The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

YOUR NAME MAY BE NOBLE.

BY ROBERT STORY

- Your name may be nohle, unsullied your rare
Ai the couise of the mountain:.rill pure from its sprinir;
And you may have done nothing that nameito disgrace;
But you-are not a Briton, if false to your KING.
You tell roe of FREEDOM—I worship it too,
,Without it my life were a valueless thing;
But I find it consistent with LOYALTY true,
And you are not a Briton, if false :o your KING.
The flock may be false to the shep!terd that leads
Their steps during summer to pasture anti spring--
Be false to the kininess that foEs them and feeds;
But ne'er will true Britons be false to their KING!

[The above song is from the nen of the author of "The ft,les
are Awake," who has now in the press, " Lyrical Efforts," a
volume of poems which will shortly be published under the pa-
tronage of Lord Francis Egerton and several other hoblemett
and gentlemen of this and the adjoining counties.]

TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM TO AN ACTOR.—On Tuesday even-
ing last Mr. Basil Baker, the favourite comic actor attached to
the Theatre Royal in this town, was presented by a few of his
friends, at Mr. 'Hammond's, in Murray-street, with a splendid
diamond ring and breast pin, as a testimonial of the high
esteem in which he is held, bdth at an actor and a gentleman.
lliatatAcF. IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage between Lord
Viscount Deerhurst, son o: the Earl of Coventry, and Miss
Cockerell, only daughter of Sir Chas. Cockerell. Bart., M.P.,
took place on Tuesday last, at Lougthorough. After the cere-
mony a splendid dejeune' a iajintreCette was given to a large
party of the nobility and gentry residing in the neighbourhood ;
and the tradesmen, labourers,- and farmers were not forgotten,
as-it repast was also provided fur them on the occasion. The
bride and bridegroom left Segincote House soon after two
o'clock for the neighbourhood of Windior, where his lordship
intends to reside for the present.
Ai AI:II6CE OF LORD JOHN SCOTT AND MISS SPOTTISITOOT
—Tho marriage of Lord John Scott and Miss Spottiswoodu
took place on Wednesday evening at Spattiswoode, in the pre-
sence of a notnerous assemblage of the friends of the parties.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. GO' of Norhant,
one of Fhe Prebendaries of Durham. The new married couple
afterwards set out for Bowhill. AMong the company present
were the Doke and Duchess of Briccleuch, the Marquis and
Marchioness of t.othian, the Earl of Home, d
Sir Hugh and Lady Flume Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Hope
Johnstone.

~.'IILITAitY PUNISHMKNTS.—The report from the commissi9e-
ers I'm- inquiring into the system of military punishments in the
army has been published. It appears to be the opinion that the
suOstikution of 0. her punishments upon actual service and in the
held, even if practicable, windd be intufficierit for the mainte-
nance of proper discipline that the abolition of the power of
awarding corporal punishment by court martial? during peace,
and the retention of that power when the army is on service, is
manifestly unjust ; that the punishments resorted to have not
had such an effect as. to render it safe to abolish altogether that,
power in Britain or he Colonies; and should some substitute
be devised so as to render corporal pu&slnuent ultimately un-
necessary, the abolition should be gradual.-
A child was baptized in the High Church, Paisley, on Sunday
week, whose grandfather's grandmother is still alive. This is
the second member of the fifth generation, and none of the di-
rect intermediate links between the child and his great-great

grandmother are broken.
PAISLEY ELECTION.—The contest at Paisley has terminated.
At the close of the poll, on Wednesday, Mr. Hastie had a ma-
jority of 151 votes, and was declared duly elected. The num-
bers were :—For'Mr. Hastie, 680 ; fur Mr. Aytciun,
tal nainlier of votes, 1,209. There are about !JO electors, of
whom 1,138 voted at Mr. Speirs's election. The number who
voted at the last •election was considerably less.
The late venerable Lady Dorchester, who died at the seat of
her sou-in-law, Lord Bolton, Hackwood Park, early in the
week, had been in the receipt of a pension on the civil list of
2115 for 72 years. •• The grant to her ladyship dates from 1;61.
Lady Dorchester was daughter of Thmnas, second Earl of Ef-'
fingham, and married Guy, first Lord Dorchester, grandfather
of the present Ear 4 di-Cnguished, as Gen. Carleton, fur his mi-
litary services during the American war.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK, LONDON.- The
members and friends of this society dined together at the Free-
masons Tavern, on Thursday last. 'Towards the close of the,
feast, the secretary created a " great sensation" while reading
a list of the noblemen and gentlemen who had on that day given
their respective largesOes.to the funds of the society, lay au-
flouncing that Daniel O'Connell, Esti., the present M.P. for the
city of Dublin, had subscribed the sum of Ftvs: PotNns!—
' "The name, and amount of this subscription," (intuit the re-.
porter of the Tunes, " was received with a minded noise of
applause, "BraVo," and hissings, which Continued for a •Con-
siderable time, and seemed likely to have lasted to an almost
interminable duration." Those Who scouted the donation of
five pounds forgot that the beggars occupation is to receive and
not to give alms, and that the rent collected in Ireland was
never intended to support the Benevolent Society of St.
Patrick, or any other benevolent or charitable society. Such
a disposition even of 'file of the twenty thousand pounds ex-'
torted annually by the priests of Ireland from their impo-
verished flocks for the use of their hireling is clearly a misap-
propriation of the fund. What has the return of Daniel and
his queue to parliament to do with the improvement of the
condition of the Irish of St. Giles' or the Irish in Ireland ?
" On principle" Daniel was right in not giving more, and per-
haps wrong in haying given even so much as five pounds.

MII:TROPOLITAN Cosstav sTism:—The ConserVatives of rho
borough or Marylebone dined together on Wednesday last, W.
A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P. for I.yinington, in the Chair. The
dinner was attended by upwards 400 gentietnen, among whom
were the Duke -Newcastle, Earl of Winclnisea, Viscount
Litiord, Lord Calville,'Lord Teignmouth, Lord Stormont, Earl
of Bandon, "Lord Kenyon.: Lord Skelmerstiale, Lord Barnard,
Hon. Wingfield Straiford,''Hon. lienry Barnard, lion. It.
Wilbraham, M.P., Sir James Cockburn,- Sir Peter Laurie. Sir
F. Booth, Bart., lion.' Col; -StOpford, Mr. Entwistle' M.P.,
M. Ormesby Gore, M.P. Capt. Polhill, M.P., Col. Rushbroo4-,
M.P., Col. Baillie, M.P., Mr. H. T. Hope,•M.P.,. Mr. Randall
Plunkett, MX., Capt. Vletcher, Henry Howe, Rev. Dr. Groh.,
Morton Dyer, Col. Clitheroe, Mr. Capel, Captain Bortou, 5-1 i 1
Towers, Mr. Greenwood, Mr.-Isherwood, M. Wood, Mr:
Tucker, &c. 'The chairman in giving the " health of Lord
eighmouth and the electors of Marylehoner said that helsoßed
to see that nobleman returned for the borough.
FAMILY JAlts.—The quarrel between Master Ilenty Cathy-.
nay O'Connell and John O'Connell, "the-purest creature that.
ever breathed" and the member for Youghall, occupied:
much of the time and attention of the Bow-street magistrates
on Wednesday last. The .plaintiff was attend, it only ty
Miss Courtenay, his mamma, while his hair-limiter was
accompanied by his brother Maurice, M.P., his brother.io-
law, Fitzsimon, also an M.P., and Morgan John O'Contied,
the member for Kerry. Dank!, the father of this illustriimi
race, did not make his a.,,peirauce imagining, possitity; that
Miss Courtenay would be there, and knowing., probably, that
she is a lady not very easily silenced. The assauttt eamplaimor
of was admitted by the honourable member for Yot4hall, who
was tined twenty shillings—a sum which rte or his friends con-.
trived to pay before they quitted the hail of justice. Miss Cour-
tenay and Master llenry, her son, complained nitterly of Da-
niel's unkindness by.varcis them. According to their account,
although starving, they could not obtain from hint " a ha'porth
of the tint." The lady declared that site demanded only (corn
the hoo. and learned member for Dublin what he claims for
Ireland—justice !—and vowed site would 'take nothing less:
The police report states that if Master Henn' O'COUll,ii he not
"the exact image or his father," it was admitted by all in the
court that he is a "striking likeness" of Daniel O'Connell. As
the youth is so good a bully Mr. O'Connell had better bring
him into parliament at once.
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'1'11.6 CHURCH IN n N clitsmn. —We stated a sbnrt time
ago that the proposal to place the ecelegiastical chive us of this
town and district ur.,7er the control of a iVshop wiis likely to he
adopted, and we tiO our opinh,o in part confirmed by the
recent report Ecclesiastical Couovissioners, in Whit+
the following passage occurs :—" I f the recommendation con-
tained in Our first report to your Majesty for the ere, title of two
new sees he adopted, the two Collegiate Chinches of Man-
chester and Ripon maY be made the Cathedrals of those sees.
At Manchester the estaolishment is already So timiiar to that
purposed for the Cathedrals of the new fitindation, that little
change will be required, besides the &tete, ion of titles from
Warden and Fellows.to Dean and Chapter." 1 o another part
of their report the Coinruissioners enumerate set e. at poices,
,%lanchester being among the number. in Which " it will be
necessary to provide iesideneeS tor the Bishops." " The mode
of doing his (they add) should, in our opinion, be left to the
deteini;najon of whatever body may be appoioted to carry into
effect the measores remmended in nor Reports." Although no
detio;te conclusion can be deoucerl fioal these suggestions, the
tact that the names of six of the Ministers •.are appended to
the report tenders it ro?re possible that there is some in•entiod
to carry out its proposit,ons, the More sn as " its recommenda-
tions were unanimously agreed to."—Manchester Chronicle.
ALARM IN THR Ntst PRIUS COURT AT DERRY:—On Thurs-
day, during one of the the trials in the Crown Court, a confused
noise was heard at the bottom of the Court, in the gallery and
in the hall outside. The audience rose in great alarm, and
screams were heard from without. The report was, that the
gallery in the other Court, where Lord Abinger was silting, hail
given way in consequence of the great number of persons who
crowded that Court—the women being all excluded from the
Criminal Court during the trials for rape. Mr. Justice Bosom-
qua insisted on silence, and proceeded calmly to charge the
jury, without seeming to feel the least alarm. There Was, how-
ever, strange confusion in the other Court. Lord Abinger had
retired from the bench into the passage behind; Mr. Sergeant
Goulburn, who was defending a horse cause, with •sorprising
agility, cleared clean oYer the high railing between lime plave
and the judicial seat, and made his escape into the back room,
.where Lord Abinger had retired'. Mr. Balguy, in the middle
of his. reply for the Plaintiff in the said cituse, - cut' Shott his
speech, and made his way over all obstacles; into the passage
next to .hint; the gentlemen of the special jury, •who were try-
ing the cause, mace a rush out it the box; several of the junior
barristers took refuge under the table of-the Court, around
which they sit, others pkoted themselves muter the staircase,
-in the passage between both Court:`. rumbling noise on
"the roof of the Court. which caused all this alarm and rout,
soon ceased. On investigation, it was found that a part of the
weathercock ou the top of the Court House was blown down,
and it made a tumbling noise rolling along the iron root of this
beautiful and well-Quilt edifice. It was stated that some per-.
sons in this gallery, in their first alarm, threW thenielves•af
into the outer hail, but no serious injury was fount to have
hnli-
nened to any one, and in five minutes all persons Were again
in their places.
Died, on the "id instant, at Hawkchutch, at theadyahn,d h
cl et ale
en
of 103 years, Mr. James Moly. Though hissfadcutninic,, wh
he.
for some time unpaired there were iutervitdded do ['rive attic lear
retained a perfect recollection, and was fo,
account of the diversified scenes
and of public events there was not i:tientillpi./n,
(01,efi
tt tach:tth:itlteilde: h
Scotland, iu 174'; •
e time
was more vivid than that of the reT..lli: ,
,ilct.welve years.
the trained'h"and' iu
d the me-
,George the set cm? , ~e,lear 110(1'CM)-
lle
is
havi
which he remembers its inhabitants in general and 'itagissbeire°tlp'°lrnVds'Etta 11:a8) since la
stfirticol
tilled
,tbrhy Km
who as then mil De,-b tt
expected to enter thesity.—liorxet
lan:count of the Pretender,.
Isli7irstrlivWirrxEss TO AN 11l Ist' As SA On edr
dhaeA,i,ris:he police magistrates of Marlborough-st reel (Kee, Londoni
were engaged for sometime in exatniuing t he merits of all Irish
row, for the' purpose of ascertaining, whether the gentlemen ot
MunAer or the gentlemen of Connaught nommen( 'ed
tat io n " which ended by each party giving and receiving the
usual number of broken headss-from the oPposite side. lit the
course of the proceedings an Trish girl' named Kitty Bally
stepped forward as a witness,. and, having 1.11(en thy ro tit. ~vas
adni9ni,ched to he particitlar speaking the truth; ith," shfi
rephed,•"that 1 will,,yow may depind; 4hich sieie aro slake
for how?" Orehearing this answer the magistrate ordered belt'
to stand dtiWn innnediate4.

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