The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-14 00:00:00

£9848 10 2

PER CONTRA.
Increase in the charges made for carrying, loco-
motive power, maintenance of way, &c. &c.. £7384 • 7 10
Difference in. the amount of cash balances,
brought and carried forward

£9848 10 2
At 41 per cent., £1792 16s. is required to pay at the end of
each balf.year the additional interest necessary to satisfy
every additional call of £5 on the new half shares. And
when the whole of the calls on such shares are paid up,
£8964 will be required more than at present to pay the pro-
prietors 41 per cent. half-yearly; but then the present charge
of £5534 17s. for interest will be abolished.

MR. J. RussErr..—Mr. James Russell is giving his ad-
mirable "Recollections" at the Tivoli Gardens, at Margate.
ZooLoGicAr. GARDENS.—Last evening there was a grand
gala at these gardens. The weather being beautifully fine,
the gardens were crowded with visitors. The fireworks were
much admired.

THE CAUSE LIST.—The West Derby Hundred has, these
assizes, been taken first. It contains 61 causes. The Salford
Hundred list contains 56 causes entered : 28 causes have been
got through in the first list. So faras we can form an opinion
the conies generally are very trifling in their character; and
there does not appear to be any cause of importance in those
which are to come.
On Wednesday last, the 6th instant, the United Secession
congregation of Meadowside Dundee, gave a most cordial
-and unanimous call to the Rev.' Samuel Spence, A.M , of
Liverpool, to be their pastor. The Rev. James M‘Gavin,
of Dundee, preached and presided.
FIRE.—About two o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in
a room over the kitchen of the George Inn Dale-street.
The engine No, 3 was quickly on the spot, with a body of
the fire police, through whose active exertions the flames
were speedily extinguished.
THE FREEMASONS' LIFE ASSURANCE SoCIETY.—Our
attention has been directed to an advertisement in another
column, announcino the formation of a society for affording
relief to distreSsed Freemasons. We quite approve of the
general objects of the undertaking, and at the same time
ate of opinion that it will prove a source of profit to the
shareholders. But as its objects and advantages are so fully
exposed in the advertisement, we shall, by simply referring
to it in this place, do the institution the greatest service.
BACK PARLOUR MATRimoNT. —An amusing story is going
the social round relative to the important functionary who
carries into operation the new whig matrimonial law—or the
" fast and loose" system, as it has been termed, in the neigh-
bourhood of West Derby. It is the good fortune of the
lucky tier of untiable knots, who has obtained the tying ap-
pointment, to be tied himself to what is called "a better
half" who like most "better haifs" is assiduous in looking
after her good man's worldly interests. It chanced that
the knotable man's cam sposa, was, as is not unnatural with
cara sposa's, taking tea with a friend in Moira-street, one
clay last week, and in the course of the evening two maiden
ladies came in, of (hat particular antiquity when ladies are
said to become furiously in earnest in search of husbands,
who are then rather difficult to find. As was naturally to be
expected, the subject of matrimony was introduced on the
Lapis, when good Mrs. Deputy-Registrar'P---- by way of
assisting her husband's calling, seeing so good an opening,
strenuously recommended to the two virgin remnants of anti-
quity aforesaid, that, if ever they should think of changing
their situation in life, not to go to a church, .nor even to a
chapel, but "to come to our Jos, he does it so nice; and
then it is so solemn in our little back parlour!" WLy did
not poor Mrs. P. call it "Our snug?"

A SPECIAL PLEADE[l.—Yesterday, at the Nisi Prius
Court, in the midst of a cause which was proceeding, "Sharp
v. Newsholme and others," the parties concerned in which
reside in Yorkshire, a stout elderly woman, whose flushed
face and restless eye showed that something of weighty mo-
ment was brewing within her, stood for a length of time be-
hind the witness box, and it soon became evident that the
fermentation must burst forth. As soon, therefore, as a wit-
ness who had been under examination for some time quitted
the box, she walked uncalled into it, and, without the usual
oath-taking pre:tminary, addressed his lordship as follaws
I hoop, my lord, you'll allow me wax you a few questions ?"
His lordship, who seemed amused by the interrogatory, re-
,hear, you." The female continued—
" That "mia' inn
t h readyeire tiles kept me out o' my rights under a
fause will, an' I houp yer lordship'!! look to it." -(Laughter.)
His Lordship.—" No doubt you ought to get your rights."
The officer of the court, not admiring such intrusion, here
attempted to eject the rubicund lady. She, however, was not
so easily to be turned out, anti said to him sharply—"' Be quiet
wi' you; I want my reights; I want to speik to his lordship,
don't you see." His Lordship—" No doubt you ought to
have your rights as well as other people when the time comes,
but you must not interfere with other people's rights in asking
for your's, at the present time." The officer here succeeded
in ejecting the lady amidst much merriment, and the case
proceeded

DISTRESS OF TILE DUCHESS OF BERRY—The Swabian
Mevcury, under the head of Vienna, says—" The appearance
of the Duchess de Berri, with her husband, and their short
stay in the capital, has produced considerable sensation. It
would seem that the Emperor of Austria, conjointly with'
the members of the elder branch of the Bourbons, in con-
sideration of the distressed state in which they are, had re-
solved to assist them, but upon condition that the supplies
should not be lavished on Legititnist partizans in France, on
whose activity they had too much hitherto relied. • Such a
step may not unlikely silence more than one Legitimist
journal in France,"