The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-25 00:00:00

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WANTED, for the Middlewich National School, a
SCHOOLMASTER. Salary, Fifty Pounds.
Applications, with testimonials as to competency for the
situation and general character, to be sent (fres of expense)
to Mr. VAWDREY, Solicitor, Middlewich.
Middlewich, Cheshire, 15th December, 1838.

LADIES' CHARITY.

MRS. RAWDON, Ladv Patroness.
MR. JAMES COCKSHOTT, President:

THE ANNUAL BALL for the BENEFIT of this
INSTITUTION will be held, by permission of the
Worshipful the Mayor and Town Council, in the Town Hall,
on THURSDAY, the 27th December.
'rickets, 10s. each, (refreshments includeq,) to be bad of
the Lady Patroness, Elm House; at the President's Rodney-
street ; and at the usual places.
The doors will be opened at Eight o'clock. Carriages to
set down and take up with the horses' heads facing Water-
street.

N.B.—No money will be received at the doors.

SAINT GEORGE'S CHURCH, EVERTON.
MHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-
PRIETORS of this CHURCH will. be held in the
Vestry, on MONDAY, the 7th day of January next, at Nine
o'clock in the Morning, pursuant to Act of Parliament.
THOMAS HARRIS, Secretary.
Liverpool, fecember 211, 1838.

NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.
ALL Persons to whom the late Mr. SAMUEL LACON,
of Liverpool, iron-merchant, stands indebted are desired
to deliver, without delay, an account of their claims, either at
THOMAS BLACKBURN'S, Esq., Camden-stieet, or at the
Offices of Sir JOHN BICKERTON WlLLl:this and SON,
Shrewsbury. And all persons who stand indebted to Mr.
Lacon are requested to pay the amount of their respective
debts to the same parties.
December 18th, 1838.

A LL Persons interested in the Estate of the late Mr.
lA_ JOHN WOOD THOMAS, of Toxteth-park; are le-
quested to attend a Meeting of the Creditors, at the Claren-
don-rooms, South John-street, Liverpool, on Wednesday,
the 26th day of December instant, at One o'clock in the
afternoon, to appoint new Trustees in the place of the three
late Trustees who have resigned, to take into consideration
the affairs generally of the deceased, and to determine as to
the best mode of winding up the Estate.
LOWNDES and ROBINSON, Solicitors.
Liverpool, December 15th, 1838.

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CHOICE TEAS ON SALE,
ATE HORNBLOWER AND CO.'S TEA WAREHOUSE,
54, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
THE Public is respectfully informed, that one of the finest
and most delicious Teas ever imported is now on Sale at
the above Warehouse, in handsome eight-pound packages,
at £2125.-6d. per package; also a rich Pekoe Sou,ehong, very
strong and full-flavoured Tea, at ss. 4d. per lb. The connot-
seurs in Tea will find this an opportunity that rarely offers
fur gratifying their palates.
The immense sale of their Mowqua's Mixture renders a
notice of it unnecessary, and they would only observe, en
passant, that it is allowed by several first-rate judges, and
warranted by the Proprietors, to be superior to soy Tea of
the kind ever offered to the Public. Sold only by the Pro-
prietors, at 7s. 6d. per package.
Messrs. H. and Co. have always on Sale a general assort-
ment of the finest Teas, Coffees, Cocoa, Chocolate, Spices.
Refined Suzars, &c.
Rama) Orders will always receive their hest attention.

CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.

IDURSUANT to Resolutions passed at a General Meeting
14.. of the Trade, held at the Clarendon Rooms, on the 3rd
December, 1838,
We, the undersigned CHEMISTS and DRUGGIVI'S,
have pledged ourselves to close our Shops altogether, at4Nine
o'clock every Evening, Saturdays excepted: and that on
Sundays they will be closed from Ten o'clock in the Orning.
until Six o'clock in the Evening.
Prescriptions will be dispensed, and Medicines ly sup-
plied, at all hours, as usual.
Butler and Colquhoun, Castle-street
Robert Lathbury, Castle-street
Robert G. Wright, Preesons-row
Henry Cumming, South Castle-street
Warren and Gaman, South Castle street
John Priestley, Lord-street
John H. and Samuel Johnson, Church-street
John Gerdes and Co., Church-street
William Lloyd, Parker-street
William Beck, Clayton-square
Robert Beatson, Bold-street
Thomas Maynard, Bold-street
William Fisher, Bold-street
William Jones, Berry-street
Joseph Nodin, Berry-street
John Corlett, Berry-street
Peter Roberts, Ranelagh-street
Procter and Vicars, Ranelagla-street
David Scholefield, Queen-square
Thomas Barton, Lime-street
A. E. Heath, London-road
J. D. Walker, London-road
Samuel Ball, London-road
James Owen, London-road
Joshua Siddeley, London-road
Thomas Banner, London-road
Edward Tiernan, London-road
Henry Hulme, London-road
Barnett, Low-hill
S. G. Barnett, Edge-hill
Robt. Price, Brownlow-hill
Thomas King, Brownlow-hill
J. Pendlebury, Brownlow-hill
J. B. Harrison, Brownlow-hill
F. E. O'Gorman, Brownlow-hill
Richard Bird, Great George-street
J. Lowther, Mill-street
M. Hughes, Mill-street
A. Ingham, Mill-street
Thomas Lloyd, Warwick-street
John Simon, Bedford-street
J. M. Syers, Park-road
J. V. Eggleston, St. James'-place
Thomas Yates, Stanhope-street
John Kershaw, Windsor-street
Richard Warren, St. Anne's-street
John Parry, Christian-street
W. W. King, Soho-street
G. D. Syers, Great Homer-street
Henry Swift, Everton-crescent
Henry Taylor, Richmond-row
Edward Cox Fox-street
B. Martin, Richmond-row
John 'Walker, Mount-pleasant
S. A. Titherington, Oxford-street
Edwd. Bradford, Oxford-street
Robt. Warry, Pembroke-place
C. W. Shaw, Copperas-hill
John Woodburne, Copperas-hill
C. Weatherilt, Copperas hill
Joseph Cannon, Price-street
S. and C. Taylor, Cleveland-square
W. W. Kilburn, Pitt-street
J. L. Phillips, Pitt-street
William 'l'arbuck, Pitt-street
G. Bramwell, Park-lane
Johnson and Lawson, St. James'-street
Joseph Cannon, St. James'-street
Geo. Webster, St. James'-street
Wm. 11,ragstaff, Great George-place
Edwd. Pearson, Great George-place
William Quick, Scotland-road
Thomas Parkinson, Scotland-road
George Rawson, Scotland-road
John Turberville, Scotland-road
T. B. Furness, Scotland-road
Edward Tinker, Scotland-road
Thomas Neale, Scotland-place
Thomas Fawcett, Limekiln-lane
J. and J. Sampson, Byrom-street
I'. L. Watson, Byrom-street
C. Withers, Byrom-street
Jos. Fisher, Whitechapel
Jos. Denson. Whitechapel
Edward Bradford. Dale-street
Robert Walker, Dale-street
H. R. Preston, Dale-street
G. H. Howell, Dale-street
J. R. M`Guffie, Oldhall-street
James Sheldon, Oldhall-street
James Geraard, Oldhall-street
Charles Fisher, Titheharn-street
George Thomas, Tithebarn-street
Thomas Mucklow, Tithebarn-street
John Games, Hightield-street
W. Ferguson, Pownall-square
R. Woodward, Great Crosshall-sirect
H. Hackett, Mary bone
George Clinning,' Vauxhall-road
Ephraim Brunt, Vauxhall-road
James Teasdale, Vauxhall-road
R G. Sheldon, Vauxhall-road
James Birnie, Vauxhall-road
Fra. Furniss, Kirkdale
Thomas Walker, Kirkdale •
M. Powell, Great Howard-street

EXCISE Laws.—ln the course of an investigation, at Wor-
ship-street Police-office, on Monday, it was stated, that, form-
formerly, gentlemen could not remove their wine from one
cellar to another without a licence, but, by a late act, they
had the power to do so.

There has lately been discovered in the island of Margaret,
between Buda and Pesti), an antique coffin, containing the
body of a female, wearing a coronet on her head, rings on
her fingers, and other jewels of considerable value. It is
believed to be that of St. Margaret, the daughter of Betas
IV., King of Hungary, after whom the island was named.
SwlF•r's EARLY LIFE.—At Moor Park, au eccentric, un-
couth, disagreeable N oung Irishman, who had narrowly
escaped plucking at Dublin, attended Sir William Temple
as an amanuensis for Et.) a-year and his board, dined at the
second table, wrote bad verses in praise of his employer, and
made love to a very pretty, dark•eyed young girl, who waited
on Lady Giffard. Little did Temple imagine that the coarse
exterior of his dependent concealed a genius equally suited
to politics and to letters—a genius destined to shake great
kingdoms, to stir the laughter and the rage of millions, and
to leave to posterity memorials which can perish only with
the English language. Little did he think that the flirtation
in the servants' hall, which he, perhaps, scarcely designed to
make the subject of a jest, was the beginning of a long, un-
prosperous love, which was to be as widely famed as the pas-
sion of Petrarch, or of Abelard. Sir William's secretary
was Jonathan Swift—Lady Giffard's waiting maid was poor
Stella.—Edinburgh. Review.
ABUNDANCE OF BABIES.—It is an old saying that we
" cannot have too much of a good thing." Whether this is
" a true saying" or not, it is unnecessary, perhaps, to decide;
but there is certainly such a thing as having more "good
things" than we know well what to do with. Thus much
prefatory to the following items of intelligence :—l. The
wife of Mr. William Tinker, a fisherman in New York,
presented him, on Thursday, with three little female tinkers.
2. A Mrs. Dunn, of Detroit, recently presented her loved
and loving lord with three little Dunns. These are not the
worst kind of duns. 3. Mrs. B. F. Cannon, of New Salem,
in this state, on Tuesday night, presented her husband with
four small Cannons. This fine little park of artillery is said
to be in excellent condition. Here's business for the agents
and lecturers of the Anti-carrying-a-squalling-baby-to-church
Society lately formed in Lynnfield.—ilmerican paper.

SHORT PARLIAMENTS.—When members are chosen for a
very short period, one of the chief advantages of representa-
tion is in a great measure lost. The delegate retaining his
seat for so limited a time, can have no opinion of his own,
but becomes the mere mouthpiece of the crowd on whom be
judgment
must dependent for his re-election. His own superior
must bow to that of the many, and prudence and foresight
must yield to the whim of the day. What avail all the depths
of political knowledge, all the experience of past ages? Can
we hope in a few months to teach wisdom to the ignorant,
and foresight to the reckless?—to make reason triumph over
passion, and love of order over the intoxicating excitements
of change ? Woe to the man who attempts so hopeless a
task! His public career is about to close; his schemes of
distinction must soon be levelled in the dust. Instead of ap-
plauses, he meets with insult; instead of love, with hatred;
instead of encouragement, rebuke. The indignant multitude
rejects with scorn the man who dared to be wiser than them-
selves, and elects a more obsequious delegate in his stead.
Thus the representative loses ail independence, not only of
opiniop, but. even of moral character, and becomes a mere sy-
cophant. who pagaleTF to the peisiong of the mob, is it thus
that liberty cats b 0 Iteu-et?—Ranuay's YQiiticad Difcauroes.