The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

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T they fly away' to ' and left. , 4 „ g' I a es from hence, and ',-, I °IQ . ] iof the same hunall';;l 1,,‘ h i same success in Or ' i s `ttd, a any quantity or fie '''Y had y disinterestedly ran o t lit ma .ere's my Uncle ilbr a 0 an d e a legacy) as he g°, e , s 0 ['here's OLD J °bn i lg' of '‘ t as i ides the cora°3ll PI kP( lo, Yi . ~,,r, ir O b i'/ 4 '4; ,:tc SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. of his honour, are to be taken from him, broken, and defaced, and the reputation of a knight, which he had thereby, be henceforth no more his. The culprit looks around him and sees the old hall of Westminster crowded with people to witness this unusual spectacle. In his chair of state sits the Earl Marshal ; at his feet are the Kings of Arms in their tabards and crowns ; various heralds and pursuivants, also in their tabards, are near them ; and 'close by are their .men; and the spectators fill tie the picture. One of the Earl Marshal's men seizes Sir Francis Michell by the foot, and hacks from his heels the gilt spurs of knigthood ; and another, standing on the scaffold, cuts his belt and lets his sword fall clashing to the ground. Then the first takes up the spurs, and casts them into the hall far away from him, one on the one side and the other on the other ; and then he draws his sword from the scabbard and breaks it over his head, and he throws one piece the one way and another another ; then says the Earl Marshal with a sneer, " How now, Francis, thou art no longer a knight, but a knave ;" and the rest of his sen tence is read by the Somerset herald : " That the said Michell be henceforth reputed, taken, and styled, an infamous, arrant knave. God save the king !" And the crowd disperses, the knave slinks away, and the heralds go again to their lodgings in Bennet's-hill. Such a lesson, if justly applied, could not but be a moral one. If the office of the herald were now kept with equal force and solemnity, we should not experience any modern tatooing by Messrs. Smalt and Co. It will repay any one to spend a morning in that library, turning over the old records and marking the curiously beautiful and careful emblazonment of the family arms and the ramifications of the pedigrees wherein mar riages branch from one family into another, and splendid genealogy is cut suddenly short by death ! Truly, seeing these, one may say with Sir Thomas Browne, meditating upon this pride and vain-glory, " man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omit ting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." It is to this library, and to other records in Dublin, Edinburgh, or abroad, that the searchers for arms should apply ; but when we consider that the advertised charge, " three-and-sixpence," is much less than the herald's fees for a search, we may pretty surely predicate that no applica .tion is made here. It may also be as well if we mention, that bearing a name by no means entitles any one to bear the arms attached to that name. For instance, let us take that of " Stan ley ;" before assuming the arms belonging to that name, one must first prove, by wills and other documents, his descent from a scion of the family, and then, and not till then, legally bear the arms in question. But beside this method, there is another, by which a person of gentle ex traction, and not " lost in trade," can have arms assigned to him. The fees in this instance amount to nearly eighty pounds, and the arms then descend like an entailed estate to the male descendants of the person to whom the arms are granted ; the females also impale these arms if married. Amongst these persons, aldermen lately made and city knights are frequent appli cants. In the library are also some curious relics : the celebrated Warwick roll, a series of figures of all the Earls of Warwick, from the Conquest to the reign of Richard the Third ; and a tourna ment roll of Henry the Eighth, in which that monarch is depicted in• great state and circum stance. By the side of one of the two fireplaces, also hang a sword and dagger, which are said to have belonged to James the Fifth of Scotland, who fell at Flodden Field. For the building itself, it is a plain common-place quadrangle, which does not do much credit to any one con ' cerned in it, and least of all to the architect. When chivalry was the mode the heralds flou rished, and their fees were then considerable. At the siege of Caen by Henry IV., they were settled as follows :—At the coronation of a king of England, £lOO, with their robes of scarlet ; at a queen's, 100 marks, with their liveries ; at displaying a royal banner at the camp or field, 100 marks to the attending officers ; at the knighting a prince, 40 marks ; for displaying a duke's banner, £2O ; a marquis's, 20 marks ; an earl's, £lO ; a baron's, £5. At the mar riage of the king, £5O, with the uppermost robe of the royal groom and bride (these were generally compounded for) ; at a duke's marriage, the robes and a largesse. At the birth of the king's eldest son, 100 marks ; at those of the other children, £2O. At the creation of a prince, duke, marquis, or earl, Garter claimed his upper most robe, which was redeemed. At the great festivals of the Church they had also fees : OD Christmas-day the king's largesse was £5 ; N ew ear's-day, £6. The queen's, 6 marks ; the prince, £3; the other sons of the king, £2 13s. 4cl. On Twelfth-day, at Easter, St. George's-day, and All-hallows-day, the king's largesse was £5. These and others—not to be enumerated here, but to be found in Noble's History—make up a very respectable income, and at that time were very considerable indeed, and explain the paucity of the yearly salaries of the heralds, viz.—Gar ter, £4O ; Clarencieux and Norroy, and other provincial kings, £2O ; every herald, 20 marks ; and each pursuivant, £lO. Garter was also of use as an ambassador. Louis XI. gave him 300 crowns to endeavour to bring about a peace between France and England, and promised him £l,OOO more if he succeeded. Besides these perquisites they had a wardrobe allowance amounting to £7l 1 ls. 7d. In processions these herald kings were placed near the sovereign, carrying their own sceptres, and wearing their crowns, and clothed in their sleeveless coats of tabards, wearing round their necks gold chains of S S, the heralds having silver chains of the same.—Home Companion. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH PROVERBS. "Prosperity gains friends, Adversity tries them." CHISTMAS-TIDE is nigh at hand, than which there is no period of the year when the glorious prerogative of man, namely, the privilege of holding communion with his fellow, is so much talked about and brought into exercise. Yes ; and in the interchange of kindly words and offices, do we not derive some of earth's best delights ? True friendship, indeed, is even as a golden chain let down from heaven, and serving to unite mankind in bonds of unity and love, uninter rupted and unbroken. Hence, it does not consist in a single or an occasional act of good feeling and ser vice ; it is not an accident, but the habit of the truly faithful. We are linked together by a thousand ties, all of which call for mutual aid and sympathy. When one wave of the sea dies away in surf upon the beach, do the waters cease flowing ? When one constella tion sinks behind the horizon, are the heavens then starless ? Other waves, other stars, succeed. In like manner, act of love must succeed act of love, just as a current of electric fluid passing over a perfect con ductor, duly insulated from this sordid grovelling world, true friendship is to be continued through time and eternity. No wonder that this principle of social happiness has ever been held in high esteem. By wise men of ancient days it was personified as a goddess, seated in a chair of state, with a golden tiara, set with precious stones, encircling her head ; the vesture, like the light of heaven, seemed lence ; the material of hei unspotted by passions or her diadem would, doubt] and exalted privileges wh Again, we have her depict ter of the " Graces." Thi of clothing," intimating without dissembling or hy: us that the recollection of old ; " laughing," that prompt and cheerful ; " lii implying that one kindne, that the bond of love may Passing strange, that st principle should be blasted Alas, that this most excel: too many instances, subs+ party purposes ! Alas, th, good report, should flour: of worldly prosperity shit firmament, or retires behinc sity. Even so ; bitter, bitt mony to what we say. Tru long as we walk in the similes of ourselves, accom shade, we are alone and des( " In times of prosperity, In times of adversity, While it is summer there w at the approach of winter genial clime. Not one is 1( There lived not fifty mile, district, two brothers, born but not inheritors of the They were blessed with and nephews, who so truly following distinction. " The' (of course in expectation of bank or the market. "T 1 follows the sheep, or abit younger brother. llt What can furnish a b e tt er conc l us i on t°, o kspe than the followi ng di a l ogue , t a k en front " As Yon Like It :" Lord.—A poor sequestered stag 10 4 That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a,44 4, Did come to languish ; and, indeed, my ' it tos: o o The wretched animal heaved forth sucb That their discharge did stretch his leatli o r s jo ie Coursed to burstin g; an d th e bi g round j oie Coursed one another down his innocent In piteous chase. * Duke.—But, what said Jacques? Did he not moralise this spectacle ? Lord.-0 yes ! into a thousand similes : ' First for his weeping in the needless s tre° Then, being alone, Left and abandoned of his velvet frien cl i l' o th e rt j "'Tis right !" q u oth h e , "thu s misery bet s' The flux of comp a ny !" A non , a ca reles s Full of the pasture, jumps along by hi_i n „itf`' And never stay s t o gree t hi m . "Ay e ," qv' "Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizen; lo ot` 'Tis just the fashion : wherefore do You, e re r Upon that poor and b r oke n b an k r upt Oa AI A L ll\ 4. 3:BeiSuena7batiireljt:E: 1:41:0::°ilt, I ' q t -i4 ls 'i ;& .., m y if,f-00,4t l a Iv i). t o ' ouncli°o ttititit, e( oceat 0° '1I„ .1, ; 0 Vvi t Y Iy , t e Vil fl _md, • ,s 5 str , 1 ,. N. 'M ot riendg., eft i ~,i le to sery se bed' '). tv i l i en arelesg P'. ~ 14, " r hilii,,l r‘t)1117,31,i "qtiO tP Zen; ii ; I%Ye IV, :1:yoe( 4 ta p , ipt the ci:iiiria,rtEdl 4 'i r.'S. t a a f i' k,'ltt, Yu, (fe .5t(?'11 k t 4 e strove 4i G'S J0111.11.001J 4), Pal I '' le4 t -a-d0 ,elit oli,tktf , 1 eciaeo, , s , N, er ,oroie .4 pirit6,to a - 1 1. ,j , „.1 -t t id bailt ,i 1 AGE 4 . dat the i,s), 1,,4,ge irs. Pi' l itt ItN 'q'll )ctoben ittlk .Itli hat trase, „,''! he la ut diektti ''lt:lltri vc-, eived a l e , i 1'141'4. ell the d_ eceii)i 'ttl, "Y, D of WWCI',/, ‘1',(4.1? 111 ad the gl li.trieeh. vorning, , i I t l hPc e church'/ ,Ites onet ia/ LI( w ar d ii_JA '414---] s b u riev I, c,11)1,;11. whom / t )3' oi Salida)", t I t l it or §-, . spaio. Eal outs of a( cl) LITERARY EXTRACTS MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.---The following is extracted from the Dublin Freeman Nov. 9, 1808. Coroners' juries now hardly be so simple as to regard the "mW man's " testimony as unimpeachable " Mysterious Affair.---On Saturday last, brought from Charterhouse-square, an, Islington churchyard, and a stone erected with this inscription : In memory of M. Emma Thomas, who died on the 28th Ocl aged 27 years. She had no fault, save whl give the moon---The light was bright, but too soon.' Mr. Hodgson, the coroner, rece' intimating very strong su s pi c ions that ' had . not died naturally; in consequence applied to the parish officers, who orderek to be opened, which was done yesterday 10 the body removed to the vault under the the inspection of the jury, which sat upo , course of the day, when the following aPlx dente :---The lady died on Friday, 101) Saturday ; and the gentleman with on lived (not bein married) left town embarked at Portsmouth on Monday, for