The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

MEMORIAL TO THE LATE DUKE.

A movement has been commenced in the highest quar-
ters to do honour to the memory of the departed Duke,
by erecting a school or college, to bear the name of the

Duke of Wellington, for the education of the orpbans of
military officers. It is proposed that when the subscrip-
tions amount to £lOO,OOO this sum shall be invested in
trustees, to be incorporated by Royal Charter. Of this
cam about £lO,OOO has been subscribed ; and the list of
donors, which is headed with the name of her MAJESTQ
for £l,OOO, and Prince ALBERT for £5OO, includes the
names of the Earl of DERBY, the Dukes OrCAMBRIDGE,
BUCCLEIJCII, NORTHUMBERLAND, and CLEVELAND, and
the Marquises of SALISBURY and LONDONDERRY, for
£5OO each, and several members of both Houses of Par-
liament for smaller sums.

CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM AGAINST
MR. DISRAELI.

On Monday, in moving a resolution in the House of
Commons, on the subject of the funeral of the late Duke
of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made
a most eloquent oration, which want of space alone has
prevented us from giving. This has been eagerly seized
upon by the jackals of the Radical press, and a charge of
plagiarism is fastened upon Mr. DISRAELI. He is ac-
cused of having borrowed his ideas, and even his words
from M. TRIERS' panegyric on Marshal St. CYR, pub-
lished in 1829. It turns out thet the alleged sources of
Mr. DISREALI'S eloquence were by an anonymous writer
in a French review, and that through Mr. DISRAELI him-

self, who was struck by their beauty, they were furnished
to the Morning Chronicle, in which paper they were pub-
lished. If, however, such a coincidence as here is alleged
to exist, is a foundation for a charge of plagiarism, no
man, not even Shakspere, can be free from such a charge.
It is but an ebullition of petty envy on the part of the
writers who have joined in the cry ; and it is hardly worthy
of notice, but for the eagerness with which it seems to
have been caught up by those whose judgment is at the
mercy of their political prejudices.

ROBBERY OF JEWELS.-011 Saturday, at an early hour,
the house of Mrs. Woodhill, jeweller, Sion-place, Clifton,
near Bristol, was entered, and following valuable property
abstracted :—About 100 gold rings set with diamonds,
rubies, pearls, &c. ; 30 gold lockets, of various sorts ; 39
39 gold, and a large number of silver pencil-cases, five
gold chains, and three gold necklaces, several gold
brooches, silver chains, guards, &e., and a large number of
valuable gold pins set with precious stones. The back door
leads out towards Caledonia-place, and a wail about 8 feet
in height runs along this entrance to the premises. It is
conjectured that the thieves must have climbed this wall,
walked along the top of it, and then dropped themselves
down into the area. There tney found a pair of steps,
which had been incautiously left outside the premises, and
by placing these against the back wall of the house thy
could succeed in reaching a square pantry window, one of tne
panes of which had been accidentally broken. Through the
aperture thus made, one of the burglars must have put his
hand in and undone the fastening of the window. Having
thus gained access to the premises, they forced the door of
the shop, and nearly stripped it of its contents.