The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Nottingham election committee have declared Sir J.
C. flobhouse and Sir G. G. Larpent duly elected for that
borough.
Lord Auckland has been requested by his friends in India
to sit for his statue, to be placed beside those governors-
general who have preceded him.

The venerable Earl Grey was among the equestrians, on
Wednesday. on Constitution-hill, apparently in the enjoy-
ment of excellent health.

NEW MA GISTRATE FOR CHESHIRE.—The lord lieutenant
has placed on the commission of the peace for Cheshire,
Richard Orford, Esq., of High-lane, near Disley.

PUSEYISM.—The Bishop of Worcester has issued a letter
to the Rural Dean of Birmingham, in which he forbids the
public use of the term " Puseyite," as applicable to those en-
tertaining tractarian opinions.

We regret to learn that " crows feet" have been scattered
in the neighbourhood where the recent assemblage of nailors
took place, for the purpose of laming the horses of the troop-
ers, one of which was picked up in the town of Stourbridge,
having been brought to our office.—Worcester Chronicle.
ARTESIAN WELL AT GRENELLE.—The sand and clay,
which have so long rendered the water of the Artesian Well
thick and muddy, appear to be completely exhausted, and for
some weeks the flow has been uniformly as clear as well-
filtered river water.—.Athenmum.

At a recent public dinner given at Brandenburgh the King
of Prussia spoke as follows :—" We can never regret the debt
of gratitude that Prussia owes to Russia. The Emperor of
Russia is not only my ally, but he is the best and most inti-
mate friend I have. I may add, that he is the real friend of
Prussia."

We have been favoured with a letter from an officer of her
Majesty's sloop Fantome, Capt. Butterfield, dated the 14th
of February, off Ambrig, informing us that they had cap-
tured, on the 12th instant, two slave-vessels, one name un-
known, with 505 slaves, and the other the Diligencia, with
413 slaves on board. This makes 19 vessels captured, and
2,261 slaves liberated, by that vessel in the 20 months she
has been employed on the coast of Angola.
THETFORD ELECTION.—For this borough at the last
general election there was a double return, Sir James
Flower and the Earl of Euston being equal on the poll. A
committee have declared the former gentleman duly elected,
having placed him in a majority by knocking off one of the
voters for the Earl of Euston. Sir James is a strong con-
servative.

A statistical table of the cotton manufactures of the United
States shows an immense increase in the period between
1831 and 1840: that in capital having been 7,299,317 dole. ;
that in factories 198 ; spindles, 880,824 ; yards of cloth,
182,668,129; pounds of cotton, 45,095,824 ; value of manu-
factures, 18,280,143 dols. ; hands employed, 4,589 ; and
amount of wages paid, 857,912 dole. In the imports of cot-
ton goods there had been a corresponding decrease; the ge-
neral result showed that they had not increased with a de-
creasing and low tariff, while home manufacture had
increased 75 per cent., although the population had increased
but 331 per cent.

NEWSPAPER NOBODYISM.—A newspaper can, properly
speaking, personally insult no one ; it may traduce, it may
calumniate, it may injure, but it cannot personally insult,
because to personal insult two parties are wanting--the man
insulted, and the man insulting, and from whom, according
to the law of society, reparation is to be exacted. If a news-
paper misrepresents a man, he has his remedy in a contra-
diction, for which the press is always open ; if it vilifies or
otherwise injures him, he has his remedy in the courts of
law, with jaws ever gaping for us ; but nobody expects him,
society does not expect him, to look for any other remedy ;
it is a paper or an abstraction that he has to do with, and not
a man that can insult.—Standard.
The New Zealand papers to the 3d of December give a
mournful detail of the butchery of a Mrs. Robertson, her
child, and some attendants, at the Bay of Islands, the pre-
ceding week. A native, of the name of Makntu, was the
perpetrator of the horrid deed, and after having despatched
his victims—merely, it is supposed, for the sake of posses-
sing their clothes and some few moveables—fired their resi-
dence and left their bodies to burn. He escaped to his
tribe, but was pursued, and after a long and perilous nego-
tiation was delivered over to the parties who had investigated
the matter, and was at the date of these papers at Auckland,
in the hands of justice. There is no local news worth ex-
tracting.
The proposed commutation by the chancellor of the ex-
chequer of the railway passengers' tax, of one-eighth of a
penny per head per mile, to a general payment of 5 per cent.
on the gross receipts, is expected to cause a loss to some of
the great metropolitan lines, but to prove of the greatest be-
nefit to others, especially the Scotch, as the cheap carrying
lines having to compete with steam-boats have frequently
never realized any profit whatever. The alteration will,
moreover, it is thought, prove a great boon to the labouring
classes, as it will enable the companies to increase the ac-
commodation to the third-class passengers, and perhaps to
add a fourth class. The subject has excited much interest
among those concerned in railways, particularly the northern
lines, which are expected to derive the principal advantage.
AN HUSSAR KILLED IN DUBLIN.—On Monday morning
a soldier of the 10th royal hussars was thrown from his horse
while riding rapidly up Aungier-street ; falling backwards,
his head came violently in contact with the pavement, and
he was killed on the spot. The man was the hearer of some
some despatches, and going rather hard for street riding, a
dray appearing just before him as he passed Digges-street, he
pulled up suddenly, and threw his horse on his haunches.
The horse rose immediately but without his rider. The poor
fellow's brains were literally dashed out, and he never spoke
scarcely breathed—more. A verdict of accidental death was
returned.
The Wurtsburgh Gazette, of the 3rd, states that the King
of Prussia intends going to St. Petersburg on the 26th June.
His Majesty's absence from his dominions will be about a
month, at the end of which timc he will return, and visit
the provinces of the Rhine, to be present at the grand
reviews of his army, which are to take place early in August.
The Prussian court will then reside alternately at Cologne,
Coblentz, Dusseldorf, Munster, and at the royal castle of
Stobzenfels. The Kings of Bavaria, of Wirtemberg, of
Hanover, of the Belgians, the Emperor of Russia, several
Archdukes, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and some
Ge
rman and French princes, have, it is said, received invi-
tations to join hisllgajesty of Prussia on this occasion. The
resolution of the Prussian minister concerning the rela-
tive position of the-Bishop of Jerusalem' and the evangelical
Prussian church, has not been favourable to that clergy, who
has received orders to abstain from holding any discussions
on the Anglican church.

WILL OF THE LATE DUKE OF CLEVELAND, K.G.—
The will of the late Harry, Duke of Cleveland, has been
just proved in the Prerogative Court, by the executors,
Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Mr. Thomas Metcalf,
and Mr. G. B. Wharton. The personal property has been
sworn under £1,000,000, upon which a stamp duty of 413,000
has been paid. The property has been bequeathed princi-
pally to his family, consisting of the present duke, Lords
William Poulett and Harry Vane, Ladies Laura Meyrick
(who is abroad), Arabella Arden, and Augusta Milbanke,
with the exception of some legacies and annuities to his ser-
vants. Lord Brougham and his executors are bequeathed
£1,500 each. The late duke's personal estate is the largest
estate left by any peer of his elevated rank since the late
Duke of Sutherland, whose personal estate was sworn as
amounting to more than £1,000,000; all sums beyond which
are not subject to probate duty. The dowager duchess is
handsomely provided for under the late duke's will.—
Standard.

A FORTY FEET LEAP.—While a train on the Glasgow and
Ayr Railway was coming towards the latter place one day
last week, and when on the highest part of the embankment
between Kilwinning and Irvine, a man, who was a passen-
ger in one of the third class carriages, asked a fellow-tra-
veller when it was likely the train would arrive at Kilwin-
ning. He was informed that he had just passed that place.
" What ! past Kilwinning am I, gude faith, if that be the
case I'm lang enough here. So saying, he fastened his
skull-cap on his cranium—buttoned his coat—and, in spite
of every remonstrance, leaped over the side of the carriage,
at the steepest part of the embankment—nearly 40 feet—
down which he rolled like a ball, casting a series of not the
most graceful somersets, while the passengers in the train
were in great terror lest he had killed himself by his rash-
ness. He, however, found his level, where he was accosted
by a labourer in the adjoining field, who inquired if he was
hurt. " Hurt ! no an inch 9 atweel," and giving his
jacket a shake or two to deprive it of the dust which it had
collected during his descent, he stepped off across the field,
exclaiming as he went—alluding to the train, now in the
distance—" That wad be a go indeed !—You haurlin' me on
to Irwin, and me dressed and a' for our Mall's weddin' at
Kilwinnin' !"—Ayr Advertiser.

DETENTION OF THE WEST INDIA NIAILS.--The primary
cause of this detention seems to be the departure of the
Tweed from Jamaica without a sufficiency of coals to bring
her back. She was consequently, detained at Chagres and
Porto Bello, and had been absent from Jamaica, by the last
accounts, no less than six weeks. This deranged the order
of the packets to windward, and the Actaeon, one of the wind-
ward packets, was compelled to go down to Jamaica with the
windward mail, which deranged the service there. In the
meanwhile the Tay was put in quarantine by the authorities
at the Havana, which led to a misunderstanding between
them and the English consul, relative to the delivery of the
mails, and which proceeded to such lengths as to call for
military interference. Nearly at the same time the mail on
board the Actaeon, then at Turk's Island, was preveeted
from being carried to Nassau. Now, had this been done, the
mails would have been in England three weeks since by the
Medina. Subsequently the Tay and the Forth, contrary to
the instructions, it is said, of the company, and in direct
opposition to the advice of the Post-office commissioner,
Mr. Rains, were ordered to proceed direct to England, both
leaving together and arriving together. The Dee, at Turk's,
Island, in place of being allowed to pursue her proper course,
was ordered by an agent away to Jamaica, and thence to the
Havana. Thus three most important and connecting sta-
tions were altogether deprived of steamers to carry on the
service, the consequences of which can scarcely be calcula-
ted, but it may be imagined, when it is stated that the com-
munication between the West India Islands, Northern Ame-
rica, and the Gulf of Mexico, will be, for a time, virtually
suspended, and thrown into great confusion.—Morning He-
rald.

THE BRAINTREE CHURCH-RATE CASE.—Dr. Lushing-
ton delivered judgment at great length in this case on Wed-
nesday last in the Consistory Court of London. The learned
judge appeared to be fully alive to the very serious responsi-
bility under which any judicial decree must be pronounced
involving the determination of questions so grave and exten-
sive as those which this must ultimately govern. The main
question raised in the case was—whether the minority of
the parishioners in vestry assembled, under a monition is-
sued by the Consistory Court, could bind the majority by
declaring a rate for the necessary repairs of the church, after
that proposition had been already negatived by the majority
of the parishoners ? That majority contended that the parish
was too poor to pay any such rate ; that it had been distinctly
refused by them for some years past ;—that after the usual
form of this court's granting a decree, a monition had issued
to the churchwardens, who thereupon, notwithstanding this
declaration of the majority of the parishioners, had proceeded
to levy a rate. It seems that this rate having been proposed
in vestry, by the churchwardens, had been met by an amend-
ment, expressly refusing it, which was instantly carried. The
defendant was subsequently proceeded against for having re-
sisted payment when such rate was attempted to be levied ; and
the principle upon which the rate was now to be affirmed or
disallowed was admitted to be dependant on the admission or
rejection of the libel before the court. Dr. Lushington dwelt
at great length on the chief precedents, on the nature of ana-
logical cases, which were said to be relied on, and especially
that of " Gaudan and Selby," in 1794. The learned judge
then laid down in great detail and with much distinctness his
own opinion as to what was really the nature of church-rates ;
as to the obligation on churchwardens to levy them ; and as
to the legitimate objects of their application. He also dis-
cussed the several preliminary objections that had been raised
to the admissibility of the libel, such as that the rate was
to have been appropriated in this instance to repairs of the
chancel, which it could not legally be ; but not affirming any
of the objections he rejected the libel, on the ground that the
rate was not a valid one. The learned judge remarked that
if the law was a defective one on this point, it was not for
the judges to alter it, but for the legislature to provide a re-
medy for it. He could only follow the course adopted by
Lord Ellenborough, in allowing the appeal by wager of battle,
so long as that barbarous privilege yet remained part and par-
cel of the law of England. It is evident that this decision
against the power of a parochial minority in vestry, with
the churchwardens, to make a rate admitted to be necessary
to maintain the fabric of the church, as in the Braintree case,
suggests matters for very grave apprehension,

SECOND. EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock

APPALLING MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT

SUICIDE

(From our Preston Correspondent.)

It is this week our melancholy task to add to the gloomy
catalogue of horrid and revolting crimes, which have of late
so frequently and so acutely shocked the public mind in this
country. The very recent enactment of the tragedy we are
about to sketch, must be an apology to our readers for not
entering into any very elaborate or circumstantial details.

About one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the inhabitants
of Preston were alarmed by the report that a murder had
taken place, at the house of Peter Whittle, living in Vicker-
street, near Trinity Church, in that town, a cotton spinner,
in the employ of Mr. Thomas Clayton, of Pitt-street. An
enquiry was immediately set on foot, when it appeared that
the report had too much foundation in truth, and that the
transaction to which it referred, was of the most painful and
cold blooded character. It seems that Whittle had not been
required to attend his customary employment this morning
nd that he had spent some portion of the day at a public-
house, or beer-shop, where he had partaken of a few glasses
of ale, but, as far as the general opinion goes, had not be-
come, to any observable degree, intoxicated.

,
Some time before the hour we have mentioned, probably
about twelve o'clock at noon, he arrived at his house in
Vicker-street, where his wife and children resided. The
wife, Sarah Whittle, who was a winder, also in the employ
of Mr. Clayton, returned from her work between twelve and
one, and was, to all appearance, received kindly by her hus-
band, who spoke to her in his usual way, and inquired what
time she should finish work for the day. About half an hot%
after the poor woman had arrived, and after she and her hus
band had partaken of dinner, a little girl who was in the house
we believe the neice of Whittle, observed him take his victim
round the neck, apparently in a playful and affectionate man-
ner. In a few moments, however, the girl perceived some-
thing like a struggle, and instantly after observed blood flow-
ing from Mrs. Whittle's breast. At this moment the unfor-
tunate creature ran to the door, and, as well as she could ar-
ticulate, called out " Murder !" A person, who was passing,
immediately conducted her inside the house ; but in a few
minutes, and before help could be procured, she ex-
pired. In the meantime, the girl's attention was directed to
the murderer, whom she discovered in the act of cutting his
own throat in the kitchen, where he was afterwards found in
an apparently dying state. From inquiry subsequently made
on the spot, and by the police, we have ascertained that the
weapon which was the instrument of this shocking and two-
fold crime, was a razor, and that the woman's head was
nearly severed from her body. The wretched perpetrator of
the tragedy had inflicted two frightful gashes in his throat,
but hopes are now entertained of his recovery. He is, of
course, under due medical care, and under the surveillance of
the police. From the wounds on the murdered woman's
hands and person, it would appear that she had struggled se-
verely against the attack of her vnnatural assassin. What
renders the event, if possible, more distressing, is, that the
deceased was considerably advanced in pregnancy. The ru-
mour in the neighbourhood is, that jealousy has impelled the
foul and fatal deed ; though the familiar acquaintances of the
ill-fated couple state that they lived together on most affec-
tionate terms, and were both considered as of remarkably
exemplary character.

THE INQUEST,

An inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon, before
Richard Palmer, Esq. and a respectable jury, when a verdict
of " Wilful Murder," was returned against Peter Whittle.
The wretched man is not expected to recover from the effect
of his wound, but little doubt is entertained of his insanity.
He lies at the house of recovery.

ANOTHER CONSPIRACY TO MURDER

LOUIS PHILLIPPE

Another conspiracy to assassinate the King of the French
has happily been detected, and several persons, chiefly
ouvriErs, have been arrested, among whom is the notorious
Considere, twice before implicated in similar plots, but
acquitted. A quantity of petards, arms, and ammunition,
found in their possession, has been seized. The foilowing
letter contains the fullest particulars relative to this atrocious

conspiracy :-
4, PARIS, May 7.—A rumour prevailed yesterday that a
conspiracy to murder the King had been discovered, to
which, however, little credence was attached, the more es-
pecially by the silence observed by the government journals
last night, and the absence of all allusion whatever to it by
any of the journals of this morning. I find, however, upon
inquiry, that the fact is but too true, that a discovery has
been made by the police, which leavcA no doubt of the ex-
istence of a plot not only to murder the King, but to in-
volve in the same fate as many members of the Royal Fa-
mily as should be with his Majesty at the chosen moment for
putting the atrocious plan of the conspirators into execution.
It appears that during the summer months the King is in
the habit of driving out from Neuilly, in a large open
caleche, accompanied by the Queen and other members of
the Royal Family. Upon such occasions the carriage is un-
attended by a military escort, and the horses are d"iv'n at a
merely ordinary pace. These circumstances see, have
suggested the idea of an infernal machine, and one nas been
invented of a simple character, being in form an ordinal y
sized ball, calculated to burst upon falling, and to shatter
everything near it with irresistible force. The principal ma-
terial is said to be a fulminating powder of a very powerful
character. The instruments for working, the materials, and
some, balls, were found upon the premises adjacent to Con.
sider s wineshop in Rue Montmartre. This Considere has
been twice tried for complicity in plots to murder the King,
and each time acquitted. He was one of those tried
in connection with Quenisset. Considere has been ar-
rested, with seven others. This conspiracy will lead, in all
probability, to more stringent laws. The police authorities
complain that they have no preventive power—they say that,
no matter how strong the moral certainty may be on their
minds that marked and suspected persons are planning wicked-
ness, yet that they cannot interfere; and then when the plot
comes to light, people ask what were the police about? Of
what use are they ? And what has been done with the secret
service money voted for preventive objects ? Upon the other
hand, the abuses to which so dangerous a privilege might
give rise cannot be lost sight of. Up to Thursday night the
police remained in ignorance of what was hatching.
" On Sunday evening last the king sat at an open window
looking upon the garden of the Tuileries during a whole
hour, while a musical band was performing below in honaPer
of his fete day. The garden was densely crowded, and it
was observed that the greeting of the multitude was of an
unusually cordial character. The public mind has latterly,
thanks to a wise and moderate government, been so calmed
and regulated, that a return to loyal feelings appears to have
taken place, and the discovery just made will excite horror
and disgust universally.
"The chartist petition, which excited some curiosity, no
longer attracts attention. The dangers just discovered at
at home from regicide ruffians have destroyed all interest;
if any existed, in the proceedings of the malignant and cow-
ardly demagogues of the other side of the water."