The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

the week. ending Dec. 10, 1842
d. I Oats.. I7s. 3d. I Rye

3d. I Pease.. 325. 3d

age of the six weeks.
Od. Oats .. 17s. 7d. Rye.. 30
3d. Pease.. 333. 6d.

Grain, Rm. this week.
d. I Oats .. . Bs. Od. I Rye.. 10s. 6(
d. Ind-Corn es. Od. Flour 125.01

Colonies out of Europe.
6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye...
I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. I Flour 3s
Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec. 13. 1842.
Wheat. 1 Barley.' Oats. Beans. 1 Pease.:
Qrs 1953 24 150
Prices 4os. Id. 225. 6d. 116 s. 3d. Os. Od.

Wheat,
Beans.

. Os. Od. Barley-2
28. Od I Pease.. Is. oc

THE BLASPHEMOUS PUBLICATION SHOP.

On Saturday, James Patterson, of No. 8, Holywell-street,
was summoned before Mr. Hall, at Bow-street Police-office,
for exhibiting to public view, in the window of the shop No.
8, Holywell-street, certain blasphemous publications.
Mr. Chambers attended as counsel for the prosecution.
After considerable delay, George Clarke, shopboy to the
defendant, came forward and said his master was out of
town, and he did not know when he would return. The boy
was subjected to a rigid examination by Mr. Chambers, and
stated that Mr. Patterson was gone to Gloucester, and would
not be back for some time. He had told him that he would
write and let him know where to direct his letters, but he
had not yet heard from him. He (the boy) always slept in
the room behind the shop, except when his master was there,
and then he went home to his mother. Mr. Patterson paid
him Bs. a week. Before his father died, which was in June
last, he (the boy) went to school. His father did not know
Mr. Patterson. He had heard of the place, after his father's
death, from a friend. He (the boy) had heard that persons
complained that the bills were put up in the windows. He
had seen Mr. Patterson put them up, but did not know who
wrote them. There was a paper up at the present time; it
was about Mr. Bruce ; it was brought by a young man whom
he (the boy) had seen once before. He (Clarke) knew Mr.
Patterson's handwriting, but he could not say whether be
wrote the paper. He (Clarke) bad often been ordered to
write out the contents of the Oracle of Reason, and stick
them in the window. Mr. Patterson published another work
beside the Oracle of Reason, which was called the Yahoo.
The boy also stated that a gentleman was taking care of the
shcp who used to go and see Mr. Patterson, but he (Clarke)
did not know his name. He knew Mr. Ryan, the secretary
to the society, but it was not him. The boy was then asked
by Mr. Chambers if be could see any friends of Mr. Patter-
son in court, and pointed out a boy, who, on being called up,
stated that Mr. Patterson was gone, he believed, to see Mr.
Hollyoake, who was confined in Gloucester gaol. This party,
on being asked to give his name, refused to do so, and also •
declined giving any information concerning Mr. Patterson
beyond what he had stated.

I Mr. Chambers then addressed Mr. Hall, and said, that he
appeared on the part of the Government, who had felt them-
' selves called upon to punish the parties who had, in a narrow
street, called Holywell-street (which was a great thorough-
fare), exhibited to public view certain blasphemous papers,
which must raise feelings of indignation in the minds of all
well-disposed and well-thinking people. The Government,
he repeated, had felt themselves bound to remove an ex-
hibition which tended to sow in the minds of young persons
the seeds of damnation, ruin, and agony, which must neces-
sarily follow, should the cause be allowed to continue. But
in prosecution of their duty the Government did not wish-to
deal harshly with the parties who were the prime cause of the
mischief. They would not, therefore, demand a warrant on
the present occasion. It was their intention to proceed firmly
but severely ; they would, therefore, only require a second
summons to be issued to-day, warning the man Patterson,
that unless he attended and disclosed the names of the parties
who had written the papers, a warrant would immediately
issue for his apprehension.
Mr. Hall immediately granted Mr. Chambers's application,
and ordered four fresh summonses to be served on Mr. Pat-
terson as soon as possible.
The boy Clarke was then called forward, and ordered by
Mr. Hall to tell his mother to come to this court next week, in
order that she might be forewarned what danger her son in-
curred by continuing in the service in which he then was.
The parties then retired.

CARMARTHENSIIIRE ELECTION.—The day fixed by the
sheriffs proclamation for the election of a knight of the shire
fur this county, in the room of the late John Jones, Esq.,
deceased, is Tuesday, the 27th instant, when the nomination'
will take place at Llandilo. No opposition to the retnrn of
Mr. Saunders Davies is expected.—Welshman.
NAPOLEON.—Thursday being the anniversary of the trans-
lation of the remains of Napoleon to Paris, a grand funeral
service was celebrated in the Church of the Invalids, in
presence of the Marshal Duke of Reggio Governor of the
hotel, General Gourgaud, and other officers, who formerly
belonged to the Emperor's household. During the whole
day the column on the Place Vendome was visited by many
soldiers and officers of the old army, several of whom were
dressed in the Imperial uniform.

A FALSE ALARM.—The sojourn of the King at Fontaine-
bleau was disturbed by an incident which created considerable
alarm in the palace. An officer going the rounds had just
arrived under the windows of the apartment occupied by the
King, when a loud explosion was heard. All. the military
posts immediately took arms, the palace was surrounded,
and the most activesearches were made. But this panic was
only of short duration for it was soon discovered that the
explosion proceeded from the musquet of a sentry going off
as :he was presenting arms to an officer. Nobody, fortu-
nately, was wounded.—La Presse.

NORTH SHROPSHIRE ELECTlON.—Tiseollnt Clive, eldest
son of Earl Powis, has announced himself as a candidate for
the representation of North Shropshire, vacant by the eleva-
tion of Sir Rowland Hill to the Peerage. The noble Lord,
in his address to the electors, says, " Should I be honoured
by being elected as your representative, I shall anxiously en-
deavour to support the honour and dignity of the Crown,
and to maintain the privileges and efficiency- of the Church.
I shall study to support the rights and liberties of the people,
and to protect the institutions to which they owe their origin
and preservation, both by resistance to those who clamour
for their destruction, and by a readiness to adopt such im-
provements as altered circumstances may require." Lord
Clive, in all probability, will be returned without opposition.
THE LATE DOCTOR MITFORD.—Died on Saturday week,
at Three Mile-Cross, Shinfield, G. Mitford, Esq., M.D., in
the 82d year of his age. Dr. Mitford was well known in this
county as an active magistrate, and was for many years chair-
man of the Reading division petty sessions. He was a warm
partisan of the Whig interest at our contested elections, and
before his removal to the neighbourhood resided in Reading.
His name has, however, become better known to thousands
in connexion with the elegant writings of his daughter, the
authoress of " Our Village." In Miss Mitford's works. the
reader must have observed numerous allusions to her father,
and in them will be found at once the most permanent record
of his character, and the most touching illustrations of that
devoted filial piety which forms the best and the brightest
addition to her brilliant literary reputation. Berkshire
Chronicle.

THE ARCHDUKE FREDERICK.—HIS Imperial Highness
the Archduke Frederick of Austria will take his departure
on Wednesday next. in his frigate the Bellona. Since his
return to Portsmouth his highness has visited all the public
establishments there—the Dockyard, Gun-wharf, Victualling-
office, and Haslar Hospital, as well as the flag-ships St.
Vincent and Victory, and the Excellent gunnery-ship, and
the Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay. The archduke
went over to Ryde on Sunday morning, and returned in the
evening. It is stated that he will proceed to-morrow
Southampton to Canford on a visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager. On Thursday he dined with General Sir Hercules
and Lady Pakenham, when a distinguished party, including
most of the officers of the garrison, were invited to meet
him. On Sunday, after his return from the Isle of Wight,
he dined with Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, and a large
party of naval and military officers, who were specially in-
vited by the gallant admiral.

EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE.—COnSiderabIe Sen-
sation has been created in the neighbourhood of Kennington
Common by the sudden departure from her home, last
Monday, of a young person, aged 18, daughter of a highly
respectable gentleman in a government department. She
availed herself of an opportunity of leaving the house un-
observed, without bonnet or shawl, and without any means
of subsistence, immediately after breakfast, having previ-
ously changed her ordinary dress for one of extremely mean
description. The cause of leaving home and of her absence
is inexplicable, from the fact of her having been an almost
constant inmate within doors, through lameness and de-
formity of one of her feet from infancy, which compelled her
to use crutches, but she did not take them with her, and
from the fact of having been wholly unconnected with any
one in the neiglibourhood. She appears to have been seen
half a mile from home in the course of the morning, and,
although enquiries have been made at many of the police
stations and elsewhere in the neighbourhood, not the least
information can be had for her discovery. Her parents, of
course, are in the greatest distress of mind.