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

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ently treated upon. We can recommend this num-

s there are several other subjects admirably

contain some amusing

tract is a

AN EXECt

terday (Januar

slip of paper.

the following
Circus Maxir

well repay perusal. The following ex-

DN UNDER GREGORY XVI.—" Yes-
at the corners of the streets, small

+ere seen standing to read a slip of written
ze of a common bill of exchange—such a

ht extemporise a reward of a few Paoli
lost reticule. We looked over a tall tel-

—, aged 40, for parricide
Tagliacozze, for the as-

fifteen o'clock, in the street of the
yen the following morning, we ac-

uillotine among the ruins of ancient
'es out of breath in ascending the

Piazza Barberiei, where we live ; we
It at the quattre fontane, and soon passed
our Hyde Park, Achilles mounting guard at the
We ran down the said Quirinal on the oppo-
, ised the Salmrra, and after being obstructed by
the masons and the muddy road round the spot where they
all that remains of the Forum of Nerve, we
ifflit43 Sevens., and the Mammertine
tions of Cataline and St. Paul,
d along the Palatine and
arrived, in twenty-five

1 all its r

areas► ruins on its brow, we

lking, (no man lounges to an execution,) at
lug. close to which, by the church of St.
came suddenly upon the frightful
Very few people were collected at
:!cret, and we were not.

re in the

!ntinel at each angle

Rome between the foot of

some dirty men and boys, not above one
ere staring up at the apparatus). It
would elapse; nor, indeed, did
the penitent and the confessed
while the impenitent and ob-
r kept the crowd waiting for seven or eight
and died unshriven, after nearly biting off
the priest's ear, who had placed it near his mouth to catch
the hoped for sounds of his late repentance. Our first
feeling was disappointment ! A ruder apparatus could
not have been seen at an impromptu execution in New
Zealand. Our imagination had suggested a squarid, dove-
tailed, morticed piece of solid carpentry—a framed ma-
I had attached to it some perfection of mecha-
pring, as if to discharge an arrow
We

two bead

from the bow when t

saw a rude

piece of dirt
d to it, prevet

irnber with the rhomboidal knife
ed from falling by two rude bolts of
supports of which could be withdrawn, and its
between two poles

extremities 1
daub

into a coars,

ith soap ; a stout cord, and an iron peg to which
t was attached till wanted. The whole thing seemed inge-
nue on its legs ; the uprights shook, and the stage was not
so steady as that on which a show is stilted in a country fair.
Much rain had fallen ; the earth was muddy below the scaf-
and they had thrown down some cart-loads of rubbish
• lit have picked up, as you always may
Fry, verde antiques, and fine marbles.)
/ the height of nine steps from the
seen a box—a mysterious, common-look-
box, without a lock—a large pot of wa-
Thickly strewed with sawdust was the
Attached to the place destined to receive the
like our stocks for the ancles, and to get to
Nas Diehl that the sufferer had to kneel and lean for-

bits of porpli
scaffold. I

a SPO

ward, at a sort of prie Dieu,) there hung a bag of a leather
like a workman's apron. On the right of the fatal instru-
ment, and quite close to it, was the Tiber and the Temple of
Vesta; on the left there was the Arch of Janus ; before it
the Aventine and the Circus Maximus; and behind, the
zza Montanra, the Theatre of Marcellus, and all the St.

ate of Rime. If the incident were
striking to have met the crucifix in the great Christian tem-
ple of modern Rome, it was not less so to see the modern
instrument of capital punishment (so associated with revolu-
tionary horrors in our times) alight, as it were, from the
clouds, like an obscene vulture, amidst the ruins of Rome,
anti over the Cloaca Maxima of the Tarquins. We stayed
about the wild and desolate spot for more than two hours,
to study the crowd, and then determined to meet the com-
ing procession at some short distance, and see what kind of
character nature had impressed on the features going to be
stuck on two spikes waiting for them on the front rail of the
scaffold ; for the paper had said, " Cott esposizione della
testa," and we knew it would be as good as its word. The
morning was cold and damp for Rome, so we kept in motion,
and talked with tradespeople (such trade as is exercised in
this filthy quarter—whip thongs, drovers' poles, sausages,
candles, Indian corn, flour, salt fish, macaroni, fennel roots,
aquavitx, coarse brown or white earthern ware) standing at

an take place

That depends on the impenitenza. Last
.he guillotine and its attendants waiting till
. .

i it last become penitent

ield out.'

a that case. must the sent

Wheat
Barley
Malt .
Oats .
Rye..

Qrs.
Qrs,
Qrs,
Qrs,
Qrs
Qrs.

Pease . Qrs.
Shelled Bar y . Qrs.
Indian Corn . Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .... Loads
Flour . Sacks
Ditto . Brls.

9 68
81 • 627

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Cos
• qrs.: Oatmeal, -- Ids; Flour,

twise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Oats,

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, qr.; Malt,
qrs.; Oats, 15 qrs ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, -- qrs. ; Oat-
meal, —loads; Flour, barrels, 22 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 32
qrs. ; Beans, 6 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 13 qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ;
Flour, 20 brls.--Coastwise. Wheat, 3§2 qrs. ; Barley, 62
qrs.; Malt, 3 qrs. ; Oats, 25 qrs. ; Beans, 34 qrs. ; Rye,
qrs. ; Pease, 10 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatlteal, 30 Ids. ;
Flour, 285 sacks 93 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Mardi 11, 1842.
Wheat sgs. lici. ; 'Barley 275. gd. I Oats.. igs. Od. Rye.. 333.11 d

31s. 10d. 1 Pease,

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 60s. 4d. Barley 28s. 34. I Oats.. lgs. 84. Rye.. 345. 10d
Beans.. 325. 4d. Pease.. 335. 6d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheat 258.8 d. I Barley 1 gs. lod. Oats .. . 18s. 3d. Rye.. 18s. 3d
Beans 218.3 d. I Pease— I I Igs. gd. Ind. Corn Os. od. FlourlOs. id

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... ss. od. I Barley.. 2s. dd. I Oats ..2s. Od. 1 Rye..
Beans.. 3s. 1 Pease.. 3s. 1 Indian Corn.. Us. ud. 1 Flour..
Liverpool Averages, week ending March 15, 1842

.. 38. Od.
3s. Od.

Wheat. Barley. I Oats
196 ; 484
465. Od. Os. Od. 1 19s

Beans. Pease.
2d. I Os. od. I Os. od

Why, said a cockney to his friend, has Dickens written
better than Shakspeare or Milton, eh ? Give it up ? Because,
although they both wrote well, Boz has written Weller.

THE COLLIER AND THE CIRCUM:sTAVIGATOR.—When
Commodore Anson, after circumnavigating the globe, arrived
at Hull, he was cheated by a collier; and, being twitted upon
his simplicity, he good-humouredly replied, " Although I
have been twice round the world, the collier has been into
the world, and so had the advantage of me."

IMPROMPTU ON A SAILOR CONFINED IN THE FLEET PRISON

FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.
" Britannia rules the waves," they said,
When in the fleet my course was free ;
Bat now that in the `• Fleet" I'm stayed,
Britannia waives the " Rules" for me.

PROTECTION.—To protect men is to forward, and not to
restrain, their improvement. Else, what is more than to
avow to them, and to the world, that you guard them from
others only to make them a prey to yourself ? This funda-
mental nature of protection does not belong to free but to all
governments ; and is as valid in Turkey as in Great Britain.
No government ought to own that it exists for the purpose of
checking the prosperity of its people, or that there is such a
principle included in its policy.—Burke.

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE DUKE OF CLEVELAND.—The
1 nn tho di,h9nrlincr of tha militia in

1816, had three gentlemen dining with him. In the course
of conversation his grace mentioned that he had bought an
entire lottery-ticket,, and declared his intention, should it
prove a prize, of dividing it amongst the party assembled.
The day of drawing at length arrived, and to his grace's
utter astonishment, the identical ticket proved to be a prize
of 020,000. We need scarcely add that the Duke faithfully
performed his promise to his fortunate guests, who were
s-in-law,—Francis Forester. Esq., and Mark
Esq.; and Major Heely, of the West York
,Northern Times,

his- two son
Milkbank
Militia

MAID-SERVANTS AND THEIR " FRIENDS." Every
master and mistress in the United Kingdom knows what a
maid-servant's friend is. Sometimes he is a brother, some-
times he is a cousin (often a cousin), and sometimes a father,
who really wears well, and carries his age amazingly ! He
comes down the area—in at the window—or through a door
left ajar. Sometimes a maid-servant, like a hare, " has
many friends." The master of the house, after washing his
hands in the back kitchen, feels behind the door for a jack-
towel, and lays hold of a " friend's " nose. " Friends ' are
shy ; sometimes a footman breaks a " friend's " shins by
plunging into the coal-cellar for a shovel of nobbies. We
speak feelingly, our own abode having been once turned into
a friend's meeting-house—a fact we became aware of through
a smoky chimney ; but a chimney will smoke when there is
a journeyman baker up it.—London paper.
SIIPPRESSION OF MONASTERIES IN CUBA.—The follow-
ing is an extract of a letter received in Boston, (U.S.) dated
Havana, Dec. 21. "You have probably heard that the
Intendent of the island has published an order for the sup-
pression of eleven of the nineteen monasteries existing in the
island, and sequestration for the benefit of the state of the
entire church property, (excepting that of the nunneries')
amounting to several millions. For the support of the monks
phaeidhaasrmaussailglent
os i otr4,e and
ddifferent
t a
churches
hseusmf trot bh
the
maintainance of religious worship. The begging orders are
prohibited asking alms in the streets, as they would thereby
annually by
a thesm asltlatpe
have an asengandevsatenrteadg.e oTvenrotsheemootib,kers owrid:oers whosel property has
as eshcotzir
eaea
str secularise
scat
s.
teoehifrti
sophorahi
rebadsvi
ettesr.
be
a pension one-fourth greater than those
All the sacred vessels are to be distributedw among the poor
churches. By the people of Havana, Matanzas,
is looked upon as just and necessary;
who are thus ostracised are looked upon as fomentersooonfo.vtire
in all its shapes. But in the smaller towns, and m
plantations, the influence of these priests is not directlyb felt;
and as the measure is held up by them as a direct war upon
the church, the old Romanists are very much excited about it
These priests have had their own way so long that they
will not yield their power without a struggle to maintain it.
Ido not think they will be successful. Of the nineteen con-
ventsseven are in the city, containing one hundred
and
and novices—but three convents are
thirty-four spoken of,
monks
left, and as their rents are taken away, most of the monks
and all the novices will secularise. It is rather a bold stroke
thus to revolutionise, the institutions which are coeval with
the settlement of this island by the Spaniards; but we live
in an age of bold measures, and there is no knowing what a
day may bring forth. "—Boston