The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

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WANTED, a CLERK, thoroughly conversant
with the Law and Practice as to Poor-law Removals and
Appeals, and otherwise qualified to assist in the duties appertain-
ing to the office of Clerk to a Board of Guardians. Salary .°l2O
per annum.—Applications, enclosing testimonials and stating age,
with full particulars as to experience and qualification, to be
addressed immediately to Mr. CHARLES HART, Vestry Clerk,
Parish-offices, Liverpool.

THE BIRKENHEAD
IMPROVEMENT COM-
MISSIONERS will receive Applications for the Office of
MANAGER of their FERRIES between Birkenhead and Liver-
pool, up to THURSDAY, the sth day of July next. Salary, .t'3oo
per Annum.—All applications must be addressed to " The Chair-
man of the Ferry Committee, Woodside, Birkenhead."
By order, AMBROSE WALN,
Clerk of the Commissioners.
Birkenhead Commissioners' Offioes, Birkenhead, June 22,1855.

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.
WANTED, by the Select Vestry of this Parish, a
FEMALE NURSE for the Medical Ward of the Work-
house, Brownlow-hill. Salary at the rate of .el 6 per Annum,
with Board, Washing, and Lodging in the Establishment. The
appointment to be determinable by a Month's Notice from any
date.—Letters of application, enclosing Testimonials, Certificates
of Qualification, &c., and stating the age of the candidate, and
whether single or married, to be left at my Office, on or before
Three o'clock, on THURSDAY, the sth July next.
CHARLES HART, Vestry Clerk.
Parish Offices, Brownlow-bill, June 28, 1855.

TO TEACHERS AND GOVERNESSES.
WANTED, several RESIDENT MASTERS,
qualified to teach English, Writing, Arithmetic, and the
Elements of Latin—Classics and Mathematics; also, a NON-
RESIDENT MASTER, to teach French, German, and Drawing;
and a GOVERNESS, thoroughly qualified to teach all the branches
of English, and the rudiments of Latin.—Apply to W. NICHOL,
General Mercantile, Professional, Patent, and Insurance Agent,
7, Castle-street, Liverpool.

PARTNERSHIPS.
WNICHOL has several Clients possessed of
• Capital, who are disposed to Join Established Mercan-
tile Concerns as PARTNERS.
W. NicnoL has also several highly remunerative Concerns to
Dispose of.
Mercantile, Professional, Patent, and Insurance Agency, 7,
Castle-street, Liverpool.

TO EMPLOYERS.
WNICHOL begs to direct attention to his
• AGENCY, as affording superior facilities for securing
the services of suitable assistants, while it relieves employers
from the painful task of dealing with numbers of incompetent
applicants.
W. Nichol can always introduce persons of unimpeachable
character and tried efficiency.
TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS.
Clerks. Cashiers,
Correspondents in various Salesmen,
languages, Travellers,
Bookkeepers, Superintendents,
Accountants, Managers,
Collectors, Agents,
And skilled Assistants in the various practical arts.
TO SHIPOWNERS.
Masters; Mates; Surgeons; Pursers; Stewards,
TO PRINCIPALS OF SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.
Teachers whether for fixed appointments or occasional tuition ;
Governesses, whether resident or visiting.
TO PRIVATE FAMILIES.
Companions, Housekeepers, Nursery Governesses.
TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN.
Land Stewards, &c.

No Charge to Employers.

GENERAL MERCANTILE, PROFESSIONAL, PATENT,
AND INSURANCCE AGENCY,
7, CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

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TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1855.

DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN.

IT was stated on Friday,with a kind of semi-official
authority, that, owing to the serious indisposition of
Lord RAGLAN, whose iron constitution had at length
given way to the combined effects of fatigue and
climate, he was about to be recalled by his own request
from his command in the Crimea, and to be replaced
by General SIMPSON. The announcement was so
positively made, and at the same time appeared so
probable, that it was generally believed; but the same
night the Ministers in both Houses of Parliament
took especial pains to deny its accuracy, affirming that
the indisposition of Lord RAGLAN was but temporary,
and that there was reason to hope a few days only
would restore him to his ordinary health, as the last
accounts stated that he was considerably better. This
was reassuring to those who viewed with some appre-
hension a change in the chief command of our army at
this critical period of the war; but not many hours
elapsed when the public were startled by an official
announcement from Lord PANMUBE, the Minister of
War, that, instead of being considerably better, the
Commander-in-Chief was actually dead. It was so
sudden, following so quickly after the other state-
ments, that it was scarcely credited, until the nature
of the communication left no room for further doubt.
Whatever may have been the error of the Ministers
in imposing so arduous a duty upon a man so far ad-
vanced in life as Lord RAGLAN, and who had never
before had the command of an army, there are few will
dispute that he performed the task entrusted to him
to the best of his ability. Any deficiency in energy,
either mental or physical, was the necessary conse-
quence of age; and if some blame might be attached to
his management of details, we must not overlook the
faults of the system in which he had been trained, and
the difficulty at his age of adapting long-taught ex-
perience to modern requirements. His knowledge of
warfare was learned under the Great Master of the
Art in a former age; and, after forty years' repose, it
was a gallant devotion of himself to the call of his
country, at a time of need, to leave the ease, which he
had nobly earned, to undergo the fatigues and priva-
tions of a campaign in the Crimea. He is entitled to
the grateful remembrance of his oountryraen.; _and

•
when the war with Russia and the siege of Sebastopol
shall become matter of history with the ever memorable
battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman, the name
of Lord RAGLAN will occupy a proininent position as
the leader of the gallant English host which performed
such prodigies of valour. His faults, which were in-
separable from his age, will be forgotten in the recol-
lection of his noble self-devotion; and it will not be the
least in his praise, that a hero, who bled at Waterloo in
1815, endured a campaign in the Crimea in the winter
of 1855. Let us hope that his successor will deserve
as well of his country as Lord RAGLAN has done ; and
that while the army may have the advantage of more
physical energy, it will have as much self-denying
patriotism.