The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

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a lady

THE IMERFOOL STANDARD.

VARIETIES

ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE.—During the regime of th,
Peel administration an important situation in Ireland, be
came vacant, to which an Irish relative of the Duke

wished tc

Grace, and, after having stated his wish, concluded hi:
letter with these words—" Oneword from your Grace wil
be sufficient." The Duke sent the following laconic anc
characteristic reply :—" Dear —, Not one ward
yrs. all] y. , Wellington."

Sulphuric ether-is distilled from a mixture: of equal
weights of alcohol and sulphuric acid (oil of vitrul). The
vapour, when carried in what is technically called a worm
through cold water, or otherwise cooled down by
other similar process, condense
densed into w

(just as stean is con-

a penetrating, pleasant, lemon-like' odow:, and sweetish
acrid-taste. This limpid liquid is sulphuric ethe'. There
is no sulphur in its composition.

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF SEWERAGE AND TENTILA-
TION.—" The London Hospital was baAlly'drainal, heated
with hot air, and not large enough for its innates. In
1837 and 1838 respectively, the mortality was it and 121
per cent, In 1839 the sewerage was completed and the
mortality fell to 91 per cent. In 1840 the hot ai• was dis-
continued, and a further decrease to 9 per ceit. took
place. The mortality in 1841 was 10 per cent. In 1842
the new wing was opened, when the mortality fell to 8
. .

cent., and in,1843 to 7 pe• cent _
Evidence before the Health of Towns' Connnisson
A CANADIAN GRIN

From Mr:- Li

Ven under bright ainshinc

seraglio.",

—H. Walpole's Memoirs of -King George 11

.... L. mums. sue w e onject to each of those votes, and deprecate a re-
earliest opportunity to avail himself of the partially of the petition of them,—first, as members of the united church
reigning monarch, by asking his permission to dicontinue of England and Ireland ; and secondly as Protestants.
the evening sittings in the Court of Chancery on Vednes- "As members of the united church, we view with the
George 111. made a good stop, which deepest repugnance any proposal to divert funds at present
ne used to tett ror the rest of his reign, of what pssed be- devoted to the inculcation of pure and Scriptural Chris-
- •
tween him and his chancellor on that occasion. I ..ttpd +„ _ _

vol. 1., p.,87

days and Friday

bitterness,

, .
ject of his scandal the better for the imputation, had it
been fully homp nut 67 +h.

HOLLAND HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS

ua wautinig a S 375• said tus majesty, " his reason for wishing tat these tem of dangerous and anti-scriptural error. And, while
sittings should be abolished ?"—" Sir," answred he, we are not opposed to any reasonable plan of church
" that I may be allowed comfortably to finish ay bottle reform, we are compelled to dispute your lordship's view,
of port after dinner ; and your majesty. solicitou for the that a church „r .eman

_.....,_._,,, —...,..—, .u. ...0 .....t, ...mt..' estaunsiiment or AoUtl,ooo per annum, for
,iiiu. L.'s Lulu one reornary numoer of Prayer has a hap-piness of all your subje'ct—s, I hope will confider this a nation of 8,000,000, nearly 2,000,000 whereof are Pro-
most interesting article, descriptive of a locality which tere reason sufficient." The permission was gaciously testants, is to be regarded as disproportionate and exces-
has held, in its palmy days, some of England's finest spi- accorded—we may suppose an explanation beig added sive. Even limiting the usefulness of the Irish clergy to
rits,. but which, it is too much to he feared, is destined that post-prandian sittings were becoming geneally un- the 1,000,000 of people who are members of the Establish-
to be appropriated to the commoner uses of this working- popular, and were unsuited to the changed mannrs of so- ment, the proportion does not differ much from that of
day world. The dust of Alexander, we are reminded, ciety.—Lord Campbell's Chancellors. England, where a Church possessing a revenue of
may till a bunghole ; and the home of the Cope's, the
£4,000,000 can hardly be regarded as comprehending
MILTON'S Houses IN LONDON. This memorable
Rich's, and the Fox's—the apartments in which our dwelling is /et standing. It no longer opens nto St. within its own pale more than 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 of
statesmen, our philosophers, and our poets have "held James's Park. The ancient front is now the bek, and the people. On various grounds, therefore, we earnestly
high festival "—are at present desolate. To use the lan_ James
of, deprecate all plans for seizing upon, or diverting to nth..
overlooks the fine old, but house-surrounded
guage of one who has often trod their floors, in this once j„..„„„___ D___,___ .1. .. -- • -

A this ancient fmt is a purposes, any portion of the endowments of the Church.
_
—, bearing the inscription—" Sacred to Milttn, the ' But, as Protestants, and on behalf, not only of the
prince of poets." This was placed there by no Iss dis- members of our own Church, but of multitudes who, while
tinguished a man than William Hazlitt, Who reted the holding the same faith, are separated from her by differ-
house some years, purely because it was Milton's. Ben- ences on non-essential questions, we object to every
tham, when he was conducting people round his:arden, scheme or proposition for connecting the Romish priest-
which is now in the occupation of Mr. Gibb, the egineer, hood with the State, whether by a spoliation of the Esta-
:itch in a few more years may used to make them sometimes go down on their bees to blished Church, or by means of funds derived from the
Jec,ome a union workhouse, a barrack, a prison, or a rail- this house. The house is tall and narrow, and has othing national treasury.
road station,—what memories cling ! What lessons could striking about it. No doubt, when it opened ato St. " From your lordship's support of Lord Ellesmere's
its walls teach us ! What anecdotes—what revelations of James's Park, it was pleasant ; now it fronts inttYork- motion, and of the Maynooth endowment of 1845, we
the secret doing of courtiers and of statesmen in the street, which runs in a direct line from the wesend of gather, that you are prepared to establish the Romish
olden time ! But we must leave our brother of Frazer Westminster Abbey. It is No. 19, and is occupia by a priests in IrelaAttl, either by handing over to them a por-
to speak for himself : cutler. The back, its former front, is closed in by wall, tion of the property of the Established Church,—or, if this
" Before Holland House is obliterated, let us -recall, in leaving but a very narrow court ; but above this rail, as course shall present difficulties, or the funds so attainable
one brief review those characters which, passing before
already said, looks into the pleasant garden of the ate ye- shall prove inadequate, then to supply the deficiency out
us like the shadows figured before Macbeth, must have nerable philosopher.—William Hewitt's Hone and
of the general taxation of Ireland, Scotland, and England.
figured there in the several dynasties who presided in
Haunts of British' Poets. It cannot be necessary to prove, that to provide any ade-
those venerable chambers. Let us hasten over the brief THE CHURCHYARD HAS ITS DISTINCTIONS.—"Iere," quate endowment for the 2000 priests of Ireland, a very
rule of the Copes ; precise enough and respectable, no said my eccentric friend, Lawyer Barclay, as he istniver- considerable annual payment would be required out of thenational exchequer.
high-topped hats fresh from the city ; and ladies in their grave wives for a human beine is written in a nrierihn "
loubt ; gentlemen with bombasted inexbressibles and sally called, " here, as elsewhere, the receipt w:ch the
d _ _To any. sue' ,•oposal your lordship may

ramous rt

I seem as on

Who walks alon

Some banquet-hall dese
IVhose glories fled,

Whose iarlands dead.
And all but im departed.

.ouse, w

almost lock-.

,wed, f

sThe n

rely un
finding among the people of England and Scotland, and a
large part of Ireland, the most determined opposition.
Bible in their hands, it is impossible for them
-ether -

cram uLlic
I accurately entered. If
here mercers and man-milliners claimed kindre&With minutely and

Avaunt ! and

t us on to the festive days of the I of importance, or belonged to a learned

profeion, or

gay mcnes. nere, in the library, in which the antique
gravity of a college was so singularly blended with all
that female wit and grace could devise to embellish a
drawing-room, the handsome visage of the ill-fated Buck-
ingham, his suit of sable velvet close cut; his peruke, al-
ready inclined to the love-lock, was seen.' Buckineham

_
- w regara ropery in any m. _ Jght than as dishonouring
serves in the Assembly, and, above all, if he habeen a to God and dangerous to the souls of men. Hence they
the title of honourable, it is
member of the upper house of the legislature, a 4 borne would regard its national adoption as an act, not only
recorded at lqrge ; vale, on morally wrong and indefensible, but partaking of the cha-
the other hand, if he has derived his support Nam an
ratter of a nal- iny,ol .;,-. , . . .. bnra no+ 41....-1.-. 4-1... A: ea. ....... ....1. 1.... .I._ I.

is gone, anc

the scene changes and discloses Fairfax in
-
Lis armour ; his. long and melancholy, and yet not un-
leasing countenance, turned towards Rich doubtingly,
or Rich was trusted by no man. He who had received
to measure of obligation from King Charles, and had
continued to flourish more than any man in the court
then the weather was fair,' was no subject of confidence
ith Fairfax. Aud, behold ! Rich is a prisoner—civilly
e it said—in his own house : and the hall resounds wish

it, lest it might wound the aristocratic feelings. .._.
as- .-- "On such awful topics we desire to speak with caution
othis as well as charity. Bat we dare not close our eyes to the
Airing' posterity. -It is said that truth is to be nand in tremendous fact that a visitation of the most fearful kind
the win poste
and the depths of a well. If revesng the has recently been sea upon the empire, and that its com-
secrets of others be truth, wine may be the enent it mencement was seen to take place at the very time when,
loves. The well can only give it when exhaus..d, and and in the very place where, a national recognition and
then the fact it has to communicate is scarcely foul to be encouragement of Popery had lust been given. ExePrit
worth the trouble of the search_ nar..1.7 that +1,....,11 :,

among men who do not even profess a belief in the Scrip-
tures, and who consequently deride the idea of a superin-
tending Providence, it might have been expected that the
strange proximity of the act of 1845 and the judgment of
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nas passed, or the sound of the sculptor's mitt has 1845, 1846, and 1847, would at least have given rise to a
ceased, refutes the pompous falsehood by a semi mar- degree of doubt and hesitation ; though, beyond this feel-
ing
riage ; and eyes as bright, and voice as sweet as Use that sio of doubt and hesitation, we refrain from any expres-
,
n of sentiment. •
are closed by death, seduce him into a disavows of his .
own words, Here lieth the best of wives,' ancompel Knowing that your lordship is not of the class to
which we have alluded, we regret to find that your opinions
him to acknowledge `Here the husband lies.' Ire dis- in 1827 and 1845 have undergone no change. But we can
consolate widow whose affections are buried in te - ' assure your lordship, that the various feelings which we
-,1, in different de-

vs p 10/141/ 1,1 V, GIL 10
empty. Whenever it is to be sought for,, one thin is cer-
tain, it is not to be found on a tombstone. The roken-
hearted husband who erects a monument to rord his
inconsolable grief for the loss of his wife, ere of short

seemea to grow!, led by some fanatical preacher.
:` All has passed away ; and Mary, that Countess of War-
wick who was a daughter of the house of Cork, is seen
here in her devout widowhood, writing Occasional Medi-
tations upon Sundry Subjects, a simile in one of which
had the honour of being imitated by Addison. This coun-
tess was the progenitrix of the social characteristics of
Holland House. She was the feundress and inventress.

says one of her admirers, of a new science, the art of
obliging,—' great in a thousand things besides-' which
she counted but loss for the excellence of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus our Lord.'
" She passed away, and Addison might be seen wooing
.her great and shrewish successor, his Countess of War-

to express are s;

,
- - ------ ----- ...,,,,0 have endeavourer aarec.,
in death, feels her heart reanimated with th genial grees, by so many of the electors of Middlesex as to ren-
warmth of returning spring. It rises from the WI with der it more than doubtful, whether the relation into which
the primrose, shakes off its wintry torpor, and nppears your lordship purposes to enter, can, under these circum-
with renewed life and vigour after its short seclush. The stances, become one of a permanent character.
admired of all admirers no longer refuses to be coforted. " I h'ave the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's
The churlish miser receives the homage of inhc,eritv -1.....1:-...,..___, _,_ ____ _ ‘_,

wick ; or leading to heaven

by prec€

from his

le servant,

loved earthly pleasures too well ; or resigning, in hopless
disease, his post as Secretary of State in a set letter to his

Bering ear can no longer listen to its flattering accts.
chaste and beautiful allegorical figure of affections seen

" HENRY HOARE
The Lord Robert Grosvenor, &e."

royal master

. - -
vision has been already before us.,
" So Chesterfield, and a host of others, spring forth
from that ancient porch since that the old house, long shut
up (the Riches are clean gone), has been opened again for
the Wiltshire squire's family, and the peer whose maxim
it was, as Burns says, to

semblei a money-chest : you are losein doubt 'tether
the tears so copiously shed are caused' by unexpeied le-
gacies to others, or by the protracted
,delay of pos:ssion.
This is a double fraud. It represents. the dead a: -orthY The university of Oxford has granted £5OO for the
of love, and the living as capable of loving. It iant gra- Scotch and Irish.
tank, but a decent observance of a hypocriticalcstom. Upwards of £12,000 worth of -- •
But why are men so shocked at the mention of flit on a hour (Isle of Man)-, on Thursday
tombstone which the deceased published throudiut his The amount subscrib--1 ' -
life to all the world. In this churchyard, numercasis the of £Boon
graves care, no man is designated as tailor, barber,bucher,
baker, or shoemaker ; yet, doubtless there are3cres of
each who placed these ominous and forbidden vods on
their signs in the largest letters, and the most etactive
and conspicuous form. There is, indeed, one exertion,
if such it can be called. This marble was eretd to a
man who is described as a servant,' but it was •aied at
the expense of a friend,' that styled himself hi: ulster,
who, in enumerating his excellent qualities, haenc for-
gotten to proclaim his own liberality, nor been whined
to inform us that he has expended more money n cttol-
lhli his services than in rewarding them. It msbeen

@tntrat

Keek through_ every other man

Ramsey

Wi' sharperi'd sly iitspectiop,

appears in his court suit and bind riband ; and tried, but
tried in vain, we should think, his incomparable skill in
the art of bamboozle upon his friend Fox, whose charac-
ter he had so sharply, yet, at the same time, so leniently,
set off ; and Chesterfield's smile=laughter being abjured
by him as a vulgar indulgence—his compliment and po-
lished anecdote carrying the sting muffled, are contrasted
in that gilt chamber with the course ribaldry and outrage-

The Bishop of Ely, says a London paper, has purchased
for a few shillings, an old dirty picture, which turns out
to be a genuine likeness of Shakespeare.
One passenger by the Sirius steam-ship lost £2OOO in
his portmanteau, and a lady £l5OO, by the wreck of the
vessel.
SORRY PUN.—The Cambridge Advertiser states that
lerveelrayn in. Staffordshire is up in alms for the relief of

ous gaiety of Walpole, whose native coarseness no habits
of intercourse with the refined could quench. And Hol-
land House is already assuming her mark of distinction,
that of being the very centre of all the minor charities of
life ; all the great men and women_who congregated there

On Sunday week, upwards of £7OO was distributed
among the poor Jews in London. The amouut,was con-
tributed by the congregations of the metropolitan syna-

ler libraries

" Too soon for the ambition of Henry Jos did Holland
House lose her political coteries ; long silent were her
turrets, during the minority of the late Lord Holland, un-
til, upon his nee to manhood and pre-eminence, a new
race of the elite appeared beneath the rich ceilings framed
by Rich.

vel, for the level is on a summit, and all are elevoecto it.
Be it so ; but then strike out all your degres,your
D.D.'s, your M.D.'s, the words Judge, Couneilbr.tiar-
Aster, Esquire„ and let the rank of the dead be Inform.

cljmbed to the roof of the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, whence'Y'
he•fell to the pavement, and received such injuries that
he died next day.

Of all places in the world a gra;reiarcitaileYst—siotidhe
consecrated to truth. As it is, it seems devotee b

Y =aural:CS Us Tlle 110..
minican 'i-Si-ers of Penance, at Bristol, on Tuesday week.
Their vows were received by Dr. Ullathorne. the bishop.
Oa 11

summon, ostentation, and falsehou All
sects retain their peculiarities here, and endeavour° per-
petuate them. A. little more taste, and a little are ex-
pense in the monument (but with a contemptuoudisre-
gard of veracity in its record), indicate that a chuhman
is deposited there (for the Church in the colony ebraces
I the greater part of the upper class of society.)

" Gladly would one pass over the dissolute but enter-
taining clique, the George 6elwyn and the Carlisle set,
who contributed to poison the mind of the young Charles
James, then in his eighteenth year; gladly would one
forget that early and fatal entanglement in play, which

Haying Lord Carlisle's security for £15,000. To crown
the. infamy, Lord C-

plain, substantial one, witWthe modest assurance tat the
soul of the deceased was immediately conveyed toeaven,

lisle w

Sarah LetiOxi then Lady S
secret of his unlawful passic
thought worth concealinz

I near

.e scarcely

pangs, of such a passion, Lord Carlisle's own words will
forcibly shew :—" If I am received with coldness," he
wrote to Selwyn, alluding to an approaching meeting with
Lady Sarah, I shall feel it extremely. I shall be misera.
ble if lam made too welcome. Good God ! what happi•
ness would I not exchange ta be able to live with hei
without loving her more than friendship will allow !
my picture hung up, or is it in the passage with its fac(

I Carlisle s•G

On one alone Apollo deigns to smile

knd crowns a new Rosciimmon in Carlisle

" At twenty-,

L......p, um, LOU nearly connected wan Him : —..
-...... , “.. Lim iI
, u., Limns vVA. VI we I our lordship refers us to your votes :-Ist, for Lord
cold upon the portion of the face that is exposedto it re- Ellesmere's motion for the endowment of the Romish
" The other preceptor (to Prince George after the death sembles the application of a strong acid ; and th, healthy clergy in Ireland ; 2d, for the Maynooth endowment of
of his father, A.D. 1751, subsequently George III.) was grin which the countenance assumes, requires—s I often 1845.; and, 3d, for Mr. Ward's proposed amendment of
Ha ter, Bishop of Norwich, a sensible and well-bred observed on those who for many minutes had leen in a that bill. And, if we correctly understand your lordship,
man, natural son of Blackburne, the jolly old Archbishop warm room waiting to see me—a considerable tine to re- you refer us to those votes, as votes you are prepared to
of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, lax.—Sir F. Head's Emigrant. repeat on any fitting occasion.
though he had been a bucanier, and was a clergyman ;
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____, i___ A CONVIVIAL REASON.—Lord Northingtnntnolr +1,,, , Ax,--„ -1... _,... , ~.

mark, when a subsidence tot* place, and, notwithstanding
the most strenuous exertions were made to overcome it,
the completion of the erection was given up, the treache-
ruts character of the sands rendering it impracticable.
' Captain Bullock's beacon, erected in 1840, higher up the-
sands, braves the weather in the most successful manner.
THE SWINDLERS OF, THE METROPOLIS.—On, Satur-
ofatilioeny
the district, in 6t. Mary's
The Hon. H. E. Roman Catholic Chapel. day, at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor said, be
Addington, son of Lord Sidmouth, has considered it necessary, for the information of. a great
ehtoadacbcoorrinomwomod
committed suicide by hanging himself to a bed-post, at number of individuals who had written to him, complain-
his father's residence, at Albury, near Guildford. His in- ing of having been overwhelmed with printed' circulars
tellect had:been deranged for some time previous. from persons who called themselves " Bosanquet and C 0.,"
The Bristol Journal states the pleasing fact that one
clergyman alone (residing within eight miles of Salisbury)
has raised the large amount of 4,000 amongst his family in commercial matters,learned that
-A ;*----diatA rormortiona fin. *I-i. P.H.f of 1-I.P distressed tile various fraudulent concerns carried on under the ad-
Iresses published, on former occasions had f.„„A :, ___
u"pligtrahernir and
bills, C o
dud'.:pt proposing oisgi
state,t i netxghtatehtnehs rev

winch had beenimmuadgeeulhealrd places of abode.ai)
On Tuesday, some labourers began to level a
Brandon, Suffolk, and speedily
skeletons with some fragments of weapons. It is sup- had been given to understand, in the most hp.pfipica
discovered several hundred The exposure
a.; rk

in many in

10 several towns in Ent

advancers of mon

inicuienea Him tnrough the press by not only changing
POLITICAL USE or SULPHURIC ETHER.—The Chan- their places of address, but theirnarne4.—Aforning Herald.
cetlor of the Exchequer, it is understood, will avail him- FALL OF A GRANARY.—On Friday a large portion of
self of the recent discovery in medical science, and admi- an extensive granary at Port Dundas, the principal har-
ulster sulphuric ether to exery Englishman whose income bour on the Glasgow terminus of the Forth and Clyde
exceeds £l5O a-year, that he may extract the income-tax Canal fell in. It is a stone building from 70 to 80 feet in
from his pocket without pain. length, and six stories in height. Between twelve and
A, corn riot took place in Okehampton Market, on Sa- one at noon, one or two cracks were heard, proceeding
A farmer named Hooper, having refused to from the building. ...t.:-,-
I, for less than Gs. 6d - -

rdionn of some