The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

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various evangelical missionary societies. The

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of the Church of England, a Baptist minister, and a
Methodist minister,—namely, the Rev. T. R. Brooke,
rector of Avening, Dr. Angus, of Stepney College, and the
Secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A HORSE.-OD the workmen
going to their employ on Saturday morning, at the power-
loom factory of Messrs. Taylor and Sons, Barnsley, they
were astonished to find a large pool of blood on the
weaving shed floor, but soon discovered that it was occa-
sioned by a horse that was partly hanging through a sky-
light. The animal had fallen over a low wall from the
field, and thence upon the roof of the building, and having
cut a main artery by the iron work in the skylight, had
bled to death. The animal was worth £4O.
REPORTED MURDER OF AN ITALIAN PRINCESS IN
TIIRKET.-It was stated, some time ago, that the Princess
Belgiojoso, whilst travelling in the East, had been attacked
and stabbed by a discharged servant. No apprehension of
fatal consequences was entertained by the friends of the
princess in this country, as they had received a letter from
her after the event, and had heard from other sources that

her wounds were not dangerous. A letter from Constan-
tinople of the Bth, in the Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna,
says that the favourable account given of the state of the
princess was unfounded, as she is reported to have died of
her wounds in the Turkish capital.—Paris correspondent
of the Morning Chronicle.
A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.—On Tuesday, Edward
Thompson, a farm servant in the employ of Mr. Thomas
Scott, Preston Patrick, was gored to death by a bull. He
had needlessly gone into the pasture where the bull was
confined, and after irritating it by throwing stones at it,
and driving it about, had actually attacked the infuriated
animal with a " bull-stick"— a stick ;shod with iron, used
in coercing these animals—and had entered into a single
combat with the powerful and ferocious brute. The con-
sequence may easily be anticipated. The bull, maddened
by the attacks, rushed at his presumptuous assailant, and
having got him in his power, tossed and gored him in the
most frightful manner. The fellow-servants of the man
endeavoured to rescue him by attacking the bull with
spades and pitchforks, but so maddened was the animal
that it was quite hacked and mangled before it would quit
its victim, who expired in a few minutes afterwards.—
Westmoreland Gazette.
ELorEmEs^r.—A short time since, some parties in a
humble sphere of life in this county, allured by the
accounts continually reaching them from the auriferous
regions in Australia, resolved to quit the land of their
birth, where fortune frowned upon their efforts, and to
proceed to the rising colonies of the far-off country men-
tioned. Shortly after their arrival there, the husband—
for they were married—left his wife "in town," and re-
paired to the " Diggings," in the hope of realizing that
fortune which his prolific fancy had painted, before he
quitted the shores of old England. After enduring the
burning heat of "the sun at noon," and the inconvenience
of "the cold night moon," together with many other suf-
ferings and privations which a "digger "can only describe,
the poor fellow succeeded in obtaining nuggets "to the
value of £4OO ! Brimful of joy, he repaired "to town,"
where he had left his wedded partner, recounted his diffi-
culties and his success, at the same time making her his
banker. Happy couple ! Fortunate exiles ! But as all
human happiness is transient, so was theirs. The deceit-
ful wife grew enamoured of another adventurer, packed
her husband off to the diggings once more, and in his
absence eloped with her newly-formed acquaintance ;
crossed the tropics, and reached England a very short time
ago. We may add that she is a native of a village, situate
about six miles from this town ; and that when she passed
through here, on her arrival in this country, she was
decked in jewellery and hung in chains, flaunting through
our streets with all the vulgar swagger of a shameless
woman. The deserted husband, it is cheering to learn, has
again been successful, for, according to accounts recently
received by a gentleman in this town from his son, he has
amassed about £5OO since the departure of his worthless
spouse.—Cambridge Chronicle.
STARTLING DISCOVERY ABOUT THE COMET.—In a
paper published in "Weale's Astronomical Almanack" for
1854, Professor Crestadoro, of the University of Turin,
announces the discovery of a new feature in the propa-
gation of light, which forms the groundwork of several
important problems of physical astronomy. It is no less a
new law of the planetary radiation and formation of
shadows, that dissipates all the mystery attached to comets,
the rings of Saturn, Zodiacal Light, Aurora Borealis, and
a few other unexplained phenomena, such as occur in the
eclipses and transits of Jupiter's satellites. According to
such law the comets are only the phases of ordinary planets
in their way to or from conjunction, under certain circum-
stances, when their radiation being oblique to the earth is
converted into tails or commas of different shape, whilst
the planet itself is noted down in the ephemerides as invi-
sible at the time, and as such, not thought of by observa-
tion. The last comet which has been conspicuous to the
naked eye, during the last days of August, would turn out
to be the planet Venus, who at the time was not seen as-
such, but was throwing obliquely, m regard to the earth,
a strong pencil of light that formed its tail, which pencil,
as it gradually converted into a direct radiation towards
oar globe, the appearance of the planet is insensibly sub-
stituted in place of that of the missed comet. The paper
is entitled, " Expected Return of the Great Comet of 1556,
or the emetic Mysteries Dissipated, with Illustrations."
SLAVERY IN AMERICA.—At Wilkesbarre, in Pennsyl-
vania, at one of the hotels there lived as waiter a tall
mulatto, nearly white, who went by the name of Bill. In
the beginning of the present month there arrived in the
town Deputy-Marshal Wynkoop, another fellow named
Joe Jenkins, and three other assistants from Virginia, to
arrest poor Bill as a " fugitive from labour." These per-
sons came behind him, and knocked him down with a
mace ; but Bill, who, as it appears, is—or was, for, in all
probability, the poor creature is dead—a very strong and
active man, recovered his feet, and threw his assailants
oft'. Finally, he managed to break from the house, with
the handcuffs fastened on his right wrist, and made his
way to the river. Into this he plunged, exclaiming " I
will rather be drowned than taken alive." His pursuers
fired at him before he reached the water, and when he was
swimming they deliberately levelled their revolvers, and
fired four or five shots. One ball was supposed to have
struck his head, as his face became instantly covered with
blood. He sprang up in the water, and shrieked in his
agony. The bystanders were becoming so excited at the
horrible sight, that the southerners retreated from the
bank, and took counsel together as to what was best to be
done. Meanwhile the poor slave came to the shore, and was
supposed to be dying, upon which his pursuers remarked,
that " Dead niggers were not worth taking south," and
were walking away, when the fugitive unexpectedly re-
vived. As he in his turn was walking away, supported
by another coloured man, the Virginia people, perceiving
that he was alive, headed him, called upon him to stop,
and threatened to shoot anybody who should protect the
fugitive. The threat took effect, for the crowd actually
did retire, and there was nothing for it but for poor Bill
to take to the water again, which he did. In the water
he remained for upwards of a hour, and there his pur-
suers dared not follow him. At length they appear them-
selves to have been intimidated by the menacing attitude
of the crowd, who were preparing to arrest them, for they
retired of their own record. Bill waded some distance up
the river, and then got out. He was found by some
coloured women flat on his face in a cornfield, senseless
from the effect of his wound. Such is a specimen of pro-
ceedings under the Fugitive Slave Law.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS HAVE EFFECTED A
WONDERFUL CURE OF LAMENESS OF FIVE YEARS' DURA-
TION.—Extract of a letter from Mrs. Drandanril, of Turks
Island, Bahamas, dated August 3, 1851.—"To Professor
Holloway.—Sir,—l suffered during fi e years from lameness,
occasioned by a severe cold, which confined me to my room
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for two years and a half, during which period I tried various
remedies, but derived no benefit whatever from. them. I as
then recommended to try your excellent medipnes,a d from
their use I have experienced the greatest relief. They have
proved most efficacious in my case, as I am
from
pilaaibl. id, to
walk without assistance, and am entirely free
BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILL. Extract of a
letter written by John Molard wheeler, Esq., Collect
other, of
Customs, Jamaica, having been handed:
—"by is bre at
Swindon, to Mr. Front, for publication I know you have
never had occasion to take Blairs Pills, but let me emphati•
cally tell you, in mercy to any friend who may suffer from
gout, rhuematic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, 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 receiving 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
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