The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

LONDON SHARE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

There is no alteration to notice with regard to Railway
Shares, London and North Western being done at 1201 2,
Great Western 69, 8, South Western 304 3, Midland 59i 60, and
Caledonian 20. i 20.

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTEKDAY.

The supply of new English Wheat was about the same as last
Monday, but the condition not so good, and sold at Is. to 2s.
under that day's currency. Foreign at Is. per quarter reduc-
tion ; the country buyers took rather more freely. Floating
cargoes offered at Is, per quarter less money, but few transac-
tions reported.
Importers of Indian Corn keep so firm that the few orders
received from Ireland cannot be executed under late rates.

New Barley in fair request for fine chevalier, up to 30s. and
31s. for extra. Old foreign in favour of buyers.
Rye firm and in better demand.
Malt Is. per quarter lower.

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White Peas rather dearer. Grey and maple unaltered.
Beans without change in value.
Oats move off slowly at rather worse prices.

SMITH FIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

The supply of Beasts is again large; trade is consequently
heavy, but there is very little reduction in price of the choicest
qualities. A large proportion being foreign and second-rate,
are lower, and several remain unsold. The number of Sheep
and Lambs is considerable; trade is, however, cheerful, at fully
late rates. Calves are not so plentiful ; there is more disposi-
tion to purchase, but at no more money. From Germany and
Holland we have 1,051 Beasts, 5,140 Sheep. and 92 Calves; Den-
mark, 34 Beasts; France, 81; Leicester and -Northampton,
1,800; Lincolnshire, 400; rnd Cambridgeshire, 300.

The Duke of Wellington has presented to the library
at Much Wenlock, Salop, a number of valuable books,
with his grace's autograph in each.
NOVEL SECESSION.—The Mayo Constitution announces
the rise of a new sect in Ballinrobe, called the " Sun
Worshippers," who have seceded from the Popish chapel
within the last month.
EXTENSION OF POPERY.—A new Popish chapel has
beeti built for the use of the pensioners at Greenwich.
The fOundations of a large Popish cathedral are to be laid
in Edinburgh in November next.
THE POPISH INTRUDER INTO THE DIOCESE OF
CLOYNE.—The bulls for the consecration of Dr. Murphy,
P.P. of Fermoy, as Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, have -
arrived at Cork. They will be the Lord-Lieutenant's
warrant for addressing Priest Murphy as a " Right Reve-
rend Lord."
BANVARD'S PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI.—This
truly stupendous painting continues to be regarded with.
surprise and delight by numerous audiences. The fine
scenery of that noble river is, we are assured, most faith-
fully uelineated ; and the picture thus seems to convey
to English visitors a knowledge of the great country of
which it is one of the chief ornaments. Every person
is delighted with the representation and with the interest-
ing description afforded by the proprietor.
A reward of £lOO has been ordered to be offered for the
apprehension of Daniel Devonport, who fired two pistol
shots out of a revolver at James Reed, a constable of
Warwickshire, who was escorting him to prison. What
makes thl crime of the culprit worse is the fact that
Reed had allowed. him the indulgence of calling at his
own house to procure some things on his way to prison,
which enabled him to obtain the pistol with which he per-
petrated the cowardly and unprovoked attack. The con-
stable lies in a dangerous state.
THE CHOLERA AND THE NATIONAL FAST.—While
there is inexplicable difficulty in obtaining a form and a
day of prayer, the public is inundated with sanitary dia-
tribes, and days and weeks are consumed—to little pur-
pose we far, even in their small way—by sewer commis-
sions and boards of health. The national calamity is
made the subject of scientific investigation—(not that we
find fault with this, if weightier matters were not " left
undone")—with as much sang froia as is displayed by the
surgeons of a hospital in deliberating upon some grand -
operation, the all-absorbing professional interest of which
banishes all thought of the agonies to be endured by the
subject of their skill. And such has been the progress of
this purely scientific view of the matter, that we are by
this time given to understand, that if our people were all
well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed, and of regular habits
of-life, and our streets and courts effectually drained, we'
migLt snap our fingers at the Asiatic cholera. Now, this
besides being a virtual denial of the power of God, is down-
right nonsense. We have at all times ill-drained streets
and alleys; at all times there are large numbers, especially
in the inetrepol's and other great cities, ill-housed, ill-
fed, ill-clothed, and of irregular and debauched habits ;
yet the cholera is not at all times raging amongst
us. However much, therefore, the ravages of the disease
may be aggravated by the causes in question, is is clear
that for the existence of the epidemic itself, and for its re-
appearance amongst us, there must be some further rea-
son. Ascribe it to the state of the atmosphere ; call the
proximate cause of it by what name you please; the fact
still remains. that there is a deviation from the common
course of nature, that " the time is out of joint." If,
therefore, we are unable, from some cause or other, to do
what allitatons (the ignoraet pagans not excepted) have
ever done uffUeLsuch circumstances,—what other nations,
making less profession of religion, have done, what no
nation but our own has omitted to do, on the present
occasion,—let us at least abstain from the indecency and
profaneness of talking—as one of our morning contempo-
raries has lately fallen into the practice of doing—as if the
question was merely between the population and the com-
mon sewers ; let us not boast of " doing battle against the
enemy," when that "enemy" is in fact the KING of
KINGS, and Loan Of LORDS, ;gifting the n- ation- for itti,
" -
sins ! —John Bull.

An opposition meeting to the kel;:t tongi.6„ has been
got up by the manufacititers of Paris in the shape of a
banquet to the President. Bonaparte junior, and Cobden,
are the two great peacemakers of the world !
A TALE FROM THE NUNNERY.—The government of
the Canton Freiburg has published the result of a recent
inquiry into the case of an orphan girl possessed of some
property, named Clara Blafond, who was unlawfully pre-
vailed upon to enter the Nunnery of St. Ursula, at Frei-
burg, and to make over her property to that religious so-
ciety. Rumours having been circulated of cruel treat-
ment she had to endure, an inquiry was ordered, when
the commissioners found her in a cell, lying on straw, and
with her feet chained to a post. Her food was scarcely
fit for an animal. The wretched woman had suffered this
treatment for fourteen years, and had become insane in
consequence. Ic was ascertained that the abbess and the
bishop were both privy to this disgraceful cruelty. The
nuns displayed, on their examination, the most revolting
heartlessness, cunnine, and reserve. The government of
Freiburg, as a matter of course, decreed that the poor
creature should be given up to the friends of her family.
MIRACLE-MONGERING.—For some time past M. Fus-
ter, the parish priest of Buochs, Canton of Unterwalden,
having received a young lady of delicate health into his
house, presently circulated most wonderful accounts
respecting her. He said she every Friday died, and
descended for some+ hours to purgatory, where she con-
versed with the dead. By the interposition of the Holy
Virgin she was afterwards allowed to come to life again,
with a full consciousness of what she had seen and heard
in purgatory. The people came in crowds to see the
young lady, and to inquire for the fate of their deceased
friends and relations. The young lady while giving a
lively description of the purgatorial torments, maintained
that there are but three means to liberate the poor souls
from purgatory, viz., offerings to the church, legacies to
the church, and pilgrimages—a doctrine which brought
large sums to Mr. Faster. At length, it was stated that
the young lady intended to make a public death at one
o'clock, p.m., on the following Friday, and that she would
be carried to the church, where the Virgin would wake
her at four o'clock precisely. Crowds of people assem-
bled from all parts of the country to see the miracle.
The church clock struck one, but the fair saint failed to
die, lying with closed eyes, but as much alive as any of
the bystanders. At length the Rev. Mr. Fuster leant
over her and whispered in her ear. He received an answer
in the same tone of voice, and turning to the impatient
crowd, he informed them that the Holy Virgin had left
the maiden the option either to die at that hour or at a
later hour, and that she preferred dying at a later hour.
Sornepeople thought this too bad, but the •erowd cried—
" Miracle !"

Ritruaturt.

POETRY

THE DENYER'S DEATH-BED, AND WOMAN'S

DEVOTEDNESS.

(From Thorn's Epochs: Book VI.)
xxxi.
"I entered; on a couch extended lay
The wreck of a strong man, one of that crowd
•Who slew themselves by grasping in a day
The life of many years : he, for the loud
Tumult of sinful pleasure, early bowed
His head to death, even as a flower destroyed
By an excess of heat. He had been proud
Of mind, and had that mind through life employed
In proving God's fair world to be a guodless vo►d.

XNXII.
"No word of sober truth had moved his lips,
Strengthening men's souls. His path of life bad grown
As fruitless as the furrow of a ship
Upon the sea. As winter hurried on
From land to land, he hurried, and upon
All souls brought barrenness; even as a cloud
Travelling from star to star? rest be had none;
And darkess, hiding all things as a shroud,
Dwelt with him in lone deserts or in cities loud.

XXXIII.
"Spirits, was never sadder sight in time
Than that of a proud soul with full intent
Strengthening itself 'gainst God! 'Twas a sublime
And dreadfulspectarle! the Heaven-sent
Oppressed by Hell till growing discontent
Deepened to dire rebellion ! All life frayed
And darkened in mad tumult, and ail spent,
Warring with little things in pomp arrayed,
Forth standing 'mid grim nature, lone but undismayed.

XXXIV.
"Godless, arrayed 'gainst God, silent and lone.
Waiting what next might come. Souls of my race!
Blessed in heaven ! ye have looked upon
This sight in pity. But in that dim place
Of mortal struggle—Earth, man turned his face
And heart away, and on the tortim.Kl one
Heaped idle curses, seeking to efface
The bond of brotherhood, or raised the hand
Of idle wrath 'gainst him who durst the Lord withstand.

xxxv.
"Now he of whom I spake lay on the brink
Of the unknown Eternal ; and that mind
Which was his former boast, he felt shrink,
A c•aven, from the prospect. All those kind
Philosophies that sat on the divine,
Hiding it from his sight, transparent grew;
And stable reasons, as the mournful wind,
Sighed through his desolate soul. Behold, he knew
Bias from whom life, and space, and time their being drew

xxxvi.
"A woman, worn and wan, beside the bed
Of him who tried to die, sat with her dry
And sunken eyes—which seemed as if they'd shed
Whole seas of tears, and then waxed suddenly
As parched and motionless as summer's sky—
Fixed on his troubled face. She had forgot
To move—to hear—to see—to weep—to sigh—
The solitude and sadness of her lot ;
To her all earthly thing, save that pale face, were not.

xxxvir.
"But close upon my footsteps came a man
Of venerable aspect, old in days
And sorrows too, as I did understand
From after conversation. By the blaze
Of a still fire he stooped, and straightway lays
Open the book of God, and therefrom read
Of my transgression in the youth of days ,•
Of the fallen world to grievous sinning led;
And of the blood of Christ for an atonement shed.
xxxviii.
"Sudden the sick man, rising on his bed,
Looked out upon the reader: Hold!' he cried;
I ne'er in heart withstood that Christ who shed
His blood for mankind, nor that God defied
'Who fashioned Earth and Life, and sanctified
The Sabbath for our rest. Old man, proclaim
That I believe thy creed.' He spoke and died
Triumphant in his death o'er that bad fame
Which made him cling through life to falsehood and to shame

XXXIX.
Lo! while he spoke, a solemn light diffused
Itself through the large eyes of her who watched
The dying man. A feeble glow diffused
A lustre o'er her cheek, as though it catched
The shadow of a pleasure, and she snatched
The hand already cold, and to her pale
Lips pressed it with strange ardour. Love unmatched!
Spirits ! on earth sin did not all prevail,
Though hell did every form of holiness assail !

XL.
"An icy coldness shot through all her frame,
And froze the spring of life, and her young heart
Grew still for ever—breathing the dear name
Of him she loved so well. Thus to depart
From earth with him had been the only part
Of God's great bounty she had asked. She died,
And did her history in this fact impart,
That her young love, by suffering sanctified,
Triumphed o'er life and death, and, dying, death defied.

XLI.
"And they were laid in fitting time beside
The wreck of generations, by the hand
Of those who tilled the valiey,—from whose wide
Compass poured forth at morn a rustic band
Of earnest mourners. All could understand
That he had strangely fallen, and deeply proved
The agony of life ;—that she was one
Whose being was another's; that she moved—
Lived—suffered, and then died with him she loved."