The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-27 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICE.

Tales and Sketches, Historical and Domestic. By
Mu. D. Clarke (late E. A. Ingram). London :
Longman and Co. Liverpool : Grapel, and G. &
J. Robinson. 1838.

These pleasing tales, which have nearly all ap-
peared already in various publications, in detached
portions, form one of the most delightful volumes of
the season. The least charm of the series is its variety.
which is very great, as a bare enumeration of the titles
of the tales and sketches will suffice to prove. The
table of contents presents us with the following goodly
array :—Mary Grey—Coeur de Lion's Return—The
Tournament—Larry Brannigan, or the Fairy's Fid-
dler—The Miseries of Independence—Helen Calder—
Mary of Lorn—The Days of Wallace—Three Chap-
ters for Young Ladies—The Banished—The Lady of
the Village—James of Scotland in Captivity—Tradi-
tion of Ludlow Castle—A Tale of the Early American
Settlements—katty Doyle—The Pilgrimage of Nor-
mandy—The Unwedded—May Wilson—Sibel Elkin
—Lochlevin's Flower—Henrietta of France—Grace
Brown—What is Life—and A Sketch of the Day.—
The multifarious views of human life embraced in this
series of descriptions of wondrous things " in field,
good, and forest," as well as in the circle of domestic
society, are at once amusing and instructive. We
may add that the sentiments breathed throughout the
volume are as much characterised by their moral pu-
rity, as the language in which they are expressed is
by its ease and unaffected simplicity. This work,
which is from the pen of a respected townswoman,
will be perused with much interest by our young
friends in Liverpool.

A WALKING STEEPLE,—At Holvwell, a man goes about
the streets, with measured steps, tolling a good-sized hand-
ball, to announce the approach of the church service,
the church being situated so deep i❑ a hollow, that the bell
cannot be heard in the town, The man receives for his ser-
vices £7. a-year, and a suit of clothes.
We have great satisfaction in stating, that the Lords of the
Admiralty have not only most willingly consented to the
wishes of Rear-Admiral Warren, the esteemed superintend-
ent of the dock-yard, that a collection should be made in the
chapel for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the un-
fortnuats men who perished in the Sound last week, but have
generously franked the permission with a donation of £lOO.
—Davenport Telegraph.
NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARIES.—We have heard to-day,
in quarters where information on such matters especially
may ►e fully relied upon, that the question of boundary be-
tween the possessions of Great Britain in North America and
the United States is on the eve of being formally adjusted,
sad in a manner, it is said, which will give satisfaction to
the public on both sides, and be in accordance with the views
of the two governments. It is, in fact, stated that communi-
cations for some time past have been going on between Mr.
Stevenson, the American minister, and our government upon
t►is point, and that it has been determined to appoint a com-
mission to decide upon the question; the governments at the
same time reeommending mutually for their adoption, that
the river St. John should form the separating line between
the two countries, whereby that portion of the province of
Maine which the English have always claimed will be ceded
to u, and as an equivalent the coast and territory lying be-
tween the rivers St. Croix and St. John, equal in size to what
is given up on the other size, will be made over to America.
By this means Maine will possess almost an entire water-
boutidary, and the country between Nova Scotia and Canada
will be laid open to us, a point in itself of the very utmost
importance, snore especially at the present moment; and
there can be little doubt that the railway which has often
been proposed from Halifax to Quebec, but as often put off
in consequence of the state of the boundary question, will soon
be carried into effect, by which means it is needless to say a
most important and favourable change will be effected in our
Canadian trade. That the question of boundary between
our possessions and the United States should at length be
adjested is of itself of the greatest consequence; not that
any serious disagreement between England and America
was ever contemplated from the unsettled state of the ques-
tion, yet it kept up an unpleasant feeling on the borders and
often led to local disturbances, and the adjustment will re-
move all fear from the minds of alarmists and ill-informed
persons as to there being any chance of a collision between
the two countries. We understand that the executive at
Washington approves of the arrangement; and, indeed, that
• ...it was Mr. Forsyth who proposed to Mr. Fox, the propriety
- • of appointing a commission, but that the latter referred the
• 14' matte, to the government at home.—Morning Chronicle.
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