The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-02 00:00:00

The stage-strult• hero' whO received his-inspiration from read-
ing a " mellow dram," no doubt looks upon the keeper of a
gm-shop as the magician best calculated to ",call np spirits
from the vasty deep."
LsGAcv Drry ARREARS.--A return of the amount received
under prosecutions by the legacy duty office for arrears of dray,
• or any other cause, in each of the past five years; distinguish-
ing each year :-1828, £65,366 19s. id.; 1829, €10,259 15s. 10d;
1830, £:38,10125.; 1831, £14,226 11s. Id. ; 1832, £35,340 3s. 6d.
IRISH IDEA of DisTANCE.—" If you meet a peasant on your
journey, and'ask him how far, for instance, to BaAlinrobe ? be
will probably say it is 'three short miles.' You travel on, and .
are informed by the next peasant you meet, that it is • five long
miles.' On you go, and the next will tell • your honour,' it is
about four miles, or about that same.' - The-fourth will swear,
•If your honour stops at three miles, you'll never get there
Bat on pointing to a town just before you, and inquiring what
place that is, he replies, Oh, plase your honour, that's Bailin-
robe, Sure enough! Why, you said it was more than three
miles off! "011, yes, to he sure and sartain, that's from my
own cabin, plase your honour. h'er'e no scholards in this coun-
try; Arrah! how can we tell any distance; plase your honour,
but from our own little cabin.' Robody but the schoolmaster
knows that, place your honour.'"-- Teeutise psi Happiness.
A FLINTY ORATQR.—At a meeting held sortie days ago on
Brandon Hill, near Bristol, a varier, of the name of Herring-
ton,•called on ministers to mend their War, -or in default, me-
naced them with dismisSal; and said lie held in his hand a
notice for them to quit (query—a pavito* stone ?) Tempera
mutantur, " but a few moons past," and this same ministry
might have commanded the very stones themselves, not to say
the pavier's only, to rise up and aid them in their schemes of
revolution, but, "now there is none so poor as do them reve-
rence."

`` THE VERNACULAR APPLIED TO' MEDICINE."—An article
has appeared lately in the Atlas under this title, purporting to
support the views adopted by Mr. Hill in the motion which he
proposes to bring before the House of Commons, to the effect
that physicians shall in future be obliged to prescribe in English.
Nothing can be more absurd than this. In the first place, the La-
tin is the language universally used for the purpose all over Eu-
rope • and unless the English were to be every where substituted,
the Eu-
rope; of the Latin language in England would tend
to unfit English physicians from prescribing out of their own.
country. In the next place, it is for the advantage of the pa-
tient to be kept in ignorance of the remedies which his medical
adviser administers for his relief, for many persons have so strong
a prejudice against particular medicines, that rather than swal-
low them,they would submit to death itself. Lastly, the change
would in reality not render the .majority of prescriptions any
thing more intelligible, for chemical names which there would •
be no doing without in prescribing mineral remedies, would be
as great a mystery to the uninitiated as the Egyptian hierogly-
phics to whiCh the writer in the Atlas alludes.
SOUTH WALES EISTEDDFOD.—We understand that the Mar-
quis of Bute has expressed that liberal disposition that we con-
fidently expected in his lordship, to promote every thing that
may tend to enhance the literature, poetry and music of Wales;
and has kindly consented to preside at an Eisteddfod, to be held
at Cardiff in the Autumn of 183.1, (probably the early part of • •
September.) Ile has also subscribed one hundred,#founds to-
wards the expenses. The picturesque keep of the titicient castle
will be fitted tip in order to hold the herdic meetings:e. and every
thing will be done by the noble Marquis to render the national
festival inferior to none which have taken place in the prin,ci- -
pality.—Merthyr Guardian.
REMARKABLE BIRD.-L-Last week a bird was caught alive in
a field near Bouvillestone, which, upon examination, proved to
be a white hen sparrow.' She was put in a cage and hung up in
the tap-room of a public-house, the Old Post, and, notwithstand-
ing the noise and confusion incident to such a place, she, in a
few days, layed three eggs, upon which eggs she is now sitting.
STORM.—On Wednesday. night last this port was visited with
a very severe storm, and it continued to blow a complete gale
from-the south-west for several hours, the lightning was very
vivid, and serious apprehensions were entertained for the safety
of the fishing, craft, a number of which were known to be at •
sea. We have only heard of one accident, however, in which
a boat swamped, and Mr. Doubtfire, formerly of St. Aubyn-
street, draper, and a man trainee Andersen, who were fishing
off the Eddystone, were both drowned. The trawls on the
whiting-ground observed the sea' strike the boat, but from the
severity of the storm, could render no assistance. Mr. Doubt-
fire has left a widow and seven children.—Plymouth Paper.
SCOTCH LAW Commisstote.—There is one result which we
anticipate from this Commission, namely, that jury trial in civil
causes will either be utterly done away with, or that it will be
placed on a very different footing from what it has hitherto
been. The country has now bad eighteen years' experience of
this mode of trial, and every year it has become more and more
unpopular, not to say hatetut to the lieges. It is in Scotland
what the Court of Chancery used to be in England, an object
of universal dread and abhorrence; and so far from being at-
tended with a saving of expense,. it is a sort of gulf in which one
or other of the litigants is certain to be swallowed up, and per-
adventure both. It has, besides, cost the country already some-
where about £lBO.OOO, which is rather too large a sum to pay
for the privilege of being ruined. But we shall return to this
subject anon, and bring some things under the notice of our
readers which are well deserving of their most serious attention.
—Caledonian Mercury.—rf his was a favourite Whig measure.
which, as usual, commenced in a job, and turned out a failure.
Great offence has been given by the Post-office to the mer-
chants trading with America, in suddenly stopping the practice
which has heretofore existed of making up a begot' letters at the
North and South American Coffee-house, to be conveyed by the
line of New York packets from Liverpool. By that means
merchants have been enabled, and the practiceiseif many ._,Years'
standing, to communicate weekly with any part of the United
States, a facility not to he obtained by any of the Post-office
arrangements then in existence, and therefore suffered to con-
tinue. An order has, however, been recently
_issued, to put a
stop to this practice, which has been declared illegal, and it is
intimated that the penalties for any violation of this order will
be enforced. The old communications with the United States
were by the Halifax mail, which carries the letters for the Ca-
nadas and the whole of British Anierica, and which used to
-touch at New York; but the letters by this circuitous voyagd
were thrown so much out of date, that no merchants availed
themselves of it, and latterly this packet has ceased to touch al
New York altogether; but it happens, that of the whole line of
New York paakets communicating with Liverpool and with
London, there is not one vessel of British ownership, and our
Post-office, consequently, can have no authority to compel any
of the masters of them to take a bag of' letters ; so that it cannot
carry into execution the arrangement, nor any thing approach-
ing to it in convenience, of n hich it has deprived the merchants.
The conductors of the Post-office are surely bound either to
establish packets for. conducting the..business which they insist
on having, or let the old arrangement go on till they can. Their
conduct on this occasion is universally characterised as odious
and capricious.— Times.
ELOPEMENT IN HiuH LIVE.—The recent elopement of Miss
Matilda Strachan, the beautiful ward of the Marquis of Hertford.
has created a very great sensation weetward—particularly
among the beau monde—as there are two disconsolate suitors
now in England, who were in expectation of being honoured
with her hand. One of these, the Count Sandor, a rich Hun-
garian nobleman, who gave the noble marquis a great deal of
trouble at Naples, being at Crockford's on Wednesday night
last, in the height of his parokysm at what he termed the dupli-
city of the fair runaway, gave vent to some most uncharitable
and ungallant anathemas against the continence of English
ladies in general—tvhich was immediately and most spiritedly
replied to by the Hon. Cecil Forrester, who stood forth the
champion of his countrywomen's honour and virtue. A fracas
was the consequence, and a duel was expected; but as we have
heard nothing of the recourse to arms, we suppose the II ungeti
Count was persuaded to retract his remarks upon English ladies,
and make the amends honorable. The particulars of the a ope-
ment we understand to be as follow ; The Noble Marquis, with
Lady Strachan and fancily, had reached Geneva, on Weir way
from Naples, being en route for England, when the Marquis was
taken seriously ill with rheumatic gout, and thus detained some
• days. On his partial recovery, and the morning of their in-
tended departure, just as they were about to quit the hotel, they
discovered, to their very great surprise, that the young lady
started a short time before them for Vienna, in company with
. the Count Berthould—leaving behind her a letter to inform her
friends that she had been married, above three weeks be-
fore, to the partner of her flight. 'The Count had, it appears,
been a frequent visitor to the Marquis, at Naples, without any
suspicion being entertained of his attachment to Miss Strachan
—indeed quite the contrary, for Count Sandor came here by re-
' quest to meet her on her arrival, and to his great chagrin, nis.-
ccvered, before he had been in London a week, that she was
actually betrothed to a Scotch nobleman, Lord 1(-- thus
proving the truth of the old adage—" Qui les abacus ont toujouri
tort."
A Rneuese.—Zedekiah Smitherton fell in love with farmer
Hobson's rosy daughter Elizabeth ; and as no introduction is
considered necessary among neighbours in that part of the -
to pay h
world, he "just dropped in" one eveuing
Old mortaler a visit.
He found Hobson himself, a surly, fat , sitting in
his elbow chair, with a pipe in his mouth and a mug of cider
on the table before him. After the usual compliments, which,
on the farmer's part were almost lost in the puffs of tobacco
smoke, Zedekia i asked timidly, "if Miss Elizabeth was at
home." " To-be-sure she's home," said farmer Hobson, "she's
washing clothes ;—do you want to see her?—Puff; puff,
,puff."
—" Yes, sir," responded the lover blushingly. " et l' cried
the farmer in a tone which made Zedekia'n tremble ; " Bet,
come out here; a man wants to see you—Puff." Miss Betty
came out accordingly, smoothing down her apron and look.-
ing delightfully. " Puff, puff. 'Well, Sir, do you see her '-s"
said farmer Hobson to Zedekialc.—" Yes, Sir," says Zed.
" Well Sir,—you know the way out, I suppose.—Bet, go back to
your wash tub—Puff, puff, puff, puff." This was Zedekiah's
first and last visit to farmer Hobsem's.
Oursesves.—lt is well saidby a Parisian contemporary that
in England, time is considered in the light of an income or a
treasure—an object of inestimable value. The English are
spendthrifts with their money, but misers with their time. No-
thiug can exceed the punctuality with which they keep their
engagements. Your F.nglishman sets his watch by that of his
friend, and is rigidly
.at his post at the very minute and place
agreed upon. The pronunciation of the language itself seems
calculated for economising time; John Bull cats his letters and
whispers his words ; nor did Voltaire observe without fair
grounds—" The Engish contrive to gain two hours a day upon
us by simply eating their syllables." 'lliere is but little exchange
of compliments amongst therm fur every compliment is esteem-
ed so much time wasted; because their salutation does-not
transgress the hounds of a short nod of the head, or, at the most,
a contraction of the four monosyllables, "How d'ye do ?"
There are none of your "most humble, most devoted, and most
obedient," at the tail of their correspondence; ceremony is cut
to rags by simplicity. The 1 nglish are sparing of speech ; their
very manner of expressing themselves smacks of hurry, and
their language is characteristic 01 it; for it is composed to a
great extent of monosyllables, and even two of these are often
melted into one. It is a perfect stenography of words. The •
industry of the country meets one at every point ; and there is
scarce a native to be found in it, who is not trained to the prac-
tice of this principle, that, " to avoid confusion and ruin, a man
must hepunctual .in every relation of life, and prompt iu every
motion."-
Loan CIiANCRLLOR BROUGII AM'S rEF.-11 is perhaps
not generally known that the first fee received by the pree.eut -
talented occupant of the Woolsack seas paid to him by a profes-
sional gentleman in town, through the hands of the late Mr.
Grierson, W.S., Edinburgh, for drawieg a reclaiming petition
on behalf of a commercial firm which then existed in Ayr.
The plea, we believe, related to a disputed contract for the sup-
ply of regimentals for some of the trained hands which turned
out in this county so patriotically and with such praiseworthy '
alacrity, when the whole civilised world was up in antic against •
us, in the vain hope of subduing the lion quit which blazed
over the entire leugth and breadth of the "-tight little island."
hlr. Brougham, in acknowledging the receipt of the money:
from lelr. Grierson, meutioned to Unit gentleman that it was the :
first fee paid to hint siuce he had rassed f end, said the manly
chancellor, in a mouthful of homely Scotch, " t hope, freetl,
it'll be quid luck." Good hick it certainly boded; and eliouhtl
this paragraph by any chance meet the eye of the illustrious •
individual to whom it chielly relates, we feel assured he will
glad to learn that the p ovincial practitioner who first directed
his loaf to be ereeshed, still now s, not a "sweet bud," it is true,
but an aged stein, on " the banks o' the Ave." where he lon-
a degree of enthusiasm which admits of no change.—alyr Obe
s,:reer.