The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-01 00:00:00

It is an extraordinary fact, and no less lamentable, that in this
town (Woodbridge) there are 115 marriageable females of the
highest respectability, from the blooming age of 22 to that period
when "a lady's age becomes a questionable point," without
helpmates. There are also no less than 52 widows, who it would
be unfair to presume are not desirous again to enlist under the
banners of Hymen, having once experienced the sweets of mat-
rimony. The number of widowers amount to only 17, and of
bachelors to 32. So that, allowing each of these "to take unto
himself a wife," 112 damsels would still be left "to waste their
sweetness on the desert air," unless some amorous swains should
condescend to take compassion and release them from their
present state of "single blessedness."—Suffolk Chronicle.

A CAPITA SPARROW BUTCH ER.—We learn front a country
paper that a few days ago a person at Wiley, or Willy, in
Wilts, laid a train of seeds on the snow for the purpose of at-
tracting sparrows and such small birds, They came as he ex-
pected; and, "with nothing but a corninon partridge gun," he
valiantly took his stand agam3t the said sparrows, and got three
shots at them through a hole in the barn door. "At the first
shot he picked up 95 dead 'uns ; 153 at the second; and 68 at
the third, making 316 at three shots, to say nothing of the
wounded that hopped away !" some hundreds of them perhaps,
very handsomely mangled, and they may be many days a dying;
but that's their look out and not ours, as the Battersea pigeon.
manglers say. As a pendant to the above extraordinary feat
we Lind in the saute paper the following pathetic announce-
ment:—" A monument is preparing to the memory of the late
Mr. Joseph Manton, the celebrated gun-maker, who was bu-
ried, last July, in the cemetery at Kensington. Several epi-
,taphs have been prepare/1 Fry -h-is-late-• rat mars, -at• the. request' or
his family and sporting friends, and the one- chosen is the fol.
lowing, by Col. I'. Hawker In memory of Mr. Joseph.
• Manton, who died. universally• regretted, on the 29th day of
June, 1835, aged 69.' "
Cunfous FEATS.—In 1553 the following extraordinary ex-
hibition was performed in the preSence of Queen Mary, in her
passage through London to Westminster. It is thus described
by old Raphael Holinshed, in his " Chronicle,'' printed 1755.
" When shoe didd come to Sainet. Paule'schurchyarde, agaynst
the schoole, Maister Haywood sat in a pageant under a vine,
and made to her an oration in Latine; and then there was one
Peter, a man of Holland, who didd stand upon the weathercoeke
of St. Paule's steeple, holdying a streamer in Isis handes of tive
vardes long, and waving, thereof. Hee sometimes stood on one
}'cote and shook the other, and then hee kneeled on his knees, to
the yetis grate marvel of al the people. Hee bad made two
seaffoldes under him—one above the ctoss, having torches and
streamers sett upon it, and another over the ball of the cross,
likewise sett with streamers and torches, which could not
tonne, the wind was so greate." Our chronicler further in-
forms Its that " Peter didd have xvi ponndes xiii shillings and
iiii pence given to him by the citie of London for his costes and
pains, and for al his stuffe."

PA LM SUN DA Y.—We find, on reference to an ancient black
Domini 1530, Cardinal Wolsev.
letter Chronicle, that " Anne
at Peterborough Abbey, upon Paltne Sunday, did bears his
palme, and wente in procession with ve monks setting forth the
Divine service rvght honourablie, wvth such singing menne as
he did then have there of his ovine.
MARY ANN CLA RK.—Mr. James Clark, the husband ofthe late
notorious Mary Ann Clark, died on the 9th ult., at the house
of Mr. Sutherland, of Bvlbstcr, parish of Wattin, in the county
of Caithness. It is unnecessary to allude to the conspicuous
part which Mrs. Mary Ann Clark acted during the trial of his
Royal Highness the late Duke of York. Mr. Clark had re-
sided in the county of Caithness for about 2(1 years; but owing
to his retired habits, the circumstance of his being the husband
of Mary Ann Clark was not known even to many in the imme-
diate neighbourhood orhis place of residence. A sate of money
was regularly transtnitted from London to defray Mr. Clark's
exper.ses ; but hitherto no clue has been discovered as to the
motives which could' have induced him to take up his abode
in Caithness. He had for some time been addicted to intempe-
rate habits, which, together ,r;th the severe domestic misfortunes
he had been subjected to, uad visibly affected bis mind. Mr.
Clack was by trade a tinsmith, but he had discontinued his
business from tinw of his going to Caithness. Several
hooks wei'e found in his possession. in which was written the
name of " M•4ry. Aeir C;aik," sol,posed to he in hot own hand
writing.