The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-21 00:00:00

The poor

dir. It was the prisoner's garden, and he would c•nnsole
himself in the weariness of a long, rainy, sunless day, in
thinking the cedar will look greener to-morrow. Every
friend and visitor was shown the cedar, and each felt it a
comfort in the midst of so much wretchedness to gee it.
They were as proud of the cedar in this prison (St. Pela-
gic) as if they had planted it.
Who will nut grieve for the fate of the Cedar of Leba-
non? It bad grown and filurishrd for_a hundred years;

for cedars do not need centuries, like -the oak. to attain
their highest growth ; when, just as its hundredth year
was attained, the noble, the beautiful tree was cut down
to make room for a railway. This was done just ten years
ago; and now the hi•sing steam-engine pas-es over its
withered roots. Such things, it seems, must be; and we
must not too much grieve or complain at any of the changes
that pass around us in thi world of changes ; and yet we
cannot but feel sorry tor the Cedar of Lebanon."

INGENUITY OF A DELHI Tuiey.—At a time when the
dexterity of the thieves at Delhi was proverbial, it hao-
pened one day that a Nuwaub had al ghted at one of the
shops in that city, and was bargaining with the shopkeeper
for some a►ticle he wanted to purchase. In order to he
more at his ease, the Nuwaub had slipped his right foot
from its shoe, and had placed the said foot on the chu•
bootra, or raised fl ior, of the shop, whi!e his left font re-
mained in its shoe on the ground. A thief slyly ab,tracted
the empty shoe, and made off undetected. The Nuwaub,
when he had completed his purchase, put down his right
foot, and then discovered that the shoe had disappeared.
A search was made, uselessly of course, for the lost shoe,
when the Nuwaub sent otie of his attendants to a shoe-
maker with the remaining shoe, with an order for another
to be prepared immediately to match it. He then got
into his palanquin shoeless, and went his way. The thief,
watching his opportunity, went s raight to the shoemaker,
and, assuming a tone of authority, told him that " his
master, the Nuwaub, having found the missing shoe, hail
sent him to countermand the order he had given—and
would therefore thank him to return the shoe left at his
shop." Tne unsuspfcting shoemaker, taking the thief for
one of the attendants of the great man, quietly gave him
up the shoe, and thus the thief possessed himself of the
unit, with which he safely decamped, and was never more
h and of.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL CORETON —ROMANTIC NAR-
RATIVE.—A friend of Colonel Cureton's 11-,s written to a
morning paper, to correct same errors that have got into
circulation respecting the early career of that distinguished
officer. From this statement it appears that Col. Cureron
was born in the rank of a gentleman, and received an edu-
cation suited to his position. When little more than six-
teen years of age, he was appointsd to an en,igticy in a
county militia regiment of the first pretension, com-
manded.by a nob'e earl, who was also lord Its u'enant of
the county. In th's regiment he became a great favourite,
both with his brother officers anti then en, but he was led,
from association with men of sui.erior wealth, to contract
debts which he Wa4 unable to pay, and which his family,
dissatisfied with his extravogmce, refused to loridite.
lie became oppressed with the fear of arrest, and ansented
himself from his regiment, in consequence of which he
was deprived of his commission. Not long afterwards,
through the interest of sot frie

he was gazerted to
another triltia regiment, but his creditors having &sect-
ered his " tylwreatiout," they lA role in threatehing terms
to demand an immediate settlement. The fear of arrest
returned. and he determined on a bold step to evade pur-
-1 I suit. His regiment wAs stationed in a maritime town,

arid, I aving provided himself with a sailor's dress. he
walked one meriting down to the beach, wearing his regi-
mentals. Ile there undressed himself arid put on his dis-
guise, leaving his military clothing on the beach The
u,,Form was soon after found, and it was supposed that
he was carried nut to sea by the current and vet d. In.
t• Iligence to that effect was conveyed to his family, who
went into mourning for him. In the meantime he reached
London unknown, and, meeting with a recruiting party Of
the 14th Light Dragoon, enlis ed in his baptismal names,
omitting his surname. The regiment was then serving in
the P. isn.
near wgteidytinieuuwtahs,
~,seinietretohetheatdtreal ,cert'e
datt
he dnioptoicl ee
of hit, officers, and was appointed, in consequence of his
superior a quirements, to orderly-room duty. lie was
seem sent out wi;h a draught to head-quartets of regiment
in the Peninsula. bearing a letter of recommendation from
the commanding officer of the dear to the colonel, Sir
Samuel Hawker, who advanced the young dragoon on the
first opportueity to the rank of serjean,. Frnm the acti-
vity and intelligence he displayed in outpost duty, he was
recommended to Lord (now the Duke ut) Wellington by
• his colonel for a commission. Thus, in about seven years
from his enlistment in the 14th Dragoons, the pre.-gut bri-
gadier, with-tit any interest. save what he had excited in
his commanding officer by his good conduct, was g, zetted
in his proper name as an ensign in the 40th Regiment of
Infantry. The appearacce of his name in the Gaut/ear,-
prised his family of his existence; they opened a corre.
spondence him, learned his history, and having a.-
certained that he preferred the cavalry to the intatitty,
effected an excht.nge for him to the late 20th Dragoons.
A lieutenancy was in a reasonable time obtained, when I e
was appointed adjutant, and rema'ned so until the dis-
bandment of the regiment after the peace, which placed
hint upon half-pay. On the 161 r Drago' n• being ordered
to India, and art augmentation of lieutenants teking place,
Sir Samuel and Sir Thomas Hawker exerted their joint
interest and earnest recommendation of Lieut. Cureton,
at the Horse Guards, fot appointme-rt from halc•nit to
full of the 16th Dragoons, which took place, and soon iv_
terwards he was appointed adjutant, which rank he re.
tairied until he obtained, by purchase, a troop in the same
regiment. He likewise purchased his majority and had
lodged money for a lieutenant-cokrielcy, which be scut.
ally had been gazstted to in the 3d Dragoons, by purchase,
and which was subsequently canceth d. a casualty having
tutned up in his regiment (16,h Lancers.) He was ca.
j netted therein as lieutenant-colonel, without purchase—a
favour, no doubt, conferred as an especial mark of his
I many meritorious services.