The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-16 00:00:00

CLASS PRIZES

FIRST CLASS . .
SECOND CLASS f \VINOD, A.
1 (transferred to Burdon.)
THIRD CLASS
FOURTH CLASS Smith, Samuel.
FIFTH CLASS
Certificates of Proficiency and Diligence during the past
half year were awarded to Hodgson, sen., lams ; Hodgson,
jun., 2dus ; and Booker, 3tius.
The Prize in Writing to Cumming, jun.

MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The successful candidate for the vacant POTTER SCIf OLAF
SHIP was declared to be James Seddon.
THE REV. THE PRINCIPAL'S}
to Webster.
DIVINITY PRIZE: . ...
THE HEAD MASTER'S MA- 1
IO Hornby.
THEMATICAL PRIZE ....
THE HISTORICAL PRIZE .. .. IO Wilks.
MR. WILSON'S CLASSICAL.
1 to Seddon, C.
PRIZE .
MR. HUME'S ENGLISH PRIZE IO Harboard.

CLASS PRIZES.
FIRST CLASS
f ISt. Seddon, James
.• * •• • 1 2nd. Davidson,, W.
SECOND CL Ass
51st. Pearce, E. A.
.
2nd. Wilks ; Campbell, J
THIRD CLASS
FOURTH CLASS
12nd. Smith, T. J.
51st. Fannin.
2nd. Hebson.
Ist. Overend.

FIVIII CLASS

SIXTH CLASS

Jenson, T.
12d. Hall,
f Ist. Leather, A
12d. M'Connan
Ist. Leather, se
MATHEMATICAL ARITH- 2d. Roberts, .1
METICAL PRIZES
4th. Brownbill.
r Ist. Harboard.
J 2d, Bell.

SIf,VENTH CLASS

EIGHTH CLASS

DRAWING PRIZES

1 3d. Grindrod, J
lAth. Bailey.

jlst. Pearce.
2d. Baldwin, C

FRENCII PRIZES

3d. Rogers, J.
I.4th. Abbott.
{lst. Harem, Alfred
2d. Wilson, W. J.
3d. Pearson, J.
4th. Inman.

WRITING PaIZES

Certificates of Proficiency and Good Conduct were awardc
to Conway, Leake, R. J. Taylor, M`Quie, Widowson, Orm,

LOWER SCHOOL
FIRST MOLYNEUX SCHOLAR. Roberts.
SECOND Do. Do. Atkinson.
THE REV. THE PRINCIPAL'S Roberts.
DIVINITY PRIZE
FIRST HISTORICAL PRIZE .. Yates.

CLASS PRIZES

FIRST CLASS
SECOND CLASS
THIRD CLASS

Roberts.
Johnston.
Goulboon
Butler.
Rimmer.

FOURTH CLASS
FIFTH CLASS .

Boz's NIGHT THOUGHTS.—A dark and dreary night ;
people nestling in their beds or circling late about the fire.
Want, colder than charity, shivering at the street corners;
church towers humming with the faint vibration of their ton-
gues, but newly resting from the ghostly parchment "One;
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yes-
terday ; the clomps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral
feathers, waving to and fro; all hushed, all noiseless, and in
deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon,
and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the
ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops
again, and follows like a savage on the trail. Whither go
the clouds and wind so eagerly? If. like guilty spirits, they
repair to some dread conference with powers like themselves
in whet wild region do the elements hold council, or where
unbend in terrible disport ?-11fartin Chuzzlewit.
THE BUM AND THE -LAWYER.—The following 'curious
anecdote is related in the Cheltenham Examiner, of -a gen-
tleman of the legal profession practising within the circuit of
that town, who was more conversant with the theory of
fluents than with Archbold's Reports or Blackstone's
Commentaries. Being sorely -pressed by the relentless duns,
who wished to present certain loving epistles from Queen
Victoria, he was regularly run to earth in his two-pair. back,
which he denominated Pantile lodge. • There he rested,
setting the fates and John Doe at defiance for a considerable
time, though they knew very well where the game lay, yet
failed in every attempt upon him. To elf kind rnesSageS
the reply of the scout was " Gone into the eountry." Presents
from the country sent as s rusewere returned, indited "Gone"
Run away," " Not found," and other equally. agreeable and
satisfactory solutions of the problem. The tender of a couple
of six and eightpences, so dear to lawyers' eyes, was virtuously
resisted; our hero bore this state of siege with a constancy
whit* had done honour to General .Chasse himself, and the
bailiffs were regularly at fault. Matters continued in this state
for some time, when one day, shortly after noon, a gentle-
man—a wealthy grazier in appearance—country-built tops,
broad brim, and abundance of broad cloth—was seen walk-
ing leisurely up street; he stopped short a door with
the word " Office" thereon, knocked, and his inquiry of the
scout, " Mr. within ?" was responded to by the usual
answer, " Gone into the country." " Dear me, that's un-
fortunate; I wanted particularly to consult him (and pulling
out a neat bundle, bound with red .tape) ; but perhaps you
could write to him, if we could get an answer to-morrow ; if
not, I must go over to Mr. —." " Stop a minute," says
the scout ; " I'll just take the brief to the upper office, and
our manager shall look it over." " Oh, oh (thought the
grazier) ; here we are, are we ?" The parcel was put into
the hands of the scout, who immediately posted up to the
office. In the twinkling of a bedpost, the grazier had cased
himself of his ponderous boots, and was creeping tiptoe up-
stairs; and, in a moment more, a gentle tap on the shoulder
convinced Mr. that he was unearthed at last, and the
brief required very brief examination. That very night Mr.
removed from Pantile lodge to very fashionable and
commodious apartments in tile county town. So, it seem s
sometimes the oldest birds may be caught with chaff.
IRELAND IN 1689.—500 n after his arrival from France,
King James met his parliament in Dublin, on 7th May,
which was composed of Papists, who were slaves to his will,
many of them descendants of the forfeiting persons of 1641,
who had no freehold estates in the kingdom, and made many
fine promises to them. The parliament recognised the title
of King James, and declared Kinir William an usurper.
They repealed the settlement of 1662, under which many
thousands of Protestants had purchased possessions, arid
were now suddenly deprived of them : this was violently pul-
ling down the pale of the law, in a manner never before heard
of among the professors of Christianity. it wounded na-
tional-faith, and stabbed public credit—broke the merchant
at home, and defrauded him abroad—ruined the farmer, and
impoverished the manufacturer. The rapparees, or armed
mob, deprived the Protestants of all their moveable estates;
and the parliament deprived them of all their lands and tene-
ments, which they had wonderfully improved. By this act
King James seemed to justify the grand Irish rebellion in
1641 ; and this was followed by an act of attainder, which ex-
ceeded the proscriptions of Sylla! They attainted of rebel-
lion no less than 2 archbishops, 1 duke, 16 earls, 20 viscounts
1 v

51 knights,
all declared

83 clergymen, and 2,233 gentlemen, who w(
traitors, and their estates confiscated or plundered

cannel had £20,000 a year granted him out of the confiscated
estates, and the King the same per month. Many hundreds
of poor persons were murdered in cold blood by the popish
soldiers, while the rich were robbed of their estates, and the
popish priests enabled to collect the tithes, which were pay-
able by papists. The Irish parliament sat only from 7th
May to 20th July, and yet, in that short time, they entirely
destroyed_the settlement of Ireland, by expelling the Pro-
testant clergy from their livings and the laity from their in-
heritances—they would have Ireland independent of Eng-
land, and wanted to repeal Poyning's act of 1494

robberies were committed under the name of free guar-
terings, and, though protections were sold to the Protestants,
they were disregarded by the Papists. The University of
Dublin was turned into a garrison, and all the public schools
in the kingdom given to Papists, who likewise seized upon
all the Protestant churches. The Protestants were at length

forbid to assemble together on pain of death, ;o

determined to hang one-halt of theta and

_ ••••.• •
But while they suffered so much from the parliament ,
of
Ireland, their protection was not neglected by the parlia-
ment of England, wha made Irish affairs a considerable
article of their proceedings.—Old History.

The Auckland Times is described as being " printed in a
mangle," and a strange piece of typography it is aecordingly.
The " sole editor and proprietor, Henry Falwasser," while,
in the meantime, taking to himself the humble cognomen of
the " Old Lady of the Mangle," experts daily his own press
and materials ; when, doubtless, the old lady will dispose of
her mangle, and purchase something more useful for

ing office. The style of the Mangle is quite sui generis. It
may be observed, that the occasion of ifs being printed by
such n machine is stated by the editor to have been the at-
tempt of the local government to stifle public opinion, by re-
fusing the proprietor the use of the only printing n3aierials in
the settlement, those of the government, as soon as it. was
perceived that the Times was determined to be very inde-
pendent in its strictures on public 'doings and misdoings.
The phrases suggested by the peculiar circumstance are very
amusing—" We stop the Mangle to announce the arrival of
the St. George."—" The Governor will repent having driven
us to the Mangle," &c. We have only room for one charac-
teristic description :—" Full many a time and oft have we
laughed over the distresses of Alantalini and his mangle, as

depictured by the inimitable Boz—we did not think this pro-
cess would so soon fall to our turn—nevertheless any one of
our subscribers; who is desirous of satisfying his curiosity,
may call in at High-street and see the Times MANGLED. To
here and there one, such as are steady and careful, we might
entrust the task of mangling their own copy, but the process
is a nice one, and must be as warily performed as if the ' es-
sential juice of the pine-apple' herself were standing over the
performer. Poor Mantalini used to grumble very distaste-
fully over his mangle, and nothing but the threatened alter-
native of enlisting, and all the horrors of pipe-clay and paste-
blacking, as could keep him steadily to his duty ; but we have
no such fastidious distinctions : we consider our mangle an

ingenious I and an honourable triumph over as contruiPtible
and sneaking attempt to stifle the press as ever was perpe-
trated ; and when we are enabled, by the arrival of the Sham-
rock from Sydney, to return in triumph to the full-blown
honours of a Columbian or an Albion patent, we shall part,
almost with a tear of regret, from the ponderous revolver
which has so efficiently mangled our sheets, and other people's
would-be despotism, at one and the ,ame time." The typo-
graphy embraces, sometimes within a single paragraph, almost
every specimen in the printer's book. Brevier, nonpareil,
large Roman, and italics, mingle together to give force and
variety, not only to successive syllables of the same word ;
and the want of the small k, in particular, obliging the printers
in every place. to make use of the larger Roman K, adds
strikingly to the appearance of the page, even although the
compositor may be said to be thus reduced to play for ever
upon the same KEY.