The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-05-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict  no were awaiting  ensuing assizes, e  heir escape  [lave not  . . been heard of since. Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park, ,London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a princess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the  been received at the latter place by electric telegraph  CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE  The foll6wing has been the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and Foreign Bible Society during the last three years in the following large towns :—London, /26,391 ; Liverpool, 81,342 ; Manchester. 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol, 54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies. On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, principally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott, Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Falcutt, and Ashwell, the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced upwards of £22,000.  At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other clay, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little  amused at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the lawyers'' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look after the runaway pet of her mistress. Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly." The Times Commissioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement made in the House of Commons by Mr..F. O'Connor.  One of the clerks at the General Post Office gas been dismissed for refusing to be sworn a special constable during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect the property on which he is employed, it would be only natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer. Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly perform " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Stratford may be confided. The returns of the Registrar-General record the death of a child, aged two years, " from inflammation of the stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, supposed to be caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool  Opened, of which the contents were carried through- the house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter occurrence and the death.  the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, " necessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed  that he would never enter it again. A few days after his old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found that masters are ' necessary evils'." A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle mentions that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example, and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs, and at last succeeded in driving her away. On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Steele was brought before Mr. Jardine; at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit suicide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr. Steele. having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt  the crime again was dismissed, having been bound over in his own recognizance in £lOO and two sureties of £5O each. Lord Brougham has sent £5 to Peel's Coffeehouse, as his contribution to a fund raising to relieve Mr. Steele from his pecuniary difficulties. _  N OF'