The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

Jan. 9, 1R44. Jan.
LONG HOURS IN MILLINERY ESTAB-
LISHMENTS.

The damp hair and pallid features of our young milli-
ners and dressmakers might have told us long ago—et
least, during the season of long and almost sleepless
hours—that they were taxed beyond their strength ; and
we were often very sorry, very sorry indeed, for thew.
We said they sat up too late, and perhaps rose too early'.
We observed to "Madame," with overflowing human-
ity, that the work-room (we peeped into it through the
glass doors) seemed ill ventilated ; and we frequently
perhaps inquired after one "young person" or another,
whose grace and loveliness had created an interest in her
favour. We heard she was gone home, or gone to the
country. She was, however, forgotten after one or tyro
more visits to the beautiful " show-rooms ;" for other
girls, as gentle and as pleasing, and more fresh, had
taken the places of our favourites, and so we came away,
only insisting that our order, given on Tuesday afternoon;
should be completed by Wednesday evening. " Madame'
shrugged and remonstrated a little—just a very little.
She said they were very busy—had never been so busy
—were up all night, and had been so for the last sis
weeks—that "everybody" wanted their dresses in such
haste; and if "every body" wanted their dresses in such
haste, why should not we have our order executed to the
time ? We repeated our instructions in a tone which
convinced " Madame" that if she failed she might lose
our custom ; and, of course, that being the alternative,
she had only to curtsey and promise. The consequence
of this want of consideration was another sleepless night
to the worn-out girls with whom we had sympathised;
and yet, if this truth did occur to us, we consoled our-
selves with the idea "that our dress, our single dress,
could not make much difference." We could have
ordered it two or three days before, but the weather was
too hot or too cold to get out, or we were .detained by
visitors—or—or, at all events, whether we ordered the
tress or not could m ake but little difference ; and dress-
makers are so unpunctual that we were obliged to say
we wanted it a day sooner than we really did. How
very, very angry we would be if told that, in saying we
required it one day, when really we did not want it till
another, we had been guilty of Jalsehood! And how our
hearts would have rebelled if accused of cruelty. If any
one had told us that we were guilty of cruelty towards
those young girls whom we would have drawn wide our
purse-strings to assist, whom we would have given to eat
of our bread and drink of our cup—if it had been told us
that so doing would serve them, how indignant we should
have felt ! though perhaps at the same moment the
brocade was trembling in their damp and slender fingers,
and they could hardly open their wearied and aching
eyes ; and, but for the haste our thoughtlessness had in-
sisted on, they would have enjoyed a few hours of the
refeshing sleep which, if we lack but for a single night,
our temples throb and our pulses quicken, and we corn-
pain of the long midnight hours, lacking rest. Our
thoughtlessness (to call it by no harsher name) occa-
soned a practical cruelty to a fellow-creature. We did
not intend this ; but we cause a great deal which we do
not intend. A little consideration will prove that we are
great gainers by looking things steadily in the face—
looking beyond the present into the future, which (so
rapid is the flight of time) becomes the present while we
are talking. The poor dressmakers have, however,
found many to advocate their cause, but the grand re-
dresser of evils is the public. The modiste of established
reputation will always find young persons, driven by
necessity to the sacrifice, to work during the long hours,
to the destruction of health, both of body and mind, if
ladies do not give sufficient time for the completion of
their orders. This is the great point; and it is mar-
vellous, when come to be seriously thought upon, that
one female will endanger the health of another by a
simple want of consideration. —Mrs. S. C'. Hall, in
Ainsworth's Magazine.

A NEW MODE OF DIVORCEMENT.—Two country gen-
tlemen hit the other day upon an expedient for dissolving
the Gordian knot, which we believe proved satisfactory to
all parties, but whether it was an original idea, or has
been imported from the land of Brother Jonathan. we
know not. Certainly it is knew to us, and will probably
be so to our leaders. A couple rendered miserable by
their domestic jars applied to the two gentlemen in ques-
tion to be "parted." After anxiously endeavouring to
remove the acids and restore the sweets between them,
and, after explaining that death only could part them, the
worthy gentleman put the anxious pair to this ordeal. A
cat was procured, and a cord tied round its neck with
noose. The husband was desired to hold one end of the
cord and the wife the other, and both to pull with their
might if they still wished to be put asunder, either party
being, however,thei r
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theH remembrancee'er,
away until poor puss was strangled, and " death having
thus " parted them,"' they were declared man and wife
no longer, and went their way rejoicing. We fear we
should overwhelm the gentlemen who presided over this
ordeal with business if we were to give a particular indica-
tion of their whereabouts : we deem it only necessary to
say, that the circumstances we have narrated occurred in
the county of Lancashire.—Bla kburn Standard.
DEATH OF A VENERABLE CHARACTER.—Died on
Saturday night, the 31st ult., at an advanced age, an
extraordinary and venerable character,—altho' severely
visited on her first attack with cold, she expired as peace-
fully and mildly as a lamb.. She had certainly for some
time been, diseased, and a variety of sympf ons had be-
trayed a constitution fast breaking up. Once- came the
Scotch fiddle, and this was followed by an inflamation that
seemed to spring from her Welsh flannel petticoat, and
her illness was much aggravated by repeatedly dining off
Irish stew, a dish strongly recommended to her by a
physician who had too much of her confidence, one Dr.
O'Connell, and by whose advice she strongly and foolishly
Ehr eecwiesia"
recommended it to her youthful successor.—On the whole,
however, she rallied frequently during her life to-a degree
tthati:a! seemed
matters
fondwas
orcchaupTrcichi,osuie stirit
her-
self into a fever more than once, upon smaller matterS
that must- have been nuts to dissenters ; such as black
gown and white gown, crossing or no crossing, standing
up and bowing down : and took delight in setting big
Whigs and Bishops by the ears. She had, however, a
good memory and some understanding, and recollecting
somewhat of the fires of Smithfield (by the way she was
rather fond of incendiarism herself) and the virtuous and
respectable Queen Mary long before she died, sent
Popery and his first cousin to the right about, the latter
of whom was very anxious to gain her hand. Peace to her
Manes! in the the spring of her youth she was lively,
joyous, and free; in her summer, cheerful and liberal;
in her autumn, sober and serene; and even the white
locks of her wintry age were more like silver than snow.
Be her pleasantries and worth long remembered, her sins
and her sorrows forgot ; and may no worse at least be
said of her posterity than of her dear old sepulchral ac-
quaintance, dear, long, accustomed, ancient friend,
eighteen hundred and forty three.—Philo.—Jan. 1, 1844.

THE. OLD MAN AND MS Ass.—An old man named
Edward: Birkett, residing in Skerton, Lancaster, where he
carries on an extensive trade in the crockery and mussel-
ling line, appeared lately at the judges'l,dging to answer
to a charge preferred against hill of having broken into
the pound at Skerton, and released his ass, where his
Neddychip had been lodged for having been found tres-
pa-sing where he had no right to be. James Lancaster,
the keeper of the pound, proved the offe,:ce, and showed
that,. by a recent act of parliament, the defendant had
subjected himself to a penalty not exceeding .C 5. On the
defendant, who, it is said, in early life belonged to a corn-
pany of strolling players, being called upon for his defence,
he threw himself into a theatrical attitude, and delivered
hiin. self after the following manner :
" My lords, mine ass is that by which I live.
Take him away, and shut him in a pound,
Rohs ms of many pounds. 'Tis through his aid,
That, from the tide-left sand and pebbly skein,
I loads of cockles and of mussels take
Whereby I to my neighbours do supply
A dainty feast—and that at small expense;
And, in return. I with their trifling coin
Do buy that which cloth feed my inward man.
. ass, my lords, is thus part of myself—
If I to him illegal freedom gave,
I pray your mercy and your quittance clear—
For I am old, and miserably poor—
And then, my lords, whene'er mine ass i drive,
You will be present to my grateful mind."
Notwithstanding this powerful and very affectingly-deli-
vered appeal, the defendant was fined lOs. and costs, or,
in default, sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for one calendar month—

Ten shillings !—ten farthings he them could not pay,
So to prison the constables took him away ;
And when going, he said, " Hird is the lacking of pelf,
For un•pounding my ass, I've im-pounded myself."

DEATH OF A ONCE CELEBRATED CHARACTER."-.
An individual died in Edinburgh a short time since, who
obtained an unenviable celebrity more than twenty years
ago. This was the Bishop of Clogher, who was iraiLted
for crime, in 1822, forfeited bail, and fled, was degraded
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extremely private,
scarcely any visitors being known to enter his dwelling,
but it was remarked that the post occasionly brought hill/
letters sealed with coronets. His incognito was wonder,
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in the name of Thomas Wilson. There was a plate upon
the coffin, which he had got prepared a number of year%
before, but without any name upon it. It bore a Latin
inscription, the sense of which was as follows :—" Here
lie the remains of a great sinner saved by grace, whose
hope rests in the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ." The preparation of this inscription Years before
shows that he was deeply penitent. He was very anxious
to conceal his true name, having got it carefully obliter'
ate(' from his books and articles of furniture. He gave
instructions that his burial should be in the nearest church
yard, that it should be co"ducted in the most private 50,1
plain manner, and at six in the morning. His directions
were complied with except in the selection of the ground'
His body was drawn to the cemetery in a hearse with one
horse, followed by five mourners in a one-horse coach, at
seven in the morning. Such was the obscure and humble
death and funeral of the Honourable and Reverend Percf,
Jocelyn, the son of a Peer, who spent the early years of
his life in the society of the great, and held one or the
highest ecclesiastical dignities in the empire. He WO
uncle to the present Lord Roden.—Scolornan,

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