The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS,

BARIC.—We understand that the price of bark for the
current year is fixed at £4 15s. per ton, being the same price
as lust season.
No HOPE OF OFFICE.—The late Postmaster-General, the
Earl of Lichfield, is gone to Naples with his family, and his
establishments in England are entirely broken up.

FRESH BUTTER.—This article is wonderfully lowered in
price. In Hereford market, five weeks ago, it was is 4d. It
is now selling there at 10d.
The investigation of the double return for Cardigan lasted
hut half an hour. The expense to the hon. member, Pryse
Pryse, Esq., exceeded £l2oo.—Cambrian.

Thursday being the anniversary of Napoleon's death, a
funeral service, " for the repose of his soul," was celebrated
in all the churches of Paris, after the popish fashion.
Prince Albert has sent a splendid new carriage to his sister
as a present on her approaching marriage with the Grand
Duke of Baden.

The rumoured decision of the judges to separate the
county of York from the Northern and attach it to the Mid-
land Circuit is destitute of foundation. It appears that the
judges have no power to alter the circuits.

INSOLVENCY OF MR. C. MATHEWS.-Mr. C. Mathews,
the late manager of Covent-garden Theatre, has declared his
insolvency by riling a petition in the Insolvent Debtors'
Court.

VORACITY OF THE TROUT.—Last a week a gentleman
caught a trout at Pyne's Weir, near Exeter, which weighed
rather less than one pound and a half, but there were no less
than forty-six full-grown minnows found in its inside.
About three o'clock on Tuesday morning the noted chart-
ist, John Chance, was apprehended at Oldswinford, under a
warrant of the magistrates of Dudley, for uttering seditious
language.—Ten Towns' Messenger.

OPENING OF THE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY TO SANDBACH.—On Tuesday the second portion
of this line—namely, from Stockport to Sandbach, twenty-
one miles, was opened to the public, making the length now
open from Manchester twenty-six miles and a half.

SHETLAND PONIES.—A pair of these beautiful little ani-
mals arrived by the steam-ship City of Aberdeen, Captain
Morrison, last week, at the Aberdeen Steam-packet-wharf,
St. Catharine's. They were specially ordered by Major
General Wemyss, and are intended for his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales's pony phaeton.
GOOD, THE MURDERER. The unfortunate victim of
Good's horrible depravity, was a native of Myfod, Mont-
gomeryshire. Her father had not, for a period of six years,
received a communication from her, or the slightest intima-
tion of where she was. He is a poor, but honest and in-
dustrious man, much respected in his situation in life.

TRIAL OF DANIEL GOOD.—It is understood that the trial
of Daniel Good, accused of the murder of Jane Jones, alias
Jane Good, will take place on Friday (this day). The trial
of Thomas Cooper, the murderer of the policeman Timothy
Daley, it is expected, will be postponed until the next
sessions.

It appears by a correspondence which has taken place
between the Rev. John Davies, Rector of St. Nicholas,
Gloucester, and the Registrar-General, that Superintendent-.
Registrars are not warranted in granting certificates for mar-
riages to be performed in a parish or chapelry where neither
of the contracting parties resides.
Some sensation has been created at Portslade, which is
about two miles from Brighton and the vicinity, in conse-
quence of a wealthy and highly respected farmer, named
Mott, residing in that place, having committed self-destruc-
tion by cutting his throat, on Thursday last. The unfortu-
nate gentleman had crawled into a hedge previous to inflict-
ing the fatal injury upon himself.
THE NEW TARIFF.—On Tuesday last, a cargo of Ham-
burgh flour was offered for sale in this city at 20s. per cwt.—
the first arrival under the new tariff. The quality was infe-
rior to our own manufacture, both in fineness of dressing and
colour. There has also arrived a cargo of American, in casks.
The quality of the sample appears very good ; but 235. 6d.
per cwt., the price asked for it, is higher than our finest
Carlows, which are decidedly a superior article.—Dublin
Statesman.
LAMENTABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—Last Saturday, a child
aged six years, the son of a widow, residing in Nelson-street,
Tradeston, died under most distressing circumstances. On
the preceding Thursday the child went into a neighbouring
bakehouse, while the men were absent, and meeting there
with a message boy between ten and twelve years of age, the
elder boy, by way of practical joke, thrust some hogs' lard
down the child's throat. This rash act was instantly suc-
ceeded by the agonies of suffocation—and the poor child,
though partially relieved by medical aid, suffered so much by
fright, that he speedily became delirious, and continued in
strong convulsive fits till death put an end to his sufferings.
—Glasgow Courier.
During the storm of thunder and lightning in London, on
Monday afternoon, considerable alarm was experienced by
the inmates of the house of Mr. Muggeridge, butcher, at
Southampton-street, Camberwell, at hearing a loud crash,
and feeling a shaking of the building, as proceeding from the
foundation. After their alarm had somewhat subsided, they
found that the electric fluid had entered the house near the
roof, passing through the next house, and damaging a house
on the opposite side of the street. The two first-named
houses are literally rent in two, and will require to be pulled
down. The other is but slightly injured.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, London, on Tuesday, the
adjourned examination took place of Mr. Robinson, who car-
ried on an extensive business in Leadenhall-street, and had
embarked to an immense amount in the tallow speculations
of the year 1810. His present debts and liabilities are up-
wards of £50,000, and his assets about £5000; the large defi-
ciency being attributed by him to his tallow speculations. The
bankrupt entered into a detailed explanation of the discrepen-
cies in his accounts, as complained of by the assignees. No
less than a million of bills had passed through his hands,
upon which the stamp duty alone was £1,400, and every one
of them was entered in his bill book. He had offered his
creditors every opportunity of testing his integrity, with which
they were perfectly satisfied. He only sought to pass his ex-
amination as an honest man, or not at all.
DANIEL DONE OVER.—A good deal of amusement was
excited a day or two since by the publication of a letter from
the renowned Daniel O'Connell. to some one in Dublin about
the state of politics. Daniel appears to be astounded and
overwhelmed by the power of the conservatives. " The
tories," he says, " have the parliament completely in their
power—they can enact any law they please—lreland is pros-
trate before them—any movement on our part in either
House of Parliament would be met with derision and con-
temptuously rejected. The tories have unlimited power.
The throne is in their possession—they have the sceptre under
their feet." Poor Daniel must be very uncomfortable before
he would rave in this fashion. The days of his patronage are
at an end. He can no longer make money of his influence
as a patriotic member of parliament. Hence the rage which
possesses him. He should recollect that if the tories have
unlimited power, he ought to be much obliged to them for
allowing such a person as he is to go at large. He ought to
be grateful, and not so sorrowful nor so angry. We are very
disinterested in these hints, for his melancholy extravagance
is highly amusing.
THE CASE OF MR. BANKES.—Our readers will recollect,
that some months ago Mr. Bankes, once M.P., was brought
to Bow-street Police-court, charged with indecently assault-
ing a soldier in the enclosed grounds of St. James's Park,
when Mr. Jardine, the magistrate, held him to bail in a very
trifling sum, considering his rank and property ; that it was
afterwards found out that one of the bail was not the person
he represented himself to be, and the defendant was again
apprehended and ordered to enter into fresh recognizances,
which he immediately did ; Mr. Bodkin, who appeared as
his counsel, declaring that his client was most anxious to
meet the charge and clear his character from the asper-
sion that had been cast upon it. When, however, the
Old Bailey sessions commenced, the anxiety of the defend-
ant to clear his character had altogether ceased, and he
was not forthcoming to meet the charge, and the case was
removed by certiorari into the Court of Queen's Bench.
The Judges who presided at the Old Bailey ordered that he
should enter into recognizances himself in £5,000 and two
sureties in £2,500 each, to take his trial in the Court of
Queen's Bench. This it was not convenient for the defend-
ant to do, and he accordingly set out on his travels, and is
now resident abroad. In the mean time his former recog-
nizances were estreated, and the amount thereof (X 4,000)
has been duly paid into her Majesty's Exchequer. Govern-
ment have resolved that offenders of this description should
not be allowed to set the law at defiance, as they have hitherto
done, by paying the trifling amount in which magistrates
have thought it their duty to hold them to bail. If the de-
fendant
does not return to this country and take his trial, he
will be declared an outlaw, and all the property he possesses
here be forfeited to the crown.—Sunday Paper.
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.-011 Wednesday
morning the annual meeting of the members and friends of
this society was held at Exeter Hall, Lord Ashley, M.P., in
the chair. His lordship commenced the business of the day
by an allusion to the objects and proceedings of the society.
He spoke at some length on the advantages likely to accrue
from its operations, if properly conducted and well sup-
ported. The report commenced by stating that the com-
mittee could not but feel that the character and value of
this society were sufficiently attested by the warm and
liberal support which, from the very first day of its exist-
ence, it had uniformly received at the hands of the Christian
public. The need of more ministers of the Gospel in the
Church of England, and the lamentable consequences of
the spiritual destitution which prevailed throughout the
country (especially in the mining and manufacturing dis-
tricts), sickening to the heart of the Christian philanthro-
pist, and creating trouble and apprehension even in the mind
of the politician and the statesman, had long been observed
and deeply deplored. The establishment of a society, there-
fore, was joyfully hailed, which had for its object the re-
moval, or at least the mitigation of these evils, by in-
creasing the number of spiritual labourers in that portion
of the Lord's vineyard situated in this land. The results
of the late census show the present amount in England
and \Vales to be about 16,000,000, exhibiting an increase of
2,000,000 within the last ten years. Now supposing that,
on an average, two thousand souls were consigned to the
care of a single clergyman, 1,000 new churches and 1,000
additional ministers would be required to supply the spiritual
wants of these 2,000,000 who have been added to our popu-
lation during that period, leaving out of the question the vast
surplus of the population who, at the beginning of those ten
years, were altogether destitute of the means of grace. Not-
withstanding all that has been done during the last ten years
(and never for some centuries past have such strenuous ef-
forts been made both by private and public benevolence) the
spiritual deficiency is greater at the end than at the beginning ;
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to resign his post, and the church probably have
been closed. Several of the churches thus aided have
recently been augmented in income by the ecclesiastical
commissioners, and have thus relieved the funds of the so-
ciety. Much encouragement has also been given to the
erection of new churches by the society's grants. The total
number of grants for which the society is at present respon-
sible is 280, being 216 for stipends for clergymen, and 34 for
lay assistants. The annual charge to the society for the
maintenance of the respective grants is £21,800. The in-
cumbents aided provide from personal and local resources
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to Almighty God for the measure of success with which
had been pleased to crown the society's labours. The Hon.
and Rev. E. Tottenham, the Rev. R. Burgess,
clergymen, addressed the meeting. A vote a thanks was and other.
passed to Lord Ashley.