The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SHORT TlME.—Several of the principal mills of Ashton
and Stalybridge continue to work four days a week, and
this, with the high price of provisions, causes loud coin-
plaints aniong the working classes, who are being fast re-
duced to a very dis tressed state.
RECIPIENTS OF POOR RELIEF.—The Board of Guar-
dians finding that a portion of the relief funds which they
distribute is expended at gin palaces and spirit vaults, in

order if possible to put a stop to such rilis-applicaticm
have issued a notice offering a reward of ss. to any
person who shall detect one in the receipt of relief from
the guardians spending their money in those places. This
notice was read to the paupers assembled on Thursday
morning at the Union Offices, and it was universally ap-
plauded.—Manchester paper
COINCIDENCE IN BIRTHS
mon circumstance to hear of

It is a somewhat uncom-

must b

occurrence, where, in one family, the rarity has become
doubled, or repeated. A case of the latter description
. .

Nook farm, Myerscough, who has four sons, the eldest of
which was twelve years old on the 28th of April last ; the
second ten on the 28th of April last ; the third eight on
the Ist of September last ; and the fourth six on the Ist
of September last. Further, the above four children were
all • I five o'clock in the afternoon.—

)orn between four am
Preston Pilot.

DARING BURGLARY.—On Monday three men were
apprehended at Manchester, on a charge of having been

house called Ladybari, near 13'u'rnages, four miles from
that town, on Saturday morning. On that morning, at
an early hour, a party of ten or twelve men, with faces
blackened, and armed with bludgeons, broke into the
house in question, occupied by Mr. John Wood, a farmer

of iu years old, supposed in the neighbourhood to be a
hoarder of money. They went to the bedroom of the
old man's nephew, Mr. Charles Wood, and fastened him
. .

demand the old man's money from him_ _.
threatening him and searching the house,

speak, is like the old scholastic who would not enter the
water till he knew how to swim. And when, and where,
and how, is this practice to be obtained ? When the se-
rious businesS of 'life has beembegun, it is too late. The
apprenticeship must precede the journey-work. Save in
such societies as these, I know not where the needful ex-
perience and self-posseion can be gained. Here they
may be gained to a very great extent ; and be it observed,
it is not sought to produce finished orators, or special
pleaders; or powerful declaimers, but to give to every one
such a control over his own language and his own feelings
and thoughts, as to enable him, without trepidation, or
bashfulness, or hesitation, to utter forth what truth is.in
him ; so that neither his own attention nor that of others,
shall be fixed on the vehicle and mode of utterance,
rather than on the substance of that which is uttered. I
know that there are persons fluent and glib of speech,

lortion of ideas with a copious

luge of watery truth ; and that such persons excite in the
minds of the discerning a distrust of all ready speech

it be truly said that clear utterance has no reflex bearing
on clearness of thought._ Our own ideas gain greatly in

precision and in force by the very attempt to impress others
with them. A thought seen through the medium of ano-
thei.'s sympathy is no longer the cold abstraction which it

was in the solitude of our own mind. It has a new warmth,
vitality, and energy. By speaking then, and writing too,
but more especially by speaking (for then the communion
of mind with mind is more rapid and direct), do we greatly

and readiness of thought. Nor let me forget to allude io
the excellent school for temper, for taste, for presence of
mind, which is here presented. One here learns to bear
with natienre and rood humour, the dissection of his ar-

Lre of hiS mistake

to seize with

instinctive quickness the salient points of an opponent's
reasoning, or of a statement of facts, and a promptness of
reply, without which a man may, as it were, have much

money in the bank, but is really poor, to]
cash to meet the exigencies of the moment

tort or repartee which, in the dining roo.

ie prop,

ave been ma

substitute a ready and time

ircase Iv

way o

he various powers of r

tive, because combined, action.
are. trained apart, but memory
nervation, and wit, and reflecti
to produce any great result
into a focus, ere they kindl

These may be, ar.

I often
d imagination, and ob-
must all work together

he sun's rays must be draw
flamc ; by such contrasts

are here afforded, there is a new call for concentration of
all the faculties of the mind.
Mr. Huott GAWTITOUP, of Birkenhead, then addressed
the meeting, and eloquently descanted on the many happy
days and numerous advantages he had enjoyed since his
first connection with the society. When he joined it, he
could not have uttered two words consecutively before

t ; and though now

together got over the objection, IA

vey to therii his id

f the bow

combatted the assertion of

such soy

ties, by

occupying the attention of youthful minds, disqualified
them for business, and asked where one had been thus

many were there unable to follow, benefi-cially, their avo-
cations from not having attended such societies. He con-
cluded by hoping that the Mental Improvement Society
would go on prosperously progressing from year to year.
Mr. HAvLocx was then called upon by the president,
and amidst frequent rounds of applause, spoke nearly as
follows :
When Julius Caesar, 1900 years ago, landed on this

island, he found it a wild, un

wrior to

` if the

rut to sleep and
fixed abode, no