The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

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after taking his tea, fell into convulsions, and died very
suddenly. A doctor, named Wright, was sent for but was
informed that the man was dead, and immediately went
away. The body soon swelled up very much, and by some
strange idea the hands were tied across the stomach.
The body was interred the day after death, but presented
none of the appearances :of a corpse, being quite limber.
Mrs. Cameron was absent at the time in Clis city, and
did not return for a fortnight. After some years young
Cameron entered the employment of N. Currier, litho-
grapher, and the mother married a man named Falls, a
ropemaker, and now resides with him at Yorkville.
Lately young Cameron, having prospered in his business,
thinking it his duty to have his father's remains more
decently interred, and some sort of a monument erected
to his memory, had his body disinterred by a man named
Aldridge. To the great astonishment of this man and his
assistant, it was with the greatest difficulty they could
raise the coffin, and on removing:the lid, they found the
remains fresh and uudecayed, though a little blackened
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and the hand behind the head in a strange position, as if
the deceased had awakened from a trance, and struggled
for freedom. This is the more strange, as the hands were
tied. The coffin was pretty well decayed, and gave way
in some parts. This discovery led to many strange sus-
picions, and there appears to be a desire that an inquest
should be held. The deceased was 35 years of age, and
appeared to be in perfect health the day before he was
interred. He was fond of stuffing birds, and used a large
quantity of arsenic for the purpose.—New Fork TriLune.
AFFECTING INCIDENT..--A young man recently made
his escape from the galleys at Toulouse. He was strong
and vigorous, and soon made his escape across the country
and eluded pursuit. He arrived the next morning before
a cottage in the greatest distress. Four little children sat
trembling in a corner • their mother was weeping and
tearing her hair, and the father walking the floor in agony.
The galley-slave asked what was the matter, and the
father replied that they were that morning to be turned
out of doors because they could not pay their rent. " You
see me driven to despair," said the father, " my wife and
little children without food or shelter, and I without the
means to provide any for them." The convict listened to
this tale with tears and sympathy, and then said, " I will
give you the means. I have but just escaped from the
galleys ; whoever secures and takes back an escaped pri-
soner is entitled to a reward of fifty francs. How much
does your rent amount to?" " Forty francs," replied the
father. " Well," said the other, " put a cord round my
body, I will follow :'you to the city, they will recognize
me, and you will get fifty francs for bringing me back."
"No, never !" exclaimed the astonished listener; " my
children should starve a dozen times before I would do
so base a thing." The generous young man insisted, and
declared, at last, that he would go and give himself up if
the father would not consent to take him. After a long
struggle the latter yielded, and, taking his preserver by
the arm, led him to the city and to the mayor's office.
Everybody was surprised that a little man like the father
had been able to capture such a strong young fellow; but
the proof was before them. The fifty francs were paid
and the prisoner sent to the galleys. But after he was
gone the poor father felt so badly that he asked a private
interview of the mayor, to whom he told the whole story.
The mayor was so much affected that he not only added
fifty francs more to the father's purse, but wrote immedi-
ately to the Minister of Justice, begging the noble pri-
soner's release. The minister examined into the affair,
and,- finding that it was a comparatively small offence
which had condemned the young man to the galleys, and
that he had already served one half of his time, ordered
his release. Is not the whole incident beautiful.—St.
Louis Republican.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY MasTARE.—The following
singular adventure is related in the French journals :—A
party of gentlemen met a few days since for a day's
shooting in the neighbourhood of Montereau. The house
in which the sportsmen spent the night was situated half-
way up a declivity overlooking the high road. At about
2 o'clock in the morning one of the inmates hearing a
noise raised a cry that their vehicle was being stolen.
The party were soon astir, and hearing a noise of wheels
as of a coach going off, seized their weapons and rushed
out in pursuit of the thieves, whom they soon succeeded
in coming up with, thanks to a cross cut. The first of
the party on the spot immediately seized the horses'
heads and stopped the carriage short. The people inside
the carriage upon this immediately began to cry
" Thieves !"—a degree of audacity at which our sports.
men grew exasperated, and cocking their guns they level-
led them at the driver. The latter personage, together
with the individuals inside the carriage, were seized with
terror at this demonstration, and precipitating themselves
from their seats rushed off into a neighbouring coppice,
where they were presently lost sight of. Congratulating
themselves on the recovery of their carriage. the sports-
men returned with it in triumph dead beaten, but swell-
ing with pride at their exploit. It was now determined
the carriage should be safely secured in the coachhouse,
but what was their surprise at finding the place already I
occupied by their own carriage, which the servant had
placed there the night before without their knowledge.
The cry of " thieves," which they had considered as the
height of audacity on the part of the travellers, was now
accounted for, and the gentlemen thus interrupted in their
journey were the bond fide owners of the carriage which
they had been but too glad to abandon in order to save
their lives threatened by a band of armed ruffians.
The affair' was serious, and in order to avoid the accusa-
tion of robbery on the Republic's highway, accompanied
with violence and other aggravating circumstances, it was
deemed expedient before retiring to rest to knock up the
authorities and apprise them of the cixci.unstancep on
which they relied for their defence..

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Aord says he agrees with nearly all the remarks of tha
journal upon his letter respecting the Church ; but he i
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replied to in terms equally stringent from the pulpit
of the parish church. The bishop refused to deliver the
blessing after preaching : the dean, (Dr. Waddington) in
consequence, did it for him, giving his lordship an inti-
m that he would allow no deviations from custom in
the cathedral of Durham. The Bishop of Durham has
deprived one curate of his license for publishing a Deni-
sonian pamphlet against the late judgment, and has
thereby given a heavy blow and great discouragement to
the Tractarians in his diocese.—Church and Slate
Gazette.

IRELAND.

...A.oa. yaprr weUGIgfS Luau meek soles have lately
been so plentiful in the Tralee market, as to be sold at
the rate of a pair.

TERENCE BELLES M'MANus.—This gentleman has
obtained permission from the government to reside in
Launceston.—Freeman's Journal.
LAW APPOINTMENTS inz.AND.—Mr. Monaghan
is appointed Lord Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas.
Mr. Hatchell, Attorney-General.

Three brothers of the name of Daly have been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mr.
North.

The Irish Tenant League is starring it in the provinces
Wexford and Kilkenny have been the favoured counties
The orators are the same at the different meetings.

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The Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Belfast, and the Rev. Dr.
Stewart, of Broughshane, have arrived in Dublin, on a
special mission to the Lord Lieutenant.
A man named Sutton, living at Ballyclarciay, West.
meath, destroyed himself a few days since, in consequence
of being unable to pay his poor's rate.
How TO STOP THE. REPEAL MOVEMENT.-" Foreign
Office, Sept. 23.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint
Daniel O'Connell, Esq , to be her Majesty's Consul at
Para."

Mr. Henry George Hughes, Q.C., has been appointed
her Majesty's Solicitor General for Ireland. Mr. Hughes
is a Roman Catholic, but it was generally understood that
the office would be given to none other than a gentleman
professing the doctrines of the Church of Rome.

THE TRISH EXILES.—JOHN MITCHELL.—The last ac-
count of poor Mitchell is supplied in an Australian paper,
which announces the arrival of the Neptune convict ship
at Hobart Town, and states that John Mitchel had re-
ceived his ticket of leave, and on account of his delicate
health will be allowed to reside at Bothwell, where he can
enjoy the society of. John Martin.

POOR LAW AMENITIES.—A general rate of five shil-
lings in the pound has been struck for all the electoral
divisions in the Westport union ; that sum being much
below the amount that will bo required for any one of
them in the ensuing year. Of sixteen electoral divisions
in the union of Castlebar, four only are rated under five
shillings in the pound. The rate required for the support
of paupers belonging to the electoral division of Lougha.-
twig, in the union of Loughrea, is 16s. Bd, in the pound!
—Dublin Mail.

MURDER OF A MAGISTRATE.—OD Monday, as Mr.
Roger North, cf Killduff House, King's County, was
returning home on foot from one of his farms, between
four and five o'clock in the afternoon, he was shot by an
assassin, who lay in wait for him behind a hedge, about
a mile from his own house. A large number of slugs
and pellets went through the body. He must have died
instantly. He was discovered dead on the road imme-
diately afterwards. There is, as yet, no clue to the
murderer. It is supposed he was murdered owing to his
having lately used some of his tenants on his Itathue
property with coercive severity.

THE VERY LAST OF THE SEA SERPENT.—A gentle-
man named Travers not " Roger W. of that ilk, but
" James Travers, Lieutenant, Coast Guard," in a letter
to the Cork Examiner, thus blows to the winds all the
fables of the sea serpent's visit to the Head of Kinsale :
" Sir,—l understand that a correspondent of yours has
seen the sea serpent (who was so condescending as to
throw on board his boat a few shell-fish for bait), and is
most anxious to confer with Mr. Roger W. Travers, said
to be of this village, whose name has figured in the. Con
stitution on the 29th of August- and sth of September.
I beg to assure you that there is no such person as Roger
W. Travers residing in this part of Ireland; no yacht
sailed or owned by a person of that Christian name—no
skin or scale has been left at the Coast Guard Detach-
ment near Horn Rock, nor have my men, or the fisher-
men along the coast, heard of, or seen such a monster.
I am sorry the public and. the Editor of the Cork Con-
stitution should have been so shamefully hoaxed by per-
sons from Bandon, whose names are known,—l am, sir,
your obedient servant, JAMES TRAVERS, Lieutenant,
Coast Guard."

SINGULAR DEFENCE OF A PLAYER.—AII itinerant
player, possessed of more wit than money, was a few days
ago driven by the hard master, hunger, to commit the
high crime of poaching, in the neighbourhood of Birming-
ham, and being unluckily detected in the act, was carried
forthwith before a bench of magistrates, when the offence
was fully proved: The knight of the buskin, however,
being called upon for his defence, astonished the learned
justices by adapting " Brutus's speech to the. Romans on
the death of Caesar" to his case, in the following manner:
" Britons, hungry men, and epicures! hear me for my
cause, and be silent that you may hear ; believe me for
mine honour, and have respect for mine honour, that you
may helieve; censure me in your wisdom, and awake your
senses that you may better judge. If there be any in this
assembly, any dear friend of this hare, to him I say, that
a player's love for hare is no less than his. If then that
friend demand why a player rose against a hare, this is my
answer :—.Not that I loved hare less, but that I loved eat-
ing more. Had you rather this hare were living, and I had
died starving, than that this hare were dead, that I might
live a jolly fellow ? As this hare was pretty, T weep for
him ;as he-was nimble, I rejoice at it; as he was plump,
I honour him ; but as he was eatable, I slew him." Here
the gravity of the Court was obliged to give way ; prose-
cutors, spectators, and all burst into laughter at the ready
wit displayed by the " poor a'tor." The information was
withdrawn, and the knight of t he sock and buskin left the
court with pockets much heavier• than when he entered it,
with the intention of appearing- on the stage the same
evening in au " entirely new charaler."

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and Coinpensation

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300 says to be added to a

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Leger, one mile and a half; and the,,
Plate of 110 sovs to be added to a two-yea,
10 sovs each, besides a variety of other rich prize,.
Earls of Strathmore and Airlje are the stewards.
The FLYING DUTCHMAN.—This famous racer has been
sold to four noblemen and gentlemen by the Earl of
Eglington for £7,000. He is not intended for the turf
again, and will only be kept for breeding purposes. The
Flying Dutchman has won fourteen races, never having
been beaten till Wednesday week at the Doncaster races
by the Earl of Zetland's Voltigeur, an event attributable,
perhaps, to the great weights the favourite was compelled
carry—namely, 191bs. more than Voltigeur. The

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Dutchnian has realized the surn of £17,725 aliogether for
his late noble proprietor, exclusive of plate, cups, and
other trophies of the race-course.

agricultural anb

Iflortirulturar.

The incessant introduction of new trees and shrubs
ought to lead more speedily to improvements in orna-
mental planting. At present it is far too much like the
rough old-fashioned system of laying down cover in which
one man digs a hole, and another drops in a young tree,
a third replaces the soil round the plant, neither one or
the other thinking or caring about the ultimate effect to
be produced by the trees on the landscape.
It is true that an attempt is made to produce a more
varied appearance by thoroughly mixing the different sorts
of trees in the operation of planting ornamental grounds ;
but this is only like choosing the fragments of glass for a
kaleidescope, and trusting to the mixture for the effect.
But the genuine landscape gardener must have a com-
prehensive mind, he must note every point of the sur-
face under his management, and also of the surrounding
country ; he must in planting a tree be fully aware of its
capability of harmonising with all parts of the picture.
We too often hear talk of " mixing in a few purple
beeches for a nice contrast," a more fallacious idea can
hardly be conceived ; contrast is destructive of harmony,
and harmonious effect ought to be the sole aim of the
landscape gardener. By studying the foliage of trees, in
all their stages of growth, the planter will be able, from
the vast variety now in the nurseries, to produce the most
perfect effect, at all seasons of the year, from the delicate
tints of the early spring, to the rich eowing colours of
mid-autumn. The same applies equally to shrubs, both
deciduous and evergreen, even to a greater extent, es-
pecially if the two be judiciously intermixed.