The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-18 00:00:00

°CtOBER .18, 1833.

LOCAL NEWS.

111.0 tt,
'Wright° .S ELECTION.—Te Understood that Mr. Alderman
he ofacewd! be put
in iaorninatien to-day, at ten o'clock, to till
that
an , ot Mayor fer the ensuing year. We are not aware
suistallroother candidate ,has been named, but, to prevent all
n this hea.d- we have earnestly to request the early at-
\yr;of the freemen at the hilStiiigs. 'ln Mr. Alderman
. t the burgesses.
the have a sincere and zealous friend, and at
;'",,„.eperesent moment it is desirable that .no man should fill the
_ceosf chief magistrate who is not independent in 'his circum-
tol‘.n and of approved principles. The freemen, therefore,
,th.Tll, all intrigue or manceuvre must be at their posts. We
to' give the result of the election in our second 'edition.
h
Papjed Vans.'s lectureS' on historical architecture are accom-
,„ies a great number" of coloured paintings, exhibiting
' etFum a large scale, of many of the principal buildings in
IYP', with the " Home,
tinted , e cassical exaraples from Greece and R ,
„0 with drawings of the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon,
`.ltuiaa buildings, and external and internal views of the
".,".that have been excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
rress",„Pl;oposes, in his last lecture, to trace the rise and pro-
oar 01 Uothic architecture from the rude Saxon to the more
from or Norman style, with the separation of the pointed
Have f'4e Norman, including the variety of improvements that
the,
aornished materials for the decoration of our ancient ga,
staeLr Is from the era of Edward 111. to the more elaborate chia-
-tickur °tile Perpendicular style, of which St. Luke's thurch is
f "ledged be In the subscription list
or sir. a ne specimen. m
tof the eighain's lectures at tbe Lyceum, the,.names ot so e
inost lespectable families in Liverol. writ be found, as
t leni" bv th • • this amusing and interesting
e• en. patronage,
°liTh
of 'llessrs
e(1,1 ursdey was launched from the building-yard .
rite and Leadley, a new steam-boat, El Balear, of 2W tons
theleu• and of 80 horse power. She had, when launched,
tp_art of her engines onboard, and will be ready for sea on
n uf November, which will be only three months from the
Y the keel was laid.
On T
uesda-
y one. of those disgusting scenes yclep'd a prize-
-11:;11(iet eai enacted at the Rabbit Warren, below Crosby. We
,c)ra nd that them:tan ." wut lost the
he
was under 20
nearly
,tw-e, out of herculean proportions. The contest laste
werenfunra and twenty minutes, during which time 98 rounds
for o,,Ought• A subscription purse, we believe, was the otrject
ich thevigorously contended.
B parties so
,„ strAL ereact.--On Saturday last, during the loading of
- cart e,
.stsee, ',Played in carrying cotton from a warehouse in Vernon-
the a,bale was being lowered, when the rope slipped from off
.natimrcnase, and the bale was precipitated into the cart, fortu-
.4e.,!(l,Y wittiout injury to the carter; he, 'however, thiuking the
at,tthient occurred from neglect on the part of the man employed
*uf g e wheel, ascended to thc loft, and found the man in the act
eseearing the rope. He immediately took hold of him by the
tenaa• and. knoekiag down, commenced kicking the poor
°R tr•l a most brutal manner, after whiefithe wretch left him
„eon, e floor nearly senseless. The porter was, howeVer, shortly
ea' neighbouring- when, upon examination, it
ws, proved surgery, .
that four of his ribs were broken, and his body re d ad-
bruised Th tl after taken into custody,
dread-
addno • e carter was sor s.
d,,, Pi awaits the issue of his barbarity. fhe man now lies in
..gerou,
We tate.
,iert yesterday heard of a man who, for a trifling wager,.un-
Airs •
%lc to • j t bed-room up two pair of ict a ericsa ern. pony in o a ,
;Preen' 't; a public-house on the London-road. The man having
•sh,,A a bunehof reens, and allowed Balaam snift at theme,
the rote presently followed his incipient master up the stairs to
xvs, rut appointed. He was evidently there, but the difficulty
y
ti6t °lv to get him dOwn again. The stupid ass refused all
.co!i-
(lent- P' Measures • andwas, therefore, after showing his. in
fore?),Thing 'sundry crockery ware and a small looking-glass,
in "13' ei ected, and Balaam came down with a run, which ended
braltlY think hiit fun to the pnee nial---tie having in his her.-rg
eu;s'en his off fore-leg and severely cut his nose.. 'The frlisn
lost"''' has thus, for a rifling wager, (a gallon of ale, we believe,)
.the services of one of his best friends, and the means of pro-
ring a
• TH r,
Inv ,• tqszatcz PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—The quarterly meet-
re_
''4 tie comMittee a the •Diitrict Provident Society was held
Tuesday last, the Rev..A. Campbell in the chair, and . the
hil,?rted progress of the society in its rovident branch, was.
gulY satisfactory•understood that its ulterior
at. It should be
. most valhabli object is not so Mach te relieve th poor, as
4untdristruet and induce them to relieve themselves byeprudence.
for sene"cnaY, by saving money during the time of active work
emergency of sickness or want of employment, an in
4 es6s
Ilion -et the visitors have been progressively successful. 'the
lest -At of deposits received in the twelve months previous to
3569 aY Was £5946 18s. 51d., whereas, that received from
Lad; Pot, depositors in six months from May to October, I ,
xb„ °,1:1015 inclusive, was £4445 4s. (Ad., and itis confidently
;71",,CLea• that the amount of deposits will. shortly average LIM)
atent.l2. T.he. üblic will at once perceive how infinitely be-
hauelal. w
°nut be if it could be made more general, and all
'lneBteiruers, who 'have any time to spare; are •earnestly.re--
boosrse to consent to act as visitors among their
poor i
gbie
411ini; • \ ery little time is required, and the labour will
vi,he ieompensated by the fruits. The Rev. Mr. '1 whoyrearn,da
everr An, St Matthew's district, collects between
it only
take., Monday mornin from about 100 depositors, and_
the
-110 e;, him about an hour and a half to do so. The funds of
re letY are by no means naa flourishing state, as the treasurer
tgjte4 that he was in debt £l6B to the bank, notwithstanding
an
for was subscribed in August by a few benevolent individuals the relief of families suffering under the cholera. But the
•th,aatll subscriptions are now due, and it is earnestly hoped
hen 4.*." householders will not, for their own sakes, permit so
for eticial a society to be crippled in the exteut of its usefulness
want or funds.
3°hll co;

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am al flier,..o Esq. M.P. is appointed Portuguese `'ice-Con
et Pi 11 • ) •,-
ei_ ~, Yinout .
and r Lowry Cole, late Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
ea suite, tia.ve arrived off Portsmouth in the Belle Alliance,
~esi'ten Arckoll. Complimentary addresses had been pre-
ductte(l te his excellency previous to his departure, for his con-
while he held the reins of government.
hi
.
or -: four inspectors reauired by the act to regulate the labour
ark,lul in mills an factories have been appointed, and
s names are—T. J. Howell, John Musgrave;•Richara Rick-
-4.P4 Robert Sannders,. Esqrs. ,
The • " ' • . , ,
-.metal pal of the stamp duty upon soda water, and all other
waters, took place on the 10th instant.
The laws of Russia already form a pan dect of from 50 to 60
volumes folio.
High treason is the only crime in Russia punished with death.
SFort c T• ri L that till lately, £55
. TING ORPOR tTloN.—ii. a,pe.rs
._.—Year has been paid out of the corporate funds of Brecknock
oleiitru keeping
c-- is
up a pack of hounds. Quere.—lsthcaotnannoccietendt
with a' th., e "Common Hunt" of the city of London,
a Similar object?
13.84 the new road which is about to be cut from Bristol to
,Z(Newater,•the distance will be shortened five miles, which,
t reache° t 0 the evenness of tne ground, will enable the Math mail
to
Exeter an hour sooner than at present. -
eras e
Lord enthusiastic Frenchman, a great adinirer of the.
he shall,
es a L'lsYor, proposes that, on the 9th of November, n na'ci
I,a,,thark of the respect of his fellow-citizens, be"cuurunneof.
a
,i,-hniEtts.' The idea ought not to be lost sight
4 -"ne Passive resistance to the payment of taxes seems to be
PPropriately met by ministers with a most lively apathy.
A. ina •
of L. 11 in Dublin, who, during a fit of intoxication, had part
Ni 's fate and hand eaten away by a pig,
eath h •
of his present con-
ditio • ',nal, and the following statement was taken to the
, a Is given in an Irish paper:—
hal:3lll.e Earl of Derby's celebrated seat, the Oaks, near Epsom,
justeeen recently purchased by Sir Charles Grey, late Chief
tensedin lee
.0( Bengal, who entertained a fashionable party at
t_
aner there last week. Mr. Secretary Stanley would h
rehted the Oaks had it not' been for its distante from town.
moved to which the right honourable gentleman has_ re-.
G --' at Putney, was the residence ofthe late Dowager Lad).
raniharn
Lora •
church Stuart de Rothsay has purchased an estate at Christ.:
14411;1' Hants, to which his lordship has given the name. of
lady „aY, Castle, and where he is at present sojourning with his
of tire'llu family. This able diplomatist, after an active service
n
life. 917 thirty years, has withdrawn for the present from bit
Earl tli, lordship, by his union with a daughter of the presentpu
, of Ila.rdwick;has two daughters, but no heir to his peerage.
O •
agei morning last, an awful event occnr.red at the
%), lnn Mitcheldeah, Gloucestershire. A private of the
ter, „essars, on his way from Abergavenny to the head.qua.r-
role"' the regiment at Gloucester, to take his trial for rusuh-
gu,4ation, managed to seize a loaded carbine from one
.of his
thr r`is' placed the muzzle of it to his breast, and shot himself
iull"gh the heart. The deceased was a very fine young man,
4ddyi..t.lineteen Years of age, a native of Ireland, and unhappily
bed 'red to drinking. A coroner's inquest was_ held upou the
the Y 111 the afternoon, and a verdict returned of fel° de se. In
lio.J°eket of the wretched and misguided man was found a
1,47.,f,
attached to which was a riband, and a request that it
inokutict4,l 1)e
,e nv
coerl e ed to a young woman in Abergavenny.---Mon-
'.7
Al
lit,,,,4nett ON SUPLIMSTITIOL—A. poor man residing at Wood-
'' hi this county, a short time since had a sow which brought
k litrerrwo of pigs, and as it not unfrequehtly does occur, a day or
1. , afterwards the sow and pigs appeared to be very ill, his
irarig,,',4".ors assured him that they wer.e bewitched, and by their
It'44sion he was induced to the horrible act of actually roast-
sifi°lle of the little creatures to death, as the. only means of
would' the rest, and' finding out. the witch, whom they asserted
w.trer4d.he sure to appear during the ceremony. In this they
astthe leeePeinte,l; of course,. hut the sow and pigs.recoyered,
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epuer little sufferer we doubt not would have done, had it
?tribs en
su itihnroilulv destroyed. We had hoped that in a
72.: Christian country, in the nineteenth century, an act displaying
Yo barbarity and credulity would not have been perpe-
sr Crated.—lftintingdon Gazette.
ilt,,r„1111 TR AV EL LER OCTWITTED.—A commercial traveller set
pR.1.1 from a town in the north a England very early one morn-
ie and on approaching a turnpike-gate found- it shut; he
re'tn"3:ll several tunes " Gate, gate," itc. Ste. At length an aged
for de? I.'oule her appearance, half asleep. After lecturing her
chic, `attriitg him so long, the knight of the whip drove his
set ~.,e en without pitying te toll, determined that the old dam-
ts,,r )111uld have a run for it. She shouted and trotted after him
ahilf;uout four hundred yards, when he stopped and gave her a
her'N, the toll being only sixpence, ,at the same time telling
`lame mat he would teach 'her to remember him.. The cunning
;eiitnedwoatiltked away without giving him the change, on which he
to her. "Nay (said she) if ye wad hae your change
to tijun coin back fur it." So be had to turn round and drive
gbas,.. e gatehouse for the sixpence, on giving which the old wo-
'44lsl•ye a familiar nod, and said, " Keep that in remembrance
hot 2.''eGEviTy of TREES,—Decandolle holds that trees do
seems
untin. of old age, in •the real sense of the-word," by which he
!oe!neatt that they would live for ever if provided with ans
or
stuo.ited supply of nourishment, and not• destroyed by sto,i•hie.
AeitsbaT of the many accidents which trees are heir to.
tohn
thight bt"ef a.ceording to Adanson's ingenious compnta i
~
e,,,:tili:roewlittecessUtea),piersears old, but it grows in . climes unlike our,
the hurtful vicissitudes of frost and heat. In
jug in all 'uturY there are oaks, elms, and yews, still flourish-
contemn the pride of the forest, which have probably been the
that themties of David and Solomon. Decandolle thinks
l'2ovoyleva.oi:rs"i• .sth"orsPe
the ooafntaius Abbey, near-Ripon, may have stood
; Crowhurst churchyard, in Surrey, 1450;
and" that inu'"'"el, at the entrance of Glenlvon; Perth, 2500;
startliog state Alllll churchyard, Kent, 3000. These are
and are haseats, but they proceed from a high authority,
. DEFENCE oil observati that entitle them to respect.
. in writing to °T: BAD SPELLING.—You need not be concerned,
as our al h ,_ e, about your bad•spelling • for in my 9pinion,
so, i,
ellca?et now stands, the bad speliing, or what is called
tern and -ei. L.ttY the best, as conforming to the sound of the let-
received et the words. To give You an instance. A gentlem..an
b o a letter,
"-31. wn at , in which were these words—" Not finding
uLt.. „ Irani, / delivered y nesseg to Iris .."
called
111(1,i lig it bad spellin-gouritherefore YI ' lt 131
.eil d his it
meanl hr, and not yery rnte igi. ,e,
The gentle-,
picked out the p him to read it. Between 'them they
nr)ertato ng of all but the 91; which they could not
eutt,„ Bett,' The lady proposed canine. her chambermaid, be-
-4..
eany one I know.
int. of q
Is she, has the best knack of reading bad spell-
Betty came, and was surprised that
the ta r str nor madam
1, oyispplla
wit. could tell what itt' was. " Why," says
aaLuch better e what else can it spell ?" And, indeed, it
as well as a shorter method of spelling wife
than
")4 be!/"8 ..i; ef, e, which in reality spell Deitt/eyUiei•