The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

1' GOWN

,usset Gown is dear to zee,

)ugh years have passed away
my young heart beat joyously

Colds of grey ;
around my neck
in my hair, _

tep I tript aloug,

w no cam

ay windows crept,

eir sweets around,
bed on which I slept,

p was sound

t Gown I laid aside,

where I had passed

.s in tears

a wealthy home,

n's bride,

ght that splendour would atone

Gown, when next I gazed

Upon its sombre hue

m to my heart

was true ;

neatness seemed to mock
and jewels gay,
❑y wandering thoughts to those

Dear-friends so tar away;

It how fleeting were the joys

Chat wealth alone can buy,
d for that humble cottage home
Niy bosom heav'd a sigh.

t Gown I still have kept,

To check my growing pride,
true though silent monitor,

folly to deride ;
with faithless friends

Andwh

Idy throng,

vice and pleasure, In their train,
)rag heedlessly along,
. gladly I would give
My coach and bed of down,
Once more in sweet content to live,
And wear my Russet Gown.

I feel ho•

BRITISH COTTONS FOR 1840

e Leeds Mercury)

been favoured with the following official table of
exports of the United Kingdom last year, with
sto which those exports took place. The table

been printed.
COTTON EXPORTS FOR 1840.

Declared value of Cotton
Manufactures and Cotton
Yarn exported from
the United Kingdom.

NORTHERN EUROPE

UTIIERN EUROPE

ileari" I

-slands

Canaries

e Italian Islands

Islands

Igland3

FRICA

,s, Algiers, and Morocco

s on the Red Sea

£1,151,798
66,3.50
28,000
6,328
1,961
3,551,439
2,244,373
206,530

Territories and

209,136
728,309

25,238
16,677
11,181
28,389

635,821
1,671,122
80,261
49,174
638
895,888
216,269

id other islands of

64,267

clients in Australia

AMERICA

47,047
262,499
134,655

ican Colonies.

2,487
1,494
159,808

.r Foreign West Indian

3,873,186

272,663
141,629
327,137
179,707
3,181
1,998

611,303
1,234,087
161,922

401,382

1,123,439
DI, CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA,

of America

249,065

248,04 G
2,525,037
335,305
921,627
491,827

of the Rio de la Plata

of Guernsey, Jerse

Alderney,

I Exports

65,381

£24,668,618

siery and Smallwares
ist and Yarn........

Yards.
433,114,373 7,803,772
35,517,624 8,498,448
1,265,090
118,470,2231 b. 7,101,308

£24,668,618

MOD, OF GLOUCESTER

ly met to discuss some point relative to
Igular character; the extent of whose
mtest for the possession of the same, have
isiderable interest in the public mind. The
lleged executors and the next of kin have
In for more than five years ; the possessor
•operty having died on the 28th of April,
SO years of age. It is calculated that the
- °lapse before the English laws will
Je pronounced. Here, then, must
lawyers, who doubtlessly will not
ie benefit of so rich and abundant
lowever, afford some amusement to
.uthentic detail of the amount of the
tric and parsimonious old man died

Half per Cents

X. s. d.
66,221 11 0
3,000 0 0
57,500 0 0
333,098 13 6

-Half per Cents

zis freehold and copyhold
time of his death

Ids due at the time of his death

9 5 0
9,380 19 10
181,00 0 0
52,000 0 0

ditto due at his death,
Is, and notes of hand
ditto at his death .

)unts due to his estate at the

to him for shop goods
sh in the hands of Sir John
id Co

his house

uinea pieces, five two-
s one-guinea ditto, two
which were sold for
5 produced

or env

qnjoy3 p

4,677 15 0
710 10 9
15,632 6 1
1,391 12 9
5,408 5 10
395 19 11

11,225 1 4
138 7 9

9,756 12 6
2,426 10 0
49 1 0
0 0 11
5,237 0 0
9 0 0

51 16 6
5 4 0

0 2 6
711 4 0
5 0 0
223 0 0
256 0 0
579 10 0

£781,107 10 4
count of personal property, the freehold
t £200,000; so that, with the five years'
inlated, we may reckon his property to
Anse sum of nearly £1,200,000.
•

a amass such immense wealth, by starving
all around them, should not take pains to
wasted in litigation after their exit, appears
hose avaricious propensities which enable a

ther such immense sums, are strong even
saking the miser but with life, as experi-
proves. Instead, however, of envying
nd inflicts all sorts of miseries in the
object, the individual who, with pru-
'joys and distributes the funds which
pis command whilst living, is much
to the liberal and feeling mind, and
res which the miser never appreci-