The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-11 00:00:00

WINDSOR COURT CIRCULAR.-WEDNESDAY

This morning her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert took walking exercise.
In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton,
the Prince driving, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses
the Princes Ferdinand, Augustus, and Leopold of Saxe Co-
burg, and attended by Lady Jocelyn, the Hon. H. Paget, and
the Hon. G. Liddell, in pony carriages. The Earl of Mor-
ton, Captain Duncombe, and Col. Wylde were on horse-
back.

The band of the royal horse guards (blue) will be in
attendance at the Castle this evening. _ .

Since yesterday there has been a most favourable change
in the weather, and from present appearances her Majesty
may anticipate a fine day to-morrow, for her journey to
Brighton.
Their Serene Highnesses the Duke Ferdinand, and Prince
Augustus and Prince Leopoid of Saxe Coburg, attended by
their respective suites, took a carriage airing in the Great
Park.
Her Majesty will take her departure for the Pavilion at an
unusually early hour to-morrow. The royal carriages are
commanded to be in waiting in the quadrangle at 8 o'clock.
From the extremely heavy state of the roads between Wind-
sor and Brighton, it is expected that the journey (a distance
of 64 miles) will not be performed in less than seven hours.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will not leave
Clarence House for the Pavilion until Friday.

The Court, upon leaving Brighton, will proceed to town,
and remain at Buckingham Palace until a few days before
Easter, when her Malesty will return to the castle.
The only addition to the royal dinner party, this evening,
is Lieut.-Colonel Bouverie.
Covers will be laid at the Pavilion, to-morrow evening,
for twenty-two.
I-ler Maiesty's private band, and the band of the royal
horse guards (blue) will be in attendance at the castle this
evening.
The route her Majesty will take to Brighton, to-morrow,
will he through Hampton Court, Ewell, Reigate, Crawley,
and Hickstead.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON WEDNESDAY,

(From yesterday's Times.)

More than the usual amount of interest was evinced yes-
terday evening, both in and out of the house, to hear the re-
sult of Sir Robert Peel's exposition of the intentions of go-
vernment with reference to the corn-laws. At an early hour
a large body of persons had congregated in the neighbourhood
of the members' entrance to the house, and a considerable
number had also assembled in the lobby for the purpose of
obtaining admission into the Stranger's Gallery. As soon as
the door was opened a violent rush ensued, and every seat
was in a few minutes occupied. There was a sufficient num-
ber of persons with orders from members to fill a gallery six
times the size to that appropriated to the use of strangers. A
few minutes after four o'clock a number of the anti-corn-law
delegates marched in procession down Parliament-street, to
the house, and made an attempt to station themselves in the
lobby. Had this been permitted, the members of the house
would have experienced great difficulty in obtaining admission.
To avoid this dilemma, the police and officers on duty were
compelled to oppose their entrance, and at one time it
was thought that a deadly conflict would have ensued.
After a considerable expenditure of ammunition in the shape
of abusive epithets, the delegates retired from the field, and
stationed themselves outside the house, from which situation
they saluted the different members as they passed with cries
of " No sliding scale," " Total repeal," Fixed duty," &c.
It was evident, that even among the opponents of the corn-
laws out of the house, there did not exist anything like
unanimity of opinion. In the House of Commons the scene
was particularly animating. By half-past four o'clock the
benches were nearly filled, and by five the house was literally
crammed. Below the bar was seen a number of distinguished
strangers ; among them the Duke of Cambridge was very
conspicuous. He appeared to listen with marked attention
to the whole of Sir R. Peel's speech. The Premier did not
enter the house until a quarter to five. Every eye was di-
rected towards him. After taking his seat he conversed
briefly with Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham, and ex-
actly at four minutes after five he rose and requested that the
house resolve itself into a committee to consider the trade in
corn. He then requested that the Clerk of the House should
read that portion of her Majesty speech relating to the subject.
Sir R. Peel's speech was listened to with profound attention.
His observations for the first hour and a half were principally
of an introductory character, and it was not until after he had
been speaking for nearly two hours, that he made any direct
allusions to the modifications of the corn law which the go-
vernment intended to suggest for the consideration of parlia-
ment. We noticed a number of the leading members of the
House busily engaged in taking copious notes of Sir Robert
Peel's speech. Lord J. Russell was so employed. Mr. C.
Buller, Mr. Ewart, and the member for Manchester, Mr.
Cobden, were similarly occupied. It was curious to notice
the intense anxiety exhibited vdinever Sir Robert Peel was
thought to be about to develope his plans, and when he did
at last commence his explanation of the contemplated propo-
sals of government, the members in the side galleries rose
almost in a body from their seats, and leaned anxiously for-
ward in order to catch every word that escaped from the
Premier's lips. After the ministerial scheme had been pro-
pounded, and Sir Hobert Peel had read the scale of du-
ties which he proposed to substitute for those now
in existence, considerable excitement was manifested in
the opposition benches, and immediately a number of
members rushed out of the house for the purpose, as we
thought, of communicating to their friends, the Anti-Corn-
Law delegates, the principles of Sir R. Peel's measure. No
discussion followed the premier's speech, and none was an-
ticipated. Lord J. Russell merely requested that some
return which Sir R. Peel alluded to be laid upon the table,
and an adjournment was on the eve of being proposed, when
Mr. Cobden, looking exceedingly lachrymose, rose from his
seat for the purpose, as it was generally thought, of inflicting
upon the house one of his stereotyed corn-law speeches, but
as it was clearly evident to the hon. member, that his own
friends were not disposed to listen patiently to a long ha-
rangue, he had the good sense to bottle up his indignation
for a future occasion.

Lord Ashburton has fixed to-day for his departure for
Spithead, where the frigate now lies in which he is to embark
for New York.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, it is said, was robbed on
Wednesday evening, on his way to Kingstown, to embark
for Liverpool, of two hundred pounds. This sum was ab-
stracted from a carpet bag. The city gold chain had an
escape; but this ancient purtenance of authority is quite
safe, as his lordship had the childish vanity to walk into the
House of Commons with the ornament around his neck.-►-
Dublin Evening Mail.

Loss OF ONE OF THE HASTINGS AND LONDON TRADING
SHACKS.—We sincerely regret to have to record this dis-
tressing event, which took place yesterday week. The
James, which had been unloading on the beach during the
previous tide, was hove off the shore through a heavy surf,
and succeeded in getting under weigh, the wind then blow-
ing heavily from the S.S.W. When off Fairlight Church,
it was observed by the people on shore that something was
wrong, as the vessel bore up, lowering her foresail and haul-
ing up the main-tack. Misgivings arose in the minds of
some that she had shifted her ballast, but no danger was ap-
prehended. The rain coming on, she was lost sight of in the
mist, and seen no more. On Friday the top-mast of a fore-
and-aft-rigged vessel was discovered above water about three
miles to the southward of Rye harbour. by the Phoenix, also
one of the London traders ; and the James not having ar-
rived in London, for the first time fears were entertained for
her safety. During Saturday morning a fore-hatch, marked
with the name of the unfortunate vessel, was picked up, as
well as several sou'westers. When the Phoenix floated in
the afternoon of Saturday, she immediately bore for the
wreck, and cutting off a portion of the top-mast, found their
worst fears realized. The vessel had sunk in about six
fathoms water, and every hand must have perished. The
Phoenix immediately returned to Hastings with the melan-
choly tidings. The crew consisted of Robert Phillips, mas-
ter, who has' left a wife and one child, Thomas Carpenter,
mate, who has left four orphan children, and Charles Sweet-
man, Richard Wrenhatn, and William Ball. The supposi-
tion is, that the ballast having shifted, the vessel could not
sustain the squalls, and consequently filled and sunk. She
was the property of Mr. J. Breeds, jug.--Times, Thursday.

A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER.—At the conclusion of a
tea party of Sunday-school teachers, at Zion School, Wibsey,
the following sentiment was proposed, " The Queen and the
Prince of Wales,—may she prove a pious mother, and he an
affectionate son." The speaker paused, and then added,
" And may his father send him to a Sunday school."
The. tea trade was not much affected by the arrival of the
overlap mail. It gave to a certain extent additional firm-
ness to prices, but the dealers were afraid to do an extended
business, since it appears there is a large supply ready for
shipment. It is the firmness with which prices are held at
Canton that induces a similar feeling here.—London Times.

DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—Last week a very distress-
ing affair took place in the village of New Sauchie, near
Stirling. Two young men, who had been engaged in a shoot-
ing match, quarrelled about some trifling affair. One of
them, in a fit of passion, seized a gun, and shot his com-
panion. The unfortunate man was immediately carried
home, and, we are sorry to learn, little hopes are expected of
his recovery. The other, of course, was immediately taken
into custody, and will, in all likelihood, be committed for
trial.

TIGHT LACING.—On Saturday last, a fine blooming girl,
aged 14, daughter of Mr. Palmer, of the Crown Inn, Chard,
after running a short distance, complained of a pain in her
side, fell down, and died shortly afterwards. A post mortem
examination was made by N. W. Spicer, Esq., and it was
found that death was caused imniediately by the rupture of

a blood vessel on the lungs, induced by the running and the
pressure of tightly-laced stays.

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RAILWAYS.—It appears that railway companies are to be
subject to further parliamentary controul. On Thursday, in
the House of Commons, Sir T. Fremantle gave notice that

it was the intention of the Vice-PresidentOf the Board of

Trade, on the Bth instant, to move for leave to bring in a bill
for the better regulation of railways.
THE LATEST husursm.—The Derry Sentinel gives us

" the latest" in its way, the proposition by a town councillor
of that city to divide the year into six quarters. Now we

have one in its way," most positively" the latest. A friend
of ours, residing not a hundred miles from Dublin-street,
while drying at the fire a letter which he had just written,
and happening to scorch it, immediately appended the follow-
ing P.S. :—" Please excuse this; don't blame me for it. It
was burned in the Postoffice."—Carlow Paper.

A young woman, named Clotilde Falcoz, only 24 years of
age, who had been seduced and abandoned by a young man,
came from Paris a few days since to Noyers, in the Same et
Loire, and there, in the hotel where she took up her abode.
destroyed herself with the fumes of charcoal. She had
brought a brazier and a supply of charcoal with her from
Paris in her trunk. Before carrying her fatal design into
execution, she wrote a long letter of four pages to her faith-
less lover, in which she begged that he would have her buried
by the side of his own mother.
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THE LATE VISIT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO NEW-
OATE.-It was stated by mistake in some of the newspapers,
that on the 31st of January, when his Majesty the King of
Prussia visited Newgate, Mrs. Fry read to the prisoners in
some religious work ; what she selected that day being the
12th chapter of Romans, and one of the Psalms. It is the
invariable practice, not only of Mrs. Fry, but of all the ladies
in connexion with the several prison committees when read-
ing to the prisoners, to confine themselves entirely to the
truths contained in the Holy Scriptures.

SACERDOTAL COURTS.—The Cork Constitution again calls
attention to the fact of their reverences the Rotnish clergy
having established the above tribunals throughout various
parts of the country. The justice-priests sit generally twice
a-week ; summonses are issued ; a jury, where a complicated
case occurs, regularly irnpanelled ; and, of course, the deci-

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sion of the holy man must be meekly bowed to, under the
penalties prescribed by " Mother Church." The Constitu-
tion directs the attention of one or two of the local magis-
tracy to the existence of this shameful abuse of the laws. It
may be that the old leaven of the inquisition has not yet en-
tirely evaporated, did a fitting time occur for its development.

THE FUNDS—WEDNESDAY EVENING,—This has been a
quiet day in the funds, with but trifling variations, although
with a slight improvement in prices. Consols left off 89
sellers for money and buyers for account. Exchequer Bills
19s to 21s premium. India Stock 243 to 5. Bank Stock
167 to 8. Towards the close of the market the appearance
of a few buyers led to an unexpected rise in Spanish of about
per cent., but a slight re-action left the Active with the
Coupons at 241 to 4, or about 4 better than the closing prices
yof esterday. Portuguese Five per Cents were 32 to 1, the
Three per Cents 19 to 1. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents
improved to 511 to 1, the Five per Cents 1011 to 4. Belgian
103 to 1. Brazilian 651 to 66i. Mexican 321 to 4. Colour
bian 214 to 21.
A party of the directors of the Birmingham and Derby
Junction Railway, accompanied by Mr. Birkinshaw, the
engineer and other officers of the company, made an excursion
yesterday along the newly constructed portion of their line
from this town to Nether Whitacre, thus completing the
railway from Birmingham to Derby, which is opened to the
public this day. The directors expressed themselves much
graiified with the state of the works, the whole of which they
inspected en route, and also with the solidity and admirable
state of the line. A very elegant and commodious station,
adapted to the increased traffic which may now be expected
on the line has been erected at the terminus near to the
Grand Junction station.—Birmingham Herald, Thursday.

DIVISION AMONG THE JEWS.—The declaration of ex-
communication issued by the Chief Rabbi and Bethdin of the
German and Portuguese synagogues of London, against the
members of the West London Synagogue of British Jews
(Burton-street, Burton-crescent), was recently in due course,
forwarded by Sir Moses Montifiore,.(as president of the board
of deputies) to the four wardens ot. the Western Synagogue
(St. Alban 's-place), for proclamation. Three of the four
refusing to allow of of its publication in their synagogue, the
,
question was referred to the ' managing committee" thereof,
by whom it was rejected on a divisiou; the numbers being
seven against three ; and a sub-committee was accordingly
reappointed to prepare a letter of reply to Sir Moses Monti-
fiore, setting forth the reasons of the decision. The recep-
tion given to the Chief Rabbi s bull of excommunication at
Portsmouth has been similar, the president of that synagogue
having at once communicated it to the flames. What recep-
tion it will meet with at other places remains to be seen.
THE IRISH COURT.—On Thursday evening the Lord-
Lieutenant and the Countess De Grey gave their first state
ball at Dublin Castle, in honour of the christening of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Upwards of 800 of
the nobility, and the elite of the resident gentry, and those
now visiting the metropolis with their families—attracted by
the brilliancy of the court, and drawn hither by the splendour
of the society now assembled—were present on the occasion.
The fete was on the most magnificent scale, and was never
equalled by anything before seen in this country. Persons
competent to decide, by a comparison with entertainments
of a similar nature given at Buckingham Palace, affirm that
that of Thursday evening was not surpassed by those within
the halls of royalty itself: And yet amid all this gorgeous
display—amidst viands rich and vintages rare—surrounded
by massive plate, and the tables decorated with the most
costly and beautifully-executed designs—all gave way before
the condescending and graceful ease and polite hospitalities
of the noble host and hostess, and the unceasing attentions
of every member of the viceregal household.—Dublin Even-
ing Mail.
We learn from the Agra Ukhbar, that Captain Skinner, of
the Indus commissariat, was in Caboul at the time of the in-
surrection, when he escaped the fate of tke other officers in
the place, through the kindness of his gomashter, who con-
cealed him in his 'house. After five days' concealment he
was, however, discovered, and seized by the insurgents, who
saved his life for the following purpose :—The English letters
which they became possessed of were taken to Captain Skin-
ner to be translated, and to test the accuracy of his transla-
tion they hit upon the plan of employing another prisoner, a
person who had been taught English ?n the American mis-
sionary school at Loodeeanah, and whose life was preserved
for the purpose of translating likewise, and then compare the
two versions. It can assist the insurgents but little to know
what is written, inasmuch as an answer to those letters which
have escaped them, in the shape of some thousand bayonets,
is on its way, and Captain Skinner, therefore, we presume,
translates what is given to him. If so, his safety hangs on a
very slender thread—the knowledge English which a scholar
of the Loodeeanah school possesses. Captain Skinner is the
son of the late Lieut.-General Skinner, and brother to Major
Skinner, of her majesty's 31st regiment, now serving in India.

THAMES TUNNEL.—The contract for the erection of the
circular staircase for foot passengers, and also the carriage
ways, has been taken by Messrs. Grissell and Peto, and will
be commenced forthwith. The labours of Sir I. Brunel, as
regards the tunnel itself, are completed—the key brick of the
last inch on the Middlesex side was inserted by the King of
Prussia, on his Majesty's visit last week, and the workmen
have for the last month passed under the Thames from
Rotherhithe to Wapping, and vice versa, as well as many
visitors, by special orders from the directors and secretary,
without the least inconvenience ; but it is shortly intended
to close the tunnel for a few weeks, to prevent any interrup-
tion to the operations of the workmen while forming the
circular staircases, and about the second or third week in
April the Thames Tunnel will be finally opened to the pub-
lic, who will be enabled to pass from one side of the river to
to the other on payment of a small toll, which has not yet
been fixed. The shield has been removed in compartments,
and is now lying on the wharf adjoining the shaft on the Mid-
dlesex side. About 3,000 passengers cross the ferry daily,
between Wapping and Rotherhithe, in the small boats, and
the number of persons who will avail themselves of the new
line of communication under water when the tunnel is
opened will probably be trebled. The arches appear to be
remarkably dry, and now both ends of the tunnel are opened,
and the workmen are enabled to enter both shafts, the ven-
tilation has been greatly improved, and the comforts of the
visitors, who were formerly inconvenienced by the confined
atmosphere of the place, much increased.
AWFUL Loss OF LIFE ANP PROPERTY.—Letters have
just been received by Mr. 'West, the secretary of the Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners Benevolent Society, giv-
ing information upon a most melancholy loss of life at
Chifden, in Galway, and of a great destruction of property of
a large body of fishermen at Dingle, in Kerry, both occa-
sioned by the tremendous storm of the 26th ult. The fol-
lowing extracts have been handed to us by the gentleman to
whom the communications were addressed :—" The enclosed
account of five persons lost on the 26th ult. reached me this
day ; the widows are all poor ; one of them is really desti-
tute. About twenty-two individuals were lost (all fishermen)
on the morning referred to, much the greater part of whom
have left families. All the accounts that reach me I shall
forward without delay. On Tuesday week we were visited
by the most awful storm that was ever remembered in this
country, and almost all the fishing-boats were driven from
their moorings and damaged, and seven were entirely lost ;
in every boat there:were eight men, who have a share in the
fishing, and so many families are consequently left quite des-
titute by the loss of their boats, as they would not be able to
replace them. One poor man was lying ill in measles, and
one child just dead, when the roof was blown off his wretched
cabin, and his boat lost ; they are now without food, fire, or
means of proctoring it, and in a roofless house. Another
poor man lost two boats before in the last three years, and
had (by joining seven others) procured one this winter, when
that also was wrecked, and he is now, with his companions
and their wives and children, in the most deplorable state.
From the remote situation of this place, and there being
6,000 inhabitants in the little town of Dingle (mostly fisher-
men's families) their poverty and distress is beyond descrip-
tion."—London Timm

StiCERRION iefLOP.I WESLEYAN METHOPIAM....-.The Wee>
'cyan Methodists (as stated in our last), have lately lost
an able and talented young preacher, in he person of the
eldest son of one of their oldest and most highly esteemed
West Indian missionaries. The young man was educated
at one of their public schools, and subsequently became a
local preacher in the Macclesfield circuit, by which he was
called out by the Conference to enter on their itinerary,
and in which he has been occupied nearly four years. He
has had many doubts as to the scriptural authority of their
administration ; but after careful examination of their con-
stitutional government with that of the Established Church,
he candidly and straightforwardly declared that he would no
longer continue in the ranks of dissent ; but, with hearty
wishes for the real welfare of the Wesleyans, he would vo-
luntarily and conscientiously pass over to the one apostolic
and Catholic Church of Christ.—Staffordshire Gazette.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A LADY.—A painful sensation
has been excited in Bath by the death of a young lady, of the
name of Rathbone, who had, with her mother, been residing
in Henrietta-street for two years past. Jt appears that hav-
ing had a rash break out upon her person, she called in Dr.
Watson, who prescribed a saline or fever medicine for her,
and left the prescription at the shop of a chemist named
Watts, with directions for the medicine to be prepared and
sent to the residence of the young lady. The chemist's
assistant, named Collins, in making up the medicine, by some
mistake used the liquor of ammonia instead of the liquor of
the acetate of ammonia. The medicine ordered was compa-
ratively harmless, that given was a powerful caustic, which
caused such an irritation as to accelerate, it not produce
death. At the inquest held on the body of the unfortunate
deceased, Dr. Watson stated, that having been again sent
for, and told that Miss Rathbone was in great danger, " I
went as soon as I possibly could, and on entering the room I
found her mother in great alarm. Mr. Watts was in the
room, and on my asking what was the matter, the deceased
herself said, Oh, Dr. Watson, lam poisoned!' or words to
that effect. She was in a state of extraordinary excitement
and alarm. I turned round and asked Mr. Watts what had
happened ? He replied that something had been given by
mistake. The deceased was vomiting large quantities of a
ropy fluid, streaked with blood. She was in exceeding dis-
tress from its constantly obstructing the breathing, and com-
pelling her to be constantly spitting and retching. On ex-
amining the mouth, I found the tongue, and, as far as I
could see into it, the mouth, as well as the external lips,
exceedingly red, and appearing as if deprived of their natural
covering. She complained of great pain in the throat, and
every attempt to swallow the smallest quantity of fluid
created intense agony." The malady from which Miss
Rathbone was suffering was scarlet fever • and the jury, in
conformity with the medical evidence adduced, returned a
verdict " that the deceased died from disease, but that her
death was accelerated by medicine dispensed by mistake."

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