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

gainer of the wager

ROBBERY.—On Tuesday information was received of a
foreign gentleman having been robbed of a green leather
pocket book, containing, among oth• r property, numerous
Dutch bank notes to the value of nearly £SUO, whilst
travelling, between eight and nine o'clock. in a second
class carriage of the London and Blackwall Railway.
PRODIGIOUS TREE.—The largest piece of oak timber
ever seen in Brecon passed through that town last week.
It contained 230 feet of timber ; two carriages broke under
its weight, and it was at length conveyed on rollers over
the pitching of the streets, by the united efforts of sixteen
horses and a number of men.

THE PHEASANT SEASON commenced on Thursday, and
the London markets, and many of the principal poulterers
exhinited pheasants for sale, although they were scarce and
insufficient for the demand. Prime young birds made
from 6s. to is. and Ss. a brace, and small and inferior
ditto sold at ss. and a brace.

The Baron de Bode, whose claims
Government were to the amount of nearly a million ster
ling, suddenly fell and expired on Friday
was in his seventieth year, and has left three s
death is supposed to have been accelerated by anxiety

on the British

Toe baron
Ills

consquent Or the prosecution of

d Atki

On the 24th ult., two men, named Lowther
son, had a fight at Ulverstone, when the latter was s

after found dead,

No bruises could be lot

and as the surgeon said that death had t
congestion of blood on the brain, by

citement and the influence of liquor, Lowther was ac-
quitted.
It is said that despatches from Ireland, received in Lon-
don on Thursday, were'calculated to give great uneasiness
to the government. There is evidently a spirit of violence
and outrage abroad, which must be repressed in the com-
mencement, at whatever cost, or evils of the greatest

magnitude to the people themselves will eventually spring
from its indulgence.
MIRACULOUS OCCURRENCE.—As a labourer, employed
at a farm called " Lloyd Jack,", near Aberystwith, was
about to carry a mow of barley, and whilst lifting it, the
mow was suddenly struck by lightning, and immediately
ignited, and entirely consumed; fortunately, the man was
uninjured by the electric fluid, but his escape was most
providential.
THE PICTON MONUMENT.—A stranger passing by this
melancholy-looking affair on the Pembroke mail, ex-
claimed, " Well! I never saw a lime-kiln in the middle
of a turnpike-road before!" It was not a bad guess, for
it looks more like that than anything else. The Monu-
ment truly is like a man's character: it is easier to pull
it to pieces than to set it right again.—Hereford Journal.
The Daily News intimates that, in a few days, des-
patches of letters and newspapers will be more frequent,
and deliveries more numerous than they now are, both in
town and in the provinces, so that the letters to and from
the north of England, and those to and from Ireland and
Scotland, are to be accelerated. Extra post offices are
already appointed in many towns and villages. Fees of
all kinds are to be abolished eventually.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.—On Friday week the
Commissioners of the Admiralty decided upon tenders
sent in for the supply of salted beef and pork fur the use of
the navy. The quantities required were unusually large
—12,060 tierces of beef, and 18,00' '•ces nork. All
the latter was tmien, but onlv of tt - former

rces of

ON ADVENT

nflited with

an Frid

towed along the ThaMes, from Cremorne Garde

it ascended with seven persons in the car, amid a drench-
ing rain. It was carried towards Essex, and at seven
o'clock descended in a field at Li-ytonstone. The larg
machine, by permission of Mr. Perkins, the proprietor
was lashed by Mr. Green to a tree with its body of gas
the aeronaut having resolved to make a continental vov
age with his friends, if the weather proved favourahl
On Tuesday evening a collision took place in K
between the Herald and Phoenix steamers, and .5.
Symonds was knocked overboard, and given up

r Wm:
lost by

every one on b

but during the ni.glit an express a

rived from Clecedon, that he was safe. -Tile tide Gad car-
ried him down as far as Clevedon, when he came in con-
tact with a boat, which had been at NVeston•super-Mare
Regatta, and was making into Clevedon. Sir Wil-
liam caught hold of the bowsprit, and was provi-
dentially saved. The distance, which he floated was

papers of Saturday week describe a bril

•
liant meteor which lighted up the atmosphere of London
with an intense glare the preceding night. It passed from
north to south, and was like a globe of fire. It left behind
a bright luminous train, which divided into two parts, and
gradually passed from a bright phosphoric white to a dull
red. The larger portion assumed a serpentine appearance,

resembled a cluster of minute stars, gradually becoming
fainter and fainter, until, after a lapse of nearly five mi-
nutes, it quite vanished.
ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—Tuesday being Mi-
chaelmas Day, agreeable to ancient custom a Common
Hall was held, for the election of Chief Magistrate for
the City of London during the ensuing year. Alderma❑
Wood and Sir G. Carroll were declared norninatPd by the
majority of those present for the selection of the Court
of Aldermen ; a poll was then demanded in favor of

Alderman Hooper, for the nurpose of testing the feelings
of the livery towards Mr. Wood, which was appointed to
take place during the next seven days. At the close of
the poll, on Saturday, the numbers were, for Alderman
Wood, 1248; Alderman Carroll, 858; and Alderman
Hooper, 2611. The poll will finally close to-day at four
o'clock.
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE PEG TANKARD.—At the

for learning by throwing off their reverence for inspiration
meeting of the British Archtcological Association at Glue- 1 when the life of the Redeemer is made the subject of libel,
cester, lately, a paper was read entitled, " The Gloucester- and the Bible is represented to the people as a collection
shire Peg Tankard." The carvings on this ancient drink- I of legends ; then deep and dangerous hazards are at hand.
ing cup are exquisite, bearing three or four distinct alle- , King : But persecution has passed away. No man
gories, representing the seasons, the seven deadly sins, &c , now dreads the revival of the Inquisition. No man ever
elaborately carved on the outside. The particulars in ; expects to see a tribunal of priests commanding the rack,
connexion with this ancient cup are very curious. It ap- lor the College of Cardinals standing round the stake
pears that an act was passed for the purpose of abating I where either Jew or Christian was to perish for his creed.
drunkenness, and it was ordained that all drinking cups at L. : True; that form of evil has passed away. It be-
taverns shoud have pegs placed at certain distances, longed to another age. It could not exist in an age when
beyond which peg no man should drink at one draught, , power was fled from hierarchies to fix itself among the
under pain of severe punishment. It was suggested that ! populace. The hazards of our time will not arise from
the well-known sayings of "taken down a pee," "a peg 1 superstition, but from unbelief. The Scriptures will not
too low," and "he is getting on peg by peg," originated be prohibited, but they will be equally cast out of the
from these cups. 1 national hand, by the scoffer. Society will be no longer
Thu POTATO CROP.—Amidst the unfavourable symp- ' chained to the altar, and forced to put the foot of the
toms which present themselves in many quarters, in I priest upon its neck, but it will be the victim of the
reference to the supply of food, it is satisfactory to receive infidel, the slave of public passion, the prey of public
additional evidence, thet) in this country at least, the de- i violence. The Scriptures will be like their Lore., the
struction of the potato crop proves decidedly less serious objects of railing, insolence, and scorn ; until, like Him,
i than it was supposed to be. We gave, in. a recent publi- 1 they perish, on the roar cf the million, and then will come
cation, the statements of Dr. Lindley, to the effect that i the earthquake.
the destruction of the tubers was by no means coma-len- 1 King : Still, we have asserted the German ail ,
surate with the diseased appearance of the stalks and Rome. No legate can sweep away our revenues now
foliage. We now present to out readers the following 1 rescript from the Vatican can control the will of the So
statement from a gentleman who has taken great pains to vertigo, or violate the rights of the people. We worship
make himself acquainted with the facts :—" Within the according to our own convictions, and acknowledge no
last month, I have been into thirty or forty potato fields superior to the conscience which dwells in the bosoms of
1 in Wiltshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Middle- , all.

rty against
No

. .
sex, &c., and have had the potatoes dug up and washed L : The true evil of popery consisted in its wrapping
before my eyes. From those which appeared diseased, I the heart in indifference to religion. Its extravagant
cut away the diseased part, and the result of my investi- ceremonials, its yeageantry of worship, its boast of in-
gation leaves a perfect conviction on my mind, that not fallibility, its busy priesthood, its confessional, imperious
one-fourth part of the potato crop is destroyed. In my and inquisitive, were but instruments administering to
inquiries, until I went myself into the examination, 1 individual indifference. Where all was for the eye, there
met with nothing but the grossest exaggeration. In re- was no room for the heart. Where the glitter of a theatre
ference :o ine field near the Swinton toll-bar, I had been was displayed under the roof of a church. the mind could
informed that the whole of the potatoes were destroyed. think only of the theatre. Where pictures, and incense,
On examining into the matter myself, I found the eery and the sound of choral voices and the tr tilos of kneeling
rererse to be the fact. There were very few injured. The and bowie_ priests, with their studied pstimlations and
man who was digging them up said, 'be did not think mystical solemnities, engrossed every sense, how could
there were any had ones at all. They were only rather the spirit withdraw itself from the things of the world ?
small.'" We have not as yet heard any similar state- With the pomp of thrones on every side, where was the
resist responsibilities
undergo
ments as to the condition of the potato crop in Ireland ; broken and contrite heart, with every temptation to human
but as the weather during
favourable in that country as in England, we trust that member that he is a fallen being ; with the priest ready
the month of September was as haughtiness and the pride of passion, how could men re-
similar effects will have been produced by it, and that
mtoarn controlelieve him from
something like a third, or possibly half, a crop may be will his natural indolence undergo the effect of human
saved, which will prove a great alleviation of the evils ex
-- .; morality,—with the Sovereign Pontiff opening Paradise
pass ion, the
temptation,
o orf human
perienced and anticipated in that country.2llanchester for him at the price of an indulgence, why should any
Guardian.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PI I-I,S ..—BA D DIGES- toil of unprofitable virtue ?dutht)e'
TION.—WONDERSUL CURE.—T. Gardiner, Eiq ,of 9, hang: But that period is past. And what worse can
Brown-street, Grovenor-square, declares that he, bad follow.
been under four of the most eminent physicians, ;besides L.: AN' orse will follow, as infidelity is worse than in-
five of the greatest surgeons in London. He suffered difference, as furious hostility is worse than callous neg-
from a distended stomach, bad digestion, settled pains in lect. Religion has hitherto languished in the heart of
the chest, was very nervous, and greatly debilitated, and mankind. you will next see it wrenched out of the heart.
scarcely able to 'walk a hundred yards. Not deriving the for the deceiver you will next have the tyrant—for the
least relief from the faculty, he set about rubbing large , sullen dexterity of the hierarch you will have the fierce
quantities of Holloway's Ointment into the chest, and ' assault of the populace—the period of hypocrisy will
took Holloway's Pills night after night and morning, which vanish—but you will see the period of rage and rapine, of
effectually restored him to perfect health and vigour in ferocious contumely and remorseless irreligion, in its
the short apace of three weeks. room.