The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

the!
of the meetinc

M. Prudho

has a-lso been

)unded in

a duel, which both police and some workmen did their
best to prevent, but their vigilance was eluded by the
combatants. _ _

TROTTING

AN EXTRAORDINARY MATCH, IN AME-

RICA.—TWENTY MILES PERFORMED IN LESS THAN
ONE HOUR.—The twenty mile match, for 51,500, Trustee
v. Time, came off on Friday, September 20, over the
Union Course, L. 1., and was won by the horse in gal-
lant style, having never been touched with a whip from
beginning to end. He accomplished the extraordinary
task, in harness, in fifty-nine minutes and thirty-five se-
conds and a half.
MR. WILSON IN AMERICA.—This gentleman's trip

across the Atlantic has commenced most auspiciously.
Having given six of his popular entertainments in New
York, where his reception was most gratifying, he pro-
ceeded to Boston, where he was greeted in the same
lie was to open the New Assembly

enthusiastic manr

Rooms, in New York, on tl.

proceed to Philadelphia,
and so on to New Orleans

altimore, Washington, &c.,
returning to New York

early in May

Of the female immigrants w
bourne by the William Stewart eight were married within
twenty four loins ti.ter their lauding. An offer
made to the ninth (a cautious Scotch lassie) was deferred

recently arrive

by the fair one, who, with some slight adumbrations as to
higher aspirations, professed her intention to " wait a wee
while." The Portland Guardian, in noticing the nuptial
Iminen:erns, only regretted that the ladies had not,been
lauded in that delightful bay, where double the numbe
would have met eligible matches in half the number

weddings in

wenty-tour hours (quoth
our contemporary)—Pooh ! in Portland there would have
been sixteen in twelve r—Australian Journal, June,
1818.
THE DRAMA IN AMERICA.—A theatrical warfare has
been goirg on in Philadelphia, between the partisans of
Mr. Macready and those of the American tragedian, Mr.

Forrest. The Yankees are not over particular wnen Limy
desire to vent their spleen on English actors ; and remem-
bering the feud aroused some time back by Forrest having
publicly " goosed" the " eminent" in Scotland, they
greeted Macready in " Macbeth" with sundry missiles,
including eggs, halfpence, &c. Of course the artist did
not secure either of these substitutes for bouquets ; the
former not being very odorous, and the latter insignifi-
cantly beneath the value of the metals this actor has been
accustomed to pick up. It appears, however, that he got
the majority of the cheers at the end of the performance.
Forrest " Macbeth" the same night at another
theatre in Philadelphia, to a crowdsd and quiet audience.
A piece of lawless punishment is related in a letter pub-
lished in the Morning Chronicle, dated Monte Video, Sep.
13 : " A Roman Catholic priest was in the habit of visiting a
family named O'Gorman, father and two daughters.
With one of the latter, it appears, he was 'much
smitten, and at last persuaded her to elope with him.
He succeeded in getting out of Buenos Ayres to Entre
Rios, where they lived together, with the intention of
crossing the country to Rio de Janeiro as soon as possible.
The priest of the place they were in (an Irishman), sus-
pecting them from the retired way in which they lived,
betrayed them to one of the innumerable parties who
were in search of them ; they were brought to Buenos
Ayres and then shot in the Campamento, without trial,
and in cold blood. The lady was tight and a-half months
in the family-way ; the child was alive after the mother
was shot, and, at her request before death, was christened.
Of the firing party (twelve or sixteen men) drawn up to
shoot them (some of Rosas' bloody gang) five or six could
not pull the trigger, and are to be shot for not doing their
duty."
bCIENTIFIC PROPHECY.—Abont nineteen years ago, a
.Mr. Hait, of Wilton, Connecticut, then a remarkably
good student in his collegiate course, was suddenly de-
prived of his reason and memory. Under those circum-
stances his father, the Rev. Mr. Hait, sent him to Hert-
ford ; but finding no relief he sent him to Dr. Chaplain,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The doctor said there was
no present relief for him, but that at the age of 36 or 37
there would be a change ; that the brain was too much
expanded for the cranium, and there would, at that age,
be
.a contraction, which would enable it to act healthfully.
I.bs anxious father and family saw their hopes peremp-
torily deferred for nineteen years. That time has re-
cently expired, and, to their great joy, the prophecy is
fulfilled. Thernanbegan to inquire for his books as if
he had just laid them down, and resumed his mathems.
tieal studies where he left them. There was no trace on

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hismind of this long blank in his life, or of anything
which had occurred in it, and he did not know that he
was almost forty years of age. The circumstance of
greatest interest is, that whereas he went into this state
of derangement in _deep religious anxiety, he came out of
-Yew York Journal of