The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

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followed, and the share
In England the telegraph extends over - 2,200 miles, t
only one third of the number of miles of railwa'

is rapidly i

In Ireland nothing whatever has yet been done
nd the charge for 100 words for 50 miles is 21s. II

I for 4s. 3d. In England n
1 less than 2s. 6d. In Americ

message.bowever short, is chat
ten words are sent ten miles I
the low rates charged, ti
and night. In En la

telegraph offices are crowded, day
from the high rates charged, and the
want of facility, messages are, as compared with America, one
in one hundred, and are often detained two or three hours.
In the month of October last, the average daily tele-
graph words in the Timer, in -
average distance of 71 miles.
the same period, 5
miles, say per mile per

the New York Herald
age distance o

.296 words, over an

barge of

mile, costing them about •

00,0110, exclusive of the ch

! COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT.

Monday Night.
Political matters on the Continent are far from settled,
and this, coupled with the weak state of our own govern-
ment on the subject of the Papal aggression, and the un-
certainty " angs over the Chancellor f the Excite-
.,as mused the prudent to exercise extreme
eir purchases. The Continental Exchanges
so well, and they come lower from Ame-
L.- future course of the Bank Directors

1 quer's budgetl caution in til

are not lookir
rica, which m

been very d

1000 bags of low to middling white
.e reported at 41s. to 425. 9d. The Tea

are held for

1000 bale

reme rates-411 7s. 6d. for very ordinary

:counts from America by the Asia are aga
rry to the holders of 'Cotton, the receipts

in un-
at the

satisfac

s of last year, and prices

Le estimates of the crop are much thc-sa

Lint prices having indticed

E tte r ature.

POETRY

LORD JOHN AND THE GREAT LORD CARDINAL

A. SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

I should think
and for the Nyelfa!

at if he

TstCOUrse he caii tak
s assumed in this

.dinal Wiseman) has an}
s any regard MI

is country—if
the Roman Catholic communit
to renounce the title which
and rather do that which I
1 to do, and which he assured
'aide at Rome.
—Lord John

in! inter
tion to d
nder the

sernan was presen
'ech on Friday night

sill's S,

The Great Lord Cardina
In his cloak, red stock
To hear the threatened
•

From Lord John Russ,

and the Grea
Whilst an a

or two, he pattered;

And as John
Went on

With his terrible tale of Ron
And threatened to put the PC
And buttoned his coat, and

The Cardinal's teethl

At leng
Lord

And, tugging aw
Pulled out—
The Great Lor
And, puttinf
" Don't thi

says he,

John turned at this, NI

place where the Cardin

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of results

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upon which

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Miss M

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ntury are—l

offence—manly and tiro

.nticipate that

eked amongst the most

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Igoqu

By the R,

I, Deig

sages of S

Of Peter, and of t

;et connexion

Empire

a History oj
-0_ BV

{night

al period from the

iry to the close of the
e public will be most
fisher, Mr. Charles
world has witnessed

tonal and social, in

and int
s ; and

al ; vaster pro-

urprising

are, than in any

atever quarter of the

)f the untiring energy of

I to the task of

t is in our owt

good or evil,

by any country in a single

a opinions, deservi

TIME FOR SLEEP.—When the Jesuits settled the plan
of education in the College of Clermont, the pbysicians
were consulted on the portion of time which the students
should be allowed for sleep. They declared that five hours
were sufficient, six an abundant allowance, and seven as
much as a youthful constitution could bear without injury.
—Butler's Reminiscences.

THE WAR OF THE CHAIRS.—A correspondent of the
Chronicle has the following note on Lady Morgan's learned
disquisition on St. Peter's chair :—Having mentioned to a
learned orientalist the supposed. Mahometan inscription
on St. Peter's chair, he observed that, if true, the story of
Lady Morgan's French informants would be extremely
curious7as the Mahometans never usedany chairs at all !"

Lady Morgan replies in a long letter, full'of learning and
wit, to prove that the Turks did use chairs.
AN Ireisu WAKE.—A few days since we were shown
a curious document : it was a record of the " funeral
exr

enses of Ned Walsh, of Kilmontane, near Cork," and
was as follows :—Coffin, £1 103. ; eleven gallons of
whisky, £3 6s. ; three yards of linen, 4s. 6d. ; cravat,
Is. 3d. ; pair of gloves, Is. ; four lbs. of mould candles,
2s. ; four lbs. of small candles, 2s. ; two pounds of
tobacco, 6s. Bd. ; two hundred and eighty-eight tobacco
pipes, 2s. 6d. ; one half lb. of snuff, Is. 100. ; bread,
SLS, 9s. 6d. ; tea, 2s. 6d.; sugar, 10s. Bd. ; cash to the priest,
83. Total, £7 83. 50.

A MOUNTAIN MOVED INTO THE SEE.—Doctor Moun-
tain, whose wit pleased on all occaaions, being at Court
with George 11. who liked his company on that account.
news was brought the King of a vacant bishopric. " I
know not," said his majesty, " at present, to whom I shall
give it" Dr. Mountain instantly rose, and putting his

hand on his breast, said—" If thou had'st faith as a grain
of mustard seed, thou would'st say to this mountain—` be
thou removed, and be thou cast into the see, and it would
obey you !' " His Majesty gave the ready doctor the
bishopric.

Tiin SILENT LOVERS.—An eminent clergyman one

evening became the subject of conversation, and a wonder
was expressed that he had never married. " That won-
der," said Miss Porter, " was once expressed to the reve-

gentleman in my

searing, and

e told me a s

answer, which I will tell you ; and, perhaps. slight as it
may seem, it is the history of other hearts as sensitive and
delicate as his own. Soon after his ordination, he
preached once every Sabbath for a clergyman in a small
village not 20 miles from London. Among his auditors,
from Sunday to Sunday, he observed a young lady, who
always occupied a certain seat, and whose clos

began insensibly to grow to h

an object of th

Pleasure. She left the church as soon as ser'

attention
ught and

ce was over,
year without

r name

Tmon was n

without many a thought how she would approve it, nor
preached with satisfaction unless he read approbation in
her face. Gradually he came to think of her at other
times than when writing sermons, and to wish to see her

pped on,
i thinner, he
.esolution either to ask her

on other days than Sufic-lays; but the wee!
and though he fancied that she grew paler
never brought himself to t 1

name, or to speak with her. By these silent steps, how-
ever, love had worked into his heart, and he had made up
his mind to seek her acquaintance and marry her, if pos-
sible, when one day he was sent for to minister at a fune-
ral. The face of the corpse was the same that looked up
to him Sunday after Sunday, till he had learned to make
it a part of his religion and his life. He was unable to
perform the service, and another clergyman present offi-
ciated ; and, after she was buried, her father took him
aside, and begged his pardon for giving him pain, but he
enuld not rPgiSt the imnnbip to tell him that his daughter

had mentioned his name with her last breath, and he was
afraid that a concealed affection for him had hurried her
to the grave. Since that, said the clergyman in question,
my heart. has been dead within me, and I look forward
only. I shall speak to her in Heaven."
THE DEAD SEA.—The appearance of Bahr Lut (the
Sea of Lot) lying between the lofty and precipitous
mountains of Ammon and Moab on the east, and the
broken range of Judah on the west, was not unpleasing
to the eye, as it lay unruffled by the slightest breath of
wind, spread over a broad expanse, and reaching as far as
the eye could see down the deep and desolate valley
towards the promontory of GhOr el Mezraah. There is
nothing sad or deathlike, beyond the associations, in the
Dead Sea ; the waters are bright, and sparkle in the sun's
rays, and reflect all manner -t •matic coy

'ours when a

covered with an incrust

of iris
surface

. I felt none of the
aoken of by Eastern