The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

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MEMOIR OF THE LATE MRS. JAMES GRA A public meeting will shortly be held in Leeds, at the 1
bead of which will be Dr. Hook, to express approval of _ '''t .
B.ECOND EDITIOI'.
The public of Liverpool, and especially those who are the Government Educational measures. . __ -____•—=.-----..
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capable of appreciating poetical genius of a high order, The Theatre Royal at Leicester, which cost upwards or Standard-office, Two o'clock.
combined with those virtues which most adorn the sex, £BOOO, was knocked down by auction on the 10th ult., fog
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will, we believe, pardon us for laying before them a brief half that sum. .____—..
sketch of one who passed a portion her ' earthly career The inhabitants of St. Petersburg have transmitted Although we have a continuance of east winds with frost,
in our town—the late lamented Mrs. Julies Gray, better through the hands of Wm. Gladstone, Esq. £l5OO for the several Grain vessels have arrived here Coastwise, but from
known perhaps as Miss M. A. Browne. The entire re- relief of Ireland and Scotland. Ireland we have nothing worth naming ; and from abroad the
cord is given, at too great a length for our space, in the The town council of Durham have agreed to petition imports of the week' are on the whole very moderate.
portrait gallery of the Dublin University Magazine for Parliament in favour of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway There was a large demand for Wheat, for export and home
March, to which excellent periodical she was during the Bill. consumption, at an advance of from 3d. to 4d. per bushel. Some
latter years of her life a valued contributor, and from The city of Durham 1r s subscribed :£lOOO for the relief ..
notaltionug,
acadraneesed ed. per barrel, with a better demand.changed hands at improved rates.
whose pages we have enriched our own columns with of the Irish and Scotch, and a number of the inhabitants
-many of her choicest gems. We shall have, therefore, in have agreed to subscribe for four weeks various sums from
parts, to condense largely. £2 to 2s. 6d. Indian Corn continued to meet buyers at the rates of this
DESTITUTION IN LONDON.—Upwards of 50,000 persons day week.
"Mary Anne Browne, the eldest of three children, was born
at her father's house, Maidenhead Thicket, Reeks, on the 24th are now inmates of the London workhouses; 60,000 are In other articles a slow sale at former prices.
-of September, 1819. Paternally she derived descent from Sir receiving out-door relief; and from 1,400 to 2,000 nightly In order to arrive at a correct estimate of the present stock
Anthony Browne, a Kentish baronet, the lineal ancestor of sheltered in the refuges for the houseless. . of Wheat and Flour, we have ascertained as accurately as pos-
the Lords Montagu. Her mother, after whom she was named, The Queen, it is said, has expressed great indignation sible the quantity of each remainine, on hand, duty-paid, at
was the only surviving child of Captain John Simmons, of Li- at an actresshavingbeen introducedlntotheHouse of
' this port, on the 26th January last, at which period the Corn-
verpool and her maternal grandmother was the daughter of
Thomas Briarly, Esq., the representative of a well-known Lan- Lords, with the ticket of a peeress, on the opening of law suspension took effect ; and taking the subsequent r.elease
from warehouse, with the imports and exports, as well as a mo-
,cashire family. The house in which Miss Browne was born Parliament. Berate ratio for the consumption of this town and the immediate
has been long since removed; but, in a brief autobiography, Such is the extraordinary scarcity of the ash leaf kid- vicinity up to the 27th February, we consider the stock of
written in 1840, we find a very interesting recollection of its ney potatoes, that the extraordinary high price of one Wheat 62,633 qrs., and of Flour 387,797 barrels to be fairly est'
appearance :—.‘ I have a distinct remembrance of my birth-
for
per-bushel was obtained for five bushels intended mated, of the latter about one-fourth may be considered sour.
place.' she wrote, ' though the cottage has beets for many years
led down, and replaced by a very nay red brick mansion. seed, at Windsor, on Saturday. Duty-paid Stock on the 26th January, 1847—Wheat, 60,000
pilled
The River Aire overflowed its banks near' Carlton-. qrs. ; Flour 80,000 brls. Released from Bond by entries from
It was a low, thatched building; the walls and porch were par.26th January' to 27th February—Wheat, 48,585 qrs. ; Flour,
tinily covered with roses, honeysuckles, and other creeping bridge, Snaith, on Friday week, and the torrent carried 225,200 brls. Entered ex Ship, from 26th January to 27th Fe-
plants; before the door was a large green plat, in the centre of nineteen sheep, belonging to Mr. Foster, and four be- bruary—Wheat, 18,831 qrs. ; Flour, 161,104 brls.—ExPorts to
which stood an old apple tree, celebrated through the neighbour- longing to Mr. Heady, under the hedge of a field, where Ireland and Coastwise, same period—Wheat, ,19,039 qrs. ;
hood for the excellence and abundance of its produce ; and a they were drowned. Flour, 54,679 bris. Local Consumption, same period—Wheat,
large garden, full, if I remember rightly, of very beautiful
On Friday, Glasgow was visited by a storm of thunder 52,00-0 qrs. ; Flour 57,000 brls.-Remaining in Bond—Wheat,
'flowers, was attached. There were many trees round the dwell-
ing ; and, in my childish mind, I well remember, I used to and lightning, accompanied by a shower of hail. Some 6,236 qrs. ; F10ur;33,72 brls.—Total estimated Stocks 27th
February, 1847—Wheat, 62,633 qrs. ; Flour, 387,797 brls.
-compare it to a bird's nest.' Here, with the exception of a of the hailstones were the size of pigeon's eggs, and so
short time passed in Liverpool, when she was two years old, hardened that when taken up they resembled crystals of t:, 1t" - '7, > tr.. -... a
the opening four years of her life was spent—four years, which, ice. ~,c,_, -4 a >iit < • x
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in their brief compass, sufficed to show all the leading tenden- On account of the dulness of trade, a number of the Alt .7 ,
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cies of her mind; and to her watchful parents, to indicate thea e-.8g•a,".,4' ~
gifts of their child—her heritage of weal or woe." power loom factory employers in Glasgow have put their . ~... 22. ° °a'r7 c° ts' ,-.3 ,v> —: 4 P :5. ...• • ' : .1.
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workers on short time, some of them working only during ',..,., Fe' 5.0.: o. 7 n-. . . . -,1 .5 .1 - do ,s -
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The subject of our memoir displayed, as a mere child, e. ~ ,CD a
day light. Manufacturing business generally, in Glasgow, Ea. "t1;.1,- it#7l. .' E. . 0 ;94. —a; 0
great precocity of reading. When two years old, she read
A ery depressed state. - -i ,-- °
fluently, having acquired the facility by mastering, first is IT Tr; -- ' 0- , '-' ''' 71. ,;, Cr o=. r
INT FOR THE CLERGY.—The congregation of St. l' ri ~.., 7" n— ern ' -....i.-4 -, s a
the syllables, and subsequently the form of the words. a (s -,
Mary's Church, Sheffield, at the suggestion of their --1,• 1-0' 9c-or ;314 ..,° `A
Her education was almost wholly imparted at home, her
Minister, have undertaken to' furnish him with ten pounds ...,'.., - Pr! e.-.°- ~.""- z E.
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parent, who is still living, being her first preceptor.i
a-week for six months if necessary, towards the relief of .i,', 2 17: " • -,i ~7 72). ,7'
At four years old she had taught herself writing by imi- the distressed Irish.' ' ...-- ...-
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toting the printed characters in an old prayer-book ; and We are informed, upon good authority, (says the '—',..,,,, :--' al ..„-- f,B- c:
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from this time she began to put her childish thoughts
Morning Herald),:that the principal mill-owners of the 1e 6 :TO ;7:1 f:,' E 7
upon paper. At the same time the love for reading and --, -, a
north are, at this moment, seriously considering the pro- °a. F,'" (D• ••-• •s-
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the acquirement of books grew upon her until it became a i F..ozi ~ .r - 0
priety of at once closing their mills, and throwing their IPis " : •. -. ts
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assion. The beautiful scenery of Berkshire, in which -: 0
operatives out of employ. The promised blessings of ' - • .& tsl
she lived, made a strong impression upon her. free-trade have suddenly ended in this. .
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"Near at hand was the broad, bright channel of old Father IMPORTATION OF QUICKSILVER.—The most recent ar- : • •N. : • F 4 g: • .71. • a... • .4.:4 "' a 0 '
Thames, dividing in twain by a pathway of silver, a district .. .4 .....1 . a
rivals from the have included two from Seville, • V:1
not unworthily named The Garden of England, and inviting to . t..„, H
a thousand pleasant wanderings along its sheltered banks. in one day, with cargoes of quicksilver, consigned to a ' . 'my,
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And the neighbouring common was redolent with fragrant most eminent firm, one having upwards of 2900, and the
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e summer season, at.. protected agate. .oe biting cc..
winter. Who could else than be a belated wanderer at times
with such attractions? ' I shall let my reader, at once,' she

ENCOURAGEMENT TO FISHING. Government has
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simple pleasure

Ly how I loved

the wes

be given

flowers, and birds, and butterflies, and
the fields and woods ; how I looked ever
violet or primrose as for a cour
crowd of dearly-loved friends

le population of
spring for the first
__flouncing the return of a
cr how I loved to wander
and the distance; nor

viding of lines and other fishing materials for the de
titute fishermen.

away from horn"
how the sunset

the time

EXTRAORDINARY SHOT.—An extraordinary shot was
last week made on the Hamp-hire coast by
.Colonel

forward to, on a line summer day,
Neither need I detail du

as if it were sum

affect ionat

;pien(lid pageant
s on cold

Hawker with one barrel of his 2001 b. gun, and a 12 ounce
patent cartridge by Eley. He picked up, at this one shot,
178 oxbirds and a plover, exclusive of about three dozen
more birds that escaped in the scramble of collecting the
killed and wounded.

chilblai.

and torn frocks:

nd idleness, which I was sure to receive on my

return home.'"

She was but seven years old when she first felt the en-
kindling of reason within her soul, and was translated into
a new world of enlarged existence—an event which is
beautifully delineated in one of her latest poems—" The
Moorland Child." In her ninth year she wrote some
lines, which are preserved, upon the death of Queen Ca-
roline, for whose unhappy fate and sufferings she felt deep
pity. Her first printed productions are stated to have ap-
peared in the Poets' Corner of the Berkshire Chronicle in
1826; and in May, 1827,_when_in her fifteenth year, j►er

Robert Kerr, late captain of a vessel called the Leven-
side, has been committed for trial at the next Central
Criminal Court Sessions charged with having stolen a
large quantity of rough diamonds, which were shipped at
Bahia, on board the vessel of which he was the com-
mander, for the firm of Messrs. Castello, Giustinianini,
and Co., London.

CONFESSION OF A ROBBERY OF £looo.—The Shrews-
bury police have sent information of the apprehension of

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Charley Fielder, a young man, who states that he belongs
to St. Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, and that he had been

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DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE.—On Friday a high wind
from N.W., blowing with the force of a hurricane, un-
roofed one of the carriage manufactories of Messrs. Catt
and Quadling, on the Handford Road, and the walls fall-
ing in on either side, several elegant carriages, just com-
pleted for the Ipswich Railway Company, were covered
with the ruins. The manufactory was about 100 feet in
length. A good deal of damage was done to the carriages,
and it is supposed that this, with the cost of re-erecting
the manufactory, will amount to several hundred pounds.
Two workmen of Messrs. Catt and Quadling were slightly
injured by the falling ruins. The gable ends of two cot-
tages in the vicinity were blown in about the same time.

—lpswich ExpresS.
The following extract from a letter, from a gentleman
holding an official situation at Dundee, dated 2.3 rd Feb-
-1847, will be of interest under present circumstances, and
we are well assured that in the agricultural districts of
England the stackyards are equally well furnished:—
" Our grain market continues high, but there is no scar-
city of grain, the stackyards continue full, and all the
grain sold is to persons who send it townwards or to Ire-
land. We have an American ship in the port, with 2,500

Lie consignees are now

t to Liver

without discharg-

mg it here, and most of the flour by the last vessel is now
on the way to Liverpool or Ireland. So you see we•are
pretty well off, indeed it is calculated we have two years'
consumption in the warehouses. Perth, Leith, and all
the ports around here are in the same state."
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELS AT BRIGHTON.—On
Friday evening week, the house of Mr. Alderman Wilson,
No. 3, Eastern-terrate, was entered and robbed of jewels
to the amount of £3OO. The robbery was first discovered
by the lady's maid, who, on ascending the staircase, heard
the wardrobe door in her mistress's room creak. On going
into her room she saw no one, and on looking into the
..robe, she perceived that the shelf on which the jewels
.ere usually kept was empty. She instantly communicated
this to her mistress, and Alderman Wilson sent for some
men to a neighbouring mews, who stationed themselves
round the house, and while they were there, two men, who
had a box with them, and no doubt were the thieves,
walked out of No, 2, an empty house, passed through the
midst of them without question, and got clear off. Daniel
Forrester was immediately sent for by Alderman Wilson,
who has offered a reward of £5O for the apprehension of
the thieves. _ _

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

REMOVAL

ITEETH EXTRACTED,
WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST PAIN

MR. SMITH, DENTIST, begs to inform his Patients
and Friends, that he has REMOVED from BOLD-STREET
to more commodious Premises, No. 12, COLQUITI-STREET,
Three Doors from the Liverpool Apothecaries' Hall.
Mr. SMITH respectfully invites the Members of the Medical
Profession to witness the painless orations upon the Teeth
after the inhalation of the Vapour of sulphuric Ether, from his
improved Apparatus. His }riends are solicited to introduce
cases for gratuitous operations, from Ten until Eleven o'clock
every Morning, at his New Establishment.
12, COLQUITT-STREET.