The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

The Independent of Brussels contains the following amus-
ing anecdote :—One of the clerks in the Belgian War-office
having been desired to make a fair copy of a petition for a
pension from the widow of a general, on the ground of her
husband's long services, when he came to the words "devore
par u❑ cancer," the disease of which the general died, wrote
" devore par un canar," the letters ce appearing to him like
an a. On the report being laid before the ::sinister, he sent
for the clerk, and pointing out the word canar, inquired
what it meant. The clerk made many apologies for his
error for having forgotten a letter, and taking his pen added
the letter d, thus making it " devore par un canard" (de-
voured by a duck), and withdrew, convinced that he had
repaired his error, leaving the minister convulsed with
laughter.

The London Record, in giving some Parisian religious in-
telligence, records the following :—One of the recent works
that has distinguished the operations of the French and Fo-
reign Bible Society has been the publication of the Gospel of
St. Mark in raised characters for the use of the blind.
Amongst the instances in which this work has been blessed
to the comfort and edification of the blind, is mentioned the

case of a poor blind girl, who, dissatisfied with the little pro-
gress she made in reading, owing to the callous state of the
fingers arising from the laborious occupations, attempted to

peel the skin from the ends of them with the view of render-

ing them more sensible, but being disappointed in the result
of this painful experiment, her despair at being obliged to
relinquish the reading of the precious volume was at its
utmost, when she suddenly discovered that by applying her
lips to the raised character the sensibility she sought for was
obtained. She has since in this manner attained to reading
it with ease, and has committed almost the whole of the

Gospel of St. Mark to memory.
DISSENTING STATISTICS IN CHESHIRE.—This county
has a population of 395,300 ; has 487 parishes, townships,
&c.; covers 1,052 squares ; has 73,390 inhabited houses ;
and has 37 congregational meeting-houses. Of these 37,
there are two at Macclesfield, and three at Stockport. Some
of the meeting-houses in this county are very small, but we
will still adhere to the average of 400 per meeting-house,
and we find that only 14,800 can be accommodated out of a

population of 395,300. Deficiency, upwards of 380,000.
In fact, the real deficiency is much greater, for, instead of
14,800 persons attending these 37 meeting-houses, not more
than 10,000 at the utmost are ever present in them. " The
Cheshire Union," in support of itinerant preaching, raises
about £2OOO per annum, or £6 per meeting-house. It em-
ploys four agents, to teach and preach over 1,052 square
miles, and to 395,300 souls ! Dissenterism dates as far back
as 1670, in Cheshire, at a place called Tintwistle, but though
170 years have since passed away, there are only 10,000 con-
gregationalists out of 395,300 souls. There are some vacan-
cies of pastors in the congregational places of worship, and
three or four places, being unable to support their minister§
are connected with other " causes." Dissent is far from
prosperous in Cheshire.
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TAKING THE VEIL.—On Monday morning a spectacle 0,
unfrequent occurrence in this country took place at the
couvent of " The Sisters of Mercy," which is situated near
Hickman's Folly, Bermondsey. 'the ceremony was for the
initiation of two young ladies, one of whom was to receive
the white veil and the other the religious or black habit of
the community. Before eleven o'clock, the hour appointed
for the ceremony, the chapel attached to the convent was
filled by a numerous congregation, the major part of whom
consisted of ladies elegantly attired. As soon as the clock
struck eleven the convent bell began to toll, which was the
announcement of the entry of the procession into the chapel.
The Very Rev. Dr. Griffiths, V. A. L. D., the Bishop who
officiated, advanced to the altar, dressed in his pontifical,
robes ; in his train were the Rev. Messrs. Fisk, Browman,
P. Butler, Harrabin, J. Coyle, Foley, Hearness, H. Lea, and
an Armenian monk, named Lazarian' together with a number
of other of the clergy, arrayed iittrobes of white muslin, with
gold bands. &c., the choristers, bearers of incense, and others,
forming the procession. At a given signal, the choir struck
up the hymn to the 'Virgin, " 0 Gloriosa." The sisters of
the convent then entered in procession, in the usual costume
of nuns, each holding a lighted taper in her hand. The two
noviciates, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, who are both
young ladies of considerable fortunes, followed in order, led
by the superioress, assisted by two of the sisters (one of
whom was Miss Agnew, neice of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart.,
and the other Lady Babara Eyre, daughter of the Earl of
Newburgh. The religious names the latter ladies bear are
sisters Mary and Clara). The noviciates, Miss Baxter and
Miss Kellett, were both elegantly dressed in white embroi-
dered muslin, weving chaplets of white roses as the head
dress. Each held lighted wax tapers in their right hands.
After they approached the altar, an exhortation was deli-
vered by the bishop from the 19th chapter of St. Matthew,
29th verse : " And every one that bath forsaken houses, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold,
and shall inherit everlasting life." After the exhortation
the bishop severally questioned them as to their own free will
of taking the holy habit of religion, to which having assented,
the noviciates returned to put off their secular dress, and
shortly returned in the habits of the nuns. On returning,
the hymn " Veni CREATOR" was sung by the choir, during
which the two noviciates lay extended flat on their faces be-
fore the steps of the altar, where they remained until the
conclusion of the ceremony, when, after being assisted to
rise, they each kissed the other sisters, and the procession
left the chapel in the same order in which they entered, and
returned to the convent. During the delivery of a very af-
fecting discourse by the bishop on their retirement from the
world, the noviciates showed no signs of agitation, nor did
their countenances betray any symtoms of reluctance, but,
on the contrary, appeared to be lighted up by an expression
of enthusiastic feeling.
A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—Saturday after-
noon, Beaver-court, off Meclenburgh-street, was the scene
of a most lamentable and tragic occurrence, when a woman
named Mary Connell fell a victim to the ungovernable pas-
sion of her husband, Michael Connell. The parties occu-
pied part of a cabin, consisting of only a ground floor, being
No. 1 in the court. The man's occupation was that of clearer
out of night soil, and a collector of manure, by which he
made out a comfortable livelihood ; but it appeared they had
lived unhappily together, and had frequent and violent alter-
cations. Between four and five o'clock on the above-men-
tioned afternoon some relatives of the Connells, who lived
adjoining, and other persons in the neighbourhood, heard
the noise of quarrelling (how originating we have not heard)
going on in the house. An aunt of Mrs. Connell attempted
to enter the place, but found the door fastened from the in-
side. A brother of Connell's forced it open, and with some
others got in, when they found the parties having a hold of
each other and engaged fighting—the wife was a remarkably
robust, stout woman, the husband of extremely diminutive
stature. The persons who entered disentangled them, and
forced him out into the street, where they endeavoured to
pacify him, but without effect, his passion seemed to be ex-
cited so as to'be beyond all control. He swore that he would
kick her livers out while he had a sole on his shoes, and
rushing trom those about him, he got into the house by a
back door. He was followed by some persons, and it is said
that, immediately on entering the apartment, he raised a
smoothing iron which happened to be near him, and flung it
at the head of his unfortunate wife, but whether it struck her
or not could not be positively ascertained. The woman sunk
on the side of a bed apparently as if in a state of exhaustion.
Interference with him was attempted by a woman named
Halpin, his wife's aunt, but, snatching up a poker, he swore
that if she did not instantly leave the place he would give
her the same usage. The woman, alarmed for her own
safety, hurried away ; but a son of hers, a boy of 13 or 14
years old, remained on the threshhold, and if his account of
what he then witnessed be correct, it would appear that Con-
nell drew out from the deceased, and swearing that he would
be hung for her, he struck her a severe blow with his clenched
fist about the head, by which she was knocked partly against
one of the bed-posts, after which, seizing htr by the neck,
he pulled her down towards him, and, as she bent forward,
he dealt her a tremendous kick in the throat or stomach.
She fell, and never spoke afterwards. Death seemed to have
taken place almost instantaneously. The wretched man
made no effort whatever to fly, and in a few minutes after the
perpetration of the horrid act he was taken into custody by
the police, and lodged in Sackville-place station-house.
Many minutes had not elapsed till Inspector Dundon, of C
division, was on the spot, and he immediately procured a
medical gentleman, who examined the deceased, but was
unable to discover any external mark or trace of violence
whatever on her person, excepting her dress being very much
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one of these has been published in a New Brunswick paper,
and has been read with great interest by the merchants here
who correspond with that colony. This letter exhibits a
most melancholy condition of the state even of internal cre-
dit for the want of a bankrupt law. The merchants and
their country customers are described as being afraid to trust
each
ear hr every " when dealing with his customers,
appears, treading on a charged mine;" and
indeed credit has sunk to such a state that the heavy dealers
will not sell an article except fur ready money, which is very
other;,
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scarce on account of a pressure by the banks. The effect of
the present state of the law in foreign countries is described
as still more serious. Both foreigners and the inhabitants of
the mother country have, it is said, lost confidence in the
colony to such a degree, that if a man comes to England with
a letter of credit to purchase goods, he is refused on the plea
that the credit of the place is gone. This want of confidence,
it is observed by the writer, is not at all to be blamed, but is
the natural consequence of the absence of all law by which a
creditor's interests can be protected. Again, it is said, that
the want of a bankrupt law operates as a preventive against
persons of capital settling in the colony; since, wherever
they place their money, they may find their claim to it barred
by a judgment obtained by some other creditor, without a
Possibility of redress.