The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-02 00:00:00

TI-IE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

HARRY, ADY, AND DAN.

Air—" Though many grave doctors there be," Ste.

Though many great humbugs there be,
The three, the most famous of auy,
Are Ady, the great Harry B,
And Dan—mighty Dan, of Kilkenny.
The theorist, puffer, M.P.,
By different methods each cozens ;
A spouter is famed Harry B. ;
While Ady writes letters by dozens.
And Dan, who will ne'er be outdone
By his learned or bank-searching brother,
Can spout by the hour, like the one,
And scribble long letters, like t'other.
When Ady large fortunes declares
He'll get if a sov'reign is sent ;
Dan writes, that to end all their cares
They've only to pay up the rent.
And Harry, like Daniel and Joe,
(With always an eye to the cash), '
Is a stanch man of " letters" we knout., •

And writes lots of " promising" trash,
Declares that the country would be
Made happy by his education,
And humbly. proposes that he
Should again have a snug situation.
A pistol or weapon of war
Ady's too strict a quaker to touch,
And Dan does all fighting abhor,,
Poor Dan quakes a little too much.

Now Harry will brag and disclose
How at Windsor he's always a chair,
And Ady oft boasts that he knows
Sir Peter, and eke the Lord Mayor.
Ads/ once told a Black that he knew
Of a fortune of no paltry figures,
And Daniel once diddled a Jew
Who wanted a seat beside Vigors,
It has been proposed to erect
A statue to each of the three,
At Billingsgate, some did project.
Some voted for Stinkomalee.

Ah ! never so ably they show
That they've the alchymical skill
To scribble, and humbug, and so
Quite snugly their pockets to fill.
On high, in the House they should stand,
As the fittest of possible places,
And he grouped side by side, hand in hand,
As the three modern liberal Graces.—Timer.

At the last sitting of the Acadeinie de Medicine, Dr. Scipion
Pinet related the following extraordinary, caw of suicide. A
lady of fortune,. appeasing to be in possession of every sourcei)f
happiness, suddenly, from some unaccountable impression, was
overcome by/ideas of self-destruction. After contending against
them for sl?veral.days in vain; she deliberately prep'ared to yield
to them, She took a pair of scissors, and made au incision with
them sufficiently large to suffer her boWels to protrude, and then,
cutting them into small pieces, made them up in a packet, con-
cealed them under the mattress, and the❑ laid herself on her
bed to die: Before she expired, though in the greatest agonies,
she related the circumstance herself to Dr. Pinel, who was
called in to attend her.—Galiynani's Messenger.

SeowrxNEUus Comiusziox.—An instance of spontaneous
combustion is reported in the French papers, to have taken
place at Nunay, in the department of Avalon. A very fat wo-
man, aged 74 years, and addicted to drinking brandy at 27 de-
grees, lived alone, and one evening returned home as usual, but,
as she dii not appear among her neighbours the next morning,
they knocked at her door. No answer being returned to re-
peated domands, they summoned the mayor, who forcea the
door and exposed a horrible spectacle, accompanied by an ex-
traordinary smell. Near the chimney laid a heap of something
burnt to:cinders, at oneend of which was a head, a neck, the
upper part of a body, and one arm. At the other end'were some
of the lower part, and one leg, still retaining a very cleat] shoe
and stocking. No other traces of fire were to be seen, except
abbe flame which played along the surfacepf a long train of,
grease, or serous liquor, which had been produced by the com-
bustion of the body. The mayor found it impossstle to extin-
guish the flame, and summoned all the authorities; and, from
the state of the apartment and comparison of circumstances, it
was concluded among them, that previous to going to bed, for
which she had evidently been making preparations, the woman
had been trying to ignite some embers with her breath. The
fire communicating with the body by means 'of the breath, com-
bustion probably took place, and would appear to confirm an
opinion entertained by several learned men, that that which is
called spontaneous combustion of the'hurnan frame, never takes
place without the
.presence of some ignited body near the person
predisposed to combustion. A surgeon who bled an habitually
drunken person, accidentally put the blood extracted near a
candle, when immediately a blue flame appeared on thesurface,
which he found extremely difficult to extinguish.

FANCTE A Lf, AT NEWTON.—We hear it rumoured that shortly
after the Liverpool Festival, and before Christmas, the Conser-
vative Flail at Newton will be thrown open for a Grand Fancy
Ball, at which the fashionables who have figured at the Manches-
ter and Liverpool Fancy Balls, may have an opportunity of
meeting upon what may be called neutral ground. 'We have no
doubt Oat such a source.of enjoyment would be highly gratify-
ing, to .the fair ladies of South Lancashiie, and we believe it
awaits only their fiat for the undertaking to be at once decided
upon. if they command, the ruder sex ,must yield implicit
obedience, or at once forfeit the claim to gallantry which is the
prick, of our county.—Manchester Courier.

On Saturday last, as Mr. Robert Griffin, of Eyre, was re-
turning from Peterborough in his gig, he took up a woman on
the'road who picked his packet of £ls.—She committed tOr
trial.— Lin. Mercury.
The German papers, arrived to-day, contain under the head
of Berlin, a deplorable account of the condition of the East and
West Pruf,sia. which suffer in consequence of the decay of
the corn and timber trade. The revenue of Eh ntown of
16,000 inhabitanti, 'not to be sufficient to light the
street. In Paderborn, too, it is said that the peasants are in
so bad a condition that they have been exempted from taxes
for three years. It will, we have no doubt, tuiti out in the end
that the very paternal GovernMent of Prussia is very ruinous
to its subjects.
The. Brussels papers of Saturday announce that ophthalmia
again• prevails amongst the military, and that 300 soldiers
afflicted with the disease have been sent, in six weeks, into the
hospital. '
MARRIAGE LAW IN BELGIUM.—A legal case, of considerable
interest to foreigners who may be or are married to Belgian wo-
men, has been decided by the courts at Tournay. The case is so
fraught with injustice and moral consequences, both as regards
social order and international law. that it cannot fail to attract
the attention of the legislature. .The case in .question is as fol-
lows :—During the junction of Holland anl Belgium under one
sovereignty, a Belgian lady, Rosalie Desveau, married a Major
Severyns, a Dutchman, and, upon the separation of the two
states, followed her husband into Holland. Soon after this a
near relation of the wife died, bequeathing .to her considerable
property at Tuurnay, which she, of course, elaimed as her heri,
tare. liut the collaterals step in and form opposition to the
demand, upon the plea that Madame Severyns had become a
foreigner by marrying a foreigner, and, consequently, that she
was iiscapable of succeeding to any property in Belgium, either
in right of descent, or bequeathed. by will. The court, after a
lengthened trial, issued its verdict in favour of the collaterals,
and have consequently set aside the will, ejected the heir, and
condemned her to pay all expenses. It is unnecessary to point
out the extreme hardship of thus depriving a woman of her civil
rights because a revolution, or other political transaction, has
separated two portions of a state long after marriage.
Messtis. GREEN'S NEW BALLOON.—The extraordinary large
balloon, now building under the superintendence of the Messrs.
Green, which it is intended shall convey into the aerial regions
no less than ten persons at one time, is fast progressing towards
completion, and will it is expected, be ready for ascending about
the second week in September. With tae exception of the
much-talked of "Aerial Ship," it will be the most stupendous
machine of the kind ever made.* It will contain upwards of
2000 yards of splendid crimson and white silk, which is being
manufactured by Messrs. Soper, 32, Spital-square, at a cost of
12s. 9d. per yard for the crimson, 13s. for the white. The gores,
are each three feet nine inches wide, and about 150 feet long.

its circumference, therefore, when fully inflated, will be about
70 yards, or 210 feet. The first ascent will it is intended, be
made from Vauxhall-gardens.
NORWICH FESTIVAL.—Among the instrumentalists announ-
ced as being engaged to perform at the approaching festival at
Norwich, the name of Harper appears for the trumpet. Mr.
Harper is engaged, but it is Harper jun. for the father declined
the terms proposed to him, which were lower than those of the
last festival, because it was found, upon looking over the music
to be performed, that there was less employment for the trum-
Net. It was calculated that, as Mr. Harper would have five
pounds worth less of blowing, his remuneration ought to be di-
minished in that porportion. It is a new feature in engagements
that an orchestra are to be paid by the pfece."fhe whole
proceeding has a tailor-like cut about it. Signor Dragonetti
too, we have heard, has thrown up his engagement for the same
festival."—The Musical World.

THE PRICE OF JUSTICE.—It is said that;the expenses of the
law-suit respecting the window in Snig-lane, Prescot, tried yes-
terday week, will be near five hundred pounds, and that the
value of the house, and window into the.bargain, is short of fifty:
There was in the case a complete cloud of witness, and the re-
sult is said to have produced a sensation amongst the parties in-
terested, which has not been equalled in Prescot since the bat.
tie of Waterloo.
The water has been let into another of the docks at the north
end nf, the town, the one named the Victoria Dock, and vessels
are now regOlarly birthed in it. There now only remains one
of the three, 'lse Trafalgar, to be finished.
A painting' of the Ascension, by Lord Lyndhurst's father,
constitutes the altar-piece of the Augustine Friary Chapel in
this city, and the work of the artist has been many years a sub-
ject of admiration.—Limerick Chronicle. . .
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—On Monday-week, an in-
quest was taken before Mr. J. Lorthouse,. at the house of Mr.
Wm. Hill, Beulah Inn, Fernley, near Leek' on view of the
body of Wm. Simpson, aged two years and four moths, who bad
been a stout healthy child up to Friday last, when it began to
be very unwell. Ou the following day, Mr. Mark Broughton,
surgeon, of Bramley, was called in, from whose testimony it
appeared, that he found the child laid in its mother's arms,
having very acute pains in its head and side, its tongue hung
out of its mouth, and at intervals it parted with a frothy spittle.
In all the course of his experience he had never seen an indi-
vidual afflicted with a similar description of fits. It had a very
wild appearance in its looks, and when liquid was offered it, by
its mother, it rejected it as if afraid to touch it, and when forced
upon it, it could not swallow. In consequence of these symp-
toms he did not attempt at that time to give any medicine. Af-
terwards the child got to swallow, when some medicine was ad-
ministered, but it continued to have dreadful fits, and occasion-
ally set up alarming shrieks, and grew gradually weaker, until
it expired. In his opinion, from the appearance and symp-
toms, the immediate cause of death was hidrophobia.—Wm.
Simpson, the. father of the child,' stated, that on Friday last, the
child began to be very unwell, and complained of violent pain'
in its head and side; it was put to bed, but was very restless and
did not sleep. At two o'clock in the morning they got up with
it; when tea or toffee was offered it, it rejected it, and appeared'
frightened at the sight thereof. It became gradually worse and
took fits, in consequence of which, medical aid was procured.
At the latter end. of May last, witness had a dog that became
ungovernable, flew at and hit other dogs, and also bit witness
when chaining him up to a post in the barn. On the following
morning, the dog was found laid dead with the chain twisted
tight round the post. It had a short time previously bitten a
dog of Mr. William Hutchinson's, which had since died raving
mad, but witness did not know that ever the dog had bitten the
child. This evidence was corroborated by the child's mother
and other witnesses. The coroner recapitulated the evidence,
and, the jury returned a verdict,—" That the child had died
from hydrophobia."—lt is upwards of forty years since a simi-
lar event took place at Armley, in the borough of Leeds.

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MANCHESTER GRAND MUSICAL. FESTIVAL.—The prepara-
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tious for this.splendul display are rapidly developing the mag-
nitudh.of .the scale to which they are to extend. The choruses
have received considerable additions to their already formidable
number, and rehearsals continue to be: exacted twice a week,
under the superintendence of Mr. Wilkinson, who has been
appointed chorus-master and organist on the occasion. Forty-
five chorus-singers have been engaged in LiVerpool, where they
tfrfeet.
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are subjected to similar discipline, under the direction of Mr.
George Holden. The temporary erections in the Old Church,
though they must shut out from view some of the finest por-
tions of that venerable structure, will produce a striking effect
when crowded with life, and presenting to the eye and ear all
that is most grateful to the one and most fascinating to the
other. The patrons' gallery will surmount and project beyond
the present north and south galleries, running into the choir to
the extent of about sixty-five feet, and will afford accommoda-
tion for about 750 persons. The orchestral gallery will be car-
ried fifteen feet beyond the church=warden's pew, and will
furnish seats for about 400 performers. The arrangements for
the concerts and balls are also prOceeding towards completion.
The Theatre-Royal, the Assembly Rooms, and the Portico, will
be so connected by the buildings now in course of erection as
to constitute one magnificent edifice, the amplitude of which
may rival the dimensions of most of he abodes of royalty; and
the "gorgeous palace." The refreshment room will
present
the decorations of the interior will fairly eclipse, in seeming
costliness,t.
down
a surface of about 6,500 feet, and the ante-room of 2,000
There will be ample accommodation for 800 persons to
s
to table at each remove; and three separate dancing-
rooms,
each with its attendant band, will, it is hoped, predispose
he u
pany for all the enjoyment Which'the delicacies provided
for them can bestow.—lt is calculated that a clear surplus of
£5.000 will be obtained in aid of the "Public Charities." No
commonly-attired character will be admitted to the Fancy Ball.
Sailors, peasants, and even the "long-robe" are prohibited.—
Manchester Chronicle.

On Sunday last, as a reverend gentleinin was returning in a
gig,froin the scene of his morning labours, he accidentaliy dis-
cov,ered that lie had lost his sermon, but where and when lie
could not easily, determine. The circumstance, however, was
somewhat critical both with respect to time and place. He had
to preach the same in the afternoon, at another church, from
which he was now at a considerable distance-. With no enviable
feeling he anxiously retraced his'ioute,.and inquired diligently of
sundry Irish pede;tiians, whether they hid "seen a black book
on 'the road ?" but without effect. A car, however, at length
approached, and he instantly recognised the identical "black
book" in the hands of one of the travellers, who Was in the act
of preaching from it for the Comfort and edification of hiS fellow
pilgrims. Now all this was unquestionably very good and pro-
per. But not so the sequel. For'the worthy " wayfaring men"
had, imbibed the questionable doctrine, that sermons are, froth
their very nature and design,. public proper4j, t•spep'.ally when.
foam], (as in the present instance,) on the king's turnpike.
The rev. owner who (as may be easily conceived) nits in no
disposition fur calm calculation or cool renionstram-i‘, awl was
mindful perhaps, of the Itidt Mode of approptiation,"—ioanil
it necessary to submit to the furce of circanistancvs. ,ind to be:
come the purchaser of Ibis own sermon.--:Doncater