The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-11 00:00:00

FAHION, FACTS, AND FICTIONS.

It is rumoured (but we do not vouch for the accuracy of the
report) that their Majesties contemplate sojourning three or
four days at St. James's Palace, previously to their visit to the
Pavillion at Brighton ; in which case, it is added, their Majes-
ties will visit each of the patent theatres.

The Duke of Wellington, it is understood, will remain a
fortnight longer at Weimer Castle, with the party now on a
visit to his Grace. In consequence of numerous applications
received by the Duke, he has deemed it necessary, it is said, to
prevent trouble and further importunities, to luive a lithogra-
phic letter prepared announcing that "he holds no communi-
cation with the Irish government."
Lord Barham and his newly-married lady (late Lady Frances
Jocelyn) have been added to the numerous fashionable Con-
tinental tourists. They have taken their departure from Bar-
ham Court, near Maidstone, for Paris, whence they travel
through Lyons, Savoy, Turin, Milan, Florence, and Rome, and
take up their residence at Naples, where so many of our no-
bility will likewise remain during the winter. Prior to their
departure they paid a visit to Sir Gerard Noel, the venerable
parent of ins lordship, at Exton Park, in Rutlandshire.
The eldest daughter of 'Sir Bethel and the Hon. Lady Cod-
rington, is about to bestow her hand on Shaw, Esq.. of
Queen knne-street. The ceremony is expected to take place
in about a fortnight.

Earl Dudley's will has at last been proved, and probate
granted for 1,:g50,000, personal property, within the province of
Canterbury. His lordship has written a codicil, in his own very
neat autograph, upon note paper, by which he leaves Lady
Lyndhurst an annuity of £2,006 a-year, to be paid to her-
self quarterly. If she attempts to sell or dispose of the annuity,
it becomes void. He likewise, by a codicil, written by himself,
leaves an annuity of £BOO a-year to his friend Mrs. Spencer,
the wife of William Spencer, the poet, who is in Paris; and a
legacy of £25,000 to Mrs. Spencer's son, to he paid to him
when he is twenty-five years of age.—Morning paper.
_ .

The Marquis of Anglesey left town on Monday for Dover,
with his fatuity and their physician, Sir James Murray, on their
way to Paris, Lyons, Nice, &c.. to winter at Rome.
_ _

General Mina, who has been for some time in this country
for the benefit of his health, is on the point of taking his de-
'parture for Paris and the south of France. The death of Fer-
dinand has accelerated his departure, in the hope that his ser-
vices will be of importance to the young Queen at this moment,
as 'he has a very great influence with the Constitutional party.
—Globe.

We bare just heard that Don Carlos has left Portugal, and,
it is said that he may be proclaimed at Toledo. There is no
doubt of his having
goneinto Spain.—Globe.

The General Steam Navigation Company's packn',-the Att-
wood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house on Sun-
day last. The Columbine, from Hamburg, same .morning,
having made the passage in fifty-two hours. It also made the
passage to Hamburg from London, last week, in the short
period of fifty-one hours. The Harlequin, from Calais, at a
quarter-past three o'clock, p.m., same day, having made the
passage in nine hours and forty-five minutes. The Harlequin
always-makes quick pas Sages across, but the one of Sunday was
remarkably so.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Monday.morning the much-
talked-of marriage of Viscount Fordwicb, the eldest son and
heir of Earl and Countess Cowper, with Lady Anne Florence de
Grey, eldest daughter of Earl and Countess de Grey, was so-
lemnised at St. James's Church, in the presenee of a select
party of the relatives and friends of the two noble- families.
After the ceremony Earl and Countess de Grey gave a dejeuiie
a la fourchette at their mansion, in St. James's-square, to a dis-
tinguished party of forty individuals. Amongt wliton were pre-
sent—Prince and Princess Lieven, Prince Paul Lieven Prince
Esterhazv, Earl of Ripon,. Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord
and Lady Ashley, Countess of Sandwich, Earl of Sandwich,
Countess of Jersey, Hon. Captain Vyner and Lady Mary
Vyner, Lord Palmerston, Prussian Minister, Danish Minister,
and Baroness Blom, &c. After receiving the congratulations
of their numerous friends, the newly-married couple left town
in their new travelling equipage for Pansanger, Hertfordshire,
to pass the honeymoon.
CAUSES OF BANKRUPTCY.—A return was some time ago ob-
tained from the Bankruptcy Court, of what-;in the opinion of the
judges, had been the main cause of the different bankruptcies.
Of 500 cases which had been investigated by the court,. upwards
of 400 were stated to be caused by expensive living.
A HINT TO TOURISTS.—A trial took place last week at
Boulogne, in which a son of Sir William Clayton, Bart., pro-
secuted 'a French tailor, named Mulliere,. for fatse arrest and
surcharge. The defence set up was that, as the family lived
en Prince, they could well afford to be cheated. A n English
seigneur, it was argued, ought to be charged more than a simple
bourgeois. We hope our fashionable emigre's will bear this in
mind before they leave their native land, which they are now
doing in shoals.

AN AMERICAN JURY.—A jury, which bad previously retired
to deliberate, came into court, and proceeded in the usual
form to deliver their vet diet. It was not without astonishment,
1 confess, that I remarked that three-fourths of the jurymen
were engaged in eating bread and cheese, and that the fore-
man actually announced the verdict with his mouth full, eject-
ing the disjointed syllables during the intervals of mastication !
—Men and Manners in America. -

AN ACTOR DAMNING HIMSELF.—On Thursday the tragedy
of Othello' was performed at Cambridge theatre, • for the pur-
pose of introducing Mr. S. Smith as Othello, and Mr. Reynolds
as lago. At the conclusion Mr. Smith was-loudly called for.
He said he thought they had seen enough of him in the course
of the evening—he was aware he had made a total failur.. He
had given but-a
schoolboy's reading to the part—a mere water-
colour sketch. If he had succeeded, he meant to have tried
Richard the Third; but as he had failed, he took his leave of
the stage for ever—he should never. appear befote them again.
He felt himself totally unequal to the task, but he had done his
best (cries of "Bravo, live and learn.") "Ekactly. -so," and
he therefore would take his leave. We cannot give a better
critique of Mr. Smith's exhibition than was contained in his
own speech. The other actors were more successful.—Cam-
bridge Press.
A GRAIN. OF WIIEAT IN A BUSKEL. OF CHAFF.—Pew
scribblers have penned greater trash than "Achille: Murat,"
and yet he sometimes ofiers good advice. Speaking of a per-
son desirous of emigrating to America, he says,-." But if he is
not very much persecuted in his own country, or if his love fur
our institutions rs not extreme, I advise him to remain at home."
LEs BRAVES BELGEs.=—Leopold's soldiers seem to be de-
serting to -France in numbers, for the Prefect of Lille has
issued a- circular. letter to the mayors of his department, de-
siring them to remonstrate with the said warriors on the ho-
propriety of their conduct.
Lawyers • and law-hunters complain that durinr, the-present
long vacation it has hitherto been difficult to ad a judge in
London, either in chambers or elsewhere. Lord Chief Justice
Denman doubtless finds the work of Term and Sittings at least
as muchas he can manage. Such complaints, however, used
not to be made.
DArc YOU'Rc NVANTED.--" l‘lurat" says, The
Creek (Indian,) or the Cherokee, is more .ciyilite'd than the
Irish or Austrian peasant. IC the Big Becgarnraa does not call
his brother Liberal to an account, lie Ought no longer to live mt
the eleemosynary contrile.tions of the ' finest pisantry in the
world.'"
GARDEN OF PLANTS IN PARIS.—The Garden of. Plants has
been enriched with a variety of new and intoesting living ani-
mals. Among them are some chinchillas and didelphi, and two
chameleons from Algiers, with two other reptiles of the same
class, called Protees Anguillards, but which live constantly in
the water.. They resemble eels in their form, but are of a light,
dirty rose colour, having a hood or topping streaked with a
bright red. They have four small paws scarcely distinguishable,
and can only live in a very obscure light. They were presented
by a merchant of Liverpool, who brought them froin the grotto
of the Magdalen, near Trieste. They cost him great care and
trouble, as he kept theni for five months, changing their water
daily, without which they cannot lire. ••

THE •BREEIHNG BROOD.—The appointments of the
Greys have become so numerous that they bewilder us.
Enumerate them we cannot. It is impossible. Nor can we
conceive from where all the Greys proceed. Such swarms
of locusts were never before let loose upon any country.
The ministerial papers tell us, that " Earl Grey has, within
these few days, appointed one of his nephews, Mr. C.
Grey, to the situation of Clerk in the Treasury." Now
that is true enough ; and it is also true that ,?arl Grey
has given a place to another nephew in the colonies.—
Further, it is true that one of these nephews is a son of
Bishop Grey—poor man—his family wants assistance!—
a»d that he was with a bill-broker in Abchurch-lane.
Verily, show us a place, and we will show you a Grey,
for inexhaustible is the breeding brocd.-7Q/ii EtVancl,

of Vort'o Contr.

LIFE.

It seemeth but the other day—
The other day that I wo.t born—
And childhood came—life's ruddy morn
Soon pass'd away.
It seemeth but the other day,
Came schoolboy cares, of verb and noun,—
And idle sport, stern master's frown—
They pass'd away.

It seemeth but a day, an hour,
Since youth was mine, all fresh and young,
With nerve, and heart, and forward tongue—
Full pert the flower.

It seemeth but a day since I,
Scarce tamed before, to beauty knelt,
And sigh'd, and swore, and madly felt
Love's agony.

It seemeth scarce a day, e'en now,
With firmer step I sialk'd the man,
And proudly spoke ; and thonlit, and plan
Shook from my brow.

How like a thief of night, to day
Upon that yesterday stole in—
On that again life's shades begin
In twilight grey.

To-morrow—is it in our grasp ?
This night may death shut up our age,
And close our book of pilgrimage
With iron clasp.

Life is but the soul's infant state.
Where ripens its eternal seed
Tor bitter dole, or heavenly meed
Regenerate.

Death—Death is conquered, and the grave
The summoned dead to life shall yield—
When Angels reap thy harvest field.
Lord, who shall save 2

Redeemer, T' ou ; Thine was the strife,
The victory—with thy grace reces
The inner man—s;t in my view
Eternal Life.

That infant child, and youth, and man,
Baptized, and cleansed from stain of sin,
By faith in Thee, I come within
The mercy's plan.

(Blackwood's Magazine.)

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

The scandalous scene exhibited in the letter of our
Paris coirespondent of the Stock Exchange gambling,
consequent on the telegraphic communication of tile
death of the King of Spain, will be read here_ with sur-
prise and disgust; nor will those feelings be mitigated
on a consideration of the circumstances and parties by
whom the heartless and unprincipled speculations must
have been encouraged, if not actually carried on.
It is well known that.the. King o the French has the
Paris telegraph in his own keeping, and permits no one
of his ministry even to have access to it. It has been a
source of more than one quarrel between Louis Philippe
and his various Ministers ; it has broken up more than
one projected administration. Casimir Perier, after va-
rious refusals to take office without having also the com-
mand of the telegraph, at length compelled the news.
loving or stock-jobbing (for people will read the matter
diversely) monarch to give it up; but he eagerly availed
himself of that absolute Premier's death to make better
terms with the weakly cabinets that have followed.

Now, the telegraphic account of the death of Ferdi-
nand reached Paris at two o'clock in the day—that is,
reached the King. From that moment up to half-past
three, considerable quantities of stock were sold—by
whom ? The news might and it ought to have been com-
municated to the Duc de Broglie, the minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, but we willingly acquit that honourable
person of degrading or betraying his hiFli office by bar-
gainings on the Bourse. lie himselt seems to have
been unaware of the intelligence until later in the day,
and consequently could not communicate the event, as
in common courtesy bound, to the diplomatic corps,
more especially to the Spanish minister, at an earlier
hour than he did, which was late in the evening. Who
then was the great operator ? If Louis Philippe, sarely
France ought to make him give an account of the win-
nings, or pay a rent for the exclusive use of the telegraph
for the benefit of the state.—Guardian and Public
Ledger.