The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-22 00:00:00

Mr. E. Elton, late midshipman of the Cambridge, whose'
case:has excited a good deal of attention, was on Wednesday
morning released from the Marshalsea by order of the Lords
ofithe Admiralty.—Standard.

MANCHESTER Poucu.—Thirteen thousand three hun-
dred and forty-five persons were taken into custody in the
year 1841, by the Manchester police-force, of which the late
Mr. Delahunt was a member. Of these, ten thousand two
hundred and eight were dismissed.

A JEWISH CONVERT.—The Univers publishes an account
of the extraordinary conversion of M. Alphonse Rattisbonne,
a wealthy Israelite, of Strasburgh, to the Roman Catholic
faith, at Rome, where he received the sacraments of baptism,
confirmation, and the eucharist, on the 31st of January last.
EXTRAORDINARY INVITATION.—" Mr. Richard Shackell
very kindly invites those persons who have already taken a
part of his turnips from a field known by the name of Towns-
end-field, to attend on the said premises between the hours
of ten and twelve o'clock this day, when he will be there for
the purpose of delivering the remaining part. Only the per-
sons who have taken the others will be expected." The
above was published by the crier through the village of
Sampford Peverell on the 21st of January.— Western Times.

GOING BY STEANr.—A letter from Blois of the 10th inst.
states, that in the course of last week a family from Chau-
mont proceeding to that city, their carriage caught fire from
a chaqfirrette, and was totally consumed. A peasant, who
was ridin,T on horseback behind the carriage, having been re-
proachedior looking on whilst the carriage was burning with-
out apprizing the travellers of their danger, coolly replied,
" Ma foi ! there are so many new inventions now-a-days,
that 1 thought you were travelling by steam."

Sunday week, the Gth March, is appointed for another col-
lection in the outstanding parishes in support of the O'Con-
nell tribute. It is a positive fact (says the Limerick Chroni-
cle), of which the public are not yet aware, that the funds
annually raised in the name of the O'Connell tribute, are
disposed of in a manner quite foreign to the intentions of the
contributors, and that scarce half the sum paid is received by
Mr. O'Connell or his family, the other moiety being shared
amongst his political staff, whose number and description
would greatly surprise the country.
The following are the receipts of railways fOr the past last
week, that is to say, up to the dates to which the respective
returns were made :—Birmingham £13,409 • Great Western
£9,511 ; South-Western £3,790 ; North Midland £3,698 ;
Midland Counties £2,503 ; York and North Midland £1,468 ;
Great North of England £1,341; Birmingham and Glouces-
ter, £1,303 ; Greenwich, £697; Eastern Counties £656 ;
Blackwall £538; Manchester and Birmingham £322; and
Croydon £275..
FIRST PLAY PRINTED IN ENGLAND.—" GOD Hys Pro-
mises," a tragedie, or interlude, manyfestynge the chyefe
promises of Con unto man in all ages, from the begynnynge
of the worlde, to the deathe of JESUS CURISTE, a mysterie,
1538. "This play (says Baker) was written by Bishop Bale,
and the first dramatic piece printed in England." It was
reprinted by Charlewood, in 1577, and was acted by the
youths, upon a Sunday, at the Market-cross of Kilkenny, in
Ireland.

It is a remarkable fact that, upon the last occasion of the
present corn laws being discussed at length in the House of
Commons—viz., when Mr. Villiers brought forward (in May,
1840) his annual motion for a committee to consider the laws
relative to the importation of foreign corn, the majority
against his proposition was exactly 123, the same as the ma-
jority by which, on Wednesday night, Lord J. Russell's
amendment was thrown out. The numbers on the occasion
we allude to were 177 to 300.

OLIVE OIL.—CANDIA, DEC. 6.—The lrop of olive oil in
the Island of Candia, for 1841, is estimated at from 5,665,000
to 6,232,000 kilegrammes, which at the average price of 72f.
per 100 hillegt amines, represent an amount of from 4,248,000 f.
to 4,674,0001. The manufacture of soap, and domestic con-
sumption will employ nearly a fourth part of that produce,
and the rest will be exported. A large quantity of oil, pro-
ceeding from the abundant crop of 1840, was either consumed
or lost during the late disturbances, whieh likewise prevented
the inhabitants from engaging in the sponge fishery. Ad-
vices from Corfu announce that the crop of olive oil, which,
it was thought from appearances, would amount to 150,000
lonian barrels, will not exceed 100,000. This reduction was
occasioned by the rain and frost, which destroyed a consi-
derable portion of the fruit before it reached maturity. The
same letters state, that the price of currants has fallen to 47f.
per 100 killegramrnes. It was 30f. in September lrst.—.3fo-
nitetir.

POLICE PHYSICIANS.—On Tuesday morning, between
eleven and twelve, a tall, gaunt old Woman, well known to
the police, was observed tottering and staggering along
Broad-street, and occasionally holding on by the iron railings
of the Court of Excise, apparently in violent spasms, and
ejaculating all sorts of descriptive sentences. Several gentle-
men went up to her to offer her assistance. She declared
she was dying—could not, at all events live long—would like
to reach home, &c., when her practised eye caught sight of
two policemen leisurely approaching on the other side of the
way. " The Lord be praised," said the old impostor, in
broad Derrynane accents—" The Lord be praised, poor ould
Molly 's betther now." " What 's been the matter," said
one of the policemen—" What 's the matter, old Molly ?"
" Devil secure to yez," replied Molly—" Shure and its no-
body can git an annest liven now for the likes iv ye."—Lon-
don paper.

SHOCKING ATTEMPT TO MURDEG.—The village of Bur'
mer, near Sudbury, on Sunday morning last was thrown into
the greatest consternation by a report that Mr. Samuel Vial!,
farmer, of the above place, had shot his wife, which unhap-
pily proved to be true. The facts of the case are as follow :
—Mr. Viall had been spending the evening of Saturday at
the Plough Inn, in the above parish ; one of his workmen
quarrelled with him, from which some blows were struck.
Mr. Viall then went home, about eleven o'clock, and quar-
relled with his wife. She ran into another room, and held
the door after her. He (Mr. Vial!) then fired a gun, which
was loaded with shot, through the door. Part of the charge
entered his wife's left breast (carrying part of the door) in
an oblique direction. She then made her escape to a cottage
on the Halsted-road, and obtained the assistance of two men,
who returned with her. They found Mr. Vial! in bed with a
double barreled gun by his side •, one of the barrels appeared
to have been recently discharged. Medical assistance having
been procured her wounds were dressed, but she cannot be
pronounced out of danger at the present. It is stated that
Mr. Viall maintains th most dogged silence as to the tran-
saction.—Essex Standard.

LEWIS'S TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.—The case of
Lewis and Co., which has excited such intense interest
throughout the country, and which commenced on Wednes-
day morning at ten o'clock, concluded the following evening.
It was seven o'clock when his lordship, the chief-baron, pro-
ceeded to charge the jury. The whole question at issue was,
whether the defendants had supplied a work fully equal to
the terms of the prospectus, and if the inaccuracies pointed
out in it were so much beyond what might be reasonably
expected in a book of the kind as to release the defendant
from the contract he had entered into. His lordship con-
cluded his charge at half-past eight o'clock, and the jury,
after being absent a few minutes, returned with a verdict for
the plaintiffs. This decision will put upwards of twenty
thousand pounds into the pockets of Lewis and Co., as all
the defaulting subscribers will now come in and pay. The
matter at issue in the present case was only four guineas,
being the price of a small paper copy of the work. The costs
of the trial, it is said, will exceed £4OO, and the defendant,
on whom the costs fall, is a poor Protestant curate. The
case was tried in one of the Irish courts.
AFFLICTING ACCIDENT.-011 Monday last, some work-
men in the employ of Mr. Lucas, bricklayer, of St. Peter's-
place, Hammersmith, were engaged in opening a cesspool,
in Mr. Chatham's garden, which, finding it dangerous from
the accumulation of foul air to descend, they left open until
they commenced their operations at night, without taking
any precautions to pr,event persons falling in. In the course
of the afternoon Mrs. Chatburn left home, to proceed to
Knightsbridge, after the character of a servant, and contrary
to her usual custom, left a bov about eight years old in the
care of Mr. Chatburn and the female assistant, a woman of
family nearly 60 years of age. Mr. Chatburn, previous to
the children going into the play-ground, carefully cautioned
them not to go near the cesspool.; and being aware of the
volatile spirits of the deceased, and his habit of jumping, he
took him by the arm, and particularly cautioned him to be
careful. While in the play-ground Mr. Chatburn watched
them from a French window, which overlooked the whole of
the premises, and on their coming in he conceived they had
all gone up to their rooms under the care of the assistant.
In the evening Mr. Chatburn (who while giving his evidence
appeared deeply affected at the lamentable accident) attended
a lecture at Hammersmith, and on his return home was sur-
prised to find that the deceased had in the interim been
missed, and could nowhere be found. The cesspool was im-
mediately thought 'of, and assistance sent for, when a jobbing
gardener, named Mott, with sergeant Reynolds, T. I,
tried to descend, but it being found that even a candle was
extinguished by the action of the foul air, the cesspool being
at least twenty feet deep, a long pole, to which a large
butcher's hook was attached, was used, and a few minutes
before ten o'clock the deceased was got out quite dead.

MURDER IN ATHENS.—A horrible murder has just been
perpetrated in this city. The house of Mons. Negroponte
was forcibly entered at night by assassins, who stabbed him
through the heart while in bed with his wife. No cause has
been assigned for. this diabolical act; the victim had only
recently returned to his family from England, where he had
resided as a Greek mercnant for some years, and was justly
esteemed for his amiable disposition and upright dealings.
This is the third assassination which has occurred at Athens
during the last month, and, with shame be it said, with im-
punity, as the police is too much occupied in espionage for
political purposes to find time to look after such trifles.
Many respectable Greeks are contemplating quitting the
country, and others, who had sent persons here to report to
them the actual state of affairs before bringing their families
from Italy and Russia, will now receive accounts which will
scarcely tempt them to establish themselves here, under
such a frightful state of things. In sober truth, what a dis-
graceful contrast does the present utter uncertainty of life
and property within the very capital of regenerated Greece
now afford to the. perfect security enjoyed by all classes
under the Turkish rule before the Greek revolution. It is
well known that, for many years previous to that event, mur-
ders and robberies in Greece were almost unheard of; and
when those, or any other outrage against the person did take
place, the offenders were sure to be detected and punished.
The Morning Chronicle blunders in attributing to the
Herald a contradiction of the Earl of Elgin's appointment
as Governor of Jamaica. We gave no such contradiction ;
but we expressed our deep regret at the removal of Sir Charles
Metcalf, whose services we thought undervalued by the John
Bull, who announced the change. The very fact of Lord
Stanley appointing Lord Elgin to the colony, is an ample
testimony to us that the noble lord is not without qualifica-
tions to represent his sovereign in that fine island, although
we may not be aware of the noble lord's merits. Sir Charles
Metcalf was, it is but justice to the Colonial office to remark,
originally appointed Governor of Jamaica to restore tran-
quility to the island, and win back the affection of its Legis-
lative Assembly to Downing-street. He has most ably ac-
complished his mission; and there his task was to terminate.
But that the services of Sir Charles will be lost hereafter to
his country from neglect of the present ministers, is a mon-
strous supposition—and one that never passed through our
imagination. We will venture to predict Sir Charles Met-
calfe's speedy nomination to some more important post.
Herald.

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE AND INTERRUPTION OF DI-
VINE SERVICE.—On Friday last, between the hours of two
and three o'clock in the atternooon, the remains of the wife
of a respectable Protestant, named Baker, who resides in
the town of Cloyne, were brought for interment to the Ca-
thedral, and were met, according to custom, at the gate of
the church-yard, by the clergyman of the parish, the Rev.
Richard Chester, who had no sooner commenced the burial
service, than the coffin was seized upon, violently hurried off
from the church, into which it was being carried, thrown
into the grave, and the earth heaped upon it, amidst the
most furious yells and violent gestures upon the part of the
rioters. The clergyman followed the coffin to the grave, and
again commenced the service, but being jostled by the crowd,
and the tumult being redoubled, the attempt was useless.
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The police ere then sent for,
or, and were immediately in at-
tendance, but not being accompanied by a magistrate (of
whom the nearest resides at a distance of two miles from the
town), and being only four in number, they were unable to
quell the riot, which momentarily increased, and, after ano-
ther ineffectual effort to perform his duty, the clergyman was
obliged to retire. It is but justice to the Roman Catholic in-
habitants of Cloyne; a great number of whom were present,
to state that they not only totally abstained from joining in
the lumult, but that several of them exerted themselves to
put it down. The offenders, who are from an adjoining pa-
rish, and some of them distant relatives of the deceased, are
known, and will be made amenable to the law. The deceased
was originally a Romanist, but had many years since con-
formed to the true catholic faith.—Cork Conditution.