The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

FIRE DEPARTMENT

MICHAELMAS INSURANCES are now requiring to be
effected or renewed, and there is no extra expense in insuring
with this company. The BONUSES in this branch are to the
extent of one-half the profits.
N.B.—The British Assurance Company of London is now
merged in the Lancashire Insurance Company,-and the renewal
receipts will be obtained from the agents as usual.
Prospectuses, Mercantile Rates, Forms of Proposal, and all
other information, will be afforded at the Offices and Agencies
of the Company.

AGENTS

Accrington J. C. Bowker, Stationer.
Ashton-under-Lyne Richard Dewhirst.
Bacup Thomas Reid.
Blackburn James Stott.
Bradford John Ward.
Burnley Thomas Sutcliffe.
Chorley Fdwd. Woodward,LandAgent,Park-road
Heywood Thomas Schoitield, 30. York•street.
Huddersfield Thomas Styring, \Vine Merchant.
Hyde Alfred Bennett, Church-street.
Marsden&Slaithwaite lohn Varley, Slaithwaite.
Littleborough William Hanson, Post-office.
Macclesfield Samuel II igginbottorn, Church. square.
Milnrow John Holker, British School.
Oldham Samuel Cooper, Greenacres Moor.
Patricroft James Barlow.
Preston J. R. Postlethwaite. •
Rochdale Robert Chadwick Healey.
Roy ton r William Bentley.
Todmorden Robert Allen.
Wigan . , Frederick Price.
Saddleworth A. H. Shaw.

Applications from parties desiring to become Agents to be
addressed to JAMES KENNEDY, Esq.,
General Manager,
26, Market-street, Manchester.

RENSHAW-STREET BATH ESTABLISHMENT,
NEAR TEE ADELPHI-HOTEL; LIVERPOOL.
MR. J. J. GODFREY„,Member of the Royal
College of St <eons, Proprietor.
New Bath-rooms havin ately been added, the Public are
respectfully invited VISIT THIS ESTABLISHMENT,
where every attentio s paid to cleanliness and comfort.
Whit law's atent Medicated Bath 3s. 6d.
A Sulp Ditto 3s. Od.
AMe urial Fumigating Ditto 3s. Od.
A Hirrogate Ditto 2s. 6d.
A Nitro-Muriatic Acid Ditto 2s. Od.
A Warm Water Ditto
A Soft Warm Water Ditto
Cold or Shower Ditto
11,1 ATTENDANTS NOT ALLOWED TO RECEIVE
PERQUISITES.

THE BRIDE'S SEAT IN CHURCH.—Amongst documents
connected with Warrington parish chuich is "An Allott-
ment of Sittings in 1628," and one of the forms is dis-
tinctly termed " the bryd's form." May I trespass upon
your space to inquire if the same expression has been met
with elsewhere ? I add a copy of the early part of the
document :—" The S. side of the church. Ist Pew next
ye quire—Richard Massie, Esq., 2nd Pew—the parson
and his wife for the time being. The bryd's form." If
the custom of assigning the bride a particular seat in
church is found to be common, it appears to me not un-
likely that we retain a vestige of it at the present day, in
the bride's first appearance at church being received as an
intimation that she is ready to receive the visits and con-
gratulations of her neighbours and friends.—Notes and
Queries.

POOR GENTLEWOMEN.—Look around your own circle.
Ynu know of many cases such as this :—A seemingly
prosperous man is engaged in the full tide of successful
business; he desires a large trade, and counts his gain by
thousands. He has a family of sons and daughters, whom
he educates at boarding schools, in all the current know-
ledge and trifling of the day. They are tended and kept.
They know no want. They are thoroughly genteel and
have a large visiting acquaintance. Their characters, such
as they are, become fashioned and formed after the most
approved notions. But suddenly a reverse occurs—an un-
fortunate speculation, a bad season; great losses fall sud-
denly upon the merchant, and he finds himself a ruined

wan. i kia nave a genteel family reduced at once to a
state of the most galling poverty ; not merely the poverty
of the poor, but the poverty of the genteel, an infinitely
sadder and more intolerable thing. Or, a professional
man dies suddenly, and when his affairs are wound up, it
is found that he has lived fully up to his income : that
those gay parties of his had absorbed all his spare gains;
and that he had not insured his life, or if so, then for a
very inconsiderable amount. His widow and daughters
fall at once into the ranks of the poor genteel. As for his
sons, in such cases they can usually shift for themselves ;
but how long is it before they can do anything towards
their female relatives, By the time they reach manhood
they have contracted ties of their own, must probably got
married, and can do very little to relieve the straits of their
poor sisters, who quietly subside into the state of thread-
bare poor gentlewomen.