The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

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edges that he had given the
and others of the borough for which he
pounds to be returned member, and was
ilium elected ; but for this offence the borough
, the member was removed, and the officer
1 imprisoned.—Com. Journal, 1571.

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The Times, in commenting
John Stuart, the eminent
rriister and member for Newark, exposing
►nfusion, and contradictions in almost every
ament now passed by the Legislature, and
for the remedies he suggested, quotes as an
ithy brevity in old days (before the march of

intellect commenced) the following simple and beyond
mistake intelligible Act, " Heeredes maritentur absque
disparagatione." (Stat. 9th Hen. 111. chap. 6). One of
equal intelligence, and beyond all legal quibble, exists
against the desecration of the Lord's day in the reign of
an early Scottish James, "If one man fisheth on the
Sabbath day he shall be whipped."
NATURAL GAS JETS.—A correspondent informs us
that in the village of Wigmore, in Herefordshire, there
are fields which may be, and two houses which really are,
lit up with a natural gas. The vapour, with which the
subjacent strata seems to be charged, is obtained in the
following manner :—" A hole is made in the cellar of the
house, or other locality, with an iron rod ; a hollow tube
is then placed therein, fitted with a burner, similar to
those used for ordinary gas lights, and immediately on
applying a flame to the jet a soft and brilliant light is ob-
tained, which may be kept burning at pleasure. The
gas is very pure, quite free from any offensive smell, and
does not stain the ceilings, as is generally the case with
the manufactured article. Besides lighting rooms, &c., it
has been used for cooking ; and, indeed, seems capable of
the same applications as prepared carburretted hydrogen.
There are several fields in which the phenomenon exists,
and children are seen boring holes, and setting the gas on
fire for amusement. It is now about twelve months since
the discovery was made ; and a great number of the
curious have visited, and still continue to visit, the spot.
Chambers's Journal.

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are the recollec-
tions interwoven with its solemn- and sacred melodies.
Neither must we forget to mention, in connexion with this
part of our subject, the Prayer-book, which we once
thought it such an honour to be permitted to carry, and
looked upon with a loving reverence that years have had
no power to abate. But the bright binding and the gilded
leaves have become tarnished and ti-ne-stained—ay, and
tear-stained—since then. The sweet voice is hushed that
mingled with ours in prayer and psalm. God forgive us
if we sometimes forgot to pray in listening to its gentle
responses; for every Prayer-book has its fassociations.
Leigh Hunt tells us, that his love of books is so great, that
he has " a fond custom of writing upon one in preference
to a desk, although he begs to say, for dignity's sake, he
has a desk !" and observes, with great truth, that " it is
not at all necessary to love many books in order to love
them much. How natural it was," writes he, "inC. L.
to give a kiss to an old folio, as I once saw him do to
Chapman's Homer." Yes, it was very natural ! And we
have done the same thing ourselves before now—only not
to Chapman's Homer. Petrarch died with his head rest-
ing on a book ; and many have envied him a death so
much in unison with his poetical and romance-loving life.
For ourselves, dearly as we like books, and romance too,
for the matter of that, there is but one on which we desire
to lean in such an hour; and, resting on its sweet pro-
mises of redeeming grace, so pass away in peace ! Book-
love is the spirit of hearth and homestead ! the great agent
of civilisation and refinement. Its ministers are " a glo-
rious priesthood !"—its worshippers a countless multitude
of all ages and countries. Here and there false teachers
have risen up, and clouds of bewildering sophistry and
error are ever darkening and sweeping over its clear he-
misphere; and it is for this reason that we would have all
upon their guard lest they should be tempted to make
shipwreck of this most sweet faith. " A blessing," writes
Harriet Martineau, " upon all writers of voyages and tra-
vels !'' A blessing, say we, upon Book-love, and Book-
lovers, and Book-writers, all over the world !—so that
their aim be the good, the beautiful and the true !
presser's Magazine. ,

Steel was accide'ntally shot dead by heisWeetheart, whi]
he was cleaning the touch-hole of a loaded gun with a pir

A Norwich auctioneer advertises the slim of twenty-
seven inns, public-houses, and beer-shops in one day, at
the Norfolk Hotel; Norwich.

Miss Bonifase, of Shopwick, near Chichester,
grown this year on her farm, from three grains of wl
the extraordinary number of 106 ears or stems.
John Thompson, convicted at the Cumberland Asl
of the wilful murder of his wife by poison, was hange

the City of Carlisle. on
Rear-Admiral Phipps Ilornby has been app,,._
command in the Pacific, to succeed Sir George Seym,
and will hoist his flag in the Asia, 84 guns, at Sheernc
The organ factory, of Mr. J. Walker, N
street, Tottenham court-road, London, was destroyed
fire, the origin of which is unknown, on Monday mornin,
week. The total damage is estimated at nearly £20,000
The Yorkshireman. in a report of "ninon rare, men.

o. 27, Frances-

tioned that in 1722, Mrs. Aislbir, of Stildley, gave as a
race prize, a teapot and canister, value £l2 ; and in 1724,
a piece of plate, value £l5, women to be riders.
A gold medal has been presented personally to Mr.
Waghorn by the present Pope, in recognition of his efforts
as a promoter of international intercourse. It is the first
medal ever presented by a Pope to a Protestant.
A public dinner will be given at Edinburgh, on the 14th
of September, to the Earl of Dalhousie, prior to his
lordship's departure for India. The Duke of Buccleuch
will be in the chair.

The sugar factory of Messrs. Craven and Lucas, of
Wbitechapel, London, was partly destroyed by fire on
Wednesday last. The loss to the proprietors is very

A sculler's match for £lOO a side is to take place on
the Thames, on the 20th of September, between Robert
Coombes, the champion, and Robert Newell, who aspires
to that distinction.

At Nottingham, an old woman, named West, has been
committed for trial, for murder, in procuring abortion
by instruments, in a young woman, named Henson, who
applied to her.
A Durham paper mentions that on Tuesday week, a
sermon was preached at Bishop Auckland, by a boy
eleven years old, named Livingstone, who is said to have
expounded his text with much eloquence.
Pears are so plentiful this year that we on Monday last
bought 44 (small ones, of course, for a penny ! There
will be more perry and cider made this year than up to
the present period was supposed. Last year there was no
fruit to be had.—Hereford Journal.
A correspondent of the Times complains that, during
Lieutenant Munro's trial, the gallery was farmed ! At
the commencement of the trial ss. was the price for a
seat ; afterwards 2s. 6. The condemned cells and the
exhibition of their inmates are to be farmed next.
CONVERSION OF DIAMONDS INTO COKE. —At the
meeting of the British Association, Dr. Farrady exhibited
some diamonds which he had received from DumAs,
which had, by the action of intense heat, been converte4
into coke,