The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

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THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE

Popery

INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.— From the report we
learn that in the metropolis, on spaces of ground which
do not exceed 203 acres, closely surrounded by the abodes
of the living, layer upon layer, each consisting of a popu-
lation numerically equivalent to a large army of 20,000
adults, and nearly 30,000 youths and children, is every
year imperfectly interred ! Within the period of existence
of the present generation, upwards of a million of dead.
must have been interred in these same spaces.—Medical
Gazette.

CONFIRMED PAUPERS.—On Friday, eight able-bodied
young men, but extremely filthy, were charged at the
Southwark Police-court with creating a disturbance in
Christchurch workhouse, and refusing to work after re-
ceiving food and lodging. The case presented the usual
circumstances ; the prisoners were admitted to the
" casual ward" on the previous evening, and refused to
work in the morning. It appeared that they belonged to a
class who spent their whole lives in workhouses and
prisons. They were committed to Brixton, some for
fourteen and some for forty-two days.
Gas—We have this week had an opportunity of inspect-
ing an apparatus. for the manufacture of gas, on a small
scale, made by Mr. Sarson, brazier and cas-fitter, St-
Nicholas-street, for lighting his own premises ; and it is
of a most compact and simple construction. 111 r. Sarson
informs us that he can make gas at 2s. 6d. per 1000 feet ;
and as he intends supplying the surplus heat for warming
his warehouse and workshops with hot water, and at the
same time taking into consideration the circumstance of
doing the cookery, baking, roasting, &c., for his family
with the same fire, the cost will not exceed is. Gd. per
1000 feet. The gas produc..d is of excellent quality ; and
the apparatus, which is simply and easily managed, mar
be purchased at a small expense.—Leicester Journal.

Curious AFFAlR.—Yersterday week an inquest was
held on the body of a man named Marsden, at Wolviston,
Durham. A post mortem examination had been made,
but nothing could be discovered to satisfy the jury as to
the immediate cause of death, but it was thought it had
been caused by something poigonous taken at the mouth
of a deleterious nature, possibly miastro. The locality
of the premises has been examined, and it seems perfectly
healthy, being open to the green in the village, and there
being nothing there likely to cause disease. The whole of
Marsden's family, six in number, have been during the
last three weeks wasting away, and reduced to perfect
skeletons. Four children, including the deceased, have
died, and the parents ate now lying in a very precarious
state. All of the family had been sick at intervals, and
dreadfully convulsed, and have been similarly afflicted.
FALL OF A MANUFACTORY, AND Loss OF LIFE.—
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing the inhabitants of Burfield were alarmed by a loud
crash, followed by cri-s for aid, occasioned by the falling
in of a building used as a rope mat manufactory. The
building consisted of one large room on the basement,
and another immediately over it. From 10 to 15 persons
were usually employed in the upper room. In the rear of
the factory is a plot of ground, which Las been excavated
to a considerable depth for building purposes, and the
wall of the manufactory next to the excavated ground
having given way, nearly the whole building fell into the
hollow. The bodies of a man and a girl, both quite dead,
were afterwards dug out of the ruins. It has been ascer-
tained that there were eleven persons at work in the ma-
nufactory when the accident occurred—namely, four men,
three women, and four children. Nine out of the num-
ber are more or less injured.

PARLIAMENT AND THE MINISTRY.—An impression
is still abroad that Parliament will be summoned for the
despatch of business early in November. Reports are
also afloat that Sir Robert Petl's recal to Windsor to
meet Lord John Russell was an attempt to patch up
some kind of coalition which shall bring the late Premier
back to office. " There is," says the Standard, in
italics, "an intrigue in proore•ss, by which Sir Robert
is, if possible, to be jerked back into office." "In this
conspiracy,"_ adds the Dublin _Evening Packet, " we are

told some of the present Ministry, though not all, are
implicated, and Peel's immediate friends are so confident
of success, that they boast of his beinc Prime Minister on
the Ist March next, if not before. We give this rumour
merely for what it may be worth, not setting much value
upon it; but it is right to add that the Standard vouches

its accuracy in every respect." Nor do we set much
value upon it, and therefore we say nothing further
about it.

"GET OFF THE GRASS!"—A. MISTAKE.—On Sunday
afternoon, during the time the private gardens and the
eastern terrace at Windsor were open to the public, Lord
J. Russell, one of her Majesty's guests, walked from the
terrace, and was proceeding across the grass in the Home-
park, towards the iron gates, opposite to the Long-walk,
a portion of the Royal domains from which the public are
excluded. His lordship had proceeded some distance
before he was noticed by one of the Castle policemen, Rho
seeing a stranger, as he supposed, on forbidden ground,
sang out with stentorian voice, " Hullo°, you, sir! come
back and get off the grass ! Come back, you sir 1" Lord
John immediately got off the grass and returned back
towards the York and Lancaster Towers. By the time
his lordship bad got to within some thirty or forty paces
of the policeman the officer found out his mistake, having
been informed that the offending party was a person in
the suite of some of her Majesty's visitors. He then
called out to Lord John, who had evidently been taken
by surprise, " You may go on ; you are all right enough!"
His lordship, smiling at the by-standers, then retraced
his steps, and pursued his walk across the park towards
the avenue of trees leading to the Waterloo-gate.
THE EARL OF RIPON AND THE REV. MR. CROW-
'HER.—The Nottingham Journal publishes an explana-
ory statement of the correspondence between these par-
ies, which has been made public, and the rurport of
awe have already given. That paper says that Mr.
whom the caution was

cumstances

by which Mr. Newton had rendered himself obnoxious to
the Earl. The " covered cart" which his lordship offered
to Mr. Crowther, was the one used by the late Lord
Goderich, and is still used by members of the Ripon
family on their country jaunts. " But," adds our con-
ry, " the DONICE I ? t

imal without which

all the wit would have been lost ! The car and horses
wore at the disposal of Mr. and Mrs. Crowther, at any
time: but Mrs. Crowther longed for the donkey, and it
was inaccessible. It was an ancient pensioner of Lady
Ripon's, turned out to spend its last days in quiet, having
been the faithful thouth --

.A.luinnaLlC servant of her Lady-
ship for nearly thirty years. It was deemed too old for
regular work, and could not be lent like the horses and
the car; but Mrs. Crowther was an invalid, and she fan-
cies best to ride on this quiet old donkey. Some enquiry
was necessary before the old pet could be. thus employed :
this was granted at Mrs. Crowther's especial wish, and it
was in reply to that desire that Lord Ripon's much abused,
but really kind-bearted letter was written."

We annex, from the Britannia, an imaginary dialogue,
maintained between the present King of Prussia and
Luther, who is supposed to appear to his majesty after he

ban lain aG resL mum- ucinulicrs. r. G navy !SCRIM:EI seen the
enormities of the payacy, and the tendency of the present
age, both in England and on the Continent, towards
infidelity, depicted in more vigorous and striking lan-

guage :
King: But what is the calamity that now threatens
Christendom ? . . .

Luther: Apathy and indifference are the parents of
infidelity. A church may resist the violence of its ene-
mies, but it always sinks before the vices of its friends.
Germany, at this hour, exhibits the same aspect which it

exhibited in the year when I began the Reformation_
King : Yet Germany now exhibits her most intelligent
portion Protestant. She was then overwhelmed with

. .
Luther: When human opinions take ife lead of divine ;
when every candidate for celebrity begins his cause by
mystifying scripture ; when professors claim a character