The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

ays before the passing of the-act. Th.

dove two 4:]
which had

Nation,

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coolly reasons the question, " What if we fail ?" with all
the coolness of a philosopher, and has no stomach for an
attack on any one but poor Johnny O'Connell. Mr.
Duffy says, in a letter extending to nearly five columns,
"A revolution, I know, to be inevitable. No policy and

no force can avert it. * * * I lov. peace—l fear dis-
order—l hate anarchy. I believe the public opinion of
Ireland to be as well disposed to peace at this hour as ever

it was or ought to becom.

All Ireland. from

sea to sea, is arming to enforce our natural right to this

my conscience is clear that we are able and entitled to
take it. If we cannot save our country by peace lam for
war." The rest of the Nation is tame and spiritless. The
fire, if not totally extinguished, seems well nigh raked out.
The United Irishman did not annear on Saturday until

a late hour, in consequence of the parties who priated the
paper declining to continue to do so, as they had been in-
formed by eminent counsel that they could not do so

without the risk of an indictment. Par thus accounting
for the delay, Mr. Mitchell says,—" We hare been obliged
to submit to the degradation of having our proofs revised
by a lawyer, in order to satisfy the parties before this
number could appear. We can only promise our readers

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that no lawyer's pen shall touch our writings a second
time." Mr. Mitchell complains that the " censors" have
ruthlessly erased all the felonious" passages in his
writings, extracting, in fact, the oyster, and leaving the

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public- nothing .better than the " pearly shells." A
"leader" in the United Irishmam, ungraced by felony or
treason, is as dull as Hamlet without the principal part.

etntralsrtlianin

An abundance of ripe strawberries were exhibited in
Edinburgh market last week.
The distress in Leeds is so great that one in ten of the
population is maintained by the parish funds.
The Earl " 4^,vnn. a

of arborough has given £lOOO to founa
"Yarborough Scholarship" at the Royal Naval School,
New Cross, Lincoln.
• The foundation-stone of the monument to celebrate the
landing of Prince Albert, at Ramsey, in the Isle of Many
was laid with some pomp on Monday.
In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord
Brougham introduced Prince Metternich. They both sat
for some time beside the Lord Chancellor.
At several parish and district meetings in the metropo-
lis, more particularly on Easter Monday, opportunity has
been taken to express undiminished loyalty and gratitude
to the active guardians of order on the 10th.

The Commissioners of Customs have decided against
the appeal made by the Due de Stackpole, and that no-
bleman's splendid schooner yacht, the Gipsy Queen, has
been declared forfeited to the Crown for smuggling.
The Countess of Mornington, in Thursday's Times,
again appeals to the public for alms : her husband, the
Earl of Mornington (the " Long Tilney Wellesley Long
Pole Long," of Fitzgerald) having left her destitute.

The citizens of YOrk were hoaxed on Good Friday by
a public announcement that a man would ride in a bucket,

Multitudes attended, to be di-appointed

On Wednesday, a prize frght for £2OO took place be-
tween James Massey, of Manchester, and Jas. Edwards,
of Cheltenham. The locale was near Newmarket. After
53 rounds, Edwards came off" victor.

The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer decided, on

split a dt. i is
Jove £2O, for the purpose of enabling him to recover his

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claim by .several suits, brought in the new County Courts.
It is said that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind will make her
first appearance for the season, at the Italian Opera, on
Thursday next, as Ainiita in "La Sonnambula"

her brilliant de'but

The York Courant was published for the last time on
Thursday. It first appeared under that nape in 1719,
being a continuation of the York Mercury (said to be the
first newspaper established in the county). It is now to
be incorporated with the York Herald.

FRENCH CONTRACT FOR HORSES.—The Provisional
Government having issued a decree that they intend to
enter into contracts for 28,000 cavalry horses, several
French contractors are at present iuthe.north of England,
inakincepurchases.
On Monday, a fearful explosion of frre-damp took place

by which iiv'e men lost their lives instantly

were seriously injured
is despaired of.

Two others

[—one so much so thal

is recovery

ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John
Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict

no were awaiting

ensuing assizes, e

heir escape

[lave not

. .
been heard of since.
Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park,
,London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a prin-
cess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the

been received at the latter place by electric telegraph

CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE

The foll6wing has been
the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and
Foreign Bible Society during the last three years in the
following large towns :—London, /26,391 ; Liverpool,
81,342 ; Manchester. 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol,
54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies.
On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, prin-
cipally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott,
Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Falcutt, and Ashwell,
the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by
public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced up-
wards of £22,000.

At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other
clay, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little

amused at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic
honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the
lawyers'' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away
until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look
after the runaway pet of her mistress.
Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly." The Times Com-
missioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern
circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he
ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for
the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the
Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement
made in the House of Commons by Mr..F. O'Connor.

One of the clerks at the General Post Office gas been
dismissed for refusing to be sworn a special constable
during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in
his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable
people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect
the property on which he is employed, it would be only
natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer.
Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly per-
form " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man
in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation
of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some
worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his
merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Strat-
ford may be confided.
The returns of the Registrar-General record the death
of a child, aged two years, " from inflammation of the
stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black
blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, sup-
posed to be caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool

Opened, of which the contents were carried through- the
house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter
occurrence and the death.

the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, " ne-
cessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who
left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed

that he would never enter it again. A few days after his
old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are
gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found
that masters are ' necessary evils'."
A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle mentions
that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where
the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay
their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis-

plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to
pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example,
and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the
jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs,
and at last succeeded in driving her away.
On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Steele was brought before
Mr. Jardine; at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit sui-
cide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr.
Steele. having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt

the crime again was dismissed, having been bound over in
his own recognizance in £lOO and two sureties of £5O
each. Lord Brougham has sent £5 to Peel's Coffee-
house, as his contribution to a fund raising to relieve Mr.
Steele from his pecuniary difficulties. _

N OF'COLUMBIA.-011 S

turday, at the

they were so, literally ana tig,uratively. A poet of no mean ---- —-- ,oung man, named Boniface . _
Chrystie,
celebrity—one whom Sir R. Peel has deemed worthy of a Mansion-house, a y
pension, declared to the writer, only recently, that in the was examined on a charge of being concerned in a con-
course of a long experience he had seen few sweeter places spiracy to commit an extensive fraud, by imitating the
than Everton was when.he resided there thirty years ago. current coin of the Republic of Columbia. The spurious
coin is a piece of yellow metal, of the size of a half
Nay, a late popular novelist has gone even beyond this,
sovereign, with the impression of the arms of Columbia
and declared, traveller as he was, that Everton was the
Prettiest village in the world. Tile stranger will be sorely.. , ~. v.— hc.on qtriirk nfr
(..I..sliy, and
,of " IRKM, Popayan." It is believed that

hem, at ieo

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of
perplexed to aiscover such beauty in the Isdack, begrimed, 10,UOU
unsightly mass of buildings that now bears the name. M. Jullien, whose name appears as a bankrupt in the
The great democracy has trenched on the aristocratic Gazette, owes between £9,000 and £lO,OOO, principally
lawn, and the stately mansion has acquired, by contiguity, arising cut of his connection with English Operant Drury
a vulgar tinge. The onward progress of society is read Lane, where his extravagance as a manager precluded the
in the rise and metamorphosis of Everton. Commerce impossibility of a profitable return. It is stated that he
is a sore destroyer of sylvan ;3eauty. The merchant, offered his creditors to put aside £1,500 per annum out of
from his residence on the brow of the hill, overlooking, his professional earnings—but failing in conciliating all,
by its commanding elevation, the entrance of a noble and an attempt being made while at Dublin to arrest him
river, may still catch a glimpse of his incoming and out- —he determined upon going through the Gazette, and his
going argosies, as they are borne to and fro on the assets are now stated at nil.
bosom of the Mersey ; but in the valley below, the ver- " One of the officials" of the Sherborne workhouse,
dart meadows that formerly stretched to the water's edge, having nothing better to do, has executed the following
filling the air in spring with the delicious fragrance of the barefaced delusion. He wrote on an egg, " Prepare ye,
hawthorn, and in summer with the not less grateful odour for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"—placed it in a
of new-mown hay, have given place to crowded streets, hen's nest, and pretended the bird had produced it.
smoky factories, and the tall chimneys whose chemical Numbers of persons believed in the prodigy, and trembled.
exhalations have long since put to. flight the poetry and The local journal says that " several of the ministers
beauty, the exclusiveness and splendour in which Ever- actually alluded to the matter in the pulpits." On Mon-
ton once gloried. Viewed from that grassy vale, and day, a notice was posted on the union gates" that the
more particularly towards the close of the day, the hill matter was an April fool hoax.
itself presented a strikingly attractive appearance. The At Brighton Police-court, last week, a man, named
numerous windows of the handsome houses that adorned Lowton Lucas, was committed for trial for the novel trick
its side, glittering with the rays of the setting sun, and of abstracting money in the -
gorgeous in their brilliancy, contrasted beautifully with into a pastrycook's shop for
the dark clumps of trees and bright patches of greensward a sixpence, and received sd. in change. The sixpence elegancies of life. By and bye there came down. to th
that diversified the slope. Crowning the summit, and was afterwards observed to be dangling over the till, and, clerical residence two persons, one of them a " page," ant
about the spot where the church has since been built, j on examination, was found tied round with fine horse- the other a relative, whom be called " Johnny Deer," of
stood the beacon, which, though remarkable for antiquity j hair, to which a long end was attached. On being taken " dear," a term of endearment somewhat applicable ;
rather more than for beauty,, formed a pleasing object in into custody, three or four others, similarly prepared, since there are shrewd suspicions that although in male
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the laadscapu.--The Skye C'ap!ain. wen found in his pockets, attire the wearer is of the femini o gender,

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