The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

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Church at Askern
-6s Rev. R. F. Slot, to the Curacy of Brasted, Kent.
as on a Rev. S. K. Stothert, 8.A., of Worcester College, ()r-
-out the ma- ford, to be Master of the Woodstock Grammar School.
were far below the average of Rev. H. W. Taylor, to be Chaplain of her Majesty's

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dia, and the relief the poor

Rev. J. W. Trevor, Rector of Llanbeulan, to be Chan-
cellor of the diocese of Bangor.
Rev. A. W. West, A.M., to the Chancellorship of the
Cathedral of St. Bridget's Kildare.

MEETING OF THE CONVOCATION SOCIETY. The
Council of the Convocation Society held its first meeting
in the Northern Province at York on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday last.. A form of petition •in favour of the revival
of the active functions of Convocation was agreed to,
which is to be forthwith circu!eted for signature in the
several dioceses and archdeaconries, and will be presented
to the Convocations of both provinces at their next
meeting.

AN ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY.—The Opinione, of the 3rd
instant, quotes the following from Milan :—" We have
had at Milan a rather strange scene. Near the Church of
St. Mary, an Englishman, speaking broken Italian and
holding in his hand the Italian tri-coloured flag, cried out
from a window that that flag would one day be hoisted
throughout Italy, and that, in the meantime, he would
hoist it himself in Lombardy. A crowd soon collected in
front of the house. The commissary of Police, Sic-
cardi, vainly entreated the Englishman to be silent, but
the latter, as a true son of Albion, turned the deaf ear to
him. The gendarmes, finding it impossible to restrain the
mob, called on the Commissary to arrest the rioter. ' I
will take good care not.' replied the latter.; he is an
Englishman. and I am ordered to treat him with all due
consideration.' This scene lasted upwards of three hours,
when the Englishman, having bellowed to exhaustion,
thought proper to withdraw. The flag was immediately
removed, and the window closed. The crowd then quietly
dispersed, and it soon became known that the Englishman
had been conducted to a mad-house.
THE RIVAL REAPING MACHINES.—The committee
under whose superintendence the recent trials have been
made on the farm of the Royal College of Agriculture,
between the reaping machines of M'Cormick and'Hussey,
have published their report. The trial extended over
several days, during which time upwards of one hundred
acres of different sorts of grain were cut. After detailing
the various experiments, the committee states that, in
their opinion, of the two machines M'Cormick's has the
advantage in lightness of draft, security of cutting and
clearing itself under adverse circumstances, and in the
more convenient delivery of the sheaves. Husse:rs, how-
ever, left the stubble in all descriptions of grain the neat-
est and most even.; was less liable to being delayed, the
driving-strap having frequently slipped off M'Cormick's
during the trial ; and was considerably the cheapest.
The committee, in concluding, state that they consider
each of these machines to.possess many merits, and to be
capable, even in their present state, of doing much service
to the farmer ; but that they are both susceptible of very
great improvement, especially in providing for the cutting
and proper delivery of heavy and laid crops, and for work-
ing without the risk of the wheels clogging in wet and
soft ground ; points in which they are as yet defective.