The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

CHURCHES.-

in the preparatory arrangemi
series of three plans has just

to the numerics 1 circumstances of di
cording to these plans, a (
be erected

one containing 1,000 sittings for £720. These
estimates are made on the supposition that they are built
above ground principally from brick. Their appearance is
sufficiently handsome, and the architects speak positively as
to the essential points of safety and comfort.—Glasgow
paper.

On Tuesday last, George Hellman, E
of Madalene College, Cambridge
the e

dergraduate

discovered by one of

want; quite lifelesi, having evidently been dead

appears,

tutor from seven to eight o'clock the previous evening, and
after taking tea with another of his companions about nine
o'clock, he complained of a pain in his head, to which he was

constitutionally liable, and was recommended to retire to
rest immediately by a friend who left him at a quarter-past
ten o'clock. He was quite dressed when discovered in his
bed-room, and from the fact of the pitcher being upset in the

irevious to his doing to bed

MONEYMANTA.—Last week there died, in the village of
not far from Appleby, a decrepit old man, who in
e of the most dis-

sipated spendthrifts in the county of Cnumberland. His
father, indeed, who was a farmer of some opulence, had
found it necessary to discard this son that he might retain
some provision for the other two; these however, ultimately
died early, and left the subject of this account a considerable
t his habits, changed, and he

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of woney to

reckless of it. He lei the residence of his forefathers for a
tolerable rent, and ensconced himself in a hovel upon the
estate, little better than a cowshed. Here an old crone used
to come twice a week, for the sake of a few pence, to put his
rcom in a habitable state and bring a short supply of pro-
visions for its tenant. But the unhappy miser always
seemed to dread her approach, lest she should discover the
hoard of gold he had amassed, and seldom quitted except by
stealth ; indeed, be fancied every human being was about to
rob him, and seldom slept without a brace of old rusty
pistols by his bedside, one of which he once presented at the
old woman and snapt its lock (happily with no effect) in her
face, because she stared at him. The old woman imme-
diately left his house, nor did she return till he was lately
found dead there, and all the wealth gone from it.

THE LATE Du. SOUTHEY.—For the last three years Dr.
Southey had been in a state of mental darkness, and a
twelvemonth ago he was not able to recognise those who
had been his companions from his youth. Scarcely could
his wife console herself with the poor hope that he recog-
nised even her. Excess of mental labour in every depart-
ment of literature—poetry, history, biography, criticism,
and philosophy. continued from year to year, without cessa-
tion—bowed his strong spirit at last, and obscured the genius
which had so long cast a glory upon the literature of the age.
As a poet, with an exuberance of imagination seldom equalled,
and a mastery of versification never surpassed ; and as a prose
writer, at once elegant and forcible, his name will endure as
long as the language in which he wrote. He was appointed
poet-laureate in 1812. He was twice married—first in very
early life, and again but a few years before the mournful
overclouding of his intellect, to Miss Caroline Bowles, a
lady whose name as a poetess had been long and favourably
known to the public, and who, in the last sad and blank
years of his life, watched over him with the tenderest soli-
citude, and did all that the most devoted affection could do
to lighten the heavy load of his existence. In all the rela-
tions of life Dr. Southey was universally allowed, by these
who knew him best, to be truly exemplary. Dr. Southey
was a gentleman in the best sense of the word. His house

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with suitable introduction, and there are few persons of any
distinction who. passed through that picturesque region who
have not partaken of his hospitality.

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