The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

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been opportunely discovered, be wold have been married
on Thursday to the daughter of a wine-tnerchant at Hol-
beach, though he has a wife and children at Stettin. The
fellow behaved with most impudent but amusinc, sang
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committed for trial

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM PACKET;
dividend declared at the meeting of this Co
the rate of 8

,any was at

•acc Vl muume-tax, ana
the report, with little discussion, was carried unanimously.
Abbas Paella, who received Sir John Pirie with much dis-
tinetinn nnri I.:- 1-4.- . r ..

vu uia late mission ro tnat function-
ary respecting his accession to power is Lielined, it ap-
pears, to improve the route through that country for
passengers and traffice as far as lies in his power, an
faci"'• ' •

lities which the authorities, with his sanction, will be
enabled to offer, will much increase the comforts of tra-
vellers, when going through Egypt. The Company have
not as yet received a reply from government on the con-
tract proposed for the communication with Australia via
Singapore, but it was intimated that their former compe-
titors had withdrawn from the field, not only by cancelling
the terms they submitted, but also by abandoning the
Company, through the instrumentality of which they
hoped to carry out their plan
WANT OF EMPLOYMENT
memory of the oldest

—We believe that, within the
zrieulturist. there nevcr wfignnwn

.sual ut employment, au finis aavanced season of
the year. The union-houses are filled with able-bodied
labourers to a number far above the usual average—in one
instance at least six times as many as usual. But this is
not the worst feature of the case. The farmers, except
those who have spare capital to fall back upon, are unable
to find money to pay weekly wages, and thus the labourers
are thrown upon the parish. We know of illustrations
which would startle the public where the pressing
labours of the field are neglected, owing to the exhaustion
of the farmers' capital in competition with the foreigner.
And we are certain, from all we see and hear, that
another year without improvement will throw thousands
out of employ, and lead to a dire collision between the
suffering classes and those above them. Nor are a--'
tural labourers the only victims, but every
rural industry is paralysed.—Berkshire Chronicle.
FRESH WATER AND SALT WATER.—On Monday last
the ilvent( n of the new mode of instantaneously pro-
ducing ice-cold fresh water from salt, exhibited his patent
apparatus to Prince Albert, at Osborne House, in the pre-
sence of the officers of the royal household and a numerous
assemblage of naval officers. After the prkeipl• of the
intention had been explained by Mr. M'Bride, his royal
highness examined minutely each part of the apparatus,
and particularly the refrigerator and aerator, as to the
action of which he inquired in a manner which displayed
his thorough acquaintance with the chemistry of the sub-
ject. After a patient investigation, his royal highness ex-
pressed to Mr. 141`Bride his entire satisfaction with the
results, and with th,

cul-
department of

ance of t

Previous inventions of the kind have merely distilled sea
water, thus driving off the air and excess of oxygen—the
components which render pure water agreeable, and the
better the distillery process is performed, the more vapid,
flat, and tasteless is!'the product. Mr. M`Bride's patent
aeration claims to produce brisk, refreshing, and natural•
fresh water, containing the usual complement of air and
oxygen and leaving no deposit of salt.

DEATH FROM BTARVITION.—An inquest was held,
on Wednesday, in Fleet-lane, Farringdon-street, London,
on the body of John Sellers, aged 50, who died from want
and destitution. It appeared from the evidence of Robt
Barton, servant at a lodging-house for vagrants am;
tramps, at No. 7, Field-lane, that the deceased came tc
that house last Saturday night, and engaged a bed. 1
ness observed that he was very ill ; but he had no f
for his life. The next morning,
in bed in an insensible state, an. ~,,, g tV leL nin
die there, he got some men to assist in carrying him out,
and leaving him on the pavement at the corner of West-
street. The Coroner said he had never heard of such
cruelty as to carry a helpless man out into the streets,
and leave him there to die. The witness said he thought
he had done the best; it was better for him to die in the
streets than in the house, where the lodgers would be
put to inconvenience ! Two witnesses gave evidence as
to finding the deceased in West-street, and carrying him
to the workhouse, where he died the next day. The
surgeon of the workhouse said that the deceased was
suffering from low fever. 'Verdict, "D
fever, induced by extreme destitution."

Fiowever,

SALE AT STANFIELD- HALL.-The London correspon-
dent of the Birmingham Journal has the following:—
" There is to-day in London a souvenir of Rush, the

murderer, to wit, a catalogue of the contents of Stanfield-
hall, to be sold by auction, on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday next. That nothing might be
wanting to keep up the tragic interest of the locale, the
name of the auctioneer is Butcher, and the name of the
printer is Musket. The solicitor's name is Bracey, a
corruption, no doubt, of Brassy, for the man actually
charges one and sixpence for each copy of the catalogue,
without which no one will be admitted to the view. These
catalogues would be dearat 2d. a piece, and the sight of one
would give the ghost of George Robins the yellow jaun-
dice with envy at the art of bookmaAing and item display-
ing therein disclosed. Every trifle of domestic „fluty nr

y is ay ut umuy or
do arnementi n
; described with wearisome minuteness, and
a dozen separate lots made of a bundle of articles that
would be disposed of together at any other sale. The
contents of the hall are the ordinary requirements of a
respectable country gentleman's mansion, nothing more
nor less. Yet the enumeration of these is spun over
forty-six octavo pages—` rivulets of type meandering
through meadows of margin'—at a rate that altogether
eclipses Mr. Disraeli's Wondrous Tale ofAlroy, written for
the purpose (among other enigmatical ones) of ascertaining
how far the public would •tolerate the minimum of matter
for the maximum on money. Recorder Jermy appears to
have had a tolerably good stock of plate, namely 2,100
ounces; but there is nothing else whatever that warrants
the flourish even of a rhetorician of the rostrum. The
description of the few trumpery pictures in the place is
not a little ludicrous." The facetious writer proceeds to
give some specimens of the auctioneer's iimorance in de-
scribing the subjects of the pictures and classifying Humeri
llias, 2 vols., and Journal of the Count de Las
vols., amongst the law bool

THE Poi es ALLOCUTION.—We are not among the
pitiers of the Pope. We have neither felt nor affected
commiseration for his fallen fortunes, and we read with-
out sympathy or emotion the lumbering Allocution in
which he attempts to vindicate himself and to criminate
those who are struggling to wrest from an ecclesiastical
despotism the rights of freemen. Undoubtedly he is a
brave abuser. What he wanted in couragecus deed when
among his people, he makes up for in courageous words
when he writes from his asylum at Gaeta. Nothing gives
confidence to a coward like the conviction that he is safe.
Now he is ready to lay down his life for the Church—
the2z he fled with the haste of a hunted hare, though no-.
thing harmed him. A more amusing specimen of com-
placency we have rarely read. Commending his patience,
humility, &c., Pius announces himself as " the Vicar of
Him who, even when belied and spoken ill of, spoke ill
of nobody, and even when badly treated, threatened no-
body." The intent of this is to induce the belief that he

is following the sublime example of the Saviour, and that
he is the most " injured innocent " on whom, for 1800
years, the clouds of undeserved disaster have burst in

storm. But where is the proof ?—where " the living
illustration " ?—where the slightest particle of evidence
by which any but a partial and prepossessed observer
could recognise a resemblance ? We turn to the docu-

meat, and what do we find ? From beginning to end a
querulous complaint—a gratuitous calumny. " Apos-
tates," " artificers of lies," " adorers of perverse doc-
trines," and a long string of kindred epithets, are the
terms that pervade this " apostolical" Allocution. But
the cardinal offence of the Roman refractories is, " walk-

ing in the footsteps of heretics." " His Holiness" hates
a heretic with " orthodox" devoutness. Almost his first
public act was an anathema on the Bible Society—(if we
mistake not, it was contained in the very Encylical Letter
of November 1846, to which he alludes near the close of
this Allocution); and because some of the Romans, tired
of the trumpery about relics and images and other vestiges
of Paganism, have evinced an appetite for healthier food,
and turned from purgatory and penances, and purchasa-
ble prayers for departed souls, to the teaching of the True
Teacher, and desired to read in his own words, and in the
words of prophets and apostles and evangelists inspired
by his spirit, the wonderful words and works which he
spoke and wrought for their redemption, and because the
Popeslom can no longer withhold " the key of know-
ledge," and mete out salvation at its own pleasure and

its
i own price, its representative waxes wrotii, and hurls
his, happily ineffectual, thunders at the heads of " here-
tics." As to the allegation that they have " gone so far
with their audacious sacrilege as to abuse the name of
Christ," all we can say is, that no pretext for it is afford.
ed by any of the documents issued in the name of tb
Roman pecple.