The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-08 00:00:00

Hops, which are acknowledged to possess many valuable
medicinal qualities, were, in the year 1838, petitioned against
in parliament as a wicked weed. •

DESPERATE AFFRAY IN TILE CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH
WORKHOUSE.—Three female paupers made their escape
from this workhouse, decorated in the union dress, on Sun-
day last. They were pursued by the constable, whu brought
them back, and on Monday were taken before the guardians.
who reprimanded them for their misconduct, and delivered
them up to the governor ; but they afterwards became so re-
fractory, that they struck the governor, and narrowly escaped
killing a man-with a hammer, who had been called in to as-
sist. They then commenced breaking windows, when the
constable was again called in, who handcuffed theirs with the
intention of taking them before the magistrate ; but these
desperadoes broke the handcuffs, and knocked them about
the constable's head. Ile, however, succeeded in capturing
them, and took them before the magistrates again, who, after
a strict investigation of the case, committed them to Derby,
where they will have the privilege of enjoying the sweets of
the tread-mill for some months to come.—Derbpshire Chro-
nicle.

ANECDOTE OF NELSON.—During the heat of the action
(in Aboukir Bay) Sir Horatio Nelson received a painful, and
as it was at first generally feared mortal, wound. He was
struck immediately over the right eye by a piece of lang-
ridge, the force of which was happily nearly spent. Although
the pain was most intense; Nelson, on being led or carried
below to the cockpit, desired, it is said, he might wait until
it came to his turn among the numerous wounded to be
attended to. The surgeon, Mr. Jefferson, however, on dis-
covering his presence, immediately proceeded to examine the
wound, and found that the piece of the skin of his forehead,
which had been cut to the bone, was hanging down over the
right eye, which, for the time, completely obscured his sight.
Mr. Jefferson assured him there was no immediate danger;
but Nelson, deemed his wound mortal, requested Mr.
Comyn, his chaplain, to convey his dying remembrance to
Lady Nelson, and at the same time ordered the Minotaur to
be hailed, and Captain Louis to be thanked for coming so
nobly to the Vanguard's assistance. The surgeon, having
dressed and bound up the wound, requested the admiral to
remain quiet in the bread-room; but nothing could repress his
zealous and enthusiastic disposition. He immediately ordered
his secretary, Mr. Campbell, to attend him in the bread-room
that no time might be lost in writing to the admiral; but
this gentleman, having himself been wounded, on beholding
the blind and suffering state of the admiral, became so much
affected that he could not write. The chaplain was then
summoned ; but the impatience of Nelson increasing every
minute, he took the pen and contrived to write a few words
marking his devout sense of the victory he had obtained.
Shortly afterwards, being left alone, the news that the French
admiral's ship was on fire spread along the decks and de-
scended to the cockpit. Unassisted and unnoticed, amidst
the general enthusiasm, Nelson contrived to find his way up
the ladders, and, to the astonishment of all, appeared again
upon the quarter-deck ; and, intent on the duty of compas-
sion, quickly despatched his first lieutenant, Mr. Galwey,
to the relief of the perishing Frenchmen. He remained on
deck till the awful explosion took place, which shook every
ship to her kelson, when he was reluctantly persuaded to go
to his bed. Restless still, he got up, and, suffering as he
did, he signed the acting commission of Captain Hardy for
the Vanguard, in lieu of Captain Berry, who was nominated
to go home with the despatches, as well as Capt. Capel's, for
the Mutine.—United Service Journal.

TIIE ROMANCE or REALITY.—About four years ago there
lived in one of the parishes of the county of Ayr (we do not
wish to be more particular) a young woman whose charms
had captit ated a respectable tradesman,; and after a sufficient
time spent in courtship, the day was 'named which was to
render them mutually happy. The furniture and all other
necessary articles of household use were procured, " ribands
and pearling and a' " were lavished on the blooming bride by
her enamoured swain; and every thing went on swimmingly
towards the consummation of the marriage. The thousand
times repeated quotation about " the course of true love",
ate., was to be realised in this as in many other instances, for
the day previous to the wedding a letter arrived, which bore
that the bride arid her mother were wanted instantly at the
bedside of the girl's father, who was dying, and wished
previous to his departure to see his (illegitimate) child.
Accordingly off both parties went, after arranging with the
bridegroom as to the postponement of the marriage. Be-
fore reaching their destination the old man had died, and
the house was filled with expectant relations, each and all
striving for the mastery, and alike sanguine of being almost
exclusively remembered in the will of the deceased, whose
pet:petty was worth about £BOO a-year. The reception
of the mother and daughter, as might be anticipated,
was not 'of the warmest description, . The various
menial offices of the house and dairy were performed
by both at the command of a vixenish niece of the
deceased, during the few days preceding the funeral;
and on the afternoon of the day on which it took
place, both were sent to see the servants regaled in the
kitchen, while the expectant party dined up stairs, and
heard the will read. Scarcely, however, had the mother
and daughter bcvn well set to work as. commanded, when
an order demanding their presence reached them from the
dining-room. On going thither, they were met by not the
most pleasant array of faces they had ever seen ; and, to
shorten the matter, excepting only a legacy of a few pounds
each
to the relations present, the whole estate was left to
the girl alluded to. Several of the unfortunates fainted '
away—a few stamped and swore lustily—but by far the
greater number were unable to speak from sheer astonish-
ment. In due time the girl was served heiress to the estate,
but her pretensions rising with her circumstances, her poor
betrothed was forgotten,and she, with all her wealth, within
a year from the time her fortune changed, threw herself into
the arms of an old shrivelled man of law, who had been
factor to her deceased
being a remarkably steady
parent. Her neglected lover, from
man, became a confirmed drunk-
ard. His business woiatnodwreck, and he left his native
town, and .went to to hide his sorrow and his
shame. About a year ago a advertisement, dated Bath,
appeared in an English provincial paper, offering a reward
for any information regarding,
imdividual of the same
name. Having been for some tinirrizelenud:hat neighbourhood,
this caught the eye of one of his
7110, supposing he
had the means of eainiug this reward; supplied what in-
formation he posses,ed to the party
hlsita.tteAndamneese-
sage Wai received by our hero, requestingi
neat day, hi a celebrated hotel in Baatvlitn,,ezwtbloocurrelt
at a given boor
meet with one anxious to seweohrikmte.aul,lhe*
he would
rowed a suit of clothes from a fellow.
to meet his unknown friend, and, on arriving -
at the
hotel to which he had been directed, was greatly wpri6ed
to
O riroryisahrst at an
meet his old flame, blooming in beauty, and
.according to her
own confession, as loving as ever.
end. The old lawyer had died—first ver that had never
vigour
been wholly f,,rgotteu, again broke
.out with England redoubled vi
i,,, to favoured the
—the summary mode of marrY //
of three
parties, and they were united before the expiration
If the now happy husband
days from tkeir thus meeting. I. .
we believe he
tioeso
takes an extra bottle after dinner (which . Qe"
he attributes it to custom, and that too engendered. by his
to wean, pim
lades former cruelty ; who, while she striyes
tl the cause.
frdni;thekraLtice, dhecnot deny her being Par Y.t .
There is sowe.thh4"rotriantic in the above,
establish
but i is.no less
veraelens. Indved, were there anything wanted to est. •
• .• ~ 4 •
the shying that truth is stranger than fiction," the above
aAthentle narrative Auld go far to do it.—.Ediribiff.94 PaPel''