The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-26 00:00:00

SINGULAR ANDINIf!RESSINE CIRCVAISTANCE•

A eorrespondent informs us that on Sunday.last be called at,
a in,dely-eunitructed, though substantial hut, erecied.on a nook'
of. Waste ground by the road,iu Birtle; it is one of those honSes
for refs esbment velepi beer. shops. In the Town on, tke left
hand was an eideily good-looking dame Yery busy at a dresser,
punching .Calico fora shroud; on the hearth sat a,fint bop,
abont six years of age, rocking in.alittlectitair, and singing,
eheerfutli. The hearth-stone hit,d formerly .(;9yered,a ;gave.,
and on if was the following iosiiotptlon -
Be ye liadv.
Deposited,
-The body of Betty the daughter of Christopher
and 'Wan* Guest, Pied August 18th 1812
Aged 'eight Month
to Father and to yother as a Rpse
Boat tender skeet. and gOod,
-now you see death calla on we
ud took me, in the bud.

•
A-voung nyin having come into the room, after csonyersipg
with'the 'woman a Bhott.time,*sked if he could !`isee,him•
" Oh, aye;"• she replied, , and immediately led `the .way.into
another -roorn, where was a bed covered with a sheet, senie.
'articles of furniture, and in acorn n, laid on,a table under the .front,
window, was the corpse sof; a tall and: wasied -human, toeing, witbi
a cotton night-cap on, White, cravat,• a shirt, ancrpieces, of
cotton wrapped ibutidthe legs, and
.stitched thereupon, iuspiad:
of stockings. ThelicrOf the coffin was on , one side, and hqre.
the folleng it-10110,0p . in
iyeliew paint on a black plate ;--
"The Revd'. Jameson, died on the ,pf;Uay,
aged 45 years." These were the mortal remains of .the late
• Ineutialleni of Heywood,
,whoin a course of dissipation .had led
•(as it inevitably does) to digrace,' want, and death.- As if
. abandonment of the world; 'which had long before ahandOned
him,'.he sought this humble roof one evening at the setting in
.apt last winter twelvemonth, and, almost begging to be alloWed
to remain for the night, had since made it This home. At the
time he was destitute of linen, his outward habiliments were in
dillpidated state; and during that winter •he was fre-
querttly•Seen wading in the lanes with the melted snow oozing
through every seem of his ihoes; since then he waLentitely de-
.peridant on the charity of these whO had known hint in. better
days. Latterly however, it is to be feared. he met with but few
who choose to' remember anything of him save his faults. 'His.
death, there is no doubt, was hastened by the colds he took in
winter and this inclement spring, rendered doubly effective
by the want of common necessaries. He was interred in, the
chapel-yard•on Wednesday.-31:Onehester Chronicle.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH QE PRINCE DE CONDE.

In a very interesting.eause,in itself, which came on yester-'
day before the Tribunal of .Senlis, .the .following incident .cte-
curie(' :—lt., may be remembered that in the month. of October!
last Madame de Pontalba was .the victim of i.an attempt at.
assassination committed on her person by the .old ,Baron de
Pontalba, who afterwards committed suicide. This lady applied.
to the caurt that she might not be obliged, .at . least .for the.
present, to cohabit with her husband in. the same chateau,whi*
was the scene of the horrible, catastrophe, or in an apartment,
proposed for her in Paris, a,nd'Which was the very same occu-'
pied:by the Baron de Pontalha, the father. Among other.
grounds for the application of Madame de Pontatba was ;a
certificate of M. Marjalin, the celebrated physician of •tlie:
capital. This document, after having been severely criticised
by the advocate Of M. de Poutalba, ,afforded the Procurear.dtP
Roy an opportunity', of making some observations upon' the
attestations of Doctors, and the little confidence that should,
be placed in the certificate of M. Marjolin. Upon this subject
the magistrate felt it his duty to recall to the mind of his . audi-
tory a frigstful event which about five years agoleft.among all.
the" population of the town and its ,vicinity most deep and
sincere regrets. He cited the tragical.end of his Royal High--
ness the Prince de:Couile, benefactorand,patran.ot the whole
of that arrondissement, in,which the ,Gastle of 'Chantilly and
the greatest part of his immense inheritance .are .situated. He'
said that, at the moment of that melancholy catastrophe, this.
,same M. Marjolin was called to exainine the body, .and ascer-
tain the sort, of death of the unfortunate Prince. :M. Marjolin
certified under his hand that the death,was caused by an act of
suicide. " Well," added the Procureur du Roy, " notwith-
standing all our respect ,for a judicial verdict, and whatever
may have been the cause.of that dark and mysterious event,
i
we feel it our' daty.here to .state, gentlemen, that there s not.
one of us who believes that the Prince de • Conde committed.
suicide." These ,words, thus publicly spoken, have produced
an indescribable effect. Received with approbation, as they,
generally are in they countries,,the words of the Procureur du•
Roy are, as it were, a public and solemn sanction of the reli-
gious respect attached to the memory of the last of the Condes,
and of the well established opinion that this prince perished,
. the victim ofassassination. Every eye was turned to the lion.
M. flermequin, the advocate of Madame de.Pontalba, who was:
present at the hearing, and who appeared to be singularly,.
affected by arm argument so unexpected, and' an 'acknowledg-
ment so. important, from the lips-of a magistrate of the present
.government,--Quotidienne.

IMPORTANT
CONVOC
.DECISIO
AT lON. N:OF THE OXFORD
•

(From the Albion of Thursday )
Yesterday the convocation assembled in order to take the.
sense of the university at large upon a proposal for establishing!
a certain form of "declaration," in lieu of the present long-y
established, practice of subscription to .the 39 articles, on th.et
part of underrgraduafesoli the time of matriculation.
The asseinbly was very numerous, Rod the conclusion come to!
very decisive. They were—
For the proposed.form of declaration 57 .;
Against it (and. in support ef established usage) 459
-Leaving a majority of Fovit Kurt ottur, Two out of.a house
of 516 members in favour of adherence to the old paths.
The following descriptive observations are from a valued cot-
respondent, and, whatsover souse readers may be inclined to,
suppose, one who is utterly incapable of " illiberality," or ofi
thinking of those who differ front him with. less charity than:
may become a man of unswerving :honesty and most •keling
conscientiousness:— _

" The. projectO.declaration,was ,most plausihly and -adroitly;
constructed,,exhiWting all the customary.modern marks of cart-:
dour, &c., and Prffessing to be, an exact equit4e4t for the usage!
'it was intended to supersede. Its champions met all questions ;
raised upon it with their customary confidence, except that of
cal bone.:?, :Notwithstanding all .the circumspection employed,
however,ithe insidious attempt to get the lesser wedge once fairly
iuttoduced,wasibut too manifest. Great interest was excited in
on
.csequence4
n all parts of the kingdom, and the result was an
unusually large assemblage in con Vocation. On Tuesday even-
_jug Oxford ~was,,pvertlowing. A considerable .majority was
(5.4p1q,e4,0n all lands ,in favour of things .as-.they are, and a
one ,hoped.fot
" When the,a,ssembly took place in the usual scene of ac'ion,
the Convocation House, it was soon apparent that there was a
great scarcity of room, in consequence of which an adjournment
tookyloce to:the theatre. ;The question was proposed—no de-
bate ensued, but the members of convocation proceeded at once
. to. a division, the non-placers (ortbose opposed to the innovation)
being ratiged.to the right hand of the N' ice-Cchaneellor in the
.area of the theatre, and the , placets (or innovators) to the left.
['lie numbers were,taken in the usual manner by the proctors,
when the placers were found tole only 57, and the non-placers
.159.
." It is hoped that this .division, which has evidently caused
much roortitication.to, the advocates of the neto.canstitution, has
so decidedly-manifested the.sense of toe great majority of the
university as to.have silenced. the restless spirit of demohtion for
a Jong time to come. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasM
exhibited by the conservative members on the occasion. The,
tinder-graduates warmly partook of,a, like feeling; nor is,it easy
to conceive a less encouraging ,appearance than was exhibited
by the defeated party as they took thels,stittion for. the,Purpose
of being numbered.' The whole affair went off, so far as could`
be judged, with entirely kind personal feeliq."
[To show what is the general feeling of the people of England!
on this subject, as•far as it can be inferred from 'their petitions!
-to parliament, we find in a summary of the petitiOns presented
to the House of
were
in 18;3,1, that ?,4 petitionS,lsigned bv
I,s64.Rersons, presented in favour of " the tinikerlitie'
admission bill," and that 445 petitions, signed by .11,81(1 persons,
,were:presented during the same periodagainst-that