The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

COI?RESPONDENCE.

SHARE BROKING,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4NDARD.

have a great wish to become a " literary character,'
that is, to write something and see it in print, for
" A book's a book all hough there's • nothing' in't."
And, now that my genius has discovered a subject suited to its
capacity, let me beseech you, dear Mr. Editor, to give it en-
couragement by inserting its uaitey (mighty) production in your
next publication. It's about
,those miscreant share-brokers
that I'm going to write; enhe hour, (you see I'm a scholar,)
they are a bad set, as our friend the Share Dealer has proved by
argumentS irrefragable. I think be was quite, justified in
utmost calling theta mushrooms; nay, I'll go further—l say
they are mushrooms, for they have but one leg to stand en, and
that's " nothing:" I should have said inauy witty things, Mr.
Editor, had I been the first to encounter these w;'irthies but,
lest the critics should accuse me of plagiarism, I think I had
better renouuce fur this time all claim to any " tit iginal ideas,"!
and show my ingenuity by only clothing those of my totems
porary in language more Demosthenes-like than his; had he
known my style, he would have won the laurels which must
henceforth crown my brow More credit would be have done
himself, and infinitely more grind to " the public generally,"
had he written something to the following effect:— - . .
" Good people of Liverpool, and of all the earth, who have
any thing to do with shares, take warning from me, for I have
acquired wisdom at the golden fountain of experience! I have
had, from childhood, a natural propensity for the cheap and
the little in life. The prime-cost shop and the cheap Manchees.
ter warehouse each found me a regular customer whenever a
cheap bargain was to be had, and when the era of share dealing
madness arrived, I, alas! became the hadishest of the mad
'like many others, I had-a little spare capital,' and, instead of
purchasing shares from those young brokers whom justice
obliges me to designate as most honourable, prompt, and
trustworthy men of business,' I entrusted My specurations in
the hands of those whom I am now inclined to call the meanest
mushrooms among their 'upstart fraternity." A little envy
has also' prompted me in the present case. I am reasonably
bound to entertain a very high respect for the old brokers; so
I could not possibly think of encouraging those prompt and
trustworthy young men of busineSs who are now becoming the
ruling power on the Stock Exchange; but I have been cured
of my propensity at the cost of some trouble, some fretting!,
and some spare cash, and my envy has thereby been converted
into wrath, which the public, I trust, will allow me to vent in a
general denouncement of the whole sharebrokers' association,
and to tell those said brokers that their system is a rotten one,
that its own principles must ultimately annihilate it, that it
ought and must lose the public confidence, because it lost mine
wheu I lost my money. Therefore, good people, beware! Do
not encourage the honourable, the prompt, and the trust-
worthy young brokers; they are pushing the old ones into the
shade; and, oh, if you do speculate with such as f bare, let me
beseech yon ' not to part with your scrip till you g'.'t value
received! '"
Such a letter, Mr. Editor, :TPUid have been effecfo:,!, to all
intents and purpoSes; the candour which it breathes would
deeply interest the public, and would no doubt actohte the
association to institute some "stringent rules." .over,
such a letter would have prevented the possibility of an: little
inconsistencies and contradictions oc(iurring, and would per-,
haws have spared the Share Dealer those disagreeable reflec-
tions which do naturally arise from the necessity of sometimes
straining a point tti strengthen a case.—l am, gze..
ANOTHER SIIARE DEALER.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL

Small Ve.;iry, Hope-street Chopel, 16th June, 1838.

Sta,—We, .the undersigned, feel it our duty to a.:k you to be
so kind as to allow ❑s to correct a mistake which appears in
one of the columns of the report you give, in the STANDARD
of the late Meeting holden in the Amphitheatre, concerning
the gentleman who involved the Itev. Hugh M'Neile in some
explanations at the conclusion of his very able speech on that
occasion.
Your own words, in the report, are—" A gentleman, whose
name we afterwarrls ascertained was Mr. John Bowes, minister
of the Ohapel in (lope-street, heist stuo I up and said," &c.

Now, we beg to say, that the gentictntn in question, Mr:
John Bowes, is not "the minister of Hope-street Chapel."
The restless and unchristian agitations of that gentleman en-
dangering the peace of our society, it became expedient that
the Piesident of the Convocation should suspend his public
labours; acid he was, therefore, suspended early in the month
of March last.

Soon after his suspension, Mr. Bowes called a public meeting
at " the ' and per:go/wily so conducted it, as to re-
flect bitterly on the integrity of the gentleman whose painful
duty it had been to suspend his public labours. For this uri•
christian conduct, Mr. Bowes was, on the 16th day of March
last. by a large majority of the quarterly meeting of the officers
of the church worshipping at Hime-street, legdlly expelled from
our society. " Mr. John 80we3," therefore, is not " the minis-
ter of the Chapel in Hope-street."
By allowing this to appear in your earliest impression of the
STANDARD, you will oblige, along with many of your readers,
Your obedient servants, -
JOHN M'CONOCH IE, Elder, Leader, and Trustee..
THOS. STOREY, Leader and Elder.
E. BAIRSTOW, Leader and Deacon.
S. HALL, Chapel Steward and Deacon,
T. FLETCHER, Leader and Deacon.

The Hon. Henry Manners Sutton, son of Lord Canterbury;,
will shortly. it is rumoured, lead to the hymeneal altar Miss
Tompson, daughter of the late Charles Tompson, Esq , of
Witchingham, Norfolk.
The honour of executing the grand equestrian Wellington
testimonial, on Constitution-hill, in the Green-park, was on
Saturday week unanimously conferred upon Mr. M. C. Wyatt.
The Marquis of Londonderry proposed, and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge seconded, the proposition.
TRESPASSING ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—ed
Wednesday several patties, living at Warrington, were con-
victed in small tines for trespassing upon the Grand Junction
Railway; a practice which has been carried on to a highly.
dangerous extent, both to the lives and limbs of the parties
trespassing, as well as to those of all her Majesty's subjec;s
travelling on the railway.
The Marquis of Conygham will, it is said, after the cornn:-
tion, proceed to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, which will mate
a vacancy in the high household office of Lord Chamberlain.
An interesting discovery is said to have licea recently made
by M. Nlontgoltier, who has succeeded in substituting wood for
rags in the manufacture of paper.
Hay-making commenced in the neighbourhood of Dorchester
on Tuesday last. The swath turns down heavily, and the hay
crops generally promise to be favourable.—Bath Journal.
PLMSTON AND WYKE RAILWAY.—The cuttings on this line
are proceeding with great spirit. The contract from Burn Naze
to Weeton, a distance of eight miles, is expected to be finishes!
by September. The other contract from Weeton into Preston
will be commenced forthwith.

The Duke of Devonshire, whose delightful gardens at Chis-
wick adjoin those of the Horticultuial Society, will be elected,
it is understood, president r•f that society, iu the room of the
late 'l'. A. Knight, Esq.
The officers of the royal artillery will give a grand ball on the
sth of July.. at Woolwich, at which his Itoval Highness Prince
George of Cambridge and the whole of the foreign ambassadors
extraordinary are expected to be present.

M MICR OF INVENTION.—STEA Music.—Amongst the
numerous inventions which almost daily claim a share of public
attention, we have to notice that of a steam organ, invented arid
adapted to the "'Tyne" locomotive engine, the property of the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, by the Rev. James
Birkett, of Ovingham. As far as we are able to judge, this in-
strument bears the greatest tesemblance to the organ; it con-,
sists of eight pipes, tuned to compass, what is termed by musi-
cians, an octave, but without -any intervening tones or semi-
tones. This is the first attempt to adapt a musical instrument
to the steam-engine, capable of producing a tune, and though
not so perfect as to admit of all the pleasing variety and com-
bination of sound of the instrument to which we have corn
pared ir, there is no doubt but very considerable improvemeLti
will be made in this steam musical instrument by the, inventor,
who is a skilful !musician, as well as an ingenious mechanic.
We understand that some important alterations ure at present
in progress. and intended to he completed orevious to thegrand
opening of the railway on the 18th inst.—Tnne Mercury.
PUBLIC HOUSES AND BEER Snors.-- T!H. ,'lowing returns,
moved for on Monday night by Lord Feat :is Egerton, will
throw some light upon the cilcumstauces of this branch of
retail trade:-1. Returns ordered of the numbnr of licences
taken out for each beer-house in the years 1835-6 7 respectively.
2. Address for return of the nmober of licensed victualers w!.o
passed the various Insolvent Courts Of England and Wales in
the years 18'29-30-31; and the number of licensed victuallers
and beer-sellers (distinguishing each) who have passed the
said Ceerts from the Ist of June. 1835, to the Isf of June, 1833;
inclusive; distinguishing the Lumber in each year. 3. Address
for return of the number of police convictions which have takett
place under the new beer act, in the years 1836.7.8; the number
of excise convictions for the purchase or sale of spirituous li-
quors by beer-sellers which have taken place in the years
1836-7-8. The proportion of hotel-keepers, licensed victuallers,
and beershop-keepets' annually gazetted as bankrupts, is, we
think, about 1-13111 of the total nutr ber of bankrupts. The
nutter whose ain rs are wound up in the Insolvent Courts is
doubtless much greater.

TALE., I, A T U 11. —On Saturday night, as a West enuntriir
hawker was staggering out of a public-house, in Barnqey, laden
like a full grown camel, he jostled against the cellar door,
which, like magic flew open, and down the steps he rolled into.
a large tub of ale, which was wotking at the bottom. The
noise alarmed soveral in the house, who immediately procured
a light, and on reachini", the bottom of the cellar steps, ob-
served the unfortunate hawker crawling out of the ale tub,
covered all over with berm. The first question asked was, had
he hurt himself, but several seconds elapsed before a reply
could be given; having cleated the berm away from his eyes
and mouth, he gazed around the place thunderstruck ; at last;
in the midst of some half dozen sobs and hietups, he exclaimed,
" Wha ha 'nout, but ha thinks ha never recollects guin this
way ta' Deupcbra afore." - The exp.ession created a tremendous
Icrack of laughter, by which time Master Hawker began to re-
cover his lost senses.—Leeds Intelligencer.

SENSE. OP BEARING IN Ftsu.—ln °tiler to ascertain the
truth of a common assertion that fish can hear voices in cort
versation ou the banks of a stream, my friend, and myself
selected for close observatiou a trout
,Poised; atm tit six inches
deep in the water, whilst a third, who was situated behind
the fishing-house. diametrically opposite to the side where
the fish lay, fired off one barrel of his gun. The possit;iity
of the flash being seen by the fish Was thus Wholly prevented;
and the report produced not the slightest apparent effect upcn
him. The second barrel
,was (lien fired ; still he remained
immovable, evincing not the slightest Symptom of having heard
the report. This e%periMent was a Iterwards often repeated, and
precisely siMilat results Were invariahly oletainail; terither could
I or o'leurS ever awaken symptoms of alarm in the fishes near
the but by shouting to there en the loudest lanes, although our
dist:ten e from them sometimes did not exceed, six feet.
possible that fishes may be iu some Manner affected by vibe 3.;
times communicated to their .element either directly or by tie;
intervention of aerial pulsations. although it is not ctear.y
',loved that they possess organs appropriated exclusively to the
purpose of hearing.—Ronald's Fly Fialter's Entomology.
y
NIPOI.EON IN HIS 1.11311 A RY.—I was.impatient to get to
Buonapatte's room; whith was a moderate-sized libraiy, with
a very large table en the middle of it. Upon the tall.e the old
porter told us Buonapatte fought battles beforehand. He had
it covered with maps of the countries that were to be the seat
of war. Upon these neaps were peewee, little figures resem-
bling his army in miniature, and all the different positious
were marked with pins or pegs, so that when he actetallv come.
upon the ground, there was nothing new to hiirt: Uovier4
these circumstances lee was never taken by §itiri.ie, The
potion of time necessary to be comintned in accotnplishing the
.
marches and Coneiter-mareleci of the different corps was accu-
rately calculmed, the provisions required, and the facilities of
the coientiii through which the army might pass, carefully no-
tiCed for the purpose of getting supplies. Thies were tons.•
patte's campaigns formed and fought in his literary. The table
at erhich lee wrote still remained there, And the habit which he
had of cutting and scratching on the table was exhibited by
marks of his. knife.—Metnoirs of Silt Waliorn Knighton.