The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-28 00:00:00

AT_THELYCEUM, BOLD-STREET,

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On MONDAY next, 31st Aust, at a Quarter-past Twelve o'clock,
and also at a Quarter-past Five o'clock.
i MR. JOHN GEORGE WO D, F.A.S., will commence
a COURSE of SIX int esting and attractive LEC-
TURES, relating to the most c irated Portions of the Ancient
World ; illustrated by an un terrupted succession of large
Water-colour Paintings and Panoramic Views.
Admission to a Single Lecture
Young Persons under Fourteen years of Age 2s.
Six Transferable Tickets One Guinea.
N.B.—An advantageous arrangement may be made by Fa-
milies.

The Lectures will be delivered at the same hours on Mon-
days' Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Tickets at Mr. GRApsCs, and at the Lyceum.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are in possession of all the particulars alluded to by Lynx
respecting the charge of embezzlement. It has been iuves-
tigated by a sub-committee of the board, who, we take for
granted, have or will report the matter to the whole house.

EDE Tiiiberpool gitanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1835.

It is observed of the swallow tribe that they have
several full and confidential musterings a few mornings
previous to their departure, arid the same may be said of
cabinets. We find the following in the evening papers
of Wednesday. " ALL the ministers have been closeted
with Lord Melbourne during the morning." They are,
we suspect, like the swallows, meditating their departure.

We have received New South Wales papers tothe7th, ,
of May. The colony is prosperous, but great complaints
are made of the inefficiency of the police. Horrid crimes
are committed in the open day, and it is not safe to travel
the roads after nightfall. The revenue of the colony is
on the increase. We find by the. Gazette that the revenue .
for the quarter ending the 31st March, 1834, was £45,600,
whereas that ending March, 1835, was £70,863, exhibit-
ing an increase of upwards of 50 per cent.

'We have Montreal Heralds to the end of July, but
they do not contain any matter of much importance.
Some local disputes, caused by reform, were exciting
some speculation in the town.

Our latest files from New York are to the 9th instant:
The following extracts may probably interest some of

our readers :

REVOLUTION IN VENEZUELA.—Accounts have been receiv-
ed at Philadelphia, that Vargas, the president, and the
vice-president Of Venezuela, had arrived at St. 'Thomas from
La Guayra on the night of July 8. The troops, instituted by
their officers, revolted, attacked the president's house in Carac-
cas. threatened his life, and' finally sent him under a guard to
La Guayra, and put him and the vice-president on board the
schooner Aurora, bound to St. Thomas. General Marino is
supposed to be the leader of the insurrection, and it appears to
have been some time in progress.
A SournErtx ABOLITIONIST.—The south-western papers
are full of accounts of a certain Mr. Murrell, a preacher, an
orator, and au abolitionist, who, it is said, harangues as beauti-
fully as George Thompson. Murrell happens to be in the Ten-
nessee Penitentiary at this moment, but the following account
Of him is droll enough :

For the purpose of preparing this great stroke, (a negro in-
surrection,) he bad travelled first to New Orleans, thence (via'
Cincinnati) to Lexingson (Ky.,) thence to Richmond (Va.,)
thence to Charlestou, Milledgeville Savannah, and Augusta,
from which place he returned to Williamson Co., Tennessee,
his native place, or, as he calls it, his "old stamping ground."
He says, "Its all the routes 1 only robbed eleven men, but I
preached some fine sermons, and scattered some counterfeit United
states paper among my brethren." He goes on to say that he re-
garded this plan ti ae a sure road to an inexhaustible fortune to
all who would engage in the expedition ;" he adds : " My heart
began to heat high with the hope of being able one day to visit
the pomp of the southern and western people in my vengeance,
and of seeing their cities and towns one common scene of de-
vastation, smoked, walls and fragments."
If the Rev. George Thompson were to write to his maiden
aunt at Hammersmith, what would he say? " 1 preached yes-
terday, my dear aunt, a very beautiful sermon, but I have not
yet picked any pockets.—Cause why ?—there is nothing in the
pockets here. When I get to New York, 1 mean to make up
for lost time."—New York Herald.—(Sold for one cent.)
THE FATE OF Aesrore.---Our readers may remember that
within a few months, a narrative was published in the Mobile
Commercial Register, purporting to be the dying confession of a
man who had resided near that city, and to give the particulars
of that distinguished lady, whose fate has been so long envelop-
ed in mystery. The story was positively contradicted by the.
Alabama Journal, and also by some northern papers; and this
contradiction has elicited a statement from a physician \vim at- •
tended the dying man, which leaves no doubt as to the fact that
such a confession was made;• and this, taken in connexion with
another fact mentioned by the physician, namely, that a corres-
ponding account has twice before been given by individuals
who, in their last moments, declared theMselves to have been •
present and actors in the dreadful scene—one at Norfolk, many
years ago, and the other in South Alabama affords strong rea-
son to believe that the truth is at length disclosed. The iollow-
iug is the statement of the physician.—Con.. Ads'.
The pirate who died, and the facts of whose case came into
my possession, was by the name of Foster. He was without
family, and kept a grog shop. He was taciturn and silent in his
disposition. Ile for some time before his death grew gradually
more intemperate. He often spoke of being a sailor—of having
been much at sea, or, as the phrase goes, of having " seen much
ate vice." He fell ..iek•matt wae4essefsssed for-some time. His
brain appeared disordered, and his mind at times haunted by
strange impressions.. He, on his death bed, confessed to a very
worthy and respectable gentleman who stood by him, that be
had been a pirate, and belonged to a piratical crew who took
the vessel in which Mrs. Alston had embarked. That after the
crew and passengers of the captured vessel were all despatched,
she alone remained .to be disposed of. Each man expressed
an unwillingness to become her executioner. They finally
drew lots to see whose duty it should be to destroy her; and it
unfortunately fell upon him. Upon learning her fate, she
begged strongly and
_pathetically for her life; she entreated
them to spare her. She tuld them she was Mrs. Alston, the
daughter of Aaron Burr, who had been vice-president of the
United States, and that he was waiting her in New York,
where she was going on to join him, and to console him-in his .
adversitv—that he made her walk the plank—which, finding
she could not avert, she finally did, with great firmness °el
composure!!! He was an illiterate man, and had probably
never read any thing upon the snbject.
"For some days previous to his death,' he iipagined he saw
her in his room, and would convulsively point to different parts
of the chamber, exclaiming with much earnestness—" There,
there she is !" and would ask the bystanders if they did not see
her. This delusion tormented him as long as he could male
himself understood, when. he died a most miserable death!
"ALEXANDER JONES,. M.D.
"Mobile, Alabama, July 19, 1835."

In the House of Lords, on Tuesday last, the church
robbery bill was pruned of its felonious and sacrilegious
clauses by a majority of 138 to 41. The bill is therefore
a safe and salutary measure. It charges the payment of
tithes upon the landlord instead of the .tenant, as for-
merly. The charge is, we admit, a reduced one, but the
certainty of recovery is a considerable advantage. The
clergyman will not, under the provisions of the bill, be
brought into collision or angry contention with the mid-
dle or humble orders of society. • His claims will be re-
gularly paid without any compulsory or disagreeable pro-
ces. It is true that the rent charge upon the tenant will
be proportionably increased, and it is quite possible that
the landlord will tax the tenant at a higher rate than
would be warranted by the tithe impost ; but that is his
concern, and no fault of the clergyman. The farmers of
Ir4and, instigated by the popish priests, and excited to
fury and to deeds of desperate guilt by one of the most
unprincipled scoundrels that ever lived—these men, 50

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