The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

GItISI

Vritten by Signor Zandotti, of this town, on the occasion
of Madame Grisi's performance at her benefit at the
Theatre-Royal, last evening.

Se la Grisi—dagli Elisi
Sia discesa io non lo so,
So the un astro in lei ravvisi
Che la terra illumminOl

THE MERCHANT'S CLERIC AND BROKER'S ASSISTANT.
—A very useful and, to the parties for whom it is more im-
mediately designed, valuable little work, under the above
title, has been published in this town, and made its appear-
ance yesterday. It lays down, in a clear, concise manner,
the forms of all entries, and also instructions how to pass
them through the customs and excise. The information it
contains is indispensably necessary to all persons connected
with brokers' and merchants' offices ; and all young persons
about to engage themselves in such departments, will do well
to make themselves acquainted with its contents. It may be
carried in the waistcoat pocket, and referred to as occasion
may require.—Mr. Davies, of North John-street is the pub-
lisher.
We hear little within the walls of parliament of cheap
bread or monopoly, and of the alleged religious bearings of
the corn law question nothing at all. In two or three pithy
sentences, Lord Melbourne, on Tuesday evening, threw over-
board all his Jacobin allies and their arguments, not with -
out language which bore a close resemblance to indignation,
disgust, and contempt. " / dot charge you, my lords,"
said he, " with that charge which is generally brought
against you,—l do not charge your lordships with in-
terested feelings or motives. No man more strongly con-
demns the language which is generally made use of ; no man
more disapproves the topics and arguments perpetually in-
troduced in reference to this subject. Ido not think these
laws are condemned by the Christian religion ; I do not think
they are contrary to morality ; I do not think they are laws
fit only to be eradicated; nor do I think they are the work
of those who have had nothing else in view but their own
interest, and their own objects.'
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, on the Hull
and Selby Railway, just as the down train was reaching the
Howden station, and the speed had been accordingly abated,
one of the assistants on the tender, named George Bell, a
native of Hull, imprudently attempted to alight before the
engine was stopped, when, losing his balance, he fell to the
ground on his face, and his leg being caught by the wheel
of the tender, it was severely injured before he could be
extricated. Such assistance as could be supplied on the
instant having been rendered, the sufferer was brought on to
Hull, and taken to the Infirmary, where the limb was imme-
diately amputated. His recovery is doubtful.
LIBERATION OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR.—An order from
the Home office for the immediate release of Mr. Feargus
O'Connor arrived at York Castle on Sunday morning.

JEWEL ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.—OB Sunday morn-
ing last the shop of Mr. Thelwell, jeweller and silversmith,
in St. Ann's-square, Manchester, was robbed of various
articles, consisting of forty-one gold and forty silver watches,
besides a large quantity of jewellery. The booty is estima-
ted at £2,000

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—At the Manchester police office,
on Tuesday, Messrs. Filcher and Willis charged Thomas
Dodd and Mr. Dooley with stripping fowls of their feathers
alive. The agents to the society stated, that it was a com-
mon practice, carried on to a great extent. The magistrate
said he was resolved to stop such base cruelty, and fined the
parties 5s and costs, intimating that if they were brought up
again, he would inflict the full penalty.
DEATH OF A REPUBLICAN.—A letter from Geneva
states,—" On the 31st ult., several communes of Soleure
held a grand festival in commemoration of the anniversary of
the adoption of the Bernese constitution. The provisions for
the feast were taken to the summit of a mountain. An im-
menise bonfire was made in the evening, which, however,
occasioned a lamentable accident. As the flames began to
subside, a blacksmith, named Girard, remarkable for his vio-
lent radicalism, raised one of the brands which had fallen
from the heap, and kicked it with his foot into the fire, ex-
claiming, So would I have every aristocrat served ! ' In
doing this his foot slipped, and lie fell back over a precipice
of 300 feet deep. He was killed on the spot, leaving a wife
with three children, and a fourth in expectancy, whom the
aristocrats lie reviled will have to maintain."—Galignani's
Messenger.
THE BIRNIINGIIAM CHARTISTS.—The old saying " When
rogues fall out honest men gain their rights," is being hap-
pily illustrated in Birmingham. Since the liberation from
Warwick gaol of Edward Browne, he has brought sundry
charges of a very serious nature against several of his old
colleagues of the Bullring and Hollowayhead, which have
created a " sensation" at the meeting-house in Newhall-
street, and the Chartist room in Freeman-street. He has
publicly asserted that a member of the " council" of the
illegal Chartist Association, who hold their meetings in a
room in Freeman street, concocted a plan to set fire to Bir-
mingham in various parts at one time, and that this noto-
riously violent person earnestly entreated him and others to
carry out the demoniac plan. He also states that an indivi-
dual was sent from the Chartists of Birmingham to Notting-
ham to urge the Chartists of that place to rise and set fire to
the town, and to assure them that " Dudley was in the
hands of the Chartists, and that Birmingham would be in a
few hours. Brown is, as might be expected, denounced as
a perfidious traitor by his late friends, for divulging the se-
crets of the Chartist inquisition. The persons charged with
these demon views deny the charges brought against them.
Brown, on the other hand, positively declares that they are
true, and that he is prepared to prove them.—Ten Towns'
llfessenger.