The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

RODNEY-STREET WARD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL. :STANDARD.
am authorised by the Committee of the Na-
tional Confederation for Rodney-street Ward, to state
that the advertisement which appeared in - this day's
Albion, professing to emanate from that committee, is a
forgery. I am, Sir, tke.,
J. M. MACDONALD, Secretary.
Confederation-rooms, 38, Church-st 'vet ,
September 18th, 1848.

The repair of Lanercost Abbey, for which £2780 were
voted by Government, has been commenced.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has, it is stated, refused
to preach at St. Mark's College, Chelsea ; the reaFon, it
is understood, being that the forms there employed during
Divine Service are too numerous, and that too much
singing is introduced.

ROBBERY OF PAPERS AT TETE TUILERIES.— M. de
Pontecoulant, 55 years of age, was on Friday last brought
to trial before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, on the
charge of, while acting as a public functionary, taking
away papers from the Tuileries. He was remanded.
A. COLOURED DELEGATE.—SamueI R. Ward, who is
sent as a delegate from Courtland County, New York, to
the BuffalO Convention, is a coloured man of the very
darkest kind—as black as the ace of spades, but is withal
(says the True Sun) a very intelligent and re3pectable
person, and one who will not 01107; his claims to a seat to
be set aside with impunity.—Bonion Atlas.
RBSNFORCEMENTS FOR IRELAND.—In consecluence of
the unfavourable news from Ireland, received in town on
Saturday, government messengers were sent off to Wool-
wich and Chatham, and a telegraph message was sent to
Portsmouth for all the available marines to hold them-
selves in readiness for immediate embarkation. Despatches
were also sent off to Plymouth to have ready all the avail-
able marines at that division.

MORE ARRESTS.—Upwards of forty men, charged with
being concerned in the attacks upon the police-stations at
Portland and Glenbower, have been arrested. • It is ex-
pected they will be sent to Dublin. The Limerick Re-
porter states that, on Thursday, " Mr. Kcatinge O'Dwyer,
brother-in-law of Mr. Doheny, was arrested by the police
at Ulla, in the county of Tipperary. Several letters from.
Mr. Doheny, and a pistol, with that gentleman's initials
engraved, were found in his possession. He was at (moo
transmitted to Clonmel gaol."
. . .

Ica.—The intrinsic vaiue of ice, like that of metals,
depends upon the investigation of an assayer. That is to
say, a
.cubic foot. of Lower Canada ice is infinitely more
cold than 'a cubic foot of Upper Canada ice, which con-
tains more cold than a cubic foot of Wenliam ice, which
contains_ infinitely more cold than a cubic foot of English
ice; and thus, although each of these four cubic feet of
ice has precisely the same shape, they each, as summer
approaches, diminish in value : that is to say, they each
gradually lose a portion of their cold, until, long before
the Lower Canada ice has melted, the English ice has
been converted into lukewarm water.—Chambers' Edin-
burgh Journal.—[lt will be seen by an advertisement in
another part of the paper that an agency for L.C. ice has
been opened here by Mr. O'Neile.]
CHINESE PRODUCTIONS.—The enterprise of the mer-
chant princes of Liverpool is not alcne confined to the
importation of articles of immediate consumption ; and in
no case have we this more verified than in the contents of
the catalogue of a sale of superb specimens of Chinese art
in works of ornament and vertu, to be sold by auction by
Mr. Green, this day, at the Albion-rooms, Birkenhead.
They have been on view some flays; but had the public
been aware of it (as they form in themselves nn exhibition
complete) we feel satisfied they would have been visited by
hundreds. It would be impossible to notice, the numerous
works here displayed by these ingenious people ; suffice
• it to say, that amongst them are not only productions
rarely seen, but a multiplicity of articles in painting,
carving, enamelling, &c., &c., that will be entirely novel
to an English community.
ROMANISM AND REBELLION.—Four Popish prelates,
it is distinctly stated, are compromised by the documents
said to have been discovered in Smith O'Brien's port-
manteau. The names of three have reached us, but far
obvious reasons we decline at the present moment to
make them public.. Fears, however, are already enter-
tained that the treasonable correspondence, if it exists,
will not be made a good ground of accusation against the
offending parties ! The crime is to be hushed up. We
know Lord John and his patriotic courage too well. Hail
a treasonable correspondenee taken place between M;s.
Cuffy and the Bishop of Exeter, and had a letter from the
latter been discovered under the mangle of the former,
the Premier would have suffered no feeling of regard for
the Prelate to stand between his duty and the public.
And if strong affection towards an undoubted good
Churchman would not have weighed with his Lordship
against his sense of justice, can we suppose for an instant
that the plotting Romanist will fare better at his clean and
uncommitted hands ? Oh, certainly not —John Bull.
NEVILL HOLE, LElcEsTmtsnunE.--The long-expected
al e at this old mansion commenced on Wednesday last
under the superintendence of Mr. Edmund Robins. The
first two days were devoted to the sale of the library,
which, from its reputation, brought the bookworm and
collector from all parts. The followhor, scarce works
created considerable competition :—Lot 207,
Shalcspfare's
Comedies, &c., large copy, 1632, was sold to Mr. Thorpe
for 271 guines, said to be the highest price this rare book
has fetched. Lot 346, Boke of the Psalins, black letter,
1547, 34 guinras, Mr. Thorpe. Lot 447. " Missale Ro-
manum," with twenty illuminated borders and initial
letters, £l2 15e. Lot 451. Another " Missal," £lO 10s.,
both bought by Mr. Andrews, of Bristol. Lot 453. Ma-,
nuscript in Latin, relatingto the possessions ofmanasteries
in England, quarto, £100; this unique volume, after a
14..41“..5aarl cos, c. - . R 'Ltd eed-M T. Thorpe,
was knocked down to the I,qtr7 pm4l-t the round of ap-
plause from the assembled bidders. Lot 459. Two early
" Missals," £lolos., to Mr. indwell. Lot 160. Two
" Missals," £ll, Mr. Thorpe. Lot 461. " Hare Beate
Virginia Marie," printed on vellum, with 39 illuminations,
£46, to Mr. Lilly. The pictures are to be submitted on
Tuesday, including a magnificent Carlo Dolce, the bead
of David, with many capital specimens of the ancient
masters, and a very interesting collection of miniatures of
the 16th and 17th centuries.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDE NS.—A monster gala came off
with great eclat last evening, when, in addition to the
c4mbined attractions of these lovely grounds. the brilliant
oxy-hydrogen light was exhibited, various balloons as-
cended, and the entire amusements terminated with a
;mud ball, Madame Rossini, too, whose daring exploits
on the tightrope we have before had occasion to record,
repeated her most astonishing feat, whilst Signor Bian-
choni, the " fire-demon," made a grand descent from the
summit of the railway tower, enveloped in flames. The
funds realised on Friday next are to be appropriated for
the benefit of the widow of Howard, the unfortunate
keeper killed by the elephant Rajah, and we hope to sees
large muster to indicate the benevolence due to the occa-
sion. There is not a place of public amusement more
worthy of support than these gardens. Theatres have
certainly their attractions, and while the legitimate drama
is performed, they combine the utile cum dulci. But in
the summer season especially it is hard to forego the plea-
sures of rurality, in the preciuts of a crowded town, after
the fatigues of a day of business and confinement. The
gardens invite the wearied citizen to a walk or ride, and
there he can breathe a pure and wholesome atmosphere.
The grounds are laid out in a beautiful and diversified
manner, and there are a thousand objects of attraction in
the vegetable as well as the animal creation. The great
attraction this year in the pictorial line has been the view
of New York, and the n.ore it is seen the more it is ad-
mired. Those who have not visited the gardens this sea-
son, (which is tow drawing towards a close), would do
well to avail themselves of the grand gala of the week;
and es the admission-money to Fe.t the whole i 3 so small
in comparison with the gratification which young and old
may enjoy, we feel pleasure in recommending our friends
to avail themselves of the opportunity before stern winter
touches us with his hoary fugues.

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called the " Radical," " Cat's Music," the " Democrat,"
early on Friday morning a the " Lantern," the " Free-spoken," &c., &c., abun-
.e distance off, riding away at dantly show.
oulson immediate) ordered the It is, however, to be remarked that the active part taken
y by the Jews in these political commotions, have by no
.lase, which they did, and gained on means procured for them the favour of their revolutionary
when he dismounted, made for the com-patriots ; on the contrary, we meet with frequent
so
by, and by that means escaped for the ; symptoms of a feeling of dislike and hate towards them, on
the of those on hose behalf the been ea-
present : his horse was taken, and proved to be one lonsp. art
We have beforwe us several vryoofshave of this hostile
which the insurgents had taken from William V. Stuart, feeling, in the shape of placards, which have been posted
Esq., the High Sheriff of the county Kilkenny; from in the streets of Vienna, all holding up the Jews as ob-
jects of suspicion, and representing them as plotting to.
pistols, &c., found on the horse, t is conjectur ed tha obtain the mastery' over their Christian fellow-citizens
the rider was O'Mahony. It was reported here on Friday Thus giving another proof how hollow and worthless the
evening that some marines, who had ascended the Suir in pretensions to liberty and equality are on the part of those
who, while they boast of their humanity and brotherly
gun-boats, for the purpose of practising, had been at- love, manifest such rancour, hatred, and unmingled bit-
tacked on that day by the insurgents, and compelled to terness.
fire cannon at them. I cannot describe to you the alarm The headings of some of these placards will indicate their
this town was thrown into on receipt of the intelligence. general tone and tendency. Thus we have one : "The
German Michael (Michel) and the Jews;" another
mar headed " Fresh Jew-cherries ;" and a third, " Pertition of
the Christian slaves to their Jewish masters, for emanci-
pation of the Christians." Another, again, denounces the
Jews, in consequence of the discovery on the Jewish bu-
rial ground, of chests containing military stores, &c.
As may be expected, the language of these placards far
exceeds all the bounds of reason and justice. Th to
The Polyglot Educational Magazine. London • : W. us quote some of the least violent passages :
Strange, Paternoster-row; Liverpool: R. Wrightson. "Their participation in the political commotions of our times
This is a most useful publication, conducted by Pro- is a clear proof that they only aim at supreme rule. They sow
fessor Bertinchamp, of our town, a gentleman whose discontent that Ihsrlytomty gain advantages in the general con-
eco4neei
immilistceerasioprngle.s;vrgets, that
acquirements as a linguist and teacfier are known to most they may traymwple on th tof our our readers. The plan is a highly useful one : the trines of the Talmud. They have started a disreputable press,
editor intends the publication not only for the assistance and consider that courage, which others denominate insolence.
of teachers and families in communicating the elements " Who are the most furious republicans? The Jews. They
of sciences and languages to their pupils, but for the gerrceepreethatawreewuiglincevasertreFer theirl emancipation, and look,
perusal of all persons who wish to make themselves ac- Theis 2-mawncenvPring tactics which the the Jews practice against
quainted with the principles of a sound mental and liberal us, const in the invention of audacious lies, which are dis-
education. As a specimen of the editor's mastery over geminating for the purpose of exciting among the lower orders
the English language, we cannot resist quoting the fol- either fear rebellion. They only aim at promoting distrust
dissatisfaction,
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lowing metrical translation from the Polish. It is most and and would everi not flinch from the horrors
ot,c,ivil bridgeleading to their emancipation.l
spirited, and reminds one of Macaulay's splendid lays,
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than which higher praise need not be given : nationis shou be persecuted and hated,sake but the true tact of our
THE SONG OF THE WAJDELOTA.* N iennese will here also know how to separate the chafffrom the
(Translated from the Polish of Michiewicz.)
corn, and do full justice to the many worthy men among the
Jews. But Nemesis will surely overtake the rabble."
Tradition ! Tradition ! thou of the seraph tongue,
The arch that links two ages—the ancient and the young; One of these productions, after many accusations, winds
True arch ! thou art not broken by any stroke of fate ; up with the following warning :
No tyrant's touch profanes thee—while millions consecrate : "The Jews have already got us, i. e. our money, in the bag,
In thee our warriors treasure up their strength of hearts and and carry their heads high, but they wish now also to get
swords, everything we have left, and to be the sole masters; this is what
The tissue of
their holy thoughts—the lightning of their words! is meant by emancipation !We have concluded the chapter of
Thou song of olden glories ! like incense from the shrine Jewish cunning, but come now to the chapter of Jewish folly.
The Jews imagine that when they have rooted out Christi. Of a nation's fame and freedom, thou risest up divine.
anity from among the Christians, by means of their Jewish
Thou song of olden glories! like an angel at the gate
Ufa nation's storied temple, thou art ever seen to wait Neologian literature, from among the people, by means of their
atrocious pamphle s, (for the authors of most of these are
With wings of golden light, and a voice of thrilling might,. Jews,) that then their wishes will be crowned, that then all dis-
tinction the sword of an archangel like a red flame waving bright, tinction of religion will be merged, and the much longed foe
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emancipation will be obtained.
"This is very possible. It may be so. But mark this, you.
Jews! Just as those Jews who have no Jewish faith more, are
now the bitterest enemies of Christianity, so will the Christians, who have no Christian faith more, be the bitterest enemies of Judaism."

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Time may rot the written stone—and royal brigands burn—
But the song we loved of old, untouched, shall to our hearts

return;
The heroic legend of the dead the crowd shall ne'er forget,
They quenched its thirst with ardent hopes, and feed it with

regret.
It shall go amongst our hidden glens, and to our mountains

cling, _ _
.nd from the rock and ruin shall the olden spirit sing,

The hoary peasant goeth forth to till the grassy plain,
And riveth with his ploughshare the bleach'd bones of the slain;
He prayeth for the noble dead—the long-renowned story,
And he singeth unto echos with the old song of their glory :
" Rest—rest upon your bed of fame, where the good fight ye
tried,
And sword in hand for freedom ye conquer'd and ye died;
The stricken-down invader rests here beneath your glaive!
Where are your children, Fathers? 0 answer me, ye brave!"

* A Lithuanian word.—A pagan priest who sang to the peo-
le during their national festivities the praises of their ancestors.

VARIETIES

Such is the prospect which is held out to the Jewish
nation by those who use their boasted liberty as a cloak of
maliciousness.
Some of the more light-minded Jews have been seduced,
unawares, to join in the movement that has spread. so
widely ; but the more sober-minded among them have
all along seen the danger that must be occasioned by a
course which every principle of earnest Judaism teaches
them to abhor. May those who have been misled soon
have their eyes open to see the gulf that threatens to de-
vour them, and attending to the warning contained in the
passage last quoted, learn that those who are false to that
Christianity which they profess in name only, will never
be the friends of those who have been led astray by vain
glory and unbelief, to unite with them in opposition to
that lesson which is taught by revelation, and verified by
the univeral testimony of the history of alt nations and all
" Meddle not with them that are given to

The London correspondent of the Liverpool Albion
describes John O'Connell as a mendicant, a monk, a
mountebank, a maligner, and a muff.
Married at Barn-staple, by the Rev. John Gates, Mr.
John Post to Miss Sophia Rails. If this match don't
" make a fence " of the first quality, we should like to
know what stuff will.—Bristol Mirror.

HARD TIMES CONJUGATED.—A country schoolmaster
thus describes a money-lender :—"He serves you in the
present tense—he lends you in the conditional mood—
keeps you in the subjunctive—and ruins you in the

fabire

SPLENDID AMERICAN ALOE.—There is now in bloom,
in the gardens of Drummond Castle, Perthshire, the re-
sidence of Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, a splen-
did specimen of the Agave Americana, or great American
aloe, the flower stem of which is 30 feet high, supporting
upwards of 2,800 flowers.
DINING WITH THE DARDANELLES.—A gentleman was
boasting in his travels that he bad been caressed every-
where, and that he had seen all the great in Europe.
" Have you seen the Dardanelles ?" said one of the com-
pany. " Yes," replied he, " I dined with them at Gib-
raltar, and found them to be excellent company."—New
York Harbinger.
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SCENERY AROUND HEBRON.—There is no part of Pa-
lestine which I have visited, so well cultivated as the
country around Hebron. On the evening of our approach
to the city, we passed for miles through scenes of ravish-
ing loveliness, varied with hill and dale, of wood and corn
fields, and vineyards, illuminated by the rays of the de-
clining sun. The prospect was enlivened by groups of
men and cattle busy at the harvest. Nothing could be
conceived more rich, brilliant, and smiling than this gar-
den of Eden. Thoughts of the days of old rose up, to
give their interest to a scene replete with patriarchal as-
sociations anil historic events. But here there was no
melancholy contrast, as this country elsewhere presents,
of present desolation and departed glory. The teeming
threshing floors and the clusters of Eshcol, are proofs
that the land is not unworthy of its ancient patriarchs
and kings.—Mr. Ewald's Report.

A RUSSIAN WIFE SHOW..—The chief opportunity of
seeing native finery is mixed up with a curious custom
observed on Whit Monday at the summer gardens, when
the unmarried girls paraded themselves, on the chance
of being selected and sought in marriage by those
who are on the look-out for wives. These young people
arrange themselves in rows by the sides of the long ave-
nues, attended by their mothers, decked out in their gay-
est costume ; while congregated thousands promenade up
and down in dense crowds. The idea realises what we
call " love at first sight," and is certainly a novel way of
pntting the power of Cupid to the test. If an arrow tells,
the party introduces himself to the mother, exchanges ad-
iresses, and the matter is negociated at home. This is
mfined to the little people—l mean those just above the
-Ter class ; but in former times it was common to all
ks.— Thompson's Life in Russia.
Mum EATING IN CHINA.—The habitual use of this
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ANECDOTE OF LORD ERSKlNE.—Erskine, when some-
what young at the bar, was engaged in the f3llowing case.
An old gentleman had died at a village inn, and a will
was produced by which all his property was left to an at-
torney not in the most distant way related to the testator.
The widow of the gentleman in question was left in a
state of destitution with a large family : in vain did she
solicit the attorney to assist her in providing for herself
and family : the matter soon became the subject of gene-
ral conversation, and means were provided to enable the
widow to contest the validity of the will, on the ground
of the testator's incapacity to make a bequest at the time
the will in question was stated to have been made and
executed. Erskine was retained for the widow and suc-
cessfully advocated his client's cause. In the course of
the trial the defendant brought forward, as evidence to
show that the testator was in a fit state of mind to make
and execute the will in question, witnesses who swore
that they had seen the testator playing at cards. " Gen-
tlemen of the jury (said Erskine)—it certainly appears
that the old gentleman has been played with : how far
this is a test of his sanity will be for you to determine.
Yes : he played at cards—probably he might play a king,
or a queen, or an ace ; but, gentleman of the jury, before
you leave the box, I think that I shall be able to point out
the party who played the KNAVE in this business."
ALLEGED PROPULSION Or A VESSEL BY STEAM IN THE
YEAR 1543.—Thomas Gonzales, Director of the Royal
Archives of Simancas in Spain, published in 1826 an ac-
count of an invention by Biasco de Garay, a naval cap-
tain, who, it is stated, exhibited in Spain, in 1543, an en-
gine, by which ships of the largest size could be propelled
in a calm without the aid of oars or sails. He made an
experiment before commissioners, appointed for the pur-
pose of examining his invention at Barcelona, on the 17th
June, 1543,—the vessel used being a ship of two hundred
tons. Garay, we are informed, wished to keep his mecha-
nism a secret ; but it was observed to consist partly of
a large cauldron, or vessel of boiling water, and of two
movable wheels, one on each side of the ship. The expe-
riment succeeded so far, that the vessel was propelled at
the rate of two leagues in three hours ; and the inventor
was rewarded by receiving a sum of two hundred thousand
maravedis, besides having his expenses defrayed from the
public treasury. It is added, that the invention would
have been further encouraged had not State expeditions of
great consequence claimed the immediate attention of the
emperor. But it is important to mention, that the au-
thenticity of the entire history of Garay's invention, as
published by Gonzales, has been called into question ;
and it is certain that no practical results of any utility fol-
lowed.—Fraser's Magazine.
EFFORTS OF THE JEWS TO OBTAIN POLITICAL Pow.r.n.
AND EQUALITY OF RIGIIT.—As was to be expected, the
Jew, who has long lain unheeded and neglected at the
very gates, as it were, of the Austrian Established Church
(and may this be a warning to our own dear Church),
should be, amongst others, an especial agent in the pro-
vidence of. God, in transmitting the bitter cup of retribu-
tive suffering into the hands of his oppressors. I had not
been a day in the city when I found out the truth of this;
I went in company with Mr. Hoff to the principal syna-
gogue, which we found to be a spacious building with
double galleries, all crowded to excess. The preacher, a
man of great ability. took for his text the subject of the
two faithful spies returning with good intelligence from
tikeremi d land_; he seemed to anticipate a bright future
for lsrae e new en of merry, rernlnuea ma-neaters
that they had played no unimportant part in the great
achievements of the times, and called upon them to press
forward in the same direction, until they came into full
possession of the rights that were due to them. On
leaving the synagogue, two Jews conducted us to the hall
where the " Sicherheits Ausschuss," a sore of provisional
government, was sitting, and this we found was presided
over by a Jew; subsequently to this we met no end of
Jews in the dress of National Guards in the streets, and
shortly afterwards a Jew who was a newly-elected member
of the National Assembly of Austria ; so that altogether
it seemed as if the Jews, a long time the party oppressed
here, were in a fair way of becoming the oppressors of
others.—Letter in Jewish Intelligence.
A YANKEE ALLIGATOR STORY.—A singular piece of
temerity, with regard to an alligator, is related in camp.
At Sabine river (now a long distance back), one of the
men of Caswel's company, called in camp " Skin-horse,"
went along the bank for game ; did not see any ; but then
a young alligator popped up his head ; " Skin-horse "
fired at it, and the water was stained with blood, but the
alligator had disappeared. The report of the gun !nought
some of his comrades to the spot, and they were told by
him what he had killed. They thought he was " fooling'
them, which made him very angry, and, swearing that he
always told the truth, he stripped off his clothes, and
waded in the water to his neck, feeling about with his
foot, and stepped on the chap at the bottom ; he being
only wounded, instantly rose and poked his long nose out
of the water, behind " Skin-horse," who turned, and
with one hand seized him by the fore-foot, and threw the
other arm around his neck, and himself on his scaly back.
Now came the tug of war. The alligator whirled round
and round, making the water foam with his tail, snapping
his jaws together, in his endeavours to get at his antago-
nist, while the latter, having got a hold on shallow bot-
tom, pushed and dragged him towards the shore, while
his companions, at first petrified with astonishment, ran
to his relief, and they soon got the alligator ashore and
dispatched him. He measured in length seven feet.
Hugging a live alligator in the water is a ticklish sort of
business. " Skin-horse "is a good-humoured dare-devil
chap, cross-eyed, medium height, bony and strong, in for
a scrape at any time, and is a great favourite with the
whole regiment.—Furber's Americana in Mexico.

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