The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

c We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communica-

Vans on subjects of local or general interest.
DEAF AND DUMB.—In ottr list of births last week was that or
three children, both of whose parents are deaf and dumb.
We understand from Mr. David Buxton, the principal of
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, that he has satisfied himself.
by personal enquiry, that charitable aid would be well

bestowed in the'alniv'e case, and he will be glad to take
charge of anything that may be contributed.
PROPHECY.—A correspondent, who signs himself a "Con-
stant Reader," says, that, about fifty years since, he saw
the fragment of a pamphlet on the book of Daniel, in
which the writer considered England was alluded to, and
he wishes to obtain some information as to the ,•uthor
of the pamphlet be refers to. This is a very unprofitable
kind of investigation, for it is not difficult, by a little in-
genious shifting, to make prophecies suitable to any cir-
cumstances on a similar principle to Moore's almanack,
which took the day before, or the day after, as sufficiently
near for the purpose.
SHAKING CARPETS.—Another " Constant Reader" complains
that his wife, snaking a carpet in the street at half-past
eleven o'clock on Saturday night, was forbidden by the
police, on the ground that it was only legal to perform
such duties before eight o'clock in the morning. Upon
this, he enters into a tong argument to show, that such a
law, not only prevented cleanliness,. but sanctioned and
encouraged the desecration of the Lord's Day, a conclu-
sion by•no means clear, though it serves to show the ex-
tremes to which an argument may be pushed by a writer
who takes a personal interest in the matter on which he

argues.
The PRESS-GA N(3.-It has been resolved, for the present at
least, to dispense with compulsory service in the army
and navy. A Protestant" suggests that, should im-
pressment become necessary, the first persons seized
should be the Romish priests. Such an arrangement
would be doubly beneficial. Their absence would do

good at home, while their services on board the or
in the ranks, might be made to do good abroad.
The PRESTON LOCK-OUT.---G. W. M. complains, and with
much show of justice, on the conduct of the Mill-owners
with reference to the wages of their operatives They,
by agitation, obtain a repeal of the corn-laws, and when
bread has, in consequence, been reduced from 6d. to 5 I.
per loaf, they lower the wages of their workmen accord-
ingly. The reduction in price discourages the cultiva-
tion of home-grown corn, and bread rises from sd. to 9d.
per loaf, but the masters make no corresponding rise in
wages. Free-trade has, therefore, been a positive injury
to the operative class—for whose benefit it was enacted.
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Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the
Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will
be forwarded and receive attention.
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but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably re-
quisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to

be understoOd that he does not hold himself responsible
for the opinioTrs or statements of his correspondents.
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