The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-17 00:00:00

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BOOK-KEEPER. ,
AATANTED, in a Merchant's 0 e, an experienced
V W BOOK-KEEPER.
Applications to be made by lett addressed to VW, at
the Standard-office.
Unexceptionable references will be require3l.

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TO PARENTS AND GUA lANS.
HENRY PERRIS, No. 6, Churc - reet, is in immediate
want of a respectable and wel duc.ated Youth, as an
APPRENTICE to the 1300KSELLING and STATION-
ERY BUSINESS.
Applications, if by letter, to he pre-paid.
Liverpool, 16th March, 1840.

PARTNERSHIP,
WANTED, a respectable Gentleman as ARTNER in
an old established BREWERY, in own most noted
for its large exports of Ale to the Ea Indies, Sze. The
Senior Partner wishes to retire, and t Junior Partner will
retain his half interest in the Cone who is fully compe-
tent to take the management of t e Malting and Brewing
departments.

The export and home connexion is considerable and still
increasing, and a more eligible opportunity to any one wish-
ing to go into the Business has seldom occurred.

As it will not be kept long open, immediate application is
requested to be made by letter, addressed A. Z., Post-office,
Liverpool ; and none need apply who are not prepared with
sufficient references, which wilt likewise be exchanged on the
part of the Brewery.

TO VETERINARY SURGEONS, OR PERSONS
CONVERSANT WITH HORSES.
WANTED, a PARTNER, in an extensive VETERI-
NARY and COMMISSION ES BLISHMENT,
in the City of Dublin, capable of ccommodating One
Hundred Horses, and as many Ca ges, with an extensive
Forge, &c. &c. The Proprietor being able to attend to
the several branches himself, is desirousof getting a Partner,
to whom he would allow a share of the profits equivalent to
the sum brought into the establishment. There is no doubt
of a large sum being realized, if properly conducted by an
active and experienced person ; or, if more desirable, the
Proprietor would treat, with a solvent person, for the entire
Establishment.

Apply (by letter, post paid) to Mr. J. WArrs, 94, Ste-
phen's Green, Dublin.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.:-
WANTED, TWO ASSISTANT or VISITNG SUB.
GEON's to tirry, al,icatiiiTii uniesvne-nas taken his
pl-phima as Surgeon in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, or
Glasgow, or unless he be a Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall.
Salary, Seventy Guineas per Annum, .with Coals, Candles,
and Furnished Apartments in the Dispensary.
Servants' attendance not included, such being a matter of
arrangement with the Matron of the Institution.
Candidates, who must be Single • Men, are requested to
send their Certificates (post-paid) to the Secratary's Office,
Parish-offices, No. 1, Fenwick-street, on or before TUESDAY,
the 31st instant, at Twelve o'clock, addressed " To the Pre-
sident of the Dispensaries," and each individual offering
must then and there appear in person to undergo an exami-
nation by the Medical Board.
The successful Candidates will have to commence their
duties immediately after their appointment.
By order of the General Committee,
ROBERT WEDGWOOD, Secretary.
Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fentcick-street,
March 16 1840.

The petition from Sheffield against any further grant to
Maynooth College, has already received upwards of 7,000
signatures.

NEW BARRISTERS.—Last Hilary Term, thirty gentlemen
were called to the bar at the different Inns of Court.
The total number of petitions to the House of Commons
praying for the discharge of the sheriffs was 34, the signa-
tures to which were 5641.

THE PACHA'S BEARD.—The Courrier de Lyon, in a letter
from Alexandria, communicates the following anecdote as
being current in that city :—" An English gentleman has re-
cently visited this place with his family after a tour in Syria.
His lady wrote to Mehemet Ali, requesting him to favour her
with a lock of his hair, to be placed in a collection she was
making of similar relics of illustrious men. The pacha
wrote in reply that he had no hair on his head, except his
beard, of which he would have sent her some portion if he
could consider himself as worthy of being called an illustri-
ous man. He, however, afterwards made known to her that
he would by his will direct his heirs to forward to her the
whole of his beard after his death !"

ENGLAND'S AID TO HER ALLlES.—Within twelve months
from the commencement of the war, she sent over to the
Spanish armies (besides £2,000,000) 150 pieces of field artil-
lery, 42,000 rounds of ammunition, 200,000 muskets, 61,000
swords, 79,000 pikes, 23,000,000 ball cartridges, 6,000,000
leaden balls, 15,000 barrels of gunpowder, 92,000 suits of
clothing, 356,000 sets of accoutrements and pouches, 310,000
pairs of shoes, 40 tents, 250,000 yards of cloth, 10,000 sets
of camp equipages, 118,000 yards of linen, 50,000 great coats,
50,000 canteens, 50,000 haversacks, with a variety of other
stores, far too numerous to be recapitulated.—Maxwell's
Life of Wellington.

RURAL DELIGHTS IN SPRING.—How delightful in tie
early spring, after the dull and tedious times of winter, when
the frosts disappear, and the sunshine warms the earth and
waters, to wander forth by some clear stream, to see the leaf
bursting from the purple bud, to scent the odours of the
bank, perfumed by the violet, and enamelled, as it were, with
the primrose and the daisy; to wander upon the fresh turf,
below the shade of trees, whose bright blossoms are filled
with the music of the bee; and on the surface of the waters
to view the gaudy flies sparkling like animated gems in the
sunbeams, whilst the bright and beautiful trout is watching
them from below; to hear the twittering of the water birds,
who, alarmed at your approach, rapidly hide themselves be-
neath the flowers and leaves of the water-lily ; and as the
season advances, to find all these objects changed for others
of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow
and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy may-fly, and
till, in pursuing your amusement (fly fishing) in the calm and
balmy evening, you are serenaded by the songs of the cheer-
ful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices
of paternal love in thickets ornamented with the rose and
woodbine.—Sir Ilumphry Davy's. Salmonia.
taarygs4ar4les..we.J.lte. rapidly, and
lasts ten months. -During thinorig perfhd the intensity ef
the cold, the tempestuous state of the weather, and, more
than either of these, the shortness of their days, render even
the care of their flocks a difficult and often dangerous em-
ployment ; for, the loss of persons in quest of sheep is by no
means an unusual occurrence; and on a snow-storm arising,
it is absolutely necessary to collect them in hovels, built for
their shelter near the farm-house. At such times it is lin-
possible to see or hear, for the wind surpasses in violence any
idea that can be formed of it ; yet it is to this wind that the
shepherd must trust as a guide. Marking its direction, be
dashes into the storm : the distance to be accomplished is
indeed, perhaps, short; but should he swerve from the right
way, the least deviation is sure to be fatal ; and woe
_to him
should the wind chop in the least while on his employment
such a change will inevitably seal his fate, and he will wander
in the dark, till, numbed by the cold, be will fall into a sleep,
which soon becomes that of death. Instances of such acci-
dents are not unknown even in the immediate neighbourhood
of Reikiavik. About Christmas, 1834, a young woman hn-
prudently quitted the church alone before the service was
over, with the intention of nursing a child that she had left
at home. Before she had got out o the town a violent snow-
storm was raging, which rendered it impossible to see an
inch before her. Maternal solicitude, however, overcame
her fears, and she hurried on towards her house, which was
not more than a quarter of a mile distant; but she lost her
way, and wandered about, till becoming drowsy, she fell
asleep. Upwards of one hundred persons went in quest of
her for many successive days, and though the search was re-
peated several times during the winter, it proved unavailing
till the end of the following March, when a partial thaw dis-
covered her corpse frozen in a sitting posture, within a few
yards of her home !—Hon. A. Dillon's Minter in Iceland.
MARRIED MEN IN THE ARMY.—In time of war, matri-
mony is a serious drawback to the soldier. Constant un-
easiness about the family he has left at home, when he himself
is called abroad, and their anxiety for him, are painful things
to think of ; his happiness and peace of mind are marred,
and all his best exertions paralysed, by reflecting on his situa-
tion, which hinders his advancement in the service. In times
of peace, when his family are around him, still there is no-
thing but endless scenes of trouble. He is surrounded by an
interminable host of miseries, enough to wear him out. It
is bad work truly in the barracks, as I have often witnessed,
where the "Benedicts" are doomed to taste the ups and
downs of life—the latter most prevailing ; cribbed, cabined,
and confined in one small room—to say nothing of the end-
less jars and bickerings which arise in their society from
innumerable causes. A barrack may safely be designated a
mirror of life, wherein all the varieties of human character
are reflected. Let them who roam about the open world,
troubling themselves in vain, and wearing out their, days in
shadowy pursuits, just take a survey of matters going forward
within this noisy region, where they will become acquainted
with the " secrets of the prison-house ;" the beings shut up
in which fret and fume away their time, with fully as much
anxiety as their brethren of the wider sphere they quitted.
Tormenting jealousies—the pride of office—the love of rank
—the overweening airs of your would-be great men, and your
little-great men, with a whole catalogue of petty plaguing
nuisances, invented, as if by patent, for the express purpose
of driving every person of common sense from the profession.
The most prolific source of jealousy was in choosing quarters.
It is astonishing what an uproar was kicked up on these oc-
casions. After the field officers took their rooms, then came
" the tug of war." Ye tender sex Boreas was a trifle to the
gentlest of you. On the score of rank barrack damages were
likely to arise, for the repair of which the surgeon was the
only artist requisite. Then followed all the little piques and
wrangling work. The lady of Major Ravelin cuts the wife of
Colonel Benbow, the latter being rather tardy in returning
her last visit. Mrs. Captain Pepper gets into a huff with
Lieutenant Valliant's rib, for a gross infringement of polite-
ness, and sends her to study the " Rules of Etiquette." The
paymaster's better half, is at daggers withthe doctor's sposa,
because she walked before her into church. The quarter-
master's helpmate, in Coventry by the whole, it having been
ascertained that she originally carried on her studies where a
cynic of old times had thought proper to take unfurnished
lodgings. In short, they are all at loggerheads, so that it
would require a body equal to the Congress of Vienna, to
harmonise their several polemics.—Anecdotes of 211ililary
Life.
THE CONTRADICTORY COUPLE.--" I do believe," he
says, taking his spoon out of his glass, and tossing it on the
table, " that of all the obstinate, positive, wrong-headed
creatures that ever were born, you are the most so, Char-
lotte." •" Certainly, certainly, have it your own way, pray."
You see how much /contradict you," rejoins the lady. "Of
course, you didn't contradict me at dinner time. Oh, no,
not you," says the gentleman. " Yes, I did," says the lady,.
" Oh, you did," cries the gentleman ; "you admit that ? '
" If you call that contrdiction, I do," the lady answers ;
" and I say again, Edward, that when I know you are wrong,
I will contradict you. lam not your slave." " Not iny
slave !" repeats the gentleman, bitterly •, " and you still
mean to say that in the Blackburns' new house there are net
more than fourteen doors, including the door of the wine
cellar !" " I meant to say," retorts the lady, beating time
with her hair brush on the palm of her hand, " that in that
house there are fourteen doors, and no more." " Well,
then," cries the gentleman, rising up in despair, and pacing
theroom with rapid strides, "By G—, this is enough to de-
stroy a man's intellect, and drive him mad !" By-and-by
the gentleman comes to a little, andpassing his hand gloomily
across his forehead, reseats himself
,in his former chair.
There is a lopg silence, -and this time the lady begins. - " I
appealed to Mr. Jenkins, who sat next to me on the sofa in
the drawing room during tea—" " Morgan you mean," in-
terrupts the gentleman. "I do not 'mean anything of the
kind," answers the lady. " Now, by all that is aggravating
and impossible to bear," cries the gentleman, clenching his
hands and looking upwards in agony, " she is going to insist
upon it that Morgan is Jenkins 1" "Do you take me fora
perfect fool?" exclaims th&lady ; " do you suppose
'
know one from the other ?Do you suppose I t know "
Jen-
kins don
that the man in the blue coat was Mr. Jenkins?" 1 don't
in a blue coat !" cries the gentleman, with :igtir
Jenkins in a blue coat!! a man who would suffer
ra-
ther than wear anything but brown !"," Doyou
charge me with telling an untruth ? demands the lady,
'
" dare to
bursting into tears. " I charge you, ma am, retorts the
gentleman, starting up, ", with be:an!a—a—Jenkins in a blue
a monster of contradic-
tion, a monster of aggravation,
coat !sztelimatenhtasi,easdokleitechtbea,tvl
is,olitomugldcboetipleoso.med to hear
such