The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-17 00:00:00

6th June, 1842,

SCHOOLMASTER AND MISTRESS.
A HIGHLY-RESPECTABLE NATIONAL SCHOOL-
-CV MASTER, whose WIFE can also take charge of an
INFANT SCHOOL, may be heard of by applying to Mr.
CRISP, Clerical, Medical, and School Agency Office, 20,
Slater-street, Liverpool.
Also, a thoroughly-competent CLASSICAL and MA-
THEMATICAL ASSISTANT.

SEVERAL desirable CURACIES, in the Diocese of
Chester and elsewhere, may be heard of by applying to
Mr. JOSEPH CRISP, Clerical, Medical, and School Agency
Office, 20, Slater-street, Liverpool.
Also, several large and small ADVOWSONS for SALE
and EXCHANGE.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND SCHOOL-AGENCY
OFFICE,
BY MR. JOSEPH CRISP,
20, SLATER-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
FOR THE PURCHASE, SALE, OR EXCHANGE OF
LIVINGS, AVOWSONS, AND NEXT PRESEN-
TATIONS ;
THE OBTAINMENT OF CURATES AND CURA-
CIES ;

THE PURCHASE
PRACTICES ;

AND SALE OF

MEDICAL

THE PURCHASE AND SALE OF SCHOOLS-
LADIES OR GENTLEMEN'S :

THE OBTAINMENT OF TUTORS, GOVERNESS
ES, and ASSISTANTS.

Mr. JOSEPH CRISP, from his extensive acquaintance
throughout the county, is enabled to transact every species of
business in the above branches, with promptitude, fidelity,
and despatch.

SELLING OFF, FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY,
AT 39, GREAT GEORGE-STREET.

MARSHALL AND STINTON,
11, VERE-STREET, 84. 19, HENRIETTA-STREET,
CAVENDISH-SQUARE, LONDON,
HAVING determined upon Closing their Liverpool Esta-
blishment, and in order to dispose of the whole Stock
immediately, have Reduced the Prices FIFTY PER CENT.
The Sroca consistsof RICH SILKS, SHAWLS, GLACE
and MOIRE SCARFS, FRENCH EMBROIDERY,
WOOL ORGANDES, POIL DE CHEIVE, SWISS
MUSLINS, MOUS DE LAINES, RIBBONS, &c.
THE SHOP TO BE LET.

PIANO-FORTES, NEW AND SECOND-HAND
GREAT BARGAINS!
A small Cottage Piano
A Cabinet Piano, 6 octaves, in Rosewood, by Will
25 gs
kinson, in the best possible condition
A handsome Rosewood Cottage Piano, 6 octaves, l gs
sweet tone and touch .
A Cottage Piano in Mahogany, new, by a London
27 gs
maker, warranted in every respect
A superb-toned 61 Cabinet Piano, in Rosewood
An Horizontal Grand Piano, in excellent condi-
-1
tion, by Broadwood, well calculated for a Con- Bgs
cert-room
Square Pianos, by Tomkisson, Broadwood, &c., 6
octaves, and others
Also a New Square Piano, by a London maker, in)
a Mahogany Case, with Metal Plate, Patent Bar, I
and all the new improvements; will be found, t_
~‘,
on inspection, the greatest bargain offered for r "
sale : warranted to stand well in tune in any
climate
PIANO-FORTES BOUGHT OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.
S tIADE' S MU SIC REP OSITORY, BERRY-STREET,
Two DOORS FROM TOP OF BOLD-STREET.

PROVISION RIOT;

(From the Dublin Evening Anil.)

Riots of this nature are contagious. 'They are of the nature
of a panic, which is caught from one and transmitted to
another, with scarcely a notion of the exciting cause. And
this cause is frequently so groundless, or so frivolous, that
none are more inclined to laugh at the real amount of the
danger than those who have most given way to their fear,
and run fastest and farthest from the imaginary bugbear.
We do not deny the existence of distress, but we assert it has
been greatly exaggerated ; and, that the tumultuous move-
ments in Clare have been an example of ill effect, will be
found in the spread of a riotous disposition in other quarters
where there is even less apparent necessity for apprehension.
Intelligence has just reached us that Mr. Dopping, R.M.,
of Ratbangan, came yesterday express to the Castle, to com-
municate the fact of an attempt having been made the day
before to plunder a boat laden with flour, at Robertstown, in
the county of Kildare.

Mr. Dipping left town again last night with orders to use
the most prompt and decisive measures to prevent a recur-
rence of the offence, and to give entire protection, by means
of the constabulary and military, to the traffic on the canal,
in which he will be assisted by Captain Despard and Mr.
Ireland, stipendiai y magistrates.

We give unqualified credit to Earl de Grey's government
for the promptness, wisdom, and energy with which it is
meeting, at all sides, difficulties of no ordinary amount and
complexity. The laws of the land, administered with firm-
ness and discretion, will be found quite adequate to the
emergency. In the class of offences under consideration,
promptness and efficacy are all that are requisite to restore
the temporary disturbance of the peace to the level of good
order. _ _

This free transit of provisions, and the undisturbed traffic
in every article of food are, undoubtedly, the most certain
means of preventing panic, and consequent rise of price ; and
those being secured—as it seems to be the policy and decided
intention of the government to do—the bounty of Providence,
displayed in the unusual continuance of fine weather, wiil,
no douvt, speedily and effectually lower the present prices,
wherever they have risen to an undue height, either through
artificial means, or from a precipitate apprehension of
scarcity, and eventually alleviate the distress which in some
districts unhappily exists to a considerable, though not a
desperate extent. _

The fall on potatoes and other articles of popular con-
sumption in the Dublin Markets within the last ten days,
indicates that the scarcity was more artificial than real, and
will be found, we trust, the symptom of greater abundance,
and the signal for more moderate prices in the remoter parts
of the country.

AWFUL STORM OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING,
AND LOSS OF LIVES.

(From the Limerick Reporter.)
A most awful and long-continued storm of thunder and
lightning, accompanied by heavy rains, visited this
neigh-
bourhood and the country for some miles round on
bSunday,
and was, we regret to learn from statements made y_
and life, destruction of cattle, houses, and trees,
cor-
respondents, accompanied in several places by
and
ds
wofanlitmhbe
thermometeroatex
district it swept over in its merciless course.
cause of the greatest consternation throughout
Tthheeemxtoernnsiinvge
was unprecedentedly hot and suffocating
in the shade 100, in the sun 150—giving
Indies.
_ es.
i To this was
ceeding the torrid strength of the West.olindfrom
the added a peculiarly sulphurous exhalation cltihmeatealm
atmos-
phere, which made the forenoon pop
- r
essive nigh beyond
bearing, and which portended a fearful war of climate. The
storm arose and
was preceded by
dense
dark
clouds
l fromthe north-east,
ouds
o f
threatening
aspect, and heavy drops
d witnessed in this
latitude. The thunder was heard shortly after noon, and
of rain, such as have been sel om
followed by tremendous
and fearful, and the electri
succession from the heavens. The
about half-past one o'clock
.teheflusidhole horizon became dark
peals glanced in alarming
and the
given us, say that a storm of this kind
accounts that have been
without
.recyhtiepoernnesented one of
has not been often known to d
lightning was generally ogftthoeuh'ralivftoeiorknine.fidi'c'lttdeed:vcienrnioptrtieoonno,f
in
jury,
t pursuing a south-westerly direction, sky presented
fortune
, m twelve
till near seven o'clock, p.m.,._ .
nahnadtetmoeibia,ve been of such
withhnas.
eedv. iesi
his majesty, and
throwing all over the western horizon a eleam of crimson
trohewmitnosetsss,utbhleimseunexjhuishtitztohriesn vindicating
glory fringed here and there with clouds that had not as
yet, to all appearance, discharged their perilous contents.
The city was more favoured than the places about it, and the
citizens did not seem terrified by the visitation ; but many of
them—indeed, we may say, thousands had gone into the eouu-
try previous to the storm, and the disappointment and terror
experienced on their part can l.i.e, we suppose,
than expressed. At Scarify, Kfflaloe, Sixrnile-bridge, and the
country generally in that quarter between the Clare mountains
and the Shannon, the storm first broke out with veheniene
better imagined
and fury—and it was there that the loverof the terrible could
have feasted himself to his heart's content, because nothipgn,
we believe, could surpass the brilliancy and rapid succession
of lightning or the loudness of the thunder, which violas the
verberated again and again for minutes together
died away
mountains, and one peal of which had searcelY!"
m the fluid
before another commenced with an equal degree of vliolence.
stre regthe house ret to sa
at SiXanP
of John Branton, about five o'clock, ie-gridge, and
Wuck
killed a fine boy about four years old, who was
sitting at the
e sheep, which
moment between Branton's knees, leavings
less, tearing up the floor, and killing for protection.
this poor man had brought from his 'mocked down, and
In the same neighbourhood, a man
waswere scorched are now
o.tranton
left senseless, senseless, and two women who ne market-house roof
lying without a hope of recoveryo.wn', and some cattle were
of Sixmile-bridge was thrownn d
: thirty miles to the westward,
casualties are said to have
killed in that vicinity. At Ghn: we learn, was burned. down,
the house of Captain Hamilton,
and a man was killed—several castl a man was killed and a
At Neal,. Some of the largest trees
house was burned Shannon and Adare, in Crat-
occurred to cattle.
down
in the demesnes of Mountttis b part of the country almost with-
loe—indeed, throug
hell&
into fragments, A :
and, in some in-
stances,oss the roads. The river in a few
thrown across
were
t several feet, and the lowlands adjoining, the
hours rose abotuiterior,
the mountain gorges, and every chan-
nel exception—were split
valleys in the
ibeen dry in the morning has been flooded. It
net which had
us to give anything like an accurate estimate
t of injury done ; but, as we commenced
?noun
r,aso;rthaes
that a
of the .s we repeat . storm of this kind, and of
by stating,
such protracted and unmitigated duration, it has never
record,or, f memorypower o serves,
the
over
d though it has done irrearable injury, it
It was _
h6i sieseimcn
creatures—and
our Sot
imposingrobtlsetofoarn
not been unattended with advantages
has
The country,
which wanted rain so much, which, in fact, was bi to be parched by the arid influence
of the we eg
nownnin loog ks
the fulness smiling
of and verdant •
,the crops everywhere are bursting into
matur't •
.y , the wheat-ear is plump and vigor-
ous ; the potatoes are in blossom, and the kitchen and fruit-
gardens and orchards give promise of unprecedented plenty
—so that in mourning over the damage, and in extending our
the sufferers, we must recognisethe
sympathies to
tion
of a wise and merciful Providence, in soothing the sor-
rows of his people, by cheering their hopes, even whilst he
asserts his own supremacy, magnitude, and omnipotence.