant, where the Birmingham and district offices have
agencies established. These were playing upon a rick of
wheat, which was found on fire, and the flames had gained
such an ascendancy before the engines were brought into re-
quisition, that none of the property could be saved. There
were, at a short distance from the burning stack, about eight
or ten ricks of wheat, and other grain ; but the wind having
most providentially set in from the quarter in which'ihe latter
were situated, the sparks and burning straw were prevented
from communicating with the adjoining property. There is
scarcely a doubt that the fire was the act of an incendiary,
Mr. Allsopp having rendered himself obnoxious to certain
bad characters in the neighbourhood by defending his house
against an attempt at robbery a short time ago, and his pro-
perty was in consequence threatened, on more than one occa-
sion with destruction.

DISCOVERY OF A GANG OF THIEVES 1N PARIS.—An
individual, named Linell, ostensibly a commission-merchant,
but suspected of being a receiver of stolen goods, was, in
in consequence, narrowly watched by the police. A warrant
was obtained against him a few days ago. by virtue of which
he was arrested, without the knowledge of anybody in the
house, and a souricie're was instantly stationed on the spot,
to lie in wait for any suspicious persons who might present
themselves. Ten thieves soon arrived, one after another,
laden with articles more or less valuable, and were succes-
sively arrested, a considerable seizure being made of jewels,
watches, clocks, and other commodities, besides a bale of
rich stuffs, most of which were found to have been stolen
from a coininiseur-voyageur, lodging at the Hotel Montes-
quieu. The next morning, when the preliminary forms of
justice had been gone through, a loud ringing at the bell an-
nounced the arrival of another visiter ! On the door being
opened, a young man, in an elegant ball-dress, made his ap-
pearance. " What does Monsieur want at this early hour ?"
asked the police-agent. " I wish to speak with M. Linell
immediately." " Your business, then, is urgent 1" replied
the agent. " Yes (interrupted the young fellow, thinking he
was speaking to a friend or accomplice of Linell) ; I want to
borrow some money, as I rather ' outran the constable' at
last night's ball." The agent hereupon gave the dandy a
gentle blow on his waistcoat, and a sound of metal being
heard, the latter was requested to unbutton his under-
waistcoat, when, lo ! and behold ! he was found to be com-
pletely " cuirrassed" with a large silver dish, which he had
just stolen from a restaurateur's, whither he had gone to break
his fast, after leaving the Opera-house. This fashionable
thief gave his name Dorfou, and stated himself to be an ar-
chitect. On being taken to the police-station, he was recog-
nised as belonging to a highly-respectable family. having for-
merly been a student! We suppress his real name. Some
curious discoveries were made in the house of Linell ; and
it has also been found that he had another residence in a dis-
tant part of the city, where several materials for coining mo-
ney were seized by the authorities.—Gasette des Tribunaux.