The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

urely it is just an!

1 are providentially invested, in doing what
you know and feel to be right. If this interfere with the
conscientious scruples of others, you may and will regret it
as men of kindness ; but you cannot yield to it as men of

with which

The government, like the painte, ,
erybody, will end by pleasing nobody

who attempts to plea
nd ruining itse

Carry out then, in this inatter-of education, your own con-
victions as in ie presence of the searcher of all hearts, and
so do the best for your country upon the whole that you can
do. Other men ashen in power may honestly act otherwise,
but you cannot. The town confiding in this principle have
placed you in power, and if you act upon it they will keep
you there.

But should it be otherwise, surely it is better to lose you
places for acting conscientiously, than to retain them
season by consenting to propagate what you yourselves believe
to he falsehood.

The decline and fall of the late government stands as
beacon before you. Had they acted conscientiously as whig
they might, indeed, in due course have given way before
small tory majority; bnt when they violated their own co
victions in compliance with their Popish advisers, ar,''
plea of justice to Ireland,
under the rising indignation of

they sunk to a

anted community

I have the honour to

Your faithful servant,
FIDUS ACHATE

It is reported that Sir Charles Wetherell. the learne
respected recorder of Bristol, is about to resign that of

THE EXPLOSION BY GUNPOWDER.—TWO other st,..
from this calamity have expired one of them, Henry Nl'
the blacksmith, has, after two days of excruciating torture,
sunk under his wounds. On Wednesday, at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, is case appeared to be not one of absolute danger,
and hopes were even entertained of his recovery ;but soon
after that time he got rapidly worse, and died about six o'clock
on that evening. Another sufferer, George Collins, died et
the Infirmary yesterday, and an inquest was held, when the
same evidence was given, and the like verdict was returned
The deceased was burnt about the hands and feet ; he ha
also a wound in the head, and a severe contusion of the
thigh, with a large lacerated wound in the left ham.
poor man had been doing,well until Wednesday night,
he complained of great increase of pain in the left
which continued to progress to a most diEf
until' 12 o'clock on Thursday night, at which u._
terminated his dreaiful sufferings. The lower half pat,
the body is one black mass of mortification.—Bristol Journal
of Saturday.

sstng iegree,
death

MESMERISM NOT WHOLLY USELESS.—The followng de-
scription of a case, in which it would appear that the state of
insensibility into which the adepts in this much-controverted
science profess to throw their patients, has been turned to
useful account, has been addressed by Mr. Gardiner, of
Roche Court, Hants, to the editor o fthe Hampshire Stan-
dard. We make no comment on the circumstances, but con-
tent ourselves with transcribing what the writer declares to:
te,s4be a simple narrative of facts :—" Having been intert9y,

in the course of certain mesmeric experitnents by a
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vioienr,
toothache in one of the patients (whom I had exhibited to
Drs. Elliotson and Engledue), it occurred to me that the in-
sensibility which is an invariable concomitant of the true
sleep-walking state would afford me an admirable opportu-
nity of benefiting the sufferer, and of extending the applica-
tion of mesmerism. My friend Dr. Engledue obtained thy
assistance of Mr. Martin, a gentlemen who knew little at'
believed less about mesmerism, and who decidedly qui
tioned the practicability of the proposed operation.
came. In two minutes the patient (a young lady) v.
- --..reet mesmeric trance. and therefore insensible,
--mr tooth) v.

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