The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

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A few days since, a bridegroom at Littleworth, Leices-
tershire, astonished the clergyman, by replying to the
question whether he would take the bride for his wedded
wife, that "he would if she would give him £20." The
bride was unable to comply with the condition, and would
have been compelled to return unmarried to her home, if
her brother had not paid the necessary sum to her affec-
tionate bridegroom, who then allowed the ceremony to
proceed.

FALL OF A SUPPOSED AEROLITE.—(By Dr. Fowler,
M.D., F.R.S.)—During a storm of rain, hail, thunder,
and lightning, which occurred about eight o'clock on Fri-
day, the Ist December, a .servant girl in the wash house
of Mr. Atkins, painter, plumber, and glazier, Fisherton,
was scared by a loud crash as of a heavy body having
fallen, and been broken on the pavement of the yard ad-
joining. Owing to the darkness of the night, she could
not ascertain by what the crash had been produced, but
early on the following morning she found scattered about
the yard fragments as if of an iron-stone, the external
surfaces rounded and polished, the internal radiating to
many centres. Some of the rounded prominences of the
stone have a blistered appearance, not unlike some speci-
mens of chalcedony. None of these fragments (of which
Mr. Atkins picked up one pound twelve ounces) had the
slightest influence on a magnetic needle. Numerous
other fragments reduced to powder were not collected,
but unfortunately swept away.—Salisbury Journal.
HOW TO EARN AN HONEST SHILLING.-0110 morning
during the late racing meeting at Worcester a gentleman
was riding up the course, when he was accosted by a
groom looking man, " Please, sir, your horse has got a
stone in his fut, I'll pick it out if you'll 'low me." Suit-
ing the action to the word, he caught up the animal's off
hind leg, and after a minute or two spent in working about
it, produced a tolerably sized pebble, observing as he
touched his apology for a hat, and kicked out his leg by
way of adding grace to his remark, " There it is yer
honour, 'nuff to have lamed for life an 'under giuny
'unter." His Honour, completely imposed upon, pulling
out a shilling, bestowed it on the fellow with thanks for
his timely attention, and rode off. The whole transac-
tion had taken place in the immediate presence of half-
a-dozen of the groom and ostler fraternity then looking
at the race-horses taking their exercise, and it was quite
clear that the ingenious extractor of the stone had com-
menced the operation by picking it up from the course,
and-only pretended to extract it from the horse's hoof
as free from atones as last year's snow
at the successful effrontery of their brother, one of the
fraternity ejaculated, " Well, I,m blest, if this here aint
the rummest game as ever I seed !" "Is it, spooney ?"
quoth York. " I s'pose nou you's 'stonished, and so you
may : it ud be some time afore you idle rascals there ud

which was

amazed

rich a thing as arnin an honest shilling in that
Worcester Fierald.

COLONIZATION.—On Thursday, at Birmingham, a
numerous meeting was held to hear 9,n explanation from
the Colonization Society of the objects contemplated in a

colonial empire. Lord Ly-ttelton took the chair, and the
deputation consisted of Lord Mandeville, the Hon. F.
Scott, the Hon. W. Wrottesley, &c., who addressed the
meeting, as did likewise Mr. Adderley, M.P., Mr. Muntz,
M.P., and Mr. Scholfield, M.P.—The Hon. W. Wrot-
tesley said that he had travelled over New South Wales,
and had seen the whole produce of farms boiled down for
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ne tallow it produced; and he had seen exposed legs of
mutton, that were not worth the boiling down, at less
than 6d. each.—The Hon. F. Scott said that at the pre-
sent time emigrants were being sent out to Australia at
£6, £7, and £9, instead of the £2O that was charged for-
merly. It was of the greatest importance that some ef-
fort should be made to relieve the vast mass of poverty
now existing in the United Kingdom, and no better
means could be devised than promoting emigration to a
colony the whole population of which did not exceed
200,000 souls, while they had 2,000,000 of cattle and
10,000,000 of sheep. This was the more essential, as the
pauper population was increasing at the rate of 1,000
souls weekly ; and population

,- while —ie whole population was in-
creasing at the rate of 300,000 per annum, the pauper
population of England was increasing at the rate of
65,000 per annum. The number which had been sent
out from Ireland by a charge upon the poor-rates was
very insignificant, and yet there were not less than
3,000,000 of souls in that unfortunate country depending
upon public charity. Even in England, where the re-
sources were much larger, the number sent out by the
parishes in the course of 11 years did not exceed 11,000,
at an average rate of £6 14s. sd. per head • and yet if
that number had been considerably increased, it would
greatly have diminished the expenses for the relief of the
poor in this country.

A NEW METHOD OF POPPING THE QUESTION
days ago, a young lady, residing near Dudley, called upon
a publican to spend the day with his daughters, oho were
intimate acquaintances of the belle in question. The lat-
ter had not arrived many minutes before she became the
cynosure of two pair of eyes, the property of two dashing
young fellows who happened to be staying at the inn on
that day, and who very speedily entered the bar, and
commenced an animated conversation. In the course of
the day the parties seemed to be on such an intimate foot-
ing, that a stranger might have imagined they were old
friends, or at least acquaintances. At length one of the
young men grew tender, and declared that the fair lady
had made an indelible impression on his heart at first
sight, and proceeded to vow the fondest things, much to
the apparent annoyance of the blushing belle. This only
seemed to increase the tenderness and passion of our hero,
who " popped the question," and swore that, unless the
lady gave him a favourable answer, he would immediately
poison himself. But the " ladye faire" still remaining ob-

durate, he rushed from the house, entered a druggist's
shop, obtained a powder having the appearance of ar-
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he agitated maic

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to the dregs. He was immediately seized with dreadful
spasms, rolled his eyes wildly and expiringly, and fell on
the floor in a perfect state of immobility, and apparently
a corpse. Our heroine shrieked and wrung her hands,
and, with a perfect storm of tears, declared that she had
killed the young gentleman by her unkindness, and that
she would give the world to see him recover. The com•
panion of the passion-stricken youth readily promised to
obtain a liquid of such wonderful efficacy that it would
restore his friend to life and health, if the lady would
pledge herself to treat the poor fellow affectionately when
resuscitated, as a still unfavourable consideration of his
suit would inevitably produce such a shock to his nervous
system that the next paroxysm would assuredly
f - • d op

ate-. _ne promise was given, the lignin stained and
placed to the patient's lips, and he was immediately " so
far recovered as to encircle the blushing and agitated

did not seem to be unkindly receirec
now fully recovered, and with his fair inamorata passes
the winter evenings in " whispering soft nothings," and

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the usual declarations of eternal love, and all that sort of
thing. The secret of his sudden recovery, though sa-
credly kept from our heroine, shall be disclosed to our
readers. The packet of powder was simply one of pul-
verized loaf-sugar, and the liquid by which this sudden
resuscitation was effected, a draught from the crystal
stream. It is unnecessary to add that the spasms, &c.,
were only pretended, and that our hero's companion was
in the secret, and played his part to admiration.—Staf-
fordshire Courier.

AN EASY WAY TO SATISFY ELECTORS.—When Mr
Sheridan first stood for Stafford, he made abundant pre
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mises to procure places for such electors as would vote for
him ; and, wonderful to relate ! he kept his word, for
numbers of them were appointed to offices in Drury-lane
theatre and the Opera-house. By this munificence be
gained his election ; but in a_very short time he found

Opportunities to oblige new frietids, most of the others
being obliged to relinquish their situations from receiving

no pay

LAW INTELLIGENCE:

The case relative to the " Royal etchings" occupied
Vice Chancellor Bruce the whole of Wednesday and
Thursday, and at the close, his honour stated, that he

would consider the case upon the materials before him
when he granted the injunction.