The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-23 00:00:00

THE TURTLE DOVE.

Ala.—Jens,/ of Ditniblaine.
As lonely I sat on a calm summer's morning,
To breathe the soft incense that flowed. on the wind,
I mused on my boots, in their bright beauty dawning.
By WARREN'S Jet Blacking—the pride of u nkind.
In their bright jetty gloss every feature divi eiY
Was shown, and appeared with rich Instr to glow ;
No high-polished glass could have shown ern so finely
As Waxer:Nis Jet Bla4ing, the pride 'the beau.
On a map.e.tree near sat a tattle bevrai ng,
With sorrowful cooings, the loss of h love;
Each note that she utter'il seem'd sad ,ss exaling,
And plaintively echo'd around tl ill grove,
y
When, lo! in my boots the lone m ti?r perceived
Iler form, and supposed that her ver was there;
Even I, that the vision was real ha believed,
The Bic/eking reflected her imag so clear.
She hover'd around, at the figure still gazing,
Anxiety seem'd hut to heighten her woe;
She perch'd on the boot, with a courage amazing,
And fondled the vision that bloom'd in its glow.
How wild were her cries when the fairy illusion
She found but a cheating and transient shade,
Like hope's airy dreams, but a fading delusion
That shone in the bloom WARREN'S Blacking displayed.
1 pity'd the dove, fur my bosom was tender,—
I pity'd the strain that the gave to the wind;
But I ne'er shall forget the superlative splendour
Of WARREN'S Jet Blacking, the pride of mankind.

This.Easv-shining and Btilliant BLACKING is prepared by
ROBERT-WARREN, :30, STRAND, LONDON, and sold in
every Town in the Kingdom.
LIQUID, •in Bottles, and PASTE BLACKING, in Pots,
at Od., 12d., and IBd. each.

Q Be particular to inquire for " WARREN'S, 30, Stcand
all others are counterfeit.

[ADVfiRTISEMENT.]
THE POWDER MAGAZINES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Two to one,• Mr. Editor, are formidable odds to contend
against either in ruins or in argument, in the latter case, more
especially, when the single-handed disputant is opposed to such '
hyper-critics. as Messrs. Ileoni4iiieeiAt and Rum ita.c—gentle- '
men, who for lack of argument deal in overst fined inferences
and contraband conclusions ; who luxuriate t the subtleties of
special pleadirsg, and valourously fire lon hots at the shadow
instead of manfully grappling with the 1. is advanced by their
adversary;—gentlemen who have labo riouslv studied in the
modern school of ethics, and made th grand 'discovery that it
is now almost a crime in any one t d end from spoliation his
own property or the rights of otl whose interests may be
confided to his care. Unhappily me this school of philoso-
phy was unknown to the world w n I was under instruction;
hence I imbibed the more ancie t notions of duty, of equity,
and of justice which are still impressed upon my mind, and
which I have endeavoured to enforce upon that of the public
with reference to the subject under discussion.
Instead of wasting my powder in a Useless skirmish 'about
mere words or isolated expressions I shall proceed to restate
the question at issue.
For .abouLThil,years the powder magazines have stood-where
they now stand; certain speculative capitalists, some ten or ff.-
' teen years since obtained possession of the land adjoining these
magazines, and erected villas thereon; before they engaged in.
this undertaking not a word was about the dangers to be appre-
hended from an explosion; houses sprung up in rapid succes-
sion, an hotel was even burnt down in their immediate neigh-
bourhood, but still not a word was said about the magazines; in
short things went un smoothly and pleasantly enough until to-
wards the latter end of September last when some puhlic-spirited
residents on the other side of the water discovered, possibly at
a mechanics' institute lecture, that gunpowder is a combestible
compound which generally explodes—when ignited: Possessed
of this grand secret a train of placards was laid along the whole
coast from the New Ferry to the Red Noses, and also on board
all the passage boats plying between Liverpool end Cheshire,
calling a public meeting at the Egremont Hotel to take into
consideration this new unforeseen, unforethought-of cause of
alarm. Well, in due course of time the meeting was heldi but,
strange to tell, no invitation was sent to any person connected
with or having charge of the magazines to explain the extent of
the apprehended danger, or the precautions taken to guard
against it. I have read your report of its proceedings, and all
that I can glean from that luminous paper is, "that some gen-
• tlemen, who reside on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, and some
otherrwho are interested in the lands and buildings in the int
mediate vicinity of the powder mooazines," met at the Egre-
mont Hotel, and, on the motion of Mr. Bartley, called William •
Healing, Esq., to the chair, and passed certain resolutions. I
take fur granted that some gentleman connected with your
paper was present at this meeting, but judging from the sub-
stantial and generally circumstantial correctness of their reports
I come to the conclusion, as none of the speeches delivered on
that occasion were published, that the train of placards did not
take fire, and that the assembly was not composed of very many
persons front either side of the river; indeed, from inquiries
which I have subsequently made in the neighbourhood of Egre-
mont, I have good reason to believe that not even twenty per-
sons were in attendance, and have equal reason to doubt whe-
ther half that number of residents thought the subject of suffi-
cient importance to induce them to neglect their ordinary pur-
suits in order to ward off the great and impending danger which
they had been told threatened their lives and property. Will
lirqubiliunist or Humanizes venture to assert that the meeting
was of a more important character than I have given it? aro
they prepared to say that all the gentlemen who signed the requi-
sition were at the meetiug ? and yet the persons who did attend
hail the effrontery to propose, carry, and promulgate resolutions
having for their object first the destruction of a valuable pro-
perty in which I am interested by means which, if successful,
will deprive me of its valve; and, if unsuccessful, then to levy
a tax on the inhabitants of Wallasey and Liverpool to further