The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

or two

26th ult. A party of boys crossing the Palace
Green about half-past nine in the evening of that day
startled by one of their companions, who declared he
a man walking to and fro on the top of the lantern

tower. He was deceived by the reflection of a part of the
battlement, and, having at length become persuaded of
this, the happy thought struck one of the party to turn
their companion's alarm into a practical joke. The con-
spirators forthwith proceeded to the house of one of the
cathedral functionaries, who lives in a remote part of the
town, and in his company sought one of the vergers, with
whom they proceeded to the Cathedral. Here a council
was held to determine what was next to be done. All the
newly-arrived were persuaded they saw what their worst
fears had anticipated—one bent either on self-destruction
or on destroying the church. After various opinions, it
was at length determined to scale the tower, notwith-
standing its three hundred and odd steps and stairs—
gloomy, winding, and steep. On arriving at what is
milled the Cat's Bridge, a noise was heard as of some one
moving. All believed that they were in the presence of

the mysterious stranger, and were not a little anxious as
to the way he might receive their untimely intrusion
However, it turned out to be a
" Boding owl, that to the
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ght complains,"

which they had disturbed. After having recovered from
the effects of this unwelcome contretemps, our heroes
prosecuted their journey with renewed vigour, and at
length reached the top, when, not without sundry palpita-
tions, the door was opened, and they found—that they
had been gulled.—Durham Advertiser.
NAPOLEON ON CHRISTIANITY.—The following state-
ment is said to have been made to General Bertrand by
Napoleon Buonaparte, when on his death-bed. It stands
opposed to Gibbon's weak and futile attempt to account
for the progress of Christianity from secondary causes :
I know men, and I'll tell you that Jesus was not a man.
xistent mystery, and it proceeded
in. There is in it a deep peculiarity
of character, which has produced a succession of doc-
trines and maxims till then unknown. Jesus borrowed
nothing from human knowledge ; neither was he a philo-
sopher, for his proofs were miracles, and his disciples
from the very first adored him. In fact, science and
philosophy are powerless to salvation, and the sole object
of Jesus in coming into the world was to unveil the mys-
teries of heaven and the laws of mind. Alexander,
Caesar, Charlemagne, and 1, have founded empires ;.but
on what have we rested the creations of our genius ?
Upon force. Only Jesus has founded an empire upon,
love ; and, at this moment, millions of men would die
for him. It was not a day, nor a battle, that won the
victory over the world for the christian religion. No ; it
was a long war, a fight of three_ centuries, begun by tire

His religion is a set
from a mind not hu

Apostles, and continued by their successors and the
christian•genrations that followed. In that war, all the
kings and powers of the earth were on one side ; and on
the other side I see no army, but a mysterious force, and
and a few men scattered here and there through all parts
of the world, and who had no rallying point, but their
faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time,

and my body will be put into the ground to become the
food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon !
What an abyss between my deep wretchedness and Christ's
eternal kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and spreadin g
through the world. Was that dying ? Was it not rather
to live ?" With these words Napoleon ceased ; but
General Bertrand making no reply, he added, " If you do
not know that Jesus Christ is God, I have been wrong in

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