The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—JACK AsnoftE.—Patrick
Bruton, a seaman, was charred with what at first ap-
peared to have been a most brutal assault, committed
upon the person of a woman, residing in the vicinity of
the prisoner', brother's, who keeps a boarding-house in
Liverpool. It was alleged that the assault had been com-
mitted with a rope, twisted double, and the somewhat
formidable piece of hemp was produced in evidence, to
intensify the sense of horror with which the crime was
regarded. In a plain, straightforward style, however,
Jack related the circumstances of the case, which made it
appear in quite a new light. His brother, Mr. Bruton,
and that gentleman's wife had gone out to make their
markets, and during the absence of the worthy couple a
large number of the women and children in the neighbour-
hood assembled in front of the boarding-house, and
raised a regular row, whereupon, sundry panes of glass
having been smashed, and other damage done, Jack
deemed it his bounden duty to quell the display, and it
was in the exercise of this conscientious belief that he
keelhauled the prosecutor, who was a leader in the Ama-
zonian strife. In these circumstances, Bruton was
dismissed.

BRUTAL ASSAULTS ON THE POLloE.—Edward M'Gill,
William Heavers, Mathew Martin, Catherine M`Cartney,
and an old woman named Mary Farmes, were placed in
the dock charged with committing a brutal assault upon
police-officers 733 and 606 on the evening of Saturday,
after eleven o'clock, and likewise with aiding in the rescue
of a prisoner whom the said officers were then in the act
of having conveyed to the police station, and against
whom a warrant had been out for six months. Mar-
tin was represented by Mr. Chilton, who produced
several female witnesses to prove an alibi in favour
of his client. The row, it appeared, took place in Islay-
street, the mob, was very numerous, numbering not
less than four or five hundred ; and the police-officers
were not only severely wounded and their apparel
torn, but their prisoner was liberated, and he has not yet
been found. M•Gill was ordered to pay a fine of 20s. and
costs, or be imprisoned for one month,—the other three
to pay ss. and costs, or seven days ; Martin. receiving the
benefit of the doubt, was discharged.—William Mooney,
for having at twelve o'clock, on Sunday evening, assaulted
police-officer 8, while he was being conveyed to prison, was
ordered to pay a fine of 55., in default of payment to be
imprisoned for seven days.—Another gang of " roughs,"
named respectively Andrew Coyne, Owen Rodgers, James
Dogherty, Patrick Toole, and Martin Rowan, were
charged with having, on Saturday night, assaulted police-
officers 658 and 710, in Brick-street. It seems that the
very refuse of the population in that quarter of Liverpool
are in the habit of assembling at a corner of Brick-street,
at all sorts of unseasonable hours, for the purpose of en-
joying themselves. On Saturday they assembled towards
midnight, as was their wont, when the policeman on the
beat politely hinted to them the propriety of moving on.
" it," ejaculated Rowan, the leader of the squad,
" pitch into tile —1" Another policeman came up to
the rescue ; but the mob did not disperse to their se-
veral homes before they had kicked and abused the
guardians of the peace in a most shocking manner.
No. 710 was kienei on the lip, and had to be conveyed to
the hospital, while poor 658 was not without his share of
wounds and bruises. Dogherty and Toole swore in the
most positive manner that they were not there, and all
their companions likewise strove to establish an alibi.
The magistrates ultimately decided that Rowan be fined
in 15s. and costs, in default of payment, to go to gaol for
fourteen days ; Coyne to have the benefit of the doubt,
and be discharged ; and the others to be fined each
in 10s., or to go to prison for seven days..
THEFT or Btyxs.—John Carroll, for stealing two buns
from the shop of Mr. Davis, Burlington-street, was sent
to gaol for two months.
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AN OLD THlEF.—Margaret Francis, an incorrigible
thief far advanced in years, was sent to prison for three
months for stealing a bundle of cotton from some bales
in Slater-street on Saturday,
PICKPOCKETS.—Two young men, named Thomas Kelly
and John Helon, for attempting to pick pockets in Byrom-
street, on Saturday night, at 7 o'clock. were sentenced to
two months' imprison men t.— Thomas Caffney and Thomas
Connor. who were conducting their operations in St.
John's iii irket on Saturday evening, were committed for
twenty-one days.

THEFT BY A. PROSTITUTE.—Mary Smith, for'stealing
a mantle from a frail sister on Sunday morning, at three
o'clock, while loitering in Bannastre-street, was ordered
to pay a fine of 55., or go to gaol for seven days.
ROBBERY OF A WATCH.—John Gaffen was convicted
in the crime of illegally pawning a patent silver lever
watch, the property of a boon companion, with whom he
had been on the " fly" during the latter part of the pre-
vious week. He was ordered to pay 305., the sum for
which the article was pledged, and a fine of £5 for Hie-
gaily pawning ; or, in default of payment, to go to prison
for one month.
ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A PROSTITUTE.—A girl named
Elizabeth Howe was charged with stealing £2O from the.
person of an elderly man named Thomas Wilson, on Sa-
turday night last. The prosecutor alleged that he had not
spoken to the girl, who came up to him in the street, and
filched the money from his pocket before he had time to
lay hold of her. The prisoner was not apprehended till
the following night, and then none of the cash was found
in her possession. She positive!y denied having ever seen
the prosecutor before she was introduced to him in the
Police-court that morning. As there was no evidence to
substantiate the charge, she was dismissed.

Eliza Holmes, one of the frail sisterhood. accused of
stealing four sovereigns from the person of John Risley,
a married man, from Manchester, late on Saturday night,
was sent to gaol for three months. It appeared that the
foolish man had made his disgraceful acquaintanceship
while in a state of intoxication, and that the robbery was
committed in Quakers'-alley, off Tithebarn-street.
COMMITTAL.--A miserable old woman, named Ann
Corcoran, who is quite incorrigible, was committed to take
her trial at the sessions for stealing twenty-five yards of
cloth from the shop of Richard Archerley. St. George's-
street, late on the night of Saturday. The prisoner is a
widow, with four children, all of thew dependant for their
support upon the parish.—A miserable old thief, named
Henry Williams, against whom two cases of petty theft
were proved, was sent to jail for three months.—Watkin
Sefton, a man advanced in years, was charged with being
concerned in an extensive robbery of tools, supposed to
have been committed by a companion, from the manufac-
tory of Mr. Thomas Barton, file manufacturer, Fleet-
street. Thecase was remanded till Wednesday.

FIRE, YESTERDAY.—:About one o'clock yesterday
afternoon, a fire broke out in one of the cellars belonging
to the sugar works of 31(.ssrs. All`Vicar, in bachelor-street.Fortunatel
Fortunately, however, it was immediately discovered by
some of the men on the premises, and extinguished before
any material damage Was done.

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LAUNCH OF THE AFRICAN MAIL
STEAM-SHIP CHARITY.

Yesterday forenoon, a little before eleven o'clock, the
fine screw steam-sh p Charity, one of the fleet now build.
ing for the African Royal Mail Steam-ship Company, was
launched from the yard of Mr. John Laird, Sefton-street,
near the Dingle, in the presence of a numerous and highly
respectable company of ladies and gentlemen, amongst
whom we noticed Sir John Campbell, chairman of the
company ; J. Ireland Blackburne, Eq. ; J. A. Tinne,
Esq., &c. &c. All preparations having been made, the sig-
nal was given, and in a few moments the noble ship moved
gracefully into the water amid the enthusiastic cheering of
the spectators, and the firing of cannon. The procesa of
" christening" was performed by Miss Blackburn , daughter°
of J. Ireland Blackburne, E:nri. The Charity is the
sister-ship to the Faith and Hope, also built by Mr.
Laird, and launched some time ago from his building
yard at Birkenhead. She is 240 feet long (being 40 feet
longer than the Faith and the Hope), 30 feet beam, and
1,100 tons register. From the fineness of her lines it is
expected she will attain great speed. Instead of a deck_
house, the Charity will have a spar deck, which will give
her more the appearance of a ship. She will have three
iron roasts, like the other vessels built for this line. She
will carry about a hundred first and second-class passen-
gers, and will take a large cargo in addition. The Nor-
thern Light, for the same company, is now in an advanced
state ; and the frame, keel, &c., of the Bahiana, of 1,600
tons, are getting ready to be put up.
After the launch a select party of ladies and gentle-
men sat down to a cold collation. in one of the rooms
adjacent to the building yard, Mr. Laird presiding.
Several appropriate speeches were made on the occasion.
Amongst other toasts
The CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the African
Mail Steam-ship line," and with the toast he would in-
clude the ❑ame of Sir John Campbell, the Chairman of
the Company.

The toast having been drunk with the usual honours'
Sir Jolts CAMPBELL, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, said that both himself and his colleagues took the
deepest interest in the African Mail Steam-ship
Company. They believed that it involved, the happi-
ness of millions in the African dominions. (Hear, hear,
end Cheers.) It was identified with our national pros-
perity, and was another of those great lines of
oceanic communication which was at the present. time so
characteristic of this country. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
After showing how the power of steam was promoting
intercourse with several parts of the globe, the speaker
observed that the African Company was yet still in its
infancy, and its merits were unknown, hut he was glad to
say that the exertions of himself and colleagues were going
on under the influence of government support. (Cheers.)
The company was promoted by Mr. Macgregor Laird, the
brother of their worthy host, in a spirit of philanthropy
and benevolence towards the African race; it was liberally
supported by government patronage, and would, he be-
lieved, be 1.-.llelal by the British public in a true spirit of
nationality. (Loud cheers.) He hoped the company
would be one means of ameliorating the condition of the
people on the African coast, who with minds like them-
selves, and with hearts equally susceptible, were
living in a state of degradation, shrouded by the veil of
superstition. were the unhappy victims of despotism and
slavery. (Hear, hear.) The development of the resources
of the African Mail Company would have a tendency to
enable government to suppress, and ultimately abolish,
that horrid traffic in human flesh, which was so repre-
hensible to the laws of God and man. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Miss
Blackburne, which was acknowledged by her father,
J. IRELAND BLACKBURNE, Esq., who proposed the
health of the chairman in a highly eulogistic speech.
The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the toast, and assured
the company that he should endeavour to do justice to the
Charity by seeing that good machinery was placed in her.
He proposed the health of Mr. George Forrester, whose
firm were supplying the engines to the vessel.
Sir JOHN CAMPBELL having proposed " The Ladies,'
in an appropriate speech,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Captain Ryrie,
who was one of the oldest captains in connexion with the
Cunard company. He was glad to see Captain Ryrie
present, and congratulated him on having recovered his
health. (Loud cheers.)
Captain RYRIE returned thanks, and said it was true,
as the chairman had stated, that be was now becoming an
old captain ; it was not, however, from years, but from
ill health. The service of the Cunard Company was
associated with hard work, but he rejoiced that it had
been prosperous; and he sincerely hoped that the African
Company might be equally successful. (Cheers).
Tee company separated about twelve o'clock.

A MEETING OF THE JOURNEYMEN PILOTS was held
last night, at half-past seven o'clock, in the Brunswick
Hotel, " respecting their memorial to the Pilot Com-
mittee, and other business of importance!' Our reporter
attended, but was informed that the meeting was of a
private nature.

COMING LAUNCHES AT LIVERPOOL.—There are two
or three vessels on the stocks, of Mr. Laird, at the
South End, which, it is contemplated, will be ready to be
launched in Jun:, and July. The expenditure of so much
money weekly in Toxteth. park is most beneficial to the
shopkeepers and other tradesmen of that locality.
PUBLIC-HOUSE BRAWL. George Clyne, a public-
house brawler, was brought up at the police-court on
Monday (yesterday), charged with a most unprovoked
assault on Mr. Reed, the landlord of a public-house in
the Old Haymarket, and also with behaving in a most dis-
orderly way in the same house. He was fined in 20s. and
costs, failing payment to be committed to gaol for a
month.

THE LOVERS OF HORTICULTURE will perceive, from
our advertising columns, that on Thursday next the first
exhibition for the season of the Woolton Floral, Horti-
cultural, and Agricultural Society will take place under
the most auspicious patronage, and with prospects of
great success. That the exhibition will be a rich and
useful one, and that the company will be large and dis-
tinguished, we doubt not, from the spirit with which the
preliminary atrangements have been made.
A " BOLD" ASSAILANT OF THE POLICE.—A man
named Robert Bald, accused of a gross assault upon
police officers 618 and 680, was brought before the bench
yesterday. It aepeared that he had Leen found in a
state of di graceful intoxication ; and while being kindly
taken to the bridewell for the purpose of being " booked
for safety," he assaulted police officer No. 680 several
times. Bold expressed his penitence, and was liberated
on payment of a fine of ss. and costs.
REBELLION IN THE BAKEHOUSE.—The workhouse at
Brownlow-hill was, a few days ago, the scene of a rebel-
lion among the boys, which might have been attended
with the most disastrous results to an extensive batch of
loaves, had it not been for the prompt remedial measures
adopted by those in authority. It appears that ten youths
had been told to go into the bakehouse, that in this they
at first acquiesced, although, with wicked intent, they
afterwards left off work just at the critical moment when
the bread was in the oven and most liable to be spoiled.
The four ringleaders in the revolutionary measure, named
respectively Mumley, Reynolds, Carlton, and Hughes,
were each sentenced, at the Police-court, yesterday, to
be imprisoned for twenty-one days, the remainder being
dismissed with a caution by the presiding magistrates.
DEPARTURE OF THE LOCHIEL.—LESt night, that fine
ship, the Lochiel, one of Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson's
White Star Line, left the Mersey for Australia, with
large complement of passengers on board, many of whom,
we observed, on a visit to the ship a few hours previous
to her leaving the river, are fine sturdy young fellows,
who have evidently been used to outdoor labour at home,
and who are, therefore, likely to prove more acceptable
acquisitions to our golden colony at the antipodes, than
the hosts of sickly clerks and drapers lads who have gone
thither, either to earn a precarious pittance at occupa-
tions for which they are wholly unfitted ; or to return
discontented to the mother country, if they have the
requisite cash; or, as has been too often the case, to lie
down and die in the midst of trials with which they could
not cope.

DOUBLE ASSAULT.—AN OLD POLICEMAN.—George
Tindall, who stated that he was formerly a policeman,
was yesterday placed at the bar of the Police-office,
charred with having committed a severe assault on a pre-
sentmember of the police force, in Marybone, on Sunday
morning, at the unseasonable hour of one o'clock. It
apveared that on the road homewards, with his wife and
a basket of provisions for the ensuing week, a row arose
between the inharmonious couple, in the course of which
Tindall sorely abused his wife and lost the basket. When
the policeman on the beat came up and interfered, Tin-
dall instantly turned from his better half, and directed all
his pugilistic science at the cranium and face of the mid-
night guardian—an event, of course, which, in the peace-
loving regions of Marybone, did not tend to lessen the
number of the onlookers or the loudness of the disturb-
ance. The magistrates fined Tindall in 10s. and costs, in
default of payment to go to prison for seven days.

LAUNCH OF THE ARGENTINE.—On Saturday morning,
Mr. Laird launched the first paddle steamer built in his
yard at the Dingle. This vessel is built for the South
American and General Steam Navigation Company, and
is 180 feet long, 21 feet beam, 12 feet deep ; draft of water,
in light trim for passengers and mails, 6 feet ; with a cargo
7 feet 6 inches. Tonnage, 400 tons. She is 'to be pro-
pelled by a pair of oscillating engines, each of 60 horse-
power, manufactured by. Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, of
thi3 town. She will be fitted with patent feathering
wheels, and all practical improvements that experience has
suggested. The ceremony of christening was performed
by Mrs. Hadfield, the lady of the respected secretary to
the company. The Argentine is intended to ply as a mail
steamer between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. Im-
mediately after the launch, the Argentine was conveyed
into the Sandon Dock, where her boilers, which we re in
,Oino
nb.o2lordi the\r. Marco
Polo, readiness, were placed on board her during the day. Her
engines will be fitted up
The following letter, from Capt.
as quickly as practicable.
THE MARCO POLO.—
Polo, Bth April.
Forbes, will interest ou.rLreeata.
1853.5 tr —We have s
er.3:o—N"
our destination.
• • We have had nothing but calms and
left Liv
Baines, Esq. Dear.
adverse winds since we er13031. I was tour days
in Channel; and from 5 N.-,rth to 2 North I have had
six days : nothing but calms, and light ,
air from the
southward. All our passengers are well and in hi h
spirits. We have boarded several vessels from London
with passengers; but my passengers
rather be on board the isla say they would
rc° Palo than any of them.
My passage will be made when I get south of the line,
which I expect will be to-morrow,*when I will get wind,
which I have not had north of the line. We have had
one death, a child seven months old, and one birth, which
makes our number good. I have got about forty of the
expertest thieves on board from London; and, what is
worse, two or three of them in the first cabin. 1 will
only add I have not had one word of complaint against
ship, provisions, master, or officers, which is a great thing
to say ; and they are all going to write home to their
friends to come out in your new ship. Last voyage we
had twenty deaths before those number of days out ; but
then we were under Gevernrnent orders. The jib made
by Messrs. Dixon and Co. is the finest cut sail and stand-
ing one I ever saw.—JAMES PORRES.-" [* The Marco
Polo, on the previous voyage, sailed the 4th of July, and
crossed the line on the 4th of August, being thirty. days.
On the present voyage she would cross the line In twenty-
six dgys.

MAY MORNING.
Vp with the morning, and up with the sun ;
Night, with its dreams and its shadows. is done;
The lilac's small stars in their thousands arise.
While the garden is filled with their languishing sighs,
I must awav with the earliest hours,
To gather the May-dew that lies in the flowers.

The yellow laburnum, the spendthrift of spring,
I-low lavish the wealth which its bright branches fling !
Is rich as the bough which the sibyl of yore
To chase the dark spirits of Acheron bore.
Ah, yet, at the sight of its gladness, depart
The shadows that gather in gloom o'er the heart.

The violets open their eyes in the grass,
Each one has a dew-drop to serve as a glass ;
Last night in their shelter the Fairy Queen slept;
And to thank the sweet watch o'er her sleep which they kept,
The look which she gave them at parting left there
The blue of her eyes and the scent of her hair.

With his wings filled with music, the bee is abroad ;
lie seeks the wild thyme-beds of which he is lord.
The lark starts from slumber, and upsoaring flings
The night-tears the clover had shed on his wings.
The chirp of the grasshopper gladdens the field,
For all things their mirth or their melody yield.

The glory of spring, and the glory of morn,
O'er all the wide world in their beauty are borne ;
Forth winter is gone to the snows of the north,
And the promise of summer in green leaves looks forth.
The red rose has summoned her sisters from rest,
And earth with the sight of the lovely is blest.

I too will go forth, I too will renew
My bloom and my spirits in sunshine and dew.
I hear the birds singing, and feel that their song
Bears my own heart that shareth their gladness along
Ah, let me away with the earliest hours
To gather the May-dew that lies in the flowers

L. E. L

LITERATURE.

Boolis FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c.,
intended for review, may he left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

The Christiad. By Thomas Hawkins. London

Shaw.

Mr. Thomas Hawkins labours under the de-
lusion that he is a poet, and has produced an
epic in nine books Which he very probably
fancies is fated to supplant the great work of 'Mil-
ton. Without possessing a solitary attribute of the
true poet, he has, like many another fool, rushed
daringly in "►were angels fear to tread." His book
is beneath criticism ; and, in consequence of its
profanity, we shrink from even extracting amuse-
ment from its pages. That Mr. Hawkins may not
charge us with unfairness, we take one extract from
the volume, premising merely that it is neither
better nor worse than most of the neighbouring
passages :
" Through Pandemonium Destruction sweeps
As with a besom all the Wicked ; all
The shuddering spirits and satirists of God,
Put all before Destruction ; chaos last
God helps, putting before Him ; gorging Hell,
Made overfull, with ruin; all the gloom
Of hell condensed together, all the fires
Condensing drove on that mos► blasphemous rout,
Unqualified in quantity and pain :
They thought to fly, they more than fled; never
Went they so fleet had God not added to
All their own proper wings measureless speed
Before what burnt, some ploughshare like, close aft,
Hell like a little hillock overturned :
Thus, altogether mass'd, his hold and fane,
His shrine, his Throne and all, Hell ponderous went
Before the wrath which all its entrails tore;
Supreme revenge behind, upon the back
Urging hell straight beyond into the Pit,
Without a bottom."

We trust the friends of Mr. Hawkins (if he has
any) will not permit another pernicious work like
the present to be given to the public.

The Gospel Revealed to Job. London : Longmans.
A volume of thirty lectures or sermons on the
principal passages of the Book of Job, with ex-
planatory, illustrative and critical notes, by the Rev.
Charles Augustus Hulbert, M.A., Perpetual Curate,
of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire. It is well observed in
the preface to this work, that little of modern
literature is devoted to original works on Theology,
publications on this subject being either re-produc-
tions of the valuable labours of past ages, or isolated
sermons, in which the theme is necessarily but
brief. In this publication, Mr. Hulbert has done
good service, in devoting his learning and research
to the illustration of one of the most difficult, yet
most instructive books in the Holy Scriptures. He
states that his attention was more particularlydevoted
to the subject during a severe illness, and that he
wisely resolved to employ the hours of convales-
cence in the study ; and though the execution of
his design led to more extensive researches than he
had contemplated, he persevered until he completed
a work, which will rank among our standard
theological literature, and prove of two-fold ad-
vantage, inasmuch as it will deeply interest the
Christian student, and help to remove many of the
doubts of the sceptic. In carrying out his design,
the author has chosen for his introductory discourse
the divine inspiration of the Book of Job, taking
his text from Ist Corinthians iii. 19; and his
second lecture is on the general scope of the Book
of Job, his text being James v. 11. He then pro-
ceeds with the interesting subject, commencing
with the first verse of the Book on the person, age,
and country of Job, and, going seriatim through
the several topics which a perusal of the book
suggests, concludes with Job's repentance, accept-
ance, and reward. There is, perhaps, ncr part of
the Holy Scriptures which has given rise to SO
many various opinions and learned researches, as
the narrative of Job, and our readers may therefore
feel interested in the opinion of so able a commen-
tator as Mr. Hulbert. He says—" The Book of
Job has perhaps failed of impressing the common
reader with its true antiquity, from the place which
it occupies, in the collection of sacred books called
the Old Testament, next after the historical books,
but it ought probably to be placed first in the order
of time of the whole Divine Canon, if we except
the early chapters of the Book of Genesis." In cor-
roboration of this opinion, he says that, " the date
of the events recorded, and the composition of the
principal or poetical part cannot be later than the
age of Jacob and his sons ; for it contains no re-
ference to the Exodus, the Levitical law, or any of
the magnificent circumstances of the nation and
Church of Israel. The body of the work was most
probably written by Job himself, in the later years
of his prosperity, and in Arabia : discovered by
Moses when in the wilderness of Nlidian, with
Jethro, his father-in-law, by whom it may have
been preserved. Moses added the first and second
chapters, and the last verses of the concluding
chapter, to make the work more perspicuous and
complete." Having referred to other internal
evidences, particularly the use of words and forms,
to he traced to the Arabic and Chaldee, and the
fact that the word Jehovah occurs only once in
what may be considered the original work, whereas
it is used frequently in the part attributed to Nloses,
the Author says :—" We are thus presented with
a work which has existed for at least 3,500 years,
unimpaired in beauty and unsurpassed in sub-
limity. Composed a thousand years before the
oldest Grecian historian, Herodotus, handled the
pen, and when the Roman language had scarcely
an existence. * * * While it is full of the
noblest bursts of eloquence, it is arranged with the
order of the logician, and displays the loftiest
enthusiasm, tempered with the soundest philo-
sophy." To the general reader, as well as the
student, this work will prove a valuable acquisition;
and it is particularly easy of reference, as in ad-
dition to methodical arrangement and numerous
notes, the appendix contains a list of authorities ,
quoted or referred to, a general index, and a table i
of the numerous texts of Scripture which are ex-
plained and illustrated. I ,

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, A MOST EFFICIENT REMEDY
FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS AND INDIGESTION. _A
captain in the mercantile service, who had traded many
years to the West Indies, suffered for a considerable time
from severe bilious attacks and indigestion, depression of
spirits bordering on melancholy, a sinking at the pit of
the stomach, and a continual craving after substantial
food; he paid an immense sum of money for medical
advice, without obtaining any lasting benefit; and, how_
ever extraordinary it may appear, he was cured in less
than six weeks by taking Holloway's Pills, and for the
last two years he has not felt the least symptom of bile,
indigestion, or disordered stomach.
As IMPROVEMENT.—We this week deem it our duty
to call the attention of ladies, housekeepers, and laun-
dresses, to the Glenfield Patent Starch, which, for
domestic use, now stands unrivalled. The manufacturer
has succeeded in producing an article which will not
injure the finest fabrics, while it withstands the humidity
of the atmosphere and resists the lapse of time, retaining
its beautiful colour and superior satin glaze for any
length of time that goods may require to be kept. INo
starch has ever been made of such superior quality, and
none have produced a starch so pure and so beautiful in
appearance. It is the only starch used in the laundry of
her Majesty, and that of the leading nobility and gentry,
and gives to all parties entire satisfaction. We have also
seen the process of manufacture, which we believe to be
carried on with great care, and in such a manner as to
insure the production of an excellent article. The manu-
facture of the Glenfield Patent Starch has undergone
very material improvements. We are informed, by
parties well qualified to judge, that the Glenfield Patent
Starch possesses properties hitherto, herto, we believe, regarded
as a desiderata in the article, viz., that it does not injure
the texture of the linen, and that it resists the humidity
of the atmosphere ; and further, that it undergoes no
change even by lapse of time. These valuable properties
cannot fail to secure for it a favourable reception in the
laundry, and also by merchants, as 1,500 of their number
throughout. the country have signed a testimonial, de-
claring is the best starch they have ever sold. This is
a sufficient proof of how this starch is appreciated by the
great population of this country. We would respectfully
remind our readers to ask for the " Glenfield Patent
Starch," and to see that the manufacturer's name, R.
Wotherspoon, is marked on each packet, as this is the
Only gaiety in securing the genuine article,

VARIETIES.

"TWICE BLESS'D."—WhiIe wages rise, Chartists won't.
THE INDIVIDUAL who broke the ice with his maiden
speech, was drowned by applause.
A VEGETARIAN HELP-" MEAT."—Steaks at tenpence.
A MEM. FOR THE YOUNG-MATRON-MARKETER.—
That provisions are never higher in the scale than when
they kick the beam.
" EARLY TO RISE MAKES A MAN WEALTHY," &C.—
In more especial the man who is earliest in taking the
" rise" out of the public pocket.
WEALTH AND WIDOWHOOD, when united, are dan-
gerous things to encounter ; money, when in large quanti-
ties, may be called the " widow's might," as, in poverty,
it is the " widow's mite."
COCKNEYISMS.—Witness : " This here feller broke our
winder with a tater, and hit Isabeller on the elber, as she
was playing on the pianer."—Magistrate : " The conduct
of the prisna' and his general characta' render it props'
that he should no longs' be a memba' of society."
SEALING-WAX.—The most careful persons will occa-
sionally drop melting sealing-wax on their fingrs. The
first impulse of every one is to pull it off, which is fol-
lowed by a blister. The proper course is to let the wax
cool on the finger ; the pain is much less, and there is no
blister.

How TO EAT GRAPES.—Few people know how to
eat grapes. Some swallow pulp, seeds, and skin; others
swallow only the pulp, rejecting both seeds and skin.
In conversing with Dr. Underhill on this subject, he
advised to observe the following rules :—When in health,
swallow only the pulp ; when the bowels are costive, and
you wish to relax them, swallow the seeds with the pulp,
ejecting the skins ; when you wish to check a too relaxed
state of the bowels, swallow the pulp with the skins, eject-
ing the seeds. Thus may the grape be used as a medi-
cine, while at the same time it serves as a relaxity, un-
surpassed by any other cultivated fruit. A❑ adult may
eat from three to four pounds per day with benefit. It
is well to take them with, or immediately after your re-
gular meals.

CHEAP LITERATURE.—A few months since I was ap-
plied to myself to contribute to a new journal, not exactly
gratuitously, but at a very small advance upon nothing—
and avowedly because the work had been planned accord.
ing to that estimate. However, I accepted the terms
conditionally, that is to say, provided the principle could
he properly carried out. Accordingly, I wrote to my
butcher, baker, and other tradesmen, informing them
that it was necessary, for the sake of cheap literature and
I the interest of the reading public, that they should furnish
me with several commodities eta very trifling per tentage
above cost price. It will be sufficient to quote the answer
of the butcher : " Sir : Respectin' your note. Cheap
literater be blowed. Butchers must live as well as other
pepel—and if so be you or the readin' publick wants to
have meat at prime cost, you must buy your own beast-
esses, and kill yourselves. I remain, Scc„ John Stokes."
—T. Hood.

THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS breakfasts on a cup of tea
and a rusk ; dines on a little fish, a cutlet, or a chop,
with a biscuit and a glass of cherry and water. In the
evening he takes a cup of tea. He suffers from an internal
disease, and is obliged to be abstemious. Then what is
the use of being an emperor, after all? With a table
loaded with every luxury, with cellars stocked with the
choicest wines, he is obliged to live as moderately as a
man with an income of £lOO a year. He can make laws
for his subjects as he pleases; but nature has made a law
that is as binding upon him as upon the meanest serf in
his dominions. He may put to death those who disobey
his laws, but he disobeys with equal peril those under
which he byes. A good appetite, and health to make its
gratification safe, would be poorly exchanged for imperial
honours. The best gifts of God are free to all his crea-
tures. The free air of heaven, the pure water that springs
from the earth, taste as freshly and as sweetly to the poor
man as to the rich. Exercise invigorates him, sleep
refreshes him, the beauties of nature delight him as well ;
and, in this happy country, at least, the power of intel-
lectual and moral improvement is as great. As humanity
progresses, the difference between an emperor and a com-
mon man shows less and less.—Literary Journal.
PICTURE OF A LONDON POLICE COURT.—The Beak
seated himself, and for some time there passed before him
a portion of the grim phantasmagoria of depravity, want,
and brutality, which every morning surges up to the
judgment-seat from the turbid sea of London existence.
The wife, foully battered and bruised by her husband,
came, as usual, and hardly raised her swollen eyes to
deny his counter-charge of drunkenness and aggravation.
The mother was there to beg the law to protect her from
the child that robbed and kicked her, and the sullen and
vicious cub replied with a lie of starvation and ill-usage.
The baby was laid, all bones and bruises, before the
minister of justice, to testify that a beast's dam is kinder
than some baptised and married mothers. Vile women,
hoarse and pert, told their shameless quarrels, and
bared their flesh to show the wounds of nails and teeth.
A brawny ruffian, his head and face seamed with crimson
plasters, pleaded that drink had maddened him, and
hoped that the blows he bad received before he could be
secured, might atone for his having mutilated three or
four officers. Children were placed behind a barrier,
over which nothing but their shock hair and bright eyes
could be seen, to be judged for pilfering, while the Jew
fence or the marine-store keeping Christian, lurked near
the door, to hear whether his pupils were to rejoin him at
once, or after some whipping and imprisonment. A
lithe-limbed pickpocket took his thirtieth sentence, with
a pleasant bow to his judge ; an Irish beggar woman
sobbed and howled frightfully during the hearing, and
then flung a stone at the chief clerk's bald head • a maniac
preacher announced his divine mission, with hideous cries
about eternal fire and the undying worm ; and a con-
sumptive gay woman in yellow satin and a lace bonnet,
was bound over not to assault a brown and corpulent hag,
who lent her the trappings for her dreadful trade, and
exacted, in return, nearly the last sixpence it produced.
Such were some of the " cases" of the day. Take a chair
in a police court for one morning, and you will, perhaps,
go away with a resolve to do quietly, and to the best of
your power, the work which lies nearest your hand, but
not to shout very much, for the future, when Mr. Sad-
dueee, in the Commons. boasts about this enlightened
age, and Earl Pharisee, in the Lords, boasts about this
Christian nation.—Bentley's Miscellany.
A FRENCH WIT.—PRACTICAL JOKES.--YOU have had
yours ; and mine is named Ganguernet. My first acquain-
tance with him was at Rheims. He was a complete
adept in his profession, and, as a regular joke-player,
master of all the tricks of his trade. Well skilled was he
in the art of attaching a piece of meat to the bell-rope of
a porter's lodge, so that all the wandering dogs about
town would snap at the tempting bait, and awaken the
mystified domestics ten times a-night. Very expert was
he also at cutting innkeepers' signs in two pieces, and
substituting one for another. But if Ganguernet was not
the most agreeable companion in the city, still less so
was he in the country, where indeed his presence, to me
at least, was always a perfect nuisance. He knew how
to scatter the hair, adroitly clipped from a brush, between
the sheets of a friend, so that the victim, before he had
been a quarter of an hour in bed, would become furious
with the itching. He would pierce the partition between
two sleeping-apartments, so as to pass through a piece of
twine which he had cunningly fastened to your bed-
clothes, and then, when he found that you were asleep,
he would gently pull the string, until the covering was all
drawn down to your feet. You awake half-frozen—for
Ganguernet always chooses a cold damp night for this
trick—draw up the covering, wrap yourself carefully up,
and very innocently resume your slumbers ; then Gan-
guernet, gently pulling his cord, again strips you naked ;
again you are benumbed with cold; and when you begin
to utter imprecations in the dark, his detestable voice is
heard bawling through the hole, " What a capital joke !"
There was one of his tricks which appeared to me to be
truly abominable. He played it upon a person reputed
to be a brave man, but who was nevertheless horribly
frightened. One night, after getting snugly into bed,
this gentleman felt something cold and slimy alongside of
him; he touched it with his foot; it seemed a round
elongated body ; he placed his hand upon it ; it was a
serpent coiled upon itself! In an ecstacy of terror, he
leaped from the bed with a cry of disgust and horror,
when Ganguernet made his appearance, shaking his fat
sides, and roaring out, "What a capital joke!" It was
an eel-skin filled with water that had caused the panic.
The enraged gentleman would have broken the head of
the joker, but Ganguernet, throwing a pitcher of water
over the sans-culotte sufferer, made his escape, yelling
out at the top of his voice, " A capital joke I—a capital
joke !"—Frona the French.
To THOSE ABOUT TO MARRY.—THINGS TO BE
THOUGHT ABOUT.—" Give my consent, sir ! Why you
must be mad to ask such a thing ! Pray, sir, what is the
amount of your annual income ?"—" One hundred a year,
Sir, at present."—" Precisely so. One hundred a year!
Now, sir, would you like to see my last quarter's bill ?"
—" I really don't see, my good sir, begging your pardon,
what it can have to do with the question."—" Don't you,
indeed, young gentleman ? Then I beg to tell you it has
everything to do with the question. If you were to
marry my daughter, which you won't, you know you
would have to provide her with beef and mutton. Yes,
sir, with beef and mutton. No doubt you think she
could live on air and love, but you're quite mistaken.
She has a capital appetite of her own, and I don't know a
girl who makes a larger hole in a leg of mutton at one
sitting than herself.' —" But really, my dear Mr. Nobbs
—"—" Now don't interrupt me, young gentleman. Of
course its very disgusting to hear of a young lady eating
beef and mutton, and running up the items of a butcher's
bill, isn't it ? But its a matter of fact, sir ; and fact is
what you have to live by and not romantic nonsense.
Now I tell you that my last quarter's butcher's bill—its
paid, mind you—was £22 3s. Bd. That's at the rate of
£BB odd per annum. Now I'll allow you and my daughter
to consume only one-third of that, and then you are with
nearly £3O to pay for your butcher's meat alone. Rather
a large slice out of the £lOO, I think."—" I never ex-
pected that my present income would suffice for us, sir,
but I thought—"—" Oh, yes, I understand you. You
thought that my daughter had a rich father, but she hasn't.
You thought that he'd allow you both enough to live on,
but he won't. What next, sir."—" I hope in time to
increase my own income, sir."—" Very likely. Your
employer gives you £lOO a-year now :if you behave your-
self properly, which I don't doubt, he will perhaps give
you £l2O a-year or two hence; and if still you live
steadily by the time you are gray, it's not improbable you
may have £2OO a-year for your income. Haven't I stated
the Not quite, sir, I think. You make
exertions and endeavours to get some
ntloieacllaosweafnacirelyfor
my
more profitable employment than I now have; but since
'
you seem determined to weigh your daughter's happiness
magyainst
good
sme,oreumngonge
gentleman. t talk nonsense,
an. Now pray don
Whether you are going to
give me a speech out of a novel or a poem I don't know,
but I do know that novels and poetry are all rubbish.
Find me out a fair substitute for money and I'll weigh my
daughter's happiness against that; and if you should
possess this unknown substitute, my daughter is at your
service. But so long as people want bread, meat, houses,
clothes, tea and sugar, to say nothing of luxuries, and so
long as money alone can purchase these necessary items, I
shall consider money the grand essential of life, and that
" The rest is all but leather or prunello."
You see I have read poetry in spite of my prosy views of
love and matrimony. And now, my good sir, I wish you
good day ; and I strongly advise you to stick to your desk
and forgetthat there is such a person as Miss Julia Nobbs."
And so saying, Mr. Jacob Nobbs bowed out Mr. Valen-
tine Sapley Ajinellany,

CORRESPONDENCE.

Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the
real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but
as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite
in any statement of facts.
The Editor wishes it to be understood that be does not hold
himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his
correspondents.
DAMAGE BY NOXIOUS VAPOURS.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,-At intervals during the last few weeks, the vapour or
gas from the numerous copper and alkali works at and near
St. Helen's have done great and serious damage to the bloom
on the fruit trees, burnt and otherwise damaged our young
and promising clover ; and, in some localities, the wheat has
been completely withered. 1 wish, therefore, being one
amongst the many sufferers, that these manufacturers would
endeavour to condense more thoroughly; and thus save them-
selves such exposures as these, and confer incalculable bles-
sings on many who have for years been too quiet sufferers.

Could the landlords and farmers not unite and form them-
selves into a sort of protection society, whereby they might
recover all their losses similar to other trades ?—Waiting to
hear from some one more able to explain than your obedient
servant, A RUSTIC SUFFERER.

Parr, near St. Helen's, May 20, 1853.

THE BIRKENHEAD ELECTIONS.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—You know enough of the natural history of the cuckoo,
whose monotonous note we are daily hearing, to be well
aware that it is either too lazy or too unskilful to build its own
nest, but is not too honest to appropriate that of some other
bird to its own purpose, when it gets the chance.
I find, on reading an address issued by Mr. Carmichael to
the ratepayers of Birkenhead, that he promises, among other
fine things, to " urge forward by every possible means the
contract entered into with Messrs. Brassy and M'Cormick,
for the building of the outer-works of the Docks." Now, this
promise comes from that Red party, that might—if they could,
or, perhaps, better if they would—have negotiated it on some
such arrangement six years since, but did not I Perhaps they
are not to blame ; it may be they could not find any parties
capable and willing at the same time. This is their misfor-
tune ; but to adopt the cuckoo style of appropriating, as Mr.
Carmichael does, the nest that others have taken so much time

and labour to construct, and quietly sit down in it without
having the decency to state that it was built by the birds he
is trying to thrust out, is too much ; and the Red list gentle-
men, perhaps, would not like to be called the cuckoo comm's-
sioners, but that they have earned the title, should they be
elected, seems very clear to your obedient servant,

TRUE BLUE.

ROMISIT CONTROVERSY.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Several placards have been posted upon the walls,
headed "Challenge to the Parsons," requesting the attendance
of several gentlemen to defend their Protestant principles at a
large Catholic meeting (wrongly so called) at a room in Circus-
street. So, giving the parties credit for their desires of en-
lightenment, I attended one of their meetings on Tuesday
night, with the intention of refuting any doctrinal errors they
might advance of their own Church ; but, after patiently wait-
ing from eight o'clock until ten o'clock (during which time two
of their own speakers monopolised the whole of it), I endea-
voured to open out the subject, but as soon as I touched upon
the erroneous part of their statements, they immediately rose
en masse and bellowed me down. They refused to hear, and,
by their conduct on this occasion, convinced me more than
ever that Romanists are the greatest enemies of civil and
religious liberty in the world.—Yours, respectfully,

A PROTESTANT LAYMAN.

We have been requested to insert the following :
TO MR. J. MACDONALD.

S I have read the correspondence which has taken place
between you and several of our clergy. It is quite evident now
that they will not condescend to meet an unauthorised layman ;
but I am sure there are plenty of laymen in Liverpool able to
meet you; but as hitherto none has come forward, and as you
have thrown down the gauntlet, and sounded your challenge, and
are only waiting the encounter of a " foeman worthy of your
steel," and though I claim not for myself so distinguished a
title, yet sooner than so valorous a champion should be disap-
pointed, I am ready to meet you upon one condition ; that is,
that you produce a certificate from your priest that you are a
respectable person, and competent to enter upon a theological
discussion : I will produce a similar one from my clergyman;
and undertake to prove:—

Ist. That your church is not the church of Christ, but the
apostacy of the latter times.

- 2nd. That your priests are " blind leaders of the blind;''
that they neither know the truth nor preach it.
3rd. That your doctrine of transubstantiation "is repugnant
to the plain words of scripture, overthroweth the nature of a
sacrament, and bath given occasion to many superstitions."
4th. That your doctrine of the mass" is a blasphemous fable,
and a dangerous deceit."
sth. That your purgatory is a " fond thing, vainly invented
and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rntber re-
pugnant to the Word of God."

6th. That your invocation of saints and angels "is idolatry
to be abhorred of all faithful Christians."

If you are in earnest in this matter, and really wish to bring
your doctrines to the test of Scripture, I shall he prepared to
name two respectable persons, who will meet two friends of
yours, to arrange the preliminaries. Waiting your reply,
I am, your obedient servant,
EDWARD RATCLIFFE.

5, Moira-street.