The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

He soon a

became a public writer uncle

signation. On being asked by a friend how he was getting
on, the astounding reply .was—" Excellently ! Blas-
phemy sells so well I" Such are the republican and athe-
istical teachers of millions !—Church and Slate Gazelle.
CHILD MURDElL—Margaret Stoker, aged 23, a sim-
ple•looking country girl, was tried before Mr. Just'ce
Patteson, at the Durham Assizes, yesterday week. on en
indictment charging her with the wilful murder of her fe-
male bastard child, aged 14 months, at Pittington Hall
Garth, in November last, by drowning it. The prisoner

to prove that she was rot conscious, at the time of her
putting the child to death, that she was doing a wicked
and an immoral act. It seemed that she was in a good
deal of distress, owing to the father of the child having
neglected to pay towards its maintenance, her step-mother

having turned her out, and the overseers of the 1;o

ing refused to give

strongest recornme

ury. after a short

_ His lordship pas-
The 1 risoner was then removed

,ed sentence of

ation to mercy

from the bar, shrieking violently.
DISSENSIONS AMONG THE JEWS.—A "disruption,"
says a new religions paper called the Balance, " has tiken
place among the Jews of London, which promises to be
productive. of momentous results. It appears that for

some time past a feeling has been growing up among the
more enlightened and liberal of the English Jews that
very great reform ought to be made in the ritual of the
I that they are not bound to abide by the

synapgue,

Interpretations given by the rabbis, but are at liberty to
put their own construction on difficult passages. As a
necessary consequence they repudiate the autho,ity of the
Talmud, and resolve to acknowledge no other standard of
truth than the law and the prophets. The result his
g been, that great division,: have occurred among the Jew.

ish congrtgatioris in the metropolis. A number of tht
seceders have opened a new synagogue for themselves it
Burton-street. where they steadily meet for worship. Mr
Goldsmid, and several of the most influential persons be.

ing to the Jewi:h persuasion, have joined the

The approaching Birmingham Triennial Musical Festi-
val, which is fixed to take place in the last week of_ Aug-_

ust next, is already beginning to excite the attention of
the musical public, as cne of the most prominent points
of interest of the present year. Her most gracious Ma-
jesty has been pleased to place herself at the bead of the
list of patrons, which is also honoured wish the names of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert and Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager. We understand that the committee are
indefatigable in making engagements and arrangements
worthy of the occasion, and, amongst others, that they
have confided the performances to the immediate direc-

torship of Dr. F. Meudelsshon Bariroldy—arid—M. Mos-
cheles—musiciaris, whose learning and rare tact as con-
ductors are good earnest that the determination to have
the best music performed in the best possible manner, will
be firmly carried out. A new work by Dr. F. Mendels-
sohn Bartholdy will form one of the leading features on
the occasion; and we trust to be able, ere long, to an-
nounce such a selection, both of music and executive ta-
lent, as will mark the forthcoming meeting as one of the
most successful that has yet taken place.