The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

Paper.
GENERAL MEETING OF THE MINING INTEREST.—A
general meeting of the mining interest was held yesterday,
(Monday,) for the purpose of obtaining more protection for
the mineral produce of Cornwall than is proposed by the new
tariff.

The Australian papers are now very generally advocating
Le importation of Hill Coolies front India, for agricultural

rposes.

- -
The expenditure of the further sum of £llO,OOO is recom-
mended by the select committee on the Caledonian canal.
A Kilmarnock paper says—" Scarcely a day elapses with-
out departures of emigrants taking place, composed of agri-
culturists, mechanics, and other classes of the community."

It is stated in the Canada papers that one thousand la-
bourers, fifty stone-cutters, and fifty masons, are wanted on
the St. Lawrence Canal, Cornwall.
FISHERY RIOTS.—On Thursday last, riots arising out of

the disputed claims of the Foyle fisheries occurred at the
Faughan mouth and Culmore, in one of which a young man
named Lynch was nearly blinded of an eye.—Derry paper.
Benjamin Chitnmo, Esq., secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir
W. Parker, K.C.8., and Richard M. Wichel, Esq., purser
of her Majesty's rhip Blenheim, are appointed prize-agents
for the naval captures made in China.

The Augsburg Gazette states, that the loss sustained by
Steyer, which it calls the Birmingham of Austria, from the
late conflagration, amounts to two millions of francs, and
that more than 2000 persons are deprived of all means of
subsistence by the disaster.

A few days ago, says a Brussels journal, a detachment e-t
30 soldiers, on their march from Courtrai to Bruges, at-
tempted to take some liberties with three girls who were at
work in the fields. One of the girls, in defending herself,
struck a soldier on the head with a spade with such force
that he died two days afterwards.

Cockchafers are so numerous in the environs of Arnheim,
says a Dutch journal, that the authorities have offered a
premium of Two Dutch cents (nearly a sou) for every quart
of these insects caught and delivered to them. The Dutch
journal asserts that at this premium a boy can earn as much
as two florins a-day.

THE CORN TRADE.—One of the chief houses in the corn

trade in London, in a circular addressed to its friends last
week, states that holders of bonded wheat, by refraining from
paying duty until the latter end of June, may rely upon ob-
taining a profit for their money of no less than two per cent.
per week I—Perhaps not.

We are glad to learn that the presentment made at the
court leet of the Duke of Bridgewater's trustees, as lords of
the manor of Bedford, against the builders of a turf house
there, on Siddall Common (improperly called the Hall of
Science), has had its due effect, for the parties, in order to
save their fines, have had the good sense to pull it down to
the ground ; and we hope such midnight meetings will never
be held again, either for gambling or any political purposes.
DEATH FROM THE KICK OF A HORSE.—On Sunday af-
ternoon last, Thomas Jackson, of Didsbury, went into the
stable of Mr. Occleston, surgeon, Cheadle, for some purpose,
and while there, the horse kicked him so violently on the
belly that death terminated his sufferings on the following
morning, at seven o'clock. The deceased was 48 years of
age, and was a pensioner, having been 25 years in the British
army.—Stockport Advertiser.
- - - •

THE WEATHER.—After a week or ten days of fine dry
weather, succeeding some most refreshing showers, we had a
heavy fall of rain yesterday evening, which commenced at
four o'clock, and continued without intermission for several
hours. If at all general, it must be of essential service to
the crops. During the last few days the weather has been
very sultry for this season of the year.—Ulster Times.
THE WEATHER.—It commenced raining heavily in the
afternoon of Wednesday, since when it has continued to pour
down with little intermission. We believe that, so far from
the quantity of rain that has just fallen proving injurious to
the crops, it will tend to serve them most materially. All
our accounts from, the provinces concur in stating that
nothing can exceed the verdure and beauty which the whole
face of the country presents.—Dublin paper.
THE DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK'S, DIIBLIN.—It is un-
derstood that Dr. Ratcliffe will pronounce judgment on Tues-
day next (this day), in the long litigated question arising out
of the election to the deanery of St. Patrick's, vacant by the
death of the lamented Dean Dawson. In the legal circles it
is believed that the parties (Doctors Daly and Wilson), will
be sent to a new election.
FIRE AT HAMBURGH.—The captain of a vessel which ar-
rived at Haure on Tuesday, from Hamburgh, which place he
quitted on the 14th instant, states, that in clearing away the
ruins of the buildings which have been destroyed, 160 bodies
had already been found ; twenty-two of them were in a cellar.
He states, as positive, that 1500 houses have been ,entirely
destroyed, and 720 so injured as to be uninhabitable in their
present state.

THE SCHOOLMASTER AT LEEDS.—Some time ago, much
merriment was occasioned in Leeds by the fact that one of
our " Russell magistrates" for the borough, whose erudition
is not remarkable, ordered a juvenile delinquent (in writing)
to be privately wiped." Last week, with a keen sense of his
blunder on his mind, he had come to a similar decision, and
he ordered the offender (again in writing) not to be wiped,
but to be floged I In avoiding Charybdis, how often do frail
mortals fall upon Scylla.—Leeds Conservative Journal.

THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER AND " THE TRACTARI-
ANS."-It is but a week or two since a report was current in
this town, that the bishop had interdicted the Rev. M. W.
Foye from delivering any more of his lectures against the
Tractarian system. And but for our own personal exertions,
this report, though utterly destitute of the slightest founda-
tion, save that in some minds, perhaps,
" The wish was father to the thought,"

would have appeared in two of the morning papers, and
thence, doubtless, have " gone the round," representing our
reverend diocesan as being the first of the bench of bishops
to foster those peculiarities which he, in common with so
many reverend prelates, had condemned. Birmingham
Advertiser.

PRINCE ALBERT'S TAILOR'S BILL.—A " London corre-
spondent" of the Dundee Warder writes to inform the
good people of Dundee, that Prince Albert's tailor's bill
amounts to the enormous sum of £250! and thereupon con-
cludes that his Royal Highness's " love of dress " must be
absorbing. The worthy critic of the cost of the royal ward-
robe has, we should imagine, taken his notions of expendi-
ture from the prices of Rag-fair in the Minories, and has
probably no idea of the cost even of a subaltern's uniform,
far less of a court dress for an officer of state. We should
be very sorry to he obliged to pay the tailor's bill of any royal
princein Europe, if £250 were the wherewithal.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—It is with feelings of the deep-
est regret we have to announce the melancholy and frightful
death of Master John Pennefather, the eldest son of the Lord
Chief Justice, which took place on Friday morning, at Bray
Head. The unfortunate young gentleman, who was ap-
proaching his seventeenth year, left his father's residence,
near Bray, about half-past eight o'clock, accompanied by a
younger brother, in order to enjoy the pleasure of a morning
walk, and when on Bray Head, his hat was blown off by a
gust of wind which suddenly sprung up from the land. While
in the act of seeing where it was blown to, and approaching
for that purpose too near the precipice, it is supposed that
either his foot slipped or his head became giddy; but he was
precipitated down the fearful abyss, and killed on the spot.
On his being taken up, a wound was found on the left side of
the forehead, which completely exposed the brain, so that lite
must have been extinct before he reached the bottom.—Dub-
lin Paper.
We (says the Standard) have much pleasure in copying
from the Globe (Washington, United States, paper) the fol-
lowing tribute to Sir Robert Peel's financial measures. It is
not without reason that the right hon. baronet calculates
upon the imitation by other countries of the wise policy
which he recommends to his own ; exactly in proportion as
other nations are intelligent and free, will they follow the
example of Great Britain. But it need not be said that it is
only with free and intelligent nations we can hope for com-
mercial relations at once profitable and secure ; let those who
complain of the existence of privileged classes in this country
look to the following observations for proof of the effect of
the absence of recognised privileged classes in " The Model
Republic.—" The New British Tariff.—We have before us
the new tariff introduced by the British premier, Sir Robert
Peel, into the British parliament. It is not yet acted on ;
but all such projects, involving as they do the continuance in
power of the ministry itself, are well considered before they
are brought forward. The bill will therefore undoubtedly
pass, with but very few modifications. From its details, it
clearly appears that the Tories of England have far greater
affinities and respect for the people than their associates and
brethren on this side of the Atlantic. Instead of heaping taxes
on the consumers of the country, Sir Robert Peel proposes to
reduce those now existing generally one half ; and, to make up
the deficiency which may arise from this source, meet the for-
mer inadequacy in the treasury by laying a prooerty and
income-tax on the cepitalists and fundholders of the country.
This is a policy worthy a statesman to whose conduct are en-
trusted the interests and destinies of a great nation ; and
when contrasted with the mean, sectional, unju.4t, anti-
republican, and altogether detestable scheme of taxation con-
tained in the bill lately introduced into the House of Repre-
sentatives, on the part of the Committee on Manufactures,
by one of the Essex Junto and Hartford Convention origi-
nators, reflects most disadvantageously on the imitators of
the English Conservatism, now in power in our government.
y
With us, in a republic, to raise
leail theecessaries of life
all n r,evenue of only 26,000,000
dollars, it is proposed to tax heavily
income, insufficient for the annual wants
andthe thetaxesenormous
are
no f
the
OpOcOnpoloeo,
nwnhaicelri
athceleperocoarscinognsume ; whilst in England, in a monarchy,
"
adownfoeditlhtaoterhsargentlowvo
them. -
otshelisw?howaree better able, and who, on every
principle of just government,
ought to pay How are
know of but one solution. In
constitution ; and therefore it is
Greatßbryitatihne plarwivsileagnedd
ebnureinoitrimiaf raised,
shnre
tchleascsoens acknowledged and esta-
blished of taxes, to pro
not necessary, through the instrumentalitywhere privileged classes
aredu enotht eamcknowßleudtgiend
the government, con-
trary to its principles ; taxing
and constitution, they can
be only established by an operation of
and oppressing the many for
the elevation and aggrandisement of the tew•
this
b y country,ur
laws