The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. EGERTON SMITH

TN furtherance of the generally-expressed wish that some
PUBLIC TESTIMONIAL should be erected to the
MEMORY of the late Mr. EGERTON SMITH, the
Friends of that much-lamented Gentleman, and the Admirers
of his PHILANTHROPIC CHARACTER, are respectfully
requested to attend a PUBLIC MEETING, for the purpose
of promoting that object, to be held at the CLARENDON
ROOMS, South John-street, on WEDNESDAY next, the Bth
instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely.
THOS. THORNLLY, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
WM. RATIIDONE I Jos. BRICE

JAS. MULLENEUX
WM. RIDYATI.D

GEO. HOLT

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, MOUNT-STREET.
TO-MORROW, (Saturday), the 4th instant, at Half-past
Seven, P. ar., P. F. WHITE, Esq., will deliver the
SePond and Last of TWO LECTURES on IRISH MIN-
STRELSY (Ancient and Modern,) illustrated with Songs,
selected from the most popular Melodies of Ireland,
To be sung by Mr. WHITE, assisted by Miss STorT and
• Miss BELL.
Mr. ETTON will preside at the Piano-forte.
LECTURE IL—SATURDAY, 4TH DECEMBER.
_ _

MELODY—Carolan the last Bard and Melodist of Ireland
—His Genius and Musical Compositions, &c.—Last great
Meeting of the Minstrels of Ireland at Belfast, 1792,—Tra-
ditional Melodies committed to Notation—Moor.e's Melo-
dies—Lyric Poets and Musical Composers in the 19th Cen-
tury—Words intended for Music—Modern Songs and Fa-
shionable Singers—Nature and importance of the principles
of style in Singing—Present State of Musical taste—Musical
Education.

ILLUSTRATIVE 7.VELODIES.
" 'Tis the last rose of Summer."
" Though the last glimpse of Erin."
" True love can ne er forget."
" The last Bard of Erin."
Oh ! breathe not his name." (Duet.)
" She is far from the land."
" When youth's bright days are o'er."*
" Mavourneen Deelish Aileen Oge." (Air—Savourneen
Deelish.)
" Come, come away."*
" Oh ! tell me not of those bright days."*
" The Minstrel Boy."
The Lecturer's own Composition—Words and Music.

To be followed by FOUR LECTURES on the STEAMr
ENGINE, by Mr. J. C. M'CONNELL, Engineer. _

SOIREE.-L-It is proposed that the members of the Insti-
tution and their Families shall hold a SOIREE, in the In-
stitution, on MONDAY, the 27th instant. Tickets, including
Refreshments, Is. 6d. each. Particulars will be duly an-
nounced hereafter, but meantime it is urgently requested
that Members wishing to attend will furnish themselves with
Tickets as early as possible. The arrangements will depend
greatly on the number of persons intending to be present.

Tickets are now issued at the Secretary's Office.
LIBRARY.—PubIic attention is solicited to the Library,
which now contains nearly Eight Thousand Volumes, in the
various Branches of Science and Literature. and which re-
ceives regularly Eight Monthly andiSeven Quarterly Periodi-

cals. Each Member is alloWed Three Volumes of a Single
Work at a time, and the same Annual Subscription of One
Guinea (for Ladies 10s. 6d.), which admits to the Library
admits also to the Public Lectures and the Evening Schools.
A Donation of Te❑ Guineas, or upwards, constitutes the
Contributor a Life Member. Annual Members, One Guinea
(the Ticket dates from the time it was taken out); Ladies'
Tickets, Half a Guinea ; Sons or Apprentices of Members,
Five Shiilings ; Apprentices of Non-Members, Half a
Guinea.

W. B. HODGSON, Secretary

A FACT.—The excess of females over males in the whole
population of Great Britain is 509,889.
The Rev. R. W. Sibthorp is, we understand, at the Roman
Catholic College, Oscott, and will be there re-ordained. His
fellowship at Magdalen College has not yet, we believe, been
declared void ; and the proceedings in the matter arc looked
to with much interest, as curious and knotty questions will
arise.

It appears not to be generally known that under the act 1
and 2 Victoria, insolvent debtors omitting property fraudu-
lently from their schedule, or retaining wearing apparel above
the value of £2O, are guilty of a misdemeanour, and subject
themselves to three years' imprisonment and hard labour.
The penalty not only attaches to the insolvent, but likewise
to all persons aiding and abetting.
At a dinner in Madrid, recently given by the staff of the
garrison to the staff of the National Guards, the following
among other violent toasts, were drunk with great warmth,
if the Cerreo Nacional, itself a violent paper, may be be-
lieved,—" To the happy day when we shall drink the blood
of tyrants like the wine of this glass." "If the pope ex-
communicates the Duke of Victory, may Spain shake off
as soon as possible the yoke of the Pope.' "To the speedy
coming of pure Democracy." " May the Supreme Being
speedily glorify the King of the Barricades."

THE CAUDLx.—The form is this—all the foreign ministers
and their ladies and visitors of a certain rank and station,
who call personally at the palace to make their enquiries, are
conducted into the interior, and received by the lady in
waiting to *hom, if not personally known, they announce
themselves,, They are then conducted into one of ' the state
rooms, when the lord in waiting and other officers of the
household are assembled, and caudle is handed round. It is
served in large cups or vases of China, with handles at the
sides, a cover and a stand ; and by the side of each cup is
placed a piece of cake. After this is disposed of, the royal
infant is brought in by his nurse and goes the round of the
circle; the visiters then take their departure.—Cheltenham
Looker-on.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—The barque Amanda, which
sailed from Limerick with emigrants bound for Canada, in
the early part of September last, was lost on the 2Gth of that
month in the gulf of the river St. Lawrence, when 42 per-
sons met with a watery grave. It appears that the ship met
with a dense fog, which lasted from the 24th to the 26th,
when the ship struck at five o'clock in the morning. The
long-boat was lowered by the crew, into which 12 sailors and
29 passengers hurried alongside and swamped her, and every
one perished. One man, who was supposed to be worth
some money, went down the companion while the vessel was
sinking to look after it, and was never seen afterwards. The
captain and four of the crew, and five passengers, who had
the good fortune to cling to the wreck, were saved. The
bodies of the sufferers were all washed ashore next morning,
and interred in a burial ground two miles from where the ac-
cident occurred.

POINT ABERGLASLYN.—The approach of Point Aberglas-
lyn supplys all the materials of a most marvellous picture,
rising in some points of view, to the sublime and terrible.
The road where the view first bursts upon the eye in all its
varied and extraordinary features, by its bleak, barren as-
pect, overhung by huge precipices and broken rocks stretch-
ing into the distance, well prepares the mind for those im-
pressions which, on whatever side approached, by day or by
moonlight, as Bingley so enthusiastically describes it, never
fails to call forth the admiration of the coldest traveller. All
the milder features of landscape are here lost amidst these
rocky fabrics; instead of the softer interchange of hill, and
lake, and glen, the grandeur of the whole scene at once
arrests and employs the imagination. The way through
the pass, which, so late as Mr. Pennant's visit. was
a mere horsepath, was a few years ago sufficiently widened
for a double line of carriages, and has more recently been
much improved. It runs along the base of the moun-
tain, which has been blasted to a considerable extent, and is
formed upon the solid granite, bounded on the river side by
a stone wall. The bridge is built fram rock to rock, and
produces an extraordinary effect in the scene of which the
engraving on the opposite page conveys a faithful representa-
tion. There was formerly a saloon leap at this place, which
has been destroyed ; but the river still abounds with that fish
and tribes of speckled trout, which afford excellent sport to
the experienced angler.—From Roscoe's North Wales, new
edition.

A FAsiiloNArmr; HtisnANn.—The following scene, ac-
cording to the Moniteur Parisien, occurred a few days since
at a linen warehouse on the Boulevards. Mademoiselle A.,
formerly an actress at the Rouen Theatre, but now keeping
her carriage, and spending 20,000 f. a year, had been making
some purchases, and was leaving the shop, when she met the
wife of the person to whose liberality she is indebted for the
luxurious style in which she lives. The wife, indignant at
the sight of the enemy of her domestic peace, and giving way
to her passion, fell upon the ex-actress, and a sort of fight
ensued, during which the husband came up, and giving his
hand to his mistress, handed her into her carriage, leaving
the outraged wife to return home to her four children and
weep !

LLANGOLLEN.—lntelligence of a serious affray with
poachers in Wynnstay-park has been just received, through
the medium of Mr. John Kvffin, superintendent of police.
From what has transpired it appears that information had
been forwarded to Mr. Holt, Sir Watkin's head gamekeeper,
that a gang of six or seven poachers were carousing at a
public-house at Ruabon on Tuesday evening, and purposed
visiting Sir Watkin's preserves that night. Accordingly he
and five or six men were ou the watch. In the course of the
night, or early on Wednesday morning, they met at a gate of
the preserves, whereupon one of the poachers shot at
the
foremost keeper, and wounded him in the foot and leg, which
felled him to the ground. On recovering he levelled his
piece at the depredator, and severely wounded him in the
abdomen. His life is despaired of. One of the poachers,
besides the one wounded, has been captured, and the police
are out in all directions in pursuit of the other fugitives.—
Carnarvon Herald.

THE CASE or BERNARD CAVANAGH. -- READING,
SATURDAY NIGHT.—This evening completed the tenth day
of Cavanagh's imprisonment. On Thursday and Friday his
pulse declined, and this morning a small quantity of the
gaol allowance of gruel was missed from the vessel in which
it had been placed, while the whole of the remaining quantity
was much thiner than when it was sent in. His frame had
become evidently weaker; his pulse very feeble; and this
evening Mr. Gulley, the surpgoerotnvi, v.i-nase
meanscalled
in it,
of restoring him to health.
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swallowed,
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eat exhaustion, scarcely able
to move one foot before therOtber, and much alarmed at his
sinking state. Whatever CaTinagh's powers of endurance
may be, it is clear that he cannot exist ten days without food,
nor has he that retentive power over the secretions to which
he pretended.

HISTORY OF HATS.—The use of bats, that is, of caps
with brims to them, is of very ancient date. Among the
Greeks, the Dorian tribes, probably as early as the age of
Homer, were characterised by the broad-brimmed hats which
they wore when on a journey. The same custom prevailed
among the Athenians, as is evident from some of the eques
trian figures in the Elgin Marbles. The Romans appear, in
general, to have used no covering for the head except a corner
of the toga or upper garment; but at sacrifices and festivals
they wore a bonnet or cap; and this being permitted only to
freemen, part of the ceremony of manumitting a slave con-
sisted in putting one of those caps on his head. But on a
journey the Romans were accustomed to wear a hat called
petasus, with a margin wide enough to shade their faces
from the sun. In the middle ages, the bonnet or cap with a
narrow margin in front appears to have been in use among
the laity, while eccesiastics wore hoods or cowls; but Pope
Innocent the Fourth, in the thirteenth century, allowed to
the cardinals the use of scarlet hats. About the year 1440,
the use of hats by persons on a journey appears to have been
introduced into France, and soon became common in that
country, whence,
_probably, it spread to other European
states. The cap of the ancients was certainly made of wcoi;
and this, as well as the hat, was, probably, knit. Ido not
know when felt was introduced as a material for hats, but it
is stated, that the hat worn by Charles the Seventh of
France, on the occasion of his triumphant entry into Rousn,
in 1.140, was of felt.—Aikbeatkoretti.n., e 4,* ,:,„d
flis-
ni