The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, JAN.

THE

WEEK

25, 1853.

THE saddening influences of the weather which we
noticed last week as having imparted a dul

less to

ordinary conversation has since prevailed with little
intermission. The wind has more than once veered
to the north, and hopes were entertained of a change

to a seasonable frost, but a few hours served to
dispel the illusion. On Friday night and Saturday
morning the wind increased to a gale, and the sea
was so high on the bar that the captain of the
steam-ship Canada, which had started for Halifax
and Boston, deemed it prudent to put back. As
this was the first time that such a circumstance had
occurred, it naturally excited comment, but it was
generally admitted that he pursued a wise course.
The depth of water on the bar was within a foot of
the draught of the ship, and though she might have
ventured in ordinary weather, it would have been
folly, with a violent sea running, to have risked the
safety of the vessel.
The news of the safe arrival of the Great Britain
at Melbourne has created general satisfaction, espe-
cially as her rapid passage from the Cape proved
her superiority as a sea-going vessel. The length
of time occupied in the whole voyage is solely attri-
butable to the insufficient supply of coals, an error
in judgment which cannot again occur. The fact,
also, that no death had occurred on board out of the
number who left Liverpool is the more gratifying
when compared with the accounts which were re-
ceived at the same time of the lamentable mortality
on board the Ticonderoga, which left Birkenhead
with so many poor emigrants.
Liverpool lost one of her merchant princeS on
Thursday, in the death of Mr. CHARLES Law-
RENCE, which took place at his residence, Mosley
Hill, Aigburth, in the 77th year of his age; His
name had been long known and highly esteemed as
the head of the firm of CHARLES LAWRENCE and
SON, and he was identified in a prominent degree
with the increasing prosperity of the town. He
was chairman of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company, the first and most prosperous
undertaking of the kind, up to the time of its
amalgamation with the London and North-Western
Company. He served the office of Mayor of Liver-
pool in 1823, and he was also a magistrate and
deputy-lieutenant of the county of Lancaster.
Though he had reached the venerable age of 77,
and his gradually declining health had led to an
anticipation of the melancholy event, his loss will
not be the less felt as one of the worthies of Liver-
pool. The funeral, we understand, is appointed for
to-morrow (Wednesday), at St. James's Cemetery.

At the meeting of the Dock Committee on
Thursday, the vexed question of the rejected tender
for the construction of the proposed docks at
'Wapping was again brought under discussion, but
without any approach to a satisfactory conclusion.
The proposal to pay the expenses incurred by
Messrs. BAKER and SON was rejected by those

gentlemen, a

being an admission of the justice of
their claim without being a satisfaction cf it, while
their offer to refer the question to the decision of
an eminent engineer, at the choice of the Dock
Committee, was rejected by the latter body, and
consequently nothing was done.

The distribution of prizes by the Liverpool Art
Union took place on Thursday, and, as will be seen
by the list which we have given in another column,
the greater part of them were to subscribers in our
varied in value from £5 to £5O,

own 1

_
r sum may be considered equi7

valent to the amount of patronage which artists of
a high order expect to receive, something will have
been done to stimulate increased exertions.

The arrangement of the learned judges for the
several circuits at the Lent Assize, will bring Mr.
Justice CRESS ELL among his former constituents.
He will be accompanied by Baron MARTIN.
The lovers of really good music should not for-
get the series of concerts which are given every
evening at the Philharmonic Hall. It is an ex-
periment whether Liverpool can support first-class
concerts at a low price of admission, and it may be
asserted that the character of the entertainment is
far superior to anything that has been previously
attempted. If the success should be commensurate
with the return to which the projector is entitled,
Liverpool will take the first rank in the kingdom
fox her patronage of this divine art.

THE INCREASED RATE OF FREIGHTS.—At
the banquet given at Southampton to the directors
of the General Screw Steam Navigation Company,
Mr. W. S. Lindsay is reported to have stated, that,
from his own experience, the rate of freights out-
wards had increased 100 per cent. during the last
twelve months, to which the Times adds, by way of
commentary—" So much for the injury which has
been inflicted upon British shipping by recent legis-
lation." No doubt our contemporary would wish
it to be inferred that it is our recent legislation—
referring of course to the repeal of the navigation
laws—which has given this great stimulus to the
shipping trade of the country. We certainly can-
, ,mot endorse Mr. Lindsay's statement, to the extent
of 100 per cent ; le fear he draws a little on the
imagination. We fully admit, however, that for
some months past,. the merchant navy has been
recovering from the extreme prostration to which it
was reduced by the act of 1849. This we said in
an article on the subject in our paper of the 6th
instant; at the same time we showed what had
brought about the beneficial relief to the shipping
interest, namely, the great emigration to Australia,
consequent on the discovery of gold in these colo-
nies. Now, unless it can be shown that it was our
recent legislation that called this golden region into
existence, we can see no connection between that
legislation and the improvement in the prospects of
the shipping interest of the country.—Shipping
Gazette.

MR. JOHN BRIGHT'S ESCAPADE.—In reference
to Mr. Bright's libel on the Constitution, at the In-
gersoll banquet, the Manchester Courier of Satur-
day says :—" We must, for the honour of Manches-
ter, repudiate the reflections that are made upon the
`manners' of Manchester's sons. Mr. John Bright
is not a Manchester man.' He was not born here.
He has no connexion whatever with the place be-
yond being elected her representative by those
whom Manchester would be ashamed to own as
exponents of either her principles or her manners.'
He is essentially a vulgar fellow.' The real repre-
sentatives of Manchester are not vulgar fellows,'
although it must be owned that the politics of the
majority of the electors are low enough to encourage
such a supposition. That Mr. Bright possesses a
large share of rough, uncultivated cleverness is per-
fectly true, but there are among the constituency of
Manchester hundreds of men who are equally clever,
far more refined, and infinitely better educated."
Of Mr. Bright's unhappy speech the Courier says :
" It surprised the American Minister, and disgusted
those who surrounded him. It was quite as mal-
apropos as the speech delivered by the same blun-
dering vulgarian at the opening of the Free Library.
Worst of all. it required a sound-hearted, clear-
headed ' gentleman' from Liverpool to correct it,—
for no Manchester man' rose to perform that
office,—possibly, because what Mr. Bright says is
never regarded by the intelligent members of the
community which he, so oddly, represents in the
House of Commons."

THE CARLOW ELECTION.—The importance of
this victory can scarcely be over-rated; but its
rationale requires to be expounded for the benefit
of the English press, which will, in all likelihood,
misunderstand or misinterpret indications clear to
every Irish mind. The triumph of Mr. Alexander
was attributable to his own popularity as a resident
gentleman and extensive employer, and to the tem-
porary awakening of the people to the hollowness
and insincerity of the priests and demagogues. He
was,, in fact, considered as, to use his own words—
"he considered himself the representative of all
classes in the borough, for he found among his sup-
porters men of all
denomination ; and as and of every religious
town, he had them all with
the tradesmen of the
down to the nailors." wpitthh. him, from the millers
in the employment of the treasurywed mob was, indeed,
did somewhat for its pay; but candidate, and
Mr.
the
Carlow were on the side ofAlexander,ilaanced
in
f
intimi_
spite of priests and agitators they keptpo
the town, and prevented the coercion the peace of
dation that carried the former election. anLdet this be
clearly understood, that the priests of all
from Bishop Haly to Father Maher, used thee'lassot
strenuous exertions in favour of Mr. Sadleirin moat
strenuous
that the discontented brigadiers; had act nor part in the matte
matter. Those move-
able by treasury or religious motives were moved
to vote for the Aberdeen and Roman candidate
No
and they did so vote.d it
stone was left unturned
an
to secure their support,
brigadiers
secured to the
extent of 91 votes. The were
d.d not in the
field at all, and they most assuredly not move a
single man to poll for the successful candidate, nor
did they withhold from him that was unsuccessful a
§ingle Ygte.--Dublin Evening Mail,

THE GOOD AND CHEAP WOOL OF AUSTRALIA
has done more for our woollen manufacturers than
English, Spanish, Silesian, or Austrian fleeces. The
supply of the raw material has hitherto teen regular
—the demand for the manufactured material in-
creasing—and the condition of our operative dis-
tricts prosperous. But the desertion of the shep-
herds from the sheep to the gold-fields, and the
consequent neglect of the flocks, has led to a fear
that the raw material will fail and much misery
ensue, unless shepherds be provided for Australia
who cannot desert. It is suggested that boys and
young women should be sent out under proper
protection, and with security for their not abandon-
ing their pastoral office. Swains, shepherdesses.
and abundance of auriferous deposit, would at once
reconstitute a golden age. The suggestion might
be made effective in the hands of practical men.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR.—If Louis Napoleon's
career were a three-volume romance, or an extrava-
ganza at the Lyceum, we should now have got to
the last chapter or the final scene. 'We have him
an Emperor, dressed in white culottes and diamond
buckles, and dancing with all his might. His
whole court dances after him; eight balls to be
given by eight high functionaries (not one of whose
names is half a century old) are advertised at once
in the papers. Splendour and adulation surround
him. He treads on velvet and is served in gold.
It is not a romance however. The gaieties of to-
night are to be followed by the cold realities of
to-morrow. In the midst of all this mirth and
magnificence, down go the funds. The funds, as
Sydney Smith said, are the greatest fools in the
world, and their behaviour at this moment is
doubtless quite inexcusable—still, down they go.—
London Guardian.

THE NEW EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—Some
years ago there was resident at Malaga an Irish-
man whose name was Fitzpatrick. He was British
consul at that city, and he sipped its sweet wine,
eat its raisins, and became, as Moliere's Don Juan
recommended poor Monsieur Dimanche, the father
of a family.
The second daughter of this family, Miss Fitz-
patrick, in due course of time captivated the heart
of a very poor younger son of a very poor but ex-
ceedingly noble Spanish house. He was known as
Don Fernandez de Montigo. The youthful pair
married. Death soon after became busy with the
elder branches of the race; and in a short time the
newly married Don found himself the chief of the
family, and combined on his own head the honours
of Count de I‘lontijo, Duke de Teba, and Duke de
Pernamando. In these titles, of course, the young
wife shared. She was rendered all the happier thereby,
seeing that she was now on an equality with her
elder sister, the present Duchess of Alba and Ber-
wick, who had espoused a descendant of the once
famous and illegitimate son of James 11. of England.
The " Countess-Duchess," or "Duchess-Coun-
tess," blessed her husband some quarter of a cen-
tury since with an exceedingly fair daughter. The
child was sweet and sylph-like, of buoyant spirits,
wildly gleesome, and with bright blue eyes that
gleamed through her auburn locks, like the clear
morning star through a summer morning's dawn.
This child bloomed into girlhood, and there was
growth of beauty with increase of bloom. She was
graceful of carriage, with a shape like that of Prior's
Emma, "fine by degrees and beautifully less." She
dressed rather like Nora Creina than Lesbia ; had
the latter's " wit refined ; " and, better still, the
gentle heart and the killing glances of the former
heroine renowned in song. Thus armed for con-
quest, Mlle. de Mor.tigo, as she was called, appeared
in England in 1852, set an infinite number of
foolish hearts aching, witched the world with her
noble horsemanship in the Park, and then suddenly
disappeared from our horizon to rise again near the I
Elyse,e in Paris.

The noblest salons of the French capital were but
too happy to welcome this nymph and her mother.
In external beauty, they might have served a pain-
ter as types of Spring and Autumn. The entire
world of fashion was enraptured with both ; and
Louis Napoleon soon began to be as ecstatic as the
world of fashion. At every festival given by that
very estimable individual, mother and daughter
were present; and on one occasion, when a special
hunting-party was arranged by the Emperor at
Compiegne, the Duchess of Pernamando and the
Countess de Teba (as the daughter was now called)
were the only ladies invited to be present. At this
juncture, the Emperor was knocking at the door of
every royal house in Europe, asking for a daughter
that he might take to wife, and having the door
closed upon him everywhere as a rejected suitor.
As intelligence of each refusal reached France, if
Louis Napoleon looked and felt chafed, the Coun-
tess de Teba neither looked nor felt in sympathy.
She so contrived.that the sun of her eyes should
rather warm the disappointed wooer to new efforts
in another direction. His attentions to the young
lady became more marked than ever, and universally
talked about. The countess affected coyness ; but
if, like the lady we wot of, she ran "ad salices," it
was with no intention of not being overtaken among
the bowers of Compiegne.
At imperial fetes by day and balls by night,
she was now the lode star of the Emperor. It
was manifest to all that the most phlegmatic of
men was most consumedly in love. His cour-
tesy was candyed to a sweetness that only ardent
lovers know of ; and it was when he was pressing it
most on the Phillis who was yesterday " forward,"
and now so "coy," that he was thunderstruck
with the intimation that the duchess and her
daughter were about to return to Madrid. As his
lips breathed protestations in the lady's ear, she was
seen passing on as though " in maiden meditation,
fancy free." The nearer he pressed the more she
seemed to shun him. It was Daphne and Phoebus
over again, and the former appeared on the very
point of exclaiming, as she prettily but not too
hastily fled—" Fer opem—si flumina numen habe-
tis." The intention, however, was only apparent,
not real. The new Anne Boleyn was a match for
her too unscrupulous adorer. The Spanish Pamela
was intent upon marrying the French M. Burchell;
and it was hard if Iberian and Hibernian wit toge-
ther could not do for her who possessed it what
shrewdness did for the crafty widow of Scarron—
namely, raise her to a throne. Louis Napoleon was
given to understand that his homage could be no
longeraccepted unless his intentions were honourable.
Well : Paris began to be excited, and mothers
who had marriageable daughters were especially
indignant at the diea of the grand-daughter of a
British Consul becoming the consort of the Jupiter
Scapin of France. Privy Councillors and Peeresses
affected to believe that the whole matter was a joke.
The Princess Mathilde (daughter of Jerome) shook
her obese sides in farcical rage; and her brother,
Jerome Napoleon, at present heir to the empire
after his father, turned livid at the thought that
anything serious would be accomplished. A per-
sonal female friend and confidante of the Emperor,
however, gave a grand evening entertainment. The
Countess de Teba was invited. 'When her carriage
was announced as being at the door, the hostess
descended to the threshold to meet her, and honours
were paid to her such as only royal heads could
claim. The young lady alone was calm, but all
was perturbation around her ; and every one divined
that the Empress of the French was to be recog-
nised in her who was made the object of so profound
a homage.

At the same moment Louis Napoleon was presi-
ding at a Council of his Ministers, most of whom
were struck into a ridiculously pitiable condition
when he announced that, on his retiring, M. de
Persigny was charged to make an important com-
munication to them. That functionary bluntly
imparted to his colleagues that the Emperor in-
tended to marry Mlle. de Montijo, Countess of
Teba—that he did not ask their advice, his mind
being made up—but that he admitted them into his
confidence as a mark of his condescension. Ac-
cordingly the poor, stock-jobbing, gambling, servile
Cabinet accepted the communication without much
comment. One who whispered " Mesalliance" was
reminded that the throne of Josephine would not
be disgraced by the accession to it of the Spanish
lady; and that the Creole woman, whom the first
Napoleon loved and betrayed, won more respect
from the world than the Imperial Arch-Duchess,
by alliance with whom he hoped to consolidate his

greatness.
And such is the outline of this modern romance.
The grandson of the old-fashioned Corsican lawyer
espouses the granddaughter of an old British con-
sul ! There is no disparity of condition here. The
"loose man," who five years ago lodged in a back
room in King-street, St. James's, has won thehand of
a clever young lady
not without who, as many years since, was
There is no " mesaMance"
living as modestly, with more empty title than solid
thousands
in Madrid.
here.
The Emperor of the French, whose birth is
millmegpirtiess ate of
son
of
mo a
could be strong suspicion of illegitimacy, makes
E
a lady related to a descendant of an
riate—save, indeed, that the
gentleman has the be
re a
Ppro former King of England. What
Pst of the bargain ' ? He is as
despicable as Louis XlL—s eis h ofgood repute,
albeit shrewd, as our Mary g
of England who married
that dissolute monarch.--Church -
and State Ga,zette.