The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.

NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
.01 GENERAL VESTRY MEETING will be held in the
Sessions-house, Chapel-street. on TUESDAY, (TIIIS DAY,) the
18th September, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, (by adjourn-
ment from Thursday. the 13th instant,) TO TAKE THE POLL
upon the First Resolution and Amendment moved at the Vestry
Meeting held on Thursday last.
CHARLES HART, Vestry Clerk.
Parish-office, Lime-street, 15th September, 1849.

Clerk of the Peace's Office, Preston,
10th September, 1849.
MICHAELMAS QUARTER SESSIONS.

XTOTICE IS HEREBY GlVEN,that the GENERAL
II QUARTER SESSION of the PEACE for the COUNTY
PALATINE of LANCASTER will be holden, at the Castle of
LANCASTER, On MONDAY, the fifteenth day of October next,
at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon ; and, by adjournment, at the
following Places and times, viz. :
At the Court House, in PRESTON, on WEDNESDAY, the
seventeenth day of October next, at Ten o'clock in the
Forenoon.
__ _ _

At the New Bailey Court House, in SALFORD, on MONDAY,
the twenty-second day of October next, at Ten o'clock in
the Forenoon. _ .

And at the Court House, in KIRKDALE, on TUESDAY,
the thirtieth day of October next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon,
on which day County Business alone will be transacted ; and
the Court will then adjourn to WEDNESDAY MORNING, at Ten
o'clock, for the transaction of the ordinary business.
And that all Business relating to the Assessment, Applica-
tion, or Management of the County Stock or Rate will com-
mence at such Sessions, respectively, at Eleven o'clock in the
Forenoon of the first day thereof.

The Attorneys engagea in Prosecutions at the said Sessions,
are requested to take Notice, that all Instructions for Indict-
ments are required to be sent to the Clerk of the Peace's Office
four days at least before the said Sessions.
GORSTS and BIRCHALL.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
GAS.—An unequalled variety of Chandeliers and Lus-
tres for Gas will be found at the Manufactory and Show-
rooms of WILLIAM PENN SMITH, 26 and 28, HA-
NOVER-STREET, opposite the Tax-offices. A visit to this
establishment will interest all who desire to see the ad-
vance which has been made of late in the manufacture
and design of articles of this kind, which now forms a
very important part of household furniture.

MRS. HEM ANS AND HER HOUSE, NEAR LIVERPOOL.—
The house which Mrs. Hemans occupied was too small to
deserve the name—the third of a cluster, or row, close to
a dusty road—and yet too townish in appearance and si-
tuation to be called a cottage. It was set in a small court,
and within was gloomy and comfortless, its parlours being
little larger than closets. Yet she threw something of her
own spirit round her, even in so unpromising an abode;
and with her books, and her harp, and her flowers, which
sometimes half filled her little rooms, they presently as-
sumed a habitable, almost an elegant, appearance. Some-
times, indeed, the scene was varied by odd presents, lite-
rary and others. I remember once paying her a visit,
when a persevering writer, personally unknown to her,
had sent her a hundred sonnets, printed on separate slips
of paper, for her inspection and approval. These had not
yet been consigned to the " chaos drawer," as she used
to call it, from which many a precious piece of folly and
flattery might have been disinterred for the amusement of
the public; and, as the day was windy, and the window
chanced to be open, this century of choice things was fly-
ing hither and thither, much to ouraniusement—a mi-
niature snowstormrchased by her boys with as much glee
as if they had been butterfly hunting. Scarcely had she
settled at Wavertree than she was besieged by visitors to
a number positively bewildering : a more heterogeneous
company cannot be imagined. Many came merely to
stare at the strange poetess; others to •pay proper neigh-
bourly morning calls, and these were surprised to find that
she was not ready with an answer when the talk was of
housekeeping and like matters. Others, and these were
the worst, brought in their hands small cargoes of cut and
dry compliment, and, as she used to declare, had printed
themselves for their visit, by getting up a certain number
of her poems. Small satisfaction had they in their visits.
They found a lady, neither short nor tall, though far from
middle age ; no longer youthful or beautiful in her ap-
pearance, (her hair, however, of the true auburn tinge,
was as silken, and as profuse and curling as it ever had
been,) with manners quiet and refined, a little reserved
and uncommunicative; one, too, who lent no ear to the
news of the day—
" Who gave the.hall, and paid the visit last."
The ladies, however, when they went away, had to tell
that her room was in a sad litter with books and papers ;
that the strings of her harp were half of them broken ;
and that she wore a veil on her head like no one else.
Nor did the gentlemen make much way with their Della
Cruscan .admiration. In fact, the stock of compliment,
once being exhausted, there remained nothing to be said
on either side, though there were none more frankly de-
lighted, or more keenly sensible of the genuine pleasure
she gave by her writings than Mrs. Hemans. Her works
were a part of. erself, herself of them ; and those who en-
joyed and understood the one, enjoyed and understood
the other, and made their way at once to her heart.
must not forget to allude to what Charles Lamb calls the
" albuinean persecution" which she was called upon to
endure. People not only brought their own books, but
those of " my sister and my sister's child," all anxious to
have something written on purpose for themselves. One
gentleman, a total stranger to her, beset her before (as the
housewives say) " she was fairly settled," with a huge
virgin folio, splendidly bound, which he had bought on
purpose " that she might open it with one of her exquisite
poems." On the whole, she bore her honcurs meekly,
and for a while, in the natural kindliness of her heart,
gave way to the current, wishing to oblige every one.
Sometimes, however, her sense of the whimsical would
break out : sometimes it was provoked by the thorough-
going and course perseverance of the intrusions, against
which it was difficult to guard. What could be done with
persons who called thrice in one morning, and refused to
take their final departure until they were told " when
Mrs. Hemans would b ot Wale !"—Pereonol jtec.puee.
flow of Nrs. Hemans.