The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-14 00:00:00

No effort must be s

spring time and the sun are assembled. Nothiug is more in-
teresting than to see this poor child, perhaps barely clad,
coming to buy a whole parterre in a single pot. She stops a
long time, fearful, indecisive, curious ; she adunires the forms
of these flowers, the colors of those, the indescribable p
fume of others. She is delighted with all ; at length s

cludes
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upon the long considered acquisision
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lowers

It is generally a sprig

iignonette that fixes her attention! At these words
Florist smiles with an air of gond humour. Of all the
ce women that gain their livelihood by buying and selling,

florist posse

conscience and the best

the rich, so that she may sal cheap to the poor. She says
to herself that she ought to encourage so worthy a passion as
that of flowers, as it is better for a young woman to adorn
her roan- --If with a ribband, there

Ith a flower,

lan her

t of heartsease

sweet peas, or mignionette
he grisette departs as happy

f-r a mere nott
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her hands

her purchase, and during the next e

she waters the

two shrubs night and morning, singing

She seeks for them a resiingplaceln-the roof, by the side of
the chimney, protected from the northerly winds. At the
first rays of the morning sun, which make day-light
within these sad walls, the flower is exposed to the .pale and
trembling beam. At the first northerly wind the flower is
shut up with the utmost care in her chamber, and then the

amiable girl, to protect her parterre, does that which she
will not do for herself, she endeavours to prevent the wind
penetrating through the badly-jointed door, the half-closed

Window by the chimney, withjmit fire and flame. Vain en
deavours to crown such charming efforts. At length the
humble plant, the recipient of so many cares, puts forth,
here and there, several sorry leaves, the flower shows itself—
not exactly the flower, but the hope of one. Then the gri-
sette slaps her hands—" Come," she exclaims, to herneigh-
bours—" come here, and see how my mignionette flourishes. '
But with these vernal announcements, hope goes no further,
night time and the cold are more powerful than the zeal and
ardour of a young girl; after a month of struggling and en-
deavour, the flower begins to fade,—it languishes, it dies, it
is nothing but the shadow of a shade. The grisette weeps,
and declares to herself that from this time forward she will
renounce such vain joys. But how can you quell hope in
young.hearts? When she has wept a little, the grisette re-
commences another attempt, as useless as the former, till at
length this passion for flowers is replaced by one less inno-
cent. Then adieu to flowers. Adieu to the sweet parterres
which she has cultivated with so much trouble. Behold the
grisette burns with all the passions of the Parisian women.
She thinks no more of the flowers, of the roses, of the mig-
nionette in the green box—of the modest violets—in their
ittle pot of earth—of the sweet peas climbing up the win-
dows. She wishes to live one day, at least one hour, to
enjoy the life of the beautiful, the rich, and the beloved,
after which the world may end, and she will fall wil-
lingly back again, not into the innocent but happy po-
verty of former days, hut into misery without flowers :
without hope, without sun ; into the misery of the prison
and the wine house. Poor girls ! heaven is good to them
when it takes them from this world at eighteen. Then the
Parisian, Grisette, dies innocent, honoured, pitied, wept for;
her father closes her eyes with a trembling hand, her mother
rises weeping from her coffin, while her young companions
bear her humble pall. But what a city must that be !—what
a city, where for the poor young girl there is no other chance
of honour and happiness but to die before twenty summers
have passed away !

Paris is full of such contrasts. Seek you for climes? we
will furnish you with proofs. Seek you for virtues? Paris
contains them. Within its walls the gayest and saddest
images, prayers and blasphemies, the gibbet and flowers,
present themselves without ceasing before us, This is not a
city; it is a whole world. On the days of disturbance, when
it disgorges itself from every isolated crossway, the rest of
the city goes to the opera, without questioning how much
blood runs down the gutters. On the day of the Revolution
of July, when the cannon thundered—when the pavements
were torn up—two men, in grey caps, met each other under
the arches of Pont Neuf. The water was clear and limpid
as any stream that has not been disturbed for three days;
the arch of the bridge threw a favourable shadow upon the
head of one of these men ; both of them held a fishing line
in hand. To see these two men thus happy and calm, and
completely
that
occupied
around
with
their
their
heads
the
innocent r
a smost passion,
august wahnod would
have said
illus-
trious throne in the empire was about being broken into a
thousand burning particles?
J. S.

CONVERT TO CATHOLICISM.-It will no doubt surprise
many of our readers to be informed, not so much that the
eminent and talented vocalist Mrs. Wood has withdrawn
herself from the stage,—for that she intended to retire to an
estate purchased by Mr. Wood in Yorkshire was currently
reported some time ago,—but that this event has been
brought about in consequence of that lady having embraced
the doctrines of the Roman catholic faith. A t least, so we
are informed, from a respectable quartr, from which we have
received the following additional statement :—As the tenets
of the Catholic church do not recognise the English law of
divorce, and as Lord William Lennox, Mrs. Wood's former
husband, is still alive, she has been compelled to separate from
Mr. Wood before she could be received .•
of the Catholic church. To this separs
consented, and has likewise generously pr
Mrs. Wood at present is staying
a convent at York, and tvr...1,,

~on Mr. Wood has
provided for her main-
-* Micklegate Bar,

tenance

ability, make her

first communion on Sunday last.
THE POPISH PRIESTS.—W 4.: have already alluded to the
opposition lately made by the laity to the exactions of the
priests in Ireland. The movement is still in progress. The
object is to reduce the ices of the catholic clergy to a certain

in your hands,
nought. By t

standard, agreed upon by the people, who meet in thousands
for the purpose of passing resolutions upon the subject. The
manner in which they proceed is this—A parish meets (and
no man can, under the peril of being treated with violence,
be absent) where what they call the clerical tariff is agreed
upon. The people then proceed to the house of the parish
priest, and if he refuses to accede to the conditions of it,
they shut up his chapel; and so on from parish to parish
until they have gone through two or three of the western
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dioceses. In some instances, the priests have subrriitted to
the terms imposed, and in others they have held out. The
reductions insisted upon amount to upwards of 50 per cent.
For instance, the celebration of marriages, the minimum
priers for each of which was one guinea, is reduced by the
nee tariff to ten shillings ; baptisms, which were two and
sixpence each, are to be but one shilling, and so on in pro-
portion on all their other clerical charges,

Everything combines to render this field one of the
portant and interesting of which we can possibly con.
the early history of the people, their relative geogra-

esent character and eagerness for in-
ce to the word of God as the ru
and t'

3 traction, their ....
their faith and practise, ,ie portentious signs of the times
in these lands, indicating s,.ce momentous crisis, in which a
, host of faithful soldiers of the cross should bind on their ar-
c- mour and prepare for the approaching conflict—motives the
.:on- most weighty, and encouragement the most charming, urge
The poor girl us onward."

WRECK OF ANOTHER INDlAMAN.—Letters_ received

Lloyd's, on Tlinisday,;nnoutice the total wreck of another
fine Indiaman, called the Harmony, a vessel upwards of iOO
tons burthen, commanded by Captain Richard Smith, laden
with a valuable cargo, consisting of 12,000 bags of sugar,
120 cases of silks, besides other merchandise to a consider-
able extent, the whole of which was•irrecoverably lost. The
catastrophe took place at a late hour of the night, on the 27th
of October last, while on her passage to Bombay, and, un-
fortunately, four fine fellows belonging to the crew met with
a watery grave. She struck heavily upon a sunken shoal,
situate in lat. 12 deg. long., 11 deg. 3 min. east. So severe
was the shock, that those who were upon deck were thrown
down, and the mainmast itself gave way and fell overboard.
The water gained rapidly, and the crew and passengers, with
the exception of four, took to the boats, and were picked up
at sea. The ship soon after went down and carried the four
men with her, who, it was supposed, were in the forecastle
looking after their clothes.

A CHINESE ADVERTISEMENT.—The following iS the
advertisement of a Chinese sculptor, which appeared in a
Chinese publication issued at Canton some years ago :—" I,
Achen Ten Chinchen, a lineal descendant of Coap Boi Roche
Chinchen, the celebrated sculptor and carver in wood, who,
through his unremitted studies to promote rational religious
worship by the classical touches of his knife and chisel, has
been honoured by the emperors, kings, and rajahs of the
east, and supplied them with superior idols for public and
domestic worship, now humbly offer my services in the same
theological line ; having travelled hence, at a considerable
expense, to perfect myself in anatomy, and in copying the
most graceful attitudes of the human figure, under those
able masters, Nollikens and Bacon. Achen Teu Chinchen
is now in possession of casts of the most approved models
and Elgin marbles; he is ready to execute to order idols
from 12 feet high, well proportioned, down to the size of a
marmozet monkey, or the most hideous monster that can be
imagined to inspire awe or reverence for religion. My
charges are moderate; for an ouran outang, three feet high,
700 dollars; ditto rampant, 800; a sphinx, 400; a bull with
hump and horns, 650 ; a buffalo, 800 ; a dog, 200 ; couchant,
150; an ass in a braying attitude, 850; the most durable
materials will be used. Of statuary granite, brass, and
I have provided sufficient to complete orders to any extent.
Perishable wood shall never disgrace a deity made by my
hands. Posterity may see the object of their fathers' de-
votions unsullied by the inclemencies of the seasons, the
embrace of pious pilgrims, or the tears on the solemn pros-
tration before them. Small idols for domestic worship, or
made into portable compass for pilgrims : the price will be
proportionate to the size and weight, Any order post paid,
accompanied by a drawing and description of the idol, will
be promptly attended to, provided that one-half of the ex-
pense be first paid, and the remainder secured by any re-
spectable house in Canton."
TUE TRUCK SYSTEM.—At the Bradford Court-house, on
February 1, Mr. William Sharp, of Pudsey, cloth manufac-
turer, was charged by Henry Lobley, a workman, with paying
him his wages in goods instead of money. Mr. Wagstaff ap-
peared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sharp conducted his own
case. Mr. Wagstaff stated that the amount of wages earned
by his client during the period he had been in Mr. Sharp's
employment, was 1:14 12s. 81d., the whole of which, with the
exception of 10s. sd. had been paid in goods. The complain-
ant was called, and said, he remembered the night of Friday,
the 13th of January last. He went that night to get a settle-

vent of his wages with his master. Did you get asettlement ?
Co, he gave me this cloth and said I must take that. Witness
)roduced a piece of mixture trousers' cloth, which Mr. Wag:

staff took, and holding it up to view, asked, Is this the kind
of cloth usually made in Pudsey ? No. Is it not made from
what is called " Shoddy" and " Devil's Dust?" A general
laugh was excited, but witness made no answer. Now what
were the words Mr. Sharp used when he gave you this
cloth ? He said I must take Mat. I said I cannot do with
cloth ; I want something to eat for myself and family. He
then said, " I mean thee to live on cloth for a week," I went
to work for Mr. Sharp on the 22d of August last. All the
money I have received fur wages from that time is ten shil-
lings and five pence, in two instalments of ss. 3d. and ss. 2d.
By the Bench—l demanded my wages in money. Cross-ex-
amined by Mr. Sharp—Did not you weave that cloth ? I did
not; it was woven by Mr. Coultas. What did .I say when I
gave you the cloth ? You said " take that and live on it for a
week." ' Mr. Sharp then entered on his defence, which was
chiefly that Lobley had woven the cloth, and that in the weav-
ing he had spoiled it; that it had been returned on his hands,
and that the workmen agreed to take trousers' pieces of it to
quit it. He then called Joshua Harrison, one of his work-
men, who said that his master had the cloth returned on his
hands, and he wished us to take a little of it. Cross-exa-
mined—Lobley said he could not do with the cloth ; be could
not pay tailors' wages. Master said he had provided for that ;
he might give the tailor one of the trousers' pieces for making
the other. I was in the employ of Mr. Sharp before Loblcy
came to work for him. I will not swear that I have received
two pounds in money, I have had both cloth and shop goods.
William Farrar, another of his workmen, had been in his em-
ployment more than two years. I have undoubtedly received
both money and goods. Whenever I went to settle with you
you paid me the balance in money. Cross-examined—l never
took any bacon. What niy wife took at the shop was nought
to me. I have received five pounds in money at one time.
By the Bench—lle never refused me money when I asked fur
it. Lobley recalled and examined by Mr. Sharp—Did I ever
refuse you money when you asked me for it? I had 15s. sd.
d when I asked you for it you said you had
Bench—l never received but 10s. sd. in
money from my master, from the 22d August to the 22d of
January, when I left him. The reason why I did not refuse
to take the cloth and shop goods was the fear of losing my
work. Isaac I3oocock, another workman, said—Whenever I
had any money to draw he always paid me, but I often over-
drew. Cross-examined--I have worked about two years with
Mr. Sharp. I cannot swear that I have received five pounds
in money. This closed the case, and, after consulting some
lodnoel
all Tempest,i
in their
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had resolved to inflict the highest penalty in every case brought
power to put a stop to the truck system, and to that end they
toldt f
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before them. In this case the penalty, with costs, was Ten
were instantly suppressed by
cheers by the audience, which
Pounds and Five Shillis. This decision was received with
the Court.