The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

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ROMISH PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTS.

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As early as in 1793, the Austrian jealousy of Prussia
caused the division and ultimate defeat of the European
coalition. In 1794, while pretending to urge a renewal of
active operations, Austria refused to. add another soldier
to her own military establishment. In this same year
'1794), Austria opened, through her general, Coburg, a
~.;,r son than Robespierre, in
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in the plunder and subjugation of her late ally, Venice.

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we are paying for at this hour. But say our old friends,
Austria was our ally in the defence of established govern-
ment and religion when both were assailed by the Jaco-
bins of France. We have seen what sort of ally Austria
was when she negotiated with Robespierre ; we see, too,
of what kind of established governmelit Austria was the
champion, when she became a vassal of Napoleon, or a
member or subject of the continental system ; it only re
mains to see what kind of religion is that to which she de
voted the services of her sword.
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\_ story of the people of the Zillerthal—an inoffen-
sive race of shepherds of the Tyrol, once living in the
sequestered valley of the Inn—has been long since, made
known to the Rritigh nnhlir tnt alp rhiivrforhi'o vgar.i.rn nr

Dr. Rheinwadd's work in June, 1840 ; and by a little
volume dedicated to the good Queen Adelaide, and pub-
lished in the same year. These poor people were refused
education, were refused a legal sanction to their mar-
riages, were refused a Christian interment for their dead,
who were actually and literally buried with the " burial
of a dog," for a dog was brought to each of their graves,
and finally they were stripped of their humble possessions,
and banished from the country to starve, all solely because
they were Protestants; and the death of famine would
have been their doom, had not the King of Prussia pro-
vided for them a refuge in Silesia. Established govern-
ments and religion are good, when the government is
good and the religion is pure. But Heaven preserve our
country from such established government and such reli-
gion as those of Austria or Turkey ; and, by the way, the
Porte was a much more faithful ally to us than the Aus-
trian Emperor in the French Revolution war, and full as
sincere in the defence of established government and re-
ligion.

But it will be said, Austria has improved in the years
that have passed since the persecution and expulsion of
the Zillerthallers. Let whoever thinks so read the fol-
lowing extract from a newspaper published at Munich

" Inspruck, July 20.
" During the sermon in our parish church last Sunday the
peasants were invited to take their guns from the wall, in order
to use them against all adversaries m the Virgin Mary. • They
were exhorted to remember their ancestors, who, by way of
manifesting their hatred to the heretic Huss, used to cry' Huss,
Huss,' to their dogs, when hounding them upon a thief."—
Neueste AVachriehten aus den Gebtete de Politik.

In Hungary, Austria has for years been labouring to
effect, upon a great scale, what she has succeeded in
effecting upon a small scale in the Zillerthal, and pretty
generally through the Tyrol, namely, the extirpation of
the Protestant religion. To this end the whole scheme
of her revolutionary policy has been directed. Whether
the Magyars acted prudently in seizing the moment of
epidemic insurrection in Europe to resist the revolutionary
policy of the Austrian government may be a question,
but that they had the right to resist it can be no ques-
tion with any Englishman who recognises our own consti-
tutional settlement of 1688.

Mr. Herapath, the Bristol chemist, writing "as to
what quantity of lead may be taken by human beings
without injurious effects," states that a river in the west
of England, the water of which was immemorially used
by the inhabitants of a village on its banks, became im-
pregnated with the refuse of a lead mine, and the conse-
quences were indigestion, loss of appetite and flesh, and
cholic. On analysis the water was found to contain only
1-500,000 th part of carbonate of lead, or ono grain in
nine gallons.

ANTHONY WOOD.—A story is told of him that he
dressed himself Fite a thatcher, and awaited on the roof
of a cottage the arrival of certain Cambridge scholars who
were expected to dispute with the scholars of Oxford:
The Cambridge scholars came in due time ; and, observ-
ina Wood staring at them, one of them called out, Rus-
tice, quid quaeris ?" "Ut mecum versificeris." " Versi-
ficator, tu?" " Non melior solis ab ortu !" The scho-
lars held a consultation, and thinking they should ho,,c
very little chance with the scholars of Oxford if the
thatchers were so learned, turned their faces homeward.
RAWDON.—The Marquis of Hastings, as an English
baron, has the title of " Baron Rawdon, of Rawdon, in
the county of York." The illustrious family of Rawdon
deduces its pedigree from Paulinus de Rawdon, to whom
William the Conqueror granted considerable estates, (part
of which the present marquis enjoys,) by the following
deed :

" I William Kyng, the thurd yere of my reign,
Give to Paulyn Roy don, Hope and Hopetowne,
With all the bounds both up and downe ;
From heven to yerthe, from yerthe to hel,
For the and thyne ther to dwel,
As truly as this kingright is myn ;
For a crossebow and an arrow,
When I sal come to hunt on Yarrow,
And in token that this thing is sooth,
I bit the whyt wax with my tooth,
Before get, Mawd, and Margery,
And my third sonne, Henry."
This Paulyn, or Paulinus, commanded a band of archers
in the Norman invading army, and derived his surname
of Rawdon from the lands of that denomination, near
Leeds, which constituted a portion of the royal grant.
RAGS.--It is like the mill of the child's story, that
ground old people young. Paper! White, pure, spick-
and span new paper, with that fresh smell which takes us
back to schools and school-books. Can it ever come from
rags like these ? Is it from such bales of dusty rags, na-
tive and foreign, of every colour and of every kind, as now
•nviron us, shutting out the summer air, and putting cot-
ton into our summer ears, that virgin paper, to be written
on, and printed on, proceeds ? We shall see presently.
Enough to consider, at present, what a grave of dress this
rag-store is ; what a lesson of vanity it preaches. The
coarse blouse of the Flemish labourer, and the fine cam-
bric of the Parisian lady, the court dress of the Austrian
gaoler, and the miserable garb of the Italian peasant; the
woollen petticoat of the Bavarian girl, the linen head-
dress of the Neapolitan woman, the priest's vestment, the
player's robe, the Cardinal's hat, and the ploughman's
nightcap ; all dwindle down to this'and bring their little-
ness or greatness in fractional portions here. As it is
with the worn, it shall be with the wearers; but there
shall be no dust in our eyes then, though there is plenty
now. Not all the great ones of the earth will raise a grain
of it, and nothing but the truth will be.—Dickens's
Household Words.

I A SHARP JUDGE.—A certain merchant left in his last
testament 17 horses to be divided among his three sons,
according to the following proportion :--The first was to
receive half, the second one-third, and the youngest a
ninth part of the whole. But when they came to arrange
about the division, it was found that to comply with the
terms of the will, without sacrificing one or more of the
animals, was impossible. Puzzled in the extreme, they
repaired to a Cadi, who, having read the will, observed
that such a difficult question required time for delibera-
tion, and commanded them to return after two days.
When they again made their appearance, the judge said,
" I have considered carefully your case, and I find that I
can make such a division of the 17 horses among you as
will give each of you more than his share, and yet not one
of the animals shall be injured. Are you content ? "
"We are, 0 judge," was the reply. " Bring forth the
'l7 horses, and let them be placed in the court," said the
Cadi. The animals were brought, and the judge ordered
his groom to place his own horse with them. He bade
the eldest brother count the horses. " They are 18 in
number, 0 judge," he said. " I will now make the
division," observed the Cadi. " You, the eldest, are
entitled to half ; take then 9 of the horses. You, the
second, are entitled to one-third ; take, therefore, 6.
While to you, the youngest, belongs the ninth part,
namely, 2. Thus the 17 horses are divided among you ;
you have each more than your share, and I may now
take my own steed back again." " Mashallah ! "
claimed the brothers, with delight, " 0 Cadi ! your wis-
dom equals that of lord Suleiman Ibn Daood !h—Notes
from Nineveh. _ _

ANECDOTE OF A SlNGER.—Signora Grassini, the great
Italian singer. died a few months since at Milan. She
was distinguished not only for her musical talents, but
also for her beauty and powers of theatrical expression.
One evening in 1810, she and Signor Crescentini per-
formed together at the Tuileries, and sang in Romeo and
Juliet. At the admirable scene in the third act, the
Emperor Napoleon applauded vociferously, and Talma,
the great tragedian, who was amongst the audience, wept
vegth emotion. After the performance was ended, the
Emperor conferred the decoration of a high order on
Crescentini, and sent Grassini a scrap of paper, on which
was written, " Good for 20,000 livres.—Napoleon."
" Twenty thousand francs ! " said one of her friends—
" the sum is a large one." "It will serve as a dowry
for one of my little nieces," replied Grassini quietly.
Indeed few persons were ever more generous, tender, and
considerate towards their family than this great singer.
Many years afterwards, when the Empire had crumbled
into dust, carrying with it in its fall, among other things,
the rich pension of Signora Grassini, she happened to be
at Bologna. There another of her nieces was first pre-
sented to her, with a request that she would do some-
thing for her young relative. The little girl was ex-
tremely pretty, but not, her friends thought, fitted for
the stage, as her voice was a feeble contralto. Her aunt
asked her to sing ; and when the timid voice had sounded
a few notes, " Dear child," said Grassini, embracing her,
" you will not want me to assist you. Those who called
your voice a contralto were ignorant of music. You have
one of the finest in the world, and will far excel me as a
singer. Take courage, and work hard, my love; your
throat will win a shower of gold." The young girl did
not disappoint her aunt's prediction. She still lives, and
Ler name is Giulia Grisi.—Chambers's Rdinkro' Journal,