The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

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body, and since a feeble indulgence and impunity may set
mankind loose into great disorders, from which the terror
of severer laws, together with such examples as are made
on the incorrigible, will naturally restrain them, it seems
necessary, for the preservation of mankind and of society,
to have recourse to capital punishments. The precedent
that God set in the Mosaical law seems a full justification
of such punishments under the Gospel. The charity
which the Gospel presents does not take away the rules of
justice and equity. We owe to human society, and to
the safety and the order of the world, our endeavours to
put a stop to the wickedness of man. It is highly proba-
ble that, as nothing besides such a method could stop the
progress of injustice and wickedness, so nothing is so
likely a means to bring the criminal to repent of his sins,
and to fit him to die as a Christian, as to condemn him to
die for his crimes ; if anything can awaken his conscience
and strike terror in him, that will do it. Therefore, as
capital punishments are necessary to human society, so
they are real blessings to those on whom they fall ; and
it may be affirmed, very positively, that a man who can
harden himself against the terrors of death, when they
come upon him so solemnly, so slowly, so certainly, he
being in full health, and able to reflect on the conse-
quences of it, is not likely to be wrought on by a longer
continuance of life, or by the methods of a natural death.
Under the Gospel, as well as under the law, the magis-
trate is the minister of God, and has the sword put in his
hand, which he beareth not in vain ; for he is appointed
to be a revenger, to execute wrath on him that doeth
evil. The natural signification of his carrying the sword
is, that he has authority for punishing capitally, since it
is upon those occasions only that he can be said to use
the sword as a revenger. Nor can Christian charity oblige
a man, whom the law has made an avenger of blood, to
refuse to comply with that obligation, which is laid upon
him by the constitution under which he is born ; he can
only forgive that of which he is the master, but the other
is a debt, which he owes society ; and his private forgiv-

ing the wrong himself does not reach to that other obl
gation, which is not in his own power to give away.-
Bishop Burnet.

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There are in London eighteen Ragged Schools, with
15,000 pupils.
Four men have been convicted for the forgery on the
Brighton bank.
Lord Stanley, of Alderly, has returned 10 per cent. to
his tenantry in Anglesey, to be expended in guano.
Great numbers of base crown-pieces have lately been
put into circulation in Edinburgh.
On the 23d inst., the East India Company will enter-
tain Lord Gough at a splendid banquet.
About 4,000 young trees were blown down during the
late high winds, in a plantation at Coddington, Newark.
The Newcastle-on-Tyne guardians have refused to
form a " district school" in the union.
Two hundred and fifty millions of oranges are annually
imported into Great Britain.
The directors of the Bank of England are lending money
on stock at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum.
It appears that, after a lapse of some years, the Bank
of England has resumed its connexion with the Guarantee
Society.
Dr. Vaughan (head master of Harrow School) will
shortly lead to the hymeneal alter Miss Kate Stanley,
youngest daughter of the late Bishop of Norwich.
Government intends to pay the solicitor for Manning
and his wife out of the proceeds of the jewels and other
property seized by the police.
It is said that orders have been received at Holyhead to
be in preparation to break up the government packet sta-
tion early in spring.

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The amount of silver and copper coin delivered by the
moneyers into the Mint Office in 1849, amounted respec-
tively to £119,592, and £1,792.
An Aberdeen paper notices that three horses, which
had been bitten by mad dogs, have lately died of hydro-
phobia at Aboyne and Kincardine O'Neill.

The newly appointed high sheriff of Oxfordshire is
Henry Hall, of Barton, Esq., Oxford, printer and propri-
etor of the Oaford Journal.

There is no truth in the report of any party having
taken proceedings to recover possession of the Stanfield-
hall property.
The smack Catherine, of Port Madoc, David Evans,
master, from Newport for Mochras, has been lost on the
Patches, near Aberystwith, and all hands perished.
The sellers of cheese at Winchester fair have now no de-
mand for that article. One gentleman, who pitched 500
tons at Monday's fair, could not sell five tons.

KELPINA.—:The discovery of a new alkali from kelp is
attracting great attention in Scotland, as pregnant with
great results for the Highlands and the Islands.

A verdict, with £2O damages, was given last week at
the County Court of Cornwall, against a schoolmaster
who bad beaten a little boy on the head so severely as to
cause blindness.

INDUSTRIAL Exn IBITION IN 1851.—The Town-Coun-
cil of Plymouth have voted the sum of £5O, and the
Chamber of Commerce 10 guineas, towards the Exhibi-

Charles Dickens• will publish, at the end of March, the
first number of " a weekly journal, called ' Household
Words,' price 2d., designed for the instruction and en-
tertainment of all classes of readers."

On Monday the adjourned inquest met to inquire into
the death of the lad Allen, who was killed at the late
protectionist meeting at Dorchester. Various witnesses
were examined. The jury could not agree on a verdict.
One thousand and fifty signatures, out of about one
thousand two hundred ministers, have been attached to
the Wesleyan conference declaration of the immutability
of its organic, institution.

On TuesdaY, S. C. Stokes, Esq., son of the Rev. J.
Stokes, of Abbe} Foregate, Shrewsbury, was thrown
from his horse whilst hunting.. He fell into a pool and

was drowned

PREVENTIBLE DISEASE.—At Minchinhampton, last
week, a man was taken suddenly ill, as is supposed, from
removing a manure heap, and died, as did also his wife
and two children.

The magistrate at Worship-street, London, decided on
Thursday that it was an illegal act, punishable by fine, to
refuse a person admission to an omnibus, on the plea that
the vacant places were reserved for regular riders after
wards to be taken up.
NEW POTATOES.—We (Carlisle Journal) were shown
the other day, a dish of tolerably-sized new potatoes,
spontaneously produced from a heap of diseased potatoes,
last year's crop, in the garden of Mr John Wallace, of
Rigg, near Gretna.
The Earl of Powis, a few weeks ago, sent to every
householder in Bishop's Castle, without regard to the re-
ligion or politics of the parties, the annual present of
game, of a hare and pheasant, which was the custom of
the late Earl.

A COCKNEY BULL.—A poor toy-maker describes his
case thus to a London paper:—",That (15s. a week) is
but little to keep a wife and two children on—one only
just born a month ago last Monday, and another just dead
and buried."

It is said that the honour of knighthood is about to be
conferred on Dr. Hastings, of Worcester. Dr. Hastings
occupies a high position in the medical world, and was the
principal founder of the Provincial Medical and Surgical
Association.

Mr. Edward Kenealy, a barrister, has been examined
before Sir P. Laurie, in London, on a charge of having
brutally flogged and otherwise ill-treated a boy between
five and six years of age, his (Kenealy's) natural son.
Mr. Kenealy is to answer the charge at the sessions.
The Birmingham Gazette says that on the morning of
the 6th ult. after the storm from the west, many of the
windows at Lichfield were covered with salt, as were
many evergreen shrubs, some of which retained a saltness
for several days.

Mr. Manfullay has been elected Professor of Ancient
History in the Royal Academy, in the place of the late
Bishop of Llandaff. Sir Robert H. Inglis has also been
appointed Antiquarian Professor, a chair which has been
for some time vacant.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land had increased from £17,089,901 to £17,122,221,
being a difference of £32,320. The paper in actual circu-
lation had decreased from £20,339,864 to £20,000,213,
being a difference of £339,651.

MiNSLAUGHTER.—The woman Charlotte Lovey, who
was stabbed by her husband in a lodging-house, in White.
chapel, London, on last Tuesday week, died on Thursday
in the hospital, after enduring great suffering. It was
found that the gullet had been divided by the blow.
The rector of Upper Chelsea, the Rev. Richard Vur-
has arranged to build several lodging-houses in that
parish, the rooms in which, with various conveniences,
will be let at Is. Gd. per week. The state of the lodging-
houses both in London and Liverpool for the poor calls
loudly for legislative enactment.
SilsIGULAR.—Last week, at Gowan Park, a lark, hard
pressed by a hawk, took refuge in a boy's breast-pocket,
where her pursuer, though only a yard behind, did not of
course dare to follow his wished for prey. The litth
songster is now carolling in the cage of her liberator, a

grateful and happy captive.—Montrose Review

Captain Warner ha's intimated that, if his plan is not
accepted by government, ho will dispose of it to some.
foreign power. The captain asks, " Had I sold them to
Greece, where would Admiral Parker, with his fourteen
vessels, have'been long ere this ? Not a survivor would
have been left."

The late high floods have done considerable damage in
the county of Selkirk, by which the wooden bridge at
Wester Deloraine, over the Ettrick, has been carried off,
and the flood has also swept away one of the arches of
the ancient bridge over the Yarrow, near the church,
which has existed for centuries, and which it is suppose'
was built by the Picts
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Montrose Standard states that on Tuesday weet
as some cattle were passing through Brechin, a big hul
left the ranks and coolly walked into an inn. It passed
up stairs into a bed-room, where it put its head through
the window and bellowed to its companions. It retired
in the same ordinary manner, passing down the stairs,
and rejoining its companions in the street.
An extensive fire broke out on Sunday week, on the
premises of Messrs. J. and R. Raimes and Co., manufac-
turing chemists, Leith-walk, Edinburgh, which involver'
tae almost total destruction of their premises. The los,
has been variously estimated at from £12,000 to £15,00(
one estimate being as high as £20,000, and only about the
half is covered by insurance.
The gambling-houses in the vicinity of Jermyn-street
Regent-street, and Leicester-square, London, have beer
placed under a close surveillance, by order of the com-
missioners of police. The constables are stationed at the
entrance to each house, to note down and describe the
persons entering therein. The surveillance to continue,
without intermission, night and day.
According to an estimate by Dr. Playfair, the 52,00;
bodies annually interred in the metropolis emit upward
of five-and-a-half million cubic feet of carbonic acid gas
exclusive of other gases and vapours still more offensive
and deleterious, the whole of which must pass into the,
water below the soil, or escape into the air we breathe,
and must, in either case, be moat mischievous.