The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

of the day, we c

The chief claim which some of these public gen-
tlemen have for occupying their di•tinguizhed position be-
fore a large and respectable assembly, is the fact, that
they were once enormous drinkers, the wonder and asto-
nishment of their respective neighbourhoods for the speed
with which they emptied cans of ale, and swigged glasses
of spirits. They severally nearly mined their respective

families
dren ; II

They beat their wives

arid starved their
olds to death's docr ; a

to be any better
re only once much
They revel in

They do not profes
than the rest of the world ; they
worse. They glory in tha' distinction

descriptions of ‘thai aboriginal period of their existence

which poets refer to the heroic ages of tile-world. The action may be maintainable against any person causing
world was in th se old days magmfii.ently drunk; it has death through neglect, &c., notwithstanding the death of
now attained a civilised sobriety. In the same way, Mr. ' the person injured. The act is to have immediate opera-
Thompkii,s was once a reeling sot, nut is now a respects- lion, and not to extend to Scotland.
ble shoemaker.. He will dwell on all the details of his u, - r v.- 'q D-
.... ...

prior state of life

I describe the swimming of the
cri.dne,s; the floods of drink

-,NFOUNDED REPORT OF AN AMBURGR'S ,EATII
—By letters rerei% ed by Mr.Wallett, the clown at A stley's,
from Boston, United States, it appears that there is not

which wer

hirst w

at the pump which followed next.
hat he was once a beast, and
elf as a wonderful moral

the slightest foundation for the report that Van Amburgh,
the famous brute-tamer, had been destroyed by a tigress
at Voonsuckett, Rhode Island, while endeavouring at the
request of a young lady to take away some meat which
the beast was about to devour. The story is a pure tabri-

and exhibits hi
. The audiiiii

0:4 it w‘,111(

3 on a Chic

conjurer

Without pro

ration, invented to bring a newspaper into notoriety.
Van Amburgh was reported to be in good health, and
making a very successful tour.—Sun of Saturday
Jobu Davies. the mate on board the Citizen " A

fessing a
the won!

) the decease of drunkenness it

that we would rather

one men reformec

abased at the recollection of I
paraded gentlemen, in s
stand forward with s

s-sitt, than twenty of these

boat, on the Thames, whilst trying to disengage a mop
from a chain at the hull of ihe boat, on Saturday week, lost
his balance. fell overboard, and was drowned. dew&
45 years of age, and has left a wife and eight children
On the same day, Richard Lewis, tt
Citizen " D" steam boat, was er

stcoats and cravats, who

and rhetorical flou-
d that they

rashes

have been di

_ ting sots and disgraces to humanity : as
if they were proud of it. There would be more real
amount of gnod in one penitent, humble-minded Chris-
tian case of reformation, than in twenty such cases as
these, where the vice is reformed, and man is not. Ge-
muine reformation chances the whole man : adulterated
and quack reformation systems do not make the man,
but the individual vice their scope. So long as that is re-
moved, they are con'ent. And the teetotal penitent
shows but too clearly the inferior basis of his reformation
by the exhibition be makes.

e engine driver of
Oged, unknown to

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the mast

one of the paddle-boxes, when the order to
' go on" was given, and the poor fellow's brains were it-
stantly dashed out, and his lifeless body fell into the
Thames.

Mr. Cobden has lived to sup with royalty. We learn
(says the Manchester Guardian) that Mr. Cobden, on his
way to Paris, received an invitation to dine with the King
at the Chateau d'Eu : and he accordingly joined the fa-
mily dinner party at the chateau, where be was most gra-
ciously and cordially received by the King, the Queen,
and Madame Adelaide. We understand, the same autho-
rity continues, that his Majesty (who speaks English per-
fectly well) showed an intimate knowledge of the pro-
ceedings of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and of the re-
for the repeal of the corn-laws.

11SCELLANY

reached 162,000.
now 9.. per quarter,

been restored to the

CtJURT•MARTIAL.—Her Majesty's pleasure has been
announced respecting the court-martial on gunner and
driver Richard Gilbertson, at Woolwich. The sentence
of the court finding him guilty of the several chnrges has

ut the r

J be pulled down in order to en.

ian 84.8

,:en confirmed, and as a
been sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of
eighty-f,ur of which are to be solitary, divided in
periods of fourteen days each, and the
hard lanour, and furthermore that be be placed under
stoppages not exceeding two-thirds of his daily ;
to the Duke the, amount of 4d., the value of one round of carbint

t in one
nd on Frid

ral bad character h

Six million dollars, c
South America, arrive

ort, last week, by her

remainder with

Majes

pay to

Lovel, Holland, Gage, and Denman
it against the second reading of the

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a frightful na-
ture occurred at Navenby, on the 23d ultimo, to a boy
about ten years of age, nephew to Mr. J. Rollitt. By
some mischance, he was precipitated from a loft of hay,
and in falling was caught by one of the prongs of a com-
mon hay-fork, which entered the back and lower part of
the head, and came out at the top completely transfixing
and suspending him. The fork was with considerable
difficulty extracted by two men in the field, who took
home the poor youth to all appearances dead. In a short
time reaction took place. The boy is now fast getting bet-
ter, atter using the means which surgical aid suggested,
and though he has lost a considerable portion of his brains,
exhibits no proof that his intellect is at all impaired.—,
Stamford and Lincoln Mercury,