The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-10 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LY) tE ELECTION.

(From our Correspossdent.)
NEWCASTLE, THIIFIEDAY AFTERNOON.
The circumstance of that staunch supporter of our Pr.o
ttstant institutions, Mr. Colquhoun, being a candidate for
this borough will, no doubt, render th a approaching election
of a representative an object of pee uliar interest to your
townsmen. The returning officer has appointed Monday
next for the nomination of candidates, .and the following day
for the polling. Mr. Colquhoun has lust concluded a most
successful canvas, and during the last few days has repeat-
edly addressed the electors. It was not known until yester-
day morning whether any opposition. ,would be attempted,
for, although it was threatened by the Whigs that they would
bring Mr. Harris, the late member who was unseated for
bribery, to contest with him the vacant seat, that gentleman
appeared to hang fire and to exhibit. little inclination to re-
alise the threatenings of his whig friends. Yesterday morn-
ing, however, it was announced by placards, posted on the
walls of Newcastle, that the unseated briber had arrived at
the Whitmore Station; and his friends were requested to
rally round him at Hill-Farm, about
six midway between Whit-
more and Newcastle. As early aso'clock in the morn-
ing, several bands of music were parading the Potteries, beat-
ing up for recruits for a demonstration amongst the non-
electors, chartists, and colliers. Some six or seven thousand
people were thus collected together, and about twelve o'clock
escorted the honourable gentleman into the town, where
shortly after his arrival he addressed the mob, from the
windows of the Albion, in a rambling and almost unintelligi-
ble harangue, which touched upon every_ variety of subject
except that most " germane to the matter"—to wit, the dis-
graceful position in which the aspirant for parliamentary
honours had been placed by the recent decision of a com-
mittee of the House of Commons. He commended hugely
the new tariff, which be declared would operate favourably
for the interests of the working classes ; and deprecated the
income tax in the usual whig style of vituperation, when a
measure is proposed affecting their own pockets. Bringing
up the procession were about forty carts, filled with men,
women, and children, many of them in a state of drunken-
ness, all singing in chorus—
" The day when we went gipseying
A long time ago."
The honourable candidate is evidently working to create a
disturbance, which may have the effect of deterring respect-
able parties from coming up to the poll; and will not mendhis position by his alliance with parties whose sole business
at elections is to kick up rows. Already, nothwithstanding
the recent parliamentary decision, the probable price of votes
is beginning to be mooted ; and on the part of the liberal
candidate there is little doubt that the same disgraceful
practices which have prevailed in former elections will be
extensively resorted to. No doubt Newcastle will follow the
examples of Brighton and Ipswich, and return Mr. Col-
quhoun by a triumphant majority.

THE EDGE-HILL SCHQQL

TO THE EDITOR •OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

DEAR MR, STANDARD,—Permit me to call your wonted
attention to a crying grievance in our school's management.
Yourself, myself, and all real churchmen wish that the
children of the poor should be educated, and taught " the
ways of pleasantnesik" But for one, I oppose the principle
that such education should be accompanied by brutal severity.
Severity, which terrifies the young mind as well as instructs,
must leave an impression of terror rather than love.

You say, " support the schools," so say I, but for good-
ness sake place them under tfie charge of competent, humane,
and intelligent parties?..

To the p-oint: A child was taken by its mother, as usual,
to the-Infants' School, Wavertree-road, Edge-hill, yesterday
afternoon ; it did not return as usual; its mother searched
everywhere for it—went to the school (which was shut up)—z
to the bellman—in short, wherever she thought it likely to
find her lost one, without success. She has rambled by all
the pits in the neighbourhood, over the fields all night, and
at last found her .child—where? why, locked up in the
school!!! The poor little thing, about four years old, had
committed some offence, had been put it is presumed in what
is called " the dungeon," and when closing school forgotten,
and left to cry its little self to sleep. When the distracted
mother applied to Mrs. Barker, the minister's lady, she was
assured that it was accidental. Even then it evinced gross
carelessness on the part of those intrusted with such tender
Infants. But I fear it resulted from gross severity,—,l allude
to the system of " locking up in the clunpon,"—and it is too
bad that such severity in a charitable institution should go
unnoticed. It is but a year or two since a child was locked
up in this very " dungeon." as it is called, and forgotten at
closing ; fits ensued through fright, and it was found in the
morning apparently lifeless, in a fit. My own servant's
younger brother was locked up in it, and instantly withdrawn
by his mother, and debarred the advantage of education, in
consequence of this severity. And I much fear that the poor
little girl of four years was similarly locked up last night.
If you had only seen the look of horror on the poor habes
countenance, when (after passing all night without food and
in confinement) she prayed not to be sent to school again,
you would think that there must have been some genuine
severity to produce such a shudder in one so young.
Oh,Tet us have our schools I but pray stand up as the friend
of the poor man's little child, and let them not be treated in
this way. I hope I may be proved to be wrong, but I fear lam
too right. If our poorer brethren are to avail themselves of
our generosity in educating their children, let them be as-
sured of kindness.—l am, your obedient Servant, J. C,
Edge-kill, Wednesday, June 8, 1812.

Nothing can exceed the beauty of the weather, excepting
it be the beauty of the country, and the luxuriant appearance
of the cznpi. 116 or 2 years there has not been such a season
in Ireland, nor do we ever remember such a prospect of an
early and an abundant harvest.—Dublin Evening Mail.
WHEAT.—Some old records in Wiltshire state that in the
year 1339, wheat in that county sold at eight guineas per

arter,.and that it continued so for months ; that, it soon
:er declined to lOs per quarter; that four years after it fell

wined it that price; with little fluctuation,
for 20 years ; and at the expiration of this term it rose to
£5, and held that PCce till near the year 1531, when it fell
to 2s. 6d, per quarter.

to 4s. (

's, it maN

ted that Lord De Gre

not continue at the head of the executive of this country

This (of course) will be stoutly denied by those who pane-
gyrise Lord Eliot, and laud Sir Edward Sugden, We have
our own reasons for implicit reliance on the communication
that has reached us, and one 0.7 other alternative will take
place before many weeks pass over our head.—Dublin Even-

ing Mail.
HV;ktIV AY ROBBERY, ATTENDED WITII VIOLENCE,
IvEARNEWPORT.—On Saturday night, Mr. Richard Myatt,
cattle-dealer, of Knightly Common, was returning home,
between Newport and Ecchshall, when he was assaulted by
some villain, who succeeded in robbing him of thirty sove-
reigns, two £5 notes, and a quantity of silver, and left him
in the road in a state of insensibility, where he was disco-
vered early the followlng morning. A man named Lewis
Wardles, a gobbing butcher, from Hanley, and a most noto-
rious character, being suspected of the robbery, was appre-
hended by the Hanky police, in that town, on Monday

night.—Shrewsbury
POTATO RlOTS.—About twelve o'clock on Sunday night,
a large mob, consisting of several hundred persons, attacked
the North Main-street Potato-market and broke in the gate,
and were proceeding to further violence when the police came
up and charged them. The mob then attacked the Bride-
well, and threw quantities of stones at it, by which they
broke some glass, but were resisted by the Bridewell Guard,
who threatened to tire on them. The mob called loudly for
the Bridewell officers to turn out, and that they would mur-
der theop.—Cork Constitation.
CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—The accounts of
the cotton experiments in the Madras presidency are bright-
ening very much, and there is little doubt of the ultimate
success of the measure there, and the superiority of the Ame-
rican over the native plant. There has been perseverance, in
fact, used, with kindly treatment of the American planters,
which, if its example had been followed in Bombay, might
have led to the same results. In Bengal, the cotton experi-
ments under Captain Bayles aro most satisfactory, and he
has extended his experiments to the cultivation of sugar and
other productions with great success. It will be a happy thing
for India when such subjects as these, and the improvement
of the government of her people, are questions for public
comment and interest, instead of wars, wasting, as the pre-
sent has done, her resourses to the last.—Times.

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—We are
glad to learn that the guardians of the poor and the directors
of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway are negociating for
the employment of part of the able-bodied poor this summer
upon the proposed line near the town. It will do the com-
pany no small good in public opinion to break ground at this
end of the line, by dissipating the apprehensions which many
persons entertained that if they should get the branch from
Penistone to the North Midland, Sheffield Would still be left
in the lurch. Preparations are making to mark out portions
of the line for letting, which it is proposed to let to contrac-
tors who will employ the parish men. But as the railway
company is cramped for money, we apprehend the stipulation
will be, that the company shall not pay the union for the la-
bour until the time when they would have executed the work
in the regular course. This arrangement, therefore, will not
afford immediate relief to the rates, but will ensure a consi-
derable repayment hereafter.—Sheffield Independent.

BURGLARY AND DESPEIIATE CONFLICT.—For a consi-
derable period, Mr. John Hannah, general merchant, Girvan,
having missed quantities of stock from his store, was watch-
ing the premises about 12 o'clock on Friday night last, with
his two brothers David and Robert, when two men—Wm.
Dimmigan and another—opened the door with a false key.
The burglars were armed with crow-bars; and bad three
large jars along with them, and lighter] a Candle, by matches,
immediately upon their entry. The three brothers then
opened the storehouse door, and warned them to surrender
otherwise they would be shot. The ruffians, however, ex-
tinguished their light, and rushed from the premises, the first
having struck Mr. John Hannah a very severe blow with a
crow-bar upon the head, and ultimately made his escape.
The other, who proved to be William Dimmigan, was cap-
tured by the other two brothers, after a severe conflict, and
is now lodged in Ayr gaol. This serious case was investi-
gated upon the spot by the sheriff and procurator fiscal of
the county, who left Ayr for that purpose by Monday's
evening mail.—Ayr Advertiser.
AN UNEXPECTED COMPLIMENT.—Those who have the
luck to be personally acquainted with Lord Melbourne need
not be told, that, in spite of his good nature and bonhommie,
he has a dash of satire in his composition which he is not slow
to exercise on pretenders of all descriptions, as occasion may,
require ; and that he sometimes deals "plaguy hard knocks'
on those who provoke a display of his somewhat enviable
facility for knocking people on the head that may happen to
thrust themselves in his way before they are aware that they
are hurt. A curious instance of this sort of achievement
occurred the otner evening at her Majesty's fancy dress ball.
We are all of us aware that on that occasion Commodore
Sir Charles Napier masqueraded in the costume of an Egyp-
tian Pacha; his dress intended, of course, to minister to his
enormous appetite for personal flattery, by affording pretexts
for allusions to his own mucit-vaunted exploits in Syria.
Meeting Lord Melbourne, and desirous of provoking some-
thing complimentary to himself from so distinguished a
courtier, he suited the " action to the word," so far as to
address his lordship (as Mehemet Ali) with a complaint that
his lordship's Government had not behaved as handsomely
to him (the Pacha) as he had had a right to expect. "Indeed !'
rejoined Lord Melbourne, " we sent you out a fellow who
had the reputation of being a tolerably good officer, but if he
chose to make a fool of itself we could not help it." 'Tis
hardly necessary for us to add that the gallant commodore
patronised some other pachalick for the rest of the evening.
—Untied Service Gazette.
The following is a statement of the quantity of goods
destroyed in the fire at Hamburg
Coffee

Sugar, raw ..
Ditto, refined
Cotton, raw ,
Ditto, spun
Carolina rice ,

2,000,000 lbs.
2,000,000 lbs.
3,000,000 lbs.
1,200 bales.
• 350 bales.
• 300 tons.
• 500 sacks.
100,000 lbs.
500 cwt.
1,000 casks.
2,000 tons.
250 casks.
30,000 pieces
8,000 brls.
400 casks.
400 casks.

Java rice
Palm oil
Rape oil .....
Smyrna raisins
Wheat

Linseed
Cloth
Wines of Bordeaux and Cette
Corn and potato brandy

Rum
Leaf tobacco, of Porto Rico, Virgilll3;
Kentucky, St. Domingo, Cuba, the Ha- 31VVVIVUU IDS.
vana, Varinas, &c.