Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-11-12
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FROM THE 1,yERpocL MERCURY.

FROM THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.
Bank of England return, for the week
ending the 26th ult, states the amount OF
notes issued to be f2S, 362, $50; Govern
mcnt debt and securities, ETA, coo, 900 |;
and bullion, f14, 362 $50. In the bank
ing depa rtment, the liabilities are set down
at E33, 47O,sl5, and the assets include
f659,426 in gold and silver coin.
The /" Episcopal Free Church, seces-
sion from the Church OF England, was
opened last week at Exeter, by the Rev.
B. b. Bul,eel, who, in his opening service,
spoke of the Established Church as in a
stale of slavery 10 the S ate, and Of "Pu-
seyism," as g system Of tyranny and OPP
pressioa, blood and darkness, error and
terror
The Scotsman states that dog locked
up for nine weeks in cellar without food,
was discovered alive the other day, and is
now recovering.
"If you ever marry" said Romaa
consul 10 his son, !. let it be a woman who
has judgment enough TO superIntend the
getting Of meal OF victuals ias;e enough
to dress herself pride enough TO wash hsr
| face before breakfast and sense enough to
hold her tongue when she has nothing 10
say"
In the Metropolis more than nine per
cent. Of the whole population are domestic
servants.
The Gateshead OJserrer publishes the
details of eight coIliery explosions in Dur
ham and Northumberland since 1872, by
which 583 lives were lost! This is exclu-
sive Of similar accidents in which the num-
Der OF victims was under so each.
A retired son Of ST. Crspin, who had
amused considerable wealth, used TO put
the letters F. r. S. and G. on his paint
ings; he translated them thus First
Rate Shoemaker and Cobler."
AT a meeting of Suffolk gentlemen, las,
week, an occasional display Of fireworks
proposed by DR.. Henslow, Of Htcham,
and gravely discussed by the s2ges present
as a cure for agricultural ncendiarism I! !!
We learn from Coke that the property
qualifications of Dute in ancient times
WINS clear rental of $500 per annum, of
an Earl ff0o, and Of Baron 400 marks.
On Friday last, at the auction mart, Lon
don, leo Thames Tunnel shires, on which
ESQ each had been paid, were sold at sir
shitlings each, the loss being only fl9
las per share, or E4970 in all!
In Great Br tain there are seventy towns,
containing population Of upwards Of H.
coo, in France only 81.
AT Massat, in France, on the goth u!t.,
two females, mohor and daughter, were
each delivered Of male child within Two
minutes of each other. The babies were
put into one cradle whilst the mothers
were attended &c, and the resu, was an inn
possibility 10 distinguish which was the I'M
Gle and which the nephew.
On the entrance Qorced) Of the Polish
Jews into The Russian army, they are re-
CURED, says the PresSe, to take the follow
ing OATH swear to be faithful to my
colors, and never to desert, even were the
Messiah 10 descend upon earth.n
The statement that the Oh lbeway Indian,
Strcng-wnd, and his English bride, have
parted company. is eontradicted. A letter
from New York announces their arrival
there, and sta'es that they were living hap
PLY together.
Quashee, commencing a wo on natural
history. wrote as follows: :" Man is de frs,
animal in de Great on: he spring up like
a sparrow grass, hop about like hopper
grass, and dies de same as jackass."
AZ Nottingham, Surrey, in compliance
with an ancient custom, boys go about the
orchards in spring, whipping the apple
trees, the idea being that this is the way 10
procure plentiful crop
The Church and State Gazette protests
angrily against Lord Wharnclille's EXPOSE
ton, at Barnsley, of the views OF the Gov
ernment on education. and says hally, In
this matter the Church mast be the master
the Government its aid"
There is law in Mexico, enacting, that
no one shall be allowed TO exercise the right
OF suffrage after the year 1850, unless he
he can read and write
In the game lists just publs' ed for De
vonshire, are the names Of between fifty
aad :ixty Church Of England Clergyman
licensed 10 shoot.
1t sale Of sporting stock IN Noting
ham las; week, The Marquis of AngIesey
gave Isl for Il pointer dog, and offered
zoo tor a shooting Dony