The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-24 00:00:00

" I returned him to his friend
not forbear remarking that he required . the divine more
than the physician.' "

and, as I did so, could

"And hi;end?"

"Oh ! he still lives—abroad, I understand, and under
restraint ; but his bodily health is little, if at all, iaraired."
" A sad history !"

" Yes, Mr. Cleaver, but it points its moral. I never
think of Reston without feeling that there is a worse ill
than poverty—than disappointed expectations— than
blighted prospects—than false friends—the ill of a guilty
conscience, burdened with a load of unrepented sin.
This reconciles me to my threadbare coat at any time.

Erneval

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Serjeant Wilkins has contributed £25 to th
politan Financial Reform Association.

Metro-

The Grimsby Docks are expected to be completed by
the summer of 1851.

A detailed account of the alleged marriage of Jenny
Lind at Bath has been going the round of the papers.
There is no truth, however, in the report.
It is understood to be the intention of Government to
extend the powers of the County Courts to £3O or £5O,
giving at the same time an equitable jurisdiction.

- The Duke of Wellington entered the 33d as ensign 17th
March, 1787. He has accordingly held a commission
sixty-two years, and is the oldest officer in her Majesty's

service

A public dinner was given to Mr. Charles Enderby, on
Wednesday last, at the London Tavern, in testimony of
his 1 borious and persevering services in laving the foun-
dation for the restoration of our Southern Whale Fishery.
The Lind series of concerts at her Majesty's Theatre
have been abandoned ; Madlle. Lind having consented to
suspend her intention of retiring from the stage, and to
appear in a series of performances in lieu of such concerts.

A
professional beggar-lad, in Glasgow, aged ten or
eleven years exhibited himself several days in succession,
with a board before him imploring alms on the ground
that he had been " left with a family !" Unable to read,
he had bought a wrong ticket.

GUTTA PERCHA TUBING.—A coil of tubing, 950 feet
in length, has just been manufactured by the Gutta
Percha Company for a gentleman in Warwickshire to
convey the supply of water from the park reservoirs to
his mansion-house.

A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against
three men, named Wilds, Large, and Ingham, at Hert-
ford, for killing William Bosten in a pugilistic encounter,
in which the former was principal, and the latter acted as
seconds.

Jenny Lind has divided £BOO between the Royal and
Female Societies of Musicians, the Choral Fund, and the
Government Benevolent Institution, as the proceeds of
her performance in the " Creation" at Exeter Hall for
charitable purposes. _ _ _

. .
During the past year there were sold of the conscript
song " Jeannette and Jeannot," and of the conscript
polkas and quadrilles, between ninety-four and ninety-five
thousand copies, realising, it is said, a profit of upwards
of £5,000 to the publishers.

William Scolla-rd and his brother John, egg-dealers at
Bermondsey, were tried for setting fire to a dwelling-
house. The men fired their shop in more than one place,
at night, while twenty-three lodgers were in the house.
The evidence was very strong, and the Jury quickly gave
a verdict of " Guilty." The sentence was transportation
for life.

Grisi returned to the boards of Covent Garden on the
evening of Tuesday, in her great part of Semiramide, and
is said to have acted and sung with more than her usual
power and brilliancy. A new debutante of great conti-
nental reputation, Mademoiselle Angri, appeared in
Arsace. She has been equally celebrated as a contralto
and a soprano.
On Wednesday, a young man named Adam Andrew
Young, a writer's clerk, absconded from Dunfermline, in
company with an elderly man, taking with him £490.
On Thursday morning, the fact was telegraphed to Liver-
pool, and, within two hours after, both parties were appre-
hended, 5460 recovered, and a return message received by
the Edinburgh authorities.
The Conde de Montemolin has returned safely to the
metropolis, from his recent escapade on the Spanish
frontier. He was escorted through France by officers of
the republican army with a speed and secrecy which
awakens a suspicion that his immediate exit across the
frontier was deemed desirable by the French President.
He has now resumed his part of flaneur at the West End.
A mother and child have perished in the Thames at
Reading. The woman was the wife of a labourer at
Lower Haversham ; she had been to Reading to buy gro-
ceries ; her basket was found on a slight wooden bridge
which spans a cascade of the stream ; it is supposed th
the child—a girl six years old—by some means fell inl
the water, and then the mother was drowned in attemp
ing to rescue her.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING NEARLY .£5,000.

Leeds Court House, on Thursday, Mr. Peter Mann, who
has been chief clerk of the Leeds Waterworks Corn
since its incorporation, upwards of seven years ago, v
brought up in custody, having been apprehended (-
previous day by a warrant, which charged him -

ing received various sums of money, amounting to £SOC
the property of his employers, and embezzled the same.
THE NEW COMETS.-Mr. Graham, of Mr. Cooper
Observatory, Markree Castle, Sligo, and M. Goujon,
the Observatory at Paris, have written to Mr. Hind,

Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Regent's-park, notifyii
discovery of two new comets ; Mr. Graham's being

sent situated in Bootes, and M. Goujon's in the constella
tion Crater. Both comets, it is said, are in very favourablo
positions for observation during the absence of moonlight
It is a singular fact that Mr. Noel's first appearanc
after leaving the Church of England should be in Regent
square Scotch Church, the trust-deeds of which bind i
to the Established Church of Scotland ; and though a
present occupied by a Free Kirk minister, in spite of it
plain trust, Tet its deeds provide that none shall be suf
fermi to officiate in it but a licentiate or ordained ministe

of the Church of Scotland. Thus, Mr.
doomed to Erastianism, notwithstanding his en,
protest against it. There is, at least, singular incon
tency in leaving. one " Erastian" Church, and rushing
into. the pulpit of another.—Record.

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