The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-09 00:00:00

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LARGE TURK EY.—T he largest turkey exhibited this Christ-
tniis. Leadenhall Alarket, nas bred liv Mr. itayner, of Wint-
t;elford, near Cambridge. and weighed 32,1i5-1 he price being
£5. ss. Twelve capons, weighing l2Olbs. lied ..ny Paget anti
Page, near Dorking, fetched nine guineas.

A Posen.—A boy once cOmplained of his bedfellow for tak-
ing half the bed. " And why out ?" said his mintier, ''he's
entillnl to half, aint he ?"'''' Yes. mother," said the buy, '• out
how should you like to have hint to take out all the soft part for
ills had? he witi have his had right out it' the middle, and I
nave to sleep both sides of him."--American paper.
Tut: CANADIAN GENERAL. BROWN.—The distineuished Gen.
Brown, of whose dastariny conduct the Canada papers bring us
such unpleasant accounts, was, we are assured, for some t:tue
the editor or an obscene radical Irian newspaper, entitled the
Comet. In that capacity lie r<as sentenced to a fine of £IOO.
and six months' imprisonment. The whigs not only remitted
his floe, but actually gave hint an hundred pounds fur the pur-
pose of enabling him to emigrate. No sooner did the fightiUg
begin than Brown bolted at full speed, with the contents, it is
sail,of the mit itary chest of the rebel litorade in his pouch. The
mimey was, however, retaken, and the vagabond well thrashed,
hut. his pseudo Friends do riot seem to have considerei hint worth
hanging.—United Scenic Gazette.

THE NECESSITY OR HAVING A PURPOSE.—Life lies before
us, as a huge quarry lies befu►e the architect, exceM when out
of his for►uitous mass he can combine, with the greatest economY,
suitableness and durability, some form, She patterit of which
orhonated in his spirit. All things without—nay, 1 may acid,
all things on us a►e mere elements; but 'feel) within us lies the
eteetlye force, which out of these can produce what they were
meant to be; and which leaves. us neither si,ep nor rest till, in
one way or a►rather, %%about us or on us this has teen produced.
—Goethe.

The arzette Ua;t•erselle de T,e;psic of the 25th of ljecetnher,.
speaks of a new treaty, which has heel) signed by the patties to
the treaty ipoulruple allittnee, iu consequence of which all
the troops who may lie sent into Spain w►ll carry the tiag tot
their respective nations.
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SELF IsrKttEsT.—Every one woidil pnrsne his Own interest,
if he knew what it was; and, in fact, every one does pnrsue it;
but the generality totally mistake it. No lawn would choose
tithes before happiness. power before quiet, or tame hafore
safety, if he knew the true vatoe of each; no man wituld prefer
the transitory and worthless enjoyment of this world, io the
permanent and sublime felicity of a better, if he had a cleat
prospect of them both; but we see the former through a mist,
which alway, magnifi,s, and the latter appears at so great a diet-.
taure, that we'scarce see it at and therefore it makes little
imp,,,ooni upon our senses, and b.oi as little influerice on our
condtict.—Jenyux. r
A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE.—In the night of Wednesday
week, about the hour when ghosts play at leap-frog over tourb-
' stones, or slid( themselves up in the corners of dark rooms to
frighten simple maidens out of their senses. Mr. Th0111:AS Eve
and Mr. Charles Bird, inhabitants of the village of Oreett, sallied
forth from the house of a friend some miles nistant, to search
out their own good roof trees. Now, be it known, at the iden-
tical house from which they sallied, a young stranger hail taken
up a "local habitation," to whom they had that. day given "a
twine," and consequently the hearts of Messrs. Eve and Bird
were SO wrapped tip in the warm things which hospitality scat-
ters aoont at these j.ivous times, that they feared not cold winds,,
tnieves hob,zoblins, or other midnight trifles. In this heroic
mood Ciey reached St ifford- hill, when a cart attracted their at-
tention. Thouoh fear shmiliered, suspicion was awake, and
they very coolly walked round to look at the name on the catt.
Now conscience is a troublesome fellow at times, at least to a
certain class of persons; and as the owner of the cart (hi not
happen to be provided with the best in the world, it gave him,
a. this particular
,juncture, certain twitches; so, throwing off
his owl, he leaped to the .round and escaped, leaving au ex-
' cellent cart, Lis coat, and five Rigs in the hands of Messrs. Eve
and Bird, who thus captured a valuable prize without striking a
blow. The cart had on "Samuel Mitchell. General Dealer,
Tottenham Road:" and Messrs. Eve and Biid, following up
I t adventure with the most praiseworthy promptness, started
without loss of time, and, on searching the premises thus pointed
out, found a sack with the name of Field, (who is known at
Avelev.) upon it. The pigs it proved, had been stolen trout
Miss Hanson's. of New Jenkins Farm, Mucking, about six
miles from Stitlord Hill, and the cart was evidently on its way
to Tottenham, when it was thus captured by the christening
part y.—Chelmsford Chronicle.

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FItACA4 IN HIGH LtFE.—The Duke of Sussee,,though
past his grand cliniactertc, and one of the most extraordinary
figures in existence, Goer and Magog; not excepted, has atwa%s
been remarkable for that he terms the tender passion. Riit
even the sub v.capped 'Etna burns within, and the gallant
Duke, with the weight of torn' stone on his feet, and the snows
of the equivocal old age under the black silk nightcap, which
he and the judges wear alike, we should conceive as an extin•
guisher to alt human hopes, is still pervious to the arrows lathe
little deity of youths and maidens. Some time since it was
rumoured that his gay and Radical Highness (bun& proper to
marry, as was then said, a lady Cecilia Mug,gins of iinggits
which rather nna
rislueraoc naine she subsequently changed for

Underwood; but as she is a pretty woman, her name is do mat-
ter to any body. lis Royal IlLhness on being, invited to the
city dinner, requested cards for two ladies; one of Whom was
Lady Ceeilia. The cards were given, and the places assigned
were at the table of the ladies of the royal household, 1,40
days before the ceremony an order was suddenly dispatched to
the Managing Committee that seats shmild he proviited for the
the Duchess of Stahel land and Lady Mu grave at the Qireen's
table—the Duchess and Countess haying, in fact, retused to
dine at the table originally appointed for them. heir reason
was obvious; they iii t tint Bice their company. AU this, of
(nurse, was toneh talked of. But it luckily has not shaken the
old Doke's attachment to his young sovereign. Ile still plays.
first f Idle at levees, wears his black cap with the air ante
D •ge 'if Venice_ and is as fat as ever. Of course, rumour, as
the newspapers phrase it,-has been busy. But the ol„,.„1,i ity
.of the illusn'ions Duke only shines the more brightly. Why
does he not call. his wife the Duchess of Sussex? is the gent-,al
query. The most sagacious profess
.the answer.— Blackseioil's :11anazineftlietnselves unable to give
or JullllllTy.
DIsCOVEFIV IN THE A ItT OF Pit INTI NG.— We havejesi heard
from Scotland of. a discovery made by \I r. Ambrose Blittkloek,
surgeon, of Dttntltie.s, 1111 it cheap :ma ooJI hod of I
ring antireprinting honks, engravinns, I lithographs.
importance of such a discover/ we need not dwell on. It is Well
known, that, wiffi P m
Paper newly pried, the impression may be
r
tbt, unless the aid
the transfer be madelof pressure ; printers'
i
tn
ak
is
.iht,e,wrcevd,,,.t o e• ne
.draiteasns..
(it,itrely by
ekvthta
almost immediately, the attempt will.fail. But
.Mr.' Blacklick
informs us, that, by a cheap chemical process• which he has
old
discovered, the ink of prints sad letter-i however
dry, may be expeditiously
ted from, wit tout, in the
trtits of its being transferred and pi in ,
slightest degiee injuring the , oriainal Entity •of course, the nit.
brought whic.haand-I
;cerel. nor have we
lure of this chemical'theme:rm.
seen any printed wank ptoduced by these means.—zt
well
process is at present
A DEPINITIoN.—At the Town-hall, Presstin, a
slip drunkenness,
known for his drunken habits, heingeharged
called three very "queer-looking customers" . witnesses
to
I d h If
drat an a .
rebut the charge. One of them, a peculiarly
drunken ge.itb-rnan. Jence •
gave following evii • Magistrate
—Well. was the defendant drunk? Witness,—No • not what I
ik ?
Call drank y
. Magistrate—Why, what do you all drat Wit-
ness—ln course when a man is reef g,radely drunk.% ya-
h
gistrate—How is that? Witness—(stantinerlllo
ye ye know a fellers rayther whip I calls drunk wh
'ld the de
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nay-01er stand nor gist. Nlaeistrate—Well, ani,
2
fenilant do that ? Could he stand and e'o • \Vit tiess—Ave,watilii
may be a hit ; just a bit. Maaistrate de7elltia"l. vinn
like any more if your witnesses examined ? De;cti,
it short censideratton)— I'lltell you what, I think I've exati2l
nrd
enough o't sort. The bench troubled the defendant for las. o
h s loose cash, and discharued him.
TOE QUEEN'S SLIPPERS.—We had snICP time since theplea- t
sure of boasting that our city had the. howitir of producing at
the same time the President of the Ifoval Academy, The P.let
Laureate, the Director-General of the Postoffice. his Alajesty's
Chief Musician and PhYsitnan, together with the Champion of
England, and now we ;hall be enabled to add, that the, worthy'
co dwainers of Bristol " know the length of the Queen's foot.
In a word, as they had received the royal commands of his late
Majesty for a pair of home, an her mesent most gracious Ma-
jesty has been pleased to order from hence a pair of dress slip-
pers. These shoes which really almost rival the famous glass-
sliprer of Cinderella, we have had the pleasure olseeing. They,
are of purple velvet, the royal arms' and tbe initials V. 1t...,
being embroidered in gold on the front. The figures are admi-
rably delineated, well relieved, and the whole executed -with
great art and exquisite delicacy. Around the sides are en-
twined wreaths of oak leaves, intetspersed with acorns and
roses, of gold thread- anft'sitk. The inside is of white satin, and
exhibits, also in gold, the rose, the thistle, and the ahainrack.
twined around the words " All hail to Victoriar—Bristol
Mirror.
RESCUING A PRISONER.—VALORoI:SCONDUCT OF A WONIAN.
—A woman named Alice Kellett was mainlined by the Rev..L
Hopwood, of Blackburn, ion Monday last, charged with stealing
two shillings from a tiny. The part of the lock-up in which
female priSaners are confined is at the top of two pair of stairs.
About MIX o'clock in the evening, a Mall Minted Samuel Rigby
went to the lockup with some tea, which was taken from hint
by the servant woman employed to attend the female prisoners.
She proceeded up stairs to the room where Kellet was confined,
and gave her the tea through a hole in the door. Ott turning
retina to return down stairs, Riot (who I followed
her up
tinheardl seized her, and threw her down tc, the first landing ;
alai a hile she lay, stunned with the fail, he succeeded in un-
bolting the door, and setting the prisoner at liberty. „Ile then
returned to the woman on the stairs, and with his knee on her
breast, held her (limn, until Kellett hail sufficient bate to. get
clear off. By dint of hard struggling, the servant at last -got
eienr of her cowardly detainer, ati,i ran down stairs. She im-
mediately locked the nutter door, and with great pi esence of
mind threw the keys over the ratline into the inner office,
thereby imprisoning blab herself and Rigby. This dime like a
true Amazon, she seized Rigby, and after a struggle Sitt.ceeileil
in getting him to the top of a flight of stees leading down into
the cell where the male prisoners are confined; and. mustering
the whole of her strength, threw him to the tedium, and, the
door being open, thrust him in, and bolted the door. Kellett has
not yet been captured. Rieby was fatly committed on 'Tuesday
nnerpoon, to answer the charge of breaking open the watch-
house, and rescuing the prisoner.—Manchester Guardian.
GENERAL BuowN.—There are severaierroneotis'accounts in
circulation respecting Brown, one of the leaders or the Cana-
dian insurgents. Some call hint au Irishman—some a native
Of the United States. lie is, in Ceti, a NOV:1 Scotian, but has
spent a considerable part of his life in the American state „f
Vermiint, where he tailed about a year ago. Neither he nor
Papinean are thought to have sufficient nerve to discharge the
functions of military trailers. The teal chief, the most deter-
mined spirit among the insorgents, is Dr. Wilfred Nelsen. It
is cm inns, that the Eeriest ruffian among the French revolu-
tionists was an apothecai y doctor—the infamous Ilarat ; and
if we look at home we have, and have had of late yeats, some
professors of the -"healing art" who exhibit a ravenous sort of
appetite for rebellion. Even Thistiewond owned the ascend,
ancv of Doctor \V atsnn, till the lord of the gallipot was forced
to icy from the scene of his greatness.—Timer.

Stincx tNG IlitirtnAm ACCIDENT.—On.the 11th instant, as
the passenger train or cars was proceeding at a rapid rate to
Portsmouth, about forty-four miles front the latter place, the
engine struck a lifted rail. Mr. Banks, of Augusta, was
standing on the engine at the moment. Ile leaped tiff, and
escaped nnhutt. Not an with the rest. The engine was hurled
from the Rack, and all its frame-work dashed to pieces. The
first car was entailed, and the second lilted and thrown from the
track fifteen feet, by the third running under it. The latter
was broken to atoms h) the collision. In the second ear were
Cnl. -Preston, U. S. Senator, and his lady. They and their
companions escaped uninjured. All the passengers in the fit St
and bird cars were more or less hurt. There were eight or
nine :allies among them. Great difficulty experienced in
ext chit tog the wt.unded sufferers from the ruins. Mrs It,chelle
out: Blow, of Southampton, die:10101Th- he (Adept.
Situmons, of Southan,pton, and Mr. Crocker, id' Jackson.
N. C., wet e the only ones in danger at the last accounts. The
next thing to be done is for .Mr. Goody to bring in a bill to
make the enoshnctots of railroads answerable- for accidents on
their wretched works. Throughout this country, with the ex-
ception of the Baltimore and Ohio road, the railways are a die.
grace to the credit of the companies owning theta.—New York
Herald, Dee. 10.