The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-18 00:00:00

TO JAMES ASPINALL, ESQ., DEPUTY MAYOR

SIR—I very respectfully beg leave to call your attention
to the very marked, peaceable, and Christian conduct of the
Protestant operatives yesterday, during the procession of
their Romish brethren, though every thin.- connected with it
was such as could not but wound their feelings as Christians
and patriots. For instance, the first flag carried represented
on one side St. Patrick ; on the other, no less a personage
than Daniel O'Connell, in his mayor's robes, holding an un-
folded scroll, whereon was inscribed in two places, " Repeal
of the union." He was also represented on another with
the same motto, which was carried by a body denominating
themselves the " Sons of freedom ;" then there was General
Sarsfield, and idolatrous banners of all sorts and sizes, and
yet the inherent loyalty and respect for constituted authorities,
which is the offspring of genuine Christianity, prevented any
outward manifestation of indignant Protestant feeling. Let
not, I beseech you, Sir, such generous behaviour be passed
unnoticed and unrewarded, but let it be borne in mind when-
ever an opportunity offers in the distribution of municipal
patronage.
Hoping that our Romish brethren will be induced here-
after to follow the Christian example yesterday set them,
and that you will excuse the liberty I have taken in address-
ing you, I have the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, PHILO JUSTITIA.

The Nolizie del Giorno of Rome, of the 4th instant, con-
tains accounts of several fatal accidents from snow-storms
during the winter. Five young men who were seeking pas-
ture for their cattle, near `Villa-Montalto, were destroyed by
an avalanche; at Vicariati 57 persons perished ; and in the
environs of Civitella, 27 persons on horseback were over-
whelmed in the snow, and perished with their horses.
SWINDLING.—From a case heard at the Mansion-house,
London, on Tuesday, it appears that a very extraordinary
species of swindling is becoming very general. Sir Peter
Laurie stated that it bad been represented to him by two of
the parties who happened to be executors to the will of an old
lady deceased, that a person had gone to Doctors' Commons,
examined the will, took down the names and addresses of the
executors, drew a bill, and forged the name of the deceased
to it, and sued the executors for the amount. The executors,
knowing that the old lady at the very time the bill was alleged
to be drawn was bedridden and paralytic, and wholly unable
to sign any document, of course resisted the payment, and a
case which appeared in the newspapers, in which a similar
attempt to impose was made, completely opened their eyes,
and confirmed them in their determination not to be victims
to the miscreants who planned such a nefarious scheme of
robbery. These gentlemen mentioned several other cases of
a similar description. The case was postponed, in order that
the bill might be produced.
" I'll not be forced into the measure," as the kitten said
when they were crowding her into a pint pot.
If the tottering, roofless walls in the Tower could speak,
what historical names would they utter. Do you give it up?
—TVat Tyler Will Rufus.
Why does the present year resemble the year before last?
C'est la meme chose.—Because the year before last was 1840,
and this is eighteen hundred and forty too.
POPISH OUTRAGE.—Among the " b.ac-I,beep" of Mr.h
e women,
O'Connell was a Mr. Nolan. On the 27t
employed by him in spreading turf, were visited*nof death, not to
tatretheir work
by a stranger, who warned them, on p
work for a black sheep. Two of them_praoaimiinsegd obedience ;
that Nolan's
but the third (the widow Doyle) refused,
yln the middle of
money was as good as any other man's!
that night she was awakened by flakes of burning thatch
falling on her bed. The o'Connellites had set fire to the
house, and she had scarcely. time to
.hurry out of it with her
children before the roof fell in !--Reign (11 Terror in Ireland,