The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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there are many Griseldas now be placed in the hands of the proper authorities, and
devoted, as self- ; upon them would devolve the duty of fixing the punish-
als, diversified meat that ought to be inflicted upon him.
neek, for- The prisoner was then removed from the bar.

the countryman fancied, with pure silver, out consmeu u
German burnished metal only, its cost price to the fortu
nate "hawker" being about 12s. Thus he got Mr

~.renes trom the heat and noise,
quietly to commune with God and your own heart—to
pour forth the silent emotions of gratitude and love to the
great benevolent Being and munificent Author of all
things, visible and invisible—the only one wise God, so
little understood, and in whose holy and benevo-
lent name and attributes so much misery, cruelty,

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shilling to spare, and atte
disposed of him to a publican in the town for 16s.

only by ti

giving spirit. The strong love in Griselda's heart cast out
all pride ; and the beautiful moral of this most touching
history is wholly lost in the German version. But we
must not omit our chief favourite7everybody's favourite

ratifying the bargain,
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duties in which no alteration has lately been mad
charming story of a little child who knew nothing of alle- ld. on Thursday. amounted, in 1841, to £35,113,160, and in 1847, t
gory, and, taking it all for reality, actually commenced Forty-four inhabitants of Crompton and Royton have £39,293,986, exhibiting an increase
her pilgrimage through the wicket-gate in her father's been proceeded against for haymaking on the Sunday. produce of the duties which have been
grounds. How natural that was ! We love to think of The Lords of the Treasury have authorised the admis- pective1y,X16,487,232 and £12,232,726 in 184 z ...
the many weary and yet happy pilgrims still travelling sion of wheat bran and Indian corn bran duty free. exhibiting a decrease of £3,162,227 on Customs, £930,..
OUT ? " asked an L__ .e homeward even to this day. The Trials of Margaret The Times of Saturday contained the following quaint on the Excise, and £155,309 on the Stamp duties (Great
other day. Lindsay stands last but not least on our list, valued for advertisement :—" B. wishes to see G."
as for Britain) ;in all, £4,254,506.—The net increase on the
JENNY LIND POTATOES.—A fine sample of potatoes, its quiet pathos and deep religious feeling, as well. The floating island in Derwent Lake, Keswick, made Customs duties unaltered in the period between the sth of
with blue eyes, were cried up with this name through the the sake of one whose g;ft it was. Many and various are its appearance above the surface of the water about a fort- January, 1842, and the sth of January, 1847, amounts to
streets last week, at 10d. per score. The idea of a score the several links in the golden chain of memory and asso- night ago.
of Jenny Linda for 10d. !—Exeter News. ciation. We have known Book-love to be independent of The capital employed in the coal:trade of Northumber- £2,097,453, and the net decrease in the duties which were
SCARCITY OF ENGLISH ROYAL MONUMENTS.—Ever the author, and lurk in a few charmed words traced upon* land and Durham is estimated at nearly ten millions altered during the same period to £3,162,227. The net
since the accession of the house of Guelph, royalty has the title-page by a once familiar hand—words of affec- sterling. receipt of the Customs in the years 1842 and 1846
amounted, respectively, to £23,515,375 and £22,278,317,
freed itself from one of the most universal and honour- tionate remembrance, rendered, it may be, by change and Farmers who thrash barley with machines are strongly
Able; though somewhat expensive, duties of kindred ; and bereavement, inexpressibly dear ! Flowers in books are recommended to wind sackloth round the beaters of the thus exhibiting a decrease of £1,237,058—The net increase
on the Excise articles the duties on which have remained
this too without observation, much less censure. The a sweet sign, and there is a moral in their very withering. machine, otherwise the grain will be considerably injured.
poorest of mankind mark the grave of parents, wife, and Pencil-marks in books frequently recall scenes and senti- The quantity of wheat sold last week in the towns of
unaltered amounted in the same period to £1,341,671, and
children, by. some humble memorial : the richer 1 £936,970 ; consequently the balance of the two accounts
gratifying exhibits a net increase on the gross account of £409,296 ;
ments, and epochs in young lives that never come again. England specified in the Act was under 48,000 quarters, the net decrease of those which have been altered to
tablets or raise tombs to their relatives. So to The faint line portrays passages that struck us years ago and in grain the transactions appeared to have been
the heart is this duty, that rarely if ever is it omitted from with their mournful beauty, and have since passed into a limited.
any other cause than poverty. A foreigner visits the royal P the Excise receipts having amounted in the year 1841 to
Prophecy. Thoughts and dreams that seem like a mockery The Hull Packet of Monday contains an account of
£14,602,847, and in 1846, to £15,012,143. The net in-
depository in St. George's Chapel, and asks where are the now are thus shadowed out. But memory's leaves are the accidental drowning, while bathing at Hornsea, on
royal monuments ? But no son, daughter, brother, ne- not all blanks, or tear-stained, but interwoven, thank Thursday, of Mr. Joseph Marshall, of the firm of Thomp-
crease in the unaltered Stamp duties amounts to £407,824,
phew, or niece of the present dynasty, has erected a fu- God, with many a bright page. Pencil-marks in books son and Marshall, solicitors, Hull.
and the net decrease in the altered to £155,309. The de-
creasenereal monument of any kind to the kindred dead. Even have sweet as well as sad recollections connected with A Northumberland elector was in Boulogne on Mon-
in the assessed taxes between 1842 and 1847 amounts
if affection did not produce such a testimonial, it might them. We point them out to one another, and call to the day morning week, and voted for Sir George Grey, at to £240,891, the receipts in 1841 having been £4,715,353,
Post-
have been expected "from regard to ancient custom, and mind particular periods in our past lives. They also serve. Morpeth, on the opening of the poll on the following and those in 1846, £4,474,462. The increase of the
from a desire to conform to the habits of civilized life, to register the change that has gradually and imperceptibly day. office receipts amounts to £468,317 as compared with 1842.
The only monuments to our kings and their descendants, stolen over our own thoughts and feelings. There are VALUE OF SMOKE.—A tunnel-chimney ,
• • The increase on the Irish stamp duties, as compared
with the exception of the statue of George the Third in some books which forcibly recall calm and tranquil scenes length, has been erected in Annandale. Its fume will yield with 1847, amounts to £147,345. The actual decrease of
'Windsor Park, by George the Fourth, and of the beauti- of_ by-gone happiness. We hear again the gentle tones many thousands of pounds sterling per annum. Truly,
nary the payments into the Exchequer on account of the ordi-
revenues constituting the public income of the
ful mausoleum which the King of Hanover is building in of aence familiar voice long since hushed. We_cani•e- here it may be said that " syiokedoes n_pt ennd in smoke." "
United Kingdom amounts to £362,710, as compared with
memory of his consort, have been erected by the public ; member the very passage wherereader p dThe brother officers of Lieutenant M have ab-
the r.tusc awhilehim u ro s'
and in the instance only of the Princess Charlotte's mo- to play the critic, orwhere that eloquent voice suddenly the 1842, when the e t amounted to £47,917,52
le year rec ip s 1:
purchase a commission
. scribed a sum of money to . in
faltered
nument, which was raised by subscription, has one been , and we all laughed to find ourselves weeping, and the Horse Guards (Blue), in which he served so many •ofstaple manufac-
were sorry when the tale Kingdom of the four great articles our
placed in church or chapel. There is absolutely nothingthepoem came to an end.
. or
Books read for the tures, viz., cotton manufactures and cotton yarn ; woollen
—not even an engraved slab—to tell where the ashes of first time at some particular place or SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—A cask of water belonging
period of our existence may thus become manufactures and arn, linen manufactures
George the First, Second, Third, and Fourth, and William .P . , . 1 tl, hallowed for
to a gentleman in this t9wn _ . . was found in the course of
e,,ei mole, or we ove 'em because ethers loved them 1 'yarn, and silk manufactures, amounted in the five months
the Fourth, or of any one of all their numerous progeny, this meek, with a quantity of Ice 011 la Willlce,—Cuii,. .
02 191 • and in the five
epose.—Specator. , also in by-gone days.—Blackwood, Wan. 1 ending June 5, 1845, to £15,8 , ,
months ending June 5, 1847, to £14,831,478,

Persecution, imprisonment, torture, and death, Have
been perpetrated ; but a happier era has already dawned

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