The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

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Etbrrpoot gganbart, Vmtoria Tower, or thereabouts. Vain attempt ! It
strikes me they must be burnt on the sly ; perhaps they
light the House of Commons fires with them ; the " man
wot lights the fires" keeps a little baggy, and hasn't smelt
F::02,1 OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. lucifer matches for years; he gets lots of money for his
cinders—they are worth buying ; ANGUS CROLL, good
so— gasman, and Sheriff of London, would give something for
MONDAY MORNING. them in the way of business. LEIGH HUNT, with whom
THE two main incidents of the week were the celebration I began, is now iron-gray, enjoying his quiet with his bit
of a pension—.£2OO a gear; not so bad when we recollect
of Her MAJESTY'S birth-day on Tuesday, and running
how he used to snarl at every government in his young
for the Derby on Wednesday. On the first-named day, writing days : a wonderful change has come over the crea-
London was alive ;on the second, dead and deserted. A ture within the last two years ; he is now as amiable as
stranger would not believe how thin the Derby makes the be was heretofore currish,—delightful in all he says and
metropolis of company, until about six in the evening, vrtee.our foreign and country friends now beginning to
when the dust-covered carriages roll home with their visit the metropolis—for the visiting season, like the west
thousands of jolly lads and lasses,—choice specimens of wind and the "sweet south," has really commenced, as
English breed. Bad as we are, on such a day, we calthose who live in London kno w—l could not recommend
a greater treat than a visit to the House of Lords in the
turn out men and women, and cattle, the like not to be day time, during the hearing of an appeal. Go in and go
seen in the world. Louis NAPOLEON and his suite ride tidy, that's all you have to do—nothing to pay ; and, for
fine horses, beautiful creatures in hide and symmetry ; the foreign visitor, there is a little funny German engaged,
who would make a fortune were he to try monopotogue,
,but then the Emperor and his toadies have not so many
for he can speak any tongue from Tooley-street to Tim-
es we can show. For fire, vivacity and caper, the French buctoo, right and left. I think the little varmint is a
beasts take the shine out of most of ours. It is all edu. German ; he has been everywhere, can describe the place
ration. Prank. English gravity, respectability of de- toLone'sbin,rawhether in an obscure nook at the foot of
Grampians, or
sweetgr eraotvPyramid,iroving
blades, P Peak 01, Leyr
"boys
yo-f
rneanour, are taught our horses by our skilful masters of shire, Alps,o or
gmtpasnes
the mane-ye. Never was monarch's birth-day celebrated Kilkenny,"—a song, by the way, which the youth in
with greater glee and gusto than VICTORIA'S last Tues. question can sing very well. The present Earl of SHAF-
TESBURY'S father, who was long their Lordships' chair-
day. Prodigious was the consumption of green turtle, chair-
man of committees, was vexed, good man, to see so many
turbot, salmon, in prime condition at present, together foreigners come for admission to the House, some of them
with the smaller fry of mullet and dory; prime venison offeringmoney,andmakingthernselvesbutlittleunderstood,
also not a little was spitted ; lots of it at the venerable ordered that all decently-dressed foreigners should be ad-
mitted during ateweer's orders • and to aid them
fishmonger's opposite the Admiralty; and a droll fellow
still further thedeb worthyithoutold Earl got the polyglot she herd,
is he, though blind as a bat, he is not to be done ; it is he referred to, always to be in waiting toan
answer the) com-
who supplies the Cabinet fish-kettles. Say that you are ment volts porter votes ? of the Frenchman ; the wie be-
efillarki;
osif'etile.qt.:lioafn tiarendGseormonan;
a bachelor, your friend the Duke of R. sends you his bi- for the
believe,esi ei i tie°
stinking
t a
yearly H. of V., you are going out of town—Pegwell Bay, Hindoo, in his greasy turban, had presented himself, our
perhaps, on a shrimping excursion,—you send your haunch worthy friend, with all befitting courtesy, would have ad-
to our friend the Ministerial fishmonger,—blind, he ma-
dressed him, ap ka miza kaisa hat ? The amazement of
these foreigners at this period of the year is not a bit
nipulates with skill ; another friend has a haunch from greater, scarcely less drolly expressed, than by most of our
that plucky old soldier the Marquis of L. ;—it goes the own country people who visit the gorgeous chamber in
-way of all (such) flesh ; and so with the products of half which the peers of England meet. lam now speaking of
the deer parks in England, and let me couple those im- it
oinurtthoet d g-stsiimone ,
is being
agnhaepjsal ,
If roonbeabilLigfersoTif theC
mense wilds of Scotland where the red deer and the roe litigious character of a people from their number of law-
abound. Well, it is not considered shabby for a bachelor, suits, the Scotch must be the most law-loving people on
the face of the globe. Three-fourths of the appeals heard in
or a man with a limited batterie de cuisine, to send his
the House of Lords are Scotch, of the remainder a few
haunch, as aforesaid, just as you would send a heap of are from Ireland, the rest from the LORD-CHANCELLOR'S
your parliamentary papers in exchange for DICKENS or own courts. An appeal from PHILIP in Westminster-
BULWER ; only your fishmonger stumps. I was quite hall or Lincoln's Inn to PHILIP in the House of Peers.
lnpoitssea almost.ofLordln such Lords sounds
eil magnificently
cases,
threecentls,;
astounded to note the rich blind tradesman with a haunch iAt Tisefopleloalw tentiheaeniige
on his lap, one day, which the glorious old Duke of R. peers make a house; one of them, the youngest bishop,
sent to a poor acquaintance once ; the venison-dealer comes for no other purpose—and it is enough—than to
knew not whence the article had come,—he manipulated, imploremat Dilnlasdommoosnt
commonly
councils.
he
as I have said, drew his fingers kindly over the fat, felt for leavyees teriel e like ;
house in possession of the CHANCELLOR that
and
the " alderman's walk ;" and, without hesitation or moral one lord, knowing, perhaps, as much of law as I do of
reservation, mentioned the park where thevenisonhad been low Hebrew. The young peer, however, is busy ; he sits
reared. So he would with SEFTON'S or any one. Nice as
ot
nthneettsahtloe—hraritmisntroetsessTtehyreeroozneorreddsiereveetriaolnoef teleomn
discrimination. Pardon this episode. All the Ministers dinner. Meanwhile old rusty black, in his metallic wig—
gave banquets on the birth-day,—the grandest being PAL- for the harsh invention is driving meal from the heads of
the learned
ignoblyin
tten law—is
spider goingnr sdoknirantr
silkworm,
qbauridsit
MERSTON'S ; the merriest, Sir ALEXANDER COCKBT:RN'S,spinning,
nog i farri o
the QUEEN'S Attorney-General, which, he being a ba- use except to the owner,—thus Mr. Brief goes on till
chelor in a double sense, he gave at a decent public- within a few minutes of five o'clock, when the pleasing
intimation is given, " Brother 8., we will hear the re-
house, where I have dined many a time, and oft, yclept
mainder of the argument next week." Books are bagged
the Albion, in Aldersgate-street. The guests were all counsel are off, the CHANCELLOR has doffed his wig to,
lawyers, poor and rich ; for little " Cockey" don't value cool it, and in a twinkling is eating his minced veal with
the sixpence a cowrie. The dinner, I need not tell you, a glass of sherry to help him. This is in the room, within
was of the right sort ; the arrangement of the dishes and as i jxu
mrn
ipn
no
tfetah e wNoonlms ae, ra wollfi c IC;
hhaen
emetillsatraociu py in
have
kfinvoewonr,
entremets being according to the last and best authority, mostly all of them with good teeth, take a mouthful or
each morsel having a " chromatic relation" with its an- two of the article named as dinner when they were
tecedent ;no condiment without a studied specific pur- Pressed,—l asked the reason—it was because they had not
pose; and every glass of wine was either harmonic or in ruminatedt time t o
lo ll laughed,g
enolugi)
Afteran and t taei da
visitors
sthem
n
P discord with the particular entremet to which it walk round and round the house. I assurepp your readers
formed the accompaniment. After dinner, in approval of it is quite refreshing to see the attention paid to foreigners
the said great authority, there was the Chasse (cognac), and other country people when they visit the upper cham-
ber of the Legislature.
fien a rincelte (old Port), then cur rincelte (Burgundy);
next, the Gloria—any liquid but water. Then each ire- RAILWAY COMPETITION.—We hear that the London
bihed ad lib. Bluff Sergeant WILKINS boozed, and kept and North-western and Great-western Railways have or
bur on each side of him in a roar. Sir ALEXANDER is are likely to come to such terms as may enable them to do
a choice lad enough over a carafe of punch, and does not without the Shrewsbury lines.
hurry ;on the present occasion he had better not. FRANK femAalePLienif?aGnEt, m—a
C)e Saturday, at half-past nine,onth old, was left in the shop a live
of Mr.
MURPHY, Q.C. and M.P. for Cork, had just got " his Siddles, pawnbroker, Brownlow-hill. As this was a pledge
character" all right from the Parliamentary Committee ; not calculated to return interest, it was at once trans-
he came down to the Albion, determined to have a night ferred to the workhouse.
of it. MURPHY, though a Whig, and having, like all that COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We understand that Mr.
Percival, who was educated at the Upper School of this
class, a tendency to forget old acquaintances, unless, in- institution, stands first in classics, in the second year, at
deed, he meet them on Salisbury plain, or the top of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and that he has been
monument, is not a bad table companion, though not elected a scholar.
nearly so good in this respect as he was twenty years ago, , sri
CANADA,e N o
e
commander,R
tooeor
STEAM-SHIP -13SHRIIPTItr'helrlAdIL
when he and Baron MALTLE, and —, and —, used to parture hence for Halfax and Boston shotly after one,
see two or three hundred " goes" of OFFLEY'S brandy, p.m., on Saturday, with the usual mails and a fair corn-
and as many pairs of kidneys disposed of at a sitting. By- plement of passengers.
the. bye, Baron MAULE did not go to either of the legal Mr. C. P. RONEY, to whose exertions the success of
the Dublin Exhibition may be attributed, will receive
banquets in honour of the day ; he was in the Court of from the government, early in autumn, a well-merited
Common Pleas in the morning, apparently well enough, recognition of the services which he has rendered to
with JOHN Jzwvss. the Chief Justice, " chaffing" the Ireland, and the.cause of industrial progress throughout
Queen's Counsel, who came in without their full-blown Great Britain and our colonies. On the occasion of formally
honours, big-bottomed wig, &c. PALMY bad all the closing the Dublin Industrial Temple, either in October
cracks at his dinner, and it need to have been recherche ; I or November, the Lord-Lieutenant will confer upon him
there were among the learned guests more than one, the honour of knighthood, as an evidence of the high
whose " feeding" has puzzled me much to ascertain I estimation in which his energetic labours for the benefit
whether it was that of the epicure or the mere glutton. of Ireland and the intellectual advancement of the Irish
Upon my life I lean to the latter belief. Oh, NOON TAL. people are held by the government. Mr. Roney, we
FOURD, how you do enjoy a good dinner, and—amiable believe, will sail from Liverpool on Saturday next, by the
trait—how you like to talk of it afterwards ! The illumi- steamer for America, to assume his duties as managing
nations were very brilliant and numerous, and thousands director of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway.
of artisans, with their wives and little ones, perambulated ARRIVAL OF THE SARAH SANDS.—The four-masted
the busy streets till midnight, cheering themselves every screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, of Liverpool, Commander
now and then with a grateful pull at BARCLAY, PERKINS Thompson, from Australia and the Cape of Good Hope
and Co., as Madame MALIBRAN used to call London for Liverpool, put into Plymouth on Saturday through
porter. stress of weather and want of coal. She left Melbourne
There was a raggamuffin debate in the House of Cora_ on the 14th of February and arrived at Table Hay on the
mons on Thursday evening, the cause of which—abolition 31st of March, having nine days previously encountered
of Church-rates,—drew together a great number of new severe westerly gales, which detained her at the Cape until
members, not he most aristocratic, by which I mean the 10th of April. On her passage from the Cape to Eng-
good-looking, in the world ; for men of sour aspect go to land she again experienced contrary north-east winds,
the conventicle ; several of such, by hook or by crook, which compelled her, on the 18th of May, to put into
have got into Parliament, and, of course, we must put up Fayal for supplies, whence she sailed on the 20th for
with them. But for a man bearing the time-honoured Liverpool. Strong gales from north and west have obliged
name of PPieeimoite to rise in his place, in the House of her to put into Plymouth for coals to proceed to her des-
Commons,perfectly sober, (he rarely goes to BELLAMY'S,) tination. The Sarah Sands reports having seen, at four
and move, or as good as move, the abrogation of Church- a.m. on Friday, the 27th, 18 miles off Brest, seven Eng-
rates, appeared to more than one in the house too much lish men-of-war under sail, standing south:west, supposed
of a good thing. And then the Clay baronet, refining to be Admiral Corry's fleet, which left Plymouth on Wed-
the motion, as the late Mr. Husitissoer used to talk of nesday. The Sarah Sands has a large number of passen-
clewed sugars, came in to have a shy for a little Tower gars, there being 300 souls in all on board. Her cargo is
Hamlets popularity—by moving an amendment, pew —from Sydney and Melbourne, 80,000 ounces of gold
rents, vice Church-rates. The motion and amendment, dust; and from the Cape, 20,000 ounces in silver.
thanks to the good sense of Parliament, were lost. I WRETCHED ECONOMY IN THE POST-OFFlCE.—Dating
hesitate not to affirm that the parishioner who refuses to the past week a most distressing affair has occurred in the
pay Church-rates, sometimes they only amount to fifteen- Post-office of this town, which has excited the utmost
pence a year, as bad as denies the faith, and is worse than sympathy from every official connected with the depart-
an infidel. Who with any heart would grudge a few oboli, ment. A poor bag.collector, named Wright, died on
even for the sake of his boyish acquaintances, the rooks Friday morning under very deplorable circumstances.
and jackdaws, to keep the dear old belfry of the parish He had for some time past been in a very delicate state of
church in order ? The decent edifice still stands there : health, and symptoms of a consumptive tendency were
you—boy—now man,—may have traversed this world of becoming quite palpable. Not long ago he appeared on
care from one end to the other ; you like to come home duty in a state of intoxication, and, it being the second
again ; don't you like to see the old church ? I believe offence of the kind, he was reported to the Postmaster-
you, my boy ! Yet, if lank-sided MIALL had it all his General, and the result was his lordship ordered two
way, the parish church might go to —, and I mean weeks' wages to be stopped ; but he was to continue to
the worst place one can mention. Oh, but say the oppo- perform his duties notwithstanding. As a natural conse.
nents, we object on the score of principle ; I dare say quence, this reduced the poor fellow to abject penury, and
you do. Some points of the motion, amendment, and almost literal starvation,and hasdoubtless'beeeheprimary
debate, were absolutely profane to my poor thinking ; 1 means of bringing him to an untimely end. He has left
higgling about necessaries for body and soul, as if each j three helpless orphans in absolute poverty ; and were it
was no better than a bundle of old clo',—anybody by I not for the sympathy of the clerks and letter-carriers, the
signing a statement that he—anybody—was a Dissenter, parish would have had to consign him to the grave. He
should be exempted from Church-rates; but, then, the was employed in the Post-office about fifteen years, re-
anybody so exempted would have " short shrift, I trow." ceived but 18s. per week, and was only twice reported for
Here it is in the vernacular—that he should not be enti- drunkenness. In connection with this, it may not be out
tied to the performance of any rite or ceremony by the of place to mention that the senior letter-carrier, a man of
clergy of the Church of England. Sir WILLIAM CLAY irreproachable character, has lately been absent through
had a long palaver, and the next day strutted about town sickness nearly three months, and during that time he has
to find out what people thought of him. He is essen- received on an average only about eight shllings per
tially vain, tall—l mean long. If he dressed with better week ; and had he not been able to resume his duties a
judgment he might, in a crowd of Radicals, pass for a few days ago, even that miserable pittance would have
gentlemanly-looking man ; but he always has such a been withdrawn. His wages are twenty shillings per
"large stock of linen on hand"—l suppose he calls it week, which is precisely the same amount received by
wristband, and so much long cloth about his feet, that the man who was appointed but a few weeks since,
he by no means looks so smart as when I remember him although be has been in the service nearly thirty years.
a young Water-company's Clerk. The above are two fair specimens of that wretched eco-
LEIGH HUNT, I think it is, who, in one of his graceful nomy which is obtaining a firmer footing every year in
papers, written about this time of the year—the Chimney- the Post-office, and which has no parallel in any other
sweeper's Holiday—merry month of May—in a happy department of the civil service.
moment, when writing about the juvenile portion of the THE FIRST VESSEL FROM THE FRESH WATERS OF
sooty brotherhood, characterised them as duodecimos in
black CANADA TO ENGLAND.—By the Toronto papers of the
letter. Those were the days when the poor little sth• perceive that
inst., we ahandsome compliment was
creatures, all soot and nakedness, with bag and
. brush, paid to Capt. Gaskin, prior to his departure in command
used to sound their childish pipe •
in the cold winter morn- ofthe Cherokee, to Liverpool. The citizens of
. Toronto
ings, disturbing the occupants of the eider beds in May invited him to dinner, at which the Mayor presided, and
Fair. That nuisance was stopped ; so, likewise, had the which was attended by a large number of the principal
horrible ascent of the five-storey chimney. Still it merchants of the city. A general feeling of respect for
appears that the fraternity are ill-used : little boys, with Captain Gaskin appeared to have pervaded the assembly.
DO wills of their own, are apprenticed to the trade;
and Hs was spoken of in high terms by all the speakers. The
the Earl Of SHAFTESBURY, in his place in the House of mayor, in proposing his health, said very few who were
Lords, the other evening, in a speech fraught with good •
pioneers in any new enterprise, either in this or any other
feeling, came forward to mitigate the evils of the class ; country, but had lost money. It their successors
but it is not to be done at least for a hundred years. who reaped the benefit of thexperiewneCee of such pioneers
Salutary acts are passed, but not a ctreaturre looks to their who, as a general rule, realise the profits ; under these
being carried out. I beg pardan—wo o
thehree pollee- circumstances Captain Gaskin was entitled to the respect,
men are certainly on the qui me visiting "common sympathy, and support
the of the merchants of Toronto, as
lodging houses," most of them worse. thandens o well as those of Kingston. It was due
evaded every day ;
accursed cities. The Building Act is exerted himself to • promote the interests of this country,
, •s• occur o
chimneys are still constructed narrow and aie • ~ that he should be encouraged, and every exertion should
' is theelbows which no machine can touch. NI, hat
do but be made to promote the interest of Captain Gaskin and
pant of a house, with a decent kitchen in it, to
A his good ship, the Cherokee. The cheering which fol-
employ the poor sweep. " Yes," says Lord SH FTES- lowed the toast having subsided, Captain Gaskin said he
imy lord—fudge ! was a sailor, and could notmake
BURY, " get chimney doors." Fudge . a long speech. He had
that plan will never cure the evil. What's the use of a for ten years hoped to get a vessel to trade between
door of any kind if you don't enter ? I felt for the Earl of Toronto and England, and now that his first wish was
SHAFTESBURY ;heis a well-minded man—a serious gratified, he hoped to see it followed by many others. He
youth, if you will. He got a precious drubbing, in a was sorry that he had to go to Oakville for cargo, he had
quiet way, from MILES STAPLETON, a shrewd Whig i hoped to have got a cargo in Toronto ; but he would
lord, who sits as Baron BEAUMONT; I believe his father I bring his vessel to Toronto and clear from that port, and
was a doctor—a horse one, perhaps—in Yorkshire, not hoped in three months to see them again. Fresh-water
very long ago, for the Peer is not more than five or six sailor as he was called, he intended to show some of the
and forty. The title had been in abeyance many years ; I fast sailors how to work up the Channel. He was glad,
and I dare say the blood of the first peer, Sir HENRY DE I very glad, to receive this compliment of a public dinner
BEAUMONT, temp. Ed. 11., became slightly degenerate ; from the citizens of Toronto. On resuming his seat, the
such events do happen : be that as it may, the present captain was again greeted with loud bursts of applause.
baron is a very cranky, comtnon-looking, but clever
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fellow, who has travelled much, is fond of letting the
world know it : he talks about everything and everybody, PERSONAL BEAUTY.—Among the most valuable attri-
even in the uttermost ends of the earth ; can tell the butes of Beauty, whether regarded as conducive to manly
price of rough sulphur in Sicily or uncut blubber in the purity and grace of aspect, or as auxiliary to Feminine
arctic circle. He began snapping sueeeeseuay,svhe can't Loveliness, a Beautiful Set of Teeth must ever rank
stand that sort of thing, and told the amiable earl that but amongst the most important elements of a favourable
for his good character he would say that his chimney- personal appearance. The embellishment and preserve-
sweep legislation was the pitiful cant of pseudo-philan- tion of the Teeth and Gums have therefore ever been re-
thropy.. SliArEsaußy winced, and the bill was sent to garded with peculiar interest ; and among the in 5.35 of,

-..40 of all the Capulets—a select com-
petition, ordered to lie on the table. What cellars-full of
the people's petitions they have somewhere ; the petitions
never find their way to the cheesemonger's or the trunk-
roaker'e. It is said they are to be filed 4nd placed in the

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