The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

MASTER SLENDER AND HIS Boos ot, SONNETS!—A very
sentimental, and withal, very consumptive looking gentleman,
about 20 years of age, wearing a round blue jacket, and his
shirt-collar turned down d /a Byron, was summoned before Mr.
Commissioner Dubois, by a bookbinder named Harrison, fur
payment of the sum of six shillings.
What do you say to this? asked Mr. Dubois of the defend-
ant.

Defendant—Say, sir, why I could write a whole volume upon
it. (Laughter.) You must know, sir, I have a taste for poetry,
and having sonic idea of setting up in that line, I writ a great
many fugitive pieces—rich as sonnets, and sich likes; and as it
was my intention to employ Mr. Murray to publish 'em, I thort
I'd have'm all hound up together, so as to look decent and tidy.
(Laughter.) Well, sir, and gentlemen of the jury, this here's
the book, and I mean to say the binding's a disgrace to my
genus. (Laughter.)
Mr. Commissioner—That's a great pity—just hand it up—
(The thing was done in blue morocco, and resembled a large
cyphering book.) Will you allow me to read a portion of the
contents to the jury?
Defendant—\'Pitt► inconceivable pleasure, sir.
The Commissioner here read to the Court the following por-
tion of a sonnet to Mr. Graham's balloon !
" Great Gawky, wonder of the hopper skies,
Oh, how I loves to see yer body rise ;
There's lots of fear, although they tries to mask it,
As they hangs dangling in a wicker basket;
For me, when'ere I takes a hariel ride,
I means to book a place in the hinside—
And mounting huppards to the hopper skies,
I shan't feel giddy t.—eos shot both hies!"
Although the whole Court was convulsed with laughter,
Master Slender maintained the most imperturbable gravity.
The Commissioner intimated that there were odes to Daniel
O'Connell—" Sonnets on my mother," and a few tender epistles
"to Sarah."
The worthy Commissioner, on charging the Jury, 'observed
that the value of the binding could be estimated alone by a
bookbinder. The contents of the book was mere rubbish; hut
it did not follow that the bookbinder was to charge an exhor-
hitant price for what certainly appeared to be a very indiffer-
ent binding.
The Jury decided that 45., with the payment of costs, was
amply sufficient.
CHEAP LooGINGs.—A very intelligent girl, named Mary
Morgan, was summoned for is. 9d. lodging money, at 3d. per
night. The poor girl, who had evidently been well educated,
assured the Commissioner that she was not unwilling to pay,
but that she could not; and as to the value of the lodging, there
were 18 persons all sleeping in one room I—they were all hud-
dled together like so many swine.
The plaintiff, who looked the very essence of depravity, pres-
sed for an immediate payment ; hut the Jury considerately al-
lowed the poor girl a period of two months fur payment of the
debt.

On yuittin;.• the Court she respectfully and feelingly thanked
the Commissioner and the Jury.

WINE TRADE.

The total importation of all wines into the United Kingdom
for the year 1835, amounts to 9,039.551 gallons, being a de-
crease, as compared with the irurrtations of the preceding
year, of 726,565 gallons ; this is immense. The total deliveries
from bond for home consumption and exportation, fur 18,35, are
8,293,9'5i gallons, being an increase over 1834 of 174,258 gal-
luny. The total stock of wines in the United Kingdom of all
sorts, on the sth January last, amounted to 9,776,140 gallons,
which shows an increase upon the previous year's stock of
690,598 gallons.
PORT3.—The importation of Portugal wines during 1835,
amounted to 4.269,890 gallons, or upwards of 37,000 pipes. The
deliveries for home consumption, 2,780,024 gallons, being a
trifling decrease as compared with 18.31. The export deliveries
of Ports were 475,084 gallons, showing an increase upon 1834 of
178,546 gallons. 'fhe stock of Ports in bond 'n the sth Jana-
ary last, was 4,218 264 gallons, or nearly 37,000 pipes, the Loa- I
don stock alone in August last being 24,100 pipes, showing an
increase, as compared with the same stock upon the sth Janu.
ary last, of 3,250 pipes, so that if the ontports have increased in
the same proportion, the market most remain heavy.
Trig INTAGE.—No material difference of opinion, it is
thought, can exist as regards the Port vintage of 1835. The
rain commenced on the 19th September of that year, and conti-
nued until the 12th October during nearly the whole of the
gathering, which destroyed - all previous hopes of a favourable
vintage. Almost all the grapes were gathered in rain ; • and the
vintage, therefore, as regards quality, Inuit be Fieldale a failure,-,
although as to quitntity it was an average crop'. The 'Port Witty'
trade is now untiera tieuCs'ysteni, which has not yot had -time-to
develupe itself; .the future value of =Ports; the'i efore-can not, he,
stated, although it must nothe forgot thatthetracte in Portugal
is unrestricted, and increased facilities- ace thereby afforded .to-
the merchant and grower.. ' . .
SLIERRILts.--The total import .0.1-Sherries last: year amounted
to 2.732028 gallons, or 23,756 pipes, being a decrease-42ND the
previous year of 714,585 gallons; or 6213 pipes, The total de.:
liveries of Spanish wines for home consumption last year are
2,230.187 gallons, being a decrease upcn the former year of
49,666 gallons. The deliveries for the.present year .will tend te,
decide whether thisarticle has arrived at its maximum of demand'
for home use. The total stock of Spanish wipes on sth Jan.
last,Was 3,699.239 gallons, a .flecrease• err the 'previous year Or
241,282 gallons. This evidently arises from a:ditniaigherl
ply, and is calculated 'to relieve,' in some -degree, the great 'Ores;
on the market,: anti thereby faeilitate sales. The Stock, k
however, is too heavy, and the holders too pressing, to afford
prospect of any improvement in prices. The London stock
alone, on the 31st August last, was 21,716 butts. The vintage
of 1835, both us to quality and quantity, is held to be a full
average.

Ma nErn A.—The importation of this wine, which of late years
a decrease of 167,873 gallons upon the pre-
ha s been languishing in the British market, amounted to 2(54,825
gallons only, being
haendtoltaulatilmlyo.rtations of these Yines last
vious year. The vintage of 1835 is repteseuted as being defi-
70i gallons more than the im-
ciernitz
Ebrioct aNsvrioNrsa—litty
isr)(Tir.trs was
18.33701.,44,11,hgea total
consumptionhb,i;ming
deliveries
of
183.5
were '271,361, being an increase over those of 1834 of 11,031
gallons. The stock of French wines on the tth of January was
319,350 gallons, showing a decrease, as compared with that of
January 1835, of 38,706 gallons. The Claret vintage of last
year is considered a failure as to quality; it is deficient in body
and colour. and vapid in flavour. The Otarets of 1831, concern-
ing which so much difference of opinihn'existed, appear to have
materially improved, and have been sought after us the only
available wines to succeed the vintage of 1831.
A good Claret vintage is much wanted, and the present year
promises this, unless spoiled by the weather before it can be
realized. Although the home demand for French wines in 1835
appears to have slightly increased, this improvement is not ap-
plicable to Claret. Champague has materially increased in
consumption, and the French Ports have also swelled the home
deliveries. The rental ks relating to Cape, and other cheap
anro:
of
littlea hilml()n1
interestby t
ot r
be eexstprerespectablerespectableportion of the
trade, Port, Sherry,
and Claret, seem the staple articles of British use.--Seutsman.

We learn from Kneel that, during the storm of Wednesday
night, about thirty fi boats were wrecked on the beach ofshing
Derry oge. The loss is estimated at between two and three
hundred pounds, a loss which, the poor fishermen, will be all
but ruinous.— Newry Telegraph.
GER MA NRA IL 1(0A D.—lt is a remarkable fact that in the for-
mation of the railway between Prague and Pilsen,The individuals
employed were chiefly females, each of whose
. wages amounted to
about 6d. a day. There were upwards of 2000 regularly engaged
as labourers, in forming the embanktnents, excavating the soil,
&c. During the two first years the engineer was able, iu the
course of 40 English miles, to cut no less than 696.465 cubic
tardy, and to, construct 807,814 cubic yards of embankment,
besides laying the war with malleable rails. lie erected euring
these two years 73 bridges from three to 18 yards each, with 133
culvees; and be also made 236 waggons. Aud 411 this at au
expense of about £75,200 sterling.—Strany's Germany.