The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

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How TO STIMULATE COURAGE.—A gentleman passing
through a certain street, spied a little fellow busily employed
inflicting rather heavy blows on his pate, just behind the ear,
with a brickbat. Being desirous of knowing what sin so
young a child had committed, which required so extraordi-
nary a penance, he asked the boy why he was pounding his
head so violently ? " Oh, sir,`, said the lad earnestly,
" that great Bill Smith called me a liar yesterday, and I an
tryin' to raise the bump of combativeness„ so as to give him
a good licking to-morrow."—Scotch paper.
The determination of the French Cabinet to decrease its
naval armaments in the Mediterranean by the extent of six
ships of the line, which are to be withdrawn into port and
laid up in ordinary, was communicated to our government in
the most friendly and unreserved spirit. There was not the
slightest requirement intimated of the propriety of a cor-
responding decrease on our side in onr Mediterranean force,
nor was such mutual decrease a subject of negociation at
all, on either side. But we learn it is the intention of our

government to respond to this friendly manifestation, by re-
tiring a certain portion of our naval forces now in the Medi-
terranean. The ships so withdrawn will probably be ordered
to replace others on the American or West Indian. stations,
whose time of service is up, but without ulterior views to any
presumed contingency of affairs there.

THE MARKET OVERSTOCKED.—A letter from Philadel-
phia, in the Morning Chronicle of Thursday, supplies the
following information :—" The' British barque Queen, ar-
rived at this port, from Londonderry, on Sunday, Sept. 26,
with nearlf. 100 females on board, who, it seems, came to
the United States in consequence of having heard that fe-
males were very scarce I -

I assure you that the ladies of the
republic are lioth numerous and agreeable, and the fair
daughters of Ireland left home under an erroneous impres-

Their only chance is in the far-off west, but the jour-
ney is long and expensive.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Late (IA Friday night, a
porter named William Grieve lost his life under the following
circumstances :—On the arrival of the Monarch steam-ship,
a rope was thrown from the stern of the vessel, preparatory
to her being moored alongside the quay ; and deceased in en-
deavouring to catch hold of it, lost his balance, and fell into
the water. Every exertion was made to save him, but be was
never seen to rise .; one of the seamen on board even leapt
into the water, and swam round the steamer, but he could
find no trace of the unfortunate man. The body was not re-
covered till nine o'clock in the morning, when it was found
that Grieve had received a serious injury on the head, which
in all probability bad rendered him insensible, thereby ac-
counting for his not rising to the surface of the water. A
wife and three children are left to lament his loss ; and what
renders this event one of truly melancholy interest, is the
fact, that the former, when this sad bereavement befel her,
was hourly expected to give birth to a fourth.—Edinburgh
paper.

THE COURSE OE TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
—A " tiller of the soil" and a blythe young widow, residing
in Driffleld, lately agreed to join their fates " for better for
worse." The banns of matrimony were published for the
third and last time—the guests were bidden—the ring was
bought—the wedding cheer provided—the happy day ap-
pointed—and the bride had taken up her abode in the house
of her parents elect. So far all seemed to bid fair for the
auspicious event ; but there is many a slip between the cup
and the lip. On the day previously to that appointed for the
nuptials, as the " happy pair" were busy putting the cake
through the ring for " nice young maidens" to dream on, a
dispute arose respecting the possession of the ring, which ul-
timately ended in the bitterest enmity, and the affianced
couple determined finally to separate. In the same house
there also abided a gallant son of St. Crispin, who had been
fixed on to give the blooming bride away ; his affections im-
mediately waxed warm towards the forsaken widow ; she re-
turned his glowing passion, and the very next day, on which
she was to have been the bride of another, saw them bound
in Hymen's bonds as close as sole and upper leather.—Scot-
tish Guardian.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENON.—Saturday evening last, our
northern visitors, the aurora borealis, made their first ap-
pearance for the season. About a quarter to nine, the sky to
the north and north-west assumed that peculiar, soft, yellow,
and luscious light which always indicates the presence of the
" merry dancers." Two minutes afterwards, a splendid arch
shot away from a dense mass of cloud until it nearly reached
the opposite horizon ; it seemed to form imperceptibly, with-
out any flickering or coruscation, until it lay at length like
the scorched path of some mighty' comet that had gone a
visiting Pleiades. The stars were dimly discernable through
the arch at the highest part, a circumstance not obsersable
with a similar phenomenon which took place in November
last. At five minutes to nine, a movement commenced at
the eastern limb, where it split into innumerable filaments,
divarging and contracting with great rapidity: The black
cloud in the north seemed to receive it like an Italian eating
macaroni, and in less then four seconds it had vanished into
thin air. A few beautiful fan-shaped rays were afterwards
thrown out from the extreme north, nearly parallel with the
great arch, but they soon subsided, and left the sky clear,
frosty, and ominous of foul weather.—Wick Paper.
DUBLIN MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The quasi Conserva-
tives who cried out—" touch not the unclean thing"—who
first dissuaded Protestants from taking any part in the elec-
tion for Town-councillors, and then discouraged those who
acted contrary to their advice, have triumphed for the pre-
sent, and Mr. O'Connell has obtained eleven out of fourteen
of the wards into which the city has been divided—the
fifteenth being neutralised. Nothing discouraged by what
has occurred, we still maintain our original opinion, that un-
der the excitement of proper feelings and with the applica-
tion of commensurate energy, the Conservative rate-payers
possess within themselves the power of becoming a majority,
on the burgess-roll, and of returning a considerable majority
in the Town-council. But we must bide our time, and ad.
vanes to our proper position, by a process which if slow, is
steady, and eventually certain. In what state stood the
Protestant electors of Dublin after the first registration un-
der the reform bill ? Beaten to the very earth. In what
state stand they now ? Triumphant and victorious. The
process by which that alteration of the balance was obtained,
was tardy in its completion—but was it not sure? Yes—
and so will that in which we shall henceforth be annually
engaged, with the aid of an honest and independent press,
and the assistance of a fearless and uncompromising Conser-
vative Government.—Dublin Evening Mail.
AN HONEST MAN !—The other day a Highlandman went
into the shop of a haberdasher in the High-street, Perth, and
requested a sight of some yellow buttons. A drawer filled
with packages was placed before him, and after much trouble
he was induced to fix upon a particular kind, of which he
bought the requisite number for a coat. On paying for
them, Donald cast a wistful look into the glittering drawer,
and he felt an exceeding inclination to become the possessor
of a whole package, without value. Accordingly he com-
menced a second bargain with the merchant for a vast quan-
tity, and by dint of manoeuvring got his back turned, when
in a twinkling he had a package safely deposited in his breast
pocket. • •` The tail o' the merchant's e'e," however, noticed
the act, but paying no attention to it, the bargain was con-
cluded, and Donald paid for the buttons for his waistcoat.
.. A's paid noo," lie said, as he laid down the money. " Na,
no yet," replied the merchant " that package i' your breast-
pocket's-no paid." " Od, I had nae mind o't " said Do-
nald, taking it out and laying it on the counter.' " What's
the price o't ?" " Twelve shillings," was the reply.
"That's ower dear," said Donald. ," I'll hae naething to do
wi't. Dell tak the man's conscience; wad he rob an honest
man ?" And so saying, he hurried out of the shop amidst
roars of laughter from the shopmen, who had been listening
to the colloquy.—Dundee Courier.

UNOSTENTATIOUS BENEVOLENCE.—The following inci-
dent, connected with the meeting on Saturday for the relief
of the distressed operatives of Paisley, is deserving of honour-
able mention :—When Dr. Baird had concluded his touching
appeal in behalf of his suffering countrymen, a gentleman,
who had hitherto remained a passive, though not an uninter-
ested auditor, advanced to the table, and placed in the hands
of one of the reporters for the press a roll of bank notes,
saying tremulously, and in a tone indicative of deep emotion,
" Have the goodness to hand this over to the committee, as
my subscription to the fund." The reporter said, " In what
name ?" The benevolent donor did not seem to think reve-
lation essential, but ultimately said " Fisk," and hastily left
the room. The notes were handed over to the chairman,
Mr. Sheriff Rogers, who discovered that the subscription
amounted to £5O. Dr. Baird expressed some anxiety to
make his personal acknowledgement for such a liberal acces-
sign to the fund, but the generous donor had immediately
quitted the house, owing to which the circumstance was
known to very few of the persons present. From. subse-
quent inquiries, the committee have ascertained that tne poor
operatives' kind benefactor is Mr. J. P. Fisk, against whosename the donation stands in the published list of subscrip-
tions. He is evidently one of those who " seek to do good
by stealth, and blush to find it fame."—Standard.

IMPORTANT
_MOVEMENT AMONG THE JEWS.—In a
lengthened chapter on the opinions, habits, and religious ob-
servances of the Jews of the metropolis, which appears in
the new work, `'Light and Shadows of London Life," there.
is the following account of a very important movement now
taking place among that body :—" After the last sentence of
this work had been put in type, and juSt at the very moment
the concluding sheet was going to press, I received informa-
tion of a most important fact, which has not been brought
before the public. I allude to the circumstance of a great
number of Jews having seceded from the general body, in
consequence of the latter placing the rabbinical writings on
the same tooting as the five books of Moses—just as the
Roman Catholics and Puseyites regard the traditions of the
Fathers as of equal authority with the Scriptures. These
seceders, at the head of whom is Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid,
one of the most influential individuals in the Jewish com-
munity, denounce the Talmud' as a mass of outrageous
absurdities, and are to adhere exclusively to the authority of
Moses in all religious matters. It is impossible to over-esti-
mate the importance of this event. It cannot fail to shake
the Jewish system to its very centre ; for the recognition of
the rabbinical writings as of equal authority with the Penta-
teuch, has been the great source of all the superstition which
exists among the body. There is a remarkable resemblance
between this movement and that made by Luther and the
other reformers in the sixteenth century, to emancipate the
nations of Europe from the thraldom in which they were
held by the liomish priesthood. The movement is the more
important, inasmuch as it is the first division which has ever
taken place among the Jews on any of the essentials of their
religion. It cannot fail to produce speedy as well as most
momentous results. It has already inspired the body gene-
rally with the deepest alarm ; but on that point I forbear to
dwell. These Jewish dissenters have taken the place. in Bur-
ton-street, formerly occupied by the Owenites, which they
have converted into a synagogue, where they now worship
Jehovah in accordance with their newly-acquired lights,
under the designation of ' The Reformed Jews. The desig-
nation they have chosen is of itself of very significant import.
Who knows but this may be the first step which Providence
means to take for paving the way for the conversion of the
Jews ?" •