The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

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Newton ;
mangold

Ssiedish turnips, William Caunce, Newton
wurtzel, 1 acre, J. Aspinall, Haydoek ; potatoes, 2 acres
Edward Bell, Newton ; second best, Thomas Peters
LoWton. -

SEED Colt/v.—Four bushels white seed wheat, Richard
Dootson ; yellow seed wheat, Henry Taylor • white seed
oats, John Prescot ; yellow seed oats, John irescot.
Live Sroce.—Bull of any breed, above 18 months and
under 3 years old, J. Evans ; under 18 months old,
Richard Dootson ; five best cows, in milk or in calf, A.
Cartwright ; best dairy cow, J. Fearns ; second ditto;
A. Cartwright ;_heller under 3 years old, Mrs. Lorton ;
under 2 years old, W. Caunce ; rearing calf under 12
months old, Mrs. Pierpoint ; brood mare for agriculture
J. Fearns ; colt or filly, 2 years old, W. Clayton ; 1 year
old, Mrs. Low ton ; foal at the foot, J. Fearus ; pair of
draught horses for _ agriculture, Mr. Thomas Stones,
second, Mr. Caunee.

Pras.—Boar, for farmers' purposes, J. Iriisworth ;
breeding sow, for farmers' purposes, J. Aspinall ; fat pig,
Richard Bate; second, A. Cartwright ; fat pig belonging
to any cottager, whose rent does not exceed £8 a year,
Job Aston.

COTTAGERS, FARM SERVANTS. Longest service,
Richard Martincroft, of Golborne ; farmer's servant who
shall. cut, lay, and plash the greatest length of fence in
the best possible manner, John Haslinden, servant to Mr.
Aspinall, Hay deck ; farmer's son or man servant, who
shall make and thatch either hay or corn ricks in the best
manner, and have the neatest stack yard, Wm. Dootson ;
second, Thomas Lowton.
VEGETABLES.—To the cottager, being a farm labourer
of any member, for the best basket of vegetables, Job
Aston ; second, Jas. Islington.
POULTRY.—Turkeys, male and female, W. Clayton;
geese, James Hamer; three ducks, male and two females,
Mrs. Lowton ; three fowls, W. Clayton.
SIPEEPSTA'RES.—A sweepstakes of ss. each, with £2
added by the society, for the best stallion, for agricultural
purposes, Mr. Wilson ; of 6s. each, with £2 added, for
the best bull according to . age, Henry Taylor ; of 2s. 6d.
each, with £1 added, for the best dairy cow, Mr. Midgley ;
of 2s. 6d. each, with £1 added, for the best boar according
to age; J. "Unsworth ; of 2s. 6d. each, with £1 added, for
the best breeding sow, J. As'pinall; of 2s. 6d. each, with
£1 added, for the best three Cochin China fowls (male
and two females), Mr. G. Fell; of 2s. 6d. each, with £1
added, for the best three Dorkings (male and two females),
Mr. T.B. Legh ; of 2s. 6d. each, with £1 added, for the
best three black Spanish. (male and two females), W.
Clayton; of ls. 6d. each, with 10s. added by Mr. Mercer,
for the three fowls .(male and two females), of none
of the-foregoing breeds, Mr. T. B. Legh ; of ls. 6d. each.
with 10s. added by Mr. Mercer, for the three best bantam
fowls --(maleand two females), Mr. J. Branwood • of is. 6d.
each, with 10s. added by . Mr, Mercer, for the best couple
of Turkeys . (male and female), -Mr. Samuel Cloug ; of
Is. 6d. each. with 10s. added by Mr. Mercer, for the best
couple of geese (male and female), Mr. H. G. Bromilow ;
of ls. 6d. each, with 10s. added by Mr. Mercer, for the
best three ducks (male and two females), Mrs. Lowton.

IN THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S PARR at Chatsworth
there are kept 7,000 deer. The park contains 3,000 acres.
THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—Winter has already set
in with severity in Scotland. The Grampian hills are
covered with snow of considerable depth, and there is every
appearance of an early and sharp season.
CAUTION. AGAINST MORMONIS:g.—A. young !married
man, named Woodcock, of Chapel-street, Ormskirk, late
of Aughton, who about a fortnight WO was baptised into

the Mormon faith, returned from his work on Thursday
morning last, when he told his wife and others that God
had appeared to him, and told him he was possessed of a
devil, which he was to go and get cast out of him. Since
his mock baptism, which took place at eleven o'clock at
night, in a pit in the neighbourhood, the poor fellow has
been quite delirious, and he is now in a high state of
fever, brought on by the cold he sustained on the occasion.
When he got home he was dripping wet. It is thought
by his wife that he has been fleeced of a sum of money
which is missing.—Preston Pilot.

ESCAPE OF JOHN MITCIIELL.—The Me/bourne
of June 18 gives the following particulars of the e
John Mitchell from Van Diemen's Land :—" Mr. .

.scape of
Mitchell
assistant

,ited a day or two ago on

Davies, th

police magistrate of Bothwell, with a letter which con-
tained his parole of honour, and he offered to place himself
in the custody of the police. While Mr. Davies was pe-
'rasinr, the letter, Mr. Mitchell abruptly. left the office, and
proceeding outside, where two fleet horses were in waiting,
rode off at full speed, accompanied by a gentleman sup-
posed by the police to be Mr. W. L. Smyth, the corres-
pondent of the New York Tribune. He has not been
heard of since. Mr. Martin, another of the state prisoners
residing in the same district, has since reported himself to
be at his authorised place of residence. Messrs. Smith
O'Brien, Martin, and O'Doherty are all who are left in Van
Diemen's Land of the men of '48."

he Popes, who

41-all who presumed to read the Bi

fission of the Church of Rome

and wits

Cardinal Wiseman, who, in a pamphlet published this very
year, had said, that the experiment of what the indiscrimi-
of the Scriptures would do had been tried
led success in the dominions of Queen

nate reading
with nnexa

Pomare ; and that it had succeeded in transforming a
and promising race of people into a pack of lazy and im-
moral heathens ! Oni almost trembled to think that any
man should dare to say it.
The lecturer next spoke of the circumstances which led
to the deposition of Chrysostom, one of the charges

against hini being, that lire had Compared the Empiess
Eudozia to Jezebel. He was banished to a place over
against Nicomedia, in the Bosphorus. But such was the
attachment of the people to him that he was speedily
recalled, and returned amidst the most triumphant rejoic-
ings. This bright gleam of sunshine, however, was not
destined to last. Where one party would not give up
sinning, and the other could not refrain from speaking
the truth, there could be no enduring peace. He again

gave offence to the empress by his Plainness of speech,
having publicly exclaimed against a feast which was held,
with many heathen ceremonies, on the consecration of a

lver statue, which she

he specifie c

of exercising his episcopal functions after he had been
deposed, he was condemned and banished to the town
of Cucusus, on the confines of Armenia, in Cappadocia.
His last days were embittered by the severity of the
soldiers who had charge of him. He was ordered to
move about from one town to another, not being suffered
to remain long in any one place, because of the favour and
affection everywhere shown to him. If at any time one
of his keepers showed something like humanity towards
him, the other increased his harshness and cruelty. On
the 14th of September, 407, at Coniana, in Pontus, he was
gathered to his rest.

In concluding his lecture, Mr. Ryan instituted a parallel
between Chrysostom and. Henry liartyn, their opinions
and habits of thinking being shown, in some important
particulars, to bear a. close resemblance to each other. It
was a singular coincidence, that the place of their death
was the same, though under different names. One feature
in Chrysostom's religious character was very deeply
marked ; namely, the strong impression which he had,
burnt into him, as it were,. that " all on earth was
vanity." One cause which produced this disposition of
mind -was doubtless the many public examples he had seen
of the instability of human greatness.
had perished -'olent d

Nine emperors

Jed by premature or violent ,
own experience. He had a deep and solemn conviction of
the all-paramount importance of heaven. Some of his
most powerful appeals were amplifications of the words of
Scripture in this respect; while the sublimest effort of
human eloquence had been thought to be his discourse on
the words " We must all appear before the judgment seat
of Christ." As a proof of his energy, it might be men-
tioned, that he was in the habit of preaching day after
day for weeks in succession. He was distinguished by

the comprehensiveness of his views. He delighted in un-
folding the Scriptures as a whole. The number of his
consecutive compositions was a proof of this. He wrote
ninety homilies on Matthew, eighty-eight on John, fifty-
five ou the Acts of the Apostles, thirty-two on the Epistle
Mr. H. I to the Romans, forty-four on the First Epistle to the Co-

inthians, fifty on the. Second Epistle, and so on in.pro-
portion.
_His manner was to expound a portion of Scrip-
ture, and then, after interspersing some practical remarks,
to seize upon some one vice or folly, and to denounce it
with all the powers of his reasoning and eloquence, as he
did the habit of Swearing at Antioch. This had led to
much unfair quotations from his works. At one time he
seemed to think much of monastic- seclusion, and his
authority had been frequently cited in support of it ; but at
another time he said, in discoursing upon the Epistle to
Timothy, " Monks give a pretext that ought not to be
allowed: their duty ought to lead them into the world, to
try to do it good, if they know the truth." He had been
represented as making much of man's doings ; but, if he

appeared to do so at One time, at another he showed that
the beginning, the progreSs, and the end of Christian life
were entirely the effect of the grace of God. His style
was most varied, embracing the closest argumentation

minute details of daily life. His method of arresting
the attention was very striking.. He once commenced
his discourse by saying, " I should exceedingly like to
know whether you, my brethren, attend to what you
hear from me. I will seize some opportunity and examin(
you on the sermons you I

_ lave heard. 0, but you will
give us some notice, you will say. No. But, then, it will
surely be the last sermon, No : it may be the sermon of
a fortnight or three weeks back;" and so on. His faith-
fulness was exemplary. While there might be much in
his works that appeared trifling, and some expositions that

were fanciful and unsound, yet was he, thi•ough all

faithful servant, wishing to -eialt his heavenly master,' and
to work for him everywhere. The way in which he was
treated in the capital of the eastern empire was doubtless
an important crisis in her moral probation, and therefore
very telling en her subsequent history. It was not weak
walls, but weak principles, that made Constantinople the
prey of enemies, from the west first, and afterwards from
the east. The crescent did not triumph over the cross,
till the cross had become a superstitious, and therefore an
unmeaning sign. The Greeks, like the Jews, persecuted
the principles of the prophets, while they professed to ve-
nerate their sepulchres. The fidelity of Chrysostom was
illustrated by the previous history of Constantinople, by
the tone of society in his day, and by the subsequent de-
generacy of the Christian church within its walls.

Mr. Ryan comprised the whole of his subject in: one lec-
ture. Next Friday, Mr. Bainbrigge, surgeon, of this
town, will commence a course of four lectures on the phy-
siology of the mind, and the great purposes of education.

DEATII OF A. SIM, CATTAIL—Anthony Dadson, master
of the ship Indus, inward bound, died on Friday night,
whilst the ship was in the channel, on her passsage from
Pambroca to this port. The ship arrived on Saturday,
and, from the statement of the mate, it appears that the
deceased had been suffering from jaundice for some time,
of which he died.

THE CITY OP MANCHESTER (screw-steamer) arrived
on Sunday, from Philadelphia, after a run of 15 days.
Whilst being hauled out of dock, at Philadelphia, she
carried away her chains, and sustained some slight
damage ; she also got aground on the bar on coming into
port without a pilot, but was got off without sustaining
any very serious injury. _

TICE .13nazimmi.A..-1-The South American and General
Steam Navigation Company's new steamer, the Brazileira,
which left Liverpool on the 24th of August, arrived at St.
Vincent on the sth ultimo, twelve days out, after experi-
encing very rough weather. She afterwards proceeded to
Cape de Verds, where she remained five hours, and then
continued her voyage to Pernambuco. We may hear of
her again by the next-Indian mail. -The Olinda, another
of this fine new line. of steamers, which left the Birken-
head Docks on Saturday week, is reported to have been
ipoken in 1at..50, kn. 7, forty-five hours out.