The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-08 00:00:00

FLETCHEIt ILAINCOCK, ESQ.

It has never been our lot to announce a tribute of respect more
gratifying than has just been offered to this gentleman. His
portrait, by Lonsdate, is about to be placed in the library of the
Liverpool Law Society; it is of large size, and every way a
splendid painting, perhaps the clef trayavre of this eminent
artist, who, it is said, testified peculiar-interest in the perform-
ance. It was painted in compliance with the following address,
which is framed ittid appended to the picture, forming together
a lasting monument to. honour and professional character worthy
or the gentleman to whom it is so deservedly inscribed. We hope
that the public me ill be gratified by a sight of this tine painting
in the next annual exhibition :
"To Ff.FTCHER RAINCOCN, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT,LAW.

Sir,—With feelings of the highest esteem for your public
and private character, the undersigned attorneys-at-law' prac-
tising. in Liverpool, beg leave respectfully to request that you
will he pleased to sit for.your portrait, to be plated in the library
of the Liverpool Law Society.

Senior of the Northehi eircuit, and *lih fp. exceptions
the whole bar, on have identified your name with all that is
highmiuded and honourable; your very eminent' endowments
as a scholar and a lawyer, while they have added lustre to the
great community in which you have so log resided, have never,
been exerted so as to wound the feelings or disttirb the peace of
any human belng, nor been selfishly directed to mere purposes
of personal aggrandisement.
" While your public career has been marked by time nicest
senseof himourand disinterestedness, and in an especial manner
by personal delicacy in regard to profesSional erholittnent, the
innuitivence of your private bounty is not unknown, notwith-
standing the veil you have thrown over it, and which it would.
ill become us to lift.

"As inii,ibit:ints of the same town, and as members of a pro-
fession (.(minon (in our respective grades) to each of us, we can-
not but consider the light of your public character to be in some
degree reflected upon ourselves:

" With these impressions, ►ce presume to solicit, as a lasting
memo't•ial.at once of our respect, and as an example to us, and
to tho,e who may succeed us in our branch of the profession, that
you will permit your portrait to be placed in the library of are
institution, which, though supported hy private and strictly pro,
fessional subscipti m. partakes much of a public character, and
has already attained a high deglee of importance and useful-
ness.

" We have the honour to be, sir, &c.
" Liverpool sunittier Assize. 1837."
(Signed by fifty-siX attorheys.)

WHITE Citow.—At the rook shooting'it 'Workintzton. Hall
on Monday last, a gentleman of the town hrought'down, with
his gun, -a perfeetly,white crow. It is now in the posSession of
W. Thompson, Esq., and is likely, we understand,
,to survive
the ''shock of aru►a," which it sustained on Monday:—Carlisle
Patriot.

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RATHER DIFFICULT TO PLEASE.—A gentleman who was
rather impatient at table, declared he wished he could manage
without servants, as they were greater "plague than profit."
"Why not have-tt dumb waiter," suggested a friend. "Oh
no," returned the. other ; "1 have tried them—they don't
anstoer.",-London and Paris Magazine of Fashion.
We understand that Colonel Considine, with the permission
of the English government, has taken thecommand of the army
of the Bev of Tunis, for thepurpose of organizing and disciplin-
ing it. We believe we may add, that this gallant officer will
have the British rank of major-general whilst thus serving on
the continent of Africa.—Observer.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton returned to Bridgewater
House yesterday Irmo Oatlands, their seat in Surrey. We are
happy to add, that the noble ►ord has quite recovered from a
stubborn attack of gout, from the debilitating effects of which
he had been suffering for several months past.—Morning Herald
Wednesday.

DISTRESS OF THE POLES.—A few nights since six Poles
were lying asleep on the ground in one of the parks of the me-
tropolis, having no means of obtaining any better lodging. A
policeman having come upon this unhappy group in his roundi,
ordered them to rise and remove elsewhere. The Poles, froni
ignorance of the English language, were at first unable to make
him understand that they had no home, and were compelled to
adopt their present for want of a better bed. other policemen,
however, coming, up, it ices ascertained that the apparently
refractory strangers were distressed Polish patriots, and with
great humanity the policemen immediately collected ;a sum.of
money amongst themselves, which they employed in procuring
lodgings fur the homeless exiles.

Her Majesty intends to give a concert shortly at Bucking-
ham Palace, the performers to consist of native talent, and the
compoNitions to be selected from the hest English authors.
A "TatroN OF THE MiNNows."—The • Worcester Journal'
states, that last week a gentleman of Heretord killed in the
river Lugs; a trout weighing 111 b. 3.iz., in the stomach of
which were found fit y•three full-sized minnows !

Accounts from Naples, of the 18th ult., state that the
English squadron, consisting of eizht sail of the line, was to sail
from Melia on the 19th, for Naples.
Lord Hill has granted to the 29th regiment the distinction
wearing a star on their pouches. This is the only corps iu the
service, exeept the .guaids, that is allowed the
Limerick Chi tinkle.
We learn' from Reading, that, in consequence of the suddeit
discharge of a cumberrif workmen, it became necessary
tiohoswi.,eitr.
in two hundred special constables, argil even to call in
Guards, to prevent mischief. No rioting, however, had actually
taken place at the date of oor information. —Morning paver.
The rolloWing Clll specimen of orthography was sent as
a note from one of his patients to a medical gentleman in ex-
tensive practice, not twelve miles from Exeter; we give it ,er-
beim et ;—" Mts. Rise is just the same she have gut
no wediseu a left. She Wish to have some more She took the
Last of it last night the Dater is hill else she would come down
her Self Dina the dater Want something far to Eise her Stothet
she cant, keep nothing in Cider She want something for Eise
her Siomet ou plase sec."
THE llRAirr or, MID Lord' stil.—As an instance of the ar+
predation of the wiitings of Sir Walter Scott by our English
neighbours, we may mention, that one of the Birmingham-de-
' lodation, Mr. Salt, we think, began his address on the Calton
Hill on Moudav, by saying, "Men of the Heart of Mid Lothian,"
never imagining that this was tantamount to calling his audience
" gaol birds," tne Heart of Mid Lothian being the .Tolbooth•
or gaol of Edinburgh : and the shout of laughter with which
the opening of this speech was received must have been rather
a puzzler to the worthy radical.7,-Caledorrian Mercury.
ANTIQUITY oF THE THIMBLE-RK,--It is not long since
Lord Stanley amused the House of Commons by an RCM a
account of the celebrated proceis or-deception, called, in II •
language of conjurors, the "thimble-rig"—a process which c,;.!
preserves its place amongst the modes practised by the rogri,--;
who preside over the tables at Epsom and Doncaster, for c•+
trading money from the green rustics or the-greener cockney
notwithstanding all the activity of the new police. Very few
Lord Stanley's audience Trobablv happened to knew
"thimble•rig 11 ,unshed upwards of 3000 years ago in Egypt.--:
New Monthly.-4 Ihe'" cups 'and balls" of the "conjurors"
country fairs, are a variation of the same "rig.")

THE MANIAC SIR W. COUItTRNAY.-11e was the inn
Witham and Cherry,Tom, two honest and thrifty persons at'
kept. a public-house for many years at St. Columb, in Colt,:
wail, a house principally resorted to by the neighbourtw
farmers on market•days. His mother WAS the principal stti-
port of the business, being a careful and industrious woman,
was always very eccentric. Eventually she became insai ••;
and died a few years since In the county lunatic asylum. Aft.
the wife's decease, the business fell of-1., and Tom, haviu!
married a second wife, who now keeps a school in the
place, soon gave up business altogether:-.. The • -name nitios.
their only son, was John, and when at the age-of' 14 or 15
was considered superior to all the other youths in the town to
education, person, and manners. With the latter part of he
life the' public -die already acquainted.—Cofrespondent of the'
Times.

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POSTMAN.—T.Iis porttait is an every-day picture of life.
and yet not easy to paint. He is the very incarnation of ,:--
crity, the embodied spirit of regularity and precision. Day
day. hour by hour, he is to be seen traversing with rapid si!
the limits of his own narrow district. The heavens may sini4.
or frown ; revolution may shake the laud; or peace and inms-
pertly gladden its children. Disease may wave its pestilent
torch ; vi sudden calamity sweep away its victims. 131,t. the
postmAn is still at liis post. A dint-nal dispenser of news. A
kind of hope id tiie Queen's livery, visiting, every one in tutu,,
earl welcomed by all: A messenger of life and of death; or
•
gratified ambiiion,.or disappointed desire; of gracious accept-
ance. or harsh refusal. He is still welcome; for his presthlcei
and that which he brings, at least puts an end to the most crud
ofltitimao sufretiles—timeertitiuty,-,,gentley't Miscelian#: