The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

beans a weak invention—

ever peering over the clerks as they tell their almost untold
gold ! To seethe a kid in its mother's milk I have always
held to be symbolical of the ne plus ultra of cruelty. I
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never go into the Bank of England but the beaUtiful
saying about the kid is brought to my mind. Let me be
understood to refer to the mural sculpture of the place.
Might not the contemplation of a cast of the head of
ABICAMI3I NEWLAND" prove an incentive to honesty
and punctuality on the part of the Bank of England
-'eh that face wit' tr- ' 1-ed e•"-

as much as a its wicked eyes con-
tinually leering and peering over the fingerers of gold in
the bank? It is an excellent device to have MERCURY,
"the god of thieves, pickpockets, and all dishonest per-

sons," stuck on the inner -walls of the bank ! Methinks a
Y clerk must be a bold man to steal a rouleau of sovs. under
a such auspices. Sir ROBERT PEEL, when Home Secretary,
e began to find that the threat of discharging all government
, clerks becoming insolvent RUSSELL and

was empty

PALMERSTON have also found it so. - The clerk may now
toddle to Portugal-street, and come back to his govern-

and from day today lead his SisYruus-like life. Poor
fellow, he is allowed to keep his situation ; under such
circumstances who could " fardels bear P"

The demi-lion of the week, in our literary circles, has
been—that is, he would have been, had his common sense
not prevented it—the last made knight by Ireland's Lord
Lieutenant, Sir CUSACK PATRICK RONEY, who with
WILLIAM DARGAN—Arcades ambo —originated, com-
pleted the Great Dublin Exhibition. Sir CUSA.CK RONEY
returned to Europe a few weeks ago, and received the

justly-merited, the well awarded honour of knighthood,
at the close of the exhibition. In him we have a splendid
example of what a warm heart, a cool and clear head, and
indomitable energy can achieve. Some twenty years ago
RONEY came toLondon,little more than a lad, well educated
—his father, a physician in Dublin, took care of that, and

young RONEY'S mind did not waste the blessing. He
settled him down in the quiet street opposite Her Ma-
jesty's Theatre in the Haymarket ; MACREADY was a
next-door neighbour, and the famous JAMIE JonNsoN,
M.D., lived opposite. RONEY then had his quiet dinner
parties, fine-art men, musicians, and musicians' sons,
critics also,—not very severe some of them ;—one I knew
a little of, who for a quarter of a century criticised every
play, play-actor, opera, and opera singer, male and female,
musician—vocal and instrumental—never found fault—
directly—and yet gave satisfaction. During the season it
was pleasant,—very,—to dine with RONEY,—his dinner
was elegant, but suited to his means ; and then there
was no necessity for cabs or carriages of any descrip-
tion ;—hop, step, and jump, you were in the Haymarket
Theatre or the Opera House. Initiated into the mys-
teries of the healing art, RoNET did not follow them.
'Tis well he did not ; he never would have looked after
his fees. Anon, we find him Secretary to the Literary
Fund, then, as now, a tip-top establishment. This
brought our young knight into first-rate society. It was
when RONEY was Secretary that that harum-scarum man
WILLIAM JERDAN, the iconoclaust, father now of London
journalism, and royal pensioner of £lOO a-year, with a
penknife played havoc with DAN MACLISE'S sweet portrait
of a sour man—old Sir JOHN SOAVE. He was vain ; he
disinherited his son more for the vanity of leaving his
things to the nation' than for all the evil the discarded
lad ever compassed. The picture was painted for the
Literary Fund Committee; SOANE, crabbed, lived near,
came to the meetings, and supported the institution. He
thought the portrait frightfully like—so it was, ha! ha
He was al _

ways grumbling at it, while the members were
praising it. DANIEL MACLISE didn't like this on the
part of Sir JonN ; the accomplished artist never got so
much as a tumbler of hock for painting the old cynic—

i an end to the strife by Cutting the canvas into something
like ribbons : JERDAN was not quite a destructive, he
also knew something of the line of beauty, or what it
means, and cut accordingly. The damage appeared irre-
parable ; so does a young black eye, a swollen lip, a
bruised cheek, when one " spars" without the gloves ;
a few bandages and the portrait " wash ash goot
ash new." -RONEY acted most discreetly in this deli-
cate affair. Soon after we find him head man at the
Eastern Counties Railway—making it, indeed, and keep-

in beautifying—popularizing, that healthy place Lowestoft
then at Chester and Holyhead. Next came the most
brilliant combination of all in RONEY'S eventful history
—only yet in the first chapter,—WlLLlAM DARGAN and
the Great Dublin Exhibition. Following in its "blaze of
trnimph" came RONEY'S appointment to the controul of
the Great Canadian Trunk line of Railway, destined under
his management to work wonders in that land of wonders.
His able reports on the gigantic project disclose a power,
perspicuity, and perspicacity of mind well vindicating the
choice the authorities made in Sir Cusacic PATRICK
RONEY.

Her Majesty the QUEEN, with as much good taste as
love of fair play—a homely English phrase and applicable-
has commanded the drama of " Money" for the next royal
representation ; the principal characters to be sustained by
the managers of four different metropolitan theatres,
viz.:— Mr. CHARLES KERN, Evelyn ; Mr. WEBSTER,
Graves ; Mr. BIICKSTONE, Mr. Benjamin Stout ; and
Mr. WIGAN, Captain Dudley Smooth. Several dramatic
novelties have been successfully presented during the
week ; nor is music less attractive, the Wednesday Evening
Concerts, under the management of Mr. WILLOTT, now,
or lately, the proprietor, editor, and so-forth, of a Sheffield
or Birmingham paper, attract vast crowds; and the Sacred
Harmonics, one of them under the direction of COSTA,
the other under that of SIIEMAN, the founder, have their
thousands of auditors. Both societies ought to be in-
formed that it is unworthy of them to exaggerate their
choruses,—said to be 700 or 800 ; they are by no means
so efficient as they ought to be, and I am afraid that there
are mutes among them—a vile practice filling the eye
and not satisfying the ear ! Independently of these
musical gatherings, there are dozens of other attractive
places of entertainment, each having a fair share of patro-
nage ; at least 20,000 people left their homes on Saturday
evening in search of such amusement; and 10,000 more
attended the various sing-song clubs—under the music
and dancing licenses act; so that really one would think
we never were more prosperous or happy.
The lessee of Drury-lane is going to superadd dancing and
other dogs to the horses. He is turning away money from
his doors. Young BLANCIIARD, the son of the once well-
known comedian of the same name, is cutting out jokes
for a new pantomime, to be presented at Drury. BROOKE
comes back to fill up the blank after the 'osses.
That most accomplished actress, Mrs. CHARLES KEAN,
has been far from well for some time past ; indeed, she
has not acted for the last fortnight. Why should such a
delicate creature remain on the boards, after having de-
lighted so long ? The KEA.NS are immensely rich ; they
always had the wit to keep the money they made. Mrs.
WARNER—poor lady—is not left in obscurity to pine.
Actors and actresses, for the most part, are poor. I
scarcely ever knew a cold-hearted one. _ _

ALBEST SMITH is preparing for a renewal of his Mont
Blanc, which was but indifferently well received, I am told,
in Dublin. The Dublin people—(l know them well ; a day of
fnrtv.eipht hours is far too short for their kindness) are

the most fastidious in the world; no one can tell what will
please them until the trial is made. The remark applies
with equal force—histrionically—musically—and picto-
rially.

Our grim enemy has been busy among the "upper
classes" since my last. The gallant Duke of BEA.IIPORT, one
of WELLINGTON'S fearless aides-de-camp, died on Thurs-
day afternoon. The late noble DUKE was manly in form
and feature,—stiff built and broad shouldered ; but the
endurance of almost constant pain from gout invested his
fine countenance with a plaintive aspect, if I may use the
expression. The DUKE, to the close of the last fashionable
season, stuck to his old habits,—preferring the omnibus
box at the Opera to his own up-stairs ; and a merry set
they were in that same box, now nearly all gone ! Gout
flew from the extremities to the stomach,—fatal resting-
place ; and the Duke of BEArvouT died.
LADY PANMIIIIB, too, an amiable creature, died last
week, at Pitfour Castle, in the Carse of Gowrie. She was
only 46 years of age ; and when Fox MAULE, her lord and
master, got into place, she was not ashamed to brush up
her French with him; three lessons a week over a patter
and clatter breakfast. She was Lady PA.NNTIRE scarcely

a year.

MR. WILLIAMS'S advertisement should be read by those

country residences.

LIVERFOOi COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—
appointed for the certificate meeting of M
dough. The bankrupt did not appear, howeve

J. W. Fair-
and the

meeting was adjourned sine die. -
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Charles Shaw, a sea-
man belonging to the Niagara, whilst working on board
the vessel in dock, fell from the mizen yard, and received
such injuries as to cause his death in the Northern
Hospital, about two o'clock in the afternoon. The inquest
will be held to-day. lin,

ALLEGED DEATH PROM BEING RUN OVER:
Willis, an old lady residing in the neighbourhood of Lou-

suffering from injuries said to have-been inflicted by her
being run over with a carriage. She died about mid-day,
on Saturday, but owing to some neglect the case was not
reported to the Coroner's-office till eleven o'clock yester-
day, and the facts consequently are as yet but imper
fectly known.
DEATH Or MR. DOWLIN(

—Mr. Matthew Morris Ge(
v years commissioner and head-constabl

in this boron

h, expired at his resident

Wavertree, on

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of paralysis, which had destroyed the use of one side, and
almost deprived him of the power of speech. He had
been gradually declining since his removal from office,

period of nearly twenty years ; and there is
that that circumstance had a material Orel
health. Ile was sixty-eye years of age,

t upon his