The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

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anniversary there was divine service, with a very interest-
ing address to the gipsies, and another to the visitors,
embracing the report, which contained a variety of details
connected. with tnese people past and present. After the
meeting a capital dinner was given to the gipsies, and a
supply of blankets, clothing, &c. The appearance of these
wanderers, in all their variety of costume, in the ground,
was a very curious and interesting sight.—Dorset Chron.
A LADY PIG-(RIVER.----A lady' connected with the
establishment of a gentleman, as governess, not one hun-
dred miles from Edenbridge, being about to visit her re-
lations in the vicinity of London on 'Wednesday last, a
few days previously remarked she should have no objec-
tion to one of the gentleman's fat pigs to enjoy her Christ-
mas with. The offer of one was immediately made-by the
gentleman, if she would drive it to Edenbridge station
herself. Early in the morning of Wednesday, she had
one, weighing from 30 to 40 stone, secured by a cnrd to
its leg, and having equipped herself in a dress suitable
to the occasion, she drove the animal to the station, with
the view of taking it with her to London ; but was in-
formed that no track could be attached. to the passenger-,
train for the purpose. She was, however, furnished with
a ticket, with an assurance that it would be forwarded by
the goods train in the evening, and on application being
made at the Bricklayers' Arms station on Thursday morn-
ing, it would be delivered to her. On her arrival at the
time appointed, lo and' behold ! instead of the pig being
delivered up, according to promise, a policeman took
charge of the lady, and placed her in durancevilse. A.
messenger was likewise despatched to the residence of the
gentleman, requiring his attendance in London, tossatisfy
the authorities of the truth of the lady's statement, and
the pig was ultimately restored to her.—Maidstone'Gaz.
MATCH MAKING.—In a street,—not a yard and a half
distant from Salt-house-lane, stands a Registry or Adver-
tising Office ; among the many curious " wants " the
notices in the window proclaim to passers-by, might have
been noticed until very recently the following :—" A.
WIFE WANTED, by a person of respectable address, and
possessed of a little property. The female must be from
the age of from twenty to thirty, and must be prudent,
and respectable character." Well this notice has beat
withdrawn, and it will be a matter of no slight import-
ance to the interested in this subject to know that the
person of respectable address " who took this original
and business-like method of making known his desire for
a " help-meet," has been eminently successful, and_ that
he has not only obtained a partner for life,. but has had
" two pledges of affection " thrown into the bargain. It
seems there was no lack of competition for the hand and
heart of the now thrice happy advertiser, no scarcity of
damsels fair and widows buxom. The first candidate
honoured with an interview was (in his opinion, though.
probably not in her )successful" ower ounto marry yet ;
the second was equally but then came the
lucky third—a blooming widow with two charming babes;
a glance, a word, was quite enough • resistance was no
longer possible, and the hand and heai:t, the " respectable
address," and " the little property " were all yielded up,
at once. " The marriage followed hard upon ; and the
" merry Christ Church bells " rung a lively peal,, (or
would have done, no doubt, had Christ Church any bells
to ring,) in celebration of the indissoluble union of,. the
advertiser and the buxom,widow of his choice. We have
only to add, that if any person doubts the truth of our
story, he (or she) has only to go to an Inn we wot off itx
this town, and in the persons of " mine host and hostess"
he will see this same " fast wedded pair."—Hull Packet..
FEARFUL DESTITUTION IN SCOTLAND.—At a public
meeting in Edinburgh, a few days ago, to devise means
of mitigating the distress in the Highlands and Islands of
Scotland, at which the Lord Provost presided, the Rev..
Norman M'Leod, of Dalkeith, thus described the con-
dition of the people :—" Taking round numbers, there
were 430,000 souls, who, strictly speaking, inhabited the
eight Highland counties. From statistics furnished front
different parishes, this number were divided in the follow-
ing manner.: those in comfortable circumstances, and
who could not be affected much by the failure of the
potato crop, amounted to 100,000: those who only de-
pended for three-fourths of the year upon potatoes; to
200,000 ; those who depended upon the crop for the whole
year, to 130,000. These numbers were an approximation
to truth. Mr. M'Leod read several other figures • of
which the result was, that in the Highlands and Islands
of Scotland there were 330,000 persons deprived of the
usual means of subsistence this year. Of these, 200,000
required assistance to enable them to live over the season.:
If they did not assist them immediately, these poor per-.
sons would have to sell their cows and eat their seed-corn,
and thus utterly destroy, the provision for the future..
The other 130,000 required food immediately to keep
them from starvation. The Rev. Dr. Candish stated the
'substance of a communication from, the islhnd of Ulva
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He did not suppose that the whole of Skye could fur-
nish twenty barrels of potatoes free of disease. The
population numbered 4,000 souls. Of these, nearly 2,000
occupy small crofts, which have not yielded, sufficient to
support them for three months. The other 2,000 were lit
a state of absolute destitution. But the whole 4,000
would immediately be left destitute. The proprietor wag
Lord M'Denald ; who had already made such arrange-
ments for relieving the people as would involve an expen-
diture greater than the rental of the island. It was there-
fore plain, that unless the proprietors were assisted the
people could not be supported, The letter- concludedby
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in 1836-7 was nothing at all compared to that impend
at present.