The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

FARMERS' CALENDAR FOR JULY,

Rape and cole-seed way be sown in the last of this month„
All meadows, not mown in June, should De cut this month
if possible; hay-making being in many seasons such uncer-
tain work, and so extremely expensive, the farmer should
take care to manage it with as good contrivance as he can.
The ground-work of all good hay-making is careful tedding,
by hand, immediately from the scythe, and getting it into
small cocks within the day. To have plenty of hands is a
material point; fur if good use be not made of favourable
days, the work will certainly be unprofitable : in order to
this, the farmer should have some other work always in
readiness for his people; such as turning manure, carting,
&c. Plough your follows as the grass and weeds grow.

THE CORONATION.
(From the Cork Coratitution.)

Harp_ of the land of poetry and song,
Let Bards of Erin breathe upon thy strings,
And sing the anthem of a nation's lore,
A nation's joy—fur England's Queen is crown'd
Crown'd is the daughter of our ancient kings.
England's bright diadem with faithful clasp
Circles the brow of innocenceand youth.
Bright are its gems, but brighter shall surround
The loyal hearts rejoicing in their Queen.
May each unsullied be the pledge of Truth,
True to the King of Sovereigns. Lord of Crowns.
True to his Word—his cause—his people's shield
Theti, Harp of Erin, sing VICTORIA'S praise.
And lay thy Emerald splendor at her feet;
But not the Diamond, howe'er pure it be,
Not for the ermined vest, however rich,
Not for the night illumin'd into day,
The poet's numbers wake. Oh, no Oh, no !
The chariots and the horse-men may surround,
And all of pleasure may the scene adorn.

A LARGE Loan.—The city of Quebec, Lower Canada,
has not a house large enough to hold Lord Durham,. the new
Governor of the Canadas, and the liou!e of Assembly is to
he converted into a shelter for his lordship, which it is sup-
posed will be large enough to afford !Mil sufficient room to
turn round in.—New York Evening Post,

Hy DE PAtU FAIR.—We understand that the fair has been
altogether a failure, scarcely any of the speculators having
realised more than their expenses.—.. Times.
The Marquis of Bristol has again evinced the generous
interest which he takes in the welfare of the Suffolk General
Hospital, by Presenting it with the liberal donation of £2OO.
This munificent sum has been presented in commemoration
of the coronation of our gracious Queeu.—Sufiblk Herald.
A Young man married a wife, whose only claim upon his
regard was her personal beauty. She said to him, at the end
of one of their quarrels, "You don't love me: you cannot
look me in the face and say that, you love me." " You
mistake me, my dear." cried he, "for it is only when I look
you in the face, that 1 can say that 1 love you."
The anniversary meeting of the East Lancashire Branch
of the London Missionary Society was held in Manchester.
last week, When the different collections produced £2,937
13s. 2d.

HOT AND COLD.—Lord Ashburton, with a singular in-
felicity peculiar to himself, whsle be upholds the corn laws as
th'e best that ever was adopted, deprecates the opposition
given by the landed interests to the plan for grinding corn in
bond, which
vocating is
its violatio neither more nor less than praisinz the law,
and adn.
A remarkable celestial phenomenon was observed at Tou-
louse, about half-past nine in the evening of the 25th ult.
The heat had been oppressive throughout the day ; end the
atmosphere had become opaque, but without any appearance
of a storm. In the midst, however, of the obscurit
a streak
of tire of a pale ashy colour rose from the horizon and was
lost in the zenith. This continued at regular intervals for
about a minute and a half, alternately weak and strong;
moving in a southerly direction and parallel to the magnetic
meridian.

AMERICAN LEGISLATION.—The legislature of one of the
south-western states of America passed a law having pro-
visions somewhat like those of the Irish insurrection act.
Among other things, it was ordered that no man of colour
should go out after dark,-except in cases of urgency, and
then to be always provided with a lantern, or be liable to
arrest and punishment. The order was literally
obeyed, for
each black carried a good and sufficient empty lantern.
Hereupon the angry legislators passed " an act to amend an
act," &c. That too was obeyed, but with unlighted candles.
Then came a third act, with a preamble commencing
" whereas the plain intentions, &c., having been frustrated
by certain wicked evasions, &c," and by this it was at last
effected that the lanterns should carry a light!

STEAM NAVIGATION.—BV enlarging the model of the
Great Western to a ship of 3,200 tons, with engines of 1 -
horse-power, the voyage from Bristol to New York, made' in
fifteen days five hours, by the Great Western, consuming
450 tons of coals, would be performed by this larger ship,
under the same circumstances of wind and weather, in aboutten days, with a consumption of about 530 tons of coals. If
we allow 1,100 tons for the weight of her engines, boilers, and
water, and 1,100 tons for fuel out and home, we shall have
1,100 tons to spare for cargo and passengers; showing that
speed, economy, and capacity, increase in proportion to the
size of the ship. Three tons to the horse-power seem to be a
fair estimate; but as ships are increased in magnitude, the
propelling power, perhaps, may be decreased.—Raj/way
Magazine.

STRANGE STORY.—We find the following extraordinary
story in a letter from Berlin, of the 19th ult., quoted by the
Hanover Gazette:—" A country, patrol lately going his rounds
between Konigslautg and Schoentlies, in the New March,
found an elegant carriage and horses standing in the middle
of a field of corn, and inside the dead body of a young man
who was an inspector of the forests, and who had been shot
through the head. The patrol took the carriage and the
corpse to
suspiciontohfe
hna‘ex.itnvgilolaogmei,olvithed where he
hie‘vas himself detained on
murder.
On the follow-
ing day a young woman, lately married to a man of fortune,
came voluntarily forward and declared that she was the per.
petrator of the crime. She stated that the deceased, who
had long courted her, on learning that she was married to
another, wrote a letter threatening to destroy her husband
and all her relations. Convinced that he would carry- his
menaces into execution, she made an assignment with him,
but went armed with a pistol, and taking an opportunity,
fired when his head was turned from her, and instantly killed
him." The journal from which this is taken does not inform
us what the result of this affair has been.

LEFT-HAND GLOVES.—A contraband speculator bought
some time ago, in Paris, 10,0001. worth of gloves for the
English market. It is well known that in the English cus-
tom-house certain goods are taxed according to the value
sworn to by the owners, and that to prevent fraud the cus-
tom-house sometimes takes nossessiowof goods at the price
so determined. In this case the speculator having stated the
value of the gloves at 50001. the amount was paid to him, and
the gloves retained. The speculator determined to have his
revenge, procured an accomplice on his return to Paris, and
purchased 40.000 f. worth of gloves. These were adjusted
and made up into two packers, with- which the two friends
started, the one to Dover and the other to Bristol. At Dover
the packet was opened, and the owner stated the value of the
gloves at 15,000 f. which were paid to him, and the gloves re-
tained. The same occurred at Bristol. The speculator at
Dover started for Bristol, and met his friend halt way on his
road to Dover, and each of them with 15,0001. in his pocket,
waited at his post till the day of the custom-house sale. The
gloves were exposed, when our speculator at Bristol, bidding
among other people, observed, alter pretending to examine
them minutely, that they were all for the left band! and so
in fact, they turned out to be : pnrchasersof course could not
be found, and he bought the whole lot for 60001. The same
thing took place at Dover with the right-hand gloves, and
the friends proceeded to Lonnen, where, it ie presumed, the
gloves were a third time profitably disposed of.—French
paper.

THE SILENT Lovults.—An ancient clergyman one even-
ing because the subject of conversation, and a wonder was
expressed that he had never married. " That wonder." said
• Miss Porter, " was once expressed to the rev. gentleman
himself in my hearing, and he told a story in answer, which
I will tell you; and perhaps, slight as it may seem, it is
the history of other hearts as sensitive and delicate as
his own. Soon after his ordination, he preached, once
every Sabbath, for a clergyman i❑ a village not twenty
miles from London. Among his auditors, from Sunday
to Sunday, he observed a young lady, who always occupied
a certain seat, and whose close attention began insensi-
bly to grow to him an object of thought and pleasure.—
She left the chuich as soon as service was over, and it
so chanced that he went on fur a year without knowing-
her name, but his sermon was never written without many
a thought how she would approve of it, nor preached
with satisfaction unless lie read approbation in her face.
Gradually he came to think of her at other times than
when writing, sermons, and to wish to see her on other
days than on sundays—but itie weeks slipped on, and though
he fancied that she grew paler and thinner, he never brought
himself either to ask 'her name or to seek to speak with her.
By these silent steps, however, love had worked into his
heart, and he made up his mind to seek her acquaintance
and marry her if possible, when one day he was sent for to
minister at a funeral. The face of the corpse was the same
that had looked up to him Sunday alter Sunday, till he had
learned to make it a part of his religion and his life. He
was unable to perform the service, and another clergyman
present officiated; and after she was buried, her father took
him aside, and begged his pardon for giving him pain—but
he could not resist the impulse to tell him, that his daughter
had mentioned his 'name with her last breath, and be was
afraid that a concealed affection for him had hurried her to
the grave. Since that, said the clergyman in question, my
heart has been dead within me, and I look forward only. -I
shall speak to her in heaven.—N. P. Willis.

13ottrp.

THE CORONATION

I saw a pageant ; 'twas a people free,
And brave, and blest. 0, who so blest as they!
Lords of the land, and inlets of the sea,
Crowning the monarch whom their isles obey.
Earth's proudest triumphs bail'd the halcyon day,
And smird the Heavens in fair unwonted sheen.
The bright sun shone with clear and cloudless ray,
And gentlest show'r-drops fell at times between,
As Ifeav'n itself would weep for joy at such a scene.

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CORONATION SONG.

0, the Queen of merry England!
A beauteous land is thine,
And on thy stainless flag the sun.
Doth never cease to shine.
Thy pennon floats on castled steep,
Or streams upon the wave,
Thy kingdom is the mighty deep,
'thy people are—the BRAVE.

AN ANGEL IS ENGLAND'S YOUNG QUEEN,

There shines a Fair Star on the Throne of the West,
In beauty and splendour enshrined,
In the light abet. own native loveliness dress'd,
And rich in the ~:erns of the mind;
Hope sits with delight on that beautiful smile,
By ivajesty tempet'd. serene :
Ok! if there's an angel to watch o'er our Isle,
That Angel is England's Young Queen!

By G. F. RICHARDSON, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AUTHOR OF
"SKETCHES IN PROSE AND VERSE."

I saw the heroes of a hundred tights,
And lovely women looked on gallant men,
And steel-clad warriors and stern harness'd knights,
Smil'd on bright eves that sweetly smil'd again;
And dreams of rapture tired my soul, for then
I felt bow glorious were those sea-girt isles
Which never tyranny hath made its den,
Nor bigotry eusuar'd with craftiest wiles,
But Freedom makes her home, and Peace adorns with
siniles.

I saw a warrior from a rival realm,
And mark'd the triumph that adorn'd his way;
For noblest laurels deek'd he veteran's helm,
Won in the strife of many a hard-fought fray.
And as his course through crowded thousands lay,
I mark'd the shouts that hail'd him ; for the free
Are gea'rous as they're valiant, and repay
A foeman'o worth, and joy such worth to see
As England proudly views and owns,b rave 6oult, in thee.

I saw a royal mother, and her smile.
And the glad transport of her joy-lit face,
Could scarce express the bliss she feels the while
She shares the rapture of that hour and place;
For oh, if bliss of Ileac'n can find a space
In mortal breast, 'tis when a mother shares
The triumphs of her child, and views-the grace
With which her darling all her triumphs wears,
And feels that hour repay long years of fears and cares.
I saw the Queen—fair England's fairest rose;
And oh, at sight of her what prayers were sped!
What blessings deep, not loud, to Fleav'n arose,
Invoking bliss upon that fair young head,.
Like dews of morn on some sweet rosebud shed!
And when at eve she sought her palace bow'r,
Alike were goofiest prayers and blessings said,
- Breathing around in many a softest show'r,
Like dews of evening shed on some sweet closing flow'r.
London, 30th June.

The' following very loyal song was sung on Thursday at
one of- the numerous dinner parties held on that day at a
suburban tavern, in commemoration of het Majesty's corn-
nation :

0, the Qneen of merry England
What Queen so loved as she ?
A gallant band she may command
In all her kingdoms three;
And there the smile of beauty
Still falls upon the free ;
0, the Queen of merry England!
What Queen so loved as she.
CHORUS-0, the Queen of merry Envland,
What Queen so loved as she!
A gallant band she may command
In all her kingdoms three.
0, the Queen of merry England !
The rose, upon its stein,
Shall shine with Erin's shamrock
Around her diadem ;
Whilst the thistle of old Scotland
Shall ne'er forgotten he;
0, the Queen of merry England !
What Queei, so loved as she!
CHORUS-0, the Queen, &c.

0. the Queen of merry England !
The gallant and the gay,
The peasant and the prince have kneeled
To HEA VEN for thee this day ;
And the lips of infant beauty,
And the blessing of the fair,
The great—the wise—the noble,
Have breathed for thee a prayer!
CHORUS-0, the Queen, &e-

Cuonus—O, the Queen, &c.

0, the Queen of merry England !
A fair and wide domain
Thy sires have ruled, but wider far
Extended be thy reig,n ;
Enthroned in thy people's heart:,
Long may thy sceptre be
The mighty wand of truth and peace—
The STANDARD OF THE FREE.
CHORUS-0, the Queen, &c.

She steps in her glory, that bright Virgin Star,
Like some vision by beauty inwove;
Yet more "bright and more beautiful beams she afar,
Adorn'd by her n•nrlh and our love.
Like rich jewels that deck some rare portrait divine,
Her virtues ;:nd charms are both seen
Shedding lustre on each, thus more lovely they shine;—
Oh ! an Angel in England's Young Queen !