The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANnAIiI).

BEAUTIES OF ARCHITECTURE —Unless we are mista-
ken, it appears to us that the Greeks imitated nature
in her most perfect and abstract forms of beauty : and that
they, with their successors the Romans, or rather the
later Greeks, sought tor beautiful objects as adapted to ar-
chitectural ornament, wherever they could find them.
They were not prevented by arty traditioi,al or conven-
tional proprieties from imitating and using the beautiful
and the natural wherever they may exist: all the varied
forms of nature would have come right to them had they
been willing. They seem, however, not to have taken so
wide a range as w, should have expected ; or else their
works that have come down to us are so few in number
that their choice seems to have been rather restricted.
The middle age architects also took a wide or rather a free
range.in the forms of the vegetable and animal world : but.
they worked with barbarous eyes and stiff hands; nor till
the twelfth century do they seem to have arrived at that
arti-t cal freedom and correctness which are requisite to
interpret and to imitate t) mu' ,x forms of the natural

' In the parish of Hambledon, Buckinghamshire, there
lives a venerable female, whose age is 103 years, and who
is in the perfect enjoyment of her health and Mollifies.

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The good old dame stated, a few days since, her perfect
recollection that eighty years since the same disease ex-
isted in the potat i crop for three successive years, after
which it affected the turnips equally as bad.
SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Wed-
nesday, Daniel Trinder, land-agent to the Earl of
St. Germans, left Cirencester by the mail train for Port
Eliot, where he was expected to hold the Annual Court.
He was apparently in perfect health when he left Ciren-
cester, but on opening the carriage at Swindon he was
found a corpse.
DISEASE IN THE CELERY PLANTS.—The leaves of the
celery plants are stated to be withering, and on dividing
the two coats of the diseased leaves, it will he found that
there are a number of small green insects between th-m,
which are rapidly destroying the inner p .rts of the leaves.
ikely to be fatal

The disease is quite new
to much of the celery.

:0 us, and seems

An inquest was held at Lewes, on the body of a pri-
soner said to have died of starvation in the House of Cor-
rection at Lewes. The jury, after deliberating some time,
returned a verdict, "That the rigour of the sentence be-
ing fully carried into effect, and the insufficiency of the
food, destroyed the constitution of deceased, in conse-
quence of which he died."
At the late musical festival at Birmingham, Benedict,
the composer, at the performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah,
without having heard a nate previously, to:dc down in
notation on his programme the motif of every piece—
its key, its time, its form and construction—a most mar-
vellous exercise for the ear, when it is added he did not
make a single mistake.
On Wednesday, John Banister Faulkner surrendered
at the Central Criminal Court, to take his trial for forgery
of railway scrip. His late partner, Bentham Fabian, did
not appear. The first witness examined, a clerk in their
office, stated, after a short examination, that MF. Faulk-
ner was not aware beforehand of the transaction respecting
the shares, and on this the case was abandoned, and Mr.
Faulkner was discharged.

About 700 or 800 Irish reapers, being delayed over
night at Ardrossan, by a fog, which prevented the sailing
of the Londonderry steamer, commenced a riot, for the
sake of fun, to the great alarm of the peaceable inhabitants.
With the view of terrifying the Irishmen, they were threa-
tened with a volley from a seven gun battery, which had
been erected by the Earl of Eglinron ; but no sooner was
this hi, ted, than about 700 of them charged up the hil
upon which the guns are mounted, and captured the bat-
tery. Military assistance was sent for, and the steamer
shortly afterwards sailing, their services were nut re-
quired.

A " TAKING" AFFAIR.—One of our contemporaries
last week described a theft committed by a lad in Kirk_
gate in the following terms :—" The prisoner came up,
coolly took down a coat that took his fancy, and then
took to his heels. Hurst took after him, and, being the
bet; -r runner, soon overtook him, gave him into custody
of Inspector Hepworth, who took him to the station-
house, and the mayor, deciding the taking to have been
a felonious one, ordered his mittimus to be made out. so
that he may take his trial at the next sessons." This
would, most assuredly, bother a foreigner studying
English.

THE LATE ROBBERY OF £BOO AT EDINBUROH,—
Among the many measures adopted by the superintendent
of police to recover the money of which a gentleman was
lately robbed in a close in High-street. he transmitted a
description of ihe bank notes and other missing property
to Liverpool, Hull, and other large maritime towns. Toe
result has already proved effectual, for on Tuesday in-
formation was received from the authorities in Liverpool,
stating that two of the Bank of England notes for £5O
had been changed there, and that the original possessor
had been discovered to be a young man about twenty-six
years of age, adding a minute description of his person.
The criminal officer at once knew the man, and within an
hour after the rec-ipt of the information he was appre-
hended and secured. On being examined, he admitted
having been in Liverpool, and disposed of the notes. but
could give no account how he obtained possession of them,
further than he got them from a gentleman in Edinburgh.
On his person was found £lB. He is well known to the
police, having for several years been a reputed house-
breaker. The total number of men and women who have
been taken in:o custody, under suspicion of being impli-
cated in this extensive and daring robbery, is fourteen,
but six of them have since been liberated.—Witness.