The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

It has beeen resolved to raise a subscription for the purpose
of raising a professorship of machinery and manufactures in
the London University, to be called the "Birkbeck Profes-
sorship," in honour of the late Dr. Birkbeck.
The Commerce says that there is no manner of doubt but
that M. Guizot has all along intended to sign the right of
search treaty, but that he will choose his own time for so
doing, and that that time has not arrived.
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It appears by a parliamentary return, moved for by Sir
Philip G. Egerton, Bart., M.P., that the total :quantity of
foreign cheese imported in the year 1840 was 226,462 cwt.,
and that the total quantity imported in the year 1811 was
279,149 cwt.
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METALS IMPORTED INTO FRANCE. The Moniteur con-
tains the returns of the principal articles of merchandise im-
ported into France during the three first months of 1842 :
The quantity of coal imported was 298,094,376 kilogrammes •,
2,517,837 ; of lead

ist-iron, 7,382,773; of copper,

2,573,573.

INCREASE OF ODD FELLOWS.-At a meeting of the Man-
chester Unity of Odd Fellows, held in Wakefield, last week,
Mr. Richmond stated that theoaccession to their numbers
during the last ten months bad been about 28,000, and that
the society now possessed between 230,000 and 240,000
members.

Parliamentary and Municipal voters in Boroughs will do
well to see that their names are duly entered in the Poor
Rates now in course of collection, and where there is any
mistake to pay the rate and claim to have it corrected. A
claim to be rated without having paid or tendered all the
rates due, will not avail to remedy the mistake.
The English armies are not the first Europeans that have
appeared as invaders in Affghanistan ; more than two thou-
sand years ago Alexander the Great opened through these
lands a highway for commerce and civilization, which was
broken up by his premature death, and has ever since conti-
nued closed.

ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.—
The number of associations established in Great Britain at
present for the circulation of the Scriptures is 2,228 ; in Ire-
land, 550 ; Continental Europe, 1,500 ; Asia, 83 ; Africa,
16; America, 2,800; Australia, 17; and the West' Indies,
226, sixty-nine of the latter being conductediby freed negroes.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield, being still too unwell to
transact business, has executed a commission appointing the
Lord Bishop of Hereford, the Archdeacons of Stafford,
Derby, and Salop, and the Rev. Henry Calthrop, his lord-
ship's domestic chaplain, commissioners for the administra•
tion of the diocese.

DISFRANCHISEMENT OF SUDBURY.-Mr. Redington, the
:hairman of the late Sudbury Election Committee, has given
notice that on Tuesday, the 10th of May, he will move for
Leave to bring in a bill to disfranchise the borough of Sudbury,
on account of the bribery which prevailed at the late election
there.

TEN HOURS' BILL.—The Manchester short time commit-
tee forwarded to Lord Ashley, on Thursday last, for presen-
tation to parliament, petitions in favour of that measure, to
which 62,773 signatures were attached, and containing the
❑ame, residence, and occupation of every individual whose
signature it bears.

A CALLOUS CONSCIENCE.—The Mobile Mercantile Ad-
vertiser bestows a just meed of virtuous indignation upon one
of his " patrons," of whom the editor heard that he had been
seen laughing heartily over a paragraph in the paper of the
previous morning, but who had not paid his subscription for
two years. How could any man enjoy a joke with such a
weight upon his conscience ?
WINDOW DUTY.—Return of the duty on windows as-
sessed for the year ending April 5, 1841, for the twelve towns
in England which contribute the largest amount. The return
is as follows
Towns
Bath

Amount of duty
22,408
10,952
14,753
... 15,377
6,972
... 7,816
7,518
.... 30,226
.... 12,343
.... 6,892
.... 5,630
.... 12,348

Birmingham
Brighton
Bristol
Cheltenham
Clifton
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Norwich
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Plymouth

LOVE OF BI&OTHER. AND Surrna.--Ilow beautiful the
link which binds the young members of a family. together I
On the one side, confidence—on the other, guardianship with-
out authority ;on neither, selfishness. It is, perhaps, the
only species of affection entirely peculiar to the human race.
Parental love is a law as strong and almost more universal
with the brute creation than with us ; and animals are
capable of, nay, they are prone to, contracting friend-
ship ; but fraternal affection is unknown to them. The
nearest approach to it is possibly, the herding together of
young broods of birds ; yet that again is, in all probability,
an instinct bearing a closer relation to the common rest-
ing place, the nest, or the mother's wing, than to mutual de-
pendence or attachment.
BRISTOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—In reply to the
communication from John Vining, Esq., the President of
the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Sir Robert Peel says,—
" The petition (from the directors) adopted without a dis-
senting voice, cordially approves of the general principle and
purpose of the financial and commercial measures, which it
has been my duty, on the part of her Majesty's Government,
to propose to parliament. It sets forth the necessity of
making a vigorous effort for supplying the deficiency in the
revenue, and for supporting the public credit of the country;
and it expresses the confident anticipation of the petitioners,
that should parliament sanction the measures I have pro-
posed, great advantages will result to the trading and com-
mercial interests of this country. Such testimony in favour
of those measures, and such assurances of cordial support,
are most gratifying and encouraging to her Majesty's advisers.
It was my reliance on the public spirit—of which this peti-
tion is an example—that has always induced me to entertain
the sanguine expectation of ultimate success, and the con-
fident belief that this great country would cheerfully submit
to an impost, unusual and, under ordinary circumstances,
unpopular, rather than incur the evil and disgrace of con-
tinued and increasing deficiency in the public revenue, after
25 years of general peace in Europe."

TURNPIKE ROADS.—By the new Turnpike Bill introduced
into the House of Commons by Mr. Manners Sutton and
Sir James Graham, it is proposed to continue all Turnpike
Road Acts until the Ist of October, 1883. Mortgagees are
restrained from taking possession of the tolls, or to sue for,
recover, or receive any principal sums lent by them, or any
interest, except such as directed by the bill. Mortgagees in
possession are to deliver up possession and account to the
trustees. The future applications of the tolls to be-Ist, in
payment of all interest owing on the Ist of October next, if
there be not more than six months in arrear ; 2d, in payment
to the mortgagees, pari passu, half-yearly, of the yearly sum
of £3 for every £lOO owing to such mortgagees; 3d, in de-
fraing the expenses of repairing and improving the respective
turnpike roads ; and 4th, in payment of the arrears of the
said yearly sum of £5 left unpaid in any preceding half-years.
In all cases whore there shall be a surplus of tolls, after
answering those purposes, it shall be divided amongst the
mortgagees rateably. All payments to the respective mort-
gagees to cease, and the respective mortgagee debts held to
be satisfied so soon as such mortgagees shall have received
out of such surplus the following amounts in successive pe-
riods of five years from the first of October, 1842.

First period—the full amount of their mortgage debts.
Second period—after the rate of £94 11 8 for every £lOO
Third period
Fourth period.
Fifth period..
Sixth period
Seventh period
Or in the six years preceding the
Ist of October, 1883, after the 2G 7 0 ~
rate of

If interest be less than 4 per cent., the difference to go
towards payment of principal. Arrears of interest beyond
six months, and not exceeding six years, to be added to the
principal. Trustees to appoint Finance Committee. Clauses
in principal acts concerning annual general meetings repealed.
Half-yearly finance meetings to be held. Duties of such
defined, with other directions. Treasurer to retain moneys
for half-yearly payments to mortgagees. Other regulations
and duties of trustees, clerks, and treasurers are continued.
Roads on which Exchequer Bill Commissions have made
advances, and some under particular acts are excepted from
the operation of this measure.

POOR-LAW RIOTS AT LEICESTER. —The town of Leices-
ter, usually so calmly quiet, has been this week thrown into
a state of great excitement, and the preservation of the pub-
lic p etahcee
presencehas been
osfoa greatly
body o
f Dragoons endangered
andas toth
e renderactiactive
e
sary
inter-
ference of an extraordinary number of police. From what
we have been enabled to glean respecting the affair, it appears
that the able-bodied men who receive relief were required to
attend at the workhouse, and, as a test of their destitution,
were employed in turning the whbeoeultaittythe union workhouse,
or, as it is called by everybody at
very Leiester, " the bastile.,,
obnoxiousthteo the above-
described have
on
pn seemsrec to have
recipients
sof pbaereinsh
fre-
quentlyThisla of late injured and broken theai machinery.
the
er charge the
Mwoornkdhaayasleasatntdhethmeimlliwllearshaegianing
abhrolekteon,harnindgthhe master
against several individuals of having committed the offence,
they were taken into custody, and conveyed to the lock-up.
A great concourse of the lower classes assembled, threat-
ening language was used, and stones were thrown; the pri-
soners, however, were safely deposited in their place of cus-
tody. During the whole day of Monday the streets were
thronged by large numbers of people, who mobbed and threw
stones at several individuals who were obnoxious from their
connexion with the grievances of the poor; many shop-windows
were broken (though, it is believed, notintentionally) during
these transactions; the shopkeepers at length closed their
shops, and at an early hour all business was suspended. The
mob next went to " the bastile" and broke a number of win-
dows there ; upon which, the magistrates reinforced the con-
stabulary with a large body of the Midland Counties Railway
police, the firemen of the borough, and a number of special
constables. An express was likewise sent off to Loughbo-
rough for the troop of Dragoons quartered there, which ar-
rived in the course of the night. Eleven of the leading
rioters were arrested, and these prompt means on the part of
the authorities crushed the rising anarchy in the bud, al-
though the town continued in a most disturbed state the
whole of Tuesday, and on Wednesday, when the rioters were
brought before the magistrates, a rescue was feared ; after a
long hearing, two of the
prisoners were discharged, and the
remaining nine committed for trial. Large bodies of per-
sons continued to throng the streets until a late hour on
Wednesday night, hooting
lar individuals, but on Thursday the town was beginning to
relapse into its usual state of peaceable quietudc.otting-
ham Guardian. and groaning at different unpupu-