The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-03-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUBSTITUTION OF AFFIRMATION FOR OATH.Wood, Sir E. Buxton, and Mr. Bouverie, have brc bill to extend to all persons who believe the to n oath to be forbidden by their duty to God, the lief allowed to divers sects of Dissenters, who are  .es in c  to make a solemn affirmation in lieu The bill. provides that any person having a tion to take an oath, may go bef a solemn declaration to that (  a fee of 2:  rom hereafte  of an oath, without having mad cation: Persons giving false evid4  COURT • AND I  sty held a  gent-street five-sixths of the shopkeep ers were in a state of insolvency ; and more failures had taken place within the last two or threee years than in the recollection of the oldest man of business in the district. He had had the curiosity to make an examination of some facts happening in the very heart of London. The area he had taken was a very small one, but it included every description of shopkeeper, being from Farrington-street to the Old Bailey. It contained 22 shops. The period his inquiries extended to was from 1839 to 1849, and he found that during that period one house had retired upon a competency, no doubt made in other times—he alluded to Rundell and Bridge-five others were still in existence, and 35 other persons or firms had occupied those 22 houses, and had successively failed. (Hear, hear.) If, then, it could be proved thit seven-eighths of the houses were failing within a period of ten years, it was proved to demonstration that we had yet to experience the benefits and wisdom of cheapening foreign produce. He considered the shipping interests of this great country were taking the proper course in asking the government and the legislature to pause and reconsider their acts before taking another step which must add to the misery and poverty of the country.  Omen! itlizrellanv.  brig " Pandora" is reported to be cm home with nine tons of Californian gold worth £9OO. A brig on the stocks, nearly ready for launchir burned at Sunderland on Sunday week, together adjacent workshops, workmen's tools, &c. Captain Kellett, R.N., has been suddenly ox to Behring's Straits, in search of t command of Sir John Franklin No less than 800,000  The surve  dered c  ,ckerel were brought into nce, which, at 10s. per hundred—  olesale price—were worth £4 The Shropshire Conservative tester, a magistrate of Sim ml Chari formerly  ustees  3vgn Council, his been e  Letropo  pointmer  destru  less than  the 160 r  1. as clerk to the W. D. Brice. Esa,  n by tir  to prove t  ies, has I  t the Rev. (  *n outt  .rly take  a all the  £60,000.  he Lord' Chancel  rge bags of tobacco, being up t. The pedestrian followers _ ran off with the whole booty, which 1 been hidden there by smugglers. Dr. Crooks, a physician of Kentish towr dead, with his throat cut, on Wednesday morning, near the Model Prison, Pentonville. It is not quite certain whether he had committed suicide or had been murdered. At all events he had been robbed. On Saturday, at Lambeth Police-office, a governess in an infant national school was remanded on the very serious charge of having placed a boy, three years of age, on a heated stove, and burnt his person in so frightful a manner that his life is in danger. Mr. John Duncan, the African traveller, whose journey through and beyond the territory of the King of Dahomey has already been made public, is about to leave England shortly on another expedition, with the view of prosecuting further discoveries in the unexplored regions of that country.  ,ow Pc  Id Mail inf  stol,_ J  ;ers on board, none were lost  cover several la hundred weigh quick  was found