The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

We understand that the daughter of a high dignitary of
this diocese is likely to be united shortly to a rev. gentleman,
lately curate to a talented Doctor in this neighbourhood, but
now promoted to a rectory not far from Chester.
The Chancellor of the Diocese has been pleased to ap-
appoint the Rev. R. L. Townsend, M.A., Incumbent
Chaplain of St. Philip's Church, Hardman-street, a surrogate
for granting probates of wills, letters of administration and
marriage licences, upon the preferment of his colleague, the
Rev. T. S. Bowstead, M.A., to the vicarage of Tarviu.
EXECUTION OF BRADLEY.—The warrant authorising the
execution of Francis Bradley, for the murder of his wife at
Manchester, has been received by the sheriff. The unfortu-
nate man will undergo the last sentence of the law at eight
o'clock to-morrow morning. We understand that within
the last few days a very gratifying improvement has taken
place with reference to the prisoner's state of mind. Ile
appears now to be awakened to a sense of his awful condi-
tion, and exhibits anything but the obduracy and impeni-
tence which previously characterised him.
THE ORDNANCE Surtvliv.—Great progress has been made
with the trignometrical survey of the county of Lancaster.
The neighbourhood of Liverpool is nearly finished, and that
of Manchester is in a very forward state. When completed,
the work will be one of the most valuable ever executed, and
quite unrivalled for minuteness and accuracy.
UN USUAL OCCURREY CE.—There are at the present moment
in the Coburg Dock, four of the largest steam-ships in this
or any other country—the Great Western, 1,400 tons ; the
Acadia and Columbia, 1,200 tons each ; and the new steamer
Hindostan, recently launched at this port, and burden 2,017
tons ; making altogether a burden of 5,817 tons, and in value
estimated at considerably upwards of £200,000.

GEOLOGY.—John Tomkinson, Esq., of Liverpool has pre-
sented to the museum of King William's College, through
E. Grindrod, Esq., of the Abbey, Ballasalla, two large slabs
of sandstone, dug from his grounds at Stourton-hill, Cheshire.
These slabs are of a peculiar interest to geologists, as they
have in them very distinct impressions of the foot-steps of an
extinct animal, known to geologists by the name of Mir-
otheritn.—Manx San.

CHARTISTS AT KIRKDALE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—
There are now thirty-eight prisoners in the House of Cor-
rection at Kirkdale, from Preston and neighbourhood, who
have been summarily convicted by the local magistrates, and
adjudged to divers periods of imprisonment for offences con-
nected with the recent disturbances.

FELONY.—A man named Wm. Wilson was yesterday
charged at the police court with being found in an office with
intent to commit felony. The prisoner was ratherly neatly
dressed as a person connected with shipping. It appeared
that he had been found behind the door of the counting-
house of Messrs. Verdon and Cullens, in Harrington-street,
with a chisel in his pocket. On his way to bridewell, he
threw two skeleton keys and a picklock into a cart, and some
other similar suspicious articles were found upon him. He
was committed for trial at the sessions.
LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual meet-
ing of this society will be held on Thursday, the 29th instant.
In consequence of the site of the Old Infirmary ground being
occupied,the exhibition will take place in a field at the top of
Sackville-street, near Roscommon-street. The dinner will,
as usual, take place at Lucas's Repository, and Lord Stanley
will preside.—See the advertisement.
INTERESTING TO LADlES.—Precaution is in no instance
more requisite than with respect to the female complexion.
There are no greater enemies of those distinguished traits of
beauty than extreme beat and dust. It is, therefore, an im-
perative duty upon all ladies who value their complexion, in
all their rural walks, summer promenades, visiting close
assemblies, in the ride, in the drive, and especially when
making aquatic excursions, never to be without ROWLAND'S
KALYDOR, which is the only guardian of the complexion the
deepest research in science ever produced.—See Advt.
GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SIIIP.—This magnificent steam-•
er was on public view on Monday and Tuesday last, for the
benefit of the North and South Dispensaries. The admis-
sion on Monday was after the rate of ls. each person, and
on Tuesday Gd. ; and the aggregate number who visited the
ship was no less than 2,900, being 1,450 for each day. The
receipts amounted, along with £lO received for exhibiting
the Acadia on the second day, to above £lOO. The Great
Western sails for New York in the course of to-morrow
(Saturday).
We understand that the shipmasters of Liverpool are now
in the full enjoyment of the advantages promised by Sir
Robert Peel, in his budget, regarding the charge for stamps
required in the pursuit of their occupation. The stamps for
charter parties are obtainable at five shillings each in lieu of
thirty-five shillings, and for bills of lading at sixpence each
instead of three shillings. This is a very important and
valuable concession, which we have no doubt will be appre-
ciated, and placed to the credit of the conservative govern-
ment.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY: NEW SHARES
OF £l2 10s.—We understand that the directors of this un-
dertaking have agreed to suspend, for the present, that part
of the fourth resolution passed at the special general meeting
held on the 17th May last, which attaches forfeiture to the
pon-paymeut of the second and subsequent calls on the
quarter shares, provided the first call (£3 per share) has
been duly paid. Interest at the rate of five per cent. per
annum will, of course, be charged from the date when the
calls respectively fall due.
BAD CHARACTERS.—Edward Alderson and William
Charlesworth, two suspicious-looking men, were yesterday
placed at the bar of the Police-court, on the following
charge. Inspector Walker said, that on the previous night,
at a late hour, he observed the prisoner Charlesworth
loitering about Harford-street, near Langley's public-house,
and knowing him to be a bad character, he watched him for
some time. He afterwards asked him his business but re-
ceived no satisfactory reply. The other prisoner afterwards
came out of the honse, and both joined each other, and
afterwards ran away on observing the witness, who appre-
hended one of them in Copperas-hill, while the other was
secured by a constable then at hand. On one of them was
found a gilt coin representing a sovereign, and a pack of
cards. They were each committed to gaol for two months.
LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND COMMERCIAL INSTITU-
TION, ST. ANNE-STREET.—We regret to hear that this
excellent institution, which, since its establishment, has
been conducted with spirit and propriety, is about to be dis-
continued, and above all that the committee of management
have found it necessary to call the creditors together. A
special general meeting of the members was held on Monday
last, when the following resolution was adopted :—" That,
this institution not being able any longer to support itself, it
be from henceforth dissolved; and that the committee of
management, with the creditors of the institution, form a
committee for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the
institution. A meeting of the committee and the creditors
was held on Tuesday, when it was determined that all the
property of the institution should be disposed of for the be-
nefit of the creditors. There is no doubt that the depression
of the times has had considerable influence in producing this
result, but there can also be no doubt that it was facilitated
to a great extent by the town council being under the ne-
cessity of declining to render aid for the reduction of the
debt by which it was encumbered. The institution has been
continued for the last few years principally by the exertions
of James Parker, Esq., the member for the ward, for its
maintenance and welfare.

BREAKING TREES IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCHYARD.—On
"Wednesday, at the Police-court, Michael Pie was charged
with this fault. It appeared that, on Monday afternoon.
last, Mr. Shaw, Secretary of the District Provident So-
ciety, saw the prisoner climb one of the trees, and strip
the branches off, one by one, till he had completely stripped
it. He immediately ran over to him, and asked him how he
dared to destroy the trees in that manner. He said he did it
for a Mrs. Taylor, who kept a standing in St. John's
market, and who sent him to gather the leaves. He was
about to collect and carry away the branches, when Mr.
Shaw sent an officer and' gave him into custody. The clerk
of St. John's stated that the prisoner had completely de-
stroyed the tree, and that they often had trees greatly in-
jured by similar means. The prisoner wept, and said be was
not aware he was transgressing the law. He was nearly
starving with hunger, and had not had a morsel to eat that
day, when Mrs. Taylor asked him to get her some leaves, by
which job he hoped to obtain the means of providing a little
food. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to pay ls. for the
damage done to the tree, and a penalty of 20s. ; or, in de-
fault, to be imprisoned seven days.
MEETING OF OPERATIVE SHIPWRIGHTS.—A very nu-
merous meeting of the operative shipwrights of this port was
held on Wednesday night at the Carpenters' Room, Bond-
street, to consider the rules and regulations of the trade as
at present amended by the masters, and also to consider the
Just right of the men belonging to Liverpool to employment
in preference to strangers—this mode being adopted in all
the seaports of Great Britain and Ireland, Liverpool excepted.
From the statements made by the various speakers it appears
that the rules at present in operation were drawn up by the
employers, who compelled the men to subscribe to them.
The masters now wished to make sundry alterations on those
rules, tending to encroach on the privileges at present en-
joyed by the journeymen. It was confidently affirmed by
the speakers, that if the merchants of the town understood
their own interests they would go hand in baud with the men
against the system of apprenticeship carried on in Liverpool,
as the merchants were charged the same rate of wages for a
boy who had not been more than a week at the trade, that
was charged for a man, and it could not be expected that the
work of the boy could be compared to that of the man. It
was unanimously agreed that a deputation of six journeymen
should wait upon the employers for the purpose of coming
to an amicaple understanding on the points at issue. The
meeting thrbughout was exceedingly temperate and orderly.

CORPORATION BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—Thesebaths
are now in a fair way of being duly appreciated by both the
middle and humbler classes of the town. There are eight
baths in the establishment, and during the past week 439
persons have attended them. Of this number, 197, at the
moderate charge of a penny each, have enjoyed the cold
bath, and 205, at a charge of only twopence,having indulged
in the hot bath. Twenty-six persons, at the charge of is
each, have attended the hot private baths, and eleven, at the
charge of sixpence each, the cold baths. Arrangements, we
understand, are in progress which will be highly advantageous
to those who are desirous of attending the private baths. It
is in contemplation, we believe, to make a reduction in the
charge to those who engage to attend them a dozen times
consecutively. The entrance to the private baths is quite
distinct from that of the general ones, and every attention
is shown to the parties who visit them. The establishment
is so valuable, that it would be a great boon if others were
erected in convenient localities. Persons from the extremes
of the town, in every direction, visit the present one for the
purpose of bathing, and the wives and daughters of our
artisans and mechanics, from the most distant neighbour-
hoods, attend for the purpose of performing their laundry
operations.

ESCAPE OF A FAMILY FROM DROWNING.-011 Monday
last, an accident occurred in the vicinity of Egremont, which
had nearly been attended with fatal consequences to seven or
eight members of a family. It happened remarkably enough,
that the father of the family alluded to was a witness to the
occurrence, and assisted iu the rescue of his children without
being at all aware, for some time, how dearly he was inte-
rested in the result of the exertions which were making.
The following are the particulars of the occurrence, so far as
we have been able to gather them. On Monday last, about
tide time, a gentleman named Duffie, who resides at Egre-
mont, was passing over the river. As he neared the shore,
he saw that a bathing machine, containing several children
who had been recreating themselves in the water, had by
some means or other obtained an impetus on the steep beach,
and that it was rapidly descending into deep water. In a few
moments, indeed, it was afloat, and at the mercy of the cur-
rent, driving towards the centre of the river. " God bless
me!" exclaimed Mr. Duffle, " there's a whole family of
children afloat, and they will all be drowned." He imme-
diately sprung ashore and hastened to the spot, to render
every assistance in his power. Meanwhile, Mr. Railton,
proprietor of the machine, was making the most incessant
exertions to rescue the family from their imminent peril. He
pressed his horse into the water till it lost footing and was
compelled to swim. The machine was afloat, but half sunk,
and from its unsteady motion, strong fears were entertained
that it would turn over. Mr. Railton called to the children
to keep to the middle of the caravan, but it is questionable
whether or not they heard him. At length he found it im-
possible to reach the machine with his horse, but, fortunately,
some individuals had hastened after it with a boat. The
poor little children were found on the seats of the caravan,
up to their necks in water. They were taken into the boat,
and the machine was towed to the shore. Mr. Duffie, who
had been extremely anxious for the fate of the little ones,
was standing on the beach waiting their arrival; but who
It appears that the little ones, with their
shall speak his astonishment when he saw that they were his
own children!
attendant, eight in all, went into the caravan, and were, as
usual, drawn a short distance into the water. Having bathed,
wheel, when the action on the spokes put the
one of the little boys, in order to enter the machine, climbed
thein motion, which, the bank being very steep= was
ovevhericle
ccelerated by the weight inside.

THE THERISTROCAULODON.—This curious skeleton re-
mains in town to-day and to-morrow, after which it will be
removed. Great many persons inspected yesterday.
MRs. CLARKE'S BENEFIT.—The playgoers must not
forget that Mrs. Clarke's benefit takes place to-night. The
attraction is unusually great. No little curiosity is excited to
see Mr. Macready's Claude Melnotte; after this fine actor
has represented it, the Liverpool audiences will have seen all
the best performers of the character on the stage, and they
will then be able to judge which is the best. We prefer
Charles Kean's, with all its faults. Mrs. Clarke has a be-
nefit at Manchester on Saturday, by invitation of her friends
and many admirers there.
EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY.—We
intended to have made a few remarks to-day, on the article
which appeared in the Railway Times. of Saturday last, on
the subject of this undertaking ; but the statements in that
paper do not appear to contain one specific charge on which
we need offer the slightest comment. Perhaps, the best reply
to one portion of it, is afforded by the fact, that (as may be
seen from an advertisement) the Lords of the Privy Council
have given permission to the directors to open the railway
after yesterday by horse power, on occasion of the Queen's
visit. The public will thus be accommodated with trains
every half-hour, which will be continued until further notice.

STEALING FLOUR.—A man, named John Lynch, was
yesterday charged at the Police-court with stealing a barrel
of American flour. It appeared that about four o'clock yes-
terday, he was seen to roll away the barrel from the ware-
house of Messrs. Cearns and Brown, ship-store dealers,
Chapel-street. He was apprehended in the act near Rum-
ford-street. At the time, he stated that a man had em-
ployed him to take it to a public-house in the neighbourhood,
and had promised him 6d. Tile barrel weighed 1961b5., and
was stated to be worth 325. He was committed for trial at
the sesoions.

CHARTISM.—A meeting of the Liverpool Chartists was
held on Wednesday night at the Nelson Assembly Rooms,
which was rather numerously attended. A Mr. Frazer pre-
sided. The only speakers on the occasion were Mr. Robin-
son and Mr. M`Cartney. The latter, in the course of a very
lengthened speech, stated that two men had been, in the
present week, dismissed from their employment in Liver-
pool, and cast houseless and homeless upon the world,
together with their wives and families, because they had re-
fused to receive and pay for a registration card each, which
card has been issued by the Anti-Corn-law League! Such
an instance of bigotry and hard-heartedness upon the part of
their employers was received with loud hisses.
ANOTHER COMMITMENT TO TILE ASSIZES.—Yesterday,
John Nicholson, a young man, and Betsey Mack, a girl,
were charged before Mr. Rushton with seizing a ragged ill-
lqoking man, named Kelly, and robbing him in the street of
7s. 6a. The alleged offence was stated to have been com-
mitted some days ago, but the prisoners were not appre-
hended until yesterday afternoon, when they were seen
together. They denied the robbery. They were both com-
mitted for trial at the assizes__ The prosecution will, we
understand, cost the corporation £l5 to £2O in each case;
whereas the cost under the old law, which left a discretion
with the magistrate, to send such cases to the sessions, the
cost would have been only £3 10s. or £4.
THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Consol Mar-
ket has declined to-day about one quarter per cent., some
sales effected, it is supposed, on account of the Scotch hanks,
having brought forward more stock than was required to
meet the demand of the jobbers. It must also be borne in
mind, that the late advance, which is on all hands admitted
to have been rapid, will probably have shown persons in the
character of realizers who would otherwise have continued
supporters of prices. Money has not increased beyond the
rate of l to 2, although the half-monthly settlement in the
foreign market took place. Consols for money closed 924;
Ditto account, 93 ; Bank Stock, 1674 to 16S ; India Stock,
251 to 252 ; Exchequer-bills, 2d. issue, 495. to 50s. pm..
ditto, 2d. issue, 51s. to 535. pm. ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 931 to 3; Three and a Half per Cents. Reduced, 911
to ; New Three and a Half per Cents, 101 to 4 ; and Long
Annuities, 12 11-16ths to 4. The settlement of the foreign
account was made with very little difficulty, the speculative
dealings of the last fortnight having been of the most insig-
nificant kind. Mexican supports the late small rise, and
closed to-day 351 to 4; Ditto Deferred, 94 to ; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 33t to 44 ; ditto, Three per Cents., 20 to i;
Spanish Actives, 204 to 14; ditto, Three per Cents., 20+;
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 524 to 4 ; ditto, Five per
Cents, 1024; Belgian, 1014 to 1024; and Brazilian, 641
to 654.

COIII[MITMENT TO THE ASSIZES.—At the Police Court,
yesterday, a decent-looking female named Bridget Dignum,
was charged before Mr. Rushton with a robbery, accompa-
nied by violence. In order to a proper elucidation of the
case, it must be stated that on Monday last an elderly female
named Shaw (now the complainant), was placed at the bar of
the court on a charge, preferred against her by Michael Dig-
num, husband of the prisoner above named, on a charge of
having robbed him of £25 ; but it appeared in the course of
the evidence that the then complainant had been on terms of
intimacy with the woman Shaw ; had frequently given her
sums of money to keep for him, which she had returned ;
and that there was a probability that he had so deposited the
money with her on that occasion. As the charge of felony
could not therefore be supported, the prisoner was discharged,
with an intimation, however, from the magistrate, that it
appeared she was still responsible for the money so deposited
with her, and that the complainant, Dignum, would have to
commence an action at law against her if she did not refund
it. So stood the case up to the time of the second charge
of yesterday, in which the tables were turned, Mrs. Shaw
being the complainant, and Mrs. Digaum (who had been ad-
mitted to bail), the defendant. Catherine Shaw (complain-
ant), a coarse-looking woman, who appeared with ber head
bandaged up, said she lived with her husband, Michael Shaw,
at No. 29, Chesnut-street. About six o'clock on Tuesday
evening last, she went to Crosbie-street, to get some
money she expected ; but did not receive it. As she
was returning, the prisoner came out of a court and said,
" You it is you who has my money," and struck
her on the face ; then seized her by the clothes, and pushed
her against the wall; and then thrust her hand into her
(complainant's) pocket, and took out a leather purse con-
taining ten sovereigns. When the prisoner's hand was in
her (complainant's) pocket, she said, %Now I have part of
my husband's money which you robbed me of." The pri-
soner then tore the bonnet from her head, and struck her
several times with a stone she had in her hand. A crowd
was raised, and the prisoner said to them, " Lay on the
—; she robbed my husband." Complainant, from the
blows, lost her sight, and was taken home in a coach by her
son-in-law. The doctor dressed three wounds on her head,
and she was still (she concluded) sore about the head and
sides.—Joseph Gibbons said, that on Friday night he was
standing with the prisoner at his mother-in-law's door, when
the prisoner said, " the last time that Ann Shaw was in
Crosbie-street, she had to be taken away in a coach and
guarded by two constables, and if she comes again we will
make her so that she will not get out of the street." On
Tuesday evening he saw the complainant, and told her not to
go Crosbie-street, or she would get hurt. She, however,
did go, and in about twenty minutes a large crowd collected
round her. He afterwards saw her without cap or bonnet,
and all bloody ; and he went for a coach and took her home.
Same night he saw a police-officer. The officer stated that
he went to defendant's house, where he found her in bed.
He told her the charge of robbery and violence against her,
to which she stated that she did not do it, but that the com-
plainant deserved all she had got, and more. Nothing was
found upon her.—Mr. Rushton said lie should commit the
prisoner for trial. The charge was one of those which, by a
recent act, the justices could not send for adjudication to the
sessions, as a severe punishment would follow conviction ;
and she must, therefore, be taken into custody and committed
to the assizes. The defendant was accordingly taken into
custody; but, after the information was read, she was, on
application, admitted to bail in two sureties of £lOO each.
Mr. Rushton strongly reprehended the conduct of the hus-
band, who was present, and to whom he attributed the in-
stigation of the offence,
COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—A col-
lision which might have been attended by fatal consequences
took place on the North Union Railway, at the Waligate, in
Wigan, yesterday, between twelve and one o'clock. A
bank engine is regularly stationed at Wigan, and this was
proceeding from the Wigan station towards Preston, when a
powerful engine with about 14 of Messrs. Pearson's coal
waggons laden, came up at a good speed from towards
Chapel-lane. The men on the " Bank engine" had not
sufficient time to move out of the way before the coal engine
came up in consequence of the shunts leading on to the
main line being wrong at the time. The engine was there-
fore stationary, and as the distance between the Wallgate
station and Chapel-lane is very short, the engine attending
the coal train engine was unable to stop the train entirely,
though every means were used both by those employed on
the engine and the " breaksmen" on the waggons to lessen
the speed of the train. Both the men attending the "bank
engine," and those with the coal train perceiving that a col-
lision could not be avoided, sprang on the ground, and by
this prudent act escaped the consequences which the shock
of the engines meeting would occasion. The bank engine
was thrown off the line and a little injured, but the power-
ful coal engine sustained no damage. The rails were thrown
out of place, and a quantity of the coal fell from the waggons
when the concussion took place, but very fortunately no
person was injured. The damage occasioned altogether is
trifling ; and it is right to add, that no blame whatever can
be attached to any one, the accident arising solely from the
short distance between the two stations, and the circum-
stance of the attendants of the bank engine being unaware of
the near approach of the coal train at the time they were at-
tempting to move from the branch on to the main line.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CLERK.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, a well-dressed stout young man was placed
at the bar, charged with having obtained under false pre-
tences a sum of money, the alleged property of his former
employers. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
had been a clerk and agent in this town, (in Exchange-alley
North,) to Messrs. Woolfall and Percival, glass bottle, &c.
manufacturers, of Manchester. Then his salary with them
was £l2O a year ; that some deficiencies having appeared in
his accounts he was discharged on the 4th May last, and
that he had, after ceasing to be their servant, received a sum
of money—£3l 17s. 9d.—due to them from the Custom-
house, and for which he had not accounted. The prisoner,
it further appeared, had, at the time of his discharge,
retained or drawn money belonging to his employers to the
amount of £2ll. There was, however, a settlement come
to at the time, through the interposition of his father, and
an assignment or legal document (produced in court) was
handed over to his employers, entitling them to the revi-
sionary interest of a property that would accrue to him on
the death of his mother to the amount of £195 ss. 4d.,
which, with a balance of £l4 and odd due to him as salary
at the time, would make the £2ll short; and this being ac-
cepted by his employers, there was an end of all criminal
charge on that score. But after the settlement of the affair,
it appeared that the prisoner had drawn the sum stated at
the outset, (£l4 17s. 9d.,) and appropriated the same in
the following manner:--The complainant, Mr. Woodfall.
said that he and his partner were accustomed to send large
swear
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shipments of bottles to foreign countries, on which they
were entitled to debenture or draw-back at the Custom-
house. They had shipped by a vessel for Lisbon, on the
27th of May, twenty gross of champagne bottles, on which
the debenture would be due at the expiry of six weeks
from the day of shipment,—that was on or about the 9th
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duty, which was paid accordingly. But it appeared, in
cross-examination for the prisoner by Mr. Owen, that the
prisoner had been sole agent for the complainants in all their
shipping transactions; that he had on former occasions so
acted, so signed the debentures, and having received the
money, had paid it over to his employers, from time to time,
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admitted that he knew where to find his father; but (it ap-
peared) had not made any strict enquiry in the matter. The
case, as to the gravamen of the offence in law, seemed to be
somewhat puzzling, as it appeared not precisely to range 1
within either felony (by stealing the money), or false pre,;
tence, but rather what we believe is termed
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CORRESPONDENCE.

DECORATIONS OF THE HINDOSTAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

been much gratified by the perusal of your
description of the "Hindostan," in the STANDARD Of Friday
last, and feel indebted by your flattering notice of our deco-
ration : there is one circumstance, however, which we are
desirous to mention, (deeming it probable you will continue
the notice, in comment, in your forthcoming valuable paper,
on this subject,) viz., that the panels we are supplying are
principally papier twlell6, NOT slate, only about one-tenth
of them being of the latter-named material. Possibly you
have your impression of their being all slate, from the fact
that the order Was given originally for entirely slate panels ;
but subsequently altered, and nine-tenths added of papier
-mach6, as being superior in every respect.
The subjects upon four of the largest panels are the follow-
ing, which, perhaps, also you would be pleased to mention in
your next :-1, "The Embarkation of Cleopatra;"-2, "The
Departure of a Greek Fleet ;"-3, " Festival of the Society
of Epicureans in the Garden of Athens ;"-4. " The Rising
of the Nile." Upon these four subjects our first artists have
been engaged, and we have been careful that every part—the
most minute—shall be in keeping, and classically correct.
Therefore, upon the whole, we flatter ourselves that you,
Sir, and other gentlemen whose opinions are most valuable,
will be pleased with the productions as works of art. We
have only been able to complete and send these four to-day,
though a great many of the less considerable panels have
been forwarded some days.
Repeating our sense of obligation for the favourable re-
marks expressed in last week's STANDARD, we have th
honour to be, Sir, your's most obediently,
JENNERS BETTRIDGE.
Papier Mdche" Works, Birmingham,
August 31st, 1842.

JUVENILE THIEVES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Permit me to call );;;;ittention, as well as that of
the public, to an evil which is very prevalent in this town,
and which, if not checked, must of necessity tend, in no
small degree, to the demoralization of the children of the
poorer classes. The evil I complain of is the permitting
boys and girls to commit depredations from sugar-casks, in
particular ; and this branch of theft is what I am desirous
now of preventing. It is the custom of boys and girls to
Prepare pieces of wood, shaped like spoons, and to extract
from the sugar-hogsheads large quantities of sugar. Now I
do not complain so much of the amount of sugar stolen as
the abominable practice. The parties to blame are the po-
lice and the proprietors of the goods. By suffering the evil
to go on without notice, they are, in fact, abetting the boys
and girls in committing these (as they are often called) petty
thefts ; but, however small they are, they are large enough
to ruin the children. Will they not, seeing the facility they
have of stealing sugar, attempt to obtain articles of greater
value? I may just name Messrs. Crosfield and Co.'s, Tem-
ple-court, as one of the places at which the thefts have been
going on for some time; and I doubt whether any of the
neighbouring poor have any occasion to buy sugar, seeing
they get it so cheap, and can be supplied both morning and
night. If these few remarks are likely to have the good
effect aimed at, you will oblige an old subscriber by making
use of them, and confer a lasting kindness on the children
themselves.--your obedient servant,
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
Liverpool, Aug. 31st, 1842.

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RECOLLECTIONS.
BY- THE LATE S. LOUISA. P. SMITH.

I've pleasant thoughts that memory-brings, in moments free
from care, •
Of a fairy-like and laughing girl, with roses i n her hair;
Her smile was like the star-light of summers softest skies,
And worlds of joyousness there shone, from out her witch-
ing eyes.

Her looks were looks of melody, her voice was like the swell
Of sudden mnsic,notes of mirth, that of wild gladness tell;
She came like spring, with pleasant sounds of sweetness and
of mirth,
And her thoughts were those wild, flowery ones, that linger
not on earth.

A quiet goodness beam'd amid the beauty of her face,
And all she said and did was with its own instinctive grace ;
She seem'd as if she thought the world a good and pleasant
one,
And her light spirit saw no ill in all beneath the sun.
I've dreamed of just such creatures, but they never met my
view,
'Mid the sober, dull reality, in their earthly form and hue,
And her smile came gently over me, like spring's first
scented airs,
And made me think life was not all a wilderness of cares.
I know not of her destiny, or where her smile now strays,
But the thought of her comes o'er me, with my own lost
sunny days,
With moonlight hours, and far-off friends, and many plea-
sant things,
That have gone the way of all the earth on time's resistless
wings.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Commissioner, Nos. 9 and 10. Walmsley.

Whoever the author of this work may be he is a queer
fish, and possesses queer thoughts and fancies. The present
numbers are decided improvements upon the last. It ap-
pears to us that the tale is approaching a termination. It is
certainly the most original of the day. Portions of it are
amusing, though the general plot and incidents are un-
likely—amidst a great deal of nonsense there constantly
breaks out very apposite and trite remarks. The illustra-
tions are all admirable.

Our Mesa. By Harry Lorrequer. Walmsley, Liverpool.
Jack Hinton, in this number, we find idling away his time
with the Bellews, falling deeper and deeper in love with the
" one fair daughter," and rescuing her from a watery grave.
A rencontre with Ulick Burke is well described. The fol-
lowing terrific recital by " Tipperary Joe" takes place while
he and the dragoon are journeying together, the latter on his
return to head-quarters:—

" Ay," cried he aloud, as his eye glistened with an unna-
tural lustre, " better be poor Tipperary Joe, without house
or home, father or mother, sister or friend, and when the
time comes, run to earth, without a wet eye after him."
" Come, come, Joe; you have many a friend ; and when
you count them over, don't forget me in the reckoning."
" Whist, whist," he whispered in a low voice, as if fearful
of being overheard, " don't say that—them's dangerous
words."

I turned towards him with astonishment, and perceived
that his whole countenance had undergone a striking change.
The gay and laughing look was gone ; the bright colour had
left his cheek; and a cold, ghastly paleness was spread over
his featUres, and as he cast a hurried and stealthy look
around him, I could mark that some secret fear was working
within him.

" What is it, Joe, said I ; " what's the matter ? Are you

No," said he, in a tone scarcely audible, " no • but you
frightened me just now, when you called me your friend."
" How could that frighten you, my poor fellow ?"
" I'll tell you—that's what they called my father—they said
he was friendly with the gentlemen, and signs on it—" he
paused, and his eye became rooted to the ground, as if on
some object there from which he could not turn his gaze :
" yes, I mind it well—we were sitting by the fire in the guard-
room all alone by ourselves—the troops was away, I don't
know where—when we heard the tramp of men marching,
but not regular, but coming as if they didn't care how, and
horses and carts rattling and rumbling among them.
" Thim's the boys,' says my father. Give me that ould
cockade there till I stick it in my cap, and reach me over
the fiddle till I rise a tune for them.'
" I mind little more till he was marching at the head of
them through the town, down towards the new college that
was building—it's Maynooth I'm speaking about—and then
we turned to the left, my father scraping away all the time
every tune he thought they'd like ; and if now and then by
mistake he played any thing that did not plaze them, they'd
damn and blast him with the dreadfullest curses, and stick a
pike into him, till the blood would come running down his
back ; and then my father would cry out—
" ' I'll tell my friends on you for this—divil a lie in it, but
I will.'

"At last we came to the duke's wall, and then my father
sat down on the road sat, and cried out that he wouldn't go
a step farther, for I was crying away with sore feet at the
pace we were going, and asking every minute to be let sit
down to rest myself.
" Look at the child,' says he, his feet's ail bleeding.'
" ' Ye have only a little further to go,' says one of them
that had cross belts on, and a green sash about him,
" The devil resave another step,' says my father.
Tell Billy to play us " The Farmer's Daughter" before
he goes,' says one of the crowd.
" I'd rather hear " The Bowld Fox," says another.
" ' No, no, " Baltiorum ! Baltiorum! " ' say many more
behind.

"' Ye shall have them all,' say my father, and that 'ill
plaze ye.'
" And so he set to, and played the three tunes as beautiful
as ever ye heard; and when he was done, the man with the
belts ups and says to him—
" Ye're a fine hand, Billy, and it's a pity to lose you, and
you friends will be sorry for you'—and he said this with a
grin—` but take the spade there and dig a hole, for we must
be jogging, it's nigh day.'
" Well, my father, though he was tired enough, took the
spade and began digging as they told him, for he thought to
himself, the boys is going to hide the pike and the carbines
before they go home. Well, when we worked half an hour,
he threw off his coat and set to again ; and at last he got tired
and sat down on the side of the big hole, and called—
" Isn't it big enough now, boys ?'
" ' No,' says the captain, ' nor half.'
" So my father set to once more, and worked away with
all his might, and they all stood by, talking and laughing
with one another.
" Will it do now ?' says my father; for sure enough I'm
clean beat.
" Maybe it might,' says one of them : lie down and see
if it's the length.'
" Well, is it that it's for ? ' says may father : fair, I
never guessed it was a grave ;' and so he took off his cap and
lay down his full length in the hole.
" That's all right,' says the others, and began with spade
and shovel to cover him up. At first he laughed away as
hearty as the rest; but when the mould grew heavy on him
he began to screech out to let him up, and then his voice
grew weaker and fainter, and they waited a little, then
worked harder, and then came a groan, and all was still ;
and they patted the sods over him and heaped them up ; and
then they took me and put me in the middle of them, and
one called out, March !! I thought I saw the green sod
moving on the top of the grave as we walked away, and heard
a voice half-choking calling out, There, boys, there !' and
then a laugh. But sure I often heard the same still, when
there's nobody near me, and I do be looking on the ground
by myself."
',I Great God !" cried I, " Is this true ?"
" True as you're there,', replied he. " I was ten years of
age when it happened, and I never knew how time went
since, nor how long it is ago, it was in the year of the great
troubles here ; and the soldiers and the country people never
could be cruel enough to one another : and whatever one did
to-day, the others would try to beat it out to-morrow. But
it's truth every word of it ; and the place is called Billy the
fool's grave' to this hour. I go there once a year to see it
myself."
This frightful story—told, too, with all the simple power
of truth—thrilled through me with horror, long after the
impression seemed to have faded away from him who told it ;
and though he still continued to speak on, I heard nothing ;
nor did I mark our progress until I found myself beside the
little stream which conducted to the mill.

An Elementary Introduction to the Nautical Almanac, and
Astronomical Ephemeris, ke. By G. P. Payne, Optician,
Liverpool. Charles Wilson, London ; Melling and Payne,

Liverpool.

This is a truly valuable work, not solely as "An Introduc-
tion to the Nautical Almanac," but as containing clear and
familiar explanations of the whole of the technical terms and
phenomena appertaining to the sublime science of astronomy;
the whole illustrated by numerous diagrams, and rendered of
easy comprehension by students even of moderate capacity.
It forms, in fact, as stated in a secondary portion of the title
Page, " An Epitome of Astronomy." and will be found as
Useful and acceptable to the general student of that science
on
shore, as to those who seek only to determine of planetary
. iservation, the true position of a ship at sea, a pursuit
wfrnlZ s, we fear, too generally neglected by nautical men,
e
the want of such an "instruction" to smooth the diffi-
culties encountered in the onset, and who are thus thrown
too
xz vely upon a reliance on their chronometers. The
author, in a
Writevery brief and unassuming preface, remarks :
elementary astronomy generally either reserve
the rs
On
information
it on thetu?st eagerly sought by the curious, or detail
supposition that the reader is- a mathematician.
Undoubtedly to
without the aid gorteattbprogress can be made in astronomy
medium between a pe; mathematics, but there may be a
acquaintance with these abstruse
studies and a anfacienuerscito
fibs author,
to make astronomical data
easy of comprehension,
of his
plan has, be believes, tut? or, therefore, in pursuance
familiarised and introduced as
many scientific explanations as may any student to
comprehend the facts and complicates
th!ories of the Celes-
tial Phenomena." In this object, we
_lnk, those who have
of. the science,
but a moderate knowledge (like our
Tohceoemxpprlae:
will readily admit that he has fully isueeseives)
tephsoeiowt
sorwichwioi will
nations`are indeed so clear, and at the samem
liensiie, that a comparatively slight study of the
convey an entirely satisfactory knowledge
the perusal of most elementary treatises on the same subjects,
left in cloudiness and doubt. The writer must have employed
unwearied research of the voluminous works of celebrated
men, and he has shown great judgment in the appropriation
and condensation of such facts only as were necessary for the
attainment of the object in view, without wearying the patience
or perplexing the understanding by disquisitions unnecessarily
abstruse. He has thus done an important service to students
of astronomy in general, and to the nautical world in parti-
cular ; and his book should be in the hands of all seamen,
young and old, who are honourably ambitious of perfecting
themselves in the higher branches of navigation, by which
the
great desideratum of the longitude at sea can be accu-
rately determined. The work is arranged alphabetically,
and
is thus readily accessible for reference. The explana-
tions furnished under the followings, appear to us to be pe-
culiarly lucid :—Abberation, Central Forces, Comets, De-
pression, or Dip
Eclyptic, Eclyptic (with two lessons and a
map), Conic Sections, Nutation,,, Mensura-
tion," (including the motion of light) Refraction ; the whole
of the articles under the
, general head of " The Solar Sys-
tem," "The Seasons,, and those headed " Tides," " T.m "
"
and Vial'," all of which art exceedingly ailld,e;c

may add, interesting. The Diagrams are well executed, and
by help of these and the explanations accompanying them,
we have, ourselves, readily arrived at a distinct perception of
many problems which, we confess, we were unable fully to
solve. We are glad to find, by a contemporary paper, that
our talented townsman, Mr. Andrew Livingston, teacher of
navigation and nautical astronomy, awards his high and va-
luable testimony in behalf of our author's production , of which
he states amongst other commendations :—" I have never
seen any work on the subjects treated of, so well adapted for
the use of a student, and yet of such decided advantage even
to those well versed in the science of astronomy." But we
must select one or two paragraphs almost at random, as a
specimen of the clearness of the style of a volume the mo-
derate price of which is by no means adequate to its intrinsic
value :

ABERRATION, Ca deviation.)—Light occupies Bm. 13s. (8
minutes 13 seconds of time) in passing from the sun to the
earth, and during this time the earth has moved 20s. (20
seconds of a degree, the entire orbit of the earth round the
sun being reckoned as a circle of 360 degrees). At any in-
stant, therefore, the rays of light which reach the earth are
those which left the sun Bm. 13s. previous, when the earth
was in a different position with the sun to that which it oc-
cupies at the time of observation. This phenomenon is
called aberration, and the luminous circle which may be seen
around the real disc (face) of the sun (caused by the aberra-
tion of 'the solar rays) is called the crown of aberration.
And as the akerration of the sun is owing to the motion of
the earth in its orbit, so the aberration of a planet is due to
the combined motions of that planet and the earth in their
respective orbits. It is therefore said that the aberration of
a planet is equal to the geocentric (see Geocentric) motion of
the planet, or the space it appears to move over as seen from
the earth, during the time the light occupies in passing from
the planet to the earth. For the method of estimating the
amonnt of aberration see mensuration.
CincLits.—Astronomers imagine many great circles in the
heavens, but three principal ones, from which they form the
bases of all observations of the heavenly bodies. Every
circle is called Great, the plane of which passes through the
centre of the earth. The plane of a circle is an imaginary
number of radii filling up the circle : thus the spokes of a
wheel are the radii of the circle of the wheel, and the radii
with the axle compose the plane—the parchment of a drum
of the circle on which the parchment is stretched.
ef
the three great circles is the Rational Horizon.
iTshtehefiprsl
tan o
That circle made round our field of view at sea, by the water
apparently touching the heavens, is called the apparent or
visible horizon ; a circle drawn horizontally, or perfectly
level, from the eye of an observer is the sensible horizon,
and a circle whose plane passes through the centre of the
earth is the rational horizon. The second great circle is the
Equinoctial, or Celestial Equator, a circle of the heavens the
plane of which is 'in continuation with the plane of the
equator of the earth. The sun is on the equinoctial about
the 21st of March and 21st of September, when equal days
and nights are over the earth. The equinoctial is traced by
observing certain remarkable stars, to which the moon in her
course seems to approach, and also by observing the position
of the planets. The third great circle is the Ecliptic, or ap-
parent annual path of the sun, which also is traced by ob-
serving certain remarkable stars, the distance of which from
the ecliptic have been accurately ascertained.
TIDES.—The rotation of the earth on its axis, combined
with the attraction of the sun and moon exerted on the fluid
portion of the globe, occasions the phenomena of the tides.
If the earth were at rest between the sun and moon, the
waters immediately under the two luminaries would be raised
by their attraction and remain permanently elevated ; but as
the relative positions of all three bodies are continually un-
dergoing a change, so the attraction on the waters is conti-
nually shifting in position ; the attraction of the sun and
moon being exerted in the same direction when the moon is
new and full (or in conjunction with and opposition to the
sun), forming the high or spring tides, and the attraction
being divided in amount between that due to the sun and
that due to the moon when the moon is in her first and third
quarters ; the tides being then neap or low. The elevation
of the tide due to the sun is two feet and to the moon five
feet; when, therefore, both the attractions are exerted to-
gether, the tidal wave near the equinoctial line, where the
attraction is greatest, is seven feet high, and when the -sun
and moon are in quadrature (one-fourth of a great celestial
L circle apart), the height is about three feet, being the eleva-
tion due to the moon lessened by the attraction of the waters,
in an angular direction, due to the sun.

This article concludes with explanations of the great tidal
waves, the theory of which is plainly shown. The "winds"
are also explained in a similarly clear manner, and the utility
of the barometer, particularly at sea, as affording indication
of coming storms, is strongly urged; but we have not room
for further extracts, nor can we quote from those articles
which require diagrams for elucidation ; and we therefore
refer our astronomical readers to the work itself.