The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

Wag synoniraotto, there Wita a marked distinction between.
the two. Au Income tax should never be laid on except
during a period of actual war; and however perilous might
be our relations with France, Russia, and America, they were
not sufficient to justify the imposition of such a tax. There
were other modes of meeting any other emergency except
that of actual war, and he could not look upon the occur-
rences in China and India as such a warfare as came within
his definition of a war.
Lord ELIOT contended that the measures of the govern-
ment had met with the acquiescence of the agricultural classes,
whose representatives in that house had been taunted with
having deceived them, though he admitted that great appre-
hensions prevailed respecting the tariff, which, however, he
believed were much exaggerated.

FEMALZ LANC}I LAW IN SCZTLANDv.The Rou-shir•
Advertiser details a curious occurrence which took place at,
Maryborough last week. A man named Cameron had circu-
lated some improper assertions, calculated, in the opinion of
the fair villagers, to affect the characters of several of them,
and which roused them to such a pitch of exasperation as to
make them discard the more tardy operation of the law, and
resolved upon inflicting at once summary and severe punish-
ment on the culprit. For this purpose, the whole women
and children of the village rose en masse on Monday week,
and proceeded to the house of the happless wight, who,
much to his terror, had got some hint of their intentions,
just as the infuriated crowd approached the door. To fly
from the house was impossible ; and while the object of pub-
lic vengeance stood paralysed and trembling at the magnitude
of the danger, his wife snatched him up by the " cuff of the
neck," and in an instant had him locked up in her clothes
chest, at the same time sitting on the lid herself for ad-
ditional safety. The crowd having burst into the house,
every chink and corner was searched, until at last his place
of concealment was discovered, from which, in the face of
the prayers and entreaties of his poor wife, he was dragged
forth, hoisted on a deal, and paraded through the village
shoulder high, by the women and childern—the former
taunting and jeering him, and the latter filling up the pauses
with vollies of clods and other soft missiles. The next morn-
ing Cameron went to Dingwall and laid an information
against the principal ladies concerned. In the evening he
returned home, having procured a body of sheriff's officers.
His tormentors, however, being acquainted with his visit to
Dingwall and its object, a party of them collected about his
door on his return, and, before his guard could interfere, he
was pounced upon by half-a-dozen Amazons, lifted on the
' sharpened edge of a plank or " wooden mare," which had
been previously provided, and again carried shoulder high
through the village, in the midst of the noise, the yelling,
and ciodding of about three hundred women and children.
The punishment at this time must have been severe, for,
stooping in their course at the door of every slandered fair
one, this object of popular anger was tossed and jerked on
the sharp angle of the instrument of torture in a manner
sufficient to cause acute suffering. The ceremony was to
have ended by ducking him in a mill-pond ; but, after having
made the tour of the village, he appeared so exhausted, that
the idea was relinquished, and he was ultimately deposited
at his own door. The matter is said to be under judicial
investigation.

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WARRINGTON CORN MARKET, APRIL 12.
Total quantities. Total amount. Price per quarter
Wheat, qrs. 206
Barley .... ISO
Oats
8ean5...... 0

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, APRIL 13.
During the present week our market has not been so brisk for
Wheat, and rather less money in some instances was accepted.
Holders would not, however, generally give way in price, and the
transactions reported are limited. We have had a short supply of
malting Barley, and fine qualities realise an advance of Is per
quarter. English Oats less plentiful, add Irish more saleable at
former rates. Beans are not so much pressed upon the market,
but no improvement in value has yet taken place.