The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1852.

founded since the passing of that bill, we are doubly
required to watch the security provided. The ob-
ject of this letter, then, is to call attention to the
magnitude of the transactions of life assurance
societies, and to seek Government investigation and

active as

school, nor the Pound. That's the way the blackguards
make books now-a-days ! Mary Anne is all for Brussels,
and, afterwards, Germany and the Rhine, but we can fix
upon nothing yet. Send me the letter of credit on Brus-
sels in any case, for we'll stay there, to look about us, a
few weeks. If the two town-lands cannot be kept out of the
" Encumbered Estates," titer's no help for it ; but sure
any of our friends would bid a trifle, and not see them
knocked down at seven or eight years' purchase. If Tul-
lylicknaslatterley was drained, and the stones off it, and a
good top dressing of lime for two years, you'd see as fine
a crop of oats there as ever you'd wish ; and there hasn't
been an " outrage." as they call it, on the same land
since they shot M'Shea, last September ; and when you
consider the times, and the way winter set in early,
year, 'tis saying a good deal. I wish Prince Albert would
take some of these farms, as they said he would. Never
mind enclosing the town parks, we can't afford it just

but mind that you look after the preserves.
k shot in the Boundary-wood, I'll turn ever

ther's a coc

mother

's son out of the barony,

I was going to tell you about Nick Alahon's bolding,
but it's zone clean out of my head, for I was called away
to the Police-office to bail out Paddy Byrne, the dirty
little spalpeen ; I wish I never took him from home. He
saw a man running off with a yellow valise—that is his

story—and thinking it was mine, he gave him chase ; he
doubled and turned—now, under an omnibus, now,
through a dark passage—till Paddy overtook him at last,
and gave him a clippeen on the left ear, and a neat touch
of the foot that sent him sprawling. This done, Pat
shouldered the spoils, and made for the Inn ; but what
d'ye think ? It turned out to be another man's trunk,
and Paddy was taken up for the robbery ; and what with
the swearing of the Police, Pat's yells, and Mrs. D.'s
French. I have passed such a half-hour, as T hope never
to see again. Two " Naps." settled it all, however, and
five francs to the Brigadier—as well-dressed a chap as the
Commander of the Forces at home—but foreigners, it
seems, are the devil for bribery. When I told Pat I'd
stop it out of his wages, he was for rushing out, and tak-
ing what he called the worth of his money out of the
blackguard ; so that I had to lock him into my room, and
there he is now, crying and screeching like mad. This
will be my excuse for anything I may make in way of 'nis-
i takes ; for, to say truth, my head is fairly moldered As
it is, we've lost a trunk ; and when Mrs. D. discovers
that it was the one containing all her new silk dresses,
and a famous red velvet, that was to take the shine out of
the Tuileries, we'll have the devil to pey I She's in a
blessed humour besides, for she says she saw the Briga-
dier wink at Mary Anne ; and that it was a good kicking
he deserved, instead of a five-franc piece : and now she's
turning on me in the vernacular, in which, I regret to
say, her fluency has no impediment. I must now con-
clude, my dear Tom, for it is quite beyond me to remem-
ber more than that I am, as ever, your sincere friend,
• KENNY I. DODD.

Betty Cobb insists upon being sent home ; this is more
of it I journey will cost a ten-pound note, if Mrs.
D. can't succeed in turning her off of it. I'm afraid the
economy, at least, begins badly.

AND WALES.

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HORTICULTURE.

LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL AND
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