The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

PARIS POLICE

THE Two LOVERS ; OR, THE LANGER OF BEGGING.—
In a small village on the banks of the Loire, almost door to
door, resided two old women, both of them widows and mo-
thers. The only difference between the two neighbours was,
that one had a little house, a small field, and a small pension ;
whereas the other possessed nothing but what she earned by
manual labour, and that, alas ! was not much. The two
women were both reduced to widowhood by the scourge of
war—their husbands having been killed at Algiers. It is,
however, necessary to add, that one was an officer, while the
other was but a private.
_

The officer's widow had an only daughter, 17 years of age;
the private's widow an only son, entering upon manhood.
To say they loved would be telling the reader nothing new;
but the passion had grown with their strength. Mary, when
she began to walk, wat often supported by the protecting
hand of John, who was her defender on all occasions. At
the village dance John was always favoured with the first and
last waltz, and thus by degrees their love broke out into a
flame, and John hastened to Mary's mother to solicit the
hand of her daughter • and great indeed was his surprise
when the prudent mother objected to his suit, adding that
she could not think of his marrying Mary until he had ac-
quired 1,200 francs (.1:50.)
John of course made known these dreadful tidings to
Mary, and intimated his intention to proceed to Paris to earn
the 1,200 francs necessary to secure his earthly felicity.
Mary employed ever? offort to divert John from his purpose,
but in vain. _

When in Paris, John called on several persons, and at last,
by dint of recommendation, succeeded in getting a place as
valet de chambre with 500 francs wages. But John was more
expert with the spade than with the brush, and could not re-
tain any situation. At last, reduced to the most wretched
plight, the luckless lover conceived the idea of asking cha-
rity, and was in consquence arrested and brought up before
the correctional police, on the charge of being a vagrant, on
Friday last' after having been confined 25 days. •
Poor John, with a face bathed in tears, related his pitiful
tale, and his gratuitous counsel presented a few observations
on his behalf ; but the most forcible of all was a letter from
Mary, in reply to one from John, in which he informed her
of his imprisonment and all his mishaps. The letter was as
follows :

`• My dear John,—l cried a great deal on receiving your
letter. I told you that misfortune might attend your leaving
our village; but you told me over and over that it was for our
mutual happiness. How comes it that you have been thrown
into prison, my own dear honest John? I have good news
to send you. Mother consents to my being your wife. I
send you 36f. (41 10s.) which I have saved out of my earn-
ings. I intended to have bought myself a new gown for the
wedding of Simon and Josephine, at which I am to be brides-
maid. I thought that this gown would also serve for my
marriage. But Josephine will take me without a new gown,
and we will marry, no matter in what dress. So make haste
here, for mother is going to have our bans published.
" YOUR. LITTLE WIFE MARY."
You see, continued the counsel, that the poor girl is expect-
ing her bridegroom—you will not disappoint her loving heart.
Poor John awaits but your verdict to fly to his fond mistress.
This appeal had the desired effect. The court acquitted
the prisoner.

We have heard an anecdote of the Chinese expedition
which will, we are sure, be interesting to our readers. The
son of a nobleman now resident in this town, a boy of about
14, who is serving as a midshipman in China, having incau-
tiously strolled with an equally youthful comrade too far into
the country, was taken prisoner, and given in charge of two
soldiers, who led him off to the interior. Watching an op-
portunity, he drew a pistol from his pocket, with which he
shot one of the soldiers dead ; and while the other was
kneeling over the body, the middies ran off, and luckily suc-
ceeded in regaining their ship.—Brighton Gazette.
BALLANTRAE.-7MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Fri-

day, on the returriol one of the fishing-boats from sea, with
a cargo of herrings, it was resolved by the crew, in conse-
quence of the dull state of the market at Ballantrae, to try
Stranraer. The day was as fine as could be wished, but very
foggy, and the tiny bark was moving leisurely along the pre-
cipitous coast which bounds the lands of 91endrisaig, when
unexpectedly it struck'a rock,.and almost immediately filled.
The crew, Robert and John M`Willtain (brothers), Robert
M'Credie, and James Eaglesham, clung to the boat ; Robert
M"William endeavoured to swim for the shore, which he had
reached to within twenty yards, when he sunk to rise no
more ; the.three others were picked up by a boat, which was
fortunately near, in a very exhausted state. It is eleven
years since a like accident happened, and is the third iu the
memory of the oldest person in the place; consequently this
loss has cast a gloom over the village.—Scottish Standard.
THE FEMALE SWINDLER.—Between two and three weeks
ago, a female calling herself Mrs. Allen, decamped from
Glasgow, accompanied by her husband, after having taken
in various parties to the amount of one thousand pounds,
which she had managed to accomplish by representing herself
as the daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, and heir to the prin-
cipal part of his large estates. immediate pursuit was made
by some of the parties whom she had swindled, but we re-
gret to state that although the delinquent was traced to
Liverpool, she fairly eluded the search of her pursuers, and
so far as we are informed, is still at liberty to pursue her ne-
farious practices. From the following details, however,
taken from the Sheffield Iris, it appears that Glasgow has
not been the first field upon which 'Mrs. 'Allen has tried her
operations with success. " Many of our readers," says this
newspaper, " will no doubt recollect, about eighteen months
ago, a female styling herself Mrs. Allen, from Oldfield-lane,
commenced business as bone-setter, &c. on Sheffield Moor.
It appears that she represented herself as the daughter of
the Earl of Lonsdale, and that she would become possessed
of property in coal mines, &c. to the amount of £lOO,OOO
perannum, (to prove which she exhibited various legal docu-
ments, attested by different persons) ; but in consequence
of having married a painter named Allen, with whom she had
eloped from Whitehaven Castle, the seat of her father, her
inheritance was for a time withheld from her. Improbable
as the story appeared, we are sorry to say that it gained
credit with sundry linen-drapers, grocers, mercers, and
others, and enabled her to obtain in money and goods, pro-
party to the amount of at least £2OO, with which she de-
camped. Why the affair was not entrusted into the hands of
our active constables, we are at a loss to conjecture ; for had
such been the case, it is more than probable she would have
been prevented from plundering the good folks of Glasgow in
a similar manner, but to a much greater extent. She had
promised her victims in Sheffield—and no doubt those in
Glasgow too—numerous situations as stewards, butlers, &c."
—Glasgow Constitutional.

THE GUIANA EXPEDITION.—Letters were received yes-
terday announcing the safe arrival at Demerara of the Guiana
expedition, and containing some interesting particulars of its
future route and destiny. The Cleopatra, in which the ex-
pedition sailed, reached there in 28 days, with a fair passage
from the Lizard. On their arrival, the party, consisting of
five persons, were severally introduced to Colonel Light, the
governor, who expressed his desire to forward their contem-
plated operations to the utmost in his power, and provided
them with a house in the best part of George Town, to which
they had removed the whole of their instruments, having had
two tents erected in the garden. Mr. Schomburgck was en-
deavouring to procure the Parade-ground, a fine, open, and
commanding tract, on which to erect a temporary observa-
tory, forming a position from which, as the centre of the co-
lony, all the observations:he may hereafter make will be con-
nected. The mayor and town council were against this
appropriation, although the governor and the attorney-general
had given their assent ; but it was thought that their objection
might be overcome. Mr. Richard Schomburgck, who was
attended by Mr. Hancock, both in the service of the Prus-
sian government as naturaliSts to the expedition, had made
a short tour in the country,when the former was seized with
the epidemy of the country, and for some time his life was
despaired of. The expedition was to start in six or eight
weeks for the interior, proceeding up the coast as far as the
Parimer, where it would place a boundary mark to distin-
guish the Spanish from the British territories; from hence
it would make a detour towards the Cuvunumy, and sailing
down this river till it arrives at its junction with the Esse-
quebo, return to George Town ; thus leaving the more dis-
puted, or south-western boundary, until they have summed
up observations and recruited themselves. In concurrence
with the views of the expedition the governor had just de-
spatched to Pirara (on the Portuguese boundary line) the
inspector-general of police for the colony, together with two
officers of regiments, to show the claim which Great Britain
had to so distant a spot, and to see that no more encroach-
ments should be made, nor atrocities committed, upon the
natives, our subjects. It is feared that when they arrive at
this spot the expedition may meet a skirmish with the Bra-
zilians, for which purpose they and their attendants are well
armed, and are to be placed under military law. Two officers
of the expedition are very sanguine as to their ultimate
success.—Morning Herald,

Ti 14YERTGOgi

Of the Theatre

MR, WALLACK,
-Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, is en-
,rtnight, and will make his fifth appearance
return from America, this Evening.
,ILLACK having been greeted 'with the most rapturous
uplause on *AI onday night, in the characters of Julian St.
. Dick Dashall, the drama of THE 'WIFE and
the farce of MY AUNT will in consequence be repeated

Al fora

here since hi
Mr. V

Pierre ra

This Evening.
THIS present FRIDAY, March 26, 1841, will be per-
formed Mr. Knowles's popular Play of

THE WIFE :
TALE OF. MANTUA

Mr. Wallack.
Leonardo Gonzaga.... Mr. H. lion.
Ferrardo Gonzaga. Mr. Gray.
Lorenzo.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Bartolo .... Mr. Baker.
land. 1 Floribel. .... Miss Chaplin

Julian St. Pierre

Al ariatia. . 31r

After wit.

Dashall,

1, a petit Drama, called

MY AUNT

. . Mr. Wallack,
Ily performed by him in London.)
Baker. I Mrs. Corbett.. Madame Simon

To conclude with the Farce of
THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM

TO-MORROW (Saturday), the' Comedy of TOWN
AND COUNTRY. Reuben Glenroy, Mr. Wallack ; Co-
sey, Mr. Baker; Mrs. Glenroy, Miss Cleaver; Mrs. Trot,
Mrs. Clarke; Rosalie, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—After which,
the Burletta of MIDAS.—To conclude with the Burlesque
Tragedy of BOMBASTES FURIOSO.

R THE.

TRE, CHURCH-STREET

The PETITION to HER MAJESTY for a SECOND
LICENSED THEATRE in Liverpool has now received
nearly ELEVEN THOUSAND SIGNATURES.
LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON

THIS present FRIDAY, the 26th, and TO-MORROW,
the 27th instant, the Evening's Entertainments to com-
mence with an entirely new and Historical Drama of intense

interest, entit

THE TOWER OF LONDON;
OR, TILE FATE OF LADY JANE GREY!
Adapted expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. Higgie, from the
justly-celebrated and highly-popular work of that name,
ten by W. Harrison Ainsworth, author of " Jack Shep-
pard," " Rookwood," " Old St. Paul's,'. &c. -
After which a new Interlude, written expressly for. this
Theatre, and founded on a popular Story in
" Blackwood," entitled
TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.
A HIGHLAND FLING, by Miss DE BLAQUIERE.
The Entertainments will conclude with a Melo-Dramatic
Spectacle, founded on events incidental to the Penin-
sular War, and abounding in the most
interesting situations, entitled
ADVANCE GUARD;

OR, THY

IGILT BEFORE THE BATTLE!

On FRIDAY NEXT (April 21), a VARIETY of EN-
TERTAINMENTS, for the BENEFIT of Mr. RAY-
MOND, and LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.

jB. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL
• REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, ret-peztfully
informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties interested, that
he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIM REPORTS of
the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the ensuing Assizes, on
terms peculiarly moderate
Refe

ices permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re-

spectability

Letters:addressed to the

immediate attention

STANDARD OFFICE, will receive

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We quote with pleasure the following very sensible notice to
correspondents, which has appeared twice in a talented
local contemporary. We quite ggree with him that the
system of taking advertisements at a lower rate than the
fixed scale is very reprehensible, and productive of much
unpleasantness :—" It may answer the purpose of some of
our contemporaries to insert advertisements at any price,
or every price, and whether they have instructions or not ;
but our settled rule, unalterable as the laws of the Medea
and Persians, is to publish only such business announce
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quotations from popular periodicals, and matter interesting
to particular classes of readers, than with advertisements
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bour and capital necessarily employed in catering for their
information, fully entitle us to the advertising encourage-
ment of all parties, at our usual and very reasonable prices,
and we have no wish to impose upon any persons by as-
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sess. Let those who will make up a page of advertise-
ments for show—we shall not consent to follow their un-
profitable example."

tlit Ztherpoot talibarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1841

By the New York packet-ship Patrick Henry, which
arrived here on Wednesday, we have papers to the Bth
instant. The Patrick Henry performed the passage in
fifteen days and ten hours. In another column will be
found as much of the inaugural address of General
Harrison as our readers will feel any interest in pe-
All tangible allusion to the various events of
interest in that country is purposely avoided in that
document, and the papers before us are also barren of
the information which was expected to arrive. The
authorities

rusing,

appear to treat the relations between this

country and the States in a more rational manner; and

Mr. Buchanan, on the Ist instant, carried in the senate

a resolution to the effect, that " the committee on
foreign relations be relieved from the consideration of
the resolution referred to them, which requested the
President to communicate any correspondence that had
taken place with the British Government on the

North-Eastern Boundary

The President arrived at New York on the 3d inst.,
after having experienced the most boisterous weather.
As she was to leave on the 10th, we do not anticipate
she will convey to us any intelligence of a decisive