The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

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and a Liberal Conserfative,
A LETTER FROM ROME mt._
antiquities, among which are two t
Robert, in tilt.
and the other of marble, both of admir-
the Via della Scrofa, and a granite columL
with a well-preserved Corinthian capital of n.
FEARGIIS O'Corrivoß died on Thursday of p,
the last two years he had been under the care
at Chiswick,
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sister, Miss O'Connor. He was of an ancient Irish fan.
which hasbeen
county of Cork.
GOLD.—The advices from Melbourne furnish the quantity
of gold shipped by the following vessels, the arrival of which
may be daily expected :—The Eagle, 13,979 ounces; Essex,
44,121 ounces ; Boomerang, 16.747 ounces ; and the North-
umberland, 63,148 ounces and 20,500 sovereigns—making a
total value of £572,900.
MORTALITY OF CHILDREN.—At an inquest in London on
a child, the coroner remarked that it was lamentable to find
that people paid more attention to their colts, pigs, cows, and
other animals than they did in many cases to their children.
In this country the mortality among children from curable
diseases was twenty to one slave child. The reason was that
the slaves were purchased to be made useful, and their owners
took every care of them. In the case before them the poor
woman had done all she could with her limited means, but the
marvel was that any of the family were alive.
LIEUT. GILBERT PICKERING, aged 30, who appears to
have been in monetary difficulties, shot himself through the
head last week, at his lodgings, in London. The coroner's
officer produced three letters which had been found, one of
which was addressed to Messrs. Cockburn, his agents, to the
following effect Dear Cockburn,—Pay the lady (his land-
lady) the £25 for her apartments. When you receive this I
shall be no more. Do not fail, or the eternal curses of a dying
man light on you.—G. PICKERING."
LAMENTABLE EFFECT OF MISCHIEF.—A boy named Alfred
Cox, 14 years old, has been sentenced by Alderman Finnis to
three weeks' imprisonment, for throwing a handful of lime
into the face of a girl named Margaret Grant. There was no
provocation for the act, which appears to have been one of
wanton mischief. The poor girl, who was of attractive ap-
pearance, has lost the sight of an eye and is disfigured for life.
The mother of the boy came forward, and in the most piteous
accents begged the Alderman not to send her son to prison,
but to inflict some fine. Alderman Finnis said that 21 days'
bread and water and hard labour would do the boy more
good, because, supposing he inflicted a fine, the prisoner would
not suffer for it. The lad, who cried bitterly, was then re-
moved.

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ABSTRACTION Or LETTERS P 1103.1 THE NEW STREET Pos
PILLARS.—In consequence of numerous complaints relative to
the nou-delivery of letters put into the receiving-boxes of the
post pillars, inquiries have been made on this subject ; and it
would appear that a system had been adopted of robbing
these, as also the general receiving-houses, by a set of persons
acting in concert, by means of some adhesive matter being
placed on a small thin weight, which descends to the box
where the letters are deposited, and then drawn quickly to
the top, the letter attached to the adhesive matter is easily
withdrawn. A plan, it is understood, was some time since
submitted to the Post-office authorities, which would effect-
ually frustrate all such attempts ; but this plan is still only
" under consideration."
MATERIAL FOR THE WAR.—The Low Moor Iron Company,
at Bradford, in Yorkshire, have for several months been em-
ployed in making material for the war. "The
,passing rail-
way traveller," says the Bradford Observer can hardly
have failed to notice from time to time huge piles of shot and
shell or rows of ordnance awaiting transmission to some Go-
vernment arsenals. Every now and then we hear rumours
of some new missile of astounding ponderosity and homicidal
power which is being manufactured at these works, but
few particulars are allowed to transpire. We understand,
however, that of late many workmen have been engaged in
making shells of enormous size, weighing more than 26 cwt.
(exclusive, of course, of the charge) and about 32 inches in
thickness. When these formidable engines come to be em-
ployed against the Russians, whether in the Baltic or the
Crimea, we shall, doubtless, hear of some startling effects being
produced. Hundreds of tons of war material are now weekly
forwarded from Low Moor to the order of the Government."
THE JEWISH MODE OF SLAUGHTERING BEASTS.—A
summons against two slaughtermen of the " Israel" slaughter
house, but virtually against the Jewish Rabbis, for cruelty to
their animals in the process of slaughtering, led to proceedings
on Friday, at Guildhall, London. The prosecutor was Mr.
Forster, and the summons was technically for cruelty to a
bullock, but it was understood that there was no more than
the ordinary cruelty practised by the Jews in the case of this
animal, but that the question was to involve the general prac-
tices of the Jews, which have prevailed amongst them from
time immemorial.—Mr. Sampson Samuel, solicitor, instructed
by the Jewish authorities, applied for an adjournment. He
had had an interview with Mr. Forster, who had consented on
the part of the Royal Society he represented, to allow the case
to stand over for a month. During that time a meeting should
take place, at which the whole question should be discussed.
If it were found that on the part of the Jews there were any-
thing wrong in their mode of slaughtering, inhumanity should
henceforth be avoided. If, however, what the Society com-
plained of involved a question of religious observance, it might
be necessary that the Jewish body should defend these rites,
which had been maintained for many ages.—Sir R. W. Carden
had no objection to the postponement. —The case was, there-
fore, adjourned until the sth of October.
SUNDAY DESECRATION.—The cause of Sunday desecration
by authority prospers in the hands of the new Commissioner
of Woods and Forests. The statement about the opening of
Kew Gardens during the whole of Sunday has, it is true,
been contradicted, but on the other hand we are furnished
with an official account of the numbers which attended the
performances of the band in Kensington Gardens on Sunday
last, and which according to the report exceeded 61,000
persons. The demeanour of the crowd was, according to the
promoters of this movement, above all praise ; and the
occasion was graced, moreover, by the presence of the great
man himself at whose bidding the divine sanction of the
Lord's day is pro tanto abrogated. " Sir Benjamin Hall," we
are told, " was seen moving about in the crowd, arm
in arm with the Dean of Durham, apparently enjoying the
scene." 'What business the Very Reverend Ecclesiastic had
to parade himself and his Order on this occasion, is a ques-
tion which obviously suggests itself. The Dean is as secure,
however, " from any correction" from his Diocesan, as from
his own conscience. Meanwhile the Cathedral Commis-
sioners had better take notice of the fact that a Dean
has leisure to promenade among the holiday folks in London
while divine service is being performed in his Cathedral at
Durham.—John Bull.

SECESSION FROM WESLEYAN METHODISM.—We under-
stand that the Rev. R. M. Macßrair, M.A., late of Cambridge,
has resigned his appointment into the hands of the President
of :the Conference, and withdrawn from the Connexion, ex-
pressing his dissent from some parts of the Wesleyan economy
and discipline. Mr. l‘facßrair is a native of Scotland, and
studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained some
important prizes, and obtained his degree of Master of Arts.
He afterwards went abroad and studied modern languages.
Having offered his services to the Wesleyan Missionary So-
ciety, he was sent to Western Africa as linguist, to grapple with
one or more of the negro tongues. He soon succeeded in
forming a grammar of the Mandingo, and translating the
Gospel into the same language. He also drew up a sketch of
the Foolali. language (the most difficult of African dialects,
and previously unknown to Europeans), which has lately been
published by the Admiralty. Mr. Macßrair has also written
some books in English, contributed to various popular perio-
dicals, and was one of the originators and editorial committee
of the well-known "Bulwark," or Scottish Reformation Jour.
nal. Of his qualifications for the pastoral office, it is not ne-
cessary to speak here in Cambridge, where so many of our
readers have personally experienced and fully appreciate
them. He took leave of his late congregation, in Hobson-
street Wesleyan Chapel, on Sunday Evening last, where he
preached an excellent sermon from the text, " Thou shalt
guide me by thy counsel,"—Ps. lxxiii. 24. The reverend
gentleman confined himself strictly to the subject of his dis-
course, making no allusion to any events that have occurred
during his residence iu Cambridge.—Cambridge Chronicle.
GAS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday morning, a fearful explosion
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£4,000 in repairing and beautifying the building, and which
was said to contain pictures of the estimated value of £30,000,
had quitted town for Cheltenham, leaving the mansion in
charge of the housekeeper, another female servant, and the
footman. Some time after retiring to rest the housekeeper
smelt the escape of gas very strongly, and having aroused the
footman, he went down to the drawing-room, and on opening
the back drawing-room door, he was nearly overpowered with
the vapour. Notwithstanding this, he entered the apartment,
and ignited a Congreve match. In an instant a most terrific
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ALI'ID AGRICULTURAL
ronefeaßarpchlneg
machines, Royal Agriculturalafter but S °lei i eptayr,t i
aa
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experiment Car— - ecenupomneetxng
were to meet again on the farm of the Presidelel'
was postponed until harvest, at which
Mr. W. Miles, M.P. for East Somers7tr,i(Kalt
Bristol. These machines were Crosskill' Bell
sey, Burgess and Key's M'Cormick, ands American machine, with Palmer's English iFmopr
rb
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Leigh
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Dray's
aeoemhia,ti Society,
Ac-
cordingly,Court,
Bristol.
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s.f
morningommenced the trial on Leigh
somn,terairi.al,
of
Court Farm, in the presence of the judges
ox? Wednesday
theaild Cicaer:i,ssl emschcoowrni,
iek Messrs.an d
party of scientific agriculturists.uski s
these four, with a fifth,
known as Lord Kinnaird's, c
Grainger,of implements at
Read, and
Scott, accompanied by one of the
several
stewards Mr. Fisher Hobbs,
together - .
together with the President, Mr. W. • Miles, M P and a select
lithe second of £2osil(nt.e(‘')V:relttkShri'Oleoor,
hours, the judges awarded the
first prize of £3O to Burgess
Mr. Dray's machine was highly commended. On the follow-
ing day a public trial tookplace in .
the presence of several hun-
dreds of the leading agriculturists of the county, who ex-
pressed themselves highly pleased with the operations. On
proceeding from a field of wheat to a field of barley, a serious
accident happened to M'Cormick's machine; the principal
wheel of the machine, which was composed of cast iron, in
Passing over a stone, snapped in several pieces, whereby the
reaper was rendered perfectly useless for the remainder of the
day, showing that it is essentially necessary th:,t wrought iron
is
should be substituted for that of cast,
as in all farming d .
tricts the machines would be liable to cross rugged roads
in passing from one portion of the estate to the other. The
operations of Dray's and Forbush's in the barley field, where
the corn was laid, were greatly approved, and fully satisfied
- those present that anY description of grain could be cut by
these machines,