The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

(From the Alanchester Chronicle, Conservative.)

STATE or TRADE.—Considerable advances have been,
this week, obtained for both cloth and yarn, though the sup-
ply, being greatly limited in consequence of the present turn-
out, the business effected has been, comparatively, bat of a
limited kind. Nevertheless there is a very healthy feeling
in the market, and where parties are disposed, contracts for
almost an unlimited period may readily be effected. As,
however, the cotton-market has advanced about 20 per cent.
on American sorts, and higher wages are demanded, neither
spinners nor manufacturers are disposed to contract for
future delivery but at prices which seem exorbitantly high
compared with what have recently been obtained.

(From the Manchester Courier, Conservative.)
We have had another week of interrupted business, in con-
sequence of the turn-out ; nevertheless, large offers have beeu
made for both goods and yarns, and at considerably advanced
rates. These offers, however, have not been generally ac-
cepted, because of the great advance in cotton, and because
of the uncertainty as to when the turn-out may finally ter-
minate, more particularly as regards the power-loom weavers
of Staleybridge and Ashton. The impression also still gains
ground that business will permanently improve, and that a
tide of Conservative prosperity has already set in.
It is difficult to quote prices at present ; we may say, how-
ever, that spinners generally are demanding about a penny
per pound advance on the lowest rates for twist! whilst for
cloth, say 27-inch sixty-sixes, 9d. to is.; and on 40-inch six-
ty-sixes, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per piece advance on the lowest
rates are readily obtained, and large contracts are offered at
these prices.

Upwards of 100 prisoners from the disturbed districts have
been lodged in York Castle, while the original calendar itself
contains no fewer than 137 prisoners. The trial of the latter
alone will occupy three weeks.

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THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.-It is with great
regret that we are compelled to announce that this brilliant
ornament of the church has for the last few days been rather
seriously indisposed. His grace is, however, recovering.
He very much amended during Tuesday, and we understand
that his physicians entertain the confident expectation that
his grace will shortly be enabled to resume his important
official functions. The following very satisfactory bulletin
was exhibited yesterday at Lambeth Palace, where inquiries
have again been numerous, especially when it is recollected
that most of the nobility and gentry are absent from town at
this season of the year :—" His grace has passed a very good
night, and is this morning considerably better. Addington
Park, August 24."

ADDINGTON PARK, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—The phy-
sicians report that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
had a good night, but has not been in so favourable a state
during the day, his strength having rather failed since morning.
Our corn speculators have lost all confidence in the weather-
wisdom of Dr. Herschell, as to the chances of the moon
they had, from his rules, calculated that August was to be
anything but " hot and dry !" And so had the gentry of the
" Anti-Corn Law League," but at last they are actually
" burnt " out !

EXTRAORDINARY POISONING OF THREE CHILDREN.—
On Friday last, Mrs. Jameson, the wife of a gardener, re-
siding at 'No. 4, Jones's-gardens, Bethnal-green, attended
at the London Hospital, in the Mile End-road, with her
three sons—namely, Thomas Jameson, aged ten ; Malconib,
aged five ; and Lendsey, aged three—the former being an
out-patient of that institution. 'While waiting in the hall
the three boys strayed into the grounds belonging to the
building, and which are beautified by various shrubs. After
traversing through the grounds for some distance, they came
to a plant called dog-bean, a species of deadly night shade,
upon which there were a number of ripe berries, and not
knowing their pernicious qualities, the poor children plucked
off all they could find ripe and ate them, and then returned
to their parent. Their poisonous effect was not perceptible
until 12 o'clock on the same night, when all were seized in
the same way, and they were removed without loss of time
to the London Hospital, when the cause was quite percepti-
ble. During the whole of yesterday the three sufferers were
closely attended by Dr. Gordon and other medical officers of
the hospital, but so serious are the effects of the poison that
but little hope was entertained of their recovery.—Observer.
GAME.—Partridge shooting commences on Thursday next
the Ist of September. As the fields are well cleared of corn,
and birds are abundant in all directions, capital sport is an-
ticipated. Grouse and blackcocks are very plentifal on the
hills, Snd in the best possible condition, but they are so wild
and strong on the wing, that it is with difficulty they can be
approached; there is consequently much work for the sports-
man, and small result. Grouse are selling in this town at
from 4s. to ss. per brace.
AFFLICTING CASE—A CHILD POISONED BY FLY WATER.
—People cannot be too cautious how they use chemist pre-
parations for the destruction of flies. A case of a very mel-
ancholy nature occurred on Friday week, in which an interest-
ing child, of only four years old, lost its life through the
drinking of a solution of arsenic, obtained for the purpose of
destroying flies. It appears that a quantity of this solution
had been obtained by a person in the name of Leeming, il5
Snow Hill, in this town, and placed on the kitchen dresser;
and that the deceased child, whose name was Samuel Wragg,
took hold of the saucer in which the stuff was placed, and
imbibed a portion of the contents, from the effects of which
he died on Monday last.—Preston Chronicle.
THE TRIAL OF NICHOLAS SUISSE.—After the trial of
this individual, which has created so much attention, the
female witnesses assembled at the New Inn Tavern, oppo-
site the Central Criminal Court, in the Old Bailey, amount-
ing to upwards of 20 in number, and agreed upon an address
to Mdlle. Borell, who took so conspicuous a part, as a
witnesses
witness, upon the trial. The witnesses subpeenaed on behalf
of Suisse were, with few exceptions, foreigners,eand the
Copy, address alluded to, of which the following is a C
written in French :—" New Inn, Ol Bail August was
1842. Madame,—lt is a pleasing duty for use'th 27,
and friends of M. Suisse, to assure you that we
remember the generous, frank, and admirable shall ever
which you gave testimony to his innocence. manner in
that' your position before the court was delicate More than
embar-
rassing ; and further, you have bad the and
surmounting the difficulties; and we are
the answers which you gave to the gratified to say that
most indiscreetly put to you, shut Increasedquestions, sometimes
opinion that we entertained of the the flattering
and the elegance of your mannersgoodness of your heart
accept this renewed expression of • Deign, Madame, to
&e. Here follow the signatures.our extreme regard and,"
defence, it is said, will exceed 6,0001. The expense of the
of this sum has been paid in fees and a large proportion
trial of Suisse, the fee to Mr to counsel. Upon the first
300 guineas. The other fees to Thesiger is stated to have been
large, to which must be sto counsel were proportionably
added, consultation fees, refreshers,
and additional fees to attend the second and thir • d trial of the
accused. The necessarytogether"
the wianesses for the defenceexpenses in "keeping
considerable,and
lastly may he taken in have been
prisoner's
account the style of the
living while in durance.
CLASSES IN NEWFOUNDLAND.—There is no other dis-
tinction in persons and rank here, than those usual in all the
provinces of the British empire, arising from official station
or wealth. The upper class, which at home would almost
be
without exception the middle class, consists of the clergy,
judges, councillors, and officers of the state, with the oldest
and most wealthy of the merchants holding office.—The
middle class.—that class so well named in England as the
'` shield of society consists here of the newer merchants,
the conductors of the business of the extensive firms at home,
and a growing, most important, and
those rapidly-increasing num-
berose respectable men who
of the sons and daughters of
have chosen Newfoundland as the country of their children.
to attend at a public charitable ball to see
It is only necessary .
real character • ' these excellent people in their . . er .it strikes every
dbeholder with admiration, for a finer healthier unaccustomed
behaved colonial ",, 1
or better dressed and gentry there does
not exist. Professional men, lawyers, and medical men
belong, as in every other colony, to both these classes.—The'
third class I have no name for, as neither that of labo
in labourer
nor that of peasantry is appl!cable. The third class
New-
foundland are small farmers, small
foundlan shopkeepers, and fisher-
men,or fishermen exclusively. They
are well-clothed and
usually wear distinctive habit, which is blue
trouse s
, of good cloth, and a low.e a jacket and
rowned glazed hat. To
see th„o people in a public proces •
observe, with the Emperor of Rus •a SIOn one is tempted to
in mass, on the occasion of the when he saw the English
,‘ Where are the poor ? " 1
have visit of the allied monarchs,
situation, and have uniformly seen them in every possible
and respectable : even in the observed them quiet, orderly,
during winter, pit of the theatre, which is fre-
quently,dication of row or no;' filled with them, not a word nor
there
is
is still a Inver. else occurs. In the towns, of course,
domestic or in menial ass, which is engaged, as elsewhere, in
drawing water, or a offices, or employed in hewing wood or
castle's Nettfoundiaitsdcarters, farm-servants, &c.—Bonuy-
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