The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

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most bunt it we are to be happy. The object of our pursuit
is different, because we are partly rational ; though I fear, in
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was member, in the council of this borough. Ills father
gives the following beautiful description of a scene from the
Diode, which, as it was in the immediate proximity
of the han.r, iii u•hinh

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possesses a melancholy interest on the present occasion,as well
on that account as from the reflections on the transitory

nature of human life with which i

" Park, Sept. 1, 1793.
" MY DEAR WALLACE,—I have been in daily expectation
of a letter from you ; and you may, perhaps, have looked for
one from me. That this unsocial silence may no longer pre-
vail between us, I employ a leisure hour on Sunday after-

noon, at the Park, in your service. The day is singularly
fine. I have been walking doWn the fields towards the shore.
The clouds intercepted the direct beams of the sun ; but the
air was warm and balmy. A gentle breeze swept over the
surface of the grass, and played round my temples. Nothing

u. inure suotning. I went Gown to the Dingle, and
pursued my walk to the rocks. The tide was on the flood,
and drawing towards high water, and the waves were dashing
over the sand, and breaking on the lowest ridge of the rocks.
I sat me down and fell a musing. I know not whether you

have yet began to feel the effect of scenery on the mind ; but
I hope you will be sensible of it as you grow older. The scene
which I describe, and which you know so well, always affects

me by calling up a particular train of thought, and that rather
of a melancholy than a cheerful kind. Those grand features
of nature, the rolling tide, the over-arching rocks, and even

me the idea of power and duration, compared with which the
power of mr, and the littleness of his. occupations, and the

Adieu, my dear boy !

"JAMES CURRIE.'

From Reading School Mr. Currie was s,

and his father continuedtOmTiteTohim

monition. The last letter'in7l;:collectiOni;ri;d3gra
]BO5. We regret that we have not space to follow u

few passages we have selected in the hurry of business, from
a most interesting correspondence, carried on for a number
of years on the part of Dr. C. The subject of this brief
memoir has not furnished any of his own letters in reply,—
from, doubtless, an honourable feeling of modesty on his
part. We must refer our readers to the work itself in which
they will find much to instruct as well as to amuse. Suffice
it here to say that Mi. Currie never seemed to forget the in-
junctions placed upon him throughout a life prolonged to
upwards of half a century.
While in Edinburgh, Mr. Currie was more immediately
under the care of Mr. Dugald Stewart, one of the most dis-
tinguished professors of the Northern University, and be-
came a fair scholar in the classics, and more particularly in
the English language. We are not aware of his having pub-
lished any work beyond the Life of his respected parent ;
that alone was sufficient to confer upon him a reputation of
no common order in the literary world.

Mr. Currie's vocation was confined exclusively to the
agency for the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, and his
energy, punctuality, and habits of business, rendered him a
favourite with the commercial community. He was not rich,
in the mercantile sense of the word, but competent to sup-
port his station as an independent gentleman. He married
about 16 or 17 years ago, Miss France, daughter of Thomas
France, Esq. of Bostock Hall, in Cheshire, and has died
without issue. In consequence of rather precarious health,
he lately made a tour on the continent. He was accompanied
thither by Alderman Wm. Earle, and after passing through
Pan, a bathing place in France,visited the Pyrenees, remain-
ing some time at Burege. He returned precisely a month
before his demise, in, as he and his friends concurred, im-
proved health ; but it was remarked on Monday last that his
complexion indicated the inroads of disease. In the opinion
of Dr. Brandreth, the immediate cause of death was an apo-
plectic attack ; or (though less probably) an affection of the
heart, which it is known also frequently occasions sudden
death. The problem will in all likelihood be solved for the
melancholy satisfaction of his friends, as we learn that a sur-
gical examination of the body will take place, under the di-
rection of the coroner. The funeral, which it is understood
will be private, will take place on Tuesday next, and the in-
terment will be at St. Michael's., Toxteth-park, in the neigh-
bourhood of his own estate and house, of Ellerslie, near the

Mr. Currie was elected a member of the old common coun-
cil in 1819, and, in conjunction with Mr. John Wright, was
active in promoting the improvement of the town, ahndpar-
ticularlv the widening of Lord-street, Dille-street, .t eb arn-
street, &c. He held the commission of the peace, and was
the first mayor elected under the municipal corporations
amendment act. He served the office with great credit to
himself, and with such satisfaction to the council generally,
that his re-election as chief magistrate was contemplated,
and pressed upon him ; but such were the onerous duties of
the office, and their interference with his other pursuits, that
he declined again to take the burthen upon him. It may be
remarked of him, as regards his public life, that he was ca-
pable of forming a due appreciation on matters of domestic
polity, and while others beat about the bush, he grappled
with his subject at once, and, as regards public improvements,
was generally successful. As a speaker he was somewhat
stiff, abrupt, and disjointed ; but"his discretion and force of
argument bore him through. He exerted his best powers to
restrain the excesses
.of his party, and by some was conse-
quently regarded at ti as a trimmer; but his votes were
always given on the liberal side ; and though we disapprove
of his general politics, we are quite willing to award him the
meed due to sincerity and hbnesty of purpose.
It may be remarked, in conclusion, that Mr. Currie had
an air of hauteur in the eyes of strangers, which approached
to what might. be deemed bordering on self-sufficiency or
inordinate pride ;' but this wore off on a nearer acquaintance
with. the man, and it is sufficient to add he ever comported
himself as a genuine gentleman to friend and foe, and amongst
the former were many individuals of high standing and re-
spectability, who were opposed to his views on local and ge-
neral topics.

A. RARE OCCURRENCE.—AIandraiI, or corncreak, in very
fine condition, was shot by a gentleman, in a field of short
gorse, in the neighbourhood of Pwllheli, on the 30th nit
Queen Adelaid
Choral Society w

has been p
i her patrol

age to their series of wint

concerts, the first of whtch •
is expected to take place the
latter end of the present month. Earl Howe has likewise
consented to become one of the patrons of the society.—Derby
Reporter.