The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

MR. QUAYLE'S TESTIMONIAL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
"Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just?'

SlR,—Having noticed in the Mercury of Friday last, a
fustian letter addressed to " John Hohne, Esq.," respect-
-I°sa
" testimonial" to Mr. George Quayle, late of Everton
Ward, &c. &c., signed a " Disgusted Conservative," Permit
Ina a word on the subject, and with all due deference to the
tllp.arently sensitive writer, add, that I cannot hat think that
VI. Quayle having resigned (doubtless from PURE AD-
4,ICE) a seat he had usurped too long ; and subsequently
caught in his own trap," cannot do less than. do the thing
" that's handsome before leaving teem," however unpalate-
?,6le, " detestable," or even " despicable" it may appear to
ears polite ;" and m.etlainks the aforesaid amiable writer
(instead of his peculiar mode of application, doubtless by the
way of FEELER) would better have served his somewhat un-
fortunate vet ambitious friend Quayle's " cause," had he
have remained silent, and subscribed himself what he most
robably is—viz., a disappointed, if not a " disgusted"'
"big, and SDMETIIING MORE.

--I
am, sir, meriting your attention,
AN ENEMY TO CANT AND HUMBUG.
Monday Evening, Aug. 23.
P.S.-1 have no doubt that the .£5 PROMISED by a
disgusted Conservative," "in A FEW DAYS," will be
tnost welcome as well as gratefully received by the QUAIL-
ING committee.

One extreme is as bad as another—as the man said when
they hung him up by the heels.

The Crown has granted a pension of £lOO a year to the
widow of Mr. .lames, the naval historian.
Another considerable failure (that of Thomayer and Co.)
has taken place in Vienna.

I'ho Duke of Wellington has expressed his willingness to
form a part of the new Conservative government. His Grace
is in excellent health.

The Teasel crop in this country has almost completely
failed.

The Rev. R. T. M`Ghee is entirely prevented attending to
his ministerial duties through indisposition.

By some extraordinary mistake, n o return has yet been
made of the members of parliament for Radnorshire and the
borough of New Radnor, so that parliament is at present
two members short of its full complement.

STEAM-BOAT COLLISION.—On Thursday, a frightful col-
lision took place between the steamers Albert and Dumbarton
Qastle, when
the latter was sunk, and which was nearly
proving fatal to a large number of passengers. The Albert
Was on her return from Alloa, and had 260 passengers aboard,
with whom she was proceeding to Newhaven. When nearly
opposite Bo'ness, she met the Dumbarton Castle coming out,
loaded with goods from Alloa. The Albert struck the Dum-
barton Castle right amidships, which latter instantly filled
and went down in fifteen feet of water, her funnel being a
little above water.—Scottish Standard.
REMEDY FOR A LIGHTNING SHOCK.—As this is the
season when all are more or less liable to experience a shock
from nature's battery, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
suggests that any person struck down by lightning, no matter
if apparently dead, ought to be laid immediately extended
on the damp ground ; and, if it do not rain upon him, water
should be thrown on freely, which in most cases will conduct
off the electric fluid without serious injury. Many a one
has lost his life, when a knowledge of these facts, on the
i
part of friends or bystanders, would have preserved t.—
New Bruaszeick Courier.

We re,ioice to observe, that a matter so momentous to the
Church of England, and in fact involving its Protestant
character, as the doctrines inculcated by the authors of the
" Oxford Tracts," continues to occupy the attention of the
right rev, bishops, and to.form a prominent feature in their
charges to their clergy. It will be seen by the subjoined
extract from a report of the charge of the Lord Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, delivered within the last week, that
our respected diocesan has taken, as becomes a bishop of our
apostolical church, a scriptural view of the subject. While,
he does the tractarians the justice to admit that " by raising
the tone of devotional piety, they have rendered considerable
service to the cause of religion," his lordship cautions his
clergy against withholding from their flocks a full declaration
of the great doctrine of the atonement, on which " must
ever rest the keystone of revelation ;" and condemns the
undue exaltation of tradition to a level the scriptures.

M URDER.—A great sensation has been excited in Cheshire
by the administration of poison to, a young woman 15 years
of age, of the name of Elizabeth Edge, the daugher of a
sraail farmer residing in the parish of Edge, near Malpas, in
that county, on Saturday, the 7th of the present month. The
party accused of the murder is Ann Edge, the sister of the
deceased, 22 years of age, who was living as housekeeper with
butcher in the same village. It appears that this young
woman went over to her sister to visit her, and that the morn-
ing after the day of her arrival the younger sister was taken
exceedingly ill, with all the symptoms attendant on the
taking of poison; and that she died in the course of the same
day. The circumstances were thought so extraordinary, that
a post morten examination took place, and a quantity of
arsenic was found in the stomach. On further inquiry, it
was found that the sister of the deceased had bought a quan-
tity of this fatal drug at an apothecary's shop in the neigh-
bourhood a day before her sister's visit, and that the account
of the use to which she applied it was contradictory and un-
satisfactory. After a laborious examination before the core-
per, in which Dr, Williamson, of Streeton-hall, took part,
"
and hi the neighbourhood of whose house the parties reside,
Verdict was returned by the jury of Wilful murder"
against Ann Edge, who was on Tuesday last committed to
Chester Castle, to take her trial for the offence. The horror
of this murder is much aggravated by the circumstance of a
brother of the risoner,
a boy about eight years of age, hav-
ing died suddepnly, under similar symptoms, about seven
Weeks ago, and poison having been found in the stomach
after his disinterment, which took place on the death of his
sister. The inq more upon the
uest on the boy is now holding, and till its
termination we do not think proper to say _
subject. No adequate motive is assigned for the perpetra-
tion of either of these murders.—Leeds Mercury.
A STRIKING FACT.—" In March last, as I was repairing
to the native village of Bustom to survey a bridge which was
thrown across the road, on my route from the station of Jel-
hisore, on crossing the Soubunreeka river, my attention was
attracted to a number of human skeletons which lay scattered
t
in various directions upon the white sands adjacent to thetese
course of the stream. Upon inquiry, I learned that I
tinfortunated relics were the remains of pilgrims, o were
wa
ion their road to the great pagoda at Juggernaut, and had
been drowned two evenings before by means of a ferry-boat
sinking with them during a violent north-wester. On my
aPProaching several of these sad vestiges of mortality, I
perceived that the flesh had been completely devoured from
the bones by Pariah dogs, vultures, and other obscene
animals. The only portion of the several corpses I noticed
that remained entire and untouched, were the bottoms of the
feet and the inside of the hands, and this extraordinary cir-
cumstance immediately brought to my mind that remarkable
pas,age recorded in the second Book of Kings, relating to
the death and ultimate fate of Jezabel, who was, as to her
, eaten
body,of dogs, and nothing remained of her but the
palms of her bands and the soles of her feet.' The former
narrative may afford a corroborative proof of the rooted
antipathy that the dog has to prey upon the human hands
and feet. Why should be the case remains a mystery."—
nnes Correspondent.
The following was written by a Philadelphian, who must
have felt particularly inspired by the majesty of his subject :
Niagara! Niagara!
I swear you are a staggerer !
I don't wish to be a bragg'irer, or
A consequential swaggerer—
Yet still I vow, Niagara,
Your falls are quite a staggerer.