The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom In
841 was 118,592.

In consequence of Mr. Roebuck having gained the ap-
pointment of his committee, Mr. Bootliby, the barrister, is
come down to Nottingham to obtain evidence.—Derbyshire
Chronicle.

It is proposed to regulate all the Post-office clocks in the
kingdom by the time brought from London daily, by the
mail-coach chronometers, so as to render the time precisely
uniform throughout England.
The members of the late Covent Garden corps dramatique
have subscribed to present Madame Vestris:and Mr. Charles
Mathews, the late lessees of that theatre, with an elegant
candelabrum, as a testimonial of the kindness and courtesy
displayed by them to their company during their management.

SPONSIBILITIES OF DRUGGISTS—SOMe time. since a

female named Spitzer died at Algiers by taking poison in-
stead of a medicine which had been ordered for her. The
druggists, two partners, who caused this melancholy result,
and their shopman, were brought to trial, and condemned,
the two former to three and the latter to four months' im-
prisonment, for their negligence in administering poison by
mistake. The affair, however, did not end here. We learn
from Algiers that the three children of Madame Spitzer
having brought an action for damages against the druggists,
they have been condemned to pay 600 f. a-year to each of the
children until of age.—Galignani.

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—About halt-past eleven on
Tuesday night, between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges, a
collision took place between the Vivid and Era steam-boats.
The Vivid was on her passage up from Greenwich, loaded
with passengers, making her way to Hungerford, at the time.
The cries and shrieks of the women on board were terrific.
The Era had been bringing down her passengers from Wands-
worth fair, had landed them at Hungerford, and was making
for her moorings off Arundel-street, when she was struck.
The Vivid ran on the shore, and by means of boats landed
her passengers, many of whom got a severe ducking. The
Era at the same time came to her moorings, but, from the
damage she sustained, went
As far as could be ascertained, no lives were lost, unless any
Person fell off at the time the collision occurred.

CONFIDENCE IN SIR R. PEEL.—Addresses from the fol-
lowing places have, within the last few days, been forwarded
to Sir Robert Peel, expressive of entire confidence in her
Majesty's present government:—From Dumbarton, signed
by Peter Denny, Esq., Provost, and bearing the common
seal of the burgh. From Plymouth, signed by above two
hundred and fifty inhabitants of the borough, in public meet-
ing assembled. From Stockport, signed by the chairman of
the Stockport Operative Association, Mr. G. Worsley. From
Hereford, signed by onehundred and four inhabitants. From
Derby, from the Derby Operative Conservative Society,
with more than two hundred signatures. From Ayr, signed
by four hundred and sixty-four inhabitants. From Kirkin-
tilloch, signed by the chief magistrate, and six hundred arid
sixty-six inhabitants of the burgh and parish. From Brad.
ford, (Yorkshire,) signed by eight hundred and twelve mem-
bers of the Operative Conservative Association. From Roch-
dale and neighbourhood, signed by seven hundred and sixty-
eight inhabitants.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR PARIS.—The Nationel
publishes several additional details relative to the sufferers by
the late catastrophe on the Versailles Railroad. Five more
of the mutilated corpses, remaining uninterred in the church-
yard of Mount Parnasse, had been recognised, amongst
whom was a barrister named Leapontai, his brother, and
his niece. Two deaths bad occurred—one at the Hospital
Neckar, and another at the Hotel Dieu. Of nine persons
who left the Hotel du Cheval Blanc, Rue de Beaubsurg, for
Versailles, not one has since been heard of. No trace can be
found of a family of five persons residing in the Chausee
d'Antin. La Presse states, that a young lady, whose name
has not been ascertained, called on the second engineer, who,
although severely wounded by the accident on the Versailles
Railroad, escaped with his life, and handed him 500 f., say-
ing at the same time, " You have saved him whom Ilove ;
he is horribly disfigured, but you have restored him to me.
You are the father of a family ; you have suffered severely by
this dreadful calamity. Receive, I pray you, the widow's
mite." The engineer refused ; and the widow, having
placed 500 f. in gold on his bed, withdrew.
PEA.RGUS O'CONNOR AND MR. ROEBUCK.—The Con-
vention, and Mr. O'Connor himself, having conceived that
the offensive terms, " That the petition had been drawn up
by a cowardly and malignant demagogue," used by Mr.
Roebuck in reference to the national petition presented by
Mr. Duncombe, were intended to apply to Mr. O'Connor,
a deputation was appointed to wait uhon Mr. Roebuck for
an explanation or a retraction of these words. Mr. M'Douall
and Mr. Phelp, the members of the deputation, met Mr.
Roebuck and demanded the required explanation. To which
he replied that he made it a rule never to give any explana-
tion of words used by him in the House of Commons, add-
ing, " I have nothing to do with Mr. O'Connor or Mr.
O'Connor with me." Mr. O'Connor then had an interview
with Mr. Duncombe for the purpose of ascertaining from
him whether the member for Bath applied the offensive terms
to him (Mr. O'Connor). The member for Finsbury said
that the facts were not quite correct, as Mr. Roebuck had
rather left the impression than given the information. Mr.
O'Connor has been since on the look out for Mr. Roebuck,
and has written a long letter to the chartists upon the sub-
ject, which he concluded with the following words:—" I shall
ever, in despite of legal bond and obligation, conform to those
rules which society requires for its government. My friends,
I am neither braggart, bully, nor coward ; I never seek the
battle, nor shun it when it comes."