The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

g, and he is anxiou

into the Three Compasses for re
ting at the window when the lambs were driven past • one
of them recognised his late master,
window, breaking two p
little creature was remove

'reshmen

casting many

a pi irul look at Mr. Thomas.—Hereford Journal.
UNUSUAL CI ARGE.—On Friday, Leman Cohen, a
jobber in furriery, was committed for trial at Guildhall,
London, upon the unusual charge of being an accessory
before the fact to a felony, which was committed in his
absence, but which he abetted, as it was alleged, by seek-
ing out aforehand a buyer for the stolen goods, to pur-

the thief might more easily escape justice.
A ROBIN'S NEST IN AN ORGAN.—On Sunday, during
divine service in St. Michael's Church, in this town, the
organist found some obstruction in the organ that pee-
vented him playing, and, on searching for the cause, after
the congregation were dismissed, discovered, to his no
small astonishment, a robin's nest, with three young ones
in it. They were not (iiiturhed in their singular retreat.—
Shropshire Conservative.
It is proposed to erect. in St. Giles's, London, on a site
recently otPained from the Woods and Forests, a loJging-
house for one hundred labouring men, in which, at the
low.a..t_rato ova,- paidfor_lntlizinas. they may have accom-
modation of a perfectly clean character. The %room -cost
is estimated at £5OOO. Among the subscribers are Prince
Albert, the Bishop of London, Duke of Sutherland, Earl
Harrovvby, &c. _ _ _

OJ.D Aix.—At the celebration of the coming of age of
Lord Burgh!ey, at Stamford, laat week, the tapping of
the " Great Lord Burghley Vat" excited much interest.

o'clock by Lord Burghley, contained 1200 gallons
brewed in October 1825. Each of the 600 tenants who
dined had placed before him, besides wines, a quart of old
" John."

The setting in of the wool-season is again effecting a
change in the nature of the cargoes of the Hamburg
steamers. The Queen of Scotland, last week, bad only
room for two cows on deck, and the Helen Macgregor,
which arrived OR Sunday last, was piled on with as much

ing no less than eight hundred bales on board. Since
writing the above, the Victoria has arrived with a full
deck cargo of wool.—Hull gaper.
CONSISTENCY.—There was great rejoicing in Hasling-
den on Friday night last. on the arrival of the news that
the new corn bill had passed. The bulls rang, and a mob
assembled opposite the Commercial Inn, and (after being
requested !) gave three cheers for Sir R. Peel. it was ob-
served that there were amongst the mob many persons
who not more than five years ago assisted to burn Sir
Robcrf in effigy. What will they do next?—Blackburn
Standard.

NEW WAY OF RECOVERING DEBTS.—On Friday, a
mob assembled near the Archbishop of Canterbury's
palace, at Lambeth, in consequence of a man walking
backward and forward opposite a house by the water side,
with the following inscription printed on a board :—" I

dozen of wine, or else to hive the bottles returned." On
the board was also mentioned the name of the party oppo-
site whose house the man was parading. Tile debt was

lerstood

. ERRORS OF THE PRESS.—Our contemporary, the
Silurian, has the following :—" Owing to a column having
been accidentally laid on the press uncorrected, several

errors passed in a tew copies or ram. wteis 5 unpres.inn
before they were noticed. Among others, our devil,'
with his head, we suppose, full of Irish matters, had stated
that refreshing showers' bad given an impulse to agita-
tion,' instead of ' vegetation and, worse still, toe
impious wretch bad, in the same column, thrown the
altar,' instead of a halter,' at a horse's head.
THE VICTORIA DOCK.—The contracts for the excava-

tion and construc

have its own independant entrances, both from the Hum-
ber and the Old Harbour or river of Hull, and be accessi-

ble at a lower state .of the tide than any of our present
docks—has been taken by Messrs. Bowers and Murray
who have just completed the Albert Dock,

iverpool,

and are on the eve

port.—Hull Peclct.
A CANINE MESSENGER.-At the present time a little
black bull-headed terrier, belonging to Mr. Powell, car-
pet-manufacturer, of the Cross, conies to Deighton's li-
brary every evening of publication for the Journal, with-
out an attendant, and fetches the paper, which it duly
conveys, with all punctuality and dispatch, to is master.
If the publication has not commenced, it will leave the
premises and return; and on one or two occasions it has
dropped the paper in the street, when it burned'
started back to the shop, and would not go withou•

cond copy

Worceslei Journal,

MELANCHOLY RESULT OF UNBROTHERLY CONDUCT.
—Two boys, sons of T. Williams, residing at Tyddyn
Celargan, Anglesey, quarrelled, as brothers often do, and
in his passion, one kicked the other in the eye. The
complaints of the injured child induced some severe
threats from the mother, which caused the offender to de-
camp. No more was heard of him, and all search seemed
fruitless, until the evening cf Friday, the 19th, when he
was found dead, and in a putrified state, in the parish of
Llanfairmatbafarneithaf. There was grass in his hands,
and he had obviously fallen over the cliffs in the dark.
The poor lad bad reached his twelfth year.
THE NEW CORN DUTIES.—The following is the rate
of duties now in operation :—When the six weeks average
is under
48s. the duty i 5.......

Above 53.
Below this it never recedes. This scale remains in
operation until the Ist of February, 1549, after which a
nominal duty of 14. per quarter is to be levied.
THE POPE.—Dr. Wolff, in a letter to a friend, says-
-" It is curious that the present Pope, when only Conte
Ferretti, was my fellow pupil in the Collegio Romano, at
Rothe, from the year 1816 to 1817, when I went over to

the Propaganda. He is an amiable, zealous, talented,
shrewd, pious, and liberal gent!eman, and it is therefore to
be hoped that he has transferred these qualities from the
simple Conte Ferretti to the throne of Benedict IX."
Thus goes the world ; one of two students, on almost
equal ground, becomes a " Sovereign Pontiff," the other,
though filling the world with his name, is the humble
vicar of the small parish of Isle Brewers, in a retired part
of the county of Somerset; where, however, he has the
sweeter reward of ministering to the spiritual wants of an
attached congregation, anxious to be taught.

RELtototi i/EACE.—The following,- from the Tablet
Roman Catholic newspaper, contains more truth than
our contemporary find it convenient always to disclose.
"There are worse things in the world than religious ani.
mosities—bad and uncomfortable as these are—and what
is equally certain is, that the road to a better agate of
things lies through a course of conduct which s enders re-
ligious animosities certain. When a large part of the
world is unjust, and only a small minority so much as
struggling towards justice—when piety is the exception
and demoralisation is the rule—when the faith is broken
into a thousandjakces. snd tht_eriemies of troth are la-
.

bouring to sup-pressitaifOeffier--ilie—nstfi—me ortne prorea;
soia of that which is true are its bitterest enemies—bow

the'guardians of faith and justice are asleep at their posts,
and there be none to lift up his voice or to wield a battle-
axe in behalf of the oppressed cause of God."
. _ .

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday morning last,
the bodies of two young men, brothers, of the name of
Collyer, j'iners, at Nottingham, were found hanging by
the neck, under the shed of a rope-walk. One body was
suspended to a beam by a brace, and the other with a cord,
which had been found in the rope-walk. Their residence
was adjacent nna onorrh hFino immediately marls there.

it was found that their father was absent. and strange sus-
picions were induced. Search was made in every direc-
tion for him, but no tidings could be heard. He was last
seen walking in a direction towards Beeston, which is
three miles from Nottingham. The last information from
Nottingham was that old Collyer bad been found at Len-
ton, two miles from the town, in the lock of the canal,
with both his hands tied behind him. The circumstance
lo;- tr •he I ,sf that he has been murdered by his sons

Ants to t. Je _
and they have afterwards committed suicide

The family

lived in a see

way, anc

building property, but bad for many years been detested
by their neighbours for ill-treatment inflicted upon a
female member of their family, who was insane.
" • ' _ _

On Saturday week, a numerous and highly respectable
meeting was held in the hall of King's College, London,
for the purpose of raising a fund for the enlargement of

the hospital attached to the institution. The Archbishop
of Canterbury presided, and there were also present the
Duke of Cambridge, the Bishop of London,. the Bishop
of Oxford, Viscotmt Sandon, M.P., the Bishop of Litch-
field, Lord Ashley, the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir R. H.
Inglis, Bart.. M.P., the Hen. Beresford Hope, M.P.,
Archdeacon Mantling, Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P.,
Archdeacon Robinson. the master of the Temple. It was
stated that since 1840 the number of out-patients had
increased from 4,056 to 15,933. Subscriptions amounting
to £2,500, were handed in, among which there were the
following :—Miss Burdett Coutts, £500; the Archbishop
of Canterbury, £100; the Executor of Viscount Sid-
month, £206 ; the Duke of Cambridge, £lOO ; the Bishop
of London, £100; Mr. Alderman Copeland, £100; the
Bishop of Lichfield, £5O; Dr. Bright, £5O; Viscount
Sandon, £5O; Lord Ashley, £5O; Lord Radstock, £4O;
B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., £2l; the Bishop of Llandaffs
Sir K. H. luglis, Bart.• XlO 141.1 &C.

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Le management 01

ge print works.
SAFETY 1W A TtIV\DER•STORM

The following

maxims as to .places of greatest safety during thunder-
storms may beturful to many:-1. Ail metals and most
fluids attract and conduct I
with them is to 'as avoidec

—therefore c

?: It is-infinitely mor

rous to go under a tree during a thunder-storm t

iso been killed when sheltered under the eaves of a

or by the side of a brick kiln. By the s 'me rule earn and
hay stacks are to he avoided. 3. A large room is safer
than a small one, and it is always better to keep in the
centre of it. Since a current of air will, in some measure,
ie wils sit- I conduct Fghtning, a position between a door and a window.

if open, or a wins-I-ow:and chimney, should b

v0i&,41. 4

,her car ria

with those outside

Iges, are in

anger compared

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EXTENvION OF FREE TRADE PRINCIPE}
NORTH OF FITROPE.—We stated some mon
the authority of the Hull Packet, that a disposition
evinced by Russia to reciprocate the principles of free trar
The announcement of our contemporary took most persc

official document, issued at S.. PetfTsburgb on the 20th
ult.., and transmitted to the Packet for publication. By
this it appears that the duties in Russia on exports are
reduced on tallow (per ton) about £1 2s. 6d. sterling; on
hemp lls. 3d. • and on flour 16s 104 d. On imports, red
dyewoods, reduction. (per ton.) £1 ss. 2 1. ; fustic and
yellow woods 12s. 7d.; indigo 21d. per lb ; entree (per
cwt.) £1 ss. 6d. ; earthenware, according to quality, from
2s. 7d. and 125. to £1 lls. Other reductions have also
been made, the example of Sir R. Peel having been fol-
lowed so far by the Emreror of Russia.

ADVENTURE.: OF A CAT.—A fiae- large grey tom-eat
was, in November last, bronght in from Inner7e.then per

.6.-mrriewp peeked up in a Lasket taafxmilyreeiditg in Leitb
Walk. It remained there about three months, and had
become thoroughly domesticated and reconciled to its new
abode. M the end of that time. namely, early in February,
it was transferred to a family in Scotland-street, but with
whom it remained only two days, when it found an oppor-
No more was heard of Tom till about
when to the utter astonishment of his

original owner, be made his appearance at Innerleithen,
worn rod weary, but bearing unmistakeable tokens of his
identity. How he managed to subsist through the inter-
val of four months, or what guide he had through the 39
miles of cluntry between Edinburgh and Innerleithen,

over hills and streams, and cultiv
moors, which he had never traven

ed fields, and barren
;I before, save in the

we suppose remain for ever among

IHE tsLOBE NEWSPAPER.--in our columns of this
day, it will be perceived that Mr. George Robins has an-
nounced the sale of the Globe journal; that is, the influ-
ential and important share which has given the whole con-
cern of this ponderous machine, for gcod and for evil, to
as

le individual. The proprietor whose shares are the
subject of the fnllo,wing remarks, has arrived at the pa-
triarchal age of eighty-two; and, as Mr. Robins fitly

says, a time when be becomes justly entitled .to a few
years of peaceable enjoyment and repose, unalloyed by
literature, turmoil, and the fatigue of getting rich. The
opportunity will, no doubt, create a very great sensation.
It is one of the oldest, and certainly most respectable,
prints that adorn our daily journals, and is an extraordi-
nary instance of self-devotion to its party and principles.
In looking over this unpretending recital of facts, nothing
is extenuated, nor is anything set down in malice, mar in
the slightest manner exagg,rated. Th.; statement of pro-

THUNDER STORM TN LINCOLNSHIRE.
storm appears, from the Stamford Mercury,

A thunder
to have vi-

men tne greater part or LineDlnshire, on Thursday week.
At Laughton, near Falkingham, the electric fluid struck
the buildings of Mr. T. Everett, and did considerable
damage to the-roof of a granary ; it also entered a stable,
and knocked down three men and two horses ; all, how-

daughter of a cottager, residing at a short distance, was
so affected that she lost the power of speech for some
time. At Great Steeping, near Spilshy, the electric fluid
struck the roof of an outbuilding on the farm of Mr. An-
thony Baker, and in a very short space of time the whole
building was burnt to the ground. About the same time,
two ewes and one lamb, of the same place, were killed,

as were also some sheep at Boothby. the property of the
Rev. J. Walls. At Langton, near Gainsbro', two men,
who were at work in a barn were struck down by the
lightning, but not very seriously hurt. Mr. Toynbee, of
Howell, near Heckingti
in a close in that parish