The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-23 00:00:00

JULY.

Cheltenham
Newmarket .
Liverpo01.
Goodwood 30

We have been favoured with a specimen of sir. Clement's
new style of ornamental gilding, for which he has ohtained
letters patent, and we consider it decidedly superior to any
thing yet produced in the gilding business., The pat,...ie will
have much pleasure in showing and'explaining
—See adrt.

We direct attention to the announcement i., another
column of the formation of a new shipowner:,' association,
which, if we may judge from the nature and eitelifbUits
objects, and the respectable and intellig(..,t c,:nninittee under
whose auspices it is got up, promises to he aindstu-aluable
institution to this port. e:s

It is confidently rumoured that a prc.po:itionri,PaS made by
some of the leading radicals to Sir Robert Peel t.) vote in
favour of his amendment, :provided he would iii ret*po if
brought into office, undertake not to dis;OVe:tl-,e parliamEmt.
—Morning Herald. .

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IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS.—A cal .nan was summoned.
before Mr. Hall, yesterday, to answer a charge preferred
against him, of having demanded more than his proper fare,
from a gentleman who arrived on the p.-.-eviaus morning,, by
the Dublin packet, and who desired to he conveyed forthwith
to the railway station. The jegal fare is, from the pier-head
to the station, one shilling ; and when thp.partyhas luggage
of moderate weight, double fare is charged. .In the present
instance the cabman demanded half-a-crmvu.:, :For the at-
tempted extortion he was fined 14 shillinor,and,in defaillt of
payment was sentenced toll: daye.innorasolp44lL.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A widow- ladr,watateci &o be of
respectableappearance, attempted to drowthvirself on Friday
evening, by leaping .overboard from. WE, Eagle steamboat,
on her passage from Glasgow to this' port, Aymnig-gentle-
man, who was on deck at the time, With praiseworthy bake..
pidity, leaped over after her, and with autichllifficultrilept
her from sinking, until he received assistanceftern the-Annan
Castle steamer, which, fortunately for 1.1.;')i.1i; was convenient
when the accident happened. It was x.,Erarked that a gen-
tleman accompanied the lady to the boat, and justas the-bell
for starting, had rung, he suddenly went ashore• - No:other
circumstance has transpired, at all calculated to.acconnttfor
the lady's rash and culpable conduct.
WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODISTS.—Amongsf -the 'Pas-
sengers on board the Liverpool are the Rey.' Henry Rees, of
this town, and the Rev. Moses Parry, 'of Deubigh; who are
sent as a deputation from the Associated, body of Welsh
Calvinistic Methodists to visit their countrymen,' who reside
in great numbers in various parts of the United States. ' Up-
wards of 160 of their friends accompanied them- to the ship
in a steamer hired for the purpose, and, during their move-
ments about the Liverpool, sang a number Of verses com-
posed for the occasion. • We. are told, that the singing,
notwithstanding the wind was so high, was heard at some
distance, and the effect was remarkably pleasing. Previously
to 'their going on board the Liverpool, the two ministers
placed themselves in a position which gave all their friends
an opportunity to say, " Farewell !'' and the scene was truly
an affecting one. It deserves to be recorded, that, int ons.-
deration of the object of the mission on which these two
gentlemen are going, the Directors of the Transatlantic -Steam
Company have, in the most handsome manner, remitted a
portion of their passage money.
THE " REVERSE" SIDE OF THE RAILROAD CltresrTios.—
I hate railroads. Any one else may love railroads, or like
railroads, or praise railroads, but I haterailroads. I hate to
be obliged to arrive at a railroad office a quarter of an .hour
before starting. I hate to be obliged to go and stand between
certain ioieces of .wood, nailed across and along, to ask for a
place.- -1-hate to be made to go in at one end and out at the
other just as if I had already commenced my imprisonment,
and as though the turnkey had fastened down upon me •all
his iron,- steam, and coals. I hate to see all my luggage and
baggage taken from me, and placed nzalgre nzoi on a stone
pavement, quite naked and unprotected, boxes, trunks,
shawls, muffs, books, umbrellas, maps, sandwich boxes, all
in one hurly-burly ; and then to be told that I may go and
claim my luggage, and arrange my luggage just as flike. I
hate.to have to do with porters who never touch their hats,
and who cannot he civil because you are forbidden to give
them a silver sixpence. I believe the poor fellows have riot
even any pockets in their breeches; lest a stray shilling should
by chance find its way into them. I hate to be made to wait
for a steam-engine, and for a steam-engiae -never to wait for
me. Horses will wait, and men will wait, and even §eipe-
times, when you are young and handsome, or old and wealthy,
or neither, and very agreeable, (precisely my case,) ()awn
or ladies will wait for you ;• ay; and the Lancashire witches,
too. Bat a steam-engine will notwait, for all itaenjoynient
appears to consist in rattling away as hard as. it.Sltmgs will
admit, from Dan to Beersireeba, and..froin:LondohtaJetietio,'
without so much.. as kissing its land-.`to` ithe;4olil4-•and
maidens onthcroal.=l-Dire,twoorifor ?Licht' , •