The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

To AN OLD ENGLISH VILLAGE.

What unto thee are cities vast,
Small village here among these elms?
The care that eats, the show that cheats,
The noise that overwhelms?

Few sounds are thine, and clearly heard
The whimple of one only brook—
The woodman's axe that distant sounds—
Doe's bay, or cawing rook.

How with quiet are these fields!
Far off is heard the peasant's tread !
How clothed with peace is human life!
How tranquil seem the dead!

Here Time and Nature are at strife—
The only strife that here is seen:
Whate'er decay has tinged with gray,
Has nature touch'd with green.

The market•cross, o'ergrown with moss,
All quaintly carved. still lingers on,
And dreams, even in this hoary place,
Of ages longer gone.

The maypole, hung with garlands sere,
Thou fondly dost retain as yet,
AU good old pastimes of this land
Unwilling to forget.

The Gothic church, the manor hall,
And cottages low-roof'd with stone,
With waving grass and lichens all
Are grayly overgrown.
Haunt for the meditative mind !
Some hermit long has near thee dwelt,
And breathed his soul forth on the air.
In quiet that is felt.

I round me look some monk to see,
Some stately old monastic fane;
Nor should I start, were Ito meet
The Norman or the Dane.

Here, as to all the world unknown,
And sage seclusion dost thou keep;
And here Antiquity enjoys
A deep and mossy sleep.

Across the moors far have I sped,
Intent upon a glowing theme;
And heie the first time round me look,
Awake, as in a dream.

Thy name I know not, nor would know;
I•4o common name would I be told;
Yet often shall I seek thee now,
Thou village quaint and old.

Lord Melbourne's butcher declares he has not served him
with a joint of meat these six mouths.
The newly-elected Lord Mayor of London is Aid. Samuel
Wilson, weaver.
An Englishman lately visiting Niagara Falls was asked
his opinion :—" Very neat, 'pon honour—very neat!"
The lieutenant-governorship of the island of Dominica has
become vacant by the demise of Major Longiev, royal ar-
t Merv.
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Colonel Campbell, royal artillery, has been appointed corn•
mandant of the garrison of Quebec.
Such is the failure of the apple crop in some parts of Dor
setshire that in orchards of thirty and forty acres there is no

a bushel of fruit.
On Monday and Tuesday the legal notices preparatory
to suing the petitioners against Mr. Fector's return for
Maidstone was served upon them.—Maidstone Journal.
The late Earl Fitzwilliam possessed the earldom seventy-
seven years—a length of time rarely equalled.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Cooper
Esq. to be judge of tbe Province of South Australia.--Globe'
Two copper coins, one of the reign of Galienus, RoMan.
Emperor, and one our own Edward have lately been
found in Lancaster church-yard.
The Admiralty are putting a few 68-pound guns into all
the ships capable of carrying them, and the Horse Guards
are furnishing the army with percussion muskets.
• Sir John Herschel, it is said, refuses to allow himself to be
put in nomination as President of the Royal Society in the
the place of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
The Earl of Durham has appointed a commission, con-
sisting of Mr. Charles Buller and two other gentlemen, to
inquire into the best means of establishing municipal insti-
tutions in the principal towns of Upper and Lower Canada.
Rociinat.E MONTHLY CATTLE FAIR : MONDAY, OCT. 1.
There has been, to-day, but a poor show of cattle in the mar-
ket, and the demand. has been very limited. The prices have
undergone little or no change since the last month's fair.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL. MARKET: MONDAY, OCT. I.—The
market has been unusually brisk to-day. and a great many
goods have been sold, in many cases at a slight advance in
price • but flannels of finer quality continue heavy of sale.
'Wool' Ten:thins firm at last week's prices.
STATE OF TRADE.—The demand fur yarn continues ex-
tremely limited, and prices rather receding. For goods of
nearly all descriptions there is still a fair demand; but, in
consequence of the state of the cotton and yarn markets,
the buyers are somewhat cautious, and purchase only for pre-
sent use.— Manchester Guardian.
The Rev. John Ryle Wood, late preceptor to Prince Geo.
of Cambridge; attends her Majesty the Queen Dowager to
the Mediterranean, as domestic chaplain.
There are nearly 1,200 distilleries in this state alone.
Enough to corrupt, bankrupt, ruin, disgrace, and drown the
whole world.—New York paper.
The Ledger (American paper) says that Boston milk con-
tains " two parts of cow's milk, one of chalk, and seven of
extract of pump !"
An entire village of Moravia has just petitioned for au-
thority to change their religion. The inhabitants wish to ab-
jure the catholic faith and become protestants.
Last week, 1,300 tons of Russian hemp, part Oa contract
of 2,000, was delivered to the rope department in Portsmouth
Dockyard, which came rather opportunely, our Whig econo.
mists not having at the time half a ton in store.
BARNES: THE PANTALOON.—The celebrated pantomimist:
the last of the Bologna and Grimaldi school, (lied on Friday
night at his lodgings, in Pentonville, in his fiftieth year. A
subscription was lately opened for his benefit, but too late,
except to enable him to will the proceeds.
Saturday last, being the day of atonement with the Jews,
it was observed by them as a strict fast. They repaired to
the synagogue at six o'clock in the morning, where they re-
mained until six in the evening without taking any nourish-
ment, after which they departed. •
We are informed that the demand for labour of various
kinds was never greater, in the metropolis and the neighbour-
hood, than at present. A considerable number of men have
been brought up from the country. In some large establish-
ments the men work by night and on Sundays, the press for
machinery being such as to require extraordinary exertions.
These circumstances militate against political agitation in
London and the neighbourhood, and partially counteract the
distress occasioned by the high price of bread.—Spectator.
THE EGRE.-A few days a gentleman from Lincoln went
to the Trent side, near Gainsborough, to witness the return
of the tide, when, not being aware of the meaning of " Ware
Egre," as the boatmen call out to one another on the ap-
pearance of the wave, although but a moment before he was
standing, on dry land some feet from the water's edge, he
found himself, to his astonishment, up to his middle in water.
This phenomenon, we are told, is only to be seen in one
other river in England. In other places the tide is, seen to
run regularly one way till it arrives at the lowest, when a
flood takes place, then a gradual turn the other way, which
continues to increase until it arrives at high-water mark;
but here the tide continues to ebb until it meets with the
returning tide, which makes its appearance in the shape of a
large wave, bearing down all Opposition, and-sometimes in-
creasing the height of the river three feet in a moment. Nis
a very interesting sight.—Lincoln Mercury.