The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tux MORMONITES.—The increase of Mormons during
the past year amounts to 600 to 800 from foreign coun-
tries, and 300 or 400 from the United States (principally
from Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.)
Fifty or sixty missionaries arrived at St, Louis on the
22th ult., on their way to preach Mormonism in different
parts of the country.—American paper.
SINGULAR NUPTIALS.—At the Cork spring assizes of
1842, it will be remembered that an action of crim. con.
was tried, the parties being H—s v. P—e, when the
injured husband got a verdict of £2,000 from a jury of
his countrymen for the grievous injury he sustained. A.
divorce was subsequently obtained in the House of Lords.
So far for this " course of true love" but " much re-
mains behind." The denouement of the affair is the
most curious part of the business. The bereaved hus-
band started for England some time since, and we are
credibly informed, has been re-married to 'his quondam
spouse, and received with her a fortune of £3,000 !
Cork Examiner.

STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.-011 Tuesday last the
workmen employed in erecting a new gallery in Hach°.
rough church, on making an opening in the massive
stone wall on the south side of the nave, to support the
beam of the gallery, discovered in the very centre of the
wall a p'gron's egg, quite entire. How it could have got
there is a matter not easily to be accounted for; and, as
that partion of the fabric does not appear to have been
disturbed since its erection many centuries ago, it pro-
bably was deposited there at that period, and bas, by
being thus carefully excluded from the atmosphere, been
preserved uninjured through so many generations.—
Northampton Herald.
MR. FERRAND AND SIR JOHN WALSHAM.—Sir John
Walaham, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, has
published a correspondence between him and Mr. Fer-
rand, on the subject of a charge brought against the for-
mer gentleman, that he had drawn up a report on the
Keighley union, in June, 1812, " which had been proved
to be false," and that he had been sent down to that
union " previously to the debate of the 27th of June,
1842, for the special purpose of getting up a statement to
be used against him (Mr. Ferrand) in the House of Com-
mons." Sir John Walsham requires an explanation of
this charge, and Mr. Ferrand declines giving any, as the
question is now one at issue between himself and Sir
James Graham—" with the chief, and not with the su-
bordinate." To this Sir John replies, " You are, of
course, perfectly at liberty to apprise me that in the exer-
cise of your discretion you must decline to answer these
questions. I shall then know how to proceed. But if in
attacking a Secretary of State you think proper to intro-
duce the name of so unimportant a person as myself, it is
not sufficient to tell me (in answer to my request for exact
information respecting the meaning which certain passages
relating to my conduct are intended by von to convey,)
that the question now at issue is between Sir James Gra-
ham and yourself. Permit me, moreover, to suggest to
von that antitheses, to be effective, should be appropriate.
1 have the greatest respect for Sir James Graham and
the high office he fills • but officially, he is not my chief,
nor is he responsible for any of my acts, as for those of a
subordinate. I owe my appointment to the Poor-law
Commissioners, and hold it at their pleasure."

THE ORANGEMEN OF IRELAND.—A meeting of the
officers of the Monaghan Orange Society was held on
Tuesday last, Mr. Henry G. Johnston in the chair, at
which the following sensible and manly resolutions were
unanimously agreed to :
" Resolved,—That, in accordance with the wishes of
our beloved Grand Master, conveyed in his address of
the 20th instant, as well as our own respect for the ex-
isting laws of the land, we, the Grand Orange Lodge,
and the Masters of Lodges in this county, have come to
the determination that there shall not be, on the part of
our Orange brethren, any procession, display of party
emblems, or exhibition, on the coming Ist or 12th of
July, tending to a breach of the laws of the country, or
toy he annoyance of our countrymen of any persuasion.
That while we still bold in our hearts those principles
for which our fathers bled and ourselves have suffered,
our earnest desire is to uphold the law, and we, therefore,
give up usages endeared to us by the memory of the past
and our hopes of the future.

" That while we regret that any number of our coun-
trymen should have so forgotten their allegiance and
loyalty as'to have joined an illegal conspiracy against the
State, the majestic vindication of justice, in the punish-
ment of those individuals, has increased our confidence
in our rulers, and in the powers of the common law for
the general purposes of government.
" That we hereby pledge ourselves to the most devoted
loyalty to our beloved Queen, and to the constitution of
the realm ; and to the most determined hostility to all
attempts to divide the empire by a repeal of the legisla-
tive Union, which we believe to be a sectarian effort to
exalt the church of Rome and its followers to power, by
the suppression of true religion, and the degradation of
the believers in God's Scriptures to a state of slavery."
THE CONVICTS BARBER AND FLETCHER.—The sub-
joined document, forming a declaration of the innocense
of Barber by his fellow convict Fletcher, has been sub-
mitted to us for publication by Mr. Bramail, of Verulam-
buildings, the solicitor on behalf of Barber in the late
trials. It appears to be a complete and apparently truth-
ful exculpation on behalf of Fletcher of his supposed par-
ticipation in the will forgeries and their attendant frauds;
and is made at a time when disguise or falsehood would
be vain and additionally iniquitious. Barber and Fletcher
are now both on board the convict ship Agincourt, lying
off Woolwich, and will sail on Tuesday next for their de-
stination. The witness whose name is appended to the
paper, is, we believe, an officer of the convict vessel :--

"June 28.
" I solemnly declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief
William Henry Barber had no guilty knowledge that the will of
Anne Slack was a forgery, or that it was otherwise than a legitimate
and proper matter of business. As such it was introduced by me to
him, as stated in my first examination at the Mansion-house. And
I further declare, that to my knowledge and belid helatbrthiguilty
knowledge of either of the cases which have recently formed the
subject of indictment. I make this declaration with no other mo-
tive than to do an act of justice to Mr. Barber as far as lies in my
power.

(Witness)

"JOSHUA FLETCHER.
" MATTHEW HALL CUTTRISS."

A FEMALE DUEL.—A rich and novel scene came off
in the neighbourhood of Bayo Bridge, New Orleans, 30th
ult., between Catharine licuch and Eliza Annis, who met
for mortal combat. As in the recent duels at Vicksburg,
where tbousanJs gathered to see fair play and bet on the
result, so at Bayo Bridge a large crowd met to see which
of the frail fair ones would first bite the dust. Bat the
" fancy " in such matters were doomed to disappoint-
ment ; after a few passes, when the " sport" was about
to begin in earnest, the police interfered and carried off
the combatants. We have reason to believe that this act
of the police officers was denounced by the bystanders as
" a cowardly outrage," which they would not dare to
perpetrate upon two of their own sot similarly engaged.—
New York Sun, June 15.

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'MULLED ALE.—My teakettle, half filled with the ale,
was soon heating over the fire, whilst eggs, and honey,
and butter, in another vessel, were being mixed together
' for the manufacture of a certain beverage that Wallet&
Gabriel protested was to be a cure for my fever; whilst
' Walderheros, to expel the " saroitsh," that I understood
' had already taken possession of his hips and shoulders,
drew from its hiding place his clumsy pipe. Inalae folds
of his mekanet, he soon found some tobacco ; and'break-
ing the hard cake in which it is dried into smaller pieces,
charged the slightly-excavated stone bowl, upon the tap of
which a glowing piece of charcoal was placed; and conso-
lation and comfort, in vast clouds, soon spread through.
the close apartment. The " moack," or egged ale, Wel-
late Gabriel now prepared for me, was a drink fit for the
entertainment of the gods, when, in the good old times,
they made Abyssinia an annual visit, and from whom the
knowledge of it must have been first derived. It consisted
of two or three drinking-hornsful of strong tallah, as many
eggs, and two large spoonsful of honey for each horn of
beer. A little butter was added when the mixture was
boding over the fire : that which, however, gave to it its
pleasantest flavour was a small portion of a warm spice
called korareema, a large kind of coriander, one inch and
a half long, which is brought from Gurague, and the spice
country to the south. They are brought into Shoa by
priests travelling to Gondab, the only individuals that can
traverse in safety the different Galla tribes to the south of
the llawash, between their country and Shoa. Forty of
these korareema, threaded upon a strong hempen string,
may he purchased in Aliu Atnba for an ahmulah ; and in
aromatic 'flavour are equal, I think, to the best nutmeg
or cloves. Drunk warm, this " moack" was an excellent
cordial ; and I very soon got into the habit of concluding
very• pleasantly, by its assistance, many very uncomforta-
ble days, either from circumstances or ill health. —John-
stone's Travels in Abyssinia.
Wrir IS A GARDENER THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY
AIAN IN THE WORLD ?—Because no man has more busi-
ness on earth—he always likes to have good ground for
what he does; he is master of his own thyme, is blessed
with content, and can give balm to the afflicted; he raises
his celery every year, without being obliged to the penny-
royal; he is master of the mint, and it is a bad year in-
deed that does not bring him a plum ; he is a great friend
to the Marriage Act, because his great delight is to see a
multitude of pears ; he meets with more boughs than the
minister of states ; he has even the Suit in in his power,
and is superior to the sages; he is every day cultivating
and enriching his parts, and he is a great encourager of
cockscombs, yet he himself has such a perfect contempt
fur dress, that his wig is often a perfect scarecrow; he
makes more beds than the King of France, and has in
them more genuine roses and lilies than are to be found
iu that distinguished court ; his nursery is fuller than the
foundling hospital, though it is liable to an odd accident,
for it may sometimes be reduced to ashes, without being
burned down, and water will not prevent it, but shrub
may, of this he has great quantities, which maby of the
nobility purchase of him, though it is well known they
could never make a drop of punch of any. shrub which he
sold teem ; he makes raking his business more than his
diversion, and it is conducive to his health and fortune ;
he walks the better for the gravel, and thrives must in a
consimption ; hP inoculates with certainty of success, and
,never lost a suckling by cutting of teeth, there never was
an instance of sore throat or fever infecting his nursery;
he makes no use of James's powders ; but has great quan-
tities of bark ; he keeps the devil in a bush, and has been
often in private with a Monkshood, without ever being
Suspected of inclining more to that than the. Tlirkts cap,
and though he delights in the crown ,imperial, yet he
brings more bon chretiens to perfection than any popish
confessor ; he is remarkable for his hcnesty, and deals
much in 'the admirable, and it is no wonder theethe man
who. reaches the Star of Bethlehem, should have the
Marvel of Peru; his favourites are beauties of the most
distinguished . kinds, with eye-brielas, cowslips, and the
felon de routs ; and though he enjoys all these, and many
others by •turns, in high bloom' his wife has heartsease
enough, and never wishes for weeds.; in' abort he can boast
of more bleeding hearts than your ladyship, and'of more
,laurels .than the Duke of Marlborough, but his greatest
pride, arid the world's greatest envy is, that he can have
• yew when be pleases.