The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Our streets (says the Doncaster Chronicle) are now clothed in
the livery of winter. A heavy fall of snow took place during
the night, and is now lying thick nu the ground.
Thursday was remarkable for being the anniversary of the
death of several eminent persons :—Sir T. Browne, 1682; Sir
Godfrey Kneller, in 1723; Dean Swift, in 1745 ; H: Kirke
White, in 1816; and Tahna,,in 1826.
A laage Flat-pole" cabbage has been exhibited during the
week, at Mr. Heydo&s, printer, in" Old Town-street, of whom
we have obtained the following particulars:—Weight of the
cabbage when taken up was 1611b5.; it measured in circumfer-
ence 16 feet.—Plymourh Journal, '

On Monday evening a poor lame girl, named Gotobed, who
had received parochial relief for some considerable time, in con-
sequence of her infirmities and destitute situation, and which
assistance had been withheld by the officers of the new Poor
Laws, threw herself into the canal at Wisbeach, but was fortu-
nately rescued by a waterman. She committed the rash act
from starvation.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

BREACH OF PROMISE IN AMERICA.—Josiah Coldart (cold-
heart) has been mulcted in 150 dollars, damages and costs, at
Pinckneyville, Illinois, for promishing to marry an amiable
young woman named Mary Davenport, and aftewards refusing.
The cold-hearted lover forked over the cash, and declared
" that it was cheap enough at double the money ?" He was
about to join himself for life to a proprietress of 20,000 acres.—
Nets York. Post.

A. COMFORTABLE GRAVE.—A. curious anecdote is told in the
Richardsoniana of a gentleman of Huntingdonshire, named
Fellows, whose great anxiety appears to have been to obtain
that quiet after death which during his lifetime he apparently
sought for in vain. "He lies buried," says Richardson, "in
one of our abbey churchyards, under a simple tomb altarwise,
which (all covered with trees, shrubs, and weeds, and not to be
got at but by a little blind path, nor seen but with a torch) has
no name or circumstance engraved, but only this word,
' Snug.' "
A travelling tinker residing in Barnsley had the misfortune,
the other day, to break his wooden leg. An old one, lying in
the cellar of his house, he sent his wife to fetch it, and burnish
it up; and as she:was doing this out tumbled five sovereigns,
which had been nicely deposited in a small hole in the top part
of the leg. The tinker was for.sorne time cOnfounded, until at
last he recollected that, about six years ago, he was at Penistone
late iu the evening, rather tipsy, and fot fear of being robbed he
concealed the sovereigns in the place above-mentioned forgetting
afterwards what had become of them.—Hulefax Express.
THE ROYAL. PRINTING OFFICE AT PARIS, according to
the last inventory that has been published of this establishment,
contains the types of 56 founts of oriental characters, which
comprehend all the known alphabets of the nations of Asia,
ancient as well as modern. There are 16 alphabets of different
European nations who do not employ the Roman characters,
and of these latter the establishment possesses 46 complete
founts, of various forms and dimensions. All these founts weigh
at least 838,000 pounds. The consumption of paper at the
Royal Printing Office in a single year amounts, on an average,
to from eighty to a hundred thousand reams per day, which are
printed for the use of the several public boards: 'the number
of workmen employed regularly is from 350 to 450.
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.In the Revision court at Coleshill, last week, one of the whig-
radical agents, a young attorney of this town, appeared in sup-
port of a frivolous objection to the vote of a conservative farmer.
After putting several questions relative to the value of the farm,
the little whiggling said, "Now, sir, remember you are upon
your oath, answer me this question,—if 1 wished to take your
farm, what should you want for it ?" "Want ?" said the fanner,
"why I should want a better tenant than you !" ".Well, but
suppose for a moment I did take it, what should you require ?"
" Require ? why I should require nation good security." We
hardly' say, that no more questions were asked, and the radical
agent quitted the court amid roars of laughter,—Birmingham
Advertiser.

RAPID WRITING.—Many of the reporters write with much
rapidity. It is considered a great effort to write a column of
the Times in two hours and a half; but instances have been
known of its being done, in two hours. Mr. Seijeant Spankie
was one of the most rapid writers ever known on the press.
When a reporter on the Morning Chronicle, in Mr. Perry's time,
be, on one occasion, wrote a column in an hour. To be sure,
the paper was then much smaller in size than it now is, and the
type much larger than that now used, but the disproportion was
not so great as not to entitle the learned gentleman to be re-
garded as the most successful one at rapid writing with which
lam acquainted. The next most successful, perhaps, was that
of the late Mr. William Godwin, junior, who, when a reporter
five or six years ago on the Morning Chronicle, wrote a column
of the then size of the paper in an hour and three quarters. It
is to be observed, that in the cases to which I refer there was
not only the mere manual exercise of writing, but also the read-
ing of the notes.—The Great Metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—For some weeks past the state of the wea-
ther has been very unpropitious, it having been wet at least one-
,half of the twenty-four. hours. On Friday evening we had a
'heavy fall of snow to the depth of four or five inches, succeeded
by a sharp frost, which, up to the hour at which we write, still
continues. On Sunday night the thermometer stood in the
country as low as 25—yesterday it descended to 16—in the fore-
noon it rose to 30, and latterly ranged from 20 to 28. The po-
tato crops will, in consequence, be materially injured; but not,
we should think,"to the extent entertained by a number of the,
farmers in this neighbourhood, as the snow covering will, iu a'
considerable degree, neutralise the effects of the frost. From
all accounts that have reached us, it appears that the storm has
been general throughout the whole country—not excepting the
south. The premature appearance of winter with such severity
is unprecedented—unprecedented at least in the memory of that
notable individual. "the oldest inhabitant." The London mail
was four hours after the usual timeon Saturday—and more than
an hour on Sunday and yesterday.—Glasgoce Courier. •
TITLES OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.—There is a pleasant
story told of a Spanish grandee in want of a hed at an inn, late
one night, when, being asked for his name, he enumerated the
whole of his titles, and effectually closed the door against his
admission. According to the Journal de Vienne the Emperor of
Austria appears to rival the illustrious Spaniard; whether this
magnificence of style will be any obstruction to him hereafter is
a curious question. The following are the titles which have
been fixed upon for him by the present administration :—We,
Ferdinand the First, by the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria,
King of Hungary and Bohemia, fifth of the name, King of
Lombardy and Venice, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Galicia,
Londonatia, and Illyria; King of Jerusalem, &c.; Archduke of
Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Duke of Lorraine, Saltzhurg,
Styria, Carinthia, and of the Ukraine ; Grand Prince of Tran-
sylvania • Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower
Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, of Ausch-
witz and Zator, of Steschein, Frioul, Ragusa, and Zara; Sove-
reign Count of Hapsburg, and the Tyrol, of Kiburg, Gortz, and
Gradiska ; Prince of Trent and Brienne; Margrave of Upper
and Lower Lusace and of Istria; Count of Hohnements, Field-
kirch, Bregentz; Sonnenberg, &c.; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro,
and of the March of Vendes

AFFECTING NA RRATIVII.—The Chronique de Paris relates the
following extraordinary scene as having taken place at the
Court of Assizes. A youth about nineteen was brought to trial
for having broken the window of a baker's shop and stolen
a two-pound loaf. The President—" 'Why did you steal the
loaf ?" Prisoner—" I was driven by hunger." " Why did you
not buy it ?", " Because I had no money." "But you have a
gold ring on your finger ; why did you not sell it ?" "lam a
foundling: when I was taken from the bank of a ditch, this ring
was suspended from my neck by a silken cord, and I kept it in
my hope of thereby discovering at least who were my parents;
I cannot dispose of it." The Procureur du Roi made a violent
' speech against the prisoner, who was found guilty, and sentenced
to imprisonment for five years. Immediately upon this a wo-
man, more worn down by poverty than age, came forward and
made the following declaration:—" Gentlemen of the Jury,
twenty years ago, a young woman was seduced by a young man
of the same town, who, after deceiving, abandoned her. Poor
and distressed, she was obliged to leave her child to the care of
providence. The child has since grown up, and the woman and
seducer have grown older ;—the child in poverty, the woman in
misery, and her seducer in prosperity. They are all three now
in court. The child is the unfortunate:prisoner wttom you have
pronounced guilty, the mother is myself, and there sits the fa-
ther!" pointing to the Procureur du Roi.—Galiynani's Messen-
ger.

PEERAGE REFORM.—Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer has ad-
dressed a letter to his Mary-le-bone constituents' in which he
recommends, that the question of what is called "Peerage Re-
form," be not pressed at the present moment, He says—" The
whole strength of our argument against the Lords lies in our
majority—in our majority which carries measures in the Com-
mons that are rejected by the Lords; thus the committee can-
not work—thus legislation is paralysed—thus our constitution
becomes a dead letter. But just suppose we have not the ma-
jority, (and to produce this result it would not be necessary to
lose many) then how are we ? The House of Commons no
longer passes laws which the House of Lords rejects; the con-
stitution is no longer-bound, nor legislation paralysed. The
two houses do go on together; where is now your practical ne-
cessity for a change in the peerage ? May not the very ques-
tion of this change, raised indiscreetly, avert and obviate its
necessity ?" This is another striking confession of the strength
of conservative principles—another doing of "justice to En-
gland" extorted from the friends of misrule. The majority in
the Commons is not only a small one, but is composed of ma-
terials, a large portion of which is feared, hated, or despised by
the people of England; while out of doors, the re-action in fa-
vour of conservatism is every day displaying itself in all parts
of the country ; and we feel assured that soon le bon temps
reviendra.

I4IATRITIANIAL COMFORT.—When people understand that
they must live together, except for a few reasons known to the
law, they learn to soften, by mutual accommodation, the yoke
which they cannot now shake off. They become good has
bands and good wives from the necessity of remaining husbands
and wives, for necessity is a powerful master in teaching the
duty which it imposes. If it -were once understood that upon
mutual
a
monied
persons might be legally separated,
pass through the world with mutual
otnn ryoret d
tt ention to their common offspring, and to the
comfort—with
piwsigie tsu h disgust
at
whom now
moral order of civilized society, might have been at this mo-
ment living in a state of mutual unkindness—in a state of es-
strangement from their common offspring, and in a state of the
most licentious and unreserved immorality. In this case, as
in manyothers, the happiness of some individuals must be sa-
crificed to the greater and more general good. To be sure, if
people come together in marriage with the extrvagant expecta-
tion that all are to be halcyon days—the husband conceiving
that all is to be authority with him, aid the wife that all is to
to be accommodation Co her, every body sees how that must
end : but if the come together with the prospect of happiness,
they must come with the reflection that not bringing perfection
in themselves, they have no right to expect it ou the other
side—that having respectively many infirmities of their own
to be overlooked, they must overlook the infirmities of each
other.—Lord Stowell.

VERBATIM REPORTlNG.—Complaints are occasionally made
by members, that their speeches are not reported verbatim.
Pretty speeehesi.in that case, would some of their orations ap-
pear ! The plan of giving verbatim reports was once tried by
Dr. Stoddart, now Sir John Stoddart, when he conduced the
New Times. The result of the experiment was such as ought to
prevent any one calling for. verbatim reports in future. The
members made downright fools of themselves, and set the pub-
lic. a laughing from one end of the town to the other. Lord
Castlereagh exhibited himself as 'standing prostrate at the foot
of Majesty,' and as 'walking forward with his back turned on
himself.' Sir Frederick Flood, one of the Irish members, and
a great stickler for verbatim reports, appeared one morning as
having on the previous evening enlightened and delighted the
house with the following profound philosophy and brilliant
Mr. Spaker,—As I was coming to the house to
eperformilotaqcokeendc, me
:yd'uty to the country and ould Irelant, I was brutally
Sir, by a mob, Mr. Spaker, of ragatnuffians, Sir.. If,
a
Sir, any honourable gintlemin is to be assaulted, Mr. Spaker,
by such a parcel of spalspeens, Sir, as, were after attacking me,
Mr. Spaker, then I say, Mr. Spaker, that if you do not, Mr.
Spaker, be after protecting gintleinin, like myself, Sir, we can-
not he after coining to the House of Parliament at all at all,
Mr. Spaker. And, Sir, may I be after axing you, Sir, what Sir,
would become, Sir, of the bisness of the country, Mr. Spaker,
in such a case, Mr. Spaker? Will you, Sir, be,after answer-
ing myself that question, Mr. Spaker ? It's myself that would
like an answer, Sir, to the question, Sir, as soon as convaniant,
Sir, what I have asked, yon, Mr, Spaker.'—The Great Met? opo.'
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