The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

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me fifty summe'

ly and John

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wo o'clock bath

parties started, and did well for a distance of two yart

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when the latter party fell to the ground fainting through
exhaustion ; but the others, as if nerved to greater exertion
by their opponents' defeat, pursued their way amid deafen-

end were accordingly awarded the prize
Guardian.

The secular clergy in Servia are so poor that they often
tend herds of oxen for the farmers, in order to make out a
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AN
EVENING . PARTY AT MADAME DE STAEL'S.—I
went only once to Madame do Stael's evening parties. A
brilliant, shifting, but unusually silent society filled the
rooms; everybody was listening with attention and defer-
ence to the voices of one or two individuals, who spoke
very low. The Emperor of Russia was present, and walked
about without any ceremony. Madame de Stael was the
only person who reserved perfect freedom of manner to-
wards him, and she alone kept up the conversation. I
pushed a little way into the room and heard the hostess
turn the conversation on the subject of the slave trade,
and her illustrious guest called it with some indignation,
"infamous." A Portuguese, I forget whether it was the
Marquis Marialava, ventured to hint to the Emperor that
serfdom still prevailed in his own dominions. The Em.
neror was taken aback for one moment, but immediately

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THE HARVEST.—Although the harvest is proceeding
in this neighbourhood, yet the wet which has fallen with
us during the last few days has much retarded operations.
From all we, can learn, and we have made numerous in-
ie crop, though looking prodigious when
yet when down not more than an average yield.

Poole Hera

in many situation

THE PRUSSIAN LAW OF HIGH TREAS

he Prussian code: •` All

S guilty

high treason will be co
terrible means." Article 95 bears, that all persol...
of high treason shall lose not only all their rights as we..
as their goods and chattels, but their children will bear
the penalty of their crimes, if the state thinks proper to
keep them in perpetual imprisonment or send them into
exile.

enined to death, by the ra
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FRUIT EATING.—The groundless prejudice against fruit,
and the absolute necessity in diet of vegetabl
an acid, as the potato dc

and its kindred diseases r

were dwelt on befo

de their ay

true that fruit, when tal

which may be mistaken, by persons unacquainteL
medicine, for common cholera. But beef or mutton in L.
cess will do the same ; and the experience of this year has
shown more clearly than had ever been shown be
bread and meat alone are not sufficientto sustain the system
in health. Fruit and acid vegetables are an essential part of
the food of man ; but it seems the body, when duly supplied
with the principles it derives from these sources, husbands
them up, and can do without the acid diet for some time.
The appetite for fruit and pickles is not then without
its use, although the chemists have not hitherto ex-
plained how vegetable acids subserve nutrition. Without
those aliments the blood loses some of its essential pro-
perties, and escapes from the vessels in purple spots under
the skin, or with more fatal effect into the structure of
internal organs.—Report of the Registrar-General.
IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA.—WhiIst the zen-

tlemen, in the morning, w
their works, I walked out aik

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