The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-04-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COMPLIMENT-TO THE LAWYERS.—Among the 4014",,Ped by Peter the Great, during his sojourn in tnai r,',Was Westminster Hall in term time, when the `4,114 tl-v,"'e court was crowded with lawyers in their wigs r7oseb;„n". Peter, struck by the sight, enquired " Who 6,-",..._°ns could possibly be ? " Being informed by tote sf"'arthen that they were all persons of the legal t he appeared to be greatly mystified, and at lay Ceiumed, Lawyers !—why I have only two in all the -111'nions, and I believe I shall hang one of them tft pornent I get back." Happy Peter !—Church of a. and Quarterly Review. 2,4,I:IRREDITARY TENDENCY TO SUICIDE .—There .tre richofsi xmcehricihdan t CulY curious instances on record where whole families mve been swept away by suicide. I will only cite one !39efa:---thAer of an impetuous character, was 14;lerable sum of money when they were all fully grown up. children, to each of whom he gave a contieyoungest son became melancholy, and at the age of nty-six or twenty-seven threw himself from the top of e house. One of his brothers became especially de42.1Ned at his death, and after frequent attempts at suiige, died a year afterwards from often repeated prolonged teltnga. The following year another brother had an atht,, of mania ; a fourth, who was a physician, and who tieli Years previously remarked to me, with horrible coolQ; that he should not escape his fate, killed himself. dent or three years afterwards, a sister was affected by el.al disease, and made many attempts to destroy her, and, lastly, the sixth brother, who lived in the hap-7t domestic relations, and seemed in consequence to tidre been spared during many years, also committed sui*--Journal of Psychological Medicine. Ii,4ILOSING SCENE OF THE TRIAL OF THE EARL OF 13tProRn.—On the last day of his trial he was attended ie Young children, who were allowed to stand by his fe e iat the bar. Regading them with looks of deep af/11 Iliet,°n, andul appeal pointing to towarthed vsast audience e thus concluded "cautif:—" lords, 'than now now troubled your lordships a great deal longer ;the ' I should have done were it not for the interest of ~is Pledges which a saint in heaven has left me." Here for ~eeclings overcame him, and compelled him to pause fn-,lew seconds. " I should be loath, my lords—what ble'elt for myself is nothing ; but I confess, that my deelsleretion should forfeit for them, it wounds me v.ery sobtr,:, You will be pleased to pardon my infirmity : able-""Ing I should have said, but I see I shall not be ter Vold therefore I will leave it. And now, my lords, totr—,2 I thank God I have been, by his good blessing are not Me, taught that the afflictions of the present life than. to be Compared with the eternal weight of glory even suall be revealed to us hereafter. And, my lords, taihnl?, with all humility and tranquillity of mind, I do "Yself clearly and freely to your judgments; and death,ethat righteous judgment shall be to life or to  "^-48 Te Deum laudamus, to Deum confitemur." VviiBe 8 Literary and Hisorical Memorials cif Londo.n. best 0,...1; ARE THERE DISAFFECTED MEN ?—Even ln the Xvertled countries there has always been a numer.ban-n—ss of persons who have thrown away all their thin and spoilt themselves for the existing statet_ that Vijp:B* There is no form of government whatever hon set's, atowaY the stigma of crime, that will give common lien a fool and activity to a drone, or that wil renmodner tiaii °f disagreeable temper anything else than a c.t dts: nuisance to himself and his friends. The United tssoB, What with their free institutions and their unlimited Peet ces give a man as many chances as mortal can exn this ephemeral existence ; but even there society kti:er the out a considerable portion of its members the }pa backwoods, or into holes and corners, or across that ritish line. Thousands finding first this city, then tessieitY, " too hot for them," roam about under a sucttlek, of aliases, and either open gin-shops in a new se the ,nti Or, as a last resourse, cut fuel for the steamers on are utarshy banks of the Mississippi. In England 9iere Are° such outlets for branded guilt or disappointed qual. There exist everywhere amongst us men who have 1)10;relled irreconcilably with their friends or their emtheirtsesinen who have only half-learnt their trad.e. or Profession—men of desultory and useless abilities, 11(4;1 their heads full of schemes applicable to every other thj,...but their own. Such men are generally beaten in Are ;:r.,,0f life by steady and industrious worth. They Lileir'„llailY at the tail, while plodders are at the head of whenretY• Therefore, their only chance is. a row. ahour is disorganized, when large populations are raytialcitated to ruinous stakes, the same folly that causes ileerils. to starve, raises such persons as we have been JaSt tv."lug into wealthy and comfortable men. They arc sideritt7 Bart of people to be the presidents and vice-pre-_ the f„_?f union lodges, of course with the management of As o,"us, and with no end of meetings and deputations. tht as there are many such men, there is always the (real for sedition • and, therefore, it is necessary, in thett tit these, for' the working classes to be put on