The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

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that the decision of Parliament
on their policy for the future has not yet been
given. It has been long the practice to take the
returns of the Excise as the safest test of the
capabilities of consumption by the people, and if
this be the course pursued on the present occasion,
the most gratifying proof will be afforded of the rapid

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improvement going on under our present Rulers.
This is the more evident from the fact, that
while on the year the increase under this head is
only £114,185, upon the quarter it amounts to
the enormous sum of £163,901. It is true that
the item of Customs shows a decrease on both the
year and the quarter, for which our opponents would
find it difficult to attribute a cause, as they are
loath to admit that their favourite commercial

policy is at all injurious. We are, however, content
to stand by the Excise improvement as the best
test of returning confidence in the Government,
and leave the Free-traders to fight out the Customs
decrease. In the other items it will be seen that
on the year's account there is an increase on Stamps,
Property-tax, Post-office, Crown Lands, Miscel-
laneous, and Repayments of Advances, but, owing
to the enormous decrease on Taxes, amounting to
£1,157,201, arising from the repeal of the Window-
duty last year, the decrease on the whole Revenue
amounted to £437,397. The total Revenue for the
quarter presents an increase of £28,929, a position
the more favourable, as it is a comparison with that
quarter of 1851, in which the Great Exhibition
was at its height.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHILD.—Mary Whaling, a
child 20 months old, whilst playing near the house of her
parents in Collingwood-street, fell and hurt her head.
Congestion of the brain set in, of which she died yesterday.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Patrick Carney, a dock labourer,
whilst going over the stage of the brig Pedler, about ten
o'clock yesterday forenoon, missed his footing and fell
into the George's dock. He was got out in about half
An hour, but life was extinct.

WHAT JEWS CAN DO BESIDES MAKE MONEY.—Wbo
composed "11 Barbiere ?" Rossini—a Jew! Who is
there that admires not the heart-stirring music of the
" Huguenots" and the " Prophet ?" The composer is
Meyerbeer—a Jew! Who has not been spell-bound by
the sorcery of " Die Judin ?" By Halevy—a Jew ! Who
that, at Munich, has stood before weeping Konigspaare,
whose harp hangs silently on the willows by the waters of
Babylon, but has confessed the hand of a master in that
all but matchless picture? The art st is Bendenaann—a
Jew ! Who has not heard of the able and free-spoken
apostle of liberty ? Boerne—a Jew ! Who has not been
enchanted with the beautiful fictions of lyric poetry, and
charmed with the graceful melodies, so to speak, of one
of Israel's sweetest singers? Heine—a Jew I Who has
not listened in breathless extacy to the melting music of
the "Midsummer Night's Dream ?" Who has not wept
with " Elijah," prayed with " Paul," and triumphed with
" Stephen ?" Do you ask who created those wondrous
es? Felix Mendelssohn Barthold

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Jew !

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