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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

no stud beyond

yielding to

ROMISH TREACHERY.-111 Walsh's ponderous but va-
luable Vindication of the Irish Remonstrance, that
honest Romanist assures us, the Duke of Ormonde de-
clared to himself (200 years ago)—" These twenty years
had to do with these Catholic bishops, I never found ar
of them either to speak the truth, or perform their
miss to me ;" laying his hand at the same time on ins
breast with great emotion and . -

_ never before c
after observed him, on any occasion whatsoever, to hav
averred or denied anything in that manner."-0,,,,,./...)

alsh adds

Review

PROTESTANT DELIVERANCES.—If any one demands
for what it is that orangemen celebrate the twelfth day of
July, and call William the Third a great deliverer_

requires few words to tell hi

:11111
brutal Talbot was issuing his proclamation commanding
no greater number than two Protestants to speak together
on pain of death—when James was robbing the kitchens
of the Protestants of brass utensils, and coining them
into " guineas," which be forced them to take—when
Rice, the Chief Baron, charged a jury to give heavy
damages against a Protestant merchant who had " slander.
cd" a Roman Catholic by charging him with burglar'
because he merely found him robbine hi.

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De Rosen had the wives and children of the pa
Ulster under the mouths of his artillery beneath the wells
of Derry—a " deliverer" was needed. And when the
Irish army was flying at the Boyne, or covering the hill
of Aughrim with their corpses—when the dilapidated
DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A POISONOUS INSECT. churches were built up, and the hunted ministers restored
—About a fortnight since a labourer at the West India —the "deliverer" was found. Hearing of these things
Docks was bitten as he supposed by a gnat, and the irri- from their Mothers' lips, it is but little wonder that, even
tation which ensued was so violent as to cause him to rub in a time of Maynooth grants and Itornish endowments,
the afflicted tart to a degree which caused alarming syrup_ the Protestants of Ireland should not forget the memory
toms, and the arm became swollen. In a short time fur- of him who, in days even of greater profligacy and greater
,
Cher alarming symptons appeared, and he died the same gloom, performed deeds which made his name at least
day. The surgeon stated, that when he was called in, the amongst them, " glorious and immortal."—Courier.
deceased laboured under difficulty of breathing, and had MEDICAL LATIN.—Why on earth should one profess
an intermittent pulse, accompanied by delirium. lie at- sion continue to carry ors the written part of their busi-
tributed death to the bite of a poisonous insect from the ness in a dead language—nay, more, in a language not only
tropical climates. dead, but corrupted? A merchant might as well draw out
Dean* OF A CHILD FROM EXCESS OF FOOD.—On his bills in bad Latin, or worse Greek. Only think of in-
Saturday, an inquest was held in Southwark, on the body voices, couched in the classical tongues—of promising to
of a child, aged two years, whose death was the effect of pay for value received, in the language of Cato the elder;
taking too large a quantity of food. It appeared that the or writing a receipt for the value of dry goods in the
deceased was generally in a good state of health, and that tongue of Pericles ! And why should prescriptions be
on Thursday, he ate about a quart of periwinkles given more learned documents than acknowledgments or pro_
him by his father, and also drank, at two draughts, missory notes. We have doubts of the extent of learned
lore of those who have to write them, and still more ter-
two half pints of porter, besides a great deal of water.
rible misgivings of the capabilities of those who have to
Deceased was very restless from that time till about
twelve o'clock,wben, while sitting upon a chair, he sod- read them. We doubt whether a country druggist's boy
denly turned black in the face, fell on the ground, and is more learned in the Latin rudiments than perhaps his
died in a few minutes. Death arose from concussion of elder brother, a respectable tavern waiter ; or, it may be,
the brain, this having been occasioned by the state of the landlord. But who would think, in a coffee-room or par-
stomach in connection with the fall. Periwinkles may
particu!arly in this hot weather.
lour, of mildly ordering a "poculurn cervichr," or of vo-
act as poison, ciferating for a" cyathum spiriti Gallia cum
aqua pure,"
when he wanted a glass of porter or a go of brandy and
Tug LATE FATAL DUEL, PORTSMOUTH.-011 Tues- water? Did you try the experiment, however, with a
day the investigation before the coroner ended by the learned waiter, who could catch, at all events, a glimpse of
jury returning the following verdict •—" We find that the your meaning, a mistake would not be, perhaps, of great
immediate cause of Mr. Seton's death was the result of a importance. You might think the whiskey tendered from
surgical operation, rendered imperatively necessary by misconception for brandy, or the ale to porter—no bad
the imminent danger in which he was placed by the in- substitutes for the originally ordered orticles. But in the
fiction of a gun-shot wound he received on the 20th of apothecary's shop—Heaven help us!—the case is different.
May last, in a duel with Henry Charles Morehead Haw- Oxalic acid mistaken for salts, or a neat packet of sugar
key, of the Royal Marines. We, therefore, find the of lead politely handed over the counter for magnesia, may
said Lieutenant Hawkey and Lieutenant Edward Pym, lead to awkward consequences, connected with coroner's
as well as all the parties concerned in the said duel, juries and paragraphs headed " poison by mistake—care-
Guilty of Wilful Murder. The jury would further ex- lessness of an apothecary," in the newspapers. And let
press their unanimous conviction that everything whieh it not be said that chemists or their assistants, although
the best professional skill, the greatest attention, and the not acquainted with Latin as a language, know well the
utmost kindness could suggest, was rendered to Mr. peculiar abbreviations of the peculiar words that come be-
Seton by his respective medical attendants." Mrs. Haw- fore them. Their knowledge in ninety-nine cases out of
key, the wife of Lieut. Hawkey, was examined. She de- a hundred is purely mechanical; they read Latin as par-
posed that Mr. Seton had made improper overtures to her, rote speak English, and thus, deriving no help from
with which, however, she had not acquainted her husband the sense, but trusting entirely to the accuracy of the
until shortly before the ball where the altercation took formation of the characters--a false stroke of a pen, the
place, and'at which she said she danced with Mr. Seton, accidental transposition of a dot on a line, may lead to no.
with her husband's consent. thing more or less than manslaughter.—Shilling Mag.

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sere his paper is printed, or the lodging he occupies in
the neighbourhood of his printer's. The thousand and
one charms, too, that colour and gild his existence, con-
sist, in cold truth, in his devouring—no matter what his
taste or appetite may be—a quantity of raw manuscripts ;
in answering questions about the colour of Prince Albert's
hair; in being insulted by every other correspondent ; in
making an enemy for life of every contributor whose arti-
cle he rejects; in being presented with ' the lie' by
member of the aristicrac

.. ARNOLD'S OPINION OF THE PREMIER.--.' I crave nine cases out of a hundre;
a strong mind for my children, for this reason, that they them, and his influence doe
then have a chance at least of appreciating truth keenly
and when a man does that, honesty becomes compar'a
tively easy, as, for instance, Peel has an idea about the
currency, and a distinct impression about it; and the'
fore on that point I would trust him for not
clamour; but about most matters, the church especia,.
he seems to have no idea, and therefore I would not
trust him for not giving it all up to-morrow, if the du•
mour were loud enough."—.Dr. Arnold's Life.

ror sing he has a when
he has not ; in being continuallayy solicited to docold miracles
in his litrl6 paper which parliament and the seven wise
men could not effect ; in being every other hour pestered
.—copy !--copy ! and in stopping up to all hours
morning in.a cold printing-office correcting proofs.
r, unless you have had an University education,
and work, have a soul for scissors and paste, are
reading the

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