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

OH, WHAT IS MAN!

Oh, what is man ! creation's wonder,
An angel half, and half a brute;
A frown can tear his heart asunder,
A tear can make his passion mute.
From him blooms pleasure's every flower—
But ab, too soon their beauty flies,
A thousand cares and pains o'erpuwer
And then he ripens, droops, and dies.
Vice! virtue! both win his devotion,
Now bound in chain, now thron'd in power,
The king of earth! the king of ocean!
Yet rul'd by passion every hour.
To-day his fancy's thbughts discover
Worlds mortal eyes had ne'er suryey'd ;
To-morrow earth duth wrap him over,
And he is dust—whom dust had made.

THE CARLOW AFFAIR.—Mr. Walker, the member for
Berkshire, has been entrusted with a petition from the county
of Carlow, calling for inquiry into the Raphael and O'Connell
job, signed by 41 body of electors comprising an immense pro-
portion of the wealth and respectability of the county.—Old
England.
One of the new corporation justices having desired a book-
seller to procure him "the last edition of Burn's,!' the bibliopo-
list, as might have been expected, instead of five or six volumes
of dry law, procured him the latest edition of Scotland's im-
mortal poet.
lelSll CONSERVATIVES.—An aggregate meeting of the con-
servatives of Ireland is to be held on the 10th of February,
either in the Itotulida or the King's Room at the rear of the
Mansion-house, to adopt measures for effecting a complete
registry of conservative electors in the various Irish counties,
cities, and boroughs.
THE IRISH CLEIWY.—We have great pleasure in stating,
that at a late meeting in Leicester, in aid of the Irish clergy,
the sum of upwards of £9OO was actually collected in the room,
to which there is no doubt that a considerable addition will be
made. The Duke of Rutland made an excellent speech on the
occasion; Earl Howe also was present, Lord Charles Man-
ners, Sir George Beaumont, Mr. Butler Danvers, Mr. C.
Peake, and many others of rank and distinction in the county.

CAMBRIDGE.—The public oratorship has become vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. Ralph Tatham. The candidates at
Present in the field are the Rev. John Frederick Isaacson, of
3t John's, the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, of Trinity, and
he Rev. Horatio Hildyard,, of St. Peter's College. The two
former gentlemen' are tutors of their respective colleges, and-
Mr. Hildyard'is one of the examiners -ofor the classical tripos of
the present year.
Lord Langdale, the Master of the Rolls, was the medical at-
tendant on the celebrated Countess of Oxford and Mortimer,
when her ladyship and family travelled on the Continent. On
his return to London he became a pupil to Mr. Bell, of the
Chancery bar. By perseverance, talent, and industry, he
justly attained the high station he now fills. It must be grati-
fying to Mr. Bell to Five to see his pupil fill so high an office.
A few years ago he married Lady Jane Harley, the eldest
daughter of the Earl of Oxford. Lady Oxford departed this
life a few years ago at Rome. Her ladyship's eldest son was
drowned in the bay of Naples. Both bodies were brought over,
arid buried in Brampton Bryon Church, Herefordshire. The
present Lord Harley is married to the Marquis of Westmeath's
eldest daughter.—Her ford Paper.
BIBLE-BURNING IN GLASGOW.—We have just heard a horri-
ble story of Bible-burning in Glasgow, which rivals in atrocity
an account of fiendish intolerance in Ireland. A protestant
woman had married a papist on this, as one of the conditions,
that she should be at liberty to follow her own religion. They
had not been many months married, when the husband inter-
fered, would not permit the Bible to be read by his wife, and
being aided by another papist, in whose house he lodged, and
who said he would not allow hell to be in his house, seized the
Bible on one occasion and threw it into the 'fire. The
poor woman endeavoured to save her Bible, but before she
could do so it was destroyed. Afterwards, in
le true spirit ofa
disciple of Dens, the husband threatened to murder the heretic
—the wife of his bosom. She has rescued herself by flight from
the deadly fangs of popery, which perverts the very social affec-
tions for the accomplishment of its diabolical designs. This
story has been furnished to us on authority on which we can re-
ly, and it is a striking warning held out against the union by
marriage, now becoming frequent, of papists and protestants.
The influence of the priesthood is clearly discernible in the
whole. It was but the other week we were told, at One of the
protestant lectures, of a popish miracle in Glasgow—the priest
having proposed to cure a protestant girl of the falling sickness.
by the charm of her wearing a certain portion of the gospel of
St. John enclosed in a black riband round her neck. Here is
another specimen in the heart of a family—in the midst of a
protestant city--which illustrates the worst doctrines of Dens.
Popery, whatever mask it may suit its purposes to wear, is, at
all times and in all places,
Tuesday. the sari:ie.—Scottish Guardian of

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