The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-08-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EATENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.  in one. We are not aware, however, that a cod has turned " State's evidence," as it is said a shark did. A shark had swallowed a log-book, thrown overboard to him by a private ; and afterwards repenting, took the first hook that offered, and thus turned state's evidence—so as to hang the villain by the revelation of the document.  THE HA MILS OR PORTERS OF CONSTANTINOPLE,— These porters are famous for their honesty, being continually entrusted with sums of Money and valuable parcels, which they always deliver safely to their-directions. Two Greeks in a coffee-house got drunk and quarrelled, when one knocked the other down, and there he lay upon the ground stunned and insensible. Being alarmed at what he had done, the first Greek called a porter who was passing by, and telling him that his friend was stricken with the plague, he gave him a beshlik (5 piastres) to carry the patient to the plague hospital. The porter accordingly tied up his burden with a piece of rope, slung him over his shoulder, and trudged away with him towards the hospital. When he had got half-way, the jolting woke up the drunken Greek, who could not imagine where he was, or what he was doing on a man's back, or whither he was being carried so uneasily. " Hallo !" says he. " Hallo !" say thehamal. "What are you doing with me —where are you taking me ?" cried the Greek. "Why," says the hamal, " your friend says you hive got the plague, and I am carrying you to the plague hospital; so sit still and don't kick, for we have a long way to go still." The poor Greek, who well knew that there was no escape from that ghastly abode of human misery to which he was being taken, when once its doors, had closed upon him—for there he would be murdered for his watch, or his clothes, even if he had not got the plague, or perhaps only locked up a few hours with those who were dead or dying of the pestilence, when he would be sure to catch the horrible disease—expostulated energetically with the hamal, swearing he was as well as ever he had been in his life, and that he had no single symptom of the plague. " I don't care," said the stout hamal (not slackening his pace or the rope with which the Greek was securely tied on to the pad on his shoulders) "whether you have got the plague or not ; that is your affair : I only wish you would be still, and not twist about in that way. I have been paid a beshlik ; my honour is concerned ; and I must carry you to the plague hospital." I will give you five beshliks to set me down," said the Greek. "Be quiet," said the hamal. " Ten," cried the Greek. " No, my friend," said the honest man. " I have been* paid the whole fare, and I must carry you, as I agreed, to the plague hospital : I would not fail in my agreement for all the beshliks in the Sultan's treasury." When they arrived near the dreaded end of their journey, a lucky thought struck the terrified Greek. " You were not told to take me into the hospital, only to the hospital ? " enquired he. " No," said the hamal, "to the hospital. I think it will do if I carry you to the door." " Well then," said the Greek, when he was set down, " now as I am tired with the journey, I will give you another beshlik to carry *me back again." "All right " replied the hamal, and shouldering his burden once more, he trudged sturdily back with him, and at length safely deposited him in the coffee-house from which he first started.—Curzon's Levant.  IF a gentleman were to enter in smith, would he be legally connect. CAN a copying clerk who eng,rost execute dreadful deeds ?