The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-22 00:00:00

MAY 22. Is3B

THE VALUE OF A Wit;.— Southern paper relates the
following story of an officer of the.artny, who having lost his
hair during au illness contracted at New Orleans, provided
himself with a handsome wig before starting on a late campaign
in Florida. Its an engagement with the Seminoles, he was,
wounded and fell to the ground, where he lay without the power
to rise. The red enemy who wounded him came up for his
scalp. The officer feigned himself dead, and breathed as low
and softly as possible. The Indian beat over hint, drew his
knife, passed it fearfully and quickly around the head of his
victim; and then with a " whoop !" bounded with his bloodless
trophy into an everglade. The officer afterwards got back in
safety to his camp, and relates with much glee the story of the
loss of his—wig.
A BARGAIN FOR AN OLD QuEeist.—The Dowager Queen of
Naples is said to be on the point of marrying a Neapolitan,
only 28 years of age. As her Majesty is somewhat older, hav-
ing been born in 1789, the young man is said to have required
a large pecuniary sum to make up for the difference in their
years. The amount is under consideration, and constitutes the
only impediment to their union.
SINGULAR FACT.—We understand that one of the brood
mares, the t:roperty of the most noble the Marquis of West-
minster, at present located at Moor-park, was lately taketivery
ill after dropping a foal, and, strange to say, the young'un has
been adopted by a milch-cow, which renders to it all the offices
of a maternal parent.—Chester Chronicle.
llosoun AND CHIVALRY IN THE WEST.—Two fatal en-
counters took place at Mills' Point, on the Mississippi, in Ken-
tucky, on Friday, the 30th of March. At first, there was a
fight between Mr. Rivers, a lawyer, and Mr. Furguson, a phy-
sician, in whien the latter was worsted. Shortly afterwards.
Furguson, burning with the mortification of defeat, procured a
rifle and shot Rivers dead ; and, thereupon, a brother of Rivers,
armed himself with another rifle, sought Furguson out, and•
after wounding him severely with a rifle shot, rushed upon bill
with a pistol, and dispatched hint at once.—New York Herald.
WITCHCRAFT IN Tile NINETEENTH CENTURY.—A poor
youth, in the employ of a stable-keeper at Haudcross, a village
near Brighton, on the Loudon Road, having been rejected la
his love-suit by a female servant in the village, and driven by
disappointment into a fit of frenzy, was gravely pronoun*, bY
the neighbours to have been bewitched by the young person in
question, and an old woman undertook his disenchantment for
the fee of half-a-crown! Rows of pins, needles, knives, &c-
were accordingly stuck round the bedclothes for the purpose at
impaling the lair enchantress on their elfin spears, should she
venture to approach his couch, and the
_farce was carried on
until souse persons possessed of common" sense interfered, and
had the poor fellow conveyed to a fit destination, a lunatic
asylum.

SEIZURE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.—When I entered life it is
astonishing how general was the disposition to seize upon
church property. I mixed with various circles, and I could
hardly go into any company where there was not a cler-
gyman present without hearing some such measure proposed::
I am convinced that if the public feeling bad nut been altered
by our seeing how soon every other kind of plunder followed
the destruction of tithes in France, our clergy would by this
time have lust their property.—Life of Wilberforce.
No TeirroTar.Lee.—Last week, a person named Watson, a
gardener, at Newton-on-Ouse, near York, undertook, for h
trifling wager, to moisten his stomach, with eight pints of ale,
in ten minutes. He absorbed the heavy in eight minutes and
half, and then treated himself with an additional pint out of the
money he had won. He was not prepared for this feat by a bong
previous drought, having drunk pretty freely before be cote-
meuced his task. After all this, he ate a hearty sapper, and
offered to do the same thing over gain if anyone would give him
the same opportunity. The challenge, however, was decliued.
ELOPEMENT.—Au OW of this sort has created quite a feel-
ing of excitement in Falmouth. On Friday evening a young
lady, possessing a considerable fortune independent of her re-
spectable parents, left home under the pretence of receiving
some money due to her. She did not return as soon as expect-
ed, which induced a susTicion in her father's mind that she bad
eloped with somebody, birtte could not conceive whom, and he
resolved to set off to Exeter in search of her. The young lady
had walked to the outside of the town, where the guard of the
Exeter coach proved to be the Lothario in waiting, who handed
her into a chaise and drove her to Truro, returning in time to
take his place as a guard, and promising to take her on to Exe'
ter by the coach. The father took his place on the outside of
the coact, with his future son-in-law as guard. On arriving at
'Truro the guard (who was on his guard) exclaimed at the inn,
after shutting the, door with a slam, " A lady from Falmouth
getting out !" . The father hastened down, and, running to the
inn, exclaimed, "It is my daughter !" The cunning guard
called out to the coachman, " All right !" who drove on to the
town's end, where he took up the lady and conveyed her to
Exeter, where the guard was made both rich and happy on the
following morning soon after eight o'clock. About eleven
o'clock the father arrived, but too late to prevent the union of
his child with what he considered a most unequal maid:l.--
Exeter Flying Post.
RESOLUTION To BE SlLENT.—Madame Regnier, the wife of
a law ,officer at Versailles, while talking in the presence of
numerous party, dropped some remarks which were out of
place, though not very important. Her husband reprimanded
her before the whole company, saying, " Silence, madam, Yoll
are a foul !" She lived twenty or thirty years afterwards, and
never uttered a single word, even to her children ! A pretended
theft was committed in her presence, in the hope of taking her
by suprise, but without effect, and nothing could induce her to
speak. When her consent was requisite for the marriage of
any of her children, she bowed her head, and signed the con-
tract.—Madame Campan's Journal.
STATE OF THE POTTERIES.—We are sorry to learn that the
trade of the potteries is still in a very depressed state, and little
hope is entertained of a good trade, as far as America is con-
cerned, for the present year. The fate of the bill under the
consideration of the legislature of that country will, we under-
stand, operate very favourably or otherwise ou commerce, as the
question may be determined. Notwithstanding all that has
been done in that populous district (the potteries) by parochial
aid, public subscriptions, and private charity, we are assured
there is still a great amount of severe suffering. Notwithstand-
ing all the efforts which have been made, it affords us great
pleasure to learn that the springs of benevolence are not yet
dried up.—Stajord paper.
and most attractive
scale, at the Rotunda Gardens,
a carnival and public ba
n, on the 28th of June,
publ'i,l'he whole suit of rooms
Arrangements are in rogress of being trade for getting up
pll,upou a new
in honour of her Majesty's coronation.
will be thrown open on tii unti the earvivai will take
place in the gardens, wi,
where
the continental fetes.
dancing and refreshment as arrangements will be made for
The following singular
composition was last_ week put into-
the this town, in London, by a lady
w
ge apparently for the purpose of
t hhe handso
al
alighted
o
to the passers by :•—" As through
the streets the wicked g
distributing them gene
they shall be struck dead. And as
they walk upon ach
e other they
•s l 11 fall; and that shall be by
the plagues. "--Chelmsford tedf far
4 Chelmsford Herald.
The lucrative military appointment of Lieutenant-Governor
o her gentleman
carriage
rr (ia
of Jersey has become vacant by the demise, on the 12th inst..
of Major-General Archibald Campbell, P.B. The gallant officer
succeeded Major-General Thornton, and had held the rank of
major-general since 1830. Colonel Oldfleld, of the engineers,
is to act pro tem. as governor, until the appointment of a suc-
cessor to General Campbell.
AID TO CONFESSION,—A Portuguese cobbler used to beathis
wife most unmercifully a few days before his attendance on his
confessor. A neighbour remonstrated on his cruelty, and in-
quired into the cause of it. " Why," said the cobbler, " I ate
a great sinner, but have unfortunately a very short memory,
so that I should forget my sins did I not beat my wife regularly
before confession, and then I urn sure she will put me in mind'
of every one of them."

THE CouosiaTlON.—The preparations for this ceremony ale
going on with extreme rapidity at Westminster Abbey. At We
ft west end of the abbey, on the outside, the large wooden erec-
tion, forming the chief entrance and necessary offices, is nearly
' completed.
THR SHAKSPEARE MONUMENT.—Upwards of 1100 guineas'
have already been subscribed towards renovating the chancel
of the church, and restoring the monument of Shakspeare, at
' Stratford-upon-Avon.
Russia is sending a squadron to the Dardanelles, to observe,
the movements of the French, English, and Turkish fleets; it
consists of four ships of war of 84 guns, three frigates of 60
guns, two brigs, and two actual steamers.—Moraing Herald.
Prince Tallevrand was given over on Thursday. The King
and Queen called to visit him in the morning, but the Prince
was unable to recognise their Majesties. At half-past four
o'clock, when our correspondent inquired at his hotel, he was
represented as in the last stage of agony.—Times.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SHEFF,ELD AND IiOTHEEHAg•
RAILWAY.—About seven o'clock on Wednesday morning last,
as the men employed at the deep cutting on the above railway
at the back of Jordan dam, were excavating, a great quantity
of stones, earth, and rubbish, of several tons weight, suddenly
fell, burying and almost crushing to pieces u young man
about twenty years old, called Samuel Appleyard, from Collis-
brough.
Slit DAVID WILKIE'SPORTRAIT OF O'CONNELL.—TheJohn•
Bull in noticing this production says "the great man is net (le
use Hibernian phraseology,) sufficiently- big; and the bead,
which is enormous in nature, even over se mountainous a bodY-•
is small, and the face vulgar without being impudent—a great
loss as regards the character of the original."—tSir David Wil-
kie ought to know that to paint a correct portrait of O'Connell,
out and out vulgar impudence should be the leading charac
teristic. Nature, in the beggarman's case, has left nothing Le'
the imagination.]
STATE OF IRELAND.—The following is an extract of a letter
from the county of Longford, dated May 13 :—" As Mr. Thos.
Ellis, of Hermitage, in this county, was proceeding to churl:
at Newtownforbes this morning, he was fired at from behind'
a hedge in Briskiil; several slogs went through his. horse's
neck, and thirteen through his hand; one of his finger 3 were,
broken. He rode into Newtownforbes in the most deplorable
btou th didisn not
to ‘
watch
affordtei t
h l
e state, without a hat, and covered with blood. A tenant of his
Ellis t
called time,
own, named Prunty, a Roman Catholic, was close to Mr. Ellis.
at
ethnastshai essaluilhates be 8t
assistance.
rod ea; ay, but
the the villains were suffered to escape, and up to the present titiie
there has been no apprehension or clue to the-discovery of them:-
What is to be done ? In vain du we Look to the Government
for protection. Lord Mulgrave has. refused to listen to the
prayer of the Tipperary magistrates for leaal enactments to en-
force the peace; and he withdraws from Longford the feebto•
protection which it had from the military power.
THE CORONATION.—On Wednesday, a deputation front.
the Tradesmen of London waited' by appointment on Lori
Melbourne hi Downing-street, to represent to him, th?
nience and loss likely to arise from an early Coronation-
After
presenting their address Lord Melbourne rose from N
easy chair, and, with apparently great, good humour, la ,
" Why, eh!. know—ah l ahl—our minds—ah ! ah
ate made up—ahl ah!—on the subject. If you can—ah! an'i _
induce—apt ali!—the House of. Lords, or the House of Co
yho
n
re
mons—ah ah!—tu interfere-ah!, ah!—" His LoidshlP
did nut conclude the sentence, and the deputation,
ap-
peared to have caught the humour of the Noble Premier,
ponded in a general "uhf ah!" to the suggestion of an appeal
to the legislature.
A 2
little after ten on the night of the Bth inst. a fire broke
:t
Dif.sigN67loN OF COTTON AT NEW ORLEAN;7,
t In
the lower steam cotton press, which was nearly cousrione;l
build
large quantity of cotton. The greater part of the
cotton withiat.
ing, including the press, office, stable, &c., and the‘c
the yard, ar4rountiug to 7.000 bales., is destroyed.. 'The l.o.sreeTeurse-
be heavy. It is estimated at 500,000 dole. mostly insured.
is 110 duu_bt, but that it was the doings of an Incendiary. v°

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York Morning Herald, April IS. -
—Oa
R utoN OitERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION• ,
Wednesday evening last, a meeting was held in 1!r. 'Pokers
large room in the Market-place, Ripon, for the purpose aw l:
tablishing an Operative Conservative Association, in Rnd
Ripon a
neighbourhood. The intention of forming such a society was
announced only two or three days prior, and as proof of the con-
servative feeling of the Operatives of the good city of Rion!
fifty-four signed the declaration to support the Church an.il
Constitution at the meeting, and numbers have signified their
intention, so soon as the association is formed,
of becoming
members. The meeting. was very unanimous, and immediately
proceeded to elect proper officers, viz., a president. a treasurer,
and w a secretary, likewise a committee to manage the COncer.

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