The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

THE CHARGE OF PERJURY
DUNN, THE BARRISTER.—This Was ar

AGA_ MST
,RICHARD

Mr. Justice Pattt-son to remove the true bill found by
the Grand Jury at the last sitting of the Crimin-I Court,
for perjury in swearing that 1116 s Angela Burdett Contts
was indebted to Mr. Dunn in the sum of XlOO,OOO, with
the view of making that lady a bankrupt.

Mr. Bodkin attended before the Judges, to resist the
writ of certiorari being issued, and the unreel
aas also in atter.danet

Mr. Dunn produced a very lengthened au.
forth all his wrongs and griev4nets—his imnrisn.
debtors' and felons' gaols, and the annoyances he bad been
subjected to by the receipt of numerous letters, couched
both in prose and poetry. His affidavit set forth that lm
had received by post a letter which ended at the bottom
of each verse,

avit. setting

" For in the till tt

e is plenty of tin."

The same document authorised Will to draw upon Messrs
Coutts' bank tor £lOO,OOO for his loss of time, &c., and

outts fcr t

e money

iLarraturr.

VARIETIES

tempering f work with play, and both with

. „
1 stud♦, and all under the mastery of religion,
becm-nes the life of an English artisan.—
. Mr

Tohtz Manne,

window

top of Richmond Hill, on the right hand side,
een, primed on a board which is placed in the
" Preparatory School for Boys of both sexes !"
Ls not an hour in the day in which a man so much
ee his wife dressed with neatness as when she
r bedroom and sits down to breakfast.—Mrs.

There have been fifty kings, two protectors, and six
queens in England ; and the regular succession to the
throne has been change 3 ten times since the kingdom was
founded by Egberr, 1012 years 92n. _ .

It is calculated that there are 1,660.000,000 snols in the
world; of whom 153.000,000 are in Enr0pe,.156,000,000

in Africa, 590.000 000 in Asa, 159,000.000 in America,
and 7,000,000 ill the i,lands of the Pacific. Five parts of
Chri,tians, six are Mohometans, eigh-
and the Jews form one r art. _ _ _

of this

we one hundred thousand men were employed for
years in trectinz the great pyramid of Egypt.
a computation of M. Dupin, it appears that the
:ngines of Erwlind would equal the whole product
immense application of human labaur, in lifting
within a

fort 4•oace of ei4hteen hours.
per in Drury Lane informs the puhlic, through
the medium of an enor.ous placard over his door, that
be has " 20,000 pair of shoes fur the million." It is evi-
dent that nine hund ed and eighty thouF,and of his custo-
mers must go without shoes to the'r feet, for if he supplies
the million out of his stock of 20,000. Cocker will tell him
there must be the deficiency to which we have alluded.—
Pez,ch.
TEXAN

A shop

BATUIARISM.—The ruder orders of people
r south, for there, no more than i❑ England, are the
rders to he considered as mere►y synonymous

'ruder"

with the " lower

rders, have a custom, I t; m informed, of
occasionally Cecirling desperate wagers of battle by hooking
themselves together by the bands they wear, and thus
fighting with the knife. since neither can get away, until
one falls or both are killed.—Colonial Maaazlne
PENCIL CED %It

Nearly all the railway sleepers in
America are made of this wood, as it never rots, and it
hardens by exposure to wet. It is now being introduced
into some of the railways in the north of England fir the
same purpose; it is also extensively used in America for
ship-building, hikvine the property, whe❑ used with other
wood, of prever•ing its rotting. There is no limit to the
quantity that can he obtained of this wood if required. Its
ce averages about sd. the superficial foot.

present selling
—The Builder

3AT BECOMES OF PINS AND POLICEMEN.—We
to have once seen this quPstinn propounded by
.3tral of an inquiring mind, of " What becomes
~ pins?" This disappearance is certainly most
,able. 111 rthanical statistics inform us that the
Jmptinn of pins in Great Britain alone amounts to
50 000 daily ; and vet we never find more than one or
lying about, and even that is a chance. A lady once
- she believed they all walked off to unknown regions
night, (there is a German popular tale respect-
ing the holiday of a pin, which favours the notion,) for
that if she left a doz9n on her toilet table on going to bed
" night, she never fund more than two or three there in
rooming ; and these were pins of delicate cons'itution,
quite right in their heads. It is certainly very
This same property of pins is shared in also by
poli,,emen ; one cannot tell where on earth they go to.
You see them leaving the station hou-es in long files, and
then strangely disappearing into nothingness, like the
long spiral procession which progresses so rapidly to no-
where, when you twirl a corkscrew against your finger.
.And herein do policemen differ strangely from the street
vagabonds they ought to look after; for whilst, on the
occasion of a row, or a railway omnibus stopping, cad
scamps seem to rise up out of the pavement as though the
lags were traps, none having been before visible—so do
policemen vanish with equal celerity, in a manner which
leads us to think th ,t. the fairy tales are not altogether the
tremendous lies we always imagined them to be.—Albert

recollec

to
tok
during t

strange.

-13,,uhtless our readers must
heard of the extr.ordi,ary gift said to he possessed
Irishman, mn. d Suilivin, who exercised a power
iorses that no ather horse-breaker in the United
iom ever obtained by means of whispering. He is,
pore, better known in the sporting circles by the so-
et of " The Whisperer." It may nc,,t he known
the grandson of this extraordinary man, (George
ch,) who practises the art of horse-breaking and

TIIE UORSE•CHARMETL

training in SOney, possesses the secret of charming this
itioble animal which gained for his grandsire so much ce-
lebrity. We have had frequent opportnnity lately of wit.
messing his performances, and can confidently vouch for
his skill. He will take a wild, unbroken colt, from the
bush, and in twenty-four bouts m:tke him so docile and
obedient, without severe treatment, that the animal, at
command, will 1

down under him, feigning death, re-
main until roused from the a..parent stupour in which he
has been thrown by mesmeric passes and slight manipu-
lation (as it appears to us) on the nervous system, by a
alight touch of a rattan. The animal will then lick the
face of the operator, put his tongue in his mouth, and
whisper in his ear at a signal. Church wilt then lie down
on the broad of his back. and place the animal's fore-foot
on the pit of his stomach, also his hind-foot in his teeth,
tut danger of being pressed too hard. When the
is relieved from the stupour into which be appears
se been thrown, he resists a repetition of the opera-
as long as he can, until, subdued by the irresistible

ordinary man, he relapses into the
st►esmeric state, and is then passively obedient to his will.

the ex

u Sentinel.

THE LADY
irregular

s MAID.—Her constitution is broken by
Addicted to novels and

,t and irr

green tea, she is not aware that her tender bvpochon.
driacism is the result of her swallowing her dinner whole.
to be in time for dressing my laity for her daily drive; and
of restless nights, spent in watching for the return of my
lady's carriage for the ball. On the contrary, she admits
that she is a poor weak-spirited creature ; but swears,
like Cassio, " that she had it from her mother." It is a
.range thing that, howbeit, we all admit the difficulty of
a hero to one's valet de ehambre or an angel to one's
'id—every lady insists upon the maid being an
The mistress has a right to be en
At certain hours of the day. The maid never.
,st be always, presentable—alwayssmiling:

o her lady

Curl-pap
without a

have I
as the