The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-08 00:00:00

FLETCHER ItAINCOCK, Eft

It has never been our lot to announce a tribute of respect more
gratifying than has just been offered to this gentleman. His
portrait, by Lolls.late,. is 1010111. to be placed in the iihrary of the
Liverpool Law Soiety; it is..of large size, and every• way a
splendid_ painting, perhaps the chlf, d'erstereHit this eminent
artist, who, it is said, testified peculiar interest; in the perform-
ance. It was painted in compliance with. the following address,
which is framer) and appended to the picture, forming together
a lasting inontinient to honour• and professiohal character worthy
of the gentleman to whom it is so deservedly inscribed. We hope
that the public will he gratified by a sight of this fine painting-
in the nest annual exhibition :

To Ff.FTCsi-lieltt:R INCOCIK, ESQ., HA (MISTER-AT-LAW,

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feelings of the highest esteem for your public,
and private eharavier, the undersigned a'toine.-at-law' prae-
t ising in Liverpool, heg leave respectfUlli to request •that. You•
will be pleased to sit for your portrait, to be placed in the library`;
of the Liverpool La* Society.

•'Senior of the Northern iiircuit, and reiiti few. exceptions of
the whole bar, yint have identified yiitir name With all that is-
higliminded and tionourable• your very eminent endowments
as a scholar and a lawyer, while they have added lustre to. tbta
great community in whicli.yon have so•long resided,. have never
been exerted so as to wound the feelings or disturb the peace of
any human tieing, nor been selfishly directed to mere purpose 4
of personal aggrantlisenwnt.
•• While your public career has been marked by the nicest":
sense of houourand disinterestedness, and in AM especial manner
by personal delicacy in regard to professional emolument, the
innuilieence of lour private bounty is not unknown, notwith-
standing the veil von have thrown over it, and which it would
ill become us to lift.

As inhabitants of the same town, and as members of a pro-
fession common (in our respective grades) to each of us, we can-
not but consider the light of p.m. public character to be in some
degree refleoeted upon ourselves.

• With these impressions, we presume to solicit, as a lasting'
memorial at once of our respect, and as an example to 11S, and
to those who limy surceed tis in our blanch of the profession, hat
you mill permit your port rail to lie placed in the library of.an:
institution, Which. tholigh supported by private and strictly pro-
fessional kiihsviot ion, partakes much of a public character, and
has already 'attained a high degree of 'importance and useful-.
uess.* irrt 4,1

• " We have the honour to be, sir, Ste,
" Liverpnot Simmer k 37."
(Signed by..titt)-six attorneys.)
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WHITE CItOWL-St the rnnk shooting at Workinttlon Hall
on Monday last, a gentlemno of the town brought down, with
his gutr, a perfectly white crow: It is now in the possession of
W. Thompson,• Esq., and is likely, we unrlerstand,, to survive
•the "shock of at m,.," which it sustained on Monday.—Carlisle
• Patriot. •

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RATHER DIFFICULT TO rilkAst.—A gentleman Who was
rather impatient at table, declared he wished he could manage
without servants, its they were' greater "plague than profit."•
".Why not have a dumb waiter," suggested a friend. " Oh
no," returned the other ; " 1 have tried them4they don't
answer."—London and Paris Magazine_ of FaShion,
We understand that Colonel Considine, with the permission
of the English government, has taken the command of the army
of the 13ev of Tunis, for the purpose of Organizing and disciplin-.
idg it. We believe we may addi,that this gallant officer will
,have the British rank of major-general whilst thus serving on-
the continent or Africa..-01iserrer.

• •
Lord and -Lady Francis Egerton returned, to Bridgewater
House yesterday rnoin Oa!lands, their seat in Surrq. NVe are,
happy to add, that the noble lord has quite recovered from a
stubborn attack of gout, from the debilitating effects of which
he had been suffering for severallnonths past.----fibrming Herald
Wedtre.vrla

• DISTUESS OF Tim Pot:Es.—A few nights since six Poles
were lying asleep On t he, ground in one of.the parks of the titer
trollops, having nn means of obtaining any better lodging. A
policeman having come upon this unhappy group in his rounds,
ordered them to rise and remove elsewhere. The Poles, front
ignprance Of the English language, were at first unable to Make
him understand that they had no home, and were compelled to
adopt their present finr want of a better bed. Other policemen,
however, coming up, it was ascertained that the. apparently
refractory strangers wet& distressed Polish patriots, and with
great humanity the policemen immediately collected a sum of
money amongst themselves,. which they employed in piocuring
lodgings for the homeless exiles.

Her Majesty intends to give a concert shorily at Bucking,
haul Palace, the performers to consist of native talent, and the
cotnpositions to be selected (tom the best English authors.
A " Tut toN OF THE MlNNoWfi."—The Worcester Journal,
states, that last week a gentleman of Hereford killed in the
river Lugg a trout wt,ighlog 111 b. 30z., in the stomach of
which were found filly-three full-sized minnows !
Accounts from Naples, of the; 18th ult., state that the
English squadron, eonsistingof eight sail of the line, was to sail
from Malta on the .19th, for Naples.
Lord Ili!l has granted to the 29th regiMent the'diStinction of
wearing a star on their pouches. This is the only corps in the
servicr. except- the guards, that is allowed the 'privilege.—
Limerick Ch)onicle,
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We learn from Reading, that, in consequence of the,soadeft
discharge of a oumber of workmen, it became necessary to stieat
in two hundred special cOnstables, and even to call in the Lit•
Guards, to prevent mischief. No rioting, however, had actually
taken place at the date of our information.—Mornirly paper.

The 'following. eutions specimen of orthography was sent aS
a stole from .one of his patients to a Medical gentleman in ex-
tensive practise, not twelve miles from Exeter; we give it ter.;
batim et literatim.;—" Mrs. hise is just the same she, have gut
no toedisen a left She 'Wish to hat,e some more She took the
Last of it last night the Dater is hill else she would come &wit
'her Self Dina the dater Want something far to Else her &toilet
she cant keep nothing in Cider She want something fur lice
her Stomet It )ou place ser."

THe. H EA ItT OF Min LormAN.-,,As an instance of the
precia►ion of the writings of Sir Walter Scott by our English
neighbourQ, we .may mention, that one of the Birmingfiatn de-
putation, Mr. Salt, we think, began his address on the Calton
Hill on Monday, by saying, "Men of the Heart of Mid Lothian,"
never imagining that t his was tantamount to calliuw his audience
" gaol birds," the Heart of Mid Lothian being the Tolbooth
or gaol of Edinburgh : and the shout of laughter with which
the opening of this peerli was received must have been rather
a puzzler to the worthy radical.—Caledonian Illettury:

ANTIQUITY o Tim THimat.x-Ri6--4t is not long since
Lord Stanley -amused the Douse of Commons by an accurtitt-,
account of the celebrated process of deception, called, in ill
language, of conjurors, the " thimhle-rig"—a process which sti.f
preserves its place amongst the modes practised bythe rogue,t
who preside Over the tables at Epsom and Doncaster, for et.-
tiacting money fiom the green tuttics or the greener cockneys,.
notwithstanding all the activity of the new police. Very fe,‘,',.4.
Lord Stanley's • audience probably happened to know
"thimble-rig ti.mrished upwards of 300() years ago in Egypt.--
Net/ Montitly.—[ rhe "! cups and halls" of the "conjurors" ;it
country fairs, are a variation of the same "rig."]
THE MANIAC SOW. COURTENAY.—He was the tnn d,f
William and qberry Tom, two honest and thrifty persons irri,
kept a public.-house for many years- at St. Columb, ti-
wall, a bouse principally resorted to by the neighfrouritu:
farrners.an market-days. His mother WaS the principal sup-
port of the business, being acareful nip] industrious woman, bid
was always very eccentric. Eventually she became insat..•,
and died. a few Years since In-the county lunatic asYlum.• Aft, r
the wife's decease, the business fell off; and havii
married a second wife, who DOW keeps a school in the saw..
place, soon gave up business altogether. The name of
their only son, was John, and when at the age of 14 nr 15 be
was considered superior to all the other youths in the town to
education,- person, and manners. With' the latter part, of. let,:
life the public are already acquainted.—Correspondent of 11,,
Times,

THE POSTMAN.-1-lisportiait is an every-lay picture of life,
anct yet not easy to paint. Be is the very incarnation oaf ti!v-
crity, the embodied spirit of regularity Etna precision. Day I.v.
day, hour by hour, he is to be seen traversint with rapid stel;
the limits of his oWn narrow district. The heavens may sinn,
or frown ;'reviilntiiiii limy shake the land; or peace and prp—
perity gladdeif,its children. Disease may wave its pestilent
torch ; or sudden' calamity sweep away its victims. at&t tnei
positron is stilkut his post. A diurnal dispenser of news. A
.kind of tope in the Queeri'S livery, visiting every one in is rn„
and vlieiciitneil by all. A messenger of life and of death ; of
gratit-IPd ambition, or disappointed dcsire,;-, of gracious accept;
atfee, or haish refusal. tie is still welcome; for his Presencet
•and'that which hiel;riltrs, at least puts -aiißliad io•the most crudi
tittioi'ii txirrt Ailed/anti.

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