The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-26 00:00:00

Oh! hail Columbia—hail lai4of liberty !! !

An immense carps draniatique had beed collected from all parti
of the Union. The play was The School. /or Scandal. Most
of the 'characterS by names formerly know on the London
baards. We were amused-by the singular phraseology of the
Mississippi critic; he states that " Charles Surface was. 60111C-
what sick/ ! "Joseph was rather rhe.intatic stfil: or so" and
Sir Ben (a young emigrant from the Victoria) " scented urt•
oonanon sickz,i,ic too." De Camp (Fanny Nemble's uncle) was
the Sir Peter; but it appears that he had been " rs'n, that is,
elimat-is'd,— brandy-is'd—citizen-is'd, and vulgar-is'd—there-
fore, critic- is'd as the rey'lar sort of thiny,'", The once little
Clara Fisher has.been matronised into a M rs. MaiMer,and was the
Lady Teazle,. as their three high tragedy and comedy heroine 4
had not arrived. We recognised in the three abSenteei our old.
London acquaintances Miss PhillipS (DrurV-laric), Miss Pel-.
ham (fiavrnarket), and MisS Jarman (Covent-garden); the
last lady, defying Malthus, has matronised into Mrs. Patrick
Tiernan ! 1t apimars that these ladies had not sufficiently
swilled from New York, Philadelphia, anti Beston, for the New
Orleans opening. Poor girls, we hope they are safe, for No-
vember and December were rather stormy months for the fair,
and fragile exiles to be buffet Ling the briny billows iu search of
the dollars which were denied theM in their native land as vote=
ries of the legitimate drama.

A SUBJECT FOR LORD MUBGRAVE TO STUDY.—Lord Mel=
grave is a. man who, frem his position in society, must know the
difference between good and bad company in private ; and the
effect produced by the assortment of people brought together
ou occasions of.-personal compliment, or political display. Let
him then measure his own position. by contrasting the dinner
at which he was entertained in Belfast, with the dinner of the
Belfast society, given as a-symbol of opposition to his govern-
ment, and the views of the Administration under which he acts.
In compliment to his- Lordship there sat down at the theatre
about 200 persons—not ten of them men of rank or property.
In opposition, there sat down at the Society's dinner 850 gentle-
men, amongst whom were the elite of the Irish nobility con-
nected with the North of Ireland. In fact, for the little grace
which attended his Excellency's.visit, he is iniebted solely to
private friendship. It happened that Captain Blackwood—the
nephew and the heir of Lord Dufferin, was the personal friend
of Lord Mulgrave, through whom his Excellency was invited
to' Ballyeidy. In personal respect to his guest, Captain Black-
wood accompanied Lord Mulg.reve to the theatrical collation,
and the appearance of this gentleman there was received with
the utmost delight and vain glory by the radical party. Thev
vaunted-=they advertised a convert in the heir of Lord Dufferin ;
but Captain Blackwood, burning to set himself right with tho
public, hastened to attend the Belfast Society's dinner, and, in
a speech of great manliness, publicly avowed his entire svmpa-
thy with that great conservative party, and his approildof its
principles and conduct.
"This is the unkindest cut of all."
(Dublin Evening Mail.)

I„LLUIERALITY 171' A TORY PFEIL—We have, within a vent
short period of time, had occasion to mention the prini'eli
donations of Lord Rolle to various charitable purposes : 1:1000
to the fund for the relief of the Irish cfergy, £lOOO towards
establishing a chaplaincy in the Devon and Exeter hospital,.
POO to the Lunatic Asylum ; and in addition to these and
'various other munificent donations from the same source, we
have great pleasuae in recording the following :—Suite time
since it was thought extledient to erect a -new -church in a dis=
tant part of the parish of Ilfracombe, called Lea; to this object,
besides presenting a handsome screen, his lordship subscribed,.
we believe, .£2OO. When the church was completed his lord-
ship visited it, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Drake, of Spring-
field, who had been greatly instrumental in promoting the
building; of the church, at which time his lordship was informed
that £9OO was required for an endowment previously to its con-
secration, of which little more than four hund:ed pounds wait
subscribed. 1-lis lordship, without further solicitation or con-
sideration, asked for pen and paper, and gave a cheek for the
difference. What adds to the munitieence oftlie gift, and exhibitd
his lordships generosity and warmth of heart, it should be ob-
served, is that is lordship has, no property whatever in this
place. When 001 we heat' the like amongst the (falsely called)
Liberals?.-17'estern Luminary.
TUE NEW Loan CnartcEb.on.—His lordship is in his 55th
year, and married, in 18'21, Caroline, daughter of W. Wingfield,
Esq., Master in Chancery, by whom he has a numerous family..
His father was the late Sir William Pepys, seine time one of
the Masters in Chancery, brother of Sir Lucas Pepys, tot'tot'Bog-,
hill, created a baronet on the 23,1 of June, 1801. The family of
Pepys is of considerable antiquity in Cambridgeshire; Richard
Pepys, secOnd son of John Pepys, of Cottenh am, the tittle se-
lected by the new Chancellor, was toed to the law, and appoint-
ed Lord Chief Justice of inland in 1665; his great grandson,
William Pepys, of London, banker. married the daughter of
Sir Richard Russell, and died in-1711, leaving issue by her two
sons, the late Sir William Walter Pepys and the late Sir Lucas
Pepys, who married I,:liiabeth, Countess of 'ltalics in her own
right.--Rtening paper. [Cottennam is celebrated for cheeses as
well as Pepyses ; and without tiny disparagement to its new
lord, we suspect that the cheese Will still be the Most famous
prialuction of the village,— Tiiiies.l

PAlN.—Commenting upon the the treatment of obsctire
feetions of the . viscera, in which pain is a leading symptom,
Sarcuni, in his work on the diseases of Naples, uses an expres-
sion which illustrates the . value of separately attending to the
nature of the individual, as Well as of the aggregate symptoms
of maladies. For practical purposes, the important problem to
solve consists in distinguishing, " whether pain be the mother
or the daughter of inflammation." In fact, as inflammation
proceeds, pain, which at first has been a leading and a funda••
mental symptom, may subside or assume another character,
and may become merely an accessary or sequel, depending upon
the gorging of the vessels; and, as inferred from the juvanti.i .
and kedantia, curable only by counter-irritation, With the con-•
joined internal exhibition, perhaps, of stimulants. 'Whereas;
if pain seems to be the mother, not the daughter of inflamma-
tion, opium, premised or not, by blood-letting as indicated by
the symptoms, will be the sheet anchor, as was experienced by
Salconi during an epidemic at Naples.—Elementsql Bedsidei
Medicine, by Dr. J. S.' Mortara.

TREnENDous ExPLOSION AT THE ISLINGTON CATTLE MAR=
KILT, LONDON.— Between the honrs of eleven and twelve
o'clock on Thursday night the neighbourhood of Islington and
Ball's Pond was thrown intd a state of the Utmost consterna-
tion and alarm by a loud'report which shook the houses to their
foundation, and roused the inhabitants froM their sleep, num-
bers of whom instantly rushed into the streets, believing it to ,
have been the shock of an earthquake. In a short time, how
ever, it was discovered that the report had been caused by the
explosion of the boiler of a steam-engine recently erected in
the New Cattle Market, in the Lower-road (belonging to Mr.
Perkins, of Bletchingly, Surrey), for the purpose of cutting
the iron rods used in the erection of a sheep pens. On enter-
ing the grounds a melancholy spectacle presented itself, the
engine; and the building in which it was erected, having been
blown to atoms, and the fragments scattered all over the mar-
ket. On the right of the spot where the boiler had stood, the
'body of one of the men employed in cutting the iron, named
Robert Spenden was found frightfully disfigured, and not far
from it the Koch, of soother man, named George Smith, was
also founds both of theni quite dead. On a -.farther Search,
Thomas Gellish, the foreman of the work`; wa:4 discovered about
fifty yards distant, in a contrary direction, lying on hiS back in
a state of insensibility, and near him twit more of the Men'
ing on their faces, the who:e of whom had received severe in-
juries. Gellish, on his recovering hisenses,'stated that he was
standing near the boiler when the explosion took place, by the
force of which he was blown the above distance. ConSeys
ances• were immediately procured, and the three' unfortunate,
sufTerets' who were still alive, coisveyed to St. Bartholomew's-
Hospital, where, on examination; it was discovered that Gel-
lish's collar-hone was most dreadfully broken ; and that Ilia
whole of them were so severely scalded all over their bodies that
little hopes are entertained of their nitirmite recovery. A
strong party of the N division of police, from tlme
on Islington-greet), we're in prompt attendatree; and .trendered
very efficient assistance keepittg back the 'station-house
; Crt "VIVI be s ail
in-
pars, into the cause of the melancholy . . entered
reports at present in cir elation.
into at the coroner's inquest, we abstain from mentioning the
Tim VOLUNTARY SysTicsa.—On Sunday evening, the Rev.
Mr. Saunders, a dissenting minister, at. Lmidon, iii
the course of his sermon, took occasiond
to advert to the support
given by the various congregations of dissenters in Loudon to
their pastors. Ile i
said he was placed n asittuition in which he
could speak his sentiments without fear, neither receiving nor
expecting to receive the least emolument titan his congri-ga-
tion; but he must say, in respect to otherCOngreq,atious differ-
ently plßced, that the support glien to their ministers was
most shamefully penurious. Many of those whose high literary
acquirements had cost them years of labour, and their friend's
much money, were paid for their. services at a lower rate than a
menial servnnt. tie knew many minister„,
connected by their
talents and character with, the higher classes of society, who,
from the meanness of those fur whom they laboured. wearied out
their lives in seclusion front the world on a miserable pittance. Me
had known others, for whom the temptation has been too
strong, and who, by keeping pace with their connexions iii
society, had prepared for themselves trouble and anxiety, and
many such had thereby been brought to an untimely grave. He
thought this illiberality and meanness of spirit so prevalent
amongst those who volunteered to support their. own pastors
highly disgraceful to the character of dissenters generally, and
if persevered in would tend greatly to depreciate the talents,
and usefulness of the dissenting ministry and the character of
the body generally.—(3forniwil Herabl.)—(After this let tts*
hear no more of 1' starving curates.—E L.S.I