The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-13 00:00:00

THE REWARD OF PATRIOTISM

We stated about a month ago that a certain agitating doctor
in this town had been taken from his pestle and mortar by go-
vernment, or rather by Mr. Ponlett Thompson, and rewarded
for his zealous labours in that gentleman's service by appoint-
ment to a situation under either the Poor Law or the Factory
Commissioners. The favored individual, however, rejected the
distinction, or it was refused to him at the eleventh hour—(we
know not precisely in which way the change occured)—and one
inure worthy than he, it seems, has stepped into his shoes. The
following paragraph appeared in the London papers of Tues-
day :

" Lord John Russell has appointed Mr. James Bury, of
Manchester, Superintendent Inspector of Manufactories for
Derby, Nottingham;,Leicester, and Northampton."
The former nomination was sufficiently bad, but it was suc-
ceeded by a worse. The Factory Act is indeed a mere job, and
the expenditure of money in salaries is an insult to the country,
if such mere toad-eaters—the servants-of-all-work of an election
committee, who do not choose to continue in there own sphere
and labour at their proper vocation, are to be saddled upon the
country and to such a subsistence from the public funds solely
because they have assumed a degree of prominence, for which
nature never intended them, in the field of local and electioneer-
ing politics. The salaries of factory inspectors we have long
considered to be contemptibly meagre, taking into view the du-
ties attaching to the office in this part of the country, but if pay-
ment is to be admeasured to the competency of the servant,
then Mr. Bury has glided into a better appointment than, this
failing, he is likely soon again to encounter. We should be
glad to know with whom the formal responsibility of this nomi-
nation rests. The honourable member for Manchester no doubt
secretly planned it, and the Home Secretary, we presume, has
the actual appointment, but as the latter could scarcely be
honored by the distinguished friendship of Mr. Bury, he has to
thank some one of his friends for an abominable aliuse of his
kindness in bringing under his notice a person who possesses
about as high qualification for the office of factory inspector as
did the worthy doctor for whom this situation was first designed.
We should not be sorry to find, in the debate on the pending;
factory bill, some reference to the extraordinary character of
the parties selected to carry out the provisions of the Act.
Manchester Chronicle-

MILITARY ELOQUENCE.—Speaking of military eloquence
says Las Cases in his memoirs of Napoleon, the Emperor said
" When in the heat of battle, passing along the line, I used to'
exclaim, Soldiers, unfurl your banners, the moment is come!'
our Frenchmen absolutely wept for joy. I saw them multiply
a hundred-fold. I then th.ought nothing impossible." [This calls
to mind a similar expression of the Duke of Wellington in his
recent examination before the military commissioners; when
speaking of the discipline of the English army under his com-
mand in the Peninsula, he said, " I always thought that I could
have gone anywhere and done anything with that army.l

CHAPLAIN'S WAGES.—The Guardians of the Workhouse at
Woburn have advertised for a Chaplain—his pay is to be the
handsome sum of £35 per annum ! This, being about 13s. 6d.
per week, is considered very liberal. And so it is, for a person
who has been rash enough to spend hundreds upon his education
for Holy Orders ! Thirteen and sixpence per week is considered
sufficient for a clergyman of the Church of England (the ad-
vertisement calls him a " gentleman," as if in mockery,) to at-
tend to the poor on the Duke of Bedford's estate, every acre of
which estate *as robbed from that Church !—Age.
BOLTON SUNDAY SCNOOL.—On Sunday afternoon last an
impressive and appropriate sermon was preached in the parish
church, Bolton, by the Rev. J. Slade, for the benefit of the
Sunday school. The organ gallery was filled with the female
scholars dressed very neatly in white, and who sung with much
simplicity and effect in the choruses of several anthems, which
were performed by a numerous orchestra. The church was
densely crowded, and the town presented all the appearances of
a grand gala day. The collection amounted to £l3B.

A CABINET MINISTER.—The late Mr. Canning was once the
object of an anonymous attack which marked him out for assas-
sination. He knew the author, and in his presence, in the House
of Commons, where be sat in trembling silence, while he dared
him to repeat the statement which he had circulated by the press,
he told him to his teeth " he was a liar and a scoundrel, and
only wanted courage to be an assassin." This individual is now
a cabinet minister.—Newcastle Journal.
Stu fIumpHREY DAbY'S OPINION ON THE MARRIAGE
STATE.—lipon points of affection it is only for the parties
themselves to form just opinions of what is really necessary to
insure the felicity of the married state. Riches appear to me
not at all necessary, but competence, I think, is; and, after
this, more depends upon the temper of the individual than upon
personal, or even intellectual circumstances. The finest spirits,
the most exquisite wines, the nectars and ambrosias of modern
tables, will be all spoiled by a few drops of bitter extract; and
a bad temper has the same effect in life, which is made up, not
of great sacrifices and duties, but of little things, ir. which
smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually,
are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
POOR LAW FRUCTIFICATION.—Whether the Travelling'
Schoolmaster has made knowledge so cheap that it may be had
at the rate of midshipman's half-pay, (three farthings per annum,
paid quarterly,) we are not able to say, but it would seem that
the new I'oor Laws require some such fructification of intellect,
without however a corresponding appetency for corporal food.
In the town of Cambridge the board of guardians has advertised
for married men to be masters of the workhouses; each is re-
quired to " write a good hand, and be able to keep accounts with
the greatest accuracy; and the matron (his wife) must be able
toinstruct the children iu the house, and superintend the do-
mestic concerns therein." For doing which these Mr. and Mrs.
Caleb Quotems are to have the enormous and scandalous allow-
ance of £l2 per annum, which is about 4s. 7d. per week !—this
too in a town which is the seat of a University ! "Satisfactory
testimonials and sureties will be required of each master;"—so
we should suppose; the trust is immense, and the responsibility,
as measured by the remuneration, quite overwhelming.—Aye.
DEATH FRONT THE BITE OF A TIGER. About a fortnight
ago a schoolmaster of Carlisle, named Newbald, very impru-
dently put his hand upon the bead of a savage tiger in Mr.
Wombwell's menagerie, and the animal seized his hand, and so
severely lacerated the thumb and forefinger that immediate
amputation was resorted to. He has lost his life by his foolish
temerity. It was generally feared that lock-jaw would ensue
from the laceration of the muscles, but after lingering some days
symptoms of mortification ensued in the limb. Another surgi-
cal operation was performed, with the hope of saving life, but
in vain; he died at half-past two on Wednesday week. For
some hours priors to his demise be was quite delirious, and nearly
the last words he uttered was a cry of entreaty to those near
him that they would keep off that horrid beast, the tiger, which
was going to spring upon bim. An inquest was held upon the
body on Thursday afternoon, before W. Carrick, Esq., coroner,
when evidence was adduced to prove that the deceasd was re-
peatedly cautioned by the keeper and others to keep away from
the beasts, but be neglected their caution, in the foolish bravado
of intoxication. Verdict, accidental death, with a deodand of
Is. on the tiger.
CURIOUS USE OF WORDS:—It continued to rain hard, but
every one was of course calling it a soft day. This expression
is, I-believe, equally common in the north of England; but in
Ireland some of the terms which are made use of are odd
enough to a stranger. For instance, "Dry Lodgings to be had,
inquire within," will be observed in passing through almost
every village. It naturally suggested to me that the word
" dry" could only mean free from wet or damp, perhaps at the
same time insinuating that others in the neighbourhood were
not so. It seems, however, that 1 was quite wrong in my con-
jectures, for I found that "dry lodgings" meant neither more
nor less than that no eating or drinking was to be obtained
within, but merely a tied for the lodger. A poor woman, in
whose cottage I had once taken shelter, pressed me to eat a
boiled potato, observing I might feel dry before I crossed the
mountain, meaning -hungry—a word not at all applicable on
that occasion, as the rain was pouring, and there was every
prospect of my clothes being drenched through.—Barrow's Tour.

MAY 13 I S3ti

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THURSDAY, Max I'J.—Noon, Wind N. E.—.. Moderate.
ARRIVED—The Adam Lodze, from Charleston—The North
America, Dixey, from New York—Atalanta, Kiohke, from Memel
Anna Dorothea, Barsman, from Oldenburgh—Johanna Catharina
Robe, from Bremen—Jan Van Eyek, Cornelisse Andre, Christen ;
and Neyverheid, Rickmans, from Ostend.
SAILED—The Barton, An wyl, for Barbados—Susannah, Watson, for
St Thomas and Nassau—Antveus, Coulson, fur Quebec—Sir J. Frank;
land, Corner, fur Lisbon—Thomas Crisp, Crisp, for Constantinople.

The Minerva, and Mary Brown, hence, at Philadelphia.
Argo, Farley. hence, at Boston.
Countess of Lousdale, Groom, hence, at Havana.
Monticello, Lawton • Orwell, Gow ; Victoria, Monroe; Manches.;
ter, Denning; Hamilton, Ball; Manchester, Patten; and Shannon;
Mildew, hence. at Mobile.
James and Thomas, ; and John Troughton, hence;
at Charleston.
Joven Enrique, Garay ; and Lady Normal-thy, Teasdale, hence, at
Havanna.

British King, Moncrief, from Dundee, at Savannah.
Napoleon, --, from Belfast, at do.
The Athol, Gleig ; Regalia; Cobb; Ocean Queen, Carnie ; Charles
Heartley, Hopper ; Brothers, Bell ; Onyx, Nicholson; Washington:
Rogers; and Ranger, Jelland, hence, at Rio Janeiro.
The Agnes, Cummin ; and Thomas Leech, Cowell, hence, at Buenos
Acres.
*The Frederic Wilhelm 111, Kuhr, hence, at Bermuda, in distress;
bound to New York.
The Euphrates, Emmerson, from St Marks for this port, in going
out of the former port, 20th March, went ashore and would have to
discharge to be got off.
Coromandel, Chener, hence, at China.
Derwent, Hewitt, from Rio Janeiro ; and Macclesfield, Wright, fin
New South Wales, at China.
The Ellen Johnson, sailed from Buenos Ayres for this port, 23d Jan:
The Selina, Adams, for Cork ; and Arabian, for Bristol, sailed from'
China in December.

The Columbia, Underwood, for London ; and Bellhaven, Crawford,'
for this port, 3d January.
BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 30.—Guns of distress, apparently from the
English Bank, were heard off Monte Video, 26th instant.