The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

ng. That's her moanin,

iihe merchant ;

petitioner the night before. He pushed through he
crowd and descended the cellar steps. • A girl cowered
over an emaciated corpse that lay on a heap of straw, in
one corner of the damp apartment. It was the same girl
he had feared it would prove. The merchant was horror-
struck.
"My poor child !" he said, laying his hand on her

and he put a

denying you last night ! Here, take this
bill into her Land.
The girl looked up and gazed vacantly at him
she put back the proffered money.

"It will do nogood now," she said, " mother is dead,"
and she burst into hysteric tears ; and the merchant, at
that moment, would have given half his fortune to have
recalled her to life.

The lesson thus learned he never forgot.- The merchant
personally saw that a decent burial was provided for the
mother, and afterwards took the daughter into his house,

pectable station in life

2d, on her

ith a proper dowry. He lived to

Oren lisp their gratitu

LETTING LAND IN IRELAND.—The Farrells were an
ancient family, originally wealthy ; but somehow the
estate, though retaining its full amount of acreage, was
becoming, as men said, more a nominal than a real pro-
perty. It was well eaten into by all sorts of claimants ;
and though its ring fence, as was the boast of the owner,
remained unbroken, yet it rather resembled a curiously
preserved old cheese, with a nest of mortgagee mice for
ever preying upon its entrails. The land was let and sub-
let to the extent of three or four removes between the
owner and the occupier ; and the rent having to be filtered
ponges, flowed into- the landlord's

through so many

originally set forth. But this was the custom of the coun-
try : it saved trouble and obliged friends. The squire let
the land to his Triend the squireen, over a bottle of claret ;
the squireen let it again to his friend the attorney, over a
jug of punch ; the lawyer let it to Tim Mahoney, or Jack
Lynch, or Pat Murphy ; who finally retailed it out in
small patches to the actual holders ; who again divided
their portions with their sons' when they married and
settled. Was there ever such a system 'as this in any
other country ? In Ireland, however, it is the case with

. -
DR. CnaLmEtts.—A hundred pens have already leaped
into a hundred inkbottles to celebrate the mighty Chris-
tian apostle and champion ; let one be taken up to set
forth the man as he was, morally and intellectually. His
nature was so rich and so thoroughly noble, as to carry
everything before it, even where there was no strong

thy wi

loving him. The peculiarity of character in which lay his
power of attaching the hearts, and commanding the wills,
of other men, was independent of his particular specula-
tive opinions. if he had never adopted those convictions
upon the subject of religion which inspired all the latter
part of his career, but had continued to hold to the end

:h which he began it, his faculties

ILIIISLIL ••••
exercise, and he would probably have made much less
noise, and exerted a much less extensive influence, in the
world. But he would not have been less the delight of a

narrower circle, nor would he have wielded an ascendancy
less marked over the few'than he has done over the many.
His ardent temperament, however,- would certainly have
driven him into the positive and the practical in some
other direction; for his soul was as little fitted to find
either sustenance or rest-in the region of mere negation

Fraser's

kBITS OF 'THE' PELICAN

A. dozen or more are

jng wing over the sea, the long neck
, so that the beak seems to protrude
breast. Suddenly, a little ruffling of the water
eir attention ; and, with wings half closed, down

flying on hc