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

celebrated in that island.
John Hilliard has been sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment and hard'labour for causing the deaths of two
children by selling them poisonous berries.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by the
coroner's jury, at Bath, against two boys who, in a frolic,
pushed a temaledown from the step of a door.

BALLOON A DVENTIIRE.—The great Nasal
nflated with gas, was, on Friday, fastened to

Sir Charles Wetherell's personal estate has just been
administered to by Lady Wetherell, and a stamp duty
paid on £250,000.
The aggregate amount of the Cobden testimonial is
now £75,000, of which Manchester has contributed
£28,000.

The import duty on wheat is no. ga. par gnarter.
prices are still on the advance, the duty will doubt

fall still lower.

r_lAvprint; . that he was safe. The tide had car-
ried him down as far as uevenou, wnc..
tact with a boat, which had been at Weston-super-Mare
Regatta. and was making 'into Clevedon. Sir Wil-

—.
Abundance of mackerel have been caught lately on the
Welsh coasts. They have been sold at Bangor eighteen
for sixpence, and at Beaumaris thirty for sixpence. _

liam caught hold of the bowsprit, and was provi-
dentially saved. The distance which he floated . was

. ,
A young lady, named Pratt, aged 21, residing with her
uncle, in London, died on Saturday week, from the effects
of laudanum, which she had taken to Kocure sleep.
At Harefield, Middlesex, on Saturday, two canal boat-
men quarrelled and fought. One of them on attempting
to rise to renew the contest fell backwards on the grass,
and died in a few minutes.

about nine miles!
The morning 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,

Parliament is not to be summoned in November. The
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland strongly urged its assembling,
but the majority of the cabinet overruled his lordship's

decision

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ars, gradu

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ported by the influence of the Earl of Yarborough and
the Duke of St. Alban's.
Another cabinet council was held on Friday, at the

• • 1
ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.--Tuesday being

Hall was held, for the election of Chief Magistrate for

official residence of Lord John Russell in Downing-street.
Previous to the council, several of the ministers had in-
terviews with the noble lord.

the City of London during the ensuing year. Alderman
Wood and Sir G. Carroll were declared nominated by the
majority of those present for the selection_of the Court

Wednesday evening. Lord -John Russell was present and
made a brief speech in reference to the distress in Ireland,
and the want of general education.
On Sunday week Mr. E. Jones, tailor and draper, of
the village of Gresford, put an end to his existence by
shooting himself with a horse pistol. He had been in a

There are now in the port of D
195 vessels ; 73 of which are of 1

'ewer t

Alderman Hooper, for the purpose of testing the feelings
of the livery towardsllr. 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, 260. The poll will finally close to-day at four
o'clock.

THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE PEG TANKARD.--At the
meeting of the British Archmological Association at Glou-

in the herring fishery

'ge ton

nk.ard." Thd carvir

,s on this ancient drir

Mr. Halliday opened his new hotel, Fort Anne,
Douglas, Isle of man, on Tuesday, with a splendid ball

About 150 were present, among whom were, the E

exquisite, bearing three or four distinct e
:renting the seasons, the seven deadly sins,

t whom the e

'on, I given) is the principal- promoter of disser
I and of Dunston, and also mentions several othe

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towed along the Thames, from Cremorne'Gardens,-where by which Mr. Newton had rendered himself obnoxious to
it ascended with seven persons in the car, amid a drench- the Earl. The " covered cart" which hia lordship offered
inn- rain. It was carried towards Essex, and at seven to Mr. Crowther, was the one used by the late Lord
o'clock descended in a field at L.ytonstone. The large Goderich, and is still used by members of the Ripon
machine, by permission of Mr. Perkins, the proprietor, family on their country jaunts. "But," adds our con-
was lashed by Mr. Green to a tree with its body of gas, • temporary, "the DONKEI ? the pour animal without which
the aeronaut having resolved to make a continental voy- all the wit would have been lost I The car and horses
age with his friends, if the weather proved favourable. were at the disposal of Mr. and Mrs. Crowther, at any
On
Tuesday
the
Kingroad, time : but rs. Crowther longed for toe donkey, and it
between Win, was inaccessible. It was an ancient pensioner of Lady
steamers,
sir M
Herald evening
and a collision
pb ce tookte me
ni x s place in
and
Symonds was knocked overboard, and given up as lost by Ripon's, turned out ..o spend its last days in quiet, having
every one on board ; but during the night an express ar- , been the n 4411611 th,,,,,..1. --- ... - '• • ' '

tuougn unromantic servant of her Lady-
ship for nearly thirty years. It was deemed too old for
.4-irk _grad cpu Id not be lent like the horses and
the car; bat Airs. rowtrie.
cies best to ride on this quiet old donkey.
Some, ennoirtz

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-hearted letter was written."

THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE

We annex, from the Britannia, an imaginary dialogue.
maintained between the present King of Prussia and
Luiher, who is supposed to appear to his majesty after he
h.a lain At rest fnr eentnries. We has,* .1_ _

enormities or tine, payacy, ana tue tendency of the present
age, both in England and on the Continent, towards
infidelity, depicted in more vigorous and striking lan-

Christendom

[lreatens

Luther: A palm, ana• indifference are the parents of
infidelity. A church may resist the violence of its ene-
but
iermany, 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
Popery.

When human opinions take the lead of divine;
when every candidate for celebrity begins his cause by

mystifying scripture ; when professors c
for learning by throwing off their reverent

in a character

N hen the life of the Redeemer is mad

tor insptration

:et of libel,

itble is represented to the
1! then deep end deneerni

King : But persecution has passed away

w dreads the revival of the Inquisition

ection

No wan

No marl ever

acknow