The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

Some practical jokers at \Mentz lately amused them-
selves during the night by fastening chains round the
limbs of Guttenberg's statue, as a satire on the restric-
tions upon the press in--Germany. The police have vainly
endeavoured to discover the-wicked jesters.
General Changarnier • has forbidden all Bonapartist
papers to be admitted into the barracks, among others the
Pays, a paper which was specially addressed to the troops,
and was the most :Vous advocate for the restoration of
the empire.
MILITARY OCOUPATIGIT OF HESSE CASSEL.—A de-
spatch from Berlin, of - the 24th instant, announces the
important fact that General Groben, at the head of a
Prussian force, has taken possession of the military roads
of the electorate, and that he has instructions to repel
any intervention by armed force. The Austro-Bavarian
army has not yet passed the Hessian frontier.
THE ROMANCE OF THE HAREM.—As a sequel to the
history which we gave-•under this title a few weeks ago.
we may now state that a letter from Constantinople, sth
instant, says :—" The Creek lady, who some time since
killtd one of her eunuchs, has been condemned to five
months' imprisonment, and her accomplices to a more
severe punishment,"
PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPROVEMENT.—The Boston Tran-
script states that a Mr. Howes, of that city, has disco-
vered a means by which a miniature-sized daguerreotype
may be magnified to life size, or larger if necessary, and
reflected upon a canvas, or any flat prepared surface, so
that an artist may seat himself before it and paint it as it
appears.
Six murderers were shot at Rome, on the Sth instant,
whose crime bearing a pOlitical shade, has attracted more
than usual attention. It was at one thee said that Pius
IX. had positively refused to put his hand to a sentence
of death, and we believe was a fact largely made use of by
agitators against capital punishments. It appears that
this was either a mistake, or his Holiness has since
changed his mind.
1 he United States mail steam-ship, Atlantic, arrived in
the Mersey on Thursday, bringing three days' later intel,
ligence from the United States. She left New York on
the 10th instant, and brings 97 passengers and a fair
cargo. The steam-ship Europa had arrived at New York
previous to the sailing of the Atlantic, having been out
121 days. Nothing had transpired in the political world
worth reporting since the departure of the Niagara. Bu.
siness was rather brisk.
JEALOUSY AND MURDER.—M. Inder, a wine-shop
keeper, of Paris, was jealous of his wife. A certain black-
smith was the object of his suspicion, and so he forbid
him his shop. The blacksmith went in, in spite of his

prohibition, to the shop to drink. 'The husban'd expelled
him. He went again with a companion .named Bavot, and
a few days since, when turned out, insulted the husband
by some gross jokes about his wife. Inder, in a passion,
snatched up a knife, rushed after them, and, striking in a
dark passage, killed Bavot on the spot, missing the man
he intended to strike. Inder is committed.

DOUBLE SUICIDE.—Two days ago some fishermen at

Bezons, near Argenteuil, dragged from the river the
bodies of a young man and woman, bound closely toge -
ther by pocket-handkerchiefs and cords. A paper found
in the pockets of the man set forth that they had com-
mitted suicide owing to the refusal of their parents to
consent to their marriage, and begged of those who might
find them to cause them to be interred without any at-
tempt to ascertain who they were. The paper was signed
" Joseph and Madeleine." All attempts to discover the
names and addresses of the unfortunate couple have failed.
COURT MARTIAL IN INDlA.—Lieutenant Rose, who
was tried by court martial at Simla, for allowing himself
to be grossly insulted without seeking the duellist's satis-
faction, and for having sought protection from the civil
power when threatened to be horsewhipped, instead of
Protecting himself, had been acquitted, but deprived of
his staff appointment, and severely reprimanded. He had
stated that Mr. Lang, editor of the illofitssilite news-
paper had been seen drunk at a ball. Mr. Lang called
this a falsehood, insulted him, refused to fight with him,
and threatened to assault him, when Mr. Rose bound him
over to keep the peace. Mr. Rose's statement was found
to be correct.

SHOCKING MURDER.—A fearful murder was committed

about dusk on Monday in the church of the Madeleine,
Paris. The victim is the Suisse of the church. It appears
lie was about to dose the doors, and when making his
round he discovered three or four men in the corridor or
passage between the body of the church and the extreme
wall. These men appeared as if they wished to conceal
themselves. The Suisse, no doubt, insisted on their
quitting the church, when they refused, and fell on the
unfortunate man. The murderers beat his head on the
stone steps of the passage. They have not, been as
yet arrested. Tt is presumed that they were hiding in
the spot with the intention, as soon as the doors were
closed, of robbing the church.

CRIME AND GRIEF.—TWO young women, fashionably-
dressed, were a few days back taken up in Paris for shop-
lifting. One, a young and elegant creature refused to give
her name or address, answering only by sobs and tears.
The police were indefatigable in their search, and found at
last her domicile. Her reason was then known. She
had contrived, while living in affluence on the products of
her robberies, to keep an excellent character in her home,
and to be sought in marriage by a young man, both dis-
tinguished and honourable in position, who, eight days
before her arrest, was married to her, and came to reside
in her well-furnished apartments. The husband was dis-
tracted at her absence, but soon had it explained by the
arrival of a commissary of police, who discovered, on
examination, a secret hiding-place full of stolen zoods.

A NEGRO PRESIDENT FOR THE UNITED STATES.—
The abolitionists of Oswego have rushed forward and seized
time by the forelock, nominating their candidates for the
presidency. We supposed that Steward and Frederick
Douglas would have been the candidates ; but our sug-
gestions hare not been followed out. The nominations
stand thus :—For President, Gerrit Smith, white man ;
for Vice-President, Sam Ward, black man. This is
what might be called " the mixed ticket." Gerrit Smith
is put down as a full-blooded white man—an Anglo-
Saxon ; but he has a dark complexion, though nothing of
African blood in his veins. Sam Ward is a full-blooded
African, as black as the ace of spades drawn from a new
pack. It is the first time, in this country, that any party,
composed of white men and women, ever nominated, or
would support, for the highest office of the republic, a
black man to govern them. This is a large leap into the
gulph of fanaticism indeed. When a large portion of a
white civilized community can deliberately perpetrate <a
things, it is an evidence of some terrible disease is the
public mind, and a presentiment of some horrible crisis or
convulsion ahead. Is it revolution ? secession ? confla.
gration ? insurrection ? or general massacre between the
two races ?—New Fork Herald.

IRELAND.

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An affray took place 'on Monday evening, at Belfast,
between three private soldiers and some workmen, which
ended in two of the soldiers receiving several severe cuts
on the heed.

Miss Catherine Hayes has received an invitation from
Airs. Knox, lady of the Bishop of Dromore, to make the
see-house her residence during her forthcoming engage-
ment by the Anacreontic Society of Belfast.

A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING.—A few nights since,
a sheep was stolen from a field in Coolcarney, county
Mayo. Suspicion fell upon the wife of a man who had
been transported for a similar offence, and, on searching
the house, the officer found the sheep in bed with the
children, with a chemise and a night-cap on. _

THE COLLEGES DENOUNCED BY THE POPE.—His
lloliness has declared his final verdict on the Government
colleges in Ireland—utter and unqualified condemnation.
Thus the remonstrance of the 13 Catholic prelates against
the condemnatory decree passed by the 14 Catholic prelates
at the Thurles synod assembled has been treated as nought
by the mitred bigot to whom the Catholic youth of Ireland
are henceforth expected to look for collegiate education.
—London Standard.

ABDUCTION OF A POOR-LAW GUARDIAN.—The Kil-
kenny Moderator contains a letter from Mr. P. Keefe,
one of the guardians of the Urlingford union, giving an
account of his being dragged from his gig while on his
way to attend a meeting of the board on Tuesday week,
and kept in custody for several hours by a party of fellows
under the leadership of a person calling himself " Napo-
leon Bonaparte." The object of the abduction was to
prevent Mr. Keefe voting against the Johnstown Fever
Hospital.
A BAILIFF'S STRATAGEM.—At the Bandon session,
last week, a clever trick of a bailiff was explained.
Timothy M`Carthy was employed to serve Mr. Warner,
a magistrate, with a chancery order, but found it impos-
sible to do so. At last, in the face of a policeman, he
stole a pair of brogues from a stall ; as Tim had expected,
the noliceman forthwith arrested him and hurried him off
to the nearest magistrate, who was proceeding to take
the information, when Tim drew forth a paper, and pre-
senting it to the justice, exclaimed, " Here, your wurt-
chip, this paper will give you information enough." It
is needless to add that the magistrate thus addressed was
Mr. Warner, and the paper delivered was the chancery
order. The charge of theft was dismissed by the bench
amidst a roar of laughter at the clever ruse by which Tim
had contrived to fix his victim.

UNIVERSITY AND C'LERICAL NEWS.

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The members of Christ College, Cambridge, have pre-
sented to the Lord Bishop of Chester, late master of the
college, a splendid silver vase and a pair of silver tureens,
as a memorial of their esteem and gratitude.
The foundation-stone of a new church at Amcotts, in
the parish of Althorpe, was laid on Tuesday. The Rev.
James Aspinall, rector of the parish, was present, and deli-
vered a long address.
The Weekly •Chronicle says :—" With reference to the
Bishop of Oxford, there is a very serious charge, which
the right rev. prelate does not deny, a charge, indeed,
which he justifies ; namely, that he is unprepared to defend
the;doctrine of the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures. It
is not improbable that the matter will be subjected to the
decision of the Ecclesiastical Court.
DR. Pusey AND T}U "TEST."--Dr. Pusey seems to
have felt the necessity of some avowal ; or why should he
have declared, with so much marked emphasis, that he
had "no misgivings" as to the Church of England ; and
that he means to die in her communion ? And again, the
fact that such a declaration should have elicited so re-
markable a demonstration of applause, and should have
been spoken of by certain writers as " a matter for great
thankfulness," is a proof of the extent and force of the
suspicions which existed as to his sound Churchmanship.
It is rather a matter for painful reflection than exultation,
when the simple avowal of faithfulness to his Ordination
vows by an eminent divine, is thought to be so unlooked
for a circumstance as to cause such a commotion of joy ;
for a similar declaration from a clergyman not suspected
of an undue love for Rome, would have been treated as a
mere commonplace remark ; an.d the complexion of the
times or the character of the speaker CORM /lone gins it
Significance.—Chester Courant.