The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

it Dumfries having got entangled with a re-
was in the course of being enlisted, but
ss, consulted with his brother as to

repenting of his rnslin
tt

)est means of escape, and at length it was decided to cut
off the fore-finger of the right or trigger hand, which was ac-
complished by a chisel almost in an instant. This was thought
better than being sent to Canton., and perhaps get a bullet
through his body whilst fighting with the Chinese.

WET GRAM—The writer of a letter in an Oxford paper
recommends that any grain which may at the present time be
found to be wet, should be secured in the straw, placed in
roomy barns, upon shelves constructed of laths or cords, and
by frequent removing, or the application of a little heat by
means of a stove, kept there until it is dry. In this manner,
he says, that an acre of wheat might be placed horizontally
along the walls with every sheaf open, and by the introduction
of an artificial current of air might be rendered in eight
hours fit for housing. The writer states that he has himself
successfully adopted the plan with some barley.
NUMBER OF COUNTRY AND TOWN FIATS IN BANK-
RUPTCY FOR TIIE LAST NINE YEARS.—

Year endi

Railway, which i

Town

slip in the newly-formed embankment,
displaced and shifted outward. On the
and train, the joint of the line flew up a

to go off the line at full speed into
which it became embedded to a consi,
sudden stoppage of the train caused a
between the carriages, two of which w(
and the guards and engineers were thro
able violence. As soon as the confusi

Country

1,408
781
1,040
1,413

1,700
1,283
1,379
1,294
1,207
1,239
1,087
1,'185
1,879

,n the Great Western

!d with very serious

wing
.to an extensive
one of the rails got
arrival of the angine
nd caused the former
the embankment, in
lerable extent. The
:remendous collision
re literally smashed,
en off with consider-
on occasioned by the
ided, inquiries were
Ind it was ascertained
dislocated, and were
pct met with several
s severely cut with
as were also other
were also cut and
iingular to relate the

occurrence had iu some ...-
made as to the state of the passenger,
that two gentlemen had got their ancle
otherwise seriously injured ; a third
bruises about the body, and a fourth wa
the glass of the windows, in the face,
passengers more or less. The guards
scratched about the face and hands, but
engineers escaped without any injury.
THE DESERTED INFIDEr..—When Paine's infidel com-
panions said to him, " You have lived like a man—we hope
you will die like one"—he observed to one near him. " You
see, sir, what miserable comforters I have." He declared on
one occasion, " that if ever the devil had an agent upon
earth, he had been one." " There was," says Dr. Manley,
his physician, " something remarkable in his conduct about
this period, (which comprises about two weeks immediately
preceding his death,) particularly when we reflect that Thos.
Paine was the author of ' The Age of Reason.' He would
call out during his paroxysms of distress, without inter-
-0 Lord, help me! God, help me! Jesus Christ,
0 Lord, help me V—repeating the same ex-
the least variation, in a tone of voice
ex-
ruse. This conduct induced me to
med his former opinions; and I was when I understood from his
and, I believe, pious woman,
ien he saw her engaged with it book,
_lag answered, and at the same time,
read aloud, he assented, and would
est o
attention." But when his physician re_
pressed him to conress his guilt and errors, and
.ed " Do you believe,
sors, let me
is qualify
do you wish to believe that Jeu Cist ghe the •
Sonotu. God
After a pause of some minutes,
J,
have no wish to believe on that sulble sullenly answered, " led!
Dr. Manley, re-
marks, "for my own part,
he would have left
Paine been such a distinguished infidel,behevethat had not Thomas
less 'equivocal evidences of a change of op
inion. The woman
and. children in
whom he had seduced from her husband "
France, lamented to a friend who visited
Paine in his de-
parting moments—" For this man I have given up my family
cfre,
nhen, of my
t
and friends, my property and my religion ;
.iu , a
distress, when he tells me that the principles he 3 taught
me will not bear me out."

pressions, without an
that would alarm the

think that I

more inclined to that

that he would inyuir
what she was readin;

tinptriatj eit'llc ii 1,

HOUSE OF LOitDS.—MONDAY.
The House of Lo-ds met to-day pursuant to the adjourn
mt.. The Dnke of Weinnatn.

table, took his seat at the treasury bench about five o'clock,
and was soon joined by Lords Wharncliffe, Ellenborough,
Eladdington, &c. • while the opposition bench was occu-
pied by Lords Melbourne., Minto, Lansdowne, Campbell,
Brougham, &c. The house was extremely crowded at a
quarter-past five, when Lord LYNDHURST took his seat, as
Chancellor, upon the woolsack.

The Administration of Justice Bill went through coin
mittee.

The Earl of WICKLOW said that the noble marquis (Nor-
manby) had pledged himself that a bill for the abolition of
capital punishments, similar to that which had passed for this
country, should this session be introduced for Ireland. Ile
wished to know if the present Government would introduce
such a bill?

The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he would consult his
right hon. friend the Home Secretary upon the subject.
The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned.