The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

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ow selling t
s I do not wish

palliate or deny

rices of cattle have n

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maintained in this country with fairness to the community?
The fact is that unsteady prices are prejudicial to all. I be-
lieve, looking at all the circumstances of the country, that the
late measures will give a great stimulus to trade and com-
merce, and that this will re-act upon the agriculture of the
country. (Hear.) But to you—the operative agriculturists,
if I may call you so---I.think that, although you will not

have high pric-es, you will not have ruinous low prices, but
that you will have the advantage of a more fixed price ;
and should such be the case, then the late measures will
be of the greatest benefit to you, the tillers of the soil.
(Hear, hear.) But, supposing it should be found that the
Government, in their measures, have gone a little too far, and
that agriculture is now sufficiently protected—then, have we
not a free parliament, whose duty it will be to repeal what has
been done amiss ? We are bound to a corn' law. What is
the object of a corn law ? It is to protect the growers of the
poor people's bread, by encouraging the home growth of our
country ; but, if the home growth is not sufficient for the con-
sumption of the people, where is the farmer who would stand
between an altered corn law and the destitution of the people ?
(Hear, hear.) I have supported a corn law because I believe
it to be necessary ; but, if the present law does not answer its
object, then we are free to consid6r the corn law again, and
to repeal it. (Cheering.) Let us not, however, as agricultu-
rists, think we can, in times like these, sit with folded arms.
No ; too much has been done to allow us to sit still. We
must take our parts in the progress of the great destinies of
England, (hear, hear.) And happy are we that we are al-
lowed to do so. Think how high is the privilege to have
been born a subject of the Queen of Great Britain (cheers)
on whose dominions, extended through the energy and enter-
prise of our forefathers, the snu never sets, and on the ex-
tremest corner of which no man sets his foot, but be enjoys
the sacred rights of liberty (cheering),—and then think that
this is that country, and these are the privileges, for which
lied upon to make sacrifices. No, llthey are not sa-
Great cheers.)
_I feel from this moment, they are
ri with free hearts, who, des
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we are ca
crifices.
the offering of fr

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sing the mean artifices of party politics, are resolved to hand
down to their children's children the national glory which
they themselves have enjoyed." (Vehement cheering, long

T TO LORD HATHERTON.—We regret to state
ident lately happened to the noble Lord which

that an

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rious consequences

a little above the t

with a shot from

if John

Esq., of Lichfield

Considerable

t bay not be

rhage ensued, and the :mi.._ —en found ; but w
PPyto state that the eye has escaped injury, and that

—Stafford

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ained attempt to c
an named Harriet

ar Midh7ust. It

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fection and jury

her c

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,
:e under the water, when she repented of the act and
ght bold of a projecting stone about two feet from the

vat er s edge.

She remained in this state an hour, when her
cries brought several persons to her assistance, and she was
brought up from her perilous situation and the only injury she
received was a good ducking.

IJESTRUCTION OF A LARGE STEAMER BY FIRE- -
following has been received at Lloyd's :—" New Orleans,
Oct. 12.—The ship Hero, Captain Ensor, master, which ar-
rived here yesterday, from Havannah. reports that on Thurs-
day last, at about 1 o'clock- in the morning, they were sur-
prised at observing the reflection of an extensive conflagra-
tion in the horizon. They immediately made all sail in the
direction whence it proceeded, when, after going 10 or 12
miles, they discovered it to be a vessel on fire. Upun
up to her, at about 7 o'clock, she proved to be a very
p —unquestionably a steamer. The fire by that hour
sumed the deck, the masts had fallen over-
was rapidly burning to the water's edge.
'mind the wreck for an hour or two, till she
took place almost instantaneously. Upon
o person appeared on board, nor was any
r, tiowever, saw a bark bearing away to
:h it was supposed must have received the
.s. From the mark of an anchor, which
cathead, and the appearance of
several
overboard, they judged the unfortunate
',h.,' The New Orleans Bulletin of the
sins a paragraph confirmatory of the

—The

ing at

)f last month co

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PUBLIC ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—At the Town-hall
Cambridge; on Monday, Charles Triplow, a green-grocer'
livine in that borouch, was charged with having attempted
r throat in the market.place,
deposed, that on Saturday,
ing, he was in the market,

,urday. Charles Wild,

a six- and seven in the

.ue prisoner and his wife standing against their
The prisoner went up to his wife and pushed at her
J r three times, as if angry, and they appeared to have
n quarrelling. A woman called out to witness, "He
,ut her throat !" He hastened to the prisoner's wife, and
saw her bleeding from the neck. The prisoner turned off, as
It to run away, when witness collared himsaid to the prisoner_ ""v-

Some one then

e been cutting your wife's
I'll cut her - heart out

before I've done with he
Coarles Gunn deposed ti

The prisoner was not drunk

his wife

seen prisoner

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GLOItIOUS NEWS

An intermediate Overland Mail from India, with ne
from Bombay to the 15th of October, has reached us by e

traordinary express from Marseilles.
The intelligence which it brings is of the highest import-

at-Ice. for while it adds increased lustre to the glory of the
British empire, it is calculated to consolidate its welfare tor

A treaty for peace has been concluded with the Chinese
Emperor, and a commercial treaty was about to be signed.
Ghuznee and Cabul have been taken, and most of the British
prisoners have been released from captivity. Akhbar Khan
is a fugitive ; his adherents have been routed, and the British
flag waves again over the Balla Hissar, or citadel of the capi-
tal of Affghanistao.
The date of intelligence from the expedition at China
comes down to the Ist of September from Nanking, and the
lOth of that month from Hongkong and Macao.

The proceedings of the expedition up to the 24th of July,
including the storming of Cbin-kiang-foo, are detailed by
the British Plenipotentiary in the following circular :