The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-10-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LEICESTXR.—We are sorry to bear comilaints from the mane" facturers principally engaged in the London trade, on the c thoo e Untied flatness of the dema, d. Considering that it is now  usually dull. The country houses are better r.eca;cel a foil average business in wrought hose : the suPPIYAt Wool* equalto the demand. The straight-down branch is ""  and Yarns are stationary, ,A ith rather less doing  A policeman, named Bowling, 347 K, deposed that he was sent for by the girl's master, that she made the same gisenbeuraslieedongi'good city statement to him, and he took the prisoner into custody ; Tim NAVIGATION LAws.—Mr. Cobden 's •ible en. and that upon proceeding to the house with the girl on of Manchester is well disposed to do that honorable g stair- Mrs.tFierrnacne'isowmorakkirbigratvhealyt.kinWathioilmst tshteillsaarns heenrigphrot,pleiretyfr in nd tahe child's passage c a case. The girl, to give a further colouring. to the matter, vert to free trade, by pointing out to them that one of its leading (identified tto theb y stated that when she entered the prisoner's house with results will be the destruction of the colonial supremacy Rowling, she saw the cap thrown from the top of the of Great Britain, Man; by her Chamber of Coma the h u former m ander landing on the top of the staircase, but although she saw merce, is about to lend a helping hand to our faithleo the hand which threw it down stairs, she did not see the ally over the channel, by procuring from a Whig govern' body of the person. ment (if it can be done by menace or cajolery), a repeal On this evidence the magistrate bad no alternative but of the navigation laws. For the sake of saving a trifling to commit the prisoner for trial, and he was sent away in impost now applied to those who complain, but who are the police van to gaol, not before he had loudly protested very far from being the real sufferers, these patriotic Ina; his innocence, and declared that the girl was perjured. nufacturers are, in their insanity, committing an act 0 The same evidence was given on the trial, and his pro- suicide upon themselves. The repeal of these 181°S, testations of innocence, and the excellent character he re- would reduce Great Britain to a fifth-r ate power. ceived from several witnesses, availed him nothing. He owe their establishment to the Protector Cromwell : tbel was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned and form one of the solitary flowers reared by him amid till, kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for three desolation which he had caused and cultivated on the so!: months. of the monarchy, and had he done nothing more. and le" Among the witnesses to character was a respectable undone all that he did besides, no one would have con: woman, named Swift, a former landlady of the prisoner's, tested his right to a statute as one among the benefactors who after the trial expressed publicly a strong opinion of of England. The wise administration of these laws ba. his innocence, and the wickedness and perjury of the girl helped to establish the naval supremacy and the corn' Evans. Two or three nights after the trial, the girl rnercial greatness of the empire. By them cur vast car' Evans was sent out upon an errand, and she returned rying trade is secured to British subjects, and the itnl,l)r; with her bonnet torn, her clothes in disorder, and blood taut art or science of ship-building encouraged within 1_ streaming from her face. On the master and mistress own private and public establishments. By their repeal' inquiring how she came to be in that state, she stated that our ports would be filled by foreign vessels bearing °,13,. she had been waylaid by the woman Swift, who made a produce; foreign crews working the ships so employe' ; furious attack upon her and cut her face. On the evening and we should not alone have distress among a wide class of Friday, the 2nd instant, the girl was again sent out, to who have not hitherto grievously felt that visitation, but fetch some milk, and she returned apparently suffering with it we should lose our nursery for seamen, and oar from violence inflicted upon her, and said the woman navy would, as long as it remained to us be built in 'ce Swift had again waylaid her in the Back-road, and after reign yards. There is no doubt but that, i,, f this new neii striking her several times about the head and face ran mand fur repeal be complied with, foreign seamen won away. On the following day, she complained that Mrs. be engaged to work at a considerably lower rate of vraqa Swift had assaulted her while she was cleaning the door than our own, and vessels for English proprietors `col'', steps. In consequence of these alleged repeated attacks be built on French; and !American stocks at In°, on the girl, she was advised to seek redress at the police- less cost than they are now built on our own ; but tbe,6., court, and obtained a peace-warrant against Mrs. Swift. adv antages .0 bf pin with would he ruin in the end, 0n`.1.11,1 On the following afternoon (Sunday, the 4th instant,) would be found that a repeal of the navigation laws Vt'°u4 about half-past one o'clock, the attention of the girl and be, in reality, an enactment for enriching the foreigner at her cries for help, and upon proceeding into the front par- the mortal and countless cost of the people of Great Bra' lour, armed with a large carving-knife, and after knocking tamp.—Church and State Gazette.