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

AMERICAN PAPERS.

We publish to-day the afflicting intelligence of the sudden
death of the Honourable Nathan mith, one of the senators in
Congress from the state of Connecticut. The following letter
from Mr. Ellsworth, superintendent of the Patent-office, to the
editor of this paper, communicates some further particulars re-
specting this melancholy event:—" Washington, Dec. 6.—Dear
sir, I hasten to communicate the intelligence of the death of
the Hon. Nathan Smith, Senator from Connecticut, who ex-
pired this a.m. at ten o'clock. His disease was one of the heart,
and forbade the relief of medical treatment. I left him well at
half-past nine last evening. This sad event will cast a gloom
over the commencement of this session, and devolve upon the
governor the high responsibility of supplying the vacancy until
the session of the next legislature in Connecticut in May.—
Yours, respectfully, HENRY L. ELLSWORTH."
"BEAUTIES OF REPUBLICANISM."—Some time ago an editor
in the federal district of Columbia took the responsibility, as
the Americans say, of meddlidg with Canadian politics, and of
babbling, as a matter of course, aialikkberty and rights, and all
that kind of thing. We strongly suspected at the time that the
officious babble' was himself, according to the language of libe-
rals, a political slave. We have now ascertained that he was
so. Though the district of Columbia be under the exclusive
control of congress, vet it is not represented in that body.
Hence every inhabitant of the sacred centre of American liberty
is taxed without being represented, and is bound by laws which
be does not make. Hence the editor aforesaid, if not a nigger,
was at least a slave, accotding to the canting phraseology of
democratic liberals.
The governor of Vermont, if no candidate has a majority of
the votes of the people, must be appointed by .a majority of the
House of Representatives and the Council in joint ballot. Now
Vermont boasts of three parties, which, like the three sides of a
triangle, are so proportioned, that any two of them are greater
than the third. The people, therefore, failed to elect a gover-
nor; and the two houses are also determined to have " no king
in Israel." They have hau only sixty-one ballots; and, if each
party maintains its integrity, they are likely to have as many
more. As the worthy representatives receive daily wages, they
must have consumed more than the amount of the governor's
salary in an amusement not quite so dignified as the shuffling
of cards or the rattling of dice.
As Mr. —, of Jackson county, la., was returning from a
neighbouring grog shop a few evenines since, he was most furi-
ously attacked by a beer of the largeet size, which he succeeded
in "mauling" to death with his fists after a splendid contest of
five minutes. Next morning, accompanied by two of his neigh-
bours, he repaired to the battle-field, when lo! he had killed a
Vie yearling calf.—Cincinnati Whig.
A letter received from Salem, Mass., dated 4th instant, says,
" The Rev. George B. Cheever, author of " Deacon Giles' Dis-
tillery,' was this day sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment,
and to giVe bonds of one thousand dollars to keep the peace for
two sears."

'A NEW MODE TO ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE.—The managers
of the Walnut-street Theatre, Philadelphia, announce that the
president's message would be read from the stage as soon as
received in the city.

Viscount Powerscourt is about to lead to the Hymeneal altar
Lady Elizabeth Jocelyn, eldest daughter of the Earl of Roden.
His lordship. who has returned from a tour in Mexico and the
United States, will come of age on the 18th of next month.
The Colonelcy of the 69th regiment has become vacant by the
death of Lient.-General Sir John Hamilton, Bart. Sir John
was a lineal descendant of the Abercorn Branch of the ancient
and Noble family of Hamilton, and is succeeded in his title by
his only son, Capt., now Sir John Hamilton, late Aide-de-camp
to General Sir James Kempt.
StATE OF IRELAND.—The magistrates of the county of Tip-
peril's have signed a requisition to the lieutenant, the Earl of
Dodotighmore, requesting him to call a meeting, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the necessity of applying to the
government to place four baronies under the new coercion bill,
in consequence of the dreadful outrages which are daily occur-
ring in these districts. It seems that the people are determined
that node other but ctub-law shall exist, and that all property
shall be placed at their disposal, and under their control. The
withdrawal of the small detachments of military from the vil-
lages, against the opinion of the magistrates, has been the sig-
nal for the perpetration of all kinds of crimes—yet we see the
O'Connell-administration-papers vaunting of the tranquillity of
the country.—Dublin Evening Mail.
STEAM , COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA.—MT. Waghorn
has passed through Malta, on his way to Egypt, where it is his
intention to establish himself as an agent to facilitate an inter-
course between England and India; and we have no doubt,
from his perseverance and experience, that his services will be
highly valuable to all those who may be interested in a quick
communication with those distant possessions, by the Red Sea.
Much time cannot elapse before the disputed practicability of
this route, at all seasons, will be either made evident or de-
clared a failure. But in the hands of so indefatigable an indi-
vidual, none but the most insurmountable obstacles will dis-
courage the project.

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.-At a period of festivity like the
present the fascinations of the person among the gay and youth-
ful members of fashion become a subject of some study. The
decorative beauty and culture of the tresses of female loveliness
especially, enhancing as they so greatly do the charms of per-
sonal appearance, occupy by no means a small share of atten-
tion at the toilet. It is more particularly at such periods that
the enlivening and wonderfully revivifying properties of that
most delightful article, Rowland's Macassar Oil, displays those
singular properties with which it is endowed, as an invigorator
and beautifier of the hair, beyond all precedent ever used for the
same purpose. Indeed among the chief virtues incident to the
use of Rowland's Macassar Oil, in reference to ladies' hair,
may be reckoned its enduring properties in preserving the ring•
lets in pristine decorative beauty though the heat of the ball-
room, or locomotion of the promenade.

THE LATE Mn. MOTHERWELL—We understand that Mr.
Wm. Stuart, auctioneer, is to expose for sale, in the Royal
Exchange Sale Rooms, the library of this gentleman, towards
the end of next month. This library contains upwards of four
thousand volumes, in which are included many valuable, rare,
and unique works. There are besides a variety of ancient
armour, manuscripts, paintings, coins, and other curious ob-
jects, which Mr. Motherwell, in his well-known taste for the
antique, had collected, all which will be specified in a catalogue
to be issued sometime before the sale. It is also worthy of
notice that the library contains a set of the Maitland Club
books.—Glasgow Courier.

The immense wealth of Mr. Bowes, father of the late Countess
of Strathmore, arose in great part from his 'nines in Durham.
He paid in tithe to the rector of one parish an equitable modus
of £70l) per annum. The living, exclusive of this, was worth
only £lOO per aunum. The rector became covetous of a larger
modus, and demanded £l,OOO per annum. Mr. Bowes desired
a few days to consider the matter. In the interim he sent for
his head miner, and gave him orders to shut up th
in use, and to open one in the next parish, where
poor living. He then sent word to the covetous
shaft was shut up, and would never be opened
living was held by him.
CARICATURES.—H. B.'s three last are ca
as Don Quixote, running at O'Connell, a
sails, marked "Dissenters and Infidels,"
cals," " Jews and Jesuits," " Repeaters anu
mirably conceived and executed. The same parties as the Mgt,
life and low life dogs (Landseers,) but these from Brookes's
Menagerie, are also capital; and the third, O'Connell collecting
tribute, like the beggar in Gil Blas, his cover a death's head and
cross bones, and his musket in the shape of a bishop's crozier,
while a frightened Paddy is dropping his coppers, is one of the
beat of the series.—Literary Gazette.
disxay.—On Monday evening an inquest was held at the
Coopers' Arms, Hampden-street Somers-town, London, before
Mr.= Stirling, on the body of Mary Ann Hoskins, aged 45. Be-
fore the evidence was taken the jury viewed the body of the de-
ceased, which lay in a parish shell, at her late habitation, a
wretched attic, in a court turning out of Middlesex-street, So-
mers-town- The room contained nothing but a few shavings
and a dirty sack, a few bits of dry bread and a little broth.
Nearly every square of glass in the window was broken. Jane
Knobbs, wife of H. Knobbs, dealer in bones and rags, 3, Middle-
sex-court, Middlesex-street, Somers-town, deposed that the de-
ceased had occupied an attic in her house for the last month.
The deceased sustained a miserable precarious existence by vend-
ing matches in the streets. Latterly the poor woman had been
in very bad health, brought on by excessive privation, for days
toge he,. not having more than a penny loaf to support nature.
D rng the late very severe weather witness had, to the extent
of her power, ieiieved the deceased, otherwise she must have
p 1 rished before. About 11 o'clock on the night of Christmas
Eve the unfortunate creature returned home, after being out
the whole of the day—at which time she was in a state of ex-
treme exhaustion, and paralysed wtih the cold, tier apparel being
of that miserable description as scarcely to cover her person.
Witness compassionating her forlorn situation, got her a little
broth. The deceased, on drinking some, appeared revived, but
complained est being very ill, and was unable to finish the broth.
She then lay down on her pallet,
heard of the unh and witness did not see her
...
again alive. '
tiring the whole of Christmas-day nothing was
the deceased notaPPY woman. In the afternoon of Saturday,
Ling her appearance, witness went to her
room and found hdenir:al
,:erips,e. She was quite stiff and eold, and
witness considev
not te_die‘ eahal the
Bless to send tor a surgeon. By the jury
_deceased received any parish relief.
Myself and bust :nd had stavised her to apply to be admitted to
the parish Infirmary, when she t." 1; ' she would sooner die
in the street!" During the tin-,`""el`
e, son whatever came to see her. Bhg
lodged in the house no
est -ing the late cold weather. I a he had no fire in her room
in of (Tinton that the deceased's
tiniecticVnQaid,thaantdi
d.:ath was caused more from the want
without any cove n: durii,g the htte-iu
actual starvation. John Knobus, the httenti," lt3cionmg
nesi, was examined, whose testimony was
_rd 01 the last wit-
above. Other witnesses spoke
of
the
deploaruilromboration of the
tion the deceased had lately been subjected to, we of destitu-
unanimously of opinion that the death of the wretet jury were was mainly attributable to want of sustenance,
uneei,'eall- adman
exposure to lie cold in her wretched abode, daring and
were weattOtti. The coroner observed it was a Ineidnehojtte "-
that a fellow-creature, and that a woman, should h 71e
ha
such deplorable circumstances; he (the coroner), d enderdu
had the parish authorities been acquainted with her situation,
they would have tendered her every assistance. A verdict was
-then returned "That the deceased's death was acc,lereted try
want of sustenance, medical' lid, and exposure to the cold."

HEALTH AND LONG' LIFE.
Health is the Poor Man's all; humanity, therefore, demands
that the means of preserving ur restoring it should be brought
down to a level with his circumstances ; and this is decideily
the case with Burns's Vegetable Medicines, by the use of which
thousands have been snatched from the Grave, and restored to
Health, after other Medicines had been tried in vain, and the
Faculty had dectared.the Patients past Recovery.
Sold, by appointment, by John Gerdes and 00.,, Druggists,
Church-street, Liverpool; Bowman, Piccadilly. Manchester;
Wright. Macclesfield and Congleton ; Mort, New Castle ;
Rogers, Stafford; Bowman, Bury • Allbut, Hanley; Wood,
Bookseller, High-street, Birmingham; Moxon, Hull; and
by all other respectable Medicine Venders; and any shop
that has not got them will procure then if they are ordered.
BURNS'.S VEGETABLE PILLS,
PREPARED.BY.THE REV. J. BURNS.
ILYAVE proved most efficacious in many thousand c.ses of
Stomach and Bowel Complaints. They have la- f found
of the greatest service to persons afflicied %vial digestion.
Heada'che, Heartburn, Asthnia, Cholic. Loss of petite, Ffa-
tulent Swellings; Piles, Gravel, Habitual Costiv- ess, all Bilious
Affections, and Impurities of the Blood. Ti'e re a sure remedy
for the various sorts of Worths. Two or ee dOses will gene-
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will find theth of speeial service. They will be very suitable to
thOse Who are often necessitated to take Laxative Medicines;
and, if taken in sufficient' dose's, Will answer every end of strong
Purgative Physic. They may be taken at any time without
inconvenience, or SUSpenSion of BtiSiness, and without taking
Cold. The circumstances Of the afflicted poor have been espe-
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dicine ever offered to the Public; the afflicted may try them
fairly for a small sum. Each BOk, with Stamp Duty included,
containing 40 Pills, is sold for 71d.; Double Boxes, 80 Pills,
Is. lid. ; also, Family Boxes, at 2s. 9d. Charitable Persons,
who purchase for Distribution to the Prior, and Ministers of the
Gospel, are entitled to a liberal Allowance.
The following cases will testify the efficacy of Mr. Burns's
Medicines more strongly than anything else that could be said in
their favour. The reason of all the recommendations being from
the neighbourhood of Perth, Mr. Burns's pastoral duties having
heretofore caused his residence in Perth. Parties who derive
relief and cure will be ensuring the confidence of their fellow-
suffereis by: ru'aking, statements of their cases to Mr. Burns,
directed to Messrs. Hannay and Co., London.
This is to certify that I had been severely a filleted with as ulcerated
leg i'or eighteen months, by which was mostly confined to bed. In
addition to which; I was acted with pain and weakness in my bacf.,
and derangement of the whole system. I had tried nearly all the
medical men in this eonnty, but in vain. By using Mr. Burns's Vege-
table Medicines, I am now restored. As witness my hand, this 2d
day of March, 18Z5.

MS. OWLER, Cattle-dealer, Blairgowrie.
A young person in the north end of Perth was in a state of extreme
sufferin so as to occasion the greatest anxiety as to her recovery.
Medical aid had been solicited, but the practitioner refused to admi-
nister anything. When Mr. Burns was applied to she had been in a
state of insensibility for several hours, The vegelable medicines
were used for some time, by which, through the blessing of God, she
is now perfectly recovered.
A person in Cupar Angus had been afflicted with deafness, which he
had received by a surfeit of cold. Also, he was subject to a noise and
dizziness in the head, heartburn, and general weakness. By using the
Pills and Powders, and receiving a few gentle shocks of electricity,
his hearing is now restored, heartburn removed, and general strengi ti
i 'creased.

A young man in Cupar Angus was afflicted with e.reat debility of the
whole system. violent sweatings in bed, loss of appetite, scorching
thirst, great pain in the left side, severe cough, attended with a great
loosen-ss. The disease had been increasing for months.—By the use
of the Pills, Powders, and Tincture, the sweating has ceased, bowels
healtlythy, pain in the side removed, general health good, and cough
heathy, abated.
Cupar Angus, July 8, 1834.
The names of the above two cases may be had by applying to Mr.
Gardiner, merchant, Cupar Angus.
My son had been severely afflicted for some time with that dis-
trksing disorder, the St. Pitus's Dance, but, by taking Mr. Burns's
Powders, he is restored to perfect health.