The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-02 00:00:00

THE LATE BARON SIR W. SMITH.

Never has there devolved upon us a more mournful duty, or
one which we approach with feelings of more acute and sincere
sorrow, than that of announcing the demise of Sir William
Cusack Smith, Bart., second Baron of the Court of Exchequer,
which melancholy event took place on Friday, at his. seat, New-
town, near Tullamore, in the King's county. To describe the
varied acquirements that shed lustre on the name and character
of this distinguished ornament of society, now, alas, no more,
would require talents equal to those of the illustrious individual
whose death has left a blank in the living page of Irish history
which no length of time ca❑ adequately fill urn. Gifted by na-
ture with every attribute that could exalt and give dignity to
the human mind, Sir William C. Smith added to the lustre of
au origivalgeuius, every accomplishment which learning the
most varied and profound, and talents of the highest order in
the scale of intellectual endowments were capable of bringing
to perfection, during a long life of deep and unremitting appli-
cation to the most• refined beauties of ancient • and modern
literature.

As a judge, Sir William Smith reached, on his first ascent
to the judicial elevation, the very highest eminence for preci-
sion, acuteness, and constitutional as well as legal research.
His decisions were distinguished by clearness, vigour, and
promptitude. But if there was one feature which more than
another' sttiod prominent in the judicial charactefWfbe
!wilted baron,it was his humanity. From the very commence-
ment of his career as going judge of assize, the name of Baron
Smith was identified with mercy; and, though in these latter
days the malignity of faction sought to fling its shade over the
bright surface of his fame, still the high anal the good, all that
is honourable in name and illustrious in rank, came forward
with spontaneous attestations to his merciful disposition and
unshaken integrity--he was a man
" In whose acclaim the loftiest voices vied,

The praised, the prowl, who made his praise their pride."
The late lamented judge was born on the 23d of January.,
1766, and was, therefore, in the 71st year of his age. He was
admitted a member of the Hon. Society of Benchers in 1802,
and in a very short time afterwards elected to the rank of
the Baron of the Exchequer, a station which he filled upwards
of 30 years, with honour to himself and advantage to the coun-
try at large. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his
eldest son—not the eminent King's counsel, to whom, however,
has descended, in a very great degree, the inheritance of his
father's transcendent genius.

A clergyman of the Church of England, who has been thirty-
eight years in the ministry, and whose emoluments have never
reached £lOO per annum, desires to ask, thrOugh the medium of
your journal, whether "board in the house" be included in the
lucrative offers of £25 and £4O per annum, which are made by
the Unions, in their tenders for chaplains of the various work-
houses?—Norwich Mercury.
REMARKABLE CORE OF CHOLERA.—We find the following
in one of the French journals:—Two labouring men employed
at the salt lakes, near Salzburg, were recently attacked with
the cholera, and their bodies havinc, turned quite black, they
were abandoned by the medical attendant. The foreman of the
labourers, however, believing there to be a medicinal virtue in
the waters by the produce of which he lived, resolved to take
the patients into his own hands and attempt their cure. He bad
a quantity of the water heated to a high temperature, and put
oue of the half-dead into a bath. Alter lying there about halt'
an hour, the sick man began to speak, and said how much better
he felt. Encouraged by this success, the superintendent had
the second sufferer placed into a similar bath, and he received
like relief. As the bodies lay in the water, they were observed
gradually to change from the livid hue which they before pre-
sented to a deep red, then to a light rose colour, and at length
assumed their natural colour. At the end of three hours the
Iwo men were perfectly cured ! It is supposed that the heat of
the water.opentng the pores,,the salt particles were introduced,
and .liquifying' the thickened and stagnant blood, restored the
vital current to its natural state of circulation.

Gloucester bas been constituted; by the Lords of the Trea-
sury, a port for the .importation of East India traduce. Be_
twerp sixty and seventy sailor vessels arrived there during the
Past week, abort one-half of Which were from foreign ports.