The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

enever they pl

burn 'I

gntnouti

since,) Torquay, and the other seaports
a coast for 20 miles inland, even to the capita

of the west of Exeter. There is only a 32-pounder gun
at Exmouth foe the use of the Coact Uuard, the only one
mounted between Bristol and Plymouth, a distance of
130 miles.' The French may land and smoke their pipes
all the way•to the Topsham and Exeter barracks without
opposition.—United Service Gazette.

At the

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—___
special meeting of this company on Monday (last
the resolution in favour of the Great `'Western bills, now
before parliament, was lost, and an amendment in favour
of the North-Western proposals carried. Mr. Russell,
the chairman of the Great Western, has since addressed a
letter of remonstrance to the Hon. R. H. Clive, chairman
of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, urging
that the course adopted is a most direct breach of agree-
ment with the Great Western, and that, while parliament
are never likely, on grounds of public policy, to sanction
an alliance with the North-Western, there is every pro-
bability that the union with the Great Western would not
be opposed.

TRIAL FOR AII:RDER.—At the Central Criminal Court,
on Thursday, John Parrott, 45, was indicted for the
wilful murder of his wife, Sarah Parrott. The prisoner
got his living by hawking meat about the streets : he and
his-wife lodged in a garret at 6, Spicer-street, Spitalfields,
and they were in a most wretched state of poverty. The
deceased woman was in a very weak and emaciated state
of body, and nearly blind ; and the parties were continu-
ally quarrelling. On the evening of the 7th December,
the deceased and the prisoner were heard quarrelling, and
the prisoner told her that " he would do something for her
the next day." On the following morning a woman named
Merritt heard cries of " Murder," for nearly half an hour.
She was found dead in bed. The prisoner was found
guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to transportation
for life.

PHILISTINE

THEOLOGY.—Dr. Cahill,

een engaged in

ries of 1

etures on " the principal

dogmas of the Catholic faith," at " St. George's Cathe-
dral," having indulged in the true Goliath style—" I offer
a premium to the man that can meet me—l should like to
hear the man that would contradict me"—the Rev. R.
Maguire, of Trinity Church, Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, has accepted his challenge. If the account given
of the lectures in the Tablet is to be depended upon, the
doctor must have undergone a great change—" for," says
that journal, " no word of offence to the creed of another
falls from his lips—no vulgar abuse dishonours his sacred
profession." " Error," we are told, " disappears before
him as the mower cuts down the thin grass, and the most
abstruse points of Catholic doctrine are made so clear, that
men smile at their former ignorance,
in not seeing what
now appears clear as noon day." _ _ _

- - .
THE REAL SEA SERPENT.—On the night of Saturday
week, when the tide was high and a gale blowing, there
was cast ashore at Torduff point. parish of Graitney, a
bou t believe
five
v et that n i
tons.
. was
The in
hug e verity
roots
0 theots
part 6 feet in circumference, and
large tree, which was at thelijmtsiemlfe.miTstiaikeentrfeoerso3msemon.-
ster of the deep, and may have led some who saw it in
some distant latitudessweripgh thickest toa
lesn estimatedg t
h ,mysteriousand a seattiot s is feet in
ce,
are still attached to the trunk, and from one end to the
other the tree was covered with sea-weed from one to two
feet lone, while adhering to the end of each strip is a
llnThe seaweed was thrown round the tree, as it
rose and
d fell with the waves, like a flowing mane; the
shells nude a rattling noise against each other; and, as
the roots now sank under water, now rose above the
waves, there is little wonder that the vegetable was taken
for some huge production of the animal kingdom.—
Durn fries Courier.

BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PlLLS.—Extract of a
letter, written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq., Collector
of Customs, Jamaica, having been banded by his brother,
at Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication :—" I know
you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but let
me emphatically tell you, in mercy to any friend who may
suffer from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheu-
matism, or any branch of that widely-allied family, to
recommend their using them. In this country they are
of wonderful efficacy ; not only am I personally aware of
their powers, but I see my friends and acquaintances re-
ceiving unfailing benefit from their use. I would not be
without them on any account. If taken in the early stage
of disease they dissipate it altogether: if in a later, they
alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier cure than by any
other means within my knowledge." Sold by Thomas
Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by all respectable Me-
dicine Vendors throughout the United Kingdom. Price
2s. 9d. per box.