The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERMOt SinTDIRD.

they were the same as those of the Millenary and St.
Simonian sects, which had been professed by bishops and
saints, and never before condemned by the church. Not-
withstanding this defence, Don Grignaschi was condemned
to ten years' exile ; five priests, accused of complicity,
were condemned to exile or imprisonment 'varying from
18 months to three years; two women to two years' im-
prisonment, and a notary and another person to a month's
imprisonment. Two other persons were acquitted.—
Galignani's Messenger.
A LUCKY INCIDENT.—An Avignon paper relates the
following :—A few days since a woman, living in the vici-
nity of the town, was brought to bed of twins. Being in
poor circumstances she and her husband came to the
painful determination of only declaring the birth of one,
and of depositing the other at. the Foundling Hospital.
The husband undertook to pefform the task. At night he
had reached a neighbouring town, and proceeded to the
turn-about destined to receive deserted infants. He
found the place already occupied by a new-born child,
and was about to lay his own by the side of it when he
heard a voice calling upon him to take back with him both
children and adopt them as his own, and threatening to
denounce him if he did not immediately obey. All re-
monstrance was unavailing, and the poor fellow returned
to his home laden with the two infants. Great was the
consternation of the unfortunate couple at finding them-
selves burdened with three children, when they had des-
paired of being able to provide even for two. Meanwhile,
however, the woman observed that the little stranger was
well provided with clothing, and that behind his ear was a
mark which indicated that its parents intended one day to
claim it back. She then proceeded to undress the child in
order to change its linen, when a parcel, which had been
wrapped up in the clothing, fell to the ground with
heavy and sonorous crash. It was a bag containing 100
louis d'ors. The woman soon made up her mind as to the
course she should take, and, sending out her own children
to nurse, devoted herself to the care of the little unknown,
which had so unexpectedly come to swell the number of
her family.

THE DANISH WAR.
SERIOUS ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE DANES AND

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINERS.

HAMBURGII. JULY 26.—At last the Danes and the
Schleswig-Holstein troops have again met, and a most
bloody conflict has taken place. The battle began yester-
day at dawn of day, and lasted 11 hours. The Danes
attacked with about 25,000 men, and the insurrectionary
army was about 20,000 strong.
The-centre of the Schleswig-Holsteiners, under Gen.
Willisen, occupied the village of Idstedt a little distance
north of the town of Schleswig. The Danes attacked both
wings of their enemies, and, after a combat which con-
tinued for eight hours, brought all their disposable
strength against the centre of Willisen's troops, and at
length forced him to return through Schleswig, towards
Rendsburg. But the defeat was most signal, and the
result must be highly important for the Danes. It is im-
possible to give details at present, as the accounts vary so
much, but the loss of both parties has been very great.
Some accounts state 4,000 to 5,000 men have been put
hors de combat, and considering the hatred that urged
both sides on, the highest number may not be exagge-
rated.

TEN O'CLOCK, P.M.—By the evening train, which has
just arrived at Altona, nothing further is publicly known,
but the friends of the Schleswig- Holsteiners are very much
dejected at the present prospect of affairs.
The Kolner Zeitung contains the following telegraphic
despatch, dated Hamburg, July 25 :—" The Boreenhalle
announces that yesterday an attack had been made by the
Danish troops on the Schleswig-Holstein line at Collerup
and at the Helligbek, and had led to a sharp engagement
which lasted eight hours. The loss on each side was con-
siderable. General Willisen had maintained his position.
A genetal and decisive engagement is expected to take
place to-day. According to a second and later despatch
from Rendsburg, the Schleswig-Holstein army had lost
150 men in the engagement, only a few of whom, how-
ever, were killed, the greater number more or less slightly
wounded. On the German side seven Danish prisoners
had been made and a Swedish spy had been captured.

The weather in. Ireland is all that could be wished.
The rain has descended copiously but gently. The Wes-
leyans of Cork have bad a thanksgiving service for the
manifestation of divine goodness.
A Goon ONE. —The other day Mr. G. Kinchella went
to a place in the barony of Kells, county Kilkenny, and
seized a quantity of hay for grand jury cess. The poor-
rate collector followed him, and finding himself late he
made up for his loss by seizing Mr. Kinchella's horse,
which he actually sold for £6 10s.
Perhaps we could not give a stronger proof of the de-
cay of families of fortune than the fact that the grand
jury of an extensive county where the judges of assize are
now s;tting numbers but five of the gentlemen who were
accustomed to be summoned ! The other eighteen are
all ruined men.—Cork Constitution.
SAD ACCOUNT OF ENNISKILLEN.—The following is
taken from the Fermanagh Reporter :—" The leprosy of
Enniskillen society is its gross immorality and, beastly
' sensuality, accompanied by mental ignorance and imbe-
cility. Too many grow up mere fungus, without end or
aim. God is not in their ways. They are taken with
the lusts of the flesh, and, in the present blaze of gospel
day, Enniskillen is worse than were Sodom and Gomor-
rah."
PERFORMING A PRETENDED MARRIAGE.—At the
Antrim assizes, last week, Edward Knocker was indicted
for conspiring with one James Fullerton, a soldier of the
13th Regiment, to deceive Sarah Brown, by pretending
to be a clergyman, and by performing a ceremony of
marriage between them. The ceremony took place in a
public-house, and the prisoner received 2s. 6d. for his
services. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
FATAL THUNDER- STORM. The thunder storm of
Tuesday week did considerable damage in the neighbour-
hood of Dunkaneely, county Donegal. The thunder
actually shook the ground. The discharge of rain (with
some hail) was excessive, which has caused considerable
damage to houses and crops. The lightning entered the
house of a man named M'Cay, of Bruckless. Mrs.
M`Cay and a young man named John Shevlin, in the
house, were both struck. Shevlin's death was instanta-
neous. Mrs. M.Cay lived but a short time. Other per-
sons were injured.
A SAGACIOUS Ass.—At the Sligo assizes, Owen Gethin
was arraigned for having stolen an ass, the property of
Patrick Feeney. Patrick Feeney proved the loss of the
animal, which was subsequently traced to the prisoner's
possession. Chief Baron How did you know the ass
was yours ?—Witness : Well, I knew him ; there was no
mistaking his legs. (Laughter.)—Chief Baron : Had you
any mark upon him ?—Witness : Faix I hadn't, but he
had marks upon himself. (Laughter.) He had lumps on
his knees and on his back, and one on his nose. (Loud
laughter.)—Clerk of, the Crown : Had you any other
reason for knowing the animal was yours ?--Witness
Yes ; I knew his woice. (Loud laughter.)—Chief Baron :
Whose voice ?—Witness : The woice of my ass, my lord
—(laughter)—the minute he saw me he threw up his tail
and roared. (Loud laughter.)—Chief Baron : Roared !
who roared ?—Witness : 'My ass, my lord ; he roared
with joy ; we were together for the last five years ; he
knew me well, and I would know his woice twenty miles
off.—The prisoner was convicted.
AN IRISH UNION BURYING GROUND.—It is difficult
to make the English believe that the thousands who die
in these unions, or the houses, and on out relief are buried
with no religious rites whatever: the dead cart takes
sometimes every morning for weeks its burden to the
burying ground if it is at any distance; certain paupers
go with it to just put the coffins in the pts as they are
dug, cover them, and leave them. Where there are bury-
ing grounds attached to the houses, they are carted out
and put into the ground the day after they die with no
form whatever. I have not yet seen one of these grounds
that had any one mark or sign about it of the purpose to
which it is dedicated ; though I am told they are conse-
crated. One large walled-in ground in which, to my
knowledge, there cannot have been less than 2,000 inter-
red within the last three years, has a crop (I think of
flax) now growing on that part of it to which the spades
of the coffin planters have not yet reached ; this bit of
agricultural practice may not be on consecrated ground ;
all I know is, that it is within the walls of the so-called
burying ground, and the dead planted ground, is fast
approaching the border of the agriculturist. Some have
nowallsat all, no mark, capable of pointing out toe stranger
their boundary. I cannot wonder at the horror the pea-
santry have of these grounds ; how they will resort to any
Practicable scheme to get their dead away, that they may
smuggle them into some of the old abbey or church
grounds.—Letter from Ireland.