The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

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THE CHAUTIST COLONY AT SNIGY_
Feargus O'Connor has commenced legal p
the purpose of reoswering rents from the 152 allottees at
Snig's End, near Gloucester. On Wednesday last, bailiffs
proceeded from that city to serve 52 writs. The colonists,
who had got intelligence of the coming storm, he
meeting on the preceding evening

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arrang&ients. On the Appearance of the bailiffs they
intimated that they would " manure the land with their
blood before it should be taken from them." The bailiffs
did not make a levy, being convinced by the statements
of the colonists that it xvniihi hp

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because a most determined resistance would have been
offered to them, and the colonists are now awaiting with
some anxiety the next step of Mr. O'Cannor towards
his " children."—Cheltenhain Journal.

RAPID INTERCHANGE.-It requires a shorter time for
the actual transit of a message from London to the Frepch
coast than is necessary for tracing upon the paper the
shortest word in the English language. Some three
thousand years ago Homer talked of " winged" words;
we doubt if even he imagined they would ever cleave their
way through space at such a rate as this. Communica-
tion with Paris is not even a question of seconds. At
present no doubt a message must be first forwarded to
Dover ; at Dover a delay will take place, another at Cape
Grisnez, and so on through France ; but these are mere
points of detail now that the chain of communication has
been carried across the bed of the ocean. Some few ar-
rangements are all that is requisite in order to render a
sustained conversation between two persons, the one in
Landon, the other in Paris, not merely a possibility but
a fact.

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—Some time since we bad
much pleasure in noticing the gallant conduct of a young
gentleman belonging to the Lady Catherine Barham, on
a voyage to the West Indies, who volunteered into the
Sardinian brig Providenza, met upwards of 1,000 miles at
sea, with the yellow fever raging on board ; master
and mate dead, and several of the crew dead and dying;
and who, although only eighteen years of age, safely
navigated the brig to Genoa, at the risk of his life, with a
reduced and sickly crew of Italians, not one of whom
could speak English. So fatal was the nature of the
disease, that on the'arrival of the vessel at Genoa, the
Custom-house officer who was put on board died in a few
hours. As a sequel to the occurrence, the Sardinian
Government has transmitted a gold medal to Mr. Wood,
the gentleman alluded to, as a reward for his " profes-
sional skill and great personal risk."
THE ANTI-STIFF-HAT-ASSOCIATION.—In theßirrning-
ham Herald there is a letter from a gentleman signing
himself " Hatophobia," who suggests the organisation of
a society to discountenance, by example and precept, the
wearing of hats. He says :—" As a sufferer from the per-
verse fashion of wearing hard, black chimney pots on the
heads of all who would not appear singular, I observe,
with great consolation, that our French neighbours pro-
pose to exhibit a variety of hats at the exhibition next
year. Certainly no part of British male costume—ugly
as it is, from hat to boot, and senseless and costly as it is
ugly—no part is more odious than the covering we are
doomed to wear upon our heads from year to year, and
from generation to generation, as if we were as perversely
determined to stick to one fashion as Turks and Quakers,
without the lightness of the one and the shadiness of the
other. I have resolved myself to set the world at defiance ;
and if the hatters are so obstinate as to invent nothing
more comfortable than heavy felt and pasteboard pots by
the time of the exhibition of 1851, I shall do without
them altogether. I trust you will lend your powerful aid
in favour of the anti-stiff-hat movement.'

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and some silver by a gang of thimble-riggers. The
Welshman on reaching Barnet fair, told his mates, who
vowed to take summary vengeance on the delinquents.
On Friday the fair having concluded, the Welshmen were
wending their way with their unsold stock to Ilollybush
fair, and had but just cleared the town when a school of
these swindlers were observed plying their avocations at
the end of a lane. On seeing them a sart of council was
held, when it was determined to seize upon and mount
them upon the unbroke animals. It is necessary here to
state that the mode of driving horses adopted by Wesh
drovers differs materially from that pursued by English-
men, inasmuch as the Welsh horses run as free as on
their own mountain wilds, with a few of the drivers
mounted and armed with long thonged whips to keep the
herd in some kind of subjection. Notwithstanding the
efforts of the drovers, the gang, with the exception of the
person who worked the pea and thimble, effected their
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escape ; him,
they succeeded in capturing, and
instantly mounting him on one of the ponies, fastened
his legs, so that he could neither dismount nor be thrown
off; the drove was then put in motion at a quick uneven
gallop, peculiar to the mountain breed, amidst the o:touts
and yells of the drivers, who at intervals gave the culprit
sundry lashes with their long whips, nor did tY,ey desist
until the drove reached South Mims (a distance of four
miles), where the prisoner was released, thomughly galled,,
chafed, and back sore, to return to hi compsli • msl 'n
iniquity.