The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD, AND GEIWRAL CO

GENERAL INTELLIGEYCE

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YecirTlNG.—There will be scarcely any yachting this
year at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, owing to the great
demand for sailors.

NINE FUGITIVE SLAVES were recently arrested in Cin•
cinnati and surrendered to their owners. There was nc
disturbance.

LA.NCE.—A letter from Bucharest, of the 24th;
states that a number of Russian hussar regiments are im-
mediately to be armed with lances. A smith of that town
is making 6,000 huice-heads for the Russian general.
REPRESENTATION OF CAMBRIDGE.—Lord Maidstone
has issued an address to the electors of Cambridge,offer-
ing himself as a candidate for the representation of their
borough as soon as the writs are issued.
HEALTH OF THE BALTIC FLBET.—There have been
two cases of cholera in the Duke of Wellington. Two
died in the hospital-ship, one recovered on board the Duke,
and one is recovering in the hospital-ship.—Medical
Times and Gazette.
THE REINFORCEMENTS to our army in Turkey will
amount, in new regiments, drafts, and detachments, to
nearly 10,000 more troops. They are to be sent as soon
as possible to the seat of war. When they have all
reached, there will be more than 40,000 British soldiers
in Turkey.
A DANGEROUS ANIMAL.—A labourer named David
Goodall has been fearfully gored by a bull which was
unexpectedly loose in a farm-yard of Mr. Thorpe, at Whit-
ley, in Berkshire. Goodall met the animal's rush with a
dung-fork, but was knocked down, and two of his ribs
broken by the creature before it could be driven away.
He is expected, however, to recover.
FATAL FOLLY.—Miss Jane Bellingham, a passenger by
an excursion train to the South-western Railway, finding
it did not stop at Cosham, near to which some of her
friends resided, jumped out from the carriage while the
train was going at about twenty miles an hour. She
broke her ankle and received such severe injuries as have
caused her death.
A Manor-Jar ro ROME.—The Western Christian
Advocate (U.S.) states that the brethren of the Union
Chapel, Cincinnati, have determined to support a mis-
sionary to the Eternal City. He is to go as an American
citizen and a Protestant missionary, claiming to exercise
the proper functions of his ministerial office. They have
selected their man, and await the action of the Missionary
Society and the Bishop.
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, two houses on
I Saffron-hill, London, fell one after another, burying 5 men
who were pulling them down under the debris. The first
discovered, Cornelius Hart, had his skull fractured, and
there is little hope of his recovery. A quarter of an hour
after W. Burnett and Philip Long were dug out, and a
young man named English, and three-quarters of an hour
after the fall of the buildings, another man was found,
Edward Conway, injured least of all. The houses were
built, some of them, in 1660, and were being pulled down
for improvements by, the Corporation.
A VIPER.—The little daughter of a hawker, named
Maria Scamp, at Adisham, a village near Margate, was
last week carrying a small bundle of wood, which she had
picked up, and, seeing a viper on the ground; took it into
her hand, when the reptile bit her in the thumb and cheek.
Terrific swelling ersued, and the girl was conveyed to
the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, where every stimulant
that could be devised was applied ; and though she has
been in a state of stupor, there are hopes of her system
mastering the poison. One eye is closed through the
swelling, and her arm is in a greatly inflamed state.
Tarsi, BY Jun-r.—A prisoner was recently tried at the
Cambridge sessions, for stealing a copper kettle, and
acquitted. He was then tried for stealing a cloth cap,
and again the verdict was "Not guilty" The court,
being of opinion that the verdict was in both cases against
the evidence, now dismissed the jury, and summoned a
new one to try him on the third charge, which was one of
stealing some t-dlow. The prisoner, however, by advice
of his counsel "peremptorily challenged" every new jury-
man produced, till the list ofjurymen was exhausted. In
the end he was sent back to prison till the next assizes.
REPEAL OF THE USURY LAWS.—Mr. Gladstone's bill to
repeal the usury laws has been printed. It repeals all the
acts against usury, down to and including the renowned
" Statute of Anne," and also the act of the 13th and
14th of Victoria (now unnecessary) for continuing the
exemption of bills of exchange from the usury laws, and
so much of the act of 1835 as protected usurious securities
in the hands of innocent parties. The bill has two other
clauses—one providing that it shall not affect existing
rights or liabilities ; the other, that where interest is now
payable under any contract whereby the legal or current
rate of interest is to be paid, or where interest is now pay-
able by any rule of law, the same rate shall be recoverable
as if this bill had not passed.
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DEATH.—Two women, mother and
daughter, were recently found in their apartment in
Castlehill, Scotland, the one sitting in a chair, the other
lying on the bed, corpses. No trace of violence was visible
on the bodies, and the idea of suffocation is out of the
question, as the apartment was well ventilated. Indica-
tions of poison were also wanting, and nothing in the
house gave colour to the supposition that they had com
mitted suicide. That they had not died of want is alsc
satisfactorily proved, from the remains of bread, porter
Sr.c., found on searching the apartment. A post mortern

examination of the bodies took place, but it resulted in
nothing which could lead to any conjecture as to the
cause of death.

A NIGHT SCENE.—A few nights ago a man and his
wife, residing in the hamlet of Brancas, near Sevres, were
awoke by a noise in their bedroom, which the husband
said must proceed from the rats, but in order to satisfy
his wife he got out of bed and lighted a candle, when, to
his surprise, he saw the legs of a man, who was concealed
under his bed. He said nothing, but quietly took his
musket, and levelling it at the intruder told his wife to
jump out of bed and call the guard. The man under the
bed begged for mercy, but the other told him that on the
slightest movement he would fire. They remained in their
respective positions until the wife had brought the guard,
and the fellow, who was afterwards recognized as a liberated
convict, was then marched off to prison.
NECESSITY OP SHOOTING SCHOOLMASTEES.—The
(American) Richmond Examiner, in connexion with the
recent trial of Ward, of Kentucky, has the following
theory on the extinction of schoolmasters in general :
The South has for years been overrun with hordes of
illiterate unprincipled graduates of Yankee free schools
(those hotbeds of self-conceit and ignorance), who have
by dint of unblushing impudence, established themselves
as schoolmasters in our midst. So odious are some of these
`itinerant ignoramuses' to the people of the South—so full
of abolitionism and concealed incendiarism are many of
this class—so full of guile, fraud, and deceit—that the
deliberate shooting one of them down, in the act of
poisoning the minds of our slaves of our children, we think,
if regarded as homicide at all, should always be deemed
perfectly justifiable ; and we imagine that the propriety of
shooting an abolition schoolmaster, when caught tamper-
ing with our slaves, has never been questioned by any in-
telligent Southern man."

ANECDOTE OF SANTA A/figs.—Extract from a private
letter :—" Mexico, May 30.—1 will tell you a story. A
certain great man in this country went to wage war against
another man who had opposed him, and got most unmerci-
fully beaten. But so happy were the people that the
great man's courage and skill had enabled him to save his
own life and liberty for them, though at the expense of all
else, that on his return they received him with shouts of
joy, bonfires, and triumphal arches. A man said, in a
paper of which be is the editor, that the triumphal arches
were not nearly high enough for the laurels which the
immortal chief had gained in the war. For this assertion
the poor man was duly condemned to pay a fine of $4OO,
or in default of them to six months' imprisonment. Now
it appears that the phrase objected to, far from being a
sneer, was perfectly sincere, at least the supposed offender
succeeded so well in persuading the great man of this,
when an interview was granted him, that the fine was
remitted, the sentence annulled, and he dismissed with an
embrace, after receiving an invitation to dinner, and an
admission to the great man's box at the Lucrezia Borgia.
Tis a fact."

A GENTLEMAN WHO WANTS A. Wit)s.—The Saunders'
News Letter contains a most pathetic appeal to the fair sex
by a gentleman—the very paragon of animals—a widower,
48 years of age, of domestic habits and sweet temper.
We give the rest in his own words —" He was never tipsy
in his life ; not addicted to smoking or gambling ; his
propensity, the society of genteel accomplished ladies,
music, singing, and dancing ; his property about £7,000,
in different ways, and a large farm in possession, yielding
profit about £3OO a year on an average ; is a liberal Pro-
testant—never a party man of any kind. He takes advan-
tage of the public press to mention that he wishes for a
suitable companion ; can give reference to high dignitaries
of the Church of every creed, and also noblemen. In jus-
tice to himself he may mention that he is considered a per-
fect gentleman either in or out of society, with rather an
agreeable appearance, and in prime good health. He
keeps at present his carriage, and has done so for the last
2-0 years, together with phaeton, gig, and car. lie flatters
himself that any lady who allows the honour of an inter-
view will be highly pleased."
RUSSIAN POLITENBSS.—About the close of last July a
very loquacious and corpulent German lady, resident in
St. Petersburg, having quarrelled with her servants (Rus-
sians), the latter gave intimation to the Prefecture of
Police that the former had spoken of the Russian Govern-
ment in terms of reproach and disrespect. The lady re-
ceived a summons to appear before the prefect, to whom
she repaired accordingly, vowing revenge on the whole tribe
of servants. On her arrival at the office the prefect most
politely received her, and ushering her into a small box-
looking apartment, commenced reading over sundry
charges against her, which he had scarcely finished when
do i n sunk the corpulent lady through a trap in the
treacherous floor, above which nothing was to be seen of
her portly figure but her head, arms, and crumpled habili-
ments, and, shocking to relate, 30 blows from an unseen
hand were administered, where, however, they were unlikely
to cause permanent injury, except to the feelings of the
sufferer. On the completion of the sentence the stout
lady's person reappeared again above ground, almost
as suddenly as it had disappeared, and the prefect in
the most polite manner, bowed her out of the office.
TUB CANADIAN STEAMER CHARITY.—The delay in the
last arrival of the steamer Charity of Quebec (we quote
the Quebec Chronicle) was owing principally to her de-
tention in the ice, which caused her to run short of fuel,
and also by her inability to procure coal at any port on
the Lower St. Lawrence. The following resolution,
adopted at a meeting of the first-class pasengers, shows
their appreciation of the conduct of Captain Walter Paton
under very trying circumstances : ''That we, the first-
class passengers on board the steamship Charity, on her
voyage from Liverpool to Quebec, wish to convey to Cap-
tain Walter Paton, our due appreciation of the watchful
vigilance which has chaacterized his command through-
out the whole voyage, and more especially the great dis-
cretion he manifested amidst the perils of the ice and fogs
in the Straits of Belleisle and the Coast of Newfoundland,
and to state to him that whilst the many successive
anxious days and sleepless nights which found him at his
post on the bowsprit, at the masthead, and on the bridge
in the most inclement weather, secured our entire confi-
dence in him as our captain, at the same time we all
derived much pleasure and often real comfort from his
kind manner and cheerful spirits, whenever his duties
permitted his presence amongst us. (Signed) Captain
Gill. R.A., J. A. Wilkins, J. A. Dampier, M. J. Gill, I.
Lewine, William McDonald, John C. Henderson, J. E.
Henderson, C. Ashworth, Edward l(erston, J. L. Ash-
worth, M. Gill, E. Kerston, J< Deane, J. Ewing, J.
aTnnald, R. S‘ Diamore, and 4.lldreW Heyestitmtary,

LORD PALMERSTON'S PREC:OPT, in the matter pen-
manship, is said to be better than his example, for a more
miserable scrawl than his own is scarcely to be found.
IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.--The Court of
Queen's Bench has decided that railway companies are
responsible for any luggage given in charge to a porter at
a railway station.
THE NEW PRUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.—Count Bernstor
has left Berlin to assume his functions as Prussian
Minister at the court of St. James's.
THE KING OF PORTUGAL,—It is rumoured, and it is
said on credible authority, that the young King is not un-
likely to offer his hand to the Princess Charlotte of Bel.
gium.

AN ARRANGEMENT is said to be on foot amongst the
friends of Temperance, offended by the sale of wine and
other liquors at Sydenham, to purchase the Surrey Lk)lo-
gical Gardens and to erect a large building of glass. It
is proposed to raise £lOO,OOO, m one-pound shares, and
the gardens have been provisionally purchased f0r£25,000.
THE ACCESSION of Sweden to the alliance of the West.
ern powers will, it is said, shortly take place under certain.
conditions, by which its actual possessions are to be
guaranteed.
THE CHELTENHAM EXHIBITION has produced £1,700,
and the projectors expect to receive £2OOO before it closes.
This little rival of the Crystal Palace boasts a " largest at-
tendance" of 4000 persons. The exhibition will close on
Wednesday next, the admission on the last three days being
reduced to sixpence.
THE BULWER LYTTON UNIVERSITY GOLD MEDAL.—
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., has followed up his.
brilliant address of last winter to the Edinburgh students
by the intimation of a University prize. The Senatus
Academicus of the University have just offered, in Sir
Edward's name, a gold medal for the best essay " On the
influence exerted by the mind over the body in production
and removal of morbid and anomalous conditions of the
animal economy. The competition is open to all students
matriculated at the University of Edinburgh during: ses-
sion 1853-54.—Edinburgh Courant.
COMPOSITION or A MoNsTER.—The Iguanadon at the
Crystal Palace consists of four iron columns 9 feet long
by 7 inches diameter, 600 bricks, 650 5-inch half-round
drain tiles, 900 plain tiles, 38 casks of cement, 90 casks
of broken tone, snaking a total of 610 bushels of artificial
stone, with one hundred feet of iron hooping, and 20. feet
of cube inch bar.

LOSS OP AN ENGLISH SHIP IN TUB ATLANTIC:—
Captain Bradish of the Ashburton, which arrived here
last week from New York, reports that on the 23rd ult.,
at four p.m., in lat, 43. 21 N, long. 37 W, while standing
to the SE (wind NE) saw a sail to SSW, with _signals of
distress at the mast head. He immediately bore down to
the distressed vessel, which proved to be the Susan, of
Newcastle, from Cadiz to Halifax. She was at the time
in a sinking condition, and the crew, who were worn out
at the pumps, were about to abandon her. Captain
Bradish immediately sent his first officer on board, who
succeeded in taking the captain (Venus) and 12 of the
crew off the wreck. At 9.30 p.m., all hands being
removed, he set fire to the ship, to remove her from
causing damage to ships sailing in that direction, and left
her at one a.m., on the 24th, burnt to the water's edge.
SERIOUS FRAIMS.—At the Central Crimnal Court,
London, on Wednesday, Samuel Peters, a bankrupt draper
of Southampton, Moses Hart, a broker, and James Simeon,
an Australian merchant, were indicted on a charge of
committing a series of frauds upon wholesale drapers. It
was alleged that Peters had obtained on credit a large
stock of drapery three months before he was declared
bankrupt, and had so disposed of them to Hart and
Simeon that his schedule showed that there had been a
positive loss of £5,000 through the articles having been
sold as "job lots," at a reduction of 75 per cent. on the
cost price, but that they had been shipped off to Australia
with large prices marked on them. As the trial proceded,
it was apparent that no charge of conspiracy could be sub-
stantiated against Hart and Simeon, as they appeared
merely to have bought in a cheap market to sell in a dear
market : but evidence of fraud being considered conclusive
against Peters, the jury returned a verdict of. guilty, and
Baron Martin sentenced him to fifteen months' imprison-
ment with hard labour, if health permitted.

INCOUE-TAX.—The income-tax for the year ending
April 5, 1853, produced £5,747,256, and was raised in
the following proportions :—Schedule A (landowners),
£2,701,551; schedule B (occupiers), £295,593 ; schedule C
(fundholders), £749,209; schedule D (trades and profes-
sions), £1,671,957 ; schedule E (public offices), £328,943.
The following table, an analysis of schedule D, shows the
amount received in the year on the various classes of in-
come from trades and professions :

Income on Number of Amount of
which the Persons Tax charged
duty in upon
is charged. each class. each class.

Classes,

---- --
.e
Under £l5O a•year .. 2,478,416 33,138
.1150 & under.e2oo .. 6,346,590 40,473
200 ~ 300 .. 6,644,375 30,142
300
~ 400 .. 4,676,365 14,679
400 ~ 500 • • 2,997,636 7,189
500
~ 600 .. 2,701,499 5,260
600 ~ 700 - • 1,856,825 3,021
700
~ 800 .. 1.453.637 2,004
800
~ 900 .. 1,40',658 1,709
900 ~ 1,000 • • 753,971 815
1,000
~ 2,000 .. 6,244,246 4,843
2,000 „ 3,000 .. 3,361,033 1,436
3.000 „ 4,000 .. 2,252,638 683
4,000 „ 5,000.. 1,646,549 380
5,000 „ 10,000 .. 4,505,742 664
10,000 „ 50,000 .. 6,487,668 373
50,000 and upwards .. 2,803,780 33

146,882

72,287
183,108
193,794
136,393
87,431
78,793
54,157
42,397
40,832
22,019

MERCIAL ADVERTISER.

NOTES, NOTICES, AND OPINIONS

BY JOHANNES BUSTICUS.

XXVI.—TILE Cnuncn Ix TUE DOCKS.—The
display of impotent hostility to the Church made I
Bigham and Mr.. Robertson Gladstone, in the C
. .

Chamber, on Wednesday last, in reference toilie—gra"”tn7
of fifty pounds to the Rev. G. Dover, just serves to show
Churchmen what they are to expect, if ever such rampant
Radicalism as that exhibited by those two gentlemen

should attain such
in these realms.

a height as to possess the chief power
Then should we again see it enacted

(as in the days of the regicide Cromiell) that it should
be deemed a felony for a pious daughter to read the
prayers of the Church at the bedside of a dying parent—
again• behold nine-tenths (Mr. Gladstone's own proportion)
of her devoted clergy driven from their pulpits and their
homes to starve in exile—and again see heresy and rebel-
lion riding roughshod over Church and State. But matters
are not come to this pass yet. If Mr. Gladstone persists-in
the statement that " the'Church, as contrasted with every
other sect, is numerically the Church of the minority,"
let him recollect that the Church of Liverpool (as repre-
sented in the Council Chamber) is as twenty-six to fifteen
against all other sects put together! There can be no
question that the real offence of the Dock Committee was,
not the voting of £5O for a purpose not specified in the
act of Parliament, because it was shown that they are

constantly doing the like, in a variety of ways, but the
voting such a sum to a Church purpose. Had it been
given to a Papist or a Socinian, we may rest assured that
neither Mr. Gladstone nor Mr. Bigham would have raised
the slightest scruple about its legality. The argument
that, if a sum were voted to the Church, every dissenting
sect was equally entitled to a grant, was doubtless ex-
ceedingly "liberal," but it was surely very absurd and
illogical. The Church of England has been recognised
by the laws of England for three hundred years as an
authorised teacher of pure Christianity ; no dissenting
sect has been so recognised ; and that foreign apostacy
which Mr. R. Gladstone and his liberal confreres so espe—
cially delight to honour —Romanism —has been especially
disclaimed and denounced by the statutes of ten successive
generatiAns. Admitting, then, for a moment, that the
grant may be illegal, the difference between what the
Dock Committee has done, and what Messrs. Gladstone,
Bigham, and Hodgson would do, is just this—the former
has made an illegal grant to a legal and constitutional
institution, the latter would make an illegal grant to an
illegal and unconstitutional institution.

gXVII.—TnE CONFESSIONAL.—The Cincinnati papers
give the particulars of a disgusting attempt on the part
of a Romish priest to violate a young girl of fourteen,
who had gone to him to confession. The most noteworthy
(part of the case, however, and what makes it of impor-
tance: to the whole Protestant world, is the fact that
another priest, who was in the church were the atrocious
attempt was made, boldly swore that nothing of the
kind occurred—that no door was locked—no screams
heard ! The girl's statement was, however, so fully cor-
roborated by other witnesses, that the judge had no hesi-
tation in,binding over the accused to take his trial at the
next term of the criminal court. What if this had occur-
red in Rome, in Spaiu, in Tuscany, iu Florence, instead
of the United States ? Can any one doubt what would
have been the fate of Katherine Myers ?